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The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Nullification: States overruling feds on guns, ...
    Increasing numbers of states are passing laws negating, ignoring, and directly confronting federal laws. Nullification isn’t just a right-wing movement, because it’s also coming from the left on marijuana. Kansas passed a law in April saying federal gun laws do not apply to guns manu ...
  • Kimberly Rivera – jailed pregnant Iraq war res ...
    Amnesty International identifies  Kimberly Rivera as a prisoner of conscience, she was the first American woman conscientious objector to flee to Canada, but mainstream media mostly ignore this Iraq war vet with PTSD — unless they’re labeling her a “deserter.” A Texan married to a Texan, P ...
  • UN: Rebels may have used poison gas in Syria, ...
    Oh dear. what will the war pigs in the White House do now their red line on poison gas may have been crossed by the rebels they want to support, not by Assad. [Sarin gas] “was used on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added. Zero Hedge Mo ...
  • CIA wanted to seize drug cartel money, White H ...
    The US government despite blusterings to the contrary is intent on insuring the flow of drugs continues from Mexico, along with  billions of  dollars of dirty money. As for Rule of Law, well, I guess that’s just for the little people. All that drug cartel money flowing into our financial i ...
  • 3D printed gun fired successfully
    The world’s first 3D printed gun has been successfully fired in Texas. The only metal part is the firing pin, all other parts are made from ABS plastic using a freely available $8,000 3D printer. CAD plans for the gun can be downloaded free at Defcad. [Cody] Wilson, who describes himself a ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • KENT STATE MASSACRE; Shooting Started By FBI I ...
    (AE) – The Kent State Massacre was just one of many COINTELPRO events orchestrated by the FBI and Richard Nixon’s fascist administration. COINTELPRO has never stopped, it continues to this day, in various forms…   2013.5.6 Agent Provocateur Triggered Kent State Massacre!, ...
  • Armless artist Karipbek Kuyukov denied entry t ...
    A Kazakh artist who was born without arms says that he could not get permission to enter the UK last month because he could not give fingerprints. Karipbek Kuyukov planned to attend an anti-nuclear conference in Edinburgh. But he got a letter from the British Consulate in Istanbul saying his &#8 ...
  • Working gun made with 3D printer
    The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfull ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – May 6 2013
    Monday May 6th 2013: Jack Blood and callers catch up on weekend news. Israel attacks Syria, Obama tells kids to rebuke those who suggest that the Govt. brings tyranny…. Jack’s Rants, bad jokes, and music are laced within. DOWNLOAD THE SHOW BY RIGHT-CLICKING “DOWNLOAD” AND ...
  • This Day In History – May 7
    351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine. 1274 – In France, the Second Council of Lyons opens to regulate the election of the Pope. 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of OrlĂ©ans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder ...

The Air Vent

  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...
  • Happy Feet – Filtermatics
    Something interesting at WUWT happened today.  This isn’t a typical issue as of late and requires a bit of math skill.   A post by Willis Eschenbach brought up some old memories of days where skeptic blogs like this one, were math centric.  Fortunately the math which Willis discusses this ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook expands test of FBX ads in desktop Ne ...
    Facebook today announced that it is opening desktop News Feed inventory to more Facebook Exchange partners. This will allow businesses to retarget Facebook users who visited their websites with Page Post Link ads in the News...
  • Facebook tries new ways to encourage users to ...
    Facebook is testing a new way to encourage users to buy gifts for their friends by including a call to action within the comments section of a post. SocialFresh CEO Jason Keath shared the example below,...
  • Facebook tests new rating scales for places
    As Facebook continues to encourage users to rate the places they’ve been, the social network is testing different language for its five-star rating scale. After a user has checked into a place or been tagged in...
  • Hearsay Social puts focus on ‘social selling’ ...
    Hearsay Social, maker of social media management software, is announcing a new Social Sales Solution to give individual salespeople better tools for monitoring their social networks and publishing relevant content. The platform will identify top stories...
  • Facebook roundup: iOS apps, media, Windows Pho ...
    Facebook is No. 1 most downloaded iPhone app of all time – Celebrating 50 billion total downloads across the App Store this week, Apple released new all-time most downloaded apps with Facebook at No. 1 of...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Calling for the FBI Director to Resign Over th ...
    The FBI is portraying its bungling of repeated Russian warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev as "requests for information." But Russian intelligence was not asking if Tamerlan was going to "join unspecified underground groups." It was telling the FBI. Russian intelligence was not asking if Tamerlan ...
  • 60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda: Part 1, ...
    Three stories were aired Sunday night: Counterinsurgency Cops, Robin Hood, and Invisible Wounds. The first two pieces advanced the anti-government billionaires' agenda with almost Orwellian efficiency. The third was less driven by that agenda, although it also reflected the biases which big-mone ...
  • If Truth is Treason: Bradley Manning
    The truth is something that needs to be told. Manning, I believe, is ready to accept whatever punishment is doled out, but I believe that the punishment should be measured. The truth is that Manning put his personal security at risk to tell the public what the truth really was. This is an except ...
  • America Can't Cut Its Way To Prosperity
    Only 165,000 new jobs were created in April -- far fewer than are needed to address existing unemployment and create positions for the millions entering the workforce. More than 11.7 million active job seekers cannot find work. And that figure does not include millions who have given up looking ...
  • SCANDAL ABC: Defiance, Ohio - Is It On or Off ...
    Internet hackings in six banks in 2012 -- Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC -- should send shivers down everyone's spine. Internet hackings have also been reported at Living Social, Google, Lockheed Martin, Visa, Sony, Nasdaq, Charles Schwab, MasterCard, ...

