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Noam Chomsky at World Social Forum - 2003. Source: Marcello Casal Jr/ABr, January/2003 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Carol Chomsky, linguist, author, and wife of Noam Chomsky. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Johnny Cash Scania (Photo credit: kenjonbro)

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Hurt
  Of course “Hurt” is a Johnny Cash song. In the public mind, any song sung by Johnny Cash is automatically a Johnny Cash song, be it “Cocaine Blues” or “Bird on a Wire” or “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Why even research such an obvious fact? You don ...
• The Persisting Vision
  Martin Scorsese gave a great talk for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. It’s reprinted in the New York Review of Books and is on the importance of preserving our language of film in a culture that values little but the weekly game of box office numbers. A snippet: So not only d ...
• Deja vu all over again
  Perhaps the Jew Kaufman will provide LGM readers with a semiotics of the visual rhetoric of this ongoing series:     
• Young Republicans Salute Labor
  I haven’t been able to confirm whether or not this is authentic, but I suppose the fact that it very well could be is in some ways more significant. Update: A commenter provides a link to a copy in a Cornell University library collection of political Americana. ERIK–In my view, what ...
• The World’s Most Pernicious Analogy Strikes Again
  Crank senators: Senator Angry Grampy and Senator Huckleberry, the presiding geopolitical thinkers in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body, over today to discuss Syria, and to give them the opportunity to stand on the White House lawn afterwards and call him a dithering dilettante whom th ...

Desert Research Institute

• Nevada researchers collaborate to preserve Lak ...
  From Tahoe's mountaintops to the lake's sandy bottom, scientists from the Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno continue to study and find solutions to the breadth of issues that face the entire Lake Tahoe Basin. Read more...
• New ice core data helps explain Antarctica's l ...
  New, annually resolved ice-core measurements collected from West Antarctica and  partially developed by researchers at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute show warming in Antarctica began approximately 4,000 years earlier than previoulsy suggested. Read more...
• Celebrating DRI’s unique Storm Peak Laboratory
  On Friday, August 9th in Steamboat Springs, Colorado DRI will celebrate nearly $1 million in upgrades and renovations to the Institute’s high-elevation, mountain-top atmospheric sciences lab, and honor Steamboat Ski Resort with DRI’s 2014 President’s Medal.
• Ema Kuhn, July 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student
  Meet Emanuele (Ema) Kuhn, a Fulbright scholar, in biochemistry and molecular biology. She is currently working with Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Chris Fritsen studying microorganisms for the Lake Vida Project from the Antarctica Peninsula. Life in Lake Vida is the major topic for her dissertation, ...
• A new understanding of the North American monsoon
  Scientists at DRI are developing and testing new ideas that could ultimately help predict the kinds of extreme summer weather that has occurred across the U.S., such as the all-time high temperatures recorded in numerous Western cities in June, Arizona’s deadly wildfires and last year’s drought ...

Earth Techling

• Zero Emissions Renaissance Comes To Houston, O ...
  Two pilot projects happening in the Houston-Galveston area look to replace traditional gas guzzling delivery trucks with zero emissions options.
• Carbon-Neutral ‘Woodcube’ Building Makes Steel ...
  Using wood instead of steel yields a high-performance building that's easier to recycle.
• Innova Dash EV More Than A Dressed Up Golf Cart
  A new low speed electric vehicle has debuted which prices for up to $13,000 and has a range of up to 100 miles, depending upon configuration.
• Clean Energy Could Be Very Cheap By 2025
  If the cost of wind and solar power continues to drop, it could be just as affordable as natural gas by 2025.
• China’s Renewable Push Depressing, In Context
  Sure, China is adding a lot of renewables, but even a fairly optimistic scenario sees huge coal-fired generation additions for another decade.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• THE CAREERIST: Law Schools Lose Luster With Ivies
  Another sign that the legal profession isn't what it used to be: The best and the brightest are increasingly turning up their noses at law school.
• OPINION: What I Did on Summer Vacation — ...
  One partner's decision to disconnect — really disconnect — put life in perspective.
• THE PRACTICE: Attention Facebook Users: Post a ...
  They may seem harmless at the time, but impromptu comments and photos can lead to big trouble.
• Legal Services Groups Sue FTC Over Consumer Co ...
  Washington-area civil legal services groups recently sued the Federal Trade Commission for access to a national database of consumer complaints, saying the information would aid in the fight against fraud that affects immigrants and other vulnerable or low-income communities.
• DOJ Gives States a Pass on Pot
  The U.S. Department of Justice attempted to clear the air last week about how law enforcement will respond to state-based marijuana legalization efforts, saying the federal government will take a pass as long as states implement strict regulations.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Grooming essentials for dog owners
  A breakdown of all the essential tips and tricks for grooming your dog: keeping it healthy and looking great.
• Will US Congress Vote 'Yes' for Military Actio ...
  Amid notion that the Congress is divided and paralyzed, US Secretary Kerry says they don't contemplate that the Congress is going to vote 'no.'
• Deadly Attack on Camp Ashraf Draws Condemnation
  The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom strongly condemns the brutal attack on the 'protected persons' who are civilians in Camp Ashraf and calls on the UN, UK and US governments to uphold their commitment.
• Another 'Massacre' Kills 52 Iranian Exiles
  More than four dozen members of an Iranian dissident group have been killed in an early morning attack at their camp north of Baghdad on Sunday, according to the Iranian exiles.
• IPCDA Deplores Savage Attack on Camp Ashraf
  At least 24 bodies have been counted as dead and a large number of residents are severely injured. A number of residents have been kidnapped by the Iraqi army and taken as hostages. Others were shot and killed while in handcuffs.

environment 360

• With Rooftop Solar on Rise, U.S. Utilities Are ...
  Faced with the prospect of a dwindling customer base, some U.S. power companies are seeking to end public subsidies and other incentives for rooftop solar. In Arizona, the issue has sparked a heated public relations battle that could help determine the future of solar in the United States. BY ...
• Crop Pests Migrate Poleward Due to Global Warm ...
  Global warming has been driving crop pests toward the North and South poles at a rate of 1.7 miles per year, according to new research from the U.K. Looking at the USDA Stem rust (Puccinia graminis fungus) distribution of 612 crop pests over the past 50 years, the researchers found a strong ...
• Greenland Ice Hides Gorge Longer than the Gran ...
  A massive gorge nearly twice as long as the Grand Canyon is hidden under Greenland's ice sheet, reports a team of researchers from the U.K, Canada, and Italy. Click to enlarge NASA Canyon below Greenland's ice With a width of about six miles and a maximum depth of 2,600 feet, the previo ...
• Future Wildfire Seasons to Be Longer, Smokier, ...
  Fire seasons will be three weeks longer, generate twice as much smoke, and cover a larger area of the western U.S. by 2050, a new study from Harvard researchers finds. The risk of large fires could also increase by a Petruncio Mike, USFWS factor of two to three. In general, the biggest ...
• Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A D ...
  Increasingly common in Europe, municipal “waste-to-energy” incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste. BY NATE SELTENRICH

Red Ice Creations

• HEMISPHERE : DEA Has Been Secretly Snooping on ...
  The New York Times last night published an article that should put to rest the debate over whether we live in a free country. We don’t. The Hemisphere Project, a partnership between federal and local drug officials and AT&T that has not previously been reported, involves an extremely close assoc ...
• Obama postpones World War III till next week
  US President Obama announced on Saturday that World War III has been postponed. Rather than unilaterally bombing Syria, and setting off a regional conflagration that could escalate into nuclear confrontation with Russia, Obama has decided to seek Congressional approval before risking blowing up ...
• Fukushima workers told to cover detection devi ...
  TEPCO has been caught lying about radiation levels at Fukushima yet again, this time it was reported that people working at the plant were told to cover their radiation detection devices with lead so the reading would come in below the legal limit. BBC reported that: The Japanese government says ...
• Assange marks 1,000 days of confinement
  WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange on Monday marked 1,000 days of confinement, mostly spent under house arrest. Since June 2012, Assange has been holed up in a room five meters wide, in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, where he is reportedly working 17 hours a day. "We see the escalating war agains ...
• Turning the Tables? Group Challenges Domestic ...
  In response to what some consider over-reaching surveillance programs conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies, which have been shown to collect thousands of communications with no terror connection, a group decrying the privacy implications of these programs is turning the tables on the presiden ...

Not My Tribe

• Bored Oklahoma teen murder suspects not bored ...
  Bored Oklahoma teens who shot a random jogger in the back are being tried as adults not juveniles because “it was an adult crime”; though killing while bored seems a juvenile crime by definition. So does immediately confessing a motive, “we were bored,” to the police, it ...
• If Syria could defend itself would these color ...
  So there’s a little good news as the ambush of Syria gains momentum. It’s unlikely to be true, but let’s indulge ourselves for a mo. It’s being reported that Russia will jump to Syria’s defense by attacking the Saudis, and that Iran would retaliate against Israel. B ...
• No! No War On Syria! Bad Dog of War! Bad Dog! ...
  The carnage in Syria should “shock our conscience” really? It’s fraternity hazing compared to US collateral atrocities. And how simply grotesque for an American statesman to accuse anyone of “moral obscenity”. Is the USG so sure another Maning or Snowden isn’t ...
• UN inspectors find discarded Kuwaiti incubator ...
  IF the bodies in Syrian videos purporting to document a chemical attack aren’t littering hospital floors like so many fictional Kuwaiti incubator babies, we are compelled to ask who unleashed the chemicals? Bashir Assad? The rebels? Our “rebels”? The odds favor us and even our ...
• “In the footsteps of Martin Luther King& ...
  Another million pawn march, to nowhere, commemorating the corporate brand of “MLK” sterilized of instructional efficacy, sanitized of King’s ultimate demands: jobs, economic justice, peace. This weekend’s 50th anniversary of the dream speech was the usual reminder that pr ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• ReThink911 is Officially Airborne Forward the ...
  ReThink911 is Officially Airborne Forward the Video – Sign the PetitionWatch The Video Here: http://ReThink911.org Dear ReThink911 Supporters, The day we’ve all been waiting for has arrived. Today the ReThink911 campaign officially launches. Over the next month, tens of millions of people in ...
• Democrats.com: Nearly 50,000 Petition Signatur ...
  43,176 of 50,000 people have signed – see totals by state and Congressional District.BackgroundThe neocon war criminals who took the U.S. into an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq are back - and demanding major attacks that will lead inevitably to a Syria War. We say No! Attacking Syria won't ...
• UPDATE: Architects and Engineers For 911 Truth ...
  The Screw Loose Change blog predicted ae911 would hit the 2,000 mark in 2021! All kidding aside, ae911 hit the mark on the head this time with their goal of reaching 2,000 before this upcoming 9/11, but not a word from SLC, who was quick to point out that the first 1,000 was reached well after t ...
• The UK government : No military intervention i ...
  Petition by Global Political Insight    The USA and the UK governments have been increasing their rhetoric regarding military intervention in Syria, following alleged claims that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its own people. Though the international communit ...
• MoveOn.org: No War on Syria Petition
  To be delivered to: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama War is not the answer. Not in Iran. Not in Syria. Intervention in Syria only makes matters worse. All sides are committing war crimes, and providing arms only results in more ...

Fooducate

• Is Froot Loops Treasures Any Better than the O ...
• The Dangers Lurking in Your Spice Rack
• Name These 3 Fruits (plus some thoughts about ...
• The Curious Connection Between Your Gut and Brain
• Naked Juice Nailed for Misleading Consumers; F ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Sámi protest against British mining company
  Sweden's Sámi people are protesting against iron ore mining on their lands.© Johan Sandberg McGuinne/SurvivalSwedish police have broken up a protest by Sámi men and women protesting against iron ore mining in a crucial reindeer herding area in the Swedish Arctic Circle. The Sámi and other ...
• ‘We’ll fight against oil exploration’, Brazili ...
  The Matís and other tribes of Brazil's Javari Valley are speaking out against oil exploration around their forest.© © Fiona Watson/SurvivalBrazilian Indians have stated that they will not accept oil exploration on or near their lands, that they will ‘fight against the National Petroleum Age ...
• In pictures: Tribal festivals showcase human d ...
  Brazil's Enawene Nawe gather outside haiti, the house of sacred flutes, to celebrate their four-month long Yãkwa fishing ritual. © Fiona Watson/SurvivalAs thousands of revelers bask in the sun at Nevada’s Burning Man festival, and London’s streets recover from thousands more dan ...
• Fire devastates roadside camp where Brazilian ...
  A fire has devastated the Guarani's roadside camp in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. © Spensy Pimentel/SurvivalA fire has raged through a Guarani roadside camp, forcing the Indians to flee as their shelters were razed to the ground, their food supplies destroyed and their possess ...
• Uncontacted Mashco-Piro tribe filmed in close ...
  The photos are the closest sightings of uncontacted Indians ever recorded on camera© D.Cortijo/uncontactedtribes.orgUncontacted Mashco-Piro Indians have been sighted on riverbanks in Peru’s remote south-east Amazon on three consecutive occasions. The encounters were filmed by a member of the lo ...

