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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 ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • 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:

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  • Lapid and Netanyahu aren’t the problem, ...
    In an interview with the ‘New York Times,’ Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid rejects the idea of a settlement freeze or compromise on Jerusalem, instead offering an updated version of the Oslo Accord as an interim solution. Yair Lapid, the surprising star of the last elections and Is ...
  • Dispelling modern myths of Muslim anti-Semitism
    An academic chapter about the history of Muslim relations with Jews provides a refreshing rejoinder to the tired assumption that Muslim society and culture are fundamentally anti-Semitic. In this post, I am hosting a short comment by the author, explaining his argument. By Mark R. Cohen On one o ...
  • WATCH: Supporters stage prison vigil for consc ...
    Israeli teenager Natan Blanc was sentenced to a tenth prison term of 28 days for refusing to serve in the Israeli army last week. With the latest sentencing, he has been sent to prison more times than any previous conscientious objector in Israel. Earlier this year, supporters and activists held ...
  • Will Europe take a leading role on Israel/Pale ...
    A new position paper, which echoes previous statements by EU negotiators and leaders, urges the EU to adopt a more confrontational approach toward Jerusalem. A top European think tank is urging the European Union to take concrete measures to keep open a window for the two-state solution. The rep ...
  • A smug, bourgeois Israeli ‘social protes ...
    Despite the wishes of many — if not most — of the people in the streets, the masses who identify with the ‘social protest’ are callous to those whose complaints are so much more urgent than theirs.   Even though I’ve always agreed with the stated goal of the “ ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Foreclosure is Fascism: Taxpayers Paying Billi ...
    Wow.  The mechanisms banks use to take more and more billions from taxpayers is astonishing.  I continue to argue that foreclosures, as they are being conducted in this country today, are a manifestation of the economic aspects of fascism, those economic conditions being the fusion of the state ...
  • Banks And Wall Street: More Profitable Than Ev ...
    What the world just does now want to understand is that this entire nation is being lied to, cheated and stolen from by The Banks who are conspiring with the state and federal government to steal not just our homes, but our pensions, all savings and any assets we haveRead the Rest...
  • The Banks Have a MAJOR PROBLEM….As Many ...
    Next week promises to be very busy in my office. And the week after that, and the week after that. Weeks ago we filed dozens of motions seeking to have foreclosure cases dismissed.  In the next several weeks, those motions will be heard.  In the previous hearings where this motionRead the Rest...
  • Will Governor Scott Sign Florida’s Very ...
    The foreclosure mess passed by the Florida Legislature is not yet on Governor Scott’s desk, but when it gets on his desk he’s got 15 days to sign it into law, veto it or let it become law without his signature. If it becomes law we will immediately appeal it. Read the Rest...
  • The banks…all of them…are systemat ...
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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 ...

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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 ...

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Consumerist

  • AT&T Customers Will Probably Have To Wait Befo ...
    If you’ve got an Android phone, you might have noticed that your pre-loaded Google Talk app has recently been updated and is now “Hangouts,” the name of Google’s video chat service. But if you’re an AT&T customer, you might have to wait a while before you’ ...
  • The Funny Thing About Bangladesh Is That It&#8 ...
    A couple that recently flew from Los Angeles to Dhaka, Bangladesh was pretty peeved with their vacation. Not because they forgot to back sunscreen or had a bad flight — it’s just that they were actually trying to go to Dakar, Senegal. That’s what happens with a quick slip of the keyb ...
  • Before House Fire Flames Are Out, Contractors ...
    When a house catches fire, there can be more than one type of first responder. There are the life-saving fire department and emergency medical services…and then there are the businesspeople selling repair and cleanup services, who sometimes arrive at the scene at the same time as the offic ...
  • Graphic: Which Internet Biggies Are Even Sligh ...
    When it comes to online privacy, many consumers assume that their service provider, or the websites they are browsing, have the users’ best interest in mind and that these companies won’t simply hand over your information to authorities. These people are mistaken, as are those who be ...
  • Sen. Schumer Would Really Appreciate It If Air ...
    Grumpy over those recently change fee hikes Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, U.S. Aiways and United Airlines instituted? You’re not the only one — New York Sen. Charles Schumer is in your corner. He’s asking, well, kind of demanding, that the airline industry take back those hikes ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • US Funding to Global Fund May Be At Risk
    For the past year or more, turbulence has surrounded the independence of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Global Fund, and at GAP we have been closely following these developments. In November 2012, the Global Fund’s Board took the unprecedented step of sacking its Inspector Gene ...
  • Journalist Surveillance Goes Far Beyond AP
    The main-stream-media justifiably has its dander up about the Justice Department secretly obtaining records for AP phone lines impacting over 100 journalists. The Justice Department seized the AP records as part of a "leak investigation," which fits nicely with the Obama administration's unpr ...
  • More on the AP Probe's Relation to Whistleblow ...
    Los Angeles Times: Scale of Government’s AP Records Seizure Surprises Many Since the Justice Department announced their seizure of 20 Associated Press journalists’ records, many media reports recognize a real threat to reporters' sources – whistleblowers – as Executive Branch powers seek to be ...
  • UN Secretary General Appeals Landmark Whistleb ...
    This past Tuesday, May 14, representatives of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon filed an appeal to the landmark whistleblower case Wasserstrom v. Secretary-General of the United Nations. The appeal challenges the merits of the finding by the United Nations Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) – the court of ...
  • UK Whistleblowers Getting Amazon, Google into ...
    The U.K. Guardian: Amazon Faces Whistleblower’s Claims Over UK Business Tax Practices Whistleblower revelations reaching British news outlets allege that online behemoth Amazon.com is avoiding paying taxes within its UK jurisdiction. This is the second Amazon supplier to come forward with info ...

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

  • Major 30% reduction in modelers estimates of C ...
    Finally the modelers are catching up with the slow-down or pause in global warming over the last decade. Where the best estimate for the IPCC was 3.3 degrees C with a range of 2.0 to 4.5C, Otto et al have revised the best estimate to 2C, with a range of 1.2C – 3.9C. Effectively the power o ...
  • Ocean temperatures – Is that warming sta ...
    The oceans as measured by ARGO are warming, but that warming is not only far less than the models predicted, it is far less even than the instrument error. The background of a crucial point Everyone agrees: 90% of the energy in the Earth’s climate system is stored in the oceans. Rocks and ...
  • Cook’s fallacy “97% consensus&#822 ...
    What does a study of 20 years of abstracts tell us about the global climate? Nothing. But it says quite a lot about the way government funding influences the scientific process. John Cook, a blogger who runs the site with the ambush title “SkepticalScience” (which unskeptically defen ...
  • 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 ...
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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

  • What 'social welfare' nonprofits are trying to ...
    The recent IRS scandal has brought new attention to the role of so-called "social welfare" nonprofits in politics. What nonprofits groups are trying to influence elections in North Carolina? read more
  • 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

