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Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Sci-fi shocker: Matt Smith leaves BBC’s ‘Docto ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSci-fi shocker: Matt Smith leaves BBCs Doctor Who Raw StoryBy Agence France-Presse   Like Raw Story on Facebook The BBC is on the hunt for a new Time Lord after British actor Matt Smith announced on Saturday that he ...
• Hotel Breaks Discrimination Law on Orders of B ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAction is violation of 2010 Equality Act Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com June 1, 2013 The Bilderberg Group ordered a hotel at which journalists from Infowars were set to stay to cover the organization’s secret ...
• Bradley Manning supporters hold pre-trial rall ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBradley Manning supporters hold pre-trial rally outside Fort Meade Raw StoryBy Matt Williams, The Guardian   Like Raw Story on Facebook Young soldier goes on trial Monday, charged with ‘aiding the enemy’ ...
• Hotel Breaks Law by Following Bilderberg Order ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comAction is violation of 2010 Equality Act Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com June 1, 2013 The Bilderberg Group ordered a hotel at which journalists from Infowars were set to stay to cover the organization’s secret ...
• Ron Paul on the Real Meaning of President Obam ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comIn addition to serving as Chairman of Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul is CEO of the newly-formed Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Dr. Paul recently posted his response to President Obama’s national secur ...

Dandelion Salad

• Julian Assange: Stratfor Hacker Jeremy Hammond ...
  Dandelion Salad democracynow on May 29, 2013 http://www.democracynow.org – Jeremy Hammond of the hacktivist group Anonymous has pleaded guilty to hacking into the private intelligence firm Stratfor, the FBI and other institutions. Hammond says his goal was to shed light on how governments ...
• Noam Chomsky: Wrecking Nature For Short-Term P ...
  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky docdissent May 8, 2013 Recorded May 7 2013 in Denver, Colorado at an event organized by community radio station KGNU (http://kgnu.org). Noted social critic Noam Chomsky talks about the willful and reckless destruction of the environment by the US and other Weste ...
• From Iraq, A Tragic Reminder to Prosecute the ...
  Dandelion Salad by John Pilger http://johnpilger.com/ 27 May 2013 The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert’s fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; and it carries, according to ...
• Helen Caldicott: Chernobyl: The Biggest Cover- ...
  Dandelion Salad linktv May 23, 2013 “Going naked” is how the insurance industry describes not having insurance. And when it comes to the worst hazards of nuclear power — America is going naked. Correspondent Miles Benson investigates why the US nuclear power industry is underin ...
• Honoring Mercenaries for the U.S. Corporate St ...
  by Ed Ciaccio Writer, Dandelion Salad May 23, 2013 Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time passing Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time ago Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards every one When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn? Where Have All the Flowers G ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Tiger Stripes of ...
  Do underground oceans vent through the tiger stripes (in false-color blue) on Saturn's moon Enceladus? The long features, dubbed tiger stripes, are known to spew ice from the moon's icy interior into space, creating a cloud of fine ice particles ...
• California Shipping Lanes Moved in Attempt to ...
  Whales near California’s largest ports are about to gain a bit more protection from the cargo ships with which they share their marine homes. Changes to the mile-wide shipping lanes that funnel maritime traffic into the San Francisco Bay and ...
• Watch Live: Asteroid a Third the Size of the D ...
  Watch as an enormous asteroid safely careens past the Earth, giving astronomers an unprecedented view of its surface, during a live show from the Slooh Space Camera team. The program starts at 1:30 p.m. PDT/4:30 p.m. EST.
• Wired Space Photo of the Day: Red Stellar Nursery
  This intriguing new view of a spectacular stellar nursery IC 2944 is being released to celebrate a milestone: 15 years of ESO’s Very Large Telescope. This image also shows a group of thick clouds of dust known as the Thackeray ...
• This Week’s Most Bizarre Wild Animal Incidents
  A roundup of odd ways humans and wild animals crossed paths this week compiled by Jon Mooallem, author of the upcoming book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Mairav Zonszein: ‘Superland’ and the normaliza ...
  You can argue all you want that there are differences between America and Israel as far as racism goes, just as there are differences between Israel and South Africa when it comes to Apartheid. But... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Open letter from Roger Waters to Alicia Keys
  We are all part of the same old story, nothing has changed since the bad old days of apartheid South Africa and Segregated America. We must stand united with all our brothers and sisters against... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Open letter from Alice Walker to Alicia Keys
  This is actually a wonderful opportunity for you to learn about something sorrowful, and amazing: that our government (Obama in particular) supports a system that is cruel, unjust, and unbelievably... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Middlebury students stage Israeli checkpoint t ...
  The performance, developed by students as part of a course on Theater and Social Change and members of the organization Justice for Palestine, was broken up by campus public safety. “This is not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
• Jonathan Cook: Domestic fissures in Israel wil ...
  “You know why Israel’s leaders can’t make peace?” a Palestinian friend asked recently. “Because if the conflict ever ended, Israeli Jews would start tearing out each other’s throats.” But any... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

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

NewsWise

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Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Inability and Due Process in the Saif Gaddafi ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller By any standard, the Pre-Trial Chamber's rejection of Libya's admissibility challenge is a crushing defeat for the Libyan government. Libya's challenge failed for two basic reasons: (1) Libya is not investigating the same case as the OTP; and (2) Libya is currently unable t ...
• Weekend Roundup: May 25-31, 2013
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, we teamed up with SHARES Blog for a symposium on the intersection between the law of the sea and the law of responsibility, introduced here by Kristen. A first series of posts dealt with whaling. Natalie Klein contrasted responsibility r ...
• Breaking: ICC Rejects Libya’s Admissibility Ch ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Pre-Trial Chamber has held that Libya cannot try Saif and must surrender him immediately to the Court — which, of course, it will not do. Analysis when I have time to read the lengthy judgment, which can be found here.
• Law of the Sea Symposium: Ilias Plakokefalos C ...
  by Ilias Plakokefalos by Ilias Plakokefalos [Dr Ilias Plakokefalos is a post-doctoral researcher at the SHARES Project at the Amsterdam Center of International Law, University of Amsterdam] Cross-posted at SHARES Blog. Telesetsky’s highly interesting post highlights the problem of flag state r ...
• Law of the Sea Symposium: State Responsibility ...
  by Anastasia Telesetsky by Anastasia Telesetsky [Anastasia Telesetsky is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho College of Law] Cross-Posted at SHARES Blog. Sovereign nations have the right to extend their nationality to non-state actors who agree to adhere to national laws. ...

Public News Service

• Arizona Food Banks Chief Stepping Down After L ...
  Arizona Food Banks Chief Stepping Down After Long Career PHOENIX – The head of the Association of Arizona Food Banks, Ginny Hildebrand, is stepping down after guiding development of a statewide food banking network that "kept hunger at bay" during the Great Recession. Hildebrand says the ...
• U.S. Farmers: Growing a Positive Impact on Cli ...
  U.S. Farmers: Growing a Positive Impact on Climate Change PHOENIX - America's agriculture industry contributes a relatively small amount of this country's greenhouse gases, but experts say various techniques that are growing in use can take a proactive approach to the issue - and farmers could p ...
• AZ Students Ready for Summer, but are Parents ...
  AZ Students Ready for Summer, but are Parents Prepared? PHOENIX - Children across the state are starting their summer vacation. For the younger ones, that means a transition into a new child-care or camp program or attending day care for the first time. To make that change go smoothly, said Chi ...
• Treating Poverty Like an Illness
  Treating Poverty Like an Illness PHOENIX, Ariz. - A Detroit-based social service agency is working on a pilot program to bring its unusual approach to dealing with poverty to Arizona and the rest of the nation. Matrix Social Services has created what it calls "Transition to Success," which treat ...
• Lawsuit Seeks to Eliminate Arsenic in Animal Feed
  Lawsuit Seeks to Eliminate Arsenic in Animal Feed PHOENIX – The Food and Drug Administration is facing a lawsuit because it continues to allow arsenic in animal feed given to chickens, turkeys and hogs. The suit was filed on behalf of a handful of advocacy groups, including the Institute ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Antarctic ice melting scare cancelled – climat ...
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• Climate change consensus study backfires on re ...
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• Panicking NZ climate scientists go for the doc ...
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• New climate change study shows Antarctic melt ...
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• Another fisk of Ken Perrott – the climate deni ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• Salton Sea in imminent danger of drying up, be ...
  The Salton Sea is a large, saline lake in southern California in a baking desert. It is a primary path for migratory birds who eat the fish there. It regularly has fish die-offs and in the summer it reeks. Seriously. It is definitely a weird place. It was formed in modern times when an aqueduct ...
• Finally – First US offshore wind turbine launc ...
  Ok, it’s just a 1/8 scale prototype floating wind turbine but it is an offshore wind turbine nonetheless. It only took a couple of decades to begin offshore wind in the US, while Scotland, Germany, and other countries zoomed ahead of us. But we are in the game now, with potentially huge wi ...
• Fifty years later, Kennedy assassination less ...
  Is Dead Kennedys Just a Hard Core Punk Band to Younger Americans?  50th anniversary commemorations of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will include a tickets-only memorial at the scene of the crime, Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas.  No doubt there will also be celebrations in some p ...
• 3D printing your head is big in Japan now
  Messymessychic and DannyChoo have much more on this intriguing / disturbing trend of 3D printing your head. Really, I’m speechless. And humbly accept I may never understand Japanese culture. Via: Disinformation
• FBI explanation about shooting Ibragim Todashe ...
  Official explanations of why Boston Bombing suspect friend Ibragim Todashev was shot have changed multiple times and none of them make sense. We need an independent investigation to determine what actually happened. It is difficult to understand how, having shot the man dead, the multiple law en ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims deni ...
  A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont. American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on board is itemized in alphabetical order and h ...
• Judge orders Google to release data to FBI
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Google to comply with FBI warrantless demands for customer data. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston on Tuesday rejected Google’s argument that the so-called “National Security Letters” the company received from the FBI were ...
• Exclusive Interview with “American Drug ...
  Bill Hicks Childhood friend Kevin Booth shares some of the “High” points of his GREAT new film – The Sequel to his award winning film “American Drug War”. www.AmericanDrugWar2.com – go to the website for new trailers, and to get rare tickets to the national De ...
• BOSTON BOMBINGS; Friend Says Ibragim Todashev ...
  “They [FBI] talked to him a lot on the phone… but when they want to see him, like meet him up, it was like, from what I know, like 5 times, but it could be more, at least 5 times… never be mentioned the three, the triple murder, never… he was afraid… one of the [...]
• Obama picks former Bush official James Comey a ...
  Barack Obama is preparing to name a former Bush administration who was heavily involved in some of the most controversial issues of that era, including illegal wiretapping and torture, as the new director of the FBI. But the Obama administration will emphasise that James Comey, who was deputy at ...

The Air Vent

• A Real Challenge to PSI
  This is awesome, the wife is downstairs watching a movie, I’ve finished my work and have a little time for blogging.   Not a lot, but some… There are too many pressures in my head.  Today a commenter, who is anonymous to me, left a slayer-style comment which has none of the Doug Cott ...
• Answers
  So all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere?   An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work.  The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending ...
• Guess John Cook’s Title — Contest
  John Cook (of the inaccurately named Skeptical Science blog) sent me a link to a new survey.  The survey has been discussed around the internet for the last couple of days because John was involved in the last Lewandowsky paper which combined poor methodology with libelous remarks directed at th ...
• Dana’s Planet
  Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...
• Dana’s Planet
  Skeptical Science has another silly post up which attempts to pick at the edges of Nic Lewis’s climate sensitivity paper.  They titled the critique “Climate Sensitivity Single Study Syndrome, Nic Lewis Edition”  We all know that Skeptical Science is filled with those who are ce ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Nasdaq, Waze, Activity socia ...
  Nasdaq fined for Facebook IPO - Nasdaq has been fined $10 million by the Securities Exchange Commission for alleged securities laws violations related to its mishandling of the Facebook IPO. The $10 million fine is the largest ever imposed...
• Brands gain traction on Facebook by sharing so ...
  Someecards are some of the most shared pieces of content by Facebook users, but brands are getting into the mix too. Facebook users love to talk about pop culture and crack jokes, and someecards has been...
• Join Us at Next Week’s Inside Social Apps Conf ...
  Next week, you’ll have the opportunity to hear the secrets to mobile monetization from industry experts, learn about the latest trends lighting the app world on fire, and showcase your app or brand in front of...
• Facebook careers: international counsel, media ...
  Facebook added 15 new positions to its careers page this week, primarily in sales roles across the world. Apart from the media solutions, client partner and other sales jobs, Facebook added listings for a communications associate, marketing manager,...
• Facebook hires: linguist, search quality rater ...
  Facebook removed 21 positions from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of search, user operations, infrastructure and marketing, among others. The company appears to have hired a linguist to “assist with a variety...

