4 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Michael Yon

• Kids, Emails, and Dustoffs
  Sergeant Larson, 4-4 Cav, stands night guard in Zhari District, Afghanistan. Sergeant Larson got shot a day or two before. The bullet only ripped his gear. 25 October 2011 Two types of emails stop me cold to read.  Those from downrange troops, and kids.  Gobs of emails come in from b ...
• Golden Seconds
  Golden Seconds Open Letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and President Barack Obama US Air Force "Pedro" helicopter 24 October 2011 Gentlemen, For the last seven years I have written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  I have covered the US Army, Marines, Air Force and Navy ...
• Executive Summary: Crash of CH-47D Aircraft in ...
  Published: 22 October 2011 Please click here to view the entire Summary.
• Cutting Women in the Forgotten Province
  20 October 2011 Travels to Nimruz Province, Afghanistan Nimruz has been called the forgotten province, and it’s true.  During each of my two journeys to Nimruz, I talked with the governor and many others.  The welcome has been hearty though our presence is scant. Enemy activity is ma ...
• Red Air: America’s Medevac Failure
  4-4 Cav waiting to board helicopters for an air assault. 12 October 2011 Afghanistan Most of our troops in Afghanistan never see combat.  The closest they get might be the occasional rocket attacks on bases.  A relatively small number will be in so many fights that the war becomes a ...

The Killing Train

• Some thoughts on Whiteness and the 99%
  I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that "biologically speaking, there's no such thing as race." read more
• The Logic of Occupy Wall Street for Canada
  The Occupy Wall St. Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run for the unrestricted benefit of the wealthiest. The immediate grievance is the 2008 banking crisis, in which the US banks engaged in fraudulent and crim ...
• The Housing Crisis in Haiti
  There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which proposes to resettle residents of 6 large camps in 16 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince. In total, if the program succeeds, it will touch 5000 families, or 4% of the ...
• Six Questions for Leftists
  Hi everyone. I got sick yesterday and am still recovering. Still managed to get some work done (thanks to Ansel) but most of the interviews were of the background variety. read more
• To pass on our experience: an interview with P ...
  Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October 5, 2011. Justin Podur (JP): Can we start with your analysis of the Preval administration of 2006-2011? What could he have accomplished under the circumstances? What ...

treehugger

• How Organic Farmers and Ethical Consumers are ...
  UK In Italy/CC BY-ND 2.0 A few years ago, a friend of mine attended a Slow Food event in Italy. She recounted how one farmer had stood up and desperately pleaded for the artisan food movement to take on organized criminals. Without loosening their grip on farm supply and produce distribution, ...
• Another Reason To Move To Buffalo: The Archite ...
  image credit Kayla Jonas A year ago I wrote If You Really Want To Get Off Oil, Move To Buffalo, about its incredible infrastructure. What I didn't know at the time was that its architecture is absolutely extraordinary, and that the city is going through and exciting rebirth and revitalization ...
• Mini Lemon Cheesecakes with Jalapeño-Raspberry ...
  © Jerry James Stone via Flickr I just can't get enough of the jalapeño-raspberry jam from Ann's Raspberry. The Good Food Award winner has mastered a perfect balance between sweet and spicy that leaves you wanting more and more. So I couldn't help myself, I had to create one last recipe ...
• By 2031, Could Solar Be Main Source of Energy ...
  The concept of backcasting, or imagining ourselves in a future we want to see and then identifying tte path that got us there, may sound like a wishy-washy motivational workshop activity. But it is a powerful way to identify not just what we want to achieve, but a strategic, step-by-step path ...
• How Conservation Photography Is A Political Act
  Mike Baird/CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understa ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Himalayan glaciers show sharp retreat
  Glaciers in Tibetan plateau feeding many of Asia major rivers in retreat as warning sounded about the costly effects of regional carbon emissions
• Forced displacement soars in Burma
  Border aid group says levels of displacement of people in eastern Burma higher than any year since data collection began in 2002
• Thousands of flood victims lacking aid
  Local relief teams filling the void left by government inaction as fears grow that the death toll from floods in central Burma could climb
• Freed activist tells of prison abuse
  National League for Democracy member to file complaint to human rights body alleging physical abuse at the hands of prison officials
• Rising tides
  As Thailand experiences its worst flooding in more than half a century, swathes of land in Burma are also underwater. Flash floods struck Magwe division on 20 October, wiping out bridges and villages and taking more than 200 lives. The clean-up cost for both countries is expected to be huge, as ...

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Chris Huhne condemns us all to fuel poverty
  Another monumentally expensive project to 'fight climate change' has bitten the dust - but the Energy Secretary still doesn't see the light, says Christopher Booker.
• Richard Branson: 'Saving the world' is good bu ...
  Richard Branson thinks that protecting our natural resources is a great entrepreneurial opportunity, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• The Earth is getting warmer, study finds
  The Earth's surface is getting warmer, a study partly funded by climate change sceptics has concluded.
• The Earth is getting warmer, study finds
  The Earth's surface is getting warmer, a study partly funded by climate change sceptics has concluded.
• Major migration challenge by 2060, experts warn
  Climate and other environmental changes will cause "major challenges" for world leaders over the next 50 years as mass migration threatens to create new humanitarian crises, a major new report says.

National Geographic | Environment

• Two Rivers: The Chance to Export Power Divides ...
  To feed escalating energy demand in China and Thailand, neighboring Southeast Asian nations weigh massive hydroelectric projects that would alter vital rivers.
• Seeking a Pacific Northwest Gateway for U.S. Coal
  A leading green energy community is now at the center of a push to move U.S. coal to energy-hungry Asian markets.
• Little Ice Age Shrank Europeans, Sparked Wars
  The Little Ice Age's coldest snap, around 1600, eventually sparked upheavals across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study says.
• Seaweed vs. Corals: New Culprit Found in Reef ...
  Some seaweeds are waging "chemical warfare" on coral reefs in Fiji—and possibly around the world, a new study says.
• Better Road Building Paves Way for Energy Savings
  Greener road construction not only saves energy, it can improve the fuel economy of the cars and trucks that roll on paved surfaces worldwide.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN rights chief stresses rule of law as Tunisi ...
  [JURIST] Tunisia conducted its first free elections Sunday, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] emphasizing the importance of adherence to the rule of law as the country moves forward. The election for the new constituent assembly was a success with a turnou ...
• Australia citizen files war crimes charges aga ...
  [JURIST] An Australian citizen has filed two counts of war crimes charges against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [official website] for abuses that he allegedly witnessed in 2007 and 2008 as the Sri Lankan civil war drew to a close. Jegen Warran claims to have witnessed intentional attac ...
• HRW urges Libya to investigate bodies found in ...
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [official website] on Monday urged Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website] to investigate the apparent "mass execution" [press release] of 53 Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive] supporters whose bodies were discovered at an ...
• Italy war crimes expert Cassese dies at 74
  [JURIST] Antonio Cassese [JURIST news archive], a renowned Italian international war crimes expert and key figure in the establishment of two international criminal tribunals, died Saturday in Florence, Italy, at the age of 74. Cassese was the first president of the International Criminal Tribun ...
• Khmer Rouge leader defense team files suit aga ...
  [JURIST] Defense lawyers for Nuon Chea [case materials, PDF], a former leader of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] filed a lawsuit Monday against Prime Minister Hun Sen [BBC backgrounder] for interfering with the UN-backed war crimes tribunal. Chea's lawyers a ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama to Issue 'Wikileaks Order'
  After the leak of classified State Department cables, the president will direct federal agencies on sharing information and guarding secrets By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up inter ...
• Why U.S. Presidents Lecture the UN
  American leaders consistently hector the global body, challenging it to live up to its charter So here was the main protocol problem the United States faced on Sept. 23, 2009: President Barack Obama was set to give his inaugural speech before the United Nations General Assembly, ...
• Obama's Lonely Middle Ground
  The president and Congress just haven't gotten along. In tonight's speech, he'll face a tough political calculus yet again. For two and a half years, President Obama has walked a narrow lane, like one of the bike strips that Mike Bloomberg (more technocratic, but of a like mind) p ...
• Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
  With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
• Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
  With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious b ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's en ...

Tikun Olam

• New Israel Fund Honors ‘New Generation’ of Isr ...
  The New Israel Fund will hold its annual young leaders fundraising event in New York on November 2nd.  Here is how the website describes the goal of the event and NIF in general: A new generation of voices is speaking up for social justice and equality in Israel! Celebrate these pioneering activ ...
• Israel Censors Details of Eilat Terror Attack ...
  I reported here several days ago that Alex Fishman, Yediot’s military correspondent, was the first journalist to reveal the contents of the secret IDF report on its failings during the Eilat terror attack.  Among the jaw-droppers he exposed, was a claim that the terrorists who attacked Isr ...
• Anatot Pogrom: State Says Police to Investigat ...
  In the bloody aftermath of the Anatot pogrom, in which women were violently sexually abused, limbs were broken, and one attacker attempted to stab a protester to death with a knife (captured on video), the settler residents have been given a huge gift (Hebrew) by the state attorney general.  He& ...
• Will U.S. Destroy UNESCO to Stop Palestinian S ...
  Palestine, UNESCO, and the U.S. are on a collision course.  It will be instructive to see which one blinks first.  U.S. law calls for cutting funding for any UN body that supports a Palestinian state.  UNESCO is poised to do so this week.  If it does, the U.S. would be forced to withhold its con ...
• Caroline Glick Gets Down and Dirty With Gates ...
  When Anders Breivik was getting down in the dumps about the Muslim takeover of Eurabia, he could always turn for succor to the pages of Gates of Vienna, where he would find the sort of reassuring anti-Muslim race hatred that soothed his fevered brow.  It was the type of vile anti-jihadi rhetoric ...

If Americans Knew

• AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
  "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
• VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
  Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
• Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
  You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
• Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
  He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
• American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
  Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."

David J. Gregory

• Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
  This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
• Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
  Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...
• EOC Eye On Citrus Radio: Pre 9-11-2001 Tenth A ...
              (661) 449-9342       The Tenth Anniversary of the most despicable act every perpetrated on a people by elements of its own government in the history of mankind is just around the corner. The evidence is apparent, it’s been shown and revealed over and over, yet the public doesn’t rise to ar ...
• " Flip Flopped"
    Dear Editor,   The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number".   How can flying ...
• Help to overcome
  SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]

Unsuitable Blog

• Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
  Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...
• Moving Planet Just Moved!
  Symbolic action sucks! Have a look at the other side of Moving Planet and the environmental mainstream at www.moving-planet.com
• An Open Letter to Mike Gonzalez, and Everyone ...
  To: Professor Mike Gonzalez, Glasgow University Hi Mike I’ve just read your article “Eva Morales Defence of Mother Earth Rings Hollow in Bolivia” (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/03/evo-morales-indigenous-people-protest) and am a little concerned. I assume (hope) you ...
• Occupy Wall Street: The Futility and the Oppor ...
  There are a couple of quotations which I would like to share with you. Read them carefully; they will possibly make you angry, or perhaps you will be nodding furiously in agreement with one if not both of them. They are important quotations. This is the first: One will find hundreds, sometimes t ...
• Jordanian Cultural Heritage Enriched by Sustai ...
  There is part of me wanting this to be a spoof, but most of me knows it’s real. I’m talking about the latest hair-brained scheme to tempt the mindless tourist into spending cash, in this case in the state of Jordan. Hi Keith, Building a sustainable, energy efficient luxury resort and ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• Public Lab Aims for Affordable Hydrogen Sulfid ...
  This post was co-authored by Shannon Dosemagen. In September, members of Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) met with residents of Garfield County, Colo., to discuss the growing hydrogen sulfide problem in their small, rural community. Public Laboratory is an organizatio ...
• How NextDrop Beat the Indian Bureaucracy to Ge ...
  I knew something was wrong when I got 28 text messages from the NextDrop system at 9:02 a.m. on Sept. 28. All 28 messages were supposed to go out between the hours of 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. to our residents (giving the different areas advance notice of water arrival as well as real-time water deliver ...
• No Internet? No Problem. Use SMS, Radio, Softw ...
  In Uganda, where many lack access to the Internet, people can engage with local radio stations to make informed choices and hold their leaders accountable. Using SMS and a new tool, TRAC FM, listeners can respond to poll questions such as: What service delivery should be a priority: health care, ...
• LocalWiki Builds Out Pilot Communities, Update ...
  Hey friends! It's time for another LocalWiki update! What's happened since our last update? Erg, a lot! Pilots The LocalWiki project is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, living information repositories that will provide much-needed context behind the people, places, and events ...
• What Would a Nutritional Label for the News Lo ...
  The standard U.S. Food and Drug Administration nutrition label is well-known here in the United States because it is both consistent (for better or worse) and ubiquitous: You'll find it on almost all packaged foods, excluding certain foods like fresh meat (until 2012) and fresh-baked goods (crea ...

Cutting Edge News

• The 2012 Vote - Rising Cain
  Dr. Bill Bennett, at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters summit recently, said, “if you voted for Obama to prove that you’re not a racist, you should vote against him to prove you’re not an idiot. There’s one candidate for whom you can vote to prove both.”Herman Cain has not played the r ...
• The Race for Batteries - Bionics Innovation Re ...
  The latest development by engineers of KIT is inspired by nature. To fill the porous electrodes of lithium-ion batteries more rapidly with liquid electrolyte, they use a physico-chemical effect that also provides for transport in trees.Engineers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have deve ...
• Greener Grid - LED Street Lighting Project Cut ...
  As of late, the streets in the historic centre of Arraiolos in Portugal have been lit up entirely by energy-efficient lighting diode technology (LED), used in combination with an intelligent lighting management system. The project was realised by Schréder, a manufacturing company for street ligh ...
• The Animal Edge - A Welcome Scoop For Dog Owners
  Coming to pet shops in 2012: An Israeli pooper-scooper that turns droppings into harmless, odorless ash within seconds.If you have a dog, then you know that no matter how fancy a pooper-scooper you've got, after Rover's walk you are still left with a messy, smelly nuisance that pollutes the envi ...
• The Saudi Succession Question - The Saudi Suce ...
  Editor’s note: This series was originally written in 2009; we re-publish it now in light of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud’s recent death.The modern state of Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdulaziz (Ibn Saud) in 1932. From a Saudi perspective, however, the kingdom is far older—cer ...

High Country News

• Obama message control blocks journalists cover ...
  The Obama administration makes it harder for its environmental message to be heard when it sets up roadblocks to information and blocks media access.
• Life as a fire lookout
  It's a long way from Lower Manhattan to a remote fire lookout's perch in New Mexico.
• Killing for conservation in national parks
  Getting weeds out of the national parks is an endless war that can never be won, but many Park Service employees are willing - and happy - warriors.
• Lack of medical care on the firelines endanger ...
  Firefighter Rob Palmer crusades for better emergency medical care in memory of his brother, Andy.
• The foul air outside my window
  A small -- and impoverished -- tribe in Nevada suffers from the health impacts of a nearby pollution-spewing coal-fired power plant.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• More Violence From The Obama-Supported Occupy ...
  Note: if you cannot see 6 videos below (please click here) Maybe its the cold weather, or the fact that the protesters are worried they will be missing Thanksgiving turkey and football because they will be stuck in their combination tent cities/public toilets because these Occupy Wall Stree ...
• Muslim Brotherhood Makes Fools of Naive West
  “I realized how difficult it is to understand the true nature of men from outward signs. At Ancona, for example, a kind old man…asked me to let him have some [of my] soup….I gave it to him gladly, taken with the serenity in his eyes and his modest gestures. Immediately afterward, I larned that ...
• The Media is Clueless!! Israel is NOT Prepari ...
  The Israeli and international media have been reporting a rumor  that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak were trying to drum up enough votes in the Cabinet for an endorsement to attack Iran's Nuclear program. I chose not to cover it because, to be honest ...
• “Moderate Islamism?” Does It Exist? (Only in t ...
  “I want to give you just one bit of fatherly advice: Never give a sucker an even break!” –W.C. Fields By Barry Rubin Suddenly, a new term is foisted on us without serious debate or proof and we are supposed to rejoice at the triumphs of those now called “moderate Islamists.” The problem he ...
• Newsbusted: Occupy Maine Attacked With Stink B ...
  People who live near the occupy protests have been complaining of the pungent odor coming from the OWS camps. But neighbors of Occupy Maine may have found a solution to their shocked olfactory nerves. In an exclusive report from Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, a stink bomb actually improved the a ...

