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The Daily Galaxy

  • Clouds Detected on Alien Planet --New Hubble D ...
          Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have defi ...
  • Half of All Sun-Like Stars are in Multiple-Sta ...
        Astronomers know that about half of all Sun-like stars are members of double or multiple-star systems, but have debated over how such systems are formed. Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen bina ...
  • Image of the Day: "A Massive Electric-Blue 'G ...
        Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days. As December unfolds, a vast bank of noctilucent clouds is blanketi ...
  • NASA: Natural-Color Images of Saturn, Titan an ...
          "Until Cassini arrived at Saturn, we didn't know about the hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, the active drama of Enceladus' jets, and the intricate patterns at Saturn's poles," said Linda Spilker, the Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "Spectac ...
  • Our Holographic Universe --A New Theory of Spa ...
                  Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe. One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be t ...

Natural News

  • 'Frequency-specific microcurrents' to the resc ...
    Frequency-specific microcurrents (FSM) are an innovative system of treatments using micro-amperage current and frequencies on tissues to create healing and eliminate pain. There are hundreds of FSM practitioners around the world. Physicians utilizing the original electromagnetic...
  • All the latest science links vitamin D deficie ...
    It is an unforgiving disease that reportedly kills more than 450,000 women every single year all across the globe. But breast cancer and the likelihood of developing it is not an inevitable risk dictated purely by chance, as virtually all of the latest science on the...
  • Carrot juice again: Curing an older woman's pe ...
    If you had serious doubts about an earlier Natural News story on how a woman cured her cancer with carrot juice, as recommended to her by another who had done the same, here's another carrot juice story that should blow your mind. [1] It was revealed by Natural News...
  • NYT, TheWeek.com fall victim to pharma-funded ...
    Don't look now, but all of those multivitamins and supplements that have been keeping you well for years...
  • Texas cops can now serve search warrants based ...
    In some cases, art imitates life and vice versa. In this case, that is chilling. Think 2002's Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise as a futuristic cop who works for a unit that arrests people for merely thinking about committing a crime. That appears to be t ...

Threat Level

  • Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Alon ...
    A federal judge today upheld a President Barack Obama administration policy allowing U.S. officials along the U.S. border to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason.     
  • NSA Hackers Get the ‘Ungettable’ With Rich Cat ...
    While most Americans spend their time shopping Amazon, Target and Apple.com, the National Security Agency's elite team of hackers spends its time shopping a secret high-end catalog of custom tools designed to subvert firewalls, servers, and routers made by U.S. ...     
  • How to Build a Pneumatic Internet
    HAMBURG – Since late last week, this city’s conference center has been invaded by Chaos Computer Club projects of extremely weird character: buzzing flying things, pixelated art, hacker kimchi, 3-D printers, and much more. But standing out above all of ...     
  • Whistleblowing Rippling into New Corners
    HAMBURG – Edward Snowden is on the run. Chelsea Manning is in prison. Julian Assange is in limbo, otherwise known as the Ecuadorian embassy in London Yet seen from the floor here at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC), the whistleblower-support ...     
  • Don’t Want Your Laptop Tampered With? Just Add ...
    So you're traveling overseas, across borders or anywhere you're afraid your laptop or other equipment might be tampered with or examined. What's your new best friend? Glitter nail polish.     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Walgreens Once Again Offers Free Prescriptions ...
    With an estimated 2 million Americans having signed up for private health insurance plans on the federal and state exchanges, the Affordable Care Act is now making real progress towards the goal of 7 million new enrollees by the end of 2014. But as the Washington Post cautions, Obamacare's firs ...
  • Obamacare Foes Trumpet Meaningless Factoid on ...
    For years, the defining truth of health care in America has been this: health care is worst in those states where Republicans poll best. In general, the states with the greatest percentage of uninsured, the unhealthiest residents and the most dismal health care systems give the GOP its strongest ...
  • Conservatives Defend Duck Dynasty, Attack "Poo ...
    One man is the star of reality television show with 12 million viewers. With over 1.2 billion followers worldwide, the other may now be the hosting the greatest show on earth. Yet for American conservatives, Phil Robertson of the Duck Dynasty clan is being silenced for "a point of view that is ...
  • Bankrupt Education Publisher Got the Romney Tr ...
    Back in November 2010, I wrote a piece titled "The End of the Tea Party." A year later, a version of that essay ("Tea Party Activists Are Just Republicans by Another Name") appeared in The Tea Party Movement, an anthology published by multi-billion dollar education publisher, Cengage Learning, ...
  • Senate Sanctions Bill Could Let Israel Take U. ...
    As 2013 draws to close, the negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program have entered a delicate stage. But in 2014, the tensions will escalate dramatically as a bipartisan group of Senators brings a new Iran sanctions bill to the floor for a vote. As many others have warned, that promise of ...

Global Research.ca

  • Neoliberalism and the End of Shorter Work Hours
    While in previous crises shorter work hours were discussed as a measure to combat growing unemployment, an astonishing feature of the current economic downturn from 2007 on was that work time reductions were nowhere on the political agenda. Not even…
  • ‘Happy News Year’: Looking Beyond ...
    At year end, the news agenda fills up with stories on top stories, a chance for networks to repackage footage or highlight favorite newsmakers. These stories rarely look at the news system that picks them or why. There are two…
  • Greatest Threat To World Peace: The United Sta ...
    Over 12 years into the so-called “Global War on Terror,” the United States appears to be striking terror into the hearts of the rest of the world. In their annual End of Year survey, Win/Gallup International found that the United…
  • Thailand Protest Movement Plans to “Shut ...
    In protest of unelected dictator Thaksin Shinawatra and his proxy regime led by his own nepotist-appointed sister Yingluck Shinawatra, anti-regime protesters plan to shut down Thailand’s capital of Bangkok starting on Monday, January 13, 2014.  The necessity of continued mass…
  • Israel Ready to Invade Gaza. Planned Attack Wo ...
    The state of Israel is ready for another war in Gaza following incidents in the Israeli-Gaza borders where it claims that numerous rockets were fired from the Gaza by terrorists groups according to The Times of Israel. “Defense Minister Moshe…

