Sunday, May 12, 2013

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JoNova

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  • Should you shoot your goat or feed it, to stop ...
    Who knew? Sometimes you should feed goats to prevent floods and droughts. Other times you should shoot them to get the same outcome. Confused? In times gone by you would need to ask the tribal witchdoctor. Now, in the post-modern period, talk to a climate scientist. Steve Goreham highlights some ...
  • Big-Government incantation creates The Energy ...
    Senator Ron Boswell (National Party) makes the case in The Australian today that Australia is losing manufacturing due to rising energy costs, while the US is gaining manufacturing back from China because it has a cheap energy advantage with shale gas. I could make the case that when Big-Governm ...
  • The worlds biggest solar PV seller was worth $ ...
    How is the hallowed Green tech industry working out for China? Not so well. Shi Zhengrong was called a “hero of the environment” by Time Magazine. He was a billionaire who ran the worlds largest seller of solar PV cells. But the glory days of 2008 – 2011 are gone. Another bubbl ...
  • Dear John, you want “deniers” to h ...
    John, Thanks for the invite to assist with the crowd sourced online survey. Unfortunately I just can’t see this working. 1. The survey is profoundly anti-science, it’s exactly the kind of thing I debunk on my blog. Consensus is the stuff of politics, not science. Science is not a dem ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Some Worrisome Virus Updates
    Flu Professor Hualan Chen, director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very ...
  • Wish List? Axe Multi-Tool
    There are a lot of choices when it comes to multi-tools. They are almost always small, like a Swiss army knife. But there’s another way of achieving similar results – store all the little tools inside one big tool, like an axe: Mo-Tools Wood Inlay Axe On the big side we have an axe, ...
  • 15% Chance of X-Flares Today
    Usually  NOAA forecasters tells us that the odds of an X-flare (the highest category of solar flares) is less than 1%, even at what is supposedly the peak of the solar cycle. Today they say 15%, and 40% chance of a lesser M-Flare, due to a very large sunspot pointing at us. Read more at SpaceWea ...
  • Satellites at Risk from Mega Space Storm
    We are protected from solar storms by a cloud of charged particles, or plasma, that normally surrounds Earth out to a distance of four times the planet’s radius. Each Earth-directed solar outburst damages the cloud to some degree, and with time it repairs itself. A 2003 storm reduced the c ...
  • Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date
    I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year. For me tho ...

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

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • War in the East: How Khalkhin-Gol changed the ...
    In 1939 an unknown general named Georgy Zhukov trounced Japan at the Battle of Khalkhin-Gol in the Mongolian steppes, changing the trajectory of Japanese expansionism towards Pearl Harbour and Europe’s Asian colonies. The reasons for the spectacular Russian victories in Europe during WW II can b ...
  • World War II in Europe – Timeline
    The biggest ground war in human history took place in Europe from September, 1939 to May, 1945. The WWII timeline presented today by ORIENTAL REVIEW is the cortesy contribution by the American military historian Walter DuBlanica. SEPTEMBER ,1939   to MAY,1940 Germany attacked Poland on September ...
  • Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (II)
    Part I Friendly fire to scare foes Anton Chekhov, a great Russian writer, has once said «If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act». If a country, like the United States churns out a number of contingency laws, then one day a contingency [...]
  • Russia – Japan: Shifting Agenda
    Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Moscow on April 28 for a three-day visit, during which he met with President Vladimir Putin. He planted a cherry tree at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ gardenyard and listened to some drumming. Other outcomes of the summit meeting included si ...
  • Terror Acts in US: Who Gains? (I)
    If the terrorist acts had not taken place, they should have been invented. Since a long time the weakening of US global clout has been an issue in focus. The Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World report says the US economic and military leadership is going to become a thing of the past pretty ...

BlogHer

  • Happy Mother's Day: Celebrate You Today
    Happy Mother's Day! I hope that you have already been lavished with well-wishes and kisses, with phone calls and cards, with breakfast and love in the form of things to touch and unwrap. I hope that you are feeling honored and blessed, loved and cherished, important and necessary. I hope you are ...
  • Pseudonyms, Real Names, Science and Going Braless
    Scicurious has been writing under the pseudonym Scicurious for some time at her blog Neurotic Physiology. I recommend her recent post Weird Friday Science: Are Boobs Better Braless? as a great introduction to both her scientific perspective and her sense of humor. Scicurious screen capture fro ...
  • Jose Antonio Vargas: Sometimes I Feel Like a M ...
    Suppose you couldn’t celebrate Mother’s Day with your mom because she is in a different country, and she cannot come to the United States to be with you, and you risk losing everything you have in the country by travelling to be with her? That’s the predicament of journalist and immigration ref ...
  • Does "Mother Really Know Best" With Your Health?
    Even though I'm 40, my mom still smothers me in advice. Eat this; don't eat that. Wait an hour after eating to go swimming. Wear this or else you'll catch your death of cold. Much of her wisdom aims to improve my health, and with Mother's Day upon us, I got to wondering: Is mom right? So I start ...
  • Weddings Vs. Marriages
    There is nothing more bubbly, positive and brimming with possibility than a bride. There is something so exciting about being engaged to married--something surreal. During an engagement there is this alternate universe that seems to exist, uprooting the realities of marriage that lay ahead for t ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, May 10, 2013
    The S.S. Badger Capt Jeff Curtis is all smiles before boarding the carferry for its first trip of the year trip across Lake Michigan from Ludington, Mich., to Manitowac, Wisc., Monday, May 6, 2013. As the Badger begins its 60th season, a judge is considering whether to approve a deal with the U. ...
  • Hoppy confirms it: Rep. Rahall is NOT anti-coal
    It’s been mildly amusing over the years to watch the Republicans try time and again to take down longtime Southern West Virginia Democrat Nick Rahall. Their recent efforts to get Rep. Rahall have focused on the absurd allegation that he doesn’t support the coal industry. Most recentl ...
  • Can we debate the King Coal Highway honestly?
    This morning’s story from West Virginia Public Broadcasting about the massive mountaintop removal mining project proposed as part of the King Coal Highway started off well enough: Sen. Ron Stollings was admitting that Southern West Virginia is facing “a depleting economy with coal&#8 ...
  • ‘Way of life’: How politicians us ...
    Earlier this week, I was struck by a line in a New York Times piece about the terrible tragedy in Burkesville, Ky., where a 5-year-old boy shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a gun marketed for children as “My First Rifle.” Here’s the part of the story that stopped me as ...
  • Herald-Leader: ‘More leadership, fewer p ...
    U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell speaks to the Kentucky Coal Association during a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington, Ky.,, on Wednesday, June 1, 2011.  (AP Photo/The Lexington Herald-Leader, Pablo Alcala) The editorial board at the Lexington Herald-Leader certainly didn&#82 ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Different Fallacy Types
    An informal fallacy is an error in reasoning that does not originate in improper logical form. Arguments committing informal fallacies may be formally valid, but still fallacious. An error that stems from a poor logical form is sometimes called formal fallacy or simply an invalid argument. There ...
  • Honeytokens in Databases
    The new measure calls for a file storing cryptographically hashed passwords to contain multiple passwords for each account, only one of which is valid. Attackers who manage to crack the hashes would have no way of knowing if the corresponding plain-text password is real for a particular user. Lo ...
  • Violent Crime Way Down, but Nobody Notices
    National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences b ...
  • Upgrading to Nginx 1.4.x on Ubuntu
    There are a couple of tricks to upgrading to official builds of nginx on Ubuntu. Here are the steps. First, add the key to the nginx servers within Ubuntu: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ABF5BD827BD9BF62 Add the repo locations to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://n ...
  • U.S. Directly Accuses China Of Cyberattack
    The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”via U.S. Accuses China’s Military in Cyber ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • IRS was used to intimidate political oppositio ...
    During my decade in the U.S., my tax returns got audited at least twice – one of them had to be fixed when I was already back in Europe and Obama was in charge. The number seems high to everyone and I view it as rather strong evidence that it's no coincidence. A scandal in the U.S. strength ...
  • Feynman, Schwarzschild: anniversaries
    Richard Feynman would celebrate his 95th birthday today. One of the most colorful and ingenious physicists of the 20th century would deserve much more than a blog entry – so just like in the cases of other giants, I will abandon all attempts to write a would-be comprehensive biography. ...
  • Why we should work hard to raise the CO2 conce ...
    Many texts about the climate and related issues are highly, boringly repetitive. I believe that a typical person who regularly follows the research and debate about similar issues has heard 99% of the things that are written about the climate change or carbon dioxide etc. Even the research that ...
  • In the honor of the heterotic string
    Heterosis or the hybrid vigor or outbreeding enhancement is the lucky event (and an important component of Darwin's evolution) in which the offspring has qualitites that surpass both parents, usually because it inherits the good characteristics from both. The parents are on both sides ...
  • Nassim Haramein: science as religion
    It is the second time when I was contacted by someone who seems to be a fan of Nassim Haramein. Who is that? Another surfer dude in Hawaii, a self-taught supergenius, we are told, who will give us unlimited free energy according to the green optimists (no, there has never been anything remotely ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Texas paramedic denies explosives charge
    A Texas paramedic arrested on charges of possessing bomb-making material will plead not guilty and had no connection to a fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, his defence lawyer says. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Relat ...
  • Goldman Sachs confronts Bloomberg after journa ...
    Bloomberg faces a battle to reassure banks its $ 20,000-a-year terminals do not pose a security risk, after it emerged that its journalists had been accessing information about individual users. by Katherine Rushton, The Telegraph: Senior staff at Goldman Sachs confronted Bloomberg after journal ...
  • Chris Hadfield prepares to return home on Soyu ...
    Canadian Chris Hadfield is set to turn over command of the International Space Station to a new leader later today, a day before he returns to Earth. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Chris Hadfield to lead huge singalong from spac ...
  • It’s Time To Get Radical… With The Radicals
    from WesternJournalism.com: True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”– Master Saul Alinsky/pupil Barack Hussein Obama “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”– 2 Corinthians 11:1 ...
  • Turkey detains 9 after deadly car bombings
    Turkey’s interior minister says authorities have detained nine people in connection with the car bomb attacks that killed 46 people in a Turkish town near the Syrian border CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: 43 dead in Turkey ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Two more rapes reported by ‘russ’
    Police in Oslo are investigating two more reported rapes at another major weekend gathering of graduating high school students known as “russ.” The young women reported the rapes separately late Friday night, and they’re the latest in a string of such assaults at russ gathering ...
  • Journalists’ strike averted
    More than 100 newspapers around Norway will continue to publish as usual, and Norway’s major commercial TV channel, TV2, will stay on the air after negotiators for the country’s national journalists’ union and owners of media companies came to terms by Friday’s midnight d ...
  • Hundreds appeal for better Borrelia treatment
    Norwegians suffering from what they believe is Borrelia infection caused by the bite of a tick (called flått in Norwegian) gathered outside the Norwegian Parliament on Friday to appeal for better treatment. They claim local doctors don’t take their ailments seriously, and don’t have ...
  • Townships reject more refugees
    Many local municipalities in Norway are refusing to accept more refugees, and struggling with what they say are the “skyrocketing” costs of integration. Only one in five has taken in as many refugees as the state government wished. Many of Norway’s municipalities (kommuner) bel ...
  • Farmers didn’t get what they want
    Norwegian farmers’ organizations were disappointed and surprised this week when the left-center government coalition, which includes the country’s most farmer-friendly party, only offered them half of the taxpayer support they’d demanded. They still stand to get average pay rai ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Via Dolorosa
    Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. by George Monbiot The records go back 800,000 years: that’s the age of the oldest fossil air bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic. And throughout that time there has been nothing like this ...
  • Managing the Working Chicken (video)
    Almost everyone who is exposed to permaculture concepts has seen the above graphic (from Bill Mollison’s Introduction to Permaculture). It’s a great way to get people thinking about how to create whole, functional systems that use different elements (like a chicken) in combination wi ...
  • Geoff Lawton’s Online PDC Now Made Easy – But ...
    I just wanted to let you know I can barely believe it. It seems like we just opened this thing up. We’re actually going to be closing registrations down in about 14 hours from the time of posting this (i.e. registrations close at midnight May 10th, USA PST, or sooner) so I just wanted [...]
  • The “Long Emergency”, Permaculture, and Towns ...
    by Andrew Willner We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of society, abundance, and all we hold dear. “Business as usual” will no longer suffice, because that way leads to certain pain, peril and impoverishment. Unsp ...
  • Naming Convention for Permaculture Research In ...
    As we look around our planet we should need no further evidence of the urgency with which we should dedicate ourselves to establishing and demonstrating sustainable systems for human settlement. We especially should need no further evidence as permaculturists. With this in mind and with the inte ...

