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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israel army draft
Thousands of men rally in Jerusalem against plans to enrol them into military, saying it would harm their way of life.
Mixed News from Space
Amid fretful resignation, we learn of the likely loss of
the magnificent Kepler mission...which discovered as many as three
thousand planets beyond our solar system. (About 10% of them now
confirmed.) Only two of the four gyro systems are still working, not
enough for the probe to aim at more than a hundred thousand stars with
uncanny accuracy, each day. While this will be a sad loss, the epoch
introduced by the Kepler Mission bodes well for you understanding of the
universe.Can we agree by national consensus about just one thing? That
we must follow this up with something even better and mo
Do I Really Want to See the Results of a Mail-In DNA Test?
Dear Lifehacker,I'm considering getting my DNA tested through a
service like 23andMe or DNA Traits, but I'm not really sure I want to
learn that much about myself. What can I expect from these genetic
tests, and are they worth it?Read more...
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Nawaz Wins: What’s Next in Pakistan?
The count’s still contested here and there—and loudly, especially in
Karachi, which is no surprise. But the outcome is clear: the Pakistan
Muslim League (N) won enough seats in last week’s parliamentary election
to form a government all by itself. No need for coalition building in
Islamabad.
That’s good. One-party government makes it easier to get things done,
especially when there’s a responsi
Benghazi Was Neither a Terrorist Attack Nor an Act of Terror
I am hereby declaring 99 Pinocchios on Barack Obama, all the
people who work for him, everyone in the Republican party, and most
everyone in the press who has reported on Benghazi.
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The Corbett Report
Interview 661 – Tami Canal on #MarchAgainstMonsanto
Today James talks to Tami Canal, the founder and organizer of
March-Against-Monsanto.com, a group that is bringing together tens of
thousands of activists across the globe to participate in a day of
protest on May 25th against Monsanto’s products and practices. With
events scheduled to take place in hundreds of cities across dozens of
continents, we discuss what is motivating this action and how l
Interview 662 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series
from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most
important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: How the IRS, Benghazi, and AP scandals might converge
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Congresswoman: Obama gave Benghazi stand down order
http://ur1.ca/dvuxu
Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED
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Episode 267 – The Meaning of Life
No, James can’t tell you the meaning of your life. But he can
show you that there is a meaning in life. Join us this week for a very
special edition of The Corbett Report where we explore life’s biggest
question…and confront the biggest lie.
For those with limited bandwidth, CLICK HERE to download a smaller,
lower file size version of this episode.
For those interested in audio quality, CLICK HERE
Scandal Week, Angelina Eugenics, Mini Bilderberg – New World Next Week
Welcome back to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series
from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most
important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: How the IRS, Benghazi, and AP scandals might converge
http://ur1.ca/dvuvw
Congresswoman: Obama gave Benghazi stand down order
http://ur1.ca/dvuxu
Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED
http://ur1.ca/
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The EnvironmentaList
Tim DeChristopher’s Case Reveals Obama Administration’s Selective Prosecution
Film Review: Bidder 70
Remember When the IRS Targeted Environmental Organizations?
This isn’t the first time the agency has investigated political
groups – just the first time it’s become a full-blown controversy
It’s Time for Drakes Estero to Run Wild
We should honor the 1976 public interest agreement and affirm “America’s greatest idea”
Water Pollution Plagues Mexico’s Scenic Pacific Coast
Tourists largely unaware that industrial pollution from rivers upstream is making them sick
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Obsidian Wings
Your recycled instrument Friday open thread
by liberal japonicus
A very interesting story from Mother Jones magazine. The video is below the fold
"You asked for miracles, Theo, I give you the" I.R.S.*
by Ugh
In this post the role of Theo will be played by the GOP.
