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The Killing Train

• The future of India's conflict zones: Q/A July ...
  On July 25, 2013, at Hart House, at the University of Toronto, Justin Podur presented some background notes and observations on the indigenous (adivasi) struggle in Central India and the Kashmir conflict.
• Free, Tarek and John
  by Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy Note: this is a rather long article. If you prefer a PDF version, it is linked here. read more
• Touchwood PR
  As the emergency contact for Tarek and John, I was happy to field media calls and requests. Now the emergency is over, and media are being handled by the most excellent and wonderful Touchwood PR. If you wish to schedule an interview with Tarek and John, pleaes contact Touchwood at press@touchwo ...
• tarekandjohn.com
  When Tarek and John were arrested on August 16, we were taken by surprise. We used whatever tools we had to hand to get the message out. As their emergency contact, I used my own blog and my own twitter handle, and became one of their official spokespeople. In the intervening 50 days, we set up ...
• Tarek and John are free
  Oct 6/13 Tarek and John are out of jail. Thank you to everyone who followed, supported, wrote letters, helped, worked, and kept going when this thing ended up going so much longer than we thought it would. read more

treehugger

• Photo of the Day: Teeny tiny plover chick crad ...
  This tiny chick is held by a researcher, who will band it to keep track of it as it grows up. Snowy plovers are an endangered species, so this newly hatched chick is an important little ball of fluff.
• Brazil wants to build enough wind turbines to ...
  Brazil's economy is growing fast, and it is expected to need an increase of 50% in power generation capacity over the next decade.
• The "perfect sweater": Appalatch launching 3D ...
  Striving to offer durable, locally-sourced wool sweaters that are 3D printed for a perfect fit for each customer, American outdoor apparel company Appalatch is looking to Kickstart their next move.
• President Obama establishes a climate change p ...
  Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order (E.O.) establishing a Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience.
• The Wonderbag is an electricity-free slow cook ...
  This simple, electricity-free slow cooker can help stop deforestation, reduce violence and make a hearty stew!

Democratic Voice of Burma

• DVB Debate: How to solve Rangoon’s traffic con ...
  The increasing number of cars in Burma is causing severe traffic jams and congestion. Now experts are trying to find a solution to the traffic problem, which also addresses the environmental situation.
• Business Weekly
  THIS WEEK IN BURMESE BUSINESS NEWS: Mining law to be redrafted; Burma's rubber exports receive a boost; Thai pharmaceutical firm steps up presence in Burma; and read how was the country rated by the World Bank as conducive to business investment.
• Burmese journalism group criticises Sunlight W ...
  The Myanmar Journalist Network condemns Sunlight Weekly News journal for unethical journalism following the publication of “personal attacks” aimed at the grandson of former military strongman Than Shwe.
• Burmese army abuses in Kachin ‘ongoing&# ...
  The Burmese army continues to step up abuses in northern Kachin state, including raping, killing and torturing villagers, despite signing a tentative ceasefire with ethnic rebels, activists say.
• Tuja’s bid to establish political party is fin ...
  After two foiled attempts to contest elections, Dr Tuja, a former KIO leader, is given approval to form his own party, which he intends to name the Kachin State Democracy Party.

Telegraph - Climate Change

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ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

• Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
  Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
• Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
    The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
• European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
  Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
• Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
  The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
• Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
  Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Jamiol Presents
• Empire under Obama- Part 4: Counterinsurgency, ...
  “Peace is possible, if people are empowered. Otherwise, imperialism is inevitable, and extinction is nearly ensured.” While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awareness about the nature ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Pepe Escobar: 9/11 Excuse for NSA – Gift ...
• Processing Distortion: “Trailing the FBI&#8217 ...
  Peter B. Collins Presents Russ Baker Investigative journalist Russ Baker details a newly published update on the investigation into the official investigation of the Boston Marathon Bombing and the May 22 FBI killing of a friend of one of the Boston suspects. Baker reviews the anomalies of the B ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• Byts and Bytes
  What I like about African men I love Black men too, but do they love me back? The Radicalization of …Continue reading »
• “Western Churches Neglect Causes of Radi ...
  Op-ed submission by Project 21 How did radical Islam become a legitimate threat in sub-Saharan Africa? Should we care? Perhaps, because …Continue reading »
• “Is ICC targeting Africa or vice versa?& ...
  There is a silent conflict blowing between the Africa Union (AU) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). This conflict started …Continue reading »
• Sunday Inspirations
  Africa’s First Female Airline Captain  – Capt. Irene Koki Mutungi                          Click on image for story

Tikun Olam

• The NSA Killed the Radio Star and American Hig ...
  While I don’t pretend to be a technical expert, it seems clear to me that one of the major pieces of collateral damage regarding the NSA spying scandal is the savaging that the American technology industry has taken.  Though they initially denied it, it became apparent that companies like ...
• Israel-Palestine Peace Talks: Road to Nowhere
  I always liked the Talking Heads song, We’re on the Road to Nowhere, because of the lyric’s fake bravado and the galloping rhythm, which feels like a horse riding into a brave new world.  When I think of the Israel-Palestine peace talks it’s the first phrase that comes to mind: ...
• IDF Attacked Syrian Arms Depot…Again
  Yesterday, Israel mounted its second attack on Latakia since July, targeting an arms depot housing Russian-made air-to-ground missiles destined for Hezbollah.  A massive explosion rocked Latakia last night.  Rumors began to fly that Israel might be involved.  Quickly thereafter, U.S. officials c ...
• Silencing ‘Goliath’
  Max Blumenthal’s new book, Goliath, is a well-researched jeremiad against Israel’s march toward authoritarianism.  He has traveled to Israel, to all the hot spots; he’s waded into the ultra-nationalist community and recorded its ideological miasma.  He’s done the work tha ...
• Former MK Einat Wilf Falsely Charges MP Jack S ...
  Israeli media has blared headlines over the past three days charging UK MP Jack Straw with making anti-Semitic statements during a Global Diplomatic Forum held in the Houses of Parliament.  The charge was made by former Labor Party MK, Einat Wilf, who participated on the panel with him, and wrot ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• “Pieces of meat passed high overhead…”
  Farewell to George Thomas Thornton, an American visionary who understood that few dreams are worth pursuing that don’t involve dynamite and the rotting carcasses of charismatic megafauna. While Thornton’s decision to obliterate a sperm whale in November 1970 would, decades later, bri ...
• Sekrit Troll Compliments
  I suppose it would be in poor form to say this young feminist– and her funny, inspiring open letter to trolls– is adorable. So I won’t. But I’m gonna have to sit on my hands to resist the temptation, which makes it hard to type. Dammit. Please watch. I bet it’ll put ...
• Foreign Entanglements: Remote Warfare
  On this week’s episode of Foreign Entanglements, Walter White spoke with Jesse Pinkman about drones, Ender’s Game, and video games:     
• No Cruz-Paul ’16?
  Senator Ted Cruz calls his colleague Rand Paul a “good friend.” The two men are the stars of the Tea Party movement, propelled to Washington by activist fervor and allied in their effort to restrain the reach of the federal government. Right from the start You were a thief You stole my heart And ...
• October of Broken Dreams
  The LGM archive of October 2004 amounts to a grim tale of woe, punctuated by busted predictions, forlorn hopes,  and dawdling over irrelevancies. Re-posting the first few days of November 2004 is going to be a struggle.     

Desert Research Institute

• Scientists Present Lake Tahoe Nearshore Evalua ...
  Joint report marks initial collaborative step between the science community and resource management agencies to develop a comprehensive approach for assessing and managing the nearshore ecology and aesthetics of Lake Tahoe. 
• A new look at air pollution sources and atmosp ...
  New research from DRI provides first thorough analysis of emissions from outdoor cremation rituals in India and Nepal.
• DRI Open House to Feature Latest Solar Technology
  JoinNV Energy, DRI’s renewable energy experts and research scientists for a Solar Celebration on Saturday, October 5th at DRI’s Renewable Energy Deployment and Display (REDD) Facility for a hands-on tour.
• Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
  Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.
• Zach Johnson, Sept. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate ...
  Meet Zach Johnson, a Ph.D. student in the highly-ranked hydrology program at UNR. He is currently working with Dr. Rina Schumer while investigating the influence of transient storage zones (surface and hyporheic) on water quality in the lower Truckee River.

Earth Techling

• US-Backed 250-MW California Solar Plant Kicks ...
  You can call it another loan-guarantee success story: One of the world's biggest solar PV plants is fully operational in California.
• Green Buildings: A Matter Of Health, Not Just ...
  The "Building Health Initiative" in Northern California looks to emphasize improving human health – not just saving energy and water – through green building.
• Alstom Tidal Turbine Hits 100-MWh Mark
  Alstom calls 100 megawatt-hours of electricity sent onto the grid a milestone for its tidal stream turbine.
• Via Motors To Build Electric Trucks Down In Mexico
  Electric vehicle start up Via Motors unveils its first high volume EV assembly line south of the border in a free trade zone.
• US Wind Industry Sees 2013 Going Out With Roar
  With more than 2,300 megawatts under construction, a year that started off with virtually no new wind power being installed in the U.S. might just finish decently.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• OPINION: Abortion Ruling Fuels Debate
  Late last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated provisions in the Texas law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges in nearby hospitals. An appeal to the lower court?s ruling is pending. These two opinion pieces were written before the appeals court m ...
• ENERGY LAW: A SPECIAL REPORT: Digging In
  Invigorated exploration for more resources is delivering plenty of work to the legal industry. Our report highlights changes in the law of importance to the attorneys who handle the matters.
• IN-HOUSE: TD Bank Gets Religion on Electronic ...
  As TD Bank works its way out of an electronic-discovery mess that included court sanctions against its in-house and outside counsel, it is experimenting with cutting-edge technology. And the Toronto-based bank hopes to save money in the process.
• THE GLOBAL LAWYER: Chevron Witness Presents Fa ...
  The star witness in Chevron Corp.'s mega tort counter trial has been Alberto Guerra, a former Ecuadorian judge now living in an unprecedented private witness protection program funded by Chevron.
• THE PRACTICE: The Delicate Balance of Booting ...
  Clients deserve impartiality, but alleging that a judge can't do the job fairly is a risky undertaking.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Petroleum Power Plant To Be Built in Bokajan, ...
  The local council failed to earn any returns either in cash or in subsidized power after allowing other authorities to make the most of its natural resources.
• Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Reality Show
  Phoebe Legere, the Lower East Side's most fabulous blonde, transforms into Elizabeth I, England's most powerful redhead.
• Destruction of Syria's Chemical Weapons: A 'Wi ...
  Both believe that the sooner they make progress towards a diplomatic resolution the better it will be for Syria as well as Syria's neighbors, who are bearing the considerable burden of refugee outflow and the instability that comes with that.
• World Making Progress in Eliminating Childhood TB
  '2013 has been a year of tremendous progress. I am optimistic that paediatric TB will no longer be 'the neglected of the neglected'. With help of UNITAID and US Agency for International Development (USAID) we are embarking on significant changes
• US Reveals 'Next Steps' on Egypt Policy
  Responding to the desires of millions of Egyptians for democracy, the United States of America today revealed its next steps on U.S. policy toward Egypt.

environment 360

• Obama to Sign Order Calling For Adaptation to ...
  President Obama was expected to sign an executive order on Friday directing federal agencies to make it easier for states and communities to adapt to the rising seas, more intense storms, and droughts that are expected to increase as the planet warms this century. A key aspect of the order aims ...
• Smaller Rise in Global CO2 Emissions May Be Si ...
  Global carbon dioxide emissions grew last year at about half the rate of the past decade, possibly signaling a permanent slowdown of CO2 emissions, says a new report from the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency and the European Commission's Joint Research Center. Although total CO2 emissio ...
• A Year After Sandy, The Wrong Policy on Rebuil ...
  One year after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the U.S. East Coast, the government is spending billions to replenish beaches that will only be swallowed again by rising seas and future storms. It’s time to develop coastal policies that take into account new climate realities. BY ROB YOUNG
• Low on Natural Gas, More Cities in China Will ...
  In a push to curb air pollution, China has been urging its cities to rely more heavily on natural gas and less on coal. But a shortage of natural gas is threatening that goal, as urban populations boom and domestic gas production lags, Reuters reports. Chinese officials have said that to reduce ...
• Three Western U.S. States And British Columbia ...
  The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington, together with the premier of British Columbia, have signed a pact to coordinate efforts to combat global warming. With a combined GDP of $2.8 trillion and a population of 53 million people, the three states and the Canadian province represent ...

Red Ice Creations

• Confirmed: NSA has broken into Google, Yahoo d ...
  "If the reports earlier this summer detailing how the National Security Agency monitors all data passing through the nation’s internet service providers and tech companies was a little too much to digest or accept, that’s understandable. After all, this is America, right? And the NSA isn’t suppo ...
• Listen to a Performance from the Western World ...
  This is the Seikilos Column. It’s a marble tombstone from the first or second century A.D. A railroad engineer found it 1883 in Tralleis, Turkey. He sliced off the bottom so that his wife could use it as a flower display. Fortunately, the damage did not destroy the essential parts of this archae ...
• Belgium considers euthanasia law for terminall ...
  The Belgium government, considered the pioneer of euthanasia laws, is contemplating a new law that would allow terminally ill children the right to die. It would also offer that same right to dementia-diagnosed adults. An unprecedented law, if passed Belgium would be the only country that would ...
• Obama stops NSA spying on IMF and World Bank
  Redirecting the ’All Seeing Eye’ of the National Security Agency is evidently easily and quickly done when it comes to global banking, big money interests, and control. Obama has stopped the NSA from spying on the IMF and World Bank, because apparently global finance has nothing to do with ’nati ...
• Get ready to get taxed for the miles you drive ...
  Forget the freedom of the “open road.” Soon every mile one drives may be relayed back to government tax collectors. I pray that your commute isn’t too long. It’s not like you pay copious gasoline taxes already or anything. No, the little digital spy in your car will determine how much you owe ab ...

