Friday, May 24, 2013

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English: Ruins in Tripoli, Lebanon.English: Ruins in Tripoli, Lebanon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Taynal Mosque.Taynal Mosque. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles was rebuilt...Citadel of Raymond de Saint-Gilles was rebuilt in part by the Ottoman Empire which can be seen today. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Scoop - NZ

  • International Crisis Group Vs Venezuela
    The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as "working to prevent conflict worldwide" but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict. Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released on Friday. There is a lot wrong with this repo ...
  • Social housing staff diagnosing suicide risk
    One member of staff working for Helena Homes reported entering the home of an older tenant living in sheltered housing to discover he had hanged himself on the back of the bathroom door. “We do have some of the very most deprived people in the whole country. These people have more or less jus ...
  • BoA's "I’m With Stupid” Policy Causing A Squat ...
    One of the biggest problems the U.S. is having right now in fixing the housing crisis is the same banks that caused it. For the record, it’s not some secret Obama conspiracy to turn America into Islamic colony as one “prominent” attorney in Idaho tried to convince me it was or one of Alex Jon ...
  • Greek teachers defy military mobilisation
    The teachers voted by an overwhelming majority to defy the dictatorial actions of the government, which has placed teachers under martial law and invoked civilian mobilisation measures, attempting to force teachers back to work. Any teacher who goes on strike now faces imprisonment of up to five ...
  • The Boat That Could Sink The Americas Cup
    Coutts’ stance is that this was a freak chain of events that could easily have been avoided and is therefore not a great threat to the America’s Cup writ large. Not everyone agrees. One of the AC72′s most outspoken critics is Scott MacLeod, president of Force 10, a sports-marketing business, who ...

Independent - London

  • Fighting has turned Tripoli, Lebanon, into a b ...
    Mazen Zred was one of the 30 lucky ones yesterday morning.Related StoriesSyria civil war: Russia says representatives of Bashar al-Assad's government have agreed to take part in peace talksIran's clerical leaders cut presidency down to sizeDon't let talks over two-state solution drift, warns Ha ...
  • Gunmen face off in Tripoli as sectarian battle ...
    Mazen Zred was one of the 30 lucky ones yesterday morning.Related StoriesSyria civil war: Russia says representatives of Bashar al-Assad's government have agreed to take part in peace talksIran's clerical leaders cut presidency down to sizeDon't let talks over two-state solution drift, warns Ha ...
  • French government seeks to ban extreme right-w ...
    The French government is taking steps to ban an extreme far-right movement believed to be planning violence at demonstration against gay marriage in Paris on Sunday.Related StoriesWho will win France's culture war? Ask Frigide BarjotStockholm police ask for reinforcements to quell ongoing riotsU ...
  • Unrest may spread across Europe, warns Red Cro ...
    Rocketing unemployment and poverty in some areas of Europe could lead to rising civil unrest, unless governments take measures to address the humanitarian consequences of austerity measures, the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has ...
  • Stockholm police ask for reinforcements to que ...
    Police in Sweden have appealed to residents to photograph and film people they see rioting in the streets, as they struggle to bring under control the violent unrest that has spread throughout the capital city of Stockholm for more than a week.Related StoriesWho will win France's culture war? A ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • 'UK security services warned for a decade abou ...
    Woolwich machete attack is a result of the policy of British government that continues wars abroad despite security services' warnings that this would increase the danger of terrorism in the UK, Lindsey German from Stop the War coalition has told RT. The investigation is ongoing into the Wednes ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: Was the London killing of a B ...
    What definition of the term includes this horrific act of violence but excludes the acts of the US, the UK and its allies? Two men yesterday engaged in a horrific act of violence on the streets of London by using what appeared to be a meat cleaver to hack to death a British soldier. In the wake ...
  • Hormone levels may provide key to understandin ...
    Women at a particular stage in their monthly menstrual cycle may be more vulnerable to some of the psychological side-effects associated with stressful experiences, according to a study from UCL. The results suggest a monthly window of opportunity that could potentially be targeted in efforts t ...
  • 'Dead' woman gives birth to baby, comes back t ...
    A 'dead' woman has given birth to a healthy baby - and been brought back to life herself. Erica Nigrelli was 36 weeks pregnant when her heart stopped and she collapsed at work, reports Click2Houston. Three co-workers at Elkins High School in Missouri City kept Erica alive by using CPR and a d ...
  • BEST OF THE WEB: MEP Godfrey Bloom: Why the wh ...
    Comment: Godfrey Bloom, member of European Parliament for the UK Independence Party (Yorkshire & Lincolnshire constituency), and Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group, explains some of the basics of how banking works to other MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Corporate psychopaths . . .
    MONSANTO CAN BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. So contends GMO, a site devoted to "Raising awareness about the risks of genetically modified food (GMOs)", with an article, "Monsanto’s Dirty Dozen". Monsanto has been dangerous for a long, long time, since 1901. The company moved into the food area wit ...
  • Pox perspective . . .
    OUR WELTANSCHAUUNG: how much of it has been shaped because somebody creative had a dose? You know, the gift-that-keeps-on-giving, aka syphilis, aka "The French Disease"?  Creative types, like Schubert, Schumann, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Flaubert, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Wilde and Joyce and their cro ...
  • That $90,000 cheque . . .
    WE SHOULD BE This could cause more damage than all of the Stevie gaffes to date, because it won't play in the beer parlors aka "sports bars", where the politically unaware and ignorant hang out. These people are unsophisticated, and things like Global Warming and the Tar Sands pipelines ...
  • More you, as needed . . .
    ' HEAP BIG BREAKTHROUGH: According to George Dvorsky at io9, scientists have made human stem cells by Dolly-type cloning. Check out his article, "Scientists Use Cloning to Create Embryonic Stem Cells". The Godsquad's gonna freak . . . but the 'Genie' is out of the bottle, er, test ...
  • Lumberjack Commandos . . .
    THESE FINE MEN AND WOMEN deserve better civilian management than what they've suffered in recent years. Getting rid of Stevie should go a long way towards achieving that.

Media Matters for America

  • "I'm Not A Lawyer, But ...": Right-Wing Media ...
    Right-wing media figures argued that Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing by declaring her innocence before invoking those rights. By contrast, legal experts say Lerner's statement did not negate her constitutional protections ...
  • Conservative Media Seize On London Attack To R ...
    Fox News personalities have seized on the brutal killing of a soldier in London to rail against immigration, claiming that immigration policies are partly to blame for the attacks. Conservative media figures similarly used the Boston bombing to condemn immigration and undermine immigration refor ...
  • Fox News Responds To London Attack With Islamo ...
    Fox News figures scapegoated Islam and promoted Islamophobia following an attack in London reportedly perpetrated by radical extremists which has been denounced by Muslim organizations in Britain.Man Killed In London Attack NY Times: Man In London "Was Rammed By A Car And Then Hacked To Death B ...
  • Report: Fox News, CNN Underreport Anti-Gay Hat ...
    Fox News ignored the brutal murder of a gay man in New York City, which has been labeled a hate crime by local police, while CNN underreported the story. Even though the attack is part of a disturbing spike in anti-gay violence in New York, the cable networks instead focused on covering the proc ...
  • Fox Dismisses Experts' Conclusion That Gitmo's ...
    Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the assertions of interrogation experts and those familiar with the Guantánamo Bay military commission system that keeping the prison open and holding trials there help terrorist organizations recruit more members.Fox Dismisses Idea That ...

Global Research.ca

  • Global Stock Markets fall after 7 percent Coll ...
    Stock markets posted significant losses worldwide, led by a one-day 7.3 percent drop in Japan’s Nikkei stock index, amid signs of a growing global slump and demands for increasing attacks on the working class in Japan. The Nikkei fell 1,143…
  • More Revelations of Justice Department Crackdo ...
    According to a report Tuesday in the New Yorker, the Obama administration’s investigation into a State Department leak to James Rosen, the chief Washington correspondent of Fox News, extends well beyond what was originally thought and includes seizing the phone…
  • Media Disinformation and the Conspiracy Panic ...
    To posit that one’s government may be partially composed of unaccountable criminal elements is cause for serious censure in polite circles. Labeled “conspiracy theories” by a corporate media that prompt and channel emotionally-laden mass consent, such perspectives are quickly dispatched…
  • Illinois illegally seizes bees resistant to Mo ...
    The Illinois Ag Dept.  illegally seized privately owned bees from renowned naturalist, Terrence Ingram, without providing him with a search warrant and before the court hearing on the matter, reports Prairie Advocate News. Behind the obvious violations of his Constitutional…
  • British Columbia Election Frustrates Labour, E ...
    The May 14 general election in British Columbia was a setback to progressive political forces in the province and throughout Canada. The incumbent BC Liberals won a fourth straight term, winning 50 seats with 44 per cent of the vote,…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Al ...
    A leading international voice on arctic conservation addresses President Obama’s strategy for tapping America’s northern frontier. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review “In the Beautiful,Threatened North” by Ian Frazier in  ...
  • Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Mu ...
    A leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation shares some important updates about the future of drilling in the Arctic and President Obama’s recent announcement. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review “In the Beautiful,Threat ...
  • How Our National Parks Are Threatened by Fracking
    A booming and unregulated energy industry is quietly but quickly encroaching on some of our most cherished national parks with gas and oil drilling fields. When I was a teenager, a friend and I cruised across the U.S., touring our national parks. What I remember most from that 1977 trip is rol ...
  • Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon ...
    The 400 ppm threshold is widely recognized as a dangerous level that could drastically worsen human-caused global warming. AMY GOODMAN: Scientists are warning the planet has now reached a grim climate milestone not seen for two or three million years. The National Oceanic and Atmosph ...
  • 5 Critical Actions Obama Needs to Take Right N ...
    Each of these actions is within President Obama's power right now. If he's serious about addressing climate disruption, not one of them is optional. This article was published in partnership with GlobalPossibilities.org.If all goes well, my parents will finally get to return hom ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Austin City Council Heard Its Citizens
    Our basic premise that governance by an elected body is more accountable is proving true.  Over the past couple months, many Austinites have expressed their concerns to City Council about a proposed ordinance that would establish an un-elected board to govern Austin Energy. Before citizens got i ...
  • Wayne Smith’s Pants are on Fire
    According to PolitiFact Texas, State Representative Wayne Smith’s pants are on fire.  PolitiFact Texas recently analyzed a statement regarding global climate change by Mr. Smith, a Republican from Baytown. During floor discussion of his greenhouse gas permitting bill, HB 788, he said, &#82 ...
  • Keystone begins the destruction of Julia Trigg ...
    Excerpted from Julia Trigg Crawford’s facebook page. Crews from TransCanada/Michels/Universal Field Services and others I don’t recognize started arriving yesterday in preparation for the destruction on our place. Within hours of their arrival the pasture inside “their” fenced in are ...
  • Are lax Texas regulations creating the new gho ...
    The Calhoun County Port is located an hour southeast of Victoria, Texas, and across the bay from Port Lavaca, in Point Comfort. In March, I took a trip to this port city and was astonished by some of the issues I found there. The port has submitted materials to TCEQ for operating a bulk material ...
  • Discussion of Austin Energy Governance Ordinan ...
    Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell just postponed a major agenda item (#15), regarding an un-elected board taking over Austin Energy. Numerous citizens were planning to attend the council meeting tonight to express  concerns, and had gone out of their way to arrange their schedules to be there. The ma ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Defending Seeds - The Via Campesina's 20-Year ...
    indiagmprotest.jpg "A seed is miraculous. A seed has life – you sow one and you reap hundreds.” – Nandini Jairam, La Vía Campesina member, IndiaSeeds have been a key issue of concern for the Via Campesina since its inception in 1993. As an ...
  • Debunking the Myths of GMOs, GRAIN Report
    unorca_protest_3.jpg The stories of industrial agriculture as the only solution to end hunger re-emerge here and then, like weeds. At least, as biological indicators of soil quality and fertility, weeds are telling us the truth. The myth th ...
  • Seed Sovereignty in Haiti, What is it Good For?
    haiti_women_seeds.jpg Absolutely everything!read more
  • Report Exposes the History and Reach of Monsanto
    In the news lately for asserting its [extended] patent rights and squelching attempts to label genetically modified foods, the mention of the word ‘Monsanto’ likely conjures up images of family farmers being sued, Agent Orange, the notorious rBGH growth hormone for cows, the suspected carcinogen ...
  • The Fight Against Monsanto Continues
    mpp_seeds_burning.jpg On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of agro-chemical giant Monsanto and against small farmers on a seed patent case. This is just another example of the attacks faced by small farmers around the world. Our ...

