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Republicans are a Disease

  • Time To Surrender GOP
    Never before has America seen such an organized attempt by one political party to oppose legislation that would help so many citizens. Since Obamacare was passed and signed into law, the Republicans have trying to repeal it, repeatedly lie about it’s benefits, and do all they can to keep 4 ...
  • From Daily Kos – Before Black Presidents
    •  Deliberately sabotaging economic recovery was not considered a legitimate option for the opposition party.
  • Kathleen McMorris Rodgers Is Right – Gov ...
    Here is some nonsense babbled by Kathleen McMorris Rodgers, a congress critter from in Eastern Washington State. “”We know that Washington is broken,” writes Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), chair of the House Republican Conference, in the guide. “It spends too much ...
  • From Daily Koz
    “One difference between liberals and conservatives is, liberals correct their mistakes to keep up with reality while conservatives correct their reality to keep up with their mistakes.”
  • Female? Republican?
    Are you f-ing insane?

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Live blog: Activists hold ‘day of rage&# ...
    Activists declared a ‘day of rage’ across Israel and Palestine on August 1, the second such day of protests against an Israeli plan that would see the displacement of some 30,000 Bedouin citizens from their villages in the Negev. Tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens of Israel live i ...
  • Knesset approves bill that could push Arab par ...
    After a stormy night session, the coalition was able to pass the necessary amendments and election laws that would make it more difficult to topple a government and eliminate small factions. Left-wing and Palestinian members of Knesset protested the legislation in ‘silent speeches.’ ...
  • WATCH: Play depicting Rachel Corrie causes con ...
    My Name is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the diaries and emails of Rachel Corrie, is now showing in Jerusalem. The play tells the story of Corrie, a young American woman who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada, who was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she was trying to preve ...
  • What went wrong? Learning from the mistakes of ...
    Can Israeli, Palestinian and American negotiators learn from their mistakes in order to bring about a peaceful resolution to the conflict? New negotiations offer hope like a quarter-drop of water splashed onto scorched and desiccated earth. How quickly such a drop can be absorbed as if it never ...
  • Dr. Oz dances with Hebron settlers
    It takes especially opaque blinders, or immense willpower and ignorance to visit one of the most egregious scenes of military occupation and settler violence without noticing the injustice taking place before your eyes. Even the world’s most learned minds can walk through life with blinder ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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The Parallel Parliament

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Vaccine Awakening

  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...
  • IOM Issues Report on Safety of the Child Vacci ...
    Posted on 1/16/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine issued a report The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence and Future Studies. The report was based on a 12-month evaluation by an IOM committee of the scientific evid ...
  • Under Attack, NVIC Helps Americans Stand Up & ...
    Posted: 11/20/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher In 2013, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) enters our fourth decade of preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the legal right to make voluntary vaccination decisions in America.[1] Each year du ...

2020 Science

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

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War Resisters League

  • Aging Behind Bars
    [Originally published on June 6th, 2013 on Criminaljusticedegreehub.com] Tagged: aging, infographic, Mass incarceration, new Jim Crow, PIC, prison industrial complex, racial, racist prisons, repression, stric sentencing, US cages, US Prisons
  • The End of Passive Revolution in Brazil
    [originally published on June 22nd, 2013 in La Jornada.] by Massimo Modonesi and translated from Spanish by Linda Quiquivix The Brazilian experience over the last 10 years under its progressive governments (of first Lula and now Dilma) has been characterized … Continue reading →
  • Tipping Towards Iraq’s Squares: An Inter ...
    [Originally published on January 22nd, 2013 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa  The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Tear Gas Still on the Streets of Egypt: H ...
    Earlier last week, Egyptians poured out onto the streets across Egypt to protest President Morsi’s dictatorial decree overriding the power of the courts, attempting to keep a heavily Muslim Brotherhood-influenced constitutional assembly in tact, and granting himself seemingly unchecked authority ...
  • منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية ال ...
    للنشر الفوري 11-26-2012   للاتصال: ali@warresisters.org علي عيسى – في نيو يورك 718-310-9968  اسماء محمد – في سويس, مصر012-680-9980 منظمة مقوامة الحروب الامريكية تمنح للقيادية العمالية, اسماء محمد محمد, التي قالت لا للغاز المسيل للدموع, جائزة سلام كان رفضها لتمرير … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Bees, India, Climate Change ...
    The new reality of heat waves will diminish both the quality and quantity of foods commonly grown. We’ll all have to make adjustments to cope with our planet’s changing behavior, including efforts to reverse the loss of biodiversity through over-reliance on monocropping.
  • What Would Rachel Carson Do?
    A recent incident that occurred in the house I used to occupy would have Rachel Carson turning over in her grave.
  • Italian entrepreneur drives the extra mile for ...
    No doubt Stefano realizes he cannot provide the requisite food system glue all by his onesies, but perhaps he'll consent to being a one-man stopgap until more passionate foodie entrepreneurs like himself rush in where ordinary capitalists fear to tread.
  • Fair Trade versus Organic: Perspective from Gu ...
    Witnessing first hand the struggles of the small-scale, fledgling farmers in rural Guatemala, I now have a better sense of the social implications of my food choices.
  • CLF Week in Links: Superbugs, Immigration Refo ...
    GOP House leaders called the Sentate immigration bill “flawed legislation.” Let Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) know what you think @repgoodlatte.

k2p blog

  • Silly science? Evolution does not favour the s ...
    Evolution couldn't care less if individuals are selfish or cooperative. It only results from those sufficiently selfish or sufficiently coopeartive to survive until reproduction.
  • Snowden leaves Moscow airport
    Russia's interfax news agency reported at 1454 CET that Snowden had now left Moscow's Airport.
  • Economists are – by and large – re ...
    "Economists" are - by and large - just religious or political advocates and "Economics" is no more than a study of social behaviour. It may be that "economics" will always be subject to the vagaries of human attitudes and behaviour and - since these are never constant or rational - that economic ...
  • Results falsified but only “inadvertentl ...
    Research results from Queensland University of Technology were falsified in a grant application and a paper but it was all done inadvertently.
  • Ahluwalia’s PhD cleared of fraud by Impe ...
    Imperial College London has cleared disgraced researcher Jatinder Ahluwalia of committing fraud during his industrial doctorate at the institution.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Russia Grants Snowden 1 – Year Asylum: Daily W ...
    USA Today: Edward Snowden Gets Asylum in Russia, Leaves Airport Guardian UK/Laura Poitras News broke this morning that NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year, and that he has left the airport for an undisclosed location, according ...
  • Manning Faces 136 Years; New Snowden Disclosur ...
    GAP Statement on Bradley Manning Verdict Yesterday a military judge found US Army whistleblower Manning guilty of 20 counts, including six Espionage Act charges. He faces 136 years in jail, with the sentencing phase beginning today. GAP immediately released a statement on the verdict emphasizi ...
  • GAP Statement on the Bradley Manning Verdict
    Earlier today, a military judge found whistleblower and Army Pfc. Bradley Manning guilty of several charges, including six counts of violating the Espionage Act. The Government Accountability Project (GAP) has been closely following the court martial, including today's ruling. This verdict holds ...
  • Bradley Manning Verdict Coming Today: Daily Wh ...
    CBSNews: Verdict Near in Bradley Manning Trial After several years of military confinement leading up to an extensive trial, a verdict is expected today (at 1pm) in the case of military whistleblower Bradley Manning – the 25 year-old Army private accused of damaging US national security when h ...
  • Pew Poll Shows Civil Liberties Surpasses Terro ...
    Guardian: Major Opinion Shifts, in the US and Congress, on NSA Surveillance and PrivacyGuardian journalist Glenn Greenwald The findings of a remarkable new and comprehensive Pew poll shows that, among other eye-opening revelations, for the first time since 9/11, more Americans are worried abou ...

UK Progressive

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

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Five or more failed experiments in measuring G ...
    Willie Soon weighs into the sea-level debate, going back to William the Conqueror, and landmarks in England. Are sea-levels “accelerating”? Can the satellites resolve sea-level to 1mm changes a year? Why is the raw data so different? (The information on satellites starts at 18:00 min ...
  • Not-so-green hydroelectric dams give off more ...
    Hydroelectricity is the only renewable that produces any meaningful amounts of energy on a global scale (about 16% of all electricity, compared to the paltry cumulative total from all other renewables of less than 3.5%). Oh the dilemma, hydropower turns out to release more methane than people re ...
  • Jo Nova in The Australian: Carbon credits mark ...
    Credit to The Australian for printing both points of view. Published as an Op-Ed today. Carbon credits market is neither free nor worth anything by: Joanne Nova From: The Australian July 31, 2013 12:00AM THE paradox du jour: people who like free markets don’t want a carbon market, and th ...
  • Australian emissions reductions target is undo ...
    Here’s a graph showing something about Australian, Chinese and Indian emissions (thanks to Tom Quirk). At a glance you might think we are up there with the best of them (doing our bit to fertilize the flora of the planet, and to regreen the deserts). Alas, the Australian tally (the green t ...
  • WARNING: Using a different computer could chan ...
    How bad are these global forecast models? When the same model code with the same data is run in a different computing environment (hardware, operating system, compiler, libraries, optimizer), the results can differ significantly. So even if reviewers or critics obtained a climate model, they co ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • Gut Bacteria and Human Evolution
    Gut instinct tells me that cosmic rays are an important factor in human evolution, and that humans have evolved much more recently than scientists can ascertain (they basically only have bones to look at, whereas we are much more than just bones). But it’s not just cosmic rays, but rather ...
  • New Chambers at Teotihuacan
    What I love about archaeology is that new things are being unearthed all the time. And when you are someone like me who makes crazy declarations that “pyramids are bunkers”, then each time  a new subterranean chamber is opened, it could contain evidence that supports my position. A ...
  • Tunguska was a Meteorite
    For a long time Tunguska has been a mystery – was in a comet or a meteorite or something else (Tesla anyone?). To my knowledge, this is the first time the mystery has been solved using facts rather than speculation: An icy comet would evaporate on impact, which could explain the lack of a ...
  • Gourmet Spam in Space
    In Hawaii six people are living in a geodesic dome, experimenting with they types of food that astronauts can eat when they journey to Mars. NASA have five meat products that have a long shelf life, and it is not surprising that one of them is Spam. One of the the problems with long-distance spa ...
  • Mayan Pyramids Discovered in Chactun
    Incredibly, ancient cities are still being discovered, with large & intact buildings. Some jungles really are extremely impenetrable! Two weeks ago one was found in Cambodia, and now a Mayan city has been located in Mexico: The city was recently spotted in aerial photographs that had been sn ...

Facing South

  • Southern elected officials take stands against ...
    From Arkansas to North Carolina, Mississippi to Florida, elected leaders are speaking out and taking action against laws that would restrict citizens' access to the ballot. read more
  • After a pause, Walmart strikes back
    The Arkansas-based retail giant is disciplining and firing workers who participated in a strike in June. While the firings are almost certainly illegal, congressional Republicans have declawed the national labor board, leaving it without a quorum to conduct business. read more
  • NAACP appealing North Carolina redistricting r ...
    The NAACP is asking the state supreme court to throw out political district lines that it says were improperly shaped by race -- and it's willing to take the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. read more
  • NC legislature slows fracking rush, renews pus ...
    A bill that would have allowed North Carolina to issue fracking permits before all of the regulations were in place failed to pass, but lawmakers approved a measure that requires the state to join with Virginia and South Carolina to promote offshore energy development. read more
  • DOJ to sue Texas under Voting Rights Act 'bail ...
    The U.S. Supreme Court may have struck down one provision of the Voting Rights Act, but the Department of Justice is turning to another to sue Texas over its discriminatory redistricting law. read more

One News Page

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

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Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Fallouts of Iran Sanctions
    Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani has promised to ease the tensions surrounding the international relations of his country. In line with the will of the majority of Iranians, the issue of economic sanctions – weighing heavily on the latter’s day-to-day life – will be a key to that end. In gen ...
  • Growing Inner-European Discord about Lifting E ...
    The Austrian Foreign Minister, Michael Spindelberger and Germany´s Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle have expressed their opposition against lifting the E.U. ban on arming the Syrian opposition. Inner-European discord about lifting the ban grows as more details about massacres and chemical weap ...
  • Cyberspace and Future: Issue Coming to Fore
    The Snowden affair, as expected, is snowballing, gathering more and more new details and revelations. This has already led to several international scandals (including the egregious example of what happened with Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane) and most likely will lead to more. Howe ...
  • British Joy and Syrian Blood
    In April 2011 when all mainstream media were jabbering about British royal wedding, NATO aircrafts were bombarding Tripoli, Sirte and other Libya cities killing innocent civilians. Then Libyan children even congratulated the couple showing a picture during a press-conference in Tripoli: the bloo ...
  • Watergate & Snowdengate
    40 years of walking in desert in search of democracy It happened 40 years ago – in 1973. There was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington D.C. to install tapping devices so that Republican President Richard Nixon could mon ...

