23 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

• ARGENTINA: Women Build New Opportunities in Co ...
  Forged in the 2001-2002 social and economic crisis, cooperatives in Argentina are becoming a fast track to women's participation in what were traditionally regarded as male spheres.
• LATIN AMERICA: How to Prevent 'Femicide'
  Vanina Alderete, an 18-year-old from Argentina, is a survivor of a particularly heinous case of domestic violence: when she was 11, her father killed her mother and her two little brothers and left her seriously injured.
• Bahrain Rights Report Released Amid Clashes
  The head of a special commission in Bahrain has said authorities used torture and excessive force against detainees arrested in a crackdown earlier this year.
• PAKISTAN: At the Butt of a Joke
  The Butts of Punjab have become the butt of jokes after Pakistan's telecom authorities moved to ban "obscene" content on short messaging service (SMS) texts over mobile phones.
• EGYPT: It's January Again in Tahrir Square
  Days of clshes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. The new political crisis has prompted fears that Egypt's first post-Mubarak parliamentary polls, s ...

My AntiWar

• Student?s squat gatehouse at University of Bir ...
  Last night student activists reoccupied the University of Birmingham by squatting a disused former gatehouse at the north gate. This is the second time the university has been occupied this month and was part of a day of action called by NCAFC after the N9 demo. Occupations have become a regular ...
• Sherry Rehman, Liberal Lawmaker, Is Pakistan&# ...
• Truth Squad: Has Iran Said It Wants to Attack ...
• Iran opens int’l investment meeting in f ...
  Summary: Representatives of 250 international companies from 25 countries are participating in the two-day conference, as several expert panels in oil, gas, petrochemicals, mines, agriculture, banking and insurance are to be held during the event. source: Xinhuaread more
• Iran is not about to collapse
  Summary: There are two central narratives that presume the Iranian state is likely to collapse under the pressure of sanctions and/or threats of war. In my opinion, both are flawed. source: The Guardianread more

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran opens int'l investment meeting in face of ...
  Summary: Representatives of 250 international companies from 25 countries are participating in the two-day conference, as several expert panels in oil, gas, petrochemicals, mines, agriculture, banking and insurance are to be held during the event. source: Xinhuaread more
• Iran is not about to collapse
  Summary: There are two central narratives that presume the Iranian state is likely to collapse under the pressure of sanctions and/or threats of war. In my opinion, both are flawed. source: The Guardianread more
• Full text of NAM statement on IAEA resolution
  Summary: Non-Aligned MovementNon-Aligned Movement in a statement on Implementation of the NPT safeguards Agreement and Relevant Resolution of United Nations Security Council Resolutions in the Islamic Republic of Iran in IAEA Board of Governors’ conference stressed talks and diplomacy to be t ...
• Is Iran Iraq All Over Again?
  Summary: The [International atomic energy] agency reports that Iran isn't diverting enriched uranium for military purposes — which is exactly what the IAEA is supposed to be monitoring. But that's not the news here. source: Foreign Policy In Focusread more
• Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb-Test-Chamb ...
  Summary: Robert KellyA former inspector for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has repudiated its major new claim that Iran built an explosives chamber to test components of a nuclear weapon and carry out a simulated nuclear explosion. The IAEA claim that a foreign scientist – iden ...

The Daily Galaxy

• News Flash: Hope Revived! First Signal Receive ...
  The European Space Agency has received the first signal from Russia's unmanned Phobos-Gunt spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars since it got stuck in Earth's orbit two weeks ago, officials said Wednesday, raising hope that the mission might be...
• News Flash: Alien Worlds "Planetary Habitabili ...
  In the next few years, the number of catalogued exoplanets will be counted in the thousands. This will vastly expand the number of potentially habitable worlds and lead to a systematic assessment of their astrobiological potential. A U.S./German research team...
• Antarctica's Dry Valley and Chile's Atacama De ...
  Because the surface of Mars today is bone-dry and frozen all year round, it’s difficult to find any place on Earth that is truly Mars-like. But two locations, Antarctica’s Upper Dry Valleys and the hyper-arid core of Chile’s Atacama Desert...
• Image of the Day: A Massive Cluster of Ancient ...
  A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, located roughly 160,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Doradus. The cluster is a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo...
• Is the Human Species Entering an Evolutionary ...
  Will the future of space exploration evolve into a hybrid of human and robotic expeditions, one which may change the face of humanity in space? The species that you and all other living human beings on this planet belong to...

Natural News

• Does green tea have caffeine? Seven things yo ...
  (NaturalNews) If you want to completely eliminate caffeine from your diet, you will have to add green tea to your list of forbidden foods. However, if you merely want to reduce your caffeine intake, you may want to substitute green tea for coffee as your morning pick-me-up beverage. Consider the ...
• Scientist deliberately 'militarizes' flu strai ...
  (NaturalNews) For years, health officials from around the world have been warning that the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is currently not a threat, will one day mutate into a deadly, pandemic strain. But now their predictions -- or warnings, depending on how you look at it -- could come true, as a ...
• 10 outlandish things the 'scientific' controll ...
  (NaturalNews) What corporate-driven "science" has in mind for the future of humanity is far different from the dreamy utopian landscape that's been portrayed by the mainstream media. To hear the corporate-run media tell it, science is always "good" for humanity. Scientific achievements are alway ...
• Citizens for Health launches initiative to fig ...
  (NaturalNews) The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has been busy the past few years trying to salvage the reputation of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), a heavily-processed chemical sweetener derived from corn starch that a growing number of Americans are now seeking to avoid for health reasons. ...
• McDonald's dumps McMuffin egg supplier after i ...
  (NaturalNews) Fast-food giant McDonald's is once again in the media limelight after it was recently revealed that its West Coast egg supplier has been engaged in "significant and serious violations," according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). McDonald's officially ended its relation ...

Threat Level

• ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong
  Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”
• Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Growing Student Pr ...
  Occupy Wall Street may have been evicted from Zuccotti park, but New York students are now taking the protest back to their schools.
• Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t D ...
  A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released late Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security.
• Mobile ‘Rootkit’ Maker Tries to Silence Critic ...
  An android developer and the maker of a mobile-phone data-logging company are at legal odds over the dev's critical research about Carrier IQ, which is demanding Trevor Eckhart publicly apologize for his research, and remove the company's training manuals from his website. The brouhaha intertwin ...
• Bradley Manning Defense to Call 50 Witnesses t ...
  The defense attorney representing alleged leaker Bradley Manning plans to call up to 50 witnesses at a pre-trial hearing scheduled to occur next month in Maryland as well as introduce a number of motions.

PERRspectives : Blog

• Republicans Violate Norquist Pledge over Payr ...
  The Wall Street Journal greeted the failure of the Congressional debt super committee with an editorial titled, "Thank You, Grover Norquist." That gratitude should have surprised no one. After all, Norquist's anti-tax pledge led handcuffed committee Republicans not just to oppose even modest t ...
• Mitt Romney's Iran Follies
  As the GOP presidential field gathers once again for the CNN national security debate, Mitt Romney has already identified Iran as the place to contrast himself with the current commander-in-chief. "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Romney declared at the last Republ ...
• GOP's "Servants of the Rich" Block Debt Deal
  Two weeks ago, House Speaker John Boehner protested that the characterization of his Republican Party as "servants of the rich" was "very unfair." But after the GOP torpedoed any debt reduction deal from the Congressional super committee including "any penny" in new tax revenue from the richest ...
• The Victory of the Occupy Movement
  In the wake of its clashes with police in cities across the country, some media (for example, here and here) are beginning to question whether the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is becoming counterproductive. But lost in those debates is the undeniable victory of the Occupy movement, or at ...
• McCain Attacks Joint Chiefs Chairman's Credibi ...
  Memo to Republicans: (1) Until President Obama appears on the deck of a U.S. aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit and an oversized cod piece, no conservative can ever accuse of him of taking too much credit for any national security success. (2) When it comes to Iraq, no one who has been as ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Meet Jihan Hafiz and Reed Lindsay
  A special show with Cairo Correspondents Jihan Hafiz and Reed Lindsay speaking about covering the Egyptian Revolution and Jihan's recent detention while covering the Gaza flotilla
• Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle on Their Journe ...
  Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle each served years on death row -- Jacobs here in the United States and Pringle in Ireland. Both were exonerated after their convictions were overturned for murders that they steadfastly maintained they did not commit. They began dating shortly after meeting while ...
• Egypt Protesters Defy Mounting Crackdown As Mi ...
  Egyptian protesters continue to fill Cairo’s central Tahrir Square over the ruling military council's refusal to immediately transfer power to a civilian government. In a televised address on Tuesday, the head of Egypt's military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, said he has accept ...
• Headlines for November 23, 2011
  Egyptian Protesters Reject Military's Refusal to Cede Power, Yemeni President to Step Down in Return for Immunity, Clashes in Bahrain Ahead of Release of Crackdown Probe, Occupy Protesters Heckle Obama in New Hampshire, Oregon Governor Halts "Morally Wrong" Death Penalty, Justice Dept. Challenge ...
• "When the World Outlawed War"
  David Swanson discusses his book about the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and how it makes current wars illegal

Consortium News

• OWS Shatters the Political Frame
• Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes
• Holiday Books for Only $2 Apiece
• The Trashing of the People’s Library
• Israeli Democracy Fades Toward Black

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• Watch Battle for Wetzel County Online
    In just the last of couple years, environmental agencies, foundations, bloggers, and filmmakers have thrust the natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, into the public’s consciousness.  Arguing that fracking poses serious environmental concerns such as water co ...
• Public Trusts EPA, Not Congress (Wonder Why)
  Because many in Congress are lying sacks of oil money bags, perhaps. But, the EPA supports the public, and the public trusts and supports the EPA (not oil-funded millionaire Congressmen). More, a full repost, from Think Progress Green: Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year by indus ...
• NBC Nails Global Warming & Climate Change! (VIDEO)
  Finally, a mainstream media company completely nails the link between global warming, climate change, and extreme weather. Here’s the video: Related posts:Did Climate Scientists Change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”? Heck No New Celebrity-Packed Climate C ...
• Billionaire Koch Brothers, Who Own Republican ...
  We’ve spent hours upon hours researching the Solyndra story and debunking every single one of the lies mentioned in this video (it’s packed full of a LOT) — click the link above to read some of those. But the really ironic thing about this video is that it was funded by the Koc ...
• Climate Change Denial Season! (Cartoon)
  Another fun one I found on Climate Progress (click to enlarge): Related posts:Climate Denial Right Wing Noise Machine Goes After Mark Hertsgaard, Hertsagaard Responds ‘Temperature Leads Carbon’ Climate Denial Crock {VIDEO} If Climate Change Were a Dog (Cartoon) Related posts:Climat ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Great day to be on the lake!
  The sun is beaming and the water is reflecting it everywhere.  It seems to be better weather than in
• Lake Sunapee hosts international meeting of la ...
  Image via Wikipedia GLEON = Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network, a grassroots group of limnol
• Why to Test Water Quality Before Drilling
  This article in The State Journal suggests that drilling companies and landowners alike should have
• We just constructed out pond, how long should ...
  We just constructed out pond, how long should we wait to add fish? Jay – Phoenix, AZ When you
• Is there an ideal temperature to treat algae? ...
  Is there an ideal temperature to treat algae? Crystal – New Baltimore, MI It depends what you

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The toppling of the corporate state by Chris H ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Oct. 24, 2011 Image by Dandelion Salad via
• Is Washington Using Famine in the Horn of Afri ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 19 October 2011 US Drones Coordinate A
• State terrorism led by the Land of the Free by ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad London, England 22 October 2011 “For we wrestl
• More Garbage Medical Headlines by Cameron Sali ...
  by Cameron Salisbury Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Opedinfo.com October 16, 2011 Image by bradley
• Chris Hedges: Nonviolent Citizen Resistance to ...
  Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Oct. 23, 2011

Axis of Logic

• Where did the left go? - Europe
  As capitalism faces the worst economic crisis since the1930s, the parties of the left are silent or embarrassed. At best, they promise to put the system right. More often, they advocate brutal austerity to prove their seriousness The Occupy Wall Street protests in the US are also di ...
• 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism ...
  Ha-Joon Chang offers a masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism, writes John Gray The world is awash with books that claim to explain the global financial meltdown. Not many are written by economists. Ignorant of history, including th ...
• Q&A: Egypt's new protests - Egypt
  After deadly clashes between demonstrators and security forces in Egypt, the BBC news website looks at what lies behind the latest round of protests. Why are the protesters back? Protesters are angry at the slow pace of reforms and are demanding the end of military rule. Wh ...
• Egypt News — Revolution and Aftermath - World News
  Recent Developments Nov. 23 Egypt careened into another day of crisis with no end in sight as thousands of people occupying Tahrir Square rejected a deal struck by the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Officials said that 31 people had died since the unrest began last week. ...
• Anonymous: An ignorant assault on Shakespeare ...
  Editor's Commentary: As a self-confessed Shakespeare snob, I have long ago given up hope for the sanity of those who would question his authorship of the plays and poetry attributed to him. The protagonist of this film, Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, is an inane 'alternative' as the writer...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Make-shift Libraries a Hallmark of OWS Camps
  By @TedFrier Each afternoon as I race to catch the train on my way back home I pass through the Occupy Boston encampment, situated in Dewey Square directly across Atlantic Avenue from the MBTA's South Station terminal and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. On many days protesters share this pie ...
• I call fowl
  By @BGinKC When I was in school, all my social studies classes -- History, Civics, Government -- treated the hysteria of the nativist know-nothings who overreacted to  WW I by renaming saurkraut "liberty cabbage" and engaging in book-burnings with mockery and derision; even in a small, cons ...
• Performance of Supercommittee Dems Nothing to ...
  By @KYYellowDog We're not going to be able to pressure Congressional Democrats to stand firm on budget cuts as long as supposed liberal voices ignore the fact that supercommittee Democrats came within a hair of giving away the entire store. George Zornick at The Nation: This whole super-committe ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By BG&YD Gunman threatening #Occupy Houston protesters shot by police. "An armed man, who witnesses say claimed to be "The White Knight" while threatening Occupy Houston protesters, was shot by police Monday. ... On Tuesday, authorities charged 21-year-old Joshua Anthony Twohig with aggravated a ...
• Methinks that no one is more surprised by Newt ...
  By @BGinKC Today was the filing deadline for the Missouri primary, and guess who isn't going to be on the ballot? Go ahead...take a guess. Yep. That's right. Newt. Now I ask you...Would a serious GOP candidate really skip the Missouri primary? My Magic 8-Ball says "No." Missouri is a fairly ...

Care 2

• 5 New Buildings in Your Neighborhood Youve Nev ...
  When you drive down the street, you might be surprised to find that a new building has popped up where and old, local business used to be. Sometimes the building belongs to an industry youve never even heard of. Submitted by Clifton Sanders to Green Lifestyle  |   Note-it!   ...
• What are the Blogs of IT Geeks
  In true IT form, all of the best, most updated news on technology- or Internet-related issues can be found online in the blogosphere. But where do you begin? How do you find the blogs posting about content you actually care about? Submitted by Mcfadden Brady to Science & Tech  |  ...
• Poll Results - 11/23/2011
  A completely unscientific poll of the readers of Politics Plus on who Republicans represent. Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Bill O'Reilly On UC Davis Pepper Spray: We Sho ...
  O'Reilly was a tad less nuanced in his comments. "I don't think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police," he said. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Where Are the Calls for Personhood?
  See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Tax the Rich! In Fact, Let's Double Their Taxes
• The Rift Within Occupy: Revolution Versus Reform
• The People's Surveillance State
• The Unmentionable: Land Mines in Afghanistan S ...
• Cartoon for November 23rd, 2011: Back to Normal

Paul Krugman

• Thanksgiving Videos
  Getting in the spirit.
• A Gigantic Scam
  Andrew Haldane on finance.
• Paul Solman Is Shrill
  How dare he look at actual data?
• Thanksgiving Is Un-American
  From each according to his ability (to hunt)?
• Voice Recognition Software
  What was that you said?

No Quarter

• How to Immediately Cut the Federal Budget and ...
  Folks, it is critical to look at where the money is going. Let’s start with what Congress and the President can do immeidately to shrink the Federal Budget: Step 1–Freeze Federal hiring. The Federal Government currently employs 2,838,491. Doesn’t matter whether a Republican or ...
• CNN’s GOP National Security Debate
  Have at ‘em! Bring coffee to stay awake during Wolfie’s questions …
• Truth Will Out On Voter ID “Outrage”
  Well, this is a mighty interesting story, though I don’t reckon you’ll be seeing it on MSNBC. A former Democratic Representative, Artur Davis, fromo Alabama, admits the real reason the Democrats so oppose Voter ID. In an interview with The Daily Caller, Davis acknowledges the rampant ...
• “Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Ru ...
  Now THERE is a headline I can get behind, from the National Journal. Yes, a variety of sources are reporting today that Democratic pollsters are a bit concerned about Obama’s re-election campaign, and what would happen should he get (NOOOO!) a second term. I gotta tell you, this is a welco ...
• Monday Night Open Thread
  Some mighty interesting stories making the rounds today. As many of us expected, the Supercommittee has failed. But it’s official now. Great. Well done, folks. Way to put party before country. Or, more to the point, way to put a campaign slogan for Obama before the country – it&#8217 ...

Futurismic

• Long Term and Long Distance Thinking
  Last month, I wrote about the government. I asserted that we need to get business interests out of government or we’ll keep making decisions based on next quarter’s profits instead of the health of the next decade. This month, I want to talk about a whole industry that seems to be falling victim ...
• Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
    Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
• The Grand Lie
  Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...
• The Shameful Joys of Deus Ex: Human Revolutions
    Context, Dear Boy… Context Here is a common complaint: ‘One of the problems facing video game writing is a systemic failure to place games in their correct historical context’ What this generally means is that writers fail to open their reviews with a lengthy diatribe on the history ...
• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
  I’ve been writing here at Futurismic for well over five years, now. It feels like longer, somehow, but it also feels like I only just started. I’ve learned a lot of things, not least of which is the fact that, the more you learn, the more you realise remains to be learned. One of the ...

Therapy News

• The Fatal Effects of Transphobia
  In May this year, 16 people lost their lives to transphobic violence and hate: 11 in Brazil, and one each in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela. I know, because just a couple of days ago I read aloud the names of each departed soul at the annual Transgender Day ...
• Friendships Reduce the Risk of Being Bullied
  Being the target of bullying can cause a child to internalize and experience a decrease in self-worth. Many children who are victims of bullying become isolated and withdrawn, and often have a limited social circle of friends. “Because many of the correlates and predictors of peer victimization ...
• New Study Examines Screening Tool for Pediatri ...
  College in London theorized that self-reports and parent reports of symptomology would provide a more accurate picture of a child’s overall behavior. “This study uses an alternative approach to the question of youth BP starting at the level of individual symptoms that occur during an episode of ...
• Sex Addiction is a Relational Disorder
  I’m struck by the fact that people with addiction issues, when confronted with the destructive effects of their behaviors, often find it harder to stop. This is especially true, in my clinical experience, when it comes to compulsive sexual behavior, aka sex addiction. Why is that? Therapy client ...
• When Problem-Solving Becomes a Problem
  Many people come to therapy wanting to know why they have certain problems. They’ve been struggling with this problem for a long time and they want to understand why, because if they could just figure out the cause of the problem, they might be able to solve it. They might say something along th ...

