Friday, May 24, 2013

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English: NASA chart depicting evolution of det...English: NASA chart depicting evolution of detecting the early universe, from ground-based space telescopes to HST and the future JWST. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Ring Nebula in infrared.The Ring Nebula in infrared. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

e!Science News

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Green Junk – In praise of waste
    This post has two purposes. First, for those who don’t follow my Twitter feed (hey, why don’t you?), I’d like to highlight some terrific work from Geoff Russell and Ben Heard that has hit the ‘net over the past few weeks. These are all ‘must reads’ – wit ...
  • 100 Per Cent Renewables Study Needs a Makeover
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • Can household solar photovoltaics provide a pr ...
    Guest Post by Graham Palmer. Graham is an industrial engineer and energy commenter from Melbourne. For another BNC post featuring his work, see Does energy efficiency reduce emissions and peak demand? Click the above image to download the PDF (full version is free – Open Access) With decli ...
  • Counting the hidden costs of energy
    By Martin Nicholson and Barry Brook. This article was first published on The Conversation. A response was then published on Business Spectator. It is worth reading both pieces, and the comments that followed them (for instance, Martin’s reply). A recent Bloomberg press release got wide cov ...
  • 81,000 truckers for solar!
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. What’s a solar atlas? The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recently released its World Solar Atlas report reckoning th ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Pay More Taxes So Apple Doesn’t Pay Any
    Man, the testimony today about Apple’s offshoring of their entities to not pay taxes makes me want to puke. They take their income through an Irish corporation, with a part ownership from an entity in the British Virgin Islands so they don’t even have to pay taxes there. Billions upo ...
  • Republicanism Is A Disease
    You didn’t hear it here first. “So Republicanism is a disease” from Daily Kos. - So Republicanism is a disease -
  • Fuck You Bill O’Riley
    Hey Bill, suck my dick. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending is all you rich bastards say. To hell with the poor, the elderly, and the struggling. Just cut services. Let them starve, or die from working themselves to death for an ever smaller paycheck. Billo spewed “It’s almost l ...
  • Will Texas And Arizona Be Blue In 2016?
    According to a study done by The Center For American Progress - Study - between now and the 2016 elections 185,000 white voters will become eligible to vote in Texas, and 900,000 Latinos will also become eligible. Man, that is a lot of new Democrats in Texas. No wonder the Republicans are crappi ...
  • Woodward Trying To Make Nice
    Bob Woodward will be remembered for two things. Watergate, and not reporting the identity of the Valerie Plame leakers before the 2004 election when he knew who they were. I am assuming “they” told Woodward who the leakers (traitors) were because they knew ‘ol Bob was a Bush su ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

+972

  • Yearning for Iran: An elegy for my other homeland
    A homeland is not a piece of cultivated land, nor the object of a war for pride. Homeland is not nationalism. Love has no place where land is a tool for control. Homeland is an idea through which we mold our hopes and our most secret fears. It is an unconditional love. By Avraham H. [...]
  • When it comes to philanthropy, there’s a ...
    Hebrew University study shows the uniquely insular character of Israeli philanthropy, despite all the money this country gets from abroad. It’s hard to read this news feature in today’s Haaretz and continue to believe that Israel, even if it were to end the occupation, is a worthy ca ...
  • WATCH: Arab women protest against domestic vio ...
    In the past decade, 76 Arab women have been murdered in domestic violence in Israel. The ‘Committee for the Struggle against the Murder of Women in Arab Society’ held an event protesting murder and violence against Arab women. Families of the victims are still demanding justice since ...
  • Palestinian hospitalized after IDF handcuffs, ...
    A Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem found himself dehydrated in a Hebron hospital after border policemen and soldiers handcuffed, blindfolded and abadoned him in a car on a hot day in May.  By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz About two weeks ago, A. was on his way from Hebron to Jerusalem ...
  • Why does the IDF hold Gazan fishermen responsi ...
    The IDF will allow Gaza fishermen to go beyond three-mile zone previously imposed on them and up to six miles into the Mediterranean Sea, it announced on Tuesday. Under the Oslo Accords, Gaza’s maritime boundaries stretch 20 nautical miles from shore. However, as a part of its blockade pol ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Free TV and Computer Recycling now available n ...
    Australians across the country can recycle their unwanted e-waste for free, now the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme is available in every state and territory.
  • Indigenous Rangers of the world visit Australia
    Indigenous Rangers from Mexico, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and New Zealand have arrived in Australia to participate in World Indigenous Network exchanges with rangers from communities across Australia.
  • Supporting Traditional Owners to protect turtl ...
    The Australian and Queensland governments are providing support for Traditional Owners to managing marine turtles, dugongs and sea-country in Queensland.
  • MidCoast now an award-winning Water Recycling ...
    The Australian Government congratulates MidCoast Water on winning the 2013 Recovering, Recycling and Reusing category at the annual Institute of Public Works Engineers Australia, NSW Division, Excellence Awards.
  • Anketell Point Port Project approved
    Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today approved the Anketell Point Iron Ore Processing and Export Port project in Western Australia, subject to 45 strict conditions.

Matt Weidner Blog

  • OUTRAGE: Turmoil at Gulf Coast Legal Services, ...
    All across this country those who are defending the defenseless and the real vulnerable members of our population are being violently attacked.  It’s happened all across the state, and we’ve got a terribly, terribly awful example of those who support the goals of justice being attack ...
  • Bankers Steal Billions (With Help Of Governmen ...
    From Huffington Post: Here’s a fact that may make your blood boil: Nearly 8,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters have been arrested in association with the activist movement, while not one banker has been prosecuted for the actions that lead up to the country’s financial meltdown. The w ...
  • WARNING….A Terribly Disturbing Video Tha ...
    This truly is a most disturbing commentary on the state of the world today. This video is not at all for the faint of heart…..and it’s not (at first at least) related to the primary focus of this blog.  But the larger point of this blog is that this nation,Read the Rest...
  • First They Came For My Neighbor in Foreclosure ...
    With all this talk of FASTER FORECLOSURES! and FINAL FORECLOSURES! Keep this story in mind! From Foreclosure Fraud: MORE HERE Tweet this!Scridb filter
  • More Fascism and Corruption in Florida- Donate ...
    The terrifying thing about living in Florida is knowing that corruption is so blatant and out of control, yet no one is willing to do anything about it…/ From St. Pete Times: TALLAHASSEE — Two months after contributing $110,000 to Gov. Rick Scott’s re-election campaign, an upstart pr ...

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • A glass half full…..
    Nothing is ever half-empty without also being half-full.
  • Language is a means to an end – not an e ...
    It is only for a "dead" language - no longer subject to change by usage - where the vocabulary and grammar are fixed and sterile.
  • How “Retrospective Prediction” works
    This is how "Retrospective Prediction" works. I missed a plane today. I had predicted that I would arrive 30 minutes before check-in closed. But I was wrong. I arrived 37 minutes after check-in had closed. My prediction model was just not good enough. I now applied "Retrospection" to my "Pred ...
  • Merrie England
    But it is May and it is England and there shall be rain.
  • Carbon dioxide concentration was at 500+ ppm a ...
    It could be that GS Callendar's 1957 paper about Global warming cherry picked supportive data points and ignored inconvenient data. It would seem that carbon dioxide atmospheric concentraions had reached levels of 500 ppm already in 1860.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Judge Says Customers Won’t See One Red C ...
    Ineffective rectangular frisbees? Tiny coasters? Better start thinking of some ideas for any of those unredeemed Borders gift cards you may still have lying around: A judge ruled this week that customers won’t see a nickel of a total of $210.5 million in remaining balances on gift cards th ...
  • The Fiery Debate Raging Over Charcoal Briquett ...
    Full disclosure: I’m clueless when it comes to lighting grills, be they charcoal or gas. As such, I never realized there’s a heated debate (pun totally intended) over what kind of charcoal one uses, should that be the grill of choice. I see chunks of black stuff on fire cooking up a ...
  • After A House Fire, Watch Out For Actual Crimi ...
    Earlier this week, we posted about the public adjusters and contractors who show up at the scene of a house fire, often before all of the flames are even out. Reader Josh’s family has been through a fire recently, and he wrote in to warn people about a whole different set of entrepreneurs ...
  • How New York State’s Indoor Smoking Ban ...
    In one corner, you’ve got your run-of-the-mill bowling alley. You’ve probably been to one, so you know the drill — everyone’s got to wear those darling bowling shoes. In the other, you’ve got New York State’s ban on smoking indoors. Put those two things together and ...
  • Samsung Thinks Women Would Upgrade Husbands In ...
    If you could upgrade your partner’s skills and abilities with a bit of hardware or software, would you do it? To promote their “Evolution Kit” that upgrades the processor and capabilities of their smart TVs, a Samsung ad imagines what would happen if humans had similar upgrade ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • High-Profile Group Wants Transparent Manning T ...
    HuffingtonPost: Prominent Journalists to File Suit to Lift Veil of Secrecy Over Trial of War Crime Whistleblower In an effort to increase transparency in the trial of military whistleblower Bradley Manning, a group of high profile journalists and activists has filed a lawsuit in a civilian fed ...
  • Whistleblower, Scientists Talk Climate Change ...
    Al Jazeera: The US Disconnect Over Climate ChangeClimate Science Watch Director Rick Piltz This in-depth investigation into the American stance on climate change features GAP’s Climate Science Watch Director and White House Climate Science Program whistleblower Rick Piltz. Piltz, who himself b ...
  • UN Whistleblower Award Appealed: Daily Whistle ...
    Inner City Press: Investigative reporting from the United Nations Last month, UN whistleblower James Wasserstrom (represented by GAP on advocacy issues) along with GAP International Officer Shelley Walden, publicly criticized the United Nations’ attitude toward whistleblowers at a press confer ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Case: Dai ...
    Bloomberg: Sarbanes–Oxley Whistleblower Shield Gets High Court Review In a case that will determine the reach of Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower protections, the Supreme Court has announced it will determine whether the contractors of publicly traded companies receive the same protections that re ...
  • US Funding to Global Fund May Be At Risk
    For the past year or more, turbulence has surrounded the independence of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the Global Fund, and at GAP we have been closely following these developments. In November 2012, the Global Fund’s Board took the unprecedented step of sacking its Inspector Gene ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Tony Jones lets Bill McKibben get away with ba ...
    Here are the questions Tony Jones could have asked if only he or his billion-dollar organization had the time to use the Internet. Is he a journalist or an activist pretending to be one? And how much does Jones get paid by the taxpayer for allowing McKibben a free pass to say things that are eas ...
  • The secret life of internet climate trolls…
    I like Hoyt. Two earnest young chaps drive out to meet the slimy-ogre-from-the-hobbit who posts skeptical comments all over the web, and discover, shock, Hoyt is actually a nice guy. He’s not only normal looking, he’s well spoken, and he has good manners. He’s likeable. Watch: ...
  • Amazon River produces monster levels of &#8220 ...
    Bad news for fans of The Amazon River. A new study shows that while the Amazon rain forest are the Lungs of The Planet, pulling down megatonnes of CO2, the river undoes all the good the trees do, and pours all the CO2 back into the sky. Damn that river eh? Lucky it only discharges one fifth of t ...
  • Major 30% reduction in modelers estimates of C ...
    Finally the modelers are catching up with the slow-down or pause in global warming over the last decade. Where the best estimate for the IPCC was 3.3 degrees C with a range of 2.0 to 4.5C, Otto et al have revised the best estimate to 2C, with a range of 1.2C – 3.9C. Effectively the power o ...
  • Ocean temperatures – Is that warming sta ...
    The oceans as measured by ARGO are warming, but that warming is not only far less than the models predicted, it is far less even than the instrument error. The background of a crucial point Everyone agrees: 90% of the energy in the Earth’s climate system is stored in the oceans. Rocks and ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
  • From preserving liberty to destroying it
    (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
  • Building the free-market case against big business
    (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
  • New hope for life worldwide
    (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
  • Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
    (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Some Worrisome Virus Updates
    Flu Professor Hualan Chen, director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very ...
  • Wish List? Axe Multi-Tool
    There are a lot of choices when it comes to multi-tools. They are almost always small, like a Swiss army knife. But there’s another way of achieving similar results – store all the little tools inside one big tool, like an axe: Mo-Tools Wood Inlay Axe On the big side we have an axe, ...
  • 15% Chance of X-Flares Today
    Usually  NOAA forecasters tells us that the odds of an X-flare (the highest category of solar flares) is less than 1%, even at what is supposedly the peak of the solar cycle. Today they say 15%, and 40% chance of a lesser M-Flare, due to a very large sunspot pointing at us. Read more at SpaceWea ...
  • Satellites at Risk from Mega Space Storm
    We are protected from solar storms by a cloud of charged particles, or plasma, that normally surrounds Earth out to a distance of four times the planet’s radius. Each Earth-directed solar outburst damages the cloud to some degree, and with time it repairs itself. A 2003 storm reduced the c ...
  • Further Evidence for a Dec 2012 End Date
    I find it a little odd, but not at all surprising, that 2012 debunkers are now seizing on evidence that Dec 21 2012 was the end of the Long Count calendar (now that the world didn’t end). Of course last year that were latching on to anything that suggested 2012 was not the year. For me tho ...

