Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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Nick Griffin, leader of the British National P...Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, talking to voters in Romford Market. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

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

  • Thug Life
    Item: The word “thug” was uttered on American TV 675 times yesterday, the most times in one day in at least three years. — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 21, 2014 But this is understandable — Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned us about this kind of thing. And since the underlyi ...
  • Bomb Shelter Cat
    I may not have any boxing cats for you tonight. And I may not have any firefighting cats either. Or any LOL-style cat photos from the 1870s. But I do have a picture of a cat in a reinforced cat carrier during World War II. Not sure what country.     
  • A Firm Stand Against Abolishing NPR
    I was on Here and Now today…     
  • Regulating West Virginia
    Why doesn’t West Virginia have decent environmental regulations? Because the state legislature has to approve each one! West Virginia imposes an unusual hurdle for its Department of Environmental Protection: Regulations it writes are not enforceable until approved by the Legislature, givin ...
  • States with the highest percentage of people w ...
    I am of course using the phrase “people who don’t pay any taxes” in the sense given to it by the contemporary Republican party, i.e., “people who have zero or less than zero net federal income tax liability after credits and deductions.”     

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

  • New Year Venues for ZZ Top Go Public
    The band ZZ Top might have slowed down a bit, but they're still entertaining and touring as well. They have a venue that is already filling up!
  • 16 Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
    According to media reports, a suicide bomber cleared a path for two gunmen, who then rushed in and fired on diners. 13 of the dead were foreigners.
  • Syria: Evidence of 11,000 Crimes Against Humanity
    Kimberly Jones reports on the arrest, torture and murder of men, women and children in Syria, by the Assad regime and al-Qaeda, known as Daash. Graphic photos
  • SYFY's Ghost Mine 'Green Horn' Miner Jay Verbe ...
    Men have mined all corners of the earth fueled by their lust for gold. The Crescent mine in Sumpter, Oregon is one of these places and it was the site for the SYFY Channels show Ghost Mine. Men first starting working the ground beneath that mountain
  • Celebrity Lookalike Met Wife At Convention
    Jack Bullard, as Jack Nicholson, recently married. He and wife, C.J. Morgan, both celebrity lookalikes and tribute artists, often work in Vegas.

environment 360

  • More Crude Oil Spilled by U.S. Trains in 2013 ...
    U.S. trains spilled 1.15 million gallons of crude oil in 2013 — more than was spilled in the nearly 40 years since officials began tracking such accidents, federal data show. The majority of that volume came from two major derailments: a November incident in Alabama that spilled 750,000 gallons ...
  • As Uses of Biochar Expand, Climate Benefits St ...
    Research shows that biochar made from plant fodder and even chicken manure can be used to scrub mercury from power plant emissions and clean up polluted soil. The big question is whether biochar can be produced on a sufficiently large scale to slow or reverse global warming. BY MARK HERTSGAARD
  • Soil Microbes Alter DNA In Response to Climate ...
    A 10-year study of soil ecosystems has determined that microbes alter their genetic code in response to a warming climate so they can process excess carbon being absorbed by plants from the atmosphere, a team of U.S. researchers reports in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. A 2- ...
  • More Than 1,000 Rhinos Poached in South Africa ...
    More than 1,000 rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa last year, a record total and an increase of more than 50 percent from 2012, South African officials say. South Africa is home to nearly all of the Adam Welz world's 20,000 rhinos, which are targeted by poachers because thei ...
  • 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, ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
    A sprinkling of stardust is as magical as it sounds. The dust grains that float through our solar system contain tiny pockets of water, which form when they are zapped by a blast of charged wind from the sun. Combined with previous findings of organic compounds in interplanetary dust, the result ...
  • US District Court: Citizen Journalists Have Sa ...
    The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that bloggers have the same 1st Amendment rights as established journalists when involved in a defamation of character suit; as long as the issue is of public concern. The outcome of this case establishes the fact that protections afforded the new ...
  • More Cops Does Not Mean More Justice
    Centuries upon centuries ago, the Roman philosopher Cicero boldly stated that the more laws that exist, the less justice there will be for the people. Hundreds of years later, we still, by the bounds of our own willful shackles, continue to mistakenly believe that every time a new law is enforce ...
  • Tesla's toy boat: A drone before its time
    The military complex has certainly embraced the concept of telerobotics, especially in the use of drones, but luckily the technology has also led to other, more peaceful applications. Drones have been used to entertain, take on laborious tasks and even deliver packages (and burritos!). As we pur ...
  • FBI Drags Google Glass Man From Theater on Pir ...
    Google Glass is expected to transform the way that people interact with data and communications but for one unlucky user a paranoid reaction to the device ended up becoming a huge time waster. After wearing a turned off and prescription lens-equipped model to the theater, a man had it torn from ...

Not My Tribe

  • UN disinviting Iran confirms Syria talks aren& ...
    So it turns out the “Syrian Peace Talks” were of the Mideast Peace variety: terminal consessions to an aggressor’s demands, as per usual Zionist. The US has successfully pressured the UN to rescind the invitation for Iran to join the Syrian peace conference, apparently because ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Study reveals world's highest deforestation ra ...
    Ranching companies are intent on clearing the last forest refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo.© GAT / SurvivalA new scientific study has revealed that Paraguay’s Chaco forest – the last refuge of the uncontacted Ayoreo tribe  – is being devastated by the world’s highest rate of def ...
  • Kidnap and sexual exploitation of vulnerable A ...
    Reports of the kidnap and abduction of Jarawa women have led to concerns about sexual exploitation of the vulnerable tribe by poachers. © SurvivalSeven men have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and kidnap of vulnerable Jarawa women on India’s Andaman Islands, accordin ...
  • Mandela's Robben Island comrade denounces pers ...
    The veteran anti-apartheid activist Michael Dingake has denounced Botswana's persecution of the Bushmen.© Michael Dingake/SurvivalMichael Dingake, a veteran ANC activist from Botswana who was imprisoned on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela, has issued a scathing critique of his government&# ...
  • Indian President’s passionate plea against ass ...
    The President warned that 'so-called development' must not be allowed to destroy the Jarawa tribe © Salomé/SurvivalIn a strongly worded speech the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, said this week at the inauguration of the ‘Andaman & Nicobar Tribal Research and Training Institu ...
  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...
  • 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 ...

Ian Welsh

  • How to resist in a surveillance state
    I want to highlight two items relating to surveillance of people who dare resist the status quo.  First, your cell phone: The New York Timesreports that the Ukrainian government is using advanced surveillance technology to track protesters in the streets. The Ukrainian government used telephone ...
  • The Chimerical Growth of GDP and Privatization
    Modern economies are often measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Look up the definition of GDP and you’ll come up with something like this: a country’s GDP is the total value of all finished goods and services in a country in a year plus exports, minus imports. Consider ...
  • 98.1% Approval For Egypt’s New Constitution?
    Is anyone stupid enough to believe this demonstrates the will of the Egyptian people? Exactly 98.1% of Egyptians said yes to the new constitution in this week’s referendum. The outlawed Muslim brotherhood says it does not recognize the vote, which saw some 20 million, or over 38% of registered v ...
  • Helping the most discriminated against
    There is no question, in the developed world in general, that men are better off than women; that whites are better off than people with melanin; and that straights are better off than non straights.  (Let alone the transgenders.)  To give just one example, a black person will receive half the r ...
  • 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 [...]