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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • CIA Troublemaking in Caucasus
    It is clear that Russia’s arrest and expulsion of two CIA agents who were trying to recruit members of the Russian intelligence service fighting against Salafist separatists in the Caucasus is part of a Russian mopping-up operation directed at the CIA’s decades-long covert support fo ...
  • Despite UN Pro-Cannibal Voting, Syria Is Resisting
    On May 15, the UN General Assembly approved Qatar’s initiative for a new anti-Syrian resolution, as it did in August 2012. It addresses actions by the armed forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and expresses support for the coalition of opposition forces. On this occasion, however, the reso ...
  • Globalist Blitzkrieg Signals Largest Geopoliti ...
    Beginning in North Africa, now unfolding in the Middle East and Iran, and soon to spread to Eastern Europe and Asia, the globalist fueled color revolutions are attempting to profoundly transform entire regions of the planet in one sweeping move. It is an ambitious gambit, perhaps even one born o ...
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Drink Green: Organic and Fair Trade Wines
    I love to drink wine of all sorts and I’m open for wine tasting with friends anytime. I don’t ordinarily buy organic or Fair Trade wine, I’ve tried a few but our local stores don’t offer much of a selection. I’ve also seen wines that claims to be "ethically produced", whatever that means. I just ...
  • Apparently Potty Humor Is Not Acceptable at Sc ...
    My son's teacher pulled me to the side during pick up the other day. She had a very serious face on and I knew something was wrong. What did my five-year old do? He pushed? He spit? He picked a boogie and flung it at a girl? I looked at her face again and realized that she had the scrunched up b ...
  • As a Faith Blogger, I Must Defend Atheist Expr ...
    On May 2nd, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, humanists, and all kinds of other non-religious folks organized to protest the imprisonment of three atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. They could face up to 10 years in prison, or potentially the death penalty.For blogging. Image: benjamin ...
  • Hand Rolls: Great Morning Option for Picky Eat ...
    We have some busy mornings during the week in our household. Whether it's preschool, scheduled activities, play dates, or just running errands, it is nice to have a go-to breakfast to feed the kids when we're running low on time. At ages one-and-a-half and four, my children are at the height of ...
  • Is America Ready for Madam President? Yes!
    The first race I ever managed was to elect a woman president. That race was my own--for Butte High School class president. I ran many times, and I lost many times. So, my junior year I decided that I should run for student body president, because it wasn’t just my class voting but the entire sch ...

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

  • The Kentucky Darby Disaster, May 20, 2006
    Today is the 7th anniversary of the May 20, 2006, explosion that killed five miners at Kentucky Darby LLC’s Darby No. 1 Mine in Harlan County, Ky. The Kentucky Darby Disaster claimed the lives of coal miners Amon Brock, Jimmy Lee, Roy Middleton, George Petra, and Paris Thomas. Injured in the dis ...
  • Friday roundup, May 17, 2013
    In this Saturday, May 11, 2013 photo, rescuers prepare to enter the Dashan Coal Mine for rescue operation in Pingba county in southwest China’s Guizhou province. Authorities say 40 miners have died in two separate coal mine explosions in southwestern China. (AP Photo) From the coalfields o ...
  • Review confirms black lung at Upper Big Branch
    Just out from Howard Berkes at NPR is a piece headlined, Doctors Confirm Black Lung In Victims Of Mine Blast, reporting: The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a has provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung. On Monday, a team of pathologists and lung disease exper ...
  • Latest SCSR problem blamed on testing procedures
    The Ocenco M-20  shown donned and ready for escape. There’s an update just out from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration about the latest problem with self-contained, self-rescuers that coal miners depend on in case of an underground fire or explosion. Recall that we discussed pr ...
  • Running right: Are mountaintop removal concern ...
    One of the most interesting things about yesterday’s mountaintop removal ruling — the latest industry win at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — was the reaction to it from Alpha Natural Resources. In an e-mail statement, Alpha spokesman Ted Pile had this to say about the d ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Dave Winer on the Tumblr Acquisition
    I have some intuition about this myself, because I sold a company. We were bought because we had a presence in the Mac market, which was highly coveted at the time. I negotiated for myself a role as the "Chief architect of Symantec’s Mac strategy." A few weeks after the deal I made ...
  • If You’re Not Conflicted About Important Polit ...
    If you’re not conflicted about important political issues it means you’re likely wrong about them. Understanding introduces complexity.Related Posts:Political Conservatism as Motivated Social CognitionPossibly the Most Important Political Cartoon, EverHuxley vs. Orwell: Whose Dystopia is Winning ...
  • On Giving Advice to Friends
    Question: When is it acceptable to give personal advice to a friend? I’m speaking specifically of a scenario in which Chris believes Michael is doing something that is negatively affecting either him or those around him. Chris’s goal in mentioning this thing is to get Michael to real ...
  • 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 ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Investigation of the largest Czech credit unio ...
    ...including your humble correspondent... Another annoying event occurred to me on Friday – and it's still happening and will be happening for quite some time. I learned that the Czech National Bank, the supervisor of our financial markets, began to audit MSD (imsd.cz) or Metropolitan ...
  • Ways to discover matrix string theory
    ...more precisely screwing string theory... The 5,250+ TRF blog entries discuss various topics, mostly scientific ones, including minor advances. However, there isn't any text on this website that would talk about matrix string theory (inpendently found 2 months later by a herald who inaug ...
  • President is right to veto Martin Putna's prof ...
    What is the most intensely discussed event in the Czech news these days? Czech president Miloš Zeman decided to reject the recommendation of an academic council at the Charles University and not to name Dr Martin C. Putna as a full professor. The title "professor" is supposed to be somewhat ...
  • William Happer on CNBC
    Things have improved a little bit in the attitude of the media to the climate debate. Click here if you don't see a proper video above. This is what Princeton physicist Prof Will Happer was allowed to point out on TV – and it wasn't even Fox News! ;-) 400 ppm of CO2 ...
  • String theory = Bayesian inference?
    The following paper by Jonathan Heckman of Harvard is either wrong, or trivial, or revolutionary: Statistical Inference and String Theory I don't understand it so far but Jonathan claims that one may derive the equations of general relativity – and, in fact, the equations of string theory – ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • B.C. man feared kidnapped in Mexico
    Family members of a 22-year-old B.C. man missing in Mexico are concerned he may have been kidnapped. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Canadian accused in Gadhafi plot ordered released from Mexico jail Cyndy Vanier, the Canadian wh ...
  • You Are Now Qualified…
    from ZenGardner.com SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: The Time Is Now from ZenGardner.com SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver,... This Is The Matri ...
  • Iraq wave of attacks kills dozens in Shia, Sun ...
    A wave of attacks killed at least 86 people in Shia and Sunni areas of Iraq today, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bouts of sectarian violence the country has seen in years. CBC | Top Stories News I fund [... ...
  • Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED – Obama Failures
    from theunitedwest: Watch these Navy SEAL Team VI families and other family members as they reveal the Obama Administrations culpability in death of their sons in the fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan following the successful raid on bin Laden’s compound. This is a powerful and rivetin ...
  • Edmonton boy, 2, killed after car hits patio
    A two-year-old boy is dead after a car smashed into a patio at a south Edmonton restaurant Sunday night. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Spectator killed at Edmonton Jeep event A 20-year-old woman died Saturday during an event fo ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Former top politician dead at 88
    Norway’s Conservative Party and fellow politicians were mourning the death over the weekend of Jo Benkow, a major figure among Conservatives and a former president of the Norwegian Parliament. Benkow died Saturday at the age of 88. Benkow was best known for his efforts to fight racism and ...
  • ‘Tour of Norway’ cycling race caus ...
    Norwegian cycling star Edvald Boasson Hagen won the weekend’s cycling race “Tour of Norway” (Glava Tour) but that didn’t cheer motorists who got stranded in major traffic congestion at Hønefoss on Sunday. Local police were flooded with calls because of blocked roads, poor ...
  • Bergensbanen running again
    The popular train line between Bergen and Oslo reopened on Monday after its tracks were blocked by an earthslide in the mountains between Finse and Haugastol. The slide caused major delays at the busy end of a holiday weekend. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that the slide itself wasn&#821 ...
  • Holiday ended with drunks and destruction
    Norway’s 17th of May celebrations on Friday ended with rowdy parties, drunkenness and even vandalism to the statue of national war hero Gunnar Sønsteby. Its sculptor Per Ung was furious, calling the vandals “idiots and vermin,” while Oslo Mayor Fabian Stang said they were just ...
  • The world wasn’t hers after all
    “The whole world is mine,” sang Norway’s Margaret Berger at the finals of the Eurovision Song Contest Saturday night, but when the voting was over, it really wasn’t. Berger, one of the favourites to win the contest, ended up in fourth place while Denmark won by a healthy ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • How to Build a Rocket Stove Mass Water Heater
    With deforestation still moving ahead apace, dealing with the global demand for fuel wood is critical. Life without heat and hot water would be very unpleasant. Life without trees is impossible…. And to satiate our hunger for heat, richly biodiverse forests are being replaced with &#821 ...
  • Poo-Free Self-Filling Duck Waterer
    The mob If any of you have had any experience with ducks, you’ll know that they produce and deposit enormous amounts of nutrient — aka duck poo. It usually ends up over everything they come in contact with. A general good practice is to keep them on water and then either fertiga ...
  • Yet Another Use For the Humble Shipping Contai ...
    Building a greenhouse from a shipping container and using it as an educational resource in Kyrgyzstan. The shipping container is a symbol that is synonymous with growth. It is often used to ship plastic parts to China to be assembled, then shipped back as plastic water guns or whatever a dolla ...
  • Permaculture Design Course in Ivanovka, Kyrgyzstan
    What: Permaculture Design Course Where: Location: Keiin Institute, Ivanovka, Kyrgyzstan (40 minutes from Bishkek) When: June 24 – July 5, 2013 Teachers: Amadeus DeKastle and Calvin Lawrence PDC Course Fees: Foreign price is 450 Euros, local price is 5000 som (see below for mor ...
  • One Desert City Turns Stormwater into an Abund ...
    At 7:30 Sunday morning, April 21, 2013, people began to gather on a barren lot in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. The temperature was already climbing into the 80s and the lot’s bare dirt reflected both heat and light, making lingering uncomfortable. By 8:00 AM, more than 30 neighborhood vol ...