Pointman's

  • Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
    Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...
  • Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
    Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...
  • The big green killing machine: They sit with G ...
    It was a hellishly hot African day. Mac stood behind the young Danish girl, who sat at a table in the open air. He’d rigged a tarpaulin shade over them to give some relief from the midday sun. They’d never quite worked Mac out. What he didn’t appear to have in terms of any obvi ...
  • The big green killing machine: They sit with G ...
    It was a hellishly hot African day. Mac stood behind the young Danish girl, who sat at a table in the open air. He’d rigged a tarpaulin shade over them to give some relief from the midday sun. They’d never quite worked Mac out. What he didn’t appear to have in terms of any obvi ...
  • It’s an ill wind.
    This is a guest post by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 —-<0>— Electricity is available to many people at the touch of a button, so more people live in greater comfort and security than ever before in mankind’s time on earth.  Without electricity life is very basic ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • An Eventful April for Oceana's Climate and Ene ...
    Mock oil spills like this one were staged around the country in April to demonstrate disastrous effects of oil drilling on the oceans. Photo: Sarah Schwimmer Oceana’s climate and energy campaign had an eventful April. In our ongoing effort to stop East Coast offshore drilling before it starts ...
  • Victory! Maryland Becomes First East Coast Sta ...
    Governor Martin O'Malley signs bill into law banning possession, sale, and distribution of shark fins in Maryland Maryland made history today by becoming the first East Coast state to ban the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins throughout the state. They join the entire West Coast ...
  • Delaware Sends Shark Fin Ban to Governor
    Less than one week after passing the state Assembly, the Delaware state Senate has signed on to a bill banning the trade of shark fins within the state’s borders.  The states spanning the entire West Coast, plus Hawaii and Illinois, already have shark fin bans in place.  In Maryland ...
  • Record-Setting Water Temps Changing Marine Eco ...
    Map showing shifts in distribution of many fish stocks in the Northeast U.S. (Credit: Janet Nye, NEFSC/NOAA) The oceans are heating up, and marine ecosystems are changing because of it. Long before climate scientists realized the extent of impacts from carbon dioxide emissions, ocean scientis ...
  • Delaware House Takes Action for Sharks
    Delaware, Let's keep shark fins where they belong -- On sharks, not in soups. Source: Wikimedia Commons Yesterday, the Delaware House of Representatives took a huge step forward for shark conservation efforts worldwide when they passed a bill that would prohibit the trade of shark fins within ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Greg Hicks Gets Scrutiny, as Diplomats Evacuat ...
    Growing concerns over protests roiling Libya prompted the State Department to begin evacuating some diplomats from Tripoli, as the Pentagon put troops stationed at nearby European bases on high alert. [Washington Post] YOU READ that correctly, amid the furor over the testimony of Greg Hicks, the ...
  • Fundraiser: Support Independent New Media
    Newer posts appear below the fundraiser. IT’S A FUNDRAISER. Because advertising alone doesn’t cut it. Several months ago I lost two-thirds of my advertising, the company I’d been using for years folding. It’s been an ugly advertising year, though recently I started trials ...
  • Mothers, Caregivers, and Nurturers
    GARDEN season is so much fun. It makes mothers out of us all. That Mother’s Day comes at the height of it seems fitting. Our pond this year is wonderful. The frogs survived winter, I’m happy to report. We’ve already started treating it to ward off mosquitos, but living so close ...
  • Queer Talk: Full Equality is the Goal
    Marriage equality is the current enormous focus of the bigger goal of full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and via TPM, one response from Thursday’s pro-marriage equality vote in Minnesota reveals something about why the goal of equality is broader than marriage ...
  • Prince Harry Sober and Clothed, Shock Horror
    I caught part of the TV news this morning. That was a mistake. I hate the news, especially commercial TV news. Give me the BBC or PBS any day. Unfortunately it was CNN this morning, which was covering Prince Harry’s jaunt to America. I use the word jaunt as it seems to fit with the [...]Th ...

