Sunday, March 02, 2014

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Truck hauling 36-Inch Pipe to build Keystone-C...Truck hauling 36-Inch Pipe to build Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) south-east of Peabody, Kansas, USA. Location is Timber Rd and 20th St in Marion County. Looking south-west with rural Whitewater Center Church in background. Photo taken by Steve Meirowsky on July 10, 2010. Note: The rear wheels on this truck has independent steering. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Biosingularity edit

  • Researchers generate new neurons in brains, sp ...
    UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells. Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body’s own cells ...
  • 3D model of a boy’s heart speeds up life-savin ...
    Operating on a child’s heart is a challenging procedure. Not only is the organ (presumably) defective, but it’s also small, complex, and delicate. So when Louisville, KY heart surgeon Erle Austin was preparing to operate on 14-month-old Roland Lian Cung Bawi’s heart, he first s ...
  • HIV and AIDS
    his 3D medical animation shows the function of white blood cells in normal immunity. It also portrays how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) affects the immune system and causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Common types of antiretroviral medications used to treat HIV and AIDS a ...
  • Building Artificial Cells Will Be a Noisy Business
    Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of proteins, antibodies, and viruses—mimicking the behavior of cells is a good place to start since cells carry an enormous amount of information in a very tiny packet. As Erik Wi ...
  • Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone
    What does it take to regrow bone in mass quantities? Typical bone regeneration — wherein bone is taken from a patient’s hip and grafted onto damaged bone elsewhere in the body — is limited and can cause great pain just a few years after operation. In an informative talk, Molly Stevens intr ...

CFACT edit

  • It’s time to move forward on Keystone XL
    The truly important decision is President Obama’s. Will Mr. Obama cut through the red tape, and help put our nation back to work? Will there finally be real hope and change, or just more hype and rhetoric? America is waiting.
  • Really, Mr. Kerry? So where will you stand on ...
    Secretary of State John Kerry actually stated that climate change was the most terrifying "weapon of mass destruction" and that it is all our fault. But a look back at history shows that Senator Kerry voted against the Kyoto Protocol even after his pal, Canadian billionaire Maurice Strong, had ...
  • Keystone pipeline delays prove Obama opposes U ...
    Alan Caruba slams President Obama for his failure to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline that would bring Canadian oil to U.S. refineries and along with the oil, tens of thousands of jobs and billions in tax revenues -- all the while holding down the real cost of energy. Caruba not ...
  • The ever-shifting politics of climate change
    Marita Noon notes that the Obama Administration, responding to Big Green billionaires, has stepped up his emphasis on climate policy just as Secretary of State John Kerry is calling climate change a "weapon of mass destruction." While Obama is spending a billion taxpayer dollars, Green billiona ...
  • Greenpeace co-founder: Earth’s geologic histor ...
    Dr. Patrick Moore: "I am confident that history will bear me out, both in terms of the futility of relying on computer models to predict the future, and the fact that warmer temperatures are better than colder temperatures for most species."

Ria Novosti Online News edit

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology edit

Natural Health News edit

  • The Benefits of Curcumin in Cancer Treatment
    By Dr. Mercola Cancer is one of the leading causes of death. What if there was a safe, natural herb that could work for nearly every type of cancer?   According to Dr. William LaValley, who focuses most of his clinical work on the treatment of cancer, curcumin—a derivative of turmeric, ...
  • How Your Body Generates Electricity
    By Dr. Mercola Your body is capable of generating electricity, and this ability is actually a key part of your achieving health. Electricity allows your nervous system to send signals to your brain. These signals are actually electrical charges that are delivered from cell to cell, allo ...
  • Overconsumption—A Look at How Unsustainable Ou ...
    By Dr. Mercola The featured video, Overconsumption, is a segment of a longer, completely non-verbal documentary called SAMSARA, which was filmed over a period of five years, across 25 countries. "By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, SAMSARA subverts our expectations of a tradi ...
  • US Officials Target Escalating Drug Overdoses
    By Dr. Mercola Deaths caused by overdosing on painkillers now surpass murders and fatal car accidents in the US. America's rising drug problem recently received renewed attention following the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman.1 The 46-year-old Oscar-winning actor died from a heroin overdose ...
  • Teen's Heartwarming Message in Snow to Mom
    By Dr. Mercola A loving, motivational message from a son to his mother – carved out in snow on the top deck of Chicago's Rush University Medical Center parking lot -- went viral earlier this month. The snow message read "HI MOM" and was intended for Sharon Hart, a 48-year-old woman undergo ...

Climategate edit

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris edit

  • Russia’s Intervention in Ukraine: Legal Rhetor ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Saturday began with reports that Russia had seemingly used private security contractors to take control of the airport in Simferopol, Crimea. Then reports (like this one from CNN) of President Putin requesting from Russia’s Parliament an authorization to use mil ...
  • Events and Announcements: March 2, 2014
    by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Calls for Papers The Center of Excellence “PluriCourts” at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, is organizing an international symposium on the Legitimate Role(s) of Human Rights Courts and Tribunals in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes in Oslo, 8 and 9 ...
  • Weekend Roundup: February 22-28, 2014
    by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris,  we closely followed the situation in Ukraine. Julian argued that international law principles are unlikely to provide a solution for the crisis since it would require the US and Russia respectively to defend or reject principles they ha ...
  • Don’t Panic! The Budapest Memorandum Does Not ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Lots of reports, including those from the new Ukrainian government at a meeting of the UN Security Council, suggest that Russian military forces have crossed into Ukraine. This has caused a mild panic on Wall Street and some typically overwrought press reporting from, ...
  • Survey Says: If You Want Solitary Confinement ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Here is a timely piece from Adam Chilton on how treaty obligations may be experienced by the American public. He devised an experiment (using Amazon’s mTurk) to test the effect of a putative treaty violation on public support for reform of solitary confineme ...

Public News Service edit

  • “Day of Action” Kicks Off Final Pu ...
    “Day of Action” Kicks Off Final Push for Health Care Enrollment PHOENIX - The open-enrollment deadline to obtain health insurance under the Affordable Care Act is now only a month away. More than 600 members of the nonprofit "Cover Arizona" coalition are holding a statewide "Day of A ...
  • Safety of Electronic Cigarettes Still Up for D ...
    Safety of Electronic Cigarettes Still Up for Debate in Arizona PHOENIX, Ariz. - Electronic cigarettes often are advertised as a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes, but there are still a lot of questions in Arizona about their safety. E-cigarettes provide users with nicotine through a liquid ...
  • Military Learn Writing Skills in Arizona Wilde ...
    Military Learn Writing Skills in Arizona Wilderness PHOENIX - Current and former members of the military are eligible for an extended weekend writing retreat in the Arizona wilderness near Tucson. The free workshop is a joint effort of the Veterans Writing Project and The Wilderness Society. Wr ...
  • AARP Arizona Expanding Fraud-Awareness Program
    AARP Arizona Expanding Fraud-Awareness Program PHOENIX - Arizona is the number-one state for identity theft, and AARP Arizona is looking to expand its fraud-education program beyond Maricopa and Pima counties. That Community Educators Program relies on trained volunteers to make presentations to ...
  • Report: Arizona Income Growth Sluggish Since 1979
    Report: Arizona Income Growth Sluggish Since 1979 PHOENIX - Income for Arizonans expanded by just 17 percent between 1979 and just before the Great Recession hit late in 2008, according to a new report. That isn't an incredibly healthy growth rate for a span of almost 30 years, and when the Econ ...

Center for Food Safety edit

  • Center for Food Safety Denounces Dangerous “Bi ...
    Center calls rider “corporate welfare” for Monsanto and other biotech companies The Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemns the inclusion of a dangerous corporate earmark, the “biotech rider,” in the Continuing Resolution (CR) passed today on the Senate floor.  The rider undermines the federal cou ...
  • Top grocery stores: We won’t sell genetically ...
    Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood” by announcing that several major grocery retailers representing more than 2,000 ...
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food
  • New Infographic Shows Nutritional Differences ...
    What’s the nutritional difference between AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon and non-GE salmon? Check out our new “Nutrition Facts” infographic to find out! Download a printable version and use them to talk to your local restaurants and seafood sellers. Filed under: GE Food
  • New Publication: Food Safety Review on Genetic ...
    The Center for Food Safety has just released a new short Food Safety Review report, Genetically Engineered Salmon: The Next Generation of Industrial Aquaculture. Download your copy today! Filed under: Aquaculture, GE Food

Pensieve edit

  • Medicine for Bleak Mornings
    Think of the sky A strong wind carries out the dark ominous clouds, the draperies of fog, and the haze. Think of a spring Tinkling out of virgin rock, a clear fountain of water shoots up, dances down steep slopes, and meeting others becomes a roaring waterfall. Its spray and sound wash out the m ...
  • At my work desk remembering the good times at ...
    aaronernestoortizlopez posted a photo:
  • Reduce Entropy: Create New Order
    The following is a brief meditation with echoes of Genesis 1 and the Big Bang. It came to me when thinking about the current US strategy against in the “war on terror” and North Korea. We can fight chaos, but chaos will beat us down with the full force of mathematics and of the entir ...
  • Amanda Palmer, Bravo!
    I admire how brave Amanda Palmer is. I haven’t heard her music, but I have a strong feeling that the ways she conducts her finances will be the way of the future for most musicians. Related posts: Monster Mask – Pomplamoose Pomplamoose is a collaboration between Jack Conte and Natal ...
  • Escape your demons and make art now!
    Often I am frustrated by my feeble attempts at art. My music is good, but perhaps, not grammy worthy. I look in envy on musicians with more pluck than I building successful carrers on easily performed songs, plus the sheer daring of getting on a stage and performing them. In their place I would ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government edit

  • Navy: Fighter jet crashes in Nevada
    ShareThisNavy: Fighter jet crashes in Nevada 01 Mar 2014 The U.S. Navy says a fighter jet has crashed during a training exercise in Nevada, and the pilot's condition is not immediately known. The F/A-18C Hornet crashed Saturday afternoon on a Navy range training complex.
  • Canada recalling ambassador from Moscow over R ...
    ShareThisCanada recalling ambassador from Moscow over Russian intervention in Ukraine 01 Mar 2014 Prime Minister Stephen Harper is recalling Ottawa’s ambassador to Moscow and suspended Canada's preparations for the G-8 Summit planned for Sochi, after speaking with U.S. President Barack Obama ami ...
  • Iraq death toll exceeds 700 in February: U.N.
    ShareThisIraq death toll exceeds 700 in February: U.N. 01 Mar 2014 More than 700 people died in violence in Iraq in February, not including nearly 300 reported deaths in western Anbar province, where security forces have been battling Sunni Muslim rebels since January, the United Nations said o ...
  • Thousands protest against new govt in eastern ...
    ShareThisThousands protest against new govt in eastern Ukraine, raise Russian flags 01 Mar 2014 Thousands of pro-Russian demonstrators across eastern Ukraine and Crimea are protesting against the new government, with administration buildings being seized in several cities. Gunshots have been r ...
  • Russian senators vote to use stabilizing milit ...
    ShareThisRussian senators vote to use stabilizing military forces on Ukrainian territory 01 Mar 2014 Russia's Federation Council has unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin's request to use Russian military forces in Ukraine. The move is aimed to settle the turmoil in the split country. ...

Daily Loaf edit

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  St ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

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 ...

Coteret edit

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

Deadline Live edit

  • You quit falling for the “War on Terror& ...
    Breaking: Russian senators vote to use stabilizing military forces on Ukrainian territory 01 Mar 2014 Russia’s Federation Council has unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin’s request to use Russian military forces in Ukraine. The move is aimed to settle the turmoil in the spli ...
  • DUI checkpoint video goes viral
    WATE 6 News   This video has been getting a lot of play and generated a lot of conversation what do you think? A driver recorded his stop during a DUI checkpoint in Rutherford County, TN and uploaded the video to YouTube. By this evening, just hours after it was posted, it had more than [&# ...
  • Tenn. State University Requires Students to We ...
    Beginning Saturday, March 1, students and staff at Tennessee State University will be required to present identification badges at any time that can also track their movements in and out of buildings, according to a local-news report.   After a spate of break-ins and vandalism, officials at ...
  • Central banker appointed as Prime Minister of ...
    Newly appointed Prime Minister of Ukraine and former central banker Arseniy Yatsenyuk Hang the Bankers A reshuffled Ukrainian Parliament installed following a coup last week has voted to appoint Arseniy Yatsenyuk as the new prime minister of the country. Yats, as Victoria Nuland, the Assistant S ...
  • The Jack Blood Show – February 27 2014

The Air Vent edit

  • If the Square Peg Doesn’t Fit – Ge ...
    It seems like I just got done writing a post which incorporated the point that Real Climate leaves much to be mocked, and low-and-behold Gavin Schmidt deals us a whopper.  A fantastic new paper was written as a comment for Nature called “Reconciling Warming Trends”, which proports to ...
  • Confirmation of Phi’s Reconstruction
    In December last year, reader Phi brought the Briffa MXD data from his 2013 paper to my attention.   He showed the following graph of MXD data vs 3 different temperature series.   Needless to say, it shows an impressive correlation between trees and temperature: While Phi made the claim that the ...
  • Another Opinion Post
    I heard a radio host in Kalamazoo, comment on a letter written in by a listener on emotion and opinions.  The idea was that emotions and opinions cannot be wrong and at least the emotion can’t-be-wrong claim is  a common thread in human culture and one of my apparenlty numerous pet-peeves. ...
  • The Problem with Ocean Heat Uptake
    A recent article on the global warming hiatus  garnered a bit of attention in blogland and the substantially less technical mainstream media. It was published in Nature Climate Change: Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus.   Of course th ...
  • A Big Project
    Brandon Shollenberger is collecting a list of Michael Mann’s screwups.   I’ve thrown in a short thousand words myself.  I could have kept going but I’m showing more restraint in my old age….:D   If you have your own info to add, I’m sure he would be happy to collect ...