Facing South

  • 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

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Syrian Pendulum
    The situation surrounding Syria is like a pendulum; first it swings in the direction of a major war, then suddenly a peaceful resolution glimmers. Observers barely have a chance to evaluate the new tendency before the pendulum starts to swing in the opposite direction again. The amplitude of its ...
  • Qatar Is Funding International Terrorism
    A recent statement by Syria’s Information Minister that Qatar is violating all of the UN Security Council’s resolutions on fighting terrorism is being silenced in the West. The United States and its allies are keeping silent because Doha is providing funding to carry out their plans. Nor is ther ...
  • Assad talks, Russia walks
    So Bashar al-Assad has spoken – exclusively, to Argentine daily El Clarin (there’s a huge Syrian diaspora in Argentina, as well as in neighboring Brazil). Full transcript of his interview in available on SANA agency web-site -OR. Cutting through the fog of Western hysteria, he made s ...
  • Graham Fuller, Uncle Ruslan, the CIA and the B ...
    One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the presence of  key CIA figure in the direct family of the accused brothers. Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. ...
  • CIA Troublemaking in Caucasus
    It is clear that Russia’s arrest and expulsion of two CIA agents who were trying to recruit members of the Russian intelligence service fighting against Salafist separatists in the Caucasus is part of a Russian mopping-up operation directed at the CIA’s decades-long covert support fo ...

BlogHer

  • Small Victories | The Road Ahead for My Family ...
    I can only guess why I commemorate happy events with gardening.But there I was, pruning my tomatoes Tuesday morning even though there were other urgent tasks on my to-do list.The event worth celebrating was that the Senate bill 744 (the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Mod ...
  • 12 Sexy & Flattering Plus Size Swimsuits
    Beach season is vastly approaching, and for any woman finding the right swimsuit can be nerve-wracking, gut-wrenching, and sometimes a pain in the butt. If you are a size 14 or below, you have always had options upon options of swimsuits to choose from. However, if you're a plus-size woman like ...
  • The Birth Story Legends Are Made Of
    According to legend... Mama was working in the garden, planting some new rose bushes. She was not wearing gardening gloves, because she liked the way the moist dirt felt on her hands. She would come to regret this. It was mid-March, and the weather in Texas was starting to warm up, so she had ...
  • Memorial Day Grilling: How to Use a Gas Grill
    Editor’s note: Grilling season kicks off this weekend, and for most of us, “grilling” means cooking on a gas grill, not a charcoal one. Wendy from Around My Family Table shares her tips and tricks for successful grilling over gas. Even better? This is just the first in her nine-week series on ho ...
  • Make Your Summer Schedule Work for You (& Have ...
    Editor's Note: Know what today is? THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL! That's right! Our family starts summer vacation today. Whether yours starts today or sometime in the next month, I strongly suggest you take a look at Rachel's post at Thriving Home. I was beginning to get that sinking feeling of "how do ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
    A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
  • Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
    There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
  • Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
    Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
  • Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
    People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, May 24, 2013
    Coal bound for South Korea via a West Coast port passes through a loading terminal at Cloud Peak Energy’s Spring Creek mine near Decker, Mont., on April 4, 2013.   (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Over at the State Journal, Pam Kasey this week provided an up-close look at the progress Arch Coal In ...
  • Rep. McKinley brings the climate deniers to town
    Rep. David McKinley has been pretty clear about where he stands on climate change and the need to do anything about it. The West Virginia Republican most recently said, in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address earlier this year: The President’s focus on climate change is ...
  • Act of Vengeance: Don Blankenship says, &#821 ...
    Back in February, when one-time Massey Energy official David C. Hughart alleged that former CEO Don Blankenship was part of a conspiracy to cover up mine safety violations, Blankenship’s lawyer made it pretty clear what he thought of Hughart and his claims. As we reported at the time: Will ...
  • Mining lobby touts impacts of coal exports
    The National Mining Association has a new report out today that touts the economic contributions of the growing export market for U.S. coal. You can read the report here, and here’s a little of what the NMA has to say on the issue: Rising exports of U.S. coal to Europe and Asia added $16.6 ...
  • UMWA keeps pressure on in Patriot bankruptcy
    Photo from Fairness at Patriot campaign Facebook page. Here’s the latest from St. Louis, via The Associated Press: Another round of protests involving United Mine Workers of America and their supporters results in about a dozen arrests in downtown St. Louis. Several hundred protesters gath ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Intelligence Linked to Ability to Focus Amid D ...
    In the study, individuals watched short video clips of black and white bars moving across a computer screen. Some clips were small and filled only the centre of the screen, while others filled the whole screen.The participants sole task was to identify in which direction the bars were drifting & ...
  • An Answer to “Why Help People?” from Bertrand ...
    Russell: “You should help people.” Student: “I don’t want to! Why should I?” Russell: “Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don’t.” Student: “So what? I don’t care about other people.” Russell: “You shou ...
  • The Future of Happiness
    Image from ubergizmo.com In a recent conversation with a co-worker I had the opportunity to explore the potential endgame for human happiness. That’s a strange sentence; let’s try to unpack it. The conversation started with free will, as so many of my favorites do, and he accepted my ...
  • Dave Winer on the Tumblr Acquisition
    I have some intuition about this myself, because I sold a company. We were bought because we had a presence in the Mac market, which was highly coveted at the time. I negotiated for myself a role as the "Chief architect of Symantec’s Mac strategy." A few weeks after the deal I made ...
  • If You’re Not Conflicted About Important Polit ...
    If you’re not conflicted about important political issues it means you’re likely wrong about them. Understanding introduces complexity.Related Posts:Political Conservatism as Motivated Social CognitionPossibly the Most Important Political Cartoon, EverHuxley vs. Orwell: Whose Dystopia is Winning ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Sheldon Glashow on future of HEP in the U.S.
    ...plus a wonderful interview with Nima about HEP and failures of science popularization at the end... Sheldon Glashow, a co-father of the electroweak theory, wrote a 6-page essay about Particle Physics in The United States, A Personal View It is as phenomenological or experiment-orient ...
  • Palo Alto mass killer of Ukulele Orchestra caught
    I guess that many female readers would call this guy a heart-throb. More importantly, however, Kevin Dahlgren (*1992) of Palo Alto is a mass killer who has murdered a Czech family of four in Brno, the second largest country in Czechia and the capital of Moravia (130 miles southeast of ...
  • Augustin-Louis Cauchy: an anniversary
    By the number of mathematical papers he wrote, Augustin-Louis Cauchy was second just to Leonhard Euler. As many college freshmen may testify, more theorems and concepts in mathematics were named after Cauchy than anyone else. And a conservative theoretical physicist shouldn't omit a CV of Cauchy ...
  • Does global warming cause tornadoes?
    It was sort of inevitable that the deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma would ultimately be blamed on global warming and CO2 by someone. While most people – including those alarmed by "climate change" – reject this attribution, you can find pretty powerful people who promote this incredible link. ...
  • Intriguing spectra of finite unified theories ...
    In November, I discussed FUTs (finite unified theories) which are \(\NNN=1\) supersymmetric grand-unification-inspired versions of MSSM with the additional constraint that the divergences already cancel at the level of the effective field theory. This finiteness boils down to the vanishing of th ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • NDP MP Tyrone Benskin ‘truly sorry’ for not pa ...
    NDP MP Tyrone Benskin has apologized for not paying his taxes and promises to pay back everything he owes, but has lost his deputy critic duties as a result of the news. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: 6 things to consider when p ...
  • Feedback Friday – May 24
    from Dollar Vigilante: Dear TDV, You have overlooked one small point. Any country you choose unless they speak English you are screwed for being part of the country’s business community. I live in Thailand and it is exceedingly difficult to do business.  Not impossible. Please tell yo ...
  • Group calls for probe of Tory database used in ...
    The Council of Canadians is calling on the Conservative Party to make a list of everyone who had access to its electoral database during the last federal election and turn the information over to the RCMP and the commissioner of elections. “Anything less at this point would be a coverup,&# ...
  • Statism: Ideas So Good, They’re Mandatory!
    As if it wasn’t bad enough that there’s a law to govern my every move (from how fast I drive, to what I can consume), my tax dollars are paying to advertise those mandates back to me! by Kelly Diamond, Global Wealth Protection: If the laws we have reflect the will of the people, why [...] Rel ...
  • Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies crack cocaine al ...
    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has vehemently denied allegations that he was seen on a cellphone video smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at centre of crack cocaine allegatio ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Suitor bargains for Dagbladet
    Norway’s third-largest newspaper, Dagbladet, and its website dagbladet.no have been the subjects of sales negotiations this week but Dagbladet’s seller and prospective buyer, Aller Media of Denmark, reportedly can’t agree on a price. Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN), in which D ...
  • Thon takes over Britannia Hotel
    One of the most historic hotels in Trondheim looks set to help form the core of a new chain of luxury hotels operated by the Thon Hotels group of Norway. Thon will assume management just three days after its owner, real estate tycoon Olav Thon, celebrates his 90th birthday. “This, in a way ...
  • Engine fire halted Oslo-bound flight
    A British Airways flight bound for Oslo had to make an emergency landing at London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday after fire broke out in one of its engines. All passengers on board were evacuated down the emergency slides. Ambulance services in London reported that three persons were treate ...
  • Cancer hospital hit by Legionnaire’s bacteria
    Norway’s major hospital for cancer patients, Radiumhospitalet in Oslo, banned all use of its showers and warned both patients and employees against drinking its tap water last weekend, after discovering Legionnaire’s bacteria in its water system. The hospital is part of the Oslo Univ ...
  • Palace files new call for restraint
    Officials at the Royal Palace in Oslo insist neither they nor the royal family themselves are trying to control media coverage, but they’re not backing down on their formal complaint against celebrity magazine “Se og Hør.” The palace has now filed a rebuttal to the magazine&#82 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Of Permaculture and Pastoralism: Heroes and Vi ...
    State tractors ploughing in the barley crops of the Al Hawashleh tribe (our hosts) outside Qasr A Sir in March of this year Having recently finished teaching my third PDC course in the Bedouin village of Qasr A Sir in the Negev desert of Israel, I feel inspired to raise this controversial i ...
  • This is Water
    Tips to help you have perspective.
  • The July 22nd, 2013, 10-Week Internship Progra ...
    Starting July 22nd PRI Zaytuna Farm will have its last 10-Week Internship program for 2013. Features of the program include: Detailed design and consultancy Surveying The Permaculture Earthworks Course The Permaculture Project Establishment Course Farm forestry Nursery systems ...
  • The Never-Spotted Leopard
    Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life? An extract from Feral: searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, by George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 22nd May 2013. by George Monbiot The setting was unimprovable. Across the field ...
  • Next-Generation Polycultures
    Excerpted from Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Urban Oasis by Eric Toensmeier with contributions from Jonathan Bates, available from Chelsea Green January 2013. The book tells the story of our permaculture garden from design through co-evolution n ...