Greg Palast

• Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
• Euro Krieg! Greece Surrenders to Germany 2013 ...
  By Michael Nevradakis for Truthout In his career as an investigative journalist, economist, and bestselling author -Vultures' Picnic, Billionaires and Ballot Bandits, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Greg Palast has not been afraid to tackle some of the most powerful names in politics and fina ...
• Billionaires & Ballot Bandits The Movie trailer
  Donate so we can complete this important film.
• An Open Letter to Trayvon Martin's Father
  By Greg Palast for Truthout Dear Mr. Martin, I have a 16-year old son. I cannot imagine losing him because some beast decided to play Lone Ranger. And so, with cautious humility, I make this suggestion, this plea. Sue the beast. You must. I understand you are reluctant to launch another painful ...
• The Frog Who Crushed The Planet Did a French Y ...
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine You just knew it had to be one of those brie-biting, Sartre-spewing, overly-garlicked Frenchmen who pushed the Earth's finance system over a cliff. This week, US prosecutors finally began the trial of the only person on the entire planet whom they have charged wi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: Autism Friendly Lion King ...
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments after the jump. Sept 2, 2013, Vaccine Liberation Army: (VIDEO) Dr. Russell Blaylock, Neurosurgeon: How Vaccines Harm Child Brains Sept 1, 2013, Washington Post: Worrying - unnecessarily - about vaccinating your child Sept 1...
• Dachel Video Q&A with Dr. Ken Stoller: Does DC ...
  By Anne Dachel A while ago I made up my mind to report on doctors who aren't afraid to speak out about what's happening to our children. There really are people like this out there. They're ethical men and women...
• Contest! Finding Lina by Helena Hjalmarsson: A ...
  We have a new book from Skyhorse Publishing for our readers. Leave a comment to enter the contest. Called, Finding Lina A Mother's Journey from Autism to Hope, the book is a memoir that AofA readers will relate to from...
• Support Aof A and James Frye - Artist with Autism
  In 2011 we introduced readers to James Frye, then a 16 year old artist. Imagine our pleasure when we learned that James and his family wanted to donate part of the proceeds from the sale of original ceramic art to...
• Autism Mom and Cover Girl! Autism File Goes Di ...
  We're happy to report that you can now download Autism File Magazine free. Simply click THIS LINK to start your subscription. The Autism File, the first magazine ever published devoted exclusively to Autism Spectrum Disorders, announced today that the upcoming...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Beware the Changing Face of Genetic Modification
  New genetic engineering techniques such as oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis may bypass already flimsy GM regulations.
• Crop Expert to Speak on GMO Impact in Washington
  Howard Vlieger, a third generation farmer from Iowa, will be speaking in Eastern Washington to share information about the impacts of genetically engineered crops on farming operations, livestock and weeds. Mr Vlieger has studied genetically engineered (GE) crops since 1994. The presentations ar ...
• Leon and Barb discuss current GMO events on Fa ...
  Topics include: Plans to release genetically engineered flies in Spain and Italy;Minnesota Jury Convicts Peaceful Farmer on Five Charges;Ending the GMO Scourge;The Organic Loophole – Feed Brokers’ Exemption;Dow's controversial new GMO corn delayed amid protests.
• The Real Terrorists – Graphic
  Now tell me who the real terrorists are....
• It Is Time for the American People to Man Up
  I am calling for the military leaders of this country to stand down and not execute this illegal war. Waging war on Syria is indeed illegal. Obama’s orders delivered through the UN and NATO are illegal and unconstitutional. Be an Oathkeeper and stand down.

new geography

• Swedish Lessons for Obama
  During his upcoming visit to Sweden, President Barack Obama will surely praise the nation’s combination of high living standard, few social problems, and high level of income equality. But he may be tempted to see the astonishing social and economic outcomes in Sweden and other Nordic ...
• Southern California's Road Back
  If the prospects for the United States remain relatively bright – despite two failed administrations – how about Southern California? Once a region that epitomized our country's promise, the area still maintains enormous competitive advantages, if it ever gathers the wits to take advanta ...
• South Korea, What Will Limit the World’s Globa ...
  South Korea is a small country with grit. The shrimp sized peninsula is a national success story that transformed itself from impoverished conditions to industrial riches in a remarkable 68-year postwar period. The country experienced the fastest growth in per-capita GDP since the 1960. Acco ...
• Rust Belt Chic And The Keys To Reviving The Gr ...
  Over four decades, the Great Lakes states have been the sad sack of American geography. This perception has been reinforced by Detroit’s bankruptcy filing and the descent of Chicago, the region’s poster child for gentrification, toward insolvency. Yet despite these problems, t ...
• Cities Don’t Consume Resources, People Do
  Urban form or urban consumers? If we want to reduce the environmental impacts of modern society let’s prioritize consumption, not city form.  The evidence suggests that large cities (and especially city centres) are associated with a bigger environmental footprint than modest cities or ...

water.org

• A Toilet Brings Opportunity
  Chaudamma and her husband, Gangadhar, run a tea and snacks stall in their village. Chaudamma also makes earthen pots and mud idols of the Hindu God to sell in her shop. As the Hindu festival of Lord Ganesha is round the corner, she has just received a huge contract to make 200-300 idols of diffe ...
• Blog: A new well in Haiti
  The last week of July, I visited the central plateau of Haiti, to attend an event in the small community of Belanje. With the energy of excitement and ceremony in the air, you could mistake the event for a wedding or church revival, but that's not the case. Instead, we're here to open and dedica ...
• Lakshimi's Water Connection
  Lakshimi lives in the Anna Nagar slum of Hyderabad city. She is 35 years old and has two children. Lakshimi and her husband, like several others in the slum, work as construction laborers.
• Water for Girmawit Alema
  The shortage of safe water has been a critical problem for the people living in the rural village of Kokeb Tsibah (Gradender), located in Wereda Gulo-Mekeda. In the absence of a better option, the community has been drinking water from an unprotected source for a long period of time.
• The Impact of Water Committees
  Drinking water is not free in Haiti. Infrastructure is expensive and in order to ensure long-term sustainability, users must contribute financially in order to support things like administration and ongoing maintenance. The presence of a water committee gives people a voice in creating solutions ...

Cryptogon

• Israel Confirms Missile Test in Mediterranean
  Interesting time and place for a “missile test.” So, what was this, really? Via: Al Jazeera: Russia has announced that its missile early warning system detected the launch of two missiles from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea fired towards the sea’s eastern coastline, ...
• Fukushima: Japanese Government to Build Ice Wa ...
  For a moment, let’s just assume that this will work. I doubt that it will work, but let’s pretend that will. What happens to all of the frozen slop when the grid goes down during the next disaster and the “ice wall” thaws out? Have a nice day! Via: AP: The Japanese govern ...
• Microsoft to Acquire Nokia Handset Business
  I wonder how reckless Microsoft will get as the realization sinks in that Android and iOS are too far ahead to catch. Via: BBC: Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia’s mobile phone business for 5.4bn euros ($7.2bn; £4.6bn). Nokia will also license its patents and mapping services to Mic ...
• Fukushima Radiation Levels 18 Times Higher tha ...
  This is definitely one for your Not The Onion file folder. Via: BBC: Radiation levels around Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant’s operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a stor ...
• Britain: First Time a British Prime Minister L ...
  Whoops. Via: Reuters: Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to join a potential military strike on Syria were thwarted on Thursday night when Britain’s parliament narrowly voted against a government motion to authorize such action in principle. In a humiliating defeat for the British ...

The Economic Collapse

• Is The United States Going To Go To War With S ...
  Why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?  Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria?  Of course.  Qatar wants to install a puppet regim ...
• Russia Has Equipped Syria With Their Most Adva ...
  Russia has sold Syria highly advanced rocket launchers, anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles.  In fact, the P-800 Yakhont anti-ship missiles that Russia has equipped Syria with are the most advanced anti-ship missiles that Russia has.  When the United States strikes Syria, they might be ...
• The U.S. Military Does Not Want To Fight For A ...
  Why is the Obama administration so determined to have the U.S. military help al-Qaeda win the civil war in Syria?  Why are we being told that the U.S. has "no choice" but to help rabid jihadist terrorists that are slaughtering entire Christian villages, brutally raping Christian women and joyful ...
• Who Benefits From A War Between The United Sta ...
  Someone wants to get the United States into a war with Syria very, very badly.  Cui bono is an old Latin phrase that is still commonly used, and it roughly means "to whose benefit?"  The key to figuring out who is really behind the push for war is to look at who will benefit from [...]
• 25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria That ...
  If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British.  Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the ...

Desertification

• Ecosystems to boost food security in face of c ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45706&Cr=food+security&Cr1=#.UiWQ-MdsbK0 Healthy ecosystems can help avoid food insecurity in Africa, UN-backed conference Strengthening ecosystems is key to helping local farmers in Africa adapt to climate change and ensuring that t ...
• School gardens : to target schools in areas of ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2013/09/02/australian-greens-party-announce-46-5-million-plan-for-kitchen-gardens-in-800-schools-around-the-country-over-four-years/ Australian Greens party announce $46.5 million plan for kitchen gardens in 800 schools around the country over four years Link ...
• There are many initiatives looking to find opp ...
  Read at : http://www.virgin.com/people-and-planet/blog/battling-the-encroaching-desert-the-power-is-in-our-hands-part-2 Battling the encroaching desert: part 2 By David Addison Read part one of this blog on battling the encroaching desert, then read on for more from David Addison… In terms ...
• A benefit to vegetation : a closer networks wi ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130830131158.htm How Vegetation Competes for Rainfall in Dry Regions Aug. 30, 2013 — The greater the plant density in a given area, the greater the amount of rainwater that seeps into the ground. This is due to … Continue reading →
• A more accurate way to monitor and predict wea ...
  Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130831110820.htm Monitor and Control Severe Drought With Analysis of Data from Chollian Aug. 31, 2013 — Research team developing a more accurate way to monitor and predict weather changes. UNIST professor Jung Ho Im received a research &#823 ...

News Blaze

• Grooming essentials for dog owners
  A breakdown of all the essential tips and tricks for grooming your dog: keeping it healthy and looking great.
• Will US Congress Vote 'Yes' for Military Actio ...
  Amid notion that the Congress is divided and paralyzed, US Secretary Kerry says they don't contemplate that the Congress is going to vote 'no.'
• Deadly Attack on Camp Ashraf Draws Condemnation
  The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom strongly condemns the brutal attack on the 'protected persons' who are civilians in Camp Ashraf and calls on the UN, UK and US governments to uphold their commitment.
• Another 'Massacre' Kills 52 Iranian Exiles
  More than four dozen members of an Iranian dissident group have been killed in an early morning attack at their camp north of Baghdad on Sunday, according to the Iranian exiles.
• IPCDA Deplores Savage Attack on Camp Ashraf
  At least 24 bodies have been counted as dead and a large number of residents are severely injured. A number of residents have been kidnapped by the Iraqi army and taken as hostages. Others were shot and killed while in handcuffs.

libcom

• Aleksey “Raskhod” Raskhodchikov, anarchist, an ...
  Aleksey “Raskhod” Raskhodchikov, anarchist, antifascist and musician was beaten and arrested by police at night of 23 of July 2013 in the center of Murmansk city. On the main square policemen surrounded a group of punk-rockers and without any reason aske ...
• Georgia inmates beaten with hammers during 201 ...
  Georgia_Prison_Strike_1210_logo_web.jpg New video evidence has been publicly released showing Georgia prison guards beating inmates with a "hammer-like object" in the aftermath of the 2010 p ...
• Solidarity Network from Most, Czech (MSS) got ...
  Zepter_protest_MSS_Praha_6.8.2013.JPG We are happy to announce that the conflict with Zepter International Ltd. in the Czech Republic, in which Priama akcia actively participated, ended up in a victor ...
• Starbucks fires employee on food stamps for ea ...
  Coulson.jpeg Last Monday, 21-year-old barista Coulson Loptmann says he was fired from a downtown Seattle Starbucks where he’d worked for more than a year. The reason? He ate a sandwich that had been t ...
• Keeping the Powder Dry (for now!) - Struggles ...
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Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• The Lessons of the Bonus Army – 1932
  This is a most powerful story – a story largely unknown by the American people.   This sordid part of American history exposes so much truth – truth that is extremely important to understand in today’s world. To the Jewish/Ashkenazi International Banking Cartel (the House of Ro ...
• Mormon Author Denver Snuffer Facing Mormon &#8 ...
  Many people will not think this story such a “big deal” – but they are mistaken, for this story is truly a microcosm of the SATANIC MINDSET currently in charge of the NSA, DHS, and the CIA (as well as most other FedGov operations).   It is the driving force behind the “Sc ...
• Mormonism – the Absolute King of Satan&# ...
  I was born into a devout LDS (Mormon) family on Sept. 28, 1959.   This is what is known in Mormon lingo as “born under the ‘covenant’.   I served as a missionary for two full years in Upstate New York, where I was a mission leader (Assistant to the Mission President, and Zone L ...
• The National Satanic Alliance – (NSA) an ...
  Why is the massive new NSA Data Collection Center being built in Utah?   Cheap electric power?  Nope.   Gullible, trusting, citizenry who don’t question authority?  You’re getting warmer.   It’s doubtful any other local population would be anywhere near as docile about such a f ...
• NSA Atrocities – Part III – Brain ...
  Truth is stranger than fiction, my friends. There is a reason why the massive NSA “Data Collection Center” is located in Utah.   Make no mistake – the NSA is not about keeping America safe.   The truth is, it is without a doubt TARGETING AMERICA for totally tyranny and mass min ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Tom Mulcair, Leader of the Opposition
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with the Leader of the Opposition Tom Mulcair to discuss the major political issues facing Canada today and what Mr. Mulcair's party, the NDP, would do differently in Ottawa.
• Father Thomas Rosica
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Father Thomas Rosica to discuss the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the process of electing a new Pope.
• Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater (Feb 9, 2013
  Peter Mansbridge sits down with Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan as he prepares for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
• Mark Burnett, television producer (Feb 2, 2013)
  Peter talks about television, fame and chasing the American Dream with the king of reality TV.
• Chris Hadfield, astronaut (Jan 26, 2013)
  Peter talks to the Canadian Astronaut from his current home in space aboard the International Space Station.