National Geographic | Environment

• Five Surprising Facts About Energy Poverty
  The countries that have made the most progress still have far to go to bring electricity and clean energy to their populations, a World Bank-led report details.
• Freed From a Glacier's Hold, Ancient Moss Grow ...
  How does ancient moss begin to grow again? Once a glacier's ice retreated, all it took was air and sunlight.
• Monterey Shale Shakes Up California's Energy F ...
  In the valley that once lured gold seekers, oil prospectors are converging on the Monterey shale—a sharp new twist in California's path to cleaner energy.
• Improved Models Predict Active 2013 Hurricane ...
  NOAA expects up to 20 named tropical storms, which could yield as many as six major hurricanes, as it utilizes new technology to improve forecasting.
• Carnivorous Plant Keeps House With Ants
  Diving ants keep nutritious fly larvae from escaping carnivorous pitcher plants.

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• A New Life for Chris Christie
  The political and psychological aftermath of weight-loss surgery -- the skinny from a journalist who's been there
• Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
  The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb
• Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
  After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information
• Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
  American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter
• Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
  The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again.

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Obama Is "White Power" Tool--of Carpetbaggers, ...
  In a provocative application of history that's a radical shift of perspective from my previous OEN article, which came down pretty hard on political "rednecks," I point out that, like these tragic poor Southern whites after the Civil War, we are all prey to political "carpetbaggers," who exploit ...
• Regret over Gary Webb's Demise
  For several decades, mainstream U.S. journalists have fled from the career-threatening label "liberal," even to the point of destroying honest colleagues who got in the crosshairs of the Right. The story of the late Gary Webb and his Contra-cocaine revelations was a troubling case in point.
• Time For Holder to Resign/Be Fired
  Eric Holder should resign. I say he should resign rather than be fired because it is totally obvious that Holder has been
• On the Road to Hell
  Trick Question: What's the difference between Iraq today and Syria today? Answer: They are only killing one another. And, frankly, that's the way it should be.
• The White Washing and Racialization of Disaste ...
  How does race, class and gender impact our reaction to the victims of disasters? Does the media white wash disasters rendering black victims invisible?

Switchboard

• Fracking legislation passes State Legislature ...
  Ann Alexander, Senior Attorney, Chicago  By an overwhelming margin, the Illinois state legislature has passed SB1715, the legislation putting in place regulations governing high volume fracking.  The House passed the bill yesterday 108 to ...
• Hellooo, Iceland! Please Stop Killing and Tra ...
  Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California Iceland’s President is in Portland, Maine today giving the keynote address at Maine’s International Trade Day. I’d love to talk about trade wi ...
• Latin America Green News: air pollution puts S ...
  Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. May 25-31, 2013 Chile Chile’s environmental aut ...
• Hurricane Season Begins June 1st
  Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The beginning of June is upon us. Cookouts, plans for summer vacations, high school and college graduations are all on our mind. But did you know the start of June marks the official beginning of hurricane s ...
• May 2013 Legislative Threats to the Endangered ...
  Elly Pepper, Legislative Advocate, Washington, DC As two bills with funding for Members’ pet projects received floor time in the Senate this month, Members lined up to file their amendments. As you might guess, many concerned the Endangered Sp ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Nordic Diet
  The whole “Mediterranean Diet,” “Nordic Diet,” or whatnot is pretty silly generally. How about just eating relatively healthy and getting some exercise? But if you are going to do one of these, who on earth outside of a Scandinavian would follow the Nordic Diet over the M ...
• Should You Feel Guilty about Liking Justin Bie ...
  I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with the phrase “guilty pleasure.” On the one hand, I’m fairly uncomfortable with people actually feeling guilty about liking things that give them pleasure. On the other hand, I recognize that the phrase can be shorthand for a rec ...
• Hey, it’s a Union!
  MLBPA stands up: A fight over health care benefits between unionized workers and management at a factory in Pennsylvania has gotten the attention of Major League Baseball’s players, who are urging the workers to “stick together” against an effort to double health premiums without increasing bene ...
• A Box of Grass
  The country music response to the hippies led to many songs that ranged from belligerent to hilarious to bizarre. Such as Buck Jones’ “A Box of Grass.”
• Foreign Entanglements: Able Archer 83
  On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Nate Jones and I go over the latest from National Security Archive…

Desert Research Institute

• Microbiologist at the Desert Research Institut ...
  Dr. Duane Moser, Environmental Microbiologist explores the habitat of the rare Devils Hole Pupfish, a species believed to be somewhere between 10,000 to 20,000 years old.
• Tribute to Dorothy S. Gallagher
  Today the entire DRI family is saddened to learn of the passing of our dear friend and long-time supporter Regent Dorothy S. Gallagher.
• Farnaz Hosseinpour, May 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
  Meet Farnaz Hosseinpour, a Ph.D. student working on climate modeling and simulation in DRI’s Atmospheric Sciences division. She’s using an ensemble of NASA satellite datasets to explore relationships between interactive-aerosol forcing and planetary-scale climatic responses. 
• DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-lon ...
  In a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydro-geologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 
• DRI and GreenPower sponsor Nevada’s first Indo ...
  On April 24th, a myriad of business vendors, farmers, investors and industry professionals on the forefront of solving water resource concerns in Southern Nevada, will gather in Downtown Las Vegas to discuss improving local food production and boosting the state’s food supply in the desert throu ...

Earth Techling

• 2013 Ford Fusion Sitting Pretty With Recycled ...
  The fabric in each vehicle contains the equivalent of up to about 40 clear, plastic bottles and other industrial wastes.
• The Stunning Rise In California Solar Generation
  New renewable energy generation records are ho-hum stuff in California – until you step back and see how dramatically they are rising.
• TV Industry Broadcasts The Way To Energy Effic ...
  Energy Star-rated televisions already save America over $3 billion in energy, and they're about to get even better.
• Seeking Deeper Green In Iraq’s Green Zone
  Iraq is longing for renewable and sustainable energy solutions, National Geographic Explorer Thomas H. Culhane found out just how much when he visited.
• First US Floating Wind Turbine Launches In Maine
  The first floating wind turbine in U.S. history goes upright and onto the water in Brewer, Maine, on Friday, on its way to being put in place and connected to the grid.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE CAREERIST: Why Not Take The Wife's Last Name?
  There is no reason that the husband's surname should be the automatic default in a marriage. Surely, you can't disagree with that, right?
• OPINION: Why Strong Shield Law Is Needed
  We must protect reporters in the name of holding the government accountable to the people.
• OPINION: Clarence Thomas and Affirmative Action
  As the Supreme Court justices deliberate on the Fisher case, they might consider the critical ways in which Justice Thomas offers an example of affirmative action working in the right way.
• THE PRACTICE: Judicial Selection Reform: All O ...
  States are unlikely to reach consensus, so they should aim to reduce role of money, regardless of selection method.
• Errors Kept Records Shielded From Public
  The U.S. Justice Department came under intense scrutiny last month following revelations that it had reviewed reporter telephone and email records in government leaks cases. One leak case turned heads for another reason: the discovery of errors by court staff that kept unsealed documents out of ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Theosophy and the Haunting of Greystone Manor
  Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel discusses the haunting of Greystone Manor, as well as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy in this two part article.
• US Enhances Iran's Access to Communication Tec ...
  In a press statement, Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki says the United States is taking a coordinated effort to enhance the ability of the Iranian people to access communication technology.
• Egypt's NGO Law 'Hostile' to Civic Groups
  President Morsi asserted that the new law would liberate a civil society that was stifled by former leader Mubarak, a former leader who was ousted by the prominent democratic uprising in 2011.
• US Offers $5M for Information Leading to Locat ...
  The notorious group have reportedly launched deadly attacks against the Pakistani military and civilians.
• Rave About 'All You Can Eat Sushi' At Rock and ...
  But enough already, let's journey to Japan by way of a variety of sushi.

environment 360

• Getting More ‘Crop-per-Drop’ In World’s Driest ...
  Improvements in irrigation in the world’s driest regions could significantly boost food production and water sustainability, according to a new study. In an analysis of how water is used for 16 staple food crops worldwide, including in regions with similar climates, a team of researchers identif ...
• Nuclear Power Has Prevented 1.84 Million Prema ...
  The use of nuclear power from 1971 to 2009 prevented more than 1.8 million premature deaths related to air pollution and 64 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a new study says. Using historical production data and estimates of mortality per unit of electricity generated, scientists from ...
• Will Huge New Hydro Projects Bring Power to Af ...
  A giant new hydro project on the Congo River is only the latest in a rush of massive dams being built across Africa. Critics contend small-scale renewable energy projects would be a far more effective way of bringing power to the hundreds of millions of Africans still without electricity. BY F ...
• Genetically Modified Salmon Can Breed with Wil ...
  Fast-growing, genetically modified salmon can interbreed with wild brown trout and produce offspring that grow rapidly and out-compete other wild salmon in streams, according to a new study. Researchers from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, found that so-called “Frankenfish” — which ...
• Growth in Electricity Availability Must Double ...
  The rate of expansion of access to electricity will have to double over the next 17 years if the world's population is to achieve 100 percent access to modern energy, a new report says. While about 1.7 billion people became connected to electricity sources worldwide between 1990 and 2010, that i ...

Red Ice Creations

• Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon diox ...
  Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming since the 1970s and not carbon dioxide, according to new research from the University of Waterloo published in the International Journal of Modern Physics B this week. CFCs are already known to deplete ozone, but in-depth statistical ana ...
• Giant pink slugs found in secret world
  High in the mists that shroud Mount Kaputar, near Narrabri in north-western NSW, scientists have discovered a secret world. By day it is an isolated pocket of snow gums, wrapped in straggling native vines. People tend to focus on the cute and cuddly bird and mammal species like koalas. But these ...
• "Laws of Physics for a Holographic Universe" - ...
  Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe. One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologr ...
• Cronyism, Intellectual Property and Government ...
  Current scandals aside, when the history of the Obama Administration is written the topic of crony capitalism will need a section to itself. From the high profile failures of green energy projects to the bailouts of Wall Street and Detroit, handing out taxpayer dollars to private industry is a h ...
• Police Impose Security Lock Down For Bilderber ...
  Infowars has obtained maps released by Hertfordshire Police which illustrate how the entire area surrounding the site of the 2013 Bilderberg Group conference in Watford, UK will be subject to a substantial security lock down which will restrict both protesters and members of the press from exerc ...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

• Upcoming Interview on 9/11 Free Fall, 5/30/2013
  This Thursday I will be featured on the No Lies Radio program "9/11 Free Fall" for the second time to discuss my recent paper published at scientificmethod911.org. Tune in this Thursday at 10:00 EST for a thorough discussion of why other steel-framed structure collapses are totally unjustified c ...
• Why Was a Sunday Times Report on US Government ...
  In a recent book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, published last year, charged senior gover ...
• Can we please quit with the "hoax" theories?!
  Over the past few months I've seen a disturbing rise in "hoax" theories. Ever since Sandy Hook, and the viral videos claiming that to be a hoax, every major event - the Boston bombings, the recent attack in London etc. - has attracted similar hoax theories. These theories are not helping our c ...
• Rememberin​g WW1 in the name of peace not war
  Stop the War bulletin | May 2013 no.2 | stopwar.org.uk Remember World War 1 in the name of peace not war A letter in today's Guardian (http://bit.ly/14v45Oh) launches a campaign to oppose David Cameron's plans for commemorations of World War 1 in 2014 that stress 'our national spirit'. Among ...
• Film — American Drone, Operation Paul Revere
  Related: Drones protest gains local and national support 7 March 2013 Drone Strikes To Kill U.S. Citizens on American Soil Legal Status Limits on Obama's Flying Killer Robots? Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'More Elastic' Concept Of Imminent Threats

Fooducate

• Recipe: Sumac-Spiced Chickpea and Black Bean Salad
• Why You Should Make Your Own Breadcrumbs
• What Happened to the Calories in French’s Mustard?
• What’s in That Big Mac? MUCH More Than You Think
• How Did This Smoothie Get So Pink?

