Wednesday, May 29, 2013

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Icke (top right) with the BBC's first Breakfas...Icke (top right) with the BBC's first Breakfast Time team. Clockwise from top left: Francis Wilson, Debbie Rix, David Icke, Nick Ross, Selina Scott, Frank Bough. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Solar cell from Hubble space telescope on Nuna...Solar cell from Hubble space telescope on Nuna solar racer (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Scoop - NZ

  • Printing Large, Plastic Solar Cells
    Scientists have produced the largest flexible, plastic solar cells in Australia – ten times the size of what they were previously able to – thanks to a new solar cell printer that has been installed at the Australian science agency, CSIRO. The printer has allowed researchers from the Victorian ...
  • Woolwich: Unanswered Questions
    The police only turned up twenty minutes after the event. ( Armed Police are stationed less than 1 mile away from the incident at Plumstead police Station. Lewisham Police Station is less than 3 miles away and is lauded as The largest in Western Europe…) Crazed killers don’t usually hand around ...
  • The Rendition Project
    Our Rendition Flights Database has been compiled in collaboration with Reprieve, and represents the world's largest set of public flight data relating to those aircraft suspected of involvement in the global network of renditions, secret detention and torture. The interactive here has been produ ...
  • International Crisis Group Vs Venezuela
    The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as "working to prevent conflict worldwide" but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict. Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released on Friday. There is a lot wrong with this repo ...
  • Social housing staff diagnosing suicide risk
    One member of staff working for Helena Homes reported entering the home of an older tenant living in sheltered housing to discover he had hanged himself on the back of the bathroom door. “We do have some of the very most deprived people in the whole country. These people have more or less jus ...

Independent - London

  • Syrian rebels turn on their political leaders
    Syrian rebel groups have strongly criticised their political leadership outside Syria, saying it has no real connection to the rebellion and calling for half of its members to be drawn from fighters inside the country.Related StoriesSyrian rebels urge European Union to send them weaponsSyrian re ...
  • Chinese army to conduct 'digital' war games fo ...
    The people's Liberation Army is planning to conduct its first “digital” technology military war games next month, part of its efforts to adjust to “informationalised war”, the Xinhua news agency has reported.Related StoriesMother of newborn 'Baby No. 59' found trapped in Chinese sewer pipe is t ...
  • France's first gay marriage: Sinatra plays as ...
    The mayor hailed the “historic moment” that two French people of the same sex were united in marriage.Related StoriesFirst gay couple to wed in France amid tight security after controversial new legislation sparked violent protestsRichard Nieuwenhuizen death: Teenagers on trial in shocking case ...
  • Trial begins of eight accused in killing of Du ...
    Seven Dutch teenagers and an adult man accused of kicking a football linesman to death at a junior league match have gone on trial in the Netherlands.Related StoriesFirst gay couple to wed in France amid tight security after controversial new legislation sparked violent protestsRichard Nieuwenh ...
  • Radio host reignites Aussie rules racism row
    In 1993, an Aboriginal Australian rules footballer, Nicky Winmar, lifted his jersey and pointed proudly at his black skin, in defiance of a spectator who was racially abusing him - an action captured in a photograph that seemed to mark a watershed in Australia's tolerance of racism.Related Stor ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • River ice jam causes major flooding in Alaska ...
    The National Guard has helped evacuate residents from a small community in Alaska's interior where a river ice jam caused major flooding, washing out roads and submerging homes and other buildings. State officials estimate several hundred people have left the town of Galena, which remained mostl ...
  • Advanced biological computer developed
    Using only biomolecules (such as DNA and enzymes), scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations. ...
  • Deadly antiviral resistant flu appears in China
    Chinese researchers reported the first ever clinically documented case of resistance to the antiviral medication Tamiflu in patients infected with the H7N9 bird flu. In the case of 14 patients admitted to the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center in April, treatment with antiviral medications ...
  • Gold, currency debasement and the fall of the ...
    Have you seen what the gold price is doing? It's tanking almost as dramatically as the green energy investments, that's what. Though, of course, for rather different reasons. The latest downward move has been prompted, at least in part, by Cyprus selling off its gold to meet its debt obligation ...
  • From Laos to Yemen to Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill ...
    Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky recently sat down together at Harvard University to discuss Scahill's groundbreaking new book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield. Sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and the ACLU of Massachusetts.

The Galloping Beaver

  • Stevie's Tar Baby . . .
    THE BEAVER LAKE CREE JUDGMENT: The Most Important Tar Sands Case You’ve Never Heard Of. That's what Carol Linnitt at DESMOG CANADA contends. Do click on the link for more. Sure they’re bad for the environment, for human health, and for wildlife, but we rarely stop to wonder if the ...
  • The art of truth . . .
    THE CHRONICLE HERALD has a fine cartoonist in Bruce MacKinnon, who has fine advice for Duffy. Kudos to the man, made my day.
  • Corporate psychopaths . . .
    MONSANTO CAN BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. So contends GMO, a site devoted to "Raising awareness about the risks of genetically modified food (GMOs)", with an article, "Monsanto’s Dirty Dozen". Monsanto has been dangerous for a long, long time, since 1901. The company moved into the food area wit ...
  • Pox perspective . . .
    OUR WELTANSCHAUUNG: how much of it has been shaped because somebody creative had a dose? You know, the gift-that-keeps-on-giving, aka syphilis, aka "The French Disease"?  Creative types, like Schubert, Schumann, Baudelaire, Maupassant, Flaubert, Van Gogh, Nietzsche, Wilde and Joyce and their cro ...
  • That $90,000 cheque . . .
    WE SHOULD BE This could cause more damage than all of the Stevie gaffes to date, because it won't play in the beer parlors aka "sports bars", where the politically unaware and ignorant hang out. These people are unsophisticated, and things like Global Warming and the Tar Sands pipelines ...

Media Matters for America

  • REPORT: Cable News Gives Housing Price Surge L ...
    Housing prices in March rose at the highest annual level since April 2006, a sign of positive economic development that went largely underreported by cable news networks.Housing Prices Surge Housing Prices Rise Above 10 Percent In March. According to the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller index ...
  • Fox News Gets Its Flawed Holder Perjury Invest ...
    Fox News contributors pushed flawed claims that Attorney General Eric Holder committed perjury while testifying before Congress because Holder's comments on Justice Department examinations of reporter communications records as part of leak investigations supposedly conflict with Holder sign ...
  • REPORT: As Pain From Spending Cuts Grows, Medi ...
    Media coverage of the automatic spending cuts commonly known as sequestration has tapered off since the policies went into effect on March 1. This drop in coverage comes as more Americans report having personally felt the effects of the cuts.More Americans Report Being Personally Affected By Spe ...
  • "I'm Not A Lawyer, But ...": Right-Wing Media ...
    Right-wing media figures argued that Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing by declaring her innocence before invoking those rights. By contrast, legal experts say Lerner's statement did not negate her constitutional protections ...
  • Collapsing Bridges, Collapsing Spending, And N ...
    In the face of repeated infrastructure related disasters, Fox News host Neil Cavuto has continued to dismiss calls for an increase in infrastructure spending, claiming that spending on infrastructure is high enough. In reality, infrastructure spending has plummeted in recent years.A Bridge ...

