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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

29 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Google Fails at Renewables, Even with Taxpayer Guarantees
National Legal and Policy Center
In 2009 Google announced a project in which it would pursue a so-far elusive goal – to produce “Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal” (“RE.
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Renewable power industry faces growing range of risks: Study
Business Insurance
The renewable power industry faces a growing range of risks and significant challenges in managing them as it grows, according to a study by researcher Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. and reinsurer Swiss Re Ltd. While 70% of energy and finance ...
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Monday's Renewable Energy Stocks Trading; (OTC:CWET), (NASDAQ:FSLR), (NYSE:LDK ...
InvestorIdeas.com (press release)
Point Roberts, WA - November 29, 2011 (Investorideas.com renewable energy/green newswire) Investorideas.com, a leader in cleantech investor research, reports on trading for renewable energy stocks for 28th October. Renewable energy stocks moved up with ...
Stanford Researchers Explore Large-Scale Renewable Energy Storage
CleanTechnica
One of the biggest hurdles for integrating renewable energy from solar or wind sources comes from the question of storage – how can power be stored for times when the wind doesn't blow or the skies are overcast? Researchers at Stanford University are ...
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Global Ecology Corporation Adopts Stock Repurchase Plan
MarketWatch (press release)
The plan, which is immediately effective, allows Global Ecology to purchase its issued and outstanding common shares in the open market or in negotiated transactions, from time to time, depending on market conditions and other factors as well as being ...
OSE developing blueprint for building industrial machines in post-apocalypse era
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | November 29, 2011, 10:53am PST Summary: Open Source Ecology is creating what it calls the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) — a technology for ecology — that can help humans quickly build machines and a mini civilization in the ...
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 ...
Villagers, ecologists draw line in Baja sand for sake of reef
Houston Chronicle
The only one of its kind in the Sea of Cortes, ecologists say the reef is a crucial and awe-inspiring fisheries breeding ground that draws scientists and recreational divers from around the world. Pollution from the planned Cabo Cortes resort, ...
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Mueller Water Products to Present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2011 ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The presentation will be webcast on Mueller Water Products' website-- www.muellerwaterproducts.com --and will be archived for approximately 90 days. This press release contains certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements" within ...
Groton Water Department worker retires after disstilling machine found at town ...
Nashoba Publishing
By Evan Lips GROTON -- At some point this year, according to Town Manager Mark Haddad, one town Water Department employee decided the drinking water bubbling up from Baddacook Well wasn't strong enough for his tastes. The employee, who Haddad refused ...
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Legoland Florida reveals water park rides
Orlando Sentinel
By Sara K. Clarke, Orlando Sentinel Legoland Florida announced details of its planned waterpark Tuesday, saying the park will include an build-your-own raft ride and an interactive water playground. The park is set to open "in time for summer 2012. ...
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Utility bills to go up thanks to hikes in water, sewer, electrical rates
Hastings Tribune
Hastings Utilities customers will see a jump in their monthly bills due to increases in water, sewer and electric rates. The rate increases were approved by the Hastings City Council as part of the 2012 HU budget that was adopted Monday. ...
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  • Goff: A Million Gardens for the 99%
    “We are the 99%.” It is a declaration that in some significant way, people are more awake to their circumstances than they were. Around this slogan, we have seen courageous and principled people take to the streets in a great shout of “No!” at the powers and principalities of late neoliberalis ...
  • Not your grandfather’s Republican Party
    One of the most negative things to have happened to the increasingly dysfunctional political system in the United States has been the transformation of the Republican Party over the last generation into the party of fiscal deficits. At one time, the bastion of balanced budgets and no free lunche ...
  • 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.

Independent - London

  • Conrad Murray jailed for four years
    Michael Jackson's former doctor has been jailed for four years, three weeks after being found guilty of killing the pop star.
  • Stalin's daughter Svetlana dies in the US
    The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Peters, who denounced communism after a Cold War defection worthy of a novel, has died in the United States, authorities said yesterday.
  • Italy's bond rates spike as Mario Monti fills ...
    Italy's borrowing rates skyrocketed in a big auction of bonds today as Premier Mario Monti put the finishing touches on his new lean government of technocrats that is tasked with getting the country's enormous debt under control to avoid a catastrophic default.
  • British embassy in Iran attacked
    Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran today, tearing down the Union Flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
  • Anders Breivik 'insane during massacre'
    Mass killer Anders Breivik will be sent to a psychiatric hospital and not prison after doctors decided he was insane when he murdered 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway.

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
  • China aims high with space program ambitions
    As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
    A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
  • Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
    Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • US: California demographic shift: More people ...
    More people are moving out of the state than are moving in. It's the economy, of course, especially housing costs. For a clue to why California is losing its allure as a place to settle down, just ask Jennifer McCluer, who moved out of California in 2007 after she obtained her license in skin c ...
  • Stalin's Daughter Lana Peters Dies at 85
    Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a best-selling author, has died. She was 85. Lana Peters -- who was known internationally by her previous name, Svetlana Alliluyeva -- died of colon cancer Nov ...
  • US, California: Oakland shootout leaves 8 injured
    A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street has left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy who authorities say was taken to the city's Children's Hospital in critical condition. The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said. ...
  • US: Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles ...
    Throngs of anti-Wall Street activists hunkered down in their Los Angeles camp for another night of uncertainty early on Tuesday as police stayed largely on the sidelines 24 hours after a deadline to vacate passed. But crowds that had swelled to more than 2,000 at their peak late on Sunday as ...
  • US, Ohio: 'Craigslist killings' suspect is inn ...
    Yvette Rafferty says her son was exploited by his mentor, 52-year-old pastor Rich Beasley video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player The teen charged in connection with a spate of Ohio "Craigslist killings" is innocent and being exploited by his mentor, his mother says. Yvette ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Six years on . . .
    NAOMI KLEIN is, IMHO, one of the most lucid and prescient political analysts to be found. Six years (how time flies) ago, as the Iraq elections ground to a conclusion after the invasion, Naomi made a number of acerbic observations. Six years later, in the light of Arab Spring and OWS, they are e ...
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media Conservatives Absolve Wall Street, False ...
    Conservatives in the media have used the occasion of Rep. Barney Frank's retirement announcement to rehash old theories of how he, through his support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, caused the subprime bubble and subsequent meltdown. In fact, Wall Street -- not affordable housing programs -- w ...
  • Anti-Muslim Activists Attack TLC's All-Ame ...
    Anti-Muslim activists have attacked the new TLC reality show All-American Muslim as "propaganda," "a video version of jihad," and "A Little Taqiyya on the Prairie." Television critics, meanwhile, have praised the show for portraying the diversity of the American Muslim community.Activists Compl ...
  • The Wall Street Journal's Fuel Econom ...
    Employing a litany of misleading claims, a Wall Street Journal editorial attacked the EPA for standards proposed in conjunction with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to increase the fuel economy of cars and light trucks.Journal Hypes Costs, Ignores Benefits Of Fuel Economy Sta ...
  • Right-Wing Media Continue To Mislead On Nonexi ...
    With some provisions of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 scheduled to go into effect on January 1, right-wing media have revived the false claim that the government is "ban[ning]" incandescent light bulbs. In fact, the law simply restricts the sale of inefficient bulbs and has l ...
  • 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 ...

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Drought and coal-fired power plants don’t mix
    According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), at the end of summer 2011, Texas had suffered the driest 10 months since record keeping began in 1895.  Rivers, like the Brazos, actually dried up. And if that wasn’t enough, the dry weather came with brutal heat.  So brutal, that seven cit ...
  • Polluters complain to Congress about new EPA r ...
    According to the Associated Press, across the land, large and small polluters have regaled Republican-led congressional committees with dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the EPA succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators ...
  • 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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Secret history of Stonehenge revealed
    New studies of the ancient site reveal it was a place of worship even before the stones were erected. A team of international archaeologists working a...
  • "Jet man" flies over the Alps
    Yves Rossy has flown his custom-built jet pack in formation with two aircraft over the Swiss Alps. The 52-year-old is the only person to have ever flo...
  • How powerful is positive thinking ?
    Experts are divided over whether simply maintaining a positive outlook can have physical benefits. Some believe that losing the will to live can lead ...
  • Scientist creates killer flu virus in lab
    Five tweaks of the H5N1 virus is all it takes to turn it in to one of the most deadly ever flu strains. Like something from a horror movie the killer ...
  • World's first urine-controlled video game
    A video game installed at a London bar has made using the facilities a little more entertaining. The Exhibit Bar in Balham is offering customers the c...

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    Source:  The Hill The Energy Department is "routinely threatened with sophisticated cyber attacks" and has not taken the necessary steps to protect itself, according to a report made public Monday.
  • NASA to Launch New Earth-Observing Satellite
    Source:  AP After a five-year delay, an Earth-observing satellite will be launched to test new technologies aimed at improving weather forecasts and monitoring climate change.
  • Global Warming: 'Melting Glaciers Can Cause Ma ...
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  • Russian Heat Wave Statistically Linked to Clim ...
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  • 'Disasters' Strain FEMA's Resources
    Source:  USA Today The federal government is turning hundreds of relatively low-cost storms into federal disasters — draining billions of dollars in scarce FEMA aid and tying up millions more for years.

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  • How to End the Nonsense
    The Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program provides unemployment benefits to eligible workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own. In other words, it gives money to be people who get laid-off. Their job disappeared. They didn't get fired. And the way this is paid for is by ...
  • Don't Overthink This Election
    You see lots of articles about demographics and presidential elections. You see lots of articles about what percentage of what demographic the president needs to win in order to get a second term. I find these articles interesting and they often help inform my analysis of American politics. I ...
  • Not Much of a Denial from Camp Cain
    Herman Cain denied having a 13-year extramarital affair but his attorney very conspicuously did not deny the charges. That leads me to believe that Herman Cain did in fact have an extended extramarital affair. I also had a red flag go up when Cain said this: Cain described the woman as an " ...
  • Bloomberg is Shrill
    It's kind of weird to see Bloomberg News savaging the big banks like this, but we have to give them credit for reporting the facts. I just read the article and my first impression is that there is less news here than meets the eye. Yes, we now have details about how much money the Fed lent to ...
  • Presidents Do What the Senate Allows
    A moderate third-party presidential candidate would be a terribly stupid idea and it seems almost beneath E.J. Dionne to waste his time responding to it. The point Dionne fails to make, however, is that President Obama is already a moderate candidate. In fact, any president who is primarily fo ...

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

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  • Carl Herman radio interview on public educatio ...
    source: Carl Herman Phil Mikan, a New England radio host, interviewed me for an hour on November 16th, 2011 on the topic of to what extent public education is designed to address and avoid the concentration of power and wealth in our world of the present. The interview is here.   © Carl_Her ...
  • 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 ...

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    What really happened to Strauss-Kahn? Spy game revs up with Arab Spring. Why is UK police not investigating Climategate?
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    South African spy boss to quit. Slovakian defense minister resigns over wiretap scandal. Book on Soviet spy Dmitri Bystrolyotov.
  • Analysis: Cloud computing causes ‘cosmic shift ...
    While many are focusing on recent reports of arrests of CIA operatives in Lebanon and Iran, American intelligence planners have other things on their minds: the latest buzzword is ‘cloud’; specifically, ‘cloud computing’. The term means storing information and software on a network, which can th ...
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  • Did US agencies fail to heed warnings of 2008 ...
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  • The Parable of the Occupation
    And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he w ...
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    WE NEED JOBS, NOT WAR! Make plans now to attend A statewide Networking Conference, Rally & March on the Virginia General Assembly SAT., JAN. 14, 2012 St. Stephen’s Koinonia Church – 505 N. 33rd St., Richmond, VA 23223 Nearly four years after the start of this country’s worst economic crisis ...
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  • Renewables trump fossil fuels for first time ever
    by Christopher Mims. Last year investors poured $187 billion into electricity from renewable sources (wind, sun, biomass, etc.), versus $157 billion for fossil fuels, calculates Bloomberg New Energy Finance. “The progress of renewables has been nothing short of remarkable,& ...
  • Study: Climate skepticism leads directly to cl ...
    by Christopher Mims. If you were wondering why industry heavies and their media housepets traffic in climate change skepticism, here’s why: It works. A study just published in the journal Nature Climate Change confirms that if you sow skepticism, you reap inaction. When Americans bel ...
  • New use for green roof: grazing reindeer
    by Christopher Mims. "Santa Claus" (real name: Dave Kavanaugh, entomologist) has brought his reindeer to the green roof of the California Academy of Sciences. Between now and January 16, they'll be grazing its gentle slopes and fertilizing them with bon bons, because every ...
  • London fights air pollution with glue
    by Jess Zimmerman. If your house were infested with mosquitos, you might put up flypaper strips to trap them. London mayor Boris Johnson is taking roughly the same approach to air pollution -- he's having street sweepers spray a calcium-based adhesive onto the ground to trap particulat ...
  • Lululemon goes from new-agey to Ayn Rand
    by Jess Zimmerman. Lululemon, which makes overpriced yoga clothes, used to give customers the option to purchase sustainable shopping bags printed with the company's "manifesto." (It's not the one above; that's a parody.) That meant they were covered in quotes that ...

