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News Blaze

environment 360

  • Suburbs Offset Low Carbon Footprints of Major ...
    City-dwellers in the U.S. have significantly smaller per-capita carbon footprints than their rural counterparts, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. But the carbon-intense suburbs surrounding major cities essentially cancel out the small carbon footprints of ci ...
  • China Crushes Six Tons Of Ivory to Stem Elepha ...
    In an effort to stem elephant poaching, Chinese authorities have crushed six tons of confiscated ivory, the first such effort in the country's history. Coordinated by the State Forestry Administration and the General Administration of Customs, the event was widely publicized and aimed at spreadi ...
  • Urban Nature: How to Foster Biodiversity in Wo ...
    As the world becomes more urbanized, researchers and city managers from Baltimore to Britain are recognizing the importance of providing urban habitat that can support biodiversity. It just may be the start of an urban wildlife movement. BY RICHARD CONNIFF
  • North Dakota Bakken Crude May Be More Explosiv ...
    Crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken field may be more flammable and explosive than previously thought, officials now say after a series of fiery railroad accidents. The crude may contain more flammable gasses, be highly corrosive, or more sulfurous than crude from other oil fields, according to ...
  • Stranded Antarctic Expedition Rescued After Be ...
    Passengers trapped on an icebound Russian research ship off the coast of Antarctica were rescued today after being stranded for more than a week. A helicopter from China shuttled the 52 scientists, journalists, and tourists to an Australian icebreaker. The chartered ship was attempting to recrea ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Has mankind created a technical world that the ...
    Samuel Arbesman raises red flags about our relationship with modern technology and complex systems. In our boundless human ingenuity and creativity we have conceived such highly advanced computer systems that sometimes even the creators do not fully understand how it works. And that raises the q ...
  • Uncannily Lifelike Roman Masks Recreated in Wax
    Some 2,000 years ago, elite Roman families stuffed their closets with wax masks made in the likeness of their male ancestors so that during funeral processions actors could fill in for the missing links of the genealogical line. Scholars know about the strange practice from ancient sources, such ...
  • The Children Who Went Up In Smoke
    For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed, their names and ages—Maurice, 14; Martha 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; Betty, 5—stenciled beneath, along with spec ...
  • A New Plan to Fight Back Against the NSA: Cut ...
    Nobody really likes the NSA. That nosy organization that listens to our phone calls, documents our personal data, and compiles reams of “evidence” against nearly everyone in the country is the ugly redheaded stepchild of America. They have no respect for the American people and no regard for pri ...
  • JP Morgan pays $2 billion to avoid prosecution ...
    Bernie Madoff has said all along that JP Morgan knew about – and knowingly profited from – his Ponzi schemes. So JP Morgan has agreed to pay the government $2 billion to avoid investigation and prosecution. While this may sound like a lot of money, it is spare sofa change for a big bank like JP ...

Not My Tribe

  • Haha. Bystander video of Schumacher ski crash ...
    When Formula One racer Michael Schumacher broke his neck on a French ski slope last week, Meribel resort spokesmen went into damage control declaring that the speed demon was skiing “off-piste”. That’s Anglo-French for off-track or out-of-bounds. Even though initial reports men ...
  • The Tattered Cover doubles down on its privile ...
    DENVER, COLORADO- Representatives of Occupy Denver met with both owner and manager of The Tattered Cover Bookstore last week hoping to avert taking public action against the popularly lionized bookseller for its passive support of the city’s Urban Camping Ban. There was hope that owner Joy ...
  • Putin releases oligarch, blasphemers and hooli ...
    2013. They are arguably Russian President Vladimir Putin most formidable adversaries, behind the scenes, in popular culture and in the international court of public opinion. The corporate press think Putin did it to rehab his anti-gay stance in advance of the Winter Olympics. The most powerful l ...
  • Fake sign language interpreter gets it right a ...
    Hmm. “He also used no facial expression to convey the emotions of the leaders.” So he got that right too. Did you catch President Obama criticizing the use of prison walls and snipers? And admonishing other leaders for not tolerating voices of dissent?
  • Pearl Harbor wasn’t our first 9/11
    Before Pearl Harbor, there was Remember the Maine (Spain’s sneak attack), before that Americans were admonished to never forget the Alamo (Mexico’s sneak attack). After Pearl Harbor, the sneak attack that conscripted US public opinion into WWII, there was the Gulf of Tonkin (Viet Con ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Best take down of the no-planers... Ever!
    (Humorous excerpt from an earlier version of this paper):   ... With the backgrounds to all three scenarios suitably explained, we can now get to work on choosing which of them is the most suitable. Immediately, we see an application for occams razor, which is the principle that commands: ...
  • Go Ahead, Call me a Conspiracy Nut
  • Here's Wishing Everyone A Happy New Year Full ...
    Click to Enlarge2013 a look back WeAreChange
  • FLASHBACK - 9/11 Debunking for Dummies
    The coincidence cited in this video, made by blog contributor Stewart Bradley, regarding the pilot of flight 77 having participated in a drill prior to 9/11, where an aircraft crashed into the Pentagon, is not a coincidence that I think has much merit. But I don't throw the baby out with the bat ...
  • FLASHBACK- WhatReallyHappened.com Picks Up Our ...
    Update: We have raised $3096 of the $5000 goal. Please help out with a donation if you can at: http://markbasile.org http://whatreallyhappened.com/node/277513 FLASHBACK - New WTC Dust Study Looks Set to Confirm Nano-thermite Did you know that a recent survey concludes that nearly half of every ...

Fooducate

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Kenya: Sengwer tribe faces eviction in the nam ...
    Sengwer, Marakwet and other inhabitants of the Embobut Forest are being told to move by authorities, March 2013.© Justin Kenrick/SurvivalSome of Kenya’s last hunter-gatherers face eviction from their ancestral forest in the name of ‘conservation’ after a government notice expired on Monday. The ...
  • At last! Brazil begins long-awaited operation ...
    More than six months after the Brazilian army moved in to tackle illegal logging outside the land of the Awá, the Brazilian government has now started a major ground operation to evict illegal invaders from inside the Awá's land.© Exército BrasileiroAfter months of campaigning by Survival I ...
  • New Penan blockade against oil palm plantation
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach, during a previous blockade.© SurvivalForty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest against the Shin Yang logging and oil palm plantation company for trespassing on their ancestral l ...
  • Massacre investigation exposes Indonesian army ...
    For decades, West Papua’s tribal people have suffered at the hands of the Indonesian military. This 'trophy' photograph was taken by soldiers, in the same year as the Biak massacre, after they killed a man and his 12 year old nephew.© SurvivalA tribunal set up to examine a notorious ma ...
  • Bushmen’s public appeal to end government pers ...
    Bushmen leader and spokesman, Roy Sesana in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.© Lottie Davies/SurvivalBotswana’s Bushmen have held a press conference in the country’s capital to demand an end to government persecution of the tribe. Bushmen spokesmen Roy Sesana, Mangana, Keikabile Modo ...

Greg Palast

  • You know I rarely ask you...
    ....for donations to our foundation, so you can take my word for it when I say, we need it. The Theft of the 2016 race is under way –– and the vote rustlers expect to grab Congress in 2014 as an appetizer.  Plus, the billionaire boys club is sucking our financial blood as if the world [...]
  • Give me 95 seconds
    A personal note from Greg Palast This is the best 95 seconds you can have with your clothes on. Watch this now! And pass it on: Now, get yourself a copy of this film, Vultures and Vote Rustlers — an hour-long real-life detective story, released just this week. - Get the DVD – signed. For a [...]
  • Vultures and Vote Rustlers Watch the Trailer–G ...
      Watch the TrailerNow get the film! Shipped within 24 hours first class: The signed DVD of my new film, Vultures & Vote Rustlers. Includes an hour and a half of extras. Or download just the film right now. * * * * * What’s in this rocking hour of non-fiction detective tales? "Great fun ...
  • The Mandela Barbie
    By Greg Palast for Truthout I can't take it anymore. All week, I've watched Nelson Mandela reduced to a Barbie doll. From Fox News to the Bush family, the politicians and media mavens who body-blocked the anti-Apartheid Movement and were happy to keep Mandela behind bars, now get to dress his im ...
  • Roast Goldman Sachs' Chestnuts on an Open Fire
    Call me crazy, but I’ve couldn’t stop myself:  I’ve made a film about the scoundrels, scalawags, scumbags and bankers just in time to roast their chestnuts on an open fire. Vultures and Vote Rustlers combines my favorite eight investigations for BBC-TV  and Democracy Now into a one hour film tha ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dachel Media Review: Shot of Reason, Vaccines ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Jan 7, 2014, UC Santa Barbara Daily Nexus: Get Your Shot of Reason Jan 7, 2014, The Columbian (Vancouver, WA): In Our View: Vaccinations a Vital Defense...
  • Soylent Greenwashing: The Compact Fluorescent ...
    By Adriana Gamondes You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow! ~ Detective Robert Thorn, Soylent Green, 1973 (From imbd: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York...
  • Dachel Media Review: Early Detection in China, ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary after the jump. Jan 6, 2014, Australia Network News: Researchers implement program in China that allows for early detection of autism Jan 5, 2014, Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Encountering autism: Goal of DVD is to...
  • Best of AoA: Voices for Vaccines and Jenny McC ...
    By John Stone Originally published 5 August 2013 this article showed that the organization which had mounted a petition against Jenny McCarthy appearing on 'The View' had government and pharmaceutical industry ties. It may be helpful to re-visit it in...
  • Media Bullies Can Suck It
    By Zack Gonzales The rumor mill goes round and round - autism is just being diagnosed more; recovery isn't real; nothing but quack treatments; Jenny McCarthy's son never had autism. It's exhausting. Autism is an epidemic. Recovery IS real. There's...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The Incredibly Flat World of Monsanto
    In the biotech sector, what they don’t see simply does not exist, and what they claim does not exist may be responsible for a myriad of diseases we are experiencing today. New scientific discovery reveals DNA manipulation can create mutations due to ignorance of gene control mechanism.
  • 4-H Promotes Biotech to “Facilitate Youth Prog ...
    This is the wave of the future for our upcoming generations. Programming. And part of that programming consists of the acceptance and promotion of genetic engineering.
  • A Global Citizens Report against Big Ag, Big P ...
    We remain at an impasse and continue to be poisoned by Government policies. It’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
  • A Miracle in Wisconsin
    Fast-food burgers, fries, and burritos gave way to fresh salads, meats “prepared with old-fashioned recipes,” and whole grain bread. Fresh fruits were added to the menu. Good drinking water arrived. Vending machines were removed. Grades are up, truancy is no longer a problem, arguments are rare, ...
  • Genetic Devolution
    We are setting ourselves up to lose it all to the limited constructs of a few geneticists’ awkward attempts at mimicking creation, who plug away at changing our genetic structure much like a baby taking his/her first steps and not anticipating the inevitable crash.

