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Scoop - NZ

  • Greek youth unemployment ~ 75%
    The unemployment rate of young people in some parts of Greece is almost 75 percent, which is significantly higher than the unemployment level of other states in Southern and Northern Europe, based on data released by Eurostat on Wednesday. According to Eurostat, the total youth unemployment r ...
  • Child poverty stains NZ human rights record
    The Government has been slammed for its track record on child poverty and violence against women following a critical report from an international human rights watchdog. The Amnesty International Annual Report on the state of the world's human rights highlighted New Zealand's high levels of c ...
  • Nikkei Sell-off: Growing Financial Instability ?
    The sharp drop in Japan’s Nikkei stock market index last Thursday and subsequent global share sell-off have highlighted mounting instability in world financial markets. The Nikkei went down by 7 percent and then showed considerable volatility on Friday, before ending the day marginally higher ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Lead us not into Penn Station – but deliver us ...
    What's the most depressing thing in America? Arriving in New York. Perhaps that answer requires some amplification. I've nothing against the city, one of the most thrilling destinations on earth. It's just the feeling you get on arriving by train from Washington DC, Boston or Philadelphia, only ...
  • Colombia faces $17bn laundry bill: Smuggling, ...
    Rotting wooden planks heave as dozens of barefoot Wayuu people carry washing machines, fans and stereos on their backs from the hull of a cargo ship docked on the tip of northern Colombia. Throughout the night, they unload thousands of boxes piled 30ft high, and haul them down the battered ramp ...
  • Turtle conservationist shot dead 'by poachers' ...
    Late in April a dedicated young Costa Rican conservationist, Jairo Mora Sandoval, logged on to his Facebook page, with its pictures of cavorting baby sea turtles and wild beaches, and typed out an urgent plea. "Can you send messages to the police to come to the Moin beach," he asked his friends ...
  • Just who has the most to gain if the killing i ...
    The best hope for an end to the killing in Syria is for the United States and Russia to push both sides in the conflict to agree a ceasefire in which each holds the territory it currently controls. In a civil war of such savagery, diplomacy with any ambition to determine who holds power in futu ...
  • Oklahoma hit by tornadoes again: Mother and ba ...
    Tornadoes have killed nine people in central Oklahoma, including a mother and her baby, and menaced Oklahoma City where 11 days ago a twister ranked as EF5, the highest level, tore through the suburb of Moore, killing 24.Related StoriesMotorists hurt as new tornado emergency declared for Oklaho ...

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

  • Man in Waco, Texas, gets 50 years in prison fo ...
    Willie Smith Ward had five previous felonies and four convictions for misdemeanours A habitual offender may have committed his final felony, after a jury sentenced him to 50 years for stealing a rack of ribs from a shop. Willie Smith Ward, 43, attempted to steal the $35 large rack of ribs at ...
  • The GIs who raped France: A new book reveals A ...
    The handsome American soldier was Elisabeth's tenth client that evening. Working her trade on the top floor of a dingy apartment block in Paris, she felt that she had seen them all. For the past four years, the men had been Germans, and now, since the city had been liberated in August, 1944, th ...
  • Why the next war with China could go very badl ...
    Most Americans assume that the U.S. military is so vastly superior to everyone else that no other nation would ever dream of fighting a full-scale war against us. Unfortunately, that assumption is dead wrong. In recent years, the once mammoth technological gap between the U.S. military and the ...
  • Mass grave uncovered containing dozens of Pale ...
    Six mass graves features the remains of dozens of Palestinians killed during the Israeli-Arab war of 1948, when the Jewish state was founded have been uncovered in the Jaffa district of Tel Aviv. An official at the Muslim cemetery there told AFP that the grisly find happened on Wednesday when g ...
  • Explosive activity of Vanuatu's Mt Yasur increases
    Explosive activity at Vanuatu's Mt Yasur volcano has increased in recent days. According to observations by the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geohazards department, the activity level of the volcano on Tanna island is still at alert level 2 but an increase to 3 in the near future is possible.

The Galloping Beaver

  • Nestlé, again . . .
    THESE MAMZERS JUST DON'T QUIT: according to Sum Of Us, Nestlé is pulling a million litres of water a day for bottling — out of an acquifer in Ontario where there are surrounding drought conditions. Nestlé can take the water, but you, who live there — can't. Ironically, the head Pirate o ...
  • do NOT mess with our national animal
    Many countries have a national mascot - the U.S. has its bald eagle, the British have their bulldog, the Russians have their bear. Fierce creatures all, but none of them compare with the Canadian beaver. Oh sure, they look cuddly and were once prized as the raw material for stylish hats, but d ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Las Vegas Review-Journal 's Bad Medicine For E ...
    The Las Vegas Review-Journal hyped the need for entitlement reform, calling for an increase in eligibility ages for Social Security and Medicare, means-testing or tying benefits to a beneficiary's income, and competition for Medicare. However, the Review-Journal neglected to mention that health ...
  • Erick Erickson's Latest Sexist, Anti-Gay Comme ...
    Erick Erickson is receiving much attention this week for his remarks that female breadwinners conflict with "biology" and "the natural world" and are "tearing [society] apart." But Erickson's comments are nothing out of the ordinary for the Fox contributor - he has a long history of making sexis ...
  • Erick Erickson's Latest Sexist Tirade Draws Ou ...
    Fox contributor Erick Erickson drew outrage from conservatives and liberals alike over a series of sexist comments, in which he lamented an increase in the number of female breadwinners in the United States and argued that males should be dominant in human societies because "the male typically i ...
  • 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 ...

Global Research.ca

  • Who Was Behind the Woolwich Killing? Criminali ...
    The killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London has lifted a corner of the carefully constructed veil of lies, intrigue and criminality surrounding British foreign policy. Immediately after Rigby’s brutal murder, a chorus of political and media figures insisted…
  • More Austerity in Europe in face of Record Une ...
    Unemployment in the euro zone hit a two-year high in April. According to the latest figures of Europe’s Eurostat statistical agency published on Friday, the unemployment rate rose from 12.1 percent in March to 12.2 percent last month. Fully 24.4…
  • John McCain: War Hero or Something Less?
    Two time Medal of Honor recipient Marine Major General Smedley Butler once said “war is a racket.” He might have added that while enriching the few it victimizes and degrades everyone else who is caught up in the meat grinder,…
  • Data Shows that Palestinians now Own just 8 pe ...
    New data published by the Lands Research Centre (LRC) shows that Palestinians own only eight per cent of historic Palestine. The LRC is affiliated to the Arabic Studies Association in Jerusalem. In a press conference held in Ramallah, it announced…
  • Hillary Clinton: “We Created Al Qaeda&#8 ...
    The following video features Hillary Clinton candidly acknowledging that America created and funded Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization in the heyday of the Soviet-Afghan war.  What she does not mention is that at no time in the course 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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Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • PalFest Wrap: The Iron Man of Literary Festiva ...
    PalFest, which ran this year from May 25-30, is perhaps the most physically and psychologically challenging festival in the literary world. The authors hold writing workshops and perfor ...
  • Stars urge Alicia Keys to drop Israel gig (Se ...
    Roger Waters and Alice Walker have penned open letters asking Alicia Keys to call off a forthcoming concert in Tel Aviv. Walker, the author of The Color Purple, invited Keys to join a c ...
  • Belgian student body votes in favor of academi ...
    A Belgian student association voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. In a vote last month, the general council of the Federation of French-speaking Students in Belgium, or FEF ...
  • Israel razes home of 13-member family (Patric ...
    Early in the morning on Wednesday (29 May), approximately 100 Israeli police officers arrived at Badwan al-Salaymeh home in the Beit Hanina area of Jerusalem, accompanied by two bulldoz ...
  • Hany Abu-Assad: Filmmaker (IMEU)
    For award-winning Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad, cinema serves as a tool of resistance. From escaping to the cinema as a child to his own 2006 Golden Globe winning and Oscar nomin ...

