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Renewable Energy Uncertainty Weighs on Shares of American Superconductor and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Peter Dickson, technical director at BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners, which invests in renewable energy power projects in Europe, takes a different stance. "Government policy is exactly what makes alternative energy a more certain investment," ...
CRC Crystal Research Corporation Adds Renewable Energy Cycle to Its Clean ...
MarketWatch (press release)
CRC Crystal Research Corporation's ( www.crccrystal.com ) and its subsidiaries ( www.nupowertechnology.com ) focus on inorganic, green and renewable green energy technologies for production of NuCarbideTM, NuPowerGasTM, NuPowerTM, and on technologies ...
State watchdog says renewable energy will be overpriced for decades
Independent Voter Network
The California Public Utilities Commission has apparently never met a renewable energy project it didn't want to approve. Further, it seemingly cares little about trifles like price and the effect of sharply steeper electricity prices on California ...
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News bites: Chevron takes blame for Brazilian spill
The Hill (blog)
Bloomberg reports that the head of Saudi Arabia's state oil company says renewable energy is “faltering” globally and warns not to "turn our backs on renewables." Platts reports that oil giant Saudi Aramco CEO Khalid al-Falih said the company is ...
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Human Habitat

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Scientists studying karst ecology and possible threats under C&O Canal ...
The Republic
AP MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Researchers are working with the National Park Service to study the karst formations beneath the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park and possible threats to them. West Virginia University doctoral candidate John ...
The Week in Sonoma Valley, Nov. 21-27
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Join Sonoma Ecology Center's first-ever outing Family Outing to 1769-acre Tolay Lake Regional Park on Saturday (11/26), 9 am-1 pm More slowly-paced than the usual hike, it's been designed to encourage participation from family members of all sizes and ...
Land preservation effort melds ecology, economy
The Tennessean
“We need to maximize this time we have for good — for the ecological and economic future of the whole area,” said Jeanie Nelson, executive director of The Land Trust for Tennessee in Nashville. The report, called “Cumberland Voices: A Conservation ...
NJIT Announces Graduate Certificate in Sustainability Policy and Environmental ...
PR Web (press release)
It encompasses several focal areas, including environmental science, environmental economics, industrial ecology, sociology, political science, and law. The transition toward more sustainable systems entails the integration of these modes of expertise ...
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Water Power

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Hackers 'hit' US water treatment systems
BBC News
Hackers are alleged to have destroyed a pump used to pipe water to thousands of homes in a US city in Illinois. Hackers with access to the utility's network are thought to have broken the pump by turning it on and off quickly. ...
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Courts weighs scrapping huge California water pact over questions about ...
Washington Post (blog)
SAN DIEGO — A vanishing lake figures large in a court battle over how Southern California gets it water, a high-stakes dispute with consequences that could ripple throughout the western United States. A California appeals court is considering whether ...
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Middlesex Water Company CEO Dennis Doll to Speak at Upcoming Business and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
ISELIN, NJ, Nov 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Dennis W. Doll, President and CEO of Middlesex Water Company /quotes/zigman/75551/quotes/nls/msex MSEX +0.22% , will be among the panel participants speaking in the NJ Spotlight Roundtable Series: New ...
Two Rivers Water Company Receives Loan Approval From Colorado Water ...
Sacramento Bee
The CWCB is a state-wide agency founded in 1937 to support water conservation and flood control in Colorado. "We are very appreciative of the support by the CWCB," commented Gary Barber, COO of Two Rivers. "This loan will restore a reservoir ...
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Scoop - NZ

  • Branson warns of jobless 'lost generation'
    Sir Richard Branson is to warn George Osborne that he will create a "lost generation" of young people who will never know work unless he takes radical steps in next week's Autumn Statement to kick-start the economy.
  • Sea level fall and floods due to massive evapo ...
    In 2010, massive evaporation from the oceans caused global average sea level to drop by 6 mm. The extra water in the atmosphere went on to cause severe flooding around the world.
  • Who said Gaddafi had to go?
    So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969 that ov ...
  • Greg Palast: Who’s to blame for the implosion ...
    The mobs in the streets of Athens, mass unemployment, the empty pension funds and the angry despair that would sweep across Europe in 2010 began with a series of banking transactions crafted in the United States and Switzerland. The plan was 18 years old, and here it was played out in the street ...
  • UK youth unemployment passes 1 million
    Business leaders are meeting David Cameron today to urge him to introduce tax incentives for firms hiring young people - or risk the country's youth unemployment problem spiralling even further out of control. Grim unemployment figures this morning are expected to reveal more than 1m young pe ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
    The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
  • Australian kids are living in climate of fear
    On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
  • Gait crasher
    For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
  • Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
    Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...
  • Micro view; macro applications
    It’s been used for everything from examining bacteria and how rare earth minerals have developed over millions of years to creating vibrant visual images for improvisational musical performances. The versatile environmental scanning electron microscope (SEM), a $1.2 million piece of machinery fu ...

Signs of the times

  • Earthquake Rocks Assam, Manipur and Nagaland
    Guwahati: An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked India's northeast, Myanmar and Bangladesh on Monday, triggering panic among people. The tremor was felt at 8.47am in most parts of Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, besides in Bangladesh and Myanmar. The epicentre was located at 24. ...
  • What If Iran...
    As another "holiday" weekend draws to a close, Americans have again been bombarded with exhortations to thank the U.S. military establishment for their supposed freedom. This theme pervades all aspects of American culture. Uniformed military personnel are granted privileges on airlines, discount ...
  • Israel Shuts Down Dovish "All for Peace" Radio ...
    Jerusalem -- Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station's operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault on democracy by conservative forces in the gove ...
  • US: Fake Dr. Injects Cement, Fix-a-Flat Into P ...
    Ross Palombo, Tampa, Florida - An alleged fake doctor has been released from jail, after being arrested for injecting a patient with a dangerous concoction. Authorities say the injection in the backside contained, among other things, cement and a tire sealant. Oneal Ron Morris walked out of jai ...
  • Asian powers spurn German debt on EMU chaos
    Asian investors and central banks have begun to sell German bonds and pull out of the eurozone altogether for the first time since the debt crisis began, deeming EU leaders incapable of agreeing on any coherent policy. Andrew Roberts, rates chief at Royal Bank of Scotland, said Asia's exodus m ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Pascal's perspective . . .
    AISLIN AND PASCAL are such a treasure, compared to our Toronto editorial cartoonists. Harper Fudd, indeed.
  • Armed cowards in masks
    Reading Harebell's excellent take on my post about Blake's Balaclava law, I thought I might juxtapose a few images. The top is a riot cop at the G20 last year in Toronto. The second one is an Ulster Defence Force gunman, and the last is his opposite number in the Irish Republican Army. What ...
  • #jackbootshit: Five years for wearing a mask?
    "Trouble...mob...riot?" Judging by his language, Alberta MP Blake Richards seems to see any protest gathering as something that should be illegal, because it is clearly "trouble" starting. “When trouble starts, people intent on criminal activity depend on being able to 'mask up' to conceal th ...
  • "Talkin' about a revolution"
    Chris Hedges. Even NattyPo. H/t Bob.
  • Fetch the smelling salts, someone said "Fuck" ...
    As I write this, the number one story under Canada on Google news is the report by the privacy commissioner about the government collecting too much information about us, especially at airports. The number two story is about a carpenter from Winnipeg saying "fuck you" someone (who was definitely ...

Media Matters for America

  • Throw It All Out: Schweizer's DOE Claims Rest ...
    In his new book Throw Them All Out, conservative author and Breitbart editor Peter Schweizer accuses the Department of Energy (DOE) of directing funds "to friends, cronies, and supporters" of President Obama. However, the claim relies on faulty math, and many of the individuals that Schweizer i ...
  • Right-Wing Media Lay Groundwork To Blame Obama ...
    The right wing media have claimed that President Obama is deliberately sabotaging the super committee's negotiations to reach a deal to decrease the deficit in an attempt to strengthen his re-election prospects. But Obama has repeatedly urged the super committee to come to a compromise, while t ...
  • George Will Disappears Years Of Economic Growth
    In a November 17 Washington Post column, George Will suggested "economic growth decreased" following a 1990 budget deal that included a tax increase. In fact, the United States experienced sustained economic growth soon after the debt deal, which continued for a decade.Will: 1990 Budget Deal Wi ...
  • Fox Falsely Dubs Alleged White House Attacker ...
    Fox & Friends claimed that alleged White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez had been "tied to [the] Occupy" movement, even calling him the " 'Occupy' shooter." In fact, investigators have reportedly "found no connection between him and the Occupy protesters."Fox & Friends ...
  • Fox Gins Up Outrage Over Obama's Observation T ...
    Fox News, looking to manufacture a new controversy, is reporting that President Obama warned that the United States has "fallen behind" in math and science education and claiming that Obama "bad-mouthed" the U.S. with those comments. But President Bush also warned that the U.S. was falling behi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Republican Foreign Policy Debate, Ugh
    If nothing else, devoting an entire GOP campaign forum to national security and foreign policy -- the CBS News / National Journal organizers called it the "Commander in Chief Debate -- helps accentuate the preparation and seriousness the candidates have devoted to international affairs. Or the l ...
  • Did Portland Make History on Saturay Night?
    Faced with an order from Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams to disperse as of 12:01 am Sunday, Occupy Portland's Jim Oliver told the PBS News Hour Friday evening that "We have called for an Occupation Fest 2011 that is starting on Saturday evening. Every citizen of Portland is invited to come down ...
  • A Grand 'Narrative' for Obama -- in 58 Words
    Ron Suskind's Confidence Men recounts a moment when Obama pounds the walls of the White House crying, "What's happened to my narrative?" He should have called me. I'd have told him to drop his bipartisan, "last reasonable man in Washington" posture right after the debt-ceiling fiasco and ...
  • Neocons: Lying Us Into Another War
    Christmas did not arrive early for the "Bomb Iran" crowd. Over the past several weeks, neoconservative hawks were gleefully predicting that the International Atomic Energy Agency's new report on Iran's nuclear program would provide the spark needed to ignite and justify a U.S. or Israeli att ...
  • As Obama Mishandled the Economy, His Chronicle ...
    The least bad assessment of Obama's failure to reform our political economy that has come thus far from the Washington Beltway worldview (or Beltanschauung, as I immortalized it here in an essay that launched a thousand links) comes from Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein's "Obama's Flunking Eco ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Federal Regulatory Accountability Act Puts the ...
    In a state where regulatory issues are driven by ”crony capitalism” a  has proposed federal bill could give industry a blank check here in Texas. The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) (S. 1606/H.R. 3010) is a radical measure that would severely weaken laws that protect our health, ...
  • Does climate change influence extreme weather ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released a special report on the influence of climate change on extreme weather events. In the United States, Americans have endured a record-setting series of extreme weather events in 2011, including the Mississippi floods, record high ...
  • Political favors – how to stop it from ruining ...
    According to the Texas Energy Report, state environmental regulators appointed by Gov. Rick Perry issued a permit in January for a Houston-area industrial waste injection well to a company whose top investors include some of Perry’s close friends and campaign contributors. The Texas Commis ...
  • What is the state of your air? Check out the A ...
    The American Lung Association State of the Air 2011 report ranks the metropolitan areas based on ozone and particle pollution during 2007, 2008 and 2009. For particle pollution, they rank the areas separately with high year-round (annual average) levels and high short-term levels (24-hour) found ...
  • The Story of Broke and the supercommittee
    The deficit reduction supercommittee has a November 23 deadline to finish its work. One of the first places lawmakers should look for cuts is the dirty energy sector. From 2008 through 2010, Big Energy industries were among the top recipients of government handouts, second only to the financial ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Gaza’s Human Rights Guru
    The first time I shared a meal with Raji Sourani was at a seaside restaurant in Gaza City. A lawyer and longtime director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner, Sourani is well known throughout Palestine for his quick and sound judgment—which showe ...
  • Defending the Commons and the Right to Land, W ...
    lran2_cover2.jpg Effective agrarian reform, according to the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform (GCAR) includes “ a bundle of policies that ensure that agricultural land is distributed to landless peasants and smallholders swiftly and equi ...
  • A Prize for Solidarity and Justice
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  • Janaina Stronzake, from MST, to visit East Coast
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  • Insights - Fall 2011
    A movement is healthy and dynamic when young people are involved and take charge. The energy and imagination of this next  generation of resource rights defenders hold the key to their own survival – and perhaps the planet's as well.  Read on for four stories of inspiring young leaders ...

