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Thomas Paine

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

Friday, November 25, 2011

25 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • INDIA: Elephants and Mahouts Held Captive by T ...
    As the number of captive elephants grows to 35 percent of the wild population of the world's largest land-dwelling mammal, elephant trainers, or mahouts, find themselves just as chained to hardships as their charges.
  • HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water ...
    Despite, or perhaps because of, a host of international actors, 2.5 million U.S. dollars in funding and five years of empty promises, residents of some of Port-au-Prince's poorest neighbourhoods have yet to see running water in their vicinity.
  • HAITI: Waiting Five Years for a Drop of Water ...
    2.5 million U.S. dollars to supply water to several marginal neighbourhoods in the capital. Approved in 2006. Five years later the water has yet to run. Children are still in the streets bearing bottles and buckets.
  • US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remember ...
    Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Cuba Joins New South-South All ...
    Cuba will be attending the next round of climate change negotiations after a year that has seen a growing consensus in the developing South to put pressure on rich nations to take on firmer commitments within an international governance regime for climate stability.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The dangerous hype about Iran’s nuclear programme
    Summary: So why is the US, aided and abetted by Israel and supported by Britain, so fixated on Iran? Iran has the world’s third largest known oil and second largest gas reserves. Could it be, as the Campaign Against Sanctions & Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) suggests, “Because it ...
  • Iran and US: The Excuse and the Main Concern
    Summary: Political analysts usually enumerate three main problems between Iran and the United States: the nuclear energy program, terrorism, and human rights. All Western media propaganda against Iran revolves around one of these three axes. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • THE “IRAQIZATION” OF AMERICA’S IRAN DEBATE: MO ...
    Summary: American elites are gearing up for military confrontation with the Islamic Republic—and, in the process, displaying all of the cultural, intellectual, and political pathologies that produced the 2003 Iraq war. We do not believe that the United States is likely to initiate such a con ...
  • Iran Hasn't Decided to Make Nukes
    Summary: HershSeymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter for The New Yorker magazine, discusses his article “Iran and the I.A.E.A.;” how extensive CIA/JSOC espionage (and perhaps assassination and sabotage) in Iran failed to find any evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program; ...
  • Iran opens int'l investment meeting in face of ...
    Summary: Representatives of 250 international companies from 25 countries are participating in the two-day conference, as several expert panels in oil, gas, petrochemicals, mines, agriculture, banking and insurance are to be held during the event. source: Xinhuaread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Eco Alert: Coral Sea Marine Sanctuary Proposed ...
    The Australian government has said it plans to establish the world's biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea, one of the planet's great biodiversity hotspots. The proposed Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve off the...
  • News Update: ESA Puts Hold on Contacting Mars' ...
    The European Space Agency (ESA) put off attempting to contact the stranded Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft that became stuck at a low-Earth orbit due to engine failure that followed its launch on November 9 until Monday, the head of the ESA...
  • Dwarf Galaxies Reveal Dark Matter Mass
    This view of the universe from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope shows seven dwarf galaxies, circled in white. Observations indicate the dwarf galaxies are full of dark matter because their stars’ motion cannot be fully explained by their mass alone,...
  • Image of the Day: White Dwarf Zoombies
    "Zombie" stars that explode like bombs as they die, only to revive by sucking matter out of other stars. According Andy Howell, an astrophysicist at UC Santa Barbara, this isn't the plot for the latest scifi blockbuster,iInstead, it's something that...
  • NASA: "The Conditions for the Emergence of Lif ...
    Planetary scientists have been puzzling over what could be producing methane gas detected in Mars thin atmosphere. Methane molecules are easily blown apart by ultraviolet light from the Sun, so any methane around must have been released recently. The presence...

Natural News

  • Mysterious white goo repeatedly found blanketi ...
    (NaturalNews) Residents of Dilovasi, an industrial suburb just outside of Istanbul, Turkey, have been looking for answers concerning a mysterious substance that, on numerous occasions, has been found covering cars, trees, clotheslines, and vegetable gardens throughout the city. Milliyet, a Turki ...
  • 'Green' debacle: Tens of thousands of abandone ...
    (NaturalNews) Literal beacons of the "green" energy movement, giant wind turbines have been one of the renewable energy sources of choice for the US government, which has spent billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing their construction and use across the country. But high maintenance costs, hig ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving from the Health Ranger and ...
    (NaturalNews) Enjoy a very, very happy Thanksgiving! You've earned time with your family, away from the rat race of work. We all have so much to be thankful for right now, so it seems appropriate to have a holiday that celebrates it. What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? I don't even kn ...
  • Does green tea have caffeine? Seven things yo ...
    (NaturalNews) If you want to completely eliminate caffeine from your diet, you will have to add green tea to your list of forbidden foods. However, if you merely want to reduce your caffeine intake, you may want to substitute green tea for coffee as your morning pick-me-up beverage. Consider the ...
  • Scientist deliberately 'militarizes' flu strai ...
    (NaturalNews) For years, health officials from around the world have been warning that the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is currently not a threat, will one day mutate into a deadly, pandemic strain. But now their predictions -- or warnings, depending on how you look at it -- could come true, as a ...

Threat Level

  • 9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
    There’s plenty of reason to be concerned Big Brother is watching. We’re paranoid not because we have grandiose notions of our self-importance, but because the facts speak for themselves. Here’s our short list of nine reasons that Wired readers ought to wear tinfoil hats, or a ...
  • Mobile ‘Rootkit’ Maker Apologizes to Critical ...
    A mobile data-logging software maker apologized Wednesday to an Android developer who the company had insisted that he publicly apologize for his critical research. Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until the 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, recently revealing that ...
  • ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong
    Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”
  • Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Growing Student Pr ...
    Occupy Wall Street may have been evicted from Zuccotti park, but New York students are now taking the protest back to their schools.
  • Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t D ...
    A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released late Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • CBO Gives Thanks to the Stimulus
    On this the fourth Thanksgiving since the start of the Bush recession, families across America are still struggling with persistently high unemployment, underwater mortgages and stagnant wages. But as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminded us this week, Americans can be than ...
  • Republicans Violate Norquist Pledge over Payr ...
    The Wall Street Journal greeted the failure of the Congressional debt super committee with an editorial titled, "Thank You, Grover Norquist." That gratitude should have surprised no one. After all, Norquist's anti-tax pledge led handcuffed committee Republicans not just to oppose even modest t ...
  • Mitt Romney's Iran Follies
    As the GOP presidential field gathers once again for the CNN national security debate, Mitt Romney has already identified Iran as the place to contrast himself with the current commander-in-chief. "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Romney declared at the last Republ ...
  • GOP's "Servants of the Rich" Block Debt Deal
    Two weeks ago, House Speaker John Boehner protested that the characterization of his Republican Party as "servants of the rich" was "very unfair." But after the GOP torpedoed any debt reduction deal from the Congressional super committee including "any penny" in new tax revenue from the richest ...
  • The Victory of the Occupy Movement
    In the wake of its clashes with police in cities across the country, some media (for example, here and here) are beginning to question whether the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is becoming counterproductive. But lost in those debates is the undeniable victory of the Occupy movement, or at ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Noam Chomsky – 7th Annual Edward Said Memorial ...
    Dandelion Salad Speech delivered Nov. 5, 2011 copym3 on Nov 24, 2011 The ESML is AFOPA’s showpiece event. This year’s guest speaker, Noam Chomsky, is a world renowned linguist, philosopher, and human rights activist. The Edward Said Memorial Lecutre organisers, the University of Adel ...
  • "A Moment in the Sun": An Extended Interview w ...
    Today, a Democracy Now! special with legendary independent filmmaker and author, John Sayles. Over the past three decades, he has directed 17 feature films, including "Return of the Secaucus Seven," "Matewan," "Lone Star," and "Eight Men Out." He has often used his films to tackle pressing polit ...
  • Global Recession Looms as Euro Crisis Deepens
    Costas Lapavitsas: Crisis deepens as Germany fails to sell-out 10 year bonds; the public must take over the financial system
  • Will 50% Cuts "Hollow Out" the Military?
    Jo Comerford: With the Super Committee deadlocked, the triggered cuts to military spending in 2013 will not affect real US security
  • Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle on Their Journe ...
    Sonia Jacobs and Peter Pringle each served years on death row -- Jacobs here in the United States and Pringle in Ireland. Both were exonerated after their convictions were overturned for murders that they steadfastly maintained they did not commit. They began dating shortly after meeting while ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Creative Experts Meet to Devise Plans for Stop ...
    Earlier this week, more than 20 participants from diverse areas – including advertising, public health, and wildlife trade – met at a workshop in Hong Kong to discuss strategies for reducing the demand for products made from endangered species. The seemingly inescapable appetite for ...
  • U.S. Wants Clean Energy!
      Nathan Schock of sister site The Inspired Economist writes: “Apparently, Americans aren’t getting the message that renewable energy is dead. Following the Solyndra bankruptcy and the avalanche of negative news coverage, 90 percent of the American public still thinks that developing ...
  • Your Email Got Hacked, & Someone’s Making You ...
      You find out that your email has just been hacked. Decades worth of emails, thousands, have been pulled. Not only that, the person who hacked you has taken out-of-context quotes and leaked them to the police in order to make you look like a robber. Some examples: “I robbed him&#8221 ...
  • Tim DeChristopher Appealing Prison Sentence
      How would you like to be spending your Thanksgiving in a federal prison? And how would you like to be doing so for trying to help the world and for trying to stop some illegal destruction of treasured wild lands? If you aren’t yet aware, that’s the predicament of Tim DeChristo ...
  • Flashmob for Sao Paulo Mobility Plan
      by Juliana Russar Tired of the poor quality of public transportation in São Paulo, 350 partners and participants of the World Car Free Day movement organized a flashmob in the subway for the immediate release of R$ 15 million that has been provided to the Secretary of Transportation in th ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Nearly half of US Congress members are million ...
    Editor's Note: Our publishing program allows us to place articles in various categories. I was sorely tempted to place this one in our category for "Crime and Punishment." How anyone can vote in for anyone, Republican, Democrat, Independent or even a 'write-in' - in this corrupt US 'electoral' s ...
  • RT Interview: Economic World War, US Under Att ...
    Editorial comment: My apology for being late on this interview. It is a couple of months old, but I am sure it is as relevant today as it has ever been, if not more so. - SON Obama hits the road President Obama is going on a national bus tour...
  • Will Rogers on Occupy Wall Street - Economy
    "It’s all right to let Wall Street bet each other millions of dollars every day but why make these bets affect the fellow who is plowing a field out in Claremore, Oklahoma?" My all time favorite Cherokee, Will Rogers, wrote that in 1924. Today, most of the fellows plowing fields...
  • Where did the left go? - Europe
    As capitalism faces the worst economic crisis since the1930s, the parties of the left are silent or embarrassed. At best, they promise to put the system right. More often, they advocate brutal austerity to prove their seriousness The Occupy Wall Street protests in the US are also di ...
  • 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism ...
    Ha-Joon Chang offers a masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism, writes John Gray The world is awash with books that claim to explain the global financial meltdown. Not many are written by economists. Ignorant of history, including th ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Compromise" means different things to liberal ...
    By @TedFrier Recently, a curious pattern of behavior has been observable among our governing class, one that can almost be called pathological and demented.   In their moments of clarity, leading conservatives readily agree that the Republican Party has gone nuts. But then, almost as readil ...
  • Evidently Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (r) do ...
    By @MBersin ...or Tinker v. Des Moines (393 U.S. 503, 1969). ....First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to ...
  • The Wampanoag Side of the Story
    By @KYYellowDog This year, tell a better story. From Indian Country Today: Turner said what most people do not know about the first Thanksgiving is that the Wampanoag and Pilgrims did not sit down for a big turkey dinner and it was not an event that the Wampanoag knew about or were invited to in ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD The words you're looking for to describe @MittRomney are "hateful," "sociopathic," "sadistic" and "bully" because those are the words you use to discuss someone who sets out to make other people suffer needlessly at their whim, and when pressed, Romney's spokesperson finally conceded th ...
  • Mitt Romney (r) is flip flopping something for ...
    By @MBersin Menu courtesy of the Iowa Democratic Party: The cost is not an issue for a "middle class" multimillionaire worth "between $190 and $250 million".

Care 2

  • URGENT! SIGN & SHARE! Animals Petition: Stop t ...
    With deep horror we protest the killing of dogs & cats in preparation for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in the Ukraine. Hundreds of dogs & cats are being placed in bags ALIVE and carried to a crematorium to be burned to death! PLEASE SIGN! Submitted by Michelle Sibinovic to Animal ...
  • Giving Thanks: Talk Turkey, Dont Eat it
    Here at Pasados, Thanksgiving is a time to gratefully reflect upon all that has been accomplished in the past year for the animals. It is also a time to celebrate family, whether they are furred, feathered, hoofed, or human. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |& ...
  • 7 arrested on hate crime charges in Amish hair ...
    The FBI arrested seven Ohio men on federal hate crime charges in connection with a bizarre series of Amish hair-cutting attacks, the Associated Press reports. The accused are members of a breakaway Amish group in eastern Ohio that has forcefully cut the Submitted by Agnes N. to Offbeat &nbs ...
  • A Rescuers Nightmare
    Rescue work is hard and demanding, coupled with tears and joy. You work your butt off rescuing animals from abuse, neglect, and danger of death in a shelter. Submitted by Cher C. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • ForestEthics : Protect Forests and Our Climate ...
    Shell wants to use 'fracking' to extract natural gas. It's a process so risky that some residents in Alberta and Colorado have actually been able to light their tap water on fire after fracking projects contaminated nearby water tables.Shell has already.. Submitted by Elizabeth S. to Environment ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Just for Grins… OPEN THREAD
    Well, it’s a slow news day.  Just a lazy day, unless you got all wrapped up in that cooking and entertaining guests thing, in which case you may be needing an escape for a few minutes to regain your sanity. Not much going on today at my house.  Just fooling around on the computer, and [...]
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    It is that time of year again, when we gather with our friends and family to celebrate the harvest, the coming together of peoples from different lands in unity, to acknowledge the gifts of the earth’s abundance, and to give their thanks for these treasures of the earth. Yes, this time of ...
  • Wednesday Night Open Thread
    ‘Tis the night before Thanksgiving, and no doubt, people are busy preparing for tomorrow, whether it be traveling or cooking or making plans to watch the big game, Thanksgiving is a big day, and well it should be. It is always good to take a step back, and count our blessings, large and sm ...
  • Wait, Which One Is It? Obama Plays Both Sides ...
    Obama is doing what he likes to do best – campaign. But he is doing it under the auspices of the People’s Business. Uh huh. I suppose if one completely ignored the blatantly partisan nature of his campaign, uh, I mean POLICY speeches, like the recent one in New Hampshire, one could b ...
  • How to Immediately Cut the Federal Budget and ...
    Folks, it is critical to look at where the money is going. Let’s start with what Congress and the President can do immeidately to shrink the Federal Budget: Step 1–Freeze Federal hiring. The Federal Government currently employs 2,838,491. Doesn’t matter whether a Republican or ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
    When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
  • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
    One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
  • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
    Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
  • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
    Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Appalachian Coal Jobs Reach 14-Year High - unE ...
    ThinkProgress Appalachian Coal Jobs Reach 14-Year High unEARTHED, from Earthjustice (blog) Since Obama's EPA began increasing mountaintop-removal-related protections on streams and waters! The number of coal jobs in the region has increased by 10 percent since the US Environmental Protection ...
  • War On Coal? EPA Regulations Boost Coal Employ ...
    ThinkProgress War On Coal? EPA Regulations Boost Coal Employment To 15-Year High ThinkProgress According to the same data, the spike in employment correlates to the EPA's crackdown on destructive mountaintop removal policies, the Charleston Gazette reports: Matt Wasson, director of programs ...
  • Tomblin ousts 2 members of W.Va. Environmental ...
    Tomblin ousts 2 members of W.Va. Environmental Quality Board as mining rules ... The Republic Earl Ray Tomblin has replaced two members of an appeals board that's considering whether to apply new federal water-quality rules to West Virginia's mountaintop removal mining permits. The Charl ...
  • Standing Up for Appalachia - Huffington Post
    Standing Up for Appalachia Huffington Post Already, 1.2 million acres of America's mountains have been destroyed by the highly-destructive practice of mountaintop removal. Each day three million pounds of explosives are detonated in Appalachia, releasing chemicals, like Arsenic and Sellenium ...
  • Coal group logo on W.Va. arena floor irks acti ...
    West Virginia MetroNews Coal group logo on W.Va. arena floor irks activist Washington Examiner author Denise Giardina, a longtime opponent of mountaintop removal mining, told the Daily Mail (http://bit.ly/ud4mBB ). The Civic Center is a government building owned by the city of Charleston. West V ...