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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Kristen Powers Will be the Star Teacher At Non ...
    Kristen Powers attempts to advance the argument that the Gosnell case means that we should shut down abortion clinics that don’t act illegally. She inevitably fails miserably: Abortion rights advocates have argued that there is nothing to see here. Move along. This is what illegal abortion ...
  • Kudos Where Kudos Are Due
    Dahlia Lithwick’s Supreme Court reporting has earned a richly deserved National Magazine Award. Tracie McMillan has won both a Hillman Prize and a James Beard award.   I recommend The American Way of Eating very strongly; her Beard Award-winning piece explains a major point of the first se ...
  • The Greatest Beard in American History
    The title for greatest beard in American history goes to one Peter Cooper, 1876 Greenback Party candidate for president. I don’t see how the competition for this title even comes close. Not sure when the picture was taken but Cooper died in 1883.
  • Seapower History Bleg
    Does anyone know of any good work on competition/conflict between the Army and the Navy in either the Civil War or the Spanish-American War? Most of the extant work on inter-service conflict treats it as a 20th century phenomenon, generated by the expansion of warfare into the third dimension, b ...
  • Guns as Cultural Markers and Little Else
    I think the thing that makes me angriest about the gun debate as it currently stands is that the gun-humpers are basically just trolling liberals when they protest so vigorously even the smallest, most reasonable control measures. I mean, at this point, this is not about folks who enjoy hunting ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • House Arrest for Boston Bombing Suspect's Pal
    A lawyer for a young man accused of lying to the FBI about visiting the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect's dorm room following the blast got prosecutors to agree on Monday to home confinement pending trial.
  • Facebook Gets Argument Time in Free Speech Appeal
    A lawyer for Facebook Inc. will have the opportunity next week to address a federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., in a dispute that touches on the scope of First Amendment rights when it comes to online activity.
  • Plaintiffs Vie for a Look at Toyota's 'Crown J ...
    In the sudden acceleration cases against Toyota, there are confidential documents and highly confidential documents. And then there is what the judge overseeing most of the cases called the company's 'crown jewels'--the source software code behind the electronics of its vehicles, which almost no ...
  • Former Pitt Dean Prepares to Take Over in New ...
    The University of New Mexico School of Law has announced that David Herring will be its next dean. Herring is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as dean from 1998 to 2005. He will assume his new job on July 1.
  • THE 2013 IP HOT LIST
    On our second annual Intellectual Property Hot List, you?ll find 20 law firms that have demonstrated creative, formidable talent in litigation, patent prosecution and deal-making.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First Leg of ...
    A Swiss pilot this weekend completed the first portion of a five-leg trip across the U.S. in an airplane powered by solar energy. The so-called Solar Impulse aircraft, which runs on energy collected from 12,000 solar cells Solar ImpulseView from the cockpit in its long wings, flew from San Fran ...
  • Seawater Energy Technology Is Focus of Pilot P ...
    The U.S. defense and aerospace giant, Lockheed Martin, is partnering with a major Chinese company to build a pilot project off the southern Chinese coast that will use temperature differentials between the deep and shallow ocean to generate electricity. The technology, known as ocean thermal ene ...
  • Five Southeast Asian Nations Have Lost One-Thi ...
    Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have lost one-third of their forests since 1980 and could be left with only 10 to 20 percent of their original forest cover by 2030, according to a review of satellite data by WWF. The conservation group warned that if present trends continue only 1 ...
  • A Key Experiment to Probe the Future of Our Ac ...
    In a Swedish fjord, European researchers are conducting an ambitious experiment aimed at better understanding how ocean acidification will affect marine life. Ultimately, these scientists hope to determine which species might win and which might lose in a more acidic ocean. BY PETER FRIEDERICI
  • Program Targeting Diesel Emissions Will Be Cut ...
    A federal program that has cleaned up or removed 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines from U.S. roads is scheduled to be cut by 70 percent under President Barack Obama’s latest budget. The program eliminated 230,000 tons of soot and smog-causing pollutants, slashed more than two million tons of ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Are all telephone calls recorded and accessibl ...
    The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public. But a seemingly spontaneous admission this week by a former FBI counterterrorism agent provides a rather startling acknowledgment of just how vast and invasive these surveillance a ...
  • Romanian nuns celebrate Easter among the skull ...
    As thousands of Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter Sunday today with services around the world, worshippers in Romania visited an underground room of skulls to mark Jesus Christ’s resurrection. The ossuary at Pasarea monastery near Bucharest contains mainly the remains of nuns who lived there ...
  • Tom Campbell: Consciousness Is The Computer, R ...
    Tom Campbell expands on his Theory of Everything (My Big TOE) and how we humans interface with this reality, the Universe, which is virtual. We are free will awareness units. This is a subset of our higher individuated unit of consciousness, outside of this reality, this Universe. That in turn i ...
  • Scientists use magnetic nano-rods to investiga ...
    In the microscopic world, everything is in motion: atoms and molecules vibrate, proteins fold, even glass is a slow flowing liquid. And during each movement there are interactions between the smallest elements – for example, the atoms – and their neighbours. To make these movements visible, scie ...
  • Japan’s constitutional changes could echo thro ...
    Possible changes to Japan’s constitution may restrict some rights and expand its military, having implications regionally and even in America. They also raise a basic question: Should it be easy to change a constitution? Emperor Hirohito signing the current constitution. Japan celebrated its Con ...

Not My Tribe

  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...
  • Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves ...
    Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a larger park, but for what? The world’s l ...
  • FBI focus on Assata Shakur reveals pernicious ...
    MS. SHAKUR (nĂ© Joanne Chesimard) insists she did not kill the New Jersey trooper in 1973, that she couldn’t have, she’d been disabled by a police bullet to the back while her hands were raised. Shakur contends she was the victim of a legal lynching and before that a target of the USG ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Are all telephone calls recorded and accessibl ...
    A heads up from Gregg Roberts over at AE911Truth.org: Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/04/telephone-calls-recorded-fbi ...
  • Paper Accepted and Published at Scientific Met ...
    I’m happy to announce that I’ve successfully had a paper accepted and published at the website Scientific Method 9/11. It’s an updated version of my paper Other Collapses in Perspective. In it, I present scientific explanations for why other steel structure fire-induced collapses are not compara ...
  • Fukushima's Catastrophic Aftermath Continues ( ...
    In her book titled No Immediate Danger: Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth, nuclear power/environmental health expert Rosalie Bertell (1929 - 2012) said: Should the public discover the true health cost(s) of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse t ...
  • Salon blames Infowars and "conspiracy theories ...
    Just when you thought the attacks couldn't get more ridiculous... Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan: "Tamerlan “took an interest in Infowars,” according to Elmirza Khozhugov, the ex-husband of Tamerlan’s sister. He was also apparently interested in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was ...
  • Why is George W Bush being honored with #BushC ...
    Join CODEPINK in sharing this message together at the same time - automatically. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/2005-and-justice-for-all Related: Ladies in Pink Slips: 10 Years of CODEPINK Creativity Prison for a poem? Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots?

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

  • Palast reports from KazakhstanFBI Spiked Chech ...
    By Greg Palast from Vice.com UK [Astana, Kazakhstan]  Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, I received documents marked "SECRET" from the files of the FBI's Washington field office. The information in those files will make you sick. [Click through to get a free download of the fi ...
  • Billionaire Bankster Penny PritzkerBreaks into ...
    By Greg Palast  You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet.  But thar she blows! Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone:  ...
  • Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artĂ­culo en español aquĂ­. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...
  • 3 Years ago Today Deepwater Horizon Explodes
    By Greg Palast The Hidden Truth - Watch the Film
  • My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher
    By Greg Palast I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of an iconic stateswoman: Naggie Hatchet dead and gone Ruled her Empire State like Queen Kong Stomping on us little peeps Just to sell our Jewels to creeps. And lost the ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Autism One Congressional Panel To Feature Dan ...
    “Throughout my decades in public service, I have strived to give consideration to those whose issues fall through the cracks of our government, and to those who become targets of government authorities for daring to deliver or seek alternative therapies.”...
  • Rob Schneider Speaks Out on Vaccination Rights ...
    Managing Editor's Note: You may recall that Rob Schneider, Hollywood actor and Canadian citizen spoke out against AB2109 in California last year. Below, he speaks out against the forced medical procedure of vaccination in Vista Magazine. Can you imagine any...
  • Autism Is Different Not Less like Equating a B ...
    Managing Editor's Note: James Terminiello has nailed the white washing that is Autism "Acceptance and Awareness" month in his editorial in New Jersey.com. What began as Leo Kanner's diagnosis of a whole body, thoroughly debilitating diagnosis has been broadened to...
  • Dachel Media Update: Rates, Definition, Help
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. May 5, 2013, Salem (OR) Statesman Journal: UO seminar offers facts on autism May 5, 2013, NJ.com: Opinion: Expanded definition of 'autism' goes astray May 5, 2013, Green Bay Press Gazette:...
  • Andrew Wakefield on Vaccine Failure And Questi ...
    Published on May 3, 2013 Dr. Wakefield talks about vaccine failure, the alleged corporate response, and poses further questions for Dr. Salisbury. Please go to the YouTube page and click "like" and share the link with friends and family. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BASKGep-CH0&feature=you ...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • How to Heal a Planet
    It starts with just one choice…
  • Food As A Political Weapon: The USDA’s Suicide ...
      Pat Mooney, co-founder & Executive Director of etcgroup.org (formerly RAFI) discusses terminator & traitor seeds patented by the USDA & Monsanto, possible implications for bio-warfare and agra-terrorism.
  • Monsanto Wet Dream
    In an industry dominated by genetically modified seeds, a poor farmer struggles to survive. When he resorts to smuggling now-illegal organic seeds across borders he risks everything.
  • 2081 Universal Absurdity
    A dystopian future in which everyone is "finally equal...."
  • “Stunning” Difference of GM from non-GM Corn
    A comparison of US Midwest non-GM with GM corn shows shockingly high levels of glyphosate as well as formaldehyde, and severely depleted of mineral nutrients in the GM corn.

