29 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Lessons from the Andes on Budgeting to Close t ...
  Three countries in South America's Andean region, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, have a great deal to teach and share with those meeting in Busan, South Korean this week to discuss, among other things, how to make sure that development aid incorporates a gender focus in order to be effective.
• ‘Nothing at Busan for African Women, Chi ...
  Although there has been considerable progress towards reducing maternal and infant mortality, millions of women and children in Africa are still in need of better health services, food and sanitation.
• DR Congo Polls Disrupted by Violence
  Five people have been killed in two separate clashes on election day in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's interior minister has said.
• SPAIN: Self-Financed Communities "A Tool for B ...
  On the first Sunday of every month, Abdoulaye Fall, from Senegal, meets a group of people in Barcelona, to contribute money to a common fund or to take out a loan. This is one of 60 self-financed communities in Spain, an alternative to traditional banking systems that is having a powerful social ...
• ‘Accountability Vital in Improving Aid E ...
  Key actors meeting in Busan on Tuesday, the first day of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF4), lay emphasis on inclusive ownership, mutual accountability and the platform of the groundbreaking 2005 Paris Declaration.

My AntiWar

• London Stop War Rally: DO NOT ATTACK IRAN
  Summary: 7pm, Monday 5 December Conway Hall Speakers include: Abbas Edalat from the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran, George Galloway, Lindsey German and Tony Benn Despite the fact that the recent International Atomic Energy Agency report contained no new evidence ...
• Turkey Considers Iraq as Alternative Trade Rou ...
• Rockets Fired Across Lebanon, Israel Border
• Medvedev: New Radar Demonstrates Russia’ ...
• Iranian Students Storm British Embassy in Tehran

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran urges Britain to amend attitude toward Tehran
  Summary: TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast urged British officials on Monday to correct their attitudes towards Iran, the local satellite Press TV reported. source: China Viewread more
• Is Britain plotting with Israel to attack Iran ...
  Summary: Last February Britain’s then defense minister Liam Fox attended a dinner in Tel Aviv with a group described as senior Israelis. Alongside him sat Adam Werritty, a lobbyist whose “improper relations” with the minister would lead eight months later to Fox’s hurried resignation. Accordi ...
• IAEA Report Debunking Continued
  Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for IPS News, discusses the lies and innuendo in the IAEA report on Iran; the whole story on Vyacheslav Danilenko, the Russian scientist accused of helping Iran’s (alleged) nuclear weapons program; former IAEA inspector Robert Kelly ...
• In Defense of Diplomacy
  Summary: Congress is taking up dangerous legislation which appears to be designed to make the risk of war more likely. The bill takes the unprecedented step of effectively preventing any kind of U.S. diplomatic contact with Iran. The Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 (H.R. 1905), sponsored by ...
• War with Iran Would Be Madness
  Summary: President Obama’s refusal to rule out military action against Iran — and GOP contender Mitt Romney’s recent threat of war against Iran — should appall anyone who believes, with the free-market liberal Ludwig von Mises, that “not war, but peace, is the father of all things.” source ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Exploding Black Holes -- "Gamma Ray Burts Yiel ...
  Gamma Ray Bursts are the brightest things to happen to the Universe since its beginning -- extraordinarily intense electromagnetic events releasing more energy per second than the sun does in a billion years, and basically an excuse for astronomers to...
• The Cosmic Web: A Vast Universe of Linked Gala ...
  This deep image of the Virgo Cluster comprises approximately 1300 to 2000 member galaxies, forming the heart of the larger Local Supercluster, of which the Local Group is an outlying member.The image shows the diffuse light between the galaxies belonging...
• "Vampire Star" --Is It Poised to Erupt into On ...
  ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured the first time-lapse movie of a rare shell ejected by a “vampire star." The gas-sucking star is part of a double star system known as V445 in the constellation of Puppis ("the Stern") that is...
• Image of the Day: The Whirlpool Galaxy Yields ...
  Astronomers have obtained a never-before achieved radio astronomical photograph of the youngest supernova. Fourteen days after the explosion of a star in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) 23 million light years from Earth last June. Coordinated telescopes around Europe took a...
• News Update: European Space Agency to Contact ...
  The European Space Agency (ESA) announced that theywill attempt today to contact the stranded Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft that became stuck at a low-Earth orbit due to engine failure that followed its launch on November 9, the head of the ESA...

Natural News

• How cordless phones, wi-fi and other forms of ...
  (NaturalNews) Many people are aware that prolonged cell phone use has been associated with brain cancer, but most don't realize how other sources of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation (EMR) also radically increase cancer risk. Until recently, EMR has been given scant attention. It's a tox ...
• Global health organization to purchase million ...
  (NaturalNews) At its recent board meeting in Bangladesh, the GAVI Alliance, formerly known as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, announced plans to bring the deadly human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines Gardasil (Merck and Co.) and Cervarix (GlaxoSmithKline) into the third world. ...
• Financial red alert: Europe stands on verge of ...
  (NaturalNews) After years of working diligently to raise the alarm on the precariousness of the global financial system, it has become clear to me that most people still do not grasp the reality of where our global financial system really stands. We are on the verge of a systemic financial implo ...
• Medical Mafia using financial leverage to enfo ...
  (NaturalNews) Australia has a very high percentage of children fully vaccinated by age five. Only 11% are not fully vaccinated by five years of age. The Australian government has created financial incentives to almost force parents into vaccinating. Still, the Australian government isn't happy w ...
• Report: Investors (China?) buying up US farmla ...
  (NaturalNews) There are arguably a number of varying factors influencing the mass farmland sell-off currently taking place in the American Midwest. One thing seems certain, though -- America's once-treasured farming tradition is quickly fading into history as the next generation of Americans aba ...

Threat Level

• FTC Slaps Facebook’s Hand Over Privacy Deception
  Facebook is settling government charges that it “deceived” its users that their information would be kept private, although it was “repeatedly” shared with the public, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. The deal, which carries no financial penalties, demands ...
• Craigslist in Canada Shut Down Temporarily
  Craigslist removed access to all of its Canadian sites on Tuesday morning, providing only a cryptic explanation that cited terms of service violations. Craigslist maintains a number of regional sites for various cities across Canada, but access to all of them appeared to be blocked on Tuesday. I ...
• An Open Letter to Police on the Occasion of Th ...
  Dear Police, upon the occasion of the eviction of Occupy Philadelphia and Occupy LA: It is not my place to say whether what you are about to do is right or wrong, and it doesn’t matter what I believe either way. You are going to evict this occupation, and all the resistance this ragtag ban ...
• Feds Withholding Evidence Favorable to Bradley ...
  A recent court filing by the civilian lawyer defending Bradley Manning, provides hints of the aggressive defense the attorney is mounting for his client at a hearing next month.
• Feds Seize 150 Domain Names in Counterfeit Cra ...
  Federal authorities have seized 150 websites hawking counterfeit and copyright goods, bringing to 350 the number of domains taken as part of a forfeiture program that began a year ago. The announcement of the seizures was on the biggest online shopping day of the year, known as "Cyber Monday."

PERRspectives : Blog

• Meet Mitt Romney's Running Mate, Benjamin Neta ...
  "If I'm president of the United States," Mitt Romney declared during a recent GOP presidential debate, "My first foreign trip will be to Israel to show the world we care about that country and that region." As it turns out, Romney's pledge isn't just his latest transparent ploy to win over Jewi ...
• Right-Wing Furious Over Obama's 'Godless' Than ...
  Remember when President Bush forgot to thank God in his 2008 Thanksgiving address? Neither do the conservatives now apoplectic that Barack Obama's 2011 remarks contained no reference to the Almighty. Nevertheless, the usual suspects on the right are frothing at the mouth over the perceived sli ...
• CBO Gives Thanks to the Stimulus
  On this the fourth Thanksgiving since the start of the Bush recession, families across America are still struggling with persistently high unemployment, underwater mortgages and stagnant wages. But as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminded us this week, Americans can be than ...
• Republicans Violate Norquist Pledge over Payr ...
  The Wall Street Journal greeted the failure of the Congressional debt super committee with an editorial titled, "Thank You, Grover Norquist." That gratitude should have surprised no one. After all, Norquist's anti-tax pledge led handcuffed committee Republicans not just to oppose even modest t ...
• Mitt Romney's Iran Follies
  As the GOP presidential field gathers once again for the CNN national security debate, Mitt Romney has already identified Iran as the place to contrast himself with the current commander-in-chief. "If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Romney declared at the last Republ ...

Blackspot News Feed

• BERG Cloud And The Little Printer
  Years ago, I blogged some notes by Matt Webb & Jack Schulze, back when they were Schulze & Webb, on the notion of a “social letterbox.”  Later, Schulze & Webb and Matt Jones fused into the creature known as BERG, and became a company that did all kinds of interesting stuff, incl ...
• Bahraini Political Activist Condemns U.S.-Back ...
  Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 28, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties say they will not participate in ...
• Egyptians Debate Elections as Protests Continue
  Voters torn between boycotting elections until demands are met, and voicing their concerns at the ballot box
• The Right to Occupy, the Right to Assemble?
  A report on the debate over the expulsion of the Occupy Movements
• Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
  Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington D.C. Nov. 28, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that kille ...

Consortium News

• Ivan Eland Disputes War-for-Oil Dogma
• Next Challenge for Occupy Wall Street
• Upholding Justice in the ‘War on Terror’
• What Country Do We Want to Keep?
• Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests?

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

• 2011 Another Active Hurricane Season
  Not only was 2011 another active hurricane season – producing a total of 19 tropical storms – but it also broke the ‘hurricane amnesia’ and reminded residents in the Northeast of America that the too should be prepared. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a summary of th ...
• Study Reveals Hundreds of Orangutans Killed An ...
  A recently published study has uncovered disturbing information regarding the survival of orangutans in Kalimantan, Indonesia. In addition to facing habitat loss due to forest exploitation, hundreds of orangutans are intentionally killed every year by people who live within the orangutan’s ...
• Climate Sensitivity Still Huge Concern, Despit ...
  Despite what you might have read in just about any major media report on a recent climate sensitivity report, climate sensitivity is still a huge concern. Here’s a full repost of a great piece by Dr. Joe Romm, which also quotes a wonderful piece by Skeptical Science at length. (What do I h ...
• More Activism News: Masked Anti-Nuclear Activi ...
  Some top activism news from the past week or so: 1. Masked Activists in Germany Sop Transport of Nuclear Waste As the title indicates, some activists in Germany are fed up with the creating and unsafe transport and storage of nuclear waste (well, no one even knows where to ‘permanently&#82 ...
• Hundreds March in Durban, South Africa for Cli ...
  Hundreds, or maybe thousands, have been marching in Durban and across Africa to push for strong climate action. As I wrote last week, a climate change caravan made its way from Northern Africa to South Africa for the climate change conference occurring there this week to push for real, strong cl ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Holistic Health - Water Filters
  The quality of our tap water is pretty poor, and in cities can be recycled as many as 20 times. The
• NSF award $1 million grant to UI professor
  Photo by tiswango, Flickr University of Iowa geography professor, David Bennett, received a $1 milli
• Everyone Owns Lake Front Property
  This is true no matter how far you live from the nearest lake, because whatever flows off your yard
• Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Sampling
  A few years ago, my boss was asked to sample some backwaters of the Colorado River in Imperial Natio
• October 2011 monitoring
  We monitored during the morning of October 8. The sky was overcast but no rain at that time –

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Somalia: Western Media Indulge US and French D ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 26 October 2011 Despite official denia
• Chris Hedges and Amy Goodman: Reverse the Corp ...
  Image by waywuwei via Flickr with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Oct. 31, 2011 munderl
• Jean Ziegler: "The cannibal world order" Trans ...
  By Siv O’Neall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Axisoflogic.com Lyon, France Oct. 26, 2011 Image by D
• Numbers Justify Occupy Movement by Joel S. Hir ...
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org October 25, 2011 Feeling angry a
• Goldman Sachs v. Occupy Wall Street: A Greg Pa ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com October 25, 2011 GregPalastOffice

Axis of Logic

• Canada betrays poor countries - again - World News
  Editor's Commentary: As recently as a few hours ago, Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent would neither confirm nor deny that Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto accord. And although we all recognize that no government plan is true until it has been officially denied, this withdrawal shoul ...
• Red Cross steps in to help with Third World ho ...
  Canadian Red Cross relief workers are flying to the remote northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat on Tuesday to help with its housing crisis. The Red Cross says it's working closely with public authorities and the community to identify and address urgent, short-term needs. ...
• Mass layoffs in Germany highlight new stage in ...
  29 November 2011 Last week, two major German industrial firms announced mass layoffs and a third filed for bankruptcy. Eon, Germany’s largest energy provider, confirmed that it will eliminate 11,000 of its 80,000 positions worldwide, including 6,500 in Germany. The company cited the German g ...
• Less than 1/3 of $16M collected by Wyclef char ...
  Editor's Note: As bad as this is, the millions robbed by Wyclef and his friends are dust compared to the billions promised by countries like the US and France when they were grandstanding for Haiti's earthquake victims - but never paid out. However, the earthquake did provide them with a perfect ...
• The New Authoritarianism: From Decaying Democ ...
  Editor's Note: This is Petras' grey matter and quill at their best. Nearly every day someone says something like this to me, "What a crazy world we live in." Well yes, insanity rules at the top, with fear, chaos and a sense of impotence trickling down fracture any order that...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Republicans Expose Themselves as Whores for th ...
  By @TedFrier Republicans are rapidly running out of euphemisms to conceal they're nothing more than whores for monied interests. Their undeserved reputations as "deficit hawks" is as cooked as last week's stuffed Thanksgiving Day turkeys once Republicans announced they were ready to drive the n ...
• Fundamental Rights Aren't Your Bargaining Chip ...
  By @KYYellowDog While we're all distracted, President Obama is getting ready to toss women's reproductive rights overboard. Again. Digby: So it's not about birth control, huh? Yes, in fact, it is: Women's groups working to save coverage of women's health care under health reform are concerned th ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  By BG&YD @EmmaKate988 got an apology, she didn't give one. "Brownback submitted a statement Monday afternoon to Yahoo! News apologizing to the teen. "My staff over-reacted to this tweet, and for that I apologize.  Freedom of speech is among our most treasured freedoms," he said. Jones-Sonta ...
• Only in LA?
  By @KYYellowDog It may not last the night, so enjoy it while you can:  Occupy LA stares down the police and peacefully defies the eviction. Lisa Derrick of Firedoglake was there: One man built a tree fort in a banana grove next to the Spring Street steps, while others positioned themselves ...
• Sometimes my inner civil libertarian wants to ...
  By @BGinKC You may have heard that an eight-year-old child from Ohio has been taken from his mother and placed in foster care because he is morbidly obese, weighing over 200 pounds, a condition that puts him on a course for lifelong health problems. A Cleveland third grader who weighed more tha ...

Care 2

• Transportation Survey: Help us make travel gre ...
  Please fill out this questionnaire for our study on how people travel currently and help us in our efforts to make travel more sustainable. One lucky winner will get a getaway to Stowe Mountain Lodge in Vermont valued at $900! Submitted by Polinagreenxc Ray to Green Lifestyle  |  &nb ...
• ACTION ALERT: Stop the rotten egg bill! PL ...
  I urge you to OPPOSE United Egg Producers' (UEP) amendments to the "Egg Products Inspection Act," which would nulify state laws concerning the treatment of laying hens -- and would forever keep hens locked in cages. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it! &nbsp ...
• Animals Petition: U.S. Representives: Introduc ...
  Pit bulls have been banned from communities and as this happens people are forced to give up their family members whom they love. These pets face death and again they are victimized by a uninformed government that is supposed to protect them. Submitted by Alysia S. to Animals  |  &nb ...
• Fearless for freedom
  Former political prisoners risk the wrath of the Burmese authorities to raise awareness of the plight of those still in jail. Even though Burma's rulers have released 300 political prisoners so far and promised a series of democratic reforms, no one Submitted by Agnes N. to World  |  ...
• Top 30 Celebrity Tease Photos
  As we all know guys can't stand a woman who teases them. Here are 30 photos of women doing exactly that. Submitted by Cain H. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Inside an Occupy Affinity Group — A Next Step ...
• Three Cheers for GOP Moderation!
• Can an Occupation Movement Survive if it No Lo ...
• Rogue's Gallery: CNN's Ideologically Rigid, Sc ...
• Seven Surveys Make A Trend For Fox And Viewers

Paul Krugman

• Debt History
  America's story, borrowed.
• The ECB's Reverse FDR
  Lousy expectations, by design.
• Memories of VSPs Past
  Greenspan the wise.
• Mission Not Accomplished
  But the bankers are OK.
• Drowning in Grover's Lake
  Old macro mistakes in new bottles.

No Quarter

• Herman Cain, BYE BYE
  If this ain’t the nail in the political coffin then any Cain supporter who ever criticized Bill Clinton needs to send $1000 to the Clinton Presidential Library. I’m beginning to think this guy is Jewish? Why? I’ve never seen such a perfectly executed case of CHUTZPAH (or, to qu ...
• Voting Republican, Must I Hold My Nose?
  Let me state up front that I cannot in good conscience ever vote for or support the candidacy of Barack Obama. He is a terrible President and stands for nothing of substance. That said, I am not sure who, if anyone, I can support as a Republican candidate. Scratch Michelle Bachman, Ron Paul and ...
• Countdown To Iowa… 5 weeks Until 8 Become 3
  The Iowa caucuses will kick off the 2012 race on January 3, only about 5 weeks from now!  And before you know it the primaries will be in full swing.  This field of eight will soon be down to three, maybe four.  Or it could be that Iowa narrows it to two, as it often [...]
• From Recession to Depression
  Europe now is the canary in the economic mine and the outlook is dire. Check out today’s headlines: European debt crisis: Risks grow as borrowing rates for Italy, other nations rise and Banks Build Contingency for Breakup of the Euro and OECD figures suggest Britain’s economy will sl ...
• Pakistan, Killing Them Softly?
  News today that NATO helicopters killed several, perhaps as many as 24, Pakistani soliders inside Pakistan. This is adding fuel to the inferno that has become the state of relations between Pakistan and the United States: NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northw ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

• Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger - Ch ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger Charleston Gazette (blog) A more cynical person than I might suggest that coal industry supporters want to protect OSMRE because the agency — at least in the eyes of environmentalists and the anti-mountaintop removal movement — ...
• Report outlines EPA permit review delays - Cha ...
  Report outlines EPA permit review delays Charleston Gazette The Obama administration's crackdown on mountaintop removal has delayed 138 permit reviews beyond the US Environmental Protection Agency's average processing time, according to a new EPA Inspector General review. IG investigator ...
• Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdow ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdown Charleston Gazette (blog) Last week's release of an EPA Inspector General's report on the agency's mountaintop removal permit crackdown doesn't seem to have gotten a lot of media attention, given the timing ...
• Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves A Commun ...
  Fracking In The Mountain State Leaves A Community Scarred Energy Collective West Virginia is home to one of the most destructive coal mining practices in the world--mountaintop removal--a process that blows up pristine mountains to lay bare the bituminous coal below. But a new fossil fuel Gold R ...
• Delaware Geological Survey welcomes new direct ...
  Delaware Geological Survey welcomes new director Wunsch The News Journal NEWARK -- When David Wunsch worked at the Kentucky Geological Survey, he studied the groundwater impact of the controversial mining technique known as mountain-top removal. He found that, if done correctly, the stripe minin ...

