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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

17 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • BOMBSHELL- NEVADA ATTORNEY GENERAL RELEASES MA ...
    This really is extraordinary. An Attorney General brings a HUGE indictment against two individuals…but here’s why it is so earth-shattering…..read carefully the crimes that are alleged….then understand that these same acts were probably performed all across this country h ...
  • Bernake to Congress: If you Audit Us, We Will ...
      Over the last three years, the Federal Reserve has sent trillions of dollars all around the planet. Trillions abroad, Trillions to China, Trillions out into outer space. We mere mortals have no idea where trillions of dollars in US currency is going or has gone because THE FED HAS NEVER B ...
  • Listen to How The 1% Seized Accounts of 150,00 ...
    I keep screaming like a loon in the wilderness that the fiction that you have control over your money is just that….a fiction. When the banks decide you can’t play with your Monopoly Money anymore, they’ll just shut the doors, turn off the computers and tell you it’s not ...
  • Why Do Banksters Commit Fraud, Cheat, Lie And ...
    Now if a thug were pushing around a little old lady in front of her home to take purse with $20 in it an the police walked by and saw it, they would probably arrest the guy and he would probably be prosecuted…..right? But what if the the same little old lady was targeted by [...]
  • Judge Dennis Blackmon- You Can Get Anything Yo ...
    The Huffington Post has picked up the story of a fantastic Order (first written about here) that was brought to the world by one of the true pioneers in foreclosure defense, Max Gardner. Here’s my post which includes a copy of the Order. It really is one of my favorite of all time and I [...]

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Identity Crisis
    For those supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement things have just entered a new phase. It all had begun in …Continue reading »
  • A Brass Trumpet and a Tin Ear
    It’s likely clear by now that endless rounds of attempting to reform political institutions will not heal our political culture …Continue reading »
  • Remember When We Were Young?
    I dragged myself home in the early hours of the morning after spending the night at the Occupy London protests …Continue reading »
  • Tomorrow Comes
    It was a remarkable evening, with some talented performers and choirs of youth that filled up the front of the …Continue reading »
  • Moving On, Not Out
    As the days of the Occupy London protest continue, its future remains in a state of flux. The official letter …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

  • Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
  • The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
  • What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
  • Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
    by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
  • In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
  • Small gods and the art of technology innovation
    There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

  • FOCUS | Elizabeth Warren: A Saint With Sharp E ...
    Zengerle writes: "In some ways, Warren's campaign is not only a referendum on the last three years - but a chance to do them over. 'I'll just be blunt, I thought the whole fight was 2008,' she says. 'We'd put sensible people in place, we'd write sensible rules, and we'd spend 50 years rebuilding ...
  • FOCUS | Elizabeth Warren: A Saint With Sharp E ...
    Zengerle writes: "In some ways, Warren's campaign is not only a referendum on the last three years - but a chance to do them over. 'I'll just be blunt, I thought the whole fight was 2008,' she says. 'We'd put sensible people in place, we'd write sensible rules, and we'd spend 50 years rebuilding ...
  • FOCUS: California Refuses to Accept Obama's Ba ...
    Robert Scheer begins: "There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case." California Attorney General Kamala Harris, 11/26/10. (photo: Ali Thanawalla/SFGat ...
  • FOCUS: California Refuses to Accept Obama's Ba ...
    Robert Scheer begins: "There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case." California Attorney General Kamala Harris, 11/26/10. (photo: Ali Thanawalla/SFGat ...
  • Frackers See Town Folks as "Insurgency,&q ...
    Intro: "Natural gas fracking companies are treating the campaign to expand drilling in Pennsylvania like a military campaign, using 'psy ops' to quell the 'insurgency' of environmental, economic, and health concerns. Audio tapes recorded by the Oil & Gas Accountability Project at a Houston o ...

War Resisters League

  • Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
    [This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.]   Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →
  • Between Credit, Bullion and Rebellion: Debt by ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a third book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →
  • 10 Years of the Global War on Terror
    This Friday, October 7 marks ten years of the U.S. Global War on Terror, which began with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. War Resisters League along with a number of antimiltarist and community groups will commemorate the occasion with … Continue reading →
  • “Stands Against Its Oppressor”: Ir ...
    “I think that whoever talks of pressure has to be precise. I don’t feel any pressure. Even the Syrian regime has stopped talking about conspiracy and foreign intervention. Either they know there is pressure and they don’t dare declare it … Continue reading →
  • “A world party and we are all invited&#8 ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a second book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

k2p blog

  • Inspector General finds that Department of the ...
    The US Inspector General has issued a report of an investigation into how the Department of the Interior manipulated and altered a 30-day report from the National Academy of Engineers to imply that their decision to introduce a moratorium on deepwater drilling had been peer-reviewed by the Natio ...
  • Now Holland cannot afford to subsidise off-sho ...
    The Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour -- some 4.5 billion euros last year. The government now plans to transfer the financial burden to households and industrial consumers.
  • Supposedly unbiased programs at the BBC were s ...
    Many supposedly unbiased, objective BBC documentary programs have been sponsored by vested interests including programs about development sponsored by the Malaysian government and programs supporting climate change sponsored by a carbon trading company.
  • National University of Singapore exonerates Yo ...
    The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced today that it has found no evidence of research misconduct by Yoshiaki Ito.
  • “Offshore wind power is not affordable&# ...
    The UK could save £34bn by ditching its plans for wind farms by relying on gas and nuclear power.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Crate & Barrel Will E-Stalk You To Close A Sale
    David was poking around the Crate & Barrel website, without actually signing in. Or so he thought. He had put something in his cart, then closed his browser and wandered off. He was a little surprised when the site emailed him to remind him that he had forgotten a few things in his cart. I ad ...
  • Southwest Passenger Says Airline Owes Him 45 F ...
    Once upon a time (i.e., up until August 2010), people who bought Business Select tickets on Southwest Airlines flights were treated to free drink coupons that didn't have an expiration date and could be used at a later date if the passenger didn't feel like tippling on the day of the initial fl ...
  • Would You Like Some Gold-Infused Cheese?
    Fancy artisanal cheeses are all very well and good, but what if you want your dairy products to sparkle? If you enjoy sparkly foods and flaunting your wealth, perhaps Clawson Stilton Gold is for you. The cheese costs £60 per 100-gram slice, or around $95 for about 3.5 ounces. It's a white Stilt ...
  • Only Available At Target: The Cordless Tea Kettle
    Would it technically be possible to have a cordless electric tea kettle? It doesn't exist yet (Dyson is probably working on it as we speak) but in the reality-free zone that is Target, anything is possible. And cordless tea kettles come with a generous amount of cord storage. Justin took a sc ...
  • Wells Fargo Tries To Predict The Future, Sucks ...
    A few months before her wedding, Megan bought her bridesmaids' dresses at J. Crew, and opened a store credit card account to get 20% off. She scheduled a payment through her bank, Wells Fargo, to pay off the balance, then panicked weeks later when she saw a large chunk of money leaving her bank ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Secrecy Shenanigans Continue Despite Collapse ...
    Apparently the government has learned nothing from the spectacular collapse of the ill-fated criminal prosecution of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake. Drake was charged with 10 felony counts, all of which the government abandoned days before trial when the prosecuti ...
  • Republicans Admit TSA Airport Security Theater ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user glenmcbethlaw*Getting felt up, tossing out unopened bottles of water, pulling toddlers aside for selective screening, taking off shoes and artificial limbs, soft-porn full body scanners, and my personal favorites – being asked to drink my own breast milk and bei ...
  • Victory for Marine Corps Whistleblower: Daily ...
    iWatch News: Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl is Reinstated Summary: GAP client Franz Gayl – the whistleblower who exposed the Marine Corps' failure to provide American troops with lifesaving equipment in a timely manner – has received notice that his security clearance eligibility has been r ...
  • MRAP Whistleblower to Return to Work
    Marine Corps About-Faces on Security Clearance Today, GAP is pleased to announce that GAP client and Marine Corps whistleblower Franz Gayl – who exposed the Corps' failure to provide American troops with Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAPs) in a timely manner – has received notice t ...
  • Early Test for SEC Whistleblower Reward Progra ...
    Wall Street Journal: After Tip, the Claim for Reward Summary: Whistleblowers who alleged that the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. and State Street Corp. overcharged for currency trades have filed claims under the SEC whistleblower reward program. This case is considered to be one of the first te ...

UK Progressive

  • Occupiers Occupied: The Hijacking of the First ...
    A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated ...
  • GOP Debates: Shock and Aww Two More This Week!?
    You know what’s never been said? “We should have MORE Republican primary debates.” Why? Because there are (by my count) 734,589 debates this election cycle and not enough hours in the day (spent working harder for less money) to watch eight Republican candidates stand around agreeing with each o ...
  • It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over: ‘Egypt’ & ‘Occup ...
    Rage is a powerful motivator. Tear down the Occupy encampments? Even more will replace them. Beat MidEast democracy protestors with sticks, stones and Molotov Cocktails? Millions more fill their places. I’ve amusedly watched the cable news punditocracy* declare Egypt and Occupy Wall Street movem ...
  • Op-Ed: Is Iran’s Ahmadinejad Hinting at Non-Vi ...
    If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinces his cabinet to okay an attack Iran’s nuclear sites, Israel may suffer a diplomatic disaster. Never mind that Netanyahu’s own top military and intelligence advisers are said to oppose the scheme. Never mind the Secretary-General of the UN is against ...
  • EPA Finds Compound Used in Fracking in Wyoming ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica As the country awaits results from a nationwide safety study on the natural gas drilling process of fracking, a separate government investigation into contamination in a place where residents have long complained that drilling fouled their water has turned up ala ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Age does award winning PR — oops was ...
    For free, and just because I’m a nice person, I’m going to help Michael Bachelard with his science articles. He’s a Walkley Award winner writing for the two largest “broadsheet” circulation papers in Australia. He knows indigenous issues, politics and industrial rel ...
  • The chemistry of ocean pH and “acidifica ...
    The ocean acidification threat is a big can of worms. I asked Professor Brice Bosnich to help create a quick reference page on the chemistry and was pleased he could find the time to help. Here’s everything you wanted to know about the basics… He explains what pH means, and points o ...
  • Unthreaded November 14 2011
    For all those other topics…. Rating: 8.0/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 8.0/10 (5 votes cast)
  • Naomi Klein’s crippling problem with numbers
    Naomi Klein Photo: Mariusz Kubik Naomi Klein was the wrong person to send to a heavy-weight science conference  — in “Capitalism vs Climate” she notices hundreds of details, but they’re all the wrong ones. Naomi can tell you the colour of the speakers hair, what row they ...
  • Big-Oil money fund warmists, confusing attack ...
    Pew Charitable Trusts is an influential “progressive” think-tank with $5 billion in assets. What was the The Pew Center on Global Climate Change has lost the Pew name and funds, and become the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Pew used to supply $3.5 million of the cent ...

ReNew America

  • How's that debt-limit hike working out for you?
    (Joseph Farah) - Back in August, House Speaker John Boehner got his wish. He persuaded 218 Republicans in his majority caucus to give Barack Obama all the borrowing power he needed to continue to wreck the U.S. economy until Jan. 20, 2013...
  • North American Union: WND killed it?
    (Jerome Corsi) - American University political science professor Robert A. Pastor, whom WND termed in 2006 as "the father of the North American Union," has written a new book in which he blames WND for the failure to realize his dream...
  • Newt Gingrich is no conservative
    (Gene Healy) - Has it really come to this? Newt Gingrich as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney? That's what many in the punditocracy have proclaimed as the former speaker of the House has surged recently in the polls. Yet a look at his record reveals that Newt is hardly the "anti-Mitt" ...
  • Perry calls for a part-time Congress, term-lim ...
    (Washington Times) - Blasting the congressional "creatures of Washington" for being overpaid and detached from the struggles of the people outside the Beltway, Texas Gov. and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry vowed Tuesday to eliminate federal agencies, set term limits for federal judges and p ...
  • Cain's wife breaks silence, defends him
    (NewsMax) - Herman Cain's wife has finally come to his defense more than two weeks after allegations that he harassed female employees came to light. Gloria Cain told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren she does not believe her husband's accusers because he could not have kept that side of him a secret ...