Not My Tribe

• Blackfish has a name, it’s TILIKUM. That ...
  Yes, Orcas aren’t fish. “Blackfish” is the translation of a name indigenous peoples gave killer whales, holding them in respectful regard while keeping a traditional safe distance. BLACKFISH is also the title of a new docummentary about how the sea mammals are mistreated by Sea ...
• 14 yr-old Philip Chism, black, charged as adul ...
  George Zimmerman has nothing on the US justice system. High school freshman Philip Chism is accused of murdering Boston teacher Colleen Ritzer. Though he’s only 14, Chism is being arraigned as an adult. Probably somewhere in America, a district attorney is hoping to prosecute a black juven ...
• Occupy Denver hits the Terrible Twos!
  LOOK OUT DENVER! There was no birthday cake this year for Occupy Denver, though the second annual #S17 OWS anniversary celebration did not go unmarked. Subgroup offshoots of Denver’s notorietous Occupy deployed themselves with the usual rowdy spirit. Denver Homeless Out Loud, advocates for ...
• Fuck the Police, say it while you can
  If you’re bleeding from a rollover accident and you’re a black male who’s prompted a white suburbanite to call the police, who arrive and shoot you; if you’re a non-suicidale teen who’s fallen from an overpass, broken your back, only to be tased a dozen times for no ...
• Springs Democrats hope democracy loses to Stat ...
  COLORADO SPRINGS, CO- International news headlines read “G-20 Summit Overshadowed by Syrian Crisis” but not in Colorado Springs! Here every politically active Democrat was working to defeat a recall of state senate leader John Morse, a democrat though barely. Morse is a duly elected, ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Two Petitions Regarding Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
   Petition: Fukushima Threatens Everyone in the Northern HemispherePetition: The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima Related:Fukushima The Coming Global DisasterHow To Fight Radiation Exposure Naturally
• WW3 - NSA use 9/11 as a defense for their SPYI ...
  AKNewsflash24 Published on Nov 1, 2013 Related: Petition: Join the Now Over 584,000 Others Asking the NSA to Stop Watching Us
• War is A Lot Scarier Than Halloween
    http://progressivepress.com/peaceweek.html On a lighter note, here is a 9/11 was an inside job Monster Mash parody song produced for the "Stew's Conspiracy Funhouse" podcast, as well as an interactive zombie film, both made by blog contributor Stewart Bradley. The&nbs ...
• 9/11 Free Fall 10/24/13: Ziggi Zugam-- The Red ...
  Ziggi Zugam-- a writer for “Debunking the Debunkers”-- discusses the latest in Mark Basile's push to raise money for a blind study of WTC dust samples, as well as the basics of Niels Harrit and team's nano-thermite paper, and the red/gray chip debate.  He also offers a perspective on the ...
• Petition: Join the Now Over 584,000 Others Ask ...
  "The organizers of the Stop Watching Us coalition, which includes over 100 public advocacy groups, are going to present a petition to Congress which has over 570,000 signatures." - Thousands March in D.C. Against NSA Domestic Surveillance SIGN THE PETITION HERE. Related: Read the following ...

Fooducate

• Is the Movement to Label GMOs Anti-Science?
• 4 Things We Can Learn From Kraft’s Removal of ...
• Sriracha Shortage? No Worries, Make Your Own H ...
• Annie’s Goes Microwave: Mac n’ Cheese Cup Reviewed
• What is Coconut Sugar? Is it Healthier than Ta ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• Yanomami shaman publishes unique book 'The Fal ...
  'The Falling Sky' is a unique book by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa.© Harvard University PressIn the first book ever written by a Yanomami Indian, Davi Kopenawa – shaman and leading spokesman for his people – describes the rich culture, history and ways of life of the Yanomami of the A ...
• Guarani Indians fear imminent bloodshed
  Guarani man. Gunmen have taken up positions around a Guarani community, and fired shots.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil fear imminent bloodshed as gunmen known to have assassinated indigenous leaders in recent years have taken up positions around them, and fired shots. The Guar ...
• Another casualty of ‘progress’: Ayoreo TB epid ...
  Chiri had suffered grave health problems after being forced from his forest home.© SurvivalChiri Etacore, an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died from a lung disease. He is the latest victim of an epidemic of TB and similar diseases devastati ...
• Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
• Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
  A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...

Greg Palast

• Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
  By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...
• Vultures and Voter Rustlers Palast Investigate ...
  Out this November! Get Palast's brand new DVD of his documentary investigations for BBC and Democracy Now! Watch 90 minutes of hard-hitting reports by Palast at his best. Reports include: - Election 2012 - Ohio Ballots - Mitt Romney's Auto Bailout Bonanza - DR Congo Vulture Threat - Vultures Pic ...
• Larry Summers and the Secret "End-Game" Memo
  By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn't believe it. The Memo confirmed every conspiracy freak's fantasy:  that in the late 1990s, the top US Treasury officials secretl ...
• The Golden Dawn Murder Case Larry Summers and ...
  By Greg Palast for Truthout On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi.  But I don't believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife:  The confessed killer is some twisted member of Golden Dawn, a p ...
• Karl Rove’s Carolina Scheme Faces Justice
  By Greg Palast. Updated from the original article published on TheMudflats.net Note from TheMudflats.net: In 2011 Karl Rove wrote a column called “Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012” - Rove was betting on North Carolina to be a swing state for the Republicans... Romney took the state but to Rov ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Weekly Wrap: Sebelius is to Obamacare as Boyle ...
  By Dan Olmsted Oof. That's about all a poor besieged progressive like me can say after watching the Obamacare rollout. "A self-inflicted wound for people who believe in the public sector," said journalist and historian Jon Meacham. Listening to HHS...
• Dachel Media Review: Your Kid is too Loud!
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Nov 1, 2013, My Fox Philly: Mom Starts School For Kids With Autism Oct 30, 2013, NBC4 Columbus, OH: Nationwide Children's Makes Breakthrough In Autism Research Oct...
• Autism Coverage at the OC Register --10 Stories
  By Anne Dachel There were a number of articles on autism published by the Orange County (CA) Register on Oct 18, 2013. They were by all kinds of people involved in autism, including leading experts. First, here's a doctor with...
• Dachel Media Review: Autism Rings the Doorbell
  By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Oct 31, 2013, CBS Philly: Mother's Dream To Create Life Home For Young Women With Autism Becomes Reality Oct 30, 2013, New Jersey Jewish News: Timely help...
• Find Avonte Oquendo: Autism, Missing Since 10/ ...
  On this Halloween, there is a family in New York hoping for a treat - 14 year old Avonte Oquendo eloped from his school in Queens., NY on Friday October 4. There has been no trace of him since, despite...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Klamath Basin Water Wars and Jefferson State
  Join Dave Hodges and myself this Sunday as we talk about the Klamath Basin water theft issue, Agenda 21, and the proposed new state of Jefferson carved out of a piece of both Northern California and Southern Oregon, which just so happens to be the area affected by the proposed removal of the Kla ...
• Scientists who say GMOs not proven safe climbs ...
  Given the scientific evidence at hand, sweeping claims that GM crops are substantially equivalent to, and as safe as, non-GM crops are not justifiable.
• Dam Removal: Fish or Foul on the Klamath River
  The Department of Interior plans to destroy four dams on the Klamath River in Northern California and Southern Oregon so salmon can swim further than 180 miles up the river. But these dams provide water and flood protection to thousands of humans who also live along the river. Clean energy from ...
• The Next Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ Will Be ...
  Over the years, many rural residents have been frustrated by federal environmental laws restricting logging and other forestry activities. The timber industry is dead. The mining industry is dead. The entire region is being deindustrialized and many residents and local leaders have stated that b ...
• How Much Mercury Escapes From Broken CFL Light ...
  Readings taken from broken CFL bulbs indicate extremely high toxic levels of mercury.

new geography

• The Dutch Rethink the Welfare State
  When the Netherlands’ newly coronated king made his first annual appearance before parliament, he turned some heads when he addressed the deficiencies of the Dutch welfare state.   “Due to social developments such as globalisation and an ageing population, our labour market and p ...
• Is America Flying Europe's Flag?
  Consider the recent government shutdown as a disagreement about how much influence Europe should have on the continuing American revolution. Who would have predicted that, more than 237 years after the United States threw off the English yoke, disagreement over European approaches to life and g ...
• To Rebuild, the Midwest Must Face Its Real and ...
  Despite well-publicized problems that earned it the nickname of the “Rust Belt”, on paper the Midwest possesses some formidable strengths. These include the largest concentration of engineers in America, world class educational institutions, a plethora of headquarters of global c ...
• New Report: Enterprising Cities - A Force for ...
  The inaugural edition of Enterprising Cities: A Force for Prosperity that was recently released examines best practices in municipalities taking proactive measures to support job creation and economic growth together with the private sector. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Enter ...
• Underemployment in America
  The nation’s lackluster economic performance continues to be a concern. This is evident in stubbornly high unemployment rates (See: Suburban and Urban Core Poverty: 2012 Special Report),which continue to be well above historic norms. There is another indicator, which may be even more i ...

water.org

• A Toilet for Anita
  Anita and her husband live in Bihar, India with their three children and two elderly parents. For the last eight years, the family has been using a vacant government lot for defecation. They faced multiple issues getting to and from the lot, particularly when carrying small children during monso ...
• Empowering 500,000 for safe water
  The Caterpillar Foundation expands partnership with new commitment to Water.org. Through this remarkable partnership we will accelerate our impact significantly and empower nearly 500,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation.
• Cooking with Water
  Clean water isn't just the cornerstone of life, it's the foundation of a healthy, delicious meal.
• $79 and 45 days later
  In the villages in India, women of all age groups fetch water for their household consumption. Despite her growing age, Siddamma continues to fetch water. She is 53 years old and lives in Karnataka, India.
• Building a Better Future
  Every single day, an unsafe, open-air water point serves about 7,500 people living in the mountains surrounding Corail Thor, Haiti. Now, thanks to the generous support of the Cartier Charitable Foundation, our local partner ASSODLO has begun building a simple, but transformative, gravity-fed, sp ...

Cryptogon

• Alleged LAX Gunman Had ‘New World Order& ...
  Via: NBC: The man who allegedly killed a TSA worker and wounded three others at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday had anti-government literature in his possession outlining an alleged conspiracy to create a single global government, law enforcement sources tell NBC News. The sources, w ...
• Son of Blackbird: SR-72, Mach 6 Reconnaissance ...
  I wonder if everyone in the U.S. will be on food stamps by the time this thing takes to the air: Food banks across the country, stretched thin in the aftermath of the recession, are bracing for more people coming through their doors in the wake of cuts to the federal food stamp program. Food [&# ...
• The One About BadBIOS
  I’d make sure to consider skeptical views on this BadBIOS story: Either it is an extremely limited piece of BIOS malware or it is occurring at the OS and escaping detection through previously unknown methods. Half the claims made regarding what it does (disabling registry editing, etc.) ar ...
• Slow and Steady Progress Toward Lethal Autonom ...
  This piece is a good summary of what’s happening in the field of military robotics. I’m pretty sure that all of the systems here have been covered separately on Cryptogon. Via: Vocativ: There are important differences between drones, landmines, and “killer robots” — the more serious ...
• RBS Traders Suspended in Forex Probe
  Via: BBC: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has suspended two traders in connection to a growing investigation into the possible manipulation of foreign exchange rates. The news follows reports that London-based executives at three other major banks have been placed on leave. Regulators in the UK, US ...

The Economic Collapse

• All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...
• Don’t Worry – The Government Says ...
  If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States, you are just imagining things.  That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve would have us to believe.  You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living increase for ...
• 10 Signs That Obamacare Is Going To Wreck The ...
  It is hard to find the words to adequately describe how much of a disaster Obamacare is turning out to be.  The debut of Healthcare.gov has been probably the worst launch of a major website in history, millions of Americans are having their current health insurance policies canceled, millions of ...
• 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
  Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
• Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
  If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...

Desertification

• Video on Desertification (GREEN TV)
  Video seen at : VIDEO | by GREEN.tv http://on.aol.com/video/global-outlook-for-desertification-517351300 Global Outlook For Desertification  
• Ingenious and potentially effective way of dea ...
  Read at : http://ecowanderer.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/bacteria-can-prevent-desertification-in-the-future/ Bacteria can prevent Desertification in the future Desertification is now a widely recognized problem that can negatively affect many people’s lives. It’s occurrence not only reduces the amo ...
• Influence of development paths on desertificat ...
  Read at : http://www.greenfacts.org/en/desertification/l-2/5-future-desertification.htm 5. How will different future development paths influence desertification? 5.1 Which scenarios have been explored in this assessment? 5.2 Are pressures on drylands expected to increase? 5.3 What are the key ch ...
• Long-term sustainability of desertification re ...
  Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0077510 How Sustainable Is Government-Sponsored Desertification Rehabilitation in China? Behavior of Households to Changes in Environmental Policies Ning Liu, Lihua Zhou mail, J. Sc ...
• Desertification is a creeping catastrophe (Fut ...
  Read at : http://www.futureworldproject.org/story/desertification Desertification Desertification is a creeping catastrophe. Already creating millions of environmental refugees worldwide every year, one third of the earth’s surface and the livelihoods of at least one billion people are threatene ...

