Thursday, January 02, 2014

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English: MV Seacor Lee is serving as the comma...English: MV Seacor Lee is serving as the command and control center for the off shore Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. IMO Number: 9464297 MMSI Number: 367362000 Callsign: WDE4932 Length: 81 m Beam: 16 m (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
100505-G-4590R-001 Oak oil skimming response G...100505-G-4590R-001 Oak oil skimming response GULF OF MEXICO - Crewmembers assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Oak, homeported in Charleston, S.C., place the Weir Skimmer into the apex of the boom, during oil skimming operations. The Oak is assisting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. U. S. Coast Guard photo by Ensign Jason Radcliffe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Chande...English: Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Chandeleur Islands LA (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Hospital: Ariel Sharon's health worsens
    IAN DEITCH Associated Press= JERUSALEM (AP) â The medical condition of the comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sharply deteriorated Wednesday, the hospital treating him said. Sharon, 85, has been in a coma since 2006 when a devastating stroke incapacitated him at the height o ...
  • Rescue delayed for icebound ship in Antar ...
    The latest attempt to rescue passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a week was delayed again Thursday after sea ice prevented a barge from reaching one of the rescue vessels. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Cent ...
  • S. Sudan govt, rebels set for ceasefire t ...
    JUBA: South Sudan’s warring parties were on Wednesday set to begin peace talks aimed at bringing an end to a nearly three-week-old civil war that has already left thousands dead. Government and rebel officials confirmed their negotiating teams were either on their way or in the Ethiopian cap ...
  • Arsenal's Arsene Wenger would sign a "spe ...
    The Frenchman is open to the idea of reinforcing his squad but will only do so if it is someone he feels would dramatically improve the Gunners' chances of winning silverware £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = ARS Draw CAR £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = ARS Draw C ...
  • Top Five Foods to Give Up in 2014 and Wha ...
    No, this is not an article about how to be healthier in the new year. Read a fitness blog if that's what you want. This is about foods we are just so totally over. Not trends, necessarily, but things that need to chill out for a little while while we focus on other, better things. OK, and so ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

  • WARRIORS ONLY NFL PLAYOFF CHALLENGE
    2013 Playoff Scenario Bracket-Picking NFL Playoff Challenge Tip Now that the playoffs are finally here its time to enter NFL PlayOff Challenge.  To score the highest points possible I try to pick the teams that will make it to the Superbowl. 2014 NFL Super Bowl XLVIII Playoff Bracket 2014 NFL Su ...
  • 2013 Review-Popular Blog Posts-Poll for 2014
    2013 annual stat report for Scotts Contracting-StLouis Renewable Energy This blog was viewed about 27,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report. Are there any t ...
  • StLouis Brick Home Hempcrete Insulation Retrofit
    Design by Scotty-St.Louis Brick Home Hempcrete Exterior Insulation Retrofit CAD Design Wall RValues 4 Inch Layer of Hempcrete = R14.2 Multi Wythe St Louis Brick Building= R5 Total Wall RValue=14.2 My latest quest to Build a Green St.Louis by retrofitting the Brick Buildings located in the St.Lou ...
  • 3rd Grade Solar Science Project-Results,Testin ...
    In my quest to make school fun we decided to test the power of the sun with some kool solar gadgets.  She said it was fun testing the different solar toys and the test results prove that the power of the sun is strongest… This is her project for her class I did my best […]
  • Pt3 Kid Sized Plumbing-Small Biz Energy Effici ...
    This final blog post of the Series-Small Business Energy Efficient Design Build Project.  I will be addressing the Must Have Request of the Client- Two Child Sized Plumbing Fixtures and extra counter area by sink located outside of bathroom.  If you haven’t noticed a design theme ...

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Honoring the Real Nelson Mandela
    In “The Mandela Barbie,” BBC journalist and investigative reporter Greg Palast’s eulogy of Nelson Mandela provides a rare breath of sanity in the media stampede to remake a legendary Marxist revolutionary into an icon of free market capitalism. According to Palast, &ldquo ...
  • Permaculture Village in Davis, California
    A great video about a 30 year old community food forest in Davis California. Despite working full time jobs, residents can produce 70% of their food needs in their front and back yards. The beauty and simplicity of permaculture and perennial food forests. Full video free online at http:// ...
  • How Permaculture Can Save Humanity
      London Food Forest How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization by Toby Hemenway (2013) Film Review Below is another great video on the history of horticulture by permaculturist and ecologist Toby Hemenway. Hemenway’s main premise is that agriculture ...
  • Embarrassing House Foreign Affairs Hearing
    Great clip from Ryan Dawson from House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on extending the US occupation of Afghanistan past 2014. There is total silence when Pentagon officials are asked how much the war in Afghanistan costs and how many GIs have been killed or wounded. Full two hour h ...
  • My New Book Goes Live Today
    My young adult novel goes live today on Smashwords. The ebook (all formats) can be downloaded for $3.99 at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/361351. It’s also available from other purchase links listed at the bottom. Here’s a 3rd and final excerpt from Chapter 24. Below is a You ...

FourWinds10

  • Offshore Fracking Uproar Grows in California I ...
    Aug. 22, 2013 n the three weeks since a Truthout investigation revealed that federal regulators have approved at least two hydraulic fracturing operations in federal waters of the Santa Barbara Channel since 2009, a state commission has launched an investigation into the practice, California law ...
  • Zero Emissions Foolishness and Carbon Credit Rot
  • China's industrial pollution is so bad that it ...
    Oct. 23, 2013 (NaturalNews) China and India combined have more coal-burning energy plants than the rest of the world, and China has more than India. Japanese scientists are openly complaining that the almost 13,000 foot Mt. Fuji is coated with toxic mercury from China's coal burning plants. ...
  • Worldwide Air Pollution Deaths Per Year Number ...
    July 22, 2013 Air pollution may be responsible for more than 2 million deaths around the world each year, according to a new study. The study estimated that 2.1 million deaths each year are linked with fine particulate matter, tiny particles that can get deep into the lungs and cause health prob ...
  • Captain: Massive amount of debris off Hawaii, ...
    The Garden Island, Nov. 25, 2013: Swath of debris spotted off Na Pali Coast [...] Capt.

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Will Electric Cars Help or Hinder Climate Action?
    One of the nice things about not blogging over the holiday period has been the chance to catch up on other blogs. Llyod Atler’s December pieces in particular have been fascinating, including an invitation to discuss the question ‘Are electric cars going to make it harder to fix our cities?‘read more
  • Massachusetts Makes Smart Grid Mandatory
    Massachusetts has joined a growing list of states demanding that its investor-owned utilities invest in the smart grid -- and find new models for how those investments should be valued. Consider it the latest move in a state-by-state reconfiguration of utility business models.read more
  • In Texas, Natural Gas and Renewables Expected ...
    As a way to provide a framework for what to expect over the next twenty years, the Texas Clean Energy Coalition developed a study called Exploring Natural Gas and Renewables in ERCOT Part II: Future Generation Scenarios for Texas, to test energy models based on the best current information.read more
  • Five Reasons Why 2013 Was Not a Waste
    This year we saw a lot of smart, efficient solutions being put into place to cut waste in this country. We waste an awful lot of resources, including 40 percent of our food and more than half our energy. By continuing to push for efficiency, we can save billions of dollars.read more
  • The $100 Million Green Bond From Hannon Armstrong
    Infrastructure investor Hannon Armstrong launched a $100 million green bond offering. The bonds will mature in December 2019 and are backed by 100 individual wind, solar, and energy efficiency infrastructure installations at twenty properties valued at approximately $110 million.read more

Rodale News

  • 7 Hidden Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners
    Satisfy your sweet tooth without calories? Artificial sweeteners give you all the benefits of sugar without the gut-busting consequences. It's the perfect win-win. Except when it's not. Artificial sweeteners have been shrouded in controversy ever since saccharin, the first no-cal sweetener, was ...
  • The Crazy Thing That Happens When You Don't Sleep
    In 2013, American researchers made big headlines by discovering sleep's role in clearing toxins from the brain, a process that helps remove plaques that can go on to cause Alzheimer's disease.  But new sleep research shows just one night of sleeplessness can harm your brain. In the new study, ...
  • Why You NEED to Get Enough Vitamin D
    If there's one thing you do for your health in 2014, make sure you're getting enough vitamin D. Why? The benefits of vitamin D abound—the vitamin (actually a hormone) helps almost every one of our bodily systems run optimally. As science is revealing, most of our tissues and cells have vitamin ...
  • New Report: Popular Cattle Drug Is Causing Ani ...
    It might sound like something out of a bad sci-fi flick, but the sad reality is that Zilmax, one of the most popular drugs given to cattle in the U.S., is suspected of causing cattle's hooves to fall off and leading to a spike in euthanized animals since its introduction. The news agency Reute ...
  • Senator to Obama: Screw Congress, Label GMOs
    California's foodie democrat, Diane Feinstein, is pushing President Obama to get genetically modified foods (GMOs) labeled, bypassing Congress, the food industry, and the millions of dollars that have been spent trying to stop GMO labeling efforts at the state level. In her letter, Feinstein w ...

big think

  • The Proverbial Skeptic's 5 Buzzwords to Stop U ...
    No matter how many times I write a post attacking an old adage, or a seemingly wise aphorism, or a grammatically or morally wrong modern usage, I never run out of material to be proverbially skeptical about. (read: wordy and curmudgeonly) Why? Because, of course, of corporate buzzwords. ...
  • Our Better Understanding of Disease Has Vindic ...
    In the 1980s when the Human Genome Project was being conceived, one of the reasons why we were able to get support for it from the U.S. Congress while other countries were able to get support for it from their funding agencies was the recognition that having foundational information about our .. ...
  • Intelligence is Not Static. It's a Set of Skil ...
    I think we have good tests of intelligence.  The key is to not misinterpret what those tests are telling us.  I think the really dangerous and oppressive myth of IQ is that IQ tests are identifying some kind of quantity of intelligence that we are born with and that we have this static amount of ...
  • What's Causing Your Hangover? Scientists Aren' ...
    It is surprising that, given how widespread hangovers are (especially on New Year's Day), there is not more scientific consensus on what causes the phenomenon. Smithsonian.com, however, points to the most recent studies on the subject, including the "most compelling theory," which is tha ...
  • What Deep Time Can Tell Us About Climate Change
    The earth has certainly gone through a lot of hot times and cold times.  What I do is study deep time by looking at Co2 levels and relative temperatures and we are coming out of a cold time and moving into a hot time.  However, for this particular time in history, we should be moving back into a ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Carbon Capture and Sequestration: EPA’S Techn ...
    Center for Regulatory Effectiveness http://bit.ly/1cCIp8m (report) [Center for Regulatory Effectiveness] EPA Seeks Comment on Proposed Clean Air Act Standards for Petroleum Refineries  – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to amend its Clean Air Act Standards of Performan ...
  • California Vehicle-grid Integration (VGi) Road ...
    California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) http://bit.ly/19zVvP6 [Green Car Congress] The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO) has released a blueprint for integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into the grid… The VGI blueprint outlines three inter-dependent ...
  • Institutionalizing Delay: Foundation Funding a ...
    Climatic Change (Nov. 19, 2013) via Drexel Univ. / by Robert J. Brulle http://bit.ly/1jxRFjh [Abstract] This paper conducts an analysis of the financial resource mobilization of the organizations that make up the climate change counter-movement (CCCM) in the United States. Utilizing IRS data, to ...
  • Institutionalizing Delay: Foundation Funding a ...
    Climatic Change (Nov. 19, 2013) via Drexel Univ. / by Robert J. Brulle http://bit.ly/1jxRFjh [Abstract] This paper conducts an analysis of the financial resource mobilization of the organizations that make up the climate change counter-movement (CCCM) in the United States. Utilizing IRS data, to ...
  • Biomass Use, Production, Feed Efficiencies, an ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Dec.24, 2013 v110 n52 p20888-20893) / by Mario Herrero, et al. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/52/20888.full.pdf+html We present a unique, biologically consistent, spatially disaggregated global livestock dataset containing information on biomass ...

frogblog

  • USA NSA Surveillance Ruling Has NZ Link
    A USA Federal Judge has just ruled that mass surveillance of the phone network by their National Security Agency (NSA) is legal. This contradicts another recent ruling where another Federal judge said such surveillance was ‘indiscriminate’ and an ‘arbitrary invasion.’ In ...
  • A global climate policy – thoughts for Xmas
    These past five weeks, I have visited Europe studying climate policy.  I attended the UN’s 19th climate conference, UNFCCC COP-19, in Warsaw.  After Poland, I visited Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom and European Union (Brussels).  And I retraced my UN steps to the Middle East (J ...
  • Gigantic seabed mining application not NZs future
    "New Zealand’s future lies in protecting the environment that is the basis for our prosperity."
  • ‘Monitoring Places of Detention’ & ...
    A report released this month has provided evidence supporting the view that we still have a lot of work to do to make our prisons decent, humane, and likely to release people back into society in better shape then when they went in. New Zealand is a signatory to the ‘Optional Protocol to t ...
  • The EU’s climate policy – swimming again ...
    I have argued earlier that the EU is leading the world on climate record and policy.  It is.  The EU-27’s emissions dropped 16% from 5.6 Gt. in 1990 to 4.7 Gt. in 2010, where ours rose 22%.  Its targets are better than others, and its policies are serious and rational. Yet everything is relative ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • First Official Still for Guardians of the Galaxy
    Funny thing.  Just yesterday I made a comment on Twitter about how we haven’t gotten any official stills or teaser trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy.  Then I wake up today on the first day of 2014 to the first official still for the movie.  Director James Gunn actually says he’s s ...
  • Full Trailer for The Raid 2: Berandal
    That’s all I have to say.The post Full Trailer for The Raid 2: Berandal appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Four New Official Stills for Captain America: ...
    Definitely one of my most anticipated movies for next year.  I haven’t actually been tracking all the information that comes out about this movie because I want to go in as fresh as possible.  I do love the look of Captain America’s new uniform. I’ve always found the complaints ...
  • IC 420: End of the Year Review
    Rod & Karen join Kev & Kriss to talk about this year’s movies. We focus on some of the movies folks forget and even some of the bad ones that are still pretty enjoyableThe post IC 420: End of the Year Review appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • The Raid 2 Comes to US Theaters in March
    Sony Pictures Classics and Stage 6 Films announced that The Raid 2 will arrive in US Theaters on March 28.  The World Premiere of the film will occur at the upcoming 2014 Sundance Film Festival.The post The Raid 2 Comes to US Theaters in March appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.

