Wednesday, December 04, 2013

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My Care2 Picks

  • Brush with danger: The long battle over a spoo ...
    I took it for granted that the FDA would never examine triclosan with the scrutiny that it merited. Now it looks like it might. Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ratted out: Scientific journal bows to Monsant ...
    Rigid criteria exist for a serious scientific journal to accept a peer-reviewed paper and to publish it. As well there exist strict criteria by which such an article can be withdrawn after publication. Submitted by Ray C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Cost of National Security
    The US taxpayer and co$t of war Scroll down : there are a number of interesting categories Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Are There No Workhouses?
    You cannot get back into the workforce. No, we will not tell you why. Try as hard was you like. I am intimately versed enough in the arcanum of labor market data to be in a unique position to understand just how bad things are and likely to remain Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cu ...
  • International Court asked to investigate alleg ...
    The request came in a 28-page submission to the ICC on Saturday, November 9, by independent investigative journalist decorated Vietnam vet John McNamer : attached digital file of 272 documents Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars

  • GMO Contamination an “Act of God!” Seriously???
    What’s the difference between government/corporate thugs declaring that their contamination is an “act of God” and me? There is none. Except that the government and its biotech owners are above the law and we the people are under it. Way under it.
  • ‘Tis the Season: Grinch THIS, Corporate America!
    How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year? Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year? How can we stop the cycle of debt? How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas p ...
  • Journal retraction of Séralini study is illici ...
    Hayes’ decision to retract the paper follows FCT’s appointment of Richard E. Goodman, a former Monsanto scientist and an affiliate of the GMO industry-funded group, the International Life Sciences Institute, to the specially created post of associate editor for biotechnology at the journal, earl ...
  • The Agenda 21 Enslavement of Colorado
    Colorado, along with a 15 county area in Northern California and Southern Oregon comprise the beta test for Agenda 21 control over our most precious resources, namely, our water and our farmland.
  • Orwellian airbrushing of scientific record
    More manipulation of science by the king of deception, Monsanto. Anything that hints at a problem with GMO technology appears to be undergoing a deletion from the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. How can anything this journal publishes be considered valid at this point?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC after Sarah P ...
    ShareThisMartin Bashir resigns from MSNBC after Sarah Palin flap 04 Dec 2013 Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC as a result of the derogatory comments he made on the air a few weeks ago about Sarah Palin. Bashir, who apologized on the air a day later, was not suspended and he and the network ...
  • NSA gathering 5 billion records per day on cel ...
    ShareThisNSA gathering 5 billion records per day on cellphone locations --NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show 04 Dec 2013 The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-se ...
  • Sandy Hook 911 Tapes: 'They're still running a ...
    ShareThisSandy Hook 911 Tapes: 'They're still running and still shooting' 04 Dec 2013 Recordings released Wednesday of 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting show town dispatchers urged panicked callers to take cover, mobilized help and asked about the welfare of the children a ...
  • Man Who Prompted Lockdown at University of New ...
    ShareThisMan Who Prompted Lockdown at University of New Haven Faces Assault Weapon Charges --Police [Allegedly] Find Newspaper Clippings of Mass Shootings in Home 04 Dec 2013 The armed Fairfield man who prompted a lockdown at the University of New Haven and other area schools Tuesday faces a var ...
  • Newtown 911 Calls to Be Released
    ShareThisNewtown 911 Calls to Be Released 04 Dec 2013 The Newtown police department on Wednesday afternoon will release 911 calls related to the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The calls begin at 9:35:39 from the central office area indicating the front glass had been shot out.. ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Politics in the Zeros

  • Banksters get fined for fixing LIBOR. No crimi ...
    Further proof, if any be needed, that our worldwide financial system is completely corrupt. The EU fines banks $2.3 billion for one of the biggest frauds ever, LIBOR fixing, and no one goes to prison. The corruption will continue until banksters are put in prison for lengthy terms and are forced ...
  • Renewable energy stresses grids not prepared f ...
    Our ancient electrical grids are in danger of becoming destabilized by increasing amounts of renewable energy. This is not right wing hysteria. Our grids were designed for steady amounts of power. Renewable energy changes all that. For example, large amounts of power can vanish almost instantly ...
  • Cholla: Most evilest cactus or best bird’s nes ...
    Newcomers to deserts might think barrel or fish hook cactus are the worst due to their vicious, spiky needles. Nope. Cholla are. Their thin needles and pods will attach themselves to anything that brushes them. One species is called the Jumping Cholla because you swear you didn’t get near ...
  • Drought expected to continue in California. Co ...
    The California Department of Water Resources predicts continuing dryness in California with some improvement in Colorado River water. Lake Mead, which stores Colorado River water, is 47% full, and needs all the water it can get. Seven states and Mexico depend on Colorado River water.
  • Dale Chihuly at Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoe ...
    Absolutely amazing glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix AZ. Artist Dale Chihuly returns to the Desert Botanical Garden this fall with a stunning exhibition of his extraordinary and vibrant works of art. Chihuly is credited with revolutionizing the Studio Gl ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Forget the “Incompetence Theories” ...
    For what its worth….   The Real News Transcript   PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to To Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. And welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself with Senator Bob Graham.Senator Graham’s biography is below. If you haven’t watched th ...
  • U.S. sends submarine-hunting jets to E. China ...
    Lets just assume that these Sub hunting jets have been used for a while now – but a public announcement gets people’s attention and might get the China to ease back a bit. This has all the markings of WW3 and Obama as FDR. (Remember how we provoked the Japanese into attacking us?) Yi ...
  • Another person, the husband of Florida co onsp ...
    (CNN) – The husband of former Florida congresswoman and Secretary of State Katherine Harris was found dead Tuesday morning, apparently by his own hand, Sarasota police and the family’s pastor said. Anders Ebbesen, 68, had been ill, “but it is unknown if that is why he took his ...
  • Olmert slams Israeli PM Netanyahu : We have de ...
    “In my office in Jerusalem, there’s an ancient seal. It’s a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there’s a name of the Jewish offic ...
  • Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rol ...
    PAY IT FORWARD! Raw Story For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill. Then one day, out of the blue, she received a letter saying the $983 debt had been handled — purchased by Rolling Jubi ...

The Air Vent

  • Climategate Week 2013
    I’m gone for a week and won’t be blogging after today.   Perhaps Kevin will answer my graph on the previous thread while I’m gone. We will see if he embraces facts as well as he claimed. As for me, I’ll be lost in the northern woods of Michigan, which means that this is t ...
  • Winning and Losing
    Some things in blogland make you smile, others, not so much.   I just answered a comment from a reader which left me cold.  If you want to comment here, bring more than a thimble full of facts with you.   For reference, I am an EVIL business owner with a natural dislike for the authoritarian pop ...
  • Change and Hope – ($2700/family/year)
    So I’ve got the rest of the health care news for this year.   We’re looking at an 18 percent increase, our previous plan was dropped because it didn’t make sense for the insurance carrier to have different rules for different companies and we have several added coverages which ...
  • Snipped at Psychological Science
    I seem to have a way with people.  While they did allow quite a bit of critique in the replies, and nearly all were incredibly critical, my comments were snipped.  — The Subterranean War on Science I’ll just reproduce the critique here then: I can’t believe the self-righteous tone of ...
  • Health Insurance – Preliminary
    Another 17% annual increase, bringing the total for our 40 people to approximately 35% over the past 3 years and we will receive a new health plan.  The reason I don’t have exact numbers is because we got pushed off our plan last year also and changed companies. We currently pay 100% of ou ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Five daring predictions for social marketing i ...
    #1. Brands will get braver on social, but will they be ready when it’s too much? Content is king in 2014 and to break through the noise and reach “uber engagement” brands will become more daring....
  • Holiday blockbusters: Franchises with most Fac ...
    ListenFirst Media, a data platform specific to brands, examined the social fanbase (total Facebook fans and Twitter followers) of the most anticipated franchise and original holiday films of 2013 (with a look back at the top franchise...
  • Facebook timeline prompt allows users to share ...
    Facebook lately has loved borrowing and adapting from other social networks. While hashtags are a Twitter original, it looks like Facebook is trying to get users to share more information about their employment status — similar...
  • Facebook putting the news back in News Feed
    Facebook introduced another change to its News Feed algorithm recently, as the site plans to place more relevant news stories into the feed. Facebook claims that readers want to see stories about relevant current events, so...
  • Infographic: Chevrolet Camaro stirs up nostalg ...
    Automotive brands are among the most dedicated companies, when it comes to Facebook. A recent study by Unmetric shows which manufacturers are leading the pack on the social network. The page for the Chevrolet Camaro has...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Getting Your History from Hollywood
    Imagine a documentary film about the Holocaust which makes no mention of Nazi Germany. Imagine a documentary film about the 1965-66 slaughter of as many as a million “communists” in Indonesia which makes no mention of the key role in the killing played by the United States. But there’s no need t ...
  • Empire, Power & People with Andrew Gavin Marsh ...
    Trading Away the Future This week, the 159 nations of the WTO are meeting in Bali to try to push through the long-stalled Doha Round of trade talks aimed at establishing a global trade agreement. Simultaneously, efforts are moving quickly ahead on two ‘mega-regional’ trade agreements ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- Genetic Fallacy: How Mon ...
    That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company’s products should surprise no one who is aware of the Monsanto revolving door. This door is responsible ...
  • The Money Changers Serenade: A New Plot Hatches
    Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a protégé of Treasury Secretaries Rubin and Summers, has received his reward for continuing the Rubin-Summers-Paulson policy of supporting the “banks too big to fail” at the expense of the economy and American people. For his service to the handful of ...
  • Those 28 Pages, and That Empty Safe
    A ‘Dog That Didn’t Bark’ on 9/11 Yesterday, Bob Graham gave an interview that included discussion of the events of September 11, 2001 and the possible role of Saudi Arabia.  Graham served as a U.S. Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005, with positions as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committ ...

