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From This Week's Featured Article: "Using this approach, it is possible to argue that the future of many Western economies, and that of the global economy, will be shaped by their ability to navigate four inter-related financial, economic, social, and political dynamics."

The Anatomy of Global Economic Uncertainty - Mohamed A. El-Erian - Project Syndicate

The sense of uncertainty prevailing in the West is palpable, and rightly so: People are worried about their future, with a record number now fearing that their children may end up worse off than them....

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"In short, the eurozone's periphery is now subject to the paradox of thrift: increasing savings too much, too fast leads to renewed recession and makes debts even more unsustainable."

Down with the Eurozone - Nouriel Roubini - Project Syndicate

Germany and the ECB have less power over the eurozone's peripheral countries than they seem to believe. If they continue to insist on concentrating all the pain of economic adjustment in the periphery...

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Now China to probe US renewable energy support

Reuters

By Michael Martina BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday announced an investigation into government policy and subsidy support for renewable energy, weeks after the United States decided to probe sales of Chinese-made solar panels. ...

Google Ends Renewable Energy Research Program

EnergyBoom

By Joseph Baker on November 25, 2011 Online search engine giant Google Inc. recently announced it is ending its renewable energy research program. Launched in 2007 the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE C was active the program did help advance CSP ...

Ethanol margins to fall

DesMoinesRegister.com

Wendland, who also is president of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association, won't shed tears on New Year's Eve at the expiration of the tax credit. The 45-cent per gallon tax credit went not to ethanol plants, but to oil refiners, pipelines or fuel ...

Honeyman: Renewable Energy Incentivization

Sun.Star

We believe that, as far as the implementation of a renewable energy strategy is concerned, the numerous overlapping government entities are suffering from 'paralysis by analysis.' Action needs to be taken. The feed-in-tariff concept has some validity ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Ecology chief: New pollution undoing cleanup

The Seattle Times

By Rob Hotakainen ELAINE THOMPSON / AP Department of Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant, right, tosses a line to Jay Manning, a former Ecology director. They and Gov. Chris Gregoire, foreground, also a former Ecology director, were touring Commencement ...

'Rohtang's ecology needs preservation'

Hill Post

Manali : Human interference disturbing the fragile ecology of a high Himalayan mountain pass overlooking this tourist resort has caught the attention of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. It has directed the officers concerned to bring all records ...

When the world is your classroom

Pocono Record

Their teachers are experts in ornithology, botany, mycology, herpetology and ecology. Their class is field biology, taught the way it should be. What a concept, what a brilliant experiment masterminded by Jamie Reeger, program director for the ...

State ecology department approves Renton's shorelines update

Renton Reporter

The Washington Department of Ecology has approved the update of the City of Renton shoreline master program' which took months to develop in consultation with the public and property owners. The program will improve the protection, use, development and ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Catholic commission says Zimbabwe water supplies 'a national disaster,' warns ...

Washington Post (blog)

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The Roman Catholic church says Zimbabwe's chronic water shortages should be declared a national disaster. The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace says in a statement Sunday collapsed water and sanitation facilities will cause ...

Water: Melon of a river plan

Adelaide Now

Source: The Advertiser A LANDMARK plan to save the River Murray does not return enough water for the river's long-term sustainability. And in a "double whammy" hit to SA, the Murray Darling Basin Authority's draft Basin Plan released today is set to ...

Fracking raises water stakes

TheHerald

And maybe they want to believe industry officials when they say that the fracking process - where water, sand and chemicals are pumped into rock to free up the gas - is scientifically sound. None of those findings would change some facts on the ground ...

Hollywood water tank picked to be calendar model

MiamiHerald.com

With her long lean legs and new coat of paint, the Hollywood water tower beat out 150 challengers to grace a national calendar. After a $680000 makeover, the Hollywood water tower was chosen to be the cover of a national calendar. ...

Scoop - NZ

The Wall St disconnect from reality
"I see plenty of despair in places like Las Vegas, where in some neighborhoods every other house is vacant or foreclosed and lots are overgrown by weeds," says Ader, who sits on the boards of Las Vegas Sands Corp and a small Nevada community bank called Western Liberty Bancorp. But the 43-yea ...
Pilger: Mexico, a universal struggle
What is it about Mexico that is a universal political dream? As in a Rivera mural, nothing is held back: no class martyrdom, no colonial tragedy. The message is freedom next time. The autocracy that emerged from the revolution of 1910-19 gave itself the Orwellian-name Party of the Institutionali ...
Slave to your smartphone?
In theory, technology is supposed to make workers more efficient and productive. In practice, it may in fact do precisely the opposite. Rather than workers using these new tools to do their jobs more effectively, they are now increasingly beholden to those very tools.
Is Branson all he's cracked up to be?
Last week, you, me and every other taxpayer in Britain each handed £13 to the billionaire Richard Branson. Not that we were told about this national whip-round. Instead, George Osborne claimed the heavily discounted sale of Northern Rock to the Virgin boss and a few of his chums represented "val ...
BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin
Russia, with mineral reserves equal to or larger than Australia's, has substantially greater capacity than Australia to increase both iron-ore and coal exports to China from mines which are waiting for development, especially in the far-eastern regions of Russia closest to China. Should Chin ...

Independent - London

Pakistan retaliation leaves Nato drivers in limbo
Stranded Pakistani truck drivers carrying fuel and other supplies to US-led troops in Afghanistan said today that they were exposed to attacks by Islamist militants, after Islamabad closed the country's border crossings in retaliation for coalition airstrikes that allegedly killed 24 Pakistani t ...
Iran retaliates against UK
Iran's parliament today approved a bill requiring both Iran and Britain to withdraw their respective ambassadors from each other's countries, following London's support of recently upgraded US sanctions on Tehran.
In Spain's heart, a slum to shame Europe
Canada Real Galiana is a 16km-long, 75m-wide strip of economic and social misery. Believed to be Europe's largest shanty town, it is a mere 15-minute drive from Madrid city centre. "This place reminds me of one of the most run-down slums in Guatemala I used to work in," says Susana Camacho, who ...
Pakistan cuts off Nato's supply line after 25 ...
Pakistan cut off Nato's supply route to Afghanistan and angrily denounced the violation of its sovereignty after an air attack killed at least 25 troops at a border checkpoint yesterday.
Fury over 'racist' cut in number of Grammy awards
Nominations for the next round of Grammys, which will be announced this week, will be the most controversial in the award's 50-year history, amid angry accusations of racism and insensitivity. Some of the most respected musicians in the world are demanding that the cut in the number of gongs be ...

Rogue Government.com

Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul. He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

Facebook is Run by CIA!!
Archaeological discovery provides evidence of ...
Archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection have discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge. Shedding new light on the significant association of the monument with the sun, these p ...
Canada: Occupy Edmonton protestors not giving up
Despite being evicted from a downtown park, Occupy Edmonton protestors said they still have plenty of ideas to get their voices heard. "Definitely going to move more into action plans," protestor Mahad Mohammad told CTV News. Mohammad said they had about 40 more action ideas to keep the moveme ...
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn?
May 14, 2011, was a horrendous day for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then head of the International Monetary Fund and leading contender to unseat Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France in the April 2012 elections. Waking up in the presidential suite of the Sofitel New York hotel that morning, he was s ...
US, Massachusetts: Man viewed child porn on US ...
Police say a man who was viewing child pornography on a domestic airline flight from Salt Lake City to Boston has been arrested. Massachusetts State Police say 47-year-old Grant Smith was sitting in first class Saturday afternoon when a fellow passenger saw the pornographic images on Smith's la ...

The Galloping Beaver

Ottawa, we have a problem . . .
Many children are scalded and burned from living in densely overcrowded houses with makeshift wood stoves. AND IT'S NOT GOING AWAY. According to Charlie Angus, who's the MP for Timmins-James Bay, the plight of our aboriginals on the northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat is intolerable. ...
Yummy . . .
FOOD FREEDOM is an interesting site, proclaiming that people should Decentralize, Grow Your Own and Buy Local — which makes great sense. There's a report by Miriam Reimer, originally posted on The Street, "15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’". Yep, wood, like pine trees. Chief among those c ...
Bizarre . . .
Really. Like The Three Stooges, with sledgehammers. I feel for the cleaning staff.
Ursula comments . . .
IN THEIR CREATIONS, artists expound and explain. Io9's Charlie Jane Anders has a report that is worthy of your attention, "Ursula K. Le Guin writes a fable of Occupy Wall Street". If you've been wondering just what's wrong with unemployed people, and why they won't just go get a job, then ...
Grow op . . .
SEEMS TO BE A GROWTH INDUSTRY. According to Spencer Ackerman at WIRED, in an article, "Pentagon’s War on Drugs Goes Mercenary", now the Pentagon is joining the DEA in the "War on Drugs", in a BIG way: An obscure Pentagon office designed to curb the flow of illegal drugs has quietly evolved into ...

Media Matters for America

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

Global Research.ca

Libya and "The Arab Spring": Neoliberalism, "R ...
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Fight the War Propaganda. Share the Awareness.
For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
The Syria-Iran-Turkey Triangle: A New War Scen ...
While there were good relations between Syria and Turkey only a year ago, today we begin to to talk about NATO intervention led by Ankara into Syria. This is also tied to US efforts against Iran, the main regional power.
VIDEO: Syria: We are Seeing the Initial Steps ...
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ALL OUT WAR? If Israel fires single missile at ...
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TPM Cafe

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

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Israeli forces violently ethnically cleanse Be ...
JNF delays eviction of Palestinian family from ...
At the last minute on Thursday night, the Jewish National Fund announced a delay in the eviction of 12 members of a Palestinian family from the house where they've been living in the Ea ...
Turkey: Relations Not To Be Normalized until I ...
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affair, Ahmet Davutoglu, reconfirmed that relations between Turkey and Israel won't be normalized till the latter issues an official statement, apologizing f ...
Erekat: No two state solution without reconcil ...
PLO official Saeb Erekat said Saturday that there can not be a two state solution without Palestinian reconciliation. Erekat said he considered political reconciliation a "supporting po ...
Israeli warplanes strike targets in the Gaza S ...
Israeli warplanes hit several targets in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday, causing material damage but no reported injuries. Ma'an's reporter said an Israeli plane fired a missile at an o ...

Water - AlterNet

The Violence of the Free Market: Globalization ...
As the world faces the uphill battle of feeding its people in the coming years, neoliberalism and globalization only add insult to injury in the Philippines.
4 Reasons to Give Thanks to Our Oceans (Withou ...
Oceans are essential to our lives, but the evidence strongly suggests we take them for granted way too much.
Will Programs to Off-Set Carbon Emissions Fuel ...
The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.
The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Envir ...
Offshore oil should be an economic boon for West Africa, but watchdog groups fear a devastating impact on human and wild life
The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They ...
Energy companies continue to rake in massive profits. They use this wealth to leverage elections, write legislation, scale back regulations and escape accountability.

Public Citizen in Texas

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

Unexplained Mysteries

NASA successfully launches Curiosity rover
A new journey to Mars begins as the huge car-sized rover is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It will take over eight months for the $2.5 billi...
Second Mayan 2012 reference found
Mexico has acknowledged that more than one reference to 2012 has been found on Mayan artifacts. While Mexicos archaeology institute is keen to dismis...
Whist game deals at incredible odds
A group of four pensioners playing a game of whist were amazed to receive a complete suit in each hand. Without fiddling the deck each of the players ...
Texas witness reports military UFO chase
A witness has reported a triangle-shaped object being chased by military aircraft near Houston. The event was reported to MUFON ( Mutual UFO Network )...
Six die due to churches claiming HIV 'cure'
Several people have died after being told by churches that they had been miraculously cured. Evangelical churches in several UK cities have claimed to...

Grassroots

It takes a village to produce new leaders
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Movements Unite in Mali, Confronting Powerful ...
Subheadline: “We are decolonizing Africa here” Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio: Salena Tramel is the former Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti at Grassroots ...
Gaza’s Human Rights Guru
The first time I shared a meal with Raji Sourani was at a seaside restaurant in Gaza City. A lawyer and longtime director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Grassroots International partner, Sourani is well known throughout Palestine for his quick and sound judgment—which showe ...
Defending the Commons and the Right to Land, W ...
lran2_cover2.jpg Effective agrarian reform, according to the Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform (GCAR) includes “ a bundle of policies that ensure that agricultural land is distributed to landless peasants and smallholders swiftly and equi ...

Climate

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

GreenBiz

3 Obvious Ways Companies Can Flip the Switch a ...
Cutting energy use across the enterprise can be so simple, and so cost-effective that it's astounding there is still any of this low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. Here are eight case studies showing what's possible.
MGM Earns EPA Award for Food Recycling Program
The resort company earned a WasteWise Acheivement Award in part for its recycling of 8,722 tons of food in 2010 alone.
The CDP's Water Report Offers a New Paradigm f ...
The key findings of the first look at how global firms are managing water risk further highlights the risks that water pose to company operations, what the opportunities are for forward-thinking companies, and where the impacts will be felt first.
Cleveland Indians Hit a Home Run with Waste-Sl ...
The Cleveland Indians have cut their waste in half, saving the ball club more than $50,000 each year.
Floods, Drought, Disasters Make Water Risky fo ...
Whether it's flooding, toxic spills or drought, it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the risks that water poses for businesses.

Duly Noted

Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.
Europe can’t put out the blaze
As Italy surpasses Greece as the biggest threat to the euro zone, European finance ministers meeting in Brussels struggle to put out the spreading flames.
Democracy and Chaos are both Greek
It's not exactly ???? (chaos) out there, but Greek Prime Ministers Papandreou's experiment in ?????????? (democracy) has sent the whole euro zone project into a new, risky phase.
Could Islamist rebels undermine change in Africa?
Creeping from the periphery in Africa’s east and west, Islamist militant groups now pose serious security challenges to key countries and potentially even a threat to the continent’s new success.

Booman Tribune

The Occupy Disconnect
Of the roughly seventy-six members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, thirty-two members are white. The rest are black or Latino or Far Eastern or Pacific Islander or Caribbean or some combination. Another way of looking at it is that 58% of the Progressive Caucus is non-white. If progr ...
U.S.-Pakistan Relations Hit New Low
I'm not sure if this was actually a mistake or not. (Reuters) - NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations, already deeply frayed, further into crisis. Pakistan retal ...
Prediction Thread
Here's your chance. We can check back later to see how you did. Who do you think will win the Republican nomination and why? For bonus points, predict the Republican ticket and explain the rationale. Anyone who gets both predictions right will get to be King of Booman Tribune for a day. Di ...
Yes, Heaven is for Real You DFHs
A little four year old boy says so (and I'm sure he's telling the truth), and you can buy his book on sale at your favorite Big Book Store that hasn't gone bankrupt yet. From the blurb: Heaven Is for Real is the true story of the four-year old son of a small town Nebraska pastor who during e ...
Your Moment of Zen
This is about as important as anecdotal journalism can get. Yeah, it's long. Read it. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

10 Beasts Locked in Brutal Combat
Ten surprising and powerful images of herbivores going head-to-head in same-species combat. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
Get Your Teeth Into the Truth About Shark Atta ...
There are more questions than answers about shark attacks... but this might be changing soon! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
10 Incredible Tales of Interspecies Nursing
These ten stories of interspecies nursing are truly aww-inspiring... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
10 Coolest Links of the Week
Who knew Salvador Dali created interpretations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Not us, until now. This and much more... Pickled tattoo with that, sir? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
10 Hottest Links of the Week
From strange engagements and 'alien' skulls to crocodile pampering and tidal waves in the skies... If it's hot (and 'out there'!) it's here! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

No, Really, Iran Isn't Developing Nuclear Weapons
No matter how you look at it, the evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons just doesn't exist.
Do U.S. Special Operations Forces Really Cross ...
Does JSOC itself actually carry out missions in Iran in tandem with Iranian resistance forces?
The Under-Examined Story of Fallujah
Although you're unlikely to have read about it in the press, the ongoing health crisis in Fallujah shows that the legacy of the U.S. war in Iraq is far from over.
Barak's Flagging Iran Xenophobia Enrages Israe ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak may not be as gung-ho to attack Iran as thought.
Droning On
The CIA's drone war in Pakistan is setting precedents that will one day come back to haunt America.

