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The Daily Galaxy

  • Quantum ‘Spooky Action’ Creates Wormhole Betwe ...
      Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as “spooky action at a distance,” could be even spookier than Einstein perceived. Physicists at the University of Washington and Stony Brook University in New York believe the phenome ...
  • Subtle Signals of Water Detected on Five Alien ...
          Using the powerful­ eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The presence of atmospheric water was reported previously on a few exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system, bu ...
  • Europa's Ocean Currents Shape Potential Biolog ...
        Scientists believe Jupiter's moon, Europa, is one of the planetary bodies in our solar system most likely to have conditions that could sustain life, an idea reinforced by magnetometer readings from the Galileo spacecraft detecting signs of a salty, global ocean below the moon’s icy s ...
  • Death Spiral of Merging Supermassive Black Holes
        Astronomers have spotted what appear to be two supermassive black holes at the heart of a remote galaxy, circling each other like dance partners. The incredibly rare sighting was made with the help of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Follow-up observations with the ...
  • Super-Earths in Habitable Zones --Astronomers ...
          At the second Kepler Science Conference, held early this month, scientists discussed the latest findings resulting from the analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data, which includes the discovery of 833 new candidate planets. Ten of these candidates are less than twice the size of E ...

Natural News

  • McDonald's says McRib won't be rolled out nati ...
    McDonald's has announced that its iconic McRib sandwich will not be offered at all restaurants this year. This marks the first time since 2009 that the cult favorite will not be available nationwide. Although the McRib is typically prominently promoted by McDonald's...
  • Ghee: A clarified butter rich in essential fat ...
    Ghee is a type of clarified butter that originated in India and remains popular in South Asian cuisine. It is made by removing the milk proteins and water from raw, unsalted butter, resulting in a lactose-free, nutty flavored butterfat that is packed with nutrients. According...
  • Health insurers post huge stock price gains in ...
    Just how many deals with the devil did American companies and businesses make in order to ensure that they came out on top when Obamacare was fully implemented? Well, the answer is - dozens. We already knew that the nation's premier senior citizens organizat ...
  • The subconscious question that sets you up for ...
    Your subconscious mind is dynamic and ever processing. Sleeping or awake, and regardless of where you conscious attention rests, your deeper mind is working. It never turns off. Medical researchers have identified the brain network responsible for a never-ending stream...
  • Kidney-toning Chinese medicines improve Parkin ...
    According to the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, loss of coordination and uncontrolled movements associated with Parkinson's disease affect "one million people in the US and an estimated seven to 10 million worldwide." Specialists at the University of Rochester speculate...

Threat Level

  • This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid ...
    The door to the network closet pops open and a slender figure enters, a bicycle helmet hanging at his side. He sheds his backpack and pulls out a cardboard box containing a small hard drive, then kneels out of frame. ...     
  • Trial Opens in Case Challenging Scholar’s Plac ...
    Is Rahinah Ibrahim a Malaysian jihadist, or the victim of misguided bureaucrats who erroneously placed the 48-year-old woman on a U.S. terror watchlist, preventing the scholar and mother of four from re-entering the United States? That’s the issue in the ...     
  • Ding Ding Ding! Video Poker ‘Hackers’ Cleared ...
    Two gamblers who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune from casino video poker machines will enjoy Thanksgiving this year without the threat of federal prison hovering over them like a carving knife.     
  • Lavabit Strikes Back at Feds in Key Internet P ...
    Lawyers for secure e-mail provider Lavabit just filed the reply brief in a case that will determine whether an internet company can be compelled to turn over the master encryption keys for its entire system to facilitate court-approved surveillance on ...     
  • Alleged Silk Road Owner Denied Bail; Prosecuto ...
    Federal prosecutors in New York dropped a bombshell in their response to a bail request from alleged Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht. In a filing to the court today in New York, they say that Ulbrict, as the Dread Pirate ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Decry Medicare Cuts They Voted for ...
    In 2010, the GOP steamrolled to its House majority by scaring the bejesus out of seniors about $716 billion in Obamacare cuts to Medicare. Three years later, House and Senate Republicans are repeating their tried and untrue talking point. Untrue, that is, not just because the savings from priv ...
  • Pope Francis' Rerun Novarum
    Karl Marx famously said that historical events occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. So it would seem with the reaction of American conservatives to Evangelii Gaudium, the new 85-page apostolic exhortation issued by Pope Francis. Just days after Sarah Palin fretted that some of the ...
  • GOP: Founding Fathers Created Defect-Free Cons ...
    The Republican National Committee's proclamation honoring Rosa Park's "role in ending racism" is continuing to receive the scorn and derision it richly deserves. As it turns out, the GOP's attempt to literally whitewash American history is hardly its first. Consider, for example, the RNC's re ...
  • Tea Bagging for Cash
    What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than with a heat-warming story on good, old fashioned American capitalism. Texas teacher and Obamacare opponent Thomas Ritter, who wrote President Obama and accused him of liking to "make fun of tea-baggers," is selling the letter he received in respons ...
  • Lynne Cheney Wrote about the Sisters
    Even without the occasional shotgun blast in the face, this Thanksgiving at the Cheney home could offer some real fireworks. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne declared themselves "pained" at the very public split between their daughters over the issue of marriage equality. B ...

Global Research.ca

  • Defensive Measures? China’s Controversia ...
    Beijing says the jets flew into the air defense identification zone to strengthen monitoring on targets in the area. China’s air force has described the mission as a defensive measure in line with international law. Beijing says the country’s air…
  • GMO, Additives, Contaminants and Pesticides. E ...
    According to the website of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), it is the keystone of European Union (EU) risk assessment regarding food and feed safety. The website also states that the EFSA provides independent scientific advice and clear communication…
  • Canadian Voters May Only Support Destruction o ...
    Elizabeth May made enemies on both sides of the Israeli-Palestine conflict this week when she accepted to speak at an event organized by Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (CPJME), then derided that organization as “anti-Israel” in …
  • US Steps Up War of Words with Afghan Puppet Regime
    The war of words between outgoing President Hamid Karzai and US-NATO forces over the legal conditions of their occupation of Afghanistan is intensifying. Statements of US government and military officials and press commentaries in the United States have become increasingly…
  • Detroit Bankruptcy Ruling Paves Way for Nation ...
    Federal bankruptcy court judge Steven Rhodes on Tuesday gave the go ahead for the city of Detroit to proceed with the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. In his ruling supporting Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, Rhodes explicitly sanctioned the…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Why the California Coast May Soon Be Getting N ...
    With local crude sources in decline and an abundant supply of crude coming out of Texas, Colorado and North Dakota, the way oil gets to California may soon change. For years, California has gotten much of its crude oil via pipeline from its own oil patches, or via tankers from Alaska or abroad ...
  • We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power ...
    A leading researcher says we have enough wind and solar to power the world. Are we willing to do what's necessary to transform our society? The environment is one bad news story after another. The Pacific Ocean is warming at a rate faster than anything seen in the last 10,000 years and ...
  • Plan Proposed to Allow Fracking Wastewater to ...
    A Coast Guard plan would allow companies to ship wastewater in bulk on barges on the nation’s 12,000 miles of waterways. The U.S. Coast Guard, which regulates the country’s waterways, will allow shale gas companies to ship fracking wastewater on the nation’s rivers and lakes under a proposed p ...
  • Great Lakes and $7 Billion Fishing Industry Th ...
    The insatiable and destructive Asian carp is reproducing in the Great Lakes watershed for the first time—now what? This story first appeared in OnEarth Magazine.Fifty years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imported a species of Asian carp to Arkansas as part of an initiative to control ...
  • The Fight to Take Public Assets Back from Priv ...
    No state has seen more "reverse" privatizations of water resources than California. While high profile privatizations have dominated the news in recent years, a new trend is quietly emerging -- communities taking public assets back under public control. The trend is most pronounced i ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday ...
    Join us at the Sixth Annual Austin Community “Green” Holiday Party Thursday, December 19th, 2013  6pm-10pm Hosted by Barr Mansion 10463 Sprinkle Rd., Austin, TX 78754 (www.barrmansion.com) “Celebrating the Bounty of Winter” Menu with music by Cienfuegos Co-Hosted by:  Texas Green Network, Austin ...
  • Poor Construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline ...
    Congressional Oversight Hearings are Needed on the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction to Protect Health and Safety of the Public and Environment The bad news about the Keystone XL pipeline just keeps coming. After months of research, Public Citizen has brought to light the grave risks posed by su ...
  • Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” Takes on Tran ...
    Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” took issue today with a misleading television ad, sponsored by TransCanada in support of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The ad, titled “TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline: Eliminate America’s reliance on foreign energy” urges Americans to support the pipeline ...
  • Letter Calling for Congressional Oversight Hea ...
    Dear Senators and Representatives, Last Tuesday (Nov. 12), CBS reported that nearly 50 percent of the welds on a section of the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline were faulty. That revelation was based on a Sept. 26, 2013, warning letter to pipeline owner TransCanada from the Pipeline ...
  • Congress Should Investigate Construction Probl ...
    Public Citizen today called for congressional oversight hearings and a thorough investigation of the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline because of reports of serious flaws and a warning by a federal agency that nearly half the welds in one section of pipe required repairs. In a letter ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Parachuting mice to tackle invasive snakes
    More than 2000 mice laced with painkillers have been airdropped by parachute from a helicopter over Guam. The Pacific island has been inundated with b...
  • Should chimps be considered legal persons ?
    The Nonhuman Rights Project has been battling to grant some species of animals 'legal personhood'. For years, animal rights groups have campaigned to ...
  • Geologists map tunnels beneath Rome
    Undearneath the ancient capital lies a complex labyrinth of tunnels and quarries dating back millennia. The tunnels were formed over many hundreds of ...
  • Legends revisited: the Mary Celeste
    The fate of the Mary Celeste remains one of the most enigmatic and pervasive mysteries of all time. The story goes that the ship was discovered adrift...
  • Crocodiles use tools to hunt birds
    Crocodiles and alligators have been observed using a special technique to lure and catch birds. In recent years reptiles have been recognized as being...