Simple Climate

  • The ice-age U-turn that set the stage for the ...
    Right from the outset of his career in climate science, Stephen Schneider drove us to see that we are changing climate, and decide how best to use our imperfect knowledge to avoid harm
  • The ice-age U-turn that set the stage for the ...
    Right from the outset of his career in climate science, Stephen Schneider drove us to see that we are changing climate, and decide how best to use our imperfect knowledge to avoid harm
  • Give those we love the climate they deserve
    The many stresses global warming causes edge us closer to conflicts like the one currently happening in Syria: for those who inherit this planet from us, we must keep pushing back.
  • Give those we love the climate they deserve
    The many stresses global warming causes edge us closer to conflicts like the one currently happening in Syria: for those who inherit this planet from us, we must keep pushing back.
  • Carbon prices alone won’t keep warming below 2°C
    Models from Annela Anger-Kraavi at the University of East Anglia show it is possible to for the world’s economy to grow while cutting CO2 emissions to safe levels – but it will take more measures than previous studies have suggested.

e!Science News

  • To grow or to defend: How plants decide
    Scientists have discovered how plants use steroid hormones to choose growth over defense when their survival depends on it. read more
  • With few hard frosts, tropical mangroves push ...
    Cold-sensitive mangrove forests have expanded dramatically along Florida's Atlantic Coast as the frequency of killing frosts has declined, according to a new study based on 28 years of satellite data from the University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, ...
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome heart defects may be ca ...
    Recent data shows that more than 500,000 women in the U.S. report drinking during pregnancy, with about 20 percent of this population admitting to binge drinking. Even one episode of heavy drinking can lead to the collection of birth defects known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Along with grow ...
  • New studies give strong boost to binary-star f ...
    Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars. The discovery gives strong support for one of the competing explanations for how double-star systems form. read more
  • Cloud mystery solved: Global temperatures to r ...
    Global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature. Scientists found global climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than most previous estimates. r ...

unEarthed

  • Clearing the Air in the Southwest with State, ...
    The journey towards a clean energy future in New Mexico The Four Corners Power Plant has been operating without modern pollution controls for the past fifty years. (Photo courtesy of E ...
  • Top 10 unEARTHED Blog Posts of 2013
    Sharks and oil and honeybees, oh my! How much of Yosemite Valley will you be able to see on your next visit? Read more in the #10 unEARTHED blog post of the year. (Chrissy Pepino / Earthjus ...
  • Coal: Bad in Stockings, Worse in Lungs
    Coal plants need to retire for the benefit of public health The costliness of coal becomes more evident once you factor in the significant damage that it does to public health. (Photo by TV ...
  • Effective Litigation: The Antidote to Politica ...
    Our litigation forces protections where political leaders fail us Many environmental and public health safeguards still await approval, more than a year after the election. (Official White ...
  • Rising Tides Threaten Coastal Creatures
    Key deer, loggerhead sea turtle among 233 federally protected species at risk Nearly all of the Florida land area where the tiny Key deer live will be submerged by this century's predicted ...

Brave New Climate

  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part III
    This is the third and final part of a comprehensive series on radiation that has been published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week — cancer… Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-n ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – Part II
    This is the second part of a comprehensive 3-part series on radiation that is being published on BNC in weekly instalments during November 2013. This week, we look at… mutations! ———- Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, ...
  • Stayin’ alive in the gene pool – P ...
    This is the first of a comprehensive new 3-part series on radiation, which will be published on BNC in weekly instalments. If you really want to distinguish science fact from science fiction on the many vexed issues surrounding radiation, including cancer risks, genetic and physical mutations, a ...
  • ‘Pandora’s Promise’ document ...
    For my Australian readers, October 2013 is THE month for green energy. It’s at last time to book your tickets to see Pandora’s Promise! You can get further details at the Cinema Ventures website, here. I’ve been involved with the movie, in various small ways, for the last few y ...
  • Willacy’s Fukushima
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. The following article was sent to ABC’s “Drum” websit ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Mortgage Repayment Calculator and Extra Mortga ...
    On the average, the typical mortgage can last from 15 to 30 years. Most of the repayments made for these mortgages go to the interest of the loan. It will only be after a couple of years before the payments actually affect the principal amount of the loan. If you’re looking for a quicker way to ...
  • Thinking About a Loan? Try a Reverse Mortgage ...
    Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) remain popular with seniors interested in making the most of their home equity during retirement. While many of the requirements necessary to qualify for an HECM are clear, others are somewhat hazy. Seniors who are interested in these loans often wonder i ...
  • Advantages of Tankless Water Heaters
    How typically did you are taking a shower and also the water began to run cold before you were finished? do not you hate that? With a standard warmer this is often invariably a haul. And if another person needs to use predicament when you, simply forget it! shopping for a warmer with a humble pl ...
  • REAL ESTATE MARKET CALIFORNIA
    California real estate market trends, while having their own changes periodically, tide, remain more in sync with the current market across the nation and many people might not even think to buy a house now given the real estate market and the state of california things to buy. California real ...
  • LONDON PROPERTY AGENCIES
    If you are thinking of buying property in London is important to use all the resources available to you. Check out every Estate Agent in London as well as the local press for private property advertising. A search for "Estate Agents London" or "Agent Real London" on Google or MSN should prov ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Which Part Of The Bible Will Duck Dude Be Droo ...
    I just watched a piece on the Lawrence O’Donnell show about the parts of the bible that the “Jesus People” like Phil Robertson ignore, so they can babble on about the parts they like. From what I understand, the bible says adulterers, gays, and children who disrespect their eld ...
  • First Amendment – Free Speech – Ab ...
    If some television network has a “reality” show, then I can’t see where they should have a problem with any of the stars saying what they “really” think. Even is it is somewhat offensive. What takes me back is the fact that someone that pretends to be a christian ha ...
  • What Is With This Pope That Actually Thinks Ca ...
    What is going on here? We have a “Christian” that actually isn’t supporting “free trade” and “smaller government” or worse? A christian that thinks that folks who use their billions to pressure governments to help them more effectively rob the poor aren& ...
  • How Billionaires Save Billions On Taxes
    Our founding fathers spoke repeatedly about about the fact that they didn’t want a small group of American families to have all the wealth. This means the Estate Tax. In today’s world there are loopholes that allow billionaires to use trusts in bizarre ways to pass on their billions ...
  • The War Has Started And The Catholics Are On T ...
    The Koch Brothers donated a million dollars to the Catholic University of America, and some Catholics aren’t happy. We all know that the money the Kochs donate to colleges has strings (chains) attached. The Koch Brothers plan is to bribe colleges with their billions, and force these colleg ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Residents Bring Dirty Water from Mountaintop R ...
    Dozens of Appalachians and their allies bring hundreds of gallons of toxic water from their homes to EPA offices in Washington, D.C. WASHINGTON D.C.– Citizens from across the country have travelled to the nation’s capitol to urge an end to … Continue reading →
  • We’re Bringing Toxic Water to the EPA &# ...
    Folks have begun arriving in Washington DC for a week of meetings with the Obama Administration and lawmakers asking for protections for Appalachian water.  We have brought over 100 gallons of toxic water from Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky with … Continue reading →
  • Video: EPA Action May 8th!
    Join us in DC on May 8th, 2013 Join Appalachia Rising in D.C on May 8, 2013! from Zein Nakhoda on Vimeo. Please share this powerful video made by Zein Nakhoda for our EPA ACtion on Wednesday, May 8th at … Continue reading →
  • May 8th: Day of Action
    Dear friends of Appalachia: Will you join us in Washington DC on Wednesday May 8th to tell the EPA that millions of people across the country stand with Appalachia? Please meet us at the EPA Headquarters at 9am, and be … Continue reading →
  • More Actions in Atlanta!
    Actions at EPA Region 4 offices at Atlanta!

Amped Status

  • ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
    Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
  • Happy 1 Year Anniversary to Anonymous 99 #OpES ...
    Cross-posted from MoneyOutPack.org, June 14, 2012 Here's a little Occupy history for you... Today, June 14th, Flag Day, marks the one year anniversary of A99 #OpESR. On this day last year, Anonymous and the 99% Movement launched a collaborative effort in Zuccotti Park, and 22 other locatio ...
  • As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
    By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
  • The Evolution of the Butterfly
    Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
  • After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
    This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:

+972

  • In West Bank settlement, state is legalizing l ...
    The state told the High Court of Justice it has no intention of enforcing the demolition orders in the settlement of Ofra ‘due to its special condition.’ History tells us that if this dangerous precedent is accepted, it won’t be the last time this happens. By Yesh Din, written ...
  • ‘This is not a life’: A journey to ...
    When a group of Jewish Israelis set out for the Holot ‘open prison’ in the Negev, they were hoping to provide asylum seekers with some Christmas cheer. But by the time they got there, the things they saw and heard made it clear that there was nothing to sing about. By Ayla Peggy Adle ...
  • The release of killers is not a cause for cele ...
    An objection to a +972 post. I looked at the photo essay published in +972 Magazine yesterday, about the West Bank celebrations for the 26 released Palestinian prisoners, and I thought: are we celebrating these killers’ release, too? Are we cheering them as heroes too? +972 practices what’ ...
  • A year in photos: Palestine-Israel in 2013
    It is difficult to summarize and reflect on 365 days, especially in a place as eventful as Palestine-Israel. This year, Activestills photographers covered hundreds of events, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The following selection is a narrow peek into the amazing struggles and t ...
  • PHOTOS: Palestinians are released from Israeli ...
    Twenty-six Palestinian prisoners from Gaza, Jerusalem and the West Bank were released early Tuesday morning in the third stage of a prisoner release deal secured by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to facilitate peace talks. A total of 104 Palestinian prisoners, all jailed before the start of ...

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu to achieve full convergence by 15.04, a ...
    In an interview with PCPRO, Canonical's founder and Ubuntu evangelist has claimed that the real convergence of various Ubuntu form factors will happen by the time 15.04 is released (14.10 at the earliest). And he is confident that Ubuntu will achieve this feat much before its biggest competitor, ...
  • 0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris released , Get it via P ...
    Wildfire Games has announced the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 15 Osiris, the fifteenth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free and open-source game of ancient warfare. 0.A.D was recently in the news for their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  What's new in 0.A.D. Alpha 15 "Osiris"? Multipl ...
  • Ubuntu/Android dual boot developer preview rel ...
    Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview has just been announced by Canonical. It's now possible to run Ubuntu Touch alongside Android as a dual-boot operating system in supported devices. Though it is meant strictly for developers and not for regular users.  Ubuntu and Android dual ...
  • Ubuntu icons theme is getting a revamp across ...
    Canonical is prepping up for its most important year yet. First ever official Ubuntu Phone is supposed to arrive in early 2014. Not only that, the next major Ubuntu release will be the much talked about long term support (LTS) edition, which is known for its rock-solid stability and reliability ...
  • City of Munich's switch over to Linux and Open ...
    Ten years after the initial decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation. Munich has become one of the first cities in the developed world to completely switch over to Linux and Open Source software from proprietary alternatives. The city saved millions of dollars in ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
     posted 11/12/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...
  • Women, Vaccines & Bodily Integrity
    Posted 1/24/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   2013 was only a few days old when I saw a photo of 61-year old Ethel Hoover, a veteran hospital nurse, who had only missed 4 or 5 days of work in 22 years, she was fired from her job for declining to get a flu shot. Defending Freedom of Consc ...