News Blaze

• Petroleum Power Plant To Be Built in Bokajan, ...
  The local council failed to earn any returns either in cash or in subsidized power after allowing other authorities to make the most of its natural resources.
• Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Reality Show
  Phoebe Legere, the Lower East Side's most fabulous blonde, transforms into Elizabeth I, England's most powerful redhead.
• Destruction of Syria's Chemical Weapons: A 'Wi ...
  Both believe that the sooner they make progress towards a diplomatic resolution the better it will be for Syria as well as Syria's neighbors, who are bearing the considerable burden of refugee outflow and the instability that comes with that.
• World Making Progress in Eliminating Childhood TB
  '2013 has been a year of tremendous progress. I am optimistic that paediatric TB will no longer be 'the neglected of the neglected'. With help of UNITAID and US Agency for International Development (USAID) we are embarking on significant changes
• US Reveals 'Next Steps' on Egypt Policy
  Responding to the desires of millions of Egyptians for democracy, the United States of America today revealed its next steps on U.S. policy toward Egypt.

libcom

• Russian demonstrator sent for psychiatric "tre ...
  bolotnaya.JPG MARIA C., a Russian activist, comments on the sentencing of Mikhail Kosenko, who was arrested at one of last year’s demonstrations. To find out more, come to the meeting at 5.0 pm, Satur ...
• Who can ride the garment tiger?
  RMG_roadblock-for min_wage-Sep2013-Dhaka.jpg On Saturday September 21st there began a 10 day mass agitation by Bangladeshi Ready Made Garment(RMG) workers demanding a 170% increase in their minimum wa ...
• Another Abahlali baseMjondolo activist murdere ...
  Nqobile Nzuza, 17 years, old was shot dead by the police yesterday morning on a road blockade. She was shot in the back, twice. This is the statement from Abahlali baseMjondolo. read more
• Joint declaration for an inclusive and anti-ra ...
  stopracism.gif Words like shock and horror do not do enough to express our disgust before the hate crime perpetrated Saturday afternoon against the Chicoutimi Mosque. We who are active every day teari ...
• Airstrikes Threat On Syria! Third World War? N ...
  577319_255469284567025_657820563_n.jpg http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/airstrikes-threat-on-syria-third-world-war-no-war-but-the-class-war/ http://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/wp-content/upload ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

• Military Cancer
  This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
• Military Cancer
  This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
• Casting Bread Upon the Waters
  No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY
• Casting Bread Upon the Waters
  No good deed every goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY         &#16 ...
• NSA + DARPA + “Progressives” = DEE ...
  ALERT!  Tomorrow, the 12th Anniversary of 9-11, my associates and I had long planned on conducting another massive protest of NSA, including a candlelight vigil, on the steps of the Utah State Capital.   There we had made plans to present a formal Petition for Redress of Grievances exactly as ou ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Energy Collective

• Germany Hits 59 Percent Renewable Peak, Grid D ...
  Wind and solar power peaked at 59.1 percent of German power generation earlier this month. It happened at noon on a very windy and sunny October 3 -- the German holiday commemorating reunification. Germany hit 61 percent, a record, and 59 percent peaks earlier this year.read more
• Record Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency From A ' ...
  Gallium is already on its way to becoming the workhorse of the solar tech field, and now a team of US scientists has hit upon an improved method for growing indium gallium nitride crystals that could lead to record-breaking solar cell efficiency.read more
• New York City Takes 250,000 Steps Toward Energ ...
  Last week NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan announced a new effort to replace the city’s current amber streetlights for white, more energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs throughout the five boroughs.read more
• Research: Fracking Uses and Loses More Water t ...
  Hydraulic fracturing’s water footprint is higher than previously thought, according to a new report that combined data from many sources to provide one of the most comprehensive looks at how water is actually used by the oil and gas industry.read more
• Lessons Learned from Superstorm Sandy: One Yea ...
  On Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record made landfall along the heavily populated Jersey Shore causing massive damage and devastation. On the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, it’s important to look back and reflect on the lessons learned.read more

Prior Art

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

• Appeals Court Stays Stop and Frisk Ruling
  by Stephen Lendman Stop and frisk is longstanding NYPD policy. It reflects brazen racial profiling. It affects hundreds of thousands of Black and Latino New York city residents annually. No evidence proves it's effective. Plenty shows it's racially motivated. It violates core constitutio ...
• Israel Attacks Syria and Gaza
  by Stephen Lendman Israel gets away with daily crimes of war, against humanity and slow-motion genocide. It does so with impunity. It does it because world leaders able to act do nothing. Failure to hold Israel accountable reflects complicity with crimes too great to ignore. They've per ...
• America’s Intelligence Spying Scandal Dr ...
  Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. From George Bush onward to President Obama, the sadistic politics of the few flourishes in darkness being unable to know the difference between the foes and friends, fair and foul. The draconian mindsets try to envisage the unknown - the distant future out of the perpet ...
• Counterinsurgency, Death Squads, and the Popul ...
  By: Andrew Gavin Marshall While the American Empire – and much of the policies being pursued – did not begin under President Obama, the focus of “Empire Under Obama” is to bring awareness about the nature of empire to those who may have – or continue – to sup ...
• Whistle-blowers: Trying Hard Not to Adjust to ...
  By Gary G. Kohls, MD “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Asian Indian philosopher Last weekend, I talked my two grandsons into joining me to watch “The Fifth Estate”, the new feature film about WikiL ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Hennessy’s Index: Wal-Mart or Costco?
  Whether you shop there or not, the November edition of Hennessy’s Index looks at some fundamental differences between how Wal-Mart and Costco treat their workers. Hennessy’s Index is a monthly listing of numbers, written by the CCPA's Trish Hennessy, about Canada and its place in the world. Rea ...
• Impact of the CETA on the costs of patented drugs
  A new CCPA report, by Dr. Joel Lexchin and Marc-André Gagnon, examines the impact of the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) on pharmaceuticals. The authors find that the tentative EU-Canada trade deal will further tilt the balance towards the protection of brand-name drug manufact ...
• Bruce Campbell discusses the Lac-Mégantic rail ...
  On Tuesday, October 23, CCPA’s Executive Director, Bruce Campbell appeared on the Business News Network (BNN) to discuss the findings of his new report The Lac-Mégantic Disaster: Where Does the Buck Stop? Campbell says the rail disaster was an accident waiting to happen, and speaks to the whethe ...
• Harsh lessons from Lac-Mégantic
  A new study, by CCPA Executive Director Bruce Campbell, examines the root causes of the Lac-Mégantic tragedy, Canada's deadliest rail disaster in almost 150 years. According to the study, the evidence to date points to a flawed regulatory system, cost-cutting corporate behavior that jeopardized ...
• Watch CCPA Saskatchewan's presentation of ...
  On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presented a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page reflects on his tenure as the first PBO in Canada and the identifies the obstacles ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• “Sophisticated” drug tunnel discov ...
  The underground tunnel running from Tijuana to San Diego had ventilation, electricity and its own rail system
• U.S. malaria cases hit 40-year high
  Some 1,925 cases were reported in the country in 2011, the most seen in a single year since 1971
• How drug companies price patients out of survival
  A landmark ruling against Novartis highlights practices that make healthcare unaffordable in developing countries
• A US drone strike may have killed Pakistani Ta ...
  News comes on the heels of an emotional congressional hearing on the effect of drone strikes
• John Kasich’s redemption play: “Everyone on ea ...
  Ohio’s GOP governor becomes a hero for expanding Medicaid, but he’s about to kick thousands off food stamps

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Soliciting Reader Questions for Oil Sands Tour
  On Sunday, November 3rd, I am heading to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a tour of the oil sands operations. Here are the details from the initial email that I received inviting me on the trip: Each year, the Consulate General partners with other U.S. Canadian missions to organize a tour of Canada’s ...
• The Lasting Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo
  Forty years ago Americans got a wake up call on energy security. As Robert Rapier explains, the energy policy decisions that were made in response to the crisis have a lasting impact today.
• The Ice That Burns
  Methane hydrates are a huge natural gas resource, but are they worth the environmental risk?
• Why Gasoline Prices are Falling
  Fall is always a welcome change of pace for most people after a long, hot summer. Not only from the temperatures, but fall almost always brings relief at the gasoline pump. Robert Rapier explains.
• Government Mandated Spending: A Lesson in Wast ...
  The EPAct forced the DOE to spend money on what essentially amounted to the least stupid ideas, writes Robert Rapier. In many cases it was recognized that there was little chance of success, but the money had to be spent.

Discovery Educator Network

• http://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/ ...
  Tags: pdf, commonsensemedia, info, graphic, media, children, usage, 0-8by: Dean Mantz
• How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleas ...
  Comments:Must. Read. Such a valuable lesson and another example of how we are doing it wrong. - Randy RodgersHighlights and Sticky Notes:Decentralized systems have proven to be more productive and agile than rigid, top-down onesTeachers provide prompts, not answers, and then they step asideWe do ...
• Freedom’s Ring: King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
  Comments:Freedom’s Ring is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, animated. Here you can compare the written and spoken speech, explore multimedia images, listen to movement activists, and uncover historical context. Fifty years ago, as the culminating address of the March on Washing ...
• Extensive Garageband iPad Tutorial | iPadablei ...
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Stonecipher News

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

Information Liberation

• LAX Shooter 'Wanted To Kill TSA And Pigs' Says ...
  From the AP: A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly, said Ciancia was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a handwritten note that said h...
• Lawsuit: Ark. Cop Chased and Tased Woman After ...
  LITTLE ROCK (CN) - A city cop in Arkansas chased a woman through her workplace, shooting a Taser at her, because she refused to show him her breasts, the woman claims in court. Ashlea Bennett sued the City of Haskell, Ark. and its police Off...
• The Virtue of Vigilantism
  Most of us are brought up believing that we live in a nation of laws, that certain objective rules govern society, and that enforcing those rules is the sole province of government and its agents. When we have a problem, we rely on the police and the...
• Schiff: Russell's Brand of Marxism is no Bette ...
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• UNMANNED: America's Drone Wars (full film)
  Highly anticipated documentary from director Robert Greenwald on the impact of the U.S. Drone Wars, at home and abroad. AmericasDroneWars.com...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Misery in Motown
  Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
• LibertyGibbert Open Forum
  I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
• DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
  James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.
• The New, Libertarian Conscience Of the Senate
  I said the other week that I agreed with Paul Keating’s famous denunciation of the Senate as “unrepresentative swill”. It’s now looking highly likely that, due to complicated preference deals which few voters understood or were even aware of, six … Continue reading ...
• Clean Up Australia Day
  Today’s the day. After six years of Labor incompetence and obsession with leadership battles, Machiavellian sub-plots, the best-forgotten Gillard Experiment, and the finale of Rudd Redux, Australians today will finally have their chance to go to the polls and cast … Continue reading ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Hospitals are opting out of Obamacare, some ar ...
  Hospitals in Concord NH do not accept Obamacare. People who live there have to drive 25 miles to the nearest participating hospital. Unfortunately, Concord is not an outlier. Hospitals, some of them big and well-known, are either rejecting Obamacare completely or only accepting a few plans. The ...
• 3D printed horseshoes, custom fit to race horse
  These 3D printed titanium horseshoes are half the weight of traditional aluminum horseshoes, which means the horse may well run faster. The titanium shoes were produced for a particular horse: its hooves were 3D scanned in detail with a handheld scanner. The 3D capture was used to engineer new h ...
• John Kerry makes tepid pretense of reforming NSA
  John Kerry pretends to be concerned about illegal and intrusive NSA snooping. The Obama Administration has been mostly mute about this – when not actively defending NSA, that is. We need to be on guard against phony concern from those with no actual interest in changing NSA. Kerry’s ...
• Watermark. The movie
  Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, marking their second collaboration after Manufactured Landscapes in 2006. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe ab ...
• Moonshine Bandits. For The Outlawz
  Mash up those genres! I just discovered the Moonshine Bandits and like them. Redneck hip hop?

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

• Silver Donald Cameron: The Canso Fishermen's S ...
  This blog was origi ...
• October in Review
  Cops attack anti-shale gas camp in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia is open for gas exploration, Barrick Gold runs from Pascua-Lama On October 17th, RCMP forces aggressively intervened in ...
• Movember and MoGaza
  First the bad news: I’ve been hit by testicular cancer. Now the good news: I’m hitting back, and you can help! Donate to my Movember campaign. Then make a matching donation to my MoGaza campaign (through Medical Aid for Palesti ...
• Déclaration au sujet des informateurs, des age ...
  18 octobre 2013. Zig Zag, Warrior Publications. Dans la foulée du raid de la GRC au blocage en résistance à la fracturation hydraulique au Nouveau-Brunswick, en territoire mi'kmaq, une théorie conspirationniste circule prétendant que l ...
• Unfair Shares
  Did opposition to a Canadian mine in Mexico drive divestment? MONTREAL—Communal landholders fighting against Canadian mining operations in the northern Mexican state of Durango ...