Focal Point edit

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

Inside Facebook edit

  • Jack Daniel’s Facebook ads rock in Brazil: as ...
    The most iconic brand in whiskey, Jack Daniel’s, drives amazing engagement worldwide. In Brazil, they show different content than they do in the United States. And it rocks (no pun intended). There are now 86 million...
  • Are rising Facebook ad prices a cause for concern?
    As more and more small businesses and major brands get into the Facebook advertising fold, competition for News Feed and sidebar space is increasing. As competition rises, bids go up and the total cost of advertising...
  • Case study: Quality Score & Beyond Diet used P ...
    Beyond Diet, a certified nutritionist’s diet solution, has a healthy Facebook following, but the page really took off financially when it teamed up with online advertising agency Quality Score for a Facebook ad campaign using Partner...
  • On Facebook, should native ads be made by the ...
    The term native advertising gets bandied around every now and then. Its popularity has been spurred on by the ad format’s appropriate fit in the appropriate setting and context. I’ve seen native advertising defined as: “Native...
  • Facebook to simplify ad campaign structure
    On March 4, Facebook will rework its ad campaign structure. Previously, the levels of advertising on Facebook were ad and campaign. But soon, Facebook will break this up into campaign, ad set, and ads. Facebook explained...

ReDress News edit

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

Amazon Rainforest edit

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs edit

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fats Domino- “I Want To Walk You Home” We are again back in time with this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. The artist is the great Fats Domino and the song is his hit record I Want to Walk You Home. This is Fats at his best…Enjoy…DJPJ.
  • Pando Exposé: Glenn Greenwald’s Boss, Billiona ...
    Greenwald’s Boss Omidyar provided 36% of “Center UA”’s $500,000 budget in 2012— nearly $200,000. USAID provided 54% of “Center UA”’s budget for 2012. Other funders included the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy. According to financial disclosures and reports published by Pand ...
  • The 1st Commandment of U.S. Imperial Pursuits: ...
    The Sheer Joy of Imperial Hubris & One-Way Equations It is time for our government to put aside diplomatic lingo and modified expressions and just state the facts as they see and believe them. It is way past time for our nation to hear it from our government – the BS-free and straight- ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Mexico’s Bin Laden: The Capture of Chapo Guzma ...
    Comparisons between Chapo Guzmán and Osama Bin Laden Are Valid, But For Horrible Reasons By Danny Benavides The End of an Era has been declared, loudly proclaimed in headlines throughout the world. Chicago’s “Most Wanted,” the “No. 1 drug kingpin” finally (re)captured in his own backyard. Joaquí ...

Afro Spear edit

Tikun Olam edit

  • Mondoweiss, Speech Police, and the Smugness of ...
    I wanted to come back to a subject of my last post on Valdary, which discussed the political rhetoric I’d used to criticize her.  I called her a “Negro Zionist” and Uncle Tom.  I wasn’t surprised at the showering of lies and invective from the uber-Israelites.  But I wasn ...
  • Chloe Valdary’s Suspect Pro-Israel Marketing
    Chloe Valdary is an African-American, Christian Zionist, and University of New Orleans undergraduate who’s been embraced by the Israel Lobby.  It has showered her with Israel junkets (Aipac, CAMERA and ZOA have each sent her), funding ($6,000 per year from CAMERA), and lots of promotion (h ...
  • The Israel Lobby’s Distortion Effect on U.S. M ...
    Today, I spoke to the Seattle Metropolitan Democratic Club with Dick Blakney about U.S. policy toward Iran.  My talk dealt with the latest developments in the Israel Lobby’s attempt to sabotage the administration’s diplomatic initiative to resolve the nuclear impasse.  I also took th ...
  • Shmuley Boteach, Sheldon Adelon to Honor Sean Penn
    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the self-proclaimed ‘most famous rabbi in America,’ announced that he’d be honoring Sean Penn, a major film star with a leftie reputation, for his humanitarian efforts to free a Jewish man from a Bolivian jail.  In May, he’ll be honoring together wi ...
  • Norwegian Media Break Story of Israeli Ambassa ...
    A few days ago, I reported that Israeli ambassador to Norway, Naim Araidi, had sexually harassed both his female embassy staff and workers at his residence.  After I reported this story, I posted to social media seeking a Norwegian journalist who might take up the story.  Yesterday, my prayers w ...

OpEd News edit

  • What Neocons Want from Ukraine Crisis
    Special Report: The Ukrainian crisis --- partly fomented by U.S. neocons including holdovers at the State Department --- has soured U.S-Russian relations and disrupted President Obama---s secretive cooperation with Russian President Putin to resolve crises in the Mideast, reports Robert Parry.
  • Worst Man for the Job: What the Hell is Obama ...
    While rejecting any Great Man theory of history, Daniel Patrick Welch focuses on Obama long enough to consider whether he is a cipher or just plain evil--and concludes the question is moot.
  • Resolving Nuclear Arms Claims Hinges on Iran-- ...
    The record of negotiations between Iran and the IAEA shows Tehran has been ready for the past two years to provide detailed responses to all the charges of an Iranian nuclear weapons work, and that the problem has been the refusal of the IAEA to share with Iran the documentary evidence on which ...
  • The Only Solution
    This is an article about how the dismal state of affairs that this nation is in came about and most important, tells us what we need to do to save ourselves from the curse we presently live under.
  • Jack Lew Gets It Right - and Wrong
    Jack Lew, in his 1978 thesis, correctly found that there is a real problem in the funding of Social Security. He was only partly right to say that it is a regressive tax; it---s really much more insidious than that. But he was 100% correct when he proposed the solution, presented here.

Switchboard edit

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • My Birthday at Mt. Hood with Electric Car Charging
    Max Baumhefner, Attorney, Clean Vehicles & Fuels, San Francisco Below are remarks I delivered today at an event at the Mt. Hood Ski Bowl, the first ski resort in the country to host a DC fast charger for drivers to get back and forth to the mountain ...
  • Ensuring Yellowstone Grizzly bears are secure ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC A new study by the Interagency Team in charge of grizzly bears will be out soon that suggests that although the growth of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population has slowed it is nonetheless still incr ...
  • UPDATE: Colorado finalizes its big step forwar ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Staff Scientist (Sustainable Energy), New York Last weekend, Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission adopted important final standards  that will rein in methane pollution from the state’s booming oil and gas ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile finds whales, ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. February 23rd-29th, 2014 Chile Fourteen authors from C ...

Subalternate Reality edit

  • Forget The Wealthy. How Do We Tax The Lucky?
    A few weeks ago, the Washington Post ran a lengthy, above-the-fold piece looking into what impact capital gains tax rates were having on wealth inequality in America. “Most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do,” the reporters noted, adding that duri ...
  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: “When a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.” I wasn’t commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to de ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg – one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq – has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement that’s taken over the streets of Egypt. “I support democratization, but,” he cautions, “the democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...

Idea Lab | Technology edit

  • Developers, Knight Fellows Mingle at Matter Event
    About 20 Knight Alumni and Fellows recently converged on a big-windowed workspace in San Francisco's South of Market district. Sure, there was pizza and beer, but what really drew them was the chance to crunch ideas with developers working to "change media for good." The dozen or so ...
  • Join the Zeega Makers Challenge for 'The Makin ...
    In 24 hours, Zeegas -- a new form of interactive media -- will be installed on four projection screens at San Francisco's renowned Museum of Modern Art. This showcase is part of "The Making Of..." -- a collaboration between award-winning NPR producers the Kitchen Sisters, KQED, AIR's Localore, ...
  • OpenStreetMap Conference to Advance the World' ...
    Hundreds of users, contributors, and mappers are converging next month in San Francisco to discuss OpenStreetMap, the free and editable map of the world often called the "Wikipedia of maps." More than 1 million people have signed up to contribute to OpenStreetMap, making it the world's largest o ...
  • The Crowd and the Mob: Opportunities, Cautions ...
    Recent events in Boston highlight both the potential and hazards of ever-present cameras. In the hours following the April 15 bombing, law enforcement agencies called upon commercial businesses and the public to submit relevant footage from surveillance cameras and mobile devices. While the tsun ...
  • Want an Affordable Infrared Camera? Give to Pu ...
    This post was co-written by Public Lab organizer Don Blair. Public Lab is pleased to announce the launch of our fourth Kickstarter today, "Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project." The idea for the Infragram was originally conceptualized during the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Cutting Edge News edit

  • Edge on Computing - Offices Make Space for Co- ...
    Cloud technology and wider use of freelancers has more people working from home, remotely or even from coffee houses. Being away from the rigid hierarchy of office cubes suits many, but some miss collaborating with colleagues. Enter co-working spaces: locations where freelancers and remote worke ...
  • Ukraine on Edge - Secretary Kerry says Putin i ...
    Secretary of State John Kerry on March 2 blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “stunning, willful� choice to invade Ukrainian territory and warned of possible sanctions.“You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country,� Kerry said on ...
  • Obama's Second Term - Republican Lawmaker Says ...
    Russian President Vladimir Putin “is running circles around� the U.S. in his maneuvering on the global stage, a senior House Republican said Sunday following Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine.“I think Putin is playing chess, and I think we’re playing marbles. It’s not even clo ...
  • The Battle for the Ukraine - Putin's "Show of ...
    "Ukraine Must Reject Roots of Violence. If Ukrainians seek a brighter future, they must recognize, isolate and reject the inclinations to use violence that are now (emphasis added) deeply rooted in the country's political culture..." said a recent publication by the Wilson Center. But violence i ...
  • Ukraine on Edge - Everything You Wanted to Kno ...
    The situation in Ukraine remains incredibly tense, despite Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych’s flight from Kiev and the establishment of an interim government in the capital.On February 27, masked gunmen seized control of the regional parliament buildings in Simferopol, capital of the Ukra ...

High Country News edit

CounterCurrents edit

  • Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings In Secre ...
    Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), an armed group that controls large areas of northern Syria , said Amnesty International in a briefing published today. ISIS, which is linked to al-Qa’ida in Iraq, is an armed o ...
  • “Bride And Boom!” By Tom Engelhardt
    USA is number one in obliterating Wedding Parties in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen.... And were a wedding party to be obliterated on a highway anywhere in America on the way to, say, a rehearsal dinner, whatever the cause, it would be a 24/7 tragedy. Our lives would be filled with news of i ...
  • Walking In An Anthropocene Wonderland: "But I' ...
    According to a recent, exhaustive study commissioned by the US Department of Energy and headed by a scientific team from the U.S. navy, by the summer of 2015, the Arctic Ocean could be bereft of ice, a phenomenon that will engender devastating consequences for the earth's environment and every l ...
  • UNRWA’s Bitter Winter Solstice…And Now Dershow ...
    Preparing for a tough next few months is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is doing these days and the UN Specialized Agency is working in the face of daunting odds. UNWRA was founded in 1949 and for more than 60 years it has been pla ...
  • Richard Falk Interview… Stealing Palestine By ...
    Let us look the children of Gaza in the eye if we can. And if we can’t, as I could not, seize the moment to reflect on what it means to be (in)human during this holiday season

Contagious Love Experiment edit

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid edit

  • Remember In 2008 When The MSM Ripped Sarah Pal ...
    A small force of Russians have taken over parts of the eastern parts of the Ukraine. A scenario that almost no one could have projected.....ALMOST. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Back in 2008, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin suggested that if ...
  • Newsbusted: Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews Have ...
    There's weird goings on at the progressive MSNBC network. After they lost two hosts over a short period because of hatred-based comments, and after a weekend host was embroiled in similar controversy, the staff seemed to pull together. The usually close knit staff got even closer. But now  ...
  • Joe Biden DESPERATELY Wants to be President
    There is a very revealing piece by Glenn Thrush at Politico this morning about the SCHMOTUS, Joe Biden. It was revealing in that we learn how much Biden wants to be POTUS and the shunning of Biden probably caused the October government shutdown more as much as anything else. Thrush conducted t ...
  • Settled Science-Barack Obama and John Kerry Ar ...
    In a February 16th speech on global warming, Secretary of State John Kerry said climate-change skeptics were members of the "Flat Earth Society." Perhaps he should have checked with the Society first, because there really is a "Flat Earth Society," and the group (at least its president) does bel ...
  • Harry Reid Delays Minimum Wage Bill- Not Enoug ...
    Oops That blows one Democratic Party talking point. According to a report in the Hill, Harry Reid has delayed any Senate action raising the minimum wage. The reason? Democratic resistance in the wake of a Congressional Budget Office report released last week estimating that hiking the minimum ...