TPM Cafe

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

  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstit ...
    This may seem like a no-brainer, but it's what the industry has been doing for years. Some major parts of Pennsylvania’s two-year-old Marcellus Shale drilling law are unconstitutional, the state’s Supreme Court decided Thursday.As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports, the court voted 4 – 2 ...
  • 13 Major Clean Energy Breakthroughs of 2013
    The rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future. While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing ...
  • What A Year: 45 Fossil Fuel Disasters the Indu ...
    Here is a look back at some of the fossil fuel disasters that made headlines in 2013, along with several others that went largely unnoticed. While coal, oil, and gas are an integral part of everyday life around the world, 2013 brought a stark reminder of the inherent risk that comes with a fos ...
  • 10 Companies Vying for 2013 Corporate Hall of ...
    There is tight competition this year, time to get your vote in. Monsanto is a tough act to follow. When it comes to despised companies, it's set the bar pretty high. Last year the company claimed the top prize in Corporate Accountability International’s Corporate Hall of Shame. That may have h ...
  • Fracking Hell: What It's Really Like to Live N ...
    Nausea, headaches and nosebleeds, invasive chemical smells, constant drilling, slumping property prices – welcome to Ponder, Texas, where fracking has overtaken the town. Veronica Kronvall can, even now, remember how excited she felt about buying her house in 2007. It was the firs ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Fines, Follow Fun Filled Freeze
    Remember sitting at home during February 2 of 2011 as the temperatures dropped and the power kept getting turned off. As millions of Texas sat in the cold and dark Luminant, Texas largest power generator, wasn’t able to get its power plants running along with other generators. Luminant Energy Co ...
  • Wishing you a joyous holiday season
    As you close out 2013, consider joining or making a gift to Public Citizen’s work – click here. Thank you and we wish you a safe and happy holiday.The post Wishing you a joyous holiday season appeared first on TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas.
  • Keystone XL Southern Segment Starts Up Despite ...
    TransCanada had announced start up dates for the southern section of Keystone XL for January 3rd, then changed that to mid to late January, then announced startup began on Saturday, December 7th. Following reports of hundreds of flaws that could lead to spills in the southern segment of the Keys ...
  • Another Proposed Coal Export Terminal in Texas ...
    The third and final major new coal shipping proposal at the Port of Corpus Christi has been canceled, according to documents from recent Port Authority meetings reviewed by the Clean Gulf Commerce Coalition, a multistate campaign to halt expansion of coal exports from the Gulf Coast while promot ...
  • Austin Energy Cutting Solar Credits
    Is Austin Energy joining the war on solar? Bit by bit, our publicly owned, nationally renowned, supposedly green electric utility is trying to roll back programs that support customer owned solar. Austin Energy is cutting the Value of Solar tariff, which compensates solar owners for the energy t ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Celebrating 20 years of the Zapatista Uprising ...
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  • Advances on the Journey to Food Sovereignty an ...
    Subheadline:  Accomplishments from a year in grantmaking and advocacy guatemala-woman_with_corn_and_compost.jpg This last year has seen many advances around the globe for c ...
  • Reports from Honduras Show Repression, Voter Fraud
    By Lydia SimasGrassroots International has been in close contact with our partners in Honduras throughout the recent elections there. Many offered first-hand reports that election observers and agrarian reform activists were intimidated, ballots were not collected, and people were threatened wit ...
  • Interview with Miriam Nobre, Global Feminist A ...
    miriam_photo.jpg Miriam Nobre is a Brazilian feminist activist and current coordinator of World March of Women (WMW), an international feminist movement that connects grassroots women to eliminate the root causes of poverty and violence aga ...
  • Report from Post-election Honduras Cites Viole ...
    honduras-marchers_with_banner.jpg This is a preliminary summary from the US-based Honduras Solidarity Network / Alliance for Global Justice election observation delegation. The summary casts doubt the credibility of Honduran Supreme Elector ...

Care 2

  • Two Talking Cats Have World's Most Adorable Co ...
    A good conversation. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Canadian Solar to Present at the 16th Annual N ...
    "The presentation is scheduled for 8 a.m. ET on that day and will be available through a live webcast on Canadian Solar's investor relations website at www.canadiansolar.com. " PLEASE TAKE NOTICE! Submitted by Ruth R. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Canadian Solar Reports Third Quarter 2013 Results
    "Net revenue for the third quarter of 2013 was $490.9 million, up 29.1% from $380.4 million in the second quarter of 2013 and up 50.6% from $326.0 million in the third quarter of 2012."PLEASE LET'S GO SOLAR! Submitted by Ruth R. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • 'Pit Bulls and Parolees': Elia Rescues Spot an ...
    Elia rescued Spot and now Spot is rescuing Elia. Elia has cancer and Spot is there for every step of the way. Submitted by Barb Knight to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading From the ...
    Moonrise is a book that cleverly and systematically creates an arch of comprehension, sensitization, and yes, illumination for the pressing social and environmental issues of the day and beyond. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • New Year’s Eve Open Thread
    Wishing each of you a Happy New Year. I pray it is safe and prosperous. God save us from Barack Obama and his ineptitude. Thanks to FoxyLady for this link: What is on your mind tonight?
  • Understanding the Attack in Benghazi and the N ...
    Hillary Clinton and her advocates in the media are busy trying to muddle what actually happened in Benghazi, including the decision at Hillary’s State Department to ignore warnings of a deteriorating security situation, and the failure of the Obama Administration to respond competently to ...
  • NY Times Loses Its Mind on Benghazi
    What the hell were or are they thinking? I mean the editors of the NY Times. They posted a piece tonight insisting that the attacks on two American outposts in Benghazi on 11 September 2012 were inspired by an obscure anti-Mohammed video and carried out by someone with no ties to Al Qaeda. Compl ...
  • Vladimir Putin Nails It? Or Not?
    I love the irony of the American left getting all misty eyed and outraged over Russia’s imprisonment of the girl rock band, Pussy Riot, and former oil mogul, Mikhail Khordorkovsky, but still is largely mute about the permanent concentration camp known as Guantanamo. Yes, the hypocrisy of A ...
  • A&E Blinks and Reinstates Phil Robertson
    Well, that did not take long. Boy, the lady in charge of A&E should lose her job over this black-eye. Here’s the latest courtesy of Variety: After a brief suspension following his remarks in GQ magazine, Phil Robertson will return to the “Duck Dynasty” show in 2014, A&E announced ...

Futurismic

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

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

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

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Soviet Psychotronic lit review since 1911, int ...
    Let's have a nice link dump on some moar exotic science. If you care to scout this story out, you will have moar vortices of weirdness than you'll know what to do with. I like weird patents and ran into a few of them. Could all these things below be related? Can we hack a new machine to get into ...
  • NSA Boundless Informant explicated - for moar ...
    Just had to crosspost this relatively down-to-earth explanation of how all the cell phone data is hoarded in the NSA mass data mining system. What this lacks in documentation it makes up for with relative plausibility & general lack of fancifulness. SOURCE: Cryptome.org : http://cryptome.o ...
  • Aha: Carbon Market digital currency "Ven" by H ...
    Lolz just stumbled on this - had to write a quick post with a lurid headline. Ven is like the Sharper Image / corporate greenwashing version of Bitcoins and it's all tied into a big ball of classic shady stuff. There is a really nice blob of greenwashing social constructions underpinning the Ven ...
  • Terrible Trans Pacific Partnership intellectua ...
    Finally got some clue into WTF is going on. They have been trying to keep this secret as hell because a planet of 6+ billion people might rebel at another horrible technocratic scheme to control everyone's brains :( VIA https://wikileaks.org/tpp/ - way to go wikileaks. Secret Trans-Pacific Part ...
  • Scott Hargarten Pirate Party City Council cand ...
    A friend of mine, Scott Hargarten, (@scotthargarten) is running for Minneapolis City Council with the new Pirate Party of Minnesota and participated in the Ward 10 debate today. While of course the Pirate Party is a small new political venture we are getting somewhere with advancing ideas of dir ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Justine Sacco's Offensive Tweet and the Cost o ...
    Social media's outrage may be a double-edged sword. PR executive Justine Sacco wrote an offensive tweet before boarding a flight from London to Cape Town, South Africa. “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” she said. Between the time Sacco tweeted and when she ...
  • Secret CIA Program Hunted Down Leaders of Colo ...
    The CIA and NSA provided intelligence to the Colombian government to help their battle against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency have provided covert help to Colombia’s government to hunt down and kill leaders of a left ...
  • WSJ Op-Ed Bemoans the End of White Rule in America
    Joseph Epstein argues that we need more rich white men in power, preferably WASPs. There are a lot of problems in Washington, D.C these days, but not many solutions to them. Inefficiency, an allergy to cooperation, and stiff resistance to pragmatism have all ground the federal government to a ...
  • AlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on KKK Schools
    No white hoods and robes allowed!  Related StoriesAlterNet Comics: Matt Davis on Homophobic RhetoricAlterNet Comics: Keith Knight on White SantaBook Censorship on the Rise in American Schools
  • The Hard-to-Believe, Cruel Things Corporate Ex ...
    Some of what they say is almost too outlandish to believe they actually said it. At a time of year when we're inclined to show empathy for people less fortunate than ourselves, some of our top business leaders are notable for comments that show their disdain for struggling Americans. Their wor ...

