Wednesday, January 29, 2014

29 Jan - RSS SnapShot! III

An example of simulated data modelled for the ...An example of simulated data modelled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Location map of en:Large Hadron Colli...English: Location map of en:Large Hadron Collider and en:Super Proton Synchrotron (blue circles) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Large Hadron Collider quadrupole magnets for d...Large Hadron Collider quadrupole magnets for directing proton beams to interact. These superconducting quadrupole electromagnetas were made in Fermilab. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The LHC experiments and the preaccelerators. T...The LHC experiments and the preaccelerators. The path of the protons (and ions) begins at linear accelerators (marked p and Pb, respectively). They continue their way in the booster (the small unmarked circle), in the Proton Synchrotron (PS), in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and finally they get into the 27-km-long LHC tunnel. In the LHC there are 4 large experiments marked with yellow dots and text. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Iranian.com

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Deer Hunting with Jesus
      Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant Book Review Deer Hunting With Jesus is a graphic account of the abandonment of the white working class by the American left. And how this left the door wide open for right wing fundamentalists to claim their allegiance. The book’s fo ...
  • Where the Mask Comes From
    0   Britain's Famous Anarchist Superhero I have spent the last few days enjoying the ten-issue graphic novel whose superhero “V” wore a Guy Fawkes mask that Anonymous has adopted for their hactivist campaign against banks, defense contractors, the Pentagon, ...
  • A Primer on Anarchism
      Revolt! – The Next Great Transformation from Kleptocracy Capitalism to Libertarian Sociasm through Counter Ideology, Societal Education, and Direct Action By Dr John Asimakopoulos (2011 Transformative Studies Institute Press)  Book Review The general public has a lot ...
  • The Me-Too Drug Ripoff
    0 In addition to the billions of health care dollars drug companies waste on disease mongering (see earlier posts), billions more are wasted on developing and marketing hundreds of “me-too” drugs. By definition, a “me-too” or “copycat” drug ...
  • Medicalizing the Menstrual Cycle
    I have blogged previously (see Menopause: Made in the USA) about the negative effects of the “corporatization” of health care in the US. “Disease mongering” is a particularly nasty one. This occurs when pharmaceutical companies “medicalize” common conditi ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

Energy Collective

  • Ocean Acidification: What is It, and Which Com ...
    Chad Coffin, president of the Maine Clammers Association, worries about Maine’s mudflats. That’s because in some areas these low-lying coastal wetlands have become acidic enough to kill young clams before they reach maturity.read more
  • High Renewable Energy Costs Damage Vermont's E ...
    With regard to renewable energy, it DOES matter what Vermont does, especially if it is on the wrong track to the detriment of Vermont’s economy, which has been in near-zero-growth mode since about 2007, with declining real household incomes since about 2000.read more
  • Survey: Only 32% Of Utilities Know What Kind o ...
    When 235 utility respondents were asked by Black & Veatch what sort of data analytics their utility was using to improve operational performance, many said they simply didn’t know. Deploying technologies effectively is a bit of a head scratcher for many utilities.read more
  • If We Could See Carbon Dioxide, Would We Take ...
    As an Australian who is concerned about our changing climate there is a long list of quotes from our new Prime Minister that I find irksome. But right at the top is his description of emissions trading as "a market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no one."read more
  • The Four Men Who Caused The Majority Of Global ...
    The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just four men, who between them invented machines responsible for the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions generated since the dawning of the industrial age.read more

Rodale News

  • Food Addicts Are Like Drug Addicts, Study Finds
    It's probably no shocker that food companies make their foods as addictive as possible—they've bet on the trifecta of sugar, fat, and salt that makes your taste buds and your brain practically explode, and they spend countless hours in labs finding just the right food additive that will give ch ...
  • Strawberry Compound Blocks Alzheimer's Disease ...
    A common antioxidant found in strawberries and many other fruits and vegetables could counteract memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease if the results of a recent mouse study translate into humans. The memory-protecting compound is called fisetin, and it's a flavonol antioxidant that' ...
  • 8 Thyroid Damagers Hiding Out in Your Home
    Thyroid disease and nonstick chemicals are back in the news again, once again providing a warning that we should all scan our houses for hidden sources. In the latest study, published in the journal Epidemology, scientists found that more than 10 percent of people exposed to drinking water con ...
  • Bombshell Study: This Pesticide Could Fuel Alz ...
    Scientists have been feverishly studying genetics to find a break in Alzheimer's research—a clue that could help eradicate this monster of a disease. But genes are just part of the equation. Rutgers scientists just led a team that turned up evidence suggesting pesticides and Alzheimer's disease ...
  • Virus Brings New Clue to Massive Honeybee Deaths
    Bees have a lot on their plate—dealing with unprecedented pesticide use, GMOs, loss of habitat, pollinating our food supply, and now, apparently, a deadly virus. The United States Department of Agriculture says a plant virus has crossed over into the bee world and can now be detected replicat ...

big think

  • 'They All Look Alike': The Other-Race Effect
    This article originally appeared in the Newton blog on RealClearScience. You can read the original here.  If somebody says, "Well, they all look alike," one might assume that person to be a closet bigot. But in all likelihood, he's simply being honest about a well known limitation that p ...
  • US Government Shuts Down Access to Online Cour ...
    Coursera is a service that allows top universities around the world to share their material online. Without spending a penny I've completed courses on Coursera from universities including Stanford and Caltech on topics ranging from science writing and law to neuroscience and clinical problem ... ...
  • How Football is Like a Modern Painting
    As the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks prepare to meet this Sunday in Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium, you’ll hear a lifetime’s worth of metaphors for football, many of which have already been catalogued and parodied in George Carlin’s classic routine “Football versus Baseball.” One ... ...
  • Botox and the Freezing of Emotions
    In one of the more interesting experiments that have been conducted, Richard J. Davidson, professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, wanted to find out whether facial expressions can affect emotions. For a long time it has been known that our inner life is ... ...
  • Pete Seeger on What You Learned in School Today
    "I learned our government must be strong. It's always right, and never wrong...That's what I learned in school today." The video below features the late Pete Seeger singing these sarcastic lines on BBC's 'Tonight In Person' in 1964. Seeger died today at age 94 and is being remembered by ...

Groklaw

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Ancient alternative quackery
    From an interview with science-based science writer and oncologist David Gorski: Many discussions of alternative medicine reference the fact that it is “natural” and relies on methods used throughout history. Is this true; how did the initial ideas about alternative medicine originate? This is c ...
  • All-natural human ingredients
    Recently, a clever wag listed the ingredients for all-natural bananas, blueberries and eggs, you’ll have no doubt seen the cute graphics that did the rounds of the blogosphere. Anyway, obvious next step was to list the human body by ingredient, I suspect someone else may well have done thi ...
  • Very, very, very grey is the new black
    Mathematician Stephen Hawking who has long argued the ins and outs of black holes now reasons that they don’t even exist, at least not in the form we imagine. The whole idea of an event horizon beyond which the singularity’s massive gravitational field will not allow anything to esca ...
  • Temperature of a liquid is raised by heating
    This is not some incredible scientific breakthrough, obviously…the temperature of a liquid is raised by heating…yes indeed. Sciencebase gets a lot of visitors trying to do their science homework, it seems. Often they’re trying to find out the effects of adding salt to the boili ...
  • The real news agenda
    Every morning my digital radio wakes me at one minute to sevent to the dulcet tones of James Naughtie, John Humphrys, Sarah Montague, Evan Davis, Justin Webb and Mishal Husain. Or, some combination of those bods. Every morning I am irritated by the stuff they report, they almost always lead with ...