Climate

  • Quebec to Hold Own Hearings On Enbridge Pipeli ...
    (Globe and Mail) The Quebec government has announced plans to hold its own hearings onEnbridge Inc.’s proposed pipeline project to bring western oil to Montreal, a move that could raise roadblocks to Alberta’s efforts to access ne ...
  • Keystone XL’s Southern Leg Nears Completion
    (Houston Chronicle) The southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is more than 75 percent complete and construction is proceeding on schedule, a spokesman for pipeline owner TransCanada told FuelFix. “We have some pump stations to buil ...
  • Obama Group's Climate Push Puts President Unde ...
    (NPR) Organizing for Action — a group that formed out of President Obama's re-election campaign — has posted five tweets in the past week about climate change using the@BarackObama Twitter account. OFA's mission is to promote the ...
  • Gov. Brown Keeps Pressing Climate Change Crusade
    (AP) Gov. Jerry Brown warned scientists and policymakers Thursday that they are losing the war on climate change and urged them to become advocates for the planet. "We've got a big challenge. It's daunting," Brown said. ...
  • British Royal Family Squeeze Out Climate Chang ...
    (Guardian) Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, made one of his strongest speeches yet on the dangers of a warming planet when he warned this month that climate change is "the greatest risk we have ever faced". Action must be ta ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • A Move I Approve
    I wrote about Anwar al-Awlaki two times before he was killed and two times after he was killed, each time arguing that the Obama administration should be forced to submit their evidence to a court before they kill an American citizen. It appears that the president agrees with me, at least to th ...
  • Talking to a Living Room Table
    I enjoyed reading Robert Kaiser's take on why Congress no longer functions. For nineteen months, Mr. Kaiser had an inside seat on the drafting of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. He did not find the experience uplifting. But he was, at least, reporting on somethi ...
  • Zimmerman Lawyers Smear Trayvon
    Can't say I didn't see this coming. George Zimmerman's lawyers have released copies of text messages and pictures from Trayvon Martin's cell phone in an attempt to smear his reputation before the trial. The defense previously filed a motion with the Trial Court to allow these same texts messag ...
  • The New Counterterror Policy
    Here is the president's speech on the future of American counterterrorism and war fighting against terrorism groups. I have to say that my faith in the president has been vindicated. This is pretty close to the speech I would write myself. And, with the exception of my concern about getting to ...
  • Faith Vindicated
    The New York Times Editorial Board: President Obamas speech today was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual wa ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Incredible Cryptids that Attack from the Air
    From the depths of the Javan jungle to the towns of the Northeastern United States – mysterious winged creatures can be found in local legends all over the world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Human constructions can take many awe-inspiring forms – from kids’ playgrounds to university clock towers. These and other fascinating titbits... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • From Monstrous Tyrant to Preacher Man: The Con ...
    He sacrificed humans, trained children to kill, and slaughtered tens of thousands of people; but now General Butt Naked says he has found God and wants forgiveness. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 15 Photos of Huggable Baby Sloths
    With their round, teddy-bear eyes and arms just made for hugging, baby sloths are liable to give you a case of cuteness overload. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Explosive Potential of Methane Frozen Bene ...
    Below the surface of Alberta’s Abraham Lake, blue-white columns greet the eye. Yet these beautiful formations are in fact trapped frozen bubbles of flammable methane gas. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Drupal 8 & Drupalcon 2013, Open Source content ...
    So North America's Drupalcon 2013 is happening in Portland this week - a lot of people are bringing the A-Game. I got out to the 2011 & 2012 Drupalcons in Chicago & Denver, but can't this year. Regardless here are a bunch of links I quickly slammed together about what's cropping up in th ...
  • Make Great Hack Cartel: CyberWar Afloat!! DIB ...
    "10 providers serve 80 percent of the market. We have classified relationships with a good number of them." -- US Rep Mike Rogers, reminding us how the government creates cartel structures [source Reuters] One of the more interesting news elements concerns how the federal goverment is going to ...
  • Cubic NUWAIX: Spoiler Alert! Uncompetitive Bid ...
    HOW TO CUBIC YR APOCALYPTIC SKRILLO FLOW? uncompetitive bidding :) source- CBRNE Exercise / CMAP Support Services - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities J&A6.302-1_-_J3PBCS5990.pdf - Dec 7 2012 Quick post about how much money you can make simulating the apocalypse for the new Home ...
  • Pentagon domestic operations switches from "pu ...
    This is an incredibly short period of time, he said, and it forces a change in the relationship between DOD and other agencies. The old paradigm was to have civil partners “pull assistance” from DOD, while now DOD will actually push assistance where it is needed. Defense.gov News Article: Offic ...
  • 2013: Boston, paper gold, Obama signs Stock Ac ...
    Hang tight folks, it looks like we are on the cusp of another 'burst of change' on a few fronts. You should probably double the watts going to your news radar for at least 10-14 days, if you possibly can. And all those cheesy "financial systems" are getting Extra Discontinuous as they usually do ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Fox executive behind “Does Someone Have to Go? ...
    Evidently, he was the one who had to go.Mike Darnell, Fox's President of Alternative Entertainment, is leaving the network, Fox said via press release.Darnell was the executive responsible for reality series like "American Idol" and "The X Factor" -- as well as the series which debuted last nig ...
  • Developers evict historic women’s shelter to b ...
    For more than a century, the Anna Louise Inn provided housing for women fleeing abusive relationships, recovering from drug and alcohol addiction or escaping forced sex work. This month, the historic Cincinnati safe house gave up a two-year legal battle against a Fortune 500 insurance ...
  • Nobody “needs” to rape
    This isn't about whether or not Jose Canseco is guilty of the rape that he was accused of earlier this week, an incident that is currently being investigated and for which he has not been charged. This is, instead, about something else. It's about the narrative that unfolds in the wake of an ac ...
  • Guatemala extradites ex-president to US
    Former Guatemalan President (2000-2004) Alfonso Portillo speaks with the press upon his arrival at the court in Guatemala City on September 3, 2012. Guatemala on Friday extradited Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges.Guatemala extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo ...
  • First look: Joaquin Phoenix, Marion Cotillard ...
    CANNES, France – Immigration is a central theme of American life, and a political issue that never goes away. Whether the constant tide of people who come to the United States from other countries is a pollution of the national essence or a rejuvenating injection of life force is a quest ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • WWII files reveal bizarre case of British cros ...
    A set of World War II-era British Foreign Office documents detail a highly unusual incident of a senior British spy, who was arrested in Spain for cross-dressing
  • News you may have missed #837
    Russian ex-spy 'would testify' in Litvinenko inquiry. Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing extradition. North Korean defector accused of spying by his sister. Iran hangs two men for spying for Israel and US.
  • Russia expelled ex-US embassy official who reb ...
    Russian authorities expelled a former American diplomat living in Moscow earlier in May, less than two months after he allegedly rebuffed an offer to spy on the United States for Russia.
  • Russian news agency reveals name of CIA statio ...
    A Russian news agency revealed the name of the alleged station chief of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Moscow, but then deleted the information from its website.
  • Iranian diplomats expelled from Bosnia over sp ...
    In a move described as extremely rare, authorities in Bosnia have expelled two diplomats from Bosnian ally Iran over allegations that they are intelligence officers.

