Friday, May 10, 2013

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Israeli soldiers invade JayyousIsraeli soldiers invade Jayyous (Photo credit: ISM Palestine)
Fist BumpsFist Bumps (Photo credit: swanksalot)
Lake Mead, May 2, 2006Lake Mead, May 2, 2006 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Panoramic view of Lake Mead.Panoramic view of Lake Mead. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Boycott Israel-posterBoycott Israel-poster (Photo credit: Creap)
English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at t...English: An anti-Occupation demonstration at the Qalandia checkpint in East Jerusalem, involving Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Medical examination of a child during...English: Medical examination of a child during a visit of the PHR mobile clinic to Bruqin, a village in the West Bank (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lake PowellLake Powell (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The section of Lake Powell near Dangling Rope ...The section of Lake Powell near Dangling Rope Marina, looking southwest at sunrise. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lake Powell Arizona, USA (from plane). Note the prominent "bathtub ring" made visible by low water (May 2007). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lake Powell from above Wahweap Marina.Lake Powell from above Wahweap Marina. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is the southwestern portion of Lake Powel...This is the southwestern portion of Lake Powell, which lies in Arizona. The back of Glen Canyon dam can be seen to the right in this image. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lake Powell, Utah from NASA's Landsat Lake Pow...Lake Powell, Utah from NASA's Landsat Lake Powell in southern Utah stretches hundreds of miles from Lees Ferry in Arizona to the Orange Cliffs of southern Utah. At more than 400 feet deep, 150 miles long, and nearly 2,000 miles of shoreline, Lake Powell is the nation's second largest man-made lake, second only to Lake Mead in Nevada. It is at its lowest water level in over 30 years due to the ongoing drought in the western United States. source Category:Images of Utah (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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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

  • State Department orders 3D-printed guns plans ...
    Defense Distributed has removed CAD designs for their 3D printed Liberator gun at the request of the State Department. However, the plans have been downloaded at least 100,000 times in three days before the ban. Company founder Cody Wilson says “the practical, reasonable person should assu ...
  • Obama Administration gives bankster Phil Falco ...
    Phil Falcone, who ran Harbinger capital, has agreed with the SEC that he took a fraudulent $113 million loan from one of his funds, will pay a minor for him fine of $18 million and won’t even be banned from the industry. In a country with actual rule of law, Falcone and other hedge fund [...]
  • Lake Mead and Lake Powell lowest level since P ...
    jfleck brings baleful news about water levels in two crucial lakes, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, that feed into the Colorado. Ever the journalist in search of gloomy extremes, I just noticed that total storage in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs used to manage flows on the Col ...
  • 2013 Best Cities for Job Growth
    New Geography has ranked cities for job growth and has a neat interactive map as well as traditional rankings for large, medium, and small cities. The top job growth rankings for all cities regardless of size are the small neighbouring cities of Midland and Odessa TX. Both have a weighted index ...
  • George Orwell on War
    All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ...

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

  • Obama-Care “Death Panels” are back?
    Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Members To Obamacare’s Most Notorious Panel Business Insider (Warren Buffet owned) Intense fights over the Affordable Care Act was over the creation of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, infamously dubbed a “death panel” by Republicans d ...
  • Citizens Forced to show ID to ride the Bus in ...
    Good thing that Criminals and “Terrorists” do not know how to get fake ID’s (whew) – So This is how it starts. How much longer before we make the move to Implantable Microchip IDs? Which of you will draw the line there? Diamondback Online Identification checks on Shuttle- ...
  • Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED – Obama F ...
    May 9, Thursday 10:00 AM, National Press Club, Washington, DC: Watch these Navy SEAL Team VI families and other family members as they reveal the Obama Administrations culpability in death of their sons in the fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan following the successful raid on bin Laden&#8217 ...
  • Texas Teen Tells Teacher How To Teach; Video G ...
    A Duncanville, Texas school district says it is looking into a cell phone video-gone-viral of a student telling off his teacher about her poor teaching skills. The video shows a teen lecturing the teacher for being ineffective and “reading packets” as he makes his way out the door. & ...
  • WAR ON AFGHANISTAN; Karzai Reveals US Will Ret ...
    (AE) – Afghanistan is currently suffering from daily attacks and car bombings… so we’re supposed to believe that the US troops are going to withdraw into their nine military bases, not engage the Taliban, and somehow “teach” the Afghan Army (ie, imperial army forced ...

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

  • Guest Post: Search without Social is Incomplete
    This is a guest post by Bill Hankes, a director at Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. The amount of data Facebook ingests every day is roughly equivalent to the total amount of Internet traffic at the height of...
  • Facebook careers: Instagram policy, privacy co ...
    Facebook added 17 new positions to its careers page this week, including a Manager of Public Policy for Instagram and a number of openings on the user operations, finance and sales teams. New listings added to Facebook’s careers page:...
  • Facebook hires and departures: VP EMEA filled; ...
    Facebook has hired Nicola Mendelsohn as VP, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, filling a void being temporarily filled by VP of Global Marketing Solutions Carolyn Everson after Johanna Shields left in October 2012. Mendelsohn was most...
  • Facebook App User IDs help developers target u ...
    Facebook App User IDs are a new feature available to iOS developers who can use them to target their users by actions they took within their app. This is already available in the Facebook SDK for iOS,...
  • Facebook Home sees 25% more engagement than Fa ...
    Facebook today announced an update for its Android homescreen experience Facebook Home to address performance and stability. Facebook also revealed at a press event at its headquarters today that in four weeks since the launch 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

  • Who's to Blame for Long-Term Unemployment?
    May 3 rd brought news that the unemployment rate has dipped to 7.5 percent and there's been an alarming rise in the suicide rate for middle-aged Americans. According to the Center for Disease Control, "The [suicide] increase does coincide with a decrease in financial standing for a lot of famil ...
  • 127 Reasons Why Reversing Citizens United is N ...
    Reversing Citizens United would reverse some portions of corporate 1st Amendment free speech "rights," but it won't address the many other Bill of Rights (including other types of free speech "rights") and other Constitutional protections that corporations have high jacked for 127 years used to ...
  • Radical Notions
    If their real concern was to quell "radicalization," shouldn't they be sending in people to talk up peace, tolerance, non-violence? It's almost as if they want to foment scarifying plots, keeping the public scared, obedient -- even slavishly grateful. I wonder who radicalized them into such viol ...
  • Republicans Say "My Way And No Highways"
    Republicans are refusing to do their part in governing the country. They say "do it our way or we won't let anything get done at all." As a result We the People are on our own. We get no jobs programs, and no infrastructure: no dams, roads, bridges, high-speed rail or even highways. It's "My way ...
  • Lowlifes
    The newest target of the crazed gun-huggers is Neil Hesslin. His first-grader was among the murdered in Newtown, Conneticut, just days before last Christmas. A local gun right's group "Connecticut Carry" is attacking this grieving dad in the most vindictive way because he dares to advocate for s ...