Wind Watch edit

  • Anglesey wind turbines catch fire in storm
    Wind turbines in Anglesey burst into flame in the gale force winds that hit North Wales. The flaming turbines were described as “giant Catherine wheels” after catching fire between 6pm and 7pm yesterday near Cemaes. Emma Shortman, who lives nearby, said: “I was letting the dogs ...
  • A-W deals with ‘runaway’ wind turbine
    Early Feb. 4, the Akron-Westfield School District’s wind turbine’s blade began rotating. On its own. “We have no control over the blades’ turning,” said A-W Shared Superintendent Randy Collins. “It is life-threatening to be near the wind turbine at this point.” “The whole thing could disintegrat ...
  • Wind power: Regional planners resist state uti ...
    The blades of wind-power generation are turning again, raising concerns of residents opposed to having windmills dot the landscape, and also those of regional planners criticizing an effort by the state Department of Public Utilities to issue siting “guidance” to communities and developers. The ...
  • Power line opponents surge against wind energy ...
    CALDWELL COUNTY, Mo. — Mike Ford shoved the rifle he carries for coyotes onto the dashboard, and his old Dodge diesel truck took out rumbling over frozen pasture to carry hay to cattle. It hadn’t gone a hundred feet before Ford started in on the people trying to — his word — “steal” his land. To ...
  • Ireland’s rural protests over wind energy
    Ireland is short of money but not wind, which now forms a central plank of its energy policy. But plans to develop wind power and export it to Britain are sparking a rural revolt, with local protest groups uniting through social media. Some claim Ireland will become a wind farm for Britain. Turb ...

Tippers News edit

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman edit

  • Human Trafficking: The Other Good Reason to Re ...
    Restrictive immigration policies have long been associated with a variety of economic problems. These include the diminished availability of foreign talent, the inability of businesses to fill low-skilled agricultural and service jobs typically scorned by legal residents, and reduced access to t ...
  • Methodological Individualism
    I am just now rereading Ludwig von Mises’s magnum opus, Human Action.  What a joy it is to get reacquainted with this masterful work and to use it as a benchmark to gauge my own intellectual odyssey since first reading it more than 40 years ago. Early on the reader encounters the term “methodolo ...
  • The Virtue of Market Inefficiency
    Markets are often rightly characterized as extraordinary problem solvers. Under the right rules of the game (including private property, free exchange, and the rule of law) people following their own self-interests can coordinate their plans with one another more or less successfully, generating ...
  • The Entrepreneurial Spirit
    Dorothy Whipple’s almost entirely forgotten novel High Wages is one of the most compelling stories of personal initiative and entrepreneurship that I have read. Left alone in the world with only fifty-two pounds in a savings account, Jane Carter decides to look for work. By chance, she arrives i ...
  • Austrian Economics: Ahead of its Time?
    So I’m a closet futurist. Being one, I sometimes find myself checking out sites like Transhumanity.net. I recently came across an article there that does a pretty good job of unpacking the difference between 20th century science and 21st century science. One of the things I noticed about 2 ...

Teaching Online Journalism edit

  • Smarter(9): A list for journalism students
    Zeynep Tufekci: Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release. Public radio journalist Stan Alcorn asks: Is This Thing On? (“Audio never goes viral.”) Freepress.net: The Net Neutrality Court Case Decoded.
  • Smarter(8): A list for journalism students
    Callie Schweitzer: How David O. Russell Made Me a Journalist. Matthew Mullenweg: The Intrinsic Value of Blogging. Steve Buttry: You don’t tip competitors on Twitter; you beat them.
  • Top 10 posts of 2013: Teaching online journalism
    In case you missed them, here are links to the posts on this blog that were viewed most often in the past year, according to the stats provided by WordPress. Only three on the list are from 2013 (I published only 27 posts this year). The oldest are from 2008 (also three posts), demonstrating the ...
  • Top 10 posts of 2013: Teaching online journalism
    In case you missed them, here are links to the posts on this blog that were viewed most often in the past year, according to the stats provided by WordPress. Only three on the list are from 2013 (I published only 27 posts this year). The oldest are from 2008 (also three posts), demonstrating the ...
  • Smarter(7): A list for journalism students
    National Geographic: 2013 Year in Review. Elise Hu: Tomorrow’s metric for news is action. Michael Wolff: Even the New York Times can't resist going lowbrow with native advertising.

Facing South edit

  • Environmentalists urge emergency declaration o ...
    Image Caption:  (Image is a still from the video below.) A viral epidemic is killing pigs en masse in North Carolina, and that's created a serious disposal problem that environmentalists are calling on the governor to addres ...
  • Remembering Chokwe Lumumba
    Image Caption:  Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba speaking in July 2013. (Photo by Natalie Maynor via Wikipedia.) Known as "America's most revolutionary mayor," Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba died this week at age 66. ...
  • While Duke Energy dodges taxes, its pollution ...
    Image Caption:  Duke Energy rakes in billions in profits while paying no taxes and pushing the costs of its dirty energy policies onto the public. (Photo of the company's coal ash polluting the Dan River by Appalachian Voices.) ...
  • ReVisioning Black History Month: Linking Afric ...
    Image Caption:  The April 15, 1968 issue of the United Farm Workers' newspaper, dedicated to the memory of Dr. King, was an homage to the overlapping chronicles of Latina and African American freedom struggles. Historic ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is a nuclear disaster unfoldi ...
    Image Caption:  The location of Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear power plant. (Map via Wikipedia.) Critical equipment at Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear plant on the Atlantic Coast near Fort P ...

Worldpress - Africa edit

  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandela's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Nelson Mandela: The Global Icon Goes Home
    Mandella's work to end apartheid in South Africa and fight for peace and equality throughout the world has left an indelible imprint on the global community.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • Zimbabwe Food Security Threatened by Tobacco
    Droves of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe are moving away from growing food crops and turning to tobacco, a trend that seriously threatens the country's food security.
  • DR Congo's Silent Ordeal
    Brutal violence continues to ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the massacres get very little coverage in Western media.

How Can I Recycle This ? edit

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

Age of Autism edit

  • Consumer Reports Vaccine Rating Scale
    By Cathy Jameson Consumer Reports magazine was a go-to resource for my parents when I was growing up. Cars, household appliances and electronic equipment, my parents relied on having that subscription to research big-dollar items they were preparing to purchase....
  • Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: Say Whut, Now?
    By Dan Olmsted Our indefatigable Anne Dachel passed along a story Friday with the kind of title we are by now immune to, so to speak: "The Dangerous History of Anti-Vaccine Comspiracies," by Jeffrey Kopman. It was the usual mashup...
  • Dachel Media Review: NBC's Weather Channel Att ...
    By Anne Dachel Read Anne's commentary and view the links after the jump. Feb 28, 2014, The Weather Channel: The Dangerous History of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies Feb 27, 2014, Seattle Q13 Fox News: Mom of autistic student pulls him out of...
  • Harold Ramis, Inflammatory Vasculitis and "Rar ...
    By Wayne Rohde With the passing of Harold Ramis, I was surprised to learn of the medical condition that led to his death. I remember him as Private Russell Ziskey in Stripes, an unemployed parapsychology professor in Ghostbusters, and as...
  • Pesticides and The Age of Polio
    This week AofA has focused on an outbreak of "Polio-like" symptoms in California. Doctors May Have Missed Pesticide Clue in California’s “Polio-like” Cluster Child in “Polio-like Cluster” Linked to California’s Winemaking Industry “Polio-like” Cluster in California Has Eerie Echoes Below...

Global BDS Movement edit

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.

L.A. Times - Greenspace edit

spiked edit

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform edit

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

Margaret's News edit

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom edit

Worldnews edit

  • Ronaldo saves Real in Madrid derby
    Real Madrid kept top spot in the Spanish Liga Sunday with a late 2—2 draw at crosstown rivals Atletico, who are second. The draw left Real Madrid with 64 points from 26 games, three more than Atletico and four more than Barcelona, who were due to host lowly Almeria later Sunday. Karim Benz ...
  • NATO deplores Russia's actions, but no hard re ...
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia's seizure of Crimea is a threat to peace in Europe and the situation must be "de-escalated", NATO's secretary-general said on Sunday, but diplomats said the alliance was unlikely to agree on major steps to rein Russia in. Speaking before chairing an emergency meeting ...
  • Tigers who refused to eat man give us somethin ...
    Scientists say many fussy eaters are picky about their food for entirely genetic reasons, such as because they are tigers. //--> Monday, March 03, 2014 ADVERTISEMENT Scientists say many fussy eaters are picky about their food for entirely genetic reasons, such as because they are tigers. This wa ...
  • Celebrating World Wildlife Day: A commitment t ...
    Added At: 2014-03-02 8:24 PM Last Updated At: 2014-03-02 8:24 PM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added to your saved article(s) To View your saved article(s)please Click Here » Close Nepal‚ which is home to unique and endangered species found in ...
  • Europe's flood losses to soar by 2050, researc ...
    Reuters Image Caption: A couple paddles in a gondola while posing for media, through the flooded central square in the village of Datchet in Berkshire (reuters tickers) March 2, 2014 - 19:02 By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Extreme floods like those swamping parts of Britain in recent month ...

Alex in Wonderland edit

MY Daily Apple edit

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

Common Dreams 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos edit

Scotts Contracting edit

  • Designing a Natural Pool with Fish Habitat
    Designing a Natural Pool with additional fish habitat area for the Sustainable Hemp Home Series. Since the Hemp Home Designs are all about Sustainability.  Why wouldn’t the pool be as […]
  • Growing Industrial Hemp Research Videos | St L ...
    COLLECTION OF YOU-TUBE VIDEOS ON GROWING INDUSTRIAL HEMP. Be sure to comment on the videos and support your local Hemp Farmer! If you have videos, knowledge or other info to share […]
  • Hemp Home Collection By Scotty
    Collection of Hemp Home Design CAD Drawing photos showcasing the sustainable lifestyle that this net zero energy efficient home, gardens, pergola, solar panels, solar water heating, pool, garage, safe room, […]
  • Hemp Home Post Frame Lateral Loading
    Post Frame Wood Structure Design-Industrial Hemp Wall Construction Its all about Energy Efficiency and Conserving Natural Resources when using a Post Frame Building option with the added benefit: Post Frame Buildings […]
  • QandA with HEMP Building Expert Grey Flavall ...
    Hempcrete Wall Details by Scotty-  Hemp Home Building Plans Q-n-A with HEMP Building Expert: Mr. Greg Flavall Co-Founder and Technical Director at Hemp-Technologies on the Hemp Home design by Scotty Additional […]

Green House - USA Today edit

Law.com edit

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Iranian.com edit

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

Most Revolutionary Act edit

  • The Failure of Nonviolence
    The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy  By Peter Gelderloos (2013 Left Bank Books) Book Review You occasionally read a totally mind bending book that opens up a whole new world for you. The Failure of Nonviolence  by Peter Gelderloos is one of them, owing ...
  • The Common Misfortunes of Capitalism
    Note cow in stream (The 5th of 8 posts about my new life in New Zealand) Obviously there is both an upside and a downside to living in New Zealand. All developed and developing countries are forced to operate under the same corporate-dominated capitalist system. New Zealand is no excepti ...
  • The Sacrifices of Empire
    (The 4th of 8 posts regarding my 2002 decision to emigrate from the US to New Zealand) It only became clear once I left the US the immense sacrifices Americans make for their cheap gasoline and consumer goods (see previous post). The most obvious is a range of domestic programs that other de ...
  • American Ambivalence Towards Empire
      (The 3rd of 7 posts about my decision to emigrate to New Zealand) I had to move overseas before it sank in that Americans owe their high standard of living to US military domination of third world resources. The concept of economic imperialism isn’t new to me. I have know ...
  • My New Expatriate Identity
    (the 2nd of 7 posts about my new life in New Zealand) For people over fifty, starting over in a new country is like dropping a lab rat in a gigantic maze. Like the rat, you suddenly find yourself in an alien environment that constantly confronts you with new decision points and obstacl ...

FourWinds10 edit

Crisis Maven edit

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

Capital Flow Analysis edit

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

Energy Collective 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

Rodale News edit

  • Walmart to Suppliers: Toxic Chemicals Gotta Go…Now
    Whatever you might think of the behemoth retailer that is Walmart, Walmart wants you to think that it's not just the cheapest but also the safest place to shop in the U.S. As part of a major undertaking to reform the safety of cleaning products, personal care products, baby products and pet ...
  • FDA's New "Nutrition Facts" Panel Puts Focus o ...
    Your food labels are about to get a long-overdue makeover. The Food and Drug Administration has just announced a number of proposed changes to the "Nutrition Facts" panel that appears on every packaged food—finally admitting that the serving sizes currently in use are outdated a ...
  • BPA and Skin Exposure: Chemical Easily Moves f ...
    What do your morning coffee stop, grabbing a sandwich at noon, filling up your gas tank, and an after work trip to the grocery store all have in common? Although we wish that was the intro to a really bad joke, the truth is they all expose you to concerning levels of bisphenol A, or BPA, a chem ...
  • Yoga Mat Ingredient Found in Nearly 500 Foods
    Would you like some synthetic shoe leather in that sandwich? You'd probably gasp if your sandwich builder asked you that, but the truth is, azodicarbonamide, an industrial chemical foaming agent used to make synthetic leather as well as yoga mats and dozens of other consumer products, is found ...
  • McDonald's French Fries Are "Toxic Taters," Sa ...
    McDonald's French fries might beat every one of its competitors in blind taste tests, but a new coalition of health and environmental groups called "Toxic Taters" says the company is turning a blind eye to the harmful environments its potato growers are creating for nearby communities ...

big think edit

  • De-Criminalizing Heroin Addiction
    Heroin addiction continues to receive media attention following the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. His tragic overdose introduced America to the fact that heroin addicts do not fit any certain stereotype, and that people can struggle with addiction throughout their lives, even after peri ...
  • Double Rainbow: What Does This Mean?
    Witnessing a double-rainbow in nature may seem like a mystical experience, according to the famous video shot in Yosemite where the cameraman yells out in bliss: "What does this mean!"  Discovery de-mystifies what causes a double-rainbow to look so perfect, as though out of a fantasy movie or a ...
  • Hollywood's Dilemma
    Big Think interviewed producer and film scholar Jonathan Taplin to discuss the current state of Hollywood. As much as we get caught up in the glitz and glamour, it's easy to forget that Hollywood is an industry; instead of selling used cars, it sells used ideas. And the magic pixie dust that bri ...
  • Why Was Putin's Invasion Unexpected?
    Our opinion leaders and policy makers seem to have been genuinely surprised that Putin has invaded a part of Ukraine (mostly but not only Crimea) and will likely invade more.  Why?  It's so clear to us that he's unexpectedly acted unreasonably.  Walter Russell Mead and his crack staff explain .. ...
  • It's Actually Weird Not to Eat Insects
    Over 3,000 different ethnic groups eat 1,400 different species of insects. Not eating insects? Check out what you are missing from this insect buffet filmed by the Smithsonian. The National asks in the video below whether insects are the future of food. Bugs do cheaply pack a lot of prot ...

