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Monday, November 21, 2011

21 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Staples: Canada overspending on defence
    In a recent op-ed article in Embassy magazine, Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, argues that Canada’s military spending needs to be curbed: In 2010-11, Department of National Defence spending is estimated to reach $22.2 billion, its highest level since Canada was in Europe ...
  • Panetta: F-35 could be on chopping block
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the U.S. Congress that the Pentagon may be forced to cancel its planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a congressional “super committee” fails to reach a budget deal, thus triggering automatic deep cuts in government spendi ...
  • Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not ...
    Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not enough about peace? Leave your response.
  • Let’s make Remembrance Day about Peace
    Sign-up. Tell your friends, "I Remember for Peace." You will be emailed a social media kit, including your own "I Remember for Peace" profile picture for Facebook and Twitter.
  • Canada potential spoiler in firearms treaty
    As Ceasefire reported a few months ago, the Harper government’s firearms ideology may be standing in the way of progress on an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a proposed multilateral treaty aimed at controlling the international trade in conventional firearms. The treaty ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Egyptian Military Power Grab
    By Stephen LendmanMonday, November 21st, 2011 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 peopl ...
  • Study rejects ‘faster than light’ particle finding
    (Reuters) – An international team of scientists in Italy studying the same neutrino particles colleagues say appear to have travelled faster than light rejected the startling finding this weekend, saying their tests had shown it must be wrong. The September announcement of the finding, bac ...
  • Stirring Syria: West ‘provocation’ ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Moscow has accused western powers of stirring up tensions in the Arab world by calling for the overthrow of the Syrian regime. Russia says calls from certain states for the Syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the government, are only provoking further violence. RT&#8 ...
  • ‘Gaddafi son knows too much, will be sil ...
    Russia Todayyoutube.com Muammar Gaddafi‘s fugitive spy chief, one of the last key figures from Libya’s old regime still on the run, has been captured in the country’s south. It comes just days after Gaddafi‘s son Saif al-Islam was also caught. The National Transitional Co ...
  • DWELL (OCCUPY)
    DWELL (OCCUPY) By JimQwashingtonsblog.com View the original article at Washingtons Blog Link to this post!

Dandelion Salad

  • Why We Occupy by Greg Palast
    by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com crossposted at OpedNews.com Nov. 16, 2011 So big deal. They evicted us.  That just means we are among five milli ...
  • U.S. Arms Persian Gulf Allies For Conflict Wit ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 17, 2011 Rumors and reports of, speculation over and scenarios for attacks against Iran’s civilian nuclear power facilities and military sites by the United States, Israel or both have fla ...
  • Asia-Pacific: US Ramps Up Global War Agenda by ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 17 November 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 (A ...
  • Howard Zinn on “War and Social Justice&# ...
    Reblogging this in case you missed it. by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 20, 2011 Democracy Now! Jan 2, 2009 Howard Zinn is one of this country’s most celebrated historians. His classic work A People’s History of the United States changed the way we look at history in America. ...
  • It Costs $72 Million A Year to Hold Cleared Pr ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 20 November 2011 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 ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
  • No title
    I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
  • No title
    This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
  • No title
    US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...
  • No title
    Libya 2.0 Tony Blair's Libyan dictator mate Gaddafi can rot in a ditch for all I care, but there's something about this video that is chilling. It's hard to nail the exact moment, amongst the laughter : This is what US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was laughing at : Libyans, hired mer ...

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Tightening the noose around democracy: Israel ...
    The decision to close down the station is part of a general attack on left-wing organizations. The station provided a platform for left-wing groups that are now under attack by a new law that would... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Israel shuts down Palestinian groups in Jerusalem
    The recent forced closures of Palestinian nonprofit organizations in Jerusalem is an example of the Israeli authorities’ continued attacks on the city’s Palestinian identity and their attempts to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel effectively annexes Palestinian land ne ...
    Israel carried out a de facto annexation of Palestinian land northeast of the Jordan Valley and given it to Kibbutz Merav. Merav, part of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, is about seven kilometers... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israeli writer questioned for helping Palestin ...
    Author and translator Ilana Hammerman was questioned by the police for the third time this week on suspicion of bringing Palestinians into Israel without a permit. What began as a private initiative... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Norman Finkelstein: How to end the Israel-Pale ...
    I don't see how any person can here find objectionable the demand to 'enforce the law'. I cannot believe you couldn't reach 80 percent of the British people on that slogan. Of course Israel's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

  • IAEA inspectors may visit Iran ‘soon’
    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) experts may soon accept Tehran’s invitation to inspect Iran’s nuclear facilities, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Friday.
  • U.S. tests hypersonic weapon
    The U.S. Army has conducted the first flight test of a new weapon concept designed to fly within the earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed and long range, the Pentagon said.
  • Russia to build 2 plants for S-500 air defense ...
    Russia’s Almaz-Antey concern will build two plants to manufacture formidable S-500 air defense systems, Chief of the General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said.
  • Russia seeks extension of Azerbaijan radar lea ...
    Russia and Azerbaijan are close to signing a document extending the lease of the Gabala radar in the Central Asian republic until 2025.
  • Iran Six to submit new resolution to IAEA
    A group of international mediators on Iran is planning to present a draft resolution on Iran’s nuclear dossier to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, a source said on Thursday.

NewsWise

  • Bringing Millions to Michigan: U-M Medical Sch ...
    Ripple effect of $319.7M in NIH grants, together with other research funding, could produce nearly $1.2 billion in economic activity.
  • U-M Medical School and MedImmune Join Forces t ...
    Strategic collaboration agreement will bring scientists together to work toward new biologic options for cancer and other diseases.
  • During Critical Christmas Shopping Season, Con ...
    While the independent-minded members of Generation X take consumer decisions into their own hands, the younger Generation Yers are much more dependent on the opinions of others - especially their parents - when making purchases. Taken together, the significantly different shopping habits of thes ...
  • UTHealth/Memorial Hermann Implants First New A ...
    Cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons at UTHealth and Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute are the first in Houston to implant the FDA-approved artificial heart valve and a newer, smaller clinical trial version.
  • Tweaking a Gene Makes Muscles Twice as Strong
    An international team of scientists has created super-strong, high-endurance mice and worms by suppressing a natural muscle-growth inhibitor, suggesting treatments for age-related or genetics-related muscle degeneration are within reach.

Natural Health News

  • My Recommendations for the Best Apps for Your ...
    Many of you may know that I have a passion for technology in addition to health. That is one of the reasons this newsletter has been so successful, as I have been able to merge these two passions.  In addition to reviewing the health literature, I also review hundreds of blog posts on techn ...
  • Is This Popular 'Heart Drug' Causing Dramatic ...
    A recent study sought to determine whether the use of statin drugs was associated with prostate cancer risk.  The researchers looked at close to 400 prostate cancer patients who had a first-time diagnosis during the period between 2005 and 2008. They found that use of any statin drug, in a ...
  • Can This Antioxidant Prevent You From Having A ...
    Research has shown that vitamin E and some carotenoids have antioxidant activities that can help protect you against cardiovascular disease.  A new study examined the antioxidant and red-pigment carotenoid astaxanthin. The study attempted to determine whether astaxanthin could protect stro ...
  • ALERT -- Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used ...
    The European Commission has adopted new rules regarding X-ray, or backscatter, body scanners at all European airports. European Union members have been asked to remove X-ray scanners from its airports in order to prevent risks to “citizens’ health and safety.” The X-ray scanners are still being ...
  • U.S. Congress Says Pizza is a Vegetable
    The U.S. Congress is trying to keep pizza and French fries on school lunch menus, fighting Obama administration proposals to make school lunches healthier.  Their final version of a spending bill would undo school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. The b ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Yes, Stephen Glass Should Be Allowed to Practi ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Please forgive the fact that this post has nothing to do with international law, but it’s something very personal and very important to me.  As Jonathan Adler noted today at Volokh Conspiracy, the California Supreme Court will soon decide whether S ...
  • Decision Time for Libya and the ICC
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Reports are a little uncertain, but it sounds like Libya will not comply with the ICC Prosecutors’ arrest warrant and turn over Muammar Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi. ZINTAN, Libya (AP) – Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar ...
  • Brief Book Review of Three Books on Internatio ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over at Lawfare, I have posted a brief review of three books on international law, war, and counterterrorism, with a particular focus on the changing shape of counterterrorism through drone warfare and targeted killing.  These are all excellent books and ...
  • Hathaway and Shapiro Closing Post
    by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro We want to begin our closing post by thanking everyone who has participated in the symposium on our article this week. We also wish to thank our lead editor at the Yale Law Journal, Philip Levitz, who help arrange this sympo ...
  • Suzanne Nossel Named Executive Director of Amn ...
    by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen Suzanne Nossel, who was until recently a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations and is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow for Global Governance at the Council of Foreign Relations, has been named the new Executive Director of Amnesty ...

Public News Service

  • Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks
    Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since the Great Recession began four years ago (December, 2007), donations to Arizona’s food banks have fallen off. Yet the demand for emergency food remains at record levels. Comments from Terry Shannon, president ...
  • Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech
    Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday) is the 36th annual Great American Smokeout, and the American Cancer Society has all sorts of ways to help you kick the habit – including some new features on social media. Comments from Laurie Pagel (PAY-gl), regio ...
  • Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic C ...
    Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic Chemical Phoenix, AZ - A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund says the toxic chemical bisphenol A (Bis-FEE-null ay) is present in canned foods used to prepare a typical Thanksgiving meal. BPA has been linked in laboratory studies to adverse health e ...
  • Truth in Labeling: Questions About Egg Carton ...
    Truth in Labeling: Questions About Egg Carton Labels Phoenix, AZ - As more people worry about what they are putting in their mouth, there are questions about where our eggs are coming from and how they're produced. With a majority of eggs produced in the United States coming from caged birds, gr ...
  • Koch Funding Climate Change Deniers: Mixed Success
    Koch Funding Climate Change Deniers: Mixed Success Aspen - A new investigation from the Colorado Independent finds that the Koch (COKE) brothers are funneling tens-of-millions of dollars in an attempt to undermine the science of global warming. Comments from environmental reporter Troy Hooper, w ...

Center for Food Safety

  • California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...
    Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
  • Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...
    Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...
  • Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Mons ...
    With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers In response to Monsanto’s release of the company’s first genetically engineered sweet corn for human consumption, a coalition has collected more th ...
  • New Report: A Global Citizens Report on the St ...
    Published by Navdanya (India), Navdanya International, the International Commission on the Future of Food,  with the participation of the Center for Food Safety. The report consists of contributions from groups around the world. Entire report may be viewed HERE A new report highlights scientific ...
  • Don’t be in the Dark about GE Foods!
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Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Speaking While Black: False Confessions, Chica ...
    Prison Culture � Blog Archive � Speaking While Black: False Confessions, Chicago Police, and Torture: For seventeen years, the men had fought to clear their names. Now they await a decision by the State’s Attorney as to whether they will be re-tried for the crime. This decision to vacate the Eng ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada: #370
    War Criminals Are Not Welcome in Halifax | Dissident Voice by Tony Seed / November 19th, 2011 Halifax, the principal NATO port on the North Atlantic and the headquarters of Maritime Command, is hosting yet another “Halifax International Security Forum” November 18-20 for the third year in a row ...
  • Chairman Omali's European tour forwards unity ...
    Chairman Omali's European tour forwards unity in African freedom struggle! On October 1, 2, 5 and 8, the African Socialist International (ASI) held public meetings throughout Europe hosting our Chairman, Omali Yeshitela. I recalled on an early Thursday morning, us anxiously awaiting the arr ...
  • The Global Realm | journalism from around the ...
    The Global Realm | journalism from around the globe: Siobhan Dowling Global Post November 15, 2011 It may have been a bad idea to send a German. And his name certainly didn’t help matters. When Horst Reichenbach arrived in Athens recently to head a new European Union task force to help the cou ...
  • Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahe ...
    Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahead in The Middle East | The Global Realm: In September, 2011, Venezuelan foreign minister Nicol�s Maduro delivered a message on behalf of Chavez to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly. The sense of concern behind the talk resonated with the a ...

Pensieve

  • Siri, AI and TV Collide
    Imagine talking to your TV, and having it answer you. Such a scenario is what the editors at the MacRumors website are suggesting Apple will soon unleash to the world. In this article, they say the Siri, the iPhone 4S virtual assistant, will be coming to television soon. Once Apple enters the Sm ...
  • Bon Voyage, Steve Jobs
    There isn’t much I can say about Steve Jobs. I never met him, personally, but his influence was felt from my childhood. Like many reacting to the news of his passing, I am doing so on a device he was involved in designing. He has inspired me greatly, as with countless others. The official ...
  • New Media Animation Roasts New Facebook
    I love the 1984 and Matrix references in this video. The animators at Taiwan’s New Media Animation, have once again produced a delicious roast of the news of the day. By the process described in detail in the Mashable tech blog, I have already started trying out the timeline. It seems perf ...
  • Facebook Timeline: A Google+ Killer?
    This app turns Facebook into a virtual scrapbook of your life. The current model for profiles is an image of your current self, not how you have changed throughout your life. By adding the fourth dimension to the profile, Facebook explodes the potential of the profile exponentially. I read Ben P ...
  • You Tube Launches New Video Editor
    YouTube has had a very basic video editor for some time, and has now updated and relaunched it. To me this was the next logical step for YouTube: to own the customer journey from the beginning. I have a further idea which is my Capstone project for my master’s degree, and since very few if ...

Green Times

  • 'Who let the tap running?'
    This year, Sculpture by the Sea (whats-on-32389.html) celebrates it's 15th anniversary. The walk from Bondi to Tamarama Beach with sculptures along the way is an annual event and attracts about 500,000 visitors every year. With the sun shining, beautiful sculptures everywhere, this is the perfe ...
  • African Elephant
    Elephants are the largest living land animals on earth. There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. All of the other species have become extinct (wildlife/extinction.html). Photo by: Isabel Meijer
  • Your Man Reminder
    Rethink Breast Cancer Rethink Breast Cancer is a charity helping young people who are concerned about and affected by breast cancer through innovative breast cancer education, research and support programs. Rethink is a national volunteer-driven registered charity with a bold, enterprising ...
  • Environmental News 16/11/2011
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  • Environmental News 15/11/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Statement of the Palestinian Freedom Riders
    As of now, 6 Palestinian Freedom Riders are about to be arrested just inside Jerusalem. Read why the Palestinian human rights activists boarded segregated buses below. My name is Hurriyeh Ziadah. I am the media spokeswomen for the Palestinian Freedom Rides campaign. Thank you all for being here ...
  • New Sheikh Jarrah Video from Just Vision
    Just Vision, the folks I interned for last spring, are out with, “Home Front is a new series of four video portraits chronicling the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.” It documents different Israelis and Palestinians involved i ...
  • Villages Group: South Hebron Hills Update
    Dear friends and supporters, About one month ago we reported to you on the state of the local schoolhouse in Palestinian Susiya as its second school year opened. Visiting the school on Thursday November 2nd, 2011, we witnessed an impressive development in the construction of the school’s p ...
  • Video: Democracy Now! footage from Freedom Wav ...
    Israel has boarded and detained the latest Freedom Flotilla heading for Gaza. See the last footage they were able to transmit from on board the boat here. If you are in New York City, there will be an emergency action. TODAY, November 4 5 – 6:30pm across the street from the Israeli Consul ...
  • World-Class American Jazz Harpist Conducts Wor ...
    On Saturday, October 15th, 2011, American master jazz harpist Park Stickney visited the Salem village Music Center near Nablus. Stickney was in Israel-Palestine to give the opening concert for the new Jaffa Harp Festival. The Festival organizer, harpist Sunita Staneslow and her spouse Fred Schlo ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Mega-water California water war
    [A] judge ruled that a state law committing California to save the [inland Salton Sea] no matter the cost set an unacceptable precedent for the government to pledge money to other projects it couldn’t afford. An appeals court will decide whether to overturn the law, which could directly ...
  • Every Super-Committee member should be driven ...
    This would be a good start for cleaning up the most useless and corrupted Congress ever.
  • MF Global fallout: ‘I will never do business i ...
    Letter sent to MF Global bankruptcy judge by a futures firm: Dear Judge Glenn: Our firm is a registered introducing broker with the CFTC. I have written to you previously on behalf of our customers. Here is a comment this morning from one of our former customers in Europe: “I will never d ...
  • 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.

