Sunday, May 12, 2013

12 May- RSS SnapShot! I

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Noted Sources

Scoop - NZ

  • Google Glass: Beginning of Wearable Surveillance
    .. imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing the equivalent of a drone on their head: a device capable of capturing video and audio recordings of everything that happens around them. And imagine that these devices upload the data to large-scale commercial enterprises that a ...
  • Obama: Guantánamo 'not in our best interests'
    "The idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are. It is contrary to our interests and needs to stop," he said. "Now that is a hard case to make because I think for a lot of Americans the notion is: out of sight, out ...
  • Cultural Cleansing in Iraq
    Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-inv ...
  • The new Libor scandal.
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...
  • The Illuminati were amateurs: The new Libor sc ...
    The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics ow ...

Independent - London

  • Amelia Andersdotter: Internet copyright laws? ...
    For a self-proclaimed pirate, there’s not a lot of yo-ho-ho about Amelia Andersdotter. The youngest member of the European Parliament may be only 25 but she has serious work to do.Related StoriesAnders Breivik fails in bid to start fascist group from prison cell27% of Spaniards are out of work. ...
  • ‘I was targeted after I made Assange sex crime ...
    One of the Swedish women who accused Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes has spoken out about the ordeal she said she suffered at the hands of her alleged abuser’s mother and other supporters.Related StoriesAnders Breivik fails in bid to start fascist group from prison cell27% of Spa ...
  • 800 Otranto martyrs canonised on busy Sunday f ...
    Pope Francis created hundreds of new saints in a ceremony at the Vatican today. Related StoriesAnders Breivik fails in bid to start fascist group from prison cell27% of Spaniards are out of work. Yet in one town everyone has a jobDrugs giants used Communist East Germany for 'illegal' trials‘I wa ...
  • Rescued boy soldier is stoned to death
    A child soldier rescued from a rebel militia group in the Central African Republic by Unicef before being forcibly re-recruited has been stoned to death by a mob, it has emerged.Related StoriesDesmond Tutu’s editorial denounces the ANCProminent youth pro-democracy activist Ahmed Maher detained i ...
  • Did the NYPD's star homicide detective rig evi ...
    David Ranta spent 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.Related StoriesFormer dictator Efrain Rios Montt convicted of genocide in GuatemalaThe Ohio abductions: A decade of torment in the city of ClevelandBoston bomber's grave 'could be anti-US shrine'Man who spent years copying out ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Rapid toggling between tasks makes you dumb
    TECHNOLOGY has given us many gifts, among them dozens of new ways to grab our attention. It's hard to talk to a friend without your phone buzzing at least once. Odds are high you will check your Twitter feed or Facebook wall while reading this article. Just try to type a memo at work without hav ...
  • Man goes on bulldozer rampage
    A man in a bulldozer-like vehicle has gone on a rampage in the US state of Washington, damaging homes and cutting off electricity to thousands. Barry Alan Swegle, 51, used a bulldozer-like vehicle to damage property and an electricity pole in a dispute with neighbours. Four homes in Washin ...
  • Corexit: Deadly dispersant in oil spill cleanup
    On April 19, 2013, GAP released "Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf: Are Public Health and Environmental Tragedies the New Norm for Oil Spill Cleanups?" The report details the devastating long-term effects on human health and the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem stemming from BP and the federal government's ...
  • Using brain scanners to detect violent crimina ...
    In 1987, Adrian Raine, who describes himself as a neurocriminologist, moved from Britain to the US. His emigration was prompted by two things. The first was a sense of banging his head against a wall. Raine, who grew up in Darlington and is now a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was ...
  • UK association of psychotherapists: No scienti ...
    British Psychological Society to launch attack on rival profession, casting doubt on biomedical model of mental illness There is no scientific evidence that psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are valid or useful, according to the leading body representing Britain's ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Lumberjack Commandos . . .
    THESE FINE MEN AND WOMEN deserve better civilian management than what they've suffered in recent years. Getting rid of Stevie should go a long way towards achieving that.
  • Penny-wise . . .
    Got an appeal for money from the Oakville Ontario PC's this week, on behalf of the latest chooch to give it a try. What was interesting about it was the stamps on the envelope, two "A" postage and a surprise, a 1937 3¢ Coronation stamp. I guess two "A"s and 3¢ are what Canada ...
  • Ya gotta love it . . .
    Cartoons for the Week of April 21-27, 2013 Copyright © 2013 Universal Press Syndicate
  • The Harper Broadcasting Corporation . . .
    STEVIE IS MOVING IN ON THE CBC. According to Lauren Strapagiel at Canada.com with an article, "If Harper ran CBC programming", there is "newly tabled legislation that would give Prime Minister Stephen Harper a tighter grip on Canada’s national broadcaster". Go read the article, an ...
  • Like the Mask says . . .
    TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL! Just check out Matt Taibbi's article in Rolling Stone, "Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever". Worth your time and attention. It's all about the big banks: The world is a rigged game. We found this out in recent months, when a series of related cor ...

Media Matters for America

  • The Truth About The Right's Latest Benghazi At ...
    In coverage of a May 8 House Oversight Committee hearing, conservatives are pushing new myths about the Obama administration's response to the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Here is the truth about what really happened.Exposing The Myths Behind The Right-Wing's Trumped ...
  • Tom Pickering Has Been Shut Out Of The Benghaz ...
    Since the April release of a House Republican report on Benghazi, Tom Pickering -- co-chairman of the State Department's Accountability Review Board on the Benghazi attacks last year -- has been interviewed only twice on major news programs. Pickering Hosted Only Twice To Discuss Right-Wing Sca ...
  • Wall Street Journal 's Idiocracy: CO2 Is What ...
    The Wall Street Journal once again published an op-ed disputing climate science by authors with no peer-reviewed papers on the topic and ties to groups funded by the oil industry. The op-ed argues that we should be "clamoring for more" carbon dioxide because it is a "boon to plant life," ignorin ...
  • Right-Wing Media Push New Benghazi Myths Ahead ...
    Right-wing media are using a congressional hearing to push new myths about the Obama administration's response to the September 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, these myths are discredited by previous congressional reports and testimony, which show that ...
  • STUDY: Media Ignore Climate Context Of Midwest ...
    The Midwest has experienced near record flooding this spring, resulting in four deaths, extensive property damage, and disruptions of agriculture and transportation. Evidence suggests that manmade climate change has increased the frequency of heavy downpours, and will continue to increase floodi ...

Global Research.ca

  • Global Poverty in the late 20th Century
    The onslaught of America's war is occurring at the height of a global economic depression marked by the downfall of State institutions, mounting unemployment, the collapse in living standards in all major regions of the World, including Western Europe and North America and the outbreak of famine ...
  • Mass Poverty, Social Inequality and the Thirdw ...
    Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America’s “new growth industry.” The state of today’s America is deplorable. In his latest May 3 analysis, economist John Williams said “April “employment and unemployment data were n ...
  • “Defend Russia’s Interests” ...
    Russia’s Mediterranean task force will comprise 5-6 warships and may be enlarged to include nuclear submarines, Navy Commander Adm. Viktor Chirkov said on Sunday. “Overall, already from this year, we plan to have 5-6 warships and support vessels [in the…
  • Imperialism, The Cold War, and the Contradicti ...
    The Second World War had devastated the colonial empires of Western Europe, leaving the United States as the capitalist world’s undisputed superpower. At the same time, the war demolished the colonial system that had defined the imperialist era up until…
  • Buying Time in Syria
    The US government and its “Re-directional” middle east policy planners are buying time in Syria. The current softening of US rhetoric is merely a smokescreen to enable the US Government and its autocratic GCC (Gulf Co-Operation Council) allies to shift…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • 5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right N ...
    Each of these actions is within President Obama's power right now. If he's serious about addressing climate disruption, not one of them is optional. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If all goes well, my parents will finally get to return hom ...
  • 5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right Now
    Each of these actions is within President Obama's power right now. If he's serious about addressing climate disruption, not one of them is optional. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If all goes well, my parents will finally get to return hom ...
  • James Hansen: The One Thing We Should Be Doing ...
    The country's leading climatologist talks about what our future looks like if we continue along with business as usual -- and what we could do to prevent catastrophe. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.It’s hard to imagine anyone who has don ...
  • “Human Beings Have No Right to Water” and Othe ...
    Privatization of our natural resources is leading to the inevitable extinction of our species, and possibly all life on earth.  In the 2005 documentary, We Feed the World, then-CEO of Nestlé, the world’s largest foodstuff corporation, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, shared some o ...
  • Get Ready for Higher Prices and Less Energy Se ...
    A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.Unlimited export of U.S. natural gas would have enormous implications on the future of ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Are lax Texas regulations creating the new gho ...
    The Calhoun County Port is located an hour southeast of Victoria, Texas, and across the bay from Port Lavaca, in Point Comfort. In March, I took a trip to this port city and was astonished by some of the issues I found there. The port has submitted materials to TCEQ for operating a bulk material ...
  • Discussion of Austin Energy Governance Ordinan ...
    Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell just postponed a major agenda item (#15), regarding an un-elected board taking over Austin Energy. Numerous citizens were planning to attend the council meeting tonight to express  concerns, and had gone out of their way to arrange their schedules to be there. The ma ...
  • In aftermath of West explosion, Legislature tr ...
    Smith’s Bill – HB1714 – Makes Perry’s Texas Even More of a Paradise for Polluters and is expected to be heard in the Texas House sometime on Thursday Contact your representative (don’t know who that is . . . click here) and tell them to vote NO on HB 1714 On April 17th, an explosion [...]
  • Tomorrow, President Obama is coming to Austin ...
    Join 360.org with a message to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline RSVP on Facebook: facebook.com/events/167981560029199/ Here are the details: What: Austin Tells Obama: No KXL! When: Thursday, May 9 at 3:30pm Where: Obama will be speaking at Applied Materials at 9700 US Highway 290 East. We are going ...
  • Right-to-Know Provisions Need to be Added to C ...
    Two bills were laid out in the Senate State Affairs Committee on Monday – SB 1625 by Senator Davis (D-Fort Worth) and SB 1637 by Senator Duncan (R-Lubbock).  Senator Duncan summed up the issues before the committee. He said the key issues include: who gets notice and how; whether hearings ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Planting Seeds of Sovereignty in Palestine
    5791704940_b295a9f9a2_n.jpg When you hear “seed bank” what comes to mind? Is it perhaps a vault or a deep freezer stocked with seeds? Yes, Grassroots International partner the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ seed bank has those, but ...
  • Black Mesa Water Coalition resists coal, forge ...
    On this Earth Day, I’m inspired to share a story of the Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC). One of Grassroots International’s US allies, BMWC organizes in indigenous communities, going up against powerful corporate interests in the fossil fuel industry, and engaging in movement building toward a ...
  • Program Assistant, Part-time
    Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Program Team. The Program Assistant will provide administrative and other support to the team.  The position is part-time (20-24 hours per week) and will be based in Boston. Grassroots International ...
  • In the Crosshairs
    Subheadline:  Global Land and Water Rights Activists Face Increaced Violence mst-facing_guns.jpg Cicero Guedes, a former sugar cane cutter turned land rights activist, work ...
  • Presente! International Day of Peasants' Struggle
    32594_10151399658342756_1228163452_n.jpg On this International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, we recognize the courage, tenacity and absolute necessity of grassroots struggles across the world for rights to land, life and dignity.And we recogni ...