Memeorandum

• Gingrich takes lead in SC poll (Walter C. Jone ...
  Walter C. Jones / The Augusta Chronicle: Gingrich takes lead in SC poll  —  ATLANTA — Newt Gingrich has taken a commanding lead in the South Caro­lina Republican primary, with more than twice the support of Mitt Romney or Herman Cain, according to a poll conducted Mond ...
• BREAKING: Cain 'Reassessing' Candidacy (Robert ...
  Robert Costa / National Review: BREAKING: Cain ‘Reassessing’ Candidacy  —  In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is “reassessing” whether to remain in the race.  He told them he will make his final decision &ldq ...
• Militants Turn to Death Squads in Afghanistan ...
  New York Times: Militants Turn to Death Squads in Afghanistan  —  SABARI, Afghanistan — As targeted killings have risen sharply across Afghanistan, American and Afghan officials believe that many are the work of counterintelligence units of the Haqqani militant network and ...
• Mitt Romney's venture-capital politics (Richar ...
  Richard Cohen / Washington Post: Mitt Romney's venture-capital politics  —  Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist.  He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable and moves on.  He was pro-choice when ...
• Withdrawal From Afghanistan: 40,000 Troops To ...
  The Huffington Post: Withdrawal From Afghanistan: 40,000 Troops To Leave War Zone By End Of 2012 … Afghanistan War , Afghanistan , Video , War In Afghanistan , Afghani Security Forces , Troop Withdrawal , Withdrawal From Afghanistan , Troop Withdrawal Afghanistan , World News

Energy & Environment News

• Green Blog: Qatar, Greenhouse Gas Titan, Will ...
  Qatar bests South Korea in a competition to serve as the site of the 2012 United Nations climate negotiations.
• Dot Earth Blog: Straight Talk on Climate Progr ...
  More analysis supports the need for intensified research on energy frontiers if ambitious greenhouse gas targets are to be met.
• Green Blog: On Our Radar: Wind Power on Tribal ...
  The Obama administration plans to expedite wind and solar energy projects on reservations around the country.
• North Dakota Oil Boom Creates Camps of Men
  Confronted with the problem of too many jobs and not enough empty beds, North Dakota embraced man camps. But now officials are trying to slow things down.
• Green Blog: Will the Lights Stay On in Texas a ...
  The advent of new pollution rules affecting coal-fired power plants and some gas-fired plants could threaten the reliability of the grid in those regions, a new report says.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Philippine Islands region
  Tuesday, November 29, 2011 08:29:33 UTC Tuesday, November 29, 2011 04:29:33 PM at epicenterDepth: 45.50 km (28.27 mi)
• M 5.9, north of Ascension Island
  Tuesday, November 29, 2011 00:30:29 UTC Monday, November 28, 2011 11:30:29 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.10 km (6.28 mi)
• M 5.1, Myanmar-China border region
  Monday, November 28, 2011 15:06:52 UTC Monday, November 28, 2011 09:36:52 PM at epicenterDepth: 37.10 km (23.05 mi)
• M 5.3, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
  Monday, November 28, 2011 14:27:57 UTC Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:27:57 AM at epicenterDepth: 56.50 km (35.11 mi)
• M 6.4, New Ireland region, Papua New Guinea
  Monday, November 28, 2011 12:26:48 UTC Monday, November 28, 2011 10:26:48 PM at epicenterDepth: 50.40 km (31.32 mi)

China Dialogue

• Old deadlock, new stories
  Pity the climate journalists trudging from one disappointing summit to the next. But there are plenty of scoops out there, writes Lu Zhenhua, you just need to look in the right place.For climate hacks, the annual United Nations-led global warming negotiations have always been a bit of a shindig. ...
• The real climategate
  Another batch of hacked emails from British climate researchers has been released in an apparent bid to sabotage global-warming talks. But the ceaseless attack on science is the true scandal, writes Stephan Lewandowsky.An ambulance pulls up behind you. You know it’s an ambulance because yo ...
• Cynical governments, worried world
  The planet is getting warmer, the weather is getting weirder and all the time our emissions keep on rising. But as negotiators gather in Durban, it’s clear no one plans to do much about it, writes Joydeep Gupta.Rarely has a major international conference started amid such cynicism as this ...
• Face to face with Apple
  The US technology company finally met with Chinese environmental campaigners, but their argument isn’t over yet, reports Zeng Hang.At 10am on November 15, five Chinese environmental groups visited Apple’s Beijing office to discuss supply-chain pollution with company representatives d ...
• Climate talks: the year that was
  Another year has passed, another round of negotiations is about to begin, but what has been achieved and what direction are we heading in? A roundtable of experts helps chinadialogue find its bearings.Editor’s note: this weekend, officials, policymakers and activists will gather in Durban, ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Occupy the Tax Code
  Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily By Norma Altshuler Tax policy may seem far from the passion of Occupy, but it is essential to this moral movement. We need to leverage this energy and engagement to start a national dialogue about the kind of society we want to live in, and how to get there. By ref ...
• Top 5 Taxpayer Turkeys Fattening War Industry CEOs
  Congress departs for the Thanksgiving holiday having left us a gift. With the deficit committee failing to produce a plan to cut the deficit and with across-the-board cuts now the default, there remains a real chance for us to untie the Congressional straightjacket and refocus the national conve ...
• OWS: The Challenge of Whiteness and the 99%
  Occupy Wall Street and the hundreds of occupations it has sparked nationwide are among the most inspiring events in the U.S. in the 21st century. The occupations have brought together people to talk, occupy, and organize in new and exciting ways. The convergence of so many people with so many co ...
• Bring Jesus and the GOP to Thanksgiving! A Mus ...
  Nothing says fun and festive like the Heritage Foundation, which sponsored Tuesday night’s CNN GOP Obama-bash fest. But despite all the good feeling flowing about bombing Iranians and expelling Mexicans, the event lacked the warm fuzzy feeling that oozed out of last Saturday’s Family ...
• Will Obama’s Thanksgiving Gift to Female ...
  Written by Editor-in-Chief Jodi Jacobson for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. See all our coverage of the Birth Control Mandate 2011 here. The first paragraph of this piece was updated at 2:25 p ...

Threat Level

• FTC Slaps Facebook’s Hand Over Privacy Deception
  Facebook is settling government charges that it “deceived” its users that their information would be kept private, although it was “repeatedly” shared with the public, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday. The deal, which carries no financial penalties, demands ...
• Craigslist in Canada Shut Down Temporarily
  Craigslist removed access to all of its Canadian sites on Tuesday morning, providing only a cryptic explanation that cited terms of service violations. Craigslist maintains a number of regional sites for various cities across Canada, but access to all of them appeared to be blocked on Tuesday. I ...
• An Open Letter to Police on the Occasion of Th ...
  Dear Police, upon the occasion of the eviction of Occupy Philadelphia and Occupy LA: It is not my place to say whether what you are about to do is right or wrong, and it doesn’t matter what I believe either way. You are going to evict this occupation, and all the resistance this ragtag ban ...
• Feds Withholding Evidence Favorable to Bradley ...
  A recent court filing by the civilian lawyer defending Bradley Manning, provides hints of the aggressive defense the attorney is mounting for his client at a hearing next month.
• Feds Seize 150 Domain Names in Counterfeit Cra ...
  Federal authorities have seized 150 websites hawking counterfeit and copyright goods, bringing to 350 the number of domains taken as part of a forfeiture program that began a year ago. The announcement of the seizures was on the biggest online shopping day of the year, known as "Cyber Monday."

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  Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• Third Turkish Pine Nut Salmonella Lawsuit File ...
  This is the third lawsuit the firms have brought against New Jersey-based Turkish pine nut importer Sunrise Commodities. The complaint (#11CV6581T), filed in New York Federal District Court in Rochester, alleges that on October 18, 2011 Melissa Catalino and her six-year-old daughter consumed pi ...
• Raw Milk and Cheese Outbreaks 1998 to 2011 - 9 ...
  With two raw milk E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks in the news (one in Washington and one in California) that have sickened at least eight - five with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, I thought an updated chart of over a decade of raw milk and raw milk cheese outbreaks would be timely.  Download: Outbr ...
• Another Raw Milk Dairy E. coli Outbreak in Was ...
  Over Thanksgiving week, Cozy Vale Creamery’s raw milk products were recalled because they were linked to three E. coli O157:H7 illnesses and after environmental swabbing at the facility discovered that locations in the milking parlor and processing areas were contaminated with the E. coli ...
• The Opinionator of the New York Times, Mark Bi ...
  Here is part (and surprisingly) said he was thankful for: There are days when it seems — both in and out of the food world — that Everything Is Going Wrong. That makes it easy enough to complain, and I’m not alone in doing so routinely. Nothing tastes the way it used to. Even ...
• Raw Milk Myth Buster 1 - Organic Pastures 2006 ...
  Myth: Organic Pastures and the Weston A. Price Foundation continue to repeat that the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 Raw Milk Product Outbreak was caused by Spinach. Fact: - 2006 Organic Pastures outbreak, illness onsets ranged from 9/6 to 9/24 - 5 patients had definite exposure to raw milk o ...

AutoblogGreen

• Official: GM will loan free cars to Chevy Volt ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric GM may have designed the Chevrolet Volt to cancel out potential "range anxiety," but the company is responding to a new type of worry today: fear that the Volt's battery will catch fire. The problem? A Volt that had been crash tested in May ca ...
• Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...
• Report: Volkswagen still fighting new CAFE rules
  Which automaker still doesn't like the new CAFE rules? Volkswagen, that's who. After claiming the proposed 2025 Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards were biased back in August, VW is again saying, hey, wait a minute, let's not be so dismissive of diesel engines. When the original 5 ...
• Coda announces "price drop," starts production ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, Sedan, Plants/Manufacturing, Electric Coda may not have a new model to show off at the 2011 LA Auto Show, but the company can still make news with a price drop. Or with something that is a price drop in all but name. In September 2010, Coda said its all-electric Se ...
• Report: Jay Leno has driven 11,000 miles in hi ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Etc., Hatchback, Chevrolet, Celebrities, Electric Here's a fun bit of trivia: Jay Leno has driven his Chevrolet Volt nearly 11,000 miles and doesn't have a single gas station receipt to show for it. According to The New York Times Wheels blog, Leno has had his plug-in for ...

Rafe's Radar

• Rafe Recommends: Apps for dumb gadget shoppers
  Get Amazon's Flow and the new Decide.com app to save yourself from spending too much. ...
• Rafe Recommends: To-do manager Wunderlist
  Specialized to-do list manager Wunderlist takes its place beside note-taker Evernote and grocery list manager Grocer ...
• HTML5 will kill mobile apps. No, it won't
  The latest Web technologies could kill mobile apps, if only Web apps would help sell hardware. Which they don't. ...
• Yet another micro-reviews service: Stamped
  This is actually a good app, but do we need another one of these? ...
• Rafe recommends: Scan your business cards with ...
  It's almost too simple, but CardMunch does a very good job of helping you get a pile of business cards onto your iPh ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Suzie-Q

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

• The Economist on the Euro: Is this the End?
  Unless Germany and the ECB move quickly, the single currency’s collapse is looming EVEN as the euro zone hurtles towards a crash, most people are assuming that, in the end, European leaders will do whatever it takes to save the single currency. That is because the consequences of the euro’s des ...
• Secret Fed Loans Helped Banks Net $13B
  By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz 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 [...]
• The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order
  By Richard K Moore This article is Part 1 of a series.  Was first published in New Dawn Magazine When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, in the late 1700s, there was lots of money to be made by investing in factories and mills, by opening up new markets, and by gaining [...]
• Michael Pritchard’s Water Filter Turns F ...
  Clean drinking water can be provided to the world for just $20 billion. YouTube (13 Oct 2009)
• Scare Tactics in Greece
  By Gretchen Morgenson AS the debt mess in Europe deepens, bankers are pressing Greece’s bond holders to swallow big losses. Leading the charge is BNP Paribas, the big French bank, which has been hired by the Greek government to help persuade investors to accept a deal that would cut the value ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Our Right to Privacy Has Been Systematically S ...
  If the government wants to track us, it has never been easier. The ubiquitous and relatively invisible private collection of data serves as a sort of outsourcing of surveillance.
• Newt Gingrich on the Drug War: Execute Mexican ...
  Gingrich's position on the drug war is so extreme he wants to emulate Singapore, where corporal punishment for minor offenses and the death penalty for drugs are policy.
• Drug Czar Says African Americans Are More Affe ...
  Ignoring the disproportionate racial impact of drug law enforcement while focusing on the disproportionate racial impact of the drug problem is simply Orwellian.
• Violent Police Crack-Downs on the Occupy Movem ...
  The biggest threat to the health and safety of our communities is a violent police reaction to peaceful political expression.
• How Zuccotti Park Became Zuccotti Prison: Cree ...
  America may not be a traditional police state (yet), but it is an increasingly militarized policed state in which rights are regularly tossed out the window.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• We hit three million hits today!
  Today someone gave the FM website it’s three millionth page view since opening almost exactly four years ago, in November 2007. Today we had 3,332 page views, which does not include the syndications (roughly another thousand) and most of the referrals from WordPress. We have posted 1,905 a ...
• This week in 1941 a telegram was sent. Then, ...
  Summary:  As part of our culture of irresponsibility, many Americans see blame and accountability as repugnant. Our ruling elites find belief this congenial.  Banks lose billions, wrecking the economy — but nobody is held accountable.   A war in Iraq based on lies, torture– but nobod ...
• Another bill before Congress pushing the USA f ...
  Summary:  Every month seems to bring yet another assault on the Constitution, another chapter in a slow-mo coup de tat.  Here we examine the most current.  In a larger sense it does not matter if this bill passes or not.  Each assault prepares the way for the next.  In general they create legal ...
• Using covert operations to discredit your enemies
  Summary:  Details emerge suggesting that the career of Strauss-Kahn (head of the IMF, candidate for the Presidency of France) was destroyed by a “honey pot” operation.  It’s how conflicts are conducted in our century, as gaining the moral high ground becomes more useful than fi ...
• Attritionist Letter #13: Thinkers need not apply
  Summary:   Building a unadaptive military from enthusastic and innovative American young people requires work.  It does not happen by accident.  DoD’s success at that — proven by our similar mistakes in Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan, two generations distant — is a measure of inf ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

• The Persistence of the Neocons
  In a piece examining the continuing presence of neoconservatives in GOP foreign policy debates, Andrea Stone writes, "f neoconservatism has gone out of style with most Americans, the most controversial and consequential foreign policy philosophy since the end of the Cold War has hardly faded awa ...
• Iran Reduces Diplomatic Relations With Britain
  Two days after the United States and Britain imposed economic sanctions over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, the Iranian Parliament responded by reducing diplomatic relations with Britain. On November 27, the Iranian Parliament passed a bill reducing the country’s diplomatic relations with Bri ...
• The Afghanistan War’s Costly Refrain
  “We can win in Afghanistan, we just need more time and money.” It’s a favorite line of those in favor of prolonging the Afghanistan war.  CFR’s Max Boot especially enjoys this refrain recently writing in The Weekly Standard, “I am confident that the troops in Afghanistan can get the job done if ...
• A Russian Influence Squadron to Syria
  Exciting: Russia is sending a flotilla of warships to its naval base in Syria in a show of force which suggests Moscow is willing to defend its interests in the strife-torn country as international pressure mounts on President Bashar al-Assad's government. Arab League sanctions and French calls ...
• Arab League Sanctions Syria
  In a significant development yesterday, the 22-member Arab League "overwhelmingly approved a series of economic sanctions against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including freezing the assets of senior figures, banning high-level Syrian officials from visiting Arab nations an ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Mitt Romney's Brand Takes a Hit
  I’m not the biggest fan of Richard Cohen, but you should read his attack on Mitt Romney’s character, or lack thereof, in today’s Washington Post. In a few sentences, he gets to the heart of Romney’s persona — a mercenary politician who treats principles as a means to greater power: Mitt Romney ...
• The Difference Between MittFlops and NewtFlops
  Now that Newt Gingrich is the Republican front-runner (I know, it still sounds like a joke, but it's true), people are starting to pay attention to the fact that if you go through his public statements, you'll find as many changes of position as you will for any other candidate, including Mitt ...
• Barney Frank Goes Home
  The idea that Massachusetts could lose Barney Frank in our congressional delegation never crossed my mind before yesterday, but I'm told that he's been signalling he's ready to go for a couple of years now. The New York Times' Abby Goodnough had a nice item about his departure announcement, whi ...
• Wisconsin Dems On Track To Launch Recall
  I was a little skeptical last week when Wisconsin Democrats released the first batch of signatures for their recall campaign against Governor Scott Walker. They'd gathered over 100,000 signatures in four days, an impressive haul no doubt, but the first batch of supporters were always going to b ...
• Romney Takes On Iowa
  After a recent visit to and a few robocalls in the state that derailed his 2008 campaign, Mitt Romney is now shifting fully into contesting the Iowa caucuses. "We're going to be in Iowa enough to show that Mitt Romney is the best candidate to take on President Obama … As for a strategy, our str ...

Buzzflash

• Kansas High School Student Won't Apologize For ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Anti-gay and pro-evolution, Sam also made it his mission To get rid of his state's long- Standing Arts Commission.   Another reason folks back home Are angry & feeling nervous is He decided to gut the agency That provides welfare services.   (I'm aware he's ...
• Message to the GOP: You Can't Handle the Truth
  ANN DAVIDOW FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What is the point exactly of denying the obvious? What are we to make of Romney's insistence that his first name is Mitt not Willard as is obviously the case? And why in the world should a deceptive ad be defended by the Romney campaign? After all, whil ...
• If the Tea Party Reps Believe God Runs the Gov ...
  STEVE JONAS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday [Nov. 1] passed, 396-9, a concurrent resolution reaffirming 'In God We Trust' as the national motto. The resolution was introduced by Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), co-chairman of the Congressional Praye ...
• Governor of Oregon, Who as a Physician Took an ...
  CHESTER KULIS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Currently at least 16 states plus the District of Columbia ban capital punishment.  Recently Oregon joined that select group due to the personal moral principles of the governor: John A. Kitzhaber is the Democratic governor of Oregon. He serve ...
• The Billionaire Stumbles: Bloomberg Uses "Terr ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Despite the attempt to create a sense of televised urgency with Michael Bloomberg starring as the savior of the public from an "imminent terrorist attack" by NYC resident Jose Pimental, this past Sunday's NYC news event -- co-starring the NYPD police ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• PET molecules make sense
  My old friend AP de Silva of Queen’s University Belfast has put together a video to explain how molecular logic based on luminescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) is revolutionising smart medical diagnostics and could bring us a future generation of electronic gadgets based on molec ...
• Share your slides using a QR code
  Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
• Is renewable energy just a myth?
  It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
• Singing the Movember Blues no more
  Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...
• What’s the best month to be born?
  According to a post from Stuart Farrimond, there’s a wealth of data showing that your month of birth actually has a very small but noticeable difference in your long-term health. Not because of astrological nonsense, but because of exposure to sunlight, disease and other factors during cri ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• World Grain Production Down, But Recovering
  World grain production fell, exacerbating a global food situation already plagued by rising prices, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Despite record rice and maize yields around the world, global wheat production dropped subst ...
• Conference of States Parties to Mine Ban Treat ...
  The Conference of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Treaty, began Monday with 100 States Parties to the treaty present in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Although Cambodia remains one of the most landmine-polluted countries in the world, the amount of 2010 mine-action funding ...
• Free Press: Is FCC Chairman Repeating Past Mis ...
  On Monday, Free Press sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in response to reports that the FCC  may be reconsidering harmful and unjustified changes to the longstanding ban on one company owning broadcast stations and a daily newspaper in the same m ...
• To Reverse Climate Change, We Need the Voices ...
  Today, as world policymakers gather in Durban, South Africa for a major summit on climate change, MADRE underscores that prioritizing the expertise of grassroots women worldwide is critical to addressing climate change while upholding human rights. Our grassroots partners represent women on the ...
• New Jersey Legislature Moves Bill to Ban Frack ...
  Fueled by massive opposition to fracking, demonstrated by last week’s 1,000 person rally outside of the New Jersey State House, the Assembly Environment Committee passed A-4231 [Wagner (D-Bergen), Gusciora (D-Mercer)] a bill that would ban the importation of fracking wastewater into New Je ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Should We Allow NATO Free Rein to Attack and K ...
  Pratap Chatterjee  read more
• Does the U.S. Have the World's Best Health Car ...
  Wendell Potter 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 ...
• Wisconsin Recall Drive Surpasses 300,000 Signa ...
  John Nichols The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has surpassed all expectations in its first two weeks, collecting more than 300,000 signatures. The truly remarkably thing about the total so far is not, h ...
• Under the Growing Influence of the 1%, America ...
  Paul Rosenberg From the dawn of the colonial era, long before they even had a national identity, Americans have always felt they had a special role in the world, though the exact nature of American exceptionalism has always been a matter of ...
• Take Our Children, Please! A Modest Proposal f ...
  Steve Fraser In 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published a famous essay, “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland f ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Your “Oh Shit” Moment for a Saturday Morning
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• The pace of violence
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• COIN's Clauswitzian disconnect
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• Ex D.N.I. Blair: The Hippies Were Right (Again)
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• The U.S. Has Created The Next Afghan Civil War
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Water Wars

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

WordPress | Economics

• Nigel Farage: This is How Dictatorship Begins!
  Illuminati Trilateral Commission quotes:  - “We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New Y
• If 'addressing climate change' is supposed to ...
  … why does it need an investment of $1trillion/year to at least 2050? A Change of Heart on Inv
• Analyse: Hawker Britton - Federal Mid-Year Eco ...
  Analyse: Hawker Britton – Federal Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO)
• Too Big to Fail: Where do we draw the line?
  Too big to fail.  Implicitly most people understand why firms might fall under this definition. For
• NOV 2011- US Labor Market Unemployment Rate at 9%
  The US labor market has continued to add jobs in recent months, although at a rather tepid rate. Thi

Electronic Intifada

• Attempts to break Gaza blockade won't stop, vo ...
  Michelle Gyeney The Electronic Intifada As the Australian delegate on the Tahrir boat with the recent Freedom Waves initiative, Michael Coleman recently confronted all of the barriers that the government of Israel could muster.
• Private security guards kill with impunity in ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Silwan According to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 350 private Israeli security guards are currently employed in East Jerusalem by private security firm Modi’in Ezrahi, which is subcontracted by the Israeli Ministry of Hou ...
• A love story, a Palestinian story
  Lina al-Sharif The Electronic Intifada Gaza Strip Lina al-Sharif’s story is one of love that knows no boundaries and all started with a friendly debate on Twitter.
• Family of 12 faces eviction in East Jerusalem
  Nadia Walid Somrein The Electronic Intifada Silwan Despite living in his home for nearly fifty years, and despite the fact there are legal documents clearly stating that the land is owned by the Somrein family, Mohammed Somrein’s land has been declared absentee property and thus subject t ...
• For Gaza journalist, more than one struggle un ...
  Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Rami Almeghari recounts his struggle to both cover the growing protests at Cairo’s Tahrir Square and fight his own personal battle.

