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k2p blog

  • “Climate science” now hunting for ...
    "Climate science" is now hunting for unidentified cooling effects to explain the warming that has not happened. Apparently manmade pollution in the form of organics can enhance the formation of clouds which just happen to be brighter from above and which reflect more of the suns radiation.This i ...
  • “Climate science” now hunting for ...
    "Climate science" is now hunting for unidentified cooling effects to explain the warming that has not happened. Apparently manmade pollution in the form of organics can enhance the formation of clouds which just happen to be brighter from above and which reflect more of the suns radiation.This i ...
  • Randy Andy FRS
    Either the Royal Society has sold a Fellowship or perhaps they believe that HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York will bring great credit to the Society and the scientific community.
  • Randy Andy FRS
    Either the Royal Society has sold a Fellowship or perhaps they believe that HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York will bring great credit to the Society and the scientific community.
  • Unchanged seasonal variation shows that Carbon ...
    The correlation of changes in δ13C with ENSO events and the comparison with a simple model of a series of cascades suggest that the changes in δ13C in the atmosphere have little to do with the input of CO2 emissions from the continuous use of fossil fuels.

Left Foot Forward

  • Loneliness and isolation are public health iss ...
    With all too regular reports of services failing to ensure even the most basic levels of care and safety, some might argue that loneliness is not the most important problem we face. But loneliness and isolation are public health issues with an impact and cost on a par with smoking.
  • The Catholic Church should embrace the world w ...
    The Catholic church was back in the news this weekend with the story of Cardinal O’Brien’s 'exile'. It’s a story that’s unlikely to go away any time soon. And given that O’Brien remains Britain’s most senior Catholic, it’s one that has wider relevance. It’s been argued that he should be left alo ...
  • The government must do more to promote freedom
    One rare piece of good news from the Tory-led government was Nick Clegg's decision to block the so-called 'Snoopers Charter', a draft piece of fundamentally illiberal legislation which would have allowed the security services to monitor emails, text messages and internet browsing.
  • Occupy Zionism! Stav Shaffir on the new politi ...
    Stav Shaffir was in conversation with Alan Johnson of 'Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region'
  • Labour’s shameful links with the anti-im ...
    Anyone opposed to this shameful collusion with the hardline anti-immigration right should write to the Labour Party figures in question, or to their constituency parties, and make their feelings clear.

Consumerist

  • Help Us, Obi Wan Kenobi: EA Signs Deal With Di ...
    As a Consumerist reader and tipster puts it, the news that Electronic Arts has signed a deal to develop and publish games based off Star Wars, it’s as if “millions of Star Wars gamer nerds cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced…” That’s a reference to (spoil ...
  • Cast Into Alienware’s Dell Hell, Not Sur ...
    Tommy is trapped in one of the more tragic outer circles of Dell Hell. His sin? He’s not entirely sure, and Dell will not tell him. All he knows is that his Alienware laptop won’t charge, his account is mysteriously “on hold,” and no one at Dell will talk to him. I have ...
  • San Francisco Can Now Ban Passengers Who Treat ...
    As of yesterday, if you’re thinking of taking a ride on San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit, known as the BART, you better make your pit stop at the potty before you get on the train. Because if you’re one of those people treating the cars as your own personal bathroom, BART ...
  • Microsoft Decides To Try This Whole Windows 8 ...
    When something doesn’t go quite right the first time, what’s a ginormous technology company supposed to do? Why, just slap a couple of coats of paint on the ill-received Windows 8, fluff it up a bit and send it right back out on stage. Microsoft is reportedly tweaking its most recent ...
  • Hey Best Buy, If You Want Us To Shop There, Tr ...
    Michael is buying his mother a new computer for Mother’s Day, because he’s a good son and she’s moving away soon. As long as he was buying a computer, he wanted to get some reward points from Best Buy on his credit card. Only he couldn’t. While the product page bragged of ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • American Whistleblower Tour Brings Hanford Exp ...
    On May 22, GAP's American Whistleblower Tour: Essential Voices for Accountability will makes its final stop of the 2012-13 at Portland State University in Oregon. The tour – which offers dynamic educational presentations on the phenomenon of whistleblowing at universities around the country – wi ...
  • National Press Club Honors Whistleblowers: Dai ...
    ETN: National Press Club Announces Press Freedom Award Winners for 2013NSA whistleblower Tom Drake at the National Press Club The National Press Club has announced that its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award domestic recipient will be “The Whistleblower.” The award will honor all whistlebl ...
  • Obama Admin Denies Benghazi Whistleblowers Bei ...
    ABC News: Obama Administration Denies Benghazi Whistleblowers Being Kept Quiet A lawyer representing a State Department employee who survived the September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya said her client had been blocked from testifying about the attacks due to classified info ...
  • Ramifications of MacLean Case; First Ag Gag Ca ...
    GovExec: Ruling in TSA Air Marshal Case Hailed by Whistleblower Advocates This story recaps the recent appeals court decision in favor of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) whistleblower and GAP client Robert MacLean that effectively reinforces the strength of federal whistleblower ...
  • DOE Helps Hanford Contractors Fight Whistleblo ...
    King5.com: Dept. of Energy Helps Hanford Contractors Fight Whistleblowers Walt Tamosaitis The Department of Energy (DOE) has given contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Facility more than one million taxpayer dollars to pay for legal fees in the case against Hanford whistleblower Walt Tamosaitis. ...

UK Progressive

  • The Boston Marathon Bombers and the Theory of ...
    by Tina Dupuy My working theory—you could call it a philosophy, or a freestanding reason of how the world works—is what I call the Theory of Relative Laziness. It goes like this: Never attribute anything to conspiracy, coordination or planning when laziness could explain it. Call it Occam’s Armc ...
  • Six Claims on Detainee Torture, Skewered
    by Christie Thompson ProPublica Among the news that ended up being buried in the events last week: A nonpartisan think tank, the Constitution Project, released a scathing, 577-page report on the U.S.’s treatment, and torture, of detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The investigation began in 2009 ...
  • Illegal Abortion and ‘The Way of the World’
    by Tina Dupuy The Women’s Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, run by Dr. Kermit Gosnell was one of the few places in the state to provide late-term abortions. From witness accounts the clinic smelled of cat urine. There was a free-roaming, flea-infested feline that reportedly def ...
  • The Dis-Uniting of America (2): Social Issues ...
    by Robert Reich My first reaction on hearing of the Senate’s failure to get 60 votes for even modest measures to regulate the flow of guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, such as background checks supported by 90 percent of Americans, was to be furious at the spinelessness of t ...
  • Boston Strong!
    by Janet Landry-Borden On March 5, 1770 three men were killed on the streets of Boston in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre. Two more died later from their injuries, and several more were wounded. It took five years for the British to begin to feel the tremors of the outrage of that [...]

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The worlds biggest solar PV seller was worth $ ...
    How is the hallowed Green tech industry working out for China? Not so well. Shi Zhengrong was called a “hero of the environment” by Time Magazine. He was a billionaire who ran the worlds largest seller of solar PV cells. But the glory days of 2008 – 2011 are gone. Another bubbl ...
  • Dear John, you want “deniers” to h ...
    John, Thanks for the invite to assist with the crowd sourced online survey. Unfortunately I just can’t see this working. 1. The survey is profoundly anti-science, it’s exactly the kind of thing I debunk on my blog. Consensus is the stuff of politics, not science. Science is not a dem ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    For all the things you want to discuss. Rating: 8.0/10 (2 votes cast) Rating: 8.0/10 (2 votes cast)
  • Human body parts made to order (Windpipes, and ...
    Australia could be leading the world in research that will save lives and earn money. Instead we lead the world in gullible obedience to an absurd scheme to change the weather. Making human body parts from off-the-shelf or customized cells is a vast improvement on waiting for healthy people to d ...
  • Fourier Analysis reveals six natural cycles dr ...
    Thermometer circa 1790 Lüdecke, Hempelmann, and Weiss found that the temperature variation can be explained with six superimposed natural cycles. With only six cycles they can closely recreate the 240 year central European thermometer record. There is little “non-cyclical” signal lef ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 15% Chance of X-Flares Today
    Usually  NOAA forecasters tells us that the odds of an X-flare (the highest category of solar flares) is less than 1%, even at what is supposedly the peak of the solar cycle. Today they say 15%, and 40% chance of a lesser M-Flare, due to a very large sunspot pointing at us. Read more at SpaceWea ...
  • Satellites at Risk from Mega Space Storm
    We are protected from solar storms by a cloud of charged particles, or plasma, that normally surrounds Earth out to a distance of four times the planet’s radius. Each Earth-directed solar outburst damages the cloud to some degree, and with time it repairs itself. A 2003 storm reduced the c ...
  • Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date
    I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year. For me tho ...
  • Fancy Living in Belize?
    Many people don’t even know where Belize is, so look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize (hint: it borders Mexico and Guatemala, and the Maya live there) So, why would you want to live there? Well, if you are happy with your current life, family and employment – and you have fa ...
  • 2012 Sex / Model Story
    I’m sure I missed lots of stories during those last, hectic weeks of 2012 – like this one: A sexy swimsuit model and countless other lusty New Yorkers say tomorrow’s predicted Mayan apocalypse is a great reason to have sex, and are turning to social media and doomsday-themed parties ...

Facing South

  • Nullification: How states are making it a felo ...
    Though the Supreme Court rejected nullification after Southern states tried to use it to avoid desegregating public schools, the concept is now being deployed by gun rights advocates -- and not just in the South. read more
  • North Carolina: A banana republic for dirty en ...
    Clean energy opponents turned to dirty tactics to advance a bill repealing North Carolina's renewables program -- and that's not the only example of the state's energy policy being hijacked by powerful interests. read more
  • 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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (II)
    Part I Friendly fire to scare foes Anton Chekhov, a great Russian writer, has once said «If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act». If a country, like the United States churns out a number of contingency laws, then one day a contingency [...]
  • Russia – Japan: Shifting Agenda
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Moscow on April 28 for a three-day visit, during which he met with President Vladimir Putin. He planted a cherry tree at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ gardenyard and listened to some drumming. Other outcomes of the summit meeting included si ...
  • Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (I)
    If the terrorist acts had not taken place, they should have been invented. Since a long time the weakening of US global clout has been an issue in focus. The Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World report says the US economic and military leadership is going to become a thing of the past pretty ...
  • NATO and its Future in Post-Cold War Scenario
    The Idea of NATO was somehow a byproduct of Cold War power tussle between USA and USSR. It was not only a means of maintaining balance of power in Europe vis-à-vis USSR’s superiority in conventional arms and fighting force, but it also meant to integrate the US with Europe as well. With the end ...
  • Digging out the American Terror Code from a H ...
    The Marathon and finish line kept ringing in my mind after listening to the news of the twin blasts at Boston. After a couple of days, I saw a child wearing a t-shirt with a “swoosh” and “there is no finish line” printed on it. This was probably the clue I was looking for. Coincidentally, [...]