Grassroots

  • Interview with Miriam Nobre, Global Feminist A ...
    miriam_photo.jpg Miriam Nobre is a Brazilian feminist activist and current coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), an international feminist movement that connects grassroots women to eliminate the root causes of poverty and violence aga ...
  • Report from Post-election Honduras Cites Viole ...
    honduras-marchers_with_banner.jpg This is a preliminary summary from the US-based Honduras Solidarity Network / Alliance for Global Justice election observation delegation. The summary casts doubt the credibility of Honduran Supreme Elector ...
  • If Farming Is Hard, Free Trade Makes It Harder
    Subheadline:  Why it's Time to End the WTO bali_online_poster.jpg Being a farmer is hard.  This is true no matter what policies exist. The work itself is difficul ...
  • Standing in Solidarity with the Palestinian People
    palestine-children.jpg By Claire Gilbert and Mina Remyread more
  • MPP’s Much Ado About Women
    b_350_0_16777215_00_images_stories_women_2012-12-20_afiche_mujeres.jpg Haiti, like everywhere else, has a complex relationship with women. Women’s work in and out the home is invaluable, sometimes the difference between: eating or not, ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save the Peruvian Amazon f ...
    Save the rainforests of the Peruvian Amazon, and the countless species they protect, from destruction at the hands of palm oil companies Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Sign now for a Frack-Free UK ! PLEASE TAKE ACT ...
    Please reconsider your position on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, immediately and instead champion clean energy sources which do not risk our global climate, the natural environment and our health. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Co ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Stop The Objectifying ...
    These corporations understand what kind of a message they are sending to the female gender especially to the younger women who are gullible to these kind of advertisements and take these women as role models Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture  |  ...
  • GOOD NEWS! Endangered green sea turtles m ...
    Back in 1979, only 62 green turtle nests remained in Florida. Due to extensive conservation and protection efforts, they have made a dramatic. Officials estimate that the state now has 35,000 green turtle nests. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  & ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save America's Pine Forests
    Please take decisive action to ensure the protection of the New Jersey Pinelands from devastation by this invasive beetle species. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obama Readies Lipstick for His Healthcare Pig
    Putting lipstick on a pig don’t necessarily make the porker more pretty or more kissable. And that is the fools errand that Barack Obama is set to undertake starting this afternoon. Obama apparently is surrounded by sycophants and morons. The appear to believe that the major problem with O ...
  • The Obamacare Disasters Still to Come
    Watching the Obama crowd struggling to take a victory lap because their healthcare.gov website can handle the traffic that noquarterusa.net does is frigging hysterical. Obama and his team of mental midgets are busy polishing this turd and pushing the story that Healthcare is a smashing success. ...
  • Western Media Blackout on Alleged Name of CIA ...
    If you live outside the United States, you probably heard that leaders of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf, a political party led by the former cricket star Imran Khan, named CIA Director John Brennan and Craig Osth (alleged to be the CIA Chief in Pakistan) in order to ratchet up pressure on the ...
  • What Is Obama Doing with Iran?
    The Obama Administration appears to have a schizophrenic foreign policy that is guided solely by a desire to project an image to the US domestic political audience of vague leadership. Yet, when you look at the actual effects of the Obama Administration’s forays into the Arab Spring, the L ...
  • Barack Obama, President Hat Stand
    Ouch, and double ouch. GQ Magazine is out with its list of the 25 LEAST INFLUENTIAL people and, weighing in at 17, is the Chicago Kid, the Golden Child of Hawaii, the Healer of the Oceans. Mr. Nobel Peace Prize for Nothing himself, BAAAA RACCCKKKK OOOOOO BAAAAAA MA! (That’s my attempt to w ...

Futurismic

  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction — Im ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...
  • Wrist-deep in the grab-bag of the quotidian
    Atemporality, eh? [Spotted by the freshly deracinated Tim Maughan, currently on foot patrol in NYC, who noted that both of those futures -- and, implicitly, all futures -- are in the past tense.] Speaking of the quotidian grab-bag, here’s an interesting project: remixdemix. I’m not q ...

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
    Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
  • Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
    Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...
  • Bitcoin taps $200 again as ecosystem for servi ...
    Prices around $200 USD now, interesting price patterns. Stabilization & slow growth reigned since the woolly early 2013 era. Here: Bitcoin fake fibonacci trend line fun - even in crashes it never broke thru the lowest trend line. It's hard but not impossible to see it below $100 again. I thi ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • New Low: Only 6% of Americans Approve of Congress
    The disapproval crosses partisan lines. The American people like car salespeople better than Congress. A new Economist/YouGov.com poll shows that six percent of people approve of Congress.As the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard notes, a December 2012 Gallup poll compared what people thought ...
  • Amazon Develops Drones For Package Drop-off
    It's not just militarism--now drones can be used for consumption! Could drones be at your doorstep in a few years? Amazon’s Jeff Bezos says yes.In a 60 Minutes interview broadcast last night, the CEO of Amazon unveiled a plan to use drones to deliver packages to Americans.  Bezos said the ...
  • Where the Minimum Wage Would Be If It Kept Pac ...
    Instead, the minimum wage has been lower than a poverty wage ever since 1982. If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as the earnings of the top one percent of Americans the federal wage floor would be more than triple the current hourly minimum of $7.25. Instead, the minimum wage has b ...
  • The Naked Truth: Hollywood Still Treats Its Wo ...
    Research shows female stars are paid less, have fewer lines and spend more time with their clothes off than men. By Monday morning, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sci-fi adventure thriller starring Jennifer Lawrence, will have taken close to half a billion dollars in global ticket sales. ...
  • Sorry, Neoliberals: Inequality Is Driven by Gr ...
    A new study shows low wages are really caused by low minimum wage, weakened unions and the effects of globalization. Inequality may be the greatest economic challenge of our generation. Yet despite extensive academic debate, there is still no consensus as to its causes. Earlier this year, Tyle ...