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

  • Texas Senate “Public Hearing” on Redistricting
    Guest Blog by Marion Mlotok On Thursday, May 30, 2013, the Texas Senate held a public hearing on redistricting as a launch of the 83rd 1st special session.  The hearing started at 9:00 am and closed at 11:30 am after everyone had testified.  Testimony was for 3 minutes each. I arrived early to a ...
  • How Will ExxonMobil Adapt to Climate Change Cr ...
    by guest blogger Jane Dale Owen On May 9, carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the earth’s atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began in 1958, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists. Climate experts consider thi ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Dinosaur egg discovery is 'missing link'
    A recently discovered batch of fossil eggs is being hailed as a missing link in dinosaur egg evolution. The prehistoric eggs were discovered on the we...
  • Moon's surface gravity mystery solved
    NASA's twin GRAIL probes have helped to solve why the Moon's gravity appears to be uneven. The two spacecraft had orbited the Moon for nine months, re...
  • Will hoverboards be a reality by 2015 ?
    Fans of the 'Back to the Future' movies are looking to the year 2015 for the advent of the hoverboard. In the movies the future was portrayed as a wor...
  • Frozen mammoth found with flowing blood
    The discovery of preserved mammoth blood could soon make it possible to clone a live specimen. Scientists attempting to bring back mammoths from extin...
  • Radiation poses risk to Mars astronauts
    New data from the Curiosity rover has revealed the threat posed by radiation to future astronauts. Once outside of the Earth's magnetic field, future ...

Grassroots

  • From Food Security to Food Sovereignty
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  San Francisco native Antonio Roman-Alcalá has been irrationally dedicated to urban sustainability since he decided that there wasn't enough "land" for all dropouts to go "back to". ...
  • MAB is Nominated for International Human Right ...
    Subheadline:  Interviews Grassroots International Executive Director Previous Publication Info Previous publication:  Brasil de Fato ...
  • 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

Climate

  • Obama: No ‘Patience’ for Climate Skeptics
    (The Hill) President Obama, echoing his new Energy secretary’s recent comments, said late Wednesday that he’s open to new climate policy ideas but has no interest in battling over whether climate change is real. “If I’ve got some ...
  • Tesla Adding Chargers for U.S. Coast-to-Coast ...
    (Bloomberg) Tesla Motors Inc. is expanding a network of fast-charging stations, letting owners of its luxury electric cars drive coast-to-coast this year with devices able to repower them in 20 to 30 minutes.  read more
  • Enviros: Indiana Permit for Enbridge Pipeline ...
    (AP) Environmental groups that sought tough conditions on Enbridge Energy's plans to replace 60 miles of crude oil pipeline near Lake Michigan say the company's state permit includes significant protections for the environment but "is ...
  • Repairs Done on Portions of Keystone XL in Texas
    (AP) A Canadian company that is building a pipeline to carry oil sands crude to the Gulf Coast says it is repairing parts of the line in Texas. TransCanada spokesman Shawn Howard says in an email that inspections of the pipeline revea ...
  • Erratic US 'Weather Whiplash' Accounts for Bil ...
    (Guardian) America has some of the wildest weather on the planet, and it turns out those extremes – which run from heat waves and tornadoes to floods, hurricanes and droughts – carry a heavy price tag. Climate studies have associated ...

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

  • Again, Let's Focus on the Real Scandal
    For whatever reason, the people who make Camel cigarettes decided to disclose that they had made large contributions to Grover Norquist and the Koch brothers last year. I suppose that the disclosure is commendable, but I wonder what type of social welfare they thought they were promoting when t ...
  • RIP, Jean Stapleton
    Jean Stapleton has died. You may know her as Edith Bunker. She was a wonderful actress. I guess I probably learned a lot about politics from watching All in the Family. The Bunker family wasn't anything like my family on pretty much any level. About the only thing we had in common is that ou ...
  • Stupidest Idiots
    Who are the stupidest idiots in the world? Discuss
  • Serious Question
    Has the Republicans' obsession with faux-scandals distracted them from opposing immigration reform? Discuss
  • Negotiating With Terrorists is Hard
    An interesting debate has opened up over the proper strategy for the Senate to take on the immigration reform bill. One camp thinks that they should have a goal of winning at least seventy votes. Harry Reid thinks that two or three Democrats are going to vote against the bill no matter what is ...

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

  • The truth about female desire: It’s base, anim ...
    There is a conspiracy theory at the heart of this book. Even to the most casual observer of human history, it isn’t news that women’s sexuality has been feared, suppressed and lied about. But "What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire" by journalist Daniel Be ...
  • I like my imagined literary nemesis
    Someone on Salon’s editorial staff can’t stand a certain New York Times reporter. My colleague finds this reporter, among the more recognizable bylines at the Grey Lady, to be a lucky, borderline incompetent. His feelings amount to a potent emotional cocktail of jealousy and conte ...
  • Beyoncé debuts new song
    On Friday night, Beyoncé performed new song "Standing on the Sun" for the first time in Antwerp, Belgium as part of her world tour. Although the singer used 90-second clip of the song in an H&M ad, this is the first full recording to appear, via RollingStone:Aside from a few new single ...
  • NFL Steelers blocker hospitalized after stabbing
    Mike Adams of the Pittsburgh Steelers works out on May 4, 2012 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Adams was hospitalized after being stabbed Saturday during an apparent robbery attempt but is expected to fully recover, the NFL team said.Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle Mike Adams was hospitalize ...
  • “All in the Family” star Jean Stapleton dies at 90
    Actress Jean Stapleton, best known for her role as Edith Bunker in 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," died on Friday in New York City, reports the L.A. Times. She died of natural causes, according to her family, and is survived by her children, television producer Pamela Putch and film and telev ...

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

  • Hezbollah cell ‘connected with Boko Haram’ arr ...
    Nigerian authorities have announced the arrest of three alleged members of Lebanese group Hezbollah, following the discovery of a large weapons and explosives cache in northern Nigeria.
  • MI6 archives reveal plans for WWII and Cold Wa ...
    Recently declassified British archives reveal a host of audacious plans for covert operations aimed at Nazi-occupied Europe during wartime and, after 1948, inside the Soviet Union. The plans, proposed by British intelligence officials, ranged from relatively innocuous psychological operations to ...
  • News you may have missed #838 (analysis edition)
    Delisle spy case barely caused ripples between Canada and Russia. Don't believe the hype on Chinese cyberespionage. US Predator drone program quietly shifted from CIA to DoD.
  • Chinese hackers ‘stole blueprints’ of Au ...
    Chinese government hackers allegedly stole the master blueprints and other highly classified technical information relating to the new headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization.
  • Canada spy agency refused to notify Mounties a ...
    Canada’s main counterintelligence agency opted to keep secret from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police vital information about a Canadian naval officer who spied for Russia.

War is a Crime.org

  • Natan Blanc: Heroic Israeli Refusnik
      Natan Blanc: Heroic Israeli Refusenik   by Stephen Lendman   Israel's a rogue terror state. It's been so from inception. It's history is blood-drenched. It's a global menace.    It's current government is its worst ever. It prioritizes state terrorism. Palestinians liv ...
  • War Crimes as Policy
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/31/war-crimes-as-policy-2/ The CIA: Keepers of the Hit Lists War Crimes as Policy by DOUGLAS VALENTINE and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES In February the Guardian and BBC Arabic unveiled a documentary exploring the role of retired Colonel James Steele in the recruitment ...
  • Hundreds of Them Living in a Single File Cabinet
     This one takes a look at the offshore tax shelters which corporations use to avoid hundreds of billions of dollars of tax liability, thereby leaving... you and me... to carry the load, while our country sinks deeper into debt. read more
  • Two Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Mauritania
    By Andy Worthington In news that has so far only been available in Arabic, and which I was informed about by a Mauritanian friend on Facebook, I can confirm that two prisoners from Guantánamo have been released, and returned to their home country of Mauritania. The links are here and here. The t ...
  • State Department Terrorism Report: Upping the ...
      State Department Terrorism Report: Upping the Stakes for War   by Stephen Lendman   According to Washington, terrorism is what they do, not us. Defending independent sovereignty is called terrorism. So are legitimate responses to Western/Israeli-sponsored attacks.   Inciden ...

Grist - News

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • 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!

