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  • CBS: Where's the evidence of chemical weapons ?
    Prime Minister David Cameron told British lawmakers Thursday that there is "no 100 percent certainty about who is responsible" for the apparent mass-chemical weapons attack on suburban Damascus on Aug. 21. Nevertheless, Cameron asserted that "from all the evidence we have," his government, al ...
  • Meyssan: Are Westerners Ready to Bomb Syria?
    If the use of chemical weapons on the outskirts of Damascus, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 is likely, the Security Council of the United Nations has not concluded that it was the work of the Syrian government. At an emergency meeting held at the request of the West, the ambassadors were surprised t ...
  • Escobar: Operation Tomahawk .. with cheese.
    This deafeningly hysterical show of Syria as Iraq 2.0 is only happening because a president of the United States (POTUS) created a ''credibility'' problem when, recklessly, he pronounced the use of chemical weapons in Syria a ''red line''. Thus the US government urgently needs to punish the ...
  • Britain Rules Out Military Strike on Syria
    Prime Minister David Cameron said that Britain would not participate militarily in any strike against Syria after he lost a parliamentary vote by 13 votes on Thursday on an anodyne motion urging an international response. It was a stunning defeat for a government that had seemed days away fro ...
  • Syrian weapons intelligence no 'slam dunk'
    The intelligence linking Syrian President Bashar Assad or his inner circle to an alleged chemical weapons attack that killed at least 100 people is no "slam dunk," with questions remaining about who actually controls some of Syria's chemical weapons stores and doubts about whether Assad himself ...

Independent - London

  • Belgian man dies by euthanasia after failed se ...
    A Belgian man has chosen to die by euthanasia, after his sex change operation turned him into “a monster”.     
  • Video: Two fishermen rescued in China
    Two more fishermen are rescued in the South China Sea after three boats sank on Sunday.     
  • Syria crisis: Chemical weapons inspectors begi ...
    An advance group of international inspectors arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin the ambitious task of overseeing the destruction of President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons program, kicking off a mission that must navigate the country's bloody civil war as well as the international spotli ...
  • Syria crisis: Inspectors begin ambitious task ...
    An advance group of international inspectors arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin the ambitious task of overseeing the destruction of President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons program, kicking off a mission that must navigate the country's bloody civil war as well as the international spotli ...
  • South Korea holds military parade to mark 65th ...
    In a display of military strength usually associated with its secretive northern neighbour, South Korea has held a parade to mark its 65th Armed Forces Day.     

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Hmm...It's raining fireballs and NASA shuts down?
    What timing... It all gets shut down just as ISON approaches and it's raining fireballs?
  • Japan's budget-conscious send dead into space, ...
    Talk about a send-off. With burial costs averaging almost $30,000, Japan's budget-conscious and cash-strapped are turning to space as a funeral option for their loved ones. For the comparatively low-cost of $1,990, bereaved families can send their cremated deceased to circle the earth in a caps ...
  • A new programming language to build synthetic ...
    Just like the programs which are written in a computer, the human DNA also works in the same way creating proteins on the basis of its codes. Chemists will be able to make the DNA work according to their wish by using a set of codes or instructions to program the DNA accordingly. Scientists wil ...
  • Disgusting: Even huge $11 billion fines don't ...
    What would you say if 10 of the top 26 pharmaceutical companies had been telling you bold faced lies about the drugs they sell you? Would you be upset? Irritated? Maybe on a good day, bemused? According to 2 papers published by one of the most prestigious medical journals - The New England Jou ...
  • NASA reporting mysterious green patches in sky?
    What is it? Some surely natural phenomenon has appeared in a video that, so far, has defied clear identification. The above time-lapse video was made to record Perseid meteors above Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick, Canada late this summer. The video, which ran from 9:30 pm August 11 to 3:00 am t ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Maher muses . . .
    Bag In — Bag Out BILL MAHER socks it to the Goppers with a delightful post on RSN, “California: Tea Party Free Zone” where he contends that California will pull the Gopper states into the twenty-first century: New Rule: Conservatives who love to brag about American exceptionalism must ...
  • Something of value . . .
    MONEY IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE IT IS. You believe that new plastic twenty is worth twenty dollars and so does the beer store. Properly, that twenty is termed Fiat money, its value is decreed by the issuing authority. There are lumps, but these currency systems work reasonably well world wide ...
  • Time to communicate . . .
    CALL YOUR MP or write or e-mail, or do all three. According to Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada who has a post on TSS, aka TAR SANDS SOLUTIONS NETWORK you should check out, then get hold of your worthy MP. “Tar Sands spills – Over 1.5 million litres and still spilling!!” shows the callous ...
  • Think about it . . .
    Toxoplasma gondii THE ATLANTIC has a fascinating article on how parasites can change how you think and react. No foolin’, they have found that infected people have more car accidents, for example. “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy”, by Kathleen McAuliffe looks at the research of a Cze ...
  • The most dangerous job in the world ...
    Police officer in Afghanistan ... if you're a woman. Doesn't concern Steve. He's too busy. Not drinking alcohol. Keeping dope away from your kids. Telling us that Syria's use of poison gas is "unprecedented" ... because he's never heard of the Great War or the Nazi gas chambers of the 2nd Wo ...

Media Matters for America

  • 15 Myths The Media Should Ignore During Obamac ...
    Right-wing media have consistently hyped several myths about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) during the lead up to open enrollment for state-based exchanges. As media outlets report on implementation of the health care law, they should be aware of these false claims, including zombie myt ...
  • Fox's Varney Dismisses Economic Harm From Gove ...
    Fox Business host Stuart Varney misleadingly downplayed the harm that a government shutdown would inflict on the U.S. economy by claiming Wall Street would be mostly unaffected and that it could help the housing market. In fact, a shutdown would harm the housing recovery and economists say it wo ...
  • Did Conservative Media Get Anything Right Abou ...
    In the weeks leading up to the release of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth assessment report summarizing climate science on Monday, conservative media have spread a variety of myths about the process, credibility and findings of the group. Contrary to misinf ...
  • Right-Wing Media Back GOP's Harmful ACA Delay ...
    Right-wing media figures celebrated the House Republicans' plan to delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act by a year, ignoring the consequences that the move would have on the uninsured.House Republicans Vote To Delay Implementation USA Today: GOP "Moved The Nation Closer To A Governmen ...
  • What The Media's False Equivalence Misses Abou ...
    Media figures have attempted to place blame equally on Republicans and Democrats for a possible government shutdown. Congressional experts, however, overwhelmingly blame the GOP's extreme stance, and polling shows a lack of support for House Republicans' agenda.Media Figures Introduce False ...

Global Research.ca

  • Save the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself
    On October 11, we’ll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin. Alfred Nobel’s vision for the Nobel Peace Prize created in his will was a good…
  • Israel’s Secret Nuclear Biological and Chemica ...
    For years, Syria and Egypt refused to abandon their chemical weapons facing a threatening neighbor, Israel, which develops very sophisticated ones, in addition to biological and nuclear weapons. However, while Syria has joined the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical…
  • Lithuanian Mercenaries Dispatched to Syria by ...
    It is no secret that Lithuania gave refuge to some courageous fellows from NATO in Šiauliai, whose job it was to patrol the airspaces of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. On the very next day after the guys from NATO appeared,…
  • Losing Control of Nukes
    Politics and propaganda continue to color how the world views the existential issue of nuclear weapons. Some nations are treated as if they are entitled to have nukes while others aren’t. Yet, the risks from use in an accident or…
  • Politicians Filling Coffers as Fiscal Battles Rage
    Image: Anthony Freda Defunding Obamacare. Shuttering the government. Defaulting on federal obligations. No matter that most every headline today is shouting about disappearing money: Legions of Democrats and Republicans alike are trying to cash in politically on the turbulance, buffeting…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Famed Chef Alice Waters Leads the Foodie Fight ...
    Waters, the founder of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse restaurant, and other foodie icons are protesting against fracking’s impacts on farming and food. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) imposed new regulations on the state’s fast-growing fracking industry last week, but dozens of elite chefs are still ...
  • Why Offshore Wind Energy May Take Off on the E ...
    After years of delays and legal battles, several offshore wind projects seem poised to be launched off the U.S. East Coast. But obstacles to larger development still remain. In June, after years of offshore wind power projects being thwarted in the United States, the first offshore wind turbin ...
  • Forget Climate Change, We Must Prepare for a C ...
    We're headed for the collapse of the benign climate in which humans evolved and have prospered, and the loss of the conditions upon which many other lifeforms depend. Already, a thousand blogs and columns insist the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report is a rabid concoc ...
  • 15 Things You Should Know About the Major New ...
    The world's top experts have spent years weighing all the evidence -- here's what you need to know about their findings. The IPCC, or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, just released its latest scientific report that looks at what the world’s top experts understand about ...
  • Major New Climate Report from the IPCC Reveals ...
    UN secretary-general urges global response to clear message from scientists that climate change is human-induced. World leaders must now respond to an "unequivocal" message from climate scientists and act with policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the United Nations secretary-general urged ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Climate-Com: Climate Change Communications Fro ...
    Our climate is changing and action is desperately needed, but that message is not getting through to to many of our leaders. Climate-Com will explore how the media can better present current climate science so that the public and our leaders will be convinced to act. What: A panel discussion on ...
  • EPA to hold public events in 11 cities on thei ...
    The public will soon get a chance to present ideas and feedback to EPA officials on the agency’s plan to require existing power plants to cut their carbon emissions. The agency will hold a series of 11 public events around the country over the next two months, the agency announced today. The EPA ...
  • A Capital Area Symposium on Climate Resilience ...
    When:   October 4, 2013 Where:  LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin Central Texas Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategies: A Capital Area Symposium. This one-day conference will bring Capital Area stakeholders together to identify and assess the shared challenges ...
  • Groups Protest Permit for Louisiana Coal Terminal
    PLAQUEMINES PARISH, Louisiana (Sept. 18) – Community and environmental organizations lodged a formal protest against the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’s recent permit for a coal export terminal in the already polluted Plaquemines Parish corridor. In a letter sent to LDNR Secretary St ...
  • Draw the Line – Saturday, September 21, 2013 – ...
    This coming weekend is a busy one for folks concerned about a variety of issues around climate change and eminent domain focusing around the Texas leg of the Keystone XL and other tar sands pipelines. Saturday, September 21, 2013 is a national day of action, some of the events happening in Texas ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Alleged Roswell 'alien' images uncovered
    Researchers investigating the Roswell UFO crash have been made aware of two tantalizing new images. According to reports, two slides have started to c...
  • Falcon 9 rocket generates UFO sightings flap
    Reports have flooded in of strange phenomena in the skies over South Africa and the Indian Ocean. SpaceX has been going from strength to strength late...
  • Domestic cats are 95% tiger
    Researchers have succeeded in sequencing the genome of several species of endangered big cats. Cat lovers might be forgiven for thinking that their be...
  • 'Bigfoot' filmed in remote Canadian woods
    A new video has appeared online that claims to show evidence of a hominid creature lurking in the forest. The footage was recorded by a man referred t...
  • How can we 'solve' climate change ?
    The UN climate change panel has been considering some unorthodox ways to tackle global warming. With the IPCC climate change report indicating a 95% l...

Grassroots

  • New UN Report says: It's Time for Action on Pe ...
    unctad_cover.jpg A new UN report brings urgency and insights into the current food system – and touches upon the hot button question that is increasingly on people’s minds around the world:  Is industrial food safe – either for pe ...
  • Bid on Unique Items -- Grassroots Internationa ...
    mv_exterior.jpeg As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Grassroots International is holding an online auction. Thanks to generous donors, we have a variety of unique items that our supporters can bid on. read more
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky
    Subheadline:  Panel of global leaders discuss: Women, social movements and the power of partnership Image:  merged_wmw-lvc_logos.jpg When: Saturday, September ...
  • Holding Up More than Half the Sky Panel of glo ...
    Boston-based Grassroots International will present a panel featuring leaders of some of the world’s most powerful and promising social movements at a special event on September 28. Date and Time:  September 28, 2013 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm ...
  • Defending Indigenous Territories and Waters in ...
    copinh_sign.jpg Whether it’s life imitating art or the other way around, the assault so dramatically captured in the Hollywood blockbuster film Avatar (2009) is not pure fiction. The reality is that countries and corporations that are hell- ...