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Occupy Toronto appeals for sanctuary
    Occupy Toronto protesters say they’re trying to make sure no one gets hurt if the group loses a court ruling Monday and is ordered out of a downtown park. Not everyone will want to leave St. James Park if bylaw officers are allowed to carry out a city eviction order, Occupy Toronto organiz ...
  • U.S. banks should ‘undermine’ Occu ...
    WASHINGTON – The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry. Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a Washington-based firm, proposed the i ...
  • MTV VJ and Radio Host Kennedy on Marijuana, th ...
    “Social conservatism was really bringing me down,” says former MTV VJ and current host of Music in the Morning on 98.7 FM Kennedy. “And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn’t a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.” Kennedy sat down with Reason.tv&#8217 ...
  • Thrill Is Gone? Matthews Turns On Obama; &#821 ...
    Obama fails to give orders…. Bots loose hope.
  • Alleged ‘Lone Wolf’ Arrested in Ne ...
      A Muslim convert arrested for allegedly making bombs in New York City was inspired by radical cleric Anwar Awlaki and was allegedly plotting to attack U.S. servicemen and police officers, according to officials. A five-count criminal complaint against Jose Pimentel of Washington Heights s ...

The Air Vent

  • Problems With Berkeley Weighted Jackknife Method
    Well I’ve heard nothing from the Berkeley temperature team (BEST) on my critique of the CI calculation method. As promised, I waited a couple of weeks before starting to publish any demonstrations of the problem. Like Mannian statistics, this one stuck out to me like a sore thumb. They use ...
  • In Case You Were Wondering
    It is all about money.   Every action in the world is about motivations and where money is involved, the gold is usually king.  Sure you are motivated to play with your children, that’s not money but when you get up to go to work and it’s still dark out, you may love your job but [...]
  • IEA Solves Climatechange – Guardian
    Fantastic news.  We don’t have to worry about blogging on climate anymore.  It turns out that in 5 years we can’t do anything anyway. The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it ...
  • Global Temperature Reconstruction Comparisons
    Zeke has a nice comparison of various global ground temperature reconstructions at the blackboard.  It’s worth checking out.
  • Considered Critique of Berkeley Temp Series
    I will leave this alone for another week or two while I wait for a reply to my emails to the BEST group, but there are three primary problems with the Berkley temperature trends which must be addressed if the result is to be taken seriously.  Now by seriously, I don’t mean by the IPCC [...]

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
  • Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
    Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
    This Week’s Headlines from Across Inside Network A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between November 14th and November 18th. Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.  Monday, November 14th: … Continue reading →
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at  JibJab Media Inc., Live World, Acquinity Interactive, TinyCo, Elec ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Pircy, Privacy, Congress, Sp ...
    Facebook, Google Pair Up to Fight Anti-Piracy Law – The House Stop Online Piracy Act proposal has brought together Facebook, Google and other companies in an effort to prevent the passing of the law that companies say will place the … Continue reading →
  • TrustedID Acquires Unsubscribe.com and its Soc ...
    Palo Alto-based TrustedID has acquired Santa Monica-based Unsubscribe.com and its Social Monitor application this week. With the acquisition, TrustedID hopes to expand its identity protection product offerings on social networks like Facebook. The goal of Unsubscribe’s Social Monitor is to &#823 ...
  • How Brands Can Use Facebook’s Subscribe Button ...
      Facebook launched the Subscribe Button for Facebook Profiles in September, which allows users to receive the public updates from people with whom they’re not friends without the other person having to reciprocate. Users can click on the Subscribe Button … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • America’s festering sores
    Paul J. Balles outlines "a must-do menu" of political causes needing public attention, from the icon of injustice and arbitrariness known as Guantanamo, through the silence over the 1967 Israeli attack on the US warship USS Liberty, which resulted in 200 American casualties, to the existence of ...
  • Israeli democracy fades to black
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel, which had traditionally received at least the tacit support of the entire political establishment, is coming full circle, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likudniks and settlers now targeting th ...
  • Britain's Jewish fascists in putsch against fr ...
    Gilad Atzmon explains the latest - failed - attempt by Britain's Zio-fascists to kill the UK's most precious cultural values: openness, pluralism, freedom of expression and artistic freedom.
  • Israeli media paving the way for an attack on Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that while the Israeli media frenzy supporting an attack on Iran may be orchestrated to pressure the international community to impose harsher sanctions against Iran, it is nonetheless helping to produce the necessary conditions for a military campaign.
  • Why the West is demonizing Iran
    Stuart Littlewood argues that behind the "non-stop, loud-mouthed sabre-rattling against Iran" lies the fact that the Anglo-American political establishment is still smarting from not getting its way.

Amazon Rainforest

  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
    The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
  • Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
    The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
  • Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
    United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
  • Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
    The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Chicago: The City That Works Part II- All Poli ...
    Mainstream Media – Actually On a Case? In the previous article in this series, we provided a brief review of the long train of corruption cases in Chicago and Illinois, and how they provide valuable perspective for some compelling national and international issues.  Earlier this week, we had two ...
  • Police State: Time to Bring Back the Pigeons & ...
    The Only Way to Circumvent NSA, DHS, FBI & the Rest Now it is confirmed and official: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that it intends to develop guidelines for how officials go about collecting intelligence from the sites. Yes. The Department of Homeland Security is not go ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    New CIA Rendition Flights Data Emerging from Reluctant Finnish Government, Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns as it Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners, Pakistan Holds Exhibit of Drone Attacks, Washington Cuts Off Financial Support to UNESCO in Reprisal for “Democratic” Vote on Pa ...
  • US Supported Honduras’ Ascent in the Cocaine B ...
    The Real Lords of the Trillion-Dollar Narco-Sphere ‘Two’:I am reading the new sensational headlines on Honduras’ now internationally recognized status as the Western Hemisphere’s major Cocaine Hub: Long an impoverished backwater in Central America, Honduras has become a main transit route for So ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Police State 1:Obama Justice Department Battles Against Freedom of Information Act, Report: Army to Disclose Evidence Against Bradley Manning, 100,000 Rally in Pakistan- Call for Pakistan to End US Alliance, US Drones Kill 28 in South Somalia, Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Report only a Fraction of what ...

Afro Spear

  • sat’day riddymz
    From Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that ta ...
  • Obama vs Jesus
  • “Killing and treatment of Gaddafi blow t ...
    Although former Libya strongman Muammar Gaddaffi was almost hated by everybody except those who were closer to him, what the new regime did to display his remains for public to ridicule was unreasonable. There might be three reasons as to why Gaddafi was killed and publicly displayed. One, it is ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Restaveks: Child Slaves in Haiti
    Al Jazeera: Slavery: A 21st Century Evil Part 4: Child Slaves (click on image)

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

  • Sonic boon
    A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...
  • The secret’s in the sauce
    What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...
  • Clean water, clean energy
    In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...
  • Blocking CO2 to beat malaria
    Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...
  • A winter’s tale
    Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

  • NBA Players: Welcome to the 99 Percent
    Maybe it's because they overwhelmingly come from the ranks of the working poor, have career lengths of six years and have been facing off against the ranks of true generational, aristocratic wealth in all it's arrogance. Maybe they just hate to lose. NBA players: welcome to the 99 percent.
  • AFL/CIO Plans Massive December 1 NYC March
    Pre-Press Announcement: The NYC Central Labor Council (NYC/CLC)- AFL/CIO will organize a massive march from Herald Square down Broadway to Union Square on December 1, 2011.
  • Is #OccupyWallStreet Working Class?
    The success of OWS in expanding into the traditional working class will depend on their willingness to discard the label middle class. Although our corporate-controlled western democracies are rapidly dismantling the middle class in the name of debt reduction, the professional and academic bedro ...
  • Here's What Attempted Co-Option of OWS Looks Like
    SEIU's effort to convert and degrade the Occupy movement into what SEIU's national leadership is -- a loyal arm of the DNC and the Obama White House -- has become even more overt WH-aligned groups such as the Center for American Progress have made explicitly clear that they are going to try to ...
  • 100-Person International Delegation Going to G ...
    The Council for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) prepares to leave for Gaza Nov 21, with its largest international delegation yet. Delegates include renowned politicians from countries in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe; as well as two outspoken Members of European Parliament--Ms. Ma ...

Switchboard

  • What must global warming negotiations in South ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC Nelson Mandela famously said: “I am fundamentally an optimist…Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There we ...
  • Delaware River Basin safe from fracking (for now)
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Good news!  On Friday, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) cancelled its scheduled vote to approve new rules governing fracking in the Delaware River Basin – effectively ensuring that th ...
  • How Hamburg became the European Green Capital
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Last year the European Union began honoring cities for exemplary environmental efforts by designating one each year as the “European Green Capital.”  Stockhol ...
  • Major League Soccer to Build Solar Panels on L ...
    Alice Henly, Research Fellow, New York Tonight the LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo go head to head, battling not only to be MLS Cup Champions but also for the chance to award a school in their home city with a small solar array and energy education pro ...
  • A Vision for A Different Kind of Earth Summit
    Jacob Scherr, Director, Global Strategy & Advocacy, Washington, DC It now looks like we really are going to have another “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro next June.  The Brazilian Government has proposed pushing back the start ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • “Fight Them Till Hell Freezes Over, then ...
    Really loving the NYT’s Disunion blog. Loomis probably knew who William Brownlow was, but I had never heard of him: Fancying himself a modern Isaiah, Brownlow declared on the masthead, “Cry Aloud and Spare Not.” He wrote scathing harangues excoriating all things he despised, including, but ...
  • Skin in the game
    Akhil Amar and Ian Ayres have a piece in Slate that features an ingenious scheme for requiring law schools to tie their own financial welfare more closely to that of their graduates. Amar and Ayres insist that if law schools want to continue to fund their operations via federal loan money, they ...
  • Our Campus Is Safe! If You Ignore the People ...
    Shorter Verbatim Regent of the Kingdom of UC Davis Linda Katehi: “I do not think that I have violated the policies of the institution. I have worked personally very hard to make this campus a safe campus for all.” Look, show me the language in the rules of UC Davis that specifically ...
  • Documentaries
    People are complaining that Werner Herzog’s “Into the Abyss” isn’t telling the whole story about the convicted murderers it portrays. Herzog has long eschewed the idea of “truth” in his documentaries and for the better I would say. This bugs people. Says L.V. ...
  • Clampdown
    Right: Police dressed in riot gear at U.C. Davis on Friday afternoon used pepper spray to clear seated protesters from the university quad where they had set up a small Occupy encampment, pro-actively and repeatedly dousing the passively-resisting students with a chemical agent designed to cause ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...
    DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).
  • Dilworth students participate in Mission Antar ...
    Students at Dilworth STEM Academy join a team of scientists in Antarctica as they study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms. The work has implications for understanding impacts of climate change and the ecology and evolution of organisms in the Southern Ocean.
  • Communicating Science with Animation
    Derek Norpchen calls his work eye candy. “I take the data that the scientists gather in the field and turn it into animations and visualizations so that the projects sponsors and the public can better understand the science behind the issue.”
  • ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
    Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
  • DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
    DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • LAW SCHOOLS REVIEW
    Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training. One law school professor has launched a full-scale assault on the legal education system in response to these mounting issues. Are law schools in crisis?
  • THE CAREERIST: More bad news for women
    You'll need a shot or two of whiskey to get through these highlights (or are they lowlights?) of the latest survey from the National Association of Women Lawyers.
  • OPINION: Crisis management and Penn State
    Because university officials failed to appreciate that everybody is replaceable, the school's reputation has been sullied.
  • OPINION: Occupy Wall Street's message for lawyers
    Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of their clients.
  • THE PRACTICE: A game of inches: some oral advo ...
    There is no inconsistency between being aggressive and determined and being courteous and professional.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Shale Gas Drilling Photos
    The below link will take you to public web album with photos from folks who live in areas where the gas drilling is happening.  Click the link and see what the truth looks like. https://picasaweb.google.com/chec.pitt/ShaleGasDrilling
  • Marcellus Shale case appealed to Pa. Supreme C ...
    By DONALD GILLILAND, The Patriot-News A court case that many believe has the potential to upend 100 years of case law and God knows how many Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania hinges on what the everyday definition of “minerals” was in 1836. Attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney who app ...
  • Learn the FACTS about Marcellus Shale
    Thurs. Nov. 3rd at 7 PM GAS TRUTH OF YORK is sponsoring  the YORK MARCELLUS SHALE FORUM so that you can learn what you need to know about Shale Gas drilling in Pennsylvania.  In South Central PA we do not have Marcellus Shale drilling but the Oil & Gas Industry is affecting our water, land, ...
  • Gas Truth of Central Pennsylvania Wants to Hea ...
    Give Your Testimony to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION GAS TRUTH is giving support to the CITIZENS MARCELLUS SHALE COMMISSION that has been formed by 8 organizations that want to get out the truth about the effect of Shale Gas drilling on Pennsylvania.  Governor Corbett formed his Gas in ...
  • GASLAND and Josh Fox Come to York, PA
    Wed. Sept. 21st at 6:30 PM HACC York Campus is sponsoring a special outdoor screening of the Emmy award-winning film, GASLAND.  GASLAND’s Director, Josh Fox will answer questions following the film.  GASLAND is the story of the effect of Fracking for Natural Gas on families and communities ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Extreme Weather to Increase as Climate Changes ...
    A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that an increase in heat waves is “virtually certain” as a result of global warming and that extreme weather events — including hurricanes, floods, and droughts — will likely become more intense in the next century. The ...
  • Major Investment Needed to Avert Global Food C ...
    An international commission says billions of dollars must be invested in agriculture and food distribution to avoid a catastrophic increase in hunger worldwide in the coming years. In a new study, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change said a coordinated series of responses ...
  • States Exert Little Enforcement Of Gas Drillin ...
    Even as a push for unconventional oil and gas has triggered a drilling boom not seen in the U.S. for decades, a published report finds that enforcement of environmental regulations associated with this drilling has been minimal. In a review of data from major drilling states, Greenwire has found ...
  • Regional Cap-and-Trade Scheme Creates Economic ...
    A regional cap-and-trade program launched in the northeastern U.S. three years ago has saved customers nearly $1.1 billion on electricity bills, helped create 16,000 jobs, and retained more than $765 million in local economies by reducing the demand for fossil fuels, according to a new analysis. ...
  • Air Pollution Alters Frequency and Intensity o ...
    A new study says that air pollution can significantly alter the frequency and intensity of precipitation in a region, inhibiting the chances of light rain while exacerbating heavy storms in some cases. Using a decade of atmospheric data, U.S. scientists found that high levels of aerosols — inclu ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Out Of The Ashes Of The Collapse Of The Eurozo ...
    All over Europe, headlines are declaring that the eurozone is on the verge of collapse. Many people falsely assume that this will mean the end of the euro and a return to national currencies. Unfortunately, that is not going to be the case at all. Instead, this is going to be yet another example ...
  • Penn State Students Support Child Molester Ena ...
    Here‘s how (some) Penn State students reacted to the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. If you didn‘t already know, Paterno was fired because he found out his assistant coach was molesting children back in 2002 and didn‘t do anything about it. All of this is so sickening.
  • Riddle of the radiation sweeping across Europe ...
    Ed comment: Despite continued problems at Fukushima the IAEA says that the source of the increased levels of radioactive iodine-131 all over Europe is unknown - resorts to blaming cosmic radiation. Very low levels of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected throughout Europe, but the particles ...
  • Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM
    Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country‘s politics for 17 years. President Giorgio Napolitano is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti as his successor. Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He pr ...
  • Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu ‘liar‘
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in remarks to US President Barack Obama overheard by journalists. "I can‘t stand him any more, he‘s a liar," Mr Sarkozy said in French. "You may be sick of him, but me, I have to deal with him every day," ...