Threat Level

  • This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid ...
    The door to the network closet pops open and a slender figure enters, a bicycle helmet hanging at his side. He sheds his backpack and pulls out a cardboard box containing a small hard drive, then kneels out of frame. ...     
  • Trial Opens in Case Challenging Scholar’s Plac ...
    Is Rahinah Ibrahim a Malaysian jihadist, or the victim of misguided bureaucrats who erroneously placed the 48-year-old woman on a U.S. terror watchlist, preventing the scholar and mother of four from re-entering the United States? That’s the issue in the ...     
  • Ding Ding Ding! Video Poker ‘Hackers’ Cleared ...
    Two gamblers who took advantage of a software bug to win a small fortune from casino video poker machines will enjoy Thanksgiving this year without the threat of federal prison hovering over them like a carving knife.     
  • Lavabit Strikes Back at Feds in Key Internet P ...
    Lawyers for secure e-mail provider Lavabit just filed the reply brief in a case that will determine whether an internet company can be compelled to turn over the master encryption keys for its entire system to facilitate court-approved surveillance on ...     
  • Alleged Silk Road Owner Denied Bail; Prosecuto ...
    Federal prosecutors in New York dropped a bombshell in their response to a bail request from alleged Silk Road owner Ross Ulbricht. In a filing to the court today in New York, they say that Ulbrict, as the Dread Pirate ...     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Celebration of Bill Keene’s Life December 14th
    The co-workers of William “Bill” Keene, a food safety pioneer admired by his peers in Oregon, across the country and around the world, are organizing a celebration of his life... Continue Reading
  • Celebration of Bill Keene’s Life Decembe ...
    The co-workers of William “Bill” Keene, a food safety pioneer admired by his peers in Oregon, across the country and around the world, are organizing a celebration of his life... Continue Reading
  • Hagen to Join Deloitte & Touche as Food Safety ...
    Deloitte announced today that Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, currently serving as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), will join Deloitte’s consumer products practice as... Continue Reading
  • Hagen to Join Deloitte & Touche as Food Safety ...
    Deloitte announced today that Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, currently serving as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), will join Deloitte’s consumer products practice as... Continue Reading
  • Missouri Ag Forces Recall of E. coli-Tainted Meat
    Cloud’s Meats, Inc. is voluntarily recalling beef and pork products possibly contaminated with E. coli. following positive test results for non-0157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STECs) in samples of items... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Tokyo: Honda shows MC-β short-distance EV
    Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Japan, Tokyo Motor Show, Honda, Design/Style, Electric Taking a page from Renault and the Twizy - the page that says you don't need real doors on a tiny electric vehicle - Honda has unveiled a new version of its tiny MC-β EV. That's tiny in terms of overall si ...
  • Los Angeles: 2015 Hyundai Tuscon Fuel Cell wil ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, SUV, Hyundai, Electric If nothing else, Hyundai wants to make it as easy as pie for you to check out its upcoming hydrogen-powered 2015 Tucson Fuel Cell vehicle. Given that the Korean automaker will be the first to offer a mass-produced fuel cell vehicle in the US ( ...
  • Quick Spin: Toyota Crown Royal Saloon Hybrid [ ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Toyota, Quick Spins We don't often come into contact with the Toyota Crown Hybrid, especially in colors other than pink. But when Toyota offered us the keys and a half-hour window to test out the Japanese version of the Lexus GS on US soil not long ago, we had to accept. ...
  • Study: Oil company predicts gas-powered cars w ...
    Filed under: Technology, Electric "By 2070, the passenger road market could be nearly oil-free." That's the key line (for us, anyway) in a report out from Shell titled New Lens Scenarios. The oil giant is trying to understand the future (who isn't?) and to do that, it envisioned two possible ...
  • First Drive: 2014 BMW i3
    Filed under: Hatchback, BMW, First Drives, Electric We can only imagine the challenges BMW is going to have explaining the i3 electric vehicle to the world. It's got a new powertain (all-electric, with optional range extender), a new production method (carbon fiber reinforced plastic!), a new ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Oscar Shortlist Interviews: 2014 Nominees ...
    This week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 15 films left in the race for the Documentary Feature Oscar. A record 147 films had originally qualified in the category. Watch our interviews with three of the filmmakers who made the shortlist, and see all of our Oscar-r ...
  • VIDEO: Extended Interview with Vandana Shiva a ...
    Watch our full interview with Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva at the recent International Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative Summit, where they discussed their decades of work devoted to protecting nature and saving future generations from the dangers of climate change. A renowned primatologis ...
  • CREDO Members (Or Not!): Only 4 weeks left to ...
    Now, more than ever, Democracy Now! needs your help. Each year, CREDO members vote to distribute 2013 donations funding — and how much we get depends on you. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of funding. Just go to this page and select Democracy Now! (you'll find us ...
  • Watch: Michel Gondry Drawing Illustration of A ...
    After our interview with Michel Gondry about his new film, "Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?" featuring Noam Chomsky, the French filmmaker quickly drew an illustration of Amy Goodman with sharpies on office printer paper. Watch Gondry in action.
  • Web Exclusive: Noam Chomsky in Conversation wi ...
    At the world premiere of the new documentary, Is the Man Who is Tall Happy? in New York City, filmmaker Michel Gondry sat down with the subject of the film, Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned linguist and activist. The discussion took place on November 21 at the DOC NYC Festival. The discus ...

Solari

  • ClusterF*** Finances
    “One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers. Paying high wages is behind the prosperity of this country.” ~ Henry Ford By Catherine Austin Fitts The debate continues regarding the benefits of continuously squeezing labor. Median household income in the United States has been on a ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “Most overnight successes come after repeated attempts and failures. You’ve got to keep at it.” ~ Nathan Myhrvold
  • What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers an ...
    By Peter Coy and Susan Berfield The public images of low-paying employers such as Wal-Mart and McDonald’s take a hit during the holidays, when Americans are seized by a spirit of charity. Stephen Colbert mocked Wal-Mart after employees at one of its stores started a Thanksgiving food drive for ...
  • Subscribers: Give the Gift of The Solari Report
    This Christmas season, we invite all Solari Report subscribers to give someone special a free, two-month gift subscription to The Solari Report. This free subscription will include: * Catherine Austin Fitts’ 2013 Annual Wrap-Up on January 2, 2014 reviewing the major trends that will affec ...
  • Roaring Centralization
    By Catherine Austin Fitts There is no doubt about it. The stocks of pro-centralization team leaders were high flyers this year. Here is a chart of Lockheed Martin, Google and Facebook compared to the S&P 500, 20 Year Treasuries and Gold. (Click image to view larger)

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Swedish Students Design Passive Home Powered b ...
    Measuring 645 sq foot, HALO takes its name and shape from the rainbow-like optical phenomenon around the sun. It was designed with small private rooms and large entertaining areas to shift people away from the growing trend of social isolation. The interiors     
  • 14 Beautiful Handcrafted Gifts for Eco-Friendl ...
    In the old days we all used to put time and effort into making special gifts for the people we love, that is before the world changed and left most of us with little time to spare. Luckily there are still artisans who make their living crafting beautiful,     
  • Groundbreaking Solspaces Solar Thermal System ...
    After a three year project to develop a solar heating system capable of long-term storage, researchers at the University of Stuttgart are finally ready to test its Solspaces system. The groundbreaking new heating solution uses a solar thermal system in conjunction     
  • Construction Specialties is Our Pick for ‘Best ...
    One of the great ironies of Greenbuild is the disconnect between the myriad of “green” products and the anything-but-green booths in which companies show their wares. In relief to the candy-colored plastic and vinyl clad arrangements, Construction Specialties     
  • Foster + Partners Unveil Plans for Glamorous M ...
    Architecture firms Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio just unveiled their plans for the Bund Finance Center, a luxury mixed-use development that will bookend Shanghai's most famous street and waterfront destination. The eight staggered buildings will     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Cassini Captures Amazing High-Res Animation of ...
    NASA's Cassini mission has captured an incredible high-resolution animation of the psychedelic jet stream known as Saturn's Northern Hexagon.     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Youngest X-Ray B ...
    The youngest member of an important class of objects called X-ray binaries has been found using data from Chandra (blue) and the Australia Compact Telescope Array (purple). X-ray binaries consist of a dense object -- either a black hole or ...     
  • Visit National Parks on Other Planets With The ...
    Come see the ice geysers of Enceladus, the searing volcanoes of Io, or the secluded canyons of Mars! The wonders of the solar system have never looked so wonderful. That’s the sense you get from looking at this brilliant collection of ...     
  • The Window: Piecing Together a Power Plant Wit ...
    Outside Tonopah, Nevada, a construction team of 600 is working to get the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy project up and running by 2014. WIRED has an exclusive look inside the construction of this first-of-its-kind renewable-energy power plant.     
  • Volcano Alert: A System to Warn Us About the N ...
    Remember how Iceland's ­Eyjafjallajökull volcano shut down air traffic over the continent in 2010? A team of 100 scientists is working on getting ahead of the next major eruption.     

PakAlert

  • Directive Provides Government With Intelligenc ...
    James Clapper’s directive fires up NSPD 51 providing Department of Homeland Security with ominous police state authority. Even in the unlikely event there is a nuclear war or some other catastrophic event, a directive issued by the director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligen ...
  • Backdoor gun control is here: no lead means no ...
    I am one who steers very clear of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories. I often believe progressives plant stories in order to distract and disrupt, enabling them to pursue their true goals and objectives. That’s why I stress the importance of staying focused on the modern liberal socialist policies ...
  • New Russian Submarines Are So Silent That The ...
    Did you know that Russia is building submarines that are so quiet that the U.S. military cannot detect them? These “black hole” submarines can freely approach the coastlines of the United States without fear of being detected whenever they want. In fact, a “nuclear-powered attack submarine arm ...
  • Truth in Media: Vaccine Court and Autism
    The claims that autism is caused by vaccines have been completely disproven, right? We have all heard that claim, maybe most famously by actress and model Jenny McCarthy. But is the claim untrue? What if I told you that while HHS says there is no link between autism and vaccinations, the fede ...
  • The Government’s Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellp ...
    "I find it hard to imagine why an internet kill switch would ever be a good idea, short of some science fiction scenario." The Electronic Privacy Information Center reports that the court just granted the government more time to decide whether to release the kill switch plan. It now has until ...