The Real Agenda

• Switching Focus from Iraq to Iran
  Ray McGovern Consortium News Tuesday, October 25, 2011 President Barack Obama’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq is a blow to the neocons who had long dreamt of permanent military bases. But the neocons are now trying to spin the Iraq disaster into another excuse to confront Iran. You might t ...
• Vaticano Clama por una Autoridad Política Mundial
  Documento emitido también aboga por un “banco central mundial”, mientras hipócritamente repudia la “idolatría de los mercados financieros”. Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 25 de octubre 2011 El Vaticano pidió este lunes la creación de una “autoridad pública mund ...
• New York’s Mandatory Sex Education Curri ...
  NBC October 24, 2011 Details about the new sex education curriculum in New York City public schools are out — and some are concerned the lessons are too racy. The New York Post obtained workbooks that will be used for the new recommended curriculum, which begins in middle schools and high ...
• Vatican Calls for Global Authority on Economy
  Document also calls for “Central World Bank” while hypocritically repudiating “idolatry of the markets”. By Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda October 25, 2011 The Vatican called on Monday for the creation of a “global public authority” and a “global centra ...
• BPA linked to behavior problems in girls: study
  AFP October 24, 2011 Girls who were exposed to the industrial chemical bisphenol A while in the womb showed more behavioral problems at age three than those whose moms had lower BPA levels, said a study released Monday. Anxiety, depression and hyperactivity were seen more often in toddler girls ...

Wind Watch

• Backlash for wind farms over health impacts
  The war between farmers and energy companies has moved into a new phase with the emergence of plans for a massive expansion of wind farms in Queensland. Some farmers in the South Burnett have already walked away from lucrative payouts from wind farm companies of $140,000 a year because of feared ...
• Legislators get an earful at contentious Cape ...
  BREWSTER — The state is late to the party when it comes to setting rules for wind energy development, too late to bother, many Cape Codders told a state’s joint committee on telecommunications, utilities and energy Thursday morning at Barnstable High. But developers are tired of wading through a ...
• LURC members favor rejection of wind farm
  Critics of Maine’s fast-growing commercial wind power sector were claiming victory on Thursday, one day after state regulators took a first step toward denying an application for a 27-turbine wind farm northwest of Grand Lake Stream. The latest project from Massachusetts-based First Wind, the Bo ...
• Lee County officials look to protect property ...
  DIXON – No agreement emerged during a meeting Thursday on whether wind turbines affect nearby property values. Wind industry supporters argued that turbines had little or no effect, while opponents said they cause property values to drop. However, many seemed open to a home seller protection pro ...
• Commission: No economic value in Bourne wind farm
  Bourne — Review of the New Generation Wind turbine plan for Buzzards Bay off Scenic Highway and Route 25 is at an apparent standstill at the Cape Cod Commission, which says the four-turbine complex would provide no economic benefit. Town Planner Coreen Moore said the Commission subcommittee revi ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, a ...
  Why do people hold the views that they do, including and especially their political and ideological views? That question has generated a vast library of what has generally come to be called “psychobabble,” wherein the author attempts to “deconstruct” his biographical subject and demonstrate why ...
• Let Sleeping Failures Lie: The Reconstruction ...
  The most fallacious argument for an RFC is that it can provide capital when there is a shortage. Obviously, the government has no capital of its own.
• Bill Would Encourage Foreigners To Buy U.S. Homes
  American consumers and the federal government haven’t been able to bail out the sinking U.S. real estate market. Now wealthy Chinese, Canadians and other foreign buyers could get their chance. Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would allow foreigners who spend at least $500,000 ...
• California Becomes First State To Adopt Cap-An ...
  “The Air Resources Board has a mechanism to protect consumers from price spikes by capping the auction price and releasing credits onto the market to drive down prices. . . . The independent Legislative Analyst’s Office concluded that jobs probably will be lost because businesses can move ...
• For Obama, Some Vindication of Approach to War
  “Mr. Obama, his aides say, has long tried to balance a willingness to intervene in cases of mass atrocities with a reluctance to be drawn into large-scale combat. Last week, for example, he ordered 100 armed military advisers to Uganda, where they will help regional forces fight the Lord’s Resis ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Pope preaches self-reliance, took $330,000 loa ...
  Conservative benefactor Art Pope uses his money to promote a philosophy of self-reliance. But when he needed help to run for office, he took $330,000 in loans from his parents that he never p ...
  
• Rick Perry vs. 'Rick Parry': A study in pushin ...
  Both comedian Stephen Colbert -- who's pretending to support a fake candidate, Rick Parry -- and supporters of the real Rick Perry have started nonprofit groups that can channel unlim ...
  
• Occupy Wall Street protest spreads to the South
  The grassroots protest movement against corporate greed that started in New York City has crossed the Mason-Dixon Line.
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• INSTITUTE INDEX: Following Art Pope's money
  North Carolina's most politically powerful unelected individual, Art Pope has spent millions pushing the state to the right. Where does his money come from, where does it go and what ...
  
• Art Pope bankrolls candidates dismantling dese ...
  After working behind the scenes during the pivotal 2009 school board election in Wake County, N.C., the conservative benefactor, Americans for Prosperity director and ally of the Koch brother ...
  

Worldpress - Africa

• The Case for U.S. Humanitarian Interventionism
  There is a difference between interventions driven by a U.S. agenda and interventions carried out in order to save innocent lives.
• Security and Islam in the New Libya
  Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
• Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
  Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
• Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
  Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
• North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
  Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.

Telegraph UK - oil

• New Zealand: oil leaks and cargo topples off s ...
  Fears stricken cargo ship may break up and cause environmental disaster.
• Oil leak from container ship Rena is New Zeala ...
  Oil leak from container ship is New Zealand's worst maritime disaster.
• Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a cont ...
  An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government.
• Vladimir Putin plays for high stakes in the oi ...
  It has always suited Moscow to play the oil companies off against each other, argues George Trefgarne.
• The new Libya needs Britain to give, not take
  The best reward for our role in deposing Muammar Gaddafi would be stability in the North African state, says Malcolm Rifkind.

Ian Welsh

• “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It ...
  - Frederick Douglass In our current age the word demand has been debased.  A day does not go by without some person or organization “demanding” an apology or retraction or that someone do something. These are not demands as a prior generation would have understood them. Why? Because ...
• I see the police are providing an education
  by beating protestors, destroying their medical gear, sending riot cops in to stop “serving food without a permit” and throwing protestors camping gear in garbage trucks. Yes, this is an education.  They are teaching them that the police and elites are their enemies. I am bitterly am ...
• Revolution Basics #1: Who cares what you think?
  Once upon a time, a man informed George Bush Jr. that he didn’t like the President’s policies.  Bush then said “who cares what you think?” Bloomberg and Wall Street may not like Occupy Wall Street, but they aren’t going to negotiate in any meaningful sense. Why shou ...
• I see the “progressive” begging class
  is fund-raising off of Occupy Wall Street.  Welcome to co-option, whether you like it or not.  Most big blogs and organizations like MoveOn exist to beg, nothing more, nothing less.
• Ontario Liberals Win
  They are fundamentally a right wing party, and their leader is a serial liar about important policy issues.  But, at the end of the day, the NDP did not want to win.  If they had wanted to win they would have promised a referendum on repealing the HST.  They refused to do so, they chose [...]

Media Consortium

• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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• $1.3 trillion in federal spending unaccounted ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Polio eradication endpoint of 2012 will not be met
  Cross posted from Nature Medicine's Spoonful of Medicine blog on behalf of Hannah Waters. In 1988, health groups and governments around the world launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a public-private partnership aimed at eradicating the poliovirus by 2000. That year has co ...
• Argument over RNA editing study deepens
  The geneticist whose claimed to find a new mechanism of genetic regulation is defending her work against critics. Vivian Cheung of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia says that her team stands by a May paper in which it reported that it had found more than ten thousand sites where ...
• The Iceman genome cometh
  Ötzi, a 5300-year old man found frozen in the Alps, has become the latest long-dead human to have his complete nuclear genome sequenced. Researchers previewed the Tyrolean Iceman’s genome sequence on 21 and 22 October at the Bolzano Mummy Congress in Italy. Discovered 20 years ago near the ...
• Earthquake severely damages eastern Turkish cites
  Several Turkish cities were devastated on Sunday by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and numerous aftershocks that struck the east of the country. The initial quake struck 16 kilometres north of the city of Van, but nearby city of Ercis was the most heavily damaged according to Turkey’s prime minis ...
• Marking a joyous occasion, California finalize ...
  Maybe the trick is to get away from pollution and power plants and instead make global warming policy appear youthful and fun and exciting (right). Whatever the reason, at a time when the drive for climate regulation has not only stalled but is running in reverse in Washington, the state of Cal ...

new geography

• Major Metropolitan Commuting Trends: 2000-2010
  As we indicated in the last article, solo automobile commuting reached an all time record in the United States in 2010, increasing by 7.8 million commuters. At the same time, huge losses were sustained by carpooling, while the largest gain was in working at home, which includes telecommuting ...
• America's Demographic Opportunity
  Among the world’s major advanced countries, the United States remains a demographic outlier, with a comparatively youthful and growing population. This provides an unusual opportunity for America’s resurgence over the next several decades, as population growth elsewhere slows dramatically, and e ...
• Housing Aucklanders - The Reality
  I went to a house auction on Auckland’s North Shore recently. It was weatherboard, over 50 years old. At just 100sq m its valuation was $170,000, probably a fair if high replacement value for a sound but tired, basic, utilitarian bungalow.  It’s in a lower-middle income area, where the ...
• A Century of Change in the US Black Population ...
  2010 was the 100th anniversary of the start of the “Great Migration” of the “Negro” population to northern cities from the mainly rural South. The midway point occurred in 1960 when black urban population was beginning to peak.    Since then redistribution had taken several forms. First, ...
• Have i-Phone, Will Travel
  Much in the way that fax machines, Fed Ex, and home computers changed residential living several decades ago, portable technology is now changing how we spend our time when moving from place to place. To better understand traveler behavior in the digital age, our DePaul University team has been ...

GM Watch

• Environmental and health impacts of GM crops
  Environmental and Health Impacts of GM crops - the science  Greenpeace, September 2011 http://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/en/Publications/2011/impacts-the-science/ This [carefully referenced] briefing gives an overview of the scientific evidence regarding the environmental and health risks of GM ...
• Techno-utopian "space crops" asking for trouble
  The Sunday Times has published a techno-utopian article hyping "space crops" with mutations induced by firing seeds into space. COMMENT from anonymous scientist: This is not a good idea and is only asking for trouble. Modern genetics tells us that wide-scale gene mutations by irradiation in spa ...
• Obama bails out GM salmon firm
  1.Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm 2.Alaska's Senators Turn Up the Heat on GM Salmon 3.Islanders Hold the Future of Wild Atlantic Salmon in their Hands 4.Is the company behind GM salmon the next Solyndra? --- --- 1.Obama administration 'bailed out' GM salmon firm Suzanne Goldenbe ...
• Carrasco presents findings to German government
  Roundup and birth defects researcher presents findings to German government EU Reporter, 3 October 2011 http://www.eureporter.co/2011/10/roundup-and-birth-de/ On 28 September 2011, the scientist at the centre of the global row over glyphosate/Roundup herbicide and birth defects met with represe ...
• Transgenic cotton harbours hidden dangers
  Transgenic Cotton Harbours Hidden Dangers Emilio Godoy IPS, Oct 20 2011 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105542 MEXICO CITY - Wild cotton in Mexico has been contaminated with genetically modified material, posing a risk to biodiversity, experts say. This worrying conclusion was reached by si ...

spiked

• These Fox-hunters can’t see the wood for ...
  The anti-Liam Fox lobby didn’t stop to ask: what does it say about today’s civil service that many ministers now fall back on their friends?
• Ka-pow! The intolerant reaction to a PC comic
  The US furore around Islam-inspired The 99 suggests we need superheroes who can do battle against censorship.
• Lars von Trier and the dogma of hate speech
  Yes, the Danish director’s comments about Hitler were dumb. But no one should be prosecuted for what they say.
• Let’s stand up for the 90-minute bigots
  Far from being a symbol of ‘deep hatreds’ in Scottish society, sectarian abuse at Celtic/ Rangers games is just footballing fun.
• Stop giving Wayne Rooney a kicking
  So what if he sometimes boots opposing players and says the f-word to the cameras? Football’s a passionate sport.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

• What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars W ...
  Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.  In Libya, we have actually h ...
• Underemployed And Hating Life
  Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unem ...
• The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destr ...
  Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds compl ...
• The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For ...
  If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities.  Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke.  Yes, New York City and Washington ...
• In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs
  The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral.  The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand.  Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "delevera ...

Desertification

• GEFSEC video on Sustainable Land Management (G ...
  Splendid VIDEO seen at : http://youtu.be/H1cwl1ZWUzE UNCCD Sustainable Land Video
• 15 commitments that should be undertaken (IPS)
  Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105567 Reduce Inequalities to Boost Health, WHO Says By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21, 2011 (IPS) – Economic status, education, access to clean water and sanitation, nutrition and the environment determine the level of health … Cont ...
• Alternatives for industrial agriculture and bi ...
  Read at : http://www.agriterra.org/en/news/57668/new-study-on-innovations-in-asia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agriterranews-en+%28Agriterra+News%29 New study on innovations in Asia With support of Agriterra, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustaina ...
• The best way to get good quality tree seedling ...
  Read at : http://agro.biodiver.se/2011/10/from-little-acorns-and-other-tree-seeds-mighty-oaks-and-other-trees-grow/ From little acorns (and other tree seeds) mighty oaks (and other trees) grow by JEREMY Astute followers of the Commenters to our blog will know that James Nguma, an enterprising Ke ...
• The “new colonisation”: adverse ef ...
  Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/10/are-land-leases-to-foreign-interests.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Are land leases to foreign interests a good thing? by Fred Oluch Africa Rev ...

The Paper Trail

• Obama housing plan gets faint praise
  The foreclosure crisis met the campaign trail this week in Nevada, with President Barack Obama and Republican candidates for president suggesting sharply different approaches to help address the nation’s continuing housing crisis. Obama’s new housing initiative , announced Monday in Las Vegas, ...
• Republicans call for probe of Obama’s green ca ...
  Republicans are calling on Congressional investigators to expand their probe of the Obama Administration’s “green energy” loan program to include Fisker, the start-up electric car company that received more than $500 million in federal support but is assembling its high-end sports sedan in Fin ...
• Obama Administration defends Fisker cars from ...
  On the campaign trail Friday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney also questioned the $529 million loan to Fisker, a company that is being financed in part by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has Al Gore as a board member.
• Health information technology: Keep it simple
  Making electronic record-keeping systems easier for health providers to use can help prevent dangerous or even fatal mistakes, says the draft of a project by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
• Energy's risky $1 billion bet on two political ...
  Fisker Automotive and Tesla have received almost $1 billion in federal loans from the Department Energy to build electric cars. Both Fisker and Tesla have deep political connections to the Obama administration.

backofthebook.ca

• Three simple words that can save a life
  By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
• Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
  By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
• Letter to Steve Jobs
  by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...
• Should the CBC boot Cherry and O’Leary?
  By Frank Moher It's not at all a bad thing that CBC loudmouths Don Cherry and Kevin O'Leary have agitated some viewers lately, Cherry with his rant against former NHL enforcers who have come out against violence in hockey, and O'Leary with his interview of American journalist Chris Hedges, in ...
• GG gee we need to rethink this
  By Frank Moher The Governor General’s Award finalists were announced on Tuesday and, as usual, I looked at the drama list and sighed. Not because I wasn’t on it -- I didn't have anything eligible -- but because I was reminded once again that we don’t have a proper playwriting award ...

libcom

• Another March Against Police Brutality in Atla ...
  Follow-up march against the police murder of 19 year old Joetavius Stafford in Atlanta, GA. Roughly 50 people march through the streets to the scene of the murder despite inhospitable weather. http://atlanta.indymedia.org/local/anothe ...
• Anti-police murder march in Atlanta
  vineshooting[1].jpg Around 200 Atlantans march rowdily through the downtown business district in response to police murder of a 19 year old at the Vine City MARTA station in the city's west end. ...
• Occupy Rome 15 October 2011
  indignati-a-roma-15-ottobre-2011-e-guerra-civ-L-ThZx4B.jpeg A summary of yesterday’s events would be useless, as I’m pretty sure by now you’ve all read the big headlines about riots and clashes with t ...
• Moonbat Internationale leaflet on Occupy Walls ...
  occupy-wall-street.jpg Moonbat Internationale is an ultraleft/ "infantile disorder" group based in the Midwest of U.S.A., and western Canada. Website: http://moonbati.wordpress.com/ ...
• Three thoughts on #Occupy
  1occupy.jpeg At a time when a banner reading Katalipsi! (Occupied!) flies from the Greek Finance ministry, here are three thoughts on the proliferating calls to #Occupy! From Pierce Penniless ...

Free Range International

• Free Ranging Balochistan
  I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province.  When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night.  The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...
• Diplomacy 101
  I am in the middle of an interesting few days as we finish up our projects, some of the larger ones with official ceremonies.  Those of you who follow Michael Yon on facebook know where I am and what we have been up to.  What is interesting to watch is Michael, myself and our friend [...]
• High Noon in the Forgotten Province
  Yesterday morning there was a running gunfight spanning 100 kilometers on the Nimroz Province side of the Dasht-e Margo (Desert of Death.) It started just outside the little hamlet of Qala Fath, which is home to the only reliable source of drinking water near Zaranj and also houses this spectacu ...
• Stuck in Kabul
  We are finishing up our projects and preparing to call it a war. This year has been our biggest success to date; operating in over 20 Provinces – all of them very kinetic and getting every project we started finished on schedule and on budget.  I now routinely move in Ghost Team mode throughout ...
• Kabul Goes Kaboom
  A few hours ago, I was notified that the areas around ISAF HQ, the US Embassy, etc. had come under major attack.  Boy, they weren’t kidding.  That was four hours ago, and things are still going off.  This is definitely the worst fighting to hit Kabul since the war began.  It’s tough ...