Climate

  • Fisheries Department Reaches Deal With Think T ...
    (Postmedia News) OTTAWA — Some federal scientists working at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans may soon gain new freedom to control their research and speak in public, under a tentative deal announced Thursday to transfer manageme ...
  • Left Wing Set to Win in Canada's BC, May Resha ...
    (Reuters) The left-leaning New Democrats are set to reshape energy policy in Canada's Pacific province of British Columbia if, as expected, they seize power from the Liberals in Tuesday's elections to the provincial legislature. Opini ...
  • Safety Honor for Marathon Canceled After Refin ...
    (AP) DETROIT — A state agency canceled a Wednesday event to honor the safety record of a Detroit oil refinery where a recent fire forced the temporary evacuation of some nearby homes. The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Admini ...
  • NYC to Begin Distributing Storm Aid This Summer
    (New York Times) The federal government has approved New York City’s plan to spend the first $1.77 billion in aid for Hurricane Sandy recovery, with the money expected to start flowing by early summer to homeowners, busi ...
  • New York Senate Fracking Backer Tied to Firm W ...
    (Bloomberg) Senator Tom Libous, a champion of fracking in the New York Legislature, is blocking a bill that would delay drilling for natural gas for at least two more years. Passage of the measure would harm the prospects of a real-est ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.

Booman Tribune

  • Growing Up in Princeton
    This generation is a little older than me. But they are prototypical Princetonians. It gives a flavor for my hometown. Discuss
  • Watch Their Heads Explode
    The Republicans' obstruction really has some interesting side effects. Eventually, President Obama will be able to boast that he presided over the biggest shift from public to private jobs in the modern era. And then there is the health care law. By starving the government of the funds needed ...
  • Open Thread
    Here is the soundtrack of my college years. Yeah, it was weird. It made total sense at the time. What music do you associate with college? Discuss
  • Taking the Skins to Court
    Here's something I had never considered. Apparently, you can't trademark something that is considered a derogatory slur. Some clever folks realized that they could use this fact to try to force the Washington Redskins to change their name. If they can get the court to agree that "Redskins" is ...
  • Casual Observation
    I think it's the paranoid people who disturb me the most. Well, actually, it's the people who feed paranoia to the paranoid that really bug me. I really don't see a lot of it as any different from a straightforward incitement to violence. And even when it is not quite that, it often acts just ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    An awesomely mixed bag of what's cool on the web, with everything from the adaptive reuse of old military bunkers, to white-knuckle team-building pursuits. Buckle up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Mental Baggage: Abandoned Suitcases From an In ...
    Having lain forgotten in an attic for years, and filled with the treasured possessions of an insane asylum’s patients, these suitcases have poignant stories to tell. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Innocent-Looking But Deadly Assassin Snail
    Find out how a 'vicious' denizen of the animal kingdom is keeping fish-tanks clear thanks to its homicidal tendencies. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    This week, a glimpse into the camouflaged world of animals, finding out why some ad men really ought to go back to the drawing board, and more! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Burning Asphalt in the Himalayas: Road Workers ...
    The Leh-Manali Highway runs through spectacular Himalayan scenery, but life is not so pretty for those who maintain this high-altitude road. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Follow Our Environmental Coverage
    Where to find continuing coverage of the environment at The Times.
  • An Addendum
    Some longtime contributors to the Green blog will now be posting to the Caucus and Bits blogs instead, and they can be followed on Twitter.
  • A Blog’s Adieu
    The New York Times is discontinuing the Green blog but plans to press on with aggressive energy and environment coverage.
  • Q and A: The Angry Economist
    Because of its natural gas boom, the United States is ahead of Europe in fixing climate change, the Oxford economist Dieter Helm argues.
  • A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park’s Margins
    A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Cubic NUWAIX: Spoiler Alert! Uncompetitive Bid ...
    HOW TO CUBIC YR APOCALYPTIC SKRILLO FLOW? uncompetitive bidding :) source- CBRNE Exercise / CMAP Support Services - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities J&A6.302-1_-_J3PBCS5990.pdf - Dec 7 2012 Quick post about how much money you can make simulating the apocalypse for the new Home ...
  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...
  • 2013: Boston, paper gold, Obama signs Stock Ac ...
    Hang tight folks, it looks like we are on the cusp of another 'burst of change' on a few fronts. You should probably double the watts going to your news radar for at least 10-14 days, if you possibly can. And all those cheesy "financial systems" are getting Extra Discontinuous as they usually do ...
  • Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of T ...
    I remember seeing Spook years ago on a rough videotape with horrible audio at the Soap Factory - shortly thereafter it was possible to obtain the DVD, based on a negative long-hidden in some film vault under a false name. Spook is one of those incredible movies - a 1973 narrative of a black CIA ...
  • FinCEN floats new Bitcoin related currency reg ...
    The FinCEN structure is one of those good at gracefully failing to say much about the huge volumes of drug money circulating in the Federal Reserve System. They are now setting their eyes on extending the Ontology of Fail into Bitcoin. Since the Cyprus looting political situation has slid forwar ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Tammy Duckworth slams military handling of sex ...
    “I want the military to be a place where women can succeed and thrive the way I was able to," Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "And the military leadership at this point has shown that they have not been capable of fixing this problem."Responding to t ...
  • Obama claims credit for 'healing' US housing m ...
    US President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 1, 2013. Obama on Saturday claimed credit for the country's improved housing market and urged the US Congress to approve a new head of an agency that oversees housing President Barack Obama on Saturday clai ...
  • Christopher Guest: “It becomes apparent in fiv ...
    Christopher Guest, the director of "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show," brings his very specific, finely crafted form of improvised comedy to television with "Family Tree" an eight-episode HBO series which begins Sunday and stars Chris O'Dowd as a man who becomes interested in investigatin ...
  • Seth Meyers named next host of NBC’s “Late Night”
    With Jimmy Fallon set to take over "The Tonight Show," NBC has tapped "Saturday Night Live" head writer Seth Meyers to host "Late Night."As reported by the New York Times:NBC made the appointment, which had been widely expected, one day before Mr. Meyers was to be introduced to advertisers at N ...
  • G7 smoothes divisions, agrees on currency policy
    US Treasury Secretary Lew Jacob, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King and (back left-right) Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney and President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi at The Group of Seven advanced economies s ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Eroding Freedom in America
      Eroding Freedom in America   by Stephen Lendman   US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now.   Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. I ...
  • Thirdworldizing America
      Thirdworldizing America   by Stephen Lendman   Center for Economic and Policy Research co-director Dean Baker calls poverty America's "new growth industry." The state of today's America is deplorable.   read more
  • Anti-Assad Rhetoric Intensifies
      Anti-Assad Rhetoric Intensifies   by Stephen Lendman   US-led anti-Assad efforts continue. Obama's going all out to topple him. He's heading America for more war.    His imperial strategy prioritizes it. Rule of law principles are discarded. Unchallenged global dominan ...
  • Malcolm Shabazz's Suspicious Death
      Malcolm Shabazz's Suspicious Death   by Stephen Lendman   On May 9, Amsterdam News (AN) headlined "Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, killed."    read more
  • Protest Kissinger Getting Intrepid Freedom Award
    Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will receive the Intrepid Freedom Award on May 23rd for his distinguished career "defending" the values of freedom and democracy. Kissinger developed the plans for millions of war deaths, millions of refugees, millions maimed. He was responsibl ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • LIVE: Verdict Expected Soon in Guatemalan Geno ...
    A verdict is expected as soon as today in the historic trial of U.S.-backed Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, the first head of state in the Americas to stand trial for genocide. He is charged with overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Mayan region after h ...
  • Addressing the Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland. The suspect, Ariel Castro, has been charged with kidnap and rape. These horrific allegations have sho ...
  • Exclusive Video Inside Cooper Union Student Oc ...
    More than 50 students, faculty and staff at The Cooper Union in New York have begun a sit-in inside the office of the school’s president, Jamshed Bharucha. Democracy Now! 's Martyna Starosta filmed students reading an open letter to Bharucha condemning his decision to end the school& ...
  • Eduardo Galeano on Writing, "Historical Amnesi ...
    Part one of this interview aired on the May 8th, 2013 program Watch part two of our conversation with the celebrated Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, author of the new book, "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." Galeano’s classic book, "Open Veins of Latin Am ...
  • Breaking News: Mississippi Supreme Court Issue ...
    The Mississippi Supreme Court has blocked the execution of Willie Jerome Manning just hours before he was scheduled to die. The court voted 8-to-1, with Justice Michael Randolph objecting. The case attracted national attention after the FBI admitted that its original analysis of the evidence ...

Solari

  • Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan H ...
      “If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.”  -Jan Erik Vold By Catherine Austin Fitts One of the advantages of serving as Assistant Secretary of Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner was that I ...
  • Rascal Flatts – “Changed”
    Related Reading: Rascal Flatts’ Official Website Rascal Flatts on Wikipedia
  • John Trudell and Bad Dog
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I will be attending a “Special Hemp History Week Concert” by artist and ally John Trudell and Bad Dog at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California on Saturday, June 8th at 7:30pm. If you don’t know John’s work, I highly recommend him to yo ...
  • Trans-Pacific Partnership
    (TPP): 17th Round of TPP Negotiations Set for Lima, Peru — May 15-24, 2013 We appreciate your interest in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The 17th round of TPP negotiations will take place in Lima, Peru from May 15-24, 2013. Continue Reading
  • Buying Local
    Click Image to See the Whole Infographic Why Buying Local is Worth Every Cent Infographic by CustomMade