new geography

  • Some Implications of Detroit’s Bankruptcy
    There’s been so much ink spilled over Detroit’s bankruptcy that I haven’t felt the need to add much to it. But this week the judge overseeing the case ruled that the city of Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy. He also went ahead and ruled that pensions can be cut for the city&r ...
  • Political, Economic Power Grow More Concentrated
    Generally speaking, we associate the quest for central government control to be very much a product of the extremes of left and right. But increasingly, the lobby for ever-greater concentration of power – both economically and politically – comes not from the fringes, but from established center ...
  • The Abuse of Art in Economic Development
    City building is an imperfect process. Poverty, segregation, and income disparities persist, or worsen, despite longstanding efforts to affect change. The unsightliness of these social failures are called “blight”. Blight is commonly thought to be the antithesis to beauty. Urban rev ...
  • The Geography of Cultural Attitudes
    The cultural and political division of America, the gap between “red” and ”blue” with respect to economic and social liberalism or conservatism is a constant and dominant theme in American discourse. Here’s some narrowly specific measures of social liberalism based on actual votes by citizen ...
  • Energy and Transportation Planning For People
    The recent publication of the United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2014 Annual Energy Outlook provides a good backdrop for examining the importance of current information in transportation and land-use planning. I have written about two recent cases in ...

water.org

  • Kathirvel, Changing Lives Through Masonry
    Kathirvel is 65 years old and a retired mason. Although he is retired, he now uses his expertise in masonry to work constructing toilets for families who have taken out loans through Water.org's WaterCredit program. He has built 200 toilets in the last year. He is training other masons to constr ...
  • Matt Damon says, "Thanks!"
    The success of the past year would not have been possible without your support. To everyone who contributes to bring safe water and sanitation to the world, we thank you.
  • Best Videos of 2013
    2013 Top Videos: #5 Next » As we look back at a tremendous year, we invite you to join us in celebrating with five of our best videos from 2013!
  • Top 5 Water Stories of 2013
    « Prev 2013 Top Posts Next » Christine Mbati has three children and was recently widowed. She is a member of the K’Obonyo self-help group and lives at Ulanda village.
  • Kites, Games, and Bubbles
    Every child deserves a chance to play, and a time to be silly. Thankfully, access to safe water gives children their time back, and gives them the chance to be kids.

Cryptogon

  • BMW Builds a Self-Driving Car — That Drifts
    Via: Wired: BMW makes the Ultimate Driving Machine, and now it’s made the Ultimate Drifting Machine. Except it’s the code that’s in control. At CES, BMW is showing off a modified 2-Series Coupe and 6-Series Gran Coupe that can race around a track at the limits of adhesion, and slide around corne ...
  • Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton
    Via: Wired: A new drone with the mammoth wingspan of a Boeing 757 is set to give the U.S. Navy some serious surveillance power. Northrop Grumman and the Navy say they’ve just completed the ninth flight trial of the Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS), an improvement upon its predecessor in the ...
  • RAF Jets Fly with 3D Printed Parts
    Via: BBC: RAF Tornado fighter jets have flown with parts made using 3D printing technology for the first time, defence company BAE Systems has said. The metal components were used in test flights from the firm’s airfield at Warton, Lancashire, late last month. The parts include protective ...
  • ‘A World Made Safe for Selling Mountains ...
    Via: Guardian: Until the late 19th century much of our city space was owned by private landlords. Squares were gated, streets were controlled by turnpikes. The great unwashed, many of whom had been expelled from the countryside by acts of enclosure, were also excluded from desirable parts of tow ...
  • The Burglars Who Exposed FBI COINTELPRO
    Via: New York Times: So on a night nearly 43 years ago, while Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier bludgeoned each other over 15 rounds in a televised title bout viewed by millions around the world, burglars took a lock pick and a crowbar and broke into a Federal Bureau of Investigation office in a subu ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For J ...
    The stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class.  In this economic environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of jobs.  For example, more than 1,600 applications were recently submitted for just 36 ...
  • Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate ...
    What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor?  59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  But ...
  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...

Desertification

  • To end hunger while meeting the challenge of c ...
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=46671&Cr=climate+change&Cr1=#.Ur7Y6VDvfK0 “Climate-smart” agriculture needed to steer food security through changing weather, Ban says Agroforestry, diversification of crops with legumes and other practical measures must be scaled up ...
  • Urban agriculture significantly improving live ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/in-home-gardens-income-and-food-for-urban-poor In Home Gardens, Income and Food for Urban Poor Flowers burst out of old tires and rows of pepper plants fill recycled plastic tubs as herbs pop out of old pipes. As utilitarian as it is … Continue reading ...
  • Orphan crops to sustain smallholder farmers (N ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/focus/on.php?a=3149 Focus on… Neglected and underutilised species Variety is said to be the spice of life and to make our lives more interesting. And yet, worldwide, a significant proportion of the global treasure chest of plant biodiversity … Cont ...
  • Neglected and underutilised plant species (NUS ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=3168 Fighting poverty, hunger and malnutrition with neglected and underutilized species By Stefano Padulosi, Judith Thompson and Per Rudebjer Published by Bioversity International Website: http://www.bioversityinternational.org 2013, 60 pp, I ...
  • Construction of a dam in Zimbabwe (IRIN News)
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report/99269/dam-project-displaces-hundreds-of-families-in-zimbabwe Dam project displaces hundreds of families in Zimbabwe Several thousand people in southeastern Zimbabwe’s drought-prone Masvingo Province have had to leave their ancestral homes and villag ...

News Blaze

libcom

  • Into the Shadows - Britain’s dirty war in Ireland
    51B9-knoPwL__BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-70,22_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg The recent BBC documentary 'Panorama: Britain's Secret Terror Fo ...
  • Nicaragua: the Sandinistas repress the struggl ...
    nic.jpg Account written by comrades in Costa Rica and Nicaragua of how the left' government in Nicaragua used both police and its political militias against the struggle of working class pensione ...
  • Swedish nazi attack on anti-racist rally fails
    sthlmantifa.jpg Sweden, December 15, 30 or so nazis from the Swedish Resistance Movement (SMR) attempted to disrupt a rally against racism comprised of local Karrtorp residents and anti-fascist organi ...
  • XXV Congress of the AIT-IWA
    AITCongress.jpg From December 6-8, 2013, the XXV AIT-IWA Congress took place in Valencia, Spain. Around 150 people took part in the Congress, with delegates coming from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, ...
  • Abahlali: We were promised homes for all, not ...
    Mandela.jpg South African shack dwellers' direct action movement Abahlali baseMjondolo on the death and legacy of Nelson Mandela. “If the ANC does to you what the Apartheid ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Mandela Mythos – Part II
    Really – you can’t make this stuff up!  The word BIZARRE is an understatement – but when one considers the TRUTH about Nelson Mandela, things start to make a little more sense, perhaps. At the December 10 memorial service for Mandela, world leaders, including of course another ...
  • The Mandela Mythos – Part II
    Really – you can’t make this stuff up!  The word BIZARRE is an understatement – but when one considers the TRUTH about Nelson Mandela, things start to make a little more sense, perhaps. At the December 10 memorial service for Mandela, world leaders, including of course another ...
  • Nelson Mandela – The Untold Story Behind ...
    “With the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of revered statesman Nelson Mandela. His courage, kindness and extraordinary moral leadership have been an example to all people. We express our love and sympathies to his family and the people of South Africa as they remember his extraordi ...
  • Nelson Mandela – The Untold Story Behind ...
    “With the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of revered statesman Nelson Mandela. His courage, kindness and extraordinary moral leadership have been an example to all people. We express our love and sympathies to his family and the people of South Africa as they remember his extraordi ...
  • George Galloway – A Voice of Truth and R ...
    Scottish/Irish politician George Galloway tells it like it truly is in a speech in a church in Vancouver B.C. back in 2010.   He declared: “The Palestinians are the victims of one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century now bleeding into the 21st century!! Israel has broken more U.N. Se ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • Moving America Beyond Oil: A Brief Year-End Pr ...
    While ample study has been made of the technical potential to reduce emissions by improving vehicle technology, there have been fewer comprehensive assessments of the potential to cut pollution by reducing traffic levels and improving the efficiency of the transportation system.read more
  • 60 Minutes Hit Job On Clean Energy Ignores The ...
    Clean technology is booming by every key indicator, but you would never know that from Sunday’s 60 Minutes piece touting a “Cleantech Crash.” As documented in a recent Department of Energy report, the only thing in cleantech that is crashing is the cost of key components.read more
  • 5 PACE Programs to Watch in 2014
    Commercial property-assessed clean energy (PACE) financed projects climbed to nearly $60 million in 2013. And that figure will likely swell in the coming years. There is more than $215 million in PACE project applications in the pipeline, according to PACENow, a nonprofit that promotes PACE prog ...
  • The First Five Smart Grid and Smart City Predi ...
    There are a number of prognostications about 2014 Smart Grid trends, but this article offers a longer and broader view out to 2020, a milestone year for renewable portfolio standards in twelve states including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington.read more
  • Energy 2013: More Shifts Ahead?
    Year-in-review posts have become standard fare for energy blogs; I've written my share in the past. However, while 2013 hardly lacked for interesting energy-related news and events to populate a top-ten list, most fell short of the potential to affect energy markets strongly for years to co ...