Climate

  • Global Warming Can Have a Positive Side, Says ...
    (Guardian) The cabinet minister responsible for fighting the effects of climate change claimed there would be advantages to an increase in temperature predicted by the United Nations including fewer people dying of ...
  • Feds Consider Permit to Drill on KS Wetlands
    (AP) Cheyenne Bottoms, a central Kansas site that includes internationally recognized wetlands, is "not fully functioning" and could become more threatened by additional oil drilling in the area, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...
  • Business Aims to Replace Diesel as Fuel for Tr ...
    (Scientific American) Through their control over transport and logistics operations, companies have the power to make deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but business leaders are being wary as they select from a wide array of altern ...
  • Wisc. Ruling Keeps Solar Incentives Suspended ...
    (The Journal Sentinel) Solar electric and solar hot water incentives for Wisconsin homes have been suspended for the remainder of the year by the Focus on Energy program. Focus kept in place a temporary suspension announced  ...
  • Exploding Fuel Tankers Driving U.S. Army to So ...
    (Bloomberg) The U.S. Army is spending billions of dollars shifting toward solar energy, recycled water and better-insulated tents. The effort isn't about saving the Earth. Instead, commanders have found they can save lives through ene ...

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Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Happy ObamaCare Day!
    Happy ObamaCare Day. Head on over to www.healthcare.gov and sign yourself up for some juicy health insurance. You deserve it. Meanwhile, in Cuckooland, the government is shut down for lack of appropriations. The House finally agreed to assign conferees to negotiate on the budget, which i ...
  • The Sons of Anarchy
    Anarchy 1. a state of society without government or law. [...] 4. lack of obedience to an authority; insubordination ... Does this definition remind you of the agenda of any current major political party? Certainly one party has made as its primary goal the "shutdown of the governmen ...
  • You Insisted on Ugly
    It isn't necessary to actually leak the email correspondence between Harry Reid and John Boehner's staffs in order to humiliate Boehner. It is sufficient to merely threaten to do so. I understand the anger Democrats are feeling, and I guess we should expect them to eventually start violating l ...
  • Leading With Their Chin
    Obviously, the numbers vary from poll to poll, but they seem to agree that the Republicans are beginning this government shutdown with historically low approval ratings. Which makes sense, because the man who is always wrong about everything thinks the GOP should stand pat, refuse to negotiate, ...
  • A Low Point
    It was admittedly one of the most politically incorrect scenes ever produced for a show that revels in its shamelessness, but it actually raised a valid point about the power of language and how the powerless and marginalized can fight back against hateful epithets. In any case, it seems sadly ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Have a look at our coolest links from around the internet this week. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Reusable Toilet Paper: Handy Solution or Big P ...
    If talk turns to whether we should be reusing toilet paper, some get a bit grossed-out. Still, do the pros of reusable toilet paper outweigh the cons? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Dive into our pick of this week's coolest links and pics from around the web. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Stunning Aerial Attack: Peregrine Falcon Snatc ...
    In this amazing sequence of photographs, we witness a gripping scene, as a peregrine falcon pursues, catches and proceeds to feast on her willet prey. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Find out what we've been checking out this week in our fabulous link round up. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Wendell Berry and Bill Moyers to Talk Coal, Cl ...
    Wendell Berry and Bill Moyers to Talk Coal, Climate This Week on PBS Grist He has protested and risked arrest in opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining, and to call for action on climate change. For those of us who have been working for many years to end mountaintop removal coal mining, W ...
  • Post-Growth Economics And Community Resilience ...
    CounterCurrents.org Post-Growth Economics And Community Resilience CounterCurrents.org The era of cheap and easy fossil fuels is over, leading the industry to resort to extreme fossil fuel resources (tar sands, mountaintop removal coal mining, shale gas, tight oil, and deepwater oil) to meet dem ...
  • Green documentary makers unite to form Reel Po ...
    Treehugger Green documentary makers unite to form Reel Power collaborative Treehugger From a woman in Kentucky trying to protect her home against the ravages of mountaintop removal, to a college student out West engaging in civil disobedience to monkey wrench an illegal public lands oil and gas ...
  • Group says Kootenai River among most endangere ...
    Group says Kootenai River among most endangered in US Ravalli Republic “The International Joint Commission successfully resolved the treatment of mountaintop removal coal mining in the neighboring Flathead River system. We think the IJC is the appropriate place to discuss and resolve selenium po ...
  • Thanks for the post - Care2.com
    Thanks for the post Care2.com All they like is mountaintop removal and fracking everywhere. Here's something that people of good conscience could still do: Here is a copy of an email I got from the democrats today, a couple of hours ago: Boehner's going to be completely blindsided ... ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama: 'Perpetual Cycle Of Brinksmanship ... H ...
    Eyder Peralta / NPR: Obama: ‘Perpetual Cycle Of Brinksmanship ... Has To End’ … During a wide-ranging interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep, President Obama assumed an indomitable posture as he talked about his negotiations with House Republicans.  —  ...
  • Exploding Fuel Tankers Driving U.S. Army to So ...
    Ehren Goossens / Bloomberg: Exploding Fuel Tankers Driving U.S. Army to Solar Power  —  The U.S. Army is spending billions of dollars shifting toward solar energy, recycled water and better-insulated tents.  The effort isn't about saving the Earth.  —  Inste ...
  • House GOP to try piecemeal funding; Obama thre ...
    Russell Berman / The Hill: House GOP to try piecemeal funding; Obama threatens veto  —  House Republicans on Tuesday will move to re-open small portions of the federal government, bringing up bills to fund the National Park Service, part of the Department of Veterans Affairs and ...
  • Why Aren't Those New, Millennial Liberals Prot ...
    Michael Kazin / The New Republic: Why Aren't Those New, Millennial Liberals Protesting the Shutdown?  —  Is a new, young left really on the rise?  A few weeks ago, Peter Beinart wrote a long online essay which argued strongly in the affirmative.  It drew a lot of atten ...
  • Rick Perry Dismisses His Wife's Abortion Comme ...
    Adam Peck / ThinkProgress: Rick Perry Dismisses His Wife's Abortion Comments, Tries To Explain What She Really Believes  —  On Saturday, Anita Perry, the wife of longtime Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), raised some eyebrows after she appeared to voice her support for a woman's righ ...

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  • Iranian politics spurred Zarif 'flip flop' charge
    Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif greets fellow diplomats after listening to US President Barack Obama address the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2013 in New YorkA senior US official on Tuesday said domestic politics in Iran were behind a charge by Tehran that Washington had ...
  • Vince Gilligan on the worst thing Walter White ...
    "Colbert Report" fans who don't watch "Breaking Bad" (or aren't caught up yet) must have felt left out during last night's episode, as show creator Vince Gilligan stopped to reflect on the AMC hit series (warning, spoilers ahead).When asked what the worst thing show protagonist/antagonist meth ...
  • US, Israel try to conceal acute Iran disagreements
    US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, September 30, 2013.As Washington and Tehran seek detente, Israel and the United States remain divided over the Iranian nuclear issue, commentators ...
  • Little-noticed Paul Ryan comments may signal s ...
    While 2012 vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has largely avoided the media spotlight in the lead-up to today’s government shutdown, the Wall Street Journal reported last week that he was “assembling the debt-limit bill,” that will serve as the GOP’s op ...
  • State prison inmate costs NY as much as Ivy le ...
    The growth of the private Prison Industrial Complex in recent decades is put into stark context by recent figures released about the cost of keeping inmates in state-run facilities in New York.In New York City, where the cost of living is sky high for anyone, it costs the city nearly as much to ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • Report from climate scientists confirms what c ...
    "We hope the IPCC’s report will help skeptics understand that the jury is in and has issued a clear ruling: climate change is underway and we must do all we can to slow it down," said Janet Redman, climate expert at the Institute for Policy Studies.
  • Reading Obama's Iran Speech
    President Obama's speech at the United Nations General Assembly reflected some of the extraordinary shifts in global politics that have taken shape in the last six or eight weeks. - Article originally appeared on The Nation's blog.
  • Inequality for All: Documentary Antidote to "E ...
    From gated communities in outer space to graphs about who owns the wealth, two new films are giving Americans a window into the issue of income inequality.
  • U.S. Not Bombing Syria: A Victory Against Anot ...
    President Obama's decision to ask Congress for authorization to use military force against Syria set the stage for a resurgent anti-war movement that cohered quickly - and won an extraordinary, unforeseen victory.
  • Beating Swords Into Solar Panels: Re-Purposing ...
    Why should we maintain our grossly expensive military-industrial complex when tax dollars are so desperately needed at home?

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War is a Crime.org

  • Congress should stop blowing smoke: Weed to th ...
    By Linn Washington, Jr. Imagine U.S. House Speaker John Boehner blasted on weed. Given Boehner’s teary-eyed trait, he’d probably cry uncontrollably when high on pot alternating his crocodile tears with hysterical laughter…perhaps even laughing at some of that dumb shi-tuff he and his GOP colle ...
  • Save the Nobel Peace Prize from Itself
    On October 11, we'll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin. Alfred Nobel's vision for the Nobel Peace Prize created in his will was a good one and, one might have thought, a legally binding one as well.&n ...
  • The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Dow ...
    By Ann Jones, TomDispatch Will the U.S. still be meddling in Afghanistan 30 years from now?  If history is any guide, the answer is yes.  And if history is any guide, three decades from now most Americans will have only the haziest idea why. read more
  • The demand for a global take-over at Fukushima ...
    By Harvey Wasserman More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Another 35,000 have signed at www.rootsaction.org . An independent advisor ...
  • Torture Opponents Say Ban Dick Cheney from Can ...
    (Toronto) Torture suspect and former U.S. Vice President Richard (Dick) Cheney is scheduled to speak at the Toronto Global Forum, October 31, 2013, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The event is hosted by the International Economic Forum of the Americas. Lawyers and others are urging Canad ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Kenya Hoax was a Fake Siege | NODISINFO
    Kenya Hoax was a Fake Siege Zionist mobster Frank Lowy owns Nairobi’s Westgate mall. He is the same individual responsible for the murder of some 2000 or more people on 9-11, then reaping the rewards through fraudulent insurance pay-outs. It may be recalled that he conspired in a fully premedita ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    By K Paul Stoller, MD*, FACHM Cervical cancer, the second-most common cancer in young women, is particularly prone to be found in the down trodden and in impoverished countries. But this is no endorsement for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines. In fact this is about revealing that HPV vaccines ...
  • Link Between Kenyan Shopping Centre Massacre a ...
    by Stephen Cook on September 27, 2013   Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya was Built by the Same People Associated with the World Trade Center!   I am going to make this as simple and to the point as possible.   1. The Westgate Shopping Mall was built by Westfield Australia.   I ...
  • No Change In Los Angeles Sea Level For 20 Year ...
    Data and Station Information for SANTA MONICA (MUNICIPAL PIER) Data and Station Information for SANTA MONICA (MUNICIPAL PIER) via No Change In Los Angeles Sea Level For 20 Years | Real Science.
  • IPCC Officially Erases The MWP | Real Science
    By Steven Goddard IPCC participant Jay Overpeck said in his email to Professor Deming, “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” http://drtimball.com/ They have done just that, and renamed it the Medieval Climate Anomaly New paleoclimate reconstruction efforts since AR4 (Figure 5.7; Tabl ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Most of what Democrats say is wrong about the ...
    Summary: The media are alight with denunciations of the Republican Party’s stance in Congress. They say that negotiating using the threat of shutting down the government, or even forcing a default, is irrational or even mad. It is unprecedented in American history! None of these things are ...
  • Conservatives show us their thinking, not well ...
    Summary: As the GOP prepares to shut down the government to prevent millions of people getting health care, it becomes vital to understand how they see America. The answer, obvious to anyone paying attention: badly, as through a mirror darkly. Here we look at a few examples, part of a series abo ...
  • Climate science deniers on the Left, captured ...
    Summary: One of the more disturbing themes of the FM website (judging from the comments) describes the similar nature of the Left and Right in America. Our culture and ruling elites have shaped us. The result is an easily manipulated people, a delight for our leaders — and quite unlike the ...
  • A look at the record hits, and what they tell ...
    Summary:  Please share your experience with the FM website. What post(s) have you found most interesting, useful, or memorable. Also, here are the most popular posts — this list tells us something about America. . Here are the all-time biggest hits on the FM website since we started in Nov ...
  • Another view of New America: inequality, low s ...
    Summary: A different perspective on the New America arising now. Heroin, unemployment, and inequality — bricks in the structure. I have attempted — with, I suspect, little success — to convey to you that we have left America That Once Was and begun a journey to a New America. W ...

