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The Daily Galaxy

  • Did Astronomers Find the Oldest Spiral Galaxy ...
                In July of 2012, astronomers observed a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed while using the Hubble Space Telescope. They were taking pictures of about 300 very distant galaxies in the early universe to study their prop ...
  • New NASA Evidence Points to Biological Process ...
        Evidence of past water movement throughout a Martian meteorite, reviving debate in the scientific community over life on Mars, has been disdcovered by a team of scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In 1996, a group of scientists at Joh ...
  • Pristine Dwarf Galaxy Provides a Time Capsule ...
        A tiny neighbor of the Milky Way houses invaluable clues to how the Big Bang unfolded. Using one of the world’s premier telescopes, University of Minnesota astrophysicists Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn have discovered a priceless relic of the Big Bang in the Milky Way’s back yard. ...
  • Powerful Black-Hole 'Microquasar' Found
        “By studying microquasars such as MQ1, we get a glimpse of how the early universe evolved, how fast quasars grew and how much energy black holes provided to their environment.”As a comparison, the most powerful microquasar in our galaxy, known as SS433, is about 10 times less powerful ...
  • New Supernova Lights Up M82 --"The Cigar Galaxy"
            There's one supernova every second somwhere in the Universe. They are among the most powerful events in the universe, releasing so much energy that a single outburst can outshine an entire galaxy. A new supernova, dubbed SN 2014J, is of a particular kind known as a Type Ia. Th ...

Natural News

Threat Level

  • Google Fights to Restore Anti-Muslim YouTube Video
    Google-owned YouTube is urging a federal appeals court to allow it to re-post an inflammatory trailer from its popular video-sharing site, arguing that the media giant and the public “will suffer irreparable harm to their First Amendment and other constitutional ...     
  • Feds Refuse to Release Public Comments on NSA ...
    The President Barack Obama administration has received 28 proposals from corporations with ideas for managing the NSA’s massive database of U.S. phone call metadata. But don’t expect to see the proposals any time soon. The government says it won’t release ...     
  • Split the NSA in Two, Says Security Firm Embro ...
    In an atmosphere of distrust and anger, the CEO of security giant RSA took the stage this morning to address recent controversies around his company's work with the NSA, and its years-long support of an algorithm suspected of containing an ...     
  • Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline Amid All ...
    Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.     
  • Behind iPhone’s Critical Security Bug, a Singl ...
    Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses ...     

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal Rewrite Histo ...
    With Russian troops poised to sever Crimea from Ukraine, tough-talking conservatives are claiming they were right about the threat from Vladimir Putin all along. The Wall Street Journal interviewed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who offered the West his lessons learned from losin ...
  • Iowa GOP Bill Lets Women Sue Doctors over "Abo ...
    In the upside-down world of Republican anti-abortion extremists, accepted medical standards constitute malpractice while lying to patients does not. That's inescapable conclusion from the latest torrent of draconian abortion restrictions now pouring out of GOP-controlled state legislatures. Wh ...
  • Camp's House GOP Tax Plan Hits Blue Staters Hard
    For three straight years, 95 percent of Republicans in Congress voted for the Paul Ryan budget and its overhaul of the tax code to just two rates of 10 and 25 percent. But while Ryan refused to identify a single tax break he would end in order to make those lower rates possible, on Wednesday Ho ...
  • 95 Percent of Congressional GOP Voted Three Ti ...
    A funny thing happened on the way to the demise of Medicare Advantage. The program under which 16 million seniors purchase federally subsidized coverage through private health insurers, the carriers and Republicans warned, would be jeopardized by the $150 billion in cuts to providers over 10 ye ...
  • Want a Larger U.S. Military? Then Finally Pay ...
    The New York Times reported Monday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is has proposed cutting the U.S. Army from its wartime peak of 570,000 troops to as few as 440,000. Under pressure from the 2011 sequester and the recently inked Murray-Ryan budget plan, Hagel's blueprint would shrink the act ...

Global Research.ca

  • Week in Review: Nazi Coup in Ukraine and the W ...
    The U.S. has Installed a Neo-Nazi Government in Ukraine, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 02, 2014   A Nazi Coup in Ukraine: The US Helped Defeat Nazism in World War II. Obama Helped Bring it Back, Press TV, March 02, 2014…
  • The U.S. has Installed a Neo-Nazi Government i ...
    The word “Neo-Nazi” is a taboo. It has been excluded from the dictionary of mainstream media commentary.The forbidden truth is that the West has engineered --through a carefully staged covert operation-- the formation of a proxy regime integrated by Neo-Nazis.
  • A Nazi Coup in Ukraine: The US Helped Defeat N ...
    “Washington and Brussels … used a Nazi coup, carried out by insurgents, terrorists and politicians of Euromaidan to serve the geopolitical interests of the West.” — Natalia Vitrenko, The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine As you probably know by now,…
  • Ukraine Transition Government: Neo-Nazis in Co ...
    by: Greg Rose The ultra-right Svoboda Party has scored six major cabinet ministries in the government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk approved by the Ukrainian parliament on Thursday. Svoboda is the Neo-Nazi, ultra-right, anti-Semitic, Russophobic party with its base of support in…
  • Ukraine Neo-Nazi Party Threatens Russia with N ...
    Calls in Kiev to ‘regain nuclear status in six months’ Unable to resolve tensions with the largely pro-Russian autonomous region of Crimea, Kiev is bombarding Moscow with accusations and warnings. Some politicians have even threatened to restock Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal.…

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Water - AlterNet

  • Feds Move Against Alaska Gold and Copper Mine ...
    EPA move, hailed as victory for salmon fishermen and native tribes, didn’t amount to immediate veto on Bristol Bay project. The federal government made a rare intervention to block a gold and copper mine in Alaska on Friday, saying it was compelled to protect the world’s biggest ...
  • California's Massive Storms Will Do Little to ...
    Despite the storms, it would still have to rain every other day until May to reach average precipitation totals. It’s the rainy season in California, but until this week you wouldn’t have known it. After many worrisome months, and three severely dry years, California finally got ...
  • Poorly Regulated, High-Speed 'Bomb Trains' Are ...
    Few residents of the city's bucolic 'burbs know of the huge risks whirring by at top speeds. In the northern suburbs of New York City, endless strings of black tanker cars have become commonplace sightings at railroad crossings. They move along briskly with red hazmat placards readin ...
  • Saving Our Blue Future
    The human race and our planet need a new water ethic. Have you heard? The world is running out of accessible clean water.Humanity is polluting, mismanaging, and displacing our finite freshwater sources at an alarming rate. Since 1990, half the rivers in China have disappeared. The Ogallala Aqu ...
  • California Awaits Brief Respite From Drought W ...
    Two storms expected to dump most significant rainfall in three years, a blessing for farmers but unwelcome news for Oscars organizers. California is bracing for two storms which are expected to dump the most significant rainfall in almost three years, promising a brief respite to the state&#x ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Fracking Boom Pours Toxic Cloud Over South Texans
    The Eagle Ford Shale play in south Texas is the 400-mile-long area that has become home to one of the country’s biggest energy booms in the past six years. The thousands of oil and gas wells producing in the region have brought dangerous air pollution to residents. The Center for Public Integrit ...
  • One More Reason to be Skeptical About Natural ...
    Studies released over the past few months have linked pollution from natural gas extraction with birth defects. In a study released in January by Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers examined data from 124,842 births between 1996 and 2009 in rural Colorado. They examined correlations b ...
  • Where Are We Going, Austin Energy?
    Read this post, then click here if you want to submit comments online to Austin Energy. With 2 stakeholder meetings behind us and the final one ahead this afternoon, a lot of people are wondering what the purpose of of updating the Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan i ...
  • I Bet You Actually Care About Austin Energy’s ...
    Updating the the Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2020 to become the Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2024 probably doesn’t sound super exciting, but there’s almost certainly some aspect of the choices that will soon b ...
  • Natural Gas Climate Change Impact Almost as Ba ...
    While we’ve all grown accustomed to seeing the words “natural”, “healthy” and “environmentally-friendly” thrown around in advertisements for a variety of consumer goods, it’s important to remember that household items are not the only things capable of being greenwashed – case in point, natural ...

Unexplained Mysteries edit

Grassroots edit

  • A Path toward Better Agricultural Investment
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Shiney Varghese leads IATP's work on global water policy, focusing on the water crisis, its impact on water and food security, and possible local solutions that emphasize equity, environmental justice ...
  • Promoting Seed Sovereignty
    Subheadline:  Fighting for the Right to Seeds seeds-mali.jpg Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of Haiti’s Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) muses, “In the old days, Haitian peasants n ...
  • G8 Brings Big Ag Colonialism to Africa
    Subheadline:  Corporate food initiative in Africa will be 'a disaster like you can't imagine,' critics warn Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Jacob Chamberlai ...
  • Honduran Human Rights Defender Celebrates a St ...
    berta_caceres.jpg Human rights activists enjoyed a small victory this week when charges against an indigenous community leader were permanently dismissed.read more
  • Insights Winter 2014 - Promoting Seed Sovereig ...
    As people who care about the planet and about those most vulnerable to hunger, we need to ask some serious questions: What is the most effective, ecological and humane way to feed the world? How can farmers sustain themselves, their communities and us? What is the long-term impact of how we grow ...

Care 2 edit

  • Ukraine mobilizes troops amid crisis with Russia
    Leaders of a shaky new government in Ukraine were mobilizing troops Sunday amid signs of Russian military intervention in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Giant Camel Pretends He is Not Following Newbo ...
    New friends. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Don't Make Phosphorous Dum ...
    Phosphorus pollution in freshwater sources causes rapid algae and aquatic plant growth, which harms waterways, impairs recreational use, and puts public health at risk Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Malibu Proclamation Says Dolphins Deserve Righ ...
    February 24 2014 was an historic day in the movement to gain basic rights for dolphins and whales This Proclamation is the latest addition to worldwide recognition of the extraordinary cognitive abilities of cetaceans "VISIT SITE" to read the full blog Submitted by sharon wardle to Animals ...
  • Dogs Meeting Cats For The First Time Compilati ...
    Introductions can be difficult. Submitted by Christeen Anderson to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp edit

Paul Krugman edit

No Quarter edit

  • President “Mouse Fart” Obama Fluffs Again
    Why does Barack Obama not understand the concept of STFU? Seriously, his latest performance today trying to portray strength and warn Russia to stay out of the Ukraine was a pathetic, empty, meaningless gesture. If he had one or two adults around him he might have been counseled to say nothing. ...
  • Hillary Clinton Does Nothing as Her Goons Assa ...
    The case of Ray McGovern is a genuine alarm bell that should scare the hell out of every American who cares about freedom and the Constitution. Three years ago, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was giving a speech at George Washington University and denouncing political suppression in Egy ...
  • Ukraine Ain’t Our Fight
    Enough of the East versus West horseshit. I spent a good portion of my life living under the cloud of a Cold War that, with the benefit of hindsight, was unnecessary and a waste of money and human life. Now, having learned nothing from the past 50 years, we appear hell bent on meddling in [...]
  • Farmageddon
    I do not have a financial interest in the following film, but it is something you must see. The irony here is that most of the people who have had their farms raided are on the left end of the political spectrum. Yet, when you hear their shock and outrage at the abuse of power, [...]
  • Obama Boarding the Crazy Train to Syria?
    Put this in the category of, “You gotta be shitting me!” Yahoo’s Oliver Knox writes: Americans unquestionably oppose any U.S. military intervention in Syria of the “boots on the ground” variety. They’re not fans of the idea of air strikes there, either. But how would they respo ...

Futurismic edit

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...

Al Jazeera edit

Energy & Environment News edit

5+ quakes - 7 days edit

AlterNet Top Stories edit

  • The Oscars' Dirty Secret: Corruption, Bribery, ...
    The Academy was founded as a union-busting front for a company union — and it remained shady and bloody for years. “Big ‘stupido’…running up to get an Oscar dying with excitement only to crawl back dying with shame (because a different director wins).  Those crummy Academy voters; to hell with ...
  • 7 Most Shameless Pieces of Oscar Bait
    Did these winners really deserve to walk home with the night’s top prizes, or did they just give the Academy what it wanted? The 86th Annual Academy Awards are set for this Sunday, meaning that Hollywood’s biggest, most-hyped night is nearly upon us. When considering how to vote in your office ...
  • Texas Women Face Health Disaster Thanks to Rig ...
    Any one of the restrictions passed in the last several years would be bad enough—but taken together, they create a catastrophe. The following story first appeared on RH Reality Check. Last week, the Texas state senateconvened a public hearing on women’s health care. The agenda of the committee ...
  • Why Christian Conservatives Love Jesus-Hater A ...
    Economic greed appears to trump Christian charity. Earlier this week, CNN reported that American Atheists, an advocacy group for atheists and atheism, would have a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. The idea behind the booth was to build bridges between historically f ...
  • 6 Weird Consequences of Sex
    Love hurts. And sometimes it scars, wounds, or gets really weird. Recently, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported that only 22 states and the District of Columbia require sexual education to be taught in their public schools. Of that limited number, only 19 stipulate that sai ...