Switchboard

  • Stepping Up to Control Climate Super-Pollutants
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Staff Scientist (Sustainable Energy), New York U.S. Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA) introduced a bill today that seeks to catalyze the nation’s action on “climate super-pollutants” – non-carbon-dioxide a ...
  • Why I Signed A Letter Against the Keystone XL ...
    Ralph Cavanagh, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco, CA Way back in 1997, I was honored to receive the Heinz Award  and now I’m joining other winners of that prize and the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize as signatories to a ...
  • Scientific Review Finds Fatal Flaws with Oil I ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco An independent panel of scientific experts today reaffirmed that an oil industry association’s study of California’s landmark clean energy law (AB32), in particular the Low Ca ...
  • Carp Committee Releases 2013 Monitoring and Re ...
    Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL   Today the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC), a collaboration among federal, state and local agencies and other stakeholders focused on addressing the threat of ...
  • GOP Senators Skip Work, Block EPA Nominee
    Pete Altman, Climate and Clean Air Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. The President’s nominee to run the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy, has shown an ability to reach across the aisle to work with Republicans, Democrats, ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Fire Codes
    One thing about Texas is how strongly its residents buy into the whole mythologizing bullshit about how great it is. This is true even of a lot of lefty Texans, as I found out in my 3 years there. It’s eyerolling at best. At worst, it helps lead to workplace deaths. As we already knew, [...]
  • The Week In Gross Incompetence
    The only institution having a worse week than Harvard are major league umpires.  First, you had Angel Hernandez being unable to get a crucial call right despite having access to instant replay.  (At least Hernandez is a consistently outstanding umpire!)  But that’s nothing — yesterda ...
  • The Conservative Failure to Understand the Con ...
    Alternative shorter some random National Review sixth-stringer: If Michelle Knight had chosen not to carry her rapist’s child to term, she should have been sentenced to death. I also enjoyed the attacks on Coker v. Georgia, the 1977 case in which the Supreme Court (speaking through known b ...
  • This Day in Labor History: May 10, 1993
    On May 10, 1993, the Kader toy factory in the Nakhom Pathom province of Thailand, just outside of Bangkok, caught on fire, killing 188 workers, severely injuring over 500, and breaking the all-time death toll for a factory workplace, previously held by the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in New York in ...
  • Is Our Latinos Learning (to Be White)?
    A few links of interest…to WEIRDOS… Think Progress has a really really good article up about why conservatives are so fond of linking race and IQ. (Spoiler alert: Those dark dummies sure do like their welfare…heavy-hearted and objective conservatives are sad to report. *frowny ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Farnaz Hosseinpour, May 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Farnaz Hosseinpour, a Ph.D. student working on climate modeling and simulation in DRI’s Atmospheric Sciences division. She’s using an ensemble of NASA satellite datasets to explore relationships between interactive-aerosol forcing and planetary-scale climatic responses. 
  • 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 ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Court: Contract Work Counts as the Practice of Law
    Massachusetts' highest court has held that a lawyer's contract work at New York's Sullivan & Cromwell while he was licensed in New Jersey counts toward "the active practice of law" requirement for admission to the Massachusetts bar.
  • High Court Defends Consumer Rights and Economi ...
    Given any ambiguity, as Justice Anthony Kennedy has aptly proclaimed in his book, "the tie goes to freedom." That is what the court did in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons.
  • Patent Pools May Stymie Competition, Study Con ...
    Patent pools -- bundles of patents intended to facilitate cross-licensing and steer technology into the marketplace -- have been touted as a way to cut litigation and transaction costs for businesses. A study released by a former Federal Trade Commission official challenges that assumption.
  • Pelosi, Boies and Verrilli Hit the Commencemen ...
    It's graduation time, which means legal luminaries are making the commencement speaker rounds. As of Thursday, no law schools had claimed the services of any of the justices of U.S. Supreme Court, who usually can be counted upon for at least a couple of commencement addresses. Still, schools sna ...
  • Boutique Includes Bratz Trial Winner, Manatt R ...
    Jennifer Keller, the attorney who won an $88.5 million verdict against Mattel Inc. in the battle over the Bratz doll, has teamed up with three former partners at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to create a new firm based in Irvine, Calif.

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

  • Clouds Form Over Popular Asthma Drug
    World sales of Merck's blockbuster asthma drug, Singulair, were about $5 billion a year until last year when its patent expired in the United States. But the drug also has a darkening cloud over it.
  • Somali FA Launches Sports Medicine Workshop fo ...
    During his opening remarks Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab emphasised the importance of anti doping control awareness through football courses adding that the SFF was giving much more priority to the anti- doping control implementation.
  • US Supports Somalia's Security Reforms
    He points out that overcoming grievances hardened over decades of conflict will take time. Thus, it is essential for the UNited States and the international community to increase support to Somalia's security sector reform.
  • Three Climbers Head Home After Mount Everest Brawl
    Nepal's flourishing tourism industry receives a black eye from an ugly incident between Sherpas and foreign climbers.
  • Keeping Asthma Under Control to Live Life Normally
    Every person with asthma can be a heroine or hero if asthma is kept under control. With at least 84 Olympic Gold medalists having asthma, it is clear that people with asthma can surely exercise provided asthma is kept under control.

environment 360

  • U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster Research on Clim ...
    The Obama Administration this week introduced an online tool to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative responses to future threats. As climate change triggers more extreme weather events and temperature shifts, it is becoming increasingly im ...
  • Third Coal Export Proposal Falls By Wayside in ...
    A large U.S. pipeline developer has dropped plans to build a $200-million coal export facility in northern Oregon, the third major terminal proposal to be shelved or canceled in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at Houston-based Kinder Morgan say the Columbia River site could not optimally accomm ...
  • How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled ...
    Along the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether this ubiquitous bivalve can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Declining Snow Cover Imperils Plant and Animal ...
    Declining winter and spring snow cover in parts of the Northern Hemisphere poses a growing threat to the plant and animals species that depend on the snow to survive harsh winters, a new study says. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a Shutterstock team of scie ...
  • Battery-Equipped Wind Turbine Better Integrate ...
    General Electric recently introduced a wind turbine equipped with a storage battery, creating a type of “hybrid” turbine that industry leaders hope will improve the integration of intermittent energy sources onto the grid and reduce the costs of wind power. The GE battery is able to store less t ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Boston bomber buried at midnight in secret cer ...
    The elder Boston marathon Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a secret midnight service at an undisclosed location after a mystery benefactor came forward - ending weeks of controversy. According to federal officials the body was taken from the Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlor and entombe ...
  • The EU’s Out-Of-Control Intelligence Services ...
    Brussels, the center of gravity of the European Union and seat of NATO Headquarters, not only teems with lobbyists, diplomats, military personnel, bureaucrats, politicians, Americans, and other weird characters from around the world, but also with spies. “Brussels is one of the largest spy capit ...
  • Blatant Illuminati Symbolism in the Advertisin ...
    Nike is a multinational corporation specializing in the selling and marketing of all things sports, including apparel, footwear and equipment. It’s the infamous company responsible for making Air Jordans famous, and it also sponsors endless dominant athletes of the past and present. They’ve also ...
  • Vatican invites Mexicans to discuss whether t ...
    A Vatican envoy has arrived in Mexico with a message: God is not dead. This week, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi will host a series of debates on secularism that will bring together believers and nonbelievers – the Vatican’s first “Courtyard of the Gentiles” event outside Europe. Cardinal Ravasi’s v ...
  • Britain must be ready to ’walk away’ from EU, ...
    Boris Johnson has said Britain "must be prepared" to "walk away" from the European Union if David Cameron’s efforts to strike a new deal with Brussels fail. The Mayor of London said that he has "always been narrowly in favour" of Britain staying in the EU and "particularly of protecting British ...

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 (né 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

  • Richard Gage, Bob McIlvaine, and Deborah Voorh ...
    In this episode of 9/11 Free Fall Richard Gage AIA, 9/11 victim's family member Bob McIlvaine, and journalist Deborah Voorhees respond to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow's recent diatribe attacking 9/11 Truth. This interview includes Richard and Bob's challenge to Maddow to bring them onto her show, an ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers fro ...
    The Yanomami are celebrating the start of an operation to remove illegal ranchers from their land© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians. At least three of ...
  • Awá's plight reaches top human rights watchdog
    The Americas' leading human rights body has been called upon to save the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe, from illegal invaders on their land.© SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has received an urgent petiti ...
  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...

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 artículo en español aquí. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...
  • 3 Years ago Today Deepwater Horizon Explodes
    By Greg Palast The Hidden Truth - Watch the Film
  • My Apologies to the Family of Mrs. Thatcher
    By Greg Palast I strenuously object to the dissemination of this scurrilous doggerel, falsely attributed to me, on the passage of an iconic stateswoman: Naggie Hatchet dead and gone Ruled her Empire State like Queen Kong Stomping on us little peeps Just to sell our Jewels to creeps. And lost the ...