The Progressive Realist

  • 7 Things You Need to Know about #SudanRevolts
    Akshaya Kumar is the Sudan and South Sudan policy analyst for the Enough Project. Sudanese anti-government protesters chant slogans CREDIT: AP In the last week, thousands of Sudanese have taken to the streets to call for a fundamental change in the way their country is governed. Many organized ...
  • Top of the Morning: Iraq September Death Toll ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest Yet More Bombings in Iraq The political process is faltering as these attacks continue apace. A series of car bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 47 people and injured many more, officials say. The blasts targeted markets and car parks in ...
  • Security Council Tries to Seize the Moment in ...
    The Syria resolution passed on Friday to put chemical stockpiles under international control is significant in its own right. But for those of us who follow the UN closely one key question is the extent to which this temporary moment of Council unity can be leveraged to achieve other internation ...
  • 50 Students Killed in Latest Boko Haram Attack
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest.  Nigeria: 50 Students Killed in Latest Boko Haram Attack Yet another attack on schools in Northern Nigeria. “Suspected Islamist gunmen have attacked a college in north-eastern Nigeria, killing up to 50 students. The students were shot dead as they slept in their do ...
  • Bashir Embarrassment Avoided. Now What?
    Courtesy Wikimedia Commons Cross-posted from the United to End Genocide blog. A colossal embarrassment was avoided when Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide, apparently changed his mind about coming to the United States to address ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Obama's Opening Salvo In the War of Words
    Starting today, Americans are going to learn three things when they watch media coverage about the government shutdown. First, they'll see Republicans say that Obamacare totally sucks and everybody hates it, and also that President Obama is being super-mean by not giving them what they want. Se ...
  • Daily Meme: Obamacare FTW?
    The government may have been sacrificed in yesterday's waning hours, but the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges opened for business as planned this morning. Obama was right: “The Affordable Care Act is moving forward. That funding is already in place. You can’t shut it down." However, 22 ...
  • This Madness Will Never End
    I wish I could write something optimistic as we begin the government shutdown. I wish I could, but I can't. In fact, this morning I can't help but feel something close to despair. It isn't that this shutdown won't be resolved, because it will. It will be resolved in the only way it can: when Jo ...
  • Budget Roulette: The Uncertain End Game
    AP Images/Carolyn Kaster This budget crisis, weirdly, has nothing to do with the budget. It is the expression of the Tea Party Republicans’ animus against Obamacare, their general loathing of government, and their willingness to resort to wildly destructive tactics. As Senate Majority ...
  • Pandora's Box
    AP Images/Austin American Statesman/Jay Janner On a clear day this past May, Cody Wilson stood at a firing range just south of Austin, Texas. The BBC crew he’d invited stood a few feet away as the 25-year-old University of Texas law student adjusted his earplugs and sized up his target ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • ‘General’ Who Ordered Murders for Racist Priso ...
    One of the senior leaders of the violent Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) – a man who ordered murders and other acts of violence – seems certain to spend the rest of his life in prison. Charles Lee “Jive” Roberts, a 68-year-old ABT “general,” was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Hou ...
  • The Bright Side of the Government Shutdown
    Once again, the battlefield of Gettysburg is the site of a Confederate defeat. It seems the Confederate White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were planning a rally this Saturday at the Gettysburg National Military Park. But, as fortune would have it, the park will be closed because of the government ...
  • Leader of Anti-Gay Hate Group to Run for Governor
    Scott Lively, leader of Abiding Truth Ministries and the co-author of a revisionist work that blames gay men for the Nazi Party who, ultimately, had a hand in the Holocaust, has decided to run for governor of the state of Massachusetts as an Independent. The election is slated for November 4, 20 ...
  • Anti-LGBT Christian Rocker’s Ministry on Its L ...
    Bradlee Dean delivers the opening prayer before the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2011 Bradlee Dean, the bombastic Minnesota Christian rocker whose venomous  defamations of LGBT people (see here, here, and here) and controversial scare tactics at school assemblies have earned him a reput ...
  • Smaller, More Radical Border Militias Patrolli ...
    Robert Crooks Though more than three years have passed since the Arizona-based Minuteman organization run by movement co-founder Chris Simcox shuttered its operations, would-be vigilantes are still patrolling the Arizona desert for border crossers. They are generally operating in smaller and, so ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • New Jersey Failing to Offer Voter Registration ...
    Citing clear evidence that numerous low-income New Jersey residents have been denied the opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Rutgers Constitutional Law Clinic, Project Vote, Demos, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the NAACP have issued official notice to L ...
  • Statement by National Low Income Housing Coali ...
    Today, the U.S. government shut down for the first time in 17 years as a result of Congress failing to agree on FY14 spending levels. This failure to act by Congress marks another missed opportunity to address the critical state of affordable housing in our country.  read more
  • New FAO Hunger Figures: Oxfam Warns of Alarmin ...
    New estimates today from the Food and Agriculture Organization which show that the number of hungry people has gone down by 26 million in the last year is good news but highlight that the fight against hunger is progressing alarmingly slowly, said Oxfam. The figures also show the number of hungr ...
  • Government Shutdown Puts Vital Conservation Wo ...
    The government shutdown brings to a screeching halt many vital programs and activities of federal natural resource agencies, such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. Below is a statement from Defenders of Wildlife p ...
  • European Parliament Names Snowden a Finalist f ...
    The European Parliament (EP) has named former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden a 2013 finalist for its prestigious international human rights award, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Given to individuals who have distinguished themselves for outstanding contribut ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Work of a Generation
    Edward Snowden NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's words were entered as testimony at the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee in Brussels on Monday. Jesselyn Radack of the US Government Accountability Project (GAP) and a ...
  • Debt Default: The Only Way to Get to Full Empl ...
    Dean Baker All the usual suspects are giving us all the usual warnings about the disaster that would ensue if the government defaults on its debt. Much of what they say is undoubtedly true; it would create a huge amount of fear and uncertai ...
  • The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Dow ...
    Ann Jones Will the U.S. still be meddling in Afghanistan 30 years from now?  If history is any guide, the answer is yes.  And if history is any guide, three decades from now most Americans will have only the haziest idea why.read more
  • The IRS Scandal that Wasn’t
    Michael Winship A few days ago, Lois Lerner, head of the tax-exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service, retired. But her story will go on because, as Politico’s Lauren French wrote, the thirty-year civil service veteran “i ...
  • The Demand for a Global Take-Over at Fukushima ...
    Harvey Wasserman More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Another 35,000 have signed at www.roo ...

Water Privatization

  • Chicago's Privatized Parking Meters Sour A ...
    With the city's parking meter lease making voters leery of new privatization deals, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for too many public interest protections in the Midway Airport lease, and too few investors saw it as worth the risk. Increasingly, though, governments turn to private investors to r ...
  • The MWSS’ blunder
    ‘There is nothing wrong or illegal about these pass-on charges as this tax-recovery mechanism is part and parcel of the government contracts with both MWC and MWSI.’
  • Indian utility taps Maynilad expertise to redu ...
    Maynilad Water Services Inc is lending a hand to an Indian water utility beset by losses.
  • Maynilad Tapped By Indian Water Firm For Leak ...
    Metro Manila West Zone water concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has extended its non-revenue water (NRW) management expertise to the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) in Kerala, India.
  • Fort Worth To Hold Public Meeting About Privat ...
    The City of Forth Worth is holding a public meeting at city hall Tuesday night to get input about privatizing its water department.

Guardian

  • Jellyfish clog pipes of Swedish nuclear reacto ...
    Oskarshamn nuclear power plant cleared of jellyfish cluster but biologists warn closures of this kind are becoming more commonA huge cluster of jellyfish forced the Oskarshamn plant, the site of one of the world's largest nuclear reactors, to shut down by clogging the pipes conducting cool water ...
  • Dave Lee Travis charged with further counts of ...
    DJ charged with two counts of assaulting a woman between 1992 and 1993, in addition to 12 charges he already facesDave Lee Travis has been charged with two further offences of indecent assault under Operation Yewtree, Scotland Yard has announced.The two charges, which relate to the alleged assau ...
  • The 10 best quotes from financial insiders | J ...
    As the banking blog comes to an end, here are some choice quotes that epitomise the series from people I interviewed in the finance sectorTwo years ago this banking blog offered financial insiders "openness in return for anonymity". The response was overwhelming, and now that the blog comes to a ...
  • Nurse who used Facebook to blow the whistle ab ...
    Panel cautions Colin Toseland after he raised concerns about state of wards and theatres on social networking siteA nurse who used Facebook to raise concerns about standards at the hospital where he worked has escaped being struck off after a disciplinary panel acknowledged he was passionate abo ...
  • Teachers strike over pay and conditions across ...
    Tens of thousands of pupils affected throughout the Midlands, Yorkshire and east of EnglandSchools throughout the Midlands, Yorkshire and east of England have been forced to shut after members of Britain's two largest teachers' unions took industrial action as part of a series of regional protes ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

  • Sunnis in N. Syria protest Al Qaida’s Taliban- ...
    Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON -- Sunni Muslims have launched protests against an Al Qaida militia that controls much of northern Syria. Opposition sources have released videos of Sunni protests against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in September. The protests focused on ISIL att ...
  • Afghan Womens Movement Enters The Political Arena
    Some observers have expressed concern that a new women's political movement led by influential lawmaker Fawzia Koofi (pictured) could be used as an electoral tool by its male ...
  • Taliban should be allowed to open office Imran ...
    Taliban office should be opened in the country to facilitate peace talks but said action will be taken against militants if they refuse to obey the constitution and parliament. Khan, whose party rules the ...
  • Pakistan’s Piccadilly is No 1 Taliban target T ...
    The Qissa Khawani bazaar in Peshawar's old city is known as the "marketplace of storytellers". Local legend has it that invading armies, merchants passing through and other visitors spilling through the Hindu Kush gathered here, in the street between two rows of tightly packed, to ...
  • Brave staff grim outlook after Afghan hospital ...
    Maidan Shar (Afghanistan) (AFP) – A Taliban attack wrecked the operating theatre and left 160 staff and patients wounded, but the Maidan Shar hospital has never stopped serving the people of one of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan.During the attack, which targeted a nearby office of ...

Futurismic

  • The death of the cool: fan-fiction futurism
    Part [x] in an ongoing and probably endless series of examples of why it might be that, outwith the futurism community and the managerial class, hardly anyone takes the word “futurist” seriously. Today’s victim is Dan Abelow, and this post of his at the World Future Society’s blog. S ...
  • Improving Reality
    Improving Reality… that’s an ambitious title, no? I’d expect nothing less than ambition from Honor Harger and her crew at Lighthouse, though; this year’s IR (Thurday 5th September, Brighton UK; map here; tickets here) will be the third instalment of their ongoing mission ...
  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • WHERE WE STAND ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S "POLICY DI ...
    Presidential Policy Directive 19 is a Directive that creates administrative procedures “protecting” employee-whistleblowers who work for U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, CIA, DNI and the Defense Intelligence Agency. When first announced by President Obama in late 2 ...
  • New York Times Article Examines What Motivates ...
    In an September 20 article entitled Opting to Blow the Whistle or Choosing to Walk Away, New York Times reporter Alina Tugend examines "The question of when to remain quiet and when to speak out." Tugend interviewed National Whistleblower Center Executive Director Stephen Koh ...
  • Securities and Exchange Commission Whistleblow ...
    The SEC Office of the Whistleblower post Notices of Covered Action where a final judgement or order, by itself or together with other prior judgments or orders in the same action issued after July 21, 2010, results in monetary sanctions exceeding $1 million.   Subject to the& ...
  • Court Ruling Major Setback For National Securi ...
     "Hundreds of Thousands" of Federal Employees Lose Civil Service Rights Washington, D.C. August 20, 2013. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a ruling today potentially stripping "hundreds of thousands" of federal employees rights under civil servic ...
  • NWC's David Colapinto Featured on Program Disc ...
    NWC General Counsel David Colapinto appeared on The Firm, a show on CNBC-TV18 (India).  The Firm produced an in depth segment explaining the SEC's Whistleblower Policy. Mr. Colapinto shared his expertise in this informational program. 