Mountaintop Removal

• War On Coal? EPA Regulations Boost Coal Employ ...
  ThinkProgress War On Coal? EPA Regulations Boost Coal Employment To 15-Year High ThinkProgress According to the same data, the spike in employment correlates to the EPA's crackdown on destructive mountaintop removal policies, the Charleston Gazette reports: Matt Wasson, director of programs ...
• Tomblin ousts 2 members of W.Va. Environmental ...
  Tomblin ousts 2 members of W.Va. Environmental Quality Board as mining rules ... The Republic Earl Ray Tomblin has replaced two members of an appeals board that's considering whether to apply new federal water-quality rules to West Virginia's mountaintop removal mining permits. The Charl ...
• Standing Up for Appalachia - Huffington Post
  Standing Up for Appalachia Huffington Post Already, 1.2 million acres of America's mountains have been destroyed by the highly-destructive practice of mountaintop removal. Each day three million pounds of explosives are detonated in Appalachia, releasing chemicals, like Arsenic and Sellenium ...
• Coal group logo on W.Va. arena floor irks acti ...
  West Virginia MetroNews Coal group logo on W.Va. arena floor irks activist Washington Examiner author Denise Giardina, a longtime opponent of mountaintop removal mining, told the Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/ud4mBB ). The Civic Center is a government building owned by the city of Charleston. West V ...
• Tomblin shakes up W.Va. environment board - Ch ...
  Tomblin shakes up W.Va. environment board Charleston Gazette Earl Ray Tomblin has replaced two members of a state appeals board that is in the middle of a major case that focuses on implementation of new federal water-quality guidance for mountaintop removal mining permits. Late last week, Tombl ...

Memeorandum

• CNN Poll: Blue collar Democrats' support for O ...
  CNN: CNN Poll: Blue collar Democrats' support for Obama drops  —  Washington (CNN) - Although President Barack Obama's overall approval rating remains steady, his standing among Democrats, and in particular among blue-collar Democrats, appears to have dropped, according to a new ...
• Zuccotti Utopia: Portraits of The New Revoluti ...
  El Marco / Looking at the Left: Zuccotti Utopia: Portraits of The New Revolutionaries  —  The Rise and Demise of the Zuccotti Park Commune  —  I recently traveled from Colorado to New York the weekend before the demise of the revolutionary social experiment in lo ...
• Administration names new Medicare chief (Julia ...
  Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Administration names new Medicare chief  —  The Obama administration announced Wednesday that the No. 2 official at the Medicare agency will soon take over because Senate Republicans won't confirm Administrator Don Berwick.  Berwick's last day wil ...
• Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Versus Army: Disastr ...
  Barry Rubin / Rubin Reports: Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Versus Army: Disastrous Elections or Bloody Civil War?  —  Only days before parliamentary elections, Egypt is in a huge crisis whose outcome will determine the future of almost 80 million people and perhaps the Arabic-speaki ...
• German Bond Auction Fails (Megan McArdle/The A ...
  Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online: German Bond Auction Fails  —  A year ago, Germany and France could probably have saved the euro—at least for a time—by stepping in to guarantee all the debts of the peripheral euro zone nations.  To be sure, this would have c ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green Blog: The Competition Between Solar and ...
  The new Mars rover that NASA is scheduled to launch on Saturday from Cape Canaveral uses nuclear power, different from the two previous solar-powered models sent into outer space.
• Dot Earth Blog: You're Driving a Bus Full of K ...
  Are debates over the meaning of e-mail discussions of climate science missing the big picture?
• Green Blog: Appeals Court Keeps Yellowstone Gr ...
  Conservationists and their opponents have been watching the Yellowstone grizzly bear case in Montana, because it has many similarities to an earlier court battle to prevent the removing of the wolf from the endangered species list.
• New Trove of Stolen E-Mails From Climate Scien ...
  The hacker who roiled the world of climate science two years ago by posting a trove of stolen e-mails delivered a new batch on Tuesday.
• Dot Earth Blog: Dot Shot: Hong Kong Haul of Sm ...
  Authorities interdict $2 million worth of rhinoceros horn and ivory, revealing the flow to China.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, West Chile Rise
  Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:42:33 UTC Wednesday, November 23, 2011 06:42:33 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.3, Crete, Greece
  Wednesday, November 23, 2011 12:17:51 UTC Wednesday, November 23, 2011 02:17:51 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.70 km (6.03 mi)
• M 5.4, Antofagasta, Chile
  Wednesday, November 23, 2011 01:43:47 UTC Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:43:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 141.20 km (87.74 mi)
• M 5.0, West Chile Rise
  Tuesday, November 22, 2011 23:09:47 UTC Tuesday, November 22, 2011 05:09:47 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.30 km (6.40 mi)
• M 6.2, Beni, Bolivia
  Tuesday, November 22, 2011 18:48:15 UTC Tuesday, November 22, 2011 02:48:15 PM at epicenterDepth: 533.30 km (331.38 mi)

China Dialogue

• Climate talks: the year that was
  Another year has passed, another round of negotiations is about to begin, but what has been achieved and what direction are we heading in? A roundtable of experts helps chinadialogue find its bearings.Editor’s note: this weekend, officials, policymakers and activists will gather in Durban, ...
• There is no plan B for the climate
  It is critical to secure a legally binding approach on climate change at the negotiations in Durban, writes John Ashton, the UK Foreign Office's special representative for climate change.The lesson the world is learning the hard way from the financial crisis is that there is only one boat and we ...
• Denmark’s road map to the future (1)
  In the absence of a global deal on climate change, Denmark has embraced an ambitious plan for fossil-fuel independence by 2050, explains Katherine Richardson. Can other nations learn from their example?Editor’s note: Prospects for significant progress towards a new global deal at UN-led cl ...
• Denmark’s road map to the future (2)
  In the second segment of a two-part article about Danish plans for fossil-fuel-free development, Katherine Richardson discusses the technical and economic mechanisms needed for the transition.The Danish Commission on Climate Change Policy’s report (see part one to read its vision for a low ...
• Growing danger in the Himalayas
  Climate change is creating numerous, fast-expanding glacier lakes that threaten to burst their banks at some stage, bringing devastating floods and landslides to mountain valleys and their inhabitants. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.(See Suzanne Goldenberg’s video report from Imja lake in Nepa ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• The Public’s Belief in American Exceptio ...
  The public has lost faith in the idea of American Exceptionalism. You know this is all Barack Obama’s fault. Don’t you? He travels around the world on “apology tours.” He refuses to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. Obama was born outside of the American cultural ...
• Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Needs No Defens ...
  In a must read cover story in the most recent Tucson Weekly, acclaimed journalist and fifth-generation Tucsonan Mari Herreras expertly sorts fact from fiction in the controversial Ethnic Studies ban in Arizona. Yet, underscoring Herreras’ debunking of 10 myths — that “stories o ...
• The Reality of the ‘All-American Muslim& ...
  Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by Wajahat AliFor those constantly fretting about the inability of Muslims to integrate or assimilate into western culture, fret no more! American Muslims finally have their own reality TV show – the Learning Channel’s “All-American Muslim” ...
• We Are All Rupert Murdoch Now
  With the non-stop revelations about Rupert Murdoch and his news outfits, it’s easy to divide the media between the bad guys and everybody else. Except that the good guys don’t look so good themselves. In the latest development, a judge in London has convened an inquiry into journalistic pract ...
• Police Clear Zuccotti Park: A First Reflection
  Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily by Donna Schaper Why in the middle of the night? Why with so much police power? Why did they think they had to shove people out? The good news is that this action, so unnecessary, will build the movement even more. Yes, the people in the park had become tired, [ ...

Threat Level

• ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong
  Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”
• Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Growing Student Pr ...
  Occupy Wall Street may have been evicted from Zuccotti park, but New York students are now taking the protest back to their schools.
• Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t D ...
  A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released late Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security.
• Mobile ‘Rootkit’ Maker Tries to Silence Critic ...
  An android developer and the maker of a mobile-phone data-logging company are at legal odds over the dev's critical research about Carrier IQ, which is demanding Trevor Eckhart publicly apologize for his research, and remove the company's training manuals from his website. The brouhaha intertwin ...
• Bradley Manning Defense to Call 50 Witnesses t ...
  The defense attorney representing alleged leaker Bradley Manning plans to call up to 50 witnesses at a pre-trial hearing scheduled to occur next month in Maryland as well as introduce a number of motions.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Listeria Cantaloupe Wrongful Death Lawsuit fil ...
  Before her Listeriosis illness, the decedent, Florence Wilcox, was a 96-year-old resident of Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico. Ms. Wilcox lived independently and remained very active. In fact, she was named 2011 “Patron of the Year” at the local public library. Ms. Wilcox frequently ...
• 179 Salmonella Heidelberg Illnesses in New Yor ...
  According to the CDC, between April 1 to November 16, 2011, a total of 179 illnesses due to Salmonella Heidelberg with this PFGE pattern were reported in states where the “kosher broiled chicken livers” were distributed. The number of ill persons identified in each state the product ...
• Jensen Farms, and for that matter Frontera, ar ...
  Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown stepped into a conflicted area in their story today – “Criminal charges hard to pin on farm where listeria-tainted cantaloupes originated” – although the headline writers got it wrong. Although in my opinion the likelihood of felony charg ...
• E. coli might be big this next week too - Sala ...
  We are still following the St. Louis Missouri E. coli Outbreak that appears to be linked to  Schnuck's Salad Bar Connection.  New numbers from the St. Louis Department of Health as of last week: Number of Missourians confirmed to have E. coli connected to the St. Louis investigation: ...
• A Busy Thanksgiving Week at Marler Clark - Law ...
  Although the office is closed this coming Thursday, we do have three days to get three lawsuits filed before I need to worry about cooking the turkey. Kosher Chicken Liver: The CDC identified a sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Heidelberg isolates with the outbreak strain report ...

AutoblogGreen

• Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...
• Report: Volkswagen still fighting new CAFE rules
  Which automaker still doesn't like the new CAFE rules? Volkswagen, that's who. After claiming the proposed 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were biased back in August, VW is again saying, hey, wait a minute, let's not be so dismissive of diesel engines. When the original 5 ...
• Coda announces "price drop," starts production ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Electric Coda may not have a new model to show off at the 2011 LA Auto Show, but the company can still make news with a price drop. Or with something that is a price drop in all but name. In September 2010, Coda said its all-electric Se ...
• Report: Jay Leno has driven 11,000 miles in hi ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Chevrolet, Celebrities, Electric Here's a fun bit of trivia: Jay Leno has driven his Chevrolet Volt nearly 11,000 miles and doesn't have a single gas station receipt to show for it. According to The New York Times Wheels blog, Leno has had his plug-in for ...
• Los Angeles: 2012 Green Car of the Year is the ...
  Filed under: LA Auto Show, Sedan, Honda The 2012 Green Car of the Year award was snagged from the electric and diesel jaws of its competitors by the Honda Civic Natural Gas. In a year full of standard gasoline powertrain alternatives, the Civic beat out the Ford Focus Electric, Mitsubishi i, ...

Rafe's Radar

• Rafe Recommends: To-do manager Wunderlist
  Specialized to-do list manager Wunderlist takes its place beside note-taker Evernote and grocery list manager Grocer ...
• HTML5 will kill mobile apps. No, it won't
  The latest Web technologies could kill mobile apps, if only Web apps would help sell hardware. Which they don't. ...
• Yet another micro-reviews service: Stamped
  This is actually a good app, but do we need another one of these? ...
• Rafe recommends: Scan your business cards with ...
  It's almost too simple, but CardMunch does a very good job of helping you get a pile of business cards onto your iPh ...
• Rafe recommends: Downcast smokes iTunes for po ...
  Like podcasts? You can do better than using Apple's software to subscribe and listen to them. ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Arab Spring Under the King: Bahraini Activist ...
  Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of today’s release of a report that investigates the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year. The Bahraini monarchy commissioned the supposed independent probe after crushing protests with the help of troops from Saudi Arabia. At lea ...
• "Pulling Accounts From the Unaccountable" by A ...
  Less than a month after Occupy Wall Street began, a group was gathered in New York’s historical Washington Square Park, in the heart of Greenwich Village. This was a moment of critical growth for the movement, with increasing participation from the thousands of students attending the cluster of ...
• The Brave New World of Occupy Wall Street
  We got word just after 1 a.m. Tuesday that New York City police were raiding the Occupy Wall Street encampment. I raced down with the “Democracy Now!” news team to Zuccotti Park, renamed Liberty Square. Hundreds of riot police had already surrounded the area. As they ripped down the tents, city ...
• Amy Goodman Interviews Occupy Oakland Man Befo ...
  Before dawn on Monday morning, hundreds of police in riot gear raided the Occupy Oakland encampment in order to evict peaceful protesters. They arrested more than 30 people who chose to remain as an act of civil disobedience. Later in the day, Mayor Jean Quan’s chief legal adviser resig ...
• 20th Anniversary of Santa Cruz Massacre: Watch ...
  On November 12, 1991 Indonesian troops fired on a peaceful memorial procession in a cemetery in Dili, East Timor, killing more than 270 East Timorese. Journalists Amy Goodman and Allan Nairn were beaten while reporting on the massacre. Watch the radio documentary they produced, set to video, ...

Suzie-Q

• Close call for NY City as Muslim Sympathasizer ...
  by G: Nov. 21, 2011 Here’s the latest news on terrorism in NY. It’s sharing the headlines with the recent demonstrations in Egypt, where, according to the NY Times   at least 23 people had been killed and more than 1,500 people had been wounded. It concerns a Muslim sympathizer& ...
• Republican Party Platform in 2012
  Republican Party Platform in 2012: Tax-cuts for the rich Tax hikes for the middle class Deregulate wall street … Unlimited corporate money in elections War with Iran War with Pakistan Trade war with China Stay in Iraq Patriot Act End Social Security End Medicare Increase military spending ...
• Operation Protect and Shield
• Alex Jones on Homeland Security infiltrating OWS
• Occupy Wall Street, with Graham Nash and David ...
  This is a feel good movie

Solari

• Alice’s Restaurant
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• More Moral Hazard on The Way
  By cleg   Brought to us courtesy of senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and one of the banking lobby’s most obedient lap dogs, Bob Corker of Tennessee; The United States Covered Bond Act of 2011 is designed to allow bundling of any kind of debt including derivatives, into marketable secu ...
• Deja Vu All Over Again?
  By Chuck Gibson Almost a year ago I said that the current tussle in the market was an epic battle.  Back then we had an overbought, overvalued, and overly bullish market that was built on a poor foundation, versus the buyer of last resort, the Federal Reserve.  That market should have rolled ov ...
• MF Global Bonds Class Action
  View IBEW Local 90 Pension Fund v Corzine (PDF) complaint for violation of the Federal Securities Laws filed November 18, 2011 at the United Sates District Court Southern District of New York Continue reading the article . . . Related reading: The Final Straw? Jefferies And Six [...]
• Banker Heaven: Centralizing European Debt into ...
  By Barani Krishnan U.S. stocks skidded on Monday, extending losses from across Europe as fears over out-of-control government debt on both sides of the Atlantic hit financial markets. Commodities also slumped as worries about a global recession and rising stockpiles of some raw materials pulled ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Pepper-Spraying Protesters Is Just the Beginni ...
  By arming local police departments with military grade equipment, domestic policing has come to resemble a combat operation with citizens as the enemy.
• How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an A ...
  A recent influx of white supremacists and Patriot group members to the town of Kalispell, Montana, is causing alarm.
• With America on the Eve of Destruction, OWS Ri ...
  What would American politicians and pundits say if Chinese or Iranian police raided a peaceful opposition encampment and trashed their library?
• Obama Pardons Handful of Drug Prisoners
  Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
• Egyptians Confront Police Violence, Forced Vir ...
  33 Dead, many injured as Egypt's interim military rulers attack demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir square

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• FDR explains one dimension of our problem: ba ...
  Summary:  We cannot fix America until we understand what ails it.  Some of our problems are systemic.  Some result from external rivals, even foes.  Some result from our weakness.  Some result from internal enemies of the Republic.  Some result from lust for power and wealth by our fellow Americ ...
• Looking ahead to see the new shape of Europe
  Summary:  The slow fire in Europe slowly moves to a conclusion.  From America we cannot foresee what will happen because the news media paints it as a morality play, obscuring the dynamics at work.  While we cannot predict which path the peoples of Europe will choose, we can at least understand ...
• About the civil disobedience of the Occupy mov ...
  Summary:  Expansion of the Occupy movement onto colleges might greatly expand its size, improve its appeal, and change its goals and methods.  This poses a challenge to the government, which so far has successfully contained and supressed its protests.  The heavy-handed methods used so far might ...
• Attritionist Letter #12: Succumbing to entice ...
  Summary:   How does the dead hand of excessive burocracy and outmoded doctrine retain its grip on the US officer corps?  The services recruit young energetic, often idealistic men and women.  Here we see how they become careerists. Contents Boyd asks a young officer “the question” In ...
• Question time on the FM website – chapter 12
  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question!  All answers welcomed! Questions received so far (click on the link to go directl ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• Gaffes, Goofs and What Was Missing from the Re ...
  Ed Note. I am pleased to welcome Hayes Brown to UN Dispatch.Hayes is a freelance writer and Michigan State University graduate, working as federal contractor working on security issues. He currently blogs at At Water’s Edge on US-UN relations and other international security topics. Follow ...
• National Security Brief: November 23, 2011
  – The Republicans presidential candidates sparred on national security issues last night in a CNN-hosted debate in Washington, DC. We have a run-down of some the highlights here, including Rick Santorum referring to Africa as a country and Herman Cain referring to debate moderator Wolf Bl ...
• What Was Left Unsaid in Last Night's GOP Debate
  Tonight’s GOP debate contained much blog fodder, but the most interesting aspect of the discussion was the topics that weren’t covered: China, Asian security. There were passing mentions of China in the context of trade, debt and Rick Perry’s repeated assertion that China’s communists were hea ...
• Arab Spring is a Contradiction in Terms
  Just an hour's sail from Gibraltar to the north and 3 1/2 hours by car from Casablanca to the west, immortalized in the movie of the same name, Tangier, a city of 3 million has hosted for the past four years, a conference called "MEDays" sponsored by the Amadeus Institute, a Moroccan t ...
• Egypt’s SCAF Plays Hand and Loses; Yemen’s Sal ...
  Top stories from DAWNS Digest. The Egyptian Military Plays its Hand. Loses. After five straight days of intense protests, dozens of deaths, thousands of injuries, and facing international condemnation for the excessive use of force, Egypt’s military rulers sought to arrange a graceful exit for ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• John Thune Endorses Romney
  Mitt Romney is slowly becoming the consensus candidate for Republicans that took a pass at making their own 2012 runs. He's already been endorsed by former candidate Tim Pawlenty and and the much-hyped Chris Christie. Now South Dakota senator John Thune has thrown his support behind Romney as w ...
• Republicans Deep-Six the NLRB
  Doing filibustering Senate Republicans one better, the one Republican member on the (currently) three-member National Labor Relations Board appears to have decided to bring the board to a screeching halt by refusing to vote and thus denying it a quorum. In a letter made public yesterday, Republ ...
• Stare Indecisis
  Unfortunately, I haven't yet had the chance to read Michael Bailey and Forrest Maltzman's new book, but given that Maltzman's previous is probably the strongest example of a new wave of political science modeling of Supreme Court decision-making, I'm certainly looking forward to it. And I'm in ...
• Football is Hell
  As I think you know by now, I don't pay much attention to football. But between the concussion suicides and the Sandusky allegations, I've gotten a bit interested in the sociology of the sport. And so this Sunday's New York Times interview with former pro football player Kris Jenkins interested ...
• The Body Politic
  As the now historic Tahrir Square filled with protesters over the weekend, the tension between the hope and momentum of the February uprising that ended a 30 year dictatorship and the aggressive, violent military response to a mass civilian demonstration almost one year later was startling. Aft ...

