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Thomas Paine

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Monday, December 12, 2011

12 December - RSS SnapShot ! Pt I

English: RQ-170 SentinelImage via Wikipedia

 

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UK green targets get even tougher... but renewable energy 'still won't keep ...
Daily Mail
By Tamara Cohen Britain pledged yesterday to sign up to some of the toughest green targets as critics claimed that even a massive expansion of renewable energy would not be enough to keep the country's lights on. Under a climate deal announced in South ...
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Renewable energy 'mirage' could lead to a crisis
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MOVES to increase the use of renewable energy to generate electricity are “unrealistic” and will lead to an energy crisis by the middle of the decade, a report co-authored by a right wing think tank has claimed. The report, Renewable Energy: Vision or ...
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Transition to Renewables and The Forward Speed of Economies
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It's certainly true that present growth rates for renewable energy are amazing. But the monster known as coal continues its drive towards dominance. In a previous post of mine showing the world's mix of energy resources, I highlighted the very ...
Renewable energy thirst fueled wind farms on gusty ridges
The Spokesman Review
December 11, 2011 in City on Page A1 ELLENSBURG – Gusty winds sweep through Central Washington's Kittitas County, scattering tumbleweeds and spinning the blades of 149 turbines on Whisky Dick Mountain. The westerly wind is a gift of … ...
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US Ecology (ECOL) Shares Downgraded to a "Neutral" Rating by Zacks Investment ...
LocalizedUSA
US Ecology (NASDAQ: ECOL) was downgraded by equities research analysts at Zacks Investment Research from an “outperform” rating to a “neutral” rating in a research note issued to investors on Saturday. US Ecology, Inc., formerly known as American ...
Ecology Coatings Develops UV-Curable Coatings for Medical Wristbands
Bradenton Herald
/PRNewswire/ -- Ecology Coatings, Inc. (OTCQB:ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, today announced it has developed a UV-curable coating to meet the rigorous requirements of ...
Industry of Nature: Another Approach to Ecology
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Providing a theoretical framework, interviews with architecture studio AtelierZeroCarbone, Professor of philosophy Catherine Larrère, designer Mathieu Lehanneur and ethical marketing consultant Herve Naillon, highlight the ecology issues from different ...
Ecology Coatings Develops UV-Curable Coatings for Medical Wristbands
Sacramento Bee
"A major US label manufacturer, searching for improved product performance, asked that we develop a UV-curable coating for patient identification wristbands used by their customers within the healthcare industry," commented Ecology Coatings CEO Bob ...
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US study on impact to drinking water likely to inform drilling policy in ...
Irish Times
A US ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (US EPA) study under way into the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” on drinking water resources will inform future policy in Europe, an NUI Galway (NUIG) geologist has forecast. ...
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Water restored in North Adams
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UPDATE: North Adams police say everyone should have their water back following a water-main break in the city Saturday night. Hundreds of residents had dry faucets for most of the day Saturday. Crews were working on a part that was damaged by Tropical ...
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East Chicago without water after break in water main; schools closed Monday
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EAST CHICAGO | Citywide water service was shut off Sunday, forcing schools to be closed Monday, after the early morning rupture of a primary line from the lakefront filtration plant. The School City of East Chicago canceled all Monday classes. ...
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Radioactive water leaks in Japan nuclear plant
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Radioactive water leaked inside a nuclear power plant in southwestern Japan, but there was no impact on the surrounding area, a spokesman for the plant operator said Saturday. A warning alarm sounded Friday because of a problem with a pump used for ...
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  • Europe needs Britain, says Sarkozy
    The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that Europe "needs Britain" and a British departure from the European Union was "not on the agenda". Trying to heal some of the wounds created by the "Britain vs the Rest" split over the new eurozone fiscal pact last week, Mr Sarkozy added that he w ...
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    Military experts are in the final stages of recovering data from a US spy plane captured by Iranian troops, it was reported yesterday.
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    One of Russia's richest oligarchs has thrown his hat into the ring for upcoming presidential elections in an unexpected move that some protesters feared was part of an elaborate Kremlin plot to defuse mounting discontent in the country.
  • 'Witch who sold cures' beheaded
    A woman convicted of practising magic and sorcery was beheaded by Saudi authorities yesterday.
  • Gunmen fire on trucks stranded by Nato blockade
    Two boys stand beside fuel trucks which were set ablaze in the Bolan district of Pakistan's Balochistan province. Police and witnesses said gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on nine fuel trucks, setting them on fire and killing one driver. Hundreds of loaded trucks have been stranded in Pakista ...

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    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
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    For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
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    Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...

Signs of the times

  • WISE Images Supernova's Rose
    About 3,700 years ago, people on Earth would have seen a brand-new bright star in the sky. It slowly dimmed out of sight and was eventually forgotten, until modern astronomers later found its remains, called Puppis A. In this new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Pupp ...
  • How We Assign Blame for Corporate Crimes
    Whether the public blames Wall Street or its bankers for bad decisions depends a lot on the group's level of cohesion as well as its mindfulness, or ability to "think," suggests a new study. The researchers wanted to find out how people choose to blame large collectives, such as a major corpora ...
  • Pakistan to Down American Drones, US Promises ...
    The Pakistani military are under orders to take down any UAV they locate in the country's air space. So far, the only drones making incursions into Pakistani skies have been US Predators used to attack Taliban insurgents. In a speech to troops on the border, Pakistan's Chief General Ashfaq Perv ...
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    The Swiss government is preparing for a collapse of the euro, according to Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. She told parliament that a work group was studying the imposition of capital controls and negative interest rates to protect Switzerland from the capital flight that a euro ...
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    Islamabad, Pakistan - The Central Intelligence Agency has vacated an air base in western Pakistan that it had been using for drone strikes against militants in the country's tribal areas, the Pakistani military said on Sunday. Pakistan had ordered the C.I.A. to leave the Shamsi air base in p ...

The Galloping Beaver

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    USE CAUTION WHEN USING TEETH TO CASTRATE LAMBS. Sounds like good advice. According to  Marc Abrahams at io9,  "On June 29, 2011, the Wyoming Department of Health was notified of two laboratory-confirmed cases of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis among persons working at a local sheep ran ...
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    MAYBE STEVIE SHOULD ORDER CHINESE. Seems like we need new army trucks. China builds army trucks. With Cummins diesels, too. According to AUTOBLOG, Built by Wuhan-based Xiaolong Automotive, the XLW2090 is one of a dozen or so configurations the company builds on an adaptable chassis. The three- ...
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Media Matters for America

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    Fox News is amplifying a Rick Perry attack ad claiming that President Obama has launched a "war on religion" -- a claim that Politico has called "one of the most audible dog whistles so far this cycle about President Obama."Perry Ad Accusing Obama Of Waging "War On Religion" Called A "Dog W ...
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  • Fox Responds To Obama's Speech On Inequality B ...
    Fox responded to President Obama's December 6 speech on inequality in America by once again accusing Obama of engaging in class warfare as well as promoting socialism and -- in the words of Peter Johnson Jr. -- "smooth jazz liberation theology."Fox Responds To Obama's Speech: "Class Warfare" .. ...

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    Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is seeking several amendments to its Radioactive Material License # R04100 from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).  Five of the amendments request design changes to the Compact Waste Disposal Facility (CWF) and the Federal Waste Facility (FW ...
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    As 2011 winds to a close, the Weather Channel reports that it has been a volatile year of weather across the United States and the tally of weather-related disasters exceeding a billion dollars set a record for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in a single year earlier this year and now ...
  • Rerouting Keystone XL: From Poisoned Aquifers ...
    This is a guest blog by departing Public Citizen intern Chantelle B. In recent months, Nebraska’s government has taken a strong stand against the Keystone XL Pipeline’s route, which currently passes through the ecologically fragile Sandhills region and North America’s largest aquifer – the ...
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    One of the great things about living in Texas is our winters are mild enough that many outdoor activities are year round activities, including fishing.  BUT . . ., before you eat that fish, be sure to check out the mercury advisories for the state’s waterways on the Texas Department of Hea ...

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

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IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #647
    Albanian ex-spy chief on the run in Britain. Secret CIA black site discovered in Romania. CIA leaves drone base in Pakistan.
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    In December of 2010, the British government quietly ordered the expulsion of a diplomat from the Russian embassy in London, whom it accused of “activities incompatible with his diplomatic status” —technical terminology implying espionage. Moscow quickly responded with an expulsion of a British d ...
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    American citizen admits he took Pakistan spy money. Russian site snubs FSB request to block opposition networking. Reorganizing Colombia's disgraced spy agency.
  • Iran shows video footage of captured CIA surve ...
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    Polish authorities arrest retired spy. Are China's hotel rooms bugged? Ex-spy chief says Saudi Arabia may join nuke arms race.

War is a Crime.org

  • Flotilla to Cuba Gets US Protection, Flotilla ...
    U.S. Protects Free Speech for U.S. Citizens on Flotilla to challenge human rights violations in Cuba, but wants to prosecute those on Gaza Flotilla to challenge Israeli human rights violations By Ann Wright I guess considering the U.S. policy toward Cuba over the past 50 years, it should come as ...
  • US vacates Pakistan base amid drone debate
    Departure comes after ultimatum from Islamabad prompted by the death of 24 of its soldiers in NATO air raid. Al Jazeera: The US has vacated the Shamsi air base in Pakistan's Balochistan province after a 15-day ultimatum given by Islamabad, prompted by the deat ...
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      Wrecking Europe to Fix It - by Stephen Lendman   From inception, Eurozone monetary union was an idea doomed to fail. Nonetheless, it was engineered fraudulently to look workable.   In 1979, Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) was introduced as part of the European Moneta ...
  • Treating Palestinians Lawlessly
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    Yesterday the Senate passed a bill, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012 (S. 1867) that makes a suitable matching pair for the prior day’s forcible police action evicting the last remaining large occupation, Occupy LA, and that of the Occupy encampment in Philadelphia. This bill re ...

Grist - News

  • Totally plausible water solution: Collect ice ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Look, it's very simple. All you need to solve the water shortage is a giant metal leaf that you put in the desert and it uses solar power to grow ice. Then you drink the ice. How is this difficult? Okay, this is not completely for real. The leaf's creators d ...
  • Amazing green building looks like it’s m ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. The new design for the Taiwan Tower (which will be built in, where else, Taiwan) is based on the banyan tree, but it looks more like a super-complex cat's cradle. The openwork building, designed by Japanese firm Sou Fujimoto Architects, will house a "semi-out ...
  • Your mom was right: Don’t eat raw cookie ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. I know, I know, it's so good. But a study of a 2009 E. coli outbreak, led by CDC researchers and state health officials, has traced the contamination back to prepackaged raw cookie dough. Turns out ready-to-bake is not the same as ready-to-not-bake-and-get-right-t ...
  • The most bare-chested grocery-bag video you&#8 ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. This is maybe not the most complex Tim Minchin song I've ever heard, but you have to admit it imbues canvas grocery bags with some much-needed rock star cachet. At least by the time the giant fan comes out. (Hat tip to Umbra reader Jake!)
  • Brits make disused landfill into wildlife sanc ...
    by Sarah Laskow. There are a few options of what to do with an old landfill: cover it over and leave it alone; turn it into a field for solar panels; convince people to play soccer on top of it. One town in England is going a step further and returning a decommissioned landfill to nature. ...

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  • Mystery Babylon and the Coming Darkness
    by Les Visible It’s a ball of confusion these days. Despite the manufactured chaos of the near wholly owned, Zionista press, there’s what we see at the blogs here that are the real indicators to me. People want different things, including complicated reassurances. Some people want fi ...
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    By Les Visble This is The Apocalypse. This is the time of revelation and summing up. However true the truth about the darkness may be, we have more to fear from ourselves that we do from Sauronstein, which might translate into the rock of shapeless evil. We are the enemy of our own freedom and [...]
  • The Enemy of Humanity is going to their Grave
    By Les Visble This is The Apocalypse. This is the time of revelation and summing up. However true the truth about the darkness may be, we have more to fear from ourselves that we do from Sauronstein, which might translate into the rock of shapeless evil. We are the enemy of our own freedom and [...]
  • Eight Warning Signs Of Junk Science
    By Armed and Dangerous I’ve written before about scientific error cascades and the pernicious things that happen when junk science becomes the focus or rationale of a political crusade. The worst example of this sort of thing in my lifetime, and arguably in the entire history of science, has bee ...
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    By Armed and Dangerous I’ve written before about scientific error cascades and the pernicious things that happen when junk science becomes the focus or rationale of a political crusade. The worst example of this sort of thing in my lifetime, and arguably in the entire history of science, has bee ...

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    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • World’s Smallest Working Heat Engine is the Si ...
    German physicists have just announced the creation of the world’s smallest heat engine! Research teams from the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have joined forces to build a super tiny laser powered engine that is only a few micrometers wide &#8 ...
  • Art Strong Reusable Bags Protect Your Artwork ...
    Right on the heels of this month’s Art Basel Miami, Art Strong bags are making their debut, offering a reusable solution for transporting artwork. Packaging artwork can be expensive and wasteful, with layers of bubble wrap and plastic being discarded once the painting has been transported to its ...
  • Reverse Sunglasses Outfitted with LED Lights C ...
    With winter slowly closing in, grey skies are on the horizon – and we should all watch out for signs of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Now three guys from Denmark think they’ve got the solution for SADness – they’ve invented a pair of reverse sunglasses that promise t ...
  • The Cloud: MVRDV’s Twin Towers Look Eerily Sim ...
    Read the rest of The Cloud: MVRDV’s Twin Towers Look Eerily Similar to The World Trade Center Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof, korea, l ...
  • Montreal’s 780 Brewster is a Mixed-Use LEED Si ...
    Read the rest of Montreal’s 780 Brewster is a Mixed-Use LEED Silver Complex Renovated From an Industrial Factory Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 780 brewster, adaptive reuse, canada, eco design, factory renovation, green architecture, Green Building, green design ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Jawbone Recovers Goodwill After Tumble
    Jawbone is offering all buyers of its Up fitness device a refund. If there were ever a way to go about recovering goodwill and standing by your customers, this is it.
  • Nook's Advertising Is Corrected
    Barnes & Noble has eliminated all references to "HD" video and the new Nook on its Web site. But there's not a shred of doubt: The Nook Tablet's Netflix video looks a lot better than Amazon Fire's.
  • Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
    Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
  • Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
    Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
  • Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
    Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Lindsey Williams: U.S./NATO To Incite War With ...
    Alex talks with Lindsey Williams, who as an ordained Baptist minister went to Alaska in 1971 as a missionary working for the oil giants. His insider sources in the industry have predicted a number of critical events with startling accuracy. Mr. Williams and Alex will talk about oil and the emerg ...
  • America’s Covert War Against Iran. Do ‘All Opt ...
    Legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone famously observed: "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out." Amongst Washington elites and the courtier press, it appears that more than a pipe or two has been passed aroun ...
  • The Great War Tour : America’s “Repositioning” ...
    At the Pentagon, it is call it "repositioning" of military forces. In fact, this is the great war tour, whose choice spots are in Asia and Africa. There are U.S. troops departing from Iraq. Immanuel Wallerstein qualifies this departure as a "defeat comparable to that suffered in Vietnam," becaus ...
  • Building a Pretext to Wage War on Syria: NATO’ ...
    On December 2, the Geneva-based UN Watch welcomedthat day’s “strong condemnation” of Syria by a UN Human Rights Council emergency session, and its establishment of a special rapporteur to monitor the situation therefollowing what it called“a global campaign to create the post by a coalition of p ...
  • Japan is Dying
    Asia has long been a site for intense social engineering experiments conducted by the Illuminati. The ultimate goal of these experiments has been twofold: first, to observe how far a society can be pushed into inhuman and counter-reproductive behaviors; second, to enhance applied techniques ...