Pointman's

  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Stocks Show Signs of Recovery, But Still Work ...
    Stocks of fish like this Caribbean grouper are on the road to recovery from overfishing with the adoption of responsible fishing practices and scientific recommendations on fishing quotas.  Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released its annual report detailing pro ...
  • It's Endangered Species Day!
    The Endangered Species Act protects endangered and critically endangered creatures like this loggerhead sea turtle. Still, there is much work to be done.  May 17th is the day to show your love for endangered sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and all sorts of marine creatures.  Why? Bec ...
  • Victory! Delaware Becomes Seventh State in U.S ...
    Shark fins, like these drying on a sidewalk in Hong Kong, can no longer be sold, traded, possessed, or distributed in the state of Delaware! Source: Nicholas Wang Yesterday, Delaware became the seventh state to prohibit the sale, trade, possession and distribution of shark fins within state b ...
  • 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 ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Cannes Film Festival Hit by Second Burglary (… ...
    THE French Riviera has a reality show going on reminiscent of “To Catch a Thief.” Last week the Cannes Film Festival was hit by a millionn dollar jewelry heist. In case you missed it… A million dollars’ worth of jewellery to be worn by celebrities at the Cannes film festi ...
  • Hillary Clinton ’08 Vets Say No to ’16
    “I’m doing something completely different… My passion for technology actually predates my passion for politics.” – Mark Penn THERE is a lengthy piece in the Washington Post about the veteran Hillary campaign people who are unlikely to join her in 2016, if she decides to run. One of m ...
  • Yahoo Inc. Gobbles Tumblr
    Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay $1.1 billion for Tumblr, a six-year-old company with more than 100 million users but very little revenue, a deal that highlights the shifting balance of power in the technology business. Veterans like Yahoo have shown they have staying power—and they have cash to spe ...
  • Queer Talk: Sara Bareilles, “I Want to See You ...
    “I Want to See You Be Brave” is the first single from the third studio album by Sara Bareilles. The Blessed Unrest. GayNet calls it the “uplifting gay anthem you’ve been waiting for.” From the lyrics: You can be amazing. You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug. You can be the [...]The post ...
  • Obama and the GOP Scandal Fetish
    In the cocoon of our public debate Obama gets high marks on foreign policy. That is because his policies’ principal aim is not to make strategic decisions but to satisfy public opinion— he has done more of the things that people want and fewer of the things we have to do that may be unpopular. [ ...

Hudson New York

  • Future Russian Strategic Challenges
    Russia clearly represents an increasingly serious strategic challenge. Russia has steadily become more anti-democratic and hostile to the US. The Kremlin encourages nationalism; Alexei Kudrin, Russian Finance Minister until September 2011, has noted:
  • Russia's Brinkmanship with US Clashes with Isr ...
    Russia is aggressively squaring off with an indecisive and rather meek West about Syria, and in the process, is also threatening to undermine Israeli efforts to ensure that Iran and Syria do not ship strategic weapons to Hezbollah. The Syrian civil war
  • Fatah's Drive Against "Normalization"
    While Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was meeting in his office in Ramallah with Shelly Yacimovich, chairwoman of Israel's opposition Labour Party, his Fatah faction was busy threatening Palestinians who meet with Israelis. That Abbas
  • The U.S. Role in the Sunni-Shi'ite Conflict
    You might think that what the United States should be doing in the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict -- in which it has no theological stake -- is working to eliminate all forces in the Muslim world, whether Sunni or Shi'ite, who want to bring down the U.S. You
  • Growing Threats to Academic Freedom
    Two recent developments within the academic community have signaled a serious, new level of escalation of hostility towards academic freedom and integrity: the recent announcement of Stephen Hawking to withdraw from presenting a keynote address at a

Urban Survival

  • PBOT? Dogs of World Markets?
    “OMG another Monday morning Ureism?“   Well, yes:  PBOT means a Potential Blow-Off Top.  Which means could it possibly be that a global parabolic blow-off top is in the making?  I presented some analysis last Wednesday in Peoplenomics wherein I … Continue re ...
  • Coping: Tornadic WuJo
    We start this week’s adventures with a story related to that deadly string of tornados that hit up in Tornado Alley Sunday into Monday…   A high creds reader I know from Phoenix has a most amazing story to tell…..and … Continue reading →
  • Real HARD Economic Numbers
    We’ll begin this morning at our roots – long wave economics – and remind you that we’re still in an economic depression, which is characterized by massive deflation, although it’s being cleverly hidden from sight by simply printing up gobs … Continue reading & ...
  • Coping: Friday at the WuJo: Bad Luck Strings?
    Here’s an interesting thought to ponder:   “George,   I want to discuss the subject of what I consider wujo, but it’s a bad kind. More like Cujo. Every now and then I hit a string of bad stuff. The … Continue reading →
  • CPI Screams Deflation (and other adventures)
    Sorry to seem long-winded this morning, but since I was rudely awakened at about 2 AM by wind, rain, hail, lightning, and since I didn’t go back to bed, we have much ground to cover in our morning romp through … 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

