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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

10 December- RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran urges UN to condemn US violation
    Summary: Iran has strongly censured the violation of its airspace by a US spy drone, urging the United Nations to condemn such contravention and adopt necessary measures to end these “dangerous and illegal” acts. source: PressTVread more
  • Downed US Drone in Iran Reveals Broader Covert War
    Summary: Iran’s recovery of a downed U.S. surveillance drone publicized America’s ongoing covert war on Iran, a part of the Obama administration’s strategy even more bellicose than his predecessor’s. source: antiwar.comread more
  • EU sanctions on Iran will impact Europe more t ...
    Summary: LONDON: EU sanctions on Iran's oil exports will hurt European refiners which rely on crude from the Islamic republic to help power ailing economies such as Greece, Italy and Spain, according to analysts. source: Economic Timesread more
  • War drums are beating for Iran. But who's play ...
    Summary: Two decades ago I picked up an in-house magazine for the arms industry. Its editorial was headed "Thank God For Saddam". It explained that, since the collapse of communism and end of the cold war, the order books of the arms industry had been empty. But now there was a new enemy, the ...
  • Washington’s Secret Wars in Iran and Syria
    Summary: Bolton and RajavisWhile the media credits “the Israelis” in the assassinations of Iranian scientists, the reality is that no Israeli (or American) intelligence officer could possibly operate effectively inside Iran to carry out a killing. The assassinations, which are acts of war, ha ...

The Daily Galaxy

Natural News

  • Hallmark now distributing vaccine shot complia ...
    (NaturalNews) The Arizona Department of Health Services wants to remind parents to inject their newborn babies with neurologically-damaging chemical adjuvants found in vaccines, and to aid in this effort, they've teamed up with Hallmark, the famous greeting card company. Hallmark has designed a ...
  • Advanced electrical stimulation technology can ...
    (NaturalNews) Patients suffering from nerve damage or paralysis may soon be able to better regain function, thanks to a new electrical stimulation technique developed by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, Mass., and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
  • Fair Trade USA certifier severely dilutes stan ...
    (NaturalNews) Concerned about the horrific working conditions and measly wages that many of the world's poorest must deal with every single day, many consumers are now opting for "fair trade" products that, while slightly more expensive at times, come from farms and factories that operate ethica ...
  • DHA used in infant formula products comes from ...
    (NaturalNews) One of the most vulnerable segments of the population -- infants -- are being affected as chemical giant Martek Biosciences uses cronyism to have its patented GMO products classified as organic. The National Organic Program is trying to correct this, but in the meantime the "organi ...
  • Texas agency allows town to run pipeline throu ...
    (NaturalNews) A historic drought that has stricken much of Central Texas over the past several months has caused some rivers and water reservoirs in the Lone Star State to run dangerously low. But one Central Texas town, Groesbeck, located about two hours south of Dallas, looks like it will avoi ...

Threat Level

  • Senator Wants Answers from DHS Over Domain Nam ...
    A day after federal authorities returned a music-review site it seized a year ago, dajaz1.com was back online, greeting visitors with a powerful message about proposed web-censorship legislation. The site's attorney said he was never afforded an opportunity to challenge the seizure for an entire ...
  • Occupy DC Prepares for Its Valley Forge
    DC authorities have made no moves to evict Occupy encampments in Washington, DC -- setting the stage for the movement to confront both the weather and what it will become.
  • Spy Firm Videos Show How to Hack WiFi, Skype a ...
                         runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1316965421001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); What better way to sell your wares than to produce a marketing video showing exactly how your product works? Even if that product is spyware, marketed to oppressive re ...
  • Four Romanians Indicted for Hacking Subway, Ot ...
    Four Romanian nationals have been charged with hacking card-processing systems at more than 150 Subway restaurants and 50 other unnamed retailers, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
  • Government Opposes Bradley Manning Defense Wit ...
    The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning's attorney attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private's alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Commits Tax Fraud for the Wealthy. Again.
    When House Speaker John Boehner denounced Democratic proposals to fund a payroll tax cut extension through a surtax on millionaires as a "job-killing tax hike on small businesses," he might have wanted to check with some first. As NPR revealed yesterday, the Congressional Republicans they consu ...
  • Introducing Newt Gingrich's 2-2-2 Plan
    If nothing else, former House Speaker and new GOP front-runner Newt Gingrich is all about keeping his options open. After all, Newt has gone through three religions and three wives. As it turns out, when it comes to Medicare, Social Security and the tax code, President Gingrich wants Americans ...
  • The Epic Failure of Republican Trickle Down Ec ...
    When President Obama on Tuesday declared that decades of Republican trickle-down economics "never worked," conservatives were predictably apoplectic. But for all of their protests of "class warfare", "socialism" and worse, Obama was being kind to the Republican ideologues. After all, as the hi ...
  • Paul Ryan Wins Politico's Health Care Policyma ...
    He called for rationing Medicare, replacing it with an underfunded voucher system that would dramatically shift costs to elderly Americans. He proposed repealing the Affordable Care Act, slashing Medicaid by $1.4 trillion over the next decade and turning what's left over to the states as block ...
  • Romney Lies About Obama 'Taking over 100 Perce ...
    By almost any measure, the 2006 universal care law Governor Mitt Romney championed in Massachusetts has been a clear success. A bipartisan bill which Ted Kennedy worked closely with Romney to pass, the law has reduced the ranks of the uninsured from 10 percent to a national low of two percent. ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • In Defense of the Retail Simulacra
    Recently, retail clothing chain H&M has caught a great deal of flack for using computer generated bodies in their online catalog. And while there is something to be said for looking critically at the introduction of computer-generated “perfection” into an industry already psychot ...
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  • Study: False Perceptions Fuel Anti-Migrant Sen ...
    The rising tide of anti-migrant sentiment worldwide is caused primarily by the biased, polarised and negative debate on migration, according to a new study released here.
  • How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit ...
    Companies are profiting off the backs of port truck drivers, a class of exploited workers who are a crucial lynchpin in our economy.
  • Aunia Kahn
    Strange and gorgeous paintings:   …a self taught figurative artist who began creating art as a therapeutic response to a difficult upbringing.

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Newest EPA Report Confirms Fracking Fluids Con ...
    In what is sure to be a pivotal finding in the future regulation of the hydraulic fracturing industry in this country, the Environmental Protection Agency published a 120 page report today concluding that the process known as ‘fracking’ does indeed cause contamination of water supply ...
  • Night-time Lights Track Disease Outbreaks from ...
      Such migratory populations are notoriously difficult to track and this makes developing an intervention strategy — such as a large-scale vaccination program — extremely challenging. Key to determining where an outbreak is likely to occur (and thus where to initiate a vaccinati ...
  • Climate Talks Leading Us to 4° (Catastrophe-He ...
      Following up on my other two posts today on the UN climate change negotiations currently taking place in Durban, South Africa, and adding to what I said in both, here’s the WWF on how bad things are looking: Sam Smith ahead the closing COP17 from WWF on Vimeo. by WWF Durban, South A ...
  • Greenpeace Executive Director & Activists Occu ...
      Here’s a wrap up of the end-of-the-day events in Durban. As you might have guessed, not much has changed from this ‘step back and look at the big picture’ piece. But there was a lot of activity, something like hamsters running on a hamster wheel, perhaps,.. and being int ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: South Africa’s 2011 Dea ...
    There is still no end in sight to the rhino massacre in South Africa, as this year’s body count has now exceeded 400, surpassing the 2010 death toll of 333. Although arrests for rhino crimes have also increased, South Africa’s conviction rate is abysmally low: Less than five percent. ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Apartheid Oil - Palestine
    JERUSALEM—Major offshore gas strikes in 2009 and 2010 may soon convert Israel into a gas exporting country with self-sufficient energy. But perhaps more important than the gas under the sea is the mock crude trapped in husk dry sands and rock hard shale, reserves which could push Israel into the ...
  • The scream for peace - Critical Analysis
    Did you really believe, when they told you the cause, Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame, The killing and dying it was all done in vain Oh Willy McBride it all happened again - And agai ...
  • The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social Justic ...
    During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist’s query as to why he was there: “We want social justice. Nothing more. That’s the least that we deserve.” The first round of the movements took multiple forms across the world—the so-called ...
  • Canadian report shows growing political aliena ...
    Recent election cycles in Canada have demonstrated that whole swathes of the population—indeed, often an outright majority—reject the efficacy and even the legitimacy of the Canadian political process and show it by refusing to participate in federal, provincial and municipal elections. I ...
  • Rioting continues in Russia - World News
    Thousands of people have attended the biggest anti-government rally in the Russian capital Moscow since the fall of the Soviet Union. As many as 50,000 people gathered on an island near the Kremlin to condemn alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections and demand a re-run. O ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The True Meaning of Christmas
    By @KYYellowDog Look again.  It's not what you think. h/t PZMyers.
  • Casino Gambling in Kentucky May Be Too Late to ...
    By @KYYellowDog I've never been a fan of gambling. I like to bet on the races, but only when I'm there in person to watch. Anything else - meh. Casinos leave me cold. And I personally witnessed the poverty, crime and desperation of hollowed-out Atlantic City behind the glitzy casinos after they ...
  • Gingrich Is the Natural Leader of the Modern GOP
    By @TedFrier Republicans all across the country are waking up in a cold sweat to the possibility that a madman may soon become the leader of their party. The "anybody but Mitt" mantra has become as familiar in this Republican primary season as it is "weird and self-defeating," says Washington Po ...
  • Ensuring a Fair Shot for the Middle Class
    By @KYYellowDog You do realize, don't you Mr. President, that the repugs don't want a "fair shot for the middle class"? Full transcript here.
  • In Honor of Barney
    By @KYYellowDog From Eric Alterman in the Nation, the best tribute I've seen: With the announcement of Barney Frank's retirement, a number of reporters have written to complain of what a meanie the Congressman has been over the years. They would ask a stupid question and Barney would reply, "Tha ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION! Stop Christine Yurgel, "Animal Re ...
    sign please :) hopefully it helps Submitted by Victoria Pitchford to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Bullfighting Is Nothing More Than Cruelty-PLEA ...
    Bullfighting is a traditional European and Latin American sport that involves bulls being baited by humans inside a ring, often resulting in death for the animal and severe injuries for the fighter. While many people still claim bullfighting is a cultural Submitted by Andrea Nemec to Animals &n ...
  • Elephants Under Attack-PLEASE SIGN!
    Elephants are being brutally slaughtered by poachers for their tusks and other body parts. These magnificent animals desperately need protection. Tell your legislators that elephants matter to you and to this world and that Congress must help protect Submitted by Andrea Nemec to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Stop Natural Gas Pipeline in Northern New Jers ...
    A planned pipeline in northern New Jersey that would transport natural gas would destroy New Jerseys precious environment to provide energy for New York. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Big Cat Week
    Did you know that there are now more tigers living in captivity than there are in the wild? The big cats of the world are disappearing at alarming rates. National Geographic Society and Explorers-in-Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert, launched Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...

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No Quarter

  • ABC’s GOP Debate Tonight + Open Thread (UPDATE ...
    (The Gingrich update is at the end and, yes, it’s about his remarks on Palestine.) Tonight’s debate airs on ABC at 9 p.m. ET with all candidates except former governors Jon Huntsman, Gary Johnson and Buddy Roemer, because their poll numbers are deemed too low. 2nd UPDATE at 8;30 P.M. ...
  • Obama Feels Your Pain—NOT!
    I resurrected this toon from 2008 because, again, the President earns an award for not giving a damn about his own people. While millions who have little to be cheery about this holiday season struggle to make the best of it, the President will spend 17 (expensive) days in Hawaii. Never mind tha ...
  • Monkey Butt Ignorant Part Deux, Rick Perry
    Well, I’m an equal opportunity bi-party offender tonight. I’ve said it before and Perry proved it again–that boy is dumb as a box of rocks. Watch these and cringe: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Look if you are in charge of running the salad bar at Si ...
  • Depends On What Your Definition Of “Lie” Is…*O ...
    Thursday brought two major hearings to Capitol Hill. The first was Attorney General Eric Holder on the whole “Fast and Furious” issue. After many half responses, non-responses, and dissembling left and right, came this little interaction between Eric Holder and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner ...
  • Obama, Monkey Butt Ignorant
    It is one thing to misspeak. It is another thing to say something so totally false and ridiculous that it has no effect other than to evoke a primal scream. Per President Dim Bulb: As Obama called for passage of those bills, he also responded to a recent Republican push to require him to approve ...

Futurismic

  • A chat with Eric Drexler
    Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...
  • Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
    Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...
  • Long Term and Long Distance Thinking
    Last month, I wrote about the government. I asserted that we need to get business interests out of government or we’ll keep making decisions based on next quarter’s profits instead of the health of the next decade. This month, I want to talk about a whole industry that seems to be falling victim ...
  • Demon’s Souls and the Meaning and Import of Vi ...
      Bad is Good and Good is Bad The problem with video game writing is that it tends to be written by fans of video games. The corruption and stupidity of games journalism are not isolated quirks of the system but symptoms of a flawed approach to the medium. Fans, by their nature, approach th ...
  • The Grand Lie
    Most of my day-to-day life is good to great. A little too much stress, a few challenges with weight and sleeplessness, but I’m living my dreams about writing and I’ve got a job that pays the bills and leaves a bit extra behind for electronics. I’m usually optimistic. At the core, I suppose I sti ...

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • The One Percent Revolt: Princeton Students Pro ...
    ThinkProgress The One Percent Revolt: Princeton Students Protest JP Morgan And Goldman Sachs ... ThinkProgress They then read off grievances against the bank, including its predatory lending practices and bankrolling of mountaintop removal, finally concluding with saying they don't want to b ...
  • an award-winning documentary on mountaintop re ...
    National Council of Churches USA an award-winning documentary on mountaintop removal National Council of Churches USA The award winning film, produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, was shown as part of the National Council of Churches long-standing campaign against mountaintop remov ...
  • Climate-science deniers join forces against NC ...
    Facing South Climate-science deniers join forces against NC renewable-energy program Facing South He also dismissed concerns about mountaintop removal, saying mining companies leave the sites in good condition -- when in fact scientific studies have found that mountaintop removal causes severe e ...
  • Top GOP policy issues at a glance - Washington ...
    Top GOP policy issues at a glance Washington Post (blog) —Block the Environmental Protection Agency from developing or implementing a “stream buffer zone” rule opposed by mountaintop removal mining interests. —Prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and oil re ...
  • Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on camp ...
    Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on campus Temple News Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal, a group Murphy has helped lead, held a protest through Main Campus, beginning at noon on Wednesday. Hours after the Occupy arrests, three students–Daniel Teichman, Diane Isser and Ethan Jur ...

Memeorandum

  • Palestinians outraged by Gingrich remarks (Ass ...
    Associated Press: Palestinians outraged by Gingrich remarks  —  JERUSALEM (AP) - A slew of Palestinian officials reacted with dismay Saturday to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's statement that the Palestinians are an “invented” people.  —&nb ...
  • U.S. Supreme Court blocks Texas redistricting ...
    Austin American-Statesman: U.S. Supreme Court blocks Texas redistricting maps  —  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked the use of recently redrawn Texas congressional and legislative election maps, possibly throwing the March 6 primary election into disarray.  —&n ...
  • Cold seat at 'This Week' (Cindy Adams/New York ...
    Cindy Adams / New York Post: Cold seat at ‘This Week’  —  Christiane Amanpour may soon be giving up the anchor chair on ABC News' “This Week.”  Sources say network honchos are mulling who might replace the award-winning journalist, who has struggled ...
  • Perry Admits His Tax Plan Slams Low-Income Peo ...
    Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress: Perry Admits His Tax Plan Slams Low-Income People And Lets The Wealthy Pay Nothing  —  Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), in his quest to win the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, has released a so-called flat tax plan that would institute a 20 percent in ...
  • TPM2012 - Santorum: 'Science Should Get Out Of ...
    Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com: TPM2012  —  Santorum: ‘Science Should Get Out Of Politics’  —  Rick Santorum is known for his insistence that religion has an important place in political life — and also for criticizing various exampl ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Jump starting forest finance
    To halve deforestation within a decade, a multibillion dollar injection is needed now, write Donald P Kanak and Andrew W Mitchell. As Durban draws to a close, they explain how it could be done.Those puzzling over how to finance a means to reduce deforestation – which contributes the same a ...
  • Rise of the Chinese nimby
    Locals fighting infrastructure projects in their neighbourhoods signal new conflict in China’s urbanisation process, writes Cui Zheng. Could they help push for greater openness? Early this year, Lin Yong and his wife Wei Hua (not their real names) bought a three-bedroom apartment in the L ...
  • Mongolia’s mega-mines
    In the southern Gobi, extraction of coking coal, copper and other resources is likely to transform the economy, nomads’ lives and one of the world’s great wilderness areas. Jonathan Watts reports. After a 16-hour drive under the piercing blue skies of Mongolia’s southern G ...
  • Mongolian herders show the way (1)
    Climate change and overgrazing have had negative impacts on pastoralist communities in central Asia, writes Ronnie Vernooy. But co-management schemes point towards a solution.Mongolia is the country of endless plains and eternal blue skies. Eighty percent of the land area is covered by grassland ...
  • Mongolian herders show the way (2)
    In the second section of a two-part series, Ronnie Vernooy describes how one group of nomads transformed their community. China, he writes, could learn important lessons.With H Ykhanbai’s efforts, co-management of pasture resources was first introduced in Mongolia at the end of the 1990s i ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Bullies, Liars and Impostors: How Facebook and ...
    A spate of online disinformation, bullying and outright calls for the destruction of recall petitions raise the specter of fraud in the Wisconsin recall petition drive.
  • New York, California Fight for Tuition Equity ...
    In the wake of the bruising defeat of the DREAM Act a year go, undocumented immigrant youth are fighting on the state level for access to education.
  • Oakland Police Trained Alongside Bahrain Milit ...
    Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by David Harris-Gershon A month before Occupy Oakland was violently raided by riot police using chemical weapons, rubber bullets and flash grenades – a raid which critically injured Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen – the Oakland Police Department and the A ...
  • Top 5 Health Expenses You Didn’t Know Co ...
    Can focusing on your health help you to pay less in taxes?  If your employer offers a healthcare flexible spending account (”FSA”) and you elect to participate, the answer is yes! Toward the end of the year I am frequently asked about ways to lower minimize the burden of taxes. That& ...
  • Will Sebelius Stand Strong on the Birth Contro ...
    Written by Kari Ann Rinker for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. I’m from Kansas.  This is a place where physicians are shot in church during Sunday service.  This is a place where pregnanc ...

Threat Level

  • Senator Wants Answers from DHS Over Domain Nam ...
    A day after federal authorities returned a music-review site it seized a year ago, dajaz1.com was back online, greeting visitors with a powerful message about proposed web-censorship legislation. The site's attorney said he was never afforded an opportunity to challenge the seizure for an entire ...
  • Occupy DC Prepares for Its Valley Forge
    DC authorities have made no moves to evict Occupy encampments in Washington, DC -- setting the stage for the movement to confront both the weather and what it will become.
  • Spy Firm Videos Show How to Hack WiFi, Skype a ...
                         runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience1316965421001', 'anId'); brightcove.createExperiences(); What better way to sell your wares than to produce a marketing video showing exactly how your product works? Even if that product is spyware, marketed to oppressive re ...
  • Four Romanians Indicted for Hacking Subway, Ot ...
    Four Romanian nationals have been charged with hacking card-processing systems at more than 150 Subway restaurants and 50 other unnamed retailers, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
  • Government Opposes Bradley Manning Defense Wit ...
    The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning's attorney attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private's alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.