The Wonk Room

• Illinois Couples In Civil Unions Can Files Tax ...
  The Illinois Department of Revenue has announced that same-sex couples in civil unions will be able to file their taxes jointly starting next year. Unfortunately, because of the state’s flat tax, couples filing jointly won’t actually save any money. Plus, they will still have to file ...
• DOJ Receives 1,000+ Complaints About Alabama&# ...
  So far, the Justice Department has received more than 1,000 emails and calls on its hotline where people can report concerns about Alabama’s harmful immigration law. U.S. Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez and Assistant Attorney General Tony West were in Alabama on Monday to sift through ...
• Erasing Sexism In Art Is Not An Achievement
  My friend Elana Levin forwarded me the results of a writing contest with a noble goal — “bringing women’s and human rights values into mainstream culture” — and a weird way of going about achieving it: How often have you been enjoying a book, movie, play, or TV episode…when all of a ...
• In 2005, Gingrich Called For ‘Transfer O ...
  GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich insists that a national health insurance mandate is unconstitutional, claiming that if lawmakers can ask Americans to purchase health insurance coverage, then Congress “could compel you to do anything.” But the former Speaker had in fact sup ...
• Must Read: The Denier Debunking Handbook
  The Debunking Handbook, written by John Cook of Skeptical Science and Stephan Lewandowsky of The Conversation, is a must-read summary of the scientific literature on how to extract pernicious myths from people’s minds and restore fact-based knowledge. The Handbook explores “the surpr ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Capitalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
  It's not easy being a devotee of capitalism these days. What with the tendency of capitalist elites to cry for public bail-outs for their self-inflicted wounds while at the same time they continue to fleece the very same individuals whose tax dollars are needed to bail them out. What capitalism ...
• How do you stop them?
  Break windows and get the cops to attack peaceful protesters in response? Hmm. Interesting idea. I can feel international capitalism buckling under the resulting strain just thinking about it. Get a permit and have a rally and a march attended by hundreds or even thousands? And then go home? I ...
• Too Much
  I've been meaning to post something along these lines for a while. In his Salon entry entitled "The Fruits of Liberation" Glenn Greenwald writes about the murder of seven Afghans, including six children, by a NATO airstrike in Southern Afghanistan and how he almost didn't mention it because the ...
• Do Really Bad Newspaper Columnists Have Awesom ...
  How do these incoherent babbling lunatics, serial plagiarists and constantly wrong fuck-ups continue to find work? Surely there are higher-quality apologists and rationalizers for the system lining-up to provide the same sort of bullshit at a far more reasonable rate? Perhaps we must just imag ...
• Civilization is a Powder-Keg
  Super busy. Didn't have a clue what to write. Went and looked at unpublished drafts of entries and decided to put this out, ... whatever it is. The world isn't flat. It's round. But for tens of thousands of years, humanity, if we thought of it at all, believed that the world was flat, because w ...

on Government Oversight

• Morning Smoke: SEC-Citigroup Settlement Reject ...
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Digital Journal

• Report: Bing publishes most-searched news stor ...
  From the acquittal of Casey Anthony to the death of Osama bin Laden to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the year 2011 had quite a year when it came to the news. Bing recently released the top most-searched news stories of 2011.
• Canadian tourism group launches website for tr ...
  Canada is a vast country with so many different cultures, terrain, lifestyles, and activity options available. As a traveller, the best way to find out about a hidden gem is by asking a local. Now that opportunity is available online.
• The beat goes on for jazz singer Barlow
  Emilie-Claire Barlow channels the spirit of the 60s on her latest album, The Beat Goes On. But that doesn't mean she's leaving the classics behind.
• ON Environmental Commissioner laments lack of ...
  Ontario's Environmental Commissioner, Gord Miller, released the ECO's 2010/2011 Annual Report, which outlines the state of environmental affairs in the province. "Now is not a good time to disarm your environmental ministries," he warns.
• Light up the trees! ceremony kicks off Christm ...
  Despite unseasonably warm weekend weather, it had started to look a lot like Christmas in Mississauga. The festivities kicked off on Saturday evening, with a big party for the tree lighting ceremony, inside the city's new square.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Sun TV attacks Ceasefire.ca!
  Sun TV, also known as "Fox News North," has turned its guns on the peace work of Ceasefire.ca and all of its 20,000 supporters – but especially Ceasefire.ca founder Steven Staples.
• ICC may examine NATO’s role in Libya
  Ottawa may be celebrating victory in Libya, but NATO and its members could yet face the scrutiny of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their actions during the conflict, the Associated Press reported earlier this month (Slobodan Lekic and Mike Corder, “AP Exclusive: NATO may face ...
• Inside the pro-war lobby’s secret funding deal ...
  Please make your donation to stop the pro-war lobby from stealing from Canadians, and to make sure public funds are used for human needs and the environment.
• Staples: Canada overspending on defence
  In a recent op-ed article in Embassy magazine, Steven Staples, president of the Rideau Institute, argues that Canada’s military spending needs to be curbed: In 2010-11, Department of National Defence spending is estimated to reach $22.2 billion, its highest level since Canada was in Europe ...
• Panetta: F-35 could be on chopping block
  U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned the U.S. Congress that the Pentagon may be forced to cancel its planned purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a congressional “super committee” fails to reach a budget deal, thus triggering automatic deep cuts in government spendi ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Kelp – Find Health In This Sea Vegetable Power ...
  November 7, 2011 Natural News by: Dr. David Jockers Kelp is a group of large sea algae that is commonly referred to as seaweed. This amazing plant species has been used for many years by sea dwelling cultures. It is renowned for its powerful nutritional benefits. Kelp is part of the brown algae ...
• Ventura, Miffed By Court, Says He’s Off To Mexico
  November 7, 2011 Yahoo News By BRIAN BAKST Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is so upset by the dismissal of his airport security lawsuit that he threatened Friday to apply for dual citizenship so he can spend more time in his beloved Mexico — or run for president of what he labeled “the ...
• New Superbug Drugs Cause 500 Percent Increase ...
  November 7, 2011 Natural News by: Jonathan Benson Governments around the world have been trying to work with the pharmaceutical industry to come up with (conventional) new ways to tackle the growing “superbug” problem. But an experimental new drug treatment regime touted as a potenti ...
• No Alien Visits or UFO Coverups, White House Says
  November 7, 2011 Universe Today By Nancy Atkinson “This is total nonsense. More retired high level government officials have come forward with knowledge about UFOs and ET visitation than ever before. Are you telling us they are all lying? People have been seeing strange things in the skies ...
• Google: Governments Seek More About You Than Ever
  November 7, 2011 CNet by Elinor Mills A new report from Google shows a rise in government requests for user account data and content removal, including a request by one unnamed law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality–which the company refused. The latest Google ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• “We’ll Occupy” The 99% is Pissed and We Will N ...
  By Veterans TodayTuesday, November 29th, 2011 This Is Not How America Is Suppose to Be…   Here are some of the lyrics courtesy of Freaked out Nation: We ll protest on, with catchy phases, We re going global From London to Uc Davis, If you think that your batons are going to get us to ...
• Double Standards: U.S. Condemns Attack on Brit ...
  Kurt Nimmo Prison Planet.com November 29, 2011 The United States has condemned the storming of the British embassy in Iran. Obama’s press secretary issued the following statement: The United States condemns in the strongest terms the storming of the British Embassy in Tehran. Iran has a re ...
• Co-Sponsors of the National Defense Authorizat ...
  Co-Sponsors of the National Defense Authorization Act: Bill DOES Apply to American Citizens, and Could Be Used Send Them to Guantanamo Indefinitely By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com   As I noted Sunday, the Senate is poised to vote today on the National Defense Authorization Act bill, w ...
• Cain tells staff he’s reconsidering candidacy
  On a conference call Tuesday morning, motivational speaker and former businessman Herman Cain told senior campaign staff that he is considering dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to published reports. During the call, he denied a claim that he carried ...
• NWO Puppets: ‘Cold war & crusades never ...
  Russia Todayyoutube.com Russia’s assessment of the cause of the Syrian unrest points the finger of blame firmly at an armed opposition. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also says it’s time to stop dealing in ultimatums and get back to peace talks. A UN investigation earlier stated that ...

Dandelion Salad

• Bahraini Political Activist Condemns U.S.-Back ...
  Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 28, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties say they will not participate in ...
• Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
  Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington D.C. Nov. 28, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that kille ...
• Ralph Nader: Giant Corporate Power is the Cent ...
  Dandelion Salad http://a.blip.tv/ Ralph Nader speaks at the Washington D.C. Green Festival on Nov. 22, 2011. Keynote: Ralph Nader at the Washington D.C. Green Festival (2011) see Taming the Giant Corporation Center for Corporate Policy Michael Parenti: Imperialism and the 99% Solution First Step ...
• Rick Rozoff: NATO’s expanding horizons
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 26, 2011 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55918 NATO’s expanding horizons November 21st, 2011 Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff CIUT 89.5 FM The Taylor Report November 25, 2011 Program ...
• The Punk Patriot: Want To Stop The Machine? Ju ...
  Dandelion Salad ThePunkPatriot on Nov 22, 2011 DONATE: ‪http://bit.ly/7OwKc2‬ FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1OtiqI‬ BLOG: http://punkpatriot.blogspot.com‬ TWITTER: ‪http://www.twitter.com/punkpatriot‬ STORE: ‪http://punkpatriot.etsy.com‬ Thanksgiving Message to the Occupy Movement see Occupy Everywher ...

Your New Reality

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  Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
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  I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
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  This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
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  US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...
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  Libya 2.0 Tony Blair's Libyan dictator mate Gaddafi can rot in a ditch for all I care, but there's something about this video that is chilling. It's hard to nail the exact moment, amongst the laughter : This is what US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was laughing at : Libyans, hired mer ...

Wired - Science

• 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Hassan Jabareen: The right context
  The disingenuity of the Israeli government's international comparisons is evident when one compares politicians' rhetoric for audiences within Israel with the diplomatic discourse abroad. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
• Jonathan Cook: Is Britain plotting with Israel ...
  The real concern among [UK] government officials is that Fox, Werritty and Gould were conspiring in a “rogue” foreign policy – opposed to the British government’s stated aims – that was authored by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Who Profits: Veolia owns, operates Tovlan land ...
  Veolia is not only still involved in the illegal Israeli tram project connecting Israeli's colonies to Jerusalem, it also owns and operates (through its subsidiaries), the infamous Tovlan landfill... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses ...
  Jerusalem anti-Arab activist: "A booklet with a list of places that employ Arabs will be published soon. That will be followed by hanging up posters and signs with these lists in the streets - just... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Yitzhak Laor: NGO bill aims to create a democr ...
  We must not dismiss the NGO Bill - it truly intends to create a democracy for Jews only; if it were passed, no Arab - whether resident of the territories or Israeli citizen - would have access to the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Iran's nuclear program
• Russian Navy drills in Mediterranean ‘unrelate ...
  The dispatch of a Russian Navy task force to the Mediterranean Sea is part of a scheduled exercise and is not connected to the situation in Syria, General Staff chief Nikolai Makarov said on Tuesday.
• Russia’s radar to counter missile shield, says ...
  The launch of a new anti-missile radar station in the Russian Baltic Sea region of Kaliningrad should be treated by the West as the “first signal” of Russia’s readiness to counter “threats” posed by NATO’s missile defense plans, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
• Russia’s Baltic radar station put into service
  A new radar station capable of monitoring missile launches from the North Atlantic, as well as the future European missile defense system, was put into operation in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad on Tuesday.
• President Medvedev pays visit to Russia’s Kali ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Tuesday in the country’s western exclave of Kaliningrad for a working visit.

NewsWise

• American Medical Group Association Launches Ne ...
  The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced today that it will launch the next phase of its Accountable Care Collaborative: Transforming to a Value-Based System of Care. Medical groups are invited to join this yearlong shared learning program. Phase II of the Collaborative will focu ...
• Trimming Your Student Holiday Budget
  With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, it's very tempting to open up your wallet and buy expensive gifts for all of your family and friends, especially for students who are on a tight budget. Keeping the following tips in mind will help you trim your holiday spending but still enjoy ...
• World AIDS Day Video with Leading Expert
  In this video, Douglas Richman, MD, is professor of pathology and medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research discusses the current status of HIV/AIDS research and what lies ahead.
• Lloyd J. Old, "Father of Modern Tumor Immunolo ...
  The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming cancer patient care by supporting and coordinating global research in tumor immunology, announced today that CRI founding scientific and medical director Lloyd J. Old, M.D., regarded as the "Father of Mo ...
• Williams Joins UAB as Research Editor
  Experienced science editor joins Media Relations to help promote the $460 million research enterprise.

Natural Health News

• The Hidden Cause of Infant Anemias
  Research is showing that consumption of cow's milk has adverse effects on the iron stores of infants and toddlers. Several mechanisms may be contributing to the problem, including intestinal blood loss associated with cow’s milk consumption during infancy -- a condition that affects about 40% of ...
• Why Are Medical Experts Routinely Paid Off By ...
  A new report has revealed that thousands of Texas doctors and medical experts, including more than 100 employed by the state itself, routinely supplement their salaries with money paid by drug companies.  Between 2009 and early 2011, more than 25,000 Texas doctors and researchers received a ...
• Will this Foolish Move by the EPA Accelerate G ...
  Bee Aware from Greg Stanley on Vimeo.Bees have been dying off around the world for more than a decade, a phenomenon known as “Colony Collapse Disorder,” or CCD. Each year commercial beekeepers have reported unprecedented losses.  Most fruits, many vegetables, almonds, alfalfa and many other ...
• Is the Term 'Safe Starches' an Oxymoron?
  Paul Jaminet, an astrophysicist from Harvard with a strong interest in health and diet, and Dr. Ron Rosedale have recently been having a lively internet debate.  Jaminet believes that carbohydrates from starches such as potatoes and cooked rice are healthy “safe starches” that if not consum ...
• 60 Minutes Mercury Segment So Controversial it ...
  This 60 Minutes segment originally aired in 1990.  It covered mercury-based fillings and the poisonous effects they have on those who have them ... and because of the uproar it created in the dental field, it never aired again.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• International Law in the Age of Austerity
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The imminent collapse of the eurozone (and maybe the global financial markets as well) makes for terrifying reading. It also is one reminder of how the success of regional and international legal institutions has depended on the general health of the global economy  ( ...
• Foreign Relations Federalism: The Promise of T ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro I’ve been arguing for some time (here, here, and here, all pre-SSRN) that the globalized economy enables the world to directly discipline US states in the context of foreign relations and human rights, and that this in turn erases the need for a dormant fede ...
• George Kennan, International Lawyer?
  by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen Many of you have probably seen the reviews of John Lewis Gaddis’ new biography, George F. Kennan: An American Life. John Gaddis was one of my mentors in college and graduate school, and I have really enjoyed seeing what I know to have been a labor of love review ...
• Dapo Akande on Surrendering Saif — and a Brief ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has a typically excellent discussion of the surrender issue today at EJIL: Talk!, in which he agrees with Jens Ohlin and disagrees with me.  In his view, Libya is entitled to challenge the admissibility of the case against Saif without having ...
• Dapo Akande on Surrendering Saif — and a ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Dapo Akande has a typically excellent discussion of the surrender issue today at EJIL: Talk!, in which he agrees with Jens Ohlin and disagrees with me.  In his view, Libya is entitled to challenge the admissibility of the case against Saif without having ...

Public News Service

• Report: America – Not as Broke as You'd ...
  Report: America – Not as Broke as You'd Think Phoenix, AZ – The “super committee” officially failed to come to an agreement to cut $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit over the next ten years, but a new report challenges the premise that austerity for the average Americ ...
• The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Rem ...
  The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Remember Financial Basics Phoenix, AZ – A good way to reduce family stress this time of year is to remember good basic spending habits. Advice from from Kelli Hinkle, interim executive director of the Alliance For Sustainable Families.
• Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks
  Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since the Great Recession began four years ago (December, 2007), donations to Arizona’s food banks have fallen off. Yet the demand for emergency food remains at record levels. Comments from Terry Shannon, president ...
• Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech
  Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday) is the 36th annual Great American Smokeout, and the American Cancer Society has all sorts of ways to help you kick the habit – including some new features on social media. Comments from Laurie Pagel (PAY-gl), regio ...
• Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic C ...
  Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic Chemical Phoenix, AZ - A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund says the toxic chemical bisphenol A (Bis-FEE-null ay) is present in canned foods used to prepare a typical Thanksgiving meal. BPA has been linked in laboratory studies to adverse health e ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
  Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
• Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
  Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...
• Blogging While Black launches nationwide
  Blogging While Black launches nationwide As we reported earlier last week on this blog, here is more positive information coming out of Dallas Texas regarding a great book, Blogging While Black. Yes, Social media and hyperlocal news pioneer Shawn P. Williams recently released his first book Blo ...
• JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders comm ...
  JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders commission to study report on rights violations: [JURIST] Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [official website] has ordered a special commission [BNA report] to look into recommendations made following an independent investigation into the alleged cr ...
• Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press ...
  Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press, Assembly Before Poll: "(New York) – The weeks before Egypt’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, have been marked by repeated violations of free expression and free assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
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• Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
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• Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver ...
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• NZ First hits nearly 4% in polls, leader revea ...
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• Turkey votes for early Christmas
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• “Law Enforcement” Destroys Prayer ...
  Last Thursday, November 24, employees of the Israeli company “E.T. Legal Services”, hired by the deceptively named “Civil Administration” arm of Israel’s military Occupation regime in the West Bank, demolished a mosque. Among other things. To add insult to injury, ...
• Statement of the Palestinian Freedom Riders
  As of now, 6 Palestinian Freedom Riders are about to be arrested just inside Jerusalem. Read why the Palestinian human rights activists boarded segregated buses below. My name is Hurriyeh Ziadah. I am the media spokeswomen for the Palestinian Freedom Rides campaign. Thank you all for being here ...
• New Sheikh Jarrah Video from Just Vision
  Just Vision, the folks I interned for last spring, are out with, “Home Front is a new series of four video portraits chronicling the resolve of a neighborhood, and the support it receives from the most unexpected of places.” It documents different Israelis and Palestinians involved i ...
• Villages Group: South Hebron Hills Update
  Dear friends and supporters, About one month ago we reported to you on the state of the local schoolhouse in Palestinian Susiya as its second school year opened. Visiting the school on Thursday November 2nd, 2011, we witnessed an impressive development in the construction of the school’s p ...
• Video: Democracy Now! footage from Freedom Wav ...
  Israel has boarded and detained the latest Freedom Flotilla heading for Gaza. See the last footage they were able to transmit from on board the boat here. If you are in New York City, there will be an emergency action. TODAY, November 4 5 – 6:30pm across the street from the Israeli Consul ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• Sen. Rand Paul Defends American Citizens Again ...
  Not a peep about this bill being voted on in Senate on Main Stream Media. Wake up people.
• Why young voters love Ron Paul
  It’s not because they’re potheads. It’s because they’re sick of America’s militaristic misadventures   Salon Despite a sustained campaign by the Washington media and political establishment to marginalize him, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is still a serious contende ...
• BLOOD BYTES WORLD #2
  EXCLUSIVE: BBC Investigative Reporter GREG PALAST like you have never heard him!~ His newest bestseller: “Vulture’s Picnic” – Greg and Jack hit: “O’Busha” / BP / Romney’s puppet master unveiled / secret submarines / the phoney renta green movement ...
• Child’s Remains and Other Bones Identifi ...
  A Statement from the Kanien’keha’:ka Nation of the Grand River Please visit www.itccs.org (BRANTFORD, Ontario) – Archaeological surveys and test digs authorized by we, elders of the Kanien’keha:ka Nation, have been conducted at the former Mohawk Institute Indian residenti ...
• International Anti-Landmine Convention (U.S. N ...

