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Friday, November 25, 2011

25 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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China launches probe of US renewable energy policy
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By JOE McDONALD AP BEIJING — China's government announced a trade probe Friday of whether US support for renewable energy companies improperly hurts foreign suppliers, adding to tensions over an industry seen as an important source of jobs and ...
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Renewable power trumps fossil fuels for first time
Los Angeles Times
Renewable energy is surpassing fossil fuels for the first time in new power-plant investments, shaking off setbacks from the financial crisis and an impasse at the United Nations global warming talks. Electricity from the wind, sun, waves and biomass ...
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Google gives up on Renewable Energy campaign
RT
Four years after Google launched a campaign to make renewable energy an affordable and mainstream alternative power, the Internet giant is tossing in the towel as their plan to help the world go green encounters a red light. Google's Renewable Energy ...
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Hutchinson college's renewable energy program popular with students, employers
The Republic
A renewable energy technology program started last year at Hutchinson Community College with federal stimulus money has filled up quickly with students, who are already in demand from employers. Students with an understanding of renewable energy ...
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Eyes on ants: UT professor studies how climate change affects 'ecology's ...
Knoxville News Sentinel
"You can't sit outside and have a picnic without some ant crawling across your peanut butter and jelly sandwich," said Sanders, an associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UT. "The cool thing about ants is that everybody has seen them ...
International camp of young environmentalists kicks off in Gabala
APA
She spoke about the work done in the sphere of environmental security of the Caspian Sea, planting new forests, protection of rare animal species in Azerbaijan: “2010 was declared the “Year of Ecology” in Azerbaijan and much work was carried out ...
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Yangxian, China: An Ecological Home for Idealists
Sacramento Bee
23, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Located in the south of Qinling, China's national central park, there is a place with beautiful scenery and perfect ecology, which is the place where Cailun, the inventor of modern paper, used to live and got buried ...
Indoor ecology
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A growing number of researchers are interested in the idea of 'indoor ecology' - treating the indoors like the outdoors and studying the spaces that surround many of us every day. This transcript was typed from a recording of the program. ...
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Peru's highlands conundrum: gold versus water
The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's biggest mining investment is under threat and government social welfare plans with it as highlands peasants mobilize against a gold-and-copper mine they fear could taint and diminish their water supply. ...
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Emergency crews respond to water main break in South San Francisco
San Jose Mercury News
By Joshua Melvin Emergency crews shut down a valve from a huge water main 3 1/2 hours after a pipe broke and sent a torrent of water and mud into the San Francisco neighborhood. Crews shut off the valve about 1 pm, but the 15 foot deep by 35-to -40 ...
Man dies in water fountain at shopping center in Studio City
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles police detectives have been sent to Studio City to investigate the death of a man found in a water fountain of a small shopping center early Friday. An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood station said the city ...
Water abundance a blessing for America
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EDMOND — Water. The great nourisher. The great refresher. The great cleanser. The great sustainer of life. Water is one of the most profound blessings enjoyed by humankind and by virtually every living creature on this planet. ...
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  • The run on europe begins ..
    The world's lenders are increasingly deciding that it's better to be safe than sorry, and they're pulling their money out of Europe. As a result, the borrowing costs of many European countries are rising fast. And so are inter-bank lending rates, because the second huge problem with the Euro-tra ...
  • Naomi Klein: Capitalism vs. the Climate
    The deniers did not decide that climate change is a left-wing conspiracy by uncovering some covert socialist plot. They arrived at this analysis by taking a hard look at what it would take to lower global emissions as drastically and as rapidly as climate science demands. They have concluded tha ...
  • Syria Intervention Inevitable
    Regime change in Syria was a foregone conclusion as early as 1991. General Wesley Clark in a 2007 speech in California relayed a 1991 conversation between himself and then Under Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Wolfowitz indicated that America had 5-10 years to clean up old Soviet "client re ...
  • Asian Money Fleeing EuroZone
    Asia's exodus marks a dangerous inflexion point in the unfolding drama. "Japanese and Asian investors are for the first time looking at the euro project and saying `I don't like what I see at all' and fleeing the whole region. "The question on everybody's mind in the debt markets is whether it ...
  • Branson warns of jobless 'lost generation'
    Sir Richard Branson is to warn George Osborne that he will create a "lost generation" of young people who will never know work unless he takes radical steps in next week's Autumn Statement to kick-start the economy.

Independent - London

  • Syria condemns Arab League threat
    Syria has lashed out at the Arab League's ultimatum to agree by today to allow an observer mission into the country or face sanctions.
  • Protesters mass in Cairo square
    Tens of thousands of protesters chanting "Leave, leave!" are rapidly filling up Cairo's Tahrir Square in what promises to be a massive demonstration aiming to force Egypt's ruling military council to yield power.
  • Video: Australia wildfires destroy homes
    Bushfires in Western Australia have destroyed 30 homes and forced local residents to flee the Margaret River area.
  • Photo essay: Acid attack survivors fight back
    Acid is thrown in women’s faces or forced down their throats almost daily in Bangladesh. Such violence melts skin and bone, often resulting in blindness. The country has become a hotspot for acid attacks, mostly on women, because of land disputes, refused marriage proposals and domestic quarrels.
  • Silvio Berlusconi fails to win court order
    Silvio Berlusconi has failed in an emergency bid to obtain a High Court order preventing evidence being taken in a UK court relating to corruption allegations.

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
  • Gait crasher
    For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
  • Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
    Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...

Signs of the times

  • Mossad vs Assad? 'CIA death squads behind Syri ...
    Moscow has accused the west of stirring up tensions in the Arab world by calling for the overthrow of the Syrian regime. Russia says calls from certain states for the Syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the government, are only provoking further violence. Author and journalist Webster Tarpl ...
  • In Russian Chill, Waiting Hours for Touch of t ...
    From morning all through the night, tens of thousands of Russians have been lining up since Saturday in the cold with just one aim: to kiss a glass-covered reliquary that they believe holds the Virgin Mary's belt. They shuffle along, waiting for up to 12 hours without complaint in a line tha ...
  • Black Friday Pepper Spray Incident in Porter R ...
    Apparently it started with a fight over the new Xbox 360. A customer shot pepper spray at other customers at a busy Northridge Wal-Mart store late Thursday night, causing minor injuries to at least 10 people who had been waiting hours for Black Friday savings, according to Los Angeles firefight ...
  • New find sheds light on ancient site in Jerusalem
    Jerusalem: Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The man usually credited with building the compound known to Jews as the Te ...
  • Family Goes Missing In Florida
    An entire family from Edgewater, Fla., is missing in a case that has local law enforcement puzzled. Karen Burger, 57, along with her daughter, son-in-law and grandson, have not been seen since July of this year, according to police. Burger's elderly father, Maxwell Lee, initially reported his ...

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  • Yummy . . .
    FOOD FREEDOM is an interesting site, proclaiming that people should Decentralize, Grow Your Own and Buy Local — which makes great sense. There's a report by Miriam Reimer, originally posted on The Street, "15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’". Yep, wood, like pine trees. Chief among those c ...
  • Bizarre . . .
    Really. Like The Three Stooges, with sledgehammers. I feel for the cleaning staff.
  • Ursula comments . . .
    IN THEIR CREATIONS, artists expound and explain. Io9's Charlie Jane Anders has a report that is worthy of your attention, "Ursula K. Le Guin writes a fable of Occupy Wall Street".  If you've been wondering just what's wrong with unemployed people, and why they won't just go get a job, then ...
  • Grow op . . .
    SEEMS TO BE A GROWTH INDUSTRY. According to Spencer Ackerman at WIRED, in an article, "Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary", now the Pentagon is joining the DEA in the "War on Drugs", in a BIG way: An obscure Pentagon office designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs has quietly evolved into ...
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    ...justifying a billion dollar security budget and a thousand arbitrary arrests and beatings.

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  • Zombie Lie: Fox, WSJ Still Falsely Cl ...
    Fox host Stuart Varney and The Wall Street Journal claimed that lowering tax rates increases tax revenue. In fact, many economists -- including former Bush advisers -- have rejected this claim.Fox and WSJ: Lower Rates Would Lead To More Revenue To The Treasury Varney: "How Do You Grow The Econ ...
  • Right-Wing Media Twist Pelosi's "Conscience" C ...
    Right-wing media seized on a comment Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made about Catholics and health care providers to suggest that Pelosi was mocking Catholics for having a "conscience." In fact, Pelosi, who is Catholic, was discussing Republican-backed "conscience exemptions" for health care pro ...
  • Fox Falsely Suggests Obama Hasn't Put Forward ...
    Fox News' Bill Kristol and Bill O'Reilly suggested that President Obama has not laid out a plan for reducing the nation's deficit. In fact, Obama put forward a plan in September that would reduce the deficit by approximately $3 trillion over the next decade.Kristol, O'Reilly Suggest That Presid ...
  • Wall Street Journal Again Goes To Bat ...
    The Wall Street Journal has attacked the Food and Drug Administration for revoking the approval of the drug Avastin for treatment of breast cancer, accusing the agency of "imposing a blanket government abstraction" over the choices of patients and doctors. But studies have found Avastin to be i ...
  • Obama Didn't Call Americans Lazy -- But Right- ...
    Right-wing media recently pushed the discredited attack that President Obama called Americans "lazy." But right-wing media figures themselves have a history of suggesting that Americans -- particularly the poor, the unemployed, and union workers, among others -- are lazy or lack work ethic.Righ ...

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  • The Return of 'The Right'
    I surprise nobody by remarking what a difficult time this is for Israelis and Palestinians. In many ways, the sides are closer than ever to sensing what a modus vivendi feels like, as the institutions and economy of a Palestinian state gradually take shape, and the parameters of an initial ...
  • Mitt's Mythical Math on Health Care and Defense
    All right -- I wasn't going to blog on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving until someone tweeted me Igor Volsky's great piece at Think Progress eviscerating Mitt Romney's assertion that he would save money by cancelling the Obama health plan and use it to stave off reductions in the Pent ...
  • Sorting the Varieties of Republican Foreign Po ...
    Democracy Arsenal and National Security Network head into tonight's CNN/Heritage/AEI candidate forum with an awesome array of analysis. A long way of saying where you can find great stuff as a viewer's guide for tonight. For my part, I'd only add a particular angle -- my diagnostic manual for th ...
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    In the first Republican presidential debate on national security issues, held on November 12th, the closest the Republican candidates came to holding a discussion on nuclear weapons was when they got into a bidding war over who could deploy the harshest rhetoric against Iran. Hopefully tonigh ...

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  • Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Dep ...
    Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permi ...
  • Federal Regulatory Accountability Act Puts the ...
    In a state where regulatory issues are driven by ”crony capitalism” a  has proposed federal bill could give industry a blank check here in Texas. The Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) (S. 1606/H.R. 3010) is a radical measure that would severely weaken laws that protect our health, ...
  • Does climate change influence extreme weather ...
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today released a special report on the influence of climate change on extreme weather events. In the United States, Americans have endured a record-setting series of extreme weather events in 2011, including the Mississippi floods, record high ...
  • Political favors – how to stop it from ruining ...
    According to the Texas Energy Report, state environmental regulators appointed by Gov. Rick Perry issued a permit in January for a Houston-area industrial waste injection well to a company whose top investors include some of Perry’s close friends and campaign contributors. The Texas Commis ...
  • What is the state of your air? Check out the A ...
    The American Lung Association State of the Air 2011 report ranks the metropolitan areas based on ozone and particle pollution during 2007, 2008 and 2009. For particle pollution, they rank the areas separately with high year-round (annual average) levels and high short-term levels (24-hour) found ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Habitable alien worlds ranked
    Scientists have put together a list of the most likely places to find alien life in the universe. In terms of habitability, Saturn's moon Titan came o...
  • Octopus goes for a walk on dry land
    Spectactors were amazed to witness an octopus heave itself out of the water and go for a walk. Impressive footage has surfaced showing an Eastern Paci...
  • Can overeating cause your stomach to burst ?
    It's something that's often said at the table when someone has overeaten, but can it really happen ? According to assistant professor of pediatrics Dr...
  • Yeti hunt: was the evidence staged ?
    One scientist believes that the Yeti evidence found during the expedition was staged by locals. Last month an international team of scientists embarke...
  • Was "doh" one of man's first words ?
    New research suggests "doh" may have been one of the first words spoken by our ancient ancestors. At first, the shape and mechanics of the mouth and t...

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

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  • King or Cain?
    Just face it. Herman Cain's buffoonery makes Morehouse College look bad. You can be proud that Mr. Cain succeeded in his corporate career. Conventional success is a big part of Morehouse's mission. Fortune 500 companies swoop down on campus every year and recruit 'C' students like Mr. Cain. ...
  • This is Why We Can't Compete
    This article has it all. Imagine you are in a Wal*Mart on Thanksgiving. It's 9:55 pm, and the store is set to reduce prices dramatically at ten. There's a pallet on the floor in the video game section, covered in shrink-wrap. It has new consoles for the Wii and XBox. Customers become impati ...
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    It's hard to imagine what it must have been like to be John Kerry on election night in 2004. For a few hours on Election Day, exit polls indicated that Mr. Kerry would be the victor, but he needed 59,000 voters to go his way in Ohio (he lost by more than three million votes nationwide) and r ...
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    I hope you all enjoy your Thanksgiving and that you don't forget to eat your mac n' cheese. Stay safe on the roads because almost everyone drinks on Thanksgiving. And save some room for pie! Also, enjoy your family and don't root for the Cowboys. Discuss
  • Looking Forward to the GOP Contest
    Now that the Republican primary and caucus schedule is set it is at least theoretically possible to make some predictions about how the process will unfold. I have to confess, though, that I've never been so flummoxed by a political process in my life. There is a certain basic level on which I ...

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    These ten stories of interspecies nursing are truly aww-inspiring... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    Who knew Salvador Dali created interpretations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Not us, until now. This and much more... Pickled tattoo with that, sir? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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    From strange engagements and 'alien' skulls to crocodile pampering and tidal waves in the skies... If it's hot (and 'out there'!) it's here! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
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  • Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
    Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
  • #occupywallstreet makes total lol
    Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
  • 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
    Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
  • Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
    SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
  • Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
    Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...

Daily Censored

  • Black Friday Cyber Monday Sale at Kaplan Test ...
      For those that didn’t know it, the Washington Post’s blood bank, Kaplan, does not just run a for-profit diploma mill they call a privatized ‘university’; they also have three other vampire subsidiaries that fall under ‘education’ and that comprise their Kaplan educational business.  Educa ...
  • Summary of some of the seedy practices of the ...
    The modern Washington Post Company is a publicly traded company which derives 60% (or more) of its income from Kaplan University, a mostly on line for profit university.  Kaplan has been or is the subject of at least half -a dozen whistle blower lawsuits, one shareholder lawsuit, a federal gover ...
  • “[N]ot the Time. . .to Follow the Line o ...
    In a major journal from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a teacher and scholar laments the current state of implementing the research in language: “A brief consideration will indicate reasons for the considerable gap between the research currently available and the utili ...
  • Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker prevented from ...
    The Occupy Chicago movement prevented Scott Walker from speaking at a business breakfast November 3rd in Chicago. Take a look. Governor Scott Walker Not Allowed to Speak at Chicago Business Breakfast To view Walker’s humiliation you can go to:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KET6XK1E ...
  • Public Broadcasting or P ‘BS’?: Th ...
      After more than three decades with The Washington Post executive Boisfeuillet (Bo) Jones Jr. has announced he will become President and CEO of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces “PBS Newshour.”  Jones is currently chairman of The Washington Post, the parent company of Kaplan Unive ...

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  • Did US agencies fail to heed warnings of 2008 ...
    We have written before that the CIA alerted Indian authorities prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, including six American citizens. The incident, which was perpetrated by Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is routinely described as the most sophisticated and s ...
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    UK to support Colombia's new intelligence agency. US intelligence to train analysts with videogames. Soviet spy who spent years in Swiss prison dies at 77.
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    Korean ex-soldier investigated for spying. Pakistan ambassador to US resigns over spy memo row. US says 'no proof' of Libyan ex-spy chief's capture.
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    Is Britain secretly assisting the CIA's drone campaign? Gaddafi's intelligence chief captured. South Korea says it caught North spy.
  • Hezbollah uncovered CIA network in Lebanon, ad ...
    In June of this year, Lebanese militant group Hezbollah claimed it had rooted out three of its members who were allegedly spying for the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The US State Department refused to comment on the allegations, and the US embassy in Lebanon issued a statement deny ...

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  • Prizewinning research: How to fight elephants ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. British scientist Lucy King has won a prestigious environmental award for her research, but she should also maybe get a movie deal. The substance of her research is using bees to scare off elephants, which could make an excellent blockbuster, with the addition of a few e ...
  • Great Lakes fish triumph over invaders
    by Sarah Laskow. The story of invasive species usually goes something like a particularly dark zombie movie -- the invasive species kills everything else and thrives, changing the planet forever. But in the Great Lakes, a different story is playing out, one in which the natives win. I ...
  • Uganda’s electric car is super cute
    by Christopher Mims. Meet the Kiira. It was built in Uganda, from parts mostly sourced in Uganda. It's a triumph of "African Science," a phrase that reminds this reporter of "gay parking," but whatever. And it is adoooooooorable. The Kiira is a two-seater that ...
  • Super cute video of penguins released after oi ...
    by Christopher Mims. If hanging out with the people who know just what a profoundly alone, naked ape you are has got you down, ThinkProgress has the cure for your post-Thanksgiving blues. Since a cargo ship leaked 350 tons of oil in New Zealand — marking the nation&rsquo ...
  • Pardoned turkeys go to Disneyland
    by Jess Zimmerman. Did you know that the turkey pardoned by the president then gets shipped off to Disneyland or Disney World to lead the Thanksgiving parade? (It seems like short notice -- maybe they only pardon turkeys who can already twirl a baton.) I didn't, but that's becau ...

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  • 17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
    By Michael Snyder BlacklistedNews.com #1 Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Research unit: “We seem to have entered the last days of the euro as we currently know it. That doesn’t make a break-up very likely, but it does mean some extraordinary things will almost certainly need to happen – probably by ...
  • Yet Another ClimateGate?
    Quirin Schiermeier, Nature News A new set of climate science-related emails and documents has apparently been released from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. The files, including more than 5,000 emails of as yet unconfirmed authenticity, have been poste ...
  • Bloomberg Ties Terror Plot to Lex Luthor
    By davidswanson – Posted on 21 November 2011 In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to S ...
  • “Nobel Prize Winner Wiesel Lied About Holocaus ...
    By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)– A Nazi concentration camp survivor claims Nobel Peace Prize winning author and human rights activist Elie Wiesel “lies” about his Holocaust past. After decad ...