Global Elite

Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
President European Commission Advocated World ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

Jailed Ukraine politician feted by supporters
Birthday concert staged for ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko at the gates of Kiev's Lukyanivska prison.
Egypt's military ruler says crisis must end
On the eve of Egypt's election, Tantawi rejects calls from protesters that ruling generals must step down.
UN appeals for calm ahead of DR Congo vote
Secretary-general calls on government and voters to show restraint ahead of Monday's poll, a day after deadly clashes.
Arab League approves Syria sanctions
Curbs on dealings with central bank and funding for projects announced amid reports of deadly clashes inside country.
Belgian leaders agree on federal budget
After 18 months of no government and debt downgrade, political parties agree to implement austerity cuts.

Green Inc. - NYT

Retirement Islands for Orangutans
A number of groups are combining forces to create safe havens in Idoniesia for injured orangutans no longer able to live independently the wild.
How Much Will the Earth Warm Up?
A new paper suggests global warming will be on the low side of previous estimates.
Global Trade Spreads a Fatal Amphibian Disease
A fungal disease known as chytrid, lethal to most amphibians, is spread by trade in exotic animals, a study has found.
Looking Way Back at the Rate of Arctic Melting
A new report on the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice shows the largest percentage of melting in well over 1,000 years.
A Park, an Oyster Farm and Science, Part 2
A new scientific evaluation of the impact of oyster farming on seals at Point Reyes National Seashore is conclusively inconclusive.

Dot Earth News

A Facebook Chat on the Plight of Rare Wildlife ...
An art student takes a novel approach to conveying the plight of rare wildlife.
Study Finds Limited Sensitivity of Climate to CO2
New work examining past cool spells finds a limit to how much added CO2 can heat the planet.
The Ad Man Behind Occupy Wall Street, and 'Buy ...
The man behind Occupy Wall Street, and Buy Nothing Day.
You're Driving a Bus Full of Kids With a Curve ...
Are debates over the meaning of e-mail discussions of climate science missing the big picture?
The Tussle Between Energy and Ecology Moves to ...
An owner of protected wild lands in Australia is fighting plans for a giant coal mine supplying China.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

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

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How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conver ...
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.
Droning On
The CIA's drone war in Pakistan is setting precedents that will one day come back to haunt America.
A Stunning Victory
U.S. troops will finally withdraw from Iraq, but what about the contractors? We need to bring home all U.S. personnel and dollars.
Sequestering Military Spending: It's eminently ...
Even if sequestration cuts across all military programs, this sort of ham-handed approach is safely doable.
Since the Super Committee Failed, Now The Rest ...
The self-selected, undemocratic, Wall Street-influenced committee will not reach a deal that would have brought more pain to the American people.

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UK spy chiefs to be publicly questioned for first time. Documents reveal largest domestic spy operation in Canadian history. Careless codeword may have cost CIA its Lebanon network.
Did US agencies fail to heed warnings of 2008 ...
We have written before that the CIA alerted Indian authorities prior to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, including six American citizens. The incident, which was perpetrated by Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, is routinely described as the most sophisticated and s ...
News you may have missed #635
UK to support Colombia's new intelligence agency. US intelligence to train analysts with videogames. Soviet spy who spent years in Swiss prison dies at 77.
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Korean ex-soldier investigated for spying. Pakistan ambassador to US resigns over spy memo row. US says 'no proof' of Libyan ex-spy chief's capture.
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Is Britain secretly assisting the CIA's drone campaign? Gaddafi's intelligence chief captured. South Korea says it caught North spy.

War is a Crime.org

Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not
By Deena Stryker An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were menti ...
Spreading Eurozone Contagion
Spreading Eurozone Contagion - by Stephen Lendman The operative word is contagion. It's malignant and spreading because it's unresolved and irresponsibly addressed. Germany, Europe's strongest economy, just had its worst ever bond auction since 1999. Over a third ...
Rage for Change in Egypt
Rage for Change in Egypt - by Stephen Lendman Last February, Egyptians celebrated Hosni Mubarak's ouster. He became an obstacle to Washington's Middle East agenda and had to go. For years, State Department and Pentagon officials wanted him out for opposing key US ...
Bill Moyers Says Both Parties Serve the 1%
Source: We have two parties serving corporate business America and no party that serves … ideally … that serves the middle class or working people. And so I, I’m without a party, Dick. I know we always have to make some choices in election … you make a slight degree of … you’ve got to cast your ...
Richmond Blocks Occupy Until Mayor's Nextdoor ...

Grist - News

After-school EV club is so much cooler than ye ...
by Sarah Laskow. In Kansas City, MO, high school students enrolled in the after-school program Minddrive are building an electric car. They meet three times every two weeks. They started with a decade-old Reynard Champ Car, and have turned it into an electric vehicle that will drive fro ...
Prizewinning research: How to fight elephants ...
by Jess Zimmerman. British scientist Lucy King has won a prestigious environmental award for her research, but she should also maybe get a movie deal. The substance of her research is using bees to scare off elephants, which could make an excellent blockbuster, with the addition of a few e ...
Great Lakes fish triumph over invaders
by Sarah Laskow. The story of invasive species usually goes something like a particularly dark zombie movie -- the invasive species kills everything else and thrives, changing the planet forever. But in the Great Lakes, a different story is playing out, one in which the natives win. I ...
Uganda’s electric car is super cute
by Christopher Mims. Meet the Kiira. It was built in Uganda, from parts mostly sourced in Uganda. It's a triumph of "African Science," a phrase that reminds this reporter of "gay parking," but whatever. And it is adoooooooorable. The Kiira is a two-seater that ...
Super cute video of penguins released after oi ...
by Christopher Mims. If hanging out with the people who know just what a profoundly alone, naked ape you are has got you down, ThinkProgress has the cure for your post-Thanksgiving blues. Since a cargo ship leaked 350 tons of oil in New Zealand — marking the nation&rsquo ...

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Laws for Sale: How Mercury Insurance is Buying ...
A misleading piece of legislation appears to help California drivers, but what is the real agenda?
Cricket: The Truth About Yuvraj Singh!
Yuvraj has a golf ball sized tumor in his left lung and was first diagnosed as cancer.
Who will stand with the non-Militia members of ...
Militia members terrorize local residents. Movie plot? Nope. Real life.
Traveling With Toddlers... The Dirty Details
We Got Kidz Weighs In With Tips and Tricks On Traveling With Toddlers This Holiday Season
Viddy Lets the Muppets Join in Your iPhone Videos
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Time - Top Stories

Barney's Unveils Gaga-Themed Windows
While Santa's elves couldn't envision a chair made entirely out of hair, Lady Gaga could.
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For vets returning to US, green energy jobs await
Ben Noland served in the U.S. Marine Corps for eight years, then spent 18 months looking for a job. "I've probably put my resume in to 300 places in the past year," the 33-year-old Kenton resident said. "The farthest I've ever got was a phone interview." Noland finally landed a job installing ...
This is how the Curiosity Rover will land on Mars
This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.
NASA rover launched to seek out life clues on Mars
An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Florida on Saturday, launching a $2.5 billion nuclear-powered NASA rover toward Mars to look for clues on what could sustain life on the Red Planet.
Inside The Sex Addiction Epidemic
It wrecks ?marriages, ?destroys ?careers, and saps self-worth. Yet ?Americans are being ?diagnosed as sex ?addicts in ?record numbers. Inside an epidemic.
Sickle cell anemia as malaria defense
Sickle cell anemia causes pain, fatigue and delayed growth, all because of a lack of enough healthy red blood cells . And yet genetic mutations that cause it — recessive genes for the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin protein — have survived natural selection because they also seem to provide a natural ...

Invisible Opportunity

Implantable Microchips and Cyborgs are No Long ...
Brandon Turbeville Activist Post For years, many have mocked the idea of implantable microchips and cyborgs as both conspiracy theories and science fiction. Anyone who so much as mentioned these possibilities to their neighbor risked being labeled either as a religious fanatic or delusional and ...
Climategate 2: feeding the public “crap”
Andrew Bolt Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 12:06am You will need to follow this carefully, but Steve McIntyre demonstrates a disgraceful example of how the “team” of climate scientists most responsible for the global warming scare knowingly published “crap” and kept secret their reservations about ...
Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global W ...
James Taylor A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public yesterday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate s ...
Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global W ...
By James Taylor More than revealing misconduct and improper motives, the newly released emails additionally reveal frank admissions of the scientific shortcomings of global warming assertions. “Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one ...
Yes, Virginia, there really are government con ...
By Mike Rivero Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the induced blindness of the mainstream media. They do not believe except they see it on television or hear it over the radio. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. Yes, ...

Global Insights

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The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
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AlterNet - DrugReporter

Obama Makes a Few Pardons on Unfair Drug Convi ...
Obama pardoned three marijuana offenders and commuted the sentence of one crack offender, but the implications of this action are not as optimistic as they may sound.
Obama Pardons Handful of Drug Prisoners
Obama granted pardons to five people, three with marijuana-related convictions, and commuted the sentence of a woman doing more than 20 years on a crack charge.
Pay Attention: How Big Pharma Contrived the Gr ...
During the Great Ritalin Scare of 1993, shortages prompted thousands to switch to Adderall. Now, Shire is contriving an Adderall drought to convert patients to a new ADD drug.
Hospital Prescribes Cancer Patient Pot, Then R ...
Norman Smith was within two months of receiving a liver transplant when the same hospital that prescribed him the pot de-listed him. Now, he may die as the result.
How Many Drug War Prisoners Were Convicted on ...
Testing errors at one crime lab led to 3,000 drug convictions in need of review and point to chronic failures in the criminal justice system.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

Humane Society: Watch Out for Faux Fur Claims ...
The Humane Society of the United States is sounding the alarm: Beware of retailers marketing real fur as faux fur while doing your holiday shopping this season. On Tuesday, the nonprofit filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission accusing 11 retailers of misrepresenting fur fashions as “ ...
Vegan Matt & Nat Bags Are on Sale for 60% off ...
Yes, we are decidedly against the Black Friday craziness that has been sweeping the nation, but sometimes there’s a deal you just can’t ignore. Matt & Nat‘s vegan leather bags are so loveable because while being gorgeous, purchasing one feels totally guilt free. We just h ...
VIDEO: Boston ‘Bike Czar’ Nicole Freedman Talk ...
For years, the city of Boston has been considered one of the WORST cities in the world for biking – with no bike lanes to speak of and crazy drivers. Nicole Freedman, Boston’s new ‘Bike Czar’ is hoping to change this with an ambitious program to overhaul Boston’s st ...
Next-Gen Contact Lenses Could Send Emails Dire ...
Computers are getting smaller and smaller every day, and many people can now do most of their online work via their phones. However within a few years devices could get much smaller – and we could have contact lenses that project our emails directly onto our eyeballs. A team from Washingto ...
DIY: How to Make an Enchanting Terrarium Neckl ...
If you’re looking for a beguiling homemade gift that will enchant your favorite plantophiles, look no further than this darling DIY terrarium necklace! You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to make one and when you’re done, you might not even want to give it away anymore. Read ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

SMARAGD Rocket Engines Test Update
Today (Saturday 26, 2011) Copenhagen Suborbitals had a great testing day of two engines for the SMARAGD rocket. In short, SMARAGD (flight configuration) is a two stage rocket with a 3 seconds burn first stage engine and a second stage engine burning for app 20 seconds. The idea is to have both e ...
NASA’s New Mars Rover Launches Successfully
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from the launch pad at 10:02 a.m. EST on Nov. 26.
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.

PakAlert

A Third World War Won’t Stop A Second American ...
"It’s not a scientific report, it’s a political document," said investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on Democracy Now on November 21, referring to the latest IAEA report about Iran's nuclear program.
U.S. Declares Cold War With China
Last week, President Barack Obama was in Asia to declare a cold war with China. Hopefully the U.S.-China cold war won’t be like the one fought with the Soviet Union that brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation and cost trillions of dollars over 60 years.
Pakistan orders US to vacate airbase
The Pakistani government has ordered the US to vacate an airbase within 15 days following a deadly airstrike near the Afghan-Pakistan border.
UK extremely worried about stolen nukes
Did we the British public know that our current Prime Minister was instrumental in the loss of three illegal nuclear weapons? Is the UK frantically trying to find out where they were sold on the “Black Market”?
Israel and the Existential Threat
For a variety of reasons, including a misguided infatuation with soft power, neither the United States nor Israel has exercised the legitimate right of anticipatory, or pre-emptive, self defense against Iran. As a result, Iran's entry into the nuclear club is almost a given. In Israel, a nation ...

Andy Worthington

Hearing Date Set for Bradley Manning, the Alle ...
Every day, for the last seven months, I have had cause to reflect on the bravery of the whistleblower — Pfc. Bradley Manning, according to the US authorities — who, two years ago, released, to WikiLeaks, a trove of classified US documents — the “Collateral Murder” v ...
Two New Screenings of “Outside the Law: ...
“‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-Ame ...
After Ten Years in US Custody, British Residen ...
Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, has just visited Guantánamo, for the first time in a number of years, as his colleagues have been undertaking visits instead, and has returned with a renewed sense of horror at the continued existence of Guantá ...
The Unfinished Revolution in Egypt: The People ...
A year ago, only those looking closely realized that huge cracks were developing in the facade of stability maintained by the West, and echoed, in the Middle East, by the ageing dictators who had helped preserve the status quo for decades. Only those looking closely heard about the mobilization ...
The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...

Environment _ National Geographic

Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
"Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.
With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send ...
Companies are making the first moves to parlay abundant U.S. natural gas into a global business, but many worry that U.S. consumers will be hurt.
With Record Heating Oil Prices Expected, Homes ...
Natural gas abundance in the U.S. Northeast means it's now far cheaper than oil for home heating. Residents are making the switch, but will prices stay low?
IEA Outlook: Time Running Out on Climate Change
The International Energy Agency's new world outlook has a grim prognosis; the world has only five years to make changes needed to address climate change.

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

SPL Center

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

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

Occupy LA Seems Set to Stay as Deadline Comes
The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they'll heed it is much less certain. read more
Rich Nations Accused of Climate-Change 'Bullying'
Britain and other rich countries are using aid money as a lever to bully developing countries over climate change, according to a new report by an anti-poverty pressure group. With international climate change negotiations beginning in South Africa tomorrow, a report by the World Development Mov ...
WikiLeaks Wins Walkley for Revealing 'Inconven ...
WIKILEAKS was last night awarded a Walkley for outstanding contribution to journalism for what was described by judges as a global publishing coup that achieved "justice through transparency". "WikiLeaks applied new technology to penetrate the inner workings of government to revea ...
Thousands Await Nuclear Waste Train in Germany
DANNENBERG, Germany — Thousands of anti-nuclear protestors awaited the arrival Saturday of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France to northern Germany, where it will be stored. Organisers expected some 20,000 protesters to make their way to the town of Dannenberg, where 11 c ...
Thousands Await Nuclear Waste Train in Germany
DANNENBERG, Germany — Thousands of anti-nuclear protestors awaited the arrival Saturday of a train carrying radioactive nuclear waste from France to northern Germany, where it will be stored. Organisers expected some 20,000 protesters to make their way to the town of Dannenberg, where 11 c ...

Lifehacker

Make a 'Rice Lid' with Stews in Your Lunch Jar ...
Thermal lunch jars are great; I have one, but on occasion I'll need to take a stew or curry to my weekday job for lunch when the thermal jar is dirty and I'll have to resort to standard glass or plastic lunch containers. Bento weblog Lunch in ...
Compare the Price of an Auto Shop Versus DIY R ...
AutoMD is a handy webapp that has a repository of text, photo, and video DIY repair guides, helps you diagnose problems with your vehicle, find a reputable mechanic in your area, and let you know what a repair should cost in your area to help ...
Revert Yahoo Mail Back to the Previous Version ...
A little over a year ago Yahoo started rolling out the beta version of their new Mail service and now the beta tag is gone and Yahoo has moved everyone to the new layout. If you did prefer the old version, technology blog Techdows found a tric ...
Five Best Recipe Organization Tools [Hive Five]
Keeping digital copies of all of your hand-written recipes, favorite recipes from cookbooks, and other dishes you find on the web can be a difficult task, and there are plenty of tools to help you do it. We asked you which tools you used to m ...
Hack an Old LCD Monitor into a Polarized Priva ...
If you have an old LCD display you can remove the polarized and anti-glare films from the inside of the monitor's glass surface and reassemble it; this will make the screen look bright white to the naked eye. To see the actual display you jus ...

Water Privatization

Rome protesters rap water privatization
Hundreds of demonstrators have staged rallies in the Italian capital Rome to protest a decision taken by the new government to privatize Italy's water supply, Press TV reports.
City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
Privatization questions
Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
Italians protest water privatization plans
Hundreds of Italian protesters have rallied in the capital city of Rome to call on the government of Prime Minister Mario Monti not to go ahead with plans to privatize the country's water supply.