Groklaw edit

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News 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 ...

RFF Library edit

  • Renewable Energy for Military Installations: 2 ...
    American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) http://acore.org/files/pdfs/Renewable-Energy-for-Military-Installations.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] The Department of Defense and private industry must improve their communication and coordination, to the greatest exte ...
  • Preliminary Cost Benefit Analysis of Storm Sur ...
    Secretariet of the Pacific Community, Geoscience and Technology Division / by Anna Rios Wilks [Presented at the 30th Science, Technology and Resources Network (STAR) Conference, Rarotonga, Cook Islands-Oct 2013 and the 9th Pacific Islands Conference on Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, Su ...
  • U.S. Coal Competitive in Global Markets: ICF R ...
    ICF International / by James Wang, Jeff Archibald, Judah Rose (free download with registration) http://bit.ly/1fwtUpF This ICF International white paper examines ICF’s forecast of an end to the decline in U.S. coal production. Key topics include: Proposed Pacific Northwest and Gulf Coast c ...
  • Ohio Shale Development Community Impact Survey ...
    Ohio State Univ. http://bit.ly/NA2OSi [WKSU] A survey by Ohio University shows fracking communities in Ohio are reporting economic growth, but also creates issues with water demand. Scott Miller is the director of Ohio University’s Consortium for Energy, Economics and the Environment. He says th ...
  • A Roadmap for Renewable Energy in the Middle E ...
    Oxford Institute for Energy Studies / by Laura El-Katiri http://bit.ly/1funDoe Home to more than half of the world’s crude oil and more than a third of its natural gas reserves, the MENA region has, for the past fifty years, gained enormous significance as a global producer and exporter of energ ...

frogblog edit

  • Human Rights Amendment Bill fundamentally flawed.
    Some significant flaws have been uncovered in recent days in the Government’s Human Rights amendment Bill. During Select Committee hearings, one high profile and hugely experienced human rights campaigner even urged for bill to be withdrawn altogether. A key concern among critics is that the Bil ...
  • Immigration, Climate Change and the Pacific
    Immigration New Zealand is planning to deport a Tongan woman with a heart condition back to Tonga. She is from the island of Ha’apai, recently devastated by a cyclone and yet to recover. Her husband has already been deported and is subsisting on the ravaged island. Labour’s Su’a William Sio has ...
  • Stifling democracy in the community and volunt ...
    Earlier this week the Justice and Electoral select committee heard submissions on the Human Rights Amendment bill and learned from the  Auckland Domestic Violence and Disability Working Group  that its member not-for-profit  groups did not feel they could submit on the bill for fear that it woul ...
  • Wages fail to keep up with productivity gains
    The Government has announced that from April 1 2014 the minimum wage will be increased by 50 cents to $14.25 per hour. This will give the over 100,000 or so people earning the current minimum wage of $13.75 per hour an extra $20 before tax for a 40 hour week. It’s still not enough to […]
  • Power companies letting down the vulnerable
    Many of you will remember the shocking story of Folole Muliaga, who died in 2007 when her automated oxygen stopped after her power was disconnected. Industry guidelines were subsequently put in place that require power companies to give special consideration to vulnerable families and people rel ...

Patronus Analytical edit

J Kozy edit

  • Economic Man and the Virginia White Tailed Deer
    The Virginia white tailed deer can serve as a paradigm for natural species and exhibit their essential characteristics. Once upon a long, long time ago, the human race was also a natural species very much like the Virginia white tailed deer. The race is natural no longer. It is a species mad ...
  • Economics and Armchair Psychology
    Over millennia, numerous enterprises have sought the status of science. Few have succeeded because they have failed to discover anything that stood up to scrutiny as knowledge. Today the great fraudulent science is economics. Economic models are based on mere beliefs, many of which can never ...
  • "Legalized Injustice": The US Judicial System ...
    America is a failed state. Americans have not formed a more perfect union, established justice, insured domestic tranquility, provided for the common defense, promoted the general welfare, or secured the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Domestically, by every measure, Ame ...
  • Capitalism as Disease: Spreading Governmental ...
    In general, we are a mean spirited and spiteful people. The meanness that has afflicted America is responsible for its domestic violence and the violence Americans inflict internationally. The germ that carries this affliction is the predominant political economy fostered. Capitalism is an e ...
  • The Real New World Order. Bankers Taking over ...
    A real new world order has emergedthe world's downtrodden against the West and its puppet, surrogate colonial governments. These non-state but similarly minded actors will determine the course of future world history. There is now a new world order that the West cannot control, that military ...

Insanity Report edit

  • First Look At Grant Gustin as The Flash
    The CW has released a nice little sneak peak at what Grant Gustin will look like as The Flash in their upcoming pilot targeted for this fall. Gustin already appeared on this season of Arrow as Barry Allen and CW execs were so pleased with his performance they went ahead and greenlit a pilot. Ori ...
  • Movie Review: Son of God
    Kriss & Kev review the movie based off the mini-series based off the Bible....Son of God. The post Movie Review: Son of God appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Stalingrad Review
    Kev & Phenom review the highest grossing film in Russia, StalingradThe post Stalingrad Review appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Non-Stop Review
    Kev & Phenom review Liam Neeson's latest attempt at an Impossible White Man movie, Non-StopThe post Non-Stop Review appeared first on Movie Trailer Reviews.
  • Arrow Episode Review: Time of Death
    Man I hated the fact that Arrow was on break for the last couple of weeks.  And it coming back this week is just a reminder to me that we’re now coming into the last half of this season and I’m going to have an even longer wait.  Especially since this season has been so […]The ...

Survival - tribal peoples 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 ...

Montreal Gazette edit

Food World Order edit

  • #Monsanto’s Roundup Found in 75% of Air and Ra ...
    from globalresearch.ca: A new U.S. Geological Survey has concluded that pesticides can be found in, well, just about anything. Roundup herbicide, Monsanto’s flagship weed killer, was present in 75 percent of air and rainfall test samples, according to the study, which focu ...
  • #Oregon Seen as Key State in Debate Over Legal ...
    from oregonlive.com: It's shaping up to be a pivotal year in marijuana policy with Oregon playing a key role in the debate over legalizing the drug, The New York Times reports. More than half of the states are considering liberalizing their marijuana laws, reports New York Times writer Rick Lyma ...
  • US Lets 141 Trillion Calories Of Food Go To Wa ...
    from npr.org: The sheer volume of food wasted in the U.S. each year should cause us some shame, given how many people are hungry both in our own backyard and abroad. Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has provided us with a way to understand our flagrant annual waste in terms of calories, to ...
  • Michelle's New Rules for Schools Ads: Coke, No ...
    from nydailynews.com: Even the scoreboards in high school gyms will have to advertise only healthy foods under new rules announced Tuesday by the Obama administration. Promotion of sugary drinks and junk foods around campuses during the school day will be phased out under the rules, intended to ...
  • #WestVirginia Tap Water Test Results Expected ...
    from edition.cnn.com: Tap water test results in 10 West Virginia homes -- part of a state-commissioned study into whether the water is safe to drink after a chemical spill last month -- will be known in one to three weeks, scientists leading the effort said Friday. The project also is close to a ...

CrusadeWatch edit

  • New Christian political party launched in Hyde ...
    source: Times of India, Feb 22, 2014  http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/New-political-party-launched-in-Hyderabad/articleshow/30853956.cms HYDERABAD: Indian Christian Secular Party (ICSP), a national party to fight elections with Christian principles to get representa ...
  • Christian missionary deserts Assam kids
    source:  The Asian Age, Feb 25, 2014 When government is proposing right to education for every child, mothers in Assam are forced to sell their children due to poverty and illiteracy. Pointing out that at least three-four instances of mother selling their child for money have come to the ...
  • Nepal: Speedy Religious conversion taking plac ...
    source:  Telegraph, Nepal  Feb 24, 2014 In a well-planned and organized manner, said Chairman Kamal Thapa of fourth largest party in the newly elected constituent assembly, Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal, religious conversion is taking place in the country.
  • From the archive, 17 April 1953: India warns m ...
    source: the Guardian,   17 April 2013   The government of India is keeping a close vigil on the activities of missionaries within its borders Dr Katju, India's Minister for Home Affairs and Law, has told Parliament that, while everyone in India was free to propagate ...
  • Freelancers of God - Independent churches mush ...
       source: India today, April 30, 2011 Off a thinly inhabited road at Gurala village in Amritsar, Punjab, Karnail Singh holds his parishioners as a conductor holds his devoted audience. "Praise the Lord," he chants. A group of 150 men and women throw up their hands, pup ...

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 ...

CASSE edit

The Talking Clock edit

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

Facing South edit

  • Environmentalists urge emergency declaration o ...
    Image Caption:  (Image is a still from the video below.) A viral epidemic is killing pigs en masse in North Carolina, and that's created a serious disposal problem that environmentalists are calling on the governor to addres ...
  • Remembering Chokwe Lumumba
    Image Caption:  Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba speaking in July 2013. (Photo by Natalie Maynor via Wikipedia.) Known as "America's most revolutionary mayor," Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba died this week at age 66. ...
  • While Duke Energy dodges taxes, its pollution ...
    Image Caption:  Duke Energy rakes in billions in profits while paying no taxes and pushing the costs of its dirty energy policies onto the public. (Photo of the company's coal ash polluting the Dan River by Appalachian Voices.) ...
  • ReVisioning Black History Month: Linking Afric ...
    Image Caption:  The April 15, 1968 issue of the United Farm Workers' newspaper, dedicated to the memory of Dr. King, was an homage to the overlapping chronicles of Latina and African American freedom struggles. Historic ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is a nuclear disaster unfoldi ...
    Image Caption:  The location of Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear power plant. (Map via Wikipedia.) Critical equipment at Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear plant on the Atlantic Coast near Fort P ...

Short Sharp Science edit

Tech Drive In edit

  • Local Menus are making a comeback in Ubuntu 14 ...
    Time to say good-bye to global menus already? Seems like it. Canonical is planning to ditch its controversial and much talked about global menus for the more conventional Local menus setup, starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr". This is a huge departure, considering the fact that global m ...
  • Linux Remote Control: Controlling Linux deskto ...
    We have seen Android apps that lets you remotely control Banshee, VLC, Amarok etc. But how about a more holistic approach? Linux Remote Control aka LRC is a WebApp that turns any device with a web browser (that has HTML5 support) into a full-fledged remote control for systems that run any Linux ...
  • Portal 2 for Linux beta released!
    After Metro: Last Light FPS and Football Manager 2014, Portal 2 is the latest blockbuster game from Steam to reach our shores. If you don't know already, Portal 2 is the award winning sequel to genre-defining first-person puzzle platformer, Portal. Both the sequel and the original were huge ...
  • 3 WhatsApp alternatives that respects your privacy
    The recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook (for a whooping $16 billion!) has prompted a lot of people to switch to other WhatsApp look-alikes for fear of their privacy. But are there any WhatsApp alternatives that are really secure? Let's find out. Three of the finest secure, private and cro ...
  • Keyboard filtering is coming to Unity spread i ...
    I don't know about you, but I'm a big HUD fan. And I swear by my keyboard. If you're like me, here's a development you would not want to miss. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will debut keyboard filtering for Unity spread feature, which is pretty great news for keyboard junkies like me.  Keyboard filterin ...