War is a Crime.org

  • Abolish the CIA
      A message to RootsAction members from Douglas Valentine, author of The Phoenix Program: Lies about Iraq. Cash to corrupt Afghanistan.  Drone wars waged in secret.  Blowback endangering us all. The CIA does not exist to defend our freedoms. Wrapped in government secrecy, it e ...
  • Woolrich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag?
      Woolrich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag?   by Stephen Lendman   Reports said two assailants hacked a British soldier to death. He's been identified as Lee Rigby. He was killed in broad daylight. It was several hundred meters from southeast London's Woolwich Royal Artill ...
  • Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria
      Wall Street Journal Urges War on Syria   by Stephen Lendman   Perhaps publishing it was strategically timed. It comes with John Kerry in the Middle East. He'll be there through Sunday.   He met with foreign ministers of 11 so-called Friends of Syria countries and opposition ...
  • HOLDING OUR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE: FILING A C ...
      It could have been any kind of gathering between friends as I sat with six others in Malachy Kilbride’s living room in Arlington, VA on the morning of May 21, 2013, drinking coffee and munching on pastries.  Besides Malachy and me, we were joined by David Barrows, Max Obuszewski, Man ...
  • Syria News May 24
        Syrian opposition announces the creation of a military council of all the commanders of the groups fighting in Qusayr including Al Nusra -  Al Akhbar The Battle for Qusayr: What Victory in Syria’s Latest Front Means for the War, Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra has more than ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Video: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret ...
    Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky recently sat down together at Harvard University to discuss Scahill’s groundbreaking new book, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." Amy Goodman hosted the discussion, which was sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Pol ...
  • Another Memorial Day in This Endless War
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at “The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.” The 2001 AUMF is the act passed by ...
  • Obama Admin. Admits for First Time It Killed F ...
    The United States has formally confirmed for the first time that it killed four American citizens in Yemen and Pakistan, “outside of areas of active hostilities." The acknowledgement came in a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder. In a letter dated May 22, 2013 Holder wrote to Congress ...
  • Dissent or Terror: Counterterrorism Apparatus ...
    [Watch Part One of our interview with Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive Newly revealed documents show how police partnered with corporations to monitor the Occupy Wall Street movement. DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy have obtained thousands of pages of records from ...
  • Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Killing At Least ...
    A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday killing at least 51 people. The Associated Press reports hospitals are treating more than 120 patients including about 70 children. The storm ripped up at least two elementary schools ...

Solari

  • Solari Stories – Losers Make the Pie Bigger
  • Swiss Bank Sees U.S. Fine as Part of Deferred ...
    Photo Credit: Urs Keller (ex-press.ch) By Carolyn Bandel Zuercher Kantonalbank, the biggest Swiss cantonal bank, expects to pay a fine to U.S. authorities as part of a deferred prosecution agreement for its alleged role in helping Americans evade taxes. “The bank will have to negotiate a DPA se ...
  • Transcript of “Coming Clean: My Water is Wonde ...
    Transcript of Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan Hillard is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript:
  • Oldie but a Goodie – Battle at Kruger
    By Wikipedia Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape buffalo, a small pride of lions, and one or two crocodiles. The video was shot in September 2004 at the Transport Dam watering hole in Kruger National Park, Sout ...
  • Robobee Officially Takes Flight: Robotic Polli ...
    By Heather Callaghan No, this is not a tabloid – it’s real. According to the latest video, which has now been posted below, robotic insects have made their first controlled flight. According to the creators of Robobee: The demonstration of the first controlled flight of an insect-si ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Top Secret Google X Buys Airborne Wind Turbine ...
    Google X, the tech giant's top secret experimental branch, recently announced that it will take over Makani Power, a startup that develops wind turbines that fly through the air like a kite, rather than being mounted on massive poles cemented into the ground.    
  • Crumbling Stone Barn Renovated Into Rammed Ear ...
    The original stone barn has been renovated with a new addition that takes the place of a former timber addition. Designed by Roswag Architekten, the new addition is formed from rammed earth on the ground floor and contains an open kitchen and living area with    
  • Metylos’ Elegant Mathilde Lamps Are Made From ...
    Looking like strands of Rapunzel’s hair, these felt LED lamps can be braided, knotted, or bunched into any shape. French company Metylos designed its Mathilde pendant light series to be ultra-customizable and eco-friendly, providing interior spaces with    
  • Uplifting Vertical Garden with 4,000 Plants Ri ...
    The narrow Casa CorManca designed by Paul Cremoux Studio is a three story residence built on a 1894 square foot plot in Mexico City. South-facing, the slate-clad house has an interior courtyard, and the living wall reaches from the entryway right up to the    
  • ‘The Shack’ is a Marin County Retreat with Res ...
    The Shack was included in the slate of homes that were opened to the public as part of the 2013 Marin Living: Home Tours, which was hosted by AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design. The home was originally a 690-square-foot in-law house    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • Overcoming Obstacles to Russia-West Cooperation
    The Moscow River flows through this ancient seat of Russian power like a timeless reminder of a timeless country and its seemingly endless space. The Moscow European Security Conference at which I yesterday spoke is a jewel in the crown of Russia’s Ministry of Defense. Now, I am no Russophobe.  ...
  • Top of the Morning: Suicide Bombings Come to Niger
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Suicide Bombing Comes to Niger A military base and a French uranium mining complex were the targets of simultaneous suicide attacks which killed at least 26 people. “The timing of the attacks, which occurred at the same moment more than 100 miles apart, and the fact ...
  • Cell Phones and Conflict
    Jan H. Pierskalla and Florian M. Hollenbach have a new paper (via the Monkey Cage) arguing that cell phone coverage makes collective action easier, and that includes making political violence easier. Good for them. A post-doc and a PhD candidate in the APSR looking at an interesting problem, rel ...
  • The Forever War, Still Forever
    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Today, President Obama gives what has been billed as major address on the status of the War On Terror, a term the Obama administration doesn't use but that is still how we refer to the efforts the United States takes around the world fighting al Qaeda, those ...
  • Do US Alliances Re-Assure in Asia, or Create M ...
    The conventional wisdom on the US presence in Asia is that we re-assure all players. Specifically, US allies don’t need to arms race local opponents, because the US has extended deterrence to cover them. Hence Japan and South Korea don’t need to go nuclear, for example. Among academics, this log ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Washington, Colorado, and the Headaches of a L ...
    When Colorado and Washington State passed ballot measures legalizing marijuana last November, they weren’t just the first states in the country to do so—they were the first governments in the world to do so. While other nations and states, most notably the Netherlands and California, have decri ...
  • Life in Tornado Alley
    AP Photo/Eagle-Democrat In the aftermath of this week’s tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, I’ve heard an odd tidbit of information: That a set of twins were sitting on their front porch watching the storm before they had to run inside for cover as the funnel cloud roared closer to them. I hav ...
  • Promoting Human Rights versus Promoting Prosti ...
    PRNewsFoto/George W. Bush Institute People have always bought and sold sex, sometimes risking shame or punishment. But these days, simply helping a sex worker can have costly legal and financial consequences. Under the U.S.’s flagship international aid program on HIV and AIDS, an organ ...
  • Greta Gerwig, Dancing with Herself
    John Cuneo Comic actress Greta Gerwig has a versatile look—indolent or boyish, athletic or glamorous, always blond and beautiful but with broad shoulders and doughy cheeks that make her resemble an improbably attractive rugby player. The through line in her work is her pained gaze tele ...
  • Ringside Seat: War Is Over?
    To be honest, before President Obama delivered his speech today on the "war on terror," we weren't too optimistic about what new ground it might break. But it turned out to be quite significant—perhaps not completely revolutionary, but meaningful nonetheless. Even as he made a lengthy argument ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Engineer at Elite Army Weapons Lab Tied to Rac ...
    A young research engineer at the U.S. Army’s elite chemical and biological research laboratory in Maryland has close ties to two racist groups espousing white nationalist views, one of which has called for a homeland for white people. John Stortstrom, a mechanical engineer who works for the Army ...
  • SC Governor Names White Nationalist to Reelect ...
    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants and just the third person of color to be elected governor of a Southern state. So, one might think she would want nothing to do with racists and anti-immigrant extremists. Not so, apparently. In anticipation of her 2014 re-elec ...
  • Veteran Skinhead Forms New Racist Club, Peddle ...
    Some skinhead organizers, well, it seems, just can’t stop organizing the next generation of racist clubs, claiming they’ve now found the right formula. Take the case of Brien James, a tattoo shop owner from Indiana. A household name in some racist circles, James has been organizing or attempting ...
  • NPI ‘Think Tank’ is Latest Racist Outfit to Mo ...
    Yet another organization with a white supremacist agenda — this one packaged as a “white nationalist think tank” — has moved its operations to northwestern Montana, leaving Georgia to join a rag-tag collection of some of the country’s leading racists and extremists. The National Policy Institute ...
  • Once Again, White Nationalists Sully Immigrati ...
    Opponents of immigration reform legislation have been trying to steer clear of white nationalists lately, hoping to keep their opposition to citizenship for undocumented Latino immigrants free from the taint of racism. But they just can’t seem to run fast enough. Last week, a major Heritage Foun ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Youth Vow to Appeal Decision in Landmark Feder ...
    Youth plaintiffs vow to appeal a string of decisions in their precedent-setting federal litigation over climate change. The case places the youth of America against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry over the government’s failure to protect the atmosphere from irreversible ...
  • Youth Vow to Appeal Decision in Landmark Feder ...
    Youth plaintiffs vow to appeal a string of decisions in their precedent-setting federal litigation over climate change. The case places the youth of America against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry over the government’s failure to protect the atmosphere from irreversible ...
  • Our Walmart Files Over 30 New Counts of Unfair ...
    Today OUR Walmart filed over 30 new counts of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging widespread and egregious attempts by Walmart to silence workers who have been calling for a change of course at the company. The charges include counts of retaliation aga ...
  • Our Walmart Files Over 30 New Counts of Unfair ...
    Today OUR Walmart filed over 30 new counts of unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging widespread and egregious attempts by Walmart to silence workers who have been calling for a change of course at the company. The charges include counts of retaliation aga ...
  • Shareholders Vote for McDonald’s to Assess Its ...
    Today shareholders voted on a resolution requiring McDonald’s to assess whether it’s doing enough to address increasing concerns and pressure to limit the fast-food environment. The resolution received a 6.3 percent vote; an impressive showing considering the Board’s oppos ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Another Bridge Falls — Fixing Infrastructure F ...
    Dave Johnson (Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)Another aging highway bride falls, cars and people in the water… This problem was well-known and urgent years ago!read more
  • Justice for Patriot Mineworkers?
    Laura Flanders (Photo: Reuters)Remember the phrase “good union job”? In contrast to the contingent fragile world of retail, service and fast food, a good union job is the sort union coal miners have.read more
  • Will the Environmental Health Movement Comprom ...
    Kate Davies On Wednesday, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (2013) was introduced in the Senate. It is the latest attempt to overhaul the antiquated and ineffective Toxic Substances Control Act (1976). What makes this bill different from ...
  • What Does 400 PPM Mean for American Labor?
    Joe Uehlein Jeremy Brecher In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the Depression-ravaged auto ...
  • In Drone Speech, Obama Gets Slippery on Killin ...
    Matthew Rothschild President Obama has an eerie and alarming ability to detach himself from his own dubious actions.