Threat Level edit

  • Google Fights to Restore Anti-Muslim YouTube Video
    Google-owned YouTube is urging a federal appeals court to allow it to re-post an inflammatory trailer from its popular video-sharing site, arguing that the media giant and the public “will suffer irreparable harm to their First Amendment and other constitutional ...     
  • Feds Refuse to Release Public Comments on NSA ...
    The President Barack Obama administration has received 28 proposals from corporations with ideas for managing the NSA’s massive database of U.S. phone call metadata. But don’t expect to see the proposals any time soon. The government says it won’t release ...     
  • Split the NSA in Two, Says Security Firm Embro ...
    In an atmosphere of distrust and anger, the CEO of security giant RSA took the stage this morning to address recent controversies around his company's work with the NSA, and its years-long support of an algorithm suspected of containing an ...     
  • Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox Goes Offline Amid All ...
    Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, has gone offline, apparently after losing hundreds of millions of dollars due to a years-long hacking effort that went unnoticed by the company.     
  • Behind iPhone’s Critical Security Bug, a Singl ...
    Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses ...     

IntelNews edit

  • British spies infiltrated Nazi sympathizer gro ...
    A British counterintelligence agent managed to neutralize an extensive network of Nazi sympathizers in the United Kingdom by pretending to represent the German government, newly released files show.
  • News you may have missed #870
    Documents show NZ spies taught 'honey trap' tricks. Ex-CIA analyst tells how data helped catch bin Laden. The story of WWI German spy Carl Lody.
  • Police ‘error’ reveals secret deal between IRA ...
    An alleged police error, which has prompted the release from custody of a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) volunteer accused of killing British soldiers, has revealed a secret agreement between the PIRA and the British government.
  • News you may have missed #869 (Ukraine edition)
    US and UK warn Russia not to deploy troops in Ukraine. Analysts touting Ukraine's East-West division are just plain wrong. The global implications of the Ukraine conflict.
  • Are Israeli arms merchants selling weapons to ...
    A leaked report by American and Greek investigators suggests that an intercepted shipment of military hardware intended for Iran probably originated in Israel.

War is a Crime.org edit

  • Support Palestinians call for BDS (Boycott, Di ...
    Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, called on the International community to be brave and support B.D.S. Campaign until the Israeli Government recognizes Palestinian Human Rights. Mairead Maguire said: ‘The Palestinian narrative is a story of a prolonged occupation by Israel based on policies ...
  • Ukraine News - Mar 2
      Obama Calls Putin Over Ukraine - APA Readout of President Obama’s Call with President Putin - The White House Putin: Russian citizens, troops threatened in Ukraine, need armed forces’ protection - RT News Russian Parliament Approves Military Action in Ukraine - RIA No ...
  • Russian Bear No Like Cookies
      Ukraine: One ‘Regime Change’ Too Many? March 1, 2014 Editor Comment:  Russia’s parliament has approved President Putin’s request for the use of force inside neighboring Ukraine, as the latest neocon-approved “regime change” spins out of control and threatens to inflict gr ...
  • TSA clerks think Bitcoin is metal
    Someone who describes himself as an anarchist believes what the TSA is saying? Really? Davi Barker, I'd check my anarchist credentials if I were you. Barker has written a post detailing his most recent experience at the hands of the TSA. He titled it, rather misleadingly . . . . read more
  • Turkey News - Feb 29
      New recording shows Bilal Erdoğan involved in $35 million island deal - Today's Zaman AUDIO: New recording shows Bilal Erdoğan involved in $35 million island deal - YouTube AUDIO: PM Erdoğan’s family searches for ‘a big shredder’ to destroy documents - Aydinlik TRANSCRIPT (English): ...

Grist - News edit

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

Camera Obscura edit

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now! edit

  • Oscar Countdown: Watch Our Filmmaker Interview ...
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the 2014 Oscar winners on March 2 at the 86th annual Academy Awards. Democracy Now! has featured extended interviews with filmmakers behind three of the five films nominated for best feature documentary. A record 147 films had origin ...
  • Mayor Chokwe Lumumba: A Life of Struggle, a Le ...
    The world lost a visionary activist this week, with the death of Chokwe Lumumba, the newly elected mayor of Jackson, Miss. Lumumba died unexpectedly at the age of 66 of an apparent heart attack. Last June, he won the mayoral race in this capital of Mississippi, a city steeped in the history of ...
  • BREAKING: Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba Has Died
    Local officials confirm the tragic news that longtime black nationalist organizer and attorney Chokwe Lumumba has died. Watch our interview with Lumumba just after he was elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi last June, when he said, "we’re about to make some advances and some strides in th ...
  • PART 2: Interview with "Spies of Mississippi" ...
    In part two of our interview about the new film, Spies of Mississippi , we continue to look at how the Mississippi state government spied on civil rights activists in the 1950s and 1960s. Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, describes how his ...
  • I Need Democracy Now! Because ...
    #because-montage img { width: 214px; float: left; } To celebrate Democracy Now!'s 18th birthday, we asked our listeners and viewers to submit a photo or video that describes why Democracy Now! is important to you. Submit a link to your own photo or video message at d ...

Solari edit

  • Fed Taper and Commodities with Don Coxe
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This week on The Solari Report, I will be speaking with Don Coxe of Coxe Advisors about the commodities market, including what the impact of the Fed’s taper of its Quantitative Easing program might be. Coxe Advisors serves as advisor to a series of commodities fu ...
  • Bill Withers – “Lean on Me”
    Related Reading: Bill Withers’ Official Website Bill Withers on Wikipedia
  • Ukraine: A Warning To Those Who Are Fools
    By Karl Denninger There are many who have expressed the opinion over the years that the United States should go down some sort of “revolutionary” road. The topic has come up repeatedly in various areas of what was Tickerforum and I have repeatedly slapped it down, noting that only a ...
  • Musk’s $5 Billion Tesla Gigafactory May Start ...
    (Photo Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg) By Alan Ohnsman Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s plan to build what co-founder Elon Musk bills as the world’s largest battery factory could shake up the power industry and trigger a bidding contest between states eager for the 6,500 jobs the $5 billion invest ...
  • Book Review: Prisons We Choose to Live In
    By Catherine Austin Fitts What a remarkable thing it is to hear the voice of someone who is both sensible and understands the world around her. In 1985 Doris Lessing gave five lectures under the auspices of the Massy Lectures of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. They were then published as ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire edit

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

Inhabitat edit

  • PHOTOS: We Turn a Regular Citi Bike into an El ...
    The ShareRoller is the world's first portable motor designed specifically for transforming Citi Bikes into electric bikes. The compact, 6-7 lb. device will be available for pre-order starting tomorrow as part of a Kickstarter campaign, but we got a sneak peek     
  • Tesla’s Lithium-Ion “Gigafactory” to Reduce Ba ...
    Last week Tesla announced plans to build a new large scale lithium-ion battery "gigafactory" within the next three years, and the automaker just revealed that it will require a massive initial investment of up to $5 billion. However by 2020 the facility could     
  • Meet An Inspiring Teen Who Survived Bangladesh ...
    At age 18, most American kids are looking forward to college or scouting out summer job opportunities. Few have seen the human rights violations and traumatic loss of life that haunt Reba Sikder on a daily basis. You see, the teen was one of hundreds caught     
  • Beijing Principal Sparks Controversy by Suspen ...
    Beijing is notorious worldwide for its air pollution, but a concerned middle school principal's decision to suspend classes amid last week's smog attack has sparked controversy throughout China. The suspension goes against the instruction of the municipal     
  • Zaha Hadid Deflects Responsibility for Over 50 ...
    Zaha Hadid's Al Wakrah stadium for the Qatar 2022 World Cup has raised eyebrows since it was first revealed, but a shockingly high number of construction deaths are threatening to cast a sinister shadow over the yonic structure. According to The Guardian,     

WIRED Magazine | Science edit

PakAlert edit

  • Ukraine leader threatens Russia with nuclear w ...
    The Ukraine nuclear missile crisis has just begun According to translated news sources within the country, Ukraine interim representative threatened Russia with nuclear weapons, if Russia does not remove their troops from within the Ukrainian borders.
  • Obama warns Russia “there will be costs” for a ...
    Obama is a smooth talker, and he is very good at making military and legal threats sound like friendly and cooperative situations. Yesterday, he threw out some not so veiled threats to Russia, in response to their intervention in Ukraine. However, the only reason why the US government is e ...
  • Court Rules Off The Grid Living Is Illegal
    Living off the grid is illegal in Cape Coral, Florida, according to a court ruling Thursday. Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled that the city’s codes allow Robin Speronis to live without utility power but she is still required to hook her home to the city’s water system. Her alternative ...
  • False Flag Trigger Words and Mass Trauma Based ...
    I find it significant that the Sandy Hook issue comes back into public consciousness repeatedly. It’s almost as if even the alternative community is baffled how these manipulating bastards were able to pull that highly publicized scam off so slickly, despite it being challenged from the get go a ...
  • WIFI: There’s Something In The Air!
    Have you ever caught a cold from a friend or work colleague? Did you see the germs go through the atmosphere and enter into your body and then do you harm, causing you dis-ease? Did you sense the dis-ease when it first started to manifest? I would imagine the answers to these questions would be ...

Andy Worthington edit

  • Save the NHS: Photos and Report – The Pr ...
    Save the NHS: The Protest and Parliamentary Meeting Calling for the “Hospital Closure Clause” to be Dropped, a set on Flickr. On February 27, 2014, supporters of the NHS handed in a petition to 10 Downing Street, signed by nearly 150,000 people, calling for health secretary Jeremy Hu ...
  • Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses the Arrest o ...
    Yesterday evening, in my article, “The Suspicious Arrest of Former Guantánamo Prisoner Moazzam Begg,” I mentioned how I had just been interviewed by the journalist Andrea Sears in New York. I spoke to Andrea about the arrest of Moazzam Begg, discussing and expanding upon my interpret ...
  • The Suspicious Arrest of Former Guantánamo Pri ...
    I received the news yesterday that former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg had been arrested when I was sent an email from Juliet Spare, a journalist working for the Voice of Russia, asking me for a short interview by phone. Once alerted to it, I checked out the coverage (mainly, at that point, ...
  • Save the NHS from the “Hospital Closure ...
    Please, if you care about the future of the NHS, and if you’re British, write to your MP now and ask them to vote against Clause 118 in the Care Bill, which will be voted on early next month, and, if you’re in London, please consider attending a protest outside Parliament this Thursd ...
  • In Oxford, WikiLeaks Whistleblower Chelsea Man ...
    Chelsea Manning Given Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence, Oxford, Feb. 19, 2014, a set on Flickr. Last Wednesday (February 19), I was delighted to travel from London to Oxford to attend the presentation of the Sam Adams Associates Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea Manning ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon edit

The BiPartisan Report edit

Sciencebase edit

  • Escape to the Stars – the video
    As if having Eddie Bryant record a dual sax part for my song “Escape to the Stars” wasn’t fantastic enough I’ve got permission to edit up a journey into space video montage from Luigi Quattrocchi from his original tribute to Hubble! The song is about the whimsical and fan ...
  • Making a point with a picture -graphorisms
    You’ve seen them all over the internet, from Instagram to Facebook from Twitter to Plurk (remember that), they’re often just called “memes” (after Richard Dawkins’ term for a self-replicating piece of knowledge analogous to a self-replicating gene in biology). Often they supposedly inspirational ...
  • All that MRI jazz
    Brain scans reveal that different parts of the brain light up when jazz musicians are improvising and “trading fours”, when they’re engrossed in spontaneous, improvisational musical conversation. The specific parts of the brain that are activated are those associated with the i ...
  • Remote, quantally channelled kinetic agitation
    There are several scientists acting like the proverbial sharp stick, constantly poking the balloons of alternative remedy quacks until they burst. They assess the latest nonsensical claims of so-called complementary medicine and then gives it a good poke with the sharp end. I do wonder if they e ...
  • Pro vaccination campaign – Polio
    There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and t ...