Buzzflash

• The Billionaire Stumbles: Bloomberg Uses "Terr ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite the attempt to create a sense of televised urgency with Michael Bloomberg starring as the savior of the public from an "imminent terrorist attack" by NYC resident Jose Pimental, this past Sunday's NYC news event -- co-starring the NYPD police ...
• Newt Gingrich is a "a Stupid Man's Idea of Wha ...
  ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Along with the many frustrating aspects of this campaign season there's the absolute butchering of the means by which we communicate verbally either by mistake or intent. There's the ludicrous assertion, for example by some, that Newt Gingrich is a smart ...
• Congress May Pass a Bill Similar to China's In ...
  ELLIOT COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On the surface, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) looks like it has a noble end, that of protecting criminal violations of copyright by foreign (non-U.S.) actors. However, on careful inspection, the Act has the potential to spawn a virtual (cy ...
• 13 Political Turkeys for the Groaning Board
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let me be among the first 40- foot helium- filled balloons to kick- start our national parade of giving thanks. That's right, we're just about to butt heads with Turkey Holocaust Day, and to be perfectly honest, its about time. A little tryptophan poisoning m ...
• The Unmentionable: Land Mines in Afghanistan S ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Just prior to Veterans Day, the release of the video game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" raked in $310 million in sales for Activision Blizzard Inc. in its first 24-hours, setting a first-day sales record. Along with the "Call of Duty: Modern Warfa ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech
  Muslims continue to be targeted for prosecution for expressing political views the government dislikes
• Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga
  A series of accidental events led to the publication of 251,000 diplomatic cables in unredacted form
• Top CIA official: Obama "changed virtually not ...
  A new Frontline from PBS features a "revelation" that is anything but, though it offers an important added detail
• Celebrating the fall of a dictator
  Reports about thankful citizens are being used to justify a pro-war argument -- but we've seen this before
• A tweet that explains everything
  The nation's watchdog news outlets deploy to cover a Wednesday vs. Thursday scheduling conflict

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Is renewable energy just a myth?
  It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
• Singing the Movember Blues no more
  Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
• 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 [... ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Swept Up by Secure Communities: Law Enforcemen ...
  The Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities (S-Comm) program leads local communities to distrust law enforcement, encourages racial profiling and undermines the Constitution. Speakers will convey why the program is flawed at a press conference to be held on Wed., Nov. 30 at 11 ...
• Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving
  This Thanksgiving, Occupy Wall Street is celebrating unity and community with an open feast at Liberty Square. From 2 to 6 p.m. at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) we will meet to share food, stories and inspiration. All members of our global community are invited to break bread with us.read more
• As Gingrich Dares to Defy the GOP’s Lurch to t ...
  At last night’s Republican presidential debate, the issue of immigration erupted.  The candidates were finally forced to go beyond their hollow sound bites about securing the border first and to confront the question of what to do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently ...
• Occupy Wall Street Librarians Address Bloomber ...
  What: Press conference to address the destruction of the OWS People's Library by Mayor Michael Bloomberg during the 11/15 raid. *Photo Opportunity* All of the recovered, destroyed books will be at the press conference. Where: 260 Madison Ave, 20th Floor, between 38th and 39th St Whe ...
• FCC Takes Next Step in Stopping AT&T/T-Mobile ...
  On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced the start of the process to reject the AT&T/T-Mobile merger. According to reports, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is circulating an order that would designate the merger for a hearing. The order effectively concludes that AT&T& ...

Common Dreams-Views

• How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conver ...
  Robin Broad John Cavanagh Shift your gaze for a moment from the lurid headlines of police shutting down Occupy sites in Oakland, New York and other cities to the scene on a sunny day in early Novem ...
• Police Crackdowns on Occupy Camps are Real Threat
  Linda Lye Around California and all over the country, we have been told that Occupy encampments must come down because of "health and safety concerns." But all around the country, we have seen the police take down these encampment ...
• Saluting Rapists
  Robert C. Koehler Remember that awkward silence that fell across the nation back in ’94 when Bill Clinton’s surgeon general used the M-word? Jocelyn Elders, speaking at an AIDS conference at the U.N. about reducing the risk of s ...
• Tangled Up in Blue: Can There Be Solidarity Be ...
  Randall Amster Recent days have seen the increasing use of police violence against peaceful Occupy demonstrators around the country, including the gone-viral merciless pepper-spraying of students at UC Davis as well as that of 84-year-old D ...
• Next Stop, Australia: 'We are Here to Stay'
  Tom Gallagher Let’s face it, a decade spent fighting a war in Iraq that had no cause – at least no just cause – and a war in Afghanistan that appears to have no end, made a lot of people think it inevitable that the U.S. w ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Your “Oh Shit” Moment for a Saturday Morning
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• The pace of violence
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Water Wars

• Water wars
  Weekly Poll Are you willing to give up your right to free plastic bags? Not on your life, hippie. It's a minor inconvenience to help save the environment.
• California Water Wars Heading To Court
  SACRAMENTO; Calif. -- A landmark accord that ended decades of acrimony over how Southern California gets its water is in jeopardy.
• Water wars continue between Alabama and Georgi ...
  A state task force in Georgia wants to build reservoirs and wells to increase Atlanta's water supply. This despite a long running feud over water shared with Alabama and Florida.
• Water wars
  Weekly Poll Does the SMPD need a citizens' review board? No. The department is doing just fine. No. It'd be too expensive. Yes. The department needs more transparency.
• New reservoirs and wells eyed to avoid future ...
  A task force wants to build reservoirs and wells to increase Georgia's water supply, which was threatened by long-running disputes with neighboring Alabama and Florida.

WordPress | Economics

• New US bank stress tests
• US third-quarter growth revised down to 2.0%
  The US economy grew more slowly than previously estimated in the third quarter, but weak inventory a
• France’s AAA Status in Tatters as Yields Surge!
  How long can the French debt edifice keep standing upright?Graphic source: http://resistance.wikia.c
• Supercommittee Pat Toomey Enjoyed Tax Payer Mo ...
  In 2009 Pat Toomey stepped down from the Republican Organizaion Club for Growth. He is a strong voca
• PRESS RELEASE: U.S. Pharmaceutical Company Mer ...
  Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 22, 2011 U.S.

Electronic Intifada

• Family of 12 faces eviction in East Jerusalem
  Nadia Walid Somrein The Electronic Intifada Silwan Despite living in his home for nearly fifty years, and despite the fact there are legal documents clearly stating that the land is owned by the Somrein family, Mohammed Somrein’s land has been declared absentee property and thus subject t ...
• For Gaza journalist, more than one struggle un ...
  Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Rami Almeghari recounts his struggle to both cover the growing protests at Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fight his own personal battle.
• Are the Freedom Rides a detour for the struggle?
  Linah Alsaafin The Electronic Intifada Last week, six courageous Palestinians attempted to defy racism, segregation and apartheid by boarding Jewish settler-only buses in the hopes of reaching Jerusalem, a city off limits to Palestinians in the West Bank. However, the symbolic, media-friendly a ...
• The anguish of a Gaza cancer patient in Cairo
  Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Palestinians in Gaza needing urgent medical care are left with few treatment options because of Israel’s four-year-long blockade. Patients who are able to reach Egypt are oftentimes unable to afford or access treatment that can save their  ...
• Israel shuts down Palestinian groups in Jerusalem
  The Electronic Intifada 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 maintain control over occupied East Jerusalem, according to loc ...

The Wonk Room

• Angry Over Unfair Mortgage Practices, Churches ...
  Even though their profits are rising, Wall Street banks have begun getting bad news from the 99 Percent Movement. More than 40,000 people moved their money from banks to credit unions on Bank Transfer Day earlier this month, bringing total new credit union enrollment up to more than 650,000 sinc ...
• After Alabama Arrests Mercedes Executive, St. ...
  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch proposed a plan for Mercedes-Benz’s SUV plant in Alabama after one of the automaker’s German managers, Detlev Hager, was arrested under Alabama’s draconian immigration law — move the factory to Missouri instead. The paper’s editorial boar ...
• Romney Tells Iowa Audience: ‘I’m N ...
  Part of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s (R) plan to boost economic growth, he says, is a tax cut that comes in the form of repealing certain taxes on investments for the middle class. As ThinkProgress has noted, however, those cuts won’t actually benefit most middle-class ind ...
• Covering All The Basics: Google Benefits Now I ...
  Internet trend-setter Google has joined the ranks of those leading another trend: offering fully inclusive health care benefits to transgender employees. Effective immediately, the company’s employee benefits policies will cover all medically necessary procedures and services for transgender emp ...
• Congress Skips Durban Climate Talks: Is That a ...
  At least we know Senator Jim Inholfe (R-Okla.) — one of the fiercest climate deniers in Congress — won’t be making a side show out of the Durban climate talks. He won’t be attending this year. But neither will anyone else in Congress. Greenwire reports today that only one Congression ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Problems with the world ...
  Here are two videos that I just stumbled upon during the last few days. The first one is a Bill Maher, "New Rules" segment from early in Obama's term, during the health care bill "debate." I don't find anything objectionable with it really. Nothing major anyway. I just think that it's wrong t ...
• What Now For Humanity?
  They wanted to stay in their camps because they camps were exciting places to be. But they mainly wanted to stay in their camps because the corrupt, lawless states wanted them to leave their camps. But the camps are coming down in a flurry of needless state violence. And you can bet your bott ...
• Shocking Video of Tea-Party Rally Tear-Gassed, ...
  If anyone has any videos of the Tea-Baggers having one of their rallies broken up, please let me know. Or is it the case that those know-nothing hypocrites, with their Obama's birth certificate is fake, Obama's stimulus spending is bad, private health insurance profits forever, etc., etc., etc. ...
• Leave Occupy ALOOOOOONE!!!!
  Seriously. Let them do their thing. They aren't hurting anyone. Some people who were already having problems in their lives (including addictions, mental health issues and homelessness) have moved from one street or park to the Occupy camps and have brought their issues with them, but the elite ...
• What Dawg Said ...
  In the comments thread of one of his own blog entries: At least the media seem to some extent to have exhumed the lede they buried. The net result has been to draw people's attention to the one-party state that presently prevails in Canada between elections. The potential for majority governm ...

on Government Oversight

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Digital Journal

• Author Chris Turner on 'The German Leap'
  Canadian author Chris Turner is embarking on a four stop tour of Southern Ontario and Quebec to talk about "The German Leap" - a critical step towards a renewable energy economy where Germany leads the pack.
• Musician Tom Jackson’s on the road again
  It’s the week before Tom Jackson’s annual Christmas national tour in support of the Canadian Association of Food Banks and he’s enthusiastic talking about the prospect.
• A visit to Caral-Supe, oldest civilization of ...
  The Caral-Supe culture of Peru, the oldest civilization in the Americas, developed almost simultaneously with those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India and about 1500 years before the Mesoamerican civilizations.
• Occupiers joined by Labour Movement and police ...
  The Occupy Toronto Movement remains in Toronto after tents were removed this morning. After their first General Assembly of the day, police came into the park to take down tents and a huge crowd formed.
• Man wanted for impersonating Toronto police of ...
  Toronto Police are reporting that a man allegedly impersonated a police officer, obtaining personal information from a victim about himself and his family.

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

• Inside the pro-war lobby’s secret funding deal ...
  Please make your donation to stop the pro-war lobby from stealing from Canadians, and to make sure public funds are used for human needs and the environment.
• 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every ...
  October 25, 2011 Business Insider By Robert Johnson The FBI has released a new gang assessment announcing that there are 1.4 million gang members in the US, a 40 percent increase since 2009, and that many of these members are getting inside the military (via Stars and Stripes). The report says t ...
• Feds Will Temporarily Cut Off All TV and Radio ...
  October 25, 2011 The Blaze By Buck Sexton If you have ever wondered about the government’s ability to control the civilian airwaves, you will have your answer on November 9th. On that day, federal authorities are going to shut off all television and radio communications simultaneously at 2:00PM ...
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• 6 Ways to Naturally Whiten Your Teeth
  October 25, 2011 DrAxe.Com By Josh Axe Almost 18% ‘usually conceal their teeth in photos’. Having great teeth is very important in our culture today. Do you have yellow or discolored teeth? The sad truth is some people no matter how many times they brush their teeth have stained teeth from drink ...
• U.S. Government Could Hide Existence Of Record ...
  October 26, 2011 ProPublica By Jennifer LaFleur A proposed rule to the Freedom of Information Act would allow federal agencies to tell people requesting certain law-enforcement or national security documents that records don’t exist – even when they do. Under current FOIA practice, the governmen ...

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

• Up to 763 contractors to train Iraqi forces: U.S.
  BAGHDAD — A maximum of 763 civilian contractors and 157 US military personnel will train Iraqi security forces post-2011, if the Iraqi government gives its approval, a US officer said on Wednesday. US President Barack Obama announced on October 21 that US troops would depart Iraq by year’s ...
• The all-out hypocrisy of Arab League and the West
  By Kourosh ZiabariWednesday, November 23rd, 2011 By Kourosh Ziabari After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the United States, the resurgence of violence in Egypt and the increasing use of excessive force in Bahrain and Yemen ...
• Is the U.S. About to Invade Syria … and Pick a ...
  Is the U.S. About to Invade Syria … and Pick a Fight with China and Russia? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Is the U.S. Gearing Up for a Syrian War? CBS reports: “The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart “immediately,” and Turkey’s fo ...
• Euro on ‘Death Watch’ After Investors Spurn Ge ...
  John Melloy CNBC Wedneday, November 23, 2011 Investors began to fear the worst for the euro after unusually weak demand at an auction for bonds from Germany, the region’s largest economy. One analyst went so far as to put the currency on a “death watch.” Germany sold just 60 percent of the 6 bil ...
• Lebanon to summon U.S. envoy over ‘CIA operatives’
  Lebanon’s Hezbollah-dominated government on Wednesday announced it would summon the US ambassador to Beirut after the powerful Shiite group said it had succeeded in exposing CIA operatives. “The cabinet has decided to summon US Ambassador Maura Connelly to question her on this issue, ...

Dandelion Salad

• Occupy Hell by Rocket Kirchner
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Nov. 22, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is something I have waited for most of my life. However, the operative question is this: Will it get to the root of the problem that oppresses ...
• Michael Parenti: Imperialism and the 99% Solution
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Nov. 21, 2011 by Paul Hamel http://vimeo.com The Communist Party of Canada and Lap Cat Productions presents Michael Parenti on 1 November 2011 for a talk entitled “Imperialism & the 99% Sol ...
• Law of Value 8: Subject/Object by Brendan M. C ...
  Dandelion Salad brendanmcooney on Nov 15, 2011 One of the more common objections raised to Marx’s theory of value, at least here in the theoretical void of cyberspace, is the objection posed by subjective value theory. Though these modern objections often take quite a crude, simplistic tone, the ...
• Michael Hudson: The Super Committee and the At ...
  with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Nov. 21, 2011 TheRealNews on Nov 21, 2011 Michael Hudson: Austerity and recession used to lower wages Michael Hudson: The Super Committee and the Attack on Labor Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Dist ...
• Letter to Members of the Congressional Super C ...
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 21, 2011 As the November 23rd deadline approaches for the “super committee” to find $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next 10 years, I am writing to urge the members of the committee to consider options to cut government spendin ...

Your New Reality

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  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 ...
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  I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
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  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?
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  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 ...
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  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

• Spiders Coat Webs With Toxic Chemicals for Sel ...
  A tasty spider and its bundle of prey might make an excellent treat for a bunch of marauding ants. So to protect their homes, and themselves, Golden Orb Spiders (Nephila antipodiana) use chemical warfare.
• Signal of Destroyed Dark Matter Seen in Space ...
  New data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope confirm a mysterious spike in antimatter annihilation, ultimately hinting at signs of dark matter particles. But the data also undermine a key interpretation of dark energy.
• Supersonic Seating Solutions
  While waiting for all the remaining parts for the Tycho Deep Space capsule it is a good time to attack all the other issues such as buoyancy, hatch, control panels, parachutes and more. One subsystem is very dear to me: the seat. As an architect I am always very excited about this. The seat is w ...
• Why do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray?
  When pepper spray became a mainstream law enforcement tool in the 1990s, it was hailed as a relatively peaceful alternative to harsh physical violence. But as demonstrated by the routine spraying of Occupy Wall Street activists, culminating in the horrific assault at the University of California ...
• Nuclear Battery Will Warm Giant Rover on Frigi ...
  With average surface temperatures of -82 degrees Fahrenheit, Mars is a cold place. Luckily, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, which is set to launch on Saturday, will be carrying something to keep it from getting chilly: plutonium.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Who Profits: Veolia owns, operates Tovlan land ...
  Veolia is not only still involved in the illegal Israeli tram project connecting Israeli's colonies to Jerusalem, it also owns and operates (through its subsidiaries), the infamous Tovlan landfill... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses ...
  Jerusalem anti-Arab activist: "A booklet with a list of places that employ Arabs will be published soon. That will be followed by hanging up posters and signs with these lists in the streets - just... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Yitzhak Laor: NGO bill aims to create a democr ...
  We must not dismiss the NGO Bill - it truly intends to create a democracy for Jews only; if it were passed, no Arab - whether resident of the territories or Israeli citizen - would have access to the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Ran Greenstein: How to fight the Israel-Aparth ...
  Start with fragmentation. When talking about Israel refer to a mythical state that existed between November 1966 and June 1967, the only period during which the majority of Palestinians living under... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia downplays NATO move on key arms treaty
  NATO’s decision to curb its cooperation with Moscow on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty will not harm Russia’s interests, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
• Russia to move missiles to EU borders if U.S. ...
  Russia may deploy "advanced offensive weapon systems" on its borders with Europe in response to a planned U.S.-backed European missile shield, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
• Russia may move missiles to EU borders if shie ...
  Russia may deploy offensive weaponry on its borders with Europe in response to a U.S.-backed European missile shield, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
• United States halts cooperation with Russia on ...
  The United States has curbed its cooperation with Russia on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Tuesday.
• Russian Air Force to get 90 aircraft in 2012
  The Russian Air Force will take delivery of about 90 new or modernized fixed and rotary wing aircraft in 2012, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

NewsWise

• Don't Get 'Frosted' Over Heating Your Home Thi ...
  Now is the time to turn your attention to getting your home prepared to keep you warm this winter, says a Temple University expert in heating, ventilating and air conditioning.
• Techna Institute to Lead University Health Net ...
  The new Techna Institute at University Health Network (UHN) has signed its first agreement with INO of Quebec City and Hamilton.
• Study Takes Scientific Look at 'Pedaling Power ...
  While pedaling power is important in bicycle motocross (BMX) racing--especially at the start of the race--other skills have a greater impact on performance on the difficult tracks encountered in higher-level competitions, according to a study in the November issue of The Journal of Strength and ...
• Insect Cyborgs May Become First Responders, Se ...
  Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans.
• In a Chilly Investment Climate, Canadian Unive ...
  In fiscal year 2010, 50 new companies were formed as a result of Canadian university research, according to a survey report published Nov. 21 by the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM

Natural Health News

• EPA Screws Up and Allows Bee Killing Pesticide ...
  Bee Aware from Greg Stanley on Vimeo.Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade, a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD. Each year commercial beekeepers have reported unprecedented losses.  Most fruits, many vegetables, almonds, alfalfa and many other ...
• Australian Government Threatens to Force Kids ...
  If controversial draft guidelines being considered by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council are accepted, Australian parents who don't medicate children with ADHD could be referred to child protection authorities. This could lead to a situation similar to that in the U.S., wh ...
• CBS Sings the Praises of Fat
  CBS News, one of the most-watched news programs in the world, has a report questioning whether fat is as bad as conventional wisdom would have you believe.  The answer?  It most certainly is not.
• Can This Dietary Element Reverse Kidney Damage ...
  Studies have shown that broccoli sprouts, which are high in glucoraphanin, can decrease both blood pressure and renal and vascular oxidative stress and inflammation. A new study sought to determine whether a metabolite of glucoraphanin, sulforaphane, was responsible for the improved blood pressu ...
• How to Use Fat and Other Tricks to Lower Toxic ...
  Controversy has recently arisen over the concept of “safe starches” -- starches that have a significantly lower "glycemic index" than glucose (GI 100) and which are therefore considered by some to be unlikely to cause negative health effects.  In some cases, this may depend on the particula ...