Water Privatization

  • WUC to install prepaid water metres in homes
    SELEBI-PHIKWE: In a bid to enforce adherence to water restrictions, the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) will introduce prepaid water meters in homes similar in fashion to the ones used by cellular phone networks and those introduced by the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) early this year.
  • Redding council sets Aug. 20 public hearing fo ...
    Redding will look at increasing its rates for water, sewer and solid waste services.
  • Saudi- National Water Company to invest SR 50 ...
    (MENAFN - Arab News) The power and water sectors are experiencing a massive boom in Saudi Arabia, according to Abdulrahman Almutari, head of privatization at the National Water Company (NWC). He ...
  • American States Water Company Announces 14.1% ...
    Yesterday, the Board of Directors of American States Water Company approved a 14.1% increase in its third quarter cash dividend from $0.355 per share to $0.405 per share on the common shares of the Company.
  • Thames River Waste Repels Olympic Rower Amid T ...
    Andy Triggs Hodge, a gold medal- winning rower at the Beijing and London Olympics, stopped training on Britain’s most famous river when it turned out water wasn’t his biggest obstacle: raw sewage on the Thames was.

Guardian

  • Woolwich killing: universities crack down on t ...
    Universities asked to draw up guidelines on handling preachers with track record of inciting hatred in aftermath of attackA fresh drive to prevent radicalisation of impressionable students on campus is being launched in which universities will be asked to draw up guidelines on how to handle prea ...
  • Homeless in London? Here's a train ticket for ...
    The plight of a mother and daughter forced to live in a hotel room 127 miles from their former home in the capitalWhen Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on 15 April, she packed her belongings in a suitcase and went with her six-year-old daughter to the council's housing o ...
  • Rupert Murdoch plans to 'poison' News Corp tak ...
    Rupert Murdoch announces year-long plan enabling News Corp shareholders to buy discounted stock in event of new investorRupert Murdoch's News Corporation has established a so-called "poison pill" mechanism in an attempt to thwart a hostile takeover bid when it separates its entertainment and pub ...
  • Driver admits killing mother in Cardiff hit-an ...
    Matthew Tvrdon, 32, who has paranoid schizophrenia, admits killing Karina Menzies in hit-and-run that left 13 others injuredA van driver with paranoid schizophrenia has admitted running down and killing a mother during a hit-and-run incident that left 13 other people injured.Matthew Tvrdon, 32, ...
  • GPs reject call to take over out-of-hours care
    Doctors at BMA conference vote almost unanimously against proposal to place them back on call at evenings and weekendsGPs yesterday overwhelmingly reiterated their opposition to taking back responsibility for providing out-of-hours care, with some predicting that many older family doctors would ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Expert US Foreign Policy in Retreat
    A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), s ...
  • Taliban fighters kill two guards in aid group ...
    Authorities in Afghanistan said two guards were killed on Friday when a Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked a guest house of an international aid group in ...
  • Policeman five gunmen killed in Kabul Taliban ...
    KABUL (AFP) - Explosions rocked central Kabul for several hours on Friday after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).One police officer was killed and five militants were shot dead as security forces hu ...
  • Breedlove Encourages Big-Picture Focus on Afgh ...
    By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, May 24, 2013 Media coverage focused on violence and other challenges in Afghanistan loses sight of the larger picture of progress and promising developments, Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove said after returning from his first trip ther ...
  • Taliban attack international compound in Kabul
    Source: Reuters Taliban militants have launched a large-scale attack involving the United Nations in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, sparking a five-hour battle with security forces. A plume of smoke hung over Kabul after the attack was launched, with the sound of .50 calibre heavy mach ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million. Subject to the Final ...
  • Bard Whistleblower Awarded $10.1 Million
    C.R. Bard Inc., a medical device company based in New Jersey, has agreed to pay the United States $48.26 million to resolve claims that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to the Medicare. The claim alleged that the company paid off doctors and hospitals to induce them to prescribe ...
  • Bill to Extend Whistleblower Protections to Of ...
    On Apr 18, 2013, Rep. George Miller (D-CA) introduced bill to extend whistleblower protections to offshore oil and gas workers. Currently there is no federal law that protects oil and gas workers if they are retaliated against after they blow the whistle on workplace health and safety viola ...
  • Senate Democrats put off vote on Labor Nominee ...
    On April 24, Senate Democrats delayed a confirmation vote on Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez. Committee Chairman Tom Harkin of Iowa was concerned that Republicans would use a threatened separate hearing as a forum to attack Perez in his absence. Read more. Senate Republicans have crit ...
  • NWC Files Another Brief Urging the MSPB to Ret ...
    On April 12, 2013, the National Whistleblower Center filed an Amicus Curiae brief with the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), in the case of King v. Department of the Air Force. At issue is whether the provision of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (“WPEA” ...

TechDirt

  • Ron Paul Doesn't Win RonPaul.com And Is Guilty ...
    We found it odd back in February to see Ron Paul try to use the domain dispute process to take over RonPaul.com, a domain that was held by some of his biggest supporters. The folks who had the domain had even offered Paul the RonPaul.org domain for free, since they didn't want to disrupt their ...
  • President Obama Is 'Troubled' About Chilling E ...
    Well, this is rich. During his talk on Thursday, much of which focused on terrorism and drones, President Obama admitted that he's asked Eric Holder to review the DOJ's process for investigating leaks that involve getting information from journalists: President Obama said Thursday that he is ...
  • Yet Another Anti-Patent Troll Bill Introduced ...
    We were just talking about the third attempt by someone in Congress to deal with some aspect of patent trolling, and already we have a fourth bill. Senator John Cornyn has introduced the Patent Abuse Reduction Act, which has a variety of provisions that would make life slightly more difficult f ...
  • District Attorney And Major TV Network Sued Ov ...
    Cross-posted from The most tragically stupid decision was greenlighting a reality show about lawyers. No one cares about watching real-life lawyering. That’s why Nancy Grace exists — to boil salacious cases down to sound bites so viewers don’t have to watch real lawyers. ...
  • DailyDirt: Tuition Debt Is For Chumps?
    Crowds of students are graduating (or have just graduated) from college, and they might be a little nervous about how they're going to pay off their student loans. Student debt can be difficult to pay off, so some folks are trying to avoid it completely in a few novel ways. Here are a bunch of e ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I did a bunch of blog reading last weekend, which means you are about to get link bombed. Sorry. So pissed that the Ríos Montt verdict was thrown out. Silly me for having a little bit of hope for the injustice system. You have probably been following the protests outside the DOJ. Best part &#821 ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This Christian kids video is …they are like children of the corn, but scary. I sincerely hope that some of these kids are someday horrified that they did this. Great response to people who claim sex work entrenches gender inequality. A pediatrician with a child porn collection. Ok. That&#8 ...
  • The Problem With Gifted
    I’ve been catching up on some of my blog reading and came across this report about how Latino children are underrepresented in New York City public school gifted programs. Data obtained by The Wall Street Journal shows that Latino children are dramatically underrepresented in the program, ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Well, hello there. I took a lovely break from reading the news (see pic). But I suppose it is time to start figuring out what is going on in the world and whatnot. Feel free to share any interesting things in the comments. Did you know that The World Is Marching Towards Anarchy? Of course, [...]
  • In Memoriam to My Youth
    Happy birthday to me. As today I am forty years old. How the fuck did that happen? To distract myself from thinking about careening down that hill, I decided I should try to come up with a list of good things about being forty. Feel free to chime in with more – but only if you [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Is this really a momentous turning point in po ...
    “For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone, or with a shotgun — without due process, nor should any President deploy armed drones over U.S. soil.” In saying this during his speech yest ...
  • Israel is moving deeper into Syria’s turmoil
    The New York Times reports: For more than two years, Israeli leaders have insisted they had no intention of intervening in the civil war raging in neighboring Syria, but they vowed to stop sophisticated weapons from being transferred to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group, and to respond to in ...
  • Iraqi society fragments while the politicians ...
    Hadeel Al Sayegh writes: Last month for the first time, I saw the aftermath of a bombing in Iraq, at the entrance to Baghdad Airport.The explosion had occurred a few moments before our plane landed from Abu Dhabi. Several cars had parked at Abbas Bin Firnas, the final checkpoint before the airpo ...
  • Electromagnetic pulse: the conservative fetish ...
    Jeffrey Lewis writes: Jim Woolsey, a former director of central intelligence and noted Oklahoma City conspiracy theorist, and Peter Pry had an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday warning that North Korea might attack United States with a nuclear weapon. But instead of vaporizing Washingt ...
  • Atheists receive pope’s blessings
    Reuters reports: Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis said on Wednesday in his latest urging that people of all religions – or no religion – work together. The leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning M ...

Watts Up With That?

  • 97% Undercooked uncertainty
    Roman Murieka has a great statistical analysis of the Cook ‘consensus’ paper over at Climate Audit. There’s a surprise result: The number of papers endorsing AGW is falling, while the number of papers with no position is increasing. Looks like … Continue reading →
  • Updated climate sensitivity estimates using ae ...
    Guest essay by Nic Lewis The Otto et al. paper has received a great deal of attention in recent days. While the paper’s estimate of transient climate response was low, the equilibrium/effective climate sensitivity figure was actually slightly higher than … Continue reading →
  • Washington Post’s photo phraud – i ...
    Junkscience.com reports this is what the print copy looks like today for this article by Eugene Robinson. Note what looks like black unfiltered pollutants spewing skyward: But when you look at the original photo, you notice something different: The caption … Continue reading →
  • The worst consequences of the global warming scare
    Guest essay by David Archibald During World War II, one Russian physicist realized that the United States was working on an atomic bomb when articles about high energy nuclear reactions disappeared from the physics journals he subscribed to. As an … Continue reading →
  • Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
    Guest Post by Dan Johnston I have been following the proposed collision theory for the onset of the Younger Dryas for a number of years with considerable interest as it explains so much in a relatively straightforward fashion, if true. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Viruses in the gut protect from infection
    “Mucus is everywhere,” says microbiologist Jeremy Barr. Almost every animal uses it to make a barrier that protects tissues that are exposed to the environment, such as the gut or lungs. Now, Barr and a team of researchers have discovered that mucus is also the key to an ancient partnership betw ...
  • Human embryonic stem cells created from adult ...
    Scientists have used the cloning technique that led to Dolly the sheep to turn human skin into embryonic stem cells – which can make any tissue in the body. The US team overcame technical problems that had frustrated researchers for more than a decade to create batches of the bodys master cells ...
  • Having A Pet May Lower Heart Disease Risk
    They’re man’s best friend, and  they may be one of the heart’s best allies as well.A panel of heart disease experts convened by the American Heart Association AHA reviewed research linking heart health and owning a pet and found that owning a pet is “probably associated” with a lower risk of hea ...
  • Almond-Sized Brain Region is Control Centre fo ...
    In a New York laboratory, a special group of mice is destined to outlive their cage-mates. Their muscles will stay strong for longer. Their brains will stay sharp for longer. When they eventually die, they will have seen more months than their peers.The secret to their longevity isn’t a drug or ...
  • The Neurobiology of Individuality
    When a group of genetically identical mice lived in the same complex enclosure for 3 months, individuals that explored the environment more broadly grew more new neurons than less adventurous mice, according to a study published today (May 9) in Science. This link between exploratory behavior an ...