Afro Spear

Tikun Olam

  • Assassinated Hezbollah Commander Directed Dron ...
    Hezbollah senior commander, Hassan al Laqqis, assassinated yesterday by the Mossad in Beirut, was responsible for the group’s sophisticated drone program.  This included a robust hacking effort which had rendered Israel’s own most advanced drones helpless in the face of multiple cras ...
  • Mossad Assassinates Key Hezbollah Commander in ...
    Please donate (tax-deductible contributions here) to support the original reporting you’ll find below. Hezbollah commander Hassan al-Laqqis, in his late 40s, was a close confidant of Hassan Nasrallah.  Last night about midnight Beirut time, he drove his Jeep Cherokee into the parking lot o ...
  • Settlerism as the New Hipster Chic
    There’s a certain trend among a noted niche of young Jews imbued with the pro-Israel politics of Meir Kahane but yearning for some of the cultural flash of the 1960s counter-culture.  So they create this weird amalgam which could be called hip-hop settlerism.  You can see it in the Israeli ...
  • IDF Murders Three West Bank Militants in Targe ...
    Last week, Israeli special forces killed three West Bank militants near the village of Yatta (near Hebron) in what my Israeli source tells me was a targeted assassination.  As they were driving a car near the village, they were ambushed by the assassination squad, who shot out the tires.  Then t ...
  • Israeli Palestinians Charged for Defending The ...
    Those of you who’ve visited courthouses or seen them pictured in movies will remember the statue of Justice blind-folded while holding two balanced scales.  Israel has put a new spin on this statue.  In Israel Justice may be blind-folded but she is somehow able to peek out from behind the ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The New Republican Platform: Life Begins at Co ...
    I’ve been waiting for Dahlia Lithwick to take on the argument that corporations can “exercise” religion (and hence can claim exemptions from laws that don’t even significantly burden the religious beliefs of their owners) for a while. Thankfully, she now has. And she has ...
  • Obvious Points that Unfortunately Need Re-Stat ...
    Regarding Auburn-Alabama: If Alabama backup kicker Adam Griffith hits the 57-yard field goal, Alabama wins without having to go to overtime. The odds of that kick going through the uprights aren’t great at any level. Since 1999, pro kickers are 31-for-87 (35.6 percent) on field goals from ...
  • “But if he’s out in my yard and I’ve done call ...
    Well, duh. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened last week in northwestern Georgia, where a 72 year-old, with Alzheimer’s, Deanne Westbrook, wandered into a stranger’s yard three miles from home. He twice tried to open the door, around 4am, then wandered out into the yard.  Instead ...
  • B. Spencer: Tacky American
    When you’re online– posting, talking to people, sharing your opinion–it’s natural to want to put your best face forward. We want people to think we like  good food, cool music, and have tastefully-decorated homes. (Not mine, of course–my house is floor to ceiling early 80’s uni ...
  • The Affordable Care Act Is Not Remotely Simila ...
    As long-time readers know and new readers were reminded yesterday, I’ve long been intensely irritated by claims that the Affordable Care Act proves that Barack Obama is a hapless sellout because it was a “Republican plan.” The rather obvious problem with this line of argument i ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Rutgers-Camden Law School Fined for Waiving LSAT
    The American Bar Association has censured and fined Rutgers School of Law-Camden $25,000 for admitting students who had not taken the Law School Admission Test.
  • Feds Defend New Manslaughter Case Against Blac ...
    Federal prosecutors in Washington today began defending the government's new case against four former Blackwater security guards charged in a 2007 shooting that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead.
  • Appeals Court Hears Arguments in GPS Tracking ...
    A federal appeals court on Tuesday heard two cases about warrantless tracking, a procedure fraught with uncertainty in the wake of a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held such GPS uses are Fourth Amendment searches.
  • FTC Seeks New Privacy Authority
    The Federal Trade Commission is about to turn 100, and agency leaders have some gift suggestions for Congress—new privacy legislation plus a statutory change that would position the FTC as the net neutrality cop.
  • Justices Could Ground Frequent Flyer's Suit
    Frequent flyers may experience the occasional bump from a full flight, but what do they do if they get bumped out of their frequent-flyer program? Well, they end up in the U.S. Supreme Court, of course!

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • New Paper Offers Sweeping Plan to Decarbonize ...
    Eighteen prominent international climate scientists and economists have authored a paper that seeks to answer the most vexing environmental question facing the planet: How to reverse soaring carbon dioxide emissions and prevent the world from experiencing destabilizing climate change. Their answ ...
  • Microplastic Pollution Harms Worms at Bottom o ...
    As plastic trash accumulates in ocean ecosystems, it may be damaging worms and other sensitive marine life at the bottom of the food chain, scientists report. Two British studies found that microplastics — tiny remnants, less than 5 mm in diameter, from the breakdown of plastic trash — made seaf ...
  • Out of India’s Trash Heaps, A Controversy on I ...
    India is planning to burn more of its trash to generate badly needed electricity. But as the case of a waste-to-energy plant in New Delhi shows, critics are worried about lax air pollution controls and the impact of incineration on people who eke out a living picking through waste dumps. BY DA ...
  • Poachers Killed 22,000 Elephants in Africa Las ...
    Poachers slaughtered 22,000 elephants in 27 African countries last year, according to a new report. Officials with The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and two conservation groups said that 15,000 elephant Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay A herd ...
  • Wide Mangrove Destruction Is Documented Along ...
    Rapid agricultural expansion destroyed nearly two-thirds of the mangrove forestsin Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta between 1978 and 2011, increasing the region’s vulnerability to cyclones and typhoons, according to a new study. Using remote sensing imagery Click to Enlarge Webb et al., 2013 Man ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Human Intelligence Is Slowly Declining Accordi ...
    "Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? [...]One study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that pesticides, which are rampant among the food supply, are creating lasting changes in overall brain structure — cha ...
  • ’Soft’ Biometric Cameras Are Watching: Cameras ...
    Facial recognition has become an increasingly common element in security surveillance, enabling identification of faces in images taken from a distance and in a crowd. But facial recognition is just a step along the way to more and better identification techniques being sought by the U.S. govern ...
  • Scientists build a low-cost, open-source 3-D m ...
    OK, so maybe you aren’t interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas decorations. How about a brake drum? Until now, 3D printing has been a polymer affair, with most people in the maker community using the machines to make all manner of plastic consumer good ...
  • Divers find man alive in sunken tugboat at bot ...
    Off the Nigerian coast: "Dramatic footage emerged on Tuesday showing the unlikely rescue of a ship’s cook, who survived for almost three days trapped in an air bubble in his sunken ship. Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat and dressed only in boxer shorts, Harrison ...
  • Mile-long floating CITY - with schools, hospit ...
    A Florida-based firm has designed a giant ship where you can be as free as you want to be within one mile. At an estimated cost of ten billion dollars, the enormous floating city plans include amenities such as schools, hospitals, businesses, parks, art galleries, a shopping center, a casino, an ...

Not My Tribe

  • A lesson the US forgot about Iraq? Prosecute w ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS– Whose fault is it that America is “forgetting the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan”? We never learned them… Instead of prosecuting war criminals like General “H.R.” McMaster, assemblies of war lovers like the Colorado Springs World Affairs Cou ...
  • Israel wouldn’t know a “historic m ...
    International diplomats have secured an agreement with Iran which appears to defuse current tensions. Crippling economic sanctions will be relaxed in exchange for limiting Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons. Everybody is breathing easier except Israel. Why? Is the Israeli regime ...
  • New Mexico State Police treat African American ...
    OUT OF CONTROL. New Mexico state police stopped a minivan for speeding and the African American mother at the wheel decided, correctly it turned out, that she and her five children risked who knows what on a rural backroad at the hands of white cops. Oriana Ferrell of Tennessee –perhaps of ...
  • Okay then, self-congratulations to you for thi ...
    How about those journeyman activists throwing their social justice experience around like it’s inviolate because they’ve been at this longer than the whippersnappers trying to rock their slow boat to China. They know what works after thirty years of experience, and they’ll admi ...
  • Veterans Day: when antiwar activists can tell ...
    What are active duty soldiers doing in veterans day parades? It’s premature isn’t it, and self congratulatory? They’re being deployed to a public relations stint designed to admonish the public to remember their sacrifice, except present day recruits weren’t drafted. They ...

Debunking the Debunkers

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Breaking news: Guarani leader and film-star mu ...
    In 2008 Ambrósio attended the premiere of 'Birdwatchers' at the Venice Film Festival.© SurvivalGuarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land. Ambrósio was rep ...
  • UN urged to stop Peru's deadly oil and gas rush
    The UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples has been urged to protect vulnerable uncontacted tribes in Peru, who could be decimated by contact with oil and gas workers.© Chris Fagan/UAC/ProPurúsSurvival International has appealed to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of ind ...
  • Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects ann ...
    Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber met two katsina priests when a katsina was returned to the Hopi in July 2013. © SurvivalA French auction house has announced that it is putting up for sale a large number of katsinam – objects sacred to the Hopi tribe of Arizona – just months after a similar auctio ...
  • Top human rights watchdog investigates Ethiopi ...
    The Ethiopian government has started evicting tribes such as the Mursi from their land to make way for large-scale plantations.© SurvivalThe African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the region’s top human rights body, has called for the forced relocation of thousands ...
  • Plight of Earth's most threatened tribe makes ...
    The plight of the Awá Indians is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times this month.© Vanity FairThe plight of Earth’s most threatened tribe is reaching millions of people worldwide this month, as the tribe’s shocking story is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times. Both s ...

Greg Palast

  • Chris Christie will Hate this Film
    Know why the Guvna of Joyzee is so bloated? It ain’t the burgers: He’s pumped up with billionaire big bucks – from buck-a-roos who happen to be the stars of our new film:  Vultures and Vote Rustlers Greg Palast Investigates Vol. 2 Working with The Nation Institute, the Palast investigative team ...
  • Rand Paul’s Zombie-nomics versus Janet Yellen
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Will Senator Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the un-dead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve Board?No joke.  Tea Party fave Paul told the Wall Street Journal he would have preferred Milton Friedman, the free-market fanatic, to ...
  • My Father's Victory in the Pacific
    By Greg Palast In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals. He had gi ...
  • Steven Cohen Can't Make His Mommy's Monkey Jump
    By Greg Palast for Truthout [New York] Billionaire Steven A. Cohen's marriage was in hot water because his wife wouldn't tolerate the "other woman."  The other woman was Steven's mother. This week, Cohen's hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors will plead guilty to criminal charges of insider trading ...
  • Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
    By Greg Palast for Truthout On May 6, 2008, twelve fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the Presidential Primary in Indiana. Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law.  The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Jud ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Katie Couric on HPV Vax Damage Dorit Reiss' Fu ...
    By John Stone This morning on ABC television, 10am Eastern time, Katie Couric is looking into the subject of Dorit Reiss injury from HPV vaccine . Over the last eight days the KatieCouric.com blog has accumulated in excess of 5,000...
  • Ben Swann On America's Government Run Vaccine ...
    Note: Ben Swann interviewed our own Mark Blaxill. Please comment at the YouTube video as well as here. Thanks. The claims that autism is caused by vaccines have been completely disproven, right? We have all heard that claim, maybe most...
  • Dachel Media Review: Avonte Oquendo, Kids Miss ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's comments and view the links after the jump. Dec 3, 2013, Atlanta Black Star: Vaccine Court Awards Compensation in Autism Cases Dec 3, 2013, New York Daily News: Brooklyn autistic girl's mom seeks to know...
  • Son with Autism Accused of Murdering Mother Au ...
    Note: You might recall the terrible beating death of Dr. Trudy Steuernagel, a Kent State (Ohio) professor who had written a letter to be opened in case of her death at the hands of her growing, strong autistic son. He...
  • Find Avonte Oquendo: Autism, Wandered from Sch ...
    Please remember that Avonte Oquendo is still missing. FROM 10/17/13: We've been following and updating the Avonte Oquendo story on our FB and Twitter feeds. In case you have not heard, Avonte eloped from his school in Queens, New York...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • GMO Contamination an “Act of God!” Seriously???
    What’s the difference between government/corporate thugs declaring that their contamination is an “act of God” and me? There is none. Except that the government and its biotech owners are above the law and we the people are under it. Way under it.
  • ‘Tis the Season: Grinch THIS, Corporate America!
    How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year? Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year? How can we stop the cycle of debt? How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas p ...
  • Journal retraction of Séralini study is illici ...
    Hayes’ decision to retract the paper follows FCT’s appointment of Richard E. Goodman, a former Monsanto scientist and an affiliate of the GMO industry-funded group, the International Life Sciences Institute, to the specially created post of associate editor for biotechnology at the journal, earl ...
  • The Agenda 21 Enslavement of Colorado
    Colorado, along with a 15 county area in Northern California and Southern Oregon comprise the beta test for Agenda 21 control over our most precious resources, namely, our water and our farmland.
  • Orwellian airbrushing of scientific record
    More manipulation of science by the king of deception, Monsanto. Anything that hints at a problem with GMO technology appears to be undergoing a deletion from the journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. How can anything this journal publishes be considered valid at this point?