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

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

Marler Blog

  • Food Safety Top Food Story of 2011
    Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Tops List in Annual Survey Commissioned by Hunter Public Relations According to Hunter Public Relations, Food safety tops the list of its annual survey asking Americans to choose the most significant food story of 2011. Even in a year when global food prices hit r ...
  • CDC Outbreak Response Team - 2011 was a Busy Year
    While many of us have been wondering what the Kardashians will do next, or who will be cut from dancing with the stars, or what silly thing the Republican Presidential race will bring next, The CDC’s Outbreak Response Team has been busy protecting us, or at least figuring out what happened ...
  • If you are going to eat cookie dough raw, do n ...
    I was casually reading my copy of the Journal of Infectious Disease (I know, why not People Magazine) and found this article – “A Novel Vehicle for Transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Humans: Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated With Consumption of Rea ...
  • Note to Self - Do not Castrate Sheep with your ...
    Germ Girl (a.k.a. Maryn McKenna) posted this dire warning yesterday. Apparently, the Wyoming Department of Health was notified of two laboratory-confirmed cases of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis among persons working at a local sheep ranch. During June, two men had reported onset of symptoms co ...
  • China Dairy Farmer Sentenced to Death - Califo ...
    Or, at least they are happy not to live in China. The AP headline out of China this morning was shocking – “China farmer gets death penalty for poisoning milk.” I am not much of a fan of the death penalty. And, there are clear dissimilarities between what happened in China a ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Aptera employees smash vehicles after c ...
    Filed under: Coupe, Etc., Safety, Videos, Specialty, Electric, MISC Four videos have surfaced showing what is understood to be the destructive aftermath following news of Aptera's closure last week. Without knowing for certain what's happening, the videos appear to depict employees (or former ...
  • Report: House to hold investigative hearings o ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Regular readers probably know the story of the Chevrolet Volt NHTSA post-crash fire by heart, but here are the important details as a refresher: The original car that triggered the investigation was crash tested by ...
  • Breaking: Aptera pulls the plug
    Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Electric Just over a month ago, Aptera was promising rebirth with Aptera 2.0. The promise will not be kept. Today, the company announced it is closing its doors, effective immediately. In an email to supporters, president and CEO Paul Wilbur wrote, "We ...
  • Official: GM will loan free cars to Chevy Volt ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric GM may have designed the Chevrolet Volt to cancel out potential "range anxiety," but the company is responding to a new type of worry today: fear that the Volt's battery will catch fire. The problem? A Volt that had been crash tested in May ca ...
  • Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • "Listen to the People, Not the Polluters" By A ...
    High above the pavement, overlooking Durban’s famous South Beach and the pounding surf of the Indian Ocean, and just blocks from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where up to 20,000 people gathered, seven activists fought against the wind to unfurl a banner that read “Listen to the ...
  • CREDO members -- vote for Democracy Now! today!
    If you’re a CREDO member, you only have four more weeks to vote on how to distribute the 2011 donations funding. This year, Democracy Now! is on the ballot and we need your votes more than ever! Voting is easy! Just click here and select Democracy Now! (You’ll find us li ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" f ...
    Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "Up with Chris Hayes" on Sat. Dec 3rd, 2011, live from Durban, South Africa, site of the UN’s climate change conference. Watch the full interview here: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/03/9192590-amy-goodman-on-glob ...
  • Mohawk Youth Activist Jessica Yee on Why She i ...
    Johannesburg, South Africa — Democracy Now! speaks with Mohawk youth activist Jessica Yee about what brings her to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. In this interview, Yee describes how South Africa based the legal framework for apartheid on U.S. and Canadian ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 12/ ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear live from Durban, South Africa on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday, December, 3rd at 7am EST to discuss the UN Climate Change Summit Global Day of Action.

Suzie-Q

  • Grayson on the Fed bailout: “If you&#821 ...
    Bloomberg: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz – Nov 27, 2011 4:01 PM PT Bloomberg Markets Magazine Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. ...
  • Close call for NY City as Muslim Sympathasizer ...
    by G: Nov. 21, 2011 Here’s the latest news on terrorism in NY. It’s sharing the headlines with the recent demonstrations in Egypt, where, according to the NY Times   at least 23 people had been killed and more than 1,500 people had been wounded. It concerns a Muslim sympathizer& ...
  • Republican Party Platform in 2012
    Republican Party Platform in 2012: Tax-cuts for the rich Tax hikes for the middle class Deregulate wall street … Unlimited corporate money in elections War with Iran War with Pakistan Trade war with China Stay in Iraq Patriot Act End Social Security End Medicare Increase military spending ...
  • Operation Protect and Shield
  • Alex Jones on Homeland Security infiltrating OWS

Solari

  • Sir James Goldsmith in 1993
    You are an opponent of the project for single currency. Why? The effects of a single currency go far beyond the economy. They would transform the political structure of Europe as well as the stability of its societies. A currency is both an economic tool and a reflection of the economic and soci ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “The Natural Law will prevail regardless of man-made laws, tribunals, and governments.” – Traditional Circle of Elders, NAVAJO-HOPI Joint Use Area Hopi Mythology Wikipedia
  • Cameron Negotiates U.K.’s Isolation in EU
    U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron By Gonzalo Vina and Rebecca Christie Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain refused to sacrifice sovereignty to save the euro, remaining outside an agreement by European nations to tighten budget rules. Cameron broke ranks with French President Nicolas Sarkoz ...
  • A C.E.O.’s Moral Stand
    By D. Michael Lindsay It seems that every week we hear of a C.E.O. who earned millions from a golden parachute after demonstrating poor business judgment or cutting thousands of jobs with no financial downside for executives. These stories feed the fires of the Occupy movement growing all over ...
  • Bernie Sanders F***** Up Big Time
    YouTube NOTE: CAF Note: Open up the constitution in this environment and you will create a process that will be controlled by the wealthiest, most powerful people and invite serious, life threatening consequences.

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Question time on the FM website – chapter 15
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question! Please use the REPLY button when replying to a previous com ...
  • The simple explanation of why night falls over ...
    Summary:  We cannot predict what happens next as the 11th meeting of Europe’s leaders winds to yet another disappointing conclusion.  We can only seek to understand how Europe got here, and what’s happening now.  Only this way can we learn, and so prepare for the choices ahead for Am ...
  • The trinity of US tactics – a constant i ...
    Summary:  Awareness of self is as necessary for war as for other aspects of life.  It helps us see what we do, and better understand how others’ see us.  It’s the foundation for a functioning observation-orientation-decision-action (OODA) loop.  Our’s is broken, so we use our g ...
  • COIN, another example of our difficulty learni ...
    Summary:  What is our military strategy in the 21st century?  More foreign counter-insurgencies?  More going abroad in search of monsters to destroy?  Followup to COIN – Now we see that it failed. But that was obvious before we started (when will we learn?). {There is an} arc of instability. &#8 ...
  • COIN – Now we see that it failed. But th ...
    Summary:  Now that the enthusiasm has passed for COIN as the tool by which foreign armies can defeat local insurgencies, we can look back for lessons.  They key insight is not that COIN failed to live up to the claims of its advocates.  It’s that the claims were obviously false when made, ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • General Dempsey: Silence on Military Strategy ...
    Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey said yesterday at a meeting hosted by the Atlantic Council that the absence of a public discussion about shifts and changes in US military strategy amidst certain significant budget goods is a 'good thing' for now. Dempsey acknowledged that b ...
  • Britain Hesitates
    European leaders went one better this time. Not content with failing to resolve the debt crisis tearing through the Eurozone and threatening a global recession, they have now managed to create a new source of instability: The rift between Britain and the rest of the European Union, whose consequ ...
  • Newt Gingrich: Palestinians Are an "Invented" ...
    Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is courting the Republican Jewish vote with a series of statements showing his unwavering support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pro-Israel American conservatives. On Wednesday, he declared that he would appoint former U.N. ambassador ...
  • Military Option Recedes Amid Tug-of-War Over I ...
    The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, said Friday that he believes that sanctions and diplomacy are the right strategy to deal with Iran's nuclear programme and that the United States "is doing everything we can to accomplish the stated objective without resorting ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Drone Surveillance and ...
    Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev examines the wreckage of the downed U.S. U-2 spy plane in 1960. - Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, “The CIA and U-2 Program, 1954-1974” (PDF), Central Intelligence Agency, 1998. (3PA: For a similar event that took place fifty-one years ago, compare t ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Britain Hesitates
    European leaders went one better this time. Not content with failing to resolve the debt crisis tearing through the Eurozone and threatening a global recession, they have now managed to create a new source of instability: The rift between Britain and the rest of the European Union, whose conseq ...
  • What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
    Time has a piece exploring why the right wing is starting to fall into line around Newt Gingrich. It’s not his conservative pedigree — it’s because he’s a “known commodity” and the party elite know how he works. On the other hand, Ezra Klein doesn’t think the party elite will ever pick Ging ...
  • Which Mitt Is Your Mitt?
    Herman Cain isn't the only candidate who dropped out this fall. Dozens of Mitt Romney doppelgangers who've outlived their usefulness have, too. Some of the Romneys haven't even dared to show their faces again—pro-choice, pro-health-care Romney, for instance, hasn't dared go out in public this p ...
  • Everybody hates Jon
    Conservatives hate him because he’s a liberal Democrat, liberals hate him because he’s a Wall Street leech. The funny thing is, if Corzine had stayed on in the Senate, he’d probably be an extremely well-respected figure, deferred to by his colleagues and the press as an expert on how to fix the ...
  • Voter decision making with third party candidates
    Jonathan Livengood writes: I was reading a couple of your papers on voting (http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/rational_final6.pdf and http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/probdecisive2.pdf), and I wondered whether the results apply when people vote for ...

Buzzflash

  • Rick Perry Takes Homophobia and Dominionism to ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT The Texas Governor's failing presidential campaign throws up a desperate 30-second advertisement in Iowa replete with homophobia, hatred and fear mongering. To paraphrase a popular English proverb, and please excuse the simultaneous bastardization of the ...
  • GOP Urged To Curb Personal Attacks On President
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Guys, it's just a little late for that --- If you mean it, then why did you take up So much time with Hitler moustaches On Obama along with Joker make-up?   http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/yahoo-exclusive-republicans-disclose-private-call-too-dangerous-1 ...
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders Files ‘Saving American Dem ...
    SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - Warning that "American democracy in endangered," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unrestricted and secret campaign spending by corporations o ...
  • A ‘Frightened’ Frank Luntz Advises Republican ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Throughout his entire career, which has thus far lasted close to two decades and has included a major contribution to Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America," Frank Luntz has never been a problem solver. He has, however, been a man of words; uniquely ...
  • Invest in Social and Economic Justice, Support ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This holiday season, you again have the opportunity to give the gift of journalism that reflects your values. And you can also receive a progressive gift. For more than 11 years, BuzzFlash has promoted both corporate-free reporting and books, DVDs, an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Attenborough: World is wonderful shock
    A spoken rendition of a classic and poignant song by the wonderful David Attenborough. Right, said Fred, he’s 85, you know? First spotted this on Ed Y’s G+ page. More science news and views:Scientists, normal people? You bet! I'm a Scientist - The Film. Imperial College protein cryst ...
  • Grant a pardon to Alan Turing
    A new petition is now online seeking a pardon from the UK government for mathematician Alan Turing. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man, under an archaic law that no longer exists. He was given so-called “organo-therapy” (chemical castration) a ...
  • Soft soap solution for motorways
    The Steiner problem, or as it is also known colloquially, the motorway problem , is a perennial favourite in mathematics with real-world applications. How do you get from A to Z via any number of intermediate towns and cities covering the least number of total miles? Mathematicians and computer ...
  • Five new drugs changing clinical phase
    The pharmaceutical industry, like many others, faces great challenges in the current economic downturn. In these straitened times, governments, payers, prescribers and patients increasingly want to know the value of new drug products in the real world, and all want to pay for outcomes, not just ...
  • US unemployment falling says tech investor #me ...
    FirstCapital’s John Yeomans (Telecoms industry and now a Cambridge Angel investor) told delegates at the Meerkats and Avatars event this morning that US unemployment is now showing the earliest subtle signs of falling, although the same cannot yet be said for the UK or Europe, mired in eco ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Civil Rights Groups Again Ask Government to Bl ...
    A coalition of civil rights and advocacy groups has again asked the U. S. Department of Justice to block a South Carolina law that would prevent registered voters from casting ballots at the polls on Election Day unless they have government-approved photo identification. read more
  • Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply from Manufac ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced commonsense legislation that would prohibit open-air cultivation of Genetically Engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops, preventing biological contamination of our food supply. The bill would also establish a tracking system to regul ...
  • Apple’s ‘Blood iPhone’ Subject of Viral Campai ...
    More than 10,000 people across the world have joined a read more
  • Latvia’s Economic Failure Has Important Lesson ...
    A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research finds that Latvia’s deep recession and slow recovery holds important lessons for other eurozone countries that may rely on an “internal devaluation” in an attempt to boost their economies through exports. read more
  • Latvia’s Economic Failure Has Important Lesson ...
    A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research finds that Latvia’s deep recession and slow recovery holds important lessons for other eurozone countries that may rely on an “internal devaluation” in an attempt to boost their economies through exports. read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • For 29 Dead Miners, No Justice
    Early on April 5, 2010, in the heart of West Virginia coal country, a huge explosion killed 29 workers at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine. Later that day, President Obama directed Labor Secretary Hilda L.read more
  • Embarrassment of Riches: Conflict Diamond Regu ...
    Michelle Chen The holiday season is a time of material pleasures, but it's also a time to take stock of how our social values tend to be at odds with the objects we most prize.Men mine for diamonds in Sierra Leone. The country's diamon ...
  • The Remarkable Political Stupidity of the Street
    Robert Reich Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it’s busily shredding new regulations and making the public more distrustful than ever.r ...
  • The Politician and the Mistress
    Christopher Brauchli Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. — Abraham Lincoln, ...
  • Occupied Media: Foreclose on the Corporate Fou ...
    Michael Nigro Beneath the ever-expanding Occupy umbrella, one of the broad messages is this: people are fed up going through the regular political channels.   Politicians have – intentionally or otherwise – immersed thems ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Study: Water wars likely in Middle East
    LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Using water from the Dead Sea means it's drying up, a resource loss that scientists said could destabilize an already tense Middle East political situation.
  • Cinema now just a product: Shekhar Kapur
    New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur hasn't directed a Hindi film since 'Bandit Queen' in 1994, and he blames the increased focus on marketing cinema as a product for it.
  • EPD director nominee is veteran of water wars
    ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has nominated the executive counsel for his predecessor as the next director of the state Environmental Protection Division... a man who is a veteran of the water wars with Florida and Alabama.
  • Climate change: red alert or red herring?
    Climate experts have been drawing a doomsday scenario with threats of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, water wars and other calamities that can be blamed on global warming.
  • Water wars
    Weekly Poll Are you willing to give up your right to free plastic bags? Not on your life, hippie. It's a minor inconvenience to help save the environment.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Ta ...
    Linah Alsaafin The Electronic Intifada Ramallah Linah Alsaafin witnessed the murder of Mustafa Tamimi at the hands of the Israeli army who had invaded Nabi Saleh village.
  • Israel's threat to cut Gaza water supply would ...
    Eva Bartlett The Electronic Intifada Gaza City On 26 November, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon threatened to cut Israeli electricity, water and ties to Gaza’s infrastructure serving the 1.6 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
  • Eviction stalled in East Jerusalem; family awa ...
    Nadia Walid Somrein The Electronic Intifada Silwan The postponement of an Israeli eviction order in East Jerusalem has spared the Somrein family from being made homeless — for the time being.
  • New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten ...
    Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada Historian Ilan Pappe addresses the plight of Palestinians who remained in the new State of Israel following the Nakba in The Forgotten Palestinians. The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel Manufacturer: Yale Universit ...
  • Photostory: The brighter side of Gaza
    Sami Kishawi The Electronic Intifada Photographs taken by The Electronic Intifada contributor Sami Kishawi this summer show the color of everyday life in Gaza.

The Wonk Room

  • Gingrich Camp: Newt Supports A Palestinian Sta ...
    During an interview with the Jewish Channel released yesterday, Newt Gingrich said that the Palestinians are an “invented people,” a position that was seen as essentially denying the Palestinians’ right to a state. Gingrich also said in the interview that the Palestinian Author ...
  • Florida To Host First State-Wide Occupy Conference
    Protesters from sixteen different cities will be holding the first-state wide conference of Occupy protesters this weekend. The “purpose of the conference, according to an Occupy Orlando spokesperson, will be to devise a list of desired legislative changes to be delivered on the first day ...
  • Occupy Protesters To Hold First State-Wide Con ...
    Protesters from sixteen different cities will be holding the first-state wide conference of Occupy protesters this weekend. The “purpose of the conference, according to an Occupy Orlando spokesperson, will be to devise a list of desired legislative changes to be delivered on the first day ...
  • Resignation And Anger In Durban: ‘What i ...
    The representatives of developing countries are expressing their dismay at the the limited agreement the United States and China are willing to adopt on carbon pollution and climate resilience at the United Nations negotiations in Durban, South Africa. “What is the news I’m going to ...
  • Lowe’s, Bank Of America, And Others Pull ...
    The TLC reality TV show All-American Muslim chronicles the lives of a group of Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan. The show has been well-received for its fair and realistic portrayal of the Muslim American experience in the United States. Watch a trailer for the show here. But a reality TV show that ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Hey Peter MacKay! I'm Spartacus!
    I'm with The Sixth Estate (and no doubt, many other bloggers) on this one. In response to the buffoonery of Peter MacKay threatening legal action against the MPs who said he lied about the reason for his helicopter trip, I'm saying the following: Defense Minister Peter MacKay lied when he said ...
  • The Canada Wheat Board Ruling
    All that I have time for today is to discuss the strange little ruling against the harpercons' bill to abolish the Canada Wheat Board. The ruling says that the Agriculture Minister's introduction of the bill is illegal. This was a little troubling given that "sean in ottawa" on page 8 of this ...
  • The First Nations Unwilling to Tolerate harper ...
    Yesterday I wrote: harper is driving the First Nations peoples into a major confrontation and it would behoove all of us non-scum, non-harpercon Canadians to prepare ourselves to support them. Today, the CBC reported: A regional chief who represents Attawapiskat says that a number of his coun ...
  • thwap's News Round-up
    So, in Afghanistan, were we debased our values as a country (complicity in torture and spitting on democracy to cover it up), sacrificed over one-hundred of our soldiers' lives while wounding, maiming and traumatizing hundreds more, and spent billions of dollars, we have yet another mainstream j ...
  • The NDP Needs to Get SERIOUS About Economics
    You read that title and you expect to see some sort of diatribe about "fiscal responsibility" or "harsh realities" or something right? But when I read headlines like that I generally think that I'm in for a heaping helping of neo-liberal delusions and hypocrisy or some mewling nonsense from a " ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Jay-Z to host New York's Carnegie Hall benefit ...
    Successful American hip hop artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z is to raise money for the education of less privileged children as he headlines the first ever Hip-Hop concert series scheduled for February 6 and 7 at New York's celebrated Carnegie Hall.
  • Alleged neo-Nazis charged in violent hate crimes
    Two Vancouver, British Columbia men face charges arising from four separate incidents that police allege were motivated by hate. The attacks go back to 2008.
  • UFC: Jon 'Bones' Jones relaxed and confident a ...
    Walk like a champion. Talk like a champion. Jon “Bones” Jones stepped out onto the stage for his weigh-in on Friday and looked completely relaxed and unfazed as fans gave him a mixed reception of boos and cheers.
  • Second World War: Japan apologizes to Canada
    The Japanese government has apologized to former Canadian prisoners who endured and suffered pains during the Second World War.
  • Situation for Watkins children not safe yet
    Two little boys from Toronto were abducted by their non-custodial mother over two years ago. The boys were recently discovered in Poland but that hasn't changed much for little Alexander and Christopher Watkins.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pardy on Canada-U.S. border deal
    Former Canadian diplomat Gar Pardy critiques the Canada-U.S. border deal announced on December 7th (Gar Pardy, “How the U.S. blackmailed Canada,” Ottawa Citizen, 8 December 2011): Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama announced Wednesday a 32-point plan establishin ...
  • Senior DND officials hid costs
    The renovation of the former Nortel campus for the Department of National Defence has become the subject of controversy following the discovery that senior officials hid the price of the project from not only the public, but also the media and parliamentarians (David Pugliese, “Defence off ...
  • Study says military spending not effective for ...
    Dollar-for-dollar, money spent on domestic spending priorities such as healthcare, clean energy, and education creates a greater number of jobs than defence spending, according to a study done by the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute. Researchers Robert Poll ...
  • Pentagon’s F-35 director says production shoul ...
    The U.S. Department of Defense’s top officer on the F-35, Adm. David Zenlet, has recommended that deliveries of the aircraft be delayed because of the discovery of cracks and “hot spots” during fatigue testing and analysis (Gloria Galloway, “Tories face fresh hurdle with ...
  • Aviation Week: Are there alternatives to F-35?
    Further to this post, doubts about the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have now grown to the point where even aviation industry insiders like Aviation Week are asking whether there are alternatives to the troubled aircraft (David A. Fulghum & Bill Sweetman, Are There Alternatives To ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Prostate Cancer May Be Linked To Birth Control ...
    November 16, 2011 The Vancouver Sun By Amy Chung “Every time you look, there is another story about a pharmaceutical drug that is causing horrible side effects. I thought there things were supposed to be ‘safe’ and effective?” –KTRN Rates of prostate cancer around t ...
  • Chemotherapy ‘Could Cause Brain Damage’ In Bre ...
    November 16, 2011 The Daily Mail By Sadie Whitelocks “Here is yet another example why chemotherapy is not the answer to cancer.”  –KTRN Chemotherapy could cause brain damage in breast cancer patients scientists have warned. A groundbreaking study discovered that breast cancer p ...
  • Congressional Insider Trading Gone Wild
    November 16, 2011 Zero Hedge By Tyler Durden “For the ‘Kevin Was Right’ file.”  –KTRN Back in May we penned, “Why A Hedge Fund Comprised Of Junior Congressional Democrats Should Outperform The Market By 9%” in which the simple conclusion was that insider ...
  • Why The Sovereign Debt Crisis Began In Europe
    November 16, 2011 Gold Seek By Steve Saville This is a point we touched on in a couple of earlier commentaries, but it is important enough to reiterate. The point is that the sovereign debt crisis began in Europe because the countries of the euro-zone (EZ) do not have captive central banks. A ca ...
  • Twisted Trees Are ‘Proof Of Bigfoot’
    November 16, 2011 The Telegraph By The Telegraph “While I don’t suggest this find proves the existence of Bigfoot, I am also a 100% believer in the creature’s existence. Jane Goodall, the chimpanzee expert, is also 100% convinced. If she believes, I believe. By the way, have yo ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Jerusalem: A Biography
    By Veterans TodaySaturday, December 10th, 2011 BOOK REVIEW by Asmahan Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilizations. From King David to Bar ...
  • Anti-Putin rallies spread across Russia
    Over 50,000 people rallied Saturday in Moscow while thousands more came out across Russia following disputed polls in the biggest ever national show of defiance against strongman Vladimir Putin’s 12-year rule. A crowd chanting “Russia without Putin” marched past tight police co ...
  • One Lie After Another – And Now 911
    By Stewart OgilbySaturday, December 10th, 2011 I recall my father calling my brother and me into the house from the backyard where we were at play that brisk December afternoon, December 7th, 1941. He had us listen to a news report coming from our Philco radio and told us that we would remember ...
  • Overview: Israeli spying
    By Veterans TodaySaturday, December 10th, 2011 Israel runs one of the world’s most aggressive and damaging espionage networks against the U.S.     by Alison Weir   One senior American diplomat explains that inside the State Department “everybody knows that Israel spies ...
  • EducationGram: Copy the Body of this Post and ...
    EducationGram: Copy the Body of this Post and Send It In An Email – All Modern Browsers Allow You To Do It – To Your Elected Representatives, Local Law Enforcement, Military Friends and Everyone You Know By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com Everything Happening Now Was Planned Befor ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Exclusive: The insulting oxymoron of the words ...
    by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube channel) Dec. 8, 2011 The words Merry Xmas put together is an insulting oxymoron, a Christophobic expression of a depersonalized disdain for the birth of a noble human being, and the mockery of a j ...
  • Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Dec. 7, 2011 On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Fed to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout. In 29,000 pages of documents, the Fed revealed that by March 2009, it h ...
  • Charles Shaw: The History of Police Militariza ...
    Dandelion Salad UnheardVoicesArchive on Nov 30, 2011 On Monday, November 28, 2011, students at UC-Davis occupied Dutton Hall, the University’s financial center, and held an all-day teach-in. Author/Journalist/Filmmaker Charles Shaw was one of the featured speakers. Here is his talk, &#8220 ...
  • The Bible: Why does it endure?
    Dandelion Salad Day of Discovery Take a closer look at the fascinating process of biblical research that helps reveal the foundations and credibility of the timeless wisdom of the Bible. Dr. Daniel Wallace, biblical scholar and researcher, uncovers results that point to the Bible as the inspired ...
  • Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Created By Mating ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 2, 2011 DemocracyNow.org – European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sovereign debt crisis that’s threatened to tear apart the Eurozone. Both France and Germany are expected to push for changes to the Eurozone treaty, ...