  • Protecting Eagles While Working to Guide Wind ...
    Katie Umekubo, Western Renewable Energy Project Attorney, Washington, D.C. Recent reports of eagles being killed by wind turbines have stirred up a lot of emotion and controversy and understandably so.   On the one hand, more wind energy wil ...
  • Illinois Fracking Update
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois The fracking debate is heating up in Illinois—as it needs to since it is becoming abundantly clear that fracking may have begun in this state. With almost no laws in ...
  • Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Issues Decisio ...
    Jordan Weaver, Project Scientist and Science Center Fellow, Washington, D.C. In the ongoing saga of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and its faulty steam generators, on May 13, 2013 an Atomic Safety & Licensing Board panel of th ...
  • A Big Move for a Small State -- Delaware Bans ...
    Francesca Koe, Director of Campaigns, San Francisco Delaware may be tiny in terms of its size, but in terms of its bold action for ocean conservation and the protection of the apex predators that sustain our marine resources Delaware is a giant ...
  • Clean energy in Colorado needs Governor Hicken ...
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco   Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature on SB 252 to improve and expand the ...

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

  • Syria ready to unleash missiles on Israel
    Syria has put its most advanced missiles on standby with orders to hit Tel Aviv if Israel launches another raid on its territory. Reconnaissance satellites have been monitoring preparations by the Syrian army to deploy surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles. An Israeli official told The New York T ...
  • North Korea fires 4th short-range missile in 2 ...
    North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day after firing three short-range guided missiles. Meanwhile, South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles on its border islands. Seoul has placed Israeli precision-guided missiles capab ...
  • Report: Assad preparing missile strike against ...
    Syria is making preparations to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches another attack on its territory, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday. The Syrian army has begun deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles, the report said, adding that it has received orders to strike central Israel in ...
  • Pyongyang launches three short-range missiles ...
    South Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range guided missiles by North Korea, it said. Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news agency. The missiles were fired from the east coast into the Sea of Japan, the r ...
  • Russia Issues “All-Out War” Alert Over Syria
    A grim report issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on the just concluded Arctic Council meeting between Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his American counterpart US Secretary of State John Kerry is warning today that President Putin has ordered Russian military forces to “immediatel ...

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

  • Solar campaigner dies
    Joy Baluch the mayor of South Australia's Port Augusta, who campaigned for solar energy for her city has died but not before South Australia's take-up of rooftop solar has risen to double the national average. Transcript (Lateline) TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joy Baluch, the legendary mayor of Sou ...
  • Solar warrior, Port Augusta mayor Joy Baluch d ...
    By Sophie Vorrath Port Augusta’s long-serving mayor, Nancy Joy Baluch AM, died in hospital on Tuesday night, after a long battle with cancer. Baluch, who would have turned 80 on Wednesday, was mayor of the South Australian city for 29 years over three separate terms – a large part of which sh ...
  • 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 ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New ...
    Many people still believe the Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) survives in the wilds of Tasmania, even though the species was declared extinct over eighty years ago. Sightings and reports of the elusive carnivorous marsupial, which was the top predator on the island, pop-up almost as fr ...
  • Biosphere conservation: monumental action is c ...
    Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the world's ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping point ...
  • Peru delays oil drilling in the Amazon to cons ...
    Peru has delayed auctioning off 27 oil blocs in the Amazon in order to conduct legally-required consultations with indigenous groups in the region, reports the Guardian. Perupetro S.A., Peru's state oil and gas company, has announced it will auction 9 blocs off the Pacific coast, but will hold a ...
  • Top Indonesian official calls out misinformati ...
    Indonesia's top REDD+ official confirmed there is no plan to open 1.2 million hectares of forest in Sumatra's Aceh Province, calling into question numbers used by environmentalists in their bid to stop reclassification of the province's forest land.
  • New prehistoric animal named after Johnny Depp ...
    Half a billion years after an arthropod with long triple claws roamed the shallow Cambrian seas, scientists have named it after Hollywood movie actor, Johnny Depp: Kooteninchela deppi. Depp, known for his versatility as an actor, played Edward Scissorhands—an artificial man with long sciss ...

Sierra Express

  • In Sierra Leone – Bo Mayor denies beating up C ...
    Mayor of Bo City Council, His Lordship Mayor Harold Logic Tucker, has denied beating up Councilor Pastor Senessy, former SLPP Chaplain, as alleged in a local tabloid. Cross checking the allegation that the Mayor beat up the Councilor, Mayor Harold Tucker informed Sierra Express Media that he did ...
  • Sierra Leone Flour Mill may collapse, accounta ...
    The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara on Thursday May 16th 2013 paid a one day working visit to the flour mill factory, commonly known as Seaboard West Africa Company located at Cline Town, east end of Freetown.  (Photo: Trade and Industry Minister, Hon. Alhaji Usman Boie ...
  • Investing in Sierra Leone for the Global Steel ...
    During 2010/11, London Mining invested $200m to build a modern magnetic separation plant at Marampa, producing Iron Ore Concentrate putting Sierra Leone back on the map as one of the worlds high quality producers. In January 2012, we commenced exports from the historic Marampa mine, exporting Ir ...
  • Airtel Rising Stars tournament to commence soon
    The much awaited Airtel Rising Stars (ARS) tournament will soon commence but in a different style this year. The ARS soccer talent programme aims to focus on identifying and nurturing budding soccer talent from the grassroots onto a national level. The first and second season of the programme, w ...
  • Concord Store donates Le20 million to disaster ...
    8th May 2013, Freetown – Triangle Emergency Relief Action, (TERA) launched an Anti Disaster Campaign at the Miatta Conference Hall, Freetown. The Managing Director, Mr. Yasser Al–Ghahna of the number one building material store in Sierra Leone, Concord Store Limited, heartily donated the s ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Results from Malaysia buoy Fonterra
    Fonterra's Malaysian operation has doubled its revenue in local currency terms over the past five years.David Ross, managing director of Fonterra Brands in Malaysia, said the forces at work there are similar to those seen throughout...
  • 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...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Obama's War Against the Free Press Gets Creepier
    Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the U.S. Department of Justice "investigation" of Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen isn't the intrusive tracking of his movements and contacts — although that's disturbing enough — but the basis for the criminal charges he may ultimately fac ...
  • Obama's "Balanced Approach" to Deficit Reducti ...
    It wasn't all that long ago that President Obama used to talk earnestly about the need for a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction. You might figure that a balanced approach would mean matching every $1 in spending cuts with a $1 in tax revenue, but Obama was actually more draco ...
  • The IRS Targeted Conservatives Because It Could
    The opening day excuse for the IRS targeting conservative groups requesting tax exempt status was that the IRS was facing an unusual influx of applicants. But that turns out not to have been the case. Applications for tax exempt 501 groups didn’t surge in 2010. In fact, the number ...
  • DOJ Targeted Fox News Reporter Suspected of Re ...
    Back in 2009 the Justice Department began investigating leaks concerning classified information on North Korea. James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, was investigated by the Justice Department, who took measures far more severe than those used in the recent A ...
  • Philly Cop Invited by Joe Biden to President O ...
    Joe Biden is still really interested in placing more restrictions on gun ownership. Like most anti-gun advocates, the vice president has nary a word for guns in the hands of law enforcement (most proposed legislation, in fact, contains exemptions for law enforcement and often ex-la ...