Hudson New York

  • Palestinians in Syria Killed, Injured, Displaced
    More than 55,000 Palestinians have been forced to flee Syria to Lebanon and Jordan over the past two years, according to figures released by the United Nations Work and Relief Agency [UNRWA]. According to Palestinian sources, more than 2,000 Palestinians
  • Blaming America
    Before the blood was even cleaned from the Boston sidewalks, a number of opinion pieces and cartoons published in Western media suggested that those killed or maimed in the blasts were suitable victims – the result of an America that has refused to
  • UK: The Crisis of Female Genital Mutilation
    British authorities are redoubling their fight against the spiraling problem of female genital mutilation (FGM) after a weekly primetime television show broadcast by the BBC forced the previously "taboo" subject into mainstream debate. FGM is endemic in
  • Britain's Feckless, Two-Faced Approach to Radi ...
    If the U.S. authorities are beset by questions about their capacity for the prevention – or lack thereof – of Islamist terrorism, similar questions need to be asked about the response to terror conspiracies in Britain. In the U.S., the debate is fed by
  • North Korea Goes South: to Menace the U.S.
    On December 12, 2012 -- the 28th anniversary of its pledge to join to Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) -- North Korea successfully launched a satellite into orbit aboard an Unha-3 rocket. After the launch, two months later, on February 12, 2013,

Urban Survival

  • The Friday Funnies
    Rather than our usual parade of droll, depressing, life-stressing notes about how the economy is collapsing, I thought this morning we could take a much lighter.  Oh, sure, we tackle the take-down of the 3D printing of guns in our … Continue reading →
  • Coping: 3D Guns as a Possibly Passing Technology
    You may have noticed a couple of  changes on the web if you have been thinking about picking up online planes for 3D printing of gun parts.  We that this morning the download page at Defense Distributed is now carrying … Continue reading →
  • Blow-Off Top Done?
    Maybe…The commodities were rolling down a bit this morning and we’re beginning to wonder if the blow-off top in the stock market has ( or is about to) finish its run.  I pondering loading up on some short-side instruments, either … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Note to Junior Time Monks
    A reader named Mikolean has been “eyes-open” at the postings we did of snips of the www.nostracodeus.com “cube view” which Grady and Mike cooked up to give a kind of 3D look at language rolling by.  Seems kinda odd, figures … Continue reading →
  • Short-Term Prospects
    We can’t help but notice that gold is down another $21-bucks in trading 45-minutes before the markets open.  In the futures, the Dow looks to pop about 30 points to the upside which will set up completion of a move … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Carbon Dioxide Hits New Highs: Living In a Le ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. Carbon dioxide concentrations have hit 400 parts per million for the first time in at least three million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration anno ...
  • Inside Edition Segment Airs on Pet Dogs Killed ...
    Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC “Believe it or not, the federal government is responsible for unintentionally killing over 1,000 dogs in the last 12 years,” reported Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero on a segment tha ...
  • EPA methanol hazard assessment less health pro ...
    Jennifer Sass, Senior Scientist, Washington, D.C. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) IRIS program issued its draft Toxicological review of methanol for public comment and external peer review. The document provides an assessment of the noncan ...
  • April Showers No Longer Bring the Usual
    Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. This guest post is by Fay Augustyn, conservation associate at American Rivers, as part of a blog series for Getting Climate Smart, a joint effort by NRDC and American Rivers to guide state action on c ...
  • Transit stars in 3 kinetic time-lapse minutes ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I don’t think filmmaker Alessandro Della Bella intended to make a video about transit in Zurich, but trains, trams, streetcars and the people who ride them are the clear ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Khamenei to Assad: Full and Unlimited Support
    Following Israel’s attack on Damascus this past weekend, Tehran affirmed its full support for Syria. Tehran recognizes the core of the equation: the Israeli attack was on Syria, but the real target was Iran and Hezbollah. This is the gist of the message from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, r ...
  • Syria to respond immediately to any new Israel ...
    Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad says the country will “respond immediately” to any new Israeli aggression against Syrian territory. Source. Iran threatens response to alleged Israeli strike in Syria In message from Ayatollah Khamenei to Assad, Tehran vows to respond t ...
  • US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fea ...
    Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year. The US says the exercises are not aimed at Iran, who earlier vowed to close the Hormuz Strait, and now expresses concern over the drills. The US Navy has issued a statement that the ...
  • Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond. Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceler ...
  • Israel used depleted uranium in airstrike on S ...
    A senior Syrian official says Israel has used depleted uranium in its recent airstrike against the Jamraya Research Center in the outskirts of Damascus. The official, who was present near the attack site on Sunday morning, told Russia Today that Israel used “a new type of weapon” dur ...

Daily Dose

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

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

  • For Mother's Day, pictures of mama animals wit ...
    One of the highlights of traveling to exotic planes is seeing mother animals with their babies so here is a collection of a some pictures I've taken over the years. They range from amphibians in Panama to orangutans in Borneo. I hope you enjoy. Happy Mother's Day!
  • Last time CO2 hit 400 ppm, temperature was 8C ...
    The future of a globally warmed world has been revealed in a remote meteorite crater in Siberia, where lake sediments recorded the strikingly balmy climate of the Arctic during the last period when greenhouse gas levels were as high as today.
  • A new world?: carbon dioxide concentrations in ...
    For the first time since homo sapiens evolved, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have struck 400 parts per million (ppm) due to burning fossil fuels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that readings of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory in Ha ...
  • Google Time-lapse offers view of Earth over 3 ...
    Google has released a series of time-lapse images showing global change between 1984 and 2012. The images are sourced from NASA's Landsat mission, a series of Earth-observation satellites that have orbited the planet since 1972, providing scientists, policymakers, and the general public with a w ...
  • Elephants massacred for ivory in Central Afric ...
    Dozens of elephants have been slaughtered in the Dzanga Bai World Heritage Site in the Central African Republic just days after conservationists warned about an impending threat from the movement of 17 heavily armed poachers. The massacre occurred at a site renowned as 'village of elephants', wh ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leonean UK-based model Adrian Vincent i ...
    Sierra Leonean model Adrian Vincent, based in the UK has been keeping busy with his modeling career.  After recently appearing in the Top Model UK show where the best models from all over the UK came together to compete in a pageant like competition at the Hilton Metropole, London, although he d ...
  • $6billion Chinese investment for Sierra Leone
    In line with governments’ strong desire to meet the development needs of the citizenry of Sierra Leone, the Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources 10th May 2013 signed a Memorandum Of Understanding with China Kingho Energy Group Co., Ltd on the development of mineral resources in Sierra Leone. ...
  • GSK and Save the Children form unique partners ...
    LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 10, 2013/ – An ambitious new partnership to save the lives of a million of the poorest children in the world has been launched by GSK (http://www.gsk.com) and Save the Children. This unique collaboration will see the two organisations work together in a very dif ...
  • As Africa’s potential rises, GTA expands acros ...
    After its successful presence at Arabian Travel Market, leading fully independent travel (FIT) wholesaler GTA is already looking forward to the opening of Africa’s top travel show, Indaba (11-14 May 2013). To help it double its business in Algeria and extend its presence across the continent, GT ...
  • As APC pays courtesy on Chinese Embassy…Amb. F ...
    Former Secretary-General of the governing All Peoples Congress, (APC) who was also recently appointed Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to China, Victor Bockarie Foh has encouraged the new Secretary-General of the party, Ambassador Osman Foday Yansaneh, “not to forget the down trodden as the APC is sust ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy company pleads guilty to animal mistreatment
    A Taupo dairy company's guilty plea of failing to provide sufficient food for hundreds of cows sends a "strong deterrent message'', Federated Farmers says.At the Rotorua District Court today, Southland-based sharemilking company...
  • Fonterra milk collection drops 0.5pc
    The impact of drought in February, March and April on dairy farms was greater than Fonterra anticipated, with milk collection down 0.5 per cent in the first 11 months of the season.Fonterra collected 1.414 million kilograms of milk...
  • Synlait spends $15m to keep up with China demand
    Canterbury's Synlait Milk said it would spend $15 million to upgrade its special milks drier at Dunsandel to meet strong demand for infant formula in China.The investment will enable Synlait Milk to become one of only two manufacturers...
  • Crafar bidders face High Court action
    People involved in the failed Crafar Farms bid could lose their residential and rural properties if High Court action by the police is successful.May Wang and Chen Keen were charged with corruption in Hong Kong late in 2011 over...
  • Cows 'sick and depressed' in mistreatment case
    More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad" after months of being underfed, a court has been told.A trial began in the Rotorua District Court yesterday of five parties, who between...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason TV Replay: 3D Printing and the Future o ...
    In a display of just how disruptive the age of 3D printing may be to the status quo, late last week the US Government blocked the Texas based company Defense Distributed from disseminating their plans for a printable gun. Back in January, Shapeways CEO Peter Weijmarshause ...
  • Twin Bombings in Town Near Syrian Border Not D ...
    Yesterday, two car bombs set off near the post office and town hall in Reyhanli, a town near the Turkish border with Syria, killed at least 40 and injured at least 100. Today, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Erdogan, responded. From Voice of America: Turkish Prime Minister Rec ...
  • Debbie Nathan on Feminism and Moral Panics
    Carol Dyhouse's Girl Trouble shows that women's progress has always been met with noisy, obsessive, and in hindsight often nutty fretting about girls' behavior and bodies. Feminists themselves, meanwhile, sometimes promoted moral panics in order to achieve their goals in a conservat ...
  • 3 Reasons Benghazi Still Matters
    Original Air Date: May 10, 2013. "3 Reasons Benghazi Still Matters" is Reason TV's newest video. Written and produced by Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg, it runs about 2 minutes. Click above to watch now or click below to go to a page with full text, links and resources, ...
  • Sheldon Richman on a Modest Gun-Safety Proposal
    It’s not enough to make gun buyers undergo background checks. A would-be killer’s background may be spotless, and those whose backgrounds aren’t will findother ways to get firearms, including theft. Banning the manufacture of certain firearms and magazines won’t work either, because ...