Memeorandum

  • NBC apologizes to Bachmann over song (Kevin Bo ...
    Kevin Bohn / CNN: NBC apologizes to Bachmann over song  —  Washington (CNN) — NBC has apologized to Rep. Michele Bachmann after the house band for “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” played an inappropriate song during her appearance on the show Monday, CNN confirme ...
  • Not Photoshopped: Beam of Light Shines on Fall ...
    Nation: Not Photoshopped: Beam of Light Shines on Fallen Soldier's Miracle Dog  —  Reported by ABC News' Kimberly Launier:  —  It was an overcast day in Newport, N.H., when a simple “20/20″ shoot turned into something that made me wonder about life a ...
  • NYT Claims Increasing Bipartisan Support for P ...
    CEPR: NYT Claims Increasing Bipartisan Support for Plans that Could Raise the Cost of Medicare Policies by $34 Trillion  —  The NYT claims that plans that could raise the cost of Medicare equivalent policies for seniors by $34 trillion are gaining increasing support in Congress.
  • Support Builds for a Plan to Rein In Medicare ...
    Robert Pear / New York Times: Support Builds for a Plan to Rein In Medicare Costs  —  WASHINGTON — Though it reached no agreement, the special Congressional committee on deficit reduction built a case for major structural changes in Medicare that would limit the government ...
  • Intense 'Twilight' Scene Triggers Seizure Repo ...
    Producer Rob / CBS Sacramento: Intense ‘Twilight’ Scene Triggers Seizure Reports  —  ROSEVILLE (CBS13) — A local man says the latest movie in the popular ‘Twilight’ franchise triggered a seizure, and similar incidents have been reported in theaters ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, near the north coast of Papua, Indonesia
    Thursday, November 24, 2011 23:18:45 UTC Friday, November 25, 2011 08:18:45 AM at epicenterDepth: 37.50 km (23.30 mi)
  • M 5.1, El Salvador
    Thursday, November 24, 2011 21:13:19 UTC Thursday, November 24, 2011 03:13:19 PM at epicenterDepth: 73.60 km (45.73 mi)
  • M 6.2, Hokkaido, Japan region
    Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:25:34 UTC Thursday, November 24, 2011 07:25:34 PM at epicenterDepth: 42.30 km (26.28 mi)
  • M 5.1, Fiji region
    Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:23:49 UTC Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:23:49 PM at epicenterDepth: 622.80 km (386.99 mi)
  • M 5.0, Java, Indonesia
    Thursday, November 24, 2011 03:55:36 UTC Thursday, November 24, 2011 10:55:36 AM at epicenterDepth: 95.30 km (59.22 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Cynical governments, worried world
    The planet is getting warmer, the weather is getting weirder and all the time our emissions keep on rising. But as negotiators gather in Durban, it’s clear no one plans to do much about it, writes Joydeep Gupta.Rarely has a major international conference started amid such cynicism as this ...
  • Face to face with Apple
    The US technology company finally met with Chinese environmental campaigners, but their argument isn’t over yet, reports Zeng Hang.At 10am on November 15, five Chinese environmental groups visited Apple’s Beijing office to discuss supply-chain pollution with company representatives d ...
  • Climate talks: the year that was
    Another year has passed, another round of negotiations is about to begin, but what has been achieved and what direction are we heading in? A roundtable of experts helps chinadialogue find its bearings.Editor’s note: this weekend, officials, policymakers and activists will gather in Durban, ...
  • There is no plan B for the climate
    It is critical to secure a legally binding approach on climate change at the negotiations in Durban, writes John Ashton, the UK Foreign Office's special representative for climate change.The lesson the world is learning the hard way from the financial crisis is that there is only one boat and we ...
  • Denmark’s road map to the future (1)
    In the absence of a global deal on climate change, Denmark has embraced an ambitious plan for fossil-fuel independence by 2050, explains Katherine Richardson. Can other nations learn from their example?Editor’s note: Prospects for significant progress towards a new global deal at UN-led cl ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Who is the White House Serving, the People or ...
    Written by Sarah Lipton-Lubet, Policy Counsel for the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Over the last few weeks, the rumor mills have been churning, with ...
  • The Other Side of Reproductive Justice: How St ...
    Written by Marianne Møllman for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Earlier this fall, a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe held a hearing entitled “Putting an end to ...
  • The Obamas’ Bedroom: No Bishops Allowed
    Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. I am of the mind and practice that, no matter who you are, an individual’s sex life, their sexual orientation, ...
  • With America on the Eve of Destruction, OWS Ri ...
    What would American politicians and pundits say if Chinese or Iranian police raided a peaceful opposition encampment and trashed their library?
  • Thankful for Safe Drinking Water? Canton Resid ...
    This Thanksgiving, residents in Canton and Orion Township in Fulton County, Illinois will enjoy the basic human right of clean drinking water — though, not without a fight. Since 2007, a broad alliance of farmers, business people, health care professionals, teachers, attorneys, students an ...

Threat Level

  • 9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats
    There’s plenty of reason to be concerned Big Brother is watching. We’re paranoid not because we have grandiose notions of our self-importance, but because the facts speak for themselves. Here’s our short list of nine reasons that Wired readers ought to wear tinfoil hats, or a ...
  • Mobile ‘Rootkit’ Maker Apologizes to Critical ...
    A mobile data-logging software maker apologized Wednesday to an Android developer who the company had insisted that he publicly apologize for his critical research. Carrier IQ was virtually unknown until the 25-year-old Trevor Eckhart of Connecticut analyzed its workings, recently revealing that ...
  • ‘Flash Robs’: Trying to Stop a Meme Gone Wrong
    Many different types of crowd disturbance have bubbled up during 2011, but perhaps the oddest category has been the “flash mob robbery,” or “flash rob.”
  • Inside Occupy Wall Street’s Growing Student Pr ...
    Occupy Wall Street may have been evicted from Zuccotti park, but New York students are now taking the protest back to their schools.
  • Confusion Center: Feds Now Say Hacker Didn’t D ...
    A report from an Illinois intelligence fusion center that a water utility was hacked cannot be substantiated, according to an announcement released late Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security.

Equality Trust

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Raw Milk Myth Buster 1 - Organic Pastures 2006 ...
    Myth: Organic Pastures and the Weston A. Price Foundation continue to repeat that the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 Raw Milk Product Outbreak was caused by Spinach. Fact: - 2006 Organic Pastures outbreak, illness onsets ranged from 9/6 to 9/24 - 5 patients had definite exposure to raw milk o ...
  • Cozy Vale Creamery's Raw Milk Linked to Three ...
    Environmental testing also positive. Cozy Vale Creamery’s raw milk products are being recalled because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 after being linked to three illnesses. The Cozy Vale Creamery’s whole and skim milk and cream are distributed through seven retail o ...
  • Listeria Cantaloupe Wrongful Death Lawsuit fil ...
    Before her Listeriosis illness, the decedent, Florence Wilcox, was a 96-year-old resident of Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico. Ms. Wilcox lived independently and remained very active. In fact, she was named 2011 “Patron of the Year” at the local public library. Ms. Wilcox frequently ...
  • 179 Salmonella Heidelberg Illnesses in New Yor ...
    According to the CDC, between April 1 to November 16, 2011, a total of 179 illnesses due to Salmonella Heidelberg with this PFGE pattern were reported in states where the “kosher broiled chicken livers” were distributed. The number of ill persons identified in each state the product ...
  • Jensen Farms, and for that matter Frontera, ar ...
    Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown stepped into a conflicted area in their story today – “Criminal charges hard to pin on farm where listeria-tainted cantaloupes originated” – although the headline writers got it wrong. Although in my opinion the likelihood of felony charg ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

Solari

  • Fannie, Freddie Tentacles Embraced Many in Was ...
    * Freddie and Fannie had deep political connections * Rahm Emanuel, Tom Donilon were on payroll By Tim Reid, Margaret Chadbourn and Mark Hosenball While presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was forced to defend his lucrative former role with Freddie Mac this week, the mortgage giant and its large ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving
    By Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving is a time for tradition and sharing. Even if they live far away, family members gather for a reunion at the house of an older relative. All give thanks together for the good things that they have. In this spirit of sharing, civic groups and charitable organizatio ...
  • Euro Zone Unlikely to Survive Intact: Reuters Poll
    By Andy Bruce The euro zone is unlikely to survive its sovereign debt crisis in current form, according to a majority of leading economists and former policymakers polled by Reuters. Fourteen out of 20 prominent academics, former policymakers and independent thinkers polled over the last 10 day ...
  • Occupy Wall Street’s Message For Lawyers
    Behind every credit default swap or short of subprime mortgage-backed assets sit legal counsel sanctioning these practices; their hands are no cleaner than those of their clients. By Katherine Franke A scruffy-looking Occupy Wall Street protester takes out a big black magic marker and writes on ...
  • Transcript of Catherine’s 11.17.11 Inter ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s November 17, 2011 interview of Dr. William Tiller is now available to Solari Report Subscribers! From the transcript: Dr. Tiller is a Professor Emeritus of Sanford University of Stanford University’s Department of Material Sciences. He spent 35 years in academia ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Question time on the FM website – chapter 13
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question!  All answers welcomed! Questions received so far (click on the link to go directl ...
  • Looking back on USMC thanksgivings, reminding ...
    Summary:  a guest post by Beth Crumley, a Marine Corp retrospective about Thanksgivings past.  This reminds of how much we have to be grateful before, and the price paid for our liberty and prosperity.  Reposted with permission from the Marine Corps Association website. I love this time of year. ...
  • FDR explains one dimension of our problem: ba ...
    Summary:  We cannot fix America until we understand what ails it.  Some of our problems are systemic.  Some result from external rivals, even foes.  Some result from our weakness.  Some result from internal enemies of the Republic.  Some result from lust for power and wealth by our fellow Americ ...
  • Looking ahead to see the new shape of Europe
    Summary:  The slow fire in Europe slowly moves to a conclusion.  From America we cannot foresee what will happen because the news media paints it as a morality play, obscuring the dynamics at work.  While we cannot predict which path the peoples of Europe will choose, we can at least understand ...
  • About the civil disobedience of the Occupy mov ...
    Summary:  Expansion of the Occupy movement onto colleges might greatly expand its size, improve its appeal, and change its goals and methods.  This poses a challenge to the government, which so far has successfully contained and supressed its protests.  The heavy-handed methods used so far might ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • Independent Commission Says Bahrain Security F ...
    Our guest bloggers are Sarah Margon, associate director for Sustainable Security at the Center for American Progress, and Martin Wolberg-Stok, sustainable security intern at CAP. Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of Middle East experts and leading human rights organizations sent a letter to ...
  • The Body Politic in Egypt
    As the now historic Tahrir Square filled with protesters over the weekend, the tension between the hope and momentum of the February uprising that ended a 30 year dictatorship and the aggressive, violent military response to a mass civilian demonstration almost one year later was startling. Afte ...
  • CNN National Security Debate: The Return Of Th ...
    After the conclusion of Tuesday night’s GOP national security and foreign policy debate, CNN Democratic political analyst Donna Brazile remarked that the debate seemed like a bad flashback: This was like retro debate. I felt like we were going back into the past. The neocons — it was ...
  • You Can Duck a Question, Not a War
    A couple of nights ago I had the pleasure, I suppose, of watching the CNN-AEI-Heritage Republican National Security debate live. There are a lot of things I could complain about in depth here. There is Michelle Bachmann’s continued insistence that the ACLU is running the CIA, only now she had th ...
  • Where Is GOP Fiscal Responsibility on the Afgh ...
    Last night’s foreign policy debate saw little in the way of surprises. The Republican presidential candidates postured on Iran and Israel, argued immigration laws, and even discussed racial profiling. Substantive discussion of Afghanistan, however, was again in short order. Of course, there’s mo ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Our Municipal Dollars, Ourselves
    "They don't know how to fix this," said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg about Occupy Wall Street on MSNBC yesterday, according to the Daily News. "They want their government to fix. They don't even know what the problem is, much less how to fix it, but they know that things aren't worki ...
  • Why Are They So Angry?
    "He's lying! He's lying!" the man at the back of the hall shouted, in a tone as desperate as it was angry. "He hasn't read the Geneva Conventions. You haven't read them, so you don't know he's lying." The primary object of his rage was me. The secondary object, it seemed, was his fellow congreg ...
  • 13 Ways of Looking at a Turkey
    Okay, maybe not thirteen ways. I didn't count. But we're not really working today, right—day before a holiday and all? So enjoy this.  
  • More Thoughts on Football
    I should have posted this poem in October. But since I'm on a football jag now, here's a famous poem about what young men are channeling when they play football. Written in 1964, it includes some offensive language from its era. But I love this poem and have known it by heart for decades. Autum ...
  • What to Read Before You Unwonk for Thanksgiving
    If you had fun last night, you missed out on yet another GOP debate. Sucks to be you. Thankfully, Dan Amira and Brett Smiley summarized all the crazy stuff that happened, and Maggie Haberman summarized all the substantive stuff you should know. Also, Jonathan Chait has a great post that highlig ...

Buzzflash

  • Governor of Oregon, Who as a Physician Took an ...
    CHESTER KULIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Currently at least 16 states plus the District of Columbia ban capital punishment.  Recently Oregon joined that select group due to the personal moral principles of the governor: John A. Kitzhaber is the Democratic governor of Oregon. He serve ...
  • The Billionaire Stumbles: Bloomberg Uses "Terr ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite the attempt to create a sense of televised urgency with Michael Bloomberg starring as the savior of the public from an "imminent terrorist attack" by NYC resident Jose Pimental, this past Sunday's NYC news event -- co-starring the NYPD police ...
  • Newt Gingrich is a "a Stupid Man's Idea of Wha ...
    ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Along with the many frustrating aspects of this campaign season there's the absolute butchering of the means by which we communicate verbally either by mistake or intent. There's the ludicrous assertion, for example by some, that Newt Gingrich is a smart ...
  • Congress May Pass a Bill Similar to China's In ...
    ELLIOT COHEN FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT On the surface, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) looks like it has a noble end, that of protecting criminal violations of copyright by foreign (non-U.S.) actors. However, on careful inspection, the Act has the potential to spawn a virtual (cy ...
  • 13 Political Turkeys for the Groaning Board
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Let me be among the first 40- foot helium- filled balloons to kick- start our national parade of giving thanks. That's right, we're just about to butt heads with Turkey Holocaust Day, and to be perfectly honest, its about time. A little tryptophan poisoning m ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Share your slides using a QR code
    Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
  • Is renewable energy just a myth?
    It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
  • Singing the Movember Blues no more
    Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
  • What’s the best month to be born?
    According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...
  • The little book of black delights
    Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from another’s misfortune. Black humour. The hilarity experienced in watching a pratfall, the clumsy slip on a well-placed banana skin. From the German compound noun, deriving from Schaden (adversity, harm) and Freude (joy). Obvious. ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Lawsuit Filed Against EPA to Protect Public He ...
    A coalition of conservation groups filed suit late last week against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its failure to protect public health and the environment from air pollution from coal mines in the United States.read more
  • Landmine Monitor 2011: Handicap International ...
    The Landmine Monitor 2011 – the annual report on the Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty[1] – which was released Wednesday in Bangkok, found that at least three States not party to the treaty used anti-personnel landmines in 2011. Handicap International condemns the use of these weapons, which co ...
  • Swept Up by Secure Communities: Law Enforcemen ...
    The Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities (S-Comm) program leads local communities to distrust law enforcement, encourages racial profiling and undermines the Constitution. Speakers will convey why the program is flawed at a press conference to be held on Wed., Nov. 30 at 11 ...
  • Occupy Wall Street Thanksgiving
    This Thanksgiving, Occupy Wall Street is celebrating unity and community with an open feast at Liberty Square. From 2 to 6 p.m. at Liberty Square (Zuccotti Park) we will meet to share food, stories and inspiration. All members of our global community are invited to break bread with us.read more
  • As Gingrich Dares to Defy the GOP’s Lurch to t ...
    At last night’s Republican presidential debate, the issue of immigration erupted.  The candidates were finally forced to go beyond their hollow sound bites about securing the border first and to confront the question of what to do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • An Open Letter to the Ethics Committee of the ...
    Sam Husseini The Ethics Committee of the National Press Club has asked me to present my journalistic credentials following the controversy of my suspension from the Club because of my questioning of the former head of Saudi intelligence Amb ...
  • DC as ATM: Newt, the Ultimate Beltway Swindler
    Michael Winship You maybe should think twice when even Jack Abramoff thinks you’re beneath contempt. Not that Newt Gingrich cares. Abramoff, America’s favorite convicted influence peddler, told NBC’s David Gregory that pre ...
  • Violence on Tahrir Square
    Ann Wright read more
  • Non-Violence is Back and Shaking Things Up
    Rick Salutin This is a time of rejuvenation for non-violence. The Occupy movements were built on what one writer called “the courage of young people to fly into conflict on Gandhi’s wings.” The Arab Spring won its tenuous ...
  • Will Shopping Save Us?
    Danny Schechter Today’s the day. It’s “Black Friday” (“black” as in the day our business supposedly go into the black.) This may not have been such a wise use of language since the Wall Street crash of 19 ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • A love story, a Palestinian story
    Lina al-Sharif The Electronic Intifada Gaza Strip Lina al-Sharif’s story is one of love that knows no boundaries and all started with a friendly debate on Twitter.
  • Family of 12 faces eviction in East Jerusalem
    Nadia Walid Somrein The Electronic Intifada Silwan Despite living in his home for nearly fifty years, and despite the fact there are legal documents clearly stating that the land is owned by the Somrein family, Mohammed Somrein’s land has been declared absentee property and thus subject t ...
  • For Gaza journalist, more than one struggle un ...
    Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Rami Almeghari recounts his struggle to both cover the growing protests at Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fight his own personal battle.
  • Are the Freedom Rides a detour for the struggle?
    Linah Alsaafin The Electronic Intifada Last week, six courageous Palestinians attempted to defy racism, segregation and apartheid by boarding Jewish settler-only buses in the hopes of reaching Jerusalem, a city off limits to Palestinians in the West Bank. However, the symbolic, media-friendly a ...
  • The anguish of a Gaza cancer patient in Cairo
    Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Palestinians in Gaza needing urgent medical care are left with few treatment options because of Israel’s four-year-long blockade. Patients who are able to reach Egypt are oftentimes unable to afford or access treatment that can save their  ...

