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Scientific American - News

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The May/June 2013 issue of The Dominion is now ...
    Download the full PDF or view articles on our site The May/June 2013 issue of The Dominion is now online! Click on this link to download a PDF file of the entire 28-page magazine. You can support our work by su ...
  • Ten Stories, Ten Years
    Our editors' favourite Dominion stories from the past decade From Nova Scotia to British Columbia, from a photocopied zine to a printed magazine distributed on newsstands across ...
  • Montréal 11 mai 2013 - SOURIFEST '13 - L'AUTO- ...
    [Diaporama Montréal 11 mai 2013 - SOURIFEST '13 - L'AUTO-SOURICIÈRE DU PEUPLE] [https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.170253566469061.1073741851.100004532552692&type=3] . SOURIFEST '13 - L'AUTO-SOURICIÈRE ...
  • "Reduced to a pile of ashes"
      Yesterday Rene Ross, executive director of Stepping Stone, a non-profit organization that supports sex-trade workers in Halifax, announced she was leaving the organization due to funding shortages. Local spoken-word artist Ardath Whynacht posted this response to the news on her Facebook p ...
  • Business journalists go on the attack; demoniz ...
    By Nick Fillmore National business journalists and columnists have bought into Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s demeaning view that folks in the Atlantic region are backward and have a defeatist attitude.  Framed in contemptuous language, they’re promoting untested economic ideas ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • White House Releases Benghazi Email Dump
    The White House has released a dump of the email conversation that eventually produced the Benghazi talking points that were requested by Congress and then used by Susan Rice in her Sunday morning talk show interviews. The full set is here. Seven in particular struck me as interesting: ...
  • Yep, Immigrants Are Doing the Work We Won't
    Via Dylan Matthews, here's a chart from a study that looks at the experience of the North Carolina Growers Association in hiring native-born workers. NCGA is required to heavily advertise for native workers before their applications for H-2A guest worker visas are approved, but these efforts s ...
  • Former NSC Spox Talks About the Talking Points
    Greg Sargent asked Tommy Vietor, who recently stepped down as the spokesman for the National Security Council, to provide his take on the whole Benghazi talking points affair. He got a long email in return in which Vietor admits some errors in how things were handled, but defends the NSC's rol ...
  • Obama to GOP: Put Up or Shut Up on DOJ Investi ...
    From NYT reporter Charlie Savage, via Twitter: White House this morning asked Senator Schumer to reintroduce the media shield bill which died on Senate floor in 2010. — Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) May 15, 2013 I'm terminally bored with our current scandal hat ...
  • No, the Federal Government is Not Like a Shark
    In a response to Jonah Goldberg, Charles Cooke admits that sharks aren't actually all that dangerous: Still, it’s best to presume that every single shark you meet is going to eat you. My view is that, because a shark can eat you, and has eaten people in the past, you should have, a ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 395: Fuck This Shit
    Kev is fed up Work sucks Running people who do good for others into the ground Kriss – sugar – alcohol = Asshole Kriss Marvel Studios being cheap with Avengers payouts Nerds are hypocrites Charles Ramsey is awesome The transgender issue Walkout music for Kriss Share with your friends:
  • IC 394: Fuck Your Religion
    Rod from ‘The Black Guy Who Tips’ joins us Stereotyping tall people Fuck your religion Who decides which interpretation is correct? MPAA ratings for porn Torturing people works Gun control 30 comic book movies worse than Iron Man 2 Share with your friends:
  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:
  • IC 391: Morning Wood Syndrome
    Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips joins Kriss & Kev Laughing at mental illness….until its not funny Being offensive Rick Ross outrage revisted The difference between Eminem & Rick Ross Going all in with being offensive Bringing awareness to Morning Wood Syndrome Women’s MMA B ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Black hole powered jets plow into galaxy
    This composite image of a galaxy illustrates how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power. The image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), optical light obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (gold) and radio waves fro ...
  • Fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula driven by ...
    The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade -- a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth -- in the last 50 years, and that warming is largely att ...
  • Catching graphene butterflies
    Writing in Nature, a large international team led Dr Roman Gorbachev from The University of Manchester shows that, when graphene placed on top of insulating boron nitride, or 'white graphene', the electronic properties of graphene change dramatically revealing a pattern resembling a butterfly. ...
  • 'Fish thermometer' reveals long-standing, glob ...
    Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters, according to University of British Columbia scientists. read more
  • First direct proof of Hofstadter butterfly fra ...
    A team of researchers from Columbia University, City University of New York, the University of Central Florida (UCF), and Tohoku University and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan, have directly observed a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy sp ...

unEarthed

  • Advocates From 50 States Call for Health Standards
    More than 100 clean air and water advocates gather in D.C. When our elected officials continue standing in the way of clean air and water—it’s time t ...
  • Drillers Make a Play for Thompson Divide
    Richly forested lands in W. Colorado could become industrial zone The Thompson Divide is clearly a keystone of the region, the state and the West.  (EcoFlight) ...
  • Raw Sewage and a Raw Deal in Rochelle, GA
    When the town's toilets flush, guess what ends up in African-American yards Nine residents of Rochelle, GA are suing their city government for discharging the city's raw sewage onto th ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Danger in the Schoolyard
    Toxic coal ash found on school paths in Florida Truckloads of the coal ash product EZBase were delivered to one Florida homeowner's property.  (Clean Water Action) ...
  • Goldman Prize Winners: Making a Difference
    Three stories from around the world The 2013 Goldman Prize recipients.  (Courtesy of the Goldman Environmental Prize) It is easy sometimes to feel like t ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Remembering the Nakba means understanding this ...
    What’s the importance of acknowledging the Nakba? Remembering it is the only way for both Jews and Palestinians to understand that this land is shared. It’s the only way of preventing the system from duplicating the same injustices over and over again. By Muhammad Jabali A friend and I vis ...
  • The Palestinian Nakba: Are Israelis starting t ...
    Israelis are more willing to discuss and accept their country’s role in the Palestinian Nakba – until the historical events are portrayed as the story of the founding of a rival nation, and acknowledging those facts means legitimizing the other side’s fundamental beliefs. In 20 ...
  • The Nakba: Addressing Israeli arrogance
    For Israelis wishing to participate in a common struggle, relieving ourselves of our ignorance and arrogance should be the top priority. Not for the sake of Palestinians – for our own sake, to restore our own humanity. By Tom Pessah   About a decade ago, when I was studying for my first deg ...
  • Despite efforts to erase it, the Nakba’s ...
    The Israeli Right has been waging a war on history in recent years, using extreme measures to remove evidence of the Nakba from the national discourse. It failed. Yedioth Hakibbutz is the weekly magazine of the United Kibbutz Movement. It is delivered every week to hundreds of Kibbutzim as part ...
  • The Israeli army’s default position: Sup ...
    The IDF clarifies that instead of removing an illegal outpost, it prefers to defend it – and Palestinian farmers pay the price. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz In January 2001, as most of us were busy with the events of the Second Intifada, several outlaws built the Tapuach Ma’arav o ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Wow—Plaintiff Must Prove Standing in Ord ...
    The depressing part is this keeps getting repeated over and over and over again… Appellants, Jerome and Bea Saver, pro se, appeal the trial court’s order granting final judgment of foreclosure in favor of Appellee, JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association, as Acquirer of Certain Assets a ...
  • Foreclosure OUTRAGE- My Client RECEIVED NO NOT ...
    There’s a real problem in this state with courts relying upon the foreclosure mills to set out notices of foreclosure trial. HOW MANY CITIZENS WILL LOSE THEIR HOME TO FORECLOSURE WITH NO NOTICE AT ALL OR WITH IMPROPER NOTICE? DEFENDANT’S EMERGENCY VERIFIED MOTION TO VACATE DEFAULT, VACATE ...
  • What Happens When You Received No Notice of Fo ...
    Yesterday I was hired by another consumer who did not receive proper notice of a foreclosure trial.  Last week I received a Notice of Foreclosure Trial two days before it was to happen. This week, the only notice my elderly client received was the Notice of Foreclosure Sale, the FinalRead the Re ...
  • Foreclosure Outrage…Forced Place Insuran ...
    Consumer groups are pushing for rate cuts up to 50 percent for the biggest “force-placed” insurer in Florida, arguing rates scrutinized at a Monday hearing punish struggling homeowners and are inflated by massive kickbacks to mortgage servicers. American Security Insurance Co.’s proposed rate cu ...
  • Senator Warren Asks….Why Have No Bankers ...
    WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raised the stakes of her quest to find out why a single Wall Street bank has not been prosecuted in the aftermath of the financial crisis Tuesday, sending a letter to the heads of three federal agencies. Warren, a member of the Senate CommitteeR ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...
  • Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
    Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • How “Retrospective Prediction” works
    This is how "Retrospective Prediction" works. I missed a plane today. I had predicted that I would arrive 30 minutes before check-in closed. But I was wrong. I arrived 37 minutes after check-in had closed. My prediction model was just not good enough. I now applied "Retrospection" to my "Pred ...
  • Merrie England
    But it is May and it is England and there shall be rain.
  • Carbon dioxide concentration was at 500+ ppm a ...
    It could be that GS Callendar's 1957 paper about Global warming cherry picked supportive data points and ignored inconvenient data. It would seem that carbon dioxide atmospheric concentraions had reached levels of 500 ppm already in 1860.
  • Climate “science” reduced to &#822 ...
    Nature Climate Change is now reduced to publishing predictions about the past.
  • Any referendum on continued EU membership only ...
    Any member state which really wishes to have meaningful negotiations about EU membership must first invoke Article 50. Without this any referendum would be without teeth and any result "to leave" would be a hollow one. By far the best negotiating position for a member state would be with an inv ...