David Seaton's News Links

• A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
  I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...
• Obama, the Asperger president?
  David Seaton's News Links Something that has always fascinated me is how Barack Obama ever got into politics in the first place. As we have seen on many occasions, but most clearly during the shutdown, he seems to be lacking the basic tools of  common and garden variety politics: he is t ...
• USA: the twerking hegemon
  Twerking: The act of moving/ shaking ones ass/buns/bottom/buttocks/bum-bum in a circular, up-and-down, and side-to-side motion. Urban Dictionary Congress capped off a tense and exhausting day Wednesday with back-to-back House and Senate votes on legislation to re-open the shuttered government ...
• Making sense (dollars and cents) of so much in ...
  David Seaton's News LinksI think we can be almost grateful for the idiotic crisis in Washington, which even with its possibility of a default which may do heavy damage to the world's economy, is giving us an ample warning of a far greater crisis looming in the foreseeable future, a crisis of dem ...
• The magnificent quest for Shinola (updated)
  David Seaton's News LinksThis is a revised version of something I wrote a couple of years ago, which I felt that, with a few minor changes, would be more timely today than when I first wrote it. In American-Speak someone of little understanding is said to be unable to distinguish between excreme ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 1 November 2013
  Sometimes catblogging is a last-minute affair. Yesterday afternoon I suddenly realized I hadn't taken this week's picture, and the light was fading. So I grabbed this week's quilt, tossed it onto the grass outside, and plonked Domino down on it. She did not cooperate, so I only got a few shots ...
• Chart of the Day: The Collapse of the American ...
  Via Harrison Jacobs, here's a recent study showing the trend in income segregation in American neighborhoods. Forty years ago, 65 percent of us lived in middle-income neighborhoods. Today, that number is only 42 percent. The rest of us live either in rich neighborhoods or in poor neighborhoods ...
• Small Businesses Plan to Add Health Coverage F ...
  Sean Vitka directs my attention to page 26 of a new survey from NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Business. They asked their members if they planned to add health insurance next year, and it turns out that there's going to be a net increase. Of those who currently offer insurance, 7 ...
• Yet Another Benghazi Story Falls Apart
  Earlier this week I wrote about Lara Logan's sensationalistic report on Benghazi for 60 Minutes on Sunday. As it turned out, the only new bit of reporting came from a British security supervisor who has written a book and came on the program to publicize it, but even he didn't really have anyt ...
• Despite Problems, Obamacare Remains Fairly Wel ...
  The Kaiser Family Foundation has released yet another Obamacare tracking poll, and they find that huge majorities think the rollout has gone badly. No surprise there. But they also find that this hasn't really changed opinions much. As usual, people who want to keep or expand Obamacare outnumb ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

• Yanomami shaman publishes unique book 'The Fal ...
  'The Falling Sky' is a unique book by Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa.© Harvard University PressIn the first book ever written by a Yanomami Indian, Davi Kopenawa – shaman and leading spokesman for his people – describes the rich culture, history and ways of life of the Yanomami of the A ...
• Guarani Indians fear imminent bloodshed
  Guarani man. Gunmen have taken up positions around a Guarani community, and fired shots.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalGuarani Indians in Brazil fear imminent bloodshed as gunmen known to have assassinated indigenous leaders in recent years have taken up positions around them, and fired shots. The Guar ...
• Another casualty of ‘progress’: Ayoreo TB epid ...
  Chiri had suffered grave health problems after being forced from his forest home.© SurvivalChiri Etacore, an Ayoreo-Totobiegosode man forced out of his forest home in the name of ‘progress’, has died from a lung disease. He is the latest victim of an epidemic of TB and similar diseases devastati ...
• Travel companies join Botswana boycott despite ...
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled, but the Botswana government says it has an 'uninterrupted record of upholding the rule of law for all citizens'.© SurvivalOnly weeks after Survival International called for a boycott of Botswana to ...
• Attempts to manipulate Jarawa backfire with ar ...
  A Jarawa woman returning from gathering at the edges of the Jarawa's forest. The Jarawa rely on hunting and gathering to survive.© SurvivalAttempts by poachers to manipulate members of the Jarawa tribe in India’s Andaman Islands have backfired following swift action by the authorities. Five ...

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

• #Japan's 'Toxic' Monster Creeping Towards #USA
  from foxnews.com: An enormous debris field is creeping toward the U.S. in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people and launching 1.5 million tons of floating objects into the sea. That most concentrated part of the junk field i ...
• #Halloween grinch in #NorthDakota? Fat notes r ...
  from cnn.com: Instead of handing out candy, a local woman called into a radio station, saying she plans to pass out letters to trick-or-treaters she feels are "moderately obese." How do you say killjoy? "I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight," said the w ...
• #NewYork To Raise #Cigarettes Sale Age To 21
  from bbc.co.uk: New York City Council has voted to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21. New York will now become by far the most populous place in the US to impose such a high age limit, the Associated Press reports. The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes. ...
• Do #FoodStamps Riot Predictions Give Blank Che ...
  Food Bank CEO Warns of Riots over Major Food Stamps Cuts* from rt.com: The US food stamp system is to be reduced by $5 billion starting in November. The average benefit will shrink and the overall number of people receiving it will diminish by millions. The CEO of America’s largest food bank ...
• California City Sues Sriracha Factory Over Stench
  from bbc.co.uk: A California city has sued the maker of Sriracha hot sauce saying the factory's smell makes the area uninhabitable. The city of Irwindale has asked a judge to prevent Huy Fong Foods from making the spicy condiment until the factory submits plan to reduce the smell. Huy Fong repre ...

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

• All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...
• Don’t Worry – The Government Says ...
  If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States, you are just imagining things.  That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve would have us to believe.  You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living increase for ...
• 10 Signs That Obamacare Is Going To Wreck The ...
  It is hard to find the words to adequately describe how much of a disaster Obamacare is turning out to be.  The debut of Healthcare.gov has been probably the worst launch of a major website in history, millions of Americans are having their current health insurance policies canceled, millions of ...
• 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
  Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
• Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
  If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...

CASSE

• Top 10 Policies for a Steady-State Economy
  While we're hunkered down enduring the inevitable collapse of the growth economy, we should consider sound policies for a sustainable economy.
• A Question of Scarcity
  On our full-world planet, we face an urgent challenge to find strategic points in decision-making processes to encourage "right-sized" consumption.
• Insanity Reigns at the World Bank
  Now's the time to maintain pressure on the World Bank to avoid costly failures in constructing a 21st-century energy infrastructure.
• The Debt Ceiling: What’s Good for the Public G ...
  It's common sense: if you want a debt ceiling for the federal government, then you ought to want a debt ceiling for the private sector as well.
• Unlimited Competition Is Not Sustainable
  Running in place on a treadmill, the agricultural sector illustrates how continuous competition leads to nowhere.

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

• The overlooked fight against voter ID in Tennessee
  Image Caption:  Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would require public welfare offices to issue photo voter ID cards. Though it hasn't gotten the attention that North Carolina and Texas have, Tenness ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Public concern grows over mon ...
  Image Caption:  Pie chart from "The New Politics of Judicial Elections: How New Waves of Special Interest Spending Raised the Stakes for Fair Courts" by the Brennan Center for Justice, Justice at Stake, and the National Institute on M ...
• In Louisiana, a former Army commander goes to ...
  Image Caption:  U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré greets President George W. Bush in New Orleans in October 2005. After gaining fame for saving the Gulf from chaos after Hurricane Katrina, Honoré is now trying to save it from the irresponsibilit ...
• The Affordable Care Act's most important date: ...
  Image Caption:  In last June's ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states discretion over whether to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income people. About half of the states -- ...
• Auto Workers try a new angle at Volkswagen
  Image Caption:  VW workers staged a several-hour "warning strike" in Zwickau, Germany, on May 13, demanding a 5.5 percent raise. German plants have a dual representation system with both a union, which can strike, and a works council, ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

• 'qualifications' do not distinguish good teach ...
  Why qualifications, or subject knowledge, are only a small part of being a good teacher. See abelard's basic maths pages for how a real teacher teaches.
• competent or useless - conservative or sociali ...
  It comes down to having politicians who can run the country well, or having those who bribe or flatter to obtain votes, while being are miserably bad managers.
• breathing is dangerous | ecology news at abela ...
  Tom Lehrer once advised "Don't breathe the air...". Seems like that's a current choice!
• collectivism v. freedom, 1911 - ramsay-macdona ...
  A socialist versus a Catholic. Now surmise who has more care for members of society, and think on the current Loyal Opposition.
• switzerland to vote on 2,500 franc basic month ...
  A real citizen's wage could soon be functioning before the UK's cautious approximation. Maybe with this real-world example, Socialists might understand that a citizen's wage works and stop fighting advance.

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

• More NSA leakers following Snowden’s footsteps ...
  by Clark Kent Several more current and former National Security Agency insiders, inspired by American fugitive Edward Snowden, have come forward as whistleblowers with details of the shadowy agency’s operations, according to an attorney at a whistleblower protection organization. “I think the go ...
• Vaccine Damage: An International Plague
  by Catherine J. Frompovich Vaccine damage knows no national boundaries. As someone who has been researching and tracking vaccine information and data since the 1980s, when indications were surfacing that children were being harmed after receiving vaccinations, I empathize with parents who experi ...
• Obama knew a month before launch that Healthca ...
  by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) When government officials are caught in a web of deceit or corruption, the first couple of questions usually asked by the media and investigators are, \”What did they know, and when did they know it?\” A story published this week by CNN answers those two ...
• ▶ FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy – a D ...
  ▶ FLUORIDEGATE An American Tragedy – a David Kennedy film – YouTube.
• Activist Post: Tel Aviv Regime Strikes Syria, ...
  Tony Cartalucci Activist Post Israel and its Western sponsors have admitted to an unprovoked airstrike in Syrian territory this week. This is the latest of several assaults Israeli planes have carried out against neighboring Syria over the past year. CNN, in its report, \”Israeli planes st ...

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electric politics

• Facts Versus Faith
  Color me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...
• The Coming Democratic Revolution
  Every journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about protecting t ...
• A Constitutional Crisis
  The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
• Hostage Negotiations 101
  They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...
• Legal Realities
  If the President unilaterally blows past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he unilaterally chooses which programs not to fund so as to avoid blowing past the debt ceiling he breaks the law. If he, again unilaterally, raises taxes to stay under the debt ceiling he breaks the law. It's a tril ...

PR News

• Astellas US appoints Winton as SVP, CCO
  NORTHBROOK, ILL: Astellas US has hired Jeffrey Winton as SVP and CCO, a newly created position.
• Fearey Group president to become CEO, owner
  SEATTLE: Pat Fearey, founder and CEO of Seattle-based communications firm The Fearey Group, sold the agency to current president Aaron Blank.
• Publicis, Omnicom merger gets US antitrust nod
  PARIS: Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group passed regulatory hurdles on Friday as the antitrust waiting period related to the holding companies' merger came to an end.
• Bayer promotes Panzano as internal comms head
  WHIPPANY, NJ: Bayer has promoted Mary Lou Panzano to serve in the newly created role of VP and head of internal communications for the US.
• APCO taps Murck and Wang as senior counselors
  WASHINGTON: APCO Worldwide has appointed Christian Murck and Freda Wang to serve as senior counselors for the firm and its clients in China and worldwide.

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• SESA Seminar: Alberta Solar PV Performance - T ...
  Solar Energy Society of Alberta Grant MacEwan University 13 Nov 2013 - 19:00 Speaker: Gordon Howell, P.Eng, Howell-Mayhew Engineering So ...
• Tim Flannery on climate change and energy tran ...
  Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) has posted video of Tim Flannery's recent talk in Calgary— part of the Low Carbon Leadership Speaker Series sponsored by ABCD & Clean Energy Canada. From the Alberta Climate Dialogue website: Tim Flannery is the Chief of the Australian Climate ...
• Worrying Trends in Canada's Latest Greenhouse ...
  Environment Canada recently released the 2013 Canada's Emission Trends report. The Pembina Insitute's P.J. Partington explains some worrying trends from the report in his blog and in the video below. Trending Bad: What Environment Canada's lates ...
• Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan Workshop
  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society — Southern Alberta Chapter 4 Nov 2013 - 19:00 - 21:00 From the CPAWS SAB website: CPAWS is holding two Draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan ...
• Call for Delegates: Workshop Participants for ...
  Initiative:  Stakeholder consultation on the draft Surface Water Quantity Management Framework for the Lower Athabasca River and the draft Tailing Management Framework for Mineable Oil Sands ...