Vaccine Awakening edit

  • Gardasil Vaccine, Katie Couric and Cyber-Lynching
    posted 1/29/2014 by Barbara Loe Fisher  The public flogging of veteran broadcast journalist Katie Couric began on Dec. 4, 2013, immediately after a 17-minute report on HPV and Gardasil vaccine was broadcast on her TV talk show “Katie.” 1 It was kick-started by a west coast business writ ...
  • Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is It Safe?
     posted 11/12/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher It was 1977 when I found out I was going to become a Mom. I instinctively knew I needed to be careful while I was pregnant, especially during the first two trimesters when the major organ systems of the fetus develop at a rapid rate. In the 196 ...
  • Measles Reports in America: What Does It Mean?
    Posted 9/24/2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher On Sept. 12, 2013, public health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) called a press conference to announce that vaccination rates among pre-school children are “high and stable” and “less than 1% are unvaccinated.” 1 More than 90 pe ...
  • Witch Hunting Jenny McCarthy for Vaccine Talking
    Posted: 7/22/2013 By Barbara Loe Fisher   Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show The View,1 the blood spilled on the ground of the Fourth Estate during 10 hot days in July is b ...
  • Desperate Times for Vaccine Risk Denialism
    posted May 14, 2013 by Barbara Loe Fisher   These are desperate times for those denying vaccine risks. We know it because we are witnessing so many acts of desperation being committed by doctors determined to shut down the public conversation about vaccination and health. Vaccine r ...

2020 Science edit

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

electric politics edit

  • Fragments of Faith
    Belief is not really an option. You're going to believe there's some higher power, some greater spiritual meaning to existence, some kind of being in transcendence, or you're going to believe there's not. (Agnostics believe that a person is able to not believe, which is slightly embarrassing.) W ...
  • The Ukraine Blues
    One feels frighteningly disoriented, hearing an American president support deadly mob violence for what is, essentially, counter-revolutionary change (in the form of IMF austerity). The president's message may be directed at unknown people far away but the effects are certain to be felt here, po ...
  • Healing by the Numbers
    It's difficult to say which is more astonishing: that it's possible to cure a fatal illness by opening energy gates with mental concentration, or that mainstream medical science has so blinkered itself that it refuses to examine the data. But data there is, in abundance, from an academic who in ...
  • Memory Management in Ukraine
    Ukraine is split culturally and politically between East and West, but not in such a way that either side clearly could dominate the other. Forcing choices on Ukraine (as the EU and the U.S. sporadically seem to want to do) only exacerbates the tension. But given recent events, tensions breaking ...
  • Edward Snowden's Deception
    At the moment I'm odd man out on the left. I see Snowden not as a hero but as a criminal. I agree with Edward Lucas, senior editor at The Economist, who says Snowden may well be an unwitting agent of Russian intelligence, and that that would be the most favorable possible interpretation of his a ...

PR News edit

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Field Notes - Alberta Environment edit

Stop NATO edit

  • Interview: Ukraine: a Nazi-like victory of US/ ...
    Voice of Russia March 2, 2014 Ukraine: a Nazi-like victory of US/NATO lawlessness – Rick Rozoff John Robles Recorded on February 24, 2014 Download audio file The US/NATO takeover of Ukraine, thought out and planned by the Neo-Conservative geopolitical architects and Zbigniew Brzezinski acolytes ...
  • Black Sea: U.S. Expands Large-Scale Troop Rota ...
    Stars and Stripes March 1, 2014 US transit hub in Romania fully operational Matt Millham MK AIR BASE, Romania: A temporary U.S. base in Romania that will serve as the primary hub for American forces leaving Afghanistan officially reached its full operating capacity Friday. Since Feb. 2, some 6,0 ...
  • NATO chief: Russia “threatens peace and ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization March 2, 2014 Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen before the meetings of the North Atlantic Council and the NATO-Ukraine Commission Pew Research 2010 I have convened the North Atlantic Council today because of Russia’s military ac ...
  • Lithuania Calls For NATO Clause To Be Activate ...
    EUobserver March 1, 2014 Lithuania invokes Nato treaty on Ukraine Lithuania’s FM Linkevicius has said Russia’s decision to deploy forces in Ukraine means “Nato, art. 4 becomes valid,” referring to article 4 of the Nato treaty. The article says Nato members must meet for c ...
  • John Galsworthy: History, made up of wars and ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts John Galsworthy: Selections on war ===== John Galsworthy From The Burning Spear (1919) IX CONVERSES WITH A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR … “‘Aven’t you never noticed, sir, that there’s two worlds – the ...

Intel Hub edit

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

FRS edit

  • Ambedkar, Gandhi and the battle against caste
    The Doctor and the Saint By ARUNDHATI ROY | 1 March 2014 |  The Caravan ANNIHILATION OF CASTE is the nearly eighty-year-old text of a speech that was never delivered.* When I first read it I felt as though somebody had walked into a dim room and opened the windows. Reading Dr Bhimrao R ...
  • Ambedkar, Gandhi’s most trenchant critic ...
    Outlook Magazine, Marcxh 10, 2014 Interview by Saba Naqvi “We Need Ambedkar–Now, Urgently…” Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning author on her essay The Doctor and the Saint and more In 1936, Dr B.R. Ambedkar was asked to deliver the annual lecture by the Hindu reformi ...
  • Ambedkar, Gandhi’s most trenchant critic ...
    Outlook Magazine, Marcxh 10, 2014 Interview by Saba Naqvi “We Need Ambedkar–Now, Urgently…” Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning author on her essay The Doctor and the Saint and more In 1936, Dr B.R. Ambedkar was asked to deliver the annual lecture by the Hindu reformi ...
  • Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
    By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...
  • Edward Snowden: “NSA Surveillance Is Abo ...
    By Edward Snowden 17 December, 2013 [Countercurrents.org published this note introducing Edward Snowden's open letter to the people of Brazil. "This letter was published today in the Brazilian newspaper A Folha in Portuguese and this original text was provided via the Facebook page of Glenn Gree ...

Ken O'Keefe edit

  • 20 Hours Until End of Crowd Funding Campaign
    My sincerest thanks - While I have not reached the target goal with just 20 hours left, I want to thank everyone who has shared and supported my crowdfunding campaign. Believe me when I say that I know I am blessed to have the kind of support that translates to good people shelling out what they ...
  • Merry Chistmas
    While I consider Christmas to be a most commercialised and materialistic manipulation for the vast majority of people, there is in this time an idea of helping others, and when that becomes primary and the materialistic crap becomes irrelevant then we know we are nearly there as a people. Anyway ...
  • Appeal for Support to Keep Middle East Show on Air
    Here are some subjects already partially recorded or in the works, soon to be aired; 1) the USS Liberty 2) 9/11 3) War crimes & treason charges so as to purge the traitors among us.
  • Former US Marine: President Obama should be tr ...
    I am confident that at some point the American patriots, who seem to be in a bit of a coma and have been sleeping for a long time, are going to wake up soon and realize that when they took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US, the president of the US also took that oath and has breached ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza, Israeli Trade for W ...
    This is simply amazing, the border that Israel controls 100%, the border between Jordan and the West Bank, is now open for the very first time... for TRADE! Yet, the border controlled by the 'Muslim Brotherhood', the border between Gaza and Egypt, remains virtually closed to trade.

StillSmallVoice edit

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

Popsci - Science edit

  • The Week In Numbers: The Top Speed Of A Polar ...
    A polar bear checks out a Tundra Buggy as the Trekker collects Street View imagery of it. Eric Gillespie/Google 25 miles per hour: the sprinting speed of a polar bear (read about Google's quest to bring polar bears to Street View here) 500 trillion: the number of particle collisions it too ...
  • Video: Polar Bear Asks Electric Car Driver To ...
    Just as we reach the breaking point for bad news about climate change, along comes something that kindles our hope for humankind: this sharp hack transforming trite automobile advertising, and by extension the message that we can buy our way out of this crisis, into a foul-mouthed polar bear's ...
  • Robot Nikes And Other Amazing Images From This ...
    Robot Nikes How will we dress our robot friends in the future? Trick question. They will dress themselves, and us. Maybe like this. Simeon Georgiev via designboom     
  • Robot Nikes And Other Amazing Images From This ...
    Robot Nikes How will we dress our robot friends in the future? Trick question. They will dress themselves, and us. Maybe like this.     
  • What Escapes A Black Hole?
    Black Hole As illustrated, a black hole pulls gas and plasma off a nearby star. That matter rotates around the hole in an accretion disk. Interacting with magnetic fields, the matter accelerates to tremendous speeds and then shoots from the disk’s center. Illustration by M.Weiss/NASA/CXC ...

Facing South edit

  • Environmentalists urge emergency declaration o ...
    Image Caption:  (Image is a still from the video below.) A viral epidemic is killing pigs en masse in North Carolina, and that's created a serious disposal problem that environmentalists are calling on the governor to addres ...
  • Remembering Chokwe Lumumba
    Image Caption:  Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba speaking in July 2013. (Photo by Natalie Maynor via Wikipedia.) Known as "America's most revolutionary mayor," Jackson, Miss. Mayor Chokwe Lumumba died this week at age 66. ...
  • While Duke Energy dodges taxes, its pollution ...
    Image Caption:  Duke Energy rakes in billions in profits while paying no taxes and pushing the costs of its dirty energy policies onto the public. (Photo of the company's coal ash polluting the Dan River by Appalachian Voices.) ...
  • ReVisioning Black History Month: Linking Afric ...
    Image Caption:  The April 15, 1968 issue of the United Farm Workers' newspaper, dedicated to the memory of Dr. King, was an homage to the overlapping chronicles of Latina and African American freedom struggles. Historic ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Is a nuclear disaster unfoldi ...
    Image Caption:  The location of Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear power plant. (Map via Wikipedia.) Critical equipment at Florida Power & Light's St. Lucie nuclear plant on the Atlantic Coast near Fort P ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate edit

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Internat'l Political Economy edit

  • If I Were the West, I'd Let Russia 'Have' Ukraine
    Gazprom-sponsored German star offers opinion on an EU rescue of Ukraine?Ukraine is a poisoned chalice insofar as it resembles Russia: corrupt and inefficient. Yes, there are geopolitical advantages in being Ukraine's ally. Yet, the list of advantages Russia retains from keeping it within its sph ...
  • Migration's Goons? Repatriation Companies in S ...
    [You may want to play The Clash's "Know Your Rights" for musical accompaniment while reading this.] My, oh my. First we learn that migrant riots do occur in Singapore. Now we learn of hired thugs whose presence is condoned in the supposedly antiseptic city-state? Migrant workers are usually the ...
  • Death to Speculators! (RMB Deluxe Edition)
    During the Asian financial crisis, then-Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamed singled out speculators for blame. Although he didn't specifically say "death to speculators," he became associated with the catchphrase. Speaking of which, it is enjoying something of a revival. You see, Chinese monetary auth ...
  • Activists' Deed? PRC Drops HK for Beijing to H ...
    The view Beijing doesn't want you to see?Cough, cough...the global reputation of the Chinese capital as a pollution haven is legendary. Unfortunately for APEC delegates, I guess they will have no choice but to suffer Beijing's (literally) killer air quality. Observers have now likened it to a "n ...
  • Buying Canadian Citizenship Costs More Now
    The good stuffWhen it was announced that the British would hand Hong Kong back to the Chinese in the year 1997, there was a flurry among its wealthy residents to decamp to Canada. Back then, we were uncertain of whether the place would lose its freewheeling, entrepreneurial culture and be replac ...

Economic Collapse Blog 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 ...

BlogHer edit

  • Why Can't Rice Krispies Treats Be NORMAL?
    My friend Sean did a great job of writing about food blog trends that should stop -- but he left something out that's really been bothering me lately. Why in the heck do we need designer Rice Krispies treats? Why can't we just eat plain old-fashioned Rice Krispies treats the way God or whoever ...
  • Why Can't Rice Krispies Treats Be NORMAL?
    My friend Sean did a great job of writing about food blog trends that should stop -- but he left something out that's really been bothering me lately. Why in the heck do we need designer Rice Krispies treats? Why can't we just eat plain old-fashioned Rice Krispies treats the way God or whoever ...
  • Don't Be a Robot for Jesus
    There’s a reason I don’t read that many Christian books. Too often, I feel like throwing them across the room. Image: Emiliano Felicissimo via Flickr (Creative Commons license) Like the one I opened up the other day, which had this Christian wisdom nugget: “Jesus is teaching me to live by faith, ...
  • Don't Be a Robot for Jesus
    There’s a reason I don’t read that many Christian books. Too often, I feel like throwing them across the room. Image: Emiliano Felicissimo via Flickr (Creative Commons license) Like the one I opened up the other day, which had this Christian wisdom nugget: “Jesus is teaching me to live by faith, ...
  • 6 Reasons You Shouldn’t Look Your Best on a Fi ...
      Image Source : Sergey Sus vis Flickr I’ve always been a relationship kind of girl... or at least I had been.A few months back, a big change happened in my life:  I was dumped. What does that even mean? I’ve essentially been in a relationship since I was 13 years old. Don’t get ...

Voiceless Victim edit

  • Getting it is not an accomplishment. Getting ...
    I am reposting here in full an excellent editorial written by Kristine Ward, Chair, National Survivor Advocates Coalition (NSAC) about the disgraceful performance of the Vatican’s paedophile protectors in front of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on January 16, 2014. EDITORIAL   ...
  • Who is Looking After the Children? Certainly N ...
    When a normal human being looks at a child they see a fellow human being. A human being who is tiny, innocent, vulnerable, loveable and full of potential. One who deserves our utmost efforts to protect them from harm. When a narcissist looks at a child they see an object who is easier than most ...
  • Does Papal Pretender Deserve Person of the Yea ...
    The announcement that Time Magazine had declared Pope Frank, the Paedophile-Protector-in-Chief, their Person of the Year for 2013 left all of us who are not either brain dead, brainwashed or irretrievably corrupt completely speechless. Surely this would be the joke of the new century, if it were ...
  • How Much Justice Will Survivors See in this Ne ...
    Welcome to a new year. The Christmas/New Year period is tough, not festive, for so many survivors. Difficulty in maintaining relationships with family, friends and colleagues is one of the lifelong impacts of childhood sexual assaults. A time of year emphasising the love and support offered by t ...
  • Catholic church opens Commission hearing with ...
    Last week survivors, many of whom had travelled long distances, crowded into the hearing room for the historic first Royal Commission hearing into how the Catholic Church handles child sexual abuse. Many lasted only until the well paid Church lawyer first opened his mouth. What emerged was so of ...