Left Foot Forward

  • Pensions – an unfinished revolution
    Before Mrs Thatcher destroyed Britain’s post-war pension consensus, Beveridge had given us a decent state pension that kept up with earnings, and Barbara Castle had added an earnings related state pension (SERPS) to those whose employers did not provide a decent workplace pension on top.
  • As well as talking tough on police killers, Th ...
    The home secretary Theresa May announced today that under the Conservatives those convicted of killing a police officer will have their sentences raised to the 'whole life' category, usually reserved for the very worst types of murderer.
  • Today’s labour market statistics: ‘the g ...
    The 'recovery' in the wider economy is not being matched by rising real wages or rising living standards, instead the demand-constrained UK economy might be stumbling into a lower wage, lower productivity growth model with serious implications for living standards in the future.
  • For those who argue people are overtaxed in th ...
    This table has just been published by the OECD and shows the "tax wedge" taken from employment earnings for all 34 OECD countries.
  • Unemployment up 15,000 to 2.52 million
    Unemployment rose by 15,000 between January 2013 and March 2013 to 2.52 million, with the unemployment rate rising to 7.8 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.

Consumerist

  • Giving Up 1″ In Legroom Earns Southwest ...
    Not so long ago, Southwest began readjusting the seats on its fleet of Boeing 737 jets, getting rid of 1″ of legroom for each passenger in order to squeeze in an additional six seats. Your initial thoughts might be that this a lot of work for just a few more seats, but when you add it up, ...
  • BlackBerry To Offer Free BBM Service To Custom ...
    Back when I got my first work BlackBerry, I was all, “Hey, cool — I can email on this thing and message people. Great.” And that’s basically where BlackBerry has been stuck over the last few years, as iPhones and Android phones have erupted in popularity and gained devoted foll ...
  • Oscar Mayer’s New Offering: It’s B ...
    How many times have you looked at pigs in a blanket with a side-eyed glance, secretly wishing those blankets were made of bacon — pigs in a pig blanket, if you will? Maybe often, perhaps never, but fans of all things pork are surely rejoicing at the news that Oscar Mayer is debuting bacon hot do ...
  • Is The “Waffle Taco” Really A Taco ...
    Earlier this week, Taco Bell did what it does best — got attention from hungry Internet users — when it was confirmed that the fast food chain was testing a Waffle Taco in California. But one intrepid reporter tried the experimental eats and is now questioning the entire idea what it ...
  • Sen. Warren: Why Can Banks Commit Crimes But G ...
    Back on Valentine’s Day, rookie U.S. Senator — and longtime consumer advocate — Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts showed little love for the nation’s bank regulators, asking if any of them — the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Consumer Financial Protectio ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • AP Probe an Attack on Whistleblowers: Daily Wh ...
    MSNBC: Progressives to President – Say it Ain’t SoAttorney General Eric Holder The Department of Justice is facing considerable backlash from advocacy groups (including GAP) and media outlets after it was revealed that it had secretly acquired two months of phone records from Associated Press ...
  • Report–3/4 of UK Whistleblowers Ignored
    The Guardian: Whistleblowers’ Claims of Wrongdoing Being Ignored An analysis of whistleblower cases in the UK has found that three out of four whistleblowers who raise concern at work have their complaints ignored. Further, one out of six eventually lost their job for speaking up, with m ...
  • Wake Up Call: US Government Targets Journalist ...
    Yesterday, news broke that the Justice Department obtained two months of phone records for 20 phone lines of AP journalists' office, home and cell phones without their knowledge. AP condemned the "massive and unprecedented" intrusion: There can be no possible justification for such an overbro ...
  • England's Urgent Care Problems: Daily Whistleb ...
    Daily Mail (UK): One Nurse for 250,000 Patients – New Out-of-Hours Crisis as Whistleblower Reveals Nurses are Replacing GPs to Cover Entire Counties Great Britain's largest off-hours urgent care service provider, Harmoni, uses nurses to work eight-hour overnight shifts when it cannot recruit ...
  • Whistleblowers in the Spotlight: Daily Whistle ...
    AccountingWEB: Whistleblowing Reaches Center Stage During the past couple of years in the United States and United Kingdom, whistleblowing and whistleblower rights have been more widely recognized as the important facets of society that they are. This article cites progress within the federal ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Australia cuts foreign aid but sends $7b to st ...
    Cuts to foreign aid are expected to save the government’s coffers up to $3 billion. But Wayne Swan has declared that Australia’s 23 million people need to bail out the 500 million people of the destitute Eurozone, and the basket-case-that-is-the-EU desperately needs $7 billion from u ...
  • Weekend Unthreaded
    … Rating: 6.0/10 (1 vote cast) Rating: 6.0/10 (1 vote cast)
  • 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 ...

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

  • Art Pope back in glare of national spotlight
    For years, North Carolina mega-donor Art Pope kept a low profile, quietly building one of the most influential state-based political networks in the country. Now, from his perch in the cabinet of N.C.'s governor, Pope and his agenda is getting national media scrutiny. read more
  • 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
  • NC renewable energy repeal advanced by committ ...
    A bill to end North Carolina's renewable energy program was passed out of a Senate committee last week even though it didn't have the votes it needed. What's happening in the state is part of a broader national effort to revamp renewable energy laws. read more

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

  • Kurdish Card Played by Washington
    Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf monarchies have an interest in the project to establish a “Greater Kurdistan,” which is an important part of America’s “Greater Middle East” doctrine. These monarchies want Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey to be quickly dismembered. This is not the first time ...
  • The U.S. Dream Crashes in Central Asia
    On 03 May, a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker plane crashed in northern Kyrgyzstan. All the three aircrew onboard were killed. Earlier on April 27, four U.S. airmen had died when MC-12 surveillance and reconnaissance plane crashed in southern Afghanistan. On 30 April, another tragedy struck when a B ...
  • 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 [...]