Stop NATO

• Stephen Lendman interviews Rick Rozoff
  Progressive Radio Network November 1, 2013 Stephen Lendman interviews Rick Rozoff AUDIO
• NATO: Large-Scale War Games On Russia’s ...
  Deutsche Welle October 31, 2013 NATO practices operations on a large scale NATO wants to hold more military exercises after the end of the ISAF mission. The upcoming exercise is the biggest in seven years and takes place at the eastern border of the alliance’s territory. For twelve years G ...
• Voltaire: One country cannot conquer without m ...
  ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Voltaire: War ==== Voltaire From Philosophical Dictionary Translated by H.I. Woolf Fatherland A young journeyman pastrycook who had been to college, and who still knew a few of Cicero’s phrases, boasted one day of loving his ...
• NATO Holds War Games 30-Second Jet Flight From ...
  Russian Information Agency Novosti November 1, 2013 NATO to Kick Off Military Exercise Near Russia WASHINGTON: The United States and its European allies are set to begin military exercises near Russia’s western borders Saturday, a training operation that has raised hackles in Moscow but will be ...
• NATO Oversees Georgian Military Upgrading, Int ...
  Ministry of Defence of Georgia October 29, 2013 PARP Visit to NATO HQ Accomplishment of the commitments undertaken by Georgia under the Defence Planning and Review Process (PARP) is being evaluated at NATO HQ. The delegation of Georgian MoD, led by Deputy Defence Minister Mikheil Darchiashvili, ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Kiriakou Honored Yet Again: Wins 'Peacemaker o ...
  It's now been more than eight months since CIA/torture whistleblower John Kiriakou was imprisoned for telling the truth. Kiriakou, a GAP client, is the sole CIA agent to go to jail in connection with the U.S. torture program, despite the fact that he never tortured anyone. Rather, he blew the wh ...
• Germany May Invite Snowden as Witness in NSA I ...
  The Guardian: Germany May Invite Edward Snowden as Witness in NSA Inquiry Actions are being taken to allow NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden to testify as part of a parliamentary inquiry in Germany. The NSA whistleblower met in Russia recently with a German lawmaker (member of the ...
• GAP Supports Surveillance State Repeal Act; Ur ...
  Today, GAP, joined by frontline civil rights groups and companies, endorsed the Surveillance State Repeal Act (H.R. 2818). The reform, introduced this summer by Congressman Rush Holt (D-NJ), would repeal the Patriot Act and FISA Amendment Act of 2008 – which together allow for the collection of ...
• Snowden Disclosures Show NSA's Secret Infiltra ...
  Washington Post: NSA Infiltrates Links to Yahoo, Google Data Centers Worldwide, Snowden Documents Say The latest explosive disclosure from NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden details how the agency “has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google ...
• USDA Poultry Plan Could Increase Bird Abuse: D ...
  Washington Post: USDA Plan to Speed Up Poultry-Processing Lines Could Increase Risk of Bird Abuse This front-page article details how, according to USDA inspectors, the agency's proposal to increase line speeds at poultry processing facilities would have serious humane handling repercussions. ...

UK Progressive

• The Willie Horton Ad 25 Years Later
  by David A. Love Twenty-five years later, the infamous Willie Horton ad continues to make its impact on American politics. The 1988 campaign ad was waged by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush in his presidential run against Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.  As depicted in the TV commercial, ...
• Is Healthcare.gov Turning the Corner? Not So Fast
  by Charles Ornstein ProPublica In some ways, the Affordable Care Act seemed to catch a break last week. Republicans in Congress failed in their attempts to repeal the law or delay its implementation. At the same time, consumers and journalists began reporting success — after many failed attempts ...
• A Tale of Two Obamacares: Which Is Right?
  by Charles Ornstein ProPublica This weekend, I read two very different takes on the three-week-old Healthcare.gov health insurance marketplace. One was hopeful; the other decidedly not. Both are worth your time. Writing for the National Review, Yuval Levin explains that he spoke to several longt ...
• How a Law Becomes a Bill: Tea Party Civics
  by Tina Dupuy The President of the United States signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also referred to as ObamaCare, on March 23, 2010. It then became a law. In March 2012, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to ObamaCare, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. On June 28, 201 ...
• Ted bin Laden Syndrome
  by Brent Budowsky It is time to coin a phrase to describe the Republican crisis: the GOP, now dominated by a rightist faction that can be called conservatives in name only, suffers from a disease I call Ted bin Laden Syndrome. The phrase “Ted bin Laden” was coined by conservative columnist Kathl ...

NewsAlert

• Chevron Vindicated As Evidence Points To 'Gree ...
  IBD
• New book stunning reveal: Rev. Wright proposal ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• Why Delaying Obamacare Has Insurers Freaking Out
  The National Journal reports:The health insurance industry already had plenty to freak out about with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Simply complying with the law is a massive undertaking, never mind the terrible HealthCare.gov debut. But the botched rollout has produced a new so ...
• Football strike on as France says won't drop 7 ...
  AFP
• Chinese heavily focused on US real estate. How ...
  Dr. Housing Bubble

JoNova

• Terry McCrann – Fantasists try to scare ...
  Terry McCrann pretty neatly shows the vacuity of our Climate Change Authority. We need to reduce our quality of living, change the main source of energy our civilization was built on, in order to reduce our emissions by an amount so small, that others have already undone it by a factor of 120, ( ...
• Inflation anyone? Christmas Cards to US and EU ...
  Christmas Cards to Europe and the US in 2012 were $1.60.    In 2013 are $2.55. I have not seen a rise like it. … 2010 stamp compared to 2013 The Christmas card rate overseas depends on location (it used to be a flat rate): $1.70 to New Zealand , $1.80 to Asia Pacific, $2.55 to Rest of Wor ...
• US Schools teach kids high tech ways to waste ...
  Steve Goreham highlights a school program which spends 30,000 dollars to save 300. The program is called “Wise” and hopes to change global weather. Presumably with such profligate wastage, delusional ambition, and little practical purpose, it will breed future political leaders.   &# ...
• Heat and fires from when CO2 was “ideal& ...
  The year 1851 and CO2 is 287ppm in Law Dome Antarctica. The climate is perfect, but Australians are dealing with the worst fires in recorded history, scorching heat, drought, searing wind and by the sounds of it, an arabian dust storm. There are no skycranes, no mobile phones, and no helitankers ...
• Chance to see Bob Carter, Mr David Leyonhjelm ...
  The PGA (Pastoralists and Graziers) convention is on Saturday morning in Perth. It’s a great event, has a few movers and shakers going, and I very much enjoyed the last one I went too. If you want to go, email the PGA or phone them today. The normal fee for non-members would be $250, but I ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

• Jack-O'-Lantern Dinosaurs And Other Amazing Im ...
  Dinosaur Halloween Joshua Bousel via Colossal     
• Big Pic: An Overactive Russian Volcano Covers ...
  Klyuchevskaya NASA Earth Observatory images by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data from the USGS Earth Explorer. Russia's Klyuchevskaya volcano, one of the most active in the world, has been erupting since mid-August. Last month, it became even more intense, spewing ash from its summit (16,00 ...
• This Fake Robot Frog Is Key For Field Research
  Amorous Amphibian Cast in urethane from a mold of a túngara frog, the robot [above] was finished with a glossy top coat to mimic wet skin. It can be used to study either mating rituals or the behavior of predators. Courtesy Barrett Klein/University of Wisconsin/Moey Studios When a male tú ...
• Blindfolded People Can Still "See" Their Own Limbs
  Eye Tracking J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester A blindfold is no match for the power of the brain. Even when shrouded in total darkness, your mind still thinks it can see your body moving, creating visual sensations of motion even when it's impossible to see, according to a new study ...
• How Biological Patents Promote Research And Sa ...
  In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people can't patent isolated human genes, which it considers a product of nature, but they can patent something exceptionally similar: cDNA, a synthesized copy from which someone has removed the noncoding parts. Given that fine line, it's not entirely ...

Facing South

• The overlooked fight against voter ID in Tennessee
  Image Caption:  Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) has introduced a bill that would require public welfare offices to issue photo voter ID cards. Though it hasn't gotten the attention that North Carolina and Texas have, Tenness ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Public concern grows over mon ...
  Image Caption:  Pie chart from "The New Politics of Judicial Elections: How New Waves of Special Interest Spending Raised the Stakes for Fair Courts" by the Brennan Center for Justice, Justice at Stake, and the National Institute on M ...
• In Louisiana, a former Army commander goes to ...
  Image Caption:  U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré greets President George W. Bush in New Orleans in October 2005. After gaining fame for saving the Gulf from chaos after Hurricane Katrina, Honoré is now trying to save it from the irresponsibilit ...
• The Affordable Care Act's most important date: ...
  Image Caption:  In last June's ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court gave states discretion over whether to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income people. About half of the states -- ...
• Auto Workers try a new angle at Volkswagen
  Image Caption:  VW workers staged a several-hour "warning strike" in Zwickau, Germany, on May 13, demanding a 5.5 percent raise. German plants have a dual representation system with both a union, which can strike, and a works council, ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Real risk of a Maunder minimum 'Little Ice Age ...
  It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe. The severe cold went hand in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar minimum. Now a leading scientist from Reading Universi ...
• October - the month of wild weather swings
  By any definition autumn has arrived across the UK, with the first northerly gale of the season along the east coast. Meteorologically, today’s weather is perfectly normal for the time of the year. And along the east coast it’s the most dangerous direction for potential flooding.  Sharp fluctuat ...
• The IPCC report - is the science settled?
  Last week the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) issued their latest high profile report on the current understanding of climate change.  Their main conclusion is that there can be little doubt that man is responsible for at least half of the rise in global temperatures since the 1 ...
• Record Antarctic sea ice confounds climate models
  The extent of sea ice in the southern hemisphere continues to cause a headache for climate scientists, with news this week that Antarctic sea ice is now at record levels, based on satellite data which began in the late 1970’s.This is contrary to what climate models had predicted.It’s thought tha ...
• Fine end to September & more on rare solar cycle
  Fine end to September It’s been an unsettled and often cool September, but the jet stream is on the move northwards in the next few days, allowing high pressure to build across the UK, which will lead us into a very pleasant spell of autumn weather.  At this time of the year, the main forecastin ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• American Stasi: Work for the NSA, Spy on the World
  I've been watching the Academy Award-winning drama The Lives of Others based on the operations of the East German-era secret police, the Stasi. Vast improvements in technology have enabled gathering ever-more information on the activities of you and me, and the United States has come under massi ...
• Come to Texas: Can Tyler Cowen Say "FM Radio"?
  Koch Industries of Tea Party fame-funded arch-libertarian Tyler Cowen has an interesting piece in TIME about how Texas is America's future. Having stayed there for a time, I am of somewhat more mixed opinions about its virtues and vices than he is. Read for yourselves and see what you think. Be ...
• Will Somali Pirates Return if EU Stops Patroll ...
  Ahoy mateys, it's back to the Gulf of Aden for us in this post. The collapse of a functioning government in Somalia led to a period when many turned to piracy as a lucrative livelihood in the absence of other viable sources of income. Americans--people who top the global list of ignoramuses abou ...
• Colonial Mentality: Chinese Shun Their Own Brands
  Given the truckload of goods China makes for the rest of the world, it may seem odd that the Chinese are concerned with their inability to develop homegrown brands: Why should you develop your own brands when Apple/General Electric/Samsung and whoever else have you have done the heavy lifti ...
• Post-Crisis, What are the World's Safest Banks?
  Your initial reaction will likely be the same as mine: Who are these guys?  After years dabbling in own-account speculation, derivatives and other get-rich-quick schemes, the stalwarts from days gone by are no longer on this list. Deutsche Bank? You must be joking. American money center ban ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• All-Time High Unemployment: The Economic Depre ...
  The unemployment rate in the eurozone is higher than it has ever been before.  This week we learned that eurozone unemployment came in at an all-time high of 12.2 percent for September.  Back in January 2012, it was sitting at just 10.4 percent.  So anyone that believes that "things are getting ...
• Don’t Worry – The Government Says ...
  If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States, you are just imagining things.  That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve would have us to believe.  You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living increase for ...
• 10 Signs That Obamacare Is Going To Wreck The ...
  It is hard to find the words to adequately describe how much of a disaster Obamacare is turning out to be.  The debut of Healthcare.gov has been probably the worst launch of a major website in history, millions of Americans are having their current health insurance policies canceled, millions of ...
• 29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty I ...
  Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs?  Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless?  Anyone that uses the term "economic recovery" to describe what is happening in the Unit ...
• Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In Ameri ...
  If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country.  All over America, crime is on the rise.  According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and prope ...