Global Research.ca

  • Israel Channels Weapons and Military Aid to Al ...
    ‘If they (the Western Leaders) were concerned and sincerely committed to the peace process, they would immediately cease supporting a terrorist organization which is linked to al-Qaeda and which is involved in atrocities and killings in Syria.” Press TV has…
  • “Beat the Propaganda” Challenge! 15 Cents a Da ...
    Ever wonder why all news sound the same in the mainstream media? A quick look at media ownership answers that question and leaves no doubt on the necessity of independent media: “In 1983, the men and women who headed the…
  • “Battle of the Bees”: EU High Cour ...
    In Sept. 2011, the European Union’s top court paved the way for farmers and beekeepers to recoup losses when their crops or honey become genetically contaminated from neighboring GM fields. The European Court of Justice ruled that all food products…
  • Osama bin Laden Responsible for the 9/11 Attac ...
    The idea that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks has been an article of faith for public officials and the mainstream media. Calling it an “article of faith” points to two features of this idea. On the…
  • “The Wipeout”: The Attempt to Dest ...
    “What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It’s the individual that’s finished. It’s the single, solitary human being that’s finished. It’s every single one of…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Native American Communities From New York Laun ...
    Since New York was dubbed the "Empire State," Native American territory has been ransacked by ecological exploitation. Five years ago, Hickory Edwards was called to the water. A citizen of the Onondaga Nation, whose territory just south of Syracuse is the heart of the Haudenosaunee C ...
  • U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating
    The depletion of aquifers has many negative consequences, including land subsidence, reduced well yields, and diminished spring and stream flows. RESTON, Virginia, May 23, 2013 (ENS) – Aquifers across the United States are being drawn down at an increasing pace, finds a new study releas ...
  • Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Al ...
    A leading international voice on arctic conservation addresses President Obama’s strategy for tapping America’s northern frontier. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review “In the Beautiful,Threatened North” by Ian Frazier in  ...
  • Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Mu ...
    A leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation shares some important updates about the future of drilling in the Arctic and President Obama’s recent announcement. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review “In the Beautiful,Threat ...
  • How Our National Parks Are Threatened by Fracking
    A booming and unregulated energy industry is quietly but quickly encroaching on some of our most cherished national parks with gas and oil drilling fields. When I was a teenager, a friend and I cruised across the U.S., touring our national parks. What I remember most from that 1977 trip is rol ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • A win for democracy at Austin City Council meeting
    The democratic governance of Austin Energy has been preserved thanks to all the citizens who have turned out and did so again last night. It was a late night at City Hall yesterday. By the time many of us testified it was after midnight, but our efforts and those of our partners — the SEED […]
  • Austin City Council Heard Its Citizens
    Our basic premise that governance by an elected body is more accountable is proving true.  Over the past couple months, many Austinites have expressed their concerns to City Council about a proposed ordinance that would establish an un-elected board to govern Austin Energy. Before citizens got i ...
  • Wayne Smith’s Pants are on Fire
    According to PolitiFact Texas, State Representative Wayne Smith’s pants are on fire.  PolitiFact Texas recently analyzed a statement regarding global climate change by Mr. Smith, a Republican from Baytown. During floor discussion of his greenhouse gas permitting bill, HB 788, he said, &#82 ...
  • Keystone begins the destruction of Julia Trigg ...
    Excerpted from Julia Trigg Crawford’s facebook page. Crews from TransCanada/Michels/Universal Field Services and others I don’t recognize started arriving yesterday in preparation for the destruction on our place. Within hours of their arrival the pasture inside “their” fenced in are ...
  • Are lax Texas regulations creating the new gho ...
    The Calhoun County Port is located an hour southeast of Victoria, Texas, and across the bay from Port Lavaca, in Point Comfort. In March, I took a trip to this port city and was astonished by some of the issues I found there. The port has submitted materials to TCEQ for operating a bulk material ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Ancient frozen plants revived in lab
    Scientists have succeeded in reviving plants frozen during a miniature ice age centuries ago. Known as the 'Little Ice Age', the period of climatic co...
  • 'Goblin' killer on the run in Zimbabwe
    Two elderly women were poisoned after being accused of using goblins to harm local children. The bizarre series of events took place in the village of...
  • Endangered whale used for Japan dog treats
    Campaigners have revealed that a rare species of Icelandic whale is being used in Japanese dog treats. A Tokyo-based company has generated concern amo...
  • Exorcist calls for rules to be relaxed
    Father Gabriele Amorth claims to have personally rid the world of more than 160,000 demons. Head of the International Association of Exorcists, Father...
  • Dolphins recognized as non-human persons
    India has moved to classify dolphins as non-human persons whose rights and liberties must be respected. The change is a major victory for animal welfa...

Grassroots

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

Climate

  • Majority Face Water Shortages ‘Within Two Gene ...
    (Guardian) The majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will live with severe pressure on fresh water within the space of two generations as climate change, pollution and over-use of resources take their toll, 500 ...
  • Struggling Great Lakes Region Pinning Economic ...
    (AP) A century ago, the seven-story brick building a few blocks from downtown was a factory -- a symbol of an era when Milwaukee and other cities ringing the Great Lakes were industrial powerhouses churning out steel, automobiles and a ...
  • Water Managers from Seven Western States to Di ...
    (AP) Top water decision-makers from seven Western states plan to join conservation groups and Indian tribes in San Diego on Tuesday to begin hammering out rules for squeezing every useable drop from the overtaxed Colorado River. ...
  • Rail Picks Up Steam as a Way to Move Crude
    (Houston Chronicle) SAN ANTONIO — The surge in North American oil production has prompted energy companies to invest heavily in a 19th-century technology: rail. Companies including Valero Energy Corp., Tesoro Corp. and NuStar Energy al ...
  • New Energy Secretary a Shift From Chu
    (The Hill) New Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is taking a less aggressive tack with Congress than his predecessor Steven Chu. Moniz has pitched energy efficiency to Congress and the public in his first days on the job, highlighting an ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • So Long, Bachmann
    The New York Times is reporting that Michele Bachmann will not seek reelection next year. In her congressional race last year, Mrs. Bachmann won re-election by just 4,200 votes out of 356,000 votes cast, beating the hotelier Jim Graves, who was greatly outspent. Mr. Graves recently announced ...
  • Know What You Are Getting Into
    Thomas Erdbrink reports in the New York Times on Iranian presidential candidate Saeed Jalili. Mr. Jalili is a hardliner who is close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He has been the chief nuclear negotiator for Iran. A veteran who lost a leg in the Iraq-Iran war, he campaigns under the banner of "th ...
  • I Agree With Pincus
    I don't feel comfortable being in such agreement with Walter Pincus. Mr. Pincus has developed exceptional connections and sources within the Intellligence Community during his career as a reporter, and I have often thought that he was too beholden to his sources. Yet, he really has been one of ...
  • A Bunch of Maroons
    It's hard not to laugh at Texas. I mean, look at their governor! What a moron that man is. To think that Texas will let 1.5 million residents go without access to health care just to spite the president is just humorous. So what if it costs the state's hospitals seven billion dollars? Who's ...
  • Long Time in the Works
    The New York Times takes a look at the president's change of approach on counterterrorism. I would have more to say about it but my MacBook Air decided to die today and all I have to work with is an old iPad. I can't really write with this keyboard. Suffice to say that the president has bee ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Whether you're into Barbies, Star Wars or helicopters, you'll love this week's round-up... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Growing Interest of Organic Food in Nepal
    Journalist Stephen Bailey reports from Nepal on why fertilizers and pesticides are blighting the Himalayan country – and why organic farming might offer a solution. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Incredible Cryptids that Attack from the Air
    From the depths of the Javan jungle to the towns of the Northeastern United States – mysterious winged creatures can be found in local legends all over the world. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Human constructions can take many awe-inspiring forms – from kids’ playgrounds to university clock towers. These and other fascinating titbits... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • From Monstrous Tyrant to Preacher Man: The Con ...
    He sacrificed humans, trained children to kill, and slaughtered tens of thousands of people; but now General Butt Naked says he has found God and wants forgiveness. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

  • Women may “evolve” out of menopause, says scie ...
    According to Dr. Aarathi Prasad, menopause is an artifact from a time when resources were scarce and it was common for women to die young. But today, she says, when life expectancy can stretch into the 100s and resources are plentiful for many women living in advanced economies, menopause is no ...
  • Why are Democrats so averse to conflict?
    I’ve never been in a real-deal, legit fight. I’ve seen a few, but I’ve never been in one myself. The ones I was witness to didn’t look particularly enjoyable, though, so it’s not like I look back regretfully on all those times I could’ve punched someone ...
  • World’s richest 8 percent earns half the plane ...
    The lead research economist at the World Bank, Branko Milanovic, will be reporting soon, in the journal Global Policy, the first calculation of global income-inequality, and he has found that the top 8% of global earners are drawing 50% of all of this planet's income. He notes: "Global in ...
  • Child stars Mara Wilson and Dylan Sprouse spea ...
    Though the names are different, former child stars are once again dominating the news cycle; plus ça change. The former-Disney-girls-gone-wild milieu of "Spring Breakers" earlier in the season, Justin Bieber's ongoing decompensation in the public eye, and the sad legal saga of Amanda Bynes ...
  • US fines Total $398 mn over bribes in Iran
    French oil group Total's logo is seen in Paris on November 23, 2012. French oil giant Total was fined $398.2 million Wednesday to resolve charges it bribed officials in Iran to secure oil and gas concessions, US authorities announced.French oil giant Total agreed Wednesday to pay US authoritie ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • FIVE ACTIVISTS ARRESTED AT VOLK FIELD CALLING ...
    From Joy First CAMP DOUGLAS, WI – Five nonviolent activists attempted to deliver an indictment for war crimes to Volk Field Commander Colonel Dave Romuald. They walked peacefully onto the base with the indictment in hand, and asked for a meeting with Colonel Romauld. Instead of a meeting, th ...
  • Manning and the Media: panel discussion, June ...
    When: June 2, 2013 – 5:00-7:00 PM ET Where: All Soul’s Church, 1500 Harvard Street NW, Washington DC, 20009 (Directions)   How has WikiLeaks changed and influenced journalism thus far? How will Bradley Manning’s trial affect the way the press functions in the U.S.?   Pen ...
  • Thanking Bradley Manning
    By Kathy Kelly A few evenings ago, as the sky began to darken here in Kabul, Afghanistan, a small group of the Afghan Peace Volunteers, (APVs), gathered for an informal presentation about WikiLeaks, its chief editor Julian Assange, and its most prominent contributor, Bradley Manning. Basir Bita, ...
  • How to tell the TSA how to do its job – and ma ...
    If you’re afraid a TSA agent might bungle your screening when you fly somewhere this summer, maybe you should do what John Klapproth did when he was traveling from Seattle to Anchorage recently. Read the rest at TSA News.
  • Lifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo
      Lifting the Fake EU Arms Embargo   by Stephen Lendman   On May 27, the so-called one-year EU arms embargo on Syria's opposition ended. Officially it does so on June 1. EU nations agreed to end what never existed.   Since Washington's war on Syria began in early 2011, arms f ...