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 ...

new geography

  • California's Potholed Road to Recovery
    California's economy may be on the mend, but prospects for continued growth are severely constrained by the increasing obsolescence of the state's basic infrastructure. Once an unquestioned leader in constructing new roads, water systems, power generation and building our human capital, ...
  • Correcting Priorities: The 10th Annual Demogra ...
    Alain Bertaud of the Stern School of Business at New York University and former principal planner of the World Bank introduces the 10th Annual  Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey by urging planners to abandon: "...abstract objectives and to focus their efforts on ...
  • The Story of How Marin Was Ruined
    Marin County is a a picturesque area across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco of quaint walkable towns, with homes perched on rolling hills and a low rise, unspoiled feel. People typically move to Marin to escape the more urbanized South and East Bay and San Francisco. Eighty-thr ...
  • The Divisions In The One Percent And The Class ...
    There’s general agreement that inequality will be the big issue of this election year. But to understand how this will play out you have to go well beyond the simplistic “one percent” against everyone else mantra that has to date defined discussion of inequality. Instead our politics increasing ...
  • Female Executives Across the European Union
    A great divide exists between European countries when it comes to the issues of women’s career opportunities. Some countries have high female work participation and values that promote gender equality, while others lag behind. But a closer look shows that the share of women in manageria ...

water.org

  • IKEA Foundation to help 180,000 get safe water
    The IKEA Foundation awarded Water.org $6 million to help people access safe water through two innovative programs: WaterCredit, a microfinance program that gives families small loans to meet their water and sanitation needs, and the New Ventures Fund to search for new solutions to the global wat ...
  • For Decius, the Future Looks Bright
    Hopeful for an opportunity to build his skills and earn money to return to school, Decius signed up for a job as soon as he heard about the opportunity to work with Water.org and PRODEVA, and bring safe water access to his town.
  • Kathirvel, Changing Lives Through Masonry
    Kathirvel is 65 years old and a retired mason. Although he is retired, he now uses his expertise in masonry to work constructing toilets for families who have taken out loans through Water.org's WaterCredit program. He has built 200 toilets in the last year. He is training other masons to constr ...
  • Matt Damon says, "Thanks!"
    The success of the past year would not have been possible without your support. To everyone who contributes to bring safe water and sanitation to the world, we thank you.
  • Best Videos of 2013
    2013 Top Videos: #5 Next » As we look back at a tremendous year, we invite you to join us in celebrating with five of our best videos from 2013!

Cryptogon

  • Army Studying Replacing Thousands of Grunts wi ...
    Via: Military Times: During remarks at the Army Aviation Symposium in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 15, Cone quietly dropped a bomb. The Army, he said, is considering the feasibility of shrinking the size of the brigade combat team from about 4,000 soldiers to 3,000 over the coming years, and replacin ...
  • Files Show Chicago Archdiocese Hid Decades Of ...
    Via: CBS: For decades, those at the highest levels of the nation’s third-largest archdiocese moved accused priests from parish to parish while hiding the clerics’ histories from the public. In some cases, abuse by priests happened while there were in seminary school before they were ordained. In ...
  • Chinese Bootcamps for Internet Addicts
    Via: news.com.au: CHINA is the first country to label internet addiction a clinical disorder. But instead of shutting the laptop and going for a stroll, in China there are guarded boot camps intended to deprogram hooked teens. … This addiction and social detachment is striking nationwide c ...
  • Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt t ...
    A buddy of mine did damn near the same thing, except he slept in his lab at the university, as well as his vehicle. He had a Toyota pickup with a shell on the back. This was at a university with a very heavy cop presence. They would have definitely busted someone in a van. […]
  • Ukraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones
    Via: New York Times: The Ukrainian government used telephone technology to pinpoint the locations of cellphones in use near clashes between riot police officers and protesters early on Tuesday, illustrating that techniques that can be used to target commercial information can serve law enforceme ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Botto ...
    Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does?  In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do.  This shocking statistic comes from a new report on ...
  • The $23 Trillion Credit Bubble In China Is Sta ...
    Did you know that financial institutions all over the world are warning that we could see a "mega default" on a very prominent high-yield investment product in China on January 31st?  We are being told that this could lead to a cascading collapse of the shadow banking system in China which could ...
  • What Recovery? Sears And J.C. Penney Are DYING
    Two of the largest retailers in America are steamrolling toward bankruptcy.  Sears and J.C. Penney are both losing hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter, and both of them appear to be caught in the grip of a death spiral from which it will be impossible to escape.  Once upon a time, Sears ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Development project of SOLID OPD (Spanish)
    PROYECTO DE DESAROLLO SOLID Solid OPD es una Organización Privada de Desarrollo que asesora y facilita el desarrollo sostenible de cadenas productivas y sus actores en la región Ayacucho, Perú. Modulo-1-produccion-de-plantones-en-vivero1tara MÓDULO 1 : Manual para productores de tara de … ...
  • Campaign to collect information on the status ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://english.people.com.cn/90882/8503210.html China starts fifth national desertification monitoring (Xinhua) China launched its Fifth National Monitoring of Desertification and Sandification on Friday. The State Forestry Administration said the ...
  • Arrest desertification (Google / Israel21C)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://israel21c.org/environment/its-not-the-desert-thats-the-enemy/ It’s not the desert that’s the enemy The goal isn’t to fight desertification, it’s to arrest it, says award-winning director of Israel’s Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, ...
  • All about desertification (Google / Bubblenews)
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.bubblews.com/news/1979390-desertification SEE ALSO : http://www.bubblews.com/news/1979459-more-about-desertification Desertification This is the gradual process of land turning to desert through a combination of physical and human proces ...
  • 16 videos on deserts and desertification (Goog ...
    Read at : Google Alerts – desertification http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Keywords/Description/Deserts_and_desertification Description: Deserts and desertification (16 VIDEOS)   Tagged: ESA

News Blaze

  • New Year Venues for ZZ Top Go Public
    The band ZZ Top might have slowed down a bit, but they're still entertaining and touring as well. They have a venue that is already filling up!
  • 16 Killed in Kabul Suicide Attack
    According to media reports, a suicide bomber cleared a path for two gunmen, who then rushed in and fired on diners. 13 of the dead were foreigners.
  • Syria: Evidence of 11,000 Crimes Against Humanity
    Kimberly Jones reports on the arrest, torture and murder of men, women and children in Syria, by the Assad regime and al-Qaeda, known as Daash. Graphic photos
  • SYFY's Ghost Mine 'Green Horn' Miner Jay Verbe ...
    Men have mined all corners of the earth fueled by their lust for gold. The Crescent mine in Sumpter, Oregon is one of these places and it was the site for the SYFY Channels show Ghost Mine. Men first starting working the ground beneath that mountain
  • Celebrity Lookalike Met Wife At Convention
    Jack Bullard, as Jack Nicholson, recently married. He and wife, C.J. Morgan, both celebrity lookalikes and tribute artists, often work in Vegas.

libcom

  • Gallardón's Law would force women to give birth
    AbortoLibreSalamanca.JPG Proposed new Spanish abortion law stuns womens' organisations. A translation of this news story by Teresa García Espejo in Periodico Diagonal. Aft ...
  • Moscow anti-fascists amnestied
    On Friday 10th of January Basmanniy district court of Moscow ceased criminal case against Alexey Olesinov, Alexey Sutuga, Alyon volikov and Babken Guskasyan. All four were accused of “hooliganism”, a criminal offense which is included in the amnesty bill ...
  • Interview with the new general secretary of th ...
    akai.jpg The new general secretary of the International Workers’ Association, Laure Akai, answers questions from the newspaper “CNT”, organ of the Spanish section of the I.W.A. ...
  • Syria: the struggle continues - “day of rage a ...
    day-of-rage-against-al-qaeda-assad.jpg Since nearly three years that an uprising broke out in Syria (as a local materialization of the upheavals shaking the whole regions of Maghreb and Mashreq) most ...
  • Curzon workers win union recognition
    Curzon.jpg Curzon cinema workers have won union recognition after a high profile campaign as an agreement was reached between union officials and Curzon management. Under the ag ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Gay Marriage – A Biblical Perspective
    I want to make it clear that though I fight against SIN – I most certainly do not fight against the SINNERS – for all mankind are sinners in one way or another.  Those who are part of the LGBT community are first and foremost human beings who deserve to be treated with respect. It [& ...
  • Gay Marriage – A Biblical Perspective
    I want to make it clear that though I fight against SIN – I most certainly do not fight against the SINNERS – for all mankind are sinners in one way or another.  Those who are part of the LGBT community are first and foremost human beings who deserve to be treated with respect. It [& ...
  • The DEVIL’S DUE – Leave it to the ...
    To promote the coming movie “The Devil’s Due” – this following “devil baby” was released “as a prank” on unsuspecting New Yorkers. It immediately goes viral – with over 25 million hits. And we wonder why Halloween is such a popular holiday!
  • The DEVIL’S DUE – Leave it to the ...
    To promote the coming movie “The Devil’s Due” – this following “devil baby” was released “as a prank” on unsuspecting New Yorkers. It immediately goes viral – with over 25 million hits. And we wonder why Halloween is such a popular holiday!
  • Affordable Care Act = Expensive Inequity = Com ...
    It’s officially called “The Affordable Care Act”.  What it really should be called is “The Marxist Redistribution of Wealth Act” – for that is ultimately what it was designed to accomplish. Here is what the Corporate Media continually fails to disclose concern ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Energy Collective