Truth Offering

  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the In ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - R ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Rel ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...
  • Education v. Conditioning: Wundt, Rockefeller ...
    John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...
  • TruthOffering's Matt Gordon on LA Talk Live's ...
    Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

  • NASA Expert: No 2012 Supervolcano
    This is weak, weak, weak. The headline is quite definite: Supervolcanoes: Not a Threat For 2012 But if you read the article, NASA expert Adam Voiland (not an expert really, see his resume) points out: Volcanologists have many ...NASA Expert: No 2012 Supervolcano is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless
    You just know I’m going to be critical of this news item… Dr Alex Young, a heliophysicist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said we don’t need to worry about the sun for another ...NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:N ...
  • Doom ‘n’ Gloom Daily
    I subscribe to just about every blog and news service that could, maybe, possibly, have a story meaningful to the 2012 meme. One of the very best is The Extinction Protocol. There’s not much commentary, ...Doom ‘n’ Gloom Daily is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Laac ...
  • Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME
    Thailand is now 1/3 under water due to the worsening floods. This map shows the affected area (might take a little while to load). Up to 20 million tons of debris from the Japanese tsunami in ...Updates: Flood, Tsunami & CME is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:CME Heading for Ea ...
  • Another Misleading Global Warming Graph
    Very conveniently, this graph that appeared in newspapers globally last week, within stories that proclaimed that global warming was real after all, ends at the year 2000. Because beyond that date, despite rising emissions, global ...Another Misleading Global Warming Graph is a post from: 2012 B ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahe ...
    After a long break caused by serious health problems, Venezuela’s H. Chavez resumed on November 15 the practice of televised addresses on key policy issues. As a key message prompted by the recent developments, the Venezuelan leader sent to his nation and to the international community a s ...
  • IAEA Report: Green Light to Strike Iran?
    Last week a new classified IAEA Report on nuclear verification in Iran was circulated to the Agency’s Board of Governors and the UN Security Council. Curiously enough, it was immediately leaked to the Associated Press and gained a hefty coverage by the international media condemning Tehran ...
  • A Christmas Gift to the World from the US and ...
    Prospects are grim for the US economy as the predictions of a double-dip recession appear to materialize. Experts warn that currency market destabilization and, generally, chaos across the financial sector await the US in 2012. No credible solution to the problem is being offered, and chances ar ...
  • Sexual Activity as a Mega-Weapon for the Middl ...
    It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that, while social media like Facebook and Twitter can be instrumental in bringing crowds of discontent to the streets, the protesters will in all cases be led by those who have built a real rather than virtual organization geared towards inducing a ...
  • How the Syrian Case Would Be Tackled?
    The deeper the crisis in Syria, the more evident it becomes that its former ally, Turkey, has played its part in the process. As the only moderate Islamic NATO member state, Turkey has turned into a springboard for the Syrian opposition. Istanbul announced the creation of a Syrian national counc ...

BlogHer

  • Raising (Herman) Cain: What Did Gloria Know?
    [Editor's note: This week Gloria Cain, wife of pizza guru and would-be GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, gave her first interview to Greta van Susteren of Fox News about the sex scandal engulfing her husband. It was fascinating stuff. Did Gloria know about his alleged pattern of coming o ...
  • Etsy Love: Thanksgiving Decor
    I love me some Etsy. Don't you? For those of you who don't know what it is, it is simply something you must discover NOW. Think of an Ebay-like website for crafters to sell their handmade items, arts and crafts, etc. It is a wonderful place - you're surely to find something there that you'll l ...
  • Will Keeping a Pinky Promise Set Our Kids Up f ...
    Do you remember pinky promises? Oh yeah. I'm pretty sure I broke more than my fair share back in the day (I am horrible with secrets). My oldest son has just learned about pinky promises and has requested a few over the past few months. I love A Happy Lemon's way of adding "try" into her pinky p ...
  • Thank a Traveling Soldier
    I leave for the airport in a few hours and will inevitably come across a soldier, either shipping out for (likely) dangerous parts unknown, or coming home to a grateful family. I always get the urge in airports to thank them and never do, which is why this post rang true:"Thank you for risking y ...
  • Does Having a Baby Really Have to Change Every ...
    Okay, you knew it was inevitable. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes... well, technically before the baby, then comes 9-months of a transformative experience. Johnson & Johnson claims that having a baby changes everything. I am super excited about what's ahead and I feel a lit ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Sugary drinks can boost women’s heart di ...
    A new study shows a woman’s chance of getting heart disease greatly increases from just a couple of sugary drinks a day. Even those lucky enough to be able to eat and drink anything ...
  • Screen kids’ cholesterol? New guidelines ...
    It’s not enough that Big Pharma makes billions selling cholesterol drugs when a simple change in diet will help most of us. Now they want to start giving these same cholesterol drugs to ...
  • Eat Like A Caveman To Lose Weight
    Did you know that cave man didn’t eat Twinkies? It’s true! They also didn’t eat a bunch of genetically modified foods. Research shows if you eat like a caveman you can loose ...
  • Binge Drinking Damages Teenage Girls’ Br ...
    Did you know that almost 30% of all teenagers in their last year of school reported binge drinking? Did you know this can cause brain damage? If you have a teenage child especially ...
  • Environmental Toxins Linked To Heart Disease.
    Can living in a wealthy industrialized country increase your chance of getting heart disease? The answer is yes. Diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure are sited as the most common reasons. However ...

Live News Wire

  • Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Need ...
    Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...
  • Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Sho ...
    The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...
  • Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s ...
    Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a ...
  • “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By ...
    At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...
  • Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
    The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

  • Report: Clean energy not unreliable or too exp ...
    Here’s the bottom line from a new report being issued this afternoon by the Civil Society Institute: It is a myth that switching to safe, renewable energy would mean an unreliable U.S. power supply that also is too expensive to afford. The report, prepared for the institute by Synapse Ener ...
  • EQB drops stay of New Hill West permit, but sa ...
    I’ve just learned of ruling by the West Virginia Environmental Quality board, lifting a stay on water pollution permit changes for Arch Coal Inc.’s New Hill West Mine in Monongalia County. Readers may recall that this case focuses attention on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
  • Salazar’s OSMRE-BLM merger drawing concerns
    Not surprisingly, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposal to merge the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement with the Bureau of Land Management is drawing some concerns from various quarters. The issue got some attention earlier this month, when questions were rai ...
  • Another Kentucky coal miner dies
    Erica Peterson of WFPL reports: A Harlan County coal miner has died from injuries he sustained weeks ago in a surface mining accident. Twenty-eight-year-old David Middleton died in a hospital yesterday. Middleton’s death is the eighth coal mine-related fatality in Kentucky this year. Half of tho ...
  • ‘I will fight for our state’s coal ...
    West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, left, takes the oath of office administered by State Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret L. Workman, right, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011 as his wife Joanne Jaeger and son Brent look on during the inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. (AP Photo/J ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Civilization Manifesto
    This will be rough. I’ve always been attracted to the idea of identifying unifying characteristics of desired society, and defining those ideals as sacred to the group that embraces them. The Constitution does this, of course, but it deals with principals where I aim to talk about behavior ...
  • Oppose the Protect IP Act
    Go to http://americancensorship.org/ or contact your representative directly. Related ContentWhy Fight Religion?‪Java TrailerCultivating Gratefulness | TEDiZON Remote Home MonitoringMy New Favorite Commercial
  • How to Lose Time and Money | Paul Graham
    A few days ago I realized something surprising: the situation with time is much the same as with money. The most dangerous way to lose time is not to spend it having fun, but to spend it doing fake work. When you spend time having fun, you know you’re being self-indulgent. Alarms start to ...
  • Visualizing Interesting Log Events Using Splun ...
    I never stop being fascinated by the fact that web admins have boxes online that anyone in the world can reach out and touch. Visualizing this activity is enthralling to me, as visualization often highlights answers to existing questions while exposing new ones. Geolocated firewall drops within ...
  • My Varnish Study Piece
    Despite the title, this article has nothing to do with painting. Here I’m going to talk a bit about the Varnish Cache — a web application accelerator designed to dramatically improve how quickly your website loads. Varnish works by caching and serving as much content as possible as & ...

Fitwatch

  • Plainclothes cops on education demo
    These are a selection of the plainclothes cops spotted on the education demo on 9th November. Fitwatchers witnessed the violent arrest or one protester and followed the officers. Other photos have come from various sources. REMEMBER THESE FACES! THESE COPS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON OUR PROTESTS AGA ...
  • Don’t be intimidated! See you on the st ...
    On the eve of the mass education/sparks/cabbies protest on 9th November, it is clear the state are trying to intimidate us. From the news today that the police have written to protesters arrested at previous demonstrations warning them off protesting (see picture), to the “total policing” of the ...
  • Armed police raid Kurdish tent at OccupyLSX
    Last night, the Kurdish tent at the OccupyLSX camp was raided by armed police following an alleged tip off of a gun being present. They searched the tent for over half an hour unsurprisingly finding nothing. The Kurdish community has long been criminalised, and labelled as terrorists for their a ...
  • Don’t just walk on by!
    It's getting to that time of year...the students are back, the weather is getting colder (so you won't be removing your "seasonally appropriate" scarf and hood when the cops tell you to!) and the political climate is already starting to get considerably hotter. Since this time last year, we've h ...
  • Solidarity with Copwatch, France
    Fitwatch is giving full solidarity to Copwatch in France who have been threatened with closure by the French authorities for publishing photos of cops known for violence or links to the far right. The Interior Ministry has filed a case against them which has ordered six French internet providers ...

Worldwide 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 Thursday
    U.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 Development
    A 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 Bruno&#82 ...
  • Worldwide Hippies; Native American News
    IndiVisible: 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 ...

reference frame

  • Tom Banks and anti-quantum zealots
    When my (former) PhD adviser Tom Banks wrote his first guest blog for Cosmic Variance, I couldn't quite agree with his views on eternal inflation and/or understand his groundbreaking 22nd century conceptual ideas based on holography, even though I've spent a nonzero fraction of the recent 12. ...
  • James Hansen and 3-sigma "proofs"
    Last week, Eric Berger mentioned a paper by the notorious recidivist James Hansen, Climate Variability and Climate Change: The New Climate Dice,written together with Sato and Ruedy. Summers in Moscow will be the heroes of this article It contains some temperature maps of the ...
  • OPERA: neutrinos FTL even at 2 ns spacing
    Long pulses were not the problem: mystery continues When OPERA announced that their neutrinos were faster than the speed of light, a very aggressive school of thought – which became influential among many professional physicists and wanted to become the official group think – was saying ...
  • Earth from ISS: five minutes
    This video composed out of cleaned, denoised, unflickered pictures taken in Summer and Fall 2011 from the International Space Station has been hailed as the best video of the Earth ever. Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Che ...
  • LHCb reports a new source of CP-violation
    Well, just another 3-sigma hint that may go away Mat Charles of Oxford gave a talk at HCP 2011 in Paris in which he reported a surprising result by LHCb at CERN based on 0.58/fb of their 2011 data. Some CP-violating asymmetries \(A_{CP}\) are measured for the decays \[ D^ ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
    Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...
  • WALL STREET INSIDER: The Obama White House Wan ...
    by Ulsterman on October 17, 2011 with 72 Comments in News  Our latest interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider reveals details of a troubling Obama White House stance against Wall Street executives voicing concern over the now daily violence permeating the Occupy Wall Street movement – and ...
  • Mac Slavo: Bugging Out of NYC: Something Terri ...
    Bugging Out of NYC: “Something Terrible is Coming… So For Now, I’m Getting Out.” Mac Slavo October 20th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Comments (67) You may remember the Wall Street Insider from a previous interview in which he suggested that elements within the Obama administration were mobilizing to incit ...
  • Greece has flipped its lid – People say only c ...
    The Greek people have had enough and now they feel that, since peaceful protest does not work, that the time has come for bloodshed to take back their country from the political puppets and the occupying financial terrorists. This is a now a full-blown revolution. Doom on for the Greeks. We are ...
  • FRANKIE MACDONALD SEVERE CYCLONE WARNING FOR A ...
    A heads-up to people in Australia. Frankie MacDonald is back and he is saying your ass is going to get slammed by a Cat 5 Cyclone. When Frankie speaks, the world listens. Take heed and take cover. Good luck to you and yours. If you think that this is BS he nailed past hurricanes. Proof [...] ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Can't Stop the Big Mo
    Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
  • No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
    The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