Pointman's

  • Birthday bash.
    It’s my birthday in May, there’s going to be a party and it’ll follow the same procedure as every year. An intermittent BBQ throughout the afternoon and evening, followed by a bonfire after it gets dark. The buildup is happening; wooden pallets are arriving and being stacked up ...
  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • Working together.
    You’re moving through hostile territory, so you stick close to each other. The boss is a real leader man, and he’s as good as they come, brave as a fighting Rhode Island Red rooster, liked and held in high respect by his men, which is why he’s right up front, doing the leadersh ...
  • Some thoughts about policy for the aftermath o ...
    Charles Mackay wrote in his book, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds – “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” The book may have been written in ...
  • The big green killing machine: They sit with G ...
    It was a hellishly hot African day. Mac stood behind the young Danish girl, who sat at a table in the open air. He’d rigged a tarpaulin shade over them to give some relief from the midday sun. They’d never quite worked Mac out. What he didn’t appear to have in terms of any obvi ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Statement From the Original Big 7 Social Aid a ...
    Reprinted from the Original Big 7 facebook page: The Original Big 7 Social Aid and Pleasure Club community is deeply saddened by the foolish violence that took place during our annual Mother’s Day’s Parade today. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of the victims of this tragedy and their fami ...
  • Tulane University to Host Notorious White Supr ...
    Tulane University is sponsoring an event featuring notorious racist David Horowitz this Wednesday. Horowitz is a nationally-known right wing extremist who denies that racism exists, calling institutional racism a "fantasy of the left." He has also said that the fact that Oprah Winfrey– ...
  • Activist Profile: Marie Aubrey of VOTE-NOLA
    This profile is republished from our friends at VOTE-NOLA: How did you get involve with VOTE? In June of 2012 I was listening to the WBOK morning show and Norris Henderson was on the radio talking about how to get prisoners released, and it was interesting to me. I remembere ...
  • 14-Year-Old New Orleans Youth Held in Israeli Jail
    According to an article in today's Haaretz newspaper, a 14-year-old youth with roots in New Orleans is currently being held by the Israeli military. The paper says the child was accused of "throwing rocks." The case highlights Israel's system of military detention for Palestinian minors, which h ...
  • World Social Forum Highlights Shock Doctrine i ...
    An earlier version of this article appeared at truthout.org: An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By choosing to come together in Tunis, this year’s Forum evoked the sp ...

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Verbs, nouns, grammar
    Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
  • V. Bush
    Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

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NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • How sex hormones influence right heart function
    WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Anatomy of a terrorist attack: the Boston Mara ...
    Remains of the pressure cooker bomb believed to been packed with ball bearings Today's show focusses on the recent terrorist bombing at the Boston Marathon. Our aim is to understand the underlying "message" behind this attack, and to deconstruct the MSM propaganda which seeks to portray this a ...
  • Introducing Nicole Bijlsma: building biologist ...
    Today it is my pleasure to welcome to the show Nicole Bijlsma, a best selling author with extensive knowledge on many health issues related to the toxic effects of ordinary things found in your home. Nicole joins us in the 2nd hour of today's show. Nicole's website provides information on th ...
  • Full body scanners now in full operation at Sy ...
    In today's show we re-visit the thorny issue of full body scanners and what they signal for your rights, your privacy, your health and human freedom generally. Full body scanners (millimitre wave) are now in operation at all international airports in Australia. The devices deployed in Australi ...
  • An unprecedented assault on media freedom
    In today's show we are joined by Josh Jackson to discuss highly controversial media reforms proposed by the Minister for Communications, Stephen Conroy. We also take a look at the implications of the Cyprian crisis for internatinal banking, and the alternate non-centralised currency bitcoin. ...
  • Live show with current news and some callers - ...
    In today's show we take calls from TNRA listeners, as well as covering news and current topics of interest, including reflections on the death of Hugo Chavez. Related links What happens when you refuse a search in Parramatta

Beacon

  • Washington Passes Legislation to Fight Seafood ...
    Washington state is working to ensure that seafood consumers don't fall for a bait-and-switch Earlier this week, Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill 1200 (HB 1200), which will begin to tackle seafood fraud throughout the state. Seafood fraud switches out the fish ...
  • Happy World Turtle Day!
    Happy World Turtle Day! While World Turtle Day celebrates turtles that roam both the land and the sea, as well as tortoises, we at Oceana would especially like to recognize the magnificent species of sea turtles that roam throughout the world’s oceans. The seven species classified as sea turt ...
  • Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless Discusses His New Bo ...
    Nine billion of us are estimated to be on the planet by 2050, and the demand for food will increase by 70 percent above today’s levels. If land and fresh water are already under strain, how in the world are we going to feed a population that grows by 220,000 mouths every day? Well, the ocean con ...
  • Disabled Killer Whale Survives with Help from ...
    This young killer whale may lack two of its fins, but it doesn’t lack a compassionate support pod. Photo: Rainer Schimpf/Barcroft Media, courtesy of The Daily Mail In one of those incredible-but-true stories that makes you want to give the oceans a giant hug, a disabled killer whale missing t ...
  • Stocks Show Signs of Recovery, But Still Work ...
    Stocks of fish like this Caribbean grouper are on the road to recovery from overfishing with the adoption of responsible fishing practices and scientific recommendations on fishing quotas.  Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) released its annual report detailing pro ...

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Taylor Marsh

  • Nearly a Quarter of People in U.S. Can’t Affor ...
    At The Atlantic, reports from a new survey by the Pew Research Center reveal that a quarter of people in the U.S. can’t afford to buy food. From the Pew Survey: Overview Economic inequality is a common concern for publics around the world. Most people agree that the economic system favors the we ...
  • Queer Talk: “Politically Right” Reponses to Bo ...
    The Boy Scouts compromise decision to discontinue the ban on “openly gay” scouts, but maintain it on adult (18 and over) leaders and parents was described by the BSA’s chief executive as “compassionate, caring and kind,” but some critics are expressing what I think of as “politically right” indi ...
  • NBC: Holder Approved Fox News Search of Rosen
    THE NEWS that Attorney General Eric Holder was involved in approving the search of Fox News reporter James Rosen came on the very day President Obama attempted to regain the confidence of the press. Obama saying he was “troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the inv ...
  • Mud, A Great Love Story
    MUD MUD has been called the “best American movie at Cannes.” The trailer above doesn’t tell the deepest, most important part of Mud and neither do most of the reviews. It is, above all else, a love story. The script weaves a rope around Mud, played with extraordinary power and ...
  • Memorial Weekend Music: The Doors
    “It dropped quite simply, quite innocently from his lips, but it changed our collective destinies.” – Ray Manzarek in “Light My Fire” on Jim Morrison Mr. Manzarek founded the Doors in 1965 with the singer and lyricist Jim Morrison, whom he would describe decades lat ...

Hudson New York

  • U.S.: Israel's Prosperity a Problem
    At first blush, it might have sounded like praise, but it wasn't. Before meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Secretary of State John Kerry pronounced Israel's prosperity an impediment to "peace" with the Palestinians. "I think there is an
  • The New, Improved Axis of Jihad
    Indicators and warnings continue to grow concerning the resurgence of an "Axis of Jihad" comprised of Iran, Hizballah, and al-Qa'eda. This axis is not new: its three actors, both national and sub-national, have been working together in an operational
  • Swedish Multiculturalism Goes Awry
    Hundreds of Muslim immigrants have rampaged through parts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, torching cars and buses, setting fires, and hurling rocks at police. The unrest -- a predictable consequence of Sweden's failed model of multiculturalism,
  • Why Doesn't the EU Condemn Palestinian Torture?
    The EU has refrained from condemning the Palestinian Authority or Hamas in wake of a report that pointed to an increase in human rights violations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. This is the same EU that regularly condemns Israel for building in the
  • Who is Really Desecrating Holy Sites?
    Tensions have been mounting in recent months in Jerusalem over visits by Jews to the Temple Mount, or al-Haram al-Sharif [the Noble Sanctuary]. There is nothing new about Jews visiting the holy site: this has been taking place since 1967. The visits,

Urban Survival

  • Quakes Arrive: Language Fill Begins
    Earthquakes!  Bridge Collapse! Linguistically “hot” words are popping off like mad!   Reader email about our “quake spotting” and predictive process flooded the inbox this morning.  Reader Dean figures ‘em this way:   “George we just got th ...
  • Coping: Pondering "The Next"
    Several readers have pointed out that a while back in one of our posts about the Nostracodeus software project we had (at the time shortly after the Boston Marathon incident words that showed up in a cube view of the … Continue reading →
  • A “Fear Propagation” Study
    We’ve been watching the machinations of the stock market with a fair bit of disbelief since our proprietary trading model over on our www.peoplenomics.com subscriber website ($40/year) advised going long the stock market in December of last year and has … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The Idaho Canary & Toll Road Stew
    Speaking of getting stuck with the tab, and such, as we were in the opening of this morning’s report, we can begin to see some of the social changes coming that will define how the second part of the Second … Continue reading →
  • Deadly Winds Week Continues
    The death toll up in Oklahoma from the tornados up there Monday is now up to 91 and climbing.  The winds were a level four and they went right through the southern burbs of Oklahoma City and 20 of the … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • There Be Monsters Here: So Why the Delay on Cl ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City Some kids are afraid of sharks. In the ponds where I like to swim, it’s snapping turtles (although I’ve never heard of one hurting a swimmer). Or they might  even fear some sort of ima ...
  • Shelley Poticha to lead NRDC's new urban solut ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I could not be more honored and excited to announce that Shelley Poticha is coming to NRDC to direct and build our new urban solutions program.  Shelley has spent the las ...
  • Let's End a Stinking Era
    Giulia C.S. Good Stefani, Project Attorney, Marine Mammal and Southern California Ecosystems Projects, Santa Monica Twenty-five years ago, when Gregory Canyon was first proposed as a landfill site, I was in elementary school.  A lot has happene ...
  • Real Voices: Stakeholders, in their own words, ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California This week NRDC is running a series of ads in Washington D.C. asking the Obama administration to stop the proposed Pebble Mine.  The ads feature Alaskans fr ...
  • Republican Bills Would Obstruct Enforcement of ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. The following was originally published on RegBlog on May 20, 2013. Congressional Republicans have attacked the Obama administration by accusing federal agencies of engaging in c ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 8 reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, March 7, 2013: Mcallen, Texas: A federal grand jury indicted three more law enforcement officers on drug conspiracy charges. The indictment charges them with conspiring to possess with intent … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job
    More here.CBS News: Bad Cops on the Job is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net
  • ACLU Looks into Militarization Trend in Police ...
    From Huffington Post: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has launched a nationwide campaign to assess police militarization in the United States. Starting Wednesday, ACLU affiliates in 23 states are sending open records requests to hundreds of state and local … Continue reading &#85 ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 13 reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, March 5, 2013: Update: Denver, Colorado: A police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping. He was in uniform when he came … Continue reading →National Police Misconduct New ...
  • Worst of the Month – February 2013
    This month it is the story from California where totally innocent people were shot by police during the manhunt for Christopher Dorner.   There is no greater responsibility for a police officer than his/her use of deadly force.  If they get … Continue reading →Worst of ...