BlogHer

  • Letting Go of Cute PJs to Strive for Other Things
    Editor's Note: I tend not to argue clothing choices with my youngest son. He rarely matches, except for church, and I honestly just don't care. Why? I'm too busy making sure other things -- other necessary parenting battles -- are being taught, being won. I found myself nodding along with Carmen ...
  • May Is National Masturbation Month!
    Note: This year, Philadelphia, PA is hosting the annual "Masturbate-a-thon" all month long to raise money for local sex education groups. In the past 5 years, this event, which originated in San Francisco in 1995, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for organizations that focus on women's se ...
  • Non-GMO Corn, and Other Food Fantasies
    Editor's Note: In the ongoing effort toward conscious eating, sometimes we get hung up on labels, categories, phrases and semantics, which naturally (organically?) leads to misperceptions. This thoughtful post offers one perspective on the fallacy of non-GMO corn, the "myth" of organic food and ...
  • When Reality Doesn't Conform to Expectations
    Editor's Note: When a 4:30 a.m. toddler tantrum rocked this pregnant mama out of slumber, she faced a tiny human unhappy with his sleeping scenario. After some patient love tactics, she eventually got him settled comfortably into the exact same sleeping scenario he originally fought against. Ami ...
  • BlogHer Food '13 Important Travel Information!
    Hello Newbies! Welcome to the Food-y Conference Post that contains helpful links and notes for your travel to BlogHer Food ’13 in Austin. Credit: stuseeger. Helpful hints for traveling by plane: 1. Know the 3-1-1 for airline Carry-on Baggage. This is the TSA easy formula that explains airpor ...

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

  • Guest post: Harrison plant proposal ‘a b ...
    This is a special guest post, cross-posted from the Energy Forward Blog at the West Virginia University College of Law’s Center for Energy and Sustainable Development. By James VanNostrand, Director, WVU College of Law Center for Energy and Sustainable Development As reported by Ken Ward J ...
  • 4th Circuit upholds Judge Chambers on Reylas Mine
    This just in: The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling that refused to block a permit for Alpha Natural Resources’ Highland Reylas Surface Mine in Logan County, W.Va. You can read the full opinion here. There’s background on this case available here, here ...
  • MSHA seeks further delays in Aracoma fire case
    More than three months ago, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals issued a ruling that paved the way for the widows of two miners killed in the 2006 Aracoma Mine fire to pursue their lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor over lax enforcement of federal mine safety standards at the op ...
  • Spruce Mine riders not getting vote in Senate
    It looks like — at least for now — that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., isn’t having any success in his effort to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from being able to veto Clean Water Act permits like the one for the giant Spruce Mine in Logan County. We’ve talked ...
  • Ups and downs: Toward a better discussion of t ...
    Yesterday’s release of a new report examining the ongoing decline in Central Appalachian coal production provided a perfect opportunity to advance the discussion of where the regional coal market is heading and what that means for the people of local coalfield communities. Certainly, that& ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Question About IRS Targeting of Conservative ...
    If the goal of the IRS is to find people who are evading taxes, isn’t it logical to start with those groups that are openly and vocally anti-taxation? I’ll take it further: if that’s your job, and you don’t start there–aren’t you either stupid or negligent? I& ...
  • Creativity Through Exercise
    It didn’t happen during the run. But it always happened right after the run, as I was walking through my cooldown.This always fascinated me, and there’s probably a very straightforward explanation for it, such as increased blood flow to the brain as a consequence of running. While ru ...
  • On Hugs vs. Handshakes for Female Work Associates
    When I run into a male acquaintance, I know exactly how to greet him: shake his hand. Doesn’t matter how long we’ve known each other. I even shake my dad’s hand.But with females, I feel like I’m trapped between two walls of a deep-space garbage compactor. On the first meeting, we shake hands. Ea ...
  • The Square Stand
    If I were starting a business where I needed to take lots of cards in a store-like setting, I’d absolutely be using this thing. Quite attractive, on a number of levels. What would you say are the top disruptors in technology? Here’s my top-of-head list: Netflix Square Uber/TaxiMagic ...
  • Leader vs. Boss
    Related Posts:Funny Then SadProtesting with KindnessMount Diablo and the MoonMount Diablo and the Moon IIOur Earth’s Timeline, Scaled to One YearHow the States Voted by EducationNew Cisco Switch For the HouseMe, According to GoogleGoodbye World2012 Site Stats

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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  • Novim Group: "Just Science" AGW app
    Paul O. helped me to possess an iPod Touch, because of my modest contributions to his Our Climate app. I have downloaded about 500 applications on the device and the new addition today is called Just Science. This free app occupies about 50 megabytes on your iDevice. It was created by ...
  • Richard Dawid: String Theory and the Scientifi ...
    Richard Dawid is a philosopher of science who was trained as a high-energy theoretical physicist and his new book that you may pre-order – it will be released at the end of June – isn't another addition to the rants by endless rows of populist crackpots, jerks, and imbeciles who try to criticize ...
  • 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Stanley Cup rioters sentenced for attacking Go ...
    Two Stanley Cup rioters were sentenced to spend several months in jail for beating up a Good Samaritan outside the Hudson’s Bay store in downtown Vancouver during the riot. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Stanley Cup rioter ...
  • Stanley Cup rioters sentenced for attacking Go ...
    Two Stanley Cup rioters were sentenced to spend several months in jail for beating up a Good Samaritan outside the Hudson’s Bay store in downtown Vancouver during the riot. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Stanley Cup rioter ...
  • Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!
    The debate over what actions actually constitute “terrorism,” I believe, will become one of the defining ideological battles of our era. Terrorism is not a word often used by common people to describe aberrant behaviors or dastardly deeds; however, it is used by governments around the world to l ...
  • Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!
    The debate over what actions actually constitute “terrorism,” I believe, will become one of the defining ideological battles of our era. Terrorism is not a word often used by common people to describe aberrant behaviors or dastardly deeds; however, it is used by governments around the world to l ...
  • Obama Should Be IMPEACHED for Illegally Using ...
    from Gary Franchi, NextNewsNetwork: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Glenn Beck: OBAMA MAY GO TO PRISON AND BE IMPEACHED KILLING OUR OWN [Ed. Note: Glenn Beck's analysis that it ...

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.

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Views & News from Norway

  • Farmers settle for a 10.5% raise
    The two major lobbying groups representing Norwegian farmers have agreed to accept a new state-subsidized compensation package that’s expected to yield average pay hikes for farmers of 10.5 percent through direct subsidy and protectionism. The farmers had demanded more than twice that, so ...
  • Bag of clothes set off bomb scare
    The area around the government complex in downtown Oslo was cordoned off and evacuated on Wednesday after a mysterious bag was left outside the Finance Ministry. A special bomb-checking robot could determine that the bag only held clothes and the robot destroyed it. It was the third time in rece ...
  • Bag of clothes set off bomb scare
    The area around the government complex in downtown Oslo was cordoned off and evacuated on Wednesday after a mysterious bag was left outside the Finance Ministry. A special bomb-checking robot could determine that the bag only held clothes and the robot destroyed it. It was the third time in rece ...
  • Star skier leaves the national team
    Petter Northug, one of Norway’s most medal-winning cross-country skiers ever, has defied the advice of several fellow skiers and top Norwegian skiing officials and decided to drop out of the national team, at least temporarily.  Media outlets were reporting Wednesday that he wants to go it ...
  • Star skier leaves the national team
    Petter Northug, one of Norway’s most medal-winning cross-country skiers ever, has defied the advice of several fellow skiers and top Norwegian skiing officials and decided to drop out of the national team, at least temporarily.  Media outlets were reporting Wednesday that he wants to go it ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Interview with Owen Hablutzel, PRI, by Willi Paul
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh Is there a global permaculture revolution rising now? The short answer is: Absolutely! The wide variety of serious and increasingly complex issues confronting people and ecosystems worldwide are leading folks to seek solutions they can apply right now. Today. An ...
  • Grassroots Permaculture: Implementation on a B ...
    Have you studied permaculture, are feeling inspired, and ready to begin implementing, but have a limited budget? How can you have the greatest effect, while making your money stretch? After all that you’ve learned you’re likely filled with ideas, but if you aren’t careful, ...
  • Dozens of U.S. Cities Board the Bike-Sharing B ...
    by Janet Larson, Earth Policy Institute When New York City opened registration for its much anticipated public bike-sharing program on April 15, 2013, more than 5,000 people signed up within 30 hours. Eager for access to a fleet of thousands of bicycles, they became Citi Bike members weeks bef ...
  • Bee All or End All
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh It’s score one for the bees. Last week the European Union banned neonicotinoid pesticides for a two-year period beginning early next year. Key findings cited evidence of the role neonics play in destroying bee populations. The ban is specifically for flowerin ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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