Threat Level

  • Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Alon ...
    A federal judge today upheld a President Barack Obama administration policy allowing U.S. officials along the U.S. border to seize and search laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices for any reason.     
  • NSA Hackers Get the ‘Ungettable’ With Rich Cat ...
    While most Americans spend their time shopping Amazon, Target and Apple.com, the National Security Agency's elite team of hackers spends its time shopping a secret high-end catalog of custom tools designed to subvert firewalls, servers, and routers made by U.S. ...     
  • How to Build a Pneumatic Internet
    HAMBURG – Since late last week, this city’s conference center has been invaded by Chaos Computer Club projects of extremely weird character: buzzing flying things, pixelated art, hacker kimchi, 3-D printers, and much more. But standing out above all of ...     
  • Whistleblowing Rippling into New Corners
    HAMBURG – Edward Snowden is on the run. Chelsea Manning is in prison. Julian Assange is in limbo, otherwise known as the Ecuadorian embassy in London Yet seen from the floor here at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC), the whistleblower-support ...     
  • Don’t Want Your Laptop Tampered With? Just Add ...
    So you're traveling overseas, across borders or anywhere you're afraid your laptop or other equipment might be tampered with or examined. What's your new best friend? Glitter nail polish.     

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • California Links Salmonella to Cashew Cheese
    California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Director and State Health Officer Dr. Ron Chapman today warned people not to eat cashew cheese products manufactured by The Cultured Kitchen because they... Continue Reading
  • Three Sick with E. coli – Two with HUS – in No ...
    The Davidson County Health Department is investigating reports of illness in three children likely due to E. coli infection, the agency said this afternoon. Two Tyro Middle School students have... Continue Reading
  • Another Outbreak at a Jimmy Johns
    The Finney County Health Department, along with the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), continues investigating an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness that... Continue Reading
  • Last Minute Stocking Stuffer – Get Poisoned fo ...
    Perhaps it might be too late to get Poisoned for Christmas, but perhaps for the New Year?  Subscribe to Marler Blog, or follow me on Twitter, and I will send... Continue Reading
  • My 5,000th Blog Post – Ode to the Beef Industry
    In 2002, I wrote an Op-ed for the Denver Post entitled: “Put me out of business. Please.” For this trial lawyer, E. coli has been a successful practice – and... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

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

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • BREAKING: Lynne Stewart Freed From Prison, Gra ...
    UPDATE : Lynne Stewart has been released from prison and will come to New York City to live with her son. Earlier today, federal Judge John Koeltl ordered the "compassionate release" of Lynne Stewart. He wrote that "Stewart's "terminal medical condition and very limited life expectancy constit ...
  • Top 20 Democracy Now! Segments of 2013
    As part of our look back at the top news stories of 2013, we have complied a list of the 20 most-viewed Democracy Now! segments on democracynow.org. Join the conversation about each of these interviews on our Facebook page and share the list directly from Pinterest . Hacker Group Ano ...
  • CREDO Members (Or Not!): Only 1 week left to ...
    Now, more than ever, Democracy Now! needs your help. Each year, CREDO members vote to distribute 2013 donations funding — and how much we get depends on you. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of funding. Just go to this page and select Democracy Now! (you'll find us ...
  • Obama’s New Normal: The Drone Strikes Continue
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan There has been yet another violent attack with mass casualties. This was not the act of a lone gunman, or of an armed student rampaging through a school. It was a group of families en route to a wedding that was killed. The town was called Radda—not in Co ...
  • PART 2: Calls Grow to Release Aging People fro ...
    We continue our interview about the issues leading to a skyrocketing population of aging people behind bars, and feature comments about their conditions from political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. We also speak with Mujahid Farid, who was released from a New York state prison ...

Solari

  • Report from Iron Mountain, 1967
    On Space Programs: Another economic surrogate that has been proposed is a series of giant “space research” programs. These have already demonstrated their utility in more modest scale within the military economy. What has been implied, although not yet expressly put forth, is the de ...
  • Coming Clean: Crowdfunding
    In recent years there have been methods developed to decentralize investing. We take a close look at crowdfunding, the legal issues and dangers involved, and how to approach it as an entrepreneur. Crowdfunding is an important step forward in supporting both small and large efforts for the indivi ...
  • Coming Clean: Beyond the Fiscal Cliff
    As we look over the fiscal cliff into our financial abyss, now is a good time to “Come Clean” about the real state of our lives, our communities, and our economy, starting with the U.S. federal finances that flow deeply and intimately throughout every aspect of our lives. This Solari Special Rep ...
  • Transcript of “Winter Wellness with Dr. Laura ...
    Transcript of “Winter Wellness with Dr. Laura Thompson” is now available to Subscribers! From the transcript: C. Austin Fitts: Okay, well, I’m about to welcome to The Solari Report a woman who needs no introduction, Dr. Laura Thompson, who’s the founder of the Southern California Institute ...
  • Money & Markets – Week of 12.29.13
    Editorial: Target Theft Proves Need for Chip Cards The Sacramento Bee | 24 December 2013 ’Tis the season of good will toward all, family meals and traditions, and shopping… Rob Kirby-When China Doesn’t Get Their Gold-That’s When This Ends YouTube | 24 December 2013 ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

Inhabitat

  • Green Design Predictions for 2014
    Bill McKibben Environmentalist, Green Journalist, President and Co-Founder of 350.org I think it's going to be the year when it finally hits home that we've got to keep most fossil fuel underground--that the business plans of the fossil fuel industry     
  • Sophia Chang’s Stretchy Fabric Cocoon Distorts ...
    Constructed at the entrance of the INVIVIA Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Suspense traded in preconceived notions of architectural space for a playful, interactive experience. Upon entering, visitors were immediately enveloped in a white curving cocoon     
  • 6 Natural Hangover Remedies to Cure What Ails ...
    BANANAS You might have heard that bananas are favored by athletes because they contain potassium and it's that same reason that makes them great hangover cures. When you're hungover, your body has lost a lot of potassium that needs to be replenished, so eating     
  • Move Over Bloody Marys – Asparagus is the New ...
    There's a new cure for champagne-induced New Year’s Eve hangovers. We used to think that Bloody Marys or a cup of coffee were miracle hangover cures, but new research shows that a few stalks of asparagus might do a better job. In a recent study by the Institute     
  • Skyscraper Candles Let You Set the World’s Mos ...
    Li, who's previously worked alongside Ai Weiwei and at OMA, says that the motivation behind 'Flammable' was sparked by her increasing disillusionment with flashy skyscrapers crowding out once-familiar civic spaces in her home city of Beijing. She channeled     

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • WIRED Science’s Most Popular Image Galleries o ...
        