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

• Does Libya Have to Surrender Saif to the ICC? ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Most commentators have assumed — Julian included — that Libya has an obligation under the Rome Statute to surrender Saif Gaddafi to the ICC before it can challenge the admissibility of the case against him.  At The Multilateralist today, Davi ...
• What if ATS Liability has Nothing to do With “ ...
  by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen Much of my work focuses on international sources theory, not exactly the material for a scintillating, timely blogpost, and I initially thought I should probably spare you my thoughts on it.  (As a footnote, an early draft of my entry-level job talk paper was ti ...
• Lawofnation.blogspot.com Memories
  by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen Let me start by thanking Peggy and the whole OJ crew for inviting me to be a guest here. I very vividly remember the first time I found this blog, back when it had just gotten started (and was still at its previous address). It was among the very first law blogs ...
• Welcome to Guest Blogger Harlan Cohen
  by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness Professor Harlan Cohen of the Univ. of Georgia Law School will be guest blogging with us for the next few weeks.  Among his other achievements prior to joining the UGA faculty in 2007, Harlan was a Furman Fellow at NYU Law School and on the staff at Fore ...
• Philip Morris Invokes BIT Against Australia’s ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I haven’t been following Australia’s new law requiring plain packaging for tobacco products, but I am a bit surprised that Philip Morris has filed a notice of arbitration claiming the law violates Australia’s bilateral investment treaty with Hong Kon ...

Public News Service

• The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Rem ...
  The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Remember Financial Basics Phoenix, AZ – A good way to reduce family stress this time of year is to remember good basic spending habits. Advice from from Kelli Hinkle, interim executive director of the Alliance For Sustainable Families.
• 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 ...

Center for Food Safety

• Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet P ...
  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Center for Food Safety Petition FDA to Eliminate Toxic Arsenic Residues in Meat Photo by: D Sharon Pruitt Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of wh ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SP ...
  Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SPD Says She Miscarried (Updated) | Slog: UPDATE: Jennifer Fox, 19, spoke to The Stranger at the Occupy Seattle encampment at Seattle Central Community College. Fox claimed that she was three months pregnant last Tuesday evening when she joined an Occu ...
• Strategizing For A Living Revolution
  Strategizing For A Living Revolution: By George Lakey 1 Otpur (“Resistance” in Serbian) began as hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of young people took to the streets to rid their country of dictator Slobadan Milosevic. Impatient with the cautious ways of many of their pro-democr ...
• SFeldman: Queer as folk | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও ...
  Queer as folk | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA: The fragile existence of the transgender community, Hijras or Kinnars, stigmatized as the “other” sex, scrambling, for the longest time for an identity as a recognized member of community, is undergoing a slow transformatio ...
• Detention of female journalist extended
  Detention of female journalist extended: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli court in Jerusalem on Monday extended the detention of Palestinian journalist Isra’a Salhab till next Friday for further interrogation. The Mada media center has denounced the Israeli detention of the Jerusalemite ...
• Interesting Failed eMail Response to ANG commu ...
  This is the mail system at host pumpkin.lobstertech.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. Yo ...

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

• Broome Flash Mob Protest
  Flash Mob Protest in Broome, Western Australia 2011 On 31st October 2011, members of the Broome Community took to the streets against the State governments plan to compulsorily acquire the coast line around James Price Point.For more information please look at savethekimberley.com (savethe ...
• Environmental News 23/11/2011
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• Organic Jam
  Instead of buying regular food, consider buying organic food (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html)! No pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics or hormones are used to produce organic food which makes it so much better for the environment, and for you too!   Photo by: Alexandra Meusel
• The Story of Broke
  Story of Stuff Project takes on [US] government subsidies in a new online movie; calls for investments in a clean, fair economy
• Environmental News 22/11/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

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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

• Headline of the Day
  Dow off 145, banks getting slammed, Europe going kablooey A German bond auction failed to sell out. This isn’t supposed to happen and is a bad moon rising indeed.
• Message to SPLC from Montana ‘extremist’
  The Montana Libery Movement responds to the SPLC slime of them. The only real trick the SPLC seems to have up its sleeve is to constantly associate, directly or indirectly, every group that opposes corrupt state power as being racist or terrorist. This is a legitimate criticism. SPLC does indeed ...
• Greening Phoenix will require more than just u ...
  localwork.com Phoenix is the least sustainable city in the world, says Andrew Ross. Much of this is due to the city being in the “bull’s eye” of climate change. It is heating up and becoming arid faster than any other area in the Northern Hemisphere. Exacerbating this dire situation is its spraw ...
• Military suicides increase as more troops return
  Excess prescription drug use and a “flawed” post-deployment mental health screening process are among the factors fueling an increase in suicides among military service members, a new report by the Center for a New American Security [CNAS] says. Trillions go in bailouts for the banks ...
• Pumped hydro energy storage
  GigaOm provides a useful overview, noting “pumped storage is currently the dominant—and nearly only—grid-scale storage solution out there,” then extrapolates into just how much pumped hydro storage there could be and what it would entail.

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

• Echelon 2: Surveillance Company Says It Sent F ...
    WSJ Gamma International UK Ltd. touts its ability to send a “fake iTunes update” that can infect computers with surveillance software, according to one of the company’s marketing videos. The Surveillance Catalog The Wall Street Journal unveiled on Saturday the “Surveillance Catalog” – an ...
• A Neoconservative Thanksgiving Celebration
    Scott Horton of Antiwar.com joins Daily Paul Radio with Kurt Wallace for ‘A Neoconservative Thanksgiving Celebration’ to discuss the history of neoconservatism through today. Scott Horton exposes the people behind the neocon movement and how they have influenced war policy through think t ...
• Homeland Security-linked CELL Terrorizes Americans
    Jock John Elway Support this…. Rock on Timmy Tebow!   Written by Alex Newman Wednesday, 23 November 2011  The New American     A non-profit organization that receives taxpayer funding and works closely with the Department of Homeland Security is under fire for promoting un ...
• Ron Paul 2012 “Electable” (Video S ...
  great animation here! Please share it! Ron Paul has run on consistent, principled, Constitutional positions for his entire political career, yet some question if he is electable…the fools. Art and Animation : Joe Corrao, Voices: Gary Rolin http://4eyedanimation.com/ http://joecorrao.blogsp ...
• Added to our drinking water: a chemical &#8216 ...
  Anti Fluoride activists: We are winning this battle – keep up the great work and dont rest until we have clean water! And to those of you who worship the FDA because you want clean water and food…. WAKE UP! They are bought and paid for and are murdering us – Death on the Instal ...

The Air Vent

• I “hardly” see anything which seem ...
  Phil Jones on the deletion of emails: date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:51:44 +0200 from: Manola Brunet subject: Re: Omar’s email to: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk Hola Phil, Had a smooth trip, almost everything run on time but Brits trains, as usual, and I just got to Exeter. So replying f ...
• A little context and a Poll
  I’ve been asked to give context to some of the emails.   So far, I have read only a few.   This is one though which should have particular resonance with long time Air Vent or Climate Audit readers.  It was started by a subversive climate denier – Jeff Severinghaus – who happen ...
• Climategate 2.0
  It happened again.  I woke up to find a link from FOIA.org on a thread.   Thousands of emails unlocked with 220,000 more hidden behind a password.  Despite the smaller size of the Air Vent due to my lack of time, there were twenty five downloads before I saw it once.  As before, there are some  ...
• Great White Hunter
  Well the air is ice cold and the animals are hard to find in Michigan’s upper peninsula.  That doesn’t mean that the company isn’t great and the effort isn’t there.   For all our efforts, the camp saw dozens of doe a few bucks and some good fun.  I’ve been asked if ...
• 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 ...

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

• Facebook Launches Official U.S. Military Page
  Facebook has launched an official United States Military Page designed to bring together resources and information to help those in the service, their families, and veterans stay connected and informed. The Page, which has been live for about two weeks, … Continue reading →
• Horoscopes, Quizzes, Dating, Spotify, Photos a ...
  Several horoscope applications, quizzes and dating apps, photos, profile banners, Spotify and more made this week’s list of growing apps by daily active users. The titles below grew from between 110,000 and 6 million DAU, based on AppData, our data … Continue reading →
• ‘Tis the Season: Facebook Planning Political a ...
  Facebook is hosting two hackthons in early December to raise awareness of legislative public data and drive interest in social game development. The White House one-day hackathon, detailed by the New York Times, is set for December 7 with a … Continue reading →
• Buffy, Facebook’s Attempt at a Phone, Has Been ...
  Reports of a mythical Facebook Phone have surfaced over the past two years without a real device ever in sight. Now AllThingsD is the latest to rekindle rumors of such a phone. Liz Gannes and Ina Fried reported yesterday that … Continue reading →
• Facebook Adds More Activity and Sponsored Stor ...
  Facebook updated its Ticker over the weekend to allow posts from more types of user activity and Sponsored Stories. These additions turn Ticker’s automatic-content stream feature into a more lively activity hub on the home page. It seemed that Sponsored … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go Fro ...
  truthout: Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here? http://t.co/fyK7N7HJ by @MMFlint - #OWS #occupywallstreet #OO
• truthout: Oregon Governor Says He Will Block E ...
  truthout: Oregon Governor Says He Will Block Executions http://t.co/dd7nhqdQ (link fixed)
• truthout: Oregon Governor Says He Will Block E ...
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• truthout: FBI tells @truthout it doesn't have ...
  truthout: FBI tells @truthout it doesn't have any records responsive 2 R #FOIA pertaining 2 #ows. But we're reminded of ths story http://t.co/EyYyq4Qs
• truthout: RT @JasonLeopold: U.S. hands over de ...
  truthout: RT @JasonLeopold: U.S. hands over detainees to Iraq, with one exception of one high-profile prisoner http://t.co/ulpzT7Bv

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

• U.S. Has Been Providing Turkey with $1 Million ...
  Republican Senator Slips During & After her Recent Lavish Trip Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, returned from Istanbul, Turkey last week. According to my Turkish sources the Senator’s trip was ‘extraordinarily lavish.’ Shortly after her return last Monday, Collins began to make her lavish organi ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  Meet Libya’s New US Citizen Prime Minister, Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons since 9/11, New Libya PM is Big-Oil Goon, Police State: DHS to Set Up Policies for Monitoring Twitter- Facebook, Iraq Declines Military Training from Turkey-Iran, Congressional Hearing Sought Over Vote ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Obama Administration: November 1-15, 2011
  This article is the 68th in a continuing series chronicling the unfolding history of the Obama Administration. The writer's opinions are not offered, leaving the readers to arrive at their own conclusions.
• Innovative Solar Power -- Free
  An innovative, solar powered space heater works nicely in McPherson Square, home of OccupyDC
• The 99%'s Deficit Reduction Proposal: How to c ...
  This exquisitely comprehensive proposal could easily become a manual for the 99%. It doesn't cover ALL the needed remedies but it sure does cover most of them.
• Obama Must Condemn Egyptian Military
  President Obama should coordinate with other Western allies and supporters of the Egyptian government to develop a clear and strong policy in support of a rapid transition to democracy and apply the full weight of international diplomatic, economic and legal pressure on the military junta toward ...
• Protests Fill Tahrir Square, Again
  Last night after I finally got out of the Cairo airport after five hours of being detained upon my arrival, at least 32 had already been killed by the military around Tahrir Square with hundreds wounded. Tonight more have died as the police fired on protesters.

Switchboard

• LA Is Getting Serious About Its Garbage
  Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Yesterday, as reported in the LA Daily News, the Energy and Environment committee of the Los Angeles City Council approved an important decision to give waste haulers s ...
• In a "Nixon goes to China" Moment, Detroit Emb ...
  Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco Last week’s release of the official regulatory proposal for stronger standards provoked a “Nixon goes to China” moment for Detroit car companies. After decades of fightin ...
• Grizzlies have their day in court
  Janet Barwick, Research Associate, Montana With Thanksgiving tomorrow, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has given me a reason to be thankful!  On Tuesday, they ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) underestimated the potential imp ...
• Your chance to tell the EPA you support curbs ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Back in July I blogged about new rules proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that would require stronger controls on some of the most toxic air pollutants being spewed ...
• Science prevails in court: the loss of whiteba ...
  Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC Yesterday an appeals court ruled that the US Fish and Wildlife Service had failed to adequately consider the threat posed to Yellowstone grizzly bears by the loss of whitebark pine – a high eleva ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• PoliSci, the Courts, and the ACA
  Michael Bailey and Forest Maltzman have a piece up at the Prospect arguing that the best political science modelling suggests that the Supreme Court will uphold the ACA. I don’t necessarily disagree with their conclusion, but I’m skeptical about some aspects of their specific argumen ...
• Tear Down This Wall!
  Exhibit 4,000,000 in why the border wall is worthless, driving people into the desert to die while not even slowing down drug smuggling.
• Be Safe and Such
  Weather is pretty not great in New England, a lot of people are on the road across the country including myself in about 5 minutes. Be safe, blah, blah, etc. And if you think I wrote this post as an excuse to embed some Bill Monroe, well, I guess I’ll have to live with your [...]
• Breillat
  I have always wanted to like Catherine Breillat’s films, but never have. I find her a cut-rate Eric Rohmer, trying and failing to equal Rohmer’s dialogue about sex and love and making up for it with shock value. People liked “Fat Girl” and most of it was pretty good but t ...
• Gendered Insults Aren’t Justified By Bad ...
  I’m a huge fan of the Roots and think Michele Bachmann is a malignant political figure, but Jessica Grose is right. However subtle, calling a Republican politician a “bitch” isn’t any more justifiable than “bitch” jokes about Hillary Clinton, and she does dese ...

Desert Research Institute

• Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
  Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...
• 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.

Earth Techling

• Audubon Bird Watching A Social Media Success
  The National Audubon Society has wrapped up a successful social media campaign seen by millions aimed at getting younger generations excited about bird watching.
• Navy’s Largest Biofuel Test Called Success
  An unmanned destroyer makes a 17-hour trek up the California coast using a 50-50 blend of algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and standard petroleum fuel.
• Global Solar Power Market Flourishing
  The latest Global Solar Power Market analysis from Frost & Sullivan shows that solar is the second fastest global renewable energy market after wind power.
• Wind-Solar Combo Light Challenges All-Solar
  SavWatt says its Eco-Pole, a street light that uses both solar and wind power, is needed at Fort Knox because a competing all-solar light is falling short.
• Niyato Dives Into EV Conversion Business
  Niyato says it will be the first American auto company to convert new five-passenger gasoline sedans to all-electric powered vehicles for under $50,000.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• IN-HOUSE COUNSEL: Big money
  Profile of the Blackstone Group's general counsel John Finley.
• OPINION: Muzzling teachers on Facebook
  Missouri law illustrated dangers of chipping away at speech with a meat-ax instead of a scalpel.
• ANTITRUST: Filers learn to adapt to changes un ...
  New rules eliminate some forms of information and add others to make what's required more relevant to antitrust review.
• ANTITRUST: Recent cases on antitrust implicati ...
  There appears to be a modest trend favoring immunization of foreign conduct, but courts are still elusive as to providing a clear articulation of the basis for it.
• ANTITRUST: Antitrust standing and the new economy
  Innovation and network effects have the potential to alter the traditional analysis.

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

• Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operation ...
  CSO advances U.S. national security by driving integrated, civilian-led efforts to prevent, respond to, and stabilize crises
• Ibrahim Suleiman Hamad Al-Hablain Specially De ...
  The designation under E.O. 13224 blocks all of Abu Jabal's property interests subject to U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with or for the benefit of Abu Jabal.
• Global Efforts to Safeguard Intangible Cultura ...
  Seventy-nine nominations will be examined during the present session, including saman dance from Indonesia, fado music from Portugal and mariachi music from Mexico. Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire have presented a joint nomination for the balafon
• Domestic Workers in Jaipur Narrate Stories of ...
  Pratima, 20, works as a maid in Jaipur and it is she who set the tone for the first-ever public hearing of domestic workers in Rajasthan's state capital.
• Smart Investments in Prevention and Treatment ...
  He stressed that the United States calls upon all nations to join us in renewing the collective international commitment that has resulted in these important successes.

environment 360

• Google Green Energy Program Is Cut as Company ...
  Google Inc. says it is abandoning its ambitious program to drive down the cost of renewable energy, one of seven major initiatives canceled by the Internet giant this week as it looks to focus on its core projects. Launched four years ago through Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, the ...
• Court Restores Protections For Yellowstone Par ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled that Yellowstone National Park’s population of 600 grizzly bears was improperly removed from the endangered species list, saying the bears face an unprecedented threat from the widespread die-off of a key food source, the white bark USFWS pine. A three judge ...
• Video: In Drought-Stricken West, A War Against ...
  In an e360 video, journalist Jon Brand reports on the controversy over the tamarisk tree, or salt cedar, which has been a fixture in West Texas since the late 1800s, when settlers imported it from the Mediterranean. As salt cedar has spread throughout the southwestern U.S., it has been vili ...
• New Cache of Emails Leaked in Advance of Durba ...
  An anonymous source has released a new cache of private emails from some of the world’s leading climate scientists, a leak apparently timed to disrupt international climate talks beginning next week in Durban, South Africa. While it remains unclear who shared the 5,000 emails — which are availab ...
• Majority in U.S. Support Revenue-Neutral Carbo ...
  A majority of Americans across the political spectrum support policies that reduce carbon emissions, including a revenue-neutral carbon tax, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. In a survey conducted between Oct. 20 and Nov. 6, 65 percent of respondents ...

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

• ­"Banksters make things worse to benefit from ...
  Technocrat governments, like the ones in Italy and Greece, will not provide any solutions to the ongoing eurozone crisis, claims financial analyst Max Keiser. Instead, as Keiser told RT, they will only drag Europe into...
• Cairo uprising: no signs of letting up
  Three more people have reportedly been killed in Cairo street battles. Clashes between protesters and police near Tahrir Square have flared up with renewed intensity as clouds of tear gas linger overhead.
• ­Goodbye and Good Luck: Yemeni President hands ...
  4th time is, apparently, the charm for President Ali Abdullah Saleh - he has finally and officially signed a deal aimed at ending Yemen's months-long political crisis - and his own 33-year rule.
• Court finds Bush and Blair guilty of war crimes
  Those who lobbied to have George W. Bush and Tony Blair tried for their role in the Iraq War have finally got their wish. Though the verdict of the court carries no legal weight, its supporters believe its symbolic...
• Global warning: New Climategate leaks
  The Climategate scandal is back, as more emails between leading climate scientists are posted online. The latest leak from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia has re-ignited the wrangle around...

Not My Tribe

• The American Police State has got your huddled ...
• Occupiers can learn from Anarchists
  Here’s one of the more popular pamphlets distributed at Occupy Colorado Springs, courtesy of the DABC. DEAR OCCUPIERS: A LETTER FROM ANARCHISTS   Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, people are taking to th ...
• S. Korean Lawmaker throws tear gas, called Ter ...
  U.S. Pigs gas protesters who have so far not fired a single shot against them, and are called Heroes by the Right Wing Extremists who control the News Media in America.
• Occupy Colo. Springs evicted last night, loses ...
  OCCUPIED COLORADO SPRINGS- At 11pm came a two-hour warning, at 1am the wrecking crew. By 3am Colorado Springs Occupiers had no place to sleep or warm up in the cold, but carried on their protest. Loring Wirbel has the best local OWS op-ed yet. Here’s video footage from Patrick Jay.
• 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 ...

