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Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • It's Elizabeth Warren 2016, or the Same Old sh*t
    recently fierce consumer advocate and needler of banks Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called out Wall Street regulators for their habit of giving tepid punishments to misbehaving banks, and asked the agencies to justify their policy of settling with the wrongdoers out of court.
  • Senate Votes Down GMO Food Labeling Amendment ...
    The Senate today rejected an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to let states require labels on food or beverages made with genetically modified ingredients.
  • Good Grief, Barack Obama!
    The most famous running joke in the Peanuts comic strip repeats at the beginning of every football season. Charlie Brown asks Lucy to hold the ball for him so he can kick it. At the last moment, just before Charlie gets his foot on the pigskin, Lucy snatches it away. Sound familiar? It's the ...
  • Help Pass the PUPS Act
    Why does it take us so long to address puppy mill cruelty? Hopefully, this Congress will pass the PUPS Act which would hopefully stop further dog cruelty in puppy mills.
  • Baylor Women's Basketball: Why "Don't Ask, Do ...
    Baylor University's ban on homosexuality and the consequent "don't ask don't tell" approach to lesbians on the basketball team needs to be repealed!

Switchboard

  • A Sad Day for the Oceans & Marine Life as Cali ...
    Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco This afternoon, members of the California Assembly Appropriations Committee stopped Assembly Bill 521 -- a groundbreaking proposal to create a statewide marine plastic pollution producer re ...
  • Annual Catch Limits Help Black Sea Bass Recove ...
    David Newman, Oceans Program Attorney, New York Imagine finding a new species of fish on an alien planet.  Upon close inspection, you notice that the vast majority of individuals are female.  You think: this doesn’t bode well for the ...
  • New Xbox One: Good for Gaming and Voice Recogn ...
    Noah Horowitz, Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, CA This week Microsoft announced the launch of the Xbox One video game console, the long- awaited successor to the Xbox 360. Much was said about how &ld ...
  • Week of 5/24: NRDC's plan to reduce carbon pol ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Peter Lehner penned a piece in Good about the huge potential urban air quality improvements from medium-duty truck retrofits (e.g. delivery and garbage trucks)... Dan Lashof could be heard on Nationa ...
  • Latin America Green News: renewables bill in C ...
    Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. May 20 – 24, 2013 Chile President Piñera gave his ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • On the Counterterrorism Speech
    The speech was about as good as to be expected from the president of the United States (as opposed to unequivocally good per se.)  He addressed the questions I wanted addressed much more comprehensively than I would have thought. I was glad to see the arguments for narrowing and ultimately repea ...
  • America’s Collapsing Infrastrucutre
    It’s no secret that the United States has an aging and increasingly dangerous infrastructure. An embarrassment compared to Europe or Japan, Americans have decided that it is far more important to fight unnecessary wars and give our plutocrats lower taxes than to act like a modern country, ...
  • Good Motives Are Not Enough
    For the most part, after seeing Kinsley’s latest I’m happy to defer to Drezner, Konczal, and Krugman. But I did want to add a couple points. First, I should note that neither Krugman (nor me, in the linked post) “called [Kinsley] a neocon.” The point was just that Kinsley ...
  • Cocaine Blues
    Roy Hogsed’s 1948 version of “Cocaine Blues” Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I will save most of my Johnny Cash rant for now, which in brief is that Cash was awesome in the 50s, declined ra ...
  • Some day this war’s going to end
    Mr. Obama rejected the notion of an expansive war on terrorism and instead articulated a narrower understanding of the mission for the United States. “Beyond Afghanistan, we must define our effort not as a boundless ‘global war on terror’ but rather as a series of persistent, targeted efforts to ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
    Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.
  • Farnaz Hosseinpour, May 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Farnaz Hosseinpour, a Ph.D. student working on climate modeling and simulation in DRI’s Atmospheric Sciences division. She’s using an ensemble of NASA satellite datasets to explore relationships between interactive-aerosol forcing and planetary-scale climatic responses. 
  • DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
    In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 
  • DRI and GreenPower sponsor Nevada’s first Indo ...
    On April 24th, a myriad of business vendors, farmers, investors and industry professionals on the forefront of solving water resource concerns in Southern Nevada, will gather in Downtown Las Vegas to discuss improving local food production and boosting the state’s food supply in the desert throu ...
  • KC King, Apr. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
    Meet Kristen "KC" King, a Ph.D. student in the atmospheric sciences program.  She is a part of the EPSCoR Climate Change project, on the climate modeling team, and interested in climate models’ ability to correctly forecast teleconnections seen in the western U.S. in temperature and precipitatio ...

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • First Circuit Revives Claim for Faulty Foreclosure
    A federal appellate court ruled that Wells Fargo Bank must face a Massachusetts consumer protection law claim that entails possible triple damages, plus additional claims, for its conduct toward a homeowner under a federal loan modification program.
  • Report: Crackdowns on Sharia Discriminatory, M ...
    The rising tide of legislation designed to bar judges from considering foreign and international laws could lead to constitutional challenges involving the separation of powers, the supremacy clause and civil rights violations against Muslims, according to a report released on Wednesday.
  • Srinivasan Confirmed for D.C. Circuit on Bipar ...
    The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday, making him President Obama's first successful nomination to the court and the first new judge there since 2006.
  • IRS Official May Have Unwittingly Lost Right t ...
    When Lois Lerner of the Internal Revenue Service invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before a House committee on Wednesday, she did so after making a brief statement. Those remarks have triggered a debate over whether Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights.
  • Last Publisher Caves in Alleged Apple E-Book S ...
    The last of the five publishers sued for conspiring with Apple Inc. to fix the prices of electronic books has agreed to pay $75 million to settle cases brought by consumers and attorneys general in 33 states.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • DEP Accountability…Too Late?
    This video with Jude Stiles giving testimony of what her family has dealt with since 2010 at a hearing for the Pennsylvania DEP accountability standards. Her husband is now deceased and she and her children are very sick due to the contamination of there well water from gas drilling. At one poin ...
  • Everything’s a Mess and No One’s R ...
    I received a link to this article from my mother who lives near the Tioga County/Potter County line and keeps tabs on that area for me. Both she and some local friends have been monitoring the smaller creeks in that area for a while now…thank you! So the article found here talks about one ...
  • State Impact PA
    I’ve posted links to the State Impact PA site before but wanted to remind folks that there is a great resource here and even though the gas industries have slowed down for now there is still a lot of good journalism work being done by Chris Amico, Danny DeBelius, Scott Detrow and Matt Stil ...
  • Worried about Water in Blossburg, PA
    Blossburg, PA had a scare the other day of high mercury levels in their water supply. Update info says new tests show the levels are now reading appropriately but folks living in the borough of Blossburg should avoid drinking the water or washing their dishes in it. You can read more details abo ...
  • Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
    The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Majority of Earth’s Population Faces Water Sho ...
    A conference of 500 of the world’s leading water scientists issued a stark declaration at the end of a four-day meeting in Germany, warning that within two generations a majority of the people on the planet will face problems obtaining ample supplies of clean water. At the meeting, “Water in the ...
  • China Poised to Launch Much-Anticipated Carbon ...
    China has revealed details of a carbon cap-and-trade pilot project that will be launched next month, a much-anticipated market attempt to rein in carbon dioxide emissions by the world’s biggest emitter. The first phase of the program, which will be implemented in the southern city of Shenzhen, w ...
  • Research on Microbes Points To New Tools for C ...
    Improvements in DNA technology now make it possible for biologists to identify every living organism in and around a species. Scientists say this could have profound implications for everything from protecting amphibians from a deadly fungus to reintroducing species into the wild. BY RICHARD C ...
  • Whale’s Battle with Nets Is Revealed Through M ...
    A small monitoring tag attached to an entangled North Atlantic right whale revealed just how much fishing gear impairs a whale’s ability to swim, dive, and feed, scientists say. After locating a two-year-old whale, EcoHealth Alliance, under permit number 594-1759The entangled whale dubbed Eg 3 ...
  • Large Majority of Americans Believe Global War ...
    Roughly 70 percent of Americans say global warming should be a priority for President Obama and Congress and 61 percent support requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax that would be used to help reduce the national debt, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change ...

Red Ice Creations

  • First interview with a dead man
    Nine years ago, Graham woke up and discovered he was dead. He was in the grip of Cotard’s syndrome. People with this rare condition believe that they, or parts of their body, no longer exist. "When I was in hospital I kept on telling them that the tablets weren’t going to do me any good ’cause m ...
  • Footage of Killer Machete ‘Terrorist’ Attack i ...
    Red Ice Creations: The following analysis of the killing in Woolwich, London is provided by many sources. Many different opinions are gathered, but on the whole it’s clear that the level of suspicion of the press, as well as government and security officials, is high. And with all that’s going o ...
  • Soldier Beheaded in Broad Daylight Machete Attack
    Woolwich attack: terrorist proclaimed ’an eye for an eye’ after attack A British soldier has been butchered on a busy London street by two Islamist terrorists, one of whom proclaimed afterwards: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” In the first terrorist murder on the British mainland si ...
  • Ciudad Blanca Found? The lost city in Honduras
    Explorers have been searching on foot for Honduras’s mythical city for generations. Now, they seem to have found it from a tiny Cessna airplane, aided by million-dollar technology. Is the fabled lost city of Honduras hiding beneath the dense jungle canopy? The Mosquitia rain forests of Honduras ...
  • Cheetah-bot races into your post-apocalyptic n ...
    An ongoing robotics project at MIT aiming to recreate the gait of a cheetah is sharing a new video showing off the latest progress. There’s a long way to go before anyone would call it catlike, but it’s impressive nevertheless. MIT Cheetah The Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT is attempting to crea ...