  • EPA's Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment Has Eve ...
    On Wednesday, EPA released its peer-reviewed, scientific “Assessment of Potential Mining Impacts on Salmon Ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska” and concluded that large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed poses “significant” – and even “catastrophic” – risks to the ecosystem.read more
  • Dueling Charts of the Day: Peaker Plants vs. G ...
    Wind and solar power are transitioning from marginal to central players in the grid energy landscape. But wind and solar are also subject to the vagaries of daily and seasonal weather patterns, which means they sometimes can't be relied on to meet the grid’s critical needs.read more
  • Eight Steps for Safer Oil Trains Eyed by U.S. ...
    Due to the booming oil production in North Dakota, and the ramp-up of ethanol production, U.S. railways now are carrying an unprecedented volume of flammable liquid—and the majority of tank cars used are prone to be punctured in an accident, as safety investigators have been warning for 20 years ...
  • What Everyone Should Know About Deregulated El ...
    Most people that deal with energy have heard of a deregulated electricity market. Still, many find it difficult to differentiate it from a regulated market. It can be a challenging concept to understand, but I’m here to explain the confusing parts and fill in any blanks.read more
  • Climate Change, California, and the Smart Grid
    The California Energy Commission publishes an Integrated Energy Policy Report every two years. The most recent report serves many information purposes, such as assessing major energy trends and issues facing the state’s electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuel sectors.read more

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • UK War Crimes Exposed
    by Stephen Lendman Britain is complicit in most US wars of aggression. It's no surprise when new information surfaces. More on it below. The July 2002 "Downing Street memo" was leaked to The Sunday Times. In May 2005, it was revealed. Its authenticity never was challenged. Secret Washingto ...
  • Shaky Syrian Peace Talks
    by Stephen Lendman Obama doesn't want talks for peace. He wants his rules imposed. He wants government by diktats. He wants unconditional surrender. He wants regime change. He wants Syrians denied the right to decide who'll lead them. He wants war continued to depose Assad. John Kerry is ...
  • How Israel Gets Away with Murder
    by Stephen Lendman Israel is above the law. It's exempt for observing rule of law principles. It's free to rampage extrajudicially. It kills and kills again. It does so with impunity. It justifies lawlessness the old-fashioned way. It lies. It's standard Israeli practice. It calls legitima ...
  • America Needs Critical Thinking and Sense of H ...
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD. On January 16, 2014, CNN moderator Don Lemon asked Professor William Pollack (Clinical Psychologist, Harvard University), why are we witnessing daily carnage of civilian bloodbaths – shootings in schools, shopping malls, movie theatres and street grocery stores? ...
  • Promised Land Disenchantment
    by Stephen Lendman Many Israelis want out. Haaretz said "almost 40 percent of (them) are thinking of emigrating." Recent polling said they'd leave if financially able. Israeli governance combines militarism, repression, corruption, and neoliberal harshness. It's no fit place to live in. M ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Trish Hennessy talks raising the minimum wage ...
    In case you missed it, last week CBC Radio’s The Current ran a special episode on minimum wage, which was packed with great, though heart-wrenching stories and interviews. The special, Minimum Wage Wars, also included a great debate between CCPA’s Trish Hennessy and Charles Lammam from the Frase ...
  • Iglika Ivanova joins W2 Media Mornings as a re ...
    Can’t get enough of BC’s Public Interest Research Project? You’re in luck – you can now catch CCPA economist and public interest researcher Iglika Ivanova on Co-Op Radio’s W2 Media Mornings. At 7:45 AM Pacific on the third Monday of every month, Iglika brings key economic issues to the fore on ...
  • Employment Opportunities
    We're hiring! CCPA's National office has two employment opportunities: Senior Editor: This is a one-year, full-time contract with the expectation that it will become permanent thereafter. The primary responsibility of this position is as Editor of the CCPA Monitor, our monthly magazine of polic ...
  • Employment Opportunity: Senior Editor
    We're hiring! CCPA's National Office is looking for a Senior Editor. This is a one-year, full-time contract with the expectation that it will become permanent thereafter. The primary responsibility of this position is as Editor of the CCPA Monitor, our monthly magazine of policy analysis and com ...
  • BC Jobs Plan: where are the jobs?
    The latest report from our BC Office assesses the impact of the BC Jobs Plan two years in. The government's six-month progress reports have declared it a success, but the numbers tell a different story. Tune in to CKNW today at 9:30 to hear author Iglika Ivanova discuss the report with Bill Goo ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Pr ...
    Announcement by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.  A Nobel Peace P ...
  • Cinema With The Right Stuff Marks 2013 Nationa ...
    December 18, 2013 Press contact:  Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456, scannady@loc.gov Public contact: Steve Leggett (202) 707-5912, sleg@loc.gov To Media:  Select high-resolution images and video clips are available for a limited time; register at www.loc.gov/pressroom/registration ...
  • 2013 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY QUOTES
    Maureen O’Hara, Award-winning Actress – “The Quiet Man” “I am overjoyed that the Library of Congress has inducted The Quiet Man into its National Film Registry. It was the thrill of our lives for John Ford, John Wayne, myself, and everyone to make it. I had never ...
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...
  • House Democrats Who Voted Against the Amash/Co ...
    The Amash/Conyers amendment to rein in the National Security Agency's surveillance of U.S. citizens failed 205-217 on July 24th, 2013, with 94 Republicans and 111 Democrats voting for it. The following 83 Democrats voted against: Andrews Barber Barrow (GA) Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) ...

Salon

SMB News

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • My 2014 Energy Predictions
    Robert Rapier looks into his crystal ball for 2014, forecasting trends for oil and gas, and a bankruptcy for one high-profile biofuel company.
  • Grading My 2013 Energy Predictions
    Robert Rapier grades his energy predictions for 2013.
  • 60 Minutes: The Rest of the Story
    Robert Rapier takes readers behind the scene of his recent 60 Minutes story, filling in some of the back story.
  • Quick Response on 60 Minutes Story
    As a result of Sunday night’s 60 Minutes story about cleantech, a lot of people are emailing me or clicking in here for the first time. I will have a more in-depth report on my contribution to the story — including bits that didn’t survive the editing process for a more complet ...
  • This Weekend on 60 Minutes
    I just got a note that a recent interview I did with Lesley Stahl on cleantech will be part of a story airing this weekend. I will have some “behind the scenes” reporting early next week.