RFF Library

  • Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reso ...
    National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=18624 Development of Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources in the Appalachian Basin is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council to examine the geology and unconventional hydrocarbon resources of the Appalac ...
  • Implications of Reduced Oil Imports for the U. ...
    Council on Foreign Relations / by Robert Z. Lawrence http://on.cfr.org/1aCEc6o [Michael Levi]  Most things about the U.S. oil and gas boom are controversial, but one consequence seems pretty widely agreed: as the United States cuts its oil imports, its trade deficit will fall, solidifying the co ...
  • Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Hea ...
    Gladstein, Neandross & Associates for the Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) http://www.gladstein.org/pdfs/Pathways_to_Near-Zero_Emissions_1-24-14.pdf [Green Car Congress] Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA), a consulting firm specializing in market development for low emission a ...
  • Meeting the Renewable Fuel Standard Mandate fo ...
    Congressional Research Service http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/crs/R41106.pdf The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was expanded under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA; P.L. 110-140) in an effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil, promote biofuel use, ...
  • Oil and Chemical Spills: Federal Emergency Res ...
    Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43251.pdf Thousands of oil and chemical spills of varying size and magnitude occur in the United States each year. A recent spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol into the Elk River in early January 2014 in and near Charleston, WV ...

frogblog

  • First day back at parliament
    Parliament’s back this week, and as is tradition for the first day of the year, party leaders had the chance to outline our priorities for the year and our greater vision for the country. I used my time to talk about this year’s election, which I see as a turning point in our history. The […]
  • Swimming on the Wellington waterfront
    Wellington’s waterfront dive platform is an inspired piece of inner-city architecture that draws huge crowds on a hot day. Where else in the world can brave jumpers thrill onlookers in the middle of a city? The big problem – and this is quite a basic one – is that the harbour water below is high ...
  • Mum in the House
    Today is a big day for me on a personal level – it’s my first full day back in the House after taking parental leave to welcome my baby girl Esther into the world. She is 16 weeks old.
  • New Zealand’s Human Rights Record under the mi ...
    New Zealand’s Human Rights Record is being reviewed tonight by the United Nations Human Rights Council. NGOs and the Human Rights Commission and UNHCR have made 248 recommendations on a wide range of topics. Some of the areas of most concern have been the weakness of our current human rights fra ...
  • “Not so much the corpse, but the dress….” Geno ...
    A few months from now, the world will be obliged to remember the Rwanda genocide. Twenty years ago, come 6 April, an ethnic group began taking shelter in churches and schools, seeking the safety of a pathetic UN peacekeeping force (pathetic as in size and mandate).   The same day, another ethnic ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Insanity Report

  • Nostalgia’s a Bitch: The Original Star Wars Trilog
    Nostalgia’s a bitch We’ve all heard that phrase before but it wasn’t until the last few years that I really began to notice it. It always comes up in debates. Your parents believed their generation of music was so much better than yours and you’ll swear the music you grew ...
  • New Footage in Latest Trailer for Disney’s Mal ...
    Both the the trailers released for Disney’s Maleficent have looked pretty good to me.  But we’ve been burned by these types of movies before.  I’m really  hoping this turns out good though because I actually love the concept that Hollywood is trying to do by telling us differen ...
  • IC 423: Teflon
    Topics: Rod from the Black Guy Who Tips joins us Pompeii is Titanic with swords Liam Neeson & Kevin Costner are making Impossible Old White Man movies Sam Jackson is Teflon Shoulda never gave you negros money Working in the Corporate world sucks Peace doves attacked Illegal Butt injectionsT ...
  • Spoilers, Snark and Impatience Are Ruining Mov ...
    *WARNING*  I’ve tried not to include too many details on some spoilers for Agents of SHIELD but by now everyone pretty much has seen it.  If you haven’t, I would suggest you don’t read this and just stay off the Internet because it will inevitably be spoiled for you even if you ...
  • Arrow Episode Review: Blind Spot
    This latest episode of Arrow might not seem like a lot but to me, it really shows the how far this show has come in terms of writing. This episode really could have been called “Rock Bottom” because this episode basically ends with Laurel about to hit the bottom.  And it’s done ...

Survival - tribal peoples

  • International travel fairs targeted over Botsw ...
    Protestors handed out leaflets to visitors of the Adventure Travel Show in London.© Survival InternationalProtestors have targeted Botswana tourism to the Adventure Travel Show in London and the Fitur travel fair in Madrid, to highlight Botswana’s persecution of Africa’s last hunting ...
  • Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for ...
    Uncontacted Nanti could be decimated by plans to detonate thousands of explosive charges and allow hundreds of workers to flood onto their land. © AnonPeru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of uncontacted Amazon tribes – despite internationa ...
  • ‘Kenyan government forcing us into extinction’ ...
    Homes of the Sengwer tribe in Kenya's Cherangany Hills torched by forest guards© Justin Kenrick/ SurvivalA Kenyan government campaign against one of the few hunter-gatherer tribes left in east Africa has escalated, as evictions spread throughout their ancestral home. The Sengwer have cared ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

Food World Order

  • Food Lobby Threatens to Sue Any State that Tri ...
    from truthstreammedia.com: The Organic Consumers Association is reporting that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association — the mega corp. lobby group that represents 300 companies and way more than just grocery stores — is using a talking points memo to basically misinform and intimidate our legis ...
  • Farm Bill Ends Subsidies, Cuts #FoodStamps
    from money.cnn.com: A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday agreed to a deal on a farm bill that would end direct subsidies to farms in favor of crop insurance. The deal could trim as much as $90 a month from food stamps for 850,000 recipients. The farm bill would last five years and needs to ...
  • #WVChemSpill In #WestVirginia Worse Than Initi ...
    from huffingtonpost.com: The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection issued an update on Monday evening indicating that the Elk River spill in West Virginia earlier this month involved more gallons of chemicals than previously reported. Freedom Industries, which owned the tank that ...
  • States Consider Labels for #GMO Genetically Mo ...
    from webmd.com: A number of states are considering laws requiring labels on food products that contain genetically modified ingredients. The states are weighing such action because there is no federal regulation. Currently, only Connecticut and Maine have such laws, but they won't take effect un ...
  • #StuporBowl: Pack a Super Bowl of Super Munchies?
    from nashville.com: Now there's more proof that legalizing marijuana can lead to only good things. Besides an uptick in visits to this burrito vending machine. The two states that have legalized pot are both going to the Super Bowl this year, with the Denver Broncos facing off against the Seattl ...