Guardian

MPs may be breaking law in offering work to un ...
Ministers told minimum wage should be paid as placements favour children of rich parents who can afford work without payScores of MPs, from millionaire Tory cabinet members to Labour backbenchers, may have broken minimum wage law by taking on unpaid interns, according to legal advice to minister ...
Leveson inquiry: blogger summoned over leak
Probe after Guido Fawkes posts Alastair Campbell evidence three days before it was due to be heardThe Leveson inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the press has been forced to a launch an inquiry into a possible leak of its own after a document purporting to be the evidence of Tony B ...
Nato braces for reprisals after deadly air str ...
Concerns the ISI intelligence agency could use its suspected influence over insurgent groups to launch reprisal attacksNato forces in Afghanistan were braced on Sunday for possible reprisals from Pakistani-backed insurgents following the coalition air strike along the border that killed 24 Pakis ...
George Osborne's £5bn gamble to stave off rece ...
Extra £5bn of capital investment to form centrepiece of national infrastructure programme in chancellor's autumn statementAn extra £5bn of capital investment, funded by spending cuts elsewhere, will form the centrepiece of an overall £30bn national infrastructure programme due to be announced by ...
Egypt's elections are a dangerous crossroads, ...
Head of armed forces warns polls must be successfully implemented and issues warning to 'meddling troublemakers'The head of Egypt's military junta has said the country is at a crossroads between order and chaos, as polls open for nationwide elections on Monday amid continuing violence on the str ...

McClatchey

Yemen's presidential vote to be uncontested, n ...
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen's new prime minister said Sunday that both the ruling party and the country's largest opposition coalition would nominate the country's current vice president to be their candidate in the upcoming election to pick a successor to President Ali Abdullah ...
Yemen presidential vote set for Feb. 21; Saleh ...
SANAA, Yemen — Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Saturday set Feb. 21 as the date that Yemenis will go to the polls to select at new president to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who agreed last week to step down after 10 months of protests against his rule.
Pakistan blocks U.S. supplies, orders drone ba ...
KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan on Saturday blocked supply routes for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan and announced it would end the use of a Pakistani airbase by American forces, in retaliation for a NATO attack on a Pakistani border outpost that officials said killed at least 24 soldie ...
New prayer book awaits Roman Catholics at Mass ...
SACRAMENTO — Soon after Sandi Holland began teaching workshops on the new English Roman Missal, she began hearing from Sacramento-area parishioners that the language was too formal. But the first time the Rev. Innocent Subiza read the new text, he thought it was perfect.
Christmas gift for NBA fans: Lockout ends, pla ...
Finally, it appears to be over.

Afghanistan Sun

Afghan soldiers called in deadly NATO airstrike
A Pakistani border security guard stands alert as authorities close border down the Torkham border for NATO vehicles in Pakistan on Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. Pakistan on Saturday accused NATO ...
British Soldier Killed In Afghanistan
A soldier from 5th Battalion The Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence has said. The serviceman's family has been informed of the death. More information ...
Pakistan may boycott Afghan summit
Nato helicopters at a border checkpost.The Pakistani military alleged that the attack 1.5 miles inside Pakistani territory in the early hours of Saturday was deliberate, as it was a well-known ...
Marines to wind down Afghan combat in 2012
ROBERT BURNS | ASSOCIATED PRESS Marine Gen. John Allen, left, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Marine Maj. Gen. John Toolan, ...
2 service members killed in Afghanistan
NATO says two of its service members have been killed in Afghanistan, one in combat operations in the east and the other by a roadside bomb in the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

Mike Masnick's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Okay, so every week we have someone do a "favorites of the week" post, but I've never had the chance to do one myself. So... I picked the shortest week of the year to do it myself. I'm not going to point to any of my own posts (that's cheating!), but I will say that I put a lot of time and eff ...
A Message For Congress Over Thanksgiving
As we head off to take a short break for Thanksgiving, I thought we'd pass along a Thanksgiving greeting card that was sent to me this morning. Unfortunately, the reports making the rounds today suggest that some are looking to pass a lot more than just the cranberry sauce, and may even be tryi ...
Sarkozy Worried About The Internet 'Stealing A ...
Earlier this week Techdirt reported on the surprisingly forthright statements of Neelie Kroes concerning the failure of the copyright system in the digital world. She made her remarks at the Forum d'Avignon in France, which was about "strengthening the links between culture and the economy". ...
Connecting With Fans Means More Than Talking A ...
Aaron deOliveira alerts us to this great quote from artist Michele Banks from an interview in Scientific American: I think some artists don’t get the best out of Twitter or other social media because they mostly write about their own work. I talk about everything – art and science ...
DailyDirt: Some People Drink Pepsi, Some Peopl ...
There are a lot of different soft drinks targeting nearly every conceivable market. It's almost amazing that potable water is generally free, and there's still a multi-billion dollar industry for non-alcoholic beverages. What are they putting in water that people just can't get enough of? Here a ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Dr. Hans Blix Tells EIR There Is No Basis for ...
EIR News Service press release.
LaRouche: To Stop World War III Obama Must Be ...
EIR News Service press release.
Toward a Bill of Impeachment of Barack Hussein ...
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44
Dubna Conference Endorses Global Glass-Steagall
Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44
Russian Conference Hears LaRouche, Calls for G ...
By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 11, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 44

War in Context

Iranian exile terrorist group has bipartisan s ...
The New York Times reports: At a time of partisan gridlock in the capital, one obscure cause has drawn a stellar list of supporters from both parties and the last two administrations, including a dozen former top national security officials. That alone would be unusual. What makes it astonishing ...
Egypt: ElBaradei says ready to head salvation ...
Al-Masry Al-Youm reports: Presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei issued a statement Saturday night declaring his willingness to head a national salvation government if he was asked officially to do so and was given full powers. He added that he would give up his bid for presidency. ElBaradei’s s ...
The necessary elimination of Israeli democracy
Amos Schocken writes: Speaking in the Knesset in January 1993, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, “Iran is in the initial stages of an effort to acquire nonconventional capability in general, and nuclear capability in particular. Our assessment is that Iran today has the appropriate manpow ...
The intelligence on Afghanistan that Obama ref ...
Steve Coll writes: In late 2008, the United States intelligence community produced a classified National Intelligence Estimate on the war in Afghanistan that has never been released to the public. The N.I.E. described a “grim situation” overall, according to an intelligence officer’s private bri ...
Listening Post – Egypt: Revolution revisited

Watts Up With That?

Newsbytes: BBC In Cahoots With Climategate Sci ...
Steve Hilton, the Prime Minister’s director of strategy and ‘green guru’, is the latest person to admit to doubts about climate change. ‘I’m not sure I believe in it,’ he announced at a meeting of the Energy Department, prompting one … Continue reading →
An Open Letter to Dr. Phil Jones of the UEA CRU
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Dear Dr. Jones: You and I have been interacting, albeit at a distance, since I first asked you for your data some five years ago. I asked for your data in part because I was … Continue reading →
Pheesiks? We don’t need no steekin pheesiks!
With apologies to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, here’s a a comment worth repeating from the Hit and Misses thread. Dennis Ray Wingo says: November 26, 2011 at 10:44 am What I find interesting about the entire email corpus … Continue reading →
Uh oh, “…organized and deeply comm ...
Maybe this is why the US bailed out of the UNFCCC “Green Climate Fund” this week.The science has been “McKibbenized” for quite some time. Email 340.txt date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:13:20 -0500 from: “Tom Jacob” subject: REFLECTI ...
Why all the cloak and dagger stuff if this is ...
Reader “just the facts” writes in comments: Here is an example of Phil Jones trying to avoid a FOIA request, but he apparently struggles with the implementation…: 2577.txt “date: Thu Sep 25 15:24:48 2008 from: Phil Jones subject: Re: CONFIDENTIAL: … Continue reading →

treehugger

Berlin: the City is Wild
Tourists and natives alike know that Berlin is a wild city. But do they know just how wild?
Yoxi the Matchmaker: Hooking Up Innovators wit ...
"Social Innovation Rockstars"
Four Percent Uptick In Trash Tipping Rate An I ...
Trash generation rate correlated with economic activity at State level.
Supply Chains & Carbon: Australia Is Worlds La ...
Coal exportation is key part of Australia's economic productivity.
20,000 Gather to Protest "Chernobyl on Wheels" ...
Tens of thousands protested a shipment of radioactive waste in Germany today.

Biosingularity

Research reveals new secret weapon for Le Tour
Winning margins in the Tour de France can be tight – last year just 39 seconds separated the top two riders after more than 90 hours in the saddle. When every second counts, riders do everything possible to gain a competitive advantage – from using aerodynamic carbon fibre bikes to the very late ...
New technique advances bioprinting of cells
Ever since an ordinary office inkjet printer had its ink cartridges swapped out for a cargo of cells about 10 years ago and sprayed out cell-packed droplets to create living tissue, scientists and engineers have never looked at office equipment in quite the same way. They dream of using a specia ...
Pigeons never forget a face
New research has shown that feral, untrained pigeons can recognise individual people and are not fooled by a change of clothes. Researchers, who will be presenting their work at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference in Glasgow on Sunday the 3rd of July, have shown that urban pig ...
Lean gene linked to heart risk
Genes that result in a slender figure have been linked to heart disease and type-two diabetes, conditions normally associated with being overweight.A study suggests variants of the IRS1 gene reduce fat under the skin, but not the more dangerous visceral fat around organs such as the heart and li ...
Drug Reverses Accelerated Aging in Human Cells
The drug rapamycin has been found to reverse the effects of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a fatal genetic disease that resembles rapid aging, in cells taken from patients with the disease. Rapamycin, an immunosuppressant drug used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs, has already ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

Yulia Tymoshenko case
There is nothing to celebrate, Euro parliament ...
“You should not be in jail,” European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek wrote on Yulia Tymoshenko’s Facebook wall on Sunday as Ukraine’s ex-prime minister marked her 51st birthday.
Arab League adopts Syria sanctions
The Arab League approved on Sunday sanctions against Syria in the latest bid to dissuade the Assad regime from its continuing crackdown on dissent.
Putin warns West against interfering in Russia ...
Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has warned Western powers against meddling in Russia’s forthcoming elections after agreeing to stand for president in March 2012.
Putin bangs fists for his party, gets presiden ...
At a pompous event at Moscow's Luzhniki Arena on Sunday, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party officially named its leader Vladimir Putin, Russia's powerful prime minister, as its candidate for the March 2012 presidential elections.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

China, Japan ink energy conservation agreements
China and Japan agreed on Saturday to join hands on 51 projects in energy conservation and environment protection, Xinhua reported.
NASA Mars rover lifts off
NASA launched a unique Mars rover, Curiosity, on Saturday to search for traces of life on the Red Planet.
Phobos-Grunt spacecraft
Space agency postpones Phobos contact until Monday
The European Space Agency (ESA) put off attempting to contact the stranded Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft until Monday, the head of the ESA office in Moscow said on Friday.
NASA to launch Curiosity rover to probe for li ...
NASA will launch a unique car-sized Curiosity rover on Saturday on a 2-year mission to Mars to search for traces of life on the red planet, NASA said on its web site.

Pruning Shears

Weekend Wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. We killed a couple of Brits too.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Zachary C. Reiff, 22, of Preston, IA.Army Pvt. Jackie L. ...
The Occupy movement and reclaiming the First A ...
We seem to have happily gotten past the point of Occupy critics plaintively asking what the occupiers want and demanding that Occupy release some, well, demands. Instead the pundit class seems to have concluded that it was all a bit of fun but it’s time for those people to move on so we c ...
Weekend Wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Another busy week of killing in Somalia:US terror drones kill 42 more in SomaliaUS terror drones kill 13 in south SomaliaUS terror drones k ...
Bleh
Sick and on antibiotics. Back next week.
Weekend Wrapup
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Cody R. Norris, 20, of Houston, TX.Marine Lance Cpl. Nickolas A. Daniels, 25, of Elmwood Par ...

Organic Consumers.org

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

Investigate - Breaking News

Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader. Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio. The contents of a viral email released this afternoon...Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver ...
Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes. Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes
NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader revea ...
NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader reveals plans. NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader reveals plans...
Turkey votes for early Christmas
Turkey votes for early Christmas. Turkey votes for early Christmas

My Care2 Picks

Iran takes up the nuclear cudgel
The second international conference on nuclear disarmament hosted by Tehran gets barely a mention in the Western media, despite featuring delegates from 40 nations the United Nations and the IAEA 40 years of conventions produced no progress in West Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
Iran Isn't the Only One Misbehaving
Ways in which the U.S. has continually harassed and punished Iran ( Much more at http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/ ) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Russian warships entering Syrian waters to inh ...
Haaretz characterizes this move as a clear message to the West that Moscow would resist any foreign intervention in the countrys civil unrest, and indeed it is a clear message that comes with threat of military repercussions. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to World | Note-it ...
Flibe Energy
New company will develop small modular reactors based on liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) technology, use a chemically stable medium as fuel and coolant, making them much safer to operate than conventional reactors. HT http://ergosphere.blogspot.com Submitted by John Farnham to Science &am ...
Welcome to a Hung Democracy
so it came to pass that a small band of the selfish or deluded came to steal the blood, sweat and toil of the many.They lied, broke solemn promises, failed to provide evidence,hid the models the public were forced to pay for, gave patrons highly paid jobs Submitted by John Farnham to Business & ...

Angry Indian News

Gerald and Maas Suppressed News: November 26, 2011
Gerald and Maas Suppressed NewsKuala Lumpur: in a trial attended by jurists from throughout the world the war crimes trial of George W. Bush and Tony Blair before a people's court has concluded with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
AU and UN start regional coordination mechanis ...
AU and UN start regional coordination mechanism meeting aimed at building capacity to address Africa's challenges - Pan-Africanist Briefs Google GroupsADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 21, 2011/African... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Impunity Watch - Maoists Admit Role in Murder ...
Impunity Watch � Blog Archive � Maoists Admit Role in Murder of Nun: By: Jessica TiesImpunity Watch Reporter, AsiaNEW DELHI, India – Rights activists are urging the Indian government to take steps to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Mala ...
[[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
OpEdNews - Pregnant Protester Miscarries After ...
OpEdNews - Pregnant Protester Miscarries After Being Kicked, Pepper-SprayedAL-KHALIL, (PIC)-- The association of Muslim youth along with the family committee of political detainees in the West Bank... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

Happy Corporate Holidays, America!
It's the time of year when we plunge headlong into personal debt to support China and other countries while America slides into economic chaos.
Media Consolidation: The Illusion of Choice In ...
"I’ve always advocated for critical consumption, and what could be more important than an awareness of the sources of our families’ daily info and entertainment diets? And today, most of our media is controlled by one of six companies. Check out Frugaldad’s infographic on the state of media cons ...
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 ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza
ShareThisIsrael threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza 27 Nov 2011 Israel warned on Saturday that it would cut the supply of water and electricity to the Gaza Strip if rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas form a unity government. "The foreign ministry is examining the possibility of Is ...
Sen. Joe Lieberman: Google's Blogger needs 'te ...
ShareThisSen. Joe Lieberman: Google's Blogger needs 'terrorist' button 24 Nov 2011 Joseph Lieberman, the independent senator [sociopath] from Connecticut, sent a letter to Google CEO Larry Page this week expressing his opinion that Google-owned blogging platform Blogger should provide a button t ...
Two British terror suspects killed in U.S. dro ...
ShareThisTwo British terror suspects killed in U.S. drone attacks in remote region of Pakistan 19 Nov 2011 Two British terror suspects are believed to have been killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan, according to their family and friends. Ibrahim Adam and Mohammed Azmir are thought to have d ...
Health officials on alert for outbreak of new ...
ShareThisHealth officials on alert for outbreak of new swine flu strain 25 Nov 2011 U.S. health officials are on the alert for more cases of a new swine flu strain that was found in three children in Iowa this month. Ten people in the U.S. have been infected since July by S-OtrH3N2 viruses that ...
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Of ...
ShareThisPrepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns 25 Nov 2011 British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain. As the Italian government struggled to borrow an ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Berlin: the City is Wild
Tourists and natives alike know that Berlin is a wild city. But do they know just how wild?
Yoxi the Matchmaker: Hooking Up Innovators wit ...
"Social Innovation Rockstars"
Four Percent Uptick In Trash Tipping Rate An I ...
Trash generation rate correlated with economic activity at State level.
Supply Chains & Carbon: Australia Is Worlds La ...
Coal exportation is key part of Australia's economic productivity.
20,000 Gather to Protest "Chernobyl on Wheels" ...
Tens of thousands protested a shipment of radioactive waste in Germany today.