BlogHer

• Want Your Clothes to Look Luxe and Designer? D ...
  Have you ever gone to the dry cleaners to pick up that oh-so-delicate sweater, only to find that the dry cleaner had completely destroyed it? You were outraged. It was pristine, it was perfect, it was “new” -- now, it is a misshapen pile of junk that screams “my dry cleaner killed me.” Alas, a ...
• Damn you, Barbie!
  This morning, as I battled to tame her deliciously curly brown hair for school, Baby G very sadly uttered: “Mama, I wish I had long, straight yellow hair and blue eyes.” That one sentence halted my world, Matrix like. In the microseconds that followed, I was forced to swallow the bitter pill tha ...
• Barneys Racial Profiling Accusations: More Com ...
  On October 29th, the CEO of Barneys apologized for alleged racial profiling at the luxury department store. Mark Lee met with Reverend Al Sharpton at Sharpton’s National Action Headquarters in New York to hold a press conference about the claims that racial profiling was behind the police quest ...
• We Are Not Our Mothers, and Our Daughters Are ...
  Even though I’m a mother, I was a daughter first. And I have two sisters. Like most women, we have often said to ourselves and each other that we were worried about becoming our mother. (Sorry, Mom.) I think it’s a natural thing that girls tend to be terrified of. For as long as I can remember ( ...
• Eden Kennedy's Top Five Reasons for Joining No ...
  Q: Why should you post your precious thoughts to the Internet every day for the month of November? A: SO MANY REASONS and some of them even make sense. 1. Establishing a Habit. You want to get into the habit of writing every day? Great! Lots of smart, important people in history have done the ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Acid reflux remedy
          Acid reflux, also called acid regurgitation, is a common condition in which the acid from the stomach flows back up the esophagus, causing a burning sensation in the chest (heartburn) or a bitter taste in ... Related posts:Apple cider vinegar detox ...
• Anti-aging drink
            Aging is something that comes with time but you can slow down the process with the right diet and adopting a healthy lifestyle.Aging can be caused by stress, environmental factors, poor diet, smoking, and much ... Related posts:Carpal tunnel ...
• Sinus infection remedy
        Sinus infection, also called acute sinusitis, causes inflammation and swelling around the cavities in your nasal passages. This hinders nasal drainage, causing mucus to build up. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ... Related post ...
• 6 Simple Ways to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
              Big Pharma would make tens of thousands of dollars off of your cancer diagnosis. They wouldn’t give you a real solution, but would merely prolong your illness so you can continue to spend your savings ... Related posts:Vitamin B6 and B ...
• Hawaii and Mexico on Forefront of GMO Bans
            The latest news regarding opposition to GMO crops comes from two actions passed in Hawaii and by Mexico. Limiting pesticides, herbicides, and genetically-modified food sources in exchange for natural, organic options is a vision of ... Relate ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Nov. 1, 2013
  Tons of coal sit next to a Big Sandy power plant unit near Louisa, Ky., but the days of using coal to generate electricity are numbered at the sprawling operation in eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Power Co. is closing the complex’s 800-megawatt unit in 2015, and the utility says it will seek r ...
• Another must read report: The coal industry&#8 ...
  Chris Hamby and the Center for Public Integrity have already given us a couple of remarkable stories this week (see here and here) about black lung disease, and they’ve done so again today.  Part 3 of their series, Breathless and Burdened, is headlined, As experts recognize new form of bla ...
• Alpha close to $265 million deal in safety suit
  Early this morning, Alpha Natural Resources issued its latest quarterly financial statement, and it certainly has some interesting news: Alpha has made significant progress toward reaching a tentative understanding to settle for $265 million the securities class action brought by Massey stockhol ...
• New reports warn of ‘peak coal’
  We’ve talked many times before on this blog about the concept of “peak coal,” and last year we put together a lengthy Gazette story that explained why Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s figures — “We have 250 years of coal, why wouldn’t we use ...
• ‘I don’t care about the law’ ...
  Part 2 of the Center for Public Integrity’s remarkable expose on the black lung benefits process, “Breathless and Burdened,” is out this morning. And as the headline explains, it focuses on the medical unit at Johns Hopkins University which — in its work for coal companie ...

Daniel Miessler

• Android Isn’t Competing with Apple
  This picture exemplifies why I use Apple instead of Google for my mobile platform. It reminds me of a single point—Google is an ad company. Apple is not. Apple is a lifestyle company. They obsess over how their products look and feel. They debate and stress and act snotty over the smallest ...
• Speaking at OWASP AppSec 2013
  I’ll be speaking at OWASP’s flagship conference (AppSec USA) this year in NYC. It looks like I’ll be on a couple of panels and may have some other events as well. It’s the big show in terms of AppSec conferences, so I’m thrilled to be involved. Let me know if anyone ...
• The Day I Learned Heroes Are People
  I grew up in the late 80s, and through my high school years I made friends with one of the most popular guys in high school. His name was Danny Stevenson. He was a rock star. Quite literally. He was kind of superhuman. He was tall, thin, with long blonde hair (which the girls loved). […]Re ...
• Regarding the “Keep Your Plan” Controversy
  I think people might be getting a bit overhyped on this “keep your plan” betrayal story. I’ve not been following closely, so if I’m missing a step be sure to set me right on the path. It’s my understanding that for over 95% of people who have existing insurance plan ...
• Google is the Disruptor
  I just read a phenomenal article about Google. https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131031003105-24171–googlewinseverything-part-1 You want to bring fiber to every home (Google Fiber)? Well, I’ll blanket the world with balloons (Project Loon) serving up WiFi to every square inch o ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

• Indonesia's Corruption Battle Gets Serious
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The KPK is changing the rules of the game
• US-Japan Defense Accord Upsets Seoul
  • (http://twitter.com/share) South Korea fears that US may set up Japan as responsible for regional security
• Survival Sex in Sri Lanka's Crippled North
  • (http://twitter.com/share) War and death make it a necessity
• Is There Opposition in Vietnam?
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Some may be coming from a surprising source - the Communist Party
• Hong Kong's Crusade Against the Philippines
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Racism is at work in attempts to get Aquino to apologize for three-year old bus murders

We Know the Lies

• Top Secret Floating Structures On Both Coasts. ...
  A report appearing in the Portland (Maine) Press Herald showed shipping containers stacked on a barge in Maine – with the structure appearing virtually identical to the Bay Area barge. Also, an unconfirmed report suggested a Google barge is taking shape in New London, Connecticut. ~ Mort Ams ...
• Hiding Your House From Google Maps
  As it turns out, there is a way to prevent strangers from seeing your home online through Google Maps. Many Americans don’t realize it, but Google actually has vehicles driving around the United States taking what are called “street view” pictures. If your home can be seen from a public stree ...
• How to Avoid NSA Detection On The Internet
  We unfortunately live in the age of surveillance, when agencies like the  NSA and FBI push and cross the boundaries of unconstitutional actions. This means that everybody needs to take steps to protect their data. ~ Daniel Jennings read more
• School Computer ‘Replaces’ Parents
  Teachers are using a computer programme to help them work on children’s emotional and behavioural development to compensate for inadequate or poor parenting. As more and more mothers and fathers fail to give their children a proper grounding in life skills, schools are taking over with the ...
• Police Buy eBay Data to Target Criminals
  Police forces are paying private sector companies tens of thousands of pounds for databases of detailed personal information that exposes the anonymity of sellers conducting criminal auctions on eBay. read more

Tarpley

• Russophobes of Kennan Family, Mentally Impaire ...
  Watch Tarpley on C-SPAN Video Library Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio INN World Report with Tom Kiely October 31, 2013 [download INN audio] [...]
• JFK Expert Joan Mellen Proves Key Role of CIA ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio October 28, 2013 [download audio]  
• Tarpley’s National Press Club Lecture on ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. C-SPAN Video Library October 25, 2013 Recorded by C-SPAN3 on September 24, 2013 Historian Webster Griffin Tarpley talked about the contribution of Russian Tsar Alexander II to a northern victory in the U.S. Civil War. He said that the Imperial Russian government had iss ...
• Continued Sequester Cuts and Failure to Strike ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio October 19, 2013 [download audio]  
• No Budget Sellouts to Reactionary Sociopaths; ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio October 12, 2013 [download audio]  

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• True Horror Stories Of Cosmetic Dangers
• Guest Blog: Toxic chemical reform must help, n ...
• Let’s Fix America’s Broken and Unfair Energy S ...
• Government Shutdown Puts Public Health at Risk
• California’s New Fracking Law: The Good, the B ...

Quick Hits

• More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
  The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
• Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
  MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
• Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
• Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
  Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
• Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
  The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

• John Liu is still campaigning
• Giuliani robocalls for a Vallone and against a ...
• After court lifts limits, Koch gives $200K to ...
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• De Blasio denounces stop-frisk ruling, Quinn ' ...
• Schedules show Cuomo met with rating agencies, ...

Views & News from Norway

• Police blasted for charging child’s rescuers
  Police in Oslo are fending off complaints from the public after they charged two young men for violently halting the robbery of a 10-year-old boy last weekend. The two men are getting lots of support from the public for beating up the robbers and recovering the boy’s mobile phone. The poli ...
• Norwegian tries to ward off strike
  As mandatory arbitration got underway on Friday between pilots and management at troubled Norwegian Air, the leader of the airline’s negotiating team said he expected a settlement. If none is agreed by midnight on Sunday, around 600 pilots will walk out of their cockpits. “We have an ...
• Wet and windy weekend on the way
  A powerful low pressure system with what meteorologists called “large amounts of precipitation” was moving towards southern and eastern Norway on Friday, which otherwise had been sunny and clear. Predictions of an abrupt weather change brought traffic warnings as well. “There w ...
• New Breivik book stirs up a storm
  Author Marit Christensen and Norwegian publishing house Aschehoug were being both praised and harshly criticized on Thursday for not only going ahead with the release of a controversial new book about the mother of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik, but for allegedly speeding it up. ...
• ‘Underclass’ emerges as jobs dry up
  Lines have been forming every day outside the offices of the Norwegian Red Cross in Oslo,  with unemployed people waiting for hours to secure a bed for the night. Most are job seekers from southern and eastern Europe, who haven’t found the work and paychecks they need. “This isn&#821 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Start Growing! Part 1: How to Buy a Farm Debt Free
  Let’s say you have a bit of savings and you’re keen to buy land to farm. Even though permaculture has taught you how to see the hidden value in land and you have the skills to rehabilitate the most degraded landscapes, land is by no means cheap. The problem is not that you can’ ...
• Wendell Berry on His Hopes for Humanity
  When men and women have lived long and sincerely with respect to each other and our natural world, their wisdom can be refreshing and inspiring. At 80 years of age, Wendell Berry is one of those people. This documentary, featuring a rare public interview with the man, is challenging and inspirin ...
• Report on a Permaculture Internship – Strawber ...
  Editor’s Note: Beginning 2 December 2013, Alex is running another PDC at the developing Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge in southern Ethiopia. Following that will be a four-week Internship, starting 16 December, 2013. Why not book your place and head off for the learning and cultural immersion ...
• Geoff Lawton’s Online Permaculture Design Cour ...
  Earlier this year, Geoff Lawton ran one of the biggest online Permaculture Design Courses. It ran for 12 weeks and featured content not normally shown in an average PDC course. What was it like? Is it worth doing and will students gain any lasting benefit from signing up with Geoff to do a PDC? ...
• Moves Towards Sustainability in Shanghai
  Shanghai was an amazing city with an incredible energy of opportunity. My only wish was to stay a little longer. I found it difficult to get in touch with a lot of experts in Shanghai. A part of me feels burned that so few bothered to return my numerous calls and emails, but then again... Read ...

Pointman's

• Make no mistake, words are ammo.
  In every cell of every living organism on the Earth, there’s DNA, which if you want to get technical stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It’s a long double strand helix structure built using sequences of just four nucleotides; guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, which are usually represented ...
• The Climate Wars and agent Deep Woolabra Wonga.
  I think it’s about time I finally told you I’m running an asset deeply embedded inside Big Green. Running is probably the wrong word; it’s more a partnership by now. They operate under the codename I gave them of Deep Woolabra Wonga, not only because they’re submerged dee ...
• Russia 3, Greenpeace 2.
  I like the Russians. You spend enough time studying a foreign people, you sort of fall in love with them, because that’s the beginning of understanding them and their country in any real sense. The accent is on liking the people rather than the leadership, who’re what you’re su ...
• Climate Prat of the Year award 2013.
  How quickly time flies. It seems but twelve months since we last ran the competition but I suppose as we grow older, time appears to pass more rapidly. Sweet bird of youth etc etc. Anyway, a recent address by the almost beatified Bob Geldorf to a bunch of stunned school kids telling them that th ...
• Russia 2, Greenpeace 1.
  One of my simple pleasures in life is to spend an occasional evening watching a good sporting event with friends. We all come clinking along with whatever booze we prefer and a few emergency nibbles. It’s usually an evening of decent sport, a little too much to drink and giving each other ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• JavaScript Console in Chrome
  For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
• Typography for the Web
  In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
  From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
• Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
  A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...
• RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
  From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
• Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...
• Women With A Vision and BreakOUT! Respond to T ...
  The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “Uneasy Street,” are an unfortunate example of glorified and sensationalized media reporting that leads to increased criminalization of marginalized communities, rather than solutions. As staff o ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Verbs, nouns, grammar
  Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Constance Hale I wanted really to understand the relationship between nouns and verbs. Another question that I had: Why do linguists look so scathingly at grammarians? And why do grammarians look so scathingly at the history of English? Why is there a divide? And why is t ...
• V. Bush
  Vannevar Bush This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. No ...
• The Killing of the Liberal Arts
  JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
• Tyrants and Art
  Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
• Barthes in China
  Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Technology is changing the Aid Landscape
  Technology has increasingly democratised the structure of the aid system in recent years. Whilst top-down support from aid agencies and...
• Constructive debate on the diverse issues of b ...
  The Government’s consultation on biodiversity offsetting in England is a hot topic, with last week featuring no less than three...
• Back to the future
  Last week I attended the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee evidence session on Government Horizon Scanning. It being...
• Ecosystem-based adaptation: findings from the ...
                  There’s nothing like venturing beyond the usual four walls to reinvigorate a...
• Boosts to UK-Russia scientific co-operation as ...
  Last week the Royal Society hosted the 11th session of the Ministerial UK Russia Joint Committee on Scientific and Technical...