BlogHer

  • The Thing I Hate Most About Going To The Park
    Aside from the occasional adult who’ll walk away with my kids’ toys, there is one reason why I some times hate going to the park. I hate having to watch Eva try to make friends with the older kids. Eva loves to be included in play. She especially loves to play with older children. Sometimes we g ...
  • Rely Less on the Memento and More on the Memory
    Remember back to when you had to wait until the film in your camera was developed to discover the quality of the photographs you took at an event? Sometimes they were blurry, and you couldn't go back in time to re-take them since the moment had passed.  Nina Badzin has a great post about b ...
  • NaBloPoMo Soup: Add Your August 2013 Posts
    You have posts and we want to read them. This is a way for people to post a link to their daily August NaBloPoMo posts that they publish on their personal blogs. Please use the linky feature below daily to add your post, and peruse the ones already entered in order to find great things to read a ...
  • Perfect Poolside Pillows - Embroidery, Fish & ...
    I've been working on this fish pillow for the past several weeks and it's finally done! I used a Riley Blake aqua chevron fabric for the front and a plain aqua fabric for the back. I selected a few blues and greens for the fish. For a 20x20" pillow you will need:-One square of chevron ...
  • 10 Bloggers Share Their BlogHer '13 Experiences
    You know what? Bloggers sure do write a lot. So what do bloggers do after a blogging conference like BlogHer '13? They write. A lot. We've been reading everything, following along with the collective post-conference sigh of exhaustion. Today we bring you 10 posts that encapsulate different aspec ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • The Best Natural Antibiotics
    Sir Alexander Fleming discovered the antibacterial power of the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928. Even though it was a natural healing agent effective in destroying Staphylococcus aureus and other noxious bacteria, the pharmaceutical industry got ... Related posts:Scientist ...
  • Baby Einstein product recalled after complaint ...
          Kids II has voluntarily recalled over 400,000 units of the Baby Einstein “Musical Motion Activity Jumper” in the United States and Canada after receiving nearly 100 complaints about the product, Medical Daily reported. Of the incidents ... Rela ...
  • Natural Cures For Depression
    At any given time, close to 20 million adults in the United States suffer from a medical illness that sends your body and mind on a roller coaster ride. Contrary to popular belief, you just ... Related posts:23 Natural Alternatives For Depression Many people have struggle ...
  • Why Skipping Breakfast Might Raise Risk Of Hea ...
          Breakfast has long gotten a good rap for everything from aiding weight loss to improving focus in the classroom. And ever since the Alameda County study in California back in the 1960s linked breakfast — along with a host of other ... Related posts:Sitting ...
  • Bayer and US Government Knowingly Gave HIV to ...
          What if a company that you thought you could trust, knowingly sold you a medicine for your child that they knew had the potential to give your child HIV? How would you react? What if ... Related posts:US and China Caught Secretly Testing GMO Rice on Childr ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Virginia issues split decision on AEP plant tr ...
    There’s a ruling out from the Virginia State Corporation Commission in the American Electric Power/Appalachian Power case we’ve been following (see here, here and here). This is the press release from the agency: RICHMOND — The State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved the acqu ...
  • MSHA offers mid-year ‘mine fatality upda ...
    This is today’s announcement from the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: During the first half of 2013, 18 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines, one less than in the first half of 2012. Nine each were killed in coal mining and metal and nonmetal mining ...
  • Suit to challenge U.S. funding for coal exports
    Here’s some interesting news from the Chesapeake Climate Action Network: Environmental groups today filed the first-ever lawsuit challenging the federal government’s financing for the export of Appalachian coal from the United States. The U.S. government approved this financial suppo ...
  • West Virginia vs. EPA: What about climate change?
    New U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, left, takes questions from the audience after delivering a speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday, July 30, 2013. During her speech, the first as the head of the EPA, McCarthy told an audience that curbing c ...
  • Coal company drops case against Ky. miner
    Jessica Lilly over at West Virginia Public Broadcasting is reporting this afternoon: Muhlenberg County Court says Armstrong has dropped the suit against former surface miner, Reuben Shemwell. A judge ordered that the coal company drop the civil suit or face a daily fine. Reuben Shemwell says he& ...

Daniel Miessler

  • iOS vs. Android Security
    I’ve just put up my latest post for the HP Application Security Blog, titled: 2 Reasons iOS is More Secure Than Android. I think the first point is the most important, i.e. marketshare. Second to that is the platform security itself, which is both more variable and less important overall. ...
  • I’m Quite Unhappy with Obama Right Now
    Protect Whistleblowers: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, ...
  • Media = AppleTV, Netflix, and AirPlay
    I’m a bit impressed right now with that media experience I’m getting with Apple. To be clear, it’s like 20% of what it should be, but damn, that’s pretty good. AirPlay is way better than it sounds when someone describes it. When I sit at home and play music I play it to o ...
  • Google+ is Stuck in the Uncanny Valley
    Plenty of people have Google+ accounts, but do many people actually use them for being social? Marketing Land reports that online brand management firm Gigya has released new data showing that Google’s social network only accounts for 2% of all social sharing across the web. The most embarrassin ...
  • Don’t Conflate the Actions of Manning and Snowden
    image from dailydot.com I’m not an expert on the Manning and Snowden cases, and to what extent that I could be I’m not sure it would help that much. Outside of the government and the actors themselves it’s difficult to truly know what all has taken place. What we do (seem to) k ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • 1,700 U.S. cities partially underwater by 2100
    Some climate alarmists were celebrating a transmutation they have never seen in their lives: melting of ice. The ice around the North Pole melted and created a small lake. So wonderful! Mother Nature abruptly stopped the celebrations when it did something else that the climate alarmists couldn't ...
  • Salon: AGW cause confined to a left-wing ghetto
    Salon has reprinted an interesting sociological essay on the climate debate originally written by Geoff Dembicki for Canada's The Tyee: How to talk to a conservative about climate change Dembicki, a left-wing alarmist, starts by admitting that during the recent two decades, the climate worri ...
  • ER-EPR correspondence and bipartite closed strings
    This text is just an experiment. I want to know the number of viewers of a blog entry on a related topic and the composition and character of comments if there are any. The insight below is not necessary correct; and it is not necessarily fundamental. ;-) The Maldacena-Susskind ER-EPR corre ...
  • New iPhone likely to have a fingerprint scanner
    One year ago, Apple bought AuthenTec, a Prague-based security company (7 Husinecká Street), for $356 million. One may now check the Czech commercial register shows two key people from Cupertino, California, aside from a Czech male and Czech female name that started the company with the basic reg ...
  • Shmoits face a German competitor
    Book market flooded with garden-variety cranks In 2010, a German conspiracy theorist and high school teacher named Alexander Unzicker released his anti-physics tirade that was reformatted as a book. The title was "Vom Urknall zum Durchknall" which I would translate as "From the Big Bang to ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Sammy Yatim shooting a test of Ontario’s polic ...
    Is Ontario’s police watchdog equipped to fully investigate the fatal streetcar shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim by an officer, given that charges are laid in just three per cent of SIU cases? CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related post ...
  • Sammy Yatim shooting a test of Ontario’s polic ...
    Is Ontario’s police watchdog equipped to fully investigate the fatal streetcar shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim by an officer, given that charges are laid in just three per cent of SIU cases? CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related post ...
  • News In Two Minutes – China Cloud Seeding – UN ...
    from FullSpectrumSurvival: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: News In Two Minutes – Chem Plant Terror? – (video) Turkey and Brazil Riots – Prepper Survival News from FullSpectrumSu ...
  • Ontario byelections: Wynne faces 1st test as p ...
    Voters will decide on five new MPPs in byelections across Ontario today, the first test for Kathleen Wynne since taking over as premier from Dalton McGuinty. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Ontario Liberals fall 1 seat shy of maj ...
  • RAW Q&A with VisionVictory – Future Money Trends
    from visionvictory: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Bitcoin, Gold and Silver: Once and Future Money – presentation by Alasdair MacLeod from europarl: European Parliament, Brusse ...

Modern Survivalism

  • 55 Preparedness Items
    There are countless survival preparedness items (preps) that you can store ahead of time (before potential disaster), for your use during and after the emergency or disaster (or total SHTF). The following are 55 preparedness items or categories which are randomly listed, and are not all inclusiv ...
  • 10 Things To Do When A Stranger Knocks On Your ...
    Here are a few ideas how to handle a situation when someone (a stranger) is knocking on your door. It happens to all of us, sometimes somewhat regularly depending on your neighborhood. That is, we hear an unexpected knock on our front door. The question is, what should we do?   Open the doo ...
  • Infidel Body Armor, A Perspective
    by Pat Cascio I became aware of Infidel Body Armor practically from the start, as I had reviewed some products that Chad Cooper, was selling on his other website InternetPrepper.com and was impressed with the products, as well as the integrity of Cooper. Chad sent me a complete IBA set-up, two p ...
  • Four Survival Guns
      Owning a gun, or a variety of guns, is not only your right, but is a core element to ultimate personal protection and a practical tool for rural survival living. Gun ownership compliments the lifestyle of those who live a life of self sufficiency. Although there are some who are wary of g ...
  • Government Blimp Drones Over Washington DC
    Image: Raytheon You think that ordinary drones are invasive to our privacy? Check out the latest implementation by our government… Giant Drone Blimps… That’s right… Our government has spent 2.7 billion dollars on a pair of blimps that will initially be floating over Washi ...

Fast Company

  • Healthier Employees Are Happier Employees (And ...
    Sherpaa tries to cut through the insanity of the health care industry to bring streamlined heath care to employees and streamlined health care plans to employers. If you’re a relatively healthy young person, you probably don’t have to go to the doctor very often, but your compa ...
  • You Tell Me If This Word Processing App Is Wor ...
    The Valley is trapped in a bubble. And just because it hasn’t popped doesn’t make it any more removed from reality. It has a clever four-letter name--Quip. It was co-founded by Bret Taylor, the ex-CTO of Facebook (who is also the co-creator of Google Maps and the architect of F ...
  • The Great Gatsby, Redesigned To Reflect The Ja ...
    The Generative Gatsby uses an algorithm to typographically lay out Fitzgerald’s text according to the beats and rhythm of nine iconic jazz songs. Whether you think it’s one of the greatest novels of the 20th century or proof positive that twentysomethings were as vapid, foolhar ...
  • Kickstarting: A Handy Bluetooth Keyboard For Y ...
    MyType is a flexible keyboard for your smartphone or tablet. And it fits in your pocket. MyType, the pocketable, Bluetooth keyboard for smartphones and tablets, has been a long time coming. It could be said that the idea spans decades, back to 1989, when inventor Brunn Roysden first though ...
  • Present-Day Marketing Teases Future Film, “X-M ...
    "The Wolverine" is less than a week old, and Fox is already hard at work promoting the next movie in the series. As the websites for evil corporations go, Trask-Industries.com kind of wears it on its sleeve--what with the glowing-eyed robots and creepy messages about "Preserving humanity t ...