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Club
    This new Hubble image shows a handful of galaxies in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). NGC 1190, shown here on the right of the frame, stands apart from the rest; it belong to an exclusive club known as Hickson ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Lennon Crater
    Imagine some ejecta It isn't hard to do Terraced walls and impact melt Secondary craters too Imagine central peaks Rising above the floor... You may say I'm a complex crater But I'm not the only one Someday more will join us On the planet closest to the sun.     
  • WIRED’s Top Science Stories of the Year
    A lot of our readers either love spiders, or love to hate spiders. Either way, in 2013 three spider stories are among our 13 most popular posts. Space, the meaning of consciousness and our impending plutonium shortage were also popular ...     
  • WIRED Space Photo of the Day: Earth and Moon F ...
    The HiRISE instrument would make a great backyard telescope for viewing Mars, and we can also use it at Mars to view other planets, such as Jupiter.     

PakAlert

  • Gun Confiscation – The New World Order’s New Y ...
    Will the Second Amendment be completely eradicated in 2014? For many Americans, 2013 was the year “gun confiscation” became an undeniable reality, but it has merely set the precedent for what’s to come in 2014. The Second Amendment represents the biggest obstacle blocking the elimination o ...
  • Video: Newly Discovered Nephilim Proof! Secret ...
    6 When man began to multiply on the face of the land and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose. 3 Then the Lordsaid, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever, for he is flesh: his days shall be 1 ...
  • Barack and Michelle’s family life is falling a ...
    According to a bombshell new report, the First Lady and Barack Obama are sleeping in separate White House bedrooms. She’s preparing to move his clothes and personal things out of their million-dollar house in Chicago
  • DNC sends email defending Obama from impeachme ...
    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can’t impeach President Obama
  • Year in Pictures: Moving Images of 2013
    The following images tell the story of the past 365 days’ most compelling events, capturing happenstance moments and monumental occurrences all over the globe. More than ever, photography has become the predominant means for us to communicate. Let’s look back at the year through stunning images ...

Andy Worthington

  • Close GuantĂ¡namo Now: Andy Worthington’s ...
    To interview Andy Worthington or Debra Sweet, or to arrange further events, please contact Andy or Debra. January 11, 2014 is the 12th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at GuantĂ¡namo Bay, Cuba, an experiment in extraordinary rendition, torture and indefinite de ...
  • For Christmas, the Reverend Nicholas Mercer Ca ...
    As I spend Christmas with family, I recall that, on this Christian holiday, which commemorates the birth of Jesus — drawing on an older tradition of celebrating the winter solstice, and the beginning of the sun’s rebirth after the shortest day of the year — there are other peop ...
  • How Congress Is Finally Helping President Obam ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close GuantĂ¡namo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us – just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of GuantĂ¡namo, and to receive updates of our ac ...
  • Two Sudanese Prisoners Released from GuantĂ¡nam ...
    As the 12th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at GuantĂ¡namo Bay approaches (on January 11, 2014), the run of good news regarding the situation at the prison continues, with the news that two prisoners — Ibrahim Idris, 52, and Noor Uthman Muhammed, 51, hav ...
  • Omar Khadr Condemns His GuantĂ¡namo Plea Deal, ...
    Good news from Canada, finally, as former GuantĂ¡namo prisoner Omar Khadr has been “reclassified as a medium-security risk,” and will be moved from Edmonton, where he is currently held as a maximum-security prisoner, to Bowden Correctional Institution, north of Calgary. The move will ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Last post…of 2013
    Festive Felicitations to you all, hope to see you in 2014, here on the Sciencebase site (newsfeed), on my Song, Snaps, Science page, or on Twitter @sciencebase), Google+ and Facebook, of course. Last post…of 2013 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom S ...
  • Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
    Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
  • Yesterday’s future tomorrow
    In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...
  • Zinc, the only supplement
    Zinc is the only supplement I take if I feel a cold coming on. Vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil etc have no proven effect. But, recent Cochrane analysis vindicates earlier research on which I based my choice. Zinc – The promise: Laboratory studies have found it can inhibit replication o ...
  • Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up
    Papadakis publishers have released the Higgs edition of their unique publication – the result of a collaboration between the home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky. Radevsky’s previous pop-ups include The Modern Architecture Pop-Up Bo ...

Common Dreams -News

  • New Year in Colorado Brings World's First Regu ...
    An employee weighs portions of retail marijuana to be packaged and sold a Denver shop (Brennan Linsley/AP)For the first time in 70 years, legal recreational marijuana sales commenced in Colorado Wednesday, marking the beginning of a new year and, many hope, a new era ...
  • Wall Street Sings While Americans Sob: Happy N ...
    (Photo: Zoonabar/ cc via Flickr)Bankers on Wall Street rang in the final hours of 2013 with gains unseen in almost twenty years. However, for roughly half of America, these stock market highs mean nothing as they face a new year with little work and even less of a safety net. ...
  • Fukushima Ghost Towns Struggle to Recover Amid ...
  • Palestinian Ambassador Dead After Explosion in ...
    Firefighters search an area after an explosion in Prague January 1, 2014. (Rueters/David W Cerny)Jamal al-Jamal, the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic, died Wednesday after an explosion went off in his Prague residence. read more
  • Federal Judge Orders 'Compassionate Release' o ...
    A federal judge ordered the "compassionate release" of former defense lawyer Lynne Stewart on Tuesday on the grounds that she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer with a life expectancy of less than 18 months. read more

Lifehacker

  • Print This Four-Week Calendar to Use Seinfeld' ...
    Maxium Barrault wanted to implement Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret of forming a chain by crossing off the calendar every day, but apps like Habit Streak Plan weren't doing it for him. Barrault had multiple habits he wanted to form. So he went old-school and created this printable four-week ...
  • Stop a Door from Swinging Open by Bending the ...
    Got a door in your house that wants to swing open whenever you open it just a tiny crack? The Family Handyman has a simple fix, and all you need is a few basic tools.Read more...     
  • Pact Puts Real Money on the Line to Get You to ...
    iOS/Android: Pact, formerly GymPact (whom we've mentioned before) pays you money for exercising (and charges you when you don't). Now, it can help you eat better as well. Pact now tracks food and nutrition, syncs with MyFitnessPal, and has photo verification to prove that you're actually doing w ...
  • Seven 52 Week Challenges for an Incredibly Pro ...
    If you want the next year to be even better than the last, you need more than just a good resolution—you need a solid plan and way to stay motivated throughout the year. Why not try a weekly challenge with others? Here are several 52 week challenges that can get you to save more money, finally g ...
  • Loopr Switches Android Apps Without You Liftin ...
    Android: Multi-tasking is one of the things that makes Android tablets better than the iPad. There are already apps like Task Changer to switch between apps quickly, but Loopr makes it even simpler with a hotspot on your screen that activates a task switcher.Read more...      ...