BlogHer

  • Painted Silhouettes for Mother's Day
    [Editor's Note: Suzanne from Bebehblog was not thinking Mother's Day when she painted these giant silhouettes of her children, but I can't personally think of a better gift to give mom. I know this mom would love a unique spin on pictures of her kiddlets this Mother's Day. Who am I kidding, I'll ...
  • My Memories of Eating Below the Poverty Line
    Last week, various folks participated in a campaign called Live Below the Line to bring awareness to living on $1.50 a day. The goal is to experience what it is like to ration your money to buy food. Not good food, not healthy food. Just food.  I feel somewhat detached. Now anything that w ...
  • Dance Theatre of Harlem and Why Ballet Isn't J ...
    When I was a kid, like so many little girls, I took ballet lessons.  Every Saturday morning I packed up my pink ballet box, slipped on my leotard and trailed my mother downtown to the Brooklyn Academy of Music for class. I was the only black girl in the class but I didn’t care.  M ...
  • 'Game of Thrones': The Bletchley Circle Conclusion
    Have you been following Game of Thrones? What did you think of last night's episode, "The Climb"? Spoiler alert -- this is a recap.-Well I have to be honest and say I was doing a lot of huh's during last night's episode. I just didn't get a lot of it. I have to watch it again. Hopefully I'll be ...
  • 22 Mother's Day Gift Ideas (That You Still Hav ...
    As Mother's Day fast approaches, panic begins to set in for men and women alike. We often talk about what we -- as moms -- want for Mother's Day, but sometimes (ahem, last year) we forget that we have moms, grandmothers, friends who are amazing mothers, aunts and so on in our lives. These amazin ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Groups seek EPA rule to limit mining pollution
    This just in from Earthjustice: Yesterday afternoon, a coalition of Appalachian and national groups pressed the Environmental Protection Agency for stronger protection for their waters from the most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal … In a formal petition for rulemaking, 17 ...
  • Miners facing more problems with SCSRs?
    The Ocenco M-20  shown donned and ready for escape. On the heels of last year’s announced phase-out of the long-troubled CSE Corps. SR-100 model, the last thing coal miners need to hear is that there are more problems with the self-contained self-rescuer devices they rely on to save their ...
  • Friday roundup, May 3, 2013
    This Sept. 4, 2011 file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. Navajo lawmakers will vote on a lease extension for a coal-fired power plant that allows the delivery of water to Arizona’s major metropolitan areas. (AP Ph ...
  • Alpha: Appalachian coal’s decline is &#8 ...
    It’s earnings time, and the latest report out in the coal industry is from Alpha Natural Resources, which reported this morning: Alpha recorded a net loss of $111 million, or $0.50 per diluted share, during the first quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $29 million, or $0.13 per di ...
  • A little bit of news on power plant sales
     FirstEnergy’s Harrison Power Station near Haywood is among the state’s largest coal-fired power plants. Ohio-based FirstEnergy wants to sell the plant to a West Virginia subsidiary, and Mountain State customers would fund the purchase through increased electricity bills. (FirstEnergy photo) The ...

Daniel Miessler

  • U.S. Directly Accuses China Of Cyberattack
    The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”via U.S. Accuses China’s Military in Cyber ...
  • Why You Should Have a BugOutBag
    Image from understandingrisk.org I just started working on my BugOutBag. For those who are not familiar, a BugOutBag is a collection of items that you can grab quickly in the event of something bad happening. Think major earthquake, terrorist attack, etc. Oh, he’s one of those guys. No, I& ...
  • Wireless Presenter Added to Work Bag
    I just procured a wireless presenter for my work bag. It’s something I’ve been missing for a long while now. Here’s the one I went with: Logitech Professional Presenter R800 with Green Laser PointerRelated Posts:Blogging: Categories vs. TagsBrowser Tab Hijack via Wireless Porta ...
  • Farming and Women’s Rights
    The plough was heavier than the tools formerly used by farmers. By demanding significantly more upper-body strength than hoes did, it gave men an advantage over women. According to Mr Braudel, women in ancient Mesopotamia had previously been in charge of the fields and gardens where cereals were ...
  • Prison Privatization FTW
    An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars.Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitut ...

Fitwatch

  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Short questions often require long answers and ...
    Several debaters as well as complexity theorist Boaz Barak religiously worship their belief that it must be that \(P\neq NP\) and that the question whether the proposition holds is extremely deep because \(P=NP\) would revolutionize the whole world. Most of their would-be arguments are exam ...
  • Comparing the depth of the millennium problems
    The Riemann Hypothesis is probably the deepest one In 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute offered 7 times $1,000,000 for the proofs of the Millennium Prize Problems. Is it possible to compare which of them are deeper than others? Needless to say, such a comparison depends on personal ...
  • Will you help John Cook "quantify the consensus"?
    Climate fearmonger and kook John Cook sent me, because of this "one of the more highly trafficked climate blogs on the web" you are just reading, the following link: Survey of Peer-Reviewed Scientific Research (University of Queensland) I suppose that the gibberish characters at the end of t ...
  • Two dark matter papers
    When it comes to the existence of dark matter, I have two news – good and bad. Let me begin with the bad news. We often discuss provoking statements by some of the dark matter direct search experiments that claim that they see evidence of a dark matter particle under the ground. But there's ...
  • Aaronson's anthropic dilemmas
    If you read my previous observations on Scott Aaronson's book including all the comments, you will see my remarks about all the chapters up to Chapter 15 about the quantum computation skeptics – where I agree with almost everything Aaronson writes although he seems to focus on the dumb criticism ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Philippines volcano erupts, killing at least 5 ...
    One of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash after daybreak Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years, officials said. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax doll ...
  • Civil Disobedience or Death by Design
    by Julian Rose, Activist Post Friends. How much time to we have left? By my clock it’s five minutes past midnight. We are into unchartered territory. Territory where only bravery and vision can hope to cut through the torpor and stupor which is bringing about the designed obsolescence of t ...
  • Bruins spoil Leafs’ 1st home playoff game sinc ...
    The Boston Bruins scored two goals in a little over two minutes in the second period to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 Monday night and regain the upper hand in their NHL playoff series. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Bruins ...
  • Destruction of the Machines
    by Andy Hoffman, MilesFranklin.com: On May 6th, 2010 – three years ago, today – the Dow “flash crashed” by 1,000 points; much of it occurring in less than 30 minutes – before recovering to lose just 345 points… While not close to the percentage losses of the 1987 crash; it, too was blamed on adv ...
  • Parental pacifier cleaning may cut baby’s alle ...
    Parents who clean their baby’s pacifier by sucking on it and giving it back to the child might be helping to protect the baby from developing allergies, a small study suggests. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Name game begi ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Door open’ for Riise’s return
    John Arne Riise surprised his fans, teammates and Norwegian football officials when he announced on Monday that he would no longer be a candidate to play on Norway’s national football team (landslaget). Coach Egil “Drillo” Olsen said the “door was open” in case Riis ...
  • Høyre faces tough coalition-building
    NEWS ANALYSIS: Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) is leading the pre-election campaign race in public opinion polls, but doesn’t want to lead a new government alone. Party boss Erna Solberg faces a tough time building a solid coalition with the country’s other non-socialist pa ...
  • Labour’s tax relief upstages Høyre
    On the very day that Norway’s Conservative Party (Høyre) was wrapping up its national meeting and rallying its troops to seize government power, Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his finance minister, Sigbjørn Johnsen, were revving up their own power themselves. They gleefully lau ...
  • SAS keeps stake in Widerøe, for now
    Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will be raising needed cash by selling off its short-haul, Norwegian-based airline Widerøe, but won’t be cutting its ownership ties to the carrier just yet. SAS doesn’t intend to shed its stake in Widerøe completely until 2016. SAS reported just before the ...
  • Bombing repairs face long delay
    It’s likely to take at least another decade before Norway’s state government officials can move back into a new headquarters complex in the heart of downtown Oslo. The current left-center government that was attacked by a bomber and gunman in 2011 has decided against making any rebui ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Haomekka – Permaculture in Mexico (video)
    Somewhere in Mexico lives a small community few have heard of. Only by word of mouth can you hear about it. This community has 17 members and has opened its doors to others. They grow their own food, and try to live sustainably using great concepts and bio-construction. This community workin ...
  • Food from Perennial(ising) Plants in Temperate ...
    This is the early Autumn post for the ongoing research project about perennial plants and self-perpetuating annual plants providing food in temperate climate Australia. The original article introducing this project, stating its aims, and providing participant instructions, can be found here. Gro ...
  • On Being Wrong (TED video)
    The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is. It’s that you can see the world as it isn’t. — Kathryn Schulz
  • GM Crops and Water – A Recipe for Disaster
    A fully referenced and illustrated version of this article is posted on ISIS members website and is otherwise available for download here. Genetically modified foods are a threat to our dwindling water supplies; they are less water-efficient and contaminate fresh water by Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji ...
  • Fomenting Ferment
    by Albert Bates Sandor Katz lives a couple hours across Tennessee from us, so on a delightful April weekend we decided to spend four days attending his Wild Fermentation Intensive. Sandor is quite the celebrity these days — after profiles in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Mich ...