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

  • Best of: Wakefield vs. Brian Deer, Fiona Godle ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We ran this post by Dan Burns last March. Here it is as again as a complement to the post we ran yesterday, Andy Wakefield's Day In Court. By Dan E. Burns This is Chapter One in...
  • UK Department of Health Deliberately Exposes V ...
    By John Stone Is the vaccine program there to prevent harm or to foist commercial products on a captive market at the public expense? The parrot cry of health officials trying to bully citizens into vaccinating is that they are...
  • Dachel Media Update: Men Falling Behind
    By Anne Dachel May 8, 2013, Fortune Magazine: 6 reasons why men are falling behind women May 7, 2013, New York Times: Autistic and Coming (Reluctantly) of Age Fortune Magazine "A rise in autism and ADHD. 'Unfortunately, the current debate...
  • Andy Wakefield's Day in Court Coming This Month
    Editor's Note: The judge has set May 22 for an appeal in Austin, Texas of the jurisdiction issue in Dr. Andy Wakefield's defamation suit against the British Medical Journal, Editor Fiona Godlee and "journalist" Brian Deer. The case was dismissed...
  • Musician Ry Romero Debuts New Single for Gener ...
    © Incite Photography / Ysa Adams Musician Ry Romero Debuts New Single for Generation Rescue We recently came across a very talented supporter of Generation Rescue. His name is Ry Romero, a young singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, who stopped by...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • Civil Disobedience or Death by Design
    By my clock it's five minutes past midnight. We are into unchartered territory. Territory where only bravery and vision can hope to cut through the torpor and stupor which is bringing about the designed obsolescence of the human race and the transgenic re-engineering of the common gene pool of o ...
  • GMOs – The Walking Dead of the Food Industry
    Informed people in the nursing industry did some GMO research and came up with this infographic.
  • Vernon Hershberger Real Food Trial
    While Vernon is on trial in the courtroom, raw milk is on trial in the court of public opinion. Join us for a “Grow Your Food Freedom” meeting and networking event happening in conjunction with the trial.
  • 35 Reasons You Should Never Be Without Vinegar
    Whether you are storing up supplies for hard times or just want to save a little grocery money on cleaning supplies, one thing you should never be without is vinegar. People have been using it for ages – and not just for cooking or preserving foods. Vinegar’s versatility is virtually unmatched w ...
  • How to Heal a Planet
    It starts with just one choice…

new geography

  • The Average Manufacturing Establishment Is Sma ...
    The common image of American manufacturing, as Harold L. Sirkin wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek, is of huge plants with waves of assembly-line workers producing cars and refrigerators. But there’s a whole other world of niche manufacturers in the U.S., and these small firms are more ...
  • The Cleveland Miracle That Should Never Have Been
    “[T]he most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are the hardest to see and talk about.” Writer David Foster Wallace The story of the three Cleveland women kidnapped over 10 years ago and recently found alive in a house on the city’s Near W ...
  • Can Public Banks Help Fix Local Finance?
    Are public banks the answer for the recession-induced decline in municipal revenue and other ills that plague our cities? It’s a solution being discussed in more than one American city.   Mike Krauss, a founder of the Public Banking Institute and a chairmen of the Pennsylvania Pubic Ba ...
  • 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 ...

water.org

  • Three Mothers, Three Stories
    The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.
  • Breathing Easier in India
    In Tamil Nadu, community residents are often dependent on remote and unsafe connections for drinking water. Even when a public water tap is nearby, long lines can take up precious time that could be better spent on income generating opportunities.
  • 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.

Cryptogon

  • Pentagon Wants ‘Human Surrogate’ f ...
    If the pain ray just affects the skin, as the military has said for years, why do the “Human Surrogate” systems need simulated organs? The spokesperson mentioned in the piece below said that the surrogate will be, “A common test target that can be used across the spectrum of no ...
  • Afghanistan: ‘U.S. Kicks Drug-War Habit, ...
    You’ll love this one. Via: Wired: Because of the poppies, the raw material for most of the world’s heroin, the list of things 1st Lt. Christopher Gackstatter and his 2nd Platoon can’t do in Sartok is far longer than the list of things they can. Marching into the mud-walled village in t­­hi ...
  • Granddaughter of Mao Zedong Has Net Worth Over ...
    “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” — Animal Farm by George Orwell Via: AFP: The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country’s richest citizens prompted online accusations of ...
  • Special Inspector General Claims Obama Regime ...
    Via: Politico: The watchdog who tracks the billions of taxpayer dollars spent to rebuild Afghanistan says government officials have tried to silence him because they think he’s embarrassing the White House and Afghan President Hamid Karzai by pointing out the waste and fraud. John Sopko, t ...
  • Hanford Nuclear Waste “Cleanup” Di ...
    Via: Scientific American: The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project ...

The Economic Collapse

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common?  They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.  All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt.  Many have chosen to use "traffi ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Desertificationengulfs South China (CCTV)
    Read at : http://english.cntv.cn/program/china24/20130505/104273.shtml Desertification: Scar of the South China By CCTV reporter Jin Yingqiao For many, South China elicits images of greenery, lakes, and trees. But now those images are taking a hit by a phenomenon known mostly to … Continue ...
  • Documents on desertification (MYBOOKez)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.mybookezz.com/effect-of-desertification/ Effect of desertification 140000 free eBooks on MyBookezz.com Download effect of desertification eBooks for free or read online …
  • Planting trees in China (Google / Shanghai Daily)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Feature/2013/05/06/1%2Bmillion%2Btrees%2Band%2Bcounting/ 1 million trees and counting By Steffie Lyu THE Million Trees Project was launched by Shanghai Roots and Shoots in 2007. It was created to ease desertificatio ...
  • Desertification in India (Google / PIB India)
    Read at : http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95634 Measures to Check on Desertification India submitted its National Action Programme (NAP) to Combat Desertification to the Secretariat of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in 2001; providing an overview of the status ...
  • Global agricultural gross domestic production ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25145:land-degradation-costs-agriculture&catid=38:business&Itemid=68 Land degradation costs agriculture by Zurah and Agencies The world is losing up to five per cen ...

News Blaze

  • Clouds Form Over Popular Asthma Drug
    World sales of Merck's blockbuster asthma drug, Singulair, were about $5 billion a year until last year when its patent expired in the United States. But the drug also has a darkening cloud over it.
  • Somali FA Launches Sports Medicine Workshop fo ...
    During his opening remarks Secretary General Abdi Qani Said Arab emphasised the importance of anti doping control awareness through football courses adding that the SFF was giving much more priority to the anti- doping control implementation.
  • US Supports Somalia's Security Reforms
    He points out that overcoming grievances hardened over decades of conflict will take time. Thus, it is essential for the UNited States and the international community to increase support to Somalia's security sector reform.
  • Three Climbers Head Home After Mount Everest Brawl
    Nepal's flourishing tourism industry receives a black eye from an ugly incident between Sherpas and foreign climbers.
  • Keeping Asthma Under Control to Live Life Normally
    Every person with asthma can be a heroine or hero if asthma is kept under control. With at least 84 Olympic Gold medalists having asthma, it is clear that people with asthma can surely exercise provided asthma is kept under control.