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

Inhabitat

  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gadget Gifts
    Have someone on your holiday gift list that’s gaga for gadgets? If so, we’ve got a whole lineup of eco electronics that will not only satisfy their techy cravings, they’ll also help them tread a little lighter on the Earth. From a super convenient solar phone charging case to h ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts of Time
    If you hate standing in long lines or the thought of adding to the consumer-fueled craze of the holidays makes you queasy, then do one better for your friends and family by giving them the gift of your time! Our busy lives often leave us with little opportunity and motivation to do the things we ...
  • Beautiful Handmade Papier-Mâché Bundu Bowls ar ...
    These bold and beautiful papier-mâché bowls are doing their part by raising money for the drought and famine crisis afflicting the Horn of Africa. Created in partnership with Bundu Designs and global aid agency Mercy Corps, the Congo-inspired bowls come in a range of vibrant African prints that ...
  • Researchers Create New “Everlasting” Battery T ...
    Researchers at Stanford are hard at work trying to create a battery that could keep wind and solar energy flowing even when the sun isn’t shining and the air is still. They’ve just released information about their current project, a promising new electrode that could make batteries t ...
  • South Africa’s First Electric Vehicle is a Rea ...
    We first heard about South Africa’s exciting first electric vehicle named the “Joule” last year, and are happy to bring you updated information and images. This 5 seater passenger vehicle may not be as advanced as Nissan’s Leaf or Honda’s new all-electric Fit, but i ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • How to Watch NASA’s Mars Rover Launch Saturday
    After eight years of planning, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is finally ready to launch. Watch the nuclear-powered, one-ton rover -- currently the largest machine that can land on the Red Planet -- take off from Cape Canaveral and begin its journey.
  • Camera Trap App Sends Wild Animals to Your iPhone
    Stuck in an airport this holiday season? Hiding from extended family? Or just looking to take a mobile phone safari? The Instant Wild app, free and newly released by the Zoological Society of London, streams images to your iPhone or iPad (or browser) from camera traps in Kenya, Sri Lanka, Mongol ...
  • Frigid Months Still to Come in a Warming World
    In a world plagued by gradual warming, there will still be cold months -- even ones with record cold temperatures, although they'll be far less frequent than they are now.
  • Space Capsule Buoyancy Work From Wired Readers
    I just could not help myself posting this blog even though it is beyond bedtime. It will show you some interesting new updates on the Tycho Deep Space capsule buoyancy issues but it will not be from me or anyone else at Copenhagen Suborbitals but from a Wired reader. Not only is the information ...
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Video: The ELITE blew it , Revealed their plan ...
    This guy General Wesley Clark revealed in 2007 that US planned to take out 7 countries in 5 years INCLUDING Iran, Now November 14th 2011 he was on CNN saying how IRAN must be invaded. CNN blew it by showing this video cause now it is out in the open what they are doing.
  • Syria: U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier, NATO Pre ...
    The latest multipurpose nuclear aircraft-carrier The George Bush of the US Navy has been redeployed from the Persian Gulf to the Syrian shores. The ship is capable of carrying up to 70 aircraft, including 48 attack jets. The aircraft-carrier is escorted by a group of vessels which contains a des ...
  • Syria is Not Libya
    The resolution approved by the united Nations General Assembly's third committee, which is in charge of the humanitarian affairs, on Tuesday, condemning "grave and systematic human rights violations by the Syrian authorities" is of little help in solving the ongoing Syrian crisis.
  • Report: US & Arab States Set To Impose No Fly ...
    Reports out of Kuwait suggest that Arab states are set to impose a no fly zone over Syria with US logistical support, advancing the prospect of a military assault to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under a “humanitarian” pretext. “Senior European sources said that Arab jet fighters, a ...
  • What Endless War looks like
    Anonymous U.S. officials this morning are announcing in The Washington Post that they have effectively defeated what they call “the organization that brought us 9/11″ — Al Qaeda — by rendering it “operationally ineffective.” Specifically, “the leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist netw ...

Andy Worthington

  • Two New Screenings of “Outside the Law: ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
  • After Ten Years in US Custody, British Residen ...
    Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, has just visited Guantánamo, for the first time in a number of years, as his colleagues have been undertaking visits instead, and has returned with a renewed sense of horror at the continued existence of Guantá ...
  • The Unfinished Revolution in Egypt: The People ...
    A year ago, only those looking closely realized that huge cracks were developing in the facade of stability maintained by the West, and echoed, in the Middle East, by the ageing dictators who had helped preserve the status quo for decades. Only those looking closely heard about the mobilization ...
  • The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
    Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
  • As Deficit Super Committee Fails, “Occup ...
    As was revealed in summer, when Tea Party Republicans were prepared to see America’s credit rating downgraded from AAA for the first time in its history rather than reaching a budget agreement with the administration (an act that ought to have counted as economic treason), the possibility ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Members of Amish Splinter Sect Arrested on Hat ...
    In the first case of its kind, the FBI on Wednesday arrested the leader of an Amish splinter sect and six of his followers in Ohio on federal hate crime charges for cutting the hair and beards of other Amish men and women. The hair-cutting was a form of religious degradation and viewed as punish ...
  • Additional Charges Filed in Alaska Militia Case
    Heavily armed members of the Alaska Peacemaker Militia, equipped with live grenades and assault rifles, stopped private citizens, demanded identifications and prevented some from traveling to their homes and jobs, a new indictment alleges. The indictment includes serious additional federal charg ...
  • Vatican Assassins: A One-Stop Website for Cons ...
    Coming upon a hate site unexpectedly, you sometimes get this down-the-rabbit hole, Alice-in-Wonderland feeling that you’ve been wrenched into an alternate reality. Such a place is Vatican Assassins, the domain of one Jon Eric Phelps, whose interests and identity are pretty well summed up in the ...
  • White House Shooter Fan of Conspiracy Theorist ...
    The 21-year-old Idaho man who shot at the White House earlier this month was a fan of antigovernment conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, The New York Times reports today. Oscar Ortega, the Mexican-American waiter from Idaho Falls who on Nov. 11 fired a semiautomatic rifle out of his car window while ...
  • Manhattan Man Charged With Plotting to Detonat ...
    A Manhattan man arrested on charges of plotting to build and detonate bombs in New York had become fascinated by the American-born militant Anwar al-Awlaki during the course of his radicalization, The New York Times is reporting. The Southern Poverty Law Center profiled al-Awlaki in the Fall 201 ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Occupy Movement Inspires Rise in US Campus Act ...
    DAVIS, Calif. - Violent confrontations between police and protesters at two University of California campuses have drawn a new cadre of students into the Occupy Wall Street movement and unleashed what some historians call the biggest surge in campus activism since the 1960s. ...
  • Foreclosed Homeowners Re-Occupy Their Homes
    SAN FRANCISCO – Carolyn Gage was evicted from her foreclosed home in January. Earlier this month, she moved back in. “I’ve been in here for 50 years. I know no other place but here. I left and it was just time for me to come back home,” said Gage, who is in her mid-50s. ...
  • Crowds Swell in Cairo as New PM Appointed
    Cairo's Tahrir Square is once again filling with protesters despite reports that the country's military rulers has appointed a new prime minister in an apparent concession to activists' demands for a civilian government. State media on Friday named Kamal al-Ganzuri as the country&#39 ...
  • Adbusters Targets Corporate Propaganda With #O ...
    The yurts are barely dismantled and the tents only just rolled up, but there is already a new movement on the horizon — Occupy Christmas. read more
  • France Delays Nuclear Train Amid German Demo T ...
    REMILLY, France — French authorities ordered a train carrying reprocessed nuclear waste to Germany to stop near the border for 24 hours on Thursday to try to avoid more mass protests. Riot police battled anti-nuclear protesters when the train began its journey in northern France on Wednesd ...

Lifehacker

  • The Best Video Camera App for Android [Android ...
    Unfortunately, there's a serious lack of video recording applications for Android that build on the features of the stock app. Perhaps its because there are so many devices with so many different cameras, or perhaps its because the stock camco ...
  • A Cornucopia of Thanksgiving Treats [Thanksgiving]
    50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For More »
  • 50 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For [Thanksgi ...
    As we prepare to give thanks for our delicious Thanksgiving meals (and impending food comas), let's not forget to pay our yearly tribute to the wonderful developers who bring us our favorite free apps. More » ...
  • The Best of the Black Friday and Cyber Monday ...
    Black Friday and Cyber Monday are often two of the best days in the year to get great deals on gadgets and gifts, but if you're feeling a little overwhelmed by it all, we've gone through and cherry picked a few of the best deals from a variety ...
  • Best Recipe Organization App? [Hive Five Call ...
    When you need a place to collect and organize all of your family's old recipes in digital form, and then take those recipes with you to the grocery store or to your parents' house to help with Thanksgiving dinner, which application do you use ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
  • Lodi votes against privatizing water treatment ...
    LODI - The Lodi City Council on Tuesday morning voted to staff its $36 million surface water treatment plant with municipal employees, opting against privatizing the city's water works operation at a potential cost savings.

Guardian

  • Egypt protests: 'Friday of the last chance' - ...
    • Thousands gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square • White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible • Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers • Morocco's first elections under new constitution الاحتجاجات المصرية : في مدوّنة مباشرة بالعربية12.59pm / 7.59am EST: Reporters Witho ...
  • Best Christmas food: an interactive hamper
    Our food and drink critics track down the festive treats that are sure to make your Christmas specialChristine OliverSusan Smillie
  • Russian presidential election to be held on 4 ...
    Vladimir Putin expected to reclaim presidency, but deputies from other parties refuse to stand in parliament as a sign of disrespectRussia has set 4 March as the date for the presidential election that is due to sweep Vladimir Putin back into the Kremlin.The Federation Council, Russia's upper ho ...
  • Nick Clegg: £1bn youth jobs fund to prevent lo ...
    • Scheme includes job subsidies and apprenticeships • 500,000 unemployed youngsters included over three years • Cuts in family tax credits will pay for scheme, says LabourNick Clegg has announced £1bn of new funding to help prevent another lost generation of young jobless people.The deputy prime ...
  • Moroccan election faces low turnout despite ne ...
    Moderate Islamist party and pro-palace coalition expected to poll well as democracy campaigners threaten boycottMoroccans go to the polls in an Arab Spring-inspired election that faces a boycott by democracy campaigners who say the ruling monarchy is not committed to real change.A moderate Islam ...

McClatchey

  • Turkey doesn't budge on demanding apology from ...
    ISTANBUL — Turkey sees no possibility of resuming full diplomatic relations with Israel unless Israel apologizes and pays damages for the deaths its commandos caused last year aboard a Turkish ship that was trying to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, Turkey's foreign m ...
  • Protests mount against proposed gold mine in n ...
    LIMA, Peru — With protests mounting against a proposed gold mine in northern Peru, local officials Friday called on President Ollanta Humala tomeetwiththe project's opponents about its potential social and environmental effects.
  • Syria faces Arab League sanctions as deadline ...
    ISTANBUL — A deadline the Arab League had set for Syria to sign a deal allowing observers into the country to monitor whether the government was adhering to a peace plan expired Friday without any Syrian response, setting the stage for the league to impose sanctions on the regime of Presid ...
  • Activist wants Justice Dept. to handle Jerry S ...
    Citizen activist Gene Stilp has joined a growing chorus urging the U.S. Justice Department to take over the state’s investigation into child sex abuse allegations against former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky and charges of a cover-up by university officials.
  • Pepper spray incident takes on own life on the Web
    PHILADELPHIA — Campus police Lt. John Pike probably never thought he'd ever be famous. Certainly not like this.

Afghanistan Sun

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • A Message For Congress Over Thanksgiving
    As we head off to take a short break for Thanksgiving, I thought we'd pass along a Thanksgiving greeting card that was sent to me this morning. Unfortunately, the reports making the rounds today suggest that some are looking to pass a lot more than just the cranberry sauce, and may even be tryi ...
  • Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing A ...
    Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright system in the digital world. She made her remarks at the Forum d'Avignon in France, which was about "strengthening the links between culture and the economy". ...
  • Connecting With Fans Means More Than Talking A ...
    Aaron deOliveira alerts us to this great quote from artist Michele Banks from an interview in Scientific American: I think some artists don’t get the best out of Twitter or other social media because they mostly write about their own work. I talk about everything – art and science ...
  • DailyDirt: Some People Drink Pepsi, Some Peopl ...
    There are a lot of different soft drinks targeting nearly every conceivable market. It's almost amazing that potable water is generally free, and there's still a multi-billion dollar industry for non-alcoholic beverages. What are they putting in water that people just can't get enough of? Here a ...
  • Cisco Calls Out HP For Suing Former Employees ...
    We've written, in great detail, about the research that shows that the ability for employees to switch jobs freely almost certainly contributed massively to the huge success of Silicon Valley. Multiple studies, looking at multiple different factors, have shown that a simple legal issue -- the f ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • No Mascots
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I thought this article about the connection between authoritarianism and sexism/racism was really interesting. It would make such a difference if pop culture showed racism in the complicated ways that it actually plays out. This piece on racism in Sons of Anarchy is worth a read. I don’t k ...
  • The Power to Take
    A former Israeli president just got seven years in prison for rape. The disgraced former head of the IMF has been accused of sexually assaulting at least two women. And now it appears that DSK was having orgies arranged in a prostitution scandal that involves police and other government official ...
  • The Occupation of Franklin
    The Franklin School building in DC was occupied today. The building was being used as a homeless shelter until 2008, when the city closed it down just before winter. The plan was to sell it to a developer who would turn it into a boutique hotel. Homeless advocates, including Eric Sheptock, fough ...
  • Remember When All the Dudes Were Hot
    Some economist named Glen Whitman wrote a post called Pan Am and the Economics of Hot Flight Attendants. In it he claims that deregulation lowered air fares and made paying for hotness in your employees prohibitively expensive. Since I have read that piece, I have been racking my brain to think ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Buy Nothing Day — or get pepper-sprayed at Walmart
    Adbusters’ 2007 Buy Nothing Day ad that all the networks refused to air. The Los Angeles Times reports: Matthew Lopez went to the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch on Thursday night for the Black Friday sale but instead was caught in a pepper-spray attack by a woman who authorities said was &#8220 ...
  • A Thanksgiving message
    As Brother David Steindl-Rast says, whether one is religious or secular, it’s hard to argue against gratefulness. How much gratefulness we feel has little to do with whether life seems abundant or filled with hardship. On the contrary, it hinges on the degree to which we are prey to the ...
  • The boys who cry ‘Holocaust’
    Gary Kamiya writes: We’ve been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion of Grenada — and using the ultimate ...
  • How students landed on the front lines of clas ...
    Juan Cole writes: The deliberate pepper-spraying by campus police of nonviolent protesters at UC Davis on Friday has provoked national outrage. But the horrific incident must not cloud the real question: What led comfortable, bright, middle-class students to join the Occupy protest movement agai ...
  • Netanyahu views the Arab Spring with complete ...
    Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday blasted Israeli and world politicians who support the Arab Spring revolutions and accused the Arab world of “moving not forward, but backward.” In his sharpest Knesset comment since the wave of uprisings swept out of Tu ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Photoshopping in the “worseness”
    Readers may recall that we caught NOAA NCDC red handed putting in a photoshopped flooded house a couple of years back for an official government report. Image above taken directly from the CCSP report. Read more here Then there’s the … Continue reading →
  • Climategate 2.0 email – Mike Mann chract ...
    Edward Cook tells Phil Jones that Mike Mann is “serious enemy” and “vindictive”. Mike Mann had criticized his work. Apparently Mann went “a little crazy” over a paper showing the Medeival Warm Period exists. 4101.txt cc: k.briffa@uea.xx.xx date: Thu, 7 … ...
  • New study in Science shows climate sensitivity ...
    From Oregon State University  some news the team and especially Kevin Trenberth just really don’t want to hear. I covered this on a tip from Dr. Pat Michaels back on Nov 9th titled: Climate sensitivity- lowering the IPCC “fat tail” and … Continue reading →
  • Caribou supposedly roasted by global warming f ...
    Another one for the Climate FAIL file… USA Today/Associated Press, in 2009: “They believe the insidious impact of climate change, its tipping of natural balances and disruption of feeding habits, is decimating a species that has long numbered in the … Continue reading →
  • Just in time for Durban: US backs off on UN Gr ...
    Thanks perhaps in part to Climategate 2, it is looking less like success and more like FAIL at Durban. The US has backed off and now refuses to agree to structure and funding of the United Nations Framework Convention on … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Mice with human livers deal with drugs the hum ...
    The unique physiology of the human liver means that the toxicity of some candidate drugs is not picked up during preclinical tests in animals. But mice implanted with miniature human livers can mimic the ways in which the human body breaks down chemical compounds, to help spot potential problems ...
  • Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaire ...
    Human neural stem cells are capable of helping people regain learning and memory abilities lost due to radiation treatment for brain tumors, a UC Irvine study suggests. Research with rats found that stem cells transplanted two days after cranial irradiation restored cognitive function, as measur ...
  • New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell ...
    Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient’s own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful in further stem cell studies, and when perfected, could be used in stem cell the ...
  • Kidney dopamine regulates blood pressure, life ...
    The neurotransmitter dopamine is best known for its roles in the brain – in signaling pathways that control movement, motivation, reward, learning and memory. Now, Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is ...
  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Scientists develop E-skin that can transfer data
    In the future we may all have this kind of "electronic skin" attached to our bodies. In "E-Skin", as it is also known, liquid metal has been integrated in a sheet of silicone, creating a kind of stretchable electronics.
  • Zenit, CSKA return to title tussle after miser ...
    The stuttering top two teams in the Russian Premier League Zenit St. Petersburg and CSKA Moscow resume their tussle for the domestic title this weekend after midweek disappointment in the Champions League.
  • RAPSI wins Runet Award 2011
    The Russian Legal Information Agency (RAPSI), a news and analysis portal on Russia’s legal and judicial systems, was awarded on Friday the Russian Internet award in the category State and Society.
  • UK halts military data sharing with Russia
    Britain will stop sharing military information with Russia over Moscow's decision to freeze compliance with the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), a government minister said on Friday.
  • Seven days in photographs. November 19-25, 2011
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed the nation on Wednesday about his plans to confront possible threats from the United States and NATO’s European missile defense project; the State Duma held its last session before December 4 parliamentary elections and late Libyan leader Muammar Gadda ...

