Thursday, January 16, 2014

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Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible&quo...Ivan IV of Russia ("Ivan the Terrible") demonstrates his treasures to the ambassador of Queen Elizabeth I of England (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – January 16
    1412 – The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy. 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia. 1581 – The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. 1707 – The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great ...
  • Low Flying DHS Copters stage ‘Nuke Drill ...
    Reminiscent of 1984?   BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Protecting Baltimore from a nuclear attack. Homeland Security officials will conduct tests this week that could save lives and they’ll be done from a helicopter flying extremely low over the city. Meghan McCorkell has more on the testing. Officials w ...
  • Death Sweep: Russians “clean up” p ...
    Seven die in shootout during pre-Olympic Russia militant sweep By Ludmila Danilova, Reuters MOSCOW, Russia — Three Russian servicemen and four gunmen were killed in a shootout in southern Russia on Wednesday during a sweep for militants ahead of next month’s Sochi Winter Olympics. Ru ...
  • This Day In History – January 15
    1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of New France (Canada) and provide for the spread of the “Holy Catholic faith”. 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England. 1777 – American Revol ...
  • Cops Acquitted in baseless murder of Kelly Tho ...
    On July 5, 2011, tax-mainlining thugs in Fullerton, California, beat, Kelly Thomas, an unarmed, mentally-ill, homeless man to death. The entire murder is documented on the following video. Watch the video and decide for yourself what happened. The struggle starts at about the 15:00 mark. Today, ...

The Air Vent

  • Adaptation to Global Warming
    A look out the back door in mid December.
  • Adaptation to Global Warming
    A look out the back door in mid December.
  • Taxes and Society
    There is a lot of dogma in politics regarding tax rates and general government performance. I personally have found that most people make statements about politics with literally zero data.  On thanksgiving, I spent about 4 hours on the government data website – http://www.bea.gov/iTable/i ...
  • Taxes and Society
    There is a lot of dogma in politics regarding tax rates and general government performance. I personally have found that most people make statements about politics with literally zero data.  On thanksgiving, I spent about 4 hours on the government data website – http://www.bea.gov/iTable/i ...
  • In the News
    There has been a ton of interesting activity in the climate world and I’m tired of missing out on it.   In case you haven’t noticed, Nic Lewis has established himself as a top expert on climate model performance. I don’t believe anyone in the climate community is turning out wo ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Infographic: 10 years of Facebook
    Facebook will turn 10 in February, marking a decade of social networking. What started out as a project in a Harvard dorm room project has become the way that more than 1 billion people around the...
  • Facebook officially launches ‘Trending’
    Facebook has been testing a trending feature similar to Twitter’s trending topics, but the social network announced Thursday that it will start rolling it out for users in the U.S., U.K., Canada, India and Australia. This...
  • SPMD Ampush names former Facebook VP Tom Arrix ...
    Ampush, a Facebook Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer, announced Thursday that it has appointed former Facebook Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions Group Tom Arrix to its board of advisors. Arrix left Facebook in July after seven...
  • Facebook users have a sweet tooth for Pudding Pop
    One of the fastest-growing Facebook apps isn’t made by King or Zynga. Pudding Pop, a puzzle game developed by CookApps, has an estimated 5.1 million monthly active users (according to AppData) — roughly 1 million of...
  • Study: Automotive brands racing ahead on Facebook
    A new comScore study shows that automotive campaigns on Facebook are not only driving more brand awareness, but decreasing interest in competitors. The study of five major campaigns between May and August 2013 shows that Facebook...

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Processing Distortion with Peter B. Collins: “ ...
    Peter B. Collins Presents Shane Trejo A project of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Tenth Amendment Center, OffNow.org is organizing state and local nullification of unconstitutional NSA activities. One well-publicized effort would cut off the huge daily water supply needed to cool t ...
  • The “Israel First” Industry & CEO Profiteering
    Israel Lobby: The Bully, Blackmail & Blacklist Politics against Critics of Israel and its Zionist Appendages During the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious Jews in the United States organized a large network of solidarity and charity associations financed mostly through small ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The EyeOpener Report- WARNING: Nullification i ...
    BoilingFrogsPost.com brings you a public service announcement warning of the dangers of a new idea to stop NSA spying, put a curb on federal government overreach, and bring back slavery and civil war: nullification! Whatever you do DON’T look into this issue for yourself, just trust the li ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “The PayPal 14, Pier ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Stanley Cohen On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by attorney and activist, Stanley Cohen, who currently represents one of the “Anons” collectively known as the PayPal 14. We discuss who the PayPal 14 are, what they did, why the ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Miracle Rabbi Turns State’s Witness Ag ...
    Yesterday, an Israeli judge acknowledged the charade that the gag order in the Miracle rabbi case had become.  Not only did I break the gag, but virtually all Israeli publications were nibbling at the edges of the story with tantalizing details leaking out.  Finally, the justice system decided t ...
  • New Charges in Rep. Grimm Case, Israeli Police ...
    I hope you’ll bear with me in this post.  I’m going to tie together some disparate characters ranging from a crooked police chief, to a wonder rabbi, and a mobbed-up Congressman.  This will take us geographically from Tel Aviv to New York and Washington DC.  I promise it will be a fu ...
  • Yaalon Gives Kerry High Forecheck to the Boards
    Israel’s defense minister, Bogie Yaalon issued a fiery fusillade aimed at John Kerry and his intensive round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.  Yaalon declared that the secretary of state was animated by a “messianic obsession” for peace that not only wasn’t shared by I ...
  • Israeli WMD Institute Used Soldiers as Guinea ...
    A six year struggle by a group of IDF soldiers and officers for justice has ended with the State agreeing to pay them $6-million (Yossi Melman’s Hebrew story and the English version, which has been replaced on the Jerusalem Post site by a far more IDF-friendly story by Yaakov Lapin) for th ...
  • Israeli Army Radio Program Host Likens Palesti ...
    I don’t know what it is about Galey Tzahal, but their staff and radio presenters embody the worst, most Islamophobic aspects of Israeli society.  I’ve posted here in the past about the racist Facebook post of the station manager telling a ‘joke’ about Israeli Jews celebra ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • On Buffer Zones and the First Amendment
    Not that I could hope to match the wisdom of Charles C. Cooke, but I have a piece on the oral arguments in the buffer zone case up. I didn’t see it until after the piece went live, but I was somewhat puzzled by Emily Bazelon’s framing of the argument: Most of the time, abortion [...] ...
  • Wisconsin Taking Another Step to the New Gilde ...
    Conservatives’ vision of the future of American work Scott Walker’s Wisconsin really is vanguard of the New Gilded Age. Republicans have introduced a new bill, almost certain to become law, that will get rid of a state law requiring employers to give workers 24 hours in a row off at ...
  • Thursday Links in Descending Order of Importance
    Charles CCH Pounder Cooke talks about abortion care center buffer zones. I only skimmed because it’s morning and it’s Charles Cooke. Sometimes I think Cooke is around to remind us that having a British accent doesn’t make you smart, because Stuart Varney can’t be everywhere at once. Read about t ...
  • Wal-Mart Doesn’t Have Much Respect for the Int ...
    This purloined presentation of Wal-Mart anti-union propaganda is pretty unprofessional. You’d at least think the world’s largest retailer would argue something a bit more complicated than a labor organization would cost employees a whole $5 a month. The second presentation, for manag ...
  • Fully funded
    In re Rob’s recent post regarding the academic precariat, Rebecca Schuman writes in Slate about people running up huge debt loads while pursuing graduate degrees. Kelsky, proprietor of the consulting service The Professor Is In, knows every intricacy of the academic hiring process—and for ...

Desert Research Institute

  • DRI scientists’ co-author study linking Arctic ...
    A new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice  dynamics and the region’s changing atmospheric chemistry potentially leading to increased amounts of me ...
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) research at DRI
    Researchers at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) are exploring ways in which unmanned aircraft systems are increasingly being used in civilian government work as well as the private sector for use in applications as diverse as cloud seeding to fighting forest fires.
  • New DRI project aimed at understanding Mercur ...
    A new collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)and led by Daniel Obrist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) will attempt to characterize the complex dynamics of mercury in some of the Earth’s northernmost and most fragile ecosystems.
  • Dan Sauceda, December 2013 Featured DRI Grad ...
    Meet Dan Sauceda, a graduate student in the Atmospheric Sciences program. He is currently working as part of the Urban Water Vulnerability-ISP EPSCoR project, working to characterize the urban heat island in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • DRI expands research and education opportuniti ...
    Through a new partnership with the University for Development Studies and World Vision International, DRI will establish an innovative research and education center focused on finding sustainable solutions to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and environmental problems confronting West Af ...