Worldnews

  • Get a pet, protect your heart
    Tweet Houston, May 10 (IANS) If there was any doubt about the benefits of sharing your home with a pet, here is something to mull over -- scientists claim that the presence of a pet greatly reduces the...
  • Manish Tewari hands over Phalke award to ...
    Tweet Mumbai, May 10 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari handed over the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, an highest honour in Indian cinema, Friday to Pran, 93, at his residence here. The legend could not make it to the 60th National Film Awards ceremony held in the...
  • Revathy's show is not similar to Bigg Bos ...
    National Award winner, actor-director Revathy hosts Malayalee House. The show, a brand new reality show, consists of 16 'residents' who live together with the main intention of creating a home...
  • Had a blast working with Rishi Kapoor: Ja ...
    All Jackie Shroff can be delighted! After his cameo in the recent hit Shootout at Wadala, Jackie aka Jaggu dada will be seen in a prominent role in Aurangzeb....
  • Scotts drops phosphorus from lawn fertili ...
    Marysville company acts to reduce risk of runoff feeding toxic-algae blooms in lakes; competitors likely to follow its lead Related Items Environment Blog State selects spots in Champaign, Delaware and Marion counties.... Other news Helpful Links Current home-delivery subscribers may add Dig ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants
    An anonymous reader writes "Mars One reports that 78,000 people have volunteered for a one-way ticket to Mars. A quick calculation shows that this means people lined up coast-to-coast in a line with only 40cm per person! (As Robert Zubrin already predicted). If you want, you can still go and sig ...
  • Get the Inside Scoop on Running a Direct Prima ...
    A bevy of recently published news stories about direct primary care -- also referred to as direct medical practice -- has piqued the interest of physicians around the country. And it seems the more family physicians hear about direct primary care, the more they want to know. The practice model g ...
  • BIOTRONIK Ilesto 7 ICD/CRT-Ds with Home Monito ...
    BIOTRONIK received FDA regulatory approval for its Ilesto 7 implantable cardioverter-defibrillator/cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (ICD/CRT-D) series of devices. The flagship device in the series, the Ilesto DX with Home Monitoring, allows physicians to receive atrial ...
  • Pear-shaped nucleus boosts search for new physics
    The strange shape of radium 224 could lead to test alternatives to standard model.
  • Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In ...
    New submitter josedu writes:"Sleep deprivation is a great, hidden problem that afflicts a great percentage of children in affluent countries. About 73% of 9- and 10-year-old children in the U.S. are sleep deprived, as are 80% of 13- and 14-year-olds. The new study thinks this is linked to the in ...

Common Dreams

  • Mayflower Families to Kerry: Come and See What ...
    Ahead of a final decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, families directly impacted by the tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Kansas in March traveled to Washington, DC this week to deliver an invitation and a message to Secretary of State John Kerry. ...
  • Alive: Woman Freed From Factory Rubble after S ...
    Though the death count has now surpassed 1,000 in the worst garment industry disaster in the history of Bangladesh, cheers of joy went up at the site on Friday after a woman was found alive inside the rubble after being trapped for more than two weeks. Associated Press reports: ...
  • Pakistani Court Rules CIA Drone Strikes Are Il ...
    In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offenses’. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use forc ...
  • Pakistani Court Rules CIA Drone Strikes Are Il ...
    In the first major Pakistani court ruling on the legality of the CIA’s drone campaign in the country, a Peshawar High Court judge said this morning that strikes are ‘criminal offenses’. Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan ordered Pakistan’s government to ‘use forc ...
  • Fracking Activists Could Face Felony Charges a ...
    The same "Ag-Gag" laws that make it a crime to film or document egregious abuses on industrial farms may soon be used to criminalize anti-fracking activists who seek to expose environmental harms brought on by the gas drilling industry—if a bill recently proposed in Pennsylvannia ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

  • Bringing Financing & Technology Together In Su ...
    Not only is there increasing demand for energy in the world, there is also increasing awareness as to the importance of renewable energy development for a better world. Funding for such development, however, is becoming more difficult to come by. Can in-house financing provide a solution?
  • Energy Efficiency: Reversing the Drop in Combi ...
    Combined heat and power (CHP) is an underutilized tool that could have a huge impact on industrial energy efficiency. But how do the benefits of CHP stack up against building new wind, solar, or natural gas facilities?
  • Energy Investment: Tesla Shares Jump After Ear ...
    Tesla shares surged 12 percent in after hours trading on news that Tesla reached profitability in Q1 for the first time in its ten-year history with a profit of $15 million on sales of $562 million for the quarter, a record for the EV producer.
  • Garbage as Energy Commodity? Industry Booms in ...
    Norway, along with many other northern European countries, has built a network of co-generation plants that produce heat and electricity from recycled waste.
  • Collecting and Spending Carbon Emissions Revenue
    Whether it is via the auction of allowances or the taxation of carbon emissions, climate policy is increasingly being seen as a source of revenue into the national treasury.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Obama's Syria Game Plan: Libya 2.0
    by Stephen Lendman Obama's already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He's heading America for more. Media scoundrels support it. They back all US aggression. They're beating the drums again now. They're manipulating public sentiment for support. Russia, China and most other nations wan ...
  • Fannie and Freddie in Good Hands with Mel Watt
    by Stephen Lendman On May 1, Obama nominated Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). It replaced the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB), the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD). It did so following ...
  • Hawking Boycotts Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Hawking was invited to participate in a June 18 - 20 Israeli Presidential Conference. Initially he accepted. In early May he declined. He's boycotting. He's protesting Israel's occupation. More on that below. Hawking's a renown British physicist. His web site says he's ...
  • Willie Manning: Unjustly Sentenced to Death
    by Stephen Lendman Capital punishment is barbaric, unjust and unconscionable. It's the ultimate denial of human rights. Nothing justifies state-sponsored murder. Wrongfully executing innocent victims alone explains why. David Protess heads the Chicago Innocence Project (ChIP). It investi ...
  • Kerry in Moscow
    by Stephen Lendman Russian condemnation of Israeli air strikes preceded Kerry's arrival. Moscow's Foreign Ministry called them "a threat to regional stability." It wants politicizing chemical weapons use stopped. On May 6, Russian Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev said "no one has ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Inequality is accelerating
    "Inequality is accelerating – and with it, the fragility of our economy." The latest column by Frances Russell, Tax cuts a race to the bottom, connects the dots between worsening income inequality in Canada, the insatiable political drive for more tax cuts, and the diminishing role of gover ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Bringing Financing & Technology Together In Su ...
    Not only is there increasing demand for energy in the world, there is also increasing awareness as to the importance of renewable energy development for a better world. Funding for such development, however, is becoming more difficult to come by. Can in-house financing provide a solution?
  • Energy Efficiency: Reversing the Drop in Combi ...
    Combined heat and power (CHP) is an underutilized tool that could have a huge impact on industrial energy efficiency. But how do the benefits of CHP stack up against building new wind, solar, or natural gas facilities?
  • Energy Investment: Tesla Shares Jump After Ear ...
    Tesla shares surged 12 percent in after hours trading on news that Tesla reached profitability in Q1 for the first time in its ten-year history with a profit of $15 million on sales of $562 million for the quarter, a record for the EV producer.
  • Garbage as Energy Commodity? Industry Booms in ...
    Norway, along with many other northern European countries, has built a network of co-generation plants that produce heat and electricity from recycled waste.
  • Collecting and Spending Carbon Emissions Revenue
    Whether it is via the auction of allowances or the taxation of carbon emissions, climate policy is increasingly being seen as a source of revenue into the national treasury.