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • The Occupy movement and reclaiming the First A ...
    We seem to have happily gotten past the point of Occupy critics plaintively asking what the occupiers want and demanding that Occupy release some, well, demands. Instead the pundit class seems to have concluded that it was all a bit of fun but it’s time for those people to move on so we c ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Another busy week of killing in Somalia:US terror drones kill 42 more in SomaliaUS terror drones kill 13 in south SomaliaUS terror drones k ...
  • Bleh
    Sick and on antibiotics. Back next week.
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Cody R. Norris, 20, of Houston, TX.Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas A. Daniels, 25, of Elmwood Par ...
  • 'No On Issue 2': A big win, and a big opportunity
    Ohio’s overwhelming rejection of the union-busting Senate Bill 5 still has people buzzing, for good reason. As We Are Ohio pointed out, it was first election in the country on collective bargaining rights, and it wasn’t even close. Ohio has 88 counties and exactly six - count &#821 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • The Empire Strikes Back in Futility: Reflectio ...
    The wealthy masters’ governmental agents and servants reserve the right to brutally attack popular protest when and where Democrats claim nominal authority no less than where and when Republicans hold top elected offices.Click here to read this article
  • No Secret Farm Bill and Other Things to Be Tha ...
    Mark Bittman has provided the ultimate Thanksgiving guide for anyone interested in making our broken food system work again. His exhaustive list of the 25 people or groups for which he is most thankful is a must-read.Click here to read this article
  • Mic Checking Big Food
    "Whose food? Our food!" This was the rallying cry at the first Occupy Big Food event on Saturday in Zuccotti Park. The rally, which I led with Erika Lade, a graduate student in NYU's Food Studies program, gathered about 100 people with the goal of connecting the larger Occupy Wall Street effort ...
  • OWS: To Change the Country, We Just Might Have ...
    The emergence of what we know as Occupy Wall Street, or the 99 Percent Movement, has taken nearly everyone by surprise, producing a transformation of public consciousness. There is little doubt that something striking has taken place, far from our normal range of expectations.Click here to read ...
  • USDA Endorses The Global Organic Textile Stand ...
    May 20, 2011: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a new policy memorandum today with regard to 'labeling of textiles that contain organic ingredients' in which it explicitly confirms that textile products that are produced in accordance with the Global Organic Textile Sta ...

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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Propaganda for punishing 'the enemy'
    Collected stories on the history of Iran, relations with the U.S.. nuclear technology, the NPT and how Iran is restrained from abridging it ( while others claim it should,IAEA is defunded and overworked,etc. history of Middle East nonproliferation failure Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • SOPA is a threat to American Internet leadersh ...
    The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) a bill now before the House Judiciary Committee is a threat to Americas ability to lead the Internet, and must be defeated before it has a chance to damage Americas ability to generate jobs and economic growth. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov&#39 ...
  • How SOPA would affect you (In depth) | Privacy ...
    Texas Rep Lamar Smith probably never anticipated the fierce world-wide public outrage that SOPA provoked over the last week. Such intense opposition to Internet-related law hasn't been seen since the 2003 battle for copy-protection technology in PCs. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov& ...
  • The Gulf Oil Spill: the Other Shoe Dropping
    Heres the real story of the BP oil spill. It unfolds like a murder mystery. But its realand were all the victims. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • CO2 emitted by the poor nations and absorbed b ...
    If the evil modern polluters were producing more CO2 wed see higher levels of CO2 there.Highest emissions are in China, and central Africa.The methane picture is remarkably similar.CO2 From the Evil Western Polluters meme has a serious hole in it Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...

Angry Indian News

  • Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Mala ...
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  • OpEdNews - Pregnant Protester Miscarries After ...
    OpEdNews - Pregnant Protester Miscarries After Being Kicked, Pepper-SprayedAL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The association of Muslim youth along with the family committee of political detainees in the West Bank... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Alert: Indian Government is Burning Homes of I ...
    Alert: Indian Government is Burning Homes of Indigenous Meitei People in ManipurThe Government of Manipur is in the process of burning down hundreds of floating huts (Khangpokshang) belonging to the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • ABORIGINAL NEWS GROUP CALLS FOR THE PEOPLE TO ...
    ABORIGINAL NEWS GROUP CALLS FOR THE PEOPLE TO STAND AND #DECOLONIZE THE FOURTH WORLD | ANGABORIGINAL NEWS GROUP CALLS FOR THE PEOPLE TO STAND AND #DECOLONIZE THE FOURTH WORLDA Communiqué from the ANG... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • News: Black Women Sterilized in North Carolina ...
    Black Bloggers Connect! ™ - Connecting Black Bloggers Worldwide - News: Black Women Sterilized in North Carolina: MSNBC Reports: North Carolina was one of 31 states to have a government run eugenics... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Consolidation of American Food Infographic
    "...Take a look at this infographic from the Frugal Dad team. I’ve said it a million times – you get what you pay for, and cheap food is no exception. The amount of consolidation in the industry is shocking, and it’s not getting better any time soon."
  • Executive Order 13575 Rural Council – Agenda 21
    "Obama recently signed EO 13575, establishing the White House Rural Council. The council is a list of the most aggressive agencies and departments in the US government. The all-inclusive council members represent the very agencies and departments most dedicated to forcing the subjugation of the ...
  • 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”?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • CDC confirms cases of new swine flu virus
    ShareThisHeads up! US pharma-terrorists and their vaccine pimps are busy little bees, synthesizing new pandemics: CDC confirms cases of new swine flu virus 24 Nov 2011 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases of a new flu virus, which originated in pigs their labs ...
  • Iran 'arrests 12 CIA agents'
    ShareThisIran 'arrests 12 CIA agents' 24 Nov 2011 Iran has arrested 12 people it claims were working undercover for the CIA inside the Islamic republic, further raising tensions in its already strained relationship with the US. On Wednesday, the Irna state news agency quoted a senior Iranian off ...
  • 'Months of public sector strikes' loom: Wednes ...
    ShareThis'Months of public sector strikes' loom: Wednesday's walkout is just the start, warn unions 25 Nov 2011 (UK) Union bosses have amassed a fighting fund of tens of millions of pounds to bring the country to its knees with waves of strikes. The rolling programme will begin – but not end – n ...
  • NYPD raid on Occupy's Zuccotti Park camp destr ...
    ShareThisNYPD raid on Occupy's Zuccotti Park camp destroyed thousands of books [Since most NYPD morons don't read, it was likely no big deal to them.] 23 Nov 2011 What started in September as a few piles of books on a tarp in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, the de facto headquarters of the Occupy Wal ...
  • Lawmakers, Twitter locked in dispute over Tali ...
    ShareThisLawmakers, Twitter locked in dispute over Taliban tweets 23 Nov 2011 Some members of Congress are urging the popular website Twitter to stop hosting pro-Taliban tweets that celebrate attacks against US and allied forces in Afghanistan. Twitter executives have told lawmakers that the mic ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • How to Catch a Bird without a Gun
    24 November 2011 Happy Thanksgiving weekend in America!  This is a good time to share something lighter than the constant war. I’ve travelled to more than sixty countries, often spending years on end abroad.  Those journeys have revealed many fascinating sides of life. Today I am in ...
  • CrusaderCopters
    Afghanistan: Army Medic helps to bag up an Afghan Soldier who was just blown up. Our medics do not wear Red Crosses. They carry rifles. 23 November 2011 Army Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopter crews have been performing stellar work in Afghanistan. When troops are wounded, the Dustoffs go into hostile ...
  • Mark of the Beast: Evil Symbols in Afghanistan
    22 November 2011 US Army MEDEVAC helicopters in Afghanistan are marked with Red Crosses. Helicopters sporting a Red Cross are not allowed to be armed. The enemy knows this. The enemy tries to shoot down these unarmed helicopters with the added advantage that our people cannot shoot back.&n ...
  • Pocket Spies
    Image created with iPhone4s 17 November 2011 We know the Internet has dangers.  Everything we put onto the information superhighway should be considered chiseled into marble.  Meanwhile, those smartphones that so many of us carry are tantamount to carrying hostile spies in our pocket ...
  • What is Your Vote?
    17 November 2011 The United States faces greater threats at home than we face in Afghanistan.  The Mexican border, for instance, is being described as a war zone.  People have been warning about it years.  Over time, I have seriously considered changing focus to the more proximat ...

The Killing Train

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

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Telegraph - Climate Change

  • Living with the Inugguit
    An anthropological linguist at the University of Cambridge documents his year-long stay with the Inugguit of north-west Greenland, the northernmost settled people on Earth.
  • US 'blocking' climate change fund ahead of Dur ...
    The US is threatening to derail next week's UN summit on climate change by refusing to sign off on a global fund for protecting the environment, it was reported last night.
  • Climate change deal must include major economies
    A new deal to tackle global warming which covers all major countries is not a luxury but an "absolute necessity", Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne has said.
  • 'Gigatonne gap' risks dangerous global warming
    The chances of keeping global warming within a safe limits are narrowing, scientists have warned, as governments fail to cut carbon emissions.
  • Climategate 2? More UEA hacked emails
    Thousands more emails from the university at the centre of the 'climategate' row appear to have been posted online in an attempt to cast doubt on the science of global warming.

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Egypt military council apologizes for deaths o ...
    [JURIST] Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) [NYT backgrounder] on Thursday called for an end to violence against protesters and reiterated that demonstrations were a protected right, as long as they were done peacefully. The SCAF also assured citizens that arrested demonstrators ...
  • British Columbia Supreme Court upholds anti-po ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of British Columbia [official website] ruled [judgment] on Wednesday that a law banning polygamy [Criminal Code §293 text] was constitutional. The law was under challenge by two bishops of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) who c ...
  • Bahrain government committed human rights viol ...
    [JURIST] Bahrain authorities used excessive force and tortured detainees involved in the pro-democracy demonstrations earlier this year, according to a report [text, PDF] released Tuesday by an independent Bahraini government commission. The report, published by the Bahrain Independent Commissio ...
  • France court allows Noriega extradition to Panama
    [JURIST] A French appeals court ruled Wednesday that former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] can be extradited to Panama. Noriega faces charges of human rights violations in Panama for crimes allegedly committed during his 1981-1989 rule. He was already ...
  • Oregon governor puts moratorium on death penalty
    [JURIST] Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber [official website] on Tuesday issued a temporary reprieve for death row inmate Gary Haugen and called for an end [press release] to the state's death penalty [JURIST news archive]. The state has executed only two individuals in the last 49 years and each e ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Newt's Gift to Obama: A GOP Immigration Rift
    With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...
  • Why Did Perry Get Into the Race, Really?
    Republican consultants at loose ends and looking for work sold the Texas governor a bill of goods about his prospects So I have this theory about why Gov. Rick Perry decided to run for president, despite what appeared to be his instincts telling him that the job just wasn't for him. There ca ...
  • Will Nuclear Watchdog Report Change U.S. Polic ...
    The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran may still be working toward a bomb Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Abbasi-Davani speaks at the 55th IAEA General Conference in Vienna / Reuters The Obama administration insists that a major new U.N. report on Iran's nuclear prog ...
  • Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
    After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information and guarding secrets By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up inter ...
  • Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
    American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter So here was the main protocol problem the United States faced on Sept. 23, 2009: President Barack Obama was set to give his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly, ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Call to Close Ben Gurion University Department ...
    The assault on academic freedom on Israeli campuses continues apace with a slimy report in Yediot Achronot which brays about a review of the department of politics and government at Ben Gurion University.  The committee appointed by the Israeli Council for Higher Education recommended closing th ...
  • On a Collision Course: Israel, Iran and the U.S.
    Is a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities possible as a result of the dramatically increasing and unstable relationship among Iran, Israel and the U.S.?  What does this mean for them, for us, for the rest of the world?  Two outstanding speakers will address this complex issue at Seattle’ ...
  • Exclusive: Israeli Military Intelligence Cause ...
    The history of military intelligence is full of nation’s whose personnel made rash, foolish and careless decisions ending in disaster.  Israel has done this.  Yesterday, news broke that the CIA allowed two Hezbollah double agents penetrate and roll up its Lebanese spy network, in part beca ...
  • Likud and the Rise of the Permanent Far-Right ...
    What we’re seeing in Israeli politics and have seen since 2000, when the last Labor government ruled Israel, is the rise of a permanent far-right majority. Not a majority within the populace, but a ruling majority cobbled together from various right and farther right strands of Israeli nat ...
  • Former Channel 10 CEO: Bibi Sealed Deal to Shu ...
    The Israeli business paper, Globes, reports (Hebrew) on an interview aired on Israeli TV by former Channel 10 CEO, Raduar Benziman, who quit his post after agreeing to air an abject apology to Sheldon Adelson for an unflattering documentary it aired about the unsavory business practices of the g ...

If Americans Knew

  • A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
    With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...
  • The First Intifada
    It's interesting to find myself a small factor in the California race for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. But before I get to that, it's necessary to take a look at the campaigns themselves, and the system in which they're running.
  • My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
    The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
  • AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
    "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...

David J. Gregory

  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
  • EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
                (661) 449-9342       The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
  • " Flip Flopped"
      Dear Editor,   The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number".   How can flying ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
  • Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
    The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
  • Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
    Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
  • Moving Planet Just Moved!
    Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com
  • An Open Letter to Mike Gonzalez, and Everyone ...
    To: Professor Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University Hi Mike I’ve just read your article “Eva Morales Defence of Mother Earth Rings Hollow in Bolivia” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/evo-morales-indigenous-people-protest) and am a little concerned. I assume (hope) you ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Mobile Phones Are Key to a Free Newspaper in M ...
    MobileActive recently posted a call for guest posts on its site. A version of this guest post, which was written by Janet Gunter, originally appeared on MobileActive.org's Mobile Media Toolkit blog. MobileActive chose to highlight this piece because it demonstrates how a free newspaper in Mozamb ...
  • #DontBreakTheInternet: How The Web Became a Po ...
    Good ideas aren't enough. They need champions and constant vigilance, or Congress will take them from you. Many problems arise when your country's legislature is consistently more responsive to its donors than its constituents. One of these problems is that simple good ideas can't just be lef ...
  • DocumentCloud Shows Off Popcorn.js Plug-in at ...
    DocumentCloud visited London at the beginning of November for the Mozilla Festival. This year's festival focused on media, freedom and the web. DocumentCloud, a catalog of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web, fit comfortably alongside a v ...
  • Feeding OpenBlock: A New Newsroom Pet That Eat ...
    A few months ago, my kids hit an inevitable, but still terrifying, milestone -- they began asking for a pet. Being a complete Scrooge, I quickly set to work explaining that pets are hard work and expensive. Showing a strong knack for journalism, they demanded proof of my assertions, so we set of ...
  • Public Lab's 'Barnraising' Focuses on DIY Infr ...
    Stephen Debique, a student from Trinidad, carefully removed the screws from the digital camera, trying not to destroy it in the process. His hands shook a little as he hesitated just before popping the hot-filter off the heart of the machine with exactly the correct amount of pressure. After a f ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Iran's Nukes - The Fog of Prewar?
    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was one of the first to sound the alarm over Iran's nuclear armament program, identifying the threat it posed to global security in the early 1990s. The last time he spoke openly about his views on the Iranian threat was when he was head of the opposition. After ...
  • Panama on Edge - Privatization Without Repres ...
    Panamanian doctors, medical workers, and teachers ended a month-long strike on November 18 by signing a series of agreements with the Panamanian government about Bill 349, or the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Bill, which appeared to permit the government to privatize healthcare and education. ...
  • The Immigration Edge - State laws Offering Tui ...
    Federal law prohibits state colleges and universities from providing in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens “on the basis of residence within the State”—unless the same in-state rates are offered to all citizens of the United States. Today, 12 states are circumventing this federal law, and the ...
  • The Edge of Nature - UGA Scientists Invent Lon ...
    In a paper just published in the early online edition of the journal Nature Materials, University of Georgia scientists describe a new material that emits a long-lasting, near-infrared glow after a single minute of exposure to sunlight. Lead author Zhengwei Pan, associate professor of physi ...
  • US Economy on Edge - Government Regulation doe ...
    Do regulations kill jobs? Not according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV). In a floor speech November 15, Reid argued that the idea that regulations cost jobs was a “myth,” claiming that according to the Labor Department, “only a tiny fraction of layoffs have anything at all to do with ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Versus Army: Disastr ...
    by Barry Rubin 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-speaking world’s fate for decades to come. Will the army go ahead with elections that will be won by the Mus ...
  • BREAKING!!! Climategate II, 5,000 New Emails R ...
    No you are not experiencing deja vu. do not adjust your television set, it is neither the Twilight Zone or the Outer Limits, it really is happening again.  Another 5,ooo emails from the University of East Angola have been placed upon an Russian Server to be shared with the public.  And ...
  • Karl Marx Visits Occupy Wall Street
    By Barry Rubin November 1989, Moscow During the Polish anti-Communist revolt, spearheaded by the workers, a joke swept through Poland. According to the story, the Communist dictator couldn’t figure out what to do in order to put down the uprising. So he went to Moscow to visit Lenin’ ...
  • Things You May Not Know About The Failed Super ...
    The announcement came Monday after the markets closed, just as expected the “Super Committee” whose job was to cut $1.2 trillion out of the budget failed. "Despite our inability to bridge the committee's significant differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation's ...
  • The Muslim Brotherhood Takes Over the (Sunni) ...
    by Barry Rubin On November 28, Egyptians will vote for a parliament which will also write the country’s new constitution. The Western media at first told us that the Muslim Brotherhood was weak and unimportant as well as moderate. Now, when it’s too late, the Western media is admitting the ...

The Real Agenda

  • Portugal Credit Rating Downgraded to Junk
    By Antonia van de Velde CNBC November 24, 2011 Fitch ratings agency on Thursday downgraded its credit rating for Portugal to BB+ from BBB-citing “large fiscal imbalances” and “high indebtedness across all sectors” as well as a gloomy economic outlook as the main reasons for the country’s fall be ...
  • “Prepare To Give Up Significant Sovereig ...
    Tyler Durden Zero Hedge November 25, 2011 The only quote worth noting from the just delivered speech by ECB executive board member José Manuel González-Páramo is the following: “We cannot completely delegate governance to financial markets. The euro area is the world’s second largest monet ...
  • The Doomsday Project: Continuity of Government ...
    The JFK assassination, Watergate, 9/11 and other “deep events” were not simply isolated events. They were planned events that culminated with the establishment of a shadow state that operates freely and independently from the public State. by Peter Dale Scott Global Research November ...
  • $ 352 Bilhões em Dinheiro da Droga foram Injet ...
    Sem esse dinheiro, a economia global teria se desmoronado desde então e vários bancos na Europa e os EUA teriam ido à falência. Tradução Luis Miranda Pravda 23 de novembro de 2011 Cartéis da Droga controlam o México. Estas estruturas criminosas são corporações transnacionais que produzem e distr ...
  • $ 352 Mil Millones en Dinero de la Droga Inyec ...
    Sin esta suma, la economía globalizada hubiera comenzado a desmoronarse desde entonces y varios bancos en Europa y Estados Unidos hubieran ido a la quiebra. Traducción Luis Miranda Pravda 23 de noviembre 2011 Los Carteles de la Droga controlan México. Esas estructuras criminales son como empresa ...