2020 Science

  • The science of VidCon – Connecting with Scienc ...
    Where I cover science at this year’s VidCon YouTube convention, take a look at science and engineering more broadly on YouTube, and suggest that for next year’s VidCon the organizers should bring together some of the leading science projects on YouTube with grass-roots science-advoca ...
  • Frying your brains on information overload: Ol ...
    Living online is changing our brains – at least according to Baroness Greenfield in an interview posted today by New Scientist. Leaving aside questions over the extent to which Greenfield’s concerns are driven by misapprehension or plausibility, the interview put me in mind of a rath ...
  • Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot? and ...
    Would You Lick Jam Off An Old Man’s Foot Or Drink Toilet Water For An Hour? Can you explain how gravitons can escape a black hole?  Or do you have a good answer to the question “why are people annoying?” This is just a sampling of some of the more entertaining and challenging questio ...
  • What was worrying us about nanotechnology safe ...
    In 2004, the first International Symposium on Occupational Health Implications of Nanomaterials was held in Buxton in the UK.  Seven years later, I’m preparing for a discussion panel at the fifth meeting in this very successful community-led series (being held this week in Boston MA), and ...
  • Want to know about teens and social media from ...
    If you are a teen who uses YouTube (or know of one – maybe even your own teenager), please think seriously about posting a response to this video: (You can also watch it directly on YouTube here). Over on the Risk Science Blog, I’ve just posted a piece about Baroness Susan Greenfield ...

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War Resisters League

  • The War at Home and Abroad: Police Militarizat ...
      On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Ali Issa, national field organizer with War Resisters League, spoke at an event called “The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire” at CUNY’s Graduate Center in NYC. The City University of New … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal
    (Originally posted on the Facing Tear Gas website November 28th, 2013.) After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November … Continue reading →
  • War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
    On the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
  • What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
    On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →
  • Against intervention in Syria by a friend in L ...
    by Zayd Sifri I visited Lebanon for the first time more than ten years ago. The wounds of the civil war were much more visible to a visitor than they are today. In Beirut, bullet holes of varying sizes and … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Update on the Antarctic global warming pilgrimage
    These "climate scientists" and hangers-on set out to demonstrate that the poles were melting. Instead they have been stuck in the Antarctic ice for eight days now.
  • And so to 2014
    We could choose any day of our rotation around the Sun as being the start of a new rotation. The adoption of January 1st only dates back to the sixteenth century and is pretty wide-spread though the start of a New Year is still celebrated by some at various times in January, March, April, June a ...
  • And so to 2014
    We could choose any day of our rotation around the Sun as being the start of a new rotation. The adoption of January 1st only dates back to the sixteenth century and is pretty wide-spread though the start of a New Year is still celebrated by some at various times in January, March, April, June a ...
  • Cats and physics
    Kittens and physics.
  • Cats and physics
    Kittens and physics.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

  • Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones
    JG Vibes | The Obama administration finally admits that their drone program has targeted US citizens.The post Eric Holder: Four Americans Killed by US Drones appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Department of Homeland Security Teaching Kids ...
    Cassius Methyl | Public schools in cooperation with the department of homeland security are now teaching kids safety measures, and advising that they seek relief in FEMA camps in a time of crisis. But are these post disaster relief camps, or military internment camps? The post Department of ...
  • JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffin ...
    author | An interesting controversy over the JFK assassination has erupted at the Huffington Post.The post JFK Assassination Controversy Erupts at Huffington Post appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump
    Cop Block | Long story short, the supervisor showed up and made the cop give me back my pump. The ambulance showed up and I went with them because I was then bleeding where the port is.The post Salt Lake City Cop Rips Out My Insulin Pump appeared first on Intellihub.com.
  • Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can ...
    Andrew Puhanic | An exciting and new water treatment breakthrough has been announced that will now make the removal of fluoride from the drinking water supplies of the world’s poorest people more affordable than ever.The post Researchers Discover that the Tulasi Plant Can Be Used To Remove ...

FRS

  • Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
    By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
  • Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
    By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
  • US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
    Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
  • US Public Radio interview with Arundhati Roy
    Smiley and West, NPR — December 13, 2013 West: From PRI, Public Radio International in Princeton I’m Cornel West. Smiley: And in Los Angeles I’m Tavis Smiley. West: Brother Tavis, we are blessed to have one of the great and courageous intellectuals of our time. She is Arundhati ...
  • India: Revolutionary Students Challenge the He ...
    Democratic Student Union, Jawaharlal Nehru University — December 14, 2013 Nelson Mandela: A Hero for the oppressors, A BETRAYER FOR THE OPPRESSED! The mournings & praises from the imperialists and their agents, are Mandela’s “legacy” of brokering one of the biggest sell outs of the 20t ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Merry Chistmas
    While I consider Christmas to be a most commercialised and materialistic manipulation for the vast majority of people, there is in this time an idea of helping others, and when that becomes primary and the materialistic crap becomes irrelevant then we know we are nearly there as a people. Anyway ...
  • Appeal for Support to Keep Middle East Show on Air
    Here are some subjects already partially recorded or in the works, soon to be aired; 1) the USS Liberty 2) 9/11 3) War crimes & treason charges so as to purge the traitors among us.
  • Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
    I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.
  • Ken O’Keefe in Tehran – “Ira ...
    It is time to stop being chumps, it is time to actually give some meaning to the word patriot. It is especially time for those in the police, military and government who took an oath to uphold the Constitution to honor that commitment. Are you a person of honor? Or are you a fraudster? A coward?

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
    For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
  • Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
    I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...
  • When The Shit Hits The Field
    SHTF has been a common name for a global disaster or cataclysm, but the reality is that in many parts of the world it is our own faeces that helps feed us. Check out these snippets from an article in the South China Morning Post: You produce some 500 litres of urine and 50kg of faeces a year. Be ...
  • Weakest Solar Cycle in 50+ Years
    Well, it will be the weakest solar cycle in more than 50 years if it doesn’t pull off a double peak. Look at this graph to see how weak it has been compared to the last solar maximum: Source: SpaceWeather Solar cycles vary between 10 and 13 years, so cycle 24 should definitely be peaking ...

One News Page

  • Apple to launch new versions of MacBook Pro an ...
    It seems that Apple is already working to release new improved version of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by June 2013. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Kerala cops ask Facebook to remove fake photo ...
    N Vinayakumaran Nair, assistant commissioner of police, who heads the Hi-Tech Crime Enquiry Cell, said a probe had begun following a complaint from the parents of the woman whose picture was misused. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
  • Singapore court charges 4 Indians with compatr ...
    According to local media reports, they were drinking in Jurong Lake Park on the western industrial region of Singapore on New Year's Day Reported by DNA 1 hour ago
  • Sajid Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez spotted ho ...
    The couple who has refrained from making any statements about their relationship so far finally decided to come out in the openAt the premiere of Marathi film Balak Palak held by Riteish Deshumukh last evening, his good friend Sajid Khan arrived arm-in-arm with girlfriend Jacqueline Fernandez, . ...
  • Name anti-rape law after daughter: Delhi victi ...
    Asking the Centre to make amendments in law to name the proposed new anti-rape law after his daughter, father of the Delhi gang-rape victim on Thursday said it will be an honour to the girl and respect public sentiments. Reported by Rediff.com 1 hour ago

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Syria’s hospitals targeted by NATO-backed arme ...
    Since 2011 NATO-backed armed groups have systematically attacked more than two thirds of Syria’s public hospitals, and have murdered, kidnapped or injured more than 300 health workers. The most recent example of this was the destruction of Aleppo’s specialist Al-Kindi hospital. Syria’s Health Mi ...
  • Vitali Klitschko’s American Coaches
    It has become the custom in independent Ukraine that there is not a single government ministry or agency and not a single political party in parliament besides the communists where “quiet Americans”, or British, or Germans, do not stand by side to tell the Ukrainian politicians and o ...
  • Ukrainian Dream Comes True
    The outcome of last week’s Russia-Ukraine talks in Moscow was predictably unexpected. Besides outstanding USD 15 billion – worth allocation of Russia’s National Welfare Funds in Ukrainian Eurobonds and drastic 33% cut of the Russian export gas prices that Moscow conceded to Kyiv, 14 ...
  • Ukraine: NATO’s Eastern Prize
    Ever since the democracy manipulation efforts of international hedge fund brigand George Soros were joined with the artificial street revolution tactics of CIA tactician Gene Sharp to form the core strategy of the U.S. neo-conservative goal of imposing a «New American Century» on the entire worl ...
  • Does the EU really want Ukrainians or just the ...
    Christine Stone asks whether the current crisis over the Ukraine’s relationship with the EU was precipitated by the West rather than President Yanukovich.  Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the demonstrations that have crippled central Kiev for the past fortnight is how they were triggered. ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
    Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...
  • Truth, Justice and Healing comes not from a Co ...
    Survivors in Australia are waking up this week to a different world. A world where those in positions of authority do not look the other way, shrug their shoulders and callously ignore the fact of the criminal child rape of children, the criminal coverup of those crimes and the ongoing re-abuse ...
  • Victims Heard at Last
    Statement issued by survivors of Catholic child sexual abuse, their families and supporters on the first day of Royal Commission hearings into the catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse: The children of Australia have long been denied our basic human right to safety. In order to ...
  • Inquiry Asked “What Does Justice Look Like?” I ...
    Survivors of child sexual abuse in religious institutions in Australia were very nervous and excited with the imminent release of the final report of the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry. We have been betrayed by those in authority so uniformly throughout our entire lives. We have seen those dete ...
  • RIP Father Kevin Lee – a disobedient pri ...
    The sad news is filtering through about the death of Father Kevin Lee in last week’s massive typhoon in the Philippines. This was no doubt a very great tragedy for his friends and especially his young family, with whom he had spent so little time. Kevin saw his daughter Michelle born in la ...

WL Central

  • 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
    Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
  • 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
  • 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
    Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...
  • 2013-12-05 Anonymous joining fight in the Ukraine
    Ukrainian version: http://anoninsiders.net/anonymous-ukrainian-pr-2238/ To People of the Ukraine, we are anonymous. read more
  • 2013-11-29 WikiLeaks Calls for US to Drop Gran ...
    Friday 29 November 2013, 12:00 GMT In the face of the US government's three-year attack on WikiLeaks, an anonymous Department of Justice official talking to the Washington Post now claims that there is little possibility of prosecuting Julian Assange for publishing, but that a Grand Jury remains ...

U N News

  • UN rights expert warns that all Brazilians mus ...
    Brazilian authorities need to give further priority to the poorest and most marginalized, to ensure that inequalities in the country are progressively eliminated and all receive access to sanitation and water, an independent United Nations human rights expert today urged.
  • Protect trafficking victims, punish perpetrato ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the Government of Belize to adopt a comprehensive programme to protect and assist victims of trafficking and to ensure that the perpetrators of this scourge are punished.
  • UN rights expert urges Bahamas to boost effort ...
    Voicing concern over the lack of a national action plan by the Bahamas to address trafficking in persons, an independent United Nations human rights expert called on the Government to ramp up its efforts to fight the ongoing problem.
  • Condemning murder of Honduran journalist, UNES ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today condemned the killing of Juan Carlos Argeñal Medina, who was shot dead in his home in southeastern Honduras.
  • Uruguay's move to legalize cannabis endangers ...
    Amid growing debate over international drug control policy in Latin America, the United Nations drug and crime agency today said that a decision by the Uruguayan parliament to legalize cannabis is a strike against international cooperation.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Evidence of Missile Attack on West, TX Fertili ...
    Why blow up a fertilizer plant in the middle of nowhere? Makes no sense, right? Well actually is does considering that the West Fertilizer plant in Waco Texas was becoming a big issue for the Monsanto Corporation.
  • Boston Marathon Bombing Predicted in Family Gu ...
    The fact that police were engaged in a bomb drill before the event, yet after the bombing, came out and said there was no drill whatsoever.
  • Scientists Lose Funding for Speaking the Truth ...
    Global Research is posting several points of view with regard to Global Warming with a view to fostering analysis, discussion and scientific dialogue. For further details see our Dossier on Climate Change (M.Ch., March 31, 2013) This article was originally published by Global Research in April 2 ...
  • Fusion Centers Full of Rogue Law Enforcement S ...
    Now we have the United States Senate saying the complaints are true. These are rogue law enforcement people serving no good, just becoming spies.
  • September 11, 2001 – A Danish Point of V ...
    And after 15-20 minutes they turned towards New York, turned off their transponder, and nobody did anything. It was if they were deliberately permitted to go astray, without any authoritative interference.