Andy Worthington

  • Lawyer Laments the Death of Habeas Corpus for ...
    Two weeks ago, I wrote an article entitled, “As Judges Kill Off Habeas Corpus for the Guantánamo Prisoners, Will the Supreme Court Act?” in which I covered the latest grim news from the US courts regarding the Guantánamo prisoners’ habeas corpus petitions (see “Guantánamo ...
  • Terrorists as Warriors: The Fatal Confusion at ...
    Last week, when the Senate voted, by 93 votes to 7, to pass the latest National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), they passed legislation that not only approved a budget of $662 billion in military spending for the next fiscal year, but also demanded mandatory military custody for all terror susp ...
  • Write to the Forgotten Prisoners in Guantánamo ...
    A year and a half ago, two Facebook friends, Shahrina J. Ahmed and Mahfuja Bint Ammu, drew on my research about Guantánamo for a letter-writing campaign, in which they asked their friends and others on Facebook to volunteer to write to each of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo. Shahrina anno ...
  • Quarterly Fundraiser: End of Week Appeal for $ ...
    Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of 20 friends and supporters over the last four days, I have raised $1000 of the $2500 I was hoping to raise to support my research and writing on Guantánamo — and all of the other topics that make up my palette of interests — over the ...
  • London Vigil for Shaker Aamer, the Last Britis ...
    This Saturday, December 10, which is UN Human Rights Day, I’ll be attending a vigil for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, outside Downing Street. The event, arranged by the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, runs from 12 noon to 3 pm, and at 1 pm speakers — myself inclu ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • ‘Patriot’ Paranoia in Overdrive
    The federal government is spying on Americans stockpiling food and asking U.S. soldiers if they will detain American citizens when the time comes. In job advertisements, the government is seeking jackbooted New World Order thugs to staff secret domestic prison camps. An  examination of archival ...
  • Skin Who Punched Victim Before Reading Pleads ...
    Round 2 for the racist skinhead who didn’t read the fine print before assaulting a black man went like this: A no-contest guilty plea to a felony charge of malicious harassment. In Round 1, as you may recall, Daren Christopher Abbey was laid out flat last summer, complete with a black eye, outsi ...
  • The Down-Low President?
    Over the last few months, the question has been coming up again and again in the comments sections of right-wing websites: Why is the mainstream media putting Herman Cain’s and other Republicans’ sex lives under a microscope while the president gets a free pass on his gay escapades? It’s true th ...
  • Imprisoned Cult Leader Warren Jeffs Predicts E ...
    Now that he has a whole lot of time on his hands, self-described prophet Warren Jeffs is claiming to be the “mouthpiece” of an angry God. And judging from the sound of things, there’s going to hell to pay for daring to lock up the racist cult leader for raping a 12-year-old “celestial” child bri ...
  • Anti-Abortion Extremist Now Attacking Gay-Frie ...
    The Rev. Donald Spitz has a message for gay-friendly churches, and the murder-endorsing anti-abortion crusader is not mincing words. In E-mails sent in recent days to an unknown number of churches listed on GayChurch.org, he wrote: “To accept sexual deviancy as normal is a sin. You put your soul ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Newburgh Four: Poor, Black, and Jailed Under F ...
    Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York. Hussain was flash, drove expensive cars and treated people to gifts of cash and food. He also had r ...
  • Blackwater 3.0: Rebranded ‘Academi’ Wants Back ...
    So much for naming your mercenary company after an obscure element from the periodic table. read more
  • High Court Will Look at State Immigration Laws
    WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up a dispute over an Arizona law that requires police to check the status of people stopped or arrested if officers suspect they are here illegally. An undocumented immigrant prepares to board a deportation flight to Guatema ...
  • Local Bookstores Ask Customers To Boycott Amaz ...
    Should people boycott Amazon? Increasing numbers of retailers and publishers have been daring to ask the question, in the face of aggressive tactics by the book industry leader. read more
  • Protests Boost Sales and Fears of Sonic Blaster
    QUANTICO, Va.—Police deployment of sonic blasters at Occupy Wall Street and G-20 protest rallies is fueling both sales and criticism of the devices, which emit beams of sound with laser-like intensity. More U.S. police and emergency-response agencies are using the so-called Long-Range Aco ...

Lifehacker

  • Unresponsive Flash, Siri Annoyances, and Andro ...
    Readers offer their best tips for killing plugins like Flash when they become unresponsive, using Siri's Rase to Speak feature, and getting more life out of your Android battery. More »
  • Your Facebook Has Two Inboxes, and You've Prob ...
    Facebook only notifies you about messages from your friends, which means you have a whole separate inbox of messages from pages you like and people on Facebook you aren't yet friends with. Here's how to make sure you haven't missed anything im ...
  • Remains of the Day: The FBI May Be Using Carri ...
    The FBI denies the release of information about their use of Carrier IQ, Wikipedia founder asks for input about a site-wide blackout, and the Kindle Fire will get a pre-Christmas software update to improve performance. More » ...
  • Snapheal Performs Complex Photo Touch Ups and ...
    Mac OS X: You're probably well aware that you can use Photoshop to perform touch ups and remove objects, but that comes with the obvious disadvantage of a hefty price tag. Snapheal is a new Mac app that's designed to handle just about every ...
  • iTunes Updates to Version 10.5.2, Fixes iTunes ...
    Today Apple released the latest update to its popular audio and video behemoth to improve performance with their iTunes Match service and general audio glitches experienced by some users. The update is available for download right now, so jus ...

Water Privatization

  • Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
    The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.
  • Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
    The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.
  • K-Water’s 'expensive' Angat bid turns off poss ...
    MANILA, Philippines — The US$440.8 million winning bid of Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-Water) for the Angat power facility has been its biggest impediment in tapping a local partner because the purchase offer is being viewed as ‘exorbitant’. “We have talked to various parties but it is d ...
  • Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
    The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.
  • Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
    The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.

Guardian

  • Syria: 5,000 dead in violence, says UN human r ...
    Navi Pillay says at least 300 children are among the dead as US ambassador Susan Rice urges security council to actMore than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month-long Syrian uprising, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, told rep ...
  • Severe weather warnings extended to cover the ...
    Gales, snow and heavy rain forecast with transport disruption and floods expected in Scotland and northern EnglandMore storms are predicted to batter Britain this week, with severe weather warnings extended to cover the whole of Britain by Thursday.Gales, snow and heavy rain have again hit ...
  • Labour's lax regulation of the City contribute ...
    FSA says Labour leadership had encouraged it to take a 'light touch' on banks and must take share of blame for financial crisisLabour's lax regulation of the City contributed to the collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland and allowed the former bosses of the bank, including Sir Fred Goodwin, to walk ...
  • EU summit veto recriminations mount within coa ...
    Nick Clegg refuses to sit beside David Cameron during PM's statement to parliament Recriminations broke out in Whitehall over Britain's isolation in Europe as it emerged that the Foreign Office felt excluded from the No 10 negotiating strategy and that senior Lib Dems claimed David Cameron went ...
  • Burqa wearing banned in Canada for those takin ...
    Ban on face and full body veils during immigration ceremony is 'matter of deep principle', says citizenship ministerMuslim women will no longer be able to cover their faces as they take Canadian citizenship after the country's immigration minister announced a ban on anyone wearing the niqab – th ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Most Americans would use Dodd-Frank whistleblo ...
    The New York City law firm of Labaton Sucharow released a survey yesterday that finds that 78% of Americans would report wrongdoing in the workplace if it could be done anonymously, without retaliation and result in a monetary award.  These are precisely the conditions established by the ne ...
  • IRS Tax Court Upholds Whistleblower Anonymity
    The IRS tax court issued a very important decision yesterday in Whistleblower 14106-10W vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue regarding confidential and anonymous whistleblower claims through the IRS. The court’s first-ever decision on this matter upholds whistleblowers’ right to file ...
  • Whistleblowers Handbook, Second Edition, is re ...
    The NWC is proud to announce the release of the second edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. This second edition includes a new 20–page checklist on the procedures for obtaining Dodd-Frank Act rewards from t ...
  • Whistleblowers Handbook, Second Edition, is re ...
    The NWC is proud to announce the release of the second edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. This second edition includes a new 20–page checklist on the procedures for obtaining Dodd-Frank Act rewards from t ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Steve Kohn discusses the PFC Bradley Manning case and what rights national security whistleblowers currently have. Jeff Paterson, Project Director for Courage to Resist, shares insight a ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DailyDirt: Measurements That Make You Go Hmmmm...
    Replicating experiments is an important part of science. If you can't repeat an experiment, then whatever you observed could just be a fluke. But even if measurements can be repeated reliably, it doesn't mean that they can be explained easily. Here are just a few examples of some weird measurem ...
  • Wikipedia Considers Blackout To Protest SOPA
    As more and more internet operations recognize the horrors of SOPA, they're stepping up to do stuff about it. The latest is that Wikipedia is considering a blackout on the site in protest -- a move that might actually catch Congress' attention because people in Congress actually use Wikipedia a ...
  • The Very Real Risk Of Overly Broad Censorship ...
    The more people look at the details of SOPA, the worse it looks. Alexander Macgillivray, much more widely known as amac, is Twitter's General Counsel, and has taken to his personal blog to discuss one of the many troubling aspects of SOPA: the fact that if it's deemed a rogue site because "any ...
  • Lamar Smith Proposes New Version Of SOPA, With ...
    In preparation for his attempt to rush SOPA through Congress, Rep. Lamar Smith has put forth an updated version of the bill (pdf link and embedded below) as a "manager's amendment," which will be used for the markup, to be held on Thursday. The markup process, in theory, allows for amendments a ...
  • TSA Continues To Embarass The Elderly With Unn ...
    The TSA is, once again, defending its screening procedures after reports came out of degrading and embarrassing searches performed on three different elderly passengers at JFK, each of which involved passengers with medical equipment that it appears the TSA did not know how to handle in a reason ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Let me start off with the things that I missed – your comments. Seemed a bit strange that I didn’t get any comments for a month, but I thought maybe I had been gone so long that you forgot about me. But no, it is just that I am technologically incompetent. So I changed my [...]
  • Occupy DC’s Sunday Standoff
    You have surely heard about the standoff yesterday (pics below), but just in case you have been trapped under something heavy or in a 48 hour bong hit haze… Saturday night, DC occupiers built a structure to keep them out of the elements for general assemblies and teach-ins. I can only imag ...
  • Occupy DC Targets Wells Fargo and the Prison I ...
    Yesterday, the criminal justice committee of Occupy DC organized on action targeting Wells Fargo’s involvement in private prisons through their investments in the GEO Group. Pics of the march and pre-march are below. I loved this action for a whole lot of reasons: The injustice system is o ...
  • Who is Responsible?
    If somebody stabs another person to death, are they responsible? Are they the only ones responsible? What if another person asked them to do it or paid them to do it? Then is the stabber the only one responsible? What if the stabber belonged to a group or community that demonized the victim for ...
  • Occupy, Unions, NGOs and the Perils of DC Activism
    I moseyed over to Occupy K Street last night for the general assembly and the action committee meeting. Not much to say about the GA – except maybe to mention that there was a serious shortage of women. Of the two that spoke, one offered to take notes and the other was reporting back from ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Predator drones employed by U.S. police
    The Los Angeles Times reports: Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said. Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000- ...
  • Increased U.S. drone strikes questioned
  • U.S.-Pakistan relations deteriorate
    Al Jazeera reports: The US has vacated the Shamsi air base in Pakistan’s Balochistan province after a 15-day ultimatum given by Islamabad, prompted by the deaths of at least 24 of its soldiers in a NATO air raid last month. Sunday’s withdrawal was completed when the final flight carr ...
  • Why ‘we the people’ must triumph over corporat ...
    Bill Moyers writes: Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court handed for-profit corporations the right to secretly flood political campaigns with tidal waves of cash on the eve of an election, they moved America closer to outright plut ...
  • Depression and democracy
    Paul Krugman writes: It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold comfort. Unemployment in both America and Europe remains disastrously high. Leaders and institutions are increasingly discredited. ...

Watts Up With That?

  • More ursus bogus – this time with fake s ...
    Readers may recall using photoshopped images of polar bears on CGI ice floes. Here we go again. Via the GWPF: Frozen Planet Fakery Row: Polar Bear Filmed In Zoo Using Fake Snow Monday, 12 December 2011 17:48 Euan Stretch, Daily … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Quote of the Week: Sherlock Holmes: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts”. From: “Scandal in Bohemia” A. Conan Doyle. [H/t … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale on Climate Models Confirming Or Contra ...
    Part 2 – Do Observations and Climate Models Confirm Or Contradict The Hypothesis of Anthropogenic Global Warming? Guest Post by Bob Tisdale OVERVIEW This is the second part of a two-part series. There are, however, two versions of part 1. The … Continue reading →
  • Climate change blamed for dead trees in Africa
    “Rainfall in the Sahel has dropped 20-30 percent in the 20th century, the world’s most severe long-term drought since measurements from rainfall gauges began in the mid-1800s,” said study lead author Patrick Gonzalez, who conducted the study while he was … Continue readin ...
  • Pielke Junior on: The climate debate is ‘over’
    I have removed this guest post [by Shub Niggurath] because it has been brought to my attention that it is unfair and has caused inflamed reactions [especially in comments] that were unintended. It was my mistake for posting it without … Continue reading →

treehugger

Biosingularity

  • How DNA is Packaged

  • Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill
    Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]
  • Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold
    Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold – YouTube.
  • Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents d ...
    Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat cells allows the animals to put on weight without developing type-2 diabetes.The discoveries could lead to new treatments for diabetes or for invigora ...
  • Scientists trains computer to evaluate breast ...
    Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to a scale first developed eight decades ago. These scores help doctors assess ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Main news of December 12
  • Three militants killed in Dagestan
    Three militants were killed in a shootout with police on Monday in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, a police source told RIA Novosti.
  • Deeper Than Oil: Moscow protest fatigue
    After seven days of protests, counter rallies, more protests and yet more counter rallies here in Moscow, I finally came down today with demonstration fatigue.
  • U.S. hails Russia poll protests
    Anti-government protests staged in Russia over the weekend are a “positive sign” for democracy in the former Soviet republic, Washington said on Monday.
  • Mikhail Prokhorov: a billionaire bachelor with ...
    Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced on Monday that he had made “the most serious decision” of his life; to challenge Russia's powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the March 2012 presidential elections.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Thomas J. Mayberry, 21, of Springville, CA.Army Spc. Ryan M. Lumley, 21, of Lakeland, FL.Arm ...
  • Slightly new look for the site
    No post this week because I’ve been upgrading the front end.  I’ve tried to keep the look and feel as similar as possible to the old one; please leave any feedback in the comments!
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.We killed lots of people in Somalia this week:US drone raid kills 9 Somali civiliansUS terror drone kills 18 in SomaliaUS terror drones kil ...
  • 2012 will be more about actual problems than p ...
    It’s funny that professional left now describes those who have been too critical of Democrats. To the extent that such a thing - a well funded, fully staffed and perennially active infrastructure presuming to be a liberal standard bearer - exists, it is the province of the think tanks (Ce ...
  • Occupy Charlottesville: Background and What's Next
    This is my first post on this site. As background information, I’m finishing up my JD at UVA Law in Charlottesville, and so most of what I can cover from an on the ground angle for the time being is in Cville, or occasionally around VA or the DC area. Charlottesville is a fairly liberal ci ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • French Farmer Sues Monsanto after Inhaling Wee ...
    Farmer Paul François is suing US biotech giant Monsanto after he inhaled weedkiller Lasso at work. The trial opens in the French city of Lyon on Monday. Click here to read this article
  • Under Industry Pressure, USDA Works to Speed A ...
    For years, biotech agriculture opponents have accused regulators of working too closely with big biotech firms when deregulating genetically engineered (GE) crops. Now, their worst fears could be coming true: under a new two-year pilot program at the USDA, regulators are training the world's big ...
  • Seeds of Destruction: It's not Just about Food
    When I first became aware of the notion of modifying food by inserting foreign genetic material, I inclined in favor of it. After all, changing the genes of a plant to cause it to yield more, resist pests, and altogether serve us better sounded like a pretty good idea. How attractive it must b ...
  • Occupy Your Food Supply: Radical Farmer's Marc ...
    "I have a confession to make," said Jim Gerritsen, an organic seed farmer from northern Maine, "This is my first time in New York City. I had no good reason to come until today."Click here to read this article
  • Food Giants Fight Proposed Nutrition Guidelines
    An effort by four federal agencies to limit marketing of junk food to children has provoked a fight between the packaged food industry and public health groups as intense as the cigarette wars of the 1980s.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

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My Care2 Picks

  • The Electric Car Paradox : Can We Switch to El ...
    The simple answer is no - and the complicated answer is also no. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Propaganda for punishing 'the enemy'
    Collected stories on the history of Iran, relations with the U.S.. nuclear technology, the NPT and how Iran is restrained from abridging it ( while others claim it should,IAEA is defunded and overworked,etc. history of Middle East nonproliferation failure Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
  • The Gulf Oil Spill: the Other Shoe Dropping
    Heres the real story of the BP oil spill. It unfolds like a murder mystery. But its realand were all the victims. Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Iran takes up the nuclear cudgel
    The second international conference on nuclear disarmament hosted by Tehran gets barely a mention in the Western media, despite featuring delegates from 40 nations the United Nations and the IAEA 40 years of conventions produced no progress in West Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & ...
  • CO2 emitted by the poor nations and absorbed b ...
    If the evil modern polluters were producing more CO2 wed see higher levels of CO2 there.Highest emissions are in China, and central Africa.The methane picture is remarkably similar.CO2 From the Evil Western Polluters meme has a serious hole in it Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech ...