Pointman's

  • The big green killing machine: They sit with G ...
    It was a hellishly hot African day. Mac stood behind the young Danish girl, who sat at a table in the open air. He’d rigged a tarpaulin shade over them to give some relief from the midday sun. They’d never quite worked Mac out. What he didn’t appear to have in terms of any obvi ...
  • It’s an ill wind.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Electricity is available to many people at the touch of a button, so more people live in greater comfort and security than ever before in mankind’s time on earth.  Without electricity life is very basic ...
  • The difficult kind.
    My woman teaches the difficult young children. She does what’s called special needs and I think she was born to do it. She takes all the ones who’re a bit behind the pack and perhaps will always be, the ones who’re a bit lost, the silly hearts who’re still determined to s ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...
  • A postcard from warmer climes.
    As I write this, I’m in the middle of a brief holiday in southern Spain, in Seville to be exact. It is warmth, sunshine, the unlikely smell of Orange trees in the air, Spain at its over easy best and a complete break from the snow and bitter cold us hardy souls in the northern … ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...
  • New Orleans Police Department Blames Victims
    The New Orleans Police Department recently released a statement on "women and safety," that has outrage across the city and furthered the perception that this police department does not get it. They are more interested in blaming the victim than preventing assault. With absurd advice like "don't ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Anatomy of a terrorist attack: the Boston Mara ...
    Remains of the pressure cooker bomb believed to been packed with ball bearings Today's show focusses on the recent terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. Our aim is to understand the underlying "message" behind this attack, and to deconstruct the MSM propaganda which seeks to portray this a ...
  • Introducing Nicole Bijlsma: building biologist ...
    Today it is my pleasure to welcome to the show Nicole Bijlsma, a best selling author with extensive knowledge on many health issues related to the toxic effects of ordinary things found in your home. Nicole joins us in the 2nd hour of today's show. Nicole's website provides information on th ...
  • Full body scanners now in full operation at Sy ...
    In today's show we re-visit the thorny issue of full body scanners and what they signal for your rights, your privacy, your health and human freedom generally. Full body scanners (millimitre wave) are now in operation at all international airports in Australia. The devices deployed in Australi ...
  • An unprecedented assault on media freedom
    In today's show we are joined by Josh Jackson to discuss highly controversial media reforms proposed by the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy. We also take a look at the implications of the Cyprian crisis for internatinal banking, and the alternate non-centralised currency bitcoin. ...
  • Live show with current news and some callers - ...
    In today's show we take calls from TNRA listeners, as well as covering news and current topics of interest, including reflections on the death of Hugo Chavez. Related links What happens when you refuse a search in Parramatta

Beacon

  • Victory! Maryland Becomes First East Coast Sta ...
    Governor Martin O'Malley signs bill into law banning possession, sale, and distribution of shark fins in Maryland Maryland made history today by becoming the first East Coast state to ban the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins throughout the state. They join the entire West Coast ...
  • Delaware Sends Shark Fin Ban to Governor
    Less than one week after passing the state Assembly, the Delaware state Senate has signed on to a bill banning the trade of shark fins within the state’s borders.  The states spanning the entire West Coast, plus Hawaii and Illinois, already have shark fin bans in place.  In Maryland ...
  • Record-Setting Water Temps Changing Marine Eco ...
    Map showing shifts in distribution of many fish stocks in the Northeast U.S. (Credit: Janet Nye, NEFSC/NOAA) The oceans are heating up, and marine ecosystems are changing because of it. Long before climate scientists realized the extent of impacts from carbon dioxide emissions, ocean scientis ...
  • Delaware House Takes Action for Sharks
    Delaware, Let's keep shark fins where they belong -- On sharks, not in soups. Source: Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, the Delaware House of Representatives took a huge step forward for shark conservation efforts worldwide when they passed a bill that would prohibit the trade of shark fins within ...
  • Success on South Beach!
    Team Oceana poses victorious after setting dual performance records in raising funds for the oceans! Every spring, the Nautica South Beach Triathlon gives us reason to smile. There’s the energetic crowds, the celebrity entrants, and the warm-but-not-too-brutally-hot April weather on Miami Bea ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckab ...
    IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whack ...
  • Suspect Ariel Castro and the 3 Missing Women i ...
    Three longtime missing women, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, have been found alive, apparently kidnapped and held for years as prisoners inside a house on Cleveland’s near West Side. Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told a dispatcher that she was alive ...
  • Air Force Sex-Abuse Chief Arrested for Sexual ...
    The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday. Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said. [NBC ...
  • Nancy Grace Lands in Arizona for Jodi Arias Co ...
    “We knew the characters involved like Jodi and Travis were interesting young people, in love theoretically, and it went dramatically bad,” said Scot Safon, executive vice president and general manager of HLN. “A crime story like this that goes to trial, it’s never just ab ...
  • Mark Zuckerberg Backs Keystone XL, Facebook Ba ...
    Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook and FWD.us (political action group) founder, supports the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. And when a CREDO petition calling on Zuckerberg to pull support for ads promoting KXL appeared on Facebook, that CREDO effort was removed, apparently for use of ...

Hudson New York

  • Kerry Betting On The Wrong Horses
    The Arab League foreign ministers who met with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington last week were convinced that they had a mandate from the Palestinians to talk about possible land swaps between Israel and a future Palestinian state. Ahead of
  • The Fourth Great War
    The announcement by Secretary of Defense Hagel that the United States will "rethink all options" including arming Syrian rebel groups, was carefully hedged. "It doesn't mean… you will" (choose any particular path). The statement however moves the U.S.
  • Egypt's New Anti-Muslim-Brotherhood Militia
    Clad in black, faceless in black ski masks, the nameless Black Bloc soldiers lock arms to create a human shield in defense of pro-freedom protesters -- the Black Bloc's number-one priority -- in the streets and squares of Egypt. Expert in martial arts
  • "Different and Threatening": Most Germans See ...
    More than half of all Germans view Islam as a threat to their country and believe it does not belong in the Western world, according to a major new study on religious attitudes in Germany. The findings confirm the results of dozens of other surveys, and
  • High Stakes in Iran
    In Iran almost nothing is what it seems to be. Iranian culture is formal; it places a premium on politeness and manners. By violating both principles, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been mesmerizing Iranians, to the delight of the masses and

Urban Survival

  • Israel: Waiting for the “Tit” (so ...
    Several “Tats” this weekend, as arms shipments (from Iran?) were blown up, so you know what comes next, without too much prompting, I figure.  Most often in wars, if you read enough history, you’ll get a sense that there’s a … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the UFO Data
    The headlines in the New York Times last week  “Visitors from Outer Space, Real or Not, are focus of Discussion in Washington” have us pondering again the matter of UFOs. Probably the most significant clue as to what’s going on … Continue reading →
  • Jobs Report: Disaster Over Easy
    The latest from the Labor Department has just been released this morning:   “Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Credit Where Comets Are Due
    Hmmm…had an email from our friendly Nostradamus expert G.A. Stewart who writes…(I’ve highlighted the most important part)… “George,   Had one of my readers flag me about Ed Dames’ interview on Coast to Coast AM and his “new Remote Viewing of &# ...
  • ECB Rate Cut!
    Well, if the Europeans were really out of the woods, demand would be growing again and birds would be chirping and green shoots would…Aw, forget it.  Ain’t happening, as any damn fool (me) can see.  So as a result, the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • BODY HOSTAGE
     A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]
  • MURDER BY MEDICINE 5: Short Term Advantages vs ...
    Most of us never really stop to consider the long term effects of some of the drugs we take. We are eager to attain short term relief without taking into account the many effects these drugs may have further down the line. Aspirin is one of the most popular drugs in the world, with over [...]
  • WOULD MEN HAVE LESS SEX IF THEY WERE CAPABLE O ...
    Men are without a doubt the most promiscuous of the two sexes. Women can go significant periods of time without needing to experience sexual relief; and episodes such as periods, giving birth and menopause play a role in limiting or changing their desire to do so in any case. Men really don&#821 ...
  • MURDER BY MEDIA 13: Addiction To Recognition
    It’s always good advice to be told to question every desire, because its easy to forget that deceiving ones self is the easiest form of deception. The media has helped to create a world where recognition has become a not so subtle addiction that we feed on and hunger for everytime we are s ...
  • IS A MARRIAGE FOR LOVE TOO UNREALISTIC?
    Love has come to be the proud and somewhat reluctant owner of many definitions; one of which likens it to a ‘fairytale’. In today’s world the reality is that there are quite a number of other things to think about before love is even considered. After all, love doesn’t pu ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • State Renewable Energy Policy Developments - A ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City Media coverage of renewable energy developments at the state level continued to center on the efforts led by the Koch Brothers-backed American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to try and we ...
  • A Triple Whammy for the Arctic Ocean
    Lisa Speer, Director of the International Oceans Program, New York Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are probably aware that the Arctic is melting rapidly as the result of CO2 related global warming, and that spells trouble for polar ...
  • The Texas/California Rivalry Moves to Utility ...
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA The nation’s two largest states compete at many levels, as my friend former Texas Secretary of State and “Texas triumphalist” Hope Andrade likes to remind me, although s ...
  • FDA Is Keeping Many Ingredients in Our Foods S ...
    Mae Wu, Program Attorney, Washington, DC The Food and Drug Administration has a special knack for making even the simplest tasks complicated and time-consuming. NRDC has been forced to file a lawsuit to get information that should be public in the f ...
  • Charlotte's Pro-Transit Mayor a Good Choice to ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City In 2011, residents of sprawling, fast-growing, Charlotte became part of a case study on obesity. Just a few years earlier, Charlotte had been one of the most car-dependent cities in the nation. But in ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Israel used depleted uranium in airstrike on S ...
    A senior Syrian official says Israel has used depleted uranium in its recent airstrike against the Jamraya Research Center in the outskirts of Damascus. The official, who was present near the attack site on Sunday morning, told Russia Today that Israel used “a new type of weapon” dur ...
  • Full-scale Middle East hostilities involving I ...
    Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said Sunday, May 5, that the strike at Syria overnight represented a “declaration of war” by Israel. Russian and Iranian media earlier predicted full-scale Middle East hostilities involving Israel erupting in the coming hours, in th ...
  • Attack on Syrian military facility was a ‘decl ...
    A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation’s military research facility a “declaration of war” by Israel. In an interview with CNN, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad said the attack represented an alliance between Islamic terrorists and Israel. He added that ...
  • Assad “to declare war” on Israel following fre ...
    Reports suggest that Syria’s embattled dictator, Bashar al-Assad, is shortly set to declare war on Israel after interventions against the regime Following evidence of chemical warfare and an increasinly reticent US position, Israel has in recent days taken widely reported steps to neutrali ...
  • Hackers Hijack CBS To Claim Obama Involvement ...
    Hacktivists expose media’s refusal to report on private operatives at Boston bombings. The mainstream media’s refusal to report on images showing private military operatives on the scene of the Boston bombings carrying heavy backpacks prompted hacking group the Syrian Electronic Army to take mat ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • 100% renewable energy advocates validated by n ...
    The authors of Australia’s first significant study into providing 100% renewable energy have welcomed the new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), which has found that it is technically feasible and affordable to run the National Electricity Market with 100% renewable energy ...
  • Earth to moon in 8 years, Melbourne to Brisban ...
    By Gerard Drew When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as quickly as humanly possible, and in eight years Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon. On the other hand, our federal transport minister would have us believe building a high-speed railway from ...
  • Electricity prices fall: renewable energy des ...
    By Dylan McConnell Dylan McConnell is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne Let’s be honest: the relationship between renewable energy and the electricity market is complex. So what does the latest report from Australian energy research firm RepuTex tell us? Well, for a start, coal-fi ...
  • High-speed rail cost and timeline “laughable”
    April 11, 2013 Researchers who have performed their own analysis of the high-speed rail link from Melbourne to Brisbane have today questioned the governments announced 45-year timeline and $114 billion costing. “When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as ...
  • Solar panels reduce everyone's power bills
      May 10, 2013 Australia's one million (and counting) solar powered households could be keeping everyone else's power bills down, by suppressing wholesale electricity prices. That conclusion is drawn from a peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Journal of Energy Policy. The paper ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Munching on marine plastic kills sperm whale
    What do children's toys, balloons, mattresses and plastic bags have in common? They can, along with more non-biodegradable pollutants, be found in the belly of a sperm whale, the topic of a new study in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The same whale that swallowed Jonah from the Bible, Geppetto f ...
  • Bat's tongue could inspire miniature surgical ...
    Nectar-feeding bats shift the shape of their tongue to slurp up sugar from flowers upon which they feed, finds a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • The Hawaiian silversword: another warning on c ...
    The Hawaiian silversword (Argyroxyphium sandwicense), a beautiful, spiny plant from the volcanic Hawaiian highlands may not survive the ravages of climate change, according to a new study in Global Change Biology. An unmistakable plant, the silversword has long, sword-shaped leaves covered in si ...
  • Unconventional swine: how invasive pigs are he ...
    Ordinarily, invasive and exotic species are a grave threat to native wildlife: outcompeting local species, introducing parasites and disease, and disturbing local ecological regimes. A unique case in the Brazilian Pantanal, however, has turned the tables; here, an introduced mammal has actually ...
  • The world's largest 'waste dump' is found in t ...
    If you were to travel from the United States of America to Japan, you would most likely encounter what could be described as the world's largest waste dump: a 100,000 tonne expanse of debris floating around a large region of the Pacific Ocean. The total area of this phenomenon has been said to e ...