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat

  • Nine Apparel Brands in Bangladesh that Operate ...
    Calls to boycott western fashion companies mounted following the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza Building that killed more than 800 people in Bangladesh, but labor activists caution that this is not the most effective solution to the problem. Instead, they    
  • Fantasy Fashion Show Takes Place Inside a Gian ...
    Communist leaders of the former Soviet Union had some wacky plans that trickled into all spheres of life - including fashion. So New York based artists Joanna Malinowka and Christian Tomaszewski from Poland designed a giant inflatable Russian space suit modeled    
  • Bower Unveils Fun & Flexible Magnetic Polaris ...
    One of the unveils at BKLYN Designs that we've been looking forward to the most is Bower's magnetic Polaris lamp, and yesterday we were able to check it out in person. The lamp is made from pieces of scrap wood that have been cut and fit to form its geometric    
  • Vote for Your Favorite Furnishings in Inhabita ...
    This week, Inhabitat's New York editors have been reporting from BKLYN Designs, a showcase of home furnishings designed and made in Brooklyn. The show is a feast for the eyes, with lots of sustainable furniture, lighting and other decorative wares to choose    
  • More than 1 Million People Sign Petitions Call ...
    As the death toll Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh surpasses 1,100, people around the world are calling on the fashion industry to prevent a similar tragedy from occurring  More than 1 million people have signed petitions calling for brands    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • The Post-1979 "Asian Peace" & Economic Miracle ...
    Newsweek Japan asked me to write an introductory essay for a special issue on tension in Northeast Asia. Basically I plea not to throw out all the remarkable growth of the last 35 years in an orgy of nationalism. It’s almost certain that the post-79 Asian peace was a necessary condition for simu ...
  • Depopulation
    Josh Keating and Edmund Hugh ask some intriguing questions about national depopulation: But Hugh’s question is an interesting one to consider. I suspect that even in the bleakest, Children of Men-style population scenarios, most countries would fight to the bitter end before surrendering t ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Syrian Air Defenses? Dr ...
    Olga Khazan, “Interview: NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Syria and Soft Power,” The Atlantic, May 9, 2013. But one strike is a very different proposition than launching a big campaign. The benefit of surprise and stealth and a single-point strike may or may not tell us a good deal about Syrian ...
  • Europe's Defense Double Dutch
    On this anniversary of the 1940 Nazi invasion of the Low Countries it is perhaps appropriate to consider the state of Europe’s defense. Two events highlighted the essential contradiction between resources and commitments that bedevils European defense.  On 29 April the French published their fir ...
  • The Treacherous Road to Pakistan's Historic El ...
    Pakistan's upcoming elections on May 11 provoke both fear and hope. The last time Pakistan held a reasonably free and fair election, in 1970, the country ended up splitting into two, as Bangladesh emerged out of the ruins of a horrible civil war that led to Indian military intervention. This tim ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Bad Heritage
    When Jim DeMint left the Senate to assume command of the Heritage Foundation, some people questioned the wisdom of the move. Not from DeMint's perspective—after all, instead of being a staunchly conservative member of the minority party with a staff of a few dozen whose job was to throw rhetori ...
  • They Know What You're Doing
    The big social media sites all recommend people they think you should add to your network. In most cases, it's pretty obvious, at least on the surface, how the recommendation algorithm works; Twitter offers you a few people it suggests you follow, and says they're followed by people you already ...
  • The Most Viable Way to Give a Boost to Low-Inc ...
    In 2011, Jacob Hacker wrote a ground-breaking paper in which he coined the phrase predistribution. Under Hacker's definition, predistribution refers to measures governments take to reduce or eliminate inequality in market incomes. This differs from redistribution, which Hacker uses to mean meas ...
  • Notes on a Pseudo-Scandal
    OK folks, if you have the patience for some meta-blogging on the subject of Benghazi, let me share with you some of the thoughts that have been running around my head as I struggle with how to talk about this story. Whenever a topic like this comes up, you have to ask yourself a couple of quest ...
  • The Military Can't Handle the Truth
    Flickr/West Point Public Affairs The real scandal this week around military sexual violence isn’t the release of the latest in a string of Department of Defense (DOD) reports showing stunning levels of sexual assault—hell, even the DOD estimates 26,000 actual incidents compared with th ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Man Slain After Firing on Ohio Police Carried ...
    Authorities in Ohio say they aren’t sure what motivated a 42-year-old man to jump out of his car during a traffic stop in March and suddenly fire 37 rounds at two police officers. What seems clear, however, is the case is yet another example of the danger posed to unsuspecting officers who confr ...
  • Co-Author of New Immigration Study Says Latino ...
    Jason Richwine, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, is attracting attention because of a recently released anti-immigration study that is garnering criticism from fellow conservatives, including U.S. Rep. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and anti-tax warrior Grov ...
  • Reported Minnesota Militia Member Arrested in ...
    A 24-year-old Minnesota man with ties to an antigovernment militia group is under arrest for what now appears to be a plot to bomb a local police department. Buford “Bucky” Rogers, of Montevideo, Minn., only has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, but other federal charge ...
  • WND and Glenn Beck Want YOU to Build an Untrac ...
    We live in frightening times. In Boston, a college student who appears to have been radicalized online may face lethal injection for his alleged role in a terrorist attack that left four people dead and more than 260 wounded. Just a few months ago, in Connecticut, a young man killed 20 young chi ...
  • Religious Right Hurls False Accusations at SPLC
    They just can’t stop lying. They claim to represent Christianity and the celestial love for mankind that Christ embodied, but when it comes to whomever they regard as their enemies here on planet Earth, the crudest of libels will do. The latest example of the religious right’s endless series of ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Vermont House Passes GE Food Labeling Bill
    In a major victory for the food movement and consumer advocates, the Vermont House has voted 107-37 in support of legislation that would require foods that are genetically engineered (GE) to be labeled. This is the first-ever State House to pass a bill that would require that all GE foods to be ...
  • Vermont House Passes GE Food Labeling Bill
    In a major victory for the food movement and consumer advocates, the Vermont House has voted 107-37 in support of legislation that would require foods that are genetically engineered (GE) to be labeled. This is the first-ever State House to pass a bill that would require that all GE foods to be ...
  • Feds Finally Examining Impacts of Oil Industry ...
    The federal agency that oversees offshore drilling is finally going to analyze the effects that intense, underwater seismic blasts have on whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. In a notice published today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it will evaluate the effects of ...
  • Feds Finally Examining Impacts of Oil Industry ...
    The federal agency that oversees offshore drilling is finally going to analyze the effects that intense, underwater seismic blasts have on whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico. In a notice published today, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced that it will evaluate the effects of ...
  • Congressional Briefing Urges Obama to Use His ...
    Today, as the majority of men detained at Guantánamo enter their fourth month on hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights participated in a congressional briefing on Guantánamo titled, “From Crisis to Solution.”read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Occupy Mother's Day
    Marie Myung-Ok Lee Mother-daughter protesters in Madrid Photo by Cesar Manso/AFP/GettyImagesread more
  • Will Pakistan Finally Stand Up Against Illegal ...
    Clive Stafford Smith Pakistani student raises a placard against drone attacks during a PTI rally in Karachi. Drone attacks are highly unpopular in Pakistan where the government condemns them as a violation of the country’s sovereignty. REUT ...
  • Ronald Reagan: Accessory to Genocide
    Robert Parry The conviction of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide against Mayan villagers in the 1980s has a special meaning for Americans who idolize Ronald Reagan. It means that their hero was an accessory ...
  • Koalas: The Canary in Australia's Coal Mine?
    Suzanne York The news of late out of Australia has not been the most encouraging.  read more
  • Liz McAlister’s Fearsome Mom-ness
    Frida Berrigan Liz McAlister holds onto a banner with her teeth while being arrested at the White House in 1979. (Elmer Maas Plowshares Collection) My mom is fearless. No, really, I mean it. When my brother and I were little, we got our bik ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Parts of UK Coal may be nationalised after col ...
    Ministers discuss returning parts of UK Coal to public ownership in attempt to save retirement savings for 6,000 membersTroubled parts of UK Coal, Britain's largest coal mining business, could return to public ownership under plans being discussed by ministers that would protect some or all of t ...
  • EU referendum: cabinet crisis for David Camero ...
    Michael Gove and Philip Hammond say they would vote to leave European UnionDavid Cameron is struggling to maintain Tory discipline over Europe after cabinet loyalists Michael Gove and Philip Hammond said on Sunday that they would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum were to be held n ...
  • Israel grounds drone fleet after plane brought ...
    Military investigating problem with Israeli-made high-altitude surveillance aircraft that led to 'intentional crash'Israel's military has grounded a fleet of high-altitude surveillance drones after one brought down over the Mediterranean sea.The military says it intentionally crashed the unmanne ...
  • Nawaz Sharif 'ready to hit ground running' as ...
    Next prime minister set to push through plans to curb power of generals, bolster economy and improve relations with IndiaThe full scale of Nawaz Sharif's thumping victory in Pakistan's general election became clear on Sunday, making it far more likely the country's next prime minister will be ab ...
  • UK's top companies condemned for prolific use ...
    • Only two of FTSE 100 have no subsidiaries in havens • Big four banks and Tesco among biggest users • ActionAid findings described as shaming by Lib Dem peerThe UK's 100 biggest public companies are running more than 8,000 subsidiaries or joint ventures in onshore and offshore tax havens, acco ...

McClatchey

  • 100th Tibetan self-immolation reported in a pr ...
    An account released on Wednesday of an ethnic Tibetan man in western China lighting himself on fire earlier this month, calling for the long life of the Dalai Lama before…Click to Continue »
  • Agencies warn Congress not to use humanitarian ...
    Humanitarian groups are lobbying hard against a proposal by several U.S. senators that would turn over the delivery of millions of dollars in U.S. aid to a Syrian opposition council…Click to Continue »
  • Democrats offer long-shot bill to meet Obama&# ...
    Democrats in Congress wasted no time in taking up President Barack Obama?s challenge Tuesday night that lawmakers take a "market-based" approach to addressing climate change, even if their effort has…Click to Continue »
  • Panetta: Congress hurting itself and U.S. imag ...
    The world is nervously watching a dysfunctional Congress and wondering ?whether or not we can rise to the challenges? that face the United States, outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta…Click to Continue »
  • GOP’s complaints about looming spending ...
    Republicans forced the budget crisis that helped create the pending across-the-board cuts in the first place. And Republicans provided crucial votes for the 2011 deal that ended that impasse, an…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan accuses Iran of holding 21 labourers
    migrant Afghan workers following a border shooting incident during the weekend and has filed a formal complaint to Tehran, an official said Sunday. According to local accounts, Iranian border guards opened fire on the Afghan labourers on Friday as they tried to cross the boundary illegally looki ...
  • Pakistan elections Imran Khan faces ultimate t ...
    Islamabad: In perhaps the most dramatic outcome of Pakistan's elections, Imran Khan's party has won power in the northwest, putting to the ultimate test the former cricket star's anti-US rhetoric and calls for peace talks with the Taliban.After years of war, displacement and broke ...
  • Taliban take 9 hostages including Americans
    After a civilian helicopter performed an emergency landing in eastern Logar province overnight and nine people aboard reportedly went missing, Taliban militants have claimed to have taken hostages the missing people. Zabihullah Mujahid, who claimed to speak for the Taliban outfit, claimed respo ...
  • Afghan prosecutor killed in bombing
    A district prosecutor in Afghanistan was killed in a bomb blast Sunday in the southern province of Helmand, a government spokesman said. Marja district prosecutor Mohammad Lal Hakimi was travelling to office around 7 a.m., when his car was struck by a roadside bomb, spokesman Omar Zhwak told Xin ...
  • Top U.S. Diplomat Says Afghan Forces Taking Se ...
    Deputy Secretary of State William Burns says the United States expects that Afghan forces will lead all combat operations in Afghanistan before the end of this year. Speaking May 11 on a visit to Kabul, Burns said Afghan forces are already in the lead in 90 percent of all combat operations ag ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Bill to Extend Whistleblower Protections to Of ...
    On Apr 18, 2013, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introduced bill to extend whistleblower protections to offshore oil and gas workers. Currently there is no federal law that protects oil and gas workers if they are retaliated against after they blow the whistle on workplace health and safety viola ...
  • Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor Nominee ...
    On April 24, Senate Democrats delayed a confirmation vote on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez. Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. Read more. Senate Republicans have crit ...
  • NWC Files Another Brief Urging the MSPB to Ret ...
    On April 12, 2013, the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of King v. Department of the Air Force. At issue is whether the provision of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (“WPEA” ...
  • TSA Whistleblower Robert MacLean Wins Appeal
     Today the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in MacLean v. Department of Homeland Security.  In 2003, Robert MacLean blew the whistle on the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Agency’s (TSA) plan to remove U.S. air marshals fr ...
  • Proposed Rule Would Increase Rewards to Medica ...
    On April 24, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced a proposed rule that would increase rewards paid to Medicare beneficiaries and others whose tips about suspected fraud lead to the successful recovery of funds to as high as $9.9 million. Over the last three year ...