Angry Indian News

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Establishes Presidential Co ...
    Venezuela’s Chavez Establishes Presidential Commission to Draft New Labour Law | venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, 11 December 2011 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – A Presidential Commission to draft a new labour... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • China: Strikes spread amid economic slowdown
    China WorkerVincent Kolo, chinaworker.infoAround 400 workers at Singapore-owned Hi-P International, an electronics manufacturer, are continuing their strike in the Pudong district of Shanghai. With... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten ...
    New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten Palestinians :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] After the Nakba, Israel’s 1948 ethnic... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Another Filipino executed in China, OFW group ...
    Another Filipino executed in China, OFW group calls for ‘Zero Remittance Day’ on Dec. 18 - Bulatlat: BUSTILLOS CHURCH, Manila — Shortly after noon, Vice President Jejomar Binay confirmed the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • I CARE - ITALY: BLOOD AND HONOUR FASCISTS FORM ...
    I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: The news that Blood and Honour have opened their first branch in Italy has come as a surprise, but only because the neo-nazi organisation was... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Google chairman says online piracy bill would ...
    ShareThisGoogle chairman says online piracy bill would 'criminalize' the Internet 12 Dec 2011 An online piracy bill in the House would "criminalize linking and the fundamental structure of the Internet itself," according to Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt said the controversial S ...
  • Police employ Predator drone spy planes on hom ...
    ShareThisPolice employ Predator drone spy planes on home front --The previously unreported use of its drones to assist local, state and federal law enforcement has occurred without any public acknowledgment or debate. 10 Dec 2011 (ND) Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based a ...
  • US forces set fire to equipment before leaving ...
    ShareThisUS forces set fire to equipment before leaving Pakistan airbase --Pakistan set Dec 11 deadline for US to vacate airbase 12 Dec 2011 US personnel set fire to all their redundant equipment before vacating Pakistan's Shamsi airbase that had been used to launch drone attacks, an official sa ...
  • Iran to take US aggression to intl. bodies
    ShareThisIran to take US aggression to intl. bodies 11 Dec 2011 Iran's foreign minister says Tehran will complain to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) about the recent violation of Iranian airspace by an American reconnaissance drone. Speaking at a ...
  • 'Strip search' claims prompt call for advocate ...
    ShareThis'Strip search' claims prompt call for advocate at US airports 11 Dec 2011 Two New York lawmakers want to place a passenger advocate at airports to immediately act on complaints from passengers about security screenings. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and state Sen. Michael Gianaris, both Dem ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix sol ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respirator ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Michael Yon Alert
    11 December 2011 This weekend I spoke for several hours with a retired Special Forces Soldier.  Much of the numerous conversations revolved around the terrible Army policy of sending unarmed Dustoff helicopters into combat.  These helicopters are emblazoned with Red Crosses.  The ...
  • Embarrassed Army
    09 December 2011 Since I’ve started writing about the Dustoff problems, the Army has practically put a bounty on my head.  A theater wide alert has gone out that I am to be denied access to ISAF bases in Afghanistan, and that my movements are to be reported.  This went out through cla ...
  • The AfterWar
    8 December 2011 4-4 Cav on Mission in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The Soldiers were on a mission.  One day had become the next and they had moved into an Afghan family compound until the morning.  The moon crept along, shadows tracing arcs, the shine so strong it caused one to won ...
  • Slippery Stuff: CASEVAC vs. MEDEVAC
    7 December 2011 If you ask ten service members “What is the difference between CASEVAC and MEDEVAC,” you might get six answers.  Five might answer, “I don’t know.”  The other five will surely give five different answers. I’ve asked dozens and never gotten the same answer twice.  ...
  • Soldiers' Angels December Newsletter 2011
    To view the entire newsletter click here.

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Supreme Court strikes down deportation discret ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday in Judulang v. Holder [SCOTUSblog backgrounder; JURIST report] that the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) [official website] policy for deciding when resident aliens may apply to the Attorney General for relief from de ...
  • Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law ...
    [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] granted certiorari order list, PDF] Monday in Arizona v. United States [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether Arizona's controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST news archive] is preempted by federal law. SB 1070 crimina ...
  • Noriega extradited to Panama
    [JURIST] Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega [Al Jazeera profile; JURIST news archive] was extradited from France to Panama Sunday to face charges of human rights violations for crimes allegedly committed during his 1981-1989 rule. He was already convicted on three counts of human rights v ...
  • US lawmaker proposes amendment limiting corpor ...
    [JURIST] Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) [official website] on Thursday introduced a constitutional amendment that would exclude a corporation's First Amendment [text] rights to spend money on political campaigns. Named the Saving American Democracy Amendment [text, PDF] the proposal would make cl ...
  • Alabama governor working to revise state immig ...
    [JURIST] Alabama Governor Robert Bentley [official website] announced [press release] Friday that he would work with House Speaker Mike Hubbard and Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh [official profiles] to make Alabama's new immigration law [HB 56 text] more effective. Bentley assured that t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • U.S. Drone That Went Down in Iran Was High-Tec ...
    The drone that Iran claims to have shot down was a stealth RQ-170 "Sentinel" The RQ-170 "Sentinel," a stealth unmanned U.S. drone / Wikimedia Commons The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crash ...
  • A Hot Flash in the Cold War With Pakistan
    A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...
  • Mitt Romney Ramps Up Attacks on Obama
    Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...
  • Newt's Gift to Obama: A GOP Immigration Rift
    With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...
  • Why Did Perry Get Into the Race, Really?
    Republican consultants at loose ends and looking for work sold the Texas governor a bill of goods about his prospects So I have this theory about why Gov. Rick Perry decided to run for president, despite what appeared to be his instincts telling him that the job just wasn't for him. There ca ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Major Explosion at Iranian Steel Plant, Israel ...
    An Iranian steel plant used for production of military equipment and originally built by Russia suffered a major explosion that killed seven, including “foreign nationals” as reported in Iranian media.  Iran has been attempting to produce its own tanks and armored vehicles and it&#82 ...
  • Adelson’s Yisrael HaYom Doing for Gingrich Wha ...
    Sheldon Adelson, in effect, contributes $36 million every year to support the election and rule of Bibi Netanyahu.  No, you won’t find that figure in any public donation record because he doesn’t give this money directly to Bibi.  This is the amount of his subsidy of Yisrael Hayom, I ...
  • Israeli Hasbara Minister Edelstein Patrols Par ...
     …We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or ...
  • Bank Leumi, Faced With Prospect of Im Tirzu Wi ...
    A few days ago Israeli customers of Bank Leumi raised a furor over the inclusion of the far-right nationalist group Im Tirzu within a supposed non-political charity competition designed to promote the work of Israeli NGOs.  The winning prize money totaled $500,000.  After customers began removin ...
  • Lieberman’s Specialty: Whitewashing Shady Russ ...
    Akiva Eldar writes (in Hebrew, and a related English story) about Avigdor Lieberman’s annoying tendency to whitewash some of the most anti-democratic world leaders including lately Ukraine’s Victor Yanukovitch and Vladimir Putin.  After meeting personally with the Russian leader in t ...

If Americans Knew

  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...
  • Ready the Fire Extinguishers: The Coca-Cola Ol ...
    The Olympic torch relay does not have an auspicious history. The modern torch relay, as a symbol of local pride enmeshed in the Olympic ideal, was introduced in 1936 to herald the opening of the Berlin Olympics. It was nothing less than a propaganda exercise to show the world the superiority of ...
  • Greenloons: Ecotourism is the New Blindfold
    Now that the Unsuitablog is taking a more occasional view of ethical hypocrisy (short for, “I really don’t have the time for all this!”) it takes a very special email or advert to make it to the blog. Most of them end up in my junk folder, but some of them sneak into my inbox, ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drownin ...
    There's a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren't. It's a tough issue that we've been working on at Ushahidi for a while now. Our solution is ...
  • Mapping the Story of Climate Change
    For this week's climate meetings in Durban, the World Bank released a series of maps showing the predicted impact of climate change on the world between now and 2100. The data is dismal. If climate change continues unmitigated as it has for the past century, temperatures around the world wil ...
  • PANDA Project Releases Alpha 2 (and Needs Your ...
    Last Friday, we closed out our eighth iteration of PANDA Project development and published our second alpha. We've added a login/registration system, dataset search, complex query support and a variety of other improvements. You can try out the new release now by visiting our test site here. ...
  • SocMap.com's Location-Based Data Maps Becoming ...
    SocMap.com is pleased to announce that we've launched the "tweets" and "places" features on our site, and we hope to debut "local initiatives," "local questions," and a city-planning game on February 1st. SocMap, a 2010 Knight News Challenge winner, is building a map-based interface for loca ...
  • How Spending Stories Spots Errors in Public Sp ...
    This article was co-written by Martin Keegan, project lead for Spending Stories. How public funds should be spent is often controversial. Information about how that money has already been spent should not be ambiguous at all. People arguing about the future will care about the present, and if ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama and Israel - Administration Excoriates I ...
    Enduring spiteful swipes against America’s most loyal ally in the Middle East. “Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent,” says the deceived Claudio in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. However cynical it sounds, there are times when a maxim like this one rightly guides the affa ...
  • Mideast on Edge - Mideast Water Shortages Thre ...
    At Cairo's posh Gazeera Club, workers leave the showers running as they sit nearby drinking tea and chatting. Large quantities of water pour down the drain as water pipes around the city and its suburbs run dry. For inhabitants of Cairo’s poor neighborhoods, water only infrequently arrives via g ...
  • Iran's Nukes - Israeli Officials Slam Obama as ...
    Despite maintaining a veneer of happy collaboration, Israeli officials are deeply unhappy with the Obama administration's approach to the Iranian nuclear program. It has long been assumed by observers that this is the case, but thus far there has been no public confirmation of it. That changed o ...
  • Oil Addiction - Lobbyists go to battle over Ke ...
    At least 42 lobbying firms, associations and companies have lobbied on the Keystone XL pipeline since 2009, Senate records show. Lobbying on the controversial project accelerated this year as the pipeline became a hot-button political issue. Of the 42 entities that have lobbied since 2009 on Key ...
  • Latin America on Edge - Big Hopes for CELAC, b ...
    The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) held its first summit on December 2 and 3 in Caracas, Venezuela. The group’s purported purpose is to create a deeper relationship among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, one that is able to function free of the all-perv ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Another Mystery Explosion Hits Iran, Third in ...
    For a country who's president claims to have God on his side, Iran has has sure had a wave of lousy luck. Every two weeks a new Iranian City has a Mystery Explosion. First it was the missile test facility in Bidganeh, a town southwest of Tehran. Then there was the boom in the ...
  • Make Way for the Muslim Brotherhood International!
    By Barry Rubin “Arise, you prisoners of starvation! Arise, you wretched of the earth! For justice thunders condemnation: A better world's in birth!” So begins the Internationale, the theme song of Communism. So far it is perfectly acceptable for Islamists though some later v ...
  • Gingrich's Palestinian "Invented People" Comme ...
    Republican Candidate Newt Gingrich made headlines this week with his comment made on the Jewish Channel, that “We have had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs,” His statement was criticized by fellow candidate Mitt Romney, by ...
  • I'll Bet You $10,000 That Romney Lost The Nomi ...
    When it is all said and done historians may look back on this GOP primary season and conclude that Mitt Romney lost his chance at the nomination on a bet. During last night's debate Texas Governor Rick Perry challenged Romney on a passage in his first book, claiming an early edition said t ...
  • It's that Stupid, Politically Correct Holiday ...
    In less than two weeks Jews across the world will begin celebrating the minor holiday of Hanukkah, Chanukah and/or חנוכה the Jewish holiday that is spelled a hundred ways in English. Along with the joy of the holiday is the sadness that this minor holiday is continually hijacked by the ACLU and ...

The Real Agenda

  • Ron Paul Exposes Gingrich’s past of Corr ...
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda December 12, 2011 Republican presidential candidate and Texas House Representative Ron Paul has once again taken it to a new level when it comes to unmasking the travesty that is the candidacy of Newt Gingrich. In a new video ad, one that borrows resources from ...
  • UN’s “Green Climate Fund” to keep Poor Nations ...
    Editor’s Note: The only arguable point is that it is not the rich nations per se the ones wanting to prevent the third world from developing, but the corporate interests that pull the strings behind those nations. Many of those corporate interests are also in control of the UN. by Marc Mor ...
  • Esterilização Forçada: O Segredo Mais Escuro d ...
    Uma investigação sobre se o governo de Alberto Fujimori realizou esterilizações forçadas em massa na década de 1990 foi reaberto. Estas atrocidades foram apoiadas pelas Nações Unidas e a USAID. Tradução Luis Miranda The Real Agenda 12 dezembro 2011 O rosto da Victoria Vigo não mostra nenhuma emo ...
  • When Sea Level Change is NOT Sea Level Change
    by Dr. Timothy Ball Science&Public Policy December 12, 2011 Many claim sea level is rising because of global warming and point to changes along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Sea level has risen since the end of the last Ice Age (Figure 1), but it has slowed dramatically in the last few hundred y ...
  • Obama was who requested that Americans were &# ...
    Senator Levin revealed – It was Obama who required the Indefinite Detainment Bill INCLUDE U.S. Citizens as part of the wording! by SerriQuestioningAll December 11, 2011 Well now we know, for those who have been holding out “hope” that Obama will veto the 1031 Indefinite Detainm ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind turbine bursts into flames as hurricane-f ...
    The turbine in a North Ayrshire wind farm caught fire on Thursday afternoon. Fire engines attended the blaze which died out after a matter of minutes at the wind farm situated above Ardrossan at around 3.40pm. Ardrossan resident Stuart McMahon said the turbine had not been in operation due to th ...
  • GMP wind: Protesters halt construction, are ar ...
    Police arrested six protesters on the Kingdom Community Wind construction site in Lowell Monday morning after the protesters blockaded the ridgeline road and stopped construction. They also arrested a journalist who said he was at the site to cover the arrests. Among those arrested were: Dr. Ron ...
  • Murray abandons wind energy siting bill
    Supporters’ hopes for a long-awaited wind energy siting bill dimmed last week when Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, announced she does not support the measure. Murray mentioned the controversial Falmouth turbine and sided with those concerned the siting bill would take away loc ...
  • Ontario watchdog warns on green energy costs
    The high cost of Ontario’s green energy plan may drive up electricity bills significantly in the province in the future, the government’s auditor general said in his annual report on Monday. He also said wind and solar projects launched under the province’s green energy plan ha ...
  • Area to lose major tax revenue from wind devel ...
    BAD AXE — County officials learned this week that the State Tax Commission lowered the amount of personal property taxes developers pay for wind developments — resulting in the area losing more than a quarter of a million dollars next year. Huron County Board of Commissioners Chairman Ron Wruble ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
  • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
    A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

  • New York Politicians Want Air Passenger Advocate
    “Two New York lawmakers have called for a passenger advocate at airports to immediately act on complaints by passengers over security screenings.” (Washington Times) A private competitive market would make this unnecessary. FEE Timely Classic “On Airports and Individual Rights& ...
  • San Francisco Decrees $10 Minimum Wage
    “Come New Year’s Day, . . . San Francisco makes history by becoming the first city in the nation to scale a $10 minimum wage. The city’s hourly wage for its lowest-paid workers will hit $10.24, more than $2 above the California minimum wage and nearly $3 more than the working w ...
  • Negotiations Lead to European Agreement
    “Leaders of 26 European countries, including the 17 nations that use the euro, agreed Friday to a new pact with strict caps on government spending and borrowing to shore up the foundations of the currency, with only euro-skeptic Britain rejecting the pact.” (Washington Post) But will ...
  • States Extend Generous Pension Benefits
    “Special retirement benefits once reserved for police, firefighters and others with dangerous jobs are now being given to tens of thousands of state workers employed as park rangers, foresters, dispatchers, coroners, even highway laborers, museum guards and lifeguards.” (USA Today) A ...
  • Fearing Hayek
    Hayek was important for teaching that markets provide the only way for human beings to overcome their individual deficiencies in knowledge, which would otherwise keep them from flourishing through social cooperation and the division of labor.

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Fighting for Rights of the Disabled in Africa
    Disabled people in countries like Burundi and the Congo face harsh discrimination, but organizers are advocating for their rights and advancement.
  • Kenya's Incursion in Somalia
    While the exact motives of all the players involved are hard to discern, many people are being endangered as Kenya chases al-Shabaab in Somalia.
  • Congo: Holding Its Breath
    Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are expected to be deeply flawed, and a number of situations could lead to further violence and unrest in the war-torn country.
  • Progress in Sierra Leone, but Not for the Youth
    President Koroma has improved electricity supply, healthcare and roads in Sierra Leone, but the country's young people have not received the education or opportunities they need.
  • Land Grabs and the World Bank
    Farmers in developing countries are seeing their land taken from them and sold off to investors, and the World Bank is playing a hand in the deals.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • There’s a hardly a “progressive” alive who isn ...
    Seriously, listening to all the progressives either supporting the payroll tax rebate extension (an attack on Social Security) or saying that Cameron should have signed on to a forced austerity pact, I am reminded how mind  numbingly stupid and partisan these people are.  Scum.  Evil. Stupid. I ...
  • Perhaps the Only Thing Cameron Will Ever Do Th ...
    was to tell Merkel to take a long leap of a short pier, and refusing to sign on board for European control of member state’s fiscal policies.  Such control in the current context (forced austerity) is a recipe for outright, extended depression.  Cameron may be throwing Britain into depress ...
  • Why MF Global Collapsed
    Because the Fed cut them off.  That is all. Yes, they were doing shady things, but no more shady than many other companies that didn’t get cut off.  If you are a financial firm, you need the essentially free money the Fed provides.  With it, you can make money, without it, you can’t. ...
  • How to lie with headlines – NY Times edition
    So, I’m browsing the NY Times and a title leaps out at me: Albany Tax Deal to Raise Rate for Highest Earners The URL says Cuomo, governor of New York. Odd, I think.  I wouldn’t expect Cuomo to raise taxes on rich people.  Maybe I’ve misjudged him?  Maybe he isn’t just a u ...
  • The blindingly obvious about the proposed fisc ...
    What it means is German control over other countries budgets.  What that means is semi-permanent austerity.  What that means is semi-permanent depression. I somehow doubt that this will be accomplished, if it is accomplished, through referenda.  I doubt any major party will stand against it.  So ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Gene therapy success for haemophilia
    Four patients with haemophilia B have been successfully treated with gene therapy, scientists at University College London and elsewhere reported on 10 December in the New England Journal of Medicine and on 11 December at the American Society of Hematology meeting in San Diego, California. Th ...
  • Simple tools speed up quake warnings
    Researchers have developed a new technique for quickly assessing the magnitude of large earthquakes, cutting down the time required in the case of the recent quake in Japan, for example, from about 20 minutes to just 2-3 minutes. Those critical minutes would have helped with tsunami warnings and ...
  • Climate negotiators huddle for a dramatic deal ...
    On 11 December 1997 nations of the world gathered in Japan to sign a legally binding instrument intended to begin the long task of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Today, as Kyoto Protocol celebrates its fourteenth birthday, questions about its future pushed the United Nations climate t ...
  • Climate negotiators huddle for a dramatic deal ...
    On 11 December 1997 nations of the world gathered in Japan to sign a legally binding instrument intended to begin the long task of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. Today, as Kyoto Protocol celebrates its fourteenth birthday, questions about its future pushed the United Nations climate t ...
  • Hole in the ground available for hire
    When researchers drilled a hole into California's San Andreas fault, they dropped a string of instruments down into its depths in 2008 that they hoped would take readings of seismic and magnetic activity for years. But that experiment, called the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth, failed ju ...

new geography

  • Durban, Reducing Emissions and the Dimensions ...
    The Durban climate change conference has come to an end, with the nations of the world approving the "Durban Platform," (Note 1) an agreement to agree later on binding greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets by 2020. The New York Times reported: "Observers and delegates said th ...
  • Wanted: Blue-Collar Workers
    To many, America’s industrial heartland may look like a place mired in the economic past—a place that, outcompeted by manufacturing countries around the world, has too little work to offer its residents. But things look very different to Karen Wright, the CEO of Ariel Corporation in Moun ...
  • Tilting at (Transit) Windmills in Nashville
    As in other major metropolitan areas in the United States, Nashville public officials are concerned about traffic congestion and the time it takes to get around. There is good reason for this, given the research that demonstrates the strong association between improved economic productivity a ...
  • Which States Are Growing More Competitive?
    By Hank Robison and Rob Sentz. Illustration by Mark Beauchamp. In many ways, individual U.S. states are like 50 laboratories where differing public policy, industry focus, and economic development strategies are tried and tested. Different approaches yield different results and some state ...
  • Illinois: State Of Embarrassment
    Most critics of Barack Obama’s desultory performance the past three years trace it to his supposedly leftist ideology, lack of experience and even his personality quirks. But it would perhaps be more useful to look at the geography — of Chicago and the state of Illinois — that nurtured his ...