Grist - News

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

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Web Exclusive: Julian Assange on Fighting the ...
    In this 40-minute web exclusive interview, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks discusses his more than 300 days in the Ecuadorean embassy, the U.S. Justice Department spying on journalists, the future of WikiLeaks and Visa's financial blockade on WikiLeaks. Watch our recent interview with Assange ab ...
  • Part 2: Alice Walker on Activism, Gay Marriage ...
    We continue our conversation with author, poet and activist Alice Walker about her new books and play an excerpt of a new documentary about another world-renowned author, activist and scholar: Angela Davis. Walker also discusses the meaning of the subtitle to "The Cushion in the Road: Meditatio ...
  • Video: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret ...
    Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky recently sat down together at Harvard University to discuss Scahill’s groundbreaking new book, "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield." Amy Goodman hosted the discussion, which was sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Pol ...
  • Another Memorial Day in This Endless War
    By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at “The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.” The 2001 AUMF is the act passed by ...
  • Obama Admin. Admits for First Time It Killed F ...
    The United States has formally confirmed for the first time that it killed four American citizens in Yemen and Pakistan, “outside of areas of active hostilities." The acknowledgement came in a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder. In a letter dated May 22, 2013 Holder wrote to Congress ...

Solari

  • Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations
    “There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in” ~Leonard Cohen By Catherine Austin Fitts When it comes to understanding the governance of planet earth, my favorite expression is “I don’t know.” That’s because an uncertain map i ...
  • Macro Analytics – w/ Catherine Austin Fi ...
    Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street insider and Assistant Secretary in the Bush I administration. Her background gave her a clear grasp of the covert economy which exists today. Through nearly 11 years of litigation with the US Government (as the real life character that Will Smith pl ...
  • Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts &#8211 ...
    By Dark Journalist Join Dark Journalist for part 2 of a penetrating interview with financial and political expert Catherine Austin Fitts. Listen to interesting topics like the financial coup, black budget, corporate media manipulation and the ‘Breakaway Civilization.’ Related Watchin ...
  • And How Will the Fed Defend the Bond Market?
    Related Reading: Federal Reserve Weighed Slowing Its Pace of Bond Purchases
  • Watch out Watford: Here Comes the Secretive Bi ...
    By James Cusick Whether it’s the shape-shifting group of reptilian descendants from the constellation Draco who control humanity, or the shadowy cabal of powerful financiers and politicians who covertly run all governments, conspiracy theorists are once again preparing for their annual jamboree ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • A Floating Mangrove Forest Puts Down Roots in ...
    Artists, designers, filmmakers, and writers often imagine what a post-apocalyptic world will look like, and we think this wrecked ship offers a hopeful clue. Originally built in 1911, the SS Ayrfield had many functions before it was decommissioned in the 1970s.    
  • Dominican Sisters House of Formation in San Ra ...
    During the planning stage, the Dominican sisters studied the Earth Charter, an international document outlining the principles needed to create a just and environmentally sustainable world in the 21st century. Large portions of the Earth Charter are devoted    
  • Snøhetta-Designed SFMOMA Expansion Breaks Grou ...
    The 235,000-square-foot expansion will include seven stories devoted to new art exhibition and programming spaces. But those experiences won't be limited to paying customers; about 15,000 square feet of the new museum will be open to the public, free of    
  • World’s Largest Wave Farm to be Built off the ...
    Wave power is sometimes considered the less exciting cousin of wind and solar power; it came to the game later than either one and even the largest wave farm often generates less power than most small wind farms do. But that is starting to change as Scotland    
  • Walmart Fined $81 Million for Dumping Hazardou ...
    Image via Shutterstock Walmart suffered another public relations blow this week when they admitted to dumping toxic hazardous waste materials throughout California and in Missouri. The retail giant will pay an $81 million fine as part of a plea agreement    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • For the Record, I Completely Disagree with Our ...
    I've just seen a post on our Global channel by two retired generals, one American and one Israeli, that purports to ask and answer important questions about a preemptive strike by either the U.S. or Israel on Iranian nuclear facilities. Here's how it looks on our site: read more
  • Top of the Morning: Yet Another Attack on Poli ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Yet Another Attack on Polio Workers in Pakistan Gunmen attacked a pair of polio vaccine workers in northwest Pakistan, killing one and wounding the other. “Officials say the women came under attack Tuesday in a village near the northwestern city of Peshawar.  The Wo ...
  • Win Wars Not Battles
    If there is one strategic weakness or Achilles' heel in U.S. geostrategic thinking, it is a fixation with winning battles and not winning wars. The North Vietnamese famously crowed, "America won every battle and lost the war." In Afghanistan and Iraq four decades later, the same crit ...
  • Proliferation Security Initiative: Ten Years On
    In Warsaw, the WMD interdiction initiative is getting a second look, and hopefully a second wind.  (Image Source: Singapore Customs Authority) May 31st marks the 10th anniversary of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI), a non-binding international effort to stop the trafficking of weapo ...
  • Ten Whats with…Michael A. Levi
    Michael Levi is the David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and Director of the CFR Program on Energy Security and Climate Change. Michael is the author of the new book The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for Ame ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Shorting the D.C. Circuit
    Flickr/Cliff At least since the Reagan administration, Republicans have taken judicial nominations, especially to the federal circuit courts, much more seriously than Democrats have. As a result, Republican presidents have gotten relatively more nominees confirmed, and their nominees h ...
  • Children of the Great Collapse
    AP Photo/Kin Cheung Here’s a piece of good news of which you might not be aware: The U.S. safety net performed a lot better than you thought during the recent downturn, which was the deepest since the Depression. Thanks to expansions to the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credi ...
  • Ringside Seat: McCain Does Syria
    On a spring day six years ago, John McCain and some other members of Congress took a stroll through a Baghdad market, showing Americans how stable and secure life in Iraq had become. Noting that he left his helmet (though not his flak jacket) back in the Humvee, McCain waxed rhapsodic to report ...
  • But Austerity Works So Well!
    AP Photo/Michael Sohn, pool A familiar tale: In a small country on the Mediterranean rim, the government chooses to solve an economic crisis by enacting an austerity budget. Regressive taxes will rise. Aid to families will be cut. Less will be left of the welfare state built decades ag ...
  • Republicans Looking Sheepish On Obama Court No ...
    One of the biggest criticisms activist liberals have had of the Obama administration is that they have not moved aggressively to put their stamp on the federal judiciary. While there has certainly been Republican obstruction of Obama nominees, in many cases the administration hasn't even bother ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • “Save Our News” Coalition To Protest Potential ...
    Today, a coalition of local and national groups will deliver petition signatures from individuals opposed to the takeover of the Tribune papers by the climate-denying Koch brothers due to their continued investment to mislead the public to benefit their self-interests. Nationally, the coalition ...
  • Minnesota Court of Appeals Denies Challenge to ...
    The Minnesota Court of Appeals today denied a challenge, brought by two conservation groups, to hunting and trapping of wolves in the state.read more
  • Minnesota Court of Appeals Denies Challenge to ...
    The Minnesota Court of Appeals today denied a challenge, brought by two conservation groups, to hunting and trapping of wolves in the state.read more
  • New Campaign Chops Down Growing Trend of Burni ...
    Southern forests are being burned for electricity, and a new campaign announced today aims to put an end to it. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dogwood Alliance have launched “Our Forests Aren’t Fuel” to raise awareness of an alarming and rapidly-growing practi ...
  • New Campaign Chops Down Growing Trend of Burni ...
    Southern forests are being burned for electricity, and a new campaign announced today aims to put an end to it. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dogwood Alliance have launched “Our Forests Aren’t Fuel” to raise awareness of an alarming and rapidly-growing practi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Radical Kleptocrats Anxious to Stop Disclosure ...
    Jim Hightower Perhaps I've been too harsh on congressional Republicans.Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) I had assumed that their vitriolic attacks on even the meekest of proposals to restrict the tsunami of secret corporate cash slammin ...
  • Move Over, God, the Biotech Companies Are Here
    Vandana Shiva Technologies are tools for doing or making things. They are a means to transform what nature has given into food, clothing, shelter, means of mobility, means of communication. Technology is a means to an end; it is not an end ...
  • Doubting Obama’s Resolve to Do Right
    Ray McGovern An article in the Washington Post on July 6, 2010, reported me standing before the White House, announcing a new epithet for President Barack Obama: “Wuss – a person who will not stand up for what he knows is right. ...
  • Afghanistan: Is It Really the End Game?
    Conn Hallinan "Gunmen in Pakistan on Monday set ablaze five trucks carrying NATO equipment out of Afghanistan as the international military alliance winds down it combat mission there, officials said."—Agence-France Presse, ...
  • More Than One Bad Apple
    Harold Meyerson The open secret of many global corporations’ success — and occasionally, downfall — is to fall between the cracks. Apple, which is based in Cupertino, Calif., created an Irish subsidiary with no employees, ...