Wind Watch

  • Shock at claims on wind farms tourism impact
    Montgomeryshire AM Russell George says he is ‘shocked and amazed’ by claims from First Minister Carwyn Jones that wind farms have no impact on tourism. Mr George said he was amazed by Mr Jones’s comments during the weekly First Minister’s Question Time on Tuesday. He accused the minister of ‘pre ...
  • Tipton-Madison County wind farms raise questions
    TIPTON COUNTY – Indiana farmers feed millions of us each year. Now they’re digging into “homegrown” energy. 13 Investigates uncovers a surge of wind farms that will soon fan across the state, promising an economic boost. But at what price to the environment and homeowners ...
  • Renewable energy increases blackout risk-report
    Growth in the renewable energy sector in the last decade and a lack of incentives for utilities to invest into new power transmission capabilities mean there is an increased risk of blackouts, a report said on Wednesday. The joint report by German financial and insurance group Allianz and the Ch ...
  • ‘Too noisy’ wind farm complaints
    The wind turbines at Lissett could be too noisy. Some of the turbines have already been slowed down because of complaints of noise and the effects are now being monitored. It follows checks by East Riding of Yorkshire Council after it received complaints from some local residents near the 12 tur ...
  • California renewable energy goals come at a price
    California’s increasing use of renewable power will come at a price, pushing up electricity bills across the state. And while it’s impossible to tell how big the cost to consumers will be, some experts fear the total cost of renewable energy in California will be in the billions of d ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Anti-Lobbying Rules under Fire
    “Business groups are slamming the Obama administration over a plan that would bar lobbyists and their employers from giving gifts to federal employees — including picking up the tab for government workers to attend conferences and trade shows.” (USA Today) A little distance wouldn’t ...
  • FCC Chairman Opposes AT&T/T-Mobile Merger
    “The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission took steps Tuesday to block the proposed $39 billion merger of the mobile phone companies AT&T and T-Mobile USA. The chairman, Julius Genachowski, made the move after the commission’s staff concluded that the deal would harm consum ...
  • CBO Says Stimulus Is Drag on Economy
    “The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday downgraded its estimate of the benefits of President Obama’s 2009 stimulus package, saying it may have sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak last year and that over the long run it will actually be a net drag on the economy. CBO said that ...
  • Why the Titanic Is Sinking
    Washington is now deep into the process of attempting to deal with the budget deficit, an exercise that leaves experienced observers with a sinking feeling. Presenting plans to cut spending and balance the budget is like the proverbial activity of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It i ...
  • Congress May Limit Checked-Luggage Fees
    “Too much carry-on luggage toted by other passengers recently emerged as the No. 1 complaint of air travelers, and with the Thanksgiving travel crush underway, Congress might consider limiting the bag fees that airlines can charge. Those per-bag fees that airlines have been charging for ch ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • European carbon market plummets
    Prices are plunging dramatically on the world’s largest carbon-trading market. Today, it will cost large facilities participating in the European Union’s mandatory emissions trading scheme (ETS) just €7 to buy an allowance to emit one ton of carbon dioxide: that’s a record low and a drop of 25% ...
  • Global Fund halts new funding until 2014
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has cancelled its 11th funding round because of the current economic crisis. “Substantial budget challenges in some donor countries, compounded by low interest rates have significantly affected the resources available for new grant fundi ...
  • Monarch butterfly genome gives clues about sle ...
    Cross posted from Scientific American's Observations blog on behalf of Katherine Harmon. The millions of monarchs (Danaus plexippus) that flit on fragile wings from the United States to a particular area of fir forest in Mexico—as far as 4,000 kilometres—are making the journey for the first t ...
  • Lynn Margulis 1938 - 2011
    Biologist Lynn Margulis, best known for her work on the theory of endosymbiosis, died on 22 November at her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was 73. Endosymbiosis is the process by which two unrelated organisms fuse into one. Early in her career, Margulis proposed that the eukaryotic ce ...
  • Fluorescent spray tags cancer cells
    Posted on behalf of Zoe Cormier. Japanese researchers have developed a probe for ovarian cancer that can be sprayed onto tissue during surgery, fluorescing where malignant cells are present — allowing surgeons to identify and remove scattered bits of tumour. Ovarian cancer has a tendency t ...

new geography

  • Mass Transit: Could Raising Fares Increase Rid ...
    Conventional wisdom dictates that keeping transit fares as low as possible will promote high ridership levels. That isn't entirely incorrect. Holding all else constant, raising fares would have a negative impact on ridership. But allowing the market to set transit fares, when coupled with a num ...
  • Social Market Housing for the USA: Dream or Ni ...
    Imagine a future America where the home ownership rate climbs from the current 65%1 to 87%2.  Libertarians as well as many social democrats would be cheering.  Imagine that this rate was achieved by the state itself acting as the builder of 88%3 of the housing.  Imagine also that the state i ...
  • Is Industrial Strife a Sign of Housing Stress?
    Industrial disputes – including a spate of on and off again strikes at national carrier Qantas – are becoming once again a frequent feature of the Australian media. Unions are pushing for wage rises in the face of the falling buying power of the fixed wage (as costs of living rise). Those wa ...
  • Urbanizing India: The 2011 Census Shows Slowin ...
    Provisional results from the 2011 census of India show a diminishing population, the lowest since independence in 1947. From 2001 to 2007, India's population grew 17.6%, compared to a 20% to 25% growth rate in previous periods since the 1951 census. Even so, India is expected to virtually ca ...
  • The Best Cities For Technology Jobs
    During tough economic times, technology is often seen as the one bright spot. In the U.S. this past year technology jobs outpaced the overall rate of new employment nearly four times. But if you’re looking for a tech job, you may want to consider searching outside of Silicon Valley. Though the ...

GM Watch

  • Death in GM soya wars
    NOTE: For more on the terrible human and environmental devastation wreaked by GM soy monocultures, see our Latin America videos: http://www.gmwatch.org/gm-videosb/26-gm-in-latin-america --- --- SOYA WARS CLAIM CASUALTIES IN ARGENTINA Nick Caistor, LAB Latin America Bureau, 22 November 2011  http ...
  • Violations of human rights as a result of GM soy
    NOTE: The report is available as a word document via this link: http://bit.ly/vdqo6O In case you get a warning about the link, it's simply a shortened google link to the document on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). --- --- Geneva, 14 Nov ...
  • Take action! US, Europe, India, Turkey, Australia
    Take action! Take action! Take action! *USA: What's in your food? Join the Union of Concerned Scientists in telling the FDA to label GM foods! http://t.co/7hxp4kWg *USA: Get active on GM labeling in California Over 90% of Americans want the choice NOT to buy GM foods. The initiative for the CA ...
  • Rothamsted's GM research a high risk option
    NOTE: More about the British agricultural research institute Rothamsted Research here: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Rothamsted_Research --- --- Rothamsted's GM Wheat "Remodel" is High Risk Option GM Freeze, 22 Nov 2011 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/172/ GM Freeze today described ...
  • How much insecticide do Bt plants produce?
    How much insecticide do Bt plants actually produce? New publication shows inadequacies in risk assessment TestBiotech (Munich), 21 November 2011 http://www.testbiotech.de/en/node/578 A new publication by an international research consortium has revealed several inadequacies in current approache ...

spiked

  • The liberal betrayal of freedom
    Domenico Losurdo, the author of Liberalism: A Counter-History, tells spiked that the principle of liberty continues to be too important to be left in the hands of liberals.
  • Don’t get misty-eyed over the British Empire
    Two new books on the Empire, by Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott, may have different takes on its legacy and impact, but both are too easily seduced by its civilising mission.
  • Shelagh, take a bow
    With A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney succeeded where others had merely pitied – she portrayed working-class men and women as they were, not as others wished them to be.
  • Things can only get better with economic growth
    As a new book by Charles Kenny shows, human welfare has not improved over the past 200 years in spite of economic growth but because of it.
  • A tourist’s guide to economic disaster
    Michael Lewis brings the economic events of the past three years to life in Boomerang, but his analysis is as superficial as a guidebook.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Trouble
    The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead.  Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008.  Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
  • 25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
    For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen.  Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
  • 17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
    Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse?  Yes.  The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
  • Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
    Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken?  The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement.  It is an ...
  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...

Desertification

  • Sack gardening, a novel tool for the hungry an ...
    In many countries sack gardening is making sensational progress.  It takes the flight of the condor. On February 18, 2010, IRIN News published the article ‘KENYA: Bag a farm‘ (see : http://desertification.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/urban-farming-growing-vegetables-in-sacks-in-kenya-iri ...
  • Africa : governments are being rushed into sig ...
    Read at : http://www.ngonewsafrica.org/?p=10682 Continental: Africa’s great ‘water grab’ International Institute for Environment and Development Peter Brabeck-Letmathe The banks of the Niger river, in southern Mali, have been flooded by a steady stream of foreigners. Coveted by foreign investors ...
  • Unequal rights to land put women at a disadvan ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/book/review.php?a=2322 Women and land: Securing rights for better lives By Debbie Budlender and Eileen Alma Published by the International Development Research Centre Website: www.idrc.ca 2011, 110pp, ISBN 978 1 55250 522 9 (Pb), free to download In … Co ...
  • Expanding underexploited agricultural strategi ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2324 Smallholder farmers can address climate change through triple-win strategies By expanding underexploited agricultural strategies, smallscale farmers can mitigate climate change, increase their resilience to climate change impacts and b ...
  • Sustainable grassland management (New Agricult ...
    Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2331 Sustainable grassland management encouraged in China A pilot project in the Qinghai province of China aims to demonstrate how sustainable grassland management can protect soil and enhance productivity, resilience and herder livelihoods ...

The Paper Trail

  • Poisoned Places: By the numbers
    From Tonawanda, N.Y. to Hayden, Ariz., hundreds of U.S. communities are still exposed to pollutants, which can cause cancer, birth defects and other health issues — more than 20 years after passage of the Clean Air Act.
  • Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprisin ...
    It’s seemingly been a pretty rough autumn on Capitol Hill. Last month, the public’s approval rating for Congress dropped to 9 percent, the lowest ever, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll.
  • Lobbyist Loeffler now raising cash for Huntsma ...
    The super PAC behind a $1.5 million New Hampshire television ad blitz for Jon Huntsman has been quietly benefiting from the fundraising muscle of lobbyist Tom Loeffler, who until recently was a top Huntsman campaign official.
  • The weekly watchdog: Nov. 21 - Nov. 23
    In case you missed them, catch up on this holiday week's top investigations from iWatch News.
  • Limits on mercury and soot could save billions ...
    In the face of opposition from industry and Republicans, the Environmental Protection Administration is attempting to reduce harmful emissions from coal-fired power plants that studies have linked to illnesses and tens of thousands of premature deaths every year.

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

  • General Strike in Portugal.
    portugal-general-strike.jpg A 24-hour strike in Portugal against proposed austerity measures has grounded flights and halted public transport. Hundreds of thousands of workers took part in the action, ...
  • We cannot stay homeless!
    parma.jpg Following their evictions, six families have occupied empty housing in Parma, Italy and are refusing to leave. Below is a translation of a statement from the 'Parma Housing Rights Netwo ...
  • Atlanta Anti-Police March Nov. 21
    atlcopproblem.jpg The ongoing and escalating campaign against the police, in Atlanta, continues. Tonight, Atlanta's campaign against the police continues. read more
  • St. Louis, MO, USA: N17 March Against Austerit ...
    6356083443_1721b97494_o.jpg It should be clear that before the Occupy movement, there has always been a struggle against the rich, against the 1%, against capitalism, against whatever you want to call ...
  • Marginality and Universality: The Indigenous W ...
    A critique written in the days following the 17th General Assembly. I apologise for the poor formatting, but I've been working on this all week and am thoroughly sick of it. I welcome your comments here or on my blog. The 17th ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

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Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

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Most Revolutionary Act

  • What Defines Class Orientation?
    (My 4th and last post about the ability of OWS to expand into the traditional working class) Why Do Some Kids Develop a Sense of Privilege? I have always found class orientation to center around the presence or absence of a sense of privilege. By privilege, I mean an inherent belief common to th ...
  • OWS Demographics and Privilege
    (This is the 3rd of 4 blogs on the relationship of OWS to the traditional working class.) Young OWS protestors tell a variety of personal stories. Some are new college graduates who have spent sixteen years of their life preparing for professional careers that no longer exist. Some are high scho ...
  • How the Working Class Vanished from Progressiv ...
    (This is the 2nd of 4 blogs about the effect of OWS on the traditional working class.) If OWS comes to be seen as a movement run predominantly by and for the working class, it will be the first grassroots movement to do so since the Great Depression. The last major mass movement during the Vietn ...
  • Is the OWS Movement Working Class?
    There is heated debate across the political spectrum whether OWS represents a genuine working class movement. The issue is vitally important, both to social change activists and the political elite. It will determine whether OWS succeeds in engaging the 80% of the population who spend their enti ...
  • Ending Corporate Rule: the Citizens’ Ri ...
    There is lots of media speculation about the fate of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) over winter. Wall Street and Washington politicians are hoping OWS will simply vanish with colder weather. At this point, I think this is highly unlikely. I suspect the size of public occupations on the East Coast wil ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

  • How to give back this Thanksgiving
    The annual celebration of Thanksgiving -- looking beyond its function as a filler of stomachs and provider of marquee football matchups -- is perhaps America's clearest exercise in mixed signals.On one hand, the act of gathering around a dinner table with loved ones, taking stock of our lives an ...
  • Roemer woos the occupiers
    Last month, former Louisiana congressman Buddy Roemer broke with his fellow Republican presidential candidates and visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters with an open mind. He tweeted out their stories of exasperation with the political and economic systems of America, and set himself apart f ...
  • Robocops vs. the occupiers
    Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began in mid-September, protesters and reporters have been learning the hard way how diverse police departments handle large-scale street demonstrations -- sometimes with rubber bullets, sometimes, as in Davis, Calif., with pepper spray in the face.While pol ...
  • Egypt’s military can’t quell protests
    CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s ruling military general pledged to transfer political power to a civilian government by mid-2012, one of several concessions that appeared aimed at containing the growing protest movement and prevent a revolt that has raged in downtown Cairo for 5 days from spreading furth ...
  • Highlights from the GOP national security debate
    Last night, the major eight Republican presidential hopefuls gathered for yet another in a long line of debates -- this time focused on national security. As expected, the evening was replete with hand-wringing over Barack Obama's foreign policy decisions, particularly with regards to Afghanista ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • More talk? When do we get transit relief?
    Here we go again – after 100 years of failure to launch, a new Toronto transit “downtown relief line” is once more under discussion.
  • Generals who won’t let go
    Egypt's generals are proving unfit to run a country. They should go back to the barracks and turn things over to a credible civilian government.
  • Standing against abuse
    Ruling by B.C. judge upholding Canada’s law against polygamy stands as a statement in defence of the vulnerable
  • We need details on Ontario’s ‘hard times’
    Ontario’s Liberal government will have to set aside platitudes and offer up more specifics on the tough choices to come than it has so far.
  • Marching on from the parks
    Occupy Toronto’s decision to vacate St. James Park peacefully can only raise their status in the public’s mind.

Energy Collective

  • Can Global Emissions Be Reduced At All?
    As society grapples with the issue of climate change, the merit of various technologies and emission reduction approaches arises. Some advocate for a rapid switch to renewable energy, others favour nuclear and most argue that unless the efficiency of energy use is robustly tackled then there can ...
  • Keystone XL, One Head of the Hydra
    In ancient Greek mythology, the Hydra was a deadly monster that had many heads.  If one was cut off two grew in its place.    
  • The Montreal Protocol - Proof That Countries A ...
    I just posted a report on the latest meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol, in Bali Indonesia.  Let me add a personal reflection, as this is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend back home in America.  Bali is a beautiful place, but on the whole I’d rather be sharing turkey leftov ...
  • Debunking Common Energy Efficiency Myths
    Energy efficiency can be difficult to conceptualize. There’s not a representative device like a solar panel or wind turbine. Rather, it’s a collection of technologies, strategies, and policies involving our houses, businesses, transportation, and behavior that improve the way we live.
  • What COP17 Must Accomplish To Matter Part 2

EU Times

  • Medvedev: Russia will target US missile defens ...
    Russia proceeds from the necessity to maintain its strategic defense potential, says Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin. ­Russia’s primary interest is in protecting its citizens, says the NATO envoy. “We cannot afford to trade on the security of our citizens,” Rogozin said. “So if anyon ...
  • Jailed Afghan woman offered Release if she Mar ...
    An Afghan woman raped by her cousin’s husband has revealed how she is faced with a horrific dilemma – marry him or spend the next 12 years in jail. Gulnaz was aged just 19 when she was convicted by a court of adultery, even though she tried to prevent the attack. Now she is in [...]
  • Occupy protest Cop becomes an Internet Craze a ...
    Call it the Meme Movement. This Sprayer Cop Meme Movement is very similar to the famous Looter King Meme Movement when a man from New Orleans was looting beer in the middle of the Katrina event. Whatever degree of success achieved by the Occupy protests, it’s largely been based on its old- ...
  • Russia Warns US, Israel against Attack on Iran
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the US and Israel against an attack on Iran, cautioning that such a move would mean “a very serious mistake”. Such an attack “could bring very unpredictable results … military intervention only creates a great number of victim ...
  • 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. Thousands of Italians have already signed the petition collected by a class action committee in Milan and m ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Apple has tablet âmonopolyâ says judge as Sams ...
    Samsung has accused an Australian judge of “fundamental errors” and of misunderstanding the law, as the company protests its recent legal failures against Apple. Challenging the Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban awarded last month in the appeals court this week, Samsung described the original ruling as ...
  • Hungary Cornered after Downgrade, Economists Say
    Ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Hungary overnight to non-investment grade category with a negative outlook, citing rising uncertainty about the government’s plans to reduce the budget deficit and public debt. Hungary is one notch from junk status at the other two major ratin ...
  • 'Nick Clegg launches Youth Contract' -- Nick ...
    The aim is to ensure that all jobless young people are earning or learning again before long term damage is done. Over three years, the Youth Contract will provide at least 410,000 new work places for 18 to 24 year olds into work. The Youth contract includes: 160,000 wage subsidies and 250,000 ...
  • Will The Apple/Samsung Stoush Widen?
    The Apple and Samsung court cases grind ever onwards in the way that legal cases often do, but today’s hearing has unearthed one interesting section: Samsung prepared an affidavit that could bring other tablet makers into the firing line.Luke Hopewell at ZDNet’s been reporting from the court ro ...
  • Shopping's done !
    Well, not really.  It's Day 5 of our "simple, stylish holiday quilts" and that happens to be the name of Sandy Gervais' pattern.  Since today is Black Friday we thought "Shopping's Done" was appropriate!   We like the abstract geometric shapes of the gift boxes, which give this quilt a very mod ...