Not My Tribe

  • Prince Harry displays British hypocracy to une ...
    Want to know where you can find Prince Harry on his war cheerleading US tour? Half of it is in Colorado. On Friday he’ll be at a UK Consul-General’s reception at the private Sanctuary Golf Course in Sedalia. Between Denver and Castle Rock, that’s the Castle Pines exit off of I- ...
  • Mother Jones was not a Democrat!
    Mother Jones Magazine sent me an email the other morning, subject: “BREAKING”, first line: “URGENT” so I opened it wondering if it was possibly about more than asking for money, how silly of me. Apparently, Stephen Colbert’s sister stands a chance to beat Republican ...
  • My impatience with not so anti frackers
    I’d tell you I’ve had it up to here with moderate turncoats, but of late I’ve resolved to keep them well underfoot. Take the local fight against FRACKING.   We’ve built a pretty determined group of fractivists in Colorado Springs, with healthy allies statewide, and i ...
  • Israel attacks Syria! Surely Syria will be acc ...
    It’s the pretext Israel uses whenever it strikes Gaza or Lebanon or European cafes or US ships: the right to defend itself. In fact the right to do it preemptively is how Israel justifies bombing Iran or assassinating Iranian scientists. So where do the rights of others begin? Has not Syri ...
  • Colorado Springs gay pride festival 2013 moves ...
    Haven’t we seen this countless times before: a nonprofit buys bigger britches forgetting that there was a reason it wore tight pink shorts, esthetics being the governing factor in neither case. Local Pride organizers may tell you they needed a larger park, but for what? The world’s l ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Why Was a Sunday Times Report on US Government ...
    In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior gover ...
  • Can we please quit with the "hoax" theories?!
    Over the past few months I've seen a disturbing rise in "hoax" theories. Ever since Sandy Hook, and the viral videos claiming that to be a hoax, every major event - the Boston bombings, the recent attack in London etc. - has attracted similar hoax theories. These theories are not helping our c ...
  • Rememberin​g WW1 in the name of peace not war
    Stop the War bulletin | May 2013 no.2 | stopwar.org.uk Remember World War 1 in the name of peace not war A letter in today's Guardian (http://bit.ly/14v45Oh) launches a campaign to oppose David Cameron's plans for commemorations of World War 1 in 2014 that stress 'our national spirit'. Among ...
  • Film — American Drone, Operation Paul Revere
    Related: Drones protest gains local and national support 7 March 2013 Drone Strikes To Kill U.S. Citizens on American Soil Legal Status Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots? Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'More Elastic' Concept Of Imminent Threats
  • Proposal for Independent Study of the WTC Dust ...
    Chemical Engineer Mark Basile proposes a blind study into the WTC dust: A "blind" study is when the technicians performing the test have no idea what the purpose of the test is or where the testing samples came from, so that they will not unconsciously influence results.In previous analyses of t ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

  • How to Do It Yourself: DIY SEO Campaign
    People who are just beginning to focus on their website or blog may or may not know that they should make their content live up to the standards of search engine optimization or SEO. Making content SEO rich is the one of the most effective strategies for boosting the number of visitations on you ...
  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Survival International

  • Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife c ...
    A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'.© SurvivalSurvival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife c ...
  • Thousands join travel boycott of India's Andam ...
    Survival's call to stop tourists traveling through the Jarawa's land has been backed by thousands.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalJust weeks after Survival launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands to stop the degrading ‘human safaris’ to the Jarawa tribe, t ...
  • Celebrities back Earth's most threatened tribe
    Internationally renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has called on Brazil to save Earth's most threatened tribe. (Image can only be used in connection with Survival International's Awá campaign)© Vivienne WestwoodOne year after Oscar winning actor Colin Firth launched Survival I ...
  • Awá woman’s death highlights government neglect
    Ajrua Awá's death is a huge loss to her community© D Pugliese/ SurvivalAn Awá woman has died of an easily treatable disease, despite the Brazilian government receiving funds from a mining company for the tribe’s care. Ajrua Awá was 40 years of age and the mother of five children, the young ...
  • Guatemala’s former dictator convicted of genocide
    Thousands of indigenous people in Guatemala were tortured or killed during the military dictatorship of José Efrain Ríos Montt.© Survival InternationalA former general who presided over a reign of terror in Guatemala during the 1980s has been convicted of genocide. During the military dictators ...

Greg Palast

  • My Big Fat Greek Minister
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. (We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasi ...
  • "Now that the SOB is Dead..." A Novel Idea: As ...
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?" "Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden. The Taliban's frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid K ...
  • Palast reports from KazakhstanFBI Spiked Chech ...
    By Greg Palast from Vice.com UK [Astana, Kazakhstan]  Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, I received documents marked "SECRET" from the files of the FBI's Washington field office. The information in those files will make you sick. [Click through to get a free download of the fi ...
  • Billionaire Bankster Penny PritzkerBreaks into ...
    By Greg Palast  You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet.  But thar she blows! Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone:  ...
  • Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?
    By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí. The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver. Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
    There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
    We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
  • How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
    (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
    Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
    Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

  • Congressional Panel Autism One
    Mark Blaxill introduced the Congressional Panel. .
  • SCOTUS Affirms Recovery of Attorney's Fees in ...
    U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Recovery of Attorney’s fees in Vaccine Cases under Broad Circumstances Under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (“NCVIA”), vaccine injured parties became entitled to a no-fault compensation system to be commenced by service upon...
  • Texas High Court Hears Wakefield Appeal
    Yesterday, the three judges of the Texas High Court heard the appeal over jurisdiction in the case of Andrew Wakefield against the British Medical Journal and journalist Brian Deer. The case was presented by attorney Brendan K McBride, which was...
  • Did VICP former Director Geoffrey Evans Share ...
    By Lou Conte I recently received an audiotape of an American Academy of Pediatrics sponsored teleconference that Dr. Offit held with other physicians in November of 2008. Dr. Offit spoke on the tape spoke about the HHS decision to concede...
  • Dachel Media Update: MN Insurance, DSM-5, Lati ...
    By Anne Dachel May 21, 2013, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Autism insurance mandate wins in Minnesota May 21, 2013, Fox News: The DSM-5 is here: What the controversial new changes mean for mental health care May 21, 2013, NBC Latino: Autism...

Global BDS Movement

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.

new geography

  • The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs
    The information industry has long been a darling of the media — no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it has been a sector in overall decline, wit ...
  • Visions of the Rust Belt Future (Part 2)
    There are interesting developments being played out in the Rust Belt. Some cities, like Detroit, seem to be embarking whole hog down the creative class path. Others, like Pittsburgh, have their own thing going on, a thing loosely delineated as the “Rust Belt Chic” model of economic development, ...
  • Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to t ...
    In the wake of the post-2008 housing bust, suburbia has become associated with many of the same ills long associated with cities, as our urban-based press corps and cultural elite cheerfully sneer at each new sign of decline. This conceit was revealed most recently in a a studyreleased Mond ...
  • Rust Belt: Can Micro-Suburbs Stay Independent?
    The Ohio suburb of East Cleveland abuts the core city to its west and north, and in terms of physical appearance the boundary between the two is indistinct. A century ago, the City of Cleveland unsuccessfully attempted to annex East Cleveland on two occasions. These days, Cleveland is unlikely ...
  • Religious Freedom Lures Many to U.S. from Asia
    It's been two decades since California Gov. Pete Wilson used grainy ads of undocumented immigrants – "They keep coming" – as an effective means of stoking fear of newcomers and assuring his re-election. Yet, increasingly America's immigration realities are moving far beyond the mojado paradi ...

water.org

  • Water for Leah's Farm
    Leah lives in Ngawene village on the outskirts of Maua town with her two children – a daughter (25) and a son (18). Leah, pictured second from the right with ECLOF and Water.org staff, is a secondary level graduate and also holds an accountancy technician certificate. Leah is 50 years old, marri ...
  • Celebrities endorse the toilet strike
    Richard Branson, Olivia Wilde and Bono join Water.org Co-founder Matt Damon to protest lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for 2.5 billion people
  • Three Mothers, Three Stories
    The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.
  • Breathing Easier in India
    In Tamil Nadu, community residents are often dependent on remote and unsafe connections for drinking water. Even when a public water tap is nearby, long lines can take up precious time that could be better spent on income generating opportunities.
  • A Toilet Brings Honor
    Mrs. Annakka Ujinikoppa and her sisters wanted to find a way to help their mother-in-law gain closer access to a toilet. They were finding the cost too high but then they discovered a WaterCredit loan.

Cryptogon

  • Cryptogon Reader Sent $50 Donation
    Thanks, DM. Much appreciated.
  • Is Google Going To Make Internet Access Availa ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Google (GOOG) Chairman Eric Schmidt’s April 13 tweet was bold, ambitious, and a bit inexplicable. “For every person online, there are two that are not,” wrote the co-author of the book The New Digital Age. “By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected.” Commenter ...
  • Sears Turning Shuttered Stores Into Data Centers
    Via: Data Center Knowledge: Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless to ...
  • NIKKEI 225 DOWN 7.32%
    Via: Los Angeles Times: Wall Street followed Europe in a broad sell-off following a 7.3% overnight plunge in Japan’s stock market. … Weak Chinese manufacturing data helped send Japan’s Nikkei down 1,143.28 points, or 7.3%, to 14,483.98. The drop was reportedly the worst percent ...
  • The Robot-Driven Data Center of Tomorrow
    Via: Data Center Knowledge: There is an evolution happening within the modern data center. Huge data center operators like Google and Amazon are quietly redefining the future of the data center. This includes the integration of robotics to create a lights-out, fully automated data center environ ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Colorado River, The High Plains Aquifer An ...
    What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry?  Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be ...
  • Will It Be Inflation Or Delfation? The Answer ...
    Is the coming financial collapse going to be inflationary or deflationary?  Are we headed for rampant inflation or crippling deflation?  This is a subject that is hotly debated by economists all over the country.  Some insist that the wild money printing that the Federal Reserve is doing combine ...
  • America’s Bubble Economy Is Going To Bec ...
    What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops?  The mainstream media never talks about that.  They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to.  And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow k ...
  • 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
    Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
  • 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
    The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...