GM Watch

  • GM speeding up the tech-pesticide treadmill
    EXTRACT: *Are farmers on a faster technology-pesticides treadmill on account of GM technology? GDS: Of course. Farmers didn't really start adopting Bt cotton until around 2005, and within five years we have gone from one genetic construct to four. We have gone from terrible problems with Americ ...
  • Poison from the sky
    Poison from the Sky Marcela Valente IPS, Dec 9 2011 http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106159 *Studies show that people in rural areas in Argentina face risks from glyphosate spraying.  BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's soy boom has been a major source of foreign exchange. But the other side of t ...
  • Kucinich seeks consumer protection and choice
    1.Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply From Manufactured Crises 2.Kucinich: Allow Consumers to Make Informed Choices --- --- 1.Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply From Manufactured Crises eNews Park Forest, December 9 2011 http://t.co/nCHu1UNb WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today an ...
  • Monsanto denies superinsect problem, despite e ...
    Monsanto (Still) Denies Superinsect Problem, Despite Evidence Tom Philpott Mother Jones, December 8 2011  http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/12/superinsects-monsanto-corn-epa Back in August - as I reported here - something strange began to happen in isolated Iowa corn fields: Otherwise h ...
  • Monsanto denies superinsect problem, despite e ...
    Monsanto (Still) Denies Superinsect Problem, Despite Evidence Tom Philpott Mother Jones, December 8 2011  http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/12/superinsects-monsanto-corn-epa Back in August - as I reported here - something strange began to happen in isolated Iowa corn fields: Otherwise h ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But The ...
    Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this.  Today, Tim Tebow engineered yet another miraculous 4th quarter comeback.  Almost everyone has been expecting this unprecedented string of comebacks to come to an end, yet Tebow just keeps pulling off miracle ...
  • Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That ...
    How do you decide whether you are wealthy or not?  Do you determine that by how much money you spend at the stores?  Of course not.  You can tell if you are wealthy or not by comparing your assets (the money in your bank account, equity in your home, etc.) to your liabilities (yo ...
  • 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 something to be done lightly.  ...
  • 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
    More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
  • The Worst In The World – The U.S. Balanc ...
    Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us?  The U.S. balance of trade is not only mind-blowingly bad - it is the worst in the world.  It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will [...]

Desertification

  • IT resources and ‘hands-on’ scienc ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111209123108.htm New Solar-Powered Classroom Brings Science to Schools in Developing Countries ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2011) — An innovative project led by a chemistry academic at the University of Southampton is using solar generators to prov ...
  • Increase in the amount and extent of shrubs an ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111208152021.htm More Shrubbery in a Warming World ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2011) — Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have ...
  • Drought management strategies (Google / Oman D ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://main.omanobserver.om/node/75273 Spotlight on drought management strategies By Abdulaziz al Jahdhami – MUSCAT — The First International Conference on Drought Management Strategies in Arid and Semi Arid Regions kicked off yesterday under ...
  • 12 billion trees worldwide (UN NEWS Centre)
    Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40664&Cr=trees&Cr1= UN-led campaign that planted 12 billion trees worldwide starts new phase A United Nations campaign that has overseen the planting of more than 12 billion trees around the world has been handed over to a youth-led ...
  • Watermelon farming in a drought (African Agric ...
    Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2011/12/climate-change-adaptation-watermelon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Climate change adaptation: watermelon farming in a drought by Isaiah Esipis ...

The Paper Trail

  • And now, left-wing Mitt Romney, out of context ...
    A new political ad, entitled “French Mitt Romney,” shows a video of the presidential candidate speaking in French, poorly, promoting the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.But the subtitles are a bit off – actually they don’t mention the Olympics at all.
  • FACT CHECK: Soft on Anti-Semitism
    GOP presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney claim that the U.S. ambassador to Belgium “justified” and “downplayed” anti-Semitism and blamed it on “Israel’s actions toward the Palestinians.” We find that to be a one-sided interpretation of what was actually said.
  • Brominated battle: Soda chemical has cloudy he ...
    It's Monday night at the Battle & Brew, a gamer hangout in this Atlanta suburb. The crowd is slumping in chairs, ears entombed in headphones, eyes locked on flat-screen monitors and minds lost in tonight’s video game of choice: "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim."
  • Methodology
    Our analysis of the toll from chronic kidney disease (CKD) in Central America is based on mortality data from the World Health Organization.
  • About this project
    Thousands of men working in the Pacific Coast sugarcane fields of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and neighboring countries have been dying of chronic kidney disease, an ailment that in most parts of the developed world is a manageable condition.

backofthebook.ca

  • Harper’s hippies for trucks plan
    By Alison@Creekside In this week’s episode, Steve lays a cunning trap for Barry. In exchange for agreeing to pass travel and “informal” info about Canadians on to Homeland Security, Steve gets Barry to promise to maybe match $1-billion in Canadian taxpayer dollars to fund some  ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Report on the recent days of struggle of the N ...
    8-12.jpeg As I wrote a few days ago, the NO TAV movement was planning a huge day of mobilisation on December 8, for the anniversary of what has become known as “The Battle of Venaus” in 2005, where ac ...
  • Report on the Free Mumia Abu Jamal Protest in ...
    Report on The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Protest in London on 9th December 2011. Free Mumia Now ! Action called by Free Mumia Abu Jamal Defense Campaign UK: Sixty people protested outside the US Embassy 5- 7 pm, to demand the immediate and ...
  • Report on the Free Mumia Abu Jamal Protest in ...
    Report on The Free Mumia Abu Jamal Protest in London on 9th December 2011. Free Mumia Now ! Action called by Free Mumia Abu Jamal Defense Campaign UK: Sixty people protested outside the US Embassy 5- 7 pm, to demand the immediate and ...
  • Solar Powered Cappucino at COP 17 in Durban
    Benjamin Fogel on the COP 17 fiasco in Durban, South Africa. COP 17 drags on. Everybody would rather be somewhere else. When last Saturday’s protest march of around 10,000 people reached Durban’s ICC, the venue of the UN environmental ...
  • EDL/Infidels Latest!
    Read All Abaht It! EDL/Infidels Latest! http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/

Free Range International

  • THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
    Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
  • EFP’s
    During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...
  • Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
    Much has transpired since my visit to Zaranj last month.  I learned just this morning that the Surge apparently did not work and we are now, according to our esteemed Secretary of State, switching tactics too.  The new counterinsurgency tactic will be “Fight, Talk, Build” and if you ...
  • Sanctuary Denied?
    Last week I received and heads up from Mullah John that General Allen and Ambassador Crocker were on 60 Minutes and was able to watch the show on AFN.  The one thing I noticed when watching General Allen was the emotion clearly evident as he discussed the truck bomb has had asked the Pakistani m ...
  • Free Ranging Balochistan
    I’m back in my compound after attending a bunch of ceremonies in Zaranj marking the end of our efforts in Nimroz Province.  When we flew in last week the skies were dark and it rained that night.  The next morning was clear as a bell making for excellent photography and perfect weather for ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • It’s the ECONOMY — DUH!!!
    For whatever reason, the subject of the FEDERAL RESERVE and MONEY CREATION FOR PROFIT is not being “debated” on the political front by the Khazar “Puppets” masquerading as GOP Presidential “Candidates”. The machinations of TOO BIG TO FAIL BANKS and the ECONOMY ...
  • Batle Hymn – Put on the WHOLE ARMOR of God.
    Before you read this – listen to this SCHOOL CHOIR perform “Battle Hymn of the REPUBLIC!”  What a wonderful job! http://www.greatdanepro.com/Battle%20Hymn/index.htm This pretty much sums things up folks.  Remember it was written back in 1972. Put on the Whole Armor of God Novem ...
  • Freedman’s 1954 Letter to Fellow “ ...
    This lengthy letter, written back in 1954, is absolutely vital in understanding the “Big Lie” – and uncovering the “Synagogue of Satan” – the “Hidden Hand” controlling world events today.   Facts are indeed FACTS – and The Truth  Shall Set Us ...
  • The ACLU Get One Right
    Every so often, even the ACLU lines up correctly.  This is one such instance: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/senators-demand-military-lock-american-citizens-battlefield-they-define-being/ Senators Demand the Military Lock Up American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being R ...
  • “Newt” Gingrich Surges in New Hamp ...
    Americans seem to either have a very short memory, or they are being hypnotized. Over the weekend, key “polls” reported Newt Gingrich actually leading the GOP field for the 2012 Presidential nomination.  Perhaps “Illuminati Appointment” is more appropriate. Never mind tha ...

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Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • پرتاب کفش به سوی احمدی‌نژاد در مراسم سالگرد عل ...
    ه‌هنگام برگزاری دومين سالگرد درگذشت علی کردان، وزير کشور سابق، گروهی در ميان سخنان محمود احمدی‌نژاد شعارهايی دادند و به سوی وی کفش پرتاب کردند. به گزارش منابع خبری ايران، محمود احمدی‌نژاد، رئيس جمهور ايران، امروز دوشنبه ۲۱ آذرماه همچون سال گذشته در مراسم سالگرد درگذشت علی کردان، وزير سابق کشور د ...
  • دیدار اعضای ستاد بزرگداشت حماسه 9 دی با رهبر ا ...
    حضرت آیت‌الله خامنه‌ای با یادآوری وقایع تلخ فتنه 88 افزودند: این فتنه، صرفا منحصر به حضور عده‌ای افراد در خیابان‌ها نبود، بلكه ناشی از یك بیماری بود كه با اقدامات سیاسی و امنیتی قابل دفع شدن نبود، و به یك حضور عظیم مردمی نیاز داشت، كه چنین هم شد.
  • اجراي حد قطع پا و دست در زندان عادل‌آباد
    اجراي حد قطع پا و دست دو سارق در زندان عادل‌آباد؛  دادستان شيراز: دستگاه قضايي فارس در اجراي حدود الهي مصمم است  
  • هشدار به ایرانیان مسافر به خارج از کشور
    وزارت امورخارجه آمادگي مجدد خود براي ارائه مشورت به شهروندان ايراني و راهنمايي آنها در همه زمينه ها بويژه درخصوص اينگونه مشکلات را اعلام مي نمايد.
  • سگ کشی بیرحمانه در تبریز
    Warning: Graphic pictures این حیوانات زبان بسته با روش های بسیار فجیع مانند ضربه به جمجمه توسط لوله های فلزی و کوبیدن سر آن ها به دیوار و یا حلق آویز شدن کشته می شوند...     سگ کشی بیرحمانه در تبریز read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The V-Word
    Debating the Government Monopoly on Violence It will be instructive over coming months to watch the response of OWS protestors to the orgy of militarized police violence that has all but shut down the major public occupations. In just two months, the Occupy movement has used the combined tools ...
  • The Wikipedia Revolution – Part II
    Book Review (Part II) The Wikipedia Revolution By Andrew Lih (Aurun Press Ltd 2009) Andrew Lih The Birth of Wikipedia In 2000, Y2K enthusiast Larry Sanger joined BOMIS, bringing a large number of followers from his on-line Y2K digest. The Y2K movement was an informal network of programmers ...
  • The Wikipedia Revolution – Part I
    By Andrew Lih (Aurun Press Ltd 2009) Book Review (I have divided this review into two parts. Part I describes Open Source innovations that were integral to the creation of the world’s most famous and popular encyclopedia. Part II describes the Wikipedia project itself.) Lih’s Wilki ...
  • The 2011 New Zealand Elections
    Green Party co-leaders Russel Norman and Metiria Turei Owing to a longstanding conviction that true political power rest in corporate boardrooms, prior to coming to New Zealand I viewed electoral politics as a waste of time. For the best part of 30 years, I have devoted my limited leisure time t ...
  • Paying the Piper
    (This is the last of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The Solution to the $100 Trillion Global Debt There seems to be broad agreement among both classical corporate economists and latter day non-corporate ones that the $100 trillion global debt is s ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Taxes (and Pepper Spray) Are for the Little Pe ...
    The New York Daily News reported on December 5th, 2011 that Brookfield Properties -- taking its cue from Leona Helmsley -- owes New York City $139,000 in back taxes. Brookfield is the owner of Zuccotti Park, site of the original Occupy Wall Street encampment, and one of the main forces behind it ...
  • Meet Scott Walker, Sultan of Wisconsin
    Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's administration has announced changes to the rules for demonstrations in the state. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, these are some of the new policies: Groups of four or more people must obtain permits for all activity and displays in state buildings ...
  • Convicted Felon Dennis Levine on the Only Way ...
    In 1986 Dennis Levine, then a managing director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to insider trading. The federal investigation into his crimes later led to convictions of many others, including Ivan Boesky and Michael Milkin. In Ron Suskind's book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington ...
  • How the Librarians Beat Rupert Murdoch
    From the introduction to Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore I'm lucky, I guess, that I even get to write these words you are reading. Not just because I get to live in the most wonderfulest country in the whole wide world, but because after 9/11, my former publisher, Regan Books (a divi ...
  • From 'The Revolutionary,' by Walter Russell Me ...
    Link to original article in full ... The [Bush senior administration] official pointed out fatwas from Osama that cited the effects of sanctions on Iraqi children and the presence of U. S. troops as a sacrilege that justified his jihad. In a real sense, September 11 was part of the cost of ...

Salon

  • When Obama underestimated Newt
    One of the most unsettling moments of 2008 campaign came when Barack Obama told an interviewer, "I come from a new generation of Americans; I don't want to fight the battles of the '60s." What an oddly cavalier thing to say. Obama's presidential campaign, in fact, most of his career, would not h ...
  • Raid ends longest standing occupation camp
    The longest-standing occupation camp in the country folded early this morning when Boston cops pounced in the wee hours, arresting at least three dozen protesters on trespassing charges.Half of the 300-strong group of on-site and off-site occupiers had struck camp voluntarily 24 hours before whe ...
  • The Wall Street-climate change connection
    Think “climate change” and the companies that come to mind are oil giants like Exxon Mobil or BP – not JP Morgan or Bank of America.But a new study by Urgewald, a German environmental organization, establishes a strong link between large multinational banks and the coal industry, one of the bigg ...
  • The slick shtick of Americans Elect
    There’s an increasing amount of buzz around Americans Elect, a peculiar Internet-based effort to shake up presidential politics. But dig a bit beneath the surface and there’s reason to be deeply skeptical of the endeavor.The basic pitch of Americans Elect goes like this: We’ll go through the exp ...
  • The assault on Israeli women’s rights
    JERUSALEM — The subject of a women’s place in public dominated Israel’s headlines this week after a series of incidents highlighted what some say is the growing repression of Israeli women.The Israeli army, in which women have served since the establishment of the state, has been the focal point ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Toronto’s rainy day is now
    The Ford administration is backing away from taking food from the mouths of hungry children. But why did it try in the first place?
  • Citizenship and bigotry
    The Harper government's decision to ban women from wearing veils when becoming citizens may be popular, but it is wrong-headed.
  • Let’s not pay them too much
    Ten of Ontario’s 13 highest-paid civil servants are hospital executives, all earning more than $600,000 a year.
  • Ruining a good thing
    Toronto Conservation Authority should rethink jarring speed bumps targeting cyclists on the Leslie Street Spit.
  • More unequal, less complacent
    In its Growing Unequal report, the OECD sounds the alarm about rapidly increasing inequality in Canada.