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Exonerate Edward Snowden Unconditionally!
    by Stephen Lendman It's long past time to stop Obama's war on whistleblowers. It's time to hold him accountable for waging it. Whistleblowing is a national imperative. Exposing government wrongdoing is essential. Responsible parties must be punished. Whistleblowers deserve praise, not pro ...
  • Talkin’ ‘bout a global revolution
    Adam Parsons As the global financial crisis now enters its seventh year, it is time to start asking difficult questions about the right priorities for popular protest if we want to realise a truly united voice of the world’s people. There can be no revolution in a truly moral or global se ...
  • America Greatest Threat to World Peace
    by Stephen Lendman A new poll affirms it. Respondents in 68 countries said so. Anti-US sentiment is palpable. It doesn't surprise. It's for good reason. Around one-fourth of people surveyed believe America is the greatest threat to world peace. Pakistan was second with 8%. Other countrie ...
  • Rand Paul v. NSA Spying
    by Stephen Lendman He's Kentucky's junior senator. He's leading a class-action lawsuit. He's filing it in US District Court for the District of Columbia. It's against the Obama administration's mass surveillance program. He urged everyone "to stop Barack Obama's NSA snooping on the Ameri ...
  • The Tasks of the People-Powered Movement for 2 ...
    By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers In our last article, “Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer than You May Realize,” we defined where today’s social-political movement is within the eight stages of successful movements. We have passed the “Take-Off Stage” ( ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Words we need to retire in 2014
    Out with the old! The first Hennessy's Index of the year offers a list of words primed for retirement in 2014. Whether they are political jargon, have coded meanings, or just deserve to be challenged and reframed, read on to find out which words and phrases we ought to leave behind: Hennessy’s I ...
  • CEO earnings are a stark contrast to the avera ...
    Five years after a global recession knocked the wind out of Canada’s labour market, throwing tens of thousands of workers onto the unemployment line and sidelining a generation of young workers, the compensation of Canada’s CEO elite continues to sail along.  By 1:11pm on January 2, the first o ...
  • Ben Parfitt: Conversation still needed about B ...
    In an opinion piece in the Province today, resource policy analyst Ben Parfitt supports the open letter from eight BC organizations calling for the BC government to deliver on its promise to consult with the public about significant changes to forestry policy.
  • Raising Ontario's minimum wage
    The Ontario government will soon receive advice from a panel tasked with reviewing how much and how often to raise the provincial minimum wage. Currently, minimum wage workers in Ontario earn an income that leaves them 25% below the poverty line.  This is wrong and needs to be fixed.  But bes ...
  • A round-up of commentary on the Canada Post cuts
    On Wednesday, December 11th, Canada Post announced a series of changes which included cutting staff, phasing out door-to-door mail delivery to urban residents, and a new pricing system, among others. Here's a round-up of some of our work related to this hot topic: Blog posts Cutting Canada Pos ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Cinema With The Right Stuff Marks 2013 Nationa ...
    December 18, 2013 Press contact:  Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456, scannady@loc.gov Public contact: Steve Leggett (202) 707-5912, sleg@loc.gov To Media:  Select high-resolution images and video clips are available for a limited time; register at www.loc.gov/pressroom/registration ...
  • 2013 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY QUOTES
    Maureen O’Hara, Award-winning Actress – “The Quiet Man” “I am overjoyed that the Library of Congress has inducted The Quiet Man into its National Film Registry. It was the thrill of our lives for John Ford, John Wayne, myself, and everyone to make it. I had never ...
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...
  • Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brze ...
    In 1968 Zbigniew Brzezinski, then a top advisor to the presidential campaign of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, wrote an article called "America in the Technetronic Age," making these predictions: ...the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Quick Response on 60 Minutes Story
    As a result of Sunday night’s 60 Minutes story about cleantech, a lot of people are emailing me or clicking in here for the first time. I will have a more in-depth report on my contribution to the story — including bits that didn’t survive the editing process for a more complet ...
  • This Weekend on 60 Minutes
    I just got a note that a recent interview I did with Lesley Stahl on cleantech will be part of a story airing this weekend. I will have some “behind the scenes” reporting early next week.
  • The Top 5 Energy Stories of 2013
    Robert Rapier gives us his Top 5 Energy Stories of 2013.
  • The Top 10 Energy Stories of 2013 (#6-10)
    In the next two articles Robert Rapier will present his choices for the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2013. Here are Numbers 6-10.
  • Top Energy Stories of 2013 – Honorable Mention
    My Top 10 energy related stories of 2013 ended up being a 3,500 word story, so I decided to break it up into three parts. Today I will list some of the stories that could have arguably been placed in a list of Top 10 energy stories for the year. Later this week I will list stories 6-10 of my Top ...

Discovery Educator Network

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Warmist: 'Every Weather Event in the Modern Wo ...
    In an article from Common Dreams saying the 'Polar Vortex' is due to global warming we find this little gem: From Common Dreams: The idea that any particular "weather event" is or is not climate change [...] belies the deeper fact that all weath...
  • Total Privacy = Total Destruction Of The State
    The state cannot exist without invasions of privacy. *Without invasions of privacy, taxes could not be imposed. *If all transactions and accounting records were private, incomes and revenues could not be verified. *Tax evasion could not be prosecuted...
  • For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device
    "We don't have time for this!" exclaimed a police officer as he shot and killed a psychologically troubled, 90-pound teenage boy who had already been tasered and was pinned down beneath two other officers. The victim, 18-year-old Keith Vidal, was "ar...
  • Scorsese's Pump and Dump
    Former prosecutor Joel Cohen tells the Wall Street Journal the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" should not have been made. Mr. Cohen believes the mere fact Hollywood megastar Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed the penny stock hustler glamorizes a criminal wh...
  • Too Big to Pop
    Most economic observers are predicting that 2014 will be the year in which the United States finally shrugs off the persistent malaise of the Great Recession. As we embark on this sunny new chapter, we may ask what wisdom the five-year trauma has del...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Hoist On Their Own Petard
    Happy New Year to all my readers. I thought I’d interrupt my summer holidays in balmy climes to have a bit of a chortle at two seemingly unrelated stories in the news over the last few days. One concerns cricket, … Continue reading →
  • Seasons Greetings
    And that’s it for LibertyGibbert for another year. Work and family commitments have meant I haven’t been able to write as much as I would have liked this year, yet we’ve managed to have some interesting discussions. Thank you to … Continue reading →
  • Fifty Years On, And We’re None The Wiser.
    I was alive when it happened. But as I was living in Sydney, and only six months old at the time, I’m not very high on the FBI’s list of suspects. Probably. For those old enough to remember, it is, … Continue reading →
  • Psephology 101, Or Why Britain Should Embrace ...
    You may recall back in August, I railed against the undemocratic farce that Australian federal Senate elections have become. As indeed it has. Since the election in September, things have turned from farcical to downright embarrassing. During a contested recount … Continue reading →
  • Misery in Motown
    Every Wednesday evening at 8:30, my wife and I switch on the television in our bedroom for our weekly fill of Hardcore Pawn (you should see the raised eyebrows on our friends when we tell them this). It’s a reality … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros

  • JPMorgan to pay $2.6 bn to Madoff victims. No ...
    If we had a functioning legal system, the top people at JPMorgan would have been indicted long ago. Instead the company pays fines for offenses that most of us would go to prison for. The government fines them, the company promises to be good, and nothing changes. This cynical and pitiful charad ...
  • Over-entitled SF tech douchebags, Snowden pard ...
    Jason Calacanis, Kara Swisher, and Robert Scoble discuss this and more in the new This Week in Startups. I highly recommend watching it. The chief topic was the overwhelming negative reaction, including within tech, to overly entitled whiny assholes in SF who think homeless are icky and that San ...
  • Whoa! Toyota fuel-cell car has 310 mile range
    The Toyota Fuel Cell Vehicle debuts in the US at CES. They will be available commercially in 2015. Other car manufacturers promise similar fuel-cell cars. Fuel cells run on hydrogen and are zero emission. The generally accepted view that fuel-cell vehicles were dead appears to be completely wron ...
  • Weather hysteria
    Yes, it’s cold. However overblown reporting pretending to be news and people way overreacting is not helping. When I was a kid, we used to go skiing when it was minus 10 and people didn’t make such a big deal about weather swings. This is cheap, easy, dumbed-down, meaningless “ ...
  • The American Dream is dead, long live the Amer ...
    John Robb of Global Guerrillas and Resilient Communities believes events will force us to reinvent and reboot our country and that old dreams must die before new ones can be born. I now believe a new, vibrant American Dream is not only possible, but inevitable. A Dream so powerful, it has the po ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Undocumented Labour
    Changes to refugee health care put women and babies at risk MONTREAL—Violet worked as a secretary and raised her two teenage childre ...
  • Chronique Ilnu propage numéro 1
    Luttes autochtones en 2013 et perspectives d'avenir
  • NOII Toronto's Year in Review
    This article is reposted from NOII-Toronto's year in review. Check out NOII's website for photos and ways to support!  2013 in Review: Sanctuary City declared, migrants on strike, Mahjoub struggles on and more The turning of t ...
  • Review: Undoing Border Imperialism
    This review was originally posted by Upside Down World. Undoing Border Imperialism, by Harsha Walia, introduction by Andrea Smith. AK Press, 2013. Anyone who has been involved in activism in any of Canada’s largest cities has probabl ...
  • Drilling for oil off the coast of Nova Scotia
    Fear of spills has environmentalists concerned K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - After a long period of non-activity offshore oil is once again a hot ticket in Nova Scotia. Last year BP Expl ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...
  • 2013: Vladimir Putin's year
    David Seaton's News LinksBy his own measure, Mr Putin has had a good year. The Russian president craves international respect. By stepping back from the world, the US ceded to Moscow space at the top table. Phillip Stephens - Financial TimesVladimir Putin has been eating the "West's" lunch: Syri ...
  • Mandela's funeral
    David Seaton's News Links Mahatma Gandhi was lucky to die when he did and avoid such a degrading celebrity circus... between the imperial selfies and the surreal sign language interpreter, all that was missing was to have Miley Cyrus perform "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", with a massed choir. DS
  • Pope Francis reminds me of Gorbachev
    David Seaton's News LinksSome people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expre ...
  • The Iran deal
    David Seaton's News LinksThings may unravel but at least there is hope. Perhaps this is what is most threatening to Netanyahu. He has never been willing to test the Palestinians in a serious way — test their good faith, test ending the humiliations of the occupation, test from strength the power ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Gates Says Obama Gave Up On Afghanistan Three ...
    Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has published a memoir of his time in government. He served in Obama's cabinet for two years: Mr. Gates says that by 2011, Mr. Obama began expressing his own criticism of the way his strategy in Afghanistan was playing out. At a pivotal meeting i ...
  • Is Graduate School a Racket?
    Megan McArdle writes about the grim prospects for graduate students: Last week, I wrote that collectively, faculty need to deal with the terrible market for professorships by producing fewer potential professors: admitting a lot fewer students to graduate school....There are two criticis ...
  • Chart of the Day: America's Health Care System ...
    Is life expectancy a good measure of the quality of a country's health care system? I've always been pretty hesitant to use it as a primary metric because....well, I'll just let Aaron Carroll describe people like me: One of my issues with the arguments people muster against life expectan ...
  • A Wee Question for the Climate Change Skeptics
    Mark Kleiman poses an interesting question: I’d like to hear the climate-change deniers explain why Monsanto wanted to pay almost $1 billion for a company whose business model is protecting farmers against increasing volatility in the weather, and whose models predict that Kansas w ...
  • Unemployment Bill Moves Closer to Inevitable D ...
    A couple of hours ago, the Senate voted 60-37 to move forward on a bill extending unemployment insurance benefits. If those same 60 senators continue to vote the same way, the bill will pass sometime in the next day or two. But that will require making some concessions to Republicans, and t ...