Groklaw

  • Senate Judiciary plans to slow nomination hear ...
    The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has decided to slow down nomination hearings to give time to confirm pending nominees.... "There are 23 judicial nominees stalled before the Senate awaiting consent from the Senate Republican leadership for final consideration," Leahy said. "Most were approve ...
  • Employees at Apples keyboard supplier strike d ...
    "Apart from the overtime issue, the workers said that they also had other grievances with the factory. These include the high rate of workplace injuries (there have been nearly 20 recently), mass layoffs of older workers and the lack of any benefits. Apart from these more tangible hardships, fac ...
  • JK Rowling tells Leveson inquiry of press intr ...
    She said that when her daughter was in her first year at primary school, she unzipped her schoolbag one evening and "among the usual letters from school and the debris that a child generates, I found a letter addressed to me and the letter was from a journalist". She added: "I felt such a sense ...
  • European Court of Justice rejects web piracy f ...
    The court said that while content providers can ask ISPs to block specific sites, wider filtering was in breach of the E-Commerce Directive.... "Such an injunction could potentially undermine freedom of information since that system might not distinguish adequately between unlawful content and l ...
  • Carrier IQ Drops Empty Legal Threat, Apologize ...
    Today mobile software company Carrier IQ withdrew (pdf) a bogus legal threat to a security researcher who published an analysis of the company's software, as well as training materials on which he based his research. Last week, Trevor Eckhart published a detailed article pointing out that Ca ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Occupy and Tea Party should use old constituti ...
    One idea that I think is perfectly tailored for the moment, is the Article V Convention method of altering or abolishing government that no longer works for the people. Certainly, the unholy tryst twist Washington and Wall Street is one of the first log jams that needs to be untangled “Gor ...
  • Perspective
    The biggest known galaxy is IC 1101, which is 1 billion light years away in the ginormous Abell 2029 cluster. It contains 100 trillion stars and is six million light years in diameter.
  • Flip-down walls on writer’s cabin
    Dornob has the details
  • Burp
    So how’s everyone’s Thanksgiving going?
  • Thanksgiving is…
    When the Brits give thanks for getting rid of religious fanatics, misfits, and criminals (one of whom was my ancestor!)

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Just World News

  • Further thoughts on Syria, Turkey, and democracy
    This Monday, Nov. 28, I'll be speaking at a 2pm symposium in Washington DC on the topic "The Future of Syria: Political Turmoil and Prospects of Democracy". It is organized by SETA-DC, the Washington DC branch of the Ankara-based SETA (Foundation for Economic, Political and Social Research.) Als ...
  • Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
    On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
  • Making sense of Syria
    I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
  • World history at warp speed
    So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...
  • The Arab Spring at Nine Months
    What a whirlwind nine months it's been for the Arab world. As I wrote at a much earlier point in this phenomenon called the 'Arab Spring', it is as if some tremor in the long-frozen tectonic plates of the region's political geography had suddenly burst through all those plates, freeing up waves ...

frogblog

  • Make history tomorrow: vote Green
    It is election day eve and the Green Party has been polling at record highs over the past few weeks. We need your help to turn those polls into seats in Parliament. You can make history tomorrow and get more Green MPs than ever before. A vote for the Greens is a vote for a [...]
  • Toxic Legacies Need Serious Leadership
    The arsenic issues effecting Moanataiari, a small subdivision in my home town of Thames, are part of the very challenging reality of our not so “clean green” country. That is why I challenged the Minister for the Environment to establish a national register of contaminated sites. Thi ...
  • Bringing Parliament to the people
    Thanks to social media, it’s much easier for people in the community to engage with their politicians. Instead of holding their hands up in long town hall meetings, they can just log in to Facebook or Twitter and tap a few keys. This is why we at the Green Party take social media seriously. It’s ...
  • High time to eliminate violence against women
    Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Amnesty International begin its sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence, with events happening all over the country. This year there’s a focus on calling on the Solomon Islands to enact laws to protect w ...
  • General debate, November 25, 2011
    Just one more sleep…

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Supermarket Outrage: Psychological Traps Make ...
    By Dr. Mercola Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008, people everywhere have tightened their belts and cut down on spending, including slicing their food budgets. But supermarkets employ all kinds of strategies to get you to spend more money, and food manufacturers are applying eve ...
  • Urgent: Throw These Cooking Oils in the Trash
    By Dr. Mercola In the words of Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser: "If they have to put the word 'natural' on a box to convince you, it probably isn't." But this doesn't stop countless processed food manufacturers from boldly labeling their products as 100% natural in the hopes of ...
  • This Commonly Used Drug Found to Promote Obesity
    By Dr. Mercola You may be aware, and possibly have experienced firsthand, that antibiotics can cause diarrhea. This is because antibiotics, by design, disrupt the balance of good and bad bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract, often killing off both beneficial and harmful microorganisms wi ...
  • The #1 Cause of Accidental Death in the U.S. - ...
    By Dr. Mercola With all its designer drugs and state-of-the-art machinery, you'd think modern medicine is the perfect fix for providing patient-focused care. You might also expect that Americans would be the healthiest people on Earth, seeing that the U.S. is the epicenter of all this techn ...
  • 43% of Americans Risked Their Brain Health for ...
    By Dr. Mercola About 43 percent of the U.S. population opted to get a flu shot last season, a trend that has unfortunately been steadily increasing in the last several years. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 8 million more people received the flu shot ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
    Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Bare bones advice for success
    The following is an abridged version of a Convocation address delivered Tuesday by Kathy Reichs to Concordia University graduates at Place des Arts, on the occasion of her being awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.
  • Routine breast-screening is not a panacea
    For women who have been brought up with the idea that routine breast-screening could save their lives, it is frightening to be told that the scientific community has changed its mind and now recommends against routine screening.
  • We need a national debate on life-and-death issues
    There is a glaring lack of political will on the part of the major parties in Parliament to come to grips with the issue of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
  • CSIS: Keep it simple, cheap and on a short leash
    The federal government is being tight-lipped about proposed changes to the law governing our spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
  • State secrecy chips away at the public's trust
    There's an obvious root cause for the addiction to secrecy on the part of most levels of government in Quebec: They want to avoid, apparently at all costs, criticism of their handling of finances and contracts, or of their safety records and professionalism.

Food World Order

  • 11/24 binge & purge: the high cost of high prices
    video: study says thanksgiving to cost more* oregon food bank raises more than $500,000 at gala* video: obamas pay visit to food bank* food banks low for thanksgiving crunch* video: food bank asking for final donations*
  • bpa levels soar after eating canned soup
    soaring bpa levels found in people who eat canned foods from cbs: Talk about stirring up controversy. A new study shows that the urine of people who consume canned soup can contain surprisingly high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting compound linked to health problems includ ...
  • oregon tops nation in food stamp use
    from kezi: Oregon has the highest percentage of people on food stamps in the nation. A newly released U.S. Census survey reports 18 percent of Oregonians said they rely on a federal program for food. Food stamp use in Oregon surged 23 percent last year and has doubled in the past four years. Sup ...
  • food prices continue to climb to record highs ...
    from kfgo: The cost of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner in the U.S. is up 13 percent this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The price increases are the largest gains in two decades, as prices have risen in everything from turkey to potatoes to cranberries.
  • usda targets stores in food stamp trafficking
    from ap: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is upgrading technology used to combat a swindle of the nation's $64.7 billion food stamp program that diverts as much as $330 million annually. The agency last month awarded a 10-year contract worth up to $25 million to a Fairfax, Va. company, SR ...

CrusadeWatch

  • The Bait of Christian Fundamentalism in Africa
    source:  Huffington Post, 8/24/2011 Michael Mungai Co-founder, Dagoretti 4 Kids I grew up in the hovels of Dagoretti, an impoverished suburb in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Raised by an unemployed single mother, my two siblings and I would take turns missing school to babysit our ...
  • Puttur: Four Arrested for Forcing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, Aug 29, 2011 Puttur, Aug 29: Four persons, reportedly belonging to a Christian sect, were handed over to the police by the residents of Boodujal of Nedle village near Uppinangady on Sunday August 28. The locals, including some dalits, accused K J Kunhimonu (30) from Mun ...
  • Andhra Pradesh: Church priest rapes minor girl ...
    source:  India today, July 1, 2011 A Christian priest has been arrested for raping a 16-year-old girl and setting her ablaze in his house at Nadendla village of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The changing face of the church
    source:  Deccan chronicle, July 13, 2011 Its a well-documented fact that people adopt aspects of other cultures around them. The churches in Andhra Pradesh are following this custom and Indianising some of practices. At St Andrews Orthodox Church, West Marredpally, a Dwaja Stambam has been ...
  • Pastors wife accuses him of sexual abuse of mi ...
    source: Bangalore Mirror, June 17, 2011   In her police complaint, Priyalatha has charged Shantaraju, pastor of Bethel Church and Bethel Student Centre, with having sex with young girls and getting them to abort   S Shyam Prasad  

Whole Truth Coalition

  • Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation
    COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are proud to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending with alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans fo ...
  • The Big Awakening Conference 2011
    Click here for more information …
  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Trouble
    The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead.  Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008.  Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
  • 25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
    For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen.  Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
  • 17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
    Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse?  Yes.  The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
  • Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
    Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken?  The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement.  It is an ...
  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Watch out, that darn "racist" Christmas is about
    Good grief. What kind of people do we have living in this country, when something as simple and as beautiful as this... is subjected to a debate about 'racism' on YouTube: Seriously, I kid you not. Head over to YouTube and look through the comments yourself. A touching Christmas advert f ...
  • Quote of the Day: 23rd November 2011
    "There can be no concept of the national interest within the EU because the whole aim of Brussels is to obliterate individual nations. Our only hope for national survival is to leave the EU. If we stay we will become nothing more than a despised colonial province of a German-run empire. Seven ...
  • Abandon London, all ye Cockney Sparras... the ...
    You may have seen 'conspiracy theory' websites which claim that something called "Project Bluebeam" - a sinister shadowy Government project - is likely to stage a false flag alien invasion over London to coincide with the Olympic Games next year. Utter b*ll*cks, you might say. Maybe. Though s ...
  • Saturday Caption Competition: Cameron-Chamberl ...
    We supply the image - you supply the caption... In the traditions of the Big Breakfast, don't phone, it's just for fun.
  • 'Big Brother' is nowt but a hypocritical, inse ...
    Two of the most oddly contrasting stories have run parallel in the headlines this week. Along one track has run the never-ending saga of 'hackgate' in which everyone has moaned and groaned about the conduct of News International and other major players in the newspaper industry. We're no g ...

Facing South

CenterLine

  • Search for new executive director of Center on ...
    Karen Greenberg, executive director of NYU Law’s Center on Law and Security (CLS), announced she is leaving to pursue other career opportunities. Greenberg’s tenure as executive director began with the founding of the Center in 2003.  Under her stewardship, CLS … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Today’s Terrorism News post will be the last one for the summer. Along with the staff here at the Center on Law and Security, and with particular thanks to The Soufan Group for its generous support and to Carolyn O’Hara … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group At Radicalization Hearing, Rep. King Says al Shabab Poses Threat Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) held a third congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization in the United States Wednesday, this one focused on the threat of … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group Four Indicted for Drug Trafficking to Benefit Terrorism Federal prosecutors in New York unsealed indictments Tuesday against four men they say conspired to sell drugs and buy weapons for Hezbollah and the Taliban in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    In Association with The Soufan Group In Arkansas, Man Accused of Killing Soldier Strikes Plea Deal A man on trial for shooting two U.S. soldiers, one of whom was killed, outside of a military recruiting station in 2009 reached a … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 20 Most Highly Rated Applications to Install f ...
    Many long-term Ubuntu users(including me) overlook at the fact that, there are plenty of good quality applications available free of cost in Ubuntu Software Center already. If you look at our reviews of applications here, a good number of them require adding and updating third party repositori ...
  • 3 Interesting Ubuntu Unity Mobile Mockups
    User created ideas and concepts have always been an hallmark of popular Linux based distors like Ubuntu. We have featured such awesome works by loyal users, ranging from awe inspiring Ubuntu Unity mockups to professional looking LibreOffice mockups. Shuttleworth, ...
  • 5 Things I Would Like to See Improved in Ubunt ...
    Ubuntu Software Center had a complete makeover recently. But I have to admit, even with all those changes, it still feels unfinished. In our earlier Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot review, we did shared our concern with the unfinished nature of Ubuntu Software Center and had promised a more elabor ...
  • Why Protect IP is Bad? [Video, Infographic]
    The title of the video goes something like this - Protect IP breaks the Internet - and that pretty much sums it up. Quoting EFF, "The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a threatening sequel to last year's C ...
  • Firefox 10 Alpha is Here, How to install it in ...
    Firefox 8.0 has just been released and we will see how to install or upgrade to latest Firefox 8.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot below. Meanwhile, nightly builds of Firefox 10.0 is already available for installation in Ubuntu Oneiric via PPA. Firefox 10.0 Alpha 1, as expected, scores a perfec ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • “THE FOURTH EMPIRE”: POLITICAL THR ...
    Stay tuned to this blog for „The Fourth Empire“, a contemporary political thriller which will be available from next week. Set in Switzerland, it describes a meeting of the global elite who are planning to set up a new world order, This thriller drops the reader straight into a meeting of the el ...
  • GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IN EUROZONE IF EU ...
    *CAMERON AND MERKEL AGREE TO EU POWER GRAB OVER NATIONAL BUDGETS AS PART OF “STABILITY UNION” *NO MORE TAXATION WITH REPRESENTATION PLANNED FOR THE EUROZONE *BANKER TECHNOCRATS TO REPLACE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS *GERMAN LAWMAKERS WARN OF WAR IF CENTRALISATION OF POWER IN THE EUROZONE  CO ...
  • GREEK REFERENDUM GIVES HOPE TO EUROZONE
    The decision by the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou to call a national referendum on the country’s next EU bail-out package has won praise across the eurozone, fanning the flames for freedom even in the dark depths of oppressed Germany. German SPD chief Frank-Walter Steinmeier called it ...
  • IS THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT GENUINE?
    * WHY I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT * MY EXPERIENCES DURING THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AND WHY THEY ACT AS A WARNING ABOUT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT *POTENTIAL TRAPS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT FACEBOOK SITES HAVE BEEN LITTLE DISCUSSED * FOCUS ON SOUND MONEY AND RE-ADOPT ...
  • CONCLUSIVE PROOF: SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NEU ...
    *FINLAND’S GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FOR A LIFETIME OF CARE FOR 79 CHILDREN DAMAGED BY VACCINE Conclusive link now admitted: swine flu vaccine causes chronic nervous system disorders Mike Adams Natural News Sunday, October 9, 2011 (NaturalNews) The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Who is Rupert Murdoch?
  • 17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
    By Michael Snyder BlacklistedNews.com #1 Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Research unit: “We seem to have entered the last days of the euro as we currently know it. That doesn’t make a break-up very likely, but it does mean some extraordinary things will almost certainly need to happen – probably by ...
  • Yet Another ClimateGate?
    Quirin Schiermeier, Nature News A new set of climate science-related emails and documents has apparently been released from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK. The files, including more than 5,000 emails of as yet unconfirmed authenticity, have been poste ...
  • Bloomberg Ties Terror Plot to Lex Luthor
    By davidswanson – Posted on 21 November 2011 In a hastily thrown together press conference Sunday afternoon, several months in the planning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said his efforts to spread freedom beyond New York City had included the deployment of 1,000 NYPD officers to S ...
  • “Nobel Prize Winner Wiesel Lied About Holocaus ...
    By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife reporting from Budapest BUDAPEST, HUNGARY (BosNewsLife)– A Nazi concentration camp survivor claims Nobel Peace Prize winning author and human rights activist Elie Wiesel “lies” about his Holocaust past. After decad ...