new geography

  • The 2013 Best Cities For Job Growth
    The 2013 edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the biggest winners are the metro areas that are adding higher-wage jobs thanks to America’s two big boom sectors: technology and ...
  • Best Cities for Job Growth 2013 Map
    For the 2013 Job Growth Rankings, Needle Analytics has mapped out every city sampled in the survey and visualized their positions on the list of rankings. While a list of data can impart interesting revelations to the reader, visualizing the data can highlight differences by region or across ...
  • Millennial Lifestyles Will Remake American Homes
    As Millennials, America’s largest generation, enter their thirties in ever greater numbers, their beliefs about how and where to raise a family will have as much impact on the nation’s housing market. This follows as their media and political preferences have helped shape how we entertain ou ...
  • The Myth of Green Australia
    Having collected the Nobel peace prize in 2007, Al Gore’s fortunes as a climate crusader slid into the doldrums.  But 8th November 2011 arrived as a ray of sunshine. On that day Australia’s parliament passed into law the world’s first economy-wide carbon tax. Rushing to his ...
  • Observations on Urbanization: 1920-2010
    Ninety years have made a world of difference in the United States. Between 1920 and 2010, the nation's population nearly tripled. But that was not the most important development. Two other trends played a huge role in shaping the United States we know today. The first trend was increasing ur ...

water.org

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

Cryptogon

  • Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention Ch ...
    Via: CBS: An Air Force officer was arrested for sexual assault. The remarkable thing is the accused man was the chief of the Air Force sexual assault prevention unit. The mug shot of Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski shows signs of struggle on his face. The police report alleges that a drunken Krusinski & ...
  • Obombya To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn Abou ...
    Via: Real Clear Politics: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. T ...
  • Alex Rovt, The Fertilizer Baron Of Manhattan
    This is from 2012, but it’s a keeper. Would someone out there please email this story to Joel and Ethan Coen? This could make Miller’s Crossing look like Sunday School. Via: Bloomberg: Everyone looking to unload overleveraged or overpriced property, another broker who dealt with Rovt ...
  • Home Owned by Saudi Government Near CIA Raided ...
    Via: CBS: Immigration officials have removed two domestic workers from a northern Virginia home owned by the government of Saudi Arabia as part of an investigation into a report of human trafficking. Agents went to the home in McLean on Tuesday night, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesma ...
  • Breakthrough In Solar Panel Technology Wasn&#8 ...
    Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australian scientists have found a way of hugely increasing the efficiency of solar panels while substantially reducing their cost. The University of NSW researchers have come up with improvements in photovoltaic panel design that had not been expected for another dec ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...
  • Where Is The Recovery? A Higher Percentage Of ...
    If you think that the latest employment numbers are good news, you might want to look again.  In April 2013, 58.6 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  But three years ago, in April 2010, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  Well, you may argue, that is not much [...]
  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...

Desertification

  • RECEIVING SPAM EVERY DAY : the AFRICAN MANAGER ...
    Every day I receive by mail a copy of the English and the Arabic version of the AFRICAN MANAGER NEWSLETTER without subscribing to this newsletter. Although I tried several times to unsubscribe (one is asked to send an e-mail to … Continue reading →
  • Sustainable forestry and agroforestry to keep ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/idb-provides-72-million-for-sustainable-forestry-and-poverty-reduction-in-brazil/ IDB Provides $72 Million for Sustainable Forestry and Poverty Reduction in Brazil The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is providing a US$72 million loan to the Brazilian s ...
  • We must endeavor to build a land-degradation n ...
    Read at : http://land-l.iisd.org/news/unccd-executive-secretary-stresses-need-for-goal-on-land-degradation-neutral-world/ UNCCD Executive Secretary Stresses Need for Goal on Land Degradation Neutral World In his keynote speech to the sixth Global Assembly of Members of the International Land Coa ...
  • Just add cows to combat desertification ? (Goo ...
    Read at : http://mdp.berkeley.edu/?p=568 Asa Feinstein – To Combat Desertification: Just Add Cows? I figure that if two people send me a link to the same TED talk within the same week, it might be worth a look.  By following … Continue reading →
  • No title
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501131940.htm New Plant Protein Discoveries Could Ease Global Food and Fuel Demands New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and dro ...

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • North Korea moves missiles from coast: US
    North Korea has taken two Musudan missiles off launch-ready status and moved them from their position on the country's east coast, US officials told Reuters, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch. US Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea last mont ...
  • Russia and US to hold Syria talks in Mosc ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin is to hold talks with US State Secretary John Kerry in Moscow to discuss the ongoing Syrian crisis. Mr Kerry's visit comes after Israel launched two air strikes in southern Syria, which sources say targeted weapons bound for militants in Lebanon. Russia ...
  • Mow more green this season with a better ...
    Summer season is vastly approaching and most people around the U.S. are welcoming summer with open arms. Unfortunately, a lot of the U.S. is still seeing signs of Jack Frost and are hoping spring comes soon. For the rest of us that are in the middle of spring are thinking ahead to summer yar ...
  • Grow ideas for your garden
    KNOWING where to start with the design and construction of a garden can be a very daunting process. Looking out over a bare grassed garden with no inspiration and no direction can lead you to think that creating a lush inviting space is almost impossible. The first step is to find out what g ...
  • Repurposing Ideas That Give Altoid Tins A ...
    Altoids may be best known for their "curiously strong" breath freshening power, but we're also kind of smitten with their hinged tin case packaging. Reusing the durable containers for storage is a no-brainer. We've found several smart and adorable repurposing ideas that give them another lif ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Can Europe Join the Shale Gas Revolution?
    Sonja van Renssen, leading environment journalist for viEUws - the EU Policy Broadcaster, provides a story on the future of an EU Shale Gas Policy, with an overview of how the US is conducting its own shale gas policy.
  • Verizon Expands Clean Energy Investment
    Verizon has announced it will invest $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the country.
  • Offshore Wind vs Nuclear Energy for Mid-Atlantic
    Atlantic Wind Connection plans to enable the Atlantic Coast to use off-shore wind efficiently. When completed, the AWC will be able to carry as much as 7,000 MW of offshore wind energy to consumers along the US East Coast.
  • Energy Storage: Testing Zinc-Air Grid Batteries
    Eos Energy Storage, the startup that says its zinc-air battery chemistry can provide grid-scale energy storage at unprecedentedly low costs, has just landed its first utility pilot partner to test it out.
  • What Nuclear Energy Can Learn From Spectra Nat ...
    From a public relations point of view, nuclear energy has disadvantages that are actually important advantages from the point of view of ensuring real human safety.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Pawns Are Always Expendable When Played
    By Vincent L. Guarisco "You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what Chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other better ideas." ~~Stanley Ku ...
  • Aw, Snap!
    From: Timothy Gatto Aw Snap! I knew it! It was the rebels in Syria that used Sarin Gas, according to the UN. Now what will Lindsay Graham and John McCain say? I mean how stupid does that make them look? Of course they will say we can't believe the United Nations reports. We should trust them ...
  • She makes you sick, takes your money, then bum ...
    Michael Collins That's what Blythe Masters of JPMorgan does based on evidence from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and JPMorgan's recent history. (Image: UCS) Coal power is the leading source carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. CO2 is the leading cause of climate change. ...
  • BBC's Longstanding Pro-Israeli Bias
    by Stephen Lendman Since 1922, BBC's first general manager, John Reith, explained his mandate. UK officials "know they can trust us not be be really impartial," he said. It's a reliable business/government partner. Earlier it was called the "British Falsehood Corporation." More recently it's ...
  • America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime ...
    by Stephen Lendman In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck. Around the same time, Israeli warplanes attacked a military research center in Jamraya. It's about 10 mile ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA presents on income inequality to the Stan ...
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was among the witnesses who testified to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of the committee’s ongoing study of income inequality. Armine discusses income inequality—giving us cause to consider what inaction could mean—and ...
  • Links to Union Related Material from Broadbent ...
    April 2, 2013.  From Andrew Jackson at the Broadbent Institute:   The Broadbent Institute has posted five responses to the report, "Union Communities, Healthy Communities" expressing support for labour rights and strong unions by activists from other social movements. These spe ...
  • Four more years of austerity
    Ontario's provincial budget has been tabled and the conclusion is: Ontarians can expect four more years of austerity budgets. Read the tea leaves in this instant budget analysis by Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy here.
  • Without change in public policy, Canada's gend ...
    The coming weeks will see women and men graduating in nearly equal numbers from schools across Canada. By the time those women and men reach their 30s, they will see the gap between their incomes and their share of paid work widen. This pattern will continue throughout their working lives. The w ...
  • Full List of Canadian Companies Authorized to ...
    The Globe and Mail has published a list of all Canadian companies authorized to use the Temporary Foreign Workers program. Companies on this list are not necessarily using TFWs, but the fact that the list is 475 pages long tells us something about the popularity of the program. 