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  • Scientists in Revolt against Global Warming
    By Karin McQuillan Global warming became a cause to save life on earth before it had a chance to become good science. The belief that fossil fuel use is an emergency destroying our planet by CO2 emissions took over the media and political arena by storm. The issue was politicized so quickly that ...
  • 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 astounded by your answer to Warwick Hughes when he asked for the same data. You [...]
  • It’s your fault… with respect, let ...
    By Clif High At this time, and for a period that i have reason to suspect extends to March of next year, a delicate balance exists in the planetary social body. A small number of psychopaths will end that balance with a global war of such proportions that most humans will NOT survive it. Let [...]
  • Managed Perception and the Nature of Central Banks
    By Les Visible Wars and rumors of wars are in the process, with Pakistan and Iran, as the linchpins to global upheaval and mass disorder. We are on the brink, with the central bankers and their minions, in various fields of play, set to give new meaning to the terms, mass murder, genocide and eu ...
  • The Zombie Children from Dead Weight City
    By Les Visible Think about this, the chakras are electromagnetic. Women are magnetic, men are electrical. Truly grasp the permutations of this and you could build a flying saucer, relatively easily, if you had the components. You do have the blueprints, if you know where to look. Da Vinci, Tesla ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • 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 ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

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

  • Steel Mill Converted Into a Spectacular Public ...
    Read the rest of Steel Mill Converted Into a Spectacular Public Park in Luxembourg Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: adaptive reuse, green parks, industrial transformations, Landscape Architecture, LUX Stahlhof Belval-Ouest, Luxembourg parks, restoration architecture, st ...
  • The “Climate Train” is Greeted by Zulu Dancers ...
    Read the rest of The “Climate Train” is Greeted by Zulu Dancers and COP 17 Officials in Durban Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Climate Change, climate change train, cop 17, coral reef, durban, eco design, environmental agency, environmental education, globa ...
  • 10 Awesome Eco-Friendly Christmas Trees to Mak ...
    Read the rest of 10 Awesome Eco-Friendly Christmas Trees to Make Your Holiday Shine Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: alternative christmas tree, Cardboard Christmas Tree, Cascades, Dowel Rod Tree, eco design, FTD Flowers, GigglingGnome, green christmas, Green Christmas ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Handmade Gifts
    Whether you make a gift yourself or purchase someone else’s handiwork, handcrafted items always make for more meaningful presents than something that rolled off an assembly line. From coasters cleverly crafted from Scrabble tiles to a super soft knit cowl, our Handcrafted Holiday Gift Guid ...
  • The Montblanc House is a Heavenly White Mounta ...
    Read the rest of The Montblanc House is a Heavenly White Mountain of a Home in Japan Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Daylighting, Eco Architecture, Gardening, green architecture, green design, japanese architecture, mont blanc house, montblanc house, Studio Velocity, s ...

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

  • Website Enlists Crowds to Analyze Whale Songs
    Biologists can categorize whale songs, yet the content of their communication is poorly understood. A new web-based citizen science project, however, allows visitors to analyze the watery leviathans' language.
  • Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alte ...
    A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.
  • DNA Barcoding Goes Mainstream
    This week, more than 450 scientists and industry experts are to converge upon Australia's University of Adelaide, for the fourth International Barcode of Life Conference. They will celebrate the boom in DNA barcoding, and discuss novel applications for the technology.
  • 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.

PakAlert

  • Financial Professionals Sounding The Alarm, Ec ...
    You don’t have to search very far beyond the main stream to find lots of meaty articles about the dire economic straits we’re in – a world sinking in enormous debt of fiat currencies. A corrupt banking system swimming in 600 trillion of unregulated derivatives, an unimaginable staggering sum. ...
  • US carrier strike force enters Syrian waters. ...
    The Syrian crisis aassumed a big power dimension this week with the build-up of rival United States and Russia naval air carrier armadas in Syrian waters, debkafile's military sources report. The USS George H.W. Bush arrived Wednesday, Nov. 23, in the wake of the three Russian warships anchor ...
  • Russia Considers Blocking NATO Supply Routes
    Russia said it may not let NATO use its territory to supply troops in Afghanistan if the alliance doesn't seriously consider its objections to a U.S.-led missile shield for Europe, Russia's ambassador to NATO said Monday. Russia has stepped up its objections to the antimissile system in Europ ...
  • Richard Hoagland’s Dark Mission: Coverups, Lie ...
    Before this story broke, Michael Vara and I admired Richard Hoagland and had even asked him to be on the “Late Night in the Midlands” radio show. We didn't share all of his views but we still thought that he was pushing for the truth in his own way. All that changed however during our subsequ ...
  • 30 Signs That The United States Of America Is ...
    If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do. Nothing is ...

Andy Worthington

  • Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: Greeks Rise ...
    As the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) delivered some “chilling words on the euro debt crisis” (as the Daily Telegraph described it), warning that policy makers around the world must “be prepared to face the worst,” and that the “euro a ...
  • N30 Strike: 2 Million UK Workers to Protest Ag ...
    If you’re fed up with an “age of austerity” implemented by a Tory-led government of millionaires, driven by an ideological desire to crush the British state rather than tackling the root cause of the economic crisis — the unreformed, criminal working practices of the unre ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Arrested in Germany, David Duke Begs Followers ...
    Globetrotting white supremacist David Duke is asking supporters to send money, and fast, to help him fight unspecified charges stemming from his arrest last Friday in Cologne, Germany. In a message “composed in a moving Car!” and posted this morning on his website, the former Klan leader claims ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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

  • Dead Afghan Kids Still Not Newsworthy
    Back in March, we wondered when U.S. corporate news outlets would find U.S./NATO killing of Afghan kids newsworthy. Back then, it was nine children killed in a March 1 airstrike. read more
  • 3 Protesters Hit With Taser at Occupy Protest ...
    OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Thousands of protesters greeted lawmakers beginning a 30-day special session to address the state's budget woes, with a rowdy group disrupting a hearing Monday and police later using Tasers in a skirmish as a large crowd refused to leave the Capitol building at the end of t ...
  • Suez Port Employees Reveal 21-Ton US Tear Gas ...
    A group of customs employees at the Suez seaport have revealed that the Egyptian Ministry of Interior is in the process of receiving 21 tons of tear gas from the US. read more
  • Bradley Manning Treatment in Custody Concerns ...
    More than 50 members of the European parliament have signed an open letter to the US government raising concerns about the treatment of Bradley Manning, the US soldier in military detention for allegedly leaking classified US documents to the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks. The call on the US gov ...
  • Fukushima Radiation Risks "Severely Underestim ...
    TOKYO -- Greenpeace today renewed its demand for the Japanese government to keep its nuclear reactors offline as simulation maps of potential accidents at Japan’s nuclear plants - used in the development of nuclear emergency response efforts - "are completely inadequate, and have not ...

Lifehacker

  • Take Small Steps to Go Frugal Without Making Y ...
    Living a frugal lifestyle comes naturally for some people, but if you're used to eating at restaurants five nights a week and traveling abroad whenever you feel like it, saving up for a new house or to start a family can be pretty painful. Th ...
  • iTether Is a Cross-Platform Wired Tethering Op ...
    iOS/Mac/Windows: Get it while it lasts—iTether has somehow managed to get Apple's blessing and, for $14.99, offers easy wired tethering to your Mac OS or Windows PC from your iOS device without jailbreaking it. Up to now, no other tethe ...
  • How to Mentally Prepare Yourself to Start a Ne ...
    You nailed the job interview, and now the hiring manager wants to know when you can start, and whether you're planning to take some time off between leaving your current gig and starting the new one. You may be tempted to take a week off just ...
  • Loading Times, Mac and Cheese, and iPhone Icon ...
    Readers offer their best tips for making use of long loading times, reheating macaroni and cheese, and laying out your iOS home screen. More »
  • Use Your iPhone's Headset to Take Pictures Fro ...
    If you want a super-steady shot from your iPhone's camera—or want to take a picture of yourself from a tripod—you can actually use the volume button on your iPhone's headset to take a picture. More » ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • Privatization questions
    Grand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant Superintendent John Henderson told the city council Tuesday night that he will cooperate in turning over operations of the city-owned plant to the private company Veolia Water North America, if that's what the council wants to do.
  • City to detail privatization of wastewater plant
    The union representing Grand Island’s wastewater treatment plant is urging the city council to stop the talk about turning sewer operations over to Veolia Water North America.
  • 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.

Guardian

  • Smiley Culture's death in police raid does not ...
    Reggae star's family furious at watchdog's finding that despite a flawed operation there was 'no evidence of a criminal offence'Police have been criticised by an independent watchdog for a botched raid that led to the death of reggae star Smiley Culture, it was revealed on Tuesday.The Metropolit ...
  • Heathrow and Gatwick braced for queues as bord ...
    UKBA chiefs say airports will see their worst queues for years with staffling levels at passport desks severely below 50%UK Border Agency chiefs are bracing themselves for the worst queues at Heathrow and Gatwick airports for several years when the vast majority of 5,000 border staff go on strik ...
  • Russian lover of British MP Mike Hancock not a ...
    Ekaterina Zatuliveter is immature, calculating and self-centred – but not a secret agent, says panelMI5 claims, backed by home secretary Theresa May, that the Russian lover of a Liberal Democrat MP was a spy for Moscow were rejected on Tuesday by a national security court specially convened to ...
  • Conrad Murray sentenced to 4 years in prison f ...
    Judge calls Murray's actions 'money for medicine' in issuing maximum sentence on involuntary manslaughter convictionDr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician, was sentenced to four years in jail and denied probation on Tuesday for his conviction on a charge of involuntary manslaught ...
  • Hague says Iran will face 'serious consequence ...
    Foreign secretary says Tehran breached Vienna convention in failing to protect diplomatic missionWilliam Hague has warned Iran it faces "serious consequences" over the attack on the British embassy in Tehran.Hundreds of protesters surged onto two compounds this afternoon, putting the safety of s ...

McClatchey

  • Can coal plants afford EPA's new air-toxics rule?
    LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — America has never had a nationwide limit on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants. That's about to change, though, and it will cost companies such as American Electric Power, which runs the Tanners Creek power station here on the Ohio River ...
  • Norway gunman Anders Behring Breivik declared ...
    LONDON — A psychiatric evaluation has found that confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik, the man who bombed and shot 77 people to death in Norway in July, was clinically insane at the time of the attacks, prosecutors said Tuesday.
  • Peanut butter prices going up
    Peanut butter is disappearing from some food bank shelves, particularly in the Midwest, as peanut butter manufacturers raise their wholesale prices by 20 percent to 40 percent.
  • In Modesto, Calif., latinos hit hardest by for ...
    Latinos in Stanislaus County are nearly four times more likely to have lost their homes to foreclosure than homeowners nationwide.
  • White House condemns storming of the British e ...
    From the Press Secretary: "The United States condemns in the strongest terms the storming of the British Embassy in Tehran.

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Another DNS Provider Comes Out Against SOPA
    We had already seen OpenDNS publicly come out against SOPA and PROTECT IP, and it appears other DNS providers are doing so as well. Dyn has come out strongly against the bill as well, comparing it directly to the Great Firewall of China. Are you familiar with the Great Firewall Of China? Som ...
  • Ubisoft Director Backtracks On Piracy Complain ...
    Thanksgiving week was not a good week for Ubisoft Shanghai creative director Stanislas Mettra. When asked if a PC version of the game I Am Alive would be coming, he responded that it wouldn't because of piracy. It's hard because there's so much piracy and so few people are paying for PC game ...
  • The Rise And Fall Of Bitcoin... But Is It Real ...
    Back in April, just as Bitcoin was starting to get some mainstream attention, I questioned its ability to succeed long term. Too much about it felt like a fad, and there seemed to be significant questions about it. However, over the next few months, as the price of Bitcoins rose quickly, and t ...
  • If You Want To Better Understand SOPA & PIPA, ...
    Last week, as I was writing my big post on the problems with SOPA & PIPA, Alex Howard, over at O'Reilly's Radar blog, was putting the finishing touches on a massive, but incredibly comprehensive discussion of both bills. If you're just waking up to this issue now and want a really complet ...
  • DailyDirt: On The Way, The Paper Bag Was On My ...
    There doesn't seem to be a "Black Friday" for getting good deals on booking flights. Maybe there is a single day of the year to buy really discounted plane tickets -- if you know what day that is, please let everyone know in the comments. But technically, it probably takes more than a single day ...

VacTruth

  • Are Too Many Vaccines Mandated in the USA?
    Are there too many vaccines and vaccinations in the U.S.? Ask any medical student what he or she learned in medical school about vaccines and you will be greatly surprised.
  • 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.