The Wonk Room

  • Kansas School Unconstitutionally Disciplines S ...
    In a blatant violation of the First Amendment, a public high school in Prairie Village, Kansas disciplined a student for speaking out against Gov. Sam Brownback (R-KS): Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on Monday as part of Kansas Youth ...
  • New Study Links Climate Change to Higher Medic ...
    by Frances Beinecke, cross posted from NRDC’s Switchboard When I speak to lawmakers and business leaders about the costs of climate change, they tend to think in terms of damaged property and lost agricultural revenue. Certainly the fires in Texas and the flooding from Vermont to Virginia ...
  • Australia’s Touching Marriage Equality Ad
    GetUp! Action for Australia has produced this touching video of a young couple sharing their lives with each other from a day at the beach to personal tragedies, birthdays, and finally the marriage proposal: Marriage equality is a hotly contested issue in Australia, where some 62 percent of vote ...
  • Rick Perry Should Be Thankful For The Federal ...
    Politico’s Kate Nocera has a good piece explaining why this holiday season Rick Perry must be thankful for all the federal dollars that flowing into Texas, even if he publicly rails against Washington spending on the campaign trail: More than $380 million in early grants and other aid from ...
  • Must-See Video of Rep. Don Young (R-AK) Bullyi ...
    By Don Shelby, in a re-post On Nov. 18 the celebrated historian, Dr. Douglas Brinkley, testified before the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. The committee was taking testimony on another congressional effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil exploration and drillin ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Do Really Bad Newspaper Columnists Have Awesom ...
    How do these incoherent babbling lunatics, serial plagiarists and constantly wrong fuck-ups continue to find work? Surely there are higher-quality apologists and rationalizers for the system lining-up to provide the same sort of bullshit at a far more reasonable rate? Perhaps we must just imag ...
  • Civilization is a Powder-Keg
    Super busy. Didn't have a clue what to write. Went and looked at unpublished drafts of entries and decided to put this out, ... whatever it is. The world isn't flat. It's round. But for tens of thousands of years, humanity, if we thought of it at all, believed that the world was flat, because w ...
  • Nobody Home ...
    We shone a special camera at Ezra Levant's stupid head. Turns out the fucker doesn't have a brain. Big surprise.
  • Problems with the world ...
    Here are two videos that I just stumbled upon during the last few days. The first one is a Bill Maher, "New Rules" segment from early in Obama's term, during the health care bill "debate." I don't find anything objectionable with it really. Nothing major anyway. I just think that it's wrong t ...
  • What Now For Humanity?
    They wanted to stay in their camps because they camps were exciting places to be. But they mainly wanted to stay in their camps because the corrupt, lawless states wanted them to leave their camps. But the camps are coming down in a flurry of needless state violence. And you can bet your bott ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Snowstorm hits Nova Scotia
    A snowstorm, which was the first of the season for some parts of Nova Scotia, made driving conditions dangerous and closed schools.
  • Inappropriate language for Music Awards Show
    At the recent 2011 Hamilton Music Awards, the host, Tom Wilson, who is also a well-known musician, was congenial and often funny. He was also prone to using expletives to build up excitement.
  • Ontario should brace for cuts ahead of March 2 ...
    Ontario's political leaders need to be straightforward with Ontarians about the potential extent of necessary budget cuts to begin dealing with a growing $16B deficit.
  • Occupy Toronto ends, for now
    Occupy Toronto ends their camp-out at St. James Park in downtown Toronto. Court ruled Monday it was illegal and police moved in at 6am Wednesday and cleared the park without violence.
  • A brush with heritage in Nova Scotia
    “A Brush with Heritage” is Janice Guinan’s first solo art show since 2008 and it includes many beautiful paintings by this talented Nova Scotia artist.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • ICC may examine NATO’s role in Libya
    Ottawa may be celebrating victory in Libya, but NATO and its members could yet face the scrutiny of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their actions during the conflict, the Associated Press reported earlier this month (Slobodan Lekic and Mike Corder, “AP Exclusive: NATO may face ...
  • Inside the pro-war lobby’s secret funding deal ...
    Please make your donation to stop the pro-war lobby from stealing from Canadians, and to make sure public funds are used for human needs and the environment.
  • Staples: Canada overspending on defence
    In a recent op-ed article in Embassy magazine, Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, argues that Canada’s military spending needs to be curbed: In 2010-11, Department of National Defence spending is estimated to reach $22.2 billion, its highest level since Canada was in Europe ...
  • Panetta: F-35 could be on chopping block
    U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the U.S. Congress that the Pentagon may be forced to cancel its planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a congressional “super committee” fails to reach a budget deal, thus triggering automatic deep cuts in government spendi ...
  • Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not ...
    Is Remembrance Day too much about war, and not enough about peace? Leave your response.

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Moment of reckoning for Pakistan
    By Veterans TodayFriday, November 25th, 2011 Former Fox News analyst Mansoor Ijaz at center of Pakistani firestorm The popular anger and outrage that the Memogate has provoked should be channelized to build a new, truly free Pakistan.   by Aijaz Zaka Syed / Arab News   Here is a rare o ...
  • Perry: Communist China ‘Destined for the Ash H ...
    Matt Cover CNSNews.com Friday, November 25, 2011 Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry (R-Texas) said that China was “destined for the ash heap of history” because of its immoral government, citing the fact that an average of 35,000 abortions are performed there every day. “I happen to th ...
  • Earth highly unlikely to suffer severe warming ...
    Lewis Page The Register Friday, November 25, 2011 Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest &#82 ...
  • Israeli Intransigence On Palestine Isolating B ...
    By Sherwood RossThursday, November 24th, 2011 by Sherwood Ross   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. A more crea ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving – The Magic Of Gratitude
    By Allen L RolandThursday, November 24th, 2011 God is love, an evolutionary process with which we all participate as co-creators. The engine of this loving plan in action is gratitude which always begins with ourselves and eventually leads to inner joy and delight.   by Allen L Roland &#160 ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Noam Chomsky – 7th Annual Edward Said Me ...
    Dandelion Salad Speech delivered Nov. 5, 2011 copym3 on Nov 24, 2011 The ESML is AFOPA’s showpiece event. This year’s guest speaker, Noam Chomsky, is a world renowned linguist, philosopher, and human rights activist. The Edward Said Memorial Lecutre organisers, the University of Adel ...
  • Occupy Hell by Rocket Kirchner
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Nov. 22, 2011 The Occupy Wall Street movement is something I have waited for most of my life. However, the operative question is this: Will it get to the root of the problem that oppresses ...
  • Michael Parenti: Imperialism and the 99% Solution
    with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org Nov. 21, 2011 by Paul Hamel http://vimeo.com The Communist Party of Canada and Lap Cat Productions presents Michael Parenti on 1 November 2011 for a talk entitled “Imperialism & the 99% Sol ...
  • Law of Value 8: Subject/Object by Brendan M. C ...
    Dandelion Salad brendanmcooney on Nov 15, 2011 One of the more common objections raised to Marx’s theory of value, at least here in the theoretical void of cyberspace, is the objection posed by subjective value theory. Though these modern objections often take quite a crude, simplistic tone, the ...
  • Michael Hudson: The Super Committee and the At ...
    with Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Nov. 21, 2011 TheRealNews on Nov 21, 2011 Michael Hudson: Austerity and recession used to lower wages Michael Hudson: The Super Committee and the Attack on Labor Michael Hudson is a former Wall Street economist. A Dist ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

  • 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.
  • Russia’s Baltic radar to monitor missile launc ...
    Russia’s radar station in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad will monitor missile launches from the North Atlantic, as well as the future European missile defense system, the Aerospace Defense Forces chief said on Friday.
  • Medvedev’s missile defense remarks ‘call for d ...
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s remarks about possible countermeasures against a European missile defense system were not a signal for confrontation but a message that Russia and its international partners should keep looking for compromise, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov said on Fr ...
  • Russian military spending to top $30 bln in 2012
    Over 1 trillion rubles ($30 billion) will be spent on the provision of arms and military equipment to the Russian Armed Forces next year, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday.
  • Russia downplays NATO move on key arms treaty
    NATO’s decision to curb its cooperation with Moscow on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty will not harm Russia’s interests, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

Natural Health News

  • Major Progress in Eliminating Mercury in Dentistry
    In 2010, advisory panelists told the FDA that dental amalgam should not be used in children and pregnant women.  Not a single one of the panelists agreed with the FDA's eventual decision to permit amalgam use in children and pregnant women. More recently, the World Health Organization ...
  • Is Pepper Spray a Dangerous, If Not Lethal Weapon?
    When young, non-violent protestors were recently doused -- directly in the eyes -- with pepper spray, it was purportedly at least with a "non-lethal" chemical weapon.  Pepper spray even sounds somewhat "natural".  But while pepper spray invariably contains an extract of hot peppers, ...
  • Can Ingesting 'Friendly Bugs' Reduce Your Anxiety?
    The probiotic known as Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 has been shown to normalize anxiety-like behavior in mice with infectious colitis. A study found that chronic colitis was associated with anxiety-like behavior.  Treatment with B. longum was found to reduce the symptoms, and to also pos ...
  • New Study Finds BPA Not Only Plastic Problem - ...
    Bisphenol-A (BPA) is an endocrine-disrupting compound that is used in plastic products and the lining of nearly all food and beverage cans.  Exposure to BPA has been linked to heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and potential problems during fetal development.  A recent study found that ...
  • Executives Get Prison for Fatal Bone Cement Trial
    Executives of Synthes North America, a medical devices company, have been sentenced to prison for unapproved tests of bone cement that left three people dead.  According to the judge, the Synthes officials wanted to beat their competitors to market without going through the lengthy process ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • The Eurozone Crisis Is Also a Governance Crisi ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over the last few months, as the eurozone crisis has gathered steam, I have wondered what the crisis means for the governance structures of the EU.  One answer is, not much — the political leadership will somehow muddle through as it always does, on the ...
  • How Not to Defend a Legally Inaccurate Article
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve made more than my share of mistakes in my six years of blogging.  It’s painful and embarrassing, but it happens.  All you can do is admit your mistakes and move on. Unfortunately, that is not the approach taken by the author of the terri ...
  • How Not to Defend a Legally Inaccurate Article
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I’ve made more than my share of mistakes in my six years of blogging.  It’s painful and embarrassing, but it happens.  All you can do is admit your mistakes and move on. Unfortunately, that is not the approach taken by the author of the terri ...
  • Feasting and Saber Rattling at the First Thank ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford We have certain images in our minds about that first Thanksgiving. It usually involves bountiful harvests, amicable relations with the Indians, and prayerful thanksgiving to Providence for his manifold blessings. Well, it wasn’t quite that simple. Although there ...
  • Feasting and Saber Rattling at the First Thank ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford We have certain images in our minds about that first Thanksgiving. It usually involves bountiful harvests, amicable relations with the Indians, and prayerful thanksgiving to Providence for his manifold blessings. Well, it wasn’t quite that simple. Although there ...

Public News Service

  • Turkey Bowl Time? A Lesson from the NFL Lockout
    Turkey Bowl Time? A Lesson from the NFL Lockout Phoenix, AZ - Some Arizonans are gearing up for their Thanksgiving tradition of backyard family football matches, but a new study of National Football League (NFL) athletes shows how a lack of proper training can result in serious injuries. Comment ...
  • Report: Secret Chemicals Revealed in Common Ho ...
    Report: Secret Chemicals Revealed in Common Household Cleaners A new report released this week reveals that some of the top-selling cleaning products contain hidden toxic chemicals. The report by Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) looked at 20 common household cleaning products manufacture ...
  • Penn State Case a Teachable Moment
    Penn State Case a Teachable Moment Phoenix, AZ – Child advocates say one thing that should come out of the Penn State situation, where an assistant coach is accused of sexually abusing children, is more understanding of how to prevent it from happening. Comments from child abuse activist ...
  • Study: No Paycheck for Nearly Half of All New ...
    Study: No Paycheck for Nearly Half of All New Moms Phoenix, AZ – Nearly half of all new mothers in Arizona and across the United States are giving up a paycheck in order to spend time with their new baby, according to a new analysis from the Census Bureau. And while the number of working ...
  • Free Driver Safety Classes for AZ's Half Milli ...
    Free Driver Safety Classes for AZ's Half Million Veterans Phoenix, AZ - During the month of November, Arizona's half million veterans are eligible to take a driver safety course free of charge. AARP is waiving the entrance fee for its Driver Safety Program to all military personnel, regardless o ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet P ...
    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Center for Food Safety Petition FDA to Eliminate Toxic Arsenic Residues in Meat Photo by: D Sharon Pruitt Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of wh ...
  • California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...
    Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
  • Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...
    Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...
  • Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Mons ...
    With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers In response to Monsanto’s release of the company’s first genetically engineered sweet corn for human consumption, a coalition has collected more th ...
  • New Report: A Global Citizens Report on the St ...
    Published by Navdanya (India), Navdanya International, the International Commission on the Future of Food,  with the participation of the Center for Food Safety. The report consists of contributions from groups around the world. Entire report may be viewed HERE A new report highlights scientific ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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!)