WL Central edit

  • 2014-02-18 NSA and GCHQ spying on WikiLeaks
    In response to revelations on NSA/GCHQ spying on WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange released the following statement. read more
  • 2014-01-14 Swedish Prosecutor Asks for Assange ...
    Retired Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren wrote a powerful op-ed for conservative daily SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) asking for the Assange case to be closed. read more
  • 2013-12-25 Edward Snowden: Alternative Christm ...
    Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honored to have the chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently, we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. read more
  • 2013-12-17 Snowden to Seek Asylum in Brazil
    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently living in Russia, has agreed to cooperate with Brazil in investigating the actions of the notorious US signals surveillance agency, and is asking political asylum from Brazil in return. read more
  • 2013-12-16 Snowden: An Open Letter to the Peop ...
    Six months ago, I stepped out from the shadows of the United States Government's National Security Agency to stand in front of a journalist's camera. I shared with the world evidence proving some governments are building a world-wide surveillance system to secretly track how we live, who we talk ...

U N News edit

  • Venezuela: UN human rights chief urges halt to ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today condemned the recent violence in Venezuela, and urged the Government to ensure respect for freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
  • Ban urges dialogue to defuse tensions, prevent ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his sadness at continuing reports of violence and loss of life amid protests in Venezuela, and urged that all efforts be urgently made to lower the tensions and prevent further violence.
  • UN expert applauds Haitian decision to probe a ...
    An independent United Nations human rights expert today applauded the decision by a Haitian court to order further investigations into alleged abuses committed by former President Jean-Claude Duvalier during his 15-year rule.
  • UN hails probe into former leader's alleged ab ...
    The United Nations human rights office today hailed the decision by a Haitian court to open new investigations into former President Jean-Claude Duvalier for crimes against humanity, saying that the move will help ensure accountability for past abuses.
  • UN rights office urges probe into Venezuela vi ...
    The United Nations human rights office today, deeply concerned about the escalation of violence in Venezuela, including the death of at least three people during protests on Wednesday, called on all parties to engage in dialogue to peacefully resolve the crisis.

Conspiracy Reality TV edit

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

Rewilding Institute edit

  • YOU Can Make the Difference for Cougars in Neb ...
    From the Cougar Fund: We are approaching the final hurdles in the campaign to protect Nebraska’s very small cougar population from being ‘sport-hunted’. Today the Legislature passed LB 671 to repeal mountain lion hunting in Nebraska. There are two more steps to go. The Cougar F ...
  • Big, Wild and Connected – John Davis’ TrekEast ...
    Dear Friends I am overdue to tell you of the completion of a book series in which you played a part, direct or indirect.  Island Press has published all three e-books, titled Big, Wild, and Connected, on the 7600-mile muscle-powered traverse I made of a future Eastern Wildway in 2011, with much ...
  • FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIEN ...
    For Immediate Release:  Monday, February 10, 2014 Contact:  David Parsons (505) 275-1944; Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337   FROM WOLVES TO BEETLES – FISH & WILDLIFE SCIENCE TARNISHED Service Manufactures Scientific Studies to Support Politically Negotiated Deals Washington, DC — This was an exc ...
  • Between the RAREs – Around the Campfire with U ...
    At our last get-together around this campfire, I went through the heartbreak of the Forest Service’s Roadless Area Review and Evaluation from 1971 to 1973.  For many of us wilderfolk at the time, RARE wiped clean any lingering belief that wilderness clubs and the U. S. Forest Service were togeth ...
  • Amigos de la Sevilleta to host Mike Phillips F ...
    February 2, 2014: Annual Meeting and Celebration 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Reception to follow The event will be held at USFWS headquarters on the Sevilleta NWR Reservations: (505) 864-4021 Brief Business Meeting Mike Phillips Live Music & Reception Amigos de la Sevilleta is holding its annual meeting ...

reference frame edit

  • Gross vs Strassler: Gross is right
    I was told about Matt Strassler's 50-minute talk at JoeFest (click for different formats of the video/audio/slides) and his verbal exchange with David Gross that begins around 35:00. Matt's talk is pretty nice, touching technical things like the Myers effect, pomerons etc. but also reviewing hi ...
  • Consistency arguments in theoretical physics
    Originally written with a different audience in mind Arguments involving the internal consistency of a theory or a system of ideas have assumed increased prominence in modern mathematical and theoretical physics as well as in other branches of human thought that were or are being inspired by ph ...
  • Russia can hardly allow Crimea to become milit ...
    ...and the same is probably true for the whole Ukraine... Relatively to my expectations, Russia remained incredibly calm and peaceful in the wake of the new Ukrainian "revolution". Putin et al. may try to keep their Olympic-inspired image of the saints; or they are just too upset about Yanukovi ...
  • 120 automatically generated gibberish papers m ...
    Nature and Fox News (not necessarily a complete list) inform us about a story that is both amusing and troubling but one that sheds some new light on the term "peer review". If you haven't seen that it really works, you should have a look. Go to the website of David Simmons-Duffin of IAS (but h ...
  • Viktoria Pilsen 1-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
    FC Viktoria Pilsen, previously a mediocre countryside team and now the charismatic soccer team in my hometown whose international and national successes since 2010 or so have been shrouded in mystery, has been playing under a new coach, Dušan Uhrin Jr, for a month because the previous legendary ...

Tatumba 2.0 edit

  • ADVANCED RUSSIAN S-400 AIR DEFENSE Missile Sys ...
    from Dahboo777: Look at the time stamp in the video. This convoy was spotted on the evening of February 26th moving toward the Ukraine Border. Is Russia preparing for an attack from NATO? SGTreport – The Corporate Propaganda Antidote – Silver, Gold, Truth, Liberty, & Freedom ear ...
  • Ukraine crisis: John Baird ‘condemns’ Russia m ...
    Canada’s foreign minister blasts ‘dangerous course of actions’ as hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday and world leaders, including the country’s new prime minister, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military ...
  • Ukraine crisis: John Baird ‘condemns’ Russia m ...
    Canada’s foreign minister blasts ‘dangerous course of actions’ as hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday and world leaders, including the country’s new prime minister, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military ...
  • When We Are In A Depression
    by Afred Adask, The International Forecaster: In order to understand whether we are or aren’t in an economic depression, we need a definition of the phenomenon that we can compare to our current conditions. Wikipedia defines “depression” as follows: “In economics, a depression is a sustain ...
  • Ukraine crisis: Russia urged to pull military back
    As hundreds of armed men surrounded a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Sunday, world leaders and Ukraine’s new prime minister urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull back his military. CBC | Top Stories News I fund CBC with my tax dollars so now they fund me. Related pos ...

Modern Survivalism edit

  • A List of Weather Links
    The following list of weather links include real time data and radar, satellite, severe thunderstorm and tornado outlooks and warnings, drought monitor, maps, land and ocean temperatures, and other interesting information for your preparedness…   10 U.S. Regional Radar Loops, plus Ala ...
  • What Inspires People To Prepare In The 21st Ce ...
    Human civilization has never before been so ‘modern’ and technologically advanced as today. We’ve never had it so good. We are able to live a soft and cushy life, and for the most part can get whatever we want, while there are safety nets for those who cannot get what they need ...
  • How Much Can You Do Without?
    If your family budget is tight, or negative, and you’re wondering how you can trim your expenses or looking for more ideas to save some money, here are some things to consider on what you might do without. After awhile, you probably won’t even miss what you’ve cut out of your b ...
  • Start Planning Your Garden
    With the new year upon us, it’s time to start planning your garden. For some, your planning (and seedlings) are already under way. For others (further north?) you may not have thought much about it yet with the cold and snow. The thing is, planting time will be here before you know it&#823 ...
  • Alternate Routes And Roads To Be Traveled If TSHTF
    Most people drive the same routes everywhere they normally go. Usually it’s the quickest route to their destination. The road well traveled. The one that everyone else takes to get to those same places. Ordinarily, this is perfectly fine. The question is: If something happened to clog your ...

Fast Company edit

  • Lego Is The Biggest Toy Company In The World
    It does one thing, but does it beautifully. And that's how the Danish company unseated Mattel to become No. 1.Lego is officially the world's most profitable toy company, finally topping Mattel this quarter. For the ninth year in a row, the company has broken its own sales records. But how did a ...
  • No Joke: Comedians Really Are Crazier Than You Are
    They score higher than normal on a number of psychotic measures--in yet another link between creativity and madness.It's almost the job of a comedian to leave you thinking that he or she is a little off in the head. Take the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where a Survivor contestant argues with a ...
  • Cate Blanchett In A Cookie Commercial? See The ...
    I loved you in Critters 3, Leo.Cate Blanchett is such a beautiful, regal presence on screen that it's nearly impossible to imagine her staring in, say, a biscuit commercial. And yet early on, she appeared in a ridiculous spot for the cookie Tim Tam. Flavorwire has compiled a "before they were st ...
  • This Giant Space Dust Buster Just Launched To ...
    Space junk whizzing around at thousands of miles an hour is a huge threat to satellites in space. Now Japan's space agency hopes a 1,000-foot stretch of wires can help cut down on the debris.Space junk has been a problem since space travel began: When Sputnik launched in 1957, it left behind par ...
  • Why Restricting Tesla Sales In New York Is Bad ...
    Direct sales from the manufacturer create an unfair a competitive advantage, says the State Legislature. But that's the point.Tesla is having itself a pretty nice year so far. Not only were sales of its first mid-priced sedan, the Model S, 20% higher than anticipated (helping land Tesla a nod on ...

Jadaliyya edit

  • Rojava and Kurdish Political Parties in Syria
    The Syrian uprising has presented Syrian Kurds with an opportunity to assert self-determination in a variety of ways, despite divisions within the community. Some Kurdish political parties have been able to exploit the evolving nature of the crisis and reap considerable gains. Despite many obsta ...
  • The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhib ...
    "The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhibition" An exhibition by Malak Helmy November - December 2013 Nile Sunset Annex, Cairo    For Malak Helmy’s recent exhibition, Nile Sunset Annex was extended onto its roof to accommodate a gleaming salt structure and amo ...
  • Arab Studies Journal Highlight: The Dynamics o ...
    This themed issue of the Arab Studies Journal reflects a shift in scholarship that conceives of “space” as a category of critical analysis and a fertile terrain for fluid dynamics central to changing social, cultural, and political contexts. These new conceptions of space represent some of the w ...
  • حول التَسَلسل في العالم العربي
    افتتاحية إن التمرّد العربي الذي نشب سنة 2011 ينتمي إلى فئة نادرة من الأحداث التاريخية: إنه تسلسلُ تمرّدات سياسية، واحدٌ يفجّر الآخر، عبر منطقة من العالم برمّتها. كان هناك ثلاثة أمثلة سابقة فحسب: حروب التحرير الأميركية اللاتينية التي بدأت سنة 1810 وانتهت سنة 1825؛ الثورات الأوربية بين 1848- 49؛ ...
  • 'The Family Duress Was a Campaign of Torment': ...
    WHY? Aslı Iğsız is a scholar who teaches in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the US. At the same time, however, she is also the daughter of retired General Hasan Iğsız, who has been sentenced to lif ...

mediagazer edit

  • DVD screener leaks decline as distributors cra ...
    Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom: DVD screener leaks decline as distributors crack down on leakers, test digital options  —  Looking for Oscars torrents?  This is why you may end up empty-handed  —  If Ellen DeGeneres mentions the film The Secret Life Of Walter M ...
  • The Hilarious Way Russia's Official Propaganda ...
    Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: The Hilarious Way Russia's Official Propaganda Network Covers The Situation In Ukraine  —  Want a different perspective on the crisis in Ukraine?  —  Check out RT.com, the state Russian broadcaster that's tasked with improving R ...
  • Mashable Raises More Money, This Time from Tri ...
    Peter Kafka / Re/code: Mashable Raises More Money, This Time from Tribune  —  Earlier this year Mashable, the tech news Web site with plans to become much bigger than a tech news Web site, announced it had taken on outside investment money for the first time.  Now it has ta ...
  • Thousands Take to the Streets to Support Hong ...
    Isabella Steger / Wall Street Journal: Thousands Take to the Streets to Support Hong Kong Press Freedom  —  Attacked Hong Kong Journalist's Condition Improves  —  HONG KONG—Thousands turned out Sunday in Hong Kong to support media freedom after the conditio ...
  • End of an Era? Clinton Media Strategy May Be D ...
    Jason Horowitz / New York Times: End of an Era?  Clinton Media Strategy May Be Due for an Overhaul  —  WASHINGTON — Soon after Hillary Rodham Clinton left the State Department, her longtime spokesman talked wistfully about their paradise lost.  —  &ldq ...