BroadSnark

  • What Choices?
    A couple months ago, the Positive Force book club read Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. One of the book club members thought that Alexander had gone too far in comparing the drug war to Jim Crow. He pointed out that it is far different to be discriminated against based on some accide ...
  • 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Israeli soldiers treat New York Times photogra ...
    After Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer working for the New York Times, was forced by Israeli soldiers to pass through an X-ray machine three times in spite of her protests that it might harm her unborn child, Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner expresses shock: The Time ...
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    Dear Readers — War in Context began ten years ago. In the first few months the name “The war in context” was just the subject line on an email I was sending out to colleagues and friends after 9/11. Then in January, 2002, I started blogging — that was back when using Blog ...
  • Afghanistan is a country — not a war
    Everyone lives at the center of the world. But in a world where power and resources are so unevenly distributed, it’s easy for those of us who live in the domineering West, to place everyone and everywhere else out on the periphery. As Americans who have for so long looked at the rest of t ...
  • ‘It’s time to stop the bully’: Adbusters edito ...
    Mondoweiss interviews the founder of Adbusters: When the Occupy Wall Street protests began to attract attention in the fall, everyone wanted to know where the idea to set up a permanent protest at the heart of Manhattan’s financial district came from. The answer was the mind of Kalle Lasn, ...
  • Visualizing the 2012 federal discretionary budget
    Think Progress produced this useful graphic:

Watts Up With That?

  • Getting the “right kind of people” ...
    This is a repost from Jeff Id’s Air Vent as it needed the wider circulation that WUWT can offer. I’ve also added the update from comment #9 he refers to. The Right Kind of People Posted by Jeff Id on November … Continue reading →
  • New Tool – all Climategate emails in ord ...
    Jeff Id writes: Buffy Minton who provided the email Mime data has produced a spreadsheet of Climategate 1 and 2 emails in chronological order.  This should be an excellent tool to follow conversations through. Here are the links: ordered emails … Continue reading →
  • The CRU crew says: “what we really mean ...
    In all the hubub last week, I missed this press release from the University of East Anglia. In it, they try to explain away some of the first highlighted email phrases. But we’ve all moved well beyond those now. The … Continue reading →
  • The Steve Zwick Guide to Defending the Indefen ...
    Guest post by James Padgett There have been several “defenses” to the rather damning emails in the latest release from FOIA. Some, having taken the lead from the CRU itself and cherry-picked their own emails to defend – and then … Continue reading →
  • Resemblances: Climategate and Penn State
    Jim Tynen writes is his column at The Daily Herald Consider the resemblences between the Climategate and  Penn State scandals. Climategate emails — leaked, not “stolen” — reveal the key players as egocentric, ruthless game players. As per this report. … Continue rea ...

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Biosingularity

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

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Football players union releases video of attac ...
    The worldwide organization that represents the rights of professional football players on Tuesday released video footage purportedly showing the beating of a Russian football player by stadium security.
  • Russia hails Britain’s ruling on Zatuliveter
    The Russian Embassy in London has hailed the British Special Immigration Appeals Commission's (SIAC) decision to uphold alleged Russian spy Katia Zatuliveter’s appeal against an order to deport her back to Russia, but said it was disappointed by the non-transparency of the process.
  • Protesters storm British Embassy in Tehran
    Dozens of Iranian protesters stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday in protest against sanctions imposed earlier this month by Britain on the Islamic Republic over its controversial nuclear program.
  • Iran's nuclear program
  • Court to consider Tymoshenko appeal on Dec. 1
    Kiev appeals court on Tuesday scheduled preliminary hearings on an appeal by jailed ex-Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for December 1, twelve days before the earlier set date, Tymoshenko’s lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko said.

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Pruning Shears

  • Occupy Charlottesville: Background and What's Next
    This is my first post on this site. As background information, I’m finishing up my JD at UVA Law in Charlottesville, and so most of what I can cover from an on the ground angle for the time being is in Cville, or occasionally around VA or the DC area. Charlottesville is a fairly liberal ci ...
  • Public Happiness and Occupy Wall Street
    In a recent Rolling Stone article,  “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the OWS Protests,” Matt Taibbi offers a revised estimate of Occupy Wall Street, now in its third month.  He argues that contrary to those on the right and left who want Occupiers to find a message ...
  • 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 ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Fair Trade USA Proposes New Ingredients Policy ...
    Click here to read this article
  • The Harder They Spin: What USFRA Wants Us to B ...
    The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA) is a new trade association funded by some of the biggest players in the food industry—including the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Dupont, and Monsanto.Click here to read this article
  • Are Cosmetics Companies Lying to My Face?
    I just heard an ad for hair-care products that are allegedly "certified hypoallergenic." There's no such thing, is there? And is it illegal to make that claim? Click here to read this article
  • Raw Milk Freedom Riders To Defy FDA Warning
    Chicago, IL-On December 8, a group of mothers and others will defy the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) ban on "distributing" fresh milk across state lines by transporting 100 gallons of raw milk from Wisconsin to Chicago's Independence Park and distributing it to customers waiting at t ...
  • French Court Cancels Ban on Monsanto GMO Corn
    The decision follows a ruling by the European Court of Justice in early September saying France had based its decision to impose a moratorium on the growing of Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 maize on the wrong EU legislation. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • USDA People’s Garden Grant Awarded to Baltimor ...
    The $60,000 award will be divided among existing community organizations within Cherry Hill, who will partner to plant community and school gardens, and deliver education programs that promote gardening and healthy eating.
  • Voicing Concerns Over Antimicrobial Use in Foo ...
    Also contributing to this post is Patrick Baron, CLF Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences. For the first time in 13 years, the Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance* (ITFAR) heard from the public on antimicrobial resistance. We presented a strong argument ...
  • 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.

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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 ...
  • UC Davis Chancellor Called to Resign After Pol ...
    UC Davis students showed solidarity with students at other UC campuses facing tuition increases and have been the victim of police brutality : Students sat on the ground in a circle ...he began spraying the students with orange-colored pepper spray. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian News

  • Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American ...
    Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window � Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties UnionWhile... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Latest Mideast News: Israel Attempts to Foil P ...
    Latest Mideast News: Israel Attempts to Foil Palestinian Initiative for Self-Generating Energy: Ramallah, November 27, 2011 (WAFA) - The Israeli decision demanding Palestinians in the west bank to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Europeans hold 60 ‘Boycott Israel’ actions in ...
    Europeans hold 60 ‘Boycott Israel’ actions in 10 countries - International Middle East Media Center: In a European Day of Action under the banner ‘Take Apartheid off the Menu’, human rights activists... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 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...]]

Farm Wars

  • Henry Lowrider – A Lesson in Courage
    Henry turned his handicap into a strength because he never knew that he couldn't. He just adapted and survived, and excels at what he does.
  • Patents on chimpanzees, sperm cells and human ...
    These patents fuel the commercialisation of the human body. Living beings and their genetic conditions are not an invention and should not be subjected to patents.”
  • 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."

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • FBI director raises concerns with defense bill ...
    ShareThisFBI director raises concerns with defense bill policy on handling suspected terrorists 28 Nov 2011 FBI Director Robert Mueller on Monday raised significant concerns about requiring military custody for captured suspected terrorists, arguing that the divisive provision in a sweeping defe ...
  • CLG Newsletter Sent, but Will Not Disseminate
    ShareThis'Gremlins:' CLG Newsletter Sent, But Did Not Disseminate --Another day, another obstacle - as usual Posted by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 28 Nov 2011 CLGers, Monday's CLG Newsletter was sent at 8PM ET. However, it must be 'delayed' somewhere in cyberspace -- for unknown reasons, of cou ...
  • Explosion at Iraqi prison gate kills 19
    ShareThisExplosion at Iraqi prison gate kills 19 28 Nov 2011 At least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured in a car bomb explosion outside an Iraqi prison near the capital, Baghdad, officials say. The blast happened after an unknown attacker detonated his explosive-laden car at the m ...
  • Police hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occ ...
    ShareThisPolice hold off on eviction of Los Angeles Occupy camp 28 Nov 2011 Police in riot gear closed in before dawn on Monday on anti-Wall Street activists in Los Angeles who defied a midnight deadline to vacate a camp outside City Hall, but stopped short of clearing the encampment. Police man ...
  • Pakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S.
    ShareThisPakistan PM: No more "business as usual" with U.S. 28 Nov 2011 Pakistan's prime minister ruled out "business as usual" with the United States on Monday after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the army threatened to curtail cooperation over the war in Afghanistan. "Business ...

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

  • Beautiful Combat Camera on Auction
    The Canon Mark III 1ds is one of the finest cameras in the world.  Mine has seen combat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and has been used around the world from Nepal, to the Philippines and elsewhere.  The photos from this Mark III 1ds have appeared in my two most recent books, and countless oth ...
  • RED AIR: A Private Forum
    Soldiers react seconds after IED strike 28 November 2011 Every day in Afghanistan there are casualties requiring helicopter evacuation.  There is a high probability that as you read this, someone is bleeding and in the process of extraction from the battlefield. US Army MEDEVAC helicopte ...
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

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

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Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court hears arguments on real estate l ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments [day call, PDF] Monday in two cases. In First American Financial Corp v. Edwards [transcript, PDF; JURIST report], the court heard arguments on whether a plaintiff has standing to sue, on behalf of a nationwide class, claiming a real estate comp ...
  • UN report: Syria committing human rights viola ...
    [JURIST] The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria reported [text, PDF] Monday that the Syrian Arab Republic has committed numerous human rights violations [press release] including torture, sexual violence, use of excessive force and violations of the right to peaceful assemb ...
  • Report alleges corruption, torture in Russia l ...
    [JURIST] A private investigative report issued on Monday detailed the denial of medical treatment [report text, PDF] to and severe physical abuse of former Russian lawyer and purported whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky [JURIST news archive], who died [JURIST report] in a Moscow prison in November ...
  • Myanmar soldiers may be committing war crimes: ...
    [JURIST] Human rights group Partners Relief and Development [advocacy website] said Monday that Myanmar soldiers may be committing war crimes [press release] in the form of torture and forced labor against ethnic communities in Kachin State. The group issued a report [text, PDF, graphic content] ...
  • Supreme Court to rule on criminal fines, sente ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in five cases. In Southern Union Co v. United States [docket], the court will determine whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendment [text] principles that the Supreme Court established in Apprendi v. New Jerse ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Hot Flash in the Cold War With Pakistan
    A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...
  • Mitt Romney Ramps Up Attacks on Obama
    Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...
  • 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 ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Annals of Israeli Blacks Ops: Lebanon, Iran Co ...
    Lots of explosions big and small today in different parts of the region.  In Isfahan, there was a major blast at a facility that stores uranium gas which centrifuges use in the enrichment process for Iran’s nuclear program.  Damage to this plant could cause heavy delays in its ability to f ...
  • Exclusive: Peace Now Price Tag Suspect Identified
    Today, Israeli police released the suspect in the price tag attacks on Jerusalem’s Peace Now office to house arrest. As soon as he got home, he fired up his computer and began sending e mail blast death threats to every Peace Now activist he knew. Though I’ve been desperately seeking ...
  • 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 ...

If Americans Knew

  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...
  • Stealing Success Tel Aviv Style
    And there is another aspect of Israel's growing high tech sector that he understandably chose to ignore because it is extremely sleazy. That is the significant advantage that Israel has gained by systematically stealing American technology with both military and civilian applications. The US dev ...

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

  • Can Ushahidi Rely on Crowdsourced Verifications?
    During the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake last year, the Ushahidi-Chile team received two reports -- one through the platform, the other via Twitter -- that indicated an English-speaking foreigner was trapped under a building in Santiago. "Please send help," the report read. "i am burie ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Iran's Nukes - Iran, Stuxnet and the Aftermath
    While President Obama has focused much of his foreign policy efforts on jump-starting the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel has been preoccupied with what its policymakers see as a much greater, even existential, threat. Iran’s continuing efforts to acquire nuclear techno ...
  • Oil Addiction - When it Comes to Oil Industry, ...
    The oil industry is batting 1.000 this year when it comes to preserving its tax breaks. The survival of billions in incentives, which President Obama and Democrats repeatedly have targeted this year, shows that the industry’s lobbying and political muscle remains intact even after a year that sa ...
  • Congress on Edge - How Goldman Sachs and Congr ...
    Goldman Sachs, the most notorious investment bank on Wall Street, has two things in common with the legislators with significant investments in the company: wealth and power. According to research by the Center for Responsive Politics, 19 current members of Congress reported holdings in Goldman ...
  • Iranian Terror - Iranian Cyber-Jihadi Cells in ...
    Last September, Jihadists who call themselves “Cyber-Hezbollah” organised their second conference in Teheran. Islamist hackers and cyber-jihadists gathered there and decided to fight the U.S. and Europe. Hassan Abbasi, political strategist and adviser of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was pre ...
  • After the Holocaust - Catholic Bishop Calls fo ...
    The murder of six million European Jews in the Holocaust must serve as a warning to the people of today to remain vigilant against contemporary threats to human life and against any ideology that undermines the Judaeo-Christian values upon which western civilisation is built, said the Catholic b ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Are You Smarter than a Radical Islamist?
    By Barry Rubin The title of this article is a play on an American television series called, “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader.” It’s a quiz show in which adults are pitted against fifth grade students in answering a series of questions. The gimmick, as you might guess, is that the fifth ...
  • Buh-Bye-Barney: A Video Tribute to a Lying, Ar ...
    Note If you cannot see 9 videos below please click here So Elmer Fudd Barney Frank announced today that he would not be running for re-election in 2012.  His stated reason was that his district was gerrymandered, which is true.  But Frank was no longer safe in a  saf ...
  • BREAKING: Huge Explosion In IRAN's Nuke City
    Less than two weeks after a mysterious explosion destroyed an Iranian missile development base, and the same day the Israeli Military reported on the effect of that explosion, Iran's official news agency FARS reported that a loud blast was heard in the city of Isfahan at 2:40 pm local time ...
  • 64 Years Ago The UN Created Israel-They Have B ...
    With that, the United Nations passed Resolution 181 which called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state.  It was approved on November 29, 1947 with 33 votes in favor, 13 against, 10 abstentions and one absent (see the end of the ...
  • Egyptian Moderates Throw Themselves to the Wolves
    “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” –Edmund Burke (1770) By Barry Rubin On the eve of the Egyptian election, I’m really disgusted with the collapse of the moderate forces. While the Muslim Bro ...