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Black Friday Bloodbath…
    /CTVNews Aerial view of the scene at a Los Angeles Wal-Mart where a shopper pepper sprayed patrons of the store. Read more: /CTVNews Black Friday shopper who was sprayed in the face while trying to purchase video games in a Los Angeles Wal-Mart. Read more: Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday ...
  • Egypt faces surge of protesters as military fa ...
    Mubarak-era premier picked to lead Egypt's Cabinet... ... Claims more powers than predecessor Mass rally in Cairo as Syria misses deadline... 'Last Chance Friday'... US demands rapid turnover of power...     A massive demonstration was gathering strength in Cairo with tens of thousands ...
  • Will U.S. Protesters Be Treated As Terrorists?
      The Intel Hub R.F. Goggin November 22, 2011 More and more lately, it seems I find myself asking the question just how and when the ‘Occupy’ protesters in the U.S. will be considered a threat to America’s Homeland Security? And then of course, treated as such. Surely I am not off in the wi ...
  • The Plot To Make Hillary President
      PersonalLiberty.com Here’s some news that could turn the entire election upside down. Leading Democrats are urging Barack Hussein Obama to withdraw as a candidate for re-election in 2012, as Lyndon Baines Johnson did almost 50 years ago. The campaign to get Obama to quit the race kicked i ...
  • The Last Whistleblowers
      By David Swanson GlobalResearch.ca   Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before — although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer ...

The Air Vent

  • Hide the Decline – Howto
    There are a lot of interesting emails.  This one is worth calling attention to due to the popularity of hide the decline of Climategate 1 fame.  It’s my bold in the middle.  They chopped off the data and infilled it with temperature data.  This is slightly different than Mann08 but it is t ...
  • Mime data
    Reader Buffy Minton has done some cool work to extract file attachments with the emails.   This was never done for the original climategate files to my knowledge. ————- Buffy Minton said November 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm e Don’t know if this has already been done before: Here ...
  • Upside Down Tiljander is BAD — Who knew?
    Wow, my whole post vanished. I’ll try again but this is very disappointing. I’ve read about 5 percent of the emails so far and at this point the main conclusion  I come to is that the scientists are far more skeptical in private than they are in the public.   They don’t say dam ...
  • I “hardly” see anything which seem ...
    Phil Jones on the deletion of emails: date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:51:44 +0200 from: Manola Brunet subject: Re: Omar’s email to: P.Jones@uea.ac.uk Hola Phil, Had a smooth trip, almost everything run on time but Brits trains, as usual, and I just got to Exeter. So replying f ...
  • A little context and a Poll
    I’ve been asked to give context to some of the emails.   So far, I have read only a few.   This is one though which should have particular resonance with long time Air Vent or Climate Audit readers.  It was started by a subversive climate denier – Jeff Severinghaus – who happen ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • Chase, “Twilight,” Hy.Ly, Photos, Black Friday ...
    Chase Community Giving, “Twilight,” Walmart’ Black Friday app, tabs, photos, Brazilian social networking and more made our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users. The apps on our list grew from between 80,000 and 340,000 MAU, based on … Continue reading →
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Si ...
    Facebook hired a few engineers this week, according to its LinkedIn feed, but the company also brought on quite a few engineers, analysts, communications staff, account managers and client partners, according to listings removed from its Careers Page. Please see a complete list below. New &#8230 ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Engineering, 3D, Re ...
    Facebook added quite a few engineering jobs to their Careers Page this week, as well as positions in everything from recruiting to account management to human resources. This week there was just one job posting on the company’s LinkedIn feed. Posts added this week on … Continue readi ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Acquinity Interactive, BLiNQ Media, Storm8, King.com, 6 Waves/Lolap ...
  • Facebook Launches Official U.S. Military Page
    Facebook has launched an official United States Military Page designed to bring together resources and information to help those in the service, their families, and veterans stay connected and informed. The Page, which has been live for about two weeks, … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Capitalism and the spy market
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
  • The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
    As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
  • Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
    Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...
  • America’s festering sores
    Paul J. Balles outlines "a must-do menu" of political causes needing public attention, from the icon of injustice and arbitrariness known as Guantanamo, through the silence over the 1967 Israeli attack on the US warship USS Liberty, which resulted in 200 American casualties, to the existence of ...
  • Israeli democracy fades to black
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel, which had traditionally received at least the tacit support of the entire political establishment, is coming full circle, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likudniks and settlers now targeting th ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • U.S. Has Been Providing Turkey with $1 Million ...
    Republican Senator Slips During & After her Recent Lavish Trip Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, returned from Istanbul, Turkey last week. According to my Turkish sources the Senator’s trip was ‘extraordinarily lavish.’ Shortly after her return last Monday, Collins began to make her lavish organi ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    Meet Libya’s New US Citizen Prime Minister, Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons since 9/11, New Libya PM is Big-Oil Goon, Police State: DHS to Set Up Policies for Monitoring Twitter- Facebook, Iraq Declines Military Training from Turkey-Iran, Congressional Hearing Sought Over Vote ...
  • Chicago: The City That Works Part II- All Poli ...
    Mainstream Media – Actually On a Case? In the previous article in this series, we provided a brief review of the long train of corruption cases in Chicago and Illinois, and how they provide valuable perspective for some compelling national and international issues.  Earlier this week, we had two ...
  • Police State: Time to Bring Back the Pigeons & ...
    The Only Way to Circumvent NSA, DHS, FBI & the Rest Now it is confirmed and official: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that it intends to develop guidelines for how officials go about collecting intelligence from the sites. Yes. The Department of Homeland Security is not go ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    New CIA Rendition Flights Data Emerging from Reluctant Finnish Government, Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns as it Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners, Pakistan Holds Exhibit of Drone Attacks, Washington Cuts Off Financial Support to UNESCO in Reprisal for “Democratic” Vote on Pa ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • A journalist remembers those who died for pres ...
    South Africa's new Protection of State Information law allows the state to classify documents as secret in "the national interest" - which has a broad definition. Citizens and journalists found in possession of such documents would be treated as "foreign spies' and would face up to 25 years in ...
  • The Truth About Thanksgiving: What They Never ...
    Occupy Plymouth Rock: Marxist Pilgrims, Intercultural Love Fests, Turkeys and Other Thanksgiving Myths.
  • OccupyDC Can Be Hypocritical When It Comes to ...
    Does't First Amendment rights extend to speech that you don't agree with? Apparently some protestors at OccupyDC don't think so.
  • FDA means Feet Divided Apart
    This is not science fiction. This truly did happen. To my friend, and I'm guessing, others as well. Divide and conquer is quite obviously someones agenda. If you have questions or similar experiences please share. If you know someone who has participated in this therapy or who is thinking ab ...
  • Bangladesh reads riot act to Pakistan, Demands ...
    Bangladesh's renewed demand for Pakistan's formal apology for its Genocide during the 1971 war of liberation coincides with the commencement of trials in the three-judge International Crimes Tribunal headed by Justice Nizamul Huq. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government came to power promisin ...

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 ...
  • LA Is Getting Serious About Its Garbage
    Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California Yesterday, as reported in the LA Daily News, the Energy and Environment committee of the Los Angeles City Council approved an important decision to give waste haulers s ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Self-Actualization
    I thought everyone might need their feelings reassured for Thanksgiving. Luckily, the Denver Westword has provided us with some extra-special classroom posters from 1973. Now, let’s all gather around and talk about our feelings. Fail. I recommend drinking. A better way? Setting the plane a ...
  • Obligatory Thanksgiving Post
    Clearly, the increasing price of turkey is all the more reason to heed the sage advice of Calvin Trillin.
  • Mandate!
    Whenever you hear a pundit use this word, you can safely tune out, as it’s an even bigger bullshit dump than “leadership” or “bully pulpit.” The rest of the column, meanwhile, is premised on the idea that the ideas of the Catfood Commission are enormously popular, o ...
  • Brokered Conventions!
    Apparently the fantasy never dies…
  • PoliSci, the Courts, and the ACA
    Michael Bailey and Forest Maltzman have a piece up at the Prospect arguing that the best political science modelling suggests that the Supreme Court will uphold the ACA. I don’t necessarily disagree with their conclusion, but I’m skeptical about some aspects of their specific argumen ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Radiation Levels in Real Time? There's an App ...
    Gamma radiation levels in the southern Nevada area will soon be accessible around the world at the touch of a finger. Makers of the cell phone application EcoData: Radiation are expanding their global network of radiation monitoring stations to include up-to-date readings from the Community Envi ...
  • Truckee River Fund Supports DRI’s Integrated W ...
    DRI Scientists receive $318,000 from Truckee River Fund and the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection for the development and implementation of an integrated water quality monitoring program for the Truckee River from Tahoe City to Marble Bluff dam (just upstream of Pyramid Lake).
  • Dilworth students participate in Mission Antar ...
    Students at Dilworth STEM Academy join a team of scientists in Antarctica as they study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms. The work has implications for understanding impacts of climate change and the ecology and evolution of organisms in the Southern Ocean.
  • Communicating Science with Animation
    Derek Norpchen calls his work eye candy. “I take the data that the scientists gather in the field and turn it into animations and visualizations so that the projects sponsors and the public can better understand the science behind the issue.”
  • ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
    Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Small Countries Play Important Role in Rio+20 ...
    Rio+20 will take place in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where world leaders will seek to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes
  • Former Cambodian Leader Denies Involvement in ...
    Mr. Samphan, 80, used his opening statement in the trial to deny any responsibility for the atrocities that took place under the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 and is thought to be responsible for the deaths of as
  • Jordan Must Act to End Violence Against Women
    Ms. Manjoo called for special measures, such as quotas and preferential treatment, to integrate women in the economy, employment, politics and education.
  • Yemeni Government and Opposition Agree to Peac ...
    She higlighted that the United Nations, through the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2014, made clear that the Yemeni people deserve to live free from violence and insecurity.
  • CECAFA Stresses Power of Football to Fight Malaria
    Secretary General Nicholas Musonye has delivered this message at the opening ceremony of a day-long Malaria awareness workshop for CECAFA media which was co-organized by CECAFA and United Against malaria (UAM) one of the body's sponsors.

environment 360

  • Majority in U.S. Support Revenue-Neutral Carbo ...
    A majority of Americans across the political spectrum support policies that reduce carbon emissions, including a revenue-neutral carbon tax, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. In a survey conducted between Oct. 20 and Nov. 6, 65 percent of respondents ...
  • Garbage Pickers Protest New Wave of Trash In ...
    A growing coalition of poor workers who earn a living by scouring trash heaps for recyclables in the world’s poorest cities are protesting new incinerators being built to convert that trash into electricity. While the UN has encouraged the incinerators as a means of generating electricity and pr ...
  • Rising Use of HFCs Could Accelerate Global War ...
    The increased use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the production of refrigerators, air conditioners, and other products could play a significant role in accelerating global warming, a new UN report warns. Without stricter regulations, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report says, th ...
  • Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidifica ...
    The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 has already begun, as evidenced recently by the widespread mortality of oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say this is just a harbinger of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar. BY ELIZABETH GRO ...
  • Extreme Weather to Increase as Climate Changes ...
    A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that an increase in heat waves is “virtually certain” as a result of global warming and that extreme weather events — including hurricanes, floods, and droughts — will likely become more intense in the next century. The ...

Red Ice Creations

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

Russia Today

  • Tahrir terror: Female journos, ‘naked blogger’ ...
    Protest-riven Tahrir Square is becoming a savage minefield for women, as French and American female journalists are brutally beaten and raped, and Egypt’s ‘naked blogger’ mobbed. The latest victim is journalist for...
  • Occupy plans Zombie Xmas shop shock
    It ain’t called Black Friday for nothing: every day after Thanksgiving, the leftovers haven’t gone cold yet, but crowds are already charging to start the year’s biggest event – Christmas shopping. But this year, Occupy...
  • Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian ...
    Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush has anchored off the Syrian coast. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in...
  • Banned neuro-toxic nerve gas 'poisons' Tahrir ...
    A banned chemical agent has reportedly been used by the Egyptian military as the brutal crackdown against tens of thousands of protesters has clouded prospects of a democratic transfer in the country.
  • Climate change scare: Hot hype 'exposed'
    The climate’s vulnerability to carbon dioxide may be not as critical as scientists thought, a new study suggests. If correct, it would mean that urgent calls to policymakers to curb emissions have actually been based on...

Not My Tribe

  • Disney stop poisoning our children
    OCCUPIED COLO. SPRINGS- Brianna saw the Adbusters flag with the corporate stars and stripes and was shocked to see the Disney logo in the multinational firmament. Do I have to hate Disney she asked?
  • Banksters buying debt again, another bucket of ...
    So one credit card (not debit, which is money you do have, but credit which for some reason is money you DON’T have, God they’ve screwed up the English language) offers a 5% cash rebate for up $300 a quarter (I think) in purchases. Or, $15 back. Which another card issuer, Chase, as i ...
  • It’s ThanksNowFuckOffAndDieGiving
    THANKSGIVING would seem to commemorate misplaced thanks. Our thanks are not for the bounty of the New World, or for receiving aid from the indigenous peoples, or for assuming stewardship over their gardens and farms, or God forbid for their joining us for supper. American white folk give thanks ...
  • The American Police State has got your huddled ...
  • Occupiers can learn from Anarchists
    Here’s one of the more popular pamphlets distributed at Occupy Colorado Springs, courtesy of the DABC. DEAR OCCUPIERS: A LETTER FROM ANARCHISTS   Support and solidarity! We’re inspired by the occupations on Wall Street and elsewhere around the country. Finally, people are taking to th ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Nutrition That Rocks: Using Media to Solve the ...
    This is a guest blog post by Jill Jayne, MS, RD Childhood obesity means more than just fat kids. It means that about one-third of American kids—despite eating too many calories—are not getting the proper nutrition. The repercussions are serious: a poor diet affects emotional health, physical fit ...
  • Ten Thanksgiving Turkey Trivia Tidbits
    Happy Thanksgiving folks! It’s our third holiday of thanks with the wonderful Fooducate community. A BIG THANKS for your participation, discussion, proofreading, words of encouragement, and most importantly for showing up here to learn about better food choices. Here are some interesting f ...
  • What’s in Turkey Stuffing?
    Yesterday we wrote about Thanksgiving’s cranberry sauce tradition. Today we’ll take a look inside a turkey – more specifically at the stuffing. Filling the cavities of poultry dates back to Roman times, and there are many food items that can be used – from grains to veget ...
  • What’s in a Cranberry Sauce?
    Cranberries are a native North American fruit that have found their way into Thanksgiving tradition alongside the Turkey and other dishes. Native Americans, who used the bitter and sour fruit for meat preservation, medicine, and dye, introduced it to hungry Pilgrims who at first were taken aback ...
  • Is your Honey Fake?
    A worrying and comprehensive article appeared a few weeks ago in Food Safety News. The topic: Honey. The problem: Most store brought honey could be fake. The article is quite lengthy, but makes for a good read. Here are the main points: Honey that we buy in the supermarket comes from US farmers ...

Traffikd

  • Twitter Step by Step
    Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...
  • SEO Tips For Your Blog and Business
    When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]
  • How To Choose Keywords
    Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...
  • Why Social Media Isn’t Working For You
    So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...
  • How Do I Tweet – Writing the $6 Million Dollar ...
    Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Kick-Ass, Mind-blowing
    "Greg Palast's Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed."  - Nomi Prins, author Other People's Money We are just a few books short of bumping Bill O'Reilly on the New York Times list. Get it now, this weekend. We don ...
  • Goldfinger eats Congo
    Goldfinger eats Congo Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!... "Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfi ...
  • Etok is One Bad-Ass Eskimo-In September, Obama ...
    Alternet.org - From the Arctic Circle, from inside a whale carcass (really), Greg Palast investigates... There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this: In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of t ...
  • This is it, folks...
    This is it, folks - our last chance to make the New York Times bestseller list - we're doing well - but we want to slam it - we want to make sure that people can't miss Vultures’ Picnic when they go on Amazon, walk into stores and browse at airports. Let’s make sure the media can’t ignore [...]
  • Before the Beginning
    Raven, that Lying Little Bastard by Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net "If I had a machine gun, I'd kill every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka didn't say, "white." He used the unkind Alutiiq phrase, isuwiq-something, bleached seal. As a bleached seal myself, I couldn't blame him, n ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse coffee that’s sat on the ...
    We’ve had an email from Iris: We make a big jug of filter coffee each morning at the weekend but I regularly have to pour away the last cup or two away because it’s gone bitter. Is there anything I can do to revive it or use it up some other way? Of course, there [...]
  • How can I recycled/pass on an old, working ele ...
    We’ve had an email from Richard: We have 4-year-old electric oven in good working order which we would like to donate to a Charity. Any ideas? We’ll actually in a similar position soon – our (15+ year old) oven works for general cooking but not for the precise/high temperatures ...
  • How can I reuse roller adhesive refill packs ( ...
    We’ve had an email from Carmel: Hello, I’m a paper crafter and was a Stampin Up demonstrator and use the Stampin Up snail adhesives or the tombow roller adhesives. Anyhow, to refill these things you have to buy another plastic mechanism that has the tape already in it. With all the p ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle pretty synthetic li ...
    Over on The Really Good Life, we’re in the middle of a decluttering month, with the hope of developing a general habit of asking “do we need or even want this?” rather than getting blind to things that have been on shelves for years. I’m also setting a weekly mini-challen ...
  • What can I reuse or recycle to make soap moulds?
    I made my first batch of cold-process soap earlier in the year – it took FOREVER to trace, but we’ve loved the resulting soap so I need to make some more. Ever since I made that first batch, I’ve been on the look out for what I can use as moulds this time around. Last [...]