CrusadeWatch

  • American âfaith healerâ Benny Hinn cancels Ban ...
    source: The Indian Express, January 14, 2014 American evangelist and faith-healer Benny Hinn has cancelled his visit to Bangalore amidst protests by Hindu groups, who were all against Hinn holding his mission in the city, alleging that the evangelistâs âhidden agendaâ was to convert peopl ...
  • Conversions lead to social tension
    source: Deccan Chronicle, 26 Jan 2014 http://www.deccanchronicle.com/140126/news-current-affairs/article/dc-debate-attacks-pastors-ap We strongly condemn the police of Nalgonda district for dragging the name of the Hindu Vahini in the alleged incidents of attacks on Christian pastors a ...
  • Tribals in Jharkhand: Religion and Identity Po ...
    source:  epw.in, Feb 1, 2014 The recent controversy among Christian and non-Christian tribals over the portrayal of Mother Mary (statue) in Singpur village in Dhurwa near Ranchi, if not solved amicably, could have far reaching consequences for the social harmony of Jharkhand.  ...
  • Mrs. Chandrikaâs new interfaith trick
    source: Lankaweb, 27 Jan 2014 C. Wijeyawickrema âMr. Gandhi, you worship cow, and we eat cow. How can we be friends?â                                                                                     ...
  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing T ...
    Bankers committing suicide by jumping from the rooftops of their own banks is something that we think of when we think of the Great Depression.  Well, it just happened in London, England.  A vice president at JPMorgan's European headquarters in London plunged to his death after jumping from the ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of A Massive Emerging Mark ...
    This time, the Federal Reserve has created a truly global problem.  A big chunk of the trillions of dollars that it pumped into the financial system over the past several years has flowed into emerging markets.  But now that the Fed has decided to begin "the taper", investors see it as a sign to ...
  • 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching ...
    Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China?  If you are like most Americans, you have not been.  Most Americans don't seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should.  In majo ...
  • U.S. Cattle Herd Is At A 61 Year Low And Organ ...
    If the extreme drought in the western half of the country keeps going, the food supply problems that we are experiencing right now are only going to be the tip of the iceberg.  As you will see below, the size of the U.S. cattle herd has dropped to a 61 year low, and organic food [...]
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • FSF's fully free Android, the Replicant OS, hi ...
    From an ideological perspective, Replicant OS is the mobile/tablet variant of FSF's GNU/Hurd OS. It is aimed at creating a fully free-as-in-freedom Android which is devoid of any proprietary pieces of software, and one that is also easily installable on popular devices. See our earlier article o ...
  • In an epic move, Valve offers all Debian devel ...
    Remember that insane "developers chant" by former Mircosoft CEO Steve Ballmer? Well, Valve just pulled off something similar. In an epic goodwill gesture, Valve Inc. has decided to give away all its games, both present and future ones, to *all* Debian developers! All hail the devs! Most among y ...
  • Pear OS is bought by a "very large company" wh ...
    Well, that was fast. It seems like Pear OS, the venerable iOS look-alike, is gone forever. Just yesterday, it was announced in one of its forums that "Pear OS is no longer available for download and its future is now in hands of a company who wants to remain anonymous for the moment". A big letd ...
  • Valve is working on an open source OpenGL debu ...
    It seems like Valve is not done yet when it comes to Linux and gaming. According to this recent blog post by Valve's own Rich Geldreich, they are actively working on an OpenGL debugger aimed at Linux game developers which will also be open source.  VOGL: Valve's OpenGL debugger for Linux O ...
  • 3 Best Bitcoin Clients for Ubuntu
    Bitcoin is going to be big, we predicted way back in 2010. The value of Bitcoin soared from a little over 1 USD in 2011 to a mammoth 1000 USD in 2013. Bitcoin is now a world-wide phenomenon with nearly 100,000 transactions every day. The revolutionary new "internet currency" is changing the worl ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

electric politics

  • When Secrecy Is Necessary
    You can't race a four-in-hand at the Daytona Speedway. Nor can you expect James Madison's Fourth Amendment to provide useful guidance about modern intelligence collection. That's just a disconnect. The reality is we do not have a Stasi state and, if we did, it seems to me that intelligence colle ...
  • Against the "Affordable Care Act"
    A signature failure of American government, our health care system is a world-class disgrace. Instead of its purpose being the public good it mainly serves predatory market forces. And the fact is, the so-called "Affordable Care Act," aka "Obamacare," doesn't bring necessary, fundamental changes ...
  • Evidence of Reincarnation
    You don't have to travel to South Asia to find people with reincarnation experiences. It happens here, too, and occasionally an American child will remember extraordinary details about their past life. About how they were a pilot, for example, or a golf pro. In a few of these cases the extraordi ...
  • Was Arafat Assassinated?!
    In November 2012 three teams, French, Swiss, and Russian, exhumed Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to try to determine his cause of death. Independently, they took samples from his body, mausoleum, and surroundings. The French and the Russians concluded that he died of natural causes. The Swi ...
  • Facts Versus Faith
    Color me skeptical but I don't see how a technocratic "third way" can be a sustainable political strategy. Instead — and perhaps I'm being too hard on the Democratic party here — all it really demonstrates is a failure of imagination. When ordinary people decide political questions t ...

PR News

  • Edelman 2013 revenues up 11.4% to $741m
    New business wins including Pitney Bowes helped propel Edelman to 11.4% global organic growth in calendar year 2013 as worldwide revenues hit $741 million, up from $665 million in the 12 months prior.
  • Brodeur, BlackBerry settle $700k lawsuit
    A lawsuit Brodeur Partners filed in September against former client BlackBerry, alleging it was never paid for its work during the launch campaign for the BlackBerry 10 operating system and Q10 and Z10 smartphones, has been settled.
  • Porter appoints three partners
    NEW YORK: Porter Novelli named three new partners on Tuesday.
  • Irrigation services company Netafim hires Pollack
    LOS ANGELES: Netafim USA, a provider of drip and micro-irrigation products for the agriculture, landscape and turf, greenhouse and nursery, mining, and wastewater industries, has retained the Pollack PR Marketing Group.
  • Wikimedia comms unit in flux after departures
    The Wikimedia Foundation, the group that runs Wikipedia, is looking to restart its communications function after numerous senior staffers left the organization.

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Stop NATO

  • Italian Warplanes In Training For NATO Baltic ...
    Lithuania Tribune January 30, 2014 Italian Air Force is getting ready for the first rotation in NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission On 27 January 2014 two members of the Italian Air Force flew in at the Air Base in Šiauliai with two Eurofighter Typhoon fighter-jets and a Boeing KC-767A refuelling ...
  • Interview: US wants control of Afghanistan’s r ...
    Voice of Russia January 29, 2014 US wants control of Afghanistan’s resources – Kathy Kelly John Robles Photo: © Flickr.com/familymwr/cc-by Download audio file The amount of money that the US Government has poured into Afghanistan on non-military aid is approaching $100 billion yet children are s ...
  • Friedrich Schiller: The citizen is naught, the ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Friedrich Schiller: Oh, blessed peace, may the day of grim War’s ruthless crew never dawn ==== Friedrich von Schiller From Wallenstein’s Camp (1798) Translated by Charles E. Passage Amid these days we see the old fixed form D ...
  • McCain on NATO: “We’re going to have to look a ...
    Stars and Stripes January 28, 2014 NATO, state of European defense to be considered in Munich By John Vandiver STUTTGART, Germany: Is it a linchpin for global security or a relic of the Cold War that is becoming increasingly irrelevant? NATO, at once described by observers as the greatest milita ...
  • Pentagon, Bulgaria To Develop NATO-Standard Li ...
    United States European Command January 22, 2014 Bulgarian Deputy Chief of Defense Visits EUCOM By U.S. Army Maj. Michael Cushwa, ECJ5/8 Political-Military Affairs Officer – Bulgaria Desk The tenth biannual U.S.-Bulgaria Joint Commission meeting was held Jan. 9, 2014, at the Swabian Special ...

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

Popsci - Science

  • This Leech Can Survive A 24-Hour Submersion in ...
    A very special leech Ozobranchus jantseanus, a leech that parasitizes turtles in East Asia. Dai Suzuki et al / PLOS ONE At first glance there is nothing overly special about Ozobranchus jantseanus, a small parasitic leech of freshwater turtles in East Asia. But throw them into a vat of li ...
  • Lawsuit Alleges NASA Is Failing To Investigate ...
    The Mysterious Rock NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. You may recall, NASA recently announced that a strange rock had somehow "appeared" in front of its Mars Opportunity rover. The explanations for the mystery rock were straight-forward: maybe some kind of nearby impact sen ...
  • Frowning In Bright Sunlight Can Make You Angry
    Sunlight Neuro / Wikimedia Commons Way back in 1872, Charles Darwin noted that when people look into bright sunshine they often frown, assuming a facial expression similar to that of anger. And indeed, when people look into bright light without sunglasses, they contract many of the same faci ...
  • 90-Minute DNA Screening Available Soon For Law ...
    DNA Richard Wheeler via Wikimedia Commons Current human DNA tests take two to three weeks to be completed, and must be sent into an accredited laboratory. But a new rapid test, which could analyze human DNA in 90 minutes in the field, is nearly complete, Pentagon and industry officials told ...
  • Scientific Evidence That Walking While Texting ...
    Walking While Texting Schabrun et. al In New York, when people are texting while walking in front of me, I'm frequently overcome by rage. But since throwing people into the street is "assault" according to "the law," I abstain. However, people--come on. In this study published in the online ...