  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • U.S. Coast Guard Captures Illegal Fishermen in ...
    Source: U.S. Coast Guard Visual Information Gallery Following Oceana’s newly released report on the harmful impacts of illegal fishing, one of the questions that I as Oceana's Northeast representative was asked most often was, “Where is this happening?”  The short answer: Illegal fishing ...
  • What Do Historic CO2 Levels Mean for the Oceans?
    “Keeling Curve” shows CO2 levels increase from 1958-2013. (Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD) For the first time in human history, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels passed 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide at the historic Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. This is t ...
  • 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 ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Queer Talk: “Selling Homosexuality to Kids,” L ...
    Linda Harvey of Mission America recently claimed that various entities are “selling homosexuality to kids,” or as Right Wing Watch put it, identifying one of the “sellers” of homosexuality, “Gay news sites trick kids into becoming gay.” I thought I should warn you about that in particular, since ...
  • Queer Talk: United Nations Anti-Homophobia Vid ...
    From the Human Rights Office of the UnitedNations, a new anti-homophobia message, by way of a video. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) represents the world’s commitment to universal ideals of human dignity. We have a unique mandate from the international ...
  • Conservatives Grab IRS to Weaken Obama
    As applications from conservative groups sat in limbo, groups with liberal-sounding names had their applications approved in as little as nine months. With names including words like “Progress” or “Progressive,” the liberal groups applied for the same tax status and were ...
  • Sexual Assault Leader at Fort Hood Arrested
    The Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant first class assigned to an assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault. [CNN] THE contagion of news about sexual assault in the U.S. military, with the latest news out of Fort Hood, should wake everyone up t ...
  • AP Not Buying DOJ Letter
    “People are pretty mad — mad that government has not taken what we do seriously,” one reporter said on Tuesday. “When the news broke yesterday … people were outraged and disgusted. No one was yelling and screaming, but it was like, ‘Are you kidding me!?’” “People are ticked,” said another. “Ever ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslims Demand Germany "Make Islam Equal to Ch ...
    A major conference on German-Muslim relations has ended in failure after Muslims attending the event refused to acknowledge the government's concerns about the threats to security posed by radical Islam. German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich had
  • Scottish Universities Hotbeds of Anti-Jewish S ...
    A charity ball organized by the University of St. Andrew's Jewish Society, guarded by plain-clothes police officers, was held in secret last week after threats were made against staff at the original venue. The increasing security and secrecy surrounding
  • Al-Qaradawi and the New Religious Conflict Wit ...
    As US Secretary of State John Kerry pursues efforts to resume peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the world's leading Islamic scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, arrived in the Gaza Strip to express support
  • Blasphemy Laws Coming to Bangladesh?
    On May 5, hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi Islamists marched on the capital city of Dhaka, to protest the government's failure to fulfill their demands. Under the banner of a non-political forum, supporters of the Islamic Hefajat-e-Islam
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
    Political scientists and orientalists in the West who think that the nuclearization of the Middle East is containable, and not an existential threat to them, are making a serious mistake. These political scientists seem to think Iran's nuclear weapons,

Urban Survival

  • X-Class Foreplay?
    Say, not to go sounding like “I told you so…” since we haven’t had the Big Quake (not due until next week) BUT there are a couple of fine “disaster porn” elements lining up in a really discomforting way.   … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Ripping Off Technocracy
    Oh, good grief!  Now we have reports of a merger between Google and the Bilderbergers... OK, here’s the joke, right?  First you need to know a little bit about Technocracy.  Wiki, please? “The technocracy movement is a social movement which … Continue reading →
  • Beware the Ides of May
    Reader Note:  This morning’s post is being posted a bit earlier than normal so I can get down to the airport for my biennial flight review.   —   Who’s behind the shootings in America and what the heck is … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Dear Large, STUPID, National Bank
    Dear Large, Stupid, National Bank (LSNB), I don’t know if ya’ll suffer from Banker Birth Syndrome, also known as Banker BS, but I really think you seriously underestimate the mental capabilities of the American public. Here’s the deal:  A week … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • State Emissions Report Card Puts California at ...
    Alex Jackson, Legal Director, California Climate Project, San Francisco The federal government’s energy statistics agency issued its latest state energy-related greenhouse gas emissions report card on Monday, which compares how states&rsq ...
  • The time is now for a UN High Commissioner for ...
    John Romano, Global Fellow, International Program, New York City NRDC has joined hundreds of other civil society organizations in support of a proposal for the establishment of a UN “High Commissioner for Future Generations.”  While ...
  • New Federal Fracking Rule Rumored to be Imminent
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. It’s rumored that the BLM is about to release the next draft of its proposal for fracking guidelines for public lands. We’ve been blogging about all the significant failures with the fir ...
  • Driving Our Destiny: Demographics Show the Dri ...
    Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Yesterday U.S. PIRG released their latest, best analysis of national vehicle-miles-of-travel (VMT) trendlines, reiterating the finding that absolute VMT peaked in 2004 while ...
  • India cracks down on "thin-film" exemption, bu ...
    Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco May 7th – May 14th, 2013 India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Climate Change Mumb ...

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 )

  • Leonardo DiCaprio raises over $38 million for ...
    Film actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, raised a stunning $38.8 million for global conservation efforts Monday night through an all-star art auction. Commissioning 33 works of art, the A-list actor raised record funds for saving species from extinction and protecting natural habitats.
  • How Business and Society Thrive by Investing i ...
    In 2008, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) surprised the conservation world when it selected Mark Tercek, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, as its new president and CEO. For people familiar with Tercek, however, the move made perfect sense: he was a leading figure in Goldman's efforts to pursue ...
  • Pacific islanders are the 'victims of industri ...
    With islands and atolls scattered across the ocean, the small Pacific island states are among those most exposed to the effects of global warming: increasing acidity and rising sea level, more frequent natural disasters and damage to coral reefs. These micro-states, home to about 10 million peop ...
  • Photo: Stunning new pit-viper discovered in Ho ...
    A stunning new species of pit-viper has been discovered in the cloud forest of Honduras. The venomous snake is described in the journal ZooKeys.
  • Indonesia officially extends forestry moratorium
    The Indonesian government has officially extended its moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions in 65 million hectares of forests and peatlands for another two years. The move, which had been expected, was announced Wednesday by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Sierra Express

  • As the rainy season approaches – Madam Cholera ...
    The word ‘Cholera’ became a fearful household name in Sierra Leone when in 2012 the disease dealt a terrible blow on this nation with disastrous consequences. Apparently, the disease has become one of those human induced epidemics this country has come to cope with, albeit with at the cost of hu ...
  • Trade Minister visits Milla Group factory in S ...
    Sierra Leone Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara, on Monday May 13th 2013, paid a one day familiarization visit to Milla Group Sierra Leone Limited at No2 Bai Bureh Road, Kissy, Freetown.  (Photo: Minister Boie Kamara in conversation with Milla Group General Manager, Sony Ra ...
  • Sierra Leonean Nathaniel Chalobah in England U ...
    Sierra Leonean born Watford midfield maestro Nathaniel Chalobah, on loan from Chelsea, has been named in the England Under-21 squad for next month’s European Championships.  (Photo: Nathaniel & Zola talk tactics) The loan of the 18-year old continues in style and is very much instrumen ...
  • That man, Charles Margai
    It has reached public domain that comments from the leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Charles Francis Margai is but treasonable and by law punishable. During his press briefing last Thursday in Freetown over a land tussle involving him and the First Lady, Sia Nyama Ko ...
  • Minister sets to demolish structures on govern ...
    The Minister of Lands, Housing and Environment, Musa Tarawally has issued stern warning to owners of houses and structures on government land, particularly on land within the Kenema airfield and government reservation to quit or else government through his ministry will soon demolish all structu ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra sets 'wet share' price
    Fonterra said it had set $7.92 as its final price for the economic right of each share that farmer shareholders can sell during the current supply offer for Trading Among Farmers.The price was calculated using the average daily...
  • World dairy prices drop 2.1pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products extended their decline from a record high as a resurgent US dollar weighed more generally on commodity prices and concerns abated about the impact of drought in the North Island.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell...
  • Former Fletcher CFO joins Synlait
    Former Fletcher Building chief financial officer Bill Roest has joined the board of Synlait Milk as a non-executive director.The dairy producer yesterday revealed it was considering raising capital and listing on the New Zealand...
  • Bright Dairy to cede control of Synlait Milk i ...
    Chinese food giant Bright Dairy & Food will give up its controlling stake when local dairy processor Synlait Milk is listing on the stock exchange, retaining its stake without participating in the share sale.Shanghai-based Bright...
  • Customers reassured NZ milk is safe
    The Ministry of Primary Industries has moved to reassure overseas consumers that New Zealand milk is safe after a Sri Lankan government minister warned it could be contaminated with radioactive chemicals.Sri Lanka's Agriculture...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Keene, N.H., Meter Readers Are Terrified of Po ...
    The Libertarian Free Keene group in New Hampshire has been “tormenting” the city (and the city’s bottom line) by bouncing around town with pockets full of loose change, feeding meters in order to keep people from getting parking tickets and sometimes videotaping officers. This is so ...
  • El Alto: Where Leftism Meets Laissez Faire ...
    The New York Times has run a dispatch from El Alto, Bolivia, a former squatter settlement that is now a formally recognized city. The residents there are prone to leftist sympathies and radical anti-government action—and also, reporter William Neuman notes, to unfettered entreprene ...
  • Giving Weapons to Divided and Suspicious Rebel ...
    Today, Reason 24/7 featured an article by Mike Giglio from the Daily Beast that outlines the rifts that exist within Assad’s opposition. Aside from the different ideologies motivating rebels in Syria suspicion between different rebel groups over money and weapons also threatens the ...
  • Garrett Quinn on How the Free State Project Is ...
    In 2001 a Yale doctoral student named Jason Sorens published an essay in the small webzine The Libertarian Enterprise, lamenting the failure of libertarian efforts at the ballot box. “Nothing’s working,” he wrote, because libertarians are scattered. The only way to have a real impac ...
  • Thanks, Mr. President, For the Reminder That Y ...
    Whatever the outcomes of the scandals that have beset the Obama administration over the past few days — especially IRS scrutiny of government critics and the Justice Department's snooping on the Associated Press — they've taken on a special importance simply by capturing our attenti ...