Rewilding Institute

  • Yendegaia National Park Created!
    YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12:  Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra del Fuego—the southernmost extreme of the Americas—Chile will gain a spectacular new nat ...
  • Why Wolves? – David Parsons
    A few weeks ago Dave Parsons, TRI’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist,  gave a lecture in Santa Fe for a program called Science Cafe for Young Thinkers sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. The lecture is about wolf ecology and trophic cascades explained at a high school level.
  • Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Proposed for Fede ...
    Your comments are due by December 2, 2013 Please let the US Fish and Wildlife Service know that you value the yellow-billed cuckoo and want it protected! On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as ...
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
    Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
    Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...

reference frame

  • Palestinian ambassador to Prague lethally play ...
    The year 2014 began dramatically in Prague. The top Palestinian diplomat in Czechia, Jamel Mohammed al-Jamal, was playing with a safebox in his new residence next to the embassy at the International Street, Prague-Suchdol. The Palestinian ambassador with the new (tall) Czech president Miloš Z ...
  • Einstein's equations from first law of thermod ...
    First, Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS) and Jaroslav Trnka (Caltech) have released another amplituhedron preprint, Into the Amplituhedron, in which they expose the amplituhedron origin of various QFT rules applied to cuts – the unitarity double cut, the multicollinear limit (which explains why the amplit ...
  • Alarmists stuck in Antarctica will probably be ...
    The formerly entertaining stories about idiots who scream that the world is undergoing a dramatic so-called "global warming" and then must be saved from their otherwise unavoidable death by freezing on their overly risky expeditions have become so frequent that they must be considered a cliché. ...
  • Kittens investigate Newton's cradle
    We often think that the humans are the culmination of the Creation. However, kittens are ahead of us. Dr Panda, Dr Pikachu, and Dr Pavel (the principal investigators above) decided to do some research of Newton's cradle. Their research strategy was wise and the tactics were clever. And the ...
  • Kruskal can read your mind and the mind of God
    Gordon sent me a fun trick invented by physicist Martin David Kruskal. He can read your mind. Choose a random word in the first 3 verses of the Bible. So many choices! Count the number of letters \(N\) in that word \(W\) and find the next word that is \(N\) words after the word \(W\); for exam ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Actor James Avery, Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince, ...
    James Avery, the character actor who laid down the law as the Philip Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, dies at 68. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Actor James Avery, Uncle Phil on Fresh Prince, dies at 65 James Avery, the bul ...
  • Think Fukushima » US Government Orders 14 Mill ...
    by Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars: UPDATE: Plumes of mysterious steam rise from crippled nuclear reactor at Fukushima The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of sev ...
  • NDP MP says no arrest warrant for her in Sri Lanka
    Scarborough-Rouge River MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan has issued a statement denying Sri Lankan media reports that she was under house arrest in her former home country Sri Lanka, where she has been visiting family. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Rel ...
  • 12/31/09 All Over Again
    by Turd Ferguson, TF Metals Report: Four years ago, in one of the first ZeroHedge articles that I recall reading, “Tyler” questioned how in the world the U.S. government would find funding in 2010. Back then, just as today, the world was convinced that higher interest rates were righ ...
  • Winter Classic: Leafs beat Red Wings in shootout
    About 110,000 fans braved the cold in Ann Arbor, Mich., as the Toronto Maple Leafs topped the Detroit Red Wings in a shootout to win the NHL’s Winter Classic game. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Winter Classic fans brave d ...

Modern Survivalism

  • New Hampshire Flips The Bird To Obama And The ...
    Perhaps the last remaining hope to quell the onslaught of federal (unconstitutional?) power and tyranny over the citizens of this nation is for the states themselves to take action and say, “Not here, not in my state!” The largely independent-minded “Live Free or Die” sta ...
  • Top-30 Popular Articles In 2013
    During 2013, we had 5 million visits to Modern Survival Blog. From the approximate 700 articles written this year, the following have been the 30 most read…   1. 10 THINGS TO DO WHEN A STRANGER KNOCKS ON YOUR DOOR 2. FEDERAL FRAMEWORK BEING SET UP TO ARREST SHERIFFS 3. THE FIRST CITIE ...
  • SURVIVAL – How To Survive
    To survive under difficult or threatening circumstances requires a set of instincts, knowledge and actions working together for success. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a simple thing…   Size Up the Situation Size Up the Situation, Surroundings, your Physical Condition, ...
  • Fear Can Be A Good Thing
    As a survival-preparedness blog, we are sometimes dealing with subjects of fear. We don’t stick to just fluff or only topics which are safe and comfortable to cope or interact with. Sometimes subjects may even seem outrageous — and some really are just that… As for being scared ...
  • LDS Preparedness Survey Checklist
    The following survival preparedness survey checklist is from information of the latest revision LDS Survival Preparedness Manual. If one looks for them, there are lots of lists out there, and they are all worth reading because any one of them might inspire a new idea. The following list may assi ...

Fast Company

  • The Top 9 Energy Stories Of 2013
    Changing how we power our world is not as difficult as we think, as these stories from the last year show.Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories: • Top Stories Of The Year • Infographics • Photography • Maps ...
  • The Top 14 Transportation Stories Of 2013
    From the electric-car charging highway of the future to the Hyperloop, take a look at how the year shook out in cars, cycling, air travel, and the quest for a cheap, non-polluting fuel source.Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of ...
  • The Only Breathalyzer You'll Need Tonight
    The Lapka Breath Alcohol Monitor looks like it could have been designed by Jony Ive after some binge drinking. But the truly genius part is this: the drunker you get, the easier it is to use. Happy New Year's Eve!There's no shortage of cheap breathalyzers out there. In fact, if your holidays wer ...
  • The Top 11 Buildings Of 2013
    The most amazing ways we kept a roof over our head in the last year: The greenest office building in the world, a city on wheels, a new take on the college dorm, and more.Editor's NoteWant more of our best stories of 2013? Read all of our end-of-the-year round-ups, in all of these categories: • ...
  • How To Be A Gigantic Success On New Year's Eve
    The science of hangovers! How to make friends with people! Words to that song everybody likes to sing!While we're not usually partial to romantic comedies, there's something romantic and comedic about New Year's, between the disinhibition on New Year's Eve to the focus of resolutions on January ...

Jadaliyya

  • NEWTON 2013 Year in Review
    As the editors of the New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) Page, we have been honored to have the opportunity to feature an astonishing range of books and articles for Jadaliyya readers in 2013. With authors generously agreeing to discuss their new works, offer background information on their researc ...
  • 2013 Culture Highlights
    As Mark Twain wrote on New Year’s Day in 1863, “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” Before readers embark on that treacherous path, Jadaliyya Culture offers a selection of 2013 highlights for a preem ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (December 31)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • هل تصح مقارنة قانون التظاهر المصري بقوانين الغرب؟
    انتشرتْ في الفترة السابقة تصريحاتٌ من إعلاميين وقانونيين وساسة راضين عن أداء السلطة الحالية، بأن قانون الاجتماعات العامة والمواكب والتظاهرات، الصادر حديثاً برقم 107 لسنة 2013، هو قانون مشابه تماماً لقوانين الدول "الديمقراطية"، وقد تردد ذكر تشريعات فرنسا وإنجلترا والولايات المتحدة الأمر ...
  • Turkey Media Roundup (December 31)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...

mediagazer

  • NYT editorial board calls for clemency or a pl ...
    New York Times: NYT editorial board calls for clemency or a plea bargain for Snowden  —  Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower  —  Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency's reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of ...
  • How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience? ...
    New York Times: How Do E-Books Change the Reading Experience?  —  Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books.  This week, Mohsin Hamid and Anna Holmes discuss how technology affects the way we read.  —  In a world of intrus ...
  • Social media: journalism's most important ally ...
    Ben Smith / Playboy: Social media: journalism's most important ally for distribution  —  How Twitter and Facebook will save journalism (mostly)  —  On November 4, 2008 I woke up slightly hungover at six A.M. in a Hyatt hotel overlooking the Chicago River.  I ...
  • Al Jazeera America Will Be 'Envy of the Indust ...
    Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Al Jazeera America Will Be ‘Envy of the Industry,’ Chief Says  —  Deep pockets make fledgling cabler a journalistic unicorn amid cost-cutting elsewhere  —  Al Jazeera America president Kate O'Brian has told staffers that t ...
  • Increase in BBC middle-managers as director-ge ...
    Sam Marsden / Telegraph: Increase in BBC middle-managers as director-general vows to cut executives  —  There was a 14 per cent rise in the number of the Corporation's staff at the level just below senior management over a three-year period  —  The number of the ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • Hospital: Ariel Sharon's health worsens
    IAN DEITCH Associated Press= JERUSALEM (AP) â The medical condition of the comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sharply deteriorated Wednesday, the hospital treating him said. Sharon, 85, has been in a coma since 2006 when a devastating stroke incapacitated him at the height o ...
  • Rescue delayed for icebound ship in Antar ...
    The latest attempt to rescue passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for more than a week was delayed again Thursday after sea ice prevented a barge from reaching one of the rescue vessels. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Rescue Coordination Cent ...
  • S. Sudan govt, rebels set for ceasefire t ...
    JUBA: South Sudan’s warring parties were on Wednesday set to begin peace talks aimed at bringing an end to a nearly three-week-old civil war that has already left thousands dead. Government and rebel officials confirmed their negotiating teams were either on their way or in the Ethiopian cap ...
  • Arsenal's Arsene Wenger would sign a "spe ...
    The Frenchman is open to the idea of reinforcing his squad but will only do so if it is someone he feels would dramatically improve the Gunners' chances of winning silverware £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = ARS Draw CAR £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 = ARS Draw C ...
  • Top Five Foods to Give Up in 2014 and Wha ...
    No, this is not an article about how to be healthier in the new year. Read a fitness blog if that's what you want. This is about foods we are just so totally over. Not trends, necessarily, but things that need to chill out for a little while while we focus on other, better things. OK, and so ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/23/13 - Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Uncon ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge – The state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned on Dec. 20, 2013, and county clerks began issuing marriage licenses immediately. The state is appealing the decision.
  • 12/19/13 - New Mexico Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
    gaymarriage.procon.org – New Mexico Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage – The state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples was unconstitutional, making New Mexico the 17th US state to legalize gay marriage and the ninth to legalize it this year.
  • 12/18/13 - Check out some great photos from ou ...
    www.procon.org - - Check out some great photos from our successful charity golf tournament which took place on Dec. 2nd at the Calabasas Country Club. Thank you to all our players, sponsors, and organizers. In attendance were dozens of celebrities including: former NHL player Marty McSorley, ...
  • 12/18/13 - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should Animal ...
    animal-testing.procon.org – Top Pro & Con Quotes: Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing? – Read pro and con statements from neurobiologist Dr. Dario L. Ringach (pro), ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall (con), the American Heart Association (pro), People for the Ethical Treatme ...
  • 12/3/13 - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust E ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Would Repealing the 1945 Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurance Companies Lower Premiums? - DEBATED - Read statements from the Congressional Budget Office (Not Clearly Pro or Con), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) (Pro), David A. Hyman, Professor of Medicine at th ...

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Atlantic Ocean Zooplankton Are Now Reproducing ...
    For the first time, scientists have discovered species of Atlantic Ocean zooplankton reproducing in Arctic waters. German researchers say the discovery indicates a possible shift in the Arctic zooplankton community as The amphipod Themisto compressa the region warms, one that could be detr ...
  • Hydropower "Battery" Could Even Out Wind Energ ...
    Norwegian hydropower stations could be linked to wind farms and serve as giant "batteries" to even out power supply fluctuations, a Scandinavian research organization says. A major hurdle for renewable energy suppliers is intermittent power production — sometimes too much power is generated, oth ...
  • Solar Activity Not a Major Factor in Climate C ...
    Solar activity has had minimal impact on climate over the past millennium, new research from the United Kingdom indicates. The findings counter the long-held view that periodic fluctuations in the sun's energy output have led to lengthy periods of warm or cold weather in the past. Looking at cli ...
  • Russian Oil Giant Becomes First in World to Pu ...
    The Russian national oil company Gazprom has begun drilling for oil at a highly contested site in the Arctic. The oil field, an offshore site in the Russian Arctic known as Prirazlomnoye, drew international attention in September when a contingent of Greenpeace members boarded the platform in pr ...
  • Renewable Energy Comprised Total U.S. Power Ge ...
    All of the additional electricity-generating capacity added by the U.S. last month came from renewable energy sources, according to a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower projects provided 394 megawatts — 100 percent — of a ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

  • Kevin P Miller: Letters From Generation Rx - P ...
    In today's show we bring you an exclusive interview with filmmaker Kevin P. Miller in which he discusses his latest film project.  Letters From Generation Rx is a sequel to the shocking expose of the lethal effects of Psycho-Pharmaceutical drugs, Generation Rx, which was released in 2008. ...
  • Western anti-Syrian propaganda analysed and ex ...
    Today's show focuses once again on Syria. We analyse and highlight the issues in the Syrian crisis and remark upon the inability or unwillingness of corporate media to give any credence to the possibility that the chemical weapons attacks in Syria were false flag provocations designed specifical ...
  • Scott Bartle on the dirty little secret about ...
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is Scott Bartle, author of "Frequently Unanswered Questions of the Australian Government". Scott claims that the "Australian Government" is now in receivership, having defaulted on repayments of bank loans which are ultimately underwritten by the US Fed ...
  • Updates on Syria, the Australian election and ...
    Today's show largely focuses on Syria and we bring you 2 interviews during the course of the show. In the first hour I am joined by John Bursill who outlines his view about Syria and then gives us a breakdown of his view of the Australian political spectrum. This show was recorded before the 2 ...
  • Narcissism and the New World Order - Part 1
    Foreign Minister Bob Carr says that there is a flaw in international law, and the US should be able to bomb Syria without UN approval In today's show we delve into the psychological underpinnings of the new tyranny. We propose the idea that modern society is afflicted with an epidemic of narci ...

