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- Why 'Tea Cup Gate' is not trivial For many New Zealanders, the Act Party symbolises the radically right-wing policies which were introduced to New Zealand by the Lange-Douglas Labour government in 1984 and continued by the Bolger-Richardson government which took power in 1990. During the late '80s and early '90s unemployment in ...
- Is there any real prospect of the Greens suppo ...The big winner so far this election campaign have been the Greens, who have consistently been polling around 10%. We'll have to wait and see whether they actually do that well on the day (historically, the Greens have always underperformed their polling), but in the meantime, its led to some spe ...
- We cannot win the Afghanistan warIf Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Defence Minister Stephen Smith believe that trust and confidence can be re-established by Australian soldiers toward Afghan troops they are meant to live alongside and train they are sadly deluded. That's the problem in having politicians of limited life ex ...
- Escobar: Do the bomb Iran shuffle Get ready for a flurry of fuzzy satellite ''intelligence'' of generic warehouses all across Iran frantically described as segments of a nuclear bomb assembly line (Remember a famous ''secret nuclear facility'' in Syria not long ago? It was a textile factory.) Get ready for a flurry of crude ...
- Brent Sheather: Digging finds huge hole in ass ...New Zealand governments have a long and consistent history of selling assets at low prices to the private sector... In terms of historical performance, the SOEs have been a good investment - Treasury reckons they have returned 17.5 per cent a year during the past five years.
Independent - London
- Ukraine calls for dog killing banUkraine has called for an end to the killing of stray dogs ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships next summer, bending to pressure from Western critics.
- Syria's allies call for peaceful resolutionSyrian allies China and Russia have voiced serious concern over the spiralling crisis in Syria and called for immediate talks as pressure mounted on President Bashar Assad to end the deadly crackdown on dissent.
- Occupy protesters march on New York's financia ...Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy protest movement was cleared by authorities, hundreds of demonstrators marched through New York's financial district and promised a national day of action with mass gatherings in other cities.
- Protests as Mario Monti crisis plan loomsStudents have clashed with police across Italy in protests against budget cuts, while transport strikes halted buses and trains.
- Activist criticises Russian anti-homosexuality ...Russia's top gay rights activist today condemned a bill passed in the country's second largest city that prohibits "propaganda of homosexuality" to minors, warning it could be used to ban gay protest rallies.
Rogue Government.com
- Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul. He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
- UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
- ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
- Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
- EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
Innovation Canada
- A very gourd ideaIt’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
- Johne’s happensTrudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
- Gait crasherFor most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
- Better wine, one yeast cell at a timeHennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...
- Micro view; macro applicationsIt’s been used for everything from examining bacteria and how rare earth minerals have developed over millions of years to creating vibrant visual images for improvisational musical performances. The versatile environmental scanning electron microscope (SEM), a $1.2 million piece of machinery fu ...
Signs of the times
- Surprising Sunken Islands Discovered Near Aust ...Two sunken islands almost at the site of Tasmania have been discovered in the Indian Ocean west of the Australian city of Perth. The researchers who found the islands during a recent sea voyage think that they were once part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, which could have ramificati ...
- Last of 91 whales stranded in Australia, New Z ...Rescuers have been unable to save the last surviving sperm whale from separate mass-strandings in Australia and New Zealand that have seen 91 whales die since the weekend. Though whale strandings are relatively common in both countries, the past few days have been particularly tough for conserv ...
- '60 Minutes' Blows The Lid Off Congressional I ...Steve Kroft reports, members of Congress and their aides have regular access to powerful political intelligence, and many have made well-timed stock market trades in the very industries they regulate. For now, the practice is perfectly legal, but some say it's time for the law to change.
- Restless underwater volcano disrupts life on C ...Madrid - Steaming magma is bubbling onto the sea surface. The earth shakes, and a smell of sulphur floats in the air. For over a month, residents of the Spanish Canary Island of El Hierro have lived with an active underwater volcano that not only poses a security threat, but also scares off tou ...
- Russian military chief: War risks have grownMoscow - Russia's chief military officer says the nation is facing an increased threat of being drawn into conflicts at its borders that may grow into an all-out nuclear war. Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff, pointed at NATO's expansion eastward and said Thursday that the risk ...
The Galloping Beaver
- OMG . . .FIRST THERE WAS "METH MOUTH", now there's Krokodil Korrosion. According to a frightening report from Keith Veronese at io9, "Krokodil: Russia’s Designer Drug That Will Eat Your Flesh", some clever Russkies have developed a new designer drug that has horrific side-effects. It sounds like a direc ...
- Money travels, it seems . . .INTERSTELLAR TRADE? THE ECONOMIST wonders, with an article "Exports to Mars". You see, when they totaled up all the balance-of-payments statistics for all the countries, the world exported $331 billion more than it imported in 2010, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. The fund forec ...
- How monsters thrive in plain sightThis morning I'm reading deBeauxOs post on the Sandusky paedophile case at Penn State, which describes the mocking heaped on one alumni by defenders of athletic staff accused of covering up the problem. This tendency to defend and dismiss the indefensible is as an aspect of human nature that nev ...
- Wealthy weasels . . .THE DAILY BAIL is a fine site devoted to putting America's wealth under inspection, proclaiming its focus on "Debt & Deficits. Bailout News. Federal Reserve Corruption.". Anyway, they received a posting worthy of your attention: We receive video submissions daily, and this is one of the mos ...
- Merry melody . . .FROM THE NEW YORKER. Marvelous magazine.
Media Matters for America
- Fox Gins Up Outrage Over Obama's Observation T ...Fox News, looking to manufacture a new controversy, is reporting that President Obama warned that the United States has "fallen behind" in math and science education and claiming that Obama "bad-mouthed" the U.S. with those comments. But President Bush also warned that the U.S. was falling behi ...
- Right-Wing Media's "Lazy" Attack On Obama Cal ...The right-wing media have attacked President Obama for commenting at a conference that "we've been a little bit lazy" about attracting foreign investment in America, claiming that he is "attacking Americans." However, several independent analysts have said that this line of attack takes Oba ...
- Right-Wing Media Use CBO Director's Testimony ...Right-wing media have suggested that Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf "admitted" in recent Senate testimony that the stimulus "will shrink the economy." In fact, while the CBO predicted the plan would reduce GDP by between 0.1 and 0.3 percent in 2019, economists say the pr ...
- Bayh's Attack On EPA Is A Litany Of Industry T ...Indiana's Journal Gazette published a flawed op-ed by Evan Bayh that repeats industry talking points in an effort to paint an inaccurate, negative picture of EPA's long-overdue rule to limit air toxics emissions from coal plants. The Journal Gazette fails to disclose that Bayh has ties to compa ...
- Washington Post's Gerson Ignores Cath ...In a Washington Post column, Michael Gerson accused the Obama administration of "systematic anti-Catholic bias," pointing to its decision to end funding for anti-sex trafficking programs run by Catholic bishops that do not refer women who have been raped for abortions. In fact, large majoriti ...
Global Research.ca
- War Worldwide... had enough yet?For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- 2011 Poll: Only 6% of the EU would support Mil ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War Agenda For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- New Phase of the Global Debt Crisis: Widesprea ...For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
- VIDEO: PROTECT IP Act Breaks The InternetFor more details, please click on the link to read the article.
TPM Cafe
- Republican Foreign Policy Debate, UghIf nothing else, devoting an entire GOP campaign forum to national security and foreign policy -- the CBS News / National Journal organizers called it the "Commander in Chief Debate -- helps accentuate the preparation and seriousness the candidates have devoted to international affairs. Or the l ...
- Did Portland Make History on Saturay Night?Faced with an order from Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams to disperse as of 12:01 am Sunday, Occupy Portland's Jim Oliver told the PBS News Hour Friday evening that "We have called for an Occupation Fest 2011 that is starting on Saturday evening. Every citizen of Portland is invited to come down ...
- A Grand 'Narrative' for Obama -- in 58 WordsRon Suskind's Confidence Men recounts a moment when Obama pounds the walls of the White House crying, "What's happened to my narrative?" He should have called me. I'd have told him to drop his bipartisan, "last reasonable man in Washington" posture right after the debt-ceiling fiasco and ...
- Neocons: Lying Us Into Another WarChristmas did not arrive early for the "Bomb Iran" crowd. Over the past several weeks, neoconservative hawks were gleefully predicting that the International Atomic Energy Agency's new report on Iran's nuclear program would provide the spark needed to ignite and justify a U.S. or Israeli att ...
- As Obama Mishandled the Economy, His Chronicle ...The least bad assessment of Obama's failure to reform our political economy that has come thus far from the Washington Beltway worldview (or Beltanschauung, as I immortalized it here in an essay that launched a thousand links) comes from Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein's "Obama's Flunking Eco ...
Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Freedom Riders Defy Israeli Apartheid and Segr ...Several Palestinian activists were arrested by Israeli forces while attempting to ride on the segregated bus system serving the illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine.
- Netanyahu is less of a liar than past Israeli ...Does Benjamin Netanyahu lie more than other politicians? That, at least, is the impression one gets from various reports in the press. But does he lie more than other prime ministers ab ...
- Israel frees Palestinians seized from bus (Ma ...Israel released the last of six activists who were arrested Tuesday after boarding an Israeli bus bound for Jerusalem, in an action inspired by the US civil rights movement. The six act ...
- 2 injured in Gaza airstrikes (Ma'an News Agency)Israeli airstrikes injured two people in Gaza City early Wednesday, a Ma'an reporter said. Israeli F16 jets fired at least one missile in the Tuffah neighborhood, lightly injuring one w ...
- France summons Israeli envoy over wounded dipl ...France summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to a meeting at the foreign ministry Wednesday to protest after an air strike wounded a French diplomat in Gaza along with his wife and d ...
Water - AlterNet
- Trouble in Paradise: The Militarisation of Jej ...Will South Korea's environmental jewel be transformed from a favorite honeymoon destination into a massive naval base?
- Why the Most Important Fish We Need to Save Is ...You don't hear about menhaden because they don't show up in fish markets or on dinner menus, but they're in everything.
- The U.S. Wastes 7 Billion Gallons of Drinking ...This is a major problem for municipalities around the country. But it’s also a major opportunity for companies that can mop up all that waste.
- Indigenous Canadians Fight for the Tar SandsIndigenous activist Clayton Thomas-Müller on the moral imperative to preserve Alberta's beauty for future generations.
- Is the EPA Selling Out Your Water?The EPA should be ensuring the abundance of safe, clean, affordable water, not encouraging corporations to swindle more Americans.
Public Citizen in Texas
- What is the state of your air? Check out the A ...The American Lung Association State of the Air 2011 report ranks the metropolitan areas based on ozone and particle pollution during 2007, 2008 and 2009. For particle pollution, they rank the areas separately with high year-round (annual average) levels and high short-term levels (24-hour) found ...
- The Story of Broke and the supercommitteeThe deficit reduction supercommittee has a November 23 deadline to finish its work. One of the first places lawmakers should look for cuts is the dirty energy sector. From 2008 through 2010, Big Energy industries were among the top recipients of government handouts, second only to the financial ...
- Canada lobbying hard after US delays approval ...After the Obama administration delayed a decision on an oil pipeline, which has been garnering more and more opposition from environmentalists, landowners and downwind communities near refineries along the proposed pipeline route that slices through the heartland of America, there are some who b ...
- EPA issues first Texas Greenhouse Gas PermitAccording to the Texas Energy Report, the EPA has issued its first greenhouse gas permit in Texas with the TCEQ refusing to issue permits to LCRA or others The Lower Colorado River Authority received the first Texas Greenhouse Gas permit as it upgrades a 37-year-old generating unit in Llano Coun ...
- Effort to kill the CSAPR in the US Senate failsThe U.S. Senate killed Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Kentucky) effort last week to strike down the EPA’s Cross State Air Pollution Rule regulating emissions that blow across state lines, thanks in part to your calls and emails. The measure died on a 41-56 vote with Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Kay Bailey H ...
Unexplained Mysteries
- Icy lakes found on EuropaScientists have discovered large frozen lakes near the surface of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa. It has long been thought that a liquid ocean exists be...
- Cheese made from gold goes on saleThe ridiculously expensive stilton is made with flakes of real gold and sells for around $130 per wedge. The cheese will be produced by the Long Claws...
- Bright blue lobster discoveredThe unusually coloured crustacean was saved from the dinner table when it was spotted at a fish market. Fisherman Rex Goldsmith decided that the lobst...
- Man manufactures tea from panda droppingsAn Yanshi is attempting to produce the world's most expensive tea out of panda excrement. "Pandas have a very poor digestive system and only absorb ab...
- Image of Jesus sighted on cliff faceA woman in Ireland has taken a photograph of what she believes to be the face of Jesus on a cliff. Sandra Clifford and her friend spotted the likeness...
Grassroots
- Gaza’s Human Rights GuruThe first time I shared a meal with Raji Sourani was at a seaside restaurant in Gaza City. A lawyer and longtime director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner, Sourani is well known throughout Palestine for his quick and sound judgment—which showe ...
- Defending the Commons and the Right to Land, W ...lran2_cover2.jpg Effective agrarian reform, according to the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform (GCAR) includes “ a bundle of policies that ensure that agricultural land is distributed to landless peasants and smallholders swiftly and equi ...
- A Prize for Solidarity and Justicelmulher_limpando_arroz.jpg read more
- Janaina Stronzake, from MST, to visit East Coastenviar10.jpg read more
- Insights - Fall 2011A movement is healthy and dynamic when young people are involved and take charge. The energy and imagination of this next generation of resource rights defenders hold the key to their own survival – and perhaps the planet's as well. Read on for four stories of inspiring young leaders ...
Climate
- Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...Source: The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
- NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing SatelliteSource: AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
- Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...Source: The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
- Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...Source: Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
- 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's ResourcesSource: USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.
GreenBiz
- Coca-Cola Uses Energy Efficiency to Earn Best ...Putting energy management systems in place in its manufacturing facilities was one of several steps that have helped the beverage maker earn the highest score ever recorded by The Carbon Trust.
- On-Ramp Wireless Deploys M2M Tech in South Kor ...San Diego-based On-Ramp Wireless will be provide networking platform for South Korea's Jeju Smart Grid Test-Bed project, considered one of the largest smart grid projects in the world.
- CDP Water Disclosure Global Report 2011The second annual report of how Global 500 companies are measuring and managing their water use.
- CDP Report Shows Water Slowly Moving Up the Su ...Although water issues are not generally given the same priority as climate change, companies are increasingly taking stock of the business risks and opportunities posed by water, and they're also growing more adept at collecting and reporting water data.
- How the Unregulated, Unscientific 'Use By' Lab ...Americans waste a shocking 40 percent of the food they buy, and as much of half of that can be attributed to the "best before" labels on food.
Duly Noted
- Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
- India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.
- Europe can’t put out the blazeAs Italy surpasses Greece as the biggest threat to the euro zone, European finance ministers meeting in Brussels struggle to put out the spreading flames.
- Democracy and Chaos are both GreekIt's not exactly ???? (chaos) out there, but Greek Prime Ministers Papandreou's experiment in ?????????? (democracy) has sent the whole euro zone project into a new, risky phase.
- Could Islamist rebels undermine change in Africa?Creeping from the periphery in Africa’s east and west, Islamist militant groups now pose serious security challenges to key countries and potentially even a threat to the continent’s new success.
Booman Tribune
- Poisoning Their Minds This is what passes for trying to be responsible in Republican circles: Hours after Pennsylvania State Police arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man for allegedly firing a semi-automatic rifle at the White House, the top student official for the College Republicans at the University of Texas tweete ...
- Federal Law and Use of Pepper SprayNon-violent protesters do not surrender their Fourth Amendment Rights to be free from excessive force by police. Specifically, non-violent protesters may sue police and the municipality of county that employs them under this Federal law, 42 United States Code Section 1983 if they have been pepp ...
- Community Notice I have a quick note for our readers in Pittsburgh. Rumproast blogger StrangeAppar8us has been in the hospital for the last ten days fighting for his life. For privacy reasons, we don't know the specifics of his illness, but we do know that he won't be able to care for his three cats. So, if y ...
- Teacher Masturbates in Class for 10 Years!Public schools are bad. Public school teachers are thugs and liberal elitists who want to destroy your faith and replace it with stupid lying scientific "theories" like evolution, climate change and the Big Bang. Private schools are so much better. Especially Private Christian schools. Tha ...
- Do You Want Super Committee to Fail? Hopefully, you understand the basics of what happens if the United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the Super Committee) fails to produce a plan to reduce the budget deficit by its November 23rd deadline. Most obviously, it will mean that something called "sequestrat ...
Environmental Graffiti
- Heterochromia in People: The Beauty of Multi-C ...The uniqueness of different colored eyes in the same person explained. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- 10 Most Incredible Volcanic Eruptions Seen fro ...Stunning captures of volcanic eruption as viewed from the Earth's orbit — depictions of fire and ice in some cases! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- World Toilet Day to Tackle Global Sanitation I ...November 19, 2011 is World Toilet Day. Toilets stop disease by keeping fecal matter out of drinking water. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
- Przewalski’s Horse: A Story of SurvivalPrzewalski’s horses were almost extinct 60 years ago, when only a few were left on Earth, but great efforts have been made to save the last true species of wild horse. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the a ...
- Green Marketing Exposed [Infographic]An infographic that gives an insight into the truth about the vast majority of so-called green products. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Foreign Policy in Focus
- Is Rick Perry Trying to Get Rid of Nuclear Wea ...Abolishing the Department of Energy might sound ludicrous, but it has an upside.