CFACT

  • Tornadoes are natural. Exploiting them is not.
    Does anyone actually believe that the Oklahoma tornado would never have developed, or would have caused less harm, if we had a carbon tax in place?
  • The Prince of climate fools?
    Prince Charles’s deeply felt positions on energy are likely to be even less comfortable for a suffering U.K. public in the years ahead. America’s NASA announced in 2008 that the Pacific had entered its cool phase, which implies moderately cooler global temperatures until roughly 2030 at least. Q ...
  • Keystone obfuscation must end now!
    If he truly cares about American jobs, it is time for President Obama to expedite approval of Keystone. Any further delay would send a clear signal to the nation, and to Canada, that he will never approve the project and has no real interest in creating jobs and getting our economy back on track ...
  • Green lawyers rake in taxpayer dollars
    Suing Uncle Sam can often be a difficult and costly endeavor – difficult, that is, unless you happen to be an environmental policy organization staffed with a large number of lawyers. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/257/5132.mp3]
  • The eagles die at Altamont!
    Bob Johns, spokesman for the American Bird Conservancy ... confirmed ...[that] the Altamont operation alone has killed more than 2,000 golden eagles. But that’s not all. “Nationwide, the wind industry kills thousands of golden eagles without prosecution,” Johns said, “while any other American ci ...

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Pruning Shears

  • James Rosen, irresponsible journalism and untr ...
    Earlier this week I had a brief and unproductive Twitter exchange with Libby Spencer over leaks, whistleblowers and journalists. It was prompted by this from BooMan:We need to get our heads around the distinction between a whistleblower, who observes criminal or unethical behavior by government ...
  • Washington press corps catches up to 2002, dis ...
    We’ve had three big stories this week, each showing how the right plays the scandal game better than the left. Of the three, one is a non-scandal (Benghazi), one is a minor scandal with the potential to turn into more (IRS),1 and one is an honest-to-God scandal right now (AP). Republican ...
  • Washington press corps catches up to 2002, dis ...
    We’ve had three big stories this week, each showing how the right plays the scandal game better than the left. Of the three, one is a non-scandal (Benghazi), one is a minor scandal with the potential to turn into more (IRS),1 and one is an honest-to-God scandal right now (AP). Republican ...
  • Activism in the spaces in between
    It can be difficult to write about activism in an open-ended effort like the one against fracking. It isn’t like a campaign where everything is geared toward election day, at which point everyone will know who won and who lost. It’s different even from an issue like the Keystone XL ...
  • Proof of life
    I got really, really sick in the middle of last week. The worst of it passed pretty quickly but I haven’t been up for thinking many deep thoughts this week. Back next week!

Organic Consumers.org

  • Join the March Against Monsanto May 25, 2013!
    Click here to read this article
  • Senate GOP Quashes Attempt to Overturn 'Monsan ...
    Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) set forth an amendment to overturn the provision - which he says allows the unrestricted sale and planting of genetically modified seeds that could be harmful to farmers, the environment and human health - but it was blocked by GOP Senators. Click here to read this article
  • Why was a U.K. Sunday Times Report on US Gover ...
    FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds was described as "the most gagged person in the history of the United States" by the American Civil Liberties Union. Was the Sunday Times pressured to drop its investigation into her revelations? Click here to read this article
  • A Mental Health Declaration of Independence
    In what has become a "psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex," giant drug companies have corrupted mental health institutions, research, and practice. Most major mental health organizations and institution from which the general public and doctors receive information are financially inter ...
  • What Must Be Done About the Monsanto Corporati ...
    Monsanto Corporation Threatens Food Sovereignty, Biodiversity, Environment and Health: Immediate steps must be taken to preserve our future Click here to read this article

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My Care2 Picks

  • ProPublica
    Page of investigative journalists as it appears on Rebel Mouse. We're a non-profit, independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Can Tornadoes Be Prevented By Stealing Taxpaye ...
    President Obamas Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How America's National Security Apparatus -- i ...
    A new report is an eye-opening look into how the U.S. counter-terror apparatus was used to track the Occupy movement. Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Alaska Tribal Coalition fights chemical disper ...
    The words of an Alaskan tribal elder, We watched our family and friends die, represent the feelings of many about the use of chemical dispersants in their waters. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Spanish Renewable Lessons for Obama
    Putting renewables on steroids can come to damage a countrys power sector, consumers, and the renewable industry itself. Over a decade Spain has accumulated nearly 25 billion euro in debt mostly in the form of subsidies for wind and solar energy. Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |&nb ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

  • “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic
    This is a must-read article to understand how genetic engineering started and where it is going. Pay special attention to the section titled "GMO as a weapon of biowarfare?"
  • Food Myth Busters: Do we really need industria ...
    Learn why the "industrial agriculture is needed to feed the world" hype marketed by Monsanto is full of manure.
  • Ecocide or We Decide?
    The education system uses cunning and guile to make us believe that education is about conforming to a plan that will drop us off the end of the production line as a 'ready slave' for something called 'the job market'. And it's this 'job market' that is almost entirely dependent for its existenc ...
  • A Goat Will Keep You Alive
    A goat will keep you alive. Yes, it’s true, and I have spent the last several weeks proving just that.
  • Vaccine Victims’ Mother Speaks Out
    Tasha shares her story of shock, disappointment, guilt and remorse in neglecting to research the side effects of vaccines before vaccinating her children. Tasha's story is real life, scientific evidence of the harm that vaccines can and do cause.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Two passengers arrested after RAF jets escort ...
    ShareThisTwo passengers arrested after RAF jets escort diverted Pakistan plane 24 May 2013 Two men have been arrested after a passenger jet from Pakistan was escorted into Stansted airport by RAF fighter planes following a security alert. The Pakistan International Airlines plane took off from ...
  • 'Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for ...
    ShareThis'Guantanamo guards shot my client 5 times for no reason' 24 May 2013 Over 100 Guantanamo prisoners continue their hunger strike in protest against unlawful - and as it turns out, violent - detention. RT met with the lawyer of inmate Moath al Alawi, who has been shot by guards, denied ...
  • UK sends fighter jets to escort Pakistani pass ...
    ShareThisUK sends fighter jets to escort Pakistani passenger plane 24 May 2013 Britain launched fighter jets on Friday to escort a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane arriving from Lahore in Pakistan to an airport near London after it was diverted from Manchester, the Defense Mini ...
  • Parents of fallen SEALs speak out, blame US go ...
    ShareThisParents of fallen SEALs speak out, blame US government for deaths 09 May 2013 Families of three Virginia Beach based Navy SEAL Team Six members and a national guardsmen are blaming President Obama and top military leaders for the August 6, 2011, helicopter crash that claimed the lives ...
  • Father of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks s ...
    ShareThisFather of Chechen shot by FBI says he thinks son was tortured 24 May 2013 The father of a Chechen immigrant killed during questioning over his [alleged] links with one of the Boston Marathon bombings suspects said on Thursday he plans to travel to the United States where he thinks hi ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Letter by General Odierno on Sexual Assault an ...
    18 May 2013 Over the last twelve years of war, our Army has demonstrated exceptional competence, courage, and resiliency in adapting to the demands of war and accomplishing the mission.  Today, however, the Army is failing in its efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment.&nbsp ...
  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...
  • Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10
    07 May 2013 From: Center on National Security at Forham Law Crisis at Guantanamo: Will the Prison Ever Close? Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the pr ...
  • Important 60 Minutes Piece for TBI patients
    06 May 2013 Veterans and their families need to watch this. Thank you to the numerous vets who sent the link. I just sent a thanks to David Martin at 60 Minutes. Mr. Arnold Fisher deserves a standing ovation and eternal gratitude for his efforts and inspiration. http://www.cbsnews.com/video ...
  • Fraud Surrounding MIA Green Beret John Hartley ...
    06 May 2013 Many people contacted me in regard to a documentary movie about an American Green Beret, missing some 44 years.  They wanted to know if this story is true. Unfortunately, this is another fraud, shamelessly pulling on the heartstrings of the many good people who want it to be t ...

The Killing Train

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

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 17, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • BREAKING NEWS- How the Sunday Times Investigat ...
    The Sunday Times Journalists Describe How the Edmonds’ Story was Inexplicably Dropped under the Pressure of Undisclosed “Interest Groups” Associated with the U.S. State Department. UK magazine Ceasefire publishes never- before-disclosed insights into how the Sunday Times investigative series was ...
  • Kyrgyzstan’s Maksim Bakiyev: Long Live Washing ...
    “The Selection, Grooming, Training, Installing, and Shielding of the World’s Most Corrupt Dictators a la USA” A few days ago the US government dismissed its criminal securities fraud case against Maksim Bakiyev, the son of former Kyrgyzstan leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev. The government did not explai ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 16, 2013
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Tikun Olam