Energy Collective

• Labor Day 2050: Global Warming And The Coming ...
  Here’s a Labor Day review of what we know about the impact that global warming is projected to have on labor productivity: A new NOAA study projects that heat-stress related labor capacity losses will double globally by 2050 with a warming climate.
• Nearly 40,000 New Green Jobs Created in Second ...
  Clean energy and sustainable transportation projects launched this year created nearly 40,000 green jobs in America during the second quarter of 2013. The transition to a clean energy economy is well underway, reports the latest green jobs report from Environmental Entrepreneurs.
• OTEC Can Be a Big Global Climate Influence
  OTEC uses the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer surface ocean waters to run a heat engine and produce electricity. Global warming needs to be put on a permanent hiatus at the same time as the world is looking for more energy. OTEC provides both.
• The Existential Threat to Utilities, and Why T ...
  Distributed generation (DG) has been called an existential threat to electric utilities. But it doesn’t have to be a doomsday scenario, and there’s interesting work going on in the field of Transactive Energy that envisions a much more pragmatic future of the Smart Grid.
• Subsidies for Solar Two Times Higher Than for ...
  California has spent twice more on subsidies for solar than nuclear, on a per-kilowatt basis. The finding challenges analysis from DBL investors, which compares nuclear to solar subsidies without accounting for nuclear generating far more electricity than solar.

Prior Art

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

• Question 3 for 9/11 Smarties: Why was The 2001 ...
  By Elizabeth Young 911 is without a doubt the most written about, analyzed and discussed conspiracy in the history of mankind. Yes, even the official story: Nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, crashed airplanes into important buildings in the ...
• Why Was Syria Attacked?
  by Stephen Lendman On April 6, 2009, Seymour Hersh headlined "Syria Calling," saying: When Israel's December 2008/January 2009 Cast Lead war on Gaza ended, so did "promising peace talks between Israel and Syria." For almost a year, both countries negotiated. They did so in Istanbul through in ...
• Obama's War on Syria Imminent
  by Stephen Lendman He decided to attack. He'll do so whether on not Congress approves. He'll ignore international law. He believes he has a divine right to do what he wants. He's an out-of-control rogue menace. He's a war criminal multiple times over. He's waging war on humanity. He's doing ...
• Obama's War on Syria: Dissent in the Ranks
  by Stephen Lendman On September 2, London's Daily Mail headlined " 'I didn't join the Navy to fight for al Qaeda in a Syrian civil war': Picture of serviceman goes viral... but is it real?" More on that below. The Pentagon goes all out to avoid dissent in the ranks. It surfaced in Vietna ...
• Syria & America exchange messages as both peop ...
  Franklin Lamb Damascus The morning following President Obama’s announcement he would not bomb Syria immediately, the streets of Damascus were packed with shoppers and employees heading to their jobs. Several reasons for this were mentioned by my friend, Eyman. Some Damascenes who had fle ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Hennessy's Index is back!
  After a summer hiatus, our monthly Hennessy's Index has returned just in time for Labour Day weekend! The focus of the September edition is (appropriately) on unions. Read the latest index, here. Hennessy's Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canad ...
• Doctors and MacLean's team up in Winnipeg ...
  Doctors are demonstrating their ethical duty to patients by working towards a society in which everyone has an opportunity to lead a healthy life. Last winter, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and MacLean’s magazine hosted a series of town hall meetings, including one at the Winnipeg Art G ...
• Join CCPA-NS (and Karl Marx) for a special fal ...
  Join CCPA's Nova Scotia Office for a very special fall fundraiser. This year's event features Cape Breton's George MacKenzie performing as Karl Marx (returning to defend his life and his work) in the Howard Zinn play, Marx in Soho. Tickets to the event include a savoury Italian meal, and admiss ...
• Affordable Housing in Winnipeg
  Affordability of housing has been an important issue in Winnipeg for the last decade or so, with vacancy rates well below three percent and rents rising every year. In recent years, however, there has been an increase in discussion of housing, and a broader awareness that something needs to chan ...
• CCPA SK presents former PBO Kevin Page in Regina!
  On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives will be presenting a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page’s tenure as the first PBO in Canada was an experiment in fiscal transparen ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
  During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
• House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
  The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
• Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
  In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...
• Statement from Jafar Panahi on His Invitation ...
  "I would like to sincerely thank the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for inviting me to join their organization. I am especially grateful to Michael Moore and the documentary branch for nominating me. "It’s an honor for me to join such a prestigious organizatio ...
• Excerpt from 'Pietà' in 'Here Comes Trouble' b ...
  When we went back a few days later to sit in the House gallery, a new bill was up for discussion: the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From watching the evening news and being taught to read the daily newspaper, I knew that “colored people” were being unfairly treated, even killed. A f ...

Salon

• No, Miley Cyrus did not cause Steubenville
  Richard Cohen draws a dubious link between Cyrus' VMA performance and the Steubenville rape case
• The 8 dumbest things Republicans said — ...
  A look at right wing politicians' & pundits' potpourri of offensive, racist and wildly inaccurate statements
• California backtracks on RFID chips in drivers ...
  Privacy advocates see the chips as providing government-run surveillance tool
• The real story of Detroit’s economy
  Great things are happening!
• Judge: “N-word” cannot be term of ...
  A federal court upheld a black employee's claim for damages after the racial epithet was used by black employer

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Carbon Dioxide Problem Worsens
  Introduction This is the 6th and final installment in a series that examines data from the 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP The US is the Gassiest ...
• King Coal Gets Fatter, While The US Goes on a Diet
  Introduction This is the 5th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Next week’s installment will be on carbon dioxide emissions, and that will wrap up the series. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Upd ...
• The Gassiest Country
  Introduction This is the 4th installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts were: Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 The State of Oil According to BP Today’s ...
• The State of Oil According to BP
  This is the 3rd installment in a series that examines data from the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous posts - Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 and Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on renewables. This post delves into ...
• Hydropower and Geothermal Status Update 2013
  This is the 2nd installment in a series that looks at the recently released 2013 BP Statistical Review of World Energy. The previous post – Renewable Energy Status Update 2013 – focused mainly on wind and solar power. This post delves into hydropower and geothermal power. Some of the ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Take a Virtual Flight Through Yosemite's Fire ...
  Tags: flight, yosemite, fire, googleearth, virtualtourby: Dean Mantz
• Starting The Year With PBL: Laying The Groundork
  Tags: PBL, inquiryby: amy musone
• Code Club World
  Comments:Great collection of resources for anyone interested in starting an after-school programming club for kids in upper elementary. Lesson plans, student tasks, much more! - Randy RodgersTags: programming, code, coding, elementary, edtechby: Randy Rodgers
• Homeschool Conference Webinar Resources : Corn ...
  Tags: resources;, citizen, scientistby: Jackie Gerstein
• Free Technology for Teachers: Active Textbook ...
  Tags: freetech4teachers, textbook, multimedia, documents, techbooksby: Dean Mantz

Stonecipher News

• WPMU Dev - The WordPress Experts!
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• Video Games and Teen Violence Correlations
  With the rising increase in teen violence, much research has been directed to determine if video games, violent television shows and other electronic media is directly related. Gentile, D.A. & Anderson C.A (2003) has done extensive research in which supports the theory that video games lead to v ...

Information Liberation

• Cop Flips Out On Teen Video Recording Him Maki ...
  A Leland, North Carolina police sergeant John Keel was caught on his own dash cam video flipping out on a teenager for legally video recording him making an arrest with his cell phone outside a Buy & Go gas station. After verbally harassing and th...
• TURF WAR: Blue on Blue Confrontation on NJ Tur ...
  This video involves a state trooper who is checking out plainclothes officers from Bergen County because there have been some cases of criminals impersonating cops in his area recently. The plainclothes officers are outraged*wait till around the 6...
• Police vs. Pregnant Women
  Life was uncomplicated for emissaries of the Assyrian Empire. They weren*t burdened by conscience, or hindered by the need to make moral distinctions. Their role was to extract tribute for the king in Nineveh, destroy all potential resistance to his ...
• The NSA and Its "Compliance Problems"
  One of the core principles of good governance in society is the idea that the authority of law ought to prevail over the brute power of people -- i.e., that society should operate under the rule of law, not the rule of men. Aristotle wrote that "[t]h...
• The US Uses Gas To Kill Civilians
  One point that needs to be made, but rarely if ever mentioned, is that in the supposed rationale for US attack on Syria to avenge/prevent claimed civilian deaths by government gas attacks, the US government itself has used similar weapons openly as r...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Unrepresentative Swill
  I said the other day I’d have more to say about Senate voting, and why I believe it has descended into an undemocratic farce. The Australian Senate is an artefact of our history. Our founding fathers in the 1890s, looking … Continue reading →
• Coasting Home
  If there was any justice, this election would already be long over. Having initially announced the election date back in January, Julia Gillard, and more latterly Kevin Rudd, have been determined to subject the nation to the political equivalent of … Continue reading →
• Prai Minista Em Bin Brukim Promis Austrelia
  Is anyone really surprised? Last Friday’s announcement by Prime Minister Redux Rudd, that as of now, all illegal boat arrivals would be sent to Papua New Guinea and, if assessed as genuine refugees, would be permanently resettled there, is an … Continue reading →
• No Big Deal
  Much has been made over the last day or so about the fact that the Member for Chifley, Ed Husic, was today sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Broadband. Husic, 43, born and raised … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VIII – P ...
  This has now gone so far beyond a joke that I hardly know where to start. So much ink has been spilled by hoary press gallery veterans covering Labor’s leadership soap opera, that there is very little new that LibertyGibbert … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

• 3D printing meets sexting (or should that be “ ...
  It was a mashup that was destined to happen, 3D printing and sexting. Horrified governments and parents tried to stop the madness… The video nasties moment finally came for 3D printers when it was discovered that Katie Evans, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl at a sought-after academy in the H ...
• John McCain, barometer of foreign policy, alwa ...
  John McCain should be appointed official barometer regarding the use of US military force—read the McCain Barometer every morning; if he supports invasion, occupation, intervention, air strikes, or bombings in a given situation, oppose it and you will be on the right side. Senator McCain has bee ...
• Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson, ...
  This is the definitive bio of Charles Manson. Jeff Guinn explains probable motives for the Manson Family Tate-La Bianca murders, and how Manson controlled his zombies. Manson studied Dale Carnegie and Scientology in prison and used their techniques to gather, influence, and control his followers ...
• Captain Kirk watches Miley Cyrus performance
• ‘World’s Hairiest Cat,’ A Guinness World Record!
  Guinness World Records has officially recognized the two-year-old Himalayan-Persian crossbreed as the cat with the longest fur. In order to get the hair-raising honor, three independent vets each meticulously measured 10 strands of kitty fur and came up with an average length that was submitted ...

Just World News

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frogblog

• New Zealand’s role in the Pacific
  This week New Zealand is attending the Pacific Island Forum in the Marshall Islands. Considering the present and visible impact of climate change in the Pacific it’s not surprising that it is top of the agenda for discussion at this Pacific Islands Forum. John Key has defended New Zealand’ ...
• Syria, the UN, and parliamentary democracy: Ar ...
  The game-changer in the Syrian crisis is not the US soliloquy whether a unilateral strike is to be or not to be.  That is a normal phenomenon of the past half-century. It is the impressive working of parliamentary democracy in the United Kingdom.  That is not. Last week, the British Parliament w ...
• Tony Ryall and democracy
  I have just sent a letter to the Speaker of Parliament to complain about the apparent disregard with which the Minister of Health, Tony Ryall, has been treating his democratic obligations. Here’s the main gist of my complaint: Every single one of the 101 Questions for Written Answer I have asked ...
• Chance to have a say on tertiary education in NZ
  The Government have opened up public submissions on their proposed changes to the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) for tertiary education. The PBRF is a funding pool of around $250 million per year from the Government that goes towards tertiary education research. It is accessed by univers ...
• The Living Wage will help the economy
  What is it with this government and their complacency about the hundreds of thousands of people who are living in poverty in this country? Yesterday the Prime Minister John Key ‘slammed’ the concept of introducing a Living Wage and suggested that introducing a better pay rate for low paid worker ...