Facing South

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Internat'l Political Economy

  • Bet on Asia? How Macau Stomps Puny Las Vegas
    I did not fully appreciate how well and truly Las Vegas has been eclipsed by Macau. 2006 was the year Macau overtook Las Vegas in gambling revenues. Perhaps reflecting the dour, sour mood of a has-been nation experiencing the overwhelming misery wrought by the BushBama years, Las Vegas has gone ...
  • USAID Told to Get Lost Pt. 3 (Ecuador Edition)
    I almost forgot to post about this one (apologies). Mostly on the grounds of political interference, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has, in the past few years, been bounced from Russia and Bolivia. The proximate cause is when USAID provides funding to civil societ ...
  • Can [Mexico, Turkey] Withstand EM Selloff?
    OK, here's the quick version of What's Going On in the World Economy. Despite the US jokeonomy failing to revive from comatose to, say, zombified as witnessed by the labor force participation rate falling with no end in sight, the rumor is that the Fed will further slow down its purchases of US ...
  • Party Like 2001: Argentina Again Headed for De ...
    There is no shortage of bad news these days...even The Captain and Tennille of "Muskrat Love" fame are calling it quits. In a sort-of related story, the Argentinian love affair with the retro-Peronist Fernandez-Kirchners appears to be coming to an end. Buoyed earlier by disavowing its foreign de ...
  • Lampooning PRC 'Non-Interference' in South Sudan
    Does China side with President Salva Kiir or Rick Machar? Both? Neither? Us folks working in development studies are simply fascinated by the mysterious foreign aid activities of China. Unlike rich countries which are members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and disclose w ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Why Are Banking Executives In London Killing T ...
    Bankers committing suicide by jumping from the rooftops of their own banks is something that we think of when we think of the Great Depression.  Well, it just happened in London, England.  A vice president at JPMorgan's European headquarters in London plunged to his death after jumping from the ...
  • Are We On The Verge Of A Massive Emerging Mark ...
    This time, the Federal Reserve has created a truly global problem.  A big chunk of the trillions of dollars that it pumped into the financial system over the past several years has flowed into emerging markets.  But now that the Fed has decided to begin "the taper", investors see it as a sign to ...
  • 20 Early Warning Signs That We Are Approaching ...
    Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Turkey and China?  If you are like most Americans, you have not been.  Most Americans don't seem to really care too much about what is happening in the rest of the world, but they should.  In majo ...
  • U.S. Cattle Herd Is At A 61 Year Low And Organ ...
    If the extreme drought in the western half of the country keeps going, the food supply problems that we are experiencing right now are only going to be the tip of the iceberg.  As you will see below, the size of the U.S. cattle herd has dropped to a 61 year low, and organic food [...]
  • 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 ...

BlogHer

  • Easy DIY Framed Chalkboard
    I must admit my DIY chalkboard has been one of my favorite projects that I have done lately!  I was inspired to write about it today as Cade and I are off to Menards to get supplies for our next project since the temperature is currently above zero.  I need reminders why I live here ag ...
  • Sex and the Southern Belle
    "Ooooh, maybe she’ll give me some breakfast." - Andre 3000G.R.I.T.S. or "Girls Raised In The South". When the topic of southern women arises, opinions run the gamut.  We’re classified as everything from dim and uneducated to shrewd and calculating.  Most people will agree with one ...
  • I Would Love to Be a Housewife. There, I've Sa ...
    Why do I feel so guilty and so old-fashioned admitting that my week as a stay-at-home wife was awesome? I felt healthy. I was able to cook my own meals, do yoga while I watched reality TV, go outside to garden, ride my bike to the store, and take dance class. I felt relaxed. I didn’t feel any ou ...
  • A Sneak Peek at the BlogHer Food Closing Party ...
    With the Early Bird pricing for BlogHer Food '14 set to expire this week (Friday!), we wanted to give you a sneak peek into our final party. While we can't yet reveal the location, we are excited to announce that Ree Drummond, Jaden Hair, and Elise Bauer will be hosting the closing party in Miam ...
  • What to Expect From President Obama’s State of ...
    At a time when second-term President Obama is facing low approval ratings, tonight’s State of the Union address is becoming even more interactive online than ever. The White House website will be streaming the speech, and a team of five of the president’s top staff will be taking questions onlin ...

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

  • In Cuba, Ban spotlights sustainable developmen ...
    Peace and security, sustainable development and human rights are on the agenda at the second summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which opens in Cuba today and where United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is delivering opening remarks.
  • 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.

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

  • Between the RAREs – Around the Campfire with U ...
    At our last get-together around this campfire, I went through the heartbreak of the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation from 1971 to 1973.  For many of us wilderfolk at the time, RARE wiped clean any lingering belief that wilderness clubs and the U. S. Forest Service were togeth ...
  • Amigos de la Sevilleta to host Mike Phillips F ...
    February 2, 2014: Annual Meeting and Celebration 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Reception to follow The event will be held at USFWS headquarters on the Sevilleta NWR Reservations: (505) 864-4021 Brief Business Meeting Mike Phillips Live Music & Reception Amigos de la Sevilleta is holding its annual meeting ...
  • 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 ...