Veterans Today

  • Happy Thanksgiving – The Magic Of Gratitude
    Gratitude is the only antidote for unworthiness for gratitude helps remove the stifling blanket of self-negating unworthiness ~ and gratitude allows a closed heart to open, to love and be loved, and to dance in inner joy and delight.
  • Israeli Intransigence On Palestine Isolating B ...
    The U.S. and Israel “now looked trapped together, weakened and dangerously isolated” during the Arab Spring over Israel’s intransigence on statehood for Palestine, an article in The New Yorker magazine charges.
  • Moment of reckoning for Pakistan
    The popular anger and outrage that the Memogate has provoked should be channelized to build a new, truly free Pakistan. Here is a rare opportunity for Islamabad to chart a new course of action. by Aijaz Zaka Syed
  • District police chief wounded in roadside blast
    A district police chief and a passer-by were wounded in a roadside bombing in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Friday, an official said. Sancharak district police head, Abdul Hakim, was injured in the blast on the way from his residence to the district centre to attend a gathering there. The roads ...
  • Veterans Hotline Seeking Volunteers
    ” Veterans911.com  Hotline preparing to Open”   by Ken Smith   Truly a remarkable idea.  ”Veterans Helping Veterans”   “Hot-line seeks  volunteers”   A new Veterans nonprofit, “Veterans Workshop” has begun their nationwide recru ...

electric politics

  • Seeking Economic Truth
    John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
  • Accelerated Ideas
    When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
  • Codebreaker
    In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...
  • Made in America
    Since elected officials don't seem so interested, around the country local groups are organizing to promote the reindustrialization of America. One of these is SFMade. Robin McRoskey Azevedo is on the board of SFMade and is also President and owner of the McRoskey Mattress Company of San Francis ...
  • The Illusion of Free Markets
    Let's take the long view. We're unconsciously mired in unexamined 18th century beliefs that color our perceptions in unexpected — and exceedingly harmful — ways. Take one, for example: as Dr. Bernard Harcourt suggests, our notion of a "free market" is the direct intellectual descenda ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: November 25, 2011
    ==== Reward For Russian Appeasement Of U.S., NATO Is Futility GCC-Controlled Arab League Issues Syria 48-Hour Ultimatum BRICS Nations Demand No External Interference In Syria, Iran NATO Missile Shield In Turkey “Israel’s Eye” Over Middle East: Iranian Official Kosovo: NATO Troo ...
  • Lowell on Lamartine: Highest duty of man, to s ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts James Russell Lowell From To Lamartine (1848) I did not praise thee when the crowd, ‘Witched with the moment’s inspiration, Vexed thy still ether with hosannas loud, And stamped their dusty adoration; I but looked upward wit ...
  • Sandy Denny: Peace in the End
    ==== Musical selections Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== ***** Fotheringay Peace in the End (1970) ***** Sandy Denny and the Strawbs Who Knows Where the Times Goes? (1967) ***** Sandy Denny Late November (1971) ***** Sandy Denny Fhir A Bhata (1966) ***** Fairport ...
  • Stop NATO news: November 24, 2011
    ==== NATO Encirclement: Russia Strikes Back With Missile Warning Chicago NATO Summit Can Be Point Of No Return For Missile Crisis Russia’s Tough Talk On Missile Defense Reveals Impatience With U.S. Syria: France, Turkey Push Foreign Intervention Russia Determined Not To Repeat Libyan Scena ...
  • Lamartine: The republic of peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Alphonse de Lamartine From Manifesto to Europe (1848) Translator unknown The proclamation of the French republic is not an act of aggression against any form of government in the world. Forms of government have diversities as legitimate ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Iranian Lawmaker Says 12 CIA Agents Working Wi ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie November 25, 2011 According to the Iranian state news agency IRNA, Parviz Sorouri reports that Iran has arrested 12 agents of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that were operating in concert with the Israeli Mossad ...
  • Reports Say Russian Ships in Syrian Waters Del ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie November 25, 2011 The Russian warships that arrived in Syrian territorial waters in recent days were reportedly carrying technical advisors who will assist the Syrian government in setting up an array of the super-advanced S-300 miss ...
  • The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
    LewRockwell.com By Richard J. Maybury November 24, 2011 Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also ve ...
  • Man-Made Super-Flu Could Kill Half Humanity
    Intel Hub Note: This man purposely created a super flu that could destroy half the world and now wants to publicly release the recipe. This is the insane logic of the vaccine pushers; Create a super virus to help save the population from the weaker version of that virus. Russia Today November 24 ...
  • OWS Protestors Plan Black Friday Demonstration
    Detroit Free Press November 24, 2011 PORTLAND, Ore. — Occupy protesters want shoppers to occupy something besides door-buster sales and crowded mall parking lots on Black Friday. Some don’t want people to shop at all. Others just want to divert shoppers from big chains to local mom-a ...

FRS

  • Nepal: As the People’s Liberation Army ...
     [Now, in the last stage of disbanding the Nepalese People's Liberation Army--five years after the Maoist party abandoned the revolutionary armed struggle and fighters were placed in demilitarized camps--the majority of these people's warriors have been enticed to accept cash payments for "retir ...
  • Canada: How police infiltrated groups plannin ...
    [How to guard against police infiltration and entrapment?  Serious activists need to answer this question, and study the growing amount of now-public material on the police methods of controlling, distorting, and destroying political opposition movements.  The key to blocking and limiting police ...
  • Greece: workers blockade state electricity sites
    November 21, 2011 (AP)  ATHENS, Greece — Protesting power and municipal workers blockaded several state electricity company buildings around Greece Monday, in protest at an emergency property tax being collected through electricity bills. Members of an electricity workers’ union cut off power la ...
  • San Francisco, California: Rally and March fo ...
    Monday, November 21 2011 Army Sets Pre-Trial Hearing Date for Bradley Manning on Dec. 16th On November 21st, the United States Army scheduled an Article 32 pretrial hearing for PFC Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence specialist accused of releasing classified material to WikiLeaks. The pretri ...
  • Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT ...
    Occupy Oakland Calls for TOTAL WEST COAST PORT SHUTDOWN ON 12/12 | OccupyWallSt.org: 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 sh ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Dale Farm (a video poem) Read by the Heretic
    As I look over Dale Farm today I see the inevitable world envisioned by the 1% A toxic, scarred, inhospitable landscape, a terrestrial hell suitable for Satan himself.
  • FOR THE RECORD – INTERNATIONAL NOTICE &# ...
    WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Allegiance, I have absolutely no Allegiance to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Residence, I maintain no Residence in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with paying taxes, I pay no ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
    UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
    Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken   Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T:             +44 7888 699256       or             +44 1206 523528       Contact for D ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters Pro ...
    The Irish traveler community of Dale Farm in England are facing a forced eviction, they are also facing a racist system that falsely claims that the residents of Dale Farm are flouting the law. That is a lie, and the truth will be set out in the full documentary set to be released on October 1, ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Is the Obama Administration Anti-Christian by ...
    The Obama administration has stepped into another controversy by announcing its opposition to the inclusion of a plaque depicting Franklin Roosevelt’s D-Day prayer at the memorial that celebrates his life and presidency.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 06, 2011
  • Baby Lisa Irwin Missing One Month; Police Stop ...
    Kansas City police called off the active search for missing baby Lisa Irwin on the eve of the one-month anniversary of her disappearance.Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Nov 04, 2011
  • Will Kindle Kill Libraries?
    Having done its part to put the brick and mortar bookstore on the ash heap of history, Amazon now proposes to help do the same to the public library. Kindle owners who are enrolled in the Amazon Prime program can now borrow e-books.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 03, 2011
  • Occupy Soldiers Into November
    The news is mixed for occupiers, ranging from support within city government to arrests, including one for rape.Contributor: Ken Hayes Published: Nov 02, 2011
  • EB-5 Step in Right Direction
    The EB-5 visa program gives foreigners visas if they invest large amounts of money in the United States economy. EB-5 is far from perfect, but it might be something to consider to help jump-start the economy.Contributor: Floyd Saunders Published: Nov 02, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Q&A: How to Rate the Habitability of Other Planets
    What's the most habitable planet? These days, every exoplanet discovery is still rich with excitement, as astronomers scrutinize each distant world and consider its possible characteristics. But this could get tedious pretty soon, as the number of confirmed exoplanets climbs into the thousands. ...
  • Can The Bulldog Be Redesigned?
    The breed risks collapsing under its own traits Here at PopSci we frequently talk about genetic modification, the process of interrupting or editing gene sequences to introduce new traits that nature by itself does not. Far less often do we talk about the other option — let’s call it morphologi ...
  • Archive Gallery: The Best of What Was New
    From climate-controlled clothing to Viagra, the first 10 years of PopSci's Best Of What's New Considering I was between the ages of -2 and 8 for the first 10 installments of the Best of What's New, it's remarkable how many vivid memories I have of the 1980s' and '90s' greatest innovations. I ow ...
  • New Glow-in-the-Dark Material Charges In One M ...
    Glow-in-the-dark devices, which emit visible light after exposure to sunlight, are as commonplace as a wristwatch. But these are not that great when you want to see and not be seen — say you’re a special ops soldier checking the time while tracking an enemy. In that situation, a glow-in-the-nigh ...
  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, November ...

Veterans Today

  • Happy Thanksgiving – The Magic Of Gratitude
    Gratitude is the only antidote for unworthiness for gratitude helps remove the stifling blanket of self-negating unworthiness ~ and gratitude allows a closed heart to open, to love and be loved, and to dance in inner joy and delight.
  • Israeli Intransigence On Palestine Isolating B ...
    The U.S. and Israel “now looked trapped together, weakened and dangerously isolated” during the Arab Spring over Israel’s intransigence on statehood for Palestine, an article in The New Yorker magazine charges.
  • Moment of reckoning for Pakistan
    The popular anger and outrage that the Memogate has provoked should be channelized to build a new, truly free Pakistan. Here is a rare opportunity for Islamabad to chart a new course of action. by Aijaz Zaka Syed
  • District police chief wounded in roadside blast
    A district police chief and a passer-by were wounded in a roadside bombing in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Friday, an official said. Sancharak district police head, Abdul Hakim, was injured in the blast on the way from his residence to the district centre to attend a gathering there. The roads ...
  • Veterans Hotline Seeking Volunteers
    ” Veterans911.com  Hotline preparing to Open”   by Ken Smith   Truly a remarkable idea.  ”Veterans Helping Veterans”   “Hot-line seeks  volunteers”   A new Veterans nonprofit, “Veterans Workshop” has begun their nationwide recru ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • End in sight to extraordinary November weather
    It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
  • Is the solar sector facing collapse?
    The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...
  • Satellite global temperatures fall sharply in ...
    The latest global temperature anomaly for October has been released and according to the UAH measure it's fallen sharply to +0.114C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.367C above the 1961-1990 ...
  • Autumn warmth continues
    November has started where October left off, with mild temperatures expected over the next few days as southerly winds continue. Provisional figures show October has been the 8th warmest since 1910 across the UK. The month will be remembered for the heat during the first weekend, when Yorkshi ...
  • The winter forecast and media hype
    The hype surrounding this year's winter forecast has been remarkable, unparalleled in my 20 years as a meteorologist. Driven largely by sections of the tabloid press and several small private weather companies, the idea that this winter could be the worst ever recorded has already become firmly ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • All the Way to Reno: UK Gilts Outdo German Bunds
    Humming...all the way to Reno You've dusted the non-believers And challenged the laws of chance Now, sweet--you're so sugar sweet You may as well have had 'kick me' Fastened on your sleeve Reno, Nevada of REM song fame is a popular gambling destination for Northern California residents alike so ...
  • Japan's Trading Houses Vie for Copper Supremacy
    In competitive market economies, the battle for the commanding heights is conducted by corporations as well as countries. Now, Japan's massive trading houses that underpin the keiretsu system of business groups (Mitsui, Mitsubishi, etc.) have often been criticized as inefficient middlemen by Wes ...
  • Honest Jian's Used Cars: China's Next Auto Market
    In 2009, China ended the United States nearly century-long reign as the world's largest auto market. But, we probably should add a qualifier--that's the new car market. Also, although the Chinese make some nifty products, let's just say that mostly homegrown products may not yet have similar sta ...
  • Yanks Foresee Yuan as World's Top Currency?
    There's interesting stuff from Reuters on the contents of the just-released 2011 Annual Report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The latter body, as most of you probably know, was created by the US congress in 2000 with some foresight that China was becoming an ...
  • Twitter Revolution My Sassafrass: Back to Egypt
    The self-styled American digerati has me ROFL even more now with their belief about the central importance of digital media in the Arab Spring events. A few days ago, we gathered that Egypt was in many ways worse off economically now than under President Mubarak. For, without a figure to provide ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Trouble
    The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead.  Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008.  Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
  • 25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
    For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude.  Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen.  Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
  • 17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
    Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse?  Yes.  The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
  • Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
    Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken?  The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement.  It is an ...
  • The Coming European Superstate That Germany Pl ...
    A lot of people were puzzled about what German Chancellor Angela Merkel meant when she recently stated that the ultimate solution to the financial crisis in the EU would "mean more Europe, not less Europe".  Well, now we are finding out.  A leaked internal German government memo ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Medvedev: Russia will target US missile defens ...
    Russia proceeds from the necessity to maintain its strategic defense potential, says Russia’s Ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin. ­Russia’s primary interest is in protecting its citizens, says the NATO envoy. “We cannot afford to trade on the security of our citizens,” Rogozin said. “So if anyon ...
  • Jailed Afghan woman offered Release if she Mar ...
    An Afghan woman raped by her cousin’s husband has revealed how she is faced with a horrific dilemma – marry him or spend the next 12 years in jail. Gulnaz was aged just 19 when she was convicted by a court of adultery, even though she tried to prevent the attack. Now she is in [...]
  • Occupy protest Cop becomes an Internet Craze a ...
    Call it the Meme Movement. This Sprayer Cop Meme Movement is very similar to the famous Looter King Meme Movement when a man from New Orleans was looting beer in the middle of the Katrina event. Whatever degree of success achieved by the Occupy protests, it’s largely been based on its old- ...
  • Russia Warns US, Israel against Attack on Iran
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the US and Israel against an attack on Iran, cautioning that such a move would mean “a very serious mistake”. Such an attack “could bring very unpredictable results … military intervention only creates a great number of victim ...
  • 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. Thousands of Italians have already signed the petition collected by a class action committee in Milan and m ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...
  • 8 Simple Actions to Change Pope From Liar to L ...
    The Catholic hierarchy, from Pope on down, are liars. They pretend, and regularly claim, to be “doing everything possible” to help victims of their widespread and systematic child rape and other abuses, to protect children and to bring offenders to justice. In reality they are doing ...
  • Pope responsible for crimes against humanity
    Last week the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) lodged documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague detailing the widespread and systematic campaign of sexual violence and exploitation of many, many thousands of children worldwide by the Catholic Church. I am on ...

WL Central

  • The Guardian's Vendetta Against Julian Assange
    TweetEver since Britain's The Guardian newspaper co-operated with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange to publish the greatest document leaks in history, they have pursued a relentless smear campaign against him. As Assange's likely extradition to Sweden looms, this campaign has now ramped u ...
  • Al Nashiri asks ECHR to fast track his complai ...
    TweetAbd al Nashiri, a suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole, has asked the European Court of Human Rights to fast track his complaint against Poland, TVP reports. He alleges to have been held and tortured in a prison facility operated by the CIA on Polish territory, and accuses Poland of a fai ...
  • German Pirate Party shuts down Piratepad serve ...
    TweetThe entire Piratepad service provided by the German Pirate Party has been shut down after a Berlin based newspaper, Tagesspiegel, received a "dubious e mail" saying that one of the public pads contained links to child pornography. Once the Pirate Party was notified, it immediately shut down ...
  • 2011-11-23 #WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks Truck re ...
    Tweet I know where the WikiLeaks Truck disappeared to! The same place where civil liberties and the rule of law went. - @JLLLOW This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and fre ...
  • Omar Khadr Part 4 of 4: “Punitive post-convic ...
    TweetThis article is in lieu of the long delayed fourth part of the Omar Khadr series written on WL Central last May. The original fourth part consisted of hours of interviews regarding the astoundingly corrupt and illegal military process which culminated in a verdict which allows the Canadian ...

U N News

  • UN, MTV and award-winning band launch campaign ...
    The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) launched a joint campaign with MTV Latin America, the television network Tr3s and rock band Calle 13 to raise awareness about human trafficking and exploitation of youth in Hispanic communities.
  • UN rights chief hails Brazil's truth commissio ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil's truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.
  • Migiro praises Uruguay for joining UN campaign ...
    Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has commended Uruguay for joining the United Nations campaign that seeks to end violence against women by raising awareness and generating political will to implement measures to stem the scourge.
  • UN relief official urges donors to support Cen ...
    The deputy United Nations humanitarian chief today urged donors to give generously to assist Nicaragua and El Salvador cope with the aftermath of the recent floods, saying that the scale of the disaster is beyond what the small Central American nations can handle on their own.
  • UN and Brazil launch initiative to combat hung ...
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Brazilian Government today launched a new initiative to help countries run their own national school meal programmes to advance the nutrition and education of children.

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.
  • Hangar 18: The UFO Warehouse
    Not only was debris from many UFO crashes allegedly shipped to the base, but from the late 1940s until the end of the late 1960s, all reports regarding UFOs were conducted at Wright-Patterson for the military's official UFO investigation Project Blue Book.
  • HAARP – Everything You Wanted to Know – Nick B ...
    You might be surprised at all of the constructive uses HAARP could be used for, but will be even more surprised by its focus on weapons and military applications, such as weather modification, geological disruption such as triggering earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and perhaps most controver ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Save the Great Arctic Refuge Wilderness! Aroun ...
    Today, the National Wilderness Preservation System has 757 Wilderness Area units totaling 109,512,959 acres.  Each Wilderness Area has great worth, but some stand out.  Among those, the Wilderness Area that to me is the Flagship of the National Wilderness Preservation System is the Arctic Nation ...
  • The Wolf is Back!
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
    (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
    Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
    From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Executive Order 13575... The United Nations Ag ...
      Obama recently signed EO 13575, establishing the White House Rural Council.  The council is a list of the most aggressive agencies and departments in the US government.  The all-inclusive council members represent the very agencies and departments most dedicated to for ...
  • Public Schools Censoring the Meaning of Thanks ...
      If your children go to a public school, there’s a good chance that they won’t be told why they don’t have to go to school on Thursday. The same thing is true if they read accounts of the history of Thanksgiving in our nation’s newspapers. Here’s one from today’s issue of USA Today... ...
  • Attention Black Friday Shoppers... You Will Be ...
      The busiest shopping day of the year is set for a new level of consumer exploitation at two American malls. A notice appearing at Promenade Temecula in California, and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. will advise shoppers that their cell phone signal will be used to track them ...
  • Thanksgiving... How F.D.R. Changed It
      U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a lot to think about in 1939. The world had been suffering from the Great Depression for a decade and the Second World War had just erupted in Europe. On top of that, the U.S. economy continued to look bleak... ~ Jennifer Rosenberg read more
  • Elliot Abrams' Thanksgiving Forecast... "Plea ...
      Turkeys will finish thawing Thanksgiving morning, then warm in the oven to a high near 190 in the afternoon. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or a cold shoulder. ~ Meteorologist Elliot Abrams read more

Tarpley

  • Tarpley Brings Greetings from Western Anti-NAT ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net November 24, 2011 This demonstration was held at the Hijaz Railway Station in Damascus on Sunday, November 20. It was also addressed by a Russian delegation, and by French blogger Marc George of Media Libre.
  • Report from Syria #2
    Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Russia Today November 21, 2011 [download video][download audio]
  • Report from Syria
    Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars November 15, 2011 [download audio]
  • Bekämpft die Banken und deren Spekulation
    von Ingo Hagel Umkreis-Online 7. November 2011 Man mag zum Standpunkt von Webster Tarpley – einem der brillantesten und mutigsten investigativen Journalisten – zur Erhaltung des Euros, stehen wie man will (ich selber sehe nicht, wie der Euro angesichts der wirtschaftlichen Unterschiede der versc ...
  • فارسی
    International Main Menu Arabic Ceské Dansk Deutsch Español Farsi Français Italiano Greek Nippon Polski Português Russki Srpski Svenska Türk Zhongwén   Tarpley Interviewed on Occupy Wall Street by Major Iranian Newspaper Zendegi News – 1390/8/17 [permalink] [...]