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
  Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
• Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
  A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...
• Bushman eviction suspended
  The Botswana government has repeatedly attempted to evict Bushmen from their land, but many have defiantly resisted leaving their ancestral homes. © Dominick TylerBushmen from Ranyane in southern Botswana have been granted a court order which suspends Tuesday’s planned evictions of the community ...
• Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis
  Nixiwaka Yawanawá is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis.© Survival InternationalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a 26-year-old Yawanawá Indian from Brazil, is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis – the highest point in the British Isles.   Nixiwaka will be available for ...
• Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife c ...
  A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'.© SurvivalSurvival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife c ...

Greg Palast

• My Father's Victory in the Pacific
  By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
• My Big Fat Greek Minister
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine It wasn't too difficult picking out the Fat Bastard in the crowd of Russian models, craven moochers and media mavens. Besides, Fat Bastard and I were both desperate for coffee and heading for the same empty urn. (We'd both signed on for Kazakhstan's annual Eurasi ...
• "Now that the SOB is Dead..." A Novel Idea: As ...
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine "Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?" "Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden. The Taliban's frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid K ...
• Palast reports from KazakhstanFBI Spiked Chech ...
  By Greg Palast from Vice.com UK [Astana, Kazakhstan]  Following the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, I received documents marked "SECRET" from the files of the FBI's Washington field office. The information in those files will make you sick. [Click through to get a free download of the fi ...
• Billionaire Bankster Penny PritzkerBreaks into ...
  By Greg Palast  You made fun of me when I suggested that President Barack Obama would nominate a confessed bank scammer, a loan-sharking mortgage predator, to his cabinet.  But thar she blows! Today, Obama has named Penny Pritzker Secretary of Commerce. As the President says, It's a milestone:  ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Time Bashes Oprah Over Au ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. May 31, 2013, TIME: Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard's Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science May 30, 2013, Boston Globe (business): Cambridge firm's autism drug fails test, families upset May...
• Help Make "How Mercury Triggered the Age of Au ...
  By Dan Olmsted Does everyone have nine minutes to spare to stop the autism epidemic? I am counting on it. Last weekend, we debuted a nine minute (ok, nine minute and eight second) video at Autism One. We also ran...
• Military Kids with Autism Face Special Challenges
  By Sarah Stockwell Summer is almost here, which for almost all families with a child on the autism spectrum brings up the question of how to ensure your child has enough activities planned to keep life as consistent as possible....
• Dachel Media Update: Rising Autism in Boston, ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. May 30, 2013, CNN: Let's talk about autism in public spaces May 29, 2013, New Scientist: Rise of the autistic workforce May 28, 2013, CNN: March Against Monsanto May 28, 2013,...
• Freddie Williams, Age 14, Autism, Wanders, Drowns
  Managing Editor's Note: We have had the grim task of informing readers of three children with autism who wandered and drown in May. And now - a fourth. Freddie Williams, of Webb City, Missouri. Our condolences to his family. From...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

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.

new geography

• The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From ...
  Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that financialization is not a healthy trend, the sector boasts a high number of relatively well-paid jobs that most cities would welcome. Yet our lis ...
• The Vatican Bank: In God We Trust?
  When the cardinals sent billowing white smoke from their conclave and elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis I, little did the Catholic Church realize that two millennia of ecumenical liturgy might come unraveled on the heresy of offshore banking regulations. Among the many frustrations ...
• Addressing Housing Affordability Using Coopera ...
  Our country is six years into the Great Recession, the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. It’s been replete with reports of home foreclosures, collapsing commuter towns, and young people struggling to become home owners. The term “generation rent” is often ...
• Driving Trends in Context
  There are grains of reality, misreporting and exaggeration in the press treatment of a report on driving trends by USPIRG. The report generated the usual press reports suggesting that the millennial generation (ages 16 to 35) is driving less, moving to urban cores, and that with a decline in ...
• Southern California Economy Not Keeping Up
  One of Orange County's top executives asked me over lunch recently why Southern California has not seen anything like the kind of tech boom now sweeping large parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. In many ways, it is just one indication of how this region – once seen as the cutting edge o ...

water.org

• Margery's Two Loans
  Margery took out two WaterCredit loans that allowed her to install toilets and a water storage tank. Both have brought her and her family dignity, health and comfort.
• Water for Leah's Farm
  Leah lives in Ngawene village on the outskirts of Maua town with her two children – a daughter (25) and a son (18). Leah, pictured second from the right with ECLOF and Water.org staff, is a secondary level graduate and also holds an accountancy technician certificate. Leah is 50 years old, marri ...
• Celebrities endorse the toilet strike
  Richard Branson, Olivia Wilde and Bono join Water.org Co-founder Matt Damon to protest lack of access to safe water and adequate sanitation for 2.5 billion people
• Three Mothers, Three Stories
  The dignity and strength of women around the world is astounding - in celebration of Mother's Day, watch this video and hear the inspiring stories of three mothers who broke the cycle of poverty, and found a path to water.
• Breathing Easier in India
  In Tamil Nadu, community residents are often dependent on remote and unsafe connections for drinking water. Even when a public water tap is nearby, long lines can take up precious time that could be better spent on income generating opportunities.

Cryptogon

• Russia to Resume Nuclear Submarine Patrols in ...
  Via: Reuters: Russia plans to resume nuclear submarine patrols in the southern seas after a hiatus of more than 20 years following the break-up of the Soviet Union, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Saturday, in another example of efforts to revive Moscow’s military. The plan to send Borei ...
• bitNZ: New Zealand Dollar Bitcoin Exchange
  Disclosure: I have no affiliate relationship with bitNZ and I have not been paid anything to mention them. I am a bitNZ customer. I’d had enough of paying large wire fees with Mt.Gox, so I tried bitNZ.com instead. bitNZ worked great! NZD withdrawals to any NZ bank account are free. My only ...
• Justice Department Secret Document Details Unc ...
  Via: IB Times: The Justice Department may soon be forced to reveal a classified document that details unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. The Justice Department has fought to keep the document secret for about a year, but a recent court order demands that they respond to a formal ...
• In California, Obamacare To Increase Individua ...
  Via: Forbes: One of the most serious flaws with Obamacare is that its blizzard of regulations and mandates drives up the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. This problem will be especially acute when the law’s main provisions kick in on January 1, 2014, leading many to worry ab ...
• U.S. Government Clears Path for Iran to Back O ...
  Via: Ars Technica: On Thursday, the Obama Administration lifted digital sanctions that for more than two decades have prevented companies that do business in the US from also selling or distributing digital goods—including mobile phones, hosting services, VPNs, and software updates—to Iran. Rese ...

The Economic Collapse

• Top 1% Own 39% Of All Global Wealth: Hoarding ...
  According to a study that was just released by Boston Consulting Group, the wealthiest one percent now own 39 percent of all the wealth in the world.  Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent only own 1 percent of all the wealth in the world combined.  The global financial system has been designed to fu ...
• Why Is The Smart Money Suddenly Getting Out Of ...
  If wonderful times are ahead for U.S. financial markets, then why is so much of the smart money heading for the exits?  Does it make sense for insiders to be getting out of stocks and real estate if prices are just going to continue to go up?  The Dow is up about 17 percent so [...]
• The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The Unite ...
  37 million Americans currently have outstanding student loans, and the delinquency rate on those student loans has now reached a level never seen before.  According to a new report that was just released by the U.S. Department of Education, 11 percent of all student loans are at least 90 days de ...
• Basel III: How The Bank For International Sett ...
  A new set of regulations that most people have never even heard of that was developed by an immensely powerful central banking organization that most people do not even know exists is going to have a dramatic effect on the global financial system over the next several years.  The new set of regu ...
• The Japanese Financial System Is Beginning To ...
  The financial system of the third largest economy on the planet is starting to come apart at the seams, and the ripple effects are going to be felt all over the globe.  Nobody knew exactly when the Japanese financial system was going to begin to implode, but pretty much everyone knew that a day ...

Desertification

• Gender to be mainstreamed in all sustainable d ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://peopleforestsrights.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/intervention-by-the-womens-major-group-on-land-degradation-desertification-and-drought-at-the-un-owg-sdg-meeting-23-may-2013/ Intervention by the Women’s Major Group on Land Degradation, Desertifi ...
• Desertification and local food production (Goo ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report/93193/egypt-desertification-threat-to-local-food-production EGYPT: Desertification threat to local food production Only about 3 percent of Egypt’s land area is cultivated but desertification, and construction work fuelled by economic activity and a rapidl ...
• Cómo plantar nopal forrajero sin espinas / How ...
  Article published by Fabio RUIZ (some English additions by Willem Van Cotthem) http://colotlan.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/como-plantar-nopal/ Cómo plantar nopal (How to plant the spineless prickly pear cactus) by Eukalo Lo primero es seleccionar el ejemplar del que vamos a obtener la planta, que t ...
• Economics of Desertification and Drought (Goog ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2013/may/article/the-economics-of-desertification-land-degradation-and-drought/ The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation And Drought By: Bernadus Swartbooi and Henny H Seibeb AFTER the pr ...
• Effect of small dams on environment (Science D ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130530095018.htm Small Dams On Chinese River Harm Environment More Than Expected, Study Finds May 30, 2013 — A fresh look at the environmental impacts of dams on an ecologically diverse and partially protected river in China found … Co ...

News Blaze

• Theosophy and the Haunting of Greystone Manor
  Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel discusses the haunting of Greystone Manor, as well as Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy in this two part article.
• US Enhances Iran's Access to Communication Tec ...
  In a press statement, Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki says the United States is taking a coordinated effort to enhance the ability of the Iranian people to access communication technology.
• Egypt's NGO Law 'Hostile' to Civic Groups
  President Morsi asserted that the new law would liberate a civil society that was stifled by former leader Mubarak, a former leader who was ousted by the prominent democratic uprising in 2011.
• US Offers $5M for Information Leading to Locat ...
  The notorious group have reportedly launched deadly attacks against the Pakistani military and civilians.
• Rave About 'All You Can Eat Sushi' At Rock and ...
  But enough already, let's journey to Japan by way of a variety of sushi.

Worldnews

• Local bill on phasing out plastic bags de ...
  The bill on getting rid of plastic bags had been introduced by Senator Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles. Some people even view recycling as another tax of sorts. See, "Plastic bag bill another tax in green clothing." Bill on phasing out plastic bags defeated by plastics manufacturing lobby in Sac ...
• Candidates Air Grim Views of Iran's Econo ...
  By FARNAZ FASSIHI BEIRUT—The economy and foreign policy emerged as the top issues in Iran's June 14 presidential election with the eight candidates dedicating their first live televised debate on Friday to economic woes. The four-hour discussion exposed in a highly publicized way just how mu ...
• Correction: Japan-Sex Slaves story
  TOKYO — In a story May 8 about the use of sex slaves during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that then-Prime Minister Yohei Kono issued a 1993 statement expressing remorse for suffering caused to sexual slaves of Japanese troops. Kono was Chief Cabinet Secretary ...
• Sensex up 56 points during the week
  The S&P BSE benchmark Sensex ended higher by 56 points at 19,760.30 despite fag-end selling from operators in the wake of GDP falling to decade’s low and fading rate cut hopes with the RBI governor Subbarao stating that inflation was still...
• More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence i ...
  BAGHDAD: More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations reported on Saturday, stoking fears of a return to civil war. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in the last two months as al Q ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Mother’s Diet Can Build Strong Bones in ...
  Children born to mothers who get more vitamins from their diets develop stronger bones even years later, a new study shows.
• Healthy Quintuplets Born in Utah
  Quintuplets born in Salt Lake City hospital; only a handful of such sets delivered each year        
• Disney's Electronic Wristband Illustrates Why ...
  An electronic WristBand will track people around Disney World; contactless wallets like Google’s allow similar data collection in the real world. Disney just announced an electronic wristband for visitors to its theme parks that neatly illustrates why companies like Google and cellphone ...
• China 'hacks' US weapon system plans
  Chinese hackers have gained access to designs for more than two dozen US weapons systems, a US newspaper reports.
• Grandparents Getting in the Know About Diabetes
  As most of us are aware, a diabetes diagnosis is difficult for everyone, including loved ones of the PWD. (We like to call them type 3s!) That’s why we were excited to learn about Jay Rosenfeld from Houston, TX, who’s… The post Grandparents Getting in the Know About Diabetes a ...