Beacon

  • Oceana Fires Back at Flawed Federal Decision n ...
    Great White Shark, Guadalupe Island In the ongoing fight to protect the distinct population of great white sharks off the coast of California and Mexico, Oceana submitted a critical analysis of the federal Biological Review Team’s (BRT) status report used by the National Marine Fisheries Serv ...
  • Hitting the Panic Button: 25 Senators Call For ...
    Turbines in Europe. (Photo: Nick Treby) On Monday, 25 U.S. Senators joined the growing chorus of voices calling for an extension of vital clean energy tax credits that are set to expire in two weeks unless Congress acts.
  • Andrew Sharpless Speaks at the New England Aqu ...
    (Photo: Oceana) Last month, Oceana CEO Andy Sharpless visited the New England Aquarium to talk about his new book, The Perfect Protein: A Fish Lover’s Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World. Co-authored with Suzannah Evans, the book explains how seafood will be key to ...
  • Gulf Dolphins Are Still Sick After the Deepwat ...
    (Photo: The Pug Father) This morning NOAA released a report from its dolphin health assessment following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Their investigation shows the effects of the spill on dolphins in Barataria Bay, including a higher prevalence of lung disease and adrenal effects.
  • Five Books for Ocean Lovers
    The holiday shopping season is almost over, and you’re probably still searching for a few last-minute gifts. We’re here to help with five must-read books for ocean-lovers on your gift list.    Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food By Paul Greenburg

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Minimum wage: What’s good for the goose is goo ...
    Ontario’s minimum wage has been frozen since 2010. It’s the second longest period minimum wage workers have gone without a raise since 1969. Oftentimes discussions about how much and how often to raise the minimum wage get positioned in relation to potential harm to business: how much can busine ...
  • What’s a province to do on CPP expansion?
    It appears that a Canada-wide deal on CPP expansion is a bust, as Ottawa was the only objector and Ontario is now vowing to go it alone. It doesn’t appear that the Ontario government has a concrete proposal as of yet, but they will develop one in the coming months. It is truly unfortunate that a ...
  • What do we know about job vacancies in Canada?
    The most recent Jobs Vacancy statistics are out, and the trend for 2013 so far has been a reduction in the number of job vacancies reported by businesses compared to 2012. The number of job vacancies reported by businesses fell by 41,000 between September 2012 and September 2013, so that even th ...
  • Saying no to the conjurers’ trick of tax cuts
    Alex Himelfarb has had an impressive career in public service. A former professor, author and diplomat, he is probably best known for his service as clerk of the Privy Council for Jean Chretien, Paul Martin, and, briefly, Stephen Harper. His most recent accomplishment is “Tax is Not a Four Lette ...
  • Coupures chez Poste Canada, plus qu’une histoi ...
    C’est clair, je n’utilise probablement pas les services postaux aussi souvent que je le pourrais. Cependant, je suis toujours contente de savoir qu’ils me sont accessibles si j’en ai besoin, peu importe où je me trouve et dans quelle situation financière personnelle je suis. J’apprécie aussi le ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • Fukushima Explosion December 28th 2013; Deadly ...
    The Voice of Russia reports: Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3. TEPCO has confirmed the reports, adding that they were not clear on the details of the sudden change at the reactor because of “lethal radiation levels in that b ...
  • Putin Orders Saudi Arabia “Destroyed” After Vo ...
    A grim memorandum circulating in the Kremlin today written by Federal Security Services (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov outlining the new security measures being put into place throughout Russia ordered by President Putin a few hours ago in response to the deadly Volgograd terror attacks furt ...
  • US Global Source of Poverty and War
    The latest bilateral deal between House Republicans and Democrats on the US federal budget is a shocking reminder of the monstrous priorities for the American ruling class. Poverty, hunger, sickness and homelessness for millions more ordinary Americans; while unbridled US militarism stalks the g ...
  • Mandela Received Weapons Training from Mossad ...
    Nelson Mandela, the former South African leader who died earlier this month, was trained in weaponry and sabotage by Mossad operatives in 1962, a few months before he was arrested in South Africa. During his training, Mandela expressed interest in the methods of the Haganah pre-state underground ...
  • FEMA Commercial “The Day Before”

Daily Dose

  • China’s Xiaomi expands overseas as it la ...
    Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi is making its global ambitions official at the very start of 2014 — it’s making its way to Singapore, its first stop in Southeast Asia, with... Keep reading →
  • Re/code, a new tech website launched by Kara S ...
    Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have officially launched Re/code, described as a “new tech and media news, reviews and analysis site.” Behind this new site is the same team from... Keep reading →
  • Sina Weibo, ‘China’s Twitter’, rings in 2014 w ...
    Despite the rise of messaging services in China, especially wildly-popular WeChat, Twitter-like microblogging service Sina Weibo is still going strong — as it racked up a record-breaking number of posts... Keep reading →
  • China’s Xiaomi sells 18.7 million smartp ...
    Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi has outdone itself — by selling 18.7 million smartphones in 2013, up 160 percent from a year earlier and more than its initial target of 15... Keep reading →
  • IE11 more than triples market share to 10.42%, ...
    December saw the second full month of IE11 availability with Windows 8.1, the release of Firefox 26, and the first full month of Chrome 31 availability. The latest numbers from... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
    Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
  • High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
    ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
  • What price the carbon price?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
  • Cut emissions and save on household bills
    From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Most popular eco news articles of 2013
    The most popular environmental news article on mongabay.com during 2013 was a story about the recovery of the endangered Huemul deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Chile. The story, written by Alexander Holmgren, was visited 308,000 times, due largely to Reddit.
  • Assassination 25 years ago catalyzed movement ...
    Twenty-five years ago today, Chico Mendes, an Amazon rubber tapper, was shot and killed in front of his family at his home in Acre, Brazil at the age of 44.
  • Small farmers see better access to credit with ...
    Participation in agricultural certification programs appears to boost access to credit for small farmers, asserts a study published by the Rainforest Alliance, an environmental group that sets up and implements eco-certification standards.
  • Climate change drives Florida mangroves northward
    A decline in the frequency of extreme cold weather in Florida has allowed coastal mangrove forests to expand northward, finds a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  • The year in wildlife stories
    Like every year, wildlife conservation had its ups and downs in 2013. Elephant and rhino poaching hit levels unseen since the 1970's, but there were nascent signs of growing awareness in China on the impacts of wildlife trade, including official bans on the serving of wildlife products at offici ...

Sierra Express

  • Recruitment of a Project Assistant:EIF-NIU
    Sierra Leone Government Ministry of Trade and Industry Enhanced Integrated Framework National Implementation Unit (EIF-NIU) 6th Floor Youyi Building, Freetown, Sierra Leone   Position: Project Assistant Organisational Unit: Enhanced Integrated Framework-National Implementation Unit, (EIF-NI ...
  • Maada and Fatima Bio organise a special Christ ...
    For many Christians around the world, Christmas has always been a very special day as it celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. And in Sierra Leone, Christmas Day has been a day of spending time with our families and love ones as we eat and share together in the spirit of love, compassion and car ...
  • Christian Foday Sesay, Jr. Donates 55 Scholars ...
    Sierra Leone, December 29, 2013: the Center for the Promotion of Inclusive Education (CPIE) in Sierra Leone announces a total of about 55 scholarships in elementary and secondary education on December 26, 2013. Under the guidance of its Executive Director, Christian Foday Sesay Jr, CPIE is makin ...
  • “Sierra Leone, I will see you soon”-Whoopi Gol ...
    Oscar award winning actress Whoopi Goldberg has disclosed that she is planning a visit soon to Sierra Leone. The ‘Sarafina’ star who recently discovered her DNA to the Kroo and Mende people of Sierra Leone said she is planning a ‘home coming’ soon. Goldberg confirmed to SaloneJamboree in an excl ...
  • APC Germany Xmas message
    As a highly eventual year of our party draws to a close, allow me to share a few reflections with you for the past and the coming year. Towards the end of  2012,we saw political power in Sierra Leone  knocking on the door of the All peoples Congress (APC) again. In the month of November […]

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices up again overnight (+graphic)
    Fitch Ratings has praised Fonterra Cooperative Group's decision to hold the forecast payout to farmers and slashing its dividend by two-thirds amid a growing gap in prices between milk powders and its cheese and casein products. The...
  • Product mix big call for Fonterra
    Fonterra's top executives will have plenty to think about early next year when they devise the co-operative's next three-year business plan.Uppermost in their minds will be the rampant demand for milk powder, particularly from Fonterra's...
  • UK butter eaters lose taste for Anchor after d ...
    British shoppers have noticed that their favourite Anchor butter tastes different - with the explanation being it's no longer from New Zealand.In Britain, the famous Kiwi brand is used by European dairy company Arla. Until recently,...
  • Dairy lift adds to interest pressures
    Export commodity prices have joined the housing market and the exchange rate in the front row of drivers of the interest rate outlook."How much and how quickly interest rates rise will depend on what happens to the exchange rate,...
  • Fonterra price slump on dividend cut
    Fonterra's unit price slumped by 60 cents or almost 10 per cent after the co-operative warned of a big cut in its dividend and a sharp drop in its earnings for the current year.But by late morning the units, which offer investors...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • A. Barton Hinkle Asks Congress To Do Less
    You can’t swing a dead cat by the tail these days without hitting a news story about the lack of legislation issuing from the 113th Congress. From CNN to McClatchy to NPR to the L.A. Times, the air is thick with pieces lamenting that the 113th makes “the infamous ‘do-nothing Congres ...
  • Colorado's State-Licensed Pot Shops Are Open f ...
    Today about three dozen state-licensed pot shops opened in Colorado, the first jurisdiction in the world to legalize recreational marijuana sales. The historic event attracted pot consumers from throughout the country and journalists from around the world. The Denver Post reports th ...
  • Jesse Walker on Ray Palmer and Richard Shaver
    Jesse Walker reviews The Man from Mars, a biography of the science fiction editor and UFO storyteller Ray Palmer. It's a fun book, he writes, and it expands our understanding of the nuts and carnival barkers who have done so much to cultivate America’s homegrown mythology. View th ...
  • John Stossel on the Problems With Common Core
    Most Americans don't even know what Common Core is. But they should. It's the government's plan to try to bring "the same standard" to every government-run school. This may sound good. Often, states dumb down tests to try to "leave no child behind." How can government evaluate teach ...
  • Video: Kim Jong-un [HEARTS] Obamacare!
    Kim Jong-un [HEARTS] Obamacare! is the latest video from Reason.tv. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View this article.

Mercury Rising

  • Happy New Year!
    Let’s hope for a happy 2014.
  • Jeremy Giefer’s Son Arrested Again For S ...
    From Bluestem Prairie: Mankato Free Press crime reporter Dan Nienaber writes in Teen sex offender charged again; Giefer was convicted earlier that Johnathan Alan Giefer, 18, has been charged in Blue Earth County juvenile courty on December 11 with “having sex with a girl between the a ...
  • Anyone Remember Bandar Bush’s Threat Aga ...
    In the wake of two major terror attacks in two days in Volgograd, not all that far from the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, does anyone remember this not-so-veiled threat made to Vladimir Putin by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, back in August? Bandar told Putin, “There are many common valu ...
  • NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
    Thanks to The Consortium for alerting us to this instance of the Gray Lady tacitly (albeit reluctantly) admitting a grave error — namely, that its claims in a September 17, 2013 article that Syria’s Assad régime used sarin gas against its own people didn’t hold up to hard scrut ...
  • Aquaponics!
    Just because: http://www.growingpower.org/aquaponics.htm This is, along with Solar Roadways and 3D printing from recycled plastics, one of the many things that could save us all.

Reality Sandwich

  • Another Green World: Psychedelics and Ecology
      The following article appears in Manifesting Minds: An Anthology from the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, available from Evolver Editions/North Atlantic Books.  read more
  • The Brothers Guthrie: Pagan Christianity of th ...
    "Inspiration and Aspiration" by Solon Borglum, in the garden of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, commissioned by William Guthrie. The following originally appeared on Newtopia magazine. read more
  • Conversations with Cobra, Chapter One
    Elizabeth:  I’d like to start our conversation with a big overview of the Fukushima situation, largely because so many people here on the west coast have expressed a lot of anxiety about it. There was something in our paper today from one of the columnists about not eating seafood. If you co ...
  • Amanda Charchian
    The following originally appeared on newtopiamagazine. read more
  • Separation
      The following is excerpted from The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, published by North Atlantic Books. read more

Desertification

  • U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
    As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Secretary-General ...
  • U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play
    As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation. Secretary-General ...
  • The Carbon Warrior
    Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
  • The Carbon Warrior
    Watching the colossal destruction of Typhoon Haiyan over the past month, Columbia University Professor Graciela Chichilnisky knows one thing for sure: climate change will likely result in more of these massive storms, threatening the very existence of humanity. As one of the world’s foremost exp ...
  • In Haiti, Planting Trees Is No Simple Matter
    Reforestation and soil conservation programmes costing many thousands of dollars in this rural community have resulted in hundreds of small ledges built of straw or sacks of earth. In certain areas, the earthworks seem to be lasting, but in others, they are disintegrating. The construction and d ...

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • How pandemics spread
    Air passenger links between cities internationally are the most powerful determinants of disease spread, new reserach has shown. Historically, the spread of infectious diseases tend to be limited by ...
  • Optimal crop irrigation
    Growing crops in arid areas has become a little easier with the release of new technology that assesses the local environment. Understanding weather and environmental data to calculate how much water...
  • How diet changes your gut bacteria
    Microorganisms in the gut adapt to changing diet within 24 hours, researchers have found. Furthermore, high fat diets encourage the growth of specific species of bacteria, including those that cause i...
  • Quick Fire Science: Exploring Mars
    NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars in August 2012, and it has spent that past 15 months exploring a region of the planet called Gale Crater. This week the team running the rover reported on what th...
  • Oldest Homo genome revealed
    Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany have used new techniques to extract and analyse DNA from the bones of human ancestors from 400,000 years ago - the old...