new geography

  • High Speed Rail Decision: Victory for Rule of Law
    California Judge Michael Kenny has barred state bond funding for the California high speed rail system, finding that “the state's High-Speed Rail Authority failed to follow voter-approved requirements designed to prevent reckless spending on the $68 billion project.” These protect ...
  • Silicon Valley is No Model for America
    Its image further enhanced by the recent IPO of Twitter, Silicon Valley now stands in many minds as the cutting edge of the American future. Some, on both right and left, believe that the Valley's geeks should reform the nation, and the government, in their image. Increasingly, the basic ...
  • The Revolt Against Urban Gentry
    The imminent departure of New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and his replacement by leftist Bill DeBlasio, represents an urban uprising against the Bloombergian  “luxury city” and the growing income inequality it represents. Bloomberg epitomized an approach that sought to cater  to the ...
  • Moving to the Heart of Europe
    Europe's demographic dilemma is well known. Like East Asia and to a lesser degree most of the Western Hemisphere, Europe's birth rates have fallen so far that the population is becoming unable to replenish itself. At the same time, longer  life spans have undermined the poulation’s abi ...
  • Los Angeles: Will The City Of The Future Make ...
    When I arrived in Los Angeles almost 40 years ago, there was a palpable sense that here, for better or worse, lay the future of America, and even the world. Los Angeles dominated so many areas — film, international trade, fashion, manufacturing, aerospace — that its ascendency seemed assured. Ev ...

water.org

  • A Town Called Bèlanje - Part 1
    The people of Bèlanje, Haiti collect unsafe water from this open spring every day. Thankfully, less than one kilometer away, something is happening that will change their lives forever...
  • What Can 3,000 Rupees Do?
    3,000 Indian rupees is only ~$45 USD, but according to Bobby G., the director of our Central-Indian partner ESAF, providing a WaterCredit loan for that small amount can change everything in a woman's life.
  • Philanthropy meets the market
    From The World In 2014 print edition |Nov 18th 2013
  • WaterCredit for Muddumare's Family
    "All of us used to go out in the open for defecation. But now as the population is increasing, there is no space left for defecation."
  • Celebrate Toilet Day
    No invention has saved more lives than a toilet. More than 80% of sewage in developing countries is discharged untreated, polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas. All because there is no infrastructure - a toilet, or city utilities - to flush away yesterday's meal. But that's not all. Toilets ...

Cryptogon

  • Power Out
    A storm took out our electricity about 13 hours ago. It’s still down. Apologies for the lack of updates.
  • Amazon Drone Attempted Delivery Tag *Chortle*
    I don’t have a Humor category, but if I did…
  • For Nearly Two Decades the Nuclear Launch Code ...
    Via: Today I Found Out: Today I found out that during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launc ...
  • Britain: Woman Forcibly Sedated, Child Taken f ...
    Via: Telegraph: A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section by social workers. Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb. The council said it was acting in the be ...
  • DHS Agent Cites Private Medical History to Den ...
    Via: Network World: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent cited private medical history, a ‘mental illness episode,’ as the reason to deny a wheelchair-bound Canadian woman entry into the U.S.

The Economic Collapse

  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...
  • 15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absol ...
    One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that "bubbles look like this" and that he is "most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market."  But you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening.  It should be glaringly apparent to anyone [...]
  • Black Friday: A Shameful Orgy Of Materialism F ...
    It has been called "America's most disturbing holiday".  Black Friday is the day when millions of average Americans wait outside retail stores in the middle of the night in the freezing cold to spend more money that they do not have for more cheap Chinese-made products that they do not need.  It ...
  • China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
    When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  Accordi ...

Desertification

  • To revive the trees planted in Sokoto State fr ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201311280302.html Nigeria: Sokoto Desertification Committee Inspects Shelter Belts By Rakiya A. Muhammad Sokoto — A seven-man committee constituted to revive the almost half a million trees planted in Sokoto State from ...
  • Mediterranean arid ecosystems (Google / IGITUR)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/25682 Spatial vegetation patterns and imminent desertification in Mediterranean arid ecosystems Humans and climate affect ecosystems and their services, which may involve continuous and discontinuous transiti ...
  • Land Degradation And Desertification (Google / ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.lelobooks.com/humanities/1632-land-degradation-and-desertification-hardbound–8170338255.html Land Degradation And Desertification (Hardbound ) Author: V. C. Jha,Publisher: Rawat Pubns
  • Kubuqi Desert Research Institute in Mongolia ( ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://phys.org/wire-news/147330213/ben-gurion-university-of-the-negev-to-collaborate-with-chinese-c.html Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to collaborate with Chinese company to create Kubuqi Desert Research Institute Ben-Gurion University of the ...
  • Sahara Forest Project to grow vegetables in th ...
    Read at : http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/saltwater-cooled-greenhouse-grows-crops-in-the-sahara/?ftag=TRE4eb29b5&s_cid=e660&tag=nl.e660&ttag=e660 Saltwater-cooled greenhouse grows crops in the Sahara How do you grow vegetables in arid areas? Reverse the trend of desertificat ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Varshavsky Warehouse Squat Case: St Petersburg ...
    Denis Levkin has been imprisoned since February 2013. He was detained when the police stormed the squatted warehouse near the former Varshavsky Station in St Petersburg, Russia, and charged under article 318 part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (use of vi ...
  • Por el Triunfo de la Confederación: 80th anniv ...
    cnt__405.jpg This article from the November issue of the CNT newspaper memorializes 80 years of a militant workers newspaper in Spain. It also focuses on the present and future of the CNT, and provide ...
  • Highs and lows of a wage rise - the new garmen ...
    RMG_woman-with_red_flags2013.jpg The Bangladeshi minimum wage board has, after long negotiations, announced a 76% increase in garment workers’ pay, applicable to all seven pay grades. This has quickly ...
  • Attack on squats in Warsaw during nationalist ...
    anti-fa.jpg On November 11, 2013, two squats in the center of Warsaw were attacked by nationalists and fascists. The squatters resisted successfully. In their declaration the squatters' collectiv ...
  • Nizhni Novgorod: Anarchist Ilya Romanov wounde ...
    Ilya Romanov, a 46-years old Russian anarchist, was wounded on 26th of October 2013. According to authorities, this happened when a homemade bomb suddenly went off in his hands. The accident happened next to a building occupied by Russian Army draft office. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
    Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...
  • Expensive Grass
    “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville  “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville       Alexis de ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Military Cancer
    This pretty much sums things up as to why America and the world in general is ailing today! Short, but not so sweet!  Keep in mind that all of this “cancer growth” is facilitated not by “tax dollars” – but by the Federal Reserve Note Payable – the world’ ...
  • Casting Bread Upon the Waters
    No good deed ever goes unpunished.   I also just love the name of the company that produced this little 3 minute spot – True Move. GREAT NAME!  Enjoy this wonderful three minute sermon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7s22HX18wDY

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

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

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Fukushima's Deadly Legacy
    by Stephen Lendman On March 11, 2011, the world's greatest ever environmental disaster struck Fukushima. Weeks later, nuclear meltdown was confirmed. Radioactive discharges can't be stopped. They continue out-of-control. They're uncontainable. Fukushima is an unprecedented catastrophe. It's ...
  • Insurgency Responsible for Civilian Plight of ...
    By Nicola Nasser* Creating a humanitarian crisis in Syria, whether real or fabricated, and holding the Syrian government responsible for it as a casus belli for foreign military intervention under the UN 2005 so-called “responsibility to protect” initiative was from the very eruptio ...
  • Fact Check on Venezuela's Economy
    by Stephen Lendman Doomsayers claim it's troubled. So do Bolivarian haters. Chavez endured flack for 14 years. It's Nicolas Maduro's turn. He prioritizes political, economic and social justice. Washington and internal dark forces despise him for doing so. They want him replaced. Perhaps ...
  • Saudi America and the State of Denial
    Michael Collins The U.S. will surpass Russia and Saudi Arabia as the world’s top oil producer by 2015, and be close to energy self-sufficiency in the next two decades, amid booming output from shale formations, the IEA said. Bloomberg Nov 12 Well, I guess that means every thing will ...
  • Israeli Judaization Master Plans
    by Stephen Lendman Israel is a racist police state. Zionist ideology espouses Jewish superiority, specialness, and uniqueness. It claims Jews are God's "chosen people." It's uncomfortably close to Nazi Aryan dogma. Master race notions are troubling. They reflect racist extremism. Israel ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Does Canada's economic recovery make the ...
    It’s been more than four years since the end of the recession, and the federal government claims the economy is doing great. But how accurate is that message? Is Canada’s economy the best in the world? Over the next week, CCPA’s blog Behind the Numbers will publish a series of report cards on C ...
  • On the front lines: Teachers, unions, and soci ...
    The roles and responsibilities of unions have come under renewed scrutiny. Provincial and federal government hostility towards organized resistance to current policies is intensifying through heated rhetoric and legislative trial balloons.  Much of this is facilitated by the current economic in ...
  • Video Launch: Rite of Passage
    CCPA-MB's new film, Right of Passage by Carole O'Brien, is about the experiences of at-risk students attending Gorden Bell High School's alternative education program in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Learn more about how students can benefit from alternative programs, away from the barriers they experien ...
  • Free webinar Dec 4: How to talk about taxes so ...
    Making the case for progressive tax reform in BC: Do you have a sense that our tax system could be fairer, but you're looking for concrete evidence to back up that intuition? Do you find yourself arguing that fair taxes can benefit society but you stumble when it comes to explaining how? Join Se ...
  • Waging an election on income inequality
    Two candidates in an upcoming federal by-election have made income inequality the main topic in Toronto-Centre. The CCPA's Growing Gap team created a short primer on income inequality that includes questions for candidates in the remaining all-candidates' debates in that riding. The CCPA's Tris ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How Alberta’s Oil Sands are Produced
    Robert Rapier continues to report on his recent visit to the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta. This week, he explores the production processes for the two most common processes for producing the oil sands: surface mining and in situ production.
  • Oil Sands and the Environment – Part II
    This week, Robert Rapier continues to look at the environmental impacts of Alberta's oil sands industry.
  • Oil Sands and the Environment – Part I
    Robert Rapier provides a first hand report on environmental issues originating in Alberta's Athabasca oil sands.
  • Soliciting Reader Questions for Oil Sands Tour
    On Sunday, November 3rd, I am heading to Fort McMurray, Alberta for a tour of the oil sands operations. Here are the details from the initial email that I received inviting me on the trip: Each year, the Consulate General partners with other U.S. Canadian missions to organize a tour of Canada’s ...
  • The Lasting Impact of the 1973 Oil Embargo
    Forty years ago Americans got a wake up call on energy security. As Robert Rapier explains, the energy policy decisions that were made in response to the crisis have a lasting impact today.