As most of you have no doubt heard, the IRS has admitted targeting
right-leaning organizations applying for tax-exempt status under section
501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code for extra-scrutiny. There will
be an official Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report
on this released this week (a portion of which was le
Ha ha Heritage open Friday thread
by liberal japonicus
Don't get me wrong, I like the word heritage. If you haven't noticed,
I'm someone who often dwells in the past, and the whole idea of finding
out stuff about the past, be it digging up ancient mysteries,
contemplating the enamel on dinosaurs' teeth, or reading about the last
member of a vanished Indian tribe, makes a firm believer in Faulkner's
turn of phra
Transfer Pricing
A month ago a commentor asked about the practice known in the tax
community (and more broadly) as "transfer pricing" and reigning in some
of its effects.
As background, "transfer pricing" generally (very generally) refers to
how to account for transactions between related entities for tax
purposes. That is, if wholly owned subsidiary A sells a product to
wholly owned subsidi
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“Will Zuma survive his son’s ploy?” by Nkwazi Mhango
Recent security scandal and flaw in South Africa exposed President Jacob
Zuma’s weak spot. It’s reported that an Indian plane carrying a wedding
entourage landed at a military base near Pretoria contrary to the norm
and law. This act of aggression and transgression to the security of the
country regarded as Africa’s big brother, miffed and irked many people
in and outside South Africa.
The plane
“Where is the Black Church?” by Derryck Green
Op-ed submission by Project 21
Problems infecting and affecting the black community must be addressed
in a serious and sincere manner. Many of these problems center around
moral values that were once readily available and in abundance among
black Americans. Now they are increasingly becoming rare.
To deal with this crisis, there should be a focused and concentrated
effort, originating within black
“Is vengeance Banda’s way of forgiving?” by Nkwazi Mhango
News that some senior ministers and former Mutharika’s inner circle were
arraigned in Malawi answering for various charges, real and trampled
on, yanked the country and the world at large. Authorities in Malawi
recently arrested Professor Peter Mutharika (brother to the late former
president, Bingu wa Mutharika and president of opposition party
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Patricia Kaliati
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Did You Know
Attempted Abduction In Renfrew Bogus
ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION IN RENFREW BOGUS
May 15 2013
Police in Renfrew are now saying that a reported attempted abduction
Monday (May 13) did not happen. They are not saying who made up the
story but a full investigation of the reported attempt to grab a 10 year
old girl has led them to determine the incident never happened. Police
thank members of the public for their assistance and they are contin
Child Abduction Attempt in Renfrew Bogus, Ontario, Canada
Sent out the story to everyone the other day. It has since been
found that the report was false. So if you come here to view the story
it has been deleted.
ATTEMPTED ABDUCTION IN RENFREW BOGUS
May 15 2013
Police in Renfrew are now saying that a reported attempted abduction
Monday (May 13) did not happen. They are not saying who made up the
story but a full investigation of the reported attempt to
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Syria Comment
Do the Massacres in Bayda and Banyas Portend Ethnic Cleansing to Create an Alawite State?
Do the Massacres in Bayda and Banyas Portend Ethnic Cleansing to
Create an Alawite State?
by Joshua Landis, Syria Comment, May 13, 2013
Map showing the cities of Latakia – Baniyas – Tartus on the Syrian coast
This question is taken up in two thoughtful articles by Hassan Hassan
and Michael Young. Hassan Hassan argues that “sectarian cleansing is not
being conducted for the purpose of establishing
New report on the Muslim Brotherhood
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which has a great Syria
resource site, just released my new paper on the Syrian Muslim
Brotherhood. They’re also about to release a second report by Raphaël
Lefèvre, a French scholar who recently published a well-received book on
the Syrian Ikhwan, called Ashes of Hama. Keep your eyes open for that –
I’ve had a look at
Major salafi faction criticizes Jabhat al-Nosra
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment
The Islamic Ahrar al-Sham Movement, which is the leading faction of the
Syrian Islamic Front (SIF) and probably the biggest salafi group in
Syria, has issued a statement about Jabhat al-Nosra’s recent declaration
of allegiance to al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Ahrar al-Sham
statement is available in Arabic on Aaron Zelin’s Jihadology, always the
go-to place for so
Should the US Intervene? And Listener Responses – Positive and Negative
This hour, On Point: NPR – the U.S. and the red line. Should the US
intervene?