The Story Behind the Story

• THE TRUTH ABOUT OCCUPY WALL STREET EXPOSED.
  Red October By A. True Ott, PhD – Oct. 21, 2011 It began as “peaceful protests” on the 17th day of September – the month of the Autumn Equinox (Sept. 21 – Mabron – a very special  ritual day ordained by WICCA, Kaballa, and Pagan practitioners of Lucifer as the day of atonement and th ...
• Moammar Al Gadhafi – The Untold Story
  Woe Unto Them Who Call Evil Good, and Good, Evil; That Put Darkness for Light, and Light for Darkness; That Put Bitter for Sweet, and Sweet for Bitter!    ——- The Prophet Isaiah – 5:20 Yesterday the “Western” world cheered the news that Moammar Al Gadhafi (aka the & ...
• Zionist Jewess Shill Hillary Clinton Visits Tr ...
  Maybe you missed this, friends.  STUNNING is the only word for this story. The Associated Press reported on Hillary Clinton’s visit to Tripoli aboard a massive C-17 military cargo jet.   That’s right.   She came bearing gifts – with $11 million more in “aid” for the ...
• ONE MESSAGE TO “OCCUPY WALL STREET&#8221 ...
  Attention all “Occupy America” Protesters. All of your energy needs to be FOCUSED on the primary problem:  Money Power in Politics. This means Khazar Jewish Money Masters – the root of the problem.   This ‘root’ is like a morning glory weed – it is invasive an ...
• Iran (Persia) – the Key to World War 3.
  To Isolate Iran, U.S. Presses Inspectors on Nuclear Data Published: October 15, 2011 WASHINGTON — President Obama is pressing United Nations nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing that Iran is designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology. The pre ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile ca ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’ ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the A ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
  Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
• Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
  Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
  Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.
• Brendan Shanahan, NHL VP, Player Safefty (Oct ...
  He played 21 years in the NHL, now, Brendan Shanahan is the league's senior VP of player safety, and he's making his mark in a way that may change the very way the game is played.
• Stephen Harper (Sept 10, 2011)
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper on September 11: how it changed him and how it changed the country.

Scotts Contracting

• Part 4 in Weatherization Series
  If you have the question: Why is my house so Cold? Why are the walls so cold? Why are the outer rooms of my house so cold? Where are these cold air drafts coming from? Why is it costing me so much to heat my house? Why is my Heating Bill so high? How do [...]
• How to Prevent Heat Loss 4 Examples-Diagrams-D ...
  How to Prevent Heat Loss with 4 Examples-Diagrams-Drawings for your Building Projects In recent conversations with customers and peers about Reducing Energy Loss in Buildings / Structures and how heat and cold are transferred into a Building via Conduction.  I explained and made r ...
• Fall Weatherization Services Offer
  If you are interested in Saving Money on your up-coming winter time heating costs Scotts Contracting offers: Weatherization, Insulation, and Building Maintenance Services that will save you money on your Heating Bills. Offer is available for Residential and Commercial Buildings in the Greater St ...
• Dow Solar Shingles Update
  POWERHOUSE Solar Shingles will be available in targeted U.S. markets later this year. Because our initial quantities will be very limited, the markets we will launch in will also be limited and our team of authorized dealers and installers very small. Details on these markets and dealers will be ...
• How to Repair Water Damaged Stucco – Int ...
  Water Damage Interior Wall Repair Step 1: Remove Damaged Areas Step 2: Patch with Wall Repair or Concrete Patch Step 3: Trowel Smooth using Steel Trowel Step 4: Sand High Spots to create uniform wall patch Step 5: Finish to Match Existing Wall Step 6: For this project I mixed sugar sand with the ...

The View From Abroad

• Why Was al-Awlaki Denied His Constitutional Ri ...
  Everyone understands that Anwar al-Awlaki was denied his constitutional rights as an American citizen. The question is, why?
• A Return to the Gold Standard is a Must
  The gold standard is not only constitutional, it is necessary to cure what's ailing our economy.
• Revisionism is Alive and Well
  In the final analysis, Ronald Reagan was a big government liberal.
• Will Hurricane Irene be a Blessing in Disguise?
  Bastiat is correct, Krugman is wrong, destruction is not a boon to the economy.
• Ron Paul is the Only One
  Wanted: a new president with an understanding of economics, knowledge of international affairs, and a dedication to constitutional rights.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• When a Clandestine Nuclear Program Is Good News
  If Burma's nascent nuclear-weapons program is met with international condemnation so might its human-rights abuses be.
• To the U.S. Government, UFOs Are a Threat to I ...
  Few Americans actually fear UFOs, but the U.S. government treats them like an existential threat.
• Gaddafi Took Knowledge of Where Bodies Were Bu ...
  A sigh of relief undoubtedly went up in transatlantic capitals when Gaddafi was killed.
• Defending Bloated Military Spending
  The Pentagon is scrambling to protect its flank in these budget-cutting times.
• More Isn't Necessarily Better With Pakistan's ...
  Pakistan plans to train over 8,000 personnel to augment its nuclear-security forces: extremist Islamists need not apply.

Law.com

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

Iranian.com

• Iran's assassination plot compels a tough response
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• Does Obama Understand What's Been Unleashed?
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• The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946 by Cambridge Uni ...
  The Azerbaijan crisis of 1946 represented a landmark in the early stages of the Cold War and played a major role in shaping the future course of Iran’s political development. In this book, originally published in 1992, Louise Fawcett presents a comprehensive study of the five-year struggle for c ...
• نگاهی دیگر: رویکرد تازه آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای در ق ...
  اظهارات آیت الله علی خامنه ای، رهبر جمهوری اسلامی در سفر به کرمانشاه تا حدی دریچه ای به روی رویدادهای آینده سیاسی و طرح وی برای روزهای آتی حاکمیت گشود.read more
• Bahrain to U.S.: Stand up to Iran
  Bahrain’s foreign minister has a pointed message for President Obama: You’ve denounced Iran’s plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington and warned that Iran “will pay a price.” But what is the U.S. actually going to do about Iran to show that it’s serious?read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The #OccupyWallStreet Report Card – Part I
  Assessing Our Accomplishments Capturing the corporate media spotlight, even briefly, with a strong anticapitalist message is a major, unprecedented feat for any grassroots organization. Moreover, despite incessant jibes from the media and political establishment about being disorganized and conf ...
• Publishers Weekly Trashes My Novel
  *** My friends tell me I should be honored to score a review in the eminently mainstream Publishers Weekly. Apparently it’s extremely rare for any corporate media outlet to review “indie” authors (those of us published by independent, non-corporate publishing houses). My friend ...
• How Bankers Engineered World War I, Bolshevism ...
  Financing Hitler's Rise to Power Book Review (Part 3 of 3) Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Carroll Quigley (1966 MacMillan) Tragedy and Hope is a free download from http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf *** The most disturbing section of Traged ...
• Occupy New Plymouth – Day 5
  Occupy New Plymouth #OccupyWallStreet, also known as Occupy Together, has now come to New Zealand following the October 15th International Day of Action. Occupy New Plymouth – like Occupy Auckland, Occupy Wellington, Occupy Christchurch, Occupy Dunedin and Occupy Invarcargill – is ...
• Naming Names: Exposing the World Banking Frate ...
  Meyer Rothschild 1744-1812 Book Review (Part 2 of 3) Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Carroll Quigley (1966 MacMillan) Tragedy and Hope is a free download http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119975.pdf *** After providing a basic introduction to the fractional reserve ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Jon Huntsman: The “Colbert” conser ...
  "The Colbert Report" The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Jon Huntsman www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video Archive Continue Reading...
• Iraq war: Mission failed
  StrategicEconomictoldput this into perspectiveFor starters, $1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment for every American whose diabetes or heart disease is now going unmanaged and a global immunization campaign to save ...
• Occupying the Rust Belt
  steel, cement and textile industriesAsmaa Mahfouzbuy up businesses next to the encampmentauthorized borrowing up to $175 millionperhaps 10 percent of the costpoverty level in 2009 was 24 percentOccupation with an expiration datetripled its budget43 percent of the land vacanta high of 218,000less ...
• How low will Rick Perry go?
  Steve Kornacki wroteas Jonathan Capehart put it.One anonymous source told the Texas Tribuneaccording to Real Clear PoliticsRoss Douthat is rightpoll numbers crateringhe went after Cain on Fox News todayContinue Reading...
• New video shows possible Gadhafi torture
  warning very graphichereWARNING: Extremely graphicDECODING MOAMMAR GADHAFI'S CAPTURE: Continue Reading...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Sell-off makes sense for city
  The greater good must prevail—that’s why it makes sense for Toronto public housing to sell off 706 single-family homes.
• Libya’s grisly spectacle
  Getting to the bottom of Moammar Gadhafi’s wretched end is an early test of the new government’s commitment to the rule of law.
• Bad news for Ford: It gets harder
  Facing growing resistance, Rob Ford’s remaining three years in office promise to be a lot more difficult.
• Your bill, Mr. Mammoliti
  It’s ironic that budget-cutting Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti is so slow in paying what he owes the city.
• Let the U.S. judge Bush
  Rights activists should look to the U.S. to prosecute George W. Bush, instead of dumping the problem on us.

Energy Collective

• New Poll Shows Americans Want Clean Energy
  Only 14 percent of country thinks we're going in the right direction on energy
• US Energy Poll Reveals Contradictions
  Wednesday, I received a press release announcing the results of a new poll on US consumer attitudes towards energy conducted by the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas in Austin.
• Tessenderlo Combined Cycle Power Plant – Eco-F ...
  Belgium recently saw its first ever large-scale IPP (Independent Power Production): Tessenderlo. This Siemens-designed high-efficiency gas-fired combined cycle power station is in strict compliance with the latest environmental regulations.
• The Big Role for Data Analytics in the Smart Grid
  In the movie “The Graduate”, Dustin Hoffman’s character was told that the future was in plastics.  Today, he’d be told that the future is in data analytics.  Just like many other business sectors are discovering, analytics will play an increasingly significant role in the management of ...
• IEA Chief: Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies
  As academics warn the world could exceed "safe" temperature levels in our lifetimes, the chief economist of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has urged the world to slash hundreds of billions of dollars of fossil fuel subsidies or face catastrophe.

EU Times

• Vikings used mysterious sunstone ‘sat nav’ to ...
  Ancient legends of Viking mariners using mysterious sunstones to reveal the position of the sun on a cloudy day may well be true, according to a new study. Before the invention of the compass, Norse adventurers travelled thousands of kilometres across the oceans toward Greenland and most likely ...
• US-Philippines Drill in South China Sea Angers ...
  After cooperating with Vietnam, the US conduced military exercises again in the South China Sea between October 17 to 28, this time with the Philippines. As usual, the two countries announced that the exercises weren’t aimed at China. I think this kind of military exercise is meaningless, ...
• UK and US draw up joint plan to attack Iran
  The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night. Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline ...
• Third woman accuses Herman Cain of sexual hara ...
  Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is accusing rival Rick Perry’s operation of being behind stories about sexual harassment allegations against Cain in the 1990s. Cain’s campaign manager says the Texas governor should apologise to Cain for providing information about the haras ...
• Soldiers “End Of The World” Email Sends US Int ...
  An interesting Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States was thrown into a “panic” last week after one of its soldiers emailed his mother warning her to “prepare for the end of the world.” According to this report, American Army Special ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Captain Israel
  Dear God, forgive us our daily scandals. 1. There are several things that really concern me about the story of the theft and dissemination of the database holding large amounts of personal information of every single Israeli citizen
• Afghanistan War News Updates -- October 24, 2011
  NATO: 200 Insurgents Killed Or Captured In Eastern Afghanistan -- L.A. Times REPORTING FROM KABUL, AFGHANISTAN â Pitched battles in eastern Afghanistan over the last week have left about 200 insurgents captured or dead, a NATO official said Monday. The U.S.-led offensive has primarily targeted t ...
• Star Spotting: Is Jessica Simpson Trying To Te ...
  Credit: Pacific Coast News With pregnancy rumors swirling around her, Jessica Simpson fueled the fire when she stepped out in New York earlier today in a loose-fitting top with her hand over her stomach. While everyone is still waiting for an official pregnancy announcement , isn't the ol' "han ...
• Another voice: Why Cameron had no choice but t ...
  Fraser performed a valuable service to the MPs currently debating a motion proposing a referendum on membership of the European Union by imagining what he thought David Cameron ought to have said: "Sure, guys, have your vote. It's a backbench motion, so the government won't take part and as you ...
• Libyans bury Gadhafi in unmarked grave
  MISRATA, Libya (AP) â Moammar Gadhafi was buried early Tuesday morning in an unmarked grave in a modest Islamic ceremony, closing the book on his nearly 42-year rule of Libya and the eight-month civil war to oust him. A Gadhafi nephew read a prayer for the dead before Gadhafi's body â along wit ...

Groklaw

• Father of Lisp and AI John McCarthy has died
  McCarthy developed Lisp in between 1956 and 1958, when he was trying to build an algebraic list processing language for artificial intelligence work on the IBM 704 computer. He was seeking to compute with symbolic expressions rather than numbers, and use this to build AI systems. "It became clea ...
• Fellowship interview with Rikard Fröberg
  Chris Woolfrey: You're currently working at The Society for Free Culture and Software (FFKP), and you're involved with a number of grassroots projects, such as Cloudberry. How important do you think it is that Free Software has an active and engaged network of users? Rikard Fröberg: Speaking as ...
• Purchase my eBook: Mark-Up and Commentary on t ...
  I have received a number of requests for an electronic mark-up of the recently passed patent reform act - the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. In response, I have created a 230 page volume in eBook format that is intended to serve as a helpful tool in understanding the implementation of the new ...
• Wired Enterprise Welcomes Robert McMillan and ...
  Wired Enterprise - Wired.com's newest news blog - welcomes its newest reporters: Robert McMillan, a nine-year veteran of the IDG News Service who in 2010 was named one of the country's top security journalists by the SANS Institute, and Eric Smalley, a onetime senior editor at Network World and ...
• Insurance Company's Request to Compel Producti ...
  The court noted that State Farm's requests are more than a fishing expedition. The interrogatory that sought the name, address and telephone number of each of plaintiff's friends was "so far outside the realm of discoverable information" that the court concludes it was intended to "intimidate an ...

WideShut

• EU Dictators Block UK’s Right To Referendum
  Sellout UK Government votes against the people's right to a referendum on EU membership.
• New World Order, Gaddafi’s Murder & EU R ...
  Keelan looks at fresh calls for a New World Order, Gaddafi's murder, and the Eu Referendum scandal.
• Philip Hammond Encourages Corporations To Pill ...
  Sickening Defense Secretary tells corporations to pack bags for Libyan Business Deals and contracts.
• Israeli Citizens March On Rothschild Boulevard
  Israeli citizens have had enough too. Hundreds march on Rothschild Boulevard as part of the "social protest" movement.
• Gaddafi Announced Dead After Bloody Video Surfaces
  Gaddafi announced dead by world leaders, NATO based companies look to carve up oil reserves.

Politics in the Zeros

• Oh gosh, that’s reassuring
  New Libya leader pledges to impose Sharia law Our new allies in Afghanistan and Iraq have not only imposed radical Islamic groups but denied women and minorities basic rights. I am not sure we can afford any more successes in our foreign policies. Well, as long as as they hire US companies to do ...
• Solar Ship. A new kind of aircraft
  Solar Ship is creating craft that can carry heavy loads long distances with a tiny carbon footprint. Filled with helium, they soak up rays from the sun to provide the energy for forward motion and fulfill its original design challenge – carry 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lbs) of payload 1,000 kilomet ...
• Carter Family. Wildwood Flower
• Student loans, the new impoverish-for-life bon ...
  Newshoggers bring the startling news that total student loan debt is now over $1 trillion, more than total credit card debt, with a staggering $100 billion added on last year. For the banksters, this is even better than mortgages. A fine educational establishment like Fleece U trolls for the de ...
• Searching for lost friends at night at the Par ...
  The Parowan Gap. They were lost in the steep, hilly country to the left of the gap. All’s well that ends well but last night we  searched for friends lost in rugged terrain after a dirt bike crash disabled one bike, causing a knee injury. DJ (who blogs here some) texted his wife at [...]