Total Collapse

  • Syria says it destroys Israeli vehicle in Golan
    The Syrian military says it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights. A statement issued by the Syrian Armed Forces says its troops destroyed the vehicle “with those in it.” It did not elaborate, but said any attempt to infiltrate Syria&#8 ...
  • Syria ready to unleash missiles on Israel
    Syria has put its most advanced missiles on standby with orders to hit Tel Aviv if Israel launches another raid on its territory. Reconnaissance satellites have been monitoring preparations by the Syrian army to deploy surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles. An Israeli official told The New York T ...
  • North Korea fires 4th short-range missile in 2 ...
    North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, a Seoul military official said, one day after firing three short-range guided missiles. Meanwhile, South Korea has deployed precision-guided missiles on its border islands. Seoul has placed Israeli precision-guided missiles capab ...
  • Report: Assad preparing missile strike against ...
    Syria is making preparations to strike Tel Aviv in case Israel launches another attack on its territory, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday. The Syrian army has begun deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles, the report said, adding that it has received orders to strike central Israel in ...
  • Pyongyang launches three short-range missiles ...
    South Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range guided missiles by North Korea, it said. Two launches were fired on Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news agency. The missiles were fired from the east coast into the Sea of Japan, the r ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Facebook design tests, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, Facebook design tests in New Zealand, porn blocking in China and Google Books for India. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Calendar, Insta ...
    In today’s Daily Dose, a new Google search test, Instacart keeps up the yuppie pressure, and North Korea gets tinted. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, Angry ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google+ Sign-In, The Flixies, music making money and Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through Friday right here on The... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Mobile World Congress ...
    Mobile World Congress is in full swing in Barcelona. Listen to today’s Daily Dose for a roundup of news from the first 24 hours of the event. Check our full... Keep reading →
  • TNW’s Daily Dose: Google Glass details, ...
    In today’s Daily Dose: Google Glass pricing and availability, North Korea’s 3G plans and tech words in the dictionary and more. You can catch The Daily Dose every Monday through... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Announcing the 5x4 Hayes Lane project
    Beyond Zero Emissions is proud to be an official Project Supporter of the 5x4 Hayes Lane Project. The goal of the development is to be a super energy efficient and zero carbon dwelling in the heart of the City of Melbourne. The team are looking to transform an under-used laneway into a demon ...
  • Solar campaigner dies
    Joy Baluch the mayor of South Australia's Port Augusta, who campaigned for solar energy for her city has died but not before South Australia's take-up of rooftop solar has risen to double the national average. Transcript (ABC TV Lateline) TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Joy Baluch, the legendary mayor ...
  • Solar warrior, Port Augusta mayor Joy Baluch d ...
    By Sophie Vorrath Port Augusta’s long-serving mayor, Nancy Joy Baluch AM, died in hospital on Tuesday night, after a long battle with cancer. Baluch, who would have turned 80 on Wednesday, was mayor of the South Australian city for 29 years over three separate terms – a large part of which sh ...
  • 100% renewable energy advocates validated by n ...
    The authors of Australia’s first significant study into providing 100% renewable energy have welcomed the new report from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), which has found that it is technically feasible and affordable to run the National Electricity Market with 100% renewable energy ...
  • Earth to moon in 8 years, Melbourne to Brisban ...
    By Gerard Drew When John F. Kennedy saw a challenge worth taking he decided to get on with it as quickly as humanly possible, and in eight years Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon. On the other hand, our federal transport minister would have us believe building a high-speed railway from ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • HSBC orders review of its lending to rainfores ...
    Following allegations that it has been financing land-grabbing of indigenous territories and destruction of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo, HSBC said it will conduct an audit of its relationships with logging companies to see whether its lending has violated the bank's environmental policy.
  • Controversial palm oil project halted in Cameroon
    An American company has halted work on a controversial palm oil project in Cameroon due to opposition from local communities and environmentalists, reports Reuters.
  • Scientists discover two mini-spiders in China ...
    Scientists have uncovered two miniature spiders living on mountains in China's southern region, one of which is among the smallest spiders recorded worldwide, according to a new paper in ZooKeys. Both spiders belong to the Mysmenidae family, which is made up of mini-spiders with eight eyes.
  • Rhinos moved from South Africa to Botswana for ...
    A private safari company has moved six white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) from their home in South Africa to Botswana in a bid to save them from an out-of-control poaching crisis in their native land. Currently, around two rhinos are killed everyday in South Africa for their horns, which are the ...
  • Three new species of carnivorous snails discov ...
    Scientists from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London recently discovered three new species of carnivorous snails in northern Thailand. However, the celebration of these discoveries is tainted by the fact that the new snails are already threatened with extincti ...

Sierra Express

  • Vacancy – Consultancy for the Evaluation of Ra ...
    National Consultancy for the Evaluation of Radio Listener Groups The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Sierra Leone Country Office, is seeking to hire a qualified Sierra Leoneans for a Consultancy for the Evaluation of Radio Listener Groups in the Communication for Development Secti ...
  • Japan signs $13.97million power supply grant f ...
    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Sierra Leone and the Government of Japanyesterday signed the Exchange of Note and Grant Agreement of $13,970,000 towards the project for the urgent improvement of power distribution system in Freetown.  (Photo: L- ...
  • SLPP Kailahun Youths Hail President Koroma’s G ...
    The Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Energy (MoE) has embarked on a 8,880 solar street lights pilot project to be implemented in all four regions of the country – the South, East, North and the Western region respectively.  (Photo: author, Alhaji Jalloh, IA, Saudi Arabia) The d ...
  • As HIMS intervenes… rainy season scares disabl ...
    Over 150 persons living with disabilities, including their dependents, are stranded at the moment having to sleep under leaking roofs at the House of Jesus for the Disabled on Wallace Johnson in Freetown. Three persons, including two children recently died due to cold-related sickness over the r ...
  • Journalists to bag IMC awards
    Journalists come this Friday 24th May 2013, are expected to receive different awards from the nation’s Independent Media Commission (IMC) for their outstanding performance in the field of journalism. Speaking to journalists at the Independent Media Commission conference room last Friday, Chairma ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Peter McClure: Fonterra head says light-proof ...
    The editorial headlined "Fonterra losing its bottle over failed container" presented a number of inaccurate statements about consumer sentiment, which paint a misleading picture to your readers.On one thing, you were right: your...
  • Results from Malaysia buoy Fonterra
    Fonterra's Malaysian operation has doubled its revenue in local currency terms over the past five years.David Ross, managing director of Fonterra Brands in Malaysia, said the forces at work there are similar to those seen throughout...
  • Fonterra sets 'wet share' price
    Fonterra said it had set $7.92 as its final price for the economic right of each share that farmer shareholders can sell during the current supply offer for Trading Among Farmers.The price was calculated using the average daily...
  • World dairy prices drop 2.1pc (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products extended their decline from a record high as a resurgent US dollar weighed more generally on commodity prices and concerns abated about the impact of drought in the North Island.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell...
  • Former Fletcher CFO joins Synlait
    Former Fletcher Building chief financial officer Bill Roest has joined the board of Synlait Milk as a non-executive director.The dairy producer yesterday revealed it was considering raising capital and listing on the New Zealand...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • DHS Says 3D Printed Guns Impossible To Control ...
    The Department of Homeland Security has told law enforcement officials that it is “impossible” for the government to stop 3D printed guns from being made which is, you know...kinda the point. President Obama has ordered a review of the Justice Department’s processes for ...
  • Wayne Allyn Root Calls His Daily Show Intervie ...
    Earlier today, I posted, via Mediaite, a Daily Show segment with Wayne Allyn Root, the one-time Libertarian Party office-seeker, best-selling author, and gambling/investment guru (his website is here). During the bit, Root complains against IRS profiling of anti-government taxpayer ...
  • The Wonkocracy: Why Can't People Be Reasonable ...
    An inspiring rant from James Poulos at Forbes (inspired itself by a very uninspiring current round of chatter about Josh Barro, but you don't need the boring context) about the mentality of the American wonkocracy. Choice excerpts: The logic of the neoliberal wonkocrat dictate ...
  • All the President’s Leaks Prosecutions
    The revelation that Fox News reporter James Rosen was tracked by the government in their effort to prosecute Stephen Jin-Woo Kim for passing “national defense information” (the ill-defined term used in the Espionage Act) comes on the heel of news that the Department of Justice seiz ...
  • FDA Targets Its First Medical App
    In 2011, the Food and Drug Agency released proposed guidelines for the regulation of mobile medical apps—health programs for devices like the iPad and iPhone. At the time, there were about 200 million such apps in use, but the FDA said its rules would only pertain to a small segme ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Look out below, Japan edition
    Outsourced to Ritholtz: Nikkei is down 7.3%….Major European indices are off 2-3%. Year of the Water Snake indeed.
  • Remembering Paul Weyrich
    My post on how the right is seeking to attack the IRS for its questioning of anti-abortion groups which may have broken the law unearthed a Max Blumenthal article on Paul Weyrich: In 2001, Weyrich circulated a commentary accusing Jews of murdering Jesus. When a conservative writer named Evan Gah ...
  • Snark of the week award to Jon Stewart
    Jon Stewart sweeps the snark awards for this takedown of Peggy Noonan. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook I could have done without the Peggy Noonan is like your mother when… part. But his rendition of Ira ...
  • Religion notes. Francis on atheists, Christian ...
    The most interesting story is by Sarah Posner in the Guardian: For anyone who knows the history of the religious right, the possible revocation of tax-exempt status for claimed religious belief is a potent flashpoint. In his book, Thy Kingdom Come: An Evangelical’s Lament, religion histori ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Sexual Revolution
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  • Sex in the News
    This week's Sex in the News has lots of celebrity: Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy, Rod Stewart's shrinkage, Bea Arthur nude, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, the smallest penis in Brooklyn contest, and ladyflower respect.read more
  • The Brain as Filter: On Removing the Stuffing ...
    [We are] Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity. But at least we can try to take the stuffing out of the keyhole, which blocks even our limited view. —Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up.1 read more
  • Kickstarter Volunteers Wanted
    We recently launched a Reality Sandwich Kickstarter campaign that envisions a next phase for Reality Sandwich, one that will enable us to serve the community better and support the growth of the new consciousness movement. We call it RS 2.0. read more
  • Psi in the News
      How can an IPad help NDE research? When will skeptical bloggers begin citing research to support their critiques? Is there a parallel dimension bleeding over into this one where Daryl Bem is the only person in the 21st century to research psi? What will come of $2.3 million dollars in g ...

Desertification

  • Fresh Water “More Precious Than Gold” in Bangl ...
    Fahima Begum rises each morning at dawn and walks two kilometres to a small pond, the nearest source of fresh water. On her way she passes the rusty old hand-pumped tube well that used to supply water to her village in Bangladesh’s arid Barind region until the water table here dropped out of rea ...
  • Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
    Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activis ...
  • Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
    As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more profitable. For the past six years, the University of Central Florida (UCF) has teamed up with ...
  • Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by H ...
    Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade. Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, focused this year on water resour ...
  • Protecting Niger’s Desert Salt Pans
    The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices. “If we don’t protect this site, salt mining will ...

Blogging Canadians

  • Chair of Toronto Catholic School Board Tries t ...
    Just when you thought you’d seen it all in the Catholic school system, they find a way to further disgust you. The Toronto trustees are preparing to vote on a motion tomorrow to replace the government-mandated Gay-Straight Alliances with the Archdiocese’s Catholic alternative called ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: A Witness to Triumphs and Terrors
    My article in the Huffington Post: Recently, work took me to Istanbul to meet with the Syrian resistance. We discussed options for the international community to help bring an end to the Syrian war, by destroying the financial networks that enable the Assad regime to purchase weapons and fina ...
  • During the 2011 Federal Election Senator Walli ...
    The following email was sent by Senator Pam Wallin to Postmedia News on April 15, 2011: I am in Saskatchewan supporting our MP’s who are seeking re-election. The NDP opposes the existence of the Senate so any comments or criticism they might have must be looked at in that light. They would ...
  • 'DuffyGate' now expands to include political i ...
    "You know people at the CRTC, This is an important decision on Sun Media. They (CRTC) have to play with the team and support Sun Media’s request.” CTV .Sen. Mike Duffy attempted to influence the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission’s upcoming decision involving the ...
  • "Corporate Spies" and "the Government"
    CISPA is about the government stripping away your personal privacy using corporate spies. #EndCISPA #CISPABlackout by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: Anonymous (YourAnonNews) on Twitter April 20, 2013

Press TV - Middle East

  • 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.
  • Yemen main oil pipeline sabotaged
    Unknown attackers have blown up Yemen’s main oil export pipeline in the central province of Ma’rib, halting the flow of crude oil, government and industry sources say.
  • Villagers condemn Bahrain crackdown
    Bahrainis have staged a fresh anti-regime demonstration near the capital to protest against Manama’s continuing crackdown on dissent.
  • Iraqi Shias, Sunnis hold unity prayers
    Thousands of Iraqis have held unity prayers across the nation to show solidarity against attempts to push the country into sectarian strife.
  • Tripoli clashes death toll climbs to 23
    Nearly two dozen people have died in the Lebanese city of Tripoli since the outbreak of recent clashes between supporters and opponents of the Syrian government, security sources say.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Who is Tanya Fields?
    About a month ago I received an email from the faculty at SPS inviting me to join a few of my fellow students to attend a dinner in the city. The dinner was organized to give this year’s commencement speaker, Ms. Tanya Fields an opportunity to meet with the students she will be talking to in [&# ...
  • Canadian Lynx
  • Davos in the Desert
    “Davos in the Desert” by Wendy Williams was originally published on Getting Smart. The Education Innovation Summit (#EISummit) conference this week in Arizona is a large and seamlessly orchestrated event, but one of my favorite presentations so far was not actually on the agenda.  The keynote sp ...
  • Last Chance: Submit Your ePortfolio!
    We invite you to submit your ePortfolio to the CUNY School of Professional Studies ePortfolio Student Showcase for an opportunity to be selected as one of the “Featured Student ePortfolios” on the ePortfolio Showcase website and receive a $100 Amazon gift card. Self nominations are due May 24, 2 ...
  • Project Thesis Presentations
    The M.A. in Applied Theatre culminates with the Project Thesis. Our graduating students envision and implement original projects in Applied Theatre. These projects are the sites for their research, which they in turn document and evaluate in their final written theses. We invite you to attend th ...

