Sunday, March 31, 2013

31 March - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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UK Progressive

  • Friend of the Court: How Anthony Lewis Influen ...
    by Richard Tofel ProPublica Anthony Lewis had only been away from Harvard, his undergraduate alma mater, for eight years when he returned as Nieman Fellow in the fall of 1956. But what an eight years it had been. Lewis had gone from Harvard College straight to work on the news staff of the Sunda ...
  • Save the Term “Negro”… Really?
    by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad Iread a commentary recently lamenting the elimination of the term, “Negro” for American born Africans, now commonly referred to as “African Americans,” from the U.S. Census form. I just shook my head, said “Good-bye, Negro and turned the page. I didn’t pay much att ...
  • Course Load: The Growing Burden of College Fees
    by Marian Wang ProPublica At the University of California Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees — including a small charge for what’s billed as “free” HIV testing. Students at Oklahoma State Univ ...
  • Rites Versus Rights
    by Tina Dupuy A colleague of mine quipped the other day that the only religion he believes in is his own. “Sure,” I countered. “You piously believe in your own opinion.” Which pretty much sums up every debate I’ve ever had on religion. Liberals will tell you Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jewish hip ...
  • Why Politicians Are Sensitive to Public Opinio ...
    by Robert Reich Who says American politics is gridlocked? A tidal wave of politicians from both sides of the aisle who just a few years ago opposed same-sex marriage are now coming around to support it. Even if the Supreme Court were decide to do nothing about California’s Proposition 8 or DOMA, ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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2012 Blog

  • 6 Top Quality Survival Products
    I found this at the Daily Mail, but it looks like they have scanned it from a magazine like Popular Mechanics and didn’t credit it… Anyway, this picture could save you a thousand SHTF hours if you buy them all: Your're reading 6 Top Quality Survival Products by Robert Bast, and orig ...
  • Japanese Methane Extraction Could Trigger Tsunami
    Japan is where the word tsunami originated – because they get more than their fair share. Just over 2 years ago the Tōhoku tsunami killed more than 15,000 people and triggered a nuclear disaster. You could be forgiven for thinking that is as bad as it can get – but the reality is muc ...
  • Pope Francis: Not Peter, Not Roman…But
    The new Pope was not born with the name Peter, it isn’t his middle name, and he hasn’t taken Peter as his Papal name. Also, he is from Argentina, and doesn’t appear to have any connection with Rome except for visiting the Vatican. So, does that mean the Malachy prophecy has stu ...
  • A River In Antarctica
    The Sahara desert used to be fertile – and that’s in modern history… Meanwhile camels used to live within the Arctic Circle, and hippos swam in English rivers. Not quite on the same scale of time (unless you believe in recent crustal displacements), but down at the South Pole t ...
  • Solar Maximum Double-Peak, Later in 2013
    The current solar cycle was predicted by NASA etc to peak in late 2012, or early 2013. So far it has actually been very quiet. There are two possibilities as to where we are at in the cycle: 1. It actually peaked, albeit very weakly, back in 2011 2. It is going to have a double peak, with 2011 a ...

Facing South

  • Climate science denier found behind controvers ...
    An email exchange between John Droz of the fossil fuel-funded American Tradition Institute and an attorney with the North Carolina Public Staff led to the introduction of a controversial bill that would have made it harder for the agency to do its work on behalf of the public. read more
  • VOICES: In North Carolina, a conspicuous parti ...
    The state's Republican leaders are trying to solve a problem they created so they can help themselves politically by solving it. They might be undermining democracy, but you have to give them credit for their brazenness. read more
  • Can gay marriage win in the South?
    How different are Southern views about gay marriage? And are they changing fast enough for marriage equality advocates to win victories in Southern states? read more
  • Bank of America makes 'dirty dozen' list of cr ...
    A watchdog group has compiled a list of banking's "dirty dozen" corporate criminals, and Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America makes the cut with billions paid out in penalties and settlements for various crimes. read more
  • South's rivers and streams in poor condition, ...
    The first comprehensive assessment of the health of the nation's rivers and streams finds that many in the Southern Appalachians and Coastal Plain are unable to sustain life. read more

One News Page

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

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • BRICS: New Geopolitical Model and Russia’s For ...
    Another annual BRICS summit wrapped up on March 27 in South Africa. A cycle of top level events taking place by turns in the member states capitals is over. This time it was of special importance for Russia. In early February Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new Foreign Policy Conce ...
  • Qatar’s Great Power Games
    The recent Arab League summit, which illegally decided to provide military aid to the Syrian opposition under pressure from Doha, has once again demonstrated that there is a new power balance in the Arab world where the traditionally powerful countries like Egypt, Algeria and Iraq have again pro ...
  • Xinjiang in Focus of US Foreign Policy
    The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the western edge of China (Xinjiang means the new frontier in Chinese). It borders on Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Mongolia and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. 9 million Uyghurs (Sunni Muslims) make up 45% of the total p ...
  • Cyprus: Rescued and Attacked. Who is Behind it?
    The Eurogroup’s decision on financial aid for Cyprus had been taken just one day before the X- hour, late on March 25. Destined to rescue Cyprus, it may become a delayed action mine capable to undermine the whole edifice of the European Union. Laiki Bank, the second largest in Cyprus, is going t ...
  • Turkish-NATO Trace Of Chemical Attack In Aleppo
    While the US President Barack Obama was visiting Middle East, the Syrian opposition tried to accuse Damascus of applying chemical weapons in order to provoke United States to intervene militarily in the Syrian conflict. The opposition knows well that the United States considers the use of chemic ...

BlogHer

  • 9 Weird Facts about Zumba Instructors
    I recently started taking Zumba classes in an effort to lose weight. I love to eat and since I don't want to give up chocolate lava cake, or carbs, or sugar, or anything else that is delicious, I know I need to burn some serious calories in workouts. Enter Zumba classes. Image: U.S. Army Kor ...
  • 20 Ways to Eliminate Stress at Work
    The workplace can be a stressful place. Between personality differences, "one-size-fits-all" working environments (think: introverts hate open office floor plans), and having to always "do more with less" while wondering if your job is really secure, work can pile on stress l ...
  • The Easy Way to Create a Google Alert
    Editor's Note: In just a few simple steps you can set up an alert in Google to notify you about almost anything you want to monitor. Jean from Be Web Smart has figured out the easiest way to set this up, and tells you how to do it. -Virginia Now that you’ve seen what’s out there on the internet ...
  • Is Our Food Supply Less Safe After the Monsant ...
    The issue of food safety is becoming more and more important to the American public, as proved by the outrage last week when Congress passed the Monsanto Protection Rider. My social media feed blew up with protestations. It was full of tweets like: Fascist Puppet Obama Signs Monsanto Protection ...
  • Is There Life After A Relationship Begins?
    Editor's Note: I am often asked about life after relationships begin and what advice I can give to help couples stay focused, work through issues, and avoid letting their relationships turn stale. The key, in my opinion, is understanding that the life you've known thus far doesn't suddenly end w ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Risk of Pr ...
    A prospective study led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has found that low serum vitamin D levels in the months preceding diagnosis may predict a high risk of ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obesity  An ...
  • Kiwi Orange Coconut Flu Busting Smoothie
    There’s little that tastes better than a fresh fruit smoothie in the morning. They do wonders for the immune system and if you pack them with the right ingredients, they can supercharge your ability to not ... Related posts:Turmeric Among Natural Cures for Sinus Infection Acco ...
  • Regular Aspirin Use Linked to Increased Risk o ...
    Regular aspirin use appears to be associated with an increased risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is a leading cause of blindness in older people, and it appears to be independent of a ... Related posts:Reduced vitamin D levels associated with obe ...
  • Cleaning products ‘linked to adult asthm ...
    People who work with cleaning products risk developing asthma, believe UK experts who have explored the link. Their study of more than 7,000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one ... Related posts:Eating Meat and Dairy Products Linked to Earl ...
  • Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsa ...
    Protestors Near White House Also Call on President Obama to Halt Approval of Genetically Modified Crops and GMO Salmon Until Long Term Safety Tests Are Completed Nearly 300 family farmers, activists, and members of Food Democracy ... Related posts:Organic Farmers vs. Monsanto: ...

Live News Wire

  • Best Xbox Games on 360
    With all the hype in advertising for video games today, it is hard to know how the games features really hold up to the fancy phrases and images in the ads. That’s why you need the experience of an unbiased, expert who is a fellow consumer like you! I’ll give you the best of the [...]
  • Pick Six Lotto and Mega Millions Are New Jerse ...
    New Jersey Lottery offers many terminal-based games for the residents of the state to play (Terminal-based games are the ones you buy from the lottery machine where the numbers are drawn, as opposed to instant scratch games where you know immediately if you’re a winner). But with all the g ...
  • 2 Best Options to Download New Games For PSP
    It is beyond understandable for avid gamers to want to download new games for PSP. This is especially true when you are one of the many lucky gamers who own the latest Sony PlayStation Portable. A great thing about this video game console is the fact that you do not really have to purchase games ...
  • 5 Best Upcoming Games of 2013
    2013 looks set to become one of the biggest year in gaming history with some big name titles already announced for the first half of the year. Below is a list of some of the best upcoming games of 2013: 1. The Last of Us: Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us is the most anticipated [...]
  • How to Find the Best Hunting Games Online
    Line up the hairline and click the mouse button to shoot at the prey. A sound of despair escapes your lips as the hunted runs away to freedom as you miss the target. Well, there is no need to worry since more targets will be presented to you. By the time you have missed the [...]

Coal Tattoo

  • Friday roundup, March 29, 2013
    A house-sized dump truck hauls dirt and rock Tuesday March 26, 2013 at the Black Thunder coal mine in northeast Wyoming’s Powder River Basin near Wright, Wyo., source of almost 40 percent of the nation’s coal production. The federal government says it is withholding $110 million in m ...
  • How coal miners die on the job
    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration has just issued the report of its investigation into the July 2012 death of Johnny Mack Bryant II, a 35-year- old coal miner from Lenore, W.Va., at Coal River Mining LLC’s Fork Creek No. 10 Mine near Sumerco, Boone County. Here’s the sum ...
  • More science on mountaintop removal’s he ...
    Well, you certainly can’t fault Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bissett for not sticking to his story … whether he’s gotten all the facts in or not. When the latest study about mountaintop removal coal-mining’s potential impacts on public health in Appalachia was ...
  • Tuesday roundup, March 26, 2013
    Photo of the Brushy Fork impoundment, by Vivian Stockman, with flight services provided by SouthWings. I’m still playing catch up after being out of the office for a week, but thought I would at least run down a few of the more interesting developments while this blog was shut down … ...
  • Friday roundup, March 15, 2013
    In this photo provided by China’s Xinhua News Agency, a relative of miners waits at the site of the accident in Shuicheng County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. China said 21 coal miners have been killed and four more are missing following an accident ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Modern YoYo Hackery
    Some significant advances since I was doing it in 88′.Related Posts:Bike ParkourOn Failure and SuccessStellar Dance RoutineHomebuilt Solar Death RayKirk Pitches Commodore
  • Women Voters Can’t Help Fawning Over Sexist GO ...
    WASHINGTON—Saying they know its no good for them but they just can’t help themselves, gushing women voters acknowledged Monday the overwhelming and uncontrollable attraction they feel toward the sexist Republican party.Smitten female voters across the nation told reporters that despite the ...
  • Three Questions Successful People Ask
    I saw an article recently on three questions that successful people always ask. They were: What do I want to achieve? What are my obstacles? Who has solved this already? Beauty.Related Posts:Surrounded by Success | Derek SiversGamification of Tasks That Require Self-discipline is a…6 Clas ...
  • Building a Domain Reputation API
    I thought it’d be useful recently to take a list of email addresses, say from sales leads, and determine how “legitimate” the leads were. Obviously there are many pieces of information that could go into this, but the one that I thought of first was the strength of the email do ...
  • The Idiotic Irony of Opposing Equality for Hom ...
    Image from FreakingID In all the opposition to equal marriage rights for homosexuals I find only one possible line of legitimacy. That line says that, for whatever reason(s), homosexuals have issues with depression, suicide, and other mental issues significantly exceeding heterosexuals, and that ...