Water Privatization

  • White Rock Residents to Review Opportunities f ...
    WHITE ROCK, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - May 29, 2013) - Who should be accountable for our water? A public forum beginning 7PM, Monday, June 3 rd at White Rock's First United Church will provide some answers as the City of White Rock explores opportunities for public operation of its dri ...
  • Fort Worth Floats Idea of Privatizing Water Se ...
    The city of Fort Worth has appointed a task force to see whether the city might save money by putting some of its water services in public-private partnerships. Experts say a number of issues could arise if such partnerships are instituted.
  • 3 Baciwa officials push for comprehensive audit
    BACOLOD City Water District (Baciwa) Chairman of the Board Lawrence Villanueva and Directors Lorendo Dilag and Marichi Ramos explained the need to go into a public-private partnership as the non revenue water (NRW) of the district has reached P2.4 billion since 2003 up to 2012.
  • Bacolod water utility union blasts officials f ...
    The workers' union of the Bacolod City Water District slammed directors of the public utility for approving a proposal from Maynilad Water Services, Inc. and Israeli firm Miya they said would eventually lead to the firmâs privatization.
  • Kerala Govt. draws sharp criticism over water ...
    Thiruvananthapuram, May 27 (ANI): Leaders belonging to the Left Democratic Front staged a protest here on Monday against the water privatization proposal of the Kerala Government.

Guardian

  • Syria peace talks in doubt over 'credible nego ...
    War in Syria threatens to escalate as diplomats struggle to find consensus among key playersInternational officials and diplomats seeking to organise the make-or-break Syria peace talks in Geneva next month have not yet been able to persuade senior representatives from either side of the civil w ...
  • Syria civil war spinning out of control, says ...
    • Syrian National Coalition asks EU to send arms quickly • US criticises Moscow over anti-aircraft missiles • Future of Golan UN mission in doubt after EU decision • Live coverage of all developments throughout the dayPaul OwenTom McCarthy     
  • US drone strike reportedly kills Pakistani Tal ...
    Pakistani officials report at least four people, including Taliban deputy Wali ur-Rehman, killed in North Waziristan regionJust days after Barack Obama announced new restrictions on the use of drones, one of the CIA's unmanned aircraft reportedly killed the deputy leader of the Pakistani Taliban ...
  • France celebrates first gay marriage amid tigh ...
    Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau become first same-sex couple to marry in FranceAt 5.30pm in the southern French city of Montpellier, which describes itself as France's most gay-friendly place, Vincent Autin and Bruno Boileau became the first same-sex couple to marry in France after months of div ...
  • April Jones jury to resume deliberations in mu ...
    Jury considering verdict for defendant Mark Bridger told by judge to take as long as they needThe jury hearing the trial of the man charged with the abduction and murder of April Jones will resume its deliberations on Thursday after being instructed by the judge to conduct a "dispassionate revie ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Pakistans Taliban denies death of its deputy c ...
    PESHAWAR // A suspected US drone strike killed the No 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban yesterday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, although the militant group denied he was killed. If confirmed, the death of Waliur Rehman would be a blow to the militant group responsible for hundreds ...
  • Afghan security rescues 7 Red Cross staffers
    Smoke rises from the International Red Cross building after a gun battle between security forces and an insurgent, in Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. A senior Afghan official said security forces rescued seven foreigners working for the International Red Cross on W ...
  • Deadly attack on Red Cross office in Afghanist ...
    A Red Cross (ICRC) office in the eastern city of Jalalabad was attacked Wednesday, prompting a swift rescue operation led by Afghan Special Forces, ...
  • Britain prepared to release Afghan detainees
    Afghan detainees wait to be released during a ceremony to hand over Bagram prison to the Afghanistan government at Bagram Prison facilities on March 25, 2012. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/Getty ...
  • Pakistan Talibans second-in-command reported k ...
    Pakistani demonstrators shout anti-US slogans during a protest in Multan in January 2013, against the drone attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas. The Pakistan Taliban's second-in-command, Wali-ur-Rehman, was reportedly killed in a drone strike on May 29, 2013. (AFP/AFP/Getty ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

TechDirt

  • Internet Association Hits Back At RIAA's Desir ...
    On Friday, we wrote about how the RIAA has already started pitching the terrible idea that we should do away with the important DMCA safe harbors, which make sure that liability for infringement is properly applied to those actually infringing, rather than tools and services. The RIAA, however, ...
  • Reports Of Xbox One's Handling Of Used Games M ...
    We recently discussed the somewhat mishandled release announcement for Microsoft's new gaming machine, the Xbox One. While a big part of the problem was a lack of firm answers to gamers' questions, it's clear that something is going to change in how the new Xbox handles used games. The rumors va ...
  • The Aftermath Of Napster: Letting Incumbents V ...
    Last fall, law professor Michael Carrier came out with a really wonderful paper, called Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story. He interviewed dozens of people involved in the internet world and the music world, to look at what the impact was of the legal case against Napster, leading to th ...
  • How Long Before A Patent Kills A Hundred Milli ...
    Recent news that Angelina Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy because of her elevated risk of developing breast cancer has drawn attention to the Myriad Genetics case currently before the US Supreme Court, and to the whole area of gene patents. Myriad's monopoly has allowed it to set ...
  • Two Judges Told DOJ It Had To Disclose Spying ...
    This probably won't come as a surprise, but as people dig deeper into the DOJ's surveillance of reporter James Rosen, now it's come out that the DOJ worked extra hard to avoid having to tell Rosen they were spying on him by bouncing around from judge to judge until they found one who said okay. ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • The war in Syria and the threat to the Middle East
    Patrick Cockburn writes: The Syrian civil war is spreading. This, not well-publicised advances or withdrawals on the battlefield, is the most important new development. Political leaders in the region see the dangers more intensely than the rest of the world. ‘Neither the opposition nor the regi ...
  • Video: Stalemate in Aleppo
    (This video appeared at GlobalPost last month, but it’s still worth watching.)
  • Daniel Klaidman’s loyal service to the Obama a ...
    Alex Pareene writes: Eric Holder feels bad. The attorney general of the United States has been criticized quite a bit since basically the day he was announced as Obama’s pick for the job, but lately that criticism has come from liberals, who are upset with the Justice Department for excessive sn ...
  • How Obama’s speech provided little clarity on ...
    Micah Zenko writes: There were a series of pre- and post-speech leaks to influential national security reporters which suggested that Obama would limit drone targets. Two hours before the speech there was also an embargoed conference call with three anonymous administration officials (you can pr ...
  • Why it won’t be the end of the world if Iran g ...
    Alireza Nader writes: It’s as clear as day that the Islamic Republic pursues goals in the Middle East that put it on a collision course with the United States. Iran is opposed to Israel as a Jewish state, for instance, and competes for regional influence with the conservative Gulf Arab mon ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Modeling sea ice loss
    From Wiley Study explores atmospheric impact of declining Arctic sea ice There is growing recognition that reductions in Arctic sea ice levels will influence patterns of atmospheric circulation both within and beyond the Arctic. New research in the International Journal … Continue reading ...
  • Peer review falls for recycled manuscripts
    Margaret writes in tips and notes: More about the failure of peer review— or more precisely its inconsistency in producing reliable assessments of the value of the submitted article http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6577844 Abstract A growing interest i ...
  • Obama was right–‘the rise of the o ...
    From his June 4, 2008 speech on winning the Democratic primaries: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.” Here’s the proof: Ten year running mean sea level rise … Continue reading →
  • Another electric car company goes belly up
    JERUSALEM (AP) — It was an audacious idea that came to symbolize Israel’s self-described status as “Start-Up Nation,” a company that believed it could replace most gasoline-powered cars with electric vehicles and reduce the world’s reliance on oil — and … Continue r ...
  • Australian scientists take 6 degrees of global ...
    From the University of Melbourne Scientists narrow global warming range Australian scientists have narrowed the predicted range of global warming through groundbreaking new research. Scientists from the University of Melbourne and Victoria University have generated what they say are more reliabl ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • New Tools to Hunt New Viruses
    A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A new virus from the SARS family has killed 22 people since it was found on the Arabian Peninsula last summer. In past years, this might have been occasion for panic. Yet chicken and pork sales have […]
  • First drug to improve heart failure mortality ...
    CoQ10 is the first medication to improve survival in chronic heart failure since ACE inhibitors and beta blockers more than a decade ago and should be added to standard heart failure therapy. Lisbon, 25 May 2013: Coenzyme Q10 decreases all cause mortality by half, according to the results of a m ...
  • Reducing caloric intake delays nerve cell loss
    Activating an enzyme known to play a role in the anti-aging benefits of calorie restriction delays the loss of brain cells and preserves cognitive function in mice, according to a study published in the May 22 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings could one day guide researchers to ...
  • Viruses in the gut protect from infection
    “Mucus is everywhere,” says microbiologist Jeremy Barr. Almost every animal uses it to make a barrier that protects tissues that are exposed to the environment, such as the gut or lungs. Now, Barr and a team of researchers have discovered that mucus is also the key to an ancient partnership betw ...
  • Human embryonic stem cells created from adult ...
    Scientists have used the cloning technique that led to Dolly the sheep to turn human skin into embryonic stem cells – which can make any tissue in the body. The US team overcame technical problems that had frustrated researchers for more than a decade to create batches of the bodys master cells ...