Dissident Voice

  • We Are Doomed — The Most Inarticulate Pe ...
    Graduation Speeches that Will Turn Your Stomach, Make You Diabetic, Transform You into Ted Kaczynski . . except . . . almost 20 years ago, in a very different sphere: Bill Kunstler, 1995.  What a difference 2 decades makes! Check out Kunstler’s Sept. 4, 1995 speech, four months before he d ...
  • The Toughest Slums on Earth
    NAIROBI — They tell you ‘peace’, but you know you are living in a warzone. You know it from the start; you’ve sensed it ever since you were a very little boy or a girl. You wake up every morning, not certain whether you will witness another dusk, whether you will experience another sunrise ...
  • United against Scholarship
    In the last few years we have been witnessing the emergence of a self-gratifying populist culture in the midst of the Palestinian scholarly discourse. Two years ago we watched Ali Abunimah’s lecture about ‘culture’ and politics setting a new record of intellectual ignorance. We ...
  • American Book of the Dead: Abduction
    It was not like on TV, which made it all the more  unreal.   Sure, there were the typical bright lights and loss of time-sense, but who hasn’t experienced that particular mind-zap on a week-night, awake suddenly three hours before the nasty clock-radio-alarm, dreading the inevitable a ...
  • The Palestine Liberation Movement is not about ...
    I don’t disagree that the cowardly removal by Aljazeera of everything written by Joseph Massad is a travesty of justice and journalism and that their reinstatement is justified.  But why was Massad trying to defend Palestinian rights based upon them being “the last of the Semites?” The term “Sem ...

Nick Turse

  • This fabulous and iconic picture, by the great ...
    This fabulous and iconic picture, by the great photojournalist known as Chim, was taken in 1947 on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, where massive slaughter had been seen just a few years before. It’s now in a show called “We Went Back: Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim”, at the International C ...
  • heidijulavits:A FAN’S NOTEFound in my stor ...
    heidijulavits: A FAN’S NOTE Found in my storage space. 
  • "We have a word for the conscious slaughter of ...
    “We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one...
  • "When you fight, you sometimes win; when you d ...
    “When you fight, you sometimes win; when you don’t, you always lose.” - Rebecca Solnit,...
  • "For the aging Wall Street speculator stepping ...
    “For the aging Wall Street speculator stepping out for an evening to squander his investment...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Hungary Losing Its Best and Brightest
    As the European Union accuses Hungary of shifting towards authoritarianism, a spike in emigration from the country has led many to speak of a politically motivated exodus. Others suggest that economic conditions play a role in the westward flow of brainpower that is leaving Hungary’s futur ...
  • Gazans Dying to Enter Israel
    Israel’s crippling blockade of the coastal territory of Gaza is pushing desperate young Palestinians to ever more extreme measures in the search for livelihoods, despite an agreement granting Gazans greater access to their agricultural land. In search of work, some Gazans try to enter Isra ...
  • OP-ED: A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women ...
    Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses. In Bangladesh and Cambodia, ...
  • Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents
    Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill. Bulana, a water activist, says she fixed the leaks in ...
  • Remittances Buoy Up Myanmar’s Economy
    Nangnyi Foung reaches into the dryer, pulls out another pair of pants and places it on the ironing board. “I still have several more loads to go,” she says as the clock strikes nine p.m., marking the start of her 14th hour on the shift. She has been on her feet in this laundromat in ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Print What Message New US Sanctions Are Meant ...
    Summary: The United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Relations passed a bill on May 22, 2013, which has paved the way for the US President Barak Obama to enforce new sanctions against all companies conducting transactions with Iran regardless of the type of their transact ...
  • On Ambassador Sherman’s Testimony on Iran
    Summary: The Congressmen were told that Iran is “isolated”. In reality, Iran maintains full diplomatic relations with some 100 states. Iran’s Foreign Minister is received courteously almost everywhere in Asia and Europe apart from the UK and Israel. Just this week Iran assumed the chair of th ...
  • “Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did t ...
    Summary: Earlier this week, the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT sponsored an event, “Iran and American Foreign Policy: Where Did the US Go Wrong?”, featuring Noam Chomsky and the two of us. The event was moderated by Prof. Ali Banuazizi of Boston College. source: Going to Tehranread more
  • 3 Glaring Hypocrisies in Obama's Iran Policy
    Summary: In testimony to Congress on Wednesday, Obama's State Department official Wendy Sherman reiterated the administration's policy on Iran. Since the intelligence community has concluded for some time now that Iran has not yet decided to pursue nuclear weapons, Sherman felt compelled to r ...
  • Lavrov: Iran Should Take Part in Syria Conference
    Summary: Iran should take part in an international conference agreed by Moscow and Washington to help broker an end to the Syria conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov insisted in an interview broadcast Thursday. source: Naharnetread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Rugged Terrain of South Africia Shaped Human ...
                      A new study by archaeologists at the University of York says our upright gait may have its origins in the rugged landscape of East and South Africa which was shaped during the Pliocene epoch by volcanoes and shifting tectonic plates. The York research challenges trad ...
  • High Arctic Microbes --Clues to Life on Mars a ...
                      The temperature in the permafrost on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian high Arctic is nearly as cold as that of the surface of Mars. So the recent discovery by a McGill University led team of scientists of a bacterium that is able to thrive at –15ºC, the coldest temper ...
  • The Ring Nebula --Hubble Reveals Its True Shape!
                     The iconic  Ring Nebula's distinctive shape makes it a popular illustration for astronomy books. But new observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star shown below reveals a new twist. "The nebula is no ...
  • Chinese Astronomers Search for Alien Life
                          Chinese astronomers, actively searching for Earth-like planets using survey instruments in Antarctica, believe efforts to seek an extra-solar planet that that harbors life will soon be rewarded. "It's highly possible that human beings might find such a planet in th ...
  • Image of the Day: Haunting Bok Globules in a S ...
          This new view of a spectacular stellar nursery reveals thick clumps of dust silhouetted against the pink glowing gas cloud known to astronomers as IC 2944. The image celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope— the world's most advanced optical instrument oper ...

Natural News

  • Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsa ...
    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! Check...
  • Coconut oil ketogenic cleanse for cancer
    Growing evidence is reporting that cancer is a metabolic disease characterized by cellular mitochondrial respiratory insufficiency. Cancer cells can only survive and thrive off of glucose and amino acid fermentation. A ketogenic cleanse has been proposed as a means of...
  • The government theft of retirement accounts ha ...
    (NaturalNews)This article written by Dave Hodges of www.thecommonsenseshow.com puts very well in perspective the corruption that engulfs us on a daily basis by the governemnt of, for, and by the Corporation! Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Is Planning to Steal Selected Federal Ret ...
  • NYC public school is country's first to adopt ...
    Officials at one public elementary school in New York City have turned to brainwashing children into accepting certain lifestyle choices that they otherwise might not if left to their own decision making. Granted, the decision by Public School 244 to be among the...
  • Is your personal lubricant safe?
    When it comes to healthy products most people forget to include their sexual health products. With the majority of people having used a personal lubricant at some point in their life and because they are directly absorbed into the bloodstream, it is important that you...

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle
    As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle.
  • Kim Dotcom Claims Ownership of Two-Factor Auth ...
    Infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom claimed today he is the inventor of two-factor authentication, a method of securing online services.
  • Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the ...
    The President Barack Obama administration went on record four years ago supporting a proposed international treaty to make books more accessible to the blind across the globe. Fast forward to today. As world leaders are readying to congregate in Morocco ...
  • Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed C ...
    Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.
  • Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E- ...
    In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist's movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Apple Launches iRomney
    On Monday, Congressional investigators revealed that Apple has side-stepped billions of dollars in U.S taxes "through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen." Nevertheless, Tuesday's hearing before the Senate Permanent Subcommi ...
  • Fox and Furious Friends Wanted DOJ to Prosecut ...
    Throughout the tenure of George W. Bush, many of us to the left of center warned that unchecked presidential power was putting Americans' civil liberties in jeopardy. Now with the revelations that the Obama Justice Department seized AP phone records in one leak case and monitored a reporter's c ...
  • Welcome to the Darrell Issa Hall of Shame
    With Washington engulfed in scandals real and imagined over the Benghazi tragedy, the IRS' handling of applications by political groups for tax exempt status and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records, California Congressman Darrell Issa is enjoying his moment in the sun. For Repu ...
  • Will Republicans Oppose James Comey as FBI Dir ...
    The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that President Obama has narrowed his list of possible replacements for FBI Director Robert Mueller to two candidates. Senate Republicans probably won't be happy with either of the highly respected choices. Lisa Monaco, the White House's top counterterro ...
  • Republicans May Abort Debt Ceiling Hike, U.S. ...
    Until Republicans captured their House majority in January 2011, no political party ever had both the intent and the votes to block an increase in the U.S. debt ceiling. While figures in both parties have cast symbolic votes against raising Uncle Sam's borrowing authority (Senator Barack Obama ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Off-Road Bike Paths Needed In Transportation P ...
    Making the case for off-road bike paths instead of on-road bike lanes (or, ideally, in addition to them), here’s a summary of some recent research I conducted and some recent research out of Harvard Medical School: More or less, bicycle infrastructure policy and its relationship to ridersh ...
  • How Electric Cars Won Over A Car Hater
    Here’s the story as to why I became an electric car lover after being a car hater: I’m not going to lie — I’ve got issues with cars. My master’s degree is in city and regional planning. From my experience studying that (before, during, and after graduate school), I& ...
  • Climate Change And Wildfire — Research Examine ...
    Changes in the climate are intimately connected with wildfires, both causing them and being being caused by them. Recent research has estimated that wildfires will increase by around 50% across most of the US, and by as much as 100% in the West, by 2050, as a result of climate change. And with t ...
  • Cave-Dwelling Arachnids — Two New Species Foun ...
    Researchers recently discovered two new species of cave-dwelling arachnids in northeastern Brazil — Rowlandius ubajara and Rowlandius potiguara. The arachnids are both a type of short-tailed whipscorpion. The arachnids are a reddish-brown color, and were discovered inhabiting the cool, hum ...
  • Very Rare Leopards Caught On Camera
    Critically endangered Javan leopards have been caught on digital camera traps in West Java. If you have been following conservation news, you know that the Formosan Cloud Leopard was recently declared extinct. They were driven into extinction by human activities. So it is very important that the ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Calls for Obama Impeachment Increasing -- Lite ...
    By @TedFrier Last night I got my first call at home from a right wing outfit called the Conservative Majority Fund that was soliciting contributions to impeach President Obama for trashing the Constitution - first by taking away our guns and now by using the IRS to destroy the liberties of conse ...
  • Will Says Obama "Lawless" for Standing Up For ...
    By @TedFrier Not so long ago, George F. Will was fully on board with those who said that corporations were people, my friend, and so ought to be allowed to dump unlimited piles of money into American elections to buy themselves a democracy. Now, Will sees "George Wallace-like lawlessness" in a r ...
  • And it's Jon Stewart with the knockout punch
    By @BGinKC Ted and I had our fun beating up on Peggy Noonan, but Jon Stewart really, really had fun at her expense: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
  • Worst Since Watergate? Please
    By @TedFrier Why do so many still take Peggy Noonan seriously when she may have penned the single most self-immolating line ever uttered by a national leader in a major political address: "Read my lips, no new taxes." Noonan's penchant for the sweepingly grand, if melodramatically vacuous, remar ...
  • The Eternal Sunshine of Peggy Noonan's Spotles ...
    By @BginKC I don't spend a lot of time deconstructing Peggy Noonan. First off, it's like shooting fish in a barrel, and second of all - I've already had one aneurysm, I don't need another. But sometimes she just goes the limit and I can't ignore her. "Sometimes" arrived this morning, when she op ...