Common Dreams -News edit

  • Caracas Mobilized? Despite Holiday, Opposition ...
    Opposition demonstrators marching in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela Sunday. (Photo: @paulbeban/ Twitter)The rift in Venezuela continued to deepen Sunday as thousands of anti-government opposition activists took to the streets of Caracas, Venezuela in an attempt to grow their ranks in a countr ...
  • #XLDissent: Students Overtake DC to Demand Cli ...
    Day of student-led action kicks off with a rally in Georgetown before over a thousand demonstrators march to the White House. (Photo: @350/ Twitter)Over 500 students are risking arrest Sunday as they handcuff themselves to the White House fence, placing their bodies on the line in what many say ...
  • UN Report Identifies 30 Drone Strikes That Req ...
    A "drone shadow" created for the Istanbul Design Biennial. (Photo: STML/ Creative Commons/ Flickr)A UN counter-terrorism expert has published the second report of his year-long investigation into drone strikes, highlighting 30 strikes where civilians are reported to have been killed. ...
  • Marchers Embark on Cross Country Climate Trek
    Marchers assemble before the first leg of the trek. (Photo: @Zerowasteco/ Twitter)In what is expected to be the longest climate march in United States history, environmentalists determined to "change the heart and mind of America" and spur action to address the climate crisis set off o ...
  • Marchers Embark on Cross Country Climate Trek
    Marchers assemble before the first leg of the trek. (Photo: @Zerowasteco/ Twitter)In what is expected to be the longest climate march in United States history, environmentalists determined to "change the heart and mind of America" and spur action to address the climate crisis set off o ...

Lifehacker edit

  • Five Best Meal Planning Apps
    There's a lot to be gained by planning your meals . You eat better, healthier food, do more cooking for yourself and put more thought into what you eat, try new recipes, and save at the grocery store at the same time. However, it can be a little daunting; sifting through recipes and making list ...
  • Use the First-In-First-Out Rule to Keep Email ...
    Most email apps like Gmail or Outlook arrange your messages chronologically, starting with the newest first. But if this approach has led to an overflowing inbox, Productivityist's Mike Vardy suggests flipping the switch and start sorting your oldest mails first.Read more...    & ...
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...     
  • Make a DIY Cold Brewed Coffee Brewer for Pract ...
    You can make cold brewed coffee in your blender but it does have a bitter aftertaste. Instructables user LeDesordre, a former barista, shares a DIY solution for perfect cold brewed coffee, using stuff you've probably got around your house.Read more...     
  • Chop Lemons Into Five Pieces For Easy Juicing
    You can get more lemon juice by cutting them lengthwise or rolling them first. But how do you avoid the seeds? Chef Seamus Mullen also recommends rolling them, but prefers is to cut lemons into five pieces.Read more...     

Water Wars edit

  • Lion Country Safari theme park adds two water ...
    There's nothing like a swift splash after a safari in Loxahatchee.        
  • Water wars with U.S. will become bigger issue ...
    WASHINGTON — Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States. In an interview […]
  • Water wars with U.S. will become bigger issue ...
    Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States.
  • Q&A: Prepare for water wars with U.S., says am ...
    Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States.
  • Water wars with U.S. will become bigger issue ...
    WASHINGTON — Canada must prepare for diplomatic water wars with the U.S., as demand on both sides of the border grows for this vital but ultimately limited resource, says Gary Doer, Canadian ambassador to the United States. In an interview […]

WordPress | Economics edit

Electronic Intifada edit

Futurismic edit

  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • If it works, it’s obsolete
    There are some elephants in the room that Chairman Bruce would like to show to us. [Opening ceremony speech from transmediale2014] Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • A Viridian post-mortem, plus the rhetorics of ...
    “Three things make a post,” the saying used to go — so here’s three things. First up, my first solo paper (“The future’s four quarters: Proposing a quadrant methodology for strategic prototyping in infrastructural contexts”) has finally wended its way th ...
  • An introduction to infrastructure fiction &#82 ...
    I am very pleased to publish my talk from Improving Reality 2013. Here is the video version… followed by my slides and script, because, well, I’m a writer, and not a natural orator. (I need to work on that, I think.) IR was a day of fascinating talks, and I heartily recommend all of ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog edit

  • Joint Senate/House Report Slams FDA Surveillance
    Washington, D.C. February 26, 2014.  Today Representative Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senator Charles Grassley, Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a highly important Joint Staff Report carefully analyzing the FDA’s pra ...
  • Washington Times Reports: FBI Kept Information ...
    Washington, D.C. February 26, 2014.  In an exclusive report, The Washington Times reports that important information regarding the FBI’s counterterrorist achievements was never given to the members 9/11 Commission. The fact that the FBI had placed a human source in direct contact with Osama bin ...
  • Senate Investigations Committee To Question DO ...
    NWC calls for full and complete investigation into wrongdoing and full protection for whistleblowers Washington, D.C.  February 25, 2014.  The Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations will hold a hearing on “Offshore Tax Evasion” on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, at 9:30AM, in Room G-50 of the Di ...
  • Whistleblowers Recover over $200 Million for T ...
    This week the Department of Justice issued a series of press releases announcing settlements in several cases under the False Claims Act. The settlement of these cases, originally brought under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act, resulted in recoveries of over $200 ...
  • Washington Post Reports Federal Contractor Gag ...
    Washington Post Reports: Largest DOD contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan gags employees from reporting fraud. Employees who witness fraud threatened with termination if they told ANYONE outside of KBR of allegations. A February 20, 2014, report by The Washington Post revealed that Halliburton/KBR ...

TechDirt edit

  • Awesome Stuff: Stand And Deliver
    There's a huge industry out there for smartphone and tablet accessories, and that industry contains a lot of hastily-made junk. But it also provides an opportunity for real innovation and smart, functional design work, so like many industries that fits those criteria, it's booming on Kickstarte ...
  • Study Shockingly Suggests Internet Trolls May ...
    A new study from the University of Manitoba has shockingly claimed to have found that the Internet trolls we all know or love so well may not be very nice -- or particularly mentally healthy -- individuals in real life. The study tried to explore whether or not Internet trolls fell into the so c ...
  • Houston Issues 'Cease-And-Desist' To Uber To S ...
    We've covered for a while now how Uber -- the mobile phone-enabled car/taxi ordering service -- has run up against a bunch of obsolete laws in various cities, often leading to bizarre rebuttals from municipal officials. Uber quickly realized that each ridiculous response from a city government w ...
  • Band Whose Label Threatened Larry Lessig Comes ...
    In the wake of Liberation Music settling with Larry Lessig over its direct threat to sue him for clear fair use, the band whose music was involved in the dispute, Phoenix, has put out a strong statement in favor of fair use. Not only have they posted Lessig's original video to their own blog, bu ...
  • DailyDirt: Is It Safe To Eat That?
    The global food supply chain is significantly more complicated than it was a few generations ago. Some of it is due to technological progress, but sometimes it's due to greed and/or pollution. Eliminating waste and making food processes as efficient as possible sounds like a admirable goal, but ...

VacTruth edit

BroadSnark edit

  • Book Review – Resistance Behind Bars
    Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law My rating: 4 of 5 stars A while back, I wrote about how frustrating it was that people were not paying attention to the prison hunger strikes in California and elsewhere. But as little attention as men’s resistance ...
  • Cooperation is the Problem
    When I speak to people about a cooperative society, I often get a lot of push back. I’m told that people are competitive. I’m given examples of scary people, violent people, sociopaths. I’m told that cooperative society is against human nature. I generally respond by telling pe ...
  • Support the People Not the CML
    What is going on in Venezuela right now has brought to the surface a lot of tensions between different parts of what is usually referred to as the left. That’s a good thing. And I expect I may write a few things about those conversations in the coming weeks. But I want to start with this [ ...
  • Congratulations! You Deserve a Drink or Something
    ‘Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.’ James Baldwin Yesterday, on my post about the food system, Todd commented that it is hard to find inspiration these days. To which I replied that maybe we need to give cre ...
  • Oh Hey. There Are People in the Food System.
    Monday night I listened to a presentation about the Our Harvest Union Co-op in Cincinnati. They are modelling themselves after Mondragon, but with a union twist. The goal is to put a little more justice in the food system and they are going to do it by growing and distributing food on a large sc ...

Armies of Liberation edit

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

Dark Politricks edit

  • Prime Minister: Russia Has Declared War on Ukraine
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrime Minister: Russia Has Declared War on Ukraine “We are on the brink of disaster” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com March 2, 2014 Moscow’s move to occupy Crimea with Russian troops is a declaration ...
  • What the Hell is Obama Thinking?
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comWhat the Hell is Obama Thinking? dissidentvoice.orgBy Daniel Patrick Welch Nothing is quite as nauseating as watching the hypocrisy and hubris with which President Obama ‘warns’ the Russian president not to &#8 ...
  • DHS Awards XTec Contested $103 Million Biometr ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDHS Awards XTec Contested $103 Million Biometric ID Contract Aliya Sternstein Next Gov March 2, 2014 The Homeland Security Department has switched vendors for a deal inked last September to update an employee badge system ...
  • Ukraine mobilizes for war, calls up reserves
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comUkraine mobilizes for war, calls up reserves PETER GRAFF AND ALISSA DE CARBONNEL Reuters March 2, 2014 Ukraine mobilized on Sunday for war and called up its reserves, after Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to in ...
  • Radiation leak Spells Uncertainty For Nuclear ...
    Dark Politricks FeedView the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRadiation leak Spells Uncertainty For Nuclear Waste Dump Global Security Newswire March 2, 2014 It is unclear how the United States will handle remnants of past nuclear-arms production following recent incidents at its sol ...

Dandelion Salad edit

  • Putin Faces Down Obama Over Ukraine by Finian ...
    by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from PressTV March 1, 2014 American exceptionalism has gone into overdrive with stern warnings from US President Barack Obama to Russia to respect Ukrainian sovereignty and to not destabilize the region. By “American exce ...
  • The Man From the North: The Dawn of Tomorrow i ...
    The Essays of The Man From the North by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad March 2, 2014 The Man From the North is a fictional writer in Rivera Sun’s novel, The Dandelion Insurrection. The novel takes place in the near future, in “a time that looms around the corner of today”, ...
  • Noam Chomsky on Pope Francis’ Radicalism
    Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky Robert Malin – Dec 5, 2013 Note from Abel Collins: “I sat down to discuss a wide range of topics with the idol of my high school days, Noam Chomsky, in early October. This was before the release of Evangelii Gaudium, but after a lot of encouraging words ab ...
  • Rex W. Tillerson–A Frackin’ Hypocr ...
    by Walter Brasch Writer, Dandelion Salad walterbrasch.com March 2, 2014 Rex W. Tillerson, a resident of Bartonville, Texas, like many of his neighbors was upset with his city council. That’s not unusual. Many residents get upset at their local governing boards. And so they went to a city council ...
  • The US Arrogance Stirs Me by Bruce Gagnon
    by Bruce Gagnon Writer, Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes February 27, 2014 I watched the mainstream national news last night at 6:30 pm. I did a lot of raging at the TV. One of the networks led off with the story about Russia holding war games inside their own country, near the Ukrainian border. ...

Your New Reality edit

  • Tony Blair Offered To Help Rupert Murdoch Deal ...
    Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch UPDATE: Wow, Tony Blair's London office has confirmed the below story about the former UK prime minister offering advice to James and Rupert Murdoch shortly after the expose of News of the World's hacking of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and th ...
  • David Foster Wallace's 'Books You Should Read'
    "Victim" - David Foster Wallace annotated this copy of Stephen King's Carrie Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace is too often remembered, and praised, as a "high-brow" writer, which is a shame, because such praise turns a lot of would-be readers off, which means they don't get exposed to t ...
  • Everything I've Ever Needed To Know I've Learn ...
      Philip K Dick wasn't just one of the great American writers of the 20th century, and one of the world's most famous science fiction authors, he was quite the philosopher, and many of his novels, short stories and speeches contained valuable life lessons for wired-up generations of Centur ...
  • Dictators Love Censorship And Hate Free Speech ...
    When Rupert Murdoch's Daily Telegraph was opposed to 'media censorship' By Darryl Mason Alleged "free speech" champions, Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, has sent lawyers after the Paperboy website, that does an excellent job of rounding up daily front pages of newspaper from around the world. But ...
  • Pianotallica
      For someone returning to playing piano and keyboards 32 years after giving them up for writing, and as a 1980s Metallica fan, this performance of 'One' by Metallica and master pianist Lang Lang at the Grammy's is fucking mind-melting, and hugely inspiring. Heavy metal piano? Don't mind i ...