Earth Techling

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How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Pebble Mine Would Endanger Alaska's Bristol Ba ...
    A three-year study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay area would pose significant dangers to the environment, a potentially fatal setback for plans Mulchatna River, part of Bristol Bay watershed to develop Pebble Mine, ...
  • Indian Microgrids Aim to Bring Millions out of ...
    Powered by solar panels and biomass, microgrids are spreading slowly across India, where 300 million people live without electricity. But can these off-grid technologies be scaled-up to bring low-carbon power to tens of millions of people? BY DAVID FERRIS
  • West African Lions Are Critically Close to Ext ...
    West African lions are close to extinction, and vulnerable populations could be wiped out in the next five to 10 years, according to new research led by the wild cat conservation group Panthera. West African lions, which are genetically distinct from other African lions, once numbered in the ten ...
  • Google's Acquisition of Nest Expected to Boost ...
    Google's purchase of Nest, a leading manufacturer of smart thermostats, further deepens the Internet search giant's involvement in the green energy sector and is likely to help accelerate development of a more efficient smart grid, experts say. Google has already invested $300 million ...
  • Interview: Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo On Russia ...
    Kumi Naidoo, the international executive director of Greenpeace, is intimately familiar with the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in the Russian Arctic. In 2012, he and five other Greenpeace activists were hosed down with frigid water and pelted with pieces of metal as they attempted to climb abo ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Get ready for the 'superbaby': Chinese firm se ...
    "A Chinese firm claims it is getting closer to allowing parents to pick the embryo most likely to succeed. Researcher believe that 50-80% of what determines IQ could be inherited. Now the firm is mapping the genes of people who are gifted in maths in a bid to isolate the genes that make them sma ...
  • Zakynthos - Cover up of a lost Greek city?
    Finder of Zakynthos ruins refutes natural phenomenon claim Last month we reported on a study which claimed that the ancient ruins of Zakynthos in Greece are nothing but a natural phenomenon. It was a strange u-turn considering that the Underwater Antiquities Department had announced that the ori ...
  • Supercomputer takes 40 minutes to model one se ...
    The Japanese supercomputer K Computer successfully calculated and created a simulation of just one second of human brain activity, taking 40 minutes to do so. The K computer, the fourth most powerful computer in the world, used its 705,024 processor cores and 1.4 million GB of RAM to process the ...
  • The Level Of Economic Freedom In The United St ...
    Americans have never had less economic freedom than they do right now. The 2014 Index of Economic Freedom has just been released, and it turns out that the level of economic freedom in the United States has now fallen for seven consecutive years. But of course none of us need a report or a surve ...
  • Fossil fish re-defines origins of walking
    Fossils of a creature that looked part-fish and part-limbed animal, the precursor to walking land animals, were recently found in northern Canada, according to a new study. The beastie, Tiktaalik roseae, represents the best-known transitional species between fish and land-dwelling animals, accor ...

Not My Tribe

  • Can Chris Christie pretend he doesn’t kn ...
    Commenting on televised politics is as meaningless as speculating about developments on reality TV. Since the Christie bridge debacle purports to effect which presidential candidate gets voted off the island, it might be worth at least delving where the talking heads are not. Of course Chris Chr ...
  • 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?

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Constructive criticism of sharpprintinginc
    When it comes to analysing the destruction of the WTCs, one of the best websites to date has been the sharpprintinginc website. It does not show favoritism to either the debunker or truther stances, instead examining both sides solely on their scientific merit. Many claims are shown to be e ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Bushman beaten by Botswana’s paramilitary police
    Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example to others' defending the Bushmen's rights. © SurvivalA Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana has been held at gunpoint and beaten by members of Botswana’s paramilitary police (SSG). Mogo ...
  • Survival launches first-ever photography compe ...
    This image captures the Awá journeying to the realm of the forest spirits.© Toby Nicholas/ SurvivalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – has launched its first-ever worldwide photography competition to mark its 45th anniversary. The competition aims to ...
  • Peru ignores UN and pushes ahead with deadly g ...
    Uncontacted and isolated tribes like the Nanti are at extreme risk of contracting fatal diseases introduced by outsiders on their land.© SurvivalPeru’s government is on the brink of approving the expansion of the highly controversial Camisea gas project into the land of uncontacted and iso ...
  • Victory: India saves 'Avatar tribe' from Vedan ...
    The Dongria Kondh are celebrating their victory over British mining giant Vedanta Resources.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalIn a sensational victory in the stand-off between India’s ‘real Avatar tribe’ and British mining giant Vedanta Resources, India’s authorities have quashed t ...
  • ‘Aids and beer’: BBC finds despair in Bushman ...
    A Bushman woman in the street in New Xade, the government resettlement camp to which many Bushmen have been relocated in the last ten years.© Dominick TylerA BBC report has found Botswana Bushmen living in desperate conditions more than a decade after they were evicted from their ancestral land ...

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 ...

Ian Welsh

  • Creating a Prosperous Society Where People Lov ...
    Are you most productive doing what you love, or doing something you are indifferent to or hate? If you could try your hand at doing anything, would you be doing what you’re doing? Are you on track to eventually spend your life in the work of your dreams, or is it clear that will likely [...]
  • The problem of resistance to the oligarchy
    is how to hurt their interests at an acceptable cost to those doing the harm. The traditional answer to this was solidarity and martyrdom.  It is impossible to overstate how dangerous being a union activist right up to the middle of the 20th century was.  You had to accept that you would be beat ...
  • Ariel Sharon
    just to note the obvious: he was a war criminal, and a butcher who killed women and children and encouraged that plus rape, in Lebanon.  He was largely responsible for the Israeli settlement policy, which will doom Israel either to fully ethnically cleansing the Palestinians, or losing their Jew ...
  • We don’t want an economy which produces lots o ...
    Money is one of the hardest things to talk about, because we make it into something concrete, which it isn’t, and hasn’t been for a long time in most countries.  Even gold money wasn’t particularly concrete, because gold has no organic relation to a society’s overall prod ...
  • There is no problem related to economic justic ...
    Collective action. Nothing. It is for this reason that unions were obsessed with solidarity; it is for this reason that Marxists obsessed over class consciousness. More on this another day.

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

spiked

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

Worldnews

  • Profile: Former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri
    Rafik Hariri was a dominant force in Lebanese politics in both life and death. As prime minister of Lebanon, he is widely credited with getting the country back on its feet after the devastating 15-year civil conflict. He held office from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignatio ...
  • Footage of Asiana crash aftermath shows g ...
    Video from a firefighter's helmet camera following the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows rescuers were aware there was someone on the ground outside the plane, before 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was fatally run over by a fire truck 7:58AM GMT 16 Jan 2014 CBS News ...
  • Tourist gang-rape: police hunt for more s ...
    New Delhi - Indian police carried out raids across New Delhi on Thursday as they hunted for a further six men wanted over the gang-rape of a Danish tourist which has put the country's record on sexual violence back into the spotlight. Police...
  • Rafik Hariri assassination: trial of Hezb ...
    UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try four men in absentia because Hezbollah has vowed never to arrest them Portrait of Rafik Hariri on his grave in Beirut, Lebanon. He and 22 others were killed when a truck bomb with a tonne...
  • Apple to Refund £20m to Parents Over In-A ...
    Gerald Lynch - Apple has settled a suit with the US Federal Trade Commission over disclosures that it was too easy for children to make in-app purchases. And it’ll be quite a chunk of change coming out of its coffers. The Cupertino company is to refund some $32.5 million (£19.87 milli ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

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

Common Dreams

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Scotts Contracting

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

Green House - USA Today

Law.com

Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • 1968
    (More from my research for A Rebel Comes of Age) 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky (Vintage 2005) Book Review 1968 was a year for citizen uprisings around the world. Kurlansky comprehensively reviews 19 of them.* Student activists and workers on both sides of the Iron Cu ...
  • How Nonviolence Protects the State
    (more from my research for A Rebel Comes of Age) How Nonviolence Protects the State Peter Gelderloos (2007 South End Press) Book Review How Nonviolence Protects the State takes up where Ward Churchill’s 1985 Pacifism as Pathology leaves off – expanding on Churchill’s basic p ...
  • Pacificism as Pathology
    (more of my research for A Rebel Comes of Age) Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America By Ward Churchill (2007 AK Press) Book Review Pacifism as Pathology is a collection of essays centered around Ward Churchill’s original 1985 essay “Pac ...
  • Teenagers in the First Intifada
    (More from my research for A Rebel Comes of Age and the role of youth in sparking revolution) Like the 1976 Soweto uprising, the first Palestinian Intifada in 1987 was instigated by teenagers experiencing a breakdown in family life and parental authority. From 1967, when Israel first se ...
  • The Role of Youth in Making Revolution
    (Sharing more of my research for my new novel A Rebel Comes of Age) Much has been made of the role of youth in sparking the “Arab Spring” revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. The willingness of Arab citizens to rebel against some of the world’s most oppressive ...