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

• What’s in Turkey Stuffing?
  Yesterday we wrote about Thanksgiving’s cranberry sauce tradition. Today we’ll take a look inside a turkey – more specifically at the stuffing. Filling the cavities of poultry dates back to Roman times, and there are many food items that can be used – from grains to veget ...
• What’s in a Cranberry Sauce?
  Cranberries are a native North American fruit that have found their way into Thanksgiving tradition alongside the Turkey and other dishes. Native Americans, who used the bitter and sour fruit for meat preservation, medicine, and dye, introduced it to hungry Pilgrims who at first were taken aback ...
• Is your Honey Fake?
  A worrying and comprehensive article appeared a few weeks ago in Food Safety News. The topic: Honey. The problem: Most store brought honey could be fake. The article is quite lengthy, but makes for a good read. Here are the main points: Honey that we buy in the supermarket comes from US farmers ...
• 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 ...

Traffikd

• Twitter Step by Step
  Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yan ...
  New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil © Hutukara/Survival Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Goldfinger eats Congo
  Goldfinger eats Congo Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!... "Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfi ...
• 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 ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse coffee that’s sat on the ...
  We’ve had an email from Iris: We make a big jug of filter coffee each morning at the weekend but I regularly have to pour away the last cup or two away because it’s gone bitter. Is there anything I can do to revive it or use it up some other way? Of course, there [...]
• How can I recycled/pass on an old, working ele ...
  We’ve had an email from Richard: We have 4-year-old electric oven in good working order which we would like to donate to a Charity. Any ideas? We’ll actually in a similar position soon – our (15+ year old) oven works for general cooking but not for the precise/high temperatures ...
• 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 [...]

Age of Autism

• Clever Parents Autistic Kids?
  It's one micron better than being called a cold refrigerator mother - Simon Baron-Cohen is again looking at Mom (and Dad) as causing their children's autism. Autism May Be Linked To Clever Parents. I thought we were stupid for believing...
• What's on Your Thanksgiving Menu Autism Friends?
  Many of us cook special foods for our families - gluten free, casein free, SCD, Feingold, nut free and other diets that plant us squarely in the kitchen cooking from scratch. Tell us what's on your menu this year and...
• "Expression of Concern" on Arrest and Incarcer ...
  The editors and writers of Age of Autism express their concern over media reports of the arrest and jailing of Dr. Judy Mikovits on Friday, November 18, 2011 in Ventura, California. According to Science magazine writer Jon Cohen in an...
• An Elaborate Fraud, Part 9: in Which the BMJ's ...
  One of the 12 children on a doctor visit not long after the BMJ articles were published in January. Read parts 1 - 8 of An Elaborate Fraud in Age of Autism Exclusives. By Dan Olmsted In 37 years in...
• Paralyzed By The Flu Shot: Interview on VoiceA ...
  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 On the VoiceAmerica Health & Wellness Channel AutismOne: A Conversation of Hope www.health.voiceamerica.com 9 am PT/11 am CT/12 pm ET PARALYZED BY THE FLU SHOT Thinking of giving in to the barrage of propaganda on loudspeakers, hold...

Global BDS Movement

• Take Apartheid off the Menu!
  Follow all the latest updates from the November 26 European Day of Action against Israeli agriculutral produce exporters
• Activists in France launch campaign against Me ...
  Mehadrin has become Israel's largest agricultural produce exporter and is deeply complicit with Israeli violations of international law
• Take Apartheid off the Menu!
  View Take Apartheid off the Menu! in a larger mapClick here to send a polite message to Google about the way they describe Palestine in their maps. Export of Israeli agricultural produce is at the heart of Israel’s apartheid regime … Continue reading →
• Confronting Arava UK – Act one of Apartheid of ...
  Campaigners today visited the sales office of Arava UK/ aka Mills Associates, at their (previously) sleepy offices in the South Yorkshire countryside
• UNESCO distances itself from Israeli governmen ...
  Since the involvement of any UN agency with the Israeli government in organizing projects in occupied Jerusalem would amount to complicity in Israel’s violations of international law

Farm Wars

• How to Rewrite History
  Family units working together as a cohesive unit are anathema to what appears to be a concerted effort to destroy what we have and rewrite our very existence. But what can we do? How can we reverse this trend and bring history back into focus, denying the falsehood that is being thrust upon us b ...
• King Corn – Full Movie
  King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom - corn.
• Submit and Obey – What Will We Say?
  What will we say when the government announces that “for security reasons” it will begin conducting random checks of our homes? That we will be required by law to open our doors and stand aside while government agents do a walk-through, just to “be sure” and (of course) “to keep us safe”?
• 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.

Open Your Eyes News

• China factory sector shrinks most in 32 months
  Reuters – China’s factory sector shrank the most in 32 months in November on signs of domestic economic weakness, a preliminary PMI survey showed, reviving worries that China may be slipping toward a hard landing and fuelling fears of a global recession. The steep fall in the HSBC fl ...
• UK Elderly home care failures breach human rig ...
  Guardian – Elderly people are being robbed, left hungry and unwashed and face unchecked “ageism” from council-funded care that is meant to let them live in their own homes, a report has found. The Equality and Human Rights Commission report into home care, which is commissioned ...
• Antibiotic resistance marching across Europe
  Nature – Our last line of defence against hospital ‘superbugs’ is faltering, with resistance to the antibiotics usually used to tackle intractable pneumonia and urinary tract infections on the rise and spreading across European countries. The European Centre for Disease Prevent ...
• Egypt unrest: Army concessions fail to end Cai ...
  BBC – After four days of violent clashes, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said presidential elections would be held by July 2012. But many protesters in the square said the concession was not enough and have demanded the field marshal step down. Clashes continued between police and p ...
• Aung San Suu Kyi to run for parliament
  Guardian – Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi intends to run for parliament in upcoming byelections, a decision that was expected after her party decided last week to rejoin mainstream politics in long-isolated Burma. Read article

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Doug Brinkley, Rep. Don Young squabble over Ar ...
  Famed biographer Doug Brinkley and Alaskan Rep. Don Young clashed bitterly last Friday as Brinkley, a professor at Rice University and the author most recently of “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1979-1960,” testified at a House Natural Resources Committee meeting regarding t ...
• Court ruling keeps Yellowstone grizzlies on 't ...
  A ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2007 decision to remove the "threatened" designation for Yellowstone grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act.
• Peter Brown back onboard with Sea Shepherd
  Peter Brown, the activist and filmmaker who recently released a warts-and-all portrait of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in his documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” is making a surprising return to the crew for its annual Antarctic anti-whaling campaign after a two-year hi ...
• Karen Dawn's Thanksgiving turkey rescue
  Animal activist and author Karen Dawn makes a point of having turkey for dinner every Thanksgiving, but the birds are at the table, not on it. For the fourth year in a row, Dawn, the author of the book Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals, has rescued two turkeys from an L.A. ...
• 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,...

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

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• EU: Conditions Faced by Roma People - from ...
  Roma leaders are alarmed at the growing discrimination faced by their people in Europe, especially because of the anti-gypsy stance taken by many political parties, which blame the ethnic minority group for a wide range of social ills. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   N ...
• EGYPT: Its January Again in Tahrir Square
  Days of clashes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Some children's toys still contain toxic chemi ...
  Toys are the wonderful equipments for kids playing which help them to learn a lot but, Many toys still contain dangerous levels of toxins like lead, according to the 26th annual "Trouble in Toyland" report. Submitted by Yelin Pollan to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
• Tell the Senate: vote to end the war in Afghan ...
  Can you imagine US troops on the ground in Afghanistan in 2024? Thats what is on the table right now in discussions between the US and Afghan governments. Now is the time to send a message to the administration that ten years of war in Afghanistan is... Submitted by Nancy C. to World  |& ...
• Nebraska governor signs bills to reroute Keyst ...
  Nebraska governor Dave Heineman signed into law on Tuesday bills to reroute the Keystone XL pipeline away from the ecologically sensitive Sandhills region. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• NRG Energy Bolsters its Presence in Distribute ...
  NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired distributed solar power developer Solar Power Partners (SPP). read more
• BLM and DOE Add Addendum to Western Solar Fast ...
  Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at one of California's solar energy developments. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Bureau of Land Management have c ...
• First Solar to Build and Operate 66 MW Alpine ...
  Electricity giant, NRG Energy recently announced an agreement to have First Solar (Nasdaq:FSLR) build, operate, and maintain a new 66 MW Alpine Solar Project in Lancaster, California.  read more
• United States: DOE Creates New Funding to Supp ...
  The United States Department of Energy (DOE) stated its plans to invest $60 million to support the advancement of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies. read more
• First Solar Stocks Blasted After CEO's Abrupt ...
  Stocks were down 22 percent in mid-afternoon trading Tuesday after solar developer First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) said that CEO Rob Gillete was stepping down. read more

News Blaze

• Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operation ...
  CSO advances U.S. national security by driving integrated, civilian-led efforts to prevent, respond to, and stabilize crises
• Ibrahim Suleiman Hamad Al-Hablain Specially De ...
  The designation under E.O. 13224 blocks all of Abu Jabal's property interests subject to U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with or for the benefit of Abu Jabal.
• Global Efforts to Safeguard Intangible Cultura ...
  Seventy-nine nominations will be examined during the present session, including saman dance from Indonesia, fado music from Portugal and mariachi music from Mexico. Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire have presented a joint nomination for the balafon
• Domestic Workers in Jaipur Narrate Stories of ...
  Pratima, 20, works as a maid in Jaipur and it is she who set the tone for the first-ever public hearing of domestic workers in Rajasthan's state capital.
• Smart Investments in Prevention and Treatment ...
  He stressed that the United States calls upon all nations to join us in renewing the collective international commitment that has resulted in these important successes.

Worldnews

• World Bank: Afghanistan will need aid for ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan-Afghanistan could face economic collapse if international assistance is abruptly cut as foreign combat forces are withdrawn, the World Bank warned, stressing that the war-ravaged nation will need billions of dollars in aid for a decade or more. The forecast by the World Ba ...
• 2011 ATP World Tour Finals: Nadal vs Tson ...
  The Barclays ATP World Tour Finals takes place from November 20 to 27 at the O2 Arena in London. The Rafael Nadal vs Jo-Wilfried Tsonga match will...
• Nigeria president fires anti-corruption c ...
  LAGOS, Nigeria - Nigeria's president has unexpectedly fired the head of the oil-rich nation's anti-corruption agency. A spokesman for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said Wednesday that chairwoman Farida Waziri had been fired. Spokesman Femi Babafemi said Waziri had at least ano ...
• Radcliffe's Parents Turned Down His Potte ...
  Daniel Radcliffe's parents initially turned down his role in the Harry Potter franchise as movie bosses planned to shoot all the films in Los Angeles. The British actor was just a child when he first tried out for the role of the boy wizard, and he has revealed his parents didn't want him to ...
• Thurman Stalker Freed After Pleading Guil ...
  A man convicted of stalking Uma Thurman was ordered to undergo therapy five times a week on Tuesday after pleading guilty to making harassing calls to the Kill Bill star. Jack Jordan, 40, was convicted of stalking the actress in 2008 and was arrested again last year over allegations he breac ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Extended families are making a comeback
  And the trends suggest that the rise of these living arrangements is going to be with us for a while, analysts say.
• Beach radiation deadline issued
  Sepa gives the MoD until the end of February to devise a plan to make safe a Fife beach contaminated with radioactivity.
• PLEO NOT (Penicillium Chrysogenum Var. Chrysog ...
  Updated Date: Nov 21, 2011 EST
• Breast Tenderness With Combo Hormone Therapy M ...
  The debate about using menopausal hormone therapies to relieve symptoms in post-menopausal women has been ongoing. Is the combination therapy of estrogen and progestin better or worse than just giving women estrogen alone? In women who still have a uterus (those who have not had a hysterectomy), ...
• ONDANSETRONtablet, Orally Disintegrating [Sand ...
  Updated Date: Nov 21, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

• Illinois Town Residents Rally to Protect Clean ...
  This Thanksgiving, residents in Canton and Orion Township in Fulton County, Illinois will enjoy the basic human right of clean drinking water -- though, not without a fight. read more
• BPA Spikes 1,200 Per Cent After Eating Canned ...
  WASHINGTON - People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 per cent compared to those who ate fresh soup, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. read more
• Tar Sands Oil Producers Eye California
  SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama Administration’s recent decision to delay the approval process for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline has shifted attention to alternate routes for bringing a glut of tar sands oil in Canada to refineries and ports abroad. Last week, Canadian firms bought up ...
• Nearly Half of Americans Struggling to Stay Afloat
  WASHINGTON — Nearly half of all Americans lack economic security, meaning they live above the federal poverty threshold but still do not have enough money to cover housing, food, healthcare and other basic expenses, according to a survey of government and industry data. The survey, release ...
• Haunted by Regret, Oregon Governor Bans Death ...
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Haunted by regret for allowing two men to be executed more than a decade ago, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber now says it'll never happen again on his watch. Calling Oregon's death penalty scheme "compromised and inequitable," the Democratic governor said Tu ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Energy Collective

• CO2 is a Trace Gas, But What Does That Mean?
• NRG Energy Hopes To Score Big With Solar
    The view from the NRG suite at Redskins Park
• Are We Headed Toward The Space Age of Solar Power?
   It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but at the same time it could also be the method whereby solar power could be magnified to a global industrial scale.  
• Natural Gas Splits Boone Pickens and Koch Bros ...
  Call it a coincidence but there are undeniable linkages. Crude oil has risen once again is flirting with $100 a barrel. Meanwhile, legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens is ratcheting up his push for legislation that would boost the development of U.S. shale natural gas reserves and deploy the cleane ...
• Is the Photovoltaic Price Trend Sustainable?
  It has been widely assumed among pundits and policy makers that the continued expansion of solar

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

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Peoples Voice

• Do Border Collies have ESP?
  By Robert Singer Last year Bart and I went to a lecture at the UCLA Law School. We purchased a parking permit and entered the parking structure P2 at level 5 and found a parking place on level 7. We exited the parking structure on level 1 and headed up Charles E. Young Drive East (CEYE) to Dodd ...
• Criminalizing OWS Protesters
  by Stephen Lendman On November 14, the Northern California ACLU and National Lawyers Guild (NLG) sued the Oakland Police Department (OPD) in federal court for "egregious constitutional violations" against Occupy Oakland protesters. A temporary restraining order was sought to stop them. On Nove ...
• London's Puppet Obama Triggering Global War
  By Jeffrey Steinberg and Nancy Spannaus Nov. 1—As Lyndon LaRouche asserts in his "Qaddafi's Death," the larger significance of President Barack Obama's extrajudicial assassination of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, at the close of the illegal NATO regime-change operation, has now become cr ...
• Warmongers eager for more blood-letting
  By Stuart Littlewood What a spectacle they make of themselves, whooping and stomping to the frenzied beat of Tel Aviv's drum, their dumb-ass chant getting ever shriller. You can read about it on a British government website. "The UK and many other countries have serious concerns about th ...
• One Humanity: Revulsion against Man’s Cr ...
  By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell “Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an ind ...

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

• Sex-obsessed Saif beat me and took drugs, says ...
  By WILL STEWART,dailymail – A woman claiming to be the ex-wife of Colonel Gaddafi’s captured son Saif al-Islam has emerged in Ukraine with extraordinary stories alleging domestic violence and womanising. Nadia, a blue-eyed brunette claims to have met him when she worked as a stripper ...
• “The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree ...
  By Phil Rockstroh – I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to “distract” the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of the legislative class. Nonsense. The OWS movemen ...
• NYPD ‘Steals’ the Occupy Wall Street Wikileaks ...
  From gawker.com – Life can be difficult when your vehicle has a huge Wikileaks logo and “Top Secret Mobile Collection Unit” emblazoned on the side. An artist’s Wikileaks-themed U-Haul truck is missing after being confiscated by the NYPD. The Wikileaks truck has been a fix ...
• Letter to the Editor; Egyptian protestor bodie ...
  WWH - By Anita Sands Hernandez - Early this week , activists in Tahrir square picked up tear gas lying next to suffocated bodies, and read the label and reported it to Amy Goodman’snightly hour news show, which read it out over the air. PENNSYLVANIAcorp supplies this killer gas to the enti ...
• Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates; NOTED!
  Occupy protester hands President Obama a note - By Holly Bailey | The Ticket  The Occupy movement trailed President Obama to New Hampshire today, where protestors briefly interrupted his jobs speech at a Manchester high school. Using the so-called “human microphone” method, prot ...

FourWinds10

• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• Radiation levels rise above limit at quake-hit ...
• China gives bleak assessment of its battered e ...
  (Reuters) - More than half of China's cities are affected by acid rain and one-sixth of major rivers are so polluted the water is unfit even for farmland, a senior official said on Friday in a bleak assessment of the environmental price of the country's economic boom. The environmental d ...
• Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 'Everything is dead o ...
  Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico "Everything is dead or dying"- Kindra Arnesan, Louisiana. September 2010 - IT IS NOT OVER. THE WELL CAP IS USELESS. Sealife is contaminated. Oil is continuing to show up daily.
• Scientists find record level of shellfish toxi ...
  MUSSELS: Findings are most dangerous on record -- one mussel could kill several. KETCHIKAN -- State scientists looking into paralytic shellfish poisonings in Southeast Alaska have found the highest levels of toxin ever recorded, so high that just one mussel could cause death in several peopl &nb ...

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

• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...
• 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

• http://docs.docstoc.com/pdf/1176380/42e90573-4 ...
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• Superwoman Was Already Here: The Montessori Ph ...
  Tags: montessori, education, classroom, learning, teachingby: Jennifer Dorman
• Harvard Education Letter
  Tags: flippedclassroom, flipped, technology, education, teaching, pedagogy, techtalkby: Dean Mantz
• teachwithyouripad - iPad Apps
  Tags: ipad, apps, education, ipads, teachwithyouripad, wiki, appleby: Dean Mantz
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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 ...
• Bobby Flay's Tips for a Tex-Mex Thanksgiving
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When you think "Thanksgiving," it's unlikely that chile peppers, avocados, and calabacitas come to mind—unless you live in the American Southwest. Arid and sunny, the region's climate makes Thanksgiving look like a warm summer picnic to the rest of us, with its own uniqu ...
• 6 Healthy Holiday Cleaning Recipes
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Preparing to have a big crowd over for the big Thanksgiving holiday? You could be serving up a dose of cancer-causers, allergens, and hormone disruptors alongside your healthy holiday dinner, according to the health advocacy group Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE). The ...
• 7 Traditional Thanksgiving Staples From Your N ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, so if you're really intent on serving a traditional Thanksgiving menu, it makes sense to stock your meal with traditional staples that America's earliest settlers would approve of. Cranberries, ...
• 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 ...

big think

• In Defense of Divorce
  Today we will take a few minutes to show a little appreciation for an important right in Western society – the right to divorce. It is important to celebrate this right lest we risk losing it amid all the social ills divorce has evoked. Advocates of covenant marriage believe that str ...
• How to Find Other Habitable Planets
  What's the Latest Development? The rate of discovering planets outside our solar system is speeding up. At current rates, we will have found thousands by 2020. A team of astrobiologists has proposed a guide for identifying habitable planets: "First, there's the Earth Similarity Index, whic ...
• The Future of Human Spaceflight
  What's the Latest Development? Three crew members of the International Space Station returned to Earth yesterday, touching down in the cold Central Asian steppes of Kazakhstan. The American, Japanese and Russian astronauts might once have been carried to space by N.A.S.A., but since retiri ...
• False Fukushima Fears. If It Scares, It Airs.
              To most journalists, a good story is defined in large measure by how much attention it will get. A story that makes page one, or leads the newscast, is better than one buried inside the newspaper or that runs after the third comm ...
• Thanksgiving, the Puritans, and St. Augustine
  Thanksgiving is the holiday that brings us all together,  whether or not we’re Christians and whether or not we’re American citizens. It’s the first holiday of the Holiday Season that begins around now and lasts until New Year. We’re so sure that sayi ...