Discovery Educator Network

  • Frontiers for Young Minds
    Tags: science, education, journal, STEMby: Jackie Gerstein
  • Audioboo for Education
    Comments:AudioBoo is a VERY easy to use podcasting tool, and includes a free app that is very kid-friendly. Free podcasts are limited to 3 minutes each. - Randy RodgersTags: audioboo, education, podcasting, podcastsby: Randy Rodgers
  • Metta — Storytelling + Polling In One Compact ...
    Comments:Easy to use tool for creating flipped classroom lessons. Use the built-in search tool to find videos, images, or social media posts, put them into a timeline, add text and/or polls, and share. Free account has very limited media storage, but not an issue if you only use embedded media. ...
  • Greenfoot
    Comments:Simple tool that helps students learn to program in Java. - Randy RodgersTags: programming, java, tutorial, education, greenfoot, software, technology, learnby: Randy Rodgers
  • Edgar
    Tags: edgar, storytelling, digitalstorytellingby: Dean Mantz

Stonecipher News

Information Liberation

  • Cage Complex: Why is America's Prison Populati ...
    The United States leads the world, by a large margin, in the production of at least one thing: prisoners. We have 25 percent of the world's inmates, but just 5 percent of the world's population. Where do they come from? Well, since the Anti-Drug...
  • FBI Drags Google Glass Man From Theater on Pir ...
    Google Glass is expected to transform the way that people interact with data and communications but for one unlucky user a paranoid reaction to the device ended up becoming a huge time waster. After wearing a turned off and prescription lens-equipped...
  • Idaho Deputy Gets the Boot for Criticizing Meg ...
    The arrival of a 450-ton, 380-foot-long "megaload" of oil refinery equipment near Marsing, Idaho last Christmas attracted the attention of protesters, spectators, and revenue farmers. A few days later it moved on, leaving in its wake scores of people...
  • For American Police, Criminal Violence is Routine
    Police, we are told, play an indispensable role in securing public safety. This assumes that public safety is somehow enhanced by the presence of people who claim a license to commit aggressive violence, and whose first priority in dealing with the p...
  • Michigan Man Gets Proned Out At Gunpoint For E ...
    GRAND RAPIDS, MI * A man was forced to the concrete at gunpoint, handcuffed, and held with a pistol aimed at his back by an officer who didn*t approve of him exercising his right to bear arms. Johann Deffert, 28, was simply walking down the street...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • California drought also due to drought of inno ...
    California finally declares an official drought yet the new measures will make things worse long-term since they encourage overuse of groundwater. Aquanomics says raise the price of water and put restrictions on over pumping and diverting water flows. Then maybe the aquifers won’t keep bei ...
  • Banksters setting up Greece for more plunder a ...
    Greece currently is paying back bailout debts to banksters using money loaned to it by banksters to pay off its debts. Such derangement can not long continue of course. Greece will run out of money to service debt sometime this year and will either need yet another bailout or to do what Iceland ...
  • GrassMargins – growing grasses on marginal lan ...
    GrassMargins is testing whether a variety of grasses can be grown on marginal land and then used to create biofuel and energy. The type of grass grown would depend on the area. Non-invasive species are used, with care given to insuring wetlands and habitats aren’t disturbed. Yields on marg ...
  • Development of grid-scale solar power plants h ...
    A lack of federal tax credits, tight financing, and utilities not needing more solar to reach 2020 California goal has greatly slowed development of big solar. California has mandated 33% in-state renewable energy by 2020 and utilities say they will attain that so they don’t need to make a ...
  • California drought will severely reduce nation ...
    The California drought continues. The red area in the image is Extreme Drought and encompasses the San Joaquin Valley, where enormous amounts of food are grown. A continuing drought through 2014 means economic devastation for California agriculture, and less crops for the nation. Prices for vege ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Get Your Sleuth On: Call for Investigative Pitches
    The holidays are over, spring is teasing us from around the corner (though some corners are further away than others), and that means it's time to get cracking on a new season of sleuthing. The deadline for the next round of investigative pitches is February 2 at midnight. We know there ...
  • Toyota Prius Not So Green After All
    Algonquin fight threats to land and water from open-pit mining project for hybrid car batteries ...
  • Au front contre le colonialisme et la destruct ...
    Nous, de descendance européenne, avons étendu et continuons à étendre le colonialisme, le capitalisme et le patriarcat partout. Nous avons conquis et conquérons continuellement la planète et permettons l'expansion de l'exploitation des ter ...
  • Wolves of Bay Street
    System allows fraudulent activity to continue at every level for years What does it take to stop a tax cheat using offshore companies to bilk investors of hundreds of thousands of do ...
  • Well Fished: Women and our Fishing Future, by ...
    This blog was originally posted at Small Scales, the excellent East Coast fisheries blog administered ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Explaining the virulence on the right... Socia ...
    David Seaton's News Links Naquasia LeGrand... the right stuffNaquasia LeGrand, the lady that tops this page, works at minimum wage shoveling fried chicken, for KFC. She is leading a fight to organize fast-food workers and raise America's minimum wage to $15. She is facing some of America's ...
  • 2014... and welcome to it
    David Seaton's News LinksPrediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. Niels Bohr The future ain't what it used to be. Yogi BerraAs luminaries such as Niels Bohr and Yogi Berra have pointed out, trying to predict the future is a mug's game... And at year's end political co ...
  • A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (s ...
    I posted this first on December 8th, 2010, and this is the second time I have reprinted it, but with every passing year, the story seems even more relevant than it did back then. DS David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George ...
  • 2013: Vladimir Putin's year
    David Seaton's News LinksBy his own measure, Mr Putin has had a good year. The Russian president craves international respect. By stepping back from the world, the US ceded to Moscow space at the top table. Phillip Stephens - Financial TimesVladimir Putin has been eating the "West's" lunch: Syri ...
  • Mandela's funeral
    David Seaton's News Links Mahatma Gandhi was lucky to die when he did and avoid such a degrading celebrity circus... between the imperial selfies and the surreal sign language interpreter, all that was missing was to have Miley Cyrus perform "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", with a massed choir. DS

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Medicaid Enrollment Has Soared Under Obamacare
    The New York Times reports that Medicaid expansion has been a huge success in West Virginia: Enrollment in private insurance plans has been sluggish, but sign-ups for Medicaid, the federal insurance program for the poor, have surged in many states. Here in West Virginia, which has some o ...
  • Earmarks are Back, Baby!
    Why did so many Republicans vote for last week's budget bill? One reason is that they wanted to avoid getting blamed for another government shutdown. As you'll recall, the last one didn't turn out so well. But Stan Collender says there's another reason: This is real inside-baseball:&nbsp ...
  • Chris Christie is Losing the Invisible Primary
    How is Chris Christie doing in the latest presidential polling for 2016? It's hard to care much. It's way too early for these polls to mean anything. However, the invisible primary for the Republican nomination will be starting in earnest within a year, and even now GOP power brokers are st ...
  • Hate Obamacare, Love the Benefits From Mumble- ...
    In Time this week, Stephen Brill catches up with a couple who had serious health care issues and desperately needed insurance: When we spoke in October and Stephanie told me she didn't "think Obamacare will help us," I suggested that she might be mistaken and that if she was unable to ge ...
  • Teen Employment Isn't Really Very Well Correla ...
    Via Tyler Cowen, here is a chart from Kevin Erdmann that shows raw teen employment figures during periods after the minimum wage was increased. What it shows, roughly speaking, is that in nearly every case, the trend rate of teen employment declined when a minimum wage hike went into effect. H ...

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Frog fathers don't mind dropping off their tad ...
    Given a choice, male dyeing poison frogs snub empty pools in favor of ones in which their tiny tadpoles have to metamorphose into frogs in the company of larger, carnivorous ones of the same species. The frog fathers only choose to deposit their developing young in unoccupied pools when others a ...
  • Quality control of mitochondria as a defense a ...
    Scientists from the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada have discovered that two genes linked to hereditary Parkinson's disease are involved in the early-stage quality control of mitochondria. The protective mechanism, which is reported in The EMBO Journal, removes damaged pro ...
  • Here comes the sun to lower your blood pressure
    Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure and thus cut the risk of heart attack and stroke, a study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology suggests. read more
  • Island channel could power about half of Scotl ...
    Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineers say. read more
  • Exposure to pesticides results in smaller work ...
    Exposure to a widely used pesticide causes worker bumblebees to grow less and then hatch out at a smaller size, according to a new study by Royal Holloway University of London. read more

unEarthed

  • Wolf Packs Targeted by Idaho Eradication Plan
    Seven wolves dead as Earthjustice seeks restraining order Two members of Idaho's Golden wolf pack, which is targeted for extermination. (Hobbit Hill Films LLC) ...
  • The Problem with An All of the Above Energy Policy
    A letter to President Obama President Obama has said we need “an all-of-the-above strategy for the 21st century that develops every source of American-made energy.” However, a zealous pursuit of an “all of the abo ...
  • Towns Fight Back Against Fracking
    Pennsylvania Supreme Court latest to uphold municipal rights A sign indicates the growing tension between agricultural communities and gas companies. (Chris Jordan-Bloch / Earthjustice) ...
  • Coal's Poison Taints West Virginia's Drinking ...
    Add the Elk River chemical spill to coal's hidden costs The true price of coal is paid through hospital bills and devastated communities. (Alexan2008 / iStock) ...
  • Bill Would Cripple EPA's Power to Prevent Toxi ...
    "Freedom Zones" act could assure more W. Virginia water spills The lives of hundreds of thousands of people have been severely disrupted by the spill. (iStockphoto) ...