Sierra Express

  • Vacancy – Senior Business Analyst
    EXPERIENCED SENIOR PROFESSIONAL WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL ABILITY COUPLED WITH OUTSTANDING THOUGHT-LEADERSHIP Position: SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST Department:  Business Planning Location:  Marampa Mine Site, Lunsar The successful expansion of London Mining’s operations ...
  • Sierra Leone Tourism College to train secretaries
    College of Travel and Tourism Studies (CTTS) has introduced new courses as part of its curriculum to train clerks and secretaries in the purpose of working in the law firms and other related offices. Certificates and Diplomas in Legal Secretariat courses are basically gearing towards giving insi ...
  • In Sierra Leone 35 bags of cement stolen at po ...
    Reports reaching this press have stated that 35 bags of cement have recently been stolen at the Waterloo Police divisional headquarters. According to reports, the said cement was stolen from a store in Waterloo and the cement was brought in as exhibit to the police station, from where it was onc ...
  • Tribute to Bob Marley featuring the King of Az ...
    Kololo Entertainment Group proudly presents  ” Tribute to Bob Marley ” in Freetown Sierra Leone featuring  direct from Ghana the King of Azonto  music SARKODIE along with African reggae star JAY ARR,  FAMOUS, M2, ALONZO, MASTER 2T HAFFNER, COAST TO COAST, RHAGE , RIVE NILE , BREEZE,  ...
  • Eye Specialist raps on sanitation in Sierra Leone
    Head of Eye Clinic at Connaugh Hospital, Dr. Matthew Vandi (in photo), the only highly trained eye specialist in Sierra Leone’s government service, has revealed that improper sanitation and malaria could lead to eye related problems.  He made this disclosure on the occasion of World Malaria Day ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crafar bidders face High Court action
    People involved in the failed Crafar Farms bid could lose their residential and rural properties if High Court action by the police is successful.May Wang and Chen Keen were charged with corruption in Hong Kong late in 2011 over...
  • Cows 'sick and depressed' in mistreatment case
    More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad" after months of being underfed, a court has been told.A trial began in the Rotorua District Court yesterday of five parties, who between...
  • A Chinese appetite to invest
    Chinese appetite for investing in New Zealand assets is stepping up according to leading Auckland lawyers Martin Thomson and Terence Ng.The pair - both lawyers at DLA Phillips Fox - point to current interest in tourism assets (China...
  • Animal cruelty trial commences
    More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad'' after months of being underfed, a court has heard.A trial began in the Rotorua District Court today of five parties, who between them face...
  • World dairy prices drop 7.3pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products fell for the first time in 10 online global auctions, led by the whole and skim milk powder as the volume on offer gained for a second session from a two-year low.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 7.3...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Republican Sen. Rob Portman: I Smoked Pot As a ...
    Republican Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said during last night's BuzzFeed forum that he smoked marijuana when he was younger, but that he disagress with Colorado and Washington's decision to legalize the drug (that he enjoyed without consequence). Here's BuzzFeed:  "Uhh... ...
  • Jim Epstein on the Bogus Federal Study Behind ...
    In 1997, Chinese-born entrepreneurs began regularly scheduled long-distance bus services that picked up passengers on the street. Today, “curbside” buses—lines that begin and end their routes at the sidewalk as opposed to a traditional station—make up the fastest growing form of inte ...
  • Cop Refuses to Give 12-Year-Old His Badge Numb ...
    This 12-year-old may already have an IQ too high for law enforcement: He’s a child soldier in the war on cameras! h/t Adam Simpson
  • A.M. Links: Senate Passes Internet Sales Tax B ...
    By a vote of 69-27 the Senate passed an Internet Sales Tax Bill. It is now headed to the House. Former Governor Mark Sanford and Stephen Colbert’s sister face off in a special election to fill the House seat vacated by Tim Scott. Chris Christie’s aides confirm the New Jerse ...
  • John K. Ross on Zoning
    John K. Ross reviews Lisa Prevost's Snob Zones, a book that describes the heights of entitlement to which property owners ascend when faced with the prospect of new development. Prevost tours New England and finds an aging, declining populace bent on using regulation to exclude outs ...

Mercury Rising

  • GOP/Media Complex Bows Down To Breitbart Lie M ...
    NSFW Corporation’s Mark Ames and Max Blumenthal have this must-read story on the Breitbart sleaze factory in the aftermath of Andrew Breitbart’s death. It documents not just the sleaze and lies pumped out both before and after Breitbart’s passing, but also the obscene and corru ...
  • Mao Pushed TCM For The Masses, But Saw Real Do ...
    That’s right — the guy who promoted a rejiggered version of what he called “traditional Chinese medicine” not only preferred “Western” medicine, he even told his own personal doctor — Dr. Li Zhisui, who was trained in the West — that he didn’ ...
  • Krugman on Reinhart-Rogoff: data bent by the b ...
    Krugman, NYT: The fact is that Carmen and Ken are fine economists. Carmen has been doing terrific empirical work on banking crises for a long time. Ken is arguably the world’s leading international macroeconomic theorist. In fact, the main reason I knew that the case for fiscal policy remained s ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Further destabilization of Pakistan
    This is just purely depressing. Jon Boone, The Guardian: A lawyer leading the effort to prosecute Pakistan’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, over the murder of Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead in Islamabad as he was driving to court. Pakistan’s former prime minister Bena ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Culture and Horticulture: An Historical Sketch
      The following is excerpted from Culture and Horticulture by Wolf D. Storl, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • What's the Matter with Matter?
    Is a flute better than a bassoon? Is a cloud better than a rock? Is the abstract better than the concrete? Is the spiritual better than the material? read more
  • The First Signs of Consciousness
    Neuroscientists have been searching for signs of consciousness in electrical brain activity for decades. These signs could determine whether minimally conscious or anesthetized adults are aware, and when consciousness begins in babies. read more
  • The Four Elemental Beings
      The following is excerpted from Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes & Salamanders, published by North Atlantic Books. read more
  • Sex in the News
    A quadriplegic learns to orgasm through his thumb, Virgin's mile high stalking club, and a squid sperm tries to impregnate a human mouth in this week's update. read more

Desertification

  • Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
    Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists. “The main barrier to confronting the climate crisis isn’t lack ...
  • Building an Agricultural Empire
    Genghis Khan knew about hard times. The founder of the Mongol Empire, which spanned most of Eurasia until roughly 1227, Genghis and his clan had to survive on their wits and natural surroundings, often resorting to meals of “green leafy things” when food was scarce. Today that history seems to h ...
  • From Herders to Cultivators
    When the food-strapped Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) appealed to the Mongolian government for food last month, it signaled a major turning point in the public image of this Central Asian country, which has long struggled to feed its own population of three million. Transformed fro ...
  • The Clock Is Ticking on Koala Conservation
    Australia’s iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against th ...
  • OP-ED: Letting Nature Take Its Course?
    Is sustainability still possible? Yes. Is it still probable? No. With bold action today, tomorrow, and in years to come, we could succeed in creating a sustainable and prosperous society. But what does bold action actually mean? First and foremost, we have to start living within Earth’s boundari ...

Blogging Canadians

  • "Corporate Spies" and "the Government"
    CISPA is about the government stripping away your personal privacy using corporate spies. #EndCISPA #CISPABlackout by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter April 20, 2013
  • "Corporations and Govts"
    CISPA puts whistleblowers and journalists in the sights of corporations and govts. #StopCISPA #CISPABlackout by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter April 20, 2013
  • Coalition Government Cure For what Ails Quebec
    The PQ's inauspicious eight-month tenure as government hasn't exactly inspired a rousing vote of confidence from the public, even amongst supporters, who like the rest of us are somewhat dismayed by the amateur hour performance of those charge with directing the ship of state. Watching Pauline ...
  • "Your Congress"
    Your congress doesn't even read the bills they vote for! #voteharder by "Archibald Bareassol" As originally posted on: Archibald Bareassol (mantis8585) on Twitter January 30, 2013
  • "Reality"
    Some People find it distasteful to be talking about US bombings in other countries at a time like this. I say welcome to reality. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: trutherbot (trutherbot) on Twitter April 15, 2013

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Talking About Life With La Toya…As In Ja ...
    What can I say about La Toya Jackson? She is a world famous icon, pop star, author, television personality, businesswoman and so much more. She has made us sing, laugh, cry, and even wear leather headbands. She posed for Playboy twice and had one of the top selling issues. I see her often, when ...
  • Kids and Cursing
    To all my new moms: kids cursing is pretty much a regular stage that all kids go through. One of my favorite movie moments of all time is from “A Christmas Story” when Peter Billingsley’s character Ralphie gets busted saying the “f dash, dash, dash word.” His father who regularly curses around t ...
  • From Victim to Survivor
    Let me tell you about the first time someone mentioned domestic violence and me in the same sentence. Over ten years ago during what I thought was an innocent conversation with an acquaintance from my kids’ school she dropped the bomb. She missed my son’s birthday party but not the gossip that f ...
  • Tanya Fields Introduces The Veggie Mobile Market
    Tonight, the CUNY SPS 2013 Commencement keynote speaker, Tanya Fields will discuss The BLK Projek’s latest plans for a new mobile food market, and you have an opportunity to join her. The BLK Projek was founded in 2009 to empower women and youth with the resources to rise out of poverty through ...
  • All-Star Celebrity Apprentice and the Day Trac ...
    Ever have one of those days? You know the kind. Roll out of bed after hitting the snooze 11 times. Run out of coffee. Run out and buy coffee. Make coffee and think ah that was the worst of it only to realize no cream! And then something incredible happens and no not the kind [...]