Democratic Voice of Burma

Burma by-elections ‘not until 2012’
Shwe Mann says law requires three months' notice before holding interim vote, dousing excitement at Suu Kyi's pending return
Rangoon workers fight for compensation
Factory staff injured in work-related accident that left seven dead send letter to Labour Administration Department demanding justice
‘Yellow rain’ fuels chemical weapons fears
Several reports from civilian areas in Kachin state claim a yellow substance that fell from the sky caused burn holes through vegetation
NLD takes first steps toward parliament
Aung San Suu Kyi's party hands in application for registration, beginning its formal return to mainstream Burmese politics
Is the US dabbling in the darker side of diplo ...
If the US embraces President Thein Sein’s rabble of military officials and cronies too soon, it risks leaving a tainted legacy in Burma, and not for the first time

Telegraph - Climate Change

Field of dreams, or an environment nightmare?
Energy companies are planning a huge increase in the number of British drilling sites for shale gas, as arguments rage over whether the controversial fuel is safe.
£1 billion of UK aid to fight climate change i ...
The UK is set to pour up to £1 billion of taxpayers money into helping African countries fight climate change.
Is the global warming scare the greatest delus ...
The scare over man-made global warming is not only the scientific scandal of our generation, but a suicidal flight from reality, says Christopher Booker.
Our national treasures are naughty, not nice
Forget Sir David Attenborough and Stephen Fry - Fred Goodwin is the man who best defines modern Britain, suggests Matthew Norman.
Durban must move the world forward
Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Secretary, believes the Durban Climate Change Summit is a chance for real progress

National Geographic | Environment

Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
"Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.
With U.S. Natural Gas Booming, a Move to Send ...
Companies are making the first moves to parlay abundant U.S. natural gas into a global business, but many worry that U.S. consumers will be hurt.
With Record Heating Oil Prices Expected, Homes ...
Natural gas abundance in the U.S. Northeast means it's now far cheaper than oil for home heating. Residents are making the switch, but will prices stay low?
IEA Outlook: Time Running Out on Climate Change
The International Energy Agency's new world outlook has a grim prognosis; the world has only five years to make changes needed to address climate change.

Jurist - Legal Research

UN rights expert criticizes North Korea treatm ...
[JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rights Marzuki Darusman criticized North Korea's human rights record on Friday, especially concerning treatment of prisoners, echoing a UN General Assembly [official website] resolution [text] earlier this week. After speaking to North Kor ...
Berlusconi loses bid to block testimony at cor ...
[JURIST] An Italian high court Thursday rejected an application by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to prevent testimony being heard at his corruption trial. Berlusconi had applied for but was denied an interim injunction [Guardian report] preventing Dav ...
Tunisia court convicts nephew of ex-president
[JURIST] A Tunisian criminal court Friday convicted a nephew of the wife of Tunisia's ousted former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], immediately pronouncing an 18-year prison sentence for writing over USD $399 million in bad checks. Imed Trabelsi, viewed as t ...
Belarus court jails human rights activist for ...
[JURIST] A Belarus court convicted [press release] human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the president of Viasana and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) [advocacy websites], of tax evasion on Thursday, sentencing him a four-and-a-half-year prison term. Viasna ...
ECJ rules ISPs not required to monitor user ac ...
[JURIST] The European Court of Justice (ECJ) [official website] ruled [press release, PDF] on Thursday that Internet service providers (ISPs) cannot be required by law to monitor its customers' activities as an attempt to combat illegal sharing of copyrighted material. The court's ruling comes a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

Danny Ayalon Warns of PA Being Terror Authorit ...
In a move that surely would bring charges of severe violations of international law, Israel’s deputy Führer, er foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, suggested (Hebrew) that if Mahmoud Abbas continues his unity talks with Hamas, that the Palestinian Authority would become the “Terror Autho ...
Amos Schocken: Israel ‘Apartheid Regime,’ ‘Jew ...
Amos Schocken published an eye-opening, remarkably candid op-ed (and Hebrew) in Haaretz about the extent of the catastrophe that Israel currently faces, which includes a raft of repressive bills and laws threatening everything from freedom of speech to freedom of the press to academic freedom t ...
Knesset Bill Would Criminalize Speech
Among a raft of new authoritarian bills and legislation proposed or passed by the current Knesset is one that will essentially criminalize speech. Under a proposed new libel law, plaintiffs would no long even have to prove damages to win tens of thousands from defendants. Penalties in some categ ...
Call to Close Ben Gurion University Department ...
The assault on academic freedom on Israeli campuses continues apace with a slimy report in Yediot Achronot which brays about a review of the department of politics and government at Ben Gurion University. The committee appointed by the Israeli Council for Higher Education recommended closing th ...
On a Collision Course: Israel, Iran and the U.S.
Is a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities possible as a result of the dramatically increasing and unstable relationship among Iran, Israel and the U.S.? What does this mean for them, for us, for the rest of the world? Two outstanding speakers will address this complex issue at Seattle’ ...

If Americans Knew

New Booklet: Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
International security and counterterrorism expert Philip Giraldi argues that Israel's flourishing high tech industry is built on widespread theft of American research. This has undermined American companies and endangered American security.
How to Contact the US Government and Media
Contact information for the U.S. government and media.
Remember Rachel Corrie
On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers driving a bulldozer. Please help us keep Rachel's memory and message alive! Order materials to distribute to your friends, family, neighbors, and community.
US Media and Israeli Military: All in the Family
Recent exposes revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
A History Lesson for Obama: Eisenhower's Example
With President Obama's Middle East peace plans so completely -- and humiliatingly -- shipwrecked on the rocks of Israeli intransigence, it's time for him to consider a new approach, at least if he's serious about his announced objectives. In the spirit of bipartisanship that he's so dedicated to ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

Strikes vs Royal Weddings
There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
Moving Planet Just Moved!
Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

Book Reviews - Railroaded: Transcontinental Ra ...
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America. Richard White. W.W. Norton. 2011. 660 pages. The construction of the transcontinental railroads following the Civil War is often celebrated as the triumph of American business and industry, with the support of government, u ...
Book Reviews - I Want My TV: Whither goest MTV ...
I Want My TV: The Uncensored History of the Music Video Revolution. Craig Marks and Ron Tannenbaum. Dutton. 2011. 608 pages.Before there was Facebook, before there were iPhones, there was MTV. After an unprepossessing launch in 1981, the cable network became a powerful force in American popular ...
Chile on Edge - The Inequality Behind Chile’s ...
Foreigners on business trips usually travel from Chile’s Santiago International Airport to the city’s financial center in the El Golf neighborhood via the Costanera Norte or Vespucio Norte highways. But hidden underneath these highways are the majority of Chileans from lower-class neighborhoods ...
Religious Tolerance - A Pandora's Box in India ...
In retrospect, the Christian community of India has displayed remarkable sobriety and a sense of responsibility in its response to the arrest in Srinagar of Reverend Chander Mani Khanna, Anglican pastor of the All Saints Church. The Muslim Ulema of the rest of India have been reluctant to condem ...
Religious Tolerance - Ahmadi Community of Paki ...
Rabia Saleem, a female student of the Ahmadi religious sect in the final year of studies at the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology in Lahore, Pakistan, has been expelled on allegations of blasphemy. Rabia Saleem was accused of blasphemy by the student wing of the banned Islamist organiz ...

High Country News

How Christo’s opponents can change your mind
Amazing, isn't it, how really wacky arguments against a thing can turn you into an unwilling supporter of it – in this case, artist Christo’s project to drape Colorado's Arkansas River.
Thanks to Obama, cattlemen lose out
Proposed rule changes that would have made it easier for small-scale ranchers to compete with giant meatpacking corporations just went down in flames.
Breathing clean air comes in second in Congress
House bills to delay air pollution standards move on to the Senate.
Of marigolds and a day with the dead
Violence, border patrol, and leaving flowers on the Mexican side of the border.
The forgotten North Cascades grizzly bear
As grizzly bear populations in the Rockies rebound, the great bruins face extirpation in the North Cascades. Can they hang on until the feds fund recovery?

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

The Silence of The Mainstream Media
Much of the bias of the mainstream media is not displayed by what they say but by what they omit. During the past four years there have plenty of examples of the silence of the media. Remember the media ignoring candidate Obama’s relationship with seedy figures such as terrorist Bill Ayers, Comm ...
Who is a “Moderate Islamist?” A Guide to Under ...
By Barry Rubin The Muslim Brotherhood held a rally at Cairo’s most important mosque. Demonstrators chanted, “One day we shall kill all Jews.” Question 1: How can you tell they are “moderate Islamists?” Answer: They said “one day,” in other words, they aren’t going to do it this wee ...
Climategate II Emails Show US/British Govs Col ...
This past Tuesday more than 5,000 emails were leaked online as follow-up to the first set Climategate emails released two years ago. These emails go even further than the first set in showing a systemic suppression of evidence, and even reports being published that the scientists knew we ...
Dem Sen McCaskill Wants Probe of No-Bid Small ...
Two weeks ago we reported the Obama administration was pushed through a small-pox vaccine costing $433-million dollars of taxpayer money even though there is doubt about whether the vaccine would work. There is also doubt whether the vaccine is necessary since WHO certified the eradic ...
OOPs!! New Study Shows CO2 Not Likely to Cause ...
I had an interesting climate change discussion over turkey dinner yesterday my cousin claimed that the climate change skeptics have to prove that man-made global warming was false. I on the other hand argued the proponents of the great hoax have to prove that global warming was really happening, ...

The Real Agenda

U.S. Senate Bill will allow Military to Intern ...
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com November 26, 2011 The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial. “The Senate is going to vote ...
There’s plenty of reason to be concerned Big B ...
By David Kravets Wired.com November 25, 2011 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 at least, fight for their rights and consi ...
Portugal Credit Rating Downgraded to Junk
By Antonia van de Velde CNBC November 24, 2011 Fitch ratings agency on Thursday downgraded its credit rating for Portugal to BB+ from BBB-citing “large fiscal imbalances” and “high indebtedness across all sectors” as well as a gloomy economic outlook as the main reasons for the country’s fall be ...
“Prepare To Give Up Significant Sovereig ...
Tyler Durden Zero Hedge November 25, 2011 The only quote worth noting from the just delivered speech by ECB executive board member José Manuel González-Páramo is the following: “We cannot completely delegate governance to financial markets. The euro area is the world’s second largest monet ...
The Doomsday Project: Continuity of Government ...
The JFK assassination, Watergate, 9/11 and other “deep events” were not simply isolated events. They were planned events that culminated with the establishment of a shadow state that operates freely and independently from the public State. by Peter Dale Scott Global Research November ...

Wind Watch

Health concerns over impact of wind farms
A medical expert has called for a 10km exclusion zone between homes and new UK windfarms. The “setback” zone plea is based on fears over the impact on health. The call comes from Dr Sarah Laurie, medical director of the Waubra Foundation, an Australian body dedicated to researching the health ef ...
Councils left ‘powerless’ on windfarms
A workshop, followed by a special meeting, will be held by Clare and Gilbert Valleys Councillors next month to prepare their comments about a controversial State Government amendment to the Development Plan. The amendments relate to wind farm development and have been designed to fast track appl ...
Wind farm opposition group hopes to educate public
KEYSER, W.Va. — Although members don’t oppose a specific wind farm, Allegheny Highlands Alliance is one of the groups that opposes wind farms in general, according to member Wayne Spiggle of Short Gap. The group is a consortium of citizen/environment organizations from five states, and one of it ...
Shock at claims on wind farms tourism impact
Montgomeryshire AM Russell George says he is ‘shocked and amazed’ by claims from First Minister Carwyn Jones that wind farms have no impact on tourism. Mr George said he was amazed by Mr Jones’s comments during the weekly First Minister’s Question Time on Tuesday. He accused the minister of ‘pre ...
Tipton-Madison County wind farms raise questions
TIPTON COUNTY – Indiana farmers feed millions of us each year. Now they’re digging into “homegrown” energy. 13 Investigates uncovers a surge of wind farms that will soon fan across the state, promising an economic boost. But at what price to the environment and homeowners ...

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

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

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Cain revamps 9-9-9 tax plan, but it still hurt ...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income A ...
U.S. oil companies, security contractors look ...

American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya. read more
Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...

As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
As all-out attack cont ...
3 reasons why Art Pope deserves all the media ...

North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight t ...
More cutbacks in legal services for the poor i ...

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public need ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollut ...
Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.
New Zealand: oil leaks and cargo topples off s ...
Fears stricken cargo ship may break up and cause environmental disaster.
Oil leak from container ship Rena is New Zeala ...
Oil leak from container ship is New Zealand's worst maritime disaster.
Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a cont ...
An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government.
Vladimir Putin plays for high stakes in the oi ...
It has always suited Moscow to play the oil companies off against each other, argues George Trefgarne.

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

Curiosity on its way to Mars
Liftoff! Mars scientists can exhale and breath normally. At least for the next 9 months. The Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is on its way to Mars, the first step in a process that has doomed so many other Mars missions. (The Russian mission to the Mars moon Phobos, for example, is stu ...
Australia unveils proposals for huge marine re ...
Australia has unveiled plans to create one of the biggest marine reserves the world has ever seen. The proposed marine reserve in the Coral Sea covers a total area of around 990,000 square kilometres off the north-east coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef, which also lies off this coast ...
European carbon market plummets
Prices are plunging dramatically on the world’s largest carbon-trading market. Today, it will cost large facilities participating in the European Union’s mandatory emissions trading scheme (ETS) just €7 to buy an allowance to emit one ton of carbon dioxide: that’s a record low and a drop of 25% ...
Global Fund halts new funding until 2014
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has cancelled its 11th funding round because of the current economic crisis. “Substantial budget challenges in some donor countries, compounded by low interest rates have significantly affected the resources available for new grant fundi ...
Monarch butterfly genome gives clues about sle ...
Cross posted from Scientific American's Observations blog on behalf of Katherine Harmon. The millions of monarchs (Danaus plexippus) that flit on fragile wings from the United States to a particular area of fir forest in Mexico—as far as 4,000 kilometres—are making the journey for the first t ...

new geography

The Evolving Urban Form: Delhi
It has been a time of ups and downs for Delhi, which has emerged as the largest urban area (area of continuous urban development) in India. By a quirk in the Census of India definitions, an urban area (urban agglomeration) may not cross a state or territorial boundary. As a result, Delhi con ...
Good Morning, Vietnam
While many experts are pronouncing the demise of the American era and the rise of China, other East Asian nations complicate the picture. As America continues to participate and extend its influence in the dynamic Asian market, there may be no more suitable ally than its old antagonist, ...
Mass Transit: Could Raising Fares Increase Rid ...
Conventional wisdom dictates that keeping transit fares as low as possible will promote high ridership levels. That isn't entirely incorrect. Holding all else constant, raising fares would have a negative impact on ridership. But allowing the market to set transit fares, when coupled with a num ...
Social Market Housing for the USA: Dream or Ni ...
Imagine a future America where the home ownership rate climbs from the current 65%1 to 87%2. Libertarians as well as many social democrats would be cheering. Imagine that this rate was achieved by the state itself acting as the builder of 88%3 of the housing. Imagine also that the state i ...
Is Industrial Strife a Sign of Housing Stress?
Industrial disputes – including a spate of on and off again strikes at national carrier Qantas – are becoming once again a frequent feature of the Australian media. Unions are pushing for wage rises in the face of the falling buying power of the fixed wage (as costs of living rise). Those wa ...

GM Watch

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

spiked

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

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...
Trouble
The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead. Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008. Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen. Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse? Yes. The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken? The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement. It is an ...

Desertification

Tackling the challenges of desertification in ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://allafrica.com/stories/201111240623.html Nigeria: FG, Northern Frontline States Dialogue On Desertification Alex Abutu – 24 November 2011 Commissioners of environment from 11 northern frontline states have presented a resolution to the f ...
A three-year anti-desertification program (Goo ...
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.abb.com/cawp/seitp202/80ba2a484a447c6148257951000cfdcf.aspx ABB continues to work with Inner Mongolia Power on anti-desertification program Phase I of program reforested over 2,600 mu of desert, supporting safe power transmission and envi ...
ICARDA NEWS
Read at : http://icardablog.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/icarda-west-asia-regional-program-project-summaries-english-arabic/ ICARDA West Asia Regional Program project summaries (English & Arabic) November 24, 2011 at 1:32 pm | Posted in Publications | Leave a comment ICARDA West Asia R ...
The rate of global warming may be less severe ...
Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111124150827.htm Climate Sensitivity to Carbon Dioxide More Limited Than Extreme Projections, Research Shows ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2011) — A new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may ...
Urban Farming is booming (City Farmer News)
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/24/aspiring-urban-farmers-can-now-apply-for-the-beginning-urban-farmer-apprenticeship-program/ Aspiring urban farmers can now apply for the Beginning Urban Farmer Apprenticeship program Linked by Michael Levenston VIDEO SEEN AT : http://youtu.be/lmSTZ ...