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Care2 - Environment

  • 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 ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Video:Fighting Over What We Believe
    "Many months ago, in the wake of Minnesota's painful government shutdown, I had the idea of creating a music video based on Fighting Over What We Believe, a song which grapples with conflict, conversation and compassion."EA Submitted by JL A. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |&nbsp ...
  • Update On Idaho Wolf Contest: Controversial Wo ...
    A controversial hunting contest in Idaho targeting wolves and coyotes has ended with nearly two dozen coyotes killed but no wolves shot, though rancor over the event remains undiminished. Submitted by Roxy H. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • PAY ATTENTION! Plan to delist gray wolf endang ...
    COLUMBUS, Ohio The federal government's proposal to discontinue protection for the gray wolf across the United States could have the unintended consequence of endangering other species, researchers say. Submitted by Roxy H. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a ...
  • Bill de Blasio sworn in as NYC mayor
    Bill de Blasio was formally sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City on Wednesday, becoming the first Democrat in two decades to lead City Hall and ushering in what is expected to be an era of liberal progressive governance. Submitted by Freya T. to US Politics & Gov't  |  ...
  • Are both Democrats and Republicans alienating ...
    Conventional wisdom assumes that Democrats - the party of gay marriage, higher education reform, and the environment - have a lock on young voters. Submitted by Freya T. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Do You Really Know the Difference Between Bibl ...
    By Patricia L Johnson The majority of us grow up thinking we know something that we’ve learned from our parents, our teachers, preachers and/or peers. But how much of what we actually know is fact? How many times have you … Continue reading →
  • Merry Christmas
    Filed under: News and politics
  • Ignorance is Bliss Unless You Are an Officer o ...
    By Patricia L Johnson President Obama issued a proclamation regarding the death of Nelson Mandela on December 5, 2013 which read in part as follows: “As a mark of respect for the memory of Nelson Mandela, by the authority vested … Continue reading →
  • Compared to Peers a Pitiful, Pathetic, Poor Pe ...
    By Patricia L Johnson Every three years the PISA, Programme for International Student Assessment, is administered to 15 year old students around the world to determine their knowledge in reading, math and science. The last test was offered in 2012 … Continue reading →
  • Progress Report – Affordable Care Act We ...
    s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/HealthCare-Site-Progress-Report-Final.pdf.Filed under: Government, Health and wellness, Health, Uninsured Tagged: ACA Website, Obamacare, PPACA

Rogue Government - WP

  • TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
  • TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
  • The King of the Freeloaders
    As Karl Marx once quoted Goethe “everything that exists deserves to perish.” And it is exactly that petulant and craven mentality birthed by the king of the freeloaders that conservatives are up against. The “progressive” notion of freedom is freedom from responsibility. ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Growing Number of Private Operators in Cuban E ...
    Cuba’s state education monopoly is increasingly sharing space with private operators, including churches and teachers working as tutors, which are filling in gaps and providing knowledge that has become necessary as a result of the country’s economic reforms, such as business management courses. ...
  • Barren Fields Recover From Taliban
    Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern Pakistan’s Swat valley, rues the day the Taliban arrived in his beautiful land, known for its rolling mountains, lush fields and blossoming orchards. “The earth became barren,” he says. “Our agricultural income used to be enough for the entire ex ...
  • Baka Pygmies Caught in the Maze of Modernism
    Essomba Dominique, a Baka man from Mindourou in Cameroon’s East Region, sits dulled-eyed in front of his hut, known in the Baka language as the ‘mongoulou’. A wood-transporting truck rumbles by, raising billows of dust in its wake. As he watches his seven children play in the courtyard, Essomba’ ...
  • OP-ED: NAFTA’s 20 Years of Unfulfilled Promises
    Twenty years after it took effect, NAFTA has failed the vast majority of Mexicans. Of course, hundreds of thousands of U.S. jobs have vanished since automotive and tech companies moved their production across the border in search of much lower wages. This was supposed to boost employment in Mexi ...
  • Sri Lanka Faces New Year Pressure Over Rights
    When the American Centre in Colombo held a memorial event honouring the late South African President Nelson Mandela, the first few questions at the question and answer session had nothing to do with the great freedom fighter. The questions raised at the meeting Dec. 20 were about how South Afric ...

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Cleveland celebrates New Year's Eve with full ...
    Ohio - City officials invited residents to bring in the new year in a hyper-controlled gathering in Cleveland's Public Square. People were told that for visiting the square they would be subjected to a "full inspection of your person" and "a complete pat down." Checkpoints were conducted to d ...
  • Phoenix: Father kills son with ax; believed so ...
    A Phoenix man has confessed to killing his own son with an ax on New Year's Eve. According to Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos, police were called to an apartment near 12th Street and Bethany Home Road around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday. A call was placed by the victim's mother after her son was pick ...
  • Most clinical studies on vitamins flawed by po ...
    Most large, clinical trials of vitamin supplements, including some that have concluded they are of no value or even harmful, have a flawed methodology that renders them largely useless in determining the real value of these micronutrients, a new analysis suggests. Many projects have tried to st ...
  • Colorado opens first legal U.S. pot shops
    The US State of Colorado has entered the New Year on a high note by becoming the first state to legally sell marihuana and open the retail spots for pot. Washington is set to follow suit and open its own recreational shops later in 2014. At the start of New Year day, at 8 am local time, pot lov ...
  • In the icy grip of fear that global warming is ...
    If you are going to get yourself marooned, the Seychelles or some palm-fringed Pacific atoll would seem to be the shot. Caressed by balmy winds and encircled by golden sands, they are warm and pleasant places with bars, duty-free shops, clean sheets and room service. Just the sort of spots, in ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • You (and Harper) already blew it!!
    Harper knob polisher, Michael Den Tandt offers up the results of gazing at the Conservative crystal ball with a set of 2014 predictions on what to expect from (missing in action) Harper. It's actually quite stunning. Den Tandt pines away for the "Charm Offensive" he has oft predicted from Harper ...
  • The spirit of man . . .
    WINTER SOLSTICE, and the cycle of life continues: we celebrate the end of one year and the beginnings of our future and the re-birth of the world around us. That future belongs to the young, and some of them are up to the task.  Consider 19-year-old Zack Kopplin; according to io ...
  • Conniving CONs . . .
    THE SENATE HOO-HA'S origins, as seen by my friend Scanner, who I believe has created an accurate account of how things came to be. I wish the RCMP every success, good luck and good weasel-hunting. I have written this before but in light of SJH's unequivocal answer to the question whether ...
  • Y'know all those "made in BC" jobs Christy Cla ...
    Well, the actual contract hasn't even been inked yet and Seaspan is looking offshore to fill the positions necessary for the vessels they will (supposedly) build. Seaspan is a Canadian shipbuilding firm which has recently been given a contract to build 17 ships for the Canadian Navy. Now ...
  • And you think you have it rough ...
    Journalist Michelle Stewart can probably put those feelings to rest. All the best, Michelle. All any of us can do is hope this is a Christmas that brings you some joy. You deserve it.

Media Matters for America

  • Top 6 Reasons Women Should Be Thankful Conserv ...
    2013 was an epic year of right-wing media misinforming the public on the health care debate, particularly on women's health issues. Ignoring women's health experts, conservative media spent this year stoking fears about everything from birth ...
  • Climate Change Misinformer Of The Year: The Da ...
    The United Kingdom tabloid the Daily Mail could be dubbed "the Fox News of the Internet." It has a huge audience, a conservative slant and has a blatant disregard for the facts. The paper wields huge power in the UK, and with its website plotting ...
  • "Know Your Role And Shut Your Mouth": How Cons ...
    Media Matters looks back at the best of the worst of right-wing media's treatment of women in 2013.On A Woman's Role Fox Contributor Erick Erickson: "I Understand That Some Women Believe They Can Have It All, And That's The Crux Of The Problem." On the May 30 edition of his WSB radio prog ...
  • Top Ten Things Fox Decided Will Lead To The "W ...
    In 2013, Fox News worked to stoke outrage over the supposed decline of traditional American values, identifying the purported "wussification" of America in everything from the "disturbing trend" of yoga in schools to the availability of human resources in the workplace. Here is Me ...
  • REPORT: Top Newspapers Shift Discussion On Oba ...
    America's top newspapers focused their coverage of health care reform on its political implications while largely ignoring its real-world impact in the week before the health care exchanges opened. Those papers have since shifted their focus, with most articles highlighting benefits under the la ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Worldwide Bike-Share Boom Visualized In New Graphs
    The past fifteen years have seen a massive boom in the number of bike-share programs around the world — an exponential increase that looks likely to continue into the immediately foreseeable future. Talking about this boom is just one thing, though; visualizing it is another, and that&#821 ...
  • Beautiful Cob-House Built By Retired Teacher W ...
    Ever think about building your own house? Perhaps a cob-house? I know that I certainly have, if you have as we’ll then you’ll probably be able to greatly appreciate the story below — one detailing how a retired art teacher from Oxfordshire, England was able to build a beautiful ...
  • PULSE Jump Rope — Electricity Generating Jump ...
    What do you say to the idea of a jump rope that can harness your movement to charge small electronic devices? Cool? Impractical? Useful? Well regardless of your personal thoughts on the matter it looks like just such a device will soon hit the commercial market. The PULSE jump rope — desig ...
  • Renewables (Bikes!) Power Times Square New Yea ...
    New York “rides in” the New Year as Times Square visitors bike to help power the New Year’s Eve Ball (© Charles Sykes, Invision, for Citi, on Treehugger). You heard it right. When the festive ball drops to usher in 2014, renewable energy will contribute to the flashiness of its ...
  • Top 5 Planetsave Stories Of 2013
    2013 was a clear record year for Planetsave. From hot space stories to hot animal stories (and one combo space–animal story), this year was hot. Below were the top 5 stories of the year, based purely on page views. Check them out: 700-Pound Snake — Giant Snake Found In North Carolina, Fact ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

Climate

  • Germany's Biggest Electricity Producer Said to ...
    (Bloomberg) Germany's biggest electricity producer, plans to drop at least two long-term contracts to buy wholesale power because of sagging energy demand, two people familiar with the matter said. RWE won’t extend agreements with gen ...
  • Green Oil: Scientists Turn Algae Into Petroleu ...
    (Forbes) Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are claiming success in perfecting a method that can transform a pea-soupy solution of algae into crude oil by pressure cooking it for about 30 minutes. The pro ...
  • Wind Farms in Maine Stir a Power Struggle
    (Wall Street Journal) This state's tree-filled hinterlands, long known for producing forest products and potatoes, are also suited for an export that has churned up debate: wind power. The recent appetite for wind power comes largely ...
  • Cape Wind Signs Wind Turbine Building Deal wit ...
    (Cape Cod Online) Just days before an important deadline to qualify for crucial federal tax credits, Cape Wind has signed a deal with Siemens to build the project's turbines and an electric service platform to convert its power for tra ...
  • Solar Energy Finally Gets a Push in New York
    (AP) An array of shimmering panels covering 3 acres in New York's Finger Lakes is a sign of the state's latest push to catch up to its neighbors in the Northeast that have set the pace in recent years for promoting solar energy. read ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

  • Criminal complaint against Silk Road’s owner
    The criminal complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts."
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea: An elusive peace on the ...
    Ethiopia and Eritrea are still at each others’ throats. The two neighbours fought hammer and tongs in sun-baked trenches during a two-year war over a decade ago, before a peace deal ended their World War I-style conflict in 2000. Furious veRed Sea, UNrbal battles, however, have continued to this ...
  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.

Booman Tribune

  • New Year, Unemployed Still Screwed
    Happy New Year, everybody! We enjoyed a low-key and fairly early night with friends, in anticipation of celebrating Finn's fourth birthday this morning. He's convinced that he'll magically be able to do a lot of things now that he's not three anymore. I hope he's not too disappointed to learn ...
  • The Good News Today - ACA ed.
    The Republican Congress tried to stop it too many times to count. They even shut down the federal government and threatened to destroy our nation's credit rating by refusing to allow the government to sell debt instruments or raise taxes to cover the deficit. All this was done for one purpose. ...
  • In 2014, Let's End Our Dispute With Cuba
    Yesterday saw the first commercial flight from Key West to Havana in more than half a century. That so much time had elapsed between flights is a testimony to the idiocy of America's foreign policy towards Cuba. Neither Cuba nor America has benefitted in any tangible way from this economic and ...
  • A Generation That Looks Doomed
    The party that figures out how to convince young people that they have a solution to this will win elections until either the problem is solved or it becomes apparent that their solution did not work. The Institute for College Access & Success, an independent nonprofit organization based in ...
  • Snake Eaten By Tail
    Maybe it's because 2013 was such a stupid year but, as it comes to an end, I have been preoccupied with how incredibly paralyzingly stupid our country has become. Matt Taibbi appears to be having similar thoughts. Then, of course, theres the irony. Men like Karl Rove and Dick Armey practical ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    There are some crackers for your perusal in this week’s selection of links, so dive in and enjoy. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Crumbling Ruins of the Most Haunted Island ...
    Venice is not somewhere we usually associate with horrors, but an island in its lagoon, now off-limits to visitors, has a chilling history of deaths. Welcome to Poveglia. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    A great selection of goodies for you this week. Don’t miss Christmas monsters, imaginary friends, a guy in a tutu, and real-life mad scientists. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Island Nation Doomed to Disappear Within H ...
    For hundreds if not thousands of years, the I-Kiribati have lived on their island paradise, but now their home is being slowly submerged under rising sea levels. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    The hottest links have got a geeky feel this week. Check out some awesome t-shirts, wallets, and real-life nutty professors. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Mountaintop Removal

  • Big Hopes for the Student Fossil Fuel Divestme ...
    Big Hopes for the Student Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in 2014 Huffington Post In 2014, I imagine youth adding fresh momentum to Appalachia's still-ongoing plight to end mountaintop removal and heal her hollers with a new ecomony -- joining groups like Coal River Mountain Watch, Kentuckia ...
  • The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet - Fr ...
    The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet Freeport Journal-Standard The coal miners will have to be rehired to undo the damage caused by strip mining and mountaintop removal. Others will have to be hired to clean up the coal ash pits that dot the nation. Page 2 of 2 - The number of asthma cases ...
  • The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet - Fr ...
    The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet Freeport Journal-Standard The coal miners will have to be rehired to undo the damage caused by strip mining and mountaintop removal. Others will have to be hired to clean up the coal ash pits that dot the nation. Page 2 of 2 - The number of asthma cases ...
  • The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet - Fr ...
    The Wemstroms: Resolve to save the planet Freeport Journal-Standard The coal miners will have to be rehired to undo the damage caused by strip mining and mountaintop removal. Others will have to be hired to clean up the coal ash pits that dot the nation. Page 2 of 2 - The number of asthma cases ...
  • Making Progress on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: E ...
    Making Progress on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Energy Efficiency and Solar ... Huffington Post Modern technologies for extracting fossil fuels: fracking, deep sea drilling, and mountain top removal carry increased risks of environmental damage. Nuclear power involves a number of other risks, inclu ...