Mercury Rising

  • And for anyone who has suffered depression
    This cartoon via DailyKos (only I can’t remember from who, sorry)
  • Why the handling of the IRS story makes me angry
    We see so many wrong things being done on a daily basis that it’s rare anymore when I get angry. But the story of how Tea Party groups received an apology from the IRS for mishandling of their applications for 501(c)4 status has really upset me. In trying to sort out why this and not […]
  • To great surprise: Rios Montt convicted of gen ...
    Just about a month ago, the genocidal president of Guatemala, Otto Pérez Molina shut down the trial of the man who at that time was ordering the genocide done, Rios Montt. Now, via Meteor Blades at DK, some good news. Mike McDonald of Reuters reports that the trial concluded, and Rios Montt was ...
  • So, Koch-funded Astroturf deserves the charita ...
    It’s not good when the IRS singles out anybody for heightened scrutiny. But I have to roll my eyes when I see this, Fredreka Schouten and Gregory Korte, USAT: The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for subjecting Tea Party groups to additional scrutiny during the 2012 election, but ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging

Reality Sandwich

  • Psi in the News
    Are you ready for a world with technologically telepathic, physically augement super soliders? Is it really all that easy to be a subject of psychical research? What is the difference between paranormal enthusiasts and serious science? Can Sylvia Browne do any more than she already has to damage ...
  • Monstanto vs. Mother Earth
    [Action Alert] • It’s unbelievable, but Monsanto and Co. are at it again. These profit-hungry biotech companies have found a way to gain exclusive control over the seeds of life – the source of our food. They’re trying to patent away varieties of our everyday vegetables and fruits like cucumber ...
  • Sex in the News
    It's Masturbation May, and that means it's time for the masturbate-a-thon (and time for me to promote my book: Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation), Jason Collins - front and center, two guys, two girls and one mission: female ejaculation, figuring out feminist porn, and mor ...
  • Civilization Class
      The following is excerpted from Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing.  read more
  • "And Beyond Here There Be Dragons...."
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Desertification

  • Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan
    More than two dozen environmental organisations are urging California Governor Jerry Brown to disregard recommendations from a United Nations task force to include so-called forest “offsets” in the state’s new emissions-trading scheme. The offsets would serve as a mechanism by which emissions-pr ...
  • Rich Countries Drag Feet at Climate Talks
    Another week of international climate negotiations ended in Bonn, Germany last Friday, but there was little mid-level bureaucrats could do when world leaders remain in thrall to the fossil fuel industry, say environmentalists. “The main barrier to confronting the climate crisis isn’t lack ...
  • Building an Agricultural Empire
    Genghis Khan knew about hard times. The founder of the Mongol Empire, which spanned most of Eurasia until roughly 1227, Genghis and his clan had to survive on their wits and natural surroundings, often resorting to meals of “green leafy things” when food was scarce. Today that history seems to h ...
  • From Herders to Cultivators
    When the food-strapped Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) appealed to the Mongolian government for food last month, it signaled a major turning point in the public image of this Central Asian country, which has long struggled to feed its own population of three million. Transformed fro ...
  • The Clock Is Ticking on Koala Conservation
    Australia’s iconic marsupial is under threat. Formerly hunted almost to extinction for their woolly coats, koalas are now struggling to survive as habitat destruction caused by droughts and bushfires, land clearing for agriculture and logging, and mining and urban development conspire against th ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • Turkish protesters blame govt. for blasts
    Hundreds of people have gathered in the southern Turkish province Hatay to protest against Saturday’s twin car bombings, which killed 46 people and injured over a hundred others in the town of Reyhanli.
  • Syria opp. to decide on joining talks
    Leaders of the foreign-backed Syrian opposition will decide whether to participate in a US and Russia-sponsored peace conference to end the violence in the Arab country.
  • 'US intervention in Syria a mistake'
    Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned against Washington’s military intervention in the Syria, describing the move a "mistake."
  • 'Saleh can run for Yemen president'
    The United Nations Envoy to Yemen Jamal Benomar has said that the country’s ousted ruler, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and his son have the right to run for presidency.
  • Syria denies role in Turkey car bombings
    Syria has denied allegations that it was behind two car bombings which killed 46 people in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Why Jason Collins Matters
    Basketball is a sport I’ve only paid modest attention to. My knowledge of the sport is very limited. I know Spike Lee sits courtside at the Knicks games and Jack Nicholson is usually seen courtside at Lakers games. I know that Lamar Odom was a Laker and then went somewhere in Texas and then back ...
  • A Moment With Lex
  • Election Results Are In!
    Congratulations to the newly elected SPS Governing Council for the 2013-2014 academic year. The winners are: Student Representative: Mary Casey, Online Master’s in Business Management and Leadership. “CUNY provides an outstanding education at a reasonable price. I could have enrolled in an adult ...
  • Fairytale or Horror Show
    When I was a little girl I believed in fairy tales. I never saw past the happy ending to think there could ever be an ugly side to love. In fairy tales the only names called were terms of endearment. The boy never told the girl she was stupid or held his arm pressed against […]
  • Educational Attainment, Occupations, & Work-Li ...

Dissident Voice

  • I’m an American
    I’m an American. I can do whatever I want, when I want, to whomever I want. It’s God’s plan for America and for me. It’s in the Constitution, too. That’s how I know I’m superior to others, any others, anywhere. And if I have to kill, it’s not a crime because I kill only to [...]
  • My Mother’s Day at the Beach
    Seventeen all lissome energy and curves, her jeans tight cut-off at the knee.  Sunrise at the beach. Coppertone and cigarettes.  Her dark Kennedy shades (Jackie, or John?).  Lip-stick red like secrets of a rose. I couldn’t have remembered this I wasn’t born. A photograph perhaps? “Hey pass me a ...
  • Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Files Laws ...
    Earlier this week, on Wednesday, May 8, lawyers for Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz filed a federal lawsuit regarding his placement in solitary confinement for over 22 consecutive years. The written complaint, directed at Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel and the Superintenden ...
  • Creed of Core: II. Pleasures
    We had our pleasures too, of course. If music be the food of love, we feasted, feasted, gorged. Electric Guitar. Phallic fetish of our century. Crude talk of the folk. Jargon, slang, “hip-talk,” double negatives and all, amplified, distorted, turned in upon itself.  Crossroad blues of dark origi ...
  • Conservative Militarism and History
    Do a billion YouTube hits justify a war that left four million dead? A Conservative minister thinks so. At a Quebec City celebration of the 70th anniversary of World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic last weekend, Minister of Veterans’ Affairs, Steven Blaney, responded to a question ab ...