Energy Collective

  • Archive: "How to Save a Planet On a Budget" Pa ...
    This third hour focuses on the venture capital environment for cleantech. Cleantech VC Environment, Moderated by Jesse Jenkins       Featuring: Will Coleman, Scott Edward Anderson & Dan Shugar Will began with "cleantech investing 101", and explained how the macr ...
  • Bad Blood Boils Over At The NRC
    Four commissioners write to the House Oversight Committee blaming Chairman Gregory Jaczko about a toxic atmosphere
  • Are Durban Outcomes Historic or Hollow? (1)
    This is the first of two posts on COP17, the Durban-based UN climate change talks: this summarises the accords reached and others' reactions; the next post following immediately i
  • Durban - How Big a Deal?
    Only time will tell whether the Durban climate talks produced an historic breakthrough.  It’s possible. What’s clear for now is that the Durban deal keeps the global climate effort intact and moving – however incrementally – in the right direction. The deal is delicately poised between two ...
  • Why Some Republicans are Delusional About Oil ...
    Two Sides of a Coin

EU Times

  • Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans
    Think that President Obama will stand by his word and veto the legislation that will allow the government to detain American citizens without charge or trial? Think again. The Obama administration has insisted that the president will veto the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20 ...
  • Italians to go on strike over budget cuts
    Tens of thousands of Italian workers plan a general strike against the imposition of the government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at saving the country from financial ruin. Leaders of Italy’s three biggest unions have called for a three hour strike on Monday afternoon and a rally ...
  • Russians do not need another revolution
    Experts continue to comment the meeting, which took place in Moscow on Saturday, December 10. Some say that the meeting against the results of the parliamentary elections was a political flashmob. Other say that it was a normal element of democracy, which demonstrated that Russia was no differen ...
  • Obama Asks Iran to Give Back Captured US Spy Drone
    Following days of silence on the American spy drone captured and unveiled by Iranian armed forces, US President Barack Obama says Washington has asked Tehran to return the US reconnaissance drone. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said in a news con ...
  • Americans Leaving US in Record Numbers
    Ever dream of leaving it all behind and heading out of America? You’re not the only one. A new study shows that more US citizens than ever before are living outside of the country. According to statistics from the US State Department, around 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying o ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Prepaid iPhone 4S kits from Globe get priced
    Journalist and blogger Tonyo Cruz recently shared pricing info for Globe’s iPhone 4S prepaid kits, which the telco will launch along with postpaid options this Friday, December 16. Sighted on Facebook : “Report: Prices of #GlobeiPhone4S prepaid kits – P30k+ (16gb), P35k+ (32gb), P44k+ (64gb)”. ...
  • Bankers Should Pay for Bank Failure. You Donât ...
    Bankers should be made to pay dearly if their bank fails , is one of the rather underwhelming and self-evident conclusions of the U.K. financial services regulatorâs long-awaited probe into the 2008 failure of Royal Bank of Scotland
  • DeLong Smackdown Watch: Jim Henley Provides a ...
    Jim Henley thinks that Nick Clegg drew the wrong conclusions from his time spent as an intern at the Nation : Oh Right â Needs a Title § Unqualified Offerings : Brad DeLong was implicitly puzzled last week why British Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg sticks in coalition with the Tories, ensuring the ...
  • Robert Noyce Google Doodle
    Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 â June 3, 1990) co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) and Intel (1968) was known as “the Mayor of Silicon Valley” decades before that FourSquare nonsense came into being. He is also credited (together with Jack Kilby) for the invention of the integr ...
  • Israel Takes Action On The Flood Of Illegal Wo ...
    Over the last five years, the tiny Nation of Israel has been flooded with illegal workers, mostly from the African Nations of Sudan and Eritrea. Over 50,000 desperate human beings, fleeing war, famine and religious persecution, have crossed Israel’s border from Egyptâs Sinai desert. They enter ...

Groklaw

  • Samsung's Cell Phone Sales Surpass 300 Million
    Samsung recently bested rival Apple, Inc. by 65 percent in calendar Q3 2011 unit sales to seize the global lead. But it is the company's greater phone lineup, which primarily consists of so-called "feature phones" (i.e., traditional cell phones), that Samsung was celebrating in a recent press ...
  • Nook Color gets new streaming content
    Barnes & Noble is doing well with the new Nook Color as the fastest selling product it offers. The company has announced a software update for the tablet that adds more than 100 different new features and enhancements to the device. The software update is free and brings the ability to strea ...
  • HP Made the Right Move on webOS, but What's Next?
    Either way HP decides to move, webOS becoming a nonprofit-status entity will serve as a tax break for HP. It's now up to the lawyers as to which of two scenarios will provide the better tax shelter: a one-time spinoff write-off or a continuing in-house write-off.... "This is potentially a signif ...
  • The Download.com Debacle: What CNET Needs to D ...
    But the company still has a long way to go. First, as several developers immediately pointed out, that "re-check" apparently wasn't too thorough. There is still adware in some open-source installs. Second, the re-check only applied to open-source software - too bad if you are a commercial devel ...
  • HP Leaves webOS Wounded, Not Even Dead
    Android is open source too and it's very popular. Not to say there isn't room for more than one open source mobile OS because I'm sure the market would be happy to have something in place to put a check on Google, but I'm having a really hard time picturing how this is going to end even reasonab ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Bernie Sanders. Petition to save democracy
    Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes a constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court decision in a case called Citizens United vs. FEC. The Saving American Democracy Amendment states that: Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights equal to real people. Corporations are su ...
  • Where is Mr Conservative when we need him?
    I’ve been waiting with baited breath to see just how mondo-bizarro the Republican race for the presidential nomination could get.  It started at the bottom and has been working its way down ever since. It is so strange that it makes me long for a comeback by a “Mr. Conservative” in the mol ...
  • Mentos and Diet Coke-powered car goes 239 feet!
  • Railroad ties and bridges from 100% recycled m ...
    Axion makes the ties from plastic bottles and landfill waste and says they are cost-effective. ECOTRAX™ simply outperform traditional railroad ties. They are virtually impervious to the elements; will not rust, splinter, crumble, rot, absorb moisture or leach toxic chemicals into the environmen ...
  • Protect Bryce Canyon from Big Coal
    Big Coal and the City of Los Angeles are threatening Bryce Canyon National Park. They’ve proposed building a 3,500 acre coal strip mine right next to the park to extract coal to power L.A. If built, the mine would turn southern Utah into an industrial zone — jeopardizing the park, t ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Syria, Myanmar, South Africa, Libya...
    Just a quick note from an airport here... How come that western publics who applauded the negotiated transition to democracy in South Africa and who applaud the current openings in the same direction in Myanmar/Burma, generally seem so unwilling to pursue a similarly negotiated transition in Syr ...
  • Further thoughts on Syria, Turkey, and democracy
    This Monday, Nov. 28, I'll be speaking at a 2pm symposium in Washington DC on the topic "The Future of Syria: Political Turmoil and Prospects of Democracy". It is organized by SETA-DC, the Washington DC branch of the Ankara-based SETA (Foundation for Economic, Political and Social Research.) Als ...
  • Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
    On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
  • Making sense of Syria
    I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
  • World history at warp speed
    So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...

frogblog

  • General debate, December 13, 2011
  • Catching up with Australia
    New Zealand is finally catching up with Australia – at cricket! Australia 136 and 233 (Warner 123*, Bracewell 6-40) lost to New Zealand 150 and 226 by seven runs. Pity we can't do this with wages too, but the Government's policies will result in that gap widening.
  • Survey shows we can turn around low voter turnout
    The final election results were released over the weekend bringing with them some good news and some bad news. The good news: the Greens achieved a record result, including our bonus 14th MP Mojo Mathers. The bad news: official voter turnout was only 74.21%, the lowest in over 100 years. This re ...
  • John Key’s new Cabinet announced
    Prime Minister John Key announced his new Cabinet this morning. The line-up is pretty predictable, but some of the portfolio allocations and rankings are interesting: The big winners are Steven Joyce and Hekia Parata, moving up 10 and 13 places respectively in the Cabinet ranking. Parata replace ...
  • New report on ‘New Media’
    The Law Commission have today called for submissions on their latest issue paper The News Media Meets ‘New Media’. The paper is a thorough look at the state of how media, blogs, social media, and such are currently regulated, what the loopholes are, and it gives suggestions for where the Governm ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • U.S. Congress Says Pizza is a Vegetable
    By Dr. Mercola In case you weren't aware, you can eat a few slices of pizza and a couple of orders of fries and reach your daily requirement of vegetables! Of course, I kid, although it's really not a laughing matter. Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed guidelines ...
  • Eat These 2 Foods Only if You Want to Age Fast ...
    By Dr. Mercola Paul Jaminet, PhD is an astrophysicist from MIT and Berkley with a strong interest in health and diet which began after he experienced personal health challenges, that did not respond to conventional medicine. He and Dr. Ron Rosedale, M.D. have recently been having a ...
  • Some Call It the World's Best Antioxidant -- P ...
    By Dr. Mercola Rudi Moerck, who has advanced training in biological sciences, is an expert on fats and antioxidants. Astaxanthin is recognized as one of the most potent and exciting antioxidants to emerge, and is backed by extensive and compelling evidence. Extracted from marine algae, as ...
  • Stunning New Way to Flush Away Skin Cancer
    By Dr. Mercola Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. In fact, the incidence of skin cancer cases each year is higher than all other cancer combined, and has risen more than 300 percent since 1992. There are now more than 3.5 million nonmelanoma skin cancer ca ...
  • The Hidden Epidemic Destroying Your Gut Flora
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Don Huber is an expert in an area of science that relates to the toxicity of genetically engineered (GE) foods. (Alternative terms for GE foods include genetically modified (GM), or "GMO" for genetically modified organism.) His specific areas of training include soil-bor ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Quebecers should shake off the stinginess trad ...
    With Christmas just two weeks away, charities are in overdrive. From burly firefighters lined up at street corners holding out pails for loose change, to office colleagues organizing food and toy drives, everyone knows this is prime time for charitable giving.
  • Newcomers' guide: A little common sense, please
    Here's some advice for any municipality tempted to publish a how-to-fit-in guide for newcomers to Canada: don't do it.
  • Talking about climate change
    On Wednesday, readers took part in an online chat with award-winning Gazette investigative reporter William Marsden, author of the just-published book Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change (Knopf Canada). You can read their questions and comments and Marsden's answers:
  • What to do about bullying in schools
    "" Given the growing suicide toll from bullying, the time is now to start making changes, not just talking about them. Legislation is wonderful, but what happens to the bullies who are expelled? They go on to torment another school.
  • The Conservatives' dirty tricks against Irwin ...
    The Conservative Party of Stephen Harper has much in hand with which to legitimately commend itself to the Canadian public.

Food World Order

  • #seattle school board may ease ban on #junkfood
    seattle schools want back in the junk-food-dealing racket* from seattle times: The Seattle School Board is considering relaxing its ban on unhealthful food in high schools amid complaints from student governments that the policy has cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in vending-machin ...
  • rural farmers unite to feed #occupy protestors
    from brasscheck tv: We missed this story a while back, but it's such an inspiring story it's worth going back. How rural farmers, an unemployed chef and a protestor named Heather are getting 1,000 dinners served at Occupy Wall Street every night.
  • federal agents raid mormon food storage facility
    from natural news: As was the plan all along, the so-called "War on Terror" has officially devolved into a war on the American people. This was clearly illustrated by the recent traitorous passage of the egregious National Defense Authorization Act by the US Congress. But in order to fully imple ...
  • dollar stores win customers with more food, be ...
    from dayton daily news: Dollar stores are a growing force in discount retailing, a new study shows. The combined number of stores operated by the four top chains — Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and 99 Cents Only — has surpassed that of the three biggest national drugstore chains — W ...
  • asheville, nc food trucks prepping downtown pa ...
    from citizen-times: One of the city’s newest culinary trends could be rolling into downtown by the end of the month. Food trucks that were banned from downtown for more than two decades until a September City Council vote are working to ready a parking lot south of Patton Avenue, said Marni Grav ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But The ...
    Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this.  Today, Tim Tebow engineered yet another miraculous 4th quarter comeback.  Almost everyone has been expecting this unprecedented string of comebacks to come to an end, yet Tebow just keeps pulling off miracle ...
  • Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That ...
    How do you decide whether you are wealthy or not?  Do you determine that by how much money you spend at the stores?  Of course not.  You can tell if you are wealthy or not by comparing your assets (the money in your bank account, equity in your home, etc.) to your liabilities (yo ...
  • 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 something to be done lightly.  ...
  • 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
    More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
  • The Worst In The World – The U.S. Balanc ...
    Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us?  The U.S. balance of trade is not only mind-blowingly bad - it is the worst in the world.  It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will [...]

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • "Little Englanders" and our arguments are supp ...
    For those of you who only get your news from the EU's very own Pravda - the BBC - you'll miss out on viewpoints aired on that more reliable and genuinely Russian-linked broadcaster, RT. While "the left" and their British mainstream media cheerleaders prefer to ignore British MAJORITY public o ...
  • LibDems attack Britain and democracy... on day ...
    Nick Clegg - often the target of derision on this blog - finally committed political suicide this morning. Talking to Pravda the BBC, Clegg declared that Britain would be a "pygmy" without the European Union. So, now you know what the EU-placeman who has dedicated his life to serving his E ...
  • What Britain is "isolated" from: Case #1 - Spain
    Don't panic! Britain is "isolated", apparently. There's a relief!
  • Music for a Saturday night: One man's "isolate ...
    The mainstream media have had a forty eight hour mantra of "Britain, isolated." We haven't a clue why they should see that as a bad thing. We think it's a jolly good thing. In fact, it's so jolly good, we're cracking out the Lulu records at the mere thought of it: See also: Fraser Ne ...
  • David Cameron finally finds a spine and says " ...
    It's only 8am and we've been up for an hour, glued to events in Brussels already as David Cameron refused to agree treaty changes that form part of the latest EU power grab. Lots of detail and analysis will still come - by the avalanche full - this morning. Yet, on initial reaction, we mus ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Android Market Celebrates 10 Billion App Downl ...
    "One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing," wrote Eric Chu, director of Android Developer Ecosystem, in a recent blog post. According to official Google statistics, 1 billion apps are being ...
  • Creative Ubuntu Unity TV Mockups You Must See
    Among other big ticket announcements during recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) was the news of Ubuntu Unity's foray into Mobile and TV space. This was an exciting development to everyone in the community and user-contributed design mockups have been pouring in ever since. We had f ...
  • World of Goo for Android Phones, Tablets Released!
    We had informed you about the imminent arrival of award winning World of Goo puzzle game for Android based smartphones and tablets few weeks back. Now it's here and it is already getting some rave reviews from users and reviewers alike. World of Goo for Android is Here! ...
  • Linux Mint 12 Lisa Review: Magnificent is the ...
    Linux Mint, the venerable Ubuntu based Linux distro, is in the news again. Linux Mint 12 codenamed "Lisa" is finally released. It based on GNOME 3.0 and runs GNOME Shell with some ingenious tweaks of its own. Detailed review of Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" OS. Read on. Linux Mint 12 Rev ...
  • SwipePad: A Must Have App for Every Android Device
    SwipePad is a simple application that lets you launch any app with a single swipe action from within any other app. Upon being recommended by a friend of mine, SwipePad was one of those applications I installed immediately after receiving my first Android phone. Since then, SwipePad has become ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • GERMAN TV CRIME SERIES FOCUSES ON KAMPUSCH CASE
    Germany’s most popular police TV series “Tatort” focussed on the crime of paedophila in its Sunday episode – and so was sure to have resonated with viewers in Austria, where a new parliamentary investigation into the kidnapping of Natasha Kampusch has begun amid fresh allegations of ...
  • THE FOURTH EMPIRE – READ THE BACKGROUND ...
    *HISTORICAL SPLIT IN EUROPE *EUROZONE CURRENCY ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE *DEMOCRACY IN THE EUROZONE ABOUT TO BE EXTINGUISHED Financial forces are re-shaping the political landscape in Europe and the eurozone. To understand what is really going on, read the financial thriller The Fourth Empire. Read t ...
  • CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANCY RULES IS NEEDED TO PREVE ...
    *SIMPLE CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANCY RULES CAN DEFUSE EURO DEBT BOMB *UNICREDIT BANK ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE *AUSTRIAN BANKS HAVE BALANCE SHEETS FOUR TIMES LARGER THAN THE TOTRAL ECONOMIC OUTPUT As the euro currency union teeters on the brink of financial meltdown, it is worth considering a simple cha ...
  • “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” : ORDER YOUR C ...
    It’s ready!   The political thriller “The Fourth Empire” explains the secrets of how our financial system really works, and it is ready for you to order today.  The book strips back the veil to show you how finance is being used by a global elite to drive the people of Europe, the USA and [...]
  • “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” : ORDER YOUR C ...
    It’s ready!   The political thriller “The Fourth Empire” explains the secrets of how our financial system really works, and it is ready for you to order today.  The book strips back the veil to show you how finance is being used by a global elite to drive the people of Europe, the USA and [...]

Invisible Opportunity

  • Mystery Babylon and the Coming Darkness
    by Les Visible It’s a ball of confusion these days. Despite the manufactured chaos of the near wholly owned, Zionista press, there’s what we see at the blogs here that are the real indicators to me. People want different things, including complicated reassurances. Some people want fi ...
  • The Enemy of Humanity is going to their Grave
    By Les Visble This is The Apocalypse. This is the time of revelation and summing up. However true the truth about the darkness may be, we have more to fear from ourselves that we do from Sauronstein, which might translate into the rock of shapeless evil. We are the enemy of our own freedom and [...]
  • The Enemy of Humanity is going to their Grave
    By Les Visble This is The Apocalypse. This is the time of revelation and summing up. However true the truth about the darkness may be, we have more to fear from ourselves that we do from Sauronstein, which might translate into the rock of shapeless evil. We are the enemy of our own freedom and [...]
  • Eight Warning Signs Of Junk Science
    By Armed and Dangerous I’ve written before about scientific error cascades and the pernicious things that happen when junk science becomes the focus or rationale of a political crusade. The worst example of this sort of thing in my lifetime, and arguably in the entire history of science, has bee ...
  • Eight Warning Signs Of Junk Science
    By Armed and Dangerous I’ve written before about scientific error cascades and the pernicious things that happen when junk science becomes the focus or rationale of a political crusade. The worst example of this sort of thing in my lifetime, and arguably in the entire history of science, has bee ...