FourWinds10

  • California Coastline Becoming Like Dead Zone, ...
    Alug. 24, 2013 I hesitate to say this, because I know that *they* will most likely use my (and others) observations as an excuse to crack down on the enjoyment of our coastline even farther than they have already, but… The California coastline is becoming like a dead zone. If you haven&rs ...
  • What Happens to All the Salt We Dump On the Roads?
    1/6/14   As much of the country endures from the heavy snowfall and bitter cold that has marked the start of 2014, municipalities in 26 states will rely on a crucial tool in clearing their roads: salt.   Because the freezing point of salty water is a lower temperature than pure water, ...
  • THE SICKEST PLACES IN THE WORLD
    The Agbogbloshie e-Wasteland in Ghana. Fires are set to wires and other electronics to release valuable copper and other materials. The fires blacken the landscape, releasing toxic fumes. Credit: Blacksmith Institute UXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) - Parts of Indonesia, Argentina and Nigeria ...
  • Study links fracking with methane-contaminated ...
    June 26, 2013 Household drinking water that comes from wells near known fracking sites contains levels of methane six times greater than what’s common elsewhere, a new study has found. Researchers at Duke University sampled drinking water from 141 wells across northeastern Pennsylvania and ...
  • Tar sands trains are derailing and exploding.
    Oct. 29, 2013 The Department of Transportation must stop these dangerous oil train tanker cars. Oil companies want to dramatically increase oil train traffic - using tanker cars that the Department of Transportation has known for decades are unsafe. Submit a public comment now.   This summe ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Clean Energy Continues to Be a Smart Investment
    Renewable energy isn’t just about cutting pollution. It also helps keep our homes heated and the lights on during extreme weather. When frigid temperatures last week caused the unexpected shutdown of two power plants in Texas, wind energy stepped in to help keep residents warm.read more
  • West Virginia Chemical Spill Another Black Eye ...
    If you didn’t happen to know what Crude MCHM was on Thursday, given the nine-county water crisis unfolding in West Virginia you probably know by now that it’s short for 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a foaming agent that is used to clean coal.read more
  • How Smart Meters Are Helping Utilities With Vo ...
    Managing voltages to save energy and reduce peak-driven strains on the grid isn’t a new idea. Some of the original volt/VAR optimization and conservation voltage reduction schemes are decades old, but they face a key limitation: the need to avoid dropping voltages so low they cause problems.read ...
  • Hungary Asserts its Energy Independence with S ...
    During recent talks in Budapest, the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and Gazprom’s CEO, Alexey Miller, announced that the construction of South Stream in Hungary will begin in April 2015. Budapest’s decision may be “a final blow” to the delayed Nabucco pipeline.read more
  • Why EIA, IEA, and Randers' 2052 Energy Forecas ...
    What is the correct way to model the future course of energy and the economy? There are clearly huge amounts of oil, coal, and natural gas in the ground. With different approaches, researchers can obtain vastly different indications. But most researchers are modeling the wrong limit.read more

Rodale News

  • Is Your House Making You Fat?
    You count calories, exercise daily, and eat lots of fruits and vegetables. But a chemical that's hiding in your walls could be undermining your efforts to control your weight. The chemical, HBCD (short for hexabromocyclododecane), is a flame retardant added to polystryrene foam-insulation panel ...
  • Acetaminophen Warning Issued by FDA
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an acetaminophen warning, noting that prescription combination drugs that contain more than 325 milligrams (mg) of acetaminophen per dose haven't been proven to benefit people more than a lower dose but could put their health in grave danger. Th ...
  • The Best Natural Remedy for Anxiety Ever?
    It's the middle of January—the holidays are behind you, yet the holiday bills lay before you. The back-to-work grind is wearing on your patience, and two weeks into the New Year, you've failed on your resolutions, whatever they might be. Sound familiar? There's a reason the most depressing day ...
  • Common Pollutant Makes Boys Less Manly
    Decades ago, manufacturers turned to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for all sorts of things, thanks to their flame-retardant and electricity-insulating properties. Good for industry—bad for us. More and more science shows PCBs and health are intricately related, and the latest science suggest ...
  • Crushing Prescription Pills Could Trigger Alle ...
    A warning about your prescription pills: Don't crush them before taking! A small new study published in the journal Contact Dermatitis found that splitting or crushing certain types of prescription pills could actually trigger an airborne allergic reaction. It's no joke. Breaking certain drugs ...

big think

  • Rapid Freeze Traps Entire School of Fish
    The temperature was only -7.8°C (18 °F) on a small island off the coast of Norway. And yet, the water froze so quickly that the ice caught a large school of fish in place, as seen in the remarkable picture above. The picture was released by The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. So what ...
  • Personal Autonomy Is Evaporating. Should We Care?
    Once upon a time, a car was an industrial machine you climbed in and drove around. Today, it's also a tracking and nudging machine that second-guesses you for your own good. It reminds you to fasten your seat belt and makes sure you don't lock yourself out, and it contains a "black box," much li ...
  • Blackphone, a Smartphone for the Snowden Era
    "Technology was supposed to make our lives better," says the narrator in the promotional video for Blackphone below. "Instead, we have lost our privacy. We have become enslaved." In response to the data-harvesting practices of the NSA, encrypted smartphones are now hitting the market. Fo ...
  • Shaping Fertilizer’s Footprint Via the Marketplace
    As this recent story in Progressive Farmer Magazine highlights, we’re at a crossroads with decisions and commitments to be made about the sustainability of our food system and management of the vast majority of the nation’s private lands. When deciding how we’ll meet the food needs of communitie ...
  • What a School Eye Exam Won't Reveal
    I think if your child has a problem learning to read in school it’s a very good idea to take them to a developmental optometrist who’s an expert in binocular vision and have their binocular vision tested carefully. Children with binocular vision problems may have trouble learning to read in scho ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • 1+2+3+4+5+6… = -1/12 obviously
    If you could somehow add up all the whole numbers from 1 to infinitty the answer you would get is -1/12 (minus one twelfth), don’t believe me, here’s the astounding mathematical proof and if it seems absurd, then it’s no more absurd than the idea that you could add up all the n ...
  • After shortest day sunrise still gets later
    Several people asked me about the odd phenomenon that in these here parts sunrise gets later each day until early January even though the days themselves get longer after the winter solstice. From EarthSky: The winter solstice always brings the shortest day to the Northern Hemisphere and the lon ...
  • Last post…of 2013
    Festive Felicitations to you all, hope to see you in 2014, here on the Sciencebase site (newsfeed), on my Song, Snaps, Science page, or on Twitter @sciencebase), Google+ and Facebook, of course. Last post…of 2013 is a post from the science blog of David Bradley, author of Deceived Wisdom S ...
  • Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
    Coughs and sneezes really do spread diseases, airborne droplets from your infected mucus, phlegm and snot sprayed over your companions on the daily commute, in the office, at the shops, at school etc can pass the viral or bacterial particles to infect that other person if the particles get into ...
  • Yesterday’s future tomorrow
    In a thousand years’ time, our apps and smartphones, our status updates and our tweets, Our hybrid EVs, solar panels, windfarms, all of our digital neats Will seem so quaint, and misguided, so twee and lopsided They’ll talk of yet more Dark Ages repeats Just think of our medical scan ...

RFF Library

  • An Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on S ...
    US EPA http://www2.epa.gov/bristolbay [From the Report] …This is not an in-depth assessment of a specific mine, but rather an examination of potential impacts of reasonably foreseeable mining activities in the Bristol Bay region, given the nature of the watershed’s mineral deposits and the ...
  • Texas Water Report: Going Deeper for the Solution
    Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts http://www.window.state.tx.us/specialrpt/water/ [From the Report] …Texas is experiencing extended drought, and while the state may enjoy wetter conditions in the near future, a burgeoning population may already be reaching the limits of its available wa ...
  • The Geopolitics of Natural Gas: The Geopolitic ...
    Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. |  Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, Rice Univ. / by Ronald D. Ripple, Ph.D http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/CES-pub-GeoGasAustralia-011414.pdf Australia will have an impact on the geopolitics of natural gas over the next decade ...
  • Secret TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreemen ...
    Wikileaks http://wikileaks.org/tpp2/static/pdf/tpp-treaty-environment-chapter.pdf [New York Times]  The Obama administration is retreating from previous demands of strong international environmental protections in order to reach agreement on a sweeping Pacific trade deal that is a pillar of Pres ...
  • Free, Prior and Informed Consent and REDD+: Gu ...
    World Wildlife Fund http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/?uNewsID=214111 One aspect of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, and conserving, sustainably managing, and enhancing forest carbon stocks (REDD+) that has generated great interest is its potential to in ...

frogblog

  • Latest leak reveals TPPA undermines environmen ...
    It’s nothing short of absurd that a modern agreement like the TPPA doesn’t address critical issues like climate change and biodiversity loss.
  • Cambodia – violating global norms
    New Zealanders need to be aware of the current brutal crack-down by government security forces on unarmed peaceful protests in Cambodia, last week.  We have about 7,000 citizens of Khmer descent in our country now, and have contributed some $1 million to the Khmer Rouge trials. It is morally inc ...
  • USA NSA Surveillance Ruling Has NZ Link
    A USA Federal Judge has just ruled that mass surveillance of the phone network by their National Security Agency (NSA) is legal. This contradicts another recent ruling where another Federal judge said such surveillance was ‘indiscriminate’ and an ‘arbitrary invasion.’ In ...
  • A global climate policy – thoughts for Xmas
    These past five weeks, I have visited Europe studying climate policy.  I attended the UN’s 19th climate conference, UNFCCC COP-19, in Warsaw.  After Poland, I visited Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom and European Union (Brussels).  And I retraced my UN steps to the Middle East (J ...
  • Gigantic seabed mining application not NZs future
    "New Zealand’s future lies in protecting the environment that is the basis for our prosperity."