Desertification

  • Spineless nopales (Opuntia ficus-indica var. i ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – Opuntia ficus-indica http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/view/19106 Intake of dehydrated nopal (Opuntia ficus indica) improves bone mineral density and calciuria in adult Mexican women María de los Angeles Aguilera-Barreiro, José Alberto ...
  • Sustainable Land Practices, Environmental Sust ...
    www.worldwewant2015.org/sustainability With less than 1,000 days left to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, the process to establish new development goals beyond 2015 is well underway and the United Nations system invites you to be part of this historical … Continue readin ...
  • Small Science vs. Big Science (nonprofitcolleg ...
    Read at : http://www.nonprofitcollegesonline.com/big/ Big is Better?: Small Science vs. Big Science World War II saw the advent of massive (and massively) funded scientific projects. In the decades since, we’ve seen the big science successes of the space program and … Continue readin ...
  • Wildfire effects (Science Daily)
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521152653.htm Climate Change and Wildfire May 21, 2013 — Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing climate, over … ...
  • On Climate Change and Species Interactions (Sc ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522095817.htm Life Scientists Present New Insights On Climate Change and Species Interactions UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online M ...

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Worldnews

  • Dog Bacteria Bring Potentially Beneficial ...
    By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/22/2013 05:28 PM EDT on LiveScience Your loyal pooch may be bringing a whole world of bacteria into your home — but don't panic. Research suggests that exposure to a wide variety of microbes may be good for us. A new study reveals ...
  • Try growing fruit trees in pots
    | Home & Garden Television Comments Zoom The Meyer lemon comes from China. (Stock Xchange) Even if you have limited space, you can still enjoy fresh fruit. Although not all fruit trees thrive in containers for long periods, you can grow any fruit tree in a container for a few years and then ...
  • The Garden Guru: Trusty candidates will g ...
    The job application reads, “Wanted: Plants that can survive drought, 110-degree days and baking Texas sun, and still come out smiling. Candidates should make themselves known at a local garden center.” Since this opening has been there as long as there have been gardeners tendi ...
  • Find the right insides for your outdoor f ...
    Martha Stewart Comments Eggs enriched with omega-3s are an option if you're trying to incorporate fatty acids into your diet. (Tony Cenicola/New York Times) Q. I have all-weather fabric, and I want to sew pillows. What should I fill them with? Can I make them waterproof? A. Most outdoor pill ...
  • Waste not, want not
    A wedding, a grand party and celebration of any kind leaves behind happy memories to cherish. But little do we realise that great fat Indian weddings also leave behind an enormous amount of leftovers. Not only weddings, the quantity of food cooked is over estimated on many other occasions an ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Comment] Playing our part to save children's ...
    The number of children dying from preventable causes has fallen dramatically during the past two decades. In 2011, fewer than 7 million children younger than 5 years died from preventable causes; 20 years ago that number was 12 million. This progress is testament to what happens when leaders, go ...
  • [Comment] Offline: Think English
    “How can I publish my paper in The Lancet?” It's a question that editors here are often asked by young researchers and, if posed in front of an audience, it's one that usually elicits laughter. Asking an editor how to get your paper published is like getting unconsciously drunk on yo ...
  • Fluoroscopy
    Fluoroscopy is a type of medical imaging that shows a continuous X-ray image on a monitor, much like an X-ray movie. During a fluoroscopy procedure, an X-ray beam is passed through the body. The image is transmitted to a monitor so the movement of a...
  • Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Sp ...
    Kiera Wilmot, the Florida high school student who was expelled from her school after an unauthorized science experiment was misperceived as a weapon (at least for purposes of arrest and charging), won't be going to jail. She will, though, be going to Space Camp, thanks to a crowdfunding campaign ...
  • After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead
    The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads. The dream of future generations freed from epidemic is running up against an era of economic recovery and harsh budget cuts.

Common Dreams

  • Over a Million Signatures in Support for Sen. ...
    Senator Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) call to lower student loan interest rates to the same "discounted rates" given to big banks has received an "outpouring of support" as organizations and institutions of higher education are lining up to endorse the measure. ...
  • Collapse: Does Washington Bridge Expose the Cr ...
    (Photo: Harley Soltes / Special to The Seattle Times)As the nation continues to follow the slash and burn economic policies of the austerity hawks in Washington, will a dramatic bridge collapse in Washington state renew talk of America's eroding infrastructure? ...
  • 'Not Good Enough': Rights Groups Respond to Ob ...
    Better, but not nearly good enough. That's the message many were sending after President Obama's speech at the National Defense University in Washington, DC on Thursday. read more
  • Obama Frames Covert Drone War as Necessary Evil
    President Barack Obama reacts as his speech is interrupted by CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Barack Obama has made it clear that the US will continue with its controvers ...
  • A Stormy Hurricane Season Is Upon Us
    Satellite image from Oct. 29, 2012, shows Hurricane Sandy off of Maryland and Virginia. (Photo: NOAA's National Ocean Service)East coast residents still reeling from Hurricane Sandy may shudder at the predictions for the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

  • Our Energy Use In Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
    In order to navigate these conversations about sustainable energy and climate change, it helps to have a look at our current consumption patterns. So how much do we consume? And what do we use energy for?
  • US Oil Boom Shifts Focus to North Dakota Bakke ...
    Responsible production of the newly discovered oil and gas in the Bakken and Three Forks formations can promote energy independence. The US has already seen a reduction of 10% in net oil imports in the last year.
  • Can Energy Storage Make Wind and Solar Energy ...
    Wind and solar power generated 3.5% and about 0.1%, respectively, of US electricity last year. To what extent could more and cheaper storage enable wind and solar to function as the equivalent of high-utilization, baseload generation?
  • Bonn: Addressing Climate Change Threats to “Wa ...
    Experts from around the world have gathered in Bonn, Germany to “synthesize major global water research achievements in the last decade and help assemble the scientific foundations to articulate a common vision of Earth’s water future."
  • Busting Big Oil Myths on the Renewable Fuel St ...
    Anyone with an interest in energy policy knows that a full frontal assault has been launched against the Renewable Fuel Standard. Big Oil has gone on the offensive, spreading myths and misinformation about renewable fuels.

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Why Stocks Have Risen: Stimulus, Stimulus, and ...
    by chycho Since bottoming out at an intra-day low of 6,467 on March 6, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DOW) has risen to 15,295 as of May 23, 2013 - a gain of approximately 130% in just over 4 years. The S&P 500 has shown similar results, advancing from an intra-day low of 666 to ...
  • Pakistan: More Things Change, More Remain the Same
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD Nawaz SharifContemporary affairs represent Pakistani nation as divided people, leaderless who have been exploited by the neo-colonial feudal lords causing catastrophic consequences without accountability and engaged in looting the people of their socio-economic, moral ...
  • 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 group representatives. In Jerusalem, he discussed Syria wi ...
  • On Pollution Trading in the Chesapeake: Congre ...
    Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Washington, DC—“The Water and Wildlife Subcommittee of U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee is holding a hearing today to hear witnesses testify about water quality trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershe ...
  • Israeli Pillar of Cloud War Crimes
    by Stephen Lendman On May 8, B'Tselem published a report titled "Human Rights Violations During Operation Pillar of Defense: 14 - 21 November 2012." Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloud (aka Cloud Column/Pillar of Defense) was naked, premeditated aggression. Previous articles discussed it. " ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • A solution to Toronto's $2.5 billion public tr ...
    A new report by CCPA-Ontario economist Hugh Mackenzie lays out a range of revenue generating options that could readily fund plans to expand public transit in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton. Mackenzie assesses all of the funding options currently on the table, weighs the pros and cons of ...
  • Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
    The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights has a new e-bulletin with some interesting updates. Given the interest lately in temporary foreign workers and their impact on Canada's labout market, Ken Georgetti's update, Migrant workers account for most new jobs: CLC is particularly relevant. ...
  • New video from our Budget Forum featuring Kevi ...
    On April 25th, the CCPA hosted a forum on the changing nature of federal budgets, featuring former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. As the keynote speaker, Mr. Page delivered a captivating talk about his time as Canada’s first PBO, and we are grateful to him for sharing his experience wi ...
  • Is wealth too powerful in Canada?
    Thursday evening at the Canadian War Museum, in a debate presented by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and moderated by historian Jack Granatstein, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan and economist William Watson debated the motion, “Wealth has too much power in Canada.” Read Armine's argumen ...
  • Inequality is accelerating
    "Inequality is accelerating – and with it, the fragility of our economy." The latest column by Frances Russell, Tax cuts a race to the bottom, connects the dots between worsening income inequality in Canada, the insatiable political drive for more tax cuts, and the diminishing role of gover ...

World Wide Hippies

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Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trad ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

Energy Collective

  • Our Energy Use In Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
    In order to navigate these conversations about sustainable energy and climate change, it helps to have a look at our current consumption patterns. So how much do we consume? And what do we use energy for?
  • US Oil Boom Shifts Focus to North Dakota Bakke ...
    Responsible production of the newly discovered oil and gas in the Bakken and Three Forks formations can promote energy independence. The US has already seen a reduction of 10% in net oil imports in the last year.
  • Can Energy Storage Make Wind and Solar Energy ...
    Wind and solar power generated 3.5% and about 0.1%, respectively, of US electricity last year. To what extent could more and cheaper storage enable wind and solar to function as the equivalent of high-utilization, baseload generation?
  • Bonn: Addressing Climate Change Threats to “Wa ...
    Experts from around the world have gathered in Bonn, Germany to “synthesize major global water research achievements in the last decade and help assemble the scientific foundations to articulate a common vision of Earth’s water future."
  • Busting Big Oil Myths on the Renewable Fuel St ...
    Anyone with an interest in energy policy knows that a full frontal assault has been launched against the Renewable Fuel Standard. Big Oil has gone on the offensive, spreading myths and misinformation about renewable fuels.