Age of Autism

  • The Story of Lorrin Kain, a Deadly DPT "Hot Lo ...
    By Anne Dachel Last May I attended Autism One in Chicago. It was an incredible meeting of parents, advocates and medical experts. A number of parents had their children with them, some severely disabled with autism. I didn't meet anyone...
  • AofA Contest From Lee Silsby
    Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD are offering you a chance to try two popular and useful products this holiday season. We'll have two winners each of whom will receive a bottle of Enhansa curcumin supplement...
  • We Give You Thanks
    By Cathy Jameson My five-year old is my mini-me. She mirrors what I looked like as a child—wispy brown hair, big brown eyes, spitfire attitude (a.k.a., What About Me?!), creative, clever and downright cute. She watches things from a distance,...
  • Brian Deer Lords it at a Pharmaceutical Confer ...
    By John Stone This week journalist Brian Deer has been enjoying celebrity status at the luxury villa of Les Pensières of the Fondation Mérieux on the banks of Lake Annecy in the French alps: The Merieux foundation advertises its financial...
  • Clever Parents Autistic Kids?
    It's one micron better than being called a cold refrigerator mother - Simon Baron-Cohen is again looking at Mom (and Dad) as causing their children's autism. Autism May Be Linked To Clever Parents. I thought we were stupid for believing...

Global BDS Movement

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”?

Open Your Eyes News

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

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

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Small Countries Play Important Role in Rio+20 ...
    Rio+20 will take place in June 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where world leaders will seek to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable development, assess the progress to date and the remaining gaps in the implementation of the outcomes
  • Former Cambodian Leader Denies Involvement in ...
    Mr. Samphan, 80, used his opening statement in the trial to deny any responsibility for the atrocities that took place under the Khmer Rouge, which ruled Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 and is thought to be responsible for the deaths of as
  • Jordan Must Act to End Violence Against Women
    Ms. Manjoo called for special measures, such as quotas and preferential treatment, to integrate women in the economy, employment, politics and education.
  • Yemeni Government and Opposition Agree to Peac ...
    She higlighted that the United Nations, through the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2014, made clear that the Yemeni people deserve to live free from violence and insecurity.
  • CECAFA Stresses Power of Football to Fight Malaria
    Secretary General Nicholas Musonye has delivered this message at the opening ceremony of a day-long Malaria awareness workshop for CECAFA media which was co-organized by CECAFA and United Against malaria (UAM) one of the body's sponsors.

Worldnews

  • 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 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • [Book Review] Blink with Muscles
    Writing for lay readers, Kahneman provides a comprehensive look at how humans think and reach decisions—and at the implications of his findings. Author: Steven J. Sherman
  • Refining Formulation and Intervention Skills ...
    This advanced workshop is designed for mental health professionals, familiar with the approach of structured professional judgement (SPJ) when managing violence and related risks. The work-shop will update knowledge of new developments in the field, for example the evaluation of pro-tective fact ...
  • 01 Acute administration of magnesium orotate a ...
    Acute administration of magnesium orotate (Mg-Or) at reperfusion has been previously shown to elicit significant protection in isolated rat hearts. Since recovery of mitochondrial function is mandatory for cardioprotection, the present study was aimed at characterising the effects of Mg-Or on mi ...
  • Signs of Alzheimer's in those with low BMI
    KANSAS CITY, Kan., Nov. 24 (UPI) -- The middle-aged in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease are more likely to have lower body mass index, U.S. researchers found. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
  • Announcements: Environmental Microbiology: Con ...

Common Dreams

  • 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Occupy Revolution
    Joel S. Hirschhorn History tells us that it is nearly impossible to know in real time whether some kind of national, grassroots public protest ends up being the beginning of a true revolution against a ruling government system. This is true for the earliest beginnings of the revolt against the ...
  • Egyptian Military Power Grab
    by Stephen Lendman Last February, euphoric celebrations followed Mubarak's ouster. Across the Middle East and North Africa, people rejoiced. Activist Saed Karazon told AFP: "What happened in Egypt is not only for the Egyptian people, it is for all Arabs. The whole Arab world is going ...
  • Israel Steps Up Police State Crackdowns
    by Stephen Lendman Israel never embraced democratic values. More than ever today that's true. Many Jews understand. As a result, they're voting with their feet and leaving. Gideon Levy remarked that "(i)t's really an irony of history, because Israel was established to become a shelter to th ...
  • Occupy With a Vengeance! Change is a Messy Aff ...
    By Vincent L. Guarisco "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." ~~Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Is it just me?...Or is it getting crazy out there? I guess if you want honest press, you have to own one? If it weren't so painful to see our ...
  • Eurozone Doomsayer Got it Right
    by Stephen Lendman Eurozone economies are cratering. Every fix tried so far failed. Combining 17 dissimilar countries under one monetary/fiscal system assured disaster waiting to happen. British economist Bernard Connolly knew it before the euro's 1998 introduction. His 1995 book titled, "The ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

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

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    US awaits release of 3 students held in Egypt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Family and friends of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo waited anxiously Friday for news that they had been released from police custody. Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the Ameri ...
  • Snowless Scandinavians wonder ‘where&#82 ...
    By LOUISE NORDSTROM STOCKHOLM (AP) — For some reason, Scandinavia is not its frigid self, with unusually warm weather delaying the onset of winter in northern latitudes normally decked in white. The lack of snow has been bad news for winter sports — World Cup ski races have been dropped, or held ...
  • Yeah, it’s one of those Thanksgiving articles- ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) -Yes, I’m grateful for a lot of things. Big and small blessings or happy little cosmic accidents, depending on your outlook in life. But, grateful I am. So I’ll skip over the regular things that just about everyone is or should be thankful for an ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving from Worldwide Hippies
    Worldwide Hippies is your most trusted network of independent news and views on the web. Worldwide Hippies Mission Statement (WWH) WWH – Citizen News Information Entertainment and community media outlet. Who we are: – WWH is an online based privately owned (Website – Blog). Started 2009. The pur ...
  • Peace and Freedom Through Music, Poem and Docu ...
    By Nitesh Mohanty, The Tibet Post International – Mumbai, India: -Nitesh Mohanty of The Root – a company that platforms artistic expression with a social agenda – reports on 2 Days for Tibet, a cultural evening he organized in association with Friends of Tibet, which ran from N ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...
  • How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
    The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
  • Announcing R-Squared Energy TV
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]
  • Take a Stand, Mr. President
    Join the forum discussion on this post The Importance of Being Decisive When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets of wisdom were transferred from Graham into my long-term memo ...
  • Germany Faces Sticker Shock Over Renewable Ene ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from Oilprice.com, republished with permission to R-Squared. For years many Germans warned that nuclear was the only way they could meet the energy needs of their population and reduce carbon emissions at the same time. Now th ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
  • Bobby Flay's Tips for a Tex-Mex Thanksgiving
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—When you think "Thanksgiving," it's unlikely that chile peppers, avocados, and calabacitas come to mind—unless you live in the American Southwest. Arid and sunny, the region's climate makes Thanksgiving look like a warm summer picnic to the rest of us, with its own uniqu ...
  • 6 Healthy Holiday Cleaning Recipes
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Preparing to have a big crowd over for the big Thanksgiving holiday? You could be serving up a dose of cancer-causers, allergens, and hormone disruptors alongside your healthy holiday dinner, according to the health advocacy group Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE). The ...
  • 7 Traditional Thanksgiving Staples From Your N ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, so if you're really intent on serving a traditional Thanksgiving menu, it makes sense to stock your meal with traditional staples that America's earliest settlers would approve of. Cranberries, ...
  • Thanksgiving Dinner, Southern-Style
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— Southern food may have a bad reputation for being deep fried and heavily processed, but like any traditional cuisine, its roots lie in whole, seasonal, locally grown foods with flavors influenced by the many different cultures that settled the region, from Europeans to ...

big think

  • Mona Eltahawy Survives Egypt's Interior Ministry
    What's the Latest Development? The prominent American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy has been released from government custody as Egypt's post-Mubarak transition is showing further signs of strain. Protesters are gathering once again in Cairo's Tahrir Square, expressing angst over who w ...
  • An Ex-Mormon Story
    Editor's Note: After a holiday that's all about gratitude, it seemed appropriate to post this. Please welcome Jessa Jackson as she tells the story of how she went from Mormonism to atheism. We're thankful to have you, Jessa! —Adam Lee One thing I remember hearing repeatedly claimed ...
  • The Ethics of Designer Brains
    Our values as a society will determine which psychopharmaceuticals and (down the road) which genetic enhancement technologies we choose to develop and how we use them. That's what concerns Dr. Paul Root Wolpe, senior Bioethicist at NASA and a pioneer in the field of neuroethics. Peering in ...
  • Turn Rejection into Success
    What's the Latest Development? It's not so much rejection that hurts our morale but our fear of rejection, says marketing professional Geoffrey James. If your business proposal (or any other proposal) is rejected, remember that the other person's act of rejection has nothing to do with you ...
  • "Screw It, Let's Do It": An Entrepreneurial Spirit
    What's the Latest Development? When Matthew and Adam Toren bought a struggling pool hall, the brothers didn't know much about the game of billiards or about running a business. But after accepting substantial risk, they turned the business around and began to see success. Throughout their ...

Information Liberation

  • A Lesson They Will Never Forget
    Fascism begins at home. The practice of spanking covered by John Stossel on ABC's 20/20 in 1992. This is an absolute must watch....
  • City settles suit after cop forcibly arrests a ...
    Donna Moore says her son was afraid to leave home for almost a year after he and his sister were allegedly attacked by a Chicago police detective upset over an earlier altercation with his son at a Beverly neighborhood school playlot. The two, 11 ...
  • Woman Places Sign On Her Car Stating Police Do ...
    CHICAGO, IL, Nov 18, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A federal jury returned a verdict in excess of half a million dollars against a Village of Westmont, Illinois police detective for having violated a mother's First Amendment rights by maliciously p...
  • Protect and Serve: NY Cops Violently Drag Woma ...
    A NYPD officer drags a woman by her hair as OWS protesters look on and scream in shock....
  • Top 10 Reasons Why the Mafia is Better than th ...
    Emily delivered the winning rant at the Soapbox Idol competition from Porcfest 2011. Porcfest is short for the Porcupine Freedom Festival which is held annually in NH by the Free State Project. The judges panel included Stefan Molyneux of Freedomai...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Share your slides using a QR code
    Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
  • Is renewable energy just a myth?
    It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
  • Singing the Movember Blues no more
    Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
  • What’s the best month to be born?
    According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...
  • The little book of black delights
    Schadenfreude: pleasure derived from another’s misfortune. Black humour. The hilarity experienced in watching a pratfall, the clumsy slip on a well-placed banana skin. From the German compound noun, deriving from Schaden (adversity, harm) and Freude (joy). Obvious. ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Amping Up Brain Function: Transcranial Stimula ...
    WASHINGTON, D.C.--One of the most difficult tasks to teach Air Force pilots who guide unmanned attack drones is how to pick out targets in complex radar images. Pilot training is currently one of the biggest bottlenecks in deploying these new, deadly weapons. [More]
  • NASA's Massive Curiosity Rover Nears Launch to ...
    Don't be fooled by the innocuous name--Curiosity, NASA's new Mars rover, is a brute. [More]
  • Eating Turkey Does Not Really Make You Sleepy
    'Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The supercomittee, the White House, "the One Percent," Greece, Italy -- the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall. So in the spirit of sharing guilt, we thought it might be fun to ask a physician, Dr. Howard Markel ...
  • Will Energy Storage Play a Big Role in the Ele ...
    More than 200 tops spin in vessels half-buried in the dirt outside Stephentown, N.Y., a town near the Massachusetts state line. Inside the vessel a vacuum permits each top to rotate as many as 16,000 times per minute, despite the fact that each weighs more than one metric ton, thanks to its st ...
  • New Theory Explains What Makes a Video Go Viral
    More than 10 million people have watched a YouTube video of an iPhone being pulverized in a blender. It's actually a commercial for Blendtec -- a company most viewers had probably never heard of. But with the viral clip, Blendtec let social networking spread its name and message rather than ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

David Seaton's News Links

  • Thoughts at Thanksgiving 2011
     David Seaton's News LinksWe've been through this beforeRead carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending ...
  • Globalization: fun and games
    David Seaton's News LinksOpen "Google Translate" and set the translation to English to Chinese (traditional), then write in the word "jokes", which will produce the Chinese ideogram 笑話, then paste that into Google-Google and it will produce the  following search results (click here). C ...
  • Looking on the bright side of life - Part Two
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholia" - Lars Von TrierLooking at the political paralysis of the American political system, the wasted lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceaseless unrest in the Arab world,the increasing possibility of a war with Iran and the sense of imminent finan ...
  • How paranoiac should we be?
    Critics in Europe are very uneasy about the new Italian ECB chief, the Greek premier and the prime minister-designate of Italy’s past or present relations with the Goldman Sachs bank. Key European crisis figures Mario Draghi, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti all have backgrounds with ‘Government ...
  • The bright side of life - revisited
    “When you’re chewing on life’s gristleDon’t grumble, give a whistle”Eric IdleI am in the process of reworking a lot of my material, looking to see if I could ever make a book out of it all, trying to see what, if any, threads of thought might hold it all together. This is a rough draft of some o ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Romney's Liberal Media Dog Whistle
    Why did Mitt Romney lie so egregiously in his recent attack ad against Barack Obama? One of Greg Sargent's readers suggests that it's basically a signaling device, assuring his supporters that he's willing to go to any lengths to win next year: This interpretation is practically supported b ...
  • The Real Story Behind Black Friday
    The official explanation from the retail industry for the term "Black Friday" is that it's the day when retail profits for the year go from red to black. Are you skeptical about this? You should be. After all, the term Black ___day has, in other contexts, always signified something terrible, ...
  • Thanksgiving Cat Blogging
    This is Inkblot last night, helping to supervise Thanksgiving preparations. That's a big ol' pot of boiling sweet potatoes he's interested in — or thinks he is, anyway, since he'd probably recoil in carnivorous disgust if real-life tubers ever showed up on his dinner plate. Still, a cat ...
  • GOP Blows Up Yet Another Norm
    We all know that Republicans have done their best to hamstring President Obama's ability to get anything done via routine filibuster. That's old news. We also know that they've slow-walked his executive appointments for the same reason. That's also old news. We even know that they've tried to ...
  • Yet More Gloomy News From Europe
    Hmmm. It looks like I got my eurozone gloom in reverse order today. It wasn't exactly front-page news in most newspapers — hey, who cares if Europe is imploding? — but today brought yet more bad news on the bond auction front. Except this time the bad news wasn't from Greece, or Sp ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 286: Hippie Hater
    Topics: Holiday Shopping is getting out of hand Man masturbates in department store New images of Bane from The Dark Knight Rises Nerds go too far Sandusky victim bullied at school Joe Paterno had a history of getting involved in investigations Occupy Denver explains why they need tents The prob ...
  • IC 285: I Wish I Was White
    Topics: Twilight and the pattern of average white girls Strawberry Letter, you’re single cause you’re stupid Shaq cheats respectfully Ashton & Demi break up and how will we survive? Man goes broke in Ukraine trying to met his online girlfriend Great Moments in White Privilege: B ...
  • IC 284: The White Tyler Perry
    Topics: Jack & Jill does horribly at the Box Office Adam Sandler is terrible Woman goes crazy over McDonalds serving breakfast Jerry Sandusky gives the worst interview EVER Herman Cain has a senior moment Share with your friends:
  • The New Man Daywalker
    It’s been a rough week for men.   From the XY Movement, to the cowardly men in the Penn State situation to the release of Drake’s extra soft album.  Men can’t catch a break.  Even our regular clothes are under attack by this push to make everything “European cut” (i ...
  • Herman Cain Pulls a Sarah Palin
    Foreign Policy is the great equalizer when it comes to politics.  Nobody minds a domestic dummy, but when it comes to dealing with other country, no one wants a politician who embarrasses them.  Its like family.  When your dad say something stupid at the dinner table, its cute and funny.  When h ...