TechDirt

  • The USPTO Regularly Turns A Profit But Is Stil ...
    The US government is now shut down, thanks to both parties' inability to see a national budget as anything more than a partisan battleground, sniping at each others' pet funding for weeks on end without reaching a compromise. A number of gutless spending cuts were proposed, fought over and reje ...
  • Three Months After It Cleared The 100K Signatu ...
    Please hold your feigned shock until the end of the post, but the administration has yet to respond to the We the People petition to pardon Edward Snowden. Despite the fact that the petition cleared the (recently increased) 100,000 signature hurdle easily and with plenty of time to spare (it cu ...
  • FBI Wants More Than $270,000 To Respond To FOI ...
    Yes, the federal government has something of a reputation for expecting "padded bills" when it deals with defense contractors, but it would appear that the FBI is trying to do the reverse when someone decided to start investigating the FBI's relationship with giant defense contractor Booz Allen ...
  • NSA Defenders Need To Learn: Trust Is Somethin ...
    I've been thinking about last week's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA boss Keith Alexander, and deputy Attorney General James Cole. This was the one in which Senator (and Intelligence Committee chair) Dianne Feinstein both insisted t ...
  • Court Tells Asst. Principal That Students' Fak ...
    When all else fails, conjure up the CFAA and see if that can stop the "cyberbullying." That seems to be the legal theory here in the case of a middle school assistant principal who sued five students (and their parents) for creating fake social media accounts in his name and then using those ac ...

VacTruth

  • How Pharmaceutical Companies Hide the Dangers ...
    A 1:50 rate of autism in the United States, increasing autoimmune disorders, seizures, allergies and many other illnesses and disorders. Despite all this, your pediatrician, health officials, governments and pharmaceutical companies proclaim that vaccines are very safe. Did you ever wonder how t ...
  • Have All Your Staff Vaccinated and We Will Giv ...
    According to MK News, the UK Government has decided there is more than one way to force hospital staff into receiving this year’s flu vaccine. Knowing that many hospitals are struggling financially, the government has decided to turn their hand to bribery.
  • Blood Donations are Potential Biohazard from T ...
    The huge wave of serious adverse conditions after Gardasil vaccination has caused deep concern across the world. However, the suffering may not only be limited to those who are vaccinated. Blood donated from individuals vaccinated with Gardasil may have horrific consequences for the recipients’ ...
  • New Minnesota State Law Bans Cancer-Causing Fo ...
    Lawmakers in the state of Minnesota have banned formaldehyde from children’s products. Sadly, vaccines are excluded from this ban.
  • These Weird New Tricks Are Being Used to Vacci ...
    A recent report has stated the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has plowed $100,000 into the development of small pink and blue silicon bracelets to remind mothers that is time for their child to be vaccinated. These are just some of the tricks being used to vaccinate your children.

BroadSnark

  • Harassment is About Power
    Yesterday it came out that San Diego Mayor Bob Filner is resigning in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal. Apparently he enjoys groping his employees. Also a groper is  Kentucky state representative John A. Arnold Jr. Just the latest in what is pretty much everyday news. Earlier this week,  ...
  • Tobacco, Taxes, and Thuggery
    Back when I started smoking I could get a pack of cigarettes for around $1.35.  Ah, the good old days when I could kill my lungs on the cheap. When the mega taxing of cigs started, I could just hop over to the Seminole reservation and get a carton for $18 or so. No more [...]
  • What About the Hunger Strikes?
    Over the last several years there have been prison hunger strikes all over the country - North Carolina, Ohio, Georgia, California… What has been going on in California is just incredible. Inmates in two-thirds of the state’s 33 prisons, and at all four out-of-state private prisons, ...
  • Cops Break up NSA Spying Press Conference
    I interrupt my regularly scheduled post to share what happened today at a tiny press conference and rally about the NSA spying. Capital police decided that we did not have the proper permit to be there. The speakers kept speaking. The cops warned us that we would be arrested. They then started h ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Remember back in 2003 when people found out about the Total Information Awareness program? Sen. Feinstein was one of the people who cosponsored the amendment that was supposed to stop it. Now she is out there calling Snowden a traitor for exposing the fact that her politicking meant nothing&#823 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Iran opens its fist
    Gary Sick writes: He came to New York. He saw almost everyone. Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s new president, may not have conquered, but at least he seems to have persuaded John Kerry and Barack Obama that his proposals for negotiating an end to the US-Iran conflict deserve to be taken seriously. When P ...
  • Remember Cairo?
    Shadi Hamid and Peter Mandaville write: With the world focused on the crisis in Syria and the possibility of a U.S.-Iranian détente, the fact that Egypt’s political situation is going from bad to worse has flown under the political radar. Much to the relief of the generals in Cairo — ...
  • Westerners’ smuggled letters offer glimpse of ...
    The New York Times reports on the conditions inside Egypt’s prisons revealed through the accounts provided by several Western prisoners including a United States citizen, Mohamed Soltan. Mr. Soltan is a 25-year-old graduate of Ohio State University who moved to Egypt in February to work in ...
  • The Guardian’s global ambitions
    Ken Auletta writes: At eight-thirty on the morning of June 21st, Alan Rusbridger, the unflappable editor of the Guardian, Britain’s liberal daily, was in his office, absorbing a lecture from Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister David Cameron. Accompanying Heywood was Craig Oli ...
  • Video: The U.S. beyond Syria, a reluctant empire?

Watts Up With That?

  • Why Climate Science is Fallible
    Guest essay by Dr. David Deming We live in a scientific age. The sciences are viewed as the only real sources of authoritative information. Knowledge derived from other epistemological systems is regarded as having less credibility. The conclusions of philosophy … Continue reading →
  • McIntyre on IPCC’s switching the pea und ...
    Fixing the Facts – By Steve McIntyre Figure 1.4 of the Second Order Draft clearly showed the discrepancy between models and observations, though IPCC’s covering text reported otherwise. I discussed this in a post leading up to the IPCC Report, … Continue reading →
  • If climate data were a stock, now would be the ...
    Using a financial markets’ trend-analyses tool to assess temporal trend-changes in global surface temperature anomalies (GSTA). Guest essay by David Dohbro Heated debates (pun intended) are currently on going regarding if the Earth’s surface temperatures continue to rise, have remained … C ...
  • Confidence tricks between IPCC AR4 and AR5
    Patrick Carlberg writes: I can’t assess the validity of the values from the climate models presented in AR5 (mostly due to lack of time). But I can tell you there are tricks used in the way they interpret the statistical … Continue reading →
  • Not only is the warming hiding in the ocean, i ...
    From the Carnegie Institution and the mind of Ken Caldeira, comes this “back to the future” style impossible to verify prediction (at least impossible now). Of course, in model-world and Hollywood, anything is provable possible. Climate change: Fast out of … Continue reading &# ...

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Biosingularity

  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...
  • ▶ Atherosclerosis
    This 3d medical animation illustrates the story of how the buildup of cholesterol plaque causes a heart attack myocardial infarction from a blocked coronary artery due to atherosclerosis, which is chronic inflammation of the blood vessels. Beginning with damage to the endothelial arterial wall, ...
  • Development of a fly embryo in real time
    Development of a fly embryo in real time – YouTube.
  • GBacteria from Lean Humans Can Slim Obese Mice
    Graduate student Vanessa Ridaura and colleagues at the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Washington School of Medicine reported in the September 6 issue of Science that mice lacking bacterial colonies of their own that received gut bacteria from obese humans put on mo ...
  • Brain circuit can tune anxiety
    Anxiety disorders, which include posttraumatic stress disorder, social phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder, affect 40 million American adults in a given year. Currently available treatments, such as antianxiety drugs, are not always effective and have unwanted side effects. To develop bett ...

CFACT

  • Down Under turning right side up on carbon and ...
    Remarkably, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and economist Nobel laureate Gary Becker, two senior fellows at Stanford University’s conservative Hoover Institution, co-authored an April 8 Wall Street Journal article advocating a “revenue neutral” tax on carbon. ... [Such a tax] might be i ...
  • Remembering the 1973 Arab oil embargo
    Of course, policies aimed at addressing the nation’s long-term energy needs did nothing to alleviate the crisis of late 1973. The United States and most of the developed world desperately needed liquid fuels – to power cars, trucks and tractors, generate power, produce electricity, and safeguard ...
  • Putting politics above people over petroleum power
    Of course, policies aimed at addressing the nation’s long-term energy needs did nothing to alleviate the crisis of late 1973. The United States and most of the developed world desperately needed liquid fuels – to power cars, trucks and tractors, generate power, produce electricity, and safeguard ...
  • EPA is waging its war on coal under false pret ...
    It is one thing for EPA to further restrict emissions of air toxins and contaminants -- It is far different to claim that science justifies a war on carbon dioxide emissions.
  • The continuing circus over GM corn in Europe
    It was not merely the fact that an Italian bureaucrat decided to import an otherwise banned GM crop from America that was so ironic. In addition to the special exemptions granted on a case-by-case basis to Czech, Spanish, Portuguese and Slovakian farmers, countries throughout Europe, including I ...

Ria Novosti Online News

  • 3 Killed in Dagestan Shootout – Investigators
    Two police officers and one civilian have been killed in a shootout with suspected militants in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee’s regional department reported.     
  • US Researchers Develop ‘Bionic’ Leg Controlled ...
    An American man has become the first person to walk using a bionic leg controlled by his own thoughts, researchers who helped develop the ground-breaking prosthesis told RIA Novosti.     
  • Sochi Safe for Gay Athletes – Hockey Star Ovechkin
    Russian hockey star Alex Ovechkin said he does not believe gay athletes should be worried about their safety during the Sochi Winter Olympics next year in the wake of a controversial Russian law on homosexuality, National Public Radio reported Tuesday.     
  • Main News of October 1
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours     
  • Chemical Arms Inspectors Open Base in Damascus
    An international team of experts on a mission to eliminate Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons opened a logistics base in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said.     

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • Rabies Vaccine Dropped from the Sky
    By Dr. Mercola In 2009, there were just four human cases of rabies in the US. In 2010, there were two1… yet each year the US spends more than $300 million for rabies prevention,2 which includes the vaccination of companion animals, animal control programs, maintenance of rabies laborat ...
  • Monsanto Pours Millions into GMO-Labeling Fight
    By Dr. Mercola We’re now only weeks away from the next big GMO-labeling vote in the United States; this time in Washington State, where citizens will cast their votes for the people's initiative 522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act," on November 5. Initiati ...
  • 10 Health Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds
    By Dr. Mercola If you’re in the mood for a chewy snack that doubles as a phenomenal health food, look no further than pumpkin seeds. With a wide variety of nutrients ranging from magnesium and manganese to copper, protein and zinc, pumpkin seeds are nutritional powerhouses wrapped ...
  • Is Your Food Expired? Don’t Be So Quick to Toss It
    By Dr. Mercola Forty percent of the US food supply is thrown away uneaten every year because of expired food dates, but a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Harvard suggests that most of that food is still safe to eat.1 Labels like ‘use by’ and &lsqu ...
  • How to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease—A Neurologi ...
    Click HERE to view the entire interview!By Dr. Mercola Alzheimer's disease is at epidemic proportions, with 5.4 million Americans—including one in eight people aged 65 and over—living with the disease.1 In the next 20 years, it is projected that Alzheimer's will affect one in fo ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Guest Post: A Critique of Dodge and Cleveland, ...
    by John C. Dehn by John C. Dehn [John C. Dehn is an Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law] In a recent article posted to SSRN, and introduced by Duncan here, Professors Sarah Cleveland and Bill Dodge (“the authors”) have done us all a great service in unearthing the hi ...
  • Book Symposium Investment Law: Comments on Vid ...
    by Kathleen Claussen by Kathleen Claussen [Kathleen Claussen is a Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The views expressed in this post are those of the author only and do not reflect any view of the Permanent Court of Arbitration or its staff.] Vid Prislan’s chapter on non-inv ...
  • Book Symposium Investment Law: Non-Investment ...
    by Vid Prislan by Vid Prislan [Vid Prislan is a Research Fellow PhD-candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University] First of all, I would like to thank the editors of Opinio Juris for providing me with the opportunity to briefly present the arguments which ...
  • Book Symposium Investment Law: A reply to Prof ...
    by Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters by Nicolas Hachez and Jan Wouters [Nicolas Hachez is a PhD student at the institute for International Law and Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Jan Wouters is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Pe ...
  • Book Symposium Investment Law: Observations on ...
    by Tullio Treves by Tullio Treves [Tullio Treves is a Professor of International Law at the University of Milano and a Public International Law Consultant at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in Milan] This chapter is entitled “International investment dispute settlement in the twen ...