Climate

  • Energy Department Threatened by Cyber Attacks, ...
    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
    Source:  The Express Tribune Experts in Pakistan believe that the fast melting of glaciers combined with the heavy monsoon rains caused last year's massive floods that affected around 20 million people and destroyed 1.6 mil ...
  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
    Source:  Wired News A new method of crunching climate data could make it possible to put a figure on climate change's contribution to freak weather events, something tha's been difficult to do with empirical precision.
  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

Booman Tribune

  • A Failure the Left Can Embrace
    I was skeptical about the Occupy protests when they began and I remain skeptical about where they are heading, but I sure am glad that there are people on the streets demanding that the most affluent people in this country pay their fair share when I see shit like this happening in Washington DC ...
  • The Clap is More Popular Than Congress
    Even though I never heard a proposal from the Supercommittee that I could support, I still think it is pathetic that they couldn't even come up with any proposal at all. The Republicans never even offered anything tempting or that would create any political pain if it was rejected. I think it ...
  • Something That Gives Me the Creeps
    I saw John Hellemann on the Chris Matthews Show this morning make reference to covering a story about pedophilia at the American Boy Choir School in Princeton, New Jersey. I hadn't heard anything about it, so I went and found Helleman's article, which he wrote in 2006. Let me tell you somethin ...
  • Screw Politics, What's for Dinner?
    I am temporarily tired of writing about how much Washington sucks. What we need are recipes for Thanksgiving dinner and dessert, and for using leftovers. Here's our recipe for cranberry sauce: 1 lb. cranberries 2.5 cups of sugar 1 cup water 1.5 cups of pear 1 cup of apple 5 cloves ...
  • Kathleen Parker, It's Just Not Worth It
    I kind of feel for Kathleen Parker. She often does something I admire. Rather than unfailingly using her prime space on the Washington Post opinion page to spew right-wing talking points, she frequently uses the space to try to introduce a modicum of sense into right-wing discourse. But her c ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 15 Most Incredible Plunge Waterfalls on Earth
    These incredible torrents water are all plunge waterfalls, dropping away spectacularly from the rock faces behind them! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Most Incredible Cases of Death By Spontaneou ...
    The amazing tales of people who went in flames with no apparent explanation as to what sparked their fiery demise. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hottest Links of the Week
    Strange events and wonderful places from around the world, with a wee bit of design ingenuity and a glimpse into the past – and future – for good measure! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Coolest Links of the Week
    Cool art and design, wonders of space and science, monuments rethought in strange ways, and…cuddly sheep? It could only be EG's coolest links of the week! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Heterochromia in People: The Beauty of Multi-C ...
    The uniqueness of different colored eyes in the same person explained. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Is Iran Iraq All Over Again?
    The nuclear intelligence that the media is fixated on consists mostly of allegations of abstract research that have been floating around for years.
  • America Is Not Broke
    How to pay for the crisis while making the country more equitable, green, and secure.
  • Showing Juntas Some Love
    Lately North Korea and Burma have found themselves in the good graces of other states.
  • Believing the Worst About Iran Without Attacking
    We need to acknowledge the genuine security concerns of Israel and Iran, as well as point out the objective hazards of nuclear-weapons possession.
  • The Modern Gold Rush
    Multinational mining interests are using trade and investment treaties to turn profits and undermine democracy.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Sierra Club Leader Will Step Down
    The departure of Carl Pope, who has led the Sierra Club for much of the last two decades, reflects a broader debate over how environmental groups can raise money, motivate activists and build public support for core concerns in an economic downturn.
  • New York as Venice, Minus the Romance
    A report on climate change paints an evocative picture of the effects of future sea-level rise in New York City and on Long Island.
  • On Our Radar: A Polluted River as Art Experiment
    Despite a court ruling ordering the cleanup of a river that supplies 70 percent of New Delhi's water, the Yamuna remains filthy.
  • Solyndra Has a Cousin in the Poorhouse
    Steven Chu, the energy secretary, compared the market misfortunes of Beacon Power, a manufacturer of mechanical batteries, with the price decline that undid Solyndra.
  • On Our Radar: Arguments Fly at Hearing on Dril ...
    Environmental groups and other opponents of hydraulic fracturing protest outside the session in Dansville, N.Y., singing anti-drilling songs and waving signs.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...

Daily Censored

  • Who Are The Occupiers?
    Portland, Oregon, is occupied. In the blink of an eye, Portland became a police state. Good cop became bad cop in the space of a day — specifically Nov. 13, when Portland’s formal downtown Occupation was rousted and the parks were fenced off. Since then they have been guarded 24/7 by gruff ...
  • Henry Paulson Involved In Oregon Securities Fr ...
    By Peter Apanel In recent years, media stories about questionable, ill-advised, publicly-subsidized sports stadium deals that benefit wealthy team owners have become commonplace. But here in Portland, Oregon, the story is different. That’s because there is clear evidence of securities frau ...
  • The Global Occupy Movement Challenges the Tran ...
    By Peter Phillips The international concentration of wealth and military power is endangering not only the personal freedoms and life chances of billions of people, but the potentiality for life on earth to simply exist. The US-NATO military-industrial-media empire operates in support of transna ...
  • US War Criminals murdered US soldiers: all US ...
    source: Carl Herman Any police officer has arrest authority for the crime of murder. Because US political and corporate media “leadership” lied US soldiers into obvious criminal wars, they must stand trial for these murders of US citizens and state residents under state murder laws. You may reca ...
  • VOTE ‘None of the Above’ in 2012
    written by kabuki7″       While the liberal and conservative constituencies in our country have legitimate differences in how the country should be governed, one thing all Americans can agree on is our current political system is broken, corrupted by money, and that it no longer serves the ...

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  • Leaked documents show capabilities of new surv ...
    A trove of hundreds of documents, obtained by participants in a secretive surveillance conference, displays in unprecedented detail the extent of monitoring technologies used by governments around the world.
  • News you may have missed #631
    Some spy files on Canadian prominent politician released. Aussie diplomats urged to welcome defectors in 1980s. Iran arrests two Kuwaitis on suspicion of espionage.
  • Turf war between Mossad and Israel’s Foreign M ...
    Israel’s foreign affairs minister has ordered his department’s employees to stop cooperating with the Mossad, according to media reports. Minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of Israel's most hardline nationalist politicians, accuses the country’s covert operations agency of meddling in the tasks of ...
  • News you may have missed #630
    Senior Syrian military defector in Turkey denies training troops. Iran says missile base blast was not caused by Mossad. British official says MI6 foiled Libyan assassination plan.
  • Revealed: Afghan government at war with &#8216 ...
    Very little has been written about the Kandahar Strike Force, a controversial CIA-funded vigilante group operating in Afghanistan’s Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan provinces. In 2009, The New York Times reported that the late Ahmed Wali Karzai, notorious drug lord and younger brother of Afghan Presi ...

War is a Crime.org

  • Egyptian Military Power Grab
      Egyptian Military Power Grab - by Stephen Lendman   Last February, euphoric celebrations followed Mubarak's ouster. Across the Middle East and North Africa, people rejoiced.   Activist Saed Karazon told AFP:   "What happened in Egypt is not only for the Egyptian people ...
  • Israel Steps Up Police State Crackdowns
      Israel Steps Up Police State Crackdowns - by Stephen Lendman   Israel never embraced democratic values. More than ever today that's true. Many Jews understand. As a result, they're voting with their feet and leaving.   Gideon Levy remarked that "(i)t's really an irony of hi ...
  • Her Business Card Simply Said: Dorli Rainey - ...
    I Knew Right Away She Was The Real Deal        By Kathleen Kirwin, Esq. In the late afternoon of October 6th, 2011, I flew into Washington DC and headed straight for Freedom Plaza at the corner of 14th and Pennsylvania.  Months before that date, and as so many ...
  • Bloomberg Ties Terror Plot to Lex Luther
    In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to Schenectady, where they have just apprehended a youn ...
  • More on the Drones
    Tariq Aziz (centre, second row) attending a meeting about drones strikes in Waziristan, held in Islamabad, Pakistan on 28 October 2011. Three days later, the 16 year old was reported killed by a drone-launched missile. read more

Grist - News

  • Climate change pantry raid: Oysters
    by Sarah Laskow. Here's the current list of delicious foods that climate change is going to take away: pecan pie, chocolate, coffee, wine, bacon. Now, a new addition: oysters. This list does sound like the grocery list of a 1 percenter who shops only at a Dean & Deluca in Park ...
  • Critical List: Ozone fix is warming planet; we ...
    by Sarah Laskow. To fix the ozone, manufacturers of fridges and other products replaced ozone-busting CFCs and HCFCs with HFCs. But now the U.N. is warning that HFCs do a number on the climate. In other words, the solution to the ozone problem could be creating a climate change problem. ...
  • Americans are smarter than they look about ext ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has officially stated that climate change will lead to more extreme weather events -- we all sorta knew that, but it's nice to have confirmation. It turns out, though, that we weren't the only ones who knew. A surv ...
  • Whistleblower exposes cruel tuna fishing practices
    by Jess Zimmerman. Warning: this video is kind of intense, and may put you off sushi forever. Greenpeace has been trying to draw attention to cruel tuna fishing practices for a while, and now this anonymous helicopter pilot has footage of whales, rays, sharks, and dolphins being caught ...
  • Public school’s rooftop greenhouse teach ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. At New York's P.S. 333, the Manhattan School for Children, science class takes place on the roof. A rooftop greenhouse, built in partnership with Science Barge creators New York Sun Works, houses a year-round farm where kids can learn about plant life cycles, gree ...