World Wide Hippies

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FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Can Europe Join the Shale Gas Revolution?
    Sonja van Renssen, leading environment journalist for viEUws - the EU Policy Broadcaster, provides a story on the future of an EU Shale Gas Policy, with an overview of how the US is conducting its own shale gas policy.
  • Verizon Expands Clean Energy Investment
    Verizon has announced it will invest $100 million in a solar and fuel-cell energy project that will help power 19 of its facilities in seven states across the country.
  • Offshore Wind vs Nuclear Energy for Mid-Atlantic
    Atlantic Wind Connection plans to enable the Atlantic Coast to use off-shore wind efficiently. When completed, the AWC will be able to carry as much as 7,000 MW of offshore wind energy to consumers along the US East Coast.
  • Energy Storage: Testing Zinc-Air Grid Batteries
    Eos Energy Storage, the startup that says its zinc-air battery chemistry can provide grid-scale energy storage at unprecedentedly low costs, has just landed its first utility pilot partner to test it out.
  • What Nuclear Energy Can Learn From Spectra Nat ...
    From a public relations point of view, nuclear energy has disadvantages that are actually important advantages from the point of view of ensuring real human safety.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Aereo Brings New Lawsuit Against CBS Over Expa ...
    Aereo won't wait around to be sued again. The company has decided to fire the next shot in a fight with broadcasters with a lawsuit aimed at CBS. Yes, this time, Aereo is the plaintiff. - Hollywood Reporter
  • Plaintiffs' Lawyers Jump Ship in Pollution Fig ...
    Lending Donziger some hope of withstanding Chevron's barrage was his ability to hire one of the best known white-collar defense lawyers in the U.S., John Keker of San Francisco, to represent him. In an emotionally worded filing on May 2, though, Keker said he wanted out. He asked Judge Kaplan fo ...
  • Software Patents: The Engineer vs. Designer P ...
    Eric Gould Bear: I'll tell you a funny story. There's a family of patents that I first filed in 1992. I called the first prototype a "Relativity Controller" because it could perform non-salience de-emphasis based on a user's unique point of view. The newest batch of those patents just issued in ...
  • PBSs Constitution USA Series
    PBS's Constitution USA with Peter Sagal premieres tomorrow, Tuesday, May 7, and runs each Tuesday until May 28; it sounds like a very interesting project. The show will include, among many other things, interviews with Akhil Amar, Jody Freeman, Rick Garnett, P.J. O'Rourke, Jack Rakove, Judge J. ...
  • Patent Fixes Pick up Steam in Congress
    Then we hit a tipping point of sorts. It has been widely known that troll litigation is unsavory and inefficient, but many ardent defenders of the current patent system argued that patent trolls were a sideshow. In 2005, trolls accounted for 23% of patent litigation. Then, in December of last ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Nullification: States overruling feds on guns, ...
    Increasing numbers of states are passing laws negating, ignoring, and directly confronting federal laws. Nullification isn’t just a right-wing movement, because it’s also coming from the left on marijuana. Kansas passed a law in April saying federal gun laws do not apply to guns manu ...
  • Kimberly Rivera – jailed pregnant Iraq war res ...
    Amnesty International identifies  Kimberly Rivera as a prisoner of conscience, she was the first American woman conscientious objector to flee to Canada, but mainstream media mostly ignore this Iraq war vet with PTSD — unless they’re labeling her a “deserter.” A Texan married to a Texan, P ...
  • UN: Rebels may have used poison gas in Syria, ...
    Oh dear. what will the war pigs in the White House do now their red line on poison gas may have been crossed by the rebels they want to support, not by Assad. [Sarin gas] “was used on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added. Zero Hedge Mo ...
  • CIA wanted to seize drug cartel money, White H ...
    The US government despite blusterings to the contrary is intent on insuring the flow of drugs continues from Mexico, along with  billions of  dollars of dirty money. As for Rule of Law, well, I guess that’s just for the little people. All that drug cartel money flowing into our financial i ...
  • 3D printed gun fired successfully
    The world’s first 3D printed gun has been successfully fired in Texas. The only metal part is the firing pin, all other parts are made from ABS plastic using a freely available $8,000 3D printer. CAD plans for the gun can be downloaded free at Defcad. [Cody] Wilson, who describes himself a ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • “What Does It Take” … to extract c ...
    Yesterday the World Met. Organization released its annual ‘Statement on the Status of the Global Climate’. The report, which investigates the major climate & weather events of the past year, found 2012 to be the 27th consecutive year with above average global temperatures. Global average tem ...
  • General debate, May 5, 2013
  • Green activist reportedly killed in Pakistan
    In some parts of the world, the task of standing up for Green values can be dangerous. It was with the deepest sadness that I was advised about the tragic killing of a Green party activist in Pakistan. According to news reports from the Global Greens, a member of the Pakistan Green Party, Mr Sha ...
  • GE not our farming future
    The Government’s National Science Challenges include an arrogant intention to spend taxpayers’ money on swaying community opposition towards support for genetic engineering. While the jargon loaded Challenge documents are a struggle to read, the message by pro-GE scientists in the primary produc ...
  • We need to address bee health
    The European Commission has just announced exciting plans to restrict the use of bee harming pesticides across Europe. We need to get the health of bees on the agenda of our Government so that we can protect these vital little insects. I wrote to the Chair of the Primary Production Select Commit ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...
  • Democracy's Sickness Unto Death
    Governments do not exist for the benefit of common people, those people referred to in the Constitution as "We the people." Regardless of what officials claim, common man exists merely as a means to fulfill the ends the factions in control wish to attain. Madison's "diseases of faction" have ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

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

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...
  • Where Is The Recovery? A Higher Percentage Of ...
    If you think that the latest employment numbers are good news, you might want to look again.  In April 2013, 58.6 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  But three years ago, in April 2010, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  Well, you may argue, that is not much [...]
  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 with GNOME 3.6 Released
    As far as I am concerned, this is a very important release. Ubuntu GNOME (previously called Ubuntu GNOME Remix) has one of the best implementations of GNOME Shell desktop. And as we've already seen in our earlier Ubuntu GNOME review, if you want the best of Ubuntu and pure GNOME in a single pa ...
  • And like Clockwork, 18th Stable Ubuntu Version ...
    While big-league players like Microsoft finds it hard to release even their core products on time, Canonical has just released the 18th stable version of Ubuntu, namely Ubuntu 13.04 aka "Raring Ringtail", right on schedule. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you'll be amazed to find ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...
  • DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes &#8 ...
    DHS Whistleblower Censored from 60 minutes #N3 – YouTube.
  • Marathon Day: Boston 15.4.13 “Operation ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_dvzLqGNA via Marathon Day: Boston 15.4.13 “Operation Paul Revere InfoWars.com Contest” – YouTube.

Veterans Today

  • America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime ...
    In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck.
  • Boston – Who did what to whom?
    - The shakeout out of the Boston bombings begins, including identifying controlled deception and cover
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Gender differences in PTSD symptoms. The prevalence of PTSD appears to be similar in male and female Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is less clear whether there are differences in the types of symptoms reported. A study by researchers from the National Center for PTSD suggests ...
  • FED. CIRCUIT– KYHN v. SHINSEKI–Do ...
    Ever since the inception of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims ( CAVC-formerly the Court of Veterans Appeals or COVA), it has been an inviolate precept that the record is closed after a Board Of Veterans Appeals (BVA) decision.
  • Obama violates US and International Law in Pak ...
    by Jim Fetzer and Press TV   “Imran Khan is taking a courageous and principled stance. . . . Let us hope that other nations will follow his lead.”–Jim Fetzer   As an outcry is growing over the increasing use of drones by the United States both at home and abroad, an A ...