Mercury Rising

  • Unlike IRS And Benghazi Fauxgates, Republicans ...
    Unlike the Benghazi and IRS Fauxgates, the DoJ’s probe of the AP is truly troublesome. But as Will Bunch explains, don’t hold your breath waiting for Congressional Republicans and their fellow Koch largesse recipients in the Tea Party, John Birch Society and Minutemen factions of the ...
  • Israel-Firsters Lying Like Rugs, This Time Abo ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0bp-wKh828 I expected to see the world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking come under an intense and hateful firestorm of attacks from the Israel-Can-Do-No-Wrong Lobby. But what is surprising is not that they are lying about him, but that the lies are so ridiculous ...
  • A Minnesota Mom Defends Her Daughter’s R ...
    In belated honor of Mothers’ Day, courtesy of Bluestem Prairie, here is a Minnesota mother honoring and defending her daughter and her daughter’s quest for marriage equality in the state of Minnesota. As of today, with a 37-30 vote in the Minnesota State Senate, Minnesota is poised t ...
  • Gar Alperovitz: There Is Good News
    From a comment made by Gar Alperovitz in the course of a discussion of his new book, What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution: What Then Must We Do (hereafter WTMWD) suggests that two important trends are emerging in the United States; and that it is important not ...
  • And for anyone who has suffered depression
    This cartoon via DailyKos (only I can’t remember from who, sorry)

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

  • Protecting Niger’s Desert Salt Pans
    The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices. “If we don’t protect this site, salt mining will ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Students slam Turkey’s Syria stance
    Hundreds of university students protesting the Turkish government’s stance on the ongoing crisis in Syria have clashed with police in the capital Ankara.
  • Bomb attacks kill 10 in Iraqi capital
    At least 10 people have been killed and 45 others injured after a series of car bomb attacks rocked different areas in the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, officials say.
  • Israeli forces nab 25 Palestinians
    Israeli police have arrested 25 Palestinians during the rally held to mark the 65th anniversary of the Nakba Day, in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), Press TV reports.
  • Explosion rocks Turkey’s capital
    A bomb blast has rocked the Turkish capital city, Ankara, with early reports indicating that there may be casualties.
  • Bahrain jails six tweeters over insult
    A court in Bahrain has sentenced six tweeters to one year in jail on charges of insulting Bahrain’s monarch, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Preparing for the Future
    “Preparing for the Future” by Wendy Williams was originally published on Getting Smart. The future of education will be on display next week in Arizona, at the Education Innovation Summit.  There will be a wide range of speakers and panel discussions, which I am really looking forward to hearing ...
  • 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 […]

Dissident Voice

  • Оde to Anarchy
    When I was young I heard it in the songs of Bob Dylan - his voice and guitar had the power to destroy the gray walls of authorities, the walls that were meant to encapsulate my soul. I saw it in the films and read between the lines - of the books that were written [...]
  • Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
    According to Michael Ableman, author of Fields of Plenty, 25% of Americans make the conscious choice to eat organic food. Those who make the switch from corporate, industrially produced food do so for a variety of reasons. The main ones are cost, health and ethical concerns. Cost is a big consid ...
  • Without Russia, World War II Goes On
    Most Americans are ignorant of Russia’s incredible contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Americans can barely remember the details of World War II and worse still they do not want to be bothered with more than a cursory review of the details, subtleties and chance that WWII was. ...
  • Guantánamo: Who Created this Chaos?
    For all the rhetoric associated with a naval base, there’s something absurd about Guantánamo. It’s an absurdity so perpetual that it reads like fiction. Yet, it’s the perceptible horror of wasted and infirm men imprisoned without trial for more than a decade that interweaves a concrete dreadfuln ...
  • Recurring Nightmares? Wake Up and Take Action
    The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came from Bloomberg News, CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law. Is that ...

Nick Turse

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  • ourpresidents:Draft of FDR’s “Day of Infamy ...
    ourpresidents: Draft of FDR’s “Day of Infamy” Speech. December 7, 1941. A few hours after learning of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dictated a short address to be delivered to a Joint Session of Congress the following day. His handwritten revisions—visible in th ...
  • cjchivers:Did NATO Kill These Afghans With A ...
    cjchivers: Did NATO Kill These Afghans With Air-Burst Ordnance? Alissa Rubin (@alissanyt) examines the deaths of at least 17 women and children in Kunar Province; their bodies were discovered after a vicious firefight on April 5 and 6 in which a CIA officer was killed and his unit pinned down ...
  • Milk wagon and old houses, Grove Street, No. 4 ...
    Milk wagon and old houses, Grove Street, No. 4-10, Manhattan. (June 18, 1936)
  • HERALD SQUARE SUBWAY STATION: 05/1973 (NARA)
    HERALD SQUARE SUBWAY STATION: 05/1973 (NARA)