The Real Agenda

  • New ‘scary’ predictions for the Eu ...
    ‘Deep Depression’  is the new term used in main stream media to justify another bank bailout and the surrender of political and economic sovereignty. AFP November 29, 2011 Europe is reeling from warnings it faces a “deep depression” if the eurozone collapses and that ever ...
  • Fitch Downgrades U.S. Outlook to ‘Negati ...
    Credit rating downgrade could come within months. More stimulus will only put off worst case scenario. Gerald Celente: Bank holiday could come as early as the new year Fox Business November 29, 2011 Fitch Ratings kept its pristine AAA rating on the U.S. on Monday, but the credit-ratings company ...
  • Establecimiento Médico Australiano Ofrece Dine ...
    Traducción Luis Miranda NaturalNews.com 28 de noviembre 2011 Australia tiene un porcentaje muy elevado de niños vacunados a la edad de cinco años. Sólo el 11% no están vacunados a los cinco años de edad. El gobierno australiano ha creado incentivos económicos para obligar a los padres a vacunar ...
  • Virus de Gripe Aviar Creado en Laboratório tie ...
    Científico responsable se está preparando para una tormenta mediática. Después de hacer cinco ajustes al virus H5N1 este se tornó más contagioso. Versión contagiosa de la gripe aviar podría causar una pandemia. Los científicos están divididos sobre si los hallazgos pueden ser publicados. Luis R. ...
  • Secret Federal Reserve Bailout Gave Banks $13 ...
    Bloomberg November 28, 2011 The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required [...]

Wind Watch

  • Wind project faces scrutiny
    GARDEN – The future of a Garden Peninsula wind farm is uncertain, as its developers face government scrutiny about the farm’s potential impact on migratory birds. Heritage Sustainable Energy recently received a written reprimand from the U.S. Department of Interior, but the company i ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Facebook and Familiar Strangers
    The genesis and development of early cities, the foundation of the Great Society, depended as much on the freedom to break old, strong ties as on the freedom to form of new, weak ones.
  • Finance Ministers Scramble to Save Euro
    “The 17 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro converged on EU headquarters Tuesday in a desperate bid to save their currency — and to protect Europe, the United States, Asia and the rest of the global economy from a debt-induced financial tsunami.” (Washington Times) F ...
  • Bad Economic Outlook Looms for States
    “States are caught in a fiscal vise as weak economic growth, dwindling federal help and increasing appeals from hard-pressed local governments squeeze their budgets.” (Washington Post) State governments face the same perverse incentives as the national government. FEE Timely Classic ...
  • Fed Secretly Bails Out Big Banks
    From Bloomberg: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in tro ...
  • Guards on Horseback Patrol Border
    “Clyde, a lean, copper-colored mustang, is one of the latest weapons in the struggle to tighten the U.S. border with Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol has used horses since its inception in 1924, but new funds from headquarters and a federal program that captures, breaks and donates wild must ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

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

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Cancellation of VOICE trial a blow to HIV prev ...
    In a second setback in as many months, researchers running a major HIV prevention trial have cancelled one of its arms after learning that a vaginal gel was not effective in protecting women using it from acquiring the virus. In press releases issued on 25 November, the National Institute of ...
  • Rise of the (soft) robots
    A soft robot that can crawl across surfaces and under obstacles has been created by a Cambridge, Massachusetts based team. Led by chemist George Whitesides of Harvard University, the team’s robot eschews the hard joints, hydraulics and motors of current robot technology in favour of low press ...
  • US "Materials Genome Initiative" takes shape
    More details have emerged of the intriguingly-named Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), an $100 million materials research program under which a variety of US science funding agencies are working to halve the time it takes for newly discovered materials to reach the market. At the Materials Re ...
  • Medvedev: Punishment awaits those behind Russi ...
    Surely it's bad enough for the Russian scientists and engineers who built and launched the Phobos-Grunt mission, only to see the spacecraft stall in Earth orbit (see 'Russia gets the red planet blues'). But Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is now suggesting that those responsible for the failur ...
  • Scientists make the 'perfect' foam
    Posted on behalf of Philip Ball. Physicists working at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have finally made the perfect foam. Whereas most Dubliners might consider that to be the head on a pint of Guinness, Denis Weaire and his coworkers have a more sophisticated answer. ‘Perfect’ here m ...

new geography

  • Will You Still House Me When I'm 64?
    In the song by the Beatles, the worry was about being fed and needed at 64. Things have changed. If the Beatles wrote those lyrics today, the worry instead might be about housing. Australia’s aging population is an inevitability. As our replacement rate falls (we’re having fewer children ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto's Caribbean experiment
    Monsanto's Caribbean experiment Eliván Martínez   The Center for Investigative Journalism, 21 November 2011 http://cpipr.org/inicio/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=271 *The largest producer of transgenic seeds in the world is leasing some of the best agricultural lands on the Islan ...
  • Indian government fixing farm suicide figures
    NOTE: Although there are continuing reports of a very high suicide rate among Indian farmers, and with many blaming failed GM Bt cotton crops as a significant factor, the Indian Government is claiming that farmer suicides are falling through the floor! The following press release from Vidarbha ...
  • GM contamination concerns spiralling in Australia
    1.Canola spills contaminate 2.Independent GM canola tests confirm contamination in WA --- --- 1.Canola spills contaminate Gene Ethics, Media Release, 28 November 2011 Canola spilled along hundreds of metres of rail line near Dunolly last week [pictures available]. A fallen tree appeared to trip ...
  • GM contamination concerns spiralling in Australia
    1.Canola spills contaminate 2.Independent GM canola tests confirm contamination in WA --- --- 1.Canola spills contaminate Gene Ethics, Media Release, 28 November 2011 Canola spilled along hundreds of metres of rail line near Dunolly last week [pictures available]. A fallen tree appeared to trip ...
  • India's new GM crops bill is a gross example o ...

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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

  • 22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
    Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe?  Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first.  Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • Sack gardening, an anti-desertification tool ( ...
    Please have a look at my newest video : http://youtu.be/UgFxQKPblaw Growing vegetables and fruits in sacks has a growing popularity. In desertified drylands all these food crops can be grown better than in the poor soils. Therefore, sack gardening is … Continue reading →
  • Looking at global food production in the mirro ...
    Today, I read an article on global food production published by the UN News (see my former re-posting below). Let us attentively read this text paragraph per paragraph and analyze in the light (in the mirror) of container gardening, a … Continue reading →
  • ABOUT LAND DEGRADATION, WATER SHORTAGES AND GL ...
    LAND DEGRADATION AND WATER SHORTAGES THREATEN GLOBAL FOOD PRODUCTION – UN New York, Nov 28 2011  1:05PM Global food production is being undermined by land degradation and shortages of farmland and  water resources, making feeding the world’s rising population – … Continue reading →
  • Fighting drought, desertification and hunger i ...
    This is just one of the many nice and interesting photos posted by Jojo ROM (Davao, The Philippines).  It’s a picture showing different aspects of combating drought and desertification with very simple methods or techniques: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1718100830632&set=a.10 ...
  • 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 ...

The Paper Trail

  • More kids skip school shots in 8 states
    More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press analysis found.
  • ANALYSIS: Despite GOP claims, U.S. health care ...
    A little more than a year ago, on the day after the GOP regained control of the House of Representatives, Speaker-to-be John Boehner said one of the first orders of business after he took charge would be the repeal of health care reform.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • G20: The morons who came in from the cold
    By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up.  An RCMP "joint intelligence group" --  comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police -- infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of the largest domestic intelligence o ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • N30 strike: live updates
    n30strike[1].jpg Updates and accounts of the massive November 30 strike against cuts, particularly of public sector pensions. Please post your news and accounts of your day below. ...
  • Italy: austerity is violence on the bodies of ...
    occupypatriarchycollage.jpg In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call ut initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students, precarious workers and mig ...
  • Italy NO TAV: more protests planned for December
    donne-no-tav2-300x199.jpg More initiatives and protests being planned by the Italian NO TAV movement against a high speed rail line being built in the Susa Valley (Piedmont). On ...
  • Wage theft victory in South London
    hartley.jpg A pub worker and South London SF have together won 6 weeks in stolen wages after a campaign of direct action and threatening pickets of a London pub. Laura was employed by ‘The Hartley’ pu ...
  • 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. ...

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

  • The ACLU Get One Right
    Every so often, even the ACLU lines up correctly.  This is one such instance: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being/ Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being R ...
  • “Newt” Gingrich Surges in New Hamp ...
    Americans seem to either have a very short memory, or they are being hypnotized. Over the weekend, key “polls” reported Newt Gingrich actually leading the GOP field for the 2012 Presidential nomination.  Perhaps “Illuminati Appointment” is more appropriate. Never mind tha ...
  • 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 ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Iranian protesters storm and loot the British ...
    protesters stormed a second British embassy compound in northern Tehran, as others were still occupying the main building in the city centre many miles away, news agencies reported. Without specifying which compound it was referring to, the semi-official Mehr news agency said embassy employ ...
  • گزارشی تکان دهنده از زندان مرکزی قم:بدتر از که ...
    گزارشی تکان دهنده از“گوانتانوموی قم“ منابع خبری جنبش سبز و فعالان حقوق بشري، طی گزارشی از وضعيت وخيم زندان لنگرود قم، اين زندان را "گوانتانوموی قم" معرفی کرده و گوشه ای از فجايع رخ داده در اين زندان را منتشر ساخته اند. read more
  • طرح حذف خامنه اي كليد خورد؛ انفجار ملارد يك «ت ...
    سپاه پاسداران از ابتدا مدعي بود انفجار بر اثر جابجايي يك زاغه قديمي مهمات در حوالي ملارد رخ داده، اما با به ميان آمدن نام سردار تهراني مقدم ناگزير شد بخشي از واقعيت را بيان كند. خبر اوليه سپاه درباره كشته شدن يك سردار عاليرتبه سپاه (تهراني مقدم) در امر معمولي «جا به جايي زاغه مهمات» يك خبر ساختگ ...
  • Iran-Israel see eye-to-eye... at least in the ...
    PANAJI: The jury assigned the task of selecting this year's best movie has an unusual dimension-two members are eminent filmmakers from countries hostile to each other. While Tahmineh Milani has done much through her movies to spread the message of women's empowerment in Iran, Dan Wolman is eq ...
  • 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 ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Guess Who’s Printing Money?
    (This is the second of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The government finances its $15 trillion debt by selling US Treasury Bonds. As of November 2011, China is no longer the largest holder of US Treasury Bonds. The US taxpayer (via the Federal Reser ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Birthers still dogging Obama
    Nearly four years after the phenomenon of Birtherism first emerged, and more than a year after President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, the loose group of activists who believe Obama is not a U.S. citizen and therefore not legitimately president are still pursuing their cause.Th ...
  • Has pepper spray become a staple of American life?
    While "The Daily Show" was on hiatus last week, a new trend took hold in America. That trend, oddly enough, is pepper spray. First, there was the now-infamous U.C. Davis incident, wherein police literally hosed down a group of non-violent protesters with the stuff. Then, on Black Friday, a Calif ...
  • How Wall Street occupied the Fed
    Bloomberg's fabulous report on the Federal Reserve Bank's "secret" bailout of U.S. banks is an example of dogged enterprise journalism at its very best. The Fed fought Bloomberg's Freedom of Information Act requests to get details of its huge loan program all the way to the Supreme Court. But Bl ...
  • Ron Paul’s phony populism
    To me, the epiphany of the most dreadful presidential campaign in history took place in Keene, New Hampshire, last week, when a Ron Paul town meeting was interrupted by some Occupy Wall Street hecklers."Let me address that for a minute,” the Republican presidential candidate said, “because if yo ...
  • Why China and Mexico matter
    One of the most tiresome games in Washington, D.C., is the search for a new American grand strategy. According to the folklore of the foreign policy community, the American diplomat George Kennan came up with the grand strategy of containment of the Soviet Union that the U.S. followed through su ...