  • Hammond, Manning, Assange and Obama’s Sledgeha ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan One cyberactivist’s federal case wrapped up this week, and another’s is set to begin. While these two young men, Jeremy Hammond and Bradley Manning, are the two who were charged, it is the growing menace of government and corporate secrecy that should be ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Jussi Björling – “Nessun Dorma”
    Related Reading: Jussi Björling Society USA Website Jussi Björling on Wikipedia
  • Paul Levy at Powells
    This is the official book launch of Paul Levy’s new book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, recorded at Powell’s City of Books on February 22, 2013. Continue Reading Related Reading: Dispelling Wetiko by Paul Levy Announcing Paul Levy’s New Book Paul Levy’s Website
  • Skype With Care – Microsoft is Reading Everyth ...
    By The H Security Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H’s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over ...
  • Solari Stories – The Red Button
  • SEC to Vote June 5 on Floating Share for Riski ...
    Photo Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Files By Dave Michaels & Carter Dougherty The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will vote next week on a proposal that would require a floating-share value for the riskiest type of money-market mutual funds, two people briefed on the matter said. ...

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

  • INTERVIEW: Inhabitat Chats with J Mays, VP of ...
    Automotive designer J Mays has become well-known as the design director of Ford Motor Company. Born in rural Oklahoma, Mays started working at his family's auto parts store at an early age with aspirations of becoming an architect, but eventually found his    
  • How to Make DIY Outdoor Lanterns from Recycled ...
    With summer quickly approaching, it's time to dust off the patio furniture, fire up the grill, and start spending a lot more time outdoors. Over at Inhabitots, we've shared some detailed instructions for creating a beautiful set of DIY lanterns that are made    
  • 15 Apparel Brands Who Have Not Signed the Bang ...
    Following the deaths of 1,127 garment workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, more than 40 of the world's leading apparel brands have signed the Accord on Fire & Building Safety in Bangladesh. This accord holds the clothing companies    
  • Gorgeous Optical Glass House in Hiroshima is M ...
    The first floor of the Optical Glass House is occupied by a garden and a glass façade positioned towards the street that maximizes natural lighting. The living areas are located at the far end of the house, and they open onto the courtyard. A sputter-coated    
  • Aaron Maret’s Pocket Shelter is an Amazing Tin ...
    Learning how to build this small is a challenge. But it’s child’s play compared to learning how to live small. It took every bit as long for Aaron and his family to pair down enough to fit reasonably into such a small space as it did to build the shelter.    

Pogue's Posts

The Progressive Realist

  • EU's Foreign Policy of the Willing
    The EU’s foreign policy is in disarray after clear disagreements on the lifting of the arms embargo on Syria, many say. Is it really? This reading of events is skewed, because it assumes that every EU foreign policy action requires a consensus and an active participation of each member state. B ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drone Transparency, Cyb ...
    Michael Riley, “How the U.S. Government Hacks the World,” Bloomberg Businessweek, May 23, 2013. The men and women who hack for the NSA belong to a secretive unit known as Tailored Access Operations. It gathers vast amounts of intelligence on terrorist financial networks, international money-laun ...
  • Get Your Hands Off My War on Terror!
    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File President Barack Obama’s speech at the National Defense University last week represented the latest and probably most significant rhetorical shift away from the “war on terror” since he took office in January 2009.  “Our systematic effort to dismantle terrori ...
  • US Signature Needed to Advance Global Arms Tra ...
    On Monday June 3, leaders from dozens of states will gather at the United Nations in New York to sign the new Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT will—for the first time— establish common international standards that must be met before states authorize transfers of conventional weapons or export am ...
  • Top of the Morning: Nigeria Parliament Passes ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Nigerian Parliament Passes Anti-Gay Bill Africa’s most populous country may become a little more regressive. The bill now sits on the President’s desk, and it’s unclear whether or not he will sign it. “Gay or lesbian couples who marry could face up to 14 years each ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Ringside Seat: Worthwhile Canadian Scandal
    We Americans tend to think of Canadians as almost exactly like us, except less interesting. They're polite and considerate, they don't start wars, and though they can be rather brutal if you put them on ice and give them a hockey stick, on the whole, Canada is sort of the Ned Flanders of North ...
  • Your Next Car Will Be Part Robot
    Futurists have been predicting self-driving cars for decades, but for a long time it wasn't because the idea was a natural extrapolation of existing technology. Instead, from the standpoint of the 1950s or so, it just seemed like something we'd have in The Future, along with robot maids, vacati ...
  • Cable News Is a Third of a Century Old
    This Saturday marks one-third of a century since CNN debuted as the world's first 24-hour news channel in 1980 (if you're looking to get them a gift, the traditional 33rd anniversary gift is amethyst). Prospect intern/sleuth Eric Garcia came across this video of the network's first hour on the ...
  • A German Tea Party?
    AP Photo/Franka Bruns A new anti-euro political party, AfD (Alternative for Germany) is gaining ground in the polls, threatening Angela Merkel’s ruling center-right coalition just as the campaign season heats up ahead of general elections in the fall. While the political establishment ...
  • Get Your Hands Off My War on Terror!
    AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File President Barack Obama’s speech at the National Defense University last week represented the latest and probably most significant rhetorical shift away from the “war on terror” since he took office in January 2009.  “Our systematic effort to dismantle ...

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

  • White Supremacist Sentenced to Life for Deadly ...
    The day after Barack Obama was inaugurated on a cold January day in 2009, becoming the nation’s first black president, a young, obese white supremacist named Keith Luke went on a racially motivated one-day rape and killing spree in Brockton, Mass. Luke, who was 22 and had a history of mental ill ...
  • Sovereign Citizen Sentenced for Filing False Liens
    Even the steel doors and isolation of a federal prison can’t seem to stop some antigovernment “sovereign citizens” from continuing to file frivolous legal documents and liens against government officials and judges. But, as a recent case in Seattle shows, a relatively new federal law is being us ...
  • New Issue of Intelligence Report Released Today
    The new issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released today, contains an in-depth look at the decades-long war between white supremacists and “anti-fascists” – highlighted by the bloody battle that erupted last  year at suburban Chicago restaurant. The May 19, 2012, in ...
  • Author of Discredited Anti-Gay Study to Speak ...
    Mark Regnerus, the author of a widely discredited 2012 study purporting to show that same-sex parents are bad for children, will be speaking this weekend at a conference sponsored by the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Geared toward college students, th ...
  • 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Statement in Response to B.C.’s Rejection of N ...
    In response to the British Columbia government’s rejection of a proposal for the Northern Gateway pipeline project, 350.org founder Bill McKibben issued the following statement:read more
  • CODEPINK to Stage Creative Action on the Eve O ...
      WHEN: Saturday, June 1, 2013 4:00pm WHERE: Llewellyn Ave, just west of US 175 ***VISUAL OPPORTUNITY***read more
  • New FBI Director Set to Preserve “‘War on Terr ...
    NPR reports: “Former Justice Department official James B. Comey is in line to become President Obama’s choice as the next FBI director, according to two sources familiar with the search. … Another source told NPR it could be several days before Obama makes a formal announcemen ...
  • Administration Claims to be Reassessing Leak P ...
    ABC News reports: “A large crowd is expected at Fort Meade this weekend for a mass demonstration in support of Army Private First Class Bradley Manning. “Manning is accused of leaking classified information to the website WikiLeaks. He is charged with aiding the enemy and violating t ...
  • Social Security Has “A Large and Growing Surplus”
    NANCY ALTMAN, naltman at socialsecurityworks.org Altman is co-director of Social Security Works, which today released an analysis of the Social Security Trustees report titled “Strengthen Social Security, Don’t Cut it: Key Points about the 2013 Social Security Trustees Report” ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Repealing the Monsanto Protection Act
    Steve Suppan (Photo: IATP/Flicker/cc)On Saturday, May 25, IATP participated in the March Against Monsanto (MAM) in St. Paul, Minnesota. The MAM took place in 436 cities in 52 countries, with an estimated two million participants. Monsanto w ...
  • Istanbul Park Protests Sow the Seeds of a Turk ...
    Richard Seymour (Photo: occupygezipics.tumblr.com/)On Friday morning, Turkish police surrounded protesters in Taksim Gezi park, the central square in Istanbul, blocked all exits and attacked them with chemical sprays and teargas.read more
  • The Anarchy Project
    Danny Goldberg
  • Those Old Colonial Lusts
    Eric Margolis That old colonial impulse keeps coming back. This past week, Britain and France pushed the rest of the European Union to lift the arms embargo in Syria – which in plain English means outright military intervention in tha ...
  • Puritanism and the Criminalization of Youth
    Christopher Brauchli Beware of punishing wrongfully. — The Teaching for Merikare, c. 2135 B.C.read more