reference frame

  • Escape from camp 14
    I am just reading Blaine Harden's book Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West and it is powerful stuff. It was published in 2012 by an American who shared the royalties with a guy named Sin who seems to be the world's only person who has ever es ...
  • It is immoral for Al Gore to organize "fertili ...
    Various influential and would-be influential people have gathered at the annual meeting in Davos. Folks like Al Gore and Bill Gates are among them. These two participated in the panel Changing the Climate for Growth and Development (video) Bill Gates represented some kind of a relatively traditi ...
  • Bizarre Hawking: black hole work was my bigges ...
    By rejecting event horizons, Hawking has morphed into a hardy defensible maverick A few days ago, Stephen Hawking wrote a paper arguing that firewalls are pure crap (so far so good) because they violate CPT, much like black hole remnants (it's no good anymore: these objects are wrong but not be ...
  • Euroskeptics may overtake EU Parliament
    ...but differences between them start to emerge... Yesterday, Russia Today released a story – perhaps a slightly exaggerated story – painting Nigel Farage's UKIP, The United Kingdom Independence Party, as the strongest party in the U.K. according to recent polls. This claim suggests that the ...
  • Quantum gravity in AdS/CFT is inevitably stringy
    One of the favorite lies emitted by the coalition of the dishonest, deluded, and brainwashed anti-stringy demagogues and imbeciles is the claim that the AdS/CFT correspondence doesn't really "need" string theory. See this question to check that this myth is alive and kicking. Leonard got it r ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Justin Trudeau to remove senators from Liberal ...
    Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is removing senators from the party caucus and forcing them to sit as Independents. He is scheduled to talk to reporters in the House foyer starting at 9:30 a.m. ET. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: J ...
  • Gerald Celente – Eddie and Tracy – WLW Cincinnati
    from trendsjournal: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom earn money watching videos Related posts: Gerald Celente – Eddie and Tracy – WLW Cincinnati from trendsjournal: SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote &#8 ...
  • Veterans fighting service cuts felt disrespect ...
    Veterans who were in Ottawa to lobby against the closing of their regional offices left a meeting with Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino visibly frustrated and saying they were disrespected. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: ...
  • King Obama To Unilaterally Raise Minimum Wage
    by B. Christopher Agee, Western Journalism: It has been widely reported that a key aspect of Barack Obama’s upcoming State of the Union address will be income inequality. By stoking animosity among the various economic classes, fewer eyes will be on the fiscal disaster his administration has cau ...
  • Super Bowl ads build buzz through contests, co ...
    The 48th Super Bowl is this Sunday, and once again the ads are getting at least as much buzz as the game. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related posts: Ravens hold off 49ers’ surge to capture Super Bowl XLVII From blowout to blackout to ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Pros and Cons of Freeze-Dried, Dehydrated, MRE ...
    A pros and cons list of the various methods and types of food for storage that you may consider in your overall preparedness plan. Add your own to the list…   Freeze-Dried Food Pros Very low moisture Very lightweight Generally tastes better than dehydrated Long shelf life Reconstitute ...
  • Blackouts Are Dress Rehearsals For The Future
    Electricity fuels our existence. We got along just fine without it through the vast majority of our human existence; however today — most people would literally die without it. The risks of blackout continue to rise as we strain the systems to their limit…   Having just read a J ...
  • NSA Locations In The United States
    The secretive spy agency, the National Security Agency (NSA), has greatly expanded it’s footprint within the United States over the past several years and has been exposed for it’s massive collection of electronic data on Americans as well as internationals. The following is a list o ...
  • TERK AM Radio Antenna Advantage
    The TERK AM-radio antenna may be the best portable indoor AM-radio antenna today; an antenna which does not require external power to amplify – making it a favorable prep for when the power goes out and you need to pull in distant stations for news and information. For those who are prepar ...
  • Find Your Direction With A Stick And The Sun
    There are many ways to determine the direction of north-south-east-west. A compass anyone? If you ever find yourself in a jam during the day without a compass (shame on you), one way to find your direction is by simply using a stick, two small stones, and the sun. This actually works, and I chal ...

Fast Company

  • Will Facebook's News Reader Fail? Here's What ...
    After a half dozen major feature failures, Zuck's news reader may have a chance.Facebook has been teasing a Flipboard-style news reader since March 2013. Will it spontaneously combust like Facebook Beacon, Home, Lite, Places, Deals, Email, Real Time Ticker, or Gifts? The odds seem to say yes, bu ...
  • Rap Genius's IPhone App Puts Annotations In Yo ...
    The company said about half of its traffic comes from mobile devices, and foresees a future in which all of its traffic is mobile.Rap Genius is bringing its user-generated annotations of the web to the iPhone. The company launched its first iPhone app, Genius, Tuesday, allowing fans to browse no ...
  • Following Arrest, BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem ...
    The foundation where Shrem served as vice chairman said a prolonged trial would detract from its mission to improve Bitcoin adoption.The day after BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem was arrested on money-laundering charges, the 24-year-old has resigned from the Bitcoin Foundation, where he was a found ...
  • This Software Flags "Inappropriate" Google Gla ...
    Don't want Glass snapping pictures while you're in a public restroom? Meet PlaceAvoider, a new image-detection system being developed at Indiana University.Google Glass, which just got 200% less dorky looking now that it affixes to prescription lenses, is still at a point where it raises more qu ...
  • Why Is Facebook's App Asking To Read Your Text ...
    Hint: It might not be to see what you're sexting.Over the last month or so, a few keen-eyed Android users may have been startled by some peculiar permission requests when they tried to update their Facebook app. One request asks to "read your text messages (SMS or MMS)."Read Full Story  &nb ...

Jadaliyya

  • New Texts Out Now: Lisa Wedeen, Ideology and H ...
    Lisa Wedeen, “Ideology and Humor in Dark Times: Notes from Syria.” Critical Inquiry 39.4 (2013). Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Lisa Wedeen (LW): This article is part of a book project on what I call “neoliberal autocracy” and its unmaking. The book was initially envisioned ...
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  • Sisi, the Presidency, and the Officers
    The military’s recent statement tasking General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with taking steps toward a presidential bid appears to confirm the widely-held belief that de facto military rule over Egypt is here to stay. For many, this statement reflects the success of Sisi’smonths long efforts& ...
  • Turkey Media Roundup (January 28)
    [This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Turkey and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Turkey Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week's roundup to turkey@jadaliyya.com by S ...
  • Arabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 28)
    [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 ...

mediagazer

  • The novel legal issues in Tarantino's copyrigh ...
    Alison Frankel / Reuters: The novel legal issues in Tarantino's copyright suit vs Gawker  —  I don't usually cover the same cases as TMZ and Entertainment Weekly, but Quentin Tarantino's copyright complaint against Gawker, filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, could well ...
  • Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens an NY1 Reporter ( ...
    Sarah Wheaton / New York Times: Rep. Michael Grimm Threatens an NY1 Reporter  —  The Staten Island lawmaker can be heard telling Michael Scotto, a reporter for NY1, “I'll break you in half” in footage broadcast by the network.
  • Congressman allegedly threatens NY1 reporter ( ...
    Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Congressman allegedly threatens NY1 reporter  —  U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm threatened NY1 reporter Michael Scotto, the station's political director, Bob Hardt, said on Twitter.  You can see the interaction in this video:  —  Grimm's w ...
  • Former News Corp Australia CEO Kim Williams Wi ...
    Simon Thomsen / Business Insider: Former News Corp Australia CEO Kim Williams Wins $95,000 From Fairfax In Defamation Case  —  It was a very juicy, very Sydney story, involving the Opera House, a posh restaurant, the former CEO of News Corp Australia and raised tempers - the sor ...
  • Journalists offer different perspectives on wh ...
    Kristen Hare / Poynter: Journalists offer different perspectives on what to do with audience data  —  Younger staff in The Atlantic newsroom have a knack for sourcing their stories through social media, and getting them read that way, too, J.J. Gould, executive editor at TheAtla ...

Views & News from Norway

  • Inferno calms, but danger remains
    An inferno which has all but flattened several coastal communities on a peninsula in Flatanger, Nord-Trøndelag did not jump firefighters’ containment lines overnight on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning the fire still raged in a 15 square kilometre area, and police warned winds could pick up a ...
  • Wildfire jumps containment lines
    A fire which razed an entire peninsula in Flatanger, Nord-Trøndelag on Tuesday flared up again in the evening, breaking through containment lines and creating a two kilometre fire front. Crews had spent the afternoon soaking a kilometre-wide fire break on the narrow section of the headland, but ...
  • Coastal communities razed by fire
    Police reported almost 140 building were destroyed after fire razed the dry coastal hills of a peninsula in Flatanger, Nord-Trøndelag on Monday night and throughout Tuesday morning. All 32 residents were evacuated as the fire tore northwards from Uran through the villages of Hårstad, Småværet an ...
  • Coroner, crime police front trial
    Norwegian and Congolese forensic investigators and the coroners who conducted Tjostolv Moland’s autopsy testified at Joshua French’s murder trial in Congo on Tuesday. His lawyer is hopeful the evidence will see French acquitted of killing his friend in the jail cell they shared last ...
  • Furniture industry on shaky legs
    A third of jobs in the Norwegian furniture industry have disappeared in the past six years. The financial crisis of 2008, high exchange rate and increasing wages have been blamed for closures and downsizing, leaving thousands of square meters of empty factory space in towns across Norway. The lo ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Zed Eco-homes (India)
    Every so often an individual is given exposure to another individual so wildly dynamic that it confuses, entertains, but most of all, inspires. This is how I would describe meeting Dr. Hariharan Chandreshekar, CEO of Biodiversity Conservation India Limited (BCIL), the company that designs and ma ...
  • Politically Correct Science for the Masses
    Real democracy does not just mean the right to vote. People must also have access to the information they need to make an informed choice; that’s why scientists must be free to tell the truth and express their views accordingly on scientific issues. by Prof Peter Saunders Shaping science to poli ...
  • An Insider’s Story of the Global Attack on Cli ...
    by Jim Salinger Stormy weather hits New Zealand’s capital, Wellington. Flickr.com/wiifm69 (Sean Hamlin) A recent headline – Failed doubters trust leaves taxpayers six-figure loss – marked the end of a four-year epic saga of secretly-funded climate denial, harassment of scientists and tying ...
  • The Perfect Permaculture Fish Pond
    Click for larger view Geoff Lawton’s latest video is one of my favourite films on his site — mainly because it reminds me of a quote I read as a kid and never forgot: “A garden without water is like a meal without wine.” In a well stocked pond, you can grab a fish anytime... Read more »
  • Tunneling into School
    What? Why would anyone want to tunnel back into school? Well, I have no idea, but in the past six years have been investigating how to build living tunnels in school grounds and gardens and have learned a thing or two about willow tunneling. ‘Tis the season… the season where the tree ...