EU Times

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Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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Groklaw

  • Intelligence linked to ability to ignore distr ...
    People with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information, say US researchers. Instead, they are good at detecting small moving objects. The findings come in a study of 53 people given a simple, visual test in Current Biology ...
  • French Senate bill proposes giving priority to ...
    The French Senate examines a reoganisation of public schools ("refondation de l'école de la République", in French) bill this week. Among the provisions introduced by culture, education and communication committee, April particularly welcomes an amendment to Art. 101 which gives the priority to ...
  • Lunar eclipse melting into the ocean
    [PJ: So beautiful.] - Imgur, via reddit
  • How to learn the periodic table in 3 minutes
    It goes, appropriately, at a fast gallop, but listen a few times, and you'll soon find yourself confidently singing along. Best periodic table song ever. - Michelle Starr, CNET
  • Why Google's Display Ad Business Drew FTC Anti ...
    What precipitated this latest probe, according to the Wall Street Journal, was not publishers, but at least one ad tech rival. It's not clear which rivals, though perennial Google opponent Microsoft is said not to be involved. It's also not clear how widespread these concerns are, even if the FT ...

WideShut

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Politics in the Zeros

  • Endless war via AUMF (Authorization to Use Mil ...
    America’s state of permanent global endless war approaches 12th anniversary. The militant American Empire doesn’t need any more AUMF (Authorization to Use Military Force.) On September 14, 2001, the Congress authorized the President to wage unfettered, permanent war against pretty much anyone th ...
  • Thoughts on the Woolwich atrocity
    The cold blooded murder of Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – just outside his barracks in Woolwich – saw Al Qaeda-type savagery and bestiality explode in our midst for the first time since 7/7. It is the kind of savagery and bestiality that is no respector of borde ...
  • FBI investigated the song ‘Louie Louie’ for tw ...
    Not satire The FBI spent two years analyzing the song. They even played it at different speeds to see if they were missing some hidden obscene message. And in all that time, the bureau never once contacted Jack Ely, the man who sang the words of the song in the first place
  • Urban class warfare: Are cities built for the ...
    Speigel interviews David Harvey, Marxist and social theorist, on cities, and how urban dwellers in totality not the proletariat will become the catalysts for social change, that urban class warfare may come to the cities. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why should a Marxist be concerned about major cities inste ...
  • CT prison still stonewalls hearing for Bonnie ...
    No prisoner has been in the Niantic jail – aka York “Correctional” Institution – longer than Bonnie Jean Foreshaw, a battered and sexually-abused woman who has somehow managed to survive and hold on to her humanity. Every day Foreshaw remains in prison is a crime against humanity perpetrated by ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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Just World News

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frogblog

  • Skycity gets compensation but we all pay the cost
    The agreement between the Government and SkyCity for the build of an international convention centre is a deeply dodgy deal. I’m launching a campaign called Gambling Laws – Not For Sale at which has an online petition and a hard-copy petition asking the Government to oppose any legislation to re ...
  • DOC grants access to open cast mine Denniston
    The Minister of Conservation has allowed Australian owned Bathurst Resources Ltd access to conservation land on the Denniston Plateau to build open cast coal mine. This beautiful landscape with many rare species will be ripped open for coal if the Bathurst also obtain resource consents. The Envi ...
  • March Against Monsanto
    I will be hosting the Christchurch March Against Monsanto this Saturday, joined by genetics scientist Professor Jack Heinemann and author Christine Dann. There are events all over the country, all over the world in fact. Find your closest below and join us in this exciting global event to claim ...
  • Water and Biodiversity
    Yesterday was the UN International Day for Biological Diversity. The theme for this year was Water and Biodiversity. In New Zealand our native freshwater species are extremely vulnerable. Our longfin eels are on a pathway to extinction yet are still being caught commercially. Other freshwater sp ...
  • A weekend of action against deep sea oil
    This weekend saw New Zealanders out on our coastlines around the country with a clear message: no deep sea oil drilling in our waters – our environment is too precious to risk. Green MPs Catherine Delahunty and Steffan Browning joined Hands Across the Sand events in Coromandel and Christch ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...
  • Violence: The American Way of Life
    The United States of America was conceived and nurtured by violence. Americans not only engage in violence, they are entertained by it. Killing takes place in America at an average of 87 times each day. Going to war in Afghanistan is less dangerous than living in Chicago. The Romans went to ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

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JAMA

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife c ...
    A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'.© SurvivalSurvival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife c ...
  • Thousands join travel boycott of India's Andam ...
    Survival's call to stop tourists traveling through the Jarawa's land has been backed by thousands.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalJust weeks after Survival launched a tourism boycott of India’s Andaman Islands to stop the degrading ‘human safaris’ to the Jarawa tribe, t ...
  • Celebrities back Earth's most threatened tribe
    Internationally renowned fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has called on Brazil to save Earth's most threatened tribe. (Image can only be used in connection with Survival International's Awá campaign)© Vivienne WestwoodOne year after Oscar winning actor Colin Firth launched Survival I ...
  • Awá woman’s death highlights government neglect
    Ajrua Awá's death is a huge loss to her community© D Pugliese/ SurvivalAn Awá woman has died of an easily treatable disease, despite the Brazilian government receiving funds from a mining company for the tribe’s care. Ajrua Awá was 40 years of age and the mother of five children, the young ...
  • Guatemala’s former dictator convicted of genocide
    Thousands of indigenous people in Guatemala were tortured or killed during the military dictatorship of José Efrain Ríos Montt.© Survival InternationalA former general who presided over a reign of terror in Guatemala during the 1980s has been convicted of genocide. During the military dictators ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsa ...
    from NaturalNews.com: The global March Against Monsanto happens tomorrow! Nearly three hundred cities will host what's sure to be hundreds of thousands of protesters and activists around the globe who are taking a stand against Monsanto and GMOs. YOU can join in the activities, too! Che ...
  • Study Finds Frogs And Other Amphibians Declini ...
    from foxnews.com: A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good. The U.S. Geological Study says populations of frogs, salamanders and toads have been vanishing from occupied sites at a ...
  • CDC Still 'Investigating' Alabama Mystery Illn ...
    from myfoxal.com: The number of mystery illness cases affecting Alabama is growing. Wednesday, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Dr. Mary McIntyre confirmed the number rose to ten overnight from a previous report of seven. Two people have died. "Since we sent out the alert to provi ...
  • UK health officials threw away £74m of bird fl ...
    from RT.com: UK’s Department of Health threw away £74m worth of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, before its expiry date, due to unsafe storage procedures. In total the country has spent £600 million since 2006 on drugs to fight a flu pandemic that has not materialized. The figures, reve ...
  • The war against the organic mafia
    from presseurop.eu: Fraud in the organic farming sector has become a thriving international industry made up of a complex network of companies that bears all the marks of traditional organised crime. Earlier, in the supposedly good old days, lone farmers or traders in the organic busin ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
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  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Colorado River, The High Plains Aquifer An ...
    What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry?  Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be ...
  • Will It Be Inflation Or Delfation? The Answer ...
    Is the coming financial collapse going to be inflationary or deflationary?  Are we headed for rampant inflation or crippling deflation?  This is a subject that is hotly debated by economists all over the country.  Some insist that the wild money printing that the Federal Reserve is doing combine ...
  • America’s Bubble Economy Is Going To Bec ...
    What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops?  The mainstream media never talks about that.  They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to.  And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow k ...
  • 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
    Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
  • 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
    The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

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

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • US Military Academies using Ubuntu for Trainin ...
    According to The Washington Post, U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks which control almost everything these days. And guess what, they are being trained ...
  • EasyShutdown: Lets you Schedule Shutdowns in U ...
    Shutdown command works just fine, but if you want a GUI to schedule system shutdown in Ubuntu, EasyShutdown is the answer. It was a very basic app made to do just that one thing, scheduling shutdowns in Ubuntu. And it is nicely integrated with Unity launcher as well. Easy Shutdo ...
  • Ubuntu 13.10 will be called "Saucy Salamander" ...
    Ubuntu 13.04 has already been up and running with a number of very cosmetic changes. And we've been covering every detail of the release over the past 6 months. Now it's time for another major Ubuntu release cycle. In typical Canonical fashion, the next Ubuntu (Ubuntu 13.10 ie.) will have a qu ...
  • Left 4 Dead 2 beta Coming to Linux Next Week!
    Long before the official arrival of Steam for Linux client, we had a report revealing Valve's ambitious plans which also included a Linux port of their popular title Left 4 Dead 2 aka L4D2 (further read: 20 most exciting Linux games for 2012). Rumor-mills can all rest now. Valve has offic ...
  • Ubuntu GNOME 13.04 with GNOME 3.6 Released
    As far as I am concerned, this is a very important release. Ubuntu GNOME (previously called Ubuntu GNOME Remix) has one of the best implementations of GNOME Shell desktop. And as we've already seen in our earlier Ubuntu GNOME review, if you want the best of Ubuntu and pure GNOME in a single pa ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
    Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
    Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
  • AUSTRIANS VOTE BY TWO THIRDS FOR DRAFT ARMY IN ...
    *Austrians vote overwhelmingly to keep conscription in historic referendum and triumph for direct democracy *Mainstream media propaganda machine suffers death blow as new style of political campaign emerges *Politicians use internet to connect with grass roots, bypass corporate media *Austria&#8 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Killing of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Would ...
    By Alexander Abad-Santos | May 23, 2013 Ibragim Todashev may or may not have pulled a knife on investigators in his own apartment. He may or may not have been ready to sign a confession implicating himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple homicide. All we know is that lethal force was ...
  • Has the world gone crackers? How THREE police ...
    By Sam Webb Big cheese: Diana Smart, 86, from Gloucester makes the cheese that is chased down Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire by thrill-seekers. Police have told her not to do it this year Big cheese: Diana Smart, 86, from Gloucester makes the cheese that is chased down Coopers Hill in Glouceste ...
  • As Addictive As Cocaine: HFCS – America& ...
    A little over a year ago, I did what was once unthinkable, I gave up anything and everything containing high fructose corn syrup. I did it for a big reason: I had come to the conclusion that it was killing me. Those multiple energy drinks a day to go along with my Pepsi habit and […]
  • Spring on track to be coldest for 30 years | M ...
    Early figures from the Met Office show spring (March, April and May) 2013 is on course to be the coldest in the UK since 1979. Estimates of the mean temperature for the whole season have been made based on data from 1 March up to 15 May as well as an assumption of average conditions […]
  • Activist Post: Mysterious Deaths in Alabama: C ...
    Daisy Luther Activist Post RT reported Wednesday on a bizarre spate of respiratory illnesses in Alabama, two resulting in death. A mysterious respiratory illness has claimed the lives of two people in southeast Alabama, and caused five other hospitalizations. The illness has left health official ...