TechDirt

  • Dennis Yang's Favorite Posts of the Week
    Hello Techdirt! I'm Dennis Yang. I was one of the original folks that helped Mike get Techdirt started way back when. Now, I'm working on something a little bit different called Bureau of Trade, which, despite its official-sounding name, has actually nothing to do with anything remotely governme ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Time To Rethink Your Keyring
    I've joked before about how Kickstarter seems to have a new type of wallet launched every other day or so, but it also seems to be trying to offer a reinvention for the other thing most people keep in their pockets: their keys. Here are three projects involving rethinking your keyring. First ...
  • 10 Judges, 135 Pages Of Ruling About Software ...
    Okay, we know that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has quite the reputation for mucking up rulings concerning patents over the years. In fact, there's a strong argument to be made that CAFC is a key reason that our patent system is so screwed up today. So, leave it to CAFC ...
  • Judge Not Impressed By Rakofsky v. The Interne ...
    Two years ago, we wrote about the case dubbed Rakofsky v. the Internet. The details are too numerous to go into, so I suggest reading that post, but the very short summary is that Joseph Rakofsky, a recent graduate of Touro law school, somehow got himself onto a case defending someone accused o ...
  • China's State-Run TV Uses Daily Show Clip To D ...
    By now we should all be aware that in many arenas the United States and China are engaged in a giant political pissing match. Everyone by now is also aware of how afraid the Chinese government is of their citizens getting their hands on any information or news that the government hasn't scrubbed ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Well, hello there. I took a lovely break from reading the news (see pic). But I suppose it is time to start figuring out what is going on in the world and whatnot. Feel free to share any interesting things in the comments. Did you know that The World Is Marching Towards Anarchy? Of course, [...]
  • In Memoriam to My Youth
    Happy birthday to me. As today I am forty years old. How the fuck did that happen? To distract myself from thinking about careening down that hill, I decided I should try to come up with a list of good things about being forty. Feel free to chime in with more – but only if you [...]
  • Yo Anarchists, Meet the Pastoralists
    I don’t know about you, but I know nothing about pastoralism. A few days ago, I had a chance to listen to Lalji Desai, a pastoralist from India. The whole time I was listening I kept thinking how much pastoralist ideology and culture reflects the kinds of values and goals that anarchists a ...
  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • New York Times Pakistan bureau chief expelled ...
    The Guardian reports: The New York Times’ Pakistan bureau chief has been expelled from the country, on the eve of the national election. The paper said Pakistan’s Interior Ministry had not explained why it ordered Declan Walsh out of the country. Police officers delivered the interio ...
  • Voting in Pakistan
    Basharat Peer writes: [O]n Saturday, Pakistan was overwhelmed by an enthusiastic outpouring of voters across classes and ethnicities. Some waited for hours to get into the polling booths. Some walked miles, in temperatures ranging from a hundred to a hundred and ten degrees Farenheit. Some had f ...
  • Two last-minute candidates stir up Iran presid ...
    The Los Angeles Times reports: The run-up to Iran’s June presidential election took a dramatic turn Saturday with last-minute candidacy announcements by two controversial political figures: former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, top aide to outgoing incu ...
  • Music: Michel Petrucciani — ‘100 Hearts’
  • Human activity pushes atmospheric carbon dioxi ...
    LiveScience reports: The proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere broke 400 parts per million Thursday, according to one of the best climate records available. The Keeling Curve, a daily record of atmospheric carbon dioxide, has been running continuously since March 1958, when a carbon dio ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Is this what the beginning of glaciation looks ...
    While ice fishing is still going on in some parts of Minnesota, other parts are having what looks like glacier advance in the back yards that is damaging some homes. As for climate change worries, you can always figure out … Continue reading →
  • Still waiting for spring in Minnesota
    Guest post by A. Scott Even though we all know “weather is not “climate,” that rarely stops CAGW’s fiercest proponents, so we might as well have a little fun with it as well. This weekend is the 2013 Minnesota State … Continue reading →
  • The 400 PPM FUD Factory: T-shirts now available
    Steve Milloy at JunkScience points out what is above the fold in the NYT today – FUD Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt Here’s his scan of the front page at right: Readers may recall my post What 400 ppm of CO2 in … Continue reading →
  • IPCC’s AR5 Frankenscience – bringi ...
    Josh writes: Steve McIntyre has a hilarious post on the desperate measures needed to get some non peer reviewed papers into the IPCC’s AR5. I am not sure where the phrase ‘Frankenscience’ comes from but it seems appropriate for AR5 which … Continue reading →
  • A step in the right direction? Major shift in ...
    Story submitted by D.McNeil I’d like to bring some points to the attention of your readers that were raised in an article in the Independent published on 11th May 2013  It would appear to indicate a major shift in the … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • The Neurobiology of Individuality
    When a group of genetically identical mice lived in the same complex enclosure for 3 months, individuals that explored the environment more broadly grew more new neurons than less adventurous mice, according to a study published today (May 9) in Science. This link between exploratory behavior an ...
  • Two-year-old girl receives new trachea made fr ...
    Doctors announced today that two-and-a-half year old Hannah Warren just became the youngest person in history to receive a bioengineered organ transplant, a new windpipe made of a synthetic scaffold and her own stem cells. The nine-hour long procedure was performed April 9th, at Children’s ...
  • A Sleep Gene Has A Surprising Role In Migraines
    Mutations on a single gene appear to increase the risk for both an unusual sleep disorder and migraines, a team reports in Science Translational Medicine. The finding could help explain the links between sleep problems and migraines. It also should make it easier to find new drugs to treat migra ...
  • Injectable Oxygen Keeps People Alive Without B ...
    Scientists have made a breakthrough that could save patient’s lives and open up the possibilities for underwater exploration. A team at Boston Children’s Hospital have invented a micro-particle that can be injected into your bloodstream to oxygenate your blood – without any help being requ ...
  • Injectable Nano-Network Controls Blood Sugar i ...
    In a promising development for diabetes treatment, researchers have developed a network of nanoscale particles that can be injected into the body and release insulin when blood-sugar levels rise, maintaining normal blood sugar levels for more than a week in animal-based laboratory tests. The wor ...

CFACT

  • Rich Greens killing jobs for ordinary Americans
    The American economy has some basic problems. We need more well-paid jobs, increased revenue, and our trade balance is out of whack. Each of these issues could be easily addressed, but environmentalists are doing everything they can to kill potential solutions.
  • Environmental groups blocking renewable energy ...
    Everyone knows that environmental groups oppose the construction of coal and nuclear plants – but do they also oppose wind and solar projects as well? The surprising answer is “yes." [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5120.mp3]
  • Free market energy policies can end economic m ...
    America does not need “comprehensive” energy policies devised and dictated by Washington. It needs policies that unlock our creative genius and allow free enterprise and private sector innovators to operate on a level playing field – one that applies the same reasonable, responsible environmenta ...
  • How ethanol programs cause 200,000 deaths each ...
    The EPA claims that ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has only a minimal impact on food prices. But Sam Kazman, general counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, disagrees. . . [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/256/5119.mp3]
  • Tier 3 rules are unnecessary, costly
    Tier 3 improvements would reduce monthly ozone levels by barely 0.5 part per billion (average levels) to 1.2 ppb (peak levels), ENVIRON International estimates, using EPA models. That’s equivalent to 5 to 12 cents out of $100 million! These reductions could not even have been measured by equipm ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Activism in the spaces in between
    It can be difficult to write about activism in an open-ended effort like the one against fracking. It isn’t like a campaign where everything is geared toward election day, at which point everyone will know who won and who lost. It’s different even from an issue like the Keystone XL ...
  • Proof of life
    I got really, really sick in the middle of last week. The worst of it passed pretty quickly but I haven’t been up for thinking many deep thoughts this week. Back next week!
  • The incomplete logic of gold investors
    Economics is a closed system; internally it is perfectly logical, operating according to a consistent set of principles. Unfortunately, the same could be said of psychosis. What’s more, once having entered the closed system of the economist, you, like the psychotic, may have a hard time ...
  • Troika's plan for Cyprus: destroy the village ...
    The economic crisis in Cyprus began with a depressingly familiar story: bank gambles on risky debt, loses its bet, goes bust and needs a bailout. It very quickly took what was to me1 a bewildering turn: Instead of a central bank cranking up the money printing machines until smoke billowed from ...
  • Most recent vintage of eulogies for rock music ...
    I’m a big rock music fan, so a couple recent articles on it have stuck with me. The first was from a couple weeks ago, and for the life of me I can’t track it down now. The gist of it was that the era of great guitarists is passing. The most celebrated are all old in rock and roll ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Hidden Power Grab Stops Communities From Decid ...
    Increasingly states are quashing the power of local governments--and thwarting innovation Click here to read this article
  • Goodbye Nuclear Power: Germany's Renewable Ene ...
    The country has vowed to unplug itself from nuclear power and embrace renewables. The world should be paying attention Click here to read this article
  • USDA Says More Review Needed for New Monsanto, ...
    The Department of Agriculture said Friday it will extend its scrutiny of controversial proposed biotech crops developed by Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical, and Monsanto Co. after receiving an onslaught of opposition to the companies' plans. Click here to read this article
  • Greenhouse Gas Milestone; CO2 Levels Set Record
    WASHINGTON - Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.Click here to read this article
  • Energy Efficiency in the Food Sector: Processi ...
    This is part 4 of our serialization of Chapter 4 (Energy) from the latest Resilience guide, "Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable & Secure Food Systems". This excerpt focuses on strategies for reducing the energy footprint of processing food. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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My Care2 Picks

  • The Greatest Fight of Our Lives
    Teachers know how to assess teachers assessing is NOT an option in this brave new world. Our knowledge must become obsolete in order to profit off of public education. . Our knowledge of how to support learners must be erased in the global economy Submitted by John Farnham to Society & ...
  • How to escape education's death valley
    Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. He champions a radical rethink of school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence Submitted by John Farnham to Society &am ...
  • The most astounding fact about the universe
    The video contains breathtaking images of space with musical accompaniment by the Cinematic Orchestra. It was edited and posted by Max Schlickenmeyer in early 2012 Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How to Close Guantanamo
    When I have something I want to get rid of, I put it in a box and set it out by the rubbish bins. Just abandon Guantanamo. Inform the Cubans, of course. They can come by the next morning, open up the cages and let everybody go free if they want to. Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat   ...
  • The BP Cover-Up
    Deepwater Horizon is different from any other spill in human history. The extreme technology used to drill at unprecedented depths lacks the extreme safety equipment and protocols needed to stave off disaster. No one is ready for it. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |    ...

Angry Indian News

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    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Things That GMO Companies Say (Parody)
    GMO truth in comedic form.
  • 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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • North Korea slams US aircraft carrier's arrival
    ShareThisNorth Korea slams US aircraft carrier's arrival --North Korea calls arrival of the fleet 'a grave military provocation' 12 May 2013 North Korea has criticised the arrival of the US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South for a joint drill as an "extremely reckless" provocation and a re ...
  • Break-in thwarted at Peach Bottom Atomic Power ...
    ShareThisBreak-in thwarted at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station - Police 10 May 2013 Security officers at Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station chased two would-be burglars who were breaking into a storage trailer there early Thursday morning. At the Lay Road plant in Peach Bottom Township, at ap ...
  • Utility investigating vibrations that caused s ...
    ShareThisUtility investigating vibrations that caused shutdown of nuclear reactor 11 May 2013 Dominion Virginia Power had a crew of about 20 working Friday to determine what caused the shutdown of its North Anna power facility's Unit 2 nuclear reactor earlier in the day. The utility was in the ...
  • Sharif declares victory for Pakistan Muslim Le ...
    ShareThisSharif declares victory for Pakistan Muslim League-N in election 11 May 2013 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) has won Saturday's parliamentary election. "Results are still coming in, but this much is confirmed: we're the single la ...
  • I.R.S. Apologizes to Conservative Groups Over ...
    ShareThisI.R.S. Apologizes to Conservative Groups Over Application Audits 11 May 2013 The Internal Revenue Service apologized to Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations on Friday for what it now says were overzealous audits of their applications for tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Confidenti​al Case-files of GlaxoSmit ...
      The Vaccine Industry measures human life in terms of the percentages of profits to be gained. They achieve this end by routinely skewing preliminary vaccine trial data; subsequently burying or denying reports of vaccine-derived neurological trauma & neuro-developmental disorders affil ...
  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...
  • Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10
    07 May 2013 From: Center on National Security at Forham Law Crisis at Guantanamo: Will the Prison Ever Close? Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the pr ...
  • Important 60 Minutes Piece for TBI patients
    06 May 2013 Veterans and their families need to watch this. Thank you to the numerous vets who sent the link. I just sent a thanks to David Martin at 60 Minutes. Mr. Arnold Fisher deserves a standing ovation and eternal gratitude for his efforts and inspiration. http://www.cbsnews.com/video ...
  • Fraud Surrounding MIA Green Beret John Hartley ...
    06 May 2013 Many people contacted me in regard to a documentary movie about an American Green Beret, missing some 44 years.  They wanted to know if this story is true. Unfortunately, this is another fraud, shamelessly pulling on the heartstrings of the many good people who want it to be t ...
  • US Border Security - Immigratio​n, Crime, and ...
    19 April 2013 Written by: General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) Below is both the Statememt for the Record and the PDF presentation from General Barry McCaffrey, USA (Ret.)   Click the icon to the left to Download and view the above document. Click the icon to the left to Download ...