The Paper Trail

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

backofthebook.ca

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

libcom

Greece: Molotov Attack on Police
jump-throw_1786061i.jpg Thessaloniki, Greece 17-11-11 During protests commemorating the 1973 fall of the military Junta, riots broke out near the Polytechnic University in Thessaloniki, Greece. ...
General Strike in Portugal.
portugal-general-strike.jpg A 24-hour strike in Portugal against proposed austerity measures has grounded flights and halted public transport. Hundreds of thousands of workers took part in the action, ...
We cannot stay homeless!
parma.jpg Following their evictions, six families have occupied empty housing in Parma, Italy and are refusing to leave. Below is a translation of a statement from the 'Parma Housing Rights Netwo ...
Atlanta Anti-Police March Nov. 21
atlcopproblem.jpg The ongoing and escalating campaign against the police, in Atlanta, continues. Tonight, Atlanta's campaign against the police continues. read more
St. Louis, MO, USA: N17 March Against Austerit ...
6356083443_1721b97494_o.jpg It should be clear that before the Occupy movement, there has always been a struggle against the rich, against the 1%, against capitalism, against whatever you want to call ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Life in a carbon neutral world…
There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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Green Spring Cleaning!
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Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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Getting real about energy production & reduction
Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.
Brendan Shanahan, NHL VP, Player Safefty (Oct ...
He played 21 years in the NHL, now, Brendan Shanahan is the league's senior VP of player safety, and he's making his mark in a way that may change the very way the game is played.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the ...
NATO's invasion of Libya was about corporatism, not the safety of the Libyan people.
Why Was al-Awlaki Denied His Constitutional Ri ...
Everyone understands that Anwar al-Awlaki was denied his constitutional rights as an American citizen. The question is, why?
A Return to the Gold Standard is a Must
The gold standard is not only constitutional, it is necessary to cure what's ailing our economy.
Revisionism is Alive and Well
In the final analysis, Ronald Reagan was a big government liberal.
Will Hurricane Irene be a Blessing in Disguise?
Bastiat is correct, Krugman is wrong, destruction is not a boon to the economy.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

No, Really, Iran Isn't Developing Nuclear Weapons
No matter how you look at it, the evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons just doesn't exist.
Do U.S. Special Operations Forces Really Cross ...
Does JSOC itself actually carry out missions in Iran in tandem with Iranian resistance forces?
Barak's Flagging Iran Xenophobia Enrages Israe ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak may not be as gung-ho to attack Iran as thought.
Droning On
The CIA's drone war in Pakistan is setting precedents that will one day come back to haunt America.
Israel's Quiet War with Iran
The question is not whether Israel will attack Iran -- it already has.

Law.com

Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

Iran threatens to strike Turkey, if US and Isr ...
A senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday that the country will target NATO’s missile defense installations in Turkey if the US and Israel attack the Islamic Republic, the Associated Press reported. In a new strategic response to what Iran views as an increase in threats ...
مشاور عالی خامنه‌ای: ما باید جنگ را آغاز کنیم
حیی رحیم صفوی، دستیار و مشاور عالی نظامی علی خامنه‌ای با بیان اینکه «دشمنان ایران همانند سگ‌های هاری هستند که باید با چوب بر سر آنان زد» گفته است که جمهوری اسلامی باید دست از تهدیدهای شعاری بردارد و با یک تهدید عملی و یک «استراتژی هجومی» به مقابله با «دشمن» برود.read more
The Iranian threat
A few excerpts: "They are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran," according to Dan Plesch, director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London. "US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran i ...
قهوه خانه‌ها نمی توانند قلیان داشته باشند
وزیر بهداشت گفت: بر اساس مصوبه ستاد کنترل و مبارزه با دخانیات که در کمیسیون اجتماعی دولت نیز رای آورده است نمی‌توانند قلیان را در قهوه خانه‌ها داشته باشند.
چند ایرانی عکس‌های برهنه خود را منتشر کردند
چند ایرانی، از جمله یک نویسنده، یک هنرمند و یک بلاگر، عکس‌های برهنه خود را در حمایت از از علیاء ماجدة المهدی، دختر وبلاگ‌نویس مصری، منتشر کرده‌اند.

Most Revolutionary Act

Fairy Tale Economics
Unpacking the Lies About the Global Economic Crisis The only way I know to make sense of the global economic crisis is to assume, until proven otherwise, that everything Obama, Wall Street and the corporate media tell us is a lie. The economy Obama, US Treasury Secretary Tim G ...
What Defines Class Orientation?
(My 4th and last post about the ability of OWS to expand into the traditional working class) Why Do Some Kids Develop a Sense of Privilege? I have always found class orientation to center around the presence or absence of a sense of privilege. By privilege, I mean an inherent belief common to th ...
OWS Demographics and Privilege
(This is the 3rd of 4 blogs on the relationship of OWS to the traditional working class.) Young OWS protestors tell a variety of personal stories. Some are new college graduates who have spent sixteen years of their life preparing for professional careers that no longer exist. Some are high scho ...
How the Working Class Vanished from Progressiv ...
(This is the 2nd of 4 blogs about the effect of OWS on the traditional working class.) If OWS comes to be seen as a movement run predominantly by and for the working class, it will be the first grassroots movement to do so since the Great Depression. The last major mass movement during the Vietn ...
Is the OWS Movement Working Class?
There is heated debate across the political spectrum whether OWS represents a genuine working class movement. The issue is vitally important, both to social change activists and the political elite. It will determine whether OWS succeeds in engaging the 80% of the population who spend their enti ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

How should we design the cities of our dreams?
New York has turned large swaths of Broadway over to bikes, benches and cafes. Los Angeles is going all-in on a plan to turn its car-addicted populace into rail commuters. And Minneapolis, the frostiest city of the Frost Belt, is creating a sophisticated citywide bike trail system that has made ...
Conservatives dominate religious advocacy in D.C.
A Pew study released this week shows that the growing number of religious advocacy groups in Washington spent nearly $400 million last year to influence public policy.The groups are ideologically diverse, but data collected by Pew shows that conservative groups tend to have the biggest budgets:F ...
The Iran-contra scandal, 25 years later
It has been 25 years since President Ronald Reagan stepped up to the microphone in the White House press room and made the announcement that launched one of the greatest scandals in modern American politics. Reagan announced that his administration had sent “small amounts of defense weapons and ...
Kill the zombie banks!
The reason most people today are so scared of zombies could be a fluke of translation. The idea of the flesh-eating zombie depicted in modern-day books and movies originates from a 5,000-year-old epic, in which the goddess of love asks the father of gods to create a drought to punish the man who ...
Black Friday: Consumerism minus civilization
Here's a Thanksgiving recipe guaranteed to deliver a nervous breakdown impervious to even the most bleeding-edge psychopharmaceutical wonder drug. Go to YouTube, search for "Black Friday commercials," start watching, and then, once you've sated yourself on grown men screaming at Justin Bieber, r ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Focus on the children
Dalton McGuinty is on the right track in his bid to have provinces deliver education to native children.
How to revive Canada’s dream of social democracy
The late social policy pioneer Tom Kent say there is still scope for enhanced social programs.
New tactics in an old fight
More than 600,000 of Canada’s kids still live in poverty.
Backyard egg bonanza
Two councillors are calling for a strategy to legalize the urban chicken.
Less food for the buck
Many food products are now being sold in smaller packages. The price, however, remains the same.

Energy Collective

Trade Dispute Poses Dangers for Residential Solar?
You may have heard or read about the trade dispute brought before the US Department of Commerce between Solar World and Chinese panel manufacturers.
Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves A Commun ...
West Virginia is home to one of the most destructive coal mining practices in the world--mountaintop removal--a process that blows up pristine mountains to lay bare the bituminous coal below. But a new fossil fuel Gold Rush has hit the Mountain State; fracking for natura ...
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 ...

EU Times

Bankers Have Seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has ...
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled soverei ...
Three more European tourists abducted and one ...
Reports from Mali say three Europeans have been kidnapped and a fourth killed at Timbuktu in the north of the country. The information comes from a Malian government source. The person killed is said to be German; the others’ nationalities are from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, offic ...
New Mars Rover Launched by NASA
NASA has launched Atlas 5 rocket carrying the nuclear-powered rover, Curiosity, which is the world`s largest extraterrestrial explorer to Mars. The six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover left Florida on Saturday at 15:02 GMT, the state-funded BBC reported. The one-ton rover is planned to search Ma ...
Pakistan to completely review ties with US
Pakistan says it is reviewing its relations with the US and NATO and has taken “urgent action” after a NATO attack on Friday killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. A key Afghan border has been sealed and the US ordered to quit an air-base in the country. NATO helicopters allegedly fired on a checkpoint ...
Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian ...
Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

The Wales manager Gary Speed has passed away
Wales manager and former midfielder Gary Speed was found hanged at his home in Chester this morning. Police say there are no doubtful circumstances’ surrounding the 42 year old’s death. The family has appeal that they are left in peace to grieve at this hard time. A family tribute will be relea ...
The climate hope that’s disappearing in Durban
from Sunday Herald, 27 November 2011 So here we are again. Another big world summit on climate change, another set of desperate hopes and promises, and another feeling that we’re heading for a fall. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( ...
Puma Agree New Lucrative Kit Deal With Newcastle
News in the Sunday Mirror today that Newcastle United have struck a lucrative new kit deal with existing sponsors Puma. That’s a little bit of a surprise since the news is that Nike are in negotiations to get the naming rights to St. James’ Park for around £10M a year, and we thought they’d als ...
America's Pakistan Mess Gets Worse
America's relationship with Pakistan is crashing. Decades of mistrust and duplicity on both sides are coming to the surface. The Pakistani Army has an agenda that is at odds with ours. At bottom, we are on opposite sides of the war in Afghanistan, and that poisons everything. The death of two d ...
Bears vs Raiders – 5 Questions with Just Blog Baby
The Bears head to The Black Hole in Oakland to face off with the AFC West leading Raiders. It’s going to be a tough road for the Bears with Caleb Hanie at the control while Jay Cutler recuperates from surgery to piece his right thumb back together. To help us get prepped for the Raiders, we e ...

Groklaw

Holiday Gift List for Patent Attorneys and the ...
I have not tried this one -- The Celluon Magic Cube Laser Projection Keyboard and Touchpad. This futuristic device works according to independent reviews that I read. The idea is that a little device wirelessly connects to your computer, phone, or tablet and then uses a laser to project a work ...
Australia Appeals Judge Questions Fairness of ...
"The result looks terribly fair to Apple and not terribly fair to Samsung," Federal Court Justice Lindsay Foster said [Friday] at a hearing in Sydney on Samsung's appeal for the ban to be overturned. Federal Court Justice Annabelle Bennett issued an injunction Oct. 13 barring the sale of the Ga ...
Student builds 800-yuan 'iPad' for girlfriend
"The main board, video card, CPU and screen were all from the old laptop, but I bought the touch screen and battery online," Wei said.... "This is the best gift I've ever had, and I will keep it forever," she said. - China Daily
Data Usage Threatens Privacy Online and Off, E ...
Envision OpenPlanet, a hypothetical program that could patch together every surveillance camera in the world and pair it with Facebook's facial recognition software to create a perpetual video timeline database for each Facebook user. Would this violate the Fourth Amendment as an unreasonable se ...
Yahoo Cuts Off Another Group of Ad Players, In ...
Still, the move is clearly meant to strip out another layer of middlemen between Yahoo and the people who buys its ads. And it is ideologically aligned with the company's move to spearhead an alliance with competitors AOL and Microsoft, which is supposed to give all three of them the ability to ...

WideShut

November 21, 2011, WideShut Webcast
Keelan discusses the arrest of Gaddafi's son, the Euro Crisis, Global Warming alarmism, Monsanto and more.
Flu Jab Secrecy: 11/07/2011 WideShut Webcast
This week: The secrecy surrounding the seasonal flu jab and its contents, and Miliband jumps on Occupy.
Israel Poised To Strike Iran
Despite no evidence that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, Israel is poised to launch an attack and the West is ready to go along with it.
Euro Crisis, China, Occupy: 10/31/2011 WideShu ...
Keelan discusses the EU crisis, China & the New World Order, the latest from Occupy and more.
Freed Libya Adopts Sharia Law, Gaddafi Loyalis ...
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Politics in the Zeros

Jaguar sighted in Cochise, AZ
Arizona Daily Star Jaguars were thought to be virtually extinct in the US but a highly experienced hunter and guide treed and photographed one before it escaped. “All my dogs took a pretty good beating. They had puncture wounds. … I got to see it in real life, and I’m glad, but ...
Solar power cosiness?
BrightSource Energy, the California solar power plant builder, largely backed by President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy Jr., was granted a 1.4 billion dollar bailout through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official .
Extreme Black Friday shopping comes to reality TV
Cable TV is all abuzz with exciting news about potential reality shows based around Black Friday shopping and roller derby. Shoppers are given pepper spray and shopping carts, which they can weaponize. The bargains will be way in the back of the store. Aisles will be strategically blocked or mad ...
su.pr is super
su.pr is part of Stumbleupon and allows posting in advance to Twitter, Facebook, and to Stumble itself. It has a useful feature that after a few days will tell you the best time to post,which is usually late afternoon or so. I’m getting increased hits using it. Another bonus: The post doe ...
Brussels forcing Greek money in Switzerland ba ...
Bruce Krasting A move is being made in Brussels to “force” the Swiss government/ banks to transfer all of the assets of Greek citizens back to the Greek banks. For a Greek this means that your money is hostage. It has been functionally expropriated. It will be transferred into a ban ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

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

frogblog

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

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

Help Your Heart: 71% of Those Who Drank This L ...
By Dr. Mercola I have long been a fan of coconut oil as one of the most health promoting of all plant-based fats. I have spent nearly 15 winters in Hawaii where fresh coconuts off the tree are readily available. Coconut oil comes from the "meat" of the coconut. But today, I'd like to sh ...
The Medical Miracle You'll Get Arrested for Using
By Dr. Mercola Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time. Yet, in 1970, the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance and labeled as a drug with a "high potential for abuse" and "no accepted medical use." Thre ...
These 2 Mistakes Can Make You Hungrier and Fat ...
By Dr. Stephanie Seneff Just about everyone in America is convinced of two well-established tenets for how to live a long and healthy life: Eat a low-fat diet Avoid the damaging rays of the sun These two tenets, taken together, are extremely bad medical advice, and that the c ...
How Big Pharma Fools Even Your Doctor
By Dr. Mercola One of the more flagrant offenses committed by pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession is the practice of "ghostwriting" medical articles. A new cross-sectional survey found that more than 20 percent of articles published in six leading medical journals during 200 ...
Supermarket Outrage: Psychological Traps Make ...
By Dr. Mercola Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008, people everywhere have tightened their belts and cut down on spending, including slicing their food budgets. But supermarkets employ all kinds of strategies to get you to spend more money, and food manufacturers are applying eve ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...
New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yan ...
New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil © Hutukara/Survival Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. Survival International, ...
Leader's last words: "Take care of this land"
Nísio Gomes's last words were to his son. © Survival The last words of Nísio Gomes, the Guarani leader assassinated yesterday in southern Brazil, were to his son Valmir: ‘Don’t leave this place. Take care of this land with courage. This is our land. Nobody will drag you from it. Look a ...
Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader i ...
Nísio Gomes, a Guarani shaman shot dead by gunmen, in a photo taken just two days ago. © Survival Survival has developing news from Brazil, where masked gunmen have today executed an Indian religious leader in front of his community. Gunmen surrounded Nísio Gomes, ordering his community to ...
Indigenous spokesman dismissed from Brazilian ...
Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © Terence Turner Megaron Txucarramãe, an indigenous spokesman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been dismissed from his post in the government’s Indian Affairs Department, FUNAI. Megaron, of the Kayapó tribe, has stated that his dis ...