  • Save the Delaware River
    Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Pla ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Don't get slimed: Skip the fabric softener
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist Fabric softeners contain toxic ingredients that are bad for your health and the environment. EWG recommends that laundry doers just say no. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets are relative newcomers to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Feinstein to fight for BPA-free formula
    By Elaine Shannon, Environmental Working Group editor-in-chief Five years ago, tens of millions of baby bottles and sippy cups sold in the United States were manufactured with a petrochemical derivative called bisphenol A. Today, according to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...
  • Canada, San Francisco blaze forward on cell ph ...
    By Renee Sharp, EWG California Director As the world mourns the passing of iPhone creator Steve Jobs, San Francisco and Canada are blazing new paths to ensure that the public knows how to use cell phones safely. On Oct. 4,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full link ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Moods of Norway recalls waffle irons
    The chic new Norwegian clothing chain “Moods of Norway” might have been better off sticking to fashion, instead of branching off into the appliance sector. Its first electronic venture has short-circuited, quite literally. The company announced Thursday that it was recalling around 7 ...
  • ‘More radicals like Breivik in Norway’
    An award-winning Norwegian journalist and author who specializes in the right-wing extremist and anti-Jihad movements fears more radicals may resort to terrorist attacks in Norway. He doesn’t think confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik is the “lone wolf” he’s made ou ...
  • Knausgård draws mixed reviews
    Author Karl Ove Knausgård’s latest and last volume in a series of six highly personal novels about his own life hit the bookstores this week, and met mixed reviews. Some call it “a monster of a novel” demanding “hard work” to get through it. Others call it “in ...
  • National Gallery discovers Rubens painting
    The collections inside Norway’s National Gallery were suddenly NOK 40 million richer on Thursday, after art experts confirmed that a small painting in the gallery’s ownership for around 100 years was actually painted by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. “This is something y ...
  • Military reprimand after naked bath
    Top military brass in Oslo were apologizing Thursday after a female soldier in northern Norway said she was forced by a commanding officer to strip and bathe naked in a chilly lake along with 30 other male soldiers. “This is totally unacceptable,” a spokesman for Chief of Defense Har ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Monsanto Versus the Beetle
    by Frank Gapinski Monsanto versus the Corn Rootworm Beetle in a dangerous game of tit for tat. This story is almost a parable of two worlds, a battle between the natural and the man-made. Like a boxing match, in the one corner we have Monsanto – a large [...]
  • Letters from Slovakia – a Photo Update on the ...
    Daniel Diškanec checks out his new edible friends Photos © Craig Mackintosh I should have shared these pictures back in August, when the pictures were taken, but was too tied up with preparations for the Tenth International Permaculture Conference (IPC10) in Jordan. Though late, I ...
  • FRESH – World’s Wildest Supermarket
    A holistic and most outrageous concept being turned into reality in Denmark. From: Sepp Holzer’s Permakultur, Leopold Stocker Verlag, 2008 Fresh is the concept for an organic, living supermarket in cities and villages, where instead of taking the items off the shelf, the customer harvests ...
  • Towards Ecological Literacy: A Permaculture Ap ...
    by Nelson Lebo, Centre for Science and Technology Education Research, University of Waikato, New Zealand Background The profound lack of sustainable systems on our planet is of great concern to environmentalists, some of who are environmental educators and some of who are permaculturists. It can ...
  • Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage – Day Five
    by Tamara Griffiths and Delvin Solkinson The ultimate compliment to a teacher is when your students make you redundant. — Geoff Lawton. Day 5 The day started with storytelling. With twists and turns, laughs and straight faces, Geoff tells us a bit about the origin of permaculture, stee ...

Pointman's

  • Happy birthday Climategate.
    It’s around the time of the second anniversary of the Climategate leak so it’s fitting to take stock of where we are now. Before doing that, it’s worth taking a walk down memory lane to recall how things were before it occurred. They were really different. If you were in the fight at the time,&# ...
  • Green myths : We have to get back to a natural ...
    We live under this pervasive avalanche of propaganda that’s telling us we’re the single fly in the ointment that’s killing an Earth that was somehow an Eden before we appeared to spoil the whole thing; if only we could change. Yes, if only we could change. If only we could stand to watch a perso ...
  • Global warming and pathological science.
    There are many aspects to the style of science underpinning the theory of global warming that remind me of something the American scientist Irving Langmuir christened pathological science. Wiki for once is accurate and defines it as - “Pathological science is a psychological process in which a s ...
  • Teachers
    I was very lucky really; I went to a crap school. There was no money and therefore no resources and therefore nothing much of anything. We, the kids, knew this and the teachers did too. That being the case, the school could only attract teachers who couldn’t get a job anywhere else, or had alrea ...
  • Old friends and a questioned end.
    He knew he’d screwed up and should by all rights be dead now but he’d been saved by some sort of miracle he couldn’t understand and it spooked him. The more he thought about it, the more uneasy he got about a nagging suspicion that he simply couldn’t shake; there was something about some aspects ...

Journalists' Toolkit

  • The best video export options
    How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
  • Video Resources updated
    The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
  • Flash Journalism updates
    I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...
  • New tutorial: Windows Live Movie Maker
    As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...
  • Convert WMA files with Switch
    Switch Sound File Converter is a free program from NCH Software. You can download it here (Mac or Windows). I have been using this program and recommending it widely for about two years. It’s easy to use, and it’s especially useful for converting WMA format files to WAV so that we ca ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
    A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...
  • New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle' By Lind ...
    An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an important perspective on New Orleans' schools: As a recent graduate of a New Orleans public high school, I find it very troubling that the national conversation about post-Katrina education amounts to little more than talking ...
  • “There’s Too Much Misinformation About Us Out ...
    Parnell Herbert sat with Norris Henderson, Co-Director of V.O.T.E. NOLA to discuss the fact and fiction about Black-on-Black crime in New Orleans. While sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but marvel at his calm, composed demeanor. Here is a man who served m ...
  • Confederate Flag in Caddo Parish to Come Down
    From The Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: After more than sixty years since it was raised, the Confederate Flag outside the Caddo Parish Courthouse will come down. The decision comes after two hearings at the Caddo Parish Commission (2002 and 2011), one hearing in the ...
  • NOPD Lieutenant Who Testified in Danziger Tria ...
    Michael Lohman, the NOPD Lieutenant who conspired with other officers to cover-up the police killings on Danziger Bridge, and later became a key early witness against his fellow officers, was sentenced today. From the US Department of Justice press release: A former lieutenant with the New Orle ...

Information Underground

  • Law, Security, and Other Lies to Endslave Us • ...
    "Obama: A typical Kosher, over-promoted Black Mayor of a Bankrupt American City like Detroit, Washington DC, ESTL, Philadelphia, Atlanta, etc. " -------- US Federal Prosecutions For Financial Fraud In the Obama Administration Fall to 20 Year Lows The declines in US Federal prose ...
  • Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
    White Apocalypse. Toledo, Ohio – Kyle Bristow—a second year law student at the University of Toledo College of Law, three-time elected Republican precinct delegate for the 29th precinct of Michigan’s 12th congressional district, and former chairman of the infamous right-wing chapter of the Youn ...
  • Philosophy • Re: The WASP Question
    Keep an eye open... --------- The WASP Question – In The South Posted on November 13, 2011 by Hunter Wallace Andrew Fraser on the WASP Question in America Dixie “I am an aristocrat. I love liberty. I hate equality.” - John Randolph of Roanoke Professor Andrew Fraser of Australia has ...
  • Philosophy • The Orthodox Nationalist: Knowled ...
    The Orthodox Nationalist: Knowledge and Rationality October 27, 2011 Pretentiousness Matt Johnson discusses: Knowledge and rationality for the few; People inherently irrational and self-interested; The fraud of modern liberalism and academia; St. Augustine’s “Contra Academico ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Good on ya, Ireland!Statistics: Posted by Timothy_Fitzpatrick — Wed Nov 16, 2011 11:33 pm

TVNZ

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

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
    By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs
    by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...
  • Should the CBC boot Cherry and O’Leary?
    By Frank Moher It's not at all a bad thing that CBC loudmouths Don Cherry and Kevin O'Leary have agitated some viewers lately, Cherry with his rant against former NHL enforcers who have come out against violence in hockey, and O'Leary with his interview of American journalist Chris Hedges, in ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Admiral: U.S. relief effort 'bolstered' ties w ...
    Adm. Patrick Walsh, commander of the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Fleet, said Tuesday the U.S. military's relief operations he led to aid Japanese people following the March earthquake and tsunami disaster helped bolster relations with the Self-Defense Forces. "I would like to say that my sense, ...
  • Cleaning up after the natives
    I am a little surprised by the Nov. 15 editorial " Ocean awash with tsunami trash." It states, "Of course Japan did not intentionally toss the waste into one of the main sources of its food supply." Yes, the garbage washed away by the tsunami was unintentional, but trashing nature is nothing n ...
  • Why the need for billions more?
    I am responding to Jennifer Kim's Nov. 10 letter, "Myth of an overpopulated world," which claims that world overpopulation, now or in the near future, is a myth. Part of her argument involves living space, and I agree that physical living space, per se, is not currently limiting. It is simply un ...
  • Roethlisberger has fractured thumb
    Ben Roethlisberger has an unexpected homework assignment during the Pittsburgh Steelers' bye week: protecting a fractured right thumb. Roethlisberger injured the thumb on his throwing hand sometime during Pittsburgh's 24-17 win over Cincinnati on Sunday. He's not sure when it happened, only th ...
  • What's at stake in upcoming Osaka mayoral poll?
    Voters go to the polls Nov. 27 to elect a mayor for the city of Osaka and the prefectural governor. But it's the former that is drawing the most attention, due to the candidacy of ex-Gov. Toru Hashimoto and his plan to abolish the city of Osaka and merge it with prefecture. The plan has been p ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
    The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most important income security program for working age adults and families. The Task Force has commissioned and publis ...
  • An Inconvenient Occupation
    A friend recently said she supported the Occupy movement but felt their activities were inconveniencing others. I thought of this while watching police clearing Occupy Nova Scotia from Victoria Park in Halifax. Drenched protestors wrestled to the ground, handcuffed, and dragged through mud into ...
  • Who Occupies the Sky?
    CCPA released a new report today by myself and Amanda Card that makes the links between inequality and carbon footprints. We look at the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions for Canada, building on an analysis of BC emissions. While it was not planned this way, the analysis is timely given t ...
  • Hunger Count 2011: Canada’s East Coast
    In case you missed them, the recent food bank usage numbers are staggering.  Using data from March 2011, Food Banks Canada’s Hunger Count found that Food Banks across the country served 851, 014 people. This amounts to about 2.5% of the total population. The Hunger Count is an important tool in ...
  • The Inflation-Control Target
    So, the 2% inflation target has been renewed as it now stands. (Take that, House of Commons Finance Committee, which is holding hearings on the issue next week.) The background report from the Bank of Canada is pretty self-congratulatory, though it does somewhat revise the current regime to unde ...

ReDress

  • Why the West is demonizing Iran
    Stuart 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 ...