Mercury Rising

  • Like most wars, this one’s a failure. En ...
    Jamie Doward, The Guardian: European governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a “gamechanging” report on global drugs policy that is being seen in some quarters as the beginning of the end for blanket prohibition. Publication of the Organisation of American ...
  • The Real Scandal
    Via commenter DeDude at Ritholtz, David Horsey in the LAT.
  • No title
    Via Jay Ackroyd, an article from The Economist: IT IS a lesson of the past five years that benchmarks in unregulated markets can fall victim to the incentives they create. Subprime mortgages bundled into securities often won high scores from ratings agencies that stood to profit in a busy market ...
  • Vote for your favorite science cartoon
    UCS has sponsored a competition here.
  • The Koch’s coke
    What is wrong with this picture? A major American city is becoming a dumping ground for toxic waste. Ian Austen, NYT: WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a thr ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Altering Gravity in Deep Space
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  • Music, Meditation, and the Skull as a Sound Ch ...
      The following is a selection from the Umbris Idearum series on The Teeming Brain. The ancient Tibetan metaphysical texts state that all sound is music, all music is mantra, and mantra is the essence of all sound. Through the use of ritual and mantric power, the Tibetans use sound to e ...
  • Imagine Reality Sandwich 2.0
    We want to let the Reality Sandwich community know what we intend to do with the money raised through our Kickstarter campaign. We're envisioning a next phase for Reality Sandwich that will enable us to serve the community better and support the growth of the new consciousness movement. ...
  • Sex in the News
      In this week's Sex in the News, you can watch Felt (the TV show that does sex therapy with puppets)! Plus, slut-shaming and murder, Elizabeth Smart, taking a shot at your "ex," and International Clitoris Week.  read more
  • Psi in the News
    Is Spiritualism a form of shamanism? Are critics of non-local consciousness addressing all the research? How do you make psi disappear? What happens when two veterans of Project Star Gate come together for a public seminar? These questions and more in this weeks Psi in the News!  read more

Desertification

  • Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by H ...
    Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade. Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, focused this year on water resour ...
  • 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 ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Akaash Maharaj: A Witness to Triumphs and Terrors
    My article in the Huffington Post: Recently, work took me to Istanbul to meet with the Syrian resistance. We discussed options for the international community to help bring an end to the Syrian war, by destroying the financial networks that enable the Assad regime to purchase weapons and fina ...
  • During the 2011 Federal Election Senator Walli ...
    The following email was sent by Senator Pam Wallin to Postmedia News on April 15, 2011: I am in Saskatchewan supporting our MP’s who are seeking re-election. The NDP opposes the existence of the Senate so any comments or criticism they might have must be looked at in that light. They would ...
  • 'DuffyGate' now expands to include political i ...
    "You know people at the CRTC, This is an important decision on Sun Media. They (CRTC) have to play with the team and support Sun Media’s request.” CTV .Sen. Mike Duffy attempted to influence the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s upcoming decision involving the ...
  • "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

Press TV - Middle East

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Project Thesis Presentations
    The M.A. in Applied Theatre culminates with the Project Thesis. Our graduating students envision and implement original projects in Applied Theatre. These projects are the sites for their research, which they in turn document and evaluate in their final written theses. We invite you to attend th ...
  • Career Exploration for People with Disabilities
    The NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities has begun mentee recruitment for Disability Mentoring Day, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Mentee’s registering for this event now will have the opportunity to participate in the screening and workshop process over the s ...
  • New NY Leaders: Student Intern Program
    The Intern Program provides college students the unique opportunity to work with State agencies to gain experience and a greater perspective of the professional world. The program prepares students for careers in a wide array of occupational areas including but not limited to: public policy, leg ...
  • NYCHA Scholarship Opportunity
    The City University of New York (CUNY) is proud to partner with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) to support the efforts of public housing residents in their pursuit of higher education at CUNY colleges. Since 2005, the NYCHA-CUNY Resident Scholarship Program has aided several CUNY stu ...
  • Educational Attainment, Occupations, & Work-Li ...

Dissident Voice

  • Boycotts Are Double-Edged Swords
    Following the April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed (at last count) 1,127 factory workers, a group of the world’s leading apparel and retail companies got together to adopt a new set of safety rules, in the hope that future disast ...
  • Students Stage Checkpoint
    On May 15, students at Middlebury College in Vermont staged a checkpoint outside their dining hall during the busiest meal of the year to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which led to the establishment of the state of Israel. As the Middlebury divestment cam ...
  • The Ministry of Taste: The EU, Restaurants, an ...
    They do themselves no favours. Like a hulking institution that has never seen the light of day lest it provide a degree of transparency, the cocooned individuals of the European Commission have decided to meddle in the restaurant trade. The mantra is always the same: quality and hygiene. From Ja ...
  • The Worst Crimes in UK History
    In a time of peace the West is permanently at war. Massive standing armies are continuously fed their natural fare. And, incredibly, the myth of the UK being a peace-loving country is sustained by a ‘liberal’ media who endlessly regurgitate the spurious justifications of the political elite. The ...
  • Standing Tall for Landowner Rights
    Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the Bois d’Arc Creek. TransCanada is an Alberta-based corporation that is buildi ...

Nick Turse

  • theatlantic:These 2 Maps About Student Loans ...
    theatlantic: These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans The media fixates on the overall size of student debt. But where you go to school, whether you graduate, and what kind of job you get later may matter much more. Read more. [Images: FRBNY Co ...
  • intldev:Rise of the Megacity - A megacity ge ...
    intldev: Rise of the Megacity - A megacity generally defines a metropolitan area that has a population in excess of 10 million people.  Read More
  • vietnamization:The Pentagon Papers is a Unit ...
    vietnamization: The Pentagon Papers is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States’ political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of the New York Times in 1971. A 1996 article i ...
  • "I’ve seen extraordinary change in my lifetime ...
    “I’ve seen extraordinary change in my lifetime, some of it in the last decade. I was born in a...
  • Kapture Blog: Who We Love: The Strand Bookstore
    Kapture Blog: Who We Love: The Strand Bookstore : kapturenyc: Gorgeous bookworms, this one’s for...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • When It Comes to Syria, Israel Frequently Redr ...
    Israel is being drawn into Syria’s quagmire as it threatens to act further on transfers of “game-changing” weapons to hostile protagonists involved in Syria’s civil war, be they Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, Jihadist Sunni rebels, or loyalist forces of President Bash ...
  • Living in Hell, Iraqi Christians Dream of Paradise
    Luis Shabi nostalgically recalls his nine years of novitiate in Rome and a “fantastic road trip through Europe” before returning to Iraq in 1969. “Those were the good times,” sighs the Chaldean Archbishop of Baghdad from a bunker in the heart of the Iraqi capital. His off ...
  • Environmentalists See Seeds as Key to Agricult ...
    As the global agricultural sector is faced with ever-greater challenges, the question of how to reform and improve the sector is a controversial and difficult one. So Terra Futura, a three-day exhibition and conference on agricultural good practises held annually in Florence, brought the debate ...
  • Wave of Protests Against Malaysian Election Re ...
    It has been over a fortnight since Malaysia held its 13th general election that saw the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition returning to power and continuing its 56-year rule. However, instead of joyous celebration, there are widespread protests on the street. Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak may have ...
  • Q&A: “Video Puts the Human into Human Rights”
    Silvia Romanelli interviews CHRIS MICHAEL of WITNESS