Brave New Climate

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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The Economic Collapse

  • Top 1% Has 65 Times More Wealth Than The Botto ...
    Did you know that the 85 richest people in the world have about as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the entire global population does?  In other words, 85 extremely wealthy individuals have about as much wealth as the poorest 3,500,000,000 do.  This shocking statistic comes from a new report on ...
  • The $23 Trillion Credit Bubble In China Is Sta ...
    Did you know that financial institutions all over the world are warning that we could see a "mega default" on a very prominent high-yield investment product in China on January 31st?  We are being told that this could lead to a cascading collapse of the shadow banking system in China which could ...
  • What Recovery? Sears And J.C. Penney Are DYING
    Two of the largest retailers in America are steamrolling toward bankruptcy.  Sears and J.C. Penney are both losing hundreds of millions of dollars each quarter, and both of them appear to be caught in the grip of a death spiral from which it will be impossible to escape.  Once upon a time, Sears ...
  • 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 ...

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The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Alabama oil train disaster met with official n ...
    Image Caption:  An image of the Aliceville, Ala. oil train spill site taken earlier this month shows crude still seeping from the ground into nearby wetlands two months after the disaster. (Image is a still from the Kellogg's delivers Memphis a slap in the face
    Image Caption:  Union workers at Kellogg's Memphis plant say the company is disrespecting its majority-black workforce, locking them out to force lower pay. (Photo by Steve Payne via INSTITUTE INDEX: The ongoing injustice of raci ...
    Image Caption:  A new report looks at racial inequality in U.S. health care and how it's being exacerbated by states' refusal to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. A new report by United for a Fair Econ ...
  • Freedom to pollute
    Image Caption:  The regulatory system failed to adequately oversee the chemical company behind the spill that contaminated the drinking water in nine West Virginia counties and sickened scores of people. The drinking water c ...
  • 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 ...

Matt Weidner Blog

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Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Aggressive SWAT Team in Full Body Armor Raids ...
    Lily Dane At 8:20 p.m. on July 7, 2012, SWAT agents showed up at Mark Witaschek’s D.C. home to execute a search warrant for “firearms and ammunition … gun cleaning equipment, holsters, bullet holders and ammunition receipts.” Witaschek’s 14-year-old daughter answered the door and let about 30 of ...
  • Activist Post: The Psychology of Being a “Non- ...
    Bernie Suarez Activist Post There is a brand of people amongst us. They have no name but they exist. They are everywhere, at work, at home, at school, and in the streets, stores, and shopping malls. It is highly unlikely to not know someone who belongs in this category. It’s the so called non-co ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | The Many Splendored Opportun ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. I’m going to have to call exception to this article before it gets brought to my attention anyway. There are tall white guys on both sides of the struggle. This is how the bad aliens operate. Present something as u ...
  • Trigger-Happy Harvey Police Officers Shoot Inn ...
    BobTuskin.com Cop Block Horrifying incidents of police brutality are happening every day, all over the world. At what point will you stand up and refuse to pay for the salaries of state-sanctioned thugs like the ones you are about to read about? Think about it. As reported by Courthouse News Ser ...
  • Teenager Suffers Ruptured Testicle During Poli ...
    Bob Tuskin bobtuskin.com A teenager in Philadelphia may never be able to have children due to a ruptured testicle that was injured during an obviously violent police search. After the search he had to be taken to the hospital for an emergency surgery, and there will be no telling if the surgery ...

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War Resisters League

  • Historic Protest Settlement from 2004 RNC: WRL ...
    Yesterday’s historic settlement awarded to protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City was the largest in U.S. history – and many a WRL’er was in the mix! At the press conference, Ed Hedemann of the WRL … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Minus 42°C – back to a normal winter aft ...
    This Christmas was the mildest in about 10 years but things are getting back to normal winter conditions. We have now had plenty of snow and are currently going through another cold wave. In the north of Sweden temperatures dropped to minus 42°C.
  • Minus 42°C – back to a normal winter aft ...
    This Christmas was the mildest in about 10 years but things are getting back to normal winter conditions. We have now had plenty of snow and are currently going through another cold wave. In the north of Sweden temperatures dropped to minus 42°C.
  • Greens are close to Trotskyites
    I have always felt that the Green movement was penetrated and then effectively taken over by the extreme left who had no place to go after the fall of communism. This takeover by the extreme left - whether they were Maoists, Trotskyites or Leninists - coincides with when the Green movement moved ...
  • Greens are close to Trotskyites
    I have always felt that the Green movement was penetrated and then effectively taken over by the extreme left who had no place to go after the fall of communism. This takeover by the extreme left - whether they were Maoists, Trotskyites or Leninists - coincides with when the Green movement moved ...
  • Poltergeists on Mars
    But it would seem that most of the conspiracy theories and "Life on Mars" stories are connected to the selling of particular books. As far as stories are concerned, the first ever fictional account was probably Across the Zodiac (1880) by Percy Greg. But for me, The War of the Worlds (published ...

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

  • 20 Hours Until End of Crowd Funding Campaign
    My sincerest thanks - While I have not reached the target goal with just 20 hours left, I want to thank everyone who has shared and supported my crowdfunding campaign. Believe me when I say that I know I am blessed to have the kind of support that translates to good people shelling out what they ...
  • 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.

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

  • Myths About Russia: Is Sochi that ‘blood ...
    There is nothing more vague and more promising in politics than the fight against corruption. Modern extravaganzas, such as Olympic Games or soccer World Cups, are not only great shows but also great irritants for concerned citizens who always believe they could find a better use for the money s ...
  • The Byzantine Empire: the historical truth vs. ...
    For the average person, the term “Byzantium” evokes a number of negative associations: Eastern despotism, political intrigues, backwardness, etc.  These memes are firmly rooted in public opinion, in the guise of proven historical facts.  However, this generally accepted image of Byzantium,is, in ...
  • ‘Ineffective and flawed’ – Russian repor ...
    The Russian Foreign Ministry has issued a critical report on human rights in the European Union saying that Europe still faced serious problems, and that member states are avoiding obligations that would change things for the better. According to the Foreign Ministry, conclusions were made on th ...
  • 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 ...