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • NATO Chief Demands Europe Become Global Milita ...
    U.S. Department of Defense May 6, 2013 NATO Secretary General Warns Europe on Defense Cuts By Nick Simeone WASHINGTON: NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned today that further cuts in defense spending by European nations risk reducing the continent’s defense and security to “hot ai ...
  • Israeli Attack On Syria Could Lead To Regional War
    Voice of Russia May 6, 2013 Syria-Israel: on the eve of war? Konstantin Garibov Syrian missiles have been directed against Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories after Israeli warplanes struck several military facilities near the Syrian capital Damascus late last week. According to Syri ...
  • Henri Barbusse: War befouls the country as it ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray In the dull and pallid morning, on the approaches to a village, there appear gardens, which no longer have human shape. Instead of ...
  • Afghan War: German Special Forces Soldier Amon ...
    Deutsche Welle May 5, 2013 Eight NATO soldiers, one German, killed in Afghanistan attacks The German military says one of its soldiers was killed and another wounded in an insurgent attack in northern Afghanistan on Saturday. A total of eight NATO soldiers were killed in separate attacks on the ...
  • NATO Loses Seven Soldiers In Afghan Attacks
    Pajhwok Afghan News May 4, 2013 ISAF loses 7 troops to explosion, insider attack By Mohammad Younus Naseh KABUL: The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost seven service members in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday – a deadly day for the foreign troops. Five US t ...

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Intel Hub

  • Lauryn Hill Jailed Over Taxes, References Slav ...
    JG Vibes | Lauryn Hill was kidnapped by agents of the state and placed in a cage for failing to hand over a significant amount of her income to the government.The post Lauryn Hill Jailed Over Taxes, References Slavery in Court Statement appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • The Line Between Selfishness and Self-Interest ...
    JG Vibes | It is extremely important that we make this distinction because self-interest is harmless and exhibited by most if not all human beings, while selfishness is defined by violence, fraud and other rare psychopathic behavior.The post The Line Between Selfishness and Self-Interest is ...
  • North Korea Withdraws Missiles from Launch Site
    Andrew Freeman | After months of trash talking and sabre rattling on all sides of the conflict, the North Korean missile crisis may be coming to an end.The post North Korea Withdraws Missiles from Launch Site appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Florida Cops Threaten News Crew with Arrest Ou ...
    Carlos Miller | A television news crew was threatened with arrest if they dared enter a 500 foot “safety zone” surrounding a school in Florida this week, even though it is not even school property.The post Florida Cops Threaten News Crew with Arrest Outside School appeared first on Intellih ...
  • Former FBI Counter Terrorism Expert Confirms T ...
    Derrick Broze | FBI Counter Terrorism expert Tim Clemente appeared on CNN and made it quite clear that the government is tracking all digital communications.The post Former FBI Counter Terrorism Expert Confirms Total Surveillance State appeared first on Intellihub.com.

FRS

  • Assata Shakur Becomes the First Woman Added to ...
    Assata Shakur   Madeleine Davies, Jezebel.com, May 3, 2013 As of yesterday, former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur became the first-ever woman to be added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. She is currently 66 years old and living in Cuba where she ...
  • Assata Shakur Becomes the First Woman Added to ...
    Assata Shakur   Madeleine Davies, Jezebel.com, May 3, 2013 As of yesterday, former Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army Assata Shakur became the first-ever woman to be added to the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. She is currently 66 years old and living in Cuba where she ...
  • An Open Letter From Assata
    My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and ...
  • An Open Letter From Assata
    My name is Assata Shakur, and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and ...
  • Mohawk warrior and champion of the people dies
        by John Hill, Mohawk Nation News, mohawknationnews.com, May 2, 2013   A great loss to the people, to the nation, to the resistance, anti-imperialist movement right across Great Turtle Island.  On March 13th, Dacajeweiah, Splitting-the-Sky, 61, left us forever when he passed aw ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

  • The Impossible Dream Of The Hindenburg: How Ai ...
    76 years ago today, the Hindenburg crashed over New Jersey, killing 35 people and ending the era of the airship. From the Popular Science archive, what it would have been like to travel the world in a Zeppelin. "Now You Can Fly Around The World," by John E. Lodge and excerpted below, originall ...
  • Guys: Holding A Guitar Makes You More Attractive
    Every kid in high school learning guitar to get a girlfriend was actually right. Single dudes: Are you holding a guitar at this moment? If not, you are not reaching your Maximum Attractiveness Potential, according to two (2) recently published studies. A French study that was just published su ...
  • This Weird Hairy Thing Is A Freaking Bat Tongue
    And it works kind of like a penis. Nectar-feeding bats have the highest metabolism among mammals, burning half their body fat every day, and therefore they must eat pretty much all the time. To sip their food efficiently, the bats have evolved special tongue-hairs that help them grab as much sw ...
  • Are These Fragments From The Mysterious Forest ...
    During breakfast on June 30, 1908, a man named S.B. Semenov was sitting on a porch at a northern Russian trading post when the sky burst into flames. He looked up and saw the heavens appear to split apart, and he felt as though his shirt was on fire; after a moment, a heavy blow knocked him off ...
  • Los Alamos Lab Has Had A Secret Quantum Intern ...
    Quantum networking could enable the most secure communication possible. The central principle of quantum mechanics--that the act of measuring a quantum object actually changes it--has some pretty amazing potential in the world of cryptography. And Los Alamos National Laboratory just revealed th ...

Veterans Today

  • America and Israel: Imperial Partners in Crime ...
    In late January, Lebanese military sources reported multiple Israeli violations of Lebanon's airspace. One or more targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border were struck.
  • Boston – Who did what to whom?
    - The shakeout out of the Boston bombings begins, including identifying controlled deception and cover
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Gender differences in PTSD symptoms. The prevalence of PTSD appears to be similar in male and female Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is less clear whether there are differences in the types of symptoms reported. A study by researchers from the National Center for PTSD suggests ...
  • FED. CIRCUIT– KYHN v. SHINSEKI–Do ...
    Ever since the inception of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims ( CAVC-formerly the Court of Veterans Appeals or COVA), it has been an inviolate precept that the record is closed after a Board Of Veterans Appeals (BVA) decision.
  • Obama violates US and International Law in Pak ...
    by Jim Fetzer and Press TV   “Imran Khan is taking a courageous and principled stance. . . . Let us hope that other nations will follow his lead.”–Jim Fetzer   As an outcry is growing over the increasing use of drones by the United States both at home and abroad, an A ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Divorces of (Real-Estate) Convenience in China
    To paraphrase Steely Dan, this is not your Haitian but your Hainan divorce. Recent regulations in China intended to tamp down real-estate speculation have had an unintended consequence of separating happily married couples to take advantage of better tax benefits accruing to single persons: Long ...
  • Brokebank USA: Living Paycheck to Paycheck
    Gillian Tett of the FT has an interesting article that seemingly contradicts all of the happy talk about how "America is back" with stock markets hitting all-time highs. There is no particular difficulty understanding stock market speculation and bubbles: with the Federal Reserve practically giv ...
  • German (Randian?) Solution: No Minimum Wage
    Sometime ago, I remember watching former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan testifying before the US Congress when he was asked about his views about the minimum wage. "There should be none," I reflexively blurted out. Knowing that Greenspan was a libertarian former acolyte of Ayn Rand, the answer was ...
  • Egypt's World Beggary Tour 2013 Goes On
    The rise and millennia-long fall of the Egyptian Empire continues apace. From the giddy heights of empire catalogued in the Bible to its present penury, Egypt has come a long way--down, that is, with no end in sight. The latest humiliation of course is being flat broke after the "Arab Spring" br ...
  • EU-US FTA & the Lameness of 'Cultural Exception'
    There is already a certain desperation to the idea that trade can significantly be boosted between the US and EU FTA when they already have exceptionally low tariff levels. What more substantial trade barriers can be removed? Are these dynamic and growing markets? The answers, of course, are "fe ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Should Be A ...
    If the American people truly understood how the Federal Reserve system works and what it has done to us, they would be screaming for it to be abolished immediately.  It is a system that was designed by international bankers for the benefit of international bankers, and it is systematically impov ...
  • What Would War Between Israel And Syria Do To ...
    War is a horrible thing.  Just ask anyone that has ever been in the middle of it.  And in this day and age governments around the world possess weapons of such incalculable power that war should be unthinkable.  In future wars, we could literally see millions of people killed on a single day.  N ...
  • Where Is The Recovery? A Higher Percentage Of ...
    If you think that the latest employment numbers are good news, you might want to look again.  In April 2013, 58.6 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  But three years ago, in April 2010, 58.7 percent of all working age Americans had a job.  Well, you may argue, that is not much [...]
  • They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percent ...
    The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States.  Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our society have created a system ...
  • 22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90 Percent ...
    The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer.  The middle class is being absolutely eviscerated, and poverty is soaring to unprecedented heights.  The fact that 90 percent of the population is constantly sliding downhill is not go ...