Water Privatization

  • FW water maintenance
    We all are very aware of the privatization of our electrical providers and how well that’s working for the consumer. Now I see in the May 19 Star-Telegram that the city of Fort Worth is considering the privatization of the water maintenance department.
  • Private partnership eyed to cut Baciwa's l ...
    LAWYER Jovim Entila, legal counsel of the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa), said public private partnership (PPP) if allowed will help the water firm reduce its non-revenue water which incurs huge loses and expansion program.
  • Sánchez: No water revenues
    SO WHY is the Bacolod City Water District (BACIWA) losing from non-water revenues (NRW)? After all, they gain revenues from consumers who have to pay their monthly BACIWA bills from no-water in their taps.
  • Energy advocates oppose power plants’ privatiz ...
    ADVOCATES for renewable energy and electric cooperatives in Mindanao renewed on Tuesday their opposition to the privatization of the Agus and Pulangi power plants during the two-day power congress in Cagayan de Oro. The Association of Mindanao Rural Electric Cooperative (Amreco) and Mindanao Con ...
  • 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 ...

Guardian

  • Turkish protest takes root in Istanbul square ...
    Demonstrators claim victory following weekend of violent clashes with police, but Erdogan warns of retaliatory measuresTurkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was facing the biggest challenge to his 10-year rule this weekend as parts of Istanbul turned into a war zone. Violent clashes too ...
  • Health groups dismayed by news 'big tobacco' f ...
    The Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs received money from cigarette firms, it has been revealedTwo of Britain's leading free-market thinktanks have been criticised for taking money from "big tobacco". The Adam Smith Institute (ASI) and the Institute of Economic Affairs ( ...
  • How did Germany become the new champion of Europe?
    It was called the sick man of the continent: now it is once again a powerhouse. Julian Coman reports from Bestwig, North Rhine-Westphalia, where firms thrive by innovation, good labour relations and commitment to the local economy. Can Britain learn from the German model?Sitting in his brightly ...
  • Women's minister to offer parents guide to boo ...
    Maria Miller to launch info packs to help guide daughters' career choices amid falling numbers of women in executive positionsMinisters are planning to produce information packs for the parents of daughters to help them to bring up "aspirational" young women.The packs will offer advice on how to ...
  • A&E crisis leads to surge in cancelled operations
    Doctors raise alarm as surgery is hit, after figures show cancellations have reached a 10-year highMore planned operations were cancelled in the first few months of this year than for any similar period in almost a decade, it has been revealed, as senior surgeons warn that the crisis in accident ...

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

  • 2 NATO service members 1 civilian with coaliti ...
    KABUL - NATO says that two of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in two separate attacks in the country's east. The coalition says insurgents killed one of the service members and the civilian on Saturday, while a r ...
  • Taliban militant cop killed in in Afghanistan
    Taliban militants raided the headquarters and police department in Dilaram district of Nimroz province Saturday, leaving two people dead, including an attacker, and injuring four policemen, police said. "A group of Taliban rebels stormed the police department and district headquarters of Dilaram ...
  • Prisoners held in British Afghan base no diffe ...
    War Preaching to other countries by Britain and the US is 'hypocritical and hollow' when Camp Bastion and Guantanamo are in direct breach of international law, Jeremy Corbyn, a Labour, MP told RT. RT: Mr. Corbyn, is it right to compare Camp Bastion to Guantanamo Bay? Jeremy Corb ...
  • Report Iranian officials host Afghan Taliban d ...
    TEHRAN, Iran - A semi-official Iranian news agency says Tehran has hosted a delegation of the Afghan Taliban, the radical Sunni group that has long been a sworn enemy of Iran's ruling Shiite clerics. The Fars agency reported on Saturday that the Taliban held talks with Iranian intelligence ...
  • Red Cross halts work in Afghanistan after dead ...
    The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has suspended work in Afghanistan, following a fatal attack on ICRC offices in Jalalabad this week. A security guard was killed and a staff member was wounded in the attack, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Robin Waudo, an ICRC spokesm ...

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

  • Ima Fish's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Hello fellow Techdirtheads. I'm Ima Fish and am an attorney with a concentration in IP law. But unlike most lawyers who study IP law, I want to drastically curtail how it presently operates. So when I talk about my "favorite" posts, I'm being satirical, of course. As anyone who reads this ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Print Stuff, Make Stuff
    One of the biggest and most important trends right now is the increasing ability for people to make physical stuff that used to be impossible to make themselves. 3D printing is, obviously, a big part of that, but a variety of other advancements are happening at the same time. We're in the very ...
  • Art And Copyright In The Age Of Compulsive Looking
    We wrote recently about how the rise of mobile phones with built-in cameras has led to an irresistible urge to record our experiences everywhere with a digital picture. But what happens when those experiences include works of art, which may still be under copyright? That's the interesting ques ...
  • Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter And Yahoo ...
    A month ago, we wrote about how the UK's infamous "Snooper's Charter" had been scuppered by Nick Clegg, the UK's Deputy Prime Minister. The Guardian now reveals that top Internet companies may have played a key role in this decision: The five biggest internet companies in the world, includin ...
  • New York Continues Its Trademark Bullying Ways ...
    I recall, a few years ago, filmmaker Kevin Smith talking about how the state of NY demanded money because a background player (I think a dancer) in Clerks II was shown wearing an "I ♥ NJ" t-shirt, and NY, somewhat infamously, holds the trademark on "I ♥ NY." I don't recall all of ...

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

  • Guantánamo hunger strikers demand new doctors ...
    The Guardian reports: Thirteen Guantánamo Bay detainees on hunger strike have written an open letter to their military doctors insisting they receive independent, non-military medical treatment – and appealing to the conscience of their physicians. “I cannot trust your advice, because you ...
  • The new and the ordinary in the Middle East
    Rami G. Khouri writes: Every once in a while the Middle East region experiences a series of major and simultaneous developments in several different arenas, indicating that something important is taking place. We are passing through just such a moment this week, with quite dramatic developments ...
  • Which of Syria’s neighbors has most to lose in ...
    GlobalPost: Much like downtown Beirut, the skyline in this city’s southern reaches, where the militant group Hezbollah is strong, is dotted with new apartment blocks built atop the ruins of past wars. But with the conflict in Syria grinding next door, less than 40 miles to the east, south Beirut ...
  • Israel and Syria, an unstable relationship
    At Open Democracy, Paul Rogers writes: Israel’s long search for impregnable security in the region has in its own view been aided by the stability of neighbouring autocracie. Egypt under Hosni Mubarak, Jordan under King Hussein and now King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia under the House of Saud, a ...
  • How patent protection is threatening lives
    Council on Foreign Relations: Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, closed the annual World Health Assembly this week [May 27] sounding alarm about a new SARS-like virus circulating primarily in Saudi Arabia. “My greatest concern right now is the novel coron ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Hurricane season begins with a new record hurr ...
    The Atlantic Hurricane season starts today, June 1st, 2013. While NOAA predicts an active Atlantic Hurricane Season, it is useful to note this other milestone of hurricane drought, a duration not seen since 1900. As of today, it has been … Continue reading →
  • A frank admission about the state of modeling ...
    This is something I never expected to see in print. Climate modeler Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS comments on the failure of models to match real world observations. Source: [ http://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/status/340605947883962368 ] While the discussion was about social models, … Con ...
  • Tol statistically deconstructs the 97% Consensus
    Dr. Richard Tol has been tweeting a statistical destruction of the “97% consensus” study, Cook et al. (2013) by educating co-author Dana Nuccitelli as to why his “sample” is not representative. “In his defense, [Dana] has had limited exposure to … Continue rea ...
  • Tabloid Meteorology – The Weather Channe ...
    In the midst of all the tragedy unfolding in Oklahoma, media and storm chasers have been swarming all over the tornado outbreak. I’ve seen this many times in my years in television news: when you are tasked with going live, sometimes common sense gets literally thrown to the wind. The Weat ...
  • Testimony of Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Co ...
    Love him or hate him, he’s making an impact. I thought it worthwhile to make his testimony available to read. Submitted Written Testimony of Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Congressional Hearing on Climate Change: ‘The Origins and Response to Climate … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your B ...
    If you are one of the 20% of healthy adults who struggle with basic arithmetic, simple tasks like splitting the dinner bill can be excruciating. Now, a new study suggests that a gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain can boost math performance for up to 6 months. Researchers do ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT

  • Bonn Press release: UN Agenda 21 frustrated by ...
    Property rights vs. UN Agenda 21 ICLEI attendees dismayed over growing grassroots opposition
  • EPA and IPCC: America’s greatest environ ...
    EPA finds, punishes and even targets anyone who violates any of its ten thousand commandments, even inadvertently. EPA’s climate change actions, however, are not inadvertent. They are deliberate, and their effects are far reaching and often harmful. For better or worse, they affect all of us. A ...
  • Press release: CFACT delegation heads to Bonn ...
    Can Obama & Kerry jump start the UN climate process? CFACT sends delegation to the UN Climate Summit and ICLEI forum in Bonn
  • 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.

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Pruning Shears

  • DRM for e-books: Repeating history, not learni ...
    The music business was probably the first big segment of the entertainment industry to need to figure out the Internet. Napster forced the industry to think about it because Napster’s original version used peer-to-peer technology, which allowed users share their own music files and copy o ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Mani ...
    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. C ...
  • 10 Most Absurd Lies Told By McDonald's CEO
    Confronted by activists at this year's shareholder meeting, CEO Don Thompson lied and lied. Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Gives Up Fight for GM Plants in Europe
    The world's largest producer of seeds, Monsanto, has apparently given up on attempts to spread its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe. A German media report said the firm would end all lobbying for approval.Click here to read this article
  • Scientists Warn that GE Salmon Will Harm Wild ...
    Interspecific hybridization is a route for transgenes from genetically modified (GM) animals to invade wild populations, yet the ecological effects and potential risks that may emerge from such hybridization are unknown.Click here to read this article
  • Genetically Modified Wheat: Japan Postpones Or ...
    Japan postponed an order of Pacific Northwest wheat, the first market fallout from the discovery of genetically-modified plants growing in Oregon. Click here to read this article

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

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    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
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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

  • 9 dead in tornado in Oklahoma City area, 75 hurt
    ShareThis9 dead in tornado in Oklahoma City area, 75 hurt 01 Jun 2013 Emergency officials set out Saturday morning to see how much damage a violent burst of thunderstorms and tornadoes caused as it swept across the Midwest overnight, killing at least nine and injuring dozens. The storm topple ...
  • Newtown parents push to block shooting records
    ShareThisNewtown parents push to block shooting records --Identities of minor witnesses may be redacted from any record; Newtown town clerk could continue denying public access to the victims' death certificates 31 May 2013 Family members of the Newtown school shooting victims made a last-mi ...
  • Newtown Families Push for Secretly Negotiated ...
    ShareThisNewtown Families Push for Secretly Negotiated Bill to Block Release of Some Sandy Hook Records --Emails released Friday show that Kane has pushed for the bill and originally wanted language that would restrict disclosures from investigations of all crimes -- and not be limited only to r ...
  • License cameras will start snapping soon on Lo ...
    ShareThisLicense cameras will start snapping soon on Longboat Key --Data captured will immediately be sent through crime databases 31 May 2013 (FL) Longboat Key's long-awaited license-plate recognition cameras are less than 60 days away. Contractor L3 Communications was at the Longboat Key Polic ...
  • Oklahoma City airport evacuated as tornado thr ...
    ShareThisOklahoma City airport evacuated as tornado threat looms --Tornado emergency issued for Oklahoma City area 31 May 2013 The National Weather Service declared a tornado emergency for the western portion of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area on Friday. The declaration means a large, destru ...

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

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Florence and the Machine – “Not Fade Away” For week 72 of the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick we have Florence and the Machine covering Buddy Holly’s hit Not Fade Away. English indie rock band Florence and the Machine consists of lead singer Florence Welch, Isabe ...
  • BFP Book Review: “The Terror Factory: Inside t ...
    How the FBI creates and facilitates phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the war on terror. By Mark Mondalek In his speech on national security on May 23, 2013, President Obama addressed the threat of terrorism perpetrated inside the United States, stating that “the ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- May 31, 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 ...
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    We Need Your Help to Raise Awareness & Continue Operating This Home of the Irate Minority I want to thank every single one of you for your continuing support- subscriptions and contributions. Your support and contributions have made this independent website, the home of irate minority, possi ...
  • The Social Cost of Capitalism
    The New Social Costs Brought by Globalism When I was a graduate student in economics, the social cost of capitalism was a big issue in economic theory. Since those decades ago, the social costs of capitalism have exploded, but the issue seems no longer to trouble the economics profession. Social ...

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Tikun Olam

  • In Secret Testimony, Mossad Chief Pardo Threat ...
    The suicide of Mossad agent Ben Zygier continues to cast a pall over Israeli intelligence activity.  Ben Caspit reports in the Jerusalem Post Hebrew edition that a “secret committee” found Mossad chief Tamir Pardo’s account of Zygier’s treatment at the hands of the agency ...
  • Israel Threatens Attack If Russia Ships S-300 ...
    The war of words between Israel and Russia about the latter’s advanced weapons systems bound for Syria just got hotter after Israel’s defense minister, Bogie Yaalon, threatened his country would attack the new S-300 advanced missile batteries Syria has ordered from Russia. Though Isr ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Turkey on Edge - Turkey Police Brutally Crack ...
    Turkish riot police have used tear gas and water cannon during clashes with thousands of protesters in Istanbul, as more people joined the second day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations for years. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for an immediate end to the ...
  • The New Egypt - Is Egypt Heading Toward a Mili ...
    In August 2012, barely two months after being elected as the first civilian president of Egypt, President Mohamed Morsi generated a surprise showdown with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which had ruled Egypt de facto since President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation following the po ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Secretary Kerry Fumbles ...
    At the 50th anniversary Summit for the African Union celebrations, Secretary Kerry referred to Boko Haram not as a “terrorist group� in typical State Department–approved terms but as an outright “terrorist organization.� The distinction between calling Boko Haram an “organization� ...
  • Israel on Edge - The Al-Dura Affair and Its Im ...
    The report of Israel’s governmental inquiry committee on the al-Dura affair, written after a thorough examination of all the materials related to this unfortunate affair and published by the director-general of the Ministry of International Relations and Strategy, Yossi Kuperwasser, should set ...
  • Broken Government - Social Security Trust Fund ...
    Social Security ran a $55 billion deficit in 2012, closing out three years of consecutive cash-flow deficits as the program’s unfunded obligations continue to grow. The combined 75-year unfunded obligation of the Social Security and Disability trust funds (referred to as the OASDI trust fund) ...

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

  • Progress Kentucky Activist Admits To Illegal M ...
    It started on April 8th when Mother Jones published a secret recording of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell discussing opposition research on Ashley Judd. On February 2, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, opened up his 2014 reelection campaign headquarters ...
  • Priorities? Congress Sends Letter Urging Wash ...
    This country is fighting a war against Islamic terror, the economy is on the abyss of collapsing under its own debt and growth slow an/or non existent, the IRS is targeting American citizens because of their political views, and the DOJ is targeting the press just because, Obamacare ...
  • Foreign Policy Disaster: Tunisia Becoming Islamist
    By Barry Rubin With Libya going down the drain, Egypt daily moving toward an Islamist dictatorship, and Syria in a bloody civil war between Sunni and Shia Islamists, how is Tunisia—the most potentially moderate Arab state which had the best chance of achieving democracy--doing? Not very well ...
  • Rolled Gold? Announcing The "Starbucks of Cann ...
    Americans can make a business out of anything. Jamen Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager has a dream,  he wants his new Seattle-based company to  be the leader in both recreational and medical cannabis. Or as he put it he wants his venture to be the Starbucks of ...
  • Here's A Budget Cutting Idea--Let's Cut Congre ...
    As long as we are looking for ways to cut government spending...why not cut money from Congress.  Senator Tom Coburn R-OK sent a letter to Speaker Boehner suggesting that Congress lead by example. "As the federal government manages sequestration, Congress should finally do what i ...