Care 2

  • Applaud Court Ruling Reducing Water Pollution ...
    Praise activists for instigating the recent court decision forcing the EPA to regulate water pollution from power plants Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Animal photos of the week: 24 May 2013
    All creatures great and small in our ever popular animal gallery. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Pet Safety Memorial Day
    With summer right around the corner Bark Buckle UP wants to remind people to be safe driving buckle up the whole family pets included this Memorial Day holiday weekend. Submitted by Dianne Lynn Elko to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Qatar, allies tighten coordination of arms flo ...
    * Qatar security official says Qatar cooperating with CIA * Syria rebels say arms imports being routed through National Coalition * Britain, France discuss lifting EU ban on arming rebels Submitted by JL A. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Stories Of Heroism After Tornadoes Sweep Oklah ...
    Yesterday, the Associated Press photographed Maeghan Hadley, owner of 1 Day Ranch animal rescue, tending to a kitten that was pulled from the rubble left by one of the initial tornadoes that touched down near Shawnee, Okla. on Sunday. Submitted by BarbKnight SunshinecatLady to Environ ...

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No Quarter

  • Unfolding the Benghazi Mystery with Sergeant S ...
    The failure of the Obama Administration to respond effectively and decisively to the attack on US diplomats and intelligence officers last September in Benghazi continues to dog the President, and rightly so. Why did the White House decide to not seek the guidance of the Counterterrorism Securit ...
  • Barack, The Clueless, Obama
    When you lose Jon Stewart, it is a sign that the Obama ship is sinking: What a worthless, ignorant moron we have for a President. Obama does not have time to read briefing papers. He has no time to be briefed by his staff. Nope. He has to wait for MSNBC to broadcast what his [...]
  • Sorting Out the CIA Annex in Benghazi
    Part of the explanation for the “confusion” and delay by the Obama Administration in responding to the attack on the US special mission and “the Annex” in Benghazi last September is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted to limit/contain the exposure of the clandest ...
  • Obama’s Fascist Agenda with the Press
    Republicans must shoulder some of the blame for the Obama Administration’s concerted effort to muzzle the press. Ignoring their party’s tradition of espousing limited Government during the reign of George W. Bush, Republicans established a reputation for extending the reach of Govern ...
  • Keeping Track of the Obama, Hillary Lies on Be ...
    The Obama White House sent out another dupe today, a kid named Pfeffer, to spin and lie about the various scandals swirling around the President. As long as you have Alzheimer’s disease or are a moron incapable of reading, you will find nothing troubling about the White House desperate att ...

Futurismic

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Local group wants GRU to stop buying mountaint ...
    Local group wants GRU to stop buying mountaintop-removal coal The Independent Florida Alligator After more than two years of local and national advocacy, the Gainesville Loves Mountains organization has taken the next step in an attempt to end Gainesville Regional Utilities' purchase of moun ...
  • Enviros Sue To Block Tenn. Mountaintop-Removal ...
    Enviros Sue To Block Tenn. Mountaintop-Removal Projects Law360 (subscription) Law360, New York (May 17, 2013, 2:44 PM ET) -- Environmental groups including the Sierra Club sued the U.S. Interior Department in Tennessee federal court on Thursday, claiming the agency approved two mountaintop-remov ...
  • Environmental groups sue government over mount ...
    Environmental groups sue government over mountaintop removal coal mining The Tennessean Coal companies have in recent years turned with greater frequency to mountaintop removal instead of underground mining, drawing the concerns of environmental groups who say the removed earth dumped into nearb ...
  • Mountaintop Removal Group Protests Against UBS ...
    WUKY Mountaintop Removal Group Protests Against UBS WUKY LEXINGTON, KY- Members of Hands Off Appalachia gathered in Woodland Park this afternoon to protest against financial services company UBS. The group says UBS provides significant funding and financial advice to several local mining compani ...
  • RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop ...
    Herald Scotland RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop removal Herald Scotland RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop removal. Sunday 12 May 2013. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is under fierce attack for investing hundreds of millions of pounds in US companies which ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama warns sexual assaults threaten to weaken ...
    Jeremy Herb / The Hill: Obama warns sexual assaults threaten to weaken military  —  President Obama used his commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy on Friday to argue sexual assaults in the ranks are threatening the military's strength.  —  Obama said ass ...
  • President Obama forgets to salute (Dan Lothian ...
    Dan Lothian / CNN: President Obama forgets to salute  —  Washington (CNN) - President Obama, seemingly preoccupied, forgot one piece of protocol as he boarded Marine One on his way to Annapolis Friday.  —  Obama walked past the Marine at the bottom of the helicop ...
  • Fewer Americans Identify as Economic Conservat ...
    Andrew Dugan / Gallup: Fewer Americans Identify as Economic Conservatives in 2013  —  Thirty percent say they are liberal on social issues, a new high  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty-one percent of Americans now characterize their economic views as “cons ...
  • Remarks by the President at the National Defen ...
    The White House: Remarks by the President at the National Defense University  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody.  Please be seated.  —  It is a great honor to return to the National Defense University.  He ...
  • IRS, three other federal agencies closed Frida ...
    Justin Sink / The Hill: IRS, three other federal agencies closed Friday due to sequestration  —  The Internal Revenue Service will be closed Friday because of sequestration, the agency said in a press release.  —  The agency, which has been the center of a politi ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.8, south of Tonga
    Friday, May 24, 2013 11:10:48 UTC Friday, May 24, 2013 11:10:48 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 8.3, Sea of Okhotsk
    Friday, May 24, 2013 05:44:49 UTC Friday, May 24, 2013 04:44:49 PM at epicenterDepth: 608.90 km (378.35 mi)
  • M 5.7, Northern California
    Friday, May 24, 2013 03:47:08 UTC Thursday, May 23, 2013 08:47:08 PM at epicenterDepth: 11.00 km (6.84 mi)
  • M 5.0, south of the Fiji Islands
    Friday, May 24, 2013 01:50:57 UTC Friday, May 24, 2013 01:50:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 499.70 km (310.50 mi)
  • M 5.4, Macquarie Island region
    Friday, May 24, 2013 01:10:03 UTC Friday, May 24, 2013 12:10:03 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 中国政府应&#2115 ...
    曾在中国环保部工作的环境经济学家胡涛认为，应将企业在海外的投资项目纳入国内 ...
  • 气候变化或&#2035 ...
    中国、中东及非洲的气候变化可能导致蝗灾频发，农作物歉收沙漠蝗繁殖速度快，能 ...
  • 世界为何坐&#3527 ...
    除非我们可以给出一个在政治上富有吸引力的低碳经济方案，否则没有人会为了别人 ...
  • 水交易可能&#2025 ...
    中国正在尝试利用水交易来解决保证供应公平和避免生态破坏这个双重问题。 大&#35 ...
  • 新加坡治水&#2354 ...
    早在40年前，新加坡领导人就意识到一个社会在污染环境中的生活成本要比在清洁环&#2265 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • George Zimmerman's Defense Team Releases Texts ...
    "Is the defense trying to prove Trayvon deserved to be killed by George Zimmerman because of the way he looked?" The defense team for George Zimmerman, the man accused of killing unarmed teenager Travyon Martin, released dozens of photos and text messages of the 17-year-old murder vi ...
  • Best Thing of the Day: WikiLeaks Leaks Transcr ...
    "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks" premieres today -- but the transcript hit the internet last night. Beating the entertainment industry in the message control race, Wikileaks leaked the transcript of the new documentary, “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks,&#8221 ...
  • Judge Forbids Lesbian Woman From Living with P ...
    In Texas, a judge is enforcing a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers to prevent the lesbians from living together.  A Texas judge has ordered a lesbian couple to stop living together due a morality clause in one of the women's divorce papers.
    &# ...
  • "If Money Were No Object" - Behind Our Obsessi ...
    As Florida continues to search for their Powerball winner, some people are still fantasizing about what they would do if they won. As Florida continues to search for their Powerball winner, some people are still fantasizing about what they would do if they won.Though the jackpot weighs in at $ ...
  • Has Obama Presented a New Plan to Fight Terror ...
    Obama admits "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare” -- but fails to offer way out.  Four years ago, President Obama gave a seminal counterterrorism speech in front of the Constitution arguing we “uphold our most cherished values ...

Threat Level

  • WikiLeaks Donations Down to a Trickle
    As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange approaches the one-year anniversary of his confinement in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a report released Wednesday reveals that donations to the secret-spilling site have slowed to a trickle.
  • Kim Dotcom Claims Ownership of Two-Factor Auth ...
    Infamous file-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom claimed today he is the inventor of two-factor authentication, a method of securing online services.
  • Obama Stops Championing Treaty That Gives the ...
    The President Barack Obama administration went on record four years ago supporting a proposed international treaty to make books more accessible to the blind across the globe. Fast forward to today. As world leaders are readying to congregate in Morocco ...
  • Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed C ...
    Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.
  • Feds Tracked Reporter’s Movements, Personal E- ...
    In an effort to unmask a leaker who fed a reporter classified information about North Korea, FBI investigators tracked the journalist's movements in and out of a government building, obtained copies of his phone records and personal e-mails and also ...

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Alaska Raw Milk Cow Share Sickens More of its ...
    The Alaska Section of Epidemiology is investigating another outbreak of Campylobacter infection associated with the consumption of raw milk. This new outbreak is associated with raw milk distributed by the... Continue Reading
  • Nuts – Oregon Hazelnuts Recalled Due to Salmonella
    Lynne Terry of The Oregonian reports that Canadian authorities have issued several recall notices this month for hazelnuts from Oregon. The nuts, which were shipped in-shell, were potentially contaminated with... Continue Reading
  • Dr. Wilke, you need to read Poisoned
    May 22, 2013   Dr. Eric Wilke Brazos County Health Department 201 North Texas Avenue Bryan, TX 77803 Re:  Coco Loco E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Dear Dr. Wilke: Since the... Continue Reading
  • Almost 300 with Salmonella I:4,5,12:i:- Linked ...
    According to today’s REPORT from the Southern Nevada Health District, the epidemic curve as of May 20, 2013 is presented in the figure below and shows a total of 294 people... Continue Reading
  • The Melton Parents Have Every Right to Feel In ...
    Over the last 20 years I have spoken before Health Departments and Environmental Health Departments all across the United States (some 30 states) as well as in Canada, England, France,... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • First Drive: 2013 Nissan Leaf [w/video]
    Filed under: Hatchback, Nissan, First Drives, ElectricIf It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It Look at the 2013 Nissan Leaf - even one parked next to a 2012 model - and you'll be hard-pressed to spot the differences. Changes and updates have been made, but you have to know the details to tell. It ...
  • Video: Tesla Model S has secret menu that show ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Videos, Tesla, Electric, Luxury The Telsa Model S may have won just about every automotive award it could last year, but that doesn't mean it's a perfect vehicle. Far from it. Drivers have been asking when the already high-tech vehicle will get somewhat normal ...
  • Shanghai: Detroit Electric, Geely announce str ...
    Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show, Electric, MISC The revived Detroit Electric company will be partnering with China's Geely, but the mission is not to cooperate on bringing the all-electric Tesla Roadster-like SP:01 to market. Instead, Detroit Electric and Geely will co-develop more normal p ...
  • First Drive: 2013 Fiat 500e
    Filed under: Hatchback, First Drives, Electric, FiatCinquecento's Electrifying One-Price Strategy Is A Gas America's electric vehicle segment is getting crowded, but sales remain tiny compared to the overall market. Listening to EV pitchmen, a key phrase heard over and over is "no comprom ...
  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...