Andy Worthington

  • Meet the Cleared Algerian Prisoners in Guantán ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • Back in Print: The Battle of the Beanfield, Ma ...
    Buy The Battle of the Beanfield here. Yesterday, December 1, 2013, was a cheerless anniversary of sorts — 28 and a half years since the Battle of the Beanfield, on June 1, 1985, when 1,300 police from six counties and the MoD trapped and violently decommissioned a convoy of several hundred ...
  • Abandoned in Guantánamo: Mohammed Taha Mattan, ...
    As we approach the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (on January 11, 2014), it remains profoundly unacceptable that, of the remaining 164 prisoners, 84 were cleared for release nearly four years ago, in J ...
  • Penny Lane: What We Learned This Week About Do ...
    On Tuesday, out of nowhere, the Associated Press ran a story about a secret prison at Guantánamo that attracted a huge amount of attention from the media around the world — more attention, in fact, than at any time since the prison-wide hunger strike earlier this year, which, surprisingly, ...
  • Save the NHS and Free Shaker Aamer from Guantá ...
    Save the NHS and Free Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo, a set on Flickr. I just wanted to make available a few photos — and a bit of explanatory text — from two of the campaigns that are closest to my heart: the campaign to close Guantánamo (and, specifically, to secure the release of Sh ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Dead Comet Sketch
    Yesterday evening we were all Monty Python Dead Comet Sketch over ISON. It was pining for the Oort, this comet had ceased to be, it was no longer trailing up the blazes…etc etc But, this morning, I wake to hear news that this comet has actually ceased to not be. Will this be the most [&#82 ...
  • Chemist with an iPad
    Touch Press has come up with the perfect gift for the chemist with an iPad in your life with The Elements in Action app. Great videos, neat explanations, easy to use. Wonderful demonstrations showing why you are not allowed to take mercury and gallium on your holiday flight, a foil “tank&# ...
  • Bromide in yer tea? Pull the other one
    According to Brian Clegg, writing about “bromide” in Chemistry World this week. Bromide salts had an early role in reducing the impact of epilepsy and seizures, which were at the time thought to be caused by an over-active libido and more specifically masturbation. “Potassium b ...
  • Time travel paradox
    Okay…you know people always say that travelling back in time, with a “time machine”, wormhole or whatever, would be impossible because if you could go back in time, you might bump into your grandparents before your parents were conceived and somehow your presence prevents one o ...
  • A pre-festive warning
    I know some of you will be starting to think about Christmas already…don’t worry, that’s fine. I’ve got a little sing-along-a-Dave treat coming up for you with which you can begin the “celebrations”. I might even accept gifts this year, as long as they’r ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Nation's Libraries Warn of NSA's 'Ravenous Hun ...
    The world's largest library association is warning against the NSA's "ravenous hunger” for information and is urging the passage of legislation to rein in the agency's vast surveillance powers. read more
  • Bicycle Sales Outpace Cars as European 'Bike R ...
    (Source: BBC News)There's a European revolution going on and its riding in on two wheels. read more
  • Anti-Drone Blockade in Pakistan Forces Halt to ...
    Ongoing protests against U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are fueling a non-violent blockade along its border that have now forced a halt to NATO military supply convoys heading to neighboring Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Tuesday. ...
  • Economic Pain Inflicted, Austerity-Pushers Now ...
    The political drive to enact economic austerity across Europe is not only harming the financial position of millions upon millions of people, it is also undermining human rights protections across the continent and beyond. read more
  • Truck Carrying Radioactive Materials Hijacked ...
    A truck transporting dangerous radioactive materials that could be used in the construction of a "dirty bomb," was hijacked and stolen from a gas station on Monday near Mexico City. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who reported the incident to Mexican authorities, t ...

Lifehacker

  • Put the Elements of the Earth on Your Desktop ...
    While no periodic table, we sometimes more simplistically look at the elements as ice, fire, wind, and earth—and they can make for some beautiful images. Check out these great wallpapers that put the elements on your desktop.Read more...     
  • Two million passwords to sites such as Faceboo ...
    Two million passwords to sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and more have been compromised by a hacker using keylogging software. Affected users have already been notified to reset their passwords. Read more here.Read more...     
  • Gawker Cop Shoots Friend Over 'Wife-Swapping' ...
    Gawker Cop Shoots Friend Over 'Wife-Swapping' Gone Awry | Jalopnik This Video Explains Racers Better Than Any 'Athletes' Debate | Jezebel Police Have Great Advice on How Not to Get Raped This Christmas | Kotaku Arrest Made in San Francisco PS4 Killing | Kinja Popular PostsRead more...  &nbs ...
  • Should I be getting my suits tailored?
    Great discussions are par for the course here on Lifehacker. Each day, we highlight a discussion that is particularly helpful or insightful, along with other great discussions and reader questions you may have missed. Check out these discussions and add your own thoughts to make them even more ...
  • Study Shows the Benefits of a Brisk Walk Over ...
    We all know that walking is one of the easiest things you can do to keep yourself healthy, but if you want to increase those benefits without a lot of work, The New York Times suggests picking up the pace. Read more...     

Water Wars

  • Tentative agreement signed in Klamath water wars
    Gov. John Kitzhaber and representatives of the Obama administration have signed a breakthrough agreement for sharing scarce water in the Upper Klamath Basin, where irrigation was shut off to ranchers last summer after the...
  • Fitch Rates DeKalb County, GA Water and Sewera ...
    Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' to the following DeKalb County, Georgia revenue bonds:
  • Talk to India to resolve water row: Pakistani ...
    Islamabad, Nov 27 (IANS) Engage with India to find a peaceful solution to trans-boundary water-sharing, said a leading Pakistani daily Wednesday. "...This has led many - from farmers to opposition politicians to ministers to jihadi groups - to blame India, the upper riparian, for Pakistan&# ...
  • Talk to India to resolve water row: Pakistani ...
    Islamabad, Nov 27 (IANS) Engage with India to find a peaceful solution to trans-boundary water-sharing, said a leading Pakistani daily Wednesday. "...This has led many - from farmers to opposition politicians to ministers to jihadi groups - to blame India, the upper riparian, for Pakistan&# ...
  • Water Wars in the Coachella Valley
    A battle over water rights and water quality here in the Coachella Valley may come at a large cost.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • The 2014 Shrimp Season In The Gulf Of Maine Ha ...
    On Tuesday, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries closed the Northern shrimp fishery in the Gulf of Maine citing record low stocks. The post The 2014 Shrimp Season In The Gulf Of Maine Has Been Canceled appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Meet Gal Gadot, Your New Wonder Woman
    'Fast and Furious' franchise veteran Gal Gadot will play Wonder Woman in 'Batman vs. Superman.' But don't freak out about her resume just yet.The post Meet Gal Gadot, Your New Wonder Woman appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Insurance Commissioner Compares Pre-Existing C ...
    People with pre-existing conditions are like irresponsible drivers asking for insurance company handouts, according to Georgia's insurance commissioner.The post Insurance Commissioner Compares Pre-Existing Conditions To Car Wrecks: ‘It’s Your Fault’ appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Bjorn Yesterday: NY Times Runs Op-Ed Asserting ...
    Lomborg twists the facts beyond recognition in his latest op-ed so he can claim that inefficient stoves that kill poor people running on fuels like coal ... are an argument for why the poor need more fossil fuels!The post Bjorn Yesterday: NY Times Runs Op-Ed Asserting Poor People Need More Carbo ...
  • Microsoft Developed A ‘Diet Bra’ T ...
    The high-tech bra has sensors that manage women's physical indicators of stress. The senors send the data to a smartphone app in hopes of dissuading the user from over-eating.The post Microsoft Developed A ‘Diet Bra’ That Alerts Women When They’re At Risk For Over-Eating appear ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Dear stephen harper: Shove your Hockey Book Up ...
    Gawd. His pathetic warbling and now his asshole attempt to appear like a regular guy, some stupid ghost-written piece-of-shit about hockey. He's like some cheesy Hollywood movie slime-ball. His attempts at being nice are so transparently fraudulent, as he stabs everyone in the back.
  • Mr. Myxpikellix
  • Impressionable Youth
    It's weird how something you experienced as a youngster can make such a strong impression on you ....
  • I Hope Day Don't Have Dee Lady Moaning On Dis ...
  • Stupid & Shameless
    That's about the size of it for your "conservative" political base. Soon, we'll find out that somewhere between 15 and 20 % of Torontonians are debased enough to say: "Sure, he beats his wife and fucks underage girls, and drives drunk, and sends his city-paid staff to run personal errands for hi ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Able Archer: The war that didn’t happen
    Thirty years ago, in November 1983, one of the most dangerous crises of the Cold War occurred when the Soviet leadership convinced itself that the United States might be about to launch a nuclear attack.
  • Cost of ships could surpass $105 billion
    Public Works has released a through-life cost estimate for the Canadian government's National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. Costs are estimated to reach $105 billion and critics argue it could go higher.
  • Dismissive CSSA President sent as Canadian del ...
    The Harper government spent taxpayers' money to send Steve Torino, the President of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, to a conference on the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons, despite the fact the CSSA dismissed the Programme as not "even remotely important."
  • Steven Staples interviewed by Sun News on &#82 ...
    Ceasefire.ca responds to Sun TV's attack on I Remember for Peace
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    Sign up to be counted this November 11 as someone who remembers for peace!

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Dangerous global warming already happening, cl ...
    Scientific American reports: Abrupt climate change is not only imminent, it’s already here. The rapid dwindling of summer Arctic sea ice has outpaced all scientific projections, which will have impacts on everything from atmospheric circulation to global shipping. And plants, animals and o ...
  • Why Syria’s Islamic Front is bad news for radi ...
    Hassan Hassan writes: One of the mistakes analysts of the Syrian conflict often make is to assess rebel groups exclusively based on the slogans these organisations use. Many observers already recognise that hard-line Islamist rhetoric is more often than not used to attract funding. But in recent ...
  • A Syrian regime governed by fear and distrust
    Robin Yassin-Kassab writes: Syrian poet Rasha Omran once told me that Bashar al-Assad was “not a dictator, just a gangster boss”. But he’s not even that. What he is, a (dysfunctional) functionary. Syria is a dictatorship which lacks an efficient dictator. Hafez al-Assad – ...
  • Syria’s chemical weapons to be shipped in deli ...
    The Guardian reports: A Danish cargo vessel is due to load Syria’s chemical arms stockpile and transfer it to a specially adapted US ship in a delicate and unprecedented operation early in the new year, according to the world’s chemical weapons watchdog’s current plans. The pla ...
  • Academics should boycott Israel: Growing movem ...
    Steven Salaita, an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, writes: In recent years, we have seen greater recognition in the United States that religious acrimony and ancient blood feuds are not the source of the Israel-Palestine conflict, whose progenitor in fact is Jewish colonization. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Hump Day Hilarity – DECC The Halls
    Josh writes of this development in the UK: Ed Davey’s performance yesterday at the Energy and Climate Change Committee, posted here, was a mix of horror and farce. DECC seem to live in a make believe world where increases in costs cost less … Continue reading →
  • Rapid climate changes in the younger Dryas, bu ...
    From GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre Regional climate changes can be very rapid. A German-British team of geoscientists now reports that such a rapid climate change occurred in different regions with a time difference of 120 years. Investigation in the … Continue reading ...
  • Negative feedback? Storing CO2 in the Arctic
    From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: While the Arctic Ocean is largely a carbon sink, researchers find parts are also a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of … Continue reading →
  • HARRIS and KHANDEKAR: Blaming the developed wo ...
    By Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar Originally published in The Washington Times Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Bad science puts rich nations on the hook for trillions in climate liabilities Delegates at the recent U.N. climate conference in Warsaw decided that … Continue reading →
  • Cowtan & Way and signs of cooling
    Guest essay by Jan Zeman To err is human, for messing up consistently one needs a computer. -New proverbs Because there was a lot of publicity around the Cowtan and Way 2013 paper I decided to look into the issue. … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...
  • Could A Dopamine Gene Be the Answer to a Longe ...
    A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that a version of a gene coding for a receptor for the brain chemical dopamine was 66% more common among people who lived to be 90 or older than among a group of younger people who were otherwise similar.  The variant leads to a weaker respo ...