Public News Service

  • Tech is Changing How AZ Folks Get Around
    Tech is Changing How AZ Folks Get Around PHOENIX - Arizonans are driving fewer miles these days, and technology and ride-sharing programs are making it easier to get around without relying on a car. A report released today by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund examines how these developments are ch ...
  • Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal Gets Major Pl ...
    Sonoran Desert Heritage Proposal Gets Major Planning Award PHOENIX, Ariz. - An ambitious proposal to protect nearly 1 million acres of federal public lands in western Maricopa County has received a major award for smart planning. The Arizona Chapter of the American Planning Association (APA) sai ...
  • Arizonans Roll Up Their Sleeves for Public Lan ...
    Arizonans Roll Up Their Sleeves for Public Lands Projects PHOENIX, Ariz. - Saturday is National Public Lands Day, the single largest hands-on volunteer effort on behalf of the country's public lands. Last year, an estimated 175,000 volunteers helped at over 2,200 locations nationwide. ...(Read More)
  • It's Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
    It's Childhood Obesity Awareness Month PHOENIX, Ariz. - Children in Arizona and elsewhere are the focus of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month. The effort attempts to shine a light on what some health and medical experts call an "epidemic." According to the National Childhood Obesity Awa ...
  • A Life-Changing River Trip for Students
    A Life-Changing River Trip for Students PHOENIX - Despite this summer's healthy monsoon rains, Arizona still faces a water supply crisis. Last month, a group of Hispanic teens from four states - including Arizona - spent a week on the Colorado River to better understand its challenges - and its ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • A poker player’s analysis of the shutdown
  • Former NSA contractor designs surveillance-pro ...
    To paraphrase John Gilmore, the internet treats surveillance as damage and routes around it. These surveillance-proof fonts have been carefully designed and tested, and cannot be read by high-end OCR readers. Sang Mun’s response was more direct — the Korean designer has created four ...
  • No Agenda 552. Thrill to Dianne Feinstein admi ...
    Listen to No Agenda 552 as Dianne Feinstein blunders into saying NSA does indeed work with big providers to do upstream interception of Internet data. That she is a clueless moron is apparent from her referring to the “Internet background” not the “Internet backbone.”
  • The Witness Wore Red. Rebecca Musser. Escape f ...
    Rebecca Musser escaped from the noxious FLDS polygamist cult and her testimony was instrumental in helping convict cult leader Warren Jeffs and others. She wrote The Witness Wore Red – The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamist Cult Leaders to Justice. FLDS members are not allowed to wear red cl ...
  • Green collar jobs and drones that help farmers
    Home-grown technology creates green collar local jobs and helps communities become resilient and self-sufficient. John Robb profiles a low-cost drone that monitors soil conditions so farmers can take corrective action before crops are affected. The drone was created locally and costs less than $ ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • 14 Caribbean nations sue European countries fo ...
    Fourteen Caribbean nations are suing the governments of the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands for reparations over what the plaintiffs say is the lingering legacy of the Atlantic slave trade. In a speech Friday at United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the ...
  • A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison ...
    Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was convicted, served four and a half years of his sentence and was released this month. Prosecutors claim Qw ...
  • Minority Report: London Cops Computer algorith ...
      We have been tracking this story for years here in the USA, and have personally interviewed at least one man who was arrested for a Pre crime using psychics! If you think about it, DUIs,  jaywalking,  seat-belt violations, Gun ownership violations, Facebook threats, etc etc… Are all ...
  • Teen arrested for trying to help struggling Go ...
    “Goodwill” gets their products for FREE. What a great model! The profits are going to pay for bureaucracy, and yes… give people low paying jobs. Mr Anderson did not have the right to offer these discounts (still at a profit!) on the reclaimed property of Goodwill, OK. We get th ...
  • US Reporters to reveal ‘US assassination ...
    Two American journalists are working together to expose the role of the US National Security Agency in what they described as a “US assassination program.” Iran TV (because you aint seeing this in the USA MSM) Contributor to The Nation magazine Jeremy Scahill and Rio-based journalist Glenn Green ...

The Air Vent

  • Weaponized “Science”
    I don’t have much time today unfortunately, but there was a minor kerfuffel in the news about a study (a term very loosely used) which according to the media reporters (also loosely used)  shows that Fox news watchers are being tricked by Fox into “distrust” of climate scientis ...
  • Climate Science – A Field of Dreams
    Real Climate is still trying to communicate the message that climate science needs to communicate better, never realizing that the content of their message is their problem.  I mean, the first link on their page is to a Richard Alley presentation, where he flat says that there is no reason to ad ...
  • Regulatory Creep
    The Environmental Protection Agency of the United States is one of the largest and most draconian governmental organizations on the planet.  Under Obama, it has also become one of the most powerful.   The ability to regulate CO2 as a pollutant, being one of the chief new results of Obama’s ...
  • Time Travel
    Well, I’m not really interested in replacing coal plants as our eco-nazi climate science community would have us do, but there are a bunch of forms of nuclear power which are viable replacements and this one is fairly interesting to me.   A smaller modular plant produced in a factory using ...
  • Fools and Their Right to be Fools
    Socialist Liberalism is completely out of control in this world, and now it has infected every aspect of American governance.   Nearly every news article is biased with complete left-wing nonsense and any prospect of fair representative governance is in ruins.   There is no media check for the r ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook launches new mobile ad unit, promptin ...
    Facebook’s mobile app install ads have been beneficial for both sides, in terms of app discovery, but the company announced a new line of mobile ads to help boost engagement, once a user has already downloaded...
  • Top 25 Facebook pages: October 2013 — Rihanna ...
    Rihanna is shooting up the charts and up the Top 25 Facebook page list. The page for the singer has grown substantially, rising from the No. 5-most liked Facebook page in September to No. 3 in...
  • David Lawenda jumps from Univision to Facebook ...
    Facebook on Tuesday announced a key hire to its U.S. marketing team, as David Lawenda will join Facebook as the Vice President of Global Sales, U.S. Previously, Lawenda led sales and marketing at Univision, and also...
  • Customize, target, analyze: A Facebook mobile ...
    With the third quarter coming to a close for 2013, there’s little doubt that Facebook will announce yet another increase in advertising revenue from their mobile advertising sales. In the second quarter of this year, Facebook...
  • Facebook rolling out post search within Graph ...
    One of the common complaints from Facebook users is the inability to find specific posts or status updates. Now, Facebook is working toward a solution by allowing posts to be found through Graph Search. Facebook announced...

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Why Right's Lemmings Don Suicide Vest
    The government-sabotaging fervor of the Republican Right -- likened by one GOP congressman to "lemmings with suicide vests" -- can only be understood from inside the right-wing bubble where a distorted view of the Constitution prevails and actual democracy is disdained.
  • Models of Dignity
    This is the fourth part of the serialization of All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler, 2006). The ideas in this book are further developed in my recent novel The Rowan Tree.
  • Reddit Q-and-A on NSA reporting
    Leaks from Edward Snowden earlier this year have lead to hundreds of stories by the Guardian and other news outlets that examine the tension between personal privacy and national security. Our reporting has sparked a global debate about the full extent of the NSA's actions to collect personal da ...
  • Breaking American exceptionalism
    So call Breaking Bad, this warped western, a masterful depiction of American exceptionalism. And mirror it with the soft pull of a dying, lone superpower which is still capable of turning the whole planet into junkies, addicted to the cinematically sumptuous spectacle of its own demise.
  • GOP Lemmings 'Rebrand' -- Beyond the 'Party of ...
    Knee-jerk House tantrums hit new comic highs as the Wily E. Coyote party continued its madcap leap to self-destruction. Can't zealots who hate government find more imaginative ways not to govern? The latest cartoon antics only dramatize what happens when the party of stupid redefines itself down ...

Switchboard

  • Iceland Killed 134 Endangered Fin Whales This ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Senior Policy Analyst, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California The news is in.  Iceland's whaling season – which began June 16 and was briefly interrupted due to bad weather in mid-September&nbsp ...
  • New Poll Confirms Governor Cuomo Should Contin ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Once again, we have clear evidence that New Yorkers are worried about fracking. A new poll, released today by the Siena College Research Institute, shows that 45% of voters in New York are opposed to frac ...
  • Will Sonoma County say "no" to Wildlife Services?
    Melissa Waage, Campaign Director, Washington, DC Ten years ago, Marin County, California ended its wildlife-killing contract with USDA-Wildlife Services and built its own program emphasizing non-lethal coexistence with wild carnivores. N ...
  • Latin America Green News: energy efficiency in ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. September 22nd-28th, 2013 Chile A report on the statu ...
  • A Joyful and Fishless Celebration of World Riv ...
    Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Yesterday was World Rivers’ Day, billed as “a celebration of the world’s waterways.”  I don’t know if Timothy Egan was anticipating World Rivers’ Day when he wrote t ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Digital Edge - Connecting Campuses Buildin ...
    As recently as the early 1990s most computers lacked network connections of any kind. Dialup modems were painfully slow, the Internet hadn’t caught on yet, and unless you were employed by a university or the military you probably had no use for Email.The office and industrial networks that did ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Kurdish Independence Now
    The civil war in Syria and the increasing fragility of Iraq have thrown the long-term future of these states into question. For years, they were ruled by brutal regimes that held power in the name of Arab nationalism; as a result, they failed to knit together the populations they ruled into a co ...
  • Broken Government - The Shutdown Begins
    The White House ordered federal agencies to shut down Monday night, with congressional negotiators unable to strike an agreement before the midnight deadline to keep the government open. Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell directed agency and departmental heads to execute the ...
  • The Battle for Syria - Heart of Darkness: Insi ...
    The implications were chilling. In the summer of 2012, as murder and mayhem reigned on both sides of Syria's civil war, someone—likely from the opposition—released a list of 32 names on Facebook. These weren't people invited to a wedding; they weren't members of the Syrian national soccer te ...
  • The Iranian Threat - U.S. and Iranian Realities
    U.S. President Barack Obama called Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week in the first such conversation in the 34 years since the establishment of the Islamic Republic. The phone call followed tweets and public statements on both sides indicating a willingness to talk. Though far from an ac ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • SO FAR SO BAD! Obamacare Exchanges Open to Mas ...
    Obamacare Exchanges opened today and the initial reports are as expected full of problems and chaos. CNN is reporting that at least two-thirds of the exchanges are experiencing problems.  Below are some of those initial disastrous reports: Consumers Are Experiencing Long Wait Times A ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: White House Sr. Adviser ...
    It seems that everyone is trying to get onto the conveyor belt running between the White House and the mainstream media. It seams as if each day there is someone else being hired by the Obama administration from the media or from the Obama administration to the the media. In an exclusive report ...
  • History Suggests Neither Side Will Be Hurt by ...
    Time sure flies.  Last night at 11:59pm the federal government began to shut down for the 18th time since 1976 (and remember 18 in Hebrew-Chai means life) suggesting that there is still much life in the Grand Old Party.  While the media claims the shut-down is going to hurt the Re ...
  • Eric Holder's Bid To Dismiss Fast and Furious ...
    Eric Holder's bid to keep his Fast and Furious documents secret has been rejected by a federal judge. Last night while the attention was on the approaching government shut down, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down Holder's attempt to dismiss the House Oversight Comm ...
  • Shutdown Alert- Next Step--House To Demand A C ...
    The Government will be shutting down at midnight.  After the Senate rejected a House bill which will put the average American on the same level as big business by delaying the individual mandate for a year and taking away the Congressional exemption to Obamacare the House has decided on the ...