Russia Today

  • US, UK, Canada sanction Iran's banks, petro-chem
    The US along with Britain and Canada have announced new financial, energy sanctions against Iran to halt its suspected nuclear weapons program.
  • Living dead: Mars probe hopes diminishing
    Chances of reviving an unresponsive Russian space probe headed for a moon of the Red Planet are now virtually zero. Hopelessly off-course, it is apparently doomed to fall back to Earth, though it is not clear when or...
  • “US eroded by own terror crusade’
    There is no evidence the US fight against terrorism has made it less potent, whereas America has been significantly eroded over the course of the past decade, American counter-terrorism expert and attorney Daveed...
  • Russian FM blames West for ‘provocation’ over ...
    Russia has accused the west of exacerbating the already tense situation in Syria. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says calls for the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime are nothing but a provocation.
  • Assault and pepper: Cops trained to spray
    Two police officers involved in Friday’s pepper-spray incident during the crackdown on Occupy UC Davis protesters have been put on leave. But some commentators say the police using violence against unresisting...

Not My Tribe

  • Pepper spraying of U. Cal. Davis students, SOM ...
    According to DumFOX Noose 21, only SOME? The video is going viral on youtube right now. The Poli Torture Freak Pigs went down a line of students who were kneeling spraying them from an industrial-sized canister. And DumFOX downplays it. There needs to be a new obscene insult invented for somethi ...
  • Seattle PIGS Tear-gas 84 year old woman while ...
  • News 5 Report: “cost to taxpayers of Occ ...
    What extreme fucking gall. Their station, and their Pathetic Used-Snot-Rag of a Newspaper partner The Gazette are owned by a failed Corporation called Freedom Corp. That means for the past two years while they’ve been BANKRUPT they’ve been getting enormous tax breaks and even TAX REB ...
  • The Puppet-Masters and their pet Turkey, doubl ...
    They condemn those of us in America who rebel against their fascist Corporate leadership and presumption of ownership of every aspect of our lives, calling it “Freedom” while their Pig-Slaves break our heads with clubs and plastic bullets. And in the case of Oscar Grant, lead and cop ...
  • As NYPD destroys Occupy Wall Street, Americans ...
    UNOCCUPIED WALL STREET- NYPD goons put an end to the Zuccotti Park OWS rebel base tonight. Shall we declare it official, this night of the Occupy Wall Street Smack-down, that images of riot police are now ubiquitous as American Pie? Officer unfriendly closed the airspace, created a no-witnesses ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • 9/11 Truth Movement Trying to Co-opt the Occu ...
    Please spread to individual Occupy movement supporters, affiliated groups, websites, and forums. This is a plea for the Occupy movement to drop any preconceived notions about, and take careful consideration of, forming an alliance with the 9/11 truth movement, specifically the OccupyBuilding7.o ...
  • Corbett Report Radio 011 – Occupy Building 7 w ...
    September 11, 2001 - the day our country was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in our lifetime unless we the 99% stop it. Ten years later the War on Terrorism has diverted trillions of dollars from more important uses and sunken our country into debt. 15 NOV 2011 Pod ...
  • Thermite Has Never Been Used in Building Demol ...
    "Thermite has never been used in building demolition." - [9/11] Critical Thinking For Dummies - Controlled Demolition by "Juniversal" at the JREF Forum Popular Mechanics Ignores Its Own Historical Records of Thermite Demolition: Destruction of Skyride Towers, Reichstag Dome Set Incendiary Prece ...
  • The Trapping of Screw Loose Change
    November 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Strahl 911truth.org Dear Readers, Please submit your comments on this article at the link at Amazon, here, as provided below by Mr. Strahl. 911Truth.org published this article; the author is not available to be reached through email to this site. We look forward to ...
  • FAQ #7 – Sounds of Explosions?
    This video, pulled from the NIST archives, reveals sounds of explosions that corroborate the eyewitness testimonies of explosive sounds at WTC7 Written by John-Michael Talboo http://ae911truth.org Friday, 04 November 2011 13:02 Question: Why weren't the sounds that were heard during the destr ...

Fooducate

  • Fooducate iPhone App v 1.70
    We just released version 1.70 of the Fooducate and Fooducate Plus iPhone app. This version includes a few bug fixes and adjustments for iOS 5, the newest version of the iPhone operating system. (In case you are wondering, the Fooducate Plus app is a paid version. It does not carry ads.) And for ...
  • Holiday Recipe: Tropical Sweet Potatoes and Bu ...
    In the coming weeks we will be bringing you healthy, tasty recipes from professional chef Dave Schy. Visit his website New Taste, for step by step pictures for this and other great recipes. Today – a great side dish that’s fun to prepare - Tropical Sweet Potatoes and Butternut Squash ...
  • Congress Invents New Vegetable: The Pizza
    File this under R for Ridiculous. Millions of kids every day receive free or reduced price lunch at school. The federal government foots the bill through the USDA. The program has been under attack in the last few years because of the low quality and nutrition sparse foods being served. What can ...
  • Cheese Lovers Rejoice, Maybe?
    Denmark is known for its tasty dairy products. Unfortunately butter and cheese are very high in saturated fat. The connection between saturated fats and increased blood cholesterol (leading to heart issues) has been accepted by most health organizations world wide. That’s why, when researc ...
  • Blue Popcorn. Really? [Inside the Label]
    We’ve heard of blue corn, an heirloom variety cultivated by the Hopi tribe of the southwest, but the blue popcorn pictured here is not popped from those kernels. Instead, some marketing genius thought it would be cool to color popcorn blue with artificial colorings. The kids will love it, ...

Traffikd

  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...
  • Tips for Getting More Done
    This topic might not be 100% focused on social media or marketing but its important to remember these ideals and incorporate them into your day. These tips will be especially helpful for bloggers, designers, social media managers and people with a lot on their plate each day to get more done. St ...

Survival International

  • 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 ...
  • It’s official – the key to conservation lies w ...
    India's Soliga tribe recently secured unprecedented rights to a tiger reserve © Kalyan Varma/Survival Indigenous peoples are key to preserving the world’s forests, and conservation reserves that exclude them suffer as a result, according to a new study from the World Bank. Its analys ...

Greg Palast

  • Etok is One Bad-Ass Eskimo-In September, Obama ...
    Alternet.org - From the Arctic Circle, from inside a whale carcass (really), Greg Palast investigates... There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this: In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of t ...
  • This is it, folks...
    This is it, folks - our last chance to make the New York Times bestseller list - we're doing well - but we want to slam it - we want to make sure that people can't miss Vultures’ Picnic when they go on Amazon, walk into stores and browse at airports. Let’s make sure the media can’t ignore [...]
  • Before the Beginning
    Raven, that Lying Little Bastard by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net "If I had a machine gun, I'd kill every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka didn't say, "white." He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something, bleached seal. As a bleached seal myself, I couldn't blame him, n ...
  • And that is WHY WE OCCUPY
    by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo exclusive for OpedNews.com So big deal. They evicted us.  That just means we are among five million Americans evicted from their homes this year. Our photograph ...
  • Palast crew reporter Roberts... just before th ...
    2a.m. Zuccotti Park, Wall Street, New York Zach D Roberts, photographer for the Palast Investigative Team, a split second before the copy cracked the lens––and whacked Zach. See that spot on the left? That's the night stick hitting the lens. Tonight: Palast on "Why We Occupy." Photos and v ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse roller adhesive refill packs ( ...
    We’ve had an email from Carmel: Hello, I’m a paper crafter and was a Stampin Up demonstrator and use the Stampin Up snail adhesives or the tombow roller adhesives. Anyhow, to refill these things you have to buy another plastic mechanism that has the tape already in it. With all the p ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle pretty synthetic li ...
    Over on The Really Good Life, we’re in the middle of a decluttering month, with the hope of developing a general habit of asking “do we need or even want this?” rather than getting blind to things that have been on shelves for years. I’m also setting a weekly mini-challen ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make soap moulds?
    I made my first batch of cold-process soap earlier in the year – it took FOREVER to trace, but we’ve loved the resulting soap so I need to make some more. Ever since I made that first batch, I’ve been on the look out for what I can use as moulds this time around. Last [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle fibre glass baths?
    Rosie has emailed: My partner brought home 3 brand new fibre glass baths (minus handles) which were going to be thrown in the skip. Any suggestions for use and does anyone want them? That’s just the type of thing I’d want to bring home too – they seem so useful (and so new!) th ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle out of date contact ...
    Good friend of Recycle This Petra has been in touch again: Here I am again with another item that you hopefully find interesting enough to put on your website. Still cleaning my cupboards :-) , I now found several out-of-date bottles of contact lens liquid. It’s the storage and insertion l ...

Age of Autism

  • Lisa Goes Tries Quibbling with The New York Ti ...
    Managing Editor's Note: Cathy Jameson has a well deserved weekend off. Lisa Goes created this "conversation" with the New York Times following their pillorying of The Greater Good Movie, in which they went so far as to suggest that the...
  • A Dad's Proud Report on Autism Recovery
    Managing Editor's Note: Last week I had a chance to email a terrific Dad named Cody Jordan whom I've met at Autism One. His response was so encouraging I asked him if I could share his wonderful news about his...
  • Risk Analysis Regarding Vaccines (Calculations ...
    By Scott Laster On the SmartVax website created by SafeMinds, the Weigh The Risks page includes quantitative analysis which indicates that for a child in the USA today that was not vaccinated until age 5, the risk from each vaccine-preventable...
  • New York Times Reviews The Greater Good Movie ...
    By Anne Dachel The New York Times has sunk to a new low in their consistent attacks on anyone who dares to talk about what vaccines are doing to our children. The Times has just released a review of the...
  • Prescribing Zoloft and Other Antidepressants t ...
    By Deborah Merlin Dr. Tinus Smits the founder of CEASE-therapy for autism, believes that: Autism is an accumulation of different causes: about 70% is due to vaccines 25% to toxic medication and substances 5% to some diseases According to a...

Global BDS Movement

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • The Surveillance Catalog – Where governm ...
    Wall St Journal – Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing ...
  • Michele Bachmann: HPV Vaccine ‘Ravages&# ...
    Huffington Post – Michele Bachmann is still defending her opposition to the vaccine that prevents HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. At a campaign event in Sheldon, Iowa on Monday night, she sympathized with a mother who believes her daughter Jessica, now 16, has been debilitated b ...
  • Carbon Cycling Was Much Smaller During Last Ic ...
    ScienceDaily— A reconstruction of plants’ productivity and the amount of carbon stored in the ocean and terrestrial biosphere at the last ice age is published November 20 in Nature Geoscience. The research by an international team of scientists greatly increases our understanding of natura ...
  • Center-right roars to victory in Spain election
    Reuters – Spain’s center-right opposition stormed to a crushing election victory Sunday as voters punished the outgoing Socialist government for the worst economic crisis in generations. Read article
  • What price the new democracy? Goldman Sachs co ...
    Independant – by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new heights the political power of an investment bank that you might have thought was prohibitively politically toxic. This is the most remarkable thing of all: a giant leap forward fo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • The Sierra Club 's Carl Pope to step down as ...
    It's official: Carl Pope announced Friday that he is stepping down from his position as chairman of the Sierra Club to devote most of his time to working with environmental organizations, corporations and organized labor in the "green economy." Pope,...
  • Greenhouse gases, water vapor and you
    Several readers pointed out that water vapor is the biggest contributor to global warming, which was not mentioned in last week’s post about the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s release of its Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, which showed that man-made gases that contribute to globa ...
  • Tree rings document ancient Western megadrought
    University of Arizona scientists have found evidence of extreme Western drought in the second century that matches or exceeds the better known droughts of the medieval period.
  • Obama pipeline decision courts youth vote
    When President Obama announced Thursday that he was delaying a decision on the XL Pipeline for at least a year, it was partly the result of significant youth lobbying, says Courtney Hight, 32, co-director of the Energy Action Coalition.The action also may have re-energized a 30s-and-under youth ...
  • Keystone pipeline delay draws cheers, dismay
    The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry oil extracted from Canada's tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico, crossing plains states and the enormous Ogallala aquifer. It has been the target of increased protest and opposition from environmentalists and residents of those states, who complain that the corros ...