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Survival - tribal peoples

  • Kenya: Sengwer tribe faces eviction in the nam ...
    Sengwer, Marakwet and other inhabitants of the Embobut Forest are being told to move by authorities, March 2013.© Justin Kenrick/SurvivalSome of Kenya’s last hunter-gatherers face eviction from their ancestral forest in the name of ‘conservation’ after a government notice expired on Monday. The ...
  • At last! Brazil begins long-awaited operation ...
    More than six months after the Brazilian army moved in to tackle illegal logging outside the land of the Awá, the Brazilian government has now started a major ground operation to evict illegal invaders from inside the Awá's land.© Exército BrasileiroAfter months of campaigning by Survival I ...
  • New Penan blockade against oil palm plantation
    Penan armed with blowpipes block road as Shin Yang logging trucks approach, during a previous blockade.© SurvivalForty Penan families, from the Malaysian state of Sarawak, are blockading in protest against the Shin Yang logging and oil palm plantation company for trespassing on their ancestral l ...
  • Massacre investigation exposes Indonesian army ...
    For decades, West Papua’s tribal people have suffered at the hands of the Indonesian military. This 'trophy' photograph was taken by soldiers, in the same year as the Biak massacre, after they killed a man and his 12 year old nephew.© SurvivalA tribunal set up to examine a notorious ma ...
  • Bushmen’s public appeal to end government pers ...
    Bushmen leader and spokesman, Roy Sesana in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.© Lottie Davies/SurvivalBotswana’s Bushmen have held a press conference in the country’s capital to demand an end to government persecution of the tribe. Bushmen spokesmen Roy Sesana, Mangana, Keikabile Modo ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • 'Traffic light' food labels changed buying hab ...
    from latimes.com: Would you fill that 16-ounce cup with sugary soda if it had a red light on the dispenser? Or might you move to the faucet for water and its green light? Researchers tracked food and drink choices in a big Boston hospital and found that those "traffic light" signals influence ch ...
  • #USDA moves forward with herbicide-resistant # ...
    from RT.com: The commercial use of new herbicide-resistant, genetically modified corn and soybean seeds moved one step closer to reality on Friday when the United States Department of Agriculture announced their introduction in limited quantities. The new seeds have been genetically engineer ...
  • Non-#GMO #Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than He ...
    from nbcnews.com: A non-Frankenfood Cheerios may not make much of a difference to consumers’ health, but it could deliver some benefits to General Mills’ bottom line. Opponents of genetically modified foods cheered the cereal maker’s announcement Thursday that its original flavor Cheerios now is ...
  • Waiter, There’s Fox in My Donkey Meat
    #China Fake Donkey Meat Scandal Shows Danger of Food Fraud from science.time.com: Consumers in China are angry because their donkey meat doesn’t contain enough…donkey. Wal-Mart this week recalled “Five Spice” donkey meat sold at some outlets in China after tests revealed that the product contain ...
  • Top 10 GE Labeling Stories of 2013
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: 2013 has been an amazing year in the fight for GE labeling! We have seen the first passage of GE lableing laws on the state level, the introduction of legislation on the national level and the fight for GE labeling has come to the forefront of food issues here in th ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For J ...
    The stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class.  In this economic environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of jobs.  For example, more than 1,600 applications were recently submitted for just 36 ...
  • Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate ...
    What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor?  59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  But ...
  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • More evidence undermines industry claims of fr ...
    Image Caption:  A still from the documentary "Gasland" by Josh Fox shows a man who lives near a fracking site setting his well water on fire. The oil and gas industry claims that fracking does not endanger groundwate ...
  • State of the Environmental Justice Executive O ...
    Image Caption:  Environmental justice leaders are still working for full implementation of an executive order President Clinton signed in February 1994. What is the state of Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898, "Federa ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The fight for North Carolina' ...
    Image Caption:  A Moral Monday protest in Raleigh, N.C. in July 2013. (Photo by TW Buckner via Flickr.) A by-the-numbers look at the political battle underway in North Carolina, where a a right-wing legislature and administrat ...
  • Bill Moyers examines NC's 'State of Conflict'
    Image Caption:  A documentary on the political fights raging in North Carolina is set to begin airing Jan. 3. A leading journalist's TV show will look at the political battles underway in North Carolina, where protesters are f ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Visible Origami | Sitting in the Bakelite Chai ...
    By Visible I’ll leave you with an illustration of this as it applies to sex and also feature The Tarot in such a way as to show the practical value of it. The Hermit card is a pictorial example of one who possesses the inner light. It’s got all kinds of attributes and one knowledgeable […]
  • UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Onl ...
    Nick Meyer | AltHealthWORKS Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once against sounding the alarm about the urgent need to return ...
  • Wake Up Call: Global Warming High Priest Al Go ...
    Malcolm Gladwell\’s great book The Tipping Point presents the case that sudden seismic shifts in society can result from small events, if the right factors are present. Tipping points happen when momentum toward an idea builds and finally crosses a threshold where it is evident that a majo ...
  • German Scientists Show Climate Driven By Natur ...
    By P Gosselin on 3. Dezember 2013 Climate reveals periodic nature, thus no influence by CO2 Prof. H. Luedecke and C.O. Weiss (Original German version here.) We reported recently about our spectral analysis work of European temperatures [1] which shows that during the last centuries all climate c ...
  • ‘Affordable care’ – Oregon man robs bank ...
    A homeless man has allegedly held up and robbed a Portland bank for $1, then sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison. Timothy Dean Alsip, a 50-year-old homeless man, was arrested by the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department and thrown in jail on susp ...

Veterans Today

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electric politics

  • Was Arafat Assassinated?!
    In November 2012 three teams, French, Swiss, and Russian, exhumed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to try to determine his cause of death. Independently, they took samples from his body, mausoleum, and surroundings. The French and the Russians concluded that he died of natural causes. The Swi ...
  • Facts Versus Faith
    Color me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...
  • The Coming Democratic Revolution
    Every journey starts with a single step. So, too, every revolution starts with a single idea, that justice requires a new social covenant. A revolution is about health care, but it's not about health care. It's about nuclear disarmament, but not about nuclear disarmament. It's about protecting t ...
  • A Constitutional Crisis
    The budget and the national debt have become a political wedge that threatens to fracture America's constitutional order. Built-in constitutional tension has become dangerously unstable. If there's a potential fix through the electoral process (which I doubt) it's elusive: this crisis has been b ...
  • Hostage Negotiations 101
    They're extremely agitated. They're desperate to get what they want but have run out of options. Now they've seized hostages and are making dire threats. You should keep the innocent safe but avoid deploying unnecessary force against the hostage-takers. What to do? For some advice on hostage sit ...

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • High-intensity conflict: Videos show what NATO ...
  • Stephen Lendman interviews Rick Rozoff
    Progressive Radio Network January 3, 2014 Stephen Lendman interviews Rick Rozoff of Stop NATO Audio
  • C.F. Ramuz: Little by little the war spreads
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts C.F. Ramuz From The End of All Men (Présence de la mort) (1922) Translated by Allan Ross Macdougall All over the countryside now there are bands of prowlers who take possession for a day or two of homes that have perforce been abandoned ...
  • Pakistan: Anti-NATO Sit-In Completes 44th Day
    The Nation January 6, 2014 Sit-in against Nato supplies completes 44 days PESHAWAR – The sit-in of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf against NATO supplies and drone attacks continued on the 44th consecutive day on Sunday. The sit-in was led by activists of PTI FATA leader Amin Zada Afridi, Jamal Af ...
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: When staging a massacre, all ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jean-Paul Sartre: When the rich fight the rich, it is the poor who die ==== Jean-Paul Sartre From The Devil and the Good Lord (1951) Translated by Kitty Black GOETZ: And why have you changed your mind? HEINRICH: I have seen the fac ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Controversial Ag Gag Bill Returns in Indiana: ...
    Muncie Voice: Hoosier Lawmakers Bringing Back Controversial Ag Gag Bill Despite its failure to pass last year, an anti-whistleblower Ag Gag bill in Indiana has been revamped and reintroduced in the state Senate. A hearing on the bill, which would criminalize individuals who expose wrongdoing ...
  • Tide Changing for Snowden: Daily Whistleblower ...
    Dear Daily Whistleblower News (DWN) Readers: Happy New Year to you and your family from the staff of GAP! We're excited to bring you another year of whistleblower-related news. If you know of others who may like to sign up for our free service, please direct them to whistleblower.org today! ...
  • GAP Statement on Edward Snowden and NSA Domest ...
    In June 2013, the American public learned conclusively about the wholesale surveillance of virtually all Americans through secretive programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) that continue to be implemented today. These programs collect the phone records, email exchanges, and internet histo ...
  • Senate Approves Military Whistleblower Protect ...
    Late yesterday, the Senate completed congressional action approving section 1714 in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which overhauls the discredited Military Whistleblower Protection Act (MWPA) of 1988. The legislation reflects a bipartisan consensus between House and ...
  • OPM OIG Report Confirms Misconduct at OSC by A ...
    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Office of Inspector General (OIG) substantially confirmed misconduct at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) during the 2003-2008 term of Special Counsel Scott Bloch in a report released today. The OSC is responsible for defending the merit system gen ...