- China's Looming Economic CrisisThe Chinese economy continues to grow at a fast pace. But signs of distress lurk just below the surface.
- A Brief History of the Number TwoA poem for the mother of a young man killed by a bomb in Israel.
- The Puzzling Persistence of APECAPEC's record of irrelevance is rivaled by few other international forums.
- The Iranian Dilemma: Iran (Part 2)Some Israelis argue that Israel alone is responsible for preventing Iran from gaining the necessary technology for nuclear weapons.
Global Elite
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
- President European Commission Advocated World ...Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...
Al Jazeera
- Occupy activists march on NY stock exchangeProtesters scuffle with police as they head towards Wall Street to mark two months since the movement began.
- Italian prime minister unveils austerity planMario Monti says nation faces "serious emergency" as he outlines what he says are necessary, but unpopular, budget cuts.
- Man charged with Obama assassination attemptOscar Ortega-Hernandez charged with attempting to kill US president after shots fired at White House last week.
- Russia compares Syria violence to 'civil war'Foreign minister's comments come after army defectors attacked an air force intelligence base in suburbs of Damascus.
- Several killed in 'drone strike' in PakistanThird suspected US attack in as many days comes despite continued poor relations between nations after bin Laden raid.
Green Inc. - NYT
- On Our Radar: Arguments Fly at Hearing on Dril ...Environmental groups and other opponents of hydraulic fracturing protest outside the session in Dansville, N.Y., singing anti-drilling songs and waving signs.
- Chu to Testify on Solyndra's Collapse"When it comes to the clean energy race, America faces a simple choice: compete or accept defeat," the energy secretary says in his prepared remarks on a loan to Solyndra.
- Not All Rivers Reach the SeaA conservation writer and photographer-filmmaker recount their journey down the Colorado River, which runs dry long before reaching the sea after decades of exploitation.
- A Phone App for Switching Out Your Light BulbsThe E.P.A. sponsors a contest to find useful apps for the enormous amounts of environmental data that it collects and maintains.
- On the Alert for Misleading AdsThe Greenwashing Index serves as an educational forum for consumers as the public awaits new federal rules on deceptive "green" claims for products.
Dot Earth News
- Science and the Dangerous Climate QuestionA climate scientist explains why science cannot define how much global warming is too much.
- An Island Adviser Sees Promise in Durban Clima ...An adviser to a tiny island nation swears there's hope in climate-treaty talks.
- CO2 on the Up and UpA fresh long-view look at carbon dioxide emissions shows the remarkable nature of the human-driven rise of late.
- Closeup: Climate Extremes and Global WarmingA climate scientist explores the challenges in charting climate extremes in a warming world.
- Can Extreme Climate Confusion be Avoided?Vulnerable countries press for climate aid as scientists summarize the complex forces shaping climate impacts
Doug Feith : Hong Pong
- Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
- #occupywallstreet makes total lolOur comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
- 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
- Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
- Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...
Daily Censored
- Why the Occpy Movement is Winning!Listen to Fox News and the screaming right-wing, and you might think the screaming left-wing were a bunch of lazy, unemployed drumbeating freeloaders that are pitching tents in public spaces and defecating on the streets. However, you don’t need to go to Fox News for such ridiculous notio ...
- The Missing Story: Cain As Front Man for Billi ...GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain serves as front man for the billionaire Koch brothers in a way rarely, if ever, seen in modern times for a prominent U.S. major party candidate. That relationship should be an ongoing part of his campaign coverage. It’s arguably far more important in its im ...
- The 2012 Presidential Debates vs. Realityby S. Paul Forrest AmericaRevealed.org Another Presidential election will soon be upon us. As in the past, this election has more to do with showmanship than reality. When a pizza slogan captures the imaginations of American voters rather than serious issues like that of a ten-year long war with ...
- Thrive Movie: new documentary exposes criminal ...source: Carl Herman (with movie embedded) The Thrive Movement and Movie explains and documents the CRIMES we witness that engage in wars and crushing control over the 99%. This history has dominated US policy since Abraham Lincoln’s failed effort to expose the US violation of crystal-clear treat ...
- Diversity and the Rise of Majority-Minority Sc ...In the “Historical Notes” conclusion of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the reader discovers through a darkly biting satire of academia that the world of the novel’s main character, June/Offred, developed in part through the shifting proportion of races in th ...
AlterNet's Breaking News
- Occupy Protests Spread Across College Campuses
- Zygote "Personhood" Heading to Georgia
- Suspected White House Shooter Arrested
- Cambodian court says Khmer Rouge's Ieng 'unfit ...
- Study: Nearly Half of Congress Members Are Mil ...
Institute for Policy Studies
- The Global Super-Rich Stash: Now $25 TrillionStill another financial firm has tallied how much net worth is sloshing in the pockets of the world's most spectacularly wealthy. So when will the time finally come to stop the counting and start the taxing?
- My Memories of Libya 1982 Libya had a different feeling than the current world, but its memories shape a view of the current situation.
- TEDx: Taxes on the Wealthy.There is an economic and moral rationale for increasing taxes on the wealthy.
- Occupy Mayors: Where do They Stand? These mayors have a decision to make about who they stand with: The 1% or the 99%.
- Is Europe Over?What made Europe a compelling political, economic, and social alternative wedged between Anglo-American free marketeers and Soviet nomenklatura is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
IntelNews
- Revealed: Afghan government at war with ‘ ...Very little has been written about the Kandahar Strike Force, a controversial CIA-funded vigilante group operating in Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces. In 2009, The New York Times reported that the late Ahmed Wali Karzai, notorious drug lord and younger brother of Afghan Presi ...
- News you may have missed #629CIA urged to be more open about climate change. Three Czechs to be tried for spying in Zambia. First-ever speech on MI6 by a UK Foreign Secretary.
- Inquiry examines whether IRA had mole inside I ...An Irish government investigation has unearthed intelligence reports claiming that an informant within the Irish police, the Garda, helped the Provisional Irish Republican Army plan the killings of a judge and two senior British police officers in the 1980s.
- News you may have missed #628 (analysis edition)Should intelligence agencies chase tax evaders? UK ex-spy chief says Google makes spies work harder. Ex-CIA official says America 'creates its own enemies'.
- Intel official claims Mossad was behind Iran m ...A Western intelligence official has told Time magazine that an Israeli spy agency was behind a weekend blast at an Iranian missile depot, which killed at least 17 people.
War is a Crime.org
- Filipinos Pelt Hillary Clinton’s Convoy with EggsFrom IBTimes: A convoy of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Manila, the Philippines, was pelted with eggs and red paint Wednesday. The incident happened after Clinton's meeting with President Benigno Aquino III. Several dozen demonstrators, who are members of the League of Filipino Stud ...
- Rebellion in the Air: Quan's Quackery and Bloo ...By Dave Lindorff The scripted excuses provided by mayors around the country to justify their police-state tactics in rousting peaceful occupation movement activists from their park-based demonstrations now stand exposed as utter nonsense, and, given their uncanny similarity ...
- Sen. Jeff Merkley offers out-of-Afghanistan am ...By John Isaacs, Council for a Livable World Resolution on Afghanistan To be offered to National Defense Authorization Act Co-sponsors as of Nov. 17 Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) Whereas, after al Qaeda attacked the United States on Sep ...
- Here's an Idea: Direct Democracy
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Grist - News
- Lobbyists scoff at the idea of children’ ...by Jess Zimmerman. The New York Times has a big article about the fight for ozone regulation, which apparently was pretty much EPA chief Lisa P. Jackson versus the world. It's an interesting meditation on the power of buzzwords -- namedropping "the economy" and "jobs&quo ...
- Surprise! Koch-funded anti-Solyndra ad is R ...by Christopher Mims. Here's an anti-Solyndra ad put out by Americans For Prosperity. It is wrong. And it's been viewed 1 million times on YouTube alone, not to mention millions more on television. Which just goes to show you that if you give the people what they want, they will ...
- Thanksgiving turkeys can’t have sex beca ...by Christopher Mims. Steven Dubner, of Freakonomics fame, recently told Marketplace that almost 100 percent of Thanksgiving turkeys are the product of artificial insemination. The problem, apparently, is Americans' appetite for gigantic breasts. "The modern turkey has quite larg ...
- Giant robot snake fights spider, provokes clim ...by Sarah Laskow. "Primordial spirits have been stirring…" "A provocative omen on the eve of catastrophe…" It will "roam the earth terrifying and enlightening those who dare to ride…along the razor's edge between hope and fear&h ...
- Techno music kills dolphinsby Jess Zimmerman. A "techno party" in Switzerland may have killed a dolphin at a nearby aquarium. The dolphin declined and died suddenly over the course of a couple of hours, and animal protection groups are concerned that loud music from the 16-hour party, which was less tha ...
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- Gartner Report: Android Market Share Keeps Ram ...Double market share for Google's mobile OS compared to last year.
- Home Run for Democracy – California Supreme Co ...The gay rights groups argue that they will still win in federal court on constitutional grounds.
- Apple #1 in Enterprise with Smartphones & TabletsApple Takes the Lead in Enterprise Gadgets
- SNL's Devil to Penn State: You Give The Devil ...Clearly, even the heartless Devil was given a bad name by this scandal.
- Being 'Out' in Saint Petersburg Could Soon be ...Could a new bill ban gay pride forever in Russian city?
Time - Top Stories
- A Flawed 'Personhood' Debate: Most U.S. Cathol ...A Flawed 'Personhood' Debate: Most U.S. Catholics Support Abortion Rights
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- An American Nightmare: Portraits of a Poverty ...An American Nightmare: Portraits of a Poverty Crisis
- A $100 Million Investment In Rural 'Telehealth ...The Helmsley Trust is building "telehealth" programs, designed to bring high-quality health care to sparsely populated areas.
- Viewpoint: Why Penn State's Football Program S ...Outraged sports buffs across the country are calling on the NCAA to exterminate Penn State football. Their emotions are sound; their argument is not
Digg Green
- Stop signal discovered for skin cancerAn extraordinary breakthrough in understanding what stops a common form of skin cancer from developing could make new cancer treatments and prevention available to the public in five years.
- 5 Scientific Advances That Should Have Changed ...Sometimes it's bad luck, or shady business dealings, or the fact that the world just plain isn't ready. But one way or another, we've lost world-changing innovations for, in hindsight, ridiculous reasons.
- How to Fix Our Most Vexing Problems, From Mosq ...No dice yet on getting a jetpack in every garage, but the near future will include some other nice improvements to our lives and communities.
- APOD: 2011 November 17 - Pleiades to HyadesA different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
- Military Garbage Burner Utterly Destroys Trash ...A new, compact gasification contraption can dramatically compress the things our armed forces leave behind, turning trash into ash.
Invisible Opportunity
- Man with “Israel” tattoo on his ne ...Maybe he just misspelled Iran… The web posting describes Ortega-Hernandez, who is from Idaho, as 5 feet, 11 inches and 160 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair and with the following marks: “His right hand has a tattoo of three dots, he has a tattoo stating ‘Ortega’ on ...
- Springsteen, Bon Jovi and Ted Turner get over ...Millionaires in the United States receive about $30billion annually in government subsidies according to a report released Monday by Senator Tom Coburn. The 37-page report, dubbed ‘Subsidies of the Rich and Famous,’ details government payments provided to individuals with annual gros ...
- Croaking Frogs in an Endless Moaning SwampBy Les Visible Whose eyes are you seeing through, the dark one’s or your own? They drum up false appearances and we worship at the throne. Yesterday the news concerned the trouble in the streets, today Wack Jack Abromiwitz is bringing you the news. When did he get out of prison? I must hav ...
- Why I want Mike Mann’s EmailsBy Dr. David Schnare N.B., Dr. Schnare is the lead attorney in the UVA-Mann email case. This week Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they favorably compare to Galileo, should have his emails, ...
- Michael Manns Hockey Stick vs. Proper Statistics
Global Insights
- Less Than a Week AwayWe 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 GuidestonesOn 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 CreationTHE 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 GreenDear 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 ...
AlterNet - DrugReporter
- "Sometimes You Have to Make a Deal With t ...Amid a violent war the government helped escalate, The United States shielded and provided arms for a dangerous cartel.
- The Justice Department's Offensive Against Med ...In an orchestrated strike Tuesday, DEA agents raided at least 14 medical marijuana dispensaries in the Seattle area.
- A Step Backwards: CA Court Rules Cities Can Ba ...In the days since the ruling was announced, a number of localities have already either moved to enact bans or halted plans to regulate dispensaries.
- Pot Patient: "If I Didn't Smoke Marijuana ...In 1988, a federal program made Elvy Musikka one of the first Americans to receive medical marijuana. Now a marijuana activist, she shares her inspiring -- and enraging -- story.
- First Female Pot Patient: "If I Didn't Sm ...In 1988, a federal program made Elvy Musikka one of the first Americans to receive medical marijuana. Now a marijuana activist, she shares her inspiring -- and enraging -- story.
Twilight Earth
- Cartoon caption contestTake 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 ...
Inhabitat
- Mobile Gasfreundschaft is a Roving Kitchen Tha ...Gasfreundschaft is a mobile hospitality cart and artpiece by designers Anna Rosinke and Maciej Chmara that speaks to the idea that public space like sidewalks may have many more functions that we might be aware of. Comprised a wheelbarrow kitchen, a table and ten folding stools, the roving space ...
- GE To Provide Turbines for $100 Million Mongol ...There have been a lot of articles about how many Asian countries, namely China, are starting to dominate the solar energy sector. However, General Electric Co. has decided to enter the Asian alternative energy sector by announcing they will be providing 31 turbines for a $100 million wind farm i ...
- H Arquitectes’ Triangular House 712 Takes Shap ...Read the rest of H Arquitectes’ Triangular House 712 Takes Shape with Perforated Bricks Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Barcelona, eco design, green design, H Arquitectes, House 712, minimalist architecture, natural ventilation, perforated brick, sustainable desi ...
- Buy PACT and Architecture for Humanity’s New U ...We all know how important our undergarments are in our daily lives but did you know they could provide a totally different kind of support than what you’re used to? Yesterday, PACT unveiled its new holiday collection of men’s and women’s skivvies featuring Yves Behar’s Ja ...
- Honda Civic Natural Gas Named 2012 Green Car o ...There haven’t been too many surprises at the LA Auto Show this year, but Green Car Journal served up a shocker first thing this morning by naming the Honda Civic Natural Gas its 2012 Green Car of the Year. The Civic is the cleanest running internal combustion car certified by the EPS, and ...
Pogue's Posts
- Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
- Amazon Lights the Fire With Free BooksAmazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
- An Android App's Answer to SiriSpeakToIt for Android phones works as an alternative to Siri. Sort of. She's slow and a little bit mentally challenged. She's less convenient than Siri, less capable, less comprehending, less accurate, less useful, less polished, less classy, less human.
- Dropbox Will Simplify Your LifeDropbox keeps your important files everywhere at once. It is also an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. And you can get at your computer's files from your phone.
- Siri Is One Funny LadySiri, the personal assistant software on the new Apple iPhone, is a comedienne.
WIRED Magazine | Science
- Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological ...Geological maps can be so beautiful you'd want to hang them on your walls. And maps of volcanoes are among the most stunning works that geologists produce. This gallery has some awesome examples from the United States and Japan. You don't have to be a scientist to have trouble picking a favorite.
- Just Another Day At The (Space) OfficeDear reader, I just want to share with you a bit about our daily work and processes at our facility HAB (Horizontal Assembly Bay). To understand how we come about things and how it is done, it is best to see it for yourself. Once in a while we have open-days where people can visit us [...]
- Sustainability Score Turns World Order Upside DownThe United Nations Human Development Index is the world's all-purpose national scorecard, a single number that represents a country's success at providing a decent life for its people. But according to a Mongolian ecologist who feels his own country has been led astray, it's time to update the H ...
- Huge Lake Could Increase Chance of Life on Jup ...The icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa may contain a huge body of water the size of the Great Lakes sitting just 1.8 miles below the surface. If confirmed, the findings could heat up the prospects of finding alien life on the chilly moon.
- Nebula’s Frozen Clouds at Heart of Violent Sta ...Using a telescope that can see cold grains of cosmic dust, astronomers have photographed the freezing factories of the Milky Way galaxy's biggest stars.
PakAlert
- Sources expects Israeli attack on Iran with US ...A senior Foreign Office official says British government ministers have been told to expect Israeli military action in the wake of the UN watchdog report "as early as Christmas or very early in the new year," the London Daily Mail reported Thursday, Nov. 10. The ministers were told that Israel ...
- Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War AgendaLike a schoolyard bully, President Barack Obama is flexing American military muscle as he currently sweeps through the Asia-Pacific region. The nominal impetus for the tour was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Hawaii last week. But rather than discussing “economics” (t ...
- Who Is Waging The War On Terra?Our planet is clearly under attack. Anyone even half awake can see the world today is careening towards disaster when there is no reason for it. Our resources are plentiful, and the vast majority of people on earth are loving, ethical and well meaning individuals. However, those in places of ...
- Global Systemic Crisis: Decimation of the West ...vAs anticipated by LEAP/E2020, the second half of 2011 is seeing the world continuing its unstoppable descent into global geopolitical dislocation characterized by the convergence of monetary, financial, economic, social, political and strategic crises. After 2010 and early 2011 which has seen t ...
- 7 Elephants Now Thrashing Your Living RoomAccording to the mass media fog machine, the following phenomena are really not worth reporting. In fact, by their omission they literally do not fully exist in people’s minds but are just slight vague ephemeral illusions dancing on the fringe of their consciousness. As many people say to thi ...