Simple Climate

  • Controls needed to avoid waste in $100B climat ...
    To ensure the money pledged to the Green Climate Fund is used wisely, its spending rules should be regularly reassessed, spending programs should be independently audited, and a scientific approach to spending decisions should be adopted, says geographer Simon Donner, from the University of Brit ...
  • Climate benefit from trees depends on location
    21 scientists including Xuhui Lee from Yale University find that while planting trees near the equator both cools local temperatures and absorbs CO2, planting in northern regions could be self-defeating.
  • Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler water
    Some of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.
  • Moscow shows warming driving temperature records
    There is only a one in five chance that last year's heatwave in Russia would have happened without global warming, an analysis of record temperature probabilities by Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.
  • 2020 target offers climate change control hope
    If greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 are equivalent to 31 to 46 billion tonnes of CO2, the world can avoid the worst consequences of climate change, says Joeri Rogelj from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

e!Science News

  • Climate sensitivity to CO2 more limited than e ...
    A new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates of some previous studies -- and, in fact, may be less severe than projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in 2007. read more
  • Ancient environment found to drive marine biod ...
    Much of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record -- but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth? read more
  • Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Boston study i ...
    A combination of two drugs may alleviate radiation sickness in people who have been exposed to high levels of radiation, even when the therapy is given a day after the exposure occurred, according to a study led by scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston. rea ...
  • Hopkins scientists turn on fountain of youth i ...
    Collaborations between Johns Hopkins and National Taiwan University researchers have successfully manipulated the life span of common, single-celled yeast organisms by figuring out how to remove and restore protein functions related to yeast aging. read more
  • Happy, feel-good holiday seasons start with he ...
    While most people only gain about a pound of weight during the holiday season, that pound may never come off, increasing the likelihood of becoming overweight or obese and the risk of related health problems, according to a National Institutes of Health study. University of Missouri dietitians r ...

unEarthed

  • Stormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Dou ...
    “I'm afraid that a lot of the images that I've made underwater are going to be documents of a time passed.” David Doubilet, on assignment. (Jennifer Hayes) ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Thank You!
    To all those clean water champions out there! Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) opposed H.R. 2273, calling it a "green-light pass for utility companies to dispose of their waste without regard to p ...
  • Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Andrea Treece
    “Trawl fishing is like clear-cutting on land, but just in the bottom of the ocean.” Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece (Brian Treece) This is the fourth in ...
  • Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Roger Fleming
    “If we can make changes that will work in New England, it helps lead the nation on fisheries policy.” Roger Fleming, with Gompers and Scout, in Cape Cod. (Amy Wells) ...
  • Appalachian Coal Jobs Reach 14-Year High
    So this is what you mean by EPA's "War on coal" and EPA's "job-killing regulations"? The jig is up: New data shows coal mining regulations are creating jobs, n ...

Brave New Climate

  • CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
    Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
  • Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Pa ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The Swiss army nuclear knife —————— During the past few years, all the world’s major science ...
  • The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of Emails
    With regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...
  • Energy Storage Discussion Thread
    Debate over large-scale energy storage is a regular theme in the comments on this blog. The post is intended to be a place to centralise this discussion. Some questions that might be considered in the comment thread: 1. What is the cost (per Watt hour, kWh, MWh, GWh — how does this cost sc ...
  • CEDA report on Australia’s nuclear energ ...
    Today I was in Melbourne, joining a panel of five who are the chapter authors of a new policy monograph called “Australia’s Nuclear Options“. This event was to formally launch the 61-page report, which was commissioned and published by CEDA (Committee for Economic Development o ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

  • Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
    Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...
  • Megyn Kelly
    Is Megyn Kelly the dumbest blonde in the world? No, I mean really…..
  • Chris Wallace Claims Americans Are Fed Up With ...
    Folks, you have to understand. Fox Lies tells it’s lemming viewers what they are supposed to think so they can repeat the same Fox lies around water coolers. Anyone who watches Fox is already brainwashed and lives in some alternate universe where giving billionaires all the breaks help ...
  • Pssst CNN… Why Ask Condi About Anything ...
    Dear CNN. The only question you should be asking Condi is when does she think her treason trial will begin. To ask her opinion about anything else is a disservice to all the brave soldiers who died looking for Saddam’s WMD’s (err… oil). As far as asking her about world affairs, ...
  • Newt Says Get A Job After Taking A Bath #occupy
    Where Newt? China? That is where our jobs are. Newt babbled “All the occupy movements start with the premise that we owe them everything” to a cheering crowd of fake Christians.  No Newt you confirmed corporate whore, lying, lobbyist, scam artist. You, and the billionaires you work f ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • What do genocide, Schalit have to do with Pale ...
    The recent curtailment of the rights of Palestinian prisoners was presented by Israel as leverage designed to secure the release of Gilad Schalit. But Schalit has been released, while the sanctions remain. By Haggai Matar This past summer, somewhere around the fifth anniversary of Gilad Schalit ...
  • Organized chaos and bare life (*): The non-sto ...
    There exists a general, intentional, cleverly constructed misunderstanding surrounding the true nature of the Israeli occupation. Some say it’s a simple dispute over land, like many others in the world; other think the conflict is about national independence for the Palestinians, prompting ...
  • IMAGE: Israeli night raids resume in Nabi Saleh
    The embattled village of Nabi Saleh saw a resumption of night raids last night. The house of imprisoned popular committee leader Bassem Tamimi was raided by Israeli soldiers at 02:00 this morning, according to Palestinian activist @Tweet_Palestine on Twitter. Sometimes a picture is worth a thous ...
  • Israeli reality TV: A precise portrayal of Isr ...
    If you ask Nicole Raidman, a star in one of Israel’s most popular reality TV shows, Shakira is a disgusting Arab and anti-semite, Arabs raise kids to be terrorists and hate Jews. Does she represent the typical Israeli? Racism exists everywhere. In every country. And as we all know, it exists h ...
  • WATCH: Tel Aviv police pepper-spray democracy ...
    I only got to the last part of the Tel Aviv demo against the anti-democratic legislation led by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government. Most of the several thousand protesters were on their way home; a couple of hundreds had gathered on Rothschild Boulevard, and another 200 were demonstrati ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Riot Time
    Success for any community often depends on the difference between vocabulary and language. Articulating the current challenges faced by all …Continue reading »
  • Thin Democracy
    Some are surprised to learn that the planet Neptune wasn’t discovered; it was deduced. In 1846 the French astronomer Urbain …Continue reading »
  • Layers
    How does it feel when you hear billionaire Warren Buffett state, “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the …Continue reading »
  • Participation Above All
    Prior to its removal from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street had some strong intellectual support that sought to provide the …Continue reading »
  • Identity Crisis
    For those supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement things have just entered a new phase. It all had begun in …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
    Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...
  • The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
    Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...
  • Occupy Oakland Calls for Total West Coast Port ...
    Intro: "In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation: Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted th ...
  • Occupy Oakland Calls for Total West Coast Port ...
    Intro: "In response to coordinated attacks on the occupations and attacks on workers across the nation: Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted th ...
  • Iran and the IAEA
    Excerpt: "I've been reporting on Iran and the bomb for The New Yorker for the past decade, with a focus on the repeatedly inability of the best and the brightest of the Joint Special Operations Command to find definitive evidence of a nuclear-weapons production program in Iran." Iranian Presi ...

War Resisters League

  • Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
    [This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →
  • Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
    [This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.]   Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →
  • Between Credit, Bullion and Rebellion: Debt by ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a third book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →
  • 10 Years of the Global War on Terror
    This Friday, October 7 marks ten years of the U.S. Global War on Terror, which began with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. War Resisters League along with a number of antimiltarist and community groups will commemorate the occasion with … Continue reading →
  • “Stands Against Its Oppressor”: Ir ...
    “I think that whoever talks of pressure has to be precise. I don’t feel any pressure. Even the Syrian regime has stopped talking about conspiracy and foreign intervention. Either they know there is pressure and they don’t dare declare it … Continue reading →

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?

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Consumerist

  • Sam's Club Pulls Lego Bible Due To Complaints
    The author of The Brick Bible, which uses Lego blocks to tell biblical stories, says Sam's Club has yanked his product from shelves because customers complained it is too vulgar and violent. He says he feels as though he's being singled out because his book simply contains literal depictions of ...
  • Morning Deals
    ClothingAbercrombie & Fitch: [Clothing & Accessories] Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister coupons: 40% off sitewidemacys: [Clothing & Accessories] Macy's Black Friday Sale: Up to 70% off select items, moreGap: [Clothing & Accessories] Gap Black Friday Sale: Up to 60% off online or in-store + 20% off ...
  • Google Steps Up Browser Security To Keep Data ...
    Internet common sense tells you to look for an "https" prefix on site URLs before offering up private information such as credit card numbers. Thanks to efforts from Google, sites with that security designation should be even more secure. The Google Blog explains the details of what it's doing ...
  • AT&T Pulls FCC Application For T-Mobile Merger
    Two days after the FCC announced it intends to hold a rare administrative hearing on AT&T's proposed purchase of T-Mobile USA, the folks at the Death Star have decided to pull their merger application to the regulator, at least until the end of its legal battle with the Dept. of Justice. Addit ...
  • Be A Better Cubemate When You Head Back To Work
    With some time away from the office, now is your opportunity to collect yourself and head back to cubicleville refreshed and ready to be a less annoying coworker. When you're back at the grindstone, here are three ways to be a better cubemate: * If you eat stinky food, throw your trash away on ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • December Hearing Set for Bradley Manning: Dail ...
    Baltimore Sun: WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning to Have Hearing at Maryland's Fort Meade Next Month Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – the whistleblower accused of sending WikiLeaks a trove of classified information detailing American military conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan, and State Department c ...
  • Retaliation Against Gayl Shows Need for WPEA: ...
    Huffington Post: Let’s Ensure Whistleblowers’ Good Deeds Go Unpunished Summary: Because the retaliation that MRAP whistleblower and GAP client Franz Gayl endured is all too common for government whistleblowers, this article supports the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, which has passe ...
  • Gas Company Whistleblower Reveals Reckless Pra ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user US Army AfricaTimes-Tribune (PA): Gas Company Whistleblower Details Spills, Errors Summary: A former gas company employee and several other residents of a Pennsylvania town are suing the company because of negligence leading to high levels of methane gas in the public w ...
  • Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award: Daily Whist ...
    GAP's Jesselyn Radack and NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake in March 2011.Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award Summary: Department of Justice whistleblower and GAP National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack, and NSA whistleblower (and GAP client) Thomas Drake, have each won t ...
  • Radack, Drake Win Sam Adams Award
    Tom Drake and Jesselyn Radack at the Ridenhour Prize for Truthtelling Ceremony in March 2011National Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack and GAP client and National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake have won this year's prestigious Sam Adams Award, presented annua ...

UK Progressive

  • Video Tribute to Those Wanting to Break Free
    Yeah, I was a geek in school and astronomy was a place to realise how tiny we and all of our dramas are in the grand scheme. As people today invest in stomach antacids and crowd shopping malls, Carl Sagan puts life into deeper perspective. So just do it, take care of your corner of [...]
  • 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. “A more creative Israel would embrace Palestine’s recognition, which it has already e ...
  • Occupy’s Woman Problem
    “I’m called ‘that white bitch who gets everything she wants’ at the GA’s,” says Elise Whitaker, 21, adopting a bit of a defiant posture. She’s been at Occupy LA since the second week of the encampment. A now former-assistant director for indie films, Whitaker is good looking in a vaguely familia ...
  • Must See Movie-Margin Call: A Small Movie Unve ...
    by Jake Bernstein, ProPublica Spoiler alert: This article discusses key scenes from the film. J.C. Chandor has embraced Rahm Emanuel’s dictum “never let a serious crisis go to waste.” The 37-year-old writer and director used the financial crisis as a springboard to create the m ...
  • Occupy Cal Makes Occupy History at Berkeley
    After their tents were pulled by the university, UC Berkeley students turn the school’s celebration of a ’60s icon into massive Occupy meeting. Mario Savio was a UC Berkeley student in the ’60s and a key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He’s become an activist icon; Mario Savio Youth ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Hot new search tool for Climategate – I ...
    Behind the scenes, I’ve been playing with a new neat tool for hunting hypocrisy, corruption, bias and unprofessional behaviour and I’m pleased to announce its ready to share with the world. The kudos for this all belongs to, as usual, a skilled volunteer. Thanks to EcoGuy for turning ...
  • More emails: Phil Jones paid £13.7 million in ...
    Up to £13.7 million in grants have been paid to Professor Phil Jones, from a number of funding bodies including the European Union, NATO, and the US Department of Energy. But the intellectual and philosophical climate is so weak that Jones doesn’t even consider himself to be paid to serve ...
  • Breaking! Apparently, more emails released. Cl ...
    Five hours ago, FOIA left a link on my blog to a Russian site (I had been away). Emails and comments are streaming through to let me know that the Tallbloke, and Jeff ID have also got them. Tallbloke has opened it and checked for viruses. Jeff ID confirms there are thousands of emails readable a ...
  • The tax whose name shall not be spoken
    Blitzed in the polls, the Australian Labor Party have picked the communist solution — straight from the Soviet rule book of Free Speech.  Goskomizdat revived as a kind of Goskoshopfront. It’s more desperate and simplistic band-aid legislation to benefit the ruling class and not the p ...
  • 7,000 excess winter deaths in Australia and 1, ...
    Excess winter deaths are more than triple the number killed on the road. Indur Goklany compares average daily deaths for each month in Australia and New Zealand and shows that in both countries (like in much of the rest of the world) there are more deaths in the cooler months. While climate chan ...

ReNew America

  • Remember whom to thank
    (Joseph Farah) - Thanksgiving isn't a day for complaining, but indulge me for just a moment. I'm appalled at the way Americans have forgotten the real meaning of Thanksgiving. Have you checked out what your children are learning about this holiday in both government and too many private schools? ...
  • President Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day proclamation
    (Washington Examiner) - The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings off fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so ...
  • 'Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama ...
    (11 Alive) - A west Georgia business owner is stirring up controversy with signs he posted on his company's trucks, for all to see as the trucks roll up and down roads, highways and interstates: "New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone"...
  • NBC apologizes to Bachmann for Fallon song choice
    (Associated Press) - GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon's "Late Night," her spokeswoman said late Wednesday...
  • The search for Marizela: a Thanksgiving note
    (Michelle Malkin) - On March 5, my 18-year-old cousin disappeared from her University of Washington campus in Seattle. Marizela Perez -- 5-foot-5, 110 pounds, short black hair with brown/red highlights and bangs cut into an asymmetrical bob, wearing a dark hooded jacket, jeans and light brown su ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • A Humorous Nibiru Video
    So as to focus on the clear and present (potential) dangers of 2012, I’ve spent a lot of time debunking various scenarios. Planet X / Nibiru is NOT heading our way in 2012. There is ...A Humorous Nibiru Video is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excel ...
  • Another Alien Skull?
    Probably a child with a deformity, potentially an alien and possibly an example of a different human species… More pics at guanabee.com At RPP (in Spanish) experts are claiming that it is an alien: Riquelme Davila explained that ...Another Alien Skull? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Gerard Celente on MF Global
    I don’t usually cover politics and finance here, but we have a very interesting piece of audio… Gerard Celente is a well known futurist and forecaster. It just so happens (he claims) that his savings ...Gerard Celente on MF Global is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Reduce ...
  • Falling Sea Levels & Fewer Hurricanes
    The image is from aviso.oceanobs.com and shows the change in the average sea level for the northern hemisphere. The data is from the European Union’s Envisat satellite, which was  launched in 2002. Now NASA will ...Falling Sea Levels & Fewer Hurricanes is a post from: 2012 Blog Relat ...
  • Tsarion and Icke: A Quick Critique
    Just got back from Michael Tsarion’s 8 hour talk in Melbourne. About 200 attended, at $80 each. More Aussie dates will follow. I like the guy – he’s easy to watch and listen to, and is ...Tsarion and Icke: A Quick Critique is a post from: 2012 Blog No related posts.