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Invisible Opportunity

  • 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 ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Learning to see beyond the American Pravda
    Summary:  Here we discuss a powerful article about a serious weakness of America — our broken observation-orientation-decision-action loop. Specifically, our ability to orient our present in term of our history, a broken mechanism because of our amnesia and gullibility. We need not be like ...
  • Will the children of the Greatest Generation d ...
    Summary: The scandals have Washington aflame, almost as much fun for the imperial courtiers as starting a war. Last month was the great North Korean crisis. Soon their attention will turn to something else. More important than this trivia is our reaction to these revelations. . It’s back t ...
  • The Oklahoma tornadoes can teach us about our ...
    Summary:  The reactions to major  events reveals much about us and our institutions. Such as the tragic Oklahoma tornadoes, showing the usual propaganda, the evolution of the news media, and an opportunity to learn about climate science. . Those seeking to use global warming to change US public ...
  • Ben Bernanke sees the great slowdown in techno ...
    Summary: The FM website has a great record of providing unpopular but accurate forecasts to its readers, but a poor record of updating them. Once they become consensus insights we drop them.  We’ll provide a few posts with updates. . Today let’s revisit the slowdown in technological ...
  • This was the week that was in the death of the ...
    Summary: What a wonderful week, bringing to even the most obtuse of Americans unmistakable evidence of our government’s growing power. These incidents are insignificant in themselves, more of the endless scandals that titillated members of America’s outer  party (the proles don&#8217 ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Enormous Museum Collection of Insects Needs Yo ...
    A citizen science project called Calbug, which launched this week, hopes to recruit volunteers to help digitize field notes for more than a million insect and spider specimens held by nine natural history museums in California.
  • This Week’s Weirdest Wild Animal Incidents
    A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Ligeia Mare
    Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the ...
  • Strange Dark Matter Interactions Could Create ...
    A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light.
  • Why We Need an Entirely New Category of ‘Patte ...
    Art sometimes precedes scientific analysis, and the relationship can go the other way too: Scientists can use art to understand math. The physicist Richard Feynman revolutionized his field in the 1940s when he devised a simple way to diagram quantum ...

PakAlert

  • The Government Theft of Retirement Accounts Ha ...
    Many were roundly criticized for daring to say that the Cyprus thefts could visit our shores. If Treasury Secretary Jack Lew gets his way, Cyprus will look like a walk in the park compared to what’s coming because Cyprus was a beta test for the massive theft of private wealth which is on the ho ...
  • Video: Was the Woolwich Attack a Hoax? (Debunked)
    Where is the blood? People are questioning whether the attack on a soldier in Woolwich yesterday was a fabricated event
  • State of Connecticut Crafts “Special Act” to H ...
    If the Connecticut General Assembly is successful, we will never know details of what happened at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown on December 14, 2012. The Hartford Courant reports that the state’s top prosecutor and the governor’s office are working in secret with General Assembl ...
  • Report: Assad preparing missile strike against ...
    The Syrian army is deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aiming at Israel in the aftermath of the alleged Israeli strikes, The Sunday Times reports
  • Who Really Runs the World? Conspiracies, Hidde ...
    So, who runs the world? It’s a question that people have struggled with since people began to struggle. It’s certainly a question with many interpretations, and incites answers of many varied perspectives

Andy Worthington

  • Obama on Guantánamo: Yemeni Ban Lifted, Prison ...
    Today, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, President Obama delivered a major speech on national security issues. I leave it to some of my esteemed colleagues to analyze everything apart from the final section of the speech, in which the President spoke about “the detention o ...
  • As Guantánamo Prisoners Send Pleas to Presiden ...
    As President Obama prepares to make a major speech on national security issues at the National Defense University — including his plans for Guantánamo, where a prison-wide hunger strike has been raging for over three months — the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, whose lawy ...
  • Close Guantánamo: Hundreds of Thousands of Peo ...
    Please sign the Avaaz petition calling for the closure of Guantánamo! Just hours before President Obama delivers a major speech on national security at the National Defense University, in which he will discuss the drone program and will also lay out his plans for Guantánamo, an international pet ...
  • European Parliament to Debate Motion Calling f ...
    Tomorrow, just before President Obama delivers a major speech on national security issues — including his policy on Guantánamo, still gripped by a prison-wide hunger strike by men in despair at ever being released or receiving justice — the European Parliament will be discussing and ...
  • Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Obama Administration ...
    100 days after the majority of the remaining 166 prisoners in Guantánamo embarked on a hunger strike, and after a weekend of actions in the US, the UK and elsewhere to highlight the continuing injustice of the prison, the world is waiting — again — to hear from President Obama. As ne ...

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Sciencebase

  • Translating teenage grunts
    Linguistics of adolescent phonetics If you don’t get it, then I just have one thing to say and it’s: “A voiced alveolar stop and breathy-voiced low-back unrounded vowel, with advanced tongue root” – duuuuh… (That latter words is described by James Harbeck in h ...
  • Deceived wisdom about pruney fingers
    I discuss the myths about why our fingers go “pruney” in the bath or swimming pool in my book Deceived Wisdom, the truth seems to lie in the work of Mark Changizi. In this cartoon, we see the explanation and get to hear his theory in his own words. Deceived wisdom about pruney finger ...
  • SIDS, cot death absolute risks
    The tabloids were screaming at new parents this week desperately yelling at them not to share a bed with their newborn because it could be lethal, causing sudden infant death syndrome, or cot death. The research said so. SIDS is tragic, of course, but a little composure, please. As NHS Choices e ...
  • A design for life
    As the average age of the population goes up with people surviving many years more than their allegorical three score years and ten, the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of senile dementia will rise too. Many people can suffer symptoms for many years and yet live independen ...
  • How did feathers evolve?
    Carl Zimmer offered some insights at TED-Ed into how dinosaurs got their plumage and evolved into the flying birds, excellent birds, we see today. This is witty animation plucks up the courage to fill in the gaps. On an entirely unrelated note, I wrote a song about flight, which you can hear on ...

Common Dreams -News

  • 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. ...

Lifehacker

  • Make Something Great with PVC Pipe This Weekend
    Although not one of the DIY All Star materials, people use PVC pipe to create all sorts of awesome things because it's cheap, sturdy, and versatile. This weekend, grab some at your local hardware store and tackle one of these fun projects.Read more...    
  • Make a MacBook Dock with Sugru and a Few Cables
    Laptop docks generally don't come cheap—especially when you have a Mac. DIYer Johan Frick put together a simple docking solution with the necessary cables and a little bit of Sugru, saving a ton of money in the process.Read more...    
  • Cork or Twist: What's the Best Way to Stop Up ...
    Cork, synthetic cork, or screw cap? Each medium has its perks, it seems. But which one keeps wine aging the right way? The experts at Stack Exchange attempt to put the controversy to rest.Read more...    
  • This Week's Most Popular Posts: May 17th to 24th
    This week we looked at the best Android phones around, got some career advice, and got some nice airline and hotel upgrades. Here's a look back.Read more...    
  • What Mistakes Can Ruin Your Professional Reput ...
    Finding a job is a challenge these days, but keeping one can be a challenge as well. US News describes eight simple mistakes you can make to ruin your professional reputation, from leaving a job to early to failing to keep your commitments. What mistakes have you made, or seen others made, that ...

Water Wars

  • Supervisors fear Delta water grab
    Frank Ruhstaller and Steve Bestolarides are rallying the troops as California’s perennial water wars heat up.
  • Anthony Westbury: Could Port St. Lucie land bu ...
    St. Lucie County is fighting Port St. Lucie's bid to annex its new land at McCarty Ranch.
  • Skullduggery In The Water Pipes: Newspaper Con ...
    Almost everyone in the United States has a stake in California's water wars. That's because the state grows most of the fresh fruits and vegetables the rest of us eat. But in recent years farmers haven't been able to get the water they need to grow their crops. The water system is in ...
  • Nisswa parks kick off summer
    NISSWA - The Nisswa Parks Department announced a Summer Kick-off Party from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 1 at Nisswa Park. The event will feature Water Wars and the St. Christopher youth group will serve food.
  • Water Wars: Ga. avoids reservoir limits in new ...
    A water plan passed by the U.S. Senate will not limit Georgia's water use from two federal reservoirs, a restriction sought by lawmakers in Alabama and Florida.      The Senate voted 83-14 on Wednesday

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The Wonk Room

  • “Historically Accurate Disney Princesses” Take ...
    Well, this video by comedian Rachel Bloom is pretty wonderful. And it’s a reminder that the next time someone complains about the brutality in Game of Thrones, you can always tell them that torturing Theon Greyjoy may be unpleasant, but at least Westeros isn’t constantly getting wipe ...
  • Black Passengers In DC Are 25 Percent Less Lik ...
    Black passengers trying to hail a cab in the District of Columbia are 25 percent less likely to get picked up, according to a hidden camera investigation by local DC news program WUSA 9. Over the course of three weeks, WUSA 9 anchors examined almost 100 taxis on Saturday night between 6:00 pm an ...
  • Fortune 500 Company Wins Fight To Turn Women’s ...
    The 104-year-old Anna Louise Inn in Cincinnati, Ohio, has long provided a refuge for women struggling to overcome drug addictions or prostitution, escape abusive husbands, or simply get back on their feet. When Western & Southern Insurance Group initially approached them with plans to purch ...
  • Poll Finds Strong Support For Clean Energy, 68 ...
    The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University released their most recent survey this week: The Yale survey, “Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies in April 2013,” dates back to 2008 and is an important barometer for public opinion on clean ener ...
  • How Immigration Reform Will Let Families Reuni ...
    A Human Rights Watch (HRW) study released this week found that 85,000 immigrants were prosecuted for illegal entry or re-entry in 2013. The three main reasons that HRW found for illegal entry or re-entry were “to seek work, to reunite with family…, or to flee violence or sometimes pe ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • This Day In The Debasement of Canadian Democracy
    Our top story: A federal judge ruled yesterday that fraud definitely occurred in the six riding elections where the results were challenged citizens supported by the Council of Canadians. The judge also ruled that the fraud and voter suppression was almost definitely carried out with the harperc ...
  • When Right-Wingers Vote
     Now, don't get me wrong. I'm a democrat, through-and-through. "Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all the others that have been tried" and all that. But thinking about the train-wreck that is Rob Ford; "Is the mayor of the largest city in Canada (and the fourth-largest ...
  • Crack Cocaine & Child Pornography
    Scene from the 2013 Sun Media Celebrity WeekendIf things keep going on as they've been going, ... are we going to end up hearing about how Rob Ford is going to appear on "To Catch a Predator: Canadian Edition"? Inquiring minds want to know. Given the moral caliber of our "conservative" overlord ...
  • Obamabots: Lessons For Canada
    Let's all remember that it was the Liberal Party of Canada, under Jean Chretien and then Paul Martin, who helped bring us to our present sorry state. Chretien and Martin began the process of tax cuts (ostensibly to "spur growth" and we all know how well that's worked out) and austerity (in the n ...
  • They Never Figured On stephen harper
    Should the Governor General dissolve  Parliament and call a new election based on the blatant criminality of the harper regime? Technically it's possible. But the exercise of such raw power would be considered monarchical and the story of the Westminster Parliamentary System is of the gradu ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Fighters and Arctic sovereignty
    Ernie Regehr debunks the claim that fighter aircraft such as the F-35 have any significant contribution to make to Canadian security and sovereignty in the North.
  • Do you have a Peace Mom?
    How did your Peace Mom make a difference in your life, and in your community? Let us know, and send her an eCard for Mother's Day!
  • Missile-defence radar at Goose Bay?
    The Department of National Defence is looking for ways to contribute to the U.S. missile defence system and may try to revive a proposal to build a radar at Goose Bay.
  • How to spend the defence budget
    On April 15, we asked Ceasefire.ca supporters how they would better spend the money wasted on weapons and war.
  • Get rid of the nukes, part two!
    According to a recent New York Times report, the United States is "quietly urging" Britain to abandon its "independent nuclear deterrent".