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

  • A historic win for voting rights in Virginia
    Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell unveiled a plan this week to automatically restore voting rights to nonviolent felons in a state where one in five African-American adults is disenfranchised due to an unusually harsh law. Civil rights advocates praised the move, but some say the governor should go ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Nervous fossil-fuel giants tu ...
    With a fast-growing number of U.S. residents installing solar panels on their homes and businesses, utilities worried about their bottom line are jumping into the distributed solar power market -- even in the coal-dependent South. read more
  • What are companies doing with taxpayer money?
    Each year, cities and counties give more than $25 billion in tax breaks and other subsidies to lure businesses. What happens to the money? In most areas, it's hard to find out. read more
  • No relief in sight for Alabama community sicke ...
    A chemical spill from a natural gas facility has been sickening residents of an African-American community near Mobile, Ala. for five years now -- and it could take years to clean up the mess. read more
  • No relief in site for Alabama community sicken ...
    A chemical spill from a natural gas facility has been sickening residents of an African-American community near Mobile, Ala. for five years now -- and it could take years to clean up the mess. 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

  • Stirling Newberry
    I’m getting more and more questions, and Stirling was a public figure, albeit a minor one, so here is the basic news. Stirling had a stroke a little over two weeks ago.  It was very severe.  As of the latest news he cannot talk, cannot walk, etc… He was in a coma for quite some [...]
  • Brief comments on the Syrian civil war
    I haven’t written much about this because I don’t know enough.  I think it’s worth noting, at this point, that the full commitment of Hezbollah seems to have swung the war in Assad’s favor.  I am not surprised by Hezbollah’s involvement.  Had the rebels won, Hezboll ...
  • Ethics 101: The difference between ethics and ...
    The best short definition I’ve heard, courtesy of my friend Stirling, is that morals are how you treat people you know.  Ethics are how you treat people you don’t know. Your morality is what makes you a good wife or husband, dad or mother.  A good daughter or son.  A good friend.  Ev ...
  • Ethics 101: The difference between ethics and ...
    The best short definition I’ve heard, courtesy of my friend Stirling, is that morals are how you treat people you know.  Ethics are how you treat people you don’t know. Your morality is what makes you a good wife or husband, dad or mother.  A good daughter or son.  A good friend.  Ev ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Civilians among dead in Nigeria offensive
    Al Jazeera – Al Jazeera has obtained the first images of the Nigerian army’s battle against Boko Haram fighters in the northern state of Borno. The pictures appear to show the bodies of Boko Haram rebels and many civilians, including women and children. One soldier told Al Jazeera he ...
  • In Britain, Police Arrest Twitter And Facebook ...
    Business Week – British police are arresting people in the middle of the night if they have made racist or anti-Muslim comments on Twitter following the murder of a soldier by two Muslims in Woolwich, London. Three men have so far been taken into custody for using Twitter and Facebook to c ...
  • Turkey protests rage for second day
    Guardian – Violent clashes between police and protesters have continued for a second day in Turkey, as the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, condemned the demonstrators as “extremists running wild”. In Istanbul, police used water cannon and teargas on thousands of protester ...
  • Millions march against GM crops
    The Gardian – Organisers celebrate huge global turnout and say they will continue until Monsanto and other GM manufacturers listen. Organisers say that two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the US and in more than 50 other countries ...
  • Nigeria outlaws gay marriage, public displays ...
    ABC – Nigerian politicians have approved a bill to outlaw gay marriage and crack down on gay rights, including criminalising public displays of affection between same-sex couples. The House of Representatives unanimously approved the bill which provides for jail terms of up to 14 years for ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Oil dispersants must be checked before use in ...
    Environmentalists won a big victory for marine animals this week, with a court ruling that requires the government to determine whether dispersants used to to break up oil spills are harmful to endangered species before the chemicals are used in federal waters off California.
  • California native fish could disappear with cl ...
    Climate change could be the final blow for many of California’s native fish species, pushing them to extinction with extended drought, warmer water temperatures and altered stream flow.
  • Europeans seemingly healthier than ever -- wit ...
    The good news from a report just released by the European Environment Agency and the Joint Research Centre at the European Commission is that Europeans are living longer and healthier lives than ever. For that they can thank rigorous government policies that protect air, water and food from harm ...
  • Endangered sea turtles in harm's way in Gulf o ...
    Federal scientists for the first time have mapped the migration patterns and feeding grounds of Kemp’s ridley sea turtle in the Gulf of Mexico, and the study reveals that the favored feeding sites for the endangered turtles overlap with the most-damaged areas of the gulf.
  • Cattle grazing can promote cheatgrass dominanc ...
    Ranchers often argue that cattle grazing is the best way to combat cheatgrass, an aggressive invader that has taken over vast areas of the Great Basin, destroying the native sagebrush ecosystem and fueling huge wildfires.

spiked

  • The two Gatsbys
    Yes, Fitzgerald’s a novel was written in an era of cultural pessimism, but it has a powerful sense of possibility – something its contemporary interpreters tend to obscure.
  • Baby boomers to blame for everything bad? Balls
    Jocelyn Auer, author of Baby Boomers: Busting the Myths, talks to spiked about the dangerously defeatist tendency to blame all of society's problems on one postwar generation.
  • The anxious modern culture of parenting goes g ...
    A new book shows how the messed-up outlook around raising children that turned 'parent' into a verb is spreading beyond its Anglo-American roots.
  • Homage to Orwell
    Revisiting George Orwell’s classic account of the Spanish Civil War, 75 years on.
  • A nightmare vision of the welfarist trap
    A reissue of Zoe Fairbairns’ dystopian novel Benefits is a timely reminder that left-wingers weren't always such big fans of welfarism.

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

  • Halo 4 contractor staff member calls for union ...
    ringofdeath.jpg A former Quality Assurance tester at Certain Affinity studios, is calling upon games industry staff to be aware of the negative aspect of contractor work and need to organise for bette ...
  • Solidarity is needed - please help to get Alex ...
    Member of Autonomous Action, anarchist Alexey Sutuga has been remanded for more than a year. Police has intentionally delayed the investigation, they were only working on the case for the first 2-3 months of the arrest, and since then investigation has s ...
  • An autonomist analysis of the Stockholm fires
    The suburbs of Stockholm are on fire. The outside viewer might still perceive Sweden as the promised land of welfare. Yet termite-like neoliberal policies have been busy chewing up the welfare system from within for a long time, the end result being an empt ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Conspiracy Conference 2013
    Here are this year’s list of speakers and guests:  http://www.conspiracycon.com/speakers.html From Brian Hall, Executive Producer of Conspiracy Con: This annual conference is a bold and serious approach to serious issues, dedicated to providing a forum for those who say what few are willin ...
  • Rolling Stone Gathers no Slimey Moss?? Not Thi ...
    Wake up America!!  I’m talking FULLY awake – don’t push the snooze button and continue dozing.  WAKE UP!! Take 14 minutes and watch this very concise, factual summation of the “terrorist” events of Sept. 11, 2001.  Then click on the Rolling Stone article below, writ ...
  • Take Courage, Mormon Women, Take Courage
    Essay: It takes courage for women to ask for the priesthood http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/utah-valley/essay-it-takes-courage-for-women-to-ask-for-the/article_695d7e3f-387c-586d-b3e9-10bdcee78fa0.html This is a classic example of the blind leading the blind.    There is no “priest ...
  • 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 ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Tornado Safe Room CAD Designs for the DIY People
    Tornado Safe Room Designs copied from green blog at-http://stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com With the Rash of Tornadoes caused by the Extreme Weather Conditions we have had recently in the USA.  I put together a few Tornado/Hurricane SafeRoom Designs and Build Options. Complete plans, Design-B ...
  • Eliminating Solar Panel Fires from Wire Faults
    WHAT COULD HAVE STOPPED THE SOLAR PANEL FIRE ON THEWEBSTER GROOVES SCHOOL IN STLOUIS MO? (previously published on Sister Site: http:stlouisrenewableenergy.blogspot.com)  Solar Panels that utilize the M215 MicroInverters made by Enphase Energy could have stopped the Solar Panel fire before the fi ...
  • Senate Votes Against States’ Rights to L ...
    Here’s How Your Senators Voted. Let Them Know What You Think.   On May 23, the Senate voted down (27-71) the Sanders amendment #965 toS.954, the Farm bill. The amendment, submitted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), was an effort to support the existing right of states to enact their own ...
  • 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 ...