Water Wars

  • Water Wars: At 3.6 inches, LA's had the...
    At 3.6 inches, LA's had the driest year on record since 1887, when they started keeping track of these things. LADWP is confident that "e will still get by," thanks to water-hoarding and the water-saving measures they've recommended since 2010....
  • Water Wars: Fact: LA is well on the...
    Fact: LA is well on the way to its driest year in history and forecasters say SoCal is in for its third year of drought in a row. So why aren't we hearing doom-and-gloom PSAs about saving water? Authorities say...
  • Morning Buzz: Friday 12.20.13
    Kevin Roderick: Huizar named in 2005 groping complaint. The California water wars. Drivers and homeowners are the problem in LA. David Ulin's and Michiko Kakutani's favorite 2013 books. Mark Zuckerberg donates $1 billion. And some media notes.
  • Related Stories
    THE first thing that hit me about Dawn on the morning of Dec 17 was that the paper’s masthead looked new and ... THIS is apropos article ‘Outsourcing option and falling profits’ (Business pages, Nov 25-Dec 1). It’s not only...
  • Unbreakable
    Water wars. Good luck with that claim Egypt. Last Pharaoh who tried that got drowned,

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Chinese Researchers Pin Beijing’s Smog O ...
    China's leading research organization has released the results of a study clearly linking fossil fuel combustion with Beijing's killer smog. The post Chinese Researchers Pin Beijing’s Smog On Fossil Fuels appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • 2014 Kicks Off With Gun Crimes Across The Country
    While you were celebrating a fresh start and a new year, the same gun violence that's plagued America raged on. The post 2014 Kicks Off With Gun Crimes Across The Country appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • No ‘Mass Exodus’ From Boy Scouts A ...
    A new policy allowing openly gay youth to participate in Boy Scouts of America -- but continuing to prohibit LGBT adults from serving as leaders -- went into effect Wednesday.The post No ‘Mass Exodus’ From Boy Scouts As New Gay Scout Rule Goes Into Effect appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • Massive Minnesota Solar Project Gets Major Leg ...
    A judge ruled Tuesday, that an enormous new solar project is the best way for Minnesota to meet meet rising energy demand. The post Massive Minnesota Solar Project Gets Major Legal Boost appeared first on ThinkProgress.
  • As Evacuation Ends For Explosive Oil Train Cra ...
    As Casselton residents return to their homes following Monday's major crude oil train crash, the risks of rail transport of oil remain high. The post As Evacuation Ends For Explosive Oil Train Crash, Officials Hint At The Persistent Threat Of Rail Transport appeared first on ThinkProgress.

thwap's schoolyard

  • 2014: Will the Left Pull Their Heads Out of Th ...
    Will leftists finally figure out that an afternoon's protest isn't worth the energy that goes into organizing it? Will leftists finally figure out that if they believe that the government is comprised of psychopathic, inhuman murderers, then peaceful protest is useless? Will leftists finally f ...
  • harper Tweets About the Ice Storm
    Montreal Simon has another great indictment of the usurper. Far be it from that garbage-head harper to interrupt his Christmas in hiding to make a personal appearance during this crisis.
  • The Usurper's Christmas Message
    I'm sort of an all-or-nothing kinda guy. You know, if I don't believe in a religion, then I stop going to church. Canada, and Canadians, are either historical entities trying to build a just, humane society for themselves and others, or they're not. Leftists should either dedicate themselves to ...
  • Revolution - the ONLY Solution
    There's just no other way. We cannot "reform" capitalism. At least not in the way that US Democrats, Canadian Liberals and "social democrat" NDPr's want to do it. They want painless reform, ... as in reform that doesn't anger the powerful. It can't happen. It's their mewling "vision" of compassi ...
  • Wut We's Got's To Do
    My point about the lack of a response to the TTC fare increase was that I, who have been told several times that my plans are too grandiose, am pointing out the sheer invisibility of the standard leftist response to problems. If I had my druthers, I'd be organizing a transit-users' strike, or an ...

Science Express

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

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Study predicts ‘catastrophic’ rise in global t ...
    The Guardian reports: Temperature rises resulting from unchecked climate change will be at the severe end of those projected, according to a new scientific study. The scientist leading the research said that unless emissions of greenhouse gases were cut, the planet would heat up by a minimum of ...
  • Soil pollution is poisoning China’s food supply
    The New York Times reports: The farm-to-table process in China starts in villages like this one in the agricultural heartland. Food from the fields of Ge Songqing and her neighbors ends up in their kitchens or in the local market, and from there goes to other provinces. The foods are Chinese sta ...
  • Alberta tar sands operations encircled by expa ...
    ThinkProgress: Just one week after Al Jazeera discovered that regulatory responsibility for Alberta, Canada’s controversial tar sands would be handed over to a fossil-fuel funded corporation, federal scientists have found that the area’s viscous petroleum deposits are surrounded by a nearly 7,50 ...
  • Israeli military intelligence sees genuine pol ...
    Summarizing the assessment of Israeli military intelligence, Haaretz reports: Syria is continuing to fall apart, with forces that oppose the regime now in control of nearly half the country, in the north and the east. But the Assad regime continues to cling to the cities that are important to it ...
  • Video: Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Commun ...

Watts Up With That?

  • IPCC silently slashes its global warming predi ...
    Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Unnoticed, the IPCC has slashed its global-warming predictions, implicitly rejecting the models on which it once so heavily and imprudently relied. In the second draft of the Fifth Assessment Report it had broadly … Continue reading →
  • AMSA: Helicopter rescue of Akademik Shokalskiy ...
    UPDATE: So much for that… Sea ice conditions are now likely to delay today’s planned rescue of passengers from the MV Akademik Shokalskiy. bit.ly/1aplnNZ— AMSA News (@AMSA_News) January 02, 2014 7.30am AEDT: 2nd January 2014 Rescue operations likely to commence … Continue ...
  • Another Conservation Success Story Hijacked by ...
    Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism Recently advocates of CO2 catastrophic climate change have been trumpeting a new paper … Contin ...
  • WUWT and WeatherBell help KUSI-TV with a weath ...
    Today, while shopping at lunchtime for some last minute year end supplies, I got one of the strangest cell-phone calls ever. It was from my friend John Coleman, the founder of the Weather Channel and Chief meteorologist at KUSI-TV in … Continue reading →
  • First time in 20 years – more daily reco ...
    2013 was a cool year in many ways. Most interestingly, the last year this split between highs and lows happened in the USA, in 1993, we had the eruption from Mt. Pinatubo the prior year which ejected so much aerosol … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation
    ▶ Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation – YouTube. You may receive endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation if you are in an emergency situation involving severe respiratory problems or if you are having general anesthesia during a surgical procedure. If you have severe respirato ...
  • Healing Damaged Hearts With Stem Cell Implants ...
    We’re much better at saving the lives of those who suffer a heart attack these days. Sadly, many people survive a heart attack only to later succumb to heart failure from the damage it caused. Modern methods help heal the heart somewhat after a heart attack, but cardiologists think stem cell the ...
  • Predicting the fate of stem cells
    University of Toronto researchers have developed a method that can rapidly screen human stem cells and better control what they will turn into. The technology could have potential use in regenerative medicine and drug development. Findings are published in this week\’s issue of the journal ...
  • How Staph Toxin Disables the Immune System
    Scientists at the NYU Langone Medical Center report the discovery of a novel mechanism by which Staphylococcus aureus bacteria attack and kill off immune cells. They say their findings “Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxin ED Targets the Chemokine Receptors CXCR1 and CXCR2 to Kill Leukocytes and Pro ...
  • Monaco and humanitarian aid for a heart surgery
    In this compassionate video, the monaco humanitarian aid organization describes a 12 year old girl, Aminata Keita who lives in Barnako, in the African country of Mali with a heart condition. Aminata suffers from cardiomyopathy, which results in failure of the heart and requires complicated and d ...