CFACT

  • Earth Guardians: Tip of the indoctrination iceberg
    . In addition to discovering that only slightly more than half had found full-time jobs, Roska and Arum found that student “lack of awareness of current events … was startling.” Thirty-two percent reported “that they read a newspaper only monthly or never.”
  • Bastardi: Tornadoes linked to the cold decadal ...
    Right now we’re seeing the same kind of major events on a regional scale that occurred the last time the Pacific Ocean shifted its temperature phase from warm to cold when the Atlantic was in a warm phase, and globally, the Earth’s temps have fallen about 0.05° C in the last four years.
  • 17 year cicadas outraged to find temperatures ...
    It may be mating time, but this cicada is not happy.
  • Tornadoes are natural. Exploiting them is not.
    Does anyone actually believe that the Oklahoma tornado would never have developed, or would have caused less harm, if we had a carbon tax in place?
  • The Prince of climate fools?
    Prince Charles’s deeply felt positions on energy are likely to be even less comfortable for a suffering U.K. public in the years ahead. America’s NASA announced in 2008 that the Pacific had entered its cool phase, which implies moderately cooler global temperatures until roughly 2030 at least. Q ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Vanessa Elisha - Don't Go EP
    A few months ago I heard “Blur” by Vanessa Elisha and enjoyed it right away, so I sent her a quick fan email and got on her mailing list. This morning she let me know her new EP Don’t Go is available for free download. I’ve also got her permission to host “Blur&#8 ...
  • James Rosen, irresponsible journalism and untr ...
    Earlier this week I had a brief and unproductive Twitter exchange with Libby Spencer over leaks, whistleblowers and journalists. It was prompted by this from BooMan:We need to get our heads around the distinction between a whistleblower, who observes criminal or unethical behavior by government ...
  • Washington press corps catches up to 2002, dis ...
    We’ve had three big stories this week, each showing how the right plays the scandal game better than the left. Of the three, one is a non-scandal (Benghazi), one is a minor scandal with the potential to turn into more (IRS),1 and one is an honest-to-God scandal right now (AP). Republican ...
  • Washington press corps catches up to 2002, dis ...
    We’ve had three big stories this week, each showing how the right plays the scandal game better than the left. Of the three, one is a non-scandal (Benghazi), one is a minor scandal with the potential to turn into more (IRS),1 and one is an honest-to-God scandal right now (AP). Republican ...
  • Activism in the spaces in between
    It can be difficult to write about activism in an open-ended effort like the one against fracking. It isn’t like a campaign where everything is geared toward election day, at which point everyone will know who won and who lost. It’s different even from an issue like the Keystone XL ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Nine Dangerous Food and Farming Practices Bann ...
    Many Americans believe the US is at the forefront of technology and advancements to protect its citizens' health. But, time and again we're seeing that Americans are actually less healthy than their peers overseas.Click here to read this article
  • Many Front Groups Are Created to Dominate Code ...
    If you think it's tough sorting truth from industry propaganda and lies, get ready for even tougher times ahead. More than 50 front groups, working on behalf of food and biotechnology trade groups―Monsanto being the most prominent―have formed a new coalition called Alliance to Feed the Future.Cl ...
  • The Monsanto 71 - Sellout Senators Shame Thems ...
    The U.S. Senate recently had an opportunity to vote on a farm bill amendment that would have supported the rights of states to mandate GMO labeling laws. The amendment, S.AMDT.965, was introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders with the aim "...to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or othe ...
  • USDA's Watchdog Reveals "Egregious" Hog Slaugh ...
    The Internal Revenue Service isn't the only federal bureaucracy to be recently taken to task by its Office of the Inspector General. Amid considerably less fanfare in early May, the US Department of Agriculture's OIG issued a report damning the department's oversight of pork slaughterhouses and ...
  • How I Got Hooked on Weeds-and Why You Should, ...
    When I moved to a small organic farm in 2004, I quickly got hooked on weeds (note plural). First, there would be salads of chickweed-a grassy-tasting plant that popped up just after the ground thawed in spring. Next, from the marshy banks of a creek, tender, peppery watercress would sprout. Soon ...

Center for a Livable Future

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My Care2 Picks

  • Health effects of BPs Gulf oil & Corexit disas ...
    Louisiana physician Dr. Michael Robichaux approached GAP in summer 2011, requesting assistance to document ravaging health effects appearing to be caused by the spill and the extensive application of Corexit. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |&nb ...
  • ProPublica
    Page of investigative journalists as it appears on Rebel Mouse. We're a non-profit, independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Can Tornadoes Be Prevented By Stealing Taxpaye ...
    President Obamas Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures Submitted by John Farnham to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How America's National Security Apparatus -- i ...
    A new report is an eye-opening look into how the U.S. counter-terror apparatus was used to track the Occupy movement. Submitted by Wild Thang to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Alaska Tribal Coalition fights chemical disper ...
    The words of an Alaskan tribal elder, We watched our family and friends die, represent the feelings of many about the use of chemical dispersants in their waters. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Ban GMOs Worldwide or become Genetically Engin ...
    How would you someday like to wake up to find that the dinner you ate the night before made you sterile, or dosed you with a medicine for a relatively unknown, rare disease, or caused a life-threatening reaction because of a drug that made its way across a field and into your organic corn? How w ...
  • Victory for raw milk in Vernon Hershberger trial!
    Hershberger said he was pleased with the acquittals, and that now he can return to his farm in Loganville and continue to run his food store without a retail license because it's a members-only buying club. "I can continue to feed my community," he said.
  • Seeds Of Death – Full Movie
    March Against Monsanto Special! Gary Null releases his movie "Seeds Of Death" for free viewing for a limited time in honor of the march on May 25.
  • “Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic
    This is a must-read article to understand how genetic engineering started and where it is going. Pay special attention to the section titled "GMO as a weapon of biowarfare?"
  • Food Myth Busters: Do we really need industria ...
    Learn why the "industrial agriculture is needed to feed the world" hype marketed by Monsanto is full of manure.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Chinese firm in $4.7bn takeover of US pork gia ...
    ShareThisMega barf alert *and* gag me with a chainsaw: Chinese firm in $4.7bn takeover of US pork giant Smithfield Foods --There have been recent reports of contamination of the Chinese meat supply from a bird-flu outbreak. Shuanghui, also known as Shineway, is China's largest pork producer an ...
  • Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an Independe ...
    ShareThisRhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an Independent, to switch to Democratic party --The party change will be Chafee's second: He was elected to the Senate as a Republican and to the governorship as an Independent. 29 May 2013 Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee will switch to the Democrati ...
  • Bachmann Says She Won't Seek House Re-Election ...
    ShareThisBachmann Says She Won't Seek House Re-Election in 2014 29 May 2013 U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, a former Republican presidential hopeful and an exponent of the anti-tax Tea Party movement, said she won't run for re-election and may consider future opportunities in politics. ...
  • George Zimmerman's relevant past
    ShareThisGeorge Zimmerman's relevant past 28 May 2013 Thanks to Florida's incredible sunshine laws, we know a few relevant things about [alleged Trayvon Martin murderer, George] Zimmerman. In July 2005, he was arrested for "resisting officer with violence." The neighborhood watch volunteer who w ...
  • Mirror of EDL donors addresses leak
    ShareThisMirror of EDL donors addresses leak --Addresses of People who have donated to the English Defence League 27 May 2013 @EDL & BNP; its not over yet, this was just the starter, the main course is yet to come... secure your sites, give me a challenge, this was way too easy. Greets to: L ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Security Risks for Kachin IDPs and Refugees
    25 May 2013 Kachin State, Burma IN THIS REPORT: •    Summary of the major security threats for Kachin IDPs and refugees •    Raw field reports from Kachin Rangers describing recent military clashes and Burma Army troop movements Security Threats In Kachin Stat ...
  • Letter by General Odierno on Sexual Assault an ...
    18 May 2013 Over the last twelve years of war, our Army has demonstrated exceptional competence, courage, and resiliency in adapting to the demands of war and accomplishing the mission.  Today, however, the Army is failing in its efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harassment.&nbsp ...
  • Petition | President Obama: Close Detention Fa ...
    07 May 2013 Petitioning President Obama President Obama: Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay Written By: Morris Davis I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help. I pe ...
  • Webview : Crisis At Guantanamo - May 10
    07 May 2013 From: Center on National Security at Forham Law Crisis at Guantanamo: Will the Prison Ever Close? Join Carol Rosenberg, David H. Remes, Dr. Gerald E. Thomson, and Karen Greenberg for a discussion about current conditions at Guantanamo and the feasibility of closing down the pr ...
  • Important 60 Minutes Piece for TBI patients
    06 May 2013 Veterans and their families need to watch this. Thank you to the numerous vets who sent the link. I just sent a thanks to David Martin at 60 Minutes. Mr. Arnold Fisher deserves a standing ovation and eternal gratitude for his efforts and inspiration. http://www.cbsnews.com/video ...