Modern Survivalism

  • Cell Phone Tracking In A Mall Near You?
    image: pathintelligence.com A sign of things to come will be the tracking of ‘patterns of movement’ this Holiday Season while shoppers move about from store to store in two specific US shopping malls, the Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmon ...
  • Are US Banks Headed Off A Cliff?
    The nation’s 2nd largest lender, Bank of America, has been warned by US regulators that the company could face a ‘public enforcement action’ if the bank doesn’t take immediate steps to ‘strengthen the bank’, a statement which apparently rattled the bank’ ...
  • Survival Preparedness for Winter Weather
    Winter Weather Preparedness Here are a few tips to be prepared for big winter weather storms this year. Before the winter storms hit, check the following preparedness items for your home… food supply your ‘everyday’ needs that you have (medical? other daily needs?) LED flashlig ...
  • A Safe Room For Your Home
    You have probably heard of the ‘safe room’ concept for inside your home – a room in which you or members of your family could retreat to in the event of a burglary, home invasion, or other emergency. But, have you ever thought about what it should be, and what should be inside ...
  • Russian Cyber-Attack Hits Illinois Infrastructure
    A cyber intruder hack of a critical infrastructure water system in Illinois in which a water pump was cycled until it burnt out, was traced to a computer in Russia. While the US DHS (Department of Homeland Security) “has downplayed the Illinois cyber attack in public reports, stating that ...

Fast Company

  • The Birth Of An Idea: Ads To Rebrand Girls
    Fast Company asked several of the most creative ad agencies in the world to rebrand baby girls. Their mock campaigns recast girls as the No. 1 choice for consumers from China to the U.S.
  • This Week In Bots: The Thanksgiving Edition
    [youtube 9psNh-dJTDU]Kinect House MaidsMeet SmartPal VII, a kind of interim stage before truly automated robot and butler bots start cleaning up your household mess for you--SmartPal's brains are actually you. The robot from Yashkawa Electric is designed to be controlled via a gesture and motion ...
  • CSi: Crime Scene iPhones Yield Forensic Eviden ...
    During the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray concerning the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, prosecutors used Dr. Murray's iPhone to collect forensic evidenc. The evidence, which included a recording of Jackson speaking in a slurred manner, was gathered by DEA computer forensics examiner Stephen Marx ...
  • For Video Game Makers, Playing The Competition ...
    For most executives, sizing up the competition means reading white papers or paying researchers to conduct market analyses. But when your industry is video gaming, knowing thy enemy means a whole lot of play time. Sounds like the greatest gig in the world, you say? Consider this: Playing a ...
  • Nokia Siemens Networks To Cut 17,000 Jobs, Pho ...
    Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.Nokia Siemens Networks To Cut 17,000 Jobs. Nokia Siemens Networks has announced restructuring plans that will cut 17,000 jobs globally by the end of 2013. In a press release, the company explained that they would shift their f ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egyptian Social Democratic Party Pulls Out of ...
    Unable to trust that the SCAF can ensure next week's elections are transparent, Social Democrats call for a National Salvation government to oversee the transition of power. The Egyptian Social Democratic Party has pulled out of next week's parliamentary elections and demanded a swift t ...
  • "Death to Al Sa`ud" Chants by Thousands in Sau ...
    [This post will be updated and further corroborated in the coming days] Saudi security forces have killed at least three people in al Qatif, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia,  since the killing of nineteen-year-old Naser al-Mheishi during confrontations with security forces ...
  • Making Sense of Developments in Egypt and Syri ...
    In the following interviews with KPFA's Khalil Bendib and Sharam Aghamir, Jadaliyya Co-Editors Hesham Sallam and Bassam Haddad, discuss developments in Egypt and Syria, respectively. In his interview, Hesham Sallam (between the 2 minute mark and the 34 minute mark) highlights ...
  • Mona Eltahawy Describes Her Detainment and Ass ...
    In the following inerview with CNN, Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy describes her assault and detainment in Cairo, first by the Ministry of Interior and then by Military Intelligence. She chronicles in detail what happened to her, highlighting the brutality of the regime's response to ...
  • "This Script is my Script" by Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm
    [This poem, by the legendary Egyptian vernacular poet, Ahmad Fu’ad Nigm (1929-), was put to music and sung by his comrade al-Shaykh Imam (1918-1995). It is one of the many memorable songs the duo produced decades ago. They are circulating widely these day as they speak of and to revolts, ...

mediagazer

  • Associated seeks to overturn anonymity ruling ...
    Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Associated seeks to overturn anonymity ruling  —  Associated Newspapers argues decision to allow anonymous witnesses ‘contravenes the principles of natural justice’  —  Associated Newspapers is seeking a judicial review of L ...
  • News of the World readers 'vanish' as they sto ...
    Roy Greenslade / Guardian: News of the World readers ‘vanish’ as they stop reading newspapers  —  The latest newspaper readership figures suggest that a huge number of people have stopped reading a Sunday newspaper altogether since the closure of the News of the Worl ...
  • Egypt protests: plea to keep women reporters o ...
    Harriet Sherwood / Guardian: Egypt protests: plea to keep women reporters out of Cairo withdrawn  —  Reporters Sans Frontieres had called on media not to send female journalists to cover crisis following two sexual assaults  —  An organisation campaigning for pre ...
  • Christopher Ma, Washington Post Co. senior vic ...
    Emily Langer / Washington Post: Christopher Ma, Washington Post Co. senior vice president, dies at 61  —  Christopher Ma, a veteran journalist and innovative new-media pioneer who was senior vice president for development of The Washington Post Co., died Nov. 23 at a hospital in ...
  • Conde Nast's Open Secret: SI Newhouse No Longe ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media: Conde Nast's Open Secret: SI Newhouse No Longer In Charge  —  Click for full photo gallery: Samuel Newhouse Jr  —  On Tuesday, Conde Nast chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. will gather the top editors and publishers of his magazine empire at ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson mak ...
    Red Devils boss shows he still has a sense of humour after poking fun at journalists' questions that caused him to cut short his press conference following midweek's Benfica draw Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Manchester United £13.30 Draw £50.00 Newcast ...
  • Premier League Preview: West Bromwich Alb ...
    Spurs are unbeaten since Scott Parker joined and he is set to make his 350th Premier League appearance, while the Baggies look to make it back-to-back home wins Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Tottenham £15.00 Draw £42.00 PAOK £65.00 Bet: £5 &#1 ...
  • Tight monetary policy impacting growth: P ...
    Finance Minister Mr Pranab Mukherjee on Friday said the tight monetary policy of the Reserve Bank which has helped in curbing inflation has also impacted growth. “While the increase in repo rate along with other monetary measures has impacted the inflationary...
  • Jo-Wilfried Tsonga makes powerful stateme ...
    Jo-Wilfried Tsonga knocked Rafael Nadal out of the ATP World Tour Finals 7-6, 4-6, 6-3 with a stunning display of power that proves he can lift the title on Sunday. As dominant as his game was last night, the nature of Tsonga's tennis means he made almost as many unforced errors, 45 includin ...
  • Mancini silent on Milan Tevez talk
    Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has refused to discuss the issue of Carlos Tevez at his weekly press briefing ahead of Sunday's Premier League encounter with Liverpool. Tevez's advisor Kia Joorabchian is known to have met AC Milan officials in the hope of thrashing out a permanent tr ...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Haji Ali: A Popular Pilgrimage for all Faith
    Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai is a popular pilgrimage destination for devotees of all faith. Many devotees visit Dargah from different walks of life. It is situated 500 yards off shore in the middle of Worli Bay in Mumbai. The mosque was built in 1431 by a... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...
  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 11/18/11 - What is the Stop Trading on Congres ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - NEW: What is the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act? - It currently remains legal for members of Congress to buy and sell stocks based on information they gain on the job. The STOCK Act would prohibit members of Congress and federal employees from pr ...
  • 11/16/11 - 100 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: 100 Peer-Reviewed Studies on Marijuana - What does the scientific literature say about the medical benefits or dangers of marijuana? Our chart of 100 studies on medical marijuana shows results from 22 double-blind human peer-reviewed studies, 74 human peer- ...
  • 11/16/11 - Candidate Speeches
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Candidate Speeches - Read transcripts of 25 campaign speeches from the nine Republican presidential candidates and incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. We'll add many more speech transcripts over the coming weeks and months.
  • 11/14/11 - Should churches (defined as churche ...
    churchesandtaxes.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? - US churches have been exempt from paying income and property taxes since the country's founding. Debate continues over whether or not these tax b ...
  • 11/10/11 - ProCon.org has now been used by ove ...
    www.procon.org - ProCon.org has now been used by over 2,000 schools in all 50 states and 38 countries. See our list of 2,012 schools along with the related lesson plans, resource lists, and other curricula where ProCon.org appears. Teachers and librarians, if your school is not already on the li ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Autism meets geeks
    Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn’t there. Lizzie Buchen In the opening scene of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg portrays a cold Mark Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlf ...
  • DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
    Andrew Hussey One of the most important facts about Michel Houellebecq – usually overlooked in favour of his nihilism, alleged racism and other attention-seeking provocations – is that he is a first-rate prose stylist. This is not quite enough, however, to make him a good novelist. E ...
  • Rice Seed Yields Blood Protein
    Human serum albumin from transgenic rice could ease shortages of donated blood. Lauren Gravitz of Nature magazine One can’t squeeze blood from a turnip, but new research suggests that a bit of transgenic tweaking may make it possible to squeeze blood–or at least blood protein–f ...
  • Women serve alongside Special Forces
    Kevin Maurer The medics helped Sgt. Janiece Marquez into a chair and started to treat her sprained ankle. Marquez, 25, had tripped over a rock on one of the dark paths in the camp. She had just run two miles during the physical fitness test and marched at least six miles carrying a 35-pound ruck ...
  • Why We Can’t Tell Good Wine From Bad
    David McRaney The Misconception: Wine is a complicated elixir, full of subtle flavors only an expert can truly distinguish, and experienced tasters are impervious to deception. The Truth: Wine experts and consumers can be fooled by altering their expectations. You scan the aisles in the liquor s ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
  • 7 billion: can we count on it?
    FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
  • Research careers – opening the discussion
    FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...
  • UK – world leader. But can it last?
    FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...
  • Costs and Benefits of Open Data – Professor An ...
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...

NAU Resistance

  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
  • U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
    “An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
  • The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
    Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
  • Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
    "While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel
  • THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOVEREIGNTY
    "An organism which cannot control its borders -- whether economic or physical -- is not sovereign"

Gaea Times

  • Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
    BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Son of Climategate
    After two years, the climategate scandal has erupted once again, with a new tranche of embarrassing emails from the world's top climate researchers now spreading virally across the net. The release of these emails seems timed to overshadow the upcomng Durban conference in the same way the previo ...
  • The “communitarian” world view (fo ...
    On tonight's show we take a look at a recent article by Naomi Klein titled "Capitalism vs. the Climate". In a key passage, Klein states the following: "Those with strong 'egalitarian' and 'communitarian' worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern ...
  • Lizzy Phelan: “The war on Libya is a war ...
    Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya covering NATO war crimes and uncovering mainstream media lies, freelance journalist Lizzie Phelan continues to fight for truth and justice on behalf of the Libyan people. Her testimony below is a gripping example of her commitment. Lizzie ...
  • Interview with Joanne Nova
    Tonight we welcome Joanne Nova to the show. Joanne is one of Australia's most articulate and outspoken climate sceptics. Her website is an international hub for informed discussion on questions of climate, carbon trading and the economy. Joanne's husband, Dr. David Evans, is a mathematician ...
  • Occupy Australia - has this movement been hija ...
    Tonight I am joined by Craig Stanford to reflect on the occupy Reserve Bank protest which we filmed on 15 October 2011. In our discussion we look at some of the techniques being used to create "group consciousness" at the protests here and overseas, such as hand signs and chanting, and we ask ...

Beacon

  • New Study: Climate Change Threatens Global Fis ...
    As world leaders prepare for international climate change negotiations next week in Durban, South Africa, a new study out this week depicts the widespread threats that climate change presents for marine fisheries. The bottom line? Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are presenting very ...
  • One More Way to Give to Oceana
    As we gear up for the holiday season, we are excited to announce that there is now one more way to support our work to protect the oceans: through a Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the world's largest annual workplace giving collective. The mission of the CFC is "to promote and support philan ...
  • EU Proposes Full Ban on Shark Finning at Sea
    Blue sharks would benefit from an EU shark finning ban. © Karin Leonard/Marine Photobank It has been a banner year for shark conservation – and the good news just keeps rolling in, this time out of Europe. Today the EU's executive arm proposed a complete ban on shark finning, the practice of ...
  • Marine Monday: Giant Tube Worms
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. When giant tube worms were discovered in the 1970s, they were like nothing that had ever been seen before, and scientists still find them fascinating. That’s because they live in some of the harshest environments and, unlike almost all kinds of life on Earth, do ...
  • CEO Note: Let's Be Thankful for Ocean Victories
    This week, we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States. It’s a time to appreciate and reflect upon the good tidings of the past year. We’ve had a great year at Oceana, with numerous policy achievements accomplished for the oceans around the world. I’d like to take a moment to express my than ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Progressive Notes: Texas Students Show their L ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. A heartening Thanksgiving story out of Kingwood Texas (outside of Houston). You may have seen this on CNN, but it is a such a story about kids doing what it is right for their fellow man. More details plus video: … Mr. Love is ...
  • Boycott Black Friday and OCCUPYXMAS
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Tomorrow is the 20th Annual Buy Nothing Day, so this certainly isn’t an Adbusters or Occupy innovation. But the boycott of Black Friday is being embraced by the movement, including by a coalition of women’s organizati ...
  • Wealth Distribution Worse Than We Thought
    It’s not news that there’s been a deepening wealth inequality in the United States. Since1979:  [For] the top 1% of the population, average inflation-adjusted household income grew by 275%…the poorest fifth of the population saw their incomes rise by just 18% in a little less t ...
  • Grateful
    The team on my book, The Hillary Effect, who helped me get it into the wider world is most on my mind this year. So, I thought I’d share the Acknowledgement page with you all today. Many people skip over this page, but to any author it’s one of the most important pages, a paragraph [...]
  • Coulter on Occupy: “It just took a few shootin ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Media coverage of the Occupy Movement has improved, though given how it began, that’s not exactly praise. Still, we’ve gone from ignoring, to “they don’t have any goals!” to parroting or initiating demeaning remarks, ...

Hudson New York

  • Is Syria Planning to Attack Jordan?
    Millions of Palestinians living in Jordan are, for now, sitting on the fence. But when and if they break their silence and join the enemies of King Abdullah II, it would be hard to see how the monarchy would be able to survive. That is unless the US and
  • "Inspire" Magazine: Open Source Jihad
    The recent arrest of Jose Pimentel, a 27-year-old convert to Islam who was allegedly planning to detonate an explosive device in New York, underscores the ongoing danger posed by so-called "lone wolf" terrorists. Pimentel, busy preparing a bomb at the
  • Israel a Burden on its Allies, Turkish Preside ...
    President Abdullah Gül criticized Israel on Wednesday, saying its "insincere" commitment to peace in the Middle East has alienated even allies of the Jewish state. Gül, speaking at a British think-tank during an official visit to Britain, said Israel has
  • The United Nations: The Devil's Jury
    In Stephen Vincent Benét's story "The Devil and Daniel Webster," Satan called a jury of the damned composed of turncoats, traitors, and Blackbeard the Pirate, "with the stench of hell still upon them." At the United Nations Human Rights Council,
  • Court Refuses to Free Scribes
    An Istanbul court refused to release arrested journalists Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, as well as 12 other suspects, in the first hearing of an alleged coup plot case Monday. Fourteen suspects, including journalists Şık, Şener and Soner Yalçın, the owner

Urban Survival

  • Double Meaning to “Black Friday?”
    (Tacoma, WA) Our first little intellectual hurdle this morning involves a small point about how, every so often, Universe comes along and slaps people with double-meanings.  Not saying it is going to happen today, but there’s a chance Black Friday … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Leftovers and BFC’s
    (Tacoma, WA) The first item of business today is my annual update on the SST Sandwich, made famous by 13 Coins Restaurants up here in the Seattle area.  It may not be on the menu any longer, but I think … Continue reading →
  • Reader Note/Holiday
    This morning’s report will be posted in “progressive fashion” – which means I will write a bit, publish, drink some more coffeee, write some more, publish, and so forth.   Should be done around 9 AM Central time, but this is … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Dangerous Knowledge
    (Tacoma, WA)  “Poor is the student who does not better his teacher,” began my son’s explanation.  I have shared little  bits of the thinking which has gone into my book “Victims of Process: How Unwritten Recipes Run People’s Lives” with … ...
  • No News Tuesday
    (Morongo, CA) “Say what?  Has Ure flipped out?  Has he gone completely mad after just 3? days in California?” No, of course not.  And I will readily admit that the “There’s no news” assertion seems far-fetched on the surface, but … Continue read ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • THE BILDERBERG GROUP
    Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a small and select group of people that control the world. When you are first confronted with this prospect your initial thoughts may be to dismiss this claim as another one of those conspiracy theories; but if you probe further, you are likely ...
  • DEAD AND STILL DYING
    I’m dying slowly. Each day I can feel my end slowly approaching, and I will never know when that end truly is. All I know is that there is one. One day the essence I call life will cease to exist, and even now it slowly fades away before my eyes. It is difficult to hide [...]
  • SEXUAL INCOMPATIBILITY – By: Femi Job
    The topic being addressed is a very controversial topic for adults. I ask that you tell the kids to go to their rooms, and if you are a kid, you need to leave this page. Let us wait for about 2 minutes before we read on (to allow the kids to leave this page). While [...]
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘Dutiful Husband’ & ...
      Elsie had been in a bad mood all week. Geoff had noticed, so he thought he would do the dutiful husband thing. On Friday he left work unusually early, and bought a huge bouquet of red roses. As he came out of the flower shop and crossed the road, he saw the man with [...]
  • WHY DO ROYAL FAMILIES EXIST?
    What does a family need to do to become royal? I mean, aren’t they just an expensive welfare family? Let’s face it, I would be in a royal family too if the rest of society was paying for my upkeep. Don’t worry about it, ill buy a crown and put some jewels on it, ill [...]