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Information Liberation

  • Lawyer For Cop Charged In Beating Death Of Hom ...
    The trial for two of the three Fullerton police officers charged in the beating death of mentally ill homeless man, Kelly Thomas, has begun. Manuel Ramos, the officer who first approached Kelly Thomas and delivered most of the damage, is facing charg...
  • The Sadistic Profligacy of Sheriff Joe Arpaio
    Joe Arpaio unabashedly claims to be the world*s toughest sheriff. While his claim to that title is implausible, he is incontestably the country*s most expensive law enforcement officer:* His twenty-year reign as sheriff of Arizona*s Maricopa County h...
  • NYPD Cop Arrested For Extorting Restaurant Owner
    A NYPD cop and two fellow thugs * including a reputed gangster who was involved in a fatal stabbing of a groom-to-be * were arrested Tuesday for extorting monthly "protection" payments from an Albanian restaurant in Queens, federal authorities said...
  • Drones: Not Just for Missiles Anymore
    The internet is abuzz after Amazon unveiled their latest idea: the delivery of goods to your doorstep within thirty minutes via drone. Yes, the infamous drone will finally be put to constructive use. Here's the video, if you haven't already seen i...
  • Girl, 11, Told Not To Sell Mistletoe, But Begg ...
    "I don't want to beg! I would rather work for something than beg," said Madison. "It's crazy. People can get money for pot. But I can't get money for braces. I'm working for this! They're just sitting down on their butts all day asking for pot."...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →
  • LibertyGibbert Open Forum
    I’m tied up with work at the moment so don’t have time for an in-depth article; so I’m throwing the floor over to you. A couple of starters: A number of British readers have expressed a bit of envy at … Continue reading →
  • DT Down for Maintenance – Ozboy’s ...
    James Delingpole’s posters are welcome over here till service resumes… Current topics include the recent sacking of Tim Flannery and Drunk Tanks. Or anything else that takes your fancy. I’ll close off this thread after the DT blogs resume operation.

Politics in the Zeros

  • Banksters get fined for fixing LIBOR. No crimi ...
    Further proof, if any be needed, that our worldwide financial system is completely corrupt. The EU fines banks $2.3 billion for one of the biggest frauds ever, LIBOR fixing, and no one goes to prison. The corruption will continue until banksters are put in prison for lengthy terms and are forced ...
  • Renewable energy stresses grids not prepared f ...
    Our ancient electrical grids are in danger of becoming destabilized by increasing amounts of renewable energy. This is not right wing hysteria. Our grids were designed for steady amounts of power. Renewable energy changes all that. For example, large amounts of power can vanish almost instantly ...
  • Cholla: Most evilest cactus or best bird’s nes ...
    Newcomers to deserts might think barrel or fish hook cactus are the worst due to their vicious, spiky needles. Nope. Cholla are. Their thin needles and pods will attach themselves to anything that brushes them. One species is called the Jumping Cholla because you swear you didn’t get near ...
  • Drought expected to continue in California. Co ...
    The California Department of Water Resources predicts continuing dryness in California with some improvement in Colorado River water. Lake Mead, which stores Colorado River water, is 47% full, and needs all the water it can get. Seven states and Mexico depend on Colorado River water.
  • Dale Chihuly at Desert Botanical Gardens, Phoe ...
    Absolutely amazing glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix AZ. Artist Dale Chihuly returns to the Desert Botanical Garden this fall with a stunning exhibition of his extraordinary and vibrant works of art. Chihuly is credited with revolutionizing the Studio Gl ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Wave of #ShutDownCanada Actions Shows Support ...
    Across Canada and internationally, actions took place as part of #ShutDownCanada on Monday, Dec. 2. The day was called in solidarity with the ongoing fight against shale gas exploration in Elsipogtog, New Brunswick (near Rexton), on Mi'kmaq territory. The fight against shale gas exploration ...
  • Algonquins of Barriere Lake Stop Unauthorized ...
    Barriere Lake, Quebec / -  Today the Algonquins of Barriere Lake non-violently stopped forestry operations that are devastating their lands in Western Quebec. On November 24 the Chief and Council of the community sent a letter to the Quebec government demanding they respect a signed agreeme ...
  • Les Algonquins de Lac Barrière ont mis un frei ...
    Lac Barrière, Québec / - Aujourd'hui les Algonquins de Lac Barrière ont bloqué des opérations forestières dévastatrices sur leur territoire dans l’ouest du Québec avec des méthodes non violentes. Le 24 novembre dernier, le Chef et le Conseil de la communauté ont envoyé une lettre au g ...
  • #LockDownLine9: Toronto activists lock down to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rising Tide Toronto #LockDownLine9 December 3, 2013 (Toronto, ON) Members of Rising Tide Toronto have locked down to equipment at an Enbridge Line 9 river crossing, effectively halting construction. This construction is taking place before the NEB has approved this pipel ...
  • La poursuite d'Occupons Québec contre la Ville ...
    Un des participants d'Occupons Québec, André Bérubé, a poursuivi la Ville à la Cour des petites créances.  Même si ce sont les petites créances, les questions abordées sont pourtant grandes.  M. Bérubé a choisi cette cou ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
    David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
  • The Iran deal
    David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...
  • Kennedy's Death
    David Seaton's News LinksWriting up the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination has become a momentary cottage industry and I have little that I wish to add and will spare my readers all my "where I was when I heard the news" drivel. However, I would only remark what I personally find the mo ...
  • USA: mature or overripe?
    David Seaton's News Links Among the casualties of the Snowden stories are an embarrassed and chastened White House, an American technology sector which has seen its own government tarnish its business model of a global, open internet and the strong US relationships with allies such as Germany. F ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Yeah, Liberals Should Be Pretty Pissed Off at ...
    I just had an email conversation with one of our editors about the principles of headline writing, and it brought up an unrelated subject that deserves a brief blog post of its own. The question is: Just how pissed off should liberals be at President Obama for the massive FUBAR of the Obamacar ...
  • How Good Are American Kids at Math?
    Yesterday I wrote a quick post about the new PISA international test scores in math. Among other things, I noted that the results for American students seemed to be quite different from those in another international test, the TIMSS. What's up with that? This morning I got an email from Nat ...
  • People With Cushy Jobs Don't Care Much About P ...
    Dan Drezner points out today that in the latest poll from the Council on Foreign Relations, the opinions of foreign policy elites have converged quite a bit with the opinions of the general public. But among the top five items in the poll, there's still one big difference that sticks out like ...
  • Chart of the Day: We Are Deliberately Destroyi ...
    Over at Pacific Standard—a pretty good magazine that you should check out—Michael White shows us what's happened to the National Insitutes of Health ever since 1998, when Congress decided on a bipartisan basis to double its research budget over five years. The budget was indeed dou ...
  • The Obamacare Website Wasn't an Epic Disaster. ...
    The New York Times reports today that heads are likely to roll over the Obamacare website fiasco: For weeks, the president and his aides have said they are not interested in conducting a witch hunt in the middle of the effort to rescue the website. But in the West Wing, the desire for an ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Breaking news: Guarani leader and film-star mu ...
    In 2008 Ambrósio attended the premiere of 'Birdwatchers' at the Venice Film Festival.© SurvivalGuarani Indian leader and film-star Ambrósio Vilhalva was murdered on Sunday night, after decades of campaigning for his tribe’s right to live on their ancestral land. Ambrósio was rep ...
  • UN urged to stop Peru's deadly oil and gas rush
    The UN Special Rapporteur for indigenous peoples has been urged to protect vulnerable uncontacted tribes in Peru, who could be decimated by contact with oil and gas workers.© Chris Fagan/UAC/ProPurúsSurvival International has appealed to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of ind ...
  • Fury as new auction of Hopi sacred objects ann ...
    Lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreiber met two katsina priests when a katsina was returned to the Hopi in July 2013. © SurvivalA French auction house has announced that it is putting up for sale a large number of katsinam – objects sacred to the Hopi tribe of Arizona – just months after a similar auctio ...
  • Top human rights watchdog investigates Ethiopi ...
    The Ethiopian government has started evicting tribes such as the Mursi from their land to make way for large-scale plantations.© SurvivalThe African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the region’s top human rights body, has called for the forced relocation of thousands ...
  • Plight of Earth's most threatened tribe makes ...
    The plight of the Awá Indians is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times this month.© Vanity FairThe plight of Earth’s most threatened tribe is reaching millions of people worldwide this month, as the tribe’s shocking story is featured in Vanity Fair and the Sunday Times. Both s ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: For moving oil, pipelines remain sa ...
    New requirements for divulging hazardous materials such as oil by rail are welcome, but transporting oil by pipeline remains the safest method.
  • Editorial: The ugly fallout of Quebec’s proble ...
    The debate over the PQ government’s values charter appears to be triggering racist confrontations.
  • COVER STORY
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Editorial: One year later, PQ’s main quality i ...
    The Parti Québécois government seems on a surer footing after an erratic first year in office, but its divisive policies serve its own interests more than Quebec’s well-being.
  • Montreal startup finds its Groove
    Discovering the next best mobile music app requires a tricky formula that includes a sound algorithm, novel idea, flashy specs and a dollop of luck. The industry is a buyer's market in which the majority of music apps are fool's gold, with few gems, such as Rdio and Spotify. A Montreal-based sta ...