The Killing Train

  • Eleven things India must change in Kashmir
    http://kafila.org/2013/05/28/eleven-things-india-must-do-in-kashmir-justin-podur/ read more
  • Evicting the Gandhians: An Interview with Hima ...
    [First published at http://kafila.org/2013/05/03/evicting-the-gandhians-justin-podur-interviews-himanshu-kumar/] read more
  • The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha ...
    [First published in Kafila: http://kafila.org/2013/04/20/the-bastar-land-grab-an-interview-with-sudha-bharadwaj/] This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see the relationsh ...
  • To break a siege: A review of Nirmalangshu Muk ...
    [First published at kafila.org] http://kafila.org/2013/04/03/to-break-a-siege-justin-podur/#more-17722 This is a review by JUSTIN PODUR of Nirmalangshu Mukherji’s book Maoists in India: Tribals Under Siege (Pluto Press 2012) read more
  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 29, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • Reyhanli-Gate: The Cover Up & Changing Story o ...
    Did the Rift between the Turkey’s AKP Government & Imam Fethullah Gülen’s Cult Lead to the Death of 52 Turkish Citizens? By Peter Edel Reyhanli, a town in the Turkish province of Hatay near the Syrian border, was hit last month by a double bomb attack – 52 dead victims, a sad record. S ...
  • Obama: Defending the Indefensible
    Obama Reflects the Worst of Rogue Leadership His doublespeak duplicity reflects the last refuge of a scoundrel. He’s the worst in recent memory. Perhaps the worst ever. Forked tongue rhetoric can’t disguise it. Throughout his tenure, he governed lawlessly. He’s done so at home ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 28, 2013
    Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- The AP Spying Story: Wha ...
    In recent weeks we have been told to focus on a series of scandals which, we are told, are rocking the Obama Administration. Has the media finally found outrage over the Obama regime’s use of drone strikes to kill scores of innocent women and children in countries that are not even at war ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Israel as Adelson’s Venetian Casino Fantasy
    This entire article along with accompanying picture has to be seen and read to be believed: At a luncheon here Tuesday, Mr. Adelson brought his two worlds together. He was crowned an honorary citizen of Jerusalem by the city’s mayor. And he flew in entertainers from his $2.4 billion Venetian res ...
  • Israeli-Australian Intelligence Relationship i ...
    The Mossad is mad, hellaciously mad.  As a result, Israel’s already strained intelligence relationship with Australia going back to 2010, is thoroughly in tatters.  Where to start with the story? When the Mossad mounted its fatal operation to assassinate Mahmoud al-Mabouh, it used cloned p ...
  • Netanyahu’s Facebook Page Replete With Racism, ...
    Bibi Netanyahu is the son of a noted Jewish historian.  But unfortunately, neither the lessons nor substance of Jewish history has rubbed off on him (the son).  He published today an execrable screed denouncing the Syrian people as blood-swilling heathen.  It is beyond offensive. But the racism ...
  • Bob Woodward: Up to Five More U.S. Citizens Ki ...
    Part of the Obama administration’s lead-up to his major address yesterday was a series of leaks that indicated he intended to pursue a new direction in U.S. counter-terror policy.  One of these leaks was a confession of sorts that America has killed four U.S. citizens in the Middle East si ...
  • Obama Reins in War on Terror, Drone Warfare
    It’s hard to be categorically optimistic about anything Barack Obama says since he’s let so many down so much.  But his statements about drone strikes and the war on terror, while not everything one would wish, were a vast improvement over U.S. policy for the past five years in which ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...
  • Pop Up Archive Makes Audio Searchable, Findabl ...
    After an insane and memorable week at SXSW Interactive in Austin in March, we came away with our work cut out for us: improving Pop Up Archive so that it's a reliable place to make all kinds of audio searchable, findable and reusable. Thanks in no small part to the brilliant development team at ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for EVs - Research Project Uses Alcho ...
    With a novel energy storage technique, researchers of the Berlin Technical University will improve the driving range of electrically driven cars: They use ethanol - but instead of filling it into the tank, they plan to build an ethanol-based fuel cell.Fuel cells are not new as an energy source i ...
  • Broken Government - Democrat-Heavy IRS Will Al ...
    If you take a group of Democrats who are also unionized government employees, and put them in charge of policing political speech, it doesn't matter how professional and well-intentioned they are. The result will be much like the debacle in the Cincinnati office of the IRS.The IRS's targeting of ...
  • Destination Mars - Mars One Gets 80,000 Willin ...
    When the call went out Mars One might have expected a few dozen people would be willing to accept a suicide mission to a dead planet. Instead, they were overwhelmed with more than 80,000 applicants including at least a dozen from the Middle East. From this region three are from Israel, six from ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Syria Crisis Deepens Wi ...
    It has been a tough couple of days for the Syria conflict, with announcements on arms for the rebels and the government, and more delays in the U.S.-Russian effort to convene a peace conference.  Britain and France won a significant victory at a meeting of European Union foreign minist ...
  • The Way We Are - Oklahomans Have Long Traditio ...
    The people of the plains state of Oklahoma have shown determination in facing disasters, both natural and human.  One week ago, a powerful tornado tore through Moore, an Oklahoma City suburb, killing more than 20 people. But as area residents are living up to what has come to be known as th ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Fed. Govt. Off The Bestiality Kick? Spent $1.3 ...
    On one hand studying online sexual pursuits is a not the job of the federal government, but on the other hand after learning that taxpayers are paying  $384,949 To Study Duck Penis'  and $880,000 To Study SNAIL SEX!?!? it's a relief to know there is somebody in Washington who doesn't ...
  • SCANDALPALOOZA: New Letters Implicate Higher-u ...
    Listen closely. Do you hear that? It's the drip...drip...drip of information slowly but surely coming out about the IRS and other Obama Scandals. The latest information comes from Jay Sekulow of Chief Counsel of the ACLJ, (American Center for Law and Justice) . The ACLJ is filing a law ...
  • Atmospheric Scientist "We've Reached A Troubli ...
    The latest Issue of New Scientist has an interview with Atmospheric Scientist Ralf Keeling. Keeling is asked about recent readings made at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii which  recorded a carbon dioxide concentration of 400 parts per million for the first time. It's a psychol ...
  • Love Story Continued: Christie, Obama and the ...
    Where do I begin To tell the story of how great a love can be The sweet love story that is older than the sea The simple truth about the love he brings to me Where do I start -The Theme From Love Story It is too cute a story to pass-up. Yesterday Pr ...
  • MUST WATCH VIDEO: O'Reilly Confronts Juan Will ...
    If you missed tonight's O'Reilly factor you missed a classic Bill O'Reilly/Juan Williams Dual (Juan was outmatched).  Williams is clinging to his contention that it is perfectly fine that Eric Holder is investigating Eric Holder's Department of Justice conduct in the investigation of leaks ...

Wind Watch

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

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

  • Apologies and Apple
    In 2010, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas retracted his apology to BP for the Obama administration's effort to get compensation for those affected by the Gulf oil disaster. Will Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky have to do the same with his call for the Senate to apologize to Apple for criticizing the company' ...
  • NC renewable energy law survives attack from t ...
    The failure of legislation to repeal the state's groundbreaking renewable energy program is a setback for conservative ideologues, but the lawmaker who led the repeal initiative says he hopes to continue the effort using new tactics. read more
  • A prolonged stay: The reason behind the slow p ...
    Amid a shortage of drugs used for executions, some states are searching for new suppliers and different drugs. Others -- including Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee -- have amended public records laws to keep the names of suppliers and manufacturers of alternative drugs secret. read more
  • 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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Ethics 101, Part 3: Forseeable Consequences
    Since we’re on basic ethics, let’s take another basic ethical principle.  It is impossible to have a good society if you do not punish and reward people for the forseeable consequences of their actions. Let us take the most simple: in a war people die, they are injured, many rapes ar ...
  • Ethics 101, Part 3: Forseeable Consequences
    Since we’re on basic ethics, let’s take another basic ethical principle.  It is impossible to have a good society if you do not punish and reward people for the forseeable consequences of their actions. Let us take the most simple: in a war people die, they are injured, many rapes ar ...
  • Ethical Degradation
    We make distinctions between crimes, even the same crimes.  Unintentional killing is ranked lower than intentional killing, and pre-meditated (planned) killing is ranked higher than crimes of passion (finding your husband in bed with another woman and killing him.) We also make distinctions betw ...
  • Ethical Degradation
    We make distinctions between crimes, even the same crimes.  Unintentional killing is ranked lower than intentional killing, and pre-meditated (planned) killing is ranked higher than crimes of passion (finding your husband in bed with another woman and killing him.) We also make distinctions betw ...
  • The Moral Calculus of the Woolwich Murder
    So, a man killed a soldier in Woolwich London by hacking his head off. That’s bad. But on the scale of bad, immoral things, it ranks very low. The murderer took the time to kill someone in the military.  He did not target civilians. This makes him superior, morally, to the Boston bombers.  ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • PNG death penalty condemned as ‘barbaric ...
    ABC – Amnesty International says Papua New Guinea’s move to revive the death penalty is “barbaric” and will not deter violent crime. After a spate of horrific murders and gang-rapes, PNG’s parliament yesterday voted to make murder, aggravated rape, robbery, treason ...
  • Global markets rally as European, Japanese cen ...
    ABC – Wall Street snapped its longest losing streak of the year overnight after European and Japanese central banks pledged to continue their stimulus programs and data showed further signs of a pick-up in the US economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.69 per cent to close at a r ...
  • German companies avoid billions in taxes
    DW – According to calculations by a think tank, German companies here massively avoid corporate taxes. But unlike Google and Apple, they exploit loopholes in German tax laws rather than transfer profits to tax safe havens. German businesses avoided paying corporate taxes to the tune of 92 ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – Cuba to ...
    DW – Cuba’s communist government has presented a plan to expand public Internet access on the Caribbean island nation. But private Internet access in Cuban homes will remain unavailable. According to a government resolution published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday, authorities pl ...
  • Avatars ease voices for schizophrenia patients
    BBC- Use of an avatar can help treat patients with schizophrenia who hear voices, a UK study suggests. The trial, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, focused on patients who had not responded to medication. Using customised computer software, the patients created avatars to match the ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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libcom