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • U.S. Retailers Holding Out on Bangladesh Safet ...
    Labour groups here are stepping up pressure on U.S. firms to sign a binding building safety agreement for Bangladeshi factories after 10 major European garment companies signed onto the landmark agreement. H&M, a major European apparel chain, signed the agreement Monday, and Benetton, which ...
  • WTO Chooses New Latin American Chief to Mark a ...
    Brazilian diplomat Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo was named the new director general of the WTO with broad support from the developing world, beating out his Mexican rival Herminio Blanco, who was backed by the industrialised nations. “The results of the selection process reveal that most members o ...
  • Indigenous Nicaraguans Fight to the Death for ...
    Indigenous communities in northern Nicaragua are demanding that the authorities take urgent action to halt the attacks on their lives and territory by illegal invaders.
  • Dengue Outbreak Highlights Poor Waste Management
    City and health authorities in the Solomon Islands, located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, are calling for effective and consistent urban waste management as they battle to control a serious outbreak of dengue fever, the world’s fastest spreading vector-borne viral disease, which was identified ...
  • In Vietnam, Rhino Horns Worth Their Weight in Gold
    At first glance, the poster appears to be a typical advertisement for an African safari: a large rhinoceros set against a rugged, open terrain. Then you take a closer look and realise something is amiss. A cluster of human hands has replaced the two horns that distinguish this African animal fro ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Mainstream Media in America and Britain Repeat ...
    Summary: In an excellent report released last month, the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) offered a thoroughly documented—and devastating—critique of mainstream media coverage of the Iranian nuclear issue. Authored by Jonas Siegel and ...
  • Amnesty International should oppose war itself ...
    Summary: Some human rights groups, especially Amnesty International, seem to have forgotten an important human right: peace. A petition has been launched to remind them. source: War is a Crime read more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA Creates 1st Global Map of Titan --Saturn' ...
               Scientists have created the first global topographic map of Saturn’s moon Titan, giving researchers a valuable tool for learning more about one of the most Earth-like and interesting worlds in the solar system. The image above provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory show ...
  • "More Complex than a Galaxy" --New Insights in ...
                                      "Consider the human brain," says the physicist Sir Roger Penrose. "If you look at the entire physical cosmos, our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they're the most perfectly organized part. Compared to the complexity of a brain, a galaxy is jus ...
  • The Higgs Boson and a 'New Physics' --"Could M ...
      Scientists hailed CERN's confirmation of the Higgs Boson in July of 2012, speculating that it could one day make light speed travel possible by "un-massing" objects or allow huge items to be launched into space by "switching off" the Higgs. CERN scientist Albert de Roeck likened it t ...
  • Orion Molecular Cloud --"A Source of the Compl ...
                The spectacular new image above shows just a part of a bigger complex called the Orion Molecular Cloud, in the constellation of Orion (The Hunter). A rich melting pot of bright nebulae, hot young stars and cold dust clouds, this region is hundreds of light-years across and lo ...
  • Cosmic Dust --"A Clue to Origin of Earth's Oxy ...
                 "We don't understand yet how some of the most important molecules here on Earth are made in space. But our discovery of hydrogen peroxide with APEX seems to be showing us that cosmic dust is the missing ingredient in the process," says Berengere Parise, head of the Emmy Noet ...

Natural News

  • How Angelina Jolie was duped by cancer doctors ...
    In a New York Times op-ed explaining her decision to have both of her breasts surgically removed even though she doesn't have breast cancer, Angelina Jolie cited risk numbers as key to her decision. She said that doctors told her she had an "87% risk of breast cancer...
  • Angelina Jolie inspires women to maim themselv ...
    Angelina Jolie announced yesterday that she had both of her breasts surgically removed even though she had no breast cancer. She carries the BRCA1 gene, and she has been tricked into believing that genetic code is some sort of absolute blueprint to disease expression...
  • Biotech's next big disaster
    (NaturalNews)Tom Laskawy, writing at Grist, points out how the next generation of GMOs is following in the track of present disasters: "...
  • New study indicates aging may be all in your head
    A study reported by scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York announced that they have found the region of the brain responsible for aging and can target it to increase longevity in mice. The research, published in the journal Nature, reported...
  • Does Big Pharma contribute to sexual dysfuncti ...
    Not only is it assumed that older adults suffer from sexual dysfunction as a normal cause of aging, it is also believed that most do not have sexual desires. The significance of this is twofold. First, regular sexual expression is associated with good physical and mental...

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PERRspectives : Blog

  • CBO Slashes 2013 Deficit Forecast to $624 Billion
    On January 7, 200--two weeks before Barack Obama took the oath of office--the Congressional Budget Office forecast the federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2009 at $1.2 trillion. Now, the CBO is projecting the deficit will be only $624 billion for FY 2013, $200 billion less than the nonpartis ...
  • Here's How the IRS Scandal Could Cost Uncle Sa ...
    Revelations that IRS civil servants used biased criteria to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status is rightly drawing bipartisan outrage. President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Investigations Subcommittee ...
  • Benghazi and the Republican Scandal Management ...
    For Republicans, Benghazi is the scandal that must not die. Despite the testimony by Obama administration officials including Hillary Clinton and the blistering findings of the State Department Accountability Review Board she endorsed, the GOP is determined to bludgeon the current president and ...
  • Issa Smears His Former Blackwater Shield, Davi ...
    As his performance over the past week suggests, Rep. Darrell Issa's response to the tragic deaths of American citizens in the Middle East apparently depends on which party controls the White House. After all, in February 2007 Issa mocked the families of four Blackwater contractors slaughtered i ...
  • Reagan's Lost Jets Show Danger of Syria Interv ...
    Over the past few days, news reports suggest that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad may be gaining the upper hand in the Syrian civil war. While Hezbollah fighters are apparently pouring in from Lebanon to counter Al Qaeda extremists aligned with the rebels, a hard core Shiite militia bac ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Fish Species Moving North Due To Climate Change
    University of British Columbia scientist William Cheung has documented a gradual shifting of some fish species further north than their typical ranges. Some tropical commercial species are being found by fishing boats in waters near New England. Ocean water in the tropics is becoming too warm du ...
  • Save Polar Bears By Reducing Driving Speeds
    Sea ice has been in a decline recently, and that is very bad news for polar bears. They conduct much of their lives on sea ice, including locating mates and reproducing. ‘Sea ice extent averaged for the month of April 2013 was 14.37 million square kilometers (5.54 million square miles). Th ...
  • Commonly-Used Poultry Drug Increases Levels Of ...
    The meat from chickens raised with arsenic-based drugs contains considerably higher levels of inorganic arsenic, a very toxic carcinogen, new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health has found. While it may sound obvious that if chicken ...
  • Earthworms Protect Gardens From Slugs, Researc ...
    Earthworms, when present in healthy numbers in a garden’s soil, effectively protect the plants there from being consumed by slugs, according to new research from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. An interesting finding, for those of us that like to garden. Slugs ca ...
  • Solar Flare Bonanza — Third X-Class Solar Flar ...
    Another powerful X-class solar flare just erupted from the Sun — the third within only 24 hours. the solar flare registered as a X3.2, making it the most powerful solar flare of the year. This third flare peaked in intensity at about 9:11 pm EDT on May 13, 2013. The previous two flares, an ...

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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 Un-American NRA
    By @TedFrier Last December, I thought I was being provocative by ascribing the NRA's absolute refusal to accept restrictions on the sale or ownership of military-assault weapons to that organization's support -- or its membership's support -- for armed insurrection against our government. Now, a ...
  • 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!

Care 2

  • Keep The Coast Clear ! Pledge To Fight Trash ! ...
    What would happen if 10,000 people decided to reduce their trash impact for one month? We could reduce the trash on Earth by over 1 million pounds. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Madagascar's cute animals
    A fast video on Madagascar's Animals to "I love to Move it Move it" Enjoy! Submitted by Mm M. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Lions' playtime in Kruger national park - in p ...
    Gerroff, dad... family fun time for a pride of lions in Kruger national park, South Africa Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Please Save The Grand Canyon of The Ocean- PET ...
    Alaska's Bering sea is home to one of the world's most remarkable natural wonders- PETITION- Please sign to save your beautiful wonders Submitted by marie jones to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • California: Protect Ducks and Geese from Cruel ...
    Last year, California began enforcing a 2004 law banning the force-feeding of ducks and geese to make foie gras, the diseased, fatty liver produced by force feeding the animals several times daily with metal pipes down their throats. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it! ...