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • “Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did t ...
    Summary: Earlier this week, the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT sponsored an event, “Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did the US Go Wrong?”, featuring Noam Chomsky and the two of us. The event was moderated by Prof. Ali Banuazizi of Boston College. source: Going to Tehranread more
  • 3 Glaring Hypocrisies in Obama's Iran Policy
    Summary: In testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Obama's State Department official Wendy Sherman reiterated the administration's policy on Iran. Since the intelligence community has concluded for some time now that Iran has not yet decided to pursue nuclear weapons, Sherman felt compelled to r ...
  • Lavrov: Iran Should Take Part in Syria Conference
    Summary: Iran should take part in an international conference agreed by Moscow and Washington to help broker an end to the Syria conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted in an interview broadcast Thursday. source: Naharnetread more
  • Washington’s Hegemonic Ambition and U.S. Polic ...
    Summary: If you look at the Balkans, if you look at Iraq, if you look at what we did in Libya, if you look at what we say we want to do in Syria—in every one of those cases, the argument for humanitarian intervention is inextricably bound up with the argument for coercive regime change. Fra ...
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Complex Biochemistry Possible at Origins of Li ...
                      A new study shows that RNA is capable of catalyzing electron transfer under conditions similar to those of the early Earth. Because electron transfer, the moving of an electron from one chemical species to another, is involved in many biological processes – includin ...
  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 265,000!
                   Join the 269,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities and governmental space organizations ...
  • Saving Kepler! --The Mission That Changed Our ...
                   The NASA mission that has changed our view of the probability of life in the Universe is in jeopardy. The Kepler has shown that planets are common throughout the Milky Way and the billions of galaxies in the cosmos. NASA officials announced Wednesday, May 15, that the Kep ...
  • Image of the Day: Star Being Ripped Apart by a ...
                   Results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant was ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun in NGC 1399, an elliptical galaxy about 65 million light years from Earth. In the image ab ...
  • 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 Ro ...

Natural News

  • US government claims 100% ownership over all y ...
    The United States government claims 100% ownership over all your DNA and reproductive rights. This astonishing revelation has emerged from the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office claims the power to assign ownership of your DNA to private companies and universities...
  • Gun control advocates now admit: IRS intimidat ...
    In the face of the outrageous IRS intimidation scandal now sweeping across America, gun control advocates are changing their tune. All of a sudden, the idea that the federal government could engage in tyranny against the People of America is no longer a "conspiracy theory...
  • Adam Kokesh violently dragged from public prot ...
    Freedom activist Adam Kokesh of Adam vs. the Man was violently dragged from a "Smoke Down Prohibition" protest in Philadelphia just a few hours ago. According to his Facebook page, Adam is being charged with "resisting arrest" but is refusing to be booked for the charge...
  • Society has flipped upside down: Toothpaste, N ...
    Earlier in the week, a tipster brought to my attention that an article I wrote reviewing a natural toothpaste product had been ripped off and pasted on some sort of Nazi website (without my permission or knowledge, of course). "I guess Nazis want healthy teeth, too...
  • FREE Cancer Solutions Summit begins Monday: Si ...
    Beginning Monday, May 20th, Natural News is broadcasting a free cancer solutions seminar featuring one expert speaker each day for six days. The cost is FREE and there is no registration required. To listen in, just visit Healing.NaturalNews.com beginning Monday at...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed C ...
    Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.
  • Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E- ...
    In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist's movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also ...
  • The Strange Story of Marie Antoinette’s Watch
    It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.    |    Photo: David Silberman/Getty Images The tiny Simca 1000 Sedan puttered through the ...
  • Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Court Order ...
    In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without ...
  • LulzSec Hackers Sentenced to Prison by London ...
    Four leading hackers from LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, were sentenced today to between two and two-and-a-half years in prison in London for their roles in hacking Sony and a series of other targets in 2011.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame
    With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman Darrell Issa is enjoying his moment in the sun. For Repu ...
  • Will Republicans Oppose James Comey as FBI Dir ...
    The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that President Obama has narrowed his list of possible replacements for FBI Director Robert Mueller to two candidates. Senate Republicans probably won't be happy with either of the highly respected choices. Lisa Monaco, the White House's top counterterro ...
  • Republicans May Abort Debt Ceiling Hike, U.S. ...
    Until Republicans captured their House majority in January 2011, no political party ever had both the intent and the votes to block an increase in the U.S. debt ceiling. While figures in both parties have cast symbolic votes against raising Uncle Sam's borrowing authority (Senator Barack Obama ...
  • GOP Yawns at AP Story Because "You Don't Have ...
    Revelations that the Justice Department authorized the seizure of Associated Press phone records have produced condemnation from Congressional Democrats and other Obama allies. But while Capitol Hill Democrats decried the tactics as "inexcusable" (Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid), "troubling" ...
  • 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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  • 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 ...
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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

  • World’s Most Beautiful Horse?
    In case you haven’t see the photos that are going around the Web, there is one below. The horse reportedly is owned by the president of Turkmenistan Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. The breed is Akhal Teke and there may be only about 3,500 of them in the world. Some are cream-colored like this ...
  • Glaciers Contributing Same As Ice Sheet Melt T ...
    Research has found that approximately 99% of our planet’s land-locked ice is held up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The remainder, however, is out in the open, located primarily in the glaciers dotted throughout the appropriate latitudes across the planet. And according to new ...
  • Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets More Stable ...
    Scientific understanding is continually shifting as time moves on. For decades now, scientists have assumed that ancient high tide lines referred to higher sea levels. These assumptions have led scientists to believe that if the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets were to completely melt, they wo ...
  • Genome Sequencing Diagnostics Have Significant ...
    Genome sequencing diagnostics has some serious limitations to it, as researchers at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute recently discovered when they came across three children who had some of the rare inherited conditions collectively known as Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (C ...
  • NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks Record Fo ...
    NASA’s relentless solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity has now set a new record — greatest distance traveled by a US made vehicle on another world. The Opportunity rover was originally scheduled only for a three-month mission that began back in January 2004, but the solar-powered rov ...

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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 Eternal Sunshine of Peggy Noonan's Spotles ...
    By @BginKC I don't spend a lot of time deconstructing Peggy Noonan. First off, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, and second of all - I've already had one aneurysm, I don't need another. But sometimes she just goes the limit and I can't ignore her. "Sometimes" arrived this morning, when she op ...
  • IRS Another Faux Fox News "Scandal"
    By @TedFrier Someone once said that the real scandals are not the way some politicians break the law but the way most politicians make the laws. And in the manufactured outrage over the extra scrutiny the IRS gave to Tea Party and other "patriot" groups seeking tax exempt status for their politi ...
  • Missouri's Gun Capital
  • 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 w ...
  • 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 ...