Andy Worthington
- Where now for Occupy Wall Street and the Occup ...When Occupy Wall Street began in September, its great innovative strength — and what enabled it to be picked up on and repeated across America, and around the world — was that it broke with the tired old model of one-day protests, with their limited opportunities for creating bonds a ...
- Expressing Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, ...So the billionaire bully and coward Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, waited until the middle of the night to spring a surprise eviction on the occupants of Zuccotti Park, the home, for the last two months, of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across the US and around the w ...
- New Perspectives on the Euro Crisis, and the N ...Delighted though I am to see the back of Silvio Berlusconi, no one should be reassured that his replacement, the unelected technocrat and former EU commissioner Mario Monti — or another unelected technocrat, Lucas Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank., who has ta ...
- Tories Ordered to Stop Hiding Their Damaging R ...After a year of hiding a risk assessment regarding its plans to transform the NHS (into an increasingly privatised monstrosity, with the government no longer in charge of it), health secretary Andrew Lansley has been ordered by the Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, to release a docum ...
- Andy Worthington Discusses the Guantánamo Tort ...Last week, just after the arraignment at Guantánamo of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, which I discussed in my article, Trial at Guantánamo: What Shall We Do With The Torture Victim?, I was delighted to speak about al-Nashiri’s case — and about the dispiriting history of the Military Commis ...
Environment _ National Geographic
- With Record Heating Oil Prices Expected, Homes ...Natural gas abundance in the U.S. Northeast means it's now far cheaper than oil for home heating. Residents are making the switch, but will prices stay low?
- IEA Outlook: Time Running Out on Climate ChangeThe International Energy Agency's new world outlook has a grim prognosis; the world has only five years to make changes needed to address climate change.
- Entire Mammal Genus on Brink of ExtinctionFor the first time in 75 years, an entire genus of mammal may go the way of the dodo—unless a new sanctuary succeeds, conservationists say.
- Coyote-Wolf Hybrids Have Spread Across U.S. EastCoyotes with wolf DNA have been found in Virginia, confirming the hybrids' spread through the mid-Atlantic, a new study says.
- Nigeria’s Solar Projects Yield Both Failure an ...Solar power offers hope to villages that lack electricity, but Nigeria's experience shows that it won't work without adequate investment and care.
drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )
- Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
- Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
- Much like the "conservative" GOP...The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
- Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb DumbsSober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
- The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...
SPL Center
- New Intelligence Report Released TodayThe Southern Poverty Law Center today released the latest issue of its quarterly investigative magazine on the radical right, Intelligence Report. Overall, the issue covers the extreme right’s increasingly heated rhetoric, laced with talk of war and weaponry, as it faces the possibility of four ...
- Corrupt Lobbyist’s Tell-All Published by Consp ...Given his reputation as a corrupt master of manipulation, disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been given a surprisingly credulous welcome by the media following the Nov. 1 release of his book Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lob ...
- FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate ...Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City. Although the national statistics compiled by the ...
- Facing Controversy, Anti-Muslim Preacher Tones ...DETROIT — The only thing more noticeable than Lou Engle saying he was going to pray that Muslims would have “dreams of Jesus” during his marathon 24-hour prayer gathering over the weekend in Detroit were the efforts he undertook to show that he was all about sensitivity to minorities. From the A ...
- Anti-Muslim Activists Gather In Tennessee to W ...A coalition of national security hawks, Christian activists from both here and abroad, lawyers and GOP activists gathered on Friday at a Nashville-area megachurch notorious for hosting spectacles to discuss strategies and tactics for combating the “threat” that Islamic Shariah law supposedly pos ...
change: org.
- If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
- Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
- Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
- Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
- Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18, from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...
Common Dreams -News
- NYPD Blast LRAD Sound Cannons at OWSRT’s New York crew has witnessed NYPD using LRADs, or sound cannons on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Eyewitnesses at the site have tweeted police fired as protesters sang the US national anthem .
- Former Philadelphia Police Captain Joins Occup ...Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis joined Occupy Wall Street protesters on Tuesday. He was seen holding a sign reading "NYPD Don't Be Wall Street Mercenaries." read more
- Mother of WikiLeaks Founder Calls for Australi ...CANBERRA, Australia — Julian Assange’s mother protested outside Parliament House during President Barack Obama’s visit Thursday, demanding Australia lobby the United States against extraditing her son in a WikiLeaks investigation. Scores of protesters in Australia’s capit ...
- Occupy the Skies! Protesters Could Use Spy DronesThe proliferation of drones throughout the military — and into civilian law enforcement — can make it feel like we’re living in an airborne panopticon. But flying robots are agnostic about who they train their gaze upon, and can spy on cops as easily as they can spy on civilian ...
- Thousands March in Athens Austerity ProtestATHENS - Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Athens on Thursday against austerity measures demanded by the new unity government to persuade its creditors to release bankruptcy-saving loans. "We will throw all of them out," promised a banner held aloft by students, while another car ...
Lifehacker
- How to Forecast Your Financial Future with Poc ...Most personal finance tools take a look back on your finances: The tell you how much you spent, where your money went, and so on. For a more complete picture of your financial situation, however, you should also look forward, so you can answ ...
- Here's How Long Those Thanksgiving Leftovers W ...Obviously, one of the best parts about Thanksgiving is eating leftovers for days after the actual holiday itself. Certain Thanksgiving foods keep better in the fridge than others, though—food weblog StillTasty gives us some tips on kee ...
- Skype Adds Facebook Video Chat [Updates]The release of Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 for Windows adds the ability to initiate video chat with your Facebook friends. More »
- Build Your Own Record Cleaning Block with Putt ...Even though vinyl has regained a little market traction in recent years, the accessory business hasn't. If you're a collector who enjoys digging through crates of old and scratched LPs, you've probably found some dirty ones in need of cleani ...
- Decide for iPhone Shows Potential Price Drops ...iPhone: There are few worse shopping experiences than investing a few hundred dollars in new electronics only to see the prices drop within weeks. Decide for iPhone helps you better plan your purchases based on trends and suggests you wait o ...
Water Privatization
- Water Watch Mission-Abbotsford no union puppet ...Lynn Perrin says Water Watch is not a mouthpiece for CUPE. Water Watch Mission-Abbotsford is a true grassroots organization and not an organ for big unions, said Lynn Perrin, one of its founders and a council candidate in Abbotsford.
- Nassau Sewage System Privatization Could Flush ...Phil Franco won’t quit. Wearing a light blue jacket, a...
- Former water chair convinced P3 is goodAt the recent Mission all candidates meeting there were a number of candidates, including current councillors, who were opposed to the 'privatization' of our water yet, ironically, most of them were drinking bottled water, from, guess who, a private company.
- Privatization questionsGrand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
- City to detail privatization of wastewater plantThe union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
Guardian
- Eurozone crisis: Spanish borrowing costs hit r ...Spain was forced to pay nearly 7% in an 'dreadful' auction of 10-year bonds this morning, while in Italy students have clashed with police2.59pm: Time for a quick look at the markets. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones has dropped some 17 points to 11888. The FTSE is down nearly 100 points at 5414, a ...
- Unite union members vote 3-1 in favour of pens ...UK's biggest trade union backs 30 November day of action against public sector pension reformsMembers of the UK's biggest union have voted by 3-1 to join the public sector pensions strike at the end of the month.Unite said 75% of those who took part in a strike ballot said yes to taking part in ...
- Syria crisis: Assad given three days to end bl ...• Arab League offers surprise reprieve to Bashar al-Assad • UK urged to help set up international Syria contact group • Protesters storm Kuwaiti parliament • Read the latest summary2.50pm: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that confirmed renegade troops have launched another armed at ...
- Politics Live blog featuring Ed Miliband's spe ...Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments as they happen including the Labour leader's speech2.20pm: In the office I often pester colleagues by asking them whether a particular political speech is "worth reading". I do it when I want to know whether I can get by by just reading a ...
- Fortnum & Mason protesters convicted of aggrav ...Ten UK Uncut protesters who took part in occupation of store during London demonstration given conditional dischargeAnti-tax avoidance protesters from the group UK Uncut have been found guilty of aggravated trespass after more than 150 people occupied a luxury food retailer during a TUC-organise ...
McClatchey
- Gingrich defends consulting work he did for Fr ...WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich, who has built his now resurgent presidential candidacy in part around criticism of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, found himself Wednesday defending the $1.6 million he reportedly earned while under contract to Freddie Mac.
- Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpon aren't optimistic ...Though more optimistic than before, the co-chairmen of the president's deficit reduction panel said Wednesday night that there's a slim chance a congressional committee will "go big" and agree on a long-term solution to America's debt crisis.
- Cain basks in enthusiasm, but stumbles on Cuba ...MIAMI — Returning to the state that made him a rising star seven weeks ago, Herman Cain stumped Wednesday morning in South Florida as a different candidate, nagged by questions about his foreign policy expertise and his handling of sexual harassment allegations.
- Sandusky told Bob Costas he feels 'unfairly ju ...Joe Paterno never spoke to Jerry Sandusky directly about his behavior, according to a full transcript of Bob Costas’ interview with Jerry Sandusky acquired by the Centre Daily Times.
- Police interventions fire up Occupy protesters ...WASHINGTON — After getting pepper-sprayed Tuesday night in downtown Seattle, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey of the Occupy Seattle movement felt fired up, ready for more protesting.
Afghanistan Sun
- Afghan Hindus, Sikhs Seek To Reclaim Their � ...Shankar Lal, at age 63, wants to reclaim his native "House of Love" after living in exile in India for 20 years. The Hindu patriarch is from Prem Nagar, Hindi for House of Love, a ...
- Afghanistan Gets Another New Political PartyHundreds of supporters have welcomed the official launch of Afghanistan's newest political party, which lists former Vice President Ahmad Zia Masud and anti-Taliban militia leaders Mohammad ...
- Ordinary Afghans Voicing Increasing Distrust O ...Afghans are putting their anger over Pakistani policies regarding their country on full display. Protests have been staged by Afghan youths objecting to statements made by Pakistani public ...
- Up To Eight Killed in Afghan Suicide AttackGovernment officials in northern Afghanistan say as many as eight people were killed by a suicide bomb attack near a mosque today, the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. The ...
- U.S. General Fired Over Remarks On Karzai Lead ...The United States military says a top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been fired after making comments critical of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his government. A statement from U.S. ...
Futurismic
- Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
- The Grand LieMost of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
- The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human RevolutionsContext, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
- When the going gets weird, the weird turn proI’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...
- BOOK REVIEW: Technicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan OakleyTechnicolor Ultra Mall by Ryan Oakley Edge SF&F (Canada), 2011; ~280pp; C$14.95 RRP – ISBN13: 978-1894063548 Budgie is a Vidicon, a member of one of the countless drug-fuelled gangs who fight to the death for territory and prestige in the red levels of the T-Dot ultramall. He sends the last ...
Whistleblowers Protection Blog
- Grand Jury Report Sheds Light on McQueary's Wh ...There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that are important to note. First, McQueary’s initial report as a graduate assistant to his supervisor, Joe Paterno, wa ...
- Jane Turner discusses McQueary's whistleblower ...NWC's Jane Turner was interviewed today on MSNBC about the Penn State child abuse scandal and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Tune in to Honesty Without Fear tomorrow to hear Jane and Steve Kohn discuss this question in more detail. Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...
- This Week on Honesty Without FearTune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Steve Kohn discusses the breaking story at Penn State and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Steve interviews Jane Turner who blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to ...
- Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on November 29th in Phi ...Calling all Philadelphians, this month is your chance to hear an in-person talk with Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center. He will be in town to teach a CLE seminar called, "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions.” Join Ste ...
- Jane Turner Issues Statement on Penn State Chi ...Today, FBI whistleblower Jane Turner issued a statement on the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Jane Turner, a 25-year veteran Agent, blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to provide protection for child sex crime victims on the North Dakota Indian Reservations. Ms. Turner reported the ...
Science Express
- Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
- Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
- After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
- Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virusA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...
TechDirt
- As Expected, RIAA Threatens Site That Claims T ...Earlier this year, we wrote yet another attempt (and there have been a few) to set up a system for "selling used mp3s." It seems like a pretty pointless idea for a few reasons. First, why bother? Second, all the convoluted and annoying systems the company puts in place to try to make this "le ...
- Don't Say YUUUP! Or You Might Get SuedThe latest example of ownership society gone mad involves the star of a reality TV series, Storage Wars, suing a rapper, because they both say "YUUUP!" Dave Hester, the reality TV guy, registered YUUUP! as a trademark earlier this year. Trey Songz, the rapper, says he's been using YUUUP! since ...
- A Look At Three Popular Sites That May Be In T ...The EFF is taking a look at some websites that may face serious legal questions and liability should SOPA become law, specifically looking at Etsy, Flickr and Vimeo. These are three extremely popular and useful sites, which most people certainly believe are and should be perfectly legal. But u ...
- New Head Of UK's Newspaper Regulators Thinks B ...The Guardian has an interview with Lord Hunt, who has just taken over the UKs newspaper regulatory organization, the Press Complaints Commission (quite a name). Most of it is fairly tame to boring. But then... at one point, Hunt talks about all the wonderful journalists he knows and how they'r ...
- NY Times Discovers The Coming Legal Battle Ove ...We've been discussing 3D printing for over a decade, including warning that some of the disrupted companies/industries are likely to go ballistic and talk about how they're being "robbed" by this form of competition. Hopefully, enough people realize this is crazy, but it seems doubtful. Take a ...
VacTruth
- Federal Health Agency Not Good at Vaccine Stat ...In a recent article, influenza statistics are taken to task for glaring misinterpretation by none other than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. So what else is new?
- 5 Ways Doctors Seduce Mothers Into Getting The ...Parents are being lied to and emotionally blackmailed by our governments, pharmaceutical industries, media and the medical profession. From the day children are born parents are seduced into having their children vaccinated with multiple vaccines full of toxins, poisons and chemicals.
- This Test Standard Proves Vaccine Research Is ...Vaccines can cause neurological injury. It seems rather incredulous to believe that research scientists ignore death—even in a research study animal—after an animal is injected with a biological agent. But that is exactly the gold standard for testing live virus vaccines.
- Does Vaccinology’s Right Hand Know What the Le ...This ingredient is used by scientists in fertility impairing vaccines.
- 27 Dirty Little Vaccine Secrets Every Parent N ...Judging by the huge amount of publicity around vaccine promotion many are under the impression that the manufacturers know all about their products in detail. It may be shocking to discover that this is far from the truth.
BroadSnark
- The Fam Circa 1895
- Things You Might Have MissedI expect that I am going to be posting quite a bit on drug war issues in the near future, especially since I am at a drug war conference today. There has been some good reporting in the news lately, specifically: Mexico city’s mayor calling the drug war schizophrenic This New Yorker piece ...
- Book Review – The President and the AssassinThe President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century by Scott Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars Miller is a good writer and it is a smooth read. The turn of the last century is a fascinating time in American history. He does a pretty good job [...]
- Occupying the NarrativeDemonization of the occupy protests is in full swing now. The violence in Oakland was just what some people needed to start the narrative change that we are beginning to see. The Washington Post is running stories about occupy violence. Fox news accused occupy protestors of knocking over an old ...
- General StrikeTo be honest, I’m a little skeptical that most of the country is ready for a general strike. But I’d love to see us pull this off.
Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche
- Retired Military Officers Oppose Obama’s Polic ...EIR News Service press release.
- LaRouche: ‘Nero’ Obama Is Going for Fascism; W ...EIR News Service press release.
- LaRouche Video Keynotes Conference at Russia’s ...EIR News Service press release.
- Obama Created Conditions for Bestiality in LibyaEIR News Service press release.
- Key Policy Paper Uncovered: How Ben Franklin O ...By Anton Chaitkin Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 21, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 41
Armies of Liberation
- Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
- Yemenis protest against al QaedaIn a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
- اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمنMy article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
- Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimesAfter Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
- Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...
Dark Politricks
- WMD, Congress, Presidents and “Morals”By Eileen FlemingWednesday, November 16th, 2011 by Eileen Fleming Last week the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog released a report stating there was evidence that Iran was working to achieve nuclear weapons capabilities. Currently there are five different House committees considerin ...
- Elderly woman maced during ‘Occupy Seattle’ pr ...Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey spoke to Countdown host Keith Olbermann on Wednesday night after being pepper sprayed by police the previous night during an “Occupy Seattle” protest. The protest was formed in downtown Seattle in solidarity with “Occupy Wall Street” after i ...
- This Is What Revolution Looks LikeBy Veterans TodayWednesday, November 16th, 2011 I have not put on a pair of boxing gloves for 30 years. But I felt this twinge of euphoria again in my stomach this morning, this utter certainty that the impossible is possible, this realization that the mighty will fall. By Chris Hedges &# ...
- Was George H.W. Bush involved in the assassina ...By Jim FetzerWednesday, November 16th, 2011 by Jim Fetzer and John Hankey George Herbert Walker Bush was there Perhaps the strongest case implicating George H.W. Bush (#41) in the assassination of JFK has been presented by John Hankey, an independent student of the crime, who has produced ...
- Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins Oc ...Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins Occupy Wall Street, Calls NYPD Conduct “Disgusting,” “Totally Uncalled For” By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Retired Philadelphia Police captain Ray Lewis has joined Occupy Wall Street, calling the New York Police Departmen ...