Montreal Gazette

Ottawa gives $1.3B in severance to workers who ...
Every weekday morning, fleets of buses carry federal government workers from Gatineau across the river to their jobs in Ottawa.
Rhetoric over Caisse's anglo bosses is overblown
It was very bad optics indeed for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to have two senior managers at the Montreal head-quarters of its real-estate subsidiary, Ivanhoe Cambridge, out-ed as unilingual anglos.
The Gazette's view, in short
Laura Secord might be best known in this day as the name of a candy store chain, but she would stand tall as an iconic Canadian heroine even if not a single chocolate truffle was ever sold in her name.
Bare bones advice for success
The following is an abridged version of a Convocation address delivered Tuesday by Kathy Reichs to Concordia University graduates at Place des Arts, on the occasion of her being awarded an honorary doctorate by the university.
Routine breast-screening is not a panacea
For women who have been brought up with the idea that routine breast-screening could save their lives, it is frightening to be told that the scientific community has changed its mind and now recommends against routine screening.

Food World Order

reducing holiday food waste
from upi: Food wasted in the United States annually could satisfy the hunger of the estimated 1 billion malnourished people worldwide, a food waste expert says. Tristram Stuart -- a food waste expert and contributing author to State of the World 2011 of the Worldwatch Institute -- said some simp ...
eu bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
from telegraph: Brussels bureaucrats were ridiculed yesterday after banning drink manufacturers from claiming that water can prevent dehydration. EU officials concluded that, following a three-year investigation, there was no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact. Producers of bottled ...
11/24 binge & purge: the high cost of high prices
video: study says thanksgiving to cost more* oregon food bank raises more than $500,000 at gala* video: obamas pay visit to food bank* food banks low for thanksgiving crunch* video: food bank asking for final donations*
bpa levels soar after eating canned soup
soaring bpa levels found in people who eat canned foods from cbs: Talk about stirring up controversy. A new study shows that the urine of people who consume canned soup can contain surprisingly high levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a hormone-disrupting compound linked to health problems includ ...
oregon tops nation in food stamp use
from kezi: Oregon has the highest percentage of people on food stamps in the nation. A newly released U.S. Census survey reports 18 percent of Oregonians said they rely on a federal program for food. Food stamp use in Oregon surged 23 percent last year and has doubled in the past four years. Sup ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...
Trouble
The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead. Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008. Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen. Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse? Yes. The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken? The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement. It is an ...

CASSE

Ten Turkeys for Thanksgiving
Brent Blackwelder urges you to carve up a Golden Fleece Turkey or two.
Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare
Good and bads, wealth and illth -- economic growth produces them all. But how big are the bads and how damaging is the illth?
Presenting the Economic Policy of the Occupy M ...
Occupiers need to unite around a macroeconomic goal -- and the right goal is a steady state economy.
The Tyranny of Comfort
America is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of comfort.
How to Turn the Power of the Wall Street Prote ...
A "repatriation holiday" would be good for well-to-do CEOs and investors, not so good for workers and taxpayers.

The Talking Clock

When MSM hit-pieces backfire: Hundreds descend ...
Oh dear. The Daily Mail really has become the Daily Fail. While we quite often like reading some of their articles, when they get things wrong and misjudge their audience... it's shit and fan time. And so it was that, on the day the Daily Mail took it's cue from The Sun and attempted to ge ...
Thatcher and the sick minds of 'the left'
In a curious twist of fate today, the Daily Mail reveals that there are plans for a state funeral honour for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - news that comes on the same day as plainly wrong rumours of her passing have circulated. The rumours, which achieved some traction on some soc ...
Watch out, that darn "racist" Christmas is about
Good grief. What kind of people do we have living in this country, when something as simple and as beautiful as this... is subjected to a debate about 'racism' on YouTube: Seriously, I kid you not. Head over to YouTube and look through the comments yourself. A touching Christmas advert f ...
Quote of the Day: 23rd November 2011
"There can be no concept of the national interest within the EU because the whole aim of Brussels is to obliterate individual nations. Our only hope for national survival is to leave the EU. If we stay we will become nothing more than a despised colonial province of a German-run empire. Seven ...
Abandon London, all ye Cockney Sparras... the ...
You may have seen 'conspiracy theory' websites which claim that something called "Project Bluebeam" - a sinister shadowy Government project - is likely to stage a false flag alien invasion over London to coincide with the Olympic Games next year. Utter b*ll*cks, you might say. Maybe. Though s ...

Facing South

Cain revamps 9-9-9 tax plan, but it still hurt ...

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income A ...
U.S. oil companies, security contractors look ...

American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya. read more
Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...

As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
As all-out attack cont ...
3 reasons why Art Pope deserves all the media ...

North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight t ...
More cutbacks in legal services for the poor i ...

North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public need ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Today on New Scientist: 25 November 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: blinged-out stars were born rich and 'werewolf birds' hook up by the full moon
Moody gibbon wins BIAZA photography award
A pensive portrait of a male gibbon at the Bristol Zoo scooped an award for an amateur photographer
Paralympian is not alone in regaining ability ...
Monique van der Vorst won't be competing in the Paralympic Games because she has regained the use of her legs – a surprisingly common occurrence
Today on New Scientist: 24 November 2011
All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: bias rules the way we judge the world and dry ice performs a sublime dance
Dry ice performs a sublime dance
See a piece of solid carbon dioxide creating striking patterns in water as it sublimates

Tech Drive In

"Android Started Before iPhone": How True is That?
How much Apple's founder Steve Jobs hated Android is evident from his last conversations with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs claimed that Android was a rip-off of Apple's iOS and that he will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, to destroy And ...
20 Most Highly Rated Applications to Install f ...
Many long-term Ubuntu users(including me) overlook at the fact that, there are plenty of good quality applications available free of cost in Ubuntu Software Center already. If you look at our reviews of applications here, a good number of them require adding and updating third party repositori ...
3 Interesting Ubuntu Unity Mobile Mockups
User created ideas and concepts have always been an hallmark of popular Linux based distors like Ubuntu. We have featured such awesome works by loyal users, ranging from awe inspiring Ubuntu Unity mockups to professional looking LibreOffice mockups. Shuttleworth, ...
5 Things I Would Like to See Improved in Ubunt ...
Ubuntu Software Center had a complete makeover recently. But I have to admit, even with all those changes, it still feels unfinished. In our earlier Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot review, we did shared our concern with the unfinished nature of Ubuntu Software Center and had promised a more elabor ...
Why Protect IP is Bad? [Video, Infographic]
The title of the video goes something like this - Protect IP breaks the Internet - and that pretty much sums it up. Quoting EFF, "The Internet Blacklist Legislation - known as PROTECT IP Act in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House - is a threatening sequel to last year's C ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

Implantable Microchips and Cyborgs are No Long ...
Brandon Turbeville Activist Post For years, many have mocked the idea of implantable microchips and cyborgs as both conspiracy theories and science fiction. Anyone who so much as mentioned these possibilities to their neighbor risked being labeled either as a religious fanatic or delusional and ...
Climategate 2: feeding the public “crap”
Andrew Bolt Sunday, November 27, 2011 at 12:06am You will need to follow this carefully, but Steve McIntyre demonstrates a disgraceful example of how the “team” of climate scientists most responsible for the global warming scare knowingly published “crap” and kept secret their reservations about ...
Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global W ...
James Taylor A new batch of 5,000 emails among scientists central to the assertion that humans are causing a global warming crisis were anonymously released to the public yesterday, igniting a new firestorm of controversy nearly two years to the day after similar emails ignited the Climategate s ...
Climategate 2.0: New E-Mails Rock The Global W ...
By James Taylor More than revealing misconduct and improper motives, the newly released emails additionally reveal frank admissions of the scientific shortcomings of global warming assertions. “Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one ...
Yes, Virginia, there really are government con ...
By Mike Rivero Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the induced blindness of the mainstream media. They do not believe except they see it on television or hear it over the radio. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. Yes, ...

Veterans Today

Bipartisan Deal to Slash Medicare and Medicaid
It's been planned for years. Republicans want them eliminated. Democrats agreed to incremental cuts to make ending core social contract programs look normal. Slashing Social Security comes later.
25 Million U.S. Unemployed And Underemployed
Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes.
When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with ...
For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal.
Hundreds Sign Up 4 Veterans Hotline
” Veterans911.com Hotline prepares to Open” by Ken Smith Again, It’s a truly a remarkable idea. “Veterans Helping Veterans” “Over 300 sign up to volunteer say director O’Brien” As my readers already know, I volunteer once a mo ...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Nove ...
The Senate will vote next week on whether to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut that is set to expire at the end of the year, President Obama said Tuesday, although Republican opposition seems likely to doom it." Meanwhile, the "only bipartisan-supported piece of Obama's jobs package - w ...

electric politics

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

PR News

Dunkin' Donuts plans Black Friday Twitter prom ...
CANTON, MA: Dunkin' Donuts will host a live Twitter promotion on Black Friday to reward fans and mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season.
Qorvis appoints Frank MD
WASHINGTON: Qorvis Communications has hired Ayal Frank as MD and its first in-house lobbyist.
Ketchum hires Bartholomew for digital, social ...
DALLAS: Ketchum has hired Don Bartholomew as SVP of digital and social media research for its Global Research Network.
Duracell launches holiday 'insurance' campaign
BETHEL, CT: Duracell is giving parents tips and tools to navigate the holiday season through its "Holiday Insurance Program" campaign.
Glidden Paint issues RFP for first PR AOR
STRONGSVILLE, OH: AkzoNobel Paints has issued an RFP in search of an AOR for its Glidden Paint brand.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Last chance for Canada's most endangered species?
Environmental groups petition Minister Kent for emergency sage-grouse protection Alberta Wilderness Association 24 Nov 2011 ...
Saving the Greater sage-grouse from extinction
Ecojustice Posted to the Ecojustice website on November 23: This morning, Ecojustice filed a petition to federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, calling on him to help protect the Greater sage-grouse, an endangered bird on th ...
Federal government must prevent extinction of ...
Ecojustice 23 Nov 2011 VANCOUVER — An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal environment minister to take Canada’s endangered Grea ...
2012 Mayor's Environment Expo— Showcase School ...
Deadline: 16 Dec 2011 (All day) Organization: The City of Calgary The City of Calgary will b ...
Call for Input: Consultation on wind-power gen ...
Organization: Alberta Utilities Commission Initiative: Consultation on wind-power generation regulatory permitting ...

Stop NATO

Stop NATO news: November 27, 2011
==== NATO Forces Attack Pakistani Soil NATO Reveals Troops Were On The Ground In Pakistan Pakistan Orders U.S. To Shut Down Major Air Base NATO Attack: U.S. Given 15 Days To Vacate Pakistani Air Base Pakistani Opposition Leader Strongly Condemns NATO Iran To Target NATO Missile Site In Turkey If ...
D.H.Lawrence: Future War, Murderous Weapons, R ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts D.H.Lawrence Future War After our industrial civilisation has broken, and the civilisation of touch has begun war will cease, there will be no more wars. The heart of man, in so far as it is budding, is budding warless and budding ...
Stop NATO news: November 26, 2011
==== Nuclear Carrier Leads U.S. Strike Force Into Syrian Waters NATO Conceals Preparations For Military Action Against Syria Video And Text: Kosovo Serbs Make Last Stand Against NATO Poland: EU Military Committee Meets On Balkans, Somalia Kuwaitis Graduate From NATO Defense College NATO: Azerbai ...
Radio interview: NATO’s expanding horizons
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55918 NATO’s expanding horizons November 21st, 2011 Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff CIUT 89.5 FM The Taylor Report November 25, 2011 ==== Audio ==== Program Description: NATO is more and more becoming the center of all things in every quarter of the g ...
John Davidson: Blood in torrents pour in vain, ...
Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts John Davidson War Song (1899) In anguish we uplift A new unhallowed song: The race is to the swift; The battle to the strong. Of old it was ordained That we, in packs like curs, Some thirty million trained And licensed murderers, In cri ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

Senator Wyden Call To Arms — Ask Him To ...
YouTube November 26, 2011 http://StopCensorship.org — Sign up to have your name read during Wyden’s filibuster! The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) would ruin so much of what’s best about the Internet: They will give the government and corporations n ...
Crusades To Censor And Control ‘Your’ Internet
The Intel Hub R.F. Goggin November 26, 2011 Seems everywhere I turn these days, there is some government or corporate entity in America out to try to dictate what I may or may not see or do – as I surf the Internet. One of the chief proponents or crusaders, for example, of what for [...]
Boston Dynamics Contracted To Make First &#821 ...
The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas November 26, 2011 The Department of Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been extremely interested in robotic and cyber technology over the past few years and has now contracted Boston Dynamics to make the first Terminator-like robot fully functional. When ...
The Medical Miracle You’ll Get Arrested ...
Mercola.com By Dr. Mercola November 26, 2011 Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time. Yet, in 1970, the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance and labeled as a drug with a “high potential for abuse” ...
Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
The Economic Collapse November 26, 2011 We all knew that this was coming, didn’t we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic cr ...

FRS

from Nepal: “Red Salute ! to our Beloved ...
It is a matter of deep sorrow that the reactionary Indian government has murdered Comrade Kisanji alias Malloujula Koteswara Rao, Politburo Member of CPI (Maoist), in a fake incounter in Burishol forest area, west Midnapore District, Jangalmahal, West Bengal on 24 November 2011. He was a lead ...
Nepal: Revolutionary Maoists organize Landles ...
Squatters irked at decision to return seized property — Form struggle committee in Kailali KAILALI, NOV 24 – The UCPN (Maoist) decision to return land and property seized during the insurgency to their “rightful owners” has irked landless families squatting on a private p ...
Occupy Movement Inspires Rise in US Campus Act ...
by Noel Randewich, Reuters, November 25, 2011 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 c ...
3 Songs for an Un-Thanksgiving Weekend — ...
Buffy Sainte-Marie: No No Keshagesh from the album “Running For The Drum” on Cooking Vinyl Records, http://cookingvinyl.com/ (Keshagesh means Greedy Guts. It’s what you call a little puppy who eats his own and then wants everybody else’s.) Buffy Sainte-Marie’s “No No Kesh ...
Greece: How do you spell “technocrat&#8 ...
Austerity And Fascism In Greece – The Real 1% Doctrine By Mark Ames, CounterCurrents.org 25 November, 2011 See the guy in the photo there, dangling an ax from his left hand? That’s Greece’s new “Minister of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks” Makis Voridis captured back in the 1980s, when he ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

OMG! Text Messages Can Help Smokers Quit
Supportive text messages have been proven to be a useful smoking cessation tool.Contributor: Jaclyn Berger Published: Nov 23, 2011
Black Friday: A Worker's Point of View
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year. I had the opportunity to experience it first hand as a Best Buy employee in 2004.Contributor: Marie Brandon Published: Nov 22, 2011
Struggles Mount for Occupy Minneapolis
Minneapolis, Minn., has been home to the Occupy MN movement since October 7. However, the group has had to face more challenges as the weeks have dragged on.Contributor: Floyd Saunders Published: Nov 21, 2011
Nazi Naming Parents Lose Custody of the Fourth ...
The fourth child of Heath and Deborah Campbell, a white supremacist couple who had given their previous three children Nazi inspired names, has been seized by officials of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Nov 20, 2011
Adults Score Low in Cardiovascular Health Indexes
U.S. adults were found to have poor health behaviors related to cardiovascular healthContributor: Tom Heston MD Published: Nov 20, 2011

Popsci - Science

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

Veterans Today

Bipartisan Deal to Slash Medicare and Medicaid
It's been planned for years. Republicans want them eliminated. Democrats agreed to incremental cuts to make ending core social contract programs look normal. Slashing Social Security comes later.
25 Million U.S. Unemployed And Underemployed
Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes.
When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with ...
For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal.
Hundreds Sign Up 4 Veterans Hotline
” Veterans911.com Hotline prepares to Open” by Ken Smith Again, It’s a truly a remarkable idea. “Veterans Helping Veterans” “Over 300 sign up to volunteer say director O’Brien” As my readers already know, I volunteer once a mo ...
Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Nove ...
The Senate will vote next week on whether to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut that is set to expire at the end of the year, President Obama said Tuesday, although Republican opposition seems likely to doom it." Meanwhile, the "only bipartisan-supported piece of Obama's jobs package - w ...

War is Business

Federal Prosecutors Bust Defense Official For ...
New details in a corruption case involving a former civilian official at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command now sitting in federal prison.
A Reminder That The Post-9/11 Decade Wasn&#821 ...
Since 9/11, FLIR Systems' revenues have increased sixfold, to $1.4 billion last year. And consider FLIR’s profitability: from a $29 million loss in 2000 to a $56 million profit last year.
Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

A stormy end to November
The pattern of weather that is now establishing itself, dominated by westerly winds, is common across the UK in winter. Vigorous depressions are likely to develop in the coming days, and the strength of the wind is likely to catch the headlines. This weekend looks particularly stormy, with wi ...
End in sight to extraordinary November weather
It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
Is the solar sector facing collapse?
The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...
Satellite global temperatures fall sharply in ...
The latest global temperature anomaly for October has been released and according to the UAH measure it's fallen sharply to +0.114C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.367C above the 1961-1990 ...
Autumn warmth continues
November has started where October left off, with mild temperatures expected over the next few days as southerly winds continue. Provisional figures show October has been the 8th warmest since 1910 across the UK. The month will be remembered for the heat during the first weekend, when Yorkshi ...