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

  • Back to the futurum
    For Roman Catholics who never got the chance to flunk Latin class, the new Mass is gonna be a stretch.
  • We’re paying more, and getting less
    Claiming to have a “smart” budget, Mayor Rob Ford wants to raise property taxes and user fees while cutting city services. That’s not good governance.
  • Let doctors speak
    Ontario’s College of Physicians and Surgeons mustn’t endorse a flawed policy that would quash doctors’ criticism of alternative medicine.
  • 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.

Energy Collective

  • A Fusion Reactor Hollywood Could Love
    Some latest scuttlebutt from the world of nuclear fusion has all the ingredients of a Hollywood thriller screenplay (and for those who remember Inside Greentech’s Greentech Avenger, you know I know scuttlebutt!) There’ve been all kinds of cinematic ideas, and personalities, on the front lines of ...
  • Salvaging Durban with Innovation
     Looking past the possibility of any legally-binding global emission target (and U.S. involvement in any treaty), the international climate negotiations opening today in Durban, South Africa are missing the point – the only way the world is going to drastically reduce carbon emissions is th ...
  • EPA's Jackson: States Doing 'Good Job' Regulat ...
    EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, in an interview aired Sunday by energyNOW on hydraulic fracturing regulation:  
  • The Discussion Continues: Nuclear Power in Japan
    This began as an answer to one letter writer in Friends Journal, and grew. The information that surprised me most is the answer to this question: How does the danger from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors compare to other health dangers, such as Tokyo pollution? **************
  • How Does Energy Efficiency Create Jobs?
    With unemployment hovering at a stubborn 9%, it is no wonder that job creation has become a hot topic. It is nearly impossible to read the news without encountering an article describing how a policy or industry creates a given number of jobs. Often, job creation is used as a justification for p ...

EU Times

  • US scientists recreate Stradivarius Violin
    Owning a Stradivarius is the dream of every violinist, but buying one will set you back to the tune of millions. In a feat that will strike a chord with any musician, US scientists have used computer technology to recreate the legendary instrument. A team of radiologists and violin makers used c ...
  • 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”? We know something that you don’t…… but can’t talk about it Under the Nucl ...
  • Russia Sends Aircraft Carrier and Warships to ...
    Moscow is deploying warships at its base in the Syrian port of Tartus. The long-planned mission comes, providentially, at the very moment when it could help prevent a potential conflict in the strategically important Middle Eastern country. ­The Russian battle group will consist of three vessels ...
  • Venezuela pulls Gold Reserves from Western banks
    Venezuela has begun to repatriate the South American nation’s gold treasures held in Western banks in a move to protect the country against economic crises in the United States and Europe, a report says. The shipment of gold arrived in Venezuela on Friday after President Hugo Chavez ordere ...
  • Pope sued for not wearing seat belt
    A man from Dortmund has filed a complaint against Pope Benedikt XVI for not wearing a seat belt in his “Popemobile” during his last trip to Germany. Johannes Christian Sundermann, a lawyer from Unna in North Rhine Westphalia, filed a legal complaint against the German-born pope forme ...

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 GOP Debate on Foreign Policy: Anti-Obama o ...
    Tweet Whether Obama wins a second term or one of the eight GOP candidates vying for his job, the foreign policy challenges facing the United States will continue to be monumental. From Iran to Afghanistan to immigration policy, the candidates competing for the GOP nomination have sought to port ...
  • Annals of Israeli Blacks Ops: Lebanon, Iran Co ...
    Lots of explosions big and small today in different parts of the region.  In Isfahan, there was a major blast at a facility that stores uranium gas which centrifuges use in the enrichment process for Iran’s nuclear program.  Damage to this plant could cause heavy delays in its ability to furt ...
  • Brees, Saints blow out Giants 49-24
    By Brett Martel, AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees and the surging New Orleans Saints made everything look easy against the slumping Giants. Brees passed for 363 yards and four touchdowns and ran for another score as New Orleans rolled to a 49-24 victory Monday night, extending New ...
  • Second Mysterious Explosion Heard In Iran In T ...
    Thereâs lots of action in Iran these days. Just two weeks after a huge mysterious explosion took place near Tehran killing 17 troops including an IRGC officer responsible for the development of some of Iran's most advanced weapons, another huge mysterious  explosion which is  home to nuclear ex ...
  • U.N. Accuses Syria of 'Crimes Against Humanity'
    by Ahmed Al Omran FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP/Getty Images Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Professor Paulo Pinheiro gestures during a press conference in Geneva today. A U.N. commission accused security forces loyal to Syria President Bashar Assad of killing hundreds of children a ...

Groklaw

  • Apple Wins a New Round of iPhone 4 Design Pate ...
    On November 10, 2010, Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc, formerly known as Silicon Graphics, Inc, sued Apple for allegedly infringing on their patent regarding floating point rasterization. Well, it appears that Apple has decided to counter sue and is now preparing for a showdown. The California ...
  • Algorithm discovery by protein folding game pl ...
    Abstract Foldit is a multiplayer online game in which players collaborate and compete to create accurate protein structure models. For specific hard problems, Foldit player solutions can in some cases outperform state-of-the-art computational methods. However, very little is known about how col ...
  • Judge rejects $285-million settlement between ...
    A federal judge in New York issued a stern challenge to the government's recent history of imposing "relatively modest" punishments on big Wall Street banks for wrongdoing during the financial crisis. Jed Rakoff, a federal judge in Manhattan, issued a sharply worded order Monday rejecting a pro ...
  • Web Search By The People, For The People: YaCy 1.0
    The YaCy project is releasing version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer Free Software search engine. The software takes a radically new approach to search. YaCy does not use a central server. Instead, its search results come from a network of currently over 600 independent peers. In such a distributed net ...
  • Free software activists to take on Google with ...
    Free software activists have released a peer-to-peer search engine to take on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The free, distributed search engine, YaCy, takes a new approach to search. Rather than using a central server, its search results come from a network of independent "peers," users who h ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • The other defense industry
    According to Jeffrey A. Winters, author of Oligarchy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), there’s the “income defense industry” which is composed of [L]awyers, accountants, wealth management consultants, revolving-door lobbyists, think-tank debate framers and even key segments ...
  • Tucson desert
    I love deserts. The Arizona desert is especially beautiful even as it has a festive assortment of plants and critters that stab and bite. Deserts are filled with life, you just have to look for it.
  • Judge blocks Citigroup settlement With S.E.C.
    Earlier this month, Judge Rakoff indicated that he had problems with the proposed settlement between the SEC and Citigroup arising from the sale of $1 billion of toxic mortgage debt.  Today he followed through, rejecting the proposed settlement and ordered a trial. In a written opinion, Manhatta ...
  • The Federal Reserve exists to protect the 1%
    The banksters and Fed are of course gobsmacked by what happened asying, who could have predicted it? 3 big reasons the Fed got it wrong Misunderstanding of the housing boom A lack of analysis of the rapid growth of new forms of mortgage finance Insufficient weight given to the powerful adverse f ...
  • Crooks and Liars becoming Democratic Party mou ...
    Their attempt to pretend the Obama Administration and DHS weren’t behind the concerted nationwide crackdown on Occupy is silly at best. Their implied logic apparently is, only Republicans do that sort of thing so to say Democrats would do it too is just wrong. And besides, we must vote for ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

  • Where the Greens are tops
    Here is the list of booths where the Green Party came first.  We won the Party Vote in at least 24 places around the country. I have excluded very small booths like Arthurs Pass (we won with 19 votes) and Okiwi (10 was enough for first place).  In fact I’ve excluded any booth where under [...]
  • General debate, November 29, 2011
  • Thanks for voting Green!
    It was amazing to watch the votes coming in from around the country on Election Day. We received 10.62% of the vote, which means that we can bring at least 13 Green MPs into Parliament. So a big welcome to Eugenie Sage, Jan Logie, Steffan Browning, Denise Roche, Holly Walker, and Julie Anne Gent ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 49 Sudden Deaths, 213 Permanent Disabilities - ...
    By Dr. Mercola During a Republican debate in Tampa, Florida, presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) alleged that campaign contributions from drug company Merck—the maker of Gardasil—played "a pivotal role in Rick Perry's 2007 executive order that mandated teenage girls ...
  • Take Heed - Nearly Every Processed Food You Ea ...
    By Dr. Mercola In Europe genetically modified foods and ingredients have to be labeled. In the United States, they do not. But the truth is, if and when GM labeling is finally required in the United States, you're going to see changes to the majority of food labels in your supermarket, as ...
  • Beware: This Popular Drug Can Actually Cause D ...
    By Dr. Mercola Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs - mostly statins - and some "experts" claim that many millions more should be taking them, including children as young as eight. I couldn't disagree more. Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that is, th ...
  • The Appalling Betrayals which Illegitimatize t ...
    By Dr. Mercola The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims their mission is to "collaborate to create the expertise, information, and tools that people and communities need to protect their health…" And with a budget of $10.6 billion for fiscal year (FY) 2011, and a requ ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • The world's original scientists' observations ...
    The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife © Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. Fro ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • SQ expansion comes at a price for Montrealers
    Montrealers will learn on Wednesday, when Montreal's budget is unveiled, how much more they will be paying in municipal taxes next year.
  • How welcome are Muslims in Canada?
    Besides the call for revolution, one common slogan in the recent Middle East uprisings is "Allahu akbar," Arabic for "God is the greatest." Add to these chants the recent declaration by the Libyan national transition council that Libya will abide by Islamic law, and most recently the victory of ...
  • Stephen Maher: Ottawa gives $1.3B in severance ...
    Every weekday morning, fleets of buses carry federal government workers from Gatineau across the river to their jobs in Ottawa.
  • 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.

Food World Order

  • dna barcoding catches food fraudsters, identif ...
    from ctv: Scientists have discovered a range of new uses for a Canadian technology that can be used to peer into 30,000-year-old permafrost, detect phoney herbal medicines and catch invasive species before they sneak across borders. Researchers from around the world are fingerprinting most of th ...
  • 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 ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
    Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe?  Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first.  Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
  • 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 ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • The Luhnatics are running the village
    Within forty-eight hours of learning that Chris Huhne and his part-time pals of the socialist Conservative Party are giving away £1billion of our money to "help Africa fight climate change" (rebranded from 'man made global warming' after a lack of warming and some sexed up science dossiers)... ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • SwipePad: A Must Have App for Every Android Device
    SwipePad is a simple application that lets you launch any app with a single swipe action from within any other app. Upon being recommended by a friend of mine, SwipePad was one of those applications I installed immediately after receiving my first Android phone. Since then, SwipePad has become ...
  • "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 ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” – DOWNLO ...
    “Europe is at economic war, and Germany is winning,” Anatole Kaletsky wrote in The Times last week. When most people think of war, they think of soldiers, weapons and equipment.  But finance is also a method of conquering nations. Ordinary people in the USA, UK andEurope are now being impoverish ...
  • “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 ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Scientists in Revolt against Global Warming
    By Karin McQuillan Global warming became a cause to save life on earth before it had a chance to become good science. The belief that fossil fuel use is an emergency destroying our planet by CO2 emissions took over the media and political arena by storm. The issue was politicized so quickly that ...
  • 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 astounded by your answer to Warwick Hughes when he asked for the same data. You [...]
  • It’s your fault… with respect, let ...
    By Clif High At this time, and for a period that i have reason to suspect extends to March of next year, a delicate balance exists in the planetary social body. A small number of psychopaths will end that balance with a global war of such proportions that most humans will NOT survive it. Let [...]
  • Managed Perception and the Nature of Central Banks
    By Les Visible Wars and rumors of wars are in the process, with Pakistan and Iran, as the linchpins to global upheaval and mass disorder. We are on the brink, with the central bankers and their minions, in various fields of play, set to give new meaning to the terms, mass murder, genocide and eu ...
  • The Zombie Children from Dead Weight City
    By Les Visible Think about this, the chakras are electromagnetic. Women are magnetic, men are electrical. Truly grasp the permutations of this and you could build a flying saucer, relatively easily, if you had the components. You do have the blueprints, if you know where to look. Da Vinci, Tesla ...