Views & News from Norway edit

  • Oil fund profits still spark critics
    Norway’s enormous “oil fund” generated more money last year than most mere mortals can fathom, but that didn’t quiet its critics. Investments in gaming and casino properties, for example, set off charges of immorality, while environmentalists aren’t happy either. Th ...
  • Rain and clouds are here to stay
    As Norwegians headed into yet another grey, wet and decidedly non-wintry weekend, state meteorologists had only one main message: “Get used to it.” They predict the rain and clouds and lack of snow at low elevations will last at least until the middle of March. “We’ve had ...
  • Child robbers got off easy
    A court in Oslo cut prosecutors’ jail time requests by nearly half in the case of several young convicted robbers of children even younger than themselves. One of the worst offenders was sentenced to 18 months in prison, much less than the three years and eight months sought. A total of 19 ...
  • IOC’s demands met with ridicule
    “High and mighty” demands made by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were setting off ridicule and head-shaking among members of the Norwegian Parliament on Friday. The MPs are the ones who must ultimately decide whether to go along with them as they evaluate fundin ...
  • New immigration law clears hurdles
    UPDATED: Government politicians and their potential supporters in Parliament were all ready to announce a truce Thursday night in their squabble over asylum and immigration reform, but last-minute disagreements halted their plans. They agreed on the substance of a new proposed immigration law, a ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia edit

  • Advanced Cell Grazing with Geoff Lawton
    Trailer only – watch full video here! Last year on Permaculture News there was an excellent article on Advanced Cell Grazing by Nick Burtner who documents the circular cattle lane-way on Geoff Lawton’s 66 acre Zaytuna Farm. Geoff devised a system of easy to install temporary electric-fence ...
  • Bamboo Drip Irrigation
    Bamboo drip irrigation Introduction For more than 200 years tribal farmers of the north-eastern part of India, in the state of Megalaya, have been using an indigenous technique of bamboo drip irrigation to irrigate their plantation crops. These farmers of the Jaintia and Khasi hill areas have de ...
  • Biological Carpeting
    Biological Carpeting is a method introduced to us by Rodger Savory of Savory Grassland Management. Rodger is the son of Holistic Management founder Allan Savory and managed the African Centre for Holistic Management’s research station at Dimbangombe, Zimbabwe for six years. At our home and train ...
  • Urban Backyard Food Production as a Strategy f ...
    I recently completed postgraduate research on urban food production. The research area was limited to within a 70km radius of Melbourne CBD. The data collection period ran from July 2012 to July 2013. This was deliberately designed to capture inter-seasonal yield. In all, 15 households took part ...
  • Save the Dates – Tanzania’s 2014 Permaculture ...
    Click to download (2mb PDF) They are finally here — the dates of the 2014 PDCs hosted by FoodWaterShelter in Tanzania. We look forward to welcoming English and Kiswahili speakers alike to our 2014 courses. And for the first time we’ll be offering a PDC outside Arusha (Tanzania) with ...

Pointman's edit

  • A climate of deception, deceit, lies and outri ...
    When I was a young man, a deeply cynical older person told me that all experience did was tell you what wasn’t possible. It wasn’t true then, it’s not true now and amounts to nothing more than a philosophy of despair by people who’ve essentially given up. You do have to w ...
  • A climate of deception, deceit, lies and outri ...
    When I was a young man, a deeply cynical older person told me that all experience did was tell you what wasn’t possible. It wasn’t true then, it’s not true now and amounts to nothing more than a philosophy of despair by people who’ve essentially given up. You do have to w ...
  • Why isn’t the alarmist propaganda working?
    I wrote an analysis piece last year which was an attempt to categorise and second guess the different types of propaganda the climate alarmists would resort to. In the light of Nils Bohr’s witty remark that prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future, it was rea ...
  • Why isn’t the alarmist propaganda working?
    I wrote an analysis piece last year which was an attempt to categorise and second guess the different types of propaganda the climate alarmists would resort to. In the light of Nils Bohr’s witty remark that prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future, it was rea ...
  • What a bunch of pissant spineless scum they re ...
    One glance at that picture above and you understand the mentality at work. All that’s missing is the soundtrack but I think we can all add that in for ourselves. It’s always the same song with just they lyrics varying. ‘Come out nigger, we’re here to string you up’ ...

Journalists' Toolkit edit

  • HTML and CSS templates for learning, teaching
    I have made a GitHub repo containing HTML and CSS templates for beginners. An entire GitHub repo can be downloaded by clicking the “Download ZIP” button on the right-hand side of the main page. As a teacher, I find it’s very handy to have files ready to open and show to student ...
  • JavaScript Console in Chrome
    For testing things quickly in JavaScript, open the JavaScript Console in the Google Chrome browser. View menu > Developer > JavaScript Console. You’ll see the console at the bottom of the current page. The console gives you a command line so you can test short pieces of code to see ...
  • Typography for the Web
    In your CSS, you can specify typefaces (font families) to be used for the headings, paragraphs, etc., in your HTML. However, what you see on your computer is not always going to be the same thing your audience sees. Why? Because different people have different fonts installed on their individual ...
  • Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
    There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
  • Baby Steps in Data Journalism
    This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana edit

  • A Response From The Glambeaux
    The letter below is a response to the commentary by Gianna Chachere, Glambeaux: Taking Cultural Appropriation Too Far, published yesterday on this blog. Gianna, Thank you for sharing your thoughts with the online community. Many of the Glambeaux forwarded me your article, and I feel very ...
  • Rest In Power, Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, 1947 - 2014
    Chokwe Lumumba, a leader of the Republic of New Afrika and recently elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, has died. Mayor Lumumba was a lifetime civil rights activist, and active in post-Katrina struggles in New Orleans, through the People's Hurricane Relief Fund. As a human rights lawyer, he r ...
  • Glambeaux: Taking Cultural Appropriation Too F ...
    Every day New Orleans is faced with crime, racist activity and the never-ending gentrification debate. But there is something about Glambeaux, the new all-female flambeaux troupe marching in Thursday’s Muses parade, that forces me to speak. I’ve had enough with the appropriation o ...
  • Call To Support Hunger Striker Outside Miami I ...
    Activists from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Florida have alerted us to this story: A young woman named Jenny Aguilar is on day five of a hunger strike outside the Krome Detention Center, an immigration facility near where the city of Miami meets the Everglades.  She has bee ...
  • Race, History, and Revolution in the Year's Be ...
    (A version of this article originally appeared in the New Orleans Data News Newspaper) We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget sequels, where theaters are filled with stories based on comic books, children’s books, or a line of toys. Originality is rarely rewarded: this year, the ...

Gyrovague's Raves edit

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

In Verbena | Royal Society edit

NAU Resistance edit

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

Gaea Times edit

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

Daily Beast edit

Loonwatch edit

Energy News edit

Hudson New York edit

  • Britain: Islamists Create Climate of Fear to C ...
    "My intention was to carve out a space to be heard without constantly fearing the blasphemy charge, on pain of death." — Maajid Nawaz, Liberal Democratic Party candidate for Britain's Parliament. "The media's vaunted concern for minority welfare is at
  • Iran: Death Sentence for Two Kurdish Political ...
  • The Taste of Integration
    In the city of Bradford, the local Reform synagogue was about to close its doors when members of a nearby mosque and some Muslim businessmen stepped in with money and advice -- and the synagogue has been saved. The two sides have started what they hope
  • Hamas: Teaching Human Rights is Against Palest ...
    Hamas' real problem with the UNRWA curriculum is that it could spoil the Islamist movement's ongoing efforts to stir the hearts and minds of Palestinian children to wage jihad against the "enemies" of Islam. Hamas wants Palestinian children to be taught
  • Teenage Jihadists, Car Burnings and Muslim-Onl ...
    During a press conference on January 14, French President François Hollande revealed that French intelligence services believe more than 700 French nationals and residents have travelled to fight in Syria. This figure is more than double the previous

Urban Survival edit

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

Trends & Forecasts edit

  • A Fascist Coup in Kiev -- Webster Tarpley
    Kiev Fascist Clique Reeling Under Russian Counterstrokes; Obama Must Back Off; Merkel, Ashton, Fabius, Sikorski, Steinmeyer Exposed as Coup Plotters Historian and President of Washington Grove Institute, a think tank in Washington D.C, Webster Tarpley, discussed the conspira ...
  • WW3 ALERT -- Ukraine WARNS Russia Invasion Mea ...
    Ukraine Tells Russia Invasion Means War as Putin Lays GroundworkPutin ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of warappealed to NATO for help.Obama warns Russia against Ukraine intervention, says 'there will be costs' The Trotskysts neo-cons including the Stalinist "progressives" should b ...
  • UKRAINE CRISIS - Could this create a WORLD WAR ...
    US wants to overthrow the elected government. Russia wants to help Ukrainians and boost its economy. If US loves democracy too much, it has to encourage the opposition to take the path of ballot instead of ousting the government by force. Democracy must obey the elites otherwise US is ready to ...
  • Corporation Nation, with Clint Richardson
    February 28, 2014 with guest Tami Pepperman"'Democracy' is just a patriotic term for an 'Oligarchy.'" The US was meant to be a Represantitive Republic. A Democracy is a majority rules political system. If 51 percent of people can be satisfied through lies and emotional rhetoric, then you have a ...
  • America is an Oligarchy under A One Party Stat ...
    When he said that USA has one party, I thought he's going to name the AIPAC Jeremy Scahill: The One Party State, The War Party Is the United States of America an Oligarchy? During the 2014 ISFLC, Jeremy Scahill speaks on the fact that in today's world behemoth corporations are able ...

Radical Chic edit

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

NRDC Switchboard edit

  • China Environmental News Alert
    Greenlaw from NRDC China, NRDC China Program, Beijing NRDC has been working in China for over fifteen years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental law, and green supply chain issues. This China ...
  • Ensuring Yellowstone Grizzly bears are secure ...
    Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC A new study by the Interagency Team in charge of grizzly bears will be out soon that suggests that although the growth of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population has slowed it is nonetheless still incr ...
  • UPDATE: Colorado finalizes its big step forwar ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Staff Scientist (Sustainable Energy), New York Last weekend, Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission adopted important final standards  that will rein in methane pollution from the state’s booming oil and gas ...
  • Latin America Green News: Chile finds whales, ...
    Denée Reaves, Program Assistant, International, Washington, D.C. Latin America Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in Latin America. February 23rd-29th, 2014 Chile Fourteen authors from C ...
  • India Green News: Modi calls for huge investme ...
    Kristina Johnson, Program Assistant, Food and Agriculture, India Initiative, Urban, San Francisco February 20th- February 27nd India Green News is a selection of news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India Energy Renewable is ...

Peakwater edit

  • Citarum polluters more than 71 companies: Dep ...
    “West Java Deputy Governor Deddy Mizwar has said more than 71 companies were thought to be involved in environmental pollution in the Citarum River basin. “Based on our data, the number of industrial players polluting the Citarum River is far higher than that stated in the Supreme Audit Ag ...
  • States move to limit EPA’s clean water authority
    “Florida, Texas and Alaska are nowhere near the Chesapeake Bay. But that hasn’t stopped those states from trying to intervene in the EPA’s cleanup of the mid-Atlantic estuary. Earlier this month, the attorneys general from those states and 18 others filed an amicus brief [PDF] on behalf of ...
  • American Aqueduct: The Great California Water Saga
    “Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop a narrow embankment. Cross it, and th ...
  • Drought-hit Malaysian state rations water
    “KUALA LUMPUR: Authorities began rationing water to thousands of households in Malaysia’s most populous state on Tuesday, as a dry spell depletes reservoirs across a country normally known for its steady tropical downpours. Much of Malaysia has been under bone-dry conditions for a mo ...
  • Truce called in longtime feud between L.A. Cou ...
    “For nearly three years, two Los Angeles County water districts had been locked in an ugly feud. The Central Basin Water District, a water wholesaler, refused to sell to its rival, the Water Replenishment District, which manages an underground storage basin in southeast Los Angeles County ...

D. Kucinich edit

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

Authentically Wired edit

  • then you didn’t get the memo
    …You didn’t see it coming … then you didn’t get the memo … the 1% did and the bank$ter$ … what you were not on the list…?   The "Institutional Investor" Housing Bubble Just Burst 02-28-2014  •  zerohedge.com It is by now well understood that the US housing market over the ...
  • I love it …. Go for it
    …IF… true and I hope it is … it will when successful drive the NSA surveillance advocates crazy … I love it …. Go for it…… Tor develops its own anonymous IM tool to hide chat from spying eyes 02-28-2014  •  ars technica The Tor Foundation is moving forward with a plan to provide its [& ...
  • The “FED” has our back … you ...
    …The “FED” has our back … you think…?   Stocks rise after Yellen talks taper; record finish for S&P 500 02-28-2014  •  cnbc.com U.S. stocks climbed on Thursday, propelling the S&P 500 to a record close, after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the central bank would p ...
  • Drive them crazy
    …WOW … how I hope this is true … and NOT corporate controlled … hell yes …. Drive them crazy…   MaidSafe Technology Overview – Short: …The New Decentralized Internet   http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RdGH40oUVDY The MaidSafe network is a fully distribu ...
  • You digest … you choose …
    …You digest … you choose … Dropbox vs. Microsoft OneDrive vs. Google Drive vs. Apple iCloud vs. Amazon Cloud Drive 02-28-2014  •  http://www.gizmag.com, By Stu Robarts How do the options stack up against each other though? This article provides a comparison of the main players – Dropbo ...