EU Times

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Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • BlackBerry files amicus brief supporting avail ...
    In a post yesterday, we discussed Nokia's amicus brief submitted "in support of neither party" in the Apple-Motorola FRAND Federal Circuit appeal (Judge Posner edition). The amicus brief [PDF] recently filed by BlackBerry (formerly Research In Motion) is now public, and it is very similar to ...
  • Book Review -- William Patry, How to Fix Copyright
    Abstract: I review William Patry's book How to Fix Copyright. The book is noteworthy for its ambitious yet measured effort to diagnose where copyright law has gone astray in recent years. It is less successful with respect to proposing possible changes to the law. Most interesting are par ...
  • Seeking Outstanding Open Science Champions of ...
    On June 20, the White House will host a Champions of Change event to highlight outstanding individuals, organizations, or research projects promoting and using open scientific data and publications to accelerate progress and improve our world. The White House Champions of Change program highligh ...
  • The Oatmeal: I have some happy news
    Remember this little piece of property that went up for sale last year? Remember our zany little fundraiser to save it? It worked. As of May 3, 2013, the former laboratory of Nikola Tesla has been saved. - Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal
  • Melting Glaciers, Sprawling Cities: the Googl ...
    The story behind the Google and NASA partnership that reveals how earth is radically changing over the decades. - Time

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • State Department orders 3D-printed guns plans ...
    Defense Distributed has removed CAD designs for their 3D printed Liberator gun at the request of the State Department. However, the plans have been downloaded at least 100,000 times in three days before the ban. Company founder Cody Wilson says “the practical, reasonable person should assu ...
  • Obama Administration gives bankster Phil Falco ...
    Phil Falcone, who ran Harbinger capital, has agreed with the SEC that he took a fraudulent $113 million loan from one of his funds, will pay a minor for him fine of $18 million and won’t even be banned from the industry. In a country with actual rule of law, Falcone and other hedge fund [...]
  • Lake Mead and Lake Powell lowest level since P ...
    jfleck brings baleful news about water levels in two crucial lakes, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, that feed into the Colorado. Ever the journalist in search of gloomy extremes, I just noticed that total storage in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs used to manage flows on the Col ...
  • 2013 Best Cities for Job Growth
    New Geography has ranked cities for job growth and has a neat interactive map as well as traditional rankings for large, medium, and small cities. The top job growth rankings for all cities regardless of size are the small neighbouring cities of Midland and Odessa TX. Both have a weighted index ...
  • George Orwell on War
    All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Precious kauri need committed action
    Kauri dieback disease (Phytopthorataxon Agathis or PTA) needs a solution but this Government isn’t providing it. The relentless killer of our iconic kauri is not waiting and the group tasked with tackling PTA, is lacking a $5 million government commitment to achieve a breakthrough. The famous gi ...
  • Christchurch mental health initiative better t ...
    Seeing images of the extent of the devastation wrecked by the earthquakes on Christchurch was depressing. I couldn’t even imagine how life must be for the people who had to work and raise their families in such tough conditions. So it’s great to see bright splashes of colour with the positive me ...
  • Tui Mine – Healing the Maunga
    The Tui Mine was abandoned in the 1970s on the side of Mt Te Aroha. It was a small copper and gold mine which left an ugly legacy. The mine’s toxic waste dump was unstable and cracking and the water downstream of the underground mine workings were poisoned by the heavy metals leaching from the [...]
  • Topics announced for Youth Parliament 2013
    It’s Youth Week, with events happening around the country celebrating all that it is to be young and encouraging young people to live like legends. As a part of Youth Week, Youth Affairs Minister Nikki Kaye has today made an announcement on this year’s Youth Parliament, including releasing the i ...
  • Police murder citizens preparing to protest in ...
    Last week West Papuans suffered more abuse and injustice from Indonesian Police personnel. The 1st of May marked 50 years of West Papua suffering under Indonesian rule. Citizens throughout Papua prepared to commemorate this day, however, events that occurred just prior to this date, typify and   ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Landmark operation evicts illegal ranchers fro ...
    The Yanomami are celebrating the start of an operation to remove illegal ranchers from their land© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Brazilian authorities have begun an operation to remove eleven illegal ranches from the Yanomami territory in Brazil, and return the land to the Indians. At least three of ...
  • Awá's plight reaches top human rights watchdog
    The Americas' leading human rights body has been called upon to save the Awá, Earth's most threatened tribe, from illegal invaders on their land.© SurvivalThe Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Americas’ leading human rights body, has received an urgent petiti ...
  • Survival launches tourism boycott of India’s A ...
    Still of video showing Jarawa girls forced to dance for tourists.© AnonSurvival International has today launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of ‘human safaris’ to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped. The tribal rights organization is calling on ...
  • 'Lost' report exposes Brazilian Indian genocide
    Umutima shaman in 1957. In 1969 most of the Umutima were wiped out by a flu epidemic. © José Idoyaga/SurvivalA shocking report detailing horrific atrocities committed against Brazilian Indians in the 1940s, 50s and 60s has resurfaced – 45 years after it was mysteriously ‘destroyed’ i ...
  • Worldwide protests demand protection for Peru' ...
    Protesters in London wearing gas masks and carrying placards to symbolize the lethal effects of the Camisea project on Peru's uncontacted tribes.© SurvivalSurvival International supporters held worldwide protests outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in London, San Francisco, Berlin, Ma ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #Colorado House Unanimously Votes for #Industr ...
    from Tenth Amendment Center source: The Colorado state house today voted to approve SB13-241 , a bill that would legalize the farming and production of “industrial hemp” within the state. If signed into law, the bill would effectively nullify the unconstitutional ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common?  They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.  All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt.  Many have chosen to use "traffi ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • More questions in NC redistricting case
    The three-judge panel hearing a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's redistricting on the grounds that it dilutes the African-American vote called the attorneys together this week to discuss a few remaining questions, indicating a decision could be near. read more
  • NC renewable energy repeal advanced by committ ...
    A bill to end North Carolina's renewable energy program was passed out of a Senate committee last week even though it didn't have the votes it needed. What's happening in the state is part of a broader national effort to revamp renewable energy laws. read more
  • The BP spin doctor is in
    BP is scrambling to save the company's image from the realities of the ongoing Gulf disaster, but it can't hide the truth. read more
  • VOICES: Reign of Error -- a sonnet concerning ...
    Observations on the current state of North Carolina politics, in verse. read more
  • 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

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

  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Stephen Hawking Boycotts Israel | My Catbird Seat
    by Kevin Barrett Veterans Today New York Times:Stephen Hawking Joins Boycott Against Israel JERUSALEM – Stephen W. Hawking, the University of Cambridge physicist and cosmologist, has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held here in June in order to support an academic boycott of Israel ...
  • Peru bans GMOs: Will America take the hint and ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The only other country in the Americas besides Ecuador to completely ban genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) from being cultivated within its borders, the South American nation of Peru has taken charge to help protect not only its own citizens bu ...
  • » Israel Rescues Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Syri ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 9, 2013 Israel is sending military vehicles into Syria to pick up wounded Al-Qaeda terrorists involved in the fight against the Syrian Army before patching them up and sending them back into battle, another startling example of how the Zionist state is working ...
  • Redlines and Other Double Standards: “Israel h ...
    Judging by its indulgent attitude to Israeli aggressions, Washington claims that Israel has the right to defend itself in any way it pleases: by unprovoked airstrikes across international borders; by meting out collective punishment; by carrying out extrajudicial assassinations; by invasions and ...
  • London hospital sold body parts | Mail Online
    by PATRICK HENNESSY and PATRICK MCGOWAN London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital today admitted selling children’s body tissue removed during operations to a pharmaceutical company. The revelation comes on the day that the report on the removal and retention of thousands of dead childre ...

Veterans Today

  • The Nine Stages of Civilization – We&#82 ...
    The day is fast approaching when speaking the truth will be seen as an act of terrorism, and we will finally realize that we have become totally dependent on the state, that our cherished individual freedoms were trashed in that process and that it was all done in the glorious name of national s ...
  • Homeland Security Blames Boston on Public
    - Post Bombing Retrospectives Lead with the Outrageous Claim that the Public Should do More to Report Threats
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Pilot evaluation of AfterDeployment.org’s workshop for posttraumatic stress. The DoD’s AfterDeployment.org website was developed to increase reach of behavioral health resources, offering education, assessment, and self-help coping tools on many postdeployment-related topics.
  • Willie Manning: Unjustly Sentenced to Death
    Capital punishment is barbaric, unjust and unconscionable. It's the ultimate denial of human rights. Nothing justifies state-sponsored murder. Wrongfully executing innocent victims alone explains why.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $22,237,386 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0045) to exercise an option for the procurement of six F414-GE-400 install engines for the EA-18 G aircraft.