Jadaliyya

  • تونس: الأزمة والأفق المسدود
    مقارنة بجنود قتلوا ثم ذبحوا ثم نكل بأجسادهم ثم جردوا من ألبستهم إمعاناً في التنكيل، هل سيصبح رمي المعارضين بالرصاص أمام بيوتهم أقل أشكال الموت فظاعة في تونس؟ لقد بدأ التونسيون يعتادون على أن يزف إليهم خبر الشهادة يوماً بعد يوم وأصبحت الزغاريد رمزاً لتشييع الجثامين ولسان حال الجميع يقول: من الآت ...
  • لا أبطال ولا أشرار: حوار مع طلال أسد عن مصر بع ...
    [تم تسجيل هذا الحوار مع طلال أسد يوم الخميس، الحادي عشر من يوليو (تموز) 2013. وأجرته عايشة كوبكجو، محرر مشارك في صفحة تركيا في “جدلية”. ] عايشة كوبكجو: قبل كل شيء، أود أن أشكرك على موافقتك على إجراء هذا الحوار المفتوح، والذي نأمل أن نتشارك فيه مع قراء “جدلية”. بعد التدخل العسكري في الثالث من يو ...
  • Portrait of Mohamed Brahmi
    “I entered politics as a man and I will leave it as a man.” These were some of the last words Mohamed Brahmi stated to one of his friends most loyal to the People's Movement, several days before his death on 25 July 2013 in Tunis. Mohamed Brahmi was one who believed in true political engagement, ...
  • Cabinet Authorizes All Means Necessary to Deal ...
    The Cabinet has ordered that two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Cairo be dispersed and has authorized the police to use whatever force necessary to do this. In a televised statement the Cabinet said that the continuation of the sit-ins represents a threat to national security that is “no longer acceptabl ...
  • Three Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Sent to Crimi ...
    Prosecution orders arrest of Brotherhood's Osama Yassin, Essam El-Erian; extends detention for leading figures pending investigation. Egypt's general prosecutor ordered on Wednesday the referral of the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie, deputy supreme guide Khairat El-Shater, and ...

mediagazer

  • U.S. Adults Now Spending More Time on Digital ...
    Cotton Delo / AdAge: U.S. Adults Now Spending More Time on Digital Devices Than Watching TV  —  Digital Devices Now Get More Than Five Hours Per Day, According to eMarketer  —  American adults this year will for the first time spend more time each day using digit ...
  • The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyrig ...
    Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online: The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish  —  A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan.  ...
  • GCI launches stealth round of newspaper layoff ...
    Gannett Blog: GCI launches stealth round of newspaper layoffs; total is expected to exceed 100 in coming days  —  They arrive a month into the current quarter, which we've known will be a struggle because GCI doesn't have the big Olympics, political campaign ad revenue, and news ...
  • Time Warner Cable Earnings: Profit Up 6.4% Ami ...
    Saabira Chaudhuri / Wall Street Journal: Time Warner Cable Earnings: Profit Up 6.4% Amid Revenue Growth  —  By - SAABIRA CHAUDHURI -  —  Time Warner Cable Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose 6.4%, beating analyst estimates, amid growth in the company's business ser ...
  • Plain Dealer plans special print section to ex ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Plain Dealer plans special print section to explain shift to digital  —  The Plain Dealer, which laid off about 50 employees Wednesday, “plans a six-page special section in Sunday's paper to further explain the changes ahead,” Jay Miller rep ...

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

  • Rodgers: Liverpool working hard to bring in mo ...
    The Reds boss says the club have money to spend in the transfer market and are looking to make further signings this summer but will not spend for the sake of it Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers says the club is working hard to bring in more new players ahead of the new season. The Reds have al ...
  • Marchisio flattered by interest
    The midfielder was linked with a move to Manchester United towards the end of last season and remains open to a move Claudio Marchisio says he his "glad to have been linked with big European clubs" after again hinting at leaving Juventus this summer. The Italy international is rumoured to have c ...
  • Seeds Market Worth $85.2 Billion by 2018
    DALLAS, August 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report, "Seeds Market By Type (Oilseed, Grain, Fruit & Vegetable, Turf, Forage & Other Seeds), Seed Trait (Herbicide Tolerant, Insecticide Resistant, and Other Stacked Traits) & Geography - Globa ...
  • Merkel coalition takes lead in poll for first ...
    BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition has enough support to win a parliamentary majority in a September 22 election, the first time it has taken the lead in nearly four years, according to a new poll. The Infratest-dimap...
  • 1,000 killed in deadliest month for Iraq in 5 ...
    Baghdad: Violence killed around 1,000 people in July, government and United Nations figures show, making it Iraq's deadliest month since 2008 when the country was emerging from a bloody sectarian conflict. Bombings ripped through crowded cafes and mowed down worshippers at mosques last month, wh ...

no frakking consensus

  • The IPCC, UFOs & Pseudoscience
    The head of the IPCC has written a novel in which the central character is infatuated with pseudoscience and in which UFO enthusiast Shirley MacLaine is presented as credible. The final installment of the Nobel Laureate Summer Reading series.
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 4
    Girl spurns boy, marries someone else, and is anally raped on her honeymoon. Girl comes crawling back to boy, begging for forgiveness, and pleading for one more chance.
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 3
    There's nothing wrong with writing a sex-saturated novel. But IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri says this book is "all about spirituality."
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 2
    Between the ages of four and six, our hero is judged to be the smartest, gets "revenge against the whole world," and is preferred by the girls.
  • Nobel Laureate Summer Reading – Part 1
    Tidbit #1 from Rajendra Pachauri’s 2010 novel. HSBC, the huge multinational bank, has linked its brand to this strange, stilted prose.

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

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • The Rise of Rubber Takes Toll On Forests of So ...
    In one of China’s most biodiverse regions, the spread of rubber plantations to supply the country’s burgeoning automobile industry is carving up habitat and harming watersheds and tropical forest ecosystems. BY MIKE IVES
  • Jatropha ‘Carbon Farming’ Could Lower Atmosphe ...
    The large-scale planting of jatropha trees in the world’s arid regions could help reduce atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new study says. Using computer models and data from plantations in Egypt, India, and Jatropha.org Jatropha tree Madagascar, a team of German scientists calculated th ...
  • Vermont Project Seeks New Model For Carbon-Fre ...
    This week a new sailing barge was launched that its backers hope will soon be in the vanguard of a new carbon-neutral shipping alternative. The Vermont Sail Freight Project hopes to prove that carbon-neutral boats Vermont Sail Freight Project The Ceres will haul produce to New York. can be ...
  • Return of Yellowstone Wolves Triggers Surge in ...
    The reintroduction of wolves at Yellowstone National Park has caused a cascade of ecological effects that has led to the regrowth of berries, an important food source for the park’s grizzly bears, scientists say. Writing in the Yellowstone National Park Grizzly bear at Yellowstone Park ...
  • Wired Honeybees Show Harmful Impacts of Pestic ...
    Using tiny radar antennae glued to the backs of honeybees, European scientists have found that bees exposed to neonicotinoid pesticides were more likely to become disoriented and separated from their hives. Handout Honeybee wired with radar antennae After attaching the small transponders to 20 ...

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Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Ramallah vs. the "Peace Process"
    If Mahmoud Abbas does not have the power or courage to allow an Israel-based clothing shop to open branch near his residence in Ramallah, how will he ever be able to make peace with Israel? This is the question some Palestinian businessmen have been
  • "Radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood
    Following another night of violence in Cairo during which 72 people were killed, The New York Times accused the military led government of Abdul Fattah al Sisi of "radicalizing" the Muslim Brotherhood. "For all its stated commitment to democracy and
  • Russia's Noncompliance with Arms Control Oblig ...
    When President Obama, in June 2013, announced his agenda for the next round of nuclear arms control negotiations with Russia, he failed to mention what he had included in his Prague speech of 2009: arms control compliance. Shortly after, the State
  • Europe's "Moral Values"
    For nearly two millennia, the European continent has been a land of persecution and hatred for the Jewish people. The blood libels and the vilest accusations against the Jews have been accompanied by violence, pogroms, and confinement in ghettos and of
  • Bangladesh: The Preachings of a Cleric
    "Hey women, if you believe in Holy Quran, the Quran was also revealed about you. Women, you should stay within the four boundaries of your home. Do not roam around the outside of your home. Who said it? Allah said it." These were the words recently said

Urban Survival

  • Your Country Is In Trouble When….
    This morning’s report is a bit longer than usual, but with good reason.  Despite the distractions of small-fry stories of late (babies and trials and such) there are a number of very big stories like the NSA spying mess which … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the Reality of XKeyscore
    It’s not very often that we nail use-case and software development as accurately as this, but  a couple of weeks ago I wrote up for www.peoplenomics.com readers [SUBSCRIBE] how to develop a scoring algorithm for electronic surveillance of an entire … Continue reading →
  • Colors of Money
    Although I can fairly be accused of being something of a whiner about how the US economy is managed, I’m usually right more than 50% of the time in the end. And president Obama’s likely nomination of Larry Summers, if … Continue reading →
  • Waiting on Housing Data
    Reader Note:  This morning, due to the release of the Case Shiller/S&P Housing index report, please check back around 8:15-8:20 AM (Central) and we’ll have a recap of that press release.    Minding the Store? You’ll have to forgive me … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Lyle Alzado, Vitamin B-50 & Vitamin Te ...
    To borrow a station promo from WOAI in San Antonio overnight (1200 AM if you’re in the area) “Don’t take new vitamin B-50 unless you want to end up like Lyle Alzado.“  The station is running special reports this morning … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

  • Michael Savage - Hollywood Corruption, Student ...
    July 31, 2013 - Michael Savage - The Savage Nation - Hollywood Corruption, Student Loans, Work Ethics, and More Current Events - Full Show Michael Savage is an American radio host, author and political commentator. He is the host of The Savage... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
  • Gerald Celente Trends Blog - Gold Prices and t ...
    Gerald Celente - Gold prices and the economy - Goldseek Radio - July 26, 2013 Trends Expert Gerald Celente is also known as Dr Doom and the Nostradamus of Modern Times , Gerald Celente is regarded as one of the foremost trend predictors... [[ This is a content summary ...
  • Who Will Be The Next Fed President? - Larry Su ...
    Larry Summers, working under the Clinton administration, pushed for a bill that would deregulate the banks. He also pushed a bill through congress which effectively took away glass steagall, allowing investment banks "gamble" with depositors money.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • EU ON BRINK OF FINANCIAL COLLAPSE - SMALL BANK ...
    When it comes to banking, bigger isn't always better. While the EU is struggling to beef up its ailing financial institutions, Europe's smallest banks have been doing pretty well - some run by just one member of staff. RT's Peter Oliver traveled to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • The True Purpose of Banking ~ Controlling the Debt
    Life imitates art. Sometimes in great irony, people can watch fiction without realizing the fiction is referencing fact. an excerpt from the international presents "the true purpose of banking". The reason bankers have willingly funded every single... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Gulf Rig Fire is Deja Vu for Fishermen Still R ...
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC When the Hercules Offshore Inc. gas well  blew and caught fire  last week, spewing natural gas and flames into the air 50 miles off the Gulf coast, many in the nearby fishing communit ...
  • The House Record at Recess: Anti-health, anti- ...
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC As Republican members of the House prepare to march out of town for the August recess, one can only say good riddance to a crew that in recent weeks has repeatedly, and across a broad front, vote ...
  • How a once-disinvested neighborhood is buildin ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   The Chatham Square area of New Haven reminds me of the first neighborhood that I grew up in (minus the hills we had in Asheville):  wood-frame, working-class houses, with ...
  • Political Vendetta Against Health Safeguards F ...
    John Walke, Clean Air Director/ Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. Some Congressional Republicans have mounted a feverish campaign against long-established science showing a clear causal association between fine soot pollution (PM2.5) and premature d ...
  • Western Energy News Round-Up: Action on Climat ...
    Noah Long, Legal Director, Western Energy Project, Energy & Transportation Program; and Clean Energy Counsel, Land & Wildlife Program, San Francisco Western Energy News Round-Up is a weekly selection of news highlighting recent energy and environmen ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Russia Prepares For War After Historic Obama-B ...
    A truly grim Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is confirming that the 13 July snap military drills ordered by President Putin involving nearly 200,000 Russia troops was in “direct response” to information obtained from US fugitive Edward Snowden; information ...
  • Obama Dictatorship Grows As Carter Declares US ...
    A grim report issued by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) today is warning that the Obama regime dictatorship has grown “beyond all logical scope and moral reason” after a US Federal Court ruling once again allowed the White House to legally indefinitely detain persons that fit in the category of en ...
  • Brutal Reality: Aerial photo of 160,000 Syrian ...
    Zaatari is a refugee camp in Jordan, located 10 km east of Mafraq. It was first opened on July 28, 2012 to host Syrians fleeing the violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011. On July 4, 2013, the camp population was estimated at 144,000 refugees, making it Jordan’s four ...
  • Putin says war games show Russia’s military power
    President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia can be proud of its military, which has shown a “high degree” of combat readiness during the nation’s biggest war games in more than two decades. “Today we can be proud of our army,” Putin said. The maneuvers, whic ...
  • Russia holds large military exercises
    The Russian Air Force began war games Wednesday in the Western Military District, military officials said. The games involve more than 40 airplanes and helicopters, RIA Novosti reported. A spokesman said the exercises include the biggest deployment to date of the new Sukhoi Su-34 strike aircraft ...