Patronus Analytical

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

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

• IC 407: Replies Very Selectively
  Phenom making White people uncomfortable at fight parties Twerking being associated with low income black women The dumb bitch who said teachers raping 14 year olds isn’t that bad Kev’s fumble on the goal line Kriss & OkCupid rejection Dave Chappelle’s “melt down&#82 ...
• IC 406: Ben Affleck & #TheAvengersInitiative
  Rod from The Black Guy Who Tips is a guest Kriss talking coaching Jury Duty Ben Affleck is Batman The Wolverine Broke Rod People who can’t complain about Ben Affleck as Batman Why Zach Snyder has more pressure than Affleck The problem with movie critics Episode 3 is the best Star Wars Film ...
• IC 405: Twitter Nuclear War
  Amish Mafia and bad “reality TV shows” X-Files wasn’t that good Slander Wars on Twitter The lack of a nuclear deterrent on Twitter Accepting the consequences of entering into a Mutual Assured Destruction slander war Stop asking about Scott Adkins as Batman Kriss & Kev deba ...
• IC 404: Kev’s True Baltimorean Stories
  Batman casting rumors The Flash TV Show Celebrities who did cartoon voices Sentinel or Dyson Vacuum cleaner Fox messing up comic book movies Kev True Baltimorean Stories Christian rap Share with your friends:
• IC 403: ‘Give A Hoot, Don’t Pollute’ & Other ...
  The Wolverine & Fox trying to do comic book movies The Venture Brothers Gina Carano as Wonder Woman Harry Belafonte & Jay Z Social activism and black celebrities Stop blaming black people for issues affecting the black community Don Lemon and his 5 stupid tips Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

• Bouncing lasers off satellites backs faster Gr ...
  Kosuke Heki from Hokkaido University and Koji Matsuo from Kyoto University in Japan have doubled the duration of gravity based measurements of ice loss from Greenland, providing more evidence that this process is speeding up.
• Fossil fuels are more than just a bad habit
  While my blog so far this year has shown how clear the case for fighting climate change is, our financial dependence on fossil fuels makes this difficult. But now divestment campaigns might be giving us a way to start untangling this sticky web.
• Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
  Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.
• Continuing the fight for CO2 monitoring
  Despite making critical measurements revealing how CO2 is increasing, and how it moves through nature, the tracking efforts Dave Keeling started have usually been struggling for cash, and still do today.
• What Dave Keeling did ahead of his curve
  Almost an accidental climate scientist, Dave Keeling’s efforts to reconcile incorrect CO2 measurements paved the way to continuously tracking the relentless rise of the greenhouse gas in recent decades.

e!Science News

• Scientists discover new bat species in West Africa
  An international team of scientists, including biologists from, the University of York, has discovered five new species of bats in West Africa. read more
• Researchers propose a new system for quantum s ...
  Researchers from the universities in Mainz, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Ulm have proposed a new platform for quantum simulation. In a theoretical paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, they show that a combined system of ultracold trapped ions and fermionic atoms could be used to emulat ...
• Iranian telegraph operator, first to propose e ...
  In 1909, an Iranian telegraph operator living in the remote desert town of Kerman noticed an unusual movement of the magnetic needle of his telegraph instrument. While other telegraph operators during the late 1800s and early 1900s noticed the phenomenon, the Iranian telegraph operator proposed ...
• Facebook use by organizations during crises he ...
  Social networking sites have become incredibly popular in recent years, with Facebook now ranking as the third most popular website in the U.S. With so many people spending so much time on Facebook, public relations professionals are using the site more and more to communicate to the public. Now ...
• New evidence to aid search for charge 'stripes ...
  Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a series of clues that particular arrangements of electrical charges known as "stripes" may play a role in superconductivity-the ability of some materials to carry electric current with n ...

unEarthed

• Planning to Prevail Against Transportation Pol ...
  Plans for urban growth must address community impacts The Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest container port in the country, looms over community neighborhoods.  (Esther Dyson) ...
• Govt. Loses Letters, So Let's Write Back for C ...
  Save Appalachia's streams from mountaintop removal mining Activists march by the White House in September 2012. (Chris Jordan-Bloch) We are sorry to hear ...
• Governor Reading From Polluter’s Script
  Industry, Colorado Gov. agree: drilling opponents are probably hypocrites A refinery in Denver, CO. (NREL) The oil and gas industry in Colorado has a new scri ...
• Let The River Flow - Judge Grants Salmon a Cha ...
  Corporate giants lose court battle over Klamath/Trinity rivers water A chinook salmon. (Spappy Jones / Creative Commons) There are few victories sweeter and m ...
• More Wild Bison Return Home To Montana
  Native Americans welcome animals back to where they once belonged Two of the first wild bison born last spring. (Bill Campbell) Some extra thunder rumbled int ...

Brave New Climate

• MIT competition update – 3 days left, vo ...
  Below is an update on the MIT competition that I highlighted in the last BNC post, including a plea for final action. There are only 3 days left to register your support, and in my opinion, this really counts. The winner will get in front of potential implementers at the Crowds & Climate Con ...
• Vote to get the Integral Fast Reactor presente ...
  Mass-producible integral fast reactor modules can power every country on earth for nearly a millennium with waste products already at hand. That’s the pitch that Tom Blees has made to the Climate CoLab at MIT. If Tom’s pitch garners the most votes, the push to get the first PRISM bui ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 4: The choice … waste ...
  This is the final in a four part series on nuclear waste which has run on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I conclude the series by discussing why nuclear waste is such a valuable resource and also cleans up a few relat ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 3: Case studies
  This is the third in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Go here for Part 1 and Part 2. Case studies in waste disposal Finland’s nuclear waste repository For many, I suspect the most compelling evide ...
• Nuclear Waste Part 2: The nuts and bolts of waste
  This is the second in a four part series on nuclear waste which is running on BraveNewClimate.com over a four-day period, authored by Geoff Russell. Click here for Part 1. What’s special about nuclear waste? In Part I, we found that radioactive decay in the earth’s crust is continuou ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• 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:

+972

• Oslo 20 years later: The origins and dangers o ...
  How Israel succeeded in diluting the implementation of the Oslo Accords through a combination of hypothetical worst-case military scenarios and the misleading and incorrect attribution of the term ‘security zones’ to diplomatic texts. By Shemuel Meir Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N ...
• Near impunity for IDF soldiers who kill Palest ...
  The IDF and Border Police killed three more Palestinians last week. Despite the IDF’s ‘knife in the back’ legend that it betrays its own, its combat soldiers have little reason to fear its ‘justice’ system. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz Anyone following the ...
• Resource: The failing East Jerusalem education ...
  With the start of the new school year, today (2.9.2013) The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and Ir Amim published an annual update on the dire state of education in East Jerusalem, revealing deep gaps between the two parts of the city. The report concludes that the Jerusalem Munici ...
• An education in inequality for East Jerusalem& ...
  The number of classrooms, the availability of counselors and the numbers of dropout prevention programs constitute a grievous violation of the right to education for tens of thousands of Palestinian schoolchildren in Jerusalem. By Betty Herschman In cities around the world, most parents agonize ...
• Israel’s High Court sends South Hebron H ...
  The High Court of Justice declines to make a ruling on the evictions of over 1,000 Palestinian villagers from what Israel calls ‘Firing Zone 918.’ Villagers’ attorneys say referral to mediation process is a sign the court wasn’t satisfied with the state’s arguments. ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Tasmania's giants protected forever
  Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Water, Mark Butler, today took the final step for the protection of Tasmania's Giant Trees and Tall Eucalypt Forests under Australian law.
• A bright future ahead for FluoroCycle
  Lighting Council Australia has officially taken on responsibility for the FluoroCycle scheme, which aims to reduce the amount of harmful mercury entering the environment from the disposal of waste mercury-containing lamps.
• Statement - Venture Minerals
  I have granted Venture Minerals approval to proceed with their proposed Riley Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) Hematite Mine in north-western Tasmania for which a mining lease has been issued by the Tasmanian Government.
• Local growers celebrate $3.3 Million McLaren V ...
  Up to 726 megalitres a year of precious drinking water will be saved in McLaren Vale, with the recent completion of a recycled stormwater plant in the region.
• A '300 billion litre drink' for the River Murray
  Around 300 billion litres of Commonwealth environmental water will flow into the River Murray Valley in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia over the next seven months, helping rejuvenate natural assets like the Lower Lakes in South Australia.

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

• who is red ed miliband? damning summary | poli ...
  Ed Miliband committed political fratricide to become his party's leader. Now he morally betrays both his country and the Syrian people to, apparently, gain short-term political points. What a hero!
• on fundamental errors of reasoning - iraq and ...
  How looking at history, rather than having a knee-jerk reaction to a supposed bogeyman, permits a clear view on the world.
• the new marianne stamps | the France zone at a ...
  With a new presidential term, this time with a socialist president - Francois Hollande, comes a new design of the basic definitive stamps.
• la vuelta a espana, 2013 - race to the summits ...
  With over half the stages ending on a summit, the 2013 Vuelta again is a climber's paradise. No wonder there's no Froome or Wiggins.
• on debt and politics | politics at abelard.org
  Paying off debt is not simple, but then the world is not simple.

Case About Bird Flu

• THE END OF THE LIE: GERMAN GOVERNMENT TAKES OF ...
  GERMANY S DOUBTFUL ROLE IN CLOSING THE GREEK NATIONAL BROADCASTER REVEALED MILITARY OCCUPATION OF GREECE NEXT AS FAILED AUSTERITY POLICIES DEVASTATE GREECE? WILL IRELAND, SPAIN AND ITALY ALSO HAVE THEIR NATIONAL MEDIA SHUT DOWN BY THE EU AND GERMANS ON THE PRETEXT OF HAVING TO SAVE MONEY? *MERKE ...
• NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
  Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
• NEW WEBSITE HAS GONE LIVE @ www.janeburgermeis ...
  Check out my new webiste under http://www.janeburgermeister.de. As Chancellor Angela Merkel warns a rerun of the Nazi rise to power in Germany can only be stopped by people of courage and conscience., I will be reporting on the fight for freedom and democracy from the German capital. http://www. ...
• COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
  Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...
• COMING NEXT WEEK: MY NEW WEBSITE FROM BERLIN, ...
  Check out this blog for details of my new website due to go live next week. In addition to writing new books, I also hope to do regular reports from Berlin, Germany, where I have taken up residence after leaving Austria this summer. The capital of Europe’s most powerful economy, the decisi ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Vladimir Putin: The New Moral Leader
  By Brian Preston In a scene even more vile than The Godfather, Saudi Prince Bandar, in a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in July (2013), secretly recorded and leaked to a British newspaper, tried to emulate the Temptation of Christ by offering Russia a partnership in the OPEC oil cartel ...
• Punishment for Syria, rewards for Syria’s neig ...
  by Stuart Littlewood US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week. He describes the attack as an “inconceivable horror”. As a result President Obama is considering lethal puni ...
• Activist Post: Syria Could Become a Rallying P ...
  Dave Hodges Activist Post For a brief moment, Obama and his banker bosses met the world and the world punched Obama in the mouth. Through our collective efforts, with regard to Syria, average people have made every elitist banker blink and these gangsters have temporarily backed up. However, one ...
• Finian Cunningham: People of the World are Fig ...
  By Finian Cunningham August 31, 2013 “Information Clearing House – The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the entire world as the number-one terrorist threat to the future of humanity. Many have known this fact already, but now it is universally clear. As the US p ...
• Putin to (Nobel Peace Prize Winner) Obama: ‘Th ...
  “Syrian government troops are on the offensive and have surrounded the opposition in several regions. In these conditions, to give a trump card to those who are calling for a military intervention is utter nonsense,” Putin told the journalists in the eastern city of Vladivostok on Saturday. He a ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

• American “Democracy” In Perspective
  America has many of the vestments of democracy but, in truth, not so much of the substance. Compared to advanced democracies abroad we're in a category by ourselves. What's possibly the most peculiar thing of all is that we're so unaware of how very, very different we are, or why that's the case ...
• Rising Inequality
  It's becoming the age of the American Banana Republic. We haven't gotten there yet but we're heading straight for it and it's close. We should be ashamed. But parsing the policy that surrounds inequality gets complicated. Tim Noah has thus done a tremendous service by collecting the threads in h ...
• Secrets of Happiness
  Even if it often seems like we live in a rat race that doesn't mean we must be rats. Indeed, most of us have much greater latitude than we realize to be happy, or at least happier than we already are. But don't take my word for it. Cutting edge research suggests simple lifestyle alternatives tha ...
• The Graveyard Shift
  Step back from current events in the Middle East and you can see a further phase in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, coincidentally, at least from one point of view, the U.S. Empire is also entering a phase of decline, a decline from which it may never fully recover it ...
• Syria in Context
  R2P may have met its match in Syria because it's almost impossible to defend the proposition that introducing more weapons and/or troops will make anything better. Aside, however, from the immediate policy question it's worth taking a moment to think about where Syria fits into the continuum of ...