UK Progressive

  • How Obama Blew It
    by Brent Budowsky It is no secret that there is widespread disappointment in the Obama presidency. This disappointment in President Obama mirrors the almost universal disapproval of Congress, the widespread disapproval of most major American institutions, the low generic polling for Democrats in ...
  • Suicides, Dogs & Disputed Islands – 2014’s Scr ...
    This is The Monday Line By Denis G. Campbell Forget euro-zone finances, Greek separatists, global austerity or the USA’s do-nothing Congress. There are terrifying global troubles brewing in this New Year. Why do nation states think that if they handle their problems with brute force, they go awa ...
  • How to Improve Temp Worker Safety
    by Michael Grabell ProPublica The federal government could easily track injuries suffered by temporary workers by adding a checkbox to a government form that already exists. Such a move would give regulators the data needed to justify stronger protections. But such a seemingly simple change coul ...
  • Obamacare Sales Surge
    by Brent Budowsky Remember Budowsky’s first law of insider punditry: When the media and political herds are tripping over each other’s hoofs while stampeding in a certain direction, the herds are almost always wrong. Take note of the fact that in recent days, the traffic to the Affordable Care w ...
  • Don’t Give Up on Obamacare
    by Robert Reich Whatever happened to American can-do optimism?  Even before the Affordable Care Act covers its first beneficiary, the nattering nabobs of negativism are out in full force. “Tens of millions more Americans will lose their coverage and find that new ObamaCare plans have higher prem ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • There goes another consensus. Crash diets solv ...
    Sometimes the consensus deniers are right, which is exactly why the term is so pointless and so profoundly unscientific. The medical associations were unequivocal. Crash diets were a fad, unhealthy, and only slow sensible weight loss could work. So millions of people were fed expensive drugs for ...
  • Michael Asten’s novel idea – think ...
    It’s amazing what sensible things turn up in the holiday period. The Australian not only published Maurice Newman skeptical discussion: “climate madness, dishonesty and fraud”, but two days later they published a scientist talking about natural cycles. The scandal! He’s i ...
  • French Polar Chief slams SpiritofMawson fiasco
    This really has been a PR debacle of amazing proportions. The ship stuck in ice has captured something larger than I would have expected. Methinks the timing must be apropos. Good scientists are distancing themselves from the publicity hungry climate lightweights and commentators on both sides o ...
  • Australian taxpayers will pay $400,000 cost fo ...
    The saga just keeps going. The Chinese Icebreaker is now also stuck, and has asked for help so the Aurora Australis with 52 extra passengers rescued from the Russian Charter boat have to stay nearby to help. Twenty two Russian sailors are still trapped on board the Russian boat — the Akade ...
  • Akademik Shokalskiy: were those careless risks ...
    It is good news that the climate scientists, PhD’s, children, tourists and media are finally safe on board the Aurora Australia (though I note the webcam this morning still shows that boat surrounded by sea ice). Spare a thought for the sailors still on board the Shokalskiy. Shub Niggurath ...

ReNew America

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

Popsci - Science

  • Mysterious Ferret Thefts Roil Southern England
    Ferret Luciano Bernardi via Wikimedia Commons There are many things that are important to keep an eye on to prevent theft, such as your wallet, phone... and your ferrets. Throughout rural southern England over the past two years, there's been a rise in the number of ferret thefts, according ...
  • How Honey Bees Point Their Way To Food
    A honey bee on a flower Bob Peterson, via Flickr Honey bees can give each other directions using polarized light as a landmark to find potential food. Light becomes polarized as it reaches us through the atmosphere, but the polarization is typically not seen by the naked human eye. In a new ...
  • A Pill Could Help You Acquire Perfect Pitch
    Musical notes Prof.rick via WikiMedia Commons Only 1 in 10,000 people have absolute or "perfect" pitch, the ability to hear a tone and tell what note it is. This unusual ability is acquired early in life, typically learned during training at about four to six years of age, and there are no ...
  • For The First Time, China Crushes Tons Of Ivor ...
    Ivory crush Some of the ivory crushed by the U.S. government in November 2013. USFWS / YouTube There is little good news when it comes to elephants--the animals are in trouble due to record levels of poaching, to feed the illegal ivory trade. More than 30,000 elephants are killed for thei ...
  • Canada's Ex-Defense Minister Says Aliens Would ...
    Alien believer RT / YouTube It's not necessarily shocking to hear somebody claim that at least four different species of aliens have visited the Earth, for thousands of years. But it is somewhat more shocking when that person was once in charge of much of Canada's military, Paul Hellyer. In ...

Facing South

  • More evidence undermines industry claims of fr ...
    Image Caption:  A still from the documentary "Gasland" by Josh Fox shows a man who lives near a fracking site setting his well water on fire. The oil and gas industry claims that fracking does not endanger groundwate ...
  • State of the Environmental Justice Executive O ...
    Image Caption:  Environmental justice leaders are still working for full implementation of an executive order President Clinton signed in February 1994. What is the state of Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898, "Federa ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The fight for North Carolina' ...
    Image Caption:  A Moral Monday protest in Raleigh, N.C. in July 2013. (Photo by TW Buckner via Flickr.) A by-the-numbers look at the political battle underway in North Carolina, where a a right-wing legislature and administrat ...
  • Bill Moyers examines NC's 'State of Conflict'
    Image Caption:  A documentary on the political fights raging in North Carolina is set to begin airing Jan. 3. A leading journalist's TV show will look at the political battles underway in North Carolina, where protesters are f ...
  • Pickets at Art Pope stores reach small-town No ...
    Image Caption:  Barret Brown of the Alamance County (N.C.) NAACP says the purpose of pickets being held at stores owned by conservative donor and state budget director Art Pope is to help customers understand where the money they spend there go ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • No sign of significant cold or snow anytime soon
    December 2013 was, according to the Met Office, the stormiest December in the UK since data was compiled in 1969 and the windiest month since January 1993.  It was a month notable for a North sea surge which was the biggest since January 1953; and for the lowest pressure observed anywhere over l ...
  • Christmas and New Year 2013 weather outlook
    Stormy weather looks set to continue throughout December, with further spells of heavy rain and gale force winds.  The depression which is bringing today’s rain is deepening explosively, with a central pressure of around 930mb expected on Christmas Eve to the west of Scotland.  This won’t be a r ...
  • More on highest tidal surge since 1953 and Dec ...
    TIDAL SURGE The tidal surge which affected the east coast last week was the biggest since the historic coastal flood of January 1953 according to the Environment Agency.  In 1953 hundreds of people lost their lives. In Lincolnshire the sea came inland by 3 miles in the area around Sutton on Sea ...
  • A look back at autumn and forward into early w ...
    Climatological autumn ended this weekend, and it turned out to be a very average affair.  UK mean temperatures were slightly above average, with both rainfall and sunshine both almost exactly average.  More locally as you might expect the three monthly seasonal statistics hide some detail.  Part ...
  • Rest of November outlook - and what about winter?
    High pressure looks set to become dominant across much of the UK for the rest of November, ensuring a lot of dry, fine and settled weather.  Although cloud amounts are always difficult to determine in these situations, by day there should be at least some sunshine, with a risk of some frost and ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • US Energy: Fracking Towns 1, Coal Towns 0
    And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? - Sir Anthony Hopkins as mad genius "Hannibal Lecter" in the Silence of the Lambs. The recent US energy boom due to the large-scale application of fracking has not been a boon ...
  • Enlivening Naypyitaw, Myanmar's "Ghost Capital"
    Where Google Earth fears to tread. Welcome to NaypyitawIn the pantheon of vanity projects, there is none more hubristic than establishing a nation's capital in the middle of nowhere. The archetypal and best-known example is Brasilia, the erstwhile seat of Brazilian government. Lesser-known but n ...
  • US Mess, EU's Problem: Refugee Crisis at Sea
    Did US interference make their lives any better? Take a guess...For many people in conflict zones, the coming of the year 2014 is hardly "new," let alone "happy." The depressing truth as we begin another calendar year is simply that various messes the white man has contributed to are in no way s ...
  • And the World's Match-Fixing Capital is...Sing ...
    Shuffle up and deal and...match-fix?The recent race riots in Singapore came as a shock to the rest of the world given the tightly regulated nature of the city-state. How could such disorder happen? Well, preconceptions about the supposedly antiseptic nature of Singapore may receive a further kno ...
  • I Wanna Riot...In Singapore [?!]
    @#$% the Police, Singapore EditionSingapore has acquired a reputation for being squeaky-clean to the point of being antiseptic. It is particularly famous for two things in this respect: banning bubble gum in public that can litter surroundings and caning juvenile delinquents alike the Yankee bra ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Employment Recovery? 1,600 Workers Apply For J ...
    The stock market may be soaring to unprecedented heights, but things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class.  In this economic environment, there is intense competition for virtually all kinds of jobs.  For example, more than 1,600 applications were recently submitted for just 36 ...
  • Retired Air Force Colonel With Three Graduate ...
    What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor?  59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  But ...
  • How Will The Economy Improve In 2014 If Almost ...
    Is the U.S. consumer tapped out?  If so, how in the world will the U.S. economy possibly improve in 2014?  Most Americans know that the U.S. economy is heavily dependent on consumer spending.  If average Americans are not out there spending money, the economy tends not to do very well.  Unfortun ...
  • Is America About To Reach A Breaking Point? An ...
    In America today, there are close to 50 million people living in poverty and there are more than 100 million people that get money from the federal government every month.  As the middle class disintegrates, poverty is climbing to unprecedented levels.  Even though the stock market has been sett ...
  • The Stock Market Has Officially Entered Crazyt ...
    It is time to crank up the Looney Tunes theme song because Wall Street has officially entered crazytown territory.  Stocks just keep going higher and higher, and at this point what is happening in the stock market does not bear any resemblance to what is going on in the overall economy whatsoeve ...