  • Megafonen: We don't start no fires
    Sweden.jpg Swedish community activist group Megafonen responds to criticisms which have been levelled at it by the press for not condemning rioters. ...
  • Sweden: Open letter to a nation on fire
    gft4110.jpg As Stockholm continues to be rocked by nights of riots triggered by police attempts to cover up their killing of a 68 year old man in his home in the neglected Stockholm suburb of Husby, m ...
  • The legacy of the dead - the Savar collapse, p ...
    Sister_Shefali_learns_of_sisters_corpse.jpg The site of the Dhaka factory collapse is now cleared; new concessions and reforms are announced. Some further reflections... 1127 cor ...
  • Calling for South London anti-fascist response ...
    edl_woolwich_700-600x250.jpg With the far-right announcing protests in Woolwich, South London Anti-Fascists call for 'community defence groups' to respond to the fascist threat. ...
  • Letter of anarchist Alexey Sutuga from prison ...
    It is late, but I still want to congratulate all the comrades and friends with May Day and the Day of Liberation of the world from the Nazi threat in the memorable days of 1945. The symbolism of the holidays for me is still an important part of those ideas ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Mormon Transhumanism – (AKA Iron Man IV)
      Hats off once again to Texe Marrs.  His latest book, “ROBOT ALCHEMY” is simply a must-read.  You can order it by clicking here: http://www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_robot_alchemy Without a doubt, the anti-Ch ...
  • Mormon Transhumanism – (AKA Iron Man IV)
    Hats off once again to Texe Marrs.  His latest book, “ROBOT ALCHEMY” is simply a must-read.  You can order it by clicking here: http://www.texemarrs.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=catalog&Product_Code=bbtm_robot_alchemy Without a doubt, the anti-Christian ...
  • Why Does JESUS CHRIST Need to Hire an Anti-Chr ...
    Imagine Jesus Christ walking the dusty streets of Judea in 30 A.D.   Imagine Him teaching often in parable – but sometimes in very plain directness.  Imagine Him telling the religious “authorities” (the High Priests) the TRUTH – that they are the literal seed of “th ...
  • Why Does JESUS CHRIST Need to Hire an Anti-Chr ...
    Imagine Jesus Christ walking the dusty streets of Judea in 30 A.D.   Imagine Him teaching often in parable – but sometimes in very plain directness.  Imagine Him telling the religious “authorities” (the High Priests) the TRUTH – that they are the literal seed of “th ...
  • Well Done Piece by Pastor Chuck Baldwin
    “There Is A Conspiracy” by Chuck Baldwin, May 9, 2013   “There Is A Conspiracy” By Chuck Baldwin May 9, 2013   This column is archived here. The title of today’s column, “There Is A Conspiracy,” is a direct quote from Ezekiel 22:25. In this passage, God instructed Ezekiel to blow the w ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

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Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Let Them Eat Crickets
    (With apologies to Marie Antoinette – a very special post for readers who have lost their pensions or unemployment benefits or who are looking at having their hours, wages or Social Security benefits reduced. Some simple cricket recipes below. Please note in preparing cricket flour, ...
  • The Pope is Onto Something
    Monetary Reform 101 "Somewhere in our history we took a wrong turn and today we are reaping the consequences. If we don't step back to evaluate the root causes of the rolling economic crises, our civilization is in danger of collapse." - Clive Menzies As a follow-up to the Pope’ ...
  • Interview with Syrian President Assad
    A highly illuminating interview (for Argentinian TV) in which Assad argues that the Syrian people should decide who rules Syria in internationally monitored elections scheduled for 2014. They would be conducted according to constitutional reforms enacted in 2011-2012 that limit the power ...
  • Pissarro and Angelina's Mastectomy
    The Bather by Pissarro Guest post by Jerry Fresia (A response to my post “The Company That Owns Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Gene”) There’s an old joke from grade school that I still remember. It’s rather dumb, but the punch line turns on a thought that has re ...
  • Is Obama Losing the Covert War in Syria?
    It appears the Obama administration and their Turkish, Saudi and Qatari allies are losing the covert war in Syria. If so, this explains why the President and US and British media are once again trying to ramp up momentum for military intervention against the Assad regime. The following vi ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Where to Buy the Best Fish
    Where to buy the best fish? That's a tough question, given the complicated nature of sourcing seafood. Recent reports show seafood fraud is a major problem, in that people aren't always getting what they pay for. An even greater concern involves the fact that we're fishing our oceans dry, damag ...
  • Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Clam Chowder
    Excerpt from Recipes from My Home Kitchen: Asian and American Comfort Food by Christine Ha,, winner of Master Chef Season 3 on Fox: I first had clam chowder about a decade ago while sitting on a bench on the touristy Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. It came in a sourdough bread bowl and was ...
  • The Heart Killer Still Hiding in Your Food
    By now, you probably know man-made fats, particularly hidden trans fats, aren't good for you. Although many companies have made the move to lower or completely remove the artificial trans fats from their food formulations, a new study from Harvard and Center for Science in the Public Interest ( ...
  • The New Blood Pressure Trigger
    There's no question that a poor diet and lack of exercise trigger cardiovascular chaos. But those aren't the only causes of high blood pressure and other ticker trouble. Researchers from New York University's Langone Medical Center, the University of Washington, and the Penn State School of Med ...
  • Smart Ways to Stop a Dog Bite
    Dog bites aren't always the result of an encounter with a vicious, nasty attack dog. In fact, even the smallest, most docile dog can snap when stress hits. "In a high-stress environment, they may bite out of defensive nature," explains Victoria Wells, senior manager of behavior and training at ...

big think

  • Hey Psycho Sports Parents, It's Time for an In ...
    Sports is the number one activity for American children.  More than music, more than band, more than religious activities, team sports is the number one activity.  And yet it’s an incredibly high source of stress.  I went to Florida and watched a youth soccer tournament with ten-year-ol ...
  • When Altruism Defies Evolutionary Logic
    There’s this story that we humans are only altruistic, and that animals are only altruistic either toward kin with whom they share genes or toward individuals who will pay them back one way or another.  This doesn’t explain a lot about human altruism.   For example, people will c ...
  • 610 - Would Smell As Sweet: Geo-popularity of ...
    Maybe you've never heard of Emmaland or Sophialand, but if you're reading this in the United States, there's a better than 90% chance that you live in either one of these two curious nations.  The former is made up of the 31 states where 'Emma' was the most popular baby name for girls in ...
  • Do You Know Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses? ...
    How do you assess your own skills and how do you plan to improve them? This may be one of the most difficult questions to answer about your life and your career. That is because "most people simply haven't done enough focused work on this topic," writes Robert Kaplan in his new book, What You're ...
  • Assumptions and Atheism
    Last week was a big one for assumptions. There was Wolf Blitzer asking an Oklahoma tornado survivor if she was thankful that the Lord spared her life. Then that brief, awkward moment when Rebecca Vitsmun looked down at her baby, cracked a half-smile, and replied ‘I’m actually an atheist ... Rea ...

Information Liberation

  • High School Teacher Faces Discipline for Infor ...
    A high school social studies teacher in Batavia, Illinois, faces disciplinary action for informing students of their Fifth Amendment rights in connection with a survey asking about illegal drug use. The survey, ostensibly aimed at assessing the needs...
  • School Safety Officer Caught on Camera Pushing ...
    A member of the security staff at a Chicago school was caught on camera this week pushing a female student down a flight of stairs and then punching her in the face. Students at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy watched in amazement with cellpho...
  • Generation Why
    I probably loathe the American compulsory education system more than anyone I've ever met. I despise it on deeply personal level, on an ethical level, and from an efficacy standpoint. I despise the people involved; the administrators, the so-called t...
  • Controversial Tweeter reveals DUI checkpoint l ...
    SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - As Memorial Day weekend gets underway, law enforcement is out in full force to crack down on drunk driving. But SDSU grad Sennett Devermont, better known as "MrCheckpoint," is also working overtime, publicizing through soci...
  • Testing the "Lulz Liberator," a $25 3D-printed ...
    This handgun was printed with a $1,725 Lulzbot 3D printer and fired for the first time above. One plastic barrel survived eight shots, and another barrel was swapped in for the ninth, before nightfall cut short further testing....