Nick Turse

  • Journalist Nick Turse describes his personal m ...
    Journalist Nick Turse describes his personal mission to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex. Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam ...
  • "$80 billion"
    “$80 billion” - The amount of money the U.S. spends a year to keep 2 million prisoners...
  • "I heard some noise when the plane bombed peop ...
    “I heard some noise when the plane bombed people, and immediately people were running away,...
  • MAGAZINE STAND IS LOCATED ONLY A FEW STEPS AWA ...
    MAGAZINE STAND IS LOCATED ONLY A FEW STEPS AWAY FROM A PLATFORM ON THE LEXINGTON AVENUE LINE OF THE SUBWAY: 04/1974
  • guardian:The work of Vivian Maier, who died ...
    guardian: The work of Vivian Maier, who died in 2009, leaving behind 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. The photographs are being hailed as among the best in 20th-century street photography Photographs: Vivian Maier/Courtesy of Maloof Collection 

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • In Trinidad, Causes Debated as Flooding Worsens
    Officially, the Caribbean’s rainy season begins in June, coinciding with the start of the hurricane season. But recently, heavy rains have signalled an early start to the rainy season, flooding streets, swelling rivers and causing widespread damage to crops. “With global warming, you ...
  • Optimistic but Cautious, Grenada Bolsters Its ...
    One daunting scientific forecast states that almost half of the world’s population will live in areas of water scarcity by 2030. Yet Christopher Husbands, the head of Grenada’s National Water and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA), is unfazed. “Nationally, we have adequate resources, ...
  • The Bloody Road to the Ballot Box
    The road leading to the office of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) wears a forlorn look. The same deserted air hangs over the Awami National Party (ANP) headquarters here in Karachi, just hours before voting begins on Saturday in Pakistan’s long-awaited general elections. Today marks the first ...
  • CIA Drone Strikes on Trial in Pakistan
    Adding fuel to a long-simmering dispute between the U.S. and Pakistan, a Peshawar High Court declared CIA drone strikes illegal on Thursday, referring to such attacks in Pakistan’s tribal belt as “war crime(s)”. The court called for its nation’s “use of force, if need be” to prevent further civi ...
  • Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Counc ...
    Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this year, has escaped scrutiny or condemnation by a Security Council which remains sharply divided. The continued air attacks have escalated tensions in the region and threatened a wider regional conflagration, according to ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Why the failure in Almaty is a big deal
    Summary: By once again blowing the chance to close a nuclear deal with Iran, the U.S. and its western partners have set themselves up for escalating the conflict with the Islamic republic source: Hinduread more
  • Stephen Hawking: Furore deepens over Israel b ...
    Summary: Political motive revealed after Cambridge University first claimed scientist's non-attendance was on medical grounds source: The Guardianread more
  • Muck & Meir: Prolific Analyst Botches Facts to ...
    Summary: Israeli commentator Meir Javedanfar has made a very successful career of trafficking conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives about Iran’s nuclear program. In a recent op-ed for the Guardian newspaper he has insisted – as he has done for years now – that the economic warfare and ...
  • Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weap ...
    Summary: "The billions of dollars we are lavishing on the B61 is criminal. This is billions of dollars spent on a weapon whose mission evaporated at the end of the cold war. It's clearly aimed at buying senators" source: The Guardianread more
  • How the BBC helps pave the road to war on Syria
    Summary: The Syrian conflict has been accompanied by a distinct media narrative. Within this narrative - which poses a binary division between the forces engaged in the conflict, identifying the players as good (the rebels, who must receive 'our' support) and bad (the government) - the role t ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Alien Planet Chemistry --A Diamond and Graphit ...
              Exo-planet research led by Yale University scientists in 2012 suggests that a rocky planet twice Earth's size orbiting a nearby star has a distinctly alien chemistry. "This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth," said lead re ...
  • Bizarre State of Matter Found at Core of a Neu ...
          In 2011, evidence for a bizarre state of matter, known as a superfluid,  was identified in the dense core of a neutron star, based on over a decade of observations. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-fr ...
  • EcoAlert: CO2 Exceeds 400 ppm for 1st Time in ...
                     Carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning and other human activities is the most significant greenhouse gas (GHG) contributing to climate change. Its concentration has increased every year since scientists started making measurements on the slop ...
  • Source of Moon's Water After "The Giant Impact"
                  "The simplest explanation for what we found is that there was water on the proto-Earth at the time of the Giant Impact," said Alberto Saal, a geochemist at Brown University. "Some of that water survived the impact, and that's what we see in the Moon."Water is perhaps the mo ...
  • NASA Selects 2nd Mars Rock in Search for Ancie ...
      The JPL team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days. The rock, called "Cumberland," lies about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity's drill ...

Natural News

  • Rethinking the July 4th Adam Kokesh armed marc ...
    As many of you know, activist Adam Kokesh has announced an armed march on Washington D.C. this July 4th. The march is billed as a "peaceful" protest, and the rifles will be slung over the shoulders of those who participate, not held in an attack position. A previous...
  • Stuart Wilde, world-renowned author and metaph ...
    It is with sadness that we are reporting the passing of Stuart Wilde, author, philosopher and a teacher many considered to be brilliant on a variety of subjects. Wilde was 66 and died from a heart attack suffered while driving through Ireland. The official announcement...
  • False Flag-O-Meter reaches the red zone: Why a ...
    This is a short but urgent warning: A false flag event, an act of war, a bombing or some other headlines-grabbing orchestrated event is very likely to occur in the next seven days precisely because the Obama administration is under intense fire right now and needs a...
  • Five signs of an unhealed mind
    It is sad that most people need to heal their own mind before they can be happy, but it is true. An unhealed mind cannot be happy. In fact, an unhealed mind is hell-bent on misery. Even more sadly, unhealed minds can be highly functional. With an unhealed mind, you...
  • Aerobic exercise can help suppress hunger, stu ...
    In a new study, researchers have made the conclusion that aerobic exercise such as rope jumping, which involves the body's vertical movements, can suppress appetite and cravings for fatty food. Researchers, who published their report in the journal Appetite, sought to...

Threat Level

  • Beyond Cellphone Unlocking: Don’t Kill the Fir ...
    A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill: the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013. If passed, the bill would give Americans freedom to do what they need — unlock, repair, maintain, ...
  • FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Inte ...
    While it’s not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory “cure” proposed by the FBI — with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren’t wiretap capable — would surely be worse than the ...
  • Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
    Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in ...
  • $45M Bank Hack Suspect Was Shot Dead While Pla ...
    Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing ...
  • Feds Charge 8 Alleged Mules in $45 Million Glo ...
    Eight suspects have been charged in New York for their role a global cybercrime ring that authorities say involved the theft of more than $45 million from financial institutions around the world in two cyber heists.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Cardinal O'Malley Boycotts Irish Prime Ministe ...
    Four years ago, some conservatives created an uproar when pro-choice President Barack Obama was invited to deliver the commencement address at Notre Dame University. (That protest was more than a little hypocritical, given the school's tradition of featuring pro-choice speakers including Senato ...
  • New House GOP Debt Ceiling Blackmail Demand? N ...
    Two years ago, Congressional Republicans took the unprecedented step of holding the debt ceiling hostage in order to extract draconian spending cuts. Now, the GOP's willingness to sabotage the American (and global) economy may be about to take an even more dangerous--and obscene--turn. House Re ...
  • Issa Mocked Families of Four Americans Killed ...
    On Wednesday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) will hold new hearings into the Benghazi consulate attack which claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Hyping tomorrow's show, the Grand Inquisitor of Barack Obama boaste ...
  • Syria Strikes Show the Paradox of Israeli Powe ...
    As the chaos and carnage in Syria continues to escalate, some conservatives are very happy indeed with word of Israeli air strikes against weapons shipments reportedly destined for Hezbollah. While John McCain crowed that "the Israelis seem to be able to penetrate it [the Syrian air defense sys ...
  • Politico's New Myth: It's Never Easy for House ...
    "It's never been easy for House Republicans to raise the debt limit." With that opening sentence, Jake Sherman and Steven Sloan of Politico provided air cover for the GOP's unprecedented--and dangerously irresponsible--debt ceiling hostage-taking. After all, Republicans in both houses of Congr ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Giant Leatherback Turtle — Black Sea Turtle Fa ...
    The giant leatherback sea turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is the biggest turtle species still in the world. They are a giant amongst most other modern reptiles, the only ones bigger are three of the remaining species of crocodilians. In addition to be very large, one thing that is immediately noti ...
  • Grapes May Protect Against Metabolic Syndrome- ...
    Grapes may help to limit the organ damage typically associated with metabolic syndrome, according to new research presented recently at the Experimental Biology conference in Boston. Polyphenols — compounds that are found in many fruits and vegetables, including grapes, are theorized to be ...
  • Air Pollution Increases Risk Of Insulin Resist ...
    With increasing levels of air pollution comes increasing levels of insulin resistance in children, according to new research. Insulin resistance is the precursor to diabetes. It has previously been identified that there are strong links “between air pollution and other chronic conditions s ...
  • Arctic Will Be Ice-Free, Warm, And, Green — Ne ...
    The future of the Arctic is now almost set in stone now — warmer, wetter, ice-free, and greener. The last time that CO2 levels were this high, the Arctic temperatures stabilized at temperatures quite a bit warmer than they are now, according to new research done by an international team of ...
  • Agricultural Expansion Into The Amazon Is A No ...
    The large-scale conversion of the Amazon rainforest into agricultural land is a no-win situation for all involved, according to new research from the Woods Hole Research Center and a collection of Universities in the region. If deforestation in the Amazon continues it will result in greatly redu ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Center Cannot Hold
    By @TedFrier Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.         & ...
  • Backing into doing the right thing
    By @BGinKC File this in that bulging folder labeled "This Session Can't Be Over Soon Enough." One thing the Missouri General Assembly did right -- no thanks to Casey Guernsey, who voted the way the speaker told him to, the schoolchildren of his district be damned, Speaker Tim Jones (and more imp ...
  • Benghazi Another Right Wing Proxy Fight
    By @TedFrier It's hard to remember now but there was a time when conservatism offered a vital and exciting alternative to the larger, lazy and all-too complacent liberal consensus. At least that is how it seemed to me back when I was a college student in the 1970s and the school newspaper's toke ...
  • Harry's 129th!
  • Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Q and A - Immigrat ...
    Previously: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): Immigration town hall in Kansas City - May 4, 2013 (May 5, 2013) Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D) at Representative Emanuel Cleaver's (D) immigration town hall ...