BlogHer

  • What Do You Know About Marriage That You Didn' ...
    Recalculate pagebreaks:  0 I had 12 writing prompts in a bag and this is what I pulled today:  Image: VikeraAs I wrote this prompt, I had hoped that I wouldn't have to write on it early on, but life had other plans for me. ...
  • Advice for Any Situation: 13 Posts for 2014
    Recalculate pagebreaks:  0 The start of a new year is like Christmas for life coaches.  Resolutions are made, gym memberships purchased and a sense of optimism and hope is in the air.And even though most resolutions don’t su ...
  • Downton Abbey Is Back! Was the First Episode F ...
    Recalculate pagebreaks:  0 Downton Abbey has become an obsession on both sides of the pond and American fans who have been feeling withdrawal pangs finally relaxed when the fourth season returned last night (in Britain the fourth ...
  • Why My Family Must Eat French Toast on Snow Days
    Recalculate pagebreaks:  0 Confession: I was one of those people at the grocery store yesterday buying milk, bread, and eggs in preparation for bad winter weather. But I'm not the idiot many Facebook statuses or this guy would ha ...
  • Texas Contentious Abortion Law Headed to Supre ...
    Recalculate pagebreaks:  Recalculate pagebreaks A Texas abortion law seems destined to wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court, starting with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday hearing arguments from both sides of the contr ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Avocado-Soy Pill May Help in OA of Hip
                A supplement containing extracts of avocado and soybeans showed promise as a structure-modifying treatment for hip osteoarthritis (OA), a French randomized trial suggested. On the study’s primary endpoint of change in joint space w ...
  • 7 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Emerged Only Aft ...
                  A settlement for death or injuries down the road is just the cost of doing business. Have you ever noticed how warnings about dangerous prescription drugs always seem to surface after the drug is no longer ... No related posts. ...
  • Herbalism, Not Big Pharma, is Oldest and Most ...
              While many pharmaceutical medications are disruptive to the overall functioning of the body, numerous herbs actually support the natural healing powers of our own bodies. Herbs can be so effective at healing that we are ... No related posts. ...
  • Love or Hate Mutant Cereal, GMO-Free Cheerios ...
                General Mills says that Cheerios will no longer include ingredients made from genetically modified plants. Some anti-GMO activists are praising the move, which also includes labeling boxes of the company’s flagship cereal as GMO-free. Bu ...
  • 4 Ways to Heal Acne Scars Naturally
                If you have struggled or continue to struggle with acne, it may show in the form of scars. Despite “growing out” of acne, many people bear the scars of their adolescent battle. These acne scars ... No related posts. Related posts brou ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, Jan. 3, 2014
    In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, an earth mover, and a dump truck move through the open lignite pit at Liberty Mine adjacent to the Mississippi Power’s Kemper County energy facility in central Mississippi near DeKalb. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) As I continue to catch up on things after the h ...
  • 4th Circuit rules against miner in black lung case
    Longtime miner Gary Fox underground with the roof bolting machine he operated, driving rods into the mine’s ceiling to prevent a cave-in. Courtesy of Mary Fox and the Center for Public Integrity. Just out today is a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Gary Fox, a decea ...
  • Coal industry legend ‘Buck’ Harles ...
    I’m just back in the office after an extended holiday break, and we’re learning today of the overnight death of James H. “Buck” Harless, a legendary figure in West Virginia’s coal industry. Here’s the report from West Virginia Public Broadcasting: Ninety four- ...
  • The Sago Mine Disaster, Jan. 2, 2006
    It was 8 years ago this morning that an explosion ripped through International Coal Group’s Sago Mine in Upshur County, W.Va. Twelve miners died and another barely got out alive. Miner Randal McCloy Jr. survived, and the miners killed were: Tom Anderson, Terry Helms, Marty Bennett, Martin Toler, ...
  • Merry Christmas from Coal Tattoo

Daniel Miessler

  • A Secure Physical Data Transfer Protocol
    I mostly hate the doctor’s office because it physically infuriates me to fill out paperwork—especially since it’s mostly the same data over and over. One for the doctor’s office itself. Another for the agreement. Another for the insurance update. Oh, and make sure you fil ...
  • How to Create a Custom Text Tone for Your iPhone
    Record your sound using Voice Memos on your iPhone Open a new Voice Project in Garageband Import the tone you created Trim it down to just the part of the recording you need Export the tone from Garageband as a Ringtone Double-clieck the tone on the desktop, which will import it into iTunes Righ ...
  • 2013 Site Stats
    I had some gaps in analytics coverage that lowered my stats a bit, but the site had basically the same amount of traffic as last year.Related Posts:2012 Site StatsJune 2011 Mobile Browsing StatisticsSite Performance Now Trackable Through Google AnalyticsMobile Browsing on The RiseiPhone 4 About ...
  • What’s the Difference Between a Programmer, a ...
    Many people squabble over the differences between hacker, developer, and programmer, and most (in my opinion) get it wrong. Here’s my short description of how they’re the same and how they’re different: http://www.danielmiessler.com/study/programmer_hacker_developer/Related Pos ...
  • The Grand Music Project
    I have an idea for a music project. But not just starting a band or anything—no, this would be a music project like we’ve never seen.For reasons that will become evident immediately, it’s very unlikely to ever be done, but I want to capture the idea anyway. So the idea is this: ...

Fitwatch

  • Safety Tips for Cops Off Campus 2013
    This features opening commentary from a few FITwatchers. If you’re in a hurry, skip straight to the safety tips after the stars **** at the bottom. It has been a busy week at the University of London. Months of tensions … Continue reading →
  • Why we need dissenting voices to ruin the stat ...
    Thatcher has been given a state ceremonial funeral. Our ruling class want to show the world how much she was loved and respected. They desperately don’t want any dissenting voices ruining the show. Fitwatch truly hopes that they do not get their wish. Thatcher was a prime architect of repressive ...
  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

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

Tarpley

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • 2013 above par for golfing star
    Norway’s queen of golf, Suzann ‘Tutta’ Pettersen, capped off a stellar year with two major awards at the annual Sports Gala (Idrettsgallaen) over the weekend. Commentators have named her among the world’s sporting greats, and her star is set to keep rising as she chases t ...
  • “Worst abuse case” appeal begins
    The parents convicted of assaulting their three children over many years in “Norway’s worst abuse case” pleaded not guilty before the court of appeal (lagmannsretten) on Monday. The parents categorically reject the charges of committing violence and serious sexual assault. The ...
  • Poor interpretation halts French case
    The trial of Norwegian man Joshua French, accused of murdering his friend and cell mate in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) jail, adjourned soon after it began in Kinshasa on Tuesday morning. Poor interpretation between English and French brought the case to a halt until Friday, while a new ...
  • Norwegian Air complaints pile up
    Unhappy Norwegian Air customers have lodged a record number of complaints, both with the embattled airline and the Transport Complaints Board (Transportklagenemnda). More than 200 grievances have been registered with the board alone, as Norwegian’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliners continue to ca ...
  • Construction fall an economic flag
    Economists and industry analysts warned a sharp downturn in the Norwegian construction industry is likely to have a serious affect on the wider economy. Experts said the new home construction sector has basically collapsed, and Norway is on the brink of a recession. The Home builders Association ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Losing the Big Teacher
    Members of any society must know a great many things in common…. Whether they know them can make a fatal difference. The future of the world may depend on how many do. — Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education (1) The evidence that our dysfunctional relationship with the earth is surpassin ...
  • Fukushima Crisis Goes Global
    A fully referenced and illustrated version of this report is posted on ISIS members website and otherwise available for download here. Massive radioactive leaks continue from the badly damaged structures as the dangerous operation of moving spent fuel rods begins, and still greater challenges of ...
  • Majority Voting is Inadequate – an Interview w ...
    This is an extended version of the interview which first appeared in Dziennik Opinii in Polish. Peter Emerson is the director of the de Borda Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a leading authority on voting systems for use in both decision-making and elections. Marcin Gerwin (Poland): ...
  • How to Plant a Tree
    Tree Management Course with Miles Durand, Jordan Valley. Locate a healthy specimen and an appropriate planting site with a suitable pH. Soak a fair amount of cardboard in a water/compost/soil solution, or if unavailable, water only. Dig a hole twice to three times as large as the root base of th ...
  • Syria Back-Story, Part 2: Blood For Oil
    Continuing from Part I. Almost all conflicts that take place in the Middle East are motivated by the need to secure oil interests, among others. However, oil has so many other roles to play in this ugly story. Winter was never harder in Syria. The unprecedented cold wave is adding a lot to the s ...