E U Times

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Voiceless Victim

  • Getting it is not an accomplishment. Getting ...
    I am reposting here in full an excellent editorial written by Kristine Ward, Chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) about the disgraceful performance of the Vatican’s paedophile protectors in front of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on January 16, 2014. EDITORIAL   ...
  • Who is Looking After the Children? Certainly N ...
    When a normal human being looks at a child they see a fellow human being. A human being who is tiny, innocent, vulnerable, loveable and full of potential. One who deserves our utmost efforts to protect them from harm. When a narcissist looks at a child they see an object who is easier than most ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Support National Monument Protection for the ...
    PLEASE ATTEND THIS UPCOMING MEETING AND SUPPORT NATIONAL MONUMENT PROTECTION FOR THE 570,000-ACRE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAINS! If you cannot attend, please phone or write a short e-mail to our Commissioners (information below).  YOUR MESSAGE CAN BE BRIEF: “Commissioners - Please write a ...
  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • Geoengineering: IPCC (yes) stands against Gore ...
    First, I want to start with the way in which a blogger hosted by the Guardian, Dana Nuccitelli, informed about the U.S. Senate testimonies by two climate scientists, Judith Curry and Andrew Dessler: Climate scientist to US Senate: 'Climate change is a clear and present danger' Belief in an insta ...
  • A recursive evaluation of zeta of negative int ...
    The evaluation of the sum of positive integers may be viewed as a special example of the calculation of the Riemann zeta function\[ \zeta(x) = \sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{1}{n^x}. \] For \({\Re}(x)\gt 1\), the series above converges in the usual sense but the meromorphic function may be uniquely d ...
  • Eta function and the sum of positive integers
    In the previous articles, I described various calculations of the sum of positive integers and discussed the context in which it is right to say that the sum is equal to \(-1/12\). Here, I want to sketch a justification of the value that is perhaps more morally justifiable than (even) the zeta-f ...
  • Sum of integers and oversold common sense
    P.Z. "Pharyngula" Myers, a self-described randomly ejaculating biological godless liberal (can't this disorder be cured?), decided to write a blog post – well, something like eight sentences – about mathematics: The sum of all natural numbers is not \(-1/12\) It's not hard to see that the title ...
  • \(Na_3Bi\), a three-dimensional cousin of grap ...
    Synchlavier, a FB contact of mine, has focused my attention on a Berkeley Lab press release: Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered: Researchers at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source Find New Form of Quantum Matter It promotes an October 2013 experimental paper Discovery of a Three-dim ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • BlackBerry to sell most Canadian real estate h ...
    BlackBerry says it intends to sell the majority of its commercial real estate holdings in Canada, but is committed to keeping its headquarters in Waterloo, Ont. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: BlackBerry to sell most of its Canad ...
  • Now You’re In Charge
    by Julian Rose, Activist Post: Like others fortunate enough to have time to read, reflect and absorb the information put out on sites like this, you have no doubt acquired a pretty reasonable grasp of what’s going on in the World. Yet this knowledge comes with a certain proviso – it gives ...
  • BlackBerry to sell most of its Canadian real e ...
    BlackBerry says it intends to sell the majority of its commercial real estate holdings in Canada, but is “committed” to keeping its headquarters in Waterloo, Ont. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: BlackBerry to be sold ...
  • So Much For “FREE” Healthcare: 10-20% of Obama ...
    by John Sexton, Breitbart: Health insurance industry expert Bob Laszewski says between 70-85 percent of Obamacare “enrollees” have paid their first month’s premium. When insurers finally close their books he anticipates 10-20 percent will have their policies voided for failure ...
  • Rob Ford admits to drinking ‘a little bit’ aft ...
    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to drinking alcohol Monday night, after a YouTube video appeared today showing him at a restaurant swearing, mumbling and speaking in Jamaican patois. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Rob Ford admit ...

Modern Survivalism

  • How To Avoid A Heart Attack When Shoveling Snow
    You’ve heard it before, but shoveling snow can cause a heart attack. It is the winter season, so it would do you good to know what you can do to lower the risk of heart attack while shoveling snow…   Especially for the middle aged and older, it is very important to understand wh ...
  • Martial Law: Could It Happen Here?
    Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public. Such incidents may occur after a coup d’état; when threatened by popular protest; to suppress political opposition; or to stabilize insurrections or perceived insurrections. “We cannot continue to rely on o ...
  • Mega Default In China Will Rock The Markets To ...
    On Friday, Reuters reported that one of the world’s largest banks, the Bank of China had sold to its customers a ‘wealth management product’ of the China Credit Trust Co., which is set to mature on January 31. But the thing is, the ‘product’ does not have the money& ...
  • Citizen Militia Self Defense Groups
    Citizen militia ‘self defense groups’ are popping up and taking proactive measures against corruption and tyranny. You might be surprised to find out where…   …MEXICO The Mexican Constitution (Article 10) and the enactment of the ‘Federal Law of Firearms and Ex ...
  • Obama-Kerry United Nations Treaty Requires US ...
    Did you know this? During September of 2013, John Kerry “on behalf of President Obama and the United States of America”, said (lied?) at the United Nations in New York, “This treaty will not diminish anyone’s freedom. In fact, the treaty recognizes the freedom of both individua ...

Fast Company

  • Is HP Really Shunning Windows 8, Or Is This Ju ...
    HP is now pushing PCs with Windows 7 instead of Microsoft's latest OS. But not for the reasons you'd think.This week, in an attempt to boost lackluster PC sales, Hewlett-Packard began promoting Windows 7 PCs to lure customers who may be leery of Windows 8's bad rap. The company claims that Windo ...
  • Warren Buffett Will Give You $1 Billion If You ...
    Your odds of winning: 1 in 9.2 quintillion.Just how impressive is a perfectly completed March Madness bracket? According to Warren Buffett and Quicken Loans, a billion big ones.Read Full Story     
  • These Are The Worst Passwords On The Internet
    Security firm SplashData released its annual list of the most popular--and therefore least secure--passwords on the Internet.The good news: "Password" is no longer the most popular password on the Internet. The bad news: Its replacement, "123456," is somehow just as unforgivable.Read Full Story ...
  • As Streaming Services Rise, HBO and Showtime S ...
    Premium networks penetrated 32% of homes in 2013, down from 38% two years prior.As video-on-demand streaming services like Netflix continue to gain popularity, premium TV channels are seeing a decline in household subscriptions.Read Full Story     
  • Will Starchitect Norman Foster Curse Philly Sp ...
    Forget municipal code and neighborhood opposition. When Foster + Partner erects a giant new tower in Philadelphia, the British architecture firm will have the spirit of the city's founder to contend with.Most cities have regulations that dictate how high architects can build. Philadelphia, thoug ...

Jadaliyya

  • إسماعيل أدهم ناقداً منسياً في عبقرية أمراضه
    إسماعيل أدهم (1911-1940) ناقداً منسياً في عبقرية أمراضه... إذا كان النقد العربي توزع بين النظرية البلاغية من جهة والنظرية الأدبية من جهة أخرى. فإن النظرية الأولى خلقت لنا مؤرخي الأدب والحادثة التاريخية، ومفسريه وشارحيه، ومحللي الأجناس الأدبية، ومستوردي المناهج الجاهزة بينما دفعت النظرية الثانية ...
  • قليلنا كثير وكثيرنا ليس واحداً
    قليلنا كثير وكثيرنا ليس واحداً... في انتظار الحرب كلّ شيءٍ آنيّ والضوء مسألة نظر. في الحرب تخلع الأشياء معناها وترتدي الانتظار. والانتظار غيبوبة تسرقك من الآن وتهبك للترقب فتحيا على أرجوحة الربما بين ماضٍ وغد. نحن اللاجئون نصبنا فوق حبال الأرجوحة خيمتنا ورحنا في الظل نراوح. قبل أربع وستين سنة ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 21)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to ...
  • Maghreb Media Roundup (January 21)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Maghreb and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Maghreb Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to maghreb@jadali ...
  • Horreya or Kharya
    Horreya or Kharya 23-29 December 2013 Hotel Viennoise, Cairo   "Horreya or Kharya" is a group show, which plays on the words "freedom" and "shit" as they share a similar spelling in Arabic. The exhibition, put forth by artists Hany Rashed, Ammar Abo Bakr, G ...

mediagazer

  • Alliances of media stars and legacy organizati ...
    Andrew Sullivan / The Dish: Alliances of media stars and legacy organizations make sense, but sometimes control matters more  —  Exit Ezra, Smiling  —  The last few years have been fascinating to watch as new media stars have both benefited from and then fallen o ...
  • Pakistan - Three TV station employees killed i ...
    Reporters Without Borders: Pakistan - Three TV station employees killed in targeted shooting by Taliban group  —  Reporters Without Borders is appalled and saddened by the deliberate murder of three Express News TV employees in a shooting attack by a Taliban group on one of the ...
  • Dow Jones Chief Resigns In Shift by News Corp. ...
    Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: Dow Jones Chief Resigns In Shift by News Corp.  —  Lex Fenwick, the hard-driving chief executive who stumbled in his efforts to transform Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has resigned effective immediately as the company rethink ...
  • Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling ...
    Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: Twitter Users' Diversity Becomes an Ad Selling Point  —  Microblogging Social-Media Site Trying to Capitalize on Its Demographics  —  For most of its rather short life, Twitter Inc. rarely mentioned that its user base is more raci ...
  • Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-t ...
    Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon Denies It Has Plans to Create an Over-the-Top TV Service  —  Internet retailer responds to Wall Street Journal report that Amazon has approached TV networks about licensing channels Amazon.com denied a report that it was seeking to license TV chan ...