Guests
Anne Barnard, Middle East reporter for the New York Times.
(@abarnardnyt)
Joshua Landis, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the
University of Oklahoma. Blogs at “Syria Comment.” (@joshua_landis)
Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a
fellow at the Saban Center for Mi
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INFRASTRUCTURIST
Five Reasons Electric Cars Will Have Trouble Catching On
With the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf set to hit the
streets very soon, and the Ford Focus Electric now scheduled to
appear late next year, many people are asking whether Americans are
ready to embrace electric cars. Some clearly are: GE already declared
its intention to buy 25,000 EVs(including 12,000 Volts). But many
believe the masses won’t be moving [...]
How Often Is the Gas Tax Raised? Most Americans Have No Clue
The federal gas tax. It needs to be raised. We’ve hammered this
point home enough. Our infrastructure needs help, and that help involves
money, and that money has to come from somewhere. Politicians know
this. But they won’t touch the gas tax with a ten-foot pole. Why not?
Because come election time, no one wants to [...]
Public Private Partnerships: Another One Bites The Dust
Lots of people point to the $2.2 trillion shortfall in
infrastructure investment in this country, and suggest that
privatization of public assets is the best way to deal with the
situation. So, for example, this might mean leasing a highway to a group
of investors and giving them the right to charge tolls. The rationale
is pretty [...]
The World’s 10 Greatest Large Urban Parks
Everyone knows what a urban park looks like, right? It tends to
be a parcel of green space in a sea of asphalt and concrete and glass.
But, of course, there are innumerable variations on that principle. We
thought it would be fun to take ten of the world’s largest, most famous,
and most [...]
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Phronesisaical
Syria’s chemical weapons pose a decade-long problem for the world
That's the title of another op-ed from me and Aaron Stein at the Globe and Mail.
Bits and Pieces - April 29, 2013
Too much stuff happening.Jared Bernstein is collecting news
stories about the damage being done by the sequester. Here's this week's
collection.Why didn't 2,400 tons of ammonium nitrate at West plant
raise concerns?The blunt logic of Russian power.Forgiveness and
reconciliation need to factor into many more international
situations.Richard Haass: How to build a second American century.
Bits and Pieces - April 28, 2013
Bush and the West explosion: the untold story of deregulating
chemical plantsCharlie Stross changes his mind on nuclear
disarmament.What we need to know about Syrian chemical weapons (by me)
Bits and Pieces - April 17, 2013
This is pretty interesting. Global Military Spending Falls For
First Time Since 1998. Except in the United States. Check out this chart
showing relative spending by country.Every war must end.
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ArmsControlWonk
Inspections at Minot
I have a new column up at Foreign Policy (“Death Wears Bunny
Slippers”) considering this recent story at the Air Force has suspended
17 ICBM launch officers are Minot Air Force Base and initiated
proceedings against another.
The column is largely an act of media criticism. After several Air
Force mishaps relating to the handling of nuclear weapons systems came
to light in 2007 and 2008, many of u
Traffic Wardens and Kim Posters
I have a column up at 38North discussing whether North Korea will test a
Musudan anytime soon (“Pit or Get Off the Shot“) — with a bottle of the
local plonk riding on the outcome with Joel Wit.
I touched briefly on the issue of politics inside North Korea, but
wanted to have an extended discussion of the recent rumors of an
assassination attempt against Kim Jong Un.
The reason for the rumors? No
Saving Cities
Aspiring wonks, here is your end-of-semester exam question: It’s
not OK to use cluster munitions in metropolitan areas, but it is OK to
use nuclear weapons against targets that fall within or close to them.