Veterans Today

  • US Gov: Walk Slow
    This "allowed" the patient to go ahead and croak before the life extending heroic measures arrived. It was that way because it was always that way.
  • Ayn Rand’s Objectivism and Sexual Calculus (Pa ...
    Rand’s Objectivism was like a cult. It had a lot to do with preserving Rand’s image and had virtually nothing to do with truth.
  • South African police website hacked ‘over Mari ...
    WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – South Africa_ A unknown hacker has attacked the South African police official website, downloading the details of the whistle-blowers who reported crime, an official has reported.  An “oversight” led to the data being kept on an insecure site, he added. This statement seems ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s decision to modernize the Defense Department’s electronic health record through the purchase of commercial software looks like a setback for development of an integrated electronic health record with the Veterans Affairs Department, according to folks I have ta ...
  • Church of Scotland General Assembly Alams Isra ...
    The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the 'promised land' is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. In adopting the report with only a handful of votes for r ...

electric politics

  • A Real World Sanity Test
    It would be stupid for China and Japan to again go to war. Stupid, but not impossible. Both claim a small set of islets in the East China Sea — about seven square kilometers of rock — called the Diaoyu by China and the Senkaku by Japan. Recently Japan, which has possession, fiddled w ...
  • (Re) Discovering Democracy
    'The internet is anti-democratic.' 'The computer never should have been invented.' 'The solution is for government to subsidize the news.' No, wait, that's all wrong... The fact is, if you want to learn something about the convergence of the media, the internet, and democracy, you should forget ...
  • Cyprus in Crisis
    Cyprus really didn't have a choice about acceding to the Troika's demands: the costs of a precipitous, unplanned flight from the Eurozone were too great. Now, having signed up for indefinite indentured servitude, the Cypriots should take advantage of a small amount of breathing room to plan for ...
  • Going To Tehran
    Nobody has been more correct about Iran than Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. Their latest, Going To Tehran (Metropolitan Books, 2013), lays out the logic of successful U.S. engagement. Also the perils of failure. I may be slightly more neutral than the Leveretts as I think that absent a diploma ...
  • Political Memories
    What we forget about our political history is perhaps a better indicator of who we are, or what we are, than what we remember. In some cases, moreover, forgetting can be catastrophic. The Congo, for example, cannot address its colonial past and consequently — though I admit this is arguabl ...

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Stop NATO

  • Azerbaijan: NATO’s Outpost On Caspian, I ...
    AzerNews May 24, 2013 Azerbaijan’s security minister meets senior NATO official ==== The minister informed the NATO official about…the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and its consequences, and stressed that this factor is also a serious threat for the security of the whole o ...
  • U.S. Nominates Ex-General, Afghan Hand As New ...
    Stars and Stripes May 24, 2013 White House adviser on Afghanistan nominated as new US envoy to NATO By John Vandiver ==== Daalder’s departure after a four-year stint as ambassador comes just weeks after the parting of Adm. James Stavridis, the soon-to-retire former NATO supreme allied commander. ...
  • Louis Aragon: The military: parasite and defen ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Louis Aragon: The peace that forces murder down to its knees for confession ==== Louis Aragon From The Bells of Basel (1934) Translated by Haakon Chevalier “If I lend money not to Pierre de Sabran but to the Turks to massacre ...
  • U.S. Military Base In Uzbekistan Would Destabi ...
    Daily Times May 22, 2013 Uzbek quest for US weapons could dent Central Asia Farooq Yousaf Uzbek President Islam Karimov and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen 2014 is approaching, and so is the deadline for the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Afghanistan. Leon Panetta, the t ...
  • Interview: From Kosovo to Missiles, U.S. Works ...
    Voice of Russia May 22, 2013 NATO has never offered to cooperate with Russia – Rozoff AUDIO Western support for KLA terrorists and support for the self-declared independence of Kosovo are part of a pan-Albanian plan for the region, NATO is reaching its tentacles into space and there has ne ...

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • India: “Don’t pose as Maoist rebe ...
    HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Ranchi, May 18, 2013 CPI-Maoists through posters have warned criminal groups and splinter outfits not to lift levy claiming to be Naxals in Ramgarh district. The poster read, “Criminals are warned not to pose as Maoists rebels. If the party comes to know ...
  • India: “Don’t pose as Maoist rebe ...
    HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times  Ranchi, May 18, 2013 CPI-Maoists through posters have warned criminal groups and splinter outfits not to lift levy claiming to be Naxals in Ramgarh district. The poster read, “Criminals are warned not to pose as Maoists rebels. If the party comes to know ...
  • China Is Seen Nearing U.S.’s Military Power in ...
    [Petar Kujundzic/Reuters--A Chinese commander adjusts the cap of a soldier in Beijing, ahead of a visit by President François Hollande of France in April.] By MARTIN FACKLER, New York Times,  May 1, 2013 TOKYO — China’s growing industrial might is likely to allow it to mount an increasingly form ...
  • China Is Seen Nearing U.S.’s Military Power in ...
    [Petar Kujundzic/Reuters--A Chinese commander adjusts the cap of a soldier in Beijing, ahead of a visit by President François Hollande of France in April.] By MARTIN FACKLER, New York Times,  May 1, 2013 TOKYO — China’s growing industrial might is likely to allow it to mount an increasingly form ...
  • Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak talks about h ...
      Red Ant Dream — Trailer Published on May 1, 2013 A documentary about those who live the revolutionary ideal in India Director: Sanjay Kak Synopsis:  ‘Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist’, the revolutionary patriot had said almost a hundred yea ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?
  • Words from an Honest, Intelligent & Compassion ...
    Words from an honest, intelligent and compassionate Jew... words from a respected brother with a hugely important message that should be heeded by every single Jew on this planet.
  • Press TV’s News Analysis – Israel ...
    In this program I get to respond directly to one of Israels countless prostitutes of propaganda in the mainstream media, Daniel Pipes.
  • Trade Not Aid Update – November 6, 2012 &#8211 ...
    Today was the final hearing for the case against the Trade Not Aid hijackers Cate (Catherine) Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald) and Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja).  It cost over £600 in court fees, money that should have gone directly into the cause.  It took countless hours o ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Military Responds to Oklahoma Tornado
    The Oklahoma National Guard, joined by Air Force personnel, are on location in Moore, OK, following an EF4 tornado that struck the community yesterday. At least 250 Army and Air National Guard soldiers and airmen have been dispatched.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: May 21, 2013
  • Watching Tornadoes and Severe Weather Go Right ...
    Not everyone here in Oklahoma is sitting outside in a lawn chair, or chasing tornadoes in their cars, some of us are trying to be prepared, calm children, and be safe.Contributor: M.D. Weems Published: May 20, 2013
  • Super Cell Tornados Tearing Through Oklahoma
    Super cell tornadoes have been carving paths of destruction throughout Oklahoma since Sunday afternoon.Contributor: Marie Lowe Published: May 20, 2013
  • Congress Wants the Abrams, but the Army Says ' ...
    There’s a reason that there’s a huge bloated Pentagon budget, and it really doesn’t involve the Pentagon. It’s about Congress and the private sector pushing for products the government doesn’t want or need.Contributor: John A. Tures Published: Apr 29, 2013
  • The Red Line Crossed, Obama Now Must Step Up i ...
    According to Politico, the Obama administration has acknowledged that Syria has crossed “the red line” it said it must not cross and has dropped sarin gas on its own people. The bluff having been called, the White House is mulling what to do next.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Apr 26, 2013

Popsci - Science

  • Bridge Collapse in Washington State Sends Two ...
    No one was killed, but it's just another example of how badly American infrastructure is crumbling. It’s been a rough week for bridges around the U.S. At about 7 p.m. local time in Washington state yesterday a bridge spanning the Skagit river north of Seattle (part of Interstate 5) collapsed af ...
  • NASA Inspects Ion Engine Prototype For Asteroi ...
    A look at possible propulsion for NASA's plan to bring an asteroid home for study. When NASA sends a rocket out to tow an asteroid into Earth orbit, it'll be ion propelled. Ion propulsion engines harness magnetic fields to create thrust, instead of depending on chemical explosions the way chem ...
  • Decode Darwin's Handwriting To Help Science
    A citizen science project is transcribing handwritten field notes for more than a million insect specimens. Do you have a special talent for reading scribbled handwriting and an interest in looking at dead bugs? Rather than setting a handful of bleary-eyed undergrads with the task of transcri ...
  • Will 'Libido In A Pill' Help Women Get It On?
    The "female Viagra" has to tackle more than just a physical malfunction. Since Viagra came on the scene in the late '90s, men with sexual disfunction have been able to pop a pill and get busy to their hearts' content. For women, it's harder: There's not yet a cure for a lack of female arousal, ...
  • This 3-D Printed Bioplastic Windpipe Saved A B ...
    The infant's 3-D printed trachea will fully absorb into his body in two to three years. We’ve seen plenty of 3-D printed medical implants for patients that require replacement tissues, but this use of 3-D printed biopolymer to augment and correct an existing tissue highlights just how amazing ...