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • NBC Orders Constantine Pilot
    NBC has ordered to pilot Constantine, an adaptation of DC Comics’ Hellblazer graphic novels, and Mysteries of Laura, from Arrow‘s Greg Berlanti, TVGuide.com has learned. Batman Begins‘ David Goyer and Dexter‘s Daniel Cerone will bring to life one of DC Comics most popular ...
  • New Details for Fox’s Gotham
    From Deadline: Fox chairman Kevin Reilly today announced that the series will include all of the classic Batman villains as well as heroes, including young Bruce Wayne. “The show will arc a young Bruce Wayne from a child (around 12) into the final episode of the series, when he will put on the c ...
  • Michael Douglas Cast as Hank Pym in Ant-Man
    “With Hank Pym’s rich history in the Marvel Universe, we knew we needed an actor capable of bringing the weight and stature to the role that the character deserves,” said Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige. “We felt incredibly relieved when Michael Douglas agreed to ste ...
  • The Playing Dead – All That Remains
    The Playing Dead is back to cover Season 2 of The Walking Dead videogame by Telltale games. Kriss, Kev, Rod and Phenom discuss episode 1 of the game and what its like to play as Clementine this season. We also discuss the change in mechanics and what might be in store for us this season.The post ...
  • IC 421: Walking On Water
    Topics: The double standard of black QBs Don’t be a “Well Actually douche” The Xbox One and PS4 The Preacher who thought he could walk on water Movies coming out in 2014The post IC 421: Walking On Water appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Bushman beaten by Botswana’s paramilitary police
    Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example to others' defending the Bushmen's rights. © SurvivalA Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) in Botswana has been held at gunpoint and beaten by members of Botswana’s paramilitary police (SSG). Mogo ...
  • Survival launches first-ever photography compe ...
    This image captures the Awá journeying to the realm of the forest spirits.© Toby Nicholas/ SurvivalSurvival International – the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights – has launched its first-ever worldwide photography competition to mark its 45th anniversary. The competition aims to ...
  • Peru ignores UN and pushes ahead with deadly g ...
    Uncontacted and isolated tribes like the Nanti are at extreme risk of contracting fatal diseases introduced by outsiders on their land.© SurvivalPeru’s government is on the brink of approving the expansion of the highly controversial Camisea gas project into the land of uncontacted and iso ...
  • Victory: India saves 'Avatar tribe' from Vedan ...
    The Dongria Kondh are celebrating their victory over British mining giant Vedanta Resources.© Toby Nicholas/SurvivalIn a sensational victory in the stand-off between India’s ‘real Avatar tribe’ and British mining giant Vedanta Resources, India’s authorities have quashed t ...
  • ‘Aids and beer’: BBC finds despair in Bushman ...
    A Bushman woman in the street in New Xade, the government resettlement camp to which many Bushmen have been relocated in the last ten years.© Dominick TylerA BBC report has found Botswana Bushmen living in desperate conditions more than a decade after they were evicted from their ancestral land ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • #WVChemLeak: #FreedomIndustries Cited at Secon ...
    from ksdk.com: The company whose spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 West Virginians has been cited for violations at a second facility where it's storing chemicals. Department of Environmental Protection spokesman Tom Aluise says inspectors found five violations Monday at a Nitro si ...
  • Helicopter Over #Baltimore To Monitor #Radiation
    from baltimore.cbslocal.com: Homeland Security officials will conduct tests this week that could save lives and they’ll be done from a helicopter flying extremely low over the city. Officials will test for radiation so they can respond more quickly in case of a nuclear or dirty bomb attack... Ey ...
  • ​Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory over far ...
    from RT.com: The US Supreme Court upheld biotech giant Monsanto’s claims on genetically-engineered seed patents and the company’s ability to sue farmers whose fields are inadvertently contaminated with Monsanto materials. The high court left intact Monday a federal appeals court decisi ...
  • Fracking study finds combustible levels of met ...
    from RT.com: A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise. Steve Lipsky, a resident of Fo ...
  • #Suntory to Buy #JimBeam in $16 Billion Deal f ...
    from bloomberg.com: Suntory Holdings Ltd., the closely held Japanese whiskey and beer maker, agreed to buy Beam Inc. (BEAM) for $16 billion including debt to gain brands such as Maker’s Mark whiskey and create the world’s third-largest premium spirits company. Investors in the maker of Jim Beam ...

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

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The Economic Collapse

  • Vast Stretches Of Impoverished Appalachia Look ...
    If you want to get an idea of where the rest of America is heading, just take a trip through the western half of West Virginia and the eastern half of Kentucky some time.  Once you leave the main highways, you will rapidly encounter poverty on a level that is absolutely staggering.  Overall, abo ...
  • The Level Of Economic Freedom In The United St ...
    Americans have never had less economic freedom than they do right now.  The 2014 Index of Economic Freedom has just been released, and it turns out that the level of economic freedom in the United States has now fallen for seven consecutive years.  But of course none of us need a report or a sur ...
  • Why Is Goldman Sachs Warning That The Stock Ma ...
    Why has Goldman Sachs chosen this moment to publicly declare that stocks are overpriced?  Why has Goldman Sachs suddenly decided to warn all of us that the stock market could decline by 10 percent or more in the coming months?  Goldman Sachs has to know that when they release a report like this ...
  • The Number Of Working Age Americans Without A ...
    That headline is not a misprint.  The number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House.  In January 2009, the number of "officially unemployed" workers plus the number of Americans "not in the labor force" ...
  • If You Are Waiting For An “Economic Coll ...
    If you are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the "economic collapse", just open up your eyes and look at what is happening in Europe.  The entire continent is a giant economic mess right now.  Unemployment and poverty levels are setting record highs, car sales are setting record lows, and there ...

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

  • NC hog farm threatened with citizen lawsuit ov ...
    Image Caption:  Confinement barns and an open lagoon that holds hog urine, excrement and other waste produced at Stilley Farms in Jones County, N.C. Pollution from the facility is blamed for fouling the Trent River and Neuse River Estuary. (Pho ...
  • Hagan, Southern lawmakers targeted in Obamacar ...
    Image Caption:  Nearly half of the TV attack ads in a nationwide blitz launched by Americans for Prosperity in June 2013 have targeted Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina. Nearly half of the TV ads in a national $20 mi ...
  • NC NAACP threatens legal action to speed speci ...
    Image Caption:  (National Atlas map of North Carolina's 12th Congressional District via Wikipedia.) North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's decision to put off a special election to fill the open 12th Congressional District sea ...
  • WV water contamination exposes chemical hazard ...
    Image Caption:  The area of West Virginia where residents have been told not to use their tap water due to a coal-processing chemical spill. (Map from the West Virginia Am ...
  • Art Pope's network misleads, back-pedals in wa ...
    Image Caption:  Art Pope's political network has enjoyed big success in North Carolina. But in the face of media criticism, Pope and his allies have back-pedaled from taking responsibility for the state's rightward shift. ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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abelard - news

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

  • Smoking Mirrors | Israel Executes 3 Little Gir ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. I’ve been concerned about the New England defensive line, since Vince Wolfork’s injury. Thankfully, today, I spotted some definite replacements. I now feel a lot more confident about the Denver game. The PC storm-t ...
  • Quote of the Day – Our leaders strain ev ...
    “Our leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going, while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the fox trot, earn money and eat chocolates…And perhaps…it has always been the same and always will be, and what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart ...
  • New Documentary Explores Aluminum’s &#82 ...
    Julie Taboh April 29, 2013   Aluminum is everywhere.  From airplanes to cooking pans, this versatile, light-weight metal has been around for generations.  And its many benefits have made life easier and more convenient for millions of people. But a new documentary portrays what the filmmake ...
  • “They’re All Gone”: Shock as sardines vanish o ...
    By ENENews Long Beach Press Telegram, Jan. 13, 2014: Sardine vanish off the coast; squid and anchovy fill the void for fishermen — [Larry Derr] has pulled up [Pacific sardines] by the ton since the 1980s [...] it was a shock when he couldn’t find one of the shiny silver-blue coastal fish all sum ...
  • Doctors ignite patient during heart operation ...
    After spraying the patient with surgical alcohol to disinfect an open would, they then began to use an electrical scalpel, which unfortunately ignited the fluid. \”We are talking about a rare but very unfortunate incident,\” said Dr Rolf Busund, clinical manager at the University Hos ...

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War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Climate “scientists” begin to ackn ...
    But none of the climate simulations carried out for the IPCC produced this particular hiatus at this particular time. That has led sceptics — and some scientists — to the controversial conclusion that the models might be overestimating the effect of greenhouse gases, and that future warming migh ...
  • Turney faces the wrath of the Global Warming I ...
    The fallout from the Ship of Fools continues and the Global Warming Establishment are turning on Chris Turney and his tourists. I get the impression that Turney is going to face the full rigour of the Global Warming Inquisition. He may not be burnt at the stake but he may be thrown under a bus o ...
  • Herring fast frozen in the Norwegian Sea
    A shoal of herring were chased towards shore off the island of Lovund, Norway by cormorants. But the air temperature was - 7.8°C with a fresh Easterly wind and the sea froze so fast that the fish were trapped in "mid-swim".
  • Kerry’s “messianic fervour” ...
    Messianic fervour may be admirable in a messiah (though even that is doubtful) but it is not an attribute of much value to a Secretary of State. Messianic fervour is the consequence of delusion - a delusion of moral superiority or of nobility or of divinity or of grandeur or of noblesse oblige. ...
  • Dreeamliner battery fix fails as Tesla recalls ...
    The overheating problems of lithium-ion batteries and their chargers seem to more serious than just teething problems. Boeing and Tesla continue to have issues with thermal runaway and permanent fixes are proving elusive.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

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Intel Hub

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

FRS

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

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • The Right Wing 2012 Agenda
    I’ve been paying close attention to the post-2012 activities of 2012 activists, and this one caught me by surprise… Ostensibly an exercise in leveraging a popular meme for profit purposes only, the “official” Dec 21 2012 site has now been revived using the most generic co ...
  • The Bookcover I Forgot About
    The books, topics, notes and ideas that I didn’t write about in the last 13 years would take me a decade to wade through – which I might just do depending on how much is going on in my here-and-now. I just found some images I was considering for my Survive 2o12 book cover (and then f ...
  • The Maya were right about 2012 (possibly?)
    For a long time now, I have figured that the major possibilities for a scientific prediction from the ancient Maya (or their predecessors) was either a massive solar storm (via noticing patterns in low-latitude auroras) or the return of a long-period comet. Following a 2012-recap interview over ...
  • Europe’s Nuclear Plants: Not Very Safe
    I just stumbled across this New Scientist story from a year ago (and presumably the situation hasn’t improved…) European nuclear power plants ill-set for disaster It’s just as well earthquakes and tsunamis are comparatively rare in Europe, because the continent’s nuclear ...
  • Islands Can Arrive (and disappear) Overnight
    Pakistan’s recent deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake had a surprising twist – an entire island rose out of the ocean.   I think it looks bigger in the photo than it really is, because it is only 600 meters from the shoreline: The earthquake was so powerful that it caused the seabe ...