Food World Order

  • Genetic Fallacy: How Monsanto Silences Scienti ...
    The Eye Opener Report with James Corbett  from boilingfrogspost.com: That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company's products should surprise no on ...
  • As #Polio Spreads In #Syria, Politics Thwarts ...
    xfrom npr.org: The World Health Organization has declared a polio emergency in Syria. After being free of the crippling disease for more than a decade, Syria 10 confirmed cases of polio in October. Now the outbreak has grown to 17 confirmed cases, the WHO last week. And the virus has spread to f ...
  • Oregon's Top Food Safety Sleuth, William Keene ...
    from oregonlive.com: William Keene, Oregon's top food safety sleuth who was known nationwide for cracking outbreaks, died on Sunday afternoon at the age of 56. He was rushed to the hospital about two weeks ago, suffering acute pancreatitis caused by gallstones. On Sunday afternoon, he was gone. ...
  • Fast Food Strikes Planned for 100 Cities
    from usatoday.com: Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job this Thursday, organizers say, which would mark the largest effort yet in their push for higher pay. The actions are intended to build on a campaign that began about a year ago to call attention to the difficulties of ...
  • Mars Inc. to Libertarians Thwart Food Stamp He ...
    from bloomberg.com: Nicole Blakey says she can’t stand watching other people buy junk food with the government-issued food-stamp debit cards she’s used to raise three children while earning $9 an hour at a dry cleaner... That view is being defied by an unusual alliance of food producers, the U.S ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...
  • 15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absol ...
    One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that "bubbles look like this" and that he is "most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market."  But you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening.  It should be glaringly apparent to anyone [...]
  • Black Friday: A Shameful Orgy Of Materialism F ...
    It has been called "America's most disturbing holiday".  Black Friday is the day when millions of average Americans wait outside retail stores in the middle of the night in the freezing cold to spend more money that they do not have for more cheap Chinese-made products that they do not need.  It ...
  • China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
    When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  Accordi ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • 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 ...

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Afghan opium production hits new record high | ...
    by WW4 Report on Sun, 12/01/2013 – 04:52 The latest Afghanistan Opium Survey (PDF), released Nov. 13 by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), finds that the country produced record levels of poppy in 2013. Total production reached 5,500 tons—up by nearly 50% over last year\’s fig ...
  • New report shows viewers are leaving the mains ...
    by Adonai on March 31, 2012 According to statistics CNN is loosing 50 percent of its total viewers leading the list of losers in the media. So it looks like people are turning elsewhere to get there news. To talk more about why people are choosing to ditch the mainstream networks and where they ...
  • Les Visible speaks @ the ‘Seek Speak Spr ...
    Les Visible speaks @ the ‘Seek Speak Spread Truth’ conference – YouTube.
  • RINF Alternative News & Alternative Media Brea ...
    Elizabeth Renter Testbiotech, a nonprofit organization started with independent (‘non-biased’) biotech research in mind, recently released a report on the spread of genetically altered plants. The organization says GMOs are spreading throughout the world without any controls in place to stop the ...
  • IMF frowns at Iceland debt write-off plan | Ic ...
    A plan to ease mortgage debts of every household in Iceland through a write-off has been criticised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). An announcement on Saturday by the new government that it would follow through on its promise to ‘erase’ 150 billion krona in debt has been met with scept ...

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

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Stop NATO

  • Serbia: NATO Completes Absorption Of The Balkans
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Command Operations December 4, 2013 Serbian Chief of the Defence General Staff visits JFC Naples Story by Allied Joint Force Command Naples Public Affairs Office Naples, Italy: The Chief of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, General Ljubiša Diković, ...
  • Russia Reacts To NATO’s Provocation Over ...
    Voice of Russia December 4, 2013 Why NATO issues statement on Ukraine? – Lavrov Moscow is surprised by NATO’s statement against the use of force in dispersing demonstrations in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. He also urged outsiders not to interfere in the Ukranian domestic ...
  • Georgia Expects NATO Membership Nod Next Year
    Trend News Agency December 4, 2013 Georgia expects serious consideration of its future in NATO at next alliance summit By Nana Kirtzkhalia Tbilisi: At the next NATO summit Georgia expects serious consideration of its future in the alliance, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said in an int ...
  • Interview: NATO Worse Than Atavism, It’s ...
    Voice of Russia December 4, 2013 “NATO is worse than an atavism, it is a threat to 21st century security”– Rick Rozoff John Robles Audio The West and the United States through its military wing, NATO, which has expanded into a global military force, continues to attempt to expand its ...
  • Interview: U.S., NATO Seek Carte Blanche In Af ...
    Press TV December 4, 2013 US seeks ‘carte blanche’ in Afghanistan Audio The United States is putting pressure on Afghanistan in order to continue its military presence in the country for “the indefinite future”, said Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO International. “The North Atlantic Treaty ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Giving Tuesday Goal Reached! Thank You! – Dail ...
    Dear Daily Whistleblower News Reader: Thank you so much for your contributions yesterday on Giving Tuesday! Your support helped us exceed the full match amount by the CS Fund of $47,500! Another donor then stepped in and pledged an additional $10,000 worth of matching funds, so all donations ...
  • Today is Giving Tuesday, So Support Whistleblo ...
    Dear Daily Whistleblower News Reader: Thank you for your interest in whistleblower issues and subscribing to the Daily Whistleblower News! We put a lot of effort into bringing you the truth every weekday. I wanted to take a brief moment and ask that if you enjoy receiving our daily news ...
  • Ben-Artzi's Case Seen as Bellwether for SEC: D ...
    Bloomberg News: Is the SEC's New Enforcement Zeal for Real? November 25, 2013

 This piece examines how the Chairwoman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Mary Jo White, is trying to publicly demonstrate that her agency is "no longer the lap dog of Wall Street." The column's author ar ...
  • U.K. Whistleblower Group Releases Eye-Popping ...
    Earlier this year, GAP's international coalition partner across the pond – Public Concern at Work (PCaW), based in London – launched an ambitious effort. The good government group put together a Whistleblowing Commission – a group of experts (including noted Olympus whistleblower ...
  • NSA Infected 50,000 Computer Networks: Daily W ...
    New York Times: NSA Report Outlined Goals for More Power This article, coauthored by Laura Poitras and James Risen, details a new February 2012 document disclosed by NSA surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden that outlines a “four-year strategy for the N.S.A.’s signals intelligence operati ...

UK Progressive

  • Three Large Truths Obscured by Republican Obam ...
    by Robert Reich Having failed to defeat the Affordable Care Act in Congress, to beat it back in the last election, to repeal it despite more than eighty votes in the House, to stop it in the federal courts, to get enough votes in the Supreme Court to overrule it, and to gut it with […]
  • Thanks…Giving: 2013’s Hunger Strike Round-Up
    by Tina Dupuy When Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be the federal holiday, Thanksgiving, he invited his fellow citizens to use it as a day of atonement; a day to pray for orphans, widows, mourners and sufferers of what he described as the “lamentable civil strife.” This is the ...
  • The Inevitability of Radical Climate Change
    by Robert Hunziker Readers of this article will likely live to see climate change so disruptive and damaging that it will alter the Western world’s standard of living. In fact, the onset of radical climate change is already evident. It has already started. This article will examine the incipienc ...
  • Consumerism Invades Thanksgiving – CHARGE!
    by Kyle Scott, PhD. This is the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln making Thanksgiving a national holiday. I haven’t heard a lot about it but I have heard a lot about the deals that can be had at retailers on Thanksgiving. The consumerist drive has supplanted a day of giving thanks with days o ...
  • New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove’s Group Spent E ...
    by Kim Barker ProPublica On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove’s dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits. (Here’s the tax return itself, which we deta ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • UN $315 billion CDM carbon market comatose aft ...
    More good news. The CDM is one of the only truly global carbon markets. It’s been the main mechanism for “mitigation” in developing countries, (China says “thank you”). Born with the Kyoto agreement, it was in a sick state last year and was even said to have collaps ...
  • More than 1000 cold snowy records set in US, o ...
    I guess it is winter. In a cold snap last week nearly 1,400 records were broken in the US. 886 places recorded the lowest maximum, 325 recorded the coldest minimum, and 127 places recorded the highest snowfall. … Source: Hamweather Total Records: 1,379 Snowfall: 127 High Temp: 28 Low Temp: ...
  • Climate money evaporating — global carbo ...
    It’s just another day tracking the decline of the global warming meme. Things were so pear-shaped for global carbon trading markets in 2012 that the World Bank canceled its annual State of the Carbon Market report. But how bad were they?  In their last report in 2012 the grand global total ...
  • Unthreaded Weekend
      Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory Australia (Click to enlarge) Photo: JoNova
  • Big Oil, Big-Gas lobby against coal. Shell lea ...
    Well, well, well. When Big-Oil fund skeptics, they’re evil polluters. When Big-Oil pay green lobbyists, they’re just being good citizens (see the ads, right?). Naturally Royal Dutch Shell are concerned about the environment, families, rare marsupials and what not. They wouldn’ ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Big Pic: This Penguin Selfie Is Charming And T ...
    Penguin Selfie G Adventures Between this penguin and this eagle, it has been a good week for incidental animal selfies. Travel company G Adventures set up a GoPro camera on a visit to Antarctica, when a penguin apparently decided to examine the equipment more closely.  Yes, yes. Cute. But  ...
  • Scientists Color Silk By Feeding Silkworms Fab ...
    Silkworms Fed a Red Dye Form Pink Silk American Chemical Society, from "Uptake of Azo Dyes into Silk Glands for Production of Colored Silk Cocoons Using a Green Feeding Approach" Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms do produce pink skeins of silk, a team of s ...
  • Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Ha ...
    Image of One Gel Electrophoresis Experiment, Copied Three Times Original image made by Dr d12 on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup's software to make scientists' lives easier. The software is a search engine that automatically p ...
  • What We Can Learn About A Whale From Its Earwax
    A Whale's Tale Mark Jones Roving Tortoise Photos/Getty Images Baleen whales have no need for Q-tips. Water blocks off the ear canal, which has a unique anatomy, so over time wax builds up into what researchers call an earplug. Previously, scientists counted the layers of wax, like counting ...
  • Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]
    Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn't immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic from the Cleveland Clinic offers a helpful breakdown of urine colors, from healthy "pale straw" to ...