Dandelion Salad
- Chris Hedges: Immokalee Workers vs. Publixwith Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 16, 2011 kombatrock on Nov 14, 2011 On Sunday, Nov 13th at 3 PM, a few dozen tomato pickers from Immokalee will join scores of Sarasota allies to picket outside the Publix that opened this week at 2031 Bay St. Protestors are calling on Publi ...
- This Is What Revolution Looks Like by Chris He ...by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Nov. 15, 2011 Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but ...
- Syria In Western Strategy For Global Military ...by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 14, 2011 The League of Arab States (Arab League) suspended the membership of Syria in the organization on November 12 as it had with Libya on February 22 of this year. In the case of Libya ...
- How Hemp Is Used for Food, Clothing, Building ...Dandelion Salad TheRainMakerClub on Oct 16, 2011 Learn More at: www.VersativaHempFood.com Hemp is being recognised by more and more people as one of the most versatile plants on the planet. There are over 25,000 different products that can be made from hemp, some of which include: - Food - Cloth ...
- Fix the FEC: Partisan Gridlock Has Rendered Th ...Dandelion Salad PublicCitizen on Nov 14, 2011 Public Citizen Calls on President Obama to Appoint New Commissioners, Break Deadlock Note: At a press conference held with other government reform groups, Public Citizen released a white paper detailing the extent of the Federal Election Commission&# ...
Your New Reality
- No titleOccupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
- No titleI wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
- No titleThis city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
- No titleUS Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...
- No titleLibya 2.0 Tony Blair's Libyan dictator mate Gaddafi can rot in a ditch for all I care, but there's something about this video that is chilling. It's hard to nail the exact moment, amongst the laughter : This is what US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was laughing at : Libyans, hired mer ...
Wired - Science
- Beautiful Destruction: 11 Gorgeous Geological ...Geological maps can be so beautiful you'd want to hang them on your walls. And maps of volcanoes are among the most stunning works that geologists produce. This gallery has some awesome examples from the United States and Japan. You don't have to be a scientist to have trouble picking a favorite.
- Just Another Day At The (Space) OfficeDear reader, I just want to share with you a bit about our daily work and processes at our facility HAB (Horizontal Assembly Bay). To understand how we come about things and how it is done, it is best to see it for yourself. Once in a while we have open-days where people can visit us [...]
- Sustainability Score Turns World Order Upside DownThe United Nations Human Development Index is the world's all-purpose national scorecard, a single number that represents a country's success at providing a decent life for its people. But according to a Mongolian ecologist who feels his own country has been led astray, it's time to update the H ...
- Huge Lake Could Increase Chance of Life on Jup ...The icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa may contain a huge body of water the size of the Great Lakes sitting just 1.8 miles below the surface. If confirmed, the findings could heat up the prospects of finding alien life on the chilly moon.
- Nebula’s Frozen Clouds at Heart of Violent Sta ...Using a telescope that can see cold grains of cosmic dust, astronomers have photographed the freezing factories of the Milky Way galaxy's biggest stars.
Israeli Occupation Archive
- Amira Hass: Netanyahu is less of a liar than p ...Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama are pissed off at [Netanyahu] because he's not as good a liar as his predecessors in the PM's Office. They're angry because he doesn't bother to cover... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
- The real cost of Israel’s occupation of the Pa ...Palestinians are losing out on some $6.9 billion a year, a study shows, as restrictions on water use, resources and imports exact their toll. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for muc ...
- Fakhri Barghouti: Recounting a lifetime of str ...The Palestinian people are under occupation. It doesn’t surprise me that the media has not raised the issue of the thousands of prisoners who are in prison. They have never given us any sense of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
- Rashid Khalidi: Ross’s departureRoss has played a crucial role in crafting Middle East policies that have prolonged and exacerbated the more than six-decade conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. His efforts contributed... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Palestinian Freedom Riders: Riding for freedomPalestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
Ria Novosti - Military
- Iran Six to submit new resolution to IAEAA group of international mediators on Iran is planning to present a draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear dossier to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, a source said on Thursday.
- Number of chaplains in Russian armed foces to ...The number of chaplains in the Russian armed forces will soon triple to more than 60, the head of the Defense Ministry department for personnel development said on Thursday.
- IAEA chief defends report on Iran's nuclear pr ...The information contained in the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the military dimension of Iran's nuclear program is credible, the IAEA chief said on Thursday.
- Russian military have 'no one left to draft'Russia has no conscript-age young men left to recruit, Russia's chief of the General Staff complained on Thursday.
- Russia needs defense research body - NATO envoyRussia’s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has called for the creation of a defense research agency similar to Darpa, the Pentagon agency that funds military research in the U.S.
NewsWise
- Pouch Packaging Holds Promise for Extended She ...Scientists from Lockheed Martin and NASA conducted research to find out the potential shelf of food products packaged in retort pouches (a flexible package in which prepared food is hermetically sealed for long-term unrefrigerated storage) in order to determine the suitability of these foods to ...
- NSU Students Provide Hearing Aids to the Child ...Audiology students help hearing-impaired schoolchildren, who do have access hearing aids or audiologists. Hearing-impaired children in the BVI must travel to other countries to obtain hearing services.
- Carbon Foam: The Key Ingredient of a Greener B ...The new electrical storage devices called asymmetric capacitors can be recharged thousands of times. Now, a new design could make them cheaper, greener and lighter--a big advantage for power tools and consumer electronics.
- Worms Reveal Secrets of Wound Healing ResponseThe lowly and simple roundworm may be the ideal laboratory model to learn more about the complex processes involved in repairing wounds and could eventually allow scientists to improve the body's response to healing skin wounds, a serious problem in diabetics and the elderly.
- South Dakota State University Scientists and S ...Scientists at South Dakota State University will help subsistence livestock owners in West Africa respond to climate change and emerging land use patterns with USAID and National Science Foundation funding.
Natural Health News
- Can This Antioxidant Prevent You From Having A ...Research has shown that vitamin E and some carotenoids have antioxidant activities that can help protect you against cardiovascular disease. A new study examined the antioxidant and red-pigment carotenoid astaxanthin. The study attempted to determine whether astaxanthin could protect stro ...
- ALERT -- Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used ...The European Commission has adopted new rules regarding X-ray, or backscatter, body scanners at all European airports. European Union members have been asked to remove X-ray scanners from its airports in order to prevent risks to “citizens’ health and safety.” The X-ray scanners are still being ...
- U.S. Congress Says Pizza is a VegetableThe U.S. Congress is trying to keep pizza and French fries on school lunch menus, fighting Obama administration proposals to make school lunches healthier. Their final version of a spending bill would undo school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. The b ...
- Pediatric Academy Bullies and Seeks to Censor ...The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has been engaging in intimidation in attacking the National Vaccine Information Center and a flu prevention video they created for Delta Air Lines in-flight programming. The AAP has been attempting to censor and block public access to accurate i ...
- Are You Taking the Right Type of Oral Vitamin D?Drisdol is the form of vitamin D prescribed by many doctors. But it is vitamin D2, which is not the type produced by your body in response to sun exposure. Vitamin D2 is made by irradiating fungus and plant matter. A recent review and meta-analysis looked at mortality rates for peop ...
Climategate
- Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
- ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
- How to avoid your own Climategate scandalWhat are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
- What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
- Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
Opinio Juris
- Comment on Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro Out ...by Miguel Maduro by Miguel Maduro Being the only non-international lawyer I am the outlier (hopefully not to become the outcasted) among this group of commentators. I suspect I was asked because I am an EU law scholar and, for some, that is international law. Having approached the subject with ...
- The NMT Trial Program and The Emergence of a J ...by Lawrence Douglas [Note from ed.: This is the final commentary on Kevin Heller's book,The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. Earlier commentaries can be found under the "related posts" link below and at the companion discussion of the book at EJIL: Ta ...
- Hell Hath No Fury Like a Tribunal Scornedby Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller According to AFP, the ICTY has issued an “arrest warrant” for Florence Hartmann for failing to pay the fine she received for her 2009 contempt conviction: The UN Yugoslav war crimes court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday against a former sp ...
- Hathaway and Shapiro Respond Part IIby Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro We want to thank the participants in the symposium once again for their fantastic comments on our article. We have really enjoyed watching the discussion unfold. Here we offer a few words in response. In his post, Peter Spir ...
- Hathaway and Shapiro Respond Part IIby Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro We want to thank the participants in the symposium once again for their fantastic comments on our article. We have really enjoyed watching the discussion unfold. Here we offer a few words in response. In his post, Peter Spir ...
Public News Service
- Penn State Case a Teachable Moment Penn State Case a Teachable Moment Phoenix, AZ – Child advocates say one thing that should come out of the Penn State situation, where an assistant coach is accused of sexually abusing children, is more understanding of how to prevent it from happening. Comments from child abuse activist ...
- Study: No Paycheck for Nearly Half of All New ...Study: No Paycheck for Nearly Half of All New Moms Phoenix, AZ – Nearly half of all new mothers in Arizona and across the United States are giving up a paycheck in order to spend time with their new baby, according to a new analysis from the Census Bureau. And while the number of working ...
- Free Driver Safety Classes for AZ's Half Milli ...Free Driver Safety Classes for AZ's Half Million Veterans Phoenix, AZ - During the month of November, Arizona's half million veterans are eligible to take a driver safety course free of charge. AARP is waiving the entrance fee for its Driver Safety Program to all military personnel, regardless o ...
- Study: More AZ Kids Separated from Families, D ...Study: More AZ Kids Separated from Families, Despite New ICE Priorities Phoenix, AZ – A new study finds a rising number of children wind up in foster care when their undocumented parents are detained, despite a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) policy meant to focus on those ac ...
- "An Ounce of Prevention.....""An Ounce of Prevention....." Phoenix, AZ – Health insurance providers now must cover women's preventive health screenings under the Affordable Care Act. Comments from Carol Verret and Kathy Leinz (lines) who both were diagnosed with cancer, discovered during a routine blood screening.
Center for Food Safety
- California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
- Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...
- Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Mons ...With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers In response to Monsanto’s release of the company’s first genetically engineered sweet corn for human consumption, a coalition has collected more th ...
- New Report: A Global Citizens Report on the St ...Published by Navdanya (India), Navdanya International, the International Commission on the Future of Food, with the participation of the Center for Food Safety. The report consists of contributions from groups around the world. Entire report may be viewed HERE A new report highlights scientific ...
- Don’t be in the Dark about GE Foods!Filed under: Uncategorized
Angry Indian Op-Eds
- Speaking Out On Quiet | Smith CollegeSpeaking Out On Quiet | Smith College: Kevin Quashie, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies Kevin Quashie takes a closer look at the iconic image from the 1960s of American sprinters Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos raising their fists in protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Olympic ...
- Egyptian Arrest of Author of Eilat Terror Atta ...Egyptian Arrest of Author of Eilat Terror Attack in Sinai Proves Israel Lied in Blaming Gazans � Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place: Egypt announced today that it had arrested the ringleader of the Eilat attack…in El Arish. Precisely where we knew the attack originated–in the ...
- PolitaShift: Occupy MindOccupy Mind: [politashift-occupymind.blogspot.com/] Prior to the global shift in consciousness, as an American of European dissent, my limited opinion about Native Peoples seemed pretty main-stream, “I really don’t agree with what we did to the Indians.” Statements like this can be uttered in po ...
- Native American Netroots:: The Navajo, Sheep, ...Native American Netroots:: The Navajo, Sheep, and the Federal Government - redstreaklady's Space: In 1936, Navajo women rebelled against BIA pressure to reduce the size of their sheep herds. At Kayenta, 250 Navajo gathered. While most of those present were men, Denehotso Hattie, a woman almo ...
- Background on violence by settlers | B'TselemBackground on violence by settlers | B'Tselem Israeli civilians have committed various forms of violence against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, including killing. From the beginning of the second intifada, in September 2000, to the end of June 2011, Israeli civilians killed 50 Pal ...
Pensieve
- Siri, AI and TV CollideImagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...
- Bon Voyage, Steve JobsThere isn’t much I can say about Steve Jobs. I never met him, personally, but his influence was felt from my childhood. Like many reacting to the news of his passing, I am doing so on a device he was involved in designing. He has inspired me greatly, as with countless others. The official ...
- New Media Animation Roasts New FacebookI love the 1984 and Matrix references in this video. The animators at Taiwan’s New Media Animation, have once again produced a delicious roast of the news of the day. By the process described in detail in the Mashable tech blog, I have already started trying out the timeline. It seems perf ...
- Facebook Timeline: A Google+ Killer?This app turns Facebook into a virtual scrapbook of your life. The current model for profiles is an image of your current self, not how you have changed throughout your life. By adding the fourth dimension to the profile, Facebook explodes the potential of the profile exponentially. I read Ben P ...
- You Tube Launches New Video EditorYouTube has had a very basic video editor for some time, and has now updated and relaunched it. To me this was the next logical step for YouTube: to own the customer journey from the beginning. I have a further idea which is my Capstone project for my master’s degree, and since very few if ...
Green Times
- 'Who let the tap running?'This year, Sculpture by the Sea (whats-on-32389.html) celebrates it's 15th anniversary. The walk from Bondi to Tamarama Beach with sculptures along the way is an annual event and attracts about 500,000 visitors every year. With the sun shining, beautiful sculptures everywhere, this is the perfe ...
- African ElephantElephants are the largest living land animals on earth. There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. All of the other species have become extinct (wildlife/extinction.html). Photo by: Isabel Meijer
- Your Man ReminderRethink Breast Cancer Rethink Breast Cancer is a charity helping young people who are concerned about and affected by breast cancer through innovative breast cancer education, research and support programs. Rethink is a national volunteer-driven registered charity with a bold, enterprising ...
- Environmental News 16/11/2011Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?
- Statement of the Palestinian Freedom RidersAs of now, 6 Palestinian Freedom Riders are about to be arrested just inside Jerusalem. Read why the Palestinian human rights activists boarded segregated buses below. My name is Hurriyeh Ziadah. I am the media spokeswomen for the Palestinian Freedom Rides campaign. Thank you all for being here ...
- New Sheikh Jarrah Video from Just VisionJust Vision, the folks I interned for last spring, are out with, “Home Front is a new series of four video portraits chronicling the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.” It documents different Israelis and Palestinians involved i ...
- Villages Group: South Hebron Hills UpdateDear friends and supporters, About one month ago we reported to you on the state of the local schoolhouse in Palestinian Susiya as its second school year opened. Visiting the school on Thursday November 2nd, 2011, we witnessed an impressive development in the construction of the school’s p ...
- Video: Democracy Now! footage from Freedom Wav ...Israel has boarded and detained the latest Freedom Flotilla heading for Gaza. See the last footage they were able to transmit from on board the boat here. If you are in New York City, there will be an emergency action. TODAY, November 4 5 – 6:30pm across the street from the Israeli Consul ...
- World-Class American Jazz Harpist Conducts Wor ...On Saturday, October 15th, 2011, American master jazz harpist Park Stickney visited the Salem village Music Center near Nablus. Stickney was in Israel-Palestine to give the opening concert for the new Jaffa Harp Festival. The Festival organizer, harpist Sunita Staneslow and her spouse Fred Schlo ...
Politics in the Zeros
- My grandfather and uncle were Wall Street inve ...Guess what, they were ethical and honest. My grandfather arranged loans to Finland after WWI and was given a medal by them for doing so. My uncle found investors for oil well drilling during the 1970′s, $10,000 minimum (a good chunk of money back then) and he wouldn’t take your money ...
- Occupy Wall Street. Live stream
- The missing $600 million at MF Global. Multipl ...Three weeks after MF Global cratered and nearly $600 million vanished into the ether out of supposedly sacrosanct customer accounts, hundreds of regulators and criminal investigators say they still have no freaking idea what happened or where the money went. Multiple choice test. That $600 milli ...
- Can Milwaukee become the Silicon Valley of water?The city has 150 water technology companies, the biggest concentration in the world. And the world will be needing to get much smarter about water use soon.
- Utah most vulnerable to European slowdownIt exports gold and silver to the UK and has the highest percent of GDP to Europe of any state. However, the biggest problem and impact will be from financial contagion as yet more houses of cards come tumbling down, something which will affect all states. [...]
Coteret
- Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
- “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here ...
- New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot:  ...On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
- Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
- Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...
Deadline Live
- Obama sends in the Marines to Australia, China ...Washington Post CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA — The Obama administration announced plans Wednesday to establish a permanent military presence in Australia, part of the president’s high-profile foreign policy shift toward Asia that is intended to counterbalance China’s growing power. The move to sen ...
- Students at Earl Beatty Public School revolt: ...Students at Earl Beatty Public School revolted against a schoolyard ball ban on Wednesday, storming the playground fence at lunch hour to state their case. “We want our balls back! We want our balls back!” they chanted as supervisors in fluorescent vests shooed them away from the edge of the pro ...
- Did Bloomberg Go Judge Shopping In Order To Ig ...
- 15 Styles of Distorted “Thinking”HAT TIP to DR No @ jackbloodforum.com 1. Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them, while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. A single detail may be picked out, and the whole event becomes colored by this detail. When you pull negative things out of c ...
- 9/11 Pentagon Debate: Craig Ranke (CIT) vs Ant ...Last month, Pacifica Radio hosted a series of debates about 9/11, which were then broadcast nationwide on their radio network and affiliates as part of their 9/11 tenth anniversary special. In the debate about “the lingering questions surrounding the attack” at the Pentagon, ...
The Air Vent
- In Case You Were WonderingIt is all about money. Every action in the world is about motivations and where money is involved, the gold is usually king. Sure you are motivated to play with your children, that’s not money but when you get up to go to work and it’s still dark out, you may love your job but [...]