Dissident Voice

  • White Slaughter in Black Africa: Genocide and ...
    War and plunder continue to rip apart great swathes of Africa. The perpetrators are known, and many have been named and exposed. The Pentagon, NATO countries and Israel continue to foment covert international guerrilla wars, while their proxy regimes continue to persecute and defraud their own p ...
  • Librarians, Archivists, the Transformation of ...
    This June, a delegation of librarians, archivists, and other library workers will travel to Palestine. They will connect with our colleagues in library- and archive-related projects and institutions there, traveling as truth seekers and information skeptics, applying their experience in the form ...
  • Boston Marathon, this Thing Called Terrorism, ...
    What is it that makes young men, reasonably well educated, in good health and nice looking, with long lives ahead of them, use powerful explosives to murder complete strangers because of political beliefs? I’m speaking about American military personnel of course, on the ground, in the air, or di ...
  • Obama, Syria, and the Arrogance of Imperialism
    Imperialists are not just arrogant, they are stupid. Pretending that they might get a different result than previous US administrations have obtained before, the Obama administration is planning to send lethal arms to Syrian rebels. According to the Washington Post, Obama and his advisors have b ...
  • Stealing Syria’s Oil
    The decision of the European Union to lift the embargo on Syrian government’s energy exports by importing oil from the ‘armed opposition’ is another flagrant violation of international law. It violates the UN General Assembly declaration of 1962 on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources an ...

Nick Turse

  • globalpost:Need to know:More than 100 countr ...
    globalpost: Need to know: More than 100 countries meet today in Parisin a bid to form a united front on the crisis in Syria. Russia and China won’t be among them. Both countries have shunned the so-called Friends of Syria alliance, where the agenda is set by Western and Arab allies who want Pr ...
  • Hanover Square, Manhattan. (May 25, 1936)
    Hanover Square, Manhattan. (May 25, 1936)
  • pulitzercenter:From Pulitzer Center...
    pulitzercenter: From Pulitzer Center grantee beenishahmed: Authorities bulldozed a katchi abadi (temporary settlement) in Islamabad a few days ago, leaving residents to dig their meager belongings out of the dirt and rebuild their makeshift dwellings. Read her reporting on Pakistan’s edu ...
  • killanythingthatmoves:Americans in Vietnam ...
    killanythingthatmoves: Americans in Vietnam never seemed to run out of ways to burn things down, whether it be flame tanks, flame boats, napalm canisters dropped from planes, helicopters armed with white phosphorus rockets, or simply ground troops with zippo cigarette lighters.  The means wer ...
  • futurejournalismproject:World Press Freedom ...
    futurejournalismproject: World Press Freedom Day, Redux Additional imagery from Reporters Without Borders to go along with our earlier post. Select to embiggen.*
    * DuckSpeak R Us

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: The Security of a Nation Is Its Women
    Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a human rights lawyer and the general secretary of the global rights network World YWCA, knows what it is like to struggle against poverty and violence: she herself comes from a poor family in Magaya village in Murewa district, which lies northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital ...
  • Lessons in Economic Integration for African Union
    As the African Union celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, it is still younger and less integrated than the 56-year-old body that is now the European Union, and, according to politicians and diplomats, has a big advantage over the Europeans as it charts its own path of integration. Africa c ...
  • Europe Urged to Step into Breach of Failed Mid ...
    The Oslo peace process has failed and Europe must take stronger leadership in the Middle East, according to a distinguished group of former European leaders that is pushing for a stronger and more independent European stance on the Israeli occupation. And some United States analysts believe the ...
  • Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
    Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists. “The main barrier to confronting the climate crisis isn’t lack ...
  • U.S. Reforms Could Slash African Immigration L ...
    Advocates for the African diaspora in the United States have stepped up a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress not to end a longstanding visa programme aimed at boosting immigration from “underrepresented countries”. The programme, known as the diversity visa lottery, has in recent years been shar ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
    Summary: No universally applied principle justifies the Israeli attack on Damascus. Only self-flattering tribalism does that source: The Guardianread more
  • Israel's illegal act of war threatens to infla ...
    Summary: The bombing of Syria by Israel yesterday hit up to 12 targets near the capital, Damascus. It cannot be seen as anything other than an act of war against another country. It is clearly illegal under international law. source: Stop The War Coalitionread more
  • Obama’s Duplicitous Iran Policy
    Summary: The President talks peace, while ratcheting up hostilities and even intervening in Syria in order to get to Iran source: Antiwar.comread more
  • Twelve Major Consequences Of Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: Sanctions, whether unilateral or multilateral, have been the United States' core policy on Iran since the 1979 revolution. President Barack Obama entered office confirming that he intended to pursue a policy of engagement with Tehran. During his tenure, however, the United States has ...
  • Dissecting America’s Iran Debate
    Summary: WPSU, Penn State’s public broadcasting station, did a thoughtful interview with Flynt about our book for its “Conversations from Penn State” series, which was broadcast last night and is now available online. source: Going to Tehranread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Universes Evolve Inside Black Holes" --Radica ...
                   Cosmological natural selection – an idea first put forward in the 1990s to explain the apparent 'fine-tuning' of the universe’s basic parameters to allow for the existence of atoms, galaxies, and life itself- proposes that, if new universes are born inside black holes, a ...
  • The Search for "Ghosts of the Universe" in Ant ...
        Among the unsolved mysteries confronting 21st century physics from gravitational waves to dark energy, neutrinos -the "ghosts of the cosmos"- are near the top of the list. These awesomely low-mass subatomic particles, less than a millionth of the mass of electrons, play a key rol ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 265,000!
                   Join the 267,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • A 'Fifth Force' May Alter Gravity at Cosmic Scales
                              Radical new research is attempting to characterize the properties of a fifth force that disrupts the predictions general relativity makes outside our own galaxy, on cosmic-length scales. University of Pennsylvania astrophysicist Bhuvnesh Jain, says the natu ...
  • "Hearing Gravity Waves" --Scientists Launch Wo ...
      Gravity is responsible for the long-range order of the universe. Using Einstein's general relativity, we now think of gravity as the geometrical curvature of the four-dimensional fabric of space-time. Extreme cosmological events such as the merging of neutron stars or black holes ind ...

Natural News

  • American Heart Association calls exercise an ' ...
    "There aren't many large well-designed studies lasting longer than a few weeks looking at alternative therapies, yet patients have a lot of questions about their value," said Robert D. Brook, M.D., Chair of the panel and an associate professor of medicine at the University...
  • The lying liars who lie about psychiatry
    (NaturalNews)These days, we are witnessing an acceleration in the use of psychiatry to target Americans, to label them as dangerous, to take away guns they own, to blame gun violence in the US on mentally ill people. It's a winning strategy, because most Americans don't have a...
  • Frankenbeef - It's whats for dinner
    Apparently, modifying fruits, vegetables, and grains isn't enough. Now scientists are taking the future of genetically modified food to the next level: They've successfully created lab-grown meat. It's been over a year now since Dr. Mark Post invited media into his laboratory...
  • Beat PCOS naturally with omega-3 fatty acids
    PCOS stands for polycystic ovary syndrome, quite a mouthful that implies something that rarely occurs. But it is common among women. The word polycystic refers to multiple small cysts around the edges of the ovaries. This situation causes sex hormone problems that...
  • Antioxidants can help treat children with celi ...
    A landmark study, conducted by researchers from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and published in the journal Clinical Biochemistry in 2009, suggested that treatment with antioxidants may be able to significantly reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. Celiac disease...

Threat Level

  • Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright- ...
    Using terms like "brazen conduct and relentless fraud," a federal judge on Monday sanctioned attorneys running a BitTorrent copyright lawsuit factory, and recommended federal prosecutors investigate for potential criminal charges.
  • Researchers Hack Building Control System at Go ...
    Two security researchers recently found that they could easily hack the building management system for the corporate giant’s Wharf 7 headquarters overlooking the water in the Pyrmont section of Sydney, Australia.
  • Cutting Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Security E ...
    I’m on neither “Team Bitcoin” nor “Team Global Financial System.” I’m on “Team Lets Fix This Thing.” Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. And ...
  • Alleged ‘SpyEye’ Botmaster Ends Up in America, ...
    A 24-year-old Algerian man has been extradited to the U.S. on charges that he was one of the masterminds behind the SpyEye trojan.
  • Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surv ...
    A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Syria Strikes Show the Paradox of Israeli Powe ...
    As the chaos and carnage in Syria continues to escalate, some conservatives are very happy indeed with word of Israeli air strikes against weapons shipments reportedly destined for Hezbollah. While John McCain crowed that "the Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it [the Syrian air defense sys ...
  • Politico's New Myth: It's Never Easy for House ...
    "It's never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit." With that opening sentence, Jake Sherman and Steven Sloan of Politico provided air cover for the GOP's unprecedented--and dangerously irresponsible--debt ceiling hostage-taking. After all, Republicans in both houses of Congr ...
  • Demint Blasts CBO over Immigration Reform Bill ...
    During his tenure as a South Carolina Senator, Republican Jim Demint was a big supporter of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the fall of 2009, he cosponsored a bill requiring the budgetary impact of all legislation to be "scored" by the CBO at least 72 hours before its consi ...
  • Niall Ferguson's Six New Killer Apps
    Like "whorehouse morals," the term "celebrity historian" is one of those oxymoronic expressions that should be viewed with instant distrust. So it is with Niall Ferguson, the Harvard professor and fellow at Oxford and Stanford's Hoover Institute. Long a fixture on American television screens ( ...
  • Austerity Cost U.S. Up to 2.2 Million Jobs in ...
    Almost everything you need to know about the self-destructive economic policy coming out of Congress was contained in two simple statements this week. While the Federal Reserve warned that "fiscal policy is restraining economic growth," the Republican National Committee released an ad crowing t ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • More Hurricanes Expected Over Hawaii By End Of ...
    Hawaii does not have to suffer the impact of hurricanes often — with only two making landfall in the past 30 years — however this may be set to change in a warming world, according to new research headed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University ...
  • Understanding Earth’s Early Mantle
    Understanding the geologic history of Earth will no doubt be a decades, if not centuries long process, as we gather more and more data and expand our knowledge. New research published in the April 25 issue of the journal Nature has contributed an interesting new data point, however, shining a li ...
  • Solar Eclipse On Friday May 10 2013 — Ring of Fire
    A ring of fire solar eclipse, also known as an annular solar eclipse, will be taking occurring on May 10, 2013 (May 9th in some regions). The eclipse will be visible throughout much of Northern and Eastern Australia, parts of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Pacific Islands, and Hawaii. Annulari ...
  • Scarus Coeruleus — Blue Parrotfish Facts And P ...
    The Blue Parrotfish — Scarus coeruleus — is an almost completely bright-blue species of parrot fish (Scarus). They are the only uniformly blue species of fish currently known of. They are also known as blue kwabs, bluemen, blue parrots, and kwabs. The name “parrotfish” re ...
  • Fossils Uncovered Of New Species of Theropod, ...
    A bit of exposed leg led to a very impressive discovery in the remote Xinjiang region of northwestern China. A new species of Theropod, named Aorun zhaoi, for the Dragon King from the Chinese epic tale of Journey to the West, was discovered by a George Washington University biologist and his tea ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Q and A - Immigrat ...
    Previously: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D) at Representative Emanuel Cleaver's (D) immigration town hall ...
  • Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Immigration town hal ...
    "....And when I say courage, uh, what the point he was trying to make is, look, uh, we're moving too slow. We're moving too slow. And there's no such thing as it takes time. The people who say it takes time are the people who's rights are not in question...." Previously: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez ( ...
  • Minority Rules
    By @TedFrier In the bookcase in my office are 100 or so volumes on history, economics, political philosophy and current events that I've read over the years during my train commutes back and forth from Boston -- a replica collection of which at my home caused my mother, on first seeing the title ...
  • Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Immigration town h ...
    Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) sponsored an immigration town hall on the campus of MCC-Penn Valley yesterday evening. Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D), who represents Illinois' Fourth District in Chicago, spoke at length on immigration, the realities facing undocumented immigrants, and t ...
  • El Pendejo Is Making Texas Look Even More Fool ...
    Gov. Rick "El Pendejo" Perry has already done plenty in his 63 years on this planet to make Texas, and Texans, look foolish. His absent-minded, tongue-tied participation in the 2012 GOP presidential race was embarrassing enough. Now he's demanding an apology from the Sacramento Bee for a Jack Oh ...