Pointman's

  • Cool it …
    I wrote the following paragraph in a previous piece on fanatics and the subtle perils of prolonged contact with them - There is also an insidious danger to this sort of interaction with them; you start to get imprinted by them. If you’re not careful, you soon start to take on the same fanatical ...
  • The coming shape of 2014.
    About three years ago, I compared the ongoing plunge in any belief in global warming as being akin to the death of a belief system. In essence, it is a five stage process of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance. It covered what can only be termed the true believers, not t ...
  • Why the IPCC hesitates.
    This is a guest piece by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 – enjoy! —-<0>— The release of the IPCC Fifth Report has been accompanied by a barrage of criticism. “The latest IPCC report has truly sunk to the level of hilarious incoherence” Some critics have settled on the fi ...
  • Why the IPCC hesitates.
    This is a guest piece by one of our regular commenters, Graeme No.3 – enjoy! —-<0>— The release of the IPCC Fifth Report has been accompanied by a barrage of criticism. “The latest IPCC report has truly sunk to the level of hilarious incoherence” Some critics have settled on the fi ...
  • Moments in a life and those restarts you have ...
    He’d drawn a dinosaur for her and it was a pretty good one, stretching the entire width of the blackboard. He’d used white chalk for the main details but added a huge lot of pecky touches in red and green. Too many I thought. He was another teacher and her beau and I’d watched ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Race, History, and Revolution in the Year's Be ...
    (A version of this article originally appeared in the New Orleans Data News Newspaper) We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget sequels, where theaters are filled with stories based on comic books, children’s books, or a line of toys. Originality is rarely rewarded: this year, the ...
  • Hundreds of Musicians and Their Supporters Sto ...
    In one of the largest protests seen in New Orleans in the past decade, hundreds of musicians, club owners, and other supporters of live music protested outside, then inside, New Orleans City Hall today. The protest was originally called because a noise ordinance was scheduled to be discussed in ...
  • 20 to Life for a Phone Call?
    This call to action comes from the Friends and Family of Manuel Brown Manuel Brown is facing twenty years to life on a marijuana drug charge even though he never sold or bought any drugs. We need your help to prevent a miscarriage of justice! Call the Orleans Parish D.A's office& ...
  • Victory at Last! Louisiana has Removed Hundred ...
    From our friends at Women With A Vision. Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminalized through the Crime Against Nature by Solicitation statute, but for all women and LGBTQ people who have been criminalized across the globe.  The class a ...
  • Police Profiling, Harassment, and Violence Aga ...
    A version of this article originally appeared on the Al Jazeera America website. The modern gay rights movement was born on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, on Christopher Street in New York City’s West Village. Resistance broke out in response to a violent police raid against the gay ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Undergraduate student expansion not dependent ...
    The Universities Minister David Willetts yesterday confirmed there was no “direct connection” between the plans to expand student places and...
  • The road to Paris…
    Last month I found myself spending some quality time in Warsaw’s national stadium. I wasn’t enjoying some Polish football but...
  • Data for development
    GUEST POST BY PROFESSOR TIM WHEELER, DEPUTY CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISER AT DFID   Earlier blogs in this series have talked...
  • Science for Policy
    I’ve been interning in the Science Policy Centre for over a month now and the natural division of policy for...
  • Can Curious George remain committed to science?
    £11m for a Higgs Centre for physics in Edinburgh. Uncapped places for undergraduates from 2014-15 with enhanced funding for STEM. And...

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Hudson New York

  • Who Are the Heads of Churches in Jerusalem?
    Christmas 2013 has been marred, once again, by petty Jew-haters in churches who pose as champions of the Palestinians. The details have been faithfully collected here. Often they claim to be acting on behalf of "the Palestinian Christians." But the
  • Pakistan and the Arab-Muslim Culture of Denial
    For Osama bin Laden there was a clear and unmistakable cultural divide separating the Arab-Muslim world from the West. The idea that there is a difference, perhaps even qualitative, in terms of culture between the West and the East is considered a
  • Egypt: Are Elections "Democracy"?
    The good news is that the Egyptians will not be able to keep their Sharia constitution, at least not the way the Muslim Brotherhood designed it. But the way it was covered in the United States, this was not reflected as good news. What is going on in
  • Palestinians' New Enemy: Tzipi Livni
    The Palestinians have now turned against Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who also heads the Israeli team to the peace talks with the Palestinian Authority [PA]. Livni is probably the most dovish member of the Israeli cabinet. Yet her moderate views
  • Israel: "A Matter of Our Own Long-Term Interests"
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the first Canadian leader ever to address Knesset , stated some key points in his passionate support for Israel. He stressed values shared by Israel and Canada -- those of freedom, democracy and an intolerance for terrorism

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

  • Economic Collapse -- How Did Enron Make Their ...
    Enron Corporation (former New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol ENE) was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,000 staff and was one of the world's major electricity, natur ...
  • Bill Black -- Emerging Market Financial Crise ...
    Bill Black: A rise in inflation in emerging markets like Argentina is causing a state of panic amongst investors over the future health of the global economy [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbooze.com or http://www.figanew ...
  • Ukraine Unrest Could Ignite WW3
    Alex talks with investigative journalist, author and columnist Wayne Madsen about the protests in Ukraine and other topics. Author,columnist and whistleblower Wayne Madsen goes in depth on the current table the elite are sitting at. With their last blatant attempts to sway the planet toward ...
  • Obama's Minimum Wage Hike Excludes Hundreds of ...
    Amy Traub: Obama's $10.10 minimum wage hike is a clear victory for hundreds of thousands of workers of new or renewed contracts but will still exclude a large group once enacted next year [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://FinanceArmageddon.blogspot.com or http://www.newsbo ...
  • Rothschilds History of Tyranny
    The Rothschilds and bankers KNOW that Americans wont do anything about the banks robbing them. Theyre too busy eating fast food, shopping on credit, and watching tv..so, as their way.of life diminishes around them, they wont care. When you try telling people to wake up, they say "dont tell ME to ...