Daily Dose

  • Sony posts $17.3b revenue for fiscal Q1 2013, ...
    Sony has announced its fiscal Q1 2013 earnings of 1712.7 billion yen ($17.3 billion) in revenue, up 13 percent year-on-year primarily due to favorable foreign exchange rates, a rise in... Keep reading →
  • Japanese gaming giant GREE continues cost cutt ...
    Japanese games giant GREE continues to restructure its struggling business, after the company shut down Tellit, the mobile messaging service that it released last year, as part of its ongoing... Keep reading →
  • Timehop for iOS loses ‘friend feed&#8217 ...
    Timehop, the very cool app that lets you go back in time to see your Internet and social media activity from the past, has updated its iOS app with new... Keep reading →
  • Apple will reportedly use retina display from ...
    Apple suppliers in Asia are working on a next-generation iPad Mini that will have a high-resolution retina display from Samsung, the Wall Street Journal reports, in an interesting collaboration between... Keep reading →
  • IE9 falls below 10% market share, Firefox hits ...
    The second half of 2013′s browser war has begun. July saw the fourth full month of IE10 availability on Windows 7, as well as one full month of Firefox 22... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • It's time to start limiting the gas industry
    Gas industry campaign omits gas price hike July 29 2013 Australians should stand with the farmers who are stopping coal-seam gas developments, not the gas companies who stand to gain, according to a leading climate solutions and technology think-tank. “It's time to start placing more limits on ...
  • It's time to launch the ZCA Buildings Plan!
      Launches in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne: Thursday, 8 August, 6:30PM at The Spot Basement Theatre, Melbourne University, 198 Berkely St Carlton. Click here to book Melbourne seats. Brisbane: Monday, 12 August, from 6PM at C Block Auditorium C1411, Southbank TAFE, 66 Ernest St S ...
  • Is climate action working?
    With the first year of the carbon price just over, we've seen a lot of commentary and hyperbole from all sides. Fortunately some facts are also available. Emissions have fallen. Prices have not skyrocketed and the sky has not fallen in. Case closed? Jenny Riesz and Roger Dargaville have written ...
  • Govt underestimates high-speed rail profits by ...
    The government has underestimated by $190 billion the profits of its Melbourne-Brisbane high-speed rail (HSR) plan, enough to repay the capital cost of the network, according to  Researchers at independent think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE). Beyond ...
  • Sydney's energy backdown: first step to zero g ...
    Trigeneration gas power stations not the way to green energy Beyond Zero Emissions, 11 June 2013 Climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions has welcomed yesterday's announcement that the City of Sydney is abandoning plans for its fossil-gas powered trigeneration precinct. “We opposed t ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Malaysian NGOs form alliance to address palm o ...
    Seven Malaysia-based NGO's have banded together to form an alliance to provide a Malaysian civil society perspective on social and environmental issues related to palm oil production. The initiative aims to counter Malaysian industry claims that concerns over palm oil are purely driven by Wester ...
  • Balkan lynx conservation unifies neighboring c ...
    They still call the Balkans “the Powder Keg of Europe.” For good reason too: bloody ethnic and religious conflicts in the past decades have left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. As recently as 2001, the army in Macedonia was fighting with ethnic Albanians, many of t ...
  • Habitat loss and pesticides causing decline in ...
    Europe's grassland butterfly population has plummeted in the past two decades, new research published on Tuesday shows, with a near halving in the numbers of key species since 1990.
  • Meet Thor's shrew: scientist discover new mamm ...
    In 1917, Joel Asaph Allen examined an innocuous species of shrew from the Congo Basin and made a remarkable discovery: the shrew's spine was unlike any seen before. Interlocking lumbar vertebrae made the species' spine four times strong than any other vertebrate on Earth adjusted for its size. T ...
  • Former cop to face charges in illegal logging ...
    Labora Sitorus, a former police officer accused of running a nearly $150 million illegal logging ring in Indonesian New Guinea, faces charges of money laundering, illegal logging and fuel smuggling, a police spokesman said in Jakarta on Friday.

Sierra Express

  • Sand Mining threatens Eco-Tourism in Bureh Town
    One main source of income for some residents of Bureh Town in the Western Rural District of Sierra Leone is Eco-Tourism which over the years is being threatened due to the persistent sand mining in the neighbouring John Obey community. The manager for Austra Leone, Prince Williams informed the S ...
  • “Constitutional Review Committee is the People ...
    Delivering the Vote of Thanks at the auspicious launching of the Constitutional Review Committee at the Miatta Conference Centre on Tuesday July 30th, 2013, Secretary to the newly launched committee, Augustine Sheku assured that the Constitutional Review Committee being a team of experts is the ...
  • SLIMS Community Hospital becomes a Death Trap
    Reports are that the K-Step Police Division is currently investigating a case of allegations of wrong prescriptions and administration of drugs by medics of the SLIMS Community Hospital at the Old Wharf far east of capital Freetown. The latest victim is the case of 17 year’s old Emile Berry who ...
  • Iranian Consulate Concludes Quranic Competition
    The Cultural Consulate of the Islamic Republic of Iran [IRI] has concluded its annual Quranic Competition at a jam-packed Iranian Cultural Centre in Freetown past Saturday 27th July. The ceremony attracted several Islamic scholars and Imams from various parts of the country. The Quranic competit ...
  • Police extol Tumac Investment Company
    The Tumac Investment company, a non political investment company wholly owned by Sierra Leonean Dr. Mohamed Tunde Macarthy (Oin photo), has received thanks and praise from the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) following the financing of the refurbishment of the Freetown Central Lorry Park Police Post to ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra payout lift big boost for NZ economy
    Fonterra's increased payout for 2013-14 would lend a sizeable boost to the economy, Westpac said in a commentary.The cooperative dairy giant this morning raised its forecast milk price to farmers by 50 cents for the 2013/14...
  • Fonterra lifts forecast milk price payout
    Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's biggest dairy exporter, has lifted its forecast milk payout to farmers by 50 cents in the 2014 season as global supply remains constrained and as a weaker local currency bolsters export returns....
  • New China heat on NZ baby formula
    New Zealand's lucrative reputation for high-quality dairy produce continues to get a battering from the Chinese media, despite efforts by this country's government to reassure consumers in the world's second-biggest economy that Kiwi...
  • Westpac upgrades Fonterra milk price forecast
    The combination of a weaker New Zealand dollar and persistently strong global prices has prompted Westpac to upgrade its Fonterra milk price forecast to $7.40 per kg of milk solids for the 2013/14 season, up 90c from the bank's previous...
  • Fonterra to miss forecast
    The Fonterra Shareholders' Fund unit price dropped by 21c yesterday after the co-operative signalled that its earnings would fall slightly short of prospectus forecasts in the current year.By mid-morning, the units were trading...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Andrew Napolitano on How Justin Amash Is Leadi ...
    There is a political wildfire burning in the land, and we should all be grateful to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for igniting it, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano. The fire eventually will consume the political derelictions of those who have abandoned their oaths to uphold the Cons ...
  • Brickbat: Getting Bombed
    When police in Edmonds, Washington, got a report of a piece of PVC pipe found near a boat launch on Lake Ballinger, they closed the launch and called in the bomb squad. And they say it's good that they did because the object was a pipe bomb. Well, that's what they say. Doug Waterma ...
  • Police Continue to Harass and Threaten Citizen ...
    Seattle cops continue to be officious threatening douches to citizens doing things perfectly legal, even though they are under a federal court order to essentially stop being such threatening douches, the Seattle Stranger reports: The setup: Stranger writer sees a bunch of cops ...
  • Woman Who Handed Father Morphine Charged With ...
    Pennsylvania woman Barbara Mancini may be charged in the death of her terminally ill, 93-year-old father. The second-degree felony charge of "Aiding Suicide" carries a maximum ten-year sentence. Mancini denies the charges and is fighting the case with the help of advocacy group Co ...
  • Thailand's Central Bank Outlaws Bitcoin, Thoug ...
    There's some uncertaintly about how official this new ban actually is, but the Bank of Thailand has reportedly outlawed any use of Bitcoin in the country. The "huh?" factor comes from the news being announced by a Bitcoin exchange, and not by the central bank itself. For now, Thailan ...

Mercury Rising

  • Ambinder On XKEYSCORE
    He argues that XKEYSCORE is not a collection tool but a fancy way of searching through data that was already collected: XKEYSCORE is not a thing that DOES collecting; it’s a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of metadata that the N ...
  • You knew it had to happen: Snowden the video game
    Help Edward Snowden Escape The NSA in Snowden Run 3D (Steve Bogos, The Escapist)
  • Wonder Why Fast Food Workers Went On Strike? L ...
    You may have heard about the fast food workers’ strike that started yesterday in several big cities in the U.S. Here is the website of the group behind the strike, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, or ROC United for short: http://rocunited.org/lookbehindthekitchendoor/ Here is a sni ...
  • All about the Benjamins: Indiana/Florida schoo ...
    Via Atrios. It’s Tom Lo Bianco, AP, so link only. Christel DeHaan is a major GOP donor, giving $2.8M to GOPers, including $130K to Tony Bennett. Tony Bennett was the head of Indiana schools, and is now head of Florida schools. Christel DeHaan had a private academy, Christel House Academy i ...
  • Stand For Food
    From the notes attached to this video by Stand For Food: The Sustainable Food Production (SFP) Program at the Fergus Falls campus of Minnesota State Community & Technical College was launched in fall of 2010 by Dr. Sue Wika, in partnership with Dr. Tom Prieve and other program instructors. D ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Writing: Better than a Band-Aid?
    For those of us who write, we often feel a psychological or emotional release after writing, especially if we've tackled a difficult subject. It turns out this emotional release may work on an even deeper level. According to a new study from New Zealand, expressive writing helps wounds he ...
  • Sexual Politics in the Transformational Culture
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  • Robots, Wrestling, and Writing: A Talk with Mi ...
    Religions of the Book and indigenous shamanic traditions have a troubled and violent history, with the violence mostly being visited upon the shamanic practitioners. Even so, ayahuasca shamanism has found at least some common ground with Christianity in the syncretic churches of the Santo Da ...
  • The Holy Alternative: Art as Medicine, Ritual, ...
    “Ecosomatics:  an emerging interdisciplinary field that connects movement education, improvisation, healing arts, psychology, ritual, performing arts, and good old-fashioned play with ecological consciousness.”  --Somatic educator Nala Walla read more
  • Arise Music Festival
    The ARISE Music Festival is a camping event located in Loveland, just 65 miles north of Denver, CO, starting August 14th and running till August 18. | The event takes place in a breathtaking rocky mountain oasis known as the Sunrise Ranch. This magical and inspiring landscape is the per ...

Desertification

  • Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
    The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
  • First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
    Burkina Faso has just received a grant of 30 million dollars from the Forest Investment Programme to help protect the country’s forests and reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with deforestation. Burkina’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas and the ...
  • Saving Côte d’Ivoire’s Fragile Forests and People
    As the Côte d’Ivoire government clears its protected forests of illegal occupiers, particularly in the Dix-Huit Montagnes region, environmentalists say that this crucial move might lead to conflict in an already tense region. “I am in favour of evictions, but it should not be brutal. These are f ...
  • Living Laboratory for Coping with Drought in B ...
    The first surprise on arriving at Abel Manto’s farm is how green it is, in contrast with the dry brown surroundings. His beans and fruit trees seem oblivious to the persistent drought in the semi-arid hinterland of northeast Brazil, the worst in 50 years. An “underground reservoir&#8 ...
  • Climate Change Promises Tough Times for Asia a ...
    Extreme heat, flooding and water and food shortages will rock South Asia and Africa by 2030 and render large sections of cities inhabitable, if the world continues to burn huge amounts of coal, oil and gas, the World Bank is warning. “Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts ...