Memeorandum

  • Slow Learners - What is it about Obama that ma ...
    Steven Hayward / Power Line: Slow Learners  —  What is it about Obama that makes otherwise intelligent people so dumb?  —  Politico has a headline for the ages up right now: “Management Experts Knock Obama.”  Management “experts” are ...
  • Helicopter rescue delayed as second ship trapp ...
    Nicky Phillips / Sydney Morning Herald: Helicopter rescue delayed as second ship trapped in ice  —  On board the Aurora Australis  —  Plans to rescue 52 passengers trapped on the stricken Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy have been thrown into disarray af ...
  • Florida Law on Drug Tests for Welfare Is Struc ...
    Frances Robles / New York Times: Florida Law on Drug Tests for Welfare Is Struck Down  —  KEY WEST, Fla. — A federal judge on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional a Florida law that required welfare applicants to undergo mandatory drug testing, setting the stage for a l ...
  • James Avery, star of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel- ...
    Lisa Respers France / CNN: James Avery, star of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’ dies at 68  —  (CNN) — Actor James Avery, who played the beloved Uncle Phil on the hit 1990s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died, his publicist said Wednesday. ...
  • Climate: Cloud Mixing Means Extra Global Warmi ...
    Dan Vergano / National Geographic: Climate: Cloud Mixing Means Extra Global Warming  —  A decline in ocean cloud cover projected in climate models points to more than 5.6°F (3°C) of global warming coming in this century, on the high end of past global warming estimates, ...

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5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.6, Vanuatu
    Wednesday, January 1, 2014 16:03:31 UTC Thursday, January 2, 2014 03:03:31 AM at epicenterDepth: 196.00 km (121.79 mi)
  • M 5.2, Baja California, Mexico
    Friday, December 20, 2013 05:27:07 UTC Thursday, December 19, 2013 09:27:07 PM at epicenterDepth: 1.00 km (0.62 mi)
  • M 5.3, Alaska Peninsula
    Saturday, December 7, 2013 16:44:10 UTC Saturday, December 7, 2013 07:44:10 AM at epicenterDepth: 13.10 km (8.14 mi)
  • M 5.4, Alaska Peninsula
    Saturday, December 7, 2013 07:36:27 UTC Friday, December 6, 2013 10:36:27 PM at epicenterDepth: 51.90 km (32.25 mi)
  • M 5.5, off the coast of Northern California
    Sunday, December 1, 2013 03:19:33 UTC Saturday, November 30, 2013 07:19:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 5.00 km (3.11 mi)

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AlterNet's Breaking News

  • The 13 most underrated albums of 2013
    Between the Daft Punk renaissance and a summer dominated by Disclosure and Yeezus, 2013 was a strong year for music. So many good albums debuted that far too many got lost in the shuffle. This included critical favorites and indie debuts from bands trying to make a name for themselves in a crow ...
  • The only way to defeat the food industry: Cook ...
    If Jeannie Marshall were in charge, we'd all be eating like the Italians. Or at least, like the Italians used to eat.As a new mother in Italy, Marshall was ready to embrace a culture that, she believed, would allow her to raise a child more healthfully than she could have back home in Canada, w ...
  • De Blasio sworn in as New York mayor
    Bill de Blasio (R) is sworn in as New York City Mayor by former US President Bill Clinton (L) on the steps of City Hall in Lower Manhattan January 1, 2014 in New YorkNew York's new Mayor Bill de Blasio was sworn in Wednesday promising to restore progressive ideals and end growing economic ineq ...
  • America's first marijuana stores open in Colorado
    A man smokes a joint as thousands gather to celebrate the state's medicinal marijuana laws and collectively light up in Civic Center Park April 20, 2012 in Denver, ColoradoMarijuana users celebrated Wednesday as Colorado became the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales, putting it in t ...
  • At least eight killed in twin Mogadishu car bombs
    This picture taken on September 12, 2012 shows the Jazeera hotel in MogadishuAt least eight people were killed when a car bomb rammed into one of Mogadishu's top hotels Wednesday and a second vehicle exploded as the wounded were being treated.There was no immediate claim of responsibility but ...

Institute for Policy Studies

  • An Interview with Rene Gonzalez, of the Cuban 5
    Rene Gonzalez, the only member of the Cuban Five to be released from prison since their arrest in 1998 was interviewed by IPS' Netfa Freeman at the 9th International Colloquium for the Freedom of the Five and Against Terrorism held in Holguín, Cuba,
  • Demilitarizing the Economy: A Movement is Underway
    As we end the longest period of war in our history, we should be entering a period of postwar downsizing - but what about the communities dependent on the massive post-9/11 military budget?
  • News on Mistreatment of Indian Diplomat Ignore ...
    "The treatment of Khobragade during her arrest raises serious concerns for us and for our international allies, but it is our belief this cannot be used as an excuse to ignore the deeper questions raised by the case," said Tiffany Williams, Institute for Policy Studies.
  • Domestic Workers Deserve Protection: Hold Dipl ...
    Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was clearly mistreated by U.S. officers, but what about the abuse that migrant domestic workers live through every day?
  • Uruguay's Legalization of Marijuana
    CCTV interviews Sanho Tree, drug policy expert, on Uruguay's "historic and counterintuitive" decision to be the first country in the world to legalize the production and sale of marijuana.

IntelNews

  • Bizarre explosion kills Palestinian diplomat i ...
    The ambassador of Palestine to the Czech Republic was pronounced dead yesterday following injuries he sustained from a mysterious explosion at his residence.
  • German magazine reveals more information on el ...
    Last June, we reported on the existence of an elite cyberatack unit within the United States National Security Agency (NSA), which operates under the Agency's Office of Tailored Access Operations. Now German newsmagazine Der Spiegel says it viewed internal documents that confirm the existence of ...
  • Documents offer rare day-to-day insight into a ...
    A remarkable set of documents found in western Africa offers a fascinating insight into the day-to-day running of al-Qaeda. The papers, obtained by the Associated Press (AP) earlier this year, reveal a highly bureaucratic organization that meticulously documents even the minutest expenses incurr ...
  • White House denies reports it offered to relea ...
    Sources from the White House have anonymously denied a flurry of recent reports in Israeli media that Washington has offered to release Jonathan Jay Pollard, who spied on the United States for Israel.
  • News you may have missed #862
    Covert CIA program helped Colombia kill rebel leaders. Israel asks US not to spy on it. Germany reacts coolly to French request on Central Africa.

War is a Crime.org

  • From Egypt to Afghanistan: Who is my enemy?
    From Sherif in Egypt My dear enemy, I kill you with love… As my mind was growing, by reading and opening my eyes, my enemy took different shapes. At first, I thought he was the guy who beat the teenager pride out of me in a train fight over a girl, but that went by, forgotten and forgiven, leavi ...
  • Talk Nation Radio: Robert Parry on Syria in Re ...
    https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-robert-parry Robert Parry reports that the New York Times has finally, and quietly, admitted that a key claim pushed in September by the New York Times and Human Rights Watch that nearly took the United States to war in Syria is false. Parr ...
  • Optimistic Thought for the New Year: The Loom ...
    By Dave Lindorff I don’t care if you are 75 and retired, 61 and just about to reach the age when you become eligible for Social Security, 50 and looking out 15 or 20 years to the time when you’ll need to retire, or 25 with grandparents collecting retirement benefits and wondering what will be ...
  • Lynn Stewart to Be Released!
    NYTimes: A federal judge in Manhattan ordered a “compassionate release" on Tuesday for Lynne F. Stewart, the former defense lawyer convicted of assisting terrorism who is dying from cancer in a federal prison in Texas.
  • The Eleventh Hour – Decision Time
    by R. Teichmann    It is a well-known fact in biology that pressures of an existential nature on a species result in two possible outcomes. The first outcome is that the species evolves. It adapts by way of biological evolution to the new conditions and survives. The second is that t ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Smoking Mirrors | No Time for Dumbasses, Steam ...
    By Visible Somewhere around March, we are going to see a perfect storm of converging conditions and events. These seem inevitable at the moment and that is partly so because they are also the last gasp efforts of desperate men and women, who are up against the emerging ingenuity of the cosmos wh ...
  • TSA agents reportedly destroyed Canadian man’s ...
    United States Customs and Border Patrol is under fire after a new report revealed that officials there confiscated nearly a dozen homemade instruments from a Canadian man and proceeded to destroy them. Canadian-born flute player Boujemaa Razgui was flying from Marrakech, Morocco back home to New ...
  • GM Freeze celebrates a GM-Free New Year in UK ...
    GM Freeze, 30 Dec 2013 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/242/ GM Freeze today offered congratulations to farmers and consumers as 2014 marks the first year since 2007 that no GM trials will be conducted in UK fields, and no new GM field trials are expected. Different GM potatoes have been tr ...
  • Antarctic ship passengers may be rescued tomor ...
    By Nick Enoch Passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve are expected to be rescued by helicopter tomorrow after three icebreakers failed to reach the paralysed vessel – but it could still be weeks before they reach dry land. A helicopter ...
  • ‘Stuck in our own experiment’: Lea ...
    By Paul Tilsley Published December 30, 2013 FoxNews.com The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is \”stuck in our own experiment.\” But Chris Turney, a professor of climate change at Aust ...