Your New Reality

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    First The Prisons, Then The Street Corners So here we go. A robot prison guard that can detect dangerous behaviour in prisoners, and deal with them. Time Magazine : In prisons of the future, watchtowers and barbed wire may be just a formality. South Korea is debuting robot wardens with the ...
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    Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
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    I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
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    This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
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    US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...

Wired - Science

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Gene Therapy Achieves Early Success Against He ...
    Symptoms improved significantly in adults with the bleeding disorder hemophilia B following a single treatment with gene therapy developed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis and demonstrated to be safe in a clinical trial conducted at the University College London ...
  • SABCS: Loss of RB in Triple Negative Breast Ca ...
    Researchers at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have shown that loss of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene (RB) in triple negative breast cancer patients is associated with better clinical outcomes. This is a new marker to identify the subset o ...
  • National Youth Poverty Poll Ranks Lack of Jobs ...
    American young people say that the top two causes of poverty are a lack of jobs (82.8 percent) followed by a lack of health insurance (69.4 percent) according to a new national survey of young Americans' attitudes on poverty, conducted by Hamilton College. The full results of this survey will be ...
  • Do You Hear What I Hear?
    Jingle bells, carols, and holiday greetings are all the sounds that help make the holiday season special. But, those holiday sounds also give people an opportunity to recognize if they are having trouble hearing.
  • Mammography Study in BMJ Flawed: Discredited D ...
    Discredited and obsolete data in Raftery and Chorozoglou, published in the Dec. 8 British Medical Journal, underestimated lives saved by mammography by half. Authors equated false positives to breast cancer deaths.

Natural Health News

  • Health Canada Admits Studies on Cell Phones Co ...
    Health Canada is proposing to adopt a precautionary approach and guidelines for limited cellphone use.  Canadians are being encouraged to limit cellphone call length and to text message or use a hands-free device whenever possible. The change in policy follows a World Health Organization ...
  • A Mother's Touch May Protect Against Drug Crav ...
    A new study shows that mothers who are attentive and nurturing may be helping their children resist drug use.  A study in rats found that a rat mother's attention in early childhood actually changes the immune response in the brains of her pups.  High-touch mothering increased producti ...
  • Has A New Natural Solution for Inflammatory Bo ...
    A recent study sought to evaluate the effects of krill oil on inflammation.  Rats with and without induced colitis were divided into three groups, one of which was given krill oil. The rats were then examined for weight and disease activity index, colon length, levels of selected cytokines ...
  • New Report Warns of the Sugar in Cereals Marke ...
    A survey conducted by the Environmental Working Group found that many cereals marketed to children actually have more sugar in them than sugary treats.  A one-cup serving of Honey Smacks, for example, contains more sugar than a Hostess Twinkie. Currently, 17% of American children are class ...
  • Night Shift Work May Raise Diabetes Risk
    Women whose jobs require periodic night shift work may be increasing their diabetes risk.  A study found that a woman's risk of developing type 2 diabetes increases steadily with the amount of shift work. Women who worked night shifts on occasion for as little as three years were 20% more ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • Nobel Laureates “Unite in Sisterhood to Turn o ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman delivered their Nobel Lectures today in Oslo. It was a great day of celebration for the cause of gender equality and democracy. You should read all three lectures in their enti ...
  • Codifying Custom
    by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen Reading Dan Bodansky’s accounts of the difficulties inherent in reaching a new climate agreement, I’m reminded of a terrific new paper forthcoming in Penn Law Review, “Codifying Custom,” by my colleague, Tim Meyer.  Tim demonstrates that the types of ...
  • Author Shana Tabak Responds to Comments from R ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Shana Tabak is a Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law at The George Washington University Law School, where she is also a Friedman Fellow with the International Human Rights Clinic. She i ...
  • Ruti Teitel Responds to Shana Tabak
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Ruti G. Teitel is the Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law at New York Law School.] I am happy to join the conversation on Shana Tabak’s “False dichotomies of Transitional Justice ...
  • From False Dichotomies to a Real One: A Respo ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Vasuki Nesiah is an Associate Professor of Practice at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.] From manufacturing petrol bombs in their homes in Northern Ireland to planning assassination ...

Public News Service

  • Coping with Cancer During the Holidays
    Coping with Cancer During the Holidays Phoenix, AZ – Holidays are supposed to be filled with cheer, but sometimes it's difficult for a person diagnosed with an illness. Because much of our holiday celebration is centered around meals, it takes just a little bit of extra care to make sure l ...
  • AZ Task Force Gets Final Input on Child-Welfar ...
    AZ Task Force Gets Final Input on Child-Welfare Reform Phoenix, AZ – A state task force holds its third public meeting today (Wednesday) to hear testimony and public comments on how the state’s child-welfare system can be improved. Their recommendations are due by the end of the mont ...
  • Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Su ...
    Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Surprised at This Answer Phoenix, AZ – Real Christmas trees help the environment, according to conservationists who say they also provide a billion dollar boost to the U.S. economy. Most fake trees come from abroad and carry environmental costs. ...
  • Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine
    Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine Phoenix, AZ – More than 100 economists and academics have sent a letter to President Obama expressing their belief that protected public lands in the West are essential to the region’s economic future. They say the lands not only promote ...
  • AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in I ...
    AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in Immigration Debate Phoenix, AZ – Immigrants' rights advocates say they see glimmers of hope in the changing tone of the political debate over immigration, both in Arizona and at the national level. They point to the recent defeat of SB 1070 auth ...

Center for Food Safety

  • “Big 6″ Guilty of Human Rights Vio ...
    Citing Systematic Human Rights Violations, International Court Hands Down Verdict to Six Largest Pesticide Manufacturer After an intensive public trial covering a range of human rights violations, jurors issued a scathing verdict to the six largest pesticide and biotechnology corporations, urgin ...
  • Help CFS Demand Labeling of GMO Food
    Filed under: GE Animals, GE Crops, GE Food, Legal Actions, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet P ...
    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Center for Food Safety Petition FDA to Eliminate Toxic Arsenic Residues in Meat Photo by: D Sharon Pruitt Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of wh ...
  • California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...
    Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
  • Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...
    Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Oh Fa Chrissake... - The Final Indignity, the ...
    Oh Fa Chrissake... - The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Friday 09 December 2011 Let's start here. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the ...
  • BBC TV - George Orwell's 1984 (1954)
  • Craig Murray - Ten Per Cent for Freedom
    Craig Murray � Blog Archive � Ten Per Cent for Freedom: From now until the referendum, I shall give ten per cent of my income to the campaign for Scottish Independence. My income is both meagre and unreliable, and I can’t really afford it, but people have died for freedom willingly, and this is ...
  • Craig Murray: In Bed With Lola and Gulnara
    Craig Murray � Blog Archive � In Bed With Lola and Gulnara: The Afghanistan conference in Bonn is a farce. There are no representatives of the Afghan resistance to the occupation, so it is not negotiating peace. Karzai’s corrupt and effete presidency, obtained by massive electoral fraud, expires ...
  • Israel and Apartheid? | Foreign Policy Journal
    Israel and Apartheid? | Foreign Policy Journal: by Richard Falk December 9, 2011 An allegation of apartheid, like genocide, stands for something evil in the public mind, and is associated with the kind of institutionalized racism that owes its name to the governing process of South Africa under ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Memories of El Monte. The Penguins
    This fine doo-wop was co-written by a teenage Frank Zappa!
  • Down to the wire on the Omnibus spending bill
    There are two outcomes I can see for the House and Senate budget fight: (1) Compromise; (2) Punt. “Compromise” would involve significant budget cuts. For example, the IRS budget shows that the House and Senate have agreed to an overall ~ 5% cut — they just need to agree what to ...
  • Driving less, paying more
    Forbes It’s early December and already American drivers have spent over $1 billion more for gasoline this year than during all of 2010, even though demand has fallen 4%. This year will also break the previous all-time record set in 2008. The major reason for the record-setting gas spending ...
  • Ahhhummm… Newt
    Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, a stupid person’s idea of what a smart guy sounds like, said this week that Palestinians are an “invented” people, a position that could be seen as putting him at odds with the U.S. push for a two-state solution in the Middle Eas ...
  • The little union that can’t. IWW Starbucks Wor ...
    If I had to describe the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) today, I would say it’s a small group of dedicated, mostly white, educated activists playing union. This can best be illustrated by the IWW’s latest action to help Union barista Liberte Locke. Here’s the paragraph ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Russian Protests: Western Media Lies (analysis)
    What the media says and what the media doesn’t tell you.   by Tony Cartalucci 1. What the Media Says: From CNN: “Between 20,000 and 25,000 protesters had gathered in the capital, Moscow, Ria Novosti said Saturday, citing police. There have been no reports of unrest and security ...
  • Harsh Toke: Man Faces life in prison for a hal ...
      The Examiner Well now, all other crimes will have to wait, there’s a pothead out there trying to score. Why waste the time chasing rapists, murders and meth manufacturers when it’s so much easier to nab a stoner. How is it that governments and law enforcement is so against mar ...
  • Legislation to Ban Chemtrails Over Long Island ...
      Before its News More than 100 wonderful people showed up to support the proposed legislation to ban geoengineering over Suffolk County, Long Island. The legislation was brought by Cindy and Jim Pikoulas, Siobhan Ciresi with LongIslandSkywatch.com and with help from Rosalind Peterson of Ag ...
  • Visible Proof That Oswald Was Innocent
      by Ralph Cinque Recently by Ralph Cinque: The Man in the Doorway Was Oswald Lew Rockwell It’s always heartening to me to hear from people in response to my articles about the murder of John Kennedy because it tells me that interest in this crime of the century, this coup d’etat against Am ...
  • Iowa Youth Say They’re Switching Parties ...
    The youth still have energy, and this time, it’s all for Paul.   Iowa City Patch Ron Paul called, and the students answered. More than 700 community members, mostly students, turned out to hear Paul speak tonight at the University of Northern Iowa Common’s Slife Ballroom. Every ...

The Air Vent

  • History
    The following paragraph is from the zero order draft of the IPCC on the controversial topic of polar amplification.   The topic is only controversial because one of the two poles is doing a poor job of cooperating with climate models.  Of course some of the pro’s will tell you different, b ...
  • Droppin’ in
    I do love a good entrance… Yup, like always it is from WUWT, but even when repeated, it is still good to see Climategate 2.0″ on the other side of the blue marble.  Think of the carbon footprint! The emails are far worse than the last time.  Many will see that as some kind of [...]
  • Open Review of the ZOD IPCC Paleoclimate Chapter
    What you all have been waiting for.  The IPCC Paleoclimate Zero Order Draft for on line public review. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IJ40UFBT The excitement never ends. Enjoy. —- The paper slid under the door crack.  How these things happen, I don’t know — but they do.
  • Inside Job
    One thing which is abundantly clear from the emails is the incestuousness of the climate consensus.   Of course they fail to see the problem but that is what happens when you are blinded by the goal.  Below is a particularly honest statement by Hulme on Pachuri’s election to head the IPCC. ...
  • The Center of CG 2.0
    One of the rare privileges of being a ‘technical’ climate blogger is that I am sometimes aware of what is coming. There are some good people on the inside of the IPCC and we should all be thankful for those who put the mess in context. My suggestion is – read this post carefully.

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at BLiNQ Media, JibJab Media Inc., Acquinity Interactive, 24MAS Group, ...
  • Facebook Roundup: PHP, Ads, Timeline, Photos, ...
    Facebook Updates HipHop Virtual Machine - In a blog post, Facebook announced today the launch of its HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM). The execution engine will help the company run code faster. [Image via Facebook] Facebook Fixes Photo Bug – Facebook … Continue reading →
  • Making Open Graph Apps International-Ready
    Facebook has posted a walkthrough that illustrates how apps built in Open Graph can be translated into various languages (a.k.a. making your app “I18N-ready”). As the social network expands beyond the United States into global markets — which make up … Continue reading &# ...
  • Christmas, Chat, Tabs, Calendars and More on T ...
    Christmas applications continued to be popular on our list of those emerging as measured by monthly active users this week. There were also Page tab apps, chat apps, card apps and a calendar app. The apps on our list grew … Continue reading →
  • Facebook’s Subscribe Button for Websites is No ...
    Less than a day after announcing it was introducing a version of its “Subscribe” button for websites, Facebook has taken the new feature live. According to a post on the Facebook developer blog, the new button has the same functionality … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • An idiot's overview of why Western capitalism ...
    Alan Hart argues that neglect of the impoverished 80 per cent of the world's population - potentially a huge market for the West's consumer capitalism - by the richest nations, coupled with the shortsightedness, greed and stupidity of banking chiefs and deregulation of the banks and financial ma ...
  • Crippling Iran: questions for UK Foreign Secre ...
    Stuart Littlewood asks British Foreign Secretary William Hague pertinent questions about his inexplicable hostility to Iran, and argues that if Hague's aim "is to help preserve the balance of power in the Middle East so that a lawless, racist regime - Israel - remains the dominant threatening mi ...
  • The whistleblower as hero
    Lawrence Davidson argues that in the contemporary environment where editors and reporters value the prestige of being associated with important centres of power more than the truth and where media enterprises put profit ahead of factual accuracy, the role of the whistleblower has become essential.
  • An America that’s never wrong
    Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
  • Obama and Israel's security
    Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • War on Syria Cover-Up Update: Who is Breaking ...
    The War on Syria Secret Operation Base Gets a Bit More Exposure 18 days ago, on November 21, here at Boiling Frogs Post, I reported on the ongoing joint US-NATO secret training camp in the US air force base in Incirlik, Turkey, which began operations in April- May 2011 to organize and expand the ...
  • House of Mirrors Part IV- The Twilight Lords
    The Question of “what has become of the America I knew and loved?” A question asked by many shocked observers today both inside and outside of the United States is “what has become of the America I knew and loved?” Beginning in the late 1930s as an overt propaganda campaign against fascist Germa ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know–or care–about circumstances in the colonies.” – Bertrand Russell International Newsworthy Azerbaijan to Take in Iranian MEK Members  Afghanistan: The Pres ...
  • Was Obama Calling 911?
    Obama’s National Emergency Powers As financial markets struggle with repeated failures by our central planners in ‘managing’ the crisis in the Eurozone, a recent statement by President Barack Obama is worth highlighting.  On September 13, 2011, in a speech addressing criticism of his jobs plan, ...
  • NATO Update: Georgia’s Entry to NATO Could Lea ...
    Russia on Georgia’s Ticket to NATO Membership Yesterday, in my brief commentary, Hail! NATO Expands Again!, I questioned NATO’s ever-expanding territories and global meddling sphere here at Boiling Frogs Post. Included in my commentary was NATO’s pursuit of resource-rich and strategically positi ...

Afro Spear

  • “Why Kenya’s doing Bashir’s ...
    Wrangles evidenced recently between Kenyan Judiciary and the executive over the ruling that Sudanese strong man, Omar Bashir, be apprehended shall he visit Kenya, left many analysts flabbergasted. One judge, Ncholas Ombija, made a historical ruling when ordered the Minister for Internal Security ...
  • The Al Jazeera slavery debate
  • sat’day riddymz
    “Os tambores de Minas, by Milton Nascimento. This song roughly means, the drums of Minas Gerais, Milton Nascimento’s home state, will never be quiet.” Sis Ana. Saludos…
  • Eduardo Galeano Chronicles the History of Huma ...
    “I believe this reading by Eduardo Galeano is very interesting.  Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan intellectual, writer and novelist, describes himself as being obsessed with remembering and committed to humanity and just causes. I agree with him.” Sis. Ana.  Saludos… Click here.
  • sat’day riddymz
    From Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that ta ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • William Astore, The Remoteness of 1% Wars
    In his latest post, TomDispatch regular and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore takes on our "remote wars," those 1% wars of choice, and just what our remoteness from them means. In our present wars of choice, he points out, "99% of Americans have no stake. The 1% who do are la ...
  • Analysis of Evidence in the Sandusky Grand Jur ...
    An analysis of the evidence in the Sandusky Grand Jury Presentment finds that the evidence against Sandusky is weak, and Curley and Schultz are innocent.
  • OWS' Goals, Strategies and Tactics -- in the M ...
    I've had occasion recently to review several Declarations of Occupation from U.S. cities large and small. Many are straight copies of Occupy Wall Street's Declaration. The ones that differ provide additional explanation and perspective upon the national messaging and plan of action of the moveme ...
  • What if What We Think is Real is a Lie?
    The epistemology of the term religion is the French religere, meaning to bond together or unite. Unfortunately, religion has not lived up to its name and has, indeed, reflected our politics which is about warring divisions between nations, peoples and even the sexes. This article challenges th ...
  • Death Via A Million Cuts -- Thousands of Unite ...
    It may not be a declared war, however, the recent article by The Telegraph demonstrates that China has been undermining U.S. Military systems by supplying millions of fake parts that are currently installed in warplanes such as the "Boeing C-17 transport jet and the Lockheed Martin C-130J "Super ...