CFACT

  • Climate scientists hold new year’s sing- ...
    Climate Depot describes it as a "clitanic disaster," but the global warming scientists and eco-tourists trapped in Antarctic ice held a sing-along to welcome the new year while awaiting rescue. 2013 was a year which rocked the credibility of the global warming campaign. It will take a long tim ...
  • Defusing the explosive conversation on fracking
    The myths about hydraulic fracturing (fracking) are myriad and cynical -- spread by haters of fossil fuels and by those who want to see the United States crippled as a result of shutting down the bulk of the traditional energy sector in favor of heavily subsidized "renewables" and forcing a mass ...
  • Australian ice breaker blocked. Climate resea ...
    An Australian ice breaker has failed to reach the global warming researchers trapped in ice near Antarctica. Further rescue attempts planned.
  • Antarctic ice blocks ice breaker sent to rescu ...
    Will the dramatic spectacle of climate researchers trapped in Antarctic ice (which has expanded massively during 2013) help free the media of the false global warming ice narrative?
  • Putin pardons Greenpeace campaigners, keeps th ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned all 30 of the Greenpeace campaigners who were awaiting trial following their failed attempt to board a Russian oil platform, but still holds their ship. Do you think Greenpeace will choose Russia, or one of the free market democracies it so despises the ...

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Natural Health News

  • Top 10 Articles of 2013
    By Dr. Mercola Happy New Year! Today, we embark on a new year and a fresh start in our continued journey toward better health and happier lives. But before we leave 2013 behind, let’s revisit the top 10 articles of the past year, based on number of page views. These are the article ...
  • Dr. Mercola: Happy New Year and Thank You for ...
    By Dr. Mercola Another year has passed and, for the ninth straight year, Mercola.com remains the most visited natural health site on the Web. This would not be possible without YOU, who have followed along with our mission, gotten involved in our leading causes. I want to review them with yo ...
  • Hangover Hacks You Can Hang Your Hat On
    By Dr. Mercola On New Year’s Eve, Americans drink more alcohol than on any other day of the year.1 Other top contenders are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, and St. Patrick’s Day… but none top New Year’s Eve, for imbibing. What that means is that New ...
  • Is Monsanto Using 4-H to Brainwash Your Childr ...
    By Dr. Mercola Monsanto is boasting its partnership with 4-H programs by giving a shout-out to “National 4-H Week.”1 This is not the first time Monsanto has used its clever propaganda to influence our nation’s youth. The Council for Biotechnology Information widely circu ...
  • 7 Worst Ingredients in Food
    By Dr. Mercola More than 3,000 food additives -- preservatives, flavorings, colors and other ingredients -- are added to US foods, and this is one of the key reasons why I recommend avoiding most of the processed foods that contain them. While many well-meaning nutritionists will teach you ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Exploring International Law with Opinio Juris ...
    by Chris Borgen There’s never a boring year in international law and 2013 turned out to be particularly eventful: Syria, major cases in front of national and international courts, a possible nuclear deal with Iran, and turmoil in Eastern Europe, Egypt, and South Sudan, to name but a few reason ...
  • Guest Post: W(h)ither now the reputation of th ...
    by Megan Fairlie by Megan Fairlie [Dr. Megan Fairlie is Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University] A brief consideration of the history of replacement judges at the ICTY reveals an increasing disregard for the rights of the accused in favor of avoiding costly and time-cons ...
  • Could the India-US Diplomatic Incident Be Reso ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’ve been working hard this break teaching in Hofstra’s winter program in Curacao. But I couldn’t resist stepping away from the beach and posting on the India-US flap over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York. Dapo Akande at EJIL Talk! has tw ...
  • Jennifer Daskal on the Military Commission Tra ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Train wreck, fiasco, disaster, dumpster fire, bad joke, kangaroo court, show trial — take your pick, the description applies. Daskal’s post at Just Security is a must-read; here is but one particularly disturbing snippet: Recent pre-trial hea ...
  • Weekly News Wrap: Monday, December 30, 2013
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa More than 1000 people have died in fighting in South Sudan in the past month, where a political crisis is turning into a tribal conflict. Zimbabwe’ ...

Public News Service

  • Make Those Last-Minute Charitable Donations Count
    Make Those Last-Minute Charitable Donations Count PHOENIX - With the clock now racing toward the end of the year, the rush is on to make those last-minute charitable donations before midnight tonight, but experts urge Arizonans to do their homework to maximize year-end contributions. In order t ...
  • AZ New Year’s Eve Safe Sex Effort Expanding
    AZ New Year’s Eve Safe Sex Effort Expanding PHOENIX - Aside from Spring Break, New Year's Eve may be the biggest occasion of the year for risky behavior including unprotected sex. An Arizona campaign to encourage safe sex among holiday partiers is now in its second year. According to Joh ...
  • A Gift for Captive Bears: Your Voice
    A Gift for Captive Bears: Your Voice PHOENIX – Hundreds of bears in captivity around the country are held in small, concrete pits and cages without anything that is natural to them – and since they can't speak for themselves, one of the world's largest animal welfare groups wants hum ...
  • Year-End Tax Tips from an Expert
    Year-End Tax Tips from an Expert PHOENIX – There are only a few days left in 2013, but tax expert Marshall Mennenga of Mennenga Tax and Financial Service says there are some steps people can take before 2014 arrives to not only lower their tax bill, but help others at the same time. He s ...
  • Smartphone or Online, Arizona Kids Can Track Santa
    Smartphone or Online, Arizona Kids Can Track Santa PHOENIX - Before visions of sugarplums dance in their heads, Arizona children can keep an eye on Old Saint Nick's journey around the globe tonight. For more than 50 years, NORAD has been tracking Santa Claus on Christmas Eve and providing childr ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • US Embassy Bangkok: US Soldier Running Rogue O ...
    CJ Grisham was arrested in Texas a second time this past November for criminal trespass. 18 December 2013 A troubled US Army Soldier claimed to be assigned to the US Embassy in Bangkok for an unknown purpose. The active duty counterintelligence soldier, who has a Top Secret clearance, is sta ...
  • Air Force being Downgraded to "Air Persuasion ...
    Published on: 12 December 2013 From: Eric K. Fanning, Acting Secretary of the Air Force Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff Chief Master Sgt. James A. Cody, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force To the Airmen of the United States Air Force: We are the best Air Force in the world ...
  • Not a Crosswalk
    Aleppo, Syria 09 December 2013 The Syrian war is growing.  Growing in size and complexity. Yet the more one learns about this conflict, the less accurate it becomes to call it “The Syrian War.”  Thousands of foreigners have flooded in.  Some are moving through southern Turkey t ...
  • Afghanistan: Talking Points US Troops
    08 December 2013 Many of our Soldiers in Afghanistan are required to carry this paper in a pocket at all times.  Troops are expected to memorize the talking points and cough them up to any journalists coming through. We decided to help headquarters spread their message. Many complaints ...
  • Thailand: Pause on Fighting for King's Birthday
    04 December 2013 I am in Turkey to study the Syrian civil war.  Yet this is also a crucial moment in Thailand.  A few words on the Kingdom are due. December 5 is His Majesty's birthday. As an American, I was raised since birth to reject all kings. That is our upbringing and what we a ...