The Air Vent

• Emails in Order
  Buffy Minton who provided the Mime data has produced a spreadsheet of CG1 and CG2 emails in chronological order.  This should be an excellent tool to follow conversations through. odered emails – xls odered emails – xlsx I have the emails locally but if you are interested, combine th ...
• The Right Kind of People
  UPDATE: Reader Stacey left a bomb in #9 of the thread below.   Long time readers here will recognize this theme, new readers can assume it from the URL I’ve been using. The concept of a complete consensus among humans only occurs when a structure bands them together on an opinion. In ...
• Dave Holland on Cliamategate 2.0
  Dave Holland, who was widely featured in the CRU emails from his blocked FOIA requests,  has a guest post at Andrew Montford’s blog.  He doesn’t think much of the Muir Russel review’s either and specifically addresses the false claims that the emails were out of context.
• Provenance of the Decline, a Forensic Analysis
  There is much about paleoclimatology we don’t know.  Key among the questions is, “What exactly was done to that innocent, unsuspecting data?”  The stealthy nature of these statistical oddities has led to the practice of an informal new field of blog science which could accurate ...
• CRU Scientist Excoriated in Open Letter (Clima ...
  Willis Eschenbach has an open letter at WUWT which absolutely excoriates Phil Climategate Jones for his lies to the public and to Willis. The letter is quite strongly worded, places the FOI lies in context and is worth a read. The critique is strong enough that it extends not only to Phil, but t ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Settles Federal Trade Commission Char ...
  The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Facebook this morning over charges that the social network deceived users by failing to honor privacy agreements. Under the agreement, Facebook: cannot misrepresent the privacy or security or users personal information; must … Contin ...
• Movies, LMFAO, Target, Macy’s, Poker, Football ...
  Movies, music but most interestingly, Black Friday Pages were popular on our list if the fastest growing by the number of Likes this week. There were also a pair of game Pages and football (soccer) Pages on the list, too. … Continue reading →
• Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: Tracking the ...
  With an up-to-$2 billion IPO that Zynga may file in the coming weeks to fund its continued global expansion, Facebook’s migration to Credits, Google’s launch of Google+, and the continued rapid growth of in-app purchase-based businesses on the iOS and … Continue reading →
• New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Shoutlet ...
  Wildfire hired an engineer and an account manager while Shoutlet, Work4 Labs and AdParlor hired sales and account staff this week. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) … Continue reading →
• Facebook Buys WhoGlue, But Not Its Talent
  Facebook acquired Baltimore-based social networking software firm WhoGlue Inc. early this month for an undisclosed amount, according to a report from the Baltimore Business Journal. WhoGlue’s founder, Jason Hardebeck, appears happy to be bought by the company that sued him … Continue readi ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: #Kasich, #Koch and Big-Industry Buck ...
  truthout: #Kasich, #Koch and Big-Industry Bucks: Why #Ohio Is the Next #Fracking Frontier http://t.co/XRX3tc7J
• truthout: Occupy Wall Street is about, "saving ...
  truthout: Occupy Wall Street is about, "saving the country, an objective bigger than politics and politicians." http://t.co/1PdgJWcR #OWS
• truthout: How Private #Warmongers and the US # ...
  truthout: How Private #Warmongers and the US #Military Infiltrated American #Universities http://t.co/7ouRd1Ix
• truthout: George Lakoff: "The way to change th ...
  truthout: George Lakoff: "The way to change the nation is to occupy elections." http://t.co/RLi6xX2w
• truthout: How the 99% Woke Up http://t.co/1S3 ...
  truthout: How the 99% Woke Up http://t.co/1S3fZpsj #OWS #occupywallstreet #OO

ReDress News

• Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
• Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
  Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...
• Capitalism and the spy market
  Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
• The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
  As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
• Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
  Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained crea ...
• BFP Exclusive: Revisiting My Silence on WikiLeaks
  The Question(s) of Disappeared Documents & Missing Links A year or so ago I wrote a couple of pieces on the WikiLeaks case explaining my reluctance to form and communicate a conclusive opinion or reaction on this confusing intrigue. I encourage you to read my only two responses to the case h ...
• Gulenists’ & the Turkish Government’s Fraudule ...
  A Masterpiece of Propaganda with the Real Goal of Getting Rid of the BDP Kurdish Party By Dr. Aland Mizell In his latest speech broadcast on the Herkul.org website, Fethullah Gülen commented on his grief over the deaths of the security members during the PKK attacks in the country‘s Southeast re ...
• Transcript: BFP Interview with Paul Thompson-P ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” –Richard Salent, former president, CBS News International Newsworthy Report: Iran Arrests 12 CIA Spies Iran CIA Agents Arrest Linked to Missile Testing Iran to Privatize Gas ...

Afro Spear

• The Al Jazeera slavery debate
• sat’day riddymz
  “Os tambores de Minas, by Milton Nascimento. This song roughly means, the drums of Minas Gerais, Milton Nascimento’s home state, will never be quiet.” Sis Ana. Saludos…
• Eduardo Galeano Chronicles the History of Huma ...
  “I believe this reading by Eduardo Galeano is very interesting.  Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan intellectual, writer and novelist, describes himself as being obsessed with remembering and committed to humanity and just causes. I agree with him.” Sis. Ana.  Saludos… Click here.
• sat’day riddymz
  From Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that ta ...
• Obama vs Jesus

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Ten More Herman Cain Scandals
  Think the corporate media has brought out all the scandals involving Herman Cain? Think again. Here are ten more that the corporate media should be investigating but are not. It is interesting that the corporate media concentrates on his sexual scandal, but doesn't say a word about his numerous ...
• Occupiers Help Needy Stay in or Obtain Housing
  Occupy Wall Street has gone local. At the grassroots level around the country, occupation is working on issues such as housing and other matters that directly affect communities.
• Essay from the silent 99%
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• Military to Police American Civilians!?
  The ACLU has advised that this week: "The Senate will be voting on a bill that will direct American military resources not at an enemy shooting at our military in a war zone, but at American citizens and other civilians far from any battlefield -- even people in the United States itself."
• Measuring Corporate Tax Dodgers by Industry
  A recent article entitled "Over Half of All U.S. Tax Subsidies Go to Four Industries. Guess Which Ones?" caught my eye. With a little work, I was able to roughly extrapolate data and graph out the specific industries that have dodged the most corporate taxes. Have school and library cutbacks in ...

Switchboard

• Future Beyond Oil on Display at LA Auto Show
  Max Baumhefner, Sustainable Energy Fellow, San Francisco At last week’s Los Angeles Auto Show, I saw a glimpse of the future.  Many of the up to 50 plug-in electric vehicle models scheduled to hit America’s streets over the next sev ...
• India Environmental News Compilation, November ...
  Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Himalayan nations agree on climate change adaption plan “Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to collaborat ...
• Actually, the Heartland Institute is as Wrong ...
  Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C. Naomi Klein’s essay “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” which appeared on the cover of the November 28th issue of The Nation, starts with a withering critique of the ...
• What must global warming negotiations in South ...
  Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC One year ago, countries rallied around the Cancun Agreements with multiple standing ovations and strong words of support.  While these agreements are not sufficient by themselv ...
• How California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard Can ...
  Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco Top Things You Should Know About California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard This year, California began quietly implementing the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that will result in prod ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Blame it on Cain
  The news that Herman Cain is “reassessing” his presidential campaign after a woman’s claim that she had a 13-year extramarital affair with him became a news story once again illustrates the unfortunate tendency to confuse legitimate news stories with pure gossip whenever the wo ...
• Debt
  Sarah Jaffe has been all over the issue of debt lately, chronicling who is profiting from the massive debt young people have to take on in order to graduate from college and how people are fighting back. Great stuff. See here and here. This debt is one of the most important issues Occupy Wall St ...
• DNA and the Authoritarian Fantasy Life of Pros ...
  Andrew Martin has a fascinating article about how things work in a winger-dominated DA’s office in Illinois.   First, people are convicted based almost entirely on not-very-plausible confessions extracted from the kind of marathon high-pressure interrogations that will produce many false p ...
• Labor Notes
  1. Conditions at Chinese computer manufacturing plants remain horrible. Apple has claimed they will look into these problems, but actual action remains unlikely. The workers themselves are fed up and 1000 employees at a Jingmo Electronics Corporation factory, which makes keyboards for many compu ...
• Obama’s judge problem
  I have a piece in the Daily Beast, commenting on the fact that Obama’s judicial nominations are getting rejected by the ABA at four times the rate that Bush II’s and Clinton’s were.

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Indy Airport Goes LEED In Big Way
  The Indianapolis International Airport's Midfield Terminal wins LEED certification, making it the first airport terminal campus complex in the U.S. to do so.
• Tokyo Motor Show Report: Honda
  Honda will display three electric car concepts, three electric motorcycle concepts and a “mobility concept” called the Townwalker at the Tokyo Motor Show.
• Solar-Focused ERC Has Houston Help
  A physics research team from the University of Houston will join QESST, a new Engineering Research Center devoted to commercializing advanced PV technologies.
• NREL Forum Draws Crowds, Picks Winners
  NREL's 24th Industry Forum drew more than 500 entrepreneurs, scientists and investors, and three companies walked away with cash to help fund their ventures.
• U.S. Made Fuel Cell Bus Rolling In SoCal
  The SunLine Transit Agency in Southern California begins demoing the "American Fuel Cell Bus," a hydrogen-fueled bus made from 90 percent U.S. components.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Federal judge denies motion to disqualify Kilp ...
  A Georgia federal judge has denied a bid to disqualify Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton from defending Networkfleet Inc. in a patent infringement case, rejecting plaintiff Telematics Corp.'s claim of a conflict of interest.
• New York Law and John Jay to offer joint degre ...
  The program, which will take four years to complete, is intended for law students with an interest in mental disability law and psychology graduate students who wish to learn more about the legal system.
• 1st Circuit denies appeal of cyberstalking def ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has rejected the appeal of a criminal defendant in a case that raised three issues of first impression involving interstate stalking, cyberstalking and threats by mail.
• How likely is Congress to fix federal sentenci ...
  The left and the right have yet to find common ground, and neither side has shown a willingness to compromise.
• The Minority 40 Under 40
  The lawyers profiled here were all born in the 1970s, a decade when law schools and law firms were just beginning to welcome minorities in significant numbers. The thriving careers of these lawyers — at law firms and in government, academia and public interest — attest to the greater ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• G77 Says 'States Must Not Give Up Without a Fi ...
  The Group of 77 and China met throughout the weekend to prepare for the coming two weeks of negotiations.
• PA Leaders Claim Yasser Arafat Started and Led ...
  In an interview on PA TV, Suha Arafat explained that Arafat ordered her to leave the PA areas 'because he had already decided to carry out an Intifada.'
• CECAFA Tusker Challenge Cup Day 4: Sudan 1 Eth ...
  CECAFA Tusker challenge cup Day 4: Sudan 1 Ethiopia 1, Uganda 4 Somalia 0, Malawi 2 Kenya 0
• Concerted Action to Reduce Inequality and Supp ...
  UNDG said the parties gathered at Busan must support inclusive growth that reaches the marginalized poor, address inequalities between women and men, increase their help to developing countries to rise out of poverty, use their resources more effect
• 12 Elements Added to UN Intangible Heritage List
  The new additions include two from Japan: Mibu no Hana Taue, the ritual of transplanting rice which takes place in two communities in Hiroshima prefecture on the first Sunday in June each year and Sada Shin Noh, the series of sacred purification dan

environment 360

• Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
  With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, which was created by Fathom Information Design, uses circles of vari ...
• Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
  The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...
• World's Largest Marine Reserve Proposed in Aus ...
  Australia has proposed the creation of the world’s largest marine park in the Coral Sea, a 382,000-square-mile area where fishing would be limited and oil and gas exploration would be banned. The so-called Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would begin in waters about 36 miles off Australia’s ...
• Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
  Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...
• The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less?
  A new study finds that Britons are consuming less than they did a decade ago, with similar patterns being seen across Europe. Could this be the beginning of a trend in developed countries? Might we be reaching “peak stuff”? BY FRED PEARCE

Red Ice Creations

• The Lightbulb Conspiracy - Planned Obsolescence
  Once upon a time..... products were made to last. Then, at the beginning of the 1920s, a group of businessmen were struck by the following insight: "A product that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business" (1928). Thus Planned Obsolescence was born. Shortly after, the first worldwide cartel ...
• Rosinenbomber: The Notorious Candy Bomber
  In July 1948, 27-year-old Air Force lieutenant Gail Halvorsen was flying food and supplies into West Berlin, which was blockaded by the Soviet Union. One night he encountered a group of hungry children who had gathered near the runway to watch the planes land. "Their clothes were patched...They ...
• The World of Mind Control Through the Eyes of ...
  Kim Noble is a rare occurrence: a trauma-based mind control survivor with over 13 alter personas who don’t know each other but who all paint. She has suffered DID and MPD (dissociative identity disorder and multiple personality disorder) for most of her life, as a result of an extremely traumati ...
• Symbols of an Alien Sky - David Talbott
  David Talbott’s film ’Symbols of an Alien Sky’ goes far beyond merely identifying "the celestial provocation" of our true history. Symbols resurrects and confirms the genius of Immanuel Velikovsky. With excruciating attention to detail Talbott rivals the intellectual obsession and integrity of t ...
• Perfect Storm of Internet Censorship (Video)
  Video from: YouTube.com "In recent weeks the governments of Britain, Israel, the US, Japan, India and China have reported alleged cyber attacks by foreign militaries, hackers, and malicious software like Duqu, a virus similar to the Stuxnet cyber weapon constructed by Israel and the US for use a ...

Russia Today

• Iran attack: UK embassy stormed in Tehran (VID ...
  Several dozen Iranian students have stormed the UK embassy in Tehran, chanting “death to England” and bringing down the British flag.
• George Orwell’s guide to the news
  The Western mainstream media falsifies the news resorting to euphemisms, half-truths and lies in the best (worst) style of George Orwell’s novel 1984. We all live in the unreal world of “Newspeak” used by the Global...
• Bomb voyage: 600 Libyans ‘already fighting in ...
  The Libyan government apparently wants to share its successful experience of overthrowing the Gaddafi regime with like-minded Syrians. It has sent 600 of its troops to support local militants against the Assad regime,...
• 'Criminally insane': No trial for Norway mass ...
  Confessed mass killer Andres Breivik is not mentally sound and cannot be held accountable for the double terror attack in July, which ended with 77 people dead, doctors have determined, as cited by Norwegian media.
• ‘Greece & EU: Either saved or collapsed together’
  Greek MP Simos Kedikoglou predicts his country's economic collapse within weeks, even days, if it doesn’t receive another tranche that finance ministers of eurozone countries have agreed to release.

Not My Tribe

• Gun Fu vs Kung Fu, Martial Arts v Martial Law
  And why Kung Fu or any other martial art comes out ahead. If you pick any one thing that’s external to you, something that’s not built into your body and mind as your means of self defense, you set up a cycle of dependence. With knives, staves, swords, and such it’s the same st ...
• KKKansas Guv. BrownbacKKK tries to make exampl ...
  BrownbacKKK DiKKKtatorship actually censures people for tweeting naughty things about His Royal Highness He has PUBLICLY-funded researchers keep track of any internet postings with his name on them, and actually used his powers as governor to DEMAND Emma Sullivan, 18, write a letter of apology, ...
• Channel 21 News for DumFOX tips for keeping ch ...
  Man these guys are a piss-you-off in large doses several times a day. MY suggestion on Christmas trees? First, I actually read the books and there were no flying reindeer, pine trees, elf changelings, talking snowmen or grinches mentioned. Nor a marathon of different versions of a certain Dicken ...
• Chuck Norris, Non-Warrior Warmonger, Actor, Ra ...
  “There are 10 million people in Worlds of Warcraft… But only because Chuck Norris chooses to let them live!” Plays a soldier, a cop. etc.. in the movies, but not in real life. In real life he’s a probation officer for non-violent offenders in Wise Co, TX and even then has ...
• Operation: Love Reunited
  Awww, how sweet… A volunteer group of professional photographers taking pictures of the “warriors” and their families as they go off to fight “for our freedom”. Anybody catch the tone yet? A sickly sweet family scene with a father in the Air Force being deployed, le ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 9/11 Truth Versus The BBC
  My video editing software hasn't been working for months, then all of a sudden it inexplicably came to life about three weeks ago (although it's still really slow), so I decided to finish a video that I started literally over a year ago. I thought it was time to go back to my roots and make ano ...
• 9/11 Truth Movement Trying to Co-opt the Occu ...
  Please spread to individual Occupy movement supporters, affiliated groups, websites, and forums. This is a plea for the Occupy movement to drop any preconceived notions about, and take careful consideration of, forming an alliance with the 9/11 truth movement, specifically the OccupyBuilding7.o ...
• Corbett Report Radio 011 – Occupy Building 7 w ...
  September 11, 2001 - the day our country was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in our lifetime unless we the 99% stop it. Ten years later the War on Terrorism has diverted trillions of dollars from more important uses and sunken our country into debt. 15 NOV 2011 Pod ...
• Thermite Has Never Been Used in Building Demol ...
  "Thermite has never been used in building demolition." - [9/11] Critical Thinking For Dummies - Controlled Demolition by "Juniversal" at the JREF Forum Popular Mechanics Ignores Its Own Historical Records of Thermite Demolition: Destruction of Skyride Towers, Reichstag Dome Set Incendiary Prece ...
• The Trapping of Screw Loose Change
  November 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Strahl 911truth.org Dear Readers, Please submit your comments on this article at the link at Amazon, here, as provided below by Mr. Strahl. 911Truth.org published this article; the author is not available to be reached through email to this site. We look forward to ...

Fooducate

• The Fooducate App, 10 Million Scans Later…
  Today Fooducate is sharing with the public some information about our mobile app (iPhone /Android) usage for the first time. A formal press release can be found here, but the fun part is the infographic we’ve put together below. What we’re most excited about is that Fooducate is actu ...
• Coming Soon? Fast Food Stamps
  Should Food Stamp recipients be able to use government funds to buy fast food? Yum Brands, the holding company of KFC and Taco Bell thinks YES! If this seems totally preposterous to you, well, it’s because it is. The aid program, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
• What if There was Black Friday for Fresh Produce?
  Friday’s shopping madness included consumer electronics, household items, clothes, toys and just about anything. Except for food. Well, maybe specialty and gourmet online retailers, but not your regular supermarket fare. What if supermarkets also had black friday sales? More specifically, ...
• Unpalatable Farm Bill
  This is a guest blog post by Benzi Ronen, founder & CEO of Farmigo Anyone interested in the future of agricultural policy in the U.S. has surely been following the progress of the U.S. Farm Bill that is currently making its ways through the halls of Congress. The bill is set to shape U.S. po ...
• Nutrition That Rocks: Using Media to Solve the ...
  This is a guest blog post by Jill Jayne, MS, RD Childhood obesity means more than just fat kids. It means that about one-third of American kids—despite eating too many calories—are not getting the proper nutrition. The repercussions are serious: a poor diet affects emotional health, physical fit ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
  WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...
• Ma Nature, the Happy ToiletBP on Trial at the ...
  by Greg Palast for Greenpeace.org Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. [Occupy Wall Street Climate Trial, New York. Sunday, Nov 27.] This is not the first courtroom where I've faced off against BP, British Petroleum ...
• Kick-Ass, Mind-blowing
  "Greg Palast's Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed."  - Nomi Prins, author Other People's Money We are just a few books short of bumping Bill O'Reilly on the New York Times list. Get it now, this weekend. We don ...
• Goldfinger eats Congo
  Goldfinger eats Congo Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!... "Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfi ...
• Etok is One Bad-Ass Eskimo-In September, Obama ...
  Alternet.org - From the Arctic Circle, from inside a whale carcass (really), Greg Palast investigates... There is a legend told among the Inupiat Alaskans who live above the Arctic Circle, “Etok Tames the Green People.” It goes like this: In the Old Days, as today, the peoples on the edge of t ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse, recycle or pass on old board ...
  We’ve had an email from Harrie: We’ve got lots of board games (Monopoly and such) from when the kids were little but they’re not in good condition so I don’t think charity shops will take them. What else can I do with them? As long as they’ve still got all/enough pi ...
• How can I reuse coffee that’s sat on the ...
  We’ve had an email from Iris: We make a big jug of filter coffee each morning at the weekend but I regularly have to pour away the last cup or two away because it’s gone bitter. Is there anything I can do to revive it or use it up some other way? Of course, there [...]
• How can I recycled/pass on an old, working ele ...
  We’ve had an email from Richard: We have 4-year-old electric oven in good working order which we would like to donate to a Charity. Any ideas? We’ll actually in a similar position soon – our (15+ year old) oven works for general cooking but not for the precise/high temperatures ...
• How can I reuse roller adhesive refill packs ( ...
  We’ve had an email from Carmel: Hello, I’m a paper crafter and was a Stampin Up demonstrator and use the Stampin Up snail adhesives or the tombow roller adhesives. Anyhow, to refill these things you have to buy another plastic mechanism that has the tape already in it. With all the p ...
• How can I reuse or recycle pretty synthetic li ...
  Over on The Really Good Life, we’re in the middle of a decluttering month, with the hope of developing a general habit of asking “do we need or even want this?” rather than getting blind to things that have been on shelves for years. I’m also setting a weekly mini-challen ...