Global Insights

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

Twilight Earth

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Some words from a great man to give us a stron ...
    Summary:  As we start the New Year, these words from the past can inspire us today as they inspired their audience 45 years ago.  Inspiration might be the most valuable support we need in 2012. Reposted from the archives. . . Here are the concluding words of “Where Do We Go From Here?”, by Marti ...
  • For your New Year’s Eve festivities: an ...
    Summary:  As we start a new year we can gain courage by looking at the good aspects of our past and the glimmers of good fortune that lie in our future.  These things are conjured by our myths from the dry pages of history for our eyes to see. From the archives. . Morpheus speaking […]
  • Why we fight.
    Summary:  Today we look at one of the great mysteries of the 21st century, seeking explanations for America’s mad pursuit of foreign wars despite their repeated failure, despite their irrelevance to preventing another 9-11 (many intel experts believe we’re making another attack more ...
  • A book about one of the trends shaping the 21s ...
    Summary:  It’s not too soon to prepare your 2014 reading list. Today we have an excerpt from what might be one of the most important books of the year, about a trend which will drive events in the 21st century — the next wave of automation. AKA the rise of smart machines, the next in ...
  • Is grassroots organizing a snare or magic bull ...
    Summary:  The term “grassroots” acts as trump in American political debate, evoking immediate obeisance. Too bad it leads to a dead end.  Our love of grassroot organizing, focusing on local communities and local action, makes the 1% smile. They have seen during the past few years how ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Report: Israeli Military Intelligence Sees "De ...
    CREDIT: Shutterstock A new report on a recent Israeli intelligence assessment indicates that Israel’s military intelligence service disagrees with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s public statements on the current leadership in Iran. Since the election of Hassan Rohani as president ...
  • Chinese Muslims Freed from Guantanamo Ten Year ...
    CREDIT: Flickr user Walt Jabsco The last of 22 Uighurs, a largely Muslim ethnic group concentrated in Western China, were freed from Guantanamo Bay, according to an announcement from the Pentagon on Tuesday. Their freedom comes ten years after the U.S. military determined that the men posed no t ...
  • Multiple Bombings in Russian City Ahead of Win ...
    CREDIT: AP Deadly explosions ripped into the Russian city Volgograd for the second day in a row, causing the death of at least 14 people, and raising security concerns in the weeks before the Sochi Winter Olympics. Monday’s explosion of an electric trolley bus follows follows a blast at Vo ...
  • South Sudan Government Agrees to Cease Fire, A ...
    CREDIT: Shutterstock According to the Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), spearheaded by leaders of seven East African countries, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir expressed his committment to cease fire in the recently war-ravaged country. The agreement comes after IGAD conven ...
  • Our New Champion in Self-Defeating Soft Power: ...
    At first I didn't believe the news this evening that Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. I didn't believe it, because such a move would be guaranteed to make a delicate situation in East Asia far, far worse. So Abe wouldn't actually do it, right? It turns ou ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • I'll Be Gay for Christmas
    Flickr/MTSOfan I haven’t been home for Christmas in ten years. The excuse I always gave was that the holidays stress me out, which isn’t untrue. I can’t stand to watch once the local news station starts its seasonal coverage. You know the hard-hitting journalism I’m talking about: brav ...
  • Our Best Longreads of 2013
    Flickr/Steve Schroeder The Weeklies Monica Potts From the outside, it is hard to know that people live in the Ramada Inn. The parking lot is always empty. The hotel sits facing a wide suburban boulevard called Kipling Street, just off Interstate 70 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. The intercha ...
  • Bring on the Pajama Bashing
    BarackObama.com Just as we understand the world through stories, our political narratives often revolve around characters, ordinary people who become momentarily famous as supposedly representative of some policy issue or cultural trend. Sometimes they're fictional, and sometimes they' ...
  • A Holiday Party Primer: How to Talk Politely A ...
    It could be Uncle Fred from Cincinnati who button-holes you at a Christmas dinner or your best friend from college who demands an answer during the pre-New Year’s Eve cocktail hour. But whatever your inner resolve—no matter how fierce your determination—you won’t be able to get through the enti ...
  • Daily Meme: The Year of TK
    The Year of Economic Populism The Year of the Midterm Elections Affected by Bitcoins The Year of Civil Liberties #Fail Year of the Sure-to-Be-Crazy Toronto Mayoral Election The Year of Pot Really, It's Going to Be the Year of Pot The Year of the Woman The Year of Hillary Making Decisions The Ye ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Craig Cobb Granted Bond But, So Far, ...
    For a cool million bucks – cash – Craig Cobb, the not-so-white white supremacist, can ring in the New Year without handcuffs or shackles. Since his arrest on Nov. 16 for terrorizing the tiny North Dakota town of Leith that he hoped to turn into an all-Aryan enclave, Cobb has been locked up witho ...
  • Members of White Supremacist Prison Gang Charg ...
    Aryan Skins Kindred Four members of a white supremacist prison gang and a female accomplice were arraigned this afternoon in Tacoma, Wash., on charges related to the brutal stabbing death last month of a fellow gang member. Derek Wagner was stabbed multiple times, including once in the heart, an ...
  • Neo-Nazi Skinhead Arrested in Minnesota with W ...
    Samuel David Shoen (Ramsey County sheriff’s office) A member of the Hammerskins, a neo-Nazi skinhead gang, was wearing a bullet-proof vest and carrying an assault rifle with 1,200 rounds of ammunition and drugs when he was arrested this week in Minnesota, court documents say. Samuel David ...
  • Ohio Neo-Nazi’s Sentence on Weapons Char ...
    An Ohio neo-Nazi who amassed a huge illegal stockpile of weapons, along with an apparent hit list of Detroit-area Jewish and African-American leaders, was given a six-year sentence Thursday by a federal judge in Toledo, Ohio. Civil rights leaders in Detroit, including one on the man’s list, expr ...
  • Maryland County OKs Use of Building for Klan G ...
    Citing First Amendment rights, a county in Maryland has given a Ku Klux Klan group permission to meet in a county government building tomorrow night to promote a petition drive to impeach President Obama. “Barack Hussein Obama is an illegal president,” Richard Preston, imperial wizard of the Con ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • World’s First Legal Adult Marijuana Sales Begi ...
    At 8 a.m. MT on Wednesday, approximately three-dozen state-licensed marijuana retail stores in Colorado began legally selling marijuana to adults 21 years of age and older. The state is the first jurisdiction in the world to establish a system in which marijuana is regulated and taxed similarly ...
  • National Lawyers Guild Applauds the Compassion ...
    Today Judge John G. Koeltl granted the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) request for the compassionate release of Lynne Stewart.  This is heartening news. Ms. Stewart is 74 years old and has terminal cancer with a life expectancy of less than 18 months. She has been serving a ten-year sentence ...
  • Victory for Privacy as Federal Court’s Final O ...
    Today, a District Court issued a final judgment declaring Florida’s 2011 law mandating all applicants for the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicionless drug tests is an unconstitutional violation of the protection against unreasonable gove ...
  • Victory for Privacy as Federal Court’s Final O ...
    Today, a District Court issued a final judgment declaring Florida’s 2011 law mandating all applicants for the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program submit to suspicionless drug tests is an unconstitutional violation of the protection against unreasonable gove ...
  • Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Sea ...
    A federal court today dismissed a lawsuit arguing that the government should not be able to search and copy people’s laptops, cell phones, and other devices at border checkpoints without reasonable suspicion. An appeal is being considered. Government documents show that thousands of innoce ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Finance's Hold on Our Everyday Life Must Be Broken
    Costas Lapavitsas ‘Financial calculation evaluates everything in pennies and pounds, transforming the most basic goods – above all, housing – into "investments".’ (Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)The mature economies of& ...
  • Australia, 'Hostage to Climate Change Madness' ...
    Giles Parkinson When the Russian scientific vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy got stuck in ice earlier this week while hosting a mission to retrace the steps of Sir Douglas Mawson and to conduct research on climate science, the blogosphere and ...
  • The Choice is Ours: Austerity or Shared Bounty
    For all I have gained as the result of my financial struggles, I consider myself blessed. You might wonder how I can say that, when, at the end of December, I’m still working with my winterizing kit, consisting of staple gun, duct tape, and cardboard, trying to insulate against the air lea ...
  • 'Happy News Year': Looking Beyond Top Stories ...
    Danny Schechter NEW YORK, New York—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 ...
  • The Wrong Path to Peace with Iran
    Reza Marashi Trita Parsi As American and Iranian negotiators prepare to implement their historic interim nuclear deal, a handful of hawkish lawmakers are on the cusp of destroying the last remainin ...

Water Privatization

  • Sabesp tender watch: São Paulo water, sewerage ...
    Southeastern Brazil's São Paulo state water utility Sabesp has launched three tenders worth more than 35.5mn reais (US$15.1mn) to improve potable water and sewerage services in the metropolitan region of state capital São Paulo.
  • ‘Keep discounts’
    THREE mayors and several organizations are opposing the decision of the Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) to remove the five percent discount from most water consumers. MCWD announced yesterday it will apply the discount only to payments made on or before the due date, and only for the wat ...
  • Rizal’s curt advice
    Great men of history are usually remembered for what they can teach even though they may have lived long in the past. Thus, we recall what Socrates and Aristotle said thousands of years ago for the lessons they give on politics and morality. The Philippines has its own great men, foremost among ...
  • Infrastructure alone won't resolve problem ...
    Infrastructure alone will not resolve the problem of access to water and sanitation across Latin America. This news article is one of hundreds published daily by Business News Americas about the commodities, markets, movements, companies, projects, economics and politics integral to the developm ...
  • Cop-out
    Does the Philippines need more privatization, or less? That’s the subject of a recent think piece by foreign affairs and economic analyst Richard Javad Heydarian in The Huffington Post, which argues that, contrary to prevailing wisdom about the Philippines’ continuing need to open up its markets ...

Guardian

  • Markets make cautious start to 2014 as Chinese ...
    Slowing manufacturing growth in both India and China gives investors little reason to celebrate on the first trading day of the yearGraeme Wearden
  • Pervez Musharraf misses third court date in tr ...
    Former Pakistan army general taken ill and in hospital, say police, after missing two previous hearings due to bomb scaresPakistani police said the former president Pervez Musharraf was rushed to hospital after feeling ill on his way to court for a hearing in his high treason case.Deputy Inspect ...
  • Antarctic rescue under way as helicopter lands ...
    Saga of passengers on board the Akademik Shokalskiy trapped in sea ice for more than a week finally coming to an endBridie Jabour
  • House of Fraser records bumper Christmas with ...
    British department stores group says surge in online sales helps it to its best-ever Christmas trading periodBritish department stores group House of Fraser has said a surge in online sales helped it to its best ever Christmas trading period.The group, which trades from 61 stores in Britain and ...
  • China's first aircraft carrier completes sea t ...
    The Liaoning has returned to port after 37 days in the South China Sea, according to state mediaChina's first aircraft carrier has successfully completed sea trials in the South China Sea, state media has reported.The Liaoning returned to port on Wednesday after a 37-day voyage, the official Xin ...

McClatchey

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

Afghanistan Sun

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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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC Rebuts Chamber's Proposed FCA Reforms
    Intern Paul Lyons authored this post. On Friday, December 6th, 2013, National Whistleblower Center Executive Director, Stephen Kohn, was a guest panelist at the Congressional Civil Justice Caucus Academy's Briefing on False Claims Act Reform. The briefing was styled as a debate between Mr. Ko ...
  • Tax Whistleblower -- If You Get A Rejection Le ...
    Originally posted at Forbes.com on December 10, 2013. After teeth gnashing and working through conspiracy theories, you have 30 days to appeal to Tax Court.  A good starting point is to call your assigned case manager at the IRS whistleblower office.  The IRS has been moving to be bet ...
  • 2013's 10 Big Moments for Chief Compliance Off ...
    Originally published at Corporate Counsel on Dec. 20, 2013.   As sure as the fix was in for LIBOR, 2013 could be counted on to provide plenty of “Ripped From the Headlines” fodder for compliance and ethics commentators everywhere. With 2014 ahead of us and no end in sight ...
  • NWC Fears UBS Banker Raoul Weil Will Get Sweet ...
    Today the National Whistleblower Center issued a press release regarding Raoul Weil, the former head of UBS’s Global Wealth Management business. Weil was extradited to the United States from Italy where he was arrested on an international warrant after being indicted for his role ...
  • NWC Releases New Report on Importance of False ...
    Today the National Whistleblower Center released a new report on the importance of the False Claims Act which rebuts the Chamber of Commerce proposals.   "Whistleblower Reward Laws: Reform or Enhance?" was delivered by NWC Executive Director Stephen Kohn at a briefing before ...

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2013 At T ...
    Happy new year, everyone! As you can tell, we're taking a break from regular posts today — so it seems like a perfect time to run down the top comments of 2013. Instead of just two winners, we've got the top five from each category. Looking forward to another year full of great comments! ...
  • New Year's Message: Optimism On The Cusp Of Bi ...
    While Techdirt started back in 1997 (yikes), since 2008 I've had an end of the year tradition in which I use the final post of the year to reflect a bit more generally on the topic of optimism. It kicked off after I received some comments from people questioning how I didn't go crazy after writi ...
  • Guy Who Sued Apple For Not Preventing Him From ...
    Chris Sevier, the Nashville attorney* who sued Apple back in July for failing to prevent him from accessing porn on his iPhone (citing unfair competition and breach of marital contract -- apparently, Mrs. Sevier can't keep up with the seductive wiles of thousands of interchangeable "21-year-old ...
  • Applicant For UND Head Football Coach Cites Vi ...
    Many of my fellow Americans enjoy the sport of football and their professional and collegiate leagues, the NFL and the NCAA. If you're like me, you often opine that you could run the team, the program, or the franchise in immeasurably greater fashion than the millionaire chowderheads currently ...
  • Bogus DMCA Notices Nearly Delete Cyberlocker F ...
    The legacy players in the entertainment industry, led by the MPAA and the RIAA have been trying to get the right to edit search results on various search engines for years, under the bogus belief that if people didn't get search results linking them to infringing files, they'd suddenly start spe ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Armies of Liberation

  • Hadi appoints new SCER
    On Monday Yemen’s interim president Mansour Abdo Hadi named several judges to the Supreme Commission on Elections and Referendum (SCER).  The SCER is responsible for the technical aspects of elections and has a pivotal role in maintaining or subverting the integrity of electi ...
  • High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
    High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
  • State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
    Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
  • Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
    Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
  • Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
    Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...

Dark Politricks

  • Clues to Future Snowden Leaks Found In His Past
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comClues to Future Snowden Leaks Found In His Past By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Work for Covert NSA Facility at University of Maryland May Be Hint Only a tiny fraction of Snowden’s documents have been published ...
  • “Stop Spying on people”: Syrian Electronic Arm ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop Spying on people : Syrian Electronic Army hacks Skype RT.com Skypes Microsofts voice-over-IP service, Twitter accounts were hacked around 19:30 GMT with the publishing of a tweet urging people not to use Microsoft acc ...
  • 2014: Failure of Palestinian Authority, BDS Su ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.com2014: Failure of Palestinian Authority, BDS Success to Continue dissidentvoice.orgBy Ramzy Baroud 2013 was a year in which the so-called peace process charade was allowed to continue, leading Palestinians on yet another fu ...
  • Feds Consider Vehicle Location Tracking in New ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFeds Consider Vehicle Location Tracking in New Cars Proposal may lead to more accidents, mileage taxes and tickets for “recorded traffic violations” Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com January 1, 2014 In a few weeks, ...
  • Feds May Require Vehicle Location Tracking in ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comFeds May Require Vehicle Location Tracking in New Cars Proposal may lead to more accidents, mileage taxes and tickets for “recorded traffic violations” Kit Daniels Prison Planet.com January 1, 2014 In a few wee ...

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