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No Quarter

  • Russia Snags CIA in Clever Sting
    Lost amidst the furor over the Obama Administration’s use of the IRS as a political weapon, bullying the Associated Press and failing to protect American diplomats in Libya is a new story of incompetence at the CIA. It appears, based on news reports from Russia and the US State Department& ...
  • Is Obama Imploding?
    The convergence of the Benghazi coverup with the news that the IRS was targeting conservative groups and that Obama’s Department of Justice moved secretly to get the records of A.P. reporters and editors is shaping up to be the political equivalent of the Perfect Storm (you know, the movie ...
  • The Talking Points Destroy Obama’s Credibility
    How dumb is Jay Carney? Seriously, to go before the White House Press Corp and insist that the White House and State Department only changed one phrase in the CIA drafted talking points–removing the word, “consulate” and inserting the phrase, “diplomatic facility.” ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mountaintop Removal Group Protests Against UBS ...
    WUKY Mountaintop Removal Group Protests Against UBS WUKY LEXINGTON, KY- Members of Hands Off Appalachia gathered in Woodland Park this afternoon to protest against financial services company UBS. The group says UBS provides significant funding and financial advice to several local mining compani ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • Mitt Romney to live in Utah - at least some of ...
    Lisa Riley Roche / Associated Press: Mitt Romney to live in Utah — at least some of the time  —  HOLLADAY — Mitt Romney is once again going to live in Utah.  —  Romney is building a new home in Holladay by the only one of his five sons who lives in Ut ...
  • Sanford thanks 'god of second chances' at Hous ...
    Pete Kasperowicz / Ballot Box: Sanford thanks ‘god of second chances’ at House swearing-in ceremony  —  Newly-elected Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) was officially sworn into office Wednesday evening, and thanked the “god of second chances” for his re-electio ...
  • White House releases Benghazi emails (Glenn Th ...
    Glenn Thrush / Reuters: White House releases Benghazi emails  —  White House officials late Wednesday released what they described as a complete set of emails and documents totaling 100 pages showing the evolution of the administration's talking points about the Benghazi attack ...
  • Holder criticizes longtime foe Issa at committ ...
    CNN: Holder criticizes longtime foe Issa at committee hearing  —  Washington (CNN) — Political fireworks over a little-noticed Supreme Court appeal and a separate whistleblower lawsuit had U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and a longtime congressional adversary exchanging ...
  • Obama Administration Sacks IRS Chief After Tar ...
    Talking Points Memo: Obama Administration Sacks IRS Chief After Targeting Scandal  —  President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requested and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, ...

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    根据商品的消费地而非生产地来计算其排放，对中国来说更加公平，也是达成有效气 ...
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    观察者认为，向白宫请愿要求停建昆明当地的炼油项目，更大程度上是抗议者的一种 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

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    Adoptive parents sue, calling surgery unnecessary and potentially damaging. CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) - South Carolina's Department of Social Services ordered doctors to do irreversible, medically unnecessary sex-assignment surgery on a year-old child in state custody, her adoptive parents claim i ...
  • Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terri ...
    The Pulitzer-prize winning columnist calls the revelations "one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press." The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joined Democracy Now! to discuss what could mark the most significant ...
  • WATCH: Stewart Ridicules Obama for Apparent Cl ...
    Obama on when he learned about IRS targeting conservative groups: "I think it was on Friday." Amidst the government scandals revealed this week, the DoJ's spying on AP, the IRS possibly targeting Tea Party groups, President Obama seemed curiously out of touch. On last night'sDaily Sh ...
  • Armed Gun-Rights Leader Compares Himself to Gandhi
    Mahatma would be turning over in his grave. On July 4, Adam Kokesh hopes to lead 1,000 protesters armed with guns into Washington, D.C. to advocate for open carry. In Kokesh’s eyes, a crowd armed with guns compares to the nonviolent civil disobedience practiced by Mahatma Gand ...
  • Deja Vu? Abuse Allegations for a Second 'Sexua ...
    Sound familiar? That's because almost the same exact thing happened last week. You know there is a really serious sexual assault problem in the military when not one, but two soldiers assigned to monitor and prevent sexual assault are charged or investigated for sexual abuse in the span o ...

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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

  • Fayetteville North Carolina Holiday Inn Bordea ...
    The Cumberland County Department of Public Health is working with the N.C. Division of Public Health to investigate a gastrointestinal illness outbreak among staff and patrons of a local hotel’s... Continue Reading
  • 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

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

  • Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as E ...
    by Anthony Gucciardi bee pesticides epa 263×164 Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as EU Bans ItCorporate politics is business as usual inside the United States, as I am once again shocked to report the EPA has sided with industry lobbyists over public health in approving a highly da ...
  • Reflections in a Petri Dish | The Darkness at ...
    By Visible It’s not like the government has to abide by the constitution or any of the laws of the land that used to exist in one fashion or another. They pay no attention to any of this when they are harassing ordinary citizens so… they could quite easily swoop in and round up all [ ...
  • Pike Knew
    By Philip Jones 6-15-9 In a letter that he wrote to Italian Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini [2], dated August 15, 1871, Albert Pike [1] the most prominent of American Freemasons at the time and a man still revered as a Masonic `God` outlined plans for three world wars, that he said would be necessary ...
  • Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots: US Pr ...
    As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them; that the government continues to give the banksters who crashed the economy a break while cutting access to basic necessities, that the government continues to put big energy profits ahead of ...
  • Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries — ...
    An international protest planned for later this month against biotechnology company Monsanto is slated to span six continents and include demonstrations in dozens of countries around the globe. Amid growing concerns over St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto and the impact the company is having on ...

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

  • Loki helps us to see our true selves.
    Summary:  We can learn about ourselves from our art, even from mass market movies. Sometimes they reveal unspeakable insights about ourselves. It is the glory and good of Art, that Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth … — Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book (1868) A ...
  • We can see our true selves in the propaganda u ...
    Summary: Powerful interest groups provide a mirror in which we can see our true selves. Their well-funded expert opinion manipulators know our real hopes and fears, and manipulate them to mold public opinion. This is one of a long series of posts showing how both Left and Right have drawn the sa ...
  • 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 ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • The Case For Impeachment
    In Article II, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution states, “The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” The U.S. House of Representative ...
  • Bush and His Aides Made 935 False Statements a ...
    Given the Republican obsession with Benghazi talking points, it’s time for a very specific flashback. In 2008, two non partisan groups released a study that determined that President Bush and his top aides made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following ...
  • Video Shows California Police Break Into Priva ...
    A now viral video shows police from Cotati, California forcing their way into a home after a supposed domestic violence call and, after breaking down the homeowners door without a warrant, tazing the person filming their tyranny
  • Obama hopes for extended crisis atmosphere
    President Barack Obama says he wants to “see if we can institutionalize” in Washington the community spirit that sometimes emerges after a terror attack or an industrial explosion. The president made the comments during a fund-raising trip to New York, shortly after leaving Washington, D.C. i ...
  • Use These Secret NSA Google Search Tips to Bec ...
    There’s so much data available on the internet that even government cyberspies need a little help now and then to sift through it all. So to assist them, the National Security Agency produced a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. The 643-page tome, called Untangling ...

Andy Worthington

  • Closing Guantánamo: Obama Administration Respo ...
    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 ...
  • “Torture is for Torture, the System is f ...
    Please sign and share the petition on Change.org urging renewed action from President Obama to close Guantánamo, which now has over 200,000 signatures! Also please show your support for Shaker Aamer, if you can, by joining the protest outside Parliament from 12 noon to 3pm every weekday this wee ...
  • Shaker Aamer, Abandoned in Guantánamo
    Please sign and share the petition on Change.org urging renewed action from President Obama to close Guantánamo, which now has over 200,000 signatures! Also please show your support for Shaker Aamer, if you can, by joining the protest outside Parliament from 12 noon to 3pm every weekday this wee ...
  • Solitary Confinement is Torture and is Officia ...
    No one who has spent any time studying and writing about Guantánamo, as I have, could fail to realize that, although the terrible innovation of Guantánamo is indefinite detention without charge or trial, its orange jumpsuits, and the perceived normality of solitary confinement as standard operat ...
  • Photos: A Year of Protest – The NHS, Dis ...
    A Year of Protest – The NHS, Disabled Rights, Guantánamo, Bradley Manning and the Occupy Movement, a set on Flickr. A year ago yesterday, I embarked on a huge and ongoing project — to photograph the whole of London by bike. A year and a day later, I have taken around 13,000 photos, a ...

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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

  • Mass Public School Closures in Chicago Spark C ...
    The mass public school closings in Chicago have sparked a pair of federal civil rights lawsuits charging that the closings have a discriminatory impact on African-American students and students with disabilities. The suits are asking for an injunction to halt the closures of 53 elementary school ...
  • US Gov't Reaps Billions in Profits Off Backs o ...
    The United States government is reaping billions in profits off the backs of struggling students, according to new figures made public Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office. According to the 2013 fiscal year forecast, the Department of Education is slated to bring in an estimated $50.6 bill ...
  • Improve Working Conditions in Bangladesh? Walm ...
    In the wake of the worst garment factory tragedy in world history, which left over 1,200 dead in Bangladesh last month, a number of Western brands have signed an agreement to improve working conditions in their subcontracted factories there. Walmart was missing from the list of signatories. ...
  • Momentum of Fast Food Workers Strikes Sweeping ...
    They came to New York City. Chicago. St. Louis. Detroit.  And on Wednesday the wave of strikes by fast food workers has come to Milwaukee, where hundreds of workers are echoing the chorus of voices calling for $15 an hour and the right to unionize. ...
  • States Brace for Monsanto's 'Big Stick' in GMO ...
    (Photo: Vermont Right to Know)Grassroots groups across the United States are mobilizing against the nation's powerful biotech firms as a new round of labeling laws for foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) make their way through state legislatures.  ...