water.org

  • Water.org, innovators using social media (BosI ...
    It’s Not Actually About You: How Innovators Are Using the Web For Social Action (Boston Innovation) – Water.org uses technology to help people get access to water. And together, they’re all trying to get people to change their behavior. Too often, people don’t donate to a cause or promote ...
  • Matt Damon, Gary White on Huffington Post
    Safe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that’s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world’s population is still unable ...
  • Dan Bena of PepsiCo interviewed about water
    Chrissy Coughlin of Nature of Business interviews Dan Bena Fabulous conversation with Senior Director of Sustainability at the PepsiCo about strategic partnerships, leadership, the future of water, their dedication to the farmer and the future of agriculture and much much more. Listen to the int ...
  • Water.org™ Partners with CamelBak® This Holida ...
    Limited-edition water bottles with custom design to benefit those without safe water (Business Wire)  PETALUMA, Calif. — CamelBak® and Water.org™ announced today that they are teaming up for a second consecutive year to share a simple and powerful way to help some of the 884 million people ...
  • Gary White’s goal (CSM)
    Gary White’s goal: bring clean water to a billion people who lack it (Christian Science Monitor) – Gary White cofounded Water.org with actor Matt Damon. His success secret: Making sure local people are deeply involved. If Gary White realizes his vision, everyone in the world will hav ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses ...
    Meir Ettinger, 19, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar and grandson of late Rabbi Kahane, says goal of Hebrew Labor project is 'to warn the public' against buying from businesses that employ Arabs. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  • Demand US and European Co's Stop Supporting De ...
    Four Western companies, Area (Italian), NetApp (American), Qosmos (French), and Utimaco (German), are currently racing against the clock to finish an updated, more advanced surveillance system in Syria. Will be used to monitor communications of activists Submitted by Barbara W. to World  | ...
  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell Sweden to Stop Deport ...
    Tell Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to stand up for democracy and against human rights and stop deporting Syrian refugees. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tense standoff in Cairo's Tahrir Square Thousa ...
    The demonstrators accuse the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of seeking to retain power from behind the scenes as it oversees the transition, which could see the military remain in control until presidential elections which may not happen until Submitted by Barbara W. to World  |  ...
  • Prof punished for refusing WB service should s ...
    But it is hard to keep the story-line fresh if moral outrage is a never ending experience. Whether it is an AP story about how the Gazans cannot press claims against the IDF for Operation Cast Lead ,,, Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a C ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • Dhoni's dilemma will be who to pick betwe ...
    SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetRohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are in contention to play the third Test. (AFP Photo) MUMBAI: It was in February 2010 at Nagpur where the talented Rohit Sharma was supposed to make his Test debut. A twisted ankle, while playing football during practice, however provided fo ...
  • Katy Perry receives achievement award at ...
    Katy Perry has received an achievement award at the 2011 American Music Awards. Heidi Klum took the stage to...
  • Suu Kyi to stand in Myanmar by-elections
    Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's most prominent dissident, will run in an upcoming by-election, a senior official in her party said, three days after her National League for Democracy (NLD) ended its boycott of the country's political system. "Aung San Suu Kyi intends to stand for the by-election ...
  • Why living in a city makes you fat, infer ...
    Should cities carry a health warning? A growing body of research shows that babies born in cities, and children who grow up in them, face a battery of health problems that afflict both their physical and mental well-being. The problems pose a serious threat because ever-increasing numbers of ...
  • Wenger may resign if he misses goals
    ARSENE Wenger has insisted he remained fully committed to Arsenal but admitted he would consider resigning from the "club of my life" if he failed to match his own high expectation levels. Wenger, who has managed the club since September 1996, created a stir in an interview with French daily ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • VIDEO: School 'PE tests' on trial
    The British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) is calling for mandatory 'physical literacy' tests in schools, alongside reading and maths.
  • New Stent Type Has Rare But Potentially Seriou ...
    The FDA says it is working with drug-eluting stent makers to better understand what makes the devices shrink or become deformed on rare occasions. A drug-eluting stent is a scaffold placed into narrowed, diseased peripheral or coronary arteries; it releases a medication to block cell proliferati ...
  • Gadgetwise Blog: Mobile Deals Set to Lure Shop ...
    Aggressive promotions by online merchants are creating a frenzy among traditional retailers, who count the Friday after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year.
  • Union: 50,000 NHS jobs 'at risk'
    Nearly 50,000 posts are under threat or have already been lost in the health service in England, union figures suggest.
  • FDA pulls use of breast cancer drug Avastin be ...
    The blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used in advanced breast cancer patients because of dangerous side effects. (Source: the Mail online | Health)

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • America's Media War on Syria
    by Stephen Lendman Replicating Libya's model, Western generated uprisings began in March. Since then, Syria's been ravaged by violence. Hundreds have been killed, many more injured. Civilians and state security forces have been affected. Conflict rages daily. Casualties mount. Regime ch ...
  • Euro-US cold winter/ seething anger
    Eric Walberg The eviction of demonstrators last week is an ominous metaphor for ruling elites, whose own days are surely numbered. As protesters fed up with the increasing injustices of the global economic system get chucked out of their latter-day Hoovervilles, Euro-American elites might con ...
  • Constitutionally Protected Symbolic Speech
    by Stephen Lendman Symbolic speech examples include leafleting, picketing, demonstrating, marching, speaking publicly, flag burning, displaying t-shirts, armbands, banners and placards, sit-ins, as well as camping out in public places. With some exceptions, all have First Amendment protection. ...
  • Deepening Debt Contagion
    by Stephen Lendman With pressure building on Europe and America, something's got to give. Progressive Radio News Hour regular Bob Chapman says Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy search for solutions that don't exist. Nothing's agreed on to be implemented. Austerity weakens fa ...
  • North American Integration and the Ties That Bind
    By Dana Gabriel After a two year hiatus, the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico are set to meet for a trilateral summit. While the push for further North American integration continues incrementally, at this time, it is unlikely that discussions will yield any grand new initiatives that inv ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Instruments of Social Change
    The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal ci ...
  • Household carbon footprints increase with income
    A new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the lowest-income households. The study, by Marc Lee and Amanda Card, concludes that GHG reduction ...
  • Recommended reading: Fearmonger
    Fearmonger, by CCPA research associate Paula Mallea, is the first comprehensive independent analysis of the "tough on crime" policies and legislation being implemented by the Harper government. According to Statistics Canada, all crime rates—including violent crime—have been trending downward ...
  • Retirement Heist
    Unions are working people’s anti-theft device, so goes the bumper sticker.  In a new book entitled, Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers, award-winning journalist Ellen Schultz has written an indispensable account of the organized kleptom ...
  • 2011 David Lewis Lecture: Stephen Lewis and Mi ...
    On November 3rd, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives proudly hosted the 2011 David Lewis Lecture in Toronto. This year’s lecture featured an intimate conversation between two of Canada’s leading thinkers and recipients of the Order of Canada - Stephen Lewis and Michele Landsberg. H ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves BLUFFTON, Texas (AP) — Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later. Now, the cracked mar ...
  • Activists must challenge revisionist narrative ...
    By Michael Chessum,guardian.co.uk – The student and anti-cuts movement is not the first to experience brutal policing and political sentencing This November may well mark the point at which the atmosphere of protest in Britain changed. Thursday’s conviction of the Fortnum & Maso ...
  • A green movement that defies expectations
    BY ANDREW LEONARD, GRIST,salon.com – An experiment in a poor Cleveland neighborhood proves an unlikely model for environmental sustainability Conventional wisdom holds that the forward-looking coastal enclaves of the United States are where we’re supposed to expect cutting edge experiments ...
  • Ripples of Love
    By Ed Croft,WWH – With Thanksgiving approaching, I have been thinking about not just the things I am thankful for, but different ways that people can give back. Probably one of the best ways is to donate or help out at local soup kitchens. Most of these are running out of supplies as many ...
  • Drug Test Welfare Recipients. Really? Hmm.
    By Linda Wolf,WWH – There’s been a lot of talk recently about drug testing welfare recipients. A couple states already have laws and other states have proposals to change the law on drug testing for ‘welfare recipients’. Some of the states include Ohio, Rhode Island, and ...

FourWinds10

  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...

Crisis Maven

  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
    The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
  • Announcing R-Squared Energy TV
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]
  • Take a Stand, Mr. President
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Importance of Being Decisive When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets of wisdom were transferred from Graham into my long-term memo ...
  • Germany Faces Sticker Shock Over Renewable Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Oilprice.com, republished with permission to R-Squared. For years many Germans warned that nuclear was the only way they could meet the energy needs of their population and reduce carbon emissions at the same time. Now th ...
  • Despite Solyndra’s Death, the Future of Solar ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared we have a guest post by Steven Pleging. Mr. Pleging is CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. I am in general agreement with the points made below; in fact I reiterated several times at this year’s ASPO conference that I be ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • Thanksgiving Dinner, Southern-Style
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— Southern food may have a bad reputation for being deep fried and heavily processed, but like any traditional cuisine, its roots lie in whole, seasonal, locally grown foods with flavors influenced by the many different cultures that settled the region, from Europeans to ...
  • U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns A ...
    Look for a PBS NewsHour story on X-ray body scanners, reported in conjunction with ProPublica, to air later this month. This story originally appeared on ProPublica.org On Sept. 23, 1998, a panel of radiation safety experts gathered at a Hilton hotel in Maryland to evaluate anew device that cou ...
  • The Healthiest Rice You've Never Tried
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When is rice not really rice? When you buy it from one of the dozens of food companies out there marketing "wild rice" that isn't, in fact, wild at all. A majority of what is marketed as wild rice today comes from California, where it's grown in paddies from hybrid seed ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: The Most Underutilized Too ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Beans and whole grains, even organic versions, are among the cheapest foods you can buy. They're also the healthiest. But who has time (or can remember) to soak a pot of beans overnight and then boil them on the stove for two hours? And who wants to get up an hour earlie ...

big think

  • Publishing With Teeth: Megan Tingley & Twilight
    Breaking Dawn Part 1 , the latest film version of Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight saga sank a stake into the weekend box office pulling in an estimated $283.5 million worldwide. A monster share of the take ($72 million of $139.5 million domestically) was earned on Friday alone.& ...
  • China’s Currency: A Double-Edged Sword
      In recent weeks members of Congress have again moved to punish China for keeping its currency at a low value relative to the dollar.  It’s fashionable and easy to blame vast, mysterious, authoritarian China for our economic problems.  It’s also not quite fair ...
  • Asia's Rise, the West's Fall?
    Editor's Note: The following remarks are from a speech Lionel Barber delivered in Sydney, Australia on 11/17/2011, as part of the Lowy Institute for International Policy's lecture series.   The fundamental question I would like tonight to tackle the propo ...
  • How Stores Trick You Into Buying More
    What's the Latest Development? If you've been to an Ikea lately, you've experienced the pinnacle of what is called 'scripted disorientation', a technique used by architects to make you more vulnerable to impulse buying. Professor Alan Penn of University College London says that after just ...
  • You Brain Is Severely Dillusional
    What's the Latest Development? In What Makes Your Brain Happy, author David DiSalvo takes us on a tour of all the mind's delusions. In fact, nothing we remember, feel or think is as it seems. "Your memories are mere figments of your imagination and your decisions are swayed by irrational ...

Information Liberation

  • Woman Places Sign On Her Car Stating Police Do ...
    CHICAGO, IL, Nov 18, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A federal jury returned a verdict in excess of half a million dollars against a Village of Westmont, Illinois police detective for having violated a mother's First Amendment rights by maliciously p...
  • UC Davis Campus Police Pepper Spray Student Pr ...
    Police Defend Use Of Force On *Occupy UC Davis* UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said officers used force out of concern for their own safety after they were surrounded by students. *If you look at the video you are going to see that ther...
  • Protect and Serve: NY Cops Violently Drag Woma ...
    A NYPD officer drags a woman by her hair as OWS protesters look on and scream in shock....
  • Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than th ...
    Emily delivered the winning rant at the Soapbox Idol competition from Porcfest 2011. Porcfest is short for the Porcupine Freedom Festival which is held annually in NH by the Free State Project. The judges panel included Stefan Molyneux of Freedomai...
  • Video Released: Oakland Police Strike Army Ran ...
    On November 2nd, Oakland police struck a peaceful Army Ranger who was supporting the Occupy protest with nightsticks on his back, ribs, shoulders and hands, lacerating his spleen and causing internal bleeding (and see this). Video of the attack ha...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Agree Or Else
    I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day. Basically, … Continue reading →
  • Life Imitating Art
    While on my recent road trip, I took the opportunity in my spare time to re-read Atlas Shrugged. It’s been quite a while—over thirty years, in fact—since I first picked up Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, and was struck by how accurately … Continue reading →
  • A Whisper In The Ear
    OK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, … Continue reading →
  • Almost But Maybe
    Almost certainly, this man will not be the next President of the United States of America. This is despite him consistently winning straw polls, focus group surveys and post-debate polls. Despite him being more consistent in his policies, over forty … Continue reading →
  • Woody Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman And A Big Mac
    Capitalism is evil! Down with the system! Peace and Love! Yeah, right. The Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City’s Zucotti Park have now dragged into their fifth week, as well as spreading to other cities throughout the Western … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • What’s the best month to be born?
    According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...
  • The little book of black delights
    Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from another’s misfortune. Black humour. The hilarity experienced in watching a pratfall, the clumsy slip on a well-placed banana skin. From the German compound noun, deriving from Schaden (adversity, harm) and Freude (joy). Obvious. ...
  • Pressure can melt ice, but not enough…
    Countless text books and armchair scientists will tell you that the reason we can skate on ice is that the pressure we apply through the blades of our skates is enough to lower the freezing point of the ice so that it melts and a surface layer of slippery liquid water forms across which the [... ...
  • Deep Sky Videos
    From the makers of the world-famous Periodic Table of Videos (with my good friend Professor Martyn Poliakoff) and SixtySymbols comes the Periodic Table of Astronomy the DeepSkyVideos Youtube channel; they’re also on twitter with that handle. A sneak preview for Sciencebase readers: Related ...
  • Rhodiola rosea supplements
    Rhodiola rosea is a so-called “adaptogenic” herb that countless spam emails claim can improve wellbeing, exercise capacity and cognitive performance as well as reducing stress responses. I have written about it before and debunked this spurious CAM remedy at length. I keep a weather ...

RFF Library

  • Clean Energy Standards: State and Federal Poli ...
    Center for Climate and Energy Solutions http://bit.ly/vYvBFt [From Website] …Several of the paper’s key points are summarized below. Absent significant new policies to promote clean energy, the share of total U.S. electricity generation obtained from clean energy sources will likely not in ...
  • Fracking for Natural Gas: Public Opinion on St ...
    Muhlenberg Institute of Public Opinion | University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy / by Barry G. Rabe and Christopher Borick http://bit.ly/upD7ps [Abstract] This report presents the views of Pennsylvania citizens on a range of issues related to extraction of natural g ...
  • Freshwater Use by U.S. Power Plants: Electrici ...
    Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative | Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative / by Kristen Averyt, et al. http://bit.ly/sWTltW [From a ClimateWire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] Power plants are increasing the stress of lakes, rivers and aquifers across the United Sta ...
  • More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycli ...
    Tellus Institute with Sound Resource Management for the BlueGreen Alliance: Teamsters, SEIU, Recycling Works, and GAIA http://bit.ly/rNXBdA [From an article in Money magazine] …The report… examines the impact that increased recycling would have on the nation’s job market. If more Ame ...
  • The Economic Impacts of the Regional Greenhous ...
    subtitle: Review of the Use of RGGI Auction Proceeds from the First Three-Year Compliance Period The Analysis Group / by Paul J. Hibbard, Susan F. Tierney, Andrea M. Okie and Pavel G. Darling http://bit.ly/rvBvYF [From Press Release]  Key findings include: The regional economy gains more than $1 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Current Developments: Innovative Ideas on How ...
    It's easy to knock electric vehicles (EVs) : It takes too long to recharge the batteries and there are too few places to do it. And besides, who will pay for all the new recharging stations that would be needed if the cars catch on? The International Energy Agency’s most optimistic ...
  • Digital Movies to Replace Film by 2015
    The standard 35 mm film we're all used to seeing in movie theaters will be replaced worldwide by digital technology in the next few years, and the hit blockbuster film "Avatar" is to blame for the shift, according to a new report. [More]
  • Fifth Giant Planet May Have Dwelled in Our Sol ...
    Within our solar system , an extra giant planet, or possibly two, might once have accompanied Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. [More]
  • New Clues for Improving Antibiotics for Tolera ...
    The superbug MRSA has provoked fear in doctors and patients alike because it is endowed with genetic characteristics that make it impervious to many antibiotics, and it can be deadly to boot. Less well known, however, is another class of bacteria that also resist antibiotics, but for reasons t ...
  • Late Bloomers: "New" Genes May Have Played a R ...
    Billions of years ago, organic chemicals in the primordial soup somehow organized themselves into the first organisms. A few years ago scientists found that something similar happens every once in awhile in the cells of all living things: bits of once-quiet stretches of  DNA sometimes spont ...

First Truths

  • "Crisis of the State"
    From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
  • "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
    Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
  • "Integrated Geographies"
    From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
  • Colbert on Atheists
    I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...
  • Tucker on Anarcho-Communism
    For your consideration (and entertainment), the always pugnacious Benjamin Tucker railing against anarchists of the communist sort:Were I now to say, as I think, that the dead revolutionists knew nothing of the principles of scientific Anarchism, freely advocated Archistic and despotic m ...