Information Liberation

• Dash-Cam Video Shows Sam Houston State Police ...
  HOUSTON - Aman Abdulaziz had a goal at Sam Houston State University. The 19-year-old was majoring in history and planned to be a lawyer. But all of that changed when he had an encounter with SHSU Campus Police. It left him with this impression of...
• 1 Through 30 -- The Coming U.S. Financial Cris ...
  The United States is drowning in a sea of red ink from coast to coast and most Americans have absolutely no idea what is about to happen.* Hopefully you have started to prepare for the coming U.S. financial crisis.* If not, hopefully this article wil...
• Sprint Launches Soon To Be Mandatory Emergency ...
  Telecommunications giant Sprint has announced the launch of its Wireless Emergency Alerts program that will deliver messages from the federal government directly to millions of Americans as part of a system set to become mandatory on all new cellphon...
• Paul: Obama health care more fascism than soci ...
  It's doubtful whether anyone opposes President Obama's health care law more than Ron Paul, but the Texas congressman said Wednesday that the sweeping legislation is not socialized medicine * contrary to claims made by his fellow presidential contende...
• Who Knew the TSA Even Had a Code of Conduct?
  The TSA has fired one of its thugs in Chicago because he didn't confine his hatred of Muslims to the job but instead posted gross insults against them on Facebook. The agency employed Roy Egan for nine years. This public servant*advocated the exte...

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

• Is renewable energy just a myth?
  It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
• Singing the Movember Blues no more
  Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
• 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 [... ...

RFF Library

• Managing the Growing Impacts of Development on ...
  United Nations Univ., Institute for Water, Environment and Health / by Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3960397/UNU-INWEH%20Policy%20Report.pdf [From an art ...
• America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters: How ...
  Environment America http://bit.ly/t9jFOw [From an E&E Daily article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd]   Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania release the most mercury air emissions in the country, and just five companies account for more than one-third of all mercury emissions in the United States, accor ...
• Governing Clean Development: What Have We Learnt?
  University of East Anglia | University of Sussex / by Peter Newell and Jon Phillips www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gcd/PolicyBriefing003 [From Press Release] Environmental, economic and development experts will debate whether the commitment to carbon markets is the right approach to tackle climate chang ...
• Responding to Climate Change in New York State ...
  New York State Energy Research and Development Authority http://bit.ly/tglsgc (full report) http://bit.ly/rH4EbR (summary) [Environmental News Network article] …New York released its own climate study this week, predicting that with expected sea level rise and stronger storms, future hurri ...
• Considering Shale Gas Extraction in North Caro ...
  Duke University, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions | Nicholas School / by Sarah Plikunas, Brooks Rainey Pearson and Jonas Monast, Rob Jackson and Avner Vengosh http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/nc-hydraulic-fracturing/paper [From Oil and Gas Online]   A new report by Duk ...

Scientific American - News

• Eating Turkey Does Not Really Make You Sleepy
  'Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The supercomittee, the White House, "the One Percent," Greece, Italy -- the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall. So in the spirit of sharing guilt, we thought it might be fun to ask a physician, Dr. Howard Markel ...
• Will Energy Storage Play a Big Role in the Ele ...
  More than 200 tops spin in vessels half-buried in the dirt outside Stephentown, N.Y., a town near the Massachusetts state line. Inside the vessel a vacuum permits each top to rotate as many as 16,000 times per minute, despite the fact that each weighs more than one metric ton, thanks to its st ...
• New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral
  More than 10 million people have watched a YouTube video of an iPhone being pulverized in a blender. It's actually a commercial for Blendtec -- a company most viewers had probably never heard of. But with the viral clip, Blendtec let social networking spread its name and message rather than ...
• Solar Eclipse on Friday Could Wow Small Audience
  This Friday (Nov. 25), a rather large partial eclipse of the sun will be on view -- but only for a relatively small audience. [More]
• Historian Hunts for Motives Behind Climate Cha ...
  Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of "Merchants of Doubt," a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change. Her s ...

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

• Occupy Ottawa 2am eviction - audio report w/ i ...
  8 arrested, 1 hospitalized, park now closed. On early Wednesday morning, police moved in to evict Occupy Ottawa from Confederation Park. The move came 26 hours after the eviction deadline from the National Capital Commission. This report co ...
• “Banned on the Hill”
  Ottawa art exhibit highlights government interference in environmental education Toronto artist Franke James is displaying environmental artwork on Bank Street in protest of the Canadian government’s interference in her 20-city Europe ...
• Emera Under Investigation in Grand Bahama
  Operation Grand Bahamas Presents Formal Complaint Against Power Supplier As reported, in early November a group known as Operation Justice Bahamas visited Halifax on a fact-finding mission. They wanted to ascertain whether Nova Scotians, be ...
• Occupy Vancouver Packs up - and Moves!
  VANCOUVER - Faced with an injunction from the City, the citizens of Occupy Vancouver moved out today - and set up a new camp one block away. The new site is outside the provincial courthouse at Robson and Howe, and Occupiers say the provincially-owned land means it will take a different injuncti ...
• St. James Cathedral Evicts Occupy Toronto from ...
  Occupy Toronto protesters received eviction orders on November 21, 2011 after a court ruling upheld the decision of the City of Toronto to move them from St. James Park. P ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Globalization: fun and games
  David Seaton's News LinksOpen "Google Translate" and set the translation to English to Chinese (traditional), then write in the word "jokes", which will produce the Chinese ideogram 笑話, then paste that into Google-Google and it will produce the  following search results (click here). C ...
• Looking on the bright side of life - Part Two
  David Seaton's News Links"Melancholia" - Lars Von TrierLooking at the political paralysis of the American political system, the wasted lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceaseless unrest in the Arab world,the increasing possibility of a war with Iran and the sense of imminent finan ...
• 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Cliff Diving in Europe
  Worried about Europe? You should be! Via Stuart Staniford, here's the latest bad news from the eurozone: In September, as the chart below shows, industrial orders plunged 6.4% in the euro area (pink line) and 2.3% in the broader EU (black line). Here's Stuart: There have been indicators sug ...
• The Problem With Electric Cars
  Electric cars are having a tough time finding buyers. Brad Plumer takes a crack at explaining what the problem is: GM is struggling to meet this year’s sales target for the Chevy Volt, and Nissan has sold just 8,000 all-electric Leafs. Part of that might be due to the recession and th ...
• Al-Qaeda is....Dead....Kind Of
  The Washington Post reports that the terrorist group founded by Osama bin Laden is all but dead: The leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist network, once expansive enough to supervise the plot for Sept. 11, 2001, have been reduced to just two figures whose demise would mean the group& ...
• Tonight's Debate Wrapup (Sort Of)
  I'm sorry, but I just don't have it in me to try and say something intelligent about tonight's debate. Generally speaking, it wasn't quite the train wreck that some of the others have been, but that's faint praise. And it's appalling that for the second time in a row, a foreign policy debate ha ...
• Negotiating With Fanatics
  I want to thank Ezra Klein for reminding me about this passage in Politico's postmortem on the failure of the supercommittee to reach an agreement. It's a description of the "wish lists" from each side: House Republicans wanted to repeal Obama’s health care law, implement the controversi ...

Insanity Report

• IC 286: Hippie Hater
  Topics: Holiday Shopping is getting out of hand Man masturbates in department store New images of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises Nerds go too far Sandusky victim bullied at school Joe Paterno had a history of getting involved in investigations Occupy Denver explains why they need tents The prob ...
• 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 ...

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

• Surprising pathway implicated in stuttering
  Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have obtained new evidence that at least some persistent stuttering is caused by mutations in a gene governing not speech, but a metabolic pathway involved in recycling old cell parts. read more
• Herbicide may affect plants thought to be resi ...
  Purdue University researchers have discovered a fine-tuning mechanism involved in plant root growth that has them questioning whether a popular herbicide may have unintended consequences, causing some plants to need more water or nutrients. read more
• On the road to plasmonics with silver polyhedr ...
  The question of how many polyhedral nanocrystals of silver can be packed into millimeter-sized supercrystals may not be burning on many lips but the answer holds importance for one of today's hottest new high-tech fields -- plasmonics! Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawre ...
• Physical activity impacts overall quality of sleep
  People sleep significantly better and feel more alert during the day if they get at least 150 minutes of exercise a week, a new study concludes. read more
• Carbon mitigation strategy uses wood for build ...
  Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all. read more

unEarthed

• Tr-Ash Talk: Thank You!
  To all those clean water champions out there! Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) opposed H.R. 2273, calling it a "green-light pass for utility companies to dispose of their waste without regard to p ...
• Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Andrea Treece
  “Trawl fishing is like clear-cutting on land, but just in the bottom of the ocean.” Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece (Brian Treece) This is the fourth in ...
• Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Roger Fleming
  “If we can make changes that will work in New England, it helps lead the nation on fisheries policy.” Roger Fleming, with Gompers and Scout, in Cape Cod. (Amy Wells) ...
• Appalachian Coal Jobs Reach 14-Year High
  So this is what you mean by EPA's "War on coal" and EPA's "job-killing regulations"? The jig is up: New data shows coal mining regulations are creating jobs, n ...
• Climate Experts: Prepare for “Global Weirding”
  IPCC issues new report How’s the weather?    Weird, and getting stranger every day.   Last week in Kampala, Uganda the Intergovernme ...

Brave New Climate

• CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
  Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
• 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 ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SP ...
  Pregnant Woman Blasted with Pepper Spray by SPD Says She Miscarried (Updated) | Slog: UPDATE: Jennifer Fox, 19, spoke to The Stranger at the Occupy Seattle encampment at Seattle Central Community College. Fox claimed that she was three months pregnant last Tuesday evening when she joined an Occu ...
• Strategizing For A Living Revolution
  Strategizing For A Living Revolution: By George Lakey 1 Otpur (“Resistance” in Serbian) began as hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of young people took to the streets to rid their country of dictator Slobadan Milosevic. Impatient with the cautious ways of many of their pro-democr ...
• SFeldman: Queer as folk | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও ...
  Queer as folk | ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA: The fragile existence of the transgender community, Hijras or Kinnars, stigmatized as the “other” sex, scrambling, for the longest time for an identity as a recognized member of community, is undergoing a slow transformatio ...
• Detention of female journalist extended
  Detention of female journalist extended: OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli court in Jerusalem on Monday extended the detention of Palestinian journalist Isra’a Salhab till next Friday for further interrogation. The Mada media center has denounced the Israeli detention of the Jerusalemite ...
• Interesting Failed eMail Response to ANG commu ...
  This is the mail system at host pumpkin.lobstertech.com. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. Yo ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
  Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...
• Megyn Kelly
  Is Megyn Kelly the dumbest blonde in the world? No, I mean really…..
• Chris Wallace Claims Americans Are Fed Up With ...
  Folks, you have to understand. Fox Lies tells it’s lemming viewers what they are supposed to think so they can repeat the same Fox lies around water coolers. Anyone who watches Fox is already brainwashed and lives in some alternate universe where giving billionaires all the breaks help ...
• 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 ...

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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• Police, protesters clash in front of Likud hea ...
  By Noam Sheizaf and Dahlia Scheindlin Protesters clashed with police on Tuesday evening after a demonstration against a string of anti-democratic legislative initiatives recently brought forth in the Knesset. Some 200 people demonstrated in front of the headquarters of the ruling Likud party, bl ...
• Israel, South Africa deepen connection with at ...
  The connection between Israel and South Africa seems to have deepened today, as both countries moved to limit press freedoms with laws targeting the media. In South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC)-led National Assembly passed a controversial secrecy bill, which aims to protect state  ...
• Columnist tears into “criminal” go ...
  The Knesset yesterday passed in first reading a bill which has been described by most of the Israeli media as “The silencing law”. Under the bill, which is an amendment to the existing defamation law, the maximum compensation in a libel suit will increase exponentially from NIS 50,00 ...
• Footloose in Jerusalem: Hear no evil, see no evil
  The dancers of a Jerusalem-based company are organizing a protest against a policy designed to shield the eyes of passersby who would rather pretend they don’t exist By Ori J. Lenkinski Three years ago, I worked for the Kolben Dance Company, whose base is in the Gerard Bechar Center in Jer ...
• Did Glenn Beck just join the 2012 presidential ...
  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) held a gala dinner last night and paid respect to Glenn Beck, who received the “Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Defender of Israel Award.” Beck, as usual, shed a few tears during his speech. But like the true entertainer that he is, he left the audience ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Protection for Cape York Peninsula
  The Gillard Government, in partnership with the Bligh Government, today announced $23 million in new funding to protect the rich environmental and cultural values of Cape York Peninsula.
• $5 million to support better management of dugongs
  The role of Indigenous communities in protecting and managing dugongs will be expanded under a new $5 million Gillard Government package announced today.
• Solar array turns ANU campus into a Green clas ...
  A new photo-voltaic solar array at the Australian National University (ANU) will reduce the campus's carbon emissions, feed energy back into the grid and help educate the community about energy conservation measures.
• Perth's water supply more secure with opening ...
  Perth residents will benefit from a climate independent source of water now that the Southern Seawater Desalination Plant near Binningup is open.
• Central Coast's Future Water Supplies Secured
  Central Coast residents will benefit from a secure supply of water following the completion of the Mardi-Mangrove Pipeline Link project, which links Wyong River and Ourimbah Creek to Mangrove Creek Dam.

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 ...

abelard - news

• the dangerous economic delusions of france and ...
  Squeezing until the pips squeak could start wars. Remember, France's harsh pressure on Germany did that in the 1930s. Then Germany's had an easy ride since the end of WW2.
• more fantasy banking - 29 alleged credit-ansta ...
  The G20 ends and this about all that was acheived. The spectre of the Great Depression still hovers.
• other people's money | politics news at abelar ...
  Stock exchange and bank traders can be similar to socialist governments - who cares, not my money.
• will the efsf fund need its own bailout? | eco ...
  The Eurozone financial house of cards is wobbling. Here's some viz aids to understanding this economic chaos.
• The Tour de France 2012 announced | the France ...
  Details of next year's Greatest Show on Earth now available. Time to start planning.

The Parallel Parliament

• Thin Democracy
  Some are surprised to learn that the planet Neptune wasn’t discovered; it was deduced. In 1846 the French astronomer Urbain …Continue reading »
• Layers
  How does it feel when you hear billionaire Warren Buffett state, “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the …Continue reading »
• 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 »

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

• Occupy Oakland Calls for Total West Coast Port ...
  Intro: "In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation: Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted th ...
• 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 ...

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

• Canning the Cans in Food Drives
  What concerns me most, as a doctoral student researching environmental contaminants in the food system, is all of the BPA that has leached from those epoxy resin can linings into the food. Is it okay that we are feeding food-insecure people with consumables that we would not put on our own table ...
• EBT at Farmers’ Markets: A Win for Everyone
  Providing EBT at farmers’ markets may very well be a victory in the making for local and regional farmers, local economies, and SNAP participants alike.
• Visualizer Shows Farm Bill Spending
  The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has launched the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an innovative web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since the 2008 Farm Bill.
• Indirect Land Use Change and Biofuels: Real or ...
  While increased food prices is the most contentious of the many controversies surrounding the rapid increase in ethanol production from corn, the increase in greenhouse gas emissions from what is termed “indirect land use change” (ILUC) ranks a close second in the debates.
• Walmart’s Sustainable Agriculture Goals: A Cri ...
  In 2005, Walmart announced three sustainability goals, one of which is to sell products that sustain people and the environment. So, how’s Walmart doing?

k2p blog

• Google abandons its backing of renewable energy
  Google is abandoning its "Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal" project and Bill Weihl, their Green Energy Czar has left the company last month.
• Searchable data base for Climategate 2 emails ...
  A searchable database for the Climategate 2 emails is now available on-line.
• Subsidies for electricity production in the US ...
  Data for 2010 is now available from the US Energy Information Administration. Solar and Wind power are still a long way from being commercial with just direct subsidies being equivalent to 7.8 and 5.6 cents/kWh respectively. Indirect subsidies and increased costs for alternate capacity are not ...
• Signal received from Phobos Grunt
  Signal received from Phobos Grunt.
• Europe has “wasted” €210 billion o ...
  UBS has produced a report for its investors with a devastating indictment about carbon trading which has wasted $287 billion in Europe and its bleak future.

Left Foot Forward

• Egypt – a new dawn or a sunset on religious fr ...
  The persecution of Coptic Christians raises serious questions about whether the “Arab Spring” is a new dawn or a sunset on religious freedom and tolerance.
• The FSA can’t stop Virgin stripping another £3 ...
  The FSA can’t stop Virgin stripping another £345 million from Northern Rock deal, explains Cormac Hollingsworth.
• What will Cameron do to end the racism of the ...
  Alex Hern questions just how deep the rot at Conservative Future goes
• USA 2012: The Cain train derails
  Alex Hern runs over the latest news from the race to the Republican candidacy. If it weren't so terrifying, it would be a joy to watch.
• Osborne should change course next Tuesday, but ...
  Those hoping for a change of course when the chancellor delivers his Autumn Statement will be disappointed, write IPPR’s Tony Dolphin and Adam Lent.

Consumerist

• More Americans Getting Their Medical Care At R ...
  A growing number of supermarkets, drugstores and other retailers are opening in-store clinics offering everything from flu shots to dental, vision and general medical care. And the people aren't shying away from using these services. According to a study from the folks at Rand Corp, between 2 ...
• Study: Virgin America Keeps Customers On Hold ...
  Holiday travel plans change all the time, meaning lots of people will be spending lots of time on the phone trying to speak to a human being. And according to a new report, passengers on Virgin America should have something to occupy themselves with while waiting on hold, as the average wait t ...
• Walmart Continues To Short-Change Customers On ...
  It's been six months since reporters in California first caught several Walmart stores offering insufficient refunds on items returned with gift receipts. And then they confirmed two months ago that it was still going at Walmart's across the country. In spite of all this evidence that the natio ...
• Senator Introduces Two Bills To Curb Checked B ...
  With so many people lining up at the airport today and tomorrow to fly home to stuff their stomachs with, well... stuffing, one U.S. Senator has introduced two pieces of legislation aimed at reining in the checked bag fees charged by airlines. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has come up wit ...
• New York City Starbucks Bathroom Lockout Ends ...
  When you've gotta go, you've gotta go. But in New York City, where public restrooms are at a minimum, the only place to go is usually a Starbucks. Since not everyone cares about cleanliness, that results in a dirty job for baristas. Some of those employees staged a mini revolt last week, lockin ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• December Hearing Set for Bradley Manning: Dail ...
  Baltimore Sun: WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning to Have Hearing at Maryland's Fort Meade Next Month Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – the whistleblower accused of sending WikiLeaks a trove of classified information detailing American military conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan, and State Department c ...
• Retaliation Against Gayl Shows Need for WPEA: ...
  Huffington Post: Let’s Ensure Whistleblowers’ Good Deeds Go Unpunished Summary: Because the retaliation that MRAP whistleblower and GAP client Franz Gayl endured is all too common for government whistleblowers, this article supports the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, which has passe ...
• Gas Company Whistleblower Reveals Reckless Pra ...
  Courtesy of Flickr user US Army AfricaTimes-Tribune (PA): Gas Company Whistleblower Details Spills, Errors Summary: A former gas company employee and several other residents of a Pennsylvania town are suing the company because of negligence leading to high levels of methane gas in the public w ...
• 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 ...