Wind Watch

  • Windmill farm seeks permit to kill eagles
    A large wind farm in Solano County would be the first renewable energy project in the nation to be issued a permit to kill eagles under a plan released Thursday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, outlined in a draft environmental report, is to issue a golden eagle take permit t ...
  • Wind turbine burns up near Lahr — Fire Departm ...
    Ein Feuer hat eine der drei Windräder auf dem Areal Schlossbühl/Kempfenbühl oberhalb des Langenhard vollständig zerstört. Der Schaden beläuft sich nach ersten Erkenntnissen auf ein bis zwei Millionen Euro, hat Arno Markowsky, Geschäftsführer der Freiburger Ökostromgruppe bekannt gegeben. Um 12.3 ...
  • New Era Wind abandons area project
    “New Era no longer intends to develop a wind energy project in Goodhue County, and respectfully requests that the commission close all four dockets and all pending matters related thereto,” Peter Mastic, chief manager for the New Era Wind Farm LLC, stated in a letter to the Minnesota Public Util ...
  • Velocity rises in wind-power debate
    Ohio has made a strong start in establishing a “green” economy, but leaders in the wind-energy industry say that future investment in such technologies would be jeopardized if the state eliminates a rule requiring utilities to buy a certain amount of in-state renewable energy. The comments befor ...
  • Wind farms are a ‘blot’ on ‘ ...
    Winds farms have become a “blot” on the face of “God’s creation” and are threatening to destroy a landscape where saints once trod, a bishop warns today. The Bishop of Newcastle, the Right Reverend Martin Wharton, whose diocese in Northumberland includes some of the most dramatic countryside in ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Aggregation and curation in journalism
    About two months ago, I had to explain the concept and use of aggregation in online journalism to a group of journalists (mostly editors) in Vietnam. I found most of my material in this blog post by Steve Buttry — and in fact, much of what you need to know is in his headline: Link, attribu ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use Hoo ...
  • Twitter milestone: 8,000 followers
    Yesterday my Twitter odometer rolled over, as follower No. 8,000 appeared. My Twitter handle is @macloo. I use Twitter mainly as a news feed. I don’t follow friends from my personal life (unless they are in journalism), and for the most part, I don’t tweet personal things. I use ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: I ...
  • Your syllabus as a blog: How to do it
    For about three years, I have been using WordPress.com (a free blogging site) to create a syllabus for each one of my courses. I first tried it in 2007, and now I’m totally sold on the practice. (See two examples: graduate course; undergrad course.) One of the best features for students: ...

Facing South

  • What the feds' voting rights lawsuit could mea ...
    Image Caption:  Under Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, 40 of North Carolina's 100 counties were subject to federal preclearance of any election law changes. But if the Department of Justice's lawsuit against the state's new ...
  • Corporate watchdogs call for ouster of BP CEO
    Image Caption:  Activists have launched a petition calling on BP to fire CEO Bob Dudley, accusing him of trying to avoid meeting the company's obligations to the Gulf Coast. As the second phase of the BP civil trial got u ...
  • DOJ reportedly will sue NC over voter ID law
    Image Caption:  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly take action against North Carolina's restrictive new voting law. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce today in North Carolina that he ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The strange politics of South ...
    Image Caption:  U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) led the effort to make cuts to the food stamp program -- even though one in eight residents of his state rely on it. A record number of Americans receive food stam ...
  • Bank of America ordered to pay $2.2 million fo ...
    Image Caption:  A Department of Labor audit found that Bank of America applied different standards to black and white job applicants at its offices in Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Brian Katt via Wikipedia.) The North Carolina-bas ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The Individual Mandate and the Government Shutdown
    Let’s get specific.  The House spending bill linked continued funding to a one year delay of the individual mandate—the requirement that everyone buy insurance.  This is not the same thing as delaying Obamacare, everyone who wanted a policy could still buy one.  While there are subsidies f ...
  • Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia ...
    Look, years ago, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the warlords who ran Somalia’s capital.  These warlords, to give some context, would drag teenaged girls, by which I mean 14 years old, out of their parents shanty, take them away, and gang rape them. The ICU were Islamic, to be sur ...
  • Egypt bans the Muslim Brotherhood
    This includes seizing all their money and assets.  Among other things, this is a humanitarian disaster: who do you think feeds many of the poor in Egypt?  Who runs the clinics? One of my friends worked in Egypt, for the Mubarak regime, for a while.  He’s a man with a strong stomach, but th ...
  • Let’s talk American public responsibility for ...
    I recently read a Guardian piece on Gitmo.  Here’s an excerpt: Gen Miller suggests reorganising the prisons so that the guards help the interrogators “set the conditions for … successful interrogation”. It was following his visit that torture and humiliation by the guards ...
  • Historical cancer indidence rates controlled f ...
    Anyone know a source for this data?  It would be much appreciated. Every source I find goes on about how increased cancer rates are largely because “we live longer”.  That’s clearly part of it, but how much?  Same thing with heart disease, anyone have that data?

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

  • SO LONG, AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH
    21st September 2013 – It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Open Your Eyes News is to be closing down with immediate effect. I would like to especially thank Kim for his technical expertise, my co-founder Collin for helping get it all off the ground 6 years ago, our 3 longe ...
  • Message from Health & Environment Editor, Janet
    My moniker has been the Biochemist. I’m writing this on behalf of the other editors and technical staff involved with Open Your Eyes News. I, personally, have been involved with OYE News since early June 2009. The first time I met with James was on the 9th June. I started posting by 30th of June ...
  • Image of the week – Technology
  • Quote of the week – Einstein on War
    “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”- Einstein
  • Wave of Iraq car bombings kill at least 48 peo ...
    ABC – At least 17 car bombs have exploded across Iraq, killing about 48 people and wounding 130 as sectarian violence continues to surge. The blasts mainly targeted Shiite majority cities and towns. The deadliest violence was in and around the city of Hilla, the predominantly Shiite capita ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Manchester City duo Aguero & Silva passed ...
    The Argentine striker and Spanish playmaker, both of whom missed Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Aston Villa, could return to the starting line-up against the Champions League holders £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = MNC Draw BAY £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = MNC Draw ...
  • Congress plunges nation into government s ...
    WASHINGTON — Congress plunged the nation into a partial government shutdown Tuesday as a long-running dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law stalled a temporary funding bill, forcing about 800,000 federal workers off the job and suspending most non-essential federal programs a ...
  • Pentagon chief says shutdown hurts US cre ...
    The US government shutdown will undermine American credibility abroad and lead allies to question its commitment to treaty obligations, the US defence chief warned on Tuesday as he prepared to put 400,000 civilian workers on unpaid leave. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, who was visiting South ...
  • UN: Nearly 1,000 Iraqis killed in Septemb ...
    BAGHDAD (AP) — Nearly 1,000 Iraqis were killed in September, one of the highest monthly death tolls in years, the U.N. said Tuesday, giving a somber figure that reflects the militants' determination to rekindle large-scale sectarian conflict. Iraq is going through its worst surge in violence ...
  • Omar orders judicial probe into Shopian f ...
    Tweet Srinagar, Oct 1 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said Tuesday a judicial probe was being ordered into the killing of four civilians by the CRPF Sep 7. Abdullah was replying to a two-hour debate in the assembly over the firing by the Central Reserve Police Force in ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Avandia (Rosiglitazone) Does Not Raise Heart A ...
    There is not a higher risk of heart attack and cardiovascular events in patients who take controversial type 2 drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), researchers at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) reported after carrying out a re-analysis of data from a pivotal study. The DCRI researchers re- ...
  • Promising Results In Early Trial of Novel MS T ...
    Reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine researchers say a new method for essentially resetting the immune systems of patients with multiple sclerosis appears to be safe. Study co-author Stephen D. Miller of Northwestern University, describes the novel approach tested in this smal ...
  • Summer Deadliest Time of Year for Teen Drivers
    Crashes often linked to distracted driving Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Impaired Driving, Motor Vehicle Safety, Teen Health
  • Fewer Families Struggling to Pay Medical Bills ...
    But some may be skipping needed care altogether, expert says Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Health Insurance, Health Statistics
  • Smokers Cost Employers Thousands More Than Non ...
    About $6000 in extra annual costs stem from more time off, smoking breaks, health care, study shows Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Page: Smoking

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Concrete Steel Bollard-Preventing Smash and Gr ...
    Solution for StLouis Smash and Grab Thefts-Repost The Recent Smash and Grab Thefts rampant in the StLouis Region has prompted me to offer a Vehicle Barrier to Secure any Local StLouis store front from costly damage and the insurance claims that come from Smash and Grab Thefts. Protective Bollard ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Tree Damage Repair and Brick Buildings
    I’m a tree lover until they are damaging StLouis Brick and Masonry buildings.  When I get a call to repair the Damage- Scotts Contracting Gets to the Root of the Problem!   Here is a collection of projects and photos of Tree Damage Repair photos completed by Scotts Contracting-StLouis ...
  • Eliminating Tree-Tree Roots from a Brick Building
    Getting to the Root of the Problem Do You Need Help with a Tree Growing in your Brick Wall? Scotts Contracting will get to the Root of the Problem! Photo collection of Removing a Tree from a Masonry Brick Wall in StLouis and repairing the damage the Tree Roots had caused  to the Brick Building. ...

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Where Women Rule
    Below is a recent CCTV-English (Chinese state TV) documentary on low carbon development in Rwanda. It piqued my interest, mainly because Rwanda has the only parliament in the world where women are in the majority. Following recent elections*, women hold 56.3% of the seats. Former rebel ...
  • TV3 Tackles Income Inequality
    The American Pubic Broadcasting Service used to have fabulous, hard hitting documentaries when PBS first got going in the 1970s. Fast forward to 2013, and all the documentaries that seriously challenge the political establishment have all but vanished from free-to-air TV (except, perhaps, ...
  • UK Greens Call to End Debt-Based Money
    According to Positive Money, the Green Party of England and Wales has joined the US Green Party in proposing to strip private banks of the power to create money. The September 13 motion calls for this power to be placed with a democratically accountable National Monetary Authority at the ...
  • How Private Banks Create Money
     photo credit: TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³ via photopin cc Money and Life Katie Teague (2013)   Film Review I highly recommend this film for its clear explanation of the mechanism by which private banks (not government) create money out of thin air by initiating loans. ...
  • Al Qaeda Surges Ahead in Syria
       Rebels Decide to Fight Each Other  While the major powers behind the proxy civil war in Syria go through the motions of working out a diplomatic solution, rebel forces have begun fighting each other, rather than the Assad regime. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants from ...