Media Co-Op

  • Oil Rich Gulf Co-operation Council Grows
    Extreme extraction could prove to be the meaning of GCC membership for Morocco and Jordan AMMAN, Jordan--The Arab Spring sent shock waves through the regimes of the Middle East and North Africa, and in the face of demands for popular acco ...
  • Fear of Conflict Enabled Occupy Vancouver to b ...
    City's initial plan to prevent tent camp altered after fear of street chaos With Occupy Vancouver facing a court injunction ordering their removal by Monday, November 21, at 2PM, it is worth reflecting on why OV was able to be establis ...
  • Turning Tears to Laughter
    40 Gather for Beach Walk in the Shadows of Boat Harbour. PICTOU LANDING, NOVA SCOTIA - With nary a hint of effluent in the air, about 40 residents of Pictou Landing, and friends of residents of Pictou Landing, went on a beach walk along the ...
  • Documents cast doubt on church position regard ...
    Police may not have power to evict occupiers from Church land While the City of Toronto is attempting to evict Occupy Toronto from St. James Park, confusion persists around where City land begins and land belonging to St. James Cathedral, ...
  • Who is the Public?
    Occupy Toronto’s day in court.   November 18, 2011, Courtroom 4-7: “The City’s goal is to return the park to the members of the public,” declared its lawyer Darrel Smith to Justice David Brown. Such is the strangeness ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • How paranoiac should we be?
    Critics in Europe are very uneasy about the new Italian ECB chief, the Greek premier and the prime minister-designate of Italy’s past or present relations with the Goldman Sachs bank. Key European crisis figures Mario Draghi, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti all have backgrounds with ‘Government ...
  • The bright side of life - revisited
    “When you’re chewing on life’s gristleDon’t grumble, give a whistle”Eric IdleI am in the process of reworking a lot of my material, looking to see if I could ever make a book out of it all, trying to see what, if any, threads of thought might hold it all together. This is a rough draft of some o ...
  • OWS progress report: the sound of one hand cla ...
    David Seaton's News Links Hope where there was cynicism; solidarity where there had been suspicion. The occupations are more effective as a launch pad than a destination. Nobody knows where this is going. It's just great to be on the move. Gary Younge - The GuardianWinter is coming and the bi ...
  • Oakland and OWS... an inch ahead lies darkness
    "An inch ahead lies darkness"Japanese proverbDavid Seaton's News LinksMany people are making facile comparisons between today's OWS movement and the anti-war movement of the Vietnam era. A major difference between what happened then and what is happening today is that the 60's anti-war movement ...
  • OWS leaderless? Let a hundred Chomskys bloom!
    “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.”  Archimedes "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." Rahm Emanuel David Seaton's News Links How can any movement function without leaders? Dumb question, a much better question would be: how can any movement ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Why the Supercommittee Was Actually a Dazzling ...
    The supercommittee has apparently officially declared failure, and all Washington is in despair. But I think Atrios has the right response to this: So there's this bipartisan group of elected officials known as "Congress" that passed $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions into law. They also desi ...
  • Raw Data II: Student Achievement Over the Past ...
    In my post earlier today about NAEP test score trends, I said I was pessimistic about recent educational reforms because big gains among 9-year-olds mostly seem to wash away by the time students graduate from high school. However, several commenters complained that this was unfair: high school ...
  • Are You Left-Eared or Right-Eared?
    Here is today's weird question. When I talk on the telephone, I always hold the handpiece up to my left ear. I do this because it sounds better that way. A few minutes ago I was on the phone, and because my arm was sore I switched over to my right ear. I haven't done this for years, but this ...
  • Democracy in Europe Not Dead Yet
    As Europe's financial crisis reaches its climax, Ross Douthat mourns the inexorable rise of the technocrats: For the inhabitants of Italy and Greece, who have just watched democratically elected governments toppled by pressure from financiers, European Union bureaucrats and foreign heads of ...
  • Raw Data: Student Achievement Over the Past 20 ...
    Gene Lyons wrote a recent column noting that students have been making steady progress on standardized tests over the past few decades. Bob Somerby wishes people would listen: Over and over, people are told that test scores are lower. Commenters quickly started bruiting this claim in respon ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 285: I Wish I Was White
    Topics: Twilight and the pattern of average white girls Strawberry Letter, you’re single cause you’re stupid Shaq cheats respectfully Ashton & Demi break up and how will we survive? Man goes broke in Ukraine trying to met his online girlfriend Great Moments in White Privilege: B ...
  • IC 284: The White Tyler Perry
    Topics: Jack & Jill does horribly at the Box Office Adam Sandler is terrible Woman goes crazy over McDonalds serving breakfast Jerry Sandusky gives the worst interview EVER Herman Cain has a senior moment Share with your friends:
  • The New Man Daywalker
    It’s been a rough week for men.   From the XY Movement, to the cowardly men in the Penn State situation to the release of Drake’s extra soft album.  Men can’t catch a break.  Even our regular clothes are under attack by this push to make everything “European cut” (i ...
  • Herman Cain Pulls a Sarah Palin
    Foreign Policy is the great equalizer when it comes to politics.  Nobody minds a domestic dummy, but when it comes to dealing with other country, no one wants a politician who embarrasses them.  Its like family.  When your dad say something stupid at the dinner table, its cute and funny.  When h ...
  • IC 283: The 999 Terrorist Plan
    Topics: Mayweather & Pacquiao are promoting geniuses Joe Paterno Fired Gays molest kids more Rick Perry forgets his talking points Herman Cain is pro-waterboarding Share with your friends:

Simple Climate

  • Climate benefit from trees depends on location
    21 scientists including Xuhui Lee from Yale University find that while planting trees near the equator both cools local temperatures and absorbs CO2, planting in northern regions could be self-defeating.
  • Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler water
    Some of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.
  • Moscow shows warming driving temperature records
    There is only a one in five chance that last year's heatwave in Russia would have happened without global warming, an analysis of record temperature probabilities by Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.
  • 2020 target offers climate change control hope
    If greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are equivalent to 31 to 46 billion tonnes of CO2, the world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, says Joeri Rogelj from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
  • Fossil fuel exporting countries should adopt g ...
    The revenues that countries exporting fossil fuels would raise if they taxed extraction to control global CO2 emissions would give them an incentive to fight climate change, say Steven Davis and colleagues from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.

e!Science News

  • Scripps Research team finds a weak spot on dea ...
    Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and the US Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have isolated and analyzed an antibody that neutralizes Sudan virus, a major species of ebolavirus and one of the most dangerous human pathogens. read more
  • Effects of climate change to further degrade f ...
    A new study led by University of British Columbia researchers reveals how the effect of climate change can further impact the economic viability of current fisheries practices. read more
  • Corals can sense what's coming
    Australian scientists have thrown new light on the mechanism behind the mass death of corals worldwide as Earth's climate warms. read more
  • Scripps research scientists develop brand new ...
    Inspired by natural products, scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have created a new class of small molecules with the potential to serve as a rich foundation for drug discovery. read more
  • NASA's TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thu ...
    Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through the U.S. southeast on Nov. 16, TRMM collected rainfall data on the dangerous storms from ...

unEarthed

  • Victory For America's Forests
    Court ruling climaxes 13-year legal struggle Young boy fishing in the West Fork Humptulips River by the Moonlight Dome Roadless Area in Washington’s Olympic National Forest. (© Thomas ...
  • Friday Finds: The CIA’s Climate Change Secret
    Fake farmers, BPA thanks, flooding NYC The CIA has a secret about climate change. Photo courtesy of AJC1. CIA shouldn’t be keeping secrets about climat ...
  • The Dog Ate My Clean Air Standards
    EPA's clean-up of toxic air pollution remains unfulfilled Not only will clean air standards have a tremendous impact on the health of the American public, they will also create thousan ...
  • Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Steve Roady on O ...
    “A lot of people have no idea that many of these ocean species are so badly depleted.” Steve Roady speaks about Earthjustice's oceans litigation. Intro: This ...
  • Why Our President Pulled the Plug on Ozone Rule
    NY Times article shows heavy industry hand in decision EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson A few months ago when the Obama Administration abruptly scrapped a stron ...

Brave New Climate

  • Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Pa ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The Swiss army nuclear knife —————— During the past few years, all the world’s major science ...
  • The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of Emails
    With regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...
  • Energy Storage Discussion Thread
    Debate over large-scale energy storage is a regular theme in the comments on this blog. The post is intended to be a place to centralise this discussion. Some questions that might be considered in the comment thread: 1. What is the cost (per Watt hour, kWh, MWh, GWh — how does this cost sc ...
  • CEDA report on Australia’s nuclear energ ...
    Today I was in Melbourne, joining a panel of five who are the chapter authors of a new policy monograph called “Australia’s Nuclear Options“. This event was to formally launch the 61-page report, which was commissioned and published by CEDA (Committee for Economic Development o ...
  • Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes and conservation
    I have a new paper out in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation that will be of interest to BNC readers. It is called “Strange bedfellows? Techno-fixes to solve the big conservation issues in southern Asia“, by Barry W. Brook & Corey J.A. Bradshaw. Here are some detai ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Speaking While Black: False Confessions, Chica ...
    Prison Culture � Blog Archive � Speaking While Black: False Confessions, Chicago Police, and Torture: For seventeen years, the men had fought to clear their names. Now they await a decision by the State’s Attorney as to whether they will be re-tried for the crime. This decision to vacate the Eng ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada: #370
    War Criminals Are Not Welcome in Halifax | Dissident Voice by Tony Seed / November 19th, 2011 Halifax, the principal NATO port on the North Atlantic and the headquarters of Maritime Command, is hosting yet another “Halifax International Security Forum” November 18-20 for the third year in a row ...
  • Chairman Omali's European tour forwards unity ...
    Chairman Omali's European tour forwards unity in African freedom struggle! On October 1, 2, 5 and 8, the African Socialist International (ASI) held public meetings throughout Europe hosting our Chairman, Omali Yeshitela. I recalled on an early Thursday morning, us anxiously awaiting the arr ...
  • The Global Realm | journalism from around the ...
    The Global Realm | journalism from around the globe: Siobhan Dowling Global Post November 15, 2011 It may have been a bad idea to send a German. And his name certainly didn’t help matters. When Horst Reichenbach arrived in Athens recently to head a new European Union task force to help the cou ...
  • Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahe ...
    Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahead in The Middle East | The Global Realm: In September, 2011, Venezuelan foreign minister Nicol�s Maduro delivered a message on behalf of Chavez to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly. The sense of concern behind the talk resonated with the a ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Pssst CNN… Why Ask Condi About Anything ...
    Dear CNN. The only question you should be asking Condi is when does she think her treason trial will begin. To ask her opinion about anything else is a disservice to all the brave soldiers who died looking for Saddam’s WMD’s (err… oil). As far as asking her about world affairs, ...
  • Newt Says Get A Job After Taking A Bath #occupy
    Where Newt? China? That is where our jobs are. Newt babbled “All the occupy movements start with the premise that we owe them everything” to a cheering crowd of fake Christians.  No Newt you confirmed corporate whore, lying, lobbyist, scam artist. You, and the billionaires you work f ...
  • Rand Paul A Lying Sack of Shit
    I just watched Rand on CNN on the Candy Crowley show. What is it called? “State of Psycho?” Rand claims the millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share, and claimed the same folks pay an income tax rate of 29%. Rand, they did. Before Bush cut their taxes. The current rate of i ...
  • So What Have The Republicans Been Up To?
    What have they done lately to make sure America does not recover from the Bush years?
  • Mike Huckabee Is A Liar Spewing Propaganda Or ...
    Mike says Democrats can pass a jobs bill in the Senate. Really Huck? Have you ever heard of a filibuster? Are you an idiot that does not understand Senate rules, or simply a liar? Which is it dip stick? Actually I know which one. Fox Propaganda Network has frauds like Huckabee say dishonest crap ...

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a f ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304- ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conferen ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalac ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind co ...

Amped Status

  • Get Ready for OWSnews.org
    Apologies for the lack of updates lately. We are currently busy working on a new website specifically dedicated to aggregating and producing news reports on the OWS 99% movement. The site will not be announced for another few days, but you can check it out here: http://OWSnews.org/. An amazing ...
  • Does Obama Care About the 99%? David DeGraw on ...
  • Aftermath of the Police Raid on #OccupyOakland
    By Ken Knabb This seven-minute video gives a pretty good brief impression of what happened in Oakland yesterday, following the police destruction of the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza. Among other things, I call your attention to a poignant interaction around 4:45 where a ...
  • Marine Down in Oakland – “We&#8217 ...
    Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury, but back home in the United States he was critically wounded by a police riot. Heavily-armed police injured Olsen and other unarmed citizens on Oct. 25 when they attacked the non-violent Occupy Oakland. Olsen, 24, had his sk ...
  • #OccupyOakland: Riot police fire tear gas, fla ...
    Defiant Occupy Oakland protesters vow to return to plaza On Tuesday night and into Wednesday, police clashed with hundreds of protesters whom they’d dislodged from an encampment outside City Hall. More than 100 people were arrested, police said, as officers used tear ...

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  • Palestinian Freedom Rides and the US Civil Rig ...
    In last week’s Freedom Rides, West Bank Palestinians demanded equal access to settler roads and buses. Like African-Americans in the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, they seek to call attention to an inherently oppressive system and demand that it be dismantled. By Ben Lorber T ...
  • Binyamin Netanyahu is as anarchist as they come
    Just how disconnected Binyamin Netanyahu and his Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz really are is unbelievable At the weekly Sunday government meeting, Netanyahu had the audacity to say the following about Israel’s striking doctors, who are protesting the agreement their “representatives” reached w ...
  • Netanyahu’s assault goat and Israel’s hu ...
    Netanyahu freezes the anti-NGO bills – and keeps them as a weapon to be used at any time The mythical, conflict-erasing goat has a place of honor in the annals of Israeli administration. It is based on an ancient morality tale, fabricated a few decades ago, in which a Jew goes to his rabbi and c ...
  • Is Israel preparing an assault against Iran? T ...
    The IAEA report on Iran’s alleged nuclear program was surrounded by a media frenzy in Israel supporting an attack. By Neve Gordon Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack a ...
  • Police shut down Jewish-Palestinian radio station
    Kol Hashalom, which operates from Ramallah, was suddenly shut down on Thursday, based on what appears to be flimsy evidence 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 Israeli police on Thursday. Kol Hash ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • UC Davis Pepper Spray, Administrative Wage Gar ...
    Pepper Spray, that’s what I’ve been obsessing about over the weekend.  If you have not yet seen the video, you must watch the entire video of University of California, Davis police officers spraying pepper spray on PEACEFUL student protesters like they are cockroaches. (SEE VIDEO HER ...
  • OUTRAGE! Paramilitary Forces Pepper Spray Stud ...
    College campuses are supposed to be places where young people go to learn and express themselves right? And is there any venue more appropriate for PEACEFUL, NON-VIOLENT protest than a college campus? I mean, I hear all the comments complaining about Occupy and how they’re interrupting bus ...
  • Hey I Know, Let’s Throw People Into The ...
    Rats Replace Homeowners In Foreclosed Homes Scridb filter
  • America Died in 2000…And We’re Dyi ...
    I remember, not so many years ago that America was a proud and strong and honest and hard working and free and just nation.  Really, we were.  Honestly, it’s true.  Entire nations and people all around the world looked towards America with envy and longing and hope.  In the allegory that w ...
  • LISTEN TO 84 YEAR OLD NAZI SURVIOR COMPARE OCC ...
    I have been criticized for using the specter of Nazi persecution and totalitarian persecution to describe what is sweeping across this country….I’ve been quoting the poem: First they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist. Then they c ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Participation Above All
    Prior to its removal from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street had some strong intellectual support that sought to provide the …Continue reading »
  • Identity Crisis
    For those supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement things have just entered a new phase. It all had begun in …Continue reading »
  • A Brass Trumpet and a Tin Ear
    It’s likely clear by now that endless rounds of attempting to reform political institutions will not heal our political culture …Continue reading »
  • Remember When We Were Young?
    I dragged myself home in the early hours of the morning after spending the night at the Occupy London protests …Continue reading »
  • Tomorrow Comes
    It was a remarkable evening, with some talented performers and choirs of youth that filled up the front of the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Most of this last week was spent in San Francisco, at the NISE Net (Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network) network-wide meeting – possibly my favorite meeting of the year (I might have mentioned that before).  This year I had the additional pl ...
  • Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the comp ...
    Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found mys ...
  • Nanotechnology prominent in percieved 21st cen ...
    This image from the first US National Science and Engineering Festival attracted my attention this morning: It’s a wordle constructed from responses to the question “What will be the greatest discoveries and advancements science and engineering will bring us in the 21st century?&#822 ...
  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation!  In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [... ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days be ...