Internat'l Political Economy

Marx Revisited: Overproduction & Inevitable Crises
I am teaching Marxist perspectives in International Political Economy class this week in the usual sequence of tackling it together with liberalism and mercantilism/realism. In other words, the three main perspectives in the discipline. Those with just a passing familiarity with Marxist theory p ...
All the Way to Reno: UK Gilts Outdo German Bunds
Humming...all the way to Reno You've dusted the non-believers And challenged the laws of chance Now, sweet--you're so sugar sweet You may as well have had 'kick me' Fastened on your sleeve Reno, Nevada of REM song fame is a popular gambling destination for Northern California residents alike so ...
Japan's Trading Houses Vie for Copper Supremacy
In competitive market economies, the battle for the commanding heights is conducted by corporations as well as countries. Now, Japan's massive trading houses that underpin the keiretsu system of business groups (Mitsui, Mitsubishi, etc.) have often been criticized as inefficient middlemen by Wes ...
Honest Jian's Used Cars: China's Next Auto Market
In 2009, China ended the United States nearly century-long reign as the world's largest auto market. But, we probably should add a qualifier--that's the new car market. Also, although the Chinese make some nifty products, let's just say that mostly homegrown products may not yet have similar sta ...
Yanks Foresee Yuan as World's Top Currency?
There's interesting stuff from Reuters on the contents of the just-released 2011 Annual Report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The latter body, as most of you probably know, was created by the US congress in 2000 with some foresight that China was becoming an ...

Economic Collapse Blog

Black Friday Violence Worse Than Ever As Ameri ...
We all knew that this was coming, didn't we? Each year Black Friday violence just seems to get worse and worse. What does it say about American consumers when they are willing to fight like crazed animals just to save a few bucks on cheap plastic crap made in China? Not that r ...
Trouble
The global economy is heading for a massive amount of trouble in the months ahead. Right now we are seeing the beginning of a credit crunch that is shaping up to be very reminiscent of what we saw back in 2008. Investors and big corporations are pulling huge amounts of money ou ...
25 Bitter And Painful Facts About The Coming B ...
For decades we were warned that when the Baby Boomers started to retire that this country would be facing a retirement crisis of unprecedented magnitude. Well, that day has arrived ladies and gentlemen. Back on January 1st, the Baby Boomers began to retire and more than 10,000 ...
17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Co ...
Is the world on the verge of another massive global financial collapse? Yes. The western world is drowning in an ocean of debt unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and our financial markets are gigantic casinos that are dependent on huge mountains of risk and leverag ...
Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken? The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement. It is an ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...
Want to get your zine, pamphlet, or poster out ...
Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...

E U Times

Bankers Have Seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has ...
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold the troubled soverei ...
Three more European tourists abducted and one ...
Reports from Mali say three Europeans have been kidnapped and a fourth killed at Timbuktu in the north of the country. The information comes from a Malian government source. The person killed is said to be German; the others’ nationalities are from the Netherlands, South Africa and Sweden, offic ...
New Mars Rover Launched by NASA
NASA has launched Atlas 5 rocket carrying the nuclear-powered rover, Curiosity, which is the world`s largest extraterrestrial explorer to Mars. The six-wheeled, one-armed robotic rover left Florida on Saturday at 15:02 GMT, the state-funded BBC reported. The one-ton rover is planned to search Ma ...
Pakistan to completely review ties with US
Pakistan says it is reviewing its relations with the US and NATO and has taken “urgent action” after a NATO attack on Friday killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. A key Afghan border has been sealed and the US ordered to quit an air-base in the country. NATO helicopters allegedly fired on a checkpoint ...
Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian ...
Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

2011-11-26 #WikiLeaks News: WikiLeaks to enter ...
Tweet I believe that there are extreme "public interest" grounds, given that the case is entirely political. (…) This is a very important issue, not just for me personally because Julian is my son, but for the future of democracy. - Christine Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a ...
Occupy Movement, Birth of the Ordinary Hero #OWS
TweetOccupy Wall Street (OWS) began in September and quickly spread, becoming a unifying force worldwide. This movement was initially ignored and ridiculed by the US corporate media. Yet as it grew, it became harder to ignore. Repeated police brutality against peaceful protesters has pulled the ...
2011-11-25 Help Stop the Eviction of Occupy Lo ...
TweetMayor Villaraigosa & Police Chief Charlie Beck announced today at a afternoon press conference that the LAPD would forcefully throw Occupy Los Angeles off of the park areas surrounding Los Angeles City Hall Monday, November 28th at 12:01am. This move is being made although there have be ...
2011-11-25 #WikiLeaks News: Cardin bill would ...
Tweet At the heart of the problem with the European arrest warrant is the inability or unwillingness of Europe's judges to prevent injustice. - Fair Trials International This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of informa ...
The Guardian's Vendetta Against Julian Assange
TweetEver since Britain's The Guardian newspaper co-operated with WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange to publish the greatest document leaks in history, they have pursued a relentless smear campaign against him. As Assange's likely extradition to Sweden looms, this campaign has now ramped u ...

U N News

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

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

The Rich Get Richer Off the Backs of the Poor
• (http://twitter.com/share) The boys in the suspenders figure out a new way to manufacture money
Euromonia Infects Australia
• (http://twitter.com/share) The Lucky Country’s international money flows dry up
A Sommelier's Great Singaporean Restaurant
• (http://twitter.com/share) Iggy's
The Scandal of India's Human Rights
• (http://twitter.com/share) Activists are too often killed, ‘disappeared’ or intimidated
Malaysia's Civil Liberties Vow Under Fire
• (http://twitter.com/share) Government delivers a carrot, tables a stick in parliament

We Know the Lies

Cell Phones Are Tracking Devices!... Your Move ...
If you regularly carry a cell phone around with you, you might as well say goodbye to your privacy. The truth is that any cell phone you buy is going to track you wherever you go 24 hours a day. Just as you leave "footprints" wherever you go on the Internet, so also your c ...
The 12 Days of CHEMTRAILS
See lyrics... read more
Christmas Ideas But Little or No Money?... Tra ...
If you think you can’t afford to get nice things, think again... Through the magic of bartering, you can offer your services or even old stuff you don’t want anymore, and in return, get items and services that you do want. In most cases, money never even exchanges hands! read more
The Return of Vladimir Putin... Not Good News ...
If you want to learn the mood of the Kremlin, you need only watch Russian television. Even privately owned channels tend to be owned by close allies of Vladimir Putin, and such is certainly the case with REN TV, the chairman of which is Lyubov Sovershaeva, previously Putin's deputy e ...
Executive Order 13575... The United Nations Ag ...
Obama recently signed EO 13575, establishing the White House Rural Council. The council is a list of the most aggressive agencies and departments in the US government. The all-inclusive council members represent the very agencies and departments most dedicated to for ...

Tarpley

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

Modern Survivalism

How To Be Prepared When You’re Dead Broke
If you’re broke but breathing, you’re still eating, because you’re not dead. The best first thing that you can do in the predicament of being ‘dead broke’ while wanting to ‘be prepared’, is to adjust your eating / food-purchase habits so that you can acq ...
Be Prepared
image: scouting.org ‘Be Prepared‘ is an underlying theme of many posts on this website and is a (the) goal after having accessed the risks that surround you, both near and far. The Scout Motto happens to be BE PREPARED which means you are always in a state of readiness in mind and bo ...
Cell Phone Tracking In A Mall Near You?
image: pathintelligence.com A sign of things to come will be the tracking of ‘patterns of movement’ this Holiday Season while shoppers move about from store to store in two specific US shopping malls, the Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmon ...
Are US Banks Headed Off A Cliff?
The nation’s 2nd largest lender, Bank of America, has been warned by US regulators that the company could face a ‘public enforcement action’ if the bank doesn’t take immediate steps to ‘strengthen the bank’, a statement which apparently rattled the bank’ ...
Survival Preparedness for Winter Weather
Winter Weather Preparedness Here are a few tips to be prepared for big winter weather storms this year. Before the winter storms hit, check the following preparedness items for your home… food supply your ‘everyday’ needs that you have (medical? other daily needs?) LED flashlig ...

Fast Company

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

Jadaliyya

A Voter's Checklist for the Egyptian Elections
A Voter’s Checklist for the Egyptian Elections What you need choose? As a voter you are expected to choose: Two individual candidates to represent you One list that you feel represents you Who can I choose from the individual candidates? You may choose any individual ca ...
قراءة في الانتخابات المغربية في سياقيها الإقلي ...
ينظم المغرب انتخابات سابقة لأوانها اليوم الجمعة في سياق وطني وإقليمي ودولي مفصلي. الحديث عن انتخابات 25 نوفمبر يستتبع الحديث عن الظروف المحلية والاقليمية والدولية التي عجلت بها وجعلتها ممكنة رغم أن كل المؤشرات القادمة من البلد كانت تنبئ بالعكس حتى بعد انتكاسة انتخابات سنة 200 ...
فلسفة اللاسلطوية وثقافة الثورة
الثورات الناجحة في التاريخ هي الثورات التي تغير الانسان وليس فقط انظمة الحكم. والثورات التنويريّة يمكن أن تُسمّى كذلك لأنها لا تُطيح بنظام حكم بقدر ما تُطيح بعقلية وثقافة سلطويّة مُنتشرة في المجتمع. ومن هذا المنظور يمكن القول بان النتائج الثقافية للثورات العربية الحالية لا يمكن رؤي ...
On the Fast-Track to An Electoral Train Wreck
Since the very start of the current wave of renewed unrest in Egypt, the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has repeatedly insisted that the country’s parliamentary elections—scheduled to start on Monday 28 October and run through January 2012 in three regional rounds—woul ...
Egyptian Social Democratic Party Pulls Out of ...
Unable to trust that the SCAF can ensure next week's elections are transparent, Social Democrats call for a National Salvation government to oversee the transition of power. The Egyptian Social Democratic Party has pulled out of next week's parliamentary elections and demanded a swift t ...

mediagazer

N.H. Union Leader backs Gingrich (Rachel Strei ...
Rachel Streitfeld / CNN: N.H. Union Leader backs Gingrich — Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - New Hampshire's largest newspaper has endorsed Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination. — The New Hampshire Union Leader's Sunday editorial says the ...
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons ...
Om Malik / GigaOM: My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Ten years is a long time. Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade. I would have to ...
As pressure builds on media, sports shine on ( ...
Reuters: As pressure builds on media, sports shine on — (Reuters) - Amid a global economic environment plagued by debt, joblessness and recession fears, an unlikely haven has emerged for investors in the form of media companies that own sports rights. — It's ...
A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won ...
Ryan Chittum / CJR: A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won't Hear it — The paper runs a flawed column and declines to publish the retraction — A year and a half ago, George Mason University economics professor Daniel B. Klein wrote a column about his ...
How a small Kentucky newspaper ended up runnin ...
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: How a small Kentucky newspaper ended up running a Huffington Post story — The Huffington Post is, in the minds of some journalists, the web's bad guy, a nemesis that subverts the norms of legacy media, soaking up other people's work in the ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

Amazon's Lightning Deals for games on Sun ...
It looks like Amazon will continue with daily Lightning Deals for its Cyber Monday deals week as the online retailer has revealed the scheduled deals for Sunday, November 27. The deals for Sunday are fairly light with more niche titles for the Wii, 3DS, DS, PSP and PC. You can keep track of ...
Aamir Khan speaks out against smoking ban ...
Aamir Khan has spoken out against the Indian Government's ban on smoking in films. According to " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">The Times of India, Khan argues that The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's recent policy on on-screen tobacco smoking - that it can only be shown with discla ...
Saif Ali Khan denies kissing scenes in 'R ...
Saif Ali Khan has said that he is unhappy with reports suggesting he kissed co-star Deepika Padukone in Race 2. Apparently, there are no kissing scenes in the film and Khan is concerned as to where these stories have originated from. A source close to the actor told The Times of India: "Duri ...
DLF Brands to launch multi-brand retail s ...
NEW DELHI: DLF Brands is set to launch multi-brand retail stores to sell international fashion labels under one roof, with plans to open up to five such stores every year. DLF Brands, a subsidiary of realty major DLF Ltd, currently operates standalone stores for 11 global brands in India, in ...
Indian market has opened up to global mov ...
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetPhillip Noyce Acclaimed Australian film director Phillip Noyce has said that the Indian market has opened up to global movies and the acceptability of international projects has flourished here. He stated that cinema has progressed by leaps and bounds across the...

no frakking consensus

Inside the IPCC: the Climategate E-Mails
Newly released e-mails shed an unkind light on internal IPCC politics.
Pachauri’s Rhetoric vs Reality
The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has systematically misled us regarding the quality and kind of material his organization consults.
Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Journalist
The UK's Guardian newspaper has published a fawning article about IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. But the article is pure propaganda. It was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council - a green lobby group that fancies itself "the Earth's best defense."
Rajendra Pachauri – The Little Man Who T ...
Some IPCC personnel aren't chosen for their impressive track records. Not even close.
News & Reviews
At the end of 2011 Treehugger.com continues to portray IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri as a saint.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

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

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

America’s Superman
Nietzsche has appealed to Americans on the right and left for over a century. They have looked past his dark reputation to remake the German philosopher in their own image Adam Kirsch Many American politicians could find support for their ideas in Nietzsche. A Tea Party Republican might choose T ...
Nudge thyself
Economists have more to learn from the natural sciences if they are to claim a realistic model of human behaviour Stephen Cave You’ve come to a canteen for lunch: at one end of the counter, you see juicy fat burgers sizzling on a grill and, at the other end, healthy-looking salads. After a littl ...
Do Bacteria Age?
When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria. Bacteria, in other words, don’t age — at least not in the s ...
Daily aspirin against cancer
Linda Geddes Aspirin dramatically reduces the risk of developing colorectal cancer in people with a family history of the disease, providing the most direct evidence yet that the drug can be used for cancer prevention. While previous studies have hinted that aspirin might prevent cancer, this is ...
Snake blood makes the heart grow
Charles Harvey Snake oil might be best avoided but snake blood may be just what the doctor ordered. Injecting snake-blood plasma into mice increased the size of their heart. The discovery could prove key in the treatment of heart damage. In humans, an enlarged heart is normally a sign that the b ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

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

Gaea Times

Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
How sex hormones influence right heart function
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed human sex hormones influence the structure and function of the right ventricle (RV) of the heart. The researchers found that in women receiving hormone therapy, higher estrogen levels were associated with higher RV ejection fraction and lower RV end-systol ...

TruthNews Australia

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

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Car Sized Advanced Robot Probe Curiosity On It ...
The Curiosity Rover will look to see if Mars could ever be habitable, or if it ever hosted life even in microbial form. It will look for the building blocks of life, like nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. It will be prepared to detect metabolic reactions or anything else that migh ...
Boneyard In Arizona. Click On This For High Re ...
An aerial photo of a place where US Combat aircraft are stored in the desert in between usages.
The Marquis’ Multiplane, The Plane That ...
The was built by a French designer in 1908 buiit never left the ground. Source: Wiki, X Planes
The Silbervogel, Or Silverbird, A Supersonic S ...
The Sanger Silverbird was a revolutionary design for a jet powered super sonic plane that could deliver a nuclear bomb to America from stratospheric altitudes. Upwards of 80,000 feet. It had an engine cooling system that circulated the jets own fuel to keep temperatures down. The plane wa ...
Oddly Beautiful Images From War.

Taylor Marsh

Chris Matthews: ‘There’s nothing to root for.’
“I’m like everybody, I want more action. But I understand that [Pres. Obama's] trying not to piss off a lot of people. But I believe wholeheartedly if he’s back in, he’s going to do some gangsta sh—.” – Chris Rock, Politico Thanksgiving week began with a rhetorical explosion of Democratic, ...
Progressive Notes: Sen. Wyden’s Filibuster, Oh ...
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) is planning a filibuster against a new infringement on civil rights. This is one clever way to make people aware of what their bought off congress is up to: In the coming weeks, a new and unprecedented thing ju ...
Progressive Notes: Sen. Wyden’s Fillibuster fo ...
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Photo: Sen. Wyden at Green Energy Site in Ore.- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) is planning a filibuster against a new infringement on civil rights. This is one clever way to make people aware of what their bought off congress is up to: In th ...
AT&T/T-Mobile Withdraws Merger Application
Kimberly Warner-Cohen is a New York City-based novelist and economic activist. The FCC, who approved the highly controversial Comcast/ NBC merger (and came under fire when one of their commissioners took a job with Comcast four months after the deal went through), worked with the Justice Departm ...
Queer Talk: “The fight against AIDS began thre ...
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. I know … AIDS probably doesn’t sound like a great Saturday read. And it’s been a topic of conversation for over three decades, so it’s easy, perhaps, to assume we know what’s happening. But … On November 8 ...