CFACT

  • Yea! The overheated climate crisis debate is s ...
    The crashing end to the global warmiing debate came recently, with the admission by the UN IPCC that there is a glaring disconnect between their climate model projections and observed real-world trends: Everyone now agrees (or admits) that the Earth has not been warming for the past 16 years. A ...
  • History falsifies climate alarmist sea level c ...
    Climate alarmists may be likened unto those who yell "fire" in a crowded theatre when there is no fire at all. Robert Endlich herein traces the history of sea level change from the Wisconsin Ice Age of 18,000 years ago through to Roman and medieval times and to the modern era. He remarks that ...
  • Lies my President told me
    We all know the President lied (or, more favorably, "misspoke") when he said, "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period." We know the Administration totally fabricated the story that a silly YouTube video was the reason four Americans died in BenGhazi. So why shoul ...
  • The UN global warming hoax is slowly dying!
    Alan Caruba boosts CFACT and the Heartland Institute for helping bring about the death of the Kyoto Protocol -- with a toast to newly elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the people and government of Poland. Major media outlets such as Business Week and the New York Times, however, ...
  • Subsidizing green energy is like supporting op ...
    With domestic oil and natural gas production soaring thanks to fracking, the nation is taking a harder look at subsidies and mandates for so-called "Green" energy. EPA for the first time proposed to reduce the amount of ethanol that has to be added to gasoline. An Arizona state agency just ad ...

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Natural Health News

  • Chemicals in Heart Stress Tests Can Actually T ...
    By Dr. Mercola Cardiac stress tests are sometimes used to make sure your heart works properly when put under stress. Typically, you’ll be asked to walk on a treadmill or ride a stationary bicycle to increase your heart rate until your heart is adequately stressed, then its function wi ...
  • WebMD Pockets Millions to Promote Obamacare Th ...
    By Dr. Mercola According to the Washington Times,1 WebMD, the second most visited health site on the World Wide Web, has received a $4.8 million government contract to educate doctors about the ins and outs of the Affordable Care Act, colloquially dubbed “Obamacare.” A similar co ...
  • Acetaminophen Linked to Increased Risk of Kidn ...
    By Dr. Mercola Given the fact that acetaminophen (sold under the brand name Tylenol, among others) is one of the most widely used drugs in the world, you might be surprised to learn that taking just a bit too much, on a regular basis, or taking it in combination with alcohol, can have rather ...
  • Raw Milk Producer Sues Oregon Department of Ag ...
    By Dr. Mercola If you believe that it is your right to decide what food to feed yourself and your family, you will be interested in the latest legal battle brewing between an Oregon raw milk farmer and the state Department of Agriculture. In Oregon, sales of raw milk from small farms directl ...
  • 6 Things to Do Instead of Smoking
    By Dr. Mercola If you're a current smoker, the research suggests that no matter what your age, quitting can be extremely beneficial. For instance, if you quit smoking before the age of 40, more than 90 percent of the excess mortality caused by continuing smoking may be avoided.1 If you quit ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Protests in Ukraine and Normative Geopolitics
    by Chris Borgen One hundred and ten years ago next month, British geographer Halford Mackinder presented a paper at the Royal Geographical Society in London entitled “The Geographical Pivot of History,” setting out the basic tenets of what we now call “geopolitics.”  Strategic thinking during ...
  • Weekly News Wrap: December 2, 2013
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Middle East The Israeli army fired into Syria after its troops were shot at on the occupied Golan Heights, the military said. The IAEA will probably need ...
  • The OTP’s Remarkable Slow-Walking of the Afgha ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) at the ICC just released its 2013 Report on Preliminary Examination Activities. There is much to chew over in the report, but what is most striking is the OTP's slow-walking of its preliminary examination into crimes committed in Afghanist ...
  • Events and Announcements: November 30, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Calls for Papers December 1, 2013, is the deadline for applications for the Third Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, which will be held at the University of Melbourne on July 7, 8 and 9, 2014. Regrettably, no applications can be received after this ...
  • Weekend Roundup: November 23-29, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Kevin asked why the agreement between the P5+1 and Iran is not void given that it goes against earlier UNSC resolutions prohibiting uranium enrichment by Iran. Duncan also looked at the deal, decided that it is not actually legally bindi ...

Public News Service

  • Practicing Gratitude Improves the Attitude
    Practicing Gratitude Improves the Attitude PHOENIX - Gratitude can change your attitude, and maybe even your health. With the season of giving and thankfulness under way, Wickes MacColl is a Strengthening Families educator who points to research that shows people who practice gratefulness are b ...
  • New Online Lung Cancer Screening Tool Can Save ...
    New Online Lung Cancer Screening Tool Can Save Lives PHOENIX - Lung cancer is the number-one killer form of cancer in Arizona and the nation, and the American Lung Association has now made available a new online screening tool to help people determine if they should get a low-dose screening for ...
  • "Giving Tuesday" Peeks through Christmas Comme ...
    "Giving Tuesday" Peeks through Christmas Commercialism PHOENIX - Merchants report sales up 2.3 percent compared with last year, in the holiday buying frenzy of Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday - and today is Cyber Monday, known for online shopping. So, charitable groups are hoping there's ...
  • Holiday Giving: "Shopping Smart" for a Reputab ...
    Holiday Giving: "Shopping Smart" for a Reputable Charity PHOENIX – Today millions of Americans will venture out to big and small retailers in search of the best deal for their holiday gift giving, and experts advise them to have the same diligence when it comes to picking a charity. Acco ...
  • Advocate: Questions Remain on CPS Plan for Uni ...
    Advocate: Questions Remain on CPS Plan for Uninvestigated Cases PHOENIX - The state's welfare department has come up with a plan to deal with more than 6,000 cases alleging child abuse and neglect that Child Protective Services failed to investigate. Cases would be screened by next week, and t ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • White Man’s Burden – the Israeli O ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group blog) Dear Friends, By a miracle of sorts, we had a mostly peaceful day in South Hebron today; such an event is so rare that I thought it might be worth mentioning to you. In lieu of a more substantial report, let me just say that Abu Sharif and Fadil pl ...
  • What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
    One of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its burgeoning hi-tech sector. As we know, the best propaganda ...
  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon

  • Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
    04 December 2013 I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war.  Yet this is also a crucial moment in Thailand.  A few words on the Kingdom are due. December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...
  • Al Qaeda in Syria: A Snapshot
    1 December 2013 Given by Kawa Khalil, annotated by Michael Yon The Syrian rebel Kawa Khalil told me the recent story of the Holy Cross church. Before the war, the church doubled as a school, attended by Muslims and Christians.  After the destruction of Syria began, classrooms became ho ...
  • Daily Thailand and Syria Updates on my Facebook
    30 November 2013 Please "friend" my daily updates:   https://www.facebook.com/MichaelYonFanPage
  • From the Hearts of Thai People
    28 November 2013 Government opposition has grown in Thailand to historical proportions.  Millions of Thai people from all walks of life, and from across the political and economic spectrum, are uniting to overthrow the current government, which is corrupted to the core. So far, the massiv ...
  • Storm Warning: The Trial and Conviction of CJ ...
    by Barbara Lawrence, witness to trial 26 November 2013 Prelude Two days before I left to attend the retrial of Master Sergeant CJ Grisham, I received my annual National Rifle Association membership card in the mail. It was a reminder that though MSG Grisham has sought and received considerabl ...

The Killing Train

  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for that work. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): I think ...
  • 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. Topics: Canada
  • 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.