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  • 10 images from NASA's Spitzer telescope
    NASA calls Lyman Spitzer Jr., (1914-1997) one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. The longtime Princeton astrophysicist lobbied for a large space telescope as early as 1946, work that culminated in the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990.
  • Stem Cell Treatments for Zoo Animals Hold Prom ...
    (ABC) Stem cells made from fat are showing results in animals, making researchers hopeful they can?one day?replicate the success in humans. “We just extract them, concentrate them, wash them and in the same setting readminster them. Inject them in your heart or your knees, wherever you need them ...
  • Stephen Hawking: Colonize space, or else
    The astrophysicist says we're in an increasingly dangerous part of our history and have to gain control of what's out there. Read this blog post by Chris Matyszczyk on Technically Incorrect.
  • The red planet
    Mother Nature Network
  • Spectacular Photos of Monster Saturn Storm
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft tracked the birth, evolution and death of the biggest storm, or Great White Spot, to hit the ringed planet Saturn in two decades.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Walking with Ganesha in Top Hat and Tails
    By Les Visible Tomorrow I go away for a few days to complete the next book. It’s done but the last 6 or 7 chapters need polishing and fleshing out. The end is always the most important part of a book, besides the general content and the tone. We carry a tone with us and [...]
  • It is Time to Arrest Congressman Who Aid and A ...
    By realman2020 We have let congress go to far, we cannot blame them completely. We have to blame ourselves. We allow them to exempt themselves from the laws they pass and impose on us. The role of government is to secure the liberties and property of the people. The other function to is protect ...
  • Occupy endgame: arrest the 1% “emperor has no ...
    Carl Herman Occupy’s victory means peace from criminal wars based on obvious lies, economic security and sufficiency for 100% of humanity, and unleashing suppressed technologies that transforms what it means to be human into unimaginable status. Occupy’s endgame, in retrospect, will be obvious: ...
  • UN, Bill Gates Foundation Push Deadly HPV Shot ...
    Anthony Gucciardi A new campaign has been launched by an organization known as the GAVI Alliance to vaccinate up to 2 million women and girls with either GlaxoSmithKline’s Cervarix or Merck’s Gardasil by the year 2015. Of course these two HPV shots have been shown to be very dangerous, with Gard ...
  • Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old woman pep ...
    The Occupy Movement finally has a face. But who is the woman behind it? Metro – Dorli Rainey: Who is the 84-year-old wo…, posted with vodpod

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Croatia’s First EV Prototype ...
    Read the rest of EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Croatia’s First EV Prototype the DOK-ING XD at the LA Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: croatia, croatian cars, croatian electric vehicles, doking, doking car, doking ev, doking la auto show, doking vehicle, doking xd, e ...
  • Scientists Develop World’s Lightest Metal, 100 ...
    This, we assure you, is a real photograph. Researchers at the University of California Irvine have developed a material that is as strong as metal but 100 times lighter than Styrofoam. The material is constructed from a micro-lattice of nickel phosphorous tubes that is 99.9% air. The tubes are h ...
  • HOW TO: Start a Home Recycling Center with You ...
    Want to get your kids excited about diverting waste from the landfill? Get them involved in the process by creating a home recycling center! It’s a good idea to teach kids the importance of recycling at an early age, and one of the best ways to do that is to make a project out of [...]
  • PHOTOS: Jaguar’s Sporty C-X16 Hybrid Concept a ...
    Read the rest of PHOTOS: Jaguar’s Sporty C-X16 Hybrid Concept at the LA Auto Show Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show, Alternative Fuel, green cars, green transportation, hybrid, hybrids, jaguar C-X16, LA Auto Show
  • Homemade Organic Apple Pie with Butter Crust R ...
    Thanksgiving is just days away and, for those of you with unfinished menus, we have a delicious organic apple pie recipe that is guaranteed to make your guests swoon.  It’s especially important to buy organic apples because conventionally grown apples have more pesticides than any other fr ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
    Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
  • Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
    Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
  • Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
    Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
  • An Android App's Answer to Siri
    SpeakToIt for Android phones works as an alternative to Siri. Sort of. She's slow and a little bit mentally challenged. She's less convenient than Siri, less capable, less comprehending, less accurate, less useful, less polished, less classy, less human.
  • Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life
    Dropbox keeps your important files everywhere at once. It is also an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. And you can get at your computer's files from your phone.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Open Rocket Engine Test Nov 26, 2011
    This is just a quick reminder to everyone interested that we will be performing a double engine test Saturday October 26 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The test is open for members of Copenhagen Suborbitals Support, sponsors or other interested. So if you for some bizarre reason is near Copenhagen plea ...
  • How Many Neutrinos Does It Take to Screw Up Ei ...
    Results from a second experiment uphold the observation that neutrinos are moving faster than the speed of light. The OPERA collaboration, which reported superluminal neutrinos back in September, have rerun their experiment and detected 20 new neutrinos breaking Einstein's limit.
  • Message to Obama: Save the Bats!
    Do you want to help save America's insect-eating bats from extinction? Then tell President Obama.
  • Volcanoes Blamed for Greatest Land and Sea Ext ...
    The biggest volcanic eruptions of the past half eon had seemed a likely culprit in the greatest mass extinction Earth has seen -- both biotic cataclysm in the sea and on land.
  • Colossal Storm Rages Over Saturn’s Surface
    One of the biggest storms ever seen on the planet Saturn has now been raging for 200 days.

PakAlert

  • Calling for an Attack on Iran: US, Israel Poli ...
    In the wake of the recent IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program, Israel and its Western allies are once again pushing for a military confrontation with Iran. While they argue that confrontation with Iran is a rational action, in actuality the US and Israeli governments are showing just how much ...
  • Israel’s Plan to Destroy Iran’s Civilian Infra ...
    Israel plans not only to attack Iran’s fledgling nuclear program, but also its civilian infrastructure. Eli Lake, writing for The Daily Beast, cites current and former U.S. intelligence officials who say Israel’s target list includes Iran’s electric grid, internet, cellphone network, and emer ...
  • ‘Super soldiers’: The quest for the ultimate h ...
    We’ve seen in previous articles that the concept of transhumanism and “enhanced human” is being actively promoted in movies, music videos and video games. Here an article from the Independent describing the “enhancements” that are being planned to be given to soldiers to make them better at kill ...
  • UFO Detected Near ISS And NASA Cut Transmission!
    ISS camera follows UFO NASA cut transmission again! It is clear that again NASA is trying to hide the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
  • Alert: News Blackout America Becoming Radioactive
    The mainstream media and federal government are conspiring to black out the escalating nuclear disasters in Japan and how radiation's affecting America.

Andy Worthington

  • It Costs $72 Million A Year to Hold Cleared Pr ...
    Last week, the exorbitant expense of maintaining the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo was revealed in the Miami Herald, where Carol Rosenberg explained that Congress provided $139 million to operate the prison last year, which, with 171 prisoners still ...
  • Celebrating Occupy Wall Street, and the Novemb ...
    Last night, defiantly responding to Tuesday’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park by New York’s billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets of New York and filled Brooklyn Bridge, chanting, “Bloomberg, bew ...
  • Don’t Forget the Guantánamo Prisoners Cl ...
    Last week, Guantánamo briefly resurfaced in the news when one of the remaining 171 prisoners, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was arraigned for his planned trial by Military Commission, for his alleged role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Al-Nashiri’s trial will not begin for a least a ye ...
  • Where now for Occupy Wall Street and the Occup ...
    When Occupy Wall Street began in September, its great innovative strength — and what enabled it to be picked up on and repeated across America, and around the world — was that it broke with the tired old model of one-day protests, with their limited opportunities for creating bonds a ...
  • Expressing Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, ...
    So the billionaire bully and coward Michael Bloomberg, the Mayor of New York, waited until the middle of the night to spring a surprise eviction on the occupants of Zuccotti Park, the home, for the last two months, of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has spread across the US and around the w ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
    The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
  • Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
    Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
  • Much like the "conservative" GOP...
    The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
  • Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
    Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
  • The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
    So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

  • Oklahoma Pastor: Gay People Behind Half of Urb ...
    Pastor Tom Vineyard of Windsor Hills Baptist Church in Oklahoma must be bummed. Though onlookers reportedly gave him standing ovation for his impassioned speech against adding sexual orientation to the protected classes named in Oklahoma City’s employment nondiscrimination policy, City Council m ...
  • Israeli Prime Minister To Address Liberty Coun ...
    The Liberty Counsel has announced the lineup of speakers for next year’s national conference, and it’s a marquee of far-right luminaries. Prominent figures of the anti-Muslim movement will rub shoulders with the anti-gay religious right. Christian dominionists will hang out with hard-line consti ...
  • Corrupt Lobbyist’s Tell-All Published by Consp ...
    Given his reputation as a corrupt master of manipulation, disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been given a surprisingly credulous welcome by the media following the Nov. 1 release of his book Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth about Washington Corruption from America’s Most Notorious Lob ...
  • New Intelligence Report Released Today
    The Southern Poverty Law Center today released the latest issue of its quarterly investigative magazine on the radical right, Intelligence Report. Overall, the issue covers the extreme right’s increasingly heated rhetoric, laced with talk of war and weaponry, as it faces the possibility of four ...
  • FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate ...
    Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City. Although the national statistics compiled by the ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
    In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
  • Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
    The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
  • Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
    Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
    Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Mellower Occupy Movement Grows in the Suburbs
    Gerri Field stood with hundreds of protesters in front of Tiffany's in Walnut Creek this week, railing against economic injustice at the top of her lungs and drawing approving honks from passing cars with her sign, "Heal America, Tax Wall Street." For two sunny midday hours, the cr ...
  • Mellower Occupy Movement Grows in the Suburbs
    Gerri Field stood with hundreds of protesters in front of Tiffany's in Walnut Creek this week, railing against economic injustice at the top of her lungs and drawing approving honks from passing cars with her sign, "Heal America, Tax Wall Street." For two sunny midday hours, the cr ...
  • Egyptians Repel Police and Army Attack; Retake ...
    7:49pm: Ministry of health revises numbers for dead in clashes down to three and says 192 people have been injured. 7:46pm Al Jazeera reports large protests in Suez in solidarity with protesters in Cairo. In Alexandria, Large numbers of mourners bury member of Revolutionary Youth Coalition who w ...
  • Egyptians Repel Police and Army Attack; Retake ...
    7:49pm: Ministry of health revises numbers for dead in clashes down to three and says 192 people have been injured. 7:46pm Al Jazeera reports large protests in Suez in solidarity with protesters in Cairo. In Alexandria, Large numbers of mourners bury member of Revolutionary Youth Coalition who w ...
  • Israel Shuts Down Dovish "All for Peace" Radio ...
    JERUSALEM  -- Israel has ordered the shutdown of a dovish Israeli-Palestinian radio station, officials and the station's operators said on Sunday. The station and other critics said the move was politically motivated, and part of a broader assault on democracy by conservative forces in ...

Lifehacker

  • How to Get the Most out of Using Google Music ...
    Now that Google Music is available to everyone (in the US), you have it set up and you're bobbing your head to music wherever you are, it's time to accent those experiences with better listening tips. More »
  • The Best of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday ...
    Black Friday and Cyber Monday are often two of the best days in the year to get great deals on gadgets and gifts, but if you're feeling a little overwhelmed by it all, we've gone through a picked a few of the best deals from a variety of retai ...
  • How to Decide When to Turn Down a Job Offer [C ...
    Jobs are scarce these days, but barring a survival situation, getting a new job offer doesn't automatically mean you should accept it. Even if you've been interested enough in a company to apply and go on an interview, when it comes time to s ...
  • Streamline Your Thanksgiving
    On this week's episode of Lifehacker, we're getting ready for Thanksgiving. We're planning out the big meal using Gantt charts, outsourcing the food preparation we can, making the most of our leftovers, and more. More » ...
  • This Rum-Flavored “Caviar” Adds a Little Punch ...
    If you're game for a little molecular gastronomy at home (a form of cooking where you play with your food to create new textures and flavors) this rum "caviar" takes a few minutes to make and creates small jelly-like balls that, when you eat ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.