Yes? No? Under some circumstances? Explain.
States that possess nuclear weapons are reluctant to argue whether and
how their use applies to the laws of armed conflict. To do so would risk
under
ROK 123 Extension
Over at our Proliferation Prevention Program blog, you can see
what my boss and I wrote regarding “The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Peaceful
Nuclear Cooperation at the US-ROK May 2013 Presidential Summit.”
The first result of the decision to delay for most in my former line of
work is likely to be relief. But two years is not that far away. And
in terms of difficulty, may not be enough time to agree on
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A Good Price
“This used to be Banker’s Row. Every morning they would all go to
Berlin, every evening return. These were cultured, intelligent people.
They had a modest portrait of the Führer. They closed their eyes when
the Meyers disappeared from this mansion over here or the Weinstein
family vanished from that house over there. Later, they could get those
houses for a good price. Well, you can’t tell where t
The Unified Field Theory Of The Black Man’s Badness
The black man ate popcorn and laughed and laughed whilst he
watched on the Situation Room teevee four Americans die in Benghazi,
because he believed those Americans were teabaggers who had applied to
the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, their teabaggerness
identified through Associated Press phone records obtained by the
Justice Department, writes Joseph Fawcett Farah in World Nut D
I Have Always Been Wrong
The other night, for no reason known to me, but one no doubt
connected to Satan, some cat, or cats, upended a bookshelf, and spilled
the poetry books to the floor.
The cats of my acquaintance have never really approved of poetry. For
instance, in another decade, in another abode, the poetry volumes were
subjected to a wanton urine rain.
The culprit has never been caught or confessed, and remains a
I Alone Feel This Torment
Filed under: Animal Matters
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WWF - Latest News
Total to keep out of Virunga World Heritage Site
Addressing investors in Paris today, Total Chairman and CEO
Christophe de Margerie affirmed that the company will not explore for
oil within the boundaries of Virunga National Park in Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC). Responding to questions posed by conservation
group WWF, de Margerie told the annual shareholder meeting that Total is
making a "commitment to respect the current limits" of the pa
WWF presses Total for protection of World Heritage Sites
WWF today has issued an open letter to investors in French oil
giant Total expressing concerns over the company's ongoing activities on
the edge of a prized national park in Africa. The conservation group is
calling for assurances from Total that it will keep out of Democratic
Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park. WWF believes that the
area currently covered by Africa's first national par
WWF tool measures cumulative impact of hydropower, mining projects in Amazon
Brasilia — WWF is calling for a widely shared, common vision for
Amazonian river basins that are the site of large-scale mining and
hydropower projects. "There should be a qualified debate in the national
sphere regarding what kind of Amazon we wish to preserve in the future.
That means defining which rivers are to be preserved before the
accumulated effects of the innumerable hydroelectric a
Deer finding documents success of prey recovery program for endangered Amur tigers and leopards
Jilin, China – The recent discovery of a preyed upon deer is seen
as a major sign of progress in the efforts to boost the populations of
endangered Amur tigers and leopards in China.The body of the dead sika
deer was discovered by a ranger of Lanjia forest farm, located at the
east foot of the Changbai Mountain, one of WWF's Tigers Alive
Initiative's landscapes, in China's northeastern Jilin Provi
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NolanChart.com
Focus on Minimum Wage is Misplaced
by Kenn Jacobine: Only a return to sound money will ultimately help those currently working for minimum wage.
(The Climate Change Poem) Moon, I Have Begun A Journey
by Kamala B. Sarup: (The Climate Change Poem) Moon, I Have
Begun A Journey By Kamala B. Sarup
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Climate-Change-Poem--by-Kamala-B-Sarup-130513-772.html
And yet I cannot tellExistence and concept of life.Peace and perfect
weatherYou and
(POEM) It is due to kindness
by Kamala B. Sarup: Heart to heart, Love and forgiveness is important.