Care 2

  • Sea Otters Love Ice! - YouTube
    Playful. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Grand Canyon uranium mining set to go ahead d ...
    Energy Fuels Resources has federal approval to reopen its mine six miles south of the canyon's South Rim entrance Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The giants of the green world that profit from ...
    A new movement has erupted demanding divestment from fossil fuel polluters and Big Green is in their sights. And the message to Big Green is clear: cut your ties with the fossils, or become one yourself. Submitted by Angelika Roll to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Mozambican rhino poachers cash in
    Mozambican rhino poachers are seen as benefactors by their communities. This is according to Regional Ranger, Louis Olivier. Olivier says poachers build mansions for themselves in their villages with the money they make from rhino poaching in the Kruger Submitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals & ...
  • Bain Capital: Don't intimidate workers | SumOfUs
    Workers at the iconic music store Guitar Center are seeing their wages slashed and their benefits gutted by none other than Bain Capital. Sign our petition Submitted by Candy LeBlanc to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Israel, War Monger?
    I suppose your personal views about Israel determines what you think about its most recent bombing of Syria. Me? I think the leaders who authorized this action in Tel Aviv/Jerusalem are crazy and are putting Israel at unnecessary risk. Why? Up to this point the Sunni Arab world appeared to be un ...
  • Benghazi Story Continues Growing, Whistleblowe ...
    Lots going on with significant implications for the investigation into what really happened in Benghazi, Libya. First up? Excellent article at the Weekly Standard by Stephen Hayes detailing how State Department–Hillary Clinton in particular–changed what the intelligence community sai ...
  • The Flawed Accountability Review Board
    Yes sir. Leave it to the blind, deaf and dumb supporters of Barack Obama to lead with their chin. It is an easy punch in the puss for me. Our resident troll, writing under the nom de stupidity of Owen Von Richter III provided the following ignorant rebuttal to my earlier piece regarding the fail ...
  • Obama Refuses to Pull the Trigger On Libyan Te ...
    Why did the Special Ops guy agree to an interview with Adam Housely? Last night’s report on Fox makes it clear–Barack Obama is not doing his job as President and is turning a blind eye to the terrorist responsible for the death of Ambassador Stevens and the other three Americans last ...
  • Benghazi, Ain’t Going Away
    The news on Benghazi keeps coming and it is not good for Obama. After months of trying to cover up the truth of what happened, courageous men and women are coming forward. Fox News reported last night (accurately, I will add), that three career State Department personnel have obtained legal coun ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • UN human rights group calls for investigation ...
    Facing South UN human rights group calls for investigation of mountaintop removal mining in ... Facing South After visiting West Virginia communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining, the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights is calling for an investigation into al ...
  • Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa's Ico ...
    Sand Land: Fracking Industry Mining Iowa's Iconic Sand Bluffs in New Form of ... Truth-Out In order to extract the frac sand, mining corporations have adopted a method of newfangled mountaintop removal of sorts, blasting away entire hills laced with this frac sand to access this new “prize.” ...
  • David Cooper ends his Mountaintop Removal Road ...
    The Courier-Journal (blog) David Cooper ends his Mountaintop Removal Road Show The Courier-Journal (blog) In the spirit of Al Gore's climate change slide show that inspired the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” or Bill McKibben's Do the Math Climate Change Road Show, Lexington resident Davi ...
  • The New Mountaintop Removal - CounterPunch
    The New Mountaintop Removal CounterPunch In order to extract the frac sand, mining corporations have adopted a method of newfangled mountaintop removal of sorts, blasting away entire hills laced with this frac sand to access this new “prize.” While devastating the landscape, it's justified b ...
  • Students Organize Mountaintop Removal Awarenes ...
    Students Organize Mountaintop Removal Awareness Festival Wesleyan Argus On April 25, an Environmental Justice and Mountaintop Removal Awareness discussion panel was held at Earth House, followed by the University's first Mountaintop Removal Awareness Festival. The festival took place on Foss ...

Memeorandum

  • World's First 3D-Printed Gun Successfully Fire ...
    Talking Points Memo: World's First 3D-Printed Gun Successfully Fired In Texas (VIDEO)  —  A new age of warfare appears to be upon us.  —  The world's first 3D-printed gun, called “the Liberator,” was successfully fired in Texas this weekend, according ...
  • Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police sou ...
    Thomas Ott / Plain Dealer: Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms  —  Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found ali ...
  • Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary ...
    Dr Christopher Kent / rba.gov.au: Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision  —  At its meeting today, the Board decided to lower the cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 per cent, effective 8 May 2013.  —  The global economy is likely to reco ...
  • Suspect Buford Rogers Arrested in Montevideo (FBI)
    FBI: Suspect Buford Rogers Arrested in Montevideo … special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in conjunction with the Montevideo Police Department; the Chippewa County Sheriff's Office; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Minnesota State Highway Pat ...
  • David Cameron's attempts at renegotiation will ...
    The Times: David Cameron's attempts at renegotiation will be inconsequential - we must leave  —  David Cameron has promised that in four years time the British people will be given the opportunity to decide in a referendum whether this country should leave the European Union.

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China Dialogue

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    两位气候问题专家就新成立的中美气候变化工作组给出了他们的建议。 美国国务卿&# ...
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    作为国际社会的积极一员，中国有责任公开其在西非等地海外捕鱼作业的影响。众所 ...
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    克莱夫·汉密尔顿在新作《地球之主》中指出，由于地球工程倡导者们热烈讨论对气 ...
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    云南省委副书记仇和说，云南的江水流向了国外，要应对大旱，云南必须蓄水。此论 ...
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    韩国进出口银行（KEXIM）发行了亚洲第一支“绿色债券”，这标志着投资者对中国及其&#370 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Obama Embraces Plutocrats Again With His Billi ...
    Picking Penny Pritzker is a clear message that Obama's priorities are not what's in the public interest. President Obama has let the public down once again with his pick for Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, the billionaire businesswoman who led the national 2008 fundraising effo ...
  • What's Behind ‘Substantial Increases’ in Suici ...
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some scary numbers. The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on May 3, 2013 that “recent evidence suggests there have been substantial increases in suicide rates among middle-aged adults in the United States.&#8 ...
  • Chief of the U.S. Air Force Sexual Assault Pre ...
    Air Force Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Virginia over the weekend Chief of the Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch at the Pentagon Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Virginia over the weekend.Kru ...
  • How a Safe Tiny Little Pill Scares the Hell ou ...
    By opposing Plan B, conservatives show they are willing to sacrifice women, teens and pre-teens on the altar of patriarchy and religion. You know the 11-year-old down the street who is dividing her after-school time between the park where she gets laid and the drug store where she buys her do ...
  • Gen. Petraeus with a Video Game Cameo Appearan ...
    How war games and other forms of "militainment" anesthetically normalize war in American society. David Petraeus may be out of the military and Central Intelligence Agency but he’s found a new role elsewhere — in the game “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.” Well, ...