Switchboard

  • Redford Center Film to Examine the Future of t ...
    Barry Nelson, Senior Policy Analyst, Water Program, San Francisco Early next year, the Redford Center will release a documentary on the Colorado River called The River Red, directed by Mark Decena. (Take a moment to follow the film on Facebook)&nbsp ...
  • NRDC in the News 12/8: Keystone XL pipeline ri ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz argued in the Wall Street Journal that the Keystone XL pipeline would ultimately keep the U.S. addicted to the wrong sort of fuel, speeding up the pace of climate change… ...
  • NRDC in the News 12/9: Extreme weather mapping ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Dozens of outlets reported on the regional extreme weather records set in 2011 after the launch of NRDC’s mapping tool yesterday.  Kim Knowlton was quoted extensively in Huffingt ...
  • Clean Energy Rust Busting Road Trip Part 3: Ci ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago This is a special guest post from 2011 MAP fellow Lauren Kubiak. She, Rocky Kistner and I recently returned from a road trip in Ohio visiting and profiling businesses with a stake in the clean economy. You ca ...
  • Can grassroots planning save what's best of a ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Not long ago, Newton, County, Georgia, was classic rural America:  a few small towns, some historic buildings, and a lot of farming.  But the county has had the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Things That Will Not Happen
    A successful last-minute Republican candidate. Or, of course, that perennial media fantasy, the brokered convention. The big problem with Silver’s analysis is that it just uses polling data to tell us what we already know: Romney isn’t very popular among the Republican base, and ther ...
  • Days When I Have No Hope for the Democratic Party
    Good lord: The story of how the for-profit colleges survived the threat of a major federal crackdown offers a case study in Washington power brokering. Rattled by the administration’s tough talk, the colleges spent more than $16 million on an all-star list of prominent figures, particularly Demo ...
  • Alabama
    I had wondered what Alabama would do after a police officer arrested a German auto executive under its draconian new immigration law. Now we know. Faced with backlash over the detainment of two foreign auto employees, two architects of Alabama’s tough immigration law say they are having second t ...
  • Ongoing Notes on the Death of Parody
    Penn State hires Lanny Davis. Maybe Davis wrote the Spanier statement about what great men of Honor and Integritude the people who he knew committed felonies to harbor a serial child rapist were too.    Although of course there must be some arguments so obviously dishonest an immoral that Lanny ...
  • Architectural Notes
    A couple of interesting architectural stories. 1. A South Korean developer is planning a high-end apartment development in Seoul–in the shape of the exploding Twin Towers. Never let anyone say that crass America is the height of bad taste. And yes, I know the original links are from the We ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • Participation of Outside Teams 'Sweetens' CECA ...
    'The end of our competition is tomorrow and we have four teams who reached the semifinal. They are from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Sudan. They are the best four teams in the region and I really thank them' Musonye noted.
  • Five UN Peacekeepers Injured After Explosion i ...
    The injured peacekeepers were treated at the scene and later evacuated for further medical care.
  • Burkina Faso Celebrates Its National Day
    She stressed that both countries are strengthening democracy and human rights, establishing new development initiatives and expanding opportunities for more Burkinabe.
  • Stemming Flow of Illicit Arms in Central Afric ...
    The Secretary-General said that the committee had made significant progress, including the creation of the Central Africa Convention on the small arms and light weapons, which was adopted last year, and the formulation of the São Tomé Decla
  • Women on Frontline Struggle for Better Future
    Women have experienced sexual abuse, inappropriate touching, invasive body searches, as well as insults and humiliation of a sexual nature. Female human rights defenders, including activists and journalists, and women political candidates have been

environment 360

  • ExxonMobil Forecasts Major Shift to Greener Ve ...
    A new report from ExxonMobil predicts that nearly half of the world’s cars will either be hybrids or powered by alternative fuels by 2040. While hybrids now account for just about 1 percent of all vehicles worldwide, the oil giant forecasts that hybrids and alternative energy vehicles will move ...
  • Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Lower Than U ...
    The cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems is not nearly as expensive as some energy analysts have projected, according to a new study from Queen’s University in Ontario. In fact, Queen’s researcher Joshua Pearce predicts that solar photovoltaic systems are approaching the “tipping point” at ...
  • Rampant Marijuana Cultivation in U.S. National ...
    U.S. officials say widespread marijuana cultivation in national forests has caused “severe” damage to some ecosystems and wildlife in 20 states. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, U.S. Forest Service Director of Law Enforcement David Ferrell said feder ...
  • As Coal Use Declines in U.S., Coal Companies F ...
    With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil ...
  • Project Uses Satellite Data to Better Predict ...
    A new NASA project will use satellite data to better monitor how much water is fed into river systems across the Himalayan region through snow and glacier Click to enlarge NASAGlacial lake in eastern Nepal melt, an initiative that could help provide early warnings on flooding and drought across ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Russian scientists to attempt clone of woolly ...
    Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction. The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment.
  • Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows ...
    A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change - it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is "abnormal", ind ...
  • Antarctic’s hidden world revealed
    Ever wondered what Antarctica would look like without all that ice? Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the White Continent’s underbelly - its rock bed. Called simply BEDMAP, this startling view of the landscape beneath the ice incorporates decades of survey data acquired by pl ...
  • Gun company ownership is being centralized by ...
    Cerberus Capital Management could cut off all gun and ammunition sales in the US. Many Americans are totally unaware that Cerberus has for the past decade acquired nearly every gun and ammunition maker in the United States and consolidated them into a holding company called The Freedom Group. Th ...
  • Are Psychopaths "Brain Damaged"?
    We all have a ghoulish fascination with the Hannibal Lecters of this world. That’s because many of the most-publicized stories about psychopaths can be quickly banged into a Hollywood script. One of the most absorbing accounts that I’ve come across recently, however, was in an advance reading co ...

Russia Today

Not My Tribe

  • Did Obama middle class speech strike a chord? ...
    OBAMA STRIKES A CHORD WITH MIDDLE CLASS SPEECH. What a fantasmic bit of populist fable-telling. President Obama delivered a speech in Kansas yesterday appearing to speak up for America’s middle class, as if he wasn’t the most red-handed fox in the hen house. Once again President Hope ...
  • Death in the Afternoon. On Wall Street. Chargi ...
    Full story at yeslab.org/bull. Music: You Will See by Lole Y Manuel.
  • Patrick Henry’s pastor recommended: Give ...
    Some juxtaposition, don’t you think? Patrick Henry’s call to arms mashed with the Serenity Prayer. Give me liberty or give me death versus God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I ...
  • One night in a Catholic-run hospital…
    Funny story? I was bidding goodnight to a friend in the hospital, standing over her bed in my long coat, scarf and black stockinged cap, when two nurses burst into our near-black room to announce the shift-change. At once they leaped into each other’s arms in fright! When we’d all re ...
  • Tired of Wall St. Stealing Our Dreams! #Occupy ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • The Squash That You Need To Try
    This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl Snack Girl must confess to a certain dislike of squash. The season is NOW and the fresh squash is rolling in around here so I am trying to change my ‘tude. Acorn, butternut, delicata, spaghetti, calabaza, and kabocha, are names of sq ...
  • Do Something New: The Sane Approach to Solving ...
    This is a guest blog post by Dr. Dina R. Rose If you want your children to change how they eat, you’re going to have to change how you interact with them around food. That might sound like the most obvious statement you’ve ever heard, but I can’t tell you how many parents I mee ...
  • Reminder: Many Cereals are Sweeter than Dessert
    The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit advocacy group, has published a not-so-surprising study concerning the sugar content of children’s cereal. They reviewed 84 popular brands and checked out their sugar content. The most offensive product, Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, is 56% sug ...
  • Why is There Soy in My Hain Celestial Tea?
    We recently got an email from Amy, a fooducate community member: I drink a lot of tea. Often, the ingredients list says “natural flavors” at the end, then says “Contains: Soy.” I assume it is warning about soy because something in the natural flavors contains this potenti ...
  • Call Off the War on Obesity
    This is a guest blog post by Andy Bellatti, MS, RD. It originally appeared on his blog Small Bites “The war on obesity” has become a familiar battle cry. It serves as the basis for professional health conferences or an exploitative a “motivational” extreme-weight-loss shows like The Biggest Lose ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Paraguay to hand over indigenous land
    Enxet child in the Chaco region of northern Paraguay. © Jonathan Mazower/Survival The Paraguayan government has this week signed an agreement with Enxet Indians to hand back 1,000 hectares of their ancestral land. The decision comes after a long legal battle between the indigenous people ...
  • Survival reveals ten hidden abuses against tri ...
    Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival Survival is releasing ten tribal rights abuses ahead of UN Human Rights Day this Saturday, to expose violations that still pass largely unnoticed. Signed 63 years ago, the Universal Declara ...
  • UNESCO calls for ‘urgent safeguarding’ of Amaz ...
    Fish are a crucial part of the Enawene Nawe's diet © Fiona Watson/Survival An Amazonian tribe’s fishing ritual has been recognized by UNESCO as one of humanity’s priceless treasures. The UN body has added the Yãkwa ritual of the Enawene Nawe Indians to its list of ‘intangible cultural ...
  • Brazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in w ...
    Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by gunmen. © Survival © Survival Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month. Reportedly employed by powerful landowners in Mato G ...
  • Crackdown fears peak in West Papua 50 years af ...
    Pro-independence protesters march in t-shirts bearing the 'Morning Star' flag © West Papua Media/Survival Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since they first raised their symbolic ‘Morning Star’ flag. A climate of fear surrounds ...

Greg Palast

  • Greenpeace poisoned me
    by Kert Davies, Research Director, Greenpeace USA Read the Greenpeace blog and listen to the Greenpeace Radio Podcast with Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic: In pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates and high-finance carnivores. Then read this.  It's my soul on a plate.  Then pass it o ...
  • Palast Tonight Live on C-Span BookTV
    Goldfinger the Vulture is going to hate this. Tonight: Greg Palast breaks through America's Electronic Berlin Wall with a LIVE stream on C-SPAN BookTV.org, 7pm Eastern. Palast be bringing the People's Mic directly to the halls of power in Washington DC for one night - telling the sordid sec ...
  • Romney's Billionaire ThreatensBBC Investigativ ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. See Palast live on stage in New York, DC and other cities. Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office o ...
  • Feasting with the 1% —An Evening with Greg Pal ...
    WBAI Presents Feasting with The 1% An evening exposing their recipesand secret ingredients The New York Times Best Selling Author Greg Palast & Special Guests plus the blisteringly funny Lee Camp The New York City launch of Palast's new book VULTURES' PICNIC A hearty m ...
  • Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
    WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle the plastic spoons ...
    Tabitha has asked: How can I recycle the plastic spoons you get in children’s medicine bottles? Thanks ;oD A great question! I can’t take tablets so have to take liquid medicine instead – and as a result, I end up with lots of these little suckers. There is no way to reject them real ...
  • Book review: Garden Eco-Chic by Matthew Levesque
    A few weeks ago, I was sent a couple of gardening books by Timber Press to review here and on The Really Good Life. This is the first one – Garden Eco-Chic by Matthew Levesque. The subtitle of this book is “reusing found objects to create decks, paths, containers, lanterns and more&# ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle novelty Christmas j ...
    I got this email from Edie a few weeks ago but I thought I’d keep it until people were thinking a little more festive-ly — I hope it’s not too late for Edie now though! I love silly Christmas jumpers but not to wear, god, not to wear! I’m thinking of getting some to make ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle baby cot mattresses?
    We’ve had an email from Maggie: I’m due to have my second baby in January but everyone has screamed at me when I mentioned reusing the cot so I’m going to get a new mattress. What can I do with the old one? I don’t have kids so I’m not exactly knowledge but from wha ...
  • How can I reuse, recycle or pass on old board ...
    We’ve had an email from Harrie: We’ve got lots of board games (Monopoly and such) from when the kids were little but they’re not in good condition so I don’t think charity shops will take them. What else can I do with them? As long as they’ve still got all/enough pi ...

Age of Autism

  • Post-Gardasil Syndrome in Quebec Followed Vacc ...
    Read Full Article here......http://sanevax.org/victims-2/ After much research and discussion, my daughter and I had both signed the required form to refuse the Gardasil vaccine currently being administered in Quebec. In order to assure there would be no problem, I also...
  • Age of Autism Contest Win You Are My Star By J ...
    Thank you to AofA reader Joanna McGowan for giving us a copy of her beautiful children's book called You Are My Star for one lucky reader. You can personalize the first page to tell YOUR child he/she is your star....
  • Autism, Epilepsy, Light
    Managing Editor's Note: You're likely aware that light sensitivy is also a symptom of excess mercury in the body. I know a couple o' guys who could write a book in it... From EMax Health: For about 3% of the...
  • Safeminds Launches OB/Gyn Awareness Campaign
    Please visit the Safeminds OB/Gyn mercury awareness campaign. You can download materials to share with your own doctor or on your social media.
  • Winner What About Immunizations by Cynthia Cou ...
    Congrats to Clara Goodman who won a copy of the book What About Immunizations Visit Ms. Cournoyer's site HERE.

Global BDS Movement

  • Invitation: Third National BDS Conference
    The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) cordially invites you to the “Third National BDS Conference” in Hebron, West Bank
  • Veolia blows it again through normalization sp ...
    Supporting a “Race for Peace” is not the way to support peace in the Middle East. A better way for Veolia would be to end immediately its involvement in all Israeli activities in the occupied West Bank
  • UK student body slams university’s Ahava link
    In the NUS’ National Executive Council meeting, a motion demanding the “immediate end” of KCL’s research project with Ahava was passed with no votes against
  • Rho City Council approves resolution condemnin ...
    The Italian company condemned for involvement in the Israeli high-speed railway that crosses the occupied Palestinian territories
  • Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTU ...
    Solidarity from Occupied Palestine with UK public sector strike Occupied Palestine, November 29 – The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS), the largest coalition of the Palestinian trade union movement, stands in solidarity with the millions ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Egypt’s military will have final say on ...
    Guardian – Egypt’s ruling generals have put themselves on a collision course with the country’s new parliament after declaring that MPs will not have the final say over the drafting of a fresh constitution. The revelation is likely to escalate tensions once again between the Su ...
  • US: Ron Paul’s hopes boosted in Iowa by ...
    guardian – He is a veteran candidate, with an isolationist and libertarian agenda perhaps more suited to a bygone era. But Ron Paul, one of the fringe Republicans, might just be capable of producing a surprise upset in the first of the Republican primary elections in Iowa, thanks to suppor ...
  • Mexico’s Inflation Surges, Above Forecasts
    Bloomberg – Mexico’s consumer prices jumped by the most in almost two years in November, limiting the central bank’s space to lower borrowing costs as Europe’s debt crisis deepens. Consumer prices rose 1.08 percent in November, outpacing expectations for a 1.06 percent increase according t ...
  • Startup Turns Your Cell-Phone Number into a Lo ...
    Technology Review – Your phone number’s area code gives other people a clue to where you live, or have lived in the past. Startup company Loc-Aid can use your full phone number to figure out exactly where you are right now. The service has caught the eye of banks and card issuers int ...
  • New Zealand lawsuit over fluoride effects
    Taranaki Daily News – New Plymouth residents suddenly feeling perky after the cessation of water fluoridation are being asked to join a lawsuit action against the Health Ministry. Fluoridegate Legal Action NZ is advertising today to find people who might have had a chemical intolerance to ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Advocacy group's extreme weather map brings cl ...
    A new map published today by the Natural Resources Defense Council makes it plain that extreme weather attributable to climate change isn’t something that only happens in other parts of the world. Chances are, you’ve had your own Hurricane Irene, or drought, or something like it, in your own bac ...
  • New Cook Islands Shark Sanctuary proposed
    Activists in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are proposing a huge new shark sanctuary in the face of fishing pressures and the continued massive drop in shark numbers over the last decade worldwide. The Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, or PICI, is working with local fisheries autho ...
  • San Diego water deal upheld, Salton Sea fight ...
    A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a 2010 ruling by a Sacramento Superior Court judge that the deal was improper because the Legislature had essentially signed blank-check to repair damage done to the Salton Sea.
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer seeks climate-change action ...
    Senator Barbara Boxer stepped up today to deliver an appeal for action at the mostly lackluster UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up this week in Durban, South Africa. Her speech was delivered to an almost-empty Senate TV/Radio gallery, which is indicative of the low priority given ongoi ...
  • Inupiat whaling, drilling at stake in recent A ...
    Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with whaling and a gargantuan new Shell oil drilling p ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industr ...
    The private prison system has rebounded, growing dramatically, and making big bucks with huge help from the Feds, as large numbers of immigrants are incarcerated. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein ...
    In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power," [vedeo] Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |  &nb ...
  • Canadian First Nation Declares State of Emerge ...
    Please share! It's been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community. No aid agencies have stepped forward... Submitted by Kimberley R. to World &nbsp ...
  • Morocco's first Jewish female candidate eyes p ...
    Morocco's first Jewish female candidate eyes parliamentary elections is the only Jew among more than 7,000 candidates, but her campaign symbolizes the diversity of the North African country where Arabs, Amazigh and Jews have lived side by side... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |&n ...
  • Human Rights Petition: Dept. of State: Call on ...
    The death toll in Egypt to date has reached 35 after three days of violence this past weekend against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, by the current ruling military regime. Protesters as young as 13 years old have been killed by tear gas.... Submitted by Elizabeth S. to World &nbsp ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • Participation of Outside Teams 'Sweetens' CECA ...
    'The end of our competition is tomorrow and we have four teams who reached the semifinal. They are from Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Sudan. They are the best four teams in the region and I really thank them' Musonye noted.
  • Five UN Peacekeepers Injured After Explosion i ...
    The injured peacekeepers were treated at the scene and later evacuated for further medical care.
  • Burkina Faso Celebrates Its National Day
    She stressed that both countries are strengthening democracy and human rights, establishing new development initiatives and expanding opportunities for more Burkinabe.
  • Stemming Flow of Illicit Arms in Central Afric ...
    The Secretary-General said that the committee had made significant progress, including the creation of the Central Africa Convention on the small arms and light weapons, which was adopted last year, and the formulation of the São Tomé Decla
  • Women on Frontline Struggle for Better Future
    Women have experienced sexual abuse, inappropriate touching, invasive body searches, as well as insults and humiliation of a sexual nature. Female human rights defenders, including activists and journalists, and women political candidates have been

Worldnews

  • Twilight convention to draw 1,000 fans
    ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 1,000 fans are expected to attend the Twilight Saga Convention in Orlando. The three-day event celebrates the vampire...
  • Tibet Commemorates Human Rights Day After ...
    Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala, India: - Thousands of Tibetans in exile across the world celebrated the 22nd Anniversary of the spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Nobel Peace Prize Day, and marked the 63rd International Human Rights ...
  • In third White House bid, Paul's message ...
    GREENVILLE — Long before he discovered Friedrich Hayek and other free-market economists, Ron Paul got a lesson in sound money from his oldest brother, Bill. It was the height of World War II, and the Paul boys were laying aside quarters from their Pittsburgh Press routes and pooling pe ...
  • Saving the Amazon, From Forest Floor Up
    PARAGOMINAS, Brazil (AP) — Just three years ago, the manmade fires here were so fierce smoke would blot out the Amazon sky, turning the days dark. Towering rain forest trees exploded in flames, their canopies cleared to let pasture grow for cattle. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @ny ...
  • Gold rises to Rs 29,330 per 10 grams
    New Delhi, December 10: Both gold and silver recovered on the bullion market here Saturday on fresh buying by stockists and jewellers to meet the marriage season demand. While gold gained Rs 20 to reach Rs 29,330 per 10 grams, silver moved up by Rs 650 to Rs...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • How to Dress for Winter Exercise
    When the snow flies, the winter athletes get a little giddy. The skiers and boarders live for the cold, and cabin fever isn't a problem. But even if you aren't a fan of the cold weather months, it's still possile to keep up with exercise. Yes, you can head indoors for gym workouts, or clear out ...
  • Charity shopping event benefits kids with ment ...
    Shoppers who want to find good stuff and do good deeds at the same time can head to Fred Segal Santa Monica tonight for "An Evening of Gratitude."
  • Big Firms Afraid to Criticize Medco Deal: Sena ...
    Major firms which oppose a proposed deal to merge Medco Health Solutions Inc and Express Scripts Inc feared retaliation and declined to publicly discuss the deal, said Senator Herb Kohl, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel. Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medic ...
  • Users Of Game Designed By McGill Researchers C ...
    Thousands of video game players have helped significantly advance our understanding of the genetic basis of diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancer over the past year. They are the users of a web-based video game developed by Dr. Jérôme Waldispuhl of the McGill Sc ...
  • DEHYDRATED ALCOHOL (Alcohol) Injection [Akorn, ...
    Updated Date: Dec 1, 2011 EST