IRS assault on Tea Party is a national security threat!
by Mark Vogl: Government interference in "free elections" illustrates how wrong things are in the United States.
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In These Time
The Tragedy of Self Immolation: No One Cares
Self-immolation isn't what it used to be.
This ultimate form of protest became global news in 1963 when the
venerable monk Thich Quang Duc set himself ablaze in the middle of
Saigon, Vietnam, protesting religious oppression. Doused in gasoline,
the monk sat serenely in lotus position and lit a match. A bird of
paradise thus blossomed and bloomed, and quickly charred his body.
The photogr
If West, Texas Had Been a Terrorist Attack
If I told you that government officials possessed ironclad proof that
an imminent threat to this nation had the capacity to create a 9/11's
worth of injuries and deaths every year at an annual economic cost of a
quarter trillion dollars, ask yourself: Would you say we should do
something about it?
I'm guessing you would. Out of a basic sense of patriotism, you would
probably at minimum
Revoking Amnesty for Death Squads
Twenty years ago in March, the government of El Salvador passed an
amnesty law that granted immunity from prosecution to those responsible
for crimes committed before and during the country’s civil war, which
raged from 1980 to 1992. This law was promulgated only five days after a
U.N. truth commission reported that an estimated 75,000 civilians had
lost their lives in the conflict, more than 90
The Right to Call In Sick
“I’ve gone to work horribly ill many times,” says Susan Lund, a grocery
worker in Portland, Ore. “[Bosses] don’t care, as long as the work is
being done. I see employees run to the bathroom because they’re throwing
up, but a manager doesn’t send them home.”
That won’t be true for long. On March 13, thanks to the activism of
thousands of Portlanders like Lund, the City Council unanimously vot
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Craig Murray
Free UK Entry for Illegals Only
I am furious to learn that Israeli settlers resident illegally in
the occupied territories are allowed visa free entry to the UK, whereas
Palestinians living legally in those territories require a visa (and
won’t usually get one).
From Hansard
Asked by Lord Warner
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why Palestinians from the Occupied
Palestinian Territories require a visa before travelling to the Unit
Plus Ca Change
In 1816, in a “Big Bang” liberalisation, the commercial and
financial restrictions on trading with India were removed. This account
is from John Capper’s 1853 book, The Three Presidencies of India. I
just wondered if it reminded you of anything?
The impetus which the Indian trade received on the opening of the ports
of the East to all classes was not without its evils; the prospect of
rapid fort
The Mavi Marmara Murders
I can claim to have had a small hand in instigating the legal
complaint to the International Criminal Court by the Comoros Islands
against the murders by Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmara. The
Washington Post writes:
In a filing, lawyers from the Istanbul-based law firm Elmadag argued
that the events that took place on the Mavi Marmari should be considered
as having occurred on the territory of
The Tough Life of a Dissident
Ray McGovern always advises me not to accentuate the negatives in
becoming a whistleblower. I always talk of the inevitable
unemployment – no employer, not even those you might think of as moral,
will ever employ a whistleblower as the quality an employer values in an
employee above all others is loyalty to their employer. I also talk of
the persecution and harassment. Those are very real inde
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Centauri Dreams
Star Trek, Star Tech
Tau Zero’s founding architect (and the former head of NASA’s
Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project) weighs in on the kind of
technology we see in the new Star Trek movie and ponders what it would
take to make at least some of it real.