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  • Another UP govt official raises banner of revo ...
    After top police officials, now a civil services officer has raised a banner of revolt against ministers and senior officials in the Mayawati government.
  • I will burn any Walmart store that comes here: ...
    BJP leader Uma Bharti lashed out at the government for their decision to allow 51 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Retail sector, saying she will personally set fire to any WalMart store that comes up in any mall.
  • Ex-Mubarak man agrees in principle to be Egypt ...
    Seventy-eight-year-old Kamal al-Ganzouri, who served under former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak from 1996 to 1999, has agreed in principle to lead a “national salvation” government after meeting with the head of the ruling army council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.
  • Tamil actor Vijayakant fasts against price rise
    Chennai, Nov 25: Actor turned politician and leader of opposition in the Tamil Nadu assembly and DMDK Chief, A Vijayakant held a day long fast along with other party leaders in Chennai on Nov 24 to protest against the hike in
  • India Alerts Its Internet Users Against Cyber ...
    New Delhi (ABC Live): India’s Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Sachin Pilot informed Lok Sabha in a written reply to a question that virus is a ‘malacious code’ computer software programme. With the innovation of technology ‘malicious code’ are ...

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Oriental Review

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

BlogHer

  • My Afternoon Of Reading (Or Trying To)
     Actually... more like trying to read...  whatcha got there mom?  any food? even the turkeys came over to investigate  uh oh here comes Henrietta...   what's going on here?  whoa too close! Max decided he'd find out what this book was ...
  • Great Gift Cookbooks: Sweets & Treats
    [Editor's Note: This new cookbook from Janice Cuevas of A Healthful Gluten-Free Life is available in both ebook and paperback version, and features recipes that are perfect for the holidays. She picked that focus because this is her favorite time of year, and the delicious options available in t ...
  • Gifts That Won't Clutter
    It's the gifts we dread - the crazy nic-nacs that you will have to dust for the next 20 years, the inevitable Chia Pet and just one more photo frame. One woman fights the clutter fight with a list of gifts that people actually need and use: "I tried to keep the gift certificate suggestions to a ...
  • Why You Should Clean Up Your Twitter Stream
    I have to admit that I didn't know that numbers actually matter a bit when it comes to Twitter. I mean, everyone knows that more followers = better, but did you also know that the number of people you're following matters? I didn't. Selfish Mom recently had a post about cleaning up your Twitt ...
  • Season Marketing - Are You Doing It?
    Marketing takes planning ahead. With the holiday season ahead, is your marketing addressing what your prospects are already thinking about (the holidays) or are you missing the boat? Read this important peek inside how to do seasonal marketing well. As the old marketing adage goes, it’s bes ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Happy Thanksgiving everybody …
    Hey folks, Coal Tattoo is going to be shut down for a couple of days. I hope everyone enjoys some time with family and friends. Be safe, be kind to each other, and be thankful.
  • Gov. Tomblin replaces appeals board members in ...
    Well, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has made it pretty plain that one of his absolute top priorities is to defend the state’s coal industry and to perpetuate the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that on Friday — less ...
  • Coal industry continues to aggressively appeal ...
    The blog post yesterday from our friend Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., understandably focused on the clear good news in a new report from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission and the Department of Labor: Efforts to reduce the backlog of the thousands of health and safety appeals b ...
  • Remembering the Farmington Disaster
    Gazette photo by Lawrence Pierce Forty-three years ago yesterday, 78 miners were killed in an explosion at Consolidation Coal Co.’s No. 9 Mine in Farmington, W.Va. WBOY-TV reported from yesterday’s commemoration: That morning, an explosion at the Consol Number 9 Mine just outside of Farmin ...
  • MSHA cites ‘imminent danger’ at Al ...
    Here’s the SEC filing made by Alpha Natural Resources on Friday: On July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street and Consumer Protection Act (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) was enacted. Section 1503 of the Dodd-Frank Act contains new reporting requirements regarding mine safety, including disclosing o ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A Hiring Primer
    Few topics are discussed as much in the tech industry as how to hire great people. There are myriad approaches, from how to look for qualities you want, to how to filter people you don’t want, to how to ignore standard metrics and go with some sort of instinct. Everyone has their favorite ...
  • Handling Redirects with Varnish and Nginx
    I run Varnish here on the site, with Nginx as the backend. I’ve written before about my overall setup, and how to improve site performance, so I won’t go into it here. Here I want to cover a subtlety of putting varnish in front of nginx (or any other web server, really) with respect ...
  • Education Pays | Bureau of Labor Statistics
    via bls.gov A striking visualization. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentVisual.ly | Infographics & VisualizationsEducation in AmericaA Digital IO WorkflowBrowser CombatDon’t Be a Cryptic Ass
  • Michael Smith @rybolov DDoS Talk
    Michael Smith, @rybolov DDoS from Adrian Crenshaw on Vimeo. My Internet bud @rybolov doing a DDoS talk. :: Related ContentA Time Lapsed Earth Flyover from NASA’s ISSDODOCASELandscapes, by Garry TanEvil EvangelistsQwiki: A Future Google Holding
  • Principle of Least Astonishment | Wikipedia
    The principle of least astonishment (POLA/PLA) applies to user interface design, software design, and ergonomics. It is alternatively referred to as the rule or law of least astonishment, or the rule or principle of least surprise (POLS). The POLA states that, when two elements of an interface c ...

Fitwatch

  • Plainclothes cops spotter card
    SPOTTER CARD PLAINCLOTHES PDF - please copy and distribute freely. We must remember these faces and not allow them near our protests again!
  • Plainclothes Police and “Agents Provocat ...
    FITwatch have been inspired by the amount of people taking an interest in the policing operations on November 9th. FITwatch recognise critical enagagement with policing strategy as being crucial to our success as a protest movement. However, FITwatch wanted to flag one particular area of concern ...
  • Plainclothes cops on education demo
    These are a selection of the plainclothes cops spotted on the education demo on 9th November. Fitwatchers witnessed the violent arrest or one protester and followed the officers. Other photos have come from various sources. REMEMBER THESE FACES! THESE COPS MUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON OUR PROTESTS AGA ...
  • Don’t be intimidated! See you on the st ...
    On the eve of the mass education/sparks/cabbies protest on 9th November, it is clear the state are trying to intimidate us. From the news today that the police have written to protesters arrested at previous demonstrations warning them off protesting (see picture), to the “total policing” of the ...
  • Armed police raid Kurdish tent at OccupyLSX
    Last night, the Kurdish tent at the OccupyLSX camp was raided by armed police following an alleged tip off of a gun being present. They searched the tent for over half an hour unsurprisingly finding nothing. The Kurdish community has long been criminalised, and labelled as terrorists for their a ...

Worldwide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    US awaits release of 3 students held in Egypt PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Family and friends of three American students arrested during a protest in Cairo waited anxiously Friday for news that they had been released from police custody. Derrik Sweeney, Luke Gates and Gregory Porter, who attend the Ameri ...
  • Snowless Scandinavians wonder ‘where&#82 ...
    By LOUISE NORDSTROM STOCKHOLM (AP) — For some reason, Scandinavia is not its frigid self, with unusually warm weather delaying the onset of winter in northern latitudes normally decked in white. The lack of snow has been bad news for winter sports — World Cup ski races have been dropped, or held ...
  • Yeah, it’s one of those Thanksgiving articles- ...
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) -Yes, I’m grateful for a lot of things. Big and small blessings or happy little cosmic accidents, depending on your outlook in life. But, grateful I am. So I’ll skip over the regular things that just about everyone is or should be thankful for an ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving from Worldwide Hippies
    Worldwide Hippies is your most trusted network of independent news and views on the web. Worldwide Hippies Mission Statement (WWH) WWH – Citizen News Information Entertainment and community media outlet. Who we are: – WWH is an online based privately owned (Website – Blog). Started 2009. The pur ...
  • Peace and Freedom Through Music, Poem and Docu ...
    By Nitesh Mohanty, The Tibet Post International – Mumbai, India: -Nitesh Mohanty of The Root – a company that platforms artistic expression with a social agenda – reports on 2 Days for Tibet, a cultural evening he organized in association with Friends of Tibet, which ran from N ...

reference frame

  • Jones and Mann in Tahiti: and many other e-mails
    Tom Nelson has found some new hilarious e-mails in the Climategate 2011 package. You must have always wondered how the billions of dollars are being spent in the climate research if the only outcome seem to be a few fraudulent graphs that every other crackpot is able to fabricate ...
  • Hydrogen atom and \(SO(4)\) symmetry
    "Shut up and calculate" is not only a wise attitude to the questions about the foundations of quantum mechanics; it is a constructive approach to physics in general. But what about the idea to walk the walk and calculate something? Symmetries play a crucial role in physics – in classica ...
  • Google's renewable energy is sunsetting
    Google is thankfully acting as a commercial entity that does care about the impact (and profitability) of their projects. So – see Reuters – among the projects it will be retiring or "sunsetting" by Spring 2012, we find: Google Knol: a framework that was collecting high-quality art ...
  • Norman Ramsey: 1915-2011
    Bill Zajc wrote something about Roy Glauber and I randomly wanted to check some data about the Harvard optics Nobel prize winners and happened to visit the Wikipedia page about Norman Ramsey. Unfortunately, the page stunned me by the information that he died 3 weeks ago. See The Guardia ...
  • CDF at Tevatron: 9-sigma excess of multimuon g ...
    The CDF Collaboration has presented many extraordinary claims during the recent year which seem probably incorrect today, not only because of the refutations by D0 (Z'-boson-like bump near 150 GeV, a huge top-antitop mass difference, and so on). But we must give them another chance beca ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
    Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
  • I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
    What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...
  • Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
    Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...
  • WALL STREET INSIDER: The Obama White House Wan ...
    by Ulsterman on October 17, 2011 with 72 Comments in News  Our latest interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider reveals details of a troubling Obama White House stance against Wall Street executives voicing concern over the now daily violence permeating the Occupy Wall Street movement – and ...
  • Mac Slavo: Bugging Out of NYC: Something Terri ...
    Bugging Out of NYC: “Something Terrible is Coming… So For Now, I’m Getting Out.” Mac Slavo October 20th, 2011 SHTFplan.com Comments (67) You may remember the Wall Street Insider from a previous interview in which he suggested that elements within the Obama administration were mobilizing to incit ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
    By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Save the Delaware River
    Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Pla ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
  • Don't get slimed: Skip the fabric softener
    By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist Fabric softeners contain toxic ingredients that are bad for your health and the environment. EWG recommends that laundry doers just say no. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets are relative newcomers to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Feinstein to fight for BPA-free formula
    By Elaine Shannon, Environmental Working Group editor-in-chief Five years ago, tens of millions of baby bottles and sippy cups sold in the United States were manufactured with a petrochemical derivative called bisphenol A. Today, according to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Battles loom over new military plans
    Norway’s top military brass must prepare for battle with politicians and members of their own ranks, after presenting their advice and specific long-term plans for how the country’s defense forces should be organized to boost preparedness at home. Defense experts predict the plans wi ...
  • Royal guards march to a tougher role
    They’re often referred to as “pyntsoldater” (decorative or ceremonial soldiers) who stand guard outside royal properties, march in parades and perform in international competitions. Norway’s royal guards, however, now may be called upon to respond to national emergencies ...
  • ‘Russ’ partying may be delayed
    Graduating students known as “russ” in Norway may be able to party with even more abandon from 2013, after the Labour Party announced this week that it would consider moving final exams forward from June until the second week of May. The partying could then begin after that. Marianne ...
  • Stoltenberg heading back to Germany
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel has invited Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg for a “working dinner” next week, rescheduling a meeting the two were supposed to have had last month. It was cancelled when Merkel had to attend to EU debt crisis matters instead. Stoltenberg will ...
  • Trains running on time!
    Trains that run on schedule normally don’t prompt headlines, but in Oslo they do. After years of delays, cancellations and generally unreliable service, it was long-awaited good news when state railway NSB could show that nine out of 10 trains have been running on time this autumn. It&#821 ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • New Zealand’s 160-2 Food Bill – an Opportunity!
    Some of you will have seen the sensational ‘news’ that the New Zealand government is planning to introduce a law that "takes away the human right to grow food". Hopefully you’ll also realise that good ‘ol everything-is-a-conspiracy Alex Jones, who has the Infowar ...
  • Food Forests, Part 1: Ronald Reagan’s Day Off
    Save Ferris! Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a 1986 movie about a teenager, his girlfriend and best mate — all of whom were just about to finish high school and enter the adult world. It represented for them a moment in time; a very hedonistic look into their lives for just one day, whe ...
  • Hemp seeds grown in Australia’s first Hemp Farm
    The Hemp Farm is the world’s first public demonstration, education and working farm growing low-THC industrial hemp. Based on the North Coast of NSW (Byron Bay), the hemp farm is dedicated to the many uses of this estranged plant. Grown under Government license, hemp does not contain psych ...
  • What is a Refractometer and Why Do I Need One?
    Refractometers are used for quite a lot of things — drug diagnosis, gemology, veterinary medicine, aquarium upkeep and farming. In gardens and farming it is an all-in-one tool that can be used to test the health of your crops, via a brix rating system. A refractometer uses refractive light ...
  • The Dehydration and Rehydration of the Austral ...
    This is a pictorial tour of the degradation and dehydration process that the Australian landscape went through post European settlement, along with one of the major aims of Peter Andrews’ Natural Sequence Farming approach, namely the rehydration of the Australian landscape. If you were ...

Pointman's

  • Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
    Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...
  • Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
    A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...
  • The Durban debacle awaits …
    Here we go again, another climate clambake attracting attendees from all over the world. They’ll be the usual assortment of politicians, government civil servants, Media, NGOs, activists and fruit loops determined to save the earth from global warming. Nothing changes. In terms of the basic poli ...
  • Happy birthday Climategate.
    It’s around the time of the second anniversary of the Climategate leak so it’s fitting to take stock of where we are now. Before doing that, it’s worth taking a walk down memory lane to recall how things were before it occurred. They were really different. If you were in the fight at the time,&# ...
  • Green myths : We have to get back to a natural ...
    We live under this pervasive avalanche of propaganda that’s telling us we’re the single fly in the ointment that’s killing an Earth that was somehow an Eden before we appeared to spoil the whole thing; if only we could change. Yes, if only we could change. If only we could stand to watch a perso ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
    The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
  • Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
    A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...
  • New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle' By Lind ...
    An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an important perspective on New Orleans' schools: As a recent graduate of a New Orleans public high school, I find it very troubling that the national conversation about post-Katrina education amounts to little more than talking ...
  • “There’s Too Much Misinformation About Us Out ...
    Parnell Herbert sat with Norris Henderson, Co-Director of V.O.T.E. NOLA to discuss the fact and fiction about Black-on-Black crime in New Orleans. While sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but marvel at his calm, composed demeanor. Here is a man who served m ...
  • Confederate Flag in Caddo Parish to Come Down
    From The Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: After more than sixty years since it was raised, the Confederate Flag outside the Caddo Parish Courthouse will come down. The decision comes after two hearings at the Caddo Parish Commission (2002 and 2011), one hearing in the ...