Care 2

  • S African MP Who Experienced Apartheid, Disgus ...
    Blacks in the S.A. of old experienced real discrimination, real hardships, and to see the system used to oppress them so disingenuously used against the Jewish state in order to politically malign and demonize them on the international level, is a gros Submitted by Ge M. to World  |  ...
  • Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Brea ...
    International corporations have no national allegiance, they care only for profit. Meanwhile, people all over the world are becoming increasingly nationalistic and xenophobic. Submitted by Lynn Squance to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Sign Petition: WE DEMAND NOW ALL FOIE GRAS PRO ...
    WE DEMAND AND EXPECT THAT THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ALL HEADS OF STATE TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY TO BAN ALL FOIE GRAS PRODUCTION AND CEASE ALL TRADING, INCLUDING IMPORTS AND EXPORTS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT! Submitted by desanka s. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • 8-yr-old Afghan Bride Who Was Brutally Killed ...
    This is so very sad.... The 8-years-old girl whose story youll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday. Submitted by Beth S. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Use the form below to share your story and ide ...
    Senator Max Baucus and Republican Representative Dave Camp, both chairmen of the powerful tax writing committees in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, launched a new website its aim: to have YOU tell them what to do about tax reform Submitted by JL A. to US Politics & Gov&#39 ...

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No Quarter

  • Keeping Track of the Obama, Hillary Lies on Be ...
    The Obama White House sent out another dupe today, a kid named Pfeffer, to spin and lie about the various scandals swirling around the President. As long as you have Alzheimer’s disease or are a moron incapable of reading, you will find nothing troubling about the White House desperate att ...
  • White House Confirms I was Right
    My reports on the failure of State Department and the White House to treat the attack in Benghazi last September as a terrorist incident was confirmed today courtesy of White House officials. More importantly, they confirmed that State Department whistle blower, Mark Thompson, was telling the tr ...
  • More Clarity from the Email Record on Benghazi
    The judgment of the intelligence community with respect to the attacks in Benghazi is very clear on two points–the video was not relevant and Al Qaeda was directly involved. Of particular note is this from the early draft of the CIA: The crowd almost certainly was a mix of individuals from ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Enviros Sue To Block Tenn. Mountaintop-Removal ...
    Enviros Sue To Block Tenn. Mountaintop-Removal Projects Law360 (subscription) Law360, New York (May 17, 2013, 2:44 PM ET) -- Environmental groups including the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Interior Department in Tennessee federal court on Thursday, claiming the agency approved two mountaintop-remov ...
  • Environmental groups sue government over mount ...
    Environmental groups sue government over mountaintop removal coal mining The Tennessean Coal companies have in recent years turned with greater frequency to mountaintop removal instead of underground mining, drawing the concerns of environmental groups who say the removed earth dumped into nearb ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • GOP bill would suspend IRS audits (Pete Kasper ...
    Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill: GOP bill would suspend IRS audits  —  House Republicans last week proposed legislation that would suspend the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to conduct audits until the IRS itself is audited by Congress.  —  The bill, f ...
  • Behind the mortgage settlements from the housi ...
    Danielle Douglas / Washington Post: Behind the mortgage settlements from the housing crisis  —  Banks have paid less than half the $5.7 billion in cash owed to troubled homeowners under nearly 30 settlements brokered by the government since 2008, delaying help to the millions of ...
  • Obama's newest ally: John McCain (Manu Raju/Po ...
    Manu Raju / Politico: Obama's newest ally: John McCain  —  President Barack Obama has an important new ally as emboldened Republicans work to derail his agenda: John McCain.  —  The shift is striking: The 2008 rivals never got along throughout Obama's first term ...
  • Hillary '16 Campaign Off to Excellent Start (P ...
    Paul Waldman / American Prospect: Hillary '16 Campaign Off to Excellent Start  —  Breaking news: according to a report in today's Washington Post, Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency in 2016 have increased by approximately a zillion percent, due to the fact that ...
  • Dozens die in Iraqi bomb attacks (BBC)
    BBC: Dozens die in Iraqi bomb attacks  —  More than 70 people have been killed and many others injured in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.  —  Baghdad was worst hit, with several explosions at bus stations and markets in the mainly Shia Muslim districts.&nbs ...

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    中国正在尝试利用水交易来解决保证供应公平和避免生态破坏这个双重问题。 大&#35 ...
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AlterNet Top Stories

  • 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator: Why I Am ...
    A lifelong educator joins the Moral Mondays protests in Raleigh to fight GOP education agenda. Today I am participating in a non-violent and peaceful protest called Moral Mondays. I join ministers, students, teachers, and other concerned citizens at the state capitol in Raleigh because I am d ...
  • The Long, Sordid History of the American Right ...
    Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there.  Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce ...
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    Tennessee congressman Stephen Fincher is very angry that the federal government is committed to preventing poor people from starving to death: Stephen Fincher, a deranged Republican congressman from Tennessee, is very angry that the federal government is committed to preventing poor people fro ...
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    A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO.’" A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO’,” the New York Post reports.The company, Real Bro ...
  • 12-Year-Old Girl Raped, Video Posted to Facebo ...
    Three teenagers are accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and then posting the attack on Facebook. Did three Chicago youth attack and rape a young girl and then videotape it for the world to see? That’s what prosecutors in Illinois are alleging.The Associated Press reports that three tee ...

Threat Level

  • Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed C ...
    Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.
  • Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E- ...
    In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist's movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also ...
  • The Strange Story of Marie Antoinette’s Watch
    It was a watch so beautiful, so elegant, so precise, that it could only have been meant for royalty. Then it vanished without a trace.    |    Photo: David Silberman/Getty Images The tiny Simca 1000 Sedan puttered through the ...
  • Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Court Order ...
    In the wake of the AP scandal, in which federal investigators obtained the phone records of journalists using only a subpoena, four lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House that would prevent federal agencies from seizing any phone records without ...
  • LulzSec Hackers Sentenced to Prison by London ...
    Four leading hackers from LulzSec, an offshoot of Anonymous, were sentenced today to between two and two-and-a-half years in prison in London for their roles in hacking Sony and a series of other targets in 2011.

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 ...
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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 ...

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AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • 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 ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Check this out– IRS scandal is just the tip of ...
    by Simon Black on May 14, 2013 IRS May 14, 2013 Manila, Philippines Some days one can’t help but look at the headlines and think of Ayn Rand. With all the destructive measures by desperate governments from Cyprus to Argentina, it seems sometimes like we’re reading from the pages of her seminal w ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | An Ignorance and Denial too ...
    By Visible Depending on who you listen to, you might hear pretty much anything and depending on how you are disposed, you might believe almost anything. I am an optimist and I don’t want to change. This sometimes means that I have to accept, dispassionately, the necessity for certain thing ...
  • When will Obama say, “I am not a crook”? | Jon ...
    By Jon Rappoport May 19, 2013 http://www.nomorefakenews.com The upward pressure of ongoing scandals is moving into the White House. Benghazi, AP, IRS. The president’s surrogates are trying out their lying skills. Jay Carney: The situation at the IRS isn’t really a scandal, depending on what the ...
  • Preschool threatens to dismiss worker for lunc ...
    HONOLULU —When Carissa Lee O’Connell’s husband Rick began preparing organic home lunches for his wife four months ago, the goal was to improve her severe nasal allergies. “Instantly the allergies went away, the colds disappeared and it’s all from just eating raw, natural ...
  • Inventor Of ADHD’s Deathbed Confession: ...
    By Moritz Nestor, Current Concerns Source 2.9K ADHD HoaxFortunately, the Swiss National Advisory Commission on Biomedical Ethics (NEK, President: Otfried Höffe) critically commented on the use of the ADHD drug Ritalin in its opinion of 22 November 2011 titled Human enhancement by means of pharma ...