by Marc Millis
Another Star Trek film just hit the screen – with the venerable Starship
Enterprise and its iconic warp drives and in-flight gravitation. How
close
The Enzmann Solution
Yesterday I remarked on how many more tools for exoplanet
discovery we have today than were available to Harry Stine when he wrote
“A Program for Star Flight” in 1973. That same day came the
disheartening news that the Kepler mission has been stopped in its
tracks by an equipment malfunction. But take heart — a vast amount of
data already gathered by Kepler remains to be studied, meaning we’ll be
Harry Stine: Building the Infrastructure
Before getting started on today’s post, a reminder that Tau Zero
founder Marc Millis and I will be among those interviewed on the History
Channel show Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe tonight at 10 PM
Eastern US time (0200 UTC on Thursday). Many of the ideas discussed on
that show parallel those found in Harry Stine’s program for interstellar
exploration. Stine drew on the work of Stephen Dole,
A Program for Star Flight
We become so bedazzled by the assumptions of our time that we can
forget how things looked in different eras. 1973 wasn’t all that many
years ago in the cosmic scheme of things, but the early ‘70s were a time
of surprising optimism when it came to our future in space. As we saw
yesterday, physicist Robert Forward laid out a plan for interstellar
expansion to a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Rep
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They gave us a republic... - Front Page
Faith, Hope, Charity...and Persistence
It's the last week of the session for the Missouri General
Assembly.
Previously:
It's the last week of the session (May 14, 2013)
May as well (May 15, 2013)
In the House chamber.
If one spends any amount of time watching the House in action during the
last week of the session you are bound to witness a moment or two of
legislative drama.
In yesterday morning's session Representative Karla May
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, as I read professor Stanley Fish's column in the New York Times his
morning, I see that I was merely bein
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.
-- William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Before Tea Party Republicans pushed the nation to the brink of the "fiscal cliff" or c
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Pesticide Action Network
USDA hits pause on new GE crops
In a welcome turn, USDA announced last week that it will take a
closer look at new genetically engineered (GE) crops before allowing
them on the market. The approval of Dow's 2,4-D-resistant corn and soy,
as well as Monsanto's dicamba-resistant soy and cotton, will be put on
hold until Environmental Impact Statements are completed.
The decision to conduct a more thorough investigation come
Whose food system? Court sides with Monsanto.
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the much anticipated
Monsanto v. Bowman case, addressing whether the corporation's patent
protections extend past the initial sale and use of their RoundUp-Ready
seeds. Unfortunately the justices landed on the side of Monsanto,
reaffirming the stranglehold corporations have on seeds — and our food
system.
I had hoped the Supreme Court might finally dr
Healthy food & farms: How will Congress vote?
I am neither a farmer nor an octogenarian, yet images of the
disastrous U.S. dust bowl of the 1930s are forever etched in my memory.
What I am is a mom, who is well aware of how children's health is linked
to the food our kids eat — in all kinds of ways. And these two things
are are inextricably linked through our food system, and the policies
that shape it.
How farmers treat the soil and how
Protecting kids? Moms are on the job.
I'm looking forward to Sunday morning. Breakfast in bed, flowers
and chocolate — plus sweet, handmade cards from kids who often don't
take the time to say thanks. What's not to like?
But I also like the fact that Mother's Day was actually founded to
celebrate moms taking action to protect their children and communities.
And it's in that spirit that I'd like to honor all the
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The Truth is Where?
The Earth is reeling from a swarm of earthquakes over last 72 hours.
Posted on May 15, 2013 Find Article Here:-
May 15, 2013 – GEOLOGY – A flurry of earthquakes continues across the
planet over the past 72 hours, showing few signs of abatement. Seismic
tension continues to build across the Pacific Plate, the Cocos plate
(Central America), and the Nazca plate, near South America. Tectonic
plate agitation appears to be increasing, along with vo
The US Government Will Make A Record $51 Billion Off Student Loan Debt This Year.
By Mandi Woodruff 15th May 2013. Find
Article Here:-
Student loan debt is now one of the Obama Administration‘s biggest cash
cows.
The government is poised to pocket a record $51 billion profit from
federal student loan borrowers this year, according to a report by the
Congressional Budget Office.
That’s roughly 40% higher than the CBO’s original forecast in February,
$35.5
Massive underwater volcano discovered off the coast of southeast Alasksa.