Fitwatch

  • PLO block hits the streets at Sussex
    The following report is from PLO block, operational at Sussex university on Monday... A large banner and a small group of people (it can work well with just 3 people) is all you need for PLO blocking. PLO block turned out for the Sussex National Demo against Privatization. Although the group hav ...
  • Vauxhall Squat Raids
    These pictures were taken during the eviction of squats in Vauxhall tonight. The eviction was resisted, and it took a reported eight and a half hours to finally clear squatters from the building and the roof. From what we have been told, the buildings are being torn down for redevelopment. There ...
  • New Years Eve Prisoner Solidarity Demo
    Does exactly what it says on the tin. Lets be honest, this year has been a disheartening one. State and security forces have repositioned themselves with guns towards us (quite literally, in some cases) and scored significant victories against the dissenting population. Next year looks set to be ...
  • Plain clothes cop at Fridays demo
    Cops turning up to demos in plain clothes seems to be a regular occurence these days. These pics were taken at the Fight for Sites demo on Friday. Although he appears to have forgotten his uniform, the man pictured is Constable Mark Stoddart. A number of cops in plain clothes have been pictured ...
  • Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #5 – Block & ...
    Okay, so by now we should know all the basic preventative measures we can take to defend our anonymity. But there is one more thing we can be doing this October 20th to proactively assert our freedom to dissent without state repression. This is, of course, the classic FITwatch Direct Action tact ...

Worldwide Hippies

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reference frame

  • Tom Banks: holographic axioms against firewalls
    Bill Zajc sent me a link to the following fresh CERN talk by my (former) PhD adviser Tom Banks: The Unruh Effect, the S-matrix and the Absence of Firewalls It's the same kind, unimitable style I have known for years. Tom also uses (or approves of) many assumptions I consider right or even de ...
  • 01 result from AMS-02 on 03/04 at 05 pm
    Do you know which number would be the next one? Six weeks ago, Sam Ting claimed that not too uninteresting results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer would arrive in two or three weeks. It didn't quite work; it's plausible that they were waiting for reviewers to say OK, somethi ...
  • Antiprotons obey CPT within 5 ppm
    In January 2013, the ATRAP Collaboration that includes e.g. Gerry Gabrielse – an ex-colleague of mine who also led the most accurate measurement of the electron's magnetic moment, the most accurately verified prediction in all of science – published the preprint One-Particle Measurement of the ...
  • Reunification of Korea
    Almost exactly 10 years ago, in March 2003, the U.S. invaded Iraq. I had mixed feelings about that decision and I still have mixed feelings. At any rate, Iraq (#2) used to belong to the Axis of Evil, as defined by George W. Bush, along with Iran (#1) and North Korea (#3). Quite certainly, one or ...
  • Waiting for peak oil: a paradox
    As an enthusiastic proponent of fracking, Gene sent me a link to this NBC article Power shift: Energy boom dawning in America that argues, among other things, that due to fracking, the U.S. will leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the #1 fossil fuel producer by 2020. Already today, we ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • 12,000 barrels of oil recovered in Arkansas pi ...
    Exxon Mobil Corp. says crews have recovered about 12,000 barrels of oil near Mayflower, Arkansas, after the company’s Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday afternoon. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Quality concerns arose before TransCanada pipeline blast A CBC News investigation ...
  • Canada’s tough stance on Arctic shipping pollu ...
    Canada is winning a rare bit of environmental praise from the international community for its stance on pollution from shipping in Arctic waters. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Ancient Arctic camel offers climate change clues Camels may be called the ships of the desert, but... ...
  • Ontario high school teachers reach deal with p ...
    Ontario secondary school teachers have reached a deal in principle with the provincial government after a long labour dispute that resulted in contracts being imposed by the government on public school teachers earlier this year. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Ontario imposes con ...
  • Egypt satirist’s arrest a sign of his growing ...
    Just a few weeks ago, Bassem Youssef, the immensely popular host of the weekly ElBernameg, predicted he would be called in to answer to one of a growing pile of legal complaints against him and his show at the public prosecutor’s office. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Egypt ...
  • Canadian warship crew makes 500 kg heroin seizure
    The Department of National Defence says the HMCS Toronto has seized around 500 kilograms of heroin from a boat in the Indian Ocean. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: B.C. woman finds tsunami boat, meets owner in Japan A fishing boat owned by a Japanese couple and lost... Cocaine hi ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

Quick Hits

  • More Teachers Being Replaced By Technology
    The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...
  • Food costs at record levels, likely to go higher
    MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...
  • Shell makes $2,208,480 (£1.6m) an hour, [Clue ...
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi...   The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...
  • Gallup Helps Explain Egyptian/Tunisia Uprisings
    Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...
  • Wallace Shawn: Are You Smarter Than Thomas Jef ...
    The Grand Nagus speaks! At Tom Dispatch.com.

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Picture perfect ‘pÃ¥ske’ holidays
    Most of southern Norway basked in sunshine during the Easter holiday week known as “pÃ¥ske,” perfect for skiers who headed outdoors, but it was stormy in the north. State highway officials were forced to close many roads in Troms County, which also has been plagued by avalanches. Norw ...
  • Lesbian pastor confronts Oslo bishop
    Norway’s first lesbian pastor says she’s fed up with “homophobic” church officials and no longer wants Bishop Ole-Christian Kvarme as her spiritual leader. Pastor Hilde Raastad told newspaper Aftenposten on Wednesday that she wants to give up her ordination and resign as ...
  • Black metal fans arrive for Easter
    The annual Inferno Metal Festival Norway was once again attracting crowds of black metal music fans in Oslo during the Easter holidays. It’s become a tradition after Norwegian black metal bands put the country on the international map. Inferno launches the black metal festival season, draw ...
  • Orange tradition lives on at Easter
    Norwegians are expected to consume fully 5,000 tons of oranges this week, as they fill fruit bowls and backpacks with the popular citrus fruit. Norway, report state food officials, tops international statistics for consumption of oranges at Eastertime. It’s a tradition dating back to the f ...
  • Norway loses the legendary ‘Hjallis’
    Norwegian sports fans were mourning the death on Wednesday of legendary speed skater Hjalmar “Hjallis” Andersen, who won three gold medals during the Winter Olympics in Oslo in 1952. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg claimed his death closed a “proud chapter” in Norway&#821 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Pioneering Permaculture in Ethiopia
    Pioneering is an essential function in the establishment of eco-systems. It refers to the initial colonisation of previously uninhabited habitat by a class of species (‘pioneers’) which are specially adapted to living in the harsh conditions of an otherwise uninhabited environment. P ...
  • Strawberry Fields Eco Lodge: Kitchen Grey-Wate ...
    As most of us know, grey water is a term used to refer to “waste” water that has been used once in any domestic system except for toilets (which is referred to as black water). However grey water from the kitchen may be considered as “dark grey” water on account of the fa ...
  • Film Review: One Day, Everything Will Be Free
    Trailer As permaculture-, environmental-, or philanthropic-based tourism is becoming increasingly promoted by the media, I often feel like I am being sold an idea, experience, or even indulgence for my unsustainable lifestyle. If I want to have an ‘experience’, as a tourist, ...
  • Falling Gasoline Use Means United States Can J ...
    by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Freeing America from its dependence on oil from unstable parts of the world is an admirable goal, but many of the proposed solutions—including the push for more home-grown biofuels and for the construction of the new Keystone XL pipeline to transpor ...
  • Life at Zaytuna – Another Internship Coming to ...
    Geoff Lawton, above the PRI’s Zaytuna Farm Photos © Craig Mackintosh Some of you may have noticed I’ve been a little intermittant in my (visible) work for you all of late…. I thought I’d better let you know I’m still alive and well, and that the reason for m ...

Pointman's

  • Climategate 3, the goon squad and going nuclear.
    One of the climate establishment’s new coping mechanisms in handling what is effectively the third release of the climategate emails, is to put pressure on the people who were sent the decryption key, rather than looking for the identity of the leaker. The leaker goes by the name FOIA and ...
  • Climategate 3. FOIA’s accompanying email.
    Since I put up the email from FOIA that accompanied the second climategate release here, I thought I might as well be consistent and put up the email that accompanied the third. It makes for interesting reading, if only as a basis for some intriguing speculation. Pointman. ********************** ...
  • La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m ...
    I’ve been watching the slow and gory deconstruction of the latest attempt to rehabilitate the hockey stick, otherwise known as the Marcott et al paper. It’s a bit voyeuristic, but you just can’t help yourself in the end. Within the context of the skeptic blogosphere, it’s ...
  • Well, at least one of the bastards is behind bars.
    It’s been a very big week in the war against climate alarmism. FOIA revealed the password, which now gives access to all the emails contained in the CG2 release. Given that the archive contains something like 220,000 emails, you can expect a bit of a lull on the blogging front, simply beca ...
  • Climategate, a crisis of conscience.
    Sometimes in a life, you have to look at where you are and what you’ve become a part of, through the very best and the most innocent of intentions, and you hate yourself. It’s not somewhere you ever wanted or intended to be, but it is what it is. That’s where you are. Everyone ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Global Left Converges in Tunisia – Day One
    Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Tunis on Tuesday in a spirited march celebrating the beginning the 13th World Social Forum – the first to be held in an Arab country. The majority of marchers were from Tunisia and neighboring nations, but there was substantial representat ...
  • Mayor Landrieu and Ronal Serpas Wage War Again ...
    Mayor Mitch Landrieu ran for office on a promise of reform of the city's police department. He promised a national search for a new police chief as his first major initiative as mayor. Then the members of his search team began quitting, saying the process was rigged. When Landrieu "national sear ...
  • New Orleans Film About James Booker Sets SXSW ...
    Bayou Maharajah Trailer from Lily Keber on Vimeo. New Orleans filmmaker Lily Keber's film Bayou Maharajah, about James Booker, "the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced," premiered this week at SXSW film festival in Austin Texas, and has already ...
  • So, You Want to Collaborate in My Community? B ...
    Reprinted from our friends at Bridge The Gulf: When I started Coastal Women for Change, it wasn't my vision to run a nonprofit. If it had been, I would have done my research and learned how to manage one. I was thrown into this work after a devastation. I was a cosmetologist before Hurricane Ka ...
  • Israeli Propaganda Event at UNO Fails Miserably
    On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli soldier spoke at an event at University of New Orleans to speak in support of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. According to reports from the event, the room was initially full. But, as the photo from the event shows, as soon as the soldier started spea ...