The View From Abroad

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Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • New Zealand's Charter Schools Misadventure
    Guest post by Geoff Eaton (New Zealand presently has legislation in Parliament to create the country's first charter schools, despite the failed experiment in the US and the UK. The majority of the New Zealand public oppose the law. Despite substantial taxpayer funding, charter schools would ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Are You Wearing Toxic Socks?
    This article originally appeared on OnEarth.org. You probably wouldn't expect to find pesticides in your toothpaste or your gym socks, but they might be in there all the same. And the vast majority of those pesticides have made it into everyday products without adequate oversight by the Environ ...
  • An Easy Trick to Handle Out-of-Control Weeds
    Mow your weeds once, and they'll come back to haunt you. But mow them repeatedly, and you've got a handy, nontoxic method to keep them from coming back in huge numbers. Purdue University researchers found that repeatedly mowing summer annual weed species like large crabgrass, barnyardgrass, g ...
  • The New ADHD Trigger
    A child's developing brain is super sensitive. And increasingly, scientists are finding that what a child eats, drinks, breathes, and absorbs could throw off healthy brain development, especially during those critical early years. Food dye, pesticides, and even air pollution could be triggeri ...
  • The Miracle Food You're Not Eating
    The benefits of hemp are boundless. The wonderfood balances your hormones, nourishes your skin and hair, calms post-workout inflammation, and relaxes your muscles. Once a mainstay crop in the United States, it's also embedded in history: The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp, and ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Gene Therapies Add Promise to Regenerative Med ...
    What's the Latest Development? Regenerative medicine, which seeks to regrow lost or damaged human body parts ranging from patches of skin to entire limbs, may prove especially promising given recent advances in genetic therapy. "Gene therapy has the potential to provide reconstructive su ...
  • Missing the 1970s
    If you live long enough everything can happen. Cloning, Honey Boo Boo, a feature movie based on “The Brady Bunch,” Twitter… “I miss the 1970s,” a friend says at a party. As I say, if you live long enough, everything can happen. Her comment inspired choruses of “Muskrat Lo ...
  • The Coming of Post-Translational Society
    LITTLE IS known about China in Europe and America. Although the Chinese were enviable thinkers for over three millennia, almost nothing of their originality has reached us intact. The reason for this is simple. The Western world guarded against foreign knowledge with an old language tric ...
  • Staying Healthy Despite All the Job Stress
    What's the Latest Development? Health experts have long observed the link between work-related stress and conditions such as heart disease, but eliminating the pressure that comes with professional life is largely unrealistic for many. "Researchers found that job strain—defined as having ...
  • World's Militaries Race to Eliminate the Need ...
    What's the Latest Development? A report recently issued by the US Air Force Research Laboratory states that forcing enemies to perform without the benefit of sufficient sleep is a very effective weapon. To wield it properly, American forces must manage fatigue among their own soldiers. T ...

Information Liberation

  • Woman Records Police Barging into her Home in ...
    A disturbing video of police barging into a woman's home without a search warrant, demanding her identification -- only to learn she was not the person they were looking for -- has emerged on Youtube, demonstrating just how unprofessional police ca...
  • Miami Cops Choke Hold Teen for Staring at Them ...
    From the Miami New Times: Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillian didn't threaten police. He didn't attack them. He wasn't armed. All the black teenager did was appear threatening by shooting Miami-Dade police officers a few "dehumanizing stares," ...
  • California Police Paying Cellphone Companies t ...
    In Roseville, California, the police are very bored. Instead of investigating thefts, or stopping rape, or crimes with victims, the police are spending most of their time going after teenage cannabis dealers, or issuing citations. Thanks to the const...
  • Rulers vs Ruled: 10 Things Government Can Do T ...
    Do you still believe the government represents the people? Are you part of the majority that genuinely wants the government to do good things? There remains a large portion of the population that believes government to be a force for good and they...
  • Kindergartner Forced To Apologise For Brandish ...
    A six-year-old kindergarten student was punished by school officials and forced to apologise after he *caused quite a disturbance* on the school bus by playing with a tiny plastic toy gun Friday. Mieke Crane, the child*s mother, told reporters...

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

  • Ecosystems and Disaster Risk Reduction in the ...
    Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations Univ.  (Report to the Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund) via International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) / Edited by Fabrice Renaud and Radhika Murti http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2013-005.pdf [PEN-e posting] Recen ...
  • The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk ...
    U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) http://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2013/en/home/index.html [From Press Release] The relationship between business investment practices and disaster risk is poorly understood. The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Ris ...
  • The Efficacy of Hazardous Fuel Treatments: A R ...
    Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona Univ. http://library.eri.nau.edu/gsdl/collect/erilibra/index/assoc/D2013004.dir/doc.pdf [From an E&E News PM article by Phil Taylor, sub. req'd] The federal government must spend more to thin overstocked backcountry forests if it hopes to pr ...
  • Solar Radiation Management: an Evolving Policy ...
    American Enterprise Institute / by Lee Land and J. Eric Bickel http://bit.ly/13mwhBA [From Executive Summary] …[M]ajor institutional and political hurdles dim future prospects for controlling [greenhouse gas] emissions. While adaptation to climate change can accomplish much, flawed institu ...
  • California Bay-Delta Conservation Plan: Final ...
    California Natural Resources Agency http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/BDCPPlanningProcess/KeyAnnouncements.aspx [From Press Release] The BDCP is a proposal to provide long-term restoration and protection of fish and wildlife in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta while creating a more reliable me ...

Scientific American - News

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

  • Elephant Song
    Composer Vi An Diep performs semi-autobiographical puppet play about wildlife conservation and immigrant heritage ...
  • Activists question Pacific Rubiales in front ...
    Update from Projet Accompagnement Solidarité Colombie:   Today, May 30, 2013, activists from the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network made their way into the Kensington Room of the King ...
  • Sounding Off Against Mining Clayoquot
    COAST SALISH TERRITORIES—People came from as far away as Tla-oqui-aht First Nation on the west coast of Vancouver Island to  protest outside the AGM of Imperial Metals in downtown Vancouver today. The company wants to open a copper mine in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. ...
  • TMC is hiring!
    Looking for a Membership and Admin Coordinator The Toronto Media Co-op is seeking a candidate for our Membership and Admin Coordinator position. This position is funded by a Canada ...
  • The Legacy of Henry Morgentaler
    By Judy Haiven The count goes on. So far, out of 7 media reports on the death of Canadian Dr. Henry Morgentaler, 6 describe him as “heralded and vilified”  (NY Times); “revered and hated “(Globe and Mail); &ldq ...

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

  • Liberals and Light Bulbs
    A few weeks ago, in a post that was mainly a response to Jonah Goldberg's dismissive attitude toward renewable energy, I mentioned a recent study showing that although liberals and conservatives were about equally likely to buy an energy efficient CFL light bulb even if it cost more than  ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 31 May 2013
    Today we're back to quiltblogging. The quilter-in-chief is helping out with the photography by waving a finger in the general direction of the catbloggee-in-chief. This is a Mystery Quilt. Here's how this works. Apparently you get instructions for making it a bit at a time. First, you get i ...
  • Internal Polling Proves It: That First Debate ...
    As you may recall, last year Obama's poll numbers fell off a cliff after his first debate performance. However, I wrote a couple of posts suggesting that Obama's problems actually started about a week earlier: "In the ten days before the debate, Pollster shows Romney gaining 2.4 points and RCP ...
  • Social Security Report: Nothing Much Has Chang ...
    The previous post covered the latest actuarial report on Medicare finances. So how's Social Security doing this year? Answer: about the same. Last year the trustees projected that the Social Security trust fund would be exhausted in 2033. This year they project that it will be exhausted in 203 ...
  • Medicare's Future Looks a Little Better This Year
    Today we get new reports on the health of Social Security and Medicare. Here's the bottom line on Medicare: For the 75-year projection period, the HI actuarial deficit has decreased from 1.35 percent of taxable payroll, as shown in last year’s report, to 1.11 percent of taxable pay ...