Veterans Today

  • US Gov: Walk Slow
    This "allowed" the patient to go ahead and croak before the life extending heroic measures arrived. It was that way because it was always that way.
  • Ayn Rand’s Objectivism and Sexual Calculus (Pa ...
    Rand’s Objectivism was like a cult. It had a lot to do with preserving Rand’s image and had virtually nothing to do with truth.
  • South African police website hacked ‘over Mari ...
    WORLD NEWS TOMORROW – South Africa_ A unknown hacker has attacked the South African police official website, downloading the details of the whistle-blowers who reported crime, an official has reported.  An “oversight” led to the data being kept on an insecure site, he added. This statement seems ...
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – May ...
    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s decision to modernize the Defense Department’s electronic health record through the purchase of commercial software looks like a setback for development of an integrated electronic health record with the Veterans Affairs Department, according to folks I have ta ...
  • Church of Scotland General Assembly Alams Isra ...
    The Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the 'promised land' is a ground-breaking report by the Church and Society Council that was overwhelmingly agreed this weekend at the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh. In adopting the report with only a handful of votes for r ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Language Games: Should French Unis Teach in En ...
    I have long been fascinated with the France's Academie Francaise, a body intended to guard the French language from the barbarisms of other, uncouth languages. The erstwhile linguistic barbarians have changed over the centuries: whereas the Academic Francaise was developed as a bulwark to Spanis ...
  • Geopolitics of Eurovision: Echoes of Yugoslavia
    Formerly known as the Cold War Studies programme, LSE IDEAS has always been focused on post-1989 events in that part of Europe. As out founders keep saying, understanding the Cold War is key to understanding the current era of globalization. I need not remind anyone that the wars there were espe ...
  • Liberation Theology, Leonardo Boff & 'Fixing' ...
    What is the difference between a socially active priest and one who dabbles in leftist politics? The dividing line was much clearer during the Pope John Paul II and Benedict XVI eras when the latter was strictly verboten and priests were discouraged from engaging directly--especially in electora ...
  • Divorces of (Real-Estate) Convenience in China
    To paraphrase Steely Dan, this is not your Haitian but your Hainan divorce. Recent regulations in China intended to tamp down real-estate speculation have had an unintended consequence of separating happily married couples to take advantage of better tax benefits accruing to single persons: Long ...
  • Brokebank USA: Living Paycheck to Paycheck
    Gillian Tett of the FT has an interesting article that seemingly contradicts all of the happy talk about how "America is back" with stock markets hitting all-time highs. There is no particular difficulty understanding stock market speculation and bubbles: with the Federal Reserve practically giv ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Colorado River, The High Plains Aquifer An ...
    What is life going to look like as our precious water resources become increasingly strained and the western half of the United States becomes bone dry?  Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in the western half of the country in 1000 years, and now things appear to be ...
  • Will It Be Inflation Or Delfation? The Answer ...
    Is the coming financial collapse going to be inflationary or deflationary?  Are we headed for rampant inflation or crippling deflation?  This is a subject that is hotly debated by economists all over the country.  Some insist that the wild money printing that the Federal Reserve is doing combine ...
  • America’s Bubble Economy Is Going To Bec ...
    What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops?  The mainstream media never talks about that.  They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to.  And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow k ...
  • 7 Things About The Mainstream Media That They ...
    Have you ever wondered who controls the mainstream media?  In America today, we are more "connected" than ever.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month, and we also spend countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the ...
  • 10 Amazing Charts That Demonstrate The Slow, A ...
    The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species.  The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. ...

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Voiceless Victim

  • How many Cardinals will return from Rome?
    In Australia on Friday, Cardinal “Big George” Pell luxuriously draped his massive frame up the pointy end of a plane, heading for Rome and the preliminary rounds of the title fight known as the papal conclave. There he will duck and weave and sucker punch with the best of them before ...
  • Rat in the Vat Gives Up Funny Hat
    Out of the blue, the world’s most powerful paedophile protector has announced he is handing over the keys to the best room in the Vatican. This sudden and unexpected break with six centuries of tradition, where aged and often senile Popes usually only release their maniacal grasp on absolu ...
  • Child Rape, Truth and Politics
    Regular readers will know Voiceless Victim was chosen to represent victims at a morning tea with the Australian Prime Minster, Julia Gillard, at her gorgeous official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, the day after the announcement of the terms of reference for our long awaited Royal Commissio ...
  • George “Marie Antoinette” Pell tel ...
    Like the opulently robed 18th Century Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who reportedly dismissed her  starving peasants’ need for bread with the stunningly insensitive quip, “let them eat cake”, the opulently robed Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, yesterday dismisse ...
  • Voiceless Victim Invited to Tea with the Prime ...
    Who would have imagined as little as twelve months ago, that Australian victims would be about to start work on their submissions to the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse we were told so many times would never happen. And that we would be generally pretty happy with its newly a ...

WL Central

  • 2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bra ...
    "News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee", wrote Glenn Greenwald. "When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, ...
  • 2013-05-10 Request for Credentials - United St ...
    Subject: Request for Credentials - United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's Court Martial (UNCLASSIFIED) From: "USARMY Ft McNair mdw Mailbox Mediadesk OMB" Date: Fri, May 10, 2013 10:27 pm To: Undisclosed recipients:; Priority: Normal Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Media Advi ...
  • 2013-05-10 Assange Speech for Global Exchange ...
    Thank you for this honor. I am very happy to be sharing it with Noam Chomsky whose generosity and strength of character I have felt personally. Noam, you are the sea--relentless and enduring. You have crashed wave after wave of understanding into towering cliffs of lies, eroding them at their ba ...
  • 2013-05-02 LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks sol ...
    Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ( http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 ( tel:516-578-2628 ) press@bradleymanning.org LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks soldier after SF Pride controversy Last Wednesday, it was publicly ...
  • 2013-04-30 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Sch ...
    Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE NEWS RELEASE The U.S. Army Military District of Washington Guardians of the Nation's Capital FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-14 DATE: April 30, 2013 Article 39(a) Pre-trial Hearing Scheduled for United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning WASHINGTON - An arti ...

U N News

  • Political participation by indigenous peoples ...
    Indigenous peoples in Latin America have undergone an unprecedented mobilization in the past 20 years, but political participation, particularly among women, is still low, the United Nations said in a new report released today.
  • Justice in Guatemala vital for preventing recu ...
    Establishing truth and justice in Guatemala is essential to ensuring that heinous crimes such as arbitrary executions, rape and forced displacement - committed during the country's civil war - do not take place again and to ending impunity, a group of independent United Nations experts said today.
  • Guatemala: UN rights chief welcomes historic' ...
    The top United Nations human rights official today welcomed the conviction of José Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemala's former de facto head of State, to 80 years in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
  • Mexico must strengthen its protection of human ...
    A United Nations independent expert today urged the Mexican Government to strengthen the national structures that protect human rights, in particular the right to life, and reduce the involvement of the military in policing to reduce the use of force in the country.
  • US faces gaps in protecting human rights in bu ...
    Despite progress and innovation in key sectors of the United States' economy, too many loopholes remain to adequately protect human rights from adverse business practices, a group of United Nations independent experts today warned.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Reef Defense C ...
    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense, a global campaign to end the destruction of coral reefs and the many threats they face worldwide. Coral reefs represent some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems providing critical habita ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The 1964 ...
    In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby ...
  • The “New Conservation’s” Surrender to Development
    by Brian Miller, Michael E. Soulé, and John Terborgh Abstract When a functioning ecological system is perturbed by human activity, processes are distorted and species diversity often declines. Research has shown that loss of species diversity decreases productivity, resilience (stability), effic ...
  • Dave on Jefferson Public Radio
    The Jefferson Exchange host Geoffrey Riley and Dave Foreman talk about rewilding in a broadcast from May 14, 2013. Good questions and comments from listeners! http://traffic.libsyn.com/jpr/The_Jefferson_Exchange_05_14_2013_Hour_2.mp3 Order your copy of Dave Foreman’s Rewilding North Americ ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Wilderne ...
    A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.  Section 2(c) of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Next year (20 ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Why Men Do Evil... When Wearing A Badge
    "Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when f ...
  • DHS Teaching Kids To Go To FEMA Camps In a Tim ...
    Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. Are these post disaster relief camps, or really military internment camps? ~ Cassius Methyl - Video read more
  • Wells Fargo Forecloses On Homeowner... Reason? ...
    A Florida family man who not only made his mortgage payments on time but made payments early faces foreclosure by Wells Fargo. read more
  • ALERT!... USDA Forces Whole Foods To Accept Mo ...
    In the wake of a 12-year battle to keep Monsanto's Genetically Engineered (GE) crops from contaminating the nation's 25,000 organic farms and ranches, America's organic consumers and producers are facing betrayal. ~ Videos read more
  • 2 FBI Agents Involved in Dzhokar Tsarnaev's Ar ...
    Remember that scene in Scarface?... Two members of the FBI’s elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. ~ Ralph Hornsby read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • A Govt Database “No One Has Ever Seen Be ...
    Maxine Waters, a U.S. Representative [D] for California’s 43rd congressional district, has revealed a nugget of information during an interview with Roland Martin… …in which she confirms that President Obama has established a database “on every individual;” in essen ...
  • Sheeple, Sports, and TV Celebrity Entertainment
    image source: an unknown couch potato Only one out of the top Google searches during the past two days has anything to do with the ‘real’ world. ALL of the rest that are listed in Google Trends ‘Hot Searches’ of the internet are related to Sports or Television/Entertainme ...
  • The Extermination Of The Middle Class American ...
    The trends are continuing, the middle class is shrinking, there is no recovery, hardship and distress continues to mushroom, while more and more Americans slide into poverty only to become dependent on government to survive. You are not hearing the truth from ‘official’ sources and t ...
  • Five Benefits of Paracord
    Parachute cord, also called Paracord is a highly versatile multi-filament nylon cord with nearly unlimited uses, applications and benefits, and is a must have for any survival and emergency preparedness kit. More details about this amazing cord…   Real paracord is made of seven strong ...
  • Compost
    Building a compost pile is an easy gardening project. Compost provides nutrition for plants, it builds the soil, and feeds beneficial microbes. Here are a few ideas how to get started with your own compost pile…   First, choose the best location for your compost pile, which should be ...