Blogging Canadians

  • $ 200 Billion to see stupid men kicking balls ...
    I wonder what the people in poor  countries think when they see the sheikdoms  throw billions of dollars away on frivolous pastimes (in my opinion) when that kind of money could have been used to teach the poor in Africa and elsewhere how to cultivate and grow food and livestock which ...
  • Life without electricity in flooded Toronto
    In my area of Toronto, we SUFFERED for six LONG hours.  Yeh, I know ... that's laughable ... but that's how much pampered and dependent on the niceties of comfort we have become.  Even six hours was hard to take. There are some areas of Toronto where people are still without power so I ...
  • Rough and rude treatment of travellers by Cana ...
       Complaints pile up over airport border guardsReports show pattern of rude, disrespectful treatment of travellers by CBSA agents "Dozens of travellers arriving home at Ottawa International Airport have filed complaints about rude treatment and harassment by Canada Border Services ...
  • Vatican prostitution ring was a fake, but deep ...
    It turns out that rumours about a gay prostitution ring operating in the Vatican were unsubstantiated. However, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t serious problems there. As Pope Francis himself admitted, there is indeed a gay lobby operating in the Vatican. A few weeks ago we also ...
  • The Seasons Test: Are People Too Stupid for De ...
    Last week, an interesting story flashed around the world’s media: in pretty much every country, men are much more knowledgeable about politics than women. Now, you might think that journalists would be disturbed at their failure in this regard. You might think there would be some public so ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • US drone strike kills 4 in Yemen
    A US assassination drone strike has killed at least four people in Yemen, the third of such attacks in the last five days.
  • Assad ‘sure of victory’ over militants
    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he is sure about the victory of the Syrian forces over the foreign-backed militants operating in Syria.
  • Syria army to regain full Homs control
    The Syrian army has turned its focus to regaining control over those last areas of the western city of Homs that are still under the control of the foreign-backed Takfiri militants, Press TV reports.
  • Saudi campaign goes viral on Twitter
    A group of Saudi workers has begun a campaign for pay raise by posting a message on social media website Twitter, which has so far been tweeted about 17 million times.
  • Turkish police fires teargas at people
    Turkish police forces have used teargas and water cannons against anti-government protesters holding a demonstration in Istanbul.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Sickle Cell Anaemia across the globe
    The number of people with sickle cell anaemia is set to rise dramatically in the next 40 years. Sickle cell anaemia is a blood disorder that affects around 2 million people worldwide. It causes th...
  • Laser-activated blood clotting switch
    A clotting control system based on laser-activated nanoparticles has been developed by scientists in the US. Controlling the blood's coagulation system is a significant healthcare cost. In many deve...
  • Plastic foil electronic skin sensors
    Ultra-lightweight electronics fashioned from thin plastic films that can be formed into sensors and microcircuits have been developed in Japan. At just two microns thick, the plastic electronics ar...
  • Human sleep sensitive to moon cycle
    True to their Swiss reputation for crafting exquisite timepieces, scientists in Basel have shown that the lunar calendar significantly affects human sleep patterns. The Moon has been held in high re...
  • Palm oil genes
    Close study of the genome of the oil palm tree could result in significantly increased palm oil yield, a paper published in the journal Nature this week has revealed. Palm oil is one of the most comm...

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Care2 - Environment

  • Long Before Birds, Dinosaur Brains Wired for F ...
    Some nonavian dinosaurs, including carnivorous tyrannosaurs, may have had brains that were hardwired for flight long before even the earliest known birds started flapping their wings, a new study finds. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
  • Republican Party Poll: Voters Agree On The Nee ...
    More than half a year after the former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's loss, Republicans remain in the midst of intra-party argument over whether, how much, and in what way the party needs to reshape itself for coming elections Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Balkan lynx conservation unifies neighboring c ...
    Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro are collaborating on a joint conservation strategy for the Critically Endangered animal. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is the Pope Catholic?
    Everyone is agog about the gay-friendly sentiment Pope Francis expressed on his flight home from Brazil. The who am I to judge? line appears to have come from Pope Francis in a sincere spirit of toleration for gays and lesbians. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |  &nb ...
  • Archaeologists find 1.4-million-year-old flint ...
    Archaeologists said Wednesday they have found a flint blade dating back 1.4 million years in the caves of Atapuerca in Spain, the earliest sign of a human presence at the site Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • NEPTUNE facts
    Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun and the smallest of the gas giants. Neptune was the first planet found by mathematical prediction after unexpected changes in the orbit of Uranus were observed... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |&n ...
  • MARS facts
    Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. Named after the Roman god of war, and often described as the Red Planet due to its reddish appearance... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • VENUS facts
    Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus is the second largest terrestrial planet and is sometimes referred to as ... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & Tech &n ...
  • First Floating Metropolis Could Be Only A Few ...
    Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) said All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. While the truth may eventually work its way into the light of day... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & T ...
  • Visions of the Los Angeles That Could Have Been
    In a recent IndustryTap article Jobs Market 2045: What Will We Do When Machines Do All The Work? professor Moshe Vardi notes that humans dont deliberate enough about new technologies or projects and their long-term meaning for humans and society... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & ...

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Attention Veterans – New Ruling Effectiv ...
    Federal Register, Volume 78 Issue 145 (Monday, July 29, 2013). Note from:  Administrator Effective Monday, July 29, 2013, Veterans will be able to access VA records previously withheld.  Until now, VA personnel have had the final say on whether or … Continue reading →
  • FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to De ...
    FBI — Halliburton Agrees to Plead Guilty to Destruction of Evidence in Connection with Deepwater Horizon Tragedy. Filed under: Government Tagged: Deepwater Horizon, destruction of evidence, FBI, guilty, Halliburton
  • Summary of IRS, April 5, 2013, Notice of Propo ...
    www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/summary-irs-rule.pdf. Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured
  • New Recalls from the (ODI) Office of the Natio ...
    Please click on the following NHTSA Campaign ID links to view the recall information. NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 13V300 Manufacturer : Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. Make / Model Years : MITSUBISHI / 2013 Subject : Strut Stabilizer May … Continue reading →
  • Please keep her safe
    Filed under: News and politics, U.S. Military, War Tagged: 2013, Gina, July 6, Middle-East, Prayers, tour of duty, U.S. Army, War

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Report Finds Pattern of Inequity in Developmen ...
    Despite global efforts to provide development aid, the world’s poorest are getting poorer, says a new report by the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD). “What we found through the research with people living in poverty is that overall, the most marginalised and the poorest communiti ...
  • U.S. Hedge Funds Paint Argentina as Ally of Ir ...
    In this two-part series, IPS examines how a major donor to the Republican Party, Paul Singer, is using a lobbying firm run by Democrats to tar the government of Argentina as an increasingly lawless and anti-American ally of Iran. In the second part, we report how a network of think tanks, politi ...
  • Fight Against Drought Is Grounds for Political ...
    The decisions taken by the Brazilian government in the fight against drought in the country’s semiarid Northeast are an example of the disconnect between politicians and the citizens, which triggered an unexpected wave of protests in June. Even though the centre-left government of Dilma Rousseff ...
  • World’s Poorest Nations Slowly Mending
    The number of “least developed countries” (LDCs), which rose from the original 24 back in 1971 to the current 49, is beginning to shrink – haltingly. So far, three countries – Botswana, Cape Verde and the Maldives – have “graduated” from LDCs to the stat ...
  • Egypt-Like Disputes Stir Tunisia
    As political divisions threaten to destabilise the national transition process in Tunisia, Prime Minister Ali Laarayedh has set deadlines for finalising the new constitution and holding elections. Not everyone is convinced these will be met. In a televised speech Monday appealing for a calm reso ...

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nucle ...
    Summary: Newly published recollections by the former French ambassador to Iran suggest that Iran was not running a covert nuclear weapons programme that it then decided to halt in late 2003, as concluded by U.S. intelligence in 2007. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Why President Assad, Hezbollah, and Iran are ...
    Summary: In an interview with Al Mayadeen’s Min ad-Dākhil (From the Inside), taped in Beirut last month shortly after Syrian forces and Hezbollah fighters recaptured Qusayr, Flynt laid out why Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has not fallen, despite the many predictions of his government’s co ...
  • How European courts are dismantling sanctions ...
    Summary: (Reuters) - In the years-long campaign to tie a web of sanctions around Iran and stall its nuclear program, the European Union may just have met its biggest obstacle: its own law courts. source: Reutersread more
  • Why Hezbollah is not going away as long as Isr ...
    Summary: Attempts to brand Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation are not only futile, but fly in the face of the facts of this movement and its history. Like all genuine resistance movements, the Lebanese resistance, led by Hezbollah, was born as a reaction to occupation. And like all success ...
  • The Language of Power: Obama's "Humanitarian ...
    Summary: In her first appearance before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Samantha Power, Obama's pick for next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, made clear that she will spend her time in the role much as her predecessor Susan Rice did: acting as Israel's consummate defender, fear-m ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • CERN's 'LHC' New Mission to Probe Mystery of D ...
        And when CERN's LHC experiments resume in 2015, scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will use its enhanced power to probe dark matter, dark energy and supersymmetry -- ideas considered as wild as the Higgs Boson was, half a century ago. As engi ...
  • Will Earth's Future Mimic Venus's Past?
                   The conditions on Venus are hard to describe. Many planetary scientists say "Start by imagining Hell and work up from there." It's an environment where words like "over 500 degrees Celsius" get thrown around, and it's flat-out crushed every probe we've sent into it.  As t ...
  • Saturn's Enceladus: New Evidence of a Large Bo ...
                   A new finding adds to evidence that a liquid water reservoir or ocean lurks under the icy surface of the moon. This is the first clear observation the bright plume emanating from Enceladus' south pole varies predictably.  "The jets of Enceladus apparently work like a ...
  • "Lost City" of the Atlantic --The Site of the ...
        This image above from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean shows a collection of limestone towers known as the "Lost City," a submarine hot-spring system (like no other yet seen within the world's oceans). Alkaline hydrothermal vents of this type are suggested to be the birthplace ...
  • Image of the Day: NASA --Earth's Warming from ...
                   

Natural News

  • Breakdown: New York EMTs forced to wait for ho ...
    Don't look now, but New York City is doing its best imitation of Detroit, at least when it comes to emergency medical services. The New York Daily News is reporting that the city's Emergency Medical Personnel - the EMTs and Paramedics who staff city ambulances - sometimes...
  • Positive mental states encourage health and lo ...
    According to current research, gratitude and appreciation aren't just pleasant emotions, both offer tangible health benefits as well. The HeartMath Institute in California has taken these findings a step further, providing a systematic approach for cultivating true appreciation...
  • Try these four incredible natural treatments f ...
    The more progressive side of modern medicine is quickly learning that the root cause of many contemporary illnesses is none other than chronic inflammation, a lingering immune response caused by poor diet and other factors that, if left unchecked, can damage a number...
  • Are chemical imbalances really to blame for ps ...
    Imagine waking up one morning to find your kitchen sink overflowing onto the kitchen floor. What would rational friends think if your response were to order a daily truckload of mops as a remedy to keep the floor dry, as opposed to turning off the faucet? As it turns...
  • Shock poll: 4 out of 5 U.S. adults experience ...
    It is a sad, shocking statistic that demands answers, though you shouldn't expect any soon from a government whose power-mad leaders are preoccupied with issues the vast majority of us care nothing about. However bad you thought the U.S. economy to be, a new survey...