UK Progressive

• Occupy Cal Makes Occupy History at Berkeley
  After their tents were pulled by the university, UC Berkeley students turn the school’s celebration of a ’60s icon into massive Occupy meeting. Mario Savio was a UC Berkeley student in the ’60s and a key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He’s become an activist icon; Mario Savio Youth ...
• The First Amendment Upside Down. Why We Must O ...
  You’ve been seeing this across the country … Americans assaulted, clubbed, dragged, pepper-sprayed … Why? For exercising their right to free speech and assembly — protesting the increasing concentration of income, wealth, and political power at the top. And what’s Washington’s response? Nothing. ...
• Egyptian Revolution Part Deux: Don’t Fire Unti ...
  The Revolutionary battle cry of the rag-tag Colonists included the words “the whites of their eyes” against the mighty British redcoat Army columns of 1776. Today the brutal Egyptian police forces under the supposed control of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces or SCAF, are taking this depl ...
• Not My Dad’s GOP – Stupidest Statements This W ...
  It has been such an astonishingly bad primary pre-season of gaffes, book selling and seeming Nigerian prince e-mail hawking charlatans… that people here in the UK routinely ask if this campaign for the GOP US Presidential nomination is not some  television comedy skit? The field is incredi ...
• 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 [. ...

NewsAlert

• Senate Democrats ready to move $400 billion in ...
  The Hill
• Rezko Most Likely Not the Only One Troubled By ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times
• Gingrich Spars With Ron Paul After He Calls Pa ...
• California has second-highest jobless rate in U.S.
  The L.A. Times
• Americans Blame Both Sides of "Supercommittee" ...
  Gallup

JoNova

• Breaking! Apparently, more emails released. Cl ...
  Five hours ago, FOIA left a link on my blog to a Russian site (I had been away). Emails and comments are streaming through to let me know that the Tallbloke, and Jeff ID have also got them. Tallbloke has opened it and checked for viruses. Jeff ID confirms there are thousands of emails readable a ...
• The tax whose name shall not be spoken
  Blitzed in the polls, the Australian Labor Party have picked the communist solution — straight from the Soviet rule book of Free Speech.  Goskomizdat revived as a kind of Goskoshopfront. It’s more desperate and simplistic band-aid legislation to benefit the ruling class and not the p ...
• 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 ...

ReNew America

• Only an election can break Washington's gridlock
  (Washington Examiner) - To no one's surprise, members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, a.k.a. the Super Committee, announced yesterday that it had failed to agree on a $1.2 trillion debt reduction plan. As a result, no additional spending cuts or tax hikes will go into effect ...
• Eric Holder must go
  (Gov. Rick Perry) - Ever since the Department of Justice's gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious became public, the Obama administration's response has been slow and infuriating. Of particular concern is Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s lack of candor concerning what he knew and w ...
• Gingrich's stem-cell history
  (National Review) - In 2001, President Bush was under enormous pressure to allow federal funding for stem-cell research that involved the destruction of human embryos. Many Republicans in Congress favored the funding, and so, reportedly, did various White House aides and Cabinet secretaries. Amo ...
• Book review: 'The Road to Serfdom: Special Abr ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - From the grave, one of the most honored economists of the 20th century warns America -- and all of Western civilization -- to be wary of the mirage-like temptations offered by so-called "democratic socialism"...
• Ann Coulter is wrong: a real conservative can ...
  (Richard Viguerie) - Ann Coulter is wrong -- and I say that, having been involved in the leadership of the national conservative movement for over 50 years, not as a "Johnny-come-lately conservative purist." I am frequently asked if Obama will be re-elected in 2012 and my answer is "not if Repub ...

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

• Another Alien Skull?
  Probably a child with a deformity, potentially an alien and possibly an example of a different human species… More pics at guanabee.com At RPP (in Spanish) experts are claiming that it is an alien: Riquelme Davila explained that ...Another Alien Skull? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
• Gerard Celente on MF Global
  I don’t usually cover politics and finance here, but we have a very interesting piece of audio… Gerard Celente is a well known futurist and forecaster. It just so happens (he claims) that his savings ...Gerard Celente on MF Global is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Reduce ...
• Falling Sea Levels & Fewer Hurricanes
  The image is from aviso.oceanobs.com and shows the change in the average sea level for the northern hemisphere. The data is from the European Union’s Envisat satellite, which was  launched in 2002. Now NASA will ...Falling Sea Levels & Fewer Hurricanes is a post from: 2012 Blog Relat ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• Cain revamps 9-9-9 tax plan, but it still hurt ...
  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income A ...
  
• U.S. oil companies, security contractors look ...
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya. read more
  
• Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...
  As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
  As all-out attack cont ...
  
• 3 reasons why Art Pope deserves all the media ...
  North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight t ...
  
• More cutbacks in legal services for the poor i ...
  North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public need ...
  

One News Page

• Sarah Palin Riles Roger Ailes
  SARAH Palin is in trouble! The Governor of Alaska apparently riled her bosses at Fox News when she decided to announce her decision not to run for president on the cable news network. Palin — a Fox News commentator — is said to have angered etwork chief Roger Ailes by choosing to announce ...
• SC restores primacy of ‘bail not jail’ principle
  In granting bail to five corporate biggies in the 2G scam, the Supreme Court on Wednesday restored primacy of the 33-year-old “bail is the rule and jail an exception”.
• A day after Doon Exp fire, 2 more train accidents
  The lamentable safety record of trains in India took a further beating on Wednesday when two more mishaps occurred: one in JandK and the other in Orissa.
• Another BSP MLA accused of rape
  Another Bahujan Samaj Party MLA has joined the infamous list of party leaders accused of rape. In the latest incident, a woman from Shahjahanpur district has accused Jalalpur MLA and his aides of raping her.
• HAL Manufactures 99 Sukhoi-30 MKI Fighter Jets ...
  New Delhi (ABC Live): The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has started manufacturing of Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters in the country and has delivered 99 aircrafts to Indian Air force till 2010-11. Information and confirmation to this effect was made by Indian Minister of State for Defence ...

Global Research TV

• When the World Outlawed War
• Debt Crisis: Europe's Savage Austerity Measures
• Federal Reserve Analyst: Fed Banks Are Private
• Greg Palast: Corporate Collusion, Media and Ci ...
• Former Philadelphia Police Captain Arrested at OWS

Daily Tech

• Contact Lens Capable of Displaying Text and Im ...
  New research incorporates a single pixel into contact lenses, paving the way for array displays
• Google Axes 7 More Products/Initiatives in Fal ...
  This is the third installment in the fall spring-cleaning series
• Samsung Mocks Apple Fanboys in Galaxy S ll Com ...
  Commercial shows Apple fans camped out for the iPhone 4S, marveling at the Samsung Galaxy S II
• Apple Approves First Video Game Subscription A ...
  Big Fish Games will allow users to jump in and out of various games without making multiple downloads
• Microsoft Pushes Streamlined Online Distributi ...
  You'll now only need the central installer to migrate files and utilities, plus its faster to boot

Oriental Review

• Joint European Missile Defense: Cooperation or ...
  Part 1 Strategic and Tactical Nuclear Arms Modernization vis-a-vis the BMD Program The functional feature of the contemporary BMD infrastructure of the US and its key NATO allies is that their missile defense assets are never used per se or alone or separately from their strategic and tactical n ...
• Joint European Missile Defense: Cooperation or ...
  The positions which Washington and the NATO headquarters in Brussels adopted at the consultations on a joint Russia-USA/NATO European ballistic missile defense (BMD) system have recently drawn a new round of criticisms from the Russian military-political leadership. Such stances on the current s ...
• Shadows and uncertainties on the road… t ...
  I took a break half a month. I tried to be just mere observer of events. The events are so fluid that information became obsolete within 24 hours. But all combined can give you an overview. So take a look about situation in Syria … and the democracies under construction in Libya and Egyp ...
• Russia as Provocateur?
  Among the high profile of former Soviet based English language media, the Kyiv Post (KP) is better at promoting nationalist anti-Russian leaning views, when compared to The Moscow Times’ (TMT) approach to patriotically reasonable Russian perspectives. TMT and KP can each show instances of ...
• 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 ...

BlogHer

• Tuition is Free at the Crafty Minx School of C ...
  The word free brings music to the ears of most people, crafters especially. We crafters would rather be spending our hard earned money on fun things like yarn, beads, tools and whatnot. Building a good craft stash can be pricey. I was super excited when I found out about the crochet school hoste ...
• Remembering Ron Brown
  When I was in sixth grade, I had a Social Studies teacher named Ron Brown. He was, hands down, the best teacher I ever had.He was that rare and effective combination of highly engaging educator, firm and fair disciplinarian, and accessible, genuinely caring friend. I, and I'm sure most of my cla ...
• Can You Think Your Way to Rich?
  I was annoyed when I read the lists of reasons rich people are rich on Get Rich Slowly. I was raised with that whole bootstrap mentality, too, and while I agree there's trying and there's not trying, it's quite common for privileged people to think they got where they are all by themselves, and ...
• Are You Holding Your Blogging Tongue Too Much?
  The Lotus Pad recently had a fantastic post about what we say and what we don't say online as we keep in mind our "personal brand." After all, do you want to be known as the person who gets knocked down but gets up again, or do you want to be known as Debbie Downer? But at the same time, how i ...
• Two Beef Tacos, Please -- Hold the Pepper Spray
  On Monday night, Fox News decided to tackle the story of the students who were pepper sprayed while protesting corporate control of the country during an Occupy demonstration at the University of California, Davis. Bill O'Reilly, host of the popular conservative television talk show The O'Reill ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Lawmakers Step Into Food Fight Over Pizza
  Our economy is getting worse and worse and millions are unemployed but don’t worry the government is ready to do battle. However it’s not the economy their willing to battle. It’s pizza! Congress ...
• Co-Sleeping Ad Of Baby With Knife Aims To Warn ...
  The city of Milwaukee, Wisc., is taking a “raw” approach at warning parents of the dangers of co-sleeping with their babies. SERVE marketing designed an advertisement for the city’s Health Department that features a baby sleeping ...
• More and more Americans living past 90
  If your saving up for retirement you better keep on saving. More and more Americans are living longer, a lot longer. By the year 2050 nine million people will be in their 90s. ...
• Beer Drinking And Cardiovascular Health
  There is good new for beer drinkers. Researches have known for some time that moderate wine drinking can lower your risk of heart attacks and stroke but now a new study shows beer can ...
• Air fresheners can trigger allergies, asthma
  Asthma suffers and parents of children with asthma should pay special attention to the chemical products they use in their house. New information shows that many different types of common air fresheners ...

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

• Happy Thanksgiving everybody …
  Hey folks, Coal Tattoo is going to be shut down for a couple of days. I hope everyone enjoys some time with family and friends. Be safe, be kind to each other, and be thankful.
• Gov. Tomblin replaces appeals board members in ...
  Well, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has made it pretty plain that one of his absolute top priorities is to defend the state’s coal industry and to perpetuate the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that on Friday — less ...
• Coal industry continues to aggressively appeal ...
  The blog post yesterday from our friend Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., understandably focused on the clear good news in a new report from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission and the Department of Labor: Efforts to reduce the backlog of the thousands of health and safety appeals b ...
• 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

• Michael Smith @rybolov DDoS Talk
  Michael Smith, @rybolov DDoS from Adrian Crenshaw on Vimeo. My Internet bud @rybolov doing a DDoS talk. :: Related ContentA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSDODOCASELandscapes, by Garry TanEvil EvangelistsQwiki: A Future Google Holding
• Principle of Least Astonishment | Wikipedia
  The principle of least astonishment (POLA/PLA) applies to user interface design, software design, and ergonomics. It is alternatively referred to as the rule or law of least astonishment, or the rule or principle of least surprise (POLS). The POLA states that, when two elements of an interface c ...
• A Reminder That You’re Not Living
  Traveling for 10 months around the world through 17 countries covering Africa, South East Asia, Australasia and North, Central and South America. The trip was centered around surfing and photography Presenting in Hong Kong, Japan, the US and London Writing a book for O’Reilly as I went, ti ...
• Pew Pew Pew
  Related ContentSite Logo UpdateExistentialism, by AletteCat ShootingNYC Images :: Oliver FluckBrilliant Rollover “Images”
• McAfee: Nearly All New Mobile Malware In Q3 Ta ...
  Nearly all new mobile malware in Q3 was targeted at Android. This follows a 76 percent rise in Android malware in Q2 of 2011. At the end of 2010, McAfee predicted that malware would reach the 70 million unique samples by the end of 2011 but has increased this prediction to 75 million unique malw ...

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

• Sex-obsessed Saif beat me and took drugs, says ...
  By WILL STEWART,dailymail – A woman claiming to be the ex-wife of Colonel Gaddafi’s captured son Saif al-Islam has emerged in Ukraine with extraordinary stories alleging domestic violence and womanising. Nadia, a blue-eyed brunette claims to have met him when she worked as a stripper ...
• “The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree ...
  By Phil Rockstroh – I’ve noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to “distract” the citizenry from the wicked machinations of Republicans of the legislative class. Nonsense. The OWS movemen ...
• NYPD ‘Steals’ the Occupy Wall Street Wikileaks ...
  From gawker.com – Life can be difficult when your vehicle has a huge Wikileaks logo and “Top Secret Mobile Collection Unit” emblazoned on the side. An artist’s Wikileaks-themed U-Haul truck is missing after being confiscated by the NYPD. The Wikileaks truck has been a fix ...
• Letter to the Editor; Egyptian protestor bodie ...
  WWH - By Anita Sands Hernandez - Early this week , activists in Tahrir square picked up tear gas lying next to suffocated bodies, and read the label and reported it to Amy Goodman’snightly hour news show, which read it out over the air. PENNSYLVANIAcorp supplies this killer gas to the enti ...
• Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates; NOTED!
  Occupy protester hands President Obama a note - By Holly Bailey | The Ticket  The Occupy movement trailed President Obama to New Hampshire today, where protestors briefly interrupted his jobs speech at a Manchester high school. Using the so-called “human microphone” method, prot ...

reference frame

• Norman Ramsey: 1915-2011
  Bill Zajc wrote something about Roy Glauber and I randomly wanted to check some data about the Harvard optics Nobel prize winners and happened to visit the Wikipedia page about Norman Ramsey. Unfortunately, the page stunned me by the information that he died 3 weeks ago. See The Guardia ...
• CDF at Tevatron: 9-sigma excess of multimuon g ...
  The CDF Collaboration has presented many extraordinary claims during the recent year which seem probably incorrect today, not only because of the refutations by D0 (Z'-boson-like bump near 150 GeV, a huge top-antitop mass difference, and so on). But we must give them another chance beca ...
• How classical fields, particles emerge from qu ...
  As Gene and Sidney Coleman have pointed out, the term "interpretation of quantum mechanics" is a misnomer encouraging its users to generate logical fallacies. Why? It's because we should always use a theory, or a more accurate, complete, and universal theory, to interpret its special cas ...
• Climategate 2011: FOIA
  Just like exactly two years ago, when Climategate erupted, Jeff Id received an URL pointing to a Russian server, containing a FOIA2011.zip file (173 MB)with the internal correspondence behind the IPCC process. I learned about this event from Niklas, a TRF reader. It seems to be prepare ...
• Could Nature, LHC prefer N=2 supersymmetry?
  An even more ambitious, more stringy type of supersymmetry could actually be more compatible with the LHC data A year ago or so, we have entered the serious LHC era in which many eyes of high-energy physicists have been refocused from formal, top-down theory to experiments and phenomenol ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
  Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
• 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 ...

Truth About Our World

• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...
• Max Keiser: Time to Get The Hell Out of the US
• Hidden No Longer: Genocide in Canada, Past and ...
  BOOK:   http://hiddennolonger.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/No-Longer-Hidden-1.pdf The stories, documentation and other evidence in this book are based in part on the living testimonies of nearly three hundred survivors of thirty eight separate Indian residential or hospitals across Canada. The ...

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• 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 ...

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

• Occupy Wall Street diaspora prepare for re-entry
• 'Living wage' supporter is confident labor can ...
• A Capital anticipation list: 'Battle for Brook ...
• Dan Rather accepts an award, gives comfort to ...
• Perched between her patrons and her members, Q ...

Views & News from Norway

• New Progress Party sex scandal emerges
  Norway’s most conservative political party, the Progress Party, was fending off another sex scandal within its ranks this week, the third this year involving liberties taken by male party members. This one also involves consumption of alcohol at a party meeting, and claims that the woman i ...
• Troms energy firm in more trouble
  Troms Kraft, the largest energy company in Northern Norway, has reported accounting irregularities at its Swedish subsidiary, Kraft & Kultur, that suggest revenue has been inflated by as much as NOK 1.5 billion (USD 270 million). It’s the latest revelation of financial trouble for the ...
• Norwegian among injured in Canary Islands blast
  A Norwegian woman was flown to hospital in Las Palmas after being badly burned in an explosion at a fully booked hotel in the Canary Islands. A total of 23 persons were injured, five of them seriously, and around 1,000 guests at the hotel were evacuated. Around 150 other Norwegians were also sta ...
• Tears of anger in Parliament
  Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s call for more love and solidarity after last summer’s terrorist attacks seemed all but forgotten on Wednesday, when a top opposition politician accused Stoltenberg’s Labour Party of “playing the role of victim” on the floor of Parli ...
• Fewer immigrants arrive in Norway
  As the economy shows signs of slowing down in Norway, fewer immigrants from eastern Europe are arriving in the country looking for work. More are still coming from southern Europe, but many find it hard to find a job despite Norway’s low unemployment rate. Newspaper Dagsvisen reported on W ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Food Forests, Part 1: Ronald Reagan’s Day Off
  Save Ferris! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a 1986 movie about a teenager, his girlfriend and best mate — all of whom were just about to finish high school and enter the adult world. It represented for them a moment in time; a very hedonistic look into their lives for just one day, whe ...
• Hemp seeds grown in Australia’s first Hemp Farm
  The Hemp Farm is the world’s first public demonstration, education and working farm growing low-THC industrial hemp. Based on the North Coast of NSW (Byron Bay), the hemp farm is dedicated to the many uses of this estranged plant. Grown under Government license, hemp does not contain psych ...
• What is a Refractometer and Why Do I Need One?
  Refractometers are used for quite a lot of things — drug diagnosis, gemology, veterinary medicine, aquarium upkeep and farming. In gardens and farming it is an all-in-one tool that can be used to test the health of your crops, via a brix rating system. A refractometer uses refractive light ...
• The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Austral ...
  This is a pictorial tour of the degradation and dehydration process that the Australian landscape went through post European settlement, along with one of the major aims of Peter Andrews’ Natural Sequence Farming approach, namely the rehydration of the Australian landscape. If you were ...
• Mulloon Creek Intern Program, Summer/Autumn 2012
  Our intern program is centred around learning by doing. Here at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms there’s a great mix of both the established bread and butter commercial operations, as well as a lot of innovative development that’s taking place over the coming years within our ecological a ...

Pointman's

• Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
  A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...
• 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 ...

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

• The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
  The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
• 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 ...