Fast Company

  • Dear Abbys: A New Esquire Column Sources Life ...
    "Dear Abby" comes into the Internet age with a new Esquire column chock-full of advice from 100,000 of the author's closest friends. Who do you turn to for life advice? In "My Huddled Masses," a new weekly Esquire column, editor-at-large A.J. Jacobs is turning to 100,000 of his closest Fac ...
  • A New Model To Pay For Infrastructure in Chicago
    The Chicago Infrastructure Trust creates a new way to pay for things like improvements to bridges and roads that won’t destroy the city’s already stretched budget. The next big thing is funding urban infrastructure is now coming online in Chicago, and Tim Logan has done a deep ...
  • Steven Holl’s Sports Complex For Columbia Look ...
    Steven Holl’s first building in New York is packed with the architect’s signature, whimsical flourishes. After designing buildings all over the world, from Helsinki to Beijing, the New York-based architect Steven Holl has finally completed his first freestanding structure in th ...
  • A Forest Hideaway Proves Concrete And Cozy Can ...
    The AV house makes an excellent case for concrete at the domestic scale. A common, if facile, critique of Brutalism is that it is widely unsuited to domestic application. A home, after all, is not a city hall (Brutalism was most extensively rendered in the service of civic structures), and ...
  • World's First 3-D-Printed Bullets Join A Growi ...
    In a YouTube video, a gun enthusiast shows off shotgun slugs he claims came from a 3-D printer. The growing arsenal of 3-D-printed weapons now includes homemade bullets. As highlighted by the Daily Dot, a Tennessee man recently posted a YouTube video demonstrating what kind of damage can b ...

Jadaliyya

  • يافا والموسيقى و"فوائد" النكبة
     تنشر هذه المادة ضمن إتفاقية شراكة وتعاون بين ”جدلية“ و“معازف“ معازف: عند حدوث النكبة كان عمرك ١١ سنة، وكنت - بفضل علاقات والدك مع الموسيقيّين - معرّضاً للمشهد الموسيقيّ في فلسطين ذاك الوقت. هل يمكنك أن تصف لنا المشهد الموسيقي في فلسطين قبل النكبة؟ الياس سحاب: ولدت في مدينة يا ...
  • Islamists and Transitional Justice
    Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the start, not only for ...
  • O.I.L. Media Roundup (24 May)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each biweekly roundup ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (May 24)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • أوهام ليبرالية
    فيما تزداد حدة الخلاف السياسي بين الحكومة والمعارضة في مصر، ومع التدهور الملحوظ في الوضع الإقتصادي، يستمر النقاد في إلقاء الضوء على ما يصفونه بإخفاق الثورة في  تحقيق نظام سياسي يستطيع أن يواجه التحديات السياسية والإقتصادية التي تواجه مصر في الفترة الحالية. وعبر عبد المنعم سعيد بفصاحة عن هذ ...

mediagazer

  • Eric Holder versus journalism (Alex Pareene/Salon)
    Alex Pareene / Salon: Eric Holder versus journalism  —  After AG signed off on warrant granting DOJ access to reporter's email, the question now is: Will Obama let him go?  —  Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed off on the warrant naming Fox News journ ...
  • A year after Times-Picayune announced cutbacks ...
    The Lens: A year after Times-Picayune announced cutbacks, news habits changing in New Orleans  —  A year ago today, news leaked that The Times-Picayune would cease daily publication, cut staff and focus on its website, NOLA.com.  The paper and ink edition now hits doorsteps ...
  • Fox News CEO Roger Ailes blasts administration ...
    Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: Fox News CEO Roger Ailes blasts administration, praises his team  —  Roger Ailes fired back at the Justice Department.  —  Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes sent a memo to the channel's staff critical of the Obama administration in the ...
  • News Corp to split in two on 28 June (BBC)
    BBC: News Corp to split in two on 28 June  —  News Corp has announced it will officially split its publishing and entertainment businesses on 28 June.  —  Its board approved the separation into two firms, which will both be headed by the current chairman and chie ...
  • News Corp. Publishing Unit Gets $500 Million B ...
    Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg: News Corp. Publishing Unit Gets $500 Million Buyback Fund  —  News Corp. (NWSA) said its publishing division, which will become a separate company in June, will start out with a $500 million fund to repurchase stock.  —  The board au ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Dog Bacteria Bring Potentially Beneficial ...
    By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/22/2013 05:28 PM EDT on LiveScience Your loyal pooch may be bringing a whole world of bacteria into your home — but don't panic. Research suggests that exposure to a wide variety of microbes may be good for us. A new study reveals ...
  • Try growing fruit trees in pots
    | Home & Garden Television Comments Zoom The Meyer lemon comes from China. (Stock Xchange) Even if you have limited space, you can still enjoy fresh fruit. Although not all fruit trees thrive in containers for long periods, you can grow any fruit tree in a container for a few years and then ...
  • The Garden Guru: Trusty candidates will g ...
    The job application reads, “Wanted: Plants that can survive drought, 110-degree days and baking Texas sun, and still come out smiling. Candidates should make themselves known at a local garden center.” Since this opening has been there as long as there have been gardeners tendi ...
  • Find the right insides for your outdoor f ...
    Martha Stewart Comments Eggs enriched with omega-3s are an option if you're trying to incorporate fatty acids into your diet. (Tony Cenicola/New York Times) Q. I have all-weather fabric, and I want to sew pillows. What should I fill them with? Can I make them waterproof? A. Most outdoor pill ...
  • Waste not, want not
    A wedding, a grand party and celebration of any kind leaves behind happy memories to cherish. But little do we realise that great fat Indian weddings also leave behind an enormous amount of leftovers. Not only weddings, the quantity of food cooked is over estimated on many other occasions an ...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 5/22/13 - UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline 1970-2013 – Gay marriage became legal in New Zealand on Apr. 19, 2013, in Uruguay on May 3, 2013, and, most recently, in France on May 18, 2013.  14 countries now permit same-sex couples to marry.
  • 5/17/13 - Economic Impact of Golf
    golf.procon.org - Economic Impact of Golf: State by State - See the number of golf facilities in 31 states, along with the economic output, jobs, and wage income created by golf. California has the highest total economic output from golf, totaling $15.1 billion per year.
  • 5/15/13 - Illegal Immigration Around the World ...
    immigration.procon.org  - Illegal Immigration Around the World: 13 Countries Compared to the United States – While the United States had 2.7% - 3.9% of its population living in the country illegally between 2000 - 2010, 13 other countries we reviewed had illegal immigration rates averagin ...
  • 5/9/13 - 43 States That Allow Underage (under ...
    drinkingage.procon.org - 43 States That Allow Underage (under 21) Alcohol Consumption - On May 7, 2013, Oklahoma became the 13thstate (and DC) to set an exception for underage drinking when reporting a medical emergency due to underage drinking. See which states have this and other exc ...
  • 5/9/13 - 12 States with Pending Legislation to ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - 12 States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - New bills were added in Minnesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while the bills in Florida died in committee.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Majority of Earth’s Population Faces Water Sho ...
    A conference of 500 of the world’s leading water scientists issued a stark declaration at the end of a four-day meeting in Germany, warning that within two generations a majority of the people on the planet will face problems obtaining ample supplies of clean water. At the meeting, “Water in the ...
  • China Poised to Launch Much-Anticipated Carbon ...
    China has revealed details of a carbon cap-and-trade pilot project that will be launched next month, a much-anticipated market attempt to rein in carbon dioxide emissions by the world’s biggest emitter. The first phase of the program, which will be implemented in the southern city of Shenzhen, w ...
  • Research on Microbes Points To New Tools for C ...
    Improvements in DNA technology now make it possible for biologists to identify every living organism in and around a species. Scientists say this could have profound implications for everything from protecting amphibians from a deadly fungus to reintroducing species into the wild. BY RICHARD C ...
  • Whale’s Battle with Nets Is Revealed Through M ...
    A small monitoring tag attached to an entangled North Atlantic right whale revealed just how much fishing gear impairs a whale’s ability to swim, dive, and feed, scientists say. After locating a two-year-old whale, EcoHealth Alliance, under permit number 594-1759The entangled whale dubbed Eg 3 ...
  • Large Majority of Americans Believe Global War ...
    Roughly 70 percent of Americans say global warming should be a priority for President Obama and Congress and 61 percent support requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a carbon tax that would be used to help reduce the national debt, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
    France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
  • On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
    The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...
  • New mining royalties: much ado about nothing
    On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the go ...
  • Dude, where’s my job?
    The real unemployment rate for Canadians over 25 was 8.8% in April. Not great, for sure, but slightly better than it was in 2009. For youth 15-24, it was up from last April – to 20.9% – so more than 1 in 5 youth are looking for work and can’t find it. In Ontario, it’s [.. ...
  • Polozogistics: Nine Thoughts About the Choice ...
      1. He’s Number Two: Stephen Poloz was widely acknowledged in economic and political circles as the second-best choice for the top job at the Bank of Canada. So the surprise was not that he was chosen. The surprise was, Why Not Tiff Macklem? Will someone please find out and tell the ...