Threat Level

  • Edward Snowden Granted Asylum, Leaves Moscow A ...
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year and has finally left Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.    
  • Hidden Circuits and Handmade Clockwork: The St ...
    When the DefCon hacker conference celebrated its 20th year last summer, the passage of time was evident; hackers who attended their first con in their teens and 20s returned to tow their children to the DefCon Kids segment. That tick-tock ...    
  • Unlocking Bill Passes Committee, But Its Fate ...
    The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act was approved by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill now moves on to the House floor, so its fate is still uncertain. Especially because this 113th Congress is the least productive ...    
  • Buffeted by New Disclosures, NSA Chief Defends ...
    Amid new revelations today about another expansive NSA surveillance program, agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander appeared before an audience of security professionals to defend his bulk collection of phone records and other data.    
  • Declassified Memos Confirm Dragnet Phone Surve ...
    Intelligence officials today released top secret internal briefings they had provided to members of Congress that outline the dragnet phone-call metadata surveillance program lawmakers secretly knew about but could not tell Americans when publicly voting for it. The disclosure of ...   ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Feds Send Dead Farmers Checks, Not Estate Tax ...
    For the first time in years, passage of the farm bill is producing conflict and controversy on Capitol Hill. But even as House Republicans demand $20 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would remove five million people from the food stamp rolls, the Gove ...
  • Marco Rubio Doubles Down on Obamacare Defundin ...
    Florida Senator and obvious 2016 GOP White House hopeful Marco Rubio used a Fox News op-ed last Thursday to publish one of the most comical acts of budgetary extortion in recent memory. Demanding that Congress shutter the federal government rather than pay for the implementation of the Affordabl ...
  • Howard Dean Serves Up IPABlum on Obamacare
    Former Vermont Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean may like to claim he represents "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," just not on health care. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the one-time 2004 frontrunner turned K Streeter warmed conservative hearts by de ...
  • After Denying Insurance for 500,000, Jindal an ...
    The past week brought two big waves of Obamacare news. In the first, Maryland became just the latest state to announce that its new health care exchange will deliver lower than expected insurance premiums beginning in 2014. In the second, a slew of contenders for the 2016 Republican presidenti ...
  • Senate Tax Writers Offer Colleagues 50 Years o ...
    During the 2012 campaign, Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan proposed what might be called "tax cuts for cowards." That is, Romney/Ryan proposed slashing tax rates for the wealthy and corporations, partially offsetting the trillions in lost revenue by promising to close some of the hundreds ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

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TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Mountain Lions Will Be Hunted in Nebraska
    Mountain lions will be hunted in most parts of Nebraska in 2014. It will be the first year hunting of them will occur in the state (South Dakota has already allowed a number of hunts.) Curiously, there is only one area of Nebraska that is known to have a reproducing population of mountain lions. ...
  • Sexy Commercial Including Ryan Gosling & A Hal ...
    Modern rail is possibly my favorite way to travel. It’s so comfortable (so much more space than on an airplane!!). It’s super green (of course). You don’t have to get to the train station an hour or so in advance (like you do when flying). You can see a lot from the train. You& ...
  • London Cycle Scheme — Barclays Cycle Hire — Ge ...
    Bike-sharing has taken off around the world. I remember when it was just budding several years ago. I thought right off the bat that it was the hottest idea in the world of transportation planning. Seems it was. Still, advertising is key to gaining users. Look at how much car companies advertise ...
  • Pre Traumatic Stress Disorder
    Yes! magazine refers to the acknowledgment of the serious effects of climate change as “Armageddon Complex,” but no matter what you call it things are looking grim unless we make some serious changes. For more of Joe’s cartoons check out his 5+ year cartoon archive. Got kids? W ...
  • Giant Water Bug Lethocerus Patruelis Kills A F ...
    The giant water bug — Lethocerus patruelis — is a very large bug, in fact it’s the largest “true bug” in Europe and also the largest water insect. The adults grow as large as 8cm in length — and the biggest representatives of the same family get as big as 12cm ...

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Axis of Logic

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

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Republic or Empire?
    By @TedFrier Who'd have thought that US contractors would need to import millions of tons of sand into Iraq where, as the New York Times quipped, the ratio of sand to water in that desert country is around 10 to 1. The problem, as the Third Army's Maj. Gen. Phillip E. McGhee explained at the tim ...
  • Right Wing Race-baiting Continues
    By @TedFrier To this day, Bill O'Reilly steadfastly refuses to accept even a morsel of responsibility for the role his relentless and reckless demagoguing of Dr. George Tiller as "Tiller the Baby Killer" almost certainly played in the murder of the medical director of Wichita's Women's Health Ca ...
  • He's spoilin' for a fight...
    By @BginKC On Wednesday I "climbed back up on the horse" so to speak and covered my first political event since last fall, when I had a vertebral aneurysm dissect and try to kill me. The road to recovery has been a long one and I'm not there yet but when the President of the United States is spe ...
  • The GOP's Impossible Climb on Race
    By @TedFrier I am no big fan of Kirsten Powers. She is one of those right-of-center nominal "Democrats" who Fox News likes to hire as a "political analyst" so that Roger Ailes' right wing propaganda machine can bask in the patina of bi-partisan respectability and credibility. But in today's Dail ...
  • Connecting the Dots on Republican Bigotry
    By @TedFrier Two stories currently at the top of the day's news cycle deserve to be viewed as parts of a matched set. The first is conservative reaction to President Obama's effort last week to use the Trayvon Martin case as a "teachable moment" on race relations in America. As former Rudy Giuli ...

Care 2

  • Long Before Birds, Dinosaur Brains Wired for F ...
    Some nonavian dinosaurs, including carnivorous tyrannosaurs, may have had brains that were hardwired for flight long before even the earliest known birds started flapping their wings, a new study finds. Submitted by Giana Peranio-paz to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
  • Republican Party Poll: Voters Agree On The Nee ...
    More than half a year after the former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's loss, Republicans remain in the midst of intra-party argument over whether, how much, and in what way the party needs to reshape itself for coming elections Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Balkan lynx conservation unifies neighboring c ...
    Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro are collaborating on a joint conservation strategy for the Critically Endangered animal. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Is the Pope Catholic?
    Everyone is agog about the gay-friendly sentiment Pope Francis expressed on his flight home from Brazil. The who am I to judge? line appears to have come from Pope Francis in a sincere spirit of toleration for gays and lesbians. Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |  &nb ...
  • Archaeologists find 1.4-million-year-old flint ...
    Archaeologists said Wednesday they have found a flint blade dating back 1.4 million years in the caves of Atapuerca in Spain, the earliest sign of a human presence at the site Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • CIA’s Mediocrity Syndrome
    I have long written about the sad state of the CIA. It is an organization that has lost its way and become a bureaucratic labyrinth that quickly and efficiently smothers the life out of eager young men and women bent on making a difference. They enter the Agency with dreams of James Bond (as emb ...
  • “Bully Bill” Open Thread
    O’Reilly made inflammatory comments that shocked and angered many. Geraldo went after O’Reilly. Frankly, I think that O’Reilly’s stat about the murder rate is shocking and indicative of a huge problem in the United States. From Mediate’s article, O’Reilly To Geraldo ...
  • Barack Obama Was Right About Ho Chi Minh
    I presume many of you have heard the outrage on the right over Barack Obama’s comments last week as he met with Vietnam’s President. Here is a typical screed courtesy of Wizbang: Last week the president of Viet Nam, Truong Tan Sang, visited US President Obama. One would think Sang’s ...
  • “The Only People Fit To Run For Congress Are ‘ ...
    From the Mediate article, “Daily Show Concludes The Only People Fit To Run For Congress Are ‘Assholes’”: On Thursday night’s Daily Show, correspondent Aasif Mandvi tried to understand what type of crazy person wouldn’t want to give up their career in local politics to join the ineffe ...
  • Barack Obama Phony in Chief
    Jesus! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, good old Barack Obama was out yesterday leading with his chin. Just what “phony” scandal does he have in mind? Was the death of Border Patrol officer, Brian Terry, “phony?” Was Barack Obama’s failure to take charge ...

Futurismic

  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Money Warz: Emperor Pipeline, Darth Banker, Lu ...
    Here is a fun art project against the evil Trans Pacific Partnership treaty of Doom! Please pass the word or a couple bucks for Money Warz, a street art performance getting the Occupy Wall Street band back together on the 2nd anniversary, Sept 17 2013 - the goal is $1000 or moar... If they can g ...
  • VIDEO: Minneapolis Rally #Justice4Trayvon #Jus ...
    Here is live video from #justice4trayvon #justice4terrance rally Sat night ~12:30AM in Downtown Minneapolis >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RyjuazWlik&feature=youtu.be (creative commons - interview w Mel Reeves!) - several FB events for Monday >> https://www.facebook.com/event ...
  • Canadian First Nations - Shut Down the Tar San ...
    A network of direct action camps - and indeed a network of networks - continues to spread across North America uniting Natives, First Nations, meddling kids, even ranchers and activists vs corporate exploitation. Mercenaries have appeared in northern Wisconsin to protect dangerous & widely o ...
  • Backstories & Backbones; Security of US Emerge ...
    Oh For Facks Sake. All this big government/police state techno-crap is so often easily hacked in some way, which means the Awesome Emergency Powers of Teh Govmints are easily subverted by the Baba Booey fans of the world, or zombie apocalypses as the case may be. Indeed quite possibly all this N ...
  • Mysterious Parastoo apparent Iranian hacker gr ...
    A few linxors on hacker stories both Turkish and Iranian. Pretty mysterious, not sure what to make out of it… Another post via Cryptome. SOURCE: Parastoo Claims Launch of Second UAV in US FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM : PARASTOO TO : DOD RE : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 HANDLE ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • 10 Million Americans Have Had Their Homes Take ...
    Against all odds, and continued predatory Wall Street behavior, community activists are working to reclaim devastated neighborhoods. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from  TomDispatch.com here.We cautiously ascend the staircase, the pitch b ...
  • Watch: Stephen Colbert Helpfully Explains Catf ...
    "With any luck, this GOPissing contest will continue all the way to the convention." Although we have enjoyed it, we have not yet weighed in on the pissing contest between Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Governor Chris Christie, two stars of the right-wing firmament, though very diffe ...
  • Why Can’t Hemp Get You High?
    Why the plant that’s used to make everything from backpacks to bong-cozies is weaker in the high department than its THC-rich cousin. The domestic and industrial use of the hemp plant dates back as far as 8000 BCE when hemp cord was used to create pottery. Even today more than 30 countries thr ...
  • I Spent Years in Solitary Without a Window, Li ...
    Why the hunger strike going on across California's prisons matters. Michael Cabral has served ten years on a 15-Life sentence for murder, beginning when he was still a juvenile. His first two and a half years were spent in the Pelican Bay SHU. He spent time in Salinas Valley State Prison ...
  • 3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrify ...
    Yes, the government can search your email, chats, searches, attachments. Snowden's most shocking leak yet reveals America's National Security State. The meta-data explanation has now been unmasked as a mega-lie, according to the latest revelations from exiled National Security Agenc ...

Threat Level

  • Edward Snowden Granted Asylum, Leaves Moscow A ...
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia for one year and has finally left Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.    
  • Hidden Circuits and Handmade Clockwork: The St ...
    When the DefCon hacker conference celebrated its 20th year last summer, the passage of time was evident; hackers who attended their first con in their teens and 20s returned to tow their children to the DefCon Kids segment. That tick-tock ...    
  • Unlocking Bill Passes Committee, But Its Fate ...
    The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act was approved by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill now moves on to the House floor, so its fate is still uncertain. Especially because this 113th Congress is the least productive ...    
  • Buffeted by New Disclosures, NSA Chief Defends ...
    Amid new revelations today about another expansive NSA surveillance program, agency chief Gen. Keith Alexander appeared before an audience of security professionals to defend his bulk collection of phone records and other data.    
  • Declassified Memos Confirm Dragnet Phone Surve ...
    Intelligence officials today released top secret internal briefings they had provided to members of Congress that outline the dragnet phone-call metadata surveillance program lawmakers secretly knew about but could not tell Americans when publicly voting for it. The disclosure of ...   ...