Gyrovague's Raves

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

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NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Guilty until proven innocent - the oppressive ...
    In tonight's show we take a look at the travesty of justice known as the Apprehended Violence Order (AVO). An AVO is a restraining order which compels an 'alleged' violent person to stay away from an 'alleged' victim. In a strange exception of the norms of criminal justice , when an AVO is iss ...
  • Dissent against water fluoridation sweeps thro ...
    In today's show we cover the astonishing story of how 9 Queensland councils (with more considering) have rejected water fluoridation. This avalanche of dissent was triggered by a decision by the State Premier Campbell Newman in 2012 to allow councils to decide individually whether to fluoridate ...
  • Round table discussion with studio guests Damo ...
    In today's show we take a look at some of the challenges to unconstutional laws which have been rolled out in Australia, with a close look at speeding fines. I am joined in studio for the discussion by Damon Crowe and Chris Tolland. In part 2 of the show we play you some highlights from a re ...
  • Malcolm Roberts exposes deceptions of the IPCC ...
    Malcolm Roberts is an indefatigable warrior for truth, reason and science, rationally opposing the evolving feudal super state which is now being formed around the world from the broken remnants of western (former) democracies. In today's show Malcolm shares some of his new research into the C ...
  • Child abuse in foster care and orphanages is a ...
    Forgotten Australians National Day of Action - 6 Feb 2013 With all the news we have heard over the years about the abuse of children in various Church organisations you may have drawn the conclusion that everything is now out in the open and, the worst is behind us and the wheels of justice ar ...

Beacon

  • Infographic: Shark Attacks
    A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second. Outraged by these shocking numbers, Joe Chernov and Robin Richards created an infographic to put the figures in perspective. While s ...
  • Victory! More than 739 Miles of U.S. Coastline ...
    Loggerheads, like this Bald Head, NC native, will see nesting sites protected ©OCEANA This morning the government announced a decision, long in the making, to designate more than 739 miles of Atlantic and Gulf coastline as critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerheads ...
  • Grins and Fins: Meet the Sociable False Killer ...
    This false killer whale flashes a (real) killer smile. Photo: Doug Perrine/Hotspot Media American photographer Doug Perrine, 60, captured this priceless image of a false killer whale mid-grin off the coast of Kona, Hawaii. Less commonly known than the killer whale (or orca), the false killer ...
  • One Woman Stands Up for the Dolphins
    © OCEANA Just a few weeks ago, an international campaign to stop the annual gruesome slaughter of dolphins in Japan was initiated by one Scottish woman hoping to make a difference. Shona Lewendon started a petition to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requesting that Japan be denied t ...
  • Red Tide Takes a Toll on Florida Manatees
    Algae threatens this shapely sirenian. Photo: USGS Over the last two months, 180 manatees have been found dead along the coasts of Florida. The friendly and well-loved creatures of Florida’s waters are currently being threatened by an outbreak of red tide, an algal bloom which has proved to b ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

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Taylor Marsh

  • Don’t Rush Barbara Walters, She’s Not Done Yet
    Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid ...
  • Liz Cheney Went Off This Week
    DOUBLING DOWN on what has been rejected after not working in the first place seems to be Liz Cheney’s determined path. Her brand and way of selling Cheney 2.0. Mrs. Cheney is sounding nostalgic, starting off by quoting Ronald Reagan, who just doesn’t sound like he used to. If Ronald ...
  • Republican Sweetheart Ben Carson’s Sorry If He ...
    “Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone,” he added. “But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. Th ...
  • Queer Talk: “Say No to Gray Marriage” and Othe ...
    For a bit of a break, and to mark the historic marriage equality week, and with a quick nod to the Easter Bunny showing up on the ubiquitous “red for love” equality symbol, a few videos. Some have been around for a year or so, but they’re still quite relevant. Humor is used with LGBT ...
  • A Shining Light for Gay Soccer Players?
    Robbie Rogers is gay. That’s not a slur against his name. Unusually coming from a soccer fan, it’s the truth. He said so himself. Unfortunately for soccer the news was accompanied by the 25-year-old walking away from the sport he loves, at least in the short term. You may not have he ...

Hudson New York

  • Jihadis' Exploitation of Muslim Girls
    What are the Muslim jihadis in Syria doing when they are not fighting against Bashar Assad's army? According to reports in a number of Arab media outlets, the jihadis are importing Muslim girls to satisfy their sexual needs. The sexual exploitation of
  • Muslim "Secret" Courageously Outed
    How rife is anti-Semitism among Muslims? Well if you poll the so-called "Muslim world, " as Pew and other organizations have done, the answer is: very rife indeed. Take Pakistan for instance. In 2006 only 6% of the population had a "favorable" attitude
  • What is Really "Broken" In Syria?
    Among the many noteworthy aspects of President Barack Obama's recent tour of the Middle East was a comment on March 22, during a press conference with Jordanian King Abdullah II. Obama said, "Something has been broken in Syria, and it's not going to be
  • Europe: The Submission That Dare Not Speak Its ...
    Exactly one year ago, a killer entered the courtyard of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and shot in cold blood a rabbi and three children. He said he had wanted to kill more, and to perpetrate a massacre, but that his gun jammed. During the previous
  • Muslim Persecution of Christians: January, 2013
    The year 2013 began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live side by side with large numbers of Muslims, the Christians are under attack. As one report said, "Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the

Urban Survival

  • Semi-Good Friday
    After more coffee:   It’s Good Friday Because… …some parking meters won’t requirement payment today,    (wrong: Most cities want any money they can get…)  …no bills will come in the snail-mail today.    (wrong: mail is coming, gov ...
  • Kid Korea Kick It Up a Notch
    State media in North Korea is screaming this morning about how their missiles are at their highest state of readiness because they’re expecting to go head to head with the US any old time.   Apparently, Kid Korea skipped the … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Talking Shop, II
    For whatever reason, when I’m not doing productive work (which has backed-up a bit because of it) I’ve been working like a demon in my shop this week getting it cleaned up. A close inspection of the half-dead Black & … Continue reading →
  • Ben Dover and the Banksters
    In our continuing adventure series Ben Dover’s Money, we read this morning how a haircut for Canadian depositors is in the plans of the Canadian government, according to this report. Ben, of course, is the modern mythical equivalent to Ned … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Spring Shop Cleaning
    I don’t know it is with you, but about twice a year I make a half-hearted effort to get my shop all clean and ready for the next set of projects which come along.  This summer, like we don’t have … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • WOULD YOU RATHER… have a man who pays th ...
    So you are a lady and you are looking for a man to spend the rest of your life with. There are only two options in front of you. On the one hand is a man who pays all of the bills – but he doesn’t listen to you. On the other hand there is [...]
  • IS HOMOSEXUALITY A CHOICE?
    I was watching a program the other day on controversial tv, and as you would guess the program itself was rather controversial. The subject of discussion was homosexuality and the person being interviewed was a gay man talking about his experience of discovery. At some point in his life he reali ...
  • BOYS WEAR BLUE, GIRLS WEAR PINK
    My daughter was barely even a day old and she was already struggling with her identity. I guess one could say we were bad parents, but how were we supposed to know that girls don’t wear blue sleeping hats? At some point in time an unwritten law must have been created. Under no circumstance ...
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]
  • RADICAL DISCUSSIONS: Is It Possible To Know, W ...
    Welcome once again to radical discussions, where Femi A and Femi J have a series of arguments about various controversial and life changing topics. The rules of war are simple – we both choose a side and the debate begins. Feel free to join in, but we do warn you that this battle ground is [...]

Physics Today

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Revolutionary Politics

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Peakwater

  • China’s Massive Water Diversion
    “This month, a hundred years after the completion of the Panama Canal, China is expected to finish the first phase of its gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project, known in Chinese as Nanshui beidiao gongcheng — literally, “to divert southern water north.” The phrase evokes the suggesti ...
  • California’s small snowpack raises chills
    “The sprinklings of rain and dustings of snow that will fall on California over the next few days are not going to make up for three of the most remarkably dry months in state history, water resources officials said Thursday. “The mountains of the Sierra, which were buried in giant m ...
  • EPA Survey Finds More Than Half of the Nation’ ...
    “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the results of the first comprehensive survey looking at the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country, finding that more than half – 55 percent – are in poor condition for aquatic life. “The health of our Nat ...
  • Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus
      Ontology, Ethics and Epistemology in the Nexus by Miles Ten Brinke Miles, Peak Water columnist and avowed Hydrophilic energy-head, has found his way to Britain where he’s lost his California perma-tan and is studying an Energy Policy MSc at the University of Exeter on a Fulbright. Today I ...
  • Hundreds of dead pigs fished from Shanghai river
    “At least 2,800 dead pigs have been fished from a Shanghai river since Friday, but authorities insist that tap water in the city is still safe to drink. State news agency Xinhua said labels tagged to the pigs’ ears indicated they came from the upper waters of the Huangpu River, which ...

D. Kucinich

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

Authentically Wired

  • Hey, not a biggie, it’s only the
    …Hey, not a biggie, it’s only the Indians and we’ve been screwing them over since we landed at Pilgrim Rock … “whitey” won, they lost… Mixed Emotions Over Wounded Knee Massacre Site Being For Sale James A. Czywczynski of Rapid City, South Dakota bought the 40-acre plot where the Wounded Knee mas ...
  • this has been WALMART standard operating proce ...
    …And of course this is a NEW development and therefore solely Obama’s fault … right … this has been WALMART standard operating procedure for decades… Companies cut hours of full-time employees to avoid providing health care under new rules 03-31-2013  •  The Guardian In January, a jani ...
  • and we can take that to the bank, right…?
    …and of course Arizona’s corporate dominated state legislators will quickly take actions which permit our “poor” to obtain loans from those vestiges of integrity … Bank of America … Wells Fargo … Chase … Citi… …and we can take that to the bank, right…? Filed under: Blogroll
  • always honestly evaluate and consider the &#82 ...
    …actually there is NO struggle as APS … Az Land Dept … Az Corp Commissioners … always honestly evaluate and consider the “little guy” … … and if you believe that I have some ocean front property in Arizona for $ale I want to discuss with you … Filed under: Blogroll
  • holds the secret master de-coder-ring
    …And of course only this center holds the secret master de-coder-ring allowing them to solely determine just how and how one is “judged” by them to be an anti-government-American… Fusion center director: We don’t spy on Americans, just anti-government Americans 03-31-2013  •  http://rt ...

Popular Technology

  • The 1970's Global Cooling Alarmism
    During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combusti ...
  • Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
    In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pi ...
  • Hurricane Sandy Relief Fund: Please Donate!
    Hurricane Sandy ravaged the New Jersey coast and while it may not be in the news anymore, many people are still suffering. Flooding damage to the barrier islands was severe and FEMA is not providing anywhere near the funds people need to repair their homes or replace their cars. Popular Technol ...
  • The Truth about Skeptical Science
    Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website created by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refuted. The ...
  • 2016: Obama's America
    2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Harnessing religious teachings about stewardsh ...
    Many religious groups have taken on the role of environmental custodians, citing scriptures that urge living in harmony with plants and animals. Representatives of nine world religions pledged in 2009 to develop environmental programs. The Sikh religion’s contribution to that effort is cal ...
  • Into the unknown mountains of Cambodia: rare b ...
    Ringed with forested mountains forming the borders with Laos and Vietnam, the northeast corner of Cambodia has been an intriguing blank spot among my extensive travels through the country. Nestled up against this frontier is Virachey National Park, created in 1993. I began searching for a way to ...
  • Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaug ...
    Elephants are vanishing. The booming illegal ivory trade is decimating the world's largest land animal, but no place has been harder hit than the Congo basin and its forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis). The numbers are staggering: a single park in Gabon, Minkebe National Park, has seen 11,100 ...
  • Forests under fire: Australia's imperiled sout ...
    In the far southwestern corner of Western Australia, beyond the famed wineries in the shadow of the Margaret River, lies an ecosystem like no other, the South West ecoregion. This part of Australia has been identified as one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, home to rare endemic flora and faun ...
  • Jaguars, tapirs, oh my!: Amazon explorer films ...
    Watching a new video by Amazon explorer, Paul Rosolie, one feels transported into a hidden world of stalking jaguars, heavyweight tapirs, and daylight-wandering giant armadillos. This is the Amazon as one imagines it as a child: still full of wild things. In just four weeks at a single colpa (or ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Jeff Tallon: Shocking truth of modern slavery
    The Universe is 13.82 billion years old, give or take 20 million years. This was established from precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the afterglow of the "big bang" that pervades all space.This understanding...
  • Shaky Isles are also moving isles
    New Zealand is moving by 4cm a year, new satellite surveys have revealed.But rather than shifting as a whole, tectonic forces are deforming the land surface - stretching, slimming and sliding it southward.GPS surveys taken over...
  • Our friend the moon
    The moon. Our nearest neighbour. The main source of the ocean's tides, and a beacon that drives the lives of animals across the globe. And also, to date, the only object beyond Earth on which humans have set foot.Over the years,...
  • Are we ready for the big one?
    It starts with an earthquake.As they did on the afternoon of March 17, tens of thousands of Aucklanders take to Facebook and Twitter to express their amazement that their seemingly quake-free city has had a rumble.GeoNet, New...
  • Top NZ high-tech nominees named
    Two software companies, Xero and Serko, along with manufacturing firm Buckley Systems are in the running for the top prize at this year's New Zealand High-Tech awards.The finalists in the awards were announced tonight with Xero,...