Physics Today

  • Star Trek-style tractor beams may be possible
    Science: Four separate groups of physicists have independently arrived at similar ideas for a tractor beam. Each method uses a Bessel beam, a special type of laser beam made of overlapping light waves that all travel at an angle relative to the direction of the beam. Light beams exert a forward ...
  • Did asteroid impacts cause the Triassic extinc ...
    Nature: A little more than 65 million years ago, a catastrophic asteroid impact on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula brought the reign of dinosaurs to an end, making way for the age of mammals. Paul Olsen and Dennis Kent of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, ...
  • Study ranks European universities on autonomy
    Science: A report released yesterday from the European Universities Association (EUA) ranked universities in the UK high in all measures of autonomy. This is the EUA's second report on university autonomy and the first one in which university systems were ranked in four different areas—org ...
  • Prehistoric landslide created hidden Californi ...
    MSNBC: While investigating the Eel River in Northern California to study slow-moving landslides, Benjamin Mackey of Caltech and colleagues found evidence of a giant landslide that dammed the upper reaches of the river about 22 500 years ago and created a 30-mile-long lake about 60 miles s ...
  • Did fracking cause Oklahoma's largest recorded ...
    Scientific American: Oklahoma's largest recorded earthquake, registering 5.6, struck on 5 November. Seismic activity in Oklahoma has increased sharply over the past three years. From 1972 to 2008, six or fewer earthquakes were reported each year, many too small for people to notice. Nearly ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla on Gardens...
    by footprints888 (Posted Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:40:41 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla speaks about GARDENS... 1 Month ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there is a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding gardening. Should you plant your vegetables depending on the phases ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla 'arrives,' in JAPAN...
    by requintn (Posted Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:26:57 GMT) moncler femme Marques influentes en Chine Down" et "China Top Ten best-seller de la marque", "Produit national qualité stable?, "La Chine Yu Chang Gold Cup", "Pékin dix premiers d'or marque de mode? et autres titres honorifiques. SAIC a été déce ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
    by requintn (Posted Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:25:46 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
  • Corruption in Washington
    by Rev333 (Posted Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:03:29 GMT) Fix Congress First. http://www.rootstrikers.org/ Our republic is dangerously out of balance. Well-financed special interests routinely bend the levers of power to benefit the few at the expense of our general welfare. Political bribery has be ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Pregnancy...
    by footprints222 (Posted Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:22:58 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Pregnancy... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #66977 FF News: President Abdulla on Pregnancy... 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of ...

Peakwater

  • Ex-Water Board Director In Court To Answer Charges
    “MONTEREY, Calif. — The former director of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency Board of Directors is in hot water. “Stephen P. Collins was charged with 33 felony counts and six misdemeanors on suspicion of profiting off water contracts he handed out while serving as the ...
  • Suit seeks to stop alleged pollution by CA farmers
    “California fishing and conservation groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court, accusing farmers of illegally discharging polluted groundwater into tributaries of the San Joaquin River. The suit is the latest move in a decades-long battle over selenium-tainted farmland and agricult ...
  • Holy Water: A precious commodity in a region o ...
    “IN ISRAEL, not far from the place where Jesus is said to have walked on water and fed thousands with just five loaves of bread and two fish, government engineers have performed a miracle of their own—they’ve made a river disappear. The Jordan River leaves the Sea of Galilee on its way to ...
  • Government’s Citarum River dredging project ki ...
    “Public Works Minister Joko Kirmanto will inaugurate the project at the flood-prone Baleendah district, Bandung regency, some 15 kilometers south of Bandung city. The dredging project will stretch some 180 kilometers. Citarum River Area Center head Hasanudin said the labor-intensive projec ...
  • EPA backs off tough clean-water rules in hopes ...
    “Two years ago, after a lawsuit charged that the Environmental Protection Agency wasn’t adequately enforcing the Clean Water Act in Florida, the EPA agreed to set specific anti-pollution standards for the state’s lakes, rivers, streams and estuaries. A year ago, the EPA announc ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Moves to Protect Puritas Avenue Post ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Postmaster General Patrick Donahue to request a meeting to discuss the proposed closing of the post office located at 14039 Puritas Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Congressman Kucinich, a longtime advocate of the United States Postal Service, also req ...
  • Kucinich Calls on Ohio EPA to Restrict Dangero ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today released the following statement encouraging the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force the GenOn electric power plant in Avon Lake to limit its toxic air pollution. “Yesterday, it was reported that the GenOn electric power plant in Avon La ...
  • Kucinich, Burton and Young Lead Bipartisan App ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN) and Don Young (R-AK) organized a bipartisan group of 44 Members of Congress to urge Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reject a recommendation by the United States Preventive Task Force (USPTF) that healthy men should no ...
  • Kucinich Rallies Bipartisan Support for Yulia ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) led a bipartisan group of ten Members writing to condemn the conviction and jailing of Yulia T. Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine: “We write to express our grave concern with the recent conviction and sentencing of the former Prime Minister o ...
  • Kucinich: Protecting Your Rights
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate for homeowners in Ohio, today released the following statement upon the news that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will move forward with a plan to review up to 4 million potentially improper home foreclosures. “The big banks ...

Authentically Wired

  • School board sells ad space on report cards
    … Oh, yea … definitely an intelligent option … just what the hell are they smoking … School board sells ad space on report cards 11-15-2011  •  RawStory Faced with stinging budget cuts, a county school board in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado is selling adv ...
  • Monstrous nuclear waste dump just won’t die
    … Ju$t like SNWA “big pipe” solution to transport water from northeast Nevada to Las Vegas … the “big nuke power boys” want a solution to “not-in-my-back-yard” for their toxic nuclear uranium waste …  Hey, like Nevada’s all desert … right … ? … Yeah, ju$t ...
  • Cokerise over Grand Canyon
    … Don’t tell me you are surprised … just thank our US Supreme Court … “citizens united” … decision … and there’s more to come .. Cokerise over Grand Canyon   What could be more beautiful than a Dasani water bottle at the Grand Canyon sparkling in the early morn ...
  • FDA KILL$
    The FDA Kills       11-09-2011  •  townhall.com http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/11/09/the_fda_kills It would be nice if politicians and regulators left us alone. But they don’t. They always want to do more. Recently, there have been shortages of som ...
  • … FOOLED AGAIN …
    … So you really believe that “big pharma” and FDA and Mon$anto and CDC … want YOU to know… ? …  FOOLED AGAIN …   … S P I R U L I N A …5 Grams Daily of This REVERSED Severe Radiation Poisoning in Chernobyl Children… … strategies to h ...

Popular Technology

  • The Truth about SourceWatch
    SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
  • Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
    A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
  • Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
    There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
  • 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
    WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...
  • Who is Deep Climate?
    A new climate alarmist blog appeared on October 18, 2008 from an "unknown" Canadian setting out to both "follow the money" and "follow the science" of the "climate science 'skeptic' movement in Canada". Who in the great Northwest of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada would undertake such a daunt ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets
  • Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
  • Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film docum ...
    In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts as he runs a chainsaw into a massive tropical tree. Prior to this we have already heard from an official how employees operating chainsaws must have a bevy of protective equipment as well as traini ...
  • Taking corporate sustainability seriously mean ...
    As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwa ...
  • The glass is half-full: conservation has made ...
    Don't despair: that's the message of a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, which argues that decades of conservation actions at multiple scales have had a positive impact for many of the world's endangered species. While such actions have not yet turned back the tide of the current mas ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Pizza sauce is a vegetable? Yes, in US schools
    Never mind the obesity crisis: US lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved to protect schools' ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for students.In an annual spending bill covering the US Department...
  • George Laking: Epsom and climate change
    This month the International Energy Agency published its latest World Energy Outlook. It says if high-carbon energy investment continues for more than five years, atmospheric carbon dioxide will unavoidably overshoot 450 parts per...
  • 'Science challenges' part of Key team's action ...
    Prime Minister John Key has strung together 120 promises from 33 separate policy areas as National's "economic development action plan".Most of the policies have been announced already but a genuinely new policy announced yesterday...
  • Tapu Misa: Dart-throwing monkeys beat politica ...
    How good are we at making decisions? Are we as rational as we think we are?Considering the evidence - the worsening state of global economies, looming climate change, and the extent of poverty and inequality around the world - the...
  • Key: Private sector debt NZ's biggest concern
    Prime Minister John Key yesterday acknowledged private sector, rather than Crown debt is the bigger problem for New Zealand as the worsening European debt crisis threatens the global economy.International financial markets have...

Truth Survival + RSS

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  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on K ...
    It takes hard work to evoke sympathy for Iran’s odious regime, notes Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia in her latest column at The Daily. But Newt Gingrich and his fellow GOP presidential maybes proved up to the task during their Saturday debate in South Carolina. "A ...
  • Whole Foods Founder John Mackey's Free Market ...
    Over at the Wall Street Journal, Whole Foods founder John Mackey has a terrific op/ed outlining what needs to be done to jumpstart the flagging American economy. Hint: The government doesn't need to "stimulate" it. In his op/ed titled, "To Increase Jobs, Increase Economic Freedom," Ma ...
  • New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Whether Social ...
    Mitt Romney says that Rick Perry has needlessly “scared seniors” by calling Social Security “a Ponzi scheme.” Romney, more sensitive to the anxieties of retirees, prefers to say “the American people have been effectively defrauded out of their Social Security” (as he puts it in his 20 ...
  • Steven Chu Testifying on Solyndra: Live
    Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is testifying to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce right now.  Topic: The DoE's $535 million Solyndra loan guarantee and subsequent efforts to rescue the troubled Fremont, California solar panel maker.  In recent days, it has emerged that ...
  • Another Depressing Story of a Kid Narcing on H ...
    It's about time for another drug war tale of a kid ratting out his parents because of their weed stash! ABCnews.com has the story. A Hastings, Minn., boy snapped a picture that showed about two pounds worth of high grade marijuana sitting on his mother and stepfather's dresser ...

Mercury Rising

  • Minister And Schoolteacher Among Occupy &#8220 ...
    The guy in the long white robes getting pepper sprayed is a Methodist minister. The lady with pepper spray covering her face is an 84-year-old retired schoolteacher. But that’s OK. They’re both just ‘rabble’ as far as the New York Post’s concerned.
  • Neo-Nazis penetrate German intelligence
    Helen Pidd, The Guardian: On Tuesday, the Hessen branch of the domestic intelligence service, the Verfassungsschutz, or BfV, admitted that one of its agents had been present in April 2006 when two members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) shot dead a 21-year-old Turk in an internet caf ...
  • Methodist priest pepper sprayed by police just ...
    Rich Lang, from the Temple pulpit, video here: I was alone in full alb, stole and cross when six officers turned their spray on me thoroughly soaking my alb and then one officer hit me full throttle in the face. I praise the courage and compassion, the discipline and the decency of the Occupy Mo ...
  • “They love us everywhere we go, so when ...
    …send the Marines.” –Tom Lehrer Today’s State Department briefing: QUESTION: Do you have any more details about the incident in Manila today with the – involving the Secretary and the convoy, what exactly happened? MR. TONER: Sure. I mean, I don’t know if everybody’s awar ...
  • Headlines from the land of Christmas
    Both from DemocracyNow Palestinian Activists Arrested Riding Jewish-Only Buses Six Palestinian activists were arrested in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday after staging an action inspired by the civil rights movement of the United States. The activists boarded Jewish-only public buses near a Je ...

Reality Sandwich

  • The Great NYC ReSkilling Continues
    For this month’s ReSkilling series we focus upon Urban Preparedness and DIY Holiday gift making.  Arc Ra will open with a cosmic orchestra led by Brooke Hamre Gillespie, featuring crystal singing bowls and percussion. Evolver is committed to offering our community ways to be safe and prepared in ...
  • This Week in Psychedelics
      Deepak Chopra's psychedelic experiences inspire a new meditation video game for Kinect and Wii, Bill Maher describes acid as safer than processed sugar and "mind-narrowing pharmeceuticals", and brain scans reveal the "reality" of ayahuasca visions in this week ...
  • Evolution: A Story from the Stars
    From an astrological point of view the entire 2012 movement can be seen as a warning from the creative unconsciousness of the human soul. The lesson or the goal of this astrologically based cultural movement (Mayan or otherwise) has always been the same: let's produce less fate and crea ...
  • Occupy Wall St: You Cannot Evict The Evolution
    To the powers that be: sorry to hear you are so full of fear, that with violent disregard for democracy you felt compelled to bulldoze the heart of the people’s park of parks into the ground. Last night's raid of Occupy Wall Street was a disgrace. Altogether lacking in grace. Claiming it was ...
  • CIA "Ninja-Librarians" Track Twitter
    The AP has reported that the CIA is mining social media websites like Twitter and Facebook in an attempt to track everything from common public opinion overseas to revolutions in the making.  The branch of the CIA, known as the Open Source Center, looks at up-to 5 million tweets a day. The state ...