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • The Food Buying Public’s Right to Know
    The CDC has been notified of 378 cases of Cyclospora infection from the following 16 health departments: Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York City, Georgia, Missouri, Arkansas, Connecticut,... Continue Reading
  • Mystery Bagged Salad Served at Mystery Restaur ...
    A total of 385 cases of Cyclospora infection have been reported from 15 states and New York City. The number of cases identified in each area is as follows: Iowa... Continue Reading
  • Bagged Salad Leafy Green Cone of Silence Desce ...
    As of July 29, 2013, CDC has been notified of 372 cases of Cyclospora infection from the following 16 health departments: Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York City,... Continue Reading
  • What is the common national restaurant chain i ...
    After talking to more that a few people who seem to be part of this nationwide and ongoing Cyclospora outbreak, perhaps a common vegetable is not becoming clear – yet,... Continue Reading
  • Cyclospora Outbreak Up to 373 – Texas, Iowa an ...
    According to CIDRAP, the Cyclospora illness total has reached 373 as opposed to the 353 reported by the CDC to date.  According to the CDC, as of July 26, 2013,... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • WikiLeaks Attorney on Manning Guilty Verdict: ...
    Attorney Michael Ratner responds to today's verdict in the Bradley Manning trial. Manning was found guilty of 20 charges in total, including espionage, but he was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge. "For him facing 136 years in jail for telling the American people what our g ...
  • Watch: Democracy Now! Live Coverage of Bradley ...
    A verdict is expected today in the court martial of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning for the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Manning faces up to life in prison for the most serious of the more than 20 charges against him — aiding the enemy — after he leaked ...
  • READ: In-Depth Profile of Juan González, Democ ...
    The new issue of Columbia Magazine profiles Democracy Now! co-host Juan González and his many journalistic endeavors, beginning in 1978 at the Philadelphia Daily News. Click here to read the in-depth article.
  • America's Real Subversives: FBI Spying Then, N ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan As the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington approaches, commemorating that historic gathering where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speech, it is important to recall the extent to which King was targeted by the governm ...
  • WATCH: Veteran White House Correspondent Helen ...
    Trailblazing journalist Helen Thomas, who reported on every U.S. president since John Kennedy, has passed away at age 92. We look back at her 2009 interview on Democracy Now!, when she talks about how she would have asked then-President Bush, "why do you continue to support the killing in Gaz ...

Solari

  • Old System Struggling and Dying – Cather ...
    By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Money manager Catherine Austin Fitts says, “You are seeing a tug of war between the new system that’s coming up and the old system that’s struggling and dying.” Fitts explains it by saying, “Let’s pretend we have a company called USA, and we create a new company ...
  • Ben: Another $85 Billion to Fuel the Slow Burn
    Photo Credit:Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News By Catherine Austin Fitts Ben and the FOMC spoke today confirming that they will continue monthly quantitative easing at the $85 billion level. There is no taper in sight. S&P up some. Bonds up some. Gold up some. China up a tiny bit. But not a lot ...
  • Just a Taste – The Literal Mind
  • 15 Charts That Should Terrify Saudi Arabia
    By Rob Wile Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed has sounded the alarm about the threat shale oil and gas development poses to the petro-kingdom’s barely diversified economy. It’s taken a while for such a prominent Saudi to acknowledge this fact. Continue Reading
  • ATM Hacker Barnaby Jack Dies
    Photo Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET By Seth Rosenblatt The computer-security community is in mourning following news that superstar hacker Barnaby Jack died on Thursday. The San Francisco resident was 35 years old. The New Zealand native was the director of embedded device security at IOActive, ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Marshall Islands Leaders Ask John Kerry to Com ...
    The small Pacific island nation of the Marshall Islands is demanding that the US take decisive action on climate change in the next 12 months, fearing that without policy changes it will be wiped off the map entirely. At only 2 meters above sea level, global    
  • New Zealand Man is 3D-Printing a Fully-Functio ...
    New Zealander Ivan Sentch is 3D printing an entire 1961 Aston Martin DB4 replica! Using a CAD rendering from TurboSquid, which he modified to suit his design goals, Sentch has so far produced 2,500 fiberglass molds and four four-inch sections that he has mounted    
  • Canterbury Coffee Corp. Creates 90% Biodegrada ...
    In the food and beverage industry, what seems good for convenience can often prove harmful to the environment. The myriad of plastic single-use silverware, bottles, bags, and to-go packaging ends up cluttering our landfills and entering the oceans. Coffee    
  • Archstruktura Gives the Russian National Cente ...
    Located in Ekaterinburg, the Russian museum is also a cultural hub for scientific research and acts as a bridge between contemporary art and public city spaces. With a total area of 27,000 square foot, it has sheltered contemporary works since it opened its    
  • Reuters’ Coverage of Climate Change Fell by Ne ...
    Since 2011, Reuters' coverage of climate change fell by almost 50% according to Media Matters for America. The reduction is believed to be due in large part to the actions of senior editor and climate change skeptic, Paul Ingrassia. A former staff member reported    

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • What We Can Learn From the Quantum Calculation ...
    As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics. Now, as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of its Quantum Information and Computation Center, she doesn’t ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Black and Red
    RCW 108 is a molecular cloud that is in the process of being destroyed by intense ultraviolet radiation from heavy and hot stars in the nearby stellar cluster NGC 6193, seen to the left in the photos. A series of ...    
  • These Are the Most Exquisitely Weird Spiders Y ...
    These are the most beautiful and strange spiders you will ever see.    
  • Spiders May Have Personalities, and Some Are B ...
    Armed with branch cutters, pillowcases, and a vibrator, a team of scientists has discovered how social spiders in India assign chores within their colonies – and they say it has to do with spider personalities. Big and bold? Go get ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Saturn Moon Alig ...
    The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora remind us of how different they are when they appear together, as in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks sufficient gravity to pull itself into a ...    

PakAlert

  • U.S SOLDIERS Expose Obama Martial Law Agenda P ...
    The video exposes what appears to be a ‘sinister agenda’ by TPTB and those who DO NOT have Americans best interests in mind. The wisdom displayed by the US soldiers in this video is knowledge that ALL Americans need to know for us to overcome the agenda that TPTB have planned for us
  • Humanity’s Ultimate Weapon
    Humanity is presently locked in a pitched battle for survival. Our traditions, our cultures, our health and longevity, our mental health and our spiritual well-being, are gravely threatened by self-serving allies of some very dark forces that we often refer to as Satan. Subsequently, when we red ...
  • The Illuminati Depopulation Agenda
    While the global elite construct underground bunkers, eat organic and hoard seeds in Arctic vaults; the global poor are being slowly starved thanks to high commodity prices and poisoned with genetically modified (GMO) food. Austerity measures aimed largely at the poor are being imposed on all th ...
  • Teachers Will Be Armed in Arkansas
    Clarksville High School in Arkansas will be the first high school to utilize state laws that allow armed security guards in schools to arm teachers. Training is underway now that will facilitate teachers carrying concealed weapons when classes resume. David Hopkins, superintendent for Clar ...
  • Consumer alert: Most common vitamins, includin ...
    Natural News investigation reveals that an alarmingly large number of multivitamins and individual nutrient vitamins are formulated with ingredients derived from genetically modified corn. This is the “dirty little secret” of the vitamin industry, but it’s not one the mainstream media will to ...

Andy Worthington

  • Lewisham Hospital Saved! Judge Rules Jeremy Hu ...
    We won! Congratulations to the tens of thousands of campaigners who have been fighting to save Lewisham Hospital for the last eight months, since plans to severely downgrade services at the hospital were first announced. Today in the High Court, Mr. Justice Silber, ruling on two judicial reviews ...
  • “The Grotesque Injustice of Guantánamo: ...
    On Thursday August 1, I’ll be taking part, via teleconferencing, in “The Grotesque Injustice of Guantánamo: An Insiders’ Account,” an event in Portland, Oregon organized by peace activist and Vietnam veteran S. Brian Willson and Laura Sandow, a US Navy veteran, who was se ...
  • I’m Off to WOMAD, Back on Monday: Lee Pe ...
    Since 2002, my family and I, along with a crew of friends, including our kids, have been regulars visitors at the WOMAD festival (World of Music Art and Dance), originally in Reading but, since 2007, at Charlton Park in north Wiltshire, where my wife runs children’s workshops, and we get b ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Calls for the Release ...
    Please sign the international petition calling for the release from Guantánamo of Shaker Aamer! Last Thursday, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign — dedicated to securing the release from Guantánamo of the last British resident in the prison — held its final vigil outside Parliament prior ...
  • The Schizophrenic in Guantánamo Whose Lawyers ...
    The prison at Guantánamo is such an extraordinarily lawless and unjust place that 86 prisoners cleared for release by an inter-agency task force established by President Obama when he took office in 2009 are still held. Other prisoners recommended for trials languish, year after year, with no ho ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Pale Blue Dot 2.1
    In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. I think we can call this Pale Blue Dot 2.1. Version 1 was the original snapped from Voyager 1 on Carl Sagan&# ...
  • Why your personal CAM story is not evidence
    Your regular doc was ignoring your symptoms or told you to take a couple of aspirin and come back if the problem persists, so you headed to a practitioner who treats you holistically, who understands, who knows what you specifically need for your specific condition. You swallowed their talk of s ...
  • Satisfying your curiosity
    Latest science news in my fortnightly column for Spectroscopynow.com, now online: Steroid infection: Steroids are often injected into sites along the spinal column in treating back pain, but if a batch is contaminated serious infection can arise. Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic reson ...
  • Entrepreneurial mothers push hard
    Mumpreneurs? To Americans, I assume the word is mompreneurs and to English northerners mampreneurs. Either way, the phenomenon of entrepreneur mothers is nothing new. It’s certainly not something that emerged during the web 2.0 explosion when mothers running small businesses and looking af ...
  • Science books for summer
    Brian Clegg – Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we di ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Iraq Wave of Violence Deadliest in 5 Years
    More than 1,000 Iraqis—most of them civilians—were killed by violence in Iraq during July, marking the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008, the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq announced on Thursday.Aftermath of a Baghdad car bombing near a Sunni mosque on July 24th 2013 (Photo: AP/Kar ...
  • Obama Defends Larry Summers Against Attacks by ...
    In a closed-door meeting with House Democrats, Obama said he “felt that Larry had been badly treated by some on the left and in the press.”When the Obama administration recently floated the idea of Larry Summer being President Obama's nomination for Fed Chairman, a chorus of progressive crit ...
  • Snowden Has Left the Moscow Airport, says Lawyer
    According to various news outlets, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has left the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow after being given the proper documents by the Russian government. read more
  • To Combat Failed "War on Drugs," Uruguay Takes ...
    View of Uruguay's lower house during the debate of the bill legalizing marijuana, in Montevideo, on July 31, 2013 (AFP, Miguel Rojo)Citing the complete failure of the so-called "war on drugs" that has sought to criminalize the growing, selling, possession and consumption of marijuana a ...
  • Aaron Swartz's Loved Ones Slam 'Whitewash' MIT ...
    The late Aaron Swartz (Flickr Creative Commons/Phillip Stearns)An internal MIT investigation into the university's role in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz, and culpability in his tragic suicide, has been slammed by loved ones of the deceased internet activist and programmer as a fluffy PR ma ...

Lifehacker

  • Cure Common Communication Problems at Work (by ...
    Sometimes the worst thing about working on a team isn't balancing who does what, it's making sure everyone is on the same page. All the emails, status reports, and meetings in the world can't stop people from occasionally butting heads. Thankfully, there are some easy ways to make sure everyone' ...
  • LockScreen One Touch for All Adds Shortcuts Wi ...
    Android: Enabling pattern unlock is smart, but the flexibility of lock screen shortcuts means that many of us don't bother because it's just easier to be able to quick-launch apps before unlocking first. LockScreen One Touch for All is a new utility that combines both, offering flexibility with ...
  • The Best Apps and Extensions to Supercharge Ch ...
    Chrome's new tab page doesn't have much going on for it by default. A few commonly visited sites, shortcuts to your apps, and that's about it. You don't have to be stuck with it though, there are a lot of great Chrome apps and extensions that make each new tab page much more useful. Let's take a ...
  • What are some things you do to let off steam?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...
  • Use Group Policy Editor to Run Scripts When Sh ...
    Windows: To automate some routine tasks that nobody likes doing during the day, you can use Group Policy Editor to make your PC run a script when you shut it down or log off a user account.Read more...    