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Harvard "Innovation Lab" opens
    A Globe staff editorial ($) congratulates Harvard on the opening of its Innovation Lab in the old public television studieo in Allston. The ribbon-cutting at the site last week marked a milestone in Harvard's long-awaited expansion across the Charles River into Allston. The university should i ...
  • Brilliant, controversial UMass biologist Lynn ...
    From Boston.com According to a statement from the University of Massachusetts where she was a professor of geosciences, Margulis died at her home on Tuesday. She was 73. Margulis was best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges Neo-Darwinism by arguing that inherited variation ...
  • Science and the 99%: Why some area researchers ...
    MIT biologist Jonathan King doesn't need to look too far to find the influence of the so-called "1%" on the nation's scientific agenda. The newest, flashiest building on campus is the "David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research," named for the conservative activist and MIT alum who ...
  • MIT museum's FAT Friday and more scientific ev ...
    A quiet week until Friday. "In 2008, over 1,600 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led one of the MIT Museum's most popular annual events. Teams from all over the country bring a link, which is then connected to another link and be ...
  • Activists and renegade MIT hacker indicted fo ...
    My local paper has the scoop on Aaron Swartz. A Cambridge man has been indicted on charges of breaking and entering, larceny of electronic data, and unauthorized access to a computer network in connection with the illicit downloading of millions of academic articles, Middlesex District Attorney ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • 108 Countries Support HFC Curbs under Montreal ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. The parties to the Montreal Protocol resumed their debate this week in Bali, Indonesia, on whether they can do more to protect the climate under the world’s most s ...
  • Giving Thanks for the Montreal Protocol - Proo ...
    David Doniger, Policy Director, Climate and Clean Air Program, Washington, D.C. I just posted a report on the latest meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol, in Bali Indonesia.  Let me add a personal reflection, as this is the Thanksgiv ...
  • Giving Thanks . . . for Urban Green Space (an ...
    Larry Levine, Senior Attorney, New York As we all gather with our loved ones to celebrate Thanksgiving, we have so many things for which to give thanks.  Family, friends . . . football.  Last Sunday, I took a jaunt downtown to the “ ...
  • Clean Energy Opportunities Inspire, Even at a ...
    Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City I’m just returning from Honduras, where I spoke at a conference at Zamorano, Central America’s largest agricultural university. What I said, about farm pollution and opportunities to r ...
  • Dimock Thanksgiving Disgrace: DEP Gives Cabot ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City   Water deliveries to Dimock residents, like the truck delivery shown here, may be cut off less than a week after Thanksgiving It’s been over a year since my last post on Dimock, PA, highli ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    We hope everyone has a great holiday season and we’re very thankful for everyone’s continued support and interest in our project. The news feed will not be updating today and there won’t be a daily review this evening. All reports found for today will be reported in the news f ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, November 23, 2011: Toronto ON cop was found guilty of assault & sexual assault for squeezing a man’s testicles during a traffic stop. [0] bit.ly/uHoooL New York NY poli ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 28 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, November 22, 2011: Scotland Neck NC cop is under investigation after a 61-year-old man he tasered while he was on a bicycle died. The officer was responding to a call about a man wh ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 21, 2011: Jackson MS police officer is now facing capital murder charges after charges of felony child abuse were upgraded following the death of a 1-year-old girl who was j ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 11-19 ...
    Here are the 17 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of November 19-20, 2011: In an update to a report we covered on Friday, 2 UC Davis CA police officers have been placed on paid leave while they are being investigated for [...]

Total Collapse

  • US Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Syrian Coast
    Violence continued in Syria today, with a number of civilian protesters killed. The focus however was off the coast, where America’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, has taken up a position just outside of Syrian territorial waters, after a deployment near the Straits of Hormu ...
  • NATO conceals preparations for military action ...
    The United States has decided to disengage itself from certain obligations on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). In particular, the USA will no longer inform Russia about the plans connected with the redeployment of its forces. Those restrictions are not touching upon any other coun ...
  • U.S. Tells Citizens to Leave Syria Immediately
    Earlier today we reported that Arab states are set to impose a no fly zone over Syria with US logistical support, advancing the prospect of a military assault to take out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under a “humanitarian” pretext. In Libya, a no-fly zone was established as a pretext prior t ...
  • Is the U.S. About to Invade Syria … and Pick a ...
    CBS reports: “The U.S. Embassy in Damascus urged its citizens in Syria to depart “immediately,” and Turkey’s foreign ministry urged Turkish pilgrims to opt for flights to return home from Saudi Arabia to avoid traveling through Syria.” Military analyst Statfor reports (as summarized by Zero Hedg ...
  • Russian navy nears Cyprus drilling zone
    The “Admiral Kuznetsov” class aircraft carrier is currently off the coast of Malta and heading for eastern Mediterranean from their base in the Barents Sea. Informed sources have said that the Russian navy and Israeli military will hold joint exercises next week close to Cyprus Exclusive Economi ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
    Matthew Wright, November 24:  The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government ...
  • Trophies and Titles - BZE awarded for climate ...
    The determination and enthusiasm of Beyond Zero Emissions and its members has been acknowledged with two prestigious awards over the last month. The honours build on BZE's momentum leading into 2012 with the anticipated launch of the visionary Zero Carbon Australia plans for the buildings and tr ...
  • WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a false ...
    Media Release 18 Nov 11 WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a falsehood in relation to BZE. WorleyParsons state in their media release dated 10 November 2011: "Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) engaged Worley Parsons to prepare a report to analyse the life cycle GHG emissions for Australian gas co ...
  • Serious About Solar
    Sophie McCallum of The Transcontinental reports, November 16: Alinta Energy is seriously exploring the idea of converting its Port Augusta power stations into solar thermal facilities. Solar thermal was first proposed by renewable energy advocates, Beyond Zero Emissions and has already gained ...
  • Take Action - Support a Zero Carbon Australia
    Take action now 2011 has been a big year for Beyond Zero Emissions.  Thousand's have heard us speak in audiences across Australia where they are hearing about our 100 percent renewable plan, we are working on zero emissions plans for transport, land use and buildings. Our ground-breaking ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Peace accord reached in violent conflict betwe ...
    A peace accord has been announced to resolve a long-running conflict between a giant state-owned plantation company and local communities on the Indonesian island of Java.
  • Brazilian dam-builder quits Peru project after ...
    A large Brazilian construction company has pulled out of a Peruvian dam project citing opposition from indigenous communities, reports International Rivers.
  • Aceh's 'green' governor breaks Indonesia's mor ...
    Aceh governor Irwandi Yusuf may have broken Indonesia's moratorium on new concessions in peatlands when he approved an oil palm plantation in the Tripa peat swamp in August this year, alleges WAHLI, an Indonesian environmental group.
  • Concerns standoff between Borneo forest commun ...
    A conflict between villagers in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province and a palm oil developer could turn violent over the company's decision to press forward with clearing of forest land used by the community, warns the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and its Indonesian partner Telapak.
  • Photos: two dozen new beetles discovered in Pa ...
    Over the past two decades, at least 24 new beetles species have been discovered in a remote mountainous rainforest region of Papua New Guinea by Swedish entomologists Ulf Nylander. Described in the new book Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea, the new be ...

Sierra Express

  • Sierra Leone VP’s bribery scam: A set up or…
    “Freelance,” they say, “is a trade for the birds. No pension, no gratuity, no salary, no benefit.”  (Photo:  Sam Sumana, Vice President, Sierra  Leone) By the above quote, it is understandable that Sorious Samura, who doubles as a Freelance journalist, searches for story and sell to media instit ...
  • MP lashes Charles Mambu over Pujehun dispute
    Member of Parliament for Constituency 88 in the Pujehun District, Hon. Sheka Musa Sama, has called for the immediate removal of civil society activist, Charles Mambu, as Chairman of the Conflict Resolution Committee. He was appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security to ...
  • Sierra Leoneans in Yenga cry foul
    About 78 Sierra Leoneans who maintained they are indigenes of the disputed town of Yenga, in the Easthern District of Sierra Leone, have told this medium that they are unhappy over the snail pace of negotiations between the Sierra Leone and Guinean governments. Mr. Tunie Kamara, a resident of Ye ...
  • Mr. Idiot: It’s a set up, VP Sumana
    How dare Sorious Samura, an international investigative journalist tied up with unknown and unnamed persons  hamper the standings of the Sierra Leone Vice President? Who says the video footage seemingly obtained by Sorie Sorious Samura and followers is all, but accurate nevertheless? As an Idiot ...
  • The audacity of youth politics and imperial na ...
    “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” (Marcus Garvey). Simplistic as it may sound, this is true of culture in its truest form.  The lack of culture in any society can result in ignoble civilization and imminent downfall. Man’s bio ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy futures trading hits 10,000 mark
    Trading in NZX dairy futures passed the 10,000-lot mark today for the first time since its inception.The exchange says the milestone means the market is well on the way towards reaching critical mass.Futures markets allow buyers...
  • No to Chinese Crafar sale, says Fay poll
    Polling for the Michael Fay-led consortium trying to buy the Crafar dairy farms shows an "overwhelming desire for the government to stop in and stop the sale" to the would-be Chinese buyer, Pengxin International.However,...
  • Asparagus growing under threat
    Asparagus could become unaffordable and hard to come by within just a few years if the expansion of dairy farms continues at its present rate.The antioxidant-rich superfood was down to $2.50 a bunch at most grocery stores last week,...
  • Fonterra's change of guard
    Australasia's highest paid bank executive, Sir Ralph Norris, will become a director of dairy giant Fonterra, while its chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden plans to step down after more than a decade on the board.New Zealander Norris...
  • Van der Heyden to step down as Fonterra chair, ...
    Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden is to step down next year after a decade in the job and the cooperative has tapped Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris to join the board.Van der Heyden will step down...

The Bovine

  • Michael Schmidt to be sentenced Friday Nov. 25 ...
    From a news release sent out today: On September 28th, 2011, Justice Peter Tetley reversed a lower court decision, on appeal from the Province, finding Michael guilty of 15 charges arising from a raid on his Durham area farm, on … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt to be sentenced Friday Nov. 25 ...
    From a news release sent out today: On September 28th, 2011, Justice Peter Tetley reversed a lower court decision, on appeal from the Province, finding Michael guilty of 15 charges arising from a raid on his Durham area farm, on … Continue reading →
  • Cross Country raw milk check up cont’d & ...
    More new from yesterday’s raw milk rallies across the country: I’m sure there must have been more to Saskatoon than that, but we seem to be in a bit of a news blackout just now. We’d love to know more … Continue reading →
  • Cross Country raw milk check up cont’d & ...
    More new from yesterday’s raw milk rallies across the country: I’m sure there must have been more to Saskatoon than that, but we seem to be in a bit of a news blackout just now. We’d love to know more … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt sentencing tomorrow
    From Michael’s lawyer, Karen Selick (“reprinted” from earlier): The sentencing hearing for Michael Schmidt will take place on Friday, November 25, 2011 at 9:30 a.m. The courthouse is NOT the same place where the trial was held in 2009.  It … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Do It Yourself Interactive Eurozone Bank Stres ...
    Reuters has an interesting Interactive Eurozone Bank Stress Test Adjust the Tier 1 Capital Ratio and Sliders for Haircuts and out pops an answer. This is what I came up with. It is hard to get the sliders to stop exactly on the spot you want. A Political Problem? Please cons ...
  • Not your grandfather’s Republican Party; Presi ...
    Not your grandfather’s Republican Party My lifelong friend and high-school classmate had an wonderful op-ed on iPolitics today. Please consider Not your grandfather’s Republican Party by David Wise. One of the most negative things to have happened to the increasingly dysfunctional polit ...
  • UK Banks Brace for Eurozone Break-Up; Eurogedd ...
    There are several good articles in The Telegraph today. Let's take a close look at two of them. The Death of a Currency Jeremy Warner writes Death of a currency as eurogeddon approaches The market is starting to bet on what was previously a minority view - a complete collapse, or br ...
  • Home Prices Crash 62.5% Since September in Erd ...
    Erdos is an inner-Mongolia city with rich natural resources. However, it's a ghost town with many buildings but few people. Home prices just crashed 62% in a few months. Let's take this story starting from the beginning. 2011-07-11 China Times reports Housing bubble in Inner Mongoli ...
  • European Bond Selloff Continues: Italy 2-Yr Yi ...
    The European bond selloff continues unabated, once again led by surging yields on 2-Year bonds pretty much across the board, especially Italy, Belgium, and Portugal. Italy 2-Year Government Bonds Belgium 2-Year Government Bonds Portugal 2-Year Government Bonds ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    American Spy Drones Swarm in Droves over Afghanistan, DOD Sued Over Theft of Private Info about almost 5 Million Soldiers, Police State: Feds: ‘States Have no Rights’, Pepe Escobar: The US Power Grab in Africa, Chris Floyd: Family Values- The Roman Rigor of Obama’s Death Squads ...
  • The EyeOpener- CIA & the Nuclear Black Market: ...
    The Business of Arming the Nation’s Enemies The AQ Khan nuclear network was first introduced to the public in early 2004, with Abdul Qadeer Khan’s dramatic televised confession to the Pakistani public that he had participated in selling nuclear technology, including bomb-making designs and ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitaria ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman-Chicago: The Cit ...
    Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes Chicago has a lot of strengths, along with a deserved, well, reputation. The City of Big Shoulders?  Perhaps.  But legal and illegal corruption have long greased the wheels in the City That Works.  Chicago is joined at the hip with the State of Illinois, with no ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israe ...

bloody crossroads

  • Is Obama a Fraud?
    The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008.  And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →
  • The Tyranny of American Healthcare
    For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations?  Let me give … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Stories
    Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

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Blogging Canadians

  • Kelowna votes, disappointed but not surprised.
    Well, Kelowna has voted and it seems the voters want to shake things up a bit. When I heard about an increase in voter turnout this time around, both at advance polls and on election day, I figured we were in for some changes. Unfortunately, the majority of voters are under the impression that b ...
  • Akaash Maharaj: To Lead or to Serve
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  • Finally - The Government Addresses Section 13 ...
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  • "One Out of Control Teen"
    Justin Bieber Is Out Of Control by "Durka Durka Mohammed" As originally posted on: CelebJihad.com November 17, 2011 Pop star Justin Bieber is one out of control teen! First he was caught impregnating a girl in a restroom, then he got it on with 2 teens in a Macy’s, and now he is flipping off ...
  • American Pop Celebrity Ashton Kutcher and "His ...
    Ashton Kutcher Finally Moving Out Of His Mom’s House by "Durka Durka Mohammed" As originally posted on: CelebJihad.com November 17, 2011 After reportedly receiving $15.4 million from CBS to star on the hit TV show “Two And A Half Men”, Ashton Kutcher can finally afford to move out of his mo ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israel razing more Palestinian homes
    New footage has emerged showing Israeli soldiers carrying out a demolition project and destroying several homes to Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank.
  • Detained Kuwaitis go on hunger strike
    About 20 Kuwaiti activists, detained after storming the parliament earlier in the month, have gone on a hunger strike to protest the “illegal and oppressive detention.”
  • Israeli women protest family violence
    Israeli women's rights activists have marched in Tel Aviv to protest against the rising family violence which sees some 200,000 women abused by their partners every year.
  • Video: Saudi snipers target protesters
    New footage to emerge from Saudi Arabia shows the kingdom's snipers targeting anti-government protesters as part of a brutal crackdown on anti-regime uprising in the country.
  • Jordan says arms smuggled into Syria
    The Jordanian media affairs and communications minister has said that arms have been smuggled into Syria from Jordan's border with the country.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
  • Network Like a Pro
    I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...
  • Satire and Humor?
    With all the mayhem that’s been going on in Washington, D.C. and across the United States, you’d think politicos would use some measure of wisdom.  I’ve been reading articles, watching news reports and tweeting stories, which I feel has some semblance, contrary to all the madne ...

Dissident Voice

  • And Its Name Is Treason!
    If war is a crime what is its name? The Constitution of the United States of America calls it “Treason.” According to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, September 28, 2011, “Richard Allen Posner” is “an America jurist and legal theorist who is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appea ...
  • The American Way of Life
    All the splendors of the American way of life will be on full display this Thanksgiving weekend.  For nothing seems to make the American way of life shine quite like a holiday celebrating the nation’s genocidal conquest of the continent’s native inhabitants. And to commemorate the nation’s histo ...
  • Van Jones and Democratic Party Operatives: You ...
    The corporate media is anointing a false leader of the Occupy Movement in Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream. The former Obama administration official, who received a golden parachute at Princeton and the Democratic think tank Center for American Progress when he left the administration, is doing wh ...
  • Support Today’s Freedom Riders by Ending U.S. ...
    Fifty years ago, Freedom Riders braved beatings and arson by supremacists intent on maintaining apartheid in the Jim Crow South.  By challenging segregated transportation through nonviolent action, these African American and white activists set in motion a process that ultimately dismantled segr ...
  • Corporate

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  • Disabled Man Tasered To Death For Falling Off ...
    A 61 year old man from Halifax County, Virginia, was tasered by cops and died Tuesday after they were called to the scene by an onlooker who saw the man fall off his bike in a parking lot and feared he was drunk. When the police arrived, Roger Anthony was riding away on the bike. Anthony did ...
  • French FM urges ECB action to save the euro
    French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Thursday urged the European Central Bank (ECB) to accelerate moves to tackle the debt crisis already threatening Europe's core economies. "We're seeking a compromise. We do not agree on everything at first, but we'll end by agreeing ... There is urgency ...
  • France in hot seat on alarming debt bell
    After Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Italy and Spain, the alarming bell of debt crisis is ringing in France, where jitters over debt crisis's spread into core European economies is escalating, in a sign that the region is facing a serious emergency. Worries about a wider fiscal gap and domestic b ...
  • New Iowa Poll Places Ron Paul Firmly in First, ...
    Congressman Ron Paul is leading by a significant margin in Iowa, according to preliminary results of a new TeleResearch poll. Revolution PAC, the Super PAC formed to support presidential candidate Ron Paul, has received early data from the commissioned Iowa poll. The TeleResearch survey is th ...
  • Massive Hydrovolcanic Explosion Inevitable at ...
    On November 17, the architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, was interviewed in Japan. He warned that a “China Syndrome” situation is inevitable at the plant. Haruo said that considering eight months have passed since the tsunami and the crippling of the nuclear plant without a ...
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