Posted on May 15th, 2013 Find Full Article Here:-
May 15, 2013 – ALASKA – U.S. Forest Service Geologist Jim Baichtal, who
is based on Prince of Wales Island, and Anchorage geologist Sue Karl
were looking at some hydrographic surveys, something geologists tend to
do. When we were done, I noticed the area from Thorne Arm to Rudyerd had
been surveyed,” Baichtal said. “I zoomed in and ther
Number Crunching…..
£1.3m
Amount spent so far on Operation Yewtree, UK police investigation into
sexual abuse which arose out of death of Jimmy Savile
£19.5m
Amount spent so far on Operations Weeting, Elveden and Tuleta, UK police
investigations into phone hacking and bribery which arose out of death
of News of the World
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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
NPI ‘Think Tank’ is Latest Racist Outfit to Move to NW Montana
Yet another organization with a white supremacist agenda — this
one packaged as a “white nationalist think tank” — has moved its
operations to northwestern Montana, leaving Georgia to join a rag-tag
collection of some of the country’s leading racists and extremists.
The National Policy Institute (NPI), which enjoys tax-exempt status, now
lists a post office [...]
Once Again, White Nationalists Sully Immigration Debate
Opponents of immigration reform legislation have been trying to
steer clear of white nationalists lately, hoping to keep their
opposition to citizenship for undocumented Latino immigrants free from
the taint of racism.
But they just can’t seem to run fast enough.
Last week, a major Heritage Foundation report about the supposed costs
of illegal immigration was pilloried [...]
Another Men’s Rights Activist Suicide Exploited by Ideologues
Last spring, I wrote an article for the Southern Poverty Law
Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Report that ran online under the headline,
“Leader’s Suicide Brings Attention to Men’s Rights Movement.” One year
later, following an unremitting series of attacks on what I wrote by
defensive men’s right activists (MRAs), another suicide has shed new
light on [...]
Co-Author of New Immigration Study Says Latinos not as Intelligent
Editor’s Note: On Friday, May 10, the Heritage Foundation, which
earlier distanced itself from the controversial views of its senior
policy analyst Jason Richwine, said Richwine had resigned from the
foundation, according to Politico.
Jason Richwine, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, is
attracting attention because of a recently released anti-immigration
study that is garnering [..
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IPS Inter Press Service Earth Alert: Confront...
In Trinidad, Causes Debated as Flooding Worsens
Floods are marking an early start to the rainy season in
Trinidad. Credit: Peter Richards/IPSOfficially, the Caribbean’s rainy
season begins in June, coinciding with the start of the hurricane
season. But recently, heavy rains have signalled an early start to the
rainy season, flooding streets, swelling rivers and causing widespread
damage to crops.
“With global warming, you have to expect anythin
Optimistic but Cautious, Grenada Bolsters Its Water Resources
Pat Jones, 65, stops to drink water at a community standpipe in
Grenada. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPSOne daunting scientific forecast
states that almost half of the world’s population will live in areas of
water scarcity by 2030. Yet Christopher Husbands, the head of Grenada’s
National Water and Sewerage Authority (NAWASA), is unfazed.
“Nationally, we have adequate resources, certainly taking us way
Chile Looks to Volcanoes and Geysers for Energy
Kawerau geothermal centre in New Zealand. Credit: Courtesy of New
Zealand Trade & EnterpriseChile is one of the countries with the
greatest potential for geothermal energy development in Latin America,
but a lack of incentives for investment in the sector has kept it from
moving past the exploratory phase. A strategic partnership with New
Zealand aims to change that situation.
Geothermal energ
Climate Change Adaptation: A Race Against Time
Participants in CBA-7 taking part in a brainstorming session.
Credit: Naimul Haq/IPSAdaptation and mitigation. Identified by the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and by scientists
as the two major responses to address the problem, these were also the
twin preoccupations of a climate change conference held recently in
Dhaka.
Some 200 environmentalists, scientists, policymakers,
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