Radical Chic

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

NRDC Switchboard

  • Is Poor Maintenance of Rooftop Water Tanks End ...
    Eric Goldstein, Director of NRDC's New York City Environment, NY There is an important exposé in today's New York Times, which should be of interest to city apartment dwellers whose drinking water travels through New York's iconic roofto ...
  • New York State Colleges and Universities Lead ...
    Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York As the mother of a student at one of New York’s many great colleges, and of a high school junior who’ll apply to college in the fall, I have a connection to the issues that are on co ...
  • Submarines, Sonar, and the Death of Whales: N ...
    Joel Reynolds, Western Director, Senior Attorney, Santa Monica, CA There’s an old adage that the environment is never saved—just continually being saved.  And the U.S. Navy’s testing and training with high intensity active son ...
  • (Continued) FDA Plays Chicken with Antibiotics ...
    Carmen Cordova, Sustainable Livestock Science Fellow, San Francisco Just to offer a little more insight on FDA’s inaction, discussed broadly in a previous blog, I’ve detailed the history of just one of the antibiotic additives in questio ...
  • FDA Plays Chicken with Antibiotics: Newly Disc ...
    Carmen Cordova, Sustainable Livestock Science Fellow, San Francisco Here’s some unfortunate, but not so surprising news:  The Food and Drug Administration has allowed  30 potentially harmful antibiotic additives to remain approved fo ...

Peakwater

  • Rudolf (Part II): The Overlooked Glacier
    The Overlooked Glacier Rudolf Glacier is a small valley glacier that lies in a private valley wedged between New Zealand’s most expansive ice-masses and towering summits. As one of the lesser entities in the region, glaciological researchers have largely neglected it, relegating it to the footno ...
  • Officials Reveal Second Chemical Spilled in W. ...
    “West Virginia officials revealed Tuesday that a second potentially harmful chemical had also spilled into the Elk River contaminating the water supply of over 300,000 area residents. According to the Charleston Gazette, it wasn’t until 12 days after the Jan. 9 spill that Gary Southe ...
  • State Water Resources Control Board warns of p ...
    “The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) administers California’s water rights system and is closely monitoring water availability. The water rights system is designed to provide for the orderly allocation of water supplies in the event that there is not enough water to ...
  • Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Honors U.S.-Me ...
    “Sally Jewell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Interior, took time today to recognize the heroic efforts of U.S. and Mexican citizens who spent years together negotiating a new Colorado River agreement between the two nations.  Jewell noted that “ecosystems know no borders” and acknowl ...
  • California drought: Farmers, ranchers face unc ...
    “On Friday, amid California’s driest year on record, Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in the state. As days pass without snow or rain, dairymen, farmers and other livestock producers are finding themselves in the same predicament as Imhof. Without water to irrigate, prod ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • as the medicinal properties
    …$ure they do as the medicinal properties of marijuana scares the bejesus out of them as it would make obsolete many of their AMA … FDA … patented drugs and dra$tically cut into their profit and therefore political influence and control… Scientists Know More About Marijuana as a Medicine T ...
  • “we” do manifest what “we&#8 ...
    …YES… “we” do manifest what “we” think about most … whether positive or negative … remember every human being is an energy source …   Your Thoughts Can Cause Changes To Your Genes 01-27-2014  •  arclein   …… a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of untr ...
  • could prove to be vitally important
    …This looks like it could prove to be vitally important to those individuals with vision issues … hopefully this development will NOT be corporate controlled and available to all rich and poor…   Lab-grown, virus-free stem cells repair retinal tissue in mice 01-27-2014  •  e ...
  • Sanders deserves a medal
    …Senator Bernie Sanders deserves a medal for being able to not resorting to any form of physical admonishment to the incessant interruptions of Michele Bachman whose remarks were inane Republican/Tea Party sound bites…   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/28/1273021/-Michele-Bachma ...
  • If that is the case why then do “we&#822 ...
    …If that is the case why then do “we” continue to elect them to represent us…?   Pew poll: People still don’t like Republicans   bykosFollow …http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/27/1272889/-Pew-poll-people-still-don-t-like-Republicans?detail=email   If you were takin ...

Popular Technology

  • 2,258 Meaningless Search Results
    Rebuttal to "2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles" James Powell continues to demonstrate his computer illiteracy by doing worthless database searches in an intellectually dishonest propaganda campaign. He updated his previous meaningless analysis in continued blissful ignorance that the 'Web ...
  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...
  • 1100+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skeptic ...
    "Wow, the list is pretty impressive ...It's Oreskes done right." - Luboš Motl, Ph.D. Theoretical Physics "I really appreciate your important effort in compiling the list." - Willie Soon, Ph.D. Astrophysicist and Geoscientist "A tour de force list of scientific papers..." - Robert M. Carter, P ...
  • Dana Nuccitelli's Paycheck - Funded by ExxonMobil
    Dana Nuccitelli is an alarmist blogger at Skeptical Science and The Guardian. He is also co-author of the falsely manufactured Cook et al. "97% consensus" paper. A shocking revelation by Anthony Watts was that Nuccitelli's employer Tetra Tech is funded by "Big Oil". Which is incredibly ironic ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Land conflicts complicate effort to spare rain ...
    A widely-heralded effort to spare carbon-dense rainforests and peatlands from palm oil development in Indonesian Borneo is facing new criticism after an investigation by rights groups found evidence of unresolved conflicts over community land. The report, published Friday by the Forest Peoples P ...
  • Underestimating global warming: gaps in Arctic ...
    No place on Earth is heating up faster than the Arctic, but just how fast has remained an open question due to large gaps in temperature data across the vast region. Now, a recent study in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society finds that not only is the Arctic warming eight t ...
  • In precedent-setting case, palm oil company fi ...
    In a precedent-setting case, an Indonesian court has found a palm oil company guilty of violating environmental laws and ordered it to pay $30 million in fines and reparations for clearing an area of protected peat forest that is a stronghold for endangered orangutans in Indonesia's Aceh Provinc ...
  • Over 75 percent of large predators declining
    The world's top carnivores are in big trouble: this is the take-away message from a new review paper published today in Science. Looking at 31 large-bodied carnivore species (i.e those over 15 kilograms or 33 pounds), the researchers found that 77 percent are in decline and more than half have s ...
  • Lions face extinction in West Africa: less tha ...
    The lions of West Africa, which may represent a distinct subspecies, are on the precipice of extinction. A sober new study in PLOS ONE reports that less than 250 mature lions survive in the region. Scientists have long known that West Africa's lions were in trouble, but no one expected the situa ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Kiwi tech in comet catching probe
    New Zealand tech company Rakon is heralding its link to a comet-catching space probe, which is poised to be the first to land a craft on the surface of a speeding frozen rock.Auckland-headquartered Rakon published a bulletin...
  • Black Death making a comeback
    Two of the most devastating outbreaks of plague in history, each of which killed more than half the population of Europe, were caused by different strains of the same infectious agent, a study has revealed.The Justinian Plague of...
  • Geologists produce new map of Antarctica's sou ...
    New Zealand scientists have spent six years updating a seminal map of Antarctica completed by colleagues 50 years ago, and they hope it will help to unlock the degree and impacts of climate change.The updated geological map of southern...
  • Bob Jones: Without humanities, science could d ...
    Increasingly it's become voguish for politicians to call for more science and engineering graduates, particularly computer science, medical research and other technologies.These advocacies often include a veiled attack on humanities...
  • New river dolphin species found in Brazil
    Scientists have made the first discovery in 100 years of a new river dolphin species in the waters of the Araguaia river in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest.The discovery of the "Inia araguaiaensis" was officially announced earlier...