Common Dreams

• Ahead of Trial, Supporters Rally for Pfc. Brad ...
  "Free Bradley Manning! Free Bradley Manning!" Those were the repeated words chants being heard outside Fort Meade in Maryland on Saturday as supporters of the confessed Army whistleblower gathered ahead of his trial that's set to begin on Monday. As the Guardian reports: ...
• 1,000 Iraqis Killed in May Shows Nation in Pol ...
  Iraq violence broke another sad record in May, with at least 1,000 people killed in ongoing political and sectarian violence during the month. With the previous month of April nearly as bad, the warnings that Iraq is already fighting an undeclared civil war are given new credence with each passi ...
• Across Europe, People 'Rising Up' Againt Auste ...
  Blockupy activists in Frankfurt meet the police barricade near the headquarters of the ECB in Frankfurt on Saturday. (Photo: AP) Europe's anti-austerity movement was flexing its muscles again on Saturday as tens of thousands joined street protests in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and els ...
• Hand 'Em Over: Judge Rules Google Must Comply ...
  In a defeat for privacy advocates and a warning to those worried about the encroaching ability of federal law enforcement agencies to spy on electronic communications without search warrants or judicial oversight, a judge has ruled against Google Inc. saying the internet giant must hand over cus ...
• 'Not About Trees Anymore' as Turkey Protests I ...

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Energy Collective

• Global Grid Energy Storage Market to Reach $10 ...
  Lux Research have released a new report which states that grid storage demand will grow to $10.4 billion in 2017. The market has grown surprisingly fast, starting from a modest $200 million in 2012, making the $10.4 billion figure extraordinary.
• Climate Change: US Drought More Costly Than Hu ...
  The current drought pattern may be the costliest U.S. natural disaster of 2012 and 2013. Its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it the country’s costliest natural disaster – even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.
• New York Strengthens Electric Grid for Storm S ...
  Several electric utility executives and trade associations met with President Obama in early May to discuss how response to extreme weather situations can be improved, and some utilities are wasting no time.
• Brazil: Applications for 392 MW of Solar Energ ...
  Brazil, which has been a wind energy leader for a long time, has started to get going in the solar energy arena. In one recent week, it saw a tremendous surge of applications for solar power projects that totaled 392.4 MW.
• EU May Make German Industry Pay for Renewables
  Making households pay a disproportionate amount of the bill for renewable energy is quite obviously unfair and will lead to an inevitable political backlash against subsidizing renewables.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Global Warming Will Be Hell, Dramatic New Data ...
  Eric Zuesse A World Bank researcher has found what may be the most ominous evidence yet of the impact that global warming will have. (Since 97% of climatologists say that it is happening, the operative phrase here is "will have," not "would have": global warming is happening, and will almost ce ...
• CIA Global Renditions
  by Stephen Lendman Extraordinary renditions include arbitrary abductions and extrajudicial transfers from one country to another. Targeted individuals are called terrorists. Corroborating evidence isn't needed. What Washington says goes. Rogue hegemons operate that way. International, ...
• Israel Threatens Syria
  by Stephen Lendman Self-defense is inviolable. It's a fundamental right. International law affirms it. On May 29, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington supports Israel's right to defend itself. Israeli-style defense is offense. It hasn't been attacked in 40 years. It fa ...
• Ireland and the Basque Country: Massive Fligh ...
  James Petras Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort. Unde ...
• Bilderberg June 6 - 9 Conference
  by Stephen Lendman Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It's a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the "high priests of globalization." Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda. They discuss key issues. They do it year round. Once annually they mee ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Video: Shrinking the divide between the inner ...
  On October 13th, 2012, CCPA-MB facilitated an intergenerational learning and youth exchange at Thunderbird House in Winnipeg. In attendance were four elders and 30 students from Community Education Development Association's (CEDA) Pathways to Education program, and from College Beliveau and Gr ...
• Migrant Voices: Stories of Agricultural Migran ...
  Each year approximately 400 Mexican men, migrant labourers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), work on farms in Manitoba. Workers spend up to eight months in Canada, returning year after year for the agricultural season. These labourers perform physically strenuous work ...
• A solution to Toronto's $2.5 billion public tr ...
  A new report by CCPA-Ontario economist Hugh Mackenzie lays out a range of revenue generating options that could readily fund plans to expand public transit in the Greater Toronto Area and Hamilton. Mackenzie assesses all of the funding options currently on the table, weighs the pros and cons of ...
• Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada
  The Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights has a new e-bulletin with some interesting updates. Given the interest lately in temporary foreign workers and their impact on Canada's labout market, Ken Georgetti's update, Migrant workers account for most new jobs: CLC is particularly relevant. ...
• New video from our Budget Forum featuring Kevi ...
  On April 25th, the CCPA hosted a forum on the changing nature of federal budgets, featuring former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. As the keynote speaker, Mr. Page delivered a captivating talk about his time as Canada’s first PBO, and we are grateful to him for sharing his experience wi ...

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FourWinds10

• Backyard picture of the Mayflower, AR oil spil ...
• Arkansas oil spill: Timeline
  April 7, 2013 Friday marks one week since an ExxonMobil pipeline burst in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of toxic tar sands. Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon. April 7 Members of Pipeliners Union 798 told ...
• Tar Sands Oil Arkansas
  April 7, 2013 Exxon pipeline heavy crude oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. (photo: 350.org National security demands secrecy in the heart of Arkansas ithin a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government ...
• UNGRIP Declaring Our Inherent Independence
  Dec. 10, 2012 Extremely powerful. Please pass it on. This is a template for taking action, abiding by conscious awareness of our inherent rights as sovereign human beings. – Zen VIEW HERE http://www.
• Fraud at State? Taxpayers Take Pipeline
  March 13, 2013 Keystone pipeline: U.S. pays foxes to assess henhouse as delicious o it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact statement issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That's the report that assured people tar sands ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

• Global Grid Energy Storage Market to Reach $10 ...
  Lux Research have released a new report which states that grid storage demand will grow to $10.4 billion in 2017. The market has grown surprisingly fast, starting from a modest $200 million in 2012, making the $10.4 billion figure extraordinary.
• Climate Change: US Drought More Costly Than Hu ...
  The current drought pattern may be the costliest U.S. natural disaster of 2012 and 2013. Its damage estimates could be near $200 billion, making it the country’s costliest natural disaster – even more costly than Hurricane Sandy.
• New York Strengthens Electric Grid for Storm S ...
  Several electric utility executives and trade associations met with President Obama in early May to discuss how response to extreme weather situations can be improved, and some utilities are wasting no time.
• Brazil: Applications for 392 MW of Solar Energ ...
  Brazil, which has been a wind energy leader for a long time, has started to get going in the solar energy arena. In one recent week, it saw a tremendous surge of applications for solar power projects that totaled 392.4 MW.
• EU May Make German Industry Pay for Renewables
  Making households pay a disproportionate amount of the bill for renewable energy is quite obviously unfair and will lead to an inevitable political backlash against subsidizing renewables.

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Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
• Stay Value Neutral When Counseling Clients
  From Chris Stonecipher's http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifFactoidz page: It is important to be value neutral wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth clients to avoid harm by mixing your own values and beliefs with clients that is potentially damaging to th ...
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

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Groklaw

• Can You Really Sue Kickstarter for IP Infringe ...
  When Formlabs raised $2,945,885 on Kickstarter for its high resolution 3-D printer in October 2012, neither company was expecting a lawsuit. Still, 3D Systems, one of the biggest names in 3-D printing, sued both companies, accusing them of patent infringement. Debate swept the maker communit ...
• This American Life airing sequel to Intellectu ...
  Public radio's This American Life this weekend will broadcast a sequel to its July 2011 investigation into the patent industry and Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent holding and technology company run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold. Judging from a description post ...
• Retired Justice warns against 'politicians in ...
  O'Connor said she opposes the election of judges, and she believes the practice may create a misunderstanding of the role of a judge. "I think there are many who think of judges as politicians in robes. In many states, that's what they are," she said. People should expect a judge to rule on le ...
• Megaupload founder wins access to evidence sei ...
  Repeating its decision that warrants used in the raid on Dotcom's home were illegal, the High Court ruled that police must provide copies of evidence considered relevant to the U.S. investigation. These include materials forwarded to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Any evidence seized in t ...
• Ubuntu marks 'bug 1' resolved, Microsoft no lo ...
  Shuttleworth wrote in a comment for "bug 1" that these alternative platforms mark a healthy competition, and that it is important for them to recognize the shift that has taken place. "Android may not be my or your first choice of Linux, but it is without doubt an open source platform that ...

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Politics in the Zeros

• Salton Sea in imminent danger of drying up, be ...
  The Salton Sea is a large, saline lake in southern California in a baking desert. It is a primary path for migratory birds who eat the fish there. It regularly has fish die-offs and in the summer it reeks. Seriously. It is definitely a weird place. It was formed in modern times when an aqueduct ...
• Finally – First US offshore wind turbine launc ...
  Ok, it’s just a 1/8 scale prototype floating wind turbine but it is an offshore wind turbine nonetheless. It only took a couple of decades to begin offshore wind in the US, while Scotland, Germany, and other countries zoomed ahead of us. But we are in the game now, with potentially huge wi ...
• Fifty years later, Kennedy assassination less ...
  Is Dead Kennedys Just a Hard Core Punk Band to Younger Americans?  50th anniversary commemorations of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will include a tickets-only memorial at the scene of the crime, Dealey Plaza, in Dallas, Texas.  No doubt there will also be celebrations in some p ...
• 3D printing your head is big in Japan now
  Messymessychic and DannyChoo have much more on this intriguing / disturbing trend of 3D printing your head. Really, I’m speechless. And humbly accept I may never understand Japanese culture. Via: Disinformation
• FBI explanation about shooting Ibragim Todashe ...
  Official explanations of why Boston Bombing suspect friend Ibragim Todashev was shot have changed multiple times and none of them make sense. We need an independent investigation to determine what actually happened. It is difficult to understand how, having shot the man dead, the multiple law en ...

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• A good start for all Kiwi kids is a can do
  A good start for all Kiwi kids is a can do. KidsCan is once more stepping into the breach left by the Government and trying to plug gaps to help our most vulnerable children get a good start in life. The charity, which has led the charge on food in schools, is now looking at [...]
• Dogs’ Day
  Some of you would have seen the pictures of packs of dogs sniffing around Parliament last week. They came to hand a petition over to me calling for animal testing to be ruled out of the legal high legislation currently being considered by Parliament. The amount of media and people that came to t ...
• Does our country really hate us?
  I am compelled to consider it after this week of Air NZ and the Ta Moko debacle, and yesterday’s racist cartoons and then reading this morning of Dunne’s new program to help reduce the rate of suicide among Maori and Pacifica people’s. Yes they are connected. Our kids saw those ...
• Devoy should investigate complaints not preten ...
  This is my complaint to the Human Rights Commissioner. I emailed it to the HRC at 12.26pm and received an acknowledgement at 2.26pm. I’m not sure what information the HR Commissioner was using when she said her office had received no complaints by 1pm, especially as the Mana Party had also ...
• Good Charities Dirty Money
  It’s a sad day in New Zealand when we have to rely on charity to feed children at school and provide shoes and raincoats because their families don’t have enough to live on. I agree with Brian Rudman’s column today where he connects the dots between yesterday’s announcement to allocate $2 millio ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Brazil police shoot Indians – more violence feared
  Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABrPolice in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of t ...
• Brazilian journalist sentenced for racism agai ...
  A journalist described Brazil's Indians as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’© Fiona Watson/SurvivalA journalist in Brazil has been found guilty of discrimination against Indians, who he described as ‘ignorant’ and ‘dirty’. In an article published by the news site Jornal NH, Ivar Paulo Hartmann stated ...
• Bushman eviction suspended
  The Botswana government has repeatedly attempted to evict Bushmen from their land, but many have defiantly resisted leaving their ancestral homes. © Dominick TylerBushmen from Ranyane in southern Botswana have been granted a court order which suspends Tuesday’s planned evictions of the community ...
• Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis
  Nixiwaka Yawanawá is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis.© Survival InternationalNixiwaka Yawanawá, a 26-year-old Yawanawá Indian from Brazil, is set to be the first Amazon Indian to climb Ben Nevis – the highest point in the British Isles.   Nixiwaka will be available for ...
• Bushmen face imminent eviction for 'wildlife c ...
  A Bushman community in southern Botswana is facing imminent eviction from their land for a 'wildlife corridor'.© SurvivalSurvival International has received disturbing reports about an imminent eviction of several hundred Bushmen in southern Botswana to make way for a ‘wildlife c ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Searching for a saviour as our next ...
  A host of qualities has been suggested for what would make an ideal mayor for Montreal, but with time running short for candidates to emerge, Montrealers might have to settle for someone less than ideal.
• Opinion: Attacks on Christians in Egypt are pa ...
  What was originally dubbed as the Arab Spring has evolved into a series of deadly seasons, especially for the indigenous Christians of the Middle East.
• Editorial: Truth and reconciliation - from pas ...
  Many non-aboriginal Canadians remain all too ignorant of the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools, whose damaging legacy continues to be felt in aboriginal communities across the country.
• Editorial: In fighting terror, vigilance takes ...
  The RCMP announcement Monday that it has thwarted a terror plot targeting train travel near Toronto highlights not only the value of diligent police work, but also the value of human intelligence sources in foiling such plots.
• Editorial: Common sense prevails in Lachine Ho ...
  Health Minister Réjean Hébert has accepted the view of people in the community who saw in the transfer an upgrade of their health services, not a threat.