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Return of Al-Qaeda
    How did al-Qaeda, a tiny anti-Communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 active members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat? How can al-Qaeda be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and now much of black Africa? This after the US spent over $1 trillion trying to stamp out al- ...
  • Canvas: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Grou ...
    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 would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Glamor-star boxer-turned political gur ...
  • Is the US preparing to stash 3,000 terrorists ...
    After removing the extremist organization Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) from its list of terrorist organizations in 2012, the US State Department has been unsuccessfully trying to move militants from this group out of Iraq and closer to sites that are being readied for future armed hostilities. Washin ...
  • Who is Jesus Christ and Who is Irrational?
    Julian Christmas Eve is perhaps a perfect moment to reread a wonderful column by American Professor of Criminology from North Carolina State University Michael S. ADAMS. A sixty-seven year old proud atheist friend of mine recently interjected the sweeping statement “all religion is irrational” i ...
  • Was Sangeeta Richard the CIA’s maid in Manhatt ...
    Part I Wage row The US is right that when Khobragade applied for her visa, she falsely stated her paid would be paid the minimum US wage of $7.25 an hour. But Satyabrata Pal, former Indian ambassador to Pakistan, writes in the daily newspaper The Hindu: “Every Indian diplomat in the US has told ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Does Papal Pretender Deserve Person of the Yea ...
    The announcement that Time Magazine had declared Pope Frank, the Paedophile-Protector-in-Chief, their Person of the Year for 2013 left all of us who are not either brain dead, brainwashed or irretrievably corrupt completely speechless. Surely this would be the joke of the new century, if it were ...
  • How Much Justice Will Survivors See in this Ne ...
    Welcome to a new year. The Christmas/New Year period is tough, not festive, for so many survivors. Difficulty in maintaining relationships with family, friends and colleagues is one of the lifelong impacts of childhood sexual assaults. A time of year emphasising the love and support offered by t ...
  • Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
    Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...
  • Truth, Justice and Healing comes not from a Co ...
    Survivors in Australia are waking up this week to a different world. A world where those in positions of authority do not look the other way, shrug their shoulders and callously ignore the fact of the criminal child rape of children, the criminal coverup of those crimes and the ongoing re-abuse ...
  • Victims Heard at Last
    Statement issued by survivors of Catholic child sexual abuse, their families and supporters on the first day of Royal Commission hearings into the catholic Church’s response to child sexual abuse: The children of Australia have long been denied our basic human right to safety. In order to ...

WL Central

  • 2014-01-14 Swedish Prosector Asks for Assange ...
    Retired Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren wrote a powerful op-ed for conservative daily SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) asking for the Assange case to be closed. read more
  • 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
    Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
  • 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
  • 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
    Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...
  • 2013-12-05 Anonymous joining fight in the Ukraine
    Ukrainian version: http://anoninsiders.net/anonymous-ukrainian-pr-2238/ To People of the Ukraine, we are anonymous. read more

U N News

  • Marking fourth anniversary of Haiti earthquake ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the international community to increase its aid to Haiti on the fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake that struck the impoverished country, noting progress already made in health and education, but warning that more needs to ...
  • Senior UN officials urge Group of 77' nations ...
    United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the General Assembly President John Ashe, today urged the bloc of developing countries known as the "Group of 77 and China" to work collectively towards reaching the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 ...
  • UN rights expert warns that all Brazilians mus ...
    Brazilian authorities need to give further priority to the poorest and most marginalized, to ensure that inequalities in the country are progressively eliminated and all receive access to sanitation and water, an independent United Nations human rights expert today urged.
  • Protect trafficking victims, punish perpetrato ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today called on the Government of Belize to adopt a comprehensive programme to protect and assist victims of trafficking and to ensure that the perpetrators of this scourge are punished.
  • UN rights expert urges Bahamas to boost effort ...
    Voicing concern over the lack of a national action plan by the Bahamas to address trafficking in persons, an independent United Nations human rights expert called on the Government to ramp up its efforts to fight the ongoing problem.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Conservationists Ask Court to Halt Wolf Exterm ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 7, 2014 Contact: Gary Macfarlane, Wilderness Watch, 208-882-9755 Jonathan Proctor, Defenders of Wildlife, 406-214-5327 Timothy Preso, Earthjustice, 406-586-9699 Ken Cole, Western Watersheds Project, 208-890-3666 POCATELLO, Idaho – A coalition of conservationists, repre ...
  • Yendegaia National Park Created!
    YENDEGAIA National Park Created! Original post: 2013/12/12:  Tompkins Conservation 370,000 Wild Acres in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego via a Joint Collaboration: Piñera-Tompkins DECEMBER 12, 2013— In Tierra del Fuego—the southernmost extreme of the Americas—Chile will gain a spectacular new nat ...
  • Why Wolves? – David Parsons
    A few weeks ago Dave Parsons, TRI’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist,  gave a lecture in Santa Fe for a program called Science Cafe for Young Thinkers sponsored by the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. The lecture is about wolf ecology and trophic cascades explained at a high school level.
  • Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Proposed for Fede ...
    Your comments are due by December 2, 2013 Please let the US Fish and Wildlife Service know that you value the yellow-billed cuckoo and want it protected! On October 3, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as ...
  • Great Old Broads for Wilderness is looking for ...
    Wanted  Full Time  COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Durango, Colorado Great Old Broads for Wilderness seeks a full-time Communications Director to strategically guide communications, marketing, and public relations; manage and edit print and electronic communications; and develop creative membership outr ...

reference frame

  • IPCC WG3 plans to suck excess CO2 and kill 1 b ...
    Yesterday, Alister Doyle of Reuters informed the world about some leaked documents of the Working Group 3 of the IPCC that should release its new report in April 2014: REFILE-World may have to suck gases from air to meet climate goals-UN (Reuters) The "mitigation" group discusses technologies fo ...
  • ER=EPR trivializes in 3D topological field the ...
    Today, two papers are related to the information preservation and topology change in quantum gravity. My former advisor Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, and two junior collaborators discuss the holographic spacetime paradigm and offer some provocative theses about the "mirage becoming a reality" for ...
  • Scientific theories need to be falsifiable
    ...but the adjective automatically includes "in principle"... I have discussed several answers to the annual (and problematic) Edge.org question Which scientific ideas should be retired? but Sean Carroll's answer wasn't among them. Falsifiability needs to be retired (Carroll's answer at Edge.or ...
  • Israel joins CERN
    For the first time since 1999, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has accepted a new (21st) full member. CERN press release, Jerusalem Post, Israel National News, Interactions.ORG Israel culturally belongs to Europe and the work of the Israeli physicists is actually very impor ...
  • Plans to redefine 1 ampere
    I discussed this topic in April 2012 in Let's fix the value of Planck's constant. The SI system of units is based on 1 meter, 1 second, 1 kilogram, 1 kelvin, 1 ampere, 1 candela, and 1 mole. They have some definitions that are not really optimal yet. I claim that a theoretical physicist prefe ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Skylar Murphy didn’t plan to use pipe bomb on ...
    The RCMP believed an Edmonton-area teen’s story that he had no plans to blow up a plane with a pipe bomb he said he was unintentionally carrying through airport security, because he had a “shocked reaction” when security screeners found the device, say court transcripts obtained by CBC News. CBC ...
  • Skylar Murphy didn’t plan to use pipe bomb on ...
    The RCMP believed an Edmonton-area teen’s story that he had no plans to blow up a plane with a pipe bomb he said he was unintentionally carrying through airport security, because he had a “shocked reaction” when security screeners found the device, say court transcripts obtained by CBC News. CBC ...
  • COMEX Gold Stocks At Record Lows As SGE Volume ...
    from Gold Core: The supply demand fundamentals of the gold market remain sound with the flow of gold from West to East. COMEX gold stocks have fallen to new record lows (see chart) showing demand for physical bullion remains very robust. Indeed, the scale of the fall in COMEX gold stocks since 2 ...
  • Contempt of cop, America’s defiance revolution ...
    Whether it’s Edward Snowden’s example, or a resurgent faith in the rule of law, ordinary Americans are standing up to authority, police especially, like seldom before and videotaping their triumphs, Neil Macdonald reports. The proof is all over YouTube. CBC | Top Stories News I ...
  • U.S. Navy to deploy weaponized drones in world ...
    by J. D. Heyes, Natural News: What the U.S. Air Force and the CIA are doing in the skies around the world, the U.S. Navy wants to do under the seas: patrol them with weaponized drones. Over the holiday season, the Navy recently pushed forward with a plan to build a fleet of “long endurance ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Ford VP Says: Thanks To Our GPS We Know Everyo ...
    A shocking statement made by Ford executive Jim Farley, vice president of marketing and sales at Ford, reveals that Ford apparently is tracking their customers vehicles location by it’s internal GPS… “We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you’re doing it. We h ...
  • Sheriff’s Oath For We The People
    Did you know that the Sheriff is the highest constitutional executive authority in the county? Very few people realize that the Sheriff has the legitimate authority to prevent federal agents from entering the county – or the power to throw them out once there. One way we can change things ...
  • You Are Witnessing A Gradual, Quiet, Coup
    He has just announced that he is going to assume lawmaking powers and he does not recognize the majority in the house of representatives…   “One of the things I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is that fact that we are not just gonna be waiting for legislation in order to ...
  • Carts, Wagons And Wheelbarrows For Survival Pr ...
    As a prepper, are you overlooking the need for yard carts, wagons, and wheelbarrows that will assist you in carting ‘stuff’ around? Something that is NOT motorized, but instead will be pulled, pushed, or pedaled…   The reason that I said “NOT” motorized is beca ...
  • Not All Burglars Are Stupid
    Not all burglars and thieves are stupid. Some of them use your electronic technology to rob you. The following are two examples of burglars using your vehicle’s GPS and your mobile phone to get what they want…   Burglar uses GPS The incident: While attending a football game, the ...