The Bovine

  • Update on Friends of Toronto Waldorf School Co ...
    Back in December we posted about an initiative from the “Friends of Toronto Waldorf School Foundation”. The Friends proposed to raise $3.6 million in community bonds so that they could extend a mortgage to the school thus making it possible … Continue reading →
  • 20 Years of the Raw Milk Struggle — Mich ...
    From Ontario raw milk farmer and food rights advocate Michael Schmidt: In 1994 our adventure into the food rights battle started with a vengeance. If I count right that means 20 years this February. In the meantime we had; 5 … Continue reading →
  • Have you had your flu shot yet?
    It’s totally understandable, after the public reactions to the H1N1 scare and controversy a few years back, that the drug cartel PR machine would be re-calibrated for the new environment. And this year it seems we’re starting to see some … Continue reading →
  • Have you had your flu shot yet?
    It’s totally understandable, after the massive opposition to the H1N1 scare and controversy a few years back, that the drug cartel PR machine would be re-calibrated for the new environment. And this year it seems we’re starting to see some … Continue reading →
  • Word on the street — “Isn’t ...
    We’ve heard that several times over the past month from folks who’ve been loosely connected with the raw milk scene in Ontario. The trouble is, it’s just not true. Well, to be more accurate, it seemed to be true for … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Give America a Raise: Fire Obama, Eliminate th ...
    In one of the sappiest, platitude-ridden state of the union addresses in history, president Obama said "Give America a Raise". I agree with the idea, not the implementation. President Obama pledged an Executive Order requiring federal contractors to pay their federally-funded employees a fair w ...
  • Hollande Plays "Mother May I"; Mish's 5 Giant ...
    With bloated labor costs, pension requirements, labor rules, strikes, CEOs held hostage (literally), and overall union inefficiencies, it's no wonder Foreign Investment in France Fell 77% in 2013. Releasing its first estimates for 2013 Tuesday, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Develop ...
  • Tactical Rabbit, Money Laundering, and Outrigh ...
    An interesting Video Interview With Whistleblower Everett Stern just came my way. In case you don't recognize the name, Stern disclosed the money laundering activities of HSBC, for which the bank was fined $1.9 billion. Chump change says Stern, who claims he was placed in the fraud detection u ...
  • Credit Equals Gold No.1
    Interesting details have emerged regarding the Chinese trust fund that was on the verge of default a few days ago. In fitting irony, the name of the fund is Credit Equals Gold No.1. On January 15, Reuters reported China's ICBC says won't compensate investors in troubled shadow bank product. "I ...
  • China's Fake Export Numbers Under Close Scrutiny
    China's export numbers are so unbelievable that even mainstream media doesn't believe them. Bloomberg has the story correct, but its title could use a bit more punch. Please consider China Trade Puzzle Revived as Hong Kong Data Diverge China’s trade numbers, distorted by fake exports last year, ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Not All Lives are Equal-According to the Inhab ...
    I rarely accept invitations for speaking arrangements. It is not my cup of tea. When I rarely do I insist in dividing my allocated time into 1/3 for speaking and 2/3 for Q & A. I don’t like canned speeches, but I happen to truly like lengthy Q & A sessions. Why? Because: It enables [...]
  • The EyeOpener Report- Divide & Conquer: Politi ...
    From education to the environment, business to banking, housing to health care, it seems that there is no issue in the world that the industrialized western democracies cannot reduce to a simplistic paradigm of “liberal” vs “conservative.” In fact, this point has been so hardwired into the moder ...
  • De-Manufacturing Consent- “Spies, Lies & the M ...
    Guillermo Jimenez Presents Douglas Valentine On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by author and CIA expert, Douglas Valentine. We discuss the NSA leaks regarding the agency’s assistance in the CIA assassination program that were promised, but so far not delivere ...
  • How Economists & Policymakers Murdered Our Economy
    “Capitalist greed aided and abetted by economists and policymakers will have destroyed America.” The economy has been debilitated by the offshoring of middle class jobs for the benefit of corporate profits and by the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing in order to support a few overs ...
  • The New Great Game Round-Up: January 26, 2014
    Uyghurs & Gülenists in Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang’s Never-Ending Struggle, Qatar-IMU Target Tajikistan & More *The Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region. We document the struggle for influence, power, hegemony and ...

bloody crossroads

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

Blogging Canadians

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

Press TV - Middle East

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Surfaces that bounce liquids off
    Scientists have engineered a surface that rejects water droplets 40% faster than had been thought feasible. Surfaces designed so that water droplets bounce off rather than adhere can stay dry, self-...
  • 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...

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Care2 - Environment

  • This Little Girls Reaction To Seeing Her Fathe ...
    But if youre holding me…Then who is that guy over there? Absolutely adorable! Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Feeling creative? Try wearing some origami
    Watch this remarkable artist create wearable dresses by folding flat sheets of paper - amazing! Submitted by Giana Peranio Paz to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • VIRAL ACTION NEEDED Ralphs: STOP Supporting ...
    You probably don't have "buy tickets to an animal abuse show" on your grocery shopping list list, do you? Yeah … probably not. But Ralphs, a grocery store chain in Southern California, continues to promote SeaWorld in its stores Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Business  |   Note-it ...
  • Chicago 14-year-old shoots himself with gun da ...
    A Chicago father has been charged after his son accidentally shot himself with a gun that he was given as a Christmas present. Jason Leavitt, the 14-year-old boy shot himself in the leg on Jan. 6. However, police did not reveal the shooting to the... Submitted by Carrie B. to Society & Cult ...
  • Update: More Major Retailers Drop Angora Wool
    © iStock.com/maten~Update: Following an appeal from PETA, retail giant Gap Inc., which owns Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta, said that it has no plans to obtain angora wool. PETA is urging the company to take the next logical step Submitted by Kelly Rogers to Business  |  &nbs ...

JL's News ( Care2 )

  • Pharmacists: stop making drugs for executions ...
    Ahead of the American Pharmaceutical Associations annual meeting this spring, let's tell pharmacists in the US to do something that they should have done decades ago: ban pharmacists from executions and effectively end capital punishment in most states. Submitted by Nancy C. to Society & Cu ...
  • Coal Train Blues
    Counterfeit Cash, a Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash tribute band based in Portland, Oregon, has just released a new music video, "Coal Train Blues," a cover of the Man in Black's famous hit "Folsom Prison Blues." Submitted by Kathy B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &nb ...
  • Tell Forest Service: Wild Horses Need Greater ...
    Please take action below to tell the USFS to revise the "Preliminary Need to Change" document to include Wild Horse Protection as having "Important to the People." Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • State of the unequal union
    "In an attempt to "reboot his presidency," as the conventional media wisdom repeatedly declares, Obama will focus his primetime address to a joint session of Congress on the issues of growing inequality and declining social mobility." Submitted by Brian M. to US Politics & Gov't  | ...
  • Stop Sellafield's Deer Cull ! PLEASE SIGN ! !
    Please sign the petition to convince the Sellafield Company to stop their deer cull! Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011

  • Why is it so Difficult for People to Admit an ...
    By Patricia L Johnson Yesterday I was reading an article from one of the major newspapers that also happens to be the one I consider most reliable when it comes to reporting the news. For that reason I’m not going … Continue reading →
  • Ringleader of multi-million-dollar home equity ...
    http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/ringleader-of-multi-million-dollar-home-equity-line-of-credit-fraud-scheme-sentenced-to-70-months-in-prison-after-years-as-a-fugitive.Filed under: News and politics Tagged: cyber crime, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, identity theft, Whit ...
  • Game of Symbols Anyone? ♥♠♦♣
    By Patricia L Johnson Have you ever viewed a website or e-mail that contained symbols or tiny images and you wondered just how they got there? It’s really very simple and we’ll use the four card suits as examples: The … Continue reading →
  • High Court Considers Legality Of ‘Fair S ...
    High Court Considers Legality Of ‘Fair Share’ Union Fees | WVAS.Filed under: News and politics Tagged: Fair Share Union Fees, U.S. Supreme Court
  • Sears Holdings To Hire 6,500 Veterans And Mili ...
    Sears Holdings To Hire 6,500 Veterans And Military Spouses In 2014 — HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Jan. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ –.Filed under: News and politics

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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