TVNZ - Top Stories

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

Just World News

• The American MSM and the Arab Spring
  This is the very short version of the presentation I made at the Algiers Book Fair Colloquium on Sunday: 1. The elite (editors, commentators, and leading journalists) of the U.S. news media is part of-- indeed, an important pillar of-- the country's continuing political elite and plays a singul ...
• Amos Gvirtz's bulletin, "#282"
  Over recent years, the tireless Israeli peace activist Amos Gvirtz, from Kibbutz Shefayim, has been issuing regular warnings about the misdeeds of various of his countryman. These simply worded bulletins shine a much-needed light on some of the little-known details of what has been going on in o ...
• In Algiers: Book Fair and Colloquium
  I'm writing this on a plane, at the end of a four-day visit to Algiers... In Algiers I was participating in a big international Colloquium on the Arab Spring organized in conjunction with the 'Salon Internationale du Livre d'Alger' (SILA-- the Algiers Book Fair.) It was really interesting to re ...
• Updates, Sept.26
  I have found it really hard to find time and energy to blog recently. Lots has been going on with Just World Books. This very evening, we are launching Manan Ahmed's terrific book Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination. I'm in New York to do this. It's being hosted b ...
• For September 11, ten years on
  ... I want to link, first, to these reflections on 9/11, that I published in Friends Journal in 2007, and to this column, that I wrote for the Christian Science Monitor on 9/11 itself, and which ran in the paper two days later. Tomorrow, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I'll be sp ...

frogblog

• Citizen engagement at Occupy Auckland
  I got a buzz out of visiting the Occupy Auckland camp again this sunny afternoon. Seventy tents have mushroomed on the grass in Aotea Square  right next to the Town Hall. Hopefully the Auckland Council will continue to tolerate the camp as a venue for citizen engagement with politics. It’s not j ...
• Murder in West Papua
  The events of the past two weeks in West Papua have been a savage reminder that our neighbours just to the north are not free. First there was the attack on striking miners at Freeport McMoran, possibly the world’s most disastrous gold mining area, and the competition for that title is hug ...
• Nasty surprise in Disability Commissioner bill?
  The Government has introduced legislation to establish the permanent position of Disability Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission - or has it?
• General debate, October 25, 2011
• ‘Debating’ Foreign Policy: National and Green
  Yesterday, the NZ Institute of International Affairs held an important one-day seminar on ‘The Major Economic and Foreign Policy Issues facing New Zealand, 2012-17’. The programme is here. Some excellent presentations were made, especially by Rick Boven (NZ Institute) and Duncan Currie (oceans c ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
  The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
• America's Descent to Depravity
  The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
• The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
  Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...
• Disintegrating Economic Recovery
  The word 'recover' always has the connotation of "getting back." But who is going to get back what when the economy "recovers"? Few at most. So what does an economic recovery look like? No one knows. The word 'recovery' can not be applied to objects willy-nilly. A sick person goes into the ...
• Humanity at the Crossroads: Business and Jobs
  What's known as the economy has not only had horrid consequences, it is ultimately unsustainable. In two centuries, it has turned human beings into beasts of burden and their rulers into mere teamsters, it has polluted the Earth, extinguished uncounted species and exterminated millions of people ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• ALERT: Food Toxins Found in Baby Formula
  By Dr. Mercola There are many reasons why breastfeeding is a superior option to formula feeding for babies, however, a new study provides one of the most compelling to date. Infant formulas are typically processed under high heat, and this leads to the formation of advanced glycation end pr ...
• Dental Breakthrough - May Save Thousands of Lives
  By Dr. Mercola A great deal of progress has been made this year toward ridding the dental industry of dangerous mercury-containing amalgams. For example, Consumers for Dental Choice recently reported that: "On October 10, the City Council of Malibu, California passed a resolution suppor ...
• Stop Junk Food Marketing to Kids
  By Dr. Mercola Junk food is contributing to skyrocketing rates of diabetes, high blood pressure, and even strokes -- and not just among adults. Food and beverage companies spend $2 billion a year promoting unhealthy foods to kids, and while ultimately it's the parents' responsibility to fee ...
• The Vitamin that is Better than Fluoride in Re ...
  By Dr. Mercola Studies have linked geographical variations in dental health and tooth loss to sun exposure. Dental caries has been shown to be inversely related to mean hours of sunlight per year, with people living in the sunny west having half as many cavities as those in the much less su ...
• The Cancer Time Bomb Sitting in Your Refrigera ...
  By Dr. Mercola Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. If you're a woman, your chance of getting breast cancer in your lifetime is about one in eight. Researchers at a breast cancer conference stated that up to one-third of breast cancers could be avoided by making different li ...

JAMA

• About This Journal [About This Journal]
• Influenza [JAMA Patient Page]
• Variable Correction in: Factors Associated Wit ...
• Author Name Correction in: Association of Race ...
• Wording Errors in: The Older Smoker [Correction]

Survival - tribal peoples

• Bolivia cancels controversial road plans
  Fishing in the Isiboro Sécure national park © Survival Bolivia’s president Evo Morales has cancelled plans to build a controversial road through a national park more than two months after protests against it began. The road was to cut across the Isiboro Sécure Park, home to several indigen ...
• Celebrities back new book on tribal peoples
  Stephen Corry's 'Tribal peoples for tomorrow's world' is now on sale. © Survival A groundbreaking new book which challenges many assumptions about tribal peoples – including how they are viewed and their role in the world – will be published by Freeman Press on November ...
• ‘Seven dead’ after Indonesian troops storm Pap ...
  Violence comes exactly a year after a shocking video of Papuan men being brutally tortured by Indonesian soldiers © Survival At least seven people are feared dead after Indonesian police opened fire on hundreds of West Papuans at an independence rally close to the province’s capital. Repre ...
• Survival and tribal people denounce 'ludicrous ...
  The 'ludicrous and offensive' reporting of the story has dismayed tribal people around the world © Survival International Survival International has lodged a formal complaint with authorities in the UK over the ‘highly offensive and ludicrous’ claims in the world’s press that a Ge ...
• Peru takes action to protect uncontacted tribes
  Uncontacted Mashco Piro Indians have been seen in the area on several occasions © Gabriella Galli/Survival Government authorities in Peru have responded to Survival’s call to protect uncontacted Indians who have recently appeared on riverbanks near a popular tourist destination. The India ...

Montreal Gazette

• Multiculturalism, made in Canada
  is an assistant professor of religion, law and ethics at McGill University.
• The premier gives in and gives his inquiry som ...
  It took a long time for Premier Jean Charest to come around to acknowledging the need to call a public inquiry into corruption in the province's construction industry.
• Editorial: Better health-care staffing a priority
  A ruling this month by Quebec's Labour Relations Board throws a welcome light on an important issue: the problem of understaffing in Quebec's health-care institutions.
• A new way to measure our happiness
  Are we as a country happy? Fulfilled? Conscious of the wellbeing of our environment, our fellow citizens, ourselves?
• The Gazette's view, in short
  There was an unexpectedly happy ending this week to the controversy over the Plateau Mont Royal borough council's decision to close the Schubert pool, a longtime treasure of the midtown neighbourhood.

Food World Order

• genetically modified shrieking broccoli toned down
  from onion radio news: Today the Onion Radio News, anchored by Doyle Redland, continues to inspire and inform millions of listeners around the world and has become the living embodiment of the power of the spoken news word.
• 10/20 binge & purge: co-ops, bailouts & the ga ...
  #OccupyWallStreet & the food movement* are co-ops the solution to occupy wall street woes?* obama admin 'bailed out' gm salmon firm aquabounty* seventh generation responds to consumer about gmo's* anthony bourdain 'vegetarian hate speech' with playboy* more 'insects-as-food' p ...
• state dept says biotech labeling would scare c ...
  council on foreign relations member speaks to biotech giants from des moines register: The Obama administration shows no sign of changing the government’s position on labeling of biotech foods despite a renewed effort by consumer advocacy groups and environmental organizations require manufac ...
• pepsico wants to 'scare the crap' out of your kids
  from civil eats: PepsiCo has long been my poster child for food corporations whose actions speak louder than words when to comes to responsible marketing. CEO Indra Nooyi loves to tout the company’s “Performance with Purpose” and show off the company’s “good-for-you” foods that it gets to defin ...
• reasons why buying in bulk is smart, economica ...
  from ecosalon: How much of what we eat is dictated by our parents? Research shows that our food preferences may actually be shaped before we’re even born, but beyond what we eat, our own eating habits and traditions are certainly influenced by our families. This topic was thrown around recently ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars W ...
  Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.  In Libya, we have actually h ...
• Underemployed And Hating Life
  Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unem ...
• The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destr ...
  Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds compl ...
• The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For ...
  If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities.  Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke.  Yes, New York City and Washington ...
• In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs
  The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral.  The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand.  Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "delevera ...

CASSE

• How to Turn the Power of the Wall Street Prote ...
  A "repatriation holiday" would be good for well-to-do CEOs and investors, not so good for workers and taxpayers.
• Limits to Growth – Forty More Years?
  Adaptation will mean moving from growth to a steady-state economy, one almost certainly at a smaller scale than at present.
• Making Sense of the Protests through a Post-Gr ...
  Protestors have a visceral grasp on the fact that the economy has been engineered for ecological and financial ruin.
• You Betcha – We Need a Green Tea Party
  Are you tired of politics as usual? Brian Czech encourages you to pull up a chair to the Green Tea Party.
• Call Me a FOCer: Big Ideas under a Big Sky
  A prerequisite to achieving a sustainable healthcare scheme, agricultural system, or economy is a widespread philosophical change of heart.

The Talking Clock

• Ayes 111 Noes 483
  More tomorrow. Very tired TTC... The morning after update Hey lovely peeps. We'll be a little quieter than you might have expected for a large part of today. Don't worry - we'll have plenty to say on last night's events. We need to update our 'MP Watch' page to add in last night's pa ...
• England! To Parliament! Midday!
  "You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately ...in the name of God, go!" With these immortal words, Oliver Cromwell dismissed the Rump Parliament which, the current Parliament website informs us: "...was primarily concerned with legislation ensuring its own survival." Thr ...
• Quote of the Day: 'Further mainstream accusati ...
  "I think he is an active, militant elite liberal, who despises our country and its people, just as much as any Islington Marxist does. ...his performance on the EU issue has been dishonest and treacherous from the start." - Peter Hitchens for the Daily Mail, mincing no words in his assessm ...
• How to report the crime of treason
  The clip above has been brought to our attention by one of our friends over on Twitter. While what you are watching took place last year, the content is still valid and the legitimate and valid claims contained in it need to be reported to the police by thousands and millions of people. To ...
• Sunday Paper Review: 23rd October 2011
  On the eve of THAT vote in Parliament which will be scrutinised closely up and down the land, there's plenty of 'Europe' (by which the media mean the EU) in the newspapers sufficient to induce such anger and rage in an agnostic Englishman as to force the need for an extended sit down in the near ...

Facing South

• Pope preaches self-reliance, took $330,000 loa ...
  Conservative benefactor Art Pope uses his money to promote a philosophy of self-reliance. But when he needed help to run for office, he took $330,000 in loans from his parents that he never p ...
  
• Rick Perry vs. 'Rick Parry': A study in pushin ...
  Both comedian Stephen Colbert -- who's pretending to support a fake candidate, Rick Parry -- and supporters of the real Rick Perry have started nonprofit groups that can channel unlim ...
  
• Occupy Wall Street protest spreads to the South
  The grassroots protest movement against corporate greed that started in New York City has crossed the Mason-Dixon Line.
  The grassroots protest movement against c ...
  
• INSTITUTE INDEX: Following Art Pope's money
  North Carolina's most politically powerful unelected individual, Art Pope has spent millions pushing the state to the right. Where does his money come from, where does it go and what ...
  
• Art Pope bankrolls candidates dismantling dese ...
  After working behind the scenes during the pivotal 2009 school board election in Wake County, N.C., the conservative benefactor, Americans for Prosperity director and ally of the Koch brother ...
  

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 25 October 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: an interview with the shuttle's last spacewalker and how water's quantum weirdness makes life possible
• Kaleidoscopic history of the oldest known supe ...
  Images from four space telescopes were combined to reveal the history behind a star that exploded almost 2000 years ago
• Early western childbirth image found by blind ...
  A fragment of a 2600-year-old pot might represent the earliest portrayal of birth in western art
• Today on New Scientist: 24 October 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners and snake stores sperm for five years
• Space telescope crash lands over Bay of Bengal
  The derelict X-ray telescope ROSAT is probably beneath the Indian Ocean - but we won't know until the military releases its tracking data

Tech Drive In

• 7 Best GNOME Shell Extensions, Install in Ubun ...
  Being able to install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Oneiric is exciting. And as we experienced in our earlier review of GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10, GNOME Shell has come a long since its first release and now is a very stable, fast and usable shell for GNOME. To further improve the functiona ...
• How to Enable Full Screen Dash in Ubuntu 11.10 ...
  Dash is one of the most important innovations of Ubuntu's brand new Unity interface. It made the GNOME UI a lot simpler and faster to use. Unity Dash will be in full screen mode on smaller screen devices like netbooks. If you run Unity on a device with a larger screen and if you would like to ...
• Does the New Ubuntu 11.10 Prevent You From Cha ...
  A big definitive NO should be the answer. But I found this strange new bug with two brand new Ubuntu 11.10 installations of mine. When I tried to change the default application for AVI files from Totem to SMPlayer, an error came up with the warning that says, "Could not set as default. Error w ...
• Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Review: First Real ...
  Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot final release happened sometime ago. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 as my default netbook OS ever since Oneiric Alpha 2 was released. So it's not like I am installing Ubuntu 11.10 just for the sake of reviewing it. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been the OS of choi ...
• Oil Rush Beta Arrives is Ubuntu Software Center
  Oil Rush is a real time naval strategy game with stunning graphics and gameplay. This is one game that kept all of us waiting. We had listed Oil Rush right at the top of 12 best paid games for Linux. Now, Oil Rush is available for installation via Ubuntu Software Center. Note that you can only ...

Case About Bird Flu

• IS THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT GENUINE?
  * WHY I WILL NOT BE JOINING THE OCCUPY AUSTRIA MOVEMENT * MY EXPERIENCES DURING THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION CAMPAIGN AND WHY THEY ACT AS A WARNING ABOUT THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT *POTENTIAL TRAPS OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT FACEBOOK SITES HAVE BEEN LITTLE DISCUSSED * FOCUS ON SOUND MONEY AND RE-ADOPT ...
• CONCLUSIVE PROOF: SWINE FLU VACCINE CAUSES NEU ...
  *FINLAND’S GOVERNMENT WILL PAY FOR A LIFETIME OF CARE FOR 79 CHILDREN DAMAGED BY VACCINE Conclusive link now admitted: swine flu vaccine causes chronic nervous system disorders Mike Adams Natural News Sunday, October 9, 2011 (NaturalNews) The nation of Finland has now openly admitted that ...
• Occupy Wall Street: a movement being hijacked?
  Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement? Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 7, 2011 Media spokesmen for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations claimed that their operation is totally transparent, with everything subject to democratic discussion in a general assembly of all ...
• Mainstream media reports on return of Deutschm ...
  Kommt die DM wieder? 10.10.2011 DM II oder NDM (Neue Deutsche Mark)? Das Undenkbare wird nun auch immer häufiger in den Medien diskutiert: Steigt Deutschland aus dem Euro aus und führt die DM wieder ein? Die Politik ignoriert das Thema offiziell – doch diese Maßnahme könnte von den Märkten  scho ...
• Federal Reserve protests gather momemtum
  The great eruption of feeling in Germany against the euro and EU fiscal scam was the decisive factor this summer, Telegraph journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard said. The way people power in Germany stopped plans to introduce eurobonds and expand the ESFS will surely go down in history as a turnin ...

Invisible Opportunity

• David Icke Speaks to the “Occupy” ...
• Five Things You May Not Know About Muammar
  by Enver Masud, twf.org “Libyans awake from a ludicrous nightmare: Gaddafi achieved nothing in his 42-year rule,” wrote David Gardner yesterday in the Financial Times. Others have expressed similar sentiments. Here are the facts: Gaddafi Seized Power in Bloodless Coup: Muammar Gaddafi, aka Col. ...
• NATO Countries Set to Steal $30,000 from Each ...
  by Scott Creighton The pro-Western corporatist media outlets are hurriedly trying to help spin every aspect of the murder of Moammar Gadhafi and the ongoing rape and pillage of the Libyan people’s assets. Yesterday Paul Richter of the LA Times wrote an article claiming that Moammar Gadhafi was t ...
• Revealed – the fascist network that runs the world
  by Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainl ...
• Is Stephen Friedman Guilty Of Insider Trading?
  To recap: The information was both material and non-public. Stephen Friedman was in possession of this information (and some would say that his NY Fed’s decision to pay counterparties at PAR actually CREATED the information in the first place). Armed with this material, non-public informat ...