Veterans Today

  • America: The Government That Fears Its Own Mu ...
    The FBI was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. Why? They had been turned into radical extremists. A real potential for changing America's poltical system A real potential for being exploited by what we call the globalist banking conspiracy
  • Treating Palestinians Lawlessly
    December 11 marks the 63rd anniversary of UN Resolution 194, mandating that the (Palestinian) refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.
  • Gingrich’s Brilliant Insight About Pales ...
    The good news is that Newt Gingrich has solved the Middle East problem. The bad news is the upcoming genocide in New England.
  • Billy Graham Reveals the Source of Bible Authority
    In the November 13, 1995 issue of Christianity Today, page 31, we read, "Questions about the authority of Scripture had been troubling the young preacher (Billy Graham) for weeks.
  • Marine’s Murder Ignored by ‘Scient ...
    by Brian Burnett   Convincing evidence in a scientific paper by two forensic experts of the murder of Colonel James E. Sabow rejected by leading forensic journals. (SAN DIEGO, CA) – This is Part III of the story of the forensic evidence supporting the murder of Marine Colonel James E. ...

electric politics

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

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: December 12, 2011
    ==== Pakistani Forces Take Control Of Air Base As U.S. Troops Evicted NATO Commander: No Guarantee New Pakistan Attacks Won’t Occur Pakistan To Shoot Down U.S. Drones: Government Official Two NATO Soldiers Killed In Eastern Afghanistan Afghan War: U.S. Commander Defends Night Raids Iran Su ...
  • William Collins: Ode to Peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts William Collins From Ode to Peace (1747) O Thou, who bad’st thy Turtles bear Swift from his Grasp thy golden Hair, And sought’st thy native Skies: When War, by Vultures drawn from far, To Britain bent his Iron Car, And bad h ...
  • Stop NATO news: December 10, 2011
    ==== U.S. To Wage Future War In Space, Cyberspace, Air And Sea Simultaneously Pakistan Upgrades Air Defenses On Afghan Border Against NATO NATO-Pakistan Conflict Widens Pakistan’s NATO Blockade Enters Third Week NATO To Be Involved In Afghanistan For At Least 24 Years French Soldiers Admit ...
  • Federico García Lorca: War goes crying with a ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Federico García Lorca From Ode to Walt Whitman Translated by Rick Rozoff Agony, agony, dream, ferment and dream. This is the world, friend, agony, agony. The dead decompose under the clock of the cities, war goes crying with a million g ...
  • James Thomson: Peace is the natural state of m ...
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts James Thomson From Coriolanus (1745) I glory… To own myself an advocate for peace. Peace is the natural state of man; War his corruption, his disgrace. … Why should we purchase with the blood of thousands, What may be gained ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Establishment Tea Party Activist Supports Romn ...
    Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com December 12, 2011 A prominent activist for the hijacked Tea Party in New Hampshire has declared he will support Mitt Romney’s bid for president. Tom Thompson is the son of the late Meldrim Thomson, former governor of New Hampshire and an anti-tax activist. Tom Thompson is ...
  • Red Alert: Fukushima Nuclear Reactor 4 Possibl ...
    Natural News By Ethan Huff December 11, 2011 After enduring many months of total information blackout on the situation, an intelligence source connected with NaturalNews has just informed us that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor 4 may now on the verge of collapsing, and that mass evacuations in ...
  • Wash. State Military Units Prepare for Cyber War
    KomoNews.com December 12, 2011 JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) – In the next war, one of the battlescapes is likely to include a brick building shaded by fir trees, not far from Interstate 5, north of Olympia. The two-story building, with office space downstairs and shared computer wo ...
  • UN Calls For Eco-Fascist World Government At D ...
    “International Climate Court of Justice” would force western nations to pay “climate debt” Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com UPDATED Sunday December 11, 2011 UPDATE: World Government Climate Deal Fails In Durban Bureaucrats at the UN Climate Summit in Durban have outlined plans for the most dracon ...
  • BREAKING: Reports Claim US Troops Deploying on ...
    The Intel Hub December 12, 2011 According to reports by James Corbett of the CorbettReport as well as an exclusive report on Boiling Frogs Post, U.S.-NATO troops have begun massing on the border between Jordan and Syria. According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling Frogs Post ...

FRS

  • Prison industry is one of the fastest growing ...
    December 11, 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289 Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million ...
  • Prison industry is one of the fastest growing ...
    December 11, 2011 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289 Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million ...
  • The Guardian (UK)–India’s Maoist L ...
    Suvojit Bagchi spent over a month in Maoist hideouts in the forests of south Chhattisgarh. SUVOJIT BAGCHI  27th November, 2011 CAMP IN THE FOREST After walking for eight hours in a forest that possibly had more hillocks and rivulets than trees, without any long pause, by early evening we entered ...
  • The Guardian (UK)–India’s Maoist L ...
    Suvojit Bagchi spent over a month in Maoist hideouts in the forests of south Chhattisgarh. SUVOJIT BAGCHI  27th November, 2011 CAMP IN THE FOREST After walking for eight hours in a forest that possibly had more hillocks and rivulets than trees, without any long pause, by early evening we entered ...
  • The Guardian (UK)–India’s Maoist L ...
    In the second of a three-part series, Suvojit Bagchi meets the ‘eyes and ears’ of the Maoist and state militias. SUVOJIT BAGCHI,  4th December 2011 During my stay in Dandakaranya’s Maoist-dominated areas that lasted five weeks, I saw hundreds of young boys and girls with staleness in their ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Igniting & Uniting – Working with Occupy ...
    Have just got off the phone with Occupy Movement representatives including OMC (Occupy Marines), we are officially working together. Have had contact with Anonymous recently and the same is true. I will work with any and all who are serious about showing the powers that be that their time is run ...
  • Dale Farm (a video poem) Read by the Heretic
    As I look over Dale Farm today I see the inevitable world envisioned by the 1% A toxic, scarred, inhospitable landscape, a terrestrial hell suitable for Satan himself.
  • FOR THE RECORD – INTERNATIONAL NOTICE &# ...
    WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Allegiance, I have absolutely no Allegiance to the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with Residence, I maintain no Residence in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA; WHEREAS, citizenship is synonymous with paying taxes, I pay no ...
  • Slander vs. Sanity – Pathological Liars ...
    UPDATE - For the idiots who bought the lies and slander of Catherine Myles (aka Soraya Fitzgerald), Saeb Shaath, Jez Cuthbert, Cath Jenkins, Allison Hubbard (aka Vera Lynn), Sammi Coulthard (aka Saja Rana & Maitreyi Atmaja), Mary Rizzo, Mary Shepherd, Miri Wood, Jo Ann Westcott and court jes ...
  • Truth & Lies – Why Dale Farm Matters &#8 ...
    Here it is, please share this film and support the more than 90 families facing eviction in any way you can. TJP, Ken   Produced, Directed and Edited by Ken O’Keefe Contact for Dale Farm Residents Association dale.farm@btinternet.com T: +44 7888 699256 or +44 1206 523528 Contact for D ...

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • '64 or '68? Which Republican Presidential Race ...
    The 2012 Republican Presidential race is shaping up into a contest that fuses elements of two previous watershed campaign seasons, 1964 -- which saw Barry Goldwater come out on top -- and 1968, which saw the triumph of the new NixonContributor: Jon C. Hopwood Published: Dec 11, 2011
  • Adele Named Billboard's Top Artist with Failed ...
    Adele- of heartbreak-inspired "21"- is named Billboard's top artist.Contributor: Jaclyn Berger Published: Dec 11, 2011
  • Ron Paul Would Not Do Well as a Third-Party Ca ...
    George Will, the venerable Washington Post columnist and fixture as the lone conservative voice on ABC’s “This Week” posits what he suggests is a nightmare scenario, a Ron Paul third party candidacy.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Dec 11, 2011
  • Ashton Kutcher Already Moving on with Costar L ...
    Ashton Kutcher and Lea Michele co-star in the romantic comedy, "New Year's Eve." Has Kutcher already moved on from his six year marriage to actress Demi Moore?Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Dec 10, 2011
  • Anti-Putin Protests Show Spirit of Democracy i ...
    The UK Telegraph is covering massive demonstrations that have been ongoing against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is expected to run for President of Russia next year. The protests are the largest held in Russia in 20 years.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Dec 10, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • The World's Smallest Stirling Engine is a Sing ...
    At the University of Stuttgart and the nearby Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, researchers are taking the notion of smaller, more compact engines to a micro-machinery extreme. Their new power generator is a single particle--just 3 mircrometers wide--that functions like a Stirling en ...
  • A Significant Portion of Mars Could Be Friendl ...
    Now that we have slam-dunk evidence that Mars was once a wet and likely temperate place, astrobiologists are pondering the implications for ancient Martian life. One new study says the Red Planet has even more habitable space than Earth — albeit underground. Led by Charley Lineweaver at the Aust ...
  • Ulcer Treatment Could Lead to New Anti-Obesity ...
    In the 1980s, doctors noticed that chronic-ulcer patients who received a “vagotomy”—cutting the vagus nerve that controls the stomach—lost their ulcers and ended up with an intriguing side effect: They lost weight. The vagus nerve is the main route for signals between the stomach and the brain, ...
  • Driving a London Cab (or Just Studying for the ...
    Unlike here in New York, where telling a cabbie to take you to even some of the most common intersections often result in a response of "Okay, how do I get there?", London cabdriver tests are notoriously difficult and complete. You don't just pass the test--you earn "The Knowledge," or the ins a ...
  • Images of the Week, December 5-9, 2011

Veterans Today

  • America: The Government That Fears Its Own Mu ...
    The FBI was responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing. Why? They had been turned into radical extremists. A real potential for changing America's poltical system A real potential for being exploited by what we call the globalist banking conspiracy
  • Treating Palestinians Lawlessly
    December 11 marks the 63rd anniversary of UN Resolution 194, mandating that the (Palestinian) refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date.
  • Gingrich’s Brilliant Insight About Pales ...
    The good news is that Newt Gingrich has solved the Middle East problem. The bad news is the upcoming genocide in New England.
  • Billy Graham Reveals the Source of Bible Authority
    In the November 13, 1995 issue of Christianity Today, page 31, we read, "Questions about the authority of Scripture had been troubling the young preacher (Billy Graham) for weeks.
  • Marine’s Murder Ignored by ‘Scient ...
    by Brian Burnett   Convincing evidence in a scientific paper by two forensic experts of the murder of Colonel James E. Sabow rejected by leading forensic journals. (SAN DIEGO, CA) – This is Part III of the story of the forensic evidence supporting the murder of Marine Colonel James E. ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Winter storm set to batter Britain
    Much of the UK looks set to be battered by severe gales through tomorrow, as an area of low pressure in the Atlantic undergoes explosive development in the next 24 hours. At 6am this morning, the central pressure of the area of low pressure heading our way was 1006mb; by tomorrow afternoon it' ...
  • Second warmest Autumn on record
    Autumn has turned out to be the second warmest on record, beaten only by autumn 2006 on a Met Office dataset that dates back to 1910. November itself was also narrowly pushed into second place, only beaten by November 1994. More impressively, based on the much longer CET dataset, which has run ...
  • A stormy end to November
    The pattern of weather that is now establishing itself, dominated by westerly winds, is common across the UK in winter. Vigorous depressions are likely to develop in the coming days, and the strength of the wind is likely to catch the headlines. This weekend looks particularly stormy, with wi ...
  • End in sight to extraordinary November weather
    It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
  • Is the solar sector facing collapse?
    The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • CSR in Iran? My Way or the Huawei (Router Mfg)
    There's an interesting article in the WSJ on the recent pullback of Chinese router manufacturer Huawei from doing business with Iran. Given the perceived willingness of Chinese firms to go where Western MNCs dare not roam due to limitations on investing in certain bogey nations alike (yes) Iran, ...
  • Multilateralism Ain't Dead: A Climate Deal in ...
    Well here's a pleasant surprise: while the fine print remains to be hammered out and non-ratification by the countries concerned remains a distinct possibility, the broad outlines of a multilateral climate deal are in place. While many economics and even IPE blogs do not cover climate change, it ...
  • Obama, Bushite Climate Obstructionist or Hero?
    It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid...or is there? One thing for sure is that there will be no snow in Africa this Christmas. Or maybe even a partial deal on combating global warming, for that matter. For the third year running, the end-of-year multilateral agenda is dominated by cl ...
  • Yes, the Main Beneficiary of the Euro Was...the UK
    Probably one of the major irritants in always tense "UK in the EU" relations is the former's ability to corner a lot of the market in trading the currency as well as other euro-denominated instruments. Both are quite interdependent; I would say that London is Europe's financial casino. One obser ...
  • 'China's Reserves Have Fallen 3 Months In a Row'
    Well here's a very positive development from my point of view and perhaps nearly everyone else's. China having an unfathomably huge $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves may prove to be the apotheosis of a supremely wasteful activity. It is, to me, the largest financial folly in world histo ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Tim Tebow Comeback Story Continues But The ...
    Never in the history of the NFL has there ever been anything like this.  Today, Tim Tebow engineered yet another miraculous 4th quarter comeback.  Almost everyone has been expecting this unprecedented string of comebacks to come to an end, yet Tebow just keeps pulling off miracle ...
  • Shocking Charts And Statistics That Prove That ...
    How do you decide whether you are wealthy or not?  Do you determine that by how much money you spend at the stores?  Of course not.  You can tell if you are wealthy or not by comparing your assets (the money in your bank account, equity in your home, etc.) to your liabilities (yo ...
  • 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 something to be done lightly.  ...
  • 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
    More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
  • The Worst In The World – The U.S. Balanc ...
    Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us?  The U.S. balance of trade is not only mind-blowingly bad - it is the worst in the world.  It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Obama insists on indefinite detention of Americans
    Think that President Obama will stand by his word and veto the legislation that will allow the government to detain American citizens without charge or trial? Think again. The Obama administration has insisted that the president will veto the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20 ...
  • Italians to go on strike over budget cuts
    Tens of thousands of Italian workers plan a general strike against the imposition of the government’s harsh austerity measures aimed at saving the country from financial ruin. Leaders of Italy’s three biggest unions have called for a three hour strike on Monday afternoon and a rally ...
  • Russians do not need another revolution
    Experts continue to comment the meeting, which took place in Moscow on Saturday, December 10. Some say that the meeting against the results of the parliamentary elections was a political flashmob. Other say that it was a normal element of democracy, which demonstrated that Russia was no differen ...
  • Obama Asks Iran to Give Back Captured US Spy Drone
    Following days of silence on the American spy drone captured and unveiled by Iranian armed forces, US President Barack Obama says Washington has asked Tehran to return the US reconnaissance drone. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said in a news con ...
  • Americans Leaving US in Record Numbers
    Ever dream of leaving it all behind and heading out of America? You’re not the only one. A new study shows that more US citizens than ever before are living outside of the country. According to statistics from the US State Department, around 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying o ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • Mosaic theory, universal surveillance and unl ...
    Tweet‘“Mosaic theory” describes a basic precept of intelligence gathering: Disparate items of information, though individually of limited or no utility to their possessor, can take on added significance when combined with other items of information.’ [1] Mosaic theory was what caused intelligen ...
  • Bradley Manning: Hearing the Word of the Prophets
    Tweet Image Credit - alliance.rationalreview.com Prophets have existed since ancient times. Religions and cultural traditions from time immemorial have acknowledged their existence. Traditionally, prophets were seen as those who play a role of forecasting epochal change in society through thei ...
  • 2011-12-06 #WikiLeaks News: Updates on Julian ...
    Tweet Fast-track extradition in the EU is based on a leap of faith. It is based on an assumption that all European justice systems are of a decent standard. That assumption is a sham. - Dominic Raab This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeak ...
  • 2011-12-04 #WikiLeaks News: Pres. Obama, Sec. ...
    Tweet What we ask for is humble — the right to not be shipped off to foreign lands without formal charges or the presentation of even the most basic evidence. - Julian Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of i ...
  • On January 7, demand Justice
    TweetAs we take December 10 to remember the human rights and freedoms we are entitled to, it is impossible to not feel how far we have fallen from our ideals of 63 years ago. The 11th of January 2012 is the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay black hole, a place that has incar ...