Common Dreams

  • Russians Come Out in Force to Protest against ...
    Up to 50,000 people braved the cold and snow on Saturday to turn out for the largest ever protest against the rule of prime minister Vladimir Putin. read more
  • Gingrich Calls Palestinians 'Invented' People
    Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred controversy by calling the Palestinians an "invented" people who could have chosen to live elsewhere. The former House of Representatives speaker, who is the frontrunner for the Republican nomin ...
  • With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Dilut ...
    WASHINGTON — Last year, the Obama administration vowed to stop for-profit colleges from luring students with false promises. In an opening volley that shook the $30 billion industry, officials proposed new restrictions to cut off the huge flow of federal aid to unfit programs. ...
  • Draft Climate Deal Dubbed a "Death Sentence fo ...
    DURBAN, South Africa - No one is happy late Friday at the very contentious U.N. climate talks that went into extra time on Saturday. As the lights flicker on a rainy night here, the partial power failure echoes the failure of the multilateral process, according to civil society and some countrie ...
  • Police Evict Occupy Boston Protesters
    Police have evicted Occupy protesters from Boston's Dewey Square, tearing down tents and arresting about 40 people. The raid brought to an end a 10-week demonstration spawned by the Wall Street occupation in New York. Police moved in at about 5am and the operation lasted less than an hour. A ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontati ...
    James Petras Introduction After suffering major military and political defeats in bloody ground wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, failing to buttress long-standing clients in Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia and witnessing the disintegration of puppet regimes in Somalia and South Sudan, the Obama regim ...
  • Blagojevich gets 14 years, but what about thes ...
    By Michael Collins (Washington, DC) Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich just got 14 years in prison. He wheeled and dealed to leverage contributions and other favors based on his position as governor. He was indicted by former special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald (who tanked the Valerie ...
  • Human Rights Day
    by Stephen Lendman A commonly accepted definition calls human rights basic freedoms "to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law." The UN said "(o)n Human Rights Day 2011, we pay tribute t ...
  • Russia Bashing
    by Stephen Lendman On December 4, parliamentary elections were held to fill 450 State Duma seats, Russia's Federal Assembly lower house. With nearly all votes counted, RIA Novosti said Medvedev/Putin's United Russia party won 238 seats, falling slightly below a majority with 49.67% of the vote ...
  • Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
    Ellen Brown On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout. Bloomberg reported that by March 2009, the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion in below-market loans and guarantees to resc ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Pooled plans won’t solve pension crisis
    A new CCPA report finds that the government's proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) program will do nothing to solve Canada’s pension crisis. The report, by Monica Towson, concludes that rather than proposing yet another voluntary savings scheme, the government should instead focus on e ...
  • OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
    A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this story , "Two factors explain Canada’s growing gap: a widening disparity in labour earnings between h ...
  • Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
    As the City of Toronto considers a budget proposal that would result in drastic public sector job cuts, economist Hugh Mackenzie weighs in with a sobering observation: between October 2010 and October 2011, the entire Toronto Census Metropolitan Area lost 8,500 jobs. Mayor Rob Ford's intent to e ...
  • Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
    A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
  • Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
    This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Worldwide Hippies Saturday Evening Digest
    80/20 rule hard pill for insurance companies to swallow By Sandy Auriene Sullivan,WWH – Has it ever crossed your mind why a mandate for everyone to have health insurance would have insurance companies and their lobbyists throwing such a fit? I mean, on the face of it – sounds like they would mak ...
  • Tragedy, Community, and a Happy Ending
    By Marie Gage,WWH – A few weeks ago at 2 am, a man wearing a hockey mask smashed through a glass door, ran directly to a glass case containing valuable coins, smashed the case and grabbed the coins with the most value leaving several others on the floor, then left as he came. All within [...]
  • Can You Identify Me?
    WWH Public Service I just wanted a cigarette! They think I was a transient, because I didn’t have any ID or even a house key on me. It’s possible the person who strangled me took those items with them. Right? I mean, I just wanted to smoke, okay? This guy came up on me and [...]
  • Counterbalance No. 61: ‘Otis Blue/Otis R ...
    By popmatters.com – Mendelsohn: Listening to Otis Redding makes me sad, Klinger. It’s not a real heavy sadness, but more of a hypothetical sadness. In reality his music always puts a smile on my face because it’s hard not to smile when he breaks in with that amazing voice full of grit and ...
  • WWH Occupy Updates; Austerity Governors now ca ...
    NY, California hitting up millionaires, again ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Hollywood moguls and Manhattan stock brokers are facing a slap by the Occupy Wall Street movement as California and New York again target high-wage earners to address a continued fiscal crisis in the states. On Wednesday, with the ...

FourWinds10

  • 'The Last Mountain' - Official Trailer
    The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for t ...
  • Many native forest species threatened by boomi ...
  • 'On The Beach'
    1950s hit novel disturbingly similar to radiation situation today — except for government lying   When I was in the 8th grade in 1958 and was just beginning to learn how to read for pleasure, Nevil Shute's apocalyptic novel "On The Beach" was the smash hit of the summer, ...
  • Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this ...
    Findings from a "natural laboratory" in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century. Carbon dioxide bubbles into the water from the slopes of a dormant volcano here, making it slightly more acidic. Coral is badly affe ...
  • Nigerian author Helon Habila mixes oil and wat ...
    For all the public outrage directed at government agencies and BP over last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Americans and others across the world have largely remained silent when it comes to the environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry in the Niger delta. The United State ...

Crisis Maven

  • The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
    The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
  • Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
    As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
  • Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
    Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...
  • Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
    We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
  • Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
    When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 4 – Energy Effici ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV answers the following viewer questions: Which industry sectors could gain significantly from a drive for energy efficiency? What are some books that you recommend on the energy industry? In this episode I w ...
  • China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from OilPrice.com. The subject — China’s foray into hydraulic fracturing — was also the topic of an energy roundtable I participated in this past summer: Roundtable on China’s Energy Future. My view is that ...
  • Rank the Top 10 Oil Stories of 2011
    Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 is now open: The top 10 oil stories of 2011: cast your vote now They listed about 40 stories; below are the ones that I voted into the Top 10 from the list they had put together: Keyston ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 3 – Joule Unlimit ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers the following viewer questions: What do you think about the company Joule Unlimited? Who are the best politicians on energy policy? Who are the worst? In this episode I explain the single-most im ...
  • Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • Free Technology for Teachers: Shelfster - A Ne ...
    Comments:Free application that provides users the ability to document resources, bookmark sites, provide annotation, and has iOS app option too.  No Safari bar option available.  - Dean MantzTags: freetech4teachers, research, organizing, teachers, shelfster, notetakingby: Dean Mantz
  • ClassroomDeskArrangement.com
    Tags: classroom_mgmtby: Cheryl Lykowski
  • http://hubforteachers.com/media/pdf/EDU_HUB_TR ...
    Comments:Great poster for junior high and elementary students using "Transformers" as a concept to explain metamorphosis, energy transformation, and adaption.  PDF poster curtesy of Discovery Education and HUB. - Dean MantzTags: hub, transformers, science, educationby: Dean Mantz
  • Friendly Advice For Teachers: Beware Of Facebo ...
    Tags: advice, teachers, facebookby: Jackie Gerstein
  • APPitic - 1,300+ EDUapps
    Comments:Edcuation apps collection - Randy RodgersTags: apps, iPad, education, resources, Apple, ipod, list, mobile learning, classroomby: Randy Rodgers

Rodale News

  • Will the FDA Finally Ban BPA?
    Come March of next year, the toxic chemical bisphenol A, used in the linings of cans and other types of food packaging, may make its curtain call. Or not. On March 31, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will finally announce whether it will ban the chemical from all uses in food packaging, ...
  • 3 Ways Companies Trick You with Food Coloring
    You may have heard that food coloring chemicals are bad for health, toxic to brain cells, and culprits of sparking hyperactive fits in kids. While there do appear to be health risks associated with certain artificial coloring agents, scientists are still trying to definitively figure out exactl ...
  • The 10 Best Ways to Prevent Cancer
    Getting active and cutting excess body fat are two of the best ways a woman can dramatically slash her breast cancer risk—the science is clear. However, obesity, along with genetics, contributes to just 30 percent of the breast cancer diagnoses women get every year. What isn't so clear is what ...
  • The Most Dangerous Thing You Do Every Day
    It's no longer just texting behind the wheel. Fiddling with DVD players and GPS systems, even putting on makeup, while driving have become Standard Operating Procedure for U.S. drivers, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll has found. The online poll surveyed more than 2,800 U.S. adults, all ...
  • Who Eats the Most Fast Food? Hint: It's Not Wh ...
    Conventional wisdom has long held that income levels and obesity go hand in hand: Those with lower incomes have higher obesity rates, their diets filled with the plethora of cheap foods that are unhealthy and heavily processed, while wealthier people have healthier weights because they can affo ...

big think

  • Health Is a Social Construct
    What's the Latest Development? When patients came to Dr. Ricky Fishman's clinic complaining about acute back pain, but insisting they could tolerate the piercing headaches, he began to wonder if our culture of long working hours wasn't redefining what constitutes acceptable health in a neg ...
  • Can Computer Scientists Stop Cancer?
    What's the Latest Development? David Patterson, a computer science professor at the U of California, Berkeley, says modern computing technology can lead a new wave of cancer research by continuing to lower the cost of genome sequencing and, importantly, lowering the cost of processing that ...
  • Is Your Desk Job Killing You?
    What's the Latest Development? Health researchers have long examined the effects of physical activity on our well being but scientists have just recently begun to study the consequences of sitting at a desk all day. According to Dr. Mark Tremblay, an obesity researcher at the Children&#x20 ...
  • Looking For New Love Online is a Major Cause o ...
    Do a quick online search for the term “What causes divorce” and you will be greeted with a myriad of sites claiming to have the answer. A popular claim is that online dating and social networking sites are major contributors to infidelity and divorce. A new economics paper pres ...
  • The "Messiah" Is Worth the Ticket Price: On Le ...
    What's the Big Idea? Going to the orchestra is one of the few Eisenhower-era traditions that hasn't been resurrected for our time, even by the most retro-souled among us. Apparently drinking Scotch neat holds a kind of glamour that sitting for two hours sandwiched between a socialite and r ...

Information Liberation

  • Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Attacks Journalist (Th ...
    Bill O'Reilly attacks a journalist with his umbrella because he asked him some questions. After hitting the man with his umbrella, Bill tells the police the man was assaulting him and tries to get them to arrest him! The police apparently told...
  • 10 Ways the War on Drugs is a Wild Success
    For all the evidence of how the War on Drugs has failed society, there's equally as much evidence of how it is a great success to those who continue to support it. The drug war has many advantages if you wish to control society and expand your empir...
  • Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make ...
    Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales. In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly...
  • What Is The Best Country In The World For Amer ...
    Millions of American citizens have already left the United States in search of a better life.* As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it.* But moving to another country is not ...
  • Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Ye ...
    Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company's printing presses, and told the world that the magazine was a criminal enterprise with a giant ban...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • The Non-Conference
    It’s all I can think of calling it. The MSM aren’t touching it; you even have to search WUWT carefully to find much mention of it. Perhaps it’s because of the sadly damp weather in Durban at the moment (in … Continue reading →
  • Parliament On A Knife Edge Part IV – The Rise ...
    And on it goes. The Gillard government clearly believes it was about to lose its one-seat parliamentary majority, either with this bloke making good with his threat to withdraw support, or this one being carted off to jail. It’s the … Continue reading →
  • Agree Or Else
    I thought I had better post another discussion point for those who haven’t read Ayn Rand; so how about this article, by the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s Miranda Devine, to which Dr Dave and CommonSenseMajority alerted us the other day. Basically, … Continue reading →
  • Life Imitating Art
    While on my recent road trip, I took the opportunity in my spare time to re-read Atlas Shrugged. It’s been quite a while—over thirty years, in fact—since I first picked up Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, and was struck by how accurately … Continue reading →
  • A Whisper In The Ear
    OK, so now the people of the Hellenic Republic won’t have a referendum on the Big Fat Greek Bailout. PM George Papandreou has done a remarkable backflip in the last couple of days. Reading his rhetoric of four days ago, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Attenborough: World is wonderful shock
    A spoken rendition of a classic and poignant song by the wonderful David Attenborough. Right, said Fred, he’s 85, you know? First spotted this on Ed Y’s G+ page. More science news and views:Scientists, normal people? You bet! I'm a Scientist - The Film. Imperial College protein cryst ...
  • Grant a pardon to Alan Turing
    A new petition is now online seeking a pardon from the UK government for mathematician Alan Turing. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man, under an archaic law that no longer exists. He was given so-called “organo-therapy” (chemical castration) a ...
  • Soft soap solution for motorways
    The Steiner problem, or as it is also known colloquially, the motorway problem , is a perennial favourite in mathematics with real-world applications. How do you get from A to Z via any number of intermediate towns and cities covering the least number of total miles? Mathematicians and computer ...
  • Five new drugs changing clinical phase
    The pharmaceutical industry, like many others, faces great challenges in the current economic downturn. In these straitened times, governments, payers, prescribers and patients increasingly want to know the value of new drug products in the real world, and all want to pay for outcomes, not just ...
  • US unemployment falling says tech investor #me ...
    FirstCapital’s John Yeomans (Telecoms industry and now a Cambridge Angel investor) told delegates at the Meerkats and Avatars event this morning that US unemployment is now showing the earliest subtle signs of falling, although the same cannot yet be said for the UK or Europe, mired in eco ...

RFF Library

  • Investigation of Ground Water Contamination ne ...
    US EPA. Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Ada, OK (EPA 600/R-00/000) http://www.epa.gov/region8/superfund/wy/pavillion/index.html [Fuelfix.com]  The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday linked hydraulic fracturing with groundwater contaminat ...
  • Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boon or Bust?
    New York State Bar Journal (Nov/Dec 2011) / by Elisabeth N. Radow http://bit.ly/t9HJM6 [From the Public Citizen Consumer Law and Policy Blog] Homeowners who sign gas leases to permit hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and other states may be def ...
  • The Inclusion of Aviation in the EU Emissions ...
    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development / by Jasper Faber and Linda Brinke http://ictsd.org/downloads/2011/09/faber_web2gp2.pdf [Abstract]  The paper scrutinizes the upcoming climate regulation of aviation transport from an environmental and economic perspective. In addition t ...
  • Managing the Growing Impacts of Development on ...
    United Nations Univ., Institute for Water, Environment and Health / by Hanneke Van Lavieren, John Burt, David A. Feary, Geórgenes Cavalcante, Elise Marquis, Lisa Benedetti, Charles Trick, Björn Kjerfve and Peter F. Sale http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3960397/UNU-INWEH%20Policy%20Report.pdf [From an art ...
  • America’s Biggest Mercury Polluters: How ...
    Environment America http://bit.ly/t9jFOw [From an E&E Daily article by Jeremy Jacobs, sub. req'd]   Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania release the most mercury air emissions in the country, and just five companies account for more than one-third of all mercury emissions in the United States, accor ...

Scientific American - News

  • EPA: Natural Gas Fracking Linked to Water Cont ...
    In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing , concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process. [More]
  • Contagion: Controversy Erupts over Man-Made Pa ...
    It’s a rare kind of research that incites a frenzied panic before it’s even published. But it’s flu season, and influenza science has a way of causing a stir this time of year. [More]
  • Spam Hits Lowest Point Since 2008
    Global spam levels have dropped to their lowest point in three years, and now make up just 70.5 percent of all emails, according to Symantec's new Intelligence Report .This is a significant decline from July 2010, when Symantec detected 230 billion spam messages in daily circulation, a number t ...
  • NASA Looks to 3-D Printing for Spare Parts for ...
    Launch $1-billion-worth of spare parts to the International Space Station, and you can keep Earth's orbital outpost going for another decade. Send up some 3D-printing devices , and you invest in the ability to build everything on demand in space: space-station parts, astronaut tools, satell ...
  • Jailbreak Rat: Selfless Rodents Spring Their P ...
    The English language is not especially kind to rats. We say we "smell a rat" when something doesn't feel right, refer to stressful competition as the "rat race," and scorn traitors who "rat on" friends. But rats don't deserve their bad rap. According to a ne ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • The Great Climate COP-out
    In the next few minutes, I'm going to be closing my computer and leaving the International Conference Centre in Durban, with no plans of ever coming back. The negotiations won't officially be over, I won't know if there is an a ...
  • Dene youth delegate speaks out about Canada's ...
    Daniel T'seilie is in Durban with the Canadian Youth Delegation. A Dene youth from Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, he was slated to speak at the closing plenary of the Kyoto Protocol negotations. Because the negotations have dragged out for a day longer than expected, he won't be ...
  • Climate Justice Now: Time is running out
    Activists from around the world deliver urgent message in dying hours of COP17 On Friday night, in what we all assumed to be the final hours of COP17, Climate Justice now held a press conference to give their assessment of where the negotat ...
  • Police attack pipeline protesters
    VANCOUVER - Police attacked environmental activists outside the offices of Apache Pipeline in downtown Vancouver today. People protesting Apache's stake in the proposed Pacific Trails pipeline at a midday rally were punched, shoved and kicked as Vancouver police locked down the office tower. ...
  • Canada wins "Colossal Fossil" on final day of ...
    Canada has been wracking up Fossil of the Day awards in Durban, South Africa. The award, given out daily during the COP17 conference, is given to countries who have done the most to stymie negotiations in the past 24 hours. Going into COP1 ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Occupy Wall Street: Plan - B
    David Seaton's News LinksForeclosure is a national tragedy and a relentless drag on economic growth. Jobs can’t be created until demand increases, and demand won’t increase until consumers get out of debt, and housing is the biggest obstacle. If we had healthy institutions, the White House, both ...
  • Egypt
    David Seaton's News LeaksThe first round of voting in Egypt shows a strong showing for the Islamic parties, both the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extreme Salifist party Al-Nour. At this point the Islamists appear to have taken two thirds of the vote. This first round took place in urban ...
  • The magnificent quest for Shinola
    David Seaton's News LinksShinola, take a whiff Watching the antics of Romney, Santorum, Bachman, Paul, Cain and Perry and contemplating the mere possibility that someone who should only be handled with forceps like Newt Gingrich could now lead a party once led by Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eis ...
  • The Nicholas Brothers: a slow motion tribute
    David Seaton's News Links The Nicholas Brothers were probably the best dance act of the Golden Age of Hollywood and only Jim Crow could have kept them from being as famous as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I hope you enjoy this slow motion tribute to their art. DS
  • Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
    David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Why Italy is Broke
    The Guardian reports today on Tommaso, the world's richest cat. We've seen stories like this before, so it's all a bit ho hum. But check this out: In a handwritten will, signed on 26 November, 2009, Tommaso's mistress — the childless widow of a successful builder — gave her lawy ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 9 December 2011
    I may have been under the weather this week, but luckily Marian wasn't, which means catblogging goes on as usual. Today, Inkblot investigates the unusual sounds/odors/crinkling noises emanating from the shopping bag he's sitting next to. Can you guess how this turned out?   &nbs ...
  • Elizabeth Warren, Wall Street Shill
    I see that Karl Rove's PAC unveiled a preposterously deceptive ad yesterday claiming that Elizabeth Warren is unfit for the Senate because she's....wait for it....too close to Wall Street. Yes, you read that right. Here on Earth Prime, of course, Warren is perhaps one of the financial industry ...
  • Millionaires Afraid to Talk About Millionaires ...
    NPR wanted to talk to some rich people about whether the "millionaire's surtax" would hurt the ability of small firms to hire more people. They had a tough time finding any: We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressi ...
  • The Eurozone Tiptoes Toward Disaster
    Here is the final paragraph of Felix Salmon's summary of yesterday's summit to save the euro: Europe’s leaders have set a course which leads directly to a gruesome global recession, before we’ve even recovered from the last one. Europe can’t afford that; America can’ ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 289: Peanuts
    Topics: Kriss buys an iPhone Siri…the side piece in your pocket Corporate Douchebags Political Correctness Gone Wild The problem with Comic Book Movies Law & Order: Penn State update Ginger White is still talking A 200 lbs 8 year old Share with your friends:
  • IC 288: The ‘Fuck I’t Gene
    Topics: Getting pulled over by the cops The joys of speed cameras Kwanzaa…the Iotas of the Holidays Easily offended people The Fuck-it Gene The Side Piece contract Herman Cain suspends his campaign Newt Gingrich thinks poor kids don’t work Sandusky gives another bad interview Share w ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Newt Gingrich and Poor Kids
    On the latest edition of “Anybody But Mitt”, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in the GOP Primary.  It’s pretty absurd when you think about it.  I’m no fan of Mitt Romney, but I’ll take Romney everyday over Gingrich.  Remember, Newt Gingri ...
  • Conrad Murray Shouldn’t be Going to Jail
    As often happens, I have once again found myself on the opposite side of public opinion on a topic.  I find this happening more often now.  I tried for a bit to be more PC and censuring what I said but I’ll be 30 in a few months and I’m basically on some “fuck it” [...]
  • The Side Piece Contract
    Another day, another politician with an alleged affair.  This time it’s everyone’s favorite pizza man, Herman Cain.  Cain can’t catch a break with the ladies it seems.  This time though, its not sexual harassment (or assault if you believe Allred’s client) but a 13 year a ...