Veterans Today

• Gaddafi, Blooody “Finito”.
  While the US did not sponsor Mouamar Gaddafi in certain periods of his regime, it did engage him and according to certain reports facilitated his coming to power.
• All Men Are Created Equal – Except Homel ...
  Since our nations founding, America's Veterans have fought for our liberties contained within our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
• Saudi Arabia, No Country for Young Men
  The death of the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud has dealt a strategic blow to the aging kingdom which is adamantly resistant to any form of social and political reform in the country.
• They Really Were “The Greatest Generatio ...
  The "greatest generation" is more than a book title by Tom Brokaw
• Mixed Messages on Gaddafi
  Nothing from NATO, political capitals, puppet TNC officials, and major media scoundrels is credible. Nonetheless, manipulated public opinion says he's gone.

electric politics

• The Art of Non-Violent Civil Disobedience
  John Stewart, voted the most influential environmental activist in Britain in 2008, who led the successful movement to block a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, was scheduled to be on a speaking tour around America just about now. U.S. immigration authorities, however, had other plans. ...
• The Art of Writing
  If you want to understand the Zeitgeist you could do worse than to read a mystery novel. But not all mystery novels are the same. A few being extraordinarily carefully crafted — every word, seemingly, playing its intended role. Every missing word a puzzle. A joy to read! Such are the inter ...
• Wake Up, Earth!
  It wasn't that long ago that "We may be alone in the universe" was a respectable scientific position to take. Now we know, however, that there are plenty of other earthlike planets, that the probability of intelligent life out there is overwhelming, and that the only question left is how do we g ...
• Fighting the Lobby
  To be honest, the Lobby probably cannot be defanged until Israel ceases to be an apartheid state. That may take a while. Nevertheless, caring, ethical, smart Americans have a responsibility to try to block the Lobby from using Washington as its enforcer. A difficult job, but who said life was ea ...
• Money & Politics
  This one is something of a walkabout. Dr. Thomas Ferguson has kept his eye on a critical part of our problem — money buying political power — something that far too many (indeed most) political scientists discount in favor of public opinion, or forget entirely when assessing the hist ...

PR News

• Burson's Brooks joins Ogilvy as digital SVP
  NEW YORK: Ogilvy New York has hired David Brooks as SVP in its 360 Digital Influence practice.
• WhaleShark names Hoyt comms leader
  AUSTIN, TX: WhaleShark Media, a marketplace for online coupon codes and deals, has hired Brian Hoyt as head of communications.
• Domino's hires RLPR as first Hispanic AOR
  ANN ARBOR, MI: Domino's Pizza has selected RL Public Relations (RLPR) as its first Hispanic AOR.
• Chevrolet celebrates 100th birthday
  DETROIT: General Motors' Chevrolet brand is using a combination of traditional media outreach and social media engagement to promote its 100th birthday.
• Lane to lead UPS public affairs
  WASHINGTON: Laura Lane, former MD and head of international government affairs at Citigroup, will join UPS early next year to lead its public affairs operations.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Southwest Alberta groups release new recommend ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 25 Oct 2011 Today sees the release of a new report, Sustainable Forests, Sustainable Communities: The Future of Alberta’s Southwestern Forests. ...
• Alberta court denies Maxim coal plant challenge
  Contentious expansion project to go-ahead Pembina Institute Ecojustice 21 Oct 2011 ...
• Premier Redford Sticks to Her Campaign Promise ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 19 Oct 2011 Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) is delighted to congratulate Premier Alison Redford on honouring her campaign commitment to scrap the ...
• Save Our Sage-Grouse!
  Alberta Wilderness Association The greater sage-grouse has been called Alberta's most endangered species. In 2011, just 13 male birds were recorded in Alberta, a 98 percent decline since 1968. The plight of the sage- ...
• Save our Sage-Grouse! Recommendations from Eme ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 8 Sep 2011 Desperate measures are needed if Canada’s most endangered wildlife species, the greater sage-grouse, is to be saved from extinction i ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October ...
  ==== 26,323 Sorties: NATO Continues Strike Missions In Libya NATO Bombed Libyan Oil Fields To Ensure Post-War Control: Expert National Transitional Council Asks NATO To Stay In Libya Pentagon Chief: NATO May Stay In Libya Syria: U.S. Preparing Military Expedient? Afghan Lower House Rejects Milit ...
• Taras Shevchenko: The civilizing mission&#8230 ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Taras Shevchenko From The Caucasus (1845) Translated by John Weir You love your brother as is writ Within the Golden Rule?! O damned by God, O hypocrites, O sacrilegious ghouls! Not for your brother’s soul you care, But for your b ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October ...
  ==== Castro: NATO Most Perfidious Instrument In History Of Humanity Libya: NATO Bombing Continues, Strike Sorties Approach 10,000 21st Century Colonial Barbarism: Gaddafi Murder Message For Entire World NATO Operation In Libya Dangerous Precedent For Balkans: Yevgeny Primakov James Bissett: NATO ...
• Yehuda Amichai: Knowledge of peace passes from ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) Translated by the author and Ted Hughes Even my loves are measured by wars: I am saying this happened after the Second World War. We met a day before the Six-Day War. I’ll never say before the peace &#82 ...
• Hymn to Mother Earth
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Demon Fuzz: Hymn to Mother Earth (1970) Homeric Hymns To Earth, Mother Of All Translated by H.G. Evelyn-White I will sing of well-founded Earth, mother of all, eldest of all beings. She feeds all creatures that are in the world, all tha ...

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

Intel Hub

• Madsen: Gaddafi Flying White Flag When Killed
  By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 24, 2011 Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said his sources in Libya provided information revealing Moammar Gaddafi was set-up in an assassination plot. Early on October 19, Twitter messages from Gaddafi’s hometown of ...
• Japanese Journalist Accuses Israel Of Fukushim ...
  American Free Press By Richard Walker October 24, 2011 A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan ...
• Whistleblowing Ain’t No ‘Fair Game’
  Boiling Frogs Post By Sibel Edmonds October 24, 2011 Pinpointing “Fairytale Whistleblowers” For the last ten years, in over a hundred interviews, I’ve been asked to talk about whistleblowing and whistleblowers. On more than one occasion I’ve been asked to define the term whistleblower. I have re ...
• Occupy Orlando: Orlando PD Arrests Peaceful Pr ...
  YouTube October 24, 2011 In the early morning hours of October 22, 2011, 14 Orlando Police patrol cars and an arrest van pulled up to Senator Beth Johnson Park in Downtown Orlando. They did not come to keep the peace or to serve and protect. They came to suppress the free speech and peaceable as ...
• Chemical Bomb Thrown at Occupy Maine Camp Earl ...
  The Free Press October 24, 2011 An explosive device was thrown at the communal tent in the Occupy Maine encampment in Lincoln Park early Sunday morning. Stephanie Wilburn, 19, said she and about four other people were gathered in the camp kitchen and communal area at about 4 a.m. Sunday when the ...

FRS

• A Chinese worker-poet writes on displacement
  Waiting for Relocation by Wang Xuezhong The wind of pulling down the houses is blowing hard In directions all Raising a cloud of dust The life ever peaceful Into worries does fall   Rumors prevail The truth no one knows Whatever it is Our old home At any moment Will be sold to a boss [...]
• Mass Displacement of the poor in China for cap ...
  [When Deng Xiao-Ping, after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, seized power in a capitalist coup which he dubbed "modernization", he led the dismantling of socialism and opened the path for mass impoverishment along with elitist enrichment.  Since that time, hundreds of millions of Chinese peasant ...
• Indian Army to share “anti-terror” ...
  [India is pressing forward in its assigned role as sub-imperialist and regional hegemonic power.  Militarily, it is taking the lead in military training of surrounding countries.  Of special note is that the countries requesting this training in "counter-insurgency" training include Nepal.  PM B ...
• India’s military: training with France i ...
  India, France perfect counter-insurgency warfare skills 21 October 2011, India News By N.C. Bipindra, IANS Chaubatia (Uttarakhand) : With terrorism and insurgency becoming a global threat, India and France Friday completed in a mountainous forest terrain setting their first joint army exercise t ...
• South Africa: “Fighting for Our Right to ...
  Jeanne Hefez, Pambazuka 20 October 2011 Organising the unemployed is a full time job – one the Unemployed People’s Movement in South Africa is making it’s own. Jeanne Hefez talks to UPM organisers about the challenges they face. ‘There is no third force, political party o ...

Ken O'Keefe

• Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
  UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
• Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
  Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken   Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T:             +44 7888 699256       or             +44 1206 523528       Contact for D ...
• Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters Pro ...
  The Irish traveler community of Dale Farm in England are facing a forced eviction, they are also facing a racist system that falsely claims that the residents of Dale Farm are flouting the law. That is a lie, and the truth will be set out in the full documentary set to be released on October 1, ...
• When Human Rights Become Subordinate to “The L ...
  The prostitutes of propaganda (POPs), otherwise known as the mainstream media, would have you believe that the Irish Traveler residents of Dale Farm are nothing more than miscreants who expect special favours when it comes to the law. For those who know nothing of Dale Farm, here is a very abbr ...
• Demand for Return of Trade Not Aid Property
  Let is be known that the pictured 18-ton truck has been fraudulently registered in the name of Catherine Sarah Myles and taken to a destination unknown and against my expressed will. The registration of the vehicle in Catherine Myles name has been verified by the Metropolitan and Swansea Police ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• A View of the McDonald's Beating Video from a ...
  I am using my personal experience as a McDonald's worker to discuss the actions of the McDonald's worker who was caught on tape beating two women.Contributor: Marie Brandon Published: Oct 16, 2011
• Some Dietary Supplements Associated with Highe ...
  Most people believe that dietary supplements improve health and prolong life, but a new study shows this may be an erroneous belief. Recent research published in a medical journal found that certain supplements were linked to earlier death in older women.Contributor: M West Published: Oct 14, 2011
• Obama Sends US Troops to Central Africa
  President Obama has followed up on months of effort to support Central Africa in their fight against the cult-like Lord's Resistance Army. On Oct. 12, the first of 100 U.S. military were sent to Uganda to "provide information, advice, and assistance."Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Oct 1 ...
• Missing Handyman Takes Stage in Lisa Irwin Inv ...
  Though statistics suggest it's unlikely the handyman took baby Lisa Irwin from her crib, police are looking to question him in connection with the case.Contributor: Carol Bengle Gilbert Published: Oct 14, 2011
• Surfer Gets the Ride of His Life on a Great Wh ...
  A surfer in Seaside, Oregon, got the ride - and scare - of his life on a great white shark.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Oct 13, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your ...
  In recent decades, deep sea researchers have upended our notions of what can survive at some of the deepest submerged places on Earth, revealing that a panoply of life thrives around seafloor vents and elsewhere in the depths. So we probably shouldn’t be surprised that researchers from Scripps I ...
• Most People Are In Favor Of Wild Geoengineerin ...
  A majority of people in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States support studying ways to reflect sunlight as a method to cool the planet, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard and two Canadian universities say nearly three-quarters of survey respondents approved research into ...
• Hermit Crabs Need You To 3-D Print New Shells ...
  Or so says Makerbot Even hermit crabs aren’t immune to swings in their own ecological economies. A global shortage of shells is leaving the entire species short on housing, and the DIY design community over at Makerbot isn’t having it. Stepping in to bring shelter to the shell-less, Makerbot ha ...
• Climate Skeptic Sponsors New Climate Study, Co ...
  Last year, as climate change deniers were up in arms over the so-called “Climategate” controversy involving alleged manipulation of climate data, one skeptical scientist proposed taking a fresh look. Richard Muller, a physicist at the University of California-Berkeley and a self-described climat ...
• Pig-to-Human Transplants Could Be Closer Than ...
  Two scientists at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh discussed the state of xenotransplantation--the use of cells, organs, or tissue from one animal in another--in a review in The Lancet. In that review, they touch on the history of one particular subj ...

Veterans Today

• Gaddafi, Blooody “Finito”.
  While the US did not sponsor Mouamar Gaddafi in certain periods of his regime, it did engage him and according to certain reports facilitated his coming to power.
• All Men Are Created Equal – Except Homel ...
  Since our nations founding, America's Veterans have fought for our liberties contained within our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
• Saudi Arabia, No Country for Young Men
  The death of the Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud has dealt a strategic blow to the aging kingdom which is adamantly resistant to any form of social and political reform in the country.
• They Really Were “The Greatest Generatio ...
  The "greatest generation" is more than a book title by Tom Brokaw
• Mixed Messages on Gaddafi
  Nothing from NATO, political capitals, puppet TNC officials, and major media scoundrels is credible. Nonetheless, manipulated public opinion says he's gone.

War is Business

• A Reminder That The Post-9/11 Decade Wasn&#821 ...
  Since 9/11, FLIR Systems' revenues have increased sixfold, to $1.4 billion last year. And consider FLIR’s profitability: from a $29 million loss in 2000 to a $56 million profit last year.
• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News
• CJ Chivers Examines Libyan Rebels’ Seabo ...
  Buy scarcity Buy scarcity • Read more at NYT > Home Page

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• The winter forecast and media hype
  The hype surrounding this year's winter forecast has been remarkable, unparalleled in my 20 years as a meteorologist. Driven largely by sections of the tabloid press and several small private weather companies, the idea that this winter could be the worst ever recorded has already become firmly ...
• Met Office wakes up to solar influence on climate
  For as long as I have been a meteorologist, the mere suggestion that solar activity could influence climate patterns has been greeted with near derision. Quite why this has been the case is difficult to fathom. But it's been clear for a long time that there must be a link of some kind, ever si ...
• Latest global satellite temperatures for September
  The latest global temperature anomaly for September has been released and according to the UAH measure is +0.289C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.542C above the 1961-1990 time period used b ...
• All eyes on new october temperature records
  UPDATE: New records were set on saturday. Bramham now holds the Yorkshire October record, with 28.7C. Finningley recorded 30C, but the Met Office do not regard the airport as an official climate site anymore. A new record was set in Lincolnshire on sunday, with 29.3C recorded at Coningsby. ...
• 'Indian summer' on its way by middle of next week
  Following another disappointing summer, and an unsettled September, at long last a spell of warm weather will be on its way by the middle of next week. A plume of warm air from the continent looks set to move northwards across the UK reaching many areas by Wednesday; with a good degree of agree ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Peronists in Athens or the Politics of Greek H ...
  A little off the top; a little off the side. Monitoring how things are going in South America's second largest economy nearly a decade after its default and subsequent two-thirds haircut on the face value of its sovereign bonds is interesting for obvious reasons. In particular, how would the Gre ...
• Precisely: Why the EU Will Make It (But Not th ...
  I am usually pick up neat stuff from the Globalist once in a while. Just today, I came across a new feature from Martin Sieff, who recently penned a much-needed antidote to the current American obsession with China that considers India as well--but not necessarily as a natural US ally. (Think of ...
• EU Again Ponders Silencing Rating Agencies
  While credit rating agencies may not be the last word on the subject matter, you do have to wonder if the alternative of having such functions suspended altogether would inspire market confidence. Does 'shooting the messenger' help? But don't ask me; European bigwigs including the EU internal ma ...
• Emiratization & the Middle East Migration Debate
  Migration has obviously been a hot topic as of late in many Middle East energy exporters that have large migrant worker populations. While the stereotypical migrant performs '3-D' dirty, dangerous, or difficult work, the reality is more complex. Expatriates cannot readily be lumped into one cate ...
• Thai Flooding, a Problem for 'Detroit of the O ...
  You are likely familiar with the chronic flooding which has adversely affected many of our Thai friends since it's been in the headlines for weeks on end. With relatively little chance of subsiding soon, I'm afraid that this situation looks set to run for quite some time to come. One of the ind ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• What Have We Gotten For The Trillion Dollars W ...
  Over a trillion U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent on wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.  Whether you are for the wars or against the wars, it is important for all of us to step back and evaluate what we have really gotten for all of that money.  In Libya, we have actually h ...
• Underemployed And Hating Life
  Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unem ...
• The Coming Derivatives Crisis That Could Destr ...
  Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial casino.  The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party to end.  The word "derivatives" sounds compl ...
• The New Reality For U.S. Cities: No Money For ...
  If you want to know what the early stages of an economic collapse look like, just walk around some of the downtown areas of our major cities.  Today, nearly all large U.S. cities are either flat broke or they are on the way to being flat broke.  Yes, New York City and Washington ...
• In Debt Up To Our Eyeballs
  The entire financial system of the western world is designed to be a debt spiral.  The total amount of money and and the total amount of debt are supposed to continually expand.  Today, we are in debt up to our eyeballs and it seems like nearly everyone is talking about "delevera ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Want to get your zine, pamphlet, or poster out ...
  Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...
• Fifth Estate’s Fall 2011 issue (#385) Now Avai ...
  Our attention has been raptly focused on the events of Occupy Wall St. and solidarity movements across the globe. In the excitement of seeing a ...
• "Ten Years After 9/11: An Anarchist Evalu ...
  From Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies The paperback version of Anarchist Deve...
• 325 # 9 – An Insurgent Zine of Social War &amp ...
  The rebellious anarchist magazine is back with another 92 pages of resistance and revolution to keep you ticking. D.I.Y and not for profit, this...
• Liminal, A Monthly Green Anarchist Quarterfold
  Liminal will be a monthly quarterfold dedicated to the topic of anarchy. Liminal will feature creative design with hand-drawn artwork and will b...