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 ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
    Climatological autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average affair.  UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average.  More locally as you might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.  Part ...
  • Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
    High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...
  • Weather and climate round-up
    First taste of winter next week: After a mild autumn so far, the UK is about to experience its first taste of winter next week.  Cold air is expected to flood southwards across the UK from Tuesday.  As it meets the relatively warm sea vigorous convection is expected, with the risk of heavy showe ...
  • More on risk of new Maunder solar minimum and ...
    There’s been, as I expected, lots of interest in my blog from last week about the risk of a new Maunder solar minimum reach you can read by clicking HERE As part of my research into the story I visited Professor Mike Lockwood at Reading University where he told me that solar activity was falling ...
  • Real risk of a Maunder minimum 'Little Ice Age ...
    It’s known by climatologists as the ‘Little Ice Age’, a period in the 1600s when harsh winters across the UK and Europe were often severe. The severe cold went hand in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar minimum. Now a leading scientist from Reading Universi ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • OECD 2012 Education Rankings: US, Leftists Get ...
    I am annoyed with the leftist Economic Policy Institute's spin on the results for the OECD's standardized tests known as PISA. The EPI is complaining that the results portray an unfair picture of American academic performance, and that US policymakers paint an unnecessarily dire picture of US ed ...
  • Lenin's Tomb? More Like His Louis Vuitton Trunk
    Talk about a marketing ploy gone bad: you are looking at a giant Louis Vuitton monogram-patterned building that was supposed to house an exhibition dedicated to the famous brand in Red Square. Say what you will about Vladimir Lenin, but his mausoleum featuring his embalmed remains has been there ...
  • Last Chance Saloon: WTO's Fate & This Week's B ...
    I just wanted to share the ICTSD's useful primer on the upcoming WTO meetings in Bali, Indonesia where the organization's fate as a credible negotiating forum hangs in the balance. The full report is available as a PDF file; below is the introduction to this crucial event: Trade ministers are se ...
  • American Idiocy: Dying for Shopping on Black F ...
    There are few things more pathetic than a consumerist automaton who lives to shop. This American disease has spread around the globe under the guise of various euphemisms--"economic efficiency," "free trade," "globalization," and so forth--but its symptoms are unmistakable. Today's Exhibit A is ...
  • Conflict Minerals: Which Game Console is Most ...
    With the holiday season upon us and one semi-new (Nintendo) and two completely new (Microsoft and Sony) video game consoles on the market, consumer interest is . While you may be thinking of blasting away virtual opponents playing Call of Duty 107 or whatever version they have nowadays, pause fo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Too Big To Fail Banks Are Taking Over As Numbe ...
    The too big to fail banks have a larger share of the U.S. banking industry than they have ever had before.  So if having banks that were too big to fail was a "problem" back in 2008, what is it today?  As you will read about below, the total number of banks in the United [...]
  • Wow – The Holiday Shopping Season Is Off ...
    According to the National Retail Federation, Americans spent an average of 4 percent less over the four day Thanksgiving weekend than they did last year.  Overall, that means that approximately $1.7 billion less was spent at U.S. retailers compared to last year.  It had already been projected th ...
  • 15 Signs That We Are Near The Peak Of An Absol ...
    One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that "bubbles look like this" and that he is "most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market."  But you don't have to be a Nobel Prize winner to see what is happening.  It should be glaringly apparent to anyone [...]
  • Black Friday: A Shameful Orgy Of Materialism F ...
    It has been called "America's most disturbing holiday".  Black Friday is the day when millions of average Americans wait outside retail stores in the middle of the night in the freezing cold to spend more money that they do not have for more cheap Chinese-made products that they do not need.  It ...
  • China Is On A Debt Binge And A Buying Spree Un ...
    When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars to more than 24 trillion dollars.  This has been fueled by the greatest private debt binge that the world has ever seen.  Accordi ...

BlogHer

  • On Repeat: Songs I Listen to Again and Again
    Every time. Every single time. Perhaps because they're beautiful, meaningful, perfect. Or because they speak to my heart. Maybe because they draw out a deliciously aching, perfectly wistful, sweetly nostalgic feeling of longing. Or because they explode with joy and triumph and make me want to da ...
  • Holiday Baking: Gluten-Free Chocolate Peppermi ...
    I have lots of favorite things, like Disney World and vampire romance novels, but Christmas might just top all of them. One of the joys of Christmas for me is making cookies. It is just so much fun cranking up the holiday music while dancing around the kitchen whipping up some yummy cookies. An ...
  • 10 Gift Ideas for Book Lovers
    It's the time of year when people when more and more people are saying, "My brother/father/mother/friend loves books. What should I get them for Christmas?" If only it were that easy to pick out a book that someone is going to love. Unless you know your book lovers preferences really well -- and ...
  • Study Claims Women Are Biologically Bitchy: Is ...
    It's no wonder that many will do anything to defend that which they feel is vital to their sense of identity, purpose and worth in the world. Recently, The Atlantic featured a study focusing on how "bitchy" women are. They even gave the phenomenon a scientific name: 'indirect aggression' (just ...
  • To Santa or Not To Santa: The Question of All ...
    So, spoiler alert: Santa Claus isn’t real. Oops. Were you reading this post aloud to your small child? My apologies for ruining his/her innocence. I have a bad habit of spreading truth at inopportune times. There are about 25 women who still resent me for being That Kid who, in 1990, told their ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Why a Traditional Diet is better than a Whole ...
    In the quest for health & healing, there can be a lot of paths to take.  Each road advertises the only way to true health.  As someone who has come from the deepest despair of ... Related posts:5 de-bloating stomach-flattening foods       We have all experie ...
  • How long did YOUR ancestors live while eating ...
    My Great-Grandma was a tough ol’ chick. She ate real, traditional food & could cook up fried chicken from scratch. When I say “from scratch” I literally mean “from scratch”. As in, she would kill a chicken, ... Related posts:Metals risk in baby milk: Popular formulas ...
  • 15-Year Study Reveals Bras Actually Make Breas ...
              Women have long been told that a good bra can help support the chest, relieve back pain and prevent sagging.  However, a new 15-year French study reveals the opposite: bras do little to reduce back ... Related posts:Anti-bra study findings no ...
  • Moms-To-Be Are Eating Fish, But Choosing Low-M ...
              It’s been a conundrum for pregnant women: Forgo fish out of fears of mercury? Or eat it up to get the benefits of all the vitamins, minerals and omega-3 fatty acids found in many types ... Related posts:Could a Diet High in Fish and Fla ...
  • Goverment Chemist Tampered with 40,000 Cases, ...
              MASSACHUSETTS — In a maddening scandal that is rocking the state of Massachusetts, a government crime lab chemist has been caught intentionally forging signatures and tampering with evidence in as many as 40,000 cases, destroying the ... Rela ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • More silly attacks on Rep. Nick Rahall
    We’ve got a long, long way to go before the next election, but Republicans and their friends in the industry just can’t wait to take more silly shots at Rep. Nick J. Rahall. The latest effort is mentioned in a National Journal item that explains: In campaign politics, it doesn’ ...
  • Monday roundup, Dec. 2, 2013
    In this photo provided by Olympictorch2014.com local residents gather to welcome torch bearers with Olympic flame at the Kedrovsky coal mine in Kemerovo region, west Siberia, Russia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2013.  The 65,000-kilometer (39,000 mile) Sochi torch relay, which started on Oct. 7, is the lon ...
  • Another coal miner killed on the job
    Bad news over the weekend from Ohio. According to the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: Late Saturday afternoon, a miner was killed at the Century Mine on the longwall face, reportedly after being struck by a high-pressure hydraulic hose and high-pressure hydraulic fluid.  District 3 p ...
  • Proximity to the public: West Virginia’s ...
    The industry representatives to the state’s mine safety board are, from left to right, Charles Russell of Arch Coal, Terry Hudson of Patriot Coal, and Chris Hamilton of the West Virginia Coal Association. When we last left the West Virginia Board of Coal Mine Health and Safety, board membe ...
  • Friday roundup, Nov. 22, 2013
    On May 9, 1959, Kennedy and U.S. Sen. Jennings Randolph (white hardhat) spoke with several miners at the U.S. Steel Cleaning Plant in McDowell County. Courtesy photo. In today’s Gazette story about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, reporter David Gutman had so ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Drone-based Delivery System
    I read an article recently talking about consumer drones. It was a good piece, but at the very end it mentioned something I found fascinating: drones being used as a delivery system. I wrote recently about how consumer drones will affect personal security, but this delivery angle set me thinking ...
  • The Fix for America’s Democracy
    Image from www.nationalhellenicsociety.org Everyone seems to know the American experiment is failing, but what we’re not hearing is a crisp reason followed by a solution. Allow me to propose one. The two conflicting forces There are two primary forces in motion within human individuals and ...
  • New Tutorial: Tmux
    I’ve just added a new tutorial to the site: A Tmux TutorialRelated Posts:A vim TutorialInjection Attacks II | OWASP Appsec Tutorial Series9 Enhancements to Shell and Vim ProductivityVegas 2012Zagg Keyboard for iPadA Business Writing TutorialThe Day I Learned Heroes Are PeopleThe post New T ...
  • iTerm Not Showing Directory Colors (Fixed)
    If anyone has the issue of directory colors being borked in iTerm2, and they haven’t yet committed suicide, try this: Disable “Draw Text in Bright Colors” under: Preferences -> Profiles -> DisplayRelated Posts:Feeds BorkedSplunk on LinuxAdding a Trailing Slash to Directories Us ...
  • Sandy Hook Lacked a Motive Like Water Lacks Mo ...
    CNN, and a bunch of other news outlets, are stating that the Sandy Hook shooting spree lacked a motive. Nancy Lanza did her son’s laundry every day, but was not allowed into his room — "No one was allowed in his room," where the windows were covered with black plastic trash b ...

Fitwatch

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

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Grouse stocks cut in half
    Environmental authorities are worried about a huge reduction in Norway’s estimated number of the large bird known as rype (white grouse, or ptarmigan). They say that stocks registered by researchers were cut in half from 2002 to 2012. Norwegian researchers tracking bird hatchings have been ...
  • More overtures from Erna to EU
    Prime Minister Erna Solberg and her new conservative government set off for Brussels this week on what Norwegians might call a “charm offensive.” She’s determined to mend relations after Norway’s hike in import tariffs last year angered the EU, and she’s already pro ...
  • Crime researcher turns robbery victim
    One of Norway’s foremost experts on criminal violence, police academy researcher Ragnhild Bjørnebekk, has confirmed that she wound up as a crime victim herself over the weekend. Bjørnebekk became one of the latest to be robbed in Oslo, at a shopping center on the city’s east side. Bj ...
  • Third ‘Lilyhammer’ season gets expensive
    Negotiations reportedly are progressing for a third season of the hit Norwegian TV series “Lilyhammer,” but it’s already shaping up to be the most expensive production in Norwegian television history. Newspaper Dagsavisen reported this week that costs for another run of the ser ...
  • Bergen welcomes new football coach
    Fans of Bergen football club Brann, which means “fire” in Norwegian, were literally fired up on Tuesday after confirmation finally came that Rikard Norling would be taking over as head coach. They set off pyrotechnics, sang and cheered after Norling accepted the post. He’ll be ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Addressing the Causes of Land Degradation, Foo ...
    A multifunctional agricultural landscape by Roger RB Leakey, Agroforestry and Novel Crops Unit, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Abstract The shortage of new land for agriculture and the poverty of smallholder farmers in the tropics are serious con ...
  • Delicious and Nutritious – Moringa is a Miracl ...
    The uses and health benefits of Moringa are amazing; some even call it miraculous! It is truly a ‘jack of all trades’ tree that can be a food, fuel, medicine, and tonic! Even if you are not a salad lover, by drying and grinding the leaves it can be added to a traditional food like... Read more ...
  • PRI Zaytuna Farm, Australia, Course Update
    The Permaculture Research Institute Zaytuna Farm, Australia, is starting 2014 off with nothing less than a fully accredited Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) Course. Geoff Lawton will lead a line-up of Zaytuna Farm staff with a specialised 75-hour learning curriculum. It will run for two wee ...
  • Wadi Mukheris and the Wonder of Gabions (Jordan)
    The year 1999 was a busy one, with the potential of Y2K and “the end of world as we know it”, with the threat of computers failing as the clocks trip over the year 2000 at start of the new millennium. For part of the year I was working as the lead permaculture consultant with... Read more »
  • Composting Techniques for Anyone
    Compost bins can be made of repurposed materials, like these pallets. Composting doesn’t have to be difficult, nor does it require a strong back, large acreage, livestock waste or expensive bins. Even apartment-dwellers or those with physical limitations can put their kitchen waste to work. The ...