The Killing Train

  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more
  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...
  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Bob Marley-“War” This week we have Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician Bob Marley’s War for the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol pick. War was a song recorded and made popular by Bob Marley. The song is credited to Alan “Skill” Cole for the idea and late Wailers’ drummer ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 28
    “Gitmo, Syria, and Beyond” with Eugene Puryear This week, Eric sits down with activist and organizer Eugene Puryear to discuss a number of important issues. First, Eric and Eugene discuss the ongoing hunger strike at the Guantanamo concentration camp and the continued use of torture by the US au ...
  • 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 ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Advanced Israeli Drone Hijacked by Iran or Hez ...
    A highly-placed Israeli source elaborates on a partially truthful Ynetnews report that Israel destroyed an advanced Shoval (“Heron”) drone that was on a mission over the sea between Tel Aviv and Netanya. Israel did indeed destroy the drone, one of the most advanced in its fleet. Here ...
  • Tear Down This Wall, Mr. Netanyahu
    Bibi Netanyahu is visiting China where he’s negotiated trade deals, lobbied unsuccessfully for a tougher Chinese diplomatic stance against Iran, and likely cooked up some secret arms deals with the Chinese military. But one of the oddest of his public appearances was at the Great Wall, whe ...
  • Ben Zygier Compromised Major Mossad Operation ...
    Trevor Borman produced a second installment of his TV documentary on Prisoner X aka Ben Zygier.  Borman was the first journalist to expose the real identity of Prisoner X three months ago.  Now, he has produced yet another astonishing segment in this scandalous story.  The Australian journalist ...
  • Hebrew University’s “Monstrous Carbuncle” on J ...
    Haaretz yesterday reported that the Hebrew University, the prime minister’s office, and the city of Jerusalem have announced a grandiose architectural plan to build a 25-story building in the shape of a golden helmet on the top of Mt. Scopus.  The new building will be dedicated to the lega ...
  • Second Israeli Attack in Days Targets Syrian M ...
    Israeli and U.S. media confirm that Israel launched its second attack on Syrian military targets in three days.  Haaretz says that both attacks were against Iranian Fateh-100 series surface-to-surface missiles and destined for its Hezbollah allies.  Israel calls these weapons a “game chang ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Why Big City #OpenGov Solutions Don't Always W ...
    I work for a civic technology startup in San Francisco, but I'm a small-town native who works daily with small to midsized communities. As such, when I read or hear about the latest "answer" to civic problems, created by a team of geniuses and piloted in one of the largest cities in the country, ...
  • How Washington D.C.'s Laws Were Set Free for W ...
    On Greater Greater Washington, Tom MacWright recently wrote a blog entry highlighting the problems of access to the Washington, D.C. Code. There is, first, a legal obstacle: Washington D.C. claims copyright over their laws, which is to say that it is illegal to reproduce them without permission ...
  • 'Detritivore' Design: How to Use Trash to Crea ...
    Detritivores are creatures that consume decaying matter. Detritivore designs use abundant waste products to make scalable technology solutions. Unlike loftier concepts of zero-waste design such as Cradle to Cradle, Detritivore design accepts that the world is already loaded with discarded and ...
  • How a Computer Can Organize Thousands of Docum ...
    Before computers, all document-driven stories started with a big stack of paper. Often, the first task was to organize all that paper, by sorting individual documents into piles by type. This gives journalists a high-level idea of "what's in there" and helps them decide what to read more closely ...
  • Behavio Updates the Funf Open-Source Project
    The Behavio team is very happy to announce a major version update to Funf, our open-source mobile sensing framework, accompanied by respective updates to Funf's two user-facing components (Funf Journal and Funf In A Box). In the time since our last major version update (Funf 0.3) last year, w ...

Cutting Edge News

  • South Africa on Edge - South Africa’s Black ...
    The size of South Africa’s black middle class has more than doubled in less than a decade, according to a new study from the University of Cape Town.  This emerging class is a boon to the growing economy, but members of this up-and-coming group say many challenges remain.The Unilever Inst ...
  • The New Pakistan - Pakistan's 'Third Gender' C ...
    Pakistan's parliamentary elections will announce the arrival of a new voting bloc when the country's much-maligned transgender community heads to the polls for the first time. Following their official "third gender" classification handed down by the Supreme Court in 2011, members of the communit ...
  • Benghazigate - Issa Intends to Depose Official ...
    House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to take sworn deposition from the officials behind a State Department board which reviewed the Benghazi attack.Issa said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he planned to request a deposition from former Ambassador Thomas Pickering and ...
  • Obama's Second Term - 2014 a Repeat of 2010
    If the mere idea of ObamaCare fueled an historic GOP victory in 2010, just wait until reality sets in next year. That year, Democrats in swing districts were swept from office, so those who kept their jobs are running as fast and as far from the reform law as they can this year. Not only did Sen ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Iran Getting Closer to Military ...
    In April, Iran celebrated its National Nuclear Day just after the failed second round of nuclear talks with the 5+1 group in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The talks’ failure again revealed the dead-end reached by the present Iranian-Western nuclear negotiations channel. It also once again demonstrated t ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Speech Obama Should Give On Keystone XL B ...
    Bill Henderson writes a speech for Obama
  • The Downwinders : Fracking Ourselves To Deat ...
    Now, a new generation of downwinders is getting sick as an emerging industry pushes the next wonder technology -- in this case, high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Whether they live in Texas, Colorado, or Pennsylvania, their symptoms are the same: rashes, nosebleeds, severe headaches, difficulty b ...
  • Boston, Brazil And Islam: Irrational Rhetoric, ...
    The official purpose of Hagel’s recent visit to Israel was to finalize US arms sales to Israel and other countries which total about $10 billion. Knowing how such weapons have been used in the past, one can hardly appreciate the ‘sarcasm’ in Eric Rush’s tweet of wanting to ‘kill them all.’ Per t ...
  • From Lidice To Deir Yassin: The Unbearable Sha ...
    The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis respectively. Significantly, on moral grounds, they serve to demonstrate that profound human lessons o ...
  • Postcard From The End Of America : San Jose B ...
    Each of my visit to San Jose is a kind of homecoming, for my father, brother and, uh, absolutely composed, considerate and non-screaming stepmother are still here, and have lived here for decades. Though I have no sentimental attachment to this place, I also don't hate it. Personal crap can be t ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Why Benghazi Is So Incredibly Important
    By Barry Rubin There is something terribly and tragically and importantly symbolic about the Benghazi attack that may be lost in the tidal wave of details about what happened on September 11, 2012, in an incident where four American officials were murdered in a terrorist attack. This poin ...
  • IRS VS.Conservatives UPDATE: IRS Has a Disastr ...
     Scroll down for Update There is that old line about paranoia..sometimes they really are after you. Such is the case with the IRS who in a just released story by the Associated Press admits to targeting conservative organizations' tax exempt status during the 2012 Presidential elec ...
  • Protesting The Koch Brothers--Good To Hear The ...
    Boy oh boy those progressives sure like to throw away money, but sometimes its really nice to see them wasting their money instead of the tax payers hard earned cash. Specifically two progressive groups (Courage Campaign Institute and Forecast the Facts) will be running ads on the Web s ...
  • Democratic Party In Decline? (So Says Long-Tim ...
    David Sosnik, who was Bill Clinton's political director wrote a 12-page memo obtained by Politico (embedded below) warning that the party was in decline, Barack Obama is losing his power and the party may face more problems when Obama is out of the White House “Since Obama was elected Pres ...
  • OBAMA LIED: Benghazi "Talking Ponts" Were Edit ...
    This may shock so many people reading this but apparently the Obama administration has been lying about those now infamous talking points used by UN Ambassador Susan Rice to talk about the Benghazi terror attack on Sunday a.m. news shows. Jonathan Karl of ABC News has obtained 12 different ve ...

Wind Watch

  • Companies won’t face charges in condor d ...
    Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors. In a decision swiftly condemned by conservationists and wildlife advocates, the U.S. Fish and Wil ...
  • At Lowell, Sheffield: DPS commissioner concern ...
    The Vermont Department of Public Service is collecting and investigating noise complaints caused by the three large wind projects in Vermont. DPS Commissioner Chris Recchia said Thursday that the amount and nature of the complaints warrant the investigation to see if the noise is creating a publ ...
  • Falmouth board labels turbines a ‘nuisan ...
    FALMOUTH — The zoning board of appeals declared two town-owned wind turbines a nuisance in a 4-1 vote Thursday night. The decision overturned Building Commissioner Eladio Gore’s determination that noise from the turbines did not constitute a nuisance. Turbine abutter Neil Andersen, of 211 ...
  • Renewables plans violate convention, claim pro ...
    Anti-turbine protesters from Scotland last night joined a European-wide action challenging the development of wind farms across 24 countries. In a case brought at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, EPAW (the European Platform Against Windfarms) argues that the extension of the EC’s ren ...
  • Audubon Society appeals wind farm permit
    BISBEE — Arizona Audubon is appealing a recent decision made by the Cochise County Planning and Zoning Commission on the approval of a special use permit for a wind power generation farm between Willcox and Cascabel. On April 10, the planning commission members heard the request of Red Horse 2, ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...
  • Teaching Web video: Everything you need to kno ...
    In non-TV news organizations today, we see mostly one of two choices for video (or both of these): iPhone (more than any other phone or small device) DSLR (various models) All the smaller video cams seem to have fallen out of favor. Only TV and feature-length documentary makers use high-end ...
  • Code for journalism students: Presentations
    In the semester now ending, I taught a course in coding for journalism students. You can see the detailed course schedule online. Here are all the PowerPoints I showed in that class. You can view them on SlideShare or download them there. Beginning jQuery – Part 1 – Part 2 Intro ...
  • Top 10 posts this month
    These are the most-viewed posts on this blog in the past 30 days: 10 examples of bespoke article design and scrolling goodness 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling Advice to journalism students: Forget grad school! Recording phone interviews: A solution that works Get started with Web coding. ...
  • Journalism curriculum, and the hands-in-the-ai ...
    It’s hard work making sure a journalism curriculum remains relevant. Here are “four essential components to the new curriculum for teaching news and communication,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute and co-author of The Elements of ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Sequestering our mothers
    The automatic federal budget cuts known as the sequester will have a severe effect on programs serving women in general and mothers in particular -- especially those living in the South. With Mother's Day approaching, we take a by-the-numbers look. read more
  • Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal
    Activists hauled polluted water from Appalachia to Washington, D.C. this week to draw attention to the plight of communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. The action comes as legislation was reintroduced in Congress to protect coalfield waterways. read more
  • 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
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.