Popular Technology edit

  • Skeptics Smeared As Holocaust Deniers, ADL Silent
    "Inappropriate Comparisons Trivialize the Holocaust" - Abraham Foxman, ADL Director While the ADL moved quickly to denounce Dr. Spencer, it appears unwilling to defend him and other climate skeptics from reprehensible analogies to "Holocaust deniers". Andrew Glikson "I wonder whether such ...
  • Skeptical Science: Smear Skeptics as Holocaust ...
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled "Advice on engaging the public", John Cook posts enthusiastically, "Here is an excellent email from Greg Craven..." Here's my two cents on engaging ...
  • 2,258 Meaningless Search Results
    Rebuttal to "2,258 peer-reviewed climate articles" James Powell continues to demonstrate his computer illiteracy by doing worthless database searches in an intellectually dishonest propaganda campaign. He updated his previous meaningless analysis in continued blissful ignorance that the 'Web ...
  • Darth Vader an Author at the CRU?
    It appears Dr. Clare Goodess a Senior Research Associate of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has chosen an interesting alter-ego. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation she converted to a PDF file is authored as "Darth Vader", Maybe climate alarmism really is the dar ...
  • Who is Willis Eschenbach?
    As of 2012 Mr. Eschenbach has been employed as a House Carpenter. He is not a "computer modeler", he is not an "engineer" and he is certainly not a "scientist" (despite all ridiculous claims to the contrary). "A final question, one asked on Judith Curry's blog a year ago by a real scientist, ...

Monga Bay ( Articles ) edit

  • Wonderful Creatures: the tiny, predatory penis ...
    The seabed is really where it’s at in terms of animal diversity. Of the 35 known animal lineages, representatives of all but two are found here. In contrast, the huge numbers of species that inhabit tropical rainforests represent a mere 12 lineages. One group of animals that illustrates th ...
  • Saving sharks one sandwich at a time: conserva ...
    Thousands of Carnival revelers in Trinidad wouldn't think of missing the chance to go to Maracas Beach, the most famous strip of sand on the small Caribbean island off the northeast coast of Venezuela. Beachgoers might not think twice about eating a favorite food called "shark bake" either &#821 ...
  • Could camera trap videos galvanize the world t ...
    Even ten years ago it would have been impossible to imagine: clear-as-day footage of a jaguar plodding through the impenetrable Amazon, or a bicolored-spined porcupine balancing on a branch, or a troop of spider monkeys feeding at a clay lick, or a band of little coatis racing one-by-one from th ...
  • Land conflicts complicate effort to spare fore ...
    A widely-heralded effort to spare carbon-dense rainforests and peatlands from palm oil development in Indonesian Borneo is facing new criticism after an investigation by rights groups found evidence of unresolved conflicts over community land. The report, published Friday by the Forest Peoples P ...
  • Indonesian cop caught smuggling rare timber wo ...
    Green activists are crying foul after an Indonesian police officer believed to have laundered nearly $128 million in proceeds from illegal fuel and timber smuggling was sentenced to just two years in prison for illegal logging – a verdict described as 'shockingly lenient' and 'unbelievable ...

Science - NZ Herald edit

  • Noses and ears created in lab
    Ears and noses could be grown in a laboratory and transplanted into humans using a technique developed by British scientists.Researchers from Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London using tissue engineering have...
  • Teen helps scientists study her own rare disease
    First the teenager survived a rare cancer. Then she wanted to study it, spurring a study that helped scientists find a weird gene flaw that might play a role in how the tumor strikes.Age 18 is pretty young to be listed as an author...
  • Robots whirr into elderly care
    A future where our elderly have faithful robot servants to look after them might be closer than we think, with the Government offering researchers new cash to push the concept forward.The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment...
  • Tiny gem the oldest piece of Earth ever found
    A gem found on a sheep ranch in Australia has been found to have formed 4.4 billion years ago - making it the oldest piece of our planet ever recorded.The discovery alters our understanding of the early stages in Earth's formation,...
  • Volcanoes behind global warming 'pause' - scie ...
    The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called "pause" used by sceptics to deny climate change is happening, scientists have said.According to a study in the US, models for predicting...

The Bovine edit

  • Precedent-setting win for Mark Baker and his & ...
    The story of Mark Baker and his supposedly feral pigs has been in the news for a while (See links at bottom). Now finally, the state has conceded. They’ve given up their attempt to force Mr. Baker to stop farming … Continue reading →
  • Dutch curb subclinical antibiotics for livesto ...
    The problem of widespread and indiscriminate use of small doses of antibiotics in animal feed is widely regarded as leading to the development of antibiotic resistant disease strains such as MSRA. Nicholas Kristof has has written about this in the … Continue reading →
  • Why Michael Schmidt’s Appeal Matters
    We don’t see a lot of this out there, but here’s an apparently independent blogger, who doesn’t appear to be a cowshare member, or all that closely connected or impacted by the case, expressing concern for the fundamental issues at … Continue reading →
  • Scientist was threatened by company because of ...
    For all we know, this sort of thing goes on all the time. But that it’s not often stories like this break out into the media: From Jason Louv, on Ultraculture.org: “Tyrone Hayes, a scientist at the University of California, … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt legal news roundup
    Farmer and activist Michael Schmidt has more than one legal controversy on the go. A couple of weeks ago Michael was in the news for taking Ontario raw milk case to Ontario’s highest court.  On February 5th, 2014, a panel … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends edit

  • France Becoming Increasingly Euroskeptic: Pol ...
    The following bullet points are from the French Ipos Poll: New French fractures, results and analysis of the Ipsos/Steria. Although a huge majority of French want to stay on the Euro, a majority of "workers" don't. Poll Conclusions 79% distrust the outside world72% have no confidence in the ...
  • Russian Troops Seize Crimea; UN Security Counc ...
    News is fast and furious in Ukraine. Putin received approval to send Russian troops into Ukraine from Russian parliament. Russian troops seized CrimeaRussian anti-submarine warships appear off Ukraine coast near Sevastopol in violation of naval agreementUkraine troops are on combat notice.UN S ...
  • Stiglitz: Leaving the Euro Painful but Staying ...
    Nobel prize winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz has come to the right conclusion Leaving the Euro Painful but Staying in More Painful. Partial Transcript Question: I want to probe you a bit on that small mistake of the euro. UYou seem to suggest there is nothing that cannot be solved with m ...
  • Ukraine Limits Withdrawals to 15,000 Hryvnia p ...
    Hoping to halt or slow capital flight and stop the run on banks, the Ukraine central bank limited foreign currency withdrawals to 15,000 Hryvnia per day as noted by FxStreet earlier today. Hryvnia vs. US Dollar Taking into account today's 14% rise, 15,000 Hryvnia is about $1,556.   Ca ...
  • Eurozone in Deflation; Monetarist Mouthpieces ...
    Forget all the talk about CPI or as they call it in Europe HIPC (harmonized index of consumer prices) floating just under 1%. The true measure of inflation is credit expansion. And for the second month, credit contracted in the Eurozone. Reuters reports Euro zone lending contraction compounds ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs edit

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Fats Domino- “I Want To Walk You Home” We are again back in time with this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol Music Pick. The artist is the great Fats Domino and the song is his hit record I Want to Walk You Home. This is Fats at his best…Enjoy…DJPJ.
  • Pando Exposé: Glenn Greenwald’s Boss, Billiona ...
    Greenwald’s Boss Omidyar provided 36% of “Center UA”’s $500,000 budget in 2012— nearly $200,000. USAID provided 54% of “Center UA”’s budget for 2012. Other funders included the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy. According to financial disclosures and reports published by Pand ...
  • The 1st Commandment of U.S. Imperial Pursuits: ...
    The Sheer Joy of Imperial Hubris & One-Way Equations It is time for our government to put aside diplomatic lingo and modified expressions and just state the facts as they see and believe them. It is way past time for our nation to hear it from our government – the BS-free and straight- ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Mexico’s Bin Laden: The Capture of Chapo Guzma ...
    Comparisons between Chapo Guzmán and Osama Bin Laden Are Valid, But For Horrible Reasons By Danny Benavides The End of an Era has been declared, loudly proclaimed in headlines throughout the world. Chicago’s “Most Wanted,” the “No. 1 drug kingpin” finally (re)captured in his own backyard. Joaquí ...

bloody crossroads edit

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

Blogging Canadians edit

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

Press TV - Middle East edit

  • End absolute male control: KSA women
    Saudi rights activists have petitioned the monarchy’s consultative council to support a demand to curb the "absolute authority" of male guardians over women in the oil-rich country.
  • S Arabia buys 72 British Typhoon jets
    Britain's biggest arms company BAE Systems has concluded a deal to sell 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia following years of negotiations.
  • Israel ‘pays money’ to Syria militants
    The Israeli regime is paying large sums of money to foreign-backed militants fighting against the Syrian government in exchange for information on fellow al-Qaeda-linked militants.
  • Six security forces killed in Iraq
    Terrorist attacks in north and west of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad have killed six people, all members of the security forces, as bloodshed continues in the Arab country.
  • Bahrainis want Saudi troops pullout
    Manama regime forces have attacked protesters demanding the pullout of Saudi forces from Bahrain.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog edit

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

Naked Scientists - News edit

  • How to tame a hurricane
    Wind turbines play a key role in tackling climate change, but now it seems they may also be able to mitigate hurricanes. Wind speeds recorded downwind of wind farms are lower, as the spinning turbin...
  • Making platelets
    A way to grow blood platelets, a critical ingredient in the cogulation system, has been announced by scientists in Japan. When you cut yourself, tiny little blood cell fragments called platelets rus...
  • Brain-training boosts ball skills
    Brain-training exercises to boost visual awareness might be the way for baseball players to gain an edge over the opposition, new research has shown. Previous research into visual ability has tended ...
  • Stress depresses markets
    Stress hormones can depress financial markets, a new study suggests. Rapid price fluctuations on the stock market, referred to as volatility, usually reflects market uncertainty and causes brokers a...
  • Powering-up growth factors
    Growth factors with powerful wound-healing effects have been developed by Swiss researchers. Tissues respond to injury by making cells grow and divide to knit wounds together. Usually this occurs in ...

More Sources edit

Care2 - Environment 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

JL's News ( Care2 ) edit

  • Gitmo detainees expose CIA's 'extraordinary re ...
    The CIAs post 9/11 extraordinary rendition and secret detention programs are believed to have involved up to 54 foreign governments which aided the US in its operations in a variety of ways. This included hosting CIA black sites on their territories... Submitted by David B. to US Politics & ...
  • Robert Reich: WhatsApp Is Everything Wrong wit ...
    The instant messaging service connects millions, but its record-breaking sale won't generate new jobs. Submitted by Freya H. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • How We Can Use Social Media to Build a Better ...
    Who do you see represented in the world? Who gets written about? Whose stories get told? You satisfied with that? Or do you want to see something different? Then lets start by telling different stories ourselves. Submitted by Freya H. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!   ...
  • Eureka! Whan a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudd ...
    You never know what could happen by a blow to the head! Hm, I wonder what a blow to my head would do to me? I mean, hey, I already have CP so maybe a blow to my head would 'cure' me! LOL Submitted by Barb Knight to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Red Lines In Crimea- The Battle for Ukraine
    President Putin is making his move in Ukraines Crimea, and once again the West is caught flat-footed. Submitted by Angelika R. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Articles and Answers 2011 edit

  • Too Embarrassing for Words
    By Patricia L Johnson Standing for long periods of time isn’t something that I’m able to do on a regular basis which makes things like cooking difficult. You can do a lot of things sitting down, but sooner or later … Continue reading →
  • Crude Facts about Crude Oil 2014 – Why t ...
    Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (FEB 2014) By Patricia L Johnson The above graphics from the U.S. Energy Information Administration represent the various costs that go into a gallon of gasoline and a gallon of diesel as of January 2014. … Continue reading →
  • To Paraphrase VP Joe Biden, the Keystone Pipel ...
    By Richard E Walrath and Patricia L Johnson The Honorable Stephanie F. Stacy, Judge of the District Court, 3rd District, Lancaster County, Nebraska ruled on February 19, 2014 that the 2012 law allowing Governor Dave Heineman to approve the revised … Continue reading →
  • What is the Status of Keystone XL?
    By Patricia L Johnson Do you really know the facts behind the Keystone XL Pipeline Project? Executive Order 13337 signed April 30, 2004, by President George W. Bush dictates that the Secretary of State shall be ‘designated and empowered’ to … Continue reading →
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Rogue Government - WP edit

  • TOP 60 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    IJReview.com hits the #3 conservative website by monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the 17th “news and politics” site in the United States, including all websites who publish in that category. On a side note, new start-up Liftbump.com cracks the Top 60. ...
  • TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
  • TOP 50 NEWS POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC: IJ ...
    Independent Journal Review climbs to the #22 ranking by number of monthly people who read it in the United States. It is currently the fifth largest conservative website by U.S. traffic behind Fox News, The Blaze, The Drudge Report, and Newsmax. For some perspective, more people in the U.S. curr ...
  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...
  • TOP 100 NEWS & POLITICS SITES BY U.S. TRAFFIC
    Top 100 News & Politics Websites by U.S. Traffic The following news and politics websites are ranked by U.S. traffic in millions (m) of unique people. IJREVIEW.COM breaks the Top 50. HuffPo (57m) NBC News (43m) Buzzfeed (24m) Reddit (27m) Upworthy (22m) Examiner (20m) Today (19.4m) Fox (19.2 ...

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