Threat Level

  • Judge Asks IRS, Feds to Investigate Copyright- ...
    Using terms like "brazen conduct and relentless fraud," a federal judge on Monday sanctioned attorneys running a BitTorrent copyright lawsuit factory, and recommended federal prosecutors investigate for potential criminal charges.
  • Researchers Hack Building Control System at Go ...
    Two security researchers recently found that they could easily hack the building management system for the corporate giant’s Wharf 7 headquarters overlooking the water in the Pyrmont section of Sydney, Australia.
  • Cutting Through the Bitcoin Hype: A Security E ...
    I’m on neither “Team Bitcoin” nor “Team Global Financial System.” I’m on “Team Lets Fix This Thing.” Who am I to say? I’m not an economist; I’m a hacker, who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks. And ...
  • Alleged ‘SpyEye’ Botmaster Ends Up in America, ...
    A 24-year-old Algerian man has been extradited to the U.S. on charges that he was one of the masterminds behind the SpyEye trojan.
  • Secretive Spy Court Approved Nearly 2,000 Surv ...
    A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Typhi Risk at San Francisco Nordstr ...
    An employee at the Nordstrom Café in San Francisco’s Stonestown Galleria has been diagnosed with typhoid fever and may have exposed customers to the disease, according to the San Francisco... Continue Reading
  • Campylobacter in Raw Milk in Alaska, by the nu ...
    On February 13, 2013, Alaska State Public Health Laboratory (ASPHL) notified the Alaska Section of Epidemiology (SOE) of a cluster of four Campylobacter coli isolates with an indistinguishable pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE)... Continue Reading
  • Las Vegas Firefly Salmonella Outbreak: What w ...
    Over the last few days we have been retained by dozens of Las Vegas residents sickened by Salmonella after eating a Firefly during April 21-24.  We filed the first Salmonella... Continue Reading
  • Papa Murphy Wishes It Vaccinated Employees For ...
    Southeastern Idaho Public Health officials say customers of Papa Murphy’s in Chubbuck may have been exposed to Hepatitis A on April 19th , 20th, or 21st, as an employee there... Continue Reading
  • Fake Lamb is really Chinese Rats
    Horse sold as beef lasagna in Europe, Goat and Water Buffalo sold as hamburger in South Africa, but this takes the – well – cake. According to AP, Chinese police... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Refreshing News: Report Details PETA Killing T ...
    People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is an organization that publicly claims to represent the best interest of animals — indeed their “ethical treatment.” Yet approximately 2,000 animals pass through PETA’s front door every year and very few make it out aliv ...
  • Free Shotguns In Chicago: Armed Citizen Projec ...
    A gun advocacy group announced this weekend their hope to distribute free shotguns to unarmed people living in some of the most high-crime areas of 15 U.S. cities, including Chicago. The Houston-based Armed Citizen Project announced at the National Rifle Association convention that they want to ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | Wverp! Whooph! Kerplash! The ...
    By Visible Because we do not apply simple principles to everyday things, we become confused about their longevity and capacity to endure at our expense, which is what they do, endure and feed upon; us. This relates also to political trends of thought and operation, to the law and those who enfor ...
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    DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes #N3 – YouTube.
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Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The April jobs report shows continued slow gro ...
    Summary:  The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. In fact the trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported on ...
  • Peak Oil as seen through the eyes of Arab oil ...
    Summary: One of the world’s great energy experts reports on the view from a energy conference in Qatar. Oil is the fountain of their prosperity, and they well understand how brief the Age of Oil will be. . Reflections by Robert Hirsch on the Conference “Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportuniti ...
  • Thatcher said that we have no alternatives. Pr ...
    Summary:  The people in Europe’s periphery suffer from a lack of alternatives. This locks them into two ugly choices: suffer years of austerity (with no end in sight), or futile (perhaps nihilistic) protests. In fact, the West as a whole has a lack of alternatives. Here we discuss that pro ...
  • The Truth and Beauty of Madrid and Lombardia ( ...
    Summary: The fate of Europe depends on many factors, not least on the support of the people in Europe’s periphery for the European Union. Today we have an excerpt from Truth & Beauty that gives an accurate picture of conditions in this pivotal region, with a comparison to Russia’ ...
  • The March jobs report shows continued slow gro ...
    Summary:  The news media focuses on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consist mostly of noise. Strong months confirm the optimists; weak months confirm the pessimists. The trend of growth remains the real story, with the US economy near stall speed — supported only (like ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Hairy Tongue Helps Hovering Bats Suck U ...
    Nectar-feeding bats may have the most dynamic tongues in the mammal world, according to a new study. Having examined hours of high-speed video footage, scientists found that tiny hair-like structures at the tips of the bat tongues work as 'nectar ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Stunning Supernova
    These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ...
  • Photographer Captures Stunning Killer Whale At ...
    When capturing prey, killer whales use a number of chilling tactics. Some of these, like repeatedly ramming into a pod of sperm whales, are seldom seen. Others, like flipping a stunned creature out of the water and then eating it, ...
  • Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating ...
    When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank. Wired talked to the Chief Internet Evangelist ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Blowing Bubbles ...
    This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material.

PakAlert

  • ALL phone calls in the US are recorded and acc ...
    A former FBI counterterrorism agent has hinted at a vast and intrusive surveillance network used by the U.S. government to monitor its own citizens
  • US Senator: Big Sis Buying Ammo To Dry Up Supply
    A US Senator has stated on record that he believes the Department of Homeland Security is intentionally attempting to exhaust civilian supplies of ammunition by buying huge bulk amounts, as documented by Infowars for some months. Appearing on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC in New Y ...
  • First 3D-Printed Handgun Successfully Test Fir ...
    This is an update to Defense Distributed's ongoing progress with 3D printed weapons. The eyes of the world are on the innovation of 3D printing. Naturally, whenever a new technology is created that offers open source DIY opportunities to the average individual, it is going to make government ...
  • MSNBC Forced to Apologize After Egregiously Ta ...
    MSNBC host Thomas Roberts on Friday aired a portion of Vice President Joe Biden’s speech given at a plaque dedication remembering the Americans lost in the Benghazi terror attack and falsely claimed he was mourning “children as the victims of gun violence.” Roberts was discussing Biden’s reporte ...
  • Top Five Worst So-Called ‘Health’ Foods
    When choosing items labeled as ‘healthy,’ we need to be very careful. Many corporations have caught onto the fact that more and more consumers are seeking healthier options, and have tailored their marketing towards this end. The following are five of the worst foods that are labeled as, and ...

Andy Worthington

  • WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning: Andy Worthingto ...
    It’s almost three years since Pfc. Bradley Manning, who had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested by the US military and imprisoned in Kuwait for allegedly making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classifie ...
  • Save the NHS: The Next Moves for Campaigners, ...
    It’s now eleven days since the House of Lords voted against a motion proposed by the Labour peer, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, which was intended to strike down regulations relating to Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act that had caused alarm to campaigners when they surfaced in Febr ...
  • Eloquent But Unconvincing: President Obama&#82 ...
    On Tuesday, President Obama gave his first detailed response to the prison-wide hunger strike that has been raging at Guantánamo for twelve weeks, responding to a question posed at a news conference by CBS News correspondent Bill Plante, who asked, “As you’re probably aware, there&#8 ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantána ...
    With the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo nearing its 100th day (on Sunday), and even President Obama finally breaking his silence at a news conference on Tuesday — condemning the ongoing existence of the prison, but offering little in the way of solutions — I have been very b ...
  • Editorials Call for the Closure of Guantánamo ...
    As the prison-wide hunger strike in Guantánamo continues (sign the petition calling for its closure here!), nearly three months since the majority of the 166 prisoners still held began refusing food, it is abundantly clear that, after several years in which, frankly, almost everyone had forgotte ...

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Sciencebase

  • How did feathers evolve?
    Carl Zimmer offered some insights at TED-Ed into how dinosaurs got their plumage and evolved into the flying birds, excellent birds, we see today. This is witty animation plucks up the courage to fill in the gaps. On an entirely unrelated note, I wrote a song about flight, which you can hear on ...
  • Win #DeceivedWisdom in our 10k competition
    My publisher just added up all the sales of my book Deceived Wisdom including hardback sales since November, Kindle and ePub downloads and the Audible editions. The grand total so far…drum roll please…is 10,000 copies, which ain’t bad for a popular science book (although it was ...
  • We’ve got a lot of grounds to cover
    Next time you’re sipping on your skinny, frothy mochachocafrappalatteccino with maple syrup and cinnamon at the local Costabucksorthree coffee shop and surfing on their EasyHack(TM) wireless internet spare a thought for the grounds. The burnt out and scalded fragments of beans gone by that ...
  • Pale Blue Dot
    The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. Th ...
  • Getting the garlic blues
    Pickler Andrew Dalby responded to one of my recent tweets about not cooking asparagus in lemon juice because it discolours it. He had found that his garlic cloves turned blue when he pickled them in spiced malt vinegar. The discolouration doesn’t mean that the pickles are inedible. Now pla ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Great Recession "Grinds On" For American Youth
    Arguably one of the biggest casualties of America's economic state is a generation of youth for whom the Great Recession painfully continues to "grind on." read more
  • Wisconsin Bill Would Treat Organic Milk, Sharp ...
    Junk food? (Photo: sgrace/flickr)Wisconsin ranks 44th in the nation for new job creation. read more
  • Widely Opposed Nuclear Plant Moves Forward in ...
    The Kudankulam Nuclear Plant (Photo: Eunheui/flickr)India's Supreme Court gave the OK on Monday for a hotly-contested nuclear plant in the state of Tamil Nadu to move towards operation, sparking opponents to vow to continue their fight. ...
  • Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed T ...
    Record fines adding up to $36 billion have been paid out in the last 12 years by multinational corporations to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud. But are they getting away with a slap on the wrist to avoid prosecution for major crimes? ...
  • House GOP Prepares Fast-Track for Keystone XL
    This month, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives will vote on, and likely approve, a measure that bypasses White House approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, fast-tracking construction of the controversial project. In a memo sent Friday to fellow Republicans, House Majority ...

Lifehacker

  • What Bad Posture Actually Does to Your Body
    We've heard countless times that good posture and ergonomics are necessary when you're working at a computer, but what exactly happens when you don't follow those tips? The Wall Street Journal found out. Read more...    
  • MacUtil Simplifies OS X Customization
    Mac: If you want to change the inner-workings of OS X, you typically need to dig into Terminal commands or download a bunch of special software. MacUtil is an app that makes customization simple by providing you with all sorts of tweaks in a simple menu. Read more...    
  • Focus@Will Puts Productivity-Boosting Streamin ...
    Android (4.1+): Focus@Will, the science-backed streaming service designed to boost your productivity, now offers an Android app that lets you take the music with you wherever you are. Plus, the service has unveiled premium plans and support for listeners around the globe.Read more...   ...
  • You've Started Self-Tracking. Now What?
    According to figures published recently by Pew Internet Research, only 46% of people who track some aspect of their health say that it has changed their overall approach to maintaining their health. This is a startlingly low number. If less than half of self-trackers are able to find any actiona ...
  • FitCycle Puts Cycling Classes On Your Phone, K ...
    Android: We've discussed how training on an exercise bike is one of the most efficient workout methods, but it's no fun to just sit on a bike and ride. FitCycle puts workout routines and cycling classes on your phone so you can listen and follow along while you pedal. The app keeps you motivate ...

Water Wars

  • MOPEs Annual Water Wars
    Mind of Pink Elephants Annual Water Wars is a water event at Langford Park in July. Presale tickets are $10 online (without ticket processing fees) and $15 at the event. Water Wars is a four team water war using water guns, water balloons, water soakers, and water ammunition in an all out soakat ...
  • 'Things Could Get Ugly': Fracking Set ...
    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." rea ...
  • ‘Water Wars’ warning issued to Bernardsville p ...
    BERNARDSVILLE – A water-gun elimination game that has gained popularity among high school students in recent years is apparently making some waves in the Somerset Hills Regional School District.
  • Wimberley Water Wars
    Community activists protest Needmore Ranch development
  • Capital Tonight: Water legislation a priority ...
    Funding the state's water future took center stage in both chambers of the Texas Legislature, today. On the House side, a bill to pull $2 billion dollars for water from the Rainy Day Fund was at the center of a contentious floor fight. Meanwhile, in the Senate, lawmakers took a big step towa ...