U N News

  • Honduras: UNESCO chief deplores slaying of ano ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced outrage at the murder of a radio journalist in Honduras, where at least 17 reporters have been slain since the start of last year.
  • Honduras: UNESCO chief deplores slaying of ano ...
    The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today voiced outrage at the murder of a radio journalist in Honduras, where at least 17 reporters have been slain since the start of last year.
  • Argentina must improve living conditions for i ...
    A United Nations expert urged Argentina to strengthen its measures to protect the human rights of indigenous groups as well as their rights to land ownership and education, adding that a mechanism to establish dialogue between them and the Government is urgently needed.
  • UN agencies condemn violence against Mexican p ...
    Two United Nations agencies have strongly condemned the recent murder of a Mexican peace activist and the attempted killing of the chief of a women's rights organization in the same country and called on the Government to investigate and prosecute those responsible.
  • Heeding UNICEF's calls, Mexico makes progress ...
    Thousands of children from indigenous communities in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca received birth certificates after sustained calls from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for free birth registration.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – The Year ...
    This is a fundraising plea. I write to ask you to once again or for the first time send as big a check or PayPal donation as you can to The Rewilding Institute. Because you are getting this plea from The Rewilding Institute: It is the only plea for donations you will get from The [...]
  • Save the Great Arctic Refuge Wilderness! Aroun ...
    Today, the National Wilderness Preservation System has 757 Wilderness Area units totaling 109,512,959 acres.  Each Wilderness Area has great worth, but some stand out.  Among those, the Wilderness Area that to me is the Flagship of the National Wilderness Preservation System is the Arctic Nation ...
  • The Wolf is Back!
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
    (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
    Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • U.S. is NOT in Any Position to Criticize Russi ...
      * What’s the reaction there to the Russian elections? We’ve heard a lot of statements that I think are way out of line from the US State Department, in particular Hillary Clinton. What’s your opinion of those statements? ~ John Robles read more
  • SINGAPORE Armed Forces Stage Complex War Game ...
      Within mere minutes of spotting a car travelling on a dusty track in the United States’ south-western desert, the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s (RSAF) latest and most lethal “smart” bomb found and hit its target. read more
  • Kentucky... London Families Feel Impact of Ira ...
      On Veteran's Day 2011, Timothy Jackson, a former sailor in the U.S. Navy and the son of a man who was the same, visited a small, unfinished gravesite on a hilltop alongside a winding road. It belonged to Timothy Matthew Jackson, who went by Matt and had himself been a Marine. In three ge ...
  • H.R. 3554... 'Protect Our Food Supply from Gen ...
      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. read more
  • Fukushima Radiation... Is It Being Used As 'Fe ...
      The human body and all plants, animals and even bacteria are able to transmute one element into another. Transmutation is always happening. Radioactive isotopes are also transmuted. ~ See Related Articles - Audio read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • US Navy Pays $26 a Gallon For BioFuel
    The departments of Agriculture and the Navy announced plans to buy 450,000 gallons of biofuel at a cost of about $26 per gallon, totaling $12 Million in what will be the largest federal purchase of biofuel in U.S. history. This new purchase, at first, will cost $26 per gallon, or $1,092 per barr ...
  • Liberty vs White House Plan For Homegrown Extr ...
    The White House has unveiled a new strategy (Strategic Implementation Plan) “to fight homegrown terrorism”, named, the “Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States”. “The plan outlines enhanced coordi ...
  • When Is Ice Safe?
    When is ice safe? There really is no sure answer. Ice should never be considered safe. You can’t judge the strength of ice just by its appearance, age, thickness, temperature, or whether or not the ice is covered with snow. Strength is based on all these factors — plus the depth of w ...
  • Winter Thermostat Money Savings
    During the winter, a great opportunity to save some money is by reducing your heating bill. How? By turning down your thermostat! Simple enough, right? Even better is to utilize a programmable digital thermostat – the type that can be set with multiple programs to automatically adjust the ...
  • A Great Threat To American Civil Liberties
    The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. A new law passed by the Senate (93 – 7) will open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists. The law would place domestic terror investigations and inter ...

Fast Company

  • Former Bing Product Lead: Why Personalized Soc ...
    The future of search is social. Google and Microsoft have tied their rival engines to social, mining data from various networks (Twitter, Facebook) to deliver personalized results based on what your friends and followers recommend, rather than some lifeless algorithm. Google even launched its ow ...
  • "The People's Skype" And Occupy Wall Street Ha ...
    Academics and researchers sympathetic to the #Occupy movement have created a "People's Skype" and participated in a multinational hackathon that took advantage of a massive social media archive.Months after the first protesters arrived in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street continues to fuel tech ...
  • Buddy Media's Michael Lazerow Makes People (Ac ...
    For companies in any industry, it's adapt or die when it comes to social media. "The world is reorganizing around people, and companies need to reorganize around people," says Michael Lazerow, the founder and CEO of New York-based Buddy Media, which helps companies develop, manage, and ...
  • Ariel Zwang Wields Private-Sector Tactics To C ...
    Safe Horizon, the largest nonprofit provider of domestic-violence aid services in the U.S., is thriving under executive director Ariel Zwang, thanks to shrewd tactics she's taken from her experience in the private sector. Ariel Zwang, the executive director of Safe Horizon, the nation's leading ...
  • Seriously, Bro: Mark Cuban Invests Big In Brotips
    Brotip #1202: If you can't think of a badass idea, take an old idea and do something badass with it. Here's how to build a new media empire in "Entourage" nation.Brotip #1314: If it seems like you're going through an uphill struggle, just think about the view from the top. "We were talking abo ...

Jadaliyya

  • Bahrain's Past and Present: An Interview with ...
    During the period of the 1940s through the 1960s, regime forces and oil company private security contractors violently crushed anti-colonial and anti-imperialist protest movements in places like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain (among many others), with the explicit approval of and material supp ...
  • Q&A: Emad El-Din Abdel Ghafour, Chairman of th ...
    Al-Nour Party chief gives Salafist perspective on ‘secular’ vs. ‘civic’ state; political reform; international relations; future of tourism; and women’s rights. For months after the January 25 Revolution, Salafists have done ‎little to alter their image as Islamic hardliners. Moreov ...
  • Salafists Ideas Are Dated: Egyptian Bloc Leader
    Mohamed Abul-Ghar, head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party and member of the Egyptian Bloc, responds to Islamist attacks on secular forces and predicts confrontation in new parliament. The head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP), Mohamed Abul-Ghar, opened fire on Salafi ...
  • Salafist Party Vows to Ban Alcohol, Beach Tour ...
    Unlike Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Nour Party promises blanket-ban on alcohol and beach tourism in event it takes power following polls. The Salafist Al-Nour Party would enforce a ban on serving alcohol ‎to foreigner nationals and Egyptian citizens alike if it came to ‎power, party s ...
  • NEWTON Authors Rochelle Davis and Alan Mikhail ...
    We are very happy to report that two authors whose books were recently featured in New Texts Out Now (NEWTON) were recipients of prestigious awards at the 2011 Middle East Studies Association convention. Rochelle Davis, whose book Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displa ...

mediagazer

  • Evidence suggests NoW did not delete Dowler me ...
    Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette: Evidence suggests NoW did not delete Dowler messages  —  New evidence has emerged suggesting that News of the World journalists were not responsible for the deletion of mobile phone messages which gave Milly Dowler's family false hope she was al ...
  • Mazher Mahmood to give evidence (Guardian)
    Guardian: Mazher Mahmood to give evidence  —  Full coverage as News of the World's former chief reporter, investigations editor and executive editor appear at the inquiry  —  10.23am: The private session is now over so we expect the inquiry to open in about five ...
  • Executives at Struggling OWN Consider Changing ...
    D.M. Levine / Adweek: Executives at Struggling OWN Consider Changing Course  —  Executives at OWN think they may have found a way to salvage Oprah Winfrey's struggling network: by catering more to an African-American audience.  That may help ratings, but it would mean a dra ...
  • BuzzFeed Adds Politico Writer (Brian Stelter/M ...
    Brian Stelter / Media Decoder: BuzzFeed Adds Politico Writer  —  BuzzFeed, a site where the editors and algorithms sift the Web in search of viral articles elsewhere, has decided that it needs articles of its own.  —  In a move that is sure to surprise the politi ...
  • When Truth Survives Free Speech (David Carr/Ne ...
    David Carr / New York Times: When Truth Survives Free Speech  —  Last week, a story came across my desk that seemed to suggest that a blogger had been unfairly nailed with a $2.5 million defamation award after a judge refused to give her standing as a journalist.  A busines ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • MS Dhoni greets Yuvraj Singh, Rajinikanth ...
    Chennai: Dec 12, 2011 India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday wished Yuvraj Singh and actor Tamil superstar Rajinikanth, both of whom are celebrating their birthdays. While addressing the media in Chennai...
  • BCCI refuses IPL fees payment to Sunil Ga ...
    By Kushan Sarkar New Delhi: Dec 12, 2011 The BCCI working committee on Monday again unanimously shot down former India captain Sunil Gavaskar's demand of a whopping USD 1 million fee (Appr 5 crore) per season...
  • Many Afghan women forced to give birth at ...
    An Afghan woman can expect to have an average 5.1 babies in her lifetime, the highest fertility rate in Asia. That makes giving birth a common and frequent experience -- but mothers say it is too often also hard, lonely and frightening. At the Ahmad Shah Baba hospital, which Médecins Sans F ...
  • Anil Kumble resigns from post of NCA chai ...
    New Delhi, Dec 12, (PTI): Monday, December 12, 2011 --> In a surprise development, former Indian captain Anil Kumble today tendered his resignation from the chairmanship of the National Cricket Academy (NCA), almost two months after a controversy broke out over an appararent conflict of inte ...
  • Bayern Munich offer Danijel Pranjic to Ha ...
    With Euro 2012 approaching, the Croatia international could leave the Allianz Arena in order to boost his chances of first team football Sign up with 188BET for a FREE bet up to £25 – Great Prices, Every Game Sign up with William Hill for a free bet up to £25 Sign up with bet365 for a ...

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Anna's News

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

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/05/11 - Did You Know?
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? - The Old City of Jerusalem contains three of the holiest site for Christians (Church of the Holy Sepulchre), Jews (Temple Mount), and Muslims (Al-Aqsa Mosque). The Old Testament mentions Jerusalem over 650 times. The Israeli-Palestinian co ...
  • 12/05/11 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Deaths ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Deaths, 1987-2011 - See our chart estimating casualties from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the First Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) through the present day.
  • 12/05/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - UPDATED: 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with 10 new questions on education, gay marriage, immigration, infidelity, Occupy Wall Street, oil subsidies, ...
  • 12/05/11 - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign
    2012election.procon.org - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign - Cain announced on Dec. 3, 2011 that he was suspending his presidential campaign. Read his full statement, and see his biography and views on 35 issues.
  • 12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Tea Party movement good for America?"

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Blogger not eligible for media shield law, hit ...
    Timothy B. Lee An Oregon judge has ruled that a Montana blogger is not eligible for the legal protections afforded to journalists, letting stand a $2.5 million defamation verdict. The blogger, a Montana woman named Crystal Cox, had become a thorn in the side of an attorney named Kevin Padrick. P ...
  • The Most Dangerous Over-the-Counter Drug
    Hint: It’s not Plan B. Brian Palmer Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the FDA’s recommendation that emergency contraception be made available over the counter to patients of all ages on Wednesday. Her argument was that its effects on 11-year-olds have no ...
  • Do thoughts have a language of their own?
    What is the relationship between language and thought? The quest to create artificial intelligence may have come up with some unexpected answers Robert Kowalski THE idea of machines that think and act as intelligently as humans can generate strong emotions. This may explain why one of the most i ...
  • Earliest human bedding didn’t let the be ...
    Michael Marshall After a hard day hunting and gathering, humans 77,000 years ago could count on a good night’s mosquito-free sleep on a comfy bed of grass and leaves. Archaeologists have discovered the oldest evidence of humans using plant bedding, 50,000 years before it appears anywhere e ...
  • Ostrich Penis Clears Up Evolutionary Mystery
    Overlooked bird organ is similar to, but separate from, that of reptiles and mammals. By Adam Marcus of Nature magazine A long-running question about how the largest species of birds achieve erect penises seems to have been settled. In a study published this week in the Journal of Zoology, resea ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...
  • Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
    Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...
  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
  • 7 billion: can we count on it?
    FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
  • Research careers – opening the discussion
    FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...

NAU Resistance

  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
  • U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
    “An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
  • The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
    Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.

Gaea Times

  • Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
    BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
  • Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
    CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
  • Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
    WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
  • Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
    CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
  • Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
    WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
    Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...
  • Highlights from Skid Row Radio with Hereward, ...
    Today we bring you highlights from the Workers Radio breakfast show on Radio Skid Row 2RSR 88.9 FM Sydney, from 1 December 2011. You can tune in to the show every morning from 6-9 AM, and if you're outside Sydney you can listen via the web stream here. I am joined on air by the show host Jack ...
  • Kim Bax gets a Supreme Court injunction
    Kim Bax, webmaster of Women for Schapelle, reported  that she had received a Supreme Court injunction (post since removed), which threatens her with severe consequences if she mentions certain "serious allegations" about the Seven Network. These allegations are connected to the disclosures ...
  • Spread the word: Occupy Building 7 Next Weekend
    November 19 and 20, 2011. In front of the rebuilt World Trade Center Building 7. DEMAND an investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 and the Twin Towers September 11, 2001 - the The United States was hijacked and a permanent war was launched that will not end in ou ...
  • The Green Wave by Joanne Nova

Beacon

  • Marine Monday: Blue Buttons
    Blue buttons are just one of the many small critters that live in the oceans. They are often mistaken for jellyfish or colored plastic when they wash up on beaches, but they are actually free-floating colonies of hydrozoa. Blue buttons have two main parts: the central disk, which is about an ...
  • Congress Chips Away at Overfishing Progress
    We’ve made a lot of progress in curbing overfishing in the past few decades – but that progress could be unraveled if several dangerous new bills make it through Congress. On December 1, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine eight pending fisheries bills, many of whi ...
  • Thursday Trivia: Puffins
    An Atlantic puffin. © Oceana/Concha Martinez Puffins are curious and charismatic birds that live in the North Atlantic ocean, where their orange beaks and feet make for a colorful sight. Atlantic puffins can swim as well as fly. Like a plane taxiing for take-off, a puffin runs along the ...
  • New Climate Report: Hot, Sour & Breathless
    Matt Huelsenbeck is a marine scientist at Oceana. Oceana has teamed up with several top scientific institutions in creating a report called "Hot, Sour & Breathless – Ocean Under Stress" which has been released this week at the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. ...
  • Marine Monday: Mediterranean Monk Seal
    A Mediterrean monk seal. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] The Mediterranean monk seal, like its cousin the Hawaiian monk seal, is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. Estimates suggest that they number around 400 total, with the largest populations in Greece and Morocco. Mediterran ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Arc Of Instability.
    The Daily Beast featured an article about the United State’s involvement all over the map in tiny wars of insurgency, in a geographic arc described as the “arc of Instability”. This is another cryptic neo-con term that secretly adumbrates a gigantic swath of the globe that includes about half of ...
  • The First Parasite Plane Concept.
      The Felixstowe Porte baby was a massive flying boat built specifically to be an airborne aircraft carrier. It featured a huge Rolls Royce engine at the nose, its dimensions were appropriately bug. It was 25 feet tall, was 63 feet long and boasted a wingspan of 124 feet. It could climb to ...
  • Rifleman Edward Vakabua From 4th Battalion, “T ...
      “Vaka embodied the proud, honourable and long tradition of Fijians serving in the British Army. These remarkable men from literally the other side of the world are the best possible ambassadors for their beautiful country that Fiji could hope for. Tough, proud, independent, strong-w ...
  • The 335 Year War. The Longest War Ever Not Fought.
      In 1651, a war broke out between the Netherlands, and the Isles of Scilly, a small group of islands off the cSouthwest coast  of the United Kingdom. After the Treaty of Munster which guaranteed Dutch Independence from the Spanish Empire, the Isles of Scilly allied with the Royalists under ...
  • Boneyard Russian Subs
      When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet Union collapsed. And with the government that disappeared went the budgets to maintain the vast and rather modern nuclear attack submarines. So these submarines were sent to dry dock to basically rot. One might think that this does not me ...

Taylor Marsh

  • 12-12 Port Shutdown and the “vampire squid”
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. “Shutdown the Port” actions began early this morning, and continue. You can check out what’s happening via OWS, where you will find a livestream link. The purpose of the Port Shutdown, from Occupy SF: We Are Protestin ...
  • A Little Love Over to Rocky Anderson & the Jus ...
    Pres. Obama’s getting a challenger from his left today when Rocky Anderson announces the creation of the Justice Party at 2:00 p.m. No one thinks it will challenge Obama in a serious way for election results, but it might give some Democrats, progressives and liberals a way to vote that won’t re ...
  • Pres. Obama: ‘Our war in Iraq ends this month.’
    Meanwhile, interesting tidbit on Pres. Obama in South Carolina in the latest NBC News/Marist poll: In South Carolina — a reliable Republican state in presidential contests — Obama’s approval rating stands at 44 percent, and he holds narrow leads over Romney (45 to 42 percent) and Gin ...
  • One Reason Why Newt is Clocking Romney in the ...
    Romney team demands Newt give back money from Freddie Mac. Gingrich schools him on how it’s done. In the sound bite game, Romney’s an amateur compared to Gingrich.
  • Steve Ratner Reveals Obama Administration’s Vi ...
    Going back to 2006, my opinion of Steve Ratner is on the record (cross-posted at Huffington Post at the time), because he’s part of the problem with the Democratic Party. He was a Lieberman Democrat as well. Ratner’s also a big favorite of the “Morning Joe” team. Today Mr ...