PR News

• US Army launches revamped Boost campaign
  WASHINGTON: The US Army, with the help of the Ad Council and Publicis Kaplan Thaler, is transforming its long running Boost Up stay-in-school campaign into a new iteration called Boost Attendance.
• Ruder Finn expands in China with S&W partnership
  CHENGDU, CHINA: Ruder Finn has signed an agreement with S&W Public Relations to expand its presence into the central and western provinces of China.
• APCO appoints Fancher as first chief creative ...
  After a 19-year career at the independent agency, Marilyn Fancher has been named creative chief at APCO Worldwide.
• Golin begins joint venture in India with LinOp ...
  MUMBAI: GolinHarris has begun a joint venture with Indian firm LinOpinion, a division of Interpublic Group's Lowe Lintas and Partners network.
• Shareholder activism rising, big companies in ...
  Shareholder activism used to be just a nuisance that arose during proxy season, involving a group of contentious investors who tended to target smaller or less established companies.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• The Greatest National Security Speeches Never Made
  Before Queen Elizabeth almost announced World War III, Nixon nearly read astronauts their eulogy and Eisenhower all but declared D-Day a failure.
• The Navy, Marines don’t have to furlough civil ...
• Condi had her doubts about the surge; Whither ...
• Carter in Asia; The Navy fights alcohol abuse; ...
• Steve Hadley at FP: “I should have asked that ...

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Casino volunteers still needed
  Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Alberta Environmental Network ...
• Deadline Extended — Call for Delegates: Non-Po ...
  Initiative:  Non-Point Source Air Emissions Workshop Position:  ENGO Delegates ...
• Job Posting: Office and Fund Administrator, CP ...
  Position:  Office & Fund Administrator Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta Ch ...
• Proposed New AEN Environmental Regulatory Caucus
  Initiative:  Proposed Environmental Regulatory Caucus Position:  Caucus Members ...
• Alberta Caribou Action & Range Planning Multi- ...
  Initiative:  Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group for the Cold Lake Caribou Range Position:  Two (2) ENGO Delegates and o ...

Stop NATO

• Video: Israel, Saudi Arabia After Elimination ...
  Press TV September 1, 2013 Israel, Saudi Arabia after elimination of Syria sovereignty: Expert “Israel would like to see, as would several other neighboring countries, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the elimination of Syria as an independent force in the Arab World and in the general Middle East ...
• Former NATO Military Chief Demands Strikes Aga ...
  Stars and Stripes September 3, 2013 Former SACEUR calls on NATO to back up Obama By John Vandiver Some critics have called President Barack Obama’s decision to seek Congressional support for military action in Syria as a sign of indecisiveness, but recently retired Adm. James Stavridis sees the ...
• Russian Senator: Syria Is U.S.’s Next Yu ...
  Interfax September 3, 2012 U.S. strike on Syria will deal blow to intl security – Russian senator MOSCOW: A missile strike against Syria without the UN Security Council’s go-ahead would be tantamount to a declaration of war against Damascus and a blow to international security and th ...
• Interview: Congressional Approval Does Not Abs ...
  Taylor Report September 2, 2013 Congressional Approval Does Not Absolve Illegal War The U.S. plan is to be ultimately the arbiter of all international disputes Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff Audio Description: The U.S. is acting as if a Congressional vote will legalize a war of aggression. It won&# ...
• Roger Martin du Gard: Romain Rolland
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Roger Martin du Gard: Selections on war Romain Rolland: Selections on war ==== Roger Martin du Gard From Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (unfinished novel) Translated by Luc Brébion and Timothy Crouse What brings me much closer to yo ...

Before It's News

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

• Nehru U. Students/Cultural Activists branded & ...
  [Political protests and cultural expressions of oppoosition to the repressive and undemocratic Indian state continue to grow, and the States' response continues to be: slander the opposition, call all activists "Naxals" or "Maoists", and round them up for some combination of interrogation, tortu ...
• All Who Oppose War Crimes: “We Are Brad ...
  ————————————–   Statement of the Center for Constitutional Rights: He Should Never Have Been Prosecuted August 21, 2013 – Today, in response to the sentencing of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Center for Constitutional ...
• All Who Oppose War Crimes: “We Are Brad ...
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• Statement by Bradley Manning: On Being Sentenced
  by Bradley Manning August 21, 2013 The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country ...
• Statement by Bradley Manning: On Being Sentenced
  by Bradley Manning August 21, 2013 The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

• When The Shit Hits The Field
  SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
• Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
  Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...
• Study: Global Warming = Increasing Violence
  I opened this news item with my skeptical hat on, given that there are so many parameters that could be used. However, it looks pretty legit*. Climate change (regardless of what is causing it) means more violence – yet another reason to be a prepper and/or shift away from highly populated ...
• 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 ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

• Money Is Not Safe In The Big Banks
• War Propaganda and Media Lies within the Syria ...
• Syria: Only Rebels Benefit from Recent Chemica ...
• Egyptian Blood on Hands of US Government
• Cynthia McKinney Supports ReThink911 Building ...

Daily Tech

• Report: EU Proposal Would Limit All Cars to 70 ...
  Bye bye autobahn     
• Apple Confirms iPhone Event for September 10
  We're expecting to see the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C     
• Lenovo Shows Five New ThinkPads
  They are the T440, the T440s, the ThinkPad X240, the S440 and the S540     
• Google Teases at Android 4.4 "KitKat", Device ...
  Google says too few people knew how Key Lime Pie tasted to name it that     
• Microsoft and Nokia: A Match Made in Heaven or ...
  Let's examine two views on this controversial, provocative union     

Oriental Review

• Putin: Washington’s claims on Syria is a ...
  The mood was holiday like as an ordinary August weekend was to be added by Labor Day. But it was spoiled by incessant militarist style harangues delivered by US administration officials. Americans have already let know their reluctance to get involved in another intervention – they still cherish ...
• U.S. Military Intelligence Involved in Chemica ...
  The situation in Syria is still in focus of the world media. Another U.S.-led “humanitarian intervention” may be unleashed soon. The Pentagon announced that it is ready to attack Syria in order to punish Bashar al-Assad and Syrian army for the alleged use of chemical weapons against the ci ...
• Who is to Stop Rogue President?
  “Will Boehner Stop Our Rogue President?” – Antiwar.com website published this article on August 30. The piece is written by Patrick Buchanan, a journalist, a writer, the author of bestseller The Death of the West, a man with rich political background: he has been a senior advisor to ...
• White Lama & ‘Tibet Land’
  ORIENTAL REVIEW continues to reveal unknown facts about the American involvement in Tibet and the British role in achieving it. We published the previous chapter of the research titled ‘Arms and the Elephant‘ on August 12, 2013. IN 1947, Arthur Hopkinson was India’s political o ...
• Obama and his War Against Middle East Christians
  A possible US intervention into Syria against the background of chaos and bloody turmoil reigning in the country for over two years could become a turning point in the contemporary world history. Everything that is taking place in the Middle East during the Obama’s tenure – be it Tunisia, Libya, ...

BlogHer

• The Gift of Siblings: Number Two Is the Lucky One
  When our son, Sam, was just under a year old, Marc (my husband) and I seriously began a conversation about trying for a second baby. I was feeling confident that we were ready (or, ready enough), and Marc was opening up to the idea. I think our main difference in thought was that Marc considered ...
• "50 Shades of Grey" Movie Cast Revealed
  50 Shades of Grey, the popular erotica series by E.L. James that has swept the world over the past two years, is being made into a movie. Reports that actor Charlie Hunnam of Sons of Anarchy and actress Dakota Johnson will be playing the lead roles have set the internet ablaze, with everyone wei ...
• Experiencing Yosemite Valley During the Rim Fire
  Months before the Rim Fire was sparked in California’s Sierra Nevada, my husband and I booked a campsite in the Yosemite Valley, as we do every summer. While the fourth largest wildfire in California history has been burning on the northwest outskirts of the park, the valley floor – home to the ...
• Four Kitchen Keys to Welcoming Guests
  Food is the means of hospitality and not the end for me.  When people come into my home. I want them to feel cared for and valuable.  A great meal is only a piece of that pie; setting a welcoming environment is just as important. If you're like me, you're always running behind, and when guests ...
• Slowing Down and Seeing God Through My Camera Lens
  I take a lot of pictures. I mean, a lot of pictures. Ever since we bought one of those cameras that makes a regular mom look like a semi-capable photographer, I have probably taken somewhere in the thousands. I easily unload 100+ a week from my smart card. Sometimes I worry that I’m guilty of wa ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Antipsychotic meds make children three times m ...
        Two detailed studies shine light on the devastating side effects that antipsychotic medications have on children and adolescents. One study, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, reports that children on anti-psychotic medications are three times more ... ...
• The truth behind the teas your are drinking
        There’s nothing like a hot cup of tea to get you through a long stressful day or to decompress. It has a way of providing energy, soothing the soul, and refreshing your spirits. Tea has been used for millenniums ... Related posts:5 Herbal Teas to Have on H ...
• The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and ...
          There’s an art to napping. Studies have found different benefits—and detriments—to a nap’s timing, duration and even effect on different people, depending on one’s age and possibly genetics. “Naps are actually more complicated ...
• Children Who Go to Daycare May Benefit from a ...
        Children who go to daycare may benefit from a wider variety of social and communicative situations relative to children who do not go to daycare, a recent study suggests. The former have a heightened ability ... Related posts:Tampon Marketing Gets Real For ...
• Does Chlorine Affect Your Vision?
        You’ve spent the summer swimming and diving in the pool, but did all that splashing around in chemically treated water harm your eyes? Optometrist Glenda Secor, chairwoman of the American Optometric Association’s contact lens and ... Related po ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Aug. 30, 2013
  In this July 29, 2013, photo, a Dragline excavator works a strip mine near Tatum, Texas. Decades of mining and power plant activity that helped East Texas towns grow and thrive could be threatened as a large energy provider faces possible bankruptcy. (AP Photo/LM Otero) Earlier this week, Ben Ca ...
• Longview Power, MEPCO file for bankruptcy
  Here’s today’s news from Longview Power and MEPCO: Longview Power, LLC today announced that it and certain of its affiliates, including Mepco Holdings, LLC and its affiliates, commenced Chapter 11 proceedings in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Both Lo ...
• Alpha faces suit over mining at cemetery
  Photo by Maria Gunnoe, flyover courtesy of Southwings Vicki Smith over at The Associated Press filed a story about a new lawsuit that challenges the way Alpha Natural Resources is operating its mountaintop removal mine near the Jarrell Family Cemetery in Boone County. She reports: Six southern W ...
• Report: Budget cuts threaten mine safety
  A new report out today from the Center for Effective Government describes concerns that continued cuts in the federal budget threaten the agencies that are supposed to protect worker health and safety across our country. The report, available online here, focuses on the U.S. Occupational Safety ...
• Why coal miners die on the job
  Today, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration made public the report of its investigation into the Feb. 7 death of a miner at Metinvest Group’s Affinity Mine in Raleigh County, W.Va. MSHA investigators concluded: The accident occurred because the mine level West side landing gate s ...

Daniel Miessler

• Changes to the Front Page
  I am finally getting around to tackling the problem of my site’s front page. My basic approach, as I’ve discussed before, is to basically have three areas: My main content that I actually produced or commented on Things I found that I think are worth seeing Supplemental content you m ...
• Identifying the Source of my Bias for Obama
  I’ve been thinking a lot about my bias towards Obama. And when I say bias I specifically mean my tendency to assume that there is some sort of positive rationale for his behavior–even when it appears overtly negative. The thought struck me the other day, and I’ve been manicurin ...
• Married 66 years, Ohio Couple Dies on Same Day
  After their father died, the Knapke children surrounded their mother — who was not lucid — and told her, "Dad’s up there waiting. They got the card game going and it’s time you got up there. Don’t stick around for us," Ted Knapke said.Ruth Knapke died that n ...
• Why People Hate Skyler from Breaking Bad
  First, there will be spoilers. … Note: If you’re wondering why I’m writing about a TV show, it’s because Breaking Bad is good art, and good art can teach us about life. … Evidently, people really hate Skyler’s character on Breaking Bad. I mean, they really hat ...
• Pale Blue Dot Animation
  Related Posts:Sam Harris on the Joe Rogan ShowMemoto Begins What Will Become LifecastingMichael Smith @rybolov DDoS TalkLandscapes, by Garry TanDODOCASEA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSA New Way of Thinking About Fear | TEDThe Happy Secret to Better Work | TEDEvil EvangelistsQwik ...