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-05-02 LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks sol ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ( http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 ( tel:516-578-2628 ) press@bradleymanning.org LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks soldier after SF Pride controversy Last Wednesday, it was publicly ...
  • 2013-04-30 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Sch ...
    Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians of the Nation's Capital FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-14 DATE: April 30, 2013 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Scheduled for United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning WASHINGTON - An arti ...
  • 2013-04-24 WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE
    WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE Wed Apr 24 17:24:44 BST Milestone Supreme Court Decision for WikiLeaks Case in Iceland Today's decision marked the most important victory to date against the unlawful and arbitrary economic blockade erected by US companies against WikiLeaks. Iceland's Supreme Court upheld ...
  • 2013-02-04 Julian Assange receives Yoko Ono Le ...
    On 3 February 2013 at a private dinner at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, attended by more than 150 guests, Julian Assange will receive the Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2013 for his WikiLeaks work including, amongst other releases, Collateral Murder. This award is ...
  • 2013-02-02 Exclusive: CIA Drug Money Plot to O ...
    UPDATE: Chilean journalist @PatricioMery advises ex-detective Ulloa has now left the Ecuadorean Embassy in Santiago, and confirms he is "safe and sound". He adds with a wink: "I don't know where he is. ;-)" WikiLeaks Central presents an exclusive interview with Chilean journalist Patricio Mery, ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Obama 1st US President Ever to Become UN Secu ...
    Never in the history of the United Nations has a U.S. President taken the chairmanship of the powerful UN Security Council. Perhaps it is because of what could arguably be a Constitutional prohibition against doing so. To wit: Section 9 of the Constitution says... ~ September 12, 2009 - Video ...
  • Devastating!... CBS Publishes Benghazi Investi ...
    In a story that The Gateway Pundit says could bring down the entire Obama Administration, CBS news has ‘pummeled’ the administration with a newly released report on the 9/11 Benghazi massacre. CBS released information on the Benghazi 9-11 massacre today that could potentially bring down the O ...
  • Benghazi Blood Splatter
    “With all due respect,the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?”  Hillary Clinton - Jim O'Neill read more
  • CENSORED from 60 Minutes... DHS Whistleblower ...
    When the government acts beyond the law, like in the recent Fast and Furious scandal, don’t “we the people” have a right to ask questions of our government? Is asking questions of your government a crime? ~ See UNCENSORED Video read more
  • US Gun Lobby Warns of Obama 'Plot'
    An ‘Apocalyptic picture of approaching tyranny’ was shared with US gun owners yesterday in Houston, Texas. The incoming leader of the National Rifle Association, the largest gun lobby in the US, has told supporters they’re at the front line of a ‘culture war’, fighting for the right to ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Bleach Water Ratio For Drinking Water
    If your water source is uncertain, you should treat it first before drinking it. With regards to simplicity and ease, there are two best-practice methods to purify water for safe drinking… First, do your best to avoid water which is cloudy. If scooping water from a pond, etc., try not to d ...
  • Former FBI Agent Exposes Govt Spy Secret
    A former FBI Counter Terrorism Agent has spilled the beans… Tim Clemente, who recently served on Washington’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, “dropped a bomb” on CNN as he exposed a a major government secret… A secret that will shock some of you, while reaffirming it fo ...
  • How To Get Food After TSHTF
    Food. We need it. Today it’s easy to get. We just buy it. What would we do though if we couldn’t just go out and buy it, or if there were scarcity at the grocery stores? Here are a few notes outlining methods which may lead you in the right direction…   First of all, [...]
  • Communications During A Terrorist Attack
    During a terrorist attack, there is a U.S. Government plan that will adversely affect your ability to communicate with your family/friends/co-workers. You will be completely cut-off. You need to know this…   The U.S. Government has in force a plan that, in the event of another terrori ...
  • Pet Ready Emergency Kit
    Don’t forget about your pets when preparing for emergencies or disasters. From deadly tornadoes to flash floods, there’s hardly a region that is not subject to one form or another of disaster. Unfortunately, when it comes to pets, statistics reveal that a majority of people have not consid ...

Fast Company

  • Can Science Fiction Writers Inspire The World ...
    The Hieroglyph project asks sci-fi writers to stop creating dark dystopias, and instead showed us visions of a better future, so that we work harder to get there. Science fiction has often predicted scientific advances, but what happens when scientists and sci-fi authors collaborate on vis ...
  • From Beethoven To Woody Allen—The Daily Ritual ...
    Beethoven and Woody Allen bathed their way to genius. Dickens (and just about everyone else) walked. And you don’t want to know how Thomas Wolfe got the juices flowing. Mason Currey, author of "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" shares some of the surprising work modes of history’s ...
  • Designing A New Town Square For Our Crowded Ur ...
    With most of the world living in cities, urban space is going to be at a premium, so we need to design ingenious and important ways to create public gathering spaces. But we can’t just copy the High Line everywhere. Those of us associated with the building of cities are often asked t ...
  • What Style Startups Mean For Women In Tech
    Not too long ago, I found myself standing in a candlelit, subterranean private dining room at a San Francisco restaurant. It's tucked into the still-gritty but speedily gentrifying, mid-Market district that’s also home to Twitter, Zendesk, Yammer, and One Kings Lane. The occasion was a med ...
  • Are These the 10 Buildings That Shaped America?
    The PBS special, 10 Buildings That Changed America, examines the buildings that define our cultural history and shape the cities and towns we live in. Should these have made the cut? Find out which 10 won and why. Architecture matters, just not in the way it does to architects. Have a look ...

Jadaliyya

  • Last Week on Jadaliyya (April 29-May 5)
     This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles, and roundups. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on Jadaliyya" series.  قطري حبيبي": Ů…Ů„ ...
  • Egypt Media Roundup (May 6)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to egypt@jadaliyya.com by Sund ...
  • Maghreb Monthly Edition (April 2013)
    [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on the Maghreb. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Maghreb-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical a ...
  • Egyptian Women: Between Revolution, Counter-Re ...
    The Egyptian revolution appears to present a “gender paradox.” On the one hand, women have been marginalized in many formal political institutions since the downfall of Hosni Mubarak. On the other hand, representations and images of women and women’s bodies have been ubiquitous. Repres ...
  • Syria Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (April 2013)
     [This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Syria. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Syria-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical ana ...