Simple Climate

  • Greenhouse focus confirms humans’ warmin ...
    Reto Knutti and Markus Huber from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich find just a one-in-twenty chance that natural variability has contributed more than a quarter of the warming seen since 1950, supporting previous studies that used a different method.
  • Ice age data cools down warming rate
    Measurements from the last ice age suggest we can expect a 2.3°C temperature increase every time atmospheric CO2 concentrations double rather than 3°C – but given how much of the world was covered by ice when temperatures were just 2°C cooler, that's no let-off, says Andreas Schmittner from Oreg ...
  • Controls needed to avoid waste in $100B climat ...
    To ensure the money pledged to the Green Climate Fund is used wisely, its spending rules should be regularly reassessed, spending programs should be independently audited, and a scientific approach to spending decisions should be adopted, says geographer Simon Donner, from the University of Brit ...
  • Climate benefit from trees depends on location
    21 scientists including Xuhui Lee from Yale University find that while planting trees near the equator both cools local temperatures and absorbs CO2, planting in northern regions could be self-defeating.
  • Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler water
    Some of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.

e!Science News

  • Pharmacists crucial in plan for terrorist chem ...
    Terrorist attacks with chemical weapons are a real possibility, according to a study that appears in the online open-access Journal of Pharmacy Practice, published by SAGE. Thanks to their extensive knowledge of toxic agents, and how to treat those who have been exposed, pharmacists are an inval ...
  • Pig-induced pluripotent stem cells may be safe ...
    Pig stem cell research conducted by two animal scientists at the University of Georgia reveals a better way to determine the safety of future stem cell therapies than rodent-based models. read more
  • Researchers identify a novel therapeutic appro ...
    Cancer of the liver -- rare in the United States but the third-leading cause of cancer death worldwide -- can result from environmental exposures or infections like chronic hepatitis, but the link is poorly understood. read more
  • Expanding dead zones shrinking tropical blue m ...
    The science behind counting fish in the ocean to measure their abundance has never been simple. A new scientific paper authored by NOAA Fisheries biologist Eric Prince, Ph.D., and eight other scientists shows that expanding ocean dead zones -- driven by climate change -- have added a new wrinkle ...
  • Baby lab reveals surprisingly early gift of gab
    From the moment they're born, babies are highly attuned to communicate and motivated to interact. And they're great listeners. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 20
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is running of the recent posts lists and getting tough to find, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up ...
  • Feeding 10 billion on a hotter planet (Part II)
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Part I) —————— Welcome to Part II of my presumptuously ...
  • Solar combined with wind power: a way to get r ...
    Guest Post by Jani-Petri Martikainen. Jani-Petri is a theoretical physicist doing fundamental research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. Most of his current research activities are computational and involve bosonic or fermionic atoms in optical lattices. He has a lively interest on enviro ...
  • Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
    China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
  • CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
    Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Oh Fa Chrissake... - The Final Indignity, the ...
    Oh Fa Chrissake... - The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Friday 09 December 2011 Let's start here. The Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the ...
  • BBC TV - George Orwell's 1984 (1954)
  • Craig Murray - Ten Per Cent for Freedom
    Craig Murray � Blog Archive � Ten Per Cent for Freedom: From now until the referendum, I shall give ten per cent of my income to the campaign for Scottish Independence. My income is both meagre and unreliable, and I can’t really afford it, but people have died for freedom willingly, and this is ...
  • Craig Murray: In Bed With Lola and Gulnara
    Craig Murray � Blog Archive � In Bed With Lola and Gulnara: The Afghanistan conference in Bonn is a farce. There are no representatives of the Afghan resistance to the occupation, so it is not negotiating peace. Karzai’s corrupt and effete presidency, obtained by massive electoral fraud, expires ...
  • Israel and Apartheid? | Foreign Policy Journal
    Israel and Apartheid? | Foreign Policy Journal: by Richard Falk December 9, 2011 An allegation of apartheid, like genocide, stands for something evil in the public mind, and is associated with the kind of institutionalized racism that owes its name to the governing process of South Africa under ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • IMAGE: Unarmed protester shot to death by IDF
    Mustafa Tamimi, 28, died this morning at Belinson Hospital [Note: Images at link are very graphic] after sustaining critical wounds yesterday in the village of Nabi Saleh when an Israeli soldier fired a tear gas canister directly at his head from a short distance. Activestills, the only photo ag ...
  • Yet another IDF Spokesman lie
    An IDF Spokesman officer tries to mislead the public on the issue of freedom of assembly in the West Bank “The IDF Spokesman is lying, as usual” – these immortal words were not uttered by yours truly or any other backstabbing, well-poisoning and self-hating leftist, but rather by Major General ( ...
  • Plan to flood Likud with leftists is deceitful ...
    An attempt to infiltrate Likud with leftist voters is both immoral, impractical, and liable to backfire The leftist swamp is abuzz in the last few days following an initiative (Hebrew) by Gil Kidron, who wants 10,000 leftists to join the Likud party in order to change it from within. So far, he ...
  • Either Or: Heads or tails
    Ori J. Lenkinski wonders if it’s better to be the best of the worst, or the worst of the best. By Ori J. Lenkinski For those of you who didn’t grow up going to Hashomer Hatzair North America or didn’t come across the game Either Or in another setting, this is how it goes: I present two [...]
  • Vicious reader comments left on JPost article ...
    Never doubt that Israel means well. Read the talkbacks to the Jerusalem Post story on Mustafa Tamim’s critical injury, then death during Nabi Saleh demonstration from IDF tear gas cannister to the face, reportedly fired at close range. From just the first five: illiniwek: “The only t ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

  • Biodiversity Fund opens for Australia's farme ...
    Applications for funding under a key part of the Gillard Government's strategy to cut carbon pollution and secure a clean energy future will open today.
  • Applications open for Suburban Jobs program
    Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Tony Burke, today announced the opening of applications for the Suburban Jobs program.
  • Liberals make excuses for violence at sea
    Tony Abbott should reprimand his Opposition Environment spokesperson Greg Hunt for absolving whalers and whaling protestors of their responsibility for safety in the Southern Ocean.
  • North-East Irrigation Scheme opened
    The Federal Minister for Water Tony Burke and the Minister for Primary Industries and Water Bryan Green today officially opened the first water scheme in the North-East under Tasmania's irrigation development plan.
  • Improving groundwater knowledge in Victoria
    Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water, Senator Don Farrell and Member for Ballarat, Catherine King, congratulated Southern Rural Water on today’s launch at Bungaree of its new groundwater atlas.

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Time to Occupy Parliament?
    This blog post appeared as a London Free Press article on  December 10, 2011 The media’s ongoing reporting of the …Continue reading »
  • When Santa Comes Early
    This week’s news of how our food bank numbers have crept up to 3500 families a month – our highest …Continue reading »
  • How the Grinch Stole the Food Bank Christmas
    It’s hard when the Grinch personally arrives and attempts to steal your Christmas spirit, but that’s just what happened at …Continue reading »
  • Beware the Bait-and-Switch
    The Canadian government recently estimated that Canadians are volunteering a lot these days – some $14 billion worth of free …Continue reading »
  • Just Out – “The Glen Pearson Burge ...
    Well, I don’t know quite what to say. It’s not often you get a hamburger named after you. When Adam …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • EPA Finds Hydrofracking Chemicals Contaminate ...
    Intro: "So much for the oil and gas industry claim that the practice of hydraulic fracturing has never polluted a drinking water well. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency officially threw that claim in the waste pit. It announced that an investigation of water contamination in Pavil ...
  • EPA Finds Hydrofracking Chemicals Contaminate ...
    Intro: "So much for the oil and gas industry claim that the practice of hydraulic fracturing has never polluted a drinking water well. On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency officially threw that claim in the waste pit. It announced that an investigation of water contamination in Pavil ...
  • FOCUS: Obama, a Class Warrior?
    Intro: "Most Presidential speeches don't mean much. Tuesday in Osawatomie was different..." President Obama speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas, 12/06/11. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4300" scrolling="no"}http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/1 ...
  • FOCUS: Obama, a Class Warrior?
    Intro: "Most Presidential speeches don't mean much. Tuesday in Osawatomie was different..." President Obama speaking in Osawatomie, Kansas, 12/06/11. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images) {rsnslider}{wrap height="4300" scrolling="no"}http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/1 ...
  • Kids Eating Rat Poison is an "Acceptable ...
    Fischer begins: "An American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) member is defying Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules limiting the sale of rat poisons that pose dangers to children and the ecosystem. ALEC representatives say that kids eating rat poison is an 'acceptable risk' that does ...

War Resisters League

  • “The Friday of Occupation’s Defeat ...
    As the US military withdrawal from Iraq approaches its deadline of December 31st, 2011, the Popular Movement to Save Iraq‘s Uday al-Zaidi, released a statement calling for celebration, vigilance, and a new front “to resist the second face of the … Continue reading →
  • Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
     [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...
  • Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →
  • Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
    [This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →
  • Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
    [This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.]   Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • Sweetening the Deal for CAFOs: Hidden Subsidie ...
    How are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) profiting from Farm Bill subsidy programs targeted at U.S. crop farmers? How are these “hidden subsidies” for industrial farm animal production (IFAP) hurting more sustainable food animal producers?
  • “Not Some Rump Group”: CLF Cited in Congressi ...
    In making much ado about farm dust, Republicans have been making much ado about nothing.
  • Healthy Farms, Healthy People: You Can’t Have ...
    The Coalition brings together stakeholders from the health, agricultural, anti-hunger, environmental and economic development communities, whose diverse expertise is necessary to make such reforms to the food system a reality.
  • USDA People’s Garden Grant Awarded to Baltimor ...
    The $60,000 award will be divided among existing community organizations within Cherry Hill, who will partner to plant community and school gardens, and deliver education programs that promote gardening and healthy eating.
  • Voicing Concerns Over Antimicrobial Use in Foo ...
    Also contributing to this post is Patrick Baron, CLF Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences. For the first time in 13 years, the Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance* (ITFAR) heard from the public on antimicrobial resistance. We presented a strong argument ...

k2p blog

  • Strong winds in Scotland – wind turbine ...
    High winds caused a wind turbine to burst into flames at the Ardrossan Wind Farm in Scotland
  • Climategate 2.0: What’s in the encrypted ...
    Climategate 1 and 2 emails have so far revealed the mediocrity of the climate scientists and the biased reporting of gullible journalists engaged in promoting global warming. But politicians, bureaucrats and carbon traders can be expected to be the subject of the 200,000 emails waiting to be dec ...
  • Light blogging for 2 weeks
    I am on an assignment in India and blogging will be light for a couple of weeks. In a rainy and cool Bangalore where I haven’t seen the sun in 4 days — but traffic is horrendous:
  • “the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC tha ...
    An email exchange between Alex Kirby of the BBC and Phil Jones of CRU exposes the BBC's blatantly biased reporting.
  • Guttenberg buys his way out of prosecution for ...
    Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has paid 20,000 euros to avoid prosecution on charges of plagiarism. With the case dismissed, Guttenberg could stage a political comeback.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • I Didn't Get Married And Now I'm Out $2,500 On ...
    Plane tickets are non-refundable, a lesson many of us have learned the hard way. But even though Ian expected he'd have to take a hit on a pair of honeymoon tickets he sadly wasn't going to use, he didn't think he'd end up with nothing. Ian wrote in with his tale of unfortunate circumstances, ...
  • Fees Turn Teenager's $4.85 Savings Account Int ...
    A lesson on fiscal responsibility for one teen turned into a tale of caution, after a maintenance fee over-drafted his account, triggering a deluge of other fees and ultimately putting him over $200 in the hole. Daniel's mom thought it would be a good idea for her 18-year-old-son to sign up fo ...
  • Here's A Way To Block Ads On The New Xbox Dash ...
    Earlier this week, Microsoft rolled out its rootin'-tootin' motion-sensin' new dashboard interface for the Xbox 360. And along with the host of new features came a most unwanted companion -- ads. Luckily, for those willing to tinker a bit, there may be a way to stop Chuck Norris from showing up ...
  • Senator Calls For Apple To Pull App That Lets ...
    Apparently there is an app, imaginatively called "Driver's License," that allows users to create phony driver's licenses for the purposes of entertaining themselves and others (because there is nothing funnier than a bogus form of ID). But at least one U.S. Senator thinks the app can be used by ...
  • Bank Robber Scares Himself Silly By Shooting H ...
    It's a bad day on the ol' robbery job when you foil your own attempt to steal money. The FBI is on the lookout for a man who scared himself so badly while waiting for the money he was trying to rob, he fled the scene with nothing to show for it but a set of rattled nerves. The New York Daily N ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Clean up the Development Banks before New Bailout
    World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC.So, the big banks are back in Congress with their multiple hands out looking for donations from US taxpayers. But we're not talking about the Goldmans and the Sachs again – the current banks begging are the "development" banks – the World Bank and its re ...
  • DOJ Official Takes Heat Over 'Fast & Furious,' ...
    Another Reason Lanney Breuer Should Resign: The Tom Drake Case Summary: Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has called for the resignation of Department of Justice Criminal Division head Lanney Breuer for his previous denial of knowing details of the “Fast & Furious” operation. GAP N ...
  • Another Reason Lanney Breuer Should Resign: Th ...
    Senior Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called for the resignation of Justice Department Criminal Division head, Lanney Breuer, after Breuer denied knowing details of the controversial "Fast and Furious" operation. The Washington Post reports: The “Fast and Furious” program ...
  • Senate Hearing on Federal Contractor Whistlebl ...
    On Tuesday, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) chaired a bipartisan hearing of a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. The purpose of the hearing, "Whistleblower Protections for Government Contractors" was to build support for the Non-Federal Employee W ...
  • Internet Puppy Supplier Utilizes Puppy Mills?: ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user db Photography | Demi-BrookeHuffington Post: New HSUS Investigation Reveals Deception by Online Puppy Seller Summary: According to a new investigation by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), internet puppy seller Purebred Breeders sells animals from puppy mil ...

UK Progressive

  • Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill of ...
    The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America’s sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship. We have been headed that way for some time and, with a little help from Cong ...
  • Most Important Economic Speech of Obama’s Pres ...
    The President’s speech last Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kansas — where Teddy Roosevelt gave his “New Nationalism” speech in 1910 — is the most important economic speech of his presidency in terms of connecting the dots, laying out the reasons behind our economic and political crises, and asserting a ...
  • Feds Link Water Contamination to Fracking for ...
    by Abrahm Lustgarten and Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process. The findings by ...
  • The Messology of Bishop Eddie Long Continues
    Bishop Eddie Long, one of the Black Church’s prominent pastors of “prosperity gospel” and bling-bling theology in the Southeast, is flashing neither his gold nor silver these days. The embattled pastor had hoped that settling a sex scandal lawsuit for an undisclosed amount against al ...
  • What Ron Paul, Occupy Wall Street, Lech Walesa ...
    We live in an age of global protest, global unrest and global demands for change in a world where the vast majority of men and women believe they are being hurt and cheated by forces of selfishness and greed in politics and finance. In the current campaign Ron Paul is one voice for a certain [.. ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Councils become climate experts too. (Now Big- ...
    The answer seems so bleeding obvious. Local governments are ruling on what people can do with their own land if it happens to be near seas recorded as rising at a frightening 1mm per year. Home owners are losing options and home value, not because of the rising water, but because of rising nonse ...
  • Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows ...
    A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change — it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is &#8 ...
  • Influential people are getting the message: Gi ...
    Cover: Australian Resources and Investment Dec 2011 The key messages are not lost on the bright and influential, and even if the mass-media avoid the evidence, the facts are quietly storming their way through the echelons of power. For the future historians, here’s a glimpse of how informa ...
  • Skeptics leap from planes to see if zombie med ...
    What do skeptics have to do to break the spell of government appointed experts? Many journalists are apparently trapped in a fit of ideological blindness — they can’t acknowledge emails leaked from their favourite scientists. What do you do when your religious idol turns out to be a ...
  • Australian sea level rises exaggerated by 8 fo ...
    The Daily Telegraph exposed the NSW state government protecting the world from some dangerous scientific analysis of sea-levels. The officials pulled papers and posters within days of when they were due to be released, late in September 2011. Doug Lord examined 120 years of tidal data from Sydn ...

ReNew America

  • GOP elite offer no choice for principle
    (Alan Keyes) - "I never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." -- Abraham Lincoln, Address at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 22, 1861...
  • Romney's record on judicial and legal appointments
    (Amy Contrada) - Summary: Mitt Romney's record as Governor does not indicate a commitment to a conservative judicial philosophy. His judge appointees revealed at best "no philosophical or partisan pattern" (Boston Globe), or at worst a liberal and even radical tilt. He sought out feminists and r ...
  • Occupy's 'nerve center' staffed by Soros activists
    (WorldNetDaily) - The so-called leaderless Occupy movement has just been caught red-handed operating what appears to be a nerve center staffed by professional agitators deeply tied to groups funded by billionaire activist George Soros...
  • The ultimate devastating price of government d ...
    (Lloyd Marcus) - The devastating price of government dependency. I witnessed it up close and personal in the late 50's when I was a child. Both of my mom's sisters had five kids each by various men who simply deposited their seed and moved on. As a result, both of my aunts were totally dependent ...
  • The Romney as viewed by a Massachusetts conser ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The mainstream media have pounced on every GOP presidential candidate widely perceived (correctly or not) as credibly equipped to articulate conservative issues in the 2012 election campaign...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Morphic Resonance and Evolution
    I have a lot of respect for Rupert Sheldrake, and his work is scientifically valid, yet it is mostly mentioned in the realms of New Age. This is a shame because I feel he could ...Morphic Resonance and Evolution is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Risk Distribution Law For Evolution ...
  • In Brief: Sea Levels & Supervolcano: Eruption
    Apocalyptic warnings that islands such as the Maldives will sink beneath the waves are far-fetched, said Nils Axel-Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University. He says that any ...In Brief: Sea Levels & Supervolcano: Eruption is a post f ...
  • Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday
    According to my research, the five days either side of a lunar eclipse are twice as likely to have a major earthquake – the type that cause deaths and appear on the evening news. We ...Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Central Lunar ...
  • Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders?
    My beloved Mysterious Elders, who I hypothesize were behind the construction of pyramids around the world, and were quite likely a different race or species to ourselves, probably had a base. If these elders survive ...Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday
    Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco. He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god ...Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...

Facing South

  • INSTITUTE INDEX: U.S. income inequality greate ...
    A comprehensive new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the gap between rich and poor in the United States has grown dramatically over the past 30 years and is greatest in ...
  • Justice for Sale: Record spending floods into ...
    Judges are supposed to be impartial and fair, but a new report finds their independence is increasingly at risk as campaign cash floods into judicial elections -- especially from secret outsi ...
  • US education chief watching NC school board de ...
    Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in North Carolina yesterday to tout the president's jobs bill -- and he said he was keeping a close eye on the Wake County school board battle over ...
  • Fear is biggest obstacle, says farmworkers' union
    An undocumented farmworker leader was deported last week, reinforcing the findings of a new Farm Labor Organizing Committee report that says tobacco pickers struggling to organize are stymied ...
  • The crisis of crisis pregnancy centers
    Unregulated organizations posing as comprehensive healthcare providers called "crisis pregnancy centers" are slated to begin receiving state funds in North Carolina from the ...