- IEA Solves Climatechange – GuardianFantastic news. We don’t have to worry about blogging on climate anymore. It turns out that in 5 years we can’t do anything anyway. The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it ...
- Global Temperature Reconstruction ComparisonsZeke has a nice comparison of various global ground temperature reconstructions at the blackboard. It’s worth checking out.
- Considered Critique of Berkeley Temp SeriesI will leave this alone for another week or two while I wait for a reply to my emails to the BEST group, but there are three primary problems with the Berkley temperature trends which must be addressed if the result is to be taken seriously. Now by seriously, I don’t mean by the IPCC [...]
- More BEST Confidence Interval DiscussionWell, I’ve written to Richard Muller yesterday on this as well as Judith Curry, Richard has yet to acknowledge my email. We have seen that my previous explanations of the problems in the confidence intervals of the BEST temperature series were confusing for some pretty smart people. I ...
Focal Point
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
- Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
- Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...
Inside Facebook
- TBG Digital Study: High Conversion Performance ...TBG Digital, a Facebook advertising and social media specialist company, has released data based on a recent client study that indicates social context ads perform more effectively than non-social context ads, according to certain metrics. The findings support a 2010 … Continue reading →
- Facebook Now Showing Up to Six Display Ads on ...Facebook has increased the number of display ads in many areas of the site from four to five and sometimes six, which puts about half of the ads below the fold where users must scroll to see them. The change … Continue reading →
- Facebook Testing “See Likes,” Updating Languag ...Facebook seems to be testing a new shortcut feature to the Insights tab that allows developers to see who Likes a Page. Based on a walkthrough from a tipster and the included screenshot above as reported by All Facebook, it … Continue reading →
- Reviews and Discussion Tabs Now Removed from F ...The previously announced removal of Reviews and Discussions from application profile pages has now gone into effect. The removal of Reviews mainly affects developers that solicit reviews for their apps, such as game developers fishing for a five-star rating. By … Continue reading →
- New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Acquinity Interactive, JibJab Media Inc., Live World, 6waves Lolapp ...
Truthout - Tweets
- truthout: Richard D. Wolff: "New York has acqu ...truthout: Richard D. Wolff: "New York has acquired newly renamed mayor: Mubarak Bloomberg." http://t.co/BB9etLCp #OWS #OccupyWallStreet
- truthout: Jim Hightower: Bank of America, in a ...truthout: Jim Hightower: Bank of America, in a Heap of Hurt, Pushes PR - http://t.co/6JmumnrJ @HightowerNews #banks
- truthout: New Statistics from the @DeptVetAffa ...truthout: New Statistics from the @DeptVetAffairs - Half of #Vets Returning From Iraq and Afghanistan Need Medical Attention http://t.co/4X0j07ZC
- truthout: As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, #Congre ...truthout: As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, #Congress Moves to Gut #FinancialReform - http://t.co/2iOQsPPs #OWS #OccupyNYC
- truthout: As #ZuccottiPark Is Cleared, #Congre ...truthout: As #ZuccottiPark Is Cleared, #Congress Moves to Gut #FinancialReform - http://t.co/2iOQsPPs
ReDress News
- Why the West is demonizing IranStuart Littlewood argues that behind the "non-stop, loud-mouthed sabre-rattling against Iran" lies the fact that the Anglo-American political establishment is still smarting from not getting its way.
- Palestine: what next?Alan Hart argues that salvation of the Palestinian cause lies in dissolving the Palestinian Authority, which "has been more or less a quisling authority collaborating with Israel", restructuring and reinvigorating the Palestinian National Council - the parliament for all Palestinians - and harne ...
- Rendezvous with a British minister on Palestin ...Stuart Littlewood relates the concerns he has raised with UK Foreign Office Minister Henry Bellingham regarding British policy on Palestine and Israel, and the Israeli-inspired sabre rattling towards Iran, and views the possibility - aired by former UK ambassador Craig Murray - of a secret "neo- ...
- The illogic of proving a negative to justify a ...Paul J. Balles argues that advocates of a pre-emptive attack on Iran - America's "Israel-firsters" and their Israeli mentors - are using the same illogic they deployed to attack Iraq in order to commit aggression against Iran: the demand that Iran must prove it has no nuclear weapons.
- Is Britain about to betray the Palestinians - ...Stuart Littlewood views Britain's decision to abort the Palestinians' bid to obtain UN recognition for their independence by abstaining in the Security Council, and argues that what is needed is a no-nonsense, law-based approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, such as that adopted by the Ru ...
Amazon Rainforest
- World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
- World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
- Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
- Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
- Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan, DOD Sued Over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers, Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’, Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa, Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads ...
- The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: ...The Business of Arming the Nation’s Enemies The AQ Khan nuclear network was first introduced to the public in early 2004, with Abdul Qadeer Khan’s dramatic televised confession to the Pakistani public that he had participated in selling nuclear technology, including bomb-making designs and ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitaria ...
- Follow the Money with Bergman-Chicago: The Cit ...Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes Chicago has a lot of strengths, along with a deserved, well, reputation. The City of Big Shoulders? Perhaps. But legal and illegal corruption have long greased the wheels in the City That Works. Chicago is joined at the hip with the State of Illinois, with no ...
- BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israe ...
Afro Spear
- sat’day riddymzFrom Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that ta ...
- Obama vs Jesus
- “Killing and treatment of Gaddafi blow t ...Although former Libya strongman Muammar Gaddaffi was almost hated by everybody except those who were closer to him, what the new regime did to display his remains for public to ridicule was unreasonable. There might be three reasons as to why Gaddafi was killed and publicly displayed. One, it is ...
- sat’day riddymz
- Restaveks: Child Slaves in HaitiAl Jazeera: Slavery: A 21st Century Evil Part 4: Child Slaves (click on image)
Expose the BNP
- Expose the BNP: activists’ meetingOver the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
- Rotherham fascist leads secret double lifeA BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
- Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeatThe British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
- Ten questions that expose Nick GriffinOn the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
- Workshy Griffin left his parents pennilessOn yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...
Ode Magazine
- Sonic boonA search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
- The secret’s in the sauceWhat my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
- Clean water, clean energyIn the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
- Blocking CO2 to beat malariaMosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
- A winter’s taleCelebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...
OpEd News
- Oh Those "Debates"Republican Wannabees for the President Nomination seem to have drunk all the Kool-Aid.But they'd be great at a showbiz roast or, better yet, a Minstrel Show.
- Penn State Isn't the Only University That's Be ...The University of Alabama, like Penn State, has been harboring a scandal that dates to the 1990s. What did UA do to the wrongdoer? They made him president of the Board of Trustees.
- Can't Occupy? Then do a "Walk About"Occupy sympathizers organize a "walk about" to bypass town's constraints restricting assembly in public spaces.
- Politburo uber allesWhat the Gang of Eight is truly after is essentially a rich man's EU. Get ready because from now on, the euro won't unify Europe; it will spearhead its balkanization.
- Gingrich Has a Big Problem with WomenThis article explores Newt Gingrich's baggage when it comes to women's rights and his personal relationships with women.
Switchboard
- Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves a Commun ...Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC West Virginia is home to one of the most destructive coal mining practices in the world--mountaintop removal--a process that blows up pristine mountains to lay bare the bituminous&nbs ...
- Why TransCanada (and others) shouldn't be surp ...Liz Barratt-Brown, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC In 2008, the Canadian company TransCanada proposed a nearly 2,000 mile pipeline that would bisect the heartland of America in order to carry diluted bitumen, raw tar sands diluted with chemicals, to ...
- Republican Anti-Environment Assault Continues ...Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC The Senate has set aside work on a spending bill for energy and water programs for now, but earlier this week the possibility that it could come up prompted Senate Republicans to offer a cornucop ...
- Boehner Behind Misguided Effort to Drill for H ...Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C. Can you hear that? It's the distant chant of "drill, baby, drill" emanating from Capitol Hill. Today House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) formally kicks off his party's attemp ...
- Oil companies grow profits shipping more oil t ...Danielle Droitsch, Director, Canada Project, Washington, D.C. Yesterday, the U.S. benchmark for oil jumped above $100 a barrel for the first time since this spring. A big factor was an announcement by Enbridge to pipe more oil to the Gulf Coast but ...
Lawyers,Guns,& Money
- Hamilton Bio-Pic?There’s a been a bit of buzz across the blogosphere in the last 24 hours supporting Hendrik Hertzberg’s call for an Alexander Hamilton movie. Of all the Founders’ lives, Hamilton’s was the most garishly cinematic. Consider these elements: born in the West Indies (the film could open ...
- Technological Perspective on OWSI gave an interview to a newspaper journalist the other day who wanted some information about Occupy Wall Street in the context of the history of American social movements. One question she asked was about how technology makes this movement different. And it struck me that while this movement is ...
- All Iran, All the TimeMy final entry into the Yale Journal Iran nuclear debate is up: Ackerman and Cohen accept many of these lies at face value. Ackerman apparently believes that the autocrats in Bahrain would not have suppressed demonstrators, but for the specter of Iran. Dead protestors in dozens of states not thr ...
- SenateThis Times piece on Republican Senate candidates floundering seems awfully hopeful to me, but given that the Republicans blew three pickup opportunities in 2010 thanks to nominating extremist candidates (DE, CO, NV) and that these mistakes cost them control of the Senate, such optimism is possib ...
- BlackfaceGreat to know that the hilarity of blackface remains popular at some of our nation’s finer sororities and fraternities! And I thought we lived in a post-racial society! In all seriousness, this brings up a couple of more substantial points. First, it’s not like kids haven’t see ...
Desert Research Institute
- Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).
- Dilworth students participate in Mission Antar ...Students at Dilworth STEM Academy join a team of scientists in Antarctica as they study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms. The work has implications for understanding impacts of climate change and the ecology and evolution of organisms in the Southern Ocean.
- Communicating Science with AnimationDerek Norpchen calls his work eye candy. “I take the data that the scientists gather in the field and turn it into animations and visualizations so that the projects sponsors and the public can better understand the science behind the issue.”
- ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciencesAtmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
- DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
Earth Techling
- Cleantech Open Awards Best Of InnovationThe 2011 Cleantech Open wraps up in the Silicon Valley for another year, awarding innovative cleantech start ups with funding and exposure to interested investors.
- Small-Scale Fuel Cell Truck: Can It Grow?Researchers at Australia's RMIT University are toying with a small-scale hydrogen fuel cell truck they say can be turned into a green long-haul freight truck.
- Macho Springs Wind Farm Ready To RollElement Power and Mortenson Construction have completed construction on the 50-megawatt Macho Springs Wind Farm in Luna County, New Mexico.
- Biofuel From Honeywell Powers AeromexicoHoneywell International says their Green Jet Fuel is now powering the Aeromexico route between Mexico City and San José, Costa Rica.
- Sailrocket Challenging Speed Sailing RecordThe Vestas Sailrocket 2 is in pursuit of the world Outright Speed Sailing Record, posting runs of 54 knots, equivalent to 100 km/h or 62.14 mph.
National Law Journal | U.S.
- Professor's plea: Say no to 'law school porn'It's that time of year when law school faculties are inundated with so-called "law school porn" — slick mailings extolling the virtues of individual law schools meant to influence law school rankings. Some legal educators believe the barrage of mail has gotten out of control, and proves th ...
- Dueling motions in Kung Fu Panda copyright caseCall it judicial jujitsu in a case over a martial arts bear. A plaintiff who claims DreamWorks and Paramount infringed his copyrights in their Kung Fu Panda movies has asked the court to sanction the defendants for improper investigation tactics, but his opponents want the case dropped because h ...
- In fiscal 2011, EEOC won record-breaking $365M ...It's been a record-breaking year at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which received more discrimination charges than ever before and won an all-time high $365 million for victims of workplace discrimination, while simultaneously managing to reduce its huge backlog of cases.
- Fields insists: Client Pom's product is not 's ...Pom Wonderful's 100% pomegranate juice is not "snake oil," but rather provides numerous health benefits widely supported by medical research, prominent litigator Bertram Fields argued in defending the company's health claims before a jury for the first time.
- IP LAW: A SPECIAL REPORTThe sweeping patent reform law enacted last month is expected to create new classes of intellectual property winners and losers as game-changing provisions kick in during the next 18 months.
How Shall We Do The Mountain ?
- Shale Gas Drilling PhotosThe below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening. Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
- Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...
- Learn the FACTS about Marcellus ShaleThurs. Nov. 3rd at 7 PM GAS TRUTH OF YORK is sponsoring the YORK MARCELLUS SHALE FORUM so that you can learn what you need to know about Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania. In South Central PA we do not have Marcellus Shale drilling but the Oil & Gas Industry is affecting our water, land, ...
- Gas Truth of Central Pennsylvania Wants to Hea ...Give Your Testimony to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION GAS TRUTH is giving support to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION that has been formed by 8 organizations that want to get out the truth about the effect of Shale Gas drilling on Pennsylvania. Governor Corbett formed his Gas in ...
- GASLAND and Josh Fox Come to York, PAWed. Sept. 21st at 6:30 PM HACC York Campus is sponsoring a special outdoor screening of the Emmy award-winning film, GASLAND. GASLAND’s Director, Josh Fox will answer questions following the film. GASLAND is the story of the effect of Fracking for Natural Gas on families and communities ...
News Blaze
- 'Active' Tolerance An Antidote to Prejudice an ...Director-General of UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova echoed Mr. Ban's remarks, underscoring active tolerance as a way to make the most of human diversity as a source of vitality, creation and social cohesion.
- Latvia Celebrates National DayShe highlighted that despite decades of war and Soviet occupation, today Latvia is a flourishing democracy and an inspiration to countries around the world. She stressed that both countries share a long history as strategic allies, valued partners,
- Apollo 11 Crew and John Glenn Receive Congress ...America's leadership in space and the confidence that we can go farther into the unknown and achieve great things as a people rests on the achievements of these brave men.
- US and Philippines Broaden and Strengthen Part ...She stressed that the alliance remains strong, capable of delivering results for the people of the Philippines, the United States, and their neighbors throughout the Asia Pacific. She said they are now updating their alliance and all of their allian
- Global Food Crisis Requires a Rapid Policy Res ...He noted that 'trade did not feed the hungry when food was cheap and abundant, and is even less able to do so now that prices are sky-high.' Global food imports will amount to $1.3 trillion in 2011, and the food import bills of the least developed
environment 360
- Camera Traps Document Wild Cats in Unprotected ...Using a network of camera traps, researchers captured images of five wild cat species within the same Sumatran forest corridor, an unprotected area rich in biodiversity but threatened by industrial logging and View gallery WWF-IndonesiaCamera trap images of wild cats in Sumatra clear-cutting f ...
- Deforestation in Boreal Region Has Net Cooling ...While deforestation is considered a critical factor in global warming since it causes the release of carbon, scientists say that in northern latitudes tree loss may actually have a net cooling effect. In an analysis of temperature data collected from Florida to Manitoba, researchers from 20 inst ...
- China’s Appetite for Wood Takes a Heavy Toll o ...More than half of the timber now shipped globally is destined for China. But unscrupulous Chinese companies are importing huge amounts of illegally harvested wood, prompting conservation groups to step up boycotts against rapacious timber interests. BY WILLIAM LAURANCE
- Restoration of UK Peatlands Is Advocated by Co ...The UK’s extensive peatlands and peatbogs must be protected and restored to avoid large-scale releases of carbon dioxide and to protect water supplies, according iStock Photo to a new study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The report said that 80 percent of the ...
- Building Retrofits: Tapping The Energy-Saving ...No more cost-effective way to make major cuts in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions exists than retrofitting buildings. Now, from New York to Mumbai to Melbourne, a push is on to overhaul older buildings to make them more energy efficient. BY DAVID BIELLO
Red Ice Creations
- Out Of The Ashes Of The Collapse Of The Eurozo ...All over Europe, headlines are declaring that the eurozone is on the verge of collapse. Many people falsely assume that this will mean the end of the euro and a return to national currencies. Unfortunately, that is not going to be the case at all. Instead, this is going to be yet another example ...
- Penn State Students Support Child Molester Ena ...Here‘s how (some) Penn State students reacted to the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. If you didn‘t already know, Paterno was fired because he found out his assistant coach was molesting children back in 2002 and didn‘t do anything about it. All of this is so sickening.
- Riddle of the radiation sweeping across Europe ...Ed comment: Despite continued problems at Fukushima the IAEA says that the source of the increased levels of radioactive iodine-131 all over Europe is unknown - resorts to blaming cosmic radiation. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles ...
- Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PMSilvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country‘s politics for 17 years. President Giorgio Napolitano is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti as his successor. Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He pr ...
- Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘liar‘French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists. "I can‘t stand him any more, he‘s a liar," Mr Sarkozy said in French. "You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day," ...
Russia Today
- Fierce clashes, firebombs as thousands flood A ...Masked youngsters have attacked police in Athens as tens of thousands poured onto the streets to protest the unity government’s public spending cuts and steep tax hikes.
- Is pizza your favourite vegetable?What's in a name? Well quite a lot when it comes to designating which foods will be served at lunchtime in America's schools. Under pressure from the frozen foods industry, US lawmakers have decided to allow pizza sauce...
- NYPD blast LRAD sound cannons at OWSRT’s New York crew has witnessed NYPD using LRADs, or sound cannons on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Eyewitnesses at the site have tweeted police fired as protesters sang the US national anthem .
- Italians rage as bankers take over Italian protesters clashed with police Thursday as thousands took to the streets around the country in anger at budget cuts and the Brussels-backed “bankers’ government.”