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Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Government Shutdown Damages U.S. Energy Innovation
    The federal government has officially shutdown as of midnight, October 1st 2013. While coverage of the shutdown will focus on the political circus that is fueling it and the thousands furloughed from their jobs, it is also important to note that it’s directly impacting America’s overall energy i ...
  • Loads of Good, Clean Biogasoline From a Dirty ...
    A team of scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has been tweaking the metabolic pathway of the notorious bacteria Escherichia coli to make it squeeze out gasoline. If you’re thinking that’s been done before, well, not exactly.read more
  • Time to Look Hard at PV Soft Costs
    I recently wrote about the rising issue of compliance costs in solar installations and added some recent statistics based on my intuition and a few discussions, but it prompted me to conduct a survey to collect some new, more up to date data.read more
  • IPCC Prognosis: 9°F Warming For US, Faster Sea ...
    Perhaps the best way to think about the IPCC, which has issued a summary of its latest report reviewing the state of climate science, is as a super-cautious team of brilliant diagnosticians and specialists who, like many doctors, aren’t the greatest communicators.read more
  • California's Cap-and-Trade Market Still Needs ...
    The California Air Resources Board has issued proposed changes to their policy on price containment, which the Board will consider at their October meeting. While they are a step in the right direction, they don’t go far enough to address the fundamental risk to the market.read more

Rodale News

  • Fracking's Strange Link to STDs
    Here's what you won't hear in the sales pitch when natural gas drilling companies move into town: Fracking may bring temporary jobs, but with those come lots of problems, including a migratory work force that could increase the number of social disorder arrests and—get this—even lead to more ca ...
  • The Best Soup for Fall: Classic "Stone Soup"
    excerpted from The Soup & Bread Cookbook by Beatrice Ojakangas, on sale October 8th Autumn is my favorite time of year, not least because it’s harvest time. Beets, carrots, onions, leeks, celeriac, potatoes of all kinds, rutabagas, turnips, parsnips, sweet potatoes, yams, garlic, ...
  • This Week's Pickings: America’s Cheese Obsessi ...
    • Food fail! A new diet report card shows Americans are eating less meat, but an insane amount of cheese. (Center for Science in the Public Interest) • Yes, you CAN turn any child into a health-food fanatic. (Fitbie) • Places you’re most likely to die from air pollution (The Atlantic) • W ...
  • Doctors Make Major Announcement on Chemicals
    In a major announcement this month, two well-respected physicians' groups said doctors need to start helping pregnant mothers understand and avoid exposures to everyday chemicals that could be setting their children up for a lifetime of health problems. The American College of Obstetricians an ...
  • Bottled Water: Your New Hormone Disruptor
    Doling out $2.00 for a bottle of water instead of packing your reusable water bottle might seem a small price to pay for the convenience of a healthy drink, but how much is that daily bottle costing you in the long run? German researchers have just published a study in the respected journal PLo ...

big think

  • Video: What an Asteroid Retrieval Might Look L ...
    If Barack Obama gets his way, NASA will send astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid by 2025, with the hope of capturing it. So how exactly would that work?  Earlier this year the space agency solicited proposals and received over 400 responses. Many of these proposals were scheduled ...
  • Homeless Yoga with the Fat Jew
    Fabrizio Goldstein made a splash earlier this summer when offering homeless people Spin classes on freshly minted Citi Bikes in New York City. Comedian by trade—this Vice clip in which he blames his father for having a small penis is a good sample—the man known as The Fat Jew is back with a new ...
  • Study: Half of Jobs in the U.S. Could be Automated
    An Oxford University study looked at how susceptible jobs are to computerization, and found that "about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk." This is a disturbing answer to the frequently asked question of what technological progress really means for the future of employment. Th ...
  • Interface Innovations Won't Be For The Weak Of ...
    What's the Latest Development?  Is iOS 7 making you dizzy or nauseous? Welcome to the future, says writer Christopher Mims, warning of a time when a certain segment of the population could "spend their sunset years, when this kind of technology is ubiquitous, in serious discomfort." As . ...
  • Our Founding Fathers Never Imagined Congress W ...
    "One faction of one party in one house of Congress," President Obama said on Monday, "doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election...You don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job, for doing what you're supposed to be doing any ...

Groklaw

  • Presiding juror in Microsoft-Motorola trial a ...
    Among the interesting tidbits to come out of the recently concluded Microsoft-Motorola patent trial is this fact: The presiding juror was Mary-Claire King, a University of Washington professor and a renowned geneticist who played a leading role in the identification of breast cancer genes. King ...
  • Bruce Schneier's 5 tips: A guide to staying mo ...
    Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves.... At this point, I feel I can provide some advice for keeping se ...
  • Obama reassures Europeans over US surveillance
    Obama said additional changes to the programs may be required because of advances in technology. He said his national security team along with an independent board is reviewing everything to strike the right balance between the government's surveillance needs and civil liberties. "There may be ...
  • Black Budget Summary: Consolidated Cryptologic ...
    The resources devoted to signals intercepts are extraordinary. Nearly 35,000 employees are listed under a sweeping category called the Consolidated Cryptologic Program, which includes the NSA as well as the surveillance and code-breaking components of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines. [Cf. ...
  • LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities N ...
    According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It a ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Obamacare
    The US has shut down for the day…it’s some kind of budgetary rebellion over Obamacare, right? This is roughly how Wiki describes Obamacare, or to give it its formal name The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): “[Obamacare] aims to increase the quality and afford ...
  • Tim Minchin – philosopher
    Ooh get him in his robes and mortar board…no, I mean it “get” him, ignore the robes and mortar board, ignore the long hair if that’s not your thing. But, give his philosophy a listen to, all the way through…I perhaps do his speech an injustice quoting so briefly fro ...
  • The monsters in your peripheral vision
    A while ago there was a meme that went viral, it showed images of people one after the other, but if you stared at a spot just to the side of the faces flashing past something very strange happened – you got the impression that the faces were monstrous, ghouls, with distorted features. Giz ...
  • No mystery to free will, just cause and effect
    The debate about free will rages on and on, it always will, with some saying it would violate causality and the laws of physics if it were anything but an illusion, others pointing out that it is “god-given” and so must exist(!) and yet others pointing out that so much of the brain&# ...
  • The real problem with “mental” halloween costumes
    Quoting from Dean Burnett’s interesting take on the Asda “mental patient” Halloween costume debacle: “Mental patients are rarely violent. The term "mental patients" includes people like depression sufferers, who struggle to lift their heads some days, let alone go ...

RFF Library

  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat W ...
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society  (June 2013, v94, n6 p.821-834) by Noah Diffenbaugh, et al. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00066.1 Weather and climate extremes have been varying and changing on many different time scales. In recent decades, heat waves have ...
  • The Environmental Price Tag on a Ton of Mounta ...
    PLoS ONE (2013, v8 n9 e73203. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073203) / by Brian D. Lutz, Emily S. Bernhardt and William H. Schlesinger http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0073203 While several thousand square kilometers of land area have been subject to surface mining i ...
  • Black Carbon in the Arctic: the Underestimated ...
    Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2013, v13, p8833–8855; doi:10.5194/acp-13-8833-2013) / by A. Stohl, et al. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/8833/2013/acp-13-8833-2013.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Christa Marshall, sub. req'd] The flaring of natural gas is contributing more than 40 per ...
  • Water Constraints on Energy Production: Alteri ...
    Synapse Energy Economics for the Civil Society Institute / by Melissa Whited, Frank Ackerman, & Sarah Jackson http://www.webcaster4.com/Player/Material?uid=122027&materialGuid=45054cec-c7b1-4298-88de-8537a5696f6a [From a Climate Wire article by Elizabeth Harball, sub. req'd]  …A ne ...
  • Measurements of Methane Emissions at Natural G ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Published online before print September 16, 2013, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1304880110) / by David T. Allen http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/09/10/1304880110.full.pdf+html [Oil and Gas Journal] Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin said ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Call for Comics!
    Send us your proposals for our Jan/Feb 2014 issue Since it started, The Dominion has featured comics, primarily from longtime contributor Heather Meek, in nearly every issue. We're going to keep featuring comics, but we want y ...
  • September in Review
    Pressure mounts to free Tarek and John, Indigenous blockades interrupt extractives, scientists stand up London, Ontario, physician Dr. Ta ...
  • Buses, implementation plan for cycling routes, ...
    Can a transportation plan accomplish sustainable mobility if it leaves out public transit, and implementation of cycling routes? No, say local sustainable mobility groups, in their latest round of submissions to the City of Greater Sudbury ...
  • Cop Block turns to Road Block
    Mi'gmaw Warriors Society fells trees, lights fire, creating inner road block on highway 134, New Brunswick ...
  • From the Midwest to the Middle East
    Author Pamela Olson visits Halifax Current negotiations are not the solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, Pamela Olson told a gathering of 60 on Sept. 25 in Halifax. The visitin ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Washington: insanity made simple
    David Seaton's News Links What is going on in Washington, why are the Republicans in Congress acting in what would appear to be such a suicidal fashion?I think I have found the answer in  Mark Leibovich's "This Town", a book which I have mentioned repeatedly in recent posts.Cutting directly ...
  • Abandon hope all ye who enter here...?
    David Seaton's News LinksDante's Inferno -  "The Thieves" - Gustavo Doré "Many decades from now, a historian looking at where America lost its way could use This Town as a primary source."—Fareed Zakaria And so we have arrived at the bizarre juncture where it makes more sense for Mr Obama ...
  • Writing opinion in turbulent times
    David Seaton's News LinksHard times for a columnist with deadlines to meet. Everything is in the air, variables multiply dizzily.Handicapping the Middle East, more than ever, is mug's game. Years on, Obama is still an enigma wrapped in a candy bar wrapper, Putin... what does he want? Who is Angi ...
  • Chutzpah, thy name is Putin
    David Seaton's News Links "We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal." Vladimir Putin "What a crazy world we are living in when Russia sounds more sane and responsible than our own government on a serious international crisis. ...
  • Obama's war - II
    David Seaton's News LinksWhat I think distinguishes Obama from all the presidents in my lifetime, (I’m 69) is his lack of any previous experience of leadership.Even lackluster performers such as Bush II and Carter had been governors of important states. Ronald Reagan had been two term governor o ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Why Are So Many People in a Blind Rage These Days?
    Paul Waldman, as he so often does, says what I've been thinking: I wish I could write something optimistic as we begin the government shutdown. I wish I could, but I can't. In fact, this morning I can't help but feel something close to despair....The reason for my despair isn't about thi ...
  • Democrats Have Already Caved In to Republicans
    Yet another in my series of quick reminders: Democrats have already agreed to fund the government at Republican levels. In other words, they've already caved in. It wasn't even a compromise. They've just flatly given in to Republican demands to continue funding at sequester levels. This is ...
  • Can Someone Please Shut Down the US Customs Ag ...
    I woke up in the middle of last night enraged by this story. I do not thank Ta-Nehisi Coates for bringing it to my attention and ruining my night, but as long as he did, I'm going to ruin yours too. Thanks to a combination of executive branch policy and Supreme Court indifference in th ...
  • You Might As Well Wait a Bit Before Signing Up ...
    Sarah Kliff reports that Obamacare websites are getting pretty high traffic in their first few hours of business. The New York Times confirms this: "Heavy volume contributed to technical problems and delays that plagued the rollout Tuesday of the online insurance markets at the heart of Presid ...
  • The Public Sure Doesn't Seem to Be on the GOP' ...
    I'm about the 500th person to mention this, but it's really kind of gobsmacking that the latest "strategy" from the House GOP caucus regarding the budget is to demand a conference committee with the Senate. These are the same guys who have been resolutely refusing to go to conference for month ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Minister receives daily 'Awáicon' to save Eart ...
    Brazil's Minister of Justice is receiving daily 'Awáicon' photos, such as this one showing internationally renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado supporting the campaign for the Awá. © SurvivalSurvival International is sending Brazil’s Minister of Justice one ‘Awáicon ...
  • Jarawa face year-round threat from 'human safa ...
    Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road which cuts through the their reserve, putting them at risk from diseases to which they have no immunity.© Ariberto De Blasoni/SurvivalAs the world marks World Tourism Day, the administration of India’s Andamans is preparing to promote the islands from a sea ...
  • Tourists: Boycott Botswana over treatment of B ...
    Botswana attracts tourists with images of the Kalahari Bushmen, whilst driving them off their lands© www.botswanatourism.co.bwSurvival International is launching a boycott of Botswana tourism on World Tourism Day on Friday, over Botswana’s continuing attempts to force the Bushmen off their ...
  • Celebrations in Maasai land: Tanzanian PM scra ...
    The Maasai are celebrating the return of their land which was threatened by a land grab for conservation. © Survival InternationalMaasai people in Tanzania are celebrating today after the Prime Minister scrapped a plan to take 1,500 square miles from them in the name of conservation. The area, ...
  • Survival's Director attacks Commonwealth for u ...
    Survival's Director Stephen Corry with Bushmen of the central Kalahari. © SurvivalIn a hard-hitting speech to representatives of the Commonwealth this Thursday, Survival’s Director Stephen Corry will argue that countries such as the United Kingdom, Botswana and India are not concerned ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...
  • Editorial: Post-office closings are of necessity
    It is sad for many to see traditional post offices closing, but changing times and technologies are making them unsustainable.