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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Stop NATO

  • Large NATO Delegation Tours New Mexico Nuclear ...
    U.S. Department of Defense May 9, 2013 NATO Delegation Visits New Mexico Facilities By Sheryl Hingorani Sandia National Laboratories KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – A group of NATO officials are learning about work being done to support the extended nuclear deterrence mission and broader nationa ...
  • Pentagon Demands To Keep Nine Bases In Afghani ...
    Voice of Russia May 9, 2013 U.S. to maintain 9 bases in Afghanistan after 2014 Bagram Air Base The United States will maintain nine military bases in Afghanistan after NATO’s troop withdrawal in 2014. Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed on Thursday that the bases, including in Kabul, Bagram, ...
  • Henri Barbusse: Sepulchral sculptor’s gr ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray And always, always, in these trenches whose walls run down like waves, with their stale stinks of chlorine and sulphur, chains of ...
  • Estonia To Host NATO War Games
    Russian Information Agency Novosti May 9, 2013 Estonia Holds Military Drills with NATO Allies TALLINN: Estonia will hold annual military exercises involving about 4,500 personnel from several NATO countries on May 9-25, the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Forces said. The Spring Storm dril ...
  • Forces 2020: NATO Strategic Commands Meets At ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Transformation May 7, 2013 Allied Reach 2013 Kicks off in Norfolk, Va. NATO’s senior military leadership and key civilian figures are gathered in Norfolk, VA, USA, for NATO’s Allied Reach 2013 (AR 13). Allied Reach 2013 (AR 13), a hig ...

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Intel Hub

  • We Are Not Alone In the Cosmos
    Avalon | Defense MP Paul Hellyer Speaking to Edgar Mitchell at The Citizen Hearing – We Are Not Alone in the CosmosThe post We Are Not Alone In the Cosmos appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Brazilian Atlantis: Scientists Discover Traces ...
    RT | Granite formed on dry land has been discovered beneath the ocean off the coast of Brazil. Scientists suggest that it might be part of a sunken continent which disappeared millions of years ago and already branded it ‘Brazilian Atlantis’.The post Brazilian Atlantis: Scientists Discover ...
  • BREAKING: 3D Printable Gun Ordered to Shut Dow ...
    Defense Distributed is complying, DefCad.org back up after removing fileThe post BREAKING: 3D Printable Gun Ordered to Shut Down by Government appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenu ...
    Michael Snyder | Our roads are slowly but surely being transformed into a revenue generating control grid. And this is just yet another example of how government feels the need to constantly watch, monitor, track and regulate everything that we do.The post America’s Roads Have Been Turned ...
  • Are We Putting All Our Best Efforts Into Searc ...
    Ricky Nem | Planetquest was originally designed to allow everyone with a computer and internet connection, access to the data from the telescopes that are searching for exo-planetsThe post Are We Putting All Our Best Efforts Into Searching For Exo-Planets That Are Like Earth? appeared first ...

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

  • Watch The Ring Of Fire Eclipse Starting At 5:3 ...
    For those outside the southern hemisphere, a livestream will show it in its fiery glory (without the risk of eye damage). Stargazers in parts of Australia will get to witness a dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse later today. For anyone else who isn't hanging out down under, SLOOH, a robotic ...
  • FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North ...
    If only they had developed monkey boats. Tiny little monkey boats! Oh man I wish they had monkey boats. The infamous "Mystery Monkey of Tampa," an escaped rhesus macaque, was captured back in October. The rhesus macaque is not a rare monkey; it's adapted to human society better than most, can s ...
  • Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill Sickened ...
    A new study discovered illness and birth defects among Gulf Coast fish nearly 16 months after the BP explosion. More than a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, crude oil continued to sicken Gulf Coast fish, according to a new study. Gulf killifish, which are considered sentinel species ...
  • Whoops: Moon Dust From Apollo 11 Lost In Stora ...
    The dust was rediscovered last month in a UC Berkeley warehouse. You'd think moon dust would be something people would keep an eye on since, you know, you have to go to the freaking moon to get it. But somehow, samples retrieved from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission got lost--probably for years--in a ...
  • See Gravity Bend Light In New Telescope Images
    A citizen science website wants your help to spot gravitational lenses in never-before-seen pictures. Take an object that's massive enough, and it will bend light around it in what scientists call a gravitational lens. Want to see one for yourself? Maybe you can. Citizen science website Zoonive ...

Veterans Today

  • The Nine Stages of Civilization – We&#82 ...
    The day is fast approaching when speaking the truth will be seen as an act of terrorism, and we will finally realize that we have become totally dependent on the state, that our cherished individual freedoms were trashed in that process and that it was all done in the glorious name of national s ...
  • Homeland Security Blames Boston on Public
    - Post Bombing Retrospectives Lead with the Outrageous Claim that the Public Should do More to Report Threats
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Pilot evaluation of AfterDeployment.org’s workshop for posttraumatic stress. The DoD’s AfterDeployment.org website was developed to increase reach of behavioral health resources, offering education, assessment, and self-help coping tools on many postdeployment-related topics.
  • Willie Manning: Unjustly Sentenced to Death
    Capital punishment is barbaric, unjust and unconscionable. It's the ultimate denial of human rights. Nothing justifies state-sponsored murder. Wrongfully executing innocent victims alone explains why.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    General Electric Co., Lynn, Mass., is being awarded a $22,237,386 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0045) to exercise an option for the procurement of six F414-GE-400 install engines for the EA-18 G aircraft.

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

  • America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A ...
    What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common?  They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.  All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt.  Many have chosen to use "traffi ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of Witnessing The Death Of ...
    The legal claims on physical gold far exceed the amount of physical gold that the banks actually have by a very, very wide margin.  And right now the bankers are scared out of their wits because their warehouses are being drained of physical gold at a frightening rate.  So what happens when thei ...
  • The Price Of Copper And 11 Other Recession Ind ...
    There are a dozen significant economic indicators that are warning that the U.S. economy is heading into a recession.  The Dow may have soared past the 15,000 mark, but the economic fundamentals are telling an entirely different story.  If historical patterns hold up, the economy is heading for ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2013-05-10 Assange Speech for Global Exchange ...
    Thank you for this honor. I am very happy to be sharing it with Noam Chomsky whose generosity and strength of character I have felt personally. Noam, you are the sea--relentless and enduring. You have crashed wave after wave of understanding into towering cliffs of lies, eroding them at their ba ...
  • 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 ...

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 – Wilderne ...
    A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.  Section 2(c) of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Next year (20 ...
  • Not all renewables are created equal
    Originally published May 6, 2013 on GristBy Tom Butler Can we all agree that the current energy economy is fundamentally toxic to nature and people? Can we agree that there is no more important task than building a new energy economy, one that supports flourishing human and natural communities? ...
  • 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 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Constitutional Freedoms... How Many Do We Sti ...
    This article explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. ~ Washington'sBlog - February 21, 2013 (An excellent must read article!) - Maps - Video read more
  • Exposed!... CNN Caught Faking Boston Bombings ...
    When CNN, as revealed by their own whistle-blowing anchor Ambor Lyon, isn’t busy running campaigns state-sponsored propaganda and massive censorship they are hard at work perfecting the art of fake news broadcasts. ~ Alexander Higgins ~ Video read more
  • Urgent!... Coast Guard Ordered to 'Stay In Por ...
    Miami, FL –  Drugs, weapons, illegal aliens all are welcome under a new directive. There is an ongoing, emergency situation with the U.S. Coast Guard, which is now an agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ~ Maps read more
  • THIS Should Be Front Page News! ... Obama Thre ...
    Barack Hussein Obama served National Security Letters (NSLs) to 14-State Governors in the United States. He warns that the Governor’s actions in attempting to form “State Defense Forces” needs to be halted “immediately” or they will face arrest for the crime of... treason??? ~ Ken Larive rea ...
  • One Hundred Articles of Impeachment Against Obama
    There is a growing groundswell within American Republican and Tea Party ranks that impeachment proceedings should be initiated against President Obama on a whole list of violations of the Constitution and the War Powers Act. ~ Peter Paton read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • Find Your Direction By The Moon
    If you are lost at night, or simply wish to navigate at night, the moon can be an important indicator of general direction if you understand its shadows and how it moves across the sky. Here’s how…   These basic principles are for those living in the northern hemisphere, but is ...
  • Evil Gun Myth Busted!
    I came across this video and just had to share it with our readers. I thought it was pretty funny and laughed my a$$ off while watching it several times… I hope that some of you will enjoy the comic relief too…   From TheProRancher,   Transcript: This is a semi-automatic ha ...
  • Poison Oak / Ivy Itch Relief
    The best temporary relief for poison oak or poison ivy itch while suffering from the rash. Run HOT water over the affected area, as HOT as you can tolerate without burning yourself… the HOTTER the water (don’t burn yourself), the more effective it will be to eliminate the itch! Here ...
  • How To Determine Remaining Daylight
    There are circumstances when knowing how much natural light you have left in the day can go from a convenience to a matter of life or death. Knowing when it will get dark, or how many hours of sunlight you have remaining, will give you time to find shelter, time remaining to travel without the [...]
  • 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 ...