Wired - Science edit

Israeli Occupation Archive edit

  • Jonathan Cook: The legacy of Ariel ‘the bulldo ...
    It is easy to forget, with eulogies casting him as the unexpected “peace-maker”, that for most of his long military and political career Ariel Sharon was known simply as The Bulldozer. That is... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Eyal Weizman: The architecture of Ariel Sharon
    Whether in military uniform or in politics, Ariel Sharon's time in power was characterised by construction and destruction frenzies that decisively shaped the physical realities in which both... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  • Max Blumenthal: How Ariel Sharon shaped Israel ...
    The true goal of Sharon’s separation regime was never to end the occupation but to reinforce it under new parameters that would prevent the collapse of Israel’s international image. A top aide to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Moshé Machover: Belling the cat
    A political project is purely utopian unless it can indicate a likely agent - a socio-political force able to realise it and whose long-term interests it would serve. In the present article I propose... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Arab Spring – power does not ...
    There are two parts of the Arab world that remain effectively colonies: Western Sahara ... and of course Palestine, where negotiations are underway conforming to the two essential US-Israeli... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military edit

  • China Unveils Yi Long UAV
    China has unveiled for the first time its Yi Long unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) local media reported on Wednesday, which its makers claim is far cheaper than its Israeli and American analogs at less than $1 million.
  • Airshow China 2012
  • Iraq Denies US Pressure Over Russia Arms Deal
    Iraq denied on Tuesday that its decision to suspend a $4.2-billion arms deal with Russia had been taken after consultations with the United States.
  • Military Academy Relocation Put on Ice
    Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has put on hold the relocation of a medical academy from central St. Petersburg, Public Chamber member Alexander Kanshin said on Tuesday.
  • Georgia Ex-Minister Faces Torture Charges
    Georgia’s former defense and interior minister Bacho Akhalaya has been charged with false imprisonment and torture, Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said on Tuesday.

Pruning Shears edit

  • Teach For America's unspoken alliance with the ...
    Not being an educator, my knowledge of Teach For America (TFA) has been scant. Basically: it was a component of the Americorps program created during the Clinton administration, and plugged willing but un- or under-qualified young people into vacant positions in low income schools for two years ...
  • Determined ignorance: still impervious to facts
    Climate change is a hard policy question to address because it pits those who believe in evidence against those committed to knowing as little as possible. And unfortunately, the dumbasses control a great deal of political territory, a gigantic ice sheet of stupid that never recedes enough for ...
  • Money and elections in Washington: Pro wrestli ...
    kayfabe: Term in pro wrestling. Kayfabe was the unsaid rule that the wrestlers should stay in character during the show and in public appearances in order to maintain a feeling of reality (albeit suspended) among the fans. - Urban DictionaryNational politics never feels as much like kayfabe to ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...
  • Commissioners pipeline meeting: strategy and w ...
    Previously: Report on the meeting, background, and the statement I prepared for it. In this last installment I’ll look at why we approached the meeting the way we did, and what we hoped to get out of it.A group staging or participating in a public event should give some thought to how it ...

Organic Consumers.org edit

  • This Week's Newsletter: Monsanto's 'Science' D ...
    Click here to read this article
  • Five New Reasons Monsanto’s ‘Science’ Doesn’t ...
    To hear the pesticide and junk food marketers of the world tell it, anyone who questions the value, legitimacy or safety of GMO crops is naïve, anti-science and irrational to the point of hysteria. But how long can Monsanto ignore the mounting actual scientific evidence that their technology is ...
  • Why We Need an Outright Ban on Fracking
    Natalie Hynde, convicted on Monday after supergluing herself to a fellow anti-fracking protester at Balcombe, says more people should stand up against the risks Click here to read this article
  • GMOs, Silver Bullets and the Trap of Reduction ...
    These are rough waters. GMOs seem to polarize people more than almost any other topic, including evolution or climate change. And the debates around GMOs - especially whether they are safe to eat or safe to grow - can get very fierce. While it takes a lot of effort, I try to stay open-minded on ...
  • Why I'm Building A New Clean Plate Culture
    For most of my childhood, despite being perfectly healthy and more than happy to eat the delicious food my mother cooked, I was routinely rewarded for finishing everything she served with the at-the-time-exciting-but-in-hindsight-seemingly-meaningless invitation to join the Clean Plate Club ...

Center for a Livable Future edit

  • CLF Week in Links: Nutrition Labels, Corner St ...
    The Baltimore Department of Health has a new program to bring healthy food to the city's corner stores. This is fine work by the Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and city health commissioner Oxiris Barbot.
  • Navigate the Global Meat System with New Meat ...
    A new report released last month by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe fell under the radar for many of us here in the U.S. However, that shouldn’t keep you from checking out this comprehensive guide to the global meat system and its effects. Besides covering many of th ...
  • Religion, Making a Difference, and Food
    What if the distinctions of religion were visible in the ways religious institutions handle food – the way they grow it, the way they acquire it, the way they donate it, and the way they teach their constituents about food?
  • The Positive Change Created by New Supermarket ...
    I read the headline “It takes more than a produce aisle to refresh a food desert” with part amusement and part exhaustion. I knew there would be an onslaught of articles bemoaning the wasted resources being spent on financing food retail in underserved neighborhoods. Then I read the news story t ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Valentine’s Chocolate, Soc ...
    On this Valentine’s Day, I urge you to purchase fair-trade chocolate. The working conditions imposed by Big Chocolate on workers have been described as miserable, and there has been documentation that child labor fuels some of the industry.

Investigate - Breaking News edit

My Care2 Picks edit

  • Kuna Yala Reject Carbon Trading
    REDD would have been a betrayal for the long-term, with many consequences cultural ones, but even more, our possibility to be a people, to be a nation No capitalism in our forests, a contest in who has control over the land Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it! ...
  • Presentations against Fluoridation
    Compilation of some of the most compelling information against fluoridation : Government Reports, Scientist's Position Papers, Medical Journals, Government Agency Documents, National Organizations Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   A ...
  • The sceptics are right. Don't scapegoat them.
    Floods and gales in the UK are not evidence of climate change.The Green Party, Greenpeace and Ed Miliband demand we purge the climate sceptics. No insult is too strong IPCCs latest report Lack of evidence re trend in the magnitude or frequency of floods Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...
  • Koch Brothers and FGCU
    Representative Ray Wesley Rodrigues is the budgeting manager of FGCUs Arts and Sciences department,meant to be devoted to environmental sustainability; receiving contributions from energy companies Exxon Mobile's H.B. 157 protects from antifrack lawsuits Submitted by John Farnham to Society &amp ...
  • Hug a Lion
    Zoologist Kevin Richardson (aka The Lion Whisperer) in Johannesburg in South Africa ; they act just like his children Submitted by John Farnham to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Farm Wars edit

  • Nixon, Rockefeller, IG Farben, and global control
    In an effort to bolster US companies and protect them from foreign competition inside the United States, Nixon began erecting tariffs on a range of goods imported into the US. If this Nixon economic plan spread to other countries, the entire global program to install “free trade” and mega-corpor ...
  • Kick Genetically Engineered Crops Out of Rogue ...
    Recently a group of local farmers in Oregon's Rogue Valley joined together to create the Our Family Farms Coalition (OFFC). Their first priority: pass the Family Farms Measure (15-119) on May 20, 2014 and keep genetically engineered crops out of Jackson County.
  • U.S. Agriculture Explained
    Simple, graphic explanation of Big Ag.
  • GMO Issues – Red Ice and Barb Peterson
    In this program we have a somewhat laid back discussion about genetically modified foods, how to grow your own food and raising animals. We also share some recipes.
  • Farmed and Dangerous – Passing the Buck (Episode2)
    Episode 2 of Chipotle's Farmed and Dangerous - a satire about GMOs and the intolerable practices of agribusiness.

Green Times edit

  • Kangaroo cull
    Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
  • Environmental News 01/06/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
  • Green Capital Australia
    Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
  • Environmental News 31/05/2012
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
  • Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
    Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate edit

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East? edit

  • White Man’s Burden – the Israeli O ...
    (crossposted from the Villages Group blog) Dear Friends, By a miracle of sorts, we had a mostly peaceful day in South Hebron today; such an event is so rare that I thought it might be worth mentioning to you. In lieu of a more substantial report, let me just say that Abu Sharif and Fadil pl ...
  • What’s Behind Israel’s Boom-and-Bu ...
    One of the great successes of the Israeli government’s “Brand Israel” campaign has been the re-branding and re-packaging of Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”, attributing the source of its current wealth to its burgeoning hi-tech sector. As we know, the best propaganda ...
  • Just One More Unremarkable Arrest
    A friend wrote to us about a young ill Palestinian mother who was recently arrested in the West Bank, and their efforts to free her. This is the kind of ocurrence that happens routinely, yet is rarely covered in the press.  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel documented in 2008 how these kinds of ...
  • Today in Jayyous
    A picture of tear gas being shot by the Israeli army on unarmed protesters in the Palestinian village of Jayyous, who are holding Friday demonstrations to protest their land being taken by Israel. Photo by Mohammed Othman. You can follow what’s happening in Jayyous here.
  • Israeli Voters Upset with Bibi – But wil ...
    Over the past couple of months, there seems to have developed growing disconnect between most of Israel’s political analysts – and the actual dynamics of the campaign for Israel’s general elections, which will take place in only 3 days. In October when the election was announc ...

B.C. Preppers Network edit

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.  A cute little luxur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditi ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal fo ...

Michael Yon edit

  • Thailand: Letter from an American to Senator M ...
    25 February 2015
  • What’s So Civil About War Anyway
    Published: 23 February 2014
  • A Simple Man scores a Major Win
    22 February 2014 (It has been a long day, and tomorrow comes early. I rush to write these words with a single pass and no edit. Please forgive me.) We begin: This is a difficult struggle to overthrow an enormously corrupt Thai government. The struggle is marked by a series of independent vi ...
  • Letter from Thais to Dutch Government
    Published: 10 Feburary 2014 This letter rendered in three languages: English, Thai, Dutch. Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie Laan Copes van Cattenburch 54 Utrecht, 30 January 2014 Dear Partyleader, Members of VVD and Friends of Thailand, We write this letter to explain why millions ...
  • Burma Army Continues Attacks in Nam Lim Pa Are ...
    9 February 2014 Kachin State, Burma The Burma Army continues attacks in Nam Lim Pa area in their attempt to drive out the Kachin people and control this part of Kachin State. Burma Army RPG Team in Kong Run, Kachin State, on 2 February 2014. The Burma Army continues its attacks with Burma Arm ...

The Killing Train edit

  • Haiti: plans for a 2010 coup - CEPR interview ...
    With an attempted coup underway in Venezuela, those of us who studied the 2004 Haiti coup are looking back at Haiti 10 years ago and being reminded of the parallels. Actually, I wrote about the Venezuela coup of 2002, which followed a similar playbook to the coup attempt currently underway. I wr ...
  • The Ossington Circle: Episode 5, Eva Bartlett ...
    The Ossington Circle is an internet talk show hosted by Justin Podur in Toronto. In this episode, I talk to Eva Bartlett, who has spent a good portion of the past few years in Gaza. She talks about the tunnels, agriculture, fishery, all of the impacts of Israel's comprehensive siege against the ...
  • Egypt's dictatorship for the digital age
    Egypt was ruled by the Mubarak dictatorship for 30 years before the people managed to overthrow him in 2011. Mubarak was not overthrown by the internet. Some business and technological literature claimed that, because the internet made it more difficult to keep secrets (a valid claim), the “dic ...
  • Three kinds of science - the Jan/Feb 2014 Bria ...
    My latest article is Jan/Feb 2014 cover story in Briarpatch Magazine. In it I analyze science and politics, talking about three different things that are called science: Science A (authority), Science B (business), and Science C (curiosity). Hope you enjoy. Link: http://briarpatchmagazine.com/ar ...
  • podur.org in 2013
    Since it's the last day of 2013, I thought I would look over what I did this year. I spent half the year in India, so I have a fair bit of India content here. I also started the Ossington Circle this year, which has been fun. I am not including short blogs in this list, just longer articles and ...

treehugger edit

Democratic Voice of Burma edit

  • Life among the logs
    Whole families are working day and night in Rangoon's logging ports, husking the bark from logs to sell as firewood.
  • MSF operations set to resume, but not in Arakan
    Embattled aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be allowed to resume its activities outside of Arakan State on Monday, 3 March, but its programmes in the restive region will remain suspended following an order from the government to cease operations, issued on February 27th.
  • Race, religion protection bills create ‘ ...
    DVB staff reporter Shwe Aung spoke with writer and former political prisoner Htet Myat about Burma's proposed bills to protect race and religion.
  • DVB talks to Chinese Ambassador to Burma
    DVB Interview International spoke to Ambassador Yang Houlan about Chinese investment in the country, local development projects, and China’s involvement in the peace process.
  • Road-testing Burma’s wineries
    Jessica Mudditt visits Burma's debut wineries, where rows of fresh grapes blanket the Shan hills.