ReDress

  • 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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • Desalination
    “The City of Santa Cruz and the Soquel Creek Water District are planning jointly to construct a seawater desalination plant. The construction cost is estimated to be over $100 million dollars. Ratepayers in the City of Santa Cruz will be on the hook to pay 60% of that cost. Water rates wil ...
  • World on course to run out of water, warns Ban ...
    “Ban Ki-moon has warned the world is on course to run out of freshwater unless greater efforts are made to improve water security. Speaking on the UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity, Ban said there was a “mutually reinforcing” relationship between biodiversity ...
  • Utah, Nev., Calif. get water conservation grants
    “The U.S. Interior Department has awarded more than $20 million in grants for water conservation projects in 11 Western states, including several in Utah, Nevada and California. The WaterSMART grants announced Wednesday will fund a total of 44 projects, including a plan to convert earthen ...
  • California council adopts delta management plan
    “A California agency on Thursday unanimously adopted a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. After several hours of public comments and protests by opponents, the Delta Stewardship Council voted 7-0 to approve the final version of the Delta Plan, a ...
  • Long wait ahead for packaged drinking water in ...
    “For thousands of residents who depend on ‘mineral water’ for cooking and drinking, the protest by packaged drinking water manufacturers has come as a shock. Over the past few days, many city residents have been bluntly refused canned water supply by local distributors. According to the Ta ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • and what … we actually expect to receive
    …American history today is propagated by corporate owned mass media … corporate controlled education … and what … we actually expect to receive impartial, unblemished reporting…? Napoleon Bonaparte once famously observed "history is a set of lies agreed upon." For those who look for the ...
  • huge victory against fluoridation
    …Yes your voice can be heard … Yes you have the power … Yes it can be done… News of a huge victory against fluoridation The voters of Portland, Oregon overwhelmingly REJECTED dumping toxic "fluoride" chemicals into their city water supply. So-called "fluoride" is actually a toxic ...
  • because that’s not what their corporate ...
    …why not just implement the “precautionary” principle … because that’s not what their corporate “string-pullers” want… Senators push for safer chemicals   “As a result, EPA has only been able to require testing for roughly 200 of the more than 84,000 chemicals currently registered in the Un ...
  • unquestioningly this is what
    …unquestioningly this is what “big-pharma” … AMA … CDC … want you to believe … it simply is not true … but do your own research… FYI: Are Unvaccinated Kids Really Causing The Whooping Cough Resurgence? 05-22-2013  •  popsci.com  Deadly pertussis is on the rise in the U.S., but is ...
  • control and more importantly make profit$
    …make$ perfect sense as now does the AMA … “big-pharma” control and more importantly make profit$ off the activities of midwives … you know … when in doubt just follow the $$$…   Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

  • 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
    The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...
  • 13,950 Meaningless Search Results
    In the never ending quest for alarmists to one up their incompetent friends they continue to seek out new ways to demonstrate their own computer illiteracy. Enter James Powell who in a meaningless analysis is apparently ignorant that the 'Web of Science' database does not have a "peer-reviewed ...
  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • New global network bridges gap for primate con ...
    Drawing from her personal experience as a primate educator and the challenges she saw others facing, Amy Clanin envisioned a network that would advance the field of primate conservation education by addressing three needs of educators: connections, resources, and services. It was this vision tha ...
  • A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives ...
    On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of ...
  • All the world's rarest birds in one book: phot ...
    The World's Rarest Birds is an extraordinary bird book. 590 different bird species are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered, with many species only existing in captivity. A new book, The World's Rarest Birds, catalogs all of these species. Each species is shown with remarkable color ...
  • Conservation without supervision: Peruvian com ...
    When we think of conservation areas, many of us think of iconic National Parks overseen by uniformed government employees or wilderness areas purchased and run from afar by big-donor organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, or Conservation International. But ...
  • What if companies actually had to compensate s ...
    The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading pub ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Jim Salinger: Climate hurtling towards a hotho ...
    Levels of the climate warming greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have reached 400 parts per million in the atmosphere for the first time in human history.The last time the planet had atmospheric carbon dioxide levels this high was 3...
  • Scientist: Challenges will help NZ
    The Prime Minister's chief science adviser says a hitlist of 10 big issues for our top brains to tackle will be "transformational", despite criticism that they lack imagination.The Government's new National Science Challenges take...
  • Anthony Scott: Science funding can help us rea ...
    "By the end of this decade, we will land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth." President John F Kennedy's challenge to his country in 1961 still thrills with its ambition and imagination.New Zealand's National Science...
  • Human parasites go under the microscope in new ...
    Parasites that live inside humans could find life a bit tougher in future, thanks to the University of Otago and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Worms count for an estimated one billion cases of human gastrointestinal infections...
  • Oklahoma tornado: The science behind the destr ...
    Packing winds of up to 320km, the killer tornado that laid waste to Oklahoma on Monday grasped at the deadliest end of what is termed the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale.The twister has been categorised as an EF4 tornado - the second...

The Bovine

  • From the Vernon Herschberger trial still going ...
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Defense testimony from one of Vernon Hershberger’s buying club members since 2004, Joseph Plasterer, as to how he came to seek out the farm’s food. Plasterer: “We were looking for some … Continue reading →
  • Dr. Thierry Vrain on GMO dangers; March agains ...
    A: Introduced and compiled by Raoul Bedi, BASc: In my May 1, 2013 two part article, on the work of Vandana Shiva and major milestones achieved in the overall anti-GMO  movement, that was published exclusively in The Bovine, and that has … Continue reading →
  • Dr. Thierry Vrain on GMO dangers; March agains ...
    A: Introduced and compiled by Raoul Bedi, BASc: In my May 1, 2013 two part article, on the work of Vandana Shiva and major milestones achieved in the overall anti-GMO  movement, that was published exclusively in The Bovine, and that has … Continue reading →
  • “Rawsome” co-founder is in Baraboo ...
    Here’s the message Rawsome foods co-founder Aajonus Vonderplanitz sent out to his people on his email list recently in connection with the Hershberger trial. Presumably, this represents his own views on the case, and the issues around it: “Hi, healthy-food … Continue reading &# ...
  • “Rawsome” co-founder is in Baraboo ...
    Here’s the message Rawsome foods co-founder Aajonus Vonderplanitz sent out to his people on his email list recently in connection with the Hershberger trial. Presumably, this represents his own views on the case, and the issues around it: “Hi, healthy-food … Continue reading &# ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Discussion in Spain on Leaving the Euro; Euro ...
    Some common sense discussion is taking place in Spain regarding the necessity of Spain exiting the eurozone. For example, please consider Opposition to the euro breaks: first manifesto to leave the single currency as translated from El Economista. The political opposition that Spain ...
  • Greek Debt Unchanged Since 2010; EU to Give Gr ...
    Greece was supposed to get it's debt to GDP ratio to 100% by 2012, then 100% by 2013, then 110% by 2014. Now Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the Eurogroup finance ministers, says Greece May Get Still More Time to meet fiscal targets. And the alleged level of debt sustainability keeps risi ...
  • Another Look at Bernanke's Employment Recovery ...
    Reader Tim Wallace took note of Bernanke's testimony on jobs (see Bernanke's Semi-Annual Tap-Dance of Distortions, Half-truths, Lies, and Hypocrisy to U.S. Congress) and sent me the following chart. April Employment vs. April Employment in Previous Years click on chart for sharp ...
  • France Private Sector Implosion Continues
    Here's some news that caught my eye earlier today when I was on the road: The Markit Flash France PMI® shows French private sector output continues to fall at marked rate in May. Key points: Flash France Composite Output Index unchanged at 44.3 Flash France Services Activity Index ...
  • Another Warning Call for Depositors! Bank of S ...
    Here's an optimistic headline on the Financial Times that could easily be off by a factor of 10 or more: Spain’s banks need €10bn more provisions. Spanish banks will need to put aside extra provisions of up to €10bn to cover loans that borrowers will struggle to repay, according to an inte ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • 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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  • The Reality Principle -Episode 29
    “Unmasking Empire” with Glen Ford This week Eric sits down with journalist and commentator Glen Ford to discuss a number of key political and geopolitical issues. Eric and Glen examine the ongoing political theater surrounding the Benghazi attacks, providing their analysis of the real story that ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

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Press TV

  • Syria defends targeting of Israeli vehicle
    The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations has defended the country’s decision to target an Israeli military vehicle in the occupied Golan Heights earlier this week, saying it was a response to violations of Syria’s territorial integrity.
  • 'Massachusetts teen remains in custody'
    An 18-year-old boy arrested for making ‘terror threats’ through his Facebook posts about the recent bombings in the US city of Boston remains in custody pending payment of USD 1 million bail.
  • ‘Settlers not to blame for Sweden riots’
    Sweden’s opposition leader has dismissed Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s remarks that residents of the violence-stricken Husby suburb of Stockholm are to blame for the ongoing riots.
  • Paraguay seizes 25.6 tons of marijuana
    Paraguay’s anti-drug police have seized and burned 25.6 tons (56,400 pounds) of marijuana in the eastern department of Alto Parana.
  • US behind Iran nuclear issue: Gharazi
    Iran presidential candidate, Mohammad Gharazi, says the West’s standoff with Iran over its nuclear energy program is the result of the hostile US policy toward the Iranian nation and government.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
    The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
  • Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
    The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
  • Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
    More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
  • Presentation to the National Economists Club
    Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
    The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Why can't penguins fly?
    The ability to fly is an adaptive trait in birds, but at least five lineages of seabirds have lost this skill over time. It was previously thought that as many flightless birds live in areas with few...
  • Printing a 3D windpipe
    Twenty month old Kaiba Gionfriddo was born with, Tracheobronchomalacia, a condition which affects the trachea, the long tube which connects our larynx (or voicebox) and our lungs. The role of this st...
  • Quickfire Science: Oklahoma Tornado
    Tragedy struck Oklahoma this week, when a massive tornado at least a mile wide ripped through the town of Moore, leaving at least 24 people dead. Here's your Quickfire Science on these destructive for...
  • Cockroaches Lose Their Sweet Tooth
    In just 30 years cockroaches have evolved the ability to detect and avoid the traps commonly used to deal with them! Since the 1980s, the mainstay of cockroach control has been lures loaded with an ...
  • Scratching an Itch in Medicine
    A key part of the neurological signalling system that conveys itching sensations has been unravelled by US scientists, paving the way for the development of more effective treatments for eczema and ...

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