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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, December 2, 2011

2 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • Q&A: ‘For Fragile States Aid is Life, No ...
    The new deal for the ‘fragile states,' from the G7+ – a group of 19 countries that struggle with poverty, instability and violent conflict - has been hailed as a major breakthrough at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness here, earlier this week.
  • PERU: Government Expands Scope of Military Act ...
    The armed forces in Peru, which already have an active role in fighting drug trafficking, are being given greater responsibility for maintaining public order under the government of President Ollanta Humala. They will now also be expected to crack down on illegal mining, and to intervene in soci ...
  • PHILIPPINES: These Shots Target AIDS
    A unique campaign in the Philippines is using stylised online photos to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Fashion and conceptual photographer Niccolo Cosme first initiated Project Headshot Clinic in 2007 as a way of merging profile photos online and advertising.
  • Taliban Slide ‘From Hero to Zero'
    Religious and political forces in Northern Pakistan, which hitherto drew strength from their association with the Taliban have begun to distance themselves from the militants, as the latter's legitimacy plummets in the border regions.
  • Listening to ‘Appalled Economists'
    A paper written by a handful of French economists criticising the economic policies applied in the European Union to deal with the sovereign debt crisis that followed government bailouts of banks and other financial institutions in 2007 has become a manifesto supported by many worldwide.

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • EU FMs Fail to Agree on Iran Oil Embargo
    Summary: Efforts to impose massive new sanctions on Iran at any and all opportunities saw a surprising failure today when the European Union failed to impose a full oil embargo on the nation, a move officials hoped would “cripple” their economy. source: Antiwar.comread more
  • The west has Iran in its sights
    Summary: Iran's Central BankHawkish and unfounded actions such as sanctions and the expulsion of diplomats resemble the runup to the Iraq invasion source: The Guardianread more
  • UK cries foul over Iran mission incident
    