Food World Order

• Japan cancels tender to purchase U.S. GMO wheat
  from reuters.com: A strain of genetically modified wheat found in the United States fuelled concerns over food supplies across Asia on Thursday, with major importer Japan cancelling a tender offer to buy U.S. grain. Other top Asian wheat importers South Korea, China and the Philippin ...
• #Video: Despite FDA Approval, Many Distrustful ...
  from youtube.com/cnn: New York Times investigative reporter Michael Moore says there are, as yet, no studies linking GMO to health problems.
• GM Salmon, Genetic Engineering of Farm Animals ...
  from NaturalSociety.com: By summer of 2013, US governing bodies, or, the alphabet soup of corruption (USDA, FDA, etc.) are expected to grant permission for scientists to roll out genetically modified salmon and allow for genetic engineering in farm animals for human consumption. The ...
• #MarchAgainstMonsanto: The Grassroots Uprising
  from The Corbett Report and GRTV.ca: Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. N ...
• Top 10 reasons to join the March Against Monsa ...
  from NaturalNews.com: The global March Against Monsanto happens tomorrow! Nearly three hundred cities will host what's sure to be hundreds of thousands of protesters and activists around the globe who are taking a stand against Monsanto and GMOs. YOU can join in the activities, too! Che ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Top 1% Own 39% Of All Global Wealth: Hoarding ...
  According to a study that was just released by Boston Consulting Group, the wealthiest one percent now own 39 percent of all the wealth in the world.  Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent only own 1 percent of all the wealth in the world combined.  The global financial system has been designed to fu ...
• Why Is The Smart Money Suddenly Getting Out Of ...
  If wonderful times are ahead for U.S. financial markets, then why is so much of the smart money heading for the exits?  Does it make sense for insiders to be getting out of stocks and real estate if prices are just going to continue to go up?  The Dow is up about 17 percent so [...]
• The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The Unite ...
  37 million Americans currently have outstanding student loans, and the delinquency rate on those student loans has now reached a level never seen before.  According to a new report that was just released by the U.S. Department of Education, 11 percent of all student loans are at least 90 days de ...
• Basel III: How The Bank For International Sett ...
  A new set of regulations that most people have never even heard of that was developed by an immensely powerful central banking organization that most people do not even know exists is going to have a dramatic effect on the global financial system over the next several years.  The new set of regu ...
• The Japanese Financial System Is Beginning To ...
  The financial system of the third largest economy on the planet is starting to come apart at the seams, and the ripple effects are going to be felt all over the globe.  Nobody knew exactly when the Japanese financial system was going to begin to implode, but pretty much everyone knew that a day ...

CASSE

• Do We Need a Steady State Economy? One Politic ...
  An interview with a refreshingly astute politician: Andrew Weaver, climate scientist and first Green member of British Columbia's legislature.
• What Kind of Example Is Canada Setting?
  A look at Canada, a nation with such potential to be a sustainability leader, reveals a tragedy of wasted potential.
• Moronic Oxymorons in the Age of Climate Change
  Four hundred parts per million... it's hard to fathom. Now more than ever we have to be wary of the "solutions" offered by the fossil fuel companies.
• Supply Shock: The Journey
  Writing a book can be a harrowing voyage, especially if you're paddling upstream against the flood-stage current of conventional economic thinking.
• Environmental Ignorance Is Economic Bliss
  Economics departments are churning out graduates who are not getting the whole story on their discipline's environmental failures.

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

• 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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Investigators seek trigger for Texas blast
  A huge cloud of ammonia vented from the fertiliser plant in West, Texas, is one theory for what caused last week's fatal explosion    
• Deeper, sharper, smarter news from New Scientist
  Short Sharp Science is no longer being updated, but our in-depth coverage of the latest breaking science and technology news will be getting even better    
• Today on New Scientist: 18 April 2013
  All the latest stories on newscientist.com: evolution by flower power, Texas blast, robot builders for architects' dreams, and more    
• Bionic hands enter the app age
  Powered thumbs that can be switched between preset grips at the tap of an app could make prosthetic hands more usable for their wearers    
• Today on New Scientist: 17 April 2013
  The latest stories on newscientist.com: Wikipedian woes, oldest human skin, bespoke organ transplants, when a black hole is born, and more    

Tech Drive In

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

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

• Bilderberg 2013: Attendees Scared as Protestor ...
  Intellihub.com May 30, 2013 BRITAIN — For the first time in fifteen years the secretive Bilderberg Group will be meeting on British soil at the Watford Hotel, starting June 6th. Amongst the attendees will be some of the most diabolic, powerful, wealthy, royalty, politicians, head’s of state, and ...
• Monsanto set to halt GM push in Europe
  Monsanto plans to halt lobbying for its genetically modified plant varieties in Europe due to low demand from local farmers, a representative from the US agricultural giant told a German daily. “We are no longer working on lobbying for more cultivation in Europe,” Brandon Mitchner a representati ...
• Visible Origami | Going in Reverse, from the C ...
  By Visible It’s been nearly two and a half months of bad weather. The last 30 days, absent two or three, have been steady rain, or gray skies waiting on rain. One could say that both media, almost completely composed of manufactured lies on the one hand and partially (actual percentage unk ...
• EDITORIAL: Holder’s contempt for the tru ...
  The Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN have turned their backs on one of President Obama’s top Cabinet officials. It’s no surprise to conservatives, but the true meaning of Chicago-style politics is dawning on the news outlets that have refused to participate in an off-the-record chat ...
• Basel III: How The Bank For International Sett ...
  Michael Snyder Economic Collapse A new set of regulations that most people have never even heard of that was developed by an immensely powerful central banking organization that most people do not even know exists is going to have a dramatic effect on the global financial system over the next se ...

Veterans Today

• These 34 commandments must be obeyed, says the ...
  Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. Over 100 have put their mark on it.
• The Woolrich Terror Attack 2
  The Woolrich Terror Attack 2 — By Michael Shrimpton —   Thanks to JS for pointing out that the spelling of the headlines is done by VT’s hardworking volunteers!   “Woolrich” of course is a sock, Woolwich is the suburb of London where last week’s disgraceful terrorist attack took ...
• The Big One
  The Big One Holder’s “El Cid” U.S.  Attorney  Ron  Machen Jr., Why There Will Be No Grand Jury on Fast and Furious, Benghazi,  the AP and Fox Wire Taps,  or  Judicial Corruption. By  Stew Webb  – Federal Whistleblower-Activist   At the center of today’s headlines, the point man on the grou ...
• Russia plans to sign deal with Syria to sell M ...
  Russia plans to sign a deal with Syria to sell at least 10 multi-purpose MIG-29 M/M2 fighter jets to the country.
• Prophet For A Dying Empire – Chalmers Jo ...
  Chalmers Johnson was a truth teller and prophet in a political environment where few would stand up to the interests and secrecy of the Pentagon and the intelligence community ~ and since his passing in November of 2010, many of his prophetic fears have been realized in the Obama administration.

electric politics

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

PR News

• French pharma industry turns to comms to help ...
  Pharmaceutical companies and their PR partners are working hard to increase positive perceptions of the industry in France, one of the most populous countries in Europe, following a scandal that shattered trust in the industry.
• Water & Wall adds two accounts to roster
  NEW YORK: Investment consulting firm NEPC and independent research firm Wolfe Research have hired Water & Wall Group.
• Ketchum partners with Maslansky in Europe
  LONDON: Ketchum and research-based communications firm Maslansky + Partners have formed a joint venture in London and Paris to serve clients across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
• More change ahead for P&G's marcomms function
  Top financial analysts say that if newly returned CEO AG Lafley is to reverse slowing revenue growth at the CPG giant he will need to make changes to both the company's marketing spend and strategy.
• Ford boosts Millennial outreach in Fiesta camp ...
  DEARBORN, MI: Ford Motor Company is increasing its use of experiential tactics to reach Millennials in its campaign for the 2014 Fiesta vehicle.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...
• Allen speaks about the day the Afghanistan cam ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Bike Month
  Velofest Edmonton League and Organization (VELO) 1 Jun 2013 (All day) - 30 Jun 2013 (All day) June is Bike Month in Edmonton. Check out the Bikeology website for events throughout t ...
• EcoLiving Tour
  EcoLiving Events 8 Jun 2013 - 09:00 - 15:00 From the EcoLiving website: This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions a ...
• Update on the Alberta Energy Regulator
  Alberta Environmental Network 1 Jun 2013 - 10:00 - 12:00 In December 2012, the Government of Alberta passed the Responsible Energy Development Act which creates a single regulator f ...
• Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
  Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...
• Call for Comments: Proposed Ambient Air Qualit ...
  Organization:  Alberta Environment & Sustainable Resource Development Initiative:  Alberta Ambient Air Quality Ob ...

Stop NATO

• Satrap Georgia Marks “Independence&#8221 ...
  Ministry of Defence of Georgia May 31, 2013 Swearing Allegiance Independence Day of Georgia marked in Afghanistan ==== High-ranking military servicemen from the United States, Great Britain and Jordan attended a solemn ceremony. ==== NATO’s global “freedom” The Independence Day ...
• Jules Romains: Romantic view of war played a d ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts *** Jules Romains: Destruction of war itself, its deletion from the pages of history Jules Romains: Fraternization versus fratricide, the forbidden subject of peace Jules Romains: War means a golden age for the munitions makers === ...
• “Russian Threat” Used To Drag Swed ...
  The Local May 31, 2013 Swedish parties want to get closer to Nato Prime Minister of Sweden, Frederik Reinfeldt, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen With Sweden’s main political parties in agreement that developments in Russia are going in the wrong direction, a key defence pol ...
• NATO Consolidates Partnerships With Bangladesh ...
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization May 31, 2013 Junior diplomats from Pakistan and Bangladesh visit NATO ==== Discussions…touched on the 2011 air campaign over Libya, the possibility of NATO getting involved in Syria, and NATO’s maritime counter-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa&#823 ...
• Henri Barbusse: Pay for a glory which is not y ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Henri Barbusse: Selections on war ==== Henri Barbusse From Light (1918) Translated by Fitzwater Wray The primeval cataclysm has begun again upon the earth. My vision — beautiful as a fair dream which shows men’s composed reli ...