Information Underground

  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: At the time of its bankruptcy filing, MF's board of directors was:[32] Jon S. Corzine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David P. Bolger, independent member, formerly Chicago 2016 and Aon Corporation Eileen S. Fusco, attorney and CPA formerly for Deloi ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Iran has a lot of patience. Israel has been waging a "Cold War" against them for quite a while. once IsraHell got the US to go along with the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan - to the West & East of Iran, i don't think that was a coincidence - then IsraHell re-focussed their ...
  • Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Hi guys!
    I think these two Canadians should kiss and make-up, if for no other reason than to spare our sensibilities in having to watch their clashes. Mr. Fitzpatrick, didn't your mother teach you never to discuss either religion or politics in polite company? Don't you understand that religion is a priv ...
  • Zionist Influence/Power • Re: The Jewish Comed ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: Wow, Texe, didn't know about this: Kike comedian Kathy Griffin tells Jesus to "suck it" iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYcOHrxNJjg Imagine a Muslim in America saying this. Same lack of backlash from the press? I think not. First of all, this stup ...
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: As I said before, all sinners are the children of hell until they repent. You sound completely insane. Hell is a figment of your imagination, like your Jewish deity.Statistics: Posted by checkitb4uwreckit — Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:22 pm

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Majority in U.S. Support Revenue-Neutral Carbo ...
    A majority of Americans across the political spectrum support policies that reduce carbon emissions, including a revenue-neutral carbon tax, according to a new survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. In a survey conducted between Oct. 20 and Nov. 6, 65 percent of respondents ...
  • Garbage Pickers Protest New Wave of Trash In ...
    A growing coalition of poor workers who earn a living by scouring trash heaps for recyclables in the world’s poorest cities are protesting new incinerators being built to convert that trash into electricity. While the UN has encouraged the incinerators as a means of generating electricity and pr ...
  • Rising Use of HFCs Could Accelerate Global War ...
    The increased use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the production of refrigerators, air conditioners, and other products could play a significant role in accelerating global warming, a new UN report warns. Without stricter regulations, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report says, th ...
  • Northwest Oyster Die-offs Show Ocean Acidifica ...
    The acidification of the world’s oceans from an excess of CO2 has already begun, as evidenced recently by the widespread mortality of oyster larvae in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists say this is just a harbinger of things to come if greenhouse gas emissions continue to soar. BY ELIZABETH GRO ...
  • Extreme Weather to Increase as Climate Changes ...
    A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that an increase in heat waves is “virtually certain” as a result of global warming and that extreme weather events — including hurricanes, floods, and droughts — will likely become more intense in the next century. The ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

  • Rhee Can't Shake Cheating Scandal
    The darling of education reformers says she welcomes a probe of student scores—but admits to no mistake.
  • The History Rewrite
    Both political parties rewrite history for their own benefit—and peril, writes Michael Medved.
  • GOP's Dangerous Foreign Policy
    The GOP candidates want to keep the U.S. in a constant war, at the country’s peril. By Peter Beinart.
  • Thanksgiving With 'The Muppets'
    Ramin Setoodeh and Peter Travers on what to watch and skip at the movies. This week, Kermit vs. Michelle Williams and more.
  • Women’s Lib, in Libya
    As female activists in Tripoli push for equal rights, they get a surprise visit from the country’s highest-ranking men, including chairman of the National Transitional Council—who hedges on his controversial stance on polygamy.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Keeping abreast of the bra trends in Japan
    Oh fun, time for an annual breast examination. Not that there is any pain involved with the examination. It's finding time to go to the hospital that's tough. The problem is that the breasts are attached to the body, which means the whole body has to make the trip to the hospital. So, if I'm t ...
  • No-go zone a wasteland frozen in time
    Eight months ago, people left the town of Namie in haste. Families raced from their homes without closing the front doors. They left half-finished wine bottles on their kitchen tables and sneakers in their foyers. They jumped in their cars without taking pets and left cows hitched to milking sta ...
  • England rugby chief Andrew 'absolutely shatter ...
    The head of English rugby believes the national team's problems have plummeted "to the lowest of the low" as the fallout from the leaking of confidential reports into England's abject World Cup campaign rolled on Thursday. On a day Brian Smith quit as England's attack coach, 24 hours after he ...
  • Rogge lauds Sochi preparations
    IOC president Jacques Rogge praised Russian organizers Thursday for making significant progress in preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Rogge, attending meetings of the European Olympic Committees in Sochi, was given a tour of the venues by Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of Sochi's l ...
  • BayStar Murata declares free agency
    Yokohama BayStars third baseman Shuichi Murata said on Friday he will file to become a free agent with hopes of playing for a domestic club that can contend for a championship title. Murata, 30, would also be eligible to negotiate with teams overseas as a free agent, but he appears more inclin ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Children and Families Living in Poverty in Nov ...
    Today, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia releases its 2011 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia written by CCPA-NS Research Associate, Lesley Frank.  It evaluates Nova Scotia’s progress toward Canada’s 1989 goal of eradicating child poverty by 2000.  Accor ...
  • Naomi Klein on Capitalism vs. the Climate
    With all the hoopla about climate change and global warming, it’s hard to be a capitalist these days. At least, that was the theme of the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (and judging from some of the opinions voiced at this event, I can only imagine the “fa ...
  • A Progressive Alternative to the Harper Agenda
    The Harper government is set to cut spending on public services and social programs in the name of deficit reduction, but implemented mainly to increase reliance on the market, to create new sources of profit for the private sector, and to finance future tax cuts. This ideological agenda will ta ...
  • Challenging capitalism: a 12-step program
    Over a year ago, I posted “What are the Game Changers?“, an attempt at sparking some strategic thinking for the broader left. Now that we’ve had a month of Occupation, building on the original Occupy Wall Street action, I’ve been wanting to put these ideas back on the tab ...
  • The Mowat Centre and Employment Insurance
    The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most important income security program for working age adults and families. The Task Force has commissioned and publis ...

ReDress

  • Capitalism and the spy market
    Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
  • The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
    As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
  • Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
    Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...
  • America’s festering sores
    Paul J. Balles outlines "a must-do menu" of political causes needing public attention, from the icon of injustice and arbitrariness known as Guantanamo, through the silence over the 1967 Israeli attack on the US warship USS Liberty, which resulted in 200 American casualties, to the existence of ...
  • Israeli democracy fades to black
    Lawrence Davidson argues that the suppression of the democratic rights of non-Jews in Israel, which had traditionally received at least the tacit support of the entire political establishment, is coming full circle, with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likudniks and settlers now targeting th ...

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla on Properties...
    by requintn (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:56:55 GMT) doudoune homme moncler "Bingjie populaires vêtements d'hiver!" - Ville Bingjie Down.Geo Bas et à la mode, avec la tendance du dialogue, afin de répondre aux besoins modernes de différents secteurs depuis des décennies avec d'excellents résul ...
  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:58:49 GMT) 545. Warrantless wiretapping law and my case (3/19/08) At least two provision in Patriot Act are designed particularly for my case. One is the Library surveillance and the other is the moveable phone-line surveillance (on any phone suspect use ...
  • Oil price and Iran war
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:51:24 GMT) 591. Driving Iran into a nuclear weapon trap (3/5/09) Pakistan now goes the direction the US wants it to go. On 2/6, there was the news: Disgraced Pakistan nuke scientist freed by court http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_ ... _scientist ...
  • News media won't report
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:43:19 GMT) 'Plainclothes police acting as agents provocateurs?' - London Protests November 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUy3-mQwqo
  • Warning Graphic! Gaddafi’s Female Bodyguards F ...
    by katsung47 (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:37:39 GMT) The media always show you the cheering “liberated people”, because that’s their favorite. They never show you the other side. Gaddafi Mourned Throughout Africa Posted by Jacob Freeze at 10:58 am November 2, 2011 "Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s deat ...

Peakwater

  • Queensland Approves Toxic Waste Discharge
    “The Queensland Government ignored environmental safety guidelines when it granted Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips permission to release toxic water from its coal seam gas operations into the headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin. “In June last year the government granted an enviro ...
  • Kerala ready to talk to TN on Mullaperiyar dam ...
    “The State Minister for Water Resources, Mr P. J. Joseph, has said the Kerala is willing to hold talks with Tamil Nadu on the Mullapperiyar dam issue if only to ensure the safety of its people. “Speaking to newspersons here after a conference of officials convened to discuss the issu ...
  • Judge voices support for big California water pact
    “A state appeals judge on Monday strongly defended a landmark agreement on how Southern California gets its water, casting aside arguments that the pact should be scrapped because the state essentially wrote a blank check to save a dying lake. “Justice Ronald Robie noted that the agr ...
  • Marin Municipal Water District to challenge de ...
    “The Marin Municipal Water District will challenge a judge’s ruling that the district’s desalination project environmental impact report is flawed, which essentially voided the project. “The water district board voted Wednesday in a closed session to appeal a Marin Superi ...
  • Critics blast Las Vegas pipeline proposal
    “An attorney for the LDS Church called a proposal for tapping ground water in the dry regions of Nevada and pumping it to Las Vegas a disaster with good intentions. “It’s the cotton candy of good intentions with nothing good at its core,” attorney Paul Hermonskie said Fri ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Raises Questions of Structural Integr ...
    Calls for Public Hearings in Region Prior to Restart Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time watchdog of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that raises serious technical questions about the structural viabi ...
  • Kucinich to Introduce Statute of Limitations o ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today announced plans to introduce an amendment that would reinstate a statute of limitations for states to reclaim overpayments made to the poorest of the poor who are food stamp recipients. The State of Ohio, for example, recently sent out notices to mor ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Open, Free and Fair Electio ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a proponent of diplomacy and peaceful resolution to conflict, wrote to the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, calling for an end to the violent crackdown in Syria and for open, free and fair elections. The full text of the letter follows: Dear President ...
  • Kucinich: Decision to Send Marines to Australi ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to deploy 2,500 marines to Australia. “The Obama Administration’s decision to send marines to Australia is worrisome because it again demonstrates this Administration’s incli ...
  • Kucinich: Special Interests Put Ahead of Child ...
    Washington D.C. (November 17, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a longtime advocate of children’s nutrition, today released the following statement after language was inserted into the Fiscal Year 2012 Agriculture, Rural Development Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies App ...

Authentically Wired

  • … So you really believe he’s got y ...
    … So you really believe he’s got your back …?     Mitt Romney: ‘I’m NOT Looking To Put Money In People’s Pockets’   The Huffington Post   Alana Horowitz First Posted: 11/23/11 11:43 PM ET Updated: 11/24/11 09:56 AM ET &# ...
  • IS THERE AN END IN SIGHT …?
    … I truly want to believe this is NOT true … but … the events unfolding before our very eyes from Penn State … to 2,000 years of sanctioned pedophilia by the POPE within the Catholic Church … to Teachers … Police … Parents …??   Actor Corey Fe ...
  • CHECKPOINT ……. HELL NO
    … I don’t know about you … but for me … HELL NO … comes to mind … Submit and Obey – What Will We Say? 11-21-2011  •  Farm Wars What will we say when the government announces that “for security reasons” it will begin conducting random checks of our homes? T ...
  • … SAY … HELL … NO … TO ...
    … SAY … HELL … NO … TO TSA … Bill giving Homeland Security reign on federal lands heats up Senate race 11-21-2011  •  www.greatfallstribune.com HELENA — Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., continue to cast political stones over a con ...
  • SHAMEFUL LEADERSHIP
    … Time for this university chancellor to exit … in this instance “silence” is not golden it is shameful … University chancellor in silent ‘walk of shame’ after pepper spraying 11-21-2011  •  www.rawstory.com … http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/099954-2011-11-2 ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
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    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets
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    With wild waters and shores, the Patagonia Sea is home to a great menagerie of marine animals: from penguins to elephants seals, albatrosses to squid, and sea lions to southern right whales. The sea lies at crossroads between more northern latitudes and the cold bitter water of the Southern Ocea ...
  • Big damage in Papua New Guinea: new film docum ...
    In one scene a young man, perhaps not long ago a boy, named Douglas stands shirtless and in shorts as he runs a chainsaw into a massive tropical tree. Prior to this we have already heard from an official how employees operating chainsaws must have a bevy of protective equipment as well as traini ...
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    As more and more people demand companies to become sustainable and environmentally conscious, many corporations are at a loss of how to begin making the changes necessary. If they attempt to make changes—but fall short or focus poorly—they risk their actions being labeled as 'greenwa ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Gloom over new bid for carbon gas deal
    The biggest climate change talks of the year begin next week, but New Zealand officials admit that the chance of an international agreement on emissions is bleaker than ever.On Monday, delegates from more than 190 countries will...
  • Hacked emails reignite 'Climategate' controversy
    The "Climategate" dispute over global warming science was reignited yesterday, when thousands more hacked emails from climate researchers, some of them potentially damaging, were released online on the eve of a vital United Nations...
  • 'Dream machine' Curiosity to explore Mars
    As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, Nasa's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 7-foot (2-meter) arm tipped with...
  • Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Our oceans ca ...
    Control of global stocks is the only answer, say Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line & Blinkers: Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know About Fishing . The election is looming, but it's a sad state of affairs...
  • GE law probe a big surprise
    A highly sensitive Government study into how much money can be made by changing genetic engineering laws will be underway immediately after the election.Environment Minister Nick Smith is facing embarrassment after admitting he...

Truth Survival + RSS

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    As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
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  • WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
    Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
  • DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
    Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

  • New at Reason: Friday Funnies
    In the latest edition of Friday Funnies, Henry Payne forcasts the EPA's list of unreasonable fuel requirements.  View this article.
  • New at Reason: John Stossel on Campus and Work ...
    We’re proud that America is the land of free speech. That right is recognized in the First Amendment, and we usually take it seriously. It wasn’t always the case. In John Adams’ administration, the Sedition Act made it a crime, punishable by fine and imprisonment, “to write, pri ...
  • Occupy Thanksgiving: Hope, Redemption, and...U ...
    Original release November 23, 2011 In a time of 9 percent unemployment, a faltering global economy, toxic levels of political rancor, and the release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn, is there anything left to be thankful for? Reason offers a message of hope, redemption, ...
  • New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on Overblown Fear ...
    Thirty years ago, an influential claque of alarmists predicted that Japan would soon economically overtake and crush the United States. In fact, just as the hysteria reached fever pitch, Japan's bubble economy burst and the country has struggled with a stagnant economy ever since. The ...
  • New at Reason: William Niskanen’s 1978 Rea ...
    William Niskanen, the chairman emeritus of the Cato Institute, former head of Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers, and one of the great figures in the libertarian movement, passed away last month at the age of 78. In this 1978 interview with Reason, conducted while Niskanen w ...

Mercury Rising

  • German Insistence On ‘Punishing’ E ...
    Angela Merkel wants to punish the rest of Europe for not treating its people like dirt: Angela Merkel was unmoved by another roller-coaster day that saw Portuguese debt being downgraded to junk status, Italian bond yields pushed into the bail-out zone, and doubts cast over France’s AAA rat ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging
    Summer cat. Winter cat.
  • Eat too much, get a little tipsy, watch your l ...
    The CherPumPLe, via Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing (via Jeffraham Prestonian posting on Eschaton): Chef David Lowery created this “Cherpumple” — a “dessert version of the turducken,” composed of “CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie,” baked into three separate cak ...
  • Beware of Trojans bearing gifts: Murdoch compu ...
    Josh Halliday, The Guardian: A 52-year-old man has become the first person arrested as part the Metropolitan police’s investigation into alleged computer hacking by the press. The man was arrested in Milton Keynes on Thursday morning in connection with computer misuse offences. He is the f ...
  • Who is Occupy Wall Street?
    One of the huge lies on right-wing TV is the characterization of Occupy Wall Street as lefties, losers and drug addicts. It’s actually a remarkably broad movement. One of its members is retired police captain Ray Lewis: (Image from Mindbabies) Interview Part 1 Interview Part 2 Ray Lewis is ...

Reality Sandwich

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

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Iran to privatize oil, gas production
    Managing Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Ahmad Qalebani says the company plans to privatize the work of production and exploitation from the country's oil and gas fields.
  • Italy launches bonds to tackle debt woes
    The Italian treasury has launched a 10-billion-euro ($13.2-billion) bond sale in a bid to break down the nation's record highs borrowing costs.
  • 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.
  • US drone attacks kill 21 in Somalia
    At least 21 people have been killed after US assassination drones launched aerial attacks in southern Somalia near the border with Kenya, Press TV reported.
  • 'US mocking disarmament conventions'
    Iran's Ambassador to The Hague Kazem Gharibabadi has denounced the US for 'violating' international disarmament treaties by continuing to stockpile chemical weapons, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
    As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
  • An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
    The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year 2011: $ ...
    Last month, the Treasury Department reported that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit declined slightly—from 9 ...
  • CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers
    CBO has a panel of economic advisers consisting of widely recognized experts on a range of issues. Members of the panel have a variety of backgrounds, areas of knowledge, and experience. We host periodic meetings of the advisers at our office and solicit their views between meetings via e-mail e ...

Naked Scientists - News

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    A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...
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    A fat-reducing drug, Adipotide, that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists. The agent, which was injected daily over afour week study period into a group...
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