Desertification

  • Q&A: "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
    Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
  • Climate Change Could Unravel Development Progress
    The United Nations unveiled its 22nd annual Human Development Report on Wednesday, with grave warnings that unless countries take action against climate change and implement sustainable solutions, progress in human development will be in serious jeopardy.
  • Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation C ...
    Every six seconds, a child dies of hunger-related causes. That disturbing reality seems as remote as the moon here in the ultra-modern Changwon Convention Centre, where delegates struggled to create effective ways to stem the ongoing decline of food-producing lands.
  • Civil Society Groups Call for Action to Curb L ...
    Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity.
  • AFRICA: Gov'ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest, Po ...
    For millennia, people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa, comprised mainly of drylands. Yet today, more than 13 million people there are starving because of political instability, poor government policies and failure to invest in the world's poorest people, say experts here in C ...

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • US drone crashes in central Somalia
    A terror drone operated by the US military has crashed in central Somalia near the border with Ethiopia, Press TV reported.
  • Police clashes with students in Athens
    Greek security forces have clashed with thousands of students who are marching on the US embassy in Athens to mark the anniversary of a bloody 1973 uprising which helped topple a US-backed army dictatorship in Greece.
  • Turkey tough-loving Syria?
    In one of its latest moves against the Syrian government and in the name of “democracy” for the Syrian people, Turkey has agreed to the Syrian opposition opening offices in Istanbul.
  • US terror drones kill 13 in south Somalia
    At least 13 people have been killed after US assassination drones launched aerial attacks in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, Press TV reported.
  • Kuwait emir calls for security measures
    Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al Sabah has called for all necessary measures to be taken to maintain security in the country after protesters earlier stormed the parliament.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year 2011: $ ...
    Last month, the Treasury Department reported that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit declined slightly—from 9 ...
  • CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers
    CBO has a panel of economic advisers consisting of widely recognized experts on a range of issues. Members of the panel have a variety of backgrounds, areas of knowledge, and experience. We host periodic meetings of the advisers at our office and solicit their views between meetings via e-mail e ...
  • Presentation at APPAM’s Annual Fall Rese ...
    This morning Jeffrey Kling, CBO’s Associate Director for Economic Analysis, spoke at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management. His presentation—which can be viewed below—focused on CBO’s use of evidence in the ana ...
  • Recent Development Efforts for Military Airships
    During the past decade’s operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military has come to rely heavily on the continuous presence overhead of both manned and unmanned aircraft. Unmanned aircraft are particularly attractive for such missions because they can be designed to remain in the ai ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Antiviral for Alzheimer's
    Drugs targeting herpes simplex virus (HSV), the agent that causes cold sores, might also abate Alzheimer's, new research has shown. Previous research has tied HSV to dementing diseases like Alzheime...
  • Seaweed makes coral sea-sick
    Seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, can unleash a chemical arsenal toxic to corals, scientists have found. Writing in PNAS, Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Douglas Rasher and his colleagu...
  • Cause of chronic fatigue?
    A patient receiving treatment for lymphoma simultaenously recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, revealing a novel way to combat the conditions, researchers have revealed. Chronic fatigue syndrome...
  • Beetle Antimicrobial peptides
    Sitophilus, a type of beetle, have an intimate relationship with bacteria. They produce an antimicrobial peptide to control the bacteria but when it is missing, the bacteria are able to invade through...
  • The Importance of Sitting on Genes
    Changes to DNA can occur by genetic spelling mistakes, altering the sequence of the code, or epigenetic changes. Epigenetic changes, from the Greek 'to stand on a gene', occur by sticking extra info...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Global South Needs New Path of Development
    The convergence of leading countries from the global South - China, India, Brazil and South Africa, among others - to assist the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere constitutes a new "dynamic" in the emerging global economic partnerships, says the United Nations Conferenc ...
  • MEXICO: Communities Organise Against Spirallin ...
    A pressing concern of Mexican communities today is how to organise against the escalation of violence triggered by the government's militarised war on drugs, and how to counteract the temptation of easy money and other perks offered by the drug trade, especially to young men.
  • ASEAN Agrees to Let Myanmar Lead Bloc
    Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, have approved Myanmar's request to chair the Southeast Asian regional bloc in 2014, giving the country some long-sought international recognition.
  • Q&A: NATO Intervention in Libya Was "Recolonis ...
    Brazilian journalist and writer Mário Augusto Jakobskind was thwarted in his attempt to visit Libya during the civil war there, but in spite of this he produced a lucid analysis of the situation in the North African country and of the forces that have taken power after the fall of the Muamm ...
  • Raids in Syria as Pressure Mounts on Assad
    Syrian activists say troops have made sweeping arrests in the flashpoint province of Hama as President Bashar al-Assad faces a growing challenge to his rule.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Vyacheslav Danilenko redicules IAEA allegation ...
    Summary: In a radio interview, Vyacheslav Danilenko has rediculed the IAEA allegation of helping Iran to conduct nuclear weapons activities. source: CASMIIread more
  • US creates an Iranian albatross
    Summary: NEW YORK - Undeterred by mounting skepticism regarding their recent allegations of an Iran terror plot in Washington, the United States and Saudi Arabia have joined hands by introducing a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly that accuses Iran of violating a UN treaty res ...
  • Iran Sanctions Pave Way for War
    Summary: The drumbeat for another round of draconian sanctions against Iran is growing louder on Capitol Hill. While Illinois Senator Mark Kirk's proposed legislation to “collapse the Central Bank of Iran” was intended to be attached to the now-stalled international affairs funding bill, the ...
  • 'Amano's Report on Iran Impairs Agency's Credi ...
    Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi lashed out at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano for his biased report on Iran's peaceful nuclear program, and said the report impaired the UN watchdog's credibility. source: FarsNewsread more
  • Russia urges IAEA to name ‘content provider’ f ...
    Summary: Russia urges IAEA to list countries which provided documents for the report on Iran, which 'contains no new details', RIA Novosti quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Monday. source: Trendread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Video News Update: Soyuz Docks with ISS
  • Are Earth's Ocean Extremeophiles a Prelude to ...
    Wonder what life of Jupiter's moon, Europa, might look like? Keep in mind that Earth's deepest ocean is the Pacific's seven-mile-deep Mariana Trench vs Europa's estimated depth of 62 miles. A possible Earth life-analog to Europa's is a new species...
  • Image of the Day: Awesome Beauty of a Cosmic F ...
    In the supernova remnant W49B, Suzaku found fossil fireball. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. This view combines infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue)....
  • Update: "Top Secret" Revealed --China Gigantic ...
    Google Map images have revealed an array of mysterious structures and patterns etched into the surface of China's Gobi Desert. The world press has speculated that they might everything from be Chinese weapons-testing sites, to messages to an extraterrestrial civilization....
  • Update of Jupiter's Europa: Massive Lake Verif ...
    Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa. The data suggest...

Natural News

  • EPA targets families that generate heat off th ...
    (NaturalNews) Traditional wood-burning stoves are still one of the most cost-efficient, sustainable, and renewable sources of energy production that families can use to heat their homes. But the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a huge fan of them, as was evidenced by its recent de ...
  • Texas Medical Board again tries to destroy Dr. ...
    (NaturalNews) The medical establishment in Texas refuses to give up its vicious agenda to destroy the work and career of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, the famed cancer doctor whose innovative and specialized antineoplaston (ANP) treatments have helped cure many patients of supposedly "incurable" canc ...
  • Study: Exposure to common air fresheners can c ...
    (NaturalNews) Millions of Americans use scented candles, air freshener sprays, plug-in deodorizers and diffusers to make their living spaces smell clean and pleasant, but are the chemicals in these products safe? New research compiled by scientists from Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., and the ...
  • Study: Zeaxanthin helps protect eyes, improve ...
    (NaturalNews) Carotenoids play a crucial role in protecting the integrity of vision and ocular health, particularly lutein and zeaxanthin which are the macula's carotenoids of choice. And a new study published in the Journal of Optometry confirms that supplementation with zeaxanthin demonstrably ...
  • CDC admits not a single person has died from c ...
    (NaturalNews) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refuses to acknowledge that, based on all available statistics, raw milk produced on clean, small-scale farms is actually far safer than pasteurized milk from factory farms. But the agency did admit earlier this year, after be ...

Threat Level

  • Scenes From the Occupation: Before and After t ...
    Zuccotti Park had been transformed into its own mini-city before New York police raided the camp Monday morning, removing all vestiges of the camp. Now the Occupiers must figure out what to do.
  • Chief Sponsor Wavers on Web Censorship Bill in ...
    Legislation that would let copyright holders shut off ads to allegedly copyright infringing websites and let the government force ISPs and search engines to blacklist alleged infringing sites had a tumultuous first hearing Wednesday that saw its main sponsor unexpectedly express reservations ove ...
  • California City Approves Spy Plane to Fly Overhead
    Not content to spy on people using street cameras, the small city of Lancaster, Calif. approved a resolution last week that will allow a crime-fighting spy plane to fly overhead and watch what's going on below.
  • Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Med ...
    Wired visited the sorta-secret OWS Media HQ in Manhattan last week for the first thorough tour of the facility. The conversations with activists eerily presaged the turmoil in Manhattan Tuesday and in cities like Oakland and Portland over the weekend.
  • WikiLeaks’ Assange Seeks Appeal to U.K. Suprem ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seeking to appeal his extradition ruling to Great Britain's Supreme Court, arguing that he has not been charged with any crime and that the request for his extradition to Sweden was made by a "partisan prosecutor."

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Republican "Job-Killing Regulations" Myth ...
    For years, what passes for Republican economic policy has been dominated by "necessary lies," that is, statements which conservative ideology requires to be true despite being demonstrably false. Despite decades of GOP mythmaking, tax cuts don't pay for themselves or increase revenue. Employme ...
  • Romney Pushes Privatization of Medicare, Veter ...
    Suppose you are a candidate for President of the United States. Suppose further that you know that over the past 40 years, the per-beneficiary cost of Medicare rose 40% less than private health insurance. Say you also know that studies consistently show that the Veteran's Administration (VA) h ...
  • Women's Champion Newt Gingrich Surges in GOP Race
    Here in a nutshell is the state of play in the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes: alleged serial sexual harasser Herman Cain is being surpassed by confirmed serial adulterer Newt Gingrich. With Mitt Romney stalled and Cain hemorrhaging support from women voters, polls from CBS and Marist ...
  • Gingrich Leads Republican Charge to Abolish th ...
    "Reality," Stephen Colbert famously told President Bush to his face, "has a well-known liberal bias." That inconvenient truth is at the heart of the expanding Republican war on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Increasingly frustrated by CBO analyses showing that the 2009 econ ...
  • GOP Debt Panelists Propose New Tax Cut Windfal ...
    Without any action by Congress, on January 1, 2013 the Bush tax cuts will expire. That would not only return the top income rate from 35 percent to its Clinton boom-era level of39.6 percent. It would also produce almost $4 trillion in new revenue over the next decade, easily dwarfing the $1.2 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: E ...
    We host a discussion on policing and the Occupy Wall Street movement with Chuck Wexler, director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which helped organize calls among police chiefs on how to respond to the Occupy protests, and with Norm Stamper, the former police chief of Seattle, who recent ...
  • 84-Year-Old Dorli Rainey, Pepper-Sprayed at Oc ...
    Police departments across the country are coming under criticism for using excessive force against Occupy Wall Street protesters during the past two months. In Seattle, Mayor Mike McGinn apologized Wednesday, hours after an 84-year-old retired Seattle school teacher named Dorli Rainey was pepper ...
  • Ex-New York Times Freelancer Natasha Lennard o ...
    We speak with former freelancer at the New York Times, Natasha Lennard, who helped the newspaper cover the initial Occupy protests. She was arrested during the Brooklyn Bridge demonstration while reporting on the event. She no longer freelances for the Times and recently wrote a piece for Salon. ...
  • Palestinian "Freedom Riders" Challenge Segregation
    Drawing a comparison to American civil rights fighters, Palestinian activists boarded Israeli settler buses in the West Bank.
  • Occupy Wall Street's National Day of Action La ...
    Today is a national day of action to mark the start of the third month of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Here in New York, organizers have been distributing posters reading "Shut Down Wall Street! Occupy the Subways! Take the Square!" As we broadcast protesters marched in various parts of the ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Skyscrapers Powered with Solar Windows?
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  • Supervolcanoes Will Not End Earth in 2012, Pro ...
    In what life was probably like prior to the coming of the year 2000, every man and his dog is coming up with a theory for how the Earth will end come 2012. After already curbing fears that a giant “killer solar flare” will wipe out planet Earth next year, NASA has again weighed in, this time exp ...
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Axis of Logic