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• India: Maoist Statement on the Elimination of ...
  COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) DANDAKARANYA SPECIAL ZONAL COMMITTEE   May 26, 2013 Elimination of fascist Salwa Judum leader Mahendra Karma: Legitimate response to the inhuman atrocities, brutal murders and endless terror perpetrated on the Adivasis of Bastar! Attack on top Congress leaders:I ...
• India: Maoist Statement on the Elimination of ...
  COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) DANDAKARANYA SPECIAL ZONAL COMMITTEE   May 26, 2013 Elimination of fascist Salwa Judum leader Mahendra Karma: Legitimate response to the inhuman atrocities, brutal murders and endless terror perpetrated on the Adivasis of Bastar! Attack on top Congress leaders:I ...
• Brazil’s ‘lost report’ into ...
  Figueiredo report reveals alleged crimes against indigenous tribes from 1940s to 1980s and sheds light on current land policy Jonathan Watts and Jan Rocha, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 May 2013 [Umutima shaman in 1957: the Figueiredo report caused an outcry after it revealed crimes against Brazi ...
• Brazil’s ‘lost report’ into ...
  Figueiredo report reveals alleged crimes against indigenous tribes from 1940s to 1980s and sheds light on current land policy Jonathan Watts and Jan Rocha, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 May 2013 [Umutima shaman in 1957: the Figueiredo report caused an outcry after it revealed crimes against Brazi ...
• Political Prisoner Alert — Bradley Manni ...
  by Erin Lahman in Politics, PolicyMic Bradley Manning Trial An American Hero Gets Court Martialed On June 3 On June 3, the highly anticipated court-martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who was arrested in July 2010, will take place. A previous PolicyMic article delivered specific details on the ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

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

Popsci - Science

• The Week In Numbers: The Fastest Human, Nerf's ...
  5 hours and 39 minutes: the time, from launch to docking, it took this week's Soyuz crew to get from Earth to the International Space Station. A new world record! 9.48 seconds: the limit to how fast a natural human could possibly run the 100-meter race, according to a Stanford biologist. That's ...
• Happening Now: An Asteroid And Its Moon Sail P ...
  The pair will come their closest at 4:59 pm ET today. An asteroid is sailing past Earth today, and it's bringing along some luggage. At 4:59 pm ET, asteroid 1998 QE2 will be a mere 3.6 million miles away from our home planet. And it's not alone. It is bringing with it a moon that orbits it as ...
• How People Die On Mount Everest [Infographic]
  Avalanches, exposure, heart attacks, and the other tragic ways Everest has claimed climbers' lives. Last week, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest. Amazing, but other people weren't so lucky. As of 2012, an estimated 235 people have died on the mountain. ...
• Want MLB Players To Suck Less And Stay In The ...
  Or some kind of downtime, at least. Two studies find negative effects for MLB players when they get worn out. The slog of the baseball season isn't easy on a player, unless he's some kind of robot. Turns out the longer teams play through the MLB's 162 games, the worse they do. A new study tra ...
• The Amazing Potential Of Wave Energy, In Numbers
  Some major wave energy installations are planned for the U.K. and the U.S. Plans for the world's biggest wave farm got the go-ahead from the Scottish government, the BBC reported last week. Exactly how big is the farm? It will create more than twice as much energy as nearby homes will be able t ...

Veterans Today

• These 34 commandments must be obeyed, says the ...
  Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. Over 100 have put their mark on it.
• The Woolrich Terror Attack 2
  The Woolrich Terror Attack 2 — By Michael Shrimpton —   Thanks to JS for pointing out that the spelling of the headlines is done by VT’s hardworking volunteers!   “Woolrich” of course is a sock, Woolwich is the suburb of London where last week’s disgraceful terrorist attack took ...
• The Big One
  The Big One Holder’s “El Cid” U.S.  Attorney  Ron  Machen Jr., Why There Will Be No Grand Jury on Fast and Furious, Benghazi,  the AP and Fox Wire Taps,  or  Judicial Corruption. By  Stew Webb  – Federal Whistleblower-Activist   At the center of today’s headlines, the point man on the grou ...
• Russia plans to sign deal with Syria to sell M ...
  Russia plans to sign a deal with Syria to sell at least 10 multi-purpose MIG-29 M/M2 fighter jets to the country.
• Prophet For A Dying Empire – Chalmers Jo ...
  Chalmers Johnson was a truth teller and prophet in a political environment where few would stand up to the interests and secrecy of the Pentagon and the intelligence community ~ and since his passing in November of 2010, many of his prophetic fears have been realized in the Obama administration.

War is Business

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Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Disruptive snow possible at the weekend
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Internat'l Political Economy

• Why Eastern Europe Spanks US in Software Devel ...
  Last Thursday our home computer running Windows XP was infected by a fairly old autorun.inf virus. For, we accidentally brought home an infected USB thumb drive from the workplace, which has computers running unpatched versions of XP. Unfortunately for us, we were also running copies of Micros ...
• Culture War: Muslim Brotherhood v Cairo Opera ...
   The scoreline reads: Muslim Brotherhood 1, Giuseppe Verdi 0.   It is no big secret that Egypt's currently ascendant Muslim Brotherhood has shown a knack for shooting itself in the foot with its fundamentalist proclivities. Without any real, organized opposition to it--least of all th ...
• Econo-Champions League: All Germany, No Spain
  Yesterday evening the de facto Queen of Europe, Angela Merkel, sat in the VIP section of London's Wembley Stadium as two German teams--perennial European giants Bayern Munich and upstarts Borussia Dortmund--contested the Champions League final. That Bayern Munich finally succeeded in its third a ...
• Language Games: Should French Unis Teach in En ...
  I have long been fascinated with the France's Academie Francaise, a body intended to guard the French language from the barbarisms of other, uncouth languages. The erstwhile linguistic barbarians have changed over the centuries: whereas the Academic Francaise was developed as a bulwark to Spanis ...
• Geopolitics of Eurovision: Echoes of Yugoslavia
  Formerly known as the Cold War Studies programme, LSE IDEAS has always been focused on post-1989 events in that part of Europe. As out founders keep saying, understanding the Cold War is key to understanding the current era of globalization. I need not remind anyone that the wars there were espe ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• Top 1% Own 39% Of All Global Wealth: Hoarding ...
  According to a study that was just released by Boston Consulting Group, the wealthiest one percent now own 39 percent of all the wealth in the world.  Meanwhile, the bottom 50 percent only own 1 percent of all the wealth in the world combined.  The global financial system has been designed to fu ...
• Why Is The Smart Money Suddenly Getting Out Of ...
  If wonderful times are ahead for U.S. financial markets, then why is so much of the smart money heading for the exits?  Does it make sense for insiders to be getting out of stocks and real estate if prices are just going to continue to go up?  The Dow is up about 17 percent so [...]
• The Student Loan Delinquency Rate In The Unite ...
  37 million Americans currently have outstanding student loans, and the delinquency rate on those student loans has now reached a level never seen before.  According to a new report that was just released by the U.S. Department of Education, 11 percent of all student loans are at least 90 days de ...
• Basel III: How The Bank For International Sett ...
  A new set of regulations that most people have never even heard of that was developed by an immensely powerful central banking organization that most people do not even know exists is going to have a dramatic effect on the global financial system over the next several years.  The new set of regu ...
• The Japanese Financial System Is Beginning To ...
  The financial system of the third largest economy on the planet is starting to come apart at the seams, and the ripple effects are going to be felt all over the globe.  Nobody knew exactly when the Japanese financial system was going to begin to implode, but pretty much everyone knew that a day ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

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Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

• 2013-05-31 June 1: Mass Protest for Bradley Ma ...
  Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ADVISORY FOR: May 31, 2013 Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 press@bradleymanning.org June 1: mass protest for Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade, MD read more
• 2013-05-14 Statement of Lisa L Williams on Bra ...
  "News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride parade, named by the LGBT Pride Celebration Committee", wrote Glenn Greenwald. "When the predictable backlash instantly ensued, ...
• 2013-05-10 Request for Credentials - United St ...
  Subject: Request for Credentials - United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning's Court Martial (UNCLASSIFIED) From: "USARMY Ft McNair mdw Mailbox Mediadesk OMB" Date: Fri, May 10, 2013 10:27 pm To: Undisclosed recipients:; Priority: Normal Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Media Advi ...
• 2013-05-10 Assange Speech for Global Exchange ...
  Thank you for this honor. I am very happy to be sharing it with Noam Chomsky whose generosity and strength of character I have felt personally. Noam, you are the sea--relentless and enduring. You have crashed wave after wave of understanding into towering cliffs of lies, eroding them at their ba ...
• 2013-05-02 LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks sol ...
  Bradley Manning Support Network www.bradleymanning.org ( http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Fuller, 516-578-2628 ( tel:516-578-2628 ) press@bradleymanning.org LGBT leaders champion WikiLeaks soldier after SF Pride controversy Last Wednesday, it was publicly ...

U N News

• Career diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago appoi ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed career diplomat Sandra Honoré of Trinidad and Tobago as the new head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, it was announced today.
• Ban thanks head of UN-backed panel for his eff ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep appreciation for dedication and efforts of Francisco Dall'Anese, who has announced that he will step down as the head of the United Nations-backed commission charged with dismantling illegal armed groups and tackling impunity in Guatemala.
• At Absence' exhibit, UN chief urges full adopt ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Member States to join an international treaty aimed at eliminating enforced disappearances and stop impunity for this scourge.
• Countries must build on successes of decoloniz ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today encouraged Caribbean countries to build on the successes of decolonization, in remarks to a United Nations-sponsored regional seminar in Quito, Ecuador.
• Colombia: Ban welcomes agreement between gover ...
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the announcement that the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) have reached an agreement on rural development.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• How Ranching Broke the West – Around the Campf ...
  I call the twenty or thirty years after the Civil War the “Killing Decades” as the American slaughter of wild things reached its peak then.  Market hunting, mining, logging, and railroading all helped lay the groundwork for the coming of ranching.  Cattle and sheep were the last straw in the dom ...
• One Vision of Ecological Justice
  By David Skrbina On present estimates, we humans share the Earth with some 8 million other animal species, and some 1 million plant species.  Yet we Homo sapiens—a single species—dominate the ecological basis of this planet.  We use, by some accounts, about 40% of the global “net primary product ...
• Settlement Reached In Wolf Legal Fight
  Conservationists help craft balanced plan; includes stronger legal standards, improved livestock husbandry, greater public accountability. Salem, Oregon  –  After seventeen months of grueling negotiations, conservationists, Governor John Kitzhaber, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODF ...
• Sea Shepherd Launches Operation Reef Defense C ...
  Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is proud to announce the launch of Operation Reef Defense, a global campaign to end the destruction of coral reefs and the many threats they face worldwide. Coral reefs represent some of the planet’s most biologically diverse ecosystems providing critical habita ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The 1964 ...
  In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby ...

Asia Sentinel

• A Khmer Rouge Leader Apologizes, Sort of
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Nuon Chea says he bears responsibility but he didn't see anything
• Tobacco the Killer
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The campaign to end tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship
• Opinion: "Celebrating Hong Kong"
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A newspaper campaign worthy of Singapore
• 'Comfort' Issue Makes Japanese Politician Squirm
  • (http://twitter.com/share) No, the comfort women tragedy won't go away
• Behind Singapore's Internet Crackdown
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Singapore finally nannies the 'net

We Know the Lies

• Will The 'Real' Hillary Clinton Please Stand Up?
  In 2008, during the American presidential election campaign, US Senator Hillary Clinton's handlers began to get clumsy and she was seen in two different places at once on a number of separate occasions. ~ Alcuin Bramerton - Video - Documentary read more
• Despite Senate Vote Blocking UN Gun Treaty... ...
  Despite a Senate amendment blocking the treaty, President Barack Obama plans to sign the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty on June 3rd. ~ Daniel Jackson read more
• The Clinton 'Friends' Who Ended Up in Body Bags
  Just a quick refresher course lest we forget what has happened to many 'friends' of the vile Clintons. ~ Related article read more
• Elder Abuse... A National Crisis?
  According to the Elder Maltreatment Alliance, an estimated three to five million older adults in America were victims of some form of abuse in 2011. ~ Susan Scutti read more
• Controlling Every Breath You Take... The IRS, ...
  Unprecedented in its scope—forcing all Americans to buy a product, and taxing them due to their very existence if they do not—the mandate will require Americans to submit their insurance information to the IRS. ~ Christopher Jacobs read more

Tarpley

• The Coming Mass Strike Upsurge of 2014-2015
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV May 30, 2013 Where are we in the unfolding of the current world economic depression, and what can we know about the events that lie ahead? The US Memorial Day holiday weekend provides the occasion to venture some answers to these questions. The current world ec ...
• Warren-Tierney 0.75% Student Loans Paid for by ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. KDKA-1020AM, Pittsburgh with Chris Moore May 30, 2013 [download audio]
• A New GOP Provocation: House Reactionaries Def ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio May 25, 2013 [download audio]
• Make Helicopter Ben Bernanke Help Finance Your ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on The Jeff Rense Program rense.com May 22, 2013 [download audio]
• Fed Up with Wall Street Looting and Fed Lawles ...
  Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. The Webster Tarpley Program – UnboundRadio.com May 21, 2013 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• There Is No Other Way Out, But A Collapse
  There’s no semblance of a free market whatsoever. That’s completely gone. They’re rigging LIBOR, they’re rigging the treasury market, they’re rigging the gold market, they’re rigging the stock market… Wait a minute… the collapse isn’t coming, ...
• How To Clean A Berkey Water Filter Candle
  For those of you who own a drinking water filter of a style such as the Berkey or British Berkefeld, every once in awhile you will need to clean the filter candle elements that are inside. Here’s how…   Not long ago, while getting the 5th-wheel trailer ready for the first trips ...
• DOD Concerns Of China’s Growing Military
  The U.S. Department of Defense is publicly expressing concerns regarding the growth of China’s military as documented in a recent DOD report titled “2013 Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China”. The report reveals the trends and rising power of China’s ...
• China To Buy Major U.S. Food Supplier
  Chinese meat processor Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. has agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. for approximately $4.72 billion. As China continues to hack into United States defense systems and steal plans for modern weapons systems technology… they are now evidently buying up our ma ...
• Survival Preparedness Lists
  While getting started with prepping /survival preparedness, it may seem overwhelming to figure out what you need and what you need to know. Don’t worry too much though, because the mere fact that you are thinking about it puts you way ahead of nearly everyone else. There is a logical way t ...