Chemtrail News

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World News - Top Stories

  • PM reviews strategy - Northeast CMs told ...
    New Delhi, Jan. 20: With elections approaching and under pressure on missed deadlines for infrastructure projects in the Northeast, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met chief ministers from the region to review the progress of crucial projects. While Singh said “considerable progres ...
  • The day my double appeared on the radio
    There is only one person by the name of Mohaman Babalala working for the BBC. So, as he explains, it was quite a shock when another was heard on a Nigerian radio station. It happened on 9 November, a Saturday. As I was heading out of my house in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, I received a ...
  • Li Na enters Australian Open semifinals
    Tweet London, Jan 21 (ANI): Chinese star Li Na has advanced to the semi-finals of the Australian Open tournament on Tuesday following her quarter-final victory at the Rod Laver Arena. The fourth...
  • Shop while you chat with Google’s shoppab ...
    Hyderabad: Till a while ago, many were apprehensive about online shopping. But soon, it has begun gaining ground among urban population and people have started developing a taste for it. Just when they have started to dive into it, Google has decided to join the melee by launching their “sh ...
  • Sanjay Dutt's parole extended, yet again
    The Maharashtra government on Monday extended Bollywood actor and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case convict Sanjay Dutt’s parole by 30 more days on the ground of his wife Maanyata’s illness. Dutt was granted a month-long parole on December 6 last year as well, for a second time in l ...

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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 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Bills that would legalize medical marijuana are being considered in Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee.
  • 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.

Truth About Our World

TVNZ

environment 360

  • More Crude Oil Spilled by U.S. Trains in 2013 ...
    U.S. trains spilled 1.15 million gallons of crude oil in 2013 — more than was spilled in the nearly 40 years since officials began tracking such accidents, federal data show. The majority of that volume came from two major derailments: a November incident in Alabama that spilled 750,000 gallons ...
  • As Uses of Biochar Expand, Climate Benefits St ...
    Research shows that biochar made from plant fodder and even chicken manure can be used to scrub mercury from power plant emissions and clean up polluted soil. The big question is whether biochar can be produced on a sufficiently large scale to slow or reverse global warming. BY MARK HERTSGAARD
  • Soil Microbes Alter DNA In Response to Climate ...
    A 10-year study of soil ecosystems has determined that microbes alter their genetic code in response to a warming climate so they can process excess carbon being absorbed by plants from the atmosphere, a team of U.S. researchers reports in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. A 2- ...
  • More Than 1,000 Rhinos Poached in South Africa ...
    More than 1,000 rhinos were illegally killed in South Africa last year, a record total and an increase of more than 50 percent from 2012, South African officials say. South Africa is home to nearly all of the Adam Welz world's 20,000 rhinos, which are targeted by poachers because thei ...
  • 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, ...

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

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The problem with Hudak’s million jobs promise
    Co-authored by Kayle Hatt and Trish Hennessy Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has a new jobs plan to create a million new jobs over the next eight years. ONE MILLION (cue Austin Powers reference). There are a few known details of his so-called plan – like cutting corporate taxes ...
  • Permissive Parenting: Are We Raising a Generat ...
    When it comes to parenting, everyone’s an expert. And society loves to jump all over the latest media-feted example of overly indulgent parenting of kids of all ages—from toddlers to millennials. Sure, all parents make mistakes, and all kids have meltdowns (some of which might have, admittedly, ...
  • Fact-Checking Rock Stars
    Has anyone else noticed the explosive rise of fact-checking in the Canadian media as of late? This is certainly a welcome development. Instead of the usual “He said, she said,” muddle in the name of balance, we are in the throes of a renewed quest for pure facts and unadulterated ver ...
  • Are Higher Minimum Wages Un-Canadian?
    Guest Post by Michal Rozworski The demands to substantially increase the minimum wage are growing louder south of the border. Workers across the most poorly-paid industries are finding creative ways to raise the issue with strikes by fast-food workers and Walmart employees making waves across th ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Social Unrest Explodes in 46 Cities Across Spain
    What started as an isolated incident in Burgos, over a disagreement with government spending on local infrastructure, has quickly spread throughout Spain. 46 protests have taken place throughout Spain, with dozens arrested and major clashes with police. Thousands demonstrated last night in #Madr ...
  • China Mobilizes 100,000 Chinese Soldiers for N ...
    According to a Chinese media outlet, China has mobilized nearly 100,000 soldiers and thousands of vehicles for an ‘exercise’ near the North Korean border. The move aims to “prepare for a potential crisis over the Korean peninsula”.
  • 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 ...

Daily Dose

  • Australia’s Tapestry expands its social ...
    Australia’s Tapestry, a social networking app that connects seniors with friends and family, is expanding its presence in the US and diversifying its service, with the acquisition of ConnectAround, a... Keep reading →
  • Google’s newest report measures how well ...
    Google has launched a ‘Video Quality Report’ that aims to measure the speed of your Internet connection via the quality of the videos being streamed by YouTube, as spotted first... Keep reading →
  • iPhone owners can now transfer iCloud data to ...
    Google Chairman Eric Schmidt shared a detailed guide on how to migrate from iPhone to Android last November, but now that process can be fully automated by an application, assuming... Keep reading →
  • PayPal President David Marcus on the challenge ...
    At the monthly ReadWrite Mix event, Marcus talked at length about how PayPal has been working to become the world’s payment operating system. There’s no question that PayPal has seen some... Keep reading →
  • Uber targets Asia, confirming plans to expand ...
    We have written at length about the challenges that private car hire service Uber faces in Asia — there are plenty of cheap taxi rides which means strong competition, and... 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 ...
  • Regular investment key to upgrading PT and cur ...
    Media release, 20 November 2013 A budgeted annual investment of $1.74 billion would build the comprehensive rail network upgrade and expansion proposed by Public Transport Victoria, according to a study released today by environmental think-tank Beyond Zero Emissions. “To deliver the PTV rail ...
  • Cut emissions and save on household bills
    From BEAM blog  Seymour and surrounds can reduce their carbon emissions to zero with four simple steps. Trent Hawkins, Project Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Buildings Plan, will talk about how this can be done at the Energy Futures Forum in Seymour on November 16. Energy Futures Fo ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • One lizard, four species: the collared treerunner
    Now, that’s a horse of a different color. Or, in this case, a lizard of another species--four species. Recent research suggests that the collared treerunner (Plica plica), previously thought of as one widespread species, is actually four distinct species inhabiting diverse geographical are ...
  • Photos: Japanese fishermen slaughter 41 dolphi ...
    The annual dolphin hunt in Taiji, Japan ended on Monday with dozens being slaughtered for meat and captured for sale to amusement parks, reports Sea Shepherd, an ocean activist group that campaigns against the practice and just released photos documenting the weekend's harvest.
  • The smoothtooth blacktip shark and four other ...
    Scientific American) magazine recently ran an article on the rediscovery of the smoothtooth blacktip shark (Carcharhinus leiodon) in a Kuwaiti fish market. Believed extinct for over 100 years, the smoothtooth had not been seen since the naturalist Wilhelm Hein returned from a trip to Yemen in 19 ...
  • Spectacular new beetle discovered in French Guiana
    The discovery of a new, bi-colored beetle species in the lowland rainforest of French Guiana just added a little pizzazz to the ranks of the Pseudomorphini tribe of beetles. With wing cases (elytra) that sport black spots against a rusty red background, the newcomer was dubbed Guyanemorpha spect ...
  • Emissions outsourced to China return to U.S. i ...
    Twenty percent of China's air pollution can be attributed to goods exported to America, with some of those emissions drifting back to the Western United States, finds a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Sierra Express