Veterans Today

  • Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions
    Congress is now considering legislative language to mandate indefinite military detentions of US citizens suspected of present or past associations with alleged terrorist groups, with or without evidence to prove it. More on that below.
  • Isms Can Drive Us Nuts! What Is Chiliastic Mil ...
    Jargon is a technique for curbing outsiders from understanding what is going on. The jargon of theologians cloaks a whole lot of every day chicanery and turns religion into an enemy.
  • Tribunal that should have been reported by you ...
    Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal. Some proclaim there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that an international court would charge, much less convict, an American or British leader.
  • Karzai calls narcotics as big calamity for Afg ...
    President Karzai called poppy cultivation and drugs trafficking as big calamity for Afghanistan, saying that his administration makes efforts for the removal, presidential press office said in a statement. “Meeting Iranian interior and Pakistani counter-narcotics ministers, the president assured ...
  • ISAF to review force use against insurgents
    The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will review the methods of force usage against the insurgents in Afghanistan, ISAF commander Gen. John Allen assured President Karzai by sending a letter. “I have commanded all the regiments to take the changed method and report me by December 5 ...

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: November 29, 2011
    ==== Will America’s New Hypersonic Weapon Cause A Global Arms Race? Russian Warships Head For Syria SCO Partners: China, Russia Say NATO Attacks On Pakistan Unacceptable NATO Exceeds All Limits In Pakistan Russian Foreign Minister Condemns Deadly NATO Air Attack In Pakistan Pakistan Army R ...
  • John Greenleaf Whittier: The Peace Convention ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts John Greenleaf Whittier The Peace Convention at Brussels (1848) ***** Then, o’er Earth’s war-field, till the strife shall cease, Like Morven’s harpers, sing your song of peace; As in old fable rang the Thracian’s ...
  • Franz Liszt: Bellum et Pax
    ==== Musical selections Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts ==== Music by Franz Liszt Illustrations by Gustave Doré
  • Hypersonic Missiles: Who Is The Target?
    http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/11/28/61168605.html Voice of Russia November 28, 2011 Hypersonic missile: who is the target? John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca. ==== The first thing that is on ...
  • Stop NATO news: November 28, 2011
    ==== NATO Attack: Pakistan On The Boil Pakistan Buries Soldiers; U.S., NATO Flags, Obama Effigy Burned Pakistan To Completely Review Relations With U.S., NATO Pakistan: Several Thousand Protesters Surround U.S. Consulate In Karachi Hundreds Of NATO Containers Blocked At Crossing Points NATO Supp ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Moody’s Continues Fanning the Eurozone Debt Cr ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert - Editor of End the Lie November 29, 2011 The Moody’s Investor Service said that the “rapid escalation” of the European sovereign debt crisis is now threatening the stability of every nation in Europe. Moody’s declared in a statement that  without taking measures ...
  • Bank Robbery, Italian Style: The Fiscal Fascis ...
    By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie November 29, 2011 Not much is ever really new in either economics or politics. So Italy’s nuovo Duce Mario Monte is retracing the footsteps of a man that he probably worships as one of his saintly heroes. Almost 90 years ago il primo Duce, ...
  • 22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
    The Economic Collapse Blog November 29, 2011 Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe? Before you dismiss the title of this article as “alarmist”, read the facts listed in the rest of this article first. Over the past several months, there has been an astonish ...
  • Pimping NBA Stars – The ‘Obama Cla ...
    The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas November 29, 2011 Obama’s campaign staff has put together an over the top event with current and former NBA stars, to raise the president $35,000 a bench seat at the “Obama Classic Basketball Game”. Yes that’s right the Obama classic. Who kn ...
  • Beagle Freedom Project – Second Rescue & ...
    BeagleFreedomProject November 28, 2011 Our second rescue from beagles who have lived their entire lives inside a research laboratory. These beagles have known nothing except the confines of metal cages. They have known no soft human touch, no warm bed, no companionship, no love. They have never ...

FRS

  • Saboteurs blow up Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan ...
    [Since those who attacked the Egypt-Israel gas pipeline have not been identified, there is no way to determine what their objectives may be.  But the attack clearly does have the effect of focusing the issue of Egypt's relations with Israel, and raises the questions:  Rebuild the pipeline?  Who ...
  • Indian Express: Kishenji’s Death not mou ...
    Kishenji was ‘contact’ of Nepal Maoists By Yubaraj Ghimire Kishenji was apparently the main contact person with the Nepali Maoists, but the ruling Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (UCPN-M) has preferred not to publicly mourn his death. A senior Maoist leader, who did not wish to be named ...
  • Solidarity with Occupy LA against threatened e ...
    US Human Rights Network, November 26, 2011                        Kali Akuno, kakuno@ushrnetwork.org   STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH OCCUPY LOS ANGELES  The following statement is in response to the threatened closure of Occupy Los Angeles by city officials at 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 28, 2 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Should a New Recipe for Engineered Bird Flu, P ...
    Inside a Dutch medical facility is a potentially devastating weapon that could kill millions: A genetically modified version of the H5N1 bird flu, engineered to be easily transmitted among ferrets. And the researchers who figured out how to do it would like to share their work with the world. It ...
  • Smartphone Touchscreens Could Analyze Biologic ...
    The lab-on-a-chip model has been praised as the future of simplified diagnostic medicine--place a sample of saliva, blood, or urine on a small chip-like device that traps disease biomarkers, and send it off to a lab for analysis and diagnosis. But a couple of researchers at the Korea Advanced In ...
  • Restaurant Menus Will Include DNA Barcodes to ...
    Fish specials at your local restaurant may soon come with an extra guarantee of quality and sustainability, as fishmongers start checking the DNA of their wares. The Food and Drug Administration approved DNA barcoding last month, and restaurants are planning to start using it to prove the proven ...
  • Video: Phone App For Distracted Pedestrians De ...
    Texting while driving can be deadly. Talking while walking? Also deadly. Or at least threatening enough that researchers at Dartmouth and the University of Bologna thought it necessary to develop a smartphone app that makes it safer. Their Android app uses machine learning and image recognition ...
  • All Systems Are Go After Curiosity Rover's Suc ...
    While most of us were still enjoying Thanksgiving leftovers, a bunch of people at NASA had a very eventful weekend. The Mars Science Laboratory lifted off under a muggy Florida sky Saturday morning, a picture-perfect launch for a milestone mission. A mammoth Atlas V rocket lifted it into Earth o ...

Veterans Today

  • Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions
    Congress is now considering legislative language to mandate indefinite military detentions of US citizens suspected of present or past associations with alleged terrorist groups, with or without evidence to prove it. More on that below.
  • Isms Can Drive Us Nuts! What Is Chiliastic Mil ...
    Jargon is a technique for curbing outsiders from understanding what is going on. The jargon of theologians cloaks a whole lot of every day chicanery and turns religion into an enemy.
  • Tribunal that should have been reported by you ...
    Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal. Some proclaim there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that an international court would charge, much less convict, an American or British leader.
  • Karzai calls narcotics as big calamity for Afg ...
    President Karzai called poppy cultivation and drugs trafficking as big calamity for Afghanistan, saying that his administration makes efforts for the removal, presidential press office said in a statement. “Meeting Iranian interior and Pakistani counter-narcotics ministers, the president assured ...
  • ISAF to review force use against insurgents
    The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will review the methods of force usage against the insurgents in Afghanistan, ISAF commander Gen. John Allen assured President Karzai by sending a letter. “I have commanded all the regiments to take the changed method and report me by December 5 ...

War is Business

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

  • Attn World: Eurozone Will End on 7 December
    This assertion may brand Wolfgang Munchau a genius or a laughingstock for life on the level of Francis "End of History" Fukuyama or the Dow Jones 36,000 jokesters, but for what it's worth, the German commentator is definitely going all-in: I have yet to be convinced that the European Council is ...
  • Mitt Romney & the Republicans' Sinophobic Turn
    Obama the candidate in 2008: What we need to do is to just be better bargainers and say, 'Look, here's the bottom line: You guys keep on manipulating your currency; we are going to start shutting off access to some of our markets,' Romney the candidate in 2011: We can't just sit back and let Ch ...
  • 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 ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 22 Reasons Why We Could See An Economic Collap ...
    Will 2012 be the year that we see an economic collapse in Europe?  Before you dismiss the title of this article as "alarmist", read the facts listed in the rest of this article first.  Over the past several months, there has been an astonishing loss of confidence in the European ...
  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US scientists recreate Stradivarius Violin
    Owning a Stradivarius is the dream of every violinist, but buying one will set you back to the tune of millions. In a feat that will strike a chord with any musician, US scientists have used computer technology to recreate the legendary instrument. A team of radiologists and violin makers used c ...
  • 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”? We know something that you don’t…… but can’t talk about it Under the Nucl ...
  • Russia Sends Aircraft Carrier and Warships to ...
    Moscow is deploying warships at its base in the Syrian port of Tartus. The long-planned mission comes, providentially, at the very moment when it could help prevent a potential conflict in the strategically important Middle Eastern country. ­The Russian battle group will consist of three vessels ...
  • Venezuela pulls Gold Reserves from Western banks
    Venezuela has begun to repatriate the South American nation’s gold treasures held in Western banks in a move to protect the country against economic crises in the United States and Europe, a report says. The shipment of gold arrived in Venezuela on Friday after President Hugo Chavez ordere ...
  • Pope sued for not wearing seat belt
    A man from Dortmund has filed a complaint against Pope Benedikt XVI for not wearing a seat belt in his “Popemobile” during his last trip to Germany. Johannes Christian Sundermann, a lawyer from Unna in North Rhine Westphalia, filed a legal complaint against the German-born pope forme ...

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

We Know the Lies

  • Judge Napolitano... What If...
      Judge Napalitano questions whether our constitution means anything anymore... A MUST SEE VIDEO read more
  • AGENDA 21... HUD Announces 2011 SUSTAINABLE CO ...
      U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan today announced the recipients of the 2011 Sustainable Communities Grants, totaling nearly $96 million. Twenty-seven communities and organizations will receive Community Challenge grants and 29 regional areas wi ...
  • S.1867... Would They Really Do It?... If Order ...
      S.1867 The end of Liberty Many of us have wondered if directed to; would our own military turn on us?  It appears that this is the plan and has been all along, yet the question remains……would they actually do it if ordered to?  ~ Marti Oakley read more
  • Why Some US Soldiers Will Follow Illegal Order ...
      Listening to Mark Koernke who is part of the leadership in the Michigan Militia, He has a lot of insight about history, especially the Soviet Union in the early days. For the last few years, he has advised all Military personal to get their families off the Military installations aro ...
  • Wal-Mart FOOD Prices Rising Faster Than Compet ...
      Walmart got rid of its "Always Low Prices" slogan back in 2007.  Perhaps for good reason... read more

Tarpley

  • The Anatomy of the NATO-CIA Destabilization of ...
    Webster G. Tarpley Ph.D. TARPLEY.net November 27, 2011 This interview was taped on Thursday, November 21, 2011 [download video]
  • 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 ...

Modern Survivalism

  • Financial Professionals Sounding The Alarm, Ec ...
    You don’t have to search very far beyond the main stream to find lots of meaty articles about the dire economic straits we’re in – a world sinking in enormous debt of fiat currencies. A corrupt banking system swimming in 600 trillion of unregulated derivatives, an unimaginable ...
  • 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’ ...

Fast Company

  • Work Smart: Optimize Your Life With A/Me Testing
    The old adage "if it ain't broke don't fix it" is wrong--it cripples us when it comes to optimizing what works.Google is famous for its relentless A/B testing, a technique for making constant incremental improvements by testing one small change against the previous version to see which is more s ...
  • Facebook Settles FTC Privacy Complaints, Battl ...
    Breaking bits of innovation from the vigilant Fast Company staff. Check back for updates all day. Facebook Settles FTC Privacy Complaints. The Federal Trade Commission says the social network has agreed to settle charges that it deceived consumers over its privacy policies. The settlement requi ...
  • Education's Economics Of Scarcity
    All across the United States, nay all around the world, the message about higher education is uniform: More people should go to university. President Obama has repeatedly stated on record that "by 2020 America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world." The ...
  • Do u h8 h8? DoSomething.org Wants Teens To Tex ...
    Through a new membership model, Do Something is counting on text messages to create a movement of 5 million teenage activists by 2015. Can they get Generation Text to care about poverty, hunger, homelessness, and disease?It’s a constant challenge for social causes: how to expand reach while real ...
  • Blake Simmons On Creating Fuel From Plants
    In this extended version of the talk from our new issue, we speak with Blake Simmons, the VP for deconstruction at the Department of Energy's Joint Bioenergy Institute about competing with the fossil fuel industries, balancing needs for food and fuel, and becoming the Radio Shack of bioenergy.Ph ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt's First Polling Day Deemed Promising, Br ...
    Violence was barely seen on the first day of the parliamentary elections, but there were other violations, many of which were linked to the Muslim Brotherhood The first day of the maiden post-revolution parliamentary elections witnessed several drawbacks and violations across the nation ...
  • 'To Vote or Not to Vote?' Egyptians Ask as Pol ...
    With the kick-off of landmark parliamentary polls on Monday, the debate over whether to boycott the country's first post-Mubarak electoral contest continues to rage in Tahrir Square - and elsewhere “Who should I vote for?” is a question that dominates most conversations these day ...
  • Government Association Breaks Egypt Election L ...
    The Red Sea hotel authority urged tourism-sector employees to vote for the Egyptian Bloc to counter Islamist blocs in the area Statements issued by the Egyptian hotel association of the Red Sea tourism chamber in Luxor urging regional tourism-sector employees to vote for the Egyptian ...
  • The Battle of Muhammad Mahmud Street: Teargas, ...
     “The people in Muhammad Mahmoud [street] are decidedly not revolutionaries,” they are “vandals,” insisted a police captain on the phone to Yusri Foda’s prime TV show Akhir Kalam. The officer in the video has a point. Four days into what became known as “the Second Revolution”—thoug ...
  • Tunisia's Election Results and the Question of ...
    Now that the votes have been tallied and the victors of Tunisia’s 23 October elections have been announced, the country’s Constituent Assembly is finally beginning to take shape. With the blue ink still fading from Tunisian voters’ index fingers, all eyes are fixed on the compositio ...