National Geographic | Environment edit

Jurist - Legal Research edit

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder edit

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade edit

Expose the BNP edit

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

Ode Magazine edit

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

David J. Gregory edit

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

Lawyers,Guns,& Money edit

  • Fixing the op-ed page
    In comments on Erik’s Douthat post below, there is some discussion of the staggering and utter vacuity and general uselessness of the non-Krugman* op-ed writers there. Erik promises a post on who, ideally, should be occupying those roles. While I have some ideas myself, I want to instead q ...
  • Alain Resnais, RIP
    Night and Fog has a claim as the best documentary of all time.     
  • The Worst Best Picture Winner
    There are a lot of bad Best Picture winners. And I really dislike Slumdog Millionaire, although the other Best Picture nominees that year are no great shakes. I’d like to give it my vote. And it’s a crime against humanity than Dances with Wolves, off all the dreck out there, won over ...
  • Crazy Crimea Crisis Continues
    Some links: Timothy Snyder pushes back on allegations of fascist connections in the Ukrainian opposition. Jay Ulfelder wonders about the implications of scholarly engagement. Fred Kaplan argues that Obama could have done nothing to stop the occupation of Crimea. Dan Nexon is (justifiably) irrita ...
  • Douthat Has The Sadz
    Poor Ross. He reads liberals comparing the recent spate of anti-gay bills to segregation and he can’t understand it. After all, he already considered the ability for an individual to discriminate against someone in their place of business conservatives’ “surrender.” Which ...

Desert Research Institute edit

  • Switch SUPERNAP Named as Presenting Sponsor o ...
    DRI proudly announces Switch SUPERNAP as the presenting sponsor for the 2014 DRI Nevada Medal Event, set to take place in Reno on March 25, 2014 and in Las Vegas on March 27, 2014.
  • Brittany Johnson, January Featured DRI Graduat ...
    Meet Brittany Johnson, a graduate student working in the field of hydrology for the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences. Her research focuses on the effects of climate change on vegetation, decomposition, microbial activity, and soil pedology in the Great Basin. 
  • DRI scientists’ co-author study linking Arctic ...
    A new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada’s Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice  dynamics and the region’s changing atmospheric chemistry potentially leading to increased amounts of me ...
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) research at DRI
    Researchers at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) are exploring ways in which unmanned aircraft systems are increasingly being used in civilian government work as well as the private sector for use in applications as diverse as cloud seeding to fighting forest fires.
  • New DRI project aimed at understanding Mercur ...
    A new collaborative research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)and led by Daniel Obrist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) will attempt to characterize the complex dynamics of mercury in some of the Earth’s northernmost and most fragile ecosystems.

Earth Techling edit

National Law Journal | U.S. edit

  • The Go-To Law Schools
    Our annual report on the law schools that supply the largest numbers of new associates to NLJ 250 law firms.
  • Legal Departments of the Year: Minneapolis-St. ...
    For the first time, The National Law Journal recognizes leading in-house legal departments of companies based in the twin-city region of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
  • From Oscar Parties to 'Inter Partes': An Intel ...
    We range widely in this look at the state of intellectual property law, beginning with the legal complications attorneys need to consider when negotiating endorsement deals with the stars. We also investigate the renewed respect being paid to the "indefiniteness" defense against business-method ...
  • Litigation Boutiques Hot List
    At the 10 law firms spotlighted here, it?s all about skill, not size. The lawyers at these litigation shops, all of which have fewer than 51 attorneys, are as clever at practicing on paper as they are at wooing a jury. Many of these lawyers have honed their craft at the biggest and best firms in ...
  • Innovations in Law Firm Technology
    The past few years have been momentous for law firms and their use of technology. In the electronic discovery area alone, innovations including predictive coding have found acceptance by the courts.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ? edit

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

News Blaze edit

environment 360 edit

  • Seafaring Drones Could Reveal Mysterious Lives ...
    New automated watercraft are helping scientists understand the secret lives of great white sharks, which gather in large numbers each winter in an area nicknamed the "White Shark Cafe." Although this stretch of ocean between Baja California and Hawaii Watch Video
  • Pine Forest Aerosols Play Significant Role in ...
    Pine forest vapors form small aerosol particles that may significantly cool the climate by reflecting the sun's energy back into space, according to new findings. Scientists have known for decades that gases from pine Hyytiälä pine forest in Finland trees can form particles that grow ...
  • In a Host of Small Sources, Scientists See Ene ...
    The emerging field of “energy scavenging” is drawing on a wide array of untapped energy sources­ — including radio waves, vibrations created by moving objects, and waste heat from computers or car exhaust systems — to generate electricity and boost efficiency. BY CHERYL KATZ
  • Large Offshore Wind Farms Could Soften Blow fr ...
    Offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped much of the power of hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and Isaac, significantly slowing their wind speeds, decreasing their accompanying storm surges, and possibly preventing billions of dollars in damages, according to a new study. ...
  • Massive Alaska Avalanche Depicted in NASA Sate ...
    Southeastern Alaska recently experienced the largest landslide the planet has seen since 2010, and the aftermath is captured in this NASA satellite image. Click to Enlarge Triggered by the collapse of a near-vertical mountain face on the flanks of Mount La Perouse, 75 million tons of s ...

Red Ice Creations edit

  • Russia takes over Ukraine’s Crimea region - We ...
    As Russia is moving in troops in Crimea be careful of the western mainstream media as the anti-Russian outlets are continuing to bash anything that Russia and Putin is doing. Don’t forget that there is MUCH more behind what is going on that you see on the TV and read in reports. Russian satellit ...
  • Physicists plan to wipe out Earth's Van Allen ...
    In what sounds like the lunatic designs of a team of mad scientists, physicists are proposing a plan to wipe out the Van Allen radiation belts. Nevermind that we’ve really only just begun to explore and understand the Van Allen belts - those pesky bands of radiation around our planet allegedly s ...
  • Humans Appear Programmed to Obey Robots, Studi ...
    Two 8-foot robots recently began directing traffic in the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa. The automatons are little more than traffic lights dressed up as campy 1960s robots—and yet, drivers obey them more readily than the humans previously directing traffic there. Ma ...
  • The audacious rescue plan that might have save ...
    If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life. —Astronaut Gus Grissom, 1965 It is important to note at the outset ...
  • 21st Century Guide to Cross Cultural Initiation
    Sometimes when we lose our minds, we go stark raving mad. At these times, we are beaten with figurative sticks and kicks, maybe there is blood and death or sex. The fluids and elements mix with our shattered psyches in a gaping gash of consciousness. But I have found there are other ways to brea ...

Not My Tribe edit

  • Pueblo museum excises Mine Workers Union from ...
    PUEBLO, COLORADO- 2014 marks one hundred years since the Ludlow Massacre of 1914. A variety of commemorations are planned before the formal anniversary on April 20. I attended one such event on Wednesday, a lecture by a CSU professor to footnote the “Children of Ludlow” exhibit at El ...
  • Will Colo. Springs raise energy bills by 3% to ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS residents are left to wonder what kind of leverage the public utilities CEO holds over his board of directors. City Council wants to raise Jerry Forte’s salary to half a million in spite of the coal-black hole in which he put the city’s energy portfolio. They won&#82 ...
  • Yay! Ukrainians win austerity measures and rig ...
    We can keep arguing about who the Ukrainian opposition/protesters were, but the aftermath of the celebrated uprising has wrought this: the new leadership is being courted by the EU and the IMF so long as they agree to club requirements. Make austerity reforms, aka the privatization of public ass ...
  • Occupy Denver: not as badass as they wanna be
    DENVER, COLORADO- Occupy activists were making their usual cacophony on Friday night when Denver police cruisers began converging into a familiar disproportionate show of force. Experienced skirmishers though Occupiers are, we couldn’t help whispering to each other as we watched more DPD o ...
  • Disparagement of Sochi Olympics launches cultu ...
    What a sad, embarrasing scene. What ungrateful guests Americans appear. Russia throws a magnificent party in Sochi, the penultimate of accasions almost still outside the bounds of what the international corporate media can control, and western journalists do everything they can to poop the party ...

Debunking the Debunkers edit

Empty newsfeed.

Fooducate edit

Traffikd edit

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

Survival International edit

  • Ayoreo Indians send urgent video appeal to Spa ...
    In an urgent video appeal, Ayoreo leader Porai Picanerai demands that Spanish construction giant Grupo San José returns the Ayoreo's ancestral land. © OPIT/ SurvivalAyoreo Indian leaders in Paraguay have sent an unprecedented video appeal to Spanish construction giant Grupo San José and its ...
  • Campaign triumphs as loggers expelled from ter ...
    The Brazilian government has mounted a huge operation to evict illegal invaders from the Awá's forest. © Silvano Fernandes/FUNAIA global campaign by Survival International, fronted by Colin Firth, to save the Awá, Earth’s most threatened tribe, has triumphed this week, as loggers and ...
  • 'Dalai Lama of the Rainforest' makes unique vi ...
    Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa will visit California in April 2014 to talk about his connection with the spirit world and the urgent need to safeguard the world's rainforests. © SurvivalAn Amazonian shaman and spokesman for Brazil’s Yanomami tribe will make a rare visit to California ( ...
  • India: Journalist harassed after exposing trib ...
    Jarawa women are being lured with alcohol and drugs and sexually exploited by poachers on their land. © SurvivalThe journalist and activist Denis Giles is facing harassment by police on India’s Andaman Islands after he released rare first-hand testimony of the Jarawa tribe reporting the sexual e ...
  • Ogiek are violently evicted from ancestral hom ...
    An Ogiek home that was destroyed by government officials.© Judy Kipkenda/OPDPSurvival has received disturbing reports that government officials have destroyed homes of the Ogiek, one of Africa’s last hunter-gather tribes, in their ancestral land in the Mau Forest. Politicians and their influent ...

Greg Palast edit

  • Oscar, We Know Where You Lunch
    By Greg Palast By the age of fifteen, Rick Rowley was doomed — born in the middle of Nowhere, Michigan, a wasteland of rust and snow so awful we let autoworkers have it. As a kid, Rick would put his head down on the railroad track and wait for the rare vibration of a train on the [...]
  • Truthout Interviews Greg Palast on the Koch Br ...
    By Ted Asregadoo, Truthout | Video Interview Since the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that money essentially equals speech in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission in 2010, and later in the US Court of Appeals Speechnow.org v. the Federal Election Commission decision, ...
  • Rest in peace, Aaron Swartz
    By Greg Palast But that's impossible, isn't it? Like the restless Jewish prophets before you, you are an outcast in your own land. And like the prophets before you, you are trouble, Aaron, a lot of trouble. Thank you for troubling us, Aaron. You are trouble, but very good trouble. Socrates' suic ...
  • Hedge Fund Hog Makes Mommy's Monkey Jump
    by Greg Palast update of story from Truthout On Thursday, a federal jury found Mathew Martoma guilty of insider trading. Martoma, who's only worth a hundred million or so, is small potatoes. He's taking a fall for his boss–and his boss' mommy–and her monkey. Martoma's boss is Steven A. Cohen, wo ...
  • Why are Christie and the Kochs in my driveway ...
    By Greg Palast for Truthout Far more insidious, more corrosive and dangerous than the Governor of New Jersey playing traffic warden is the story of Gov. Chris Christie's secret meetings with a gaggle of billionaires ––and the legality of the spending by the front organization set up following th ...