Fast Company

• The Bouroullec Brothers’ Drawings Fill A Tome
  This new book of abstract shapes reveals the brothers’ free-form thinking but also their strict discipline. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, the French brothers and design duo, produce a colossal amount of work. In the past year alone, they produced a mid-career exhibit at the Museum of C ...
• A Park The Size Of Connecticut Is Being Carved ...
  The 500,000-acre American Prairie Reserve is being cobbled together with public land and private donations. When it’s done, its creators want it to be like a Central Park for the entire country. How the West was won is truly a story of what was lost. In the span of less than a centur ...
• These Arctic Pics Show How Extreme Weather Shi ...
  Eirik Johnson’s photographs capture the architecture of these beautifully ramshackle cabins at different times of year. Visit the Arctic in the winter, and you’d think you’ve stepped through a portal to Hoth. There’s little light, the landscape and anything on it is ...
• How GitHub Uses “Deprivation Testing” To Hone ...
  When Co.Labs visited GitHub in their San Francisco office, we found their designers and developers using a brand-new method of UX testing we’d never heard of. Here’s how it works.Read Full Story    
• Breathtaking Pictures Of Hong Kong’s Urban Canyons
  In Vertical Horizon, photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze shows just how tiny humans are in the context of the Chinese city’s cluttered skyline.Read Full Story    

Jadaliyya

• Everywhere is Taksim, Resistance Everywhere
  Taking a page out of the playbook of dictators from Damascus to Algiers, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has thus far refused any serious engagement with the thousands protesting the destruction of Gezi Park in Istanbul. His supporters have attempted to paint the protests—currently i ...
• The Right to the City Movement and the Turkish ...
  As I write this, Istanbul is under siege. The might of Istanbul's entire police force—the largest city police force in Europe—is violently cracking down on peaceful occupiers in Gezi Park. The protest, which began on 27 May, is ostensibly over a planned shopping center to be built over a park ...
• Mustafa al-Hallaj: Master of the Print and Mas ...
  Deep in thought while in transit at Amman’s international airport in 1979, I missed my flight to Beirut. Fortunately a competing airline had a plane thirty minutes later. My waiting friends met me in frenzy; it was revolutionary Beirut and although they had cause to worry their anxiety soon ...
• آخِر الســاميين
  [حجبت إدارة موقع الجزيرة بالانجليزية مقالة جوزيف مسعد "آخر الساميين" بعد أن كانت قد نشرتها في الذكرى الخامسة والستين للنكبة، وذلك إثر ضغوطات سياسية من جهات صهيونية. إلا أن الجزيرة عاودت نشر المقالة عقّب النقد الشديد الذي لاقته واتهامها بالانصياع لأجندات سياسية مناوءة للقضية الفلسطيني ...
• Maghreb Media Roundup (May 31)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...

mediagazer

• Here's the memo on mandatory training for "iPh ...
  Robert Feder / @robertfeder: Here's the memo on mandatory training for “iPhone photography basics” following elimination of Sun-Times photo staff: http://on.fb.me/11dTtzU
• Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style? ...
  Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology: Is there a Social-Media Fueled Protest Style?  An Analysis From #jan25 to #geziparki  —  When I tell people I study social media, politics and social movements, I often get a version of the question: “But there were protests before Fa ...
• Adel al-Toraifi: Why newspaper editors should ...
  Ben Flanagan / Alarabiya.net English: Adel al-Toraifi: Why newspaper editors should be CEOs, not columnists  —  When Adel al-Toraifi was appointed editor-in-chief of Asharq al-Awsat, the world's biggest pan-Arab newspaper, one of the last things on his mind was writing.  &m ...
• The Guardian profile: Deborah Turness (John Pl ...
  John Plunkett / Guardian: The Guardian profile: Deborah Turness  —  After nearly 10 years in charge of ITV News, the new president of NBC News is expected to shake up the US media scene  —  Not many television executives get their kicks away from the glare of the ...
• Cord-Cutters Lop Off Internet Service More Tha ...
  Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: Cord-Cutters Lop Off Internet Service More Than TV  —  For all the fuss over Americans dropping their cable subscriptions in favor of Internet video, another type of cord cutting appears to be more common.  —  Hundreds of ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Local bill on phasing out plastic bags de ...
  The bill on getting rid of plastic bags had been introduced by Senator Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles. Some people even view recycling as another tax of sorts. See, "Plastic bag bill another tax in green clothing." Bill on phasing out plastic bags defeated by plastics manufacturing lobby in Sac ...
• Candidates Air Grim Views of Iran's Econo ...
  By FARNAZ FASSIHI BEIRUT—The economy and foreign policy emerged as the top issues in Iran's June 14 presidential election with the eight candidates dedicating their first live televised debate on Friday to economic woes. The four-hour discussion exposed in a highly publicized way just how mu ...
• Correction: Japan-Sex Slaves story
  TOKYO — In a story May 8 about the use of sex slaves during World War II, The Associated Press reported erroneously that then-Prime Minister Yohei Kono issued a 1993 statement expressing remorse for suffering caused to sexual slaves of Japanese troops. Kono was Chief Cabinet Secretary ...
• Sensex up 56 points during the week
  The S&P BSE benchmark Sensex ended higher by 56 points at 19,760.30 despite fag-end selling from operators in the wake of GDP falling to decade’s low and fading rate cut hopes with the RBI governor Subbarao stating that inflation was still...
• More than 1,000 killed in Iraq violence i ...
  BAGHDAD: More than 1,000 people were killed in violence in Iraq in May, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07, the United Nations reported on Saturday, stoking fears of a return to civil war. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in the last two months as al Q ...

no frakking consensus

• The Mouse That Roared – Starring the Mar ...
  Do the concerns of 70,000 people outweigh the interests of 7 billion?
• An Artist Talks Nonsense About Green Energy
  Speaking of all that clean, green Germany energy.
• Green Energy Unicorns
  Everywhere it has been tried, green energy is costly, unreliable & financially unsustainable over the long term. Here's a reading list for those still in doubt.
• Young Greens Say the Darndest Things
  Students in the fossil fuel divestment movement employ venom and vitriol, but little persuasive argument.
• The Divestment Dreamworld
  The campus fossil-fuel divestment campaign may be stylish, but it's short on substance.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 5/30/13 - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer ...
  vaccines.procon.org - Vaccine Ingredients and Manufacturer Information – Read the vaccine ingredients and the products used in making 31 commonly recommended vaccines including some controversial items such as Cocker Spaniel cells, human embryonic lung cells, and mouse brains.
• 5/24/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets ...
  tablets-textbooks.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes:Should tablets replace textbooks in K-12 schools?- Read pro and con arguments from former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski (pro), Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tuft ...
• 5/22/13 - UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org – UPDATED: Same-Sex Marriage Timeline 1970-2013 – Gay marriage became legal in New Zealand on Apr. 19, 2013, in Uruguay on May 3, 2013, and, most recently, in France on May 18, 2013.  14 countries now permit same-sex couples to marry.
• 5/21/13 - Vermont becomes the 4th US state to ...
  euthanasia.procon.org - Vermont becomes the 4th US state to allow physician-assisted suicide - Governor Peter Schumlin signed the bill into law on May 20, 2013, the first time physician-assisted suicide has been made legal in the United States via the legislative process.
• 5/17/13 - Economic Impact of Golf
  golf.procon.org - Economic Impact of Golf: State by State - See the number of golf facilities in 31 states, along with the economic output, jobs, and wage income created by golf. California has the highest total economic output from golf, totaling $15.1 billion per year.

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

TVNZ

• Pistorius lawyers demand answers over leaked c ...
  Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have demanded answers after pictures the crime scene were leaked to the media.
• Protesters defiant as Turkey unrest goes into ...
  Protesters lit fires and scuffled with police on the third day of unrest on Turkey.
• Over 1000 killed in Iraq violence in May
  Fears mount of a return to civil war in Iraq after the deadliest month in years.
• German anti-capitalist protesters clash with p ...
  German police used pepper spray and batons against thousands of anti-capitalist demonstrators.
• Death toll rises after Oklahoma tornadoes
  Nine people have been confirmed dead after tornadoes swept through central Oklahoma yesterday.

environment 360

• Getting More ‘Crop-per-Drop’ In World’s Driest ...
  Improvements in irrigation in the world’s driest regions could significantly boost food production and water sustainability, according to a new study. In an analysis of how water is used for 16 staple food crops worldwide, including in regions with similar climates, a team of researchers identif ...
• Nuclear Power Has Prevented 1.84 Million Prema ...
  The use of nuclear power from 1971 to 2009 prevented more than 1.8 million premature deaths related to air pollution and 64 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a new study says. Using historical production data and estimates of mortality per unit of electricity generated, scientists from ...
• Will Huge New Hydro Projects Bring Power to Af ...
  A giant new hydro project on the Congo River is only the latest in a rush of massive dams being built across Africa. Critics contend small-scale renewable energy projects would be a far more effective way of bringing power to the hundreds of millions of Africans still without electricity. BY F ...
• Genetically Modified Salmon Can Breed with Wil ...
  Fast-growing, genetically modified salmon can interbreed with wild brown trout and produce offspring that grow rapidly and out-compete other wild salmon in streams, according to a new study. Researchers from Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada, found that so-called “Frankenfish” — which ...
• Growth in Electricity Availability Must Double ...
  The rate of expansion of access to electricity will have to double over the next 17 years if the world's population is to achieve 100 percent access to modern energy, a new report says. While about 1.7 billion people became connected to electricity sources worldwide between 1990 and 2010, that i ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• State of the Beach - Beachapedia
  Tags: beach surf zone water quality erosion response ...
• Suffer the Children | Psychology Today
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• Lies My Country Told Me
  Tags: lies propaganda government expose psyops online radio
• Tar Sands Watch
  Tags: water pollution ecosystem genocide woodlands
• Agriculture Defense Coalition
  Tags: agriculture food-poisoning

backofthebook

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Daily Beast

• Back to School at Chloé
  Claire Waight Keller debuts a collection inspired by “night buses, independent spirit, and bare legs."
• Kenzo Livens Up Paris
  With a collection inspired by ancient temples in India and Nepal.
• Comme Des Garçon's "Infinity of Tailoring"
  And, in one look, Big Bird gone couture.
• Céline Gets Cozy for Fall
  Designer Phoebe Philo presented a cool collection of wooly outerwear and unexpected proportions.
• BREAKING: Queen To Hospital
  Aides tell the Royalist she will likely be in hospital for two days

Loonwatch

• Did the FBI Execute Ibragim Todashev?
  The mystery surrounding Todashev's killing heightens.
• Mosque and Muslim Orphanage Burned Down in Mos ...
  At least one person has died and four others were injured, state television said.
• Kooky Cathie Adams of the Texas Eagle Forum Sa ...
  Maybe honest Abe was a Muslim too and Darwin?
• Obama’s Dangerous Blind Spot on National Security
  The President's "comprehensive strategy" to keep us safe foolishly ignores all kinds of known dangers -- except one.
• Vandals target Islamic mosque in Alpharetta
  Alpharetta police are investigating after someone vandalized the Islamic Center of North Fulton Monday.

Energy News

• UN: “Fukushima nuclear disaster poses no IMMED ...
• Professor: Explosion possible near St. Louis-a ...
• Video: Over 60 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium in ...
• Cement-like grout to be injected into Fukushim ...
• ABC: Ground to be frozen around Fukushima reac ...

Japan Times

• Reactor-dismantling cost rule may change
  The industry ministry might revise an accounting rule to alleviate the financial burden on electricity companies from decommissioning nuclear power plants.
• ANA, JAL return 787 Dreamliners to regularly s ...
  All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines resume regular 787 services, after Boeing's troubled aircraft was grounded worldwide for over four months due to battery problems.
• Severe sports training methods became taibatsu ...
  The martial arts were the inspiration for the famous baseball team at the First Higher School of Tokyo, a late 19th century powerhouse that helped ...
• Nadal rallies again for win
  Miffed about the scheduling of matches at the French Open, Rafael Nadal took the court at 11 a.m. on Friday lacking his usual intensity, and ...
• Cahill says Australia to play physical
  Australia midfielder Tim Cahill has warned Japan to expect a bruising physical encounter in Tuesday's World Cup qualifier if the Socceroos find themselves needing a ...