The Bovine

  • Montana Jones, Michael Schmidt, Shropshire she ...
    From Cecilia Nasmith, on Northumberland Today.com “COBOURG - Justice Robert Graydon pledged that the four defendants in the April 2012 case involving missing Shropshire sheep will be tried with dispatch, even if it means he has to work on a Saturday. Charges … Continue reading →
  • Grey Bruce Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. ...
    It must be a tough job dealing with the likes of raw milk farmer Michael Schmidt. From the Owen Sound Sun Times: “Dr. Hazel Lynn was Grey-Bruce’s highest-paid public servant in 2012 for the fourth straight year. The local medical … Continue reading →
  • New GMO food can rewire your body?
    From Jon Rappoport’s blog (via Elisa): Brand new GMO food can rewire your body: more evil coming by Jon Rappoport, March 26, 2013 www.nomorefakenews.com It’s already bad. Very bad. For the past 25 years, the biotech Dr. Frankensteins have been inserting … Continue reading →
  • Montana Jones and Michael Schmidt in Cobourg C ...
    Supporters and media are not being encouraged to show up at the courthouse in Cobourg for the proceedings this Wednesday March 27th. As Karen Selick states in the media release below, the actual trial of this case will be many … Continue reading →
  • Criminal code exemptions for online gambling, ...
    From Enzio Di Matteo in NowToronto.com “All the noise around a Toronto casino has served to distract attention from OLG’s efforts to get into the arguably even more lucrative online gaming biz. A request for proposals was issued in February … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Italian President Giorgio Napolitano Denies He ...
    Whether or not Italian President Giorgio Napolitano intended to step down or it was just a rumor, following ECB President Mario Draghi phone call, Napolitano denies resignation reports. Napolitano pledged on Saturday that he would stay in office until the end of his term on May 15 following r ...
  • Happy Easter
    I wish all of you a happy Easter. Here is a colorful image from Der Spiegel that I wish to share. click on imager for larger view Each year, Volker Kraft decorates an apple tree with more than 10,000 colourful eggs in Saalfeld, Thuringia, to celebrate Easter and the arrival of sp ...
  • Time to Wave the White Flag on the "War on Pov ...
    In response to Unwilling to Work; 25% in Hale County AL Collect Disability, 14 Million Nationwide; A Simple Solution I received some interesting emails from readers. Regardless of Insurance, Taxpayers Pay Reader Chris writes Hey Mish, I have been discussing disability for ...
  • Beppe Grillo "We are the French Revolution Wit ...
    With Beppe Grillo unwilling to form a coalition government, and with Prime former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi making demands that Bersani will not go along with, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano Considers Options. One of those options includes stepping down early so the next presid ...
  • Robot Reality: "Last Resort" Service Jobs Next ...
    I have written about "Baxter" before. Baxter is not a person. Rather Baxter is a robot rapidly replacing humans in various manufacturing jobs. See Meet "Baxter" the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job, Because He's Still Much Cheaper; Fed Cannot Win a Fight Agains ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
    Natalie Merchant-“Carnival” This week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick is one of most respected recording artists in America. Singer/songwriter Natalie Merchant began her 28-year career as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the band 10,000 Maniacs. She went left the band in 1994 ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The Reality Principle -Episode 22
    “Demanding Peace & Rejecting Propaganda” with Cindy Sheehan This week, Eric sits down with peace activist and author Cindy Sheehan. Eric and Cindy discuss the legacy of Hugo Chavez and the future of Venezuela. In addition, Cindy recounts her interactions and friendship with Hugo Chavez, tal ...
  • Expanding Guantanamo
    Obama Exceeds the Worst of Bush Administration Crimes In 2008, candidate Obama promised to close Guantanamo. Straightaway as president, he issued Executive Order titled “Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities.&#82 ...
  • Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
    America the Great… Global Arms Dealer The United States sold a record-breaking $66 billion in arms over 2011, set to break its record again over 2012, controlling roughly 75% of the global trade in arms. Increased arms sales, not only by the U.S., but by all Western states, is part of a st ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • High-Risk Ferry Docking in Greece
    Check out this footage of a ferry “docking” in heavy seas at the Greek island of Kimolos in the Aegean Sea on March 25, 2013. Long video so watch the [...]
  • Final Section of Wrecked Warship Removed from ...
    By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kelby Sanders SULU SEA, The Philippines (March 30, 2013) – U.S. Navy and contracted salvage personnel embarked onboard the U.S. Navy contracted crane vessel [...]
  • Huntington Ingalls Awarded $2.6 Billion USS Ab ...
    WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) – Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. on Friday won a $2.6 billion contract to refuel and overhaul the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the [...]
  • WATCH: 1000 Kilometer Fracture Develops in Bea ...
    By Adam Voiland, Science Writer at NASA Earth Observatory The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this view of extensive sea-ice fracturing off the northern [...]
  • Japan to Launch World’s First LNG Futures Mark ...
    By Yuji Okada and Chou Hui Hong March 29 (Bloomberg) — Japan, the biggest buyer of liquefied natural gas, plans to list the world’s first futures contract for the supercooled [...]

Press TV

  • AL condemned for support for Syria opp.
    Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has condemned the Arab League's support for the Syrian opposition.
  • '4-year-old girl shot to death in Miami'
    Police in the US city of Miami say a 4-year-old girl was fatally shot while she was sitting in a car, and detectives are trying to determine whether another young child inside the vehicle fired the gun.
  • ‘1 killed in Arkansas N-site accident’
    An accident at a power plant in the US state of Arkansas has killed one worker and injured three others, according to the Arkansas Department of Health.
  • Police clash with Odinga supporters
    Kenyan police have clashed with supporters of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga in the capital Nairobi and in the western city of Kisumu, Odinga's home region.
  • 1000s rally in support of Korean military
    Tens of thousands of people have staged mass rallies in North Korea in support of the country’s military as tensions flare up on the Korean Peninsula.

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Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

  • Repairing Eyes With Plastic
    Dave - Scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa have managed to stimulate a retina just by using a piece of plastic and some light. So, there are quite a lot of diseas...
  • Genetics solves Giant Squid Mystery
    The enigmatic, tentacled beast that sparked the legend of the kraken has revealed its secrets to a team of Danish geneticists. Dr Tom Gilbert from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and his collea...
  • Getting 'Curious' About Mars Data
    The latest data from the Curiosity rover on Mars indicates that the planet's surface could have supported microbial life in the past. The findings come from chemical analysis of rock drilled from wha...
  • Pushing forward with Planck
    An analysis of data collected by the Planck Telescope supports a period of rapid expansion shortly after the big bang. The Planck telescopewas launchedin 2009, with a range of scientific ...
  • Nanoparticle stem cell ultrasound label
    A way to label up stem cells so that they can be seen on ultrasound, MRI and microscope scans has been revealed by scientists in the US. As Sanjiv Gambhir and his colleagues point out in their paper...

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Ex-CNN Reporter: I Received Orders to Manipula ...
    Summary: PRAGUE, (SANA)- Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon revealed that during her work for the channel she received orders to send false news and exclude some others which the US administration did not favor with the aim to create a public opinion in favor of launching an aggression on Iran and Sy ...
  • Obama’s Nuke Double Standards
    Summary: President Obama warns that “all options are on the table” regarding a possible attack against Iran, though there’s no credible evidence that it’s building a nuclear bomb. By contrast, Israel maintains an undeclared nuclear arsenal and the U.S. has thousands of nukes with no specific ...
  • UN Sanctions on Iran: The Dance of Mutual Deni ...
    Summary: The comprehensive economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN Security Council in the 1990s fundamentally changed the way we think about sanctions. Sanctions had been seen as a middle route, which was nonviolent, yet more robust than diplomacy. But in Iraq, the humanitarian impact w ...
  • Responding to the New York Times About Going t ...
    Summary: To encourage constructive debate, we will address two of the larger issues raised in — and by — Laura Secor’s review of our book “Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms With the Islamic Republic of Iran” (March 3). source: NY Timesread more
  • NATO Commissioned Research: U.S.-Israeli cybe ...
    Summary: Washington Post has reported that the 2009 cyberattack by the U.S. and Israel that crippled Iran’s nuclear program by sabotaging industrial equipment constituted “an act of force” and was likely illegal under international law, according to a manual commissioned by NATO’s cyber defe ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Shape-Shifting Neutrinos --Another Challenge t ...
                     Among the unsolved mysteries confronting 21st century physics from gravitational waves to dark energy, neutrinos -the "ghosts of the cosmos"- are near the top of the list. These awesomely low-mass subatomic particles, less than a millionth of the mass of electrons, pl ...
  • The Daily Poll --"Is the Evolution of Life Cod ...
                      In 1995, the astronomer Edward Harrison suggested in an audacious paper published in Great Britain in the "Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society" that our universe was created by life forms possessing superior intellingence existing in another phy ...
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  • An 'Infinity of Dwarfs' --A Visible Universe o ...
                     Astronomers estimate that there are between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in the known universe. A single galaxy such as the Milky Way contain upwards of 200 billion normal stars. About 75 percent of of all stars in the Milky Way are less than half as massive a ...
  • Is There a Neanderthal in Your DNA? --New Stud ...
                                      Researchers believe they have pinpointed the skeletal remains of the first known human-Neanderthal hybrid, according to a study published Wednesday in the peer reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE. The finding comes from northern Italy, where ...

Natural News

  • Say aloha to cancer (opinion)
    (NaturalNews)The following information is based upon offerings by R.Webster Kehr, Patrick McGean and Ron Neer. The essential protocol to reverse cancer is to get massive amounts of oxygen inside the cells in the body. By doing this, the cells, both cancerous and non-cancerous...
  • A super weed with powerful nutrition
    The thought of eating nettles might alarm you, as this plant is especially painful with even the slightest brush up against it. But drying or cooking takes all the fight out of it and what is left is quite an amazing super food. It is one of the first greens to emerge...
  • Congressman vows to end the TSA and stop airpo ...
    It's been a long time coming and, with the opposition party controlling both the Senate and Executive Branch, there is no guarantee of success, but one congressman is vowing to shutter the abusive Transportation Security Administration and allow airports the right to...
  • Dangerous, unreported side effects of Big Phar ...
    Despite its massive $5 billion annual budget, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is failing miserably at keeping tabs on the full extent of harmful side effects caused by FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs, according to a new study. A cohort of researchers from...
  • Top selling herbicide has been shown to kill h ...
    The top selling herbicide on the market has been shown to kill human cells in independent studies. While this particular herbicide, with the main ingredient glyphosate has been deemed safe for use, only the main ingredient is being tested; neglecting the other ingredients...