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

• Lev Pontryagin: 105th anniversary
  Lev Semenovič Pontryagin was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, on September 3th, 1908, i.e. 105 years ago, and died in May 80 years later, about 25+ years ago. Interestingly and sadly enough, a primus stove explosion made him legally blind at the age of 14. That didn't prevent him from becomi ...
• 16 out of half a billion: elite Calabi-Yau man ...
  Heterotic phenomenology seems to converge to an excitingly sparse shortlist of candidates Heterotic compactifications represent a convincing – if not the most convincing – class of superstring vacua that seem to pass the "first great exam" for producing a theory of everything. A week ago, I ...
• The 50 to 1 project
  Topher (*1982) is the commercial brand of an Australian host and filmmaker who had 6 siblings, was educated at home, and decided that movies – and later movies about political issues etc. – were his real passion. Using some "amateurish" money, including some funds from Lord Monckton – as I under ...
• Ukrainian ex-porn star wins legal residence in ...
  Anastázie [Pavlivna] Hagenová née Hryšajová (*1985), known as Wiska, is a Ukrainian-born porn actress who stopped working in the field two years ago and she no longer finds the job fulfilling. I watched some Ukrainian officials who screamed that she was the only source of porn that the cou ...
• An apologia for ideas from Hawking's BH bet co ...
  In Summer 2004, Stephen Hawking conceded his and Kip Thorne's bet against John Preskill: Preskill was the only one among the three who said in 1974 that the information about the initial state was preserved after a black hole evaporates. This blog is relatively ancient according to the blogosphe ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Children who kill children: 6 high-profile cases
  If the child suspected in the beating death of a six-year-old boy in a Saskatchewan First Nation community is found to be responsible, he will be one of the youngest killers in Canadian history. Here’s a look at some high-profile instances of kids who killed others a few years younger or o ...
• EU Aims to Mandate Tracking Device to Forcibly ...
  by Aaron Dykes, TruthStream Media: 70 mph would be the forced maximum speed under the EU scheme, while a multitude of methods are already in use to track drivers worldwide. As if the European Union (EU) hasn’t seized enough power, it now has its eyes on controlling how fast you can drive. Under ...
• Wireless competition coming even without Veriz ...
  The conditions are right for a fourth competitor to emerge in the Canadian wireless market, despite Verizon Communications’ decision not to enter Canada, Industry Minister James Moore says. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: I ...
• Syria and the Perpetual War Economy
  by Chris Mayer, Laissez Faire Books: Whether you agree or not that the U.S. ought to strike Syria, there is one reason it will: Because it has to. (Indeed, the bombing may already have started by the time you read this.) Perpetual war is one of the pillars of the US economy. According to the [&# ...
• Syria and the Perpetual War Economy
  by Chris Mayer, Laissez Faire Books: Whether you agree or not that the U.S. ought to strike Syria, there is one reason it will: Because it has to. (Indeed, the bombing may already have started by the time you read this.) Perpetual war is one of the pillars of the US economy. According to the [&# ...

Modern Survivalism

• Who Are The Zombie Hordes?
  Some preparedness websites will sometimes refer to ‘Zombies’, ‘Hordes’, or ‘Zombie Hordes’. A question is, what are they talking about? What’s their definition of a Zombie?   Zombies became particularly popular following the hit AMC TV series, &#822 ...
• The Zombie Hordes Distance From Cities
  While determining a location for your survival retreat, bug-out-location, or simply a safer place to live, you should consider its distance from a dense population area or city. In the event of a SHTF disaster scenario there may be some number of zombie hordes who will attempt to escape their ci ...
• Safer Survival Distance From USA City Hordes
  The USA map shown below, indicates all 276 cities with populations greater than 100,000 people, with a 300 mile diameter zone circled around each city (150 mile radius). This represents one general estimation for a worst case SHTF disaster scenario where… for whatever reason, the hordes ar ...
• What Our 4th President Said About Tyranny
  James Madison was the fourth President of the United States. He was co-author, with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, of the Federalist Papers, and is traditionally regarded as the Father of the United States Constitution. Here’s what he had to say about tyranny, and its parallels with toda ...
• Are There Worms In Your Water?
  Image: KWTV The idea of drinking water with worms in it certainly isn’t appealing. But residents of a small Oklahoma town have recently been advised not to drink the water or use it for cooking for that very reason… However there is one prep item, that if you had it, would ensure you ...

Fast Company

• A Split–Personality Mirror Made For Sharing Th ...
  There's a scene in Grease where the whole gang––T–Birds and the Pink Ladies––are at a drive–in movie theater, and some of the Ladies hit the powder room. There, no one appears to be in the stalls: instead, a throng of high school girls is toggling in front of ...
• Emojify Converts Your Photos Into Smileys, Gho ...
  It's getting harder and harder to typecast emoji characters. Are they the Esperanto of the digital age, an international language that brings people together one delectable piece of cake and laughing ghost at a time? Are they the basis of long–form storytelling or a music video or a featur ...
• CEO Character Study: Nokia's Steve Versus Micr ...
  Microsoft's buyout of Nokia is tech world takeover twist that still has many commentators scratching their heads. But one element of the $7 billion maneuver may make immediate sense: Nokia's departing CEO Stephen Elop may now be nestled inside MS, ready to take over from CEO Steve Ballmer when h ...
• These Grisly Meat Sculptures Are Made Out Of H ...
  We often speak of meat as if it were a textile. We talk about the way it knits together, the way it is mended, the way it is stitched together. Actus Reus is a project by Brooklyn–based artist Tamara Kostianovsky that makes flesh out of fabric. She recreates hooked wads of gristle, sinew, ...
• #Payback: Disgruntled Customer Burns @British_ ...
  There's been a new response in the ongoing conversation between consumers and brands over social media. Hasan Syed, who owns a hair–care company in Chicago, flew British Airways business class on a recent work trip to Europe. As many, many, many people now know, they lost his dad's luggage ...

Jadaliyya

• Syria News Update (2 September 2013)
   [This is a collection of news updates on Syria compiled from multiple sources by the editors.] Developments  Le Figaro Interviews Bashar al-Assad Georges Malbrunot interviewed the Syrian president and questioned him about the chemical weapons attack and the regime’s reply to a po ...
• Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (September 3)
  [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
• (Dis)integration: Palestinian Refugees in the ...
  One of the most potent discourses used to describe events in Syria has been that of social disintegration or fragmentation. The diverse tapestry of ethnic, religious, and national identities that characterized Syrian society is unraveling into sectarian strife and will be difficult to reconstitu ...
• Egypt News Update (3 September 2013)
  [This is a collection of news updates on Egypt compiled from multiple sources by the editors.]   At Least Eight Killed in Sinai strike Eight people were killed and fifteen injured in Sinai Wednesday in an Apache helicopter attack targeting “an extremist stronghold,” Al-Ahram reported, al ...
• خمسةُ أنهار في الجحيم
                خمسةُ أنهار في الجحيم الفرات (إلى الصديقين أحمد حافظ وعلي العائد) أيّها النهر، أين نجد شموعاً لجميع القبور، ملائكةً تسهر على الجراح، آذاناً إلهيّة تصغي للأنين، لحشرجةِ الموتى في أنفاسنا؟ في دخانٍ يُموِّهُ ال ...

mediagazer

• Divided we fall - Journalism matters; it's tim ...
  Columbia Journalism Review: Divided we fall  —  Journalism matters; it's time to start acting like we believe it  —  In the July/August issue of CJR, Francesca Borri wrote a powerful essay about the plight of being a freelancer, and a woman, covering the Syrian c ...
• Veteran Journalist Going To Work For John Kerr ...
  Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Veteran Journalist Going To Work For John Kerry  —  NEW YORK — Veteran journalist Douglas Frantz is joining the State Department as assistant secretary of state for public affairs, according to a source familiar with the move.  ...
• AP's Matt Apuzzo And Adam Goldman Crack Open S ...
  Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: AP's Matt Apuzzo And Adam Goldman Crack Open Secretive Institutions, From NYPD To CIA  —  WASHINGTON — Don't get Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman started on the lack of transparency in the New York Police Depa ...
• News Corp. Sells Local Newspapers to Fortress ...
  Edmund Lee / Bloomberg: News Corp. Sells Local Newspapers to Fortress Investment  —  News Corp. (NWSA), the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, sold a collection of local newspapers such as Oregon's Ashland Daily Tidings and Massachusetts' Cape Cod Times to private-equity mana ...
• Grand View Media Group Acquires Moose River Me ...
  Caysey Welton / Folio: Grand View Media Group Acquires Moose River Media  —  The company is looking to capitalize on Moose River's social communities.  —  Grand View Media Group, a division of EBSCO Industries, has acquired green and agricultural publishing compa ...

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

• Brazil demands explanation from US over s ...
  Washington, September 03: The Brazilian government has reportedly sought clarifications from the US who was revealed to have snooped on the president Dilma Rousseff. The recently revealed classified documents by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged that the US intercepted Rousseff’s emai ...
• Japanese Government Pledges $470 Million ...
  Recent revelations that the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant has been gushing radioactive water into the ocean have forced the Japanese government to step in amid concerns that the plant’s operator, TEPCO, is unable to manage the crisis. Japanese Prime...
• Macho man’ Putin shakes hand with walruse ...
  London, September 03: Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his visit to the country’s fast east region not just met the flood-hit victims, but also shook hand with walruses. Putin befriended the giant sea creature when he visited an aquarium on Russky Island near...
• Russia rejects ‘unconvincing’ US evidence ...
  Sydney, September 03: Russia has rejected US intelligence claims that Bashar al-Assad''s regime used chemical weapons in Syria. Foreign minister Sergey V. Lavrov dismissed as unconvincing the evidence presented by Secretary of State John Kerry of chemical weapons use by the Syrian government ...
• PM calls BJP leaders to end parliament lo ...
  New Delhi, September 03: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called top BJP leaders Tuesday evening to seek their cooperation in passage of the land acquisition bill in parliament and to break the logjam over his statement on "missing files" in the coal block allocation controversy, informed sourc ...

no frakking consensus

• See You in September
  The (fully-searchable) electronic version of my book, The Delinquent Teenager, will soon cost $7.99 rather than $4.99. This is the only book-length evaluation of the IPCC by an independent journalist. The IPCC will release Part 1 of its new climate assessment in late September.
• What Would a Bad Job Look Like?
  A US official recently called Rajendra Pachauri's leadership of the world's most important climate body 'extraordinary.' But 'inadequate' and 'inexcusable' are more appropriate.
• 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."

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

• 8/30/13 - Justice Department Will Not Challeng ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org  - Justice Department Will Not Challenge State Marijuana Laws - The US Department of Justice announced an update to its marijuana enforcement policy stating that the federal government will not challenge state marijuana legalization laws in Colorado and Washington
• 8/30/13 - Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recog ...
  gaymarriage.procon.org – Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recognizes married same-sex couples – The federal agency will recognize legally married same-sex couples for tax purposes whether or not they reside in states where gay marriage is legal.
• 8/28/13 - Historical Timeline: History of Mari ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Historical Timeline: History of Marijuana as Medicine - 2900 BC to Present - Our updated timeline includes historical events ranging from Emperor Fu His referencing medical marijuana in ancient Chinese texts to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta coming out in favor of medi ...
• 8/27/13 - Historical Timeline: History of the ...
  borngay.procon.org – Historical Timeline: History of the Born Gay Debate & Theories of Sexual Orientation – Our updated timeline includes entries ranging from accounts of same-sex relations in ancient Greece to New Jersey banning "conversion therapy" on Aug. 19, 2013.
• 8/26/13 - Is Free Preventive Care Required und ...
  healthcarereform.procon.org - Is Free Preventive Care Required under Obamacare? – YES - Since Sep. 23, 2010, insurance companies have been required to cover preventive care procedures without charging their customers. See the list of covered procedures and other related information.