Age of Autism

• Center for Autism Opens Virginia School to Max ...
  WASHINGTON, DC, VA, WV, MD NOVEMBER 28, 2011 The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), considered one of the world’s largest autism organizations effectively treating children with state-of-the-art therapy, announces the opening of CARD Virginia School, “the right choice...
• AofA Science Summary: Redox regulation of the ...
  Antioxid Redox Signal. 2011 Aug 1;15(3):593-606. Epub 2011 May 19. Redox regulation of the influenza hemagglutinin maturation process: a new cell-mediated strategy for anti-influenzatherapy. Sgarbanti R, Nencioni L, Amatore D, Coluccio P, Fraternale A, Sale P, Mammola CL, Carpino G,...
• Anderson Cooper 360 Writer/Producer Fails to D ...
  By Jake Crosby The following is a letter I sent to CNN after the January 5th televised abuse of Dr. Andrew Wakefield by the network’s mascot, “Silver Fox” Anderson Cooper, whose pale face regularly haunts the channel. I didn’t receive...
• Autism and PANDAS
  By Teresa Conrick My daughter, Megan's recent diagnosis of an autoimmune condition coupled with an abnormal EEG are big, red flags that help illustrate why she is so ill. Finding that out hardly ends my journey for more answers to...
• “You” Turn
  By Cathy Jameson I saw four cars make a u-turn at a major intersection one morning. It’s not such a big deal. Everyone retraces their steps every now and then. One by one, car after car, those drivers turned back...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian trade union movement salutes Natio ...
  The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS) salutes RMT London Transport Regional Council for initiating campaign against Alstom over its involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail
• Europeans call on supermarkets and governments ...
  • Fruit and vegetable imports from Israel facilitate violations of Palestinian rights and international law, European campaigners say • More than 60 actions take place across 10 countries
• Rotten fruit delivered to Mehadrin’s London of ...
  A group of Palestinians and campaigners for Palestinian rights delivered rotten fruit and empty water bottles to the UK headquarters of Israeli fruit and vegetable export company Mehadrin in Borehamewood, near London, yesterday in protest at the role the company plays in the colonisation of Pale ...
• Protest and lobby held at Belgian Ministry of ...
  Ten activists from Belgian group Vredesactie held a visible picket Friday outside the offices of the Ministry of Economy in the Brussels and held a lobby meeting with ministry officials
• British companies targeted for investment in I ...
  Protests take place outside offices of Israeli agricultural export companies across Europe

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."

Open Your Eyes News

• Britain draws up emergency plans for collapse ...
  DailyMail – And in another move, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were revealed to be plotting a new pact on economic union without consulting Britain or other countries outside of the EU. They are determined not to give Britain the chance of insisting o ...
• Suicide car bomb kills 19 at Iraqi prison
  BBC – A suicide car bomber has killed 19 people at a prison gate near Baghdad, Iraqi officials say. They say at least 22 people were injured in the attack in the town of Taji, some 25km (15 miles) north of the capital. The casualties reportedly include security guards, prison staff and pol ...
• NATO Giving Afghans More Areas to Control
  NY Times – Afghan forces will assume control of their own security in 18 new areas, some of them still troubled by insurgents, bringing half of the country’s population under the government’s nominal authority, Afghan officials said Sunday. Unlike the first stage of transition, which inclu ...
• Occupy Los Angeles Protesters Arrested as Phil ...
  Bloomberg – Los Angeles police arrested four people who refused to move as authorities cleared Occupy protesters near City Hall early this morning. Occupy Wall Street supporters in Philadelphia also prepared to be forced out of their encampment as Mayor Michael Nutter’s Sunday deadline to ...
• Join Our Mailing List
  Send an e-mail to thehistorian@openyoureyesnews.com with the subject heading “Mailing List” to receive our periodical newsletter summarising the biggest stories of the previous weeks, and also receive other updates on developments at Open Your Eyes News.

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• 'Entourage’s' Adrian Grenier and Peter Glatzer ...
  When Entourage’s Adrian Grenier was introduced to indie film producer Peter Glatzer a number of years back, their mutual commitment to eco-friendliness and sustainability compelled them to work together. They put together the show, “Alter Eco” for Discovery’s Planet Green channel in 2008, a real ...
• CO2 sensitivity possibly less than most extrem ...
  A new study in the journal Science suggests that the global climate may be less sensitive to CO2 fluctuations than predicted by the most extreme projections, and maybe slightly less than the best estimates of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• Doug Brinkley, Rep. Don Young squabble over Ar ...
  Famed biographer Doug Brinkley and Alaskan Rep. Don Young clashed bitterly last Friday as Brinkley, a professor at Rice University and the author most recently of “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom 1979-1960,” testified at a House Natural Resources Committee meeting regarding t ...
• Court ruling keeps Yellowstone grizzlies on 't ...
  A ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2007 decision to remove the "threatened" designation for Yellowstone grizzly bears under the Endangered Species Act.
• Peter Brown back onboard with Sea Shepherd
  Peter Brown, the activist and filmmaker who recently released a warts-and-all portrait of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in his documentary film, “Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist,” is making a surprising return to the crew for its annual Antarctic anti-whaling campaign after a two-year hi ...

water.org

• Caterpillar Foundation partners with Water.org
  Caterpillar Foundation Partners with Water.org to Expand WaterCredit in India, Indonesia More than 218,000 people to obtain access water and sanitation facilities PEORIA, Ill.—Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) today announced that the Caterpillar Foundation and Water.org announced a $3 million partner ...
• Christiane Amanpour interviews Damon & White (ABC)
  Actor Matt Damon’s Clean Water Mission (ABC This Week with Christiane Amanpour) - Actor Matt Damon is on a mission to improve access to one of the world’s most precious resources: water. “It’s really hard for people like us to relate to it, because it’s just never b ...
• Water.org, innovators using social media (BosI ...
  It’s Not Actually About You: How Innovators Are Using the Web For Social Action (Boston Innovation) – Water.org uses technology to help people get access to water. And together, they’re all trying to get people to change their behavior. Too often, people don’t donate to a cause or promote ...
• Matt Damon, Gary White on Huffington Post
  Safe Water and a Toilet — Is That Too Much to Ask… for 2.5 Billion People? By the time you finish reading this paragraph, one more child will have died from something that’s been preventable for over a century. Nearly 40 percent of the world’s population is still unable ...
• Dan Bena of PepsiCo interviewed about water
  Chrissy Coughlin of Nature of Business interviews Dan Bena Fabulous conversation with Senior Director of Sustainability at the PepsiCo about strategic partnerships, leadership, the future of water, their dedication to the farmer and the future of agriculture and much much more. Listen to the int ...

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Mass Genocide of Mohawk Children
  Rev. Kevin Annett states that instruments of torture such as a rack for torturing the Mohawk children in ritual torture have been found at the now closed Mohawk Institute. Submitted by Dandelion G. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Jordanians protest Israeli settlements
  Jordanians burn an Israeli flag during a protest rally in the capital, condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza. Thousands of Jordanians have rallied near the Israeli border to protest against the construction of Jewish settlements in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Submitted by Barbara W. to World  | ...
• Human Rights Petition: Dept. of State: Call on ...
  The death toll in Egypt to date has reached 35 after three days of violence this past weekend against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, by the current ruling military regime. Protesters as young as 13 years old have been killed by tear gas.... Submitted by Elizabeth S. to World &nbsp ...
• EU: Conditions Faced by Roma People - from ...
  Roma leaders are alarmed at the growing discrimination faced by their people in Europe, especially because of the anti-gypsy stance taken by many political parties, which blame the ethnic minority group for a wide range of social ills. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   N ...
• EGYPT: Its January Again in Tahrir Square
  Days of clashes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Google Ends Renewable Energy Research Program
  First Heliostats to be installed at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California Online search engine giant Google Inc. recently announced it is ending its ...
• Report Forecasts 130% Growth in Asia-Pacific S ...
  Once an after-thought in solar development, the latest data shows the Asia-Pacific region is becoming the industry's biggest market for photovoltaic solar power. read more
• NRG Energy Bolsters its Presence in Distribute ...
  NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired distributed solar power developer Solar Power Partners (SPP). read more
• BLM and DOE Add Addendum to Western Solar Fast ...
  Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at one of California's solar energy developments. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Bureau of Land Management have c ...
• First Solar to Build and Operate 66 MW Alpine ...
  Electricity giant, NRG Energy recently announced an agreement to have First Solar (Nasdaq:FSLR) build, operate, and maintain a new 66 MW Alpine Solar Project in Lancaster, California.  read more

News Blaze

• G77 Says 'States Must Not Give Up Without a Fi ...
  The Group of 77 and China met throughout the weekend to prepare for the coming two weeks of negotiations.
• PA Leaders Claim Yasser Arafat Started and Led ...
  In an interview on PA TV, Suha Arafat explained that Arafat ordered her to leave the PA areas 'because he had already decided to carry out an Intifada.'
• CECAFA Tusker Challenge Cup Day 4: Sudan 1 Eth ...
  CECAFA Tusker challenge cup Day 4: Sudan 1 Ethiopia 1, Uganda 4 Somalia 0, Malawi 2 Kenya 0
• Concerted Action to Reduce Inequality and Supp ...
  UNDG said the parties gathered at Busan must support inclusive growth that reaches the marginalized poor, address inequalities between women and men, increase their help to developing countries to rise out of poverty, use their resources more effect
• 12 Elements Added to UN Intangible Heritage List
  The new additions include two from Japan: Mibu no Hana Taue, the ritual of transplanting rice which takes place in two communities in Hiroshima prefecture on the first Sunday in June each year and Sada Shin Noh, the series of sacred purification dan

Worldnews

• 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...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Damage From Alzheimer's Disease Reversed With ...
  Applying electrical pulses directly into targeted areas of the brain appears to reverse some of the damage caused by Alzheimer's disease and may even improve cognitive function and memory, according to Dr Andres M...
• Voxel-level comparison of arterial spin-labele ...
  Objective: We compared the ability of arterial spin labeling (ASL), an MRI method that measures cerebral blood flow (CBF), to that of FDG-PET in distinguishing patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) from healthy, age-matched controls.Methods: Fifteen patients with AD (mean age 72 ± 6 years, ...
• Alzheimer's And Parkinson's - Elan-Cambridge N ...
  The Elan Corporation and the University of Cambridge have announced the launch of a new research center of excellence for R&D in new therapies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. They signed a ten-year agreement, which they say is the start of "a long-term collaboration"...
• Vital Signs: Partial Hysterectomies Still Incr ...
  A new study has suggests that preserving ovaries during hysterectomies may not reduce the risk for osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease and mortality.
• Human Error the Biggest Weakness in Breast Ima ...
  Interpretive error is the cause of more than 25% of breast cancers missed on mammography and more than 20% missed on ultrasound. Automated screening and computer assistance can help improve detection. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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• ExamineReligion: Death and Glory: From Hero to ...
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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 ...

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Canada and Mexico to Join U.S. in NAFTA of the ...
  By Dana Gabriel At the recent APEC meetings, Canada and Mexico announced their interest in joining the U.S., along with other countries already engaged in negotiations to establish what has been referred to as the NAFTA of the Pacific. The leaders of the nine countries that are part of the Tra ...
• Target Syria
  by Stephen Lendman Washington's Greater Middle East project involves waring against the region one country at a time to replace independent regimes with client ones. Softer targets were attacked first. Tougher ones remain, notably Iran and Syria. Subduing them may involve turning the entire re ...
• Medvedev's Nov. 23 Address to the Nation: A St ...
  by larouchepac.com Russian President Dmitri Medvedev's November 23 televised address to the nation conveyed the stark reality that the Russian leadership anticipates the outbreak of global nuclear war, and is determined both to defend Russia under those circumstances and, by warning of this, to ...
• Lauren Booth: Three people in this marriage. T ...
  By Gilad Atzmon This week, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign has revealed itself to be ethically compromised at the highest level.  In recent months it has become clear that the central office of the PSC, are increasingly pandering to the whims of Israeli hasbara activists. Joinin ...
• Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions
  by Stephen Lendman 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. The 2006 Military Commissions Act auth ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
  A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
• Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
  This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...
• Accounting for changes in unionization
  The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has published a short research note offering a comparative analysis of the decline in unionization among OECD countries.  Using Gosta Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism typology, John Schmitt and Alexandra Mitukiewicz find ...
• Instruments of Social Change
  The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal ci ...
• Household carbon footprints increase with income
  A new CCPA report finds household carbon footprints increase with income. In fact, the richest 20% of Canadian households are responsible for almost double the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the lowest-income households. The study, by Marc Lee and Amanda Card, concludes that GHG reduction ...

World Wide Hippies

• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
  China prepares for big entry into vaccine market BEIJING (AP) — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines. China’s vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world&# ...
• Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty
  By Richard Falk,aljazeera – In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that fou ...
• If the social protest dies out, Israel to see ...
  By Merav Michaeli,haaretz.com – The U.S. has a tradition of civil protests that lead to significant changes: women’s suffrage, equal rights for blacks, pulling out of Vietnam. There is reason to fear a social protest that is rapidly catching on. In Israel there has yet to be a social ...
• WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
  news24.com- WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley A ...
• The first day of hunting season
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) - Yeah, that time of the year again. I always have very mixed feelings about hunting. I understand people that come from the hunting tradition. My father and his father and probably his father’s father hunted for food first, sport second. The fol ...

FourWinds10

• WRAPUP 13: RADIATION LEAKING FROM JAPAN'S QU ...
• Radiation levels rise above limit at quake-hit ...
• Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
  Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
• Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
  For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...
• California may ban takeout food in foam containers
  (06-02) 15:25 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- Getting takeout food in foam containers would be a thing of the past under a bill approved by the state Senate. The bill by Democratic Sen. Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach prohibits vendors from providing prepared food in expanded polystyrene containers. ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...
• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...
• How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
  The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
• Announcing R-Squared Energy TV
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]
• Take a Stand, Mr. President
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Importance of Being Decisive When I worked in Scotland, one of my managers was a wise Englishman named Graham Walker. As with many people whose paths I have crossed in my life, some nuggets of wisdom were transferred from Graham into my long-term memo ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Change the World in 5 Minutes - Everyday at Sc ...
  Comments:Can a bunch of school kids really change the world in five minutes a day? This class of primary school kids demonstrate over the course of a week that it only takes five minutes a day to make a positive impact—from recycling to planting fruit and veg and telling jokes. You can find out ...
• Top 10 #pln tools in 2011 used in #edtech20 #s ...
  Comments:I invite you also to comment and add your favorite tools in 2011  on our page :  on facebook   http://goo.gl/eTpsz and google plus http://goo.gl/VGoQO .                                                                               I invite you to join and collaborate in this free global ...
• iLearn: 100+ iPad Apps Perfect For High School
  Comments:100 apps for use in/by high school students.  - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, highschool, edtech, education, elearning, mlearning, technologyby: Dean Mantz
• iPad in Education
  Tags: ipad, apps, education, technology, wiki, learning, PalmBeachby: Dean Mantz
• Digital Promise
  Tags: education, infographic, mlearning, digitalpromiseby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

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

big think

• Tool Reveals Degree of Digital Retouching
  What's the Latest Development? Computer scientists have developed software measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered. Their research, being published in a scholarly journal, is intended as a technological response to concerns about the many highly id ...
• Social Problems Everywhere and No Attention to ...
  --Guest by Audrey Payne, American University graduate student. It seems like there are so many problems discussed in the media every day- public health, the environment, the economy, political protests…. Have you ever stopped to wonder why? Even more importantly, why do some issues ...
• Europe to Facebook: Stop Selling Users' Secret ...
  What's the Latest Development? Responding to privacy concerns, the European Commission plans to crackdown on Facebook allowing users' most personal information to be used to create tailored advertising. The Telegraph reports that an EC Directive, to be introduced in January, will ban such ...
• Humans Make Language, Language Makes Us Human
  In this excerpt from his linguistics lecture for the Floating University, Steven Pinker  illuminates some of the mysteries surrounding children’s hardwired ability to learn language. What’s the Big Idea? Language is so central to everything we are and do from ...
• The Clicks and Mortar of Online Sales
  What's the Latest Development? Ecommerce now claiims 5-10% of retail spending and isn't just found on sites like Amazon.com. We may be in a transitional phase like when early cars looked like horse carriages. Many current ecommerce websites are just better versions of cata ...

Information Liberation

• SOPA Gets Taiwanese News Animation Treatment
  Want to know when a bit of news has really hit the mainstream? It's when the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation does a computer generated animation of the story. These videos have become a media sensation. Guess what they just took on? Yup,...
• The Copyright Industry * A Century Of Deceit
  It is said that those who don*t study history are doomed to repeat it. In the case of the copyright industry, they have learned that they can get new monopoly benefits and rent-seeker*s benefits every time there is a new technology, if they just comp...
• Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown
  US authorities have initiated the largest round of domain name seizures yet as part of their continued crackdown on counterfeit and piracy-related websites. With just a few days to go until *Cyber Monday* more than 100 domain names have been taken ov...
• The Roads to War and Economic Collapse
  The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items. One was the report on the Republican presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President*s statement about his country*s response to Washington*s missile b...
• Whose Fuse is Shorter?
  With fiscal time bombs ticking in both Europe and the United States, the pertinent question for now seems to be which will explode first. For much of the past few months, it looked as if Europe was set to blow. But Angela Merkel*s refusal to support ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise ...
  And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good with his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the … Continue reading →
• Agree Or Else
  I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day. Basically, … Continue reading →
• Life Imitating Art
  While on my recent road trip, I took the opportunity in my spare time to re-read Atlas Shrugged. It’s been quite a while—over thirty years, in fact—since I first picked up Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, and was struck by how accurately … Continue reading →
• A Whisper In The Ear
  OK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, … Continue reading →
• Almost But Maybe
  Almost certainly, this man will not be the next President of the United States of America. This is despite him consistently winning straw polls, focus group surveys and post-debate polls. Despite him being more consistent in his policies, over forty … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• The changing role of the pharma industry
  The role of the drug discovery chemist has changed significantly over the past 50 years – workflows have been reinvented while the same goals remain to find and test novel molecules that can reach and act on disease targets. In this, the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011), Thomson ...
• PET molecules make sense
  My old friend AP de Silva of Queen’s University Belfast has put together a video to explain how molecular logic based on luminescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) is revolutionising smart medical diagnostics and could bring us a future generation of electronic gadgets based on molec ...
• Share your slides using a QR code
  Your talk went down very well, you got rapturous applause, and some delegates even began to stand…there were murmurings of a Nobel Prize. Now, the hard bit, all those eager students in the front row want a copy of your slides so they can emulate your greatness, or more likely nitpick and p ...
• Is renewable energy just a myth?
  It’s a question I’ve asked several times, indirectly on Sciencebase – is renewable sustainable or just a pipedream for blue-skies thinkers? Dawn Stover suggests that it may well be: Renewable energy sounds so much more natural and believable than a perpetual-motion machine, but ...
• Singing the Movember Blues no more
  Movember (as in moustache November) grows annually, it’s a month-long event started in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia. Since 2004, the Movember Foundation charity has run Movember events to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression, in Aus ...

RFF Library

• Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boon or Bust?
  New York State Bar Journal (Nov/Dec 2011) / by Elisabeth N. Radow http://bit.ly/t9HJM6 [From the Public Citizen Consumer Law and Policy Blog] Homeowners who sign gas leases to permit hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other states may be def ...
• The Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions ...
  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development / by Jasper Faber and Linda Brinke http://ictsd.org/downloads/2011/09/faber_web2gp2.pdf [Abstract]  The paper scrutinizes the upcoming climate regulation of aviation transport from an environmental and economic perspective. In addition t ...
• Managing the Growing Impacts of Development on ...
  United Nations Univ., Institute for Water, Environment and Health / by Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3960397/UNU-INWEH%20Policy%20Report.pdf [From an art ...
• America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters: How ...
  Environment America http://bit.ly/t9jFOw [From an E&E Daily article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd]   Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania release the most mercury air emissions in the country, and just five companies account for more than one-third of all mercury emissions in the United States, accor ...
• Governing Clean Development: What Have We Learnt?
  University of East Anglia | University of Sussex / by Peter Newell and Jon Phillips www.uea.ac.uk/dev/gcd/PolicyBriefing003 [From Press Release] Environmental, economic and development experts will debate whether the commitment to carbon markets is the right approach to tackle climate chang ...