E U Times

• Vikings used mysterious sunstone ‘sat nav’ to ...
  Ancient legends of Viking mariners using mysterious sunstones to reveal the position of the sun on a cloudy day may well be true, according to a new study. Before the invention of the compass, Norse adventurers travelled thousands of kilometres across the oceans toward Greenland and most likely ...
• US-Philippines Drill in South China Sea Angers ...
  After cooperating with Vietnam, the US conduced military exercises again in the South China Sea between October 17 to 28, this time with the Philippines. As usual, the two countries announced that the exercises weren’t aimed at China. I think this kind of military exercise is meaningless, ...
• UK and US draw up joint plan to attack Iran
  The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night. Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline ...
• Third woman accuses Herman Cain of sexual hara ...
  Herman Cain’s presidential campaign is accusing rival Rick Perry’s operation of being behind stories about sexual harassment allegations against Cain in the 1990s. Cain’s campaign manager says the Texas governor should apologise to Cain for providing information about the haras ...
• Soldiers “End Of The World” Email Sends US Int ...
  An interesting Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the United States was thrown into a “panic” last week after one of its soldiers emailed his mother warning her to “prepare for the end of the world.” According to this report, American Army Special ...

Voiceless Victim

• Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
  Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...
• 8 Simple Actions to Change Pope From Liar to L ...
  The Catholic hierarchy, from Pope on down, are liars. They pretend, and regularly claim, to be “doing everything possible” to help victims of their widespread and systematic child rape and other abuses, to protect children and to bring offenders to justice. In reality they are doing ...
• Pope responsible for crimes against humanity
  Last week the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) lodged documents with the International Criminal Court in The Hague detailing the widespread and systematic campaign of sexual violence and exploitation of many, many thousands of children worldwide by the Catholic Church. I am on ...
• Victims of Church Abuse Fight Back
  Australian politicians this week have an ideal opportunity to stand up for the rights of innocent children and vulnerable adults not to be raped by those in positions of power over them. This week’s events were set in motion by the recent appointment of Monsignor David Cappo to head the new fede ...
• Australian Clergy Sex Abuse Victims Deserve Ju ...
  The Catholic Church does not commit sex crimes against children and the vulnerable. It does, however, ensure that known child sex predators are protected by their status as representatives of the Catholic Church, facilitated to continue offending, and facilitated in privileged and unquestioned a ...

WL Central

• 2011-11-01 Fluid Society: Egalitarain Pluralism
  Tweet Authored by David J Campbell Creating a fluid society is the way to pull the OCW’s 99% movement together with pluralism. The occupy Wall Street movement has been lambasted for not having one set of demands but their lack of hierarchical organisation and lack of demands (an absolute is ...
• 2011-11-1 Join the Wikicitizens' protest again ...
  TweetSydney Stop the War Coalition is organizing a bus trip to Canberra on Thursday November 17 when US President Barack Obama will address the Australian Parliament. The visit – his first to Australia as President – marks the 60th anniversary of the Australian-US war alliance. Bipartisan Austr ...
• 2011-11-01 WikiLeaks Notes: Latest News on #Ca ...
  Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories that are obviously related to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. The judgement on the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden will be delivered tomorrow at the Royal ...
• 2011-11-31 Euro crisis unresolved: the cycle o ...
  TweetThere’s nothing more frustrating than watching this endless cycle of stupidity unfold. Sometimes it’s just more dignified to face death rather than fight it. To regular readers, it will sound like a tiresome cliché by now, but the fact that capitalism never solves its own crises was driven ...
• 2011-10-30 The value of street protests in the ...
  TweetSpeakers in order of appearance: Heather Marsh. As Georgie she has been writing about the revolution since before the beginning, starting with A Stateless War in September 2010. As editor/administrator of WL Central, she has created a community for activists around the world to provide a ...

U N News

• Ban honoured by US college fund as Internation ...
  A prestigious United States college fund tonight awarded its first International Humanitarian of the Year Award to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for "his steadfast commitment to confronting global challenges and his ability to effectively mobilize world leaders to do the same."
• Paraguay: UN calls for reforms to protect righ ...
  New laws are urgently needed in Paraguay to protect the rights of minorities, in particular women and indigenous people, a top United Nations human rights official has said, calling on the Government to scale up its efforts to stop discrimination and injustice towards these groups.
• Nearly 470,000 cholera cases reported in Haiti ...
  Almost 470,000 cases of cholera, including 6,595 deaths, have been reported in Haiti since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the Caribbean country one year ago, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today.
• Human rights approach to education policies ne ...
  The Chilean Government must adopt a human rights approach in its policies, particularly those regarding education, indigenous people and freedom of expression, a senior United Nations official has said.
• Mexico: Angélique Kidjo lauds efforts of UN-ba ...
  Internationally renowned singer Angélique Kidjo has lauded the efforts of a facility in Mexico City supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) that provides medical, psychological and legal assistance to children who have suffered violence.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
  (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
  Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
• Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
  From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...
• Review of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife
  Guest blog by Leon Kolankiewicz, wildlife biologist and environmental planner. This book review was originally posted August 9, 2011 on NumbersUSA “How far conservationists and environmentalists have fallen from what now seem to me to be the Golden Years of the 1960s and 1970s.  No wonder I’m su ...
• Around the Campfire With Uncle Dave – The Popu ...
  Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” mu ...

Asia Sentinel

• Sex, Lies and Malaysian Politics
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Prurient and puritanical, the country gags, goes gaga for naughty tales
• China's Blood Drought
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Scandals, longtime cultural beliefs curtail blood supplies
• Malaysia Plan to Deport Burmese Runs Into Flak
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Civil rights groups, Asean caucus, Malaysian opposition party, oppose plan
• Looking for Love in Other Countries
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Demand for foreign brides increasing across Asia
• A Crucial Approach to Public Health
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Regular and effective hand-washing is important for public health

We Know the Lies

• A L E R T !... Final Implementation Phase of ...
    Today may mark the real beginning of the end of the United States of America.  We-the-People are being forced into the deadliest phase of the Obama Plan, yet—that of his overwhelming implementation of his US Police State.  read more
• To Avoid Malnutrition... Four Things You Must Eat
    While those of us living comfortably in the United States do not see malnutrition on a regular basis, it can and will pose a problem if an  unprepared population finds itself dealing with a long-term disaster. read more
• 'Unbelievable How NYPD Treats OWS'... Sgt. Sh ...
    A video featuring Sgt. Shamar Thomas has gone viral on YouTube. In the video, Sgt. Thomas confronts members of the NYPD about how the cops have been treating protesters. He tells the police that if they want to fight, they should go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Sgt. Shamar Thomas, Iraq w ...
• The Marines are Coming!... #OccupyMarines are ...
    Sgt. Shamar Thomas - United States Marine Corps. United States Marine Corps. Sergeant Shamar Thomas in a spectacular moment defended the protesters of Occupy Wall Street while staring into the faces of thirty NYPD officers, and now countless other Marines have organized in an amazing ...
• The Return of Debtors’ Prison?
    H. Beatty Chadwick, a former corporate lawyer, has been imprisoned in a Pennsylvania county jail for over 13 years even though he has never been arrested, criminally accused, or tried. Chadwick is imprisoned on contempt-of-court charges that sprang from a contentious divorce. His ca ...

Tarpley

• As Cold Weather Approaches, Moves to Oust Foun ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 21, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
• NATO’s Libya Terrorist Puppets Claim Mur ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars October 20, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
• CIA Boss Petraeus Behind Crises with Pakistan, ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars October 19, 2011 [download audio]
• The Facilitators Are the Counter-Revolution &# ...
  Webster G. Tarpley PressTV October 18, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
• Unchain the Mass Strike: Kick Out the Facilita ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV October 12, 2011 [download video] [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

• How Does Solar Power Work?
  Solar Energy: Keeping it simple The Earth constantly basks in the Sun and is absorbing enough energy to satisfy the world’s power needs many times over. So how do we turn the Sun’s energy into electricity? Well, the light from the sun contains energy. These particles of energy are ca ...
• BEWARE, 11-9-11, First Time Ever For…
  Soon we will be upon two significant dates, 11/11/11 and 11/9/11. The digit configuration happens once every hundred years. Here’s something to think about… It is well known that terrorists enjoy the prospect of significant dates and places. We all of course remember 9/11. Well, on 1 ...
• Has Our Government Become Tyrannical?
  Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), the third President of the United States (1801–1809), and and founder of the University of Virginia, once said the following… “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear ar ...
• My Log Splitter
  My log splitter has been a valuable prep item for me and has split many cords of wood (large diameter wood) without any problem at all. The ability to ‘make heat’ during the winter without electricity could make the difference between misery and comfort, or even life and death, or at ...
• False Flag Events
  Guest post: By ‘Be informed’ What is a false flag event? False flag events are anything that has been made to look like something that it really isn’t. “Your” government can create chaos to create diversions away from what it is “really” doing. This dece ...

Fast Company

• Occupy Wall Street: The Book, Chinese Hackers ...
  Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Foursquare+Yelp+Oink+Locavores=Loku, Launching Now. A reviews site with a local twist called Loku, one of Dave McClure's 500, launches in beta today. Loku plans to use a big trough of location data to help you find your neare ...
• A Street View-Style Tour Of National Parks Hik ...
  To create Trail View, granola bar makers Nature Valley and McCann Erickson sent a ragtag team of creatives and developers on a 45-day hike to get couch potatoes interested in the real thing and raise awareness of the national parks' plight. Nearly a century ago, Woodrow Wilson created the Na ...
• DARPA's Plan To Harvest Space Junk For New Sat ...
  There is a lot of useful material in otherwise dead space junk. Now the military's wing of crazy, cool geniuses is going to build mini-satellites to go get it out. Recycling goes space age. There is--as you may have noticed from recent reports of giant objects falling from the heavens--a lot o ...
• A GPS-Enabled Shoe To Track Alzheimer's Patients
  This simple and dignified way to always know where someone is has applications beyond the elderly, too: small children and runners should get some, too. There are currently 5.2 million Americans with Alzheimer's, but that number is expected to balloon, with one out of eight baby boomers (10 mil ...
• Baked In: How UpMo Helps You Hang On To Your B ...
  In the age of LinkedIn, companies are in perpetual competition for their own employees. A new retention tool is giving them an edge in that fight.About the "Baked In" series: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg likes to say that social dynamics are going to work their way into every industry, and the c ...

Jadaliyya

• Romance, not Romanticized: Three Stories of Lo ...
  Love During Wartime, directed by Gabriella Bier. Sweden, 2010. Paradise Lost, directed by Ibtissam Mara’anah. Israel-Palestine, 2003. 77 Steps, directed by Ibtissam Mara’anah. Israel-Palestine, 2010. All three films are playing at the Boston Palestine Film Festival this week. In t ...
• Entrevista con dirigentes de la Federacion Gen ...
  [This interview was conducted in Arabic by Bassam Haddad and Ziad Abu-Rish and translated/published from English into Spanish by www.rebelion.org] Entrevista con dirigentes de la Federación General de Sindicatos de Bahréin [Traducción para Rebelión de Loles Oliván] Recient ...
• United States Should Step Aside as Mideast Broker
  When it comes to Arab-Israeli diplomacy the American monopoly on mediation needs to be terminated. The reason is simple. Washington’s systematic failure over several decades has disqualified it from acting without adult supervision. Rather than the marriage counselor who must be balance ...
• لن نرد ديون الإستبداد
  «عندما تأخذ ديمقراطية مكان حكم القلة أو الاستبداد، فإن بعض الأشخاص يرفضون الوفاء بالعقود الموجودة بين أيديهم على أساس أن الدولة لم تكن هى التى دخلتها بل المستبد». (أرسطو)  مصر مدينة للخارج بحوالى 35 مليار دولار أو 210 مليار جنيه تضع علينا عبئا سنويا يقدر بما يقرب من 18 مليار جنيه. ...
• المرأة العربية والتحول الديمقراطي: التحديات وآ ...
  من الصعب التطرق للتحديات التي تواجه المرأة في مرحلة التحول الديمقراطي دون إلقاء بعض الاضاءات على الدور المتميز الذي قامت وتقوم به المرأة في الثورات العربية جنباً إلى جنب مع الرجل من أجل تحقيق الحرية والعدالة الاجتماعية. فقد قامت المرأة بشجاعة وابداع بدور مركزي كان محورياً ...

mediagazer

• Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief (Russell Adams/W ...
  Russell Adams / Wall Street Journal: Time Inc. Hires Digital Chief  —  Time Inc. hired former Nokia Corp. executive George Linardos as the new head of digital operations at the magazine-publishing unit, according to a person familiar with the matter, a move that is likely to aff ...
• EXCLUSIVE: LA Photog Funds New Fashion Magazin ...
  Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA: EXCLUSIVE: LA Photog Funds New Fashion Magazine  —  Last Wednesday, Csaba Fikker officially launched The Los Angeles Fashion Magazine website, with a monthly companion high-gloss print edition to follow in the spring of 2012.  —  Fikk ...
• Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ...
  Josh Halliday / Guardian: Google asked to remove 135 YouTube videos for ‘UK national security issues’  —  US technology giant reports 71% rise in content removal requests from UK government or police  —  British police authorities ordered the removal ...
• Police Raid Occupy Oakland, Push Me To The Gro ...
  Kevin Army / Open Salon: Police Raid Occupy Oakland, Push Me To The Ground  —  Today is a sad day in the city I love, Oakland.  This morning at 2:45 AM I received a text message that a raid was imminent at the Occupy Oakland camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza.  I had promised m ...
• Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs ...
  Robert Andrews / paidContent: Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down  —  Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making next year.  So, after its next launches in ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• QPR & Anton Ferdinand discuss John Terry ...
  QPR have held talks with defender Anton Ferdinand over allegations he was racially abused by Chelsea captain John Terry in Sunday's match at Loftus Road. Ferdinand is currently training with his Rangers team-mates and discussions will resume later on Tuesday. Terry has categorically denied.. ...
• Svelte Jessica Alba shows off pregnancy w ...
  Actress Jessica Alba flaunted her slim, toned post-baby physique in a body-hugging strapless dress at a cancer benefit in New York Oct. 24, 2011. This is the first time Alba, 30, has been on the red carpet since giving birth to her second child, daughter Haven, in August. Jessica was in NYC ...
• Dhoni leads the way for India
  Kolkata, India – Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni smashed an unbeaten 75 off 69 balls to power India to 271-8 in the fifth and final one-dayer at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Tuesday. England, hoping to avoid a 5-0 series whitewash after losing the first four games, grabbed wickets at re ...
• Billy Ray Cyrus Shares Photo Of 'U.F.O. S ...
  Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus has taken to his Twitter.com page to share what he...
• Aniston denies pregnancy rumour
  Jennifer Aniston has denied speculation she's pregnant by new boyfriend Justin Theroux, insisting she's piled on the pounds since quitting smoking. The former Friends star and actor/director Theroux began dating...

no frakking consensus

• WWF Issues Press Release About My Book
  The World Wildlife Fund says the charge that scientists affiliated with its organization have infiltrated the IPCC is "ludicrous." Surely it can do better than that.
• National Post Excerpt & Review
  Canada's National Post newspaper is running an excerpt of my book this weekend. It may be the only newspaper on the planet employing three climate skeptic journalists.
• Book Review in an Arizona Newspaper
  The Delinquent Teenager has been reviewed in the Tuscon Citizen.
• You Folks Are Fantastic!
  Thanks so much for the purchases, the reviews, and the growing momentum! See a sample of the PDF edition here.
• Please Review My Book on Amazon
  Please consider leaving a review of my book on the Amazon store websites. These reviews really do matter.

Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

• 10/24/11 - Should the drinking age be lowered ...
  drinkingage.procon.org - UPDATED: Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to a younger age? - Read pro and con arguments from the Founder of the National Institute for Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (pro), the US Department of Health and Human Services (con), a coalition of over 100 university ...
• 10/24/11 - Which candidate should be US presid ...
  2012election.procon.org - NEW ProCon.org Website! - Which candidate should be US president in 2012? - ProCon.org has researched the US presidential candidates and their views on 25 issues ranging from abortion to global warming to medical marijuana to waterboarding. Our 43rd website also featur ...
• 10/20/11 - Is illegal immigration an economic ...
  immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Is illegal immigration an economic burden to America? - Read pro and con arguments from the Center for Immigration Studies (pro), Alan Greenspan (con), the Founder of The Minuteman Project (pro), The Wall Street Journal (con), and several others.
• 10/20/11 - Should the term "illegal alien" be ...
  immigration.procon.org - UPDATED: Should the term "illegal alien" be used to define persons in violation of immigration law? - Read pro and con arguments from the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (pro), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (con), IllegalAliens.us (pro) ...
• 10/18/11 - Does the regular smoking of marijua ...
  medicalmarijuana.procon.org - UPDATED: Does the regular smoking of marijuana cause lung cancer or in any way permanently injure the lungs? - Read pro and con arguments from the American College of Physicians (pro), Harvard and Oxford PhDs (con), the British Lung Foundation (pro), NORML (con), an ...