Pointman's

  • Moments in a life and those restarts you have ...
    He’d drawn a dinosaur for her and it was a pretty good one, stretching the entire width of the blackboard. He’d used white chalk for the main details but added a huge lot of pecky touches in red and green. Too many I thought. He was another teacher and her beau and I’d watched ...
  • Climate Prat of 2013 – We have a winnah!
    Unlike last year, the available selection this one has been noticeably thin. A lot of the usual prats have been smart enough to pick up on the winds of change and are quietly deserting the sinking ship. All we’ve heard from them is the occasional splash of their tiny, wee, small, pale and ...
  • Who is Michael Smith?
    This is a guest article by one of our regular commenters, Blackswan. Among other things, it demonstrates the new reality that if the mainstream media allows itself to be muzzled by politicians, or chooses to only represent views it finds itself in agreement with, then those views can nowadays fi ...
  • Used intelligently, they’re our bitches now.
    Within any community of people, there’s always a natural diversity of personality. Usually that diversity is an asset to be tapped into and utilised, sometimes it’s a liability and people learn to cope with the variations. On average, some people are good in certain situations and ba ...
  • COP19 – the grubby truth behind it all.
    It must have been a weekend because I was about. The kids rushed in and I had the “Dad, Dad, he’s hurt” and their miniature hands plucking at me like a flock of birds pecking and pulling me urgently out of the house sideways. They do that, you know it’s important because ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
  • Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...
  • Police Harassment and Violence Against the Tra ...
    A shorter version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against t ...
  • RIP Herman Wallace - The Muhammad Ali of the C ...
    From the Angola 3 Newsletter. This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political prisoner world.  It is with great sadness that we write with the news of Herman Wallace's passing. Herman never did anything half way.  He embraced ...
  • Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man Twenty Ye ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • U.S. Fiddles while Palestinians in Syria Starve
    Palestinians are being starved to death. But this is not happening in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Nor is it taking place in Israel. Rather, this is happening in an Arab country, Syria, while the international community continues to turn a blind eye to
  • The Middle East: The Way They See It
    Israel receives a lot of unwelcome attention from the U.S., the UN and the EU. As others in the region see it, however, that makes Israel the most important country in the world, and Palestinians the world's luckiest "refugees." While withdrawing
  • Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Pales ...
    Renewed talk of land swaps between Israel and a future Palestinian state has left many Israeli Arabs worried about losing their status as citizens of Israel. According to the Israeli daily Ma'ariv, Israel has proposed to the Americans transferring
  • The Islamization of France in 2013
    The Muslim population of France reached an estimated 6.5 million in 2013. Although France is prohibited by law from collecting official statistics about the race or religion of its citizens, this estimate is based on the average of several recent studies
  • London "Peace" Festival Organized by Terrorism ...
    Just off London's famous Piccadilly Circus stands St. James Church, a historic building designed by Christopher Wren and consecrated in 1684. Last week, upon this hallowed ground, St. James Church built an enormous 26-foot replica of Israel's security

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • California Lawmakers Cripple NSA w/ 4th Amendm ...
    LOS ANGELES | The latest wave of revelations coming whistleblower like Edward Snowden has divided the people from the government like never before. The Administration is losing not just popular support among Americans, but is now facing legal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Michael Savage Interview w/ Donald Trump on Gl ...
    Michael Savage Interviews Donald Trump on The Savage Nation on Global Warming, Political Run and More - January 7, 2014 Al Gore believes in his own mantra of Global Catastrophies so much that just weeks after predicting that much of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit htt ...
  • Survive the Apocalypse With Dr. Bones and Nurs ...
    Today on Gnostic Warrior Radio and Podcast, we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Joe Alton, AKA Dr. Bones and Amy Alton, AKA nurse Amy. Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy are the authors of the book, The Survival Medicine Handbook and they also have a... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Fukushima? Two Headed Whale Washes Ashore In B ...
    Gray whale calves were found in Mexico’s Scammon’s Lagoon (Laguna Ojo de Liebre) over the weekend, surprising locals. It might be the first discovery of conjoined gray whales ever. Researchers at Guerrero Negro Verde, an organization that works to... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Agenda 21 ~ Vaccines Help Kill 90% of the Worl ...
    In 2011 there were an extra 47500 new cases of NPAFP [non-polio acute flaccid paralysis]. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk, creator of the killed-virus vaccine used in the 1950s,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • EPA Starts New Year with Climate Action: Carb ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking another step forward Wednesday to carry out President Obama’s ambitious Climate Action Plan announced last June. &n ...
  • Governor Cuomo's Latest Post-Sandy Initiatives ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a boatload of new initiatives to make New York better prepared for future storms that are certain to hit the region’s shores in the wake of ou ...
  • A Major Victory in the Fight to Protect Patago ...
    Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC A major victory in the fight to protect Chile’s rugged Patagonia came today when media reported that Endesa Chile, the majority owner of HidroAysén, has removed the massive hyd ...
  • Cold Snap Highlights Need for Updated Furnace ...
    Meg Waltner, Manager, Building Energy Policy, San Francisco, CA With the polar vortex bringing subzero temperatures and wind chill factors even more brutal to many parts of the United States, many Americans are huddling inside, with good reason. Unf ...
  • Carbon Pollution Funds Poised to Deliver on Ad ...
    Alex Jackson, Legal Director, California Climate Project, San Francisco Governor Brown’s administration made public yesterday details of the first expenditure plan for revenues generated from the sale of carbon pollution allowances under ...

Peakwater

  • Rudolf (Part I): Runt of the Ice Pack
    Rudolf is a relatively small ice mass situated to the north east of Mt Cook (aka Aoraki), on the South Island of New Zealand. It feeds from its residence in corries on the slopes between Mt De la Beche and Mt Jervois into the main Tasman Glacier Valley, where it is runs parallel to its [...]
  • Iceland’s Vanishing Ice Threatens Cultur ...
    “Some of the country’s glaciers have vanished already and several others will be gone within a decade or two, said Bjornsson, one of the leading scientists to quantify the link between glacial loss and greenhouse gas-induced warming. A generation from now there may not be enough wate ...
  • Fukushima Ghost Towns Struggle to Recover Amid ...
    “Namie is nobody’s town now. Nobody lives here, and nobody visits for long. Even the looters have stopped bothering, and no one knows exactly when the inhabitants may be allowed to return permanently – or whether they will want to. The 2011 catastrophe faded from world headlines long ...
  • Water Bonds Shrivel as California Sees Driest Year
    “The driest year on record for Los Angeles and San Francisco is threatening water supplies to the world’s most productive agricultural region and almost doubling borrowing costs on some bonds issued by California water agencies. Los Angeles, which normally gets almost 15 inches (38 centime ...
  • Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Linked to Frackin ...
    “A team of researchers from the University of Missouri found evidence of hormone-disrupting activity in water located near fracking sites – including samples taken from the Colorado River near a dense drilling region of western Colorado. The Colorado River is a source of drinking water for ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • There is an assumption in this article
    …There is an assumption in this article that “we” care and that we want to know and that when we know we will find voice and take action … will we…?   Tips for Following the Money in Your State   Andy Kroll, Moyers & Company: …Read the Article  Here are four easy-to-use ...
  • Truth is Wyoming is NOT willing to sell its soul
    …Truth is Wyoming is NOT willing to sell its soul to another Cheney… Liz Cheney has signaled to allies that she is preparing to drop her bid for the United States Senate and may announce as soon as this week that she plans to focus on issues related to her family, sources told POLITICO on ...
  • Was there any doubt the $upreme$
    …Was there any doubt the $upreme$ would rule in favor of organized religion especially the Mormon Church…?   Supreme Court Puts Gay Marriage On Hold In Utah WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah, at least while a federal appeals court mor ...
  • Suggest we should be thankful for “whist ...
    …Suggest we should be thankful for “whistleblowers” like Snowden, Assange, Manning and the legions of “hackers” NOT employed by any agency of our government but working for you and me…   To Protect And Infect, The Militarization of the Internet 01-05-2014  •  Nakedcapitalism ...
  • Remember “man” is a species
    …Remember “man” is a species … is “man” too subject to population stability … as established by whom…?   Population stability ‘hope’ in species’ response to climate change York UK (SPX) Jan 06, 2014 – Stable population trends are a prerequisite for species&#821 ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Unraveling the secrets of one of the world's m ...
    The Sunda clouded leopard has always been shrouded in mystery. Only declared a separate species from its mainland cousin, the Borneo clouded leopard, in 2006, the IUCN lists the cat as Endangered. The distinction between the Borneo clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulas) and the Sunda clouded leopard ...
  • Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2013
    China begins to tackle pollution, carbon emissions: As China's environmental crisis worsens, the government has begun to unveil a series of new initiatives to curb record pollution and cut greenhouse emissions. The world's largest consumer of coal, China's growth in emissions is finally slowing ...
  • Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013
    1. Carbon concentrations hit 400ppm while the IPCC sets global carbon budget: For the first time since our appearance on Earth, carbon concentrations in the atmosphere hit 400 parts per million. The last time concentrations were this high for a sustained period was 4-5 million years ago when tem ...
  • Rainforest news review for 2013
    2013 was full of major developments in efforts to understand and protect the world's tropical rainforests. The following is a review of some of the major tropical forest-related news stories for the year. As a review, this post will not cover everything that transpired during 2013 in the world o ...
  • Biggest new animal discoveries of 2013 (photos)
    Thousands of species were scientifically described for the first time in 2013. Many of these were 'cryptic species' that were identified after genetic analysis distinguished them from closely-related species, while others were totally novel. Below are some of the most interesting "new species" d ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Colander-wearing Pastafarian sworn in as counc ...
    Pastafarian minister Christopher Schaeffer was sworn into the Pomfret New York Town Council this week with a colander on his head throughout the ceremony to represent his unique religious beliefs.Mr Schaeffer, a minister for the...
  • Paint a virus to death
    Imagine a type of paint so versatile it could be used to detect antibodies in blood that could harm an unborn baby, combat counterfeiting, or strengthen viruses designed to ultimately kill cancers.Professor Steve Henry did - and...
  • Kiwi a step nearer to Mars
    Is there Kiwi life on Mars? There soon could be, as one excited Aucklander has learned she has been short-listed from more than 200,000 people who applied to settle on the red planet as part of an entrepreneur's $6 billion Mars One...
  • Sea floor map result stuns experts
    New 3D mapping has revealed remarkable features of a sprawling submerged ridge east of Auckland - a feat one scientist says is the undersea equivalent of Captain Cook mapping the coastline of New Zealand.Little was known about the...
  • Solving the DNA jigsaw
    The DNA sequence of the human genome is an iconic breakthrough in biology.Originally released more than 10 years ago, it has fuelled many advances in human health and disease.Surprisingly, though, the genome sequence is not complete,...