- Cameron of Arabia, Sarkozy of DamascusThe UK is reportedly being urged by Jordan’s king to lead a “diplomatic drive” to remove the Assad regime in Damascus. France, a key partner in the campaign to kill the Gaddafi regime, is also on the list of would-be...
Not My Tribe
- News 5 Report: “cost to taxpayers of Occ ...What extreme fucking gall. Their station, and their Pathetic Used-Snot-Rag of a Newspaper partner The Gazette are owned by a failed Corporation called Freedom Corp. That means for the past two years while they’ve been BANKRUPT they’ve been getting enormous tax breaks and even TAX REB ...
- The Puppet-Masters and their pet Turkey, doubl ...They condemn those of us in America who rebel against their fascist Corporate leadership and presumption of ownership of every aspect of our lives, calling it “Freedom” while their Pig-Slaves break our heads with clubs and plastic bullets. And in the case of Oscar Grant, lead and cop ...
- As NYPD destroys Occupy Wall Street, Americans ...UNOCCUPIED WALL STREET- NYPD goons put an end to the Zuccotti Park OWS rebel base tonight. Shall we declare it official, this night of the Occupy Wall Street Smack-down, that images of riot police are now ubiquitous as American Pie? Officer unfriendly closed the airspace, created a no-witnesses ...
- Pig Rampage in Denver, Oakland camp “cl ...The DPD was assaulting the Occupy PEOPLE yesterday, and squealing like the pigs they are when people actually shoved back. What do the stormtroopers think, they’ll just beat people up, gas us, shoot us with “non-lethal” projectiles, taser us, and we’ll be so grateful for ...
- NATO, Puppet Afghans ask why would Taliban pub ...I don’t know more than they do but here’s a really good guess… Maybe it’s because they are in negotiations and showing their ability to infiltrate even NATO ranks is a major card in their hand? The Karzhai Puppet Government and their NATO Overlords “liberators” ...
Debunking the Debunkers
- Corbett Report Radio 011 – Occupy Building 7 w ...September 11, 2001 - the day our country was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in our lifetime unless we the 99% stop it. Ten years later the War on Terrorism has diverted trillions of dollars from more important uses and sunken our country into debt. 15 NOV 2011 Pod ...
- Thermite Has Never Been Used in Building Demol ..."Thermite has never been used in building demolition." - [9/11] Critical Thinking For Dummies - Controlled Demolition by "Juniversal" at the JREF Forum Popular Mechanics Ignores Its Own Historical Records of Thermite Demolition: Destruction of Skyride Towers, Reichstag Dome Set Incendiary Prece ...
- The Trapping of Screw Loose ChangeNovember 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Strahl 911truth.org Dear Readers, Please submit your comments on this article at the link at Amazon, here, as provided below by Mr. Strahl. 911Truth.org published this article; the author is not available to be reached through email to this site. We look forward to ...
- FAQ #7 – Sounds of Explosions?This video, pulled from the NIST archives, reveals sounds of explosions that corroborate the eyewitness testimonies of explosive sounds at WTC7 Written by John-Michael Talboo http://ae911truth.org Friday, 04 November 2011 13:02 Question: Why weren't the sounds that were heard during the destr ...
- 9/11 Theories: Expert vs. Expert - Aluminum Wa ...I'm glad Jonathan Cole included the part about the new theory that water and melted aluminium from the aircraft was the cause of the explosions in the Twin Towers. I just recently learned of this myself and was planning on posting about it anyway. I found the theory interesting because in pur ...
Fooducate
- Congress Invents New Vegetable: The PizzaFile this under R for Ridiculous. Millions of kids every day receive free or reduced price lunch at school. The federal government foots the bill through the USDA. The program has been under attack in the last few years because of the low quality and nutrition sparse foods being served. What can ...
- Cheese Lovers Rejoice, Maybe?Denmark is known for its tasty dairy products. Unfortunately butter and cheese are very high in saturated fat. The connection between saturated fats and increased blood cholesterol (leading to heart issues) has been accepted by most health organizations world wide. That’s why, when researc ...
- Blue Popcorn. Really? [Inside the Label]We’ve heard of blue corn, an heirloom variety cultivated by the Hopi tribe of the southwest, but the blue popcorn pictured here is not popped from those kernels. Instead, some marketing genius thought it would be cool to color popcorn blue with artificial colorings. The kids will love it, ...
- All We Are Saying, is Give Peas a Chance…We recently got this question from Mike: Dear Fooducate, I would appreciate an answer to a question that I have tried to get a reasonable reply to from various and sundry food experts to no avail about the dark green vegetables that are the nirvana of the foodies: The humble pea never gets a fav ...
- Healthy Southern Comfort Food: Better Buttermi ...This is a guest blog post by Sarah-Jane Bedwell, R.D., L.D.N. When I was a very little girl, my grandfather had a heart attack. Thankfully, he survived, but the doctor told him and my grandmother that he would have to change the way he was eating, if he wanted to live much longer. Twenty some [...]
Traffikd
- SEO Tips For Your Blog and BusinessWhen was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
- How To Choose KeywordsEvery day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
- Why Social Media Isn’t Working For YouSo you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
- How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
- Tips for Getting More DoneThis topic might not be 100% focused on social media or marketing but its important to remember these ideals and incorporate them into your day. These tips will be especially helpful for bloggers, designers, social media managers and people with a lot on their plate each day to get more done. St ...
Survival International
- Shocking video confirms Indonesia’s brutal sup ...The shocking footage shows Indonesian soldiers beating West Papuans © SBS TV/West Papua Media Alarming video of Indonesian forces shooting, beating and kicking civilians at a peaceful rally in West Papua has emerged ahead of a US visit to the region. Ten people are believed to have died w ...
- It’s official – the key to conservation lies w ...India's Soliga tribe recently secured unprecedented rights to a tiger reserve © Kalyan Varma/Survival Indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests, and conservation reserves that exclude them suffer as a result, according to a new study from the World Bank. Its analys ...
- Tanzania: Hadza tribe celebrates first land titlesThe Hazda tribe's land titles being formally handed over at a special ceremony © Dorobo Fund for Tanzania / UCRT One of the very few hunter-gatherer tribes in east Africa has been celebrating the recognition of its land rights. The land titles were formally handed over at a special c ...
- Ethiopia – government crackdown in Omo region ...The Mursi are one of the tribes that will be affected by plantations and the Gibe III dam. © Magda Rakita/ Survival Survival has received disturbing reports of a crackdown on tribal people opposed to Ethiopia’s program to remove them from their lands in the Omo region and force them to rese ...
- Indians demand action after Paraguay's 'hiding ...Gabide Etacori, one of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode leaders © Survival Leaders of Paraguay’s Ayoreo tribe are calling on the government to stop cattle farmers from destroying their forests after signs of their uncontacted relatives were found on a ranch. The Ayoreo say they overheard uncontact ...
Greg Palast
- And that is WHY WE OCCUPYby Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo exclusive for OpedNews.com So big deal. They evicted us. That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year. Our photograph ...
- Palast crew reporter Roberts... just before th ...2a.m. Zuccotti Park, Wall Street, New York Zach D Roberts, photographer for the Palast Investigative Team, a split second before the copy cracked the lens––and whacked Zach. See that spot on the left? That's the night stick hitting the lens. Tonight: Palast on "Why We Occupy." Photos and v ...
- This is the moment to make the 1% cryI'm putting it to you bluntly: Vultures Picnic comes out today - and here's why I'm asking you, no joke, to get it TODAY, or this week at the LATEST. Do that, and I'm once again on the bestseller list, top of Amazon. It's the ONLY way the work you've supported, the work you think is important ...
- Fukushima: They Knew"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN by Greg Palast for FreePress.org I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level. Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant: Wiesel wa ...
- Escape from Lady Baba-landGetting the hell out of the Islamic Republic of BP with the Deepwater Horizon evidence From Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators. A tale of oil, sex, shoes, radiation and investigative reporting - get it now. by Greg Palast [Based on a tip fr ...
How Can I Recycle This ?
- How can I reuse or recycle pretty synthetic li ...Over on The Really Good Life, we’re in the middle of a decluttering month, with the hope of developing a general habit of asking “do we need or even want this?” rather than getting blind to things that have been on shelves for years. I’m also setting a weekly mini-challen ...
- What can I reuse or recycle to make soap moulds?I made my first batch of cold-process soap earlier in the year – it took FOREVER to trace, but we’ve loved the resulting soap so I need to make some more. Ever since I made that first batch, I’ve been on the look out for what I can use as moulds this time around. Last [...]
- How can I reuse or recycle fibre glass baths?Rosie has emailed: My partner brought home 3 brand new fibre glass baths (minus handles) which were going to be thrown in the skip. Any suggestions for use and does anyone want them? That’s just the type of thing I’d want to bring home too – they seem so useful (and so new!) th ...
- What can I reuse or recycle to repair the mesh ...Good friend of Recycle This and The Really Good Life, Su, has got a question for us: Bicycle panniers – mine have a really useful stretchy mesh pocket on the outside, unfortunately now more hole than mesh. Any ideas on repairing them? The actual pannier part is absolutely fine. The summer before ...
- How can I reuse or recycle out of date contact ...Good friend of Recycle This Petra has been in touch again: Here I am again with another item that you hopefully find interesting enough to put on your website. Still cleaning my cupboards :-) , I now found several out-of-date bottles of contact lens liquid. It’s the storage and insertion l ...
Age of Autism
- Dramatic Development Further Exonerates Andrew ...By John Stone In the latest dramatic twist in the Wakefield affair the senior histopathologist co-author of the controversial Lancet paper, Dr Amar Dhillon, has defended his contribution to the study. His intervention further knocks on the head allegations from...
- Age of Autism Contest Angel Necklace from The ...Melissa Winter of The Puzzling Piece is giving a lucky Age of Autism reader a free angel necklace. Leave your name in the comments to enter, make sure you include your email address on the email line of the comment...
- Study Says Flu Shot Safe for Kids With Egg AllergyMedscape November 7, 2011 — Trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) is safe to use in children with severe egg allergy, and can be given as a single dose, according to research presented here at the American College of Allergy, Asthma &...
- NYC Screening of The Greater Good 11/19SCREENING OF VACCINE EXPOSE THE GREATER GOOD THIS WEEKEND Q&A with Vaccine Epidemic Authors and Emily Tarsell, Mother of a Girl Who Died from the Gardasil Vaccine We are delighted to announce the NYC premiere of the award winning documentary...
- National Vaccine Information Center Calls Out ...WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling public pressure placed on Delta Air Lines by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to censor an NVIC video about flu prevention an “act of intimidation” to block public access...
Global BDS Movement
- Palestinian Freedom Riders Challenge Israeli A ...The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) salutes the brave Palestinian Freedom Riders who today challenged through civil disobedience the Israeli occupation and apartheid
- Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Bu ...Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement's Freedom Rides to the U.S. South
- Take Apartheid off the Menu! A European Day of ...A European Day of Action Against Israeli Agricultural Produce Exporters - November 26, 2011
- The Russell Tribunal On Palestine: Summary Of ...RToP is an international citizen-based Tribunal of conscience created in response to the demands of civil society to educate public opinion and put pressure on decision makers
- IRISH SHIP TO GAZA CALLS ON THE IRISH GOVERNME ...Following the events of yesterday, and the continuing refusal of the Israeli government to comply with international law, the Irish Ship to Gaza campaign is calling on the Irish government to take the concrete actions against the state of Israel
Farm Wars
- ‘Tis the Season: Grinch THIS, Corporate America!How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year? Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year? How can we stop the cycle of debt? How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas p ...
- TS Radio… vertical farming, forestry, farming, ...Join us Tuesday evenings at 8:00CST! 6:00PST.. 8:00CST 9:00EST Listen live here! At 8:00 CST Callin #: 917-388-4520 Skype Join us this evening as Debbie Bacigalupi, a leader in the land rights fight in Siskiyou County California, returns to update us on the destruction of the Klamath Dams and t ...
- Major data gaps in risk assessment of genetica ...“Significant changes in the composition of the plants were not assessed sufficiently. Possible impacts on the human immune system or the reproductive system were not investigated by empirical data. What is missing is an assessment of the interactions between the different plants, which are mixed ...
- Guerrilla Warfare Gardening 2: Toil’s no TroubleA goat and a garden will keep you alive and healthy through any food crisis. This is our fourth year gardening in the high desert, and I've got to admit, we messed around and got it right this time. We have enough in the freezer for the year, and the garden fed us and the critters with fresh pro ...
- “WHY in the World are They Spraying?” Promo VideoThis investigation links weather control to chemtrail/geoengineering programs and illustrates how certain governments and corporations can benefit by controlling our weather. Weather is even being traded as a derivative at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange! Please watch, share and spread this impo ...
Open Your Eyes News
- Police pepper spray Occupy Seattle protestersTelegraph – Local media reported several protesters were hit by pepper spray, including an 84-year old woman and a pregnant woman, when police prevented their protest march from continuing down the middle of a street because it would block traffic. Four protesters were arrested, and the re ...
- Can weight loss reset health risks in heavy kids?Reuters – Overweight children who shed their excess pounds in adulthood don’t face a higher risk of obesity-related health problems, an analysis of four studies involving children and adults in the United States, Australia and Finland has concluded. The findings don’t prove wei ...
- Smog pollutant may be tied to stroke riskReuters – People who live in areas with high levels of traffic-related air pollution might have a slightly increased risk of dying from stroke, Danish researchers suggest in a new study. They found people living in urban zones with high estimated concentrations of nitrogen dioxide were 22 ...
- More unrest in Guangdong over land seizuresAsiaNews – Hundreds of villagers clashed with riot police outside Zhongshan, Guangdong province, this weekend in protest over a long-running dispute over land grabs by local officials. Police said the violence occurred when “a small number of villagers from Yilong village” atta ...
- Reports: U.S. Military to Help Fight Nigerian ...Wired – The Pentagon’s shadow war in Africa could have a new front, if reports coming out of Nigeria are accurate. U.S. troops are headed to Nigeria to help local forces do battle with Boko Haram, an Islamic terror group that has killed up to 400 people this year in an escalating campaign ...
L.A. Times - Greenspace
- Tree rings document ancient Western megadrought University of Arizona scientists have found evidence of extreme Western drought in the second century that matches or exceeds the better known droughts of the medieval period.
- Obama pipeline decision courts youth voteWhen President Obama announced Thursday that he was delaying a decision on the XL Pipeline for at least a year, it was partly the result of significant youth lobbying, says Courtney Hight, 32, co-director of the Energy Action Coalition.The action also may have re-energized a 30s-and-under youth ...
- Keystone pipeline delay draws cheers, dismayThe 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing plains states and the enormous Ogallala aquifer. It has been the target of increased protest and opposition from environmentalists and residents of those states, who complain that the corros ...
- Playa Vista plan gets court approvalWetlands activists had challenged a revised environmental impact report for the Village, as Phase 2 of the big project south of Marina del Rey is known.
- NOAA greenhouse gas index climbsThe U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) numbers today, which measures the direct climate influence of a select set of greenhouse gases, and the news is not good. The numbers continue to climb, further evidence that the greenhouse e ...
water.org
- Matt Damon, Gary White on Huffington PostSafe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that’s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world’s population is still unable ...
- Dan Bena of PepsiCo interviewed about waterChrissy Coughlin of Nature of Business interviews Dan Bena Fabulous conversation with Senior Director of Sustainability at the PepsiCo about strategic partnerships, leadership, the future of water, their dedication to the farmer and the future of agriculture and much much more. Listen to the int ...
- Water.org™ Partners with CamelBak® This Holida ...Limited-edition water bottles with custom design to benefit those without safe water (Business Wire) PETALUMA, Calif. — CamelBak® and Water.org™ announced today that they are teaming up for a second consecutive year to share a simple and powerful way to help some of the 884 million people ...
- Gary White’s goal (CSM)Gary White’s goal: bring clean water to a billion people who lack it (Christian Science Monitor) – Gary White cofounded Water.org with actor Matt Damon. His success secret: Making sure local people are deeply involved. If Gary White realizes his vision, everyone in the world will hav ...
- Video – Richard Thorsten on WaterCreditRichard Thorsten › Access to Credit, Access to Basic Services – Water.org’s Richard Thorsten interviewed by MicAmericas TV at the FOROMIC conference in Costa Rica about Water.org’s WaterCredit work.
Before It's News
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- Eats on Feets
- Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen
Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform
- The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...
Margaret's News
- Revamped Nazareth inn scores international pri ...The guesthouse manager, Suraida Shomar-Nasser, who is the granddaughter of Fauzi Azar, the original owner of the 200 year-old home, accepted the award on behalf of the hotel at a ceremony in London. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World | Note-it! | Add a C ...
- Alone in the battle against Israel's religious ...This is a new and dangerous wave of the Jewish Diaspora sea, which is forever disconnected from place and time, and it is threatening to overflow and drown Zionism and its accomplishments. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Come visit Israel. Before it's gone.I want my nephew to know that there was once a place that his great-grandparents, believers in social justice who had been anarchists in Bialystok and became anarchists in Boyle Heights, could take pride in. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World | Note-it! | &nbs ...
- BBC News - Disabled children excluded from edu ...This is a very important topic. Submitted by Derek G. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
- Trenton police seek missing teen | NJ.comUSA Please do all you can to help find Zahra Coleman. Submitted by Derek G. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Solar Energy / Energy Boom
- BLM and DOE Add Addendum to Western Solar Fast ...Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at one of California's solar energy developments. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Bureau of Land Management have c ...