Reader Supported News

  • Iran and the IAEA
    Excerpt: "I've been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeatedly inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran." Iranian Presi ...
  • Iran and the IAEA
    Excerpt: "I've been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeatedly inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran." Iranian Presi ...
  • FOCUS | REPORT: All Entryways to NY Stock Exch ...
    Intro: "Thousands marched on Wall Street this morning, blockading all entry points to the New York Stock Exchange. 'People's mics' have been breaking out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in an unfair economy." Occupy Wall street demonstrators protest on the stree ...
  • FOCUS | REPORT: All Entryways to NY Stock Exch ...
    Intro: "Thousands marched on Wall Street this morning, blockading all entry points to the New York Stock Exchange. 'People's mics' have been breaking out at barricades, with participants sharing stories of struggling in an unfair economy." Occupy Wall street demonstrators protest on the stree ...
  • FOCUS | Elizabeth Warren: A Saint With Sharp E ...
    Zengerle writes: "In some ways, Warren's campaign is not only a referendum on the last three years - but a chance to do them over. 'I'll just be blunt, I thought the whole fight was 2008,' she says. 'We'd put sensible people in place, we'd write sensible rules, and we'd spend 50 years rebuilding ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Greyhound Passengers Stranded 100 Miles From D ...
    In the public transportation pecking order, riding the bus is somewhere just above sitting in the back of a yak-drawn cart. But there were several passengers on board a Greyhound bus in Missouri this weekend who would probably have chosen that cart because at least they wouldn't have been stran ...
  • This $10 Tip Is Not The Best Way To Show Your ...
    For a waiter who depends on tips to earn more than minimum wage, a $10 tip can be a welcome sight. But not in this instance. As the waiter found out in the below image posted on Reddit, not only was that $10 bill not the real deal, it only made the matter worse with its "Some Things Are Bette ...
  • When It Comes To Kids, Parents Pick Paper Over ...
    We might be living in a digital world, but it seems paper children's books still hold sway for parents over e-books. Because really, picture that lovely iPad touch screen with apple sauce fingerprints on it. Perhaps to make sure their children understand that books are about more than flashy ...
  • Make These Party Snacks To Avoid Plumping Up O ...
    When it comes to holiday parties, willpower is a non-starter because it's just about impossible to attend one without stuffing your face constantly. To avoid gaining weight, your choices are to stay home or try to stick to relatively low-calorie options. Sometimes you find yourself at events st ...
  • Three Black Friday, Cyber Monday Apps To Find ...
    If you're into shivering/standing in lines outside big box stores during the wee hours of the morning, you can make your life just a tad bit easier by utilizing technology to score the very best deal of all the crazy deals out there. Forbes trots out a good rundown of a few smartphone apps sav ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award: Daily Whist ...
    GAP's Jesselyn Radack and NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake in March 2011.Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award Summary: Department of Justice whistleblower and GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, and NSA whistleblower (and GAP client) Thomas Drake, have each won t ...
  • Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award
    Tom Drake and Jesselyn Radack at the Ridenhour Prize for Truthtelling Ceremony in March 2011National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack and GAP client and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake have won this year's prestigious Sam Adams Award, presented annua ...
  • Secrecy Shenanigans Continue Despite Collapse ...
    Apparently the government has learned nothing from the spectacular collapse of the ill-fated criminal prosecution of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake. Drake was charged with 10 felony counts, all of which the government abandoned days before trial when the prosecuti ...
  • Republicans Admit TSA Airport Security Theater ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user glenmcbethlaw*Getting felt up, tossing out unopened bottles of water, pulling toddlers aside for selective screening, taking off shoes and artificial limbs, soft-porn full body scanners, and my personal favorites – being asked to drink my own breast milk and bei ...
  • Victory for Marine Corps Whistleblower: Daily ...
    iWatch News: Pentagon Whistleblower Franz Gayl is Reinstated Summary: GAP client Franz Gayl – the whistleblower who exposed the Marine Corps' failure to provide American troops with lifesaving equipment in a timely manner – has received notice that his security clearance eligibility has been r ...

UK Progressive

  • Veterans Praise Care At Miami VA Hospital
    Veterans treated at the Miami VA hospital rate their care as outstanding, a survey by this reporter finds. Although the sampling was small, when asked to grade the hospital on a scale of one to ten, the combined ranking was 9.2. In fact, only one veteran rated the care as low as 6. And nearly [. ...
  • The Monday Line: Occupy Everywhere – The Madne ...
    They are called guerrilla projections. Visible from Manhattan, an apartment window in Brooklyn became the projection booth of the Occupy Movement.  Projected on the white marble face of the Verizon telecomm building as thousands crossed the iconic Brooklyn Bridge during the evening rush hour las ...
  • Professionals Moving to Organized Labor
    Although labor union membership has declined significantly in the United States over the last 50 years, there is a segment of the labor market that is showing remarkable signs of increased union activity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, professionals and white-collar workers are joining labor u ...
  • Stop the Austerity Train Wreck!
    The biggest question right now on Planet Washington is whether the congressional supercommittee will reach an agreement. That’s the wrong question. Agreement or not, Washington is on the road to making budget cuts that will slow the economy, increase unemployment, and impose additional hardship ...
  • Supercommittee Sins
    This week, economists from the San Francisco Federal Reserve released a letter warning that the odds of a recession in early 2012 are now more than 50 percent. Yet there is no proposal pending from the president, leaders in Congress or the supercommittee that will even remotely address the devas ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • 7,000 excess winter deaths in Australia and 1, ...
    Excess winter deaths are more than triple the number killed on the road. Indur Goklany compares average daily deaths for each month in Australia and New Zealand and shows that in both countries (like in much of the rest of the world) there are more deaths in the cooler months. While climate chan ...
  • IPCC scientists test the Exit doors
    RE: Mixed messages on climate ‘vulnerability’. Richard Black, BBC. ... This is another big tipping point on the slide out of the Great Global Scam. IPCC scientists — facing the travesty of predictions-gone-wrong — are trying to salvage some face, and plant some escape-cla ...
  • The Age does award winning PR — oops was ...
    For free, and just because I’m a nice person, I’m going to help Michael Bachelard with his science articles. He’s a Walkley Award winner writing for the two largest “broadsheet” circulation papers in Australia. He knows indigenous issues, politics and industrial rel ...
  • The chemistry of ocean pH and “acidifica ...
    The ocean acidification threat is a big can of worms. I asked Professor Brice Bosnich to help create a quick reference page on the chemistry and was pleased he could find the time to help. Here’s everything you wanted to know about the basics… He explains what pH means, and points o ...
  • Unthreaded November 14 2011
    For all those other topics…. Rating: 8.0/10 (5 votes cast) Rating: 8.0/10 (5 votes cast)

ReNew America

  • Leading senators: Kagan may have to recuse her ...
    (Washington Times) - Top Republican senators said late Friday the Justice Department has been stonewalling their request for more information on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and said her previous work as solicitor general "may satisfy both requirements for recusal" from the upcoming health ...
  • Obama's Kenyan move
    (Washington Times) - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Monday confirming Obama administration meddling in the drafting of controversial provisions of Kenya's constitution, which were ratified last year. Officials funneled $18 million in taxpayer cash to a number of gro ...
  • Newt shows his true colors, again
    (Joseph Farah) - I should have known better. Despite all I have witnessed in watching Newt Gingrich over the many years he has been in public life, I starting softening to him -- largely on the basis of his debate performances. I began to think I could live with this guy as president -- which is ...
  • Mitt Romney's job creation record: supporting ...
    (Amy Contrada) - Summary: As Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney exposed his big government, social liberal approach when he created a new preschool education department, paving the way for taxpayer funding and government control of day care...
  • Obama the man behind Occupy crackdown
    (Roger Hedgecock) - Violent, lice-ridden and foul-mouthed with high self-esteem. Ignorant spoiled brats shouting incoherent rage. The Occupiers. The perfect product of the government education machine. Obama's shock troops in the war to "utterly transform America"...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Tsarion and Icke: A Quick Critique
    Just got back from Michael Tsarion’s 8 hour talk in Melbourne. About 200 attended, at $80 each. More Aussie dates will follow. I like the guy – he’s easy to watch and listen to, and is ...Tsarion and Icke: A Quick Critique is a post from: 2012 Blog No related posts.
  • Jim Bakker: Special Offer
    Jim Bakker is one of those disgraced televangelists. I wondered about the markup on his $3800 product (found in his Love Gifts department): Actually the price is in line with what Amazon charges… so I guess ...Jim Bakker: Special Offer is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:NYC ...
  • NASA Expert: No 2012 Supervolcano
    This is weak, weak, weak. The headline is quite definite: Supervolcanoes: Not a Threat For 2012 But if you read the article, NASA expert Adam Voiland (not an expert really, see his resume) points out: Volcanologists have many ...NASA Expert: No 2012 Supervolcano is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless
    You just know I’m going to be critical of this news item… Dr Alex Young, a heliophysicist at Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said we don’t need to worry about the sun for another ...NASA Expert: Solar Flares Harmless is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:N ...
  • Doom ‘n’ Gloom Daily
    I subscribe to just about every blog and news service that could, maybe, possibly, have a story meaningful to the 2012 meme. One of the very best is The Extinction Protocol. There’s not much commentary, ...Doom ‘n’ Gloom Daily is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Laac ...

Facing South

  • The crisis of crisis pregnancy centers
    Unregulated organizations posing as comprehensive healthcare providers called "crisis pregnancy centers" are slated to begin receiving state funds in North Carolina from the ...
  • The story of a Deep South labor town and the s ...
    A Mississippi town where poultry-plant workers recently voted to unionize was the site of an earlier labor struggle involving an unlikely hero. A Mississippi town where poultry-pla ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The political assault on repr ...
    At the same time Planned Parenthood faces a sweeping probe by House Republicans, states have passed an unprecedented number of laws seeking to restrict women's access to legal abortions. ...
  • Injured war contractors sue over health care, ...
    The $2 billion suit claims that private contractors including Houston-based KBR and their insurers routinely lied, cheated and threatened injured workers while ignoring a federal law requiring their c ...
  • Black Belt Power: African-Americans come back ...
    After a decades-long exodus from the South, Census data shows African-Americans are returning to the region. What does it mean for the future of Southern politics? After a decades-lo ...

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • The Global Financial Dictatorship Vs. Iran
    Having coped with Libya, the West is ready to hunt down new victims, Syria and Iran being next on the hit list. The campaign against Syria runs into major roadblocks as the country’s leader Bashar al-Assad offered the society a package of reforms which are indeed long overdue, while Russia ...
  • Investing Your Future In a Poison Peace Process
    The Indian analyst who authored the following piece (SEE: India, Pakistan, and God’s geostrategic will) is probably giving an accurate assessment of his government’s opinion of the current status of the Pakistani military, even though both his opinion and the projected government position are pr ...
  • Chavez Warns That a Nuclear Conflict Looms Ahe ...
    After a long break caused by serious health problems, Venezuela’s H. Chavez resumed on November 15 the practice of televised addresses on key policy issues. As a key message prompted by the recent developments, the Venezuelan leader sent to his nation and to the international community a s ...
  • IAEA Report: Green Light to Strike Iran?
    Last week a new classified IAEA Report on nuclear verification in Iran was circulated to the Agency’s Board of Governors and the UN Security Council. Curiously enough, it was immediately leaked to the Associated Press and gained a hefty coverage by the international media condemning Tehran ...
  • A Christmas Gift to the World from the US and ...
    Prospects are grim for the US economy as the predictions of a double-dip recession appear to materialize. Experts warn that currency market destabilization and, generally, chaos across the financial sector await the US in 2012. No credible solution to the problem is being offered, and chances ar ...

BlogHer

  • Giving Thanks for Chocolate
    If I see one more Hershey/Rescees/M+M's/piece of chocolate, I will scream!! Enough with the Halloween chocolate! Down with the Thanksgiving chocolate!!  Do you dress up, or go more casual? I'm more casual, especially after sitting out all morning cheering on the local football team in the fuh-r ...
  • What You Need to Know About Google Music
    Google has entered the fray for your business involving cloud based music. There will be a vast amount of music available from the Android marketplace (even for iOS users) and, of course, the Google name is attached. Kelly Schwarze from Geek Sugar explains 6 things you need to know. Google Music ...
  • Spiced Pear Ice Cream (Without a Machine)
    [Editor's Note: Though ice cream may not be the first food that comes to mind during the cold months, this seasonal treat may change your mind. It would be a perfect option to end Thanksgiving dinner, too, if you're looking for an alternative to traditional pies. And best of all, you won't need ...
  • Parenting Is to Dancing...
    I once said, "I parent better in public." It was a true statement at the time, and I've been working on it ever since. That's why I absolutely adored this post by Angie at The Little Mumma. She compared parenting to the opposite of dancing. Also, she gives you permission to say, "Today sucked." ...
  • Sports Parents - Are We The New Stage Mothers?
    Georgia has been trying out for soccer teams.  She had placements for our town team last weekend and this past week, she tried out for a non-town travel team. Soccer try-outs are a very interesting study in human nature.  And by human nature, I mean parental nature.  For one ...