Ian Welsh edit

  • Does Sprint Nuclear Ability Matter? How much? ...
    Ukraine is talking about getting nuclear weapons.  Interesting.  Or perhaps, worse: According to translated news sources within the country, Ukraine interim representative threatened Russia with nuclear weapons, if Russia does not remove their troops from within the Ukrainian borders. Mikhail Go ...
  • Some Perspective on Russian Intervention in th ...
    1) The journalists talking about anschluss are morons.  This is not Germany in the 30s, Russia is not going to try and conquer Europe. 2) The Ukraine was part of Russia for centuries, and has been independent for about 20 years. 3) The Russian Army is not the Red Army: it is not capable of conqu ...
  • So Much for the Crimea
    They’ve scheduled a referendum on Crimea’s future, though the exact question isn’t clear.  Given the demographics in the Crimea, that it will leave the Ukraine, and very possibly join Russia seems quite likely.  This doesn’t require any dishonesty, a straight up, fair ref ...
  • Corruption, Don’t Talk To Me About Corruption
    I have a hard time these days getting worked up over corruption charges. It’s clear Yanukovych stole billions, along with giving billions to his his friends and family. George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Paulson, Geithner and Bernanke, bailed out their friends for trillions.  Bill Clinton repea ...
  • This Ukraine Stuff Writes Itself
    Gunmen seize parliament and the main administrative building in the Crimea and NATO’s Secretary General says: Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary general, described the seizure of the regional government administration building and parliament as “dangerous and irresponsible.” Wai ...

Media Consortium edit

Reality Asserts Itself edit

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

new geography edit

  • Forget What the Pundits Tell You, Coastal Citi ...
    Ever since the Great Recession ripped through the economies of the Sunbelt, America’s coastal pundit class has been giddily predicting its demise. Strangled by high-energy prices, cooked by global warming, rejected by a new generation of urban-centric millennials, this vast southern was do ...
  • Switzerland: Why EU Immigrants Were Headed Of ...
    The only time the Swiss make US headlines, other than with the occasional Olympic biathlon medal, is when a majority of the voters exercise their franchise by voting down minarets or, as happened this month, banning free immigration from the European Union. As the most democratic country on ear ...
  • 'Lone Eagle' Cities: Where The Most People Wor ...
    In an era of high unemployment and limited opportunity, more Americans are taking matters into their own hands and going to work for themselves out of their homes. Normally small businesses have led the way during economic recoveries, but this time around they’re not creating many jobs. I ...
  • What America’s Fastest-Growing Economies Have ...
    Midland and Odessa in West Texas. Pascagoula, a port town on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Fargo and Bismarck, the two largest cities in North Dakota. These were among the USA’s 10 fastest-growing metro economies in 2013, as ranked by growth in real gross metropolitan product (GMP), and they ...
  • We Had To Destroy the City In Order to Save It
    As housing prices and rents soar out of control in tightly regulated cities like San Francisco and New York, many people have called for a significant loosening of zoning rules to permit greater densification. Many policies contribute to unaffordable housing, including rent control, historic ...

water.org edit

  • Perfect Timing
    With water nearby and time back on their side, this couple could work to earn money for their family. A story about the impact of Water.org's WaterCredit program.
  • Resources for WASH Financial Products
    In an effort to expand our impact in solving the global water crisis, Water.org and MicroSave are jointly developing a series of toolkits to provide information and tools for financial institutions to develop microfinance products for water and sanitation investments.
  • Safe Water At Last
    "We are thankful, now we can go to work easily and do not have to take time off from working for collecting water."
  • Water Gets Kids to School On Time
    Her children were late for school because they were busy getting water to survive. This became a problem.
  • Water Ends a Frustrating Cycle
    As with many families in communities where access to water is limited, Madduramma and her children faced a frustrating cycle of challenges that could only be resolved by having better access to water.

Cryptogon edit

  • China Vows ‘Iron Fist’ Response to ...
    Via: Christian Science Monitor: For more than a year, the Chinese media have published regular reports of deadly violent incidents in the predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang, in China’s far west. More than 100 people died last year in clashes between the police and ethnic Uighurs identifie ...
  • World’s Largest Aircraft Unveiled; Can S ...
    Via: Telegraph: The world’s largest aircraft which can stay airborne for up to three weeks and will be vital in delivering several tonnes of humanitarian aid as well as transporting heavy freight across the world, has been unveiled. The 300ft (91m) ship is part plane, airship and helicopter, and ...
  • The TSA is Looking for Bitcoin
    The TSA didn’t find any Bitcoin “tokens,” but you’re about to read comedy gold. Via: Daily Anarchist: I turned back to the orange shirt and asked “What did the Bitcoin look like?” Bill chimed in and told the agent that what he was saying was impossible because Bitcoin is ...
  • UKRAINE ORDERS FULL MILITARY MOBILIZATION OVER ...
    Here we go again. Via: BBC: Ukraine has ordered a full military mobilisation in response to Russia’s build-up of its forces in Crimea. Acting President Olexander Turchynov has ordered the closure of airspace to all non-civilian aircraft. US President Barack Obama has called Russian troop d ...
  • LAPD Spies on Millions
    Via: L.A. Weekly: Los Angeles and Southern California police, by contrast, are expanding their use of surveillance technology such as intelligent video analytics, digital biometric identification and military-pedigree software for analyzing and predicting crime. Information on the identity and m ...

The Economic Collapse edit

  • 12 Signs That Russia Is Ready To Fight A War O ...
    Russia will never, ever give up Crimea without a fight.  Anyone that thinks otherwise is just being delusional.  The Russian Black Sea fleet's main base at Sevastopol is far too strategically important.  In addition, ethnic Russians make up approximately 60 percent of the population of Crimea, a ...
  • 31 Percent Of All Food In America Is Wasted &# ...
    According to a stunning new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly a third of all food produced in the United States gets wasted.  We are probably the most wasteful society in the history of the planet, and we are also one of the most gluttonous.  More than 35 percent of all Amer ...
  • The Collapse Of Bitcoin
    Bitcoin is a virtual currency that has no intrinsic value.  The only thing giving bitcoin value is the faith that people have in it, and now that faith has been shattered.  This week, the most prominent bitcoin exchange in the entire world, Mt. Gox, totally collapsed.  At one time, Mt. Gox boast ...
  • What Is Happening In Ukraine Is Far More Impor ...
    What the people of Ukraine are being put through is absolutely horrible.  They are caught in the middle of a massive tug of war between the East and the West, and they are paying a great price for it.  Ultimately, Ukraine will end up either being dominated by Russia (a bad outcome) or by the [...]
  • 10 Stories From The Cold, Hard Streets Of Amer ...
    If the economy is really "getting better", then why have millions upon millions of formerly middle class Americans been pushed to the point of utter despair?  The stories that you are about to read are absolutely heartbreaking.  I don't know how anyone can read them without getting chills.  In A ...

Desertification edit

  • The Great Green Wall of the Sahel, still in th ...
    Read at : http://foodtank.com/news/2014/02/the-great-green-wall-of-africa-greening-the-sahel-to-turn-back-the-tide-of The Great Green Wall of Africa: Greening the Sahel to Turn Back the Tide of Desertification The Great Green Wall of the Sahel, still in the planning stages, will span Africa from ...
  • The use of “gabions” or simple roc ...
    Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/resilience/how-reverse-desertification-rocks.html How to reverse desertification. With rocks. by Sami Grover From a fanciful Sahara forest concept to the planting of trees to stop the encroachment of desert, we’ve seen plenty of ideas for turning arid, h ...
  • Robot to gather much-needed data about deserti ...
    Read at : http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026295/this-tumbleweed-robot-blows-around-to-help-fight-desertification This Tumbleweed Robot Blows Around To Help Fight Desertification It’s not easy for researchers to collect data about the world’s vast and rapidly expanding barren, desert lan ...
  • Developing the foundation for the new Science- ...
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/programmes/Science/Pages/CST-Bureau-February-2014.aspx Strengthening the Dialogue between Scientists and DLDD Policymakers: Moving forward in operationalizing the Science-Policy Interface Policymakers struggle to create regulations and support policies that put ...
  • Green Great Wall of China (UNCCD)
    Read at : http://www.unccd.int/en/media-center/MediaNews/Pages/highlightdetail.aspx?HighlightID=273 The Heroes behind the Green Great Wall of China The “Three North Shelterbelt Project” in China is the world’s largest afforestation project. It has restored over 26.47 million hectares ...

News Blaze edit

libcom edit

Empty newsfeed.

Free Range International edit

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

The Story Behind the Story edit

  • If You Could Hie (come to) Kolob – Why M ...
    Mormonism’s Professional Spin-Doctors are at it again. In their latest official “essay” – the Mormon PR Machine wants the world to FALSELY BELIEVE that the idea of Temple-Worthy Mormons becoming GODS and running their own planet similar to earth, is all simply an offensiv ...
  • G.I. Joe and Lilly – A Patriotic Tribute ...
    There’s not too many of these Veterans of World War II left – and many are dwindling away in Nursing Homes, their incredible stories neglected and often forgotten. This is a most incredible tribute that should be watched at least twice, and then shared and distributed widely. Why?  B ...
  • Recent Letter To a Mormon Bishop
    This letter just breaks my heart. First, of course, is the need to be “anonymous”.  God knows who you are – so why worry about what false teachers in a false church think of you? Secondly – why is this “anonymous” person not focusing on WHY LD$ Inc. refuses to ...
  • Why Our Federal Government is so Dysfunctional ...
    People wonder why I am so concerned about “Mormonism” and why I continually expose it on my blog.  I do so because I, as a former Mormon “insider”, know first-hand the deep level of involvement the Mormon leaders have with the International Zionist Crime Syndicate (ICZS) ...
  • Cell Phone “Kill Switches” – ...
    Jim Catlin is a close friend and Brother in Christ.  He left Hewlett Packard and entered the Christian Ministry in order to save souls instead of engineering electronics.  His intellect,  and unique insight into the Holy Scriptures is unequaled. I would advise all readers of this blog to pay clo ...

du la bab - Now is the Time edit

Mansbridge One on One - CBC edit

Energy Collective edit

  • Small Island Nations Embrace Partnerships for ...
    Small islands countries such as Jamaica and Seychelles are already known for their beautiful beaches and idyllic charm, but they are also increasingly regarded as innovative leaders in the fight against climate change and to secure sustainability.read more
  • National Academy Of Sciences Delivers Highly R ...
    So you’ve been wondering what to recommend to your friends who want a readable but authoritative introduction to climate change, one which answers their key questions. The US National Academy of Sciences and the U.K. Royal Society have achieved this with their new report, “Climate Change: Eviden ...
  • After a Hiatus, DOE's Clean Energy Loan Progra ...
    The Department of Energy is targeting from $1.5 billion to as much as $4 billion for a new renewable energy project loan guarantee program, one that could open the door to solicitations for a range of smaller-scale, distributed and grid-integrated projects by the end of this year.read more
  • How Much Solar Energy Saves Australians [INFOG ...
    How much does the Australian renewable energy target cost? As this infographic demonstrates, household solar energy will save Australians more money than the cost of installation and implementation of household solar would actually bring about in 2015/16.read more
  • Mounting Evidence that Tar Sands Activity is C ...
    U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer from California has connected the dots and is pointing to growing evidence that communities living near tar sands mining and drilling operations, pipelines, and refineries are showing serious health risks and problems.read more

Prior Art edit

Peoples Voice edit

  • Obama Warns Russia
    by Stephen Lendman The damn fool in the White House risks a potentially serious East/West confrontation. He bears full responsibility for toppling Ukraine's democratically elected government. He's criminally in league with fascist coup plotters. He outrageously warned Russia, saying ...
  • Turmoil in Ukraine
    by Stephen Lendman Ongoing events are scary. Everyone should be worried. Reports reveal heightened tensions. Conditions resemble nations preparing for war. On March 1, Voice of Russia (VOR) said Ukraine's border guard ships are on "battle alarm" at sea. "(E)xtreme measures (are being tak ...
  • Ukraine: Potential Flashpoint for Global War
    by Stephen Lendman Obama heads the most recklessly dangerous regime in world history. It's ruthless. It's lawless. It's out-of-control. It's reincarnated Nazism writ large. War on humanity is the new normal. Crazed hegemonic ambitions drive policy. A potential devastating East/West confron ...
  • Turning the World Right Side Up
    by Stephen Lendman Lawless imperial rampaging turns it upside down. America is the main world belligerent. War on humanity is longstanding policy. So is replacing all sovereign independent governments with pro-US vassal ones. Obama's war on Syria rages. Conditions in Ukraine remain ince ...
  • Hardened Racism in Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Israeli racism already is institutionalized. On February 24, it got meaner. Fascist Knesset members approved legislation distinguishing between Muslim and Christian Arab citizens. At issue is separate and less equal than before. It's divide and conquer policy. Critics ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives edit

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

Michael Moore - Must Read edit

  • T.R. Reid, Author of 'The Healing of America,' ...
    T.R. REID: I've known Max Baucus for quite a long time, he's the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And he had me come make a presentation on my film and my book to the Finance Committee. And all sixteen members showed up on a Monday, which is pretty unusual in Washington. And I made the ...
  • Chelsea Manning Awarded Sam Adams Integrity Pr ...
    Announcement by Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) The Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence (SAAII) have voted overwhelmingly to present the 2014 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.  A Nobel Peace P ...
  • Cinema With The Right Stuff Marks 2013 Nationa ...
    December 18, 2013 Press contact:  Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456, scannady@loc.gov Public contact: Steve Leggett (202) 707-5912, sleg@loc.gov To Media:  Select high-resolution images and video clips are available for a limited time; register at www.loc.gov/pressroom/registration ...
  • 2013 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY QUOTES
    Maureen O’Hara, Award-winning Actress – “The Quiet Man” “I am overjoyed that the Library of Congress has inducted The Quiet Man into its National Film Registry. It was the thrill of our lives for John Ford, John Wayne, myself, and everyone to make it. I had never ...
  • Traverse City Film Festival 2013 Awards!
    During our fantastic Filmmaker Party, Founder and President Michael Moore announced our 2013 Award Winners. We have had so many incredible films, a few new categories and so many fun contests this year, here is a complete list of all of our award winners. Congrats to everyone! AUDIENCE AWARD ...