Scientific American - News

• Last Chance for Kyoto Protocol: Nearly 200 Nat ...
  (Reuters) - Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures. [More]
• Atrazine in Water Tied to Hormonal Irregularities
  Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed-killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstrual cycles and low estrogen levels, scientists concluded in a new study. [More]
• Scientists Make the 'Perfect' Foam
  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 co-workers have a more sophisticated answer. [More]
• Scan't Evidence: Do MRIs Relieve Symptoms of D ...
  When a researcher asks a volunteer to slide head-first into the open eye of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, the expectation is that the device's magnetic field will penetrate the skull to produce a faithful picture of the brain without changing its behavior. A new study suggests, ...
• Price on Carbon Failing to Reduce Greenhouse-G ...
  Alberta’s $57 million carbon-cutting program is failing, according to the latest report from the Canadian province’s auditor-general, Merwan Saher. Like many such programs around the world, it includes an emissions trading scheme , which allows polluters to meet their emissions re ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Fish Lake Fightback in Court
  VANCOUVER - The Tsilhqot’in Nation is again facing off in BC Supreme Court against Taseko Mines over its proposed open-pit gold and copper mine.  The community wants to stop Taseko's injunction application and permits issued by the BC Government for exploration near Fish Lake (Tez ...
• Occupy Toronto Foodies Take Back Building
  Interview with Antonin Smith from the Occupy Toronto food team. Shot in the new squatted location of Occupy Toronto in downtown Toronto.
• African Activists Blast Unconventional Extraction
  Tar sands highlighted in lead up to UN climate summit in South Africa DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA—In Durban this week, you're blinded by green. From billboards to uniforms, it's impossible to miss that this South African city is host ...
• Canada's Negotiators Get New Uniforms
  Haligonians at COP 17 Model Bitumens Wear Mathew Chisholm and Robin Tress model Canada’s New Negotiating Uniforms at a press conference on the first day of COP 17 in Durban, South Africa. “At this year's climate negotiations ...
• Roots to Grow - The Need for radical Spaces in ...
  Recorded Nov 24th, 2011. What is the role of physical spaces--like Rhizome--in supporting social movements? What can we learn from other radical spaces, both those that ca ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
  David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...
• Thoughts at Thanksgiving 2011
   David Seaton's News LinksWe've been through this beforeRead carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending ...
• Globalization: fun and games
  David Seaton's News LinksOpen "Google Translate" and set the translation to English to Chinese (traditional), then write in the word "jokes", which will produce the Chinese ideogram 笑話, then paste that into Google-Google and it will produce the  following search results (click here). C ...
• Looking on the bright side of life - Part Two
  David Seaton's News Links"Melancholia" - Lars Von TrierLooking at the political paralysis of the American political system, the wasted lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceaseless unrest in the Arab world,the increasing possibility of a war with Iran and the sense of imminent finan ...
• How paranoiac should we be?
  Critics in Europe are very uneasy about the new Italian ECB chief, the Greek premier and the prime minister-designate of Italy’s past or present relations with the Goldman Sachs bank. Key European crisis figures Mario Draghi, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti all have backgrounds with ‘Government ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Healthcare's Unlucky Duckies
  Via Stephanie Mencimer, Christopher Conover at the conservative American Enterprise Institute recently highlighted a well-known fact: in any given year, 1% of the population accounts for a fifth of all healthcare spending and 5% accounts for nearly half of all spending: We have become so ac ...
• Tuesday's Headlines
  Here are the headlines that have greeted me in my first few minutes of consciousness this morning: American Airlines files for bankruptcy as losses mount States face a crushing economic outlook, fiscal survey says Home Prices Decline Businesses Scramble as Credit Tightens Across Europe ...
• Chart of the Day: Synchronized Cliff Diving
  Last week I blogged about a new paper suggesting that the European and the U.S. economies are more interconnected than most people think. The basic story had to do with credit conditions: Starting around 1999, European banks began to supply (or recycle) a lot of America's credit, and this mean ...
• The Peculiar Story of Mitt Romney's Peculiar T ...
  A friend points me to a TNR article subtitled "The peculiar anger of Mitt Romney," and it's peculiar all right. There's a lot of theorizing about where Romney's anger comes from, but there's not much evidence of this supposed anger in the first place. Despite his long and public career, the pi ...
• Mitt Romney vs. the DNC
  For the last month or so, Team Obama has been pummelling Mitt Romney. The DNC's latest is on the right, and Andrew Sullivan has a shorter version here. He also links to J.P. Green, who says: I gather the strategy behind the ad is that Mitt Romney is the GOP's most formidable opponent for ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• Cell molecule identified as central player in ...
  Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a cellular protein that plays a central role in the formation of new blood vessels. The molecule is the protein Shc (pronounced SHIK), and new blood vessel formation, or angiogenesis, is seriously im ...
• New study shows biopsy of recurrent breast can ...
  A second, larger clinical research study led by breast cancer specialists at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) has again proven that comparing a new biopsy of progressing or recurring cancer with that of the original cancer can dictate a change in treatment. read more
• ISGS-led consortium begins injection of CO2 fo ...
  The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) has begun injecting carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first million-tonne demonstration of carbon sequestration in the U.S. The CO2 will be stored permanently in the Mt. Simon Sandstone more than a mile beneath the Illinois surface at Decatur. Th ...
• 40 percent of youths attempting suicide make f ...
  Thoughts about killing oneself and engaging in suicidal behavior may begin much younger than previously thought. While about one of nine youths attempt suicide by the time they graduate from high school, new findings reveal that a significant proportion make their first suicide attempt in elemen ...
• Antibiotics in swine feed encourage gene exchange
  A study to be published in the online journal mBio® on Nov. 29 shows that adding antibiotics to swine feed causes microorganisms in the guts of these animals to start sharing genes that could spread antibiotic resistance. read more

unEarthed

• Stormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Dou ...
  “Your whole being is intensified right down through the viewfinder of the camera.” David Doubilet on assignment. (Jennifer Hayes) This is the sixth in a seri ...
• Stormy Waters: National Geographic’s David Dou ...
  “I'm afraid that a lot of the images that I've made underwater are going to be documents of a time passed.” David Doubilet, on assignment. (Jennifer Hayes) ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Thank You!
  To all those clean water champions out there! Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) opposed H.R. 2273, calling it a "green-light pass for utility companies to dispose of their waste without regard to p ...
• Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Andrea Treece
  “Trawl fishing is like clear-cutting on land, but just in the bottom of the ocean.” Earthjustice attorney Andrea Treece (Brian Treece) This is the fourth in ...
• Stormy Waters: Earthjustice’s Roger Fleming
  “If we can make changes that will work in New England, it helps lead the nation on fisheries policy.” Roger Fleming, with Gompers and Scout, in Cape Cod. (Amy Wells) ...

Brave New Climate

• Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
  China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
• CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
  Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
• Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Pa ...
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The Swiss army nuclear knife —————— During the past few years, all the world’s major science ...
• The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of Emails
  With regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...
• Energy Storage Discussion Thread
  Debate over large-scale energy storage is a regular theme in the comments on this blog. The post is intended to be a place to centralise this discussion. Some questions that might be considered in the comment thread: 1. What is the cost (per Watt hour, kWh, MWh, GWh — how does this cost sc ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
  Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
• Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
  Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...
• Blogging While Black launches nationwide
  Blogging While Black launches nationwide As we reported earlier last week on this blog, here is more positive information coming out of Dallas Texas regarding a great book, Blogging While Black. Yes, Social media and hyperlocal news pioneer Shawn P. Williams recently released his first book Blo ...
• JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders comm ...
  JURIST - Paper Chase: Bahrain king orders commission to study report on rights violations: [JURIST] Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa [official website] has ordered a special commission [BNA report] to look into recommendations made following an independent investigation into the alleged cr ...
• Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press ...
  Palestinian Pundit: Egypt: Curbs on Free Press, Assembly Before Poll: "(New York) – The weeks before Egypt’s parliamentary elections are scheduled to start on November 28, 2011, have been marked by repeated violations of free expression and free assembly, Human Rights Watch said today. Over the ...

Republicans are a Disease

• The Answer To America’s Problems Is Simple
  No, I am not kidding. America is a rich country and can easily solve most major problems. The main  problem is simply the fact that most of America’s  wealth and power is in the hands of a few individuals. The system is currently set up to where only they profit from “our” labo ...
• Joe Walsh Tired Of Media Protecting #occupy
  Walsh claims “Your profession, not you, but the media, has been protecting and boosting this Occupy Wall Street stuff ever since it began,” he told Fox Business host Eric Bolling. “And I’m tired of it.” Mr. Walsh never had one single objection to Fox News (Lies) hosts headlining tea bagger eve ...
• Megyn Kelly
  Is Megyn Kelly the dumbest blonde in the world? No, I mean really…..
• Chris Wallace Claims Americans Are Fed Up With ...
  Folks, you have to understand. Fox Lies tells it’s lemming viewers what they are supposed to think so they can repeat the same Fox lies around water coolers. Anyone who watches Fox is already brainwashed and lives in some alternate universe where giving billionaires all the breaks help ...
• Pssst CNN… Why Ask Condi About Anything ...
  Dear CNN. The only question you should be asking Condi is when does she think her treason trial will begin. To ask her opinion about anything else is a disservice to all the brave soldiers who died looking for Saddam’s WMD’s (err… oil). As far as asking her about world affairs, ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• The Zionism debate: When colonialism is embedd ...
  A response to Larry Derfner’s defense of liberal Zionism By Abir Kopty A piece posted earlier today by Larry Derfner, written in response to Joseph Dana, contains typical Zionist arguments, which normally do not prompt me to respond, except that this time, he called them “liberal Zio ...
• Conviction rate for Palestinians in Israel&#82 ...
  Unlike Jews, Palestinians under Israeli control in the West Bank are tried in military courts, where the rights of defendants rights are minimal, and the prosecution enjoys a low burden of proof and – most importantly – wears the same uniforms as the judges – IDF uniforms. In a milit ...
• Israel reenacts ‘Zionist triumph’ ...
  Today, exactly 64 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 to end the British Mandate in Palestine and partition the territory, giving international legitimacy to the establishment of a Jewish nation-state somewhere in Palestine, as well as the notion of two states f ...
• Response to Joseph Dana: A case for liberal Zi ...
  Yes, Zionism is at odds with liberal values. But it’s less at odds than the alternative; moreover, it has the capacity to be liberalized almost without limit. I want to take issue with Joseph Dana’s claim that liberal Zionism is a “dishonest system of thought.” I don’t, however, want to take iss ...
• Pregnant NYT photojournalist treated with &#82 ...
  News sources reported during the day on the humiliating harassment of a foreign journalist by IDF soldiers, as she tried to enter Israel from a Gaza crossing. According to IDF radio (Hebrew) and the Jerusalem Post, Pulitzer Prize-winning, veteran photographer Lynsey Addario, working for the New ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• New Murray-Darling water purchase rounds in th ...
  Water Minister Tony Burke today announced three new water purchasing tenders in the northern Murray Darling Basin.
• World's largest living coral reef aquarium win ...
  The national education centre for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park has scooped a prestigious international award for its outstanding educational services.
• 2011 Finalised Priority Assessment List Announced
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today released the 2011 list of priority native species, ecological communities and threatening processes to be considered for protection under national law.
• Environmental approval for sustainable agricul ...
  Environment Minister Tony Burke today approved the expansion of irrigated agriculture in the east Kimberley in Western Australia under national environmental law.
• TV and computer recycling regulations released ...
  The Australian Government today released draft Regulations for a national, industry-led Television and Computer Recycling Scheme.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• iranian nutters peeved to be shut out of londo ...
  Iran stamps its feet as serious sanctions are imposed.
• all i do is dream of you | fun news at abelard.org
  What you heard in 'Singing in the Rain' was rather a crass mash-up copmared to what was originally intended. Videos.
• capitalism without bankruptcy is like catholic ...
  Why am I always surprised when someone talks even approximate sense?!
• on the leveson inquiry | civil liberties news ...
  Media reptiles depend on the gullibility and greed for sensationalism of their audience.
• gop candidates: gingrich moves to front runner ...
  Is experience going to outweigh charisma, folksiness and religious fervour? And what's their chances against Obama?

The Parallel Parliament

• The Five-Year Lesson
  Interesting day yesterday. My wife Jane read me a Toronto Star story about two 73 year-old men who got into …Continue reading »
• Riot Time
  Success for any community often depends on the difference between vocabulary and language. Articulating the current challenges faced by all …Continue reading »
• Thin Democracy
  Some are surprised to learn that the planet Neptune wasn’t discovered; it was deduced. In 1846 the French astronomer Urbain …Continue reading »
• Layers
  How does it feel when you hear billionaire Warren Buffett state, “Actually, there’s been class warfare going on for the …Continue reading »
• Participation Above All
  Prior to its removal from Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street had some strong intellectual support that sought to provide the …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
• Lost in the Maize
  As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovation
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...
• US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safe ...
  The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal &#8 ...

Reader Supported News

• FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
  Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...
• Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
  Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...
• Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
  Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...
• The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
  Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...
• The Creators of Occupy Wall Street
  Intro: "If anyone could claim responsibility for the Zuccotti situation, it was Lasn: Adbusters had come up with the idea of an encampment, the date the initial occupation would start, and the name of the protest - Occupy Wall Street. Now the epicenter of the movement had been raided. Lasn began ...

War Resisters League

• Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
  by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →
• Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
  [This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →
• Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
  [This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.]   Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →
• Between Credit, Bullion and Rebellion: Debt by ...
  [The WRL blog is excited to feature a third book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →
• 10 Years of the Global War on Terror
  This Friday, October 7 marks ten years of the U.S. Global War on Terror, which began with the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. War Resisters League along with a number of antimiltarist and community groups will commemorate the occasion with … Continue reading →

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.

k2p blog

• “the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC tha ...
  An email exchange between Alex Kirby of the BBC and Phil Jones of CRU exposes the BBC's blatantly biased reporting.
• Guttenberg buys his way out of prosecution for ...
  Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has paid 20,000 euros to avoid prosecution on charges of plagiarism. With the case dismissed, Guttenberg could stage a political comeback.
• Fox News worse than no news! and viewers of Th ...
  Fox News viewers tend to be less informed about current events than those who don't watch any news at all.
• Facebook and the illusion of communication
  Facebook is just a tool for transmission of information. But it is indiscriminate dissemination of information packages which can only be part of a true communication process. Unfortunately the ease of the use of the tool creates the illusion of communication. I have deactivated my Facebook account.
• Google abandons its backing of renewable energy
  Google is abandoning its "Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal" project and Bill Weihl, their Green Energy Czar has left the company last month.

Left Foot Forward

• Whatever Osborne’s growth forecasts toda ...
  Today's growth and borrowing forecasts are likely to be grim - they are just as likely to be over optimistic.
• Tabloid attacks on green movement mean we have ...
  Reg Platt argues that climate change denial gives the green movement the impetus it needs to evolve and strengthen.
• Osborne’s stimlu-lite is more pork for v ...
  Alex Hern warns that, necessary as an economic stimulus is, it could simply end up being a hand-out to big business.
• Devolved nations call for Osborne to boost growth
  In anticipation for George Osborne's autumn statement, Scotland calls for stimulus, Wales gets on with it.
• UK growth – bottom of the table, wallowi ...
  UK Growth is miserable and about to dive into recession according to the OECD. However, the government can't blame it all on external factors - we're doing worse than most OECD countries.

Consumerist

• Elvis Costello Tells Fans Not To Buy His Price ...
  Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello is apparently so bitter at the pricing of his upcoming box set that he's telling fans not to buy it and to spend their money on Louis Armstrong's music instead. A post on his official site calls the price of The Return Of The Spectacular Spinning Songbook "eithe ...
• Seattle-Area Theater Will Encourage Texting Du ...
  If you're the type of audience member who feels the need to make the performance a sideshow to your nonstop texting and social network updating, you might want to make plans to move to the Seattle area by 2014. A theater there that's slated to open that year will embrace technological obsession ...
• Morning Deals
  ClothingReebok: [Apparel/Shoes] 40% Off your order + Free Shipping w/ Coupon CM40Esprit: [Apparel] 40% Off Entire Purchase w/ Coupon CYBERMON11Dickies: [Apparel] $15 Off $50 or $20 Off $75 or $30 Off $100 Purchase w/ Coupon DOTWDShoeSteal: [Shoes] Save 20% Off Sitewide use coupon code STEAL. ...
• Malls Cancel Plans To Track Shoppers' Movement ...
  Remember how two malls annoyed more than a few people by announcing that they would be tracking shoppers' movements via their cellphone signals? Yeah, well that's no longer happening -- at least for now. The malls have suspended their plans after a U.S. senator raised the same privacy issues t ...
• You Could Score $1.50 As Part Of Class Action ...
  Start greasing up your piggy bank, Ticketmaster users! If you bought tickets from the online behemoth between October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you could be entitled to anywhere from $1.50 to $25.50 as part of a settlement in a class action suit. Consumerist reader Scott H. alerted us to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Milk-Hormone Whistleblowers Given Integrity Aw ...
  Courtesy of Flickr user quinn.anyaGo Canada! Integrity Award Given to Milk Hormone (rBGH) Whistleblowers Summary: Three Canadian scientists who were fired after blowing the whistle on a controversial hormone used to boost milk production in dairy cows were honored last week for their truth-tel ...
• States' False Claims Acts Fought by Industry: ...
  Reuters: Whistleblower-Law Passage Stalls in Some States Summary: More than 20 states have passed laws similar to the federal False Claims Act, which allows for citizens to sue contractors that defraud the government. However, several other states are struggling to pass similar statutes, with ...
• December Hearing Set for Bradley Manning: Dail ...
  Baltimore Sun: WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning to Have Hearing at Maryland's Fort Meade Next Month Army Pfc. Bradley Manning – the whistleblower accused of sending WikiLeaks a trove of classified information detailing American military conduct in Iraq and Afghanistan, and State Department c ...
• Retaliation Against Gayl Shows Need for WPEA: ...
  Huffington Post: Let’s Ensure Whistleblowers’ Good Deeds Go Unpunished Summary: Because the retaliation that MRAP whistleblower and GAP client Franz Gayl endured is all too common for government whistleblowers, this article supports the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act, which has passe ...
• Gas Company Whistleblower Reveals Reckless Pra ...
  Courtesy of Flickr user US Army AfricaTimes-Tribune (PA): Gas Company Whistleblower Details Spills, Errors Summary: A former gas company employee and several other residents of a Pennsylvania town are suing the company because of negligence leading to high levels of methane gas in the public w ...

UK Progressive

• Restore the Basic Bargain
  For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling. That basic bargain created a virtuous cycle of higher living standards, more jobs, and better wages. Back in 1914, Henry ...
• Testing Program Fails Soldiers, Leaving Brain ...
  by Joaquin Sapien and T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Daniel Zwerdling, NPR In 2007, with roadside bombs exploding across Iraq, Congress moved to improve care for soldiers who had suffered one of the war’s signature wounds, traumatic brain injury. Lawmakers passed a measure requiring ...
• The Outrage Override
  by Carl Cohen Whom do you hate? Perhaps you hate Nazis, or the Taliban, or people who discriminate against homosexuals. Maybe you hate homosexuals. Homosexuality, we are told in Deuteronomy, and in many hateful sermons, is an abomination. Ought such hateful talk be forbidden? In Canada, just a f ...
• The Monday Line: I’m Too Damned Tired!
  There was a four day Thanksgiving holiday break but nonetheless it was a tough week. The US Congress Super Committee started the week by declaring failure, demonstrating that Washington is broken beyond repair. The Egyptian SCAF and army practised Mubarak style target practice on pro-democracy d ...
• 25 Million US Unemployed And Underemployed Mak ...
  Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes. “Activism has given way to acquiescence,” writes Louis Uchitelle, even though “unemployment is once ...

NewsAlert

• How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word
  Bloomberg
• Rand Paul and John McCain Clash over terrorist ...
  The Hill reports:Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and John McCain (Ariz.) battled on the Senate floor Tuesday over a proposed amendment to the pending defense authorization bill that could allow American citizens who are suspected of terrorism to be denied a civilian trial. Paul argued the ame ...
• California Per-prisoner cost doubled in 10 years
  The Orange County Register reports:The average cost to incarcerate a prisoner in California has more than doubled over the past 10 years, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. “The primary reasons are significant increases in employee compensation as well as federal court orders and se ...
• Extended pay freeze, layoffs likely
  The Federal Times
• Chris Christie Tears Into Obama: ‘What the Hel ...
  The Blaze

JoNova

• Bret Stephens: The Great Global Warming Fizzle ...
  Another sign of the times. Mark this one in your history books for studies on the Rise and Fall of the Great Warming Delusion. Yes, it’s another well written piece on the religious nature of the faith some have in our ability to change the weather. But this time there are sounds of the dea ...
• ClimateGate II: Handy Guide to spot whitewash ...
  Sorting real journalists from sock puppets is not too tricky: real investigators tell you what the story is about; PR writers tell you what to think. Do they “discuss” ClimateGate emails … without quoting the emails? Who digs for details, and who hides the evidence? The P ...
• Did I say the ship was sinking? Canada, Europe ...
  Things are not going too well at Durban, or anywhere in the Land Where People Want to Change the Weather. Richard Black (BBC) admits there’s a “seismic shift” going on. (Could it be a tipping point I say?) “The politics of the UN climate process are undergoing something o ...
• Pointman — A dead mans hand detonator on ...
  In the high powered risky game of whistleblowing there are ways to make the the leaker a less attractive target. Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-800 ...
• Australia picks last possible moment to leap O ...
  Gillard — the Australian Prime Minister — got the timing perfectly wrong. Within two weeks of the Carbon Tax finally becoming Law, it’s becoming hard not to notice that the whole Global Scam is fragmenting. This Carbon ship is on fire,  the lifeboats are leaving, the rats are ...