WordPress | Economics

  • Reasonable Decision Making Under Maximum Uncer ...
    by Doug Shapiro (read time: 3 min) We all make decisions in the face of poor, incomplete, inaccurate
  • oh, the humanity!
    Yes, a famous German zeppelin did crash 76 years ago today: May 6, 1937. It caught fire while trying
  • Krugman's "white whale"
    I, for one, would hesitate before taking on Paul Krugman when he’s talking about economics. Bu
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  • With the Summer Wind
    Wow, the season sure did change rather quickly! I remember just two weeks ago having to wear my huge

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Another Minnesota House Committee Advances Mar ...
    The Minnesota marriage equality bill took a pit stop this afternoon in the House Ways & Means Committee, where it passed by a voice vote. According to the Star-Tribune, which endorsed the legislation this weekend, the purpose for the additional committee’s consideration was the fact th ...
  • Heritage’s Fatally Flawed Study Doubles Down o ...
    Our guest bloggers are Marshall Fitz, Philip E. Wolgin, and Patrick Oakford, who study immigration at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Even though the 2012 presidential election put an end to Mitt Romney’s idea that 47 percent of Americans were moochers “who are dependent upon gover ...
  • Mississippi Still Poised For Tuesday Execution ...
    Mississippi is set to execute a man Tuesday night without testing available DNA evidence from a hair sample in his case. ThinkProgress reported last week that a 5-4 court upheld the decision not to test the evidence, in spite of a prosecutor’s inconclusive logic linking the hair sample to ...
  • FDA Pushes For Cancer Warning Labels On Tannin ...
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday took steps to ensure that consumers are aware of the cancer-related risks of using commercial tanning booths. In its proposed rule, the FDA wants the booths “to carry language warning people under the age of 18 about the risks of indoor ...
  • Heritage vs. Heritage: Major Immigration Repor ...
    On Monday, the Heritage Foundation published a widely panned study arguing that comprehensive immigration reform that allows undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, as the population will take advantage of an array of government programs, including, Social ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Why Liberals r the Real Haters ...
    Hi! Welcome back to thwap's increasingly insane schoolyard! I'm going to continue to channel the right-wing mind because I have no desire to type about anything else. Today I'll be learnin' you on how it's the pinkos, liberals, commies, white-guilt types who are the real racists in society. The ...
  • Channeling the Right-Wing
    So, for the continuing entertainment value of left-wing Canucks who long to see some similar thinking as they browse gloomily through the inter-tubes, I've decided to try to think like a right-wing voter. Yes, yes. Crude stereotypes, doesn't do justice to the  nuanced worldviews of this dem ...
  • Two Random Things
    Almost a decade ago, I spoke to a group of socialist academics and activists. I said that if we were to move forward we needed to come up with something big but nevertheless doable with the political system as we know it. I proposed utilizing small-l liberal values about democracy and human rig ...
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  • Economic Wisdom
    Just want to point out something quickly. This Glob n' Mall article about PBO's Page vs. Dimbulb-Jimbo Flaherty's jobs forecasts says the following: The PBO does not comment on whether the finance minister’s approach is appropriately balanced. Governments and citizens around the world are deba ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • How to spend the defence budget
    On April 15, we asked Ceasefire.ca supporters how they would better spend the money wasted on weapons and war.
  • Get rid of the nukes, part two!
    According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".
  • Canada and missile defence
    Canadian missile defence supporters are back in the news, arguing once again that Canada should join the U.S. missile defence system to protect against the North Korean Nuclear Threat.
  • Get rid of the nukes!
    A delegation from the Abolition 2000 network visited the Clyde Naval Base in Faslane, Scotland on April 19th and released the Faslane Declaration, which calls on the UK to remove the nuclear weapons based in Scotland, abandon nuclear deterrence, and join negotiations for global nuclear abolition.
  • How would you spend the money?
    Today is the Global Day of Action On Military Spending. How would you spend the money wasted wasted on weapons and war?

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-23-13
    Today, Kevin contemplates the idea of running for office. What do you think? Help Kevin make the decision that could change America! Self Help: Where’s Your Vote? Boost Your Immune System Cleanses & Detoxes: Mineral Detox One Minute Cure Protocol Miracle Mineral Solution Candida Cleanse Oral ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-30-13
    Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & Vinegar Miracl ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-6-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...
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    Today, Kevin explains how the government is secretly taking money from you and what could be done to prevent inflation from getting any higher! Self Help: KT on Tour Get Your Omega-3’s Protect Your Bank Account Get Rid of Diabetes Weight Loss Cure Video: The Youth of America Health: Carmel Color ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Eyewitnesses: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Did Not Shoot ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFriendly fire incident heaps more skepticism on official narrative behind raid Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 7, 2013 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Image: FBI Eyewitnesses to the shootout involving the alleged Boston bomb ...
  • The top five myths about Guantánamo Bay
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe top five myths about Guant namo Bay Raw StoryBy Karen Greenberg, The Guardian   As pressure mounts to close the US’s detention camp in Cuba, what would be the implications for its policy on terrorism? Rene ...
  • Video: Students Submit to ‘Obama Security Forc ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comActivist Mark Dice illustrates absurdity of Americans eager to relinquish 4th amendment rights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 7, 2013 Activist Mark Dice illustrated the absurd ease with which some Americans are ...
  • North Korea removes missiles from launch sites
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRT May 7, 2013 In a sudden de-escalation of tension on the Korean Peninsula, Pyongyang has removed two of its ballistic missile units from their launching positions, US officials confirmed. Two Musudan missiles, capable ...
  • The U.S. Government Is Monitoring All Phone Ca ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comMichael Snyder American Dream May 7, 2013 Big Brother is watching everything that you do on the Internet and listening to everything that you say on your phone. Every single day in America, the U.S. government intercepts ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: Perpetual Rebellion
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad May 6, 2013 AntiHasbara Chris Hedges 4 May 2013 Convocation Hall Toronto . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtMQqTgALoM Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books ...
  • Stay Out of Syria! by Leah Bolger and David Sw ...
    by Leah Bolger and David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad http://greenshadowcabinet.us May 5, 2013 Statement of Leah Bolger, Secretary of Defense and David Swanson, Secretary of Peace, of the Foreign Affairs Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet: The Obama administration has seemingly painted itself ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Things Are Ugly—Do Something Abo ...
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky videonation – May 6, 2013 Post-9/11 repression pales in comparison to what Americans have had in the past, and we have more ways to make a change than people used to have. So why aren’t we doing anything with them? “I’ve never seen such fear an ...
  • The Death of Truth by Chris Hedges (Interview ...
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 6, 2013 This interview is a joint project of Truthdig and The Nation magazine. LONDON—A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting i ...
  • Some Don’t Pay Their War Taxes by David ...
    Dandelion Salad by David Swanson http://warisacrime.org May 5, 2013 This past Saturday morning felt like mid-winter in Asheville, North Carolina, but was actually some weeks past tax day, and dozens of people were gathered in front of a federal building to say something about what federal income ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Video: Hairy Tongue Helps Hovering Bats Suck U ...
    Nectar-feeding bats may have the most dynamic tongues in the mammal world, according to a new study. Having examined hours of high-speed video footage, scientists found that tiny hair-like structures at the tips of the bat tongues work as 'nectar ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Stunning Supernova
    These delicate wisps of gas make up an object known as SNR B0519-69.0, or SNR 0519 for short. The thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ...
  • Photographer Captures Stunning Killer Whale At ...
    When capturing prey, killer whales use a number of chilling tactics. Some of these, like repeatedly ramming into a pod of sperm whales, are seldom seen. Others, like flipping a stunned creature out of the water and then eating it, ...
  • Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist on Creating ...
    When some future Mars colonist is able to open his browser and watch a cat in a shark suit chasing a duck while riding a roomba, they will have Vint Cerf to thank. Wired talked to the Chief Internet Evangelist ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Blowing Bubbles ...
    This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the Trapezium stars - collide with material.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • David Finkel: Realities of Zionism
    Zionism is viewed [by Moshé Machover] as a colonial-settler project, not a national liberation movement. Its particular aims, “based not on exploiting the labor of the indigenous people but aiming to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Lia Tarachansky: Seven Deadly Myths
    When the government tries to silence a history, a light is shed on the nation’s biggest taboo. This is the story of those who fought to erase Palestine and created an Israeli landscape of denial. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Idan Landau: Israel gives up white phosphorus, ...
    A senior IDF officer: “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.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Idan Landau: Israel gives up white phosphorus, ...
    A senior IDF officer: “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.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in it ...
  • Important update on the international petition ...
    A major milestone has been reached in the struggle for Lynne Stewart's freedom. Lynne Stewart wrote on April 26 to confirm that the Warden at FMC Carswell has recommended Compassionate Release to the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • There Are Lots of Reasons to Oppose Ted Cruz f ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Ted Cruz is running for president, and an election-addled media is training its sights on his nascent candidacy in the absence of many alternatives this early in the cycle. His birth outside the United States is inevitably raising the eligibility question. Cruz wa ...
  • The Transformation of the Permanent Court of A ...
    by Kristen Boon by Kristen Boon The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) recently released its 2012 annual report, which documents its remarkable institutional transformation. Established in 1899, the PCA is an intergovernmental organization based in the Peace Palace in The Hague.  Although it ...
  • Weekday News Wrap: Monday, May 6, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey South Korea has dismissed the plan from North Korea to reopen the joint industrial complex shared by the two countries, calling the demands from Pyongyang “incomprehensible” and urging North Korea to come forward for dialogue rather than making s ...
  • Chemical Weapons Used in Syria — By the Rebels…
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This according to the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which has considerable investigative ability. Reuters: (Reuters) – U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating ...
  • The 1949 Geneva Convention You Probably Haven’ ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson It’s the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (text at p. 3 of pdf; here’s the UN treaty collection history, signatories, reservations, etc.; here is the Wikisource text of the treaty, which on quick read is accurate) which seeks to promote ...

Public News Service

  • FDA's New 'Plan' for Teen Pregnancy Prevention ...
    FDA's New 'Plan' for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month PHOENIX - May is Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, and the FDA has started it off with a major announcement. The agency will allow a form of women's emergency contraception known as "Plan B One-Step" to be sold over-the-counter, and to women as ...
  • Funding Cuts Hit Medical Research; Patients Ma ...
    Funding Cuts Hit Medical Research; Patients May Suffer the Consequences PHOENIX - When Congress passed the "sequester" cuts as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, across-the-board reductions were imposed on a number of agencies. The National Institutes of Health lost five percent of its budg ...
  • One Mexican Wolf Killed; Two Pairs to be Relea ...
    One Mexican Wolf Killed; Two Pairs to be Released into the Wild PHOENIX – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to release a pair of Mexican wolves in both Arizona and New Mexico as part of its Mexican Wolf Recovery Program. And in a separate incident, the service has announced that o ...
  • Decline in SIDS Deaths Plateaus; Safe Sleep Ha ...
    Decline in SIDS Deaths Plateaus; Safe Sleep Habits Urged PHOENIX - After dropping for years, the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the United States has stayed somewhat level for some time, so experts are again reminding parents and providers about the importance of safe sleep habits. Acc ...
  • Advocates: Governor’s Budget the Minimum ...
    Advocates: Governor’s Budget the Minimum for Child Safety PHOENIX - Arizona children's advocates went to the state Capitol on Tuesday, urging lawmakers to fully fund Gov. Jan Brewer's $77 million budget request for Child Protective Services. The money would pay for additional CPS staff an ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

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
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