Salon edit

SMB News edit

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

R-Squared Energy Blog edit

  • Natural Gas Inventories are Headed Toward Zero
    This winter has been one for the record books, and natural gas inventories have been depleted as a result. Robert Rapier discusses the implications.
  • Solving the Midwest Ethanol Problem
    It is time for Midwestern states to seize control of their own destiny and consume more of the ethanol they produce.
  • Coal Emissions Equal an Athabasca Oil Sands Re ...
    Keystone XL gets all the headlines, but Robert Rapier argues that the world's addiction to coal is a far greater and more immediate threat than Canada's oil sands.
  • Like Michael Jordan Playing Baseball
    Vinod Khosla often cites Michael Jordan's failures as a prerequisite for his successes. Today, Robert Rapier argues that Vinod Khosla's ventures in energy are more akin to Michael Jordan's on the baseball diamond.
  • My 2014 Energy Predictions
    Robert Rapier looks into his crystal ball for 2014, forecasting trends for oil and gas, and a bankruptcy for one high-profile biofuel company.

Discovery Educator Network edit

Stonecipher News edit

Information Liberation edit

  • Man's Lawful Refusal To ID Leads Cop To Assaul ...
    An Austin, Texas man's lawful failure to identify lead a DPS trooper to physically assault him, falsely arrest him, then charge him with "resisting arrest," despite video showing he did nothing of the sort. In May of 2012, after letting someone ...
  • Young Man Calls Police To Report Dead Body In ...
    No good deed goes unpunished in the U.S. police state. From WRAL: DURHAM, N.C. * A 20-year-old sophomore communications major at North Carolina Central University, Lewis James Little sat in the Durham County jail for a month last year after he di...
  • Child-Stealers and Prison Profiteers: A Case Study
    "The Court, in its infinite wisdom, has committed your child, based on risk and needs."* From* the introductory video "Your Child Has Been Committed to The Juvenile Corrections System" For reasons beyond his control, it had taken Donny* three a...
  • Is the Drug-War Worth This?
    For the past several days, the mainstream media has been agog over the arrest of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, much as they've gone agog over every other big drug bust for the past 50 years or so. The hoopla surrounding these muc...
  • Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Socia ...
    Do you want solid proof that paid government shills are targeting websites, blogs, forums and social media accounts?* For years, many have suspected that government trolls have been systematically causing havoc all over the Internet, but proving it h...

Be Responsible - Be Free! edit

  • Not Right
    I feel like a bit of a semantic quibble today. It concerns the term “right-wing”. As most of you are probably already aware, the terms “left-wing” and “right-wing” have their origins in the États Généraux, the old French Legislative Assembly, back … Cont ...
  • The Ascension Into Heaven
    I probably shouldn’t be telling you this. But in a secret deal, sealed only yesterday, James Delingpole, from next month, will be job-swapping with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. I will be looking forward to reading Tony’s Telegraph blog, commenting … Continue reading & ...
  • Judicial Activism And Its Threat To Liberty
    This week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the long-promised Royal Commission into union corruption. Its terms of reference—initially confined to a small number of unions and designed primarily to shine a light on the activities of the Australian Workers Union … Continue reading →
  • Some Musings On Specialization
    Sorry I haven’t posted anything new these past few weeks, but I’ve been laid low by a viral infection that I’m finding rather difficult to shake. So I thought I’d start a discussion with a few jottings, on a topic … Continue reading →
  • Hoist On Their Own Petard
    Happy New Year to all my readers. I thought I’d interrupt my summer holidays in balmy climes to have a bit of a chortle at two seemingly unrelated stories in the news over the last few days. One concerns cricket, … Continue reading →

Politics in the Zeros edit

  • Tor developing anonymous instant messaging
    The Tor Instant Messaging Bundle plans to do what their Tor browser already does for web surfing, encrypt and hide instant messaging from prying eyes, including NSA. It will route encrypted messages through Tor hidden servers just like the browser does, NSA hates Tor because they can’t bre ...
  • Babylon Burning. An appropriate song for Ukrai ...
    Are we really going to have a Ukraine war no one wants? Russian forces already are in de facto control in parts of Ukraine. What could US gain by getting involved? There are no neighboring areas the US or UK could stage forces except for Poland and Romania, and that’s not going to happen. ...
  • California rain less than expected, drought ra ...
    The recent storms in California (despite the usual hysteria in LA when it rains) produced less rain and snow than predicted. Crucial areas in the Sacramento area have increased mandatory drought rationing to 25%. Snow pack in the all important Sierra Nevada is 24% of normal. This is where the bu ...
  • XXL Airport Love
    Wait for it, at the ending… Our new commercial “Airport Love” was created for the sports and outdoor market in Norway, Sweden and Finland. The films message is that sport is for everyone, no matter what team you play for
  • Solar-powered desalination for agricultural areas
    Desalination plants powered by solar thermal are being tested in California in agricultural areas far from the ocean. Water used for crops can be filled with salts, and the problem gets worse over. The Water FX Aqua4 provides clean water from “wastewater, drainage water, runoff, saline gro ...

First Truths edit

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

Media Co-Op edit

  • Local environmentalists reject trans-misogyny
    Ancestral Pride and Rising Tide Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories speak out against Lierre Keith The radical anti-capitalist environmental collective Rising Tide Vancouver, Coas ...
  • «Est-ce que lutter contre un régime barbare mé ...
    Entrevue avec Djaber Kalibi sur En Profondeur à CKUT Pour plus d'informations : http://comitesoutien.wix.com/solidaritedjaber
  • Downtown Eastside Endgame
    Inside City Hall 27 February 2014   Starting ...
  • In Honour of Loretta
    Trigger Warning - This article deals with the death of Loretta Saunders, an Inuk woman who was found murdered on Wednesday, February 26th in Salisbury, New Brunswick. In Honour of Loretta I woke up early this morning, unable to fall back a ...
  • Tar Sands for the week (Feb 26, 2014).
    Whether or not stopping tar sands is needed is not the main issue; Climate chaos is here, happening on a grand scale and needs to be resisted through serious attempts to shut down the anthropogenic industries most responsible. This was identified– along with coal– as the tar sands lo ...

David Seaton's News Links edit

  • A note (rant) on the Ukraine
    I have to say something about the situation(s) in the Ukraine, I haven't had much time to post recently, being in the middle of moving house, so instead of a neatly constructed post this will take the form of a simple rant. First reality: any attempt to deny Russia access to the Crimea would be ...
  • Don't cheapen the Holocaust by making it shopworn
    Humanity has seen many genocides since our ancestors killed off all the Neanderthals...  The Holocaust is different. How is this genocide different from all other genocides? There is a qualitative difference between ordinary enraged insanity and the carefully planned and managed destructio ...
  • Nuland and Pyett's tape
    David Seaton's News Links  “Clear communication expresses clear thinking, while muddled communication reflects muddled thinking” Writing Success Program at UCLA (The English Language) becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language mak ...
  • Inequality: a tale of two pyramids
    David Seaton's News Links This pyramid appeared in the Washington Post. Looking at it I was reminded of another pyramid in a classic poster from the 19th century, which could be a "poetic" rendering of the graph from the Post. The signs are all around us, if you want to take a peek at the ne ...
  • Explaining the virulence on the right... Socia ...
    David Seaton's News Links Naquasia LeGrand... the right stuffNaquasia LeGrand, the lady that tops this page, works at minimum wage shoveling fried chicken, for KFC. She is leading a fight to organize fast-food workers and raise America's minimum wage to $15. She is facing some of America's ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum edit

  • No, Vladimir Putin Is Not a Cunning Geopolitic ...
    From House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers: Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles, and I don’t think it’s even close. They’ve been running circles around us. This kind of knee-jerk reaction is unsurprising, but it's also nuts. Has Ro ...
  • Here's What Is Going To Happen With Ukraine
    Following up on the previous post, if you do want to fret about Ukraine, I have just the thing for you. I'm going to tell you how this will all unfold: Vladimir Putin will do something belligerent. (Already done.) Republicans will demand that we show strength in the face of Putin's prov ...
  • Here Are Two Sentences to Ponder Over Instead ...
    I happen to have read two things that struck me in the past hour. The first is from a back-cover blurb for a book that arrived in the mail: Mettler powerfully and convincingly demonstrates how partisan polarization and plutocratic biases have shaped _________ policy in recent years and w ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 28 February 2014
    Quelle horreur! After two weeks of lovely weather, suddenly Southern California is in the middle of a monsoon. Domino is not happy about this state of affairs and blames me personally. In this, she takes after Petronius the Arbiter: "Pete had worked out a simple philosophy. I was in charge of ...
  • Here's Who the Money Men Are Backing So Far in ...
    Wesley Lowery takes a look today at who all of Mitt Romney's donors are supporting these days. As Lowery says, this shouldn't really be taken as a look at "Romney money." It's more a look at who's getting some love from wealthy mainstream Republicans. The answer, it turns out, is unsurprising: ...

Simple Climate edit

e!Science News edit

  • It slices, it dices, and it protects the body ...
    An essential weapon in the body's fight against infection has come into sharper view. Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the 3D structure of an enzyme that cuts to ribbons the genetic material of viruses and helps defend against bacteria. read more
  • NASA satellite sees great freeze over Great Lakes
    At night, as cold settles in, lake ice creaks and groans. It's been excessively cold, and I camped exposed on the snow-swept surface. Other than the lack of vegetation and the sounds at night, you'd never know you were on a lake. It feels like an empty plain. In some places, you see pressure rid ...
  • Worm-like mite species discovered on Ohio Stat ...
    It looks like a worm and moves like a worm -- sort of. But it is a previously unidentified microscopic species of mite that was discovered by a graduate student on The Ohio State University campus. read more
  • To teach scientific reproducibility, start young
    The ability to duplicate an experiment and its results is a central tenet of the scientific method, but recent research has shown an alarming number of peer-reviewed papers are irreproducible. read more
  • The nature of color: New formula to calculate ...
    A stroll through the produce aisle in your local grocery store exhibits a plethora of vivid colors. From opposing hues, like red apples next to green celery, to subtler variations, such as light to dark purple grapes, every color seems to hold its own unique attraction. Is there a way to precise ...

unEarthed edit

Brave New Climate edit

  • There’s lies, damned lies, statistics an ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a computer programmer, vegan, environmentalist, and more generally, a ‘by-the-numbers’ polymath. For a list of all of his posts on BNC, click here. He also has collections here and here. It’s February and the September quarter 2013 National Greenhouse ...
  • Book Review: “Energy in Australia &#8211 ...
    Guest post by John Morgan. John runs R&D programmes at a Sydney startup company. He has a PhD in physical chemistry, and research experience in chemical engineering in the US and at CSIRO. He is a regular commenter on BNC. You can follow John on Twitter @JohnDPMorgan Let’s get one thing out ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • The REAL reason some people hate nuclear energy
    Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He published a peer-reviewed book on low-carbon energy systems in 2012: The Power Makers’ Challenge: and the need for Fis ...
  • “Energy in Australia” book
    Graham Palmer, a regular BNC community member, has published a new book. It is titled “Energy in Australia: Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth” and is published by Springer (in their “Springer Briefs in Energy” series). It’s a slim, taughtly wri ...