Insanity Report

  • Insanity Check: The OkCupid Special
    Kriss & Kev put together a special podcast/rant about the stressful nature of trying to use an online dating site like OkCupid.com Share with your friends:
  • 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 ...

Simple Climate

  • Lifting the fog of war and climate
    Guy Callendar’s knowledge of climate and heat let him help devise a system to clear fog from British airfields during World War Two, and do detailed measurements on gases in the air that established how important CO2 is in driving climate change.
  • 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 ...

e!Science News

  • Lead acts to trigger schizophrenia
    Mice engineered with a human gene for schizophrenia and exposed to lead during early life exhibited behaviors and structural changes in their brains consistent with schizophrenia. Scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medic ...
  • A bad biology grade sticks around
    Don't let low grades haunt your students. A new study in the Journal of Animal Science shows that performance in foundational biology courses is a strong predictor of performance in high-level animal science courses. read more
  • View your Facebook profile, get a boost
    A Facebook profile is an ideal version of self, full of photos and posts curated for the eyes of family, friends and acquaintances. A new study shows that this version of self can provide beneficial psychological effects and influence behavior. read more
  • Even with defects, graphene is strongest mater ...
    In a new study, published in Science, Columbia Engineering researchers demonstrate that graphene, even if stitched together from many small crystalline grains, is almost as strong as graphene in its perfect crystalline form. This work resolves a contradiction between theoretical simulations, whi ...
  • Studies link fatigue and sleep to MLB performa ...
    Two new studies show that fatigue may impair strike-zone judgment during the 162 game Major League Baseball season, and a MLB player's sleepiness can predict his longevity in the league. read more

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

  • The Rich Get Richer
    And the poor get poorer. Who do you blame? Republicans or Democrats? Both? If you think the “rich” earned their money think again. They have all the advantages. Tax loopholes written especially for them, and the companies they own. The ability to move their money offshore, or put it ...
  • 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 ...

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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  • IDF soldiers to West Bank children: ‘We ...
    IDF soldiers posted leaflets in the West Bank village of Qadum warning children to refrain from attending demonstrations. The leaflet, photographed yesterday at the weekly protest in the village by activist Lior Ben-Eliyahu (the children’s eyes have been hidden by +972), show photographs o ...
  • ‘Psychobibi,’ the e-book that offe ...
    In the beginning of his 2004 book on the psychology of world leaders, political psychologist Jerrold M. Post explains his guiding question: When does the personality of the leader affect political behavior? According to Matthew Kalman and Matt Rees, the self-anointed (and self-published) maveric ...
  • ‘Superland’ and the normalization ...
    An Israeli amusement park found itself in hot water after being caught segregating Jewish and Arab school groups. But instead of being an aberration, the incident is reflective of the dominant culture of segregation and discrimination that permeates Israeli society from the bottom up. “Sup ...
  • WATCH: Eritrean refugee’s shocking perso ...
    Zabib Sultan, an asylum seeker from Eritrea who heads the Eritrean Women’s Community Center, shares a shocking testimony about her and other women’s experiences on their way to Israel. She gave her testimony during a meeting organized by Amnesty International and the ASAF NGO on May ...
  • From displacement in the Negev to ‘price ...
    This week: Palestinians and settlers stage West Bank demonstrations, Bedouins and friends protest the Prawer Plan and rebuild demolished homes, Israelis resist evictions and privatization, free T-shirts remind tourists that Bethlehem is in Palestine, the Israeli army invades refugee camps and Pa ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Harvey Norman switched on to National Televisi ...
    Major electronics retailer Harvey Norman is providing free recycling drop-off points for televisions at 140 of its stores as part of the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme. .
  • Bight Petroleum to be subject to strict enviro ...
    Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has determined that the Bight Petroleum Pty Ltd proposed three-dimensional marine seismic survey in the Bight Basin will need a full federal environmental assessment.
  • New appointment to the Great Barrier Reef Mari ...
    Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, today announced the appointment of Margie McKenzie as a member of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
  • World Indigenous Network takes to the internat ...
    The international network of Indigenous and local community land and sea managers will become an official part of the United Nations after the Australian Government handed its management to the Equator Initiative.
  • Traditional owners lead collaborative marine m ...
    The Australian government today welcomed the decision by Yolngu Traditional Owners from north-east Arnhem Land to dedicate an additional area of culturally significant sea country in Northern Territory and Commonwealth waters as part of the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area.

    To Do

    renewable recycling conservation
    Renewable energy is clean, cheap and here – what's stopping us?
    The Guardian
    The report from the Committee on Climate Change arguing that investing in renewable energy would eventually save consumers a lot of money is spot on. We are regularly told by conventional utility companies, many politicians and commentators that ...
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    3 Winners From More Renewable Energy
    Motley Fool
    Hold on to your umbrella: The world is getting windier. A new report projects a 34% wind-power production increase in the next three years, boosted higher by new tax-credit rules. Putting politics aside, let's look at three companies poised to profit ...
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    Energy Collective
    Scott Edward Anderson is a consultant, blogger, and media commentator who blogs at The Green Skeptic. More » · Christine Hertzog is a consultant, author, and a professional explainer focused on Smart Grid. More » · Gary Hunt Gary is an ...
    Renewables Club Founded By 10 Countries
    CleanTechnica
    On the invitation of the German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier, high-level representatives from 10 countries have gathered in Berlin to establish the Renewables Club on June 1st, 2013. Their common goal is to scale up the deployment of renewable ...
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    Human Habitat

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    Ecology Lessons From the Cold War
    New York Times (blog)
    CORVALLIS, Ore. — TODAY the effort to preserve the planet's biodiversity is often seen as a campaign to save the whales for their own sake, or to give polar bears a few more winters on the Arctic ice. But in the 1950s, when the concept was first ...
    Hidden Ecology and Surprising Geology in Antarctica's Dry Valleys
    Discover Magazine
    Hidden Ecology and Surprising Geology in Antarctica's Dry Valleys. This unique landscape attracts researchers from around the world to study microbe evolution, scars of geological disasters and even how glaciers behaved on Mars. By Jennifer ...
    A diet of goose flesh may help polar bears survive global warming
    The Economist
    Arctic ecology. Sacred geese. A diet of goose flesh may help polar bears survive global warming. Jun 1st 2013 |From the print edition · Tweet. POLAR BEARS are superb at ambushing seals as they come up through holes in the ice to breathe. During the ...
    Jones and Blackburn: Economics and ecology can coexist in Houston
    Houston Chronicle
    For decades, sound environmental practice has often been viewed as pitted against economic success in a zero sum game. Today that perspective is shifting as economics and ecology interact in win-win opportunities. The Houston region is uniquely ...
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    Water Power

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    Customers steamed about 'toilet water' in their coffee
    USA TODAY
    Starbucks customers in Hong Kong's upscale financial district are steamed at the popular chain store where workers used water from a tap near a urinal to brew their coffee, according to Agence France-Presse. The coffee shop, in the famous Bank of China ...
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    Environmentalists missing from state's water-management boards
    Orlando Sentinel
    For the first time in nearly three decades, none of the Florida's water-management agencies — which are supposed to safeguard the state's wetlands, rivers and aquifers — has a board member who is an environmentalist. Environmental activists are ...
    Water Main Break Repaired, 29th Avenue Reopens
    DENVER (CBS4) - Denver Public Works crews have completed repairing a large water main pipe that burst on Thursday night in Denver's Lower Highlands neighborhood. 29th Avenue between Zuni Street and Wyandot Street had to be closed for the repairs.
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    Major water main break snarls I-25 at Speer
    The Denver Channel
    A spokesman for Denver Water said crews had to turn off the water in order to access the damage and they were working on that at 29th Avenue and Zuni Street -- the apparent source of the water. 7NEWS has learned the pipe is 55 years old. A cascade of ...
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