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Democratic Voice of Burma

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Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Third Way's Anti-Populist, Anti-Warren and Dec ...
    The predations of Wall Street banking firms -- many of whom provide funding for Third Way and sit on its board -- crashed the economy in 2008, throwing millions of people out of work and leaving millions more underemployed. Jobless people don't contribute to Social Security, and underemployed pe ...
  • Intimidating China Militarily: Reckless, Foolh ...
    As the U.S. president sits in the Oval Office and contemplates the proper role of the powerful military force at his disposal he might ask himself this question: "Of all the countries in the world which one should this nation never, ever think about intimidating militarily?" The answer that imme ...
  • Saudi-Israeli Alliance Boosts Al-Qaeda
    Saudi Arabia and Israel see Iran as their worst enemy, but that obsession is allowing al-Qaeda to reassert itself in the Middle East, especially in war-torn Syria, and that could open the West to a new round of terrorist attacks.
  • Hospital Price-Gouging Widespread
    The inflated charges hospitals are imposing for emergency room and inpatient services are exploding---and American taxpayers are paying a big share of the burden.
  • Amazon, Domino's and Big Brother: Drones Flyin ...
    Imagine a robot hovering overhead as you go about your day, driving to and from work, heading to the grocery store, or stopping by a friend's house. This scenario is inching ever closer to becoming our reality as corporations and government agencies alike prepare for their part in the coming dro ...

Switchboard

  • Overlooked but not forgotten, solar thermal de ...
    Pierre Bull, Policy Analyst, Air & Energy, New York City When Kevin Virkler’s daughter Megan takes a shower—the kind of long, hot shower that only an adolescent can take—he doesn’t worry anymore about how much warming up all ...
  • Post-Warsaw Op-Ed: How to Spur 'Green Growth' ...
    Anjali Jaiswal, Senior Attorney, San Francisco This op-ed originally appeared in the Business Standard. Varad Pande works for the Ministry of Rural Development and has advised on two recent UN panels on sustainable development. These views are per ...
  • Energy Efficiency not only Good for Business, ...
    Ariana Gonzalez, Energy Policy Analyst, Midwest, Chicago Office *The first in a series telling the story of energy efficiency in Michigan entitled Energy Efficiency Snapshots: Capturing the Growth of an Industry. A positive energy efficiency b ...
  • New poll: Marcellus region voters prioritize f ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A public opinion poll was recently conducted on attitudes of voters living in the Appalachian shale region toward forest health and natural gas development. Those surveyed live in ...
  • BREAKING: USDA Inspector General to Audit Wild ...
    Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Responding to Congressional requests and well over a hundred thousand letters from the public, the Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General confirmed today that it plans to cond ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Israel and Palestine - French Scientists Find ...
    French forensic scientists said on December 3 that Yasser Arafat, who once led the Fatah terrorist organization, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian National Authority, did not succumb to alleged radioactive polonium poisoning that had been suggested in a recent Swiss repor ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Kissinger and Schultz Sound the ...
    For 10 years, U.N. resolutions and International Atomic Energy Agency directives called for a full halt to all of Iran’s uranium enrichment and plutonium production, and unconditional compliance with nuclear inspections, but now, what “was previously condemned as illegal and illegitimate has ...
  • Cuban American Relations - Obama Masters a Mix ...
    President Barack Obama, who has been consistently inconsistent in his dealings with Cuba, demonstrated once again his mastery of the mixed message.The president was in Miami on November 8th for an important fundraising event. There he met with the head of the Cuban American National Foundation ( ...
  • Nuclear Future - 'Dangerous' Radioactive Mater ...
    A truck carrying “extremely dangerous� radioactive material was reported stolen in Mexico Wednesday, according to nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency. Mexico told the IAEA the truck was carrying cobalt-60 teletherapy from a Tijuana hospital to a radioactive waste storage unit ...
  • Broken Government - Obama Denounces Income Dis ...
    President Obama on December 4 declared that addressing income inequality would be the focus of “all� of the White House’s efforts “for the rest of my presidency.� In a sweeping address that touched on raising the minimum wage, investing in infrastructure and ending tax breaks for the w ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Still Fighting For ...
    During 2013, while achieving partial success on the litigation front, lack of progress on most other pressing issues concerning the Bhopal gas-victims continue to remain a source of major concern. The current status of issues such as health care, enhancement of compensation, prosecution of the a ...
  • Climate Change Crisis Could Be Abrupt
    Some of the large and rapid changes in the physical climate system including the Earth’s atmosphere, land surfaces and oceans due to climate changes could occur within a few decades or even years, leaving little time for society and ecosystems to adapt. A new report from the National Research Co ...
  • Record High For Global Greenhouse Gas Emission
    The disappointing climate conference in Warsaw, Poland-which was intended to lay the groundwork for a global climate agreement in 2015-stands in sharp contrast to the continued growth in emissions of greenhouse gases. Negotiators and activists alike confront not only the fact that carbon dioxide ...
  • Guardian Editor Robustly Defends Snowden Leaks ...
    Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger strongly defended his newspaper's publication of the Snowden leaks in response to a hostile grilling by a UK parliamentary committee Tuesday, as MPs attempted to show that national security was breached
  • Disappearing Edward Snowden By Peter Van Buren
    What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Bashir Too Disgusting For MSNBC -Announces "Re ...
    MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, who had been absent from his show for nearly two weeks, announced via an email  to Mediaite that he would be "resigning" from his show in the aftermath of saying someone should urinate and deficate in Sarah Palin’s mouth (OK he was probably fired but ya'll know how ...
  • Harry Reid Decides Obamacare Is Not Good Enoug ...
    President Obama was telling the truth, if you like your health insurance you can keep it (as long as you work for the Senate Majority leader). According to CNN Harry Reid, who helped craft Obamacare and has protected it since it was passed is the only top congressional leader to exempt some of ...
  • Why is USA Today Telling Global Warming Lies?
    When it comes to global warming, climate change or whatever the theorists are calling it this these days, the mainstream media will report exactly what they are being fed without questioning anything. That is what was done on Tuesday in USA Today in a report which asks "How fast is the Earth's c ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Democrats To Begin Calli ...
    Democrats are really freaking out about the failed Obamacare launch. Especially those Republican Senators and House members who are facing reelection in 2014.  To help distance themselves from the failed legislation they are trying to remove the term Obamacare from the public vernacular. &n ...
  • Tonight I’m Gonna Party Like It’s 19[3]9 (The ...
    “The sky was all purple There were people runnin’ everywhere Oops out of time,Tryin’ to run from the destruction You know I didn’t even care…So tonight I’m gonna party like it’s 19[3]9.”–Prince, “1999” By Barry Rubin I have been working hard to explain to people that Iran’s nuclear we ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbine neighbors blast lawmakers over windmil ...
    BOSTON — A plan to speed permitting for wind turbine sites across the state encountered a gale of opposition testimony on Tuesday as residents who live near turbines lined up to tell a legislative committee about the giant windmills’ harmful health effects. “This bill is disgraceful, ...
  • St. Croix County wind energy project dispute p ...
    A dispute over a proposed wind farm in northeastern St. Croix County has blown a huge hole in the normally tight-knit fabric of the farming community where the project’s developer hopes to build the $250 million project. That may be the only thing opponents and advocates in the town of Forest ag ...
  • Turbine catches fire in La Ventosa
    [On Tuesday, a 2-MW Gamesa wind turbine burned up in the Stipa Naya wind power facility. Police and company employees tried to prevent journalists from taking photographs.] Este martes los vecinos de esta comunidad fueron testigos de la quema de un aerogenerador del parque “Stipa Naya” de la emp ...
  • Transformer fire causes spill in Sherman County
    A transformer caught fire at the base of a Bigelow Canyon wind turbine over the weekend, spilling an estimated 600 gallons of transformer oil. A representative of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ) spills unit reported that PGE, the owner of the wind farm, reported the fire a ...
  • Builders of proposed wind farm drop plans
    Developers of a disputed energy-producing wind farm have dropped their plans to build 500-foot-tall turbines on the edge of the Everglades, a project representative confirmed Tuesday. Environmental groups long opposed allowing the Sugarland Wind project to be built on western Palm Beach County f ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...
  • Smarter(3): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math. Matt Waite use ...
  • Smarter(2): A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, I am trying something. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are ...
  • Smarter: A list for journalism students
    Every week I read a lot of tweets and articles and blog posts about journalism. Every time I talk about the evolution of the field with journalism students, I see evidence that they are not keeping up. So, a new experiment. Three articles, every Sunday, that I read this week. Three that are very ...
  • Code for journalists, or why journalists shoul ...
    Friday I was visiting the Center for Collaborative Journalism, and I watched director Tim Regan-Porter teaching a class called Hacking the Media. In it, about 12 students were learning to do something with Ruby on Rails. Some of the students were journalism majors. Others were from engineering o ...