Republicans are a Disease edit

  • Christie Says “The Most Important Issue ...
    No Mr. Christie. That is not the most important thing. Even if you didn’t know “about” the plan, your staff made life horrible for thousands of Fort Lee residents on your behalf. Even if you said “destroy Fort Lee and that Democrat mayor who is getting too big for his bri ...
  • Christie Using Sargent Schultz Defense
    I know nothing…. Sure buddy. Just remember governor, road rage kills. So the next time you are sitting in gridlock, ask yourself if it is political.
  • The Titanic Took Longer To Sink
    Read it in a post on Raw Story. The Titanic took longer to sink.
  • Which Part Of The Bible Will Duck Dude Be Droo ...
    I just watched a piece on the Lawrence O’Donnell show about the parts of the bible that the “Jesus People” like Phil Robertson ignore, so they can babble on about the parts they like. From what I understand, the bible says adulterers, gays, and children who disrespect their eld ...
  • First Amendment – Free Speech – Ab ...
    If some television network has a “reality” show, then I can’t see where they should have a problem with any of the stars saying what they “really” think. Even is it is somewhat offensive. What takes me back is the fact that someone that pretends to be a christian ha ...

Appalachia Rising edit

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

Amped Status edit

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

+972 edit

  • The diplomatic process: There might be no Kerr ...
    Trying to satisfy Netanyahu’s political needs might result in the Americans ‘missing the moment of opportunity,’ says a former Israeli official. The diplomatic process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is at a crossroads as the American team, led by Secretary of State John ...
  • When shooting a 14-year-old boy in the neck is ...
    Firing live ammunition at civilians is a crime, more so when minors are involved. Such an incident should not end with a disciplinary procedure but with a criminal investigation. That is not what happened. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz At the end of last July, J., a boy from the village ...
  • The power of speaking Hebrew in Gaza
    Can Gazans boycott Israel while also studying Hebrew at a university? One Palestinian believes in the power of understanding Israeli culture and people in their own words. By Abeer Ayyoub “It is 6:30 a.m. Jerusalem time, this is the broadcast from Voice of Israel.” This is how my mornings have a ...
  • For the sake of peace, it is time to put an en ...
    After 20 years of a failed and fictitious peace process, there is no more room for ‘processes’ that serve as substitutes for peace. There is nothing left to clarify between the two sides. The only possible compromise for a peace agreement is well known. By Rona Moran and Hana Amouri ...
  • WATCH: Hundreds commemorate nine years of popu ...
    Unarmed resistance against the wall and the occupation has been taking place for nine consecutive years. With its ups and downs, successes and losses, villagers and supporters gathered for a special commemoration protest. Approximately 500 demonstrators gathered in the center of the West Bank vi ...

CenterLine edit

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

abelard - news edit

Case About Bird Flu edit

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

Invisible Opportunity edit

  • Anti-fluoride activists pressure Austin City C ...
    by: Julie Wilson (NaturalNews) On February 27, the Austin City Council addressed agenda item no. 19, an action to authorize and award an extending million-dollar contract with Mosaic Crop Nutrition, LLC, the city’s hydrofluorosilicic acid supplier. The Fla.-based company commends itself fo ...
  • Article: The end of private banking: Why the f ...
    By Rodger Malcolm Mitchell I have suggested that private banking in the United States should end, and all banking operations should be taken over by the federal government. I recognize that may be anathema to those who believe the government is too big and too powerful, and that private control ...
  • Could polio or other vaccinations be behind th ...
    by: Tony Isaacs (NaturalNews) According to reports, there are now about 25 or more cases, and counting, of a new “polio-like” outbreak in California children. Disease control officials have yet to determine the cause of the outbreak and they are looking for a new virus. Perhaps one d ...
  • Natural Health News and Wellness Tips | Natura ...
    by Christina England A study from the 1990s has come to light, proving that compared to unvaccinated children, vaccinated children were more likely to suffer from asthma, eczema, ear infections, hyperactivity and many other chronic conditions. Furthermore, the study identified that there was a t ...
  • Smoking Mirrors | Hitching on the Wrong Side o ...
    Dog Poet Transmitting……. May your noses always be cold and wet. Ludicrous, thy name is Media. Boy, are they getting desperate and anxious too. Look at who the many fans are, which are spoken of in the title and if you already know who the organization listed represents, it won’t come ...

Reader Supported News edit

Empty newsfeed.

War Resisters League edit

  • Historic Protest Settlement from 2004 RNC: WRL ...
    Yesterday’s historic settlement awarded to protesters at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City was the largest in U.S. history – and many a WRL’er was in the mix! At the press conference, Ed Hedemann of the WRL … Continue reading →
  • The War at Home and Abroad: Police Militarizat ...
      On Wednesday, December 4th, 2013, Ali Issa, national field organizer with War Resisters League, spoke at an event called “The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire” at CUNY’s Graduate Center in NYC. The City University of New … Continue reading →
  • On the Ground in Turkey: Repression Gets Personal
    (Originally posted on the Facing Tear Gas website November 28th, 2013.) After the mass escalation of anti-government protest this past late May in Turkey, events there have fallen out of the headlines. But mobilization and repression continue. This past November … Continue reading →
  • War Resisters League: Drop the Charges Against ...
    On the morning of October 22nd, 2013 agents of the Department of Homeland Security – acting on on behalf of federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan – arrested Rasmea Yousef Odeh, associate director of the Arab American Action … Continue reading →
  • What happens when 100 SWAT teams come together?
    On Friday, October 25th, more than 100 police and military agencies from California and across the US were joined by their counterparts from Israel, Guam, Bahrain, and Brazil for a massive SWAT team training and weapons expo called Urban Shield. … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future edit

  • CLF Week in Links: Nutrition Labels, Corner St ...
    The Baltimore Department of Health has a new program to bring healthy food to the city's corner stores. This is fine work by the Baltimore Office of Sustainability, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, and city health commissioner Oxiris Barbot.
  • Navigate the Global Meat System with New Meat ...
    A new report released last month by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Friends of the Earth Europe fell under the radar for many of us here in the U.S. However, that shouldn’t keep you from checking out this comprehensive guide to the global meat system and its effects. Besides covering many of th ...
  • Religion, Making a Difference, and Food
    What if the distinctions of religion were visible in the ways religious institutions handle food – the way they grow it, the way they acquire it, the way they donate it, and the way they teach their constituents about food?
  • The Positive Change Created by New Supermarket ...
    I read the headline “It takes more than a produce aisle to refresh a food desert” with part amusement and part exhaustion. I knew there would be an onslaught of articles bemoaning the wasted resources being spent on financing food retail in underserved neighborhoods. Then I read the news story t ...
  • CLF Week in Links: Valentine’s Chocolate, Soc ...
    On this Valentine’s Day, I urge you to purchase fair-trade chocolate. The working conditions imposed by Big Chocolate on workers have been described as miserable, and there has been documentation that child labor fuels some of the industry.

k2p blog edit

  • Has Psychiatry just become a marketing tool fo ...
    The drug companies pay eminent professors, university officials and teaching hospital chairmen millions ‘in personal income’ to concoct more and more abnormalities so that more and more pills can be dished out by GPs and specialists.
  • Where is the evidence that man-made CO2 is the ...
    There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years. If there were such a proof it would be written down for all to see. No actual proof, as it is understood in science, exists.
  • Obama’s “promotion of democracy&#8 ...
    I have a theory that Obama's indecision, his dithering and his aversion to risk of any kind has led to his actually supporting Al Qaida in Syria and is now leading him to help Neo-Nazis in the Ukraine. All in the name of promoting "democracy".
  • China issues report on US Human Rights record
    Pots calling kettles black and the kettles claiming the pots are even blacker!!
  • China issues report on US Human Rights record
    Pots calling kettles black and the kettles claiming the pots are even blacker!!

Left Foot Forward edit

Whistleblogger - GAP edit

  • Investigative Piece Excoriates UNC Treatment o ...
    Bloomberg Businessweek: In Fake Classes Scandal, UNC Fails Its Athletes – and Whistleblower Image via wikimedia user Anders94 This long-form cover story details the case of University of North Carolina learning and literacy specialist Mary Willingham, a whistleblower who has exposed two separa ...
  • FDA Surveillance May Have Violated Whistleblow ...
    Reuters: Republicans Say FDA Spying May Have Broken Whistleblower Laws Yesterday, House Oversight & Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Ca) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) charged that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) may have exceede ...
  • Suit Alleges Counterfeit Medical Equipment Sch ...
    NBC4: Fake Medical Equipment Scandal Ran Rampant – Whistleblower According to a whistleblower lawsuit in California, a group of hospitals and medical hardware distributors recruited doctors to push workers' compensation patients to have spinal surgeries done at facilities that overcharged for ...
  • SEC's Amicus Supports Internal Dodd-Frank Whis ...
    CFO: SEC Goes to Bat for Whistleblowers There continues to be ambiguity stemming from judicial rulings as to whether or not, under the Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections, employees who first report wrongdoing internally to their companies qualify for such protections. In an amicus curiae br ...
  • Prominent Government Whistleblowers Visit Prin ...
    Next Tuesday, March 4, prominent government whistleblowers will visit Princeton University and relay their stories of standing up for truth and persevering despite harsh retaliation. Two notable newsmakers will participate: Cathy Harris, former senior inspector for the U.S. Customs Service who d ...

UK Progressive edit

  • Op Ed: America’s Deep State
    by Robert Hunziker Bill Moyers of Moyers & Company, on Feb. 21, 2014, interviewed Mike Lofgren, a former GOP congressional staff member, who, during the interview, confirmed what many Americans already suspect: America has become a corporate state, or to use Lofgren’s words, a “Deep State,” ...
  • Inequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp
    by Robert Reich If you ever wonder what’s fueling America’s staggering inequality, ponder Facebook’s acquisition of the mobile messaging company WhatsApp . Facebook has agreed to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion. That’s the highest price paid for a startup in history. It’s $3 billion more than Faceb ...
  • Hidden in a Heart, A Discovery ‘Beyond Belief’
    Linda Carswell hoped a lab test might bring closure after her husband’s mysterious death in a Texas hospital. Then came the unimaginable results. by Marshall Allen ProPublica Linda Carswell thought her quest to recover her husband’s heart had come to an end. Finally, after almost a decade, she w ...
  • Don’t Like Food Stamps? Raise the Minimum Wage
    by Tina Dupuy ay you’re philosophically opposed to food stamps. Let’s say you feel better about yourself by calling those who’ve hit hard times freeloading parasites. Suppose the very idea someone somewhere may be cheating the system is enough for you to support snatching all subsidized sandwich ...
  • Are You Etan Patz?
    by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica The 30-year-old American man had set up a nice life for himself in Europe. He’d been there two years. He had a good job with a company he liked, doing fulfilling work. He had a wife, a decent apartment, and the adventure of living in a foreign place, all while mainta ...

NewsAlert edit

JoNova edit

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  • UNSW climate scientists shift goal posts, publ ...
    The pause in global warming is so crippling, so crucial, that scientists will go to extremes to find any excuse to issue something that combines the magic terms “no pause” and “extreme temperatures”. This is the winning combination in climate bingo. But marvel how far the ...
  • Australian Science Curriculum over run with gr ...
    The Labor Party pushed and got a National Australian Curriculum. Now instead of the states separately mucking up parts of kid’s education, we’ve achieved a monoculture — an entire generation spoon-fed the same flaws. At least with the state systems — for all their imperfe ...
  • Half a million people in the air at any one time
    Marvel at the science and engineering that keeps these planes flying, and remarkably safely: Planes in the sky with half a million people in the air at any one time | Guardian & Flightstats How many flights are in the air at once? NOAA estimates that 5,000 planes are in the sky over the ...
  • Busted: 120 gibberish science papers withdrawn ...
    At least 120 computer generated nonsense papers have been reviewed and published in publications of the  Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and Springer, as well as conference proceedings. The fakes have just been discovered by a French researcher and are being withdrawn. Cy ...

ReNew America edit

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

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