Guardian

  • Eurozone crisis: Debt fears send markets falling
    • IMF: Hungary asks for precautionary help • Spanish 10-year bond yields hit 6.6% • Moody's hints at French downgrade • FTSE 100 falls 119 points2.35pm: Greece's new prime minister, Lucas Papademos, has just given a press conference in Brussels with José Manuel Barroso, president of the EC.Both ...
  • Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant gives evidence - live
    Live coverage as the actor and murdered schoolgirl's parents become the first alleged phone-hacking victims to give evidence2.36pm: Grant turned the tables on McMullen who is now running a pub. He wrote about his encounter in the New Statesman. The article was much discussed when it was publishe ...
  • Egypt: The return to Tahrir Square- live updates
    • Thousands flood Tahrir Square as clashes continue • Election plans in chaos amid calls for civilian government • ICC pressures Libya over Saif and Senussi • Syria locked in stand-off with Arab League over observers2.26pm: The latest death toll would appear to underscore the severity of the cla ...
  • First-time buyers could get government-backed ...
    New strategy aims to tackle housing shortage, boost economy, create jobs and get more people on housing ladder David Cameron and Nick Clegg have announced the introduction of taxpayer-backed 95% mortgages as part of a package of measures to help "unstick" the housing market and make the "dream ...
  • Playwright Shelagh Delaney dies
    Writer, 72, who made her name with A Taste of Honey had cancer, agent saysThe playwright Shelagh Delaney, best known for her 1958 play A Taste of Honey, has died at the age of 72.Delaney's agent, Jane Villiers, said on Monday that the writer had died of cancer at her daughter's home in eastern E ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • Australian PM flags early end to Afghan mission
    CANBERRA, Australia -; Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Monday that the Australian military training mission in Afghanistan could be completed before the 2014 target date, after an Afghan army ...
  • PM sticks to Afghan withdrawal timetable
    The exact timing of transition to Afghan control in Oruzgan province is not yet decided. (AAP) Prime Minister Julia Gillard has told parliament the government is sticking to its timetable for ...
  • IMF Sets New $134 Million Loan For Afghanistan
    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $134-million loan for Afghanistan after a year of negotiations stalled by a huge banking scandal. The IMF suspended its credit program for the ...
  • Is Afghanistan more violent
    Is Afghanistan more or less violent this year than in 2010?This is a crucial question in assessing progress in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization campaign. Counterinsurgency operations often ...
  • Afghan drought conditions could spell disaster
    Wheat crop failure, especially for poor rural Afghans, could be disastrous KABUL, 21 September 2011 (IRIN) - The current dry spell sweeping across Afghanistan's northern, northeastern and ...

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Washington Times Covers Department of no-Justice
    This week The Washington Times published a lament of Attorney General Eric Holder’s treatment of FBI whistleblowers based on a public complaint from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The article is aptly titled, “Grassley: Whistleblower Cases Stuck ‘in limbo’ Under Holder. ...
  • Grand Jury Report Sheds Light on McQueary's Wh ...
    There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that are important to note. First, McQueary’s initial report as a graduate assistant to his supervisor, Joe Paterno, wa ...
  • Jane Turner discusses McQueary's whistleblower ...
    NWC's Jane Turner was interviewed today on MSNBC about the Penn State child abuse scandal and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Tune in to Honesty Without Fear tomorrow to hear Jane and Steve Kohn discuss this question in more detail.  Visit msnbc.com for breaking ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Steve Kohn discusses the breaking story at Penn State and whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. Steve interviews Jane Turner who blew the whistle on the FBI’s failure to ...
  • Dodd-Frank CLE Seminar on November 29th in Phi ...
    Calling all Philadelphians, this month is your chance to hear an in-person talk with Stephen Kohn, Executive Director at the National Whistleblowers Center. He will be in town to teach a CLE seminar called, "The NEW Corporate Whistleblower Protections and Reward Provisions.” Join Ste ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant r ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratosph ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's foot ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for exampl ...

TechDirt

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Well, here's a surprise. For the past few years, we've had one "critic" in our comments in particular who has been particularly active. Yes, there is a small group of regular critics, but one has been, by far, the most active and most thorough in making sure to disagree with almost every post, ...
  • Aaron de Oliveira's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of ...
    You’re all under arrest. Pick an acronym: SOPA / ACTA / PROTECT-IP / CFAA. The end result seems to be the same. You’re a criminal. This week on Techdirt has been a wild ride through the arguments about and the consequences of some drastic ideas. The Department of Jus ...
  • Swedish Study Shows File Sharing And Music Buy ...
    It's an argument often made here at Techdirt: file sharers aren't always just leeches on the underside of content creators. Very often, they are true music fans constantly patrolling the cutting edge of music. A study released by Sweden's Internet Infrastructure Foundation shows that, among othe ...
  • Finns And Norwegians Argue Over Who Owns The N ...
    Perhaps it's because I live in the US, but I always associated the Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis with Alaska. Apparently, over in Europe, they associate it with some Scandanavian countries... but apparently there's a bit of a fight over which one. Matthew A. Sawtell alerts us to what he refer ...
  • E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Ve ...
    Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – and some are even starting to sue people for alleged copyright infringement (because that has worked so well elsewhere.) Perhaps they should take a look ...

VacTruth

  • Federal Health Agency Not Good at Vaccine Stat ...
    In a recent article, influenza statistics are taken to task for glaring misinterpretation by none other than the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. So what else is new?
  • 5 Ways Doctors Seduce Mothers Into Getting The ...
    Parents are being lied to and emotionally blackmailed by our governments, pharmaceutical industries, media and the medical profession. From the day children are born parents are seduced into having their children vaccinated with multiple vaccines full of toxins, poisons and chemicals.
  • This Test Standard Proves Vaccine Research Is ...
    Vaccines can cause neurological injury. It seems rather incredulous to believe that research scientists ignore death—even in a research study animal—after an animal is injected with a biological agent. But that is exactly the gold standard for testing live virus vaccines.
  • Does Vaccinology’s Right Hand Know What the Le ...
    This ingredient is used by scientists in fertility impairing vaccines.
  • 27 Dirty Little Vaccine Secrets Every Parent N ...
    Judging by the huge amount of publicity around vaccine promotion many are under the impression that the manufacturers know all about their products in detail. It may be shocking to discover that this is far from the truth.

BroadSnark

  • The Occupation of Franklin
    The Franklin School building in DC was occupied today. The building was being used as a homeless shelter until 2008, when the city closed it down just before winter. The plan was to sell it to a developer who would turn it into a boutique hotel. Homeless advocates, including Eric Sheptock, fough ...
  • Remember When All the Dudes Were Hot
    Some economist named Glen Whitman wrote a post called Pan Am and the Economics of Hot Flight Attendants. In it he claims that deregulation lowered air fares and made paying for hotness in your employees prohibitively expensive. Since I have read that piece, I have been racking my brain to think ...
  • Occupation and Motivation
    I hate this picture. I get the point that they are trying to make. The “99%” at the occupy protests are privileged, white, college kids who just want loan forgiveness. They aren’t really the people most suffering in the world. It is true that many of the people who are particip ...
  • The Fam Circa 1895
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I expect that I am going to be posting quite a bit on drug war issues in the near future, especially since I am at a drug war conference today. There has been some good reporting in the news lately, specifically: Mexico city’s mayor calling the drug war schizophrenic This New Yorker piece ...

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War in Context

  • UC Davis: The power of silence
    After the UC Davis pepper spraying, a string of lies and vacuous declarations: “The students had encircled the officers,” UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said. “They needed to exit. They were looking to leave but were unable to get out.” As the video above shows, ...
  • Andy Kroll: Occupy Wall Street’s political vic ...
    Twelve hours after Mayor Bloomberg’s cops evicted the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park, the space had been scrubbed down and repopulated with police and private-security types, up to 150 of them. In essence, since September there had been two occupations in the Wall Stre ...
  • 10 killed, 1700 injured in Cairo clashes
    Al-Masry Al-Youm reports: Presidential hopefuls Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh and Mohamed ElBaradei are speaking to Dream TV, a private satellite channel, criticizing both the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and the government for mishandling the situation in Tahrir. ElBaradei said the ...
  • A fight for control of Tahrir Square
    Al Jazeera reports: Egyptian security forces are engaged in back-and-froth street battles in downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square with thousands of defiant activists who filled the square for the second day of protests against the country’s interim military leaders. Thick clouds of tear gas fil ...
  • The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying
    Glenn Greenwald writes: The now-viral video of police officers in their Robocop costumes sadistically pepper-spraying peaceful, sitting protesters at UC-Davis (details here) shows a police state in its pure form. It’s easy to be outraged by this incident as though it’s some sort of s ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Carbon, on the uptake
    From the University of Bristol Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today’s climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by … Continue reading →
  • Don’t mock the Monck
    Apparently, Monckton is a member of the House of Lords, according to constitutional lawyer in England. I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’m just in it for the popcorn sales. That said, here’s the plot summary. A lot … Continue reading →
  • Duking It Out With Foreign Investors
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach The Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, has spoken out about windmills, and he’s not happy at all. Chris Huhne, the UK Energy Secretary, has said that people who oppose windmills are “curmudgeons … Continue reading →
  • Shades of Foster Grant
    Tamino Misses The Point And Attempts To Distract His Readers By Bob Tisdale The obvious intent of my recent post “17-Year And 30-Year Trends In Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies: The Differences Between Observed And IPCC AR4 Climate Models” was to illustrate … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Quote of the Week: “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Kidney dopamine regulates blood pressure, life ...
    The neurotransmitter dopamine is best known for its roles in the brain – in signaling pathways that control movement, motivation, reward, learning and memory. Now, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is ...
  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Another busy week of killing in Somalia:US terror drones kill 42 more in SomaliaUS terror drones kill 13 in south SomaliaUS terror drones k ...
  • Bleh
    Sick and on antibiotics. Back next week.
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Cody R. Norris, 20, of Houston, TX.Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas A. Daniels, 25, of Elmwood Par ...
  • 'No On Issue 2': A big win, and a big opportunity
    Ohio’s overwhelming rejection of the union-busting Senate Bill 5 still has people buzzing, for good reason. As We Are Ohio pointed out, it was first election in the country on collective bargaining rights, and it wasn’t even close. Ohio has 88 counties and exactly six - count &#821 ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Torturing too (outsourcing torture doesn’t give you plausible deniability, sorry.)We killed hundreds of people in Somalia this week ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Simple Tips for a Green Thanksgiving
    Thanksgiving is a time for gathering and giving thanks for all of life's bounties. Unfortunately, it's also a time when a lot of throwing away and wasting happens. In fact, it's estimated that between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans throw away a million tons of waste a week. The good ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Regroups, as Union Allies M ...
    After an early-morning, military-style police eviction, hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday at closely guarded metal barricades separating them from the downtown Manhattan plaza they've occupied for almost two months.Click here to read this article
  • Organic, Urban, Backyard Farmers Can Turn 'Big ...
    Why I support organic backyard gardening, urban farming and community-supported agriculture: There's a huge knowledge gap in farm country today.Click here to read this article
  • Common Infections Will Be 'Untreatable' if Ant ...
    The world is being pushed towards the unthinkable scenario of untreatable infections, warns a new paper published in the medical journal Lancet, blaming a decline in new drug discoveries and the rising numbers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.Click here to read this article
  • At Senate Hearing, Industry Split over Efforts ...
    The split surfaced at a Senate hearing about the latest version of a bill, introduced by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), that would update a 35-year-old law regulating chemicals found in everything from water bottles to crib mattresses. For the first time, the measure would require chemical c ...

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My Care2 Picks

  • CO2 emitted by the poor nations and absorbed b ...
    If the evil modern polluters were producing more CO2 wed see higher levels of CO2 there.Highest emissions are in China, and central Africa.The methane picture is remarkably similar.CO2 From the Evil Western Polluters meme has a serious hole in it Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...
  • UC Davis Chancellor Called to Resign After Pol ...
    UC Davis students showed solidarity with students at other UC campuses facing tuition increases and have been the victim of police brutality : Students sat on the ground in a circle ...he began spraying the students with orange-colored pepper spray. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • Flibe Energy
    New company will develop small modular reactors based on liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology, use a chemically stable medium as fuel and coolant, making them much safer to operate than conventional reactors. HT http://ergosphere.blogspot.com Submitted by John Farnham to Science &am ...
  • Weight of Chains
    Destruction of Yugoslavia via IMF reforms, NATO intervention Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • On the Credibility of Climate Research Part II ...
    Scientists are claiming that the scientific content of the IPCC reports is not compromised by climategate.Has a combination of groupthink, political advocacy and a noble cause syndrome stifled scientific debate, slowed down scientific progress and corrupt Submitted by John Farnham to Environment ...