Truth About Our World

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

TVNZ

• 6.2 quake strucks Canada's Vancouver Island
  A magnitude 6.2 quake has struck off Canada's Vancouver Island.
• Barbara Dreaver: Pacific Forum needs to shape up
  The Pacific Leaders Forum is at the crossroads, writes Barbara Dreaver.
• Over 2m Zimbabweans to face food shortage
  Zimbabwe faces its worst food shortages in four years following a drought and poor harvest.
• Republicans back Syria strike as refugee crisi ...
  Barack Obama has won the backing of two top Republicans over US strikes on Syria.
• 15 killed in Egyptian helicopter attacks
  Egypt's State TV reports 15 people are dead following military air strikes in Sinai

environment 360

• With Rooftop Solar on Rise, U.S. Utilities Are ...
  Faced with the prospect of a dwindling customer base, some U.S. power companies are seeking to end public subsidies and other incentives for rooftop solar. In Arizona, the issue has sparked a heated public relations battle that could help determine the future of solar in the United States. BY ...
• Crop Pests Migrate Poleward Due to Global Warm ...
  Global warming has been driving crop pests toward the North and South poles at a rate of 1.7 miles per year, according to new research from the U.K. Looking at the USDA Stem rust (Puccinia graminis fungus) distribution of 612 crop pests over the past 50 years, the researchers found a strong ...
• Greenland Ice Hides Gorge Longer than the Gran ...
  A massive gorge nearly twice as long as the Grand Canyon is hidden under Greenland's ice sheet, reports a team of researchers from the U.K, Canada, and Italy. Click to enlarge NASA Canyon below Greenland's ice With a width of about six miles and a maximum depth of 2,600 feet, the previo ...
• Future Wildfire Seasons to Be Longer, Smokier, ...
  Fire seasons will be three weeks longer, generate twice as much smoke, and cover a larger area of the western U.S. by 2050, a new study from Harvard researchers finds. The risk of large fires could also increase by a Petruncio Mike, USFWS factor of two to three. In general, the biggest ...
• Incineration Versus Recycling: In Europe, A D ...
  Increasingly common in Europe, municipal “waste-to-energy” incinerators are being touted as a green trash-disposal alternative. But critics contend that these large-scale incinerators tend to discourage recycling and lead to greater waste. BY NATE SELTENRICH

oldephartte/Diigo

• Science Under Assault
  Tags: assault science Post Normal Science
• West Coast Native News | On First Nation Issue ...
  Tags: native news environmental world
• Fracking Canada - INDUSTRY'S GAS MIGRATION
  Brief Review of Threats to Canada's Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry's Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing Tags: canada industry gas hydrofracking ...
• Toxic Environmental Bio Terrain
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Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Vandals splatter mosque in Quebec’s Saguenay, ...
  Police in Quebec’s Saguenay region have been called in after a local mosque was vandalized over the weekend — splattered with what could be pig blood.
• Who Will Hold The USA Accountable For Its Use ...
  In 2003, the US dropped 30 MK77 fire bombs (modern day napalm) on Iraq and then lied to the British about it.
• RUAP Candidate Warns That Muslims Will Take Ov ...
  Anti-Muslim party RUAP has endorsed Dale Edwards as their candidate for Leichhardt.
• ‘What me, an Islamophobe?’ Stephen Fry replies ...
  You’ll note how, in Fry’s formulation, Islam the faith becomes “them”, the Muslims. And Muslims are then equated with murder and misogyny. A clearer expression of mindless bigotry would be difficult to find.
• Obama is all about ‘universal rights&#82 ...
  It's time the president acknowledges that systematized discrimination against Muslims is real and thriving.

Energy News

• UC Berkeley Nuclear Professor: Work to go on f ...
• Fukushima Plume Headed to Southern Hemisphere: ...
• Nuclear Expert on CNN: “Organized denial” at F ...
• Professor: Fukushima Unit No. 4 “an immediate ...
• Fukushima No. 4 fuel pool “is perhaps the grea ...

Hudson New York

• Recognizing the Wrong People
  President Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR], reversing the policy of four presidents and six of their Secretaries of State not to recognize the Soviet government, in 1933 extended "normal diplomatic relations" to the Soviet Union, the totalitarian
• Will Assad Unleash His Palestinian Terrorists ...
  While in Syria, Palestinian terror groups loyal to Syria's President Bashar Assad threaten to attack U.S. and Western targets in retaliation for a possible US-led military strike against Syria, Palestinians in the West Bank worry that these attacks might
• France: A "Secularism Charter" in Every School
  The French government has announced a plan to post a "secularism charter" in all public schools in France by the end of September. The document -- which is to appear in a prominent location in all of the 55,000 public schools in France -- would serve to
• Gatestone Weekly Roundup
  The media sometimes seems to twist or simply turn its back on trends and events that show what a dangerous world we are in. In case you missed our website this week, here are a few thoughts from Gatestone that look at what we are facing: You might think
• Are We Willing to Defend Ourselves?
  The Israeli Air Force, on June 7, 1981, carried out Operation Opera, in which F-16s flew hundreds of miles and successfully destroyed the nuclear facility in Osirak, Iraq -- the difficulty of the task only increased by the absence of laser-guided

Urban Survival

• A Rock-em Sock-em Anti-War Rally
  Dow’s up a hundred in the futures….While Israel is getting a lot of attention by popping off with some missile firings (at nothing in particular, just testing) in the Med this morning, we’ve seen markets acting totally manic, depending on where the vantage point is.  Israel says today&#8217 ...
• Coping: Tila Tequila’s Morph to Tila Truth?
  What better way to kick off a shortened work-week than a review of the various marketing campaigns that are on to control that space between your ears? You know serious change is in the air where when what I might loosely describe as a “Hollywood hottie” shows up on the net to talk about the ill ...
• Syria: Is it Really a Gas Field War?
  With US markets closed for the holiday, we can turn our attention to other developing matter this morning: We have a somewhat speculative, but possible answer to one of the big question facing America right now:  “Was the administration’s decision to rope congress (belatedly) into the Syria ...
• Coping: Adventures in Sourdough Land
  As promised, it was another Around the Ranch adventure Saturday morning I got up to find out if my sourdough experiment had paid off and I was pleasantly surprised to find out that not only had it paid off, but it was some of the best-tasting sourdough I’ve ever eaten.  I only ate three 8-i ...
• Just So We’re Clear on Syria…
  Just a weekend quickie note here:  One of my friends asked me if I was in favor of war with Syria and I said “Of course not!”   That apparently was not crystal clear in Saturday’s report on the Obama statement. I then explained that the decision to toss the decision over to Congre ...

Trends & Forecasts

• The Alex Jones Show: Wayne Madsen, Sean Stone, ...
  On this jam-packed Tuesday, September 3 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex continues to explain the unprecedented move by the White House to back off on an immediate war in Syria following intense pressure from alternative media. The war drums... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• Americans march in L.A. Demanding No War with ...
  Several hundred protesters shut down the streets of Los Angeles on Labor Day weekend, calling on the U.S. government to not intervene militarily in Syria's civil war. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://ww ...
• John Kerry WARNS! World War 3 if Syrian Bashar ...
  9/3/13 - John Kerry WARNS! World War 3 if Syrian Bashar Assad strikes Israel [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
• Ben Fulford Sept 03 2013 - Connecting the dots ...
  The attempt to start a war in Syria, the sudden spike in radiation at Fukushima, threats by Saudi Arabia to wage terror on the coming Russian Olympic Games and other unusual world events are part of a long ago planned bigger plot to start a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• Ron Paul On Syria: I Smell Iraq All Over Again
  Ron Paul joins CNN's Wolf Blitzer to discuss possible American intervention into the civil war amid accusations that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on civilians. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsb ...

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

• This is California on Acid
  Briana Mordick, Staff Scientist, San Francisco The US is in the midst of an oil boom, due in large part to advances in and the expanded use of hydraulic fracturing. This technology has allowed drillers to extract large quantities of oil from previou ...
• Swimmer and Ocean Advocate Diana Nyad Achieves ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City I cheered when I learned Diana Nyad had become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. Imagine, she started swimming on Saturday morning and didn’t stop until Monda ...
• 'Green' sprawl is still sprawl
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Does the lead photo with this article look like a good place to put over 1700 new homes on a little over 600 acres?  What if I told you it was working agricultural land i ...
• Get the Sulfur Out: Cleaner Gasoline Saves Lives
  Luke Tonachel, Vehicles Analyst, New York City Air pollution shortens lives. According to recent study by researchers at MIT there were about 200,000 premature deaths in 2005 linked to combustion emissions leading to ozone and particulate matter p ...
• NRDC Goes to Stockholm World Water Week 2013
  Corinne Hanson, International and Nuclear Programs Assistant, Washington, D.C. Hallå from Stockholm, Sweden! I’m currently here attending the 2013 World Water Week, and today was the first day of the week-long conference.  Water i ...

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

• Over 80 Russian Warships on Sea Duty Across Wo ...
  More than 80 Russian naval warships and support vessels are currently at sea at combat readiness, Navy chief Admiral Viktor Chirkov said Monday. The intensity and duration of the voyages undertaken by the navy’s vessels have increased considerably in recent years, and there has been an exp ...
• Israeli Cruise Missiles Fired At Syria Destroy ...
  A new urgent action report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) for President Putin today states that specialized forces operating the highly advanced Vityaz air defense system in the Southern Military District detected the launching of two Popeye Turbo SLCM ballistic cruise missiles from a ...
• Syria: Pressure For New Vote On UK Strikes
  There are growing calls for David Cameron to consider a second parliamentary vote on military action in Syria if further evidence emerges that civilians were targeted by chemical weapons. Washington has announced that hair and blood samples prove the regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad ha ...
• Iran, Russia advise Assad to transfer chemical ...
  The Iranian parliamentary delegation visiting Damascus Sunday, Sept. 1, advised Bashar Assad to move his chemical stockpile out of Syria and deposit it in Tehran under Iranian and Russian military supervision, to save himself from an American military strike, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and I ...
• Russian MPs to urge US Congress not to approve ...
  Russian lawmakers will urge the U.S. Congress not to approve military strikes on Syria, the speaker of the upper house of parliament told President Vladimir Putin on Monday. “I think if we manage to establish a dialogue with our partners in the U.S. Congress … we could possibly bette ...

Daily Dose

• Google yanks video of Android KitKat statue un ...
  Google took the wraps off Android 4.4 KitKat on Tuesday, but it appears to have revealed more than it had planned. 9to5Google spotted an unreleased Nexus smartphone in the official... Keep reading →
• Springtrax launches its service for finding an ...
  Springtrax has officially launched its service for finding and fixing 404 “Not found” errors on websites. The company offers regular reports on the state of inbound broken links with suggestions... Keep reading →
• Bizzabo updates its iOS and Android apps to ma ...
  Bizzabo, a platform for conference organizers and attendees, has added new features to its desktop, Android and iOS software to spur user engagement and give organizers better analytics. In a... Keep reading →
• The PrioVR sensor suit will track your whole b ...
  YEI Technology just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its PrioVR virtual reality sensor suit. If it reaches its funding goal of $225,000, the suit will offer full-body motion tracking that... Keep reading →
• Teckler boasts strong launch momentum for its ...
  Latin American knowledge community startup Teckler has achieved 100 percent monthly growth in page views and posts for each consecutive month since launching in May. In August, the service notched... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Beyond Zero Emissions welcomes a new CEO
  It is our pleasure to announce that after a long and exhaustive search we are finally able to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer - Dr Stephen Bygrave.  Stephen will be commencing as CEO of Beyond Zero Emissions on Monday the 9th of September 2013. Stephen has worked ...
• Time to ditch the redundant gas network
  By Ben Courtice. RenewEconomy In the record-breaking heatwave that led up to the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, an estimated 374 people died due to the heat – before the fires even started. This is more than double the official figure of 173 deaths in the fires themselves. Hot weather ...
• How to have zero emissions housing – and tiny ...
  By Dominique Hes, The Conversation A new study says that all Australia’s existing housing could be retrofitted to be zero emissions within ten years. Households could halve their energy use and go gas free. Australian households currently spend approximately A$15 billion every year on electr ...
• Big emissions cuts possible at home, study finds
  By Peter Hannam. Sydney Morning Herald Australia's homes could slash their carbon emissions by half and eliminate their use of gas by investing in efficient electrical appliances now on the market, according to a clean energy advocacy group. Jointly published with the Melbourne Energy Institu ...
• Hundreds launch Zero Carbon Buildings Plan
  Australia's buildings could halve their energy use within a decade, to make a major contribution to reducing the nation's carbon emissions – and save money on energy bills in the long run as well. A large crowd packed out an auditorium at Melbourne University to hear this message at the la ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• World's biggest owl depends on large old trees
  The Blakiston fish owl (Bubo Blakistoni) is the world’s largest – and one of the rarest – owl species, with an impressive 6 foot (2 meter) wingspan. The giant owl, found exclusively in northeast Asia, shares its habitat with a menagerie of endangered and impressive animals, inc ...
• China punishes top oil companies for failing t ...
  China's top two oil companies have been penalized for missing pollution targets, reports China Central Television (CCTV). The Ministry of Environmental Protection has suspended all refinery projects for China National Petroleum Corporation (CPNC) and the China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec) ...
• Agribusiness project leaves indigenous communi ...
  Land grabs and environmental destruction linked to an agricultural megaproject in Indonesia’s Papua province are devastating indigenous communities and causing severe food shortages in some areas, alleges a coalition of NGOs. Agro-industrial development in Papua has left indigenous communi ...
• Palm oil now biggest cause of deforestation in ...
  Conversion of forests for palm oil production now appears to be the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia, accounting for roughly a quarter of forest loss between 2009 and 2011, asserts a new Greenpeace report that accuses the sector's main certification standard of failing to stop ...
• How Tarzan created Jane Goodall and how Goodal ...
  The woman we know as Jane Goodall invites us to consider that she was created by Tarzan of the Apes. We should take Jane Goodall seriously when she says that she was influenced by the fictional ape man and that as a child set on a path in life by him to go to Africa to work with wild animals. An ...