Care 2

  • Troys Rescue
    Video real touch story. Submitted by Katka Oelmann to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ACTION! You Can Help Impact The Dramatic Situa ...
    Serbia: respect the European convention for the protection of pet animals ratified July 2011. Immediately halt the mass euthanasia of cats & dogs and promote catch-neuter-return programs in Serbia. Bring shelters to compliance and forward adoptions NOW! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nbsp ...
  • 12 Latin American Governments Gather to Confro ...
    a common response to an increasingly common menace: costly "investor-state" suits in which foreign corporations are dragging sovereign governments to extrajudicial courts to demand taxpayer compensation for health, environmental, & other public interest Submitted by JL A. to World  |  ...
  • SINGLE CAT DAD AND HIS KID RESCUED
    Pappa Toni and his little son Riga Toni were able to go to rescue together so the happy family didnt have to be separated! Submitted by Katka Oelmann to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • URGENT! SERBIAN DOGS NEED YOUR VOICE! FREE THE ...
    Undercover photos of dog concentration camp "Pozega" in Serbia reveal horrifying conditions. Dogs are sick and starving with barely the energy to bark or wag their tails. Suffering dogs with ribs showing inhabit dungeons with no light. PLEASE SIGN & SHARE Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nb ...

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No Quarter

  • Debunking the Debunkers on Benghazi
    I am working odd shifts and cannot routinely write. I will be addressing Juan Cole’s piece regarding the 10 so-called Benghazi myths. In the meantime, here’s my appearance on Geraldo last Saturday. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com So, with that little warm up let me addres ...
  • The Obama Clinton Cover Up Comes Undone
    ABC News’ Jonathan Karl has now marked the start of what is likely to become a press feeding frenzy as the media herd concedes that there is fire beneath the smoldering embers of the Benghazi scandal. I say scandal because of the deliberate cover up by the Obama White House and the Clinton ...
  • The Obama/Hillary Benghazi Bamboozle Unravels
    State Department whistleblowers appeared on Wednesday before the House Government Operations and Reform Committee and proceeded to blow major holes in the deceitful narrative pushed by both Obama’s White House and Hillary’s State Department. Hillary in particular was damaged signific ...
  • Hillary Flacks Attack Whistleblower
    You knew this was coming. Facing accusations from State Department insiders of negligence and deceit, Hillary and some of her lackeys are trying to impugn the testimony of Mark Thompson even before Mark has had the chance to testify. The Hillary supporter, Dan Benjamin, who was appointed as the ...
  • Israel, War Monger?
    I suppose your personal views about Israel determines what you think about its most recent bombing of Syria. Me? I think the leaders who authorized this action in Tel Aviv/Jerusalem are crazy and are putting Israel at unnecessary risk. Why? Up to this point the Sunni Arab world appeared to be un ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop ...
    Herald Scotland RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop removal Herald Scotland RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop removal. Sunday 12 May 2013. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is under fierce attack for investing hundreds of millions of pounds in US companies which ...
  • Even Former Coal Miners Want to End Mountainto ...
    Treehugger (blog) Even Former Coal Miners Want to End Mountaintop Removal Mining Treehugger (blog) This victory came as many residents from across the Appalachian region were in Washington, D.C., this week to demand that Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency stop mountaintop removal c ...
  • Carrying water for an end to mountaintop remov ...
    Facing South Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal Facing South Residents of Appalachia brought over 100 gallons of polluted drinking water to the Washington, D.C. offices of the Environmental Protection Agency this week to call attention to the plight of communities afflicted by moun ...
  • Appalachians Make Toxic Water Delivery to EPA ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net Appalachians Make Toxic Water Delivery to EPA Grist Over 100 people, primarily Appalachia residents, took action today at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., calling for the EPA to use its powers to end mountaintop removal. 15 peopl ...
  • Groups seek EPA mountaintop removal rule - Cha ...
    WDTV Groups seek EPA mountaintop removal rule Charleston Gazette Seventeen national, regional and local environmental groups this week urged the Obama administration to issue a new water quality rule aimed at reducing pollution from mountaintop removal coal mining. In a formal rulemaking petitio ...

Memeorandum

  • Collins says IRS revelations will fuel governm ...
    Kevin Liptak / CNN: Collins says IRS revelations will fuel government distrust  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama should personally condemn the Internal Revenue Service for putting extra scrutiny on conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, Sen. Susan Collins said Sunday.
  • Pickering defends Benghazi report, says critic ...
    Kevin Liptak / CNN: Pickering defends Benghazi report, says criticisms not based in fact  —  (CNN) - The leader of a panel charged with reviewing September's attack in Benghazi, Libya, said Sunday that criticism of his report was unfounded and did not accurately reflect how his ...
  • Rep. Rogers: Expect more whistleblowers to tes ...
    Peter Schroeder / The Hill: Rep. Rogers: Expect more whistleblowers to testify on Benghazi  —  Congress is hearing from more whistleblowers who wish to testify on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).  &m ...
  • Dem veteran: Military 'incapable' of fixing se ...
    Sam Baker / The Hill: Dem veteran: Military ‘incapable’ of fixing sexual assault problem  —  Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a veteran of the Iraq war, said Sunday that the Pentagon has shown it can't be trusted to handle the problem of sexual assault in the military.  &m ...
  • IRS Mess - The Internal Revenue Service's targ ...
    TIME: IRS Mess  —  The Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups is outrageous.  Those who did this should be fired immediately.  That's obvious.  —  It continues a slovenly week for Barack Obama.  The President has been very prou ...

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  • Judge Denounces Obama’s Bizarre Opposition to ...
    Administration's request called "frivolous," "politically motivated," and “something out of an alternate reality” United States District Court Judge Edward Korman on Friday denied the Obama administration’s request to delay a court order to make emer ...
  • We Can't Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence O ...
    Drop your weapons and celebrate that we live in a country where peaceful change is still possible. This article first appeared on BillMoyers.com:We were struck this week by one response to our broadcast last week on gun violence and the Newtown school killings. A visitor to the website wrote, ...
  • Large Corporations Seek U.S.–European 'Free Tr ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is the latest plan of conglomerates to strengthen their grip over the planet. A corporate world order is emerging, and like any parasite, it is slowly killing off its host. Unfortunately, the "host" happens to be the planet, and all life upon ...
  • Cleveland Horror Caps Week of Violence Against ...
    These tales of misogyny should jolt us to connect the dots and to shine a stronger light on the violence against women that’s always there beneath the surface. In just the last few days, we’ve seen a series of news stories involving violence against women. The violence comes in d ...
  • The Cruelty of the American Empire Makes Mothe ...
    As we celebrate Mothers' Day, more than a hundred mothers think of their children, never charged with crimes, who will be starving to death in Guantanamo cells. He disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from  his family for the first tim ...