mediagazer

  • Jeremy Hunt hints at demise of Press Complaint ...
    Tara Conlan / Guardian: Jeremy Hunt hints at demise of Press Complaints Commission  —  Culture secretary says PCC is likely to be replaced by a body better able to enforce accuracy  —  Newspapers are to likely to come under the auspices of a new regulatory body t ...
  • Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are 'scum of j ...
    Guardian: Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are ‘scum of journalism’, Leveson told  —  Former News of the World features editor hits out at former bosses, accusing Coulson of introducing phone hacking at paper  —  Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson have be ...
  • Paul McMullan defends Milly Dowler phone hacki ...
    Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk: Paul McMullan defends Milly Dowler phone hacking  —  Former News of the World deputy features editor tells Leveson inquiry that hacking of missing teenager's voicemail was ‘honourable’ and done by ‘well-meaning journalists’ ...
  • Spot.Us becomes part of Public Insight Network ...
    Steve Myers / Poynter: Spot.Us becomes part of Public Insight Network  —  American Public Media has acquired Spot.Us and will integrate it with its crowdsourcing platform Public Insight Network.  The two operations “create a media that is more responsive and responsib ...
  • Spot.Us has Merged with Public Insight Network ...
    DigiDave: Spot.Us has Merged with Public Insight Network  —  Spot.Us + PIN = Rocking  —  Spot.Us launched in November of 2008.  Counting the months of planning (and applying for the Knight News Challenge) that went into the launch and I've been working on Sp ...

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

  • VIDYA BALAN’S STYLIST CALLS HER ‘HALF-NAK ...
    Mumbai, November 29: Actor Vidya Balan’s own stylist has created a furore by claiming that the actor is ‘half naked’ in her upcoming film. According to sources, Vidya herself is upset over the comments made by...
  • PM asserts govt’s resolve on retail FDI
    New Delhi, November 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday defended the Centre’s decision to allow 51% FDI in the retail sector and said that it will create employment opportunities and benefit the country’s economy in the long run. Addressing the national convention of the Congress pa ...
  • Hrithik Roshan now to represent Rado
    Cameras are ready to roll on a new Rado global ambassadorship featuring...
  • Murdoch suffers BSkyB revolt, but hangs o ...
    LONDON (Reuters) - Investors holding nearly a quarter of BSkyB shares failed to back the re-election of chairman James Murdoch on Tuesday, in protest over the former chief executive's handling of a phone hacking scandal that has damaged the family name. A BSkyB spokesman said that excluding ...
  • Rising peanut-butter prices worry food ba ...
    Food banks and pantries around the country say high peanut-butter prices have made it harder for them to provide one of their most-requested items âEuro" and a favorite among...

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Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • 10 Best British Open Performances
    Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
    Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 11/28/11 - Should the US use hydraulic fractur ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: Should the US use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas? - Read pro and con arguments from the Wall Street Journal (pro), Greenpeace USA (con), Ground Water Protection Council (pro), Los Angeles Times staff writer Margot Roosevelt (con), Amer ...
  • 11/28/11 - What is hydraulic fracturing (frack ...
    alternativeenergy.procon.org - NEW: What is hydraulic fracturing (fracking)? - Fracking forces a mixture of water, sand, and other chemical additives underground to create fractures that allow the release of natural gas which is then harvested for energy use. Read more about this controversial ...
  • 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.

Truth About Our World

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  • Dumbing Down Darwin
    Robert Frank’s effort to explain the lessons of evolution without offending libertarian sensibilities James K. Galbraith In today’s economics department the libertarian holds a place comparable to that of Maoists among antiwar protestors back in the 1970s: a fringe group, yet admired (by s ...
  • The Anthropologists’ Afghanistan
    ALEXANDER STAR Ten years after the Taliban’s leaders fled their country in apparent defeat, the war in Afghanistan has become what one observer calls “a perpetually escalating stalemate.” As in Iraq, the United States military has responded to bad news with counterinsurgency: eliminate troublema ...
  • Mothers and …
    Melvin Konner Hrdy discovered, among other things, that dominant males in a group are challenged from time to time by roving adventurers who can mate only by defeating them. If defeated, the former leaders slink away, often wounded, while their successors attack and kill all infants under six mo ...
  • Autism meets geeks
    Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn’t there. Lizzie Buchen In the opening scene of The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg portrays a cold Mark Zuckerberg getting dumped by his girlf ...
  • DEATH OF THE AUTHOR
    Andrew Hussey One of the most important facts about Michel Houellebecq – usually overlooked in favour of his nihilism, alleged racism and other attention-seeking provocations – is that he is a first-rate prose stylist. This is not quite enough, however, to make him a good novelist. E ...

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

  • Kim Bax gets a Supreme Court injunction
    Kim Bax, webmaster of Women for Schapelle, is reporting that she has received a Supreme Court injunction, which threatens her with severe consequences if she mentions certain "serious allegations" about the Seven Network. These allegations are connected to the disclosures found at the Expendable ...
  • 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 ...
  • Spread the word: Occupy Building 7 Next Weekend
    November 19 and 20, 2011. In front of the rebuilt World Trade Center Building 7. DEMAND an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 and the Twin Towers September 11, 2001 - the The United States was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in ou ...
  • The Green Wave by Joanne Nova

Beacon

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

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

Taylor Marsh

  • Mr. Unpopularity Better Get His Butt to Iowa
    Mitt Romney needs to double down in Iowa, beginning on an “illegal immigration – amnesty” message, because the Newt Gingrich factor is setting in. But will Iowa’s Christian conservatives bite on Mormon Mitt? I just don’t see it. Who knows, maybe the real conservativ ...
  • MSNBC Needs Ann Coulter as a Permanent Contributor
    Ms. Coulter pronounced it Democratic, not Democrat, so what’s the problem? Adults watch “Morning Joe,” not children. “Sesame Street” it is not. So the audience can handle the likes of Ann Coulter, otherwise why book the bombastic right wing bandleader? There’s ...
  • Pakistan to Boycott Conference on Afghanistan ...
    According to Afghan security officials, their commandos were engaged with U.S. Special Operations troops in a nighttime raid against suspected Taliban insurgents when they came under cross-border fire and called in an airstrike. – Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was ...
  • Iranian Students Take British Embassy
    From the BBC: Protesters in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have broken into the UK embassy compound during an anti-British demonstration, reports say. Militant students are said to have removed the British flag, burnt it and replaced it with Iran’s flag. State TV showed youths smashing embas ...
  • Oh Herman, There You Go Again
    Another T.K.O. for Ego. If you want to know how these things happen, the story of Herman and Ginger is the most common. The man has the opportunity and the means. The woman is bored and takes the offer. From there it’s pretty ordinary. Well, except for the part where the man decides to go ...

Hudson New York

  • Hamas and Fatah: The Unity Government That Isn ...
    Each time Fatah and Hamas announce that they are close to ending their dispute, the Palestinians quickly discover that the two rival parties are not telling the truth. In many ways, the status quo is not all bad for Fatah and Hamas. The two parties have,
  • Should Germany Leave the Euro?
    Will the euro survive until Christmas? It is far from certain. It is even more uncertain, even unlikely, if it will survive until the Christmas after this, 2012. Investors are gearing up for a partial or complete collapse of the eurozone, the group of
  • Libya: New Threat in the Middle East
    Less than a year after the invasion of Iraq took place in December 2003, Libya's then-ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, gave up his Weapons of Mass Destruction program, apparently out of fear that war could come to him and his nation, as it just had to
  • Turkey to Declare Sanctions on Syria
    Turkey will swiftly implement economic and financial sanctions against the disobedient Syrian administration amid growing tension with its southern neighbor, whose leader accused Ankara of having "imperial dreams." Hours after the Arab League approved
  • Moroccan Crime in the Netherlands & the Myths ...
    Forty percent of Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands between the ages of 12 and 24 have been arrested, fined, charged or otherwise accused of committing a crime during the past five years, according to a new report commissioned by the Dutch Ministry

Urban Survival

  • Passing Out (Economic) Stars
    (Palm Springs, CA)  Since we’re in a hurry to get out of town this morning I’m going to simply pass our “stars” which seems a way to quickly cover a lot of ground. For example, although I don’t agree with … Continue reading →
  • Halfway ‘Round America–Homeward
    (Palm Springs, CA) Assuming we haven’t had rain accumulate in our fuel tanks, the tires haven’t lost air, the oil’s good, and all the other things that go into the checklist that makes up an aircraft pre-flight, Elaine and I … Continue reading →
  • The “Time Remaining Till War” Problem
    (Tacoma, WA) As we make our way back to the ranch this week, it’s with sincere regret that we leave.  Family, friends, and especially time spent with Clif who expects to have the next web bot run out by mid … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Hey SciAm! Credit Where Due?
    (Tacoma, WA)  Tell you a little story:  More than 10 years ago we rolled out the Web Bot Project of Clif at www.halfpasthuman.com.  Used predictive linguistics to try and “see” the future and we’ve been posting highlights of data runs … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • At UMass Amherst, skulls tell the tale of evol ...
    UMass Amherst news office has a release on a study looking at bats skulls: "This study conducted during the International Year of the Bat offers a clear example of how the evolution of new traits, in this case a skull with a new shape, allowed animals to use new resources and eventually, to r ...
  • Can science help cooks evolve? Gastronomy gets ...
    That great scientific debate - how to cook a turkey - came to Harvard last week in honor of Thanksgiving. Using math, not a cookbook, Harvard physicist David Weitz introduced the week's "Cooking and Science" lecture by explaining how to calculate the cooking time for a bird. But, guest speake ...
  • 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 ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Pipeline and Tanker Trouble: New report shows ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. A report released today by NRDC, the Pembina Institute and the Living Oceans Society shows the enormous social, economic, and environmental costs to British Columbia of a ...
  • Clean Energy Rust Busting Road Trip Part 2: Cl ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago This is a special guest post from 2011 MAP fellow Lauren Kubiak. She, Rocky Kistner and I recently returned from a road trip in Ohio visiting and profiling businesses with a stake in the clean economy. You ca ...
  • NRDC in the News 11/28: Protections for grizzl ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Andrew Wetzler commented in the Los Angeles Times  about a decision to restore federal protections for Yellowstone grizzly bears, saying that “it reflects the growing recognition, not just ...
  • Turn out and tell NY not to plow ahead with ri ...
    Kate Sinding, Senior Attorney, New York City Tomorrow night is the final of four hearings being held by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (details here and below) on its most recent proposal to allow new fracking across major parts of ...
  • Alberta Innovates report shows more study is n ...
    Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC A report on pipeline corrosion released by Alberta Innovates recently evaluated evidence of diluted bitumen’s corrosivity relative to conventional crude. The Alberta Innovates repo ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, November 28, 2011: San Jose CA police sergeant allegedly murdered his wife before fatally shooting himself in murder-suicide incident [0] bit.ly/vH31I1 Seymour IN cop accused of usin ...
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 11-19 ...
    Here are the 11(13) reports tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of November 26 to 27, 2011: Sarasota FL settles suit for $40k to man in videotaped excessive force case that led to officer & chief resigning [0] http://bit.ly/u26Fkc Fullerton CA police dept&#82 ...
  • 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 ...

Total Collapse

  • Russia’s new radar to monitor all Europe inclu ...
    The new radar station in the Kaliningrad enclave will be ready to monitor missile launches from the entire European continent already on Tuesday, Nov. 29. The new station plays a significant role in the complex of measures, which Russia takes in response to the growing power of the US missile de ...
  • Iranian students Break into British Embassy in ...
    Iranian protesters stormed the British embassy in Tehran today, tossing firebombs and burning documents. There are unbconfirmed reports that 6 staff members have been taken hostage. Update at 9:07 a.m. ET: Reuters quotes an unidentified Iranian official as saying the storming of two British emba ...
  • Iran Update: Six (Or Eight) UK Embassy Staff T ...
    From Zero Hedge: Even more mysterious update #2: IRANIAN CENTRAL TV CONFIRMS THAT EIGHT UK EMBASSY STAFF TAKEN HOSTAGE Mysterious update confirming that something very fishy is going on here: IRAN’S MEHR NEWS AGENCY REMOVES REPORT OF HOSTAGE TAKING FROM ITS WEBSITE – NO EXPLANATION G ...
  • Britain’s Foreign Office Prepares For Riots In ...
    Zero Hedge: As every major developed economy hits Bass’s Keynesian Endgame, the status quo is set to change dramatically. Nowhere is this climax playing out louder than in Europe and the implicit solution of Germany-uber-alles (while seemingly inevitable though nevertheless lengthy in exec ...
  • West plans false flag ops in Syria
    The United States, Britain and France seek to carry out a series of false flag operations in Syria, says a political observer. Middle East expert Peter Eyre said in an article posted on Eyreinternational.wordpress.com on Sunday that the trio “are again rattling their sabers at Syria.” “They are ...