One News Page

  • Citys first gay pride march on December 11
    At Pune's first-ever gay pride march on December 11, not only will the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community take to the streets to declare their status and demand their right to live according to their sexual preferences, even psychiatrists and people from various walks of life are ...
  • Paula Patton wants to work with Aishwarya Rai
    Hollywood actress Paula Patton, who would be seen in the Tom Cruise starrer upcoming film Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol, says, she would love to work with Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. Speaking to reporters in Mumbai, Paula Patton said, “I love Aishwarya Rai
  • Hulk Hogan - Hulk Hogan Sues Ex-wife For Defam ...
    Wrestler Hulk Hogan has launched a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife accusing her of lying about him in her memoir Hogan real name Terry Bollea has claimed Linda attempted to revive her career by writing false statements in her book Wrestling the...
  • Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy To Play Scandal-hi ...
    Funnyman Eddie Murphy is set to tackle a controversial new role playing shamed U S politician Marion Barry in an upcoming biopic Filmmaker Spike Lee will direct Murphy in the as-yet-untitled movie about the former Washington D C mayor who hit headlines...
  • Lady Gaga - Lady Gaga Spices Up New York White ...
    Lady Gaga sexed up New Yorks annual Jingle Ball concert on Friday 09Dec11 by singing a saucy version of White Christmas The Poker Face hitmaker headlined the Z100 radio stations show at Madison Square Garden and thrilled fans with a high-energy set...

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • US Drug War Against Russia Waged From the Asia ...
    The US intelligence community launched its first drug attacks against Russia in the early 1990s, an epoch when drastic reforms were bleeding Russia’s law enforcement agencies and the borders of the formerly insulated country became easy to cross for envoys of Western drug cartels. The Russ ...
  • Karzai’s Loya Jirga
    President Karzai and his government hailed the Loya Jirga, a 2030 strong assemblage of parliamentarians and notables from across the country, as a great success. Certainly it could be deemed a success that the Taliban despite the threats they held out were not able to prevent participation nor w ...
  • Egypt After «Revolution of January 25»
    The first round of parliamentary elections in Egypt has been completed. The elections to the Egyptian parliament (the lower house or People’s Assembly and the upper house or the Shura Council – the Senate) are held in three rounds. First round: from November 28 till December 5, second round: fro ...
  • Cost of Intervention in Syria Rises
    The Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov’s statement today re-affirmed Moscow’s rejection of arms embargo against Syria. It comes on a day EU FMs met in Brussels and tightened the sanctions against that country. But what makes the Syrian situation rather interesting is that Moscow a ...
  • Washington’s European Strategy
    The November 28 US-EU summit deserves to be called a milestone in the recent geopolitical history, considering that during the forum the US dictatorial handling of Europe was disguised so thinly for the first time since President Obama moved into the White House. Moreover, the US Administration ...

BlogHer

  • My 2011 Top 5 gifts for Yarnies
    If there's a knitter or crochet in your life you know that the winter holidays are fast approaching. You can tell by the boxes of yarn that start showing up at the door, the stacks of pattern magazines with post-its on the coffee table, and the gentle clicking of needles and whirring of hooks as ...
  • Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins
    [Wake up on a weekend morning to these satisfying muffins, and it's bound to be a good day. They're even gluten-free, so they'll be perfect for an even-wider selection of your family members and friends! They're studded with cinnamon chips and made more hearty with the addition of walnuts. --Gen ...
  • Make 'Em Laugh: Gifts of Comedy
    What is funny to one person may not be funny to another, but laughter is the healthiest involuntary response (second maybe only to sleep) that your body can experience. Humor identifies common ground, breaks tension and brings people together. So why not spread it around this holiday season?Take ...
  • My Life of Tori Amos: Who's Music Changed You?
    One hot summer afternoon in 1998, my older sister picked me up from field hockey camp, and when I got in the car, she turned on a tape I don’t remember my exact words, but they were something along the lines of, “What is this?! This is horrible!”She told me it was Pandora’s Aquarium by ...
  • BlogHer Conference Update - - December 9, 2011
    Happy weekend everyone -- I hope this finds you well and gearing up to do as little as possible for the next two days. Thank you to all of you who joined us in both New York and San Francisco to officially kick off the holiday season, BlogHer style. A lot has happened since last weeks update so ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Coconut Oil Health Benefits
    There is no better source of saturated fat than coconut oil. Unlike other saturated fats, it contains medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA’s). Other sources of saturated fat contain long-chain fatty acids. Some of ...
  • Peanut Butter – Is It Healthy? Is It Goo ...
    Research shows that peanut butter is effective in combatting diseases. A number of studies have shown that niacin rich foods like peanut butter protect against Alzheimer’s disease and age-related cognitive decline. ~ Health Freedoms In addition, ...
  • Hidden Dangers of Soy: Soy Product Dangers
    If you have been hearing all about how excellent soy products are for you, and how much the soybean can benefit your health on so many levels, then you might be very surprised ...
  • Hidden dangers that are found in Baby food!
    Did you know that most baby’s today are exposed to toxins in everyday baby foods they are consuming? From the jars of pea’s and carrots to even baby cereals, hidden hazards are being added ...
  • 15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood&# ...
    Indeed, food producers save as much as 30% in ingredient costs by opting for cellulose as a filler or binder in processed foods. The downside is that a wide percentage of everyday consumers haven’t ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Never again: Can Upper Big Branch be the last one?
    Earlier this week, I left the mine academy down in Beckley the same way I left West Virginia Wesleyan University and Chief Logan State Park after Sago and Aracoma a few years ago — with a huge binder under my arm, full of mine maps, charts and violations, a dry and complicated report telli ...
  • Transcript: Labor Department lawyer blocked Mc ...
    Following up on yesterday’s Coal Tattoo post, Why didn’t MSHA prevent the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, we published a story in our print edition this morning with more details about the federal agency’s failure to protect Massey Energy miners from the clear and well-understo ...
  • More criminal charges coming in UBB Disaster?
    Just who else is U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin looking to prosecute in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster case? It’s entirely possible that many coal industry critics are under-estimating the potential safety benefits of the $200 million settlement that Goodwin worked out with Massey Energy& ...
  • Two more coal miners die on the job
    Bad news just in: The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration website lists two more coal miners who have died on the job in 2011. One of the deaths occurred at Oxford Mining Co LLC – Oxford Mining #3 in Ohio. According to MSHA: Last Saturday afternoon, a bulldozer operator over-travele ...
  • Key MSHA testimony about UBB kept secret
    Over at the State Journal, Taylor Kuykendall has made an interesting point regarding the huge document dump the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration did yesterday when it released its report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster: In a release of documents Tuesday, the Mine Safety and Healt ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Observations of Japan
    I had the opportunity to go to Tokyo, Japan for a week this month for work and while there I kept a running list of observations. I was able to commute to work on the subway, which I found quite fun. First, my observations: the Japanese are extremely orderly; everything is very neat and clean [...]
  • A List of Starbucks Clover Stores in San Francisco
    San Francisco California & Battery – (Store #10251) 295 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 Laurel Village – 3595 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 Mariposa & Bryant – 2727 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Potrero Hill – Kansas & 16th Street, 350 Rhode Island, ...
  • Three Proxy Options Every Security Pro Should ...
    Working in the information security field it’s frequently handy to be able to browse the web in different configurations. Sometimes you want to be able to see and interact with our traffic we speak with a server, sometimes you want to hide where we’re coming from on the other end, an ...
  • The Danger of Fantasy: Role-playing vs. Reading
    I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I have a group of friends from junior high that still game (role-playing), and I noticed over the last couple of years that there was something very negative about it. I haven’ ...
  • Stereotypes as a Wisdom Metric
    I had a thought this week regarding metrics for gauging overall life wisdom. If you had only one question to ask, what would you ask in order to estimate the overall wisdom of a person? Here’s a possible candidate: What do you think about stereotypes? Are they true, false, or somewhere bet ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Spin it to Win it!
    Calling all you clever people to play a sound bite game. The best comment winner will receive WorldWideHippies.com gear* from me. Registration encouraged, but not required! So let’s play “Spin it to Win It!” Ever hear of the word smith Frank Luntz?   Even if the name doesn&#821 ...
  • Worldwide Hippies Saturday Evening Digest
    80/20 rule hard pill for insurance companies to swallow By Sandy Auriene Sullivan,WWH – Has it ever crossed your mind why a mandate for everyone to have health insurance would have insurance companies and their lobbyists throwing such a fit? I mean, on the face of it – sounds like they would mak ...
  • Tragedy, Community, and a Happy Ending
    By Marie Gage,WWH – A few weeks ago at 2 am, a man wearing a hockey mask smashed through a glass door, ran directly to a glass case containing valuable coins, smashed the case and grabbed the coins with the most value leaving several others on the floor, then left as he came. All within [...]
  • Can You Identify Me?
    WWH Public Service I just wanted a cigarette! They think I was a transient, because I didn’t have any ID or even a house key on me. It’s possible the person who strangled me took those items with them. Right? I mean, I just wanted to smoke, okay? This guy came up on me and [...]
  • Counterbalance No. 61: ‘Otis Blue/Otis R ...
    By popmatters.com – Mendelsohn: Listening to Otis Redding makes me sad, Klinger. It’s not a real heavy sadness, but more of a hypothetical sadness. In reality his music always puts a smile on my face because it’s hard not to smile when he breaks in with that amazing voice full of grit and ...

reference frame

  • Higgs mass: 124.6 GeV CMS, 126 GeV ATLAS
    Every other experimental collaboration with more than 3,000 members harbors a traitor, whistleblower, or a black sheep in general. We're very fortunate that much like University of East Anglia, the CMS Collaboration at CERN obeys this condition, too. The renegade's name is Italian, Tommaso Do ...
  • Richard Feynman on the climate conference in D ...
    Marc Morano sent us a link to a remarkable UNFCCC draft document that was proposed as the final statement by the participants of the ongoing climate fat cats' orgies in Durban, South Africa: Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of a comprehensive and balanced outcome to ...
  • Plans and fears: euro breakup no longer taboo
    It's not quite as true as it is in the case of the global warming panic but it's still true that the main drivers that led to the birth of the euro were some desired political signals, not economic advantages. Most of those leaders didn't care whether the shared currency would actually make t ...
  • Learning from theory and data about our string ...
    By Gordon Kane, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, University of Michigan Let me begin by thanking Luboš Motl for the opportunity to explain our string theory prediction for the Higgs boson mass more fully. Our paper arXiv:1112.1059 is, we hope, complete and clear, but it is ...
  • Higgs at 125 GeV and SUSY with heavy scalars
    The world is eagerly expecting whether or not CERN will announce some evidence from the diphoton channel that there is a Higgs boson whose mass is between 124 and 126 GeV. Well, the bump will probably be a bit wider. The image should say 14:00, not 16:00, as the beginning of the CE ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Coming to Japan – The Fukushima China Syndrome
    Yet more news out of Japan that the worse is yet to come from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. TEPCO has quietly let it be known that a ‘China Syndrome’ event is coming to Japan, where the molten fuel rods will come in contact with ground water and then everything will go bo ...
  • Tim TJ Wass: 16 FACTS THAT PROVE RON PAUL IS B ...
    Tonight I read an online article about how an Iowa Poll has put Dr. Ron Paul in second for the GOP nomination just behind, the bought and paid for corporate stooge, Newt Gingrich. The comments sections to this article were very much pro Ron Paul because he simply is a man of the people, who [... ...
  • I don’t have time for this shit
    I do this blog because I like calling attention to the foibles of us dumb-dumbs so it really pisses me off when I attract the attention of morons who seem to not like my message and engage in illegal and unethical behavior by launching a DOS attack on this site. So to the tards that [...] R ...
  • Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
    Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
  • I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
    What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

Enviroblog

  • Stand Up for REAL Food - Twinkies Aren't Breakfast
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Of course you don't serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much - or more - sugar every day in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, an ...
  • Great Books Make Great Gifts: What EWG Is Reading
    By Jane Houlihan, EWG V-P for Research If there's one thing we at Environmental Working Group love, it's a good book - especially about the issues we work on. Honestly, there are so many good ones. So when I started... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
    Second of a two-part blog on health concerns tied to natural ingredients. By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
    By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at two common plant-based ingredients - tea tree and lavender oils - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
    By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Peace Prize winners linked by change
    The three women who were awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Saturday are, according to one of them, “linked by their commitment to change” along with peace, democracy and justice. New Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, also used some o ...
  • Big increase in politicians assigned bodyguards
    Threats and unusually strong expressions of displeasure have dramatically increased the number of Norwegian politicians who have been assigned bodyguards. More have bodyguards now than ever before. Until recently only the prime minister was assigned a permanent bodyguard, and that was a fairly n ...
  • Eide finally moved up the ranks
    Espen Barth Eide had been branded the “eternal state secretary” before he finally was tapped to be Norway’s new defense minister last month. After five years in the number-two post at the ministry, and then a relatively short stint as state secretary in the foreign ministry, Ei ...
  • Critics still question Nobel choices
    NEWS ANALYSIS: It’s still said to be the most prestigious prize in the world, but debate continues to swirl over how winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are chosen. Some feel human rights issues now take precedence over the disarmament Alfred Nobel championed. The Norwegian government, meanwh ...
  • Nobel Days all weekend long
    The banners are up, the winners are in Oslo and Norway’s capital planned to celebrate the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize throughout the weekend. Some of the events tied to the Peace Prize will last well into the New Year. This year’s prize has been awarded in three equal parts to ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Act Now to Stop the Keystone Pipeline (Again!)
    First the good news: President Obama is standing firm on his decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline, and he’s threatened to veto any attempt by Congress to move that timeline up. Of course, that’s exactly what those legislators who are most bought by Big Oil are trying to do. T ...
  • Introducing Murujan Permaculture Design: From ...
    Murujan Permaculture Design is a newly formed Permaculture Design Consultancy based in Malaysia. We are happy to announce that we plan to host a Permaculture Design Course taught by Mustafa Fatih Bakir (see Mustafa’s WPN profile here) at the property of our first clients. Roots of Murujan ...
  • How to Compost a Whale
    For all of you people with whales that you need to compost, you might gain some insights in how to go about it with this little video. This is also a great story about respect for these amazing creatures, and how this community project in Alaska is giving visitors a greater appreciation for ...
  • Unanimous Decision by L.A. Council Makes the C ...
    Hey, here’s some good news to brighten your day. The Los Angeles Council has made L.A. the first U.S. city to officially vote for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that effectively granted corporate entities the same r ...
  • Argentinian Report Identifies Major Medical Pr ...
    Note: An important report by Argentine physicians has just been published in English. It arose from the 1st National Meeting Of Physicians In The Crop-Sprayed Towns, at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of Cordoba. The report can be downloaded here (PDF). It points once ...

Pointman's

  • Why climategate destroyed the science of globa ...
    We are engaged in a debate that has polarised into two distinct factions. On one side, the skeptics of global warming and on the other, the believers in it. Depending on how heated the debate becomes, the skeptics are called deniers and the believers are called alarmists in response. I am on the ...
  • Helping to catch the climategate whistleblower.
    I got an email from someone this week. I’ll leave out the frothing details, but they were basically accusing me of helping to track down the climategate leaker (FOIA) and telling me to shut up. It’s one of those communications I file under “maniac” and forget because I get a lot of them. Lord, y ...
  • Happy birthday Pointman’s.
    It doesn’t seem like it, but it’s been a year since I started this blog. I started it for a number of reasons and with more than a few reservations but with some modest hopes in sight, so now seems to be an appropriate time to think about how it’s doing and the experience of being a & ...
  • Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been ...
    You’re appalled, you’re outraged, you’re stunned and you’re angry about the whole climategate emails thing. And now you’re most likely out here in the blogosphere because the mainstream media in the country you live in is either not mentioning them at all or have relegated it to a small-print fo ...
  • Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
    Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Community Profile: Peggy Rayas Matthews of VOT ...
    From our friends at VOTE-NOLA: Though Peggy Rayas Matthews has been with VOTE for less than a year, her accomplishments have established her defining presence and commitment to the mission of the group. “I came out to a meeting this January for the first time and I was impressed w ...
  • Library of New Orleans Youth Prison to Feature ...
    From our friends at BreakOUT!: BreakOUT! member and formerly-detained youth, B., delivered a box of LGBTQ books to the Youth Study Center, New Orleans’ juvenile detention facility, on Friday. The books, which came through generous donations from community members during a book drive held in Sep ...
  • Sojourner Truth Academy Suspends 20% of its Se ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Friday, November 18th, ten honor-roll seniors at Sojourner Truth Academy were suspended for singing in the school cafeteria during lunchtime. The suspensions occurred without notice or warning, and in violation of the school code ...
  • Occupy NOLA Activists Prevent Sheriff's Sale o ...
    Note: In addition to the successful action described below, Occupy NOLA also won a victory in court today. A judge ruled that the city should not have evicted Occupy Nola, and that protesters have the right to move back into Duncan Plaza. According to a Times Picayune report: Bill Quigley, a la ...
  • Junebug Productions Premieres Homecoming Proje ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: Junebug Presents... HOMECOMING PROJECT 2011! Saturday, December 3rd 12pm - 5pm THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON! Junebug Productions is proud to present the inaugural installment of our new place-based storytelling performance series, HOMECOMING PROJECT, wher ...

Information Underground

  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
    Here's an interesting bit I've been reading about lately: the masoretic Hebrew bible. Apparently, the Septuagint was the translation of the OT into Greek around 280BC. Then the NT scriptures were written in Greek (I think the original Mt Gospel was Aramaic). St. Jerome did a translation of the ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    sounds like a hate crime....Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Sat Dec 10, 2011 2:02 am
  • Gun Talk • Re: Gun Talk Forum rules...
    My suggestion for anyone planning to purchase a Defense or Hunting/Target Weapon, is take the time and make the extra effort to research the Manufacturer before buying. Presently Remington, Bushmaster and Marlin are jew owned by Freedom Arms via the investment group Cerebus (The Three Headed Do ...
  • Progressive Action & Organised Resistance ...
    Some classic early school Blondie: Blondie X Offender 1976 iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFZl7kjBmRo Nice Ts... but the story is kind of prophetic in the J-tarded take over of "decency" perspective... Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Sat Dec 10, 2011 12:57 am
  • Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: How ‘ ...
    Timothy_Fitzpatrick wrote: What's shut up penis breath from? I thought maybe the original "J-show" -- Close Encounters of the "Jew" described Kind... aliens from the DP... Holohoax...Jewish "stench" re-invented for a new generation.. Statistics: Posted by CrackS ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • ExxonMobil Forecasts Major Shift to Greener Ve ...
    A new report from ExxonMobil predicts that nearly half of the world’s cars will either be hybrids or powered by alternative fuels by 2040. While hybrids now account for just about 1 percent of all vehicles worldwide, the oil giant forecasts that hybrids and alternative energy vehicles will move ...
  • Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Lower Than U ...
    The cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems is not nearly as expensive as some energy analysts have projected, according to a new study from Queen’s University in Ontario. In fact, Queen’s researcher Joshua Pearce predicts that solar photovoltaic systems are approaching the “tipping point” at ...
  • Rampant Marijuana Cultivation in U.S. National ...
    U.S. officials say widespread marijuana cultivation in national forests has caused “severe” damage to some ecosystems and wildlife in 20 states. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, U.S. Forest Service Director of Law Enforcement David Ferrell said feder ...
  • As Coal Use Declines in U.S., Coal Companies F ...
    With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil ...
  • Project Uses Satellite Data to Better Predict ...
    A new NASA project will use satellite data to better monitor how much water is fed into river systems across the Himalayan region through snow and glacier Click to enlarge NASAGlacial lake in eastern Nepal melt, an initiative that could help provide early warnings on flooding and drought across ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • So what if RIM failed? Would that be all bad?
    By Mark Evans As an enthusiastic supporter of Canada’s high-tech community, I’m hoping RIM can somehow find a way to revive its flagging fortunes. But the terrible debut of the PlayBook, the modest reception to the BlackBerry 9900, and October’s global network outage has not only put RIM o ...
  • G20: The morons who came in from the cold
    By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up.  An RCMP "joint intelligence group" --  comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police -- infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of the largest domestic intelligence o ...
  • Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
    By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...