Angry Indian News

  • West Papuans illegally detained at PNG Border ...
    West Papuans illegally detained at PNG Border || AK Rockefeller: The father of a West Papuan musician has been detained by police at Vanimo along Papua New Guinea’s border with Indonesia.Ronny Kareni... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Venezuela Launches School for Human Rights and ...
    Venezuela Launches School for Human Rights and People’s Power - EcclezaFrom: Venezuelanalysis Last week, the Venezuelan Public Defender’s Office launched a school for human rights education that... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 19/11/2011- Embarrassing foot-dragging by the ...
    I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe19/11/2011- Embarrassing foot-dragging by the mainstream parties and growing political turmoil, even for Greece's anarchic standards, has enabled a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Report: Child labor used to collect scrap meta ...
    Report: Child labor used to collect scrap metal from bomb sites in Gaza - International Middle East Media CenterAccording to an investigation by the Ma’an News Agency in Gaza, the illegal use of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station
    Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station: [972mag.com] A small radio station, “Kol Hashalom,” unique in that it was directed jointly by a Palestinian and a Jew, was abruptly shut down by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • On Becoming Illegal…
    My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five year ...
  • Chem Webs USA: Order your testing kits!
    Test your chemtrail fallout.
  • The Goldman Sachs Goodfellas
    The corporate whores on Wall Street commercialized and stole the spirit of Christmas. How about taking back Christmas and not buying one corporate made gift?
  • ‘Tis the Season: Grinch THIS, Corporate America!
    How can we, as a nation, wrestle our economy from the grip of greedy corporations when we play into their hands every year? Why do we buy their lies this time of year while rejecting them the rest of the year? How can we stop the cycle of debt? How about this: a nationwide boycott of Christmas p ...
  • TS Radio… vertical farming, forestry, farming, ...
     Join us Tuesday evenings at 8:00CST! 6:00PST.. 8:00CST 9:00EST Listen live here! At 8:00 CST Callin #: 917-388-4520 Skype Join us this evening as Debbie Bacigalupi, a leader in the land rights fight in Siskiyou County California, returns to update us on the destruction of the Klamath Dams and t ...

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • CIA forced to curb spying in Lebanon
    ShareThisCIA forced to curb spying in Lebanon --Source: up to one dozen CIA informants had been compromised 20 Nov 2011 The CIA was forced to curtail its spying in Lebanon, where U.S. operatives and their agents collect crucial intelligence on Syria, terrorist groups and other targets, after the ...
  • Al Qaeda sympathizer plotted to bomb police, N ...
    ShareThisAl Qaeda sympathizer plotted to bomb police, N.Y. mayor says --Suspect is identified as 'lone wolf' American citizen 20 Nov 2011 Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday an 'Al Qaeda' sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested on numerous charg ...
  • US debt-reduction panel spirals toward failure
    ShareThisUS debt-reduction panel spirals toward failure --Barring breakthrough, super dictatorship to concede failure on Monday 20 Nov 2011 A months-long effort to set U.S. finances on a sustainable course appeared likely to end in failure on Monday as lawmakers in Congress were unable to bridge ...
  • New York police arrest man trying to build bomb
    ShareThisNew York police arrest man trying to build bomb --Pimentel had been under surveillance since May 2009 and was a 'lone wolf.' 20 Nov 2011 New York officials said on Sunday police had arrested a man trying to build a pipe bomb with instructions from an al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] magazine which ...
  • Lone wolf terror suspect arrested in New York
    ShareThisBreaking False Flag: Lone wolf terror suspect arrested in New York --News conference by mayor, police commissioner, and Manhattan district attorney underway 20 Nov 2011 A person close to a New York City police investigation says a Manhattan resident suspected of plotting to bomb various ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix – A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Pocket Spies
    Image created with iPhone4s 17 November 2011 We know the Internet has dangers.  Everything we put onto the information superhighway should be considered chiseled into marble.  Meanwhile, those smartphones that so many of us carry are tantamount to carrying hostile spies in our pocket ...
  • What is Your Vote?
    17 November 2011 The United States faces greater threats at home than we face in Afghanistan.  The Mexican border, for instance, is being described as a war zone.  People have been warning about it years.  Over time, I have seriously considered changing focus to the more proximat ...
  • Marked for Destruction
    14 November 2011 Camouflage is a combat imperative.  Instruction in the use of camouflage begins in basic training.  The Red Cross on the bright white background is meant to break up camouflage and to be seen. While there might seem little chance in hiding a roaring helicopter, the c ...
  • That 1%
    11 November 2011 It has been an honor these seven years to cover American and British troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines and elsewhere.  It is said that only about 1% of Americans serve in the armed forces.  Many of our troops are not even American citizens.  I see them in ...
  • Question for Congressman Pompeo: What is your ...
    08 November 2011 Forward Operating Base Pasab is in the upper left corner of this image.  It’s the little rectangle looking area bristling with machine guns.  Well, you can’t see the machine guns in this picture, but they are there.  One time I walked by a guard post and didn’t s ...

The Killing Train

  • The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadia ...
    [This article, by Shourideh Molavi and myself, was first published in The Bullet - version with links is there]. The regressive politics of the Iranian-Canadian Khevari petition Shourideh Molavi and Justin Podur November 11, 2011 On October 12, members of the Iranian-Canadian community sent a pe ...
  • An interview for occupy Toronto
    Activist and comedian Jesse Owens interviewed me for the #occupyto.org website, way back in ancient occupy toronto history (ie., October 26). For posterity, I am also reproducing it here. Thanks Jesse... --- read more
  • Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
    I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
  • The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
    The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
  • The Housing Crisis in Haiti
    There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN panel releases summary on risk management i ...
    [JURIST] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [official website], a UN-led scientific panel, on Saturday released the Summary for Policymakers [PDF] of the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The summar ...
  • Libya prime minister assures fair trial for Ga ...
    [JURIST] Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim al-Keib on Saturday pledged that Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will receive a fair trial. A fugitive since his father's regime fell last month [JURIST report], the highest-profile son of deceased former dictator Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive ...
  • ICTY prosecutors seek to speed up Mladic trial ...
    [JURIST] Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] on Friday proposed a reduction in the amount of evidence they planned to present against former Serbian general and alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; JURIST ne ...
  • Brazil president creates truth commission to p ...
    [JURIST] Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff [BBC profile] on Friday signed a law [press release, in Portuguese] establishing a truth commission to investigate human rights abuses perpetrated by the military from 1946 to 1988. The bill does not, however, overturn the 1979 Amnesty Law [text, PDF, ...
  • Ban Ki-moon to visit Myanmar, praises ongoing ...
    [JURIST] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official profile] announced on Saturday that he hopes to visit Myanmar soon, after meeting [UN News Centre report] with President Thien Sein [BBC backgrounder]. Ban also congratulated Sein on the country's strive toward democracy, as well as its naming ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Why Did Perry Get Into the Race, Really?
    Republican consultants at loose ends and looking for work sold the Texas governor a bill of goods about his prospects So I have this theory about why Gov. Rick Perry decided to run for president, despite what appeared to be his instincts telling him that the job just wasn't for him. There ca ...
  • Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
    The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Abbasi-Davani speaks at the 55th IAEA General Conference in Vienna / Reuters The Obama administration insists that a major new U.N. report on Iran's nuclear prog ...
  • Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
    After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information and guarding secrets By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up inter ...
  • Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
    American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter So here was the main protocol problem the United States faced on Sept. 23, 2009: President Barack Obama was set to give his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly, ...
  • Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
    The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again. For two and a half years, President Obama has walked a narrow lane, like one of the bike strips that Mike Bloomberg (more technocratic, but of a like mind) p ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Goldberg-Gorenberg Lib-Zionist Love Fest Featu ...
    The NY Times made the odd choice of selecting liberal Zionist hawk Jeffrey Goldberg to review Gershom Gorenberg’s new paean to lib Zionism, The Unmaking of Israel.  I’m only surprised that they didn’t assign the review to “Eytan” Bronner, that other Times paragon of ...
  • Israeli Court Granted Gag Order in Peace Now P ...
      Israeli media are reporting (Hebrew) that the police have arrested a suspect in the Peace Now price tag attacks and death threats against Hagit Ofran.  The suspect has confessed to his role in phoning bomb threats to the Peace Now office and vandalizing Ofran’s apartment building wi ...
  • Israeli Police Silence Peace Radio Station
    Israeli police have just succeeding in murdering peace (Hebrew)–or at least the voice of peace that Israelis and Palestinians can hear on the radio.   Police summoned the Radio Kol HaShalom (“All for Peace” Radio, which is a play on Kol HaShalom, Abie Natan’s radio statio ...
  • Declining Israeli Press Freedom: If Reporter H ...
    While there are myriad stories recounting the assault against democracy in Israel, none is more important evident than the emasculation of the Israeli press.  While it has always been subject to censorship on matters related to national security, the pressure against honest, courageous reporting ...
  • Target of Sabotage Attack Against Iran Were Sa ...
    Alex Fishman, reporting in today’s Yediot, writes that according to U.S. intelligence, the target of attack at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard missile base was the nation’s most advanced missile prototypes the Sajjil and Ghadr F.  I’d been reporting that the missile test involv ...

If Americans Knew

  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.

David J. Gregory

  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
    (661) 449-9342 The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
      Dear Editor,   The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number".   How can flying ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]

Unsuitable Blog

  • Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
    The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
  • Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
    Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
  • Moving Planet Just Moved!
    Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com
  • An Open Letter to Mike Gonzalez, and Everyone ...
    To: Professor Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University Hi Mike I’ve just read your article “Eva Morales Defence of Mother Earth Rings Hollow in Bolivia” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/evo-morales-indigenous-people-protest) and am a little concerned. I assume (hope) you ...
  • Occupy Wall Street: The Futility and the Oppor ...
    There are a couple of quotations which I would like to share with you. Read them carefully; they will possibly make you angry, or perhaps you will be nodding furiously in agreement with one if not both of them. They are important quotations. This is the first: One will find hundreds, sometimes t ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • DocumentCloud Shows Off Popcorn.js Plug-in at ...
    DocumentCloud visited London at the beginning of November for the Mozilla Festival. This year's festival focused on media, freedom and the web. DocumentCloud, a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web, fit comfortably alongside a v ...
  • Feeding OpenBlock: A New Newsroom Pet That Eat ...
    A few months ago, my kids hit an inevitable, but still terrifying, milestone -- they began asking for a pet. Being a complete Scrooge, I quickly set to work explaining that pets are hard work and expensive. Showing a strong knack for journalism, they demanded proof of my assertions, so we set of ...
  • Public Lab's 'Barnraising' Focuses on DIY Infr ...
    Stephen Debique, a student from Trinidad, carefully removed the screws from the digital camera, trying not to destroy it in the process. His hands shook a little as he hesitated just before popping the hot-filter off the heart of the machine with exactly the correct amount of pressure. After a f ...
  • Journalism in the Open: Are Our Systems for Le ...
    This week on MediaShift, we're exploring the moving target that is teaching journalism. Stay tuned as we offer tips, tools and insights on educating tomorrow's journalists. "Beyond J-School 2011" is sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, which offers an intensive, cutting ed ...
  • Open Source Meets Mobile in Ashoka's Citizen M ...
    As world events like Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and the Japanese tsunami disaster have shown, YouTube and social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook have the capacity to turn just about anyone into a journalist. It's a trend that leaves some traditional media outlets skeptical ...