Pointman's

  • COP19 – the grubby truth behind it all.
    It must have been a weekend because I was about. The kids rushed in and I had the “Dad, Dad, he’s hurt” and their miniature hands plucking at me like a flock of birds pecking and pulling me urgently out of the house sideways. They do that, you know it’s important because ...
  • The silver apples of the moon, the golden appl ...
    There’s a lot of stuff you can get away with in the armed services but being a bad leader of a group of men who know they’re going into harm’s way isn’t one of them. They have trust in you or they don’t and you can tell that from their faces. The skinny 25-year-old ...
  • Australia – you beaut.
    We have lived in a globalised society for a lot longer than that relatively recently coined phrase might suggest. Because we’ve greater and easier access to foreign news, and even if we don’t take advantage of that, more foreign news is still reported on by domestic outlets, but usua ...
  • The long dark nights of the soul and using the ...
    We all have our little things about us. Things we do and things our friends know about and say don’t worry about it; they’re always doing that. Like everyone else, I’ve my own peculiar things I do and by now am reasonably relaxed about. Possibly the most disconcerting of my ecc ...
  • Make no mistake, words are ammo.
    In every cell of every living organism on the Earth, there’s DNA, which if you want to get technical stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. It’s a long double strand helix structure built using sequences of just four nucleotides; guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, which are usually represented ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Iran Deal: Was the West Skinned?
    The nuclear-related agreement signed between the P5+1 and the Iranian government is, on its face, one-sided. In essence, according to Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), they get: billions in sanctions relief, 3,000 new centrifuges, a plutonium reactor and enough
  • BBC Plugs Jihadi Charities
    BBC's leading current affairs program, Newsnight recently broadcast an eight-minute film in which a BBC reporter accompanied a British "aid convoy" headed to the most dangerous parts of Syria. The Aid for Syria convoy, comprised of half a dozen
  • Palestinians: We Want a Geneva Accord against ...
    The Geneva agreement between Iran and the six big powers appears to have had a negative impact on the current US-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Palestinians see the agreement as an opportunity to achieve their demands through
  • Erdogan's Latest "Morals Enforcement"
    On October 31, as reported by Agence France-Presse, under the headline "Turkey women MPs break taboo to wear headscarves in parliament," Turkish Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated the entry of four female deputies in a session of the
  • Geneva: A Historic and Dangerous Agreement
    The agreement reached by the group of countries known as P-5+1½ (that is, the five permanent U.N. Security Council powers plus Germany and the European Union representative) with Iran regarding its nuclear program has been rated by its

Urban Survival

  • “Two Turkeys” This Week!
    There’s much to taste this morning as the headlines seem to indicate a slow cooking of the world’s goose prior to the long weekend, such as it is with storms and such. For one thing, the Israelis are seriously pissed about the US going off and making what may be a massive mistake in allowing the ...
  • Coping: With Irregular Turkey
    Elaine came home from grocery shopping with about a 10-pound bird Friday afternoon (late) and didn’t have room in the fridge.  We figured that since the temps in East Texas weren’t going to get above 40, things would be fine and we would likely make it to Tuesday before having the turkey th ...
  • T’is the Season to be Rally
    Trah-lah-lah-lah-lah…. lah lah lah lah….This ain’t hard to figure:  Gold is down, so the dollar is up, so the number of dollars to buy the market should be down, so the futures should be weak. But wait!  The Dow is likely to pop up 60 and the NASDAQ and S&P also look like they’re s ...
  • Coping: With the Winds of Noumenon
    I’m not sure what set it off, but long-time readers will remember that I’ve had occasional dreams that have had what’s seemingly “prophetic content.”  The last “biggie” I had was before the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which I wrote up as having aspects of oil/petroleum industry, murder, fi ...
  • Peoplenomics: A Gathering of Trends
    Every year about this time, while most other people are out shopping for do-dad an thingamajigs to buy the affections of others, Ures truly starts looking at the “big picture” stuff in preparation for our Annual Forecast, which is unusually issued just after the turkey leftovers run ...

Trends & Forecasts

  • The Pensions ? Vaporized!
    The unions that "negotiated" with elected officials for these pensions were really just buying and selling power with OUR money. I do not like it when any of the employees loose the money they believed would be there when they retired but, most... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Big Brother Jumps Air Gap Using Inaudible Soun ...
    Big Brother Jumps Air Gaps Using Inaudible Sound To Access Computers That Have No Network Connection Visit http://www.newsbooze.com for more >>>>> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanews.com f ...
  • Jim Marrs on The Fear Based Propaganda
    Luke Rudkowski and Jim Marrs address Fear Based Propaganda .At the end of Luke Rudkowski's interview with Jim Marr's a random spectator decided to do an impromptu interview with the both of them and continue the video. We think this is an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http:/ ...
  • Russia's UFOs & KGB UFO Documents
    This show delves into the some of the most bizarre UFO reports in Soviet Russian history and investigates rumors of a treasure trove of KGB UFO documents that remain top secret. Height 611 UFO incident refers to an alleged UFO crash in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http: ...
  • Predictions & Spells with Evelyn Paglini, Robe ...
    Date: 12-03-13 Host: George Noory Guests:Evelyn Paglini, Robert Thurman, Lionel Fanthorpe During the middle two hours, practitioner and teacher of natural magic, Dr. Evelyn Paglini, checked in to discuss her predictions and visions for weather,... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 100 Years of Certainty and the Future of the E ...
    Franz Matzner, Associate Director of Government Affairs, Washington, D.C. Congress has spent much of this year debating budget matters and the fate of the nation’s tax policy.  A central theme of any tax policy debate raised by just about ...
  • Vote Cancelled on Amendments to Bill That Thre ...
    Samantha Williams, Staff Attorney, Chicago Just days before Ohioans sat down with their families to celebrate Thanksgiving, Ohio Senator Bill Seitz unleashed a series of amendments to a bill (SB 58) that will continue to dismantle Ohio’s energ ...
  • 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 conduc ...

Peakwater

  • Piled Higher and Deeping into the Nexus
      Piled Higher and Deeper into the Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is now a 1st year PhD candidate at the University of Manchester Business School  after study ...
  • Challenges of Transition- German Solar & Europ ...
    Challenges of Transition- German Solar & European Markets’ Merit Order by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is now a 1st year PhD candidate at the University of Manc ...
  • Saudi Arabia: Largest solar-powered desalinati ...
    “The world’s largest solar-powered seawater desalination plant will soon be established in Ras Al Khaimah to produce more than 22 million gallons of potable water per day and 20MW of solar power. The announcement of the plans for the new plant was made by Utico Middle East, the GCC’s large ...
  • Sustainability Out of Necessity: One Country&# ...
  • Sudan: Severe Lack of Drinking Water in South ...
    “South Darfur — The South Darfur camps for the displaced are allegedly suffering from a severe lack of drinking water. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, the spokesperson for the Association of Displaced People and Refugees of Darfur, Hussein Abu Sharati, reported that the inhabitants of the South ...

D. Kucinich

  • The NDAA: More War Abroad and More Austerity H ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today spoke on the House floor in strong opposition to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). See video here. “In this discussion over the NDAA, we arrive at a moment where we meet the moral consequences of our nation’s choices over the past decade. W ...
  • Kucinich: NO to #CatFoodChristmas
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today strongly objected to a proposal to cut Social Security benefits. The White House suggested a reduction in Social Security to cut costs as part of the so-called “fiscal cliff” negotiations.  The proposal called the “Chained Consumer Price Index” would ...
  • Kucinich: Report on Benghazi Not the Full Story
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to remind colleagues that while a supposedly independent investigation faulted the State Department for security failures in Benghazi, Libya it was the Administration that took us to war and created the chaos in Libya. See video h ...
  • Kucinich: Diplomacy Over Provocation
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement regarding H.R. 3783, Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act of 2012. “In the developing relationship between Iran and the United States, there are many important issues to be addressed. We should address them throu ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Organized Approach to Peace:
    Washington D.C. (December 17, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House floor to call for an “organized, structured approach” to peace in the wake of the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. On Friday, Congressman Kucinich offered words of condolences to the familie ...

Authentically Wired

  • You can’t if it is America’s inten ...
    . . . You can’t if it is America’s intention to deceive them or attempt to manipulate them … they are not fools..   Ron Paul: You Cannot Negotiate With Iran? 12-01-2013  •  Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk   …  You cannot negotiate with Iran. That is what they told u ...
  • man is essentially a “battery”
    . . . Not that difficult to accept IF one can accept man is essentially a “battery” so we are affected by light waves … magnetism … electric impulses…   Lasers Might Cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s     How this may work is not spelled out but simple detection is a powerful beginn ...
  • and “we” are afraid
    . . . If instead the federal minimum wage had grown at the same rate as one-percenter earnings, it would sit at $22.62 per hour today — 212 percent higher than the current wage floor . . . not a snowball’s chance in Hell the 1% will allow that … and “we” are afraid of […]
  • prospering from GMO will not go
    . . . Corporate interest prospering from GMO will not go silently into the night … they will do whatever it takes to have us all consume their GMO products…   Anti-GMO crop paper to be forcibly retracted 12-01-2013  •  ars technica … Last year, a French researcher made waves by an ...
  • the voice of the public has been all but elimi ...
    . . . As the author of this article … Tom O’Halleron … is uniquely aware from his time in the Arizona State Legislature … the voice of the public has been all but eliminated from all legitimate authentic conversation about WATER in Arizona in large part the result of the manner in which our [&#8 ...