The Bovine

  • Raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt on “savi ...
    The ongoing obsession of bureaucrats and helpless politicians to regulate every step we take and bite we eat has made us into graceful dancers between the dream of freedom and our so called civil duty to obey the law. Yes … Continue reading →
  • UN embracing agricultural sanity?
    Seems the UN is not all “Agenda 21″. From AltHealthReport.com: Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and monoculture-based crops, the United Nations is once … Continue ...
  • Friends group raising $3.6M to save 5 acres of ...
    In case you’ve been wondering why posts on the Bovine have been so sparse lately, one contributing factor may be the editor’s pre-occupation with a controversy closer to home. The Toronto Waldorf School (TWS) has not figured much on the … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk “Godfather” in court Feb. 5th
    We haven’t heard any news from Michael Schmidt in what seems like ages. But now, out of the blue, here’s  a story in his hometown paper, giving updates on several of his various court proceedings. From the Owen Sound Sun Times: … Continue reading →
  • Water fluoridation banned in Muskoka
    From Collective Evolution: “The district of Muskoka, Ontario is home to about 60,000 and is a hot spot for Toronto resident cottages. On Monday October 21st, the district voted during a council meeting to end the practice of water fluoridation. … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Fund Flow Records Smashed: Equity Funds Get Re ...
    In yet another example of the extreme bubble optimism regarding equities, Trim Tabs reports (via email), Fund Flow Records Smashed Across the Board in 2013. TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that U.S.-listed equity mutual funds and exchange-traded funds took in a record $352 billion i ...
  • Google Glass: An Apps to "Glassholes" Review; ...
    A link about a new app by Hyundai got me thinking about Google Glass. What is Google Glass? Google Glass is a voice activated computer eye-wear system capable of many voice activated functions such as photography, videos, navigation (better than and easier to use than car GPS systems), hands- ...
  • Saxo Bank Outrageous Predictions for 2014 Stee ...
    Saxo Bank's Outrageous Predictions for 2014 came out last month, but given that Steen Jakobsen, Chief Economist for Saxo Bank will be speaking at Wine Country Conference II on May 1-2, a review of Saxo Bank's predictions is in order. EU wealth tax heralds return of Soviet-style economy: In 2014 ...
  • Gold Flash Crash - Manipulation or Something E ...
    Around 10:14 AM Eastern, gold plunged in a 10-minute window on heavy volume. Price quickly recovered amid speculation as to precisely what happened.   MarketWatch reports Gold market ‘flash crash’ explanations vary from ‘fat finger’ to ‘price manipulation’ Gold futures suffered a sudden, b ...
  • Illegal Immigrant Can Practice Law in US Says ...
    Those looking for absolute absurdity in California at the start of the new year did not have to wait long. CNN reports No green card? No problem -- undocumented immigrant can practice law, court says. Sergio Garcia's parents brought him to the United States from Mexico nearly two decades ago. H ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • US NGO Uncovered in Ukraine Protests
    CANVAS: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that w ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Part II- David Miranda’s Detainment: The Calic ...
    Dissecting Contradictions & Sensationalism in the NSA-Snowden Scandal In August 2013 Glenn Greenwald’s husband, David Miranda, was detained and questioned by authorities at London’s Heathrow airport. Miranda was coming from Berlin, where he had met with Laura Poitras and was give ...
  • The New Great Game Round-Up: January 5, 2014
    Turkey: NGOs, Al-Qaeda & Erdogan, Beijing Blasts Double Standards, Kremlin Under Pressure After Volgograd Bombings & More! *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, ...
  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Robert Randolph & The Family Band – “Traveling Shoes” This week on the Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick we visit the guitar once more. This time it’s Robert Randolph and the Family Band (an American funk and soul band) led by pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph. Other band m ...

bloody crossroads

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

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Press TV

  • Iraqi troops kill 25 militants in Ramadi
    Iraqi troops have killed 25 al-Qaeda-linked militants in Ramadi in the western province of Anbar, a spokesman for Iraq's Defense Ministry says.
  • Snowden to expose US-Israel secrets
    Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden still has “very significant” secrets to reveal relating to Israel, says the investigative journalist who first published the whistleblower’s leaks.
  • S Korea halts teargas export to Bahrain
    South Korea has suspended tear gas exports to Bahrain under pressure from rights groups.
  • Gunmen kill 7 Iraqi policemen
    Unidentified gunmen have killed seven police officers, including a captain, in an attack at a security checkpoint north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to security and hospital sources.
  • 'US war on poverty turned to war on poor'
    American activist Don DeBar believes that America’s so-called war on poverty has conversely turned into “a war on the poor.”

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • Why Did You Stay?
    Why did you stay? He wouldn’t do those things if he didn’t really love you. I’m sure you’re exaggerating. What did you do to make him do that? Those are just some of the things that were said to me after I left my husband. Some believed his stalking was proof of his love for […]
  • My Strange and Sometimes Wonderful Dreams
    After stuffing myself with turkey, Spanish rice and pasteles on Thanksgiving, I had a very strange dream. I was riding around on a bicycle at full speed, circling around cars and running red lights, and people were running out of the way of the crazed lady on the bike. The neighborhood was where ...
  • THANKSGIVING – And I am Grateful
    The last few years have been pretty tough on the family – we lost so many in so little time and unexpectedly. It almost seemed like we were cursed with all the tears and so many hearts to heal. This year was a bit different and we are all still here, and although there are […]
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...
  • 2013 Women’s Leadership Conference&#8230 ...
    When it comes to women there are some misconceptions. For instance, there are those who think that women do not support one another. We are all competing with one another over a job, a friend, or a romantic interest. Women are all catty. Right? Wrong. I had the privilege of attending the 2013 Wo ...

Dissident Voice

  • Israel’s Education System Peddles Intolerance ...
    John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement – designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day. As he headed to the region, Israel’s hawkish ...
  • Sri Lanka Genocidaires Exchange Honors with Vi ...
    The government of Palestine presented Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa with the “Star of Palestine” the highest award of the State of Palestine, on January 6. “The relations between Sri Lanka and the State of Palestine are exceptional and we remain committed to extending our fullest suppor ...
  • Like Lambs to the Slaughter
    If he succeeds with his current “peace” initiative, John Kerry would have killed three birds, not two, with one stone. With the stroke of a pen his “proposed framework” will not only dissolve the Palestinian refugee issue but also deactivate Israel’s so-called demog ...
  • Talkin’ ‘bout a Global Revolution
    At the onset of 2014, many people are now anticipating the prospect of a ‘global revolution’. The intense revolutionary fervour of 2011 may have dissipated in North America and much of Western Europe in the past couple of years, but a new geography of protest continues to shift and transmute in ...
  • Canada’s Lubicon Lake Nation Continue An ...
    Members of Lubicon Lake Nation fight pro-fracking injunction granted in favor of Penn West Petroleum.

Nick Turse

  • Dhaka, Bangladesh. 30th December 2013 — Bangla ...
    Dhaka, Bangladesh. 30th December 2013 — Bangladesh Awami League supporter hurls a stone towards Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers outside the High Court premises in Dhaka. — A group of Juba Mohila League activists and pro-BNP lawyers engaged in a fresh clash at the Supreme Court premises in ...
  • Kudos to Brian McFadden for this can’t miss ca ...
    Kudos to Brian McFadden for this can’t miss cartoon!
  • ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. ...
    ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, freed from prison under an amnesty, gives a press conference on Dozhd [Rain] TV channel. She was sentenced to a two-year prison term in July 2012 for offensive performance inside the Christ the Sav ...
  • ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. ...
    ITAR-TASS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 27, 2013. Pussy Riot punk band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, freed from prison under an amnesty, gives a press conference on Dozhd [Rain] TV channel. She was sentenced to a two-year prison term in July 2012 for offensive performance inside the Christ the Sav ...
  • If you’re in Washington, D.C. on January 7th, ...
    If you’re in Washington, D.C. on January 7th, come on out and see me at Politics and Prose Bookstore at 7pm for a talk, Q&A, and book signing for the new paperback edition of Kill Anything that Moves. Hope to see you there! (via Nick Turse - Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vi ...

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Newswise

  • Neuroscience Study Uncovers New Player in Obesity
    A new neuroscience study sheds light on the biological underpinnings of obesity. The study reveals how a protein in the brain helps regulate food intake and body weight. The findings create a potential new avenue for the treatment of obesity and may help explain why medications that interfere wi ...
  • BPA Increases Risk of Cancer in Human Prostate ...
    Fetal exposure to a commonly used plasticizer found in products such as water bottles, soup can liners and paper receipts can increase the risk for prostate cancer later in life, according to a study from the University of Illinois at Chicago published Jan. 7 online in the journal Endocrinology.
  • Combined Therapy Benefits Cigarette Smokers Tr ...
    Among cigarette smokers, combining the smoking cessation medications varenicline and bupropion, compared with varenicline alone, resulted in higher smoking abstinence rates for one outcome but not the other at three and six months; rates were similar at one year, according to a Mayo Clinic study ...
  • Sanford Health Announces $125M Gift to Fund Ge ...
    Denny Sanford's gift launches Sanford Imagenetics.
  • Study Highlights Snowball Effect of Overfishing
    Florida State University researchers have spearheaded a major review of fisheries data that examines the domino effect that occurs when too many fish are harvested from one habitat.

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Jae's News

  • Demand Rick Perry's Chairman of the Texas Fina ...
    William White is also Vice President of Government Affairs - a company that has been fined $19 million for predatory lending practices. Submitted by Robert Tomlinson to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Meet the Americans Who've Lost Their Unemploym ...
    "When you apply for a job at 50 people laugh at you. When you apply for a job at 65 people just look at you like you are crazy." Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Senator Bernie Sanders: 2014: Going Forward To ...
    The people are hurting. They look to Washington for help. Nothing is happening. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling rippl ...
    Gay marriage activists are winning more cases in lower courts since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 2014 - A New Year --- Charles P. Pierce
    We must demand a national government that works for us, that recognizes that, in a self-governing political commonwealth, "honesty" is not defined merely by refusing a bribe or declining to sell a political office. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it! ...

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