Water Wars

  • Fun in Fulton
    Have you ever wanted to catapult a water balloon at a friend? This weekend you can. Water wars will be one of many activities offered this weekend at the 14th annual Fulton Fun Days Festival. The festival first began in the mid-70s, but it only last
  • Water wars: Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions blasts ...
    Metro Atlanta has used more water from a north Georgia reservoir than allowed, according to an Alabama senator who Monday urged federal officials to crack down on the renegade withdrawals and protect the water flow for downstream communities and industrie
  • McDonald antes up on water
    AUSTINTOWN - McDonald village on Monday jumped into what is shaping up to be water wars over who will provide the utility to a planned new thoroughbred racetrack here.
  • SSJID may join effort to protect groundwater
    San Joaquin County is fighting water wars on two fronts. * There’s the highly publicized battle over the proposed Twin Tunnels that could drastically alter the Delta and increase the diversion of surface water currently being used for farming and urban uses to protect fish. *And then there is th ...
  • Anthony Westbury: Water can really shape a cit ...
    A new"monumental" agreement between Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce could mean the end of the water wars along Midway Road.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • NOM Lies: ‘Virtually No Politican In Minnesota ...
    As marriage equality arrived in Minnesota and Rhode Island today, the National Organization for Marriage claimed that the politicians who passed those state laws never informed voters of their intentions. This, unsurprisingly, is an outright lie.The post NOM Lies: ‘Virtually No Politican I ...
  • Colorado Foreclosure Lawyers Made $5 Million O ...
    Whistleblower testimony confirms a state lawsuit over inflated paperwork charges.The post Colorado Foreclosure Lawyers Made $5 Million Overbilling Homeowners, Lawsuit Says appeared first on ThinkProgress.    
  • Right-Wing Israeli Group Posts Anti-Semitic At ...
    A right-wing Israeli group attacks U.S. special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinain peace talks Martin Indyk.The post Right-Wing Israeli Group Posts Anti-Semitic Attack On U.S. Envoy appeared first on ThinkProgress.    
  • Hulu’s New Superhero Show ‘The Awesomes’ Illus ...
    Hulu debuts a new animated sitcom called 'The Awesomes' today, and it's also starting an important conversation about which TV stories fit in which formats.The post Hulu’s New Superhero Show ‘The Awesomes’ Illustrates The Site’s Attempts To Break TV’s Molds appeared ...
  • Florida Sheriff: Officers Who Shot Unarmed Bla ...
    For his late-night excursion to grab cigarettes out of his mother's car, 60-year-old Roy Middleton is now recovering from a bullet wound in his leg, along with bullets piercing his mother's car and the side of the house. The post Florida Sheriff: Officers Who Shot Unarmed Black Man In His Drivew ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Post-Structuralist Police-State
    It's official. Far removed from its original intention of being a revolutionary project, post-structuralism has been appropriated by the oligarchy as a tool to obscure and simultaneously, to enforce, their own arbitrary police-state powers. Justice Mark McEwan, perhaps oblivious to the dangerou ...
  • "He's probably a closet-case."
    Used to be, us progressive white males were REALLY sexist, homophobic, racist pricks. (Some would argue that we still are, but that's a topic for another day.) Back in the day, everyone I knew was a homophobe. Even my [turned out to be] gay friend in high school would use the word "fag" as an in ...
  • How Do We Control Our Police?
    The needless, cowardly shooting of a young man with a 3-inch knife (he was alone in a stopped streetcar and all the police were outside on the street) by the Toronto Police Service has prompted some to call for bringing our police under control. The Robert Dziekanski murder. The abuse of Stace ...
  • Capitalist Scum-bags
     The tragedy at Lac Megantic was the result of ruthless cost-cutting. Cut costs - increase profits. Increase profits to "invest" in financial flim-flam and conspicuous consumption. These guys just want to cut everything to the bone and then they rely on government bail-outs whenever anythi ...
  • Adam Giambrone & Justin Trudeau & The Mound of ...
    What benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your only soul? A bit melodramatic perhaps but What The Fuck. I mean, supposedly Adam Giambrone was an up and coming Toronto City Councilor of the progressive stripe. He ran for mayor and had to resign because he was exposed as having an affair. ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Northern Exposure: revisiting Bradley Manning& ...
    Bradley Manning’s exposure of America’s “bloodlust” revealed some surprising instances of abuse of power by the Canadian government too, including the warrantless wiretapping of civil protesters, direct threats from government agents, and disparaging views of the average Canadian by top security ...
  • Harper seeking to increase arms exports
    The Conservative government is trying to ease restrictions on arms exports to four countries – Peru, Chile, Brazil and South Korea (Lee Berthiaume, Ottawa looking to expand weapons exports, PostMedia News, July 25, 2013). The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development recently began co ...
  • Nuclear Abolition Week in Canada
    During Nuclear Abolition Week (6-13 July), humanitarian, environmental and peace organisations are taking to the streets in a concerted effort to demand the start of a process to ban nuclear weapons.
  • Drones debate is just getting started
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plan for armed drones is not much more than a faint blip on Ottawa’s radar screen, so the recent increase in media coverage on the subject is good news.
  • We need volunteer campaigners
    If you are passionate about making a positive change in the world by helping to ban nuclear weapons then please sign up to be a Ceasefire.ca volunteer campaigner.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 4-6-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-8-13
    Today, Kevin delves deep into the obesity epidemic in America. Plus, find out how Kevin Trudeau would run The United States of America if he were president! Self Help: Loss Weight Right! Emergency Preparedness Trace Minerals Health: The Worst Food In America Worker Dies at Cubicle, Found a Day L ...
  • My Travel Companion
    Have you ever heard of Trace Minerals? It comes in a little bottle. This stuff is unlike anything you can get anywhere. It comes from this 500 million year old ancient sediment bedrock plant. It’s the most bizarre thing in the world! It’s like compressed plants from the purest time in earth’s hi ...
  • Stressed? Clenching your fist may be beneficial…
    When I’m feeling stressed I head outside for a stroll and get some fresh air, but if you’re one of the many people who grab a stress-relieving ball and clench your fists, you’ll be thrilled to hear it may actually be beneficial – and not just for the stress! It is believed the movements activate ...
  • Building Self-Esteem the Natural Way: The Hidd ...
    Feeling secure and confident can be a rare commodity. The nature of the human being is to thrive when self-esteem is high. Yet often the solution to the struggles low self-esteem for individuals is to “put a band aid” on the problem. As a human being unfolds through their life, it is necessary t ...

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

  • NSA’s Google: XKeyscore search engine fo ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRussia Todayyoutube.com A search engine for all of your private information – that’s what an NSA program called XKeyscore. According to freshly published documents – which were provided by Edward Snowde ...
  • A Soldier Cannot Be A Rebel
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comA Soldier Cannot Be A Rebel disquietreservations.blogspot.co.ukBy Saman Mohammadi “IMO the case was overcharged in the matters of “aiding the enemy” and the espionage statute. I think Manning is too tri ...
  • US Hedge Funds Paint Argentina as Ally of Iran ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUS Hedge Funds Paint Argentina as Ally of Iranian ‘Devil’ Antiwar.comCharles Davis When Argentina defaulted on its national debt in 2001, US hedge funds swooped in to buy the nation’s bonds at pennies o ...
  • Security Consultant Heckles NSA Head: Shouts “ ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comGen. Alexander claims We stand for freedom Steve Watson Prisonplanet.com July 31, 2013 The NSA head General Keith Alexander faced a hostile crowd Wednesday while attempting to defend mass surveillance programs at the Bla ...
  • [214] TSA Hires Pedophiles, Whistleblower Prot ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBreaking The Set with Abby Martinyoutube.com Abby Martin Breaks the Set on the Uptick in TSA Misconduct, Efforts to Protect Whistleblowers, US Food Banned in Other Countries, and a Closer Look at Detroit’s Declarat ...

Dandelion Salad

  • XKeyscore, The Scariest NSA Program Revealed B ...
    Dandelion Salad David Seaman on Jul 31, 2013 David explains XKeyscore, the completely terrifying “new” NSA Internet spying program that was revealed to the public by additional Edward Snowden documents earlier today. *** Countering Surveillance Against All Odds | Think Tank brea ...
  • Julian Assange: Bradley Manning Has Become a M ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Jul 31, 2013 www.democracynow.org – The sentencing hearing for Army whistleblower Bradley Manning begins today following his acquittal on the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but conviction on 20 other counts. On Tuesday, Manning was found gui ...
  • Bradley #Manning Not Guilty of Aiding the Enem ...
    Dandelion Salad Nathan Fuller @nathanLfuller “Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy” July 30, 2013 “Bradley Manning guilty of wantonly caused to be published on the Internet” July 30, 2013 “Bradley Manning found guilty of 19 counts, 4 of which were his less ...
  • Green Light for City-owned San Francisco Bank ...
    by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com July 30, 2013 When the Occupiers took an interest in moving San Francisco’s money into a city-owned bank in 2011, it was chiefly on principle, in sympathy with the nationwide Move Your Money campaign.  But recent scandals have transformed the ...
  • Nationalism and Hypocrisy by William Blum
    by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org July 29, 2013 That most charming of couples: Nationalism and hypocrisy It’s not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by W ...

Your New Reality

  • Appetite For Rock Immortality
    The original album cover for Appetite For Destruction, top, with its record store friendly replacement below Guns N Roses' Appetite For Destruction is 26 years old today. Not only one of the truly great rock albums, but also the most successful debut of all time. Not a dead song amongst the bunc ...
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
  • No title
    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 ...
  • No title
    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • What We Can Learn From the Quantum Calculation ...
    As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics. Now, as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of its Quantum Information and Computation Center, she doesn’t ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Black and Red
    RCW 108 is a molecular cloud that is in the process of being destroyed by intense ultraviolet radiation from heavy and hot stars in the nearby stellar cluster NGC 6193, seen to the left in the photos. A series of ...    
  • These Are the Most Exquisitely Weird Spiders Y ...
    These are the most beautiful and strange spiders you will ever see.    
  • Spiders May Have Personalities, and Some Are B ...
    Armed with branch cutters, pillowcases, and a vibrator, a team of scientists has discovered how social spiders in India assign chores within their colonies – and they say it has to do with spider personalities. Big and bold? Go get ...    
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Saturn Moon Alig ...
    The Saturn moons Mimas and Pandora remind us of how different they are when they appear together, as in this image taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Pandora's small size means that it lacks sufficient gravity to pull itself into a ...    

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli army recruitment plan a ...
    Leaders from the [Israeli] Palestinian community, Christian and Muslim, who have spoken against this new [IDF] enlistment effort have been called in for investigation by Israel’s secret police. In an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Israel-Palestine peace talks, ...
    Noam Chomsky covers the upcoming Israel-Palestine 'peace talks' and the history of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; settlements, the Occupation and the 'One-State' and 'Two-State' solutions; US... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Michael Sfard: ‘The peace process has become a ...
    Michael Sfard: “While talks are happening Israel gets away with anything. Land grabs, the expansion of settlements, even [Operation] Cast Lead was waged while there were peace talks.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its f ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Filmmaking as resistance – Hany ...
    Palestinian filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad: “I want my films to put fear into Israelis. My job is to disturb their dreams, to wake them from the fantasy that there is no occupation.” The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth de ...
  • Weiner’s bigotry towards Palestine is worse th ...
    While everyone is so caught up with Weiner’s wiener, and the many puns that can be created for headlines, the real scandal and reason why he should not be running for office is going unnoticed. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

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.

Pruning Shears

  • Don't Frack Ohio starting this weekend: three ...
    Activists across Ohio are preparing for a weekend of activities in the northeast part of the state. On Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th, at the First Congregational Church in Ravenna, there will be two days of trainings designed to give us the tools we can use to build a powerful movemen ...
  • Online news stories, corrections, and keeping ...
    One of the interesting wrinkles of journalism in the online age is the ease of accessing archives. It used to be that back issues were at best scanned to microfiche and stored in some musty, stale vault somewhere. Now, though, anyone with an Internet connection can get to them.This is not exac ...
  • U.S. spying on Americans: Unpopular, and unlik ...
    Two recent stories have made for an interesting juxtaposition. First, the map of America’s intelligence underworld had some important contours filled in last Sunday with the New York Times’ report on the secret body of law that it called “almost a parallel Supreme Court.&#8221 ...
  • Adventures in cord cutting
    A few weeks ago the reception on my satellite TV service mysteriously went kaput. I put in a service request and the company said the earliest anyone could get out was in a week. This gave us some time to live without any traditional broadcast television, and after a few days we were getting a ...
  • Yes, Congress and the president are responsibl ...
    There is an emerging theme on the left that the true blame for our metastasized domestic spying programs lies with the American people. John Cole put it bluntly (via): “No, you want to see the villain, look in the mirror.” Charles Pierce was a little more diplomatic:You can argue & ...

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