Lifehacker

  • Google Maps Gets a Completely New Look and Bet ...
    Google announced a new version of Maps for Android, iOS, and the web today, with a new look and a focus on location discovery.Read more...    
  • Watch 4 Idle Runs Applications While You're Away
    Windows: Watch 4 Idle is a small app that allows you to issue commands or run applications on your desktop whenever the machine idles.Read more...    
  • Google's New Conversational Search Makes Star ...
    Google's inched ever closer to the dream of Star Trek-style computing with its new Conversational Search, unveiled today at Google I/O. You start a search by saying "Okay, Google...," speak your search query, whether it's "when does my flight leave," "how far is it to the bea ...
  • Google Now Gets Reminders, Public Transportati ...
    Google Now is getting a few new cards to dish you information quickly. This includes a new Reminders function that automatically tells you when you have plans, a new public transportation search, and more. Read more...    
  • Google+ Gets Amazing Photo Selection and Auto- ...
    Google+ is getting some mind-blowing new features to make your images awesome and help you manage your incredibly large photo library. Using advanced algorithms, Google+ will now pick your best photos, auto-enhance images, and more.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

  • Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Glob ...
    By Dana Nuccitelli and John Cook via Skeptical Science. A new survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97 percent consensus in the peer-reviewed literature that humans are causing global warming. Lead author John Cook ...
  • How The Full Benghazi Emails Undermine The GOP ...
    On Wednesday, just days after Congress held hearings claiming that the Obama administration misled the public in the aftermath of the Sep. 11, 2012 attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House released 100 pages of emails that seem to undermine GOP claims that the White Ho ...
  • Worsening A Warming-Fueled Wildfire Season, Se ...
    Due to sequestration, the federal government will be at least $115 million short of normal wildfire fighting capacity during this year’s wildfire season. This is particularly problematic as large portions of the U.S. face a serious drought and extremely dry conditions. As the Washington Po ...
  • Congressman Tears Into AG Holder Over Marijuan ...
    During a Wednesday House oversight hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder that overwhelmingly focused on the invasive government search of Associated Press phone logs and the IRS, one House member took the opportunity to grill Holder on another Department of Justice issue that has provoked cr ...
  • How Piecemeal Fixes Will Make Sequestration Worse
    A report out today from the Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee shows costly new flaws in Congress’ approach to fiscal policy. Beyond providing updated information on the anticipated impacts to specific programs from the across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration, th ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • This Country is Fucked
    This whole fucking world actually. This whole fucking human race is doomed. The greed-heads aren't going to be torn to pieces by the ravenous hordes. The ravenous hordes will tear each other to pieces. The biggest greed-heads will survive in their isolated fortresses, and congratulate themselves ...
  • harpercon defeated; an okay day for Canada
    It's tough getting around to visit all the small communities in a place like Labrador. That's why getting free plane rides would give a huge advantage to any candidate who could score 'em. And, the smaller airline companies who serve Labrador might not have the liquid cash sitting around to dona ...
  • For Your Consideration
    Crazy-assed meth cook Walter White: Canadian Spaceship Media Whore Chris Hadfield: Safe return Commander!
  • 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 ...

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

  • Do you have a Peace Mom?
    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

  • Stressed? Clenching your fist may be beneficial…
    When I’m feeling stressed I head outside for a stroll and get some fresh air, but if you’re one of the many people who grab a stress-relieving ball and clench your fists, you’ll be thrilled to hear it may actually be beneficial – and not just for the stress! It is believed the movements activate ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-13-13
    Today, Kevin explains how the government is secretly taking money from you and what could be done to prevent inflation from getting any higher! Self Help: KT on Tour Get Your Omega-3’s Protect Your Bank Account Get Rid of Diabetes Weight Loss Cure Video: The Youth of America Health: Carmel Color ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-20-13
    Today, Kevin explains how natural supplements, like honey and apple cider vinegar, can improve your health and even reverse the aging process. Self Help: Make Food Allergies Vanish Get Rid of Depression Give Your Support Health: Leading Experts Rethinking Food Allergy Causes New Blood Tests Spot ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-27-13
    Today, Kevin reveals exactly how he would fix America if he were elected to office. Find out which programs he would cut, what he would make legal and illegal, what he would expose, and what laws he would demand! Self Help: Give Kevin Your Vote of Support! Don’t Worry About The How Everything Ke ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Jon Stewart lampoons Obama’s descent into scan ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.comBy Eric W. Dolan On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart poked fun at President Barack Obama for becoming embroiled in multiple scandals. He mocked the President for admitting that he only ...
  • Nuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred, Sa ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comNuclear Iran Can Be Contained and Deterred, Says Report Antiwar.comJim Lobe While preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is preferable, the United States could successfully contain a nuclear Iran, according to a ...
  • Cafe Palestine Freiburg Wins a Landmark Victory
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Gabi Weber University of Freiburgs refusal to let lecture hall to Cafe Palestine has been found to be illegal. We are happy to announce that last Friday, Cafe Palestine Freibu ...
  • Obama vows to punish IRS staff who targeted te ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comObama vows to punish IRS staff who targeted tea party groups Raw StoryBy Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian   Barack Obama has pledged Internal Revenue Service employees who discriminated against Tea Party groups will be ...
  • Holy Cows
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Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a &#8220 ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad May 15, 2013 democracynow on May 15, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org – The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice ...
  • Murder Is Our National Sport by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad Truthdig May 13, 2013 Murder is our national sport. We murder tens of thousands with our industrial killing machines in Afghanistan and Iraq. We murder thousands more from the skies over Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen with our pilotless drones. We murder each ...
  • US Driven By Nazi War Machine by Finian Cunningham
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV May 11, 2013 The annual VE Day – victory in Europe – celebrations held this month see, as usual, Western governments indulging in self-glory and moral superiority for their supposed defeat of German fas ...
  • Only You Can Prevent Fracking by Peter Rugh + ...
    Dandelion Salad by Peter Rugh SocialistWorker.org First published at Waging Nonviolence, May 7, 2013 May 9, 2013 SMOKEY THE Bear thought he smelled a fire in the woods. But as he approached the clearing and saw a giant derrick jutting out into the sky, he realized that what his nose had picked u ...
  • The Banking System In Short by Rudo de Ruijter
    by Rudo de Ruijter Writer, Dandelion Salad Independent researcher www.courtfool.info Netherlands May 7, 2013 Today’s bank system adheres to a very simple principle. When you want to borrow money, you promise the banker you will pay him back and with that promise the banker creates a balanc ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Al-Nakba
    “The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….” So begins this four-part Al-Jazeera series on the ‘Nakba’ (the ‘catastrophe’), about the history of the Palestinian exodus... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Activists not to drop charges against Israeli ...
    According to Article 90 of the Turkish Constitution, international agreements prevail over domestic laws if there is a conflict between them and no appeal can be made to the Constitutional Court... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • On Nakba anniversary, refugees make almost hal ...
    The number of Palestinians who remained in their towns and village in 1948 after the Nakba was estimated at 154,000. Their number is now estimated as 1.4 million on the 65rd anniversary of the Nakba.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Stephen Hawking letter: Some facts on Israel a ...
    In our letter to you we make reference to a range of aspects of Israel’s treatment of Palestine and the Palestinians. Our descriptions there are necessarily abbreviated, and this note provides a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Letter sent to Prof. Stephen Hawking
    The following letter was sent to Stephen Hawking by 20 scientists urging him to reconsider his participation, as a keynote speaker, at Israel's Presidential Conference, a major public event... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

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