Cutting Edge News

  • RFE/RL NEWS - Riots in Egypt claim twenty lives.
    Hundreds of protesters are facing off with security forces in Cairo's central Tahrir Square as part of a fresh wave of protests challenging the country's ruling military authorities.Protesters clashed with security forces over the weekend in violence that officials now say left at least 20 peopl ...
  • Health Care on Edge - Keeping an Eye on Insura ...
    If there is one organization that insurers despise and fear more than any other, it surely must be Consumer Watchdog.Since its founding in 1985, Los Angeles-based Consumer Watchdog has dogged insurers relentlessly and played a key role numerous times in forcing them to change business practices ...
  • American Economy on Edge - We Don’t Want to En ...
    The Wall Street Journal calls the economic implosion now taking place in Europe “a crisis of the welfare state.”The latest European nation to hit the wall is Italy, where national debt is 120 percent of GDP. That is, for every dollar their national economy produces, they owe $1.20.The Journal ca ...
  • Israel on Edge - Shared Security, Greater Stab ...
    While the Obama administration has pursued Middle East policies that could be characterized as being sometimes indifferent to Israel's precarious security situation, relations between our Department of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces are as good today, if not better,  than they have e ...
  • Poisoned Places - Town Divided over Major Empl ...
    “This person right here has cancer. His granddaughter has cancer.”Jeff Galemore pointed to house after house as he steered his white pickup through a tree-lined neighborhood in Chanute, Kansas, a town of 9,000 on the state’s southeastern prairie.“This gal has cancer,” the 53-year-old oilfield wo ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William Hicks Continuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry Grey US payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it.   Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber   Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The ma ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rheto ...

Yid With Lid

  • Pat Caddell & Doug Schoen Tell Obama, "Please ...
    Pat Caddell & Doug Schoen, pollsters for the two Democratic Party presidents before Obama (Carter and Clinton) have an unusual op-ed piece in today's WSJ. It is not unusual in its content, because many Democratic Party "moderates" agree with them. What makes this request different is it was ...
  • Muslim Convert Arrested by NYPD in Terror Plot ...
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (if you cannot see video above please click here) Although you wouldn't know he was a Muslim convert from many of the news reports,  27-year-old Jose Pimentel, a loner who lives with his mother in Washington H ...
  • Ron Paul-The Appeasement Candidate
    Ron Paul's view of what American foreign policy should be is so simple it could be explained in a picture, a man whose head is firmly planted in the sand. It's one thing to believe that American troops are deployed in too many places across the world, even to believe that we have been eng ...
  • Why Do Western Elites Minimize Radical Threats ...
    By Barry Rubin A leading journalist heard my analysis on the rise of the radical Islamists, how U.S. policy is helping them, and why this is a disaster. His response? How could I say that Hamas was radical and wanted to wipe out Israel since it had not continually attacked Israel from the ...
  • Newsbusted Exclusive: Major Hiring Boom in Chi ...
    According to to Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller, the Windy City is about to experience a Major Hiring boom and it is all tied to former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich's rise in the GOP polls. If you are looking for work in Chicago, make sure to watch this report. From what I hear, no experien ...

The Real Agenda

  • CIA Spies Found and Captured in Lebanon
    Associated Press November 21, 2011 The CIA’s operations in Lebanon have been badly damaged after Hezbollah identified and captured a number of U.S. spies recently, current and former U.S. officials told The Associated Press. The intelligence debacle is particularly troubling because the CI ...
  • El Agua no es Saludable dicen Tecnócratas de l ...
    Esta afirmación está liderando el camino hacia políticas tiránicas que se impondrán paulatinamente por los Estados, cuyo objetivo será establecer que la gente no tiene el derecho de disfrutar de agua potable, ya que el líquido, dicen, no es saludable y por lo tanto no es una necesidad básica. Tr ...
  • US Ramps Up Global War Agenda
    by Finian Cunningham GlobalResearch November 21, 2011 Like a schoolyard bully, President Barack Obama is flexing American military muscle as he currently sweeps through the Asia-Pacific region. The nominal impetus for the tour was the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Hawai ...
  • Fake terror plots and paid informants: Welcome ...
    FBI targeting vulnerable people by luring them into fake terror plots. by Paul Harris Guardian.co.uk November 18, 2011 David Williams did not have an easy life. He moved to Newburgh, a gritty, impoverished town on the banks of the Hudson an hour or so north of New York, at just 10 years old. For ...
  • Ron Paul: Obamacare is more Fascism than Socialism
    by Page Winfield Washington Post November 18, 2011 It’s doubtful whether anyone opposes President Obama’s health care law more than Ron Paul, but the Texas congressman said Wednesday that the sweeping legislation is not socialized medicine — contrary to claims made by his fellow pres ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farms are useless, says Duke
    The Duke of Edinburgh has made a fierce attack on wind farms, describing them as “absolutely useless”. In a withering assault on the onshore wind turbine industry, the Duke said the farms were “a disgrace”. He also criticised the industry’s reliance on subsidies from electricity customers, claim ...
  • Shelburne wind farm plan withdrawn; Landowner ...
    SHELBURNE FALLS — The $40 million, eight-turbine Mount Massaemet wind farm proposal has been taken off the table … for now. Frederick D. Field quietly withdrew his Zoning Board of Appeals special permit application at the end of a long meeting Thursday night that brought out 250 residents from s ...
  • Petitions reject wind power development
    AUGUSTA — A majority of residents in Concord and Lexington townships, as well as Highland Plantation, have signed petitions opposing wind power development in their area of Somerset County. A group of those residents traveled to Augusta on Thursday to present the petitions to the office of ...
  • Developers drop plans for two wind farms on St ...
    BURNS — Developers on Thursday dropped plans for two wind energy projects on the north slopes of Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon. Columbia Energy Partners LLC and its affiliate, CEP Funding of Vancouver, Wash., canceled the East Ridge and West Ridge projects on private property for ...
  • Renewable energy in Constellation deal questioned
    Promises to build more renewable energy sites in Maryland as part of the proposed sale of Constellation Energy to Chicago’s Exelon Corp. are drawing opposition in western Maryland. The chairman of the Garrett County Board of Commissioners wrote Exelon President and CEO Christopher Crane th ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Putting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow&#8217 ...
    Bureaucratic dominance does not merely lower material living standards or reduce profit opportunities. It crushes lives and dreams.
  • Pressure Mounts on European Central Bank
    “The financial stability of Europe has come down to one institution, the European Central Bank, which is now under heavy new pressure to rescue the euro — or possibly see it collapse.” (New York Times) Central banks will be central banks. FEE Timely Classic “Free Banking Beats ...
  • Congress Passes Spending Bill
    “On Thursday, the House and Senate passed a bill that provided a detailed vision of the federal government on a diet.” (Washington Post) Some diet. FEE Timely Classic “Most Outrageous Government Waste” by Thomas A. Schatz
  • GOP Faces Internal Battle over Tax Increase
    “Growing Republican support for raising taxes to help reduce the deficit has prompted a GOP identity crisis, sparking a clash within the party over whether to abandon its bedrock anti-tax doctrine.” (New York Times) Unsurprising. FEE Timely Classic “Are High Taxes the Basis of ...
  • Government Debt Hits $15 Trillion
    “The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the federal debt has climbed to a record $15 trillion — a staggering figure that caps a precipitous decade-long rise.” (Washington Times) A truly historic day. FEE Timely Classic “The Debt Sky” by Sheldon Richman

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Classroom helpers for j-school
    In the fall, when the new school year begins in the northern hemisphere, older posts on this blog find a new life. I’m so happy to see that people are finding useful things here! These are some of the top posts from the past week: How to shoot video interviews Getting started with Wor ...
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
    For some people, “visual storytelling” means photographs. For others, it means film or video. An epic movie such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy may spring to mind — and few would disagree with that as a fine example of visual storytelling. In journalism writing classes, stud ...
  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in ...

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Progress in Sierra Leone, but Not for the Youth
    President Koroma has improved electricity supply, healthcare and roads in Sierra Leone, but the country's young people have not received the education or opportunities they need.
  • Land Grabs and the World Bank
    Farmers in developing countries are seeing their land taken from them and sold off to investors, and the World Bank is playing a hand in the deals.
  • Childbirth in Developing Countries
    Maternal deaths occur at a rate 300 times higher in developing countries than in the developed world. International health initiatives are working to address the problem.
  • Tunisia First to Govern in Era of Transition
    Tunisian's election of its Constituent Assembly represents the first step in the Arab Spring's transitioning from revolution to democratization.
  • U.S. Forces in Uganda
    President Obama's decision to deploy U.S. special forces to Central Africa to help end the LRA insurgency led by Joseph Kony raises a number of questions about the mission.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • What’s happening in Europe is what matters: ru ...
    The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece.  The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged.  Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
  • What’s happening in Europe is what matte ...
    The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece.  The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged.  Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...
  • The Occupy Education Continues
    A huge coordinated attack in multiple cities occurred last night, in which even journalists were thrown in jail.  Many protestors are being denied access to lawyers. Bloomberg and the police are in direct violation of a court order to allow protestors back into the park. In other words, the law ...
  • The Occupy Education Continues
    A huge coordinated attack in multiple cities occurred last night, in which even journalists were thrown in jail.  Many protestors are being denied access to lawyers. Bloomberg and the police are in direct violation of a court order to allow protestors back into the park. In other words, the law ...
  • In Flanders Fields
    by John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • FDA revokes approval of breast cancer drug
    It’s finally official: the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn its approval of the drug Avastin (bevacizumab) to treat advanced breast cancer. Avastin retains its approval for some other colon, kidney, and brain cancers. The decision comes as no surprise to those watching the ...
  • Ruth's Reviews: And the winner is….
    Last night, at a ceremony in London, Gavin Pretor-Pinney was named as this year’s Royal Society Winton Book Prize winner. His winning book, The Wavewatcher’s Companion, is his second, and followed naturally in the footsteps of The Cloudspotter’s Guide. He told me “many waves are revealed by cl ...
  • Chilean desert yields trove of whale fossils
    Posted on behalf of Patricio Segura. In Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest in the world, a team of researchers from institutions in Chile, Brazil and the United States has found more than 80 exquisitely preserved whale fossils. The finds, made near the northern city of Caldera, are just ...
  • Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light ...
    18 November 2011: An updated version of this story is now available (see 'Neutrino experiment replicates faster-than-light finding'). It is a remarkable confirmation of a stunning result; but most physicists remain skeptical. That seems the most probable outcome of a release of new data exp ...
  • Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light ...
    It is a remarkable confirmation of a stunning result; but most physicists remain skeptical. That seems the most probable outcome of a release of new data expected on 17 November from researchers with the Italian OPERA collaboration, who say they have confirmed their controversial finding that fl ...

new geography

  • Urbanizing India: The 2011 Census Shows Slowin ...
    Provisional results from the 2011 census of India show a diminishing population, the lowest since independence in 1947. From 2001 to 2007, India's population grew 17.6%, compared to a 20% to 25% growth rate in previous periods since the 1951 census. Even so, India is expected to virtually ca ...
  • The Best Cities For Technology Jobs
    During tough economic times, technology is often seen as the one bright spot. In the U.S. this past year technology jobs outpaced the overall rate of new employment nearly four times. But if you’re looking for a tech job, you may want to consider searching outside of Silicon Valley. Though the ...
  • Toyota: How Mississippi Engineered the Blue Sp ...
    A big crowd gathered earlier today to welcome the first Corolla that rolled off the assembly line at Toyota’s tenth U.S. plant in the tiny hamlet of Blue Springs, Mississippi. Situated in Union County, just 17 miles from Elvis’ hometown of Tupelo, the new plant is the latest new automobile manuf ...
  • The New World Order: A Report on the World's E ...
    This is the introduction to a new report, "The New World Order" authored by Joel Kotkin in partnership with the Legatum Institute. Read the full report and view the maps at the project website. The fall of the Soviet Union nearly a quarter of a century ago forced geographers and polic ...
  • Do Standardized Tests Raise Dropout Rates?
    The No Child Left Behind Act became law in 2002. Among other things, it required standardized testing of students, beginning in 2003. The scores are used to evaluate the quality of the schools. It sounds reasonable. Congress certainly thought so. It was co-authored in the Senate by Edward K ...