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

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

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • New FEMA Flood Maps Needed But Funding Is Slashed
    As the United States grows warmer and extreme weather more common , the federal government's flood insurance maps are becoming increasingly important. [More]
  • Ultrashort Laser Pulses Squeezed Out of Graphene
    Graphene, hailed as one of the thinnest, strongest and most conductive materials ever found, seems to have bagged one more amazing property. Experiments suggest that it can be used to create ultrashort laser pulses of any color, owing to an ability to absorb light over a broad range of wavelengt ...
  • Net Loss: How We Continually Forget What the O ...
    From The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover's Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World , by Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans. Rodale Books. Copyright © 2013, by Oceana. [More]
  • Is Global Warming Cooler than Expected?
    LONDON  – Several leading authorities on climate change have given a guarded welcome to research suggesting the Earth may warm more slowly than scientists had expected. [More]
  • Girls Who Are Sexually Abused More Likely to S ...
    Many studies have confirmed the link between childhood sexual abuse and substance-related problems in adulthood. But a new investigation finds that being raped or molested at a young age also makes young girls far more likely to start drinking or doing drugs during their preteen years. [More] ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Idle No More Takes Root in Aotearoa
    Māori activist Marama Davidson on self-determination and solidarity AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND—Poetry readings, public discussions and direct actions have breathed new life into Idl ...
  • On the loss of the National Aboriginal Health ...
    A 20-min interview on the work NAHO had been doing and what it will mean now that the organization has been closed due to a federal government 2012 budget funding cut deci ...
  • Book Review: Everything Is So Political
    Everything is so Political Published by Roseway Paperback ISBN: 9781552665497 Paperback Price: $19.95 CAD Pages: 200 Everything Is So Political, 'a collection of short fiction by Canadian writers', has changed my outlook on Canad ...
  • The Conservatives's War on Science: A long, un ...
    This article was originally posted on the Confessions of a Science Librarian blog on ScienceBlogs, by John Dupuis. The original headlines was "The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictme ...
  • Action needed to stop ‘climate deniers’ from ...
    By Nick Fillmore The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in Canada and the United States launched an organized campaign to expose these scientific community charlatans. The mainstream business media, which bows to corporate interests in bot ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Israel: the fiddler fiddles while the roof burns
    David Seaton's News Links Samson pulls down the temple (in Gaza, no less) Henry Kissinger famously wished that the Bible had been written in Uganda...Israel has never been richer, safer, more culturally productive or more dynamic. Terrorism is on the wane. Yet the occupation grinds on next d ...
  • My European Union Rant
    David Seaton's News Links Now it is the European Union itself that is in danger, mainly but not entirely because of the economic crisis inherited from Wall Street abuses. (...) A new Europe-wide report by correspondents of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro reveals mounti ...
  • The military sexual abuse scandal
    David Seaton's News LinksIt would seem to me that the current, quite justified uproar about sexual violence in the US armed forces sheds a very bright light on the cognitive dissonance produced by America's view of itself as a democratic, enlightened and inclusive society that serves as a model ...
  • The First of May... mayday, mayday
    David Seaton's News Links May Day - Margaret Scott"Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize..." Joe Hill The first of May, commemorating bloody labor unrest in Chicago, is celebrated all over the world as the universal holiday of labor... except in the USA of course.The same USA where "red", t ...
  • Hats off, It's Ella Fitzgerald's birthday
    The greatest singer of the Great American Song Book was born on the 25th of April 1917 With Count Basie Gershwin by God One Note Samba ... Delirium

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Benghazi and the Video: Where the Talking Poin ...
    Are you tired of Benghazi! Me too. But today, Bob Somerby points me toward an intriguing little tidbit that I either missed or never knew about. As you know, one of the key criticisms coming from Republicans is that Susan Rice, in her Sunday show appearances after the Benghazi attacks, wron ...
  • How the Rich Got Richer, Global Comparisons Ed ...
    Dylan Matthews highlights a fascinating little chart today. Roughly speaking, it plots two things for 18 different countries: (a) how much the rich have gotten richer over the past 50 years, and (b) how much tax rates on the rich have gone down during the same period. Guess what? It turns out ...
  • Help! Who Wrote the Greatest Congressional Fun ...
    In a post about the role of money in politics, Jonathan Bernstein tosses in this aside: It's absolutely ridiculous for Members of Congress to have built for themselves an expectation that they should spend four hours a day raising money. (By the way: we have good reporting that such ...
  • A Smarter Approach to Smart
    A few years ago I wrote a blog post complaining about the increasingly widespread use of the word "smart" within the blogosphere. Every article that someone admired was praised as a "smart piece" or "smart pushback." People were all "smart critics." It was becoming one of those words that gets ...
  • Obamacare is More Popular Than CNN Thinks
    From CNN: A majority of Americans still oppose the nation's new health care measure, three years after it became law, according to a new survey. According to the poll, 43% of the public says it supports the health care law....Fifty-four percent of those questioned say they oppose the ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 396: Comic Book Nerds
    Kriss talks about losing his fight The Fallon Fox/Transgender Fighter issue revisited Kriss, Phenom & Kev have the worst idea ever: Bringing “Faggot” back Xbox One Comic book nerds are ruining comic book movies What Fox needs to do to fix its X-Men movies Sony & Marvel migh ...
  • IC 395: Fuck This Shit
    Kev is fed up Work sucks Running people who do good for others into the ground Kriss – sugar – alcohol = Asshole Kriss Marvel Studios being cheap with Avengers payouts Nerds are hypocrites Charles Ramsey is awesome The transgender issue Walkout music for Kriss Share with your friends:
  • IC 394: Fuck Your Religion
    Rod from ‘The Black Guy Who Tips’ joins us Stereotyping tall people Fuck your religion Who decides which interpretation is correct? MPAA ratings for porn Torturing people works Gun control 30 comic book movies worse than Iron Man 2 Share with your friends:
  • IC 393: Fuck Newark
    UFC 159 Live The Best Chinese Food Fuck Newark Why you don’t serve hard liquor at UFC events Cities aren’t that fun Mount Rushmore = Greatest ‘Fuck You’ example of White Privilege Upcoming movies: Iron Man 3, Man of Steel Thor 2 trailer Remembering bad childhood TV shows ...
  • IC 392: Manly Shit
    Good Sci-Fi The problem with Defiance Patt Oswalt’s awesome idea for Star Wars Episode VII White weddings are awesome Gender Roles can be fine Doing manly shit Some people deserve to die Pulling guns for chicken Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • The well-qualified amateur who threw the spotl ...
    75 years ago Guy Callendar revealed calculations and temperature measurements linking rising 20th century temperatures to burning fossil fuels, helping to lay the foundations for understanding the global warming that is still ongoing today.
  • Ocean heat puts pressure on poorest fisheries
    The first evidence that climate change has affected fishing catches, revealed by William Cheung from the University of British Columbia and his team, shows tropical countries are set to be hardest hit.
  • Arctic mission recovers record of surprising w ...
    The longest continuous Arctic land sediment core shows that the last time CO2 levels reached current levels, over 2.6 million years ago, North-East Russia was taken was 8°C warmer.
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...
  • Google search basis undermines sunspot-winter ...
    A recent study linking cold winters in Europe to sunspots has updated bad science reaching back to the 19th century for the internet age, reveal Geert Jan van Oldenborgh from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and his colleagues, helped by an unholy alliance between Roger Pielke Sr a ...

e!Science News

  • Women donate less to charity than men in some ...
    Given the chance, women are more likely than men to opt out of a request to give a charitable donation, a group of economists have found. read more
  • African-Americans experience longer delays bet ...
    Among men with prostate cancer, African Americans experience longer treatment delays after being diagnosed than Caucasians. That is the finding of an analysis published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study suggests that efforts are needed to r ...
  • Cold climate wind energy showing huge potential
    Wind energy capacity is growing rapidly in the cold climates of the world. According to the latest forecasts, between 45 and 50 gigawatts of wind energy will be built in cold climates by 2017, which would mean an increase of as much as 72 per cent since the end of 2012 and investments amounting ...
  • Rare species perform unique roles, even in div ...
    A new study, published 28 May in the open access journal PLOS Biology, has revealed the potential importance of rare species in the functioning of highly diverse ecosystems. Using data from three very different ecosystems -- coral reefs, tropical forests and alpine meadows -- a team of researche ...
  • Dealing with 'crap' to improve water quality
    To better understand how bacteria impact the environment a former University of California, Riverside graduate student spent nearly a year building a system that replicates a human colon, septic tank and groundwater and "fed" the colon three times a day during weeklong experiments to s ...

unEarthed

  • Citizen Army Lobbies Congress for Clean Air
    Ambassadors from every state arrive en masse to buttonhole congress reps The grassroots campaign involved ambassadors from every state, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. ...
  • Defending Arizona's "Ribbon of Life"
    Lawsuit seeks to protect San Pedro River from huge development The upper reaches of the San Pedro River.  (Melanie Kay / Earthjustice) Earthjustice has w ...
  • Advocates From 50 States Call for Health Standards
    More than 100 clean air and water advocates gather in D.C. When our elected officials continue standing in the way of clean air and water—it’s time t ...
  • Drillers Make a Play for Thompson Divide
    Richly forested lands in W. Colorado could become industrial zone The Thompson Divide is clearly a keystone of the region, the state and the West.  (EcoFlight) ...
  • Raw Sewage and a Raw Deal in Rochelle, GA
    When the town's toilets flush, guess what ends up in African-American yards Nine residents of Rochelle, GA are suing their city government for discharging the city's raw sewage onto th ...

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:
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