  • Obama Reins in War on Terror, Drone Warfare
    It’s hard to be categorically optimistic about anything Barack Obama says since he’s let so many down so much.  But his statements about drone strikes and the war on terror, while not everything one would wish, were a vast improvement over U.S. policy for the past five years in which ...
  • Hezbollah Escalates Syrian Civil War
    Hezbollah and its sponsors Iran and Syria have made a calculated decision to escalate the violence inside that country by inserting large contingents of its fighters in the fight for Qusayr.  The battle for that  strategic town is turning out to be the Masada or Alamo of the civil war.  For four ...
  • The Horror: Gush Etzion Settlers Wake Up to Fi ...
    To quote Joseph Conrad’s Captain Kurtz on his deathbed: “the horror!” Yisrael HaYom conveys (English translation thanks to Sol Salbe) the dismay and consternation with which residents of the Gush Etzion settlement woke up one morning to find that they no longer lived in the Sta ...
  • Bennett Appoints Settler Extremist Rabbi as Ch ...
    New political powerhouse, Religious Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett, a “moderate” settler leader, has appointed former IDF Chief Rabbi Avichai Ronsky to be chief of a little outfit he’s calling the Jewish Identity Administration. Currently, the rabbi is rosh yeshiva in the Ita ...
  • Israel Social TV Video on Israel’s Hijacked Dr ...
    This is my latest video for Israel Social TV which combines reporting on two of my most recent scoops embargoed by Israeli media. In the first, I discuss the Israeli advanced Shoval drone hacked and hijacked by either Iran or Hezbollah, then destroyed by Israel when it lost control. This is an e ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...
  • Pop Up Archive Makes Audio Searchable, Findabl ...
    After an insane and memorable week at SXSW Interactive in Austin in March, we came away with our work cut out for us: improving Pop Up Archive so that it's a reliable place to make all kinds of audio searchable, findable and reusable. Thanks in no small part to the brilliant development team at ...
  • 4 Lessons for Journalism Students from the Dig ...
    This past semester, I flew a drone. I helped set up a virtual reality environment. And I helped print a cup out of thin air. Nice work if you can get it. Working as a research assistant to Dan Pacheco at the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair for Journalism Innovation at the S.I. Newhouse Scho ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Iran on Edge - Winners and Losers in Iran’s ...
    Although Iran will not hold its presidential election until June 14, the winners and losers are already clear. The biggest losers are Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; the biggest winner is former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.Rafsanjani Winning before ...
  • Destination Dubai - Futuristic Dubailand Theme ...
    t’s a fact that Disneyland fits inside Disney World’s parking lot.  Now double up Disney World and you almost match the planned footprint of Dubaiworld.  That’s unimaginable, and sure to haunt my dreams.The largest collection of theme parks in the world is growing in Dubai, an en ...
  • The Digital Edge - Facial Recognition Technolo ...
    In a study that evaluated some of the latest in automatic facial recognition technology, researchers at Michigan State University were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, an experiment that demonstrated the value of such technology.In ...
  • Guinea on Edge - Violence Continues in Conakry ...
    Guinea's government says it deployed extra soldiers and police to the streets of the capital, Conakry, Friday, as youth in several neighborhoods set up makeshift barriers, vandalized cars and attacked private businesses. The unrest comes the day after an opposition protest during which the gover ...
  • Ecology on Edge - New Standards Approved for E ...
    New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings.The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 200 ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • The War on Terror is Almost Over And Other Oba ...
    I don't remember so good anymore Well America, this 12-year-long War on Radical Islamic Terrorists is over! How do I know you ask? Because the President said so. Yesterday President Obama gave a speech on National Security where he said Bin Laden is dead, al-Qaida is on the run an ...
  • PURE ARROGANCE!! Woman Who Changed Benghazi Ta ...
    This may be the most arrogant move in a Presidency already plagued with an over-abundance of haughtiness . Today President Obama nominated former State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland to be the department's top diplomat for Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Nuland has been in the ne ...
  • Lois Lerner REFUSED To Resign So Put on Leave ...
    Earlier this evening the National Review reported that the head of the IRS Division which targeted conservative groups, Lois Lerner was placed on administrative leave which is a fancy term for paid vacation. Lerner on Thursday afternoon sent an e-mail to employees in the exempt-organiza ...
  • Saudi Arabia/United States:A Strange Middle Ea ...
    By Barry Rubin What is the difference between Saudi and U.S. policy in the Arabic-speaking Middle East? It's complex but fascinating and if you can understand the weird twists and turns in this situation you can understand the Middle East. While the two countries may appear aligned in fact-- ...
  • Obama Orders the Justice Department to Investi ...
     Hang in there news media---soon there will be absolutely nothing to worry about.  AP phones wont be tapped and neither will James Rosen's (or his parents).  President Obama has ordered an investigation! Well kind of.  It's not an investigation of why the Justice Depart ...

Wind Watch

  • State finds Fairhaven turbines in violation of ...
    FAIRHAVEN — Fairhaven’s two industrial-sized wind turbines are in violation of Massachusetts noise regulations, according to preliminary results of a sound study conducted by the state Department of Environmental Protection. The announcement at a meeting Tuesday night prompted opponents to ...
  • Wind power’s grip on Augusta weakening a ...
    They came from the townships and plantations of Concord, Lexington, Highland, Carrying Place and Pleasant Ridge. They set out for the statehouse in Augusta from the five sparsely populated backcountry communities set between the Kennebec and Carrabassett rivers, from a wooded intervale etched by ...
  • Residents question why wind developer wrote to ...
    ANTRIM — A handful of residents remain angry that the town’s Select Board voted to appeal a state decision that denied a proposed wind farm, but what really struck the wrong chord with those residents was learning that the town motion submitted to the Site Evaluation Committee was authored by an ...
  • Marshall County first to ban wind farms
    It’s believed that Marshall County today became the first county in Indiana to ban commercial wind farms within its borders. “It’s just our wildest dreams realized,” said Marabeth Levett, a supporter of the ban. “Marshall County is very densely populated compared to Benton, and White County wher ...
  • Another wind project may threaten condors
    The Bureau of Land Management has just released the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for an Arizona wind project near the mouth of the Grand Canyon. It may pose a threat to the canyon’s population of reintroduced California condors. BP Wind Energy’s proposed Mohave County W ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Growing protests over North C ...
    Over 150 people have been arrested so far in nonviolent protests against the N.C. legislature's far-right agenda, and even bigger actions are planned next month. read more
  • NC gets warning from WV on ending judicial pub ...
    With its trailblazing public financing program for judicial elections targeted for elimination by Republican state leaders, North Carolina got a visit this week from two prominent West Virginia conservatives who made a case for why such programs benefit a state's people and economy. read more
  • Newcomers change face of Southern politics
    Census data shows that record numbers of newcomers are coming to the South, from both the U.S. and abroad. How will that change the future of Southern politics? read more
  • Environmental groups spur NC legal action agai ...
    Under legal pressure from environmental advocates, North Carolina regulators are seeking court orders to force Duke Energy to clean up groundwater contamination from unlined coal ash storage ponds at power plants near Asheville and Charlotte, where the pollution threatens the region's drinking-w ...
  • In Mississippi, Nissan's ironic disconnect on ...
    While fighting a union at its plant in Canton, Miss., Nissan makes a big gift to the Evers Institute -- perhaps forgetting that civil rights martyr Medgar Evers was a big union supporter. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Interview on causes for hope, fracking, global ...
    Sound is much better on this one than the last one, and speech from me is clear though there are some issues with the sound from the interviewer.  I think this one is definitely worth a listen.   Listen to internet radio with Jay Ackroyd on BlogTalkRadio
  • Interview on causes for hope, fracking, global ...
    Sound is much better on this one than the last one, and speech from me is clear though there are some issues with the sound from the interviewer.  I think this one is definitely worth a listen.   Listen to internet radio with Jay Ackroyd on BlogTalkRadio
  • On Bangladesh’s Textile Disasters
    My father worked in Bangladesh for 8 years in the 80s, and in East Pakistan (what Bangladesh was called pre-independence) in the 50s.  I have relatives who live in India, and I spent my summers and many Christmas vacations in Bangladesh.  My mother spoke fluent Hindi (though that isn’t the ...
  • On Bangladesh’s Textile Disasters
    My father worked in Bangladesh for 8 years in the 80s, and in East Pakistan (what Bangladesh was called pre-independence) in the 50s.  I have relatives who live in India, and I spent my summers and many Christmas vacations in Bangladesh.  My mother spoke fluent Hindi (though that isn’t the ...
  • Closing Guantanamo
    1) Close it. 2) Send most of the prisoners to US ultramax prisons. e) No longer together, break their solidarity and thus resistance. 4) No longer at “Guantanamo” and with “Guantanamo” closed, break the media narrative. Anyone who thinks Obama cares about force feeding pr ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • Body of tortured Afghan unearthed near former ...
    RT – Afghan officials have reportedly found the footless body of a local man who went missing a half-year ago. The corpse was unearthed near the former A-Team US Special Forces base – where detainees were tortured and killed, locals claim. Authorities alleged that the grisly discovery is d ...
  • Australia: Preschools may get right to bar unv ...
    NZHerald – Preschools and childcare centres in New South Wales may be given the legal right to refuse to enrol children who have not been vaccinated. The state Opposition will present legislation to Parliament allowing the right of refusal following declining rates of vaccination that in s ...
  • Dagestan bombs kill four, two dead in shootout ...
    Reuters – Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia’s North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings a ...
  • Japanese stocks recover after falls on Thursday
    BBC – Shares in Japan have closed higher at the end of Friday trading, in a partial recovery from the global sell-off in shares seen on Thursday. The Nikkei 225 index ended 0.89% up, after a day of volatile trading that had seen initial rises followed by a sharp fall, then a recovery. Othe ...
  • Rioters continue to battle police in Sweden
    Aljazeera – At least nine cars have been torched and two schools and a police station set ablaze in riots in Stockholm’s immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters say. Early on Friday, police told Swedish news agency TT that eight people had be ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