Fast Company

  • The Sacramento Kings Now Accept Bitcoin
    The cryptocurrency comes to NBA basketball.On Thursday, Bitcoin got a little bit more mainstream. The Sacramento Kings basketball team announced it is joining the ranks of businesses now accepting Bitcoin, making it the first professional sports team to do so.Read Full Story    &n ...
  • Apple Alum Reimagines Storytelling On The iPad
    Storehouse could become the way we tell and reach rich, visual stories on the iPad.With Paper, we saw what could happen when smart design honed the iPad as a creative tool for drawing. And now with Storehouse, launching today (free), we're getting a first taste of what the iPad can do when the s ...
  • Design Pirate Cody Foster Threatens Whistleblower
    Cody Foster threatens to sue the owner of a Flickr group who posted pictures of its piracy online.A Nebraska-based tchotchke maker accused of stealing independent designers' work is threatening to sue a Flickr user who provided online evidence of the company's pirating ways.Read Full Story &nbsp ...
  • How A Quiet Walk Saves Your Creativity (And Sa ...
    Our days are short on sunlight and packed with too much stimulation. Here's why a walk outside (even when the weather is gross) can refresh your focus.Blogger-marketer-entrepreneur Herbert Lui was trying everything to get over the 3 p.m. slump: he was swilling coffee, splashing water on his face ...
  • How Dabbling Can Actually Help Your Career
    Jack (or Jill) of all trades, master of none? Not so, say these three dabbling experts.It used to be that having a lot of varied interests meant that you are flighty.Read Full Story     

Jadaliyya

  • يوميات طاهر عبد الحميد الفتياني وإضاءات على ال ...
    الحلقة الأولى مقدمة  تمتاز اليوميات الشخصية،_ وإلى حدّ ما كتب الذكريات، عن الوثائق الرسمية والمنشورات السياسية، سواءً الصادرة منها عن جهات حكومية أو عن جهات وحركات وأحزاب سياسية، في قدرتها على أن تنفذ إلى أعماق الحياة المجتمعية لتصورها بمختلف تجلياتها ومكوناتها التفصيلية، بعيداً عن اللغة ...
  • Boxed In
    I (very) briefly grappled with whether to vote, or boycott this referendum but after the experience of covering the Sisi popularity contest Tuesday, I will not be ticking any boxes.  I did a little straw poll on Facebook to see what others were doing. The overwhelming majority are also boy ...
  • A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It
    South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, A Bomb, With Ribbon Around It. Queens Museum, Queens, New York, 14 December 2013 – 18 January 2014.   A Bomb, With a Ribbon Around It, at the Queens Museum through 18 January 2014, is an eclectic collection of contemporary works from the South Asia ...
  • Cut and Paste: An Exhibition by Huda Lutfi
    Cut and Paste An exhibition by Huda Lutfi 1 December 2013 - 8 January 2014 Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo   This video documents the latest exhibition by Egyptian artist Huda Lutfi, which was featured as part of the Townhouse Gallery's fifteenth anniversary celebrations. In ...
  • Egypt's Terrible Three: Interview with Hossam ...
    Nearly three years after the fall of Mubarak, with the deep state and the military openly back in control, Egypt seems to have come full circle. How did that happen and what is the situation on the ground really like, with Egyptians going to the polls yet again to vote on a new constitution? Vom ...

mediagazer

  • Rdio follows Spotify with unlimited ad-support ...
    Casey Newton / The Verge: Rdio follows Spotify with unlimited ad-supported music on the web  —  A day after Spotify said it would remove all caps on free ad-supported music listening on the web, fellow on-demand music service Rdio followed suit.  Previously, Rdio offered li ...
  • Noah Shachtman, formerly of Foreign Policy and ...
    Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: Noah Shachtman, formerly of Foreign Policy and Wired, joins Daily Beast as executive editor  —  After Tina Brown's Exit, Daily Beast Brings In Editing Help  —  The Daily Beast has hired Noah Shachtman, a former editor at Foreign Pol ...
  • Fired Yahoo Exec's $109M Golden Parachute Was ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Fired Yahoo Exec's $109M Golden Parachute Was One Of The Biggest Ever  —  There are a lot of different ways to express just how massive is the payout Yahoo is bestowing upon Henrique De Castro, the chief operations officer fired this week by CEO Marissa ...
  • The Week Picks Up a New Digital Boss From Patc ...
    Peter Kafka / Re/code: The Week Picks Up a New Digital Boss From Patch  —  The Week, Dennis Publishing's online/offline news aggregator, has brought on a new digital boss.  Rachel Fishman Feddersen will run TheWeek.com, and will “lead a relaunch and reconception&rdquo ...
  • Wall Street Journal Reporter Goes Missing in N ...
    NBC New York: Wall Street Journal Reporter Goes Missing in New Jersey, Credit Card Mysteriously Used in Mexico  —  Hundreds of people are searching for a missing 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who left his New Jersey home for a walk on Saturday and never came back.

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • Profile: Former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri
    Rafik Hariri was a dominant force in Lebanese politics in both life and death. As prime minister of Lebanon, he is widely credited with getting the country back on its feet after the devastating 15-year civil conflict. He held office from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignatio ...
  • Footage of Asiana crash aftermath shows g ...
    Video from a firefighter's helmet camera following the crash landing of an Asiana Airlines flight in San Francisco shows rescuers were aware there was someone on the ground outside the plane, before 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was fatally run over by a fire truck 7:58AM GMT 16 Jan 2014 CBS News ...
  • Tourist gang-rape: police hunt for more s ...
    New Delhi - Indian police carried out raids across New Delhi on Thursday as they hunted for a further six men wanted over the gang-rape of a Danish tourist which has put the country's record on sexual violence back into the spotlight. Police...
  • Rafik Hariri assassination: trial of Hezb ...
    UN's Special Tribunal for Lebanon to try four men in absentia because Hezbollah has vowed never to arrest them Portrait of Rafik Hariri on his grave in Beirut, Lebanon. He and 22 others were killed when a truck bomb with a tonne...
  • Apple to Refund £20m to Parents Over In-A ...
    Gerald Lynch - Apple has settled a suit with the US Federal Trade Commission over disclosures that it was too easy for children to make in-app purchases. And it’ll be quite a chunk of change coming out of its coffers. The Cupertino company is to refund some $32.5 million (£19.87 milli ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/16/14 - Governments That Use ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - Governments That Use ProCon.org – ProCon.org is now used by 17 international governments including Ecuador, Iran, Japan, Portugal, South Korea, and Taiwan.
  • 1/15/14 - Physician-Assisted Suicide Ruled Leg ...
    euthanasia.procon.org - Physician-Assisted Suicide Ruled Legal by New Mexico Judge - A Jan. 13, 2014 ruling by Second Judicial Judge Nan G. Nash prohibits the prosecution of physicians who help competent terminally ill patients end their lives.
  • 1/14/14 - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Is a College E ...
    college-education.procon.org - Top Pro & Con Quotes: Is a College Education Worth It? - Read pro and con arguments from President Barack Obama (pro), PayPal Cofounder Peter Thiel (con), Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban (pro), Napster Cofounder Sean Parker (con), and 18 more education expert ...
  • 1/14/14 - Nigeria Bans Gay Marriage
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Nigeria Bans Gay Marriage – Africa’s most populous nation makes it illegal to have an intimate same-sex relationship, to attend or organize a meeting of gays, or patronize or operate any type of gay organization, including private clubs.
  • 12/23/13 - Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Uncon ...
    gaymarriage.procon.org – Utah's Gay Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge – The state's same-sex marriage ban was overturned on Dec. 20, 2013, and county clerks began issuing marriage licenses immediately. The state is appealing the decision.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Pebble Mine Would Endanger Alaska's Bristol Ba ...
    A three-year study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay area would pose significant dangers to the environment, a potentially fatal setback for plans Mulchatna River, part of Bristol Bay watershed to develop Pebble Mine, ...
  • Indian Microgrids Aim to Bring Millions out of ...
    Powered by solar panels and biomass, microgrids are spreading slowly across India, where 300 million people live without electricity. But can these off-grid technologies be scaled-up to bring low-carbon power to tens of millions of people? BY DAVID FERRIS
  • West African Lions Are Critically Close to Ext ...
    West African lions are close to extinction, and vulnerable populations could be wiped out in the next five to 10 years, according to new research led by the wild cat conservation group Panthera. West African lions, which are genetically distinct from other African lions, once numbered in the ten ...
  • Google's Acquisition of Nest Expected to Boost ...
    Google's purchase of Nest, a leading manufacturer of smart thermostats, further deepens the Internet search giant's involvement in the green energy sector and is likely to help accelerate development of a more efficient smart grid, experts say. Google has already invested $300 million ...
  • Interview: Greenpeace's Kumi Naidoo On Russia ...
    Kumi Naidoo, the international executive director of Greenpeace, is intimately familiar with the Prirazlomnaya drilling platform in the Russian Arctic. In 2012, he and five other Greenpeace activists were hosed down with frigid water and pelted with pieces of metal as they attempted to climb abo ...