Fast Company

  • Sweating The Details: This Workstation Doubles ...
    Send an email. Jump rope. Send an email. Do some kettlebell push-ups. Repeat. If the buzz around the Internet watercooler is correct, sitting is the new smoking and our sedentary desk jobs are slowly sucking the life out of us. We need to move around more, but ironically, the most ergonomi ...
  • Bringing Meter Reading Into The Modern Age
    A new app lets you use your smartphone to ease the process of paying for utilities. Shockingly, it’s not available in America, where our utilities remain mostly mired in the past. Utilities aren’t known for being technologically advanced, or consumer friendly. Hence why they ha ...
  • A Grown-Up Library, With A Built-In Slide For Kids
    Another indoor slide--do we smell a trend? A lot of architects get a bad rep for being narcissistic control freaks with a Randian complex--people who exert their “vision” and expertise over their clients. That said, occasionally utterly reasonable architects actively try to in ...
  • Getting A Grip On Cancer Cells With A Microsco ...
    What’s the best way to isolate a cancer cell in a person to test it? The new NanoVelcro uses its tiny hooks to pull them directly out of your blood, opening up the possibilities of liquid biopsies. Velcro--which was first inspired by tiny burrs clinging to a Swedish scientist’s ...
  • Why “Iron Man 3” Squashed “Iron Man 2,” Accord ...
    Vinny Bruzzese may embody everything that’s wrong with Hollywood, or, as he’d argue, just another resource for screenwriters. As someone who purports to bring science to predicting a movie’s success, he applies his technique here to explaining the performance gap between two ...

Jadaliyya

  • إطلال المشتاق أو غريب على الخليج
    1 يتسلل التاريخ إلى الجغرافيا المنبسطة على الشاشة الصغيرة أمامي على متن الطائرة التي أسرَتْ بي من برلين إلى أبو ظبي. أو لعلي أنا الذي أبلّل الخارطة الضوئية بأرقي وكوابيسي، فيستيقظ التاريخ ويهتف بالأحمر القاني، مذكّراً بجبروته. فهذه الأسماء، ذات الرنين الموسيقيّ، مثل «ماردين»، التي تقع اليوم في ...
  • Syria Media Roundup (May 9)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Syria and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Syria Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to syria@jadaliyya.com by Mond ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (May 9)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
  • Egypt Monthly Edition on Jadaliyya (April 2013)
    This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the level of critical analysis a ...
  • Expanding the Legal Paradigm for Palestine: An ...
    The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement.  Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become ...

mediagazer

  • Mark Luckie: Twitter Not Getting Into News Bus ...
    Mark Glaser / Mediashift: Mark Luckie: Twitter Not Getting Into News Business  —  Recently, Twitter posted a job for a “head of news and journalism partnerships.”  Oh my gosh!  Was Twitter going to get into the news business and start its own newsroom with ...
  • 'Fox Mole' Joe Muto on Guilty Plea, Book Deal ...
    Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter: ‘Fox Mole’ Joe Muto on Guilty Plea, Book Deal and Fox News Coverage of His Court Date  —  The ex-"O'Reilly Factor" producer, who wrote anonymous Gawker dispatches about his employer, tells THR that he applauds the network's story on ...
  • Mail Online: Big, but not valuable (Felix Salmon)
    Felix Salmon: Mail Online: Big, but not valuable  —  Back in December 2011, the Daily Mail had 45.3 million unique visitors, according to ComScore.  By March 2013, 15 months later, that number had grown to 46.4 million, again according to ComScore.  We learn the latter ...
  • Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Detail ...
    Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: Why The Onion Is Awesome for Publishing Details of Its Twitter Hack  —  The Onion, the satirical news site that that saw its Twitter account hijacked by a Syrian hacker group earlier this week, has just performed a pretty significant bit of public s ...
  • Exclusive: Clear Channel Working on Song-Swapp ...
    Glenn Peoples / Billboard: Exclusive: Clear Channel Working on Song-Swapping Technology  —  Clear Channel is working on a technology that would replace songs in streamed content with a different song while accounting for the different in song lengths, according to a patent appli ...

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

  • Get a pet, protect your heart
    Tweet Houston, May 10 (IANS) If there was any doubt about the benefits of sharing your home with a pet, here is something to mull over -- scientists claim that the presence of a pet greatly reduces the...
  • Manish Tewari hands over Phalke award to ...
    Tweet Mumbai, May 10 (IANS) Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari handed over the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, an highest honour in Indian cinema, Friday to Pran, 93, at his residence here. The legend could not make it to the 60th National Film Awards ceremony held in the...
  • Revathy's show is not similar to Bigg Bos ...
    National Award winner, actor-director Revathy hosts Malayalee House. The show, a brand new reality show, consists of 16 'residents' who live together with the main intention of creating a home...
  • Had a blast working with Rishi Kapoor: Ja ...
    All Jackie Shroff can be delighted! After his cameo in the recent hit Shootout at Wadala, Jackie aka Jaggu dada will be seen in a prominent role in Aurangzeb....
  • Scotts drops phosphorus from lawn fertili ...
    Marysville company acts to reduce risk of runoff feeding toxic-algae blooms in lakes; competitors likely to follow its lead Related Items Environment Blog State selects spots in Champaign, Delaware and Marion counties.... Other news Helpful Links Current home-delivery subscribers may add Dig ...

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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

  • 5/9/13 - 43 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - 43 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - On May 7, 2013, Oklahoma became the 13thstate (and DC) to set an exception for underage drinking when reporting a medical emergency due to underage drinking. See which states have this and other exc ...
  • 5/9/13 - 12 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 12 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills were added in Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while the bills in Florida died in committee.
  • 5/8/13 - Governments That Use ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - Governments That Use ProCon.org – The 11 international governments that have used ProCon.org include Australia, Canada, Israel, Palestinian territories, Philippines, and South Africa. Plus ProCon.org has been used by 27 US state governments and 14 US federal entities.
  • 5/7/13 - 221 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 221 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added another 26 books to the list of published texts citing ProCon.org research. Some of the authors who used ProCon.org include Mark Bittman, Newt Gingrich, Condoleezza Rice, Michael Schmoker, Tavis Smiley, and Joseph Stiglitz.
  • 5/7/13 - Rhode Island becomes 10th US state to ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Rhode Island becomes 10th US state to legalize same-sex marriage – Governor Lincoln Chafee signed the bill into law on May 2, 2013, making Rhode Island the last state in New England to allow gay marriage.  38 states have banned gay marriage, while two states have no ...