NAU Resistance

• End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
  Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
• Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
  "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
• The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
  "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
• Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
  We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
• Paving The Way For A North American Union
  By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

• Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
  WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
• Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
  LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
• Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
  SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
• Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
  WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
• How sex hormones influence right heart function
  WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

Daily Beast

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

Loonwatch

• Saudis Challenge the Driving Ban…Again
  One step forward, two steps back: On the heels of Hamza Kashgari's release, the Kingdom cracks down.
• Propaganda & Ignorance in Reporting on Iran
  Whenever tensions over Iran’s nuclear energy program appear to dissipate and rational, fact-based reporting begins to replace agenda-driven rhetoric in the press, ISIS release a new study intended to restore alarmism to front pages and TelePrompTers.
• Turkey breaks another taboo with headscarved d ...
  Amid fears of tension in parliament, four headscarved deputies walked into Parliament on Thursday and faced no words of protest or anger from opposition parties.
• Terrorist Supporter Geller Dreams of Putting & ...
  The racist Geller's AFDI displays why it is a fascist, anti-Democratic hate organization.
• 10-Year Old Booted From Bus For Speaking Arabic
  A new lawsuit filed Friday in Brooklyn Federal Court charges that a 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was called a “terrorist” and banned from boarding a bus when he recited a Muslim prayer in Arabic after losing his MetroCard.

Energy News

• Shocking Treatment of US Nuclear Whisteblowers ...
• Lawmaker warns emperor of reality facing Japan ...
• Nuclear Engineer: The question is, why all of ...
• Nuclear Expert: Fuel rods in Fukushima Unit 4 ...
• US Energy Secretary: Tragic Fukushima event ha ...

Hudson New York

• Palestinians: The War between Mahmoud and Mohamed
  After a prolonged lull, the ongoing war between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and ousted Fatah operative Mohamed Dahlan erupted once again over the past few days. The two men are now accusing each other of treason, corruption and
• Britain: "A World Capital for Islamic Finance"
  The London Stock Exchange will be launching a new Islamic bond index in an effort to establish the City of London as one of the world's leading centers of Islamic finance. Britain also plans to become the first non-Muslim country to issue sovereign
• France: Anti-Semitism Now Mainstream
  A few weeks ago, when French Jewish actor Elie Semoun was a prime-time guest on one of the main French television channels, Canal Plus, the words of Sebastian Thoen, a standup comedian who introduced him may have been meant to be to be laudatory, but
• Toward Peace and Prosperity in Middle East
  For decades, the West has been trying to bring democracy to the Middle East. U.S. President Barack Obama, in his Sept. 24, 2013 speech to United Nations, stated that it is in America's "interest to see a Middle East and North Africa that is peaceful and
• Abbas's "Diplomatic Intifada" Against Israel
  As the US-sponsored peace talks continue, the Palestinian Authority has launched a worldwide campaign to promote sanctions against settlements in the West Bank and Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem. The latest campaign is mainly aimed at persuading

Urban Survival

• Peoplenomics: To Bug Out, or Not to Bug Out?
  That is the question this morning. When I first wrote UrbanSurvival back in 1996/1997, one thing led to another, and by 2001 what was then the “Inside Report” series was covering all kinds of things “preppy.”  This included bug-out bags, bug-out plans, where to get m ...
• Nostracodeus Updated
  For those following our watching of word-frequency analysis over at www.nostracodeus.com, there’s a fresh update on how war-like words are popping up. Don’t forget to click on the images to see the enlarged screen captures.. We note that in the summary form, references to Israel have dropped fro ...
• Expect the Trick, Where’s the Damn Treat?
  “So let us stop talking falsely now, the hour’s getting late…”  ~Bob Dylan reprised by Jimi Hendrix If you’re looking for a weekend to really worry about the world “blowing up and going to hell” this would be the one you’d have to pick for the next several months.  Not only are there s ...
• Coping: Friday at the WuJo — Preppers as ...
  The more I study the reports of people’s WuJo events, the more they seem to be consistent with multiple Universes winding back and forth across each other’s path, as was described in the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum Mechanics. While the Wikipedia entry picture of a “split” in the Multiv ...
• About those Personal Income Numbers
  Not Everyone will be talking about the BoSox this morning, and since we don’t care about sports much (other than the sports of job-keeping and face-feeding), we wanted to gloss over all that baseball talk and get right to the nitty-gritty just out from the Bureau of Economic Amazement…except tha ...

Trends & Forecasts

• LAX FALSE FLAG SHOOTING - Gunman Linked To NEW ...
  The 'note' found is the key piece here. A mentally disturbed individual with a firearm isn't out of the realm of possibility, but the telltale 'note' is another issue. In my view, this is being 'floated' to see what the public reaction is, and/or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• UNITED STATES THE CORPORATION :THE TRUTH THE N ...
  The UNITED STATES of AMERICA is a corporation.Go to the UNITED STATES CODE (note the capitalization, indicating the corporation, not the Republic) Title 28 3002 (15) (A) (B) (C). It is stated unequivocally that the UNITED STATES is a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http:// ...
• The Rockefeller Medicine
  As Americans fret about the Obamacare website and wonder how the country became enslaved to the highest healthcare costs in the world, we turn back the pages to look at how the modern medical paradigm came together in the early 20th century,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
• Game Over ~ The Dollar is Dead! Gold $7000
  Alternatives to the US Dollar are well along in design, approaching implementation for commerce, wherein the Gold Trade Standard will be installed. The impact waves will be powerful, sweeping aside the fiat paper currencies and their flimsy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http:/ ...
• Fukushima Recap: Beyond Urgent
  A great compilation of info for those who are new to Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown (and/or a quick synopsis) and the probable catastrophic outcome. More date to follow. However, this is a great intro for those who know nothing about the damage to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Radical Chic

• STAINS IN A VOID – By: Uzoma Okoroafor
  Our uncle’s death will go down in the memories of the religious as an untimely one. For the traditionalists, a strike by an unkind deity. As a Maths teacher always ready to flog the living daylights out of his dull students, he was nicknamed Mister Pain. I will never forget how he made me write ...
• WHEN NIGERIAN’S DO STUPID SHIT! – ...
  While it is true that Nigeria is a rather homophobic country, attempts are being made to rebrand it as a country of the daft, lazy and incurably addled. I suppose that this is slightly preferable to being homophobic. In fact, all of those things make homophobia excusable. Now, I’m not pull ...
• WHEN YOUR KILLER COULD HAVE BEEN A CHILD SOLDI ...
  Although the Liberian war is now over, I cannot wish away the memories. There are nights in my sleep when I still find myself dressed in army uniform, AK-47 ready. On these nights I hear the voices of parents calling their children; others joking, shouting: “Where’s your bunker?” The air cracks ...
• CRAZY IS A LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN YOU THINK
  I’m crazy. Nobody has to tell me. I’ve known this for a while now. It’s probably crazy that I think I’m crazy because that in itself might make me seem less crazy; but trust me, I’m crazy. I do a lot of crazy things. Crazy things like playing chess against myself an ...
• BODY HOSTAGE
   A gun wasn’t held to my head. No, this was a threat that was entirely different. It was 9a.m. I had just finished a grueling maths class and I was dreading going for the next lecture. Exams were coming up and there was a lot I needed to learn. While I struggled to gather my [...]

NRDC Switchboard

• President Takes Steps on Climate Preparedness
  Rob Moore, Senior Policy Analyst, Chicago The President issued an Executive Order on climate preparedness, directing federal agencies to begin identifying and removing barriers to actions that would, “increase the Nation’s resilience to ...
• Grasping at Straws: Why a Legislative Glitch W ...
  Benjamin Longstreth, Senior Attorney, Washington, D.C. This post was written with my colleague David Doniger and is also posted on his blog. Opponents of EPA’s effort to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants under Clean Air Act Sect ...
• Grasping at Straws: Why a Legislative Glitch ...
  David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. This post was written with my colleague Ben Longstreth. Opponents of EPA’s effort to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants under Clean Air Act Section 1 ...
• Latin America Green News: Chile makes polluter ...
  Carolina Herrera, Latin America Advocate, Washington DC Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. October 28 – November 1 2013 Chile The Chilean Environmental S ...
• New Scientific Evidence on Fracking's Risks Sh ...
  Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City NRDC and a coalition of environmental and public health advocacy groups today sent a memo to Governor Cuomo outlining a variety of new scientific evidence showing the magnitude of potential risks from fra ...

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

• China reveals its ability to nuke the US
  State-run media claims the Chinese military has missiles capable of hitting cities all across the U.S. China’s submarine fleet currently is on ‘routine patrol.’ According to Chinese media, this is the first time China has possessed ‘effective underwater nuclear deterrence ...
• Major NATO war games come to Baltics
  Thousands of troops are taking part in some of the regions biggest war games on the Baltics’ eastern shores from Nov. 2-7. The NATO-backed Steadfast Jazz exercises involve over 6,000 soldiers from 20 countries, as well as 40 aircraft and 15 vessels.Troops will be training at the Adazi base in La ...
• US warships to remain off Syria coast, reports say
  The US Navy is reportedly set to keep some warships off the coast of Syria, although chances of a military strike against the Arab country have grown slim. US Navy officials announced that only two of the Nimitz strike group ships will leave the Mediterranean waters in the next few weeks, while ...
• Cynical German Ambassador confesses: “Now that ...
  The German ambassador in Athens Wolfgang Dold,  spoke of investments planned to take place in Greece by German companies. When will they invest? After the EU, IMF and others directed entirely from Berlin, are finished looting everything in our country. Then the Germans and other foreign entities ...
• The Red Cross Scam
  The International Red Cross is an Elite-controlled front organization whose true purpose is the complete opposite from its stated purpose. The moment a ‘natural’ disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake or the Japanese Tsunami occurs; the Red Cross floods the airwav ...

Daily Dose

• Microsoft is once again investigating claims t ...
  Last month, we reported Microsoft was investigating claims that some ads on Bing were redirecting users to malware. Security firm ThreatTrack Security Labs has once again discovered fraudulent ads on... Keep reading →
• Vanity Cosmetic Surgery claims to be the first ...
  Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that has taken the world by storm, only grows stronger as people use it in more and more industries. According to a press release, Vanity Cosmetic Surgery... Keep reading →
• Nokia passed Motorola to become the fourth lar ...
  According to a new report from research firm Counterpoint, Nokia became the fourth largest OEM to ship smartphones in the US for Q3 2013. The Finnish company came in at... Keep reading →
• KitKat’s WebView is powered by Chromium, ...
  The just-released and latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat, has made a big change to the WebView component: it is now powered by Chromium. Google says... Keep reading →
• Web design tool for programmers Macaw finishes ...
  Back in October, we covered the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for the web design tool Macaw. Creators Tom Giannattasio and Adam Christ, set out to raise $75,000 to help speed... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Methane matters: Is the future electric?
  Richard Keech critically examines the sustainability of gas. From Renew, magazine of the Alternative Technology Association, issue 125 I’VE heard it said that 50% of what we’ve learnt is probably wrong; the trick is knowing which 50%. I submit that the received wisdom that gas is a clean fuel i ...
• Abbott's action - direct hit or direct flop?
  By Stephen Bygrave. Published in Climate Spectator, 21 Oct 2013 With the Abbott government pinning all its hopes on its 'direct action' scheme to meet its stated commitment to a 5 per cent emissions reduction by 2020, it is worth exploring the past failures and lessons arising from direct ac ...
• Melbourne film premiere: Two Degrees
  Beyond Zero Emissions will host the Melbourne premiere screening of newly released climate change documentary Two Degrees on November 6, and we would love for you to join us! Power station, Port Augusta, with Flinders Ranges in background. Image: http://twodegreesmovie.com 6.30-8.30pm, Wednesda ...
• Fossil fuel billions better invested in zero e ...
  MEDIA RELEASE, Beyond Zero Emissions, 16 October 2013 Billions of dollars currently invested in fossil fuel industries can and should be withdrawn and re-invested in zero emissions technology immediately. This is the message Dr Stephen Bygrave, CEO of climate solutions think-tank Beyond Zero ...
• Bring on the climate solutions!
  After 20 years working on climate change in various roles from research to government to international organisations, my experiences have taught me that to be effective in the change agenda we need to be starting from the point of where we need to be in ten years time, and looking back to th ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Bolivia, Madagascar, China see jump in forest loss
  Loss of forest cover increased sharply in Bolivia, Madagascar, and Ecuador during the third quarter of 2013, according to an update from NASA scientists.
• Adorable baby olinguito photographed in Colomb ...
  Researchers returning from an expedition to a cloud forest in Colombia have released photos of the world's most recently-discovered carnivore, the olinguito.
• Greenpeace: APP making 'encouraging' progress ...
  Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an Indonesian forestry giant once notorious for destroying rainforests and peatlands, is making 'encouraging' progress in phasing forest destruction out of its supply chain, reports a new assessment from Greenpeace, which until recently was one of APP's fiercest crit ...
• Scientists: to save the Malayan tiger, save it ...
  A major premise of biology, as any high-schooler can tell you, is the study of the connections between organisms. Perhaps nowhere is there a better example of this than in Malaysia, where the population of Endangered Malayan tigers (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is being undercut by dwindling prey. ...
• 'Remarkable year': could 2012 mark the beginni ...
  Global carbon dioxide emissions hit another new record of 34.5 billion tons last year, according to a new report by the Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre, but there may be a silver lining. Dubbing 2012 a "remarkable year," the report fo ...