Hudson New York

  • Muslims Intimidate Their Way Across Europe
    A mob of some 20 Islamists stormed a debate in Amsterdam that was featuring two Muslim liberals, the Canadian writer and Muslim feminist Irshad Manji and the Dutch-Moroccan Green Left MP Tofik Dibi. Muslim extremists belonging to the group
  • Gingrich Gets It Right
    In an interview yesterday, Newt Gingrich put some reality into the surreal discussion of the Middle East conflict and (as he put it) the delusional nature of the current "peace process." The Palestinians are indeed an "invented people" — invented by the
  • The Islamic Interpretations of Human Rights
    Seif al-Islam al-Qadaffi, the second son of Libya's late leader, Colonel Muammar al-Qadaffi, was captured in Southern Libya -- or so CNN International announced as breaking news at noon Eastern European Time on November 19. In Libya's capital, Tripoli,
  • Double Standards Under British Law
    Is it appropriate for a judge to suspend a sentence of a convicted, violent criminal – so that he can walk free instead of serving time – if the criminal is "religious"? In early 2010 Cherie Blair Q.C., wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, suspended the
  • Tensions Escalate Along Turkish-Syrian Border
    Tensions have grown on the Turkish-Syrian border, where Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army has reportedly deployed tanks as reinforcements. The reports of reinforcements on the Syrian side of the border, which appeared in the Turkish media, came

Urban Survival

  • A Second Russian Revolution?
    A person looking for a cataclysmic end to Life on Earth doesn’t have to go far to look up meaningful candidates these days.  Why, just in the past week, or so, there have been images of protesters in the street, … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Treading Lightly
    I have turned into an exercise fanatic with the arrival last week of a treadmill, which eats up enough of my office space that a WW II era submarine seems spacious in comparison.  No worries:  I hope to get over … Continue reading →
  • A One Day Nosebleed?
    Party on dudes – a nifty fity up at the open?  The stock market is going to rally like crazy this morning after dropping almost 200-points on Thursday.  But it may be only a technical bounce on the open since … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With The Food Crisis of 2012
    Dear Santa: I get it!  I know what all the linguistics seem to be pointing to and how all the hints are lining up in the headlines…you’ve got a Food Crisis in store for us in 2012, don’t you old … Continue reading →
  • The ONLY Thing that Matters
    Really, all the Geithner and Euro dudes & dudettes meeting means nothing, not really, in the big Economic Stew Pot.  All that matters is that the money keeps circulating – and the more that circulates, the more we “recover” – … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • New Energy-Saving Bulbs Are Coming -- Here's H ...
    Noah Horowitz, Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Energy Efficiency, San Francisco, CA Come January 1st, a new light bulb standard goes into effect that gradually phase out the 125-year-old inefficient incandescent bulbs. The old 100W b ...
  • More Pollution or We Will Shutdown the Government?
    Scott Slesinger, Legislative Director, Washington, DC In their `Pledge to America’’ after taking over the U.S. House of Representatives last year, Republicans vowed to end the practice (at page 33) of packing unpopular bills with must-pa ...
  • Impressively low bids from the second batch of ...
    Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York Could solar power be starting to come of age on a larger scale? The lowest winning bid was just Rs. 7.49 /kilowatthour (kWh), or about 15 US cents /kWh, in the second batch of Phase 1 of In ...
  • Mineral owner in West Virginia observes reckle ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Howard Clark is a mineral owner in Marion County, West Virginia who writes: "Although I am an avid supporter of the use of our natural resources, it must be done in an environmentally responsibl ...
  • GE Brings Green Lights to Life
    Rocky Kistner, Communications Associate, Washington, DC At GE’s historic 90-acre Nela Park in Cleveland--home to America's first industrial park and to GE Lighting--a light bulb revolution is underway that could help s ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • Down this weekend
    Sorry folks, no recap for this weekend. Between being at work for 20 hours this weekend and a raging toothache I was only able to track three reports so I figured I’ll add those to Monday’s count for a three-day recap tomorrow night. Sorry for the delay on the review.
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, December 9, 2010: New Orleans LA cop convicted of obstruction & perjury for lying about Katrina shooting incident, other cop acquitted[0] abcn.ws/vGRvz2 Minneapolis MN settles su ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, December 8, 2011: Aurora CO settles suit for $215k to man left partially paralyzed in officer-involved shooting that violated policy [0] bit.ly/tgsLex Lake Co CA deputy pleads guil ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, December 7, 2011: 2 RCMP officers in Manitoba have been sentenced for assaulting a 19-year-old. The first received a 4-month jail sentence and the other got a 4 month conditional ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 28 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, December 6, 2011: 6 North Chicago IL cops suspended during probe, accused of pattern of abuse by family of man who died after allegedly beaten and tasered. [3] bit.ly/sAoRY0 Santa A ...

Total Collapse

  • Iranian army to practise closing Strait of Hormuz
    A member of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practise its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation. The l ...
  • Iran to use advanced electronic warfare equipm ...
    Deputy Navy Commander Gholam Reza Khadem-Bigham announced on Wednesday that advanced domestically manufactured electronic warfare equipment will be used in a major naval war game, codenamed Velayat 90, which will be held in the near future. The naval war game is planned to be held in the Sea of ...
  • Obama Orders Arctic Death Camps Built To Hold ...
    A disturbing report issued by the Russian General Staff to President Medvedev warns today that the North American Security Zone agreement signed this past week between US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a defacto merging of these two nations and allows the Americans ...
  • Report: Syria arms missiles with chemical warheads
    The Syrian regime, which has endured nine months of civil unrest spurred by the Arab Spring as it swept across the Middle East, has armed its medium-range missile arsenal with chemical warheads. According to a report published by the Sabah daily Sunday, Damascus armed 600 one-ton chemical warhea ...
  • NATO to Halt Iraq Mission at Year-End
    NATO will withdraw its Iraq training mission at year-end after Baghdad refused to grant it legal immunity, Iraq’s top security adviser said on Sunday, mirroring the nearly-complete pullout of US forces. But a NATO official in Brussels denied that any decision had been taken. Iraq said the ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Renewable Energy Lifeline for Australian Manuf ...
    By Matthew Wright Coal’s days are numbered. The transition to renewable energy is now well underway. It will put an end to the adverse health impacts coal mining and combustion now has on the health of Australian families such as those in the Hunter Valley. The increased rates of asthma, respir ...
  • New Milestone in Renewable Energy Investment - ...
    The journey to a 100 percent renewable energy economy reached a major milestone as investment in renewables has overtaken investment in fossil fuel energy for the first time. A new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance  demonstrates that a massive $187 billion was invested in wind, solar, ...
  • CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
    Matthew Wright, November 24:  The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government ...
  • Trophies and Titles - BZE awarded for climate ...
    The determination and enthusiasm of Beyond Zero Emissions and its members has been acknowledged with two prestigious awards over the last month. The honours build on BZE's momentum leading into 2012 with the anticipated launch of the visionary Zero Carbon Australia plans for the buildings and tr ...
  • WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a false ...
    Media Release 18 Nov 11 WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a falsehood in relation to BZE. WorleyParsons state in their media release dated 10 November 2011: "Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) engaged Worley Parsons to prepare a report to analyse the life cycle GHG emissions for Australian gas co ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • New species of frog sings like a bird
    If you're trudging through the high-altitude rainforests of northern Vietnam and you hear bird song, you might want to check the trees for frogs. Yes, that's right: frogs. A new species of tree frog has been discovered in Vietnam that researchers say has a uniquely complex call that makes it sou ...
  • NGOs call for arrest of Malaysian leader for c ...
    A coalition of Malaysian and international NGOs are calling for the arrest of Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud and 14 family members for alleged abused of power, corruption, and money laundering, reports the Bruno Manser Fund, a group that has signed the letter urging action.
  • Using palm hearts sustainably in Colombia
    Long eaten by indigenous populations, palm hearts have also popular abroad, usually in fine dining establishments. However, palm hearts are cut-out of the inner core of various palm tree species, in some cases killing the tree. A new study published in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical ...
  • Locals key to saving primate-rich wetlands in ...
    Saved from being converted into a vast palm oil plantation by PALM-CI in 2009, the Ehy Tanoé wetlands and forest in the Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is home to three gravely endangered primates and as well as many other species. Since 2006, a pilot community management program has been worki ...
  • Madagascar tree diversity among the highest wo ...
    In terms of biodiversity, the hugely imperiled forests of Madagascar may be among the world's richest. Researchers estimate that the island off the coast of Africa is home to at least 10,000 tree and shrub species with over 90 percent of them found no-where else in the world. With little baselin ...

Sierra Express

  • Obituary – Sesay Frederick John
    The families and friends of Sesay regret to announce the death of their son, SESAY FREDERICK JOHN, born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, who died in a car accident on the 9th December, 2011 at Masingbi, in the northern part of Sierra Leone.  Sesay, aged 39 years old, is survived by his sister, uncle, ...
  • 2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo
    The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize has been presented to three women at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital,Oslo. (Photo: The three women share an award worth $1.5m ) This year’s award was won jointly by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian peace activist, a ...
  • President Koroma invited to the home of Al-Jaz ...
    The Emir of the State of Qatar has invited Sierra Leone’s President to attend the Forum on the Fourth United Nations Alliance of Civilizations to be held in the capital, Doha, home of the Al-Jazeera News Network, from 11-13th December, 2011. In his letter of invitation, His Majesty Sheik Hamad b ...
  • Musa Tarawally, Diana, JB Dauda snubs and VP S ...
    Battle linking Ministers, Councilors, and certainly Parliamentarians of the governing APC part -  for running mate – gives the impression of a snub to all and Vice President Sam Sumana is President Koroma’s choice come 2012. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally, Minister o ...
  • Missing cheque… Minister, Mayor to account for ...
    The sum of Le 880 million offered Sierra Leone government for the construction of a contemporary market for traders in Freetown is reportedly missing; and two officials- the Minister of Works and the Mayor of Freetown are to account.  (Photo: l-r Minister of Works Alimamy P Koroma, and Mayor Geo ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Dairy prices up 2.6pc in overnight auction
    Average prices of dairy products rose to the highest level since July overnight, with gains in both whole and skim milk powder, the biggest products on offer.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 2.6 per cent, the second increase in a row...
  • Business Leader of the Year Finalist: Andrew F ...
    Fonterra's former chief executive, Canadian-born Andrew Ferrier, rode the wave of a boom year before he stepped down in September.Records tumbled at the dairy giant including production, exports and revenue, which was up 19 per...
  • Heavyweight joins Fonterra auction
    Fonterra's twice-monthly online dairy auction has landed its third supplier in Australian heavyweight Murray Goulburn Co-operative.Murray Goulburn will start offering lactose products in April on the GlobalDairyTrade sales platform,...
  • Commodity prices extend decline for sixth mont ...
    New Zealand commodity prices fell for a sixth month in November, led by declines in the price of butter, cheese and aluminium.The ANZ Commodity Price index fell 1 per cent to 284.6 last month, though a sharp fall in the New Zealand...
  • Dairy futures trading hits 10,000 mark
    Trading in NZX dairy futures passed the 10,000-lot mark today for the first time since its inception.The exchange says the milestone means the market is well on the way towards reaching critical mass.Futures markets allow buyers...

The Bovine

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Hussman as Short-Term Bearish as He Gets; What ...
    I cannot recall a time when fund manager John Hussman as short-term bearish as he is now. The title of his recent article says it all: Hard-Negative With the exception of extreme market conditions (see Warning- Examine All Risk Exposures , and Extreme Conditions and Typical Outcomes ), I ...
  • Will Sarkozy Survive the First Round in French ...
    French elections are done in two rounds. The top two candidates by popular vote square off in round two. Things do not look good for French president Nicolas Sarkozy, especially for round two. However, he may not make it that far. Le Parisian has the results of the latest French Election Po ...
  • Hell Will Freeze Over Before Finland Signs Tre ...
    Reader Janne from Finland claims "hell will freeze over" before Finland signs the Merkozy deal as it is structured right now. Janne also claims Finland will "loan" money to the IMF and it will not be in the budget. From Janne .... Hello Mish My collection and translation of news s ...
  • Nigel Farage: Escape Euro Prison!
    When it comes to humor from politicians (in a good sense), Nigel Farage is right at the top of the list. His opening line had me laughing out loud. Link if YouTube video does not play: Escape Euro Prison! Partial Transcript RT: Britain has no to tighter controls leavin ...
  • It's So Secret, Even the Fed Does Not Know Who ...
    Some might think the Fed would care where dollar swaps to Europe go. However, if the Fed cares, it doesn't know. Bloomberg reports No One Telling Who Took $586 Billion in Swaps With Fed Condoning Anonymity. For all the transparency forced on the Federal Reserve by Congress and the courts ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • House of Mirrors Part III- Making the Irration ...
    The Neoconized Just War Doctrine By Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould More than one policy pundit has scratched their head at the strange, increasingly irrational nature of what guides American and European foreign policy. In November of 2010, commentator William Pfaff resorted to the term “ ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of personhood.”– Dr. Carl Rodgers   International Newsw ...
  • Podcast Show #67
    The Boiling Frogs Presents William Engdahl This is Part II of our interview series on the New World Order. For the Part I interview with Andrew Gavin Marshall click here. William Engdahl joins us to discuss the geopolitics behind the phony US war in Afghanistan, how the real purpose of US milita ...
  • House of Mirrors Part II- Living the Fantasy
    How Guilt, Innocence & Facts Are Made Irrelevant By Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould As the U.S. becomes more and more the kind of country it has traditionally opposed, the answer to where we are headed may lie more in the arcane traditions of a dim past than in a bright future. On the ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free….The revelation of Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson International Newsworthy Pentagon Dismisses Karzai’s Call to End Night Raids Afghanistan Turns to ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

Blogging Canadians

  • Letter From LifeCanada to PEI Health Minister
    Natalie Hudson Sonnen, executive director of LifeCanada writes to Douglas Currie, PEI Minister of Health and Wellness, responding to the resent barrage of demands to bring abortion back to PEI: Dear Minister Currie, I am writing to you on behalf of our 84 member groups across Canada regarding t ...
  • Carleton University Applies To Strike Pro-Life ...
    Censorship case at Carleton University heats up: December 8, 2011. Carleton University has brought a second motion to strike the lawsuit against them put forward by two pro-life Carleton students, Ruth (Lobo) Shaw and John Nicholas McLeod in February 2010. In October 2011, Carleton University ha ...
  • Sisterwives reframes the polygamy debate
    It is always easier to dispel some characterization when it is given absolutely; not just as a generalization, not just as something that exists for some people, but as something that is always true. In this case, one merely needs to find a single counterexample to di ...
  • A note on Mitt Romney's Mormonism
    GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties in national polls, and now faces considerable competition for the nomination from a surging Newt Gingrich ...
  • "The United States Government"
    The National Defense Authorization Act needs to be stopped. It declares war on the American people. by "Anonymous" As originally posted on: www.cyberguerrilla.info December 8, 2011 The National Defense Authorization Act passed a few nights ago. With it, the United States government declares ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Israel puts up fence along Egypt border
    Recent reports indicate that Israel has been doubling its efforts to complete a large barrier along the 240-kilometer border with Egypt's Sinai Desert.
  • Syria rejects link to UNIFIL attack
    The Syrian Foreign Ministry has denied accusations that Damascus was behind a bomb attack targeting the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
  • Israeli killed during weapon testing
    An Israeli civilian has been killed during testing of a weapon at a military base in northern occupied territories, a report says.
  • Bahrain's King Hamad visits UK
    Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is visiting the United Kingdom for talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
  • 'Iraq's intent to expel MKO unyielding'
    The Iraqi ambassador to Tehran has reiterated that the Baghdad government is firm in its plans to expel members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) by the end of 2011.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
  • Network Like a Pro
    I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...

Dissident Voice

  • Imperialism through the Looking Glass
    How are Westerners to make sense of human precepts that espouse the goodness of sharing with those less fortunate while western corporations plunder the wealth from the land of those in dire need? How is it that Westerners can make sense of the professed desire for peace and love for fellow huma ...
  • Slouching Towards Disaster: America’s Co ...
    Legendary investigative journalist I.F. Stone famously observed: “All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.” Amongst Washington elites and the courtier press, it appears that more than a pipe or two has been pas ...
  • Occupy is Not Just About Occupying
    With encampments being closed across the country it is important to remember the end goal is not to occupy public space, it is to end corporate rule. We seek to replace the rule of money with the rule of people.  Occupying is a tactic but the grand strategy of the Occupy Movement is to weaken [...]
  • I Ain’t Got No Home
    Can we truly be at home in the marketplace? What kind of place is the marketplace, anyway, and how is it related to places like our communities, our homes, and the places we love in the natural world? Has the marketplace effectively replaced these physical/mental places by becoming the great pro ...
  • A Dangerous Woman: Indefinite Detention at Car ...
    Some things are unforgivable in a democracy. A bill moving through Congress, authorizing the military to imprison American citizens indefinitely, without a trial or hearing, ranks right at the top of that list. I know. I lived through it on the Patriot Act. When Congress decided to squelch the t ...

Destructionist

  • Obama Administration Demanded Power To Indefin ...
    Despite reports that Obama is planning to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, Senator Carl Levin has revealed it was the administration itself that lobbied to remove language from the bill that would have protected American citizens from being detained indefinitely without trial. “Th ...
  • U.S. Proposes Unmanned Border Entry With Mexico
    The bloody drug war in Mexico shows no sign of relenting. Neither do calls for tighter border security amid rising fears of spillover violence. This hardly seems a time the U.S. would be willing to allow people to cross the border legally from Mexico without a customs officer in sight. But i ...
  • Paul wins online polls after Iowa Debate; Crus ...
    Six presidential candidates attended the ABC GOP presidential debate Saturday night, Dec. 10 on Campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorium engaged in what the Des Moines Register called “a Saturday night ...
  • Army Posts Job for “Internment Specialist” Fol ...
    Following our report on December 6 documenting KBR’s outfitting of FEMA internment camps in the United States, Business Insider posted an article entitled The US Army Now Offers A Prison Guard Specialty Securing ‘Civilian Detainees.’ “Every soldier that enlists in the Army chooses a Military ...
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