  • Bananapocalypse - Environment/Nature
    For years journalists have warned of imminent banana extinction. "Get bananas while you still can," wrote New Scientist over five years ago. "The world's most popular fruit ... is in deep trouble," it went on to say, adding that the banana would probably be out of supermarkets by 2013, and...
  • A whiff of Egyptian freedom for Gaza - Palestine
    Editor's Note: The title of this essay/report could be misunderstood. Egypt is anything but "free" after Egyptians Spring 2011 revolt was co-opted by the Egyptian military who are now conducting a violent counter-revolution against their own people. But the author places emphasis on Israel's vio ...
  • The Future for Food - Environment/Nature
    A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales to the Future for Food Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC - 3rd May 2011 President de Gioia, Ladies and Gentlemen. Having such fond memories of my last visit, it is a great joy to be invited back to Georgetown to speak at...
  • Occupy Wall Street: New York police clear Zucc ...
    Editor's Note: This is the US style of 'democracy' it wants to install in places like Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Pakistan, et. al. But the BBC and other government-controlled media don't seem to have a problem with it, quoting a "juice stall vendor" who says, "I don't support revolution," comp ...
  • Tunisia delays forming government amid a new w ...
    "This is a signal to the union bureaucracy and the “left” parties that their services are still required in suppressing working class opposition. Tunisia’s main UGTT (Union Générale Tunisienne du Travail) trade union, a long-time prop of the Ben Ali regime that participated in implementing its f ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Unintended consequences of legislative xenopho ...
    By @BGinKC Your Nana was right when she told you to be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. The state of Alabama is learning that lesson now, after passing an anti-immigrant law that makes Arizona's SB-10 apostasy look like a welcome wagon. The Alabama law went so far as to ...
  • It's a Protest, Not a Picnic
    By @KYYellowDog Entrenched power will always respond to a broad-based threat to that power with overwhelming violence. Allison Kilkenny at The Nation: On Sunday afternoon, around twenty-five police in full riot gear stormed an abandoned car dealership on Franklin Street and arrested a group of d ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD @ThinkProgress gets one wrong. There are scads of reasons to despise and mock Rick Perry, but this had nothing to do with him and everything to do with the security clearances required to work in the place where the event was held. "According to an Associated Press reporter, the Perry c ...
  • Right Wingers Barking Up the Wrong Tree
    By @TedFrier Sometimes big things come in small packages. Recently, a picture of how right wingers manufacture their propaganda to manipulate public opinion came gift-wrapped in the laughable controversy over President Obama's so-called "Christmas Tree Tax." Former top Cheney aide David Addingto ...
  • You Might Be A Fascist If...
    There's an email making the rounds of the Tea Party faithful these days... FALSELY attributed to Jeff Foxworthy... titled "You May Be A Muslim" in which the originator(s) lifted Mr. Foxworthy's old "You Might Be A Redneck" schtick and substituted "Muslim" for "Redneck" in a whole line of rascist ...

Care 2

  • In Memory of Hammer
    Much of Hammers story before he came to WOLFs attention in 2006 is a mystery. Whether he was born at the facility we rescued him from, brought in from elsewhere, used for breeding or intended to be sold, we have no idea. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...
  • Deputy Carries Frightened Deer From Road To Sa ...
    Deer are famous for "freezing" in the headlight beams of oncoming cars, but for a doe on a rural Michigan highway, there were not only headlights but a mild collision with a car that left it frozen with fear in the middle of the road. WATCH VIDEO Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat  | ...
  • Kentucky Fried Forest PLEASE TAKE ACTION !!!
    Tell KFC enough is enough. KFC continues to destroy forests for the purpose of making gallon size buckets to put their fried chicken in to sell to customers who may be unaware. Please sign the petition and send to a friend. Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Environment  |   N ...
  • Alaska officials postpone decision on wolf kills
    Alaska wildlife managers have postponed a decision on a controversial proposal to kill wolves in a region south of Anchorage, a state spokesman said on Wednesday. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 84-Year-Old Activist, Pregnant Teen, Priest Am ...
    The Occupy Seattle movement released a written statement late Tuesday expressing support for "a 4-foot 10-inch, 84-year-old woman, a priest and a pregnant woman who are in the hospital. Submitted by Dandelion G. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • It’s A Numbers Game *Open Thread*
    A whole bunch of numbers are coming out today, but one in particular stands out: as you read this, the US Debt will have reached $15 TRILLION for the first time in history. While Obama is hanging out in Hawaii on the links with his prostitute-seeking-and-busted-by-an-undercover-cop friend, compl ...
  • Judge Cain By His Own Words
    Listen to Herman Cain state his philosophy–the leader must select the right people: He defended his view that presidents and presidential candidates don’t need to be immersed in the fine print of world affairs – they simply need to be leaders who can surround themselves with the right peop ...
  • Pissing Off “Regulars”
    I want to provide a more complete response to those who do not like what I’m writing or do not like my point of view. Here are some of the latest folks upset with me: HC123–You dont like his management team (I dont either). You have doubts about his performance as president (me too, ...
  • A Miracle In The Making *Open Thread*
    I happened to catch Diane Sawyer’s interview with Mark Kelly and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Monday night. What a moving, inspiring, touching story it was, and is, to see this courageous woman, with the support of her loving, retired astronaut husband, Mark Kelly, coming back from the horri ...
  • SEAL vs SEAL
    We got some Blue on Blue verbal sparring. Chuck Pfarrer (pronounced “FAR”), a former member of Seal Team 6, is out with a book contradicting the Obama account of the killing of Bin Laden and is being called a liar by the spokesman for Admiral Bill McRaven, the current commander of SO ...

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 Lie
    Most 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 Revolutions
      Context, 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 pro
    I’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 Oakley
    Technicolor 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 ...

Therapy News

  • How to Navigate between Truth and Safety at Work
    A while ago I had an interchange with someone that got me thinking.  It went like this:  “I had been mistreated for so long that the good parts and the financial security of the job just finally were outweighed by my loss of self-esteem.  So, I rehearsed for weeks how to tell my boss I [...]
  • New Study Examines Predictors of Parenting Eff ...
    Pregnancy is a time of anticipation for mothers and fathers. Both parents hold expectations of how they will succeed at accomplishing parenting tasks, and how they will adjust to the new baby and each other after the birth. “As with most research on the transition to parenthood, the majority of ...
  • Depressed Females Prone to Ruminate More than ...
    Nearly 20 percent of adolescents will have experienced a major depressive episode by the time they reach the age of 18, with twice as many girls becoming depressed as boys. “One possible explanation for the emergent sex difference in depression is a sex difference in rumination, which is the ten ...
  • Breaking Up on Facebook
    Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, as well as other means of electronic communications such as texting, are no longer the wave of the future: they are the here and now. Online dating is one of the most popular ways of meeting people and dating these days. We get to weed out pe ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 16, 2011 – This week, we share William James’ wisdom about acting intentionally and keeping in mind that everything we do can make a difference in the lives of others and the world :-) For more inspirational quotes from GoodTherapy.org, Like us on Facebook! November 10, 2011 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Republican Anti-Environment Assault Continues ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Republican Anti-Environment Assault Continues on Senate Energy & Water ... Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) 967 – Shields Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining from EPA Review Filed by Sen. Paul (R-KY) This rider would stop EPA and the Corps of Engi ...
  • Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves a Commun ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves a Community Scarred Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) 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 ...
  • Northern W.Va. mountaintop mine remains in lim ...
    Northern W.Va. mountaintop mine remains in limbo Washington Examiner AP Legal wrangling continues over whether new federal water-quality rules should apply to a planned Arch Coal mountaintop removal mine. The Charleston Gazette (http://bit.ly/vNOtUz) says the Environmental Quality Board has lift ...
  • Board lifts stay on Arch coal permit - Charles ...
    Board lifts stay on Arch coal permit Charleston Gazette The state Environmental Quality Board has lifted a stay on an Arch Coal mountaintop removal permit in Monongalia County. But the mining still can't move forward, and board members said the Sierra Club is likely to eventually win the cas ...
  • Eight Arrested In Charlotte Protesting Bank Of ...
    ThinkProgress Eight Arrested In Charlotte Protesting Bank Of America's Connections To Big Coal ThinkProgress Multiple banks finance the coal industry and, in particular, mountaintop removal. But after painting itself as a leader in environmental issues by announcing that it would “phase out” ...

Memeorandum

  • TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet The 2012 GOPers - Herman C ...
    Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com: TPM SLIDESHOW: Meet The 2012 GOPers — Herman Cain  —  Susan Archer of ABC News reports that Cain declared at a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire: “We need a leader, not a reader.”  —  Corroborati ...
  • Cain ducks N.H. interview, says we need 'a lea ...
    Laura Weisman / Rick Perry 2012 Campaign for President: Cain ducks N.H. interview, says we need ‘a leader, not a reader’  —  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain returned to New Hampshire on Thursday for the first time in about a m ...
  • Cain: How do you say that in 'Cuban?' (A.Killo ...
    A.Killough / CNN: Cain: How do you say that in ‘Cuban?’  —  (CNN) - While campaigning in Miami on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, who's taken heat over his knowledge of foreign policy, dodged questions on issues related to Cuba.  &mdash ...
  • Herman Cain: 'Who knows every detail of every ...
    Alexander Burns / The Politico: Herman Cain: ‘Who knows every detail of every country on the planet?’  —  That's the rhetorical question Herman Cain asked a crowd in Nashua this afternoon, POLITICO's Reid Epstein emails.  —  Cain trotted out the line ...
  • Energy Secretary to Defend Solyndra Loan to Co ...
    Matthew L. Wald / New York Times: Energy Secretary to Defend Solyndra Loan to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — An unrepentant energy secretary will square off on Thursday with a Republican-led committee that has spent months arguing that his department showed political favoritism ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.1, Guam region
    Thursday, November 17, 2011 19:04:52 UTC Friday, November 18, 2011 05:04:52 AM at epicenterDepth: 43.10 km (26.78 mi)
  • M 5.0, Tonga region
    Thursday, November 17, 2011 15:33:36 UTC Friday, November 18, 2011 04:33:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 37.10 km (23.05 mi)
  • M 5.2, offshore Guatemala
    Thursday, November 17, 2011 13:31:00 UTC Thursday, November 17, 2011 07:31:00 AM at epicenterDepth: 46.10 km (28.65 mi)
  • M 5.0, offshore Guatemala
    Thursday, November 17, 2011 13:06:41 UTC Thursday, November 17, 2011 07:06:41 AM at epicenterDepth: 74.60 km (46.35 mi)
  • M 5.1, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan
    Thursday, November 17, 2011 09:43:02 UTC Thursday, November 17, 2011 06:43:02 PM at epicenterDepth: 17.40 km (10.81 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Talking about the Yarlung Zangbo
    Half-truths, fear and suspicion fuel the debate over south Asia’s shared waters. But journalists can help open up the conversation, writes Beth Walker, cheered by a media workshop in Kathmandu.There is a well-known Chinese story, told by the philosopher Zhuangzi, about a frog who lived dow ...
  • The Chinese shadow over Boeung Kak lake (1)
    The forced relocation of thousands of residents from a Cambodian lakeside has drawn global condemnation. Less widely discussed is the role of Chinese corporations. Liao Ruo reports.The shores of Boeung Kak Lake, a 90-hectare body of sparkling blue water on the north-eastern edge of Cambodia&rsqu ...
  • The Chinese shadow over Boeung Kak lake (2)
    Where rule of law is weak, China’s investors should be wary of hiding behind local regulations, writes Liao Ruo, concluding a two-part article.Perhaps concerned about the negative impact of the “relocations” from Boeung Kak, the commercial attaché at China’s embass ...
  • “China’s firms lag in green ranks& ...
    Big Chinese business must strive to climb higher in global environmental lists, writes Ni Huan, following a less than stellar performance this autumn. There are barriers, but they can be overcome. Editor’s note: in recent weeks, two reports have hammered home the message that China’ ...
  • Village that towers above China
    Until recently, Huaxi was a poor farming community in Jiangsu province. Now, thanks to one man’s ambition, it is a symbol of China’s economic expansion, embodied by a 328-metre tower. Jonathan Watts reports.An incongruous new sight has risen up in the countryside of eastern Chin ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Scenes From the Occupation: Before and After t ...
    Zuccotti Park had been transformed into its own mini-city before New York police raided the camp Monday morning, removing all vestiges of the camp. Now the Occupiers must figure out what to do.
  • Chief Sponsor Wavers on Web Censorship Bill in ...
    Legislation that would let copyright holders shut off ads to allegedly copyright infringing websites and let the government force ISPs and search engines to blacklist alleged infringing sites had a tumultuous first hearing Wednesday that saw its main sponsor unexpectedly express reservations ove ...
  • California City Approves Spy Plane to Fly Overhead
    Not content to spy on people using street cameras, the small city of Lancaster, Calif. approved a resolution last week that will allow a crime-fighting spy plane to fly overhead and watch what's going on below.
  • Inside Occupy Wall Street’s (Kinda) Secret Med ...
    Wired visited the sorta-secret OWS Media HQ in Manhattan last week for the first thorough tour of the facility. The conversations with activists eerily presaged the turmoil in Manhattan Tuesday and in cities like Oakland and Portland over the weekend.
  • WikiLeaks’ Assange Seeks Appeal to U.K. Suprem ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seeking to appeal his extradition ruling to Great Britain's Supreme Court, arguing that he has not been charged with any crime and that the request for his extradition to Sweden was made by a "partisan prosecutor."