Truth About Our World

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environment 360

  • U.S. Web Tool Aims to Bolster Research on Clim ...
    The Obama Administration this week introduced an online tool to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative responses to future threats. As climate change triggers more extreme weather events and temperature shifts, it is becoming increasingly im ...
  • Third Coal Export Proposal Falls By Wayside in ...
    A large U.S. pipeline developer has dropped plans to build a $200-million coal export facility in northern Oregon, the third major terminal proposal to be shelved or canceled in the Pacific Northwest. Officials at Houston-based Kinder Morgan say the Columbia River site could not optimally accomm ...
  • How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled ...
    Along the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether this ubiquitous bivalve can be grown in urban areas as a way of cleansing coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants. BY PAUL GREENBERG
  • Declining Snow Cover Imperils Plant and Animal ...
    Declining winter and spring snow cover in parts of the Northern Hemisphere poses a growing threat to the plant and animals species that depend on the snow to survive harsh winters, a new study says. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a Shutterstock team of scie ...
  • Battery-Equipped Wind Turbine Better Integrate ...
    General Electric recently introduced a wind turbine equipped with a storage battery, creating a type of “hybrid” turbine that industry leaders hope will improve the integration of intermittent energy sources onto the grid and reduce the costs of wind power. The GE battery is able to store less t ...

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Macleans - Central

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 Montréal on 11 April to promote tar sands and closed the door to any strict greenhouse-gas ceiling. He claimed that, according to scientists, our fears regarding climate change are “exaggerated.” He refused to retract his statement the foll ...

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

  • Suffocating The Desert: L.A.’s Need for ...
    “The skin of the desert has been peeled away. It is aloft, and it chokes those of us who breathe here. Each scrape from each stray plow or dozer, each square foot of exposed lakebed with the water siphoned off, each section of desert deemed to be more useful as a blank square mile ends [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • manipulating the outcome of any poll is SOP in ...
    …it would be wise for us to contemplate these words attributed to Mark Twain … “figures don’t lie, but liars figure” … manipulating the outcome of any poll is SOP in America… Fracking poll reveals uninformed populace Other findings of the Western Energy Alliance poll showed that 87 percent of vo ...
  • apparently it just ain’t so…
    …wherever did you come away with the understanding you entitled to freedom speech … freedom action providing you did not infringe on the freedom of others … that law enforcement was answerable to you … apparently it just ain’t so…   Las Vegas Police Claim Camera-Wielding Citizens Compromisi ...
  • it’s a whopper
    …as long as you always remember the FED is a privately owned banking cartel … so whether the lie explained below is their greatest … well … it’s a whopper… The Greatest Lie the Fed Ever Told http://www.thedailybell.com/29069/Bill-Bonner-The-Greatest-Lie-the-Fed-Ever-Told  … http://www.theda ...
  • another American dogma and illusion
    …another American dogma and illusion … most all regulations were initially established and promoted by business to stop and prevent you and me from imposing authentic oversight of their activities … you really think corporate energy companies fear any government regulator or regulation…   W ...
  • and just how to you imagine this will turn out ...
    … and just how to you imagine this will turn out…? …I am sure that Az Gov Jan Brewer and her GOP minions controlling our state legislature are ready and willing to give $$$ to the counties allowing “others” to $pend our tax money when they do just a marvelous job of squandering it projects […]

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 )

  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...
  • 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 ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • 'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
    Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between the Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a dazzling ring of light.The celestial spectacle, known...
  • New system fools brain into restoring hand use
    Some stroke victims may eventually recover lost hand function thanks to smart new computer system designed to fool the brain.University of Otago information science student Simon Hoermann, working with a large Otago interdisciplinary...
  • 'Physics nerd' wins spot at Nasa camp
    A self-proclaimed "physics nerd" from Burnside High School is heading to Nasa after winning a scholarship to space camp.Tom Marsh will experience what training is like for an astronaut, including zero gravity, when he visits in...
  • 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...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk podcast with Alice, Jackie, and Randy ...
    Podcast followup to that raw milk story Randy wrote for the Vancouver Sun recently: Host Randy Shore welcomes raw milk activist Jackie Ingram and farmer Alice Jongerden of Home on the Range Dairy. Do the health benefits of raw milk outweigh … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Huge Bubble in India Home Prices Ready to Burst
    Here are some interesting charts by Deepak Shenoy on the India Housing Bubble. India HPI click on any chart for sharper image India home prices have been going up at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26% since March of 2009. Mumbai and Delhi Shenoy rep ...
  • US Crude Exports to Canada Triple; Brent WTI C ...
    Brent vs. WTI Brent Crude Oil Spot Price Brent WTI Spread Brent WTI Spread Note the drop in the spread between the US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude future and the Brent future, a benchmark price of European, African and Middle Eastern oil. The futu ...
  • Nikkei up another 3% as Yen Breaks .99; Japane ...
    The Yen continued its plunge Wednesday evening (Thursday in Japan) dipping below the .99 level after having busted the 1.00 level to the downside for the first time since April 2009. click on chart for sharper image In response, the Nikkei rose as much as 3%, now up a "modest" 37 ...
  • Currencies on the Move: Yen-USD Busts Through ...
    There are some interesting moves in the forex markets today. Most notably the Yen cracked the 1.00 barrier. Yen Daily Chart click on chart for sharper image After flirting with 1.00 for three weeks, the Yen fell through today. Is it the new Abenomicsa Bra? The Jap ...
  • Action Plan to Save Slovenia is Trifecta of S ...
    As Slovenia struggles to avoid an inevitable bailout, it pursues a plan that will instead make the size of the eventual bailout larger. Please consider the inane "Action Plan" for Eurozone Straggler Slovenia. The new government of struggling eurozone member Slovenia is expected to ann ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 9, 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 ...
  • Syria Update: The Geopolitical Double Game
    Conflicting Moves Create the Intended ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ Just a cursory review of the latest developments in Syria is enough to make anyone dizzy. Well, not everyone- not those who pay attention to the chronology of events unfolding hourly and get past the smoke and mirrors created to obscure ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    The Language of Deception Since the Boston bombings, society was promised more “security”… do you feel more secure? Since austerity and ‘structural reforms,’ people were promised economic growth and prosperity. Do you feel that you are in an economic ‘recovery ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 8, 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 EyeOpener- Who is Graham Fuller
    In the days of hysteria immediately following the Boston bombing, an unlikely media darling emerged. Ruslan Tsarni, the alleged bombers’ uncle, known to the press as “Uncle Ruslan,” gained notoriety for the ferocity with which he denounced his own nephews and their alleged Islamic radicalism. It ...

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

  • Pakistan prepares to hold key vote
    Pakistanis are preparing to go to the polls on Saturday to vote in a landmark parliamentary election amid political tensions and deadly violence in the country.
  • Kashmiris slam Israel attacks on Syria
    Hundreds of angry protesters in Indian-administered Kashmir have held rallies to condemn Israel’s recent aggression against Syria.
  • Rezaei vows to wean Iran off oil money
    Iranian presidential hopeful, Mohsen Rezaei, says he will wean the country’s economy off oil revenues and grant a greater role to people in economic management, if he wins the presidential poll.
  • France criticized over budget deficit
    The head of German central bank head has sharply criticized France for its slow efforts to reduce its budget deficit.
  • 3 killed in Pakistan poll violence
    Twin bomb attacks have claimed at least three lives in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region of North Waziristan, only a day before the country’s landmark general elections.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Helium supplies dwindle
    transcript to follow...
  • Vaccine for dust mite allergies!
    It's the dream of many allergy sufferers to have some kind of jab that would vaccinate them against the misery of their reactions. Now new research from a research team in Thailand, working with a com...
  • 3D-Print Your Way to Invisibility
    A "cloaking device", capable of rendering objects invisible to microwave light, has been produced using a standard 3D printer by scientists in America. 3D printing - or Stereolithographic polymer-bas...
  • Quickfire Science: 3D Printing
    Transcript to follow......
  • Milk Monitor Collars Spoilt Dairy
    If you've ever accidentally put spoilt milk in your tea or on your cereal you'll know it's an experience you don't want to repeat. One way to stop this culinary disaster is to have sophisticated elect...

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