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Evidence suggests that up to 90 percent of can ...
    The vast majority of the published scientific literature on cancer and cancer research is inherently flawed and non-reproducible, reveals a new review published online in the journal Nature. Researchers C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis found that a mere 11 percent of 53 papers on cancer published i ...
  • Just A Little Reminder…
    I know you’ve seen this list a bunch of times on my blog, but I always like to post it at least once a year as a little reminder… 10 Foods You Should NEVER Eat! 1. Microwaved Food 2. Excitotoxins (MSG – monosodium glutamate, aspartame) and anything you can’t pronounce 3. ...
  • Eliminate Those Deadly Chemicals In Your Body
    Our US Government does not want you to know what their own agency, The Center for Disease Control, just reported in their own study. They took thousands of American citizens and checked their blood and urine for 212 toxic chemicals. They took a random sample of them and all 212 toxic chemicals w ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-2-13
    Today, Kevin gives you even more proof that inflation is already here and that your standard of living is declining rapidly because of it. Self Help: Uncontaminated Meat Further Your Education Manifest Your Every Desire The Only Answer To Cancer Drop-Dead Gorgeous Hair Without The Side Effects H ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-5-13
    Today, Dr. Tom Morter joins Kevin as co-host of the day! Find out how Trace Minerals are absolutely imperative to your health and why you should never leave home without it! Plus, discover how YOU can learn the secrets behind winning big at the racetrack and casino! Self Help: Learn The Secrets ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • Federal Trade Commission opens investigation i ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFederal Trade Commission opens investigation into Googles DoubleClick ads Raw StoryBy Charles Arthur, The Guardian   Like Raw Story on Facebook US federal trade commission looking into allegations that company&#8217 ...
  • Adam Kokesh Calls For “New American Revolution”
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comImprisoned activist demands march on governors of 50 states Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com May 24, 2013 Imprisoned activist and former Marine Adam Kokesh – arrested last Saturday for exercising his First Amen ...
  • Scientists warn that Earth faces severe water ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comScientists warn that Earth faces severe water shortages within a generation Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   Like Raw Story on Facebook The majority of people on Earth will face severe water shortages within a gen ...
  • Rand Paul: Obama Embroiled In ‘Old MacDonald’s ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com“Here a scandal, there a scandal, everywhere a scandal Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com May 24, 2013 Senator Rand Paul hit out yesterday at the White House and the president himself regarding his handling of the tripl ...
  • French govt backs 75% tax rate, scraps exec pa ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFrance 24 May 24, 2013 Businesses rather than employees will foot the bill for a new 75 percent tax on salaries over 1 million, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said in an interview with Les Echos on Thursday, wh ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Jeremy Scahill: Killing Americans + Obama Heck ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow May 23, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org – The Obama administration has admitted for the first time to killing four U.S. citizens in drone strikes overseas. Three died in Yemen: the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and Sa ...
  • Sibel Edmonds on the U.S. Government’s Support ...
    by Sibel Edmonds Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post May 22, 2013 Last week UK magazine Ceasefire published never-before-disclosed insights into how the Sunday Times investigative series was spiked under the direct pressure of interest groups tied to the US governm ...
  • Chris Hedges Answers “Why Are We Not Cal ...
    with Chris Hedges Writer, Dandelion Salad May 22, 2013 TheBigPictureRT – May 21, 2013 Chris Hedges, Truthdig, joins Thom Hartmann. The AP scandal is just the latest example of an ongoing – and often corporate backed – assault on our most basic democratic rights. Chris Hedges sp ...
  • Western, Saudi Terror Hits Syria, Iraq by Fini ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV May 21, 2013 You could hardly make this up: two countries sitting side-by-side, sharing the same border and sharing the same kind of horrific violence against their civilian populations. Yet, Western governments an ...
  • Noam Chomsky: Obama Murders On Executive Whim
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky breakingtheset on May 21, 2013 On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to Dr. Noam Chomsky, philosopher, linguist, professor, political critic, and author of over 100 books, about the Boston bombings, US terror inflicted abroad, drones, Obama&#821 ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Enormous Museum Collection of Insects Needs Yo ...
    A citizen science project called Calbug, which launched this week, hopes to recruit volunteers to help digitize field notes for more than a million insect and spider specimens held by nine natural history museums in California.
  • This Week’s Weirdest Wild Animal Incidents
    A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Ligeia Mare
    Ligeia Mare, shown in here in data obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, is the second largest known body of liquid on Saturn's moon Titan. It is filled with liquid hydrocarbons, such as ethane and methane, and is one of the ...
  • Strange Dark Matter Interactions Could Create ...
    A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light.
  • Why We Need an Entirely New Category of ‘Patte ...
    Art sometimes precedes scientific analysis, and the relationship can go the other way too: Scientists can use art to understand math. The physicist Richard Feynman revolutionized his field in the 1940s when he devised a simple way to diagram quantum ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Sarah Lazare: Nerds, jocks and conscientious o ...
    In a society where graduates fresh out of high school are required to participate directly in military occupation at an early age, saying no can be a way of showing another path is possible, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Rachel Shabi: Muhammad al-Dura and Israel’s ob ...
    If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Asa Winstanley: Secret files reveal Anti-Defam ...
    Two confidential Anti-Defamation League memos from the 1970s show that the pro-Israel “civil rights” group sent spies to report on talks by Noam Chomsky, a noted critic of Israel. “Chomsky is an Arab... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Moshé Machover: Zionist myths – Hebrew versus ...
    Let me start with a proposition that should by now be a matter of general knowledge: the totality of Jews do not constitute a nation in the modern sense of this term; nor have they been a nation in... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Abe Hayeem: A fair and just consideration of S ...
    This is an appeal for you to follow the recommendations of the International Court of Justice regarding the building of the Separation Wall and all of the Israel settlements in the occupied West... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

  • The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
    Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
  • 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
    A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
  • NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
    A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
  • Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
    A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
  • Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
    If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • Guest Post: Obama Got it Right on Drones
    by Michael W. Lewis [Michael W. Lewis is a Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University where he teaches International Law and the Law of War.]  On drones there was not that much new from President Obama yesterday, but what he emphasized tells us something about where the debate on drones rema ...
  • Two Problems with the “Near Certainty” Standard
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A couple of people have suggested to me that I should be celebrating Obama’s adoption of the “near certainty” standard, because it is more protective of civilians than the principle of proportionality. I will not celebrate the standard, ...
  • Obama Thinks We’re All Rubes
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller There is a classic jury instruction that reads, “[a] witness who is willfully false in one material part of his or her testimony is to be distrusted in others. You may reject the whole testimony of a witness who willfully has testified falsely as t ...
  • Starting at the End
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Far too much to say for one blog post, so I’ll start with two things I liked about the speech. First, bravo on the President for giving it. Would that he had done it years ago. Indeed, having heard it, it is even more of a puzzle why it took as long ...
  • Link to White House Fact Sheet on Use of Force ...
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Another must-read today from the White House, a one-pager titled “Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities.” Here’ ...

Public News Service

  • Lawsuit Seeks to Eliminate Arsenic in Animal Feed
    Lawsuit Seeks to Eliminate Arsenic in Animal Feed PHOENIX – The Food and Drug Administration is facing a lawsuit because it continues to allow arsenic in animal feed given to chickens, turkeys and hogs. The suit was filed on behalf of a handful of advocacy groups, including the Institute ...
  • AZ Advocates Call Senate Immigration Bill a Go ...
    AZ Advocates Call Senate Immigration Bill a Good First Step PHOENIX, Ariz. - Arizona immigrant advocates are calling the comprehensive immigration bill adopted by a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday night "a good first step." However, the 22-member coalition said a lot more work must be done to c ...
  • High Stakes for Children in Immigration Reform
    High Stakes for Children in Immigration Reform PHOENIX - An immigration reform package that got U.S. Senate committee approval on a bipartisan vote Tuesday night includes unprecedented protections for the children of immigrants. Wendy Cervantes, vice president for immigration and child rights p ...
  • FAST Action is Vital Upon the Onset of Stroke ...
    FAST Action is Vital Upon the Onset of Stroke Symptoms PHOENIX - May is National Stroke Awareness Month, and one of the key points in the event of a stroke is FAST action. According to Dr. Ziad Darkhabani, certain clot-busting drugs can only be given within a short time frame, so people need t ...
  • Infant Stress Linked to Behavior Problems Late ...
    Infant Stress Linked to Behavior Problems Later in Life PHOENIX - New research makes clear a direct link between stress experienced by people as infants and behavioral problems as they grow older. Recent studies find that infants' brains are reacting to external stresses, even while they sleep ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Green Times

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...
  • Israeli Elections: Labor party leader pays ste ...
    As events in Egypt, Syria and Palestine heat up… …The nation-state in the middle of all this, Israel, has had its own share of high political drama. True, instead of blood, only tears and virtual ink were shed there. But as usual in Israel-Palestine, it makes for a good story. Earlie ...
  • Gaza Ceasefire: Giving Thanks to President Obama
    There is a ceasefire in Gaza. It remains to be seen if and when the promise to open Gaza to normal civilian movement, laconically stated in the ceasefire agreement, will be fulfilled. On Friday, less than 48 hours after its enactment, the first bad sign appeared. In at least two locations near t ...

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 ...

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • International Day Of Protest Against Monsanto ...
    Having a 3 day weekend means that we should have no excuse for not showing up at your local protest! STAND UP FOR THE FAMILY FARMER! STOP THE PATENTING OF ALL THE WORLD’S FOOD, AND THE POISONING / ALTERING OF HUMAN GENETICS!
  • Holder OK’d search warrant for Fox News ...
    By Michael Isikoff National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails ...
  • Where does your Money go? Drones, the Militari ...
    Breaking: Cars, people in the Skagit River after I-5 Bridge collapse 23 May 2013 The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening, injuring an unknown number of people. Both the northbound and southbound portions of the bridge dropped into the river sometime before 7 p.m. ...
  • Woolrich London Killing: Terrorism or False Flag?
        by Stephen Lendman  Daily Censored Reports said two assailants hacked a British soldier to death. He’s been identified as Lee Rigby. He was killed in broad daylight. It was several hundred meters from southeast London’s Woolwich Royal Artillery barracks.   Weapons ...
  • Incompetence Rewarded or Malicious Intent?
    Ask yourself this, what would happen to you if you were incompetent at your job? What would happen to you if you were in management and people you supervised were constantly making poor decisions? What would your boss do to you? Would you still have your job? How many times would you be able to ...

The Air Vent

  • Answers
    So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere?   An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work.  The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending ...
  • Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
    John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • Dana’s Planet
    Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
  • The State of Paleoclimate Understanding
    In the huge amount of justified complaints made here about what I think of paleo-reconstructions, one detail is probably lost in the chaff. I really wish I knew what historic temperatures were.  You can’t read that much paleoclimate information and not want to know.   Steve McIntyre clearl ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook careers: Instagram PR, Gifts partner ...
    Facebook added 31 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the research, recruiting, business operations, global marketing and sales teams. Instagram seems to be looking for its first international employee: a...
  • Facebook hires: Sydney vertical leads, data to ...
    Facebook removed 38 positions from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of sales, HR, finance and user operations, among others. The company appears to have filled a number of key sales roles...
  • Guest Post: Advertisers Likely to Flock to Fac ...
    This is a guest post by Resolution Media Director of Client Strategy and Development George Manas. Marketers seeking better ways to reduce waste, influence buying behavior and strengthen brand equity are likely to embrace Facebook Partner Categories. Launched...
  • Advertisers can now target Facebook ads by rec ...
    Facebook has created a new way for businesses and developers to target ads to users who have taken an action on Facebook or in an app within a more specific time range. Using the “action spec”...
  • Facebook brings post insights back to Pages Ma ...
    A recent update to Pages Manager for iOS has returned detailed post insights to the product after a version earlier this month was released without them. Facebook released version 2.0 of its Pages Manager app for...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

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