Health Freedom Alliance

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Remembering the Farmington Disaster
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce Forty-three years ago yesterday, 78 miners were killed in an explosion at Consolidation Coal Co.’s No. 9 Mine in Farmington, W.Va. WBOY-TV reported from yesterday’s commemoration: That morning, an explosion at the Consol Number 9 Mine just outside of Farmin ...
  • MSHA cites ‘imminent danger’ at Al ...
    Here’s the SEC filing made by Alpha Natural Resources on Friday: On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) was enacted. Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Act contains new reporting requirements regarding mine safety, including disclosing o ...
  • Friday roundup, Nov. 18, 2011
    In this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011 photo, the body of a miner killed after a gas leak at the Sizhuang Coal Mine lies on the ground in Shizong county of Qujing city, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. The gas leak hit one underground platform of the mine Thursday and spread to another pl ...
  • The plot thickens: OSM subcontractors on contr ...
    Regular readers know that I’ve been a little suspicious from the beginning about this controversy over the leaked portions of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s “Environmental Impact Statement” on its efforts to rewrite the federal stream b ...
  • Mining lobby admits it: Coal jobs are on the rise
      We’re about to be treated to another episode in the continuing story of the attacks by the coal industry and its friends in Congress on any effort by the Obama administration to reduce mountaintop removal’s impacts on coalfield communities, protect the world from greenhouse ga ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Samsung’s Microsoft Surface Displays
    via samsunglfd.com Thanks to Andre for this find. Really cool stuff. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentThe 10:10 Location Code | John Graham-CummingWindows 8 Looks Like a Slick Apple KnockoffAgainst Health – The Chronicle of Higher EducationDon&# ...
  • A Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISS
    Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Related ContentDODOCASELandscapes, by Garry TanEvil EvangelistsQwiki: A Future Google HoldingDakotalapse of Earth’s Sky
  • The Other Half of Online Education
    We’re all well aware of the growing list of high-quality universities offering free online classes. It’s remarkable by any measure. But we also know the counter-argument: you don’t receive near the benefit from free online education that you get from attending university becaus ...
  • Recording and Replaying Experiences
    One of the things I worry about most is not being able to recall the great experiences that have happened to me over time. It’s not about forgetting that I went to the beach in Israel that one time, or any other highlight event. Those types of events should be captured as well, of course, ...
  • DODOCASE
    San Francisco Center for the Book DODOcase from DODOcase on Vimeo. Related ContentA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSLandscapes, by Garry TanEvil EvangelistsQwiki: A Future Google HoldingThis is About as Good as the World Gets

Fitwatch

  • Plainclothes Police and “Agents Provocat ...
    FITwatch have been inspired by the amount of people taking an interest in the policing operations on November 9th. FITwatch recognise critical enagagement with policing strategy as being crucial to our success as a protest movement. However, FITwatch wanted to flag one particular area of concern ...
  • Plainclothes cops on education demo
    These are a selection of the plainclothes cops spotted on the education demo on 9th November. Fitwatchers witnessed the violent arrest or one protester and followed the officers. Other photos have come from various sources. REMEMBER THESE FACES! THESE COPS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON OUR PROTESTS AGA ...
  • Don’t be intimidated! See you on the st ...
    On the eve of the mass education/sparks/cabbies protest on 9th November, it is clear the state are trying to intimidate us. From the news today that the police have written to protesters arrested at previous demonstrations warning them off protesting (see picture), to the “total policing” of the ...
  • Armed police raid Kurdish tent at OccupyLSX
    Last night, the Kurdish tent at the OccupyLSX camp was raided by armed police following an alleged tip off of a gun being present. They searched the tent for over half an hour unsurprisingly finding nothing. The Kurdish community has long been criminalised, and labelled as terrorists for their a ...
  • Don’t just walk on by!
    It's getting to that time of year...the students are back, the weather is getting colder (so you won't be removing your "seasonally appropriate" scarf and hood when the cops tell you to!) and the political climate is already starting to get considerably hotter. Since this time last year, we've h ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • WWH Occupy Updates; Privilege, Power vs People
    Special protection? OWS drums blocked from Bloomy’s house BY Reuven Blau, Trevor Kapp, Sam Levin & Helen Kennedy, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – Occupy Wall Street protesters who were kicked out of their downtown “home” last week moved uptown Sunday, to lay siege to Mayor Bloomberg’s swan ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Monday
    Depleted Texas lakes expose ghost towns, graves BLUFFTON, Texas (AP) — Johnny C. Parks died two days before his first birthday more than a century ago. His grave slipped from sight along with the rest of the tiny town of Bluffton when Lake Buchanan was filled 55 years later. Now, the cracked mar ...
  • Activists must challenge revisionist narrative ...
    By Michael Chessum,guardian.co.uk – The student and anti-cuts movement is not the first to experience brutal policing and political sentencing This November may well mark the point at which the atmosphere of protest in Britain changed. Thursday’s conviction of the Fortnum & Maso ...
  • A green movement that defies expectations
    BY ANDREW LEONARD, GRIST,salon.com – An experiment in a poor Cleveland neighborhood proves an unlikely model for environmental sustainability Conventional wisdom holds that the forward-looking coastal enclaves of the United States are where we’re supposed to expect cutting edge experiments ...
  • Ripples of Love
    By Ed Croft,WWH – With Thanksgiving approaching, I have been thinking about not just the things I am thankful for, but different ways that people can give back. Probably one of the best ways is to donate or help out at local soup kitchens. Most of these are running out of supplies as many ...

reference frame

  • Anton Zeilinger on quantum mechanics and games
    Earlier this month, Austrian physicist Anton Zeilinger who is arguably the world's most prominent experimenter working on the foundations of quantum mechanics (if I avoid the term "recreational quantum entanglement physics") gave this rather entertaining 50-minute talk in Cape Town, Sou ...
  • Is philosophical babbling on par with rigorous ...
    Sean Carroll has realized that by allowing Tom Banks to talk about quantum mechanics, he has given too much space on their Cosmic Variance blog to science, relatively to what the website is primarily dedicated to, namely superficial politically correct left-wing babbling. So he instantl ...
  • Profumo di SUSY
    Is supersymmetry starting to smell at CERN? Four phenomenologists have trained their noses. As a result, they recently began to smell Profumo di SUSY: Suggestive Correlations in the ATLAS and CMS High Jet Multiplicity Data (PDF)in the winds wafting their way from Geneva. Tianjun L ...
  • Nature hypes anti-QM crackpot paper by Pusey e ...
    Quantum mechanics under attack The anti-quantum dimwits have flooded the Physics Stack Exchange, are beginning to do the same thing on Theoretical Physics Stack Exchange, and the same seems to hold for Journal Nature which published an incredibly embarrassing article called: Quantum th ...
  • Mysterious iodine-131 above Czechia
    Update: The source was almost certainly a Hungarian factory producing some medical radioactive tools to treat thyroid. See Google News. BBC, Reuters, AFP, and many other sources didn't overlook a message conveyed by the top Czech nuclear safety watchdog to IAEA: since October, the Czech sta ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
    What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...
  • Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
    Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...
  • WALL STREET INSIDER: The Obama White House Wan ...
    by Ulsterman on October 17, 2011 with 72 Comments in News  Our latest interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider reveals details of a troubling Obama White House stance against Wall Street executives voicing concern over the now daily violence permeating the Occupy Wall Street movement – and ...
  • Mac Slavo: Bugging Out of NYC: Something Terri ...
    Bugging Out of NYC: “Something Terrible is Coming… So For Now, I’m Getting Out.” Mac Slavo October 20th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Comments (67) You may remember the Wall Street Insider from a previous interview in which he suggested that elements within the Obama administration were mobilizing to incit ...
  • Greece has flipped its lid – People say only c ...
    The Greek people have had enough and now they feel that, since peaceful protest does not work, that the time has come for bloodshed to take back their country from the political puppets and the occupying financial terrorists. This is a now a full-blown revolution. Doom on for the Greeks. We are ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

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

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Police probe hospital fraud
    The main hospital serving Buskerud County, located in Drammen, is under police investigation for allegedly charging the state for funds to which it was not entitled, through fraudulent patient registration. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that doctors at the hospital have registered out-pa ...
  • Nesbø book to be Scorsese film
    The good times just keep rolling for Norwegian author Jo Nesbø, whose crime novels keep ringing up more sales internationally. Now his seventh book featuring policeman Harry Hole will be made into a film directed by none other than Martin Scorsese. Nesbø himself says he never really wanted his b ...
  • State takes over export finance
    With more Norwegian businesses feeling the pain of the finance and euro crises, Norway’s government suddenly appeared to ride to the rescue by securing financing for Norwegian exporters. It was, however, “a sad day” for the banking cooperative that has offered export finance si ...
  • Bus accident killed one, injured 22
    A Russian-registered bus carrying Russian seafarers ran off a highway in northern Norway and overturned just before the weekend, leaving one person dead and 22 injured, five of them seriously. The accident occurred in the dark, early morning hours of Friday on the E6 highway in Finnmark, in a mo ...
  • New census taken over the weekend
    State officials undertook Norway’s first official census since 2001 on Saturday. As Norway’s population reaches, and may surpass, the 5-million mark, the census information will have a great impact on the efficiency of how the state can operate over the next decade. Census informatio ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Update on Karat Primary School’s Permaculture ...
    The ‘after map’ design — does not resemble the actual implementation This is an update on my recent post on new school projects here in Ethiopia. We visited Karat Primary School again as a group on Friday 28th October 2011. The group comprised Alex McCausland, Tichafa Makover ...
  • Guerilla Gardening with Rob Avis
    In this video Rob Avis from Verge Permaculture discusses his philosophy and main reasons for guerilla gardening, then dives into techniques, and strategies, and finally lets us watch him guerilla-plant an apple tree in the park near his home, despite a quick pass-over by a police helicopter. ...
  • Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage – Days 6 and 7
    by Tamara Griffiths, Delvin Solkinson and Ali Ma Day 6 : First Day of the Robin Clayfield Training Joining with another Pilgrim, the ultra inspiring Ali Ma, we continued our learning adventure with renewed inspiration. After a 5am awakening before sunrise and a long drive we arrived at last at ...
  • New book: Equine Permaculture – Regenerative H ...
    Equine Permaculture: Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management A collection of articles, 80 pages by Mariette van den Berg & Nicholas Huggins Generally, horse keeping is considered to be a costly hobby or business, especially with current price rises in living expenses ...
  • Monsanto Versus the Beetle
    by Frank Gapinski Monsanto versus the Corn Rootworm Beetle in a dangerous game of tit for tat. This story is almost a parable of two worlds, a battle between the natural and the man-made. Like a boxing match, in the one corner we have Monsanto – a large [...]

Pointman's

  • The Durban debacle awaits …
    Here we go again, another climate clambake attracting attendees from all over the world. They’ll be the usual assortment of politicians, government civil servants, Media, NGOs, activists and fruit loops determined to save the earth from global warming. Nothing changes. In terms of the basic poli ...
  • Happy birthday Climategate.
    It’s around the time of the second anniversary of the Climategate leak so it’s fitting to take stock of where we are now. Before doing that, it’s worth taking a walk down memory lane to recall how things were before it occurred. They were really different. If you were in the fight at the time,&# ...
  • Green myths : We have to get back to a natural ...
    We live under this pervasive avalanche of propaganda that’s telling us we’re the single fly in the ointment that’s killing an Earth that was somehow an Eden before we appeared to spoil the whole thing; if only we could change. Yes, if only we could change. If only we could stand to watch a perso ...
  • Global warming and pathological science.
    There are many aspects to the style of science underpinning the theory of global warming that remind me of something the American scientist Irving Langmuir christened pathological science. Wiki for once is accurate and defines it as - “Pathological science is a psychological process in which a s ...
  • Teachers
    I was very lucky really; I went to a crap school. There was no money and therefore no resources and therefore nothing much of anything. We, the kids, knew this and the teachers did too. That being the case, the school could only attract teachers who couldn’t get a job anywhere else, or had alrea ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican yes it was a alright show, I really do not know if his investment newsletter is a scam too, he bashes all the other newsletter writers. What he mentioned at the end is something I noticed as well, things such as facebook and how they become popular, it is all by the media cr ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    WTF?Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:24 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    More "winning" music... iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWabOW6fVywStatistics: Posted by Whaler — Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:24 am
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    In terms of the General public being sowmewhat Jew-wise. The truther community has "awaken" to the Jew question...big time. I think we at TIU are a big part of that awakening. Here is some "winning" music: iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niQLCDLDFcwStatistics: P ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    bluejelly wrote: Let me guess the talking point they use against Israel is solely their oppression of the Palestinians and nothing else because they are not anti-semitic. This is how they do it, they select who their opposition is, ie lefties who only care about the human rights abuses which Isr ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Extreme Weather to Increase as Climate Changes ...
    A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that an increase in heat waves is “virtually certain” as a result of global warming and that extreme weather events — including hurricanes, floods, and droughts — will likely become more intense in the next century. The ...
  • Major Investment Needed to Avert Global Food C ...
    An international commission says billions of dollars must be invested in agriculture and food distribution to avoid a catastrophic increase in hunger worldwide in the coming years. In a new study, the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change said a coordinated series of responses ...
  • States Exert Little Enforcement Of Gas Drillin ...
    Even as a push for unconventional oil and gas has triggered a drilling boom not seen in the U.S. for decades, a published report finds that enforcement of environmental regulations associated with this drilling has been minimal. In a review of data from major drilling states, Greenwire has found ...
  • Regional Cap-and-Trade Scheme Creates Economic ...
    A regional cap-and-trade program launched in the northeastern U.S. three years ago has saved customers nearly $1.1 billion on electricity bills, helped create 16,000 jobs, and retained more than $765 million in local economies by reducing the demand for fossil fuels, according to a new analysis. ...
  • Air Pollution Alters Frequency and Intensity o ...
    A new study says that air pollution can significantly alter the frequency and intensity of precipitation in a region, inhibiting the chances of light rain while exacerbating heavy storms in some cases. Using a decade of atmospheric data, U.S. scientists found that high levels of aerosols — inclu ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Failed appeal ends last Aum murder trial
    The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Monday for senior Aum Shinrikyo member Seiichi Endo for his role in two sarin attacks in the 1990s, effectively ending more than 16 years of investigation and trials involving the doomsday cult. Endo, 51, a veterinarian and virologist, was condemned ...
  • There's no place like APU, a home away from home
    For part two of the four-part Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) interview series, the subject is Mengmeng Cui from Beijing. After obtaining her Bachelor of Social Science in environment and society at APU in 2004, Cui went to graduate schools in Europe, worked for private companies and n ...
  • Pierce not happy with NBA offer
    Celtics captain Paul Pierce isn't ready to take the latest deal from the NBA owners to end the lockout and stated his desire to play basketball in the Boston Charity Classic on Saturday night. "If I had a vote would I take the deal now?" Pierce said of the offer the players' union rejected Mon ...
  • First human iPS therapy eyed in '13
    A clinical study into the use of lab-grown retina cells to treat age-related macular degeneration has been slated for fiscal 2013, a senior staffer of the research body planning to undertake the project said Saturday. The project might be the world's first to use induced pluripotent stem cells ...
  • Broncos whip Grouses; Murray's status unclear
    With head coach Dean Murray serving a suspension for "a violation of team rules," according to a team source, acting head coach Natalie Nakase led the Saitama Broncos to a 93-74 win over the Toyama Grouses on Sunday. Nakase became the first woman to serve as a head coach in the bj-league. ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Challenging capitalism: a 12-step program
    Over a year ago, I posted “What are the Game Changers?“, an attempt at sparking some strategic thinking for the broader left. Now that we’ve had a month of Occupation, building on the original Occupy Wall Street action, I’ve been wanting to put these ideas back on the tab ...
  • The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
    The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most important income security program for working age adults and families. The Task Force has commissioned and publis ...
  • An Inconvenient Occupation
    A friend recently said she supported the Occupy movement but felt their activities were inconveniencing others. I thought of this while watching police clearing Occupy Nova Scotia from Victoria Park in Halifax. Drenched protestors wrestled to the ground, handcuffed, and dragged through mud into ...
  • Who Occupies the Sky?
    CCPA released a new report today by myself and Amanda Card that makes the links between inequality and carbon footprints. We look at the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions for Canada, building on an analysis of BC emissions. While it was not planned this way, the analysis is timely given t ...
  • Hunger Count 2011: Canada’s East Coast
    In case you missed them, the recent food bank usage numbers are staggering.  Using data from March 2011, Food Banks Canada’s Hunger Count found that Food Banks across the country served 851, 014 people. This amounts to about 2.5% of the total population. The Hunger Count is an important tool in ...