mediagazer

  • Double coverage: How The Boston Globe used its ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: Double coverage: How The Boston Globe used its dual sites to cover the marathon bombing  —  April 15 was always going to be a big day for The Boston Globe.  Marathon Day is traditionally one of the busiest for the newspaper, with its st ...
  • Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names? (D ...
    Deirdre Mask / The Atlantic Online: Why Do NPR Reporters Have Such Great Names?  —  What makes NPR reporters' names so particularly mellifluous?  There's that pleasing alliteration — Allison Aubrey, Louisa Lim, Carl Kassell, Susan Stamberg.  And it's hard to matc ...
  • Baidu Buys PPS Video for $370 Million, Now Chi ...
    C. Custer / Tech in Asia: Baidu Buys PPS Video for $370 Million, Now China's Biggest Video Platform  —  Well, the rumors are true.  Chinese search company Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) announced today that it has acquired PPS.tv's streaming video service for $370 million.  The a ...
  • Harper Lee sues agent over copyright to To Kil ...
    Paul Harris / Guardian: Harper Lee sues agent over copyright to To Kill A Mockingbird  —  Author claims she was duped into signing over the rights on her prizewinning book  —  Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill A Mockingbird, has sued a literary agent, c ...
  • Newspapers: A Cautionary Tale For Local TV (Ra ...
    Randy Bennett / TVNewsCheck.com: Newspapers: A Cautionary Tale For Local TV  —  The parallels between TV stations today and newspapers in 2005 should be heeded by local TV executives.  The trends are equally troubling and there is much they can learn from newspapers' experi ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • North Korea moves missiles from coast: US
    North Korea has taken two Musudan missiles off launch-ready status and moved them from their position on the country's east coast, US officials told Reuters, after weeks of concern that Pyongyang had been poised for a test-launch. US Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea last mont ...
  • Russia and US to hold Syria talks in Mosc ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin is to hold talks with US State Secretary John Kerry in Moscow to discuss the ongoing Syrian crisis. Mr Kerry's visit comes after Israel launched two air strikes in southern Syria, which sources say targeted weapons bound for militants in Lebanon. Russia ...
  • Mow more green this season with a better ...
    Summer season is vastly approaching and most people around the U.S. are welcoming summer with open arms. Unfortunately, a lot of the U.S. is still seeing signs of Jack Frost and are hoping spring comes soon. For the rest of us that are in the middle of spring are thinking ahead to summer yar ...
  • Grow ideas for your garden
    KNOWING where to start with the design and construction of a garden can be a very daunting process. Looking out over a bare grassed garden with no inspiration and no direction can lead you to think that creating a lush inviting space is almost impossible. The first step is to find out what g ...
  • Repurposing Ideas That Give Altoid Tins A ...
    Altoids may be best known for their "curiously strong" breath freshening power, but we're also kind of smitten with their hinged tin case packaging. Reusing the durable containers for storage is a no-brainer. We've found several smart and adorable repurposing ideas that give them another lif ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/3/13 - Maryland Repeals the Death Penalty
    deathpenalty.procon.org – Maryland Repeals the Death Penalty – On May 2, 2013, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law legislation that repeals the death penalty, making Maryland the 18th state to do so. See which states have the death penalty and which do not, and how that number has ...
  • 4/30/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should the Uni ...
    cuba-embargo.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should the United States maintain its embargo against Cuba? - Read pro and con arguments from Barack Obama (now pro), Sen. Marco Rubio (pro), former Congressman Howard Berman (con), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (pro), Fidel Castro (con), and other ...
  • 4/19/13 - Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Shou ...
    obesity.procon.org Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Should They Be? - Going out to dinner? One baked potato should be the size of a computer mouse, a steak the size of a deck of cards, and a dinner roll the size of a yo-yo with a Scrabble tile's worth of butter. See how your meal ...
  • 4/19/13 - Which topic should we pick next?
    www.procon.org - - Which topic should we pick next? – Please take our brief survey and let us know which issues you would like ProCon.org to research next.
  • 4/19/13 - Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Shou ...
    obesity.procon.org Portion Sizes: How Big or Small Should They Be? - Going out to dinner? One baked potato should be the size of a computer mouse, a steak the size of a deck of cards, and a dinner roll the size of a yo-yo with a Scrabble tile's worth of butter. See how your meal ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Solar-Powered Airplane Completes First Leg of ...
    A Swiss pilot this weekend completed the first portion of a five-leg trip across the U.S. in an airplane powered by solar energy. The so-called Solar Impulse aircraft, which runs on energy collected from 12,000 solar cells Solar ImpulseView from the cockpit in its long wings, flew from San Fran ...
  • Seawater Energy Technology Is Focus of Pilot P ...
    The U.S. defense and aerospace giant, Lockheed Martin, is partnering with a major Chinese company to build a pilot project off the southern Chinese coast that will use temperature differentials between the deep and shallow ocean to generate electricity. The technology, known as ocean thermal ene ...
  • Five Southeast Asian Nations Have Lost One-Thi ...
    Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam have lost one-third of their forests since 1980 and could be left with only 10 to 20 percent of their original forest cover by 2030, according to a review of satellite data by WWF. The conservation group warned that if present trends continue only 1 ...
  • A Key Experiment to Probe the Future of Our Ac ...
    In a Swedish fjord, European researchers are conducting an ambitious experiment aimed at better understanding how ocean acidification will affect marine life. Ultimately, these scientists hope to determine which species might win and which might lose in a more acidic ocean. BY PETER FRIEDERICI
  • Program Targeting Diesel Emissions Will Be Cut ...
    A federal program that has cleaned up or removed 50,000 high-polluting diesel engines from U.S. roads is scheduled to be cut by 70 percent under President Barack Obama’s latest budget. The program eliminated 230,000 tons of soot and smog-causing pollutants, slashed more than two million tons of ...

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Making It Count - CCPA

  • Polozogistics: Nine Thoughts About the Choice ...
      1. He’s Number Two: Stephen Poloz was widely acknowledged in economic and political circles as the second-best choice for the top job at the Bank of Canada. So the surprise was not that he was chosen. The surprise was, Why Not Tiff Macklem? Will someone please find out and tell the ...
  • Sociology: I Can’t Quit You
    True confession time, people. I commit sociology. And not just as a one-off. You might say—all right, I will say it—that I’m a repeat offender. In fact, I’m practically addicted. Scarcely a minute can go by without my synapses looking for their next fix. That might not be a politically correct a ...
  • Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
    By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new leader – stands out as a case in point: it is carefully designed to survive a non-confidence vote. It extends a few olive branches to the opposition ND ...
  • What price would you pay for an education?
    How much would you give up to get a university education? For most of us, four years of work, study, investment and anxiety are the costs we are willing to pay to secure the benefits and opportunities of a university degree. But is a university degree worth so much to you that you would allow [. ...
  • Climate change: Joe Oliver deems fears “exagge ...
    Federal Natural Resource minister Joe Oliver stopped by MontrĂ©al on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling. He claimed that, according to scientists, our fears regarding climate change are “exaggerated.” He refused to retract his statement the foll ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Empty Nets on the Mekong
    “In my last post, I described how our attempts at fishing in the Mekong River had produced meager results, which was somewhat puzzling because the Mekong produces the largest harvest of freshwater fish in the world, by far. “As a father, this was frustrating; catching fish was the to ...
  • Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Seawate ...
      “Interest in seawater desalination in California is high, with 17 plants proposed along the California coast and two in Mexico. But removing the salt from seawater is an energy-intensive process that consumes more energy per gallon than most other water supply and treatment options. ...
  • Plants Play Bigger Role in River Flows Than Pr ...
    “A study published last month in Nature argues that plants are the dominant force in the water cycle above the Earth’s land masses. Between 80 and 90 percent of water vapor in the atmosphere comes from terrestrial sources, according to the study, which is far higher than previous estimates ...
  • In Bad Sign for Water Supply, California Snowp ...
    “The man in charge of surveying California’s snowpack to measure the amount of water that will flow into storage reservoirs over the next few months had bad news Thursday. “I’m finding nothing. Seriously, there is no snow on the course at all,” said Frank Gehrke, ch ...
  • Qatar Challenges Way of the Desert
    “In this country of just under 2 million, desert extremes meet a high-octane economy, testing both the limits and responses to the competition between water, food, and energy. “Qatar today is a nation of nearly 2 million people, and Doha — its capital, a city swelled by hydrocarbon w ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • looks like history repeating itself
    …looks like history repeating itself … might be timely to reflect on history of Nazi Germany … is this really the path America chooses to follow…?   Floridians Encouraged to Report Neighbors Who “Hate Government” 05-02-2013  •  Paul Watson via PrisonPlanet.com $1 million dollar ho ...
  • now our national security is under their control
    …it now appears … IF … these reports can be trusted that American are dependent upon CHINA for more than just “cheap” WalMart stuff … now our national security is under their control… Is China Mining a Rare Earth Monopoly?: Op-Ed 05-02-2013  •  Jeff Nesbit via LiveScience … What if the ...
  • I’ll take human ingenuity over
    …I’ll take human ingenuity over government imposed control any day of the week… Hacker Breached U.S. Army Database Containing Sensitive Information on Dams 05-01-2013  •  Kim Ketter via WIRED.com A hacker compromised a U.S. Army database that holds sensitive information about vulnerabi ...
  • Raw and Unregulated Capitalism Is a Cancer on ...
    …and Americans are educated to leave capitalism alone to act in its own best interest … and just how’s that working out… Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society http://www.alternet.org/print/economy/5-ways-raw-unregulated-capitalism-acting-cancer-american-society ...
  • We are the rats in the cages of those we label ...
    …believe it or not … “we” (that’s you and me) have become the rats in the cages of those we label leaders in scientific research… The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown Into Doubt     http://truth-out.org/news/item/16208-the-experiment-is-on-us-science-of-animal-test ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • All the world's rarest birds in one book: phot ...
    The World's Rarest Birds is an extraordinary bird book. 590 different bird species are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered, with many species only existing in captivity. A new book, The World's Rarest Birds, catalogs all of these species. Each species is shown with remarkable color ...
  • Conservation without supervision: Peruvian com ...
    When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But ...
  • What if companies actually had to compensate s ...
    The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading pub ...
  • The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of ...
    Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ...
  • Letting nature do the talking this Earth Day ( ...
    Instead of writing a special article for this Earth Day, we are instead letting nature's beauty do the talking. The photos below were taken by the Mongabay.com team — Rhett Butler, Jeremy Hance, and Tiffany Roufs — in the twelve months since Earth Day 2012. Countries in this set incl ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Warning as team create killer flu
    Senior scientists have criticised the "appalling irresponsibility" of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.They warned there is a danger that the new viral...
  • The insect of the future... the Robobee
    It weighs just 80 milligrams, has a pair of wings that flap 120 times a second and has taken 10 years to develop.The Robobee, inspired by the biology of a fly, is believed to be the first working model of a flying insect.Harvard...
  • Kiwis urged to take tsunami risk more seriously
    New Zealand authorities are only just waking up to the risks tsunamis pose to our coastlines but they don't know how bad a destructive tsunami could be here, an Australian expert says.Meanwhile an Indonesian woman now living in...
  • Keith Turner: Innovation the key for Team NZ
    I had the great privilege to visit the Emirates Team New Zealand base in the Auckland Viaduct basin, just as they were preparing to pack up and shift to San Francisco.As a PhD in engineering, my eyes were trained to search for the...
  • World's smallest stop-motion movie filmed
    Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels.IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever a one-minute video of individual carbon monoxide molecules repeatedly rearranged to show...