ReNew America

• This is no time for the GOP to compromise
  (Jedediah Bila) - Pundits and politicos love the word "compromise." There seems to be no better way for a politician and/or media figure to instantly be well-liked, appear perfectly "reasonable," and go back to their inner circles having offended absolutely no one...
• New Jersey nurses sue over abortion orders
  (NewsMax) - A dozen New Jersey nurses filed a federal lawsuit protesting orders that they must care for abortion patients before and after the procedure. The suit against the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey contends that the rule violates their religious and moral convictions an ...
• Richmond City audits local tea party after sta ...
  (Big Government) - Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones for costs incurred for previous rallies, we received a letter from the City of Richmond formally stating that the city is auditing our Tea Party...
• Obama campaign set to abandon white working class
  (New York Times) - For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class...
• BOOK REVIEW: 'Red Army'
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - America is under attack. Not by a uniformed army with rifles and tanks. But the invasion is here and advancing. The soldiers of the attacking "Red Army" are part of a "radical network" that "excels at lying in wait and perfecting its assault so that when the right vehi ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Alien-Human Hybrids Possible?
  I’ve read a lot of books about the Nephilim, ancient astronauts, and the possibility of aliens mating with humans, as described by the Bible. I’ve rejected the alien aspect, because I think the same logic ...Alien-Human Hybrids Possible? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts ...
• Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved
  Many scientists have been attempting to find an underlying cause for the demise of large mammals at the end of the last Ice Age. And they will still keep trying, because they aren’t thinking outside ...Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
• Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference
  Mayan experts keen to debunk 2012 doomsday theories used to point out how strange it was that the Mayans never mentioned the specific date of (their equivalent to) Dec 21, 2012, not anywhere. The only ...Dec 21, 2012: Second Mayan Reference is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Geoff St ...
• A Humorous Nibiru Video
  So as to focus on the clear and present (potential) dangers of 2012, I’ve spent a lot of time debunking various scenarios. Planet X / Nibiru is NOT heading our way in 2012. There is ...A Humorous Nibiru Video is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:FIXED: 2012 Debunked – Excel ...
• Another Alien Skull?
  Probably a child with a deformity, potentially an alien and possibly an example of a different human species… More pics at guanabee.com At RPP (in Spanish) experts are claiming that it is an alien: Riquelme Davila explained that ...Another Alien Skull? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...

Facing South

• The crisis of crisis pregnancy centers
  Unregulated organizations posing as comprehensive healthcare providers called "crisis pregnancy centers" are slated to begin receiving state funds in North Carolina from the ...
  
• Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...
  As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
  As all-out attack cont ...
  
• 3 reasons why Art Pope deserves all the media ...
  North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight t ...
  
• More cutbacks in legal services for the poor i ...
  North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public need ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: How Cain's 9-9-9 tax plan wou ...
  The proposal would have most Americans paying far more in taxes -- and most millionaires paying far less.
  The proposal would have most Americans paying far more ...
  

One News Page

• Teen lovers kill themselves
  Fear turned into tragedy for two Lucknow families, when the bodies of a teenaged boy and a girl lying at a mortuary in the capital turned out to be that of their children.
• No paper prepared to bring changes in CrPC: Omar
  JandK CM said his govt has not prepared any paper to bring amendments in CrPC for providing legal protection to the armed forces in the state.
• IAS officer finds himself at the wrong head of law
  A senior IAS officer was in news for slapping a clerk when he was allegedly found collecting bribe and also for hitting himself to calm protestors.
• Comedian Patrice O'neal Dead At 41, Tributes P ...
  Comedian PATRICE ONEAL who appeared on the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen has died aged 41 The much-loved star suffered a stroke in late October though the exact cause of death is currently unclear The news was confirmed by the Opie and Ant...
• 'The Office's Dunder Mifflin to become real pa ...
  The logo of The Office's Dunder Mifflin will be displayed on a new paper range.

Global Research TV

• Iran and Syria: Isolation, Regime Change and t ...
• Kosovo: Violent Clashes Between NATO's KFOR an ...
• Syria: We are Seeing the Initial Steps of a Ne ...
• Tear Gas, Barbed Wire, Isolation: NATO Tools f ...
• New Nuclear Reactors Do Not Consider Fukushima ...

Daily Tech

• 11/29/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
• Next Gen Kinect Features Higher Resolution Cam ...
  Lots more accuracy will need a new interface
• Facebook to Raise $10 Billion for 2012 IPO; Co ...
  Facebook hopes to be valued at $100 billion
• Exploit Could Literally Allow Hackers to Set H ...
  "How the hell doesn't HP have a...certificate indicating ... real firmware from HP?" -- Mikko Hyponen, F-Secure
• GM Offers Loaner Vehicles For Scared Volt Owners
  The recent battery fires caused by NHTSA crash tests have some Volt owners worried about their safety

Oriental Review

• Nangarhar Attack: Pentagon Sabotaging the Whit ...
  Nangarhar is the secured province that is being turned over to Afghan forces, where the border incident has erupted. The attack upon Pakistan was intended as a demonstration for the world to see the dangers of an early Afghan transition and withdrawal. What else could explain this Afghan unit ga ...
• The End of Reset
  US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced on November 22 that the US stops supplying to Russia the data on conventional arms in Europe. Furthermore, Russian inspectors would not be admitted to US military bases in Europe. What could be the reasoning behind the radical US step ...
• Marine Le Pen: «We Have Never Been Wrong»
  It is hard to tell which of the two emotions – national pride or indignation over obvious injustice – fuels the revival of the Europeans’ unique national spirit. This year the process which the European political class is desperately trying to impede manifested itself in a pattern-setting ...
• Joint European Missile Defense: Cooperation or ...
  Part 1 Strategic and Tactical Nuclear Arms Modernization vis-a-vis the BMD Program The functional feature of the contemporary BMD infrastructure of the US and its key NATO allies is that their missile defense assets are never used per se or alone or separately from their strategic and tactical n ...
• Joint European Missile Defense: Cooperation or ...
  The positions which Washington and the NATO headquarters in Brussels adopted at the consultations on a joint Russia-USA/NATO European ballistic missile defense (BMD) system have recently drawn a new round of criticisms from the Russian military-political leadership. Such stances on the current s ...

BlogHer

• Conference Corner: Submit Questions to Help De ...
  Let’s be honest: Attending a blogging conference can be exhilarating, overwhelming, exciting… and maybe a little scary. That’s why BlogHer has created this Conference Corner series: to help demystify our events, to help you get the most out of them, and to help set your heart at rest before you ...
• When Pregnancy Blows, You're Not a Bad Mom (or ...
  A lovely client of mine recently made an important observation about the tone of many natural, holistic books on pregnancy and birth. She said, "The statement 'You're pregnant! Congratulations! You are now a sacred vessel of life.' makes me angry. Why is it that the act of carrying a baby is wha ...
• Do Mean People Make More Money?
  Do nice girls really finish last? Money experts Jean Chatzky and Maggie McGrath pull together the research to answer that question. She doesn't necessarily agree you're screwed in the workplace if you're nice -- but maybe you can be too nice. She writes: Etiquette offenses can be fireable: Senni ...
• BlogHer Network Member News: Parenting Magazin ...
  Melissa Arca, M.D. from Confessions Of a Dr.Mom was selected as Editor's choice for Best Kids Health Blog by Parents Magazine for their 2011 Best Blog Awards. She recently became a columnist for The Sacramento Bee, where she writes a weekly Dr. Mom column. She also appears weekly on her local TV ...
• Simple Moments are the Priceless Ones
       Sometimes I get caught up in the rush of day to day survival and forget to enjoy the simple moments.  It always gets worse at Christmas.  I want my kids to be happy every day, but this time of year, my brain confuses "happy" with "things I can buy."  Luckily, t ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Feds contine to ignore mounting Gardasil bodycount
  In just one year – between Sept. 1, 2010 and Sept. 15, 2011 – 26 new deaths and many more severe adverse reactions – including seizures, paralysis, and blindness – were reported in patients receiving ...
• BPA levels soar after eating canned soup
  Most of our readers know the dangers of BPA but as we have more and more subscribers everyday we occasionally like to remind you. Also for those of you mostly paying attention to plastic ...
• Coffee may prevent endometrial cancer: How muc ...
  Feeling guilty about your morning cup of Joe? Yet another study is showing the benefits of coffee. For woman who drink at least two cups of coffee a day, there is a 25 percent ...
• EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration
  We at Health Freedoms try to keep our readers as informed as possible about health issues so they can make up their own minds about their ow health. The alternative is to blindly follow ...
• Lawmakers Step Into Food Fight Over Pizza
  Our economy is getting worse and worse and millions are unemployed but don’t worry the government is ready to do battle. However it’s not the economy their willing to battle. It’s pizza! Congress ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Salazar delays plans for OSMRE-BLM merger
  As we reported in this morning’s Gazette, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar appears to have taken action that would delay any merger of the federal Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement with the Bureau of Land Management: In a related move on Monday, Interior Secretary Ken Sal ...
• IG Report: MSHA not going after coal industry& ...
  A recent audit by the Labor Department Inspector General has again targeted systematic problems with one of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s key tools: Collection of monetary fines for safety and health violations by the nation’s coal industry. The audit, available ...
• Inspector General analyzes EPA permit crackdown
  Last week’s release of an EPA Inspector General’s report on the agency’s mountaintop removal permit crackdown doesn’t seem to have gotten a lot of media attention, given the timing on the day before Thanksgiving. But Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. and requester of the IG stud ...
• Happy Thanksgiving everybody …
  Hey folks, Coal Tattoo is going to be shut down for a couple of days. I hope everyone enjoys some time with family and friends. Be safe, be kind to each other, and be thankful.
• Gov. Tomblin replaces appeals board members in ...
  Well, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has made it pretty plain that one of his absolute top priorities is to defend the state’s coal industry and to perpetuate the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that on Friday — less ...

Daniel Miessler

• How Most Real Hacking Happens | Determination ...
  The screen goes black. The characters, despite their obvious talents, have been dwarfed by the formidable force on the other end of the connection. It makes for exciting television, but the truth is even scarier. In the real world, the majority of hackers don’t brilliantly blast through the defe ...
• Mechanical Turk vs. CAPTCHA: An InfoSec Lesson
  I’ve always hated the “THING is dead. Long live the THING” cliché, but I’m going to use it here for CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA raises the cost of attacking something, which improves its security. It’s that simple. The question is simply how much you raised the cost vs. the de ...
• In-depth Analysis of Predator vs. Hogwartz | R ...
  Okay, first we have to assume a few stated facts from both franchises, but namely Hogwarts. Technology isn’t supposed to work well (if at all) on the grounds With this limitation there is no drop in, Predator must approach on foot. Wizards are not inherantly stupid, they will notice classm ...
• A Hiring Primer
  Few topics are discussed as much in the tech industry as how to hire great people. There are myriad approaches, from how to look for qualities you want, to how to filter people you don’t want, to how to ignore standard metrics and go with some sort of instinct. Everyone has their favorite ...
• Handling Redirects with Varnish and Nginx
  I run Varnish here on the site, with Nginx as the backend. I’ve written before about my overall setup, and how to improve site performance, so I won’t go into it here. Here I want to cover a subtlety of putting varnish in front of nginx (or any other web server, really) with respect ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Tuesday
  China prepares for big entry into vaccine market BEIJING (AP) — The world should get ready for a new Made in China product — vaccines. China’s vaccine makers are gearing up over the next few years to push exports in a move that should lower costs of lifesaving immunizations for the world&# ...
• Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty
  By Richard Falk,aljazeera – In Kuala Lumpur, after two years of investigation by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission (KLWCC), a tribunal (the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, or KLWCT) consisting of five judges with judicial and academic backgrounds reached a unanimous verdict that fou ...
• If the social protest dies out, Israel to see ...
  By Merav Michaeli,haaretz.com – The U.S. has a tradition of civil protests that lead to significant changes: women’s suffrage, equal rights for blacks, pulling out of Vietnam. There is reason to fear a social protest that is rapidly catching on. In Israel there has yet to be a social ...
• WikiLeaks wins Australian journalism award
  news24.com- WikiLeaks has been recognised in Australia for its “outstanding contribution to journalism”, with founder Julian Assange lashing out at “cowardly” Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech. The anti-secrecy website was lauded at the annual Walkley A ...
• The first day of hunting season
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) - Yeah, that time of the year again. I always have very mixed feelings about hunting. I understand people that come from the hunting tradition. My father and his father and probably his father’s father hunted for food first, sport second. The fol ...

reference frame

• Celebrating Grassmann numbers
  Off-topic rumor: the LHC will probably only restart at 13 TeV, not 14 TeV, in 2015, after the 2013-2014 break (upgrade). Hermann Graßmann was born in 1809 as the 3rd child to a math teacher (his father) in Stettin, currently in the Northwestern corner of Poland (Czech: Štětín; much of the c ...
• The Fabric of the Cosmos IV
  Here is the link to the final, fourth episode of Brian Greene's new PBS/NOVA documentary: Universe or Multiverse? I would say that it is inspired both by Greene's second popular book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, as well as the third major popular book, The Hidden Reality. A few more comment ...
• Feynman on QM in 1964
  Whenever I want to mention Richard Feynman's attitude to the foundations of quantum mechanics, I typically point to this four-minute interview with an older Feynman. He says that physics at the fundamental quantum level is so fantastically different from anything we have seen before. The ...
• The \(c\)-theorem probably proved in 4 dimensions
  In 1986, Alexander Zamolodchikov of the Soviet Landau Institute – whom I know well from my Rutgers PhD student years more than a decade later – proved the so-called "Zamolodčikov \(c\)-theorem": Wikipedia. You may read the whole paper: "Irreversibility" of the flux of the renormalization gr ...
• Recent setbacks of the AGW movement
  Durban, South Africa will be hosting another annual two-week gathering of the global warming activists and lobbyists. The proceedings will begin tomorrow. Fortunately, the nations of the world will only pay some extra vacations to these misguided or fraudulent redundant individuals but n ...

Tatumba 2.0

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

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Save the Delaware River
  Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Pla ...
  By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...
• Don't get slimed: Skip the fabric softener
  By Rebecca Sutton, PhD, EWG Senior Scientist Fabric softeners contain toxic ingredients that are bad for your health and the environment. EWG recommends that laundry doers just say no. Fabric softeners and dryer sheets are relative newcomers to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• French chef and author Stephane Reynaud knows ...
• Many job openings on Cuomo's web site, in 'man ...
• Gillibrand forms a new political action commit ...
• L.A. official: 'Living wage' mandate hasn't st ...
• Those Greenwich lottery winners are money men, ...

Views & News from Norway

• New storm rolling in from Iceland
  Norwegians were being warned to prepare for more rough weather, especially along the west coast, as another storm moved in from Iceland on Tuesday. Heavy rain was predicted in the counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. It’s the latest storm to batter Norway in less than a week, and wa ...
• Breivik declared criminally insane
  Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was declared criminally insane (straffesrettslig utilregnelig) on Tuesday by the two psychiatrists appointed by the court to evaluate his mental health. The psychiatrists’ conclusion means Breivik will now likely be committed to a psychiatric inst ...
• More oil sands’ static for Statoil
  Another demonstration against oil company Statoil was held outside the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo on Monday, with a broad alliance calling Statoil’s oil sands project in Canada a “shame” for Norway and Statoil itself. Meanwhile, in Turkmenistan, Statoil reportedly held a smal ...
• Poignant appeal from a targeted teen
  NEWS ANALYSIS: As reaction poured in to news that confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has been declared insane, come the published thoughts of one of his young targets. Her feelings, and utter lack of any need for revenge, offer insight into how Norway is reacting to Breivik’s attac ...
• Pressure builds on intelligence chief
  Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway’s police intelligence unit PST, seems to be facing a lack of confidence over her explanations for PST’s failure to follow up a tip about confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. A majority on the parliamentary committee studying his July 22nd atta ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• How a Single Women Transformed Her Urban Garde ...
  You don’t have to know her street number to find Rosina Buckman’s place. All you need is the street name. Winner of the Edible Landscape Award from Australia’s Sunshine Coast Council in 2009, her garden spills out into the nature strip, bursting with plants. Her driveway, once ...
• Update from Finlaysons After Intern-Blitz
  Editor’s Note: Remember the cool little time-lapse video of the PRI’s recent Intern-Blitz of an urban property a few week’s back? Well, below is an update from the lucky and excited recipients of the perma-garden install, written to the designers/installers themselves. I thoug ...
• Get Ready for the 11th Australasian Permacultu ...
  Permaculture Aotearoa welcomes you to: Resilience by Design — 11th Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC11) When: Wed 11th to Sun 15th April 2012 Where: Turangi, Central North Island, New Zealand Website: apc11.co.nz Confirmed Speakers - keep an eye out for more to come: Bi ...
• Urine: Closing the NPK Loop
  The Stockholm Environment Institute conducted experiments and collected data that shows the usefulness of a resource every one of us has access to — urine. When utilized as a fertilizer, urine can provide an alternative to chemical fertilizers. The impacts ripple far beyond the nutrient va ...
• Learn Grow: Edible Plant Information Resources
  I thought I’d share this excellent, growing resource on edible plants for specific regions. At time of writing the Learn Grow project has created comprehensive plant list info for the following regions: Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea Timor Leste Nigeria In addition, the site has t ...

Pointman's

• Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been ...
  You’re appalled, you’re outraged, you’re stunned and you’re angry about the whole climategate emails thing. And now you’re most likely out here in the blogosphere because the mainstream media in the country you live in is either not mentioning them at all or have relegated it to a small-print fo ...
• Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
  Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...
• Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
  A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...
• The Durban debacle awaits …
  Here we go again, another climate clambake attracting attendees from all over the world. They’ll be the usual assortment of politicians, government civil servants, Media, NGOs, activists and fruit loops determined to save the earth from global warming. Nothing changes. In terms of the basic poli ...
• Happy birthday Climategate.
  It’s around the time of the second anniversary of the Climategate leak so it’s fitting to take stock of where we are now. Before doing that, it’s worth taking a walk down memory lane to recall how things were before it occurred. They were really different. If you were in the fight at the time,&# ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• The Fault Lines of US Policy
  Recently, Louisiana Justice Institute staffer Jordan Flaherty has been working with Al Jazeera English as one of the producers on their flagship documentary program Fault Lines. For several years, Fault Lines has offered in-depth explorations of the issues ignored by much of the media. Below is ...
• The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
  The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
• Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
  A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...
• New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle' By Lind ...
  An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an important perspective on New Orleans' schools: As a recent graduate of a New Orleans public high school, I find it very troubling that the national conversation about post-Katrina education amounts to little more than talking ...
• “There’s Too Much Misinformation About Us Out ...
  Parnell Herbert sat with Norris Henderson, Co-Director of V.O.T.E. NOLA to discuss the fact and fiction about Black-on-Black crime in New Orleans. While sitting with Norris Henderson upstairs at the RAE House, I couldn’t help but marvel at his calm, composed demeanor. Here is a man who served m ...

Information Underground

• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  oh, i'm reporting this to the ADL great work MSMD !Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:35 pm
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  MSMD's original post has been copied WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION. perhaps you already knew that. http://800pg.co.cc/geeklog//staticpages ... p?page=911 i don't have a problem with people copying it, but they should give credit where credit is due.Statistics: Posted by abduLMaria — Tue Nov 29, 2011 1 ...
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  when i worked at Northrop Grumman, a Jew-run military contractor, in about 2000 the word came down from the Jew executive ranks - we will buy all Dell (Jew) computer hardware. i pointed out to a few people that we could get comparable hardware from local vendors for half the price. not one man ...
• Formal Introductions & Welcomes • Re: Fres ...
  Zionist Juice, check out these video's from forum member ''checkitb4uwreckit'' (well known for his work: ''israel did 911'') and especially the one called ''The only conspiracy that makes sense'', this one goes into the machinations of groups like the CFR, Bilderbergers etc. http://zioncrimefac ...
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  The J-Tribe re-invents a "corporation" to "Scam"...--CSR --------- Some Failed Institutions Always Foreclose; The Reason: FDIC Sponsored Fraud; Who Benefits: George Soros, Michael Dell; John Paulson; Boycott Dell A couple of readers asked me to comment on the Sun Sentin ...