Threat Level

  • Government Fights for Use of Spy Tool That Spo ...
    The government's use of a secret spy tool was on trial on Thursday in a showdown between an accused identity thief and more than a dozen federal lawyers and law enforcement agents who were fighting to ensure that evidence obtained ...
  • Anonymized Phone Location Data Not So Anonymou ...
    Anonymized mobile phone location data produces a GPS fingerprint that can easily be used to identify a user based on little more than tracking the pings a phone makes to cell towers, a new study shows.
  • Half-Ownership Claim of Facebook Is a ‘Fabrica ...
    Declaring the case fraudulent, a magistrate judge on Tuesday urged a federal court to dismiss claims by a New York man whose lawsuit asserts he owns half of the social-networking service Facebook.
  • Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 ...
    A 19-year-old North Hollywood man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a commercial aircraft -- a steep punishment that goes well beyond what federal prosecutors were seeking.
  • Divided Supreme Court Hinders Cops’ Use of Dru ...
    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday gave notice to the nation's law enforcement officials that they generally need search warrants to employ drug-sniffing dogs outside a home to detect whether drugs are inside.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • As CBO Predicted, Higher Taxes Not Hurting Spe ...
    As the nation teetered on the edge of the so-called "fiscal cliff" in late 2012, Republican leaders warned that higher taxes for the rich would crush "job creators" and derail the U.S. economic recovery. But according to a new survey, a majority of those earning over $500,000 a year report that ...
  • Republicans Ask CBO to Rig Tax Cut Numbers
    Perhaps the greatest myth in the Republican pantheon is the claim that "tax cuts pay for themselves." Sadly, that article of supply-side faith--that tax cuts fuel economic growth so explosive that federal revenue exceeds what otherwise would have been collected--has been painfully debunked by d ...
  • GOP Distorts Obamacare Studies
    The White House marked the third anniversary of the Affordable Care Act with numbers highlighting its early impact. Over six million seniors have saved $6.1 billion on prescription drugs, while 3.1 million young Americans under age 26 have gained health insurance on their parents' policies. Al ...
  • Iraq, Iran and the Folly of Preventive War
    America's soul-searching to mark the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq went pretty much according to script. While many of its liberal supporters offered their mea culpas for having been so catastrophically mistaken, the Bush administration's architects of the war doubled-down on t ...
  • Bush Advisor Hadley: Iraq Like 9/11 a "Failure ...
    This week's tenth anniversary of the catastrophic U.S. invasion of Iraq produced perhaps the most bizarre post-mortem in in recent history. While liberal supporters of the war like Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait lined up to apologize for their error, right-wing cheerleaders like Peggy Noonan and ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • THREE PANELS OPEN: Eric Grissom & David Halvorson
    Eric & David have a free download of the zero issue of their comic PLANET GIGANTIC here.
  • “Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Ab ...
    An explosive new documentary looks at a case once referred to as "the crime of the century”: the Central Park Five. Many people have heard about the case -- but far too few know that innocent men were imprisoned as a result. The film tells the story of how five black and Latino teenagers were ar ...
  • Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Ro ...
    With the Republican Party in a state of turmoil following Mitt Romney's loss three weeks ago, we begin today's show with a guest who was once one of the most influential Republican strategists. In 1969 Kevin Phillips wrote the groundbreaking book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." Newsweek des ...
  • Headlines for November 28, 2012
    Egypt: More than 200,000 Fill Tahrir Square in Biggest Protest Against Morsi, At Least 34 Dead in Syrian Car Bomb Blasts, Shiite Worshipers Among At Least 30 Killed in Iraq Explosions, Report: M23 Rebels Preparing to Leave Goma After Initially Defying Deadline, Bangladeshi Factory Managers Arres ...
  • Palestine Activism in the UK
    Across Britain growing numbers of people are acting in solidarity with Palestinians

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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Oil Running Down The Road, Oil Pipeline Spill ...
    “We can see oil running down the road like a river,” explains a Mayflower resident. Crude oil has leaked and this is extremely unfortunate to Mayflower, Arkansas; damaging neighborhoods, and possibly endangering Lake Conrad. The size of the spill remains unclear. Faulkner County Judge Alle ...
  • Skewering Anthony Watts’ Anti-Science
    It’s been awhile since we posted any takedowns of global warming deniers (or science deniers in general). However, I ran across one this week that really deserves a share. If you’re not familiar with Anthony Watts, he’s one of the leaders of the anti-science crew that thinks gl ...
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed By Obama, GMO B ...
    The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefitting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with gen ...
  • Urbsly — Fund This Open Data Catalog Of Seeds
    While we all play on our computers, watch movies and TV, and… blog, one of the key components of our life support system is increasingly controlled (even owned) by a small handful of companies. As you probably gathered from the title, I’m talking about the essence of our food system, ...
  • What’s Better Than Planting Trees?
    Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the world right now, hands down. Even the US Department of Defense has called climate change a destabilizer of geopolitical peace and a national security threat. Worldwide, we’re attacking climate change from a wide variety of angles. There&#8 ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Pay No Attention to the American People, Liz C ...
    By @TedFrier Liz Cheney did not like the way the 2012 election turned out so she is ignoring it and urging all other Republicans to ignore it too. Barack Obama beat Mitt Romney by more than three million votes. Republicans lost the popular vote for the fifth time in the last six presidential ele ...
  • Who Are The Real "Makers" and "Takers?"
    By @TedFrier It takes one to know one. And so only marginally less militant than the reformed smoker who inveighs against the dangers of lighting up, and tirelessly campaigns to ban smoking in all public places, is a reformed conservative like Michael Lind, currently Policy Director of the Econo ...
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): even more trolls
    Previously: Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): for marriage equality (March 24, 2013) Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): cue the trolls (March 25, 2013) Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [file photo] Even more anti marriage equality troll excess on Senator Claire McCaskill's facebook page: ...."Dear Claire, Your of ...
  • The Libertarian Lesson
  • Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): for marriage equality
    Senator Claire McCaskill (D) [file photo] Today, a post on Senator Claire McCaskill's (D) non-government web site: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13 The question of marriage equality is a great American debate. Many people, some wit ...

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No Quarter

  • Death Knell for Global Warming Hysteria, Al Go ...
    Rising temperatures, broiling deserts, surging oceans. Cats and dogs–living together. The apocalyptic predictions that the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be accompanied by soaring temperatures–i.e., man made global warming–has proven to be a delusion and a dark, ...
  • Are We Going to War with North Korea?
    Bombast is the order of the day in North Korea. They reiterated today that a “state of war” exits with South Korea. Well, duh! That’s been the case for more than 60 years. The escalation in North Korean threats comes against the backdrop of a military exercise in the South and ...
  • Jim Carey, Talking Out His Ass
    I refuse to give Jim Carey any recognition for his ignorant video attacking the likes of Charlton Heston over the issues of guns. Why? The ass has made a shitload of money shooting guns and killing folks on the silver screen. If guns are so goddamned bad then he ought to give back the money [...]
  • Cyprus Day of Reckoning
    Mark down Tuesday, March 28th, 2013 as an important historical date. This has the potential to unravel the Global Financial system. This will kill the Euro. The Financial Times provides the overview: Cyprus is to become the first eurozone country ever to apply capital controls – with limits on c ...
  • Why Did Obama Put a Fat Girl in Charge of Secr ...
    Ah, the media is all a twitter over the appointment of the first female director of the Secret Service, Julia Pierson. Good God!! Our political correctness, equal opportunity nonsense is running amuck. I have no problem with naming a woman to run the Secret Service, but this pudgy porker ain&#82 ...

Futurismic

  • Consequences
    I do keep saying that futurism isn’t about making predictions, don’t I? Well, that’s because I really believe it. Prediction — in the sense of declaring with great certainty that [x] will come to happen — is a waste of time, because you have no way of accurately det ...
  • The (contested) street, finding new uses for t ...
    From a photo-essay/collection thingybob at The Atlantic: Syrian rebel fighters and their homebrew military hardware. There are lots of shots of chaps lathing mortar shells, as well as crude hand-welded onagers made from shelving and rebar; that’s your continuity verification, a through-lin ...
  • Science fiction and science, part II: smashing ...
    So, last week saw me take the train down to London in order to give a presentation on science fiction narratives as strategic planning tools to the Strategic Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management. (That’s neither a topic or audience I’d have ever expected to add ...
  • Science fiction and science, part I: you’re do ...
    *blows dust off microphone* I’ve been absent from here for a while because I’ve been working on other things, but those things are very much related to Futurismic as a project, both in terms of what it has been, and what it will be. More on that later, though. I want to get things ba ...
  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Students support legislation against mountaint ...
    Students support legislation against mountaintop removal Richmond Register Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition delegate Carol Hinds talks with EKU professor Elaine Waters about the affects of mountaintop removal Wednesday. Waters signs the petition that will be sent to legislators to encour ...
  • Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-rem ...
    Junior Walk speaks out against mountaintop-removal mining at UNCA event ... Mountain Xpress Junior Walk, a West Virginia native who travels the country speaking out against mountaintop-removal mining on behalf of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, i ...
  • LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop remo ...
    LETTER: Support moratorium on mountaintop removal York Dispatch Here's a better idea: Let's demand Congress pass the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act, H.R. 526. The Act will place a moratorium on new mountaintop removal "mines" until the science demonstrates th ...
  • Stop mountaintop removal mining - Columbia Star
    Stop mountaintop removal mining Columbia Star As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too late. Mountaintop removal no ...
  • Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining ...
    Resident addresses mountaintop removal mining Akron Leader Publications As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation's Appalachian Mountains and people, before it is too la ...

Memeorandum

  • Marriage Looks Different Now (Ross Douthat/New ...
    Ross Douthat / New York Times: Marriage Looks Different Now  —  IN 1997, two prominent conservative writers, David Frum and Andrew Sullivan, debated same-sex marriage for the online magazine Slate.  —  Frum defended what was then the consensus conservative (and c ...
  • Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot r ...
    Associated Press: Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid  —  LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought ...
  • Mark Kelly warns GOP against filibustering Sen ...
    Vicki Needham / The Hill: Mark Kelly warns GOP against filibustering Senate gun legislation  —  Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R-Ariz.), on Sunday warned GOP lawmakers not to filibuster efforts to pass gun control in the Senate.  —  &l ...
  • First family attends Easter church service (Me ...
    Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: First family attends Easter church service  —  President Obama and his family attended Easter services Sunday morning at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.  —  Obama, the first lady and their two daughters walked the short ...
  • A Clinton in 'Transition' Keeps Opponents and ...
    Jim Rutenberg / New York Times: A Clinton in ‘Transition’ Keeps Opponents and Donors Frozen  —  Hillary Clinton left the State Department nearly two months ago, but she still needs a staff to keep up with the considerable business of being Hillary Clinton.  A ha ...