oldephartte/Diigo

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

  • The “Graveyard of the Atlantic” Should Be a T ...
    (Photo: Red) By Randy Sturgill The waters off the North Carolina coast are known as the “graveyard of the Atlantic.” Since the 16th century, thousands of ships have wrecked on the area’s deadly capes and shoals. Even today, mariners still dread these places, including familiar places li ...
  • Ask Dr. Pauly: What are bycatch and discards?
    (Photo: Oceana) Ocean cosnervationists talk a lot about "bycatch" and "discards." But what exacty do these terms mean? In each issue of Oceana magazine, fisheries scientist and Oceana board member Dr. Daniel Pauly breaks down a commonly used fisheries term. In the recent issue, Dr. ...
  • CEO Note: Right Whales Left Out
    (Photo: FWC Fish and Wildlife) The North Atlantic right whale is one of the most endangered species in the U.S. and the rarest of all the large whales. Commercial whaling reduced their population to just a few hundred individuals, and the species is still struggling to recover. Their migratio ...
  • CEO Note: Janelle Chanona to Lead Oceana Belize
    The New Year promises to bring many exciting changes here at Oceana. The first among many exciting piece of news is that Oceana recently hired a new Vice President to lead conservation efforts in our Belize office—Janelle Chanona. Janelle, a long time anchor for Channel 5 in Belize, most rece ...
  • Don’t Let Congress Crush Offshore Wind’s Growi ...
    (Photo: Dan Century) The offshore wind industry rang in 2014 on a high note: both the Cape Wind and Block Island projects will qualify for the critically important Investment Tax Credit (ITC)!  These two projects are in the running to be the first offshore wind farm in the United States. ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Japan Times

  • Thai protesters see last chance to save interests
    The fact that a member of Thailand's royal family — a daughter of the king — has gotten caught up in politics would seem to ...
  • Putin PR hides woes in 2014
    The Kremlin's dismay at the scale and longevity of protests in Moscow and other cities, following the fraudulent election in December 2011, is forcing Putin ...
  • Assist Myanmar’s reform efforts
    Nearly three years after its transition from military to civilian rule, Myanmar faces difficult challenges in its path to democratization and economic reform, including the ...
  • Election spotlight on nuclear power
    Expect the question of whether Japan should rely on nuclear power generation in the future to be a main theme of the Feb. 9 Tokyo ...
  • Pro-wrestling builds character
    Have you ever wondered how it would look if a panda or maybe a swan pro-wrestled a clown or a GI soldier? Well here's an ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Loonie’s Fall Not a Moment Too Soon
    The long-overdue depreciation of Canada’s currency is gathering steam. The dollar lost 8 cents against its U.S. counterpart, in fits and starts, over 2013. It’s lost another 2 cents since the start of 2014, and negative sentiment about the currency is accumulating among financial analysts and tr ...
  • A Blue Christmas for Workers: Canada’s Job Mar ...
    It was a blue Christmas for many Canadian workers and job-seekers. Statistics Canada reported today that employment fell by 46,000 in December. As a result, Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 7.2%. Also today, the US Department of Labor reported that the American unemployment rate fell to 6.7% ...
  • Alternative Person of the Year Award for 2013: ...
    The Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économiques (IRIS) has released its third Alternative Person of the Year Award. In 2011, rating agencies had been its recipients whilst last year Chinese labour camps rose to the top. This year, competition was rough. After lengthy discussions, o ...
  • CEO Pay: Out of Whack with Ontario’s Minimum Wage
    Last week, the CCPA revealed that the top 100 CEOs in Canada earn, on average, $7.96 million a year – or 171 times more than the average Canadian worker.  That’s also 373 times more than an Ontarian earning the minimum wage. To put that in perspective, the Top 100 CEOs earn in one hour what a [& ...
  • Unlucky, lazy, or just female?: Why there aren ...
    Imagine finding $7.96 million in your stocking on Christmas morning. For Canada’s top 100 CEOs, that happy day has arrived. These 100 Canadians earn more than 99.9% of the working population of Canada.[1] But if you are woman, odds are you are not on that happy list. Not now, not ever. It would ...

ReDress

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

Injustice Everywhere

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

Total Collapse

  • US-China-Japan Pacific War “Just Weeks Away” W ...
    An “urgent” report issued today to the General Staff from the highly secretive Deputy Defense Minister General Pavel Popov is warning that war can be expected to erupt between the Pacific Powers of the United States, Peoples Republic of China and the State of Japan “within weeks” due to a power ...
  • Major Social Unrest in Spain
    At least 20 have been arrested and 12 injured during riots in Burgos, Spain. Melilla is also getting its fair share of social unrest. Is Spain witnessing the beginning of a major social revolution or is it nothing but a pocket of anger venting and evaporating into thin air? Barrio de Gamonal, Bu ...
  • War Criminal Ariel Sharon ‘Dies’ After 8 Years ...
    An accused war criminal who presided over the killing of thousands of civilians, Sharon destroyed entire cities, wasted countless lives and sabotaged careers to shape the reality on the ground. He was 85 years old and had been in a coma since 2006, when a stroke incapacitated him at the height o ...
  • 40.7% of US Babies Born to Unmarried Women
    According to data released by the CDC, 40.7% of US babies are born to unmarried women. The percentage of American babies born to unmarried mothers has more than doubled since 1980. Also revealed by the report are details on dropping fertility rates: The U.S. fertility rate has dropped from year- ...
  • Fukushima’s Radioactive Wave Appears To Have H ...
    Fukushima experienced numerous explosions two weeks ago. Experts predicted radioactivity would hit the US West Coast within days. It appears that the radioactive wave has hit California: Health officials have confirmed the radiation spike but are in denial about the source. The echos online are ...

Daily Dose

  • Instafax: The BBC’s experiment with shor ...
    The BBC is testing a new way of distributing short news items via a new service called Instafax, which uses Instagram to share videos and other information about news events... Keep reading →
  • Skype now supports two-way HD video calls on t ...
    Microsoft rolled out a small update for the iOS version of its Skype app today, introducing two-way high-definition video calls for the iPhone 5s and the ability to receive chat... Keep reading →
  • No time to read? Blinkist wants to help.
    As sad as it may be, many people just don’t have the time to read these days. When we say ‘read’, we don’t mean 140-character-long rants on Twitter, or 150-word... Keep reading →
  • Google Now arrives in Chrome Canary with weath ...
    Google Now has arrived in Chrome Canary, the experimental version of Google’s desktop browser. While it’s been possible to enable the feature since April last year, this is the first... Keep reading →
  • China’s Internet population hit 618 mill ...
    If you ever needed more evidence of how China is becoming an increasingly connected country, aided not least by the growth of mobile Internet access, you just got it.  China... Keep reading →