backofthebook.ca

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libcom

  • The legacy of the dead - the Savar collapse, p ...
    Sister_Shefali_learns_of_sisters_corpse.jpg The site of the Dhaka factory collapse is now cleared; new concessions and reforms are announced. Some further reflections... 1127 cor ...
  • Calling for South London anti-fascist response ...
    edl_woolwich_700-600x250.jpg With the far-right announcing protests in Woolwich, South London Anti-Fascists call for 'community defence groups' to respond to the fascist threat. ...
  • Letter of anarchist Alexey Sutuga from prison ...
    It is late, but I still want to congratulate all the comrades and friends with May Day and the Day of Liberation of the world from the Nazi threat in the memorable days of 1945. The symbolism of the holidays for me is still an important part of those ideas ...
  • Merseyside Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation
    combabt16th.jpg Merseyside anti-bedroom tax groups get organised It’s been a slog but, after months of meetings and discussion, anti-bedroom tax groups across Merseyside met, on ...
  • The struggle continues at Chicago-Lake Liquors ...
    3571_395660740541018_1876875091_n.jpg A reportback of a IWW picket in Minneapolis of Chicago-Lake Liquors, which fired 5 organizers in April 2013. More information can be found here. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Mormon Transhumanism – (AKA Iron Man IV)
    Hats off once again to Texe Marrs.  His latest book, “ROBOT ALCHEMY” is simply a must-read.  You can order it by clicking here: http://www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_robot_alchemy Without a doubt, the anti-Christian ...
  • Why Does JESUS CHRIST Need to Hire an Anti-Chr ...
    Imagine Jesus Christ walking the dusty streets of Judea in 30 A.D.   Imagine Him teaching often in parable – but sometimes in very plain directness.  Imagine Him telling the religious “authorities” (the High Priests) the TRUTH – that they are the literal seed of “th ...
  • Well Done Piece by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
    “There Is A Conspiracy” by Chuck Baldwin, May 9, 2013   “There Is A Conspiracy” By Chuck Baldwin May 9, 2013   This column is archived here. The title of today’s column, “There Is A Conspiracy,” is a direct quote from Ezekiel 22:25. In this passage, God instructed Ezekiel to blow the w ...
  • Mammonism (aka Mormonism) Exposed by Two Hones ...
    This is a re-posting from the public blog of a man named Christoper Ralph – who loves TRUTH, HONOR, and EXCELLENCE more than Mammon.  I met Grant Palmer over a decade ago, and shared with him my research on Joseph Smith’s “Mentor” – Luman Walters.   Grant Palmer is ...
  • What Steven “Spell-Berg” Didn&#821 ...
    Abraham Lincoln and the Rothschilds   The Real Cause of the Civil War By  Rev. Charles E. Coughlin   Civil War Was Not Fought Over Slavery, But Financial Freedom (This article was originally published in the Feb. 12 and Feb. 19th, 1940 issues of Social Justice)   TEXTBOOKS that have been ca ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Gunman meant to shoot the Girl not the Guy
    When writing articles and posts about #Construction ,#energyefficiency , and #homerepairservice   the words and sentences I use seem to automatically jump from my fingers and onto the screen.  I’ve found that when I’m writing about this sort of  #GunViolenceTragedy  that hit so close ...
  • Gun Violence-wrong place at the wrong time
    Gun Violence hitting close to Home-StLouis North Side This past weekend while sitting on a front porch talking with family and friends in the North Side of StLouis one of my Green Teams Members Son was hit by a stray bullet that nicked his Spine. The 22-year-old is in critical condition and is i ...
  • Gun Violence-wrong place at the wrong time
    Gun Violence hitting close to Home-StLouis North Side This past weekend while sitting on a front porch talking with family and friends in the North Side of StLouis one of my Green Teams Members Son was hit by a stray bullet that nicked his Spine. The 22-year-old is in critical condition and is i ...
  • Energy Star Window Installation
    In between the raindrops last week we took a little time away from the Stage2 on the Benton Project and installed these energy star windows by Wilke at the Saloon.Scotty Shady Jacks Energy Star 4 Window Installation Photos, Build Notes, Presentation Scotts Contracting – Removing Old Single ...
  • Energy Star Window Installation
    In between the raindrops last week we took a little time away from the Stage2 on the Benton Project and installed these energy star windows by Wilke at the Saloon.Scotty Shady Jacks Energy Star 4 Window Installation Photos, Build Notes, Presentation Scotts Contracting – Removing Old Single ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Pope is Onto Something
    Monetary Reform 101 "Somewhere in our history we took a wrong turn and today we are reaping the consequences. If we don't step back to evaluate the root causes of the rolling economic crises, our civilization is in danger of collapse." - Clive Menzies As a follow-up to the Pope’ ...
  • Interview with Syrian President Assad
    A highly illuminating interview (for Argentinian TV) in which Assad argues that the Syrian people should decide who rules Syria in internationally monitored elections scheduled for 2014. They would be conducted according to constitutional reforms enacted in 2011-2012 that limit the power ...
  • Pissarro and Angelina's Mastectomy
    The Bather by Pissarro Guest post by Jerry Fresia (A response to my post “The Company That Owns Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Gene”) There’s an old joke from grade school that I still remember. It’s rather dumb, but the punch line turns on a thought that has re ...
  • Is Obama Losing the Covert War in Syria?
    It appears the Obama administration and their Turkish, Saudi and Qatari allies are losing the covert war in Syria. If so, this explains why the President and US and British media are once again trying to ramp up momentum for military intervention against the Assad regime. The following vi ...
  • The Company That Owns Angelina Jolie's Breast ...
    From Australian Business Insider: A Utah biotech company Myriad Genetics owns the patent to BRCA1, the so-called “breast cancer gene” responsible for Angelina’s Jolie’s decision to have a preventative double mastectomy. They also on the patent on a similar breast can ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Who Loses from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Natural gas is an important feedstock for the chemicals and fertilizer industries, so higher prices could pressure those sectors. Oil companies with significant chemical operations could also see this business segment take a hit, but based on ExxonMobil’s (NYSE: XOM) advocacy of liquified natura ...
  • Who Wins from Rising Natural Gas Prices?
    Given their heavy investments in natural gas, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, along with Chesapeake, stand to benefit from the recovery in natural gas prices, writes Robert Rapier.
  • Estimate for Williston Basin Oil Resources is ...
    Last week the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided an update of oil and gas resources in the Bakken region. This was their first update since a 2008 report that estimated mean undiscovered volumes of 3.65 billion barrels of oil and 1.85 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
  • The Key to Running the World on Solar and Wind ...
    Perhaps the biggest shortcoming of solar and wind power is their intermittency. In locations like Hawaii, where I live, wind and solar power are already competitive on price. My fossil-fuel supplied electricity typically costs above 40 cents a kilowatt-hour, and wind and solar power can compete ...
  • Test Your International Oil IQ
    In last week’s column, we examined some oil production trivia involving US states. This week, we look at some international oil trivia covering the 5-year period 2007-2011, as well as some individual trivia from 2012. In this case, the data sources are the 2012 BP Statistical Review of Wor ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Clam Chowder
    Excerpt from Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food by Christine Ha,, winner of Master Chef Season 3 on Fox: I first had clam chowder about a decade ago while sitting on a bench on the touristy Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. It came in a sourdough bread bowl and was ...
  • The Heart Killer Still Hiding in Your Food
    By now, you probably know man-made fats, particularly hidden trans fats, aren't good for you. Although many companies have made the move to lower or completely remove the artificial trans fats from their food formulations, a new study from Harvard and Center for Science in the Public Interest ( ...
  • The New Blood Pressure Trigger
    There's no question that a poor diet and lack of exercise trigger cardiovascular chaos. But those aren't the only causes of high blood pressure and other ticker trouble. Researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center, the University of Washington, and the Penn State School of Med ...
  • Smart Ways to Stop a Dog Bite
    Dog bites aren't always the result of an encounter with a vicious, nasty attack dog. In fact, even the smallest, most docile dog can snap when stress hits. "In a high-stress environment, they may bite out of defensive nature," explains Victoria Wells, senior manager of behavior and training at ...
  • Trees' Surprising Effect on Babies
    We can thank green spaces for a lot of different things—spending time among plants, grass, and trees has been scientifically proven to lower heart rates and stress levels, and green spaces help ward off air and noise pollution while blunting the force of climate change in cities. Spending time ...

big think

  • Boomers Moving In Together: The New Group Housing?
    What's the Latest Development? A small but growing number of aging baby boomers, primarily women who don't have or don't live near children and younger relatives, are choosing group housing in which they live together, share expenses, and provide extra social support. Bonnie Moore opened ...
  • Internet Of The People, By The People, For The ...
    What's the Latest Development? Recent class action lawsuits and settlements against major social media sites highlight some of the big problems with typical terms-of-service contracts and the customer's understanding of them. In response, writer Ari Melber, law professor Woodrow Hartzog, ...
  • Don't Feel Obligated to Read This, Or Anything ...
    One of the beautiful things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice. And one of the terrible things about the Internet is that everybody has a voice. A lot of people don’t have anything worth listening to, and so sifting through that and finding a way to determine the signal ou ...
  • You Just Heard a Lousy Commencement Speech. He ...
    Commencement speeches are this weird kind of product.  You're about to go outside the bubble and I'm going to give you the last bit of magic, and the magic falls flat often. But sometimes it sticks. So if your school didn't have a good one, you can find a lot of them online. For instance ...
  • Rethinking Social Darwinism in America
    I’m actually fairly despairing about the times we live in on many levels.  I think there’s more shame in being poor than there ever was.  I think we also have a cultural dynamic of blaming the victim: if you’re poor and you’re struggling, you’ve fallen out of the race, then there’s somet ...