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    䞇倎死猪浮出黄浊江氎面，沉圚底䞋的，是䞊海呚蟹的氎系污染、河道管理的政出倚 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Joining Match.com at Age 58
    Heroes come in all circumstances and ages. The prophet tells us, “Your old will have visions; your young will dream dreams.” Elderly women in a retirement community in Mill Valley protested the war in Iraq on a busy thoroughfare with placards every Friday for years. A man I know o ...
  • Exxon Confirms 80,000-Gallon Spill Contains Ca ...
    The story first appeared on InsideClimate News.A pipeline that ruptured and leaked at least 80,000 gallons of oil into central Arkansas on Friday was transporting a heavy form of crude from the Canadian tar sands region, ExxonMobil told InsideClimate News. Local police said the line gush ...
  • Have Militant Atheists Created a New Religion?
    The following is an excerpt from "The Bonobo and the Atheist",  by Frans de Waal (W.W. Norton, 2013).One quiet Sunday morning, I stroll down the driveway of my home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to pick up the newspaper. As I arrive at the bottom—we live on a hill—a ...
  • Where Does It Say the Supreme Court Has the Co ...
    The Supreme Court oral arguments on marriage equality deserved all the attention they received — but it’s another case heard this week that will affect even more people over the course of their lifetimes. And it could cost Americans millions in prescription drug bills.The case f ...
  • 40 Years After Watergate, It's Almost Impossib ...
    At moments, “The Lessons of Watergate” conference, held a couple of weeks ago in Washington, D.C. by the citizen’s lobby Common Cause, was a little like that two-man roadshow retired baseball players Bill Buckner and Mookie Wilson have been touring. In it, they retell the s ...

Threat Level

  • Government Fights for Use of Spy Tool That Spo ...
    The government's use of a secret spy tool was on trial on Thursday in a showdown between an accused identity thief and more than a dozen federal lawyers and law enforcement agents who were fighting to ensure that evidence obtained ...
  • Anonymized Phone Location Data Not So Anonymou ...
    Anonymized mobile phone location data produces a GPS fingerprint that can easily be used to identify a user based on little more than tracking the pings a phone makes to cell towers, a new study shows.
  • Half-Ownership Claim of Facebook Is a ‘Fabrica ...
    Declaring the case fraudulent, a magistrate judge on Tuesday urged a federal court to dismiss claims by a New York man whose lawsuit asserts he owns half of the social-networking service Facebook.
  • Aiming Laser Pointer at Airplane Gets Man 2.5 ...
    A 19-year-old North Hollywood man is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for aiming a laser pointer at a commercial aircraft -- a steep punishment that goes well beyond what federal prosecutors were seeking.
  • Divided Supreme Court Hinders Cops’ Use of Dru ...
    A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday gave notice to the nation's law enforcement officials that they generally need search warrants to employ drug-sniffing dogs outside a home to detect whether drugs are inside.

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Fall River’s T.A. Restaurant Linked to Salmone ...
    According to Herald News reporter, Michael Holtzman, T.A. Restaurant remained closed for a second day Friday and could remain shuttered for the near future while city and state inspectors continue... Continue Reading
  • OIG Audit of FSIS finds room for improvement
    OIG finds that more components of ground beef need to be tested for E. coli, as well as needle tenderized steaks.  OIG also found traceback records were lacking. The Office... Continue Reading
  • Where the E. coli Chicken Quesadillas were Sold
    On March 28, 2013, Rich Products Corporation recalled approximately 196,222 pounds of Farm Rich brand frozen chicken quesadillas and several other frozen mini meals and snack items because they might be contaminated... Continue Reading
  • Chicken Quesadillas from Farm Rich in Alabama, ...
    Information available to date indicates that consumption of Farm Rich brand frozen food products is one likely source of infection for the ill persons in this outbreak. Testing conducted by... Continue Reading
  • 24 with E. coli O121 in 15 States, including M ...
    One of the “Big Six” E. coli strains (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 and O145) prompts recall. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was notified... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • New York: 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid fina ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hybrid, Crossover, Subaru For a company that does a pretty great job of tying its vehicles to the environment - or, better said, to people who like to actually get out into the environment - Subaru hasn't exactly been a leader in green vehicle production. In f ...
  • New York: 2014 BMW 328d ready to burn oil in j ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Sedan, BMW, Diesel Despite showing off the new 328d sedan in New Jersey yesterday, BMW though it only fair to bring the first four-cylinder diesel it will ever sell in the US to the New York Auto Show today as well. Unfortunately, the company remains vague abo ...
  • Official: 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric ...
    Filed under: New York Auto Show, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Electric Despite the fact that Daimler's press release doesn't mention this company by name, we have to assume that the 28-kWh lithium-ion battery in the upcoming 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive comes from Tesla Motors. What ...
  • Geneva: Exagon Motors golden-orange Furtive-eG ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Geneva Motor Show, Electric The previous version of the Exagon Motors Furtive-eGT was a subtle - in color, not design - silver. At the Geneva Motor Show this week, Exagon took the wraps off a beautiful copper version of the carbon fiber and honeycomb body. We're not quite ...
  • Geneva: Belumbury Dany and Lallo Concept are e ...
    Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Electric Ask the representatives at the Belumbury booth at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show and they won't tell you how much the Dany quadricycle - available in both electric and gasoline versions - actually costs. Instead, they say that if you option the heck out of ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

Time - Top Stories

Invisible Opportunity

  • Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has ...
    Graham Lloyd, Environment Editor The fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted. Picture: Ray Strange Source: The Australian DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way ...
  • This Is What It Feels Like To Have Your Life S ...
    By Michael What would you do if you woke up one day and discovered that the banksters had “legally” stolen about 80 percent of your life savings? Most people seem to assume that most of the depositors that are getting ripped off in Cyprus are “Russian oligarchs” or “wealthy European tycoons”, bu ...
  • Obama Signature On Monsanto Protection Act Ign ...
    While Monsanto executives may be rejoicing behind the closed doors of their corporate offices, they have also just stabbed themselves in the heart with the blatant and cocky decision to go through with the Monsanto Protection Act. by Anthony Gucciardi NaturalSociety.com March 29, 2013 Obama’s so ...
  • All the years Israel said an Iranian nuke was ...
    by Sunny Hundal The US media is once again reporting Israeli speculation on Iranian attempts to build a nuclear weapon. Now, I do think the current Iranian government would like to have nuclear weapons capability. But here’s a timeline of Israeli warnings on Iranian nukes (via Opinio Juris) 1984 ...
  • ‘Underwear bomber’ was working for the CIA | T ...
    by kristalklear ‘Underwear bomber’ was working for the CIA –Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged 08 May 2012 A would-be “underwear bomber” involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as a ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

Twilight Earth

  • Cartoon caption contest
    Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
  • Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
    Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
    The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
  • Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
    US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
  • BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
    Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Should we thank the Court as it rescues us fro ...
    Summary:  America remains locked in a battle between Left and Right. Each fights to protect the Constitution — or the pieces of it they value. Neither cares for the Constitution as other than a tool to advance their interests. The Constitution, torn between them, slowly withers. The Americ ...
  • The future calls the Marine Corps, but they re ...
    Summary:  An organization’s destiny rides on its leaders’ decisions on those rare occasions when the future call. Their response puts the organization on the path to success, or decay. Sometimes that happens on the field in battle.  Sometimes it’s a call to action, to serve by ...
  • Social unrest coming to Europe? If not, why not?
    Summary: Five years of crisis in Europe, yet its streets remain mostly calm. What accounts for this? How long will it continue? “At the heart of the crisis, there is the challenge of redefining the social contract to safeguard the sustainability of Europe’s social model.” &#821 ...
  • The next step of computer evolution: becoming ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we examined the job prospects for journalists when computers do much of their job as well as people. But it might not end there. Computers will become bloggers, either in collaboration with people, or software run by people as a hobby. Here we speculate about what kinds of bl ...
  • Journalists reporting the end of journalism as ...
    Summary: Journalists often have been unsympathetic when reporting past waves of unemployment from automation. Now they have the opportunity to do first person reporting, as computers replace professionals. Like journalists.  This is another chapter in a series about the the robot revolution, soo ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Groovy False-Col ...
    This Voyager 1 picture of the great red spot shows a white oval with its "wake" of counter-rotating vortices. North is at the top and the distance from top to bottom is about 24,000 km. This enhanced color view emphasizes ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: High-Mass Star F ...
    In this new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, ESA’s Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born. W3 is a giant molecular cloud containing an enormous stellar nursery, some 6,200 light-years away in ...
  • GoT Beer? A Crafty Blonde Attempts to Ascend t ...
    It was only a matter of time before serious Game of Thrones fans decided they needed a horn of ale with which to toast the show. Now Brewery Ommegang has partnered with HBO to oblige this thirst with a beer ...
  • Wired Space Photo of the Day: Not Actually a D ...
    The object in this image is Jonckheere 900 or J 900, a planetary nebula — glowing shells of ionised gas pushed out by a dying star. Discovered in the early 1900s by astronomer Robert Jonckheere, the dusty nebula is small ...
  • Will NASA Announce Plans to Snag an Asteroid a ...
    When the Obama administration's 2014 federal budget gets released in early April it might include a curious item: a $100 million request for NASA to conduct a mission to capture an asteroid and bring it back to Earth.

PakAlert

  • Obama uses executive power to move gun control ...
    President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control. The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership. The execut ...
  • FEMA’s guide to reporting suspicious activity ...
    Suspicious Activity Defined: (Where everyone in the US could be a terrorist, does this sound familiar? Regimes like Nazi Germany or the USSR encouraged the public to spy on its citizens.)
  • Highly Bizarre “Cloud Coils” Photographed Over ...
    These supremely weird, coiled cloud formations were recently captured by a satellite scoping out the Prince Edward Islands. No, not the one in Canada, the ones in the south Indian Ocean. Are they the product of a fast moving craft? The infamous HAARP program? A government weather machine spinnin ...
  • Video: Thousands Now Infected With Nano Worms ...
    Thousands Now Infected With Nano Worms In The
  • North Korea Declares War On The US And South Korea
    North Korea is entering a "state of war" with South Korea, its state-run news service reports, further escalating the rhetoric against its southern neighbor and the United States. The statement, carried by the communist country's KCNA news agency, says inter-Korean relations will be dealt wi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Prison-Wide Hunger Strike Still Rages at Guant ...
    Three weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo,” in which I reported the stories emerging from Guantánamo of a prison-wide hunger strike, the most severe since George W. Bush was President, and the gulf between what was being reported by the prisone ...
  • Voices from the Hunger Strike in Guantánamo
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activiti ...
  • TV and Radio: Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
    It’s been a busy week, with the prison-wide hunger strike still raging at Guantánamo, and the government’s denials about it taking place crumbling under sustained media interest. I’m delighted that the major US newspapers have picked up on the story, and also that CBS News and ...
  • Protest Photos: Shaker Aamer and Guantánamo, a ...
    Protest Photos: Shaker Aamer and Guantanamo, and an NHS Roadblock Outside Parliament, a set on Flickr. This photo set collects a few photos from events over the last week and a half that I haven’t included in any other sets — three relating to the ongoing campaign to free Shaker Aame ...
  • Save the NHS: Photos and Report from the Lobby ...
    Save the NHS: The Lobby of Parliament on March 26 to Scrap the New Regulations Enforcing NHS Privatisation, a set on Flickr. Yesterday, in the Houses of Parliament, a passionate and packed-out meeting took place in one of the House of Commons committee rooms, attended by well over a hundred camp ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Whose line is it, anyway?
    Nineteenth century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli supposedly remarked that there are “lies, damned lies and statistics” but although the phrase was repeated often, it is more likely that it was coined by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. ...
  • Greening end of life gadgets
    Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is a growing problem, there are mountains of obsolete computers, mobile phones, refrigerators, televisions etc piling up on dumps around the world. Regulations implemented at the National and European levels seek to force those disposing of WEEE t ...
  • 38 things you might not know about the Moon
    #18 It may seem obvious, but art does not always capture the true appearance of the Moon: where it is in the sky always tells you where the Sun is. You will never see a crescent Moon looking like an open parachute: if the crescent is on its side, the "horns" will point upwards, indicatin ...
  • Can drinking green tea or coffee cut stroke risk?
    Probably not. A recent study from Japan was much hyped in the media earlier this week but as NHS Choices points out, the researchers themselves offered a number of limitations to their study: The information on illness, green tea and coffee consumption was all self-reported, which introduces the ...
  • Whatever happened to acid rain?
    There’s a cute video montage currently doing the rounds in which a re-working of the Billy Joel song “We didn’t start the fire” reminisces about growing up in the 1970s and the 1980s and cites the countless games, toys, TV shows and other cultural references we had during ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Arab Spring Shifts Focus of World Social Forum
    Booths and stands at the World Social Forum on the El Manar campus in Tunis. (Alberto Pradilla/IPS ) TUNIS - The World Social Forum’s traditional focus on economic, political and social injustice caused by globalization shifted towards the revolts and unrest of the Arab Spring, in the curr ...
  • Iraq, Afghan Wars Will Cost US 4-6 Trillion Do ...
    More than half of the more than 1.5 million troops who have been discharged from active duty since 9/11 have received medical treatment at veterans’ hospitals and have been granted benefits for the rest of their lives. (US Army/public domain) ...
  • Deadly Diarrhea Will Increase on Hotter, Drier ...
    It kills over 1.5 million children every year and is a topic completely shunned by media and politics alike. Diarrhea is not only deadly but the scope of its devastation is only going to proliferate as global warming continues to cause widespread drought and drive worldwide temperatures higher a ...
  • North Korean Photos Show Plans for Attack on US
    North Korea put its rocket units on standby on Friday to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable B-2 Spirit stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a US show of force. ...
  • At World Social Forum, Global Peasant Movement ...
    As the World Social Forum (WSF) being held in Tunis, Tunisia continues this week, one group is highlighting a "peoples solution" to the "corporate assault" transnational corporations pose to people and the planet. read more