Threat Level

  • Beyond Cellphone Unlocking: Don’t Kill the Fir ...
    A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill: the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013. If passed, the bill would give Americans freedom to do what they need — unlock, repair, maintain, ...
  • FBI’s Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Inte ...
    While it’s not yet clear how dire the going-dark scenario really is, the statutory “cure” proposed by the FBI — with fines starting at $25,000 a day for companies that aren’t wiretap capable — would surely be worse than the ...
  • Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidd ...
    Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in ...
  • $45M Bank Hack Suspect Was Shot Dead While Pla ...
    Alberto Yusi Lajud-Peña, one of a number of suspected ringleaders behind a coordinated and sophisticated global bank heist operation that netted the thieves $45 million in stolen funds, was mowed down inside his Dominican Republic home last month while playing ...
  • Feds Charge 8 Alleged Mules in $45 Million Glo ...
    Eight suspects have been charged in New York for their role a global cybercrime ring that authorities say involved the theft of more than $45 million from financial institutions around the world in two cyber heists.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Firefly Salmonella I:4,5,12:i:- Outbreak Grows ...
    According to a report just released by the Health Department, as of May 5, 2013 at least 196 patrons and 4 employees of Firefly who consumed food and/or drinks at Firefly... Continue Reading
  • I bet High Hampton Inn wishes it provided Hepa ...
    According to the Jackson County Health Department, an employee at the High Hampton Inn restaurant in Cashiers, N.C., has tested positive for Hepatitis A. The Jackson County Health Department is... Continue Reading
  • Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak Tops 80
    Consumption of imported cucumbers is the likely source of infection for the ill persons.  On April 24, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration placed Daniel Cardenas Izabal and Miracle... Continue Reading
  • Salmonella Group B is Linked to Firefly Outbre ...
    It is expected that the Nevada and Southern Nevada Health District will update the public on the Firefly outbreak by the numbers ill and the likely serotype of the Salmonella. ... Continue Reading
  • Texas E. coli O157:H7 illnesses may be as many ...
    The Brazos County Health Department and the Texas Department of State Health Services are investigating five cases of a possible fatal strain of E. coli O157:H7 found in Brazos County... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Senior IRS official: ‘I’m not good ...
    by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) During a conference call with reporters, senior IRS official Lois Lerner uttered words that are now reverberating across the blogosphere: “I’m not good at math.” Don’t worry, Lois, neither is anyone else. And the less you can ...
  • Stephen Hawking Boycotts Israel | My Catbird Seat
    by Kevin Barrett Veterans Today New York Times:Stephen Hawking Joins Boycott Against Israel JERUSALEM – Stephen W. Hawking, the University of Cambridge physicist and cosmologist, has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held here in June in order to support an academic boycott of Israel ...
  • Peru bans GMOs: Will America take the hint and ...
    by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) The only other country in the Americas besides Ecuador to completely ban genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) from being cultivated within its borders, the South American nation of Peru has taken charge to help protect not only its own citizens bu ...
  • » Israel Rescues Al-Qaeda Terrorists From Syri ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 9, 2013 Israel is sending military vehicles into Syria to pick up wounded Al-Qaeda terrorists involved in the fight against the Syrian Army before patching them up and sending them back into battle, another startling example of how the Zionist state is working ...
  • Redlines and Other Double Standards: “Israel h ...
    Judging by its indulgent attitude to Israeli aggressions, Washington claims that Israel has the right to defend itself in any way it pleases: by unprovoked airstrikes across international borders; by meting out collective punishment; by carrying out extrajudicial assassinations; by invasions and ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Anarchy in the C ...
    The Danish 1.54-metre telescope located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has captured a striking image of NGC 6559, an object that showcases the anarchy that reigns when stars form inside an interstellar cloud. This region of sky includes ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Vortex of Color
    This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Starburst Jewel
    Like a July 4 fireworks display, a young, glittering collection of stars looks like an aerial burst. The cluster is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust—the raw material for new star formation. The nebula, located 20,000 light-years away ...
  • The Strangest Interactions Between Wild Animal ...
    A weekly roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
  • Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Turns Sun In ...
    Fire up the Johnny Cash and watch as the moon very nearly covers the entire sun, leaving just a golden sliver of a ring, during a Slooh Space Camera show of today's annular solar eclipse, starting at 2:30 p.m. Pacific/5:30 ...

PakAlert

  • Congresswoman: Obama Gave Benghazi Stand Down ...
    In comments that went largely unnoticed, Missouri Congresswoman Ann Wagner (R) directly blamed President Obama for ordering the stand down which facilitated the assault on the US consulate in Benghazi. Wagner was asked by talk show host Dana Loesch, “Because you have been an ambassador, you h ...
  • Denver International Airport Whistleblower: Co ...
    The Denver International Airport (DIA), nestled on a vast 53 square mile complex, owned and operated by the City of Denver, is the largest airport in the United States in terms of land mass garnered, and the second largest airport in the world to Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport. ...
  • Agenda 21 Redistributes Wealth Through Stealth
    I’ve got a very important story to tell, so listen closely. Fed a diet of ‘alternative reactions to the mainstream news’, you probably won’t know about any of this, because it’s not had much of a public airing. The final push of Agenda 21 is to unite us all, mainstream and alternative alike – an ...
  • Boy Genius Diagnosed With Autism Has IQ Higher ...
    Kristine Barnett noticed that her little boy Jacob - whom doctors had tagged as autistic - seemed to have a fascination with patterns. So she took him out of his school's special ed program and let him study the things he's passionate about. Now Jacob is on his way to winning a Nobel Prize. J ...
  • Navy Seal Team 6 Families Press Conference Liv ...
    Three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference May 9th, 2013 to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in ...

Andy Worthington

  • Close Guantánamo: President Obama, Drop Your B ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • From Guantánamo, Younus Chekhouri Speaks About ...
    Three weeks ago, as part of my ongoing coverage of the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo, which is now in its fourth month, I published an account by Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, with one of the men that Reprieve’s lawyers repr ...
  • 25 Former Prisoners Urge President Obama to Cl ...
    As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, the danger — following President Obama’s news conference last week, when he finally deigned to talk about Guantánamo — is that the mainstream media will think, as they did in 2009, that merely talking about the prison in ...
  • Voices from Guantánamo: Obaidullah, an Afghan, ...
    As the prison-wide hunger strike continues at Guantánamo, having reached the three-month mark on Sunday, it is more important than ever that the voices of the prisoners continue to be heard, to maintain the pressure on the Obama administration to act. For meaningful action to be taken, President ...
  • WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning: Andy Worthingto ...
    It’s almost three years since Pfc. Bradley Manning, who had been working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested by the US military and imprisoned in Kuwait for allegedly making available — to the campaigning organization WikiLeaks — the largest collection of classifie ...

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Sciencebase

  • 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 ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Vote Rigging? Charges Fly in Pakistan As Elect ...
    A massive crowd rallies Thursday evening, May 9, 2013 for Imran Khan, the populist cricketer-turned-activist. Khan has drawn massive crowds and enthusiasm in the closing days of Pakistan's national elections. (Photo/Facebook) UPDATE - Sunday 11:29 AM ET Agence France Presse is reporting: ...
  • Vote Rigging? Charges Fly in Pakistan As Elect ...
    A massive crowd rallies Thursday evening, May 9, 2013 for Imran Khan, the populist cricketer-turned-activist. Khan has drawn massive crowds and enthusiasm in the closing days of Pakistan's national elections. (Photo/Facebook) read more
  • A Formal Legal Mandate for a Criminal Investig ...
    In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Otto Perez Molina, center right, greets new members of Guatemala's Army elite special forces, "Kaibiles," at a graduation ceremony in Poptun, Guatemala. (AP) General Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and cri ...
  • A Formal Legal Mandate for a Criminal Investig ...
    In this Dec. 5, 2011 file photo, Guatemala's President-elect Otto Perez Molina, center right, greets new members of Guatemala's Army elite special forces, "Kaibiles," at a graduation ceremony in Poptun, Guatemala. (AP) General Efrain Rios Montt has been found guilty of genocide and cri ...
  • Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Counc ...
    Critics argue that the silence of the Security Council constitutes an international green light to Israel to continue with its new policy and military aggression against Syria. (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas) UNITED NATIONS - Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this ...