Sierra Express

• World Bank Props Sierra Leone Fiscal Policy wi ...
  One of the most trusted and highly respected multi-lateral economic institutions in the world, the “World Bank Group” has lend its support to the President Ernest Bai Koroma led All People’s Congress (APC) Government with a credit in an amount equivalent to SDR7,900,000 .  (Photo: L- Deputy Chie ...
• Access to Information law a clear demonstratio ...
  Sierra Leone continues to make progress in building her democratic credentials, especially in terms of putting up structures that are relevant to the promotion of good governance and participatory democracy. Elected in 2007, the country’s President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has not only enacted a l ...
• ACC targets Rosengbeh community in the fight a ...
  In a bid to ensuring that the fight against graft reaches the four walls of the country, the Anti-Corruption Commission Northern Regional Office has on Tuesday 29th October, 2013 held community sensitization meeting with the people of Rosengbeh, in the Mange Bana Section, Tane Chiefdom, Tonkolil ...
• Umar Sesay set for Chieftaincy declaration
  6th November 2013 will be another memorable day for Umar Abdulai Sesay when, along with other contestants, will declare for the Paramount Chieftaincy election in Sanda Magbonlonthor Chiefdom, Port Loko District slated for 2nd December 2013. This is the day aspirants will claim their legitimacy t ...
• Public Notice: Transfer of assets of former SL ...
  The Government of Sierra Leone have, this week through the National Commission for Privatization officially transferred the assets of the former Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board (SLPMB) to the newly established Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Company (SLPMC),  taking over functions previously ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• Fonterra chiefs left in dark
  Fonterra's botulism false alarm would not have occurred had responsibility for the contamination been swiftly passed to senior management, says Sir Ralph Norris.The former Air New Zealand chief executive, and current Fonterra independent...
• Fran O'Sullivan: Damning indictment in food sc ...
  Strip away the comfort statements in the independent inquiry report on the botulism food scare for Fonterra's board and one sentence jumps out: "In circumstances involving global reputational risk and notwithstanding the high calibre...
• Lift in dairy exports to China narrows NZ trad ...
  The trade gap narrowed last month, propelled by resurgent dairy exports to China.Imports at $4 billion exceeded exports by $200 million but that compares with an average deficit of $769 million over the previous five Septembers....
• Exports up, imports down as trade deficit shrinks
  New Zealand's trade deficit narrowed more than expected last month as the nation exported more milk powder, butter and cheese while imports fell.The deficit was $199 million in September, down from a revised gap of $1.23 billion...
• Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: How green - a ...
  Dairy is our largest exporter, dominates our landscape and is our greatest contribution to the diet of the world. In the past we have been justifiably proud of this industry, but the relentless push for increased volume is changing...

Hit & Run | Reason

• Abby Schachter on Pennsylvania's Swaddling Ban
  Pennsylvania, along with several other states, has changed day care regulations to include a ban on swaddling. The unelected busybodies who write these rules are convinced that swaddling isn’t safe because the day care workers may incorrectly wrap the baby, the blanket could come loo ...
• How American Healthcare Killed My Father: Q&am ...
    David Goldhill is the head of the Game Show Network - and one of the most-lucid analysts and unforgiving critics of the American health care system. In this interview, produced by Reason TV's Jim Esptein and conducted by Kmele Foster, Goldhill talks about his must-read ...
• The Government’s Cheap, Dishonest Campaign Aga ...
  I have an article up at The Daily Beast looking at how the government's forced shut down of two Chinatown bus companies was based on fabricated evidence. Here's how it begins: On May 20, 2013, a passenger motor coach run by a Chinatown bus company called Lucky Star departed New ...
• James Poulos Writes In Defense of Guerrilla St ...
  To be a brand name in guerilla street art is to be in exclusive company. And no one has built a bigger brand imposing his stencils, spray paintings, and sculptures on the world than Banksy. Despite the grumbling critiques from both nannyesque Bloombergians and the kinds of property r ...
• Open Thead: Why the Hell Not? Plus: Subscibe o ...
  It's been a long time since we had an open thread. So here's one. Have at it. And as long as you're hanging out here, why not: Like our Facebook page? We're at 110,000 likes but can always use more. Follow us on Twitter? The feed is lively and bursting with farm goodness. Foll ...

Mercury Rising

• Friday Cat Blogging
• A Test
  I’m proposing a test. The test: 1. Go to http://www.fedsmith.com . 2. Try to comment in the comments threads, using facts and cites to websites. 3. See how long it takes before your comments automatically wind up in “moderation” even when you don’t put any URLs in them. R ...
• NSA Documents Prove Bush White House Ignored P ...
  Just a little reminder: On Tuesday [June 19, 2012], the National Security Archive released a trove of 120 previously secret documents concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. With revelations about the CIA’s budget concerns in 2000 and the unheeded warnings in 2001, ...
• Snowden Legal Defense Fund Launches
  Via Joanna Leon at DK, the Snowden Legal Defense Fund website is up. BTW, Joanna does a great roundup of left news and pretty pictures. One tidbit today: Alterman bashing Max Blumenthal; Jeremy Scahill counterbashes.
• Avidor Beat MJ’s Mariah Blake’s Ba ...
  Today, Mother Jones readers were breathlessly told by Mariah Blake about a Hot! New! Development! in the twisted saga of Michele Bachmann: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has quietly returned campaign contributions from an ex-con who lured investors for one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US his ...

Reality Sandwich

• The War on Consciousness
  Here's the full text of the article Russell Brand kindly invited me to contribute to last week's issue of the New Statesman. The article, entitled "The War on Consciousness," had to be shortened to fit the space available in the magazine, but I reproduce the complete unedite ...
• Sex in the News
  Hairy chests and manhood, Jewish burlesque, how to talk with your parents about sex, lotus births, handmade sex toys, Jenna Jameson needs help, and more in this week's update.  read more
• Evolving Dharma Across America
  I'm proud to share with the RS community the upcoming tour dates supporting my new book just published by Evolver Editions, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism and the Next Generation of Enlightenment.  I hope you'll come say hello! read more
• Psychedelic La La Land: When Visions Go Wrong
  Bobbie from California is brimful of energy, bursting with enthusiasm, and expressing a sheen of glistening sweat as he stands shirtless, breathless, exuberant and beaming in the scorching Amazon sun. The profusion of new tattoos covering his torso and arms give testimony to his ardent mission ...
• Pardon Drug Law Prisoners
  [Action Alert] • You can help end the drug war: Tell President Obama to use his executive authority to pardon people with federal drug law violations. Tens of thousands remain incarcerated on drug charges, and Bureau of Prisons facilities continue to be severely overcrowded -- operating at ...

Desertification

• Mongolia’s Wild Asses Cornered From All Sides
  Decades of international and local collaboration have brought the Tahki or Asian Wild Horse back from the brink of extinction and reintroduced herds to Mongolia’s Gobi desert and grasslands. However, the country’s other wild equine – the Mongolian Wild Ass or Khulan – is fast disappe ...
• The United States of Drought
  As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage. By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year – 10 times the amoun ...
• When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
  Wambui Karunyu, 72, and her seven-year-old grandson are the only surviving members of their immediate family.  Karunyu’s husband and five children all succumbed to the hardships of living in the semi-arid area of lower Mukurweini district in central Kenya. In 2009, a drought struck parts of cent ...
• U.S. Science Reporters Becoming an Endangered ...
  The news for environmental journalism in the United States is grim and getting grimmer. On Mar. 1, the New York Times announced it was discontinuing the Green Blog that tracked environmental and energy news. In January, the paper had dismantled its three-year-old environment pod. This year, too, ...
• The Coming Plague
  A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have spread throughout the world’s tropical regions. By mid-century no place on the planet will be unaffected, ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

• 10 killed in Syria car bomb explosion
  At least 10 people have been killed after a car bomb exploded in an area in the suburbs of the Syrian capital city of Damascus.
• ‘Israeli regime needs war to survive’
  A political analyst says the Israeli regime needs to wage wars across the world, especially in the Middle East, to ensure its survival as the major recipient of the US military and financial aid, Press TV reports.
• Fire breaks out in Saudi prison
  A fire has broken out at a prison in the north of Saudi Arabia where rioting and gunshots reportedly took place.
• Syrian army makes more gains
  The Syrian army continues to gain more ground in its fight against foreign-backed militants in several areas across the country.
• Car bomb goes off in Syria capital
  A car bomb has gone off near a cultural center in the Syrian capital Damascus, causing casualties.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Immune cell bodyguards to keep out TB
  Immune system bodyguard drugs that fend off tuberculosis could soon be possible, according to new research. TB is a major problem in both cattle and humans. In 2012, 1.3 million people globally died ...
• IBM vision for computer of the future
  International computer giant IBM has unveiled its vision for a supercomputer in a sugarcube powered by electronic blood. The aim is to base the design on the workings of the ...
• Tail wags the dog
  The direction in which a dog wags its tail tells other canines what it's thinking, new research has revealed. Scientists have confirmed previously that tail wagging isn't just a back and forth affai...
• Earth-sized exoplanet, but 3000 degrees
  A planet roughly the same size and with the same composition as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant star. Since 1995, when the first so-called exoplanet was discovered orbit...
• What do you need to make a firework?
  Remember, remember the fifth of NovemberGunpowder treason and plot.We see no reason, why gunpowder treasonShould ever be forgot! So here's your quick fire science on gunpowder and fireworks just in...

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Care2 - Environment

• SIGN & SHARE! Petition | Help Make Bestiality ...
  My tenant's dog was brutally raped by a convicted sexual predator! Baylee & Miss Terrier have suffered horrific sexual abuse by 52 yr-old James Lee Lyons, a convicted sexual predator who was released in June 2011 after serving 13 years. Protect our pets! Submitted by Michelle S. to Animals &nbs ...
• How Carbon Capture Technology Is Turning CO2 I ...
  Today there are over 50,000 active coal plants in the world, and by 2030 fossil fuels will still account for 85% of the global energy market. Fossil fuel-based power plants are no more than 50% efficient; half the power is delivered as a service... Submitted by Frans Badenhorst to Science & ...
• ACTION NEEDED Stop Cruel and Fruitless Exper ...
  The National Football League Foundation has been funding cruel experiments on animals at universities and laboratories across the nation. Most of these experiments are meant to simulate injuries in the football field. Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Science & Tech  |   Note-it! ...
• ROMANIA | MAYOR OF DROBETA TURNU SEVERIN: DON' ...
  OCCUPY FOR ANIMALS: Soon Drobeta-Turnu Severin will enter history as the first Romanian municipality to implement the SLAUGHTER LAW and to kill 577 dogs at once! Please reconsider your decision, Mr Mayor. Please make the humane choice and everybody wins. Submitted by desanka s. to Animals &nbs ...
• Stop the Plan to Slaughter Wolves
  Another chance to stop the Wolf Slaughter!Due to the government shut down we can still be heard! Please sign ASAP! Thank You! Submitted by Danielle M. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

• Ghostly infrasound may explain the paranormal
  Science now has a plausible explanation for ghost-sightings, hauntings and the ghoulish work of the evil spirits a phenomenon called infrasound. Submitted by Michael O. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Make sure the SEC keeps its word on CEO pay P ...
  After years of delays, the SEC has just voted to enact a potentially game-changing provision of the Dodd-Frank Act on CEO compensation, and corporate America is fighting like mad to stop it. Submitted by Timothy Spurlin to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 10 Reasons to Give Up Diet Soda
  When taken at face value, diet soda seems like a health-conscious choice. It saves you the 140-plus calories you'd find in a sugary soft drink while still satisfying your urge for something sweet with artificial sweeteners like aspartame, saccharin... Submitted by Freya H. to Health & Wellness ...
• Food stamp cuts affect 1 in 7 Americans
  The cuts leave recipients with an estimated average $1.40 to spend on each meal... Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Thank the USFWS for Protecting Grizzly Bears ! ...
  Last May, FWS announced it was delaying delisting the grizzly while it studies the effects that the loss of one of the bears' primary food sources (whitebark pine trees) is having on their survival. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

• Do you know a Family or Individual Receiving F ...
  By Patricia L Johnson November 1, 2013 is the day the increased benefits to the SNAP/Food Stamp benefit program in effect since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are reduced by approximately 5.5 percent. Decreased benefits are dependent … Continue reading →
• SOCIAL SECURITY and MEDICARE COST CHANGES FOR 2014
  By Patricia L Johnson SOCIAL SECURITY COLA [cost-of-living] increase for 2014 will be 1.5 percent for Social Security [SS] and Supplemental Security Income [SSI] beneficiaries. Earnings subject to Social Security Tax will increase from $113,700 to $117,000. Although the estimated … Continu ...
• To Benefit Joe Don Johnson
  Some of you are aware that Mike and I just returned from a three-week trip down South. I stayed in Missouri with my brother, while Mike went on to Arkansas to visit his brother Joe. Joe was just recently diagnosed … Continue reading →
• Are Monkey’s Capable of down Right Lies?
  By Patricia L Johnson Thursday afternoon during the Congressional hearings on computer glitches in the ACA, Representative Frank Pallone [D-NJ] told Representative Joe Barton [R-TX] the hearing was a “monkey court” after Representative Barton made the totally absurd statement the &#8 ...
• Are We Looking at a Full Blown Health Care Cri ...
  By Patricia L Johnson Last night I went to bed listening to Dr. Sanjay Gupta grill Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius on the Affordable Care Act computer glitches. This morning I woke up to Republican calls for … Continue reading →

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