Lifehacker

Water Wars

  • MLC warns of Maharashtra water wars
    BJP MLC Ashish Shelar at the Legislative Council meeting on Monday said that a circular was issued by the additional director general of police, Ahmed Javed, stating that with the ongoing water crisis across the state, the likelihood of an impending water war is high.
  • Don't Kill Me, I Beg You. This is My Tree by H ...
    The snow is falling in Helsinki as the Tiger tries to escape his past in this short story from Hassan Blasim He woke, and before the last traces of the nightmare had faded he made up his mind: he'd take him out to the forest and finish it. Fifteen years ago, before he shot him, the man said, "Do ...
  • Can Ghana avoid the coming water wars ? IMANI
    Have any one of you urban dwellers ever joined a queue all day to fetch water from a well just because your state-managed water system had not been flowing for days?
  • Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens ...
    *IMANI Alert: Has Ghana enough Water to Share with Citizens on World Water Day? Can Ghana Avoid the Coming Water Wars and Seek Cooperation?*
  • Blue Peace: New Solution for Averting Water Wa ...
    MUMBAI, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --With the spectre of war looming over Egypt and Ethiopia due to discord on the Nile River Comprehensive Framework Agreement, a new report, Blue Peace for the Nile, ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • Immigration Reform Deal Close Senators Say, Co ...
    Key lawmakers involved in ongoing bipartisan discussions on a comprehensive immigration reform bill signaled optimism on the Sunday morning talk show circuit, with Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) — two members of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” negotiators w ...
  • As Administration Decides On Keystone, U.S. Ex ...
    One week after the Senate held a symbolic vote in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. saw two different oil spills involving Canadian tar sands crude oil. An ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured Friday, leaking approximately 10,000 barrels of tar sands crude in an Arkansas town. As a result, 22 ...
  • Must Read: Arctic Sea Ice Death Spiral And Col ...
    The media are debating if the decrease in  Arctic ice  is related to this winter’s cold weather in Germany. This post discusses the most recent current research about this including the most important figures from relevant studies. Translated from an article by Stefan Rahmstorf [] are tran ...
  • Law Enforcement Officials Gunned Down In Possi ...
    A Texas district attorney and his wife were shot to death in their home just outside Dallas last night, the latest instance in a recent spate of suspicious shootings of law enforcement officials. The deaths of Mike and Cynthia McLelland follow the shooting of a Kaufman County assistant district ...
  • Law Enforcement Officials Gunned Down In Possi ...
    A Texas district attorney and his wife were shot to death in their home in Kaufman County last night, the latest instance in a recent spate of suspicious shootings of law enforcement officials. The deaths of Mike and Cynthia McLelland follow the shooting of a Kaufman County assistant district at ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Elections Canada: The Farce Continues
    Shorter Elections Canada: "We're useless." Read the comments at the link. Canadians are fed up. (Except for the pathetic harpercon hacks and trolls who vote down inarguable statements about the importance of electoral integrity and democracy.)
  • Boris, Alison and Moi
     A little while ago, in the comments section of one of her posts, Alison at Creekside was asked why she isn't blogging so much anymore. She replied that there didn't seem to be much point to blogging in the face of official sanction for an illegitimate government.(I don't remember which pos ...
  • A Break
    I'll resume my look at Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State tomorrow (maybe). For now, yeez kin watch a video. A terrible video I watched with my 5-year old last night. The guy who wrote that script probably got $150 (in today's money) for it. Threw it at his bosses and said "If yo ...
  • "Resisitng the State: Urban Colonization and R ...
    Chapter Three of Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State is based on interviews with Roger Obonsawin and Kathy Mallet, two First Nations people who worked to build friendly spaces and services for their fellow FN people in Canada's urban centres. Roger Obonsawin Kathy Mallet Neigh ...
  • "Resisting the State" ... More
    So, yeah, more about Scott Neigh's Talking Radical: Resisting the State. In Chapter 2, Neigh talks about the transplanted Trinidadian, Toronto lawyer Charles Roach. Neigh begins with an in-depth explanation of how the cultures of other lands filter into a locale via the process of immigration ...

on Government Oversight

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    There's a very clear theme to this week's top comments: they all come from stories about companies, governments and organizations fighting and punishing the people they are supposed to serve. For example, we've got the Florida homeowner's association that is wielding lawsuits to shut down critic ...
  • Dennis Deems' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    I'm Dennis Deems, a composer, songwriter, and playwright living and working in almost total obscurity. These are my favorite Techdirt posts of the past week. Would you like DRM with that? EA Labels President: DRM Is A Failed Strategy, But SimCity Didn't Have Any DRM ...
  • Awesome Stuff: Computers And Gesture Input Devices
    Okay, I really thought this week was going to be the one where our awesome stuff posts didn't have a theme. But... because of some last minute finds, you not only get two separate themes, but also four projects, rather than our standard three. First up, we've got two different takes on a compu ...
  • This Is Not The Cloud Computing We Should Have
    Even though I was never a big Google Reader user, its death has got me thinking about online services quite a bit lately -- and really reminded me that we've done the cloud wrong. Rather than build true cloud computing, we've built a bunch of lockboxes. The cloud was supposed to free us, n ...
  • What I Learned About My Own Daily Life From Th ...
    Update: As pointed out in the comments... this is a hoax. The video is real, but the translation is made up for the sake of comedy value. Considering that Monday is April Fool's Day, where a bunch of people are going to be trying to fool others, let's just consider this a "lesson learned" and ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Enough With Your Superiority Complex
    You are not better than anyone else. I don’t care how aware you think you are or how many books you have read on anarchism or racism or sexism or whatever. I don’t care what ist you are. I don’t care if you can quote Marx or Judith Butler. I don’t care if you eat [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The big news this week is that white paper. I read it last night at the bar. I wasn’t drunk enough for that shit. Greenwald’s breakdown here. A must read interview of Lynn Paltrow over at Guernica about what is happening to pregnant women. In short, get pregnant and kiss your rights ...
  • Trans Issues are Core Issues
    A few weeks ago, a piece by Suzanne Moore called Seeing red: The power of female anger started a bit of a shitstorm. Moore was looking to get women riled up and she succeeded – just not the women she was aiming for. Trans women were furious at her comment that women are angry with themselv ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really loved this essay on joy by Zadie Smith. The pursuit of joy may actually explain a lot of the ridiculous shit I do.  Though I don’t know if it now seems more or less sensical. Fascinating article on Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill. Our friends at Red Emmas are ...
  • Legality, Morality, and Dehumanization
    According to Oliver Willis, some of us on the left are dumb because we aren’t ready to declare that a woman arrested for prostitution with her son present is an open and shut case of wrongness. He claims it isn’t about whether or not we think prostitution should be legal. It is illeg ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

Watts Up With That?

  • Easter puzzle: the Chinese Egg
    By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Since this is the time of year for Easter eggs, here is a Chinese puzzle. The object is to break the egg into nine pieces, as shown, and rearrange them into the shape of a … Continue reading →
  • The Mail on Sunday takes on the CCC
    David Rose of the Mail on Sunday is having a go at the Committee on Climate Change for their denial of the points raised in his article last week and this graph, which was sourced from NCAR and used in … Continue reading →
  • “Global warming predictions prove accurate”– G ...
    Guest post by Paul Homewood http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/27/climate-change-model-global-warming The Mail on Sunday ran an article by David Rose a couple of weeks ago, pointing out just how woeful most climate models had been in predicting global temperatures in the last decade ...
  • The Pitfalls of Data Smoothing
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since we’ve been discussing smoothing in datasets, I thought I’d repost something that Steve McIntyre had graciously allowed me to post on his amazing blog ClimateAudit back in 2008. Let me start by saying that when … Continue reading →
  • Crowdsourcing the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference ...
    Image Credit: Photobucket.com – GISP2 – Moberg – Keigwin – HadCRUT3 By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” During the first crowdsourcing thread for the under construction WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page, we had a number solid recommendations and WUWT moderator D.B ...

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • Scientists Inject Human Brain Cells Into Mice, ...
    And you thought it was all about the neurons. In an experiment that might seem like something only a mad scientist would conjure, researchers injected human brain cells into the brains of mice to see how it would affect the way the mice thought. It did: the mice got smarter. But the cognition bo ...
  • Biologists Make a Computer From a Living Cell ...
    If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust their activities in fermentation tanks used to make drugs and other chemicals. Now researchers ...
  • Human ear fabrication shows potential for growth
  • Social isolation increases death risk in older ...
    Social isolation is associated with a higher risk of death in older people regardless of whether they consider themselves lonely, research suggests.A study of 6,500 UK men and women aged over 52 found that being isolated from family and friends was linked with a 26% higher death risk over seven ...
  • Brain Researchers Can Detect Who We Are Thinki ...
    Scientists scanning the human brain can now tell whom a person is thinking of, the first time researchers have been able to identify what people are imagining from imaging technologies. Work to visualize thought is starting to pile up successes. Recently, scientists have used brain scans to deco ...