Equality Trust

  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
  • Traduction des preuves en Français
     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Peanut Butter - Again?
    J.M. Smucker Co. is recalling some 16-ounce jars of its Smucker’s Natural Peanut Butter Chunky sold in several states because of possible salmonella contamination. The Ohio-based company says the jars covered in the recall would have been purchased in the last week or so. They have &ldquo ...
  • Dairy Unhinged - Outbreaks in the last two years
    I have been keeping very close track of Outbreaks, Illnesses and Recalls Linked to Raw (Unpasteurized) and Pasteurized Dairy Products in the United States since January 2010. Here is the latest installment (download PDF) - it includes links to source material:
  • Organic Pastures Raw Milk Dairy Linked to E. c ...
    According to a California State Department of Health release, raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County are the subject of a statewide recall and quarantine order announced by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Whiteford. Under the recall, all Organic Pastures raw d ...
  • Second Salmonella Turkish Pine Nut Lawsuit fil ...
    We have filed another lawsuit on behalf of a Rochester-area mother and daughter who contracted Salmonella illnesses after consuming Turkish pine nuts imported by Delaware-based American Pistachio Commodity Corp. This the second Salmonella lawsuit filed by us in a 42-person outbreak linked to pin ...
  • Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak - New Numbers fro ...
    139 confirmed cases reported by states are shown below: ▪   Alabama: 1 case ▪   Arkansas: 1 case ▪   California: 2 cases ▪   Colorado: 39 cases ▪   Idaho: 2 cases ▪   Illinois: 3 cases ▪   Indiana: 3 cases ▪ &nbs ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Los Angeles: 2012 Green Car of the Year is the ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Sedan, Honda The 2012 Green Car of the Year award was snagged from the electric and diesel jaws of its competitors by the Honda Civic Natural Gas. In a year full of standard gasoline powertrain alternatives, the Civic beat out the Ford Focus Electric, Mitsubishi i, ...
  • Los Angeles: Honda Fit EV available in 2012 fo ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hatchback, Honda, Electric The idea of a all-electric Honda Fit is nothing new, but the details of the production version that will come to the United States next summer are, well, also nothing new. As announced today, the all-electric Fit will only be available thr ...
  • Official: Chevy Volt ready for California HOV ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric The Chevy Volt may be able to travel about 40 miles without emitting a gram of CO2, but the car isn't clean enough to qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane access in California. Make that wasn't clean enough. Tod ...
  • Tokyo: Daihatsu bringing electric, fuel cell a ...
    The quirkiness - i.e., stuff like this - continues. As a preview for the upcoming Tokyo Motor Show, Daihatsu has released images of the D-X, something called the Pico (above) and the FC Sho Case. As is totally expected, these concepts are heavy on the green, light on the possibility that they w ...
  • Report: Bob Lutz: "I honestly think Tesla's go ...
    Filed under: Tesla Back around 2006, GM's Bob Lutz was spurred to action by Tesla Motors. Unable to get The General to move forward on a plug-in car, he pointed to the California start-up as a reason to get the Chevy Volt project going. This is all made pretty clear in the Revenge of the Elec ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
    We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot police had already surrounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city ...
  • Amy Goodman Interviews Occupy Oakland Man Befo ...
    Before dawn on Monday morning, hundreds of police in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in order to evict peaceful protesters. They arrested more than 30 people who chose to remain as an act of civil disobedience. Later in the day, Mayor Jean Quan’s chief legal adviser resig ...
  • 20th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre: Watch ...
    On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession in a cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing more than 270 East Timorese. Journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn were beaten while reporting on the massacre. Watch the radio documentary they produced, set to video, ...
  • Full Video: 39 Arrested with Occupy Cal in For ...
    This week the Occupy movement drew thousands of California college students to protests on at least 10 campuses, including UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Berkeley, where police forcibly removed students and arrested 39 people. The University of California system faces some of the steepest budget cuts ...
  • "Keystone XL: Ring Around the Rose Garden" By ...
    More than 10,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., last Sunday with a simple goal: Encircle the White House. They succeeded, just weeks after 1,253 people were arrested in a series of protests at the same spot. These thousands, as well as those arrested, were unified in their opposition to t ...

Suzie-Q

  • Occupy Wall Street, with Graham Nash and David ...
    This is a feel good movie
  • Mr. President: An Iran Attack on Israel Is Att ...
    A devious bit of propaganda from a couple of new York rats. I’s not like we haven’t noticed all of the right wing hawks chanting the same mantra about Irans nuclear capabilities. Global Warfare: Targeting Iran: Preparing for World War III Global Research, November 3, 2011 by Michel C ...
  • UK and U.S. ‘draw up joint plan to attac ...
    Whitehall figures say Iran is ‘newly aggressive – and we are not sure why’ Iran ‘has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushing for invasion Tel Aviv test-fires rockets capable of carrying nuclear warheads int ...
  • Have a good Halloween
  • Muammar Gaddafi Killed, Captured In Sirte: (GR ...
    AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 10/20/11 08:00 AM ET Updated: 10/20/11 06:28 PM ET Longtime dictator of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, has been killed following the capture of his hometown of Sirte. [CLICK HERE FOR LIVE UPDATES] There were confusing reports of Gaddafi’s capture and death, an ...

Solari

  • Occupy Wall Street Declares Goldman Sachs Guilty
    General Assembly holds mock trial and journalist Chris Hedges reads indictment accusing Goldman Sachs of financial crimes against humanity. buzzflash Collected from youtube.com
  • Quote du Jour
    Artist:Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337) “Are you all so fulfilled in participating in on-going creating, you can afford to waste time pondering the end.” — Jesus as translated by Aramaic scholar Neil Douglas-Klotz
  • NANO Chemtrails
    By William Thomas  If you did not enjoy “traditional” chemtrails raining down on you, you are not going to like the new version, which the United States Air Force promises will feature aerial dumps of programmable “smart” molecules tens of thousands of times smaller than ...
  • Dr. William Tiller – Scientific Support ...
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday evening on The Solari Report (6pm PT/9pm ET) I will be speaking with scientist and author Dr. William A. Tiller. Fellow to the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Dr.  Tiller is a professor emeritus of Stanford University’s Department of Mate ...
  • Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You ...
    By Steven Levy “What I’m about to show you,” Jeff Bezos says, “is the culmination of the many things we’ve been doing for 15 years.” The CEO of Amazon.com, in regulation blue oxford shirt and jeans, is sitting in a conference room at his company’s spiffy new headquarters just north of downtown ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • A modern conservative dresses up Mr. Potter to ...
    Summary:  Today, like every day, we get a serving of glittering myths from a conservative economist.  Constant barrages of chaff shot into our minds keep us docile, our OODA loops confused.  We must see the true situation in order to even begin reclaiming America. “Whatever Happened to Dis ...
  • The good news: America’s politics are n ...
    Summary:  How sad that we so underestimate our leaders, confusing their skillful political engineering with folly.  Of course their successful manipulation of us allows them to laugh at our scorn.  This is the next in a series; at the end are links to previous chapters. Many Americans rage at th ...
  • Who caused the housing crisis? Why do people ...
    Summary:  Among our most serious problems is the success of well-funded engines of propaganda at manipulating public opinion, making effective public policy reforms almost impossible.  Here we examine one example, convincing Americans that the government caused the housing bubble.  This is a fol ...
  • Will Italy stay in the Euro-zone?
    Summary:  The strong often believe that the weak have no choice but to stay in the game (however rigged) and accept whatever cards they’re dealt.  While logical, the weak often have the ability to turn the tables.  So it is with creditor nations, who often confuse the power of loans with t ...
  • Attritionist Letter #11: Artillery leads the ...
    Summary:   Technology allow leaders to reshape an organization according to their vision of the future — or of the past.  Our military has the most advanced technology on the planet, so they balance this by adopting extremely antiquated forms of organization.  We have the weapons to fight ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – 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, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Kuwait Parliament Stormed
    Thousands of Kuwaitis stormed their country’s parliament today, calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Nasser al-Sabah: “Thousands of Kuwaitis have stormed parliamentary buildings after police and elite forces beat protesters. “The protesters marched earlier on Wednesday to ...
  • Asia Trip Underscores the Need to Ratify Law o ...
    While I was reading through the coverage of the president’s big month in Asia, the pressing importance of ratifying the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea was underscored once again. Reuters reports on comments by Hillary Clinton about ongoing disputes in the South China Sea: She said dispu ...
  • Debating Military Action Against Iran
    I’ve contributed a piece to U.S. News and World Report’s Debate Club, on the question of whether the U.S. should consider military action to stop Iran’s nuclear program. My conclusion will probably not surprise: U.S. strikes could unite the Iranian people around the regime at a ...
  • How Syria is Turning Into Libya
    Syria today is showing a considerable parallels to the situation in Libya circa February 2011. (The NATO bombing campaign commenced mid-March). Consider this: 1) The violence is getting much more brazen. We are no longer talking about security forces snatching people from their homes. We are tal ...
  • Q&A: IAEA Report Reveals Nuclear Program, Desp ...
    Editor’s note: InsideIran interviewed Riccardo Redaelli, Associate Professor of Geopolitics at the Catholic University of Milano and Associate Senior Researcher at the LNCV and Michele Gaietta, Ph.D. candidate at the Catholic University of Milano. Q: The IAEA says Iran is now significantly close ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Not Heritage, Definitely Hate
    Jezebel flags this infurating story from the Times of Trenton: The mother of a Kreps Middle School student suspended in a flap over her Confederate flag sweat shirt says she wants the school to formally apologize to her daughter, rescind her suspension and grant the teen permission to attend sc ...
  • Prop. 8 Challengers Have Standing
    The California Supreme Court has ruled that, in its view, the people who brought Proposition 8 to the ballot -- the initiative that halted California's same-sex marriages -- have the "standing" to back that law in court. Exactly what does that mean? It's complicated. Learn more from Chris Geidn ...
  • Prop 8: Bottom of the 9th
    Read the Court's Opinion s189476.pdf At 1 P.M. today, the California state supreme court ruled that the proponents of Proposition 8—the ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in the state—have "standing" to defend the measure in court, even though the governor and attorney ...
  • Barack Obama Never Called Americans "Lazy"
    Last weekend, in a meeting with CEOs in Honolulu, President Obama offered some mild criticism of himself and the business community when it came to attracting foreign investment: “I think it’s important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in t ...
  • Fixing the Courts
    Rick Perry introduced a disastrous Congressional reform plan earlier this week that has been rightfully ripped to shreds. Perry's plan would rewrite the constitution to turn Congress into a part-time body, opening the path to far more corruption, increasing the influence of lobbyists and money. ...