GM Watch

  • GE law probe a big surprise
    1. GE law probe a big surprise 2.Government Research Agenda Goes Against New Zealand Brand --- --- 1.GE law probe a big surprise David Fisher New Zealand herald, November 20 2011 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10767413 A highly sensitive Government study i ...
  • Bt cotton fails farmers in state
    Bt cotton fails farmers in state The New Indian Express, Nov 21 2011 http://ibnlive.in.com/news/bt-cotton-fails-farmers-in-state/204257-60-118.html CHENNAI: For Arul Venkatesan, a cotton-growing farmer in the Aroor block of Dharmapuri district, the stand that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa took ...
  • Wave of suicides among Indian farmers
    NOTE: It's the largest wave of suicides in recorded history. EXTRACT: Vandana Moohorle is now bringing up her children alone after her husband killed himself by drinking pesticide. Like many farmers, he had been persuaded to use genetically modified seeds by the possibility of a better harvest ...
  • GM Crops - Contamination without Representation
    Genetically Modified Crops - Contamination without Representation April Scott  Salem-News.com, Nov 17 2011  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php If Oregon allows GM sugar beets to be deregulated, we may not stand a chance against full federal deregulation of all GM ...
  • GM Crops - Contamination without Representation
    Genetically Modified Crops - Contamination without Representation April Scott  Salem-News.com, Nov 17 2011  http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november172011/gm-beets-as.php If Oregon allows GM sugar beets to be deregulated, we may not stand a chance against full federal deregulation of all GM ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no app ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
    Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken?  The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement.  It is an ...
  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...
  • 35 Facts About The Gutting Of America’s ...
    Did you know that an average of 23 manufacturing facilities were shut down every single day in the United States last year?  As World War II ended, the United States emerged as the greatest industrial power that the world has ever seen.  But now America's industrial might is bein ...
  • The Police State Vs. Occupy Wall Street: This ...
    Right now, we are watching the early rounds of a heavyweight fight between two extremely determined opponents.  Occupy Wall Street has no plans of losing this fight and neither do law enforcement authorities.  Perhaps those running the show actually believed that raiding Zuccotti ...
  • 22 Signs That The Thin Veneer Of Civilization ...
    In order for a society to function, there has to be a certain level of trust.  Each day when we leave our homes, we take for granted that most people are not going to attack us for no reason, that there will only be isolated incidents of theft in our community and that rioting an ...

Desertification

  • The beauty and value of container gardening (E ...
    Seen at Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=256377854400675&set=oa.164997216918844&type=1&theater Growing vegetables like zucchinis, bell peppers and cherry tomatoes on his balcony, Edrick Tobias MOLINA said : ” …. I could harvest more than enough for my fam ...
  • Reforestation with fruit trees (Fabio RUIZ / W ...
    Here is a message from Fabio RUIZ (Mexico) : “I found this free e-book, The nut culturist, by Andrew S. Fuller and I think its amazing that the author in 1896 talked about substituting the trees like the elm in … Continue reading →
  • Brazil : the School Feeding Programme or Zero ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/home-grown-food-in-schools-for-a-green-economy/ In Brazil, outstanding localized school feeding practices are recognized annually by the government-backed programme known as Zero Hunger Action (Ação Fome Zero). Over 30 municipalities are nominated each year, ...
  • Home-grown food in schools : We all have the r ...
    Read at : http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/home-grown-food-in-schools-for-a-green-economy/ Home-grown food in schools for a green economy by Kei Otsuki As next June’s Rio+20 summit on sustainable development approaches, discussions about how to effectively establish a green economy are surging. But as ...
  • Growing fruit, vegetables at home to cut depen ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/18/urban-farmers-in-india-growing-fruit-vegetables-at-home-to-cut-dependence-on-market/ ‘Urban farmers’ in India growing fruit, vegetables at home to cut dependence on market Linked by Michael Levenston “The importance and requirement for urban agricu ...

The Paper Trail

  • ANALYSIS: The health care industry's strangleh ...
    One of the reasons why Congress has been largely unable to make the American health care system more efficient and equitable is because of the stranglehold lobbyists for special interests have on the institution.Whenever lawmakers consider any kind of meaningful reform, the proposed remedies ine ...
  • Half of GOP’s biggest bundlers still haven’t p ...
    The party’s most loyal presidential fundraisers are 46 people who “bundled” at least $24 million for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 and for John McCain in 2008. Of those triple hitters, nearly half have yet to tap their networks to back a candidate to head the Republican ticket in 2012, the ana ...
  • Iranian help suspected in secret Libyan chemic ...
    The Obama administration is investigating whether Iran supplied the Libyan government of Moammar Gaddafi with hundreds of special artillery shells for chemical weapons that Libya kept secret for decades, U.S. officials said.
  • Fishing nations approve overhaul of bluefin tu ...
    Nearly 50 countries that trade in high-priced Eastern Atlantic Bluefin Tuna voted Saturday to transform an archaic paper-based system into an electronic fish-tracking database that will make it harder for fleets to smuggle plundered bluefin into market.
  • The weekly watchdog: Nov. 14 - Nov. 18
    In case you missed them, catch up on this week's top investigations from iWatch News.

backofthebook.ca

  • 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 ...

libcom

  • St. Louis, MO, USA: N17 March Against Austerit ...
    6356083443_1721b97494_o.jpg It should be clear that before the Occupy movement, there has always been a struggle against the rich, against the 1%, against capitalism, against whatever you want to call ...
  • Marginality and Universality: The Indigenous W ...
    A critique written in the days following the 17th General Assembly. I apologise for the poor formatting, but I've been working on this all week and am thoroughly sick of it. I welcome your comments here or on my blog. The 17th ...
  • All-City Student Occupation @ 90 5th Avenue – ...
    acsobanner1.jpg A joint statement authored by the All-NYC Student General Assembly. Two days ago the NYPD, under the orders of a billionaire mayor who does not represent us, rai ...
  • Italy: Occupy Everywhere, Occupy Everything! N ...
    torino.jpg …And here we go again! Italy’s streets were put under occupation once again today, as part of the “International Student’s Day”, originally created to commemorate the students deported by t ...
  • The Assault on Autonomous Education in Southea ...
    zapatista_autonomous_schools.jpg This article is being published to coincide with the issuing of the Worldwide Declaration in Support of the Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico by The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas H ...

Free Range International

  • EFP’s
    During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...
  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
    Much has transpired since my visit to Zaranj last month.  I learned just this morning that the Surge apparently did not work and we are now, according to our esteemed Secretary of State, switching tactics too.  The new counterinsurgency tactic will be “Fight, Talk, Build” and if you ...
  • Sanctuary Denied?
    Last week I received and heads up from Mullah John that General Allen and Ambassador Crocker were on 60 Minutes and was able to watch the show on AFN.  The one thing I noticed when watching General Allen was the emotion clearly evident as he discussed the truck bomb has had asked the Pakistani m ...
  • Free Ranging Balochistan
    I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province.  When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night.  The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...
  • Diplomacy 101
    I am in the middle of an interesting few days as we finish up our projects, some of the larger ones with official ceremonies.  Those of you who follow Michael Yon on facebook know where I am and what we have been up to.  What is interesting to watch is Michael, myself and our friend [...]

The Story Behind the Story

  • Dr. Sowell Comments on OWS — SHORT AND S ...
    Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author. A National Humanities Medal winner, he advocates laissez-faire economics and writes from a libertarian perspective. He is currently a Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public ...
  • Pedophilia a Doctrine of the Kaballah and the ...
    Thanks to studying a number of obscure books on the Kaballah and the Talmud, I can say with 100% assurance that pedophilia and child sexual abuse is most definitely a mainstay of certain Khazarian Rabbis and Talmudists in America and Israel.  This, along with RITUAL MURDER is their deep, dark se ...
  • Hayden Fox Weighs In — Additional Confir ...
    Sandusky Part of Illuminati Pedophile Network November 13, 2011 By Hayden Fox (henrymakow.com) The Penn State-Jerry Sandusky scandal may just be getting started.   Undisclosed allegations implicate Sandusky in a massive homosexual pedophile ring.  There is a report Sandusky “pimped out&#82 ...
  • Reprint of 1999 Article by John Torell
    Sometimes you come across the writings of another author that mirrors your own research and study completely.   So it is with this 1999 evangelical warning to all Americans. In light of the CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE  – PENN STATE SAGA – this becomes especially relevant. Enjoy!   Eur ...
  • Conspiracy of Silence – Penn State Chapt ...
    There is an epic “Story Behind the Story” concerning Penn State University and the firing of PSU President Graham Spanier and of course “legendary” football coach Joe Paterno last week. Let’s review what has been ALLOWED to be released by the heavily censored, Jewis ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...
  • Repair It-Don’t Replace It-Concrete Steps
    Repairing Concrete Steps instead of Replacing-Job Notes, Suggestions, and Hints. Whether it is downturn of economy or people choosing to save money, many of my clients are choosing to “Repair rather than Replace” the materials used in the construction of their home or business. If yo ...
  • Poll-How can I help you Save Money on your Win ...
    POll-How can I help you Save Money on your Winter-Time Heating Bills? [contact-form] [/contact-form] Related articles Reduce your heating bill this winter (moneysaversdirect.com) CAD Detail Heat and Cold Loss-2×4 Wall (scottscontracting.wordpress.com) Fall Weatherization Services Offer (scottsco ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • How the Working Class Vanished from Progressiv ...
    (This is the 2nd of 4 blogs about the effect of OWS on the traditional working class.) If OWS comes to be seen as a movement run predominantly by and for the working class, it will be the first grassroots movement to do so since the Great Depression. The last major mass movement during the Vietn ...
  • Is the OWS Movement Working Class?
    There is heated debate across the political spectrum whether OWS represents a genuine working class movement. The issue is vitally important, both to social change activists and the political elite. It will determine whether OWS succeeds in engaging the 80% of the population who spend their enti ...
  • Ending Corporate Rule: the Citizens’ Ri ...
    There is lots of media speculation about the fate of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) over winter. Wall Street and Washington politicians are hoping OWS will simply vanish with colder weather. At this point, I think this is highly unlikely. I suspect the size of public occupations on the East Coast wil ...
  • Don’t Eat the Fish
        *** How the EPA Violated Their Own Guidelines (This is the second of two blogs about the human health hazards of oil spills.) In what most likely amounts to criminal conspiracy, the Obama administration pressured the EPA to violate their own guidelines and reopen the Gulf fisher ...
  • Oil Spills Can Kill You
    Dr Riki Ott Marine Toxicologist The Conspiracy of Silence around PAHs Recently volunteers from all over New Zealand flocked to one of our most pristine beach and wildlife areas to help clean up a massive fuel oil spill from a freighter that ran aground off Tauranga. The g ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Me ...
    Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the cost of ...
  • #OccupyAmerica
    Anchorage, AK (VIDEO) | Birmingham, AL (VIDEO) | Phoenix, AZ | Prescott, AZ (VIDEO) | Tucson, AZ | Berkeley, CA; Protesters target Bank of America | Camarillo, CA | Fresno, CA; 100 rally downtown (VIDEO) | Long Beach, CA | Los Angeles, CA; 10 arrested trying to cash over-sized check made out to ...
  • Top Wall Street Banker: 'Obama Mostly Wanted t ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfe ...
  • Obama to Top Bankers: 'I'm Protecting You ... ...
    On March 27, 2009, President Obama and his economic team met at the White House with the heads of thirteen major U.S. banks: Ken Chenault of American Express; Ken Lewis, Bank of America; Robert Kelly, Bank of New York Mellon; Vikram Pandit, Citigroup; John Koskinen, Freddie Mac; Lloyd Blankfein, ...
  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...