CFACT

  • Canadian oil already “spilling” in ...
    Environmentalists mistakenly think that blocking the Keystone pipeline will prevent crude oil, derived from Canada’s oil sands, from being extracted and from being conveyed into the U.S. to be refined into gasoline, asphalt, and other products that are important to the transportation and manufac ...
  • A carbon tax would destroy America
    If you want to know what a carbon tax on emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would do to America you need only look at the destruction of industry and business in Australia, along with the soaring costs for energy use it imposes on anyone there.
  • Stop global warming to prevent alien invasion?
    You’ve heard that global warming could drown polar bears and cause killer hurricanes. But did you know it could also lead to an alien invasion from outer space? [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5093.mp3]
  • Climategate 3.0: “Mr. FOIA” says l ...
    Mr. FOIA denies these absurd allegations in his 3.0 message. “I took what I deemed the most defensible course of action, and would do it again,” he said. “That's right; no conspiracy, no paid hackers, no Big Oil. The Republicans didn't plot this. USA politics is alien to me, neither am I from th ...
  • Technology does more for environment than envi ...
    What has benefited nature more, ecology and environmentalism or economics and the free market? Believe it or not, Matt Ridley from PERC, says economics. [audio http://www.cfact.org/radio/255/5091.mp3]

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Dianne Feinstein, Ted Cruz and the value of pr ...
    The sharp exchange between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing produced somewhat typical partisan reactions: conservatives thought Cruz had the better of the exchange; liberals, Feinstein. There was a definite gender angle as well though. A num ...
  • Making sense of the news in a new media world
    Years ago there was a criminal case where a crooked cop planted evidence against the suspect even though prosecutors already had a pretty tight case against him. One observer described the police officer’s actions as “framing a guilty man,” and I’ve found that to be a us ...
  • Getting to know 'FrackNation' - the new indust ...
    Freelance journalist Phelim McAleer has a new film called FrackNation that has been getting positive notice on the right, though it is flying under the mainstream radar to a certain extent. It does not appear to have had a theatrical release, and aside from an airing on the satellite channel AX ...
  • In praise of local TV news
    I will admit to having had a snobbish view towards local TV news for most of my adult life. I think it is at least somewhat justified; local TV news frequently has a disreputable whiff. Whether it’s the “if it bleeds, it leads” ethos, sweeps week stunts (this item is in almos ...
  • Is TARP disappearing from Washington's memory?
    On last Sunday’s “Up With Chris Hayes” there was a discussion about political calculations for Republicans. The question was whether to work with Democrats or go with straight obstructionism. At one point Hayes said:Bob Bennett was a fairly conservative senator from Utah, rig ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Behind The Label: Organix's Misleading Labeling
    With a name like Organix, you might assume that the brand in question is organic right? You would be wrong.Click here to read this article
  • Obama's Genetically Modified Food Bill is Bad ...
    WASHINGTON, DC - President Barack Obama signed a spending bill, HR 933, into law, the "Monsanto Protection Act," that strips federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically modified (GMO) seed crop regardless of any consumer health concerns.Click here to ...
  • Pasture Cropping: A Regenerative Solution from ...
    Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting a cereal crop into perennial pasture on his sheep farm during the dormant period using no-till drilling, a method that uses a drill to sow seeds instead of the traditional plow. He calls it pasture cropping and he ...
  • A Heartbreaking Defeat. An Urgent Opportunity.
    Click here to read this article
  • Brooksville Becomes Ninth Maine Town to Defy S ...
    BROOKSVILLE, Maine - Voters here made their town the fifth in Hancock County to pass a local food sovereignty ordinance that thumbs its nose at state and federal regulations for direct-to-consumer sales of prepared foods and farm products.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • CLF Week in Links: Rivers, Slow Food, ADUFA, a ...
    Rep. Louise Slaughter (D–NY) said, “This study ends any debate. The extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock is endangering human health."
  • Coursera Wrap-Up
    The most cited reason that students felt compelled to change their own approach to food was how the food system impacts the environment.
  • CLF Week in Links: Soda, Chicken Waste, Bills ...
    The support from Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and the Grocery Manufacturers Association for campaigns against the Mayor’s program and sugar taxes proposed around the country is reminiscent of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaign during the long struggle to expose the lethal effects of cigarette s ...
  • Further Rebuttals to GE Salmon
    On a hopeful note, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Aldi have pledged not to sell genetically engineered salmon.
  • The CLF Week in Links: Rotting Pigs, Airport F ...
    Do ads cause obesity? Here’s a well-written critique of cross-sectional studies of factors associated with obesity that are interpreted to imply causation. To quote, “For every 10 percent increase in food advertisements, the odds of being obese increased by 5 percent.” The author correctly warns ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • Pope Francis and his History in Argentina
    Flavia Dzodan is busily documenting on her Twitter timeline Pope Francis' history during the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970's : priests were present when activists were detained and tortured Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • What's Wrong With This Picture ?
    March 27, 2013, some 15,000 middle and high school students from around the state of Washington celebrate We Day. Work on at least one globally-based service and one local project Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • deep water
    The Big Fix - BP Deepwater Horizon Coverup Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Books,Covers
    Anecdotes about how things may not be what they seem - but can be better Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Un ...
    Global Research - an important collection of articles, reports and video material on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe and its impacts - dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • New GMO Gene Silencing Technology – Backdoor T ...
    An unregulated GM technology is ready to replace the old, and this technology appears to be exactly what is needed for implementation of the Terminator.
  • Monsanto Protection Act Signed by Obama
    Read it and weep. The CEO of corporate America, on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, signed into law, the Monsanto Protection Act, which is section 735 of H.R. 933.
  • The Last Heirloom Seed
    I am the last of my kind. That last of the truly pure here on earth. I have struggled long and hard to maintain my integrity, as did all of my brothers and sisters in a war we did not start, but were force into. In this war, we have been systematically overtaken by hostile genetically engineered ...
  • Making Money and Living the Lie
    Just how much compromise do we have to accept to feel that it is okay to allow others to put poison in our food, to spray poisons on the land that we are supposed to be stewards of, to poison our animals that trust us to take care of them, to drop poisons from the sky, to put poisons in pills an ...
  • Whole Foods and the GMO Blame Game
    Whole Foods said out loud what just about every grocery store, supermarket, and big box health food store is really doing – selling GMOs disguised as “healthy” food. You can do it, just don’t talk about it.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Washington Post Agreed to Withhold Acting Clan ...
    ShareThisObama picks oh-but-another Bush-era war criminal to hold high office in the CIA: Washington Post Agreed to Withhold Acting Clandestine Service Chief's Name at CIA's Request 27 Mar 2013 The Washington Post revealed Wednesday in a front-page story that a woman currently running the clande ...
  • Crude oil leaks in Arkansas suburb after Exxon ...
    ShareThisCrude oil leaks in Arkansas suburb after ExxonMobil pipeline ruptures 31 Mar 2013 An ExxonMobil pipeline rupture near Little Rock, Ark., Friday evening has resulted in a "major oil spill," according to the Environmental Protection Agency -- and ignited further debate over the [insane] ...
  • Texas district attorney, wife found dead after ...
    ShareThisTexas district attorney, wife found dead after prosecutor killed 31 Mar 2013 A Texas district attorney and his wife were shot dead in the same county where an assistant prosecutor was gunned down outside a courthouse in January, the sheriff of Kaufman County, said on Sunday. Security ...
  • Family Whose Children Survived Sandy Hook Lose ...
    ShareThisFamily Whose Children Survived Sandy Hook Lose Home to Fire 30 Mar 2013 A fire on Wednesday destroyed the home of a family whose children lived through the shootings on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The fire at 254 Berkshire Road began in the basement and burned into the f ...
  • Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture ...
    ShareThisOfficer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion 27 Mar 2013 The woman who signed off on the destruction of evidence proving the CIA's implementation of torture has been promoted within the agency. The undercover officer is now in charge of the CIA's c ...

Daily Loaf

  • 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.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Mandatory Vaccinatio​ns – How They ...
    The modern healthcare system, like any powerful corporation, is designed to favor those who acquiesce with their rules & regulations; likewise to weed out & alienate those who do not fall into line with the rest of the “herd”. The entire cesspool of Western Allopathic Medicine, fueled by ...
  • VRM: The A,B,C’s of Respiratory Health
    Typically those living in the West are annually starved of the life-giving UVA Ultra-violet light rays (which manifest as the steroid hormone Vitamin D3) throughout the entire duration of Winter & early Spring. As a result the Lymphocytes in their lungs cannot process Vitamin C & E, whic ...
  • VRM: Weaponized Polio & The African Green Monk ...
    According to a groundbreaking, controversial report, released in 1961 in the wake of the Salk & Sabin Polio vaccine debacle, Medical researchers identified that ‘all primary monkey kidney may contain one or more latent viruses whose characteristic cytopathology becomes evident when such tiss ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization Mafia – L ...
    ‘The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and ...
  • VRM: The Autism Report
    Due to the complex nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder a formal definition will be helpful in establishing the parameters of this report; while differentiating the co-factors from other similar conditions. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) , considered the standard of current Medical Industry ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Stalking Soldier Arrested, Disarmed by Texas P ...
    28 March 2013 US Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham: This Soldier has a Top Secret clearance. Over the past couple of years, I repeatedly warned the US Army that Master Sergeant Christopher “CJ” Grisham is a lethal threat.  These warnings were ignored. Grisham has harassed a long list of pe ...
  • Tragedy in Thailand
    27 March 2013 Burma neighbors Thailand on the west.  For 65 years, a war against and between ethnic groups in Burma has been on.  The conflicts created many internally displaced refugees, while others have crossed into Thailand.  Thailand has allowed this incursion for humanita ...
  • USAF and American Flags Atop Mt. Everest
    25 March 2013 Written by: Rob Marshall Family and Friends, I've been meaning to write this email for some time now.  I thought it would be better to hold off until the big event was close, but I didn't expect it to be just a few days away when I sent this!  As you can tell, I'm about ...
  • Seven Myths About “Women in Combat"
    17 March 2013 Published here with permission from the author. Written By: G.S. Newbold, Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.) Marine photo / Cpl. Jennifer Pirante Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Michelle Berglin trains for an upcoming deployment at Camp Pendleton in January. Myth #1 – “It’s about women in ...
  • Under Attack
    13 March 2013 Our website sustains repeated attacks and is frequently offline. We must upgrade the website which requires direct reader support. Please see this, and dig deep! We need it. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/keep-michaelyon-online-com-alive

The Killing Train

  • Folklore. Normal Life.
    KABUL - Marjan, may he rest in peace, was a lion and is the most famous resident of Kabul Zoo. Born in 1976, he was brought to Kabul just before the Soviet invasion. He survived those years, killed a man who snuck into his cage, was blinded by grenades thrown by the man's brother (the brother wa ...
  • Why the Taliban is unlikely to win
    KABUL – Floated for three years, reconciliation with the Taliban is now official policy in Afghanistan, endorsed by US Secretary of State John Kerry in his joint press conference with President Karzai two days ago. The Taliban plan to open an office in Qatar and come out into the open. Ultimatel ...
  • Kerry in Kabul
    US Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held a joint press conference in Kabul this evening. There were three main issues discussed. The first was an agreement for the US Forces to make a phased withdrawal from Wardak province. Announced five days ago, Wardak has been ...
  • Foreign-imposed ideologies and report wars
    It's raining in Kabul so I spent a quiet day indoors, reading and watching television, surfing the 30 some Afghan channels. Yesterday the winner of Afghan Star (basically Afghan Idol), Sajed Jannati, sang a song for New Year's. Another New Year's concert took place today, and the singer was Farz ...
  • Waiting for 2014 in Kabul
    An article in Safi Airways magazine, which I read on the flight from Delhi, reports that while 10-12% is a good return on investment in the US, 50% and more is possible in Afghanistan. Waiting for luggage to come around at Kabul airport, looking up at the empty billboards offering advertising sp ...
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