Truth About Our World

• For One Day…We Shut The System Down!
• ‘Gaddafi murder – international cr ...
• US Troop Withdrawal in Iraq… Not in a Hundred ...
  By Jack Blood DeadlineLive.info 10.21.11 Cousin Barry O’Bomba is pandering to his base again… sure. But the REAL reason for feigning American troop Withdrawal, is that the Iraqi’s have denied the essential blanket of  Immunity from prosecution of War Crimes. This could set Obama on a politically ...
• Rothschild Zionist Cameron ‘proud’ ...
  British Prime Minister ‘Call Me Dave’ Cameron … Evil, Pure Evil. ‘Speaking in Downing Street moments after Mr Jibril officially confirmed the dictator’s death, Mr Cameron said he was “proud” of the role Britain played in Nato airstrikes to protect Libyan ...
• David Icke – The Falling Pawns on the Il ...

Gyrovague's Raves

• Cell phones and cancer
  John Timmer Despite numerous studies indicating that cell phones pose no health risk to their users, a few studies have been released that suggest prolonged use might contribute to brain cancer. For the World Health Organization, that was enough to declare the phones "possibly carcinogenic&# ...
• Amazon’s new KF8 format
  Peter Bright With its Android-powered, full-color Kindle Fire tablet just around the corner, Amazon has announced a new e-book format to take advantage of its richer features. The new file format, Kindle Format 8 (KF8), is based on HTML5, and with it, Amazon aims to bring some of the flexibility ...
• Camera lets you focus after you take a picture
  Chris Foresman Imaging scientist Ren Ng’s years of research into capturing "light fields" using increasingly high-resolution digital imaging sensors have finally come to fruition. Ng’s company, Lytro, unveiled its first consumer product on Wednesday—a digital camera capable o ...
• Gandhi and South Africa
  Martha C. Nussbaum At the end of March, the Indian state of Gujarat banned the printing and distribution of Joseph Lelyveld’s Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India. The ban was proposed by the state’s chief minister, Narendra Modi, and it passed unanimously, as leaders of the Co ...
• Fearless Salman
  He thinks ‘Game of Thrones’ is dumb, bemoans the lack of good modern novels and believes terrorism is dying out; over 20 years after fleeing for his life from an Iranian-issued fatwa, novelist Salman Rushdie is still unafraid to speak his mind. Gidi Weitz New York. One fine evening a ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

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

NAU Resistance

• The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
  Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
• Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
  "While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel
• THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOVEREIGNTY
  "An organism which cannot control its borders -- whether economic or physical -- is not sovereign"
• U.S. Considers Installing A Fence Along Canada ...
  “When you get their security agencies just going off on this kind of a tangent ... well, quite frankly, it just makes me angry,” -NDP Justice Critic
• The British Constitution Group To Hold Constit ...
  "and when in subsequent ages the state, swollen with its own authority, has attempted to ride roughshod over the rights and liberties of the subject it is to this doctrine that appeal has again and again been made, and never, as yet, without success."- Winston Churchill

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

• Lizzy Phelan: “The war on Libya is a war ...
  Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya covering NATO war crimes and uncovering mainstream media lies, freelance journalist Lizzie Phelan continues to fight for truth and justice on behalf of the Libyan people. Her testimony below is a gripping example of her commitment. Lizzie ...
• Interview with Joanne Nova
  Tonight we welcome Joanne Nova to the show. Joanne is one of Australia's most articulate and outspoken climate sceptics. Her website is an international hub for informed discussion on questions of climate, carbon trading and the economy. Joanne's husband, Dr. David Evans, is a mathematician ...
• Occupy Australia - has this movement been hija ...
  Tonight I am joined by Craig Stanford to reflect on the occupy Reserve Bank protest which we filmed on 15 October 2011. In our discussion we look at some of the techniques being used to create "group consciousness" at the protests here and overseas, such as hand signs and chanting, and we ask ...
• How to defeat the carbon tax
  Today TNRA welcomes Tempe Harvey to the show. Tempe Harvey, who has a Master of Laws, practised for 11 years as a solicitor and currently works full-time in her role as a mother of four children in Brisbane. Her interest in politics led her to found Kids First Parent Association of Aus ...
• Round table discussion: do we really need money?
  Tonight's show is a round table discussion conducted at Rudolf Steiner House in Sydney. Do we need money? Is economic competition healthy or unhealthy? How should we organise society? These perennial questions are finally answered in tonight's show! Our guests tonight are: Darrell Wheel ...

Beacon

• New Videos and More in Oceana’s Fall Digital Mag
  Hey ocean lovers, the fall issue of our digital magazine is now available! There's lots of fun stuff inside as usual; here are some of the gems this time around: *A gorgeous video from our expedition in the Baltic Sea this summer *A slideshow of photos from this year’s Hamptons Splash party ...
• Marine Monday: Crown-of-thorns Starfish
  Image via Wikimedia Commons.   The crown-of-thorns starfish is named for the brightly-colored spikes that coat its legs. This starfish can grow up to 16 inches across and has between 12 and 19 legs instead of the usual five -- that’s a lot of spikes! These spikes hold poison that can c ...
• New Report: Fish Fraud Common in Boston Superm ...
  The next time you’re in the Boston area and craving some fresh Atlantic cod, beware. You might end up purchasing a completely different fish. According to a new report released today, Oceana’s intrepid seafood fraud team found that fish shoppers are getting swindled in Boston-area supermarket ...
• New Report: Offshore Drilling Still Not Safe
  The Deepwater Horizon site at night. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Michael Craig is an Energy Analyst at Oceana. It’s been just over a year and a half since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, but the offshore drilling industry is already back to full steam ahead, with as many rig ...
• Oceana Expeditions Show 28 Ocean Areas in Need
  Every year, our research vessel, the Oceana Ranger, explores new areas of the ocean and collects scientific data – and incredible photos! -- to help protect vulnerable marine habitats. This week, our colleagues in Europe presented their findings to an environmental rule-making body in the Nor ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• World War II Posters
• The Treffas Wagen
  The protection that a tank offered crew on the battlefield gave tank designers some of the same ideas. More protection means a better tank. So making a tank progressively bigger became a manufacturing meme from the First World War to the Second. Germany ordered the manufacture of a prototype tan ...
• The Krupp Kugelpanzer
  From the looks of it, one would think that the Germans did more thinking and research and development for weapon systems than perhaps any nation before. From flying wings to cruise missiles, it comes as little surprise to see a one man reconnaissance platform in the form of a one man tank. Given ...
• Chariot Art.
  
  
• Ramses II And A Poem He Ordered Written And Po ...
  Wikipedia is of course an immensely deep resource of information at no charge. It was such a find to see a translated poem from Ramses II, the Julius Caesar of Egypt, about his win over the Khita. You get the idea how bloodthirsty Ramses II was. “By order of Rameses, this poem was inscribe ...

Taylor Marsh

• Trump Meeting with Perry Results in Birther Co ...
  Rick Perry is so desperate to prop up his flagging presidential bid he’s listening to the birther king. That Donald Trump is a powerful guy, because he evidently convinced Perry there’s something to his madness. From the transcript of Parade magazine (h/t Think Progress): You don’t b ...
• A Word About Iraq
  “No one, most particularly Iran, should miscalculate about our continuing commitment to and with the Iraqis going forward,” she told CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked whether Iran’s relationship with Iraq is a concern. – Clinton warns Iran against mo ...
• Obama Fans Go ‘Puma’
  The insipid fan politics that has blown up over Pres. Obama’s announcement on U.S. military troop withdrawal from Iraq is unworthy of the subject. Whether it’s in the comments or emails, Obama fans have now morphed into the 2012 version of “puma,” expecting allegiance or ...
• Progressive Notes: Feingold Backs Baldwin, Env ...
  Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. Great news! Former Senator Russ Feingold has endorsed Rep. Tammy Baldwin in the Wisconsin senate race. This is a huge deal and makes Baldwin the front runner for the party nomination and perhaps the general election. Feingold is very ...
• Queer Talk: “I’m always amazed at the sheer am ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Several LGBT and related blog sites I routinely visit had posts up about Rachel Maddow’s appearance on Friday’s “Ellen.” While most of us are unlikely to get the amount of mail and messages either of these women get, ...

Hudson New York

• Jordan Courts Islamists
  Facing growing protests at home, Jordan's King Abdullah has embarked on a policy aimed at appeasing radical Muslims. King Abdullah's decision to woo Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood is seen as a no-confidence vote in the US President Barack Obama's
• 217 Dead, More Than 700 Wounded in 7.2 Earthqu ...
  Rescue teams on Monday sifted through rubble of flattened multi-story buildings to try to reach dozens of people believed trapped after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey. The Interior Minister said the death toll in the powerful quake has
• Europe: "You Are Entering a Sharia Controlled ...
  A Muslim group in Denmark has launched a campaign to turn parts of Copenhagen and other Danish cities into "Sharia Law Zones" that would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic law. The Danish Islamist group Kaldet til Islam (Call to Islam) says
• Who are the Jihadists Afraid of?
  The situation in Pakistan is dire. Legislation is hostage to the whims of Islamic radicals, and the governments' sphere of influence continues to crumble even in the capital, Islamabad. In the most high profile political assassination since that of
• Saudi Arabia - The Shadow of Prince Nayef
  With the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan Ibn Abd Al-Aziz early October 22 in a New York hospital, his brother, Saudi interior minister and second deputy prime minister Prince Nayef Ibn Abd Al-Aziz, now looms large in the world's attention as a

Urban Survival

• Housing: Up–Ever So Slightly
  Just out is this morning Case Shiller/S&P 20-City Housing report.  This is a big deal because it tends to show a very realistic perspective on housing values and as such is a damn fine barometer of what’s really going on … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Those Curious Radar Rings
  A readette with a blog of her own, sent us (Clif & me) a curious email about odd happenings with her Google Earth program: “I’m a little paranoid about the New Madrid fault zone (gee wonder why), so I have … Continue reading →
• Waiting on Housing Data
  This morning’s report will be along directly – waiting on the Case/S&P Housing data -
• Sizing Up Monday
  I suppose we should note the biggest news first:  Robin Handler’s Options Signal Service this week discusses odds of a 20% decline into November.  Considering my portfolio which is entirely bearish is now in the negative column for the year-to-date, … Continue reading →
• Coping: Monday at the WuJo
  OK:  If you ever wanted evidence that the veil between the world we perceive and the world we co-create is wearing a bit thin, this reader report has to be IT: I opened the paint can and it was full … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Gerald Celente : Dear Money Junkies
  Gerald Celente about the bankers, the money... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Gerald Celente: The Police Have Become The Enf ...
  Gerald Celente Trend forecaster, publisher of the... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• David Icke on Occupy Wall Street Movement
  David Icke live from Australia talks about the ... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Pepe Escobar - NATO in Libya forever Syria next
  Pepe Escobar - Red Ice radio - 20.10.2011 -... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Benjamin Fulford : The Worst Stock Market Cras ...
  David Wilcock & Ben Fulford : The Worst Stock... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

• NIGERIAN MEN vs MEN IN ENGLAND
  You always know when there’s a Nigerian man in the room. He would most likely be the center of attention for a number of reasons; it might be his outfit, his voice, his laugh, “something” is bound to captivate you, even if it’s just for a couple of minutes. Nigerian men a ...
• THE OTHER SIDE OF BEAUTY
  If we were to have a serious conversation about beauty, most of us would say that inner beauty matters more than what’s on the outside. Yet if I was to say I just spoke to a beautiful girl, you would immediately assume I was referring to her outward appearance. Its one of those paradoxical ...
• 5 THINGS YOU SHOULD DO TODAY
  1. Wake up – You have been asleep for most of your life. Most of the things you have grown up believing or accepting as normality are most likely not the truth. You have been spoon fed with views, stereotypes, false expectations  and unnecessary prejudices. Your eyes have been closed as yo ...
• EXTRAORDINARY MATHEMATICS
  I received the formula a while ago, but I was reluctant to confront the solution. My time had been divided by two simultaneous thoughts that seemed to multiply when I tried to focus. But now is the right time to put two and two together. I began by examining all the empirical evidence. I needed ...
• WHAT WE WANT vs WHAT GOD WANTS
  Those who don’t know what they want are few and far between. We have created a world full of numerous attractions that constantly keep us longing for just that little bit more. Satisfaction is a far stretch, even for the those who ‘can’ get what they want with the swipe of a ca ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• At MIT and in Wired, loping toward life on Mars
  The new issue of Wired -- on the newsstand but not yet online -- features a story about research from MIT's Christopher Carr on loping. describe in the story as a "simplified skip." His research found that loping --described in Wired as a "simplified skip" -- is "the most efficient way to locom ...
• Boston Globe health and science news and the p ...
  Boston Globe health and science news and the pay wall Pssss. Go through Boston.com. Many of the health and science stories find their way there. Like this one on a new effort by Boston hosptials to test cancer tumors for genetic mutations and create a database of the findings. The program, ...
• Boston science calendar: Food fights, bats and ...
• WHOI, MaineU get $1.7 to find ways to predict ...
  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Maine are among the recipients of a $1.7 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that "will lead to the implementation of seasonal and weekly toxic algal bloom forecasts improving accuracy and providing b ...
• Worry himself to death?: VA study links stress ...
  BU doc is Avron Spiro co-author of VA study that links stress to mortality in men --least in white, middle-class men. Nonetheless, this study shows that longitudinal assessments of stressful life events significantly predict mortality independent of standard risk factors and that high stressfu ...

NRDC Switchboard

• Give a little love to the lizards
  Sylvia Fallon, Senior Scientist, Washington, DC I’ve said it before – I love lizards. Earlier in my career, I spent lots of time in the Southwest catching lizards for research.  Now I do it just for fun because, without my even havi ...
• Car Companies Prepare for Global Gridlock
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Earlier this month, General Motors announced it will help millions of GM vehicle owners to rent out their cars. The new peer-to-peer car sharing service—a partnership ...
• Missing in Action -- Data on Energy Expenses
  Philip Henderson, Senior Financial Policy Specialist, Washington, DC There have been several good news reports on new legislation to correct how mortgage lenders treat homeowner energy expenses -- the Bill is called the Save Act (S. 1737).&nbsp ...
• Investing in Transportation to Escape the Ener ...
  Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C. America's vast transportation network -- roads, bridges, and railways -- is in dire straits, marked most notably by a huge backlog of repair needs and not enough government funding ...
• Wanted: Food Lawyers!
  Mark Izeman, Senior Attorney and Director of the New York Urban Program, New York Today is national food day. But instead of writing about my favorite recipe, I thought instead I would pass along one word of career advice for aspiring lawyers: You ...

  Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, October 24, 2011: Elgin ND now-former police chief who is also a former judge has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for molesting a girl from the age of 12 to age 17. [0] [...]
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 10-22 ...
  Here are the 27 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this weekend of October 22-23, 2011: Downey CA police have apparently shot an unarmed man to death after mistaking him for robbery suspect. Police claim they shot him while chasing him when he tu ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 18 reports and one updated report tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, October 21, 2011: Chicago IL cop under investigation over 3 shooting incidents, 2 of which were fatal, after a video apparently showed that he fatally shot an unarmed person who wa ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Before I start with today’s report, I just wanted to thank the people at Occupy Denver for the above shout-out to www.InjusticeEverywhere.com. Thank you very much, I appreciate the support!! Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed fo ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, October 19, 2011: An East St Louis IL police captain and sergeant are being investigated after a video, above, posted on YouTube showed them stand by & watch while an unident ...

Total Collapse

• Hezbollah, Israel war imminent, both sides wel ...
  October 19, 2011 02:33 PM The Daily Star Hezbollah is well prepared to engage in war with Israel, as the Jewish state plans for a possible third war against Lebanon amid regional unrest, Al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Wednesday. “Hezbollah is in a state of alert and it anticipates an Israeli a ...
• Jesus says: You all Deserve World War III
  WWIII is imminent. Most of you do not deserve anything better! I have warned hundreds of thousands of people, even millions that this will happen: media, politicians, hundreds of embassies, and officials from the Christian churches, NGOs and personalities around the globe. Since 1988 I have had ...
• Eurozone facing serious crisis: Germany
  Germany says Europe is facing a grave crisis because its leaders have failed to meet and decide on a strategy to resolve the continent’s current credit problems. “The situation is serious,” German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble stated on Friday, ahead of talks among eurozo ...
• Putin Says Eurasian Union May be Reality by 2015
  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the proposed “Eurasian Union” – an economic bloc comprising former Soviet republics – may become a reality by 2015, according to Russian media. “Only in around 2015 may we approach the realization of the idea of creation of [the] Eurasian Union if ...
• US Nukes Underground Texas Base After “False F ...
  The Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the battle for control between the various factions vying for power in the United States heated up yesterday after another of their top-secret underground bases was destroyed by the detonatio ...