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Casting away carbon, street by street
    By Stephen Bygrave. From Climate Spectator Australia's homes are among the largest and most inefficient in the developed world. Then we wonder why our household energy bills and carbon emissions are so high.  There are, also, few ways we get feedback regarding our household energy consum ...
  • The bloody-minded Banjos keepin' carbon in our air
    Stephen Bygrave, Climate Spectator Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about average household expenditure show how repeal of the carbon price cannot save households very much. Why not? Because households don't spend very much on power. For a house that is struggling to pay all i ...
  • High-speed rail network $30 billion cheaper th ...
    ABC Lateline - by environment and science reporter Jake Sturmer A comprehensive new study investigating east coast high-speed rail argues that it could be $30 billion cheaper than first thought and pay itself off entirely within 40 years. The rail debate is back on track, with the Federal Gove ...
  • What price the carbon price?
    By Stephen Bygrave. Climate Spectator, November 21 We all know that the act of 'putting a price on carbon' has contributed to the downfall of three Australian prime ministers and two opposition leaders. What might not be as well known is that carbon pricing has gone relatively unnoticed in ot ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade ...
    Environmental groups have blasted draft text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) released yesterday by WikiLeaks as potentially devastating to the environment and wildlife. The massive 12-nation free trade agreement has been negotiated in secret now for almost four years, and the information ...
  • Population growth and associated food demand t ...
    Human population growth and associated food demand will likely take a heavy toll on tropical ecosystems unless major shifts occur in how crops are produced and consumed, warns a new review published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Noting that projections published by the U.N. now forecast the ...
  • iPhone app allows Americans to identify backya ...
    A new iPhone app enables North Americans to identify bird species by asking just five simple questions.
  • Underestimating global warming: gaps in Arctic ...
    No place on Earth is heating up faster than the Arctic, but just how fast has remained an open question due to large gaps in temperature data across the vast region. Now, a recent study in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society finds that not only is the Arctic warming eight t ...
  • Tree growth accelerates with age
    Old, large trees may be even more important ecologically than long-believed, according to a new study in Nature. Looking at over half a million individual trees from over 400 species (both tropical and temperate), scientists have determined that most trees actually grow faster in their dotage th ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone Lands Minister raises over Le 4 B ...
    The Minister of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment, Hon. Musa Tarawally (in photo), has made history by successfully generating the highest recorded amount of money that Ministry has ever made as fees levied on people for various activities and services provided by his Ministry in less ...
  • Campaign against Lawlessness leads on peace pr ...
    Mr. Ibrahim Kamara, Executive Director of National Campaign against Lawlessness-Sierra Leone (NaCAL-Sierra Leone), whose head office is situated at 21 Wyse Moore Street, Portee, revealed to this press that his organization has taken the lead in the promotion of human security and peace. He expla ...
  • Love Without Boundaries holds fete for needy c ...
    Love Without Boundaries is a charitable organization dedicated to serving underprivileged children with the hope of helping each child maximize his or her potential. The fete for needy children took place at St Joseph’s Convent School grounds in Freetown on 21st December, 2013. Speaking at the c ...
  • Constable Alhaji Koroma is Best Traffic Police ...
    Police Constable Alhaji Koroma 3098 of the New England Ville Police Station was on Saturday, January 4 this year awarded with a plaque as the Best Traffic Police Officer for 2013. Constable Alhaji Koroma joined the Sierra Leone Police on 15th. July, 2001 and has worked in the Kambia District, Ma ...
  • ‘Unity is key to our success’ – Mohamed Sasso
    Mohamed Sasso has told his colleague veterans footballers to be united as one family as it is only through unity that they will achieve their goals. He made this pronouncement at the Football Academy, Kingtom after the grand finale of the Veterans Unite gala which he sponsored. The veteran playe ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Many rivers t ...
    In yesterday's article we pointed out how farmers have been converting land to dairy, generating massive private profits tax-free,
  • Willy Leferink: Fonterra recall proves dedicat ...
    They say bad things come in threes.We've had the news Fonterra is going to "vigorously defend any proceedings" taken by Danone against it for what it says were millions of dollars of losses caused by last year's non-botulism scare.In...
  • Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Dairy doing d ...
    Our rivers are stuffed, and getting worse. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report on water quality released late last year fingered the steady expansion of dairying as the culprit. The Commissioner covered the...
  • Market takes Fonterra recall 'in its stride'
    The market has taken Fonterra's latest food scare "in its stride" and an analyst said any reputational damage would depend on how the issue was treated in international media in the coming days.Dairy co-operative Fonterra on Monday...
  • Fonterra cream recall sparks illness concerns
    News that Fonterra has recalled some batches of fresh cream has people worried that illness they have suffered is due to consuming the contaminated product.Fonterra says only three people have contacted it to report symptoms following...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Merkel Ally: German Relationship With US Worse ...
    Philipp Mißfelder, the foreign policy spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in the Bundestag, has said that the German relationship with the United States is worse than during the most recent U.S.-led war in Iraq because of revelations related to Americ ...
  • Cuddle Crackdown! Police Think Snugglers are A ...
    "Cuddle Crackdown! Police Think Snugglers are Actually Hookers: Don’t cops have better things to do?" is the latest video from ReasonTV. Watch above or click on the link below for video, full text, supporting links, downloadable versions, and more Reason TV clips. View ...
  • New Mexico Police Fatal Shooting of Woman Afte ...
    New Mexico state trooper Oliver Wilson shot at Jeanette Anaya and her car 16 times at the end of a pursuit that began over what the District Attorney says Wilson called a “perceived” moving violation. Although the DA said she did not see evidence of a moving violation, a grand jury w ...
  • Paul Detrick: Harassed for Taking Photos
    In October 2009 Shawn Nee, an award-winning photographer, was stopped by officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) while taking pictures of turnstiles in the L.A. subway. According to the officers, Nee was engaged in "suspicious terrorist activity." This sort ...
  • A.M. Links: House Approves Trillion Dollar Spe ...
    The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a 1,582-page, trillion dollar spending bill. Computer security experts are warning the government that the Obamacare website is not protected from hackers. The DEA’s chief of operations called state efforts to legalize mari ...

Mercury Rising

  • Mild Winter In Sweden Is Starving Reindeer
    This is for all those conservative anti-science snow trollers out there who think that if it’s cold for one week where they live, that means that it’s cold everywhere forever: The mild winter even in Sweden’s northern areas has led to a record number of Sami reindeer herders fi ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • Shorter Robert Gates: Obama Was Right But I Ha ...
    That’s the gist of Gates’ new book, per both Bob Woodward and Media Matters: Cable and network news programs – whose reporters apparently have not read the book themselves — are adopting Woodward’s frame of the book as an attack on the president. But elsewhere in hi ...
  • 60 Minutes Fails, Chapter Two: Renewable Energy
    Fresh off its bogus Benghazi debacle, what does 60 Minutes do? It ups the bullshit ante, this time whilst dealing with solar and wind power: “The Cleantech Crash,” which aired Jan. 5 and can be watched above, argues that renewable energy and other types of clean technology are a dyin ...
  • What Does George Fox Say?
    Quite a bit, actually: Happy Saturday! (Here’s the video the above video is gently parodying.)

Reality Sandwich

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

Desertification

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Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

  • ‘Syria plagued by Saudi-backed crisis’
    A political commentator says the Al Saud regime has been using its assets to fund nearly three years of bloody violence plaguing the Syrian nation, Press TV reports.
  • Over 1,000 killed in Syria infighting
    The infighting among al-Qaeda-linked militants and armed opposition groups has claimed more than 1,000 lives over the past two weeks.
  • Turkish lira hits new record low
    Turkey’s lira has hit a new record low against the US dollar amid a corruption scandal haunting the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
  • ‘US should have never invaded Iraq’
    The United States should have never waged war on Afghanistan and Iraq based on fabrications formulated by the American and Israeli intelligence services, an analyst says.
  • Militants kill 10 Yemeni soldiers
    Militants have killed ten Yemeni soldiers in simultaneous attacks on army positions in the country’s Bayda Province, a military official said.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Keeling Curve Crowdfunding
    Crowd funding programmes like Kick-starter have been used to raise money for music projects and Hollywood films, but now it could even be used to raise funding for long running scientific projects. ...
  • Would minimum pricing for alcohol work?
    A minimum per-unit price for alcohol, mooted by the UK government to combat problem drinking, was subsequently dropped in July 2013, despite evidence that such a strategy would effectively cut consump...
  • Super-thin, flexible electronics
    Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have found a way to make super-thin, flexible electronics which can be applied to almost any surface. In this paper, published in Nature Com...
  • Caffeine consolidates memory
    People have long used caffeine to help them stay awake and study for exams, but new research says it may be doing more than just keeping you alert. According to a paper published in Nature Neuroscienc...
  • Marine fossils show their true colours
    Fossilised remains have revealed that ancient marine-dwelling dinosaurs and turtles used the pigment melanin for camouflage and keeping warm, new research has shown. Lund University scientist Johan L...

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Care2 - Environment

  • Greece - Ancient and Beautiful
    Greece is a fascinating country with more history than just about any other and breathtaking natural landscape. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Ask Christy Clark to stand up for BC ! PLEASE ...
    Use the letter writing tool below to write to BC Premier Christy Clark and ask her to stand up to the federal government and take back BC's power to say no to projects like the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion plan. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Grassroots opposition gears up for Kinder Morg ...
    Changes to Canadian environmental assessment legislation have severely limited the publics right to participate in environmental reviews for energy projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline. Members of the public are now subjected to a very prohibitive Submitted by Cher C. to Environment   ...
  • Tell the European Agriculture Council to Prote ...
    Compassion in World Farming just conducted a detailed undercover investigation of 45 pig farms in the EU. The results were frightening. The group found pigs living in barren, concrete pens and sow stalls, unable to see or experience the outdoors. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  & ...
  • Women in Congress Protest Against Anti-Abortio ...
    In an unexpected turn of events Wednesday, several Democratic women started a protest right outside the House Judiciary Committees room in the Rayburn Office Building. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Siri's Religious Beliefs: Does Your iPhone Bel ...
    My iPhone can do almost anything. But could it help me find God? An interview with Siri, the virtual assistant inside many Apple products, reveals that the spiritual teacher you've been looking for may have been in your pocket all along. Submitted by Barb Knight to Science & Tech &nbs ...
  • Mass. abortion clinic buffer zone law is debat ...
    An attorney for the state of Massachusetts defended the states abortion clinic buffer zone law today in the nations highest court, saying the law properly protects the free speech rights of protesters, while at the same time ensuring public safety. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics &a ...
  • JPMorgan earns $5.3 billion despite legal woes
    Is JPMorgan Chase finally putting its legal problems behind it? The bank earned $5.3 billion, or $1.30 per share, in the final three months of 2013. Revenue fell 1% to $24.1 billion. Submitted by Traci A. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION: Tell Your Representative: Don't ...
    We have to stop this dangerous bill, and stop it now. Tell your representative to vote NO on this dangerous bill. Submitted by Beverly M. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Net Neutrality just got gutted - but we can st ...
    Yesterday, 3 judges dismantled the open Internet by deciding that big companies should be able to determine what we see online. Submitted by Freya T. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

Rogue Government - WP

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