Sierra Express

• Constituency 101 Parliamentarian dupes youths
  The Member of Parliament for Constituency 101 in Central Kissy in the east of Freetown is reported to have duped youths of the area of money he was supposed to pay them for the clearing of drainages in their area. Explaining the saga to this paper, a spokesman for the irate youths stated that so ...
• Countries retaining death penalty on decline
  Manifesto 99 in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Institute for International Law, Coalition for Justice and Accountability has concluded a one day consultative forum to raise awareness on the abolition of the death penalty in the national constitution of Sierra Leone at the Presidential Hall, ...
• Over Arson and NPA Cable Theft APC Chairman in ...
  Our reports are that Ward Committee Chairman of Constituency 101, Ward 360, Mr. Abass Kamara (aka) Councilor, is alleged to have been involved in NPA cable theft at his Ward in the Grassfield community, east of Freetown. The landlady of 132 Bai Bureh Road, power magazine Madam Marion Peters, int ...
• Modern Girls’ School for Kambia
  Kambia District has realized the long awaited dream to have a modern secondary school for girls.  Thanks to the paramount Chief Bai Farama Tass of Magbema Chiefdom and gesture of the Sunday Foundation, a non-governmental organization based in the Netherlands, for providing the funds for the cons ...
• Belated Happy Birthday Greetings
  Belated happy birthday greetings go to you Mrs. Simeonette Mammah of No.6 Adesanya Street, Freetown. We wish you good health, a long life, and God’s richest blessing. We are also praying that God may guide your footsteps and protect you from all harm and danger and grant you your heart’s d ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Dairy prices dip 1.1pc in latest auction (+gra ...
  Prices of dairy products fell in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction though volumes held up, extending the elevated levels that saw Fonterra report record sales last month.The GDT Price Index, previously known as the GDT-TWI...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Sighs of relief - now for answers
  Last Wednesday, Fonterra bosses were heaving a collective sigh of relief that international tests - finally made public at 4pm that day - had ruled out the presence of botulism-causing bacteria in 38 tonnes of whey protein at the...
• Farmer admits serious animal cruelty charges
  A Mid Canterbury farmer has pleaded guilty to serious animal welfare charges.Geoffrey Edgar Walter Deal, 61, appeared before Judge Joanna Maze in the Ashburton District Court yesterday to face nine counts laid under the Animal Welfare...
• Commodity prices rise 0.7pc in August
  New Zealand commodity prices rose for a second month in August, led by aluminium, as global prices rose from a four-year low, and skim milk powder.The
• Asset freeze orders put on Chen, May Wang
  A final freezing order has been slapped on millions of dollars of property tied to Crafar Farms bidders Jack Chen and May Wang.The High Court in April imposed an interim foreign restraining order on four multimillion-dollar...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Syria is Not Iraq, Congressional Authorization ...
  In 2002, President Bush pressed Congress to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, which his administration argued had possession of weapons of mass destruction. The war was a culmination of several decades of US policy toward Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and specifically of US polic ...
• School Choice Isn't About Fighting for Resourc ...
  On a family vacation a few weeks ago, my older nephew's unhappiness with school was a major topic of conversation. His fifth grade teacher, it turns out, required all of the kids in class to read assigned books at the same rate—sprinting ahead was strictly forbidden. For a kid who ju ...
• Boehner Backs Obama's Push For Strikes Against ...
  If President Obama takes the nation to war in Syria, it will be with the support of House Republican leadership. The Obama administration is reportedly making a big push to convince Congress to approve military force in Syria. And it looks like that effort is already paying off: Tod ...
• Shikha Dalmia on America's Fumbled Military Hu ...
  President Barack Obama’s resolve to punish Syria for using chemical weapons has critics of U.S. foreign policy upset that America is yet again acting like an imperialist. Their frustration is appropriate—but their accusation is not. According to Shikha Dalmia, America is less an impe ...
• Congress May Not Pass Authorization For Strike ...
  Last Saturday, President Obama said that he would seek Congressional approval for a military strike on Syria. Since then, around 100 members of Congress have returned to Washington D.C. from recess for a classified intelligence briefing on the situation in Syria. According to the ...

Mercury Rising

• The new product launch
  It’s selling season. From a marketing point of view, you don’t roll out new products in August.” –White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, on why the Bush administration waited until after Labor Day to try to sell the American people on war against Iraq, “New York Ti ...
• UK Allowed Chemical Weapons Precursors To Be S ...
  Cameron’s lucky this didn’t come out before the vote last week, or it wouldn’t have been as close as it was: BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas, the Sunday Mail can reveal today. Export licences for potassium fluoride and so ...
• Texas: Where The Oil Companies Destroy Roads A ...
  Submitted largely without comment, because res ipsa loquitor: On the one hand, Gov. Rick Perry (R) believes Texas’ economy is amazing, and he’s managed to strike the perfect balance between meeting the public’s needs and keeping the private sector happy. Every other state, the ...
• Friday Cat Blogging
• Recommended reading
  WaPo on the black budget here and here. Also, Danielle Allen on the link between privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights–why one can be free unless one can have privacy– here. I diaried this on Daily Kos. The civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s would have been smashed if the ...

Reality Sandwich

• New Software Mimics Human Brain
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• Martin Manley and the Astrology of Suicide
  I woke up this morning like any other morning, scanning the news and blog websites I like and taking a few minutes to write my daily horoscope forecast. The way I usually approach writing, my forecasts involves looking at the planetary placements, considering the patterns my clients are deal ...
• EFT for Physical Symptoms of Grief
    Have you ever had a nagging sinus or chest condition that wouldn't go away following a significant loss? After getting divorced and remarried I went out with my second wife to the movies in a drafty theater. When we got home I felt like I was coming down with a cold, so I used all t ...
• Sex in the News
  California passes a law for transgender students, Germany acknowledges a third gender for newborns, one woman's experience with arranged marriage, one sexy video for testicular cancer, and more in this week's update.  California passes historic law for transgender students. (ABCNew ...
• Spark: A Burning Man Story
  The most important thing that I can say about Spark: A Burning Man Story, is that after I’d lost the motivation to burn from nine years in a row on the playa, watching Spark brought it back. The second most important thing is that the film is funny, the way anything related to Burning Man shou ...

Desertification

• Water Scarcity Could Drive Conflict or Cooperation
  When the General Assembly declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation (IYWC) three years ago, the U.N.’s highest policy-making body was conscious of the perennial conflicts triggered by competition over one of the world’s most critical finite resources. Current and past ...
• OP-ED: Rising Temperature, Rising Food Prices
  Agriculture as it exists today developed over 11,000 years of rather remarkable climate stability. It has evolved to maximize production within that climate system. Now, suddenly, the climate is changing. With each passing year, the agricultural system is becoming more out of sync with the clima ...
• ‘Deserts Can Save Forests’
  It may take development of the deserts to save forests, say experts, who stress that desert ecology needs to be preserved and enhanced. “When the time comes that we have to let our forests survive to retain their ecosystem services, eyes would turn for food security and livelihoods to the huge l ...
• Mining Industry Plans Massive Use of Seawater ...
  The arid climate in northern Chile has forced mining companies to seek out new sources of water. The main source is seawater from the Pacific Ocean, whose use is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade despite the high costs of extraction and transport. The vast northern region o ...
• 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 ...

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

• 50 killed in fresh Iraq violence
  At least 50 people have been killed in yet another bloody day in Iraq as a fresh wave of bomb explosions and shooting incidents hits the country.
• Israel population exceeds 8 million
  The population of Israel has grown by 1.8 percent over the past Jewish year to stand at 8.081 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics says.
• ‘Attack on Syria amounts to war crime’
  Any US strike against Syria is considered a war crime under the UN Charter against aggressive war, an international lawyer tells Press TV.
• Pakistanis protest meddling in Syria
  Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers have held a mass protest rally in eastern city of Lahore to protest against a possible US-led military intervention in Syria.
• ‘US preparing plans for entire Mideast’
  As the United States gears up for a potential military offensive against Syria, a Washington-based Syrian political commentator says the US has devised plans for the entire Middle East.

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

• Quick Fire Science: Nuclear Power
  This week, nuclear expert Mycle Schneider, formerly an adviser to the French and German governments has said that he's deeply worried about contaminated cooling water leaking from tanks at the site of...
• The world's most accurate clock
  Researchers at the National Institute for Standards and Technology have built the most accurate clock ever made, which is accurate to one second in ten billion years. The clock works by precisely mon...
• Why Does Money Make the World Go Round?
  We only have to look at the effect of the financial crisis recently to know that money makes the world go round. But Gabriele Camera and her colleagues considered in PNAS this week why exactly money i...
• Green Flares for the Military
  Transcript to follow......
• Quick Fire Science: Hyperloop Trains
  US-based entrepreneur Elon Musk is not a man who's lacking ambition in life. His company Space-X has already built rockets which compete with those used by NASA and the European Space Agency, and la...

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Care2 - Environment

• A Heart-Felt Tribute to Our Forest Fire Fighte ...
  Thank a firefighter today. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Science Can Never Rest in the War Against Emer ...
  The war on emerging pathogens isnt like any others. The war on drugs might well end with a new approach. The war on terrorism might eventually wind down. But the war on emerging pathogens is different. It will never end. Submitted by Carrie B. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
• Bosnia and Herzegovina | THE DOG SHELTER IN BI ...
  There is no vet, and no electricity. Dogs locked in cages have no water or food. There are corpses of dogs and puppies inside and outside the shelter. Cannibalism has also occurred among dogs. Outside the pens, 300 starving dogs roam freely. Submitted by desanka s. to Animals  |  &nbs ...
• ACTION NEEDED Saving Trooper and Friends
  These animals do not deserve to die because someone went against the law and had the heart to save their lives and not let them die in agony. These animals are living in outstanding environments, are vaccinated and are very well taken care Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Animals  |  &nb ...
• Orangutan Drinking Water From Bottle : Video C ...
  Love it Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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• Wisconsin: Attorneys Representing Capitol Diss ...
  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was taped during a fake phone call from David Koch in February 2011considering planting provocateurs to instigate violence to discredit opponents during the protests that gave rise to the Sing Along. Activists now Submitted by Roxy H. to Society & Culture &n ...
• The 8 Groups in America That Are the Most Scre ...
  Are political and corporate leaders even remotely aware of the conditions of society beneath the wealthiest 10% or so? Submitted by Wayne W. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Justice for Wolf Killed in Kentucky ! PLEASE S ...
  On March 16th, an endangered gray wolf killed by hunter James Troyer near Munfordville in Hart County, Kentucky. The hunter claimed he thought he was shooting a coyote, or a German Sheperd dog, because there have been no wolves in Kentucky for 150 years Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |&n ...
• Investigate Baby Deer Killed by SWAT Team in W ...
  In July, an Illinois family brought an abandoned baby fawn to The Society of St. Francis (a no kill animal shelter) in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A day before the fawn was scheduled to be transferred to a licensed wildlife rehabilitation facility, Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   No ...
• Tiger Conservation Efforts in India and Nepal ...
  According to the WWF, Nepal's latest tiger census showed a population gain of 63 percent of 2009, with an estimated 198 tigers spotted this year. (The range, which accounts for doubles and undercounting, puts the population at between 163 and 235.) Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |  ...

Articles and Answers 2011

• Law Enforcement at its Worse
  Jackson County Mississippi Sheriff, James Michael Byrd, A/K/A Mike Byrd, was indicted Thursday, August 29, 2013 on Multi-Count Indictment 2013-10,516 (3) of 31 counts of wrongdoing as follows: CHARGE NUMBER OF COUNTS Embezzlement 10 Fraud 10 Hindering Prosecution in the … Continue reading ...
• Texas ID Complaint filed by U.S. Department of ...
  www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/7472013822155117860058.pdf. Filed under: Government Tagged: DOJ Case 2:13-cv-00263, Texas ID complaint, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Elections
• Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up ...
  Uninsured? Join the millions who will sign up for coverage. Filed under: News and politics Tagged: PPACA, U.S. Healthcare
• Do you realize it’s Your Tax Dollars They are ...
  Opinion by Patricia L Johnson The following thirteen Attorneys General sent an 8-page letter on August 14, 2013 to Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Personally, I love the last paragraph of the letter “We appreciate your … Continue reading →
• Recall notice from NHTSA’s Office of Def ...
  Please click on the following NHTSA Campaign ID links to view the recall information. NHTSA Campaign ID Number : 13V357 Manufacturer : Outdoors RV Manufacturing Make / Model Years : BLACK STONE / 2014 CREEK SIDE / 2013-2014 TIMBER RIDGE … Continue reading →

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