  • China Kingho ends public disclosure on environ ...
    China Kingho Investment is to mine 110 million tons of iron ore in Pujehun District, engineer experts on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th January, 2014 disclosed at Blama Massaquoi and Pujehun Town all in the Pujehun District respectively. At the Environmental, Social and Health Impact Assessment ...
  • Salone Leone Navy impound two fishing vessels
    The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) Navy, under the command of Captain Salieu Kanu, on Friday, January 17 this year, impounded two fishing vessels, the Six Stars, and Two Stars. Addressing newsmen at a news conference at his Murray Town Naval Base office yesterday, Captain Salieu K ...
  • NaCAL-Sierra Leone promotes border security mo ...
    The Executive Director of the National Campaign against Lawlessness-Sierra Leone (NaCAL-SL), Mr. Ibrahim Kamara, has revealed to this press that his organization has taken the lead among others in the promotion of human security and peace in the country. Speaking on his week long tour this month ...
  • COFA Veterans 87 to host Friends Veterans FC t ...
    The Central One Football Association Veterans (COFA 87) will on Friday, January 24 host the Veterans FC at the Parade Playing Field. The match will kick off at 4-30 pm prompt in a fascinating friendly match. COFA Veterans 87 FC comprises of players who played at the Parade, Fire Force, and Model ...
  • Notice of Vacant Position – EC & I ENGINEER (T ...
    African Minerals (SL) Ltd is inviting applications from interested candidates for the position of EC & I ENGINEER (Trainee) This position is open to qualified Sierra Leoneans, and qualified women are especially encouraged to apply. The deadline for all applications is on Monday 3rd February, ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • World dairy prices up 1.4pc overnight (+graphic)
    Dairy product prices rose at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction overnight led by surging prices for butter and cheese, two products which have posed problems for Fonterra as their prices lagged whole milk powder.The GDT Price Index...
  • Willy Leferink: Dr Morgan needs some farming l ...
    In Gringos Across the Amazon , Dr Gareth Morgan poetically writes: "We cross into the southwest corner of Bahia and there, up ahead, we can see the farm, a suite of verdant green irrigation pivots standing out amidst the dry, almost...
  • Fonterra nears deal
    Dairy giant Fonterra has confirmed it is close to reaching a commercial deal with Auckland Council for exclusive rights to sell Tip Top icecream at all council pools, parks, waterfront spaces and events like Music in the Park.Brand...
  • Anne Salmond: Treat rivers as taonga, not toilets
    I agree with Gareth Morgan - our rivers are in trouble, and getting worse. He's also right, in his Dialogue piece last week, that various land users are wrecking waterways across New Zealand, passing on the costs of the damage to...
  • Fonterra to sponsor Shed 10 as part of mayor's ...
    Fonterra is buying the naming rights for Shed 10 on Auckland's Queens Wharf - and will use its Anchor brand, the Herald understands.Writing in the Herald yesterday, Auckland Mayor Len Brown said a major commercial sponsorship...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Town of Culpeper Settles With Family of Woman ...
    Almost two years ago in Culpeper, Virginia, Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright shot and killed Patricia Ann Cook in a parking lot outside of a private school. That now former cop is serving three years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter for the killing of Cook. Cook’s family a ...
  • Tonight on The Independents: Ron Paul ...
    INDEPENDENTS ASSEMBLE! Tonight at 9 pm on your favorite new cable television news talk show, former congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul will deliver his verdict on President Barack Obama's lukewarm "reforms" of the surveillance state (I will give you a wild ...
  • Protect Firefox Browser From the U.S. Governme ...
    Among the issues that President Obama did not address in his lukewarm call for "reform" of NSA spying practices are allegations that U.S. government officials have used their clout to compromise encryption technology and strongarm companies into inserting backdoors into their tec ...
  • Anti-Pot Group Regrets the Repeal of Alcohol P ...
    The anti-pot group Project SAM was not pleased by President Obama's recent observation that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol. "We take issue with the President's comparisons between marijuana and alcohol," says Project SAM Chairman Patrick J, Kennedy in a press release. He ...
  • Bad News for the Gays: One Less Route to Get O ...
    During a lawsuit between pharmaceutical companies about the price of HIV medications, one side struck a juror from the pool because he was gay. Stereotype much? Today a federal appeals court ruled the behavior inappropriate. Via BuzzFeed: A federal appeals court Tuesday held that ...

Mercury Rising

  • Deadbeat Sean Nienow: Arrogant, Hypocritical, ...
    This from BSP is ironic: Sean Nienow, who is being sued by the federal government for defaulting on a $600,000 Small Business Administration Loan, recently cried to KSTP’s Jay Kolls that a fix for Minnesota Care would be great: Great, if it works! Number two: if does work, it’s still ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
  • This.
    Robert Koehler, Buzzflash: “It’s because these days Americans have as much familiarity with democracy as they do with homesteading on the frontier,” Arun Gupta wrote last week at Alternet. I think he’s on to something. “Our lives are bereft of democracy,” he w ...
  • Man Bites Dog. Feinstein Rebukes Israel Over I ...
    That sound you hear is my jaw hitting the floorfloor in pleased surprise, an occurrence caused by this (courtesy of TomP): Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Intelligence Committee, called the sanctions bill “a march towards war” on Tuesday in a floor speech that was remarkable in detail ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Geneva II confab on Syria set to start
    A major conference aimed at resolving a three-year-long crisis in Syria is set to begin in Switzerland, with the Arab country’s  opposing sides as well as world powers attending the event.
  • ‘Iran team to probe killing in Yemen’
    Iran will soon dispatch a delegation to Yemen to investigate the assassination of an Iranian diplomat in the Arab country.
  • HRW slams Saudi activists crackdown
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed Saudi Arabia’s crackdown on HR activists in the kingdom, calling on Saudi authorities to release those jailed in 2013.
  • UN condemns Beirut deadly attacks
    The United Nations has strongly condemned deadly car bomb attacks in the neighborhood of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, calling for restraint in the country.
  • Bahrainis hold anti-regime protests
    People in Bahrain have once again staged pro-democracy protests against the ruling Al Khalifa regime.

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

  • Human strategic use of anger
    People intentionally anger others to gain a competitive advantage in certain sitations, new research has shown. When the celebrated French footballer Zidane was famously sent off for headbutting a m...
  • Emperor penguins adapt to global warming
    Rising temperatures in the Antarctic have led to the largest and heaviest species of penguin - the Emperor penguin - being classified as 'near threatened'. However, recent satellite images obtained b...
  • 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...

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JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Climate change: 2013 ranked 4th warmest year
    Last year was one of the warmest ever recorded on Earth since scientists began keeping global average temperature stats 134 years ago, climate experts from two U.S. agencies revealed today. Submitted by Michael O. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • "The Year of Justice and Freedom?" A Message t ...
    I would like to take this time to express my profound gratitude to all the wonderful friends, supporters and comrades around the world for your unbelievable solidarity and support!...I constantly ask myself, is this the year of justice and freedom? Submitted by Angola Three to US Politics & ...
  • CPUC petition: Stand by Californias solar cust ...
    'Its a new year! Time for fresh starts and welcome changes, but one thing that should NOT change is fair credit for Californias solar customers....If you live in California, take a stand now by signing our petition to the PUC.'PLEASE SIGN,SHARE! Submitted by Ruth R. to Green Lifestyle  |&n ...
  • This Anti-Choice Bill Harms Women, Small Busin ...
    Dozens of members of the House of Representatives are pushing a bill that would eliminate abortion coverage for millions of women and we need your help to defeat it. Submitted by Freya T. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Leave a Bi ...
    Tell Congress not to fast-track this trade agreement! Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Mcdonnell Indictment
    Mcdonnell Indictment.Filed under: News and politics
  • “I don’t think it is more dangerou ...
    By Patricia L Johnson It would be easy to go through the records and find hundreds of headlines that all repeat the same basic premise; President Obama stated marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol. Naturally, the comment was taken … Continue reading →
  • Statement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ...
    Statement by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel on President Obama’s Speech Friday, January 17, 2014.Filed under: News and politics
  • How Accurate is Your Memory on Iraq Weapons of ...
      By Patricia L Johnson “The repetition of tentative news stories, even if they are subsequently disconfirmed, can assist in the creation of false memories in a substantial proportion of people.” The above is a quote taken from the Psychological … Continue reading →
  • Feinstein on Secretary Clinton, Declassified B ...
    Feinstein on Secretary Clinton, Declassified Bipartisan Benghazi Report – Press Releases – News Room – United States Senator Dianne Feinstein.Filed under: News and politics Tagged: Benghazi, declassified bipartisan Benghazi report, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

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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