Alexander Higgins

• Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed Sandy ...
  Alexander Higgins House, Blog Destroyed By Sandy Flooding When I was 16 my “foster” parents through me out on the streets in the middle of the Blizzard of ’96 and I spent the next 8 years battling homelessness. I worked … Continue reading →
• Disaster: Massive Traffic Jams As 11 FT Hawaii ...
  Hawaii residents a stuck massive in an hour long traffic jams trying to flee an 11 foot Tsunami is less than 30 minutes from hitting the shore.
• ALERT: Update 11 FT Tsunami Heading Toward Haw ...
  A live Weather channel alert warns that a 7 foot Tsunami is heading directly toward Hawaii following a major 7.7 earthquake off the coast of Canada earlier.
• Seattle Police Given Approval To Deploy NDAA S ...
  The FAA has given Seattle police approval to start using NDAA surveillance drones for law enforcement spy operations on American citizens.
• Sandy Worst Storm In 100 Years: East Coast Awa ...
  A massive storm is expected to hit the East Coast during the days leading up to Halloween, which meteorologists anticipate will cost up to $5 billion in damages.

Macleans - Central

• Rob Ford rally: an exercise in venting
  The lone Rob Ford supporter at a rally protesting the Toronto mayor’s leadership has...
• She comes in colours everywhere
  What is the colour of a trumpet’s sound?
• Coronation’s 60th: The most perfectly re ...
  A look back at the Queen's sartorial show-stopper
• Was Mark Carney as good as advertised?
  With the closing of the books on the bank governor, a nuanced appraisal of his legacy emerges
• Quebec’s sad return to identity politics
  The Parti Québécois scapegoats immigrants for electoral gain

Making It Count - CCPA

• Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
  In our previous blog post, we took a look at 5 proposals from a feature entitled “A better life without growth” in the French magazine Alternatives économiques aimed at decreasing individual expenses in order to discourage the quest for monetary accumulation. We continue this series by presentin ...
• Ten suggestions to lead a better life without ...
  Two weeks ago the degrowth research group Collectif de recherche interuniversitaire et transdisciplinaire sur les impasses de la croissance (CRITIC) held its first colloquium, entitled “How much should we keep on digging? The limits to growth”, at HEC Montréal. The degrowth movement voiced very ...
• Any jokes in it? Cultural exception and state ...
  France and Québec have sealed alliances in the past to defend the principle of cultural exception. It essentially aims at limiting the effects of globalization within the cultural industry, already under anglo-saxon domination. State funding of the film industry has sparked a number of debates w ...
• On the Abuse of Language: “Modernizing” Labour ...
  The government of Saskatchewan is currently undertaking a controversial overhaul of the province’s labour legislation into the mammoth omnibus Bill 85. But those that might be concerned about the rather rash decision to overturn 107 years of labour legislation in the period of a few months ...
• New mining royalties: much ado about nothing
  On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit based and ad valorem royalties. In this blog post, we will demystify these ways of calculating royalties in order to best analyze the go ...

ReDress

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

Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

• Mining companies turning to costly recycling a ...
  “High in Chile’s bone-dry Atacama desert, mining engineer Enrique Miranda surveys a metal structure filled with a pungent mix of earthworms and woodchips. Sprinklers inside the enclosure snap to life, shooting waste water from the nearby mining camp into the wriggling mass, which ser ...
• Ethiopia diverts Nile for huge hydro dam
  “Ethiopia began diverting a stretch of the Nile on Tuesday to make way for a $4.7 billion hydroelectric dam that is worrying downstream countries dependent on the world’s longest river for water. The Horn of Africa country has laid out plans to invest more than $12 billion in harness ...
• U.S. urges conservation as Colorado River hit ...
  “As a regional drought tightens its grip on the Colorado River, water agency officials, environmentalists, farmers and Indian tribal leaders from the seven states that depend on the river for survival are expected to gather Tuesday for a “moving forward” meeting called by feder ...
• Escalating Water Strains In Fracking Regions
  “It’s bad enough that Western farmers and ranchers are reeling from a three-year-old drought and record heat waves. Now they’re feeling the heat from the goliath energy industry – over water. From Texas to Colorado, hydraulic fracturing energy production is using larger amounts of water. S ...
• Private suppliers cashing in on acute water sh ...
  “The hill station might have attracted a record number of visitors this year. But the summer is harsher this time in the town as an acute drinking water problem has left the residents in many areas at the mercy of private water suppliers and a few streams in low-lying areas, which too have ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

• allow our government to provide to you and me ...
  …so you really think “big-pharma” and their corporate compadres will allow our government to provide to you and me … full disclosure and transparency on cannabis … ain’t going to happen as they pull the $trings on our Congre$$ … and cannabis take$ profit$ off their bottom line… The Latest Cannab ...
• whether these statistics are correct, valid, t ...
  …whether these statistics are correct, valid, true I leave to each of you to determine for yourself … but they are interesting…   40 Statistics About The Fall Of The U.S. Economy That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe   By Michael, on May 26th, 2013   If you know someone that a ...
• too simple … I bet a dollar to a dime
  …too simple … I bet a dollar to a dime corporate challenges this all the way to those they own on our Supreme Court… 6 Ways Colorado Will Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol By Nicole Flatow, Think Progress Colorado took a huge leap toward implementing legalization this Tuesday, when Gov. John Hicke ...
• “just blindly tru$t u$
  …their motto is … “just blindly tru$t u$ we’re here only to a$$i$t you … and you know what … we blindly believe it…   Basel III: How The Bank For International Settlements Is Going To Help Bring Down The Global Economy 05-30-2013  •  theeconomiccollapseblog.com new set of regulati ...
• What are you complaining about
  …What are you complaining about, it’s legal, if you have any doubt refer to Supreme Court decision … Citizens United… just follow the $$$… Judge Frees Patriot Coal to Eliminate Retiree Benefits for 20,000   Mike Elk, In These Times:  …Read the Article     A bankrup ...

Popular Technology

• The Statistical Destruction of 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 stats at uni" - Richard Tol Including "glob ...
• 97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Paper ...
  The paper, Cook et al. (2013) 'Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature' searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These res ...
• 13,950 Meaningless Search Results
  In the never ending quest for alarmists to one up their incompetent friends they continue to seek out new ways to demonstrate their own computer illiteracy. Enter James Powell who in a meaningless analysis is apparently ignorant that the 'Web of Science' database does not have a "peer-reviewed ...
• The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
  During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
• Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Killer robots and future shocks
  It is a scenario that could have emerged from the imagination of a science fiction writer - killing machines stalking battlefields with heat-seeking weapons so human soldiers do not have to risk their lives.But these machines are...
• Russians find mammoth carcass with liquid blood
  A perfectly preserved woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood has been found on a remote Arctic island, fueling hopes of cloning the Ice Age animal, Russian scientists said.The carcass was in such good shape because its lower part...
• Deep nets could save lives
  A new study suggests the number of dolphins being captured and killed in commercial trawling nets could dive if vessels changed their fishing methods.The research, led by Dr Finlay Thompson of Wellington-based Dragonfly Science...
• Bryan Walker: Threat of expanded mining too gr ...
  Climate scientist Jim Salinger's grim picture of where we are headed if carbon dioxide levels continue to rise shows up the New Zealand Government's wish to intensify the exploration and extraction of our fossil fuels as an abandonment...
• Bomb tests help work on cold case
  Data from nuclear bomb testing helped New Zealand scientists pinpoint the age of a skeleton found in Australia, leading to a decades-old cold case being reopened.The University of Waikato's radiocarbon dating laboratory helped to...

The Bovine

• Vernon Herschberger’s court victory repo ...
  Unlike the recent worldwide March on Monsanto, Vernon Herschberger’s recent court triumph is getting ink in the mainstream media. Here’s an excerpt from a story in the Wall Street Journal, of all places: “Raw-milk proponents celebrated a Wisconsin farmer’s acquittal &#823 ...
• “March against Monsanto” in Toront ...
  Robert Bright reports on the Toronto March against Monsanto: SPECIAL TO THE BOVINE: On a chilly, but sunny Saturday afternoon in Toronto, I made my way down to St. James Park on King Street East between Jarvis and Church Streets.  … Continue reading →
• Three out of four not guilty for Vernon Hersch ...
  From Rick Barrett, in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Baraboo — Dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger was acquitted on three of four criminal charges early Saturday morning in a trial that’s drawn national attention from supporters of the raw, unpasteurized milk movement. Jurors in … Continue re ...
• Baraboo raw milk trial calls to mind George Or ...
  From Daniel McAdams, writing for the Ron Paul Institute blog: “The trial of Vernon Hershberger for the crime of selling healthy, unprocessed milk to informed and willing customers is sadly a damning commentary on the times in which we currently live. This … Continue reading →
• From the Vernon Herschberger trial still going ...
  From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “Defense testimony from one of Vernon Hershberger’s buying club members since 2004, Joseph Plasterer, as to how he came to seek out the farm’s food. Plasterer: “We were looking for some … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Lowest Core PCE in History; "Flation" Perspective
  Doug Short at Advisor Perspectives has a pair of interesting reports on price inflation as measured by the CPE and PCI. Please consider PCE Price Index Update: Sorry Fed, The Disinflationary Trend Continues. The latest Headline PCE price index year-over-year (YoY) rate of 0.74% is a ...
• You Are About to Become Obsolete; Perhaps You ...
  A friend of mine sent a thought provoking link to a book-in-progress called Robots Will Steal Your Job But That's OK. The author, Federico Pistono, periodically writes a new chapter and I just signed up for updates. The introduction caught my eye. Introduction You are about ...
• Bad Weather in France to Blame For ...
  Courtesy of my friend Bran who spotted these weather related anomalies in France. Via Google translate, it appears that French economists blame the weather for ... Delayed maturation of fruits and vegetables Disrupted cows Public work productivity declines Increased electrical consump ...
• Intellectual Dishonesty and Insanity on Steroids
  I just finished reading The Smith/Klein/Kalecki Theory of Austerity by Paul Krugman and I believe it is the most disingenuous piece he has ever written. Krugman comes out blazing with the statement "Noah Smith recently offered an interesting take on the real reasons austerity garners so muc ...
• Simmering Feud Between France and Germany Erup ...
  The simmering feud between France and Germany erupted into a heated political exchange following Pressure on Hollande to take bold action to revive the French economy, calling for new pension and labour market reforms. "The commission’s list of recommendations for Paris, which it expects t ...

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
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• It Takes an Entire Village … of Irate Minority ...
  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 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Iran Storing 30 Million Barrels of Crude in 14 ...
  Iran is storing 30 million barrels of crude at sea as sanctions hinder exports and projects that would allow it to build onshore facilities to hold oil, according to E.A. Gibson Shipbrokers Ltd.
• NASSCO Wins Order for LNG-Ready Jones Act Prod ...
  The contract includes options to build four additional ships.
• Concept to Reality: First ‘Environship’ Succes ...
  Rolls-Royce said Friday that the first vessel based on the companies award-winning, highly efficient “Environship” design has been delivered to its Norwegian owner.
• Miracle at Sea: Sailor Survives After Spending ...
  As reported earlier this week, tragedy struck offshore Escravos, Nigeria on Sunday 26 May when the anchor handling tug Jacson 4 sank in heavy weather.  Divers recovered 10 bodies from [...]
• Collision Off Galveston Leaves Ships Bruised B ...
  A collision Thursday between a tanker and bulk carrier off the coast of Galveston caused damage to both ships, but no injuries or pollution have been reported.

Press TV

• Kyrgyz protesters lift siege on gold mine
  Hundreds of protesters have lifted their several days-long blockade of a Canadian gold mine in eastern Kyrgyzstan, officials say.
• Reformist Aref outlines economic plan
  Reformist candidate Mohammad Reza Aref has vowed to put forth a comprehensive plan for the economy if he is elected Iran’s next president.
• ‘Iranian nation has weathered sanctions’
  Iranian presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaee says the Iranian nation has weathered the hardships of economic sanctions imposed by the West.
• UK Lord embroiled in lobbying scandal
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