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 ...
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    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

  • Ben Bernanke sees the great slowdown in techno ...
    Summary: The FM website has a great record of providing unpopular but accurate forecasts to its readers, but a poor record of updating them. Once they become consensus insights we drop them.  We’ll provide a few posts with updates. . Today let’s revisit the slowdown in technological ...
  • This was the week that was in the death of the ...
    Summary: What a wonderful week, bringing to even the most obtuse of Americans unmistakable evidence of our government’s growing power. These incidents are insignificant in themselves, more of the endless scandals that titillated members of America’s outer  party (the proles don&#8217 ...
  • There is no problem with America’s polit ...
    Summary:  I’m often asked for solutions to the most serious problem facing the Republic, the erosion of its foundation. There is a simple answer. The question makes a false assumption. Understanding this allows a clearer vision of America, and our available choices. . An incident from the ...
  • 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 ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Swirl of Star Fo ...
    This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather unpoetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A glowing haze of material seems to engulf the galaxy, stretching out into space in different directions and forming a fuzzy streak in this image. It is a starburst galaxy — ...
  • Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Proper ...
    An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Dunes of Titan
    Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the sizes and patterns of dunes on Saturn's moon Titan vary as a function of altitude and latitude. The dunes in areas that are more elevated or are higher in latitude, such as ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Wheels
    How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy Messier 94, also known as NGC 4736? While at first glance one might see a number of them, astronomers believe there is just one. This image was ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Two Views of Iapetus
    These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. The left-hand panel shows the moon's leading hemisphere and the right-hand panel shows the moon's trailing side. While low and mid ...

PakAlert

  • Obama’s Endgame
    History demonstrates that the descent into war is preceded with a justification, real or contrived. As with all tyrants, if a legitimate justification for the impending conflict is not forthcoming, the despot, in this case Obama, will simply make one up. And the way that this objective is reache ...
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    It was a final chance to say goodbye for grieving mother Kate Ogg after doctors gave up hope of saving her premature baby. She tearfully told her lifeless son - born at 27 weeks weighing 2lb - how much she loved him and cuddled him tightly, not wanting to let him go
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    Warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet have entered the Mediterranean for the first time in decades. Russia’s Navy Chief says the task force may be reinforced with nuclear submarines, as the country starts building up a permanent fleet in the region. “The task force has successfully passed thro ...
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Andy Worthington

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  • Defend London’s NHS Protest on April 18 ...
    Please attend the march at 12 noon on Saturday March 18, 2013, from Jubilee Gardens (on Concert Hall Approach near the South Bank Centre) to Whitehall, where there will be a rally outside Downing Street at 2pm. The marchers will cross Waterloo Bridge and walk up The Strand to Whitehall, and NHS ...
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  • 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 ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

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

  • 'Atomic Bomb-Like' Tornado Damage in Oklahoma
    BREAKING - A mile-wide tornado blasted through Oklahoma City suburbs this afternoon causing massive damage to schools and neighborhoods. One TV helicopter reports the wide-area of destruction is "Atomic bomb-like." * * * * * *read more
  • Foreclosed Homeowners 'Move In' to the Dept. o ...
    Protesters erected a 'foreclosed home' barricade in front of the Department of Justice Monday afternoon. (Photo: @OccupyDenver)Underwater homeowners and hundreds of allies barricaded the front door of the Department of Justice building Monday afternoon to protest the "too big to jail banks& ...
  • Dissent as 'Terrorism': Targeting Public Prote ...
    Results from a year-long investigation into the activities of the United States' expansive counter-terrorism apparatus found that, throughout the country, the government has turned the tax-payer-funded intelligence-gathering against its own citizens in an effort to suppress dissent. ...
  • Keystone XL Opponents Turn Up Heat on Obama's ...
    (Photo: Image by John Moore / Getty Images)Organizing for Action, the so-called 'grassroots arm' of the Obama administration, was designed to harness the youthful and hopeful energy of its members, and bring the political energy generated during the previous presidential campaigns to hel ...
  • Julian Assange: UK Spy Messages Suggest He is ...
    Screenshot from Spanish TV's Salados, May 19, 2013. Speaking during an interview with Spanish television program Salvados, which aired on Sunday, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange said that he has received a series of unclassified instant message exchanges from UK intelligence officials sugg ...

Lifehacker

  • Loader Droid Gives You Full Control Over Your ...
    Android: Mobile devices aren't the best for downloading files without getting interrupted. Loader Droid aims to change that with an impressive download manager.Read more...    
  • Google+ for Android has been updated to bring ...
    Google+ for Android has been updated to bring a host of photo-enhancing features, selective location sharing, and those fancy smart tags that are now showing up on feeds everywhere. Read more about it and grab the download here.Read more...    
  • Set Google Now Reminders from Google Search Re ...
    Google Now's new Reminders feature is pretty darn awesome, but reader Gmapper14 found a great, lesser-known feature: you can add reminders right from Google search results.Read more...    
  • Kotaku Here Is a Real PS4 Teaser Video | io9 H ...
    Kotaku Here Is a Real PS4 Teaser Video | io9 How the Runaways Movie That Never Happened Helped to Fuel Iron Man 3 | Gawker Taylor Swift's Award-Winning Reaction to Justin and Selena Kissing | Jalopnik The Ten Craziest Single Seat Road CarsRead more...    
  • How to Supercharge Your Router with DD-WRT
    Few routers utilize their full potential out of the box because their firmware limits their functionality. Thanks to an open-source project called DD-WRT, you can unlock your router’s potential to broadcast a stronger signal, manage network traffic, remotely access all your home computers, and a ...

Water Wars

  • Nisswa parks kick off summer
    NISSWA - The Nisswa Parks Department announced a Summer Kick-off Party from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 1 at Nisswa Park. The event will feature Water Wars and the St. Christopher youth group will serve food.
  • Water Wars: Ga. avoids reservoir limits in new ...
    A water plan passed by the U.S. Senate will not limit Georgia's water use from two federal reservoirs, a restriction sought by lawmakers in Alabama and Florida.      The Senate voted 83-14 on Wednesday
  • 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 ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • 7 Very Wrong Things About Climate Science And ...
    Rep. Lamar Smith, the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, wrote an op-ed in today’s Washington Post that contains several misrepresentations of fact. He argued for increased fossil fuel production, against the scientific consensus that humans cause climate change, and ...
  • Hospital CEO Pledges To Make Health Care Price ...
    The chief executive of a Miami, Florida hospital has pledged to begin addressing one of the most dysfunctional aspects of the American health care system, according to MedCity News. He’s striving for greater price transparency — giving patients and doctors the ability to easily see, ...
  • Senator Needs Racial Profiling Explained To Hi ...
    One of Senator Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) many sticking points with the immigration reform bill in the Senate Judciary Committee is that certain groups should receive more scrutiny because of the Boston Marathon bombing. He offered an amendment to that effect, that would “permit Federal ...
  • Foreclosure Fraud Failures Come To A Head In J ...
    Frustration with the failed execution of various weakly-constructed legal settlements stemming from widespread foreclosure fraud bubbled over today into a protest at Justice Department headquarters that culminated in homeowners being arrested. Using tactics and rhetoric familiar from 2011’s Occu ...
  • The Supreme Court Agreed To Hear A Case Today ...
    Eight years ago, in an opinion warning of the “violent consequences of the assumption of religious authority by government,” retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor offered a challenge to her fellow conservative justices eager to weaken the wall of separation between church and sta ...

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