The Killing Train

  • podur.org in 2013
    Since it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer articles and ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 4, Paul Moloney ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. This episode has Paul Moloney, the author of the book The Therapy Industry: the irresistible rise of the talking cure and why it doesn't work (Pluto Press 2013). In the book, Paul questions the idea that many of our ...
  • Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities Oct 28, ...
    On October 28, 2013, Justin Podur gave a lecture for the Toronto Public Library's "Thought Exchange" series titled "Afghanistan: Perils and Possibilities". The lecture was based on his trip to Kabul in March 2013 and his chapter in the 2013 University of Toronto Press book, "Empire's Ally: Canad ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for work on the issue. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): ...
  • Public action and a lifeline for rural workers ...
    Jean Dreze is an economist and activist who teaches at Allahabad University's Department of Economics. He has written on famines with Amartya Sen, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics for that work. I met him in India earlier this year and interviewed him over email. Justin Podur (JP): I think ...

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Obama 2013: How low can you go?
    So after so many lows and one certified high, this is the big question for 2014; will the 0.0001 percent, the Western financial Masters of the Universe, allow a sovereign, independent Iran in the same league of Russia and China, thus further solidifying Asian integration in the New Great Game in ...
  • Size matters, but not as much as quality: More ...
    The Big versus Small framing doesn't address the real issues we face. The problem isn't that we have too much government or too little government. The problem is that we have too much bad government and too little good government.
  • Media Doublespeak - You Never Get to Retire
    The truth about the "new" aging reality.
  • The Only Problem in America is We Don't Have E ...
    My hope for 2014 is more. Because in the United States, we don't have enough yet. That's our problem. It's simple.
  • The Obamacare We Deserve
    Now that Obamacare has finally arrived, liberals can stop defending its flaws and argue instead for universal health care.

Switchboard

  • Fresh Food, Clean Energy: The New Brooklyn Who ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York This morning, I took the ten-minute stroll from my home in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood to the new Brooklyn Whole Foods to pick up some ingredients for a New Year’s feast. The ...
  • Bloomberg Challenges Multifamily Buildings to ...
    Melissa Wright, Associate Director, City Energy Project, New York Some good news out of the departing Bloomberg Administration in NYC this week – citywide climate change pollution is down 19% since 2005. This means that the city is already nea ...
  • Five Reasons Why 2013 Was Not a Waste
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City This year we saw a lot of smart, efficient solutions, many of which NRDC helped drive, being put into place to cut waste in this country. We waste an awful lot of resources, including 40 percent of our ...
  • A New Year's Revolution: Move Your Cash, Green ...
    Dylan Gasperik, Program Assistant, Communications, Santa Monica, California Do you recycle? That’s great, thank you. Compost, too? That takes some commitment; you have attained Level 2 of environmental actions. Have you also signed an online ...
  • Striving Towards the Eco-city: Experience from ...
    Pengfei Xie, Director, China Sustainable Cities Project, NRDC China Program, Beijing China’s rapid urbanization in the last 30 years has brought about many problems. The country is now facing a huge challenge to balance economic development wi ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • The Race for Batteries - Batteries as They Are ...
    Researchers have developed a way to microscopically view battery electrodes while they are bathed in wet electrolytes, mimicking realistic conditions inside actual batteries. While life sciences researchers regularly use transmission electron microscopy to study wet environments, this time scien ...
  • The Way We Are - Novice Teen Drivers Easily Di ...
    Teens may begin their driving habits with great caution, but as months behind the wheel pass, they begin to multi-task at higher frequency rates Ă¢€“ dialing cell phones, eating, and talking to passengers, etc. Ă¢€“ and therefore greatly raise their risk of crashes and/or near-crash incidents.Thes ...
  • The Edge of Healthcare - Breakthrough Understa ...
    The mechanism by which some bacteria are able to survive antibacterial treatment has been revealed for the first time by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers. Their work could pave the way for new ways to control such bacteria.In addition to the known phenomenon by which some bacteria achi ...
  • The Way We Are - Sierra Leone's First-Ever Kri ...
    After decades of work, the first translation of the Bible into the Sierra Leone dialect of Krio was published less than a year ago.  The translation is gaining widespread use, and is helping to increase church attendance in the capital, Freetown.The Warren Memorial Church in Freetown has ch ...
  • The Music Edge - 2013: The Year in Roots Music
    As we close out 2013, it's time to share some highlights of American Roots music highlights for the year.They include Slaid CleavesĂ¢€™ 10th release-Ă¢€Å“Still Fighting The War.Ă¢€� The original inspiration for the song  came to Cleaves from a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos of Iraq War ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings In Secre ...
    Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria , said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which is linked to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, is an armed o ...
  • “Bride And Boom!” By Tom Engelhardt
    USA is number one in obliterating Wedding Parties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen.... And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of i ...
  • Walking In An Anthropocene Wonderland: "But I' ...
    According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earth's environment and every l ...
  • UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…And Now Dershow ...
    Preparing for a tough next few months is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is doing these days and the UN Specialized Agency is working in the face of daunting odds. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been pla ...
  • Richard Falk Interview… Stealing Palestine By ...
    Let us look the children of Gaza in the eye if we can. And if we can’t, as I could not, seize the moment to reflect on what it means to be (in)human during this holiday season

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Everything That Emperor/Mayor Michael Bloomber ...
    At midnight Michael Bloomberg, the Mommy Mayor, Emperor of everything east of the Hudson River until Long Island...will be sent on his merry, cranky way into retirement. But before he goes, lets sit back with a sugared soda of at least 17oz, a good cigar, and a large pizza with extra triglycerid ...
  • Melissa Harris-Perry Uses Twitter To Apologize ...
    MSNBC's weekend host took to Twitter on Tuesday to apologize to Mitt Romney and family for using their newly adopted black grandchild as an object of ridicule over the weekend. On her Sunday segment of Melissa Harris-Perry, Ms Harris-Perry and several panelists mocked a Christmas card phot ...
  • Newsbusted: Pope Francis Get Credited With His ...
    Wow that was fast!.  Installed as Pontiff less than a year ago, the new head of the Catholic Church, has already been credited with his first miracle. Millions of people across the world had been praying asking Pope Francis to intercede.  According to Newsbusted Anchor Jodie Miller ...
  • 2014--A Political Look Ahead
    2013 Was a very strange year for America and the World.  The US President was beset with scandals from all sides and like Teflon nothing stuck, but one lie to the American people about a healthcare plan he shoved down their throats and his approval fell off a cliff. We got involved in a Lib ...
  • Readers Picks for The Top Ten Stories of the Y ...
    Since last week we have been counting down your choice for the top 50 posts on The Lid (based on traffic). The first installment was Wednesday when we posted #41-50, Thursday we posted #31-40 , Friday was #21-30, Sunday was #11-20, and today we reveal your top ten stories of the year. #10 The W ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine explodes, sparks brush fire in Campo
    A wind turbine on a ridge overlooking the Golden Acorn Casino exploded today, sparking several spot fires in surrounding brush that collectively charred about a half an acre. David Elliott, a Manzanita tribal member, lives about quarter of a mile from the wind facility on the neighboring Campo r ...
  • Deadly blades: US offers 30-year permits for k ...
    Under pressure from the wind-power industry, the Obama administration said Friday it will allow companies to kill or injure eagles without the fear of prosecution for up to three decades. The new rule is designed to address environmental consequences that stand in the way of the nation’s w ...
  • Shock as another wind turbine disintegrates at ...
    Another Donegal wind turbine has been smashed – by high winds! A blade on a turbine at Corkermore wind farm has snapped clean off and embedded in the ground below. Just a month ago the site was given the go-ahead to add four new turbines by An Bord Pleanala. The site of the windfarm is nine kilo ...
  • In growing trend, Wyoming wind project seeks p ...
    The Power Company of Wyoming plans to apply next month for a federal permit that will allow the firm to kill a limited number of eagles every year at its planned Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in Carbon County. The decision of the Denver-based developer to seek what is known as an “eagle-tak ...
  • Turbine neighbors blast lawmakers over windmil ...
    BOSTON — A plan to speed permitting for wind turbine sites across the state encountered a gale of opposition testimony on Tuesday as residents who live near turbines lined up to tell a legislative committee about the giant windmills’ harmful health effects. “This bill is disgraceful, ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