Information Liberation

  • The Full Uncensored Version Of London Woolwish ...
    "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers. And this British soldier is one. It is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. By Allah, we swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fig...
  • Undercover Narco Befriends, then Busts, Autist ...
    From ABCNews.com: *Our son was a new kid in August, and this undercover cop befriended him,* Snodgrass said. On the second day of school, Snodgrass said, Daniel asked the boy to buy drugs. *He asked my son if he could find marijuana for $20,* S...
  • 911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexuall ...
    From CBS Seattle: JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. (CBS Seattle) * An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn*t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. Oregon Public Radio repor...
  • Ron Paul Loses Appeal For RonPaul.com, Found G ...
    Ron Paul has lost his appeal to expropriate the domain name RonPaul.com, and he was found guilty of "Reverse Domain Name Hijacking" for trying to have RonPaul.org seized, as the domain was offered to him for free before he filed a complaint. Via R...
  • Released Video From Silva Beating Shows His La ...
    A pair of the cell phone recordings of the David Silva beating have been released by attorney Daniel Rodriguez. 23ABC News received the videos first, both of which capture the final moments of Silva's life. Unfortunately for those seeking more clarit...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Libertarianism And Gun Law
    This post will be briefer than I had originally intended, and for a couple of reasons. First, I haven’t put up any threads for a while, and I feel as though I need a break from work today, so here … Continue reading →
  • Of Human Dregs And Piano Legs
    Everyone else seems to be talking about sex this week, so I’ll devote a dedicated post to a topic raised by Luton Ian on the last thread. I’m going to try to avoid sniggering here about New Zealand and the … Continue reading →
  • Bushfire Update
    G’day everyone, Sorry I haven’t had much time for blogging lately; getting the property and my business back to normal has occupied all of my calendar for the last couple of months. Farmerbraun asked me earlier today to put up some … Continue reading →
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Abandoning All Pretence
    Behold your future. Coming soon to a banking system near you. Last weekend’s announcement by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades that, as a precondition of the acceptance of a €10 billion EU bailout, his country would impose an immediate “tax” of up … Continue reading &# ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Translating teenage grunts
    Linguistics of adolescent phonetics If you don’t get it, then I just have one thing to say and it’s: “A voiced alveolar stop and breathy-voiced low-back unrounded vowel, with advanced tongue root” – duuuuh… (That latter words is described by James Harbeck in h ...
  • Deceived wisdom about pruney fingers
    I discuss the myths about why our fingers go “pruney” in the bath or swimming pool in my book Deceived Wisdom, the truth seems to lie in the work of Mark Changizi. In this cartoon, we see the explanation and get to hear his theory in his own words. Deceived wisdom about pruney finger ...
  • SIDS, cot death absolute risks
    The tabloids were screaming at new parents this week desperately yelling at them not to share a bed with their newborn because it could be lethal, causing sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death. The research said so. SIDS is tragic, of course, but a little composure, please. As NHS Choices e ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Tornadoes and Thunderstorms: The 2012 and 2013 ...
    Insurance Information Institute http://www.iii.org/facts_statistics/tornadoes-and-thunderstorms.html The devastating tornadoes which hit Oklahoma this May bring to the mind a powerful string of tornadoes that hit Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Georgia and 13 other states in 1999. Those tornadoes resul ...
  • Effects of a Carbon Tax on the Economy and the ...
    US Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/publication/44223 Lawmakers could increase federal revenues and encourage reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by establishing a carbon tax, which would either tax those emissions directly or tax fuels that release CO2 when they are bu ...
  • Smart Steps to Establish a Responsible Program ...
    The Wilderness Society http://wilderness.org/resource/blueprint-responsible-renewable-energy-program-public-lands …Before 2009, there had been no organized effort to leverage the abundant wind, solar, and geothermal renewable energy resources on public lands to power the economy and to sup ...
  • The State of Nature
    Royal Society for the Protection of Birds http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/science/stateofnature/index.aspx Scientists working side-by-side from 25 wildlife organisations have compiled a stock take of our native species – the first of its kind in the UK. The report reveals that 60% of the species ...
  • New Dynamics of the U.S. Natural Gas Market
    Bipartisan Policy Center http://bit.ly/10f94iw [Oil and Gas Journal article by Nick Snow] US natural gas prices are unlikely to rise markedly under a variety of scenarios, including those with increased demand across multiple sectors, a study by the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Energy Project staf ...

Scientific American - News

  • Net Loss: How We Continually Forget What the O ...
    From The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World , by Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans. Rodale Books. Copyright © 2013, by Oceana. [More]
  • Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected?
    LONDON  – Several leading authorities on climate change have given a guarded welcome to research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected. [More]
  • Girls Who Are Sexually Abused More Likely to S ...
    Many studies have confirmed the link between childhood sexual abuse and substance-related problems in adulthood. But a new investigation finds that being raped or molested at a young age also makes young girls far more likely to start drinking or doing drugs during their preteen years. [More] ...
  • 3-D Printed Windpipe Gives Infant Breath of Life
    Kaiba Gionfriddo was six weeks old when he suddenly stopped breathing and turned blue at a restaurant. Kaiba’s parents quickly rushed him to the hospital where they learned that his left bronchial tube had collapsed because of a previously undetected birth defect. During the next few weeks ...
  • Studies Cast Doubt on Cancer Drug as Alzheimer ...
    From Nature magazine [More]

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Call for pitches: Submit to The Media Co-op & ...
    Social justice takes no summer vacation. As long as there are un- and under-reported stories, as long as the mainstream media isn't getting it right—we need your pitches. Our contributors have been working hard to cover important issues from re-imagining what mental health advocacy loo ...
  • DTES Hunger Strike Celebration and Feast
    Come to the feast to celebrate the outcomes of the Hunger Strike.  This is especially for people who have supported the pickets and supported the hunger strike but others are welcome to come too.  If you have the means, bring some food.  The hunger strike tactic grew directly out ...
  • Duffy’s Expenses in Pre-sanitized Audit Emit O ...
    Remodelling Kanata residence with Anne-of-Green-Gables motif – $40,000 Surprise party for best buddy Nigel Wright – $20,000 Irony of long-time rightwing free-marketeer bellying-up to government trough – priceless   ...
  • Carving the Prairie Commons
    Ranchers divided on federal divestment from community pasturelands WINNIPEG—Prairie community pastures and grasslands amounting to o ...
  • Questions still loom after study on servicing ...
    Summer brings hordes of Haligonians to Purcell’s Cove. At the same time, a study that could impact the future of the backlands will be back at council ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • My European Union Rant
    David Seaton's News Links Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger, mainly but not entirely because of the economic crisis inherited from Wall Street abuses. (...) A new Europe-wide report by correspondents of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro reveals mounti ...
  • The military sexual abuse scandal
    David Seaton's News LinksIt would seem to me that the current, quite justified uproar about sexual violence in the US armed forces sheds a very bright light on the cognitive dissonance produced by America's view of itself as a democratic, enlightened and inclusive society that serves as a model ...
  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...
  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium
  • Boston and the dilemma of "homegrown" terrorism
    David Seaton's News LinksAs the Spanish and British can attest since the Madrid and London attacks of 2004 and 2005, homegrown terrorism is tougher to anticipate than plots from outside. Edward Luce - Financial TimesThe word "homegrown" is not really applicable to Islamic terrorism. Islam even i ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Sadly for Republicans, Obamacare Not Likely to ...
    Is Obamacare fated to be a "train wreck"? Matt Yglesias says no, but warns us of what to expect as it rolls out: You have to remember a few basic facts about ACA implementation coverage over the next 18 months. One is that the media has a large negativity bias. The other is that the aspi ...
  • Leaks and the First Amendment
    I hate to say this, but the media is losing me. I'm mostly on their side when it comes to subpoenaing journalists' phone records, but the level of outrage and special pleading has gotten so palpable that I'm starting to waver. Aren't they supposed to at least feign objectivity, even when the s ...
  • Obamacare Gets Some Good News From California
    A few days ago I mentioned some good news out of Oregon: competition among health insurers was forcing down the price of coverage on the state's new Obamacare exchanges. Yesterday we got more good news from a much bigger state: mine. Wonkbook has the deets: In 2009, the Congressional Bud ...
  • Obama Nominates Benghazi Scapegoat for Promotion
    Oh yeah, this is going to be fun: The State Department spokeswoman who earlier this month found herself in the middle of the controversy surrounding key revisions to the Benghazi talking points appears to be in line for a promotion. The White House announced Thursday that President Barac ...
  • Obama Kinda Sorta Narrows the Scope of the War ...
    A couple of hours ago I had a choice to make: spend the next hour writing a reaction to President Obama's big national security speech, or go to lunch. I went to lunch. That was all for the best, since I had mixed reactions to the speech and wasn't quite sure what to say about it. It was lo ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Russia Approves Subsidy Program to Boost Renewable-Energy Output
    Bloomberg
    Russia approved an incentive program to boost renewable-energy production, targeting almost 6 gigawatts of new capacity by 2020 and its first solar parks. The government yesterday signed a decree that includes measures to support wind, photovoltaic and ...
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    Renewable fuels: where we should be
    The Hill (blog)
    So how is it that ethanol has become the poster child for renewable fuel? Because instead of investing in innovation and fostering new technology for truly sustainable renewable fuel solutions that fit with the existing fuel infrastructure, oil ...
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    Pentagon Awards Biofuel Contracts in Obama Renewable Energy Push
    Bloomberg
    The awards to three closely held firms are part of a drive by the administration of President Barack Obama to boost investment in renewable energy. The contracts will be matched by more than $17 million in investments by the contractors, Sharon Burke, ...
    Germany To Begin Renewable Power-To-Gas Research Project
    CleanTechnica
    It's no secret that Germany is taken its Energiewende goals quite seriously and, if all goes well, this power-to-gas project may take Germany one step closer to achieving a 100% sustainable economy by means of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and ...
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    Human Habitat

    ecology water energy
    This Week in PLOS NTD and PLOS Pathogens: Plant-Virus Ecology; a Genomic ...
    PLoS Blogs (blog)
    van de Weg CAM, Pannuti CS, de Araújo ESA, van den Ham H-J, Andeweg AC, et al. (2013) Microbial Translocation Is Associated with Extensive Immune Activation in Dengue Virus Infected Patients with Severe Disease. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 7(5): e2236.
    Ecology Action Centre creates climate change kit
    Cape Breton Post
    “Rural Nova Scotia has a lot of fishing communities, which often rely heavily on tourism,” said Jennifer Graham, coastal co-ordinator at the Ecology Action Centre in a press release. “Fishing and tourism infrastructure like wharves and boardwalks are ...
    Fish shine light on evolutionary ecology
    ScienceAlert
    “Despite their ecological quirkiness, our review demonstrates that they have been instrumental in testing the generality and robustness of key concepts that are widely applicable to other taxonomic groups.” Evolutionary biologist, Dr Wong, said in ...
    Grayslake Woman Chosen for Ecology Study in Belize
    Patch.com
    Beginning in late July, Katherine Hart, of Grayslake, will study conservation and marine ecology in the Central American country of Belize. Hart is the Resource Development Manager for the Lake County Forest Preserve District. More information about ...
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    Water Power

    water floods pollution
    Portland's fluoride debate: Is adding fluoride to drinking water dangerous?
    Fox News
    In what turned into a highly contentious matter, both supporters and opponents of water fluoridation raised a combined $1 million to rally support for their respective sides, and the opposing groups even accused one another of stealing each other's ...
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    3 Injured After I-5 Bridge Collapse Sends Cars Into Water
    ABC News
    Three people were sent to the hospital after a portion of an Interstate 5 highway bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., collapsed Thursday, dumping two vehicles and a travel trailer into the icy water, authorities said. The three people were rescued from the ...
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    'White Flash And Cold Water' After Bridge Collapse In Wash.
    NPR (blog)
    "Forward momentum just carried us right over and ... we saw the water approaching," Sligh told the Times. "You just hold on as tight as you can. Then just a white flash and cold water." Judging from photos taken at the scene, they fell at least a ...
    Ray Lewis to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise money for clean water projects
    NBCSports.com
    Lewis will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania next month as part of an effort to raise money and awareness for clean water projects in East Africa. Lewis opened up a website to help spread the word of his efforts and solicit donations with contributions ...
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