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Ian Welsh

  • Closing Guantanamo
    1) Close it. 2) Send most of the prisoners to US ultramax prisons. e) No longer together, break their solidarity and thus resistance. 4) No longer at “Guantanamo” and with “Guantanamo” closed, break the media narrative. Anyone who thinks Obama cares about force feeding pr ...
  • Closing Guantanamo
    1) Close it. 2) Send most of the prisoners to US ultramax prisons. e) No longer together, break their solidarity and thus resistance. 4) No longer at “Guantanamo” and with “Guantanamo” closed, break the media narrative. Anyone who thinks Obama cares about force feeding pr ...
  • Listen to my interview with Jay Ackroyd
    We covered the surveillance state, police incompetence, the reasons for the “shelter in place” order in Boston, and so on.
  • Listen to my interview with Jay Ackroyd
    We covered the surveillance state, police incompetence, the reasons for the “shelter in place” order in Boston, and so on.
  • Speaking with Jay Ackroyd on the Security Stat ...
    We’ll touch on the surveillance state, Boston, Dorner, and the oligarchy.  Feel free to listen in.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will c ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and worl ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Guatemala’s Rios Montt guilty of genocide
    CNN – Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was found guilty of the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans during his 1982-83 rule. A three-judge panel issued the verdict Friday, one day after the conclusion of the trial. The court sentenced Rios Montt, 86, to 80 years i ...
  • US government orders removal of Defcad 3D-gun ...
    BBC – The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. Read article
  • North Korea sets out jailed American’s & ...
    BBC – North Korea has released details of the alleged crimes of a US man it sentenced to 15 years of hard labour. Read article
  • Israelis march against austerity measures
    Aljazeera – About 2,000 Israelis have marched in central Tel Aviv to protest against an expected austerity budget, police have said. The protesters rallied on Saturday against proposed income tax and VAT rises and government spending cuts due for cabinet debate on Monday. They directed the ...
  • Bulgarians head to the polls amid political sc ...
    DW – Polls have opened in Bulgaria two days after officials allegedly found 350,000 false ballots. The parliamentary election, which is not expected to deliver any one party a majority, has begun under scrutiny. Voters are heading to the polls in Bulgaria, bringing an end to a parliamentar ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Margaret's News

  • Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
    arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
  • "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
    Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
    uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
    Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
  • Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
    Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security
    Shams 1 uses 258,048 parabolic mirrors to collect sunlight and concentrate it onto oil that flows through a tubing at the center of the curved mirrors. This heated oil makes its way into a h ...
  • Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emer ...
    If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled so ...
  • New crowdsourcing platform gives hope to small ...
    Less than 24 hours after launching its online marketplace, Mosaic raised $313,000 to power read more
  • “Black hole for light” drastically improves ef ...
    Researchers at Princeton University led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou, have developed what is being called a “nanostructure sandwich” to trap light and improve the efficiency of organic solar cells by 175%. A layer of metal mesh ...
  • India’s solar mission, phase 2
    An Indian worker cleans solar arrays during the inauguration of a one-megawatt solar photovoltaic power plant near Gandhinagar, in 2011. The ground-mount photovoltaic power plant is the firs ...

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Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Well Done Piece by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
    “There Is A Conspiracy” by Chuck Baldwin, May 9, 2013   “There Is A Conspiracy” By Chuck Baldwin May 9, 2013   This column is archived here. The title of today’s column, “There Is A Conspiracy,” is a direct quote from Ezekiel 22:25. In this passage, God instructed Ezekiel to blow the w ...
  • Mammonism (aka Mormonism) Exposed by Two Hones ...
    This is a re-posting from the public blog of a man named Christoper Ralph – who loves TRUTH, HONOR, and EXCELLENCE more than Mammon.  I met Grant Palmer over a decade ago, and shared with him my research on Joseph Smith’s “Mentor” – Luman Walters.   Grant Palmer is ...
  • What Steven “Spell-Berg” Didn&#821 ...
    Abraham Lincoln and the Rothschilds   The Real Cause of the Civil War By  Rev. Charles E. Coughlin   Civil War Was Not Fought Over Slavery, But Financial Freedom (This article was originally published in the Feb. 12 and Feb. 19th, 1940 issues of Social Justice)   TEXTBOOKS that have been ca ...
  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...
  • Tales from the Crypt – Twilight Saga and ...
    Her name is Stephanie Meyer, author of the best-selling “Twilight” vampire and werewolf romanticism novels par extraordinaire.   Although her “religion” is Mormon and she was educated at Mormon-owned BYU, Meyer’s “bloodline” is Yiddish, originating in Ea ...

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Scotts Contracting

  • Flat Roof Remodel Stage2 Benton Rehab
    Scotts Contracting Green Team celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project.  Replacing the water damaged roof on the Benton Warehouse. We celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project. Photos of Day 1: Prepped ceiling for removal of old damaged lumber a ...
  • Flat Roof Remodel Stage2 Benton Rehab
    Scotts Contracting Green Team celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project.  Replacing the water damaged roof on the Benton Warehouse.   We celebrated Earth Day 2013 by starting Stage 2 Benton Rehab Project. Photos of Day 1: Prepped ceiling for removal of old damaged l ...
  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Pt1 Spray Foam Insulation-St Louis Brick Buildings
    Cost Effective:Energy Conservation for StLouis Brick Buildings As a provider for Free Green Estimates and Advice in regard to Green Building for St Louis Homes.  I get many requests for my opinion on various construction related home and business requests for: improvements, retrofits, rehabbing ...
  • Do you know a Mother that has lost a child in ...
    No parent should EVER be forced to walk this lifetime journey alone! If you would like to join our special group, please contact us at angelmomsoverstlouis@yahoo.com or at the Facebook Links below We are: ” Angel Mom’s Surviving Together ”  ♥♥♥♥ Loss of a Child-No parent should ...

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Iranian.com

  • Iranian dissident and French lawmakers urge ne ...
    French lawmakers invited the head of a previously shunned Iranian dissident group to parliament on Wednesday, aiming to help it gain credibility as a viable opposition to Tehran's government. read more
  • زهر مار ایرانی برای نجات سربازان آمریکایی
    در راهنمای پزشکی فرماندهی مرکزی نیروهای آمریکا در افغانستان تاکید شده است که پادزهر تولید شده در انستیتو رازی تهران، بهترین دارو برای مقابله با نیش مارهای کبرا و انواع دیگر مارهای سمی و خطرناک آسیای میانه است که در افغانستان به فراوانی وجود دارند.
  • نسرین ستوده اعتصاب غذای خود را شکست
    ه گزارش رسیده به کلمه، متعاقب دیدار رضا خندان همسر این زندانی سیاسی و گروهی از فعالان زنان با برخی از نمایندگان و پیگیری های محمدرضا تابش و ابوترابی فرد و مذاکره آنها با رییس مجلس و قوه قضاییه و با برداشتن محدودیت های قضایی از مهراوه خندان، دختر نسرین ستوده، وی به اعتصاب غذای خود پایان داد.read more
  • Iran’s Claim of Drone Capture Is Denied by U.S.
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  • Significant Changes Made to Parchin High Explo ...
    The latest image from DigitalGlobe clearly showing the new blue roofing of the two major buildings, new equipment and materials and the rows of earth piles. Numerous cars present at the site suggest a considerable level of activity at the site.

Most Revolutionary Act

  • You Stuck What Where Now?
        John Stewart's hilarious take on the Monsanto Protection Act, introduced as an amendment to the most recent continuing budget resolution (which keeps the federal government going until September). The amendment allows Monsanto to bypass judicial scrutiny, granting them virtua ...
  • Why Chechnya?
    Below is an excellent 60 minute interview with FBI translator and whistle blower Sibel Edmonds. In it she provides extensive background on the cold war CIA/NATO Gladio Operation, which apparently never ended in Turkey and the Caucasus. This background is essential in understanding how the C ...
  • China Moves Against the Dollar
    The following video by Storm Clouds Gathering provides an excellent summary of continuing Chinese efforts to chip away at the US dollar. These include a recent trade agreement between China and Australia to use the yuan and Australian dollar – rather than the US dollar – in bil ...
  • 29% Believe Revolution May Be Necessary
    A recent study from Farleigh Dickinson University reveals that 29% of Americans believe an armed revolution may be necessary in the next few years to “protect liberties.” 18% of Democratic respondents shared this view, 27% of Independents and 44% of Republicans. The study, which i ...
  • Bolivia Expels USAID
    According to Reuters, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales celebrated International Workers Day (May 1) by expelling the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Mr Morales accused the agency of seeking to “conspire against” the Bolivian people and his government. Mora ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Republic Windows Workers Seen in 'Capitalism: ...
    Grand Opening of Worker-Owned Window Factory Former Republic Window and Door Union Workers Launch New Era Windows Cooperative   Press Contact:  Leah Fried, United Electrical Workers (UE) 773-550-3022, leahfried@gmail.com  Brendan Martin, The Working World 646-286-0846, ...
  • Michigan Families to Rally for Sensible Gun La ...
    CONTACT:   Linda K. Brundage, Moms Demand Action MidMichigan/Lansing Chapter; (517) 337-3024 or Momsdemandaction.mimidlansing@gmail.com Kim Russell, National Director of Communications, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America; (917) 226-4420 or krussell@momsdemandaction.org ADVISO ...
  • Roger Ebert and 'Roger & Me'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I had shown a cut of [Roger & Me] to three film festival selection committees — Telluride, Toronto, and New York. They all liked it and accepted it to be shown at each of their festivals in September 1989. I h ...
  • 'Roger' makes its point with humor
    Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times September 5, 1989 When Flint, Mich., was named by Money magazine in 1988 (it bounced from No. 300 to No. 299 in the latest poll) as the worst place in America to live, some of the local citizens were so upset they held a rally and burned the magazine. But not lo ...
  • Talking Points for Gun Violence Conversations ...
    *Murder has been around since Cain and Abel. We will never eliminate all murder, but we can DRASTICALLY reduce it (as they have in almost every other First World democracy) by passing some very simple laws: An assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity ammo magazines, background checks on every ...

Salon

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,91 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, beli ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Estimate for Williston Basin Oil Resources is ...
    Last week the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided an update of oil and gas resources in the Bakken region. This was their first update since a 2008 report that estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil and 1.85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
  • The Key to Running the World on Solar and Wind ...
    Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete ...
  • Test Your International Oil IQ
    In last week’s column, we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of Wor ...
  • Test Your Oil IQ
    As a result of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) revolution, US oil and natural gas production have been rising for several years. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), US oil production has risen by 27% over the past 5 years. In reviewing the data for individual states, I ...
  • Ethanol Lobby Agitates for E15 Mandate
    History of U.S. Ethanol Policy In 1978 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a gasohol waiver that set the maximum legal limit of ethanol in motor gasoline at 10 percent denatured anhydrous ethanol. 27 years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 created a Renewable Fuel S ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • 10 Best Augmented Reality Apps
    Tags: Augmentedreality, apps, TechApnaby: Dean Mantz
  • BiblioNasium
    Comments:Create your own classroom reading community – Kids Share Book Recommendations. Use Online Reading Logs, Find Books At Their Reading Level - Lauri BradyTags: reading, social media, collaborationby: Lauri Brady
  • Save Webpages as PDF in Safari on iPad without ...
    Tags: pdf, ipad, webpages, mlearning, safari, elearningby: Dean Mantz
  • Shotcut
    Comments:This new discovery of an open source, cross platform video editor looks promosing.  There is a learning curve with it but a possible option for projects that need time at school and home. - Dean MantzTags: shotcut, videoediting, multiplatformby: Dean Mantz
  • MapStory : Welcome!
    Comments:This is an interesting approach to visualize information while trying to tell it in a story format.  - Dean MantzTags: maps, storytelling, visualization, MapStory, data, tools, geographyby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • Why You Should Never Drink from a Garden Hose
    Summertime is just around the corner, which means days outside gardening, running through the sprinkler, and a nice cold drink of water from…not your garden hose. At least, not unless you want to choke down a cocktail of heavy metals and plasticizers, according to new testing from from HealthyS ...
  • The Risky Chemical Lurking in Every Room of Yo ...
    Antibacterial products for the home that contain triclosan have never been proved to be effective, and there's evidence to suggest they could actually be harming your family, according to a growing number of public health organizations and scientific studies. While the Food and Drug Administra ...
  • Protect Your Cat from High-Rise Syndrome
    Sometimes your cat's instincts could work against him, particularly this time of year. All across the country, warmer months become prime time for high-rise syndrome, a term veterinarians use to describe the trend of pets—usually cats—falling from open high-rise windows, fire escapes, or balcon ...
  • 6 Tick Myths, Debunked
    Ticks are gross and they're dangerous. Thanks to climate change and years of suburban sprawl, tick populations are booming—as are myths about whether they can make you sick, where they like to live, and how to get rid of them. "It turns out that a lot of what people know about ticks has b ...
  • 5 Reasons to Smile about Your Food
    The food industry hides some pretty unappetizing secrets. From pink slime and pesticides to food dyes and contaminants, the news about food can seem negative and overwhelming at times. The food system is far from perfect, but we want you to know there's a lot to smile about, too. Here are some ...