Information Underground

• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hi guys!
  Welcome back Bro Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:53 pm
• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hi guys!
  Yes! We complain about those goddamn moozlims all day long and we absolutely LOVE the Jews... Welcome Birdie...Shalome.Statistics: Posted by SPECTEC — Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:22 pm
• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hi guys!
  Sure, complain all you want but it may fall on deaf ears! Welcome Little Birdie!Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:02 pm
• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Hi guys!
  I heard this is where I come to complain about them moozlim terrorists. Am I at the right meeting??Statistics: Posted by a_little_byrdie — Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:34 pm
• Historical Events • Re: Soviets murder 3.5 mil ...
  CrackSmokeRepublican, that is pretty normal in war, the victors usually go into a place they conquered and rape the women and kill the men left over. It is natural selection and is how man evolved. My issue with it is all the lying after the war and these things not brought to light. All I can s ...

TVNZ

• Cairo a battle zone after dark
  Rocks, teargas, firebombs and gunfire made darkened streets in central Cairo a battle zone today.
• Charred corpses found in Mexican drug lord's h ...
  Mexican authorities found the burned bodies of 16 people in the home state of the country's most powerful drug lord.
• Kiwi pilot 'fighting for life' after Indonesia ...
  A Kiwi pilot is reportedly fighting for his life after the aircraft he was flying crashed in Indonesia.
• McCann felt violated after diary published
  Madeleine McCann's mother says she felt "violated" by the publication of her diary in the News of the World.
• Republicans push for stronger anti-terror laws
  US Republican presidential hopefuls push to strengthen anti-terrorism laws.

environment 360

• Google Green Energy Program Is Cut as Company ...
  Google Inc. says it is abandoning its ambitious program to drive down the cost of renewable energy, one of seven major initiatives canceled by the Internet giant this week as it looks to focus on its core projects. Launched four years ago through Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, the ...
• Court Restores Protections For Yellowstone Par ...
  A federal appeals court has ruled that Yellowstone National Park’s population of 600 grizzly bears was improperly removed from the endangered species list, saying the bears face an unprecedented threat from the widespread die-off of a key food source, the white bark USFWS pine. A three judge ...
• Video: In Drought-Stricken West, A War Against ...
  In an e360 video, journalist Jon Brand reports on the controversy over the tamarisk tree, or salt cedar, which has been a fixture in West Texas since the late 1800s, when settlers imported it from the Mediterranean. As salt cedar has spread throughout the southwestern U.S., it has been vili ...
• New Cache of Emails Leaked in Advance of Durba ...
  An anonymous source has released a new cache of private emails from some of the world’s leading climate scientists, a leak apparently timed to disrupt international climate talks beginning next week in Durban, South Africa. While it remains unclear who shared the 5,000 emails — which are availab ...
• Majority in U.S. Support Revenue-Neutral Carbo ...
  A majority of Americans across the political spectrum support policies that reduce carbon emissions, including a revenue-neutral carbon tax, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. In a survey conducted between Oct. 20 and Nov. 6, 65 percent of respondents ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Researching Criminal zionism
  Tags: politics criminal zionism conspiracy
• Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
  Tags: law employment jobs firing quitting
• The neokids Daily
  Tags: paper li kids news medicine
• No Shit Department-
  Tags: realpolitik alternative press conspiracies crime politics
• OilSpill Daily
  Tags: oil crude pollution oceans water ecosystems energy ...

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

• Penn State’s New Whistleblower
  The former VP says she was ousted after butting heads with Joe Paterno. By Jessica Bennett and Jacob Bernstein.
• Jason Segel’s Biggest Muppets Secrets
  The actor, who’s bringing the Muppets franchise back to Hollywood, visits the Daily Beast office.
• Anne Rice on Her ‘Twilight’ Beef
  The vampire maven riffs on her Twilight ‘beef,’ True Blood, and her upcoming werewolf book. By Marlow Stern.
• Romney’s Religion No 2012 Obstacle
  Some Republicans have problems with Mormonism, but they’re even more critical of Obama, a new poll finds.
• Just Two Conceivable Commanders
  Gingrich and Romney are still the only real contenders, says Michael Medved in his CNN debate analysis.

Loonwatch

• Updated Europol Data: Less Than 1% of Terroris ...
  Data from Europol's official terrorism report defies conventional wisdom that most terrorism is Islamic.
• Rick Perry: Hamas And Hezbollah Working In Mexico
  If you didn't know by now, Hamas and Hezbollah hablan mucho Español.
• Rick Santorum Claims He Supports TSA Using Eth ...
  It just gets crazier in the GOP.
• French Mosque is Target of Arson Attack and Na ...
  Another French mosque targeted by haters.
• Herman Cain: Thank God My Arab Doctor Wasn’t M ...
  Yet another epic fail for the Godfather's Pizza man: is there anyone left on earth who doesn't think Herman Cain is an Islamophobe?

Energy News

• Fukushima Worker: There is nothing left to do ...
• FORUM: Petitions, Ballot Initiatives, Other Si ...
• Will California close all nuclear plants in 20 ...
• High-level whistleblower: Plutonium may cause ...
• ABC: Gov’t says nearly one-tenth of Japa ...

Japan Times

• Brewers' Braun beats out Dodgers' Kemp for NL ...
  Milwaukee's Ryan Braun won the NL Most Valuable Player Award on Tuesday after helping lead the Brewers to their first division title in nearly 30 years. The left fielder received 20 of 32 first-place votes and 388 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. ...
• Hakuho edges nemesis Kisenosato on 11th day
  Hakuho moved two wins clear at the Kyushu Grand Sumo on Wednesday and increased the pressure on promotion-chasing Kisenosato in the process by condemning his nemesis to a damaging third defeat at the 15-day basho. Kisenosato famously upset Hakuho here last year to end the Mongolian yokozuna's ...
• K-pop's fanatical followers turn to promising ...
  South Korean pop music, or K-pop, continues to have a powerful hold on Japanese hearts with groups such as Kara, SHINee, Choshinsei and Tohoshinki ranking high on the latest hit charts. Now many Japanese enthusiasts are on the lookout for new talent among Koreans who have yet to rise to stardo ...
• U.S. lays out its Asia-Pacific plans
  The United States has set out more clearly than before how it plans to shape Asia-Pacific security and prosperity in the 21st century. The key question that countries in the region must now decide is the extent to which U.S. terms for long-term engagement with the world's fastest-growing economi ...
• Dressed to impress Tokyo's art crowd
  A life-size bucking black horse, pieced together from old leather jackets. A loom operated by a Noah's Ark collection of polar bears, birds and other beasts. A fashion boutique till that scans barcodes to create a cacophony of musical sounds. Hearing the words "fashion" and "exhibition" in th ...

Alexander Higgins

• #NOV17 – #OccupyWallStreet To Shutdown W ...
  Occupy Wall Street calls for shutdown of Wall Street and NYC subways on the Nov 17th international day of mass non-violent action with over 400 events scheduled nationwide.
• #OccupyWallStreet – This Is What Revolut ...
  Chris Hedges lays out the progression of Occupy Wall Street and makes clear that we are now entering into the final phase of the start of a revolution against the elite.
• Largest Anti-Fracking Rally EVER! To Be Held I ...
  Occupy Trenton Will Join Occupy DRBC on November 21st in Trenton as 1000s expected to join the largest anti-fracking rally EVER!!!
• Occupy Wall Street March To DC Arrives In Prin ...
  The latest updates from the Occupy Wall Street March to DC as they march to Trenton for Veteran's day.
• #OccupyWallStreet March To DC Heads To Occupy ...
  Veteran’s Day Events at Occupy Trenton To Include A March To Other Memorials And The Welcoming Of The Occupy Wall Street March To DC At Our New Tent City At North 25 Park.

Macleans - Central

• The Commons: Whatever he meant, Tony Clement s ...
  The Scene. Tony Clement would not stand for this. Or rather, he would stand....
• ‘Baseless and outrageous’
  After QP this afternoon, Tony Clement stood with the following point of privilege. Mr....
• Prison is so passé
  Why isn't Canada embracing tracking technologies rather than lockups?
• On UBB, the fat lady has not yet sung
  Heavy users are still going to have to pay more for Internet access
• Treacherousness is in the eye of the beholder (II)
  In case you were wondering, Minister Kent’s office hasn’t yet responded to my request...

Making It Count - CCPA

• A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda
  The Harper government is set to cut spending on public services and social programs in the name of deficit reduction, but implemented mainly to increase reliance on the market, to create new sources of profit for the private sector, and to finance future tax cuts. This ideological agenda will ta ...
• 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 ...

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

• With new bionic contact lens, text will be up ...
  BBC: A group of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is developing a contact lens that can project images in front of the eye through the use of an embedded pixel array. Such a device has been challenging to create because it not only requires a suitable power source and mechan ...
• More stolen climate science emails released
  New York Times: Another batch of stolen emails from climate scientists was posted yesterday by the hacker or group of hackers responsible for Climategate two years ago. Involving the same scientists and many of the same issues, some of them also carried a similar tone: “catty remarks by th ...
• European Union names its first chief scientist
  Nature: Anne Glover, a molecular and cell biologist who is currently serving as Scotland's chief scientific adviser, will become the European Union's first chief scientific adviser. Although the identity of the nominee has been announced, key aspects of her job remain undefined, writes Nature's ...
• Student loans imperiled by supercommittee's fa ...
  Chronicle of Higher Education: The so-called supercommittee of 12 congressional Democrats and 12 congressional Republicans admitted yesterday that it had failed to carry out its charge: to reach agreement on a series of deficit-reducing measures. The failure triggers automatic spending cuts, whi ...
• World's lightest material is developed by Cali ...
  Talking Points Memo: Researchers at HRL Laboratories, Caltech, and the University of California, Irvine have created the world’s lightest material—ultralight metallic microlattice. The researchers poured a liquid material into the microlattice pattern and hardened it by exposing it t ...

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

• Judge voices support for big California water pact
  “A state appeals judge on Monday strongly defended a landmark agreement on how Southern California gets its water, casting aside arguments that the pact should be scrapped because the state essentially wrote a blank check to save a dying lake. “Justice Ronald Robie noted that the agr ...
• 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 ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Raises Questions of Structural Integr ...
  Calls for Public Hearings in Region Prior to Restart Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time watchdog of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that raises serious technical questions about the structural viabi ...
• Kucinich to Introduce Statute of Limitations o ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today announced plans to introduce an amendment that would reinstate a statute of limitations for states to reclaim overpayments made to the poorest of the poor who are food stamp recipients. The State of Ohio, for example, recently sent out notices to mor ...
• Kucinich Calls for Open, Free and Fair Electio ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a proponent of diplomacy and peaceful resolution to conflict, wrote to the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, calling for an end to the violent crackdown in Syria and for open, free and fair elections. The full text of the letter follows: Dear President ...
• 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 ...

Authentically Wired

• SO … EX-FBI … AND THAT MAKES HIM W ...
  …Being declared “a model law enforcement officer” by the likes of John Ashcroft is faint praise from one who was a joke as Attorney General under “W” Bush …   Penn St. taps ex-FBI director for investigation 11-21-2011  •  AP  … http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/w ...
• … This would at first blush appear to be ...
  … This would at first blush appear to be something we ought to seriously investigate … Ten Fold Reduction in Water and Energy for Cleaning   http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2011/11/ten-fold-reduction-in-water-and-energy.html Revolutionary ultrasonic nozzle can reduce w ...
• Throw them all out
  Throw them all out 11-21-2011  •  endoftheamericandream.com Will the shocking insider trading revelations that have come to light in recent days finally be enough to motivate the American people to start throwing all of the con men and charlatans out of Congress?  On Sunday, 60 Mi ...
• …The Public’s Distrust …
  ...The Public’s Distrust ...   Mises Daily: Monday, November 14, 2011 by Ralph Reiland …  http://mises.org/daily/5801/The-Publics-Distrust The good news is that Americans’ distrust of government is at its highest level ever. It’s good news because it s ...
• The Lingering Stench Of Fascism
  … FASCISM … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism … Fascism …  is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entit ...

Popular Technology

• Mastering the Firefox Search Bar
  As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...
• The Truth about SourceWatch
  SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...
• Correcting misinformation about the journal En ...
  A frequent source of contention in the global warming debate is the existence of skeptical peer-reviewed papers. These have been overwhelmingly proven to exist. Once confronted with this inconvenient truth, alarmists have desperately tried to discredit the journals that dare publish these papers ...
• Origin of the Popular Technology.net Peer-Revi ...
  There are various myths floating around online about where the Popular Technology.net peer-reviewed paper list originated, falsely giving credit to people who copied earlier versions of my list and published it as their own. The following is a brief history,Back in February 2007 I began compilin ...
• 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticis ...
  WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without reading the notes or emailing, populartechnology (at) gmail (dot) comRead: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exa ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Hacked emails reignite 'Climategate' controversy
  The "Climategate" dispute over global warming science was reignited yesterday, when thousands more hacked emails from climate researchers, some of them potentially damaging, were released online on the eve of a vital United Nations...
• 'Dream machine' Curiosity to explore Mars
  As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, Nasa's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 7-foot (2-meter) arm tipped with...
• Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Our oceans ca ...
  Control of global stocks is the only answer, say Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line & Blinkers: Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know About Fishing . The election is looming, but it's a sad state of affairs...
• 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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  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 ...
• SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM AARON MCCOLLUM ON UT ...
    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

• Parents Sue D.A. for Charging Their 6-Year-Old ...
  Last week the parents of a Wisconsin boy sued Grant County District Attorney Lisa Riniker for charging their son with first-degree sexual assault, a Class B felony, after he played "butt doctor" with a 5-year-old girl. He was 6 at the time. When the boy's lawyer tried to have the cha ...
• New at Reason: William Niskanen’s 1978 Rea ...
  William Niskanen, the chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute, former head of Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, and one of the great figures in the libertarian movement, passed away last month at the age of 78. In this 1978 interview with Reason, conducted while Niskanen w ...
• “Bruce Ratner’s latest useful idiots have no o ...
  City Journal’s Nicole Gelinas reports on the latest lawsuit stemming from the Atlantic Yards boondoggle in Brooklyn, where the state of New York seized private property via eminent domain on behalf of a basketball stadium being built by real estate tycoon Bruce Ratner. As Gelinas n ...
• Reason Writers at the Movies: Peter S ...
  For those who follow politics and Hollywood, 2011 has been a year of misleading movie titles. The Debt wasn't about the federal debt. Contagion wasn't about the Eurozone crisis. And The Muppets isn't about Congress. Instead, it's about a gang of singing, dancing puppets with much be ...
• Ron Paul vs. the Rest of the GOP Presidential ...
  Without Ron Paul in the mix, last night's debate would have been more a bidding up of hostility to foreigners (except Israel) than any actual arena of opposing ideas on the future of American foreign policy. Paul started off talking of "needless and unnecessary wars" making us less ...

Mercury Rising

• Krugman: CBO scores Obama policy as contractionary
  We all know that the advent of the Republicans meant that fiscal policy became even more contractionary. But what’s interesting is that the planned stimulus by Obama was far, far less than the decline in potential GDP, even as it was known in early 2009. Krugman: The CBO has released the l ...
• Media Finally Starts Backtalking To Bloomberg, ...
  Finally: A cross-section of 13 news organizations in New York City lodged complaints on Monday about the New York Police Department’s treatment of journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement. Separately, 10 press clubs, unions and other groups that represent journalists called for an in ...
• Foreclosers foreclosed
  Soon, the staff will get to do a real-life enactment of what they were mocking! (Image from Zero Hedge) New York Foreclosure Firm That Mocked Homeless to Close Down A New York law firm criticized for mocking the homeless is closing. Steven J. Baum P.C. is one of the largest-volume mortgage forec ...
• Pregnant Occupy Seattle Protester, Kicked And ...
  And now we have, in addition to the figurative miscarriages of justice connected to police violence against Occupy protesters, a literal miscarriage as well, as Jennifer Fox has just lost the fetus she was carrying, five days after being kicked and hit in the stomach by Seattle police: “I ...
• Glenn Greenwald on Link TONIGHT
  Glenn Greenwald will have a show on Link at 11PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific. Probably worth your time. If you don’t have cable, I think you can watch here.

Reality Sandwich

• Loss & Enlightenment at OWS
  Isaac Wilder, the eloquent 21-year old college drop-out who is also head of the Free Network Foundation, was found rummaging around the Department of Sanitation's unmarked headquarters Thursday morning last week, two days after the NYPD’s crude invasion of Zuccoti Park.  Wilder has been a vi ...
• Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right
    "What is keeping us from thriving?" asks the new movie, Thrive. The answer it gives is "the global elite," the people who control the financial system that in turn controls everything else. Operating through the power institutions of our society, this elite pursues a ...
• The Electric Jesus Hits the Road
  For those of you on the West Coast, I invite you to celebrate the release of my debut book, The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic. These Evolver gatherings will feature aliens, ayahuasca, and chakra activations -- oh my! ---- read more
• Touring Sacred Economics
  My new book, Sacred Economics, has been released in print! I'll be touring a bit for the next several months, giving readings, telling the story of the book, and connecting it to recent developments as we enter deeper into the time of transition. Join me for some new perspectives on money ...
• The Third Matrix: Humanity's Rite of Passage
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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

• November 22 2011: Europe Tumbles, America Pays ...
• November 20 2011: Why Germany is right to refu ...
• November 17 2011: This is what happens when go ...
• November 14 2011: The Growth Paradigm Has Beco ...
• November 12 2011: Bail Out or Revitalize?

Press TV

• Italy's Berlusconi to face more trials
  Italian citizens are planning to file a collective lawsuit against former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, holding him accountable for the mismanagement of public money, Press TV reports.
• Excessive force used in Bahrain: Probe
  The fact-finding mission investigating reports of human rights abuse during the popular uprising in Bahrain has criticized authorities for using excessive force against protesters.
• Meditation helps mental treatment
  Researchers say meditation can diminish brain activity in areas associated with mind-wandering and mental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.
• 'All of Israel within Iran missile reach'
  A senior Iranian military official describes missile shields deployed in the region to protect Tel Aviv as “inadequate”, saying all of Israel is within the Iran's missiles reach.
• EU stocks skid on EU bond proposal
  European stocks have fallen as the EU is set to unveil plans for eurobonds aim to bring down borrowing costs of struggling nations in the eurozone.

SciDev.net

• South African scientists win first Obasanjo sc ...
  The inaugural Olusegun Obasanjo Prize has been awarded to HIV/AIDS researchers Salim S. and Quarraisha Abdool Karim.
• 'Climategate' erupts again ahead of Durban con ...
  More leaked e-mails about climate change research have been released, in an apparent attempt to disrupt next week's UN climate talks.
• UN human development index must be revised
  Chuluun Togtokh calls for a change to the UN's current human development index that "celebrates gas-guzzling developed nations".
• India pushes for tech transfer at Durban clima ...
  Durban climate talks must revisit technology transfer for climate mitigation, says India's environment minister.
• Overfishing 'tipping point' identified for cor ...
  Scientists have calculated the minimum level of fish stocks that a coral reef needs in order to remain viable.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
  As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
• 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: $ ...
  Last month, the Treasury Department reported that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit declined slightly—from 9 ...
• CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers
  CBO has a panel of economic advisers consisting of widely recognized experts on a range of issues. Members of the panel have a variety of backgrounds, areas of knowledge, and experience. We host periodic meetings of the advisers at our office and solicit their views between meetings via e-mail e ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Powering up radiotherapy
  A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...
• Bringing Together Brain Scientists
  Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...
• Chemical liposuction: fat-reducing injection s ...
  A fat-reducing drug, Adipotide, that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists. The agent, which was injected daily over afour week study period into a group...
• The HIV transmission bottleneck
  Researchers have found that the strain of Human Immunodeficiency Virus most abundantly present in the genital tract is not necessarily the strain that infects a sexual partner. Unprotected heterosex...
• Warming Earth not so good for Arctic tree growth
  A group of researchers from Columbia University publishing in the journal Environmental Research Letters have found that the growth of white spruce trees on the northern treeline in the far north of A...

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