Facing South

  • Duke Energy coal ash poisoning NC lake, study ...
    Image Caption:  The top two bluegill from Lake Sutton show the craniofacial defect known as "pugnose," which is characterized by deformed "underbite" mouth and jaws and compressed or shortened head and mouth. The bottom fish ...
  • 'The public has a right to know about Art Pope'
    Image Caption:  Institute director Chris Kromm speaks at a NAACP press conference announcing informational pickets being launched at stores owned by political mega-donor and N.C. budget director Art Pope in December 2013. This ...
  • The IRS moves to limit dark money -- but enfor ...
    Image Caption:  The real test of limits on political spending by nonprofits will be how they are enforced -- something that the IRS has been reluctant to do. The IRS is taking comments on proposed rules clarifying the definiti ...
  • Walmart workers plan raucous Black Friday
    Image Caption:  "I'm Elaine," declared one woman's sign. "8 yrs at [Walmart store] #1590, Miami, FL. Unjustly fired. Shame on you, corporate." Elaine (no last name given) and several others braved bitter cold to pr ...
  • Congressman's cocaine bust illuminates race an ...
    Image Caption:  Rep. Radel says he's going to get psychological help following his coke bust to better care for his family. But if he were a poor woman of color arrested for cocaine possession, he'd likely need help just feeding his f ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

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Ian Welsh

  • European Union Tells Banks To Commit Fraud Again
    Per the NYTimes: The European Union has fined eight banks a combined 1.7 billion euros… The banks were accused of fixing rates for the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, as it relates to the Japanese yen and the euro interbank offered rate, or Euribor. Let me spell it out: they made ...
  • DDOS Attacks Effective: Omidyar
    So, the CEO of EBay, parent company of PayPal, writes to suggest leniency in the punishment of the people accused of running a denial of service attack against PayPal because of PayPal’s boycott of Wikileaks.  His claims of powerlessness, of being against PayPal’s boycott but unable ...
  • A Challenge To the No Fly List
    Is ongoing. An American citizen who cannot fly has taken the US government to court.  The most amusing part, to me, is this, from the Judge: I want to categorically reject one thing: If information is publicly available in some other way, the government does not have the right to retroactively c ...
  • Grace and the Cycle of Abuse
    Those to whom evil is done. Do evil in return - W. H. Auden Grace is the good we do not deserve.  A society without grace, a society without mercy, a society that knows only vengeance, is a horrid land of violence and fear. The simple rule of evil is Auden’s, but it’s worse than [...]
  • Just forbid most retail stores from opening on ...
    Really, just do it.  I’m old enough to remember when only pharmacies and small corner stores were allowed to be open on Sundays and Holidays, and it was no great hardship.  Holidays that are only for people who don’t work shitty jobs suck.  If no one can open, no business suffers a c ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • India says food security is non-negotiabl ...
    Tweet Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 4 (ANI): Commerce and Industry Ministry Anand Sharma said on Wednesday that as far as India is concerned, compromises on food security are non-negotiable. Addressing the plenary session of the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) her ...
  • Around the NHL: Penguins beat Isles on Cr ...
    Blue Jackets chat at 1 p.m. today Blue Jackets 1, Lightning 0: Bobrovsky injury hangs over win Blue Jackets notebook: Foligno flashes skill on highlight-reel goal Jackets-Lightning game summary Around the NHL: Penguins beat Isles on Crosby’s OT goal Blue Jackets: Jack Johnson a plus despite ...
  • Daily Primer Dec. 4: Canadiens look to sw ...
    (Source: New York Islanders) The Montreal Canadiens beat Martin Brodeur two nights ago at Bell Centre to win the front end of a home-and-home series against the New Jersey Devils. They'll be looking at a different goaltender when they take the ice Wednesday at Prudential Center. Cory Sch ...
  • Postgame Notes and Quotes: December 3 vs. ...
    (Source: Anaheim Ducks) The Ducks are the only team in the NHL without a regulation loss at HOME, going 10-0-2 at Honda Center this season. It marks the third time since the implementation of the shootout (2005-06 season) that an NHL club has gone through its first 12 home games without a re ...
  • Kings vs Ducks: Postgame Quotes (Los Ange ...
    (Source: Los Angeles Kings) Quotes from LAKingsInsider.com Martin Jones -  On when he got word he'd be starting: Last night after the game. On whether he was nervous: Yeah, I mean I was probably more nervous last night than today. Once you start the day and you start going through your ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • Nation's Libraries Warn of NSA's 'Ravenous Hun ...
    The world's largest library association is warning against the NSA's "ravenous hunger” for information and is urging the passage of legislation to rein in the agency's vast surveillance powers. read more
  • Bicycle Sales Outpace Cars as European 'Bike R ...
    (Source: BBC News)There's a European revolution going on and its riding in on two wheels. read more
  • Anti-Drone Blockade in Pakistan Forces Halt to ...
    Ongoing protests against U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan are fueling a non-violent blockade along its border that have now forced a halt to NATO military supply convoys heading to neighboring Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed Tuesday. ...
  • Economic Pain Inflicted, Austerity-Pushers Now ...
    The political drive to enact economic austerity across Europe is not only harming the financial position of millions upon millions of people, it is also undermining human rights protections across the continent and beyond. read more
  • Truck Carrying Radioactive Materials Hijacked ...
    A truck transporting dangerous radioactive materials that could be used in the construction of a "dirty bomb," was hijacked and stolen from a gas station on Monday near Mexico City. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who reported the incident to Mexican authorities, t ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • A Little Guy Sticks It to Apple and Jamie Dimon
    Tim Cook Apple CEO A New Brand of Shareholder Activism It’s fairly common knowledge that shareholders have little say in corporate governance. For the most part upper level managers run their companies as their own personal fiefdom. In addition to paying themselves obscene salaries, t ...
  • Sign Petition to INCREASE Social Security
      Scrap the Cap New bills by Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) seek to let the steam out of the phony debate over Social Security’s non-existent fiscal crisis by removing the $113,700 cap on earnings that are taxable for Social Security purposes. Under Beg ...
  • A Novel About Climate Change
    Flight Behavior By Barbara Kingsolver Book Review Flight Behavior is actually about culture clash and the psychology of belief systems. In it, Kingsolver examines the manner in which social conditioning affects peoples’ reaction to a highly abstract concept such as climate change. The ...
  • The New Farmer's Almanac
        The New Farmer’s Almanac for the Year 2013 Published by the Greenhorns Book Review The Greenhorns, which publishes the 2013 New Farmer’s Almanac, is a national organization founded in 2007 to support thousands of young farmer’s who are leaving US cities ...
  • The Power of Community
      The Power of Community Produced by The Community Solution (2006)  Film Review   The Power of Community is a documentary about Cuba’s “Special Period” in the early 1990s, following the political and economic collapse of the Soviet Union. The break-up of the U ...

FourWinds10

  • Singapore smoke hits life-threatening levels, ...
    June 21, 2013 Singapore health officials have warned that air pollution is at hazardous, record-high levels due to peatland wildfires in neighboring Indonesia. In a bid to quell a diplomatic row, Jakarta has sent helicopters to ‘seed’ rainclouds over the blaze. Smoke from the raging ...
  • THE SICKEST PLACES IN THE WORLD
    The Agbogbloshie e-Wasteland in Ghana. Fires are set to wires and other electronics to release valuable copper and other materials. The fires blacken the landscape, releasing toxic fumes. Credit: Blacksmith Institute UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria ...
  • Study links fracking with methane-contaminated ...
    June 26, 2013 Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and ...
  • Tar sands trains are derailing and exploding.
    Oct. 29, 2013 The Department of Transportation must stop these dangerous oil train tanker cars. Oil companies want to dramatically increase oil train traffic - using tanker cars that the Department of Transportation has known for decades are unsafe. Submit a public comment now.   This summe ...
  • Fukushima: Radioactive cesium levels jump 9,00 ...
    July 24, 2013 (NaturalNews) Some of the highest levels of ionizing radiation yet detected since the disaster first occurred were recently recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan, according to shocking new reports. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which runs the ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • What's All This About The World Bank Not Finan ...
    As the cleanup drama continues to unspool around the tsunami-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the Internets have been cheering the news that the World Bank will not be financing any more such facilities in the future. That’s nice, really, except that it’s not exactly news.read more
  • Calling All Village Infrastructure Angels
    While it could potentially be clean energy's next big market, off grid clean tech suffers from an acute lack of finance. That's the real barrier to ramping up efforts to finally move 1.3 billion people around the whole world from darkness to light.read more
  • Is a Carbon Tax a Sensible Alternative to Subs ...
    Governments around the world stimulate the development of renewables by offering subsidies. But fossil fuels are subsidized too. Given the realities of climate change and increasing global energy demand, a better option could be a carbon tax – which might promote renewables better than any polic ...
  • Global Gas Guzzlers
    Recently I have been spending a lot of time thinking about global fuel subsidies. The most extreme example is Venezuela, where gasoline costs only 6 cents per gallon. That’s not a typo. The price in Venezuela is less than 1/50th of what I pay in California.read more
  • How Alberta's Oil Sands are Produced
    I spent the first week of November in the heart of the Athabasca oil sands around Fort McMurray, Alberta. I was there as a guest of the Canadian government, which hosts annual tours for small groups of journalists and energy analysts.read more

Rodale News

  • Your Dandruff Shampoo's Dirty Little Secret
    Natural dandruff remedies are going to sound a lot more appealing when you hear what standard, run-of-the-mill chemical anti-flake shampoos are doing to our waterways. Scientists are increasingly interested in what happens when the shampoos, soaps, gels, conditioners, and shampoos we use wash ...
  • America: We're Gassier Than We Think
    America has a gas problem: Emissions of methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, are 50 to 100 percent higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by re ...
  • Process of Elimination: Are Certain Foods Maki ...
    by Woodson Merrell with Mary Beth Augustine and Hillari Dowdle, authors of The Detox Prescription One day you feel great, the next, not so much, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to your symptoms. And symptoms can seem really vague—fatigue, headaches, joint pain, gastrointestinal ...
  • Holiday Detox: 2 Recipes to Help You Recover
    Chances are, you are in a food coma from all the Thanksgiving goodies. And chances are, you probably have a ton of leftovers. Celebrity Nutritionist Christine Avanti, author of Skinny Chicks Eat Real Food suggests using those leftovers to detox…STAT! Below are her recipes for Detox Turkey & ...
  • The Power of Gratitude: Getting Happy by Givin ...
    By Jeff Csatari, author of Your Best Body at 40+ (Rodale) and coauthor with Joseph Csatari of Norman Rockwell’s Boy Scouts of America Have you given any thought to how much "getting" there is in thanks giving? “Thanks” is what you say when the Starbucks clerk hands y ...