big think

  • Why I Became a Believer in Artificial Intelligence
    I’ve been asked periodically for a couple of decades whether I think artificial intelligence is possible.  And I taught the artificial intelligence course at Columbia University.  I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of intelligence.  It’s a subjective word.  I’ve always been very skeptica ...
  • Why People Abandon Morality in Market Transactions
    What's the Latest Development? When people participate in market transactions, their moral standards fall substantially, supporting behavior they claim to oppose, such as child labor, workforce exploitation, or meat production involving cruelty to animals. In an experiment, several hundr ...
  • When Helping Too Much Has Harmful Results
    What's the Latest Development? We all want to help our friends and loved ones but sociologists have found that helping too much—substituting our efforts for the efforts of those we're trying to help—tends to blunt their chance of success. In general, say experts, the more involved parent ...
  • Environmentalism is not a Luxury
    It’s funny that people think about how celebrities deal with environment as a luxury.  Actually, the environment is the most simple thing that anybody could think of.  This is where we live. This is what we breathe.  But we have to push people around us to do the right thing.   So I don’ ...
  • Today We Have a Renaissance in Theoretical Phy ...
    It’s a great time to go into theoretical physics.  We’ve just passed through a period which was not such a good time to be a theoretical physicist in which we had several decades in which theory got way ahead of experiment.  And it took experiment a while to catch up.   Now that we have ...

Information Liberation

  • Minnesota Cops Mace & Tazer High School Student
    In his quest to gain compliance from a high school student, a Minnesota cop felt it proper to mace a student in the face. As the cop moves in to attempt to take the wincing student down, the student shoves the cop to the ground, a second cop respo...
  • Cops Tells Woman In Her Own Home: ID Yourself ...
    A Texas cop ordered a woman to ID herself at her own door, then entered her home without a warrant because she failed to ID herself. While police are defending the officer's actions, a legal expert says no such legal obligation exists. Via KHOU:...
  • NYPD Sergeant Says 'Guilty Until Proven Innoce ...
    We've been dealing with the New York police department lately, thanks to the mayor and the police chief using the recent Boston bombing as an excuse to increase surveillance efforts and enact other policies to further encroach on New Yorkers' civil l...
  • This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
    Something is still rotten along Utah's Wasatch Front, a DC cop gets popped for money-laundering, a Detroit-area cop pleads to running protection for traffickers, and a South Texas cop heads for prison for shipping guns to Mexico. Let's get to it: ...
  • Brazilian police helicopter sprays suspected d ...
    A shocking video of Rio de Janeiro police in a helicopter firing on a moving car in a populous slum has sparked a probe. Footage emerged of the high-octane chase a year after it happened, raising concerns over the excessive use of police force....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →
  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Bogan Pride
    What on God’s green earth were her minders thinking? Gillard’s five-day foray into Sydney’s West, hanging out at the Rooty Hill RSL no less, was as pathetic an attempt to re-connect with Labor’s working-class origins as it was hopeless. The … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A design for life
    As the average age of the population goes up with people surviving many years more than their allegorical three score years and ten, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia will rise too. Many people can suffer symptoms for many years and yet live independen ...
  • How did feathers evolve?
    Carl Zimmer offered some insights at TED-Ed into how dinosaurs got their plumage and evolved into the flying birds, excellent birds, we see today. This is witty animation plucks up the courage to fill in the gaps. On an entirely unrelated note, I wrote a song about flight, which you can hear on ...
  • Win #DeceivedWisdom in our 10k competition
    My publisher just added up all the sales of my book Deceived Wisdom including hardback sales since November, Kindle and ePub downloads and the Audible editions. The grand total so far…drum roll please…is 10,000 copies, which ain’t bad for a popular science book (although it was ...
  • We’ve got a lot of grounds to cover
    Next time you’re sipping on your skinny, frothy mochachocafrappalatteccino with maple syrup and cinnamon at the local Costabucksorthree coffee shop and surfing on their EasyHack(TM) wireless internet spare a thought for the grounds. The burnt out and scalded fragments of beans gone by that ...
  • Pale Blue Dot
    The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (launched 1977) when it reached 6 billion kilometres (3.7 billion miles) from Earth in 1990. In the photograph, Earth is shown as a tiny dot (0.12 pixel in size) against the vastness of space. Th ...

RFF Library

  • Options in Recycling Revenues Generated throug ...
    International Council on Mining and Metals http://theenergycollective.com/davidhone/222636/collecting-and-spending-carbon-revenue …A new report out recently from the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) provides a detailed look at the current revenue recycling practices around ...
  • MATCH: Metadata Access Tool for Climate and H ...
    United States Global Change Research Program http://match.globalchange.gov/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page [Yale Environment 360] The Obama Administration this week introduced an online tool to improve research into the link between climate change and human health and promote innovative respons ...
  • Superfund: EPA Should Take Steps to Improve It ...
    Government Accountability Office http://gao.gov/products/GAO-13-252 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) most commonly addresses the cleanup of sites it has identified as eligible for the National Priorities List (NPL) by deferring oversight of the cleanup to approaches outside of the Super ...
  • The Conservation Economy in America: Direct In ...
    Southwick Associates for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation http://bit.ly/16mieAO [America's Voice for Conservation, Recreation and Preservation]  An April 2013 study by Southwick Associates, “The Conservation Economy in America: Direct investments and economic contributions” reports that ...
  • Green Economy and Trade: Trends, Challenges an ...
    United Nations Environment Programme http://unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/GETReport/pdf/FullReport.pdf [From Press Release] …At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) held in June 2012, governments agreed to the outcome document The Future We Want, which makes ...

Scientific American - News

  • Birds of Burden: 7 Ways Humans Harness Avian A ...
    Many of the 10,000 or so bird species on the planet are pretty, melodic or tasty. But birds are much more than that. Over the centuries, humankind has come up with some distinctive and surprising ways to take advantage of the unique abilities of our feathered friends. At various points in the hi ...
  • Cutting Down Amazon for Agriculture Could Cut ...
    LONDON – Researchers see no winners if agriculture made possible by widespread felling in the Amazon continues to expand. [More]
  • Earth and Moon Got Water from Common Source
    Measurements of the chemical composition of Moon rocks suggest that Earth was born with its water already present, rather than having the precious liquid delivered several hundred million years later by comets or asteroids. And in finding a common origin for the water on Earth and the Moon, the ...
  • Produce Industry s Food Safety Push Takes Toll ...
    Clean greens are healthy greens. [More]
  • Pear-Shaped Nucleus Boosts Search for Alternat ...
    A lopsided atomic nucleus may help to refine nuclear theory. The stubby pear shape, described today in Nature , may also be pointing towards new tests of particle physics that could reveal why matter became more common than antimatter in the early moments of the Universe . [More] ...

First Truths

  • The Anarchist Lineage
     Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

  • Book Review: America's Deadliest Export - Demo ...
    America's Deadliest Export - Democracy By William Blum 270 pages Alright, let's get this straight. William Blum is one bad-assed, living, breathing, encyclopedia of US military and clandestine incursions the world over. He knows th ...
  • Scenes from Sourifest'13. Montreal May 11, 2013
    SOURIFEST '13 - L'AUTO-SOURICIÈRE DU PEUPLE. Place des Festivals. Montréal 11 mai, 2013.
  • Vancouver March for Social Housing: May 11, 2013
      Text from The Social Housing Coalition website: Hundreds of people in nearly two-dozen different communities have been rallying every Saturday for months to STAND for social housing and to end homelessness in BC. The targe ...
  • Spartacus is Being Evicted!
    The Spartacus Books collective has been incredibly supportive of the Vancouver Media Co-op, providing meeting space and more. Read their statement, and make sure to check out the last section about how to support their move. Solidarity! Spartacus Books is being evicted! Here's what some ...
  • Rising Tide: Building Resistance Tour – Unist’ ...
    On day four of the Building Resistance tour, we traveled from S ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • The military sexual abuse scandal
    David Seaton's News LinksIt would seem to me that the current, quite justified uproar about sexual violence in the US armed forces sheds a very bright light on the cognitive dissonance produced by America's view of itself as a democratic, enlightened and inclusive society that serves as a model ...
  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...
  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium
  • Boston and the dilemma of "homegrown" terrorism
    David Seaton's News LinksAs the Spanish and British can attest since the Madrid and London attacks of 2004 and 2005, homegrown terrorism is tougher to anticipate than plots from outside. Edward Luce - Financial TimesThe word "homegrown" is not really applicable to Islamic terrorism. Islam even i ...
  • The bombs and bombers of Boston
    David Seaton's News LinksFederal investigators are hurrying to review a visit that one of the suspected bombers made to Chechnya and Dagestan, predominantly Muslim republics in the north Caucasus region of Russia. Both have active militant separatist movements. Members of Congress expressed conc ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Bonus Mother's Day Cat Blogging
    Happy Mother's Day! What better way to celebrate than to post a picture of my mother's cats? These are the two sibs, Tillamook and Ditto, claiming dibs on my mother's favorite chair. Because, after all, Mother's Day goes just so far, right?
  • Benghazi Talking Points: "A Bureaucratic Knife ...
    Earlier today, my basic take on the Benghazi talking points was that they exposed some "unseemly bureaucratic squabbling combined with the usual mushiness that you get when an interagency process produces a series of drafts of sensitive information for public consumption." Glenn Kessler has mo ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 10 May 2013
    As you can see, Domino is quite enjoying our 400 ppm world. She was rolling around in the sunshine yesterday while Marian pulled a few weeds, and then a dog walked by. This very much got her attention. She's OK with 400 ppm, but not so much with dogs. Need more cats? Or, more accurately, do ...
  • Yesterday Was 400 ppm Day
    Well, we finally did it. We hit a new carbon dioxide milestone yesterday: Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts t ...
  • Chart of the Day: Student Loan Debt Crowding O ...
    A new report from the New York Fed describes a disturbing trend: student loan debt has increased so much that it's crowding out the ability of college graduates to buy homes. As the chart on the right shows, young workers with student loan debt—most of whom are college grads—used t ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 394: Fuck Your Religion
    Rod from ‘The Black Guy Who Tips’ joins us Stereotyping tall people Fuck your religion Who decides which interpretation is correct? MPAA ratings for porn Torturing people works Gun control 30 comic book movies worse than Iron Man 2 Share with your friends:
  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...
  • IC 390: Bitter Bitch Nigga Music
    Bachelor life Bad food tastes so good Context matters The real problem with Rick Ross’ rape lyrics Why Eminem’s music might be offensive but not like Rick Ross’ Art can be offensive but not the cause of society’s problems Obama’s Kamala Harris comment’s weren& ...