Daily Dose

  • UK money-saving app Vouchercloud hits 2m downloads
    Vouchercloud has announced that it has just surpassed 2m downloads of its money-saving app, which is currently available on Android and iOS. Vouchercloud lets users access discount vouchers directly from...
  • Apple may launch its iTunes Music Store in Lat ...
    Is Apple about to give a big commercial push in Latin America? While there aren’t any official confirmations yet, rumors have become more and more persistent and precise. As we...
  • UK government announces £100m broadband boost ...
    Earlier today, we reported on the UK government’s ‘open data’ plans, and in Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement this afternoon, he further outlined plans to overhaul the country’s technological infrastructure....
  • We’re giving away an iPad 2! Here’ ...
    What’s better than snapping up some newfangled gadget as part of a Cyber Monday special promotion? Getting one for diddly-squat, that’s what. The Next Web has teamed up with Huddlebuy,...
  • PopClip brings iOS-style copy & paste to the Mac
    Pilotmoon’s PopClip is a tiny Mac OS X utility that makes your mouse more capable of handling text-based operations, thanks to some lessons learnt on iOS. With PopClip installed, you...

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 )

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Indigenous religious leader murdered in front ...
    Amnesty International has called for an independent investigation of the murder of Nísio Gomes. A religious leader of the Guarani tribe, Gomes was executed by masked gunmen in front of his community earlier this month in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Officials beli ...
  • Photos: bizarre new mammal discovered in Vietnam
    A new species of omnivorous mammal has been found in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam. A part of the weasel family, the new species is known as a ferret-badger, a strange subfamily of mammals that have been little-studied by researchers. Smaller than proper badgers, ferret-badgers have elongate ...
  • Featured video: are hydroelectric dams a solut ...
    A new video from NGOs International Rivers and Friends of the Earth International argues that a spree of dam building in the tropics is a false solution to the climate crisis. The video has been released to coincide with the UN's 17th Climate Summit now beginning in Durban, South Africa.

Sierra Express

  • UNIDO 14th General Conference addresses the Ne ...
    VIENNA, November 28, 2011 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have convened Heads of States, prominent government officials, representatives of international organizations as well as high-level officials from the European Union, the African, Caribbean and Pacific (AC ...
  • Chocolate-fueled growth
    VIENNA – As an African, my dream for the next decade is to see the continent producing and selling chocolate to 300 million Chinese, instead of exporting raw commodities like cocoa. Several weeks ago, at the China-Africa Symposium in Xiamen, China, I tested this vision on the audience, and the 2 ...
  • FCC Mayor, Chief Admin + 8 others indicted on ...
    The Anti-Corruption Commission has today 28th November 2011 filed in the High Court of Freetown a twenty five (25) count indictment against the Mayor of the Freetown City Council, the Chief Administrator and eight (8) others on various corruption offences ranging from: Conspiracy to commit Corru ...
  • Sierra Leone’s gospel singer Abdulai Bayoh rel ...
    Abdulai Bayoh, a native of  Sierra Leone and now residing in the USA has proudly released his latest album “Revive Us.” Abdulai, although musically talented from a young age, received his calling into the Christian ministry, with his focus on Christian music at the age of 18. After his Christian ...
  • Supporters march through Freetown to promote P ...
    Representatives of civil society and human rights organisations, victims and handicapped groups, agencies, non-governmental institutions and government marched through Freetown on Saturday to promote Sierra Leone’s new Peace Museum. The two groups, one which started from the Lumley roundabout an ...

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

  • So what’s so good about raw milk?
    From Justin Robertson on Post City.com (website of a Toronto based newspaper chain): “Last week, Michael Schmidt incurred a hefty slap-on-the-wrist (to the tune of $9,150) for charges related to selling raw milk. Not only that, he racked up two separate probation sentences … Continue ...
  • More good things come from Maine
    Last Saturday I was talking to a young woman who is studying midwifery in Maine. I asked her what the culture was like down there. She started by noting that Maine was next to New Hampshire, where the tagline on … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt refuses raw milk fines
    From Aprons and Icons in Toronto Life: “After he professed a willingness to die to see the sale of raw milk legalized, it should come as no surprise that food freedom crusader Michael Schmidt is prepared to go to prison for his cause. Schmidt … Continue reading →
  • The law decrees Michael Schmidt must also pay ...
    From Karen Selick, on The Justice Report: “A fact that hasn’t yet been publicized following the sentencing of CCF client Michael Schmidt on Friday, November 25 is that in addition to the fine of $9,150 imposed by Justice Tetley, a … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk freedom riders to ride again, to chal ...
    From Kimberly Hartke: Chicago, IL—On December 8, a group of mothers and others will defy the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on “distributing” fresh milk across state lines by transporting 100 gallons of raw milk from Wisconsin to … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Armageddon Delayed; All Quiet on the European ...
    European bonds had a good day today. A good day is when nothing blows up. Italy 10-Year Government Bonds Italy 2-Year Government Bonds Germany 10-Year Government Bonds Germany 2-Year Government Bonds After a brief spurt higher, which sent S&am ...
  • OECD Global Economic Outlook: "Muddling Throug ...
    Inquiring minds are watching a short video on the OECD Global Economic Outlook. Video Synopsis Recovery that began in 2009 has faltered Global economic outlook has deteriorated significantly US is slowing Japan reconstruction following the Tsunami has boosted growth [more brok ...
  • Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Tipped Off Pr ...
    I have on numerous occasions made the claim that Henry Paulson is guilty of coercion and fraud. For those actions, he should be arrested and criminally tried. However, the latest disclosure in which hedge funds say they were tipped off by Paulson while he told Congress and reporters blatan ...
  • Ron Paul on a Return to the Gold Standard (Whe ...
    In the following interview video on Fox News, Ron Paul explains his plan for monetary freedom and a return to a gold standard. Paul also addresses a dangerous competing idea for the IMF take over control of setting international monetary standards. Finally, Paul explains how he has been temporar ...
  • Some Failed Institutions Always Foreclose; The ...
    A couple of readers asked me to comment on the Sun Sentinel article Are loss-share lenders gouging us? November 27, 2011 In the wake of the recent real-estate meltdown, the borrower of a nonperforming loan called his lender with promising news: "I have a buyer looking to make an all-cash ...

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 ...
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    Police State: Contractors Pitch Spy Tech to Cops, Clinton Vows Millions of Dollars in Funding for the New Regime, Two Teenagers among those Assassinated by US Drone Attack in Awlaki Kill, Police State: Legislation Could Expand Reserve Role in Homeland Security, Lies Behind the “Humanitaria ...
  • Follow the Money with Bergman-Chicago: The Cit ...
    Burrowing Into Some Rabbit Holes Chicago has a lot of strengths, along with a deserved, well, reputation. The City of Big Shoulders?  Perhaps.  But legal and illegal corruption have long greased the wheels in the City That Works.  Chicago is joined at the hip with the State of Illinois, with no ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
    Obama has now more than Doubled Bush-Era Total Deaths in Afghanistan, Azerbaijan: Baku’s Natural Gas Discoveries Reviving Interest in Caspian Pipelines, Police State: FBI’s DNA Database Upgrade Program Under Fire, Number of CIA Drone Attacks in Pakistan Hits 300, Covert Operative for Israe ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

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  • The Ugly Truth About Yacht Insurance
    Mr. Soledano (not his real name), the owner of a Hatteras cabin cruiser in Miami, stared at me in horror. “What?” he demanded. “It’s going to cost $75,000 to fix [...]
  • Ulstein Unveils New Offshore Wind Installation ...
    Ulstein today unveiled a custom-designed installation vessel for Norwegian-based NorWind Installer specifically designed for the offshore wind industry. The innovative DP foundation installation vessel is a customized version of the [...]
  • Ship Arrestor – Dropping Giant Sea-Anchors Via ...
    The ShipArrestor, chosen from among 1200 projects funded by the European Union, defends coastlines against environmental damage when a drifting oil tanker runs aground. A consortium of eight European organisations [...]
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    Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) Announces the Development of Their First High Performance Dual Fuel Marine Engine. Caterpillar Marine Power Systems is pleased to announce the development of the MaK M 46 DF, [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • Lessons from the ancient Greek island of Delos
    I had the chance to visit the amazing archeological site that consists of the entire Greek island of Delos. Beyond the aesthetic appeal of such a large, ancient, and naturally preserved city full of history, I was struck by how, despite the over two thousand year gap between their civilization a ...
  • 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 ...
  • Black Friday: Searching for community in a con ...
    Can't Black Friday, one of the most consumer centered days on the calendar, just be about consumerism? Sure, on Boxing Day we can pretend it is really about lofty ideals of family and the great Judeo-Christian ethic opposed to a mad fury to acquire as much stuff as cheaply as possible. But ...
  • 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 ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • National dialogue way to end Syria unrest
    Syrian foreign minister has described national dialogue as the only way to end months of unrest in the country, urging the Arab League to end its policy of internationalizing Syria's internal affairs.
  • Explosion at Iraqi prison gate kills 19
    At least 19 people have been killed and 22 others injured in a car bomb explosion outside an Iraqi prison near the capital, Baghdad, officials say.
  • Iraqi MP injured in mortar attack, 2 dead
    A mortar attack near the Iraqi parliament in the capital, Baghdad, has killed at least two people and injured one lawmaker, officials say.
  • Psy war, new Arab plot against Syria
    Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arabian Emirate have launched a 'psychological war' against Syria after their measures to help fuel unrest in the country failed to weaken Damascus government.
  • 'Netanyahu exposes ugly face of Zionism'
    The West is furious of 'liar' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because he is revealing “the ugly face of Zionism” and their role of supporting his illegal activities in the occupied territory, an analyst tells Press TV.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

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

Dissident Voice

  • The New Authoritarianism
    We live in a time of dynamic, regressive, regime changes. A period in which major political transformations and the dramatic roll back of a half century of socio-economic legislation are accelerated by a prolonged and deepening economic crises and a world-wide financier led offensive. This essay ...
  • Unknown Snipers and Western Backed Regime Chan ...
    Unknown snipers played a pivotal role throughout the  so-called  “Arab Spring Revolutions”  yet, in spite of reports of their presence in the mainstream media, surprisingly little attention has been paid to  to their purpose and role. The Russian investigative journalist, Nikolay Starikov, has w ...
  • Durban Climate Conference: Analysis of the Com ...
    Consider the following: In October the Berkeley Earth project released the comprehensive results of a scientific study illustrating how temperature has changed since the 1800s.  The study, backed in part by arch climate-deniers Koch Industries, was a systematic attempt to allay any doubts anyone ...
  • Occupy Congress
    Conventional politics in the United States focuses on elections, while left activists typically argue that political change comes not from electing better politicians but building movements strong enough to force politicians to accept progressive change. Norman Solomon has concluded it isn’t eit ...
  • No to Co-Option: MoveOn is the Opposite of the ...
    While most of the comments about my article on Van Jones and our GeneralAssembly’s call for independence from the Democratic Party and Democratic Party front groups were positive, a few people don’t seem to know the history of MoveOn. Please do not misunderstand my criticisms of Move ...

Destructionist

  • 30 Signs That The United States Of America Is ...
    If you live in the United States of America, you live in a giant prison where liberty and freedom are slowly being strangled to death. In this country, the control freaks that run things are obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that we do. Nothing is ...
  • Patriotism or Terrorism? Only History Will Dec ...
    If you’re reading this, then maybe you’re just one among the many hundreds of millions of people around the world that have lost their jobs, their savings, their 401K’s, their retirement nest eggs, their homes, their credit and their hopes for ever seeing a better future. If such is the case, t ...
  • Newt Gingrich: Mr. New World Order: Republican ...
    Desperate to derail Ron Paul’s momentum in New Hampshire, the key early primary state in which polls show Paul has a very real chance of winning, the establishment has thrown its weight behind Newt Gingrich, the ultimate RINO globalist who in reality is about as conservative as Mao Tse-tung. ...
  • Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B
    The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing. The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion o ...
  • Wolfgang Münchau: THE EUROZONE HAS 10 DAYS AT MOST
    Joe Weisenthal Business Insider Monday, November 28, 2011 If you’re looking for some good Euro-scare meat, look no further than this column from the FT’s Wolfgang Münchau. The basic gist: No really, now we’re getting into endgame. Why now? Because the increase in core yields, the failure ...
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