- First Solar to Build and Operate 66 MW Alpine ...Electricity giant, NRG Energy recently announced an agreement to have First Solar (Nasdaq:FSLR) build, operate, and maintain a new 66 MW Alpine Solar Project in Lancaster, California. read more
- United States: DOE Creates New Funding to Supp ...The United States Department of Energy (DOE) stated its plans to invest $60 million to support the advancement of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies. read more
- First Solar Stocks Blasted After CEO's Abrupt ...Stocks were down 22 percent in mid-afternoon trading Tuesday after solar developer First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) said that CEO Rob Gillete was stepping down. read more
- New Bedford Plans Groundbreaking Solar ProjectThe city of New Bedford, Mass., has announced plans to install solar panels at up to 20 city properties—schools, municipal buildings and land parcels—as part of an initiative that will ultimately generate 10 megawatts of e ...
News Blaze
- 'Active' Tolerance An Antidote to Prejudice an ...Director-General of UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova echoed Mr. Ban's remarks, underscoring active tolerance as a way to make the most of human diversity as a source of vitality, creation and social cohesion.
- Latvia Celebrates National DayShe highlighted that despite decades of war and Soviet occupation, today Latvia is a flourishing democracy and an inspiration to countries around the world. She stressed that both countries share a long history as strategic allies, valued partners,
- Apollo 11 Crew and John Glenn Receive Congress ...America's leadership in space and the confidence that we can go farther into the unknown and achieve great things as a people rests on the achievements of these brave men.
- US and Philippines Broaden and Strengthen Part ...She stressed that the alliance remains strong, capable of delivering results for the people of the Philippines, the United States, and their neighbors throughout the Asia Pacific. She said they are now updating their alliance and all of their allian
- Global Food Crisis Requires a Rapid Policy Res ...He noted that 'trade did not feed the hungry when food was cheap and abundant, and is even less able to do so now that prices are sky-high.' Global food imports will amount to $1.3 trillion in 2011, and the food import bills of the least developed
Worldnews
- Woody Allen's Life Story Is Finally Being ...By Frazier Moore, The Associated Press New York - You will see his typewriter, the Olympia portable Woody Allen has used for pounding out...
- Welcome to the News Business, Ms. Clinton If ever a development was bound to create jealousy and an urge to ridicule, it was the announcement the other day that Chelsea Clinton started working at NBC News as a special correspondent. She had to be the most untrained and least experienced new hire by a major network since, oh, since N ...
- Dalglish - No Torres motivation Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish does not believe a reunion with Fernando Torres and Raul Meireles is any greater motivation than taking three points against Chelsea. The two clubs meet at Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon, with just three points separating them in the Premier League. But the ...
- Torres - I'll be back Fernando Torres insists he will get back to his best and admits he owes the Chelsea fans after a barren run of form. The Spain striker has only found the net five times in 50 appearances since his £50million switch...
- Harrington makes strong start Defending champion Padraig Harrington is one of three players one shot behind leader Joost Luiten after the first round of the Iskandar Johor Open in Malaysia. Dutchman Luiten leads the way after shooting an eight-under-par 63 at Horizon Hills Golf and Country Club, with Harrington in hot pu ...
Alex in Wonderland
- Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
- Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
- Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
- Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
- Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.
MY Daily Apple
- A role for graphene in silicon-based semicondu ...As silicon-based electronics approach the limit of improvements to performance and capacity through dimensional scaling, attention in the semiconductor field has turned to graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Its high mobility of charge carriers (electrons an ...
- Pediatricians decry in-flight vaccine-question ...The vaccine wars have moved to higher ground: the cabins of Delta airplanes.
- Solyndra Highlights Long History Of Energy Sub ...Energy Secretary Steven Chu will face scrutiny on Capitol Hill Thursday over loans to the failed solar firm. But the government has a long history of subsidizing many kinds of energy, from coal to oil to wind. Still, different sectors disagree on whether tax deductions should be considered a sub ...
- Vanderbilt Study Finds Alcoholics' 'Injured Br ...Alcoholic brains can perform a simple finger-tapping exercise as well as their sober counterparts but their brain must work a lot harder to do it, according to a Vanderbilt study released today by the journal, Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Chronic drinking is associated with ...
- DG HEALTH HEARTBURN RELIEF (Cimetidine) Tablet ...Updated Date: Nov 15, 2011 EST
Common Dreams
- NYPD Blast LRAD Sound Cannons at OWSRT’s New York crew has witnessed NYPD using LRADs, or sound cannons on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Eyewitnesses at the site have tweeted police fired as protesters sang the US national anthem .
- Former Philadelphia Police Captain Joins Occup ...Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis joined Occupy Wall Street protesters on Tuesday. He was seen holding a sign reading "NYPD Don't Be Wall Street Mercenaries." read more
- Mother of WikiLeaks Founder Calls for Australi ...CANBERRA, Australia — Julian Assange’s mother protested outside Parliament House during President Barack Obama’s visit Thursday, demanding Australia lobby the United States against extraditing her son in a WikiLeaks investigation. Scores of protesters in Australia’s capit ...
- Occupy the Skies! Protesters Could Use Spy DronesThe proliferation of drones throughout the military — and into civilian law enforcement — can make it feel like we’re living in an airborne panopticon. But flying robots are agnostic about who they train their gaze upon, and can spy on cops as easily as they can spy on civilian ...
- Thousands March in Athens Austerity ProtestATHENS - Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Athens on Thursday against austerity measures demanded by the new unity government to persuade its creditors to release bankruptcy-saving loans. "We will throw all of them out," promised a banner held aloft by students, while another car ...
The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos
Examine Religion - Tweets
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Energy Collective
- Energy Subsidies in a Free MarketBob Inglis’ call to “simultaneously eliminat[e] all subsidies” for energy is another way that he believes we can use the “power of free markets” to make better choices about energy use. Although “subsidies” are often discussed, it is a concept that is hard to pin down.
- Protests Delay India's New Nuclear BuildA series of protests that began in October have delayed the hot start of two Russian 1000- MW VVER reactors in the Tamil Nadu state on India’s southernmost coastline.
- Will Wireless Vehicle Charging Become Like EZPass?
- Global WarningPeople hear climate change through different concerns. Some hear threats to the environment, others to people, and others still to national security. (Of course, there is overlap.) For those in the national security category, the National Security Journalism Initiative has created Global Warni ...
- Climate Policy: Big Ideas Are DeadRight, left or center, most agree that U.S. climate and energy policy today is, at best, an ineffective and inefficient patchwork.
Green House - USA Today
- Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
- What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
- U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
- Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
- Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hikePresident Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.
Prior Art
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Peoples Voice
- Occupy The LibraryBy Red Raven America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-w ...
- Time for an Economic Bill of RightsEllen Brown Henry Ford said, “It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” We are beginning to understand, and Occupy Wall Street looks like the be ...
- America's Media War on Iranby Stephen Lendman When Washington goes to war or threatens it, America's media march in lockstep, cheerleading. Fiction substitutes for fact. News is carefully filtered, dissent marginalized, and supporting imperial belligerence substitutes for full and accurate disclosure. As a r ...
- Israel's war threats: Sheer hollow propagandaKourosh Ziabari Israel has awkwardly and desperately renewed its outworn war threats against Iran in the recent weeks, indicating that it's getting prepared to launch a military strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities. Last week, the Zionist regime successfully test fired a missil ...
- Robert Singer Author's Page at OpEdNewsRobert Singer is an Entrepreneur and the author of a forthcoming book on the Federal Reserve. His articles cover politics and the financial and environmental implications of our consumer society and can be found on Opednews, The Market Oracle and The Peoples Voice. Robert Singer is a regular c ...
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Instruments of Social ChangeThe recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal ci ...
- Household carbon footprints increase with incomeA new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the lowest-income households. The study, by Marc Lee and Amanda Card, concludes that GHG reduction ...
- Recommended reading: FearmongerFearmonger, by CCPA research associate Paula Mallea, is the first comprehensive independent analysis of the "tough on crime" policies and legislation being implemented by the Harper government. According to Statistics Canada, all crime rates—including violent crime—have been trending downward ...
- Retirement HeistUnions are working people’s anti-theft device, so goes the bumper sticker. In a new book entitled, Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers, award-winning journalist Ellen Schultz has written an indispensable account of the organized kleptom ...
- 2011 David Lewis Lecture: Stephen Lewis and Mi ...On November 3rd, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives proudly hosted the 2011 David Lewis Lecture in Toronto. This year’s lecture featured an intimate conversation between two of Canada’s leading thinkers and recipients of the Order of Canada - Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg. H ...
World Wide Hippies
- Occupy Wall Street kick off a day of protests; ...Occupy protests around the United States run into heavy police resistance, elderly woman pepper-sprayed in Seattle BY CHRISTINA BOYLE,NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Occupy movements around the U.S. are increasingly encountering the heavy hand of the law. The NYPD’s crackdown on the Zuccotti Park protesters ...
- Worldwide Hippies News Briefs ThursdayU.S. election ups risk of Israeli strike on Iran ISTANBUL (Reuters) – An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites may become likelier in 2012 if Israel calculates it has more room to act alone in a U.S. presidential election year, a former U.S. official and nuclear diplomacy expert sai ...
- As the Cookie Crumbles: Amended DevelopmentA little while back, my Sen., Tom Udall, and Colo. Senator Michael Bennett (not, perhaps significantly, Tom’s cousin, also a Colorado Senator of the Dim persuasion) introduced into the Senate a measure which would set in motion the process of amending the Constitution in ways that the spon ...
- New York court tosses conviction of corrupt, b ...By BRENDAN J. LYONS,timesunion.com – ALBANY — Former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno faces a new criminal trial after the heart of his appeal was rejected Wednesday by the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan. The federal appellate court overturned BrunoR ...
- Worldwide Hippies; Native American NewsIndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas By Andrea Appleton,citypaper.com – A new exhibit on links between African-Americans and Native Americans sidesteps controversy African-Americans and Native Americans have interacted with one another for centuries in the Americas: t ...
FourWinds10
- 'The Last Mountain' - Official TrailerThe fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
- Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
- 'On The Beach'1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
- Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
- Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
Crisis Maven
- Archaeology, the Internet and NeutrinosOr: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
- Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
- Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once WasWhen you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
- Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once WasWhen you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
- Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...… and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent ...
Capital Flow Analysis
- Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further ...In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...
- Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagfl ...The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...
- How long would it take to work off the US trad ...The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
- Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy p ...In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...
- Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...
R-Squared Energy Blog
- Announcing R-Squared Energy TVJoin the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]
- Take a Stand, Mr. PresidentJoin the forum discussion on this post The Importance of Being Decisive When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets of wisdom were transferred from Graham into my long-term memo ...
- Germany Faces Sticker Shock Over Renewable Ene ...Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Oilprice.com, republished with permission to R-Squared. For years many Germans warned that nuclear was the only way they could meet the energy needs of their population and reduce carbon emissions at the same time. Now th ...
- Despite Solyndra’s Death, the Future of Solar ...Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared we have a guest post by Steven Pleging. Mr. Pleging is CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. I am in general agreement with the points made below; in fact I reiterated several times at this year’s ASPO conference that I be ...
- Five Misconceptions About Peak OilJoin the forum discussion on this post I have just returned from the annual ASPO conference in Washington, D.C. This was only my 2nd ASPO conference; the first one I attended was in 2008 in Sacramento. There were many familiar faces; some of whom I had previously met and some I only knew by rep ...
Discovery Educator Network
- Harvard Education LetterTags: flippedclassroom, flipped, technology, education, teaching, pedagogy, techtalkby: Dean Mantz
- teachwithyouripad - iPad AppsTags: ipad, apps, education, ipads, teachwithyouripad, wiki, appleby: Dean Mantz
- Innovation Design In Education - ASIDE: Infogr ...Tags: infographics, education, graphicdesignby: Dean Mantz
- Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™Comments:Collection of historical maps as explained by Free Technology For Teachers. - Dean MantzTags: maps, history, geography, socialstudies, referenceby: Dean Mantz
- BrainPOP Spotlight: Digital Citizenship. Movie ...Tags: digitalcitizenship, brainpop, cybersafety, resources, internetsafety, safetyby: Dean Mantz
Rodale News
- Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
- Thanksgiving Dinner, Southern-StyleRODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— Southern food may have a bad reputation for being deep fried and heavily processed, but like any traditional cuisine, its roots lie in whole, seasonal, locally grown foods with flavors influenced by the many different cultures that settled the region, from Europeans to ...
- U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns A ...Look for a PBS NewsHour story on X-ray body scanners, reported in conjunction with ProPublica, to air later this month. This story originally appeared on ProPublica.org On Sept. 23, 1998, a panel of radiation safety experts gathered at a Hilton hotel in Maryland to evaluate anew device that cou ...
- The Healthiest Rice You've Never TriedRODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When is rice not really rice? When you buy it from one of the dozens of food companies out there marketing "wild rice" that isn't, in fact, wild at all. A majority of what is marketed as wild rice today comes from California, where it's grown in paddies from hybrid seed ...
- The Nickel Pincher: The Most Underutilized Too ...RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Beans and whole grains, even organic versions, are among the cheapest foods you can buy. They're also the healthiest. But who has time (or can remember) to soak a pot of beans overnight and then boil them on the stove for two hours? And who wants to get up an hour earlie ...
big think
- The Sky IS falling. Should We Worry?Most of us are aware that some monstrously large space rock may be headed our way that could cause what scientists dryly call “an Extinction Event”. Translation; WAY bad for life on earth. Most of us also know that ...
- The Future of Libraries and Bookstores lies in ...Reading the daily news (probably on a PC or tablet device) one might have the notion that ebooks were on a killing spree, destroying every part of the old media system on their way, the latest victim: school lockers. In general, the switch to digital content has quite some advantages ...
- Ricky Gervais Gets The Last Laugh, Back to Hos ...It's common etiquette not to insult someone in their own home. And if you break that etiquette, don't expect to be invited back. Unless you're a comedian, and your name is Ricky Gervais. Last January, Gervais hosted the Golden Globe Awards and joked The Hollywood Foreign Press Ass ...
- 3-D Printing: End of Our Throw-Away Culture?What's the Latest Development? Recent advances in 3D printing technology have made commercial-quality printers affordable to the public for the first time. And the design software needed to create objects has become more user friendly. Instead of throwing away a coffeemaker, for example, b ...
- Occupy MoMA: Diego Rivera’s Populist Murals Re ...During his lifetime, Diego Rivera stood as one of the most important and controversial artists in the world. Today, thanks to the international feminist phenomenon of Frida Kahlo (who stood in her husband’s considerable shadow while alive), Rivera finds himself, at best, “Mr. Frida ...
Information Liberation
- Marc Faber: S&P 500 May `Rally' Another 5%, Fe ...Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) - Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report," talks about the outlook for global stock markets. Faber also discusses Europe's sovereign debt crisis, the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve monetary policy. He speaks ...
- Luke Rudkowski explains what went down during ...LRAD, beatings, protesters putting chains around their necks to prevent eviction, Luke Rudkowski from wearechange explains exactly what happened as the police moved in to destroy the Occupy Wall Street camp. Live stream: http://www.ustream.tv/th...
- Police State Crackdown, 2nd Raid on Occupy Oak ...Abby Martin of Media Roots went to Occupy Oakland at 4:00 am to cover the second police raid on the encampment and crackdown against the peaceful protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza. The footage shows the intensity in the air leading up to the raid ...
- AVTM + Anonymous ~$1m/yr CA Medical Marijuana ......
- Anti-Muslim 'hate crimes' up 50 percent in US: FBIWASHINGTON * So-called "hate crimes" against Muslims rose nearly 50 percent in the United States in 2010, according to FBI statistics released Monday. The figures, part of a report on hate crimes, showed actions motivated by anti-Muslim prejudice ...
Be Responsible - Be Free!
- A Whisper In The EarOK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, … Continue reading →
- Almost But MaybeAlmost certainly, this man will not be the next President of the United States of America. This is despite him consistently winning straw polls, focus group surveys and post-debate polls. Despite him being more consistent in his policies, over forty … Continue reading →
- Woody Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman And A Big MacCapitalism is evil! Down with the system! Peace and Love! Yeah, right. The Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City’s Zucotti Park have now dragged into their fifth week, as well as spreading to other cities throughout the Western … Continue reading →
- A Game Of ChickenThe Gillard Government’s Carbon Tax legislation passed the Lower House yesterday, by the slenderest of majorities. Next month it will pass the Senate, in which the Australian Greens hold the balance of power. The eighteen bills of which this legislation … Continue reading →
- Double Or NothingI’d like to introduce you to yet another Australian politician you’re unlikely to have heard of in the Northern hemisphere. This one, however, has a gun pressed against the head of the Gillard government. And he has openly announced the … Continue reading →
Sciencebase - Breaking Science News
- The little book of black delightsSchadenfreude: pleasure derived from another’s misfortune. Black humour. The hilarity experienced in watching a pratfall, the clumsy slip on a well-placed banana skin. From the German compound noun, deriving from Schaden (adversity, harm) and Freude (joy). Obvious. ...
- Pressure can melt ice, but not enough…Countless text books and armchair scientists will tell you that the reason we can skate on ice is that the pressure we apply through the blades of our skates is enough to lower the freezing point of the ice so that it melts and a surface layer of slippery liquid water forms across which the [... ...
- Deep Sky VideosFrom the makers of the world-famous Periodic Table of Videos (with my good friend Professor Martyn Poliakoff) and SixtySymbols comes the Periodic Table of Astronomy the DeepSkyVideos Youtube channel; they’re also on twitter with that handle. A sneak preview for Sciencebase readers: Related ...