Buzzflash

  • The Myth of American Exceptionalism is a Dange ...
    Body Why do conservative candidates keep harping on one of their favorite but least compelling themes - - United States "exceptionalism?" Where did this idea come from and how can it be justified as conceptualizing our political process and the way we conduct ourselves both at home ...
  • Newt the Bloviator Beached Whale is the New An ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Say what you will about Newt Gingrich (and many are saying what they will these days as he emerges at the top of, or close to the top of, the GOP presidential pack), but one thing remains indisputably clear: With his infinite ubiquity, Gingrich has develo ...
  • Multi-Billionaire 1 % Mayor Bloomberg May Have ...
    MARK KARLIN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT It's easy to understand why Bloomberg only takes a token salary of $1 a year as mayor (yes, this is true); he is increasing his wealth (currently valued at $19.5 billion) through his position. That is just one of the reasons he took the risk of clearing Zucc ...
  • Grope and Change (Satire)
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT And now, another installment in the continuing saga that is The Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Soap Opera. When last we left him, the candidate was praising his main backers: "The Koch Brothers are my brothers from another mother."  Guess we should be grateful ...
  • Japan’s Nuclear Radiation and the Pentagon’s F ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Climate change produced Japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.  Although the corporate media and the U.S. government have swept the Fukushima nuclear disaster under the proverbial censorship rug, it's important to remember that an earthquake meas ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • The little book of black delights
    Schadenfreude: 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 Videos
    From 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 supplements
    Rhodiola 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 Web
    Steve 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Equality California Responds to California Sup ...
    The California Supreme Court today issued an opinion finding that proponents of Proposition 8 have the authority to represent the interests of the State of California in the Perry v. Brown challenge to the law even though the state’s public officials—the governor and attorney general ...
  • United for a Fair Economy and Allies Back New ...
    United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth applaud the introduction of the Sensible Estate Tax Act of 2011 by Congressman Jim McDermott, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee. The bill is the only comprehensive estate tax reform plan that does not repeal or continue the exi ...
  • * Military Bases * Military Rape
    The New York Times reports today: “Fresh from announcing an expanded American military presence in Australia, a plan that has angered China, President Obama came to this remote northern town that will be the base of operations and told American and Australian troops it is the ‘perfec ...
  • Future of Organic Food and Agriculture at Risk
    The Cornucopia Institute, one of the nation’s leading organic industry watchdogs, is urging members of the USDA's National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), in formal testimony, to vote to preserve the integrity of organic food and farming at its upcoming meeting in Savannah, Georgia. &n ...
  • Thousands Occupy Wall Street
    Thousands marched on Wall Street this morning, blockading all entry points to the New York Stock Exchange. 'People's mics' have been breaking out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in an unfair economy. "I paid taxes and took care of my responsibi ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • War: The Wrong Jobs Program
    Mark Engler More than 40 years ago, long before anyone had ever heard of Barack Obama, before the collapse of Bear Stearns, and before contemporary debates about bailouts and debt ceilings, two authors, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, considere ...
  • "How Wall Street Occupied America"
    Robert Lenzner It is fitting that the very day the Occupy Wall Street kids were driven out of Wall Street– a marvelous piece turning the occupy theme upside down came from the outspoken unrelenting pen of Bill Moyers in The Nation ma ...
  • Who Will Be the Un-Bloomberg? What Mayors Shou ...
    Tom Hayden After the forcible eviction of Occupy Wall Street protesters in several major cities, the media are aflutter, with the Los Angeles Times asking, “Where Does the Occupy Movement Go Now?” The New York Times headline pos ...
  • 'Class Warfare in America': Remarks Made at th ...
    Robert Reich  
  • We Are All Rupert Murdoch Now
    Russ Baker With the non-stop revelations about Rupert Murdoch and his news outfits, it’s easy to divide the media between the bad guys and everybody else. Except that the good guys don’t look so good themselves.read more

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Water wars
    Weekly Poll Does the SMPD need a citizens' review board? No. The department is doing just fine. No. It'd be too expensive. Yes. The department needs more transparency.
  • New reservoirs and wells eyed to avoid future ...
    A task force wants to build reservoirs and wells to increase Georgia's water supply, which was threatened by long-running disputes with neighboring Alabama and Florida.
  • Water Wars: By the Numbers, the Energy Story o ...
    California Aqueduct via Wikipedia Southern California loves its water--it's part of the whole mythos here that this is a brown place made green via twentieth century magic (engineering). But importing all that water takes an enormous amount of energy...
  • The water wars are here, and companies such as ...
    When the Union of Concerned Scientists come to Charlotte next week to present a new report focused on the water and energy nexus, some companies will not be happy about it. Word is, the report identifies Charlotte as a "hot spot" since Duke Energy has three coal plants, two nuclear plants — all ...
  • Voluminous Delta report far from complete
    Wonks caught up in the Delta water wars have a new tome to read: a 2,200-page report examining the environmental impact of a broad plan that will determine the fate of the estuary through the end of the century.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • From US South to Palestine, Freedom Rides chan ...
    Nour Joudah The Electronic Intifada This week, with the Palestinian Freedom Riders taking a page from the US civil rights movement and defying Israel’s segregated road system, my histories and my homes merged in a new way.
  • New Lowkey album a soundtrack to the human str ...
    Alexander Billet The Electronic Intifada Iraqi-British rapper Lowkey’s new album Soundtrack to the Struggle is not only a listening experience, but a call for a fundamentally different world.
  • Poland's growing Palestine movement faces anti ...
    Ewa Jasiewicz The Electronic Intifada Despite attacks and slander, the Palestine solidarity movement in Poland is pushing ahead and is able to influence media coverage and popular education on Palestine.
  • Israel arrests "Freedom Riders" challenging ap ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Several activists were arrested by Israeli forces today while attempting to ride segregated buses serving illegal Israeli settlements.
  • Interview: Hunger strikes created "new sense o ...
    Maureen Clare Murphy The Electronic Intifada In an interview with The Electronic Intifada, activist Janan Abdu describes how Israeli prison authorities tried to break the spirits of political prisoner who recently went on hunger strike, including her husband Ameer Makhoul.

The Wonk Room

  • Justiceline: November 16, 2011
    Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice. Gun groups complain that Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) flip-flopped on guns on college campuses — apparently he was aga ...
  • Morning CheckUp: November 17, 2011
    Insurers threaten 1,100 jobs: “Four health insurers led by Cigna Corp. have asked the Obama administration to exempt medical plans they sell to Americans overseas from the 2010 health law, saying a denial may imperil about 1,100 U.S. jobs.” [Bloomberg] Survey finds slower rise in ben ...
  • Why is Discovery Channel Cutting Climate Chang ...
    by Jocelyn Fong, in a Media Matters repost For the past few weeks, we’ve had to wait patiently while our friends across the Atlantic enjoy the BBC’s seven-part Frozen Planet series on life at the poles, which won’t air in the U.S. until the new year. This sequel to Blue Planet ...
  • This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
    Malcolm Johnson, acid and brilliant, on my five non-Western myths, fairy tales, and religious figures who would make great movies: Hey, Alyssa. We got your memo in Development, and…well, I’m afraid we’re going to have to pass on all of these movies. First off, some of this stuf ...
  • GOP Proposes Cutting Twenty ‘Wasteful&#8 ...
    Republicans yesterday, in an email blasted around by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), identified “twenty wasteful spending programs” that they have proposed cutting in the new federal spending bill released this week. The GOP claims that it’s using the bill to “ ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Robert Fleming Gourlay
    His bust is at St. James Park in Toronto, where the Occupy Toronto camp is. How fitting. He was a Quixotic figure, but (as I said at Montreal Simon's place) I truly believe that its the slightly "off" obsessed types who are needed to change things. Here's the entry for him at the valuable Dicti ...
  • Michelangelo as a Draughtsman
    I've always been very impressed by the power of his sketches. In their own way, they're just as impressive as his sculptures and his paintings.
  • Where Did the Left Go?
    Good article about our political confusion in the face of capitalism's failures.Elsewhere, and not only in the US, political leaders long considered as models by the moderate left also face angry crowds. In Greece, the president of the Socialist International, George Papandreou, is pursuing a po ...
  • Remembering Remembrance Day
    There's no doubt that Canadians of a militaristic bent like Remembrance Day. Along with most of us, there's a heartfelt appreciation for the sacrifices of Canadian soldiers down through the years. I thought about putting quotation marks around the word "sacrifices" because it seems to me that m ...
  • Matt Taibbi Re-evaluates OWS
    In Rolling Stone, via CommonDreams.org: The right-wing media wasted no time in cannon-blasting the movement with its usual idiotic clichés, casting Occupy Wall Street as a bunch of dirty hippies who should get a job and stop chewing up Mike Bloomberg's police overtime budget with their urban ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Occupy Calgary tent catches fire, two injured
    Authorities at the scene of the Occupy Calgary protest are investigating a tent fire that witnesses say was started by a candle that had tipped over. The fire resulted in the hospitalization of two men who were reportedly burnt by melting nylon material.
  • Animator Benjamin Su, Pixar actor with a mouse
    Benjamin Su arrived in Canada at the age of 10 from Taiwan. The world was wide open for the boy who loved the movie Toy Story. Today he's an animator who came full circle when working on Toy Story 3 for Pixar.
  • Toronto school bans use of athletic balls, kid ...
    A schoolyard ball ban sent kids at Earl Beatty Public School in Toronto into an uproar. "We want our balls back, we want our balls back!" many revolted, as the gathering continued to grow.
  • Alberta Premier urges less dependence on U.S., ...
    Newly-elected Alberta Premier Alison Redford delivered a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto Wednesday where she talked about the province's oil sands, Ontario's economic involvement and the Keystone XL Pipeline.
  • Canada routs St. Kitts and Nevis 4-0 in World ...
    After two disappointing back-to-back scoreless draws, Canada broke out with four goals to put on a dominating display for Canadian fans at BMO Field on Tuesday night.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Panetta: F-35 could be on chopping block
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the U.S. Congress that the Pentagon may be forced to cancel its planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a congressional “super committee” fails to reach a budget deal, thus triggering automatic deep cuts in government spendi ...
  • Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not ...
    Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not enough about peace? Leave your response.
  • Let’s make Remembrance Day about Peace
    Sign-up. Tell your friends, "I Remember for Peace." You will be emailed a social media kit, including your own "I Remember for Peace" profile picture for Facebook and Twitter.
  • Canada potential spoiler in firearms treaty
    As Ceasefire reported a few months ago, the Harper government’s firearms ideology may be standing in the way of progress on an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a proposed multilateral treaty aimed at controlling the international trade in conventional firearms. The treaty ...
  • You choose: $35 Billion for [ ] warships, or ...
    This year we will be concentrating our efforts on opposing the growing National Security Establishment: that web of politicians, lobby groups, old generals and corporations that are robbing the treasury of public dollars for themselves and their own special interests.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Smash Capitalism and You Destroy Civilization
    October 26, 2011 Forbes By Art Carden Somewhere, there are two graduate students in the social sciences who need dissertation topics. Those students should be watching the Occupy Wall Street movement with keen eyes because as it evolves, it’s going to provide us with an interesting set of applic ...
  • Supreme Court Rules That Thousands Of Home For ...
    October 26, 2011 Natural News By Ethan A. Huff More than five million US homeowners and counting have had their homes foreclosed upon by banks since the “economic crisis” first began several years ago. But the Massachusetts Supreme Court recently ruled that the vast majority of the f ...
  • ACORN Playing Behind Scenes Role In ‘Occ ...
    October 26, 2011 Fox News By: Jana Winter The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money ...
  • Did Citi Get a Sweet Deal? Bank Claims SEC Set ...
    October 26, 2011 ProPublica By Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein In the run-up to the global financial collapse, Citigroup’s bankers worked feverishly to create complex securities. In just one year, 2007, Citi marketed more than $20 billion worth of deals backed by home mortgages to investors ar ...
  • Women With High Cholesterol Live Longer, Have ...
    October 26, 2011 Natural News By Elizabeth Walling If the diagnosis of high cholesterol sounds like a death sentence to your ears, you may be the victim of cholesterol propaganda. It’s not uncommon to believe that lower is better when it comes to cholesterol, but new research shows otherwi ...
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