Hudson New York

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

Urban Survival

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

Trends & Forecasts

Max Igan -Occupy thyself !
11/25/11 - Max Igan - Surviving the Matrix . ... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
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A timeline to Americas Economic Collapse ?
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Gerald Celente sees U S Bank Holiday after Chr ...
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Solomons Temple
Most Freemasons haven't got a clue as to what's... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

Scientific events in Boston and Cambridge, Nov ...
Lots going on this week. We'll be heading over to the AIDS @ 30 event as part of our focus on viruses this week. Also note a major lung cancer conference and a memoir reading by former Harvard Med Dean Joseph Martin.
Harvard "Innovation Lab" opens
A Globe staff editorial ($) congratulates Harvard on the opening of its Innovation Lab in the old public television studieo in Allston. The ribbon-cutting at the site last week marked a milestone in Harvard's long-awaited expansion across the Charles River into Allston. The university should i ...
Brilliant, controversial UMass biologist Lynn ...
From Boston.com According to a statement from the University of Massachusetts where she was a professor of geosciences, Margulis died at her home on Tuesday. She was 73. Margulis was best known for her theory of symbiogenesis, which challenges Neo-Darwinism by arguing that inherited variation ...
Science and the 99%: Why some area researchers ...
MIT biologist Jonathan King doesn't need to look too far to find the influence of the so-called "1%" on the nation's scientific agenda. The newest, flashiest building on campus is the "David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research," named for the conservative activist and MIT alum who ...
MIT museum's FAT Friday and more scientific ev ...
A quiet week until Friday. "In 2008, over 1,600 people came, participated and watched as artist and renowned chain reaction creator Arthur Ganson led one of the MIT Museum's most popular annual events. Teams from all over the country bring a link, which is then connected to another link and be ...

NRDC Switchboard

Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Cranberry Sauce ... M ...
Brad Sewell, Senior Attorney, New York After the Mayflower landed on Cape Cod, Tisquantum—a Native American better known as Squanto, who lived among the nearby Wompanoag tribe—taught the Pilgrims how to properly fish in Massachusetts&rsq ...
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 ...

Injustice Everywhere

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Since I took the day off yesterday I decided it’s only fair to make today’s review of police misconduct reports a live blogging edition. So I’ll post them as I find them. So, here are the 15 (so far) reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Fe ...
Happy Thanksgiving!
We hope everyone has a great holiday season and we’re very thankful for everyone’s continued support and interest in our project. The news feed will not be updating today and there won’t be a daily review this evening. All reports found for today will be reported in the news f ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 22 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, November 23, 2011: Toronto ON cop was found guilty of assault & sexual assault for squeezing a man’s testicles during a traffic stop. [0] bit.ly/uHoooL New York NY poli ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 28 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, November 22, 2011: Scotland Neck NC cop is under investigation after a 61-year-old man he tasered while he was on a bicycle died. The officer was responding to a call about a man wh ...
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 21, 2011: Jackson MS police officer is now facing capital murder charges after charges of felony child abuse were upgraded following the death of a 1-year-old girl who was j ...

Total Collapse

Turkey “ready for action” as Syria deadline ex ...
Turkey said it could tolerate no more bloodshed in Syria and it was ready to take action with Arab powers if President Bashar al-Assad failed to take steps towards ending the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. An 11:00 a.m. GMT deadline given by the Arab League to Syria to agree to accept ...
BRICS warns against Syria intervention
Russia and China along with their three partners in the BRICS group of emerging economies have warned against foreign intervention in Syria without UN approval. In a statement issued after consultations on Thursday in Moscow, the five nations called for immediate talks between the government and ...
US Deploys Aircraft Carrier to Syrian Coast
Violence continued in Syria today, with a number of civilian protesters killed. The focus however was off the coast, where America’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush, has taken up a position just outside of Syrian territorial waters, after a deployment near the Straits of Hormu ...
NATO conceals preparations for military action ...
The United States has decided to disengage itself from certain obligations on the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). In particular, the USA will no longer inform Russia about the plans connected with the redeployment of its forces. Those restrictions are not touching upon any other coun ...
U.S. Tells Citizens to Leave Syria Immediately
Earlier today we reported that Arab states are set to impose a no fly zone over Syria with US logistical support, advancing the prospect of a military assault to take out Syrian President Bashar al-Assad under a “humanitarian” pretext. In Libya, a no-fly zone was established as a pretext prior t ...

Daily Dose

This wingsuit “flying” video will ...
It’s certainly not the first time that we’ve seen someone “flying” in a wingsuit, but Tiger Odd-Martin Helgestad has managed to fly in one of the most beautifully-produced examples that...
Socialdex – A slick virtual Rolodex for ...
I’ve often found myself in a predicament where I have a contact on a social network but I don’t necessarily want to add them to my Address Book or phone...
Lights: An amazing display of WebGL power. Kis ...
If you’ve ever read about WebGL and wondered what it could do, Lights will be a great example for you. In short, WebGL is a way to display 3D graphics...
9 Apps to Download on Your Kindle Fire
The Kindle Fire is Amazon’s first multimedia tablet, which hit stores on November 16th, 2011. We gave the tablet a full review here, noting that if you like Android, love...
What attracts big tech companies to Ireland? H ...
In recent years, Ireland, and the city of Dublin in particular, has established itself as a popular European base for American technology companies like Google, Facebook and more recently, Twitter....

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

Aceh's 'green' governor breaks Indonesia's mor ...
Aceh governor Irwandi Yusuf may have broken Indonesia's moratorium on new concessions in peatlands when he approved an oil palm plantation in the Tripa peat swamp in August this year, alleges WAHLI, an Indonesian environmental group.
Brazilian mining giant cuts ties with pig-iron ...
Brazilian mining giant Vale has cut ties with a pig-iron producer linked to illegal deforestation, reports Reuters.
8 Amazon countries pledge more coordination in ...
Eight Amazon countries pledged greater cooperation in efforts to protect the world's largest rainforest from deforestation and illegal mining and logging, reports AFP.
Peace accord reached in violent conflict betwe ...
A peace accord has been announced to resolve a long-running conflict between a giant state-owned plantation company and local communities on the Indonesian island of Java.
Brazilian dam-builder quits Peru project after ...
A large Brazilian construction company has pulled out of a Peruvian dam project citing opposition from indigenous communities, reports International Rivers.

Sierra Express

Sierra Leone Conference – a date with our destiny
Many a time, we have left our destiny to be determined by a very few people. Almost always, these are men. Often, they are the elites in society. Most often than not, they are the educated few and sometimes, our destiny is entrusted squarely in the hands of politicians. We allow them to think an ...
Koidu Holdings provides suitable resettlement ...
Koidu Holdings S.A, the largest diamond mining company in Sierra Leone has provided a suitable resettlement package for communities affected by its mining operations in Kono District, as its expansion project gains momentum. The Company is on the verge of completing the resettlement of hundreds ...
Clearing South Sudan of deadly landmines
Before 2004 it would take three to four days to travel to Juba from the border towns of Nimule and Kapoeta. Cycling was the safest means of transport. The entire area of what is now South Sudan was a war zone, and was covered with an unknown number of landmines. Even now that South Sudan [...]
In Ethiopia, microfinance lifts poor out of po ...
At the outskirts of this town, 45 kilometres south of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, Aselefech Desalegn fights the flames she uses for baking enjera ,Ethiopia’s staple flatbread. Like millions of poor Ethiopian women, she is also constantly battling to feed her children. In recent years her ...
PNLA – wins an award
Pilot National Legal Aid (PNLA) was established by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Justice Sector Development Programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) on January 6th 2010 to provide a sustainable, affordable, credible and accessible legal aid scheme for thos ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

Citizens face off against regulators over raw ...
From Rady Ananda, on The People’s Voice: “The State of Maine recently sued farmer Dan Brown for selling food and milk without State licenses, despite a local law that permits it. “Blue Hill is one of five Maine towns to … Continue reading →
VIDEO: Michael Schmidt’s sentencing Frid ...
From Rawmilkklimwar channel on YouTube.com
Is a $9,000 fine for selling raw milk appropri ...
From Community Team on CBC news: “An Ontario dairy farmer guilty may be experiencing the bitter taste of defeat after being fined $9,150 for selling and distributing raw milk. In September, an appeal court found Michael Schmidt of Durham guilty on … Continue reading →
Handel’s Messiah with the cows in the ba ...
This just in from Michael Schmidt:
Michael Schmidt fined $9,150, placed on 1 yr p ...
Story from Linda Nyugen, Postmedia News in the Montreal Gazette. This is up fast. The verdict was announced barely two hours ago. “NEWMARKET, Ont. — An Ontario dairy farmer was fined $9,150 and placed on a year’s probation Friday for … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

Still More Inane Attempts to Leverage EFSF; IM ...
Politicians never give up on bad idea except by death or removal from office. In spite of obvious failures to leverage the EFSF fund (still without rules as to how the fund even works), French president Nicolas Sarkozy is back at it, hoping to create a three-fold expansion of the EFSF via ...
House of horrors: Prices Falling in 8 of 16 Me ...
The Economist is frequently a mixed bag. Here is an article on the global housing market that pretty much hits the right spot. Please consider House of horrors, part 2 The bursting of the global housing bubble is only halfway through. MANY of the world’s financial and economic woes since ...
Merkozy Proposes Quick, New, Drastic "Stabilit ...
German chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a "quick new stability pact" that allegedly will bypass the need for treaties. However, there is already disagreement over the role of the ECB. Please consider Germany, France plan quick new Stability Pact Ger ...
In Fiery Protest Against Fractional Reserve Le ...
The New Zealand Herald reports Fiery protest Against Fractional Reserve Lending 'Endangered Public' A Bay of Plenty farmer who set a car alight in a protest in central Wellington this afternoon has been arrested and charged with arson. The 40-year-old man set his car on fire in Wellinton' ...
Latest Idiotic Plan: No Losses for Banks or Bo ...
In an attempt to improve confidence, yet another hare-brained scheme was launched by France to spare bondholders any losses. Please consider Euro zone may drop bondholder losses from ESM bailout Euro zone states may ditch plans to impose losses on private bondholders should countries need ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

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

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gCaptain Cyber-Monday Holiday Book Deal
Have you started your holiday shopping? It’s said that a book signed by the author is worth twice the cover price and, for that reason, gCaptain is offering custom signed [...]
M/V Swanland Sinks in Irish sea – Prince Willi ...
Developing story… Five crewmembers from the cargo ship M/V Swanland are missing after the vessel sank in heavy seas in the Irish Sea early Sunday morning. A mayday call was [...]
Italian-Flagged MV Rosalia D’Amato Released by ...
The hijacked cargo ship M/V Rosalia D’Amato and her crew of 21 has been released from pirate control according to several sources. The 74,500 tonne Italian owned and flagged vessel [...]
Tsunami Escape Pod – New Technology Could Save ...
It was the day after Christmas 2004 when my wife received a call from a relative asking if I was ok. I departed the region a week before, but the [...]
IMO Honors Korean Captain Seog for Exceptional ...
LONDON – (IMO) Captain Seog Hae-gyun of the Republic of Korea, Master of the chemical tanker Samho Jewelry, has been presented with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Award for Exceptional [...]

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PUBLIC ROUND TABLE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: IS TH ...
Saturday February 11th from 2 to 4 pm at the Riverbend Library (Rabbit Hill Road and Terwillegar Drive) Income inequality is a very old issue, but the problem is that it is only becoming worse. Since the 1970s, the top 10% of Canadians by personal wealth at least doubled their share of all ...
Free Speech Bill Debated In Parliament
Bill C-304, that repeals the offensive section 13 of the Human Rights Act, received its first hour of debate last Tuesday. Here are a few quotes: Mr. Brian Storseth (Westlock—St. Paul, CPC):Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act eats away at this fundamental freedom. Most people are shock ...
TVO's The Agenda: To Lead or to Serve
Over the past quarter century, political parties have too often lurched away from being mass movements of individual Canadians sharing a common vision of the public good, and towards being backdrops for individual party leaders who speak the language of democracy while wielding near-absolute p ...
Volume 40
Flag Controversy Spins out of control "A resident of the municipality of St-Denis-de-Brompton, in the Eastern Townships, has lodged a complaint to the Quebec Provincial Police after he was bullied for flying the Canadian flag. Jean Sanson saw his Canadian flag ripped down from his flagpole and ...
Pro-Family Citizens Stand Firm Against Occupiers
Finally - a grassroots response to the occupiers' bullying and intimidation: Religious believers to left-wing activists: We’re not taking it anymore! Christian believers and activists with signs and American (and Israeli) flags didn’t give an inch outside of the Holy Grounds Coffee House in Spr ...

Press TV - Middle East

Yemen names Basindawa interim PM
Yemeni Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has named head of the opposition coalition Mohammed Basindawa as the new prime minster tasked with forming a new government.
'Turkey to stop banking with Syria'
Turkish sources say Ankara has decided to stop banking interactions with Damascus as part of efforts to put more pressure on the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Press TV reports.
AL approves sudden Syria sanctions
The Arab League has approved the imposition of unprecedented sanctions against Syria over the months-long unrest in the country.
Yemeni regime kills two in Taizz
Two people have been killed and several others have been injured in an attack by Yemeni regime forces in the southern city of Taizz, Press TV reports.
50% Israeli conscripts refuse to serve
Israeli military officials have announced that about 50 percent of the Israeli conscripts refuse to serve in the army, a report says.

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

Dissident Voice

Misanthropy’s Holiday
It’s not exactly “The Gift of the Magi” – the inevitable Black Friday footage that so marvelously serves to reinforce the notion that Americans are simply a cloudy plague of consumer beasts. And in most ways that really is what the country has become. Feeding on red juice made in Chi ...
They Hate Us for Our Freedom (redux)
For 76 years it’s been the job of the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) to enforce the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act (passed in 1935 and better known as the Wagner Act). The National Labor Relations Act is the legislation that governs such things as union elections and coll ...
The Hypocrisy of Arab League and the West
After the Arab League hypocritically suspended the membership of Syria amid the mounting pressures of NATO and the United States, the resurgence of violence in Egypt and the increasing use of excessive force in Bahrain and Yemen, and the unrelenting massacre of innocent civilians by the barbaric ...
Assassinating Egyptian Dreams
Nostalgia for more innocent times is a comforting refuge when hope is scarce. This week, as we inhaled a toxic dose of tear gas in Tahrir Square, we were all gasping for a resurrection of the spirit of the January uprising that led to the spectacular fall of the House of Mubarak. Many Egyptians ...
The Palestinian Struggle for Water in the Jord ...
Speaking to the American Congress in May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that Israel would maintain a long-term presence in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley. In the months that followed, the Israeli army stepped up its attacks on the water wells of the Palestinians who live ther ...

Destructionist

While consumers shop, U.S. descends into plann ...
We live in interesting times. Even as our own civilization hangs on the precipice of financial solvency, the priorities of the uninformed masses as so distorted that many will actually camp out in front of a Best Buy store in order to be the first in line to save $100 on a big-screen TV. In a ti ...
Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Ameri ...
The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial. “The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—a ...
Portugal, Belgium, Hungary hit by rating cuts; ...
With European government bond markets already in severe distress, the credit-rating companies keep delivering their equivalent of a blast of pepper spray. Bond yields surged again across Europe on Friday, one day after Fitch Ratings cut Portugal’s debt rating to “junk” status. After market ...
Disabled Man Tasered To Death For Falling Off ...
A 61 year old man from Halifax County, Virginia, was tasered by cops and died Tuesday after they were called to the scene by an onlooker who saw the man fall off his bike in a parking lot and feared he was drunk. When the police arrived, Roger Anthony was riding away on the bike. Anthony did ...
French FM urges ECB action to save the euro
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe on Thursday urged the European Central Bank (ECB) to accelerate moves to tackle the debt crisis already threatening Europe's core economies. "We're seeking a compromise. We do not agree on everything at first, but we'll end by agreeing ... There is urgency ...

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