Daily Beast

  • The Fatwa Against Bananas
    As Asra Nomani writes, fatwas have become ridiculous. See her list of the 10 most outrageous ones.
  • Catholic Vote's New Math
    The Catholic vote is up for grabs—and more complex than ever.
  • I Was Arrested at Occupy Bronx
    Journalist Carla Murphy had planned to cover a small protest in the Bronx last Saturday and then head to brunch—but she went to jail instead.
  • Al Sharpton’s Hypocrisy
    Criticizing GOP charges of vote fraud, Sharpton ignores his own involvement in the centerpiece of their campaign.
  • CIA Drone Jackpot for Iran
    Babak Dehghanpisheh on the possible intelligence bonanza not just for Iran but Russia, China, and others.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Deng: China's tarnished visionary
    Deng Xiaoping is one of the most influential men in modern history and here his dramatic story, one intertwined with elite intrigues in the Chinese Communist Party, is recounted in detail by one of the most eminent scholars of Asia. Deng was thrice purged, but managed to climb back each time, ...
  • Mao's mother passes away
    The mother of figure skating star Mao Asada died early Friday morning, the skater's management agency IMG reported. She was 48. Two-time world champion Mao pulled out of the Grand Prix Final in Quebec City early Thursday morning and returned to Japan after learning that her mother Kyoko, who h ...
  • Wild monkeys to carry forest fallout monitors
    Fukushima University researchers plan to measure forest radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture by placing special monitoring collars on wild monkeys, in light of the nuclear crisis. Each of the collars contains a small radiation meter and a Global Positioning System transmitter, and can be u ...
  • First batch of Miyagi tsunami debris arrives i ...
    The first batch of rubble from Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, arrived in Tokyo on Saturday under an agreement to help the town dispose of 100,000 tons of potentially radioactive tsunami debris by March 2014. Before jumping into the full-fledged transfer of some 50 tons of rubble per day in Februa ...
  • Golfer Ochoa gives birth to baby boy
    Former top-ranked golfer Lorena Ochoa has given birth to a baby boy. Ochoa's brother Alejandro said the baby was born Thursday at 8:58 p.m. in Mexico City and named Pedro Conesa Ochoa. Her husband is Mexican businessman Andres Conesa.

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • The Canada-US Border Deal: How the U.S. blackm ...
    Finally, the stars aligned and after a 10-year effort there is consensus with the Americans on what might be done to ease border restrictions. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama announced Wednesday a plan establishing an agenda for improvements to cross-border goods and ser ...
  • War on Workers continues in Nova Scotia
    The holy commotion orchestrated by Nova Scotia employers over Bill 102 on First Collective Agreement Arbitration is not really about this very modest piece of legislation. At best, it will affect few employers. As the premier has said, most Canadian provinces have such legislation and it is seld ...
  • For Some, Arrogance is Bliss
    This fall, Margaret Wente discovered people under 40. Woot! Okay, that’s not entirely fair. Given her years of pontificating on topics like the environment, public schools, and the glass ceiling, it’s inevitable that sooner or later she manages, even accidentally, to quote or refer to someone un ...
  • War Radio and the Militarization of Canadian C ...
    “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” I was reminded of this chilling warning from the late British historian E.P. Thompson, while listening to Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio on November 20. Murphy was interviewing Terry Glavin, a B.C. author, about Glavin’s ...
  • Facts and Evidence versus Threats and Hyperbol ...
    The recent debate in Nova Scotia surrounding proposed first contract arbitration (FCA) legislation offers revealing truths about the contemporary relationship between labour and capital in Atlantic Canada.  Arguments recently presented by the business community to the Law Amendments Committee ag ...

ReDress

  • An idiot's overview of why Western capitalism ...
    Alan Hart argues that neglect of the impoverished 80 per cent of the world's population - potentially a huge market for the West's consumer capitalism - by the richest nations, coupled with the shortsightedness, greed and stupidity of banking chiefs and deregulation of the banks and financial ma ...
  • Crippling Iran: questions for UK Foreign Secre ...
    Stuart Littlewood asks British Foreign Secretary William Hague pertinent questions about his inexplicable hostility to Iran, and argues that if Hague's aim "is to help preserve the balance of power in the Middle East so that a lawless, racist regime - Israel - remains the dominant threatening mi ...
  • The whistleblower as hero
    Lawrence Davidson argues that in the contemporary environment where editors and reporters value the prestige of being associated with important centres of power more than the truth and where media enterprises put profit ahead of factual accuracy, the role of the whistleblower has become essential.
  • An America that’s never wrong
    Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
  • Obama and Israel's security
    Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".

Physics Today

  • Giant stars bare their whirling hearts
    Science: Cool giant stars spin slowly on their surfaces, but what about their cores? Paul Beck of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and colleagues have reported that the cores of three yellow giant stars, each 20% to 50% more massive than our Sun, spin at least ten times faster than t ...
  • Researchers build spherical dynamo to mimic Ea ...
    Nature: Although self-sustaining dynamos occur readily in stars and planets, none has yet been achieved in the lab. That may change next year when a project at the University of Maryland, College Park, is scheduled to go on line. Housed in a cavernous warehouse at the university, the Three Meter ...
  • ARPA-E's head nominated as DOE undersecretary
    Science: Arun Majumdar, founding director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA–E), may soon become undersecretary for the US Department of Energy (DOE). Although Majumdar has been acting undersecretary since March, the Obama administration did not officially nominate ...
  • Lightning sprites, elves caught on camera
    National Geographic: Huge, quick, and brighter than the planet Venus as seen from Earth, sprites, elves, blue jets, and crawlers are bursts of electrical energy associated with large thunderstorms. Along with lightning and the auroras, the phenomena are luminous plasmas characterized by intermed ...
  • CERN to announce tentative Higgs detection
    BBC: Next Tuesday, representatives of the two principal detectors at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, will announce the results so far of their search for the Higgs boson. Rumors are flying ahead of the announcement. According to the BBC's Susan Watts, who interviewed CERN theorist J ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • 99% Of Republicans In House Voted Against The ...
    by albertodegama (Posted Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:35:29 GMT) Although the majority of the house voted against the bill, there certainly could be other reasons to vote for, or against it, than simply to veto the constitution. It is unfair to take only a small piece of the bill and render a judgment u ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Gardens...
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:49 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla speaks about GARDENS... 1 Month ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there is a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding gardening. Should you plant your vegetables depending on the phases ...
  • FF NewS: President Abdulla 'tees off...'
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:15 GMT) FF News: President Abdulla 'tee's off...' 1 Month, 1 Week ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla finally worked his way into the upper reaches of the Footprintsfilmworks.com Open leaderboard in Saturday's third round, though h ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack ...
    by footprints222 (Posted Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:36:19 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack Obama 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there will be road closures and traffic restrictions over the next two days during United States president Barack Ob ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
    by footprints888 (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:16:53 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...

Peakwater

  • Going Without Clean Water
    “In the U.S., we use an average of 100 gallons each day for washing, cooking, cleaning, drinking, (and lawn watering). This doesn’t account for the water that’s required to grow our food, manufacture our computers, or refine the fuels we rely on to drive our cars and keep our homes, and wa ...
  • IS RAIN WATER AN INDUSTRIAL POLLUTANT?
    “The case is Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. et al. v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, reversing more than 35 years of practice and statutory interpretation, that runoff of rain water from forest roads that passes through one or more pipes or culv ...
  • Mekong Governments Delay the Xayaburi Dam Pend ...
    “In a crucial decision for the people and ecosystems of the Mekong River Basin, the governments of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam agreed today to delay the Xayaburi Dam, the first of eleven dams proposed for the Mekong River, pending further study on the impacts of the proposed Meko ...
  • E.P.A. Links Tainted Water in Wyoming to Hydra ...
    “Chemicals used to hydraulically fracture rocks in drilling for natural gas in a remote valley in central Wyoming are the likely cause of contaminated local water supplies, federal regulators said Thursday. The draft report, after a three-year study by the Environmental Protection Agency, ...
  • The big challenge for a new Egypt: water
    “Egypt’s historical dominance of the Nile waters dates back to colonial era agreements made when Britain controlled much of east Africa and the Nile basin. The accords grant Egypt 55.5bn of the 74bn cubic metres a year of the Nile’s usable flow. Ethiopia and others have long be ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply from Manufac ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today announced commonsense legislation that would prohibit open-air cultivation of Genetically Engineered (GE) pharmaceutical and industrial crops, preventing biological contamination of our food supply. The bill would also establish a tracking system to regul ...
  • FirstEnergy Tells Public One Thing, NRC Anothe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned whether FirstEnergy has been entirely upfront with the people of Ohio over the extent of the damage to the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. Kucinich requested full public disclosure of all relevant photographs, test results, analyses and report ...
  • Kucinich: Allow Consumers to Make Informed Choices
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement upon announcing legislation that would require the labeling of all foods that contain or are produced with genetically engineered (GE) material. “Genetic engineers have dramatically altered the food we consume, disrupting e ...
  • Kucinich: Postal Service Privatization Plan Wi ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time proponent of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and senior member of the Congressional committee that oversees the agency, today released the following statement after plans were announced to significantly degrade service and drive customers t ...
  • Kucinich: FirstEnergy Puts Profits Before Safe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized FirstEnergy to restart its Davis-Besse nuclear power plant before an investigation into widespread ‘cracking’ could be completed. “On Friday, the Nuclear Regulat ...

Authentically Wired

  • SAFE IS SUBJECTIVE
        … SAFE  IS  SUBJECTIVE  … and you are NOT invited to these discussion nor is your voice given credence … SAFE is determined behind closed doors by government regulators … for-profit-engineers and contractors … lobbyists for land develope ...
  • Are we really buying his
      … You gotta be kidding me … try that line with your credit card company or auto loan or home mortgage … … Are we really buying his bullshit…? Corzine: I didn’t tell my company to use customer dollars, and if I did, I didn’t mean it 12/9/2011 9:55:06 AM  ...
  • clown masquerading
      … As long as Joe has the rabid citizens of Sun City backing his antics … the rest of Maricopa County’s citizens will suffer because far too many of them don’t vote or are amused by Joe’s PR antics and his “toughest” image … … We need ethical law enforcement not som ...
  • … Crow needs to eat crow …
    … ASU President Michael Crow’s exhibition of hubris in what is fast becoming a national laughing stock debacle will have long term repercussions on all aspects of ASU … ASU cannot be trusted … Again another Arizona educational institution demonstrates our choice to remain at th ...
  • trust me this software works …
      … OK … if this new nuclear reactor is SAFE and GREEN then why does Billy Gate$ need to go to China to get it built … Bill Gates idea of what is the truth is quite well documented when he lead Microsoft … trust me this software works … Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...
  • Interview with conservation legend, Richard Leakey
    Following in his family's footsteps, Dr. Richard Leakey, is considered the heir to the scientific legacy of his parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, icons in the field of paleoanthropology. Dr Richard Leakey has been credited with some of the field's most successful paleoanthropologic finds, includi ...
  • Report questions legitimacy of Asia Pulp & Pap ...
    A new report by an Indonesian environmental group casts doubt on Asia Pulp & Paper's commitment to sustainability. In its corporate social responsibility reports and advertisements, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of Indonesia's largest pulp and paper suppliers, has touted several forest reserves a ...
  • Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
  • Sowing the seeds to save the Patagonian Sea
    With wild waters and shores, the Patagonia Sea is home to a great menagerie of marine animals: from penguins to elephants seals, albatrosses to squid, and sea lions to southern right whales. The sea lies at crossroads between more northern latitudes and the cold bitter water of the Southern Ocea ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Clear skies perfect for lunar eclipse
    Clear skies made it a good night for a lunar eclipse, the last until 2014.It began just after 3am and lasted until almost four, as Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon.The moon turned a reddy-orange colour towards the end...
  • Rare lunar eclipse in tonight's sky
    A copper-tinged moon will be visible early tomorrow morning as New Zealand gets the box seat for a rare lunar eclipse.The hour-long total blocking of the view of the moon will begin around 3am and will be seen from all of New Zealand...
  • 'You (not so) dirty rat!'
    Rats don't always act like, well, rats.New experiments show rats demonstrating compassion and helping other rodents. It's a trait some scientists thought was reserved only for humans and higher primates.And it's certainly not...
  • Business Leader of the Year Finalist: Jennifer ...
    Jennifer Holmgren may have only become LanzaTech's chief executive in June last year, but since then the pioneering clean-energy developer has gone from strength to strength.The company - which has its scientific base in Parnell...
  • Are we alone in the universe?
    A third of New Zealanders believe aliens have visited Earth and a majority think psychic powers exist, a study has found.One thousand respondents were asked by UMR Research if they believed "that Earth has been visited by UFOs from...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Durban Debacle?
    Durban, South Africa - All right, the above headline may be premature, but one big rumor here at the convention center at near 9 p.m. on Saturday night is that a critical phrase insisted on by the European Union has been changed from "begin a process to develop a Protocol or other leg ...
  • Durban Climate Meeting Drags On - Durbanhagen ...
    Durban, South Africa – The 17th conference of the parties (COP-17) to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was supposed end on Friday, December 9. However, COP-17 is still hung up on three main issues: (1) will countries agree to a “roadmap” for future negotiations be ...
  • Bloggers: You Can Still Get $$$ Out of Newspapers
    I miss the days when bloggers were still ripping off all their content from big media conglomerates. Now the MSM is stealing from bloggers, and it's like there are no standards anymore. Photographer Kari Kuukka catches the big media five-fingering a photo: My good friend and c ...
  • The Religious Ron Paul, and Other Paul News of ...
    Chris Moody writing in Yahoo News focuses on Ron Paul's outreach to the communities of faith in Iowa. Some highlights w/commentary: In stark contrast to how he campaigned four years ago, Paul has made a concerted push during this presidential campaign to emphasize how religion ...
  • Sheldon Richman on Why F.A. Hayek Has Modern C ...
    Economics and business reporter David Warsh is getting much attention for suggesting that F. A. Hayek, far from being one of the two most prominent economists of the 1930s—the other being John Maynard Keynes—actually “just didn’t contribute very much to the development of technical ec ...

Mercury Rising

  • Occupy Wins: LA Is First City To Reject Corpor ...
    One of the key issues of the Occupy movement has been the threat to democracy posed by corporate personhood, the concept that made the Citizens United ruling possible. This week, even as Occupy encampments were being raided, the movement was scoring victories where it counted, such as this one: ...
  • Navajo woman runs in AZ-1
    Via Roadmaster Incognito at Eschaton, the Navajo Post writes: Wenona Benally Baldenegro has announced her run for the U.S. House of Representatives, Arizona Congressional District One. A member of the Navajo Nation, Wenona is from the Tsi?naajinii Clan and born for the Honágháahnii Clan. Her mat ...
  • Chiang Kai Shek, the C.I.A., and drug running; ...
    I finally found a site that reviews the history of how the US got into the business of running drugs: The Takao Club. Now, it’s important to understand that the US was not the first. The British beat us into the state-driven drug trade by a couple of centuries in the Opium Wars. But drug [...]
  • Ayn Randians to create free market paradise in ...
    Don’t say you weren’t warned. All of the worst ideas of the right are being tried out on hapless Third World nations like Honduras. And they’re scheduled for reimportation to a community very near you. Like your own. Via Adrienne, an article from The Economist: Now, for the fir ...
  • Oh, Look! Scummy Dictator Lobbyist Lanny Davis ...
    Because one scumbag lobbyist for overseas dictators and right-wing coup leaders deserves another: A Politico article yesterday on CAP’s Middle East posture cited Josh Block, who described CAP’s bloggers as writing “borderline anti-Semitic stuff.” In a leaked email to a right-wing listserv, Block ...

Reality Sandwich

  • Lessons for an Entity Incarnating as a Mammal
      The following first appeared on Zap Oracle.   Recently I was able to recall a Socratic teaching dialogue I had with a spirit guide while I was between incarnations. My questions -- which have the embarrassing naiveté so typical of the disincarnate -- are italicized. read more
  • Sacred Economics: Chapter 20, Right Livelihood ...
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  • Developing Elders
    The following is excerpted from The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, published by New Society Publishers.  read more
  • Report From OWS: The Global Conversation Begins
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  • The Mutation Catalyst
    Slow, gradual changes have been thought of as the standard rule of biological evolution and long term geological processes, but new research conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies revealed a new force behind the evolution of DNA acting as a catalyst for change. read more

Desertification

  • AFRICA: Watermelon Farming in a Drought
    On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged drought in the area.
  • Observing Deforestation from Space
    Global climate change can now be observed from space. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) launched a new technology that can survey the world's forests via satellites and provide a more accurate, global picture of common threats to the environment, such as deforestat ...
  • CLIMATE CHANGE-AFRICA: Farming By Phone
    Francis Mburu used to keep indigenous cattle in Entasopia village in the semi- arid Kajiado region, 160 kilometres southwest of Nairobi. However, increasing temperatures and frequent droughts in Kenya have made this difficult in recent years.
  • Forest-Dependent Communities Lobby for End of ...
    Organisations working with indigenous peoples living in forests say the United Nations programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) is just another way for big corporates to reap huge profits.
  • "God Wants Us to Live in a Garden, Not a Desert"
    The European Union plan to save the Kyoto Protocol may meet its greatest obstacle in the developing world.

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • 'Enemies against Afghan unity, security'
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the enemies of Afghan nation are against unity and security in the war-torn country.
  • 'US Lebanon embassy recruiting spies'
    Hezbollah says the United States has been using its Lebanon embassy as a venue to recruit informants to spy on the Lebanese resistance movement.
  • Plane crash kills 13 in Philippines
    At least 13 people have been killed and 20 others injured after a light airplane crashed into a crowded slum near the Philippine capital Manila.
  • Argentinean pres. sworn in for 2nd term
    Argentinean President Cristina Kirchner Fernandez has been sworn in for the second term with a strong agenda to intensify her unconventional economic policies.
  • Kashmiris protest human rights abuses
    Scores of people have staged rallies in Indian-administered Kashmir to protest against what they described violations of human rights committed by the security forces in the territory.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Federal Budget Deficit Close to $240 Billion f ...
    The federal budget deficit was close to $240 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2012, more than $50 billion below the deficit recorded through November of last year, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review. Much of that difference occurred because roughly $30 billion in pa ...
  • Spending Patterns for Prescription Drugs Under ...
    The centerpiece of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act) was the creation of Medicare Part D, a subsidized pharmaceutical benefit that went into effect in 2006. That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion o ...
  • Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
    As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
  • An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
    The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Statins in the water?
    Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are safe and a very effective way to reduce the risk of heart attacks, new research has confirmed. The latest study, which is published in the Lancet me...
  • Nerve transplants wire themselves into host brains
    Embryonic nerve cells transplanted into a recipient brain survive, wire themselves up and can even correct a metabolic disorder in vulnerable individuals, scientists have discovered. Successful brai...
  • First seafaring fisherman
    The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East Timor. Early human migrants, including those who first set foot in Australia 50,000...
  • More superluminal neutrinos
    In September results indicating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light were released, this week the same group has released further data.The experiment is spread out between CERN near Ge...
  • Tree based brew
    There is a large amount of energy locked up in all the wood that is left over after your planks and paper have been made, and most of this wood is in the form of soft woods from conifers. You can rele...

Nick Turse

  • From “The Occupiers,” a photo series by Eddie...
    From “The Occupiers,” a photo series by Eddie McShane.  He writes: “I wanted to see who these people were so I decided to set up a portable studio and make formal portraits. What I learned is that these people are not whackos, anarchists, or indigents. They are overwhelmingly working and mi ...
  • NickTurse: Photo: An Egyptian woman holds up a ...
    NickTurse: Photo: An Egyptian woman holds up an infant during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov.... http://t.co/k4cn1I1D
  • An Egyptian woman holds up an infant during a ...
    An Egyptian woman holds up an infant during a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 25, 2011. Tens of thousands of protesters chanting, “Leave, leave!” filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a massive demonstration to force Egypt’s ruling military council to yield powe ...
  • A crowd gathers during the Occupy LA protest i ...
    A crowd gathers during the Occupy LA protest in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. Officers began a raid on the camp early Wednesday, two days after a deadline passed for protesters to clear out. Officers began a raid on the camp early Wednesday, two days after a deadli ...
  • Yemenis protest against President Ali Abdullah ...
    Yemenis protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a rally after the weekly Friday noon prayers in Sanaa on November 25, 2011. Opponents and supporters of Yemen’s embattled president held rival rallies in the capital after pre-dawn fighting between rival security f ...
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