Food World Order

  • Anti-GMO Campaigners Claim Victory as 'Monsant ...
    from commondreams.org: An amendment dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" which currently allows large agriculture and biotech corporations to ignore court orders involving the safety of genetically modified seeds, has been stripped from Senate's spending bill that could be voted on as ea ...
  • Misleading 'Natural' Food Labels May Soon Be H ...
    from enn.com: The only thing natural about the "natural" label is that such branding, naturally, often confuses consumers. But such misleading terms such as "natural" and "healthy" could soon become history, or at the very least score a makeover. Large food companies have hijacked such ...
  • Russia Considers Total Ban on All #GMO Products
    from sustainablepulse.com: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the relevant agencies to consider a possible ban on the import into Russia of products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by October 15. The order is addressed to Rospot ...
  • Arsenic Contamination Threatens Water in Hanoi
    from NYTimes.com: Arsenic-laden sediment that washed down from the Himalayas eons ago underlies vast stretches of Asia, from Pakistan to China. When it gets into underground aquifers, as has happened in Bangladesh, it can contaminate public water supplies and cause illness and death.  ...
  • David Attenborough says sending food to famine ...
    from independent.co.uk:  Sir David Attenborough (pictured) has attacked the idea of sending food aid to countries enduring famine as “barmy” and has urged for more debate about population control, it has been reported. The natural history broadcaster warned that the w ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • World Bank Whistleblower Karen Hudes Reveals H ...
    Karen Hudes is a graduate of Yale Law School and she worked in the legal department of the World Bank for more than 20 years.  In fact, when she was fired for blowing the whistle on corruption inside the World Bank, she held the position of Senior Counsel.  She was in a unique position to [...]
  • Oxford Professors: Robots And Computers Could ...
    What are human workers going to do when super-intelligent robots and computers are better than us at doing everything?  That is one of the questions that a new study by Dr. Carl Frey and Dr. Michael Osborne of Oxford University sought to address, and what they concluded was that 47 percent of al ...
  • Thanks To Obamacare, Employer-Based Health Ins ...
    Barack Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, and when it comes to health care he has definitely kept his promise.  Thanks to Obamacare, health care spending is up, health insurance premiums are up, the number of hours Americans are working is down and employer-based health insurance ...
  • $5.25 Million For Senate Hair Care And 21 Othe ...
    If you want to live the high life, you don't have to become a rap star, a professional athlete or a Wall Street banker.  All it really takes is winning an election.  Right now, more than half of all the members of Congress are millionaires, and most of them leave "public service" far wealthier t ...
  • Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Now Starti ...
    Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again.  In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world.  As you will read about below, private pension funds were just r ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • What the feds' voting rights lawsuit could mea ...
    Image Caption:  Under Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, 40 of North Carolina's 100 counties were subject to federal preclearance of any election law changes. But if the Department of Justice's lawsuit against the state's new ...
  • Corporate watchdogs call for ouster of BP CEO
    Image Caption:  Activists have launched a petition calling on BP to fire CEO Bob Dudley, accusing him of trying to avoid meeting the company's obligations to the Gulf Coast. As the second phase of the BP civil trial got u ...
  • DOJ reportedly will sue NC over voter ID law
    Image Caption:  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will reportedly take action against North Carolina's restrictive new voting law. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce today in North Carolina that he ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The strange politics of South ...
    Image Caption:  U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) led the effort to make cuts to the food stamp program -- even though one in eight residents of his state rely on it. A record number of Americans receive food stam ...
  • Bank of America ordered to pay $2.2 million fo ...
    Image Caption:  A Department of Labor audit found that Bank of America applied different standards to black and white job applicants at its offices in Charlotte, N.C. (Photo by Brian Katt via Wikipedia.) The North Carolina-bas ...

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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 ...
  • 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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Kenya Hoax was a Fake Siege | NODISINFO
    Kenya Hoax was a Fake Siege Zionist mobster Frank Lowy owns Nairobi’s Westgate mall. He is the same individual responsible for the murder of some 2000 or more people on 9-11, then reaping the rewards through fraudulent insurance pay-outs. It may be recalled that he conspired in a fully premedita ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    By K Paul Stoller, MD*, FACHM Cervical cancer, the second-most common cancer in young women, is particularly prone to be found in the down trodden and in impoverished countries. But this is no endorsement for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines. In fact this is about revealing that HPV vaccines ...
  • Link Between Kenyan Shopping Centre Massacre a ...
    by Stephen Cook on September 27, 2013   Westgate Shopping Mall in Kenya was Built by the Same People Associated with the World Trade Center!   I am going to make this as simple and to the point as possible.   1. The Westgate Shopping Mall was built by Westfield Australia.   I ...
  • No Change In Los Angeles Sea Level For 20 Year ...
    Data and Station Information for SANTA MONICA (MUNICIPAL PIER) Data and Station Information for SANTA MONICA (MUNICIPAL PIER) via No Change In Los Angeles Sea Level For 20 Years | Real Science.
  • IPCC Officially Erases The MWP | Real Science
    By Steven Goddard IPCC participant Jay Overpeck said in his email to Professor Deming, “We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period.” http://drtimball.com/ They have done just that, and renamed it the Medieval Climate Anomaly New paleoclimate reconstruction efforts since AR4 (Figure 5.7; Tabl ...

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  • Inspector O
    It's not so easy to balance the curiosity of a child with the cynicism of a policeman, or a secret agent. But Inspector O, of North Korea, manages to look for things where others dare not go. And finds his answers. A deeply satisfying literary figure, O also helps us look into the mirror at ours ...
  • Purge the Generals
    It's rare for an officer still in uniform to become a whistleblower. LTC Daniel L. Davis earned his bones reporting publicly the results of his investigations into how things are failing in Afghanistan. Now, refocused on a bigger picture, Danny is calling for a purge of high level military brass ...
  • Wrong Turn
    The notion that America can fix politics in the Middle East or anywhere else is laughable. It won't happen through our good example, and especially not through war. Unless, that is, we were prepared to take over the government of Bamboozlestan and occupy the place for several generations, which ...
  • But For The Intercept
    In September 2009, Najibullah Zazi — a naturalized American citizen who had been born in Afghanistan — loaded his car in Aurora, Colorado, drove to New York City, and prepared to blow himself up in the subway system. Trained in Pakistan by al-Qaeda, Zazi had used simple, readily avai ...
  • 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 ...

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Stop NATO

  • NATO Chieftain Addresses Think Tank In Chicago
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization September 30, 2013 NATO Secretary General participates in Chicago debate on future of NATO Daalder and Rasmussen with American, Chicago and NATO flags NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the future of NATO and its role as the pillar of securi ...
  • NATO Conducts Large-Scale Response Force Drill ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations October 1, 2013 EXERCISE BRILLIANT MARINER 2013 IS WELL UNDERWAY IN THE MED Story by HQ MARCOM and SHAPE Public Affairs Offices An Italian Navy AV8B fighter jet lands on the NATO Flag Ship ITS Cavour during Exercise Brilliant Mariner A ...
  • Arnold Zweig: The meaning, or rather the meani ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Arnold Zweig: Selections on war ==== Arnold Zweig From The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927) Translated by Eric Sutton Such matters are the test of a good sergeant-major (Records). Against the ground-bass of chronological sequence, h ...
  • Further Integration: Ukraine Joins NATO’ ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations September 24, 2013 Ukraine joins NATO’s counter-piracy operation Ocean Shield A Ukrainian navy frigate is steaming towards the Horn of Africa to join NATO’s counter-piracy mission Operation Ocean Shield after NATO Allies gave their fin ...
  • The Obama Doctrine
    China.org.cn September 30, 2013 The Obama Doctrine By Zhao Jinglun In his lengthy and tedious remarks delivered at the UN General Assembly, President Obama, bold as brass, tried to portray Washington as peace-loving and war-hating. But its record clearly shows the contrary: it is a hegemon of wa ...

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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

  • Condemn Petraeus and Interim Chancellor Kelly! ...
    CUNY Students Confront War Criminal David Petraeas, Sept. 9, 2013 NYPD Attacks CUNY Protesters At Petraeus Protest, Sept. 17, 2013 ————————————————- September 23, 2013 · by revolutionarystudents The i ...
  • Condemn Petraeus and Interim Chancellor Kelly! ...
    CUNY Students Confront War Criminal David Petraeas, Sept. 9, 2013 NYPD Attacks CUNY Protesters At Petraeus Protest, Sept. 17, 2013 ————————————————- September 23, 2013 · by revolutionarystudents The i ...
  • New Delhi: Protest against State Repression on ...
    September 23, 2013 New Delhi: On 21st September (Saturday), a joint protest against growing ‘State Repression on Cultural Activists’ was organized by a number of cultural, political and student activists of the city under the banner of Daman Virodhi Sanskritik Manch despite heavy rain between 2 ...
  • New Delhi: Protest against State Repression on ...
    September 23, 2013 New Delhi: On 21st September (Saturday), a joint protest against growing ‘State Repression on Cultural Activists’ was organized by a number of cultural, political and student activists of the city under the banner of Daman Virodhi Sanskritik Manch despite heavy rain between 2 ...
  • Bangladeshi workers set fire to factories
    The Australian, September 23, 2013 ANGRY Bangladeshi garment workers have blocked roads, set factories alight and clashed with police for a third day as protests demanding a minimum monthly wage of $US100 spread outside the capital Dhaka. Abdul Baten, police chief of the Gazipur industrial distr ...

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 ...

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    Munich Utility Invests in U.K. Windmills to Meet Renewable Goal
    Bloomberg
    The head of Munich's municipal utility expects to produce enough renewable energy next year to meet demand from all the households in southern Germany's largest city. The growth will enable Stadtwerke Muenchen GmbH, whose customers include ...
    Indonesia needs legal breakthrough to boost renewable energy
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    JAKARTA: Indonesia needs to remove a host of legal barriers if it wants to boost development in alternative energy sources such as geothermal, solar and hydropower plants, a senior government official has said. Rida Mulyana, the director general of new ...
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    NY Parks gives grant to Adirondack ecology center
    WCAX
    PAUL SMITHS, N.Y. (AP) - The state parks office has awarded a three-year grant worth up to $45,000 to support ecology programs at the Adirondack Visitor Interpretive Center run by Paul Smith's College. The award will help the center in the northeastern ...
    University blends economy and ecology
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    NORTH BEND — It is a school of thought more than it is an actually physical land of learning with ivy-covered walls. Solar Now! University began in 2007 as a way to build awareness and make it easier for Oregonians to go solar. Organizers say it has ...
    Biology 237 Ecology Class Makes Annual Trek to Adirondacks
    Hamilton College News
    For the 30th consecutive year the ecology class Biology 237 traveled to Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondack high peaks to examine the response of trees to elevational and climatic gradients. The day was a spectacularly clear and beautiful, with ...
    Sharks, it seems, are necessary for the ecological health of coral reefs
    The Economist
    FOR decades, rangers in Yellowstone National Park, in the American West, had to cull the area's red deer (known locally as elk, though they bear no resemblance to European elk, known locally as moose) because the animals' numbers were grazing the ...
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    Water discovered in Martian soil
    CNN
    (CNN) -- Scoop up some soil on Mars, heat it up, cool down the steam and ... slurp, slurp! You've got water! Mars might appear dry as a desert, but astronauts may someday be able to tap its soil to quench their thirst. Research recently published ...
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    Michelle Obama wants you to drink more water, at least one more glass a day. Frankly, I think it's great. Sure, the science behind some of her claims is somewhere between iffy and debatable. If you're not dehydrated, drinking more water won't give you ...
    High school pool shut down after water polo players start losing body hair
    Fox News
    The swimming pool at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, Calif., was shut down last Wednesday, after city officials said the level of chemicals in the water exceeded normal operating conditions, Berkeleyside reported. The decision was made after parents ...
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    Big data deluge: How Dutch water is trying to turn the tide
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    Big data deluge: How Dutch water is trying to turn the tide. Summary: With the Dutch water system efficiently churning out data from countless incompatible sources, a research project is now trying to work out how to open up the databases. Toby Wolpe.
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