ReDress

  • America’s festering sores
    Paul J. Balles outlines "a must-do menu" of political causes needing public attention, from the icon of injustice and arbitrariness known as Guantanamo, through the silence over the 1967 Israeli attack on the US warship USS Liberty, which resulted in 200 American casualties, to the existence of ...
  • Israeli democracy fades to black
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel, which had traditionally received at least the tacit support of the entire political establishment, is coming full circle, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likudniks and settlers now targeting th ...
  • Britain's Jewish fascists in putsch against fr ...
    Gilad Atzmon explains the latest - failed - attempt by Britain's Zio-fascists to kill the UK's most precious cultural values: openness, pluralism, freedom of expression and artistic freedom.
  • Israeli media paving the way for an attack on Iran
    Neve Gordon argues that while the Israeli media frenzy supporting an attack on Iran may be orchestrated to pressure the international community to impose harsher sanctions against Iran, it is nonetheless helping to produce the necessary conditions for a military campaign.
  • Why the West is demonizing Iran
    Stuart Littlewood argues that behind the "non-stop, loud-mouthed sabre-rattling against Iran" lies the fact that the Anglo-American political establishment is still smarting from not getting its way.

Physics Today

  • Possible lakes on Europa could support life
    Washington Post: Not only does Jupiter’s smallest moon, Europa, have a massive global ocean beneath its icy surface, but it could also have huge lakes, according to new research. One of the geological mysteries of the solar system, writes Brian Vastag for the Washington Post, has been the ...
  • UK geoengineering project put on hold
    Guardian: A test of a UK geoengineering project has been postponed pending further discussion of its implications. The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project, which was conceived in March 2010, would inject particles into Earth’s atmosphere to try to cool ...
  • Rebuilding the 2000-year-old Antikythera as a ...
    NVP3D: The oldest known mechanism to use clockwork gears, called the Antikythera after the place it was discovered, was found in an ancient Greek shipwreck more than a hundred years ago. The device, of which only 82 badly corroded fragments remain, not only predicted solar eclipses but also orga ...
  • Improving the Large Hadron Collider
    CERN: Although the Large Hadron Collider has only been operating for a few months, CERN is preparing to significantly upgrade the infrastructure around 2020. After the upgrade, the LHC's luminosity will be increased to 5–10 times its current design value. “With the LHC colliding hun ...
  • Nebula's frozen clouds at heart of violent sta ...
    Wired: Using a sub millimeter wavelength camera on the Atacana Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, a team led by Thomas Preisbisch, of Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany, have captured images of star formation in the Carina Nebula. The nebula contains dense clouds of gas and dust that ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
    by footprints888 (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:16:53 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...
  • basket tnVendredi, Nike va lancer dix par la coutu
    by requintn (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:23:19 GMT) Annuelles d'hiver de NIKE semble avoir produit plus sincère, nike shox ce qui force les deux dernières années SPECIAL BOOT Hybird SNEAKERS dans un sens raisonnable. Suite à la version antérieure Fujiwara HIROSHI après le lancement de l'TIER ZERO ...
  • basket tnVendredi, Nike va lancer dix par la coutu
    by requintn (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:21:10 GMT) Ceci est pour chacun d'apporter NIKE AF 1 25 anniversaire de sports d'édition chaussures,appelé "Say it Loud", superstar une des chaussures noires en cuir verni, principalement comme matériau principal, le tout dominé par sombre, personnalité ém ...
  • FF NewS: President Abdulla 'tees off...'
    by footprints888 (Posted Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:08:43 GMT) FF News: President Abdulla 'tee's off...' 1 Month, 1 Week ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla finally worked his way into the upper reaches of the Footprintsfilmworks.com Open leaderboard in Saturday's third round, though h ...
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by Paul LGN (Posted Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:15:05 GMT) If you don't figure it out you will have no one else to blame but yourself, because your more caught up in your personal position and your personal issues to consider what is actually the root of the whole problem. Don't fool yourself, EVERYONE ...

Peakwater

  • Marin Municipal Water District to challenge de ...
    “The Marin Municipal Water District will challenge a judge’s ruling that the district’s desalination project environmental impact report is flawed, which essentially voided the project. “The water district board voted Wednesday in a closed session to appeal a Marin Superi ...
  • Critics blast Las Vegas pipeline proposal
    “An attorney for the LDS Church called a proposal for tapping ground water in the dry regions of Nevada and pumping it to Las Vegas a disaster with good intentions. “It’s the cotton candy of good intentions with nothing good at its core,” attorney Paul Hermonskie said Fri ...
  • Nike, Adidas, Puma agree with Greenpeace to cl ...
    “Nike and Adidas , wily competitors at the cash register for four decades, announced an agreement Friday with several other footwear and clothing brands to work jointly to eliminate the discharge of hazardous chemicals by 2020. “The agreement is viewed as a major step toward eliminat ...
  • Decision Day for City Council (Santa Cruz Desa ...
    “On several occasions members of the Santa Cruz City Council have expressed the sentiment that desalination should be a last resort. Other strategies to make better use of existing resources should be employed first. On Tuesday at 7pm, the Council has the opportunity to put that intention ...
  • Regional tensions limit Bhutan climate summit aims
    “Four Himalayan nations, faced with erratic weather and the threat of melting glaciers and catastrophic floods, are hashing out a plan for preserving the vast mountain range and helping millions living in the foothills cope with climate change. “But as India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bh ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Decision to Send Marines to Australi ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to deploy 2,500 marines to Australia. “The Obama Administration’s decision to send marines to Australia is worrisome because it again demonstrates this Administration’s incli ...
  • Kucinich: Special Interests Put Ahead of Child ...
    Washington D.C. (November 17, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of children’s nutrition, today released the following statement after language was inserted into the Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture, Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies App ...
  • Kucinich Moves to Protect Puritas Avenue Post ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today wrote to Postmaster General Patrick Donahue to request a meeting to discuss the proposed closing of the post office located at 14039 Puritas Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Congressman Kucinich, a longtime advocate of the United States Postal Service, also req ...
  • Kucinich Calls on Ohio EPA to Restrict Dangero ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today released the following statement encouraging the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force the GenOn electric power plant in Avon Lake to limit its toxic air pollution. “Yesterday, it was reported that the GenOn electric power plant in Avon La ...
  • Kucinich, Burton and Young Lead Bipartisan App ...
    Congressmen Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), Dan Burton (R-IN) and Don Young (R-AK) organized a bipartisan group of 44 Members of Congress to urge Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to reject a recommendation by the United States Preventive Task Force (USPTF) that healthy men should no ...

Authentically Wired

  • THE JOKE IS ON YOU
      … So you really believe there will be cut$ in defen$e $pending … yea, right the joke’s on you …   Battle looms over what ‘defense’ means for automatic cuts if supercommittee fails 11-19-2011  •  thehill.com  … http://thehill.com/blog ...
  • WILL NOT ALLOW
    … Big pharma and AMA do not want under any circumstances medical marijuana to become a viable healing modality  … Hospital refuses liver transplant for medical marijuana patient 11-18-2011  •  Rawstory  … http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/17/hospital-refuse ...
  • ORGANIC GREENWA$HING
    … Beware of These Organic Brands…   Posted By Dr. Mercola | November 19 2011 …  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/19/mark-kastel-cornucopia-good-food-movement.aspx?e_cid=20111119_DNL_art_1 The Cornucopia Institute  &#8 ...
  • … Tragically “lying” is an a ...
    … Tragically “lying” is an art practiced on both sides of the political isle … The death of truth: ‘lazy’ lying Tea-Publicans   Posted: 18 Nov 2011 02:43 PM PST…Posted by AzBlueMeanie… http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2011/11/the-death-of-truth-lazy-lyi ...
  • … AT LEAST YOU KNOW NEWT IS NOT COVERING ...
    … AT  LEAST YOU KNOW NEWT IS NOT           COVERING YOUR BUTT …     … At least we know whose “butt” Newt is going to CYA … … IF … you couldn’t tell it is NOT yours or mine… Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets
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    One of the planet's most beautiful landscapes is in danger. Deep in southern Venezuela, among ancient forested tabletop mountains known as tepuis, crystalline rivers, and breathtaking waterfalls, outside influences — malaria, the high price of gold, commercial hunting, and cultural erosion ...
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    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
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    Let me state for the record that I am skeptical of the existence of Bigfoot or the Yeti, however I do have a fascination for following the latest news on the seemingly never-ending search for these hidden hominids. This week a Yeti conference in Russia announced 'indisputable proof' of the legen ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • GE law probe a big surprise
    A highly sensitive Government study into how much money can be made by changing genetic engineering laws will be underway immediately after the election.Environment Minister Nick Smith is facing embarrassment after admitting he...
  • Nutrition key factor in many health issues
    Appropriate nutrition is essential for growth, development and maintaining health; inadequate nutrition is now accepted as an underlying cause of many chronic diseases, including diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers.A...
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  • George Laking: Epsom and climate change
    This month the International Energy Agency published its latest World Energy Outlook. It says if high-carbon energy investment continues for more than five years, atmospheric carbon dioxide will unavoidably overshoot 450 parts per...
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    Prime Minister John Key has strung together 120 promises from 33 separate policy areas as National's "economic development action plan".Most of the policies have been announced already but a genuinely new policy announced yesterday...

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    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
  • AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
      http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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      This Thursday I will be the guest on Universal Truth Evolution Radio to discuss some extremely important information and make a special announcement. I ask that everyone who takes the information provided on Truth Survival tune in to this … Continue reading →
  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

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    New Gallup poll has Newt Gingrich at 22 percent, Mitt Romney at 21 percent, and everybody else staring up at the formers' cushy, corporatist rumps. Where does the modern police state get its surveillance tools? The Wall Street Journal has put together a catalog.  "The Bush ye ...
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    Whoda thunk it? In the face of the looming failure of the Super Committee to cut one thin dime from any real spending anywhere (as opposed to trims in anticipated increases over the next decade), the president and speaker of the House just say no to folks looking to scotch the $1.2 tr ...
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    He's a responsible, well-spoken adult with a good record in office, a soothing style, bipartisan appeal, and ample knowledge of the world beyond our shores. But Jon Huntsman, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, somehow imagines he can overcome those handicaps. H ...
  • New Video of Police Brutality at Occupy Oakland
    Occupy Oakland's clashes mostly had Scott Olsen's bleeding head as the face of police excess. Olsen is the Iraq War veteran who was hit by a teargas canister on October 25 and knocked down, then the bystanders who rushed to his aid were attacked by a cop who threw some kind of devic ...
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    Reason's Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg team up to give 3 Reasons We Shouldn't Bail Out Student Loan Borrowers. Click above to watch the 3.33-minute-long video and go here to read the full story, with mucho supporting links and information on the issue. View this ...

Mercury Rising

  • Occupy Oakland calls for West Coast port strike
    And the mercury is indeed rising. A grain exporter, EGT, has offended the Longview, Washington Longshoremen, so Occupy Oakland is calling on anyone associated with the ports to take a vacation. Occupy Los Angeles has called for a shutdown of SSA terminals, operated by Goldman Sachs. (Image from ...
  • The unutterable shallowness of William Jeffers ...
    I’ve always liked Bill Clinton more than I liked his policies. But as time wears on, either I am getting grumpier, or the rather obvious deficiencies to his policies are glowering more fiercely. One of the more painful is his performance in Haiti. As Jeremy Scahill put it, he was”Nam ...
  • Murdoch phone hacking: News International is a ...
    James Robinson, The Guardian: Steve Coogan has compared News International to a “protection racket” that uses the threat of press intrusion to ensure it is allowed to “conduct business unencumbered by scrutiny or regulation”. The actor, who will give evidence to the Leves ...
  • Examining The Big Lie The Elites Tell About Th ...
    Barry Ritholz takes on the fatuous lie, expensively promoted by one-percenters like Michael Bloomberg, that US-government-supported housing programs caused a worldwide financial crisis: A McKinsey Global Institute report noted “from 2000 through 2007, a remarkable run-up in global home prices oc ...
  • Something old, something new, something lovely ...
    One of the things I love best about Avedon Carol’s Sideshow (nor let us forget Shrimplate) is the profusion of beautiful things she brings to our attention. For example: This is a paper sculpture: “a book carved so that a bunch of warriors seemed to be leaping (or in some cases gallo ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Scientific Support for Energy Medicine
      The following is excerpted from Healing Touch: Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others, available from Sounds True.   read more
  • Working Class Mystic: George Harrison Gets Kri ...
        This article is excerpted from Working Class Mystic: A Spiritual Biography of George Harrison, recently released by Quest Books.  read more
  • Google Earth Reveals Chinese Geoglyphs
    Recent images on Google Earth of bizarre landmasses, strange lines, and massive grids in desolate Chinese deserts have internet gossipers and armchair sleuths buzzing.   read more
  • RS Retreat: 2012 Rainforest Councils
    Reality Sandwich invites you to the 2012 Council Gatherings on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica being held as fundraisers to preserve rainforest projects spearheaded by the Council for Cultural and Biological Diversity (CCBD).  Join us on an unforgettable adventure of self-discovery, wellness and ...
  • Retired Police Captain Joins #OCCUPY
    Retired Philadelphia Captain Ray Lewis, quite possibly the first police officer to join the movement, became an occupier this week.  In meeting him personally he was unexpectedly friendly and peaceful with a powerful message. read more

Desertification

  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan Nations Yet to Break ...
    Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban.
  • AFRICA: Change the Donors Climate
    When donor-funded horticultural projects failed in Kalacha village at the edge of the Chalbi Desert in North Eastern Province, Kenya, the local pastoralist community proposed their own idea, which turned out to be the solution to their problems.
  • Q&A: "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
    Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
  • Climate Change Could Unravel Development Progress
    The United Nations unveiled its 22nd annual Human Development Report on Wednesday, with grave warnings that unless countries take action against climate change and implement sustainable solutions, progress in human development will be in serious jeopardy.
  • Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation C ...
    Every six seconds, a child dies of hunger-related causes. That disturbing reality seems as remote as the moon here in the ultra-modern Changwon Convention Centre, where delegates struggled to create effective ways to stem the ongoing decline of food-producing lands.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Ambush kills 14 Pakistani soldiers
    Unidentified gunmen have ambushed a paramilitary convoy in Pakistan's volatile southwestern Balochistan Province, killing at least 14 soldiers and wounding some others.
  • FDA: New stent design is risky
    Newer class of heart stents that keep blocked heart coronary arteries open are poorly designed to resist shortening, a condition which may lead to rare but serious complications.
  • EU Council warns UK on human rights
    The Council of Europe has warned Britain that the negative coverage of human rights by its media could undermine other countries' commitment to the European Convention on Human Rights.
  • UK education cuts worst since 1950s
    British schools and universities face the largest cuts to public education spending since the 1950s, reported the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS).
  • Bahrain admits use of excessive force
    The Bahraini government has admitted to the use of 'excessive force' against anti-government protesters demanding an end to the rule of Al Khalifa dynasty.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
    The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year 2011: $ ...
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  • CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers
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  • Presentation at APPAM’s Annual Fall Rese ...
    This morning Jeffrey Kling, CBO’s Associate Director for Economic Analysis, spoke at the Annual Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management. His presentation—which can be viewed below—focused on CBO’s use of evidence in the ana ...

Naked Scientists - News

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