Salon

  • Congress seeks to tame the Internet
    Ever since the days of Napster,  the recording industry and movie industry have treated the Internet as a place on the map marked "Here be dragons." For the last decade, Hollywood and big music have spent time not innovating, but trying to get the U.S. Congress to help them tame the Internet. Ov ...
  • Egypt uses U.S. teargas on pro-democracy crowds
    CAIRO--Late Saturday evening the air here was heavy with suffocating smoke as Egyptian security personnel battled street protesters for control of Tahrir Square.  A protester, who told me his name was Karim,  held up a used teargas canister and pointed to the label: "Made in USA."“People need to ...
  • The face of police cruelty
    I've seen so many shocking photos and videos of police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters and their far-flung supporters around the country. But there's something about this now-viral video, of a UC Davis police officer casually and cruelly pepper-spraying a line of non-violent prot ...
  • Why are we still eating bluefin tuna?
    If you eat fish regularly, you've probably grown used to regularly being told by conservation groups — or that slightly irritating, politically correct friend — that certain fish shouldn't be eaten: American striped bass, Atlantic swordfish, Chilean sea bass and Caspian sturgeon have all been th ...
  • Bank of America’s billion-dollar spin
    In the midst of our foreclosure crisis, it felt good to hear the TV commercial say that some homeless people in Brooklyn, N.Y., were able to move into decent housing. One little girl who had been living in a shelter was thrilled to have her own room, and with air-conditioning yet! Better still, ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Solyndra Is Not The Failure It Appears
    Properly understood the DOE’s loans and grants are investments in technology, not in individual companies. Individual companies may come and go. Ownership of the financed technologies may change. Whether the stockholders of Solyndra make a return on their investment or are wiped out in a bank ...
  • From the Oil Disaster Frontlines: Victory Up N ...
    As Keystone XL protesters savor their victory to postpone the pipeline project, another recent oil policy decision did not turn out so well; a plan to expand drilling operations in the oil-damaged Gulf and pristine arctic.
  • Government Energy Innovation: Well Worth It
    The Washington Post ran a piece in its Outlook section this weekend on government investments in energy that is rightly getting significant push back. The question it poses is: “What does Washington have to show for these investments?” The answer, by all accounts, is Plenty. And plenty more woul ...
  • Iran Oil Price Risk Returns
    Between the Libyan revolution and the shaky US and European economies, oil markets hadn't been paying much attention to Iran's nuclear program until last week's release of a new report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA.) For the first time, the IAEA presented a detailed picture o ...
  • Wind Doesn't Need Tax Credits To Be Competitive
    Like many of you, I saw this headline

EU Times

  • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured in Libya
    Interim Tripoli government says son of Muammar Gaddafi was arrested while attempting to flee to neighbouring Niger. Celebrations have erupted across Libya at the capture of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the fugitive son of Libya’s deceased former dictator. Libyan state TV reported that Saif has a ...
  • US claims Chinese military hackers seized cont ...
    China is suspected of interfering with two U.S. government satellites in one of its most advanced hacking operations to date. On four occasions between 2007 and 2008 Chinese agents are said to have breached security on the environment-monitoring craft. The last hack was so effective that they co ...
  • US: Strike on Iran could hurt world economy
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he would raise American concerns about the unintended consequences of any military action against Iran during talks with his Israeli counterpart on Friday, including its potential impact on the world economy. Panetta, speaking to reporters traveling with ...
  • Nine days to go: Pre-election violence on Tahr ...
    Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Saturday. One was killed and 676 injured, Itar Tass news agency quotes the Health Ministry of Arab Republic of Egypt. The violence comes nine days before Egypt’s first elections since the ousting of P ...
  • US Hypersonic Weapon can Hit Any Target on Ear ...
    A hypersonic flying missile that can strike a target anywhere in the world in just 30 minutes has been unveiled by the U.S. military. The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon (AHW), which travels five times the speed of sound, was successfully tested yesterday. It was launched by rocket from Hawaii at 11. ...

Stonecipher News

  • Symptoms and Treatments of Diabetes Insipidus
    Diabetes Insipidus ( or DI ) is a health condition that is often distinguished by extreme thirst along with excessively diluted urination . DI is similar in characteristics to untreated Diabetes ( or Diabetes Mellitus) but without the onset of blood glucose elevation. One of the major differ ...
  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Romo’s mental error in OT could have cost Cowb ...
    Tony Romo left FedEx Field a Cowboys hero after throwing three touchdowns in regulation and a key 26-yard strike to Dez Bryant in overtime. But a gaffe by Romo could have turned Dan Baileyâs 39-yard winning field goal into a 54-yard attempt that the rookie would  have been hard pressed to make ...
  • University of California President ‘Appalled’ ...
    In response to the recent pepper-spraying of University of California-Davis students and the beating of University of California-Berkeley students , University of California President Mark Yudof issued a strongly-worded statement today condemning the attacks on protesters : I am appalled by ima ...
  • Cutler leads streaking Bears past Chargers 31- ...
    TSN Cutler leads streaking Bears past Chargers 31-20 USA Today CHICAGO (AP) â The Chicago Bears are still surging, and this time, Jay Cutler provided the spark. By Rob Grabowski, US Presswire Bears QB Jay Cutler enjoyed another sack-free day Sunday vs. the Chargers. By Rob Grabowski, US Presswi ...
  • Race Wrap: ESPN In Homestead
    Sometimes, the reality matches the script. ESPN could not have asked for a better scenario than the battle between Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart for the Sprint Cup Championship. Nicole Briscoe hosted a pre-race show that featured both contenders in the pit studio. Rusty Wallace and Brad Daugher ...
  • This Week’s Fabulous Fashionistas: Kristen Ste ...
    Take one part gorgeousness, another part panache and throw in just a touch of gothic and what do you get?  Kristen Stewart gracing the red carpet in a stunning gothic-inspired sequined, open-back gown from the Roberto Cavalli Spring 2012 collection at the London, U.K. premiere of Twilight:  Bre ...

Groklaw

  • Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison walking on the be ...
    A few weeks later Jobs and his family went to Hawaii for Christmas vacation. Larry Ellison was also there, as he had been the year before. "You know, Larry, I think I've found a way for me to get back into Apple and get control of it without you having to buy it," Jobs said as they walked alo ...
  • Copyright isn't working, says European Commission
    "Is the current copyright system the right and only tool to achieve our objectives? Not really," Kroes said in a speech to the Forum D'Avignon thinktank. "Citizens increasingly hear the word copyright and hate what is behind it." "Sadly, many see the current system as a tool to punish and withh ...
  • Sandia National Labs: DNS Filtering In SOPA/PI ...
    We've covered at great length the problems with DNS filtering in SOPA and PROTECT IP (PIPA) and how it will harm internet security. These concerns were first highlighted by a group of folks who are considered to be some of the foremost experts (and original architects) on DNS. The MPAA and other ...
  • Free Microsoft upgrade when you threaten open ...
    Qamar Yunus, assistant director in the Cabinet Office ICT policy team, says that Microsoft provided its software for free when a government department decided to pilot open source LibreOffice as an alternative to upgrading its Microsoft software. Yunus was making the point that considering open ...
  • How Pursuit of Profits Kills Innovation and th ...
    In an interesting talk at the Gartner Symposium ITExpo 2011 on October 16-20, 2011, Clayton Christensen explains why the basic thinking taught in business schools and promulgated by consultants is killing innovation and the US economy. The talk is available here. - Forbes

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Lt. John Pike, call President Assad of Syria
    He recognizes your skills and needs more torturers immediately.
  • 984 sq ft modular home
    2 bedrooms, 1 bath, all the conveniences and energy efficiency too.
  • Airborne wind turbine
    Makani Power has successfully tested a prototype http://www.makanipower.com/flights/
  • Worst Congress ever
    The Super Congress has utterly failed. Both parties are to blame, if perhaps not equally. But really, what a craven, useless, compromised entity our Congress is. Their utter disregard for the well-being of the nation is now completely obvious to all. When trust and repsect for governing institut ...
  • Banksters worried Republicans may abandon Wall ...
    The memo also suggests that Democratic victories in 2012 should not be the ABA’s biggest concern. “… (T)he bigger concern,” the memo says, “should be that Republicans will no longer defend Wall Street companies.” The Wall Street parasite class has gotten so criminal that ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
    On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
  • Making sense of Syria
    I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
  • World history at warp speed
    So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...
  • The Arab Spring at Nine Months
    What a whirlwind nine months it's been for the Arab world. As I wrote at a much earlier point in this phenomenon called the 'Arab Spring', it is as if some tremor in the long-frozen tectonic plates of the region's political geography had suddenly burst through all those plates, freeing up waves ...
  • Getting back to the blogosphere
    So much has been happening in the world... The horrible killing of Qadhafi; an earthquake in Turkey (preceded by an upsurge in PKK-Turkish violence); some great-looking elections in Tunisia; continued strife in Syria; the Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange, etc etc... But for the past few weeks, I' ...

frogblog

  • General debate, November 19, 2011
  • Coromandel Watch Frog: Protecting our endanger ...
    In between a candidate meeting and a cottage meeting, door knocking and radio interviews, I managed to squeeze in a fantastic event organised by Whangamata Earthwatch and Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki. The groups invited Phil Bishop, Chief Scientist for IUCN Amphibian Survival Alliance to come ...
  • Dairy compliance message is failing
    Bay of Plenty Regional Council recently expressed their concern that some dairy operators are still not getting the message that it’s not okay to pollute NZ’s waterways with effluent. There have been eight prosecutions in the past year in the Bay of Plenty regarding breaches of dairy effluent di ...
  • General debate, November 12, 2011
  • Dams will damn our rivers
    Fed Farmers have welcomed National’s $400 million water storage and irrigation investment announced yesterday. Of course Fed Farmers would. Damming rivers to store water for irrigation means farmers can convert more land to dairying, which is highly profitable at the moment. But Fed Farmers pret ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
  • Disintegrating Economic Recovery
    The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Drinking This "Popular Poison" is Worse than S ...
    By Dr. Mercola Soda, which is loaded with sugar primarily in the form of high fructose corn syrup, is a leading contributor to the rising rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases facing Americans. So when I say that drinking a can of soda is just as bad for you a ...
  • How to Get Your Vitamin D Within to Healthy Ranges
    By Dr. Mercola Research into vitamin D over the past two decades has revealed a spectacular amount of solid evidence backing its importance for countless aspects of human health. In the past, vitamin D was primarily regarded as an important nutrient for bone health, and it was conventionally ...
  • The Surprising Cause of Melanoma (And No, it's ...
    By Dr. Mercola Rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, have been rising for at least the last three decades, and this increase has been largely blamed on exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun. However, research published in the British Journal of Dermatology shows th ...
  • This State Concealed Dangerous Radiation in Dr ...
    By Dr. Mercola An investigation by KHOU-TV, a Houston-ba ...
  • Beware of These Organic Brands
    By Dr. Mercola Mark Kastel, co-founder of the Cornucopia Institute, has a long history as a marketing- and political consultant, and as a lobbyist (working for family farmers). While he didn't grow up on a farm, he ended up taking a summer job during his youth with the International Harvest ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Leader's last words: "Take care of this land"
    Nísio Gomes's last words were to his son. © Survival The last words of Nísio Gomes, the Guarani leader assassinated yesterday in southern Brazil, were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with courage. This is our land. Nobody will drag you from it. Look a ...
  • Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader i ...
    Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen, in a photo taken just two days ago. © Survival Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community. Gunmen surrounded Nísio Gomes, ordering his community to ...
  • Indigenous spokesman dismissed from Brazilian ...
    Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © Terence Turner Megaron Txucarramãe, an indigenous spokesman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been dismissed from his post in the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI. Megaron, of the Kayapó tribe, has stated that his dis ...
  • Shocking video confirms Indonesia’s brutal sup ...
    The shocking footage shows Indonesian soldiers beating West Papuans © SBS TV/West Papua Media Alarming video of Indonesian forces shooting, beating and kicking civilians at a peaceful rally in West Papua has emerged ahead of a US visit to the region. Ten people are believed to have died w ...
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