Daily Dose

• Slice tracks all of your online purchases in o ...
  Online ordering is a wonderful thing. Amazon has nearly perfected the ability to let you order something one day, and magically receive it almost the next day. Keeping track of...
• Hipster leaves digital breadcrumbs with postca ...
  In the search to find more things to do with photos, Hipster gives us an app for iOS that urges us to send digital “postcards” to memorialize a moment or...
• Sleepy driver? Drivia for iPhone keeps you awa ...
  Trivia apps for the iPhone are hardly a scarce resource, but Drivia is a new app that takes that simple quiz format and puts a different spin on it. The...
• DataAppeal lets you create your own location-b ...
  It’s often said that we’re in the midst of the information age, which may help explain why there’s been a surge in infographics in recent years – they make data...
• Facebook co-founder’s project management app A ...
  We’ve had our eye on Asana for a while, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz’s slick-looking Web-based collaborative task and project management app that has been in private beta. Today it opened...

Beyond Zero Emissions

• Stateline South Australia: Port Augusta looks ...
  ABC's Stateline South Australia reports on the Beyond Zero Emissions proposal to replace the Northern and Playford coal power plants with Concentrating Solar Themral power. WATCH THE REPORT Beyond Zero Emissions Strategic Director Mark Ogge in Port Augusta with the Playford B coal power plant i ...
• Beyond Zero Emissions Recognised in the Austra ...
  Beyond Zero Emissions’ contribution to addressing climate change has been recognised in the Australian senate.  During his speech on the Clean Energy Future bills, Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam had this to say about Matthew Wright and the Beyond Zero Emissions researchers who con ...
• Zero Carbon Australia Researcher Interviewed o ...
  Technical Director of the Zero Carbon Australia Transport plan Patrick Hearps joined ABC 24's The Drum program to discuss the future of Australia's transport system. Electric cars, trams, metros and High Speed Rail powered by renewable energy... Now that's a vision!
• Government failure to plan for solar growth is ...
  Recently, The Australian has claimed the national grid was struggling to cope with  the rooftop solar boom.The newspaper, well known for its climate skepticism, painted a bleak picture of the future of solar PV in Australia.  With a glance at the success stories that champion solar P ...
• The Western Times: Solar Opportunity
  The Western Times report: WESTERN Queensland has been touted as one of the best locations in the country for the expansion of Australia’s solar industry.  A report by climate change group, Beyond Zero Emissions, found Charleville, along with Roma and Longreach, was an ideal site to esta ...

Monga Bay ( News )

• Independent climate study comes to same conclu ...
  An 'independent' climate study known as the Berkeley Earth Project has re-confirmed decades of research on climate change. Undertaken largely by physicists, the study, which approached temperature data in a new way, confirms the long-standing science behind a warming world, while negating a numb ...
• Romney joins climate change denier camp?
  Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney reversed his position on the underlying drivers of recent climate climate change, stating "we don’t know what’s causing climate change," reports ThinkProgress.org.
• Peru's real test is a 200km pipeline
  One of Ollanta Humala's most striking achievements since becoming Peru's president three months ago is new legislation guaranteeing indigenous people the right to be consulted about and in agreement with any project that affects them. Leading indigenous organization AIDESEP, usually so critical ...
• Losing our pigs and our ancestors: threats to ...
  In 1968, distinguished anthropologist Roy Rappaport wrote a seminal publication of human ecology: 'Pigs for the Ancestors: Rituals in the Ecology of a New Guinea People' which integrated cultural ritual with the necessity of maintaining pre-existing relationships with the environment. Documenti ...
• Another anti-logging activist killed in Brazil
  Another opponent of logging in the Brazilian Amazon was gunned down in the state of Pará, reports AFP.

Sierra Express

• ABC evokes new ideology in Makeni
  Community members of the Bombali District Headquarter town of Makeni were on Monday October 24th, 2011 enticed by the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat sensitization program to call for a concrete ideology for national development.  (Photo: Mrs Nanette Thomas, ABC National Coo ...
• 703 Sierra Leone pilgrims arrive safely & Emba ...
  The first two batches of 234 and 235 Sierra Leone pilgrims respectively arrived safely at the Prince Mohamed Bin Abdul Aziz International Airport, Medina in the early hours of Saturday, 22nd October, 2011.  (Photo: Ambassador Munu handing over the keys of the ambulance to members of the Hajj mis ...
• “Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity” – A UNI ...
  Rigorous debate and discussions within the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with renowned international experts have led to the publication of a new book “Agribusiness for Africa’s Prosperity.” Edited by Kandeh K. Yumkella, Patrick M. Kormawa, Torben M. Roepstorff and A ...
• Climate of fear in Syria’s hospitals as patien ...
  The Syrian government has turned hospitals into instruments of repression in its efforts to crush opposition, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The 39-page report Health Crisis: Syrian Government Targets the Wounded and Health Workers documents how wounded patients in at least fo ...
• In south of the Sahara, echoes of the northern ...
  As the “Arab Spring” of mass protests for democracy that is roiling much of North Africa and the Middle East slips past mid-year, activists and power holders across Africa continue to follow the unfolding revolutions — and ponder their impact on other parts of the continent. In a num ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

• NZ dairy industry tipped to set records
  New Zealand dairy production will set a record this season, says a US Department of Agriculture report.The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service's dairy report forecasts 2012 industry milk production of 19 million tonnes, up nearly...
• Wang faces arrest over travel
  A bankrupt New Zealand businesswoman facing bribery and money-laundering charges in Hong Kong might be arrested if she returns here.May Wang, frontwoman for a Chinese bid for the Crafar family's dairy farming empire, is facing bribery...
• Fonterra auction reverses downward trend
  International dairy prices bounced back yesterday, rising for the first time in more than four months in Fonterra's online auction.The average price for a basket of products in the latest online auction rose 1.7 per cent - the first...
• Bail for Wang on bribery charges
  Laying of bribery and money laundering charges against two former Crafar farms bidders has left the future of multi-million-dollar projects in New Zealand and in the Pacific up in the air.And it has emerged that a company linked...
• Prices dip again in overnight dairy auction
  Average prices of dairy products fell for the sixth straight sale in Fonterra's latest online auction, reaching the lowest level in 10 months.The GDT-TWI Price Index fell 1.4 per cent to US$3,580 a metric tonne, according to results...

The Bovine

• Growing support for Michael Schmidt’s re ...
  Thanks to Ingrid for passing this on to The Bovine: Ingrid, thanks for the work you are doing. Please pass on a picture that was taken of us at the largest market in ottawa, the Lansdowne farmers’ market. Lots of “thumbs up” … Continue reading →
• Farmer Michael Schmidt’s message to supp ...
  Raw milk rally today, Tuesday October 25, 1 p.m. at Queen’s Park, Toronto, to encourage Premier McGuinty to talk to Michael Schmidt.  For full details, see this post on The Bovine.
• David Gumpert on Michael Schmidt’s contr ...
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “As he enters the fourth week of a hunger strike, Michael Schmidt’s life still hangs in the balance. This from Jon, a Canadian organizer:  ”Spent an awe-inspiring afternoon with Michael & … Continue reading →
• Readers write their politicians, part 6
  To the best of our knowledge, Premier McGuinty has so far made no move to meet with Michael Schmidt to talk about raw milk, and so it’s no wonder that more and more people feel moved to put pen to … Continue reading →
• Getting closer… Keep trying people!
  This just in from Facebook discussions — Christine got to talk to a real live person in McGuinty’s office. If she can do it, you can too!

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Greece Pension Plans Insolvent; No Conceivable ...
  I am attempting to figure out just how deep in the hole Greek pension plans are. I have not had any luck finding plans or asset holdings but there are a few things we know and some assumptions we can make. One of the things we do know is that Greek pension plans are one of the largest holders o ...
• Lines to Withdraw Deposits Queue Up as Run on ...
  With talk of 50% or 60% haircuts on Greek bonds, already mistrustful Greek citizens have queued up to pull deposits. Via Google Translate, The Bild reports Greeks Plunder their Accounts in Fear of Debt Cuts.Monday morning, 7.40 clock in the district of Athens, "Agia Paraskevi". We, the BILD repo ...
• Apply Enough Pressure, Something Eventually Br ...
  The EU has applied constant pressure on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for more austerity measures, more reforms, and more loss of sovereignty. This prompted a humiliated Berlusconi who has enough problems of his own to launch a verbal attack on EU officials stating "No one in the EU ...
• German Parliament Expected To Hold Full Vote o ...
  Der Spiegel reports German Parliament Expected To Hold Full Vote on EFSFThe German parliament is expected to hold a full vote on Wednesday on proposals to leverage the euro-zone rescue fund, contrary to earlier plans to confine the vote to its budget committee, SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned from so ...
• Spain Slips on Deficit, Will "Never Make Defic ...
  While the debate over Greek haircuts still lingers on, Spain Slipping on Deficit Means Chances of Contagion IncreaseSpain will struggle to meet its deficit-reduction target this year as economic growth slows, threatening further debt-crisis contagion as Europe fails to erect a fail-proof firewal ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• “A Question For The Commander-in-Chief” by G. ...
  A Sunday Poem and Picture for You  This powerful poem was contributed to Boiling Frogs Post by G. Karl Marcus: A Question For The Commander-in-Chief When a bunker buster falls in the desert and no one shows you photos of the shadows of little bodies etched on concrete walls, are the screams of i ...
• Boiling Frogs Post: A Home for the Politically ...
  When it comes to Crooked Puppets We Take No Prisoners By Sibel Edmonds For the past two years Boiling Frogs Post has been the proud home of the irate minority. When I started this website, even before completing the site’s setup, I had already picked the quote which this site’s principle was goi ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Philip Zelikow Appointed to Obama’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the West’s Red Bogeyman in Libya, Obama Extends National Emergency Regarding Iran, America’s Sham War on Terrorism, US House Democrats to European Leaders: Oppose Palestinian Statehood Bid, John Brennan Ex-Board C ...
• Podcast Show #56
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Paul Thompson-Part III This is Part 3 of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson. For additional background information please visit the complete 9/11 Timeline Investigative Project at HistoryCommons.Org. Paul Thompson joi ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  The Real Wives of Wall Street, The Suicide Bomb Capital of the World, Private Contractors Cost more than Government Employees, Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You, Russia: Al Qaeda may Have Gotten Anti-Aircraft Missiles in the Aftermath of Libyan Civil War, Azerbaijani Drone Shot Down in Nagorno Ka ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Transas Develops Anti-Piracy Simulation Training
  Transas Group said this week that it has developed a unique anti-piracy simulation training program to help schools provide students with relevant techniques to avoid attacks and hijackings.  The goal  [...]
• Horizon Lines Slashes Trans-Pacific Service
  Horizon Lines today said it plans on slashing its trans-Pacific container service, Five Star Express (FSX), between the U.S. West Coast, Guam and China starting in the fourth quarter.  The [...]
• Somali Pirates Relase ‘Iceberg 1′ After 19 Months
  Somali pirates have released the MV Iceberg 1, along with 23 hostages, after holding the vessel and its crew in captivity for 19 months, a Dubai-based news agency reported today.  [...]
• The Port of New York and New Jersey: A Critica ...
  By Kevin J. Walsh The World Trade Organization estimated that the United States of America imported $1,936 trillion worth of goods in 2010 (WTO, 2010), more than any other single [...]
• Hess Plans Development Of Tubular Bells GOM Pr ...
  Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES) is planning to proceed with the $2.3 billion development of a deepwater oil and gas project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, using a configuration of equipment [...]

Blogging Canadians

• Ontario Taxpayers Demand Abortion Be Defunded ...
• Martin Singh: The new leader of NDP!
  Sounds good to me. He is from the great Maritimes, wears fancy turban and looks likeable. “If New Democrats want a leader who will focus on Canada’s business community, the environment and health care, Martin Singh says he’s their man.” Read the story here.
• The Killing of Muammar Gaddafi
  Gadhafi was indeed a brutal dictator but are his killers any less brutal? Where is this world revolution is headed to, whether it is the Arab Spring or the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy World demonstrations? If the result is going to be worldwide brutality, then attaining the democracy mantra is ...
• Economics 101: Bernard Goldberg on Wealth Re-D ...
• Poor-choice advocate: We are pretty tired of t ...

Press TV - Middle East

• 'Palestinians entitled to have state'
  The Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abdullah Abdullah says Palestinians are entitled to having a state recognized by the international community, Press TV reports.
• Yemenis call for regime's ouster
  Yemenis have once again taken to the streets, calling for the ouster of the regime and the prosecution of its officials, Press TV reported.
• Bahraini forces attack protesters
  Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces have once again attacked anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf kingdom, Press TV reported.
• Israel warned against 'testing' Turkey
  Turkey has censured Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman for his remarks that Tel Aviv will "punish" Ankara by supporting its enemies.
• Kuwaiti youth call for major reforms
  Kuwait’s young activists have urged profound reforms in the emirate in efforts to make it a constitutional monarchy instead of a fiefdom of Al-Sabah family.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• BlackBerry Blunder Transcends International Seas
  A major interruption with communication has caused Black Berry RIM users to scramble.  Why do we rely on technology so much?  Because technology has proven to be a useful, efficient and inexpensive tool that allows intra-company communication and communication with outside clients.  The majority ...
• Developing Technology: Are You Up To Speed?
  With the somewhat-sudden loss of Steve Jobs, everyone is wondering about the future of Apple. The stagnation of Facebook also has people wondering what Mark Zuckerberg has up his sleeve next. Twitter has taken flight and is continuing to gain speed as it moves towards the horizon. Everyone in Si ...
• Occupy Wall Street?
  A friend and I decided to go to the Occupy Wall Street protest the first Sunday in October. We made the plans after the infamous pepper spraying incident but before the 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. We didn’t know what to expect. The last time I participated in a group protest was in ...
• Finding the Perfect Workout
  I’m on my eighth week of the Extreme Home Fitness system P90X and I am so bored.  I started working out in 2007.  At that time I was in a transition period and I wanted to simplify many things in my life. Working out helped me to feel better about myself, while I dealt with [...]
• Astronomy is a Beautiful Phenomenon
  Astronomy as I had known it consisted only of the Sun, Moon and stars.  But after I took the plunge of enrolling in an astronomy course here at SPS, my perception of what I thought I knew had drastically changed for the better. I tend to be the sort of person that likes to play [...]

Dissident Voice

• US Troops to Uganda: Another Immoral Adventure
  “I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces… On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda. During the next month, additional forces w ...
• Afghan War Remains Endless While Obama’s ...
  The 10th anniversary of Washington’s invasion, occupation and seemingly endless war in Afghanistan was observed October 7, but despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to terminate the U.S. “combat mission” by the end of 2014, American military involvement will continue ma ...
• Occupy Santa Rosa’s First Week Contrasts with ...
  The inspiring grand opening of Occupy Santa Rosa in Northern California on October 15 was a great success. I was energized from the moment I saw and felt the surprisingly large crowd, which turned out to be some 3000, around City Hall. Many aspects of that historic occasion were impressive. Peop ...
• Mind Over Media: The End of Newspapers
  (On the set of WTFN’s new public affairs show Mind over Media, host Romana Clay is seated at a kidney-shaped table around which are large mock-ups of various newspapers and web pages. Over her right shoulder is a wall-mounted TV monitor. The theme music starts up over the opening titles and the ...
• Hugh Hefner: Visionary or Flesh Peddler?
  Playboy founder Hugh Hefner may be in his golden years but he still makes headlines like celebrities a quarter of his age. After his bride-to-be Crystal Harris left him at the altar, he rallied with a new show on NBC, The Playboy Club, and reduced the October issue of Playboy to its 1961 price o ...

Destructionist

• Ron Paul wins Ohio Republican straw poll
  Texas Republican congressman Ron Paul has won the latest Republican presidential straw poll. The Texas Republican, who continues to trail former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in national polls, captured the support of 53 percent of Ohio Republicans. Former businessman Herman Cain won the ...
• Underemployed And Hating Life
  Today, millions of smart, hard working Americans are flipping burgers, waiting tables or working dead end retail jobs not because they want to, but because they have no other options. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 14 million Americans are currently unemployed and anoth ...
• Federal Records Show Romney Campaign Bought An ...
  A new independent analysis of 2012 presidential candidates’ campaign contributions confirms that Mitt Romney is the banksters’ choice for the GOP nominee, and indeed for President. Records of campaign contributions based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically this past we ...
• Vegas Debate: Ron Paul rips Herman Cain over O ...
  Ron Paul jumps on Herman Cain at the CNN debate in Las Vegas — this time over Cain’s comments about the Occupy Wall Street movement.
• Solidarity Event: Move Your Money – Bank ...
  Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will ALWAYS remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking institutions to non-profit credit unions on or by this date, we will send a clear message to the 1% that conscious consumers won't support compani ...

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