Popular Technology

  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
  • 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
    "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...
  • Obama Tweets Support for 97% Consensus Study, ...
    On May 16, 2013 President Obama tweeted support for a "study" that falsely manufactured a statistically worthless claim of a 97% consensus among scientist for human-caused global warming. However it was revealed in 2012 that team members from this study had celebrated the death of conservati ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Sky islands: exploring East Africa's last frontier
    The montane rainforests of East Africa are little-known to the global public. The Amazon and Congo loom much larger in our minds, while the savannas of East Africa remain the iconic ecosystems for the region. However these ancient, biodiverse forests—sitting on the tops of mountains rising ...
  • Animal Earth: exploring the hidden biodiversit ...
    Most of the species on Earth we never see. In fact, we have no idea what they look like, much less how spectacular they are. In general, people can identify relatively few of their backyard species, much less those of other continents. This disconnect likely leads to an inability in the general ...
  • Reversing local extinction: scientists bring t ...
    The northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita), also called the hermit ibis or waldrapp, is a migratory bird. Once, the bald ibis lived in the Middle East, northern Africa and southern and central Europe, but due to hunting, loss of habitat and pesticide-use, the birds disappeared from most of thes ...
  • New organization works to raise the profile of ...
    The world's least-known bear also happens to be the smallest: sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), so called for the yellowish horseshoe mark on its chest, are found across Southeast Asia. But despite their telltale markings, super-long tongues, and endearing cuteness, sun bears remain little-studie ...
  • New children's book celebrates the rich wildli ...
    There are many ways in which people practice conservation. The most well-known are working to save species in the field or setting up protected areas. But just as important—arguably more important for long-term conservation success—is conservation education, especially with children. ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Study to test if whales 'hear' food
    Do whales hear their dinner?For years, scientists have only been able to hypothesise that large marine creatures such as whales, sharks and dolphins use hearing as a way of locating food.Now, a research project led by the University...
  • Ancient javelins predate humans, prompt evolut ...
    The oldest known stone javelins have been discovered in Africa, predating humans by 80,000 years.Scientists say the 280,000-year-old spear tips discovered in Ethiopia were probably created by ancestors to ancient humans, rather...
  • Scientist urges 25sec alert system for earthquakes
    One of the world's leading earthquake scientists has called on New Zealand to adopt cutting-edge technology that could give people as much as 25 seconds' warning before a big quake strikes.Dr Tun Wang told the Herald that New Zealand...
  • Pukeko's game of angry birds
    New Zealand's cute pukeko, known for its colour both in plumage and personality, has been shown to have a power-hungry, aggressive streak - quite literally.A new study shows the lanky birds, often spied on our wetlands and roadsides,...
  • Experts call on all Kiwis to help test water
    Kiwis are being encouraged to become citizen scientists to check the health of their own lakes, rivers and streams.Fresh waterways are monitored at hundreds of sites by Niwa and regional council staff, but a study is looking at...

The Bovine

  • Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
    From Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →
  • From cellphones to Fukushima — subnature ...
    “We’ve got 3 reactors, the cores have left the vessel. They’ve burned through the bottom of the vessel. We don’t really know where they are, because the radioactive environment even fries robots that TEPCO’s been trying to send in there. … Continue reading →
  • Food police in Manitoba schools are “put ...
    From Weighty Matters blog: “It’s quite possible that the single stupidest school lunch policy on the planet comes courtesy of a strange interpretation of the Manitoba Government’s Early Learning and Child Care lunch regulations (an earlier version of this article … Contin ...
  • More than one way to destroy enzymes
    From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “So I was curious to read a lengthy article in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, “How Much for Salad in  a Bottle?”, about the new “raw” juices that have appeared. Most of the article … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt and Montana Jones court procee ...
    On Nov. 15, Montana Jones posted the following message on her FB page: “NO COURT this Mon or Tues. for Michael Schmidt or myself — BUMPED again by our juducial system. Thanks to all who were coming out to support…I will post … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Number of Banks and Percentage of Problem Bank ...
    Most understand the "too big to fail" banks have gotten bigger and bigger over time as they swallow up smaller banks bit by bit. Here is the concept in picture form courtesy of reader Tim Wallace. Click on any chart for sharper image. Number of Banks Over Time  by Type Total Number of ...
  • Taxed to the Point of No Recovery; France Plan ...
    In a feudal as well as futile attempt to keep wealthy French citizens from leaving the country, France hikes the "Exit Tax" on transfers of wealth to outside of France. They also lower the base and increase the number of things on which the tax applies. According to a "pay-walled" article on Le ...
  • Government About to Destroy American Mortgages ...
    Citing Dick Bove, Yahoo!Finance reports Government About to Destroy American Mortgages Permanently. Mortgages as we know them are going away in the next four years, warns Dick Bove, vice president of research at Rafferty Capital. Bove, one of the most widely-respected banking analysts in the wo ...
  • Bottom in for Detroit?
    I mentioned to my wife Liz tonight, that I thought "the bottom was in for Detroit". She asked "why?" Here's my lengthy answer. Unlike Vallejo, California, it is highly likely Detroit will actually shed pension obligations in the first go-around. A mere 25% of students graduate from high schoo ...
  • Pension Battle Shifts to San Jose, San Bernard ...
    Now that a federal judge properly ruled pension obligations are not sacrosanct (see Lesson for Union Dinosaurs) the spotlight is once again on union dinosaurs in California. Bankrupt San Bernardino foolishly did not attempt to shed pension obligations in bankruptcy, but perhaps it can now recon ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Getting Your History from Hollywood
    Imagine a documentary film about the Holocaust which makes no mention of Nazi Germany. Imagine a documentary film about the 1965-66 slaughter of as many as a million “communists” in Indonesia which makes no mention of the key role in the killing played by the United States. But there’s no need t ...
  • Empire, Power & People with Andrew Gavin Marsh ...
    Trading Away the Future This week, the 159 nations of the WTO are meeting in Bali to try to push through the long-stalled Doha Round of trade talks aimed at establishing a global trade agreement. Simultaneously, efforts are moving quickly ahead on two ‘mega-regional’ trade agreements ...
  • The EyeOpener Report- Genetic Fallacy: How Mon ...
    That a former Monsanto scientist should find himself in charge of a specially-created post at the very journal that published two landmark studies questioning the safety of that company’s products should surprise no one who is aware of the Monsanto revolving door. This door is responsible ...
  • The Money Changers Serenade: A New Plot Hatches
    Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, a protégé of Treasury Secretaries Rubin and Summers, has received his reward for continuing the Rubin-Summers-Paulson policy of supporting the “banks too big to fail” at the expense of the economy and American people. For his service to the handful of ...
  • Those 28 Pages, and That Empty Safe
    A ‘Dog That Didn’t Bark’ on 9/11 Yesterday, Bob Graham gave an interview that included discussion of the events of September 11, 2001 and the possible role of Saudi Arabia.  Graham served as a U.S. Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005, with positions as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committ ...

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  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

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Press TV

  • Mexico finds radioactive truck empty
    Mexican authorities say they have found a stolen truck that transported radioactive material, but the material is not inside the vehicle.
  • Iran slams attack on Syria churches
    Iran has condemned the desecration of holy Christian sites in Syria by terrorist groups and the abduction of a group of nuns by militants in the Syrian town of Ma'loula.
  • Activists release Newtown shooting ad
    The gun control group Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America has released a searing new commercial, timed to the one-year anniversary of the Newtown school shooting on Dec. 14, that pleads with its viewers to speak out against gun violence.
  • 1000s attend Hezbollah cmdr. funeral
    Thousands of people have joined the funeral procession of a Hezbollah commander who was assassinated outside his home in southern Beirut.
  • Nigeria wants 500 tried for terrorism
    The Nigerian military says 500 people who have been detained during security operations against Boko Haram militants in three northeastern states must be tried on terrorism charges.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
    The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...
  • The Dreaded Freshman 15
    OMG!!! Help!!! Let’s talk about the Freshman 15.  I know we have all heard about the extra pounds that college students tend to gain during their 1st year, but what I don’t understand is why am I gaining weight. Technically I am not a freshman and isn’t the Freshman 15 for stud ...

Dissident Voice

  • Impossible Dialogue: The Choice in Yemen
    Chances are dim that elections will be held in Yemen next February. Yet without elections, the push for reforms and change that were inspired by the Yemeni revolution would become devoid of any real value. Yemenis might find themselves back on the street, repeating the original demands that echo ...
  • People before Profit, Hollywood History, and t ...
    If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it. — Eduardo Galeano What do you think of this as an argument to use when speaking to those who don’t accept the idea that extreme weather phenomena are man-made? Well, we can proceed in one of two ways: We can do our best to […]
  • CEO vs. Worker Pay: An Ever Increasing Divide
    Last week in Switzerland big money staved off an important challenge to big paychecks. But the sentiment that spurred a Swiss effort to tie executive compensation to common workers’ wages will not be defeated so easily. A Sunday ago Swiss voters said no to a referendum question that would have c ...
  • Saving the Environment is too Important to Lea ...
    What is working class culture? This question arose as part of a conversation about convincing members of Canada’s newest union, Unifor, to make saving the planet from climate change a priority. “You’ll run up against working class culture,” said a friend who considers himself an anarchist. “What ...
  • Looking Back at the Mexican Revolution
    The Mexican Revolution by Adolfo Gilly is an exhaustive analysis of the Mexican Revolution from a Marxist perspective. Gilly, himself a revolutionary, was introduced to this history while incarcerated at Mexico’s infamous Lecumberri prison in the 1960s. Friedrich Katz describes the radical milie ...

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  • Biden urges Chinese to 'challenge government' ...
    US Vice-President Joe Biden has begun a trip to China by encouraging people to "challenge the government". -- Mr Biden told his audience that "children in America are rewarded - not punished - for challenging the status quo". -- Is this guy for real? Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Go ...
  • Ohio Alternative Clean Energy
    Ohio energy efficiency and renewable energy laws headed for a vote December 03, 2013 - The Republican-led effort to change Ohio's energy laws at the request of the state's electric utilities -- and over the objections of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Submitted by James Starowicz to US Politics ...
  • ALEC Attacks EPA's Carbon Pollution Standards ...
    This week, the polluter-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is holding its annual meeting in D.C., and the obstruction of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) progress to reduce carbon pollution is front and center ... Submitted by Laura Beans to US Politics & Gov&# ...
  • Join the Online Federal Budget Day of Action - ...
    We will lose 800,000 jobs next year because of a policy that the tea party calls a "home run." Sign to rid ourselves of these destructive cuts Submitted by Robert S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • NO CHARGES AGAINST CHICAGO COP WHO DRANK SEVER ...
    Cook County prosecutors spent two years conducting an exhaustive investigation on a Chicago police officer who drank several before beers before shooting a man to death after the man pointed a cell phone at him. Submitted by David B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! ...

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