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  • Neutrino Hunters: A Detective Story with Cosmi ...
    Neutrino particles, dubbed the "poltergeists of physics," are subatomic particles that are considered to be the fundamental building blocks of our universe. The existence of these particles was first proposed in 1930 by the physicist Wolfgang Pauli and later confirmed in an experiment in 1956 .. ...
  • The Ambition of Thomas Carlyle
    "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." -Thomas Carlyle (born on this date in 1795) Read More
  • Does Depression Go Away on Its Own?
    Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), who coined the term "manic depressive," found that in contrast to patients suffering from dementia praecox (schizophrenia), those suffering manic depression had a relatively good prognosis, with 60% to 70% of patients suffering only one attack and attacks lasting, on ...
  • How Art Spiegelman Is More Than Just Maus
    Sometimes the toughest shadow to escape is one you cast over yourself. When artist Art Spiegelman began publishing Maus in 1980 in chapter form in the indie comics magazine Raw , which he co-founded with his wife Françoise Mouly, he couldn’t have guessed that his artistic journey into ...
  • On Data Horticulture
    “The last decade has been about sharing. The next decade will be about protecting.” - Dave  Pell. If there’s anything that this summer’s revelations about government eavesdropping, spying, and surveillance have taught the world it’s that we are truly inseparable from our data. Our personal data ...

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Dead Comet Sketch
    Yesterday evening we were all Monty Python Dead Comet Sketch over ISON. It was pining for the Oort, this comet had ceased to be, it was no longer trailing up the blazes…etc etc But, this morning, I wake to hear news that this comet has actually ceased to not be. Will this be the most [&#82 ...
  • Chemist with an iPad
    Touch Press has come up with the perfect gift for the chemist with an iPad in your life with The Elements in Action app. Great videos, neat explanations, easy to use. Wonderful demonstrations showing why you are not allowed to take mercury and gallium on your holiday flight, a foil “tank&# ...
  • Bromide in yer tea? Pull the other one
    According to Brian Clegg, writing about “bromide” in Chemistry World this week. Bromide salts had an early role in reducing the impact of epilepsy and seizures, which were at the time thought to be caused by an over-active libido and more specifically masturbation. “Potassium b ...
  • Time travel paradox
    Okay…you know people always say that travelling back in time, with a “time machine”, wormhole or whatever, would be impossible because if you could go back in time, you might bump into your grandparents before your parents were conceived and somehow your presence prevents one o ...
  • A pre-festive warning
    I know some of you will be starting to think about Christmas already…don’t worry, that’s fine. I’ve got a little sing-along-a-Dave treat coming up for you with which you can begin the “celebrations”. I might even accept gifts this year, as long as they’r ...

RFF Library

  • Assessing “Dangerous Climate Change”: Required ...
    PLoS ONE (Dec. 3 2013; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081648 ) James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Makiko Sato, Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Frank Ackerman, David J. Beerling, Paul J. Hearty, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Shi-Ling Hsu, Camille Parmesan, Johan Rockstrom, Eelco J. Rohling, Jeffrey Sachs and James C. Za ...
  • Gas Production in the Barnett Shale Obeys a Si ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Dec. 3, 2013 v110 n49 p19731-19736) / by Tad W. Patzeka, Frank Male and Michael Marder http://www.pnas.org/content/110/49/19731 Ten years ago, US natural gas cost 50% more than that from Russia. Now, it is threefold less. US gas prices plummeted b ...
  • Deep Ocean Communities Impacted by Changing Cl ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December 3, 2013 v110 n49 p19838-19841; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1315447110) / by Kenneth L. Smith, Jr., et al. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/49/19838.short Global warming is now a well-documented phenomenon that is influencing every aspect of our worl ...
  • Exposure-Response Estimates for Diesel Engine ...
    Environmental Health Perspectives (2013; DOI:10.1289/ehp.1306880) / by Roel Vermeulen, et al. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1306880/ [Green Car Congress] …a study by researchers from the Netherlands, the US, and France estimates that approximately 6% of annual lung cancer deaths in the US and U ...
  • Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change: Anticipating ...
    National Academies Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18373 Climate is changing, forced out of the range of the past million years by levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not seen in the Earth s atmosphere for a very, very long time. Lacking action by the world s natio ...

frogblog

  • Hiding behind beneficiaries and accusations of ...
    Yesterday we found out that MSD plans home visits to “check in” on sole parent beneficiaries after 14 weeks to make sure to make sure they’re still living alone. The Minister has noted “relationships could develop quickly and some people might not be aware of their obligation to tell ...
  • NZ fail in PISA scores
    New Zealand has slipped dramatically in the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) which reports every 3 years on what 15 year olds know and what they can do with what they know, across the world. New Zealand’s education ranking has fallen from seventh to 18th in science, fr ...
  • National Climate Policy – 1. Denmark
    Under the ’92 Framework Convention, all countries are equal, but some are more equal than others. The CBDR/RC principle seeks to distinguish developed countries from developing, for the first period – as it turns out, from 1992 to 2020.  The principle says that all countries should protect the c ...
  • Key rewriting history over Chorus
    Chorus has decided to head off to Court to challenge the Commerce Commission’s ruling Kiwis should receive cheaper Internet – no surprise there. The biggest surprise has been the Government’s response to the unprecedented parliamentary revolt over legislating regarding the Commerce Commiss ...
  • New Zealand needs to say ‘fin’ to shark finning
    Sharks are amazing creatures and fearsome predators, but they don’t stand a chance against our industrial fishing fleets and growing demand for shark fin soup. Many New Zealanders would be shocked to discover that shark finning – the practice of killing a shark, cutting off its fins ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

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    Renewables industry welcomes reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms
    The Guardian
    Reduced subsidies for onshore windfarms and solar power announced on Wednesday are "good news", according to a leading renewable energy trade body, because it shows the costs of the technologies are coming down. The cuts set out by the energy ...
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    Obama to Tell Feds to Boost Renewable Electricity
    ABC News
    A plan announced in June would put first-time limits on carbon pollution from new and existing power plants, boost renewable energy production on federal lands and prepare communities to deal with higher temperatures. The Associated Press obtained an ...
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    Energy Collective
    Carbon leakage between RPS and non-RPS States could lead to allocating all Coal Power generation and associated carbon emissions to non-RPS States. This would enable different States to show satisfactory progress towards their individual RPS targets ...
    Renewable sources of power are key to Ohio's energy security: Mark Szabo
    Plain Dealer
    For months, we have seen a fight play out in the Statehouse over Ohio's energy future and the fate of Substitute Senate Bill 58 – which would weaken Ohio's ability to pursue clean, homegrown, renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Just recently ...
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    Vermilion Energy Inc. Receives National Ecology Award in France
    Sacramento Bee
    The 2013 Circular Economy Award for Industrial and Regional Ecology was presented to Vermilion in Paris on December 3, 2013, by Philippe Martin, French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. The award recognizes economically ...
    Stocks to Watch: US Ecology, Akamai, Dow Chemical
    Wall Street Journal (blog)
    US Ecology again raised its earnings guidance for the year, pointing to strong volumes and accelerated project shipments, but warned its results for next year may take a hit as a result. The company, which provides waste- management and recycling ...
    IW schools honored in ecology
    Suffolk News-Herald
    The Isle of Wight County School system is getting recognition for the work it is doing in their fields of conservation and ecology. Kenita Bowers, school spokeswoman, stated in a press release that IWCS has advanced from gold to platinum in the 2013 ...
    Avalon Farms earns Ecology Leadership Award
    Thecountypress
    LANSING — In recognition of their extraordinary environmental stewardship practices, Climax-based Avalon Farms, owned by Brigette, Larry and Kelly Leach, will be recognized at Michigan Farm Bureau's (MFB) 94th annual meeting today in Grand Rapids, ...
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    Hubble senses water on five planets, bodes well for finding new Earths
    Los Angeles Times
    To find traces of water vapor in their atmospheres, Deming and his colleagues used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which measures near-infrared light. The scientists waited until each planet was about to pass in front of its sun, then pointed Hubble at it.
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    NSA Opponents Want To Cut Off Utah Facility From Water Supply
    TIME
    A group of activists in Utah think they've found the ultimate weakness of a massive new data center the National Security Agency is building in Utah: water. While the facility will feature state of the art technology and security measures, at the end ...
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    These 11 Cities May Completely Run Out Of Water Sooner Than You Think
    Huffington Post
    "By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States," said Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at CIRES and one of the authors of the study. “This is likely to create growing ...
    IAEA suggests Fukushima consider 'controlled discharge' of toxic water into ocean
    RT (blog)
    "Regarding the growing amounts of contaminated water at the site, TEPCO should... examine all options for its further management, including the possibility of resuming controlled discharges (into the sea) in compliance with authorized limits," the ...
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