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

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Top 10 posts of 2013: Teaching online journalism
    In case you missed them, here are links to the posts on this blog that were viewed most often in the past year, according to the stats provided by WordPress. Only three on the list are from 2013 (I published only 27 posts this year). The oldest are from 2008 (also three posts), demonstrating the ...
  • Smarter(7): A list for journalism students
    National Geographic: 2013 Year in Review. Elise Hu: Tomorrow’s metric for news is action. Michael Wolff: Even the New York Times can't resist going lowbrow with native advertising.
  • Smarter(6): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) recent articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Refuge: 18 stories from the Syrian exodus. Many Americans ar ...
  • Smarter(5): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) recent articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. (I missed posting the past two weeks.) Planet Money Makes a ...
  • Smarter(4): A list for journalism students
    Each Sunday, I post links to three (and only three) articles that are informative about, or pointing the way to, the future in journalism. Previous posts can be found here. There is also a Tumblr for this series, named Smarter. Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading. Are you reading M ...

Facing South

  • Big voting changes coming to the South in 2014
    Image Caption:  People in North Carolina marched and protested against new voting restrictions that take effect in 2014. (Photo by Sue Sturgis) A look ahead to the changes in election procedures residents of Southern states ca ...
  • Study finds shift to 'dark money' in climate d ...
    Image Caption:  So-called "dark money" plays an increasingly important role in funding climate science denial efforts. A new study digs into the financial underpinnings of the climate denial movement and finds a sign ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...
  • NC backslides on voting rights by disqualifyin ...
    Image Caption:  The red states fully reject provisional ballots cast in the wrong precinct, the blue states partially count such ballots, and the green states offer election-day registration. (Map from "Saving Votes: An Easy Fix to the Pro ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: A call for racial justice in ...
    Image Caption:  A new report from the NAACP documents the racial and economic injustice of current energy policy -- and the many benefits of moving to clean energy. A new report from the NAACP makes the case for why energy pol ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandela's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandella's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.

Telegraph UK - oil

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Ian Welsh

  • Happy New Year
    I hope my readers had a good holiday season, and that your 2014 is better than 2013 was for you.  Unless you were heavily invested in the stock market, or German, 2013 was a generally lousy year for most people in the Western world. In the new year I’ll be making some decisions about how [...]
  • Women in combat
    prompted by this Atlantic article on integrating women into combat, I thought I’d run through the basics (as I understand them), on this issue. Let’s start with capability.  On the con side, women generally: have less upper body strength; suffer stress fractures more easily; run more ...
  • Hope you’re all having a good Christmas
    me, I’m eating duck, so Christmas is good.
  • The Decline and Fall of Post War Liberalism an ...
    In the Anglo-US world post-War liberalism has been on the defensive since the 70s.  This is normally shown through various wage or wealth graphs, but I’m going to show two different ones.  The first, to the right, is the number of strikes involving more than 1K workers.  Fascinating, eh? T ...
  • Living in a rich society
    We, in the West, live in scarcity economies.  The key bottleneck resources are scarce, and the decision has been made to keep them scarce.  Our entire economic policy from about 1979 can be summarized as follows: ordinary people cannot be allowed to have a real raise which translates into spendi ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

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    Conservatives Form Group Favoring Renewable Energy
    CBS Local
    LANSING (AP) – Conservative leaders and activists in Michigan have formed a group to support basing energy policy on the use of renewable resources and energy-efficiency programs. The recent launch of the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum comes ...
    Credit Suisse Projects ~85% Of US Energy Demand Growth Coming From ...
    CleanTechnica
    Our take: We see an opportunity for renewable energy to take an increasing share of total US power generation, coming in response to state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and propelled by more competitive costs against conventional generation.
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    Plan Calls for Renewable Energy to Power NY State and More
    Voice of America
    NEW YORK — As worry grows over climate damage caused by carbon-based fuels like gas, oil and coal, some environmental engineering experts, such as Stanford University's Mark Z. Jacobson, are offering new plans for energy independence via ...
    California utility regulator talks renewable energy, safety and more
    Los Angeles Times
    After coping with the June shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Clemente, the fallout from a fatal 2010 explosion of a natural gas pipeline in the Bay Area and a batch of consumer protection issues, the state's Public Utilities ...
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    Wild Bear celebrates 19 years of Ecology Education
    The Mountain -Ear
    As 2013 comes to a close and Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center enters its 20th year, we reflect on all that has been accomplished and hope that you have enjoyed all that we have offered to the community this year. I am thrilled to share some of the ...
    Langley's shoreline plan gets Ecology OK
    South Whidbey Record
    Langley's guiding shoreline document that governs development along the water was recently approved, without changes, by Washington's Department of Ecology. “We're excited, we think it's a better plan,” said Langley Director of Community Planning Jeff ...
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    Capitalism, Ecology and the Official Invisibility of Women
    Truth-Out
    When it comes to the world economy, what you "see" is not usually what you get - especially when it comes to gender. Capitalism has fueled a world in which women are rendered invisible and saddled with the majority of labor. They are responsible for ...
    Ecology center eyed for Shirland Avenue land
    Beloit Daily News
    He said the plan is to renovate the building to allow students to study the ecology of the area. The City of Beloit purchased the land from The Overflowing Cup pastor Dave Fogderud in the fall of 2012, however, a small parcel of that land is located in ...
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    Fracking hot: N. Dakota man 'sets tap water on fire'
    RT
    A video made by a man from North Dakota shows him cautiously holding a lighter up against the stream of water coming out of his tap, prompting large flames to rise up into the faucet. North Dakota has been home to a fracking boom over the past few years.
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    Modesto Irrigation District honored for water treatment plant's performance
    Modesto Bee
    MODESTO — Despite problems with its expansion, the older part of Modesto's water treatment plant has become only the eighth in the United States to win a national award for providing “the highest possible level of individual filter performance ...
    Bay Area water officials concerned by dry conditions
    abc7news.com
    The Santa Clara Valley Water District spokesman says the recent drought-like conditions have them concerned. The first snow survey of the season is Friday and electronic readings indicate the snowpack water content is only 20 percent of normal. That's ...
    Car plunges into water near Liberty State Park, killing young NJ man ...
    Fox News
    JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Authorities say a car has plunged into the water near Liberty State Park, killing a 22-year-old New Jersey man out celebrating New Year's. The crash was reported at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Morris Canal in Jersey City near ...
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