Lifehacker

  • Dragdis Saves and Organizes Web Content with a ...
    Chrome/Firefox/Safari: There's no shortage of ways to save content from the web to review later, but few services handle videos, photos, and text as seamlessly and quickly as Dragdis.Read more...    
  • Does anyone know a good way to learn how to us ...
    Does anyone know a good way to learn how to use power tools safely?Can someone recommend any good games on Android with good storyline?I would like some help with choosing my next phone.I need help choosing between two budget cell phone plans.Is there any rhyme or reason to the number of times ...
  • Keep Potted Plants From Dropping Dirt with a M ...
    Potted plants need drainage holes at the bottom to release excess water, but you don't want soil to come out with it, especially if you keep your plant indoors or on a nice patio. Luckily, all you need to keep it clean is a mesh produce bag.Read more...    
  • Embrace Anti-Planning to Be More Productive
    We've all laid out plans to accomplish our goals and increase our productivity, but more often than not, they fall by the wayside. Instead, try diving into a new project without a plan, and adapt as you go along.Read more...    
  • Subtitles Automatically Downloads Subtitles fo ...
    OS X: We've shown you how to download subtitles for movie files on your computer through services like Opensubtitles or Subscene, but Subtitles for Mac makes the process as simple as dragging and dropping a video file.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Water Wars
    Tri-state Water Feud Plays Out In Congress
  • Water Wars: The Dehydration Debate
    Photo: Jon Davis Does dehydration improve performance? An onslaught of iconoclastic ideas about hydration have broken wide open in triathlon.
  • MOPEs Annual Water Wars
    Mind of Pink Elephants Annual Water Wars is a water event at Langford Park in July. Presale tickets are $10 online (without ticket processing fees) and $15 at the event. Water Wars is a four team water war using water guns, water balloons, water soakers, and water ammunition in an all out soakat ...
  • 'Things Could Get Ugly': Fracking Set ...
    A new study released Thursday shows that a "significant portion" of fracking, a water intensive process, is happening in already water-stressed regions of the United States—most prominently Texas and Colorado, "which are both in the midst of prolonged drought conditions." rea ...
  • ‘Water Wars’ warning issued to Bernardsville p ...
    BERNARDSVILLE – A water-gun elimination game that has gained popularity among high school students in recent years is apparently making some waves in the Somerset Hills Regional School District.

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The Wonk Room

  • Senator Suggests Obama’s Efforts To Implement ...
    A top Republican senator is comparing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ ongoing effort to implement the Affordable Care Act in partnership with the health care industry and nonprofit organizations to the Iran-Contra scandal, during which officials secretly sold arms to ...
  • ‘House Of Cards’ Star Robin Wright and Enough ...
    If you need a Sunday reminder that Hollywood’s critiques of Washington can be a little too pessimistic, check out this video of Robin Wright and my colleague at the Enough Project, JD Stier, talking about their work together in the Congo on Mitchell Reports with Andrea Mitchell: Visit NBCN ...
  • On Mother’s Day, Sandy Hook Moms Remind Americ ...
    Four Newtown mothers whose children were killed during the December 14th shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have a message for the country this Mother’s Day: “We are not going away.” In a heartbreaking essay, Jackie Barden, Nicole Hockley, Nelba Marquez-Greene and Francin ...
  • San Francisco Giants Concession Workers Author ...
    The last three years have been good to Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants, who won two World Series crowns and emerged as a contender to win another in 2013. But they haven’t been as good to the roughly 800 workers who staff AT&T Park, the ballpark on San Francisco Bay ...
  • Climate Sensitivity Stunner: Last Time CO2 Lev ...
    We have pushed atmospheric CO2 levels to 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in human existence. At the same time, a truly remarkably set of paleoclimate data shows the climate is much more sensitive to CO2 than we thought. And that means returning as quickly as possible back to 350 p ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • thwapstradomus
    US and European elites will intensify their efforts to destroy their fellow citizens' living conditions in the hopes of becoming even more insanely wealthy and powerful. They will succeed because the deluded, brainwashed voters in these countries will waste their time on contests between pea-bra ...
  • Congrats to Miley Cyrus!
    As you know, this blog is a huge fan of Miley Cyrus. Anyway, ... some magazine voted her one of the top-50 sexiest women in the world. I don't know if ephemeral is on the list. Or those two chicks I saw walking home yesterday who were checking out a restaurant menu. I'm not going to link to the ...
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  • On the road again ...
  • Why Liberals r the Real Haters ...
    Hi! Welcome back to thwap's increasingly insane schoolyard! I'm going to continue to channel the right-wing mind because I have no desire to type about anything else. Today I'll be learnin' you on how it's the pinkos, liberals, commies, white-guilt types who are the real racists in society. The ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

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    How did your Peace Mom make a difference in your life, and in your community? Let us know, and send her an eCard for Mother's Day!
  • Missile-defence radar at Goose Bay?
    The Department of National Defence is looking for ways to contribute to the U.S. missile defence system and may try to revive a proposal to build a radar at Goose Bay.
  • How to spend the defence budget
    On April 15, we asked Ceasefire.ca supporters how they would better spend the money wasted on weapons and war.
  • Get rid of the nukes, part two!
    According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".
  • Canada and missile defence
    Canadian missile defence supporters are back in the news, arguing once again that Canada should join the U.S. missile defence system to protect against the North Korean Nuclear Threat.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-4-13
    Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind mind manipulation within the music industry and two ways to counteract it. Self Help: No More Fluoride Free Audiobook Download Cell Phone Protection Natural Cures Grass Fed Beef Financial Independence Health: High Doses of Vitamin D Prevent Cancer Cell Phone ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 5-11-13
    Today, Kevin finally reveals how the secret society, The Brotherhood, approached him and what his vibrational frequency had to do with it. Plus, you are being programmed for failure; learn how to program yourself for success! Self Help: Viral Detox Subliminal Messaging KT’s Daily Life Esse ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-12-13
    Today, Kevin gives you the solutions to your economic woes and explains why you absolutely cannot put a price tag on your health! Self Help: Inflation Cure Stop Eating Tainted Meat Voice Your Political Support Safest Hair Products Health: Genetically Modified Cows Produce ‘Human’ Milk More Recal ...
  • Find alternative ways to stay healthy…
    On my show, I’ve always discussed why you should be using natural cures and remedies on a daily basis. The drug companies’ only goal is to keep you sick, and fill their wallets in the process. They are not looking to cure anyone. Natural remedies have been passed down through generat ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-29-12
    Today, Kevin explains why most people will not be successful in network marketing.  Plus, Princess stops by the show to reveal secrets “Kevin” doesn’t want you to know about! Self Help: Maximize Your Downline Success Training Lose A Pound A Day! Government: Wisconsin Fight: Bill Limiting Unions ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Watch: ‘Glacier on speed’ nearly swallows Minn ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWatch: Glacier on speed nearly swallows Minnesota homes Raw StoryBy Stephen C. Webster   A glacier-like “ice wave” struck northern Minnesota on Friday, nearly swallowing up homes in an astonishing natura ...
  • Five Dumped Bodies Found near Mosul; 13 Killed ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFive Dumped Bodies Found near Mosul; 13 Killed Across Iraq – Sunday: 13 Killed, 7 Wounded Antiwar.comMargaret Griffis p>Five decomposing bodies were discovered in Mustantak. Although the victims appeared to be ...
  • The Beautiful Banality of Ugly Racism
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comThe Beautiful Banality of Ugly Racism By Roi TovSunday, May 12th, 2013 The Beautiful Banality of Ugly Racism and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish”Jonah 1:3 — — “Look at th ...
  • Gates: Benghazi-obsessed Republicans have ‘car ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGates: Benghazi-obsessed Republicans have cartoonish view of military capability Raw StoryBy David Edwards   Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told CBS News that Republican lawmakers who are blasting Presiden ...
  • Firestorm Over IRS Targeting of Patriot Groups
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comTop brass at taxation agency allowed agents to harass patriot groups Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com May 12, 2013 A report by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General reveals that senior IRS officials were aware ag ...

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