The Bovine

  • Milk ad campaign could include raw
    Looking at this new ad campaign from the Dairy Farmers of Canada it’s hard not to imagine that they’re including raw milk as one of the options people might choose.  From Jordan Twiss, at Strategyonline.ca “The Dairy Farmers of Canada … Continue reading →
  • Food substitutes from Silicon Valley
    From Klint Finley on Tech Crunch: “Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. Beyond Meat — … Continue reading →
  • Blue Hills Maine Food Sovereignty ordinance te ...
    From Mario Moretti, in the Bangor Daily News: “ELLSWORTH, Maine — A Blue Hill farmer has been ordered by Hancock County Superior Court to cease selling unlicensed, unlabeled raw milk from his farm stand in a decision that could set … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk story in the Vancouver Sun
    From R. Shore at the Vancouver Sun: “The milk we buy in stores is heat pasteurized, a process that destroys some vitamins, enzymes and beneficial bacteria. Raw unpasteurized milk contains all of the above. We don’t need to argue about … Continue reading →
  • Pesticides + high fructose corn syrup = bee de ...
    From Jason Louv, on Ultraculture: “Colony collapse disorder, or the widescale death of bees, has been a troubling marker of environmental degradation. Its cause has also remained a mystery, despite being blamed on everything from industrial pollution to cell phone … Continue reading ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Reader Comments on "Are We Spending Enough on ...
    Reader Michael from Northglen, Colorado chimed in on my article Is the US Spending Enough on Education? Michael writes .... Hello Mish I went through one of numerous searchable databases put together by Natalie Menton to see where Jefferson County, Colorado is spending money on ...
  • Senior Eurozone Official: "As Spain Goes, So G ...
    The spotlight is once again on Slovenia. Olli Rehn, the European commission’s economic chief is unhappy with economic progress in Slovenia and is threatening to put the country into an "excessive imbalances procedure" by the end of the month. The problem is, Spain is in a similar "excessive ...
  • Nigel Farage Jubilant After UKIP Soars in Loca ...
    Nigel Farage, Founder of the UK Independence Party, claims a "sea of change in British politics" as UKIP Makes Big Gains in local elections. The UK Independence Party has made huge electoral gains and declared itself the "official opposition" - largely at the expense of the Tories - as Pr ...
  • If the Shoe Fits, Don't Wear it; Instead Buy T ...
    Shoe stores are increasingly fed up with customers trying on pair after pair of shoes and not buying any of them. Worried shopkeepers are increasingly frustrated by people they dub “fit-lifters” who use stores to find the best-fitting shoes before buying them online at a lower price says t ...
  • China Services PMI Slows to Marginal Rate of G ...
    Fresh on the heels of a report that shows China Manufacturing PMI barely Above Contraction comes news the Chinese service sector is following suit. The Markit China Composite PMI shows Activity growth eases across both the manufacturing and service sectors in April. Key Points Co ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #108: Dissecting Boston Terror At ...
    The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pepe Escobar In this episode of the Boiling Frogs Post Show Peter B. Collins hosts a lively round-table discussion with Pepe Escobar and Sibel Edmonds. Please join us in this riveting episode of twists and turns, theories and predictions on the Boston terror attac ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 6, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The Financial Press–A Disinformation Machine
    In America Everything is Hype for a Buck Dave Kranzler of Golden Returns Capital declares the April payroll jobs report that was released on May 3 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be “fictitious.” Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) says both the jobs report and unemployment rate ar ...
  • Geopolitics with Ryan Dawson- “Terrorist Acts- ...
    Ryan Dawson Presents Julie LĂ©vesque When is murdering innocent people Terrorism and when is it “Freedom Fighting?” When is resisting a brutal military occupation Freedom Fighting and when is it Terrorism? Well it all depends on who is telling you about it. Julie LĂ©vesque is a Global ...
  • Uber-Neocons: The Main Architects of Post-Assa ...
    Bush Era’s Good-Ol’ Familiar Faces Resurface again on Operation Syria With the approaching Finale for Syria’s Assad the Uber-Neocon architects of US foreign policy have been hard at work. Assuming (albeit knowingly) the certainty of the soon-to-come end for Assad’s government, the neocon archite ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Lankarani calls for big voter turnout
    Iran presidential hopeful, Kamran Baqeri Lankarani, has called on Iranians to turn out massively in the June 14 presidential election.
  • Militants capture UN peacekeepers
    A militant group fighting against the Syrian government says it has captured four UN peacekeepers monitoring the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
  • ‘Many suicidal youth have guns at home’
    About one in every five American children and teens at risk of committing suicide have said there are firearms in their home, a new study shows.
  • Kavakebian stresses need for reforms
    Reformist presidential hopeful, Mostafa Kavakebian, says Iran is in need of comprehensive reforms in many sectors.
  • Libya def. min. resigns over siege
    Libya's Defense Minister Mohammed al-Bargathi has resigned in protest against a siege by armed men on government ministries, denouncing the siege as ‘an assault on democracy’ in the North African country.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

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re: Syrian mortaring : let us not forget there is NATO fomented 'civil war' going on that uses foreign mercenaries already suspected of using WMD...and Israeli bombing of Syria led to a statement that a state of war now exists. Think the world has had our Sarajevo assassination moment yet ?
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