Simple Climate

  • Arctic mission recovers record of surprising w ...
    The longest continuous Arctic land sediment core shows that the last time CO2 levels reached current levels, over 2.6 million years ago, North-East Russia was taken was 8°C warmer.
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...
  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.
  • The climate scientist whose world spun on thro ...
    Milutin Milanković calculated his way through imprisonment and bombings to show how Earth’s movement helped drive ice ages, revealing how far we’ve strayed from the path we should be following into the next global freeze.

e!Science News

  • A cautionary tale on genome-sequencing diagnos ...
    Children born with rare, inherited conditions known as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, or CDG, have mutations in one of the many enzymes the body uses to decorate its proteins and cells with sugars. Properly diagnosing a child with CDG and pinpointing the exact sugar gene that's mutated c ...
  • Sacred lotus genome sequence enlightens scientists
    The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a symbol of spiritual purity and longevity. Its seeds can survive up to 1,300 years, its petals and leaves repel grime and water, and its flowers generate heat to attract pollinators. read more
  • CU study suggests link between tumor suppresso ...
    A particular tumor suppressor gene that fights cancer cells does more than clamp down on unabated cell division -- the hallmark of the disease -- it also can help make cells more fit by allowing them to fend off stress, says a University of Colorado Boulder study. read more
  • Flawed diamonds promise sensory perfection
    From brain to heart to stomach, the bodies of humans and animals generate weak magnetic fields that a supersensitive detector could use to pinpoint illnesses, trace drugs -- and maybe even read minds. Sensors no bigger than a thumbnail could map gas deposits underground, analyze chemicals, and p ...
  • Markets erode moral values
    Many people express objections against child labor, exploitation of the workforce or meat production involving cruelty against animals. At the same time, however, people ignore their own moral standards when acting as market participants, searching for the cheapest electronics, fashion or food. ...

unEarthed

  • Drillers Make a Play for Thompson Divide
    Richly forested lands in W. Colorado could become industrial zone The Thompson Divide is clearly a keystone of the region, the state and the West.  (EcoFlight) ...
  • Raw Sewage and a Raw Deal in Rochelle, GA
    When the town's toilets flush, guess what ends up in African-American yards Nine residents of Rochelle, GA are suing their city government for discharging the city's raw sewage onto th ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Danger in the Schoolyard
    Toxic coal ash found on school paths in Florida Truckloads of the coal ash product EZBase were delivered to one Florida homeowner's property.  (Clean Water Action) ...
  • Goldman Prize Winners: Making a Difference
    Three stories from around the world The 2013 Goldman Prize recipients.  (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize) It is easy sometimes to feel like t ...
  • Driller Seeks to Overturn Roan Plateau Victory
    Natural riches at stake in Colorado plateau area The Roan Plateau has been ranked as one of the four most biologically rich areas in Colorado.  (Michael Freeman) ...

Brave New Climate

  • 100 Per Cent Renewables Study Needs a Makeover
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...
  • Worrying about global tipping points distracts ...
    In a paper published last week in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, I (Barry Brook) and my colleagues argue against the idea of an ecological global-scale “tipping point”. Here, I outline the paper’s core argument, while Professor Corey Bradshaw (not an author on the study) explains what it means ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
  • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
  • Woodward Trying To Make Nice
    Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...
  • Ann Romney Happy To Blame Media Bias
    It appears that Ann Romney thinks the media was biased during the campaign, and treated President Obama better than her husband. Here is a transcript from a Fox Lies interview: “Do you think the media was in the tank for Barack Obama?” the Fox News host wondered. Ann’s response: “Anytime y ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
  • Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

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  • IDF: ‘Forbidden zone’ in Gaza thre ...
    The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories has clarified that the “forbidden” buffer zone in Gaza strip stretches 300 meters from the fence (the Israeli border), and not 100 meters as it previously announced. Civilians who enter the area risk being shot by the army. ...
  • Lapid’s plan to tax fruits and vegetable ...
    If passed as is, Finance Minister Lapid’s new budget would increase the price of produce by 18 percent. VAT and sales taxes on produce are rare in the Western world because they disproportionately harm the poorest and weakest segments of society, which is exactly what Lapid’s proposa ...
  • Masses demonstrate against austerity measures ...
    Over 12,000 Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities to protest against proposed tax hikes and spending cuts in the state’s new budget. But will the latest iteration of Israel’s social justice protest movement continue? The anger in the streets Saturday may be an ind ...
  • An organic intellectual and social justice pio ...
    A profile of one of the most influential people in the struggle for social justice in Israel. Although he was kept out of academia, perhaps it was for the better. Who knows how much we would have lost had he wasted his days trying to sneak an article into the American Journal of Sociology. By [...]
  • An organic intellectual and social justice pio ...
    A profile of one of the most influential people in the struggle for social justice in Israel. Although he was kept out of academia, perhaps it was for the better. Who knows how much we would have lost had he wasted his days trying to sneak an article into the American Journal of Sociology. By [...]

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Sir Richard Branson Launches Australian Govern ...
    Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke today joined Sir Richard Branson to launch the Australian Government's oceans video celebrating the creation of the world's largest network of Marine Parks.
  • Government welcomes first Sustainable Australi ...
    The City of Unley will save up to 98 million litres of drinkable water per year and have more secure, safe and sustainable water supply for the local community, thanks to an Australian Government funded stormwater harvesting project launched today.
  • $2.5m boost to the City of Unley's water security
    The City of Unley will save up to 98 million litres of drinkable water per year and have more secure, safe and sustainable water supply for the local community, thanks to an Australian Government funded stormwater harvesting project launched today.
  • Working together to protect the Daintree
    Environment Minister Tony Burke today joined traditional owners at Queensland's Cape Tribulation to dedicate 70,000 hectares of Australia's famous Wet Tropics rainforest as the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Indigenous Protected Area.
  • Public consultation on regulation amendments t ...
    Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten and Water Minister Tony Burke today invited public comment on a draft amendment to the Corporations Regulations 2001.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Hydrocodone and Oxycontin- Drug Deaths Spirali ...
    Talk to cops anywhere in this country and they’ll tell you that pharmaceutical drugs are causing more problems and more deaths than crack and heroin  combined ever did. A picture I came across a few days ago go me wondering… WHERE DO PHARMACEUTICAL OPIATES COME FROM? Turns out all th ...
  • Palm Beach Post: Scott Should Veto Foreclosure ...
    Apparently, it’s not just me that’s screaming about the sick political reality in Florida….newspapers are doing their job and actually reporting what’s occurring.  Here’s from Palm Beach Post: The Legislature finally has passed a bill to ease Florida’s foreclosure c ...
  • Attorney General Pam Bondi Asserts Banks Are N ...
    Okay, the following is just a delusion.  The citizens of the State of Florida are not represented by elected officials that serve the public interest.  Instead, we have an installed corporately-controlled oligarchy who believes the primary function of state government is not to protect the publi ...
  • MUST WATCH- DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART! (The ...
        The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Tweet this!Scridb filter
  • The Foreclosure Review Fiasco- A Bizarre Chara ...
    LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW HERE On the broadcast a week or two ago we had a clip of Elizabeth Warren, from the first set of hearings on the Independent Foreclosure Review, browbeating the representative of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve about their apparentRea ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
  • Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
    Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →
  • Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Moha ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 26th, 2012 Contact:         Ali Issa, 718.310.9968, ali@warresisters .org, New York City, U.S.A. Asma Mohammed, 012-680-9980 – Suez, Egypt Egyptian Revolutionary Labor Leader, Asma Mohammed, Who Said No to Tear Gas, to be honored with War Resisters … Continue ...
  • Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
    by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • When the ice age starts…….
    Probably the first indications that an ice age has begun will be with long winters - not necessarily the coldest - with late springs and cool summers. The key factor will be that snow from one winter remains and does not melt till the next winter brings more snow. It will therfore be successions ...
  • Shamans versus the witch-doctors: psychologist ...
    This conjures up images of a pitched battle between shamans and witch-doctors. I distinguish between shamans who rely on various secret "medicines" to cure while the witch-doctors are engaged in secret rites to free the patients from the witches who are haunting them. I suppose in this analogy t ...
  • How much of “social-priming” psych ...
    There is a whole industry of social psychologists specialising in - and getting funded for - studying "social priming". The more astonishing or contra-intuitive the result the more attention, the more publicity and the more funding the researcher gets. But it seems that many (maybe most) of thes ...
  • We were lowly scavengers long before we became ...
    There is no perceived nobility or honor in scavenging. It is the image of the hyena versus that of the lion. But long before we became hunter-gatherers we were scroungers and scavengers. New archaeological findings indicates that we were hunter-scavengers some 2 million years ago. And we were sc ...
  • We were lowly scavengers long before we became ...
    There is no perceived nobility or honor in scavenging. It is the image of the hyena versus that of the lion. But long before we became hunter-gatherers we were scroungers and scavengers. New archaeological findings indicates that we were hunter-scavengers some 2 million years ago. And we were sc ...

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Man Who Exercised 1st Amendment Rights By Stri ...
    Remember the man who stripped down to his birthday suit at an Oregon airport to express his First Amendment rights? We know we sure do. And while a judge said that act was totally protected by the Constitution, he’s still got a pesky $1,000 fine from the Transportation Security Administrat ...
  • How Much Does A Free Pair Of Gloves Cost? 60 Cents
    Walgreens, it’s great that you’re trying to encourage sales of your “Nice!” house brand by giving away free coordinating stuff with, say, a bottle of dish soap. It’s the part where you’re underestimating their intelligence that’s kind of bad. For example ...
  • Dear Movie Theater Owners: Please Don’t ...
    Before last summer’s horrific fatal shootings at The Dark Knight Rises screening in Colorado, hiring costumed “gunmen” to walk into a crowded movie theater as a marketing stunt would have merely been a bad idea that might have made the local news. Post-Aurora, it’s the ki ...
  • Marijuana Vending Machine Looks Like A DVD Dis ...
    We first heard from the makers of one of the world’s first marijuana vending machines, Medbox, back in January. Back then we could only imagine what such a thing could look like, how it would work or what exactly, it would hold. And now due to the ever-churning news cycle, we’re gett ...
  • Baker’s Chocolate Shrink Rays Package Fr ...
    Julia was baking from scratch with her kids, and she dispatched them to the store to buy a glorious quantity of chocolate. Two boxes of Baker’s unsweetened chocolate. You know, sixteen ounces. The kids came back with two boxes of chocolate, but only eight ounces total. Julia reports that ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblowers in the Spotlight: Daily Whistle ...
    AccountingWEB: Whistleblowing Reaches Center Stage During the past couple of years in the United States and United Kingdom, whistleblowing and whistleblower rights have been more widely recognized as the important facets of society that they are. This article cites progress within the federal ...
  • "US Warns Industry of Heightened Risk of Cyber ...
    The Washington Post reports on sky-is-falling government warning of impending cyberattacks: The U.S. government on Thursday warned of a heightened risk of a cyberattack that could disrupt the control systems of U.S. companies providing critical services such as electricity and water. No do ...
  • Diplomat Claims Retaliation: Daily Whistleblow ...
    New York Times: Diplomat Says Questions Over Benghazi Led to DemotionFormer US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens A 22-year foreign-service officer who served in Libya at the time of the terrorist attack in Benghazi – that killed four Americans including Ambassador J. Christopher Steve ...
  • Obama Fight for 'Sensitive' Jobs Continues: Da ...
    Politico: Obama Stands Firm in ‘Sensitive’ Jobs Fight The Obama administration continues its attempt to make thousands of federal workers’ jobs ‘national security sensitive.’ The demarcation would remove certain civil liberty rights from federal employees, disabling them from claiming retaliat ...
  • British Ambulance Delays Cause Deaths: Daily W ...
    BBC: Paramedic – Ambulance Delays ‘Causing Harm and Deaths’ Ambulance service in the East of England (EEAS) is deathly slow, according to a paramedic whistleblower. Due to lack of funding, ambulances undergo severe delays, lack personnel and even run out of gas as the few paramedics on staff st ...

UK Progressive

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