TVNZ

• Euro zone pressure mounts as finance ministers ...
  Euro zone finance ministers are to agree on the details of bolstering their bailout fund to staunch a two-year-old debt crisis.
• Auckland rated world's third most liveable city
  Auckland has been ranked ahead of Sydney in a liveable city survey.
• Affair claim shakes Cain presidential bid
  A woman has accused Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of having a 13-year affair.
• US-Pakistan ties "troubled" but repairable
  Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ruled out "business as usual" with the US today after a NATO attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
• Afghan woman aims to set precendent for rape v ...
  An Afghan woman jailed for adultery after being raped is seeking a presidential pardon.

environment 360

• Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
  With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, which was created by Fathom Information Design, uses circles of vari ...
• Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
  The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...
• World's Largest Marine Reserve Proposed in Aus ...
  Australia has proposed the creation of the world’s largest marine park in the Coral Sea, a 382,000-square-mile area where fishing would be limited and oil and gas exploration would be banned. The so-called Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve would begin in waters about 36 miles off Australia’s ...
• Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
  Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...
• The New Story of Stuff: Can We Consume Less?
  A new study finds that Britons are consuming less than they did a decade ago, with similar patterns being seen across Europe. Could this be the beginning of a trend in developed countries? Might we be reaching “peak stuff”? BY FRED PEARCE

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Hack Hearings Heat Up
  Britain’s inquiry into the Murdoch media scandal uncovered sordid new allegations today. See more updates.
• Tech Kids Get Scrooged
  A new survey shows that parents are buying their own gizmos and giving kids their old ones. By Dan Lyons.
• Barney Throws in the Towel
  The acid-tongued Democrat is bowing out in 2012. Congress will be duller without him, says Michelle Cottle.
• Syracuse Coach's Rash Defense
  By rushing to defend his assistant, Jim Boeheim showed he learned nothing from Penn State, says Buzz Bissinger.
• Act Now in Pakistan
  The U.S. should agree to a joint probe of the NATO strike and work with Islamabad to resolve Afghanistan. By Arif Rafiq.

Loonwatch

• 700 Club Features Story Of Phony Ex-Terrorist
  Saleem was prominently featured in The Call, he urged Muslims to convert to Christianity and claimed he descended from the "Grand Wazir of Islam."
• Leveson Inquiry: ‘Daily Star had anti-Mu ...
  Richard Peppiatt told the Leveson Inquiry that he received threatening phone calls, text messages and emails after he leaked his outspoken resignation letter to the Guardian newspaper.
• The Feminist Mosaic: The Naked Blogger, the Bu ...
  Why can't we make room for naked bloggers, and burqas, and boys in hijab?
• Jadaliyyah: Imperial Feminism, Islamophobia an ...
  Particular strands of U.S. Liberal Feminism and U.S. imperialism have worked in tandem, relying upon a humanitarian logic that justifies military intervention, occupation, and bloodshed.
• Australians are Being Converted to Islam by Ea ...
  A WA Liberal MP has claimed Australians are unknowingly being converted to Islam by eating Halal meat.

Energy News

• Kyoto U. engineer: Disposing of contaminated s ...
• Japan Times: “Dangerously high levels&#8 ...
• Tokyo Prof. on NHK: Breach of containment at R ...
• 30 microsieverts per hour in Nikko City, Tochi ...
• EX-SKF: “Some terminal feeling at Fuku-I ...

Japan Times

• Agent Orange buried at beach strip?
  Dozens of barrels of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange were buried in the late 1960s beneath what is now a busy neighborhood in the central Okinawa Island town of Chatan, near Araha Beach, according to a former U.S. soldier who has recently pinpointed the location thanks to a 1970 map of a U.S. b ...
• No new binding Kyoto Protocol targets: Japan
  Japan will refuse to accept fresh binding targets for reducing developed countries' greenhouse gas emissions under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally binding framework for reining in heat-trapping gases, government officials said Tuesday. Japan will continue to seek a new framew ...
• Capitals dismiss Boudreau, bring in Hunter as ...
  For all of Bruce Boudreau's success with Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals — no coach in the modern NHL reached 200 victories as quickly — he failed to take them far in the playoffs. And now, suddenly, the regular season was becoming problematic, too. Players were tuning ou ...
• Jackson relishing return to Japan for UFC bout ...
  Quinton "Rampage" Jackson could only smile as a translator struggled to convert something he'd said into Japanese. He tried to explain it twice before giving up, shaking his head and laughing. "Man, I got to get fluent in Japanese so I can translate my jokes," he said.
• Motor show opens with car firms facing triple ...
  The Tokyo Motor Show kicks off Saturday amid a variety of challenges facing the automobile industry, including intensifying global competition, the yen's historic surge and supply disruptions caused by natural disasters. For Japanese automakers, emerging rivals in South Korea and other Asian c ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• Navy Appreciation Day on the Hill
   
• The House supports the curtailment of debate
  With all Conservatives present voting nay, the NDP motion on time allocation has been...
• The Commons: Convictions without courage
  The Conservatives want to withdraw from Kyoto. If only they would say so.
• No consequence, no accountability
  The government’s crime bill will pass Parliament without an accounting of its cost. Opposition...
• The permanent campaign continues
  The NDP buys billboard space to attack the elimination of the long-gun registry. The NDP...

Making It Count - CCPA

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

ReDress

• Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
  Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
• Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
  Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...
• Capitalism and the spy market
  Lawrence Davidson looks at the array of surveillance tools highlighted by the Wall Street Journal's "Surveillance Catalogue" - technologies that are designed to rob every person on the planet of their privacy - and argues that, as with some illicit drugs and some forms of deviant sex, these tool ...
• The Arab Spring - hello or goodbye to democracy?
  As the people of Egypt struggle to ensure that their pro-democracy uprising is not highjacked by the generals, Alan Hart sees signs that the days of Arab autocrats and despots may well be numbered and argues that genuine Arab democracy is Zionism’s worst nightmare.
• Support today's Freedom Riders by ending US su ...
  Josh Ruebner views the parallels between the US Freedom Riders of the early 1960s and the current Palestinian Freedom Riders who have begun a non-violent campaign against the segregated transport systems and apartheid conditions endured by Palestinians under Israel's brutal military occupation o ...

Physics Today

• The science behind swirling wine
  Science: Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have been studying the hydrodynamics of wine swirling, done by connoisseurs to release red wine’s bouquet through mixing and oxygenation. They found that three factors determine whether the wine arcs smoothly or ...
• Radiologist uses CT scans to replicate antique ...
  BBC: A radiologist at the University of Minnesota is using computed tomography (CT) to replicate antique musical instruments. Steven Sirr first got the idea to take a CT scan of a violin in 1988. Such scans, he discovered, can reveal characteristics of the wood, worm holes and cracks, and previo ...
• Astronomers make progress in understanding bla ...
  Space.com: Researchers studying the black hole Cygnus X-1, which is part of a binary-star system, have reported the most detailed look yet at one of the strongest x-ray sources seen from Earth. Using data collected by the Very Large Baseline Array and other instruments, the team has calculated t ...
• Graphene electronics produced on ink-jet printer
  Daily Mail: Researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK have created a graphene-based ink and used a modified Epson printer to produce thin-film circuits, writes Ted Thornhill for the Daily Mail. To create the ink, they dissolved microscopic flakes of graphite in N-methylpyrrolidone. Al ...
• International climate-change meeting opens in ...
  New York Times: Delegates from 194 nations gathered today in Durban, South Africa, for the opening of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Topics to be discussed include the differing obligations of industrialized and developing nations, the question of who will pay to help ...

Revolutionary Politics

• FF News: President Abdulla on Julius Caesar
  by requintn (Posted Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:58:58 GMT) In 2010 heeft de stad kreeg een Chinees bedrijf dat mensen formeel opgestegen van de lijn moncler, te beginnen met het vasteland, in Hong Kong te koop. Beleid van de privacy van Moncler Zij ontvangen het gezelschap van mensen en krijgt ton unde ...
• FF News: October 2011 Keysearches...
  by requintn (Posted Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:57:59 GMT) De populaire record van Moncler Voor Europa moncler, het product krijgt een uitstekende verkenning van de mensen die ervoor kiezen om de Europese natie te maken in Italië, Frankrijk etc.. De cyste materiaal, Europees en internationaal met veel ...
• FF News: President Abdulla 'dines,' Aishwarya ...
  by requintn (Posted Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:57:25 GMT) of het krijgt de derde plaats is dienen om het bedrijf kunnen verzamelen over uw gegevens: persoonlijke naam volgende adres via de post door het sturen van e-mail adres moncler jassen, telefoonnummer, geslacht , verjaardag rente ... enz. Om geïn ...
• FF News: President Abdulla 'dines,' Aishwarya ...
  by requintn (Posted Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:56:53 GMT) Ad elk moment dat u allen ontvangen volgens dit beleid de keuze verzamelingen van mensen en de manier waarop ze gebruik maken van de persoonlijke informatie moncler jassen. Als je een persoon om het beleid van terughoudendheid vragen heeft, dru ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on SA News
  by footprints888 (Posted Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:57:48 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla on SA News 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 (Reuters) - President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says South Africa's state-owned power utility Eskom wants to greatly expand its grid beyond its borders, bringing energy sec ...

Peakwater

• The Power Politics of Water Struggles
  “When you’re driving through a war zone, your instinct may be to roll up the car windows. Wrong move. A bullet is less likely to hit you than to strike the glass, which will shatter and probably cause injuries. It takes firsthand experience to learn these tricks of the trade, and for years ...
• Abnormal Levels of Caffeine in Water Indicate ...
  “Our study has determined that there is a strong correlation between the levels of caffeine in water and the level of bacteria, and that chemists can therefore use caffeine levels as an indicator of pollution due to sewerage systems.” The researchers took water samples from streams, ...
• Bottled water companies target minorities
  “New York, New York - Water is the lifeblood of this planet, whose inhabitants are watching its accelerated spiral into crisis mode even as they struggle to address the issues and lifestyles that are stretching the earth’s resources thin. Outwardly, the global water crisis appears st ...
• The best wastewater treatment plants can&#8217 ...
  “The implications are unclear — researchers did not look for whole living bacteria, just for dead fragments of their genetic material — but experts are concerned. Superbugs have developed resistance to almost every kind of antibiotic. They are building resistance faster than sc ...
• Queensland Approves Toxic Waste Discharge
  “The Queensland Government ignored environmental safety guidelines when it granted Origin Energy and ConocoPhillips permission to release toxic water from its coal seam gas operations into the headwaters of the Murray Darling Basin. “In June last year the government granted an enviro ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
  Washington D.C. (November 28, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that killed 24 innocent Pakistani soldi ...
• Kucinich Raises Questions of Structural Integr ...
  Calls for Public Hearings in Region Prior to Restart Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time watchdog of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant, today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that raises serious technical questions about the structural viabi ...
• Kucinich to Introduce Statute of Limitations o ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), today announced plans to introduce an amendment that would reinstate a statute of limitations for states to reclaim overpayments made to the poorest of the poor who are food stamp recipients. The State of Ohio, for example, recently sent out notices to mor ...
• Kucinich Calls for Open, Free and Fair Electio ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a proponent of diplomacy and peaceful resolution to conflict, wrote to the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, calling for an end to the violent crackdown in Syria and for open, free and fair elections. The full text of the letter follows: Dear President ...
• Kucinich: Decision to Send Marines to Australi ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced plans to deploy 2,500 marines to Australia. “The Obama Administration’s decision to send marines to Australia is worrisome because it again demonstrates this Administration’s incli ...

Authentically Wired

• … POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION IS IT NECE ...
  … POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION IS IT NECESSARY…? … Perhaps I am just a slow learner … but of late I find myself asking where is it written that to be elected to any position of public service that one is required to be a bona-fide member pledging allegiance to a specific p ...
• “$mart meter”
  … Anyone want to bet that corporate owned Arizona Corporation Commission will NOT vote to allow Arizona’s electric utility providers to charge you and me for the new “$mart meter” …   Arizona power fee may mirror ‘smart meter’ plan in Calif….The Arizona Republi ...
• Coconut Milk Versus Coconut Water
  Help Your Heart: 71% of Those Who Drank This Lowered Their Blood Pressure     Posted By Dr. Mercola | November 27 2011 … http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/27/coconut-water-ultimate-rehydrator.aspx?e_cid=20111127_SNL_Art_1   Story ...
• asinine
    … This was a totally asinine award to be considered in the first place …   … Who was the party who dreamed up O’Brien as the worthy recipient…?   Filed under: Blogroll
• … This has been in the making for some t ...
  … Now will this be deemed a surprise …? … This has been in the making for some time but not disclosed to the public …   Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Big changes needed to feed the world: UN
  The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's...
• Gloom over new bid for carbon gas deal
  The biggest climate change talks of the year begin next week, but New Zealand officials admit that the chance of an international agreement on emissions is bleaker than ever.On Monday, delegates from more than 190 countries will...
• Hacked emails reignite 'Climategate' controversy
  The "Climategate" dispute over global warming science was reignited yesterday, when thousands more hacked emails from climate researchers, some of them potentially damaging, were released online on the eve of a vital United Nations...
• 'Dream machine' Curiosity to explore Mars
  As big as a car and as well-equipped as a laboratory, Nasa's newest Mars rover blows away its predecessors in size and skill.Nicknamed Curiosity and scheduled for launch on Saturday, the rover has a 7-foot (2-meter) arm tipped with...
• Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons: Our oceans ca ...
  Control of global stocks is the only answer, say Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line & Blinkers: Everything Kiwis Never Wanted to Know About Fishing . The election is looming, but it's a sad state of affairs...

Truth Survival + RSS

• NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS AND VISITORS
  As of today this website will be inactive by webmaster. there will be no further reports or updated information of any kind. however all information that is currently on the website will remain as an archive for the purpose of … Continue reading →
• AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/universaltruthevolution/2011/07/07/a-special-announcement-by-aaron-mccollum-on-ute Exist Free…. Thank you Aaron Filed under: Black Projects, Common Purpose, Current Events, Dis-Information, Economic Collapse, Elite, Extraterrestrial, Festival of Enlighte ...
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• WHY WE WON’T CELEBRATE THE 4TH OF JULY * ...
  Simply put…The celebration of a holiday that we see as now dead is pointless. Think of this what you will but can YOU honestly say that the people of this country are still truly free? Should we as a nation … Continue reading →
• DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
  Report written by Roma AKA A2B           The Elite want to disarm us, they don’t want us to use our tools and weapons against their tyrannical selves. How about turning the tables… we disarm them, what … Continue reading →

Hit & Run | Reason

• New at Reason: Nobel Prize-Winning Economist V ...
  Beginning at Purdue University, and then at the University of Arizona and George Mason University, economist Vernon Smith founded and developed the pioneering field of experimental economics, which studies actual human behavior—a major breakthrough in a discipline obsessed with abstra ...
• LAPD Stands Down on Occupy LA
    For days, OccupyLA had been told to evacuate its camp outside Los Angeles City Hall by 12:01 a.m. on Monday, November 28. Throughout Thanksgiving weekend, the deadline approached and tension increased. When the police-led evacuation didn't happen, the movement moved int ...
• Occupy L.A. Gets a Reprieve, Poet Laureate Get ...
  This morning’s 12:01 deadline for the Los Angeles Police Department to clear Occupy L.A. out of the City Hall area came and went, and the Occupiers are still camped out.  Reason’s Paul Detrick was with the campers throughout the non-ordeal and will have a video up soon. In recent we ...
• It Seems Like Cops Should Be Aware of the Exis ...
  A deaf couple are suing after the man was jailed for 25 days in May 2010 over later dismissed domestic assault charges. During that time, the lawsuit claims, the man wasn't given access to an interpreter, nor was the woman given access to one so that she could testify that her partner ...
• Greg Gutfeld: "The people who whine about Fox ...
  Greg Gutfeld, host on two Fox News Channel shows (Red Eye and The Five), talks to the LA Times about his days as a men's mag editor, using midgets to generate buzz at an industry confab dedicated to generating buzz, blogging at the Huffington Post 1.0, and his ongoing feud with the po ...

Mercury Rising

• Inventor of pepper spray denounces its use by ...
  One of the people who developed pepper spray in its weaponized uses for the FBI, Kamran Loghman, was so shocked by what he saw at UC Davis and in Seattle that he denounced the manner in which police are using it. He is the recipient of three patents, but has done everything from film making [...]
• In which Senator Carl Levin loses his mind
  I long ago accepted that most of the people in Washington had lost their minds and the rest were a bit wobbly on reality. I did not think that Carl Levin would be one of them. But read this and see if you don’t think that he has lost all sense of proportion. Also note [...]
• No $ For Franken Or Klobuchar Until They Stop ...
  PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. It’s really sad to see people who should know better — especially someone who pretends to favor Net Neutrality — on the wrong side of an issue: Big Pharma and the recording and movie industries are on the ...
• Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Secretly Passing Around ...
  Yikes — just what we all needed. NOT: Like all communities, the Orthodox Jewish one is comprised of many layers. In July 2010, Modern Orthodox rabbis around the country signed a groundbreaking Statement of Principles in “regard to the place of Jews with a homosexual orientation&#8221 ...
• Murdoch computer hacking demonstrates that wir ...
  While most of the recent phone-hacking news has been of the sort of celebrity-driven, moral posturing that so diminish the value of inquiries by Parliament and Congress, one recent guest had some interesting testimony. Jason Deans, The Guardian: A former British army intelligence officer whose c ...

Reality Sandwich

• Esoteric Voices 1: Matthew Gilbert on IONS
  Sorry, flash is not available. Matthew Gilbert is the Director of Communications at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). In this podcast interview, Gilbert talks about the founding of IONS by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell after his samadhi experience of spiritual interconnectednes ...
• Occupy the Heart!
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• An Inconvenient Consensus
  Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that things will be getting worse in terms of extreme weather events. The international body of scientists created to advise on climate and environmental policy has released data that strongly implies greater instab ...
• The Magic of Co-creation
  Join Starhawk in NYC for a timely workshop about group empowerment.  From Cairo to Wall Street, people all over the world are coming together to create change, organizing without top-down leadership or hierarchies.  In thousands of voluntary groups everywhere, people work together to create ever ...
• And Now, Faster-Than-Light Culture
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Desertification

• "God Wants Us to Live in a Garden, Not a Desert"
  The European Union plan to save the Kyoto Protocol may meet its greatest obstacle in the developing world.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: Himalayan Nations Yet to Break ...
  Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban.
• AFRICA: Change the Donors Climate
  When donor-funded horticultural projects failed in Kalacha village at the edge of the Chalbi Desert in North Eastern Province, Kenya, the local pastoralist community proposed their own idea, which turned out to be the solution to their problems.
• Q&A: "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
  Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification (UNCCD), at its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation.
• Climate Change Could Unravel Development Progress
  The United Nations unveiled its 22nd annual Human Development Report on Wednesday, with grave warnings that unless countries take action against climate change and implement sustainable solutions, progress in human development will be in serious jeopardy.

Automatic Earth

• November 28 2011: Are we there yet?
• November 25 2011: Deleveraging: There never wa ...
• November 22 2011: Europe Tumbles, America Pays ...
• November 20 2011: Why Germany is right to refu ...
• November 17 2011: This is what happens when go ...

Press TV

• Portugal police beats protester
  An amateur video has emerged of Portugal's police officers brutally beating a peaceful protester during a strike against the government's austerity measures, Press TV reports.
• UK urged to behave wisely, rationally
  Iran's Foreign Minister says downgrading ties with London is a “lesson” for the British government, expressing hope that the UK would employ “some political wisdom and rationality” in future.
• 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.
• IRGC ready to defend Persian Gulf
  The deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy says the IRGC is fully prepared to defend the Persian Gulf and the country's maritime borders.
• Iran to increase intl. naval missions
  Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari announces Iran's plans to increase its presence in international waters.

SciDev.net

• Arab scientists call for funding for regional ...
  Scientists have called for more funding of regional collaborations and have suggested an 'Al Jazeera-style' science TV channel.
• Scaling up innovations to fight hunger
  Josette Sheeran, executive director of the UN World Food Programme, argues for programmes that build sustainable food security.
• A blow to promising HIV microbicide gel
  A new trial has found that tenofovir gel, previously found to be effective, does not prevent HIV infection.
• 'iCow': helping farmers make the most of their ...
  An organic farmer has invented a mobile phone application called 'iCow', which lets farmers register their herds and receive expert advice.
• Orange sweet potato a hit in Mozambique, say i ...
  Mozambicans who adopted biofortified orange sweet potato went on to have higher blood levels of vitamin A, a study has found.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• A Diode for light
  For many years engineers have wanted to use light instead of electricity to build circuits with. It moves slightly faster, but more importantly signals can pass one another without interfering. This l...
• The coldest point water can remain a liquid ha ...
  If you ask any group of school children what temperature does pure water freeze at and you will normally get the answer 0 degrees celsius, which is the standard answer and it is the temperature below ...
• Powering up radiotherapy
  A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts fromthe effects of radiation exposure has been discovered by scientists at Oslo University. Radiothera...
• Bringing Together Brain Scientists
  Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Conference, which included over 16,000 presentations! Here are just a...
• Chemical liposuction: fat-reducing injection s ...
  A fat-reducing drug, Adipotide, that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists. The agent, which was injected daily over afour week study period into a group...

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