- Rhodiola rosea supplementsRhodiola rosea is a so-called “adaptogenic” herb that countless spam emails claim can improve wellbeing, exercise capacity and cognitive performance as well as reducing stress responses. I have written about it before and debunked this spurious CAM remedy at length. I keep a weather ...
- The 5 W’s (and How) of writing for the WebSteve Buttry presents the five six questions that should guide your reporting as you interview, observe and research to gather the facts for a story, whether that’s live tweeting from a conference, a facebook update, a blog post or your first long-form feature for an online magazine. They ...
RFF Library
- Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electrici ...Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative | Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative / by Kristen Averyt, et al. http://bit.ly/sWTltW [From a ClimateWire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] Power plants are increasing the stress of lakes, rivers and aquifers across the United Sta ...
- More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycli ...Tellus Institute with Sound Resource Management for the BlueGreen Alliance: Teamsters, SEIU, Recycling Works, and GAIA http://bit.ly/rNXBdA [From an article in Money magazine] …The report… examines the impact that increased recycling would have on the nation’s job market. If more Ame ...
- The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhous ...subtitle: Review of the Use of RGGI Auction Proceeds from the First Three-Year Compliance Period The Analysis Group / by Paul J. Hibbard, Susan F. Tierney, Andrea M. Okie and Pavel G. Darling http://bit.ly/rvBvYF [From Press Release] Key findings include: The regional economy gains more than $1 ...
- Trends and Implications of Climate Change for ...Defense Science Board Task Force http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2011-11-Climate_Change.pdf [From a Greenwire story by Annie Snider, sub. req'd] The Pentagon needs more robust climate predictions to help it prepare for global warming impacts across a broad range of operations, the Defense De ...
- Groundwater Investigation: Pavillion, WyomingUS EPA http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/ [Website] EPA released the latest data from Pavillion-area domestic and monitoring wells at a public meeting on November 9, 2011. We are sharing this data with the community, Encana, the state, tribes and federal partners as part of an o ...
Scientific American - News
- Seeing the Big (and Small) Picture: Panoramic ...For most of us, the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, and that is the extent of the change that we notice in its appearance. But our host star is no static, glowing orb, as solar physicists well know--it is a roiling, convecting, chaotic mess. [More]
- Surety Bond: Breast-Feeding May Increase Child ...Children breast-fed longer than six months scored a 3.8-point IQ margin over those who were bottle-fed, according to a seven-year study by researchers at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Poland. [More]
- Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at U.S. A ...The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners [1] in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothi ...
- Cyberwar Most Likely to Take Place Among Small ...Most Americans who worry about cyberwarfare are concerned that it will be directed against the United States. But the truth is that cyber conflict is far more likely to involve smaller players -- and the dangers associated with that possibility are just as real. [More]
- New Space Station Crew Launches in Spectacular ...A Russian rocket successfully lifted off from snowy Central Asia tonight (Nov. 13), carrying a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin blasted into orbit aboard a Russ ...
First Truths
- "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
- "Integrated Geographies"From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
- Colbert on AtheistsI enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
- Tucker on Anarcho-CommunismFor your consideration (and entertainment), the always pugnacious Benjamin Tucker railing against anarchists of the communist sort:Were I now to say, as I think, that the dead revolutionists knew nothing of the principles of scientific Anarchism, freely advocated Archistic and despotic m ...
- "Competitive Laborism"Might this come to pass in a real free market? From Michael Yaziji's Time to Rethink Capitalism?, in the Harvard Business Review's magazine back in 2008: The leaders of publicly traded companies are beholden to the capital markets. Just consider the relentless pressure to meet the quarterly numb ...
Media Co-Op
- November 15th: 'Eviction Day'.Occupy Toronto Prepares to Fight Eviction It was a whirlwind day for Occupy Toronto. Residents woke to the news that an eviction order had been issued for midnight. At the same time, word arrived that New York's Occupy Wall Stree ...
- Courtrooms, Comrades and Cameras Greet ONS Arr ...While people at a solidarity rally chanted outside the Nova Scotia provincial courthouse on Monday morning, supporters of the Occupy movement jammed the courthouse to hear the charges and conditions of release for three people arrested in relation to the eviction of Occupy Nova Scotia on Remembr ...
- CKUT: Off the Hour live until 6pm: Occupy Mont ...Tune-in live now at ckut.ca/listen. Tonight on Off the Hour, the Community News Collective brings you voices from Place des Peuples, formerly known as Square Victoria, and around North America. The following is an investigation of Occupy M ...
- COALITION JUSTICE FOR LEVI OVERJOYED BY COURT ...COALITION JUSTICE FOR LEVI OVERJOYED BY COURT RULING The Coalition Justice for Levi and the Schaeffer family are delighted to announce and to celebrate a landmark decision by Ontario’s highest court released Tuesday, November 15th. In the decision, the three pa ...
- Occupy Toronto November 15
David Seaton's News Links
- How paranoiac should we be?Critics in Europe are very uneasy about the new Italian ECB chief, the Greek premier and the prime minister-designate of Italy’s past or present relations with the Goldman Sachs bank. Key European crisis figures Mario Draghi, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti all have backgrounds with ‘Government ...
- The bright side of life - revisited“When you’re chewing on life’s gristleDon’t grumble, give a whistle”Eric IdleI am in the process of reworking a lot of my material, looking to see if I could ever make a book out of it all, trying to see what, if any, threads of thought might hold it all together. This is a rough draft of some o ...
- OWS progress report: the sound of one hand cla ...David Seaton's News Links Hope where there was cynicism; solidarity where there had been suspicion. The occupations are more effective as a launch pad than a destination. Nobody knows where this is going. It's just great to be on the move. Gary Younge - The GuardianWinter is coming and the bi ...
- Oakland and OWS... an inch ahead lies darkness"An inch ahead lies darkness"Japanese proverbDavid Seaton's News LinksMany people are making facile comparisons between today's OWS movement and the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era. A major difference between what happened then and what is happening today is that the 60's anti-war movement ...
- OWS leaderless? Let a hundred Chomskys bloom!“Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.” Archimedes "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuel David Seaton's News Links How can any movement function without leaders? Dumb question, a much better question would be: how can any movement ...
MoJo - Kevin Drum
- Chart of the Day: Corporate Taxation in AmericaThis comes via Felix Salmon, but I edited his chart to create a different one. Roughly speaking, mine shows total corporate income tax paid as a percent of pretax profit, and as you can see, it's been on a pretty steady downward trend for a long time, from around 50% in 1950 to 20% today. But o ...
- Being Poor in America Really SucksThere's voluminous evidence demonstrating that income inequality has skyrocketed in the United States over the past few decades and is now higher than in virtually every other developed country. This might not be all that bad if income mobility had also increased, but a number of recent studies ...
- The Anti-Tax Jihad Lives OnThe easiest way to address our long-term deficit problem is to do nothing. This is normally something Congress is pretty good at, so you'd think they could pull this off. The problem is that in this case "nothing" means letting the Bush tax cuts expire as planned, and nobody — not congres ...
- Rick Perry's Money ProblemGiven the obvious loathing of the Republican base for Mitt Romney, I've been reluctant to flatly rule out the possibility of Rick Perry winning the nomination despite his Gardasil heresy, his immigration gaffe, and his cringe-inducing debate performances. I'm willing to flatly rule out Herman C ...
- Perry: Obama is a SocialistRick Perry has gotten plenty of pushback for his latest ad, which accuses President Obama of saying that "Americans are lazy." Obama didn't say that, of course, just like he's never gone on an apology tour, he's never bad-mouthed American exceptionalism, and he's never said he hates Christians ...
Insanity Report
- IC 284: The White Tyler PerryTopics: Jack & Jill does horribly at the Box Office Adam Sandler is terrible Woman goes crazy over McDonalds serving breakfast Jerry Sandusky gives the worst interview EVER Herman Cain has a senior moment Share with your friends:
- The New Man DaywalkerIt’s been a rough week for men. From the XY Movement, to the cowardly men in the Penn State situation to the release of Drake’s extra soft album. Men can’t catch a break. Even our regular clothes are under attack by this push to make everything “European cut” (i ...
- Herman Cain Pulls a Sarah PalinForeign Policy is the great equalizer when it comes to politics. Nobody minds a domestic dummy, but when it comes to dealing with other country, no one wants a politician who embarrasses them. Its like family. When your dad say something stupid at the dinner table, its cute and funny. When h ...
- IC 283: The 999 Terrorist PlanTopics: Mayweather & Pacquiao are promoting geniuses Joe Paterno Fired Gays molest kids more Rick Perry forgets his talking points Herman Cain is pro-waterboarding Share with your friends:
- Joe Paterno is NOT a Fall GuyUnless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Penn State sex abuse scandal. I read the whole Grand Jury report on Tuesday and I’ve been disgusted and outraged since then. If you haven’t read it, here’s the link. Let me warn you, this is the most disturbing thing I ...
Simple Climate
- Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler waterSome of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.
- Moscow shows warming driving temperature recordsThere is only a one in five chance that last year's heatwave in Russia would have happened without global warming, an analysis of record temperature probabilities by Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.
- 2020 target offers climate change control hopeIf greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are equivalent to 31 to 46 billion tonnes of CO2, the world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, says Joeri Rogelj from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
- Fossil fuel exporting countries should adopt g ...The revenues that countries exporting fossil fuels would raise if they taxed extraction to control global CO2 emissions would give them an incentive to fight climate change, say Steven Davis and colleagues from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.
- Climate change threatens slow-moving speciesKind conditions have preserved species diversity in the Amazon basin and central Africa since the peak of the last ice age, Brody Sandel from Aarhus University and colleagues find, but future warming now threatens “endemic” species occupying only these regions.
e!Science News
- New material can enhance energy, computer, lig ...Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits. read more
- LGBT seniors face harder old age, national stu ...Aging and health issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender baby boomers have been largely ignored by services, policies and research. These seniors face higher rates of disability, physical and mental distress and a lack of access to services, according to the first study on aging and ...
- New model more accurately describes migratory ...Predicting the risk of extinction is a complicated task, especially for species that migrate between breeding and wintering sites. Researchers at the University of Georgia and Tulane University have developed a mathematical model that may make such predictions more accurate. Their work appears i ...
- Pristine reptile fossil holds new information ...Extinct animals hide their secrets well, but an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of an aquatic reptile, with traces of soft tissue present, is providing scientists a new window into the behavior of these ancient swimmers. read more
- Chimps play like humans: Playful behavior of y ...Playful behavior is widespread in mammals, and has important developmental consequences. A recent study of young chimpanzees shows that these animals play and develop much the same way as human children. read more
unEarthed
- More Appliance Listings Missing Energy Efficie ...Earthjustice again calls on FTC to bring enforcement action against online retailers What a listing for a freezer on Newegg's website should also tell you, but doesn’t, is that the freezer ...
- The Nation Is Sick of SootNearly 36,000 deaths could be prevented every year by tighter soot standards Sometimes, little things cause big problems. The tiny particles in soot pollution ar ...
- Tr-Ash Talk: Calling On All SkepticsSenate briefing highlights dire threat from coal ash Coal ash This week, the House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment will i ...
- Creek Memories & Our Fight For Clean Water in ...Will the Senate defeat a Dirty Water Amendment this week? The Barrasso/Heller Dirty Water Amendment would wipe out pollution limits for streams, brooks, wetlands, lakes and other waters in ...
- New Jersey Rally Protests Dirty Energy Power LinesEarthjustice’s Abigail Dillen speaks in the park There was more than the usual lurking going on Thursday afternoon in Lurker Park in East Hanover, New Jerse ...
Brave New Climate
- The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of EmailsWith regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...
- Energy Storage Discussion ThreadDebate over large-scale energy storage is a regular theme in the comments on this blog. The post is intended to be a place to centralise this discussion. Some questions that might be considered in the comment thread: 1. What is the cost (per Watt hour, kWh, MWh, GWh — how does this cost sc ...
- CEDA report on Australia’s nuclear energ ...Today I was in Melbourne, joining a panel of five who are the chapter authors of a new policy monograph called “Australia’s Nuclear Options“. This event was to formally launch the 61-page report, which was commissioned and published by CEDA (Committee for Economic Development o ...
- Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes and conservationI have a new paper out in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation that will be of interest to BNC readers. It is called “Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes to solve the big conservation issues in southern Asia“, by Barry W. Brook & Corey J.A. Bradshaw. Here are some detai ...
- Depressing climate-related trends – but ...I saw two particularly depressing trend lines this week. Both were confronting enough to make me stop, sit back and just contemplate. It was not as though these came as a great surprise — I’d been following these data for years. But for some reason, the seriousness of them really str ...
Indigenist Opinion
- Speaking Out On Quiet | Smith CollegeSpeaking Out On Quiet | Smith College: Kevin Quashie, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies Kevin Quashie takes a closer look at the iconic image from the 1960s of American sprinters Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos raising their fists in protest on the medal podium at the 1968 Summer Olympic ...
- Egyptian Arrest of Author of Eilat Terror Atta ...Egyptian Arrest of Author of Eilat Terror Attack in Sinai Proves Israel Lied in Blaming Gazans � Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place: Egypt announced today that it had arrested the ringleader of the Eilat attack…in El Arish. Precisely where we knew the attack originated–in the ...
- PolitaShift: Occupy MindOccupy Mind: [politashift-occupymind.blogspot.com/] Prior to the global shift in consciousness, as an American of European dissent, my limited opinion about Native Peoples seemed pretty main-stream, “I really don’t agree with what we did to the Indians.” Statements like this can be uttered in po ...
- Native American Netroots:: The Navajo, Sheep, ...Native American Netroots:: The Navajo, Sheep, and the Federal Government - redstreaklady's Space: In 1936, Navajo women rebelled against BIA pressure to reduce the size of their sheep herds. At Kayenta, 250 Navajo gathered. While most of those present were men, Denehotso Hattie, a woman almo ...
- Background on violence by settlers | B'TselemBackground on violence by settlers | B'Tselem Israeli civilians have committed various forms of violence against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, including killing. From the beginning of the second intifada, in September 2000, to the end of June 2011, Israeli civilians killed 50 Pal ...
Republicans are a Disease
- Mike Huckabee Is A Liar Spewing Propaganda Or ...Mike says Democrats can pass a jobs bill in the Senate. Really Huck? Have you ever heard of a filibuster? Are you an idiot that does not understand Senate rules, or simply a liar? Which is it dip stick? Actually I know which one. Fox Propaganda Network has frauds like Huckabee say dishonest crap ...
- I Support Rick Perry’s Tax Plan With Two ...Flat tax yes. Absolutely. Based on net worth, not income. And make the first deduction $50,000. And eliminate trusts, shelters, offshore havens, and make the corporate minimum tax 25%. America’s problems solved, and no one will feel any pain but the haves’ and the have mores’. ...
- Rick Perry’s Tax PlanSo Rick. The last time we gave corporations a tax break for bringing profits back from overseas did the money help create jobs here? (Answer no) Why would you think it would create jobs this time? The last time they got a break, they just outsourced even more jobs, knowing they will get a “ ...
- Boston’s Mayor Menino Threatens Occupy B ...The mayor of Boston is only interested in one thing. Making sure the filthy rich slime buckets he hangs around with can continue to get every opportunity to overfill their bank accounts. This fantastic blog post from Occupy Boston is very informative. The mayor threatened folks who perform  ...
- Please Media Please…. Start Treating Rep ...Can you believe the media is letting these nut case freaks spout their crazy talk, without ever calling their rantings crazy talk? These “candidates” who are trying to impress the “Republican Base” a bunch of bat shit insane retarded greedy traitors. My god. I want to puk ...
Appalachia Rising
- Day of Action and Conference Vision StatementsAppalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
- Press Conference to be Held on June 15Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...
- Press InquiriesAll media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
- New Flier for Appalachia Rising
- Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...
Amped Status
- Get Ready for OWSnews.orgApologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
- Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
- Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOaklandBy Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...
- Marine Down in Oakland – “We’ ...Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...
- #OccupyOakland: Riot police fire tear gas, fla ...Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...
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- In defense of enemies: The Estonia proposalWith all these post-Schalit deal shifting alliances between Hamas, Fatah and Israel, it seems that what the three parties really need is a common enemy. By Joel Silberman A pernicious threat is gathering for the Middle East, a danger that jeopardizes Palestinians and Israelis alike. Though rare ...
- What a Jewish terrorist might look likeThis picture was posted, along with several others, on the right-leaning citizen journalism site Rotter.net. It was taken at a memorial evening for Rabbi Meir Kahane, held openly in Jerusalem and attended by well over 1,000 people. The slogan on the back of the shirt reads “Price Tag.̶ ...
- PLAY the Ehud Barak Game: “If I were ____, I w ...Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak likes to imagine himself in different positions. And I don’t mean that in a kinky way. Yesterday he told Charlie Rose that if he were Iranian he’d probably want the bomb, too. In 1998, as many of you recall, Barak told Haartez journalist Gideon Levy that if h ...
- WATCH: Alternative Jewish interpretations of H ...Within the litmus test that is the “pro-Israel” paradigm, even young devout Jews dedicating their lives to religious study and community are often attacked for being hostile to Israel, as became clear when an American Rabbi living in Israel wrote an essay last summer accusing young r ...
- Teacher summoned to hearing over leftist Faceb ...A teacher in an Israeli public school, who has become the target of a hate campaign after she expressed leftist views on Facebook, has been summoned to a hearing at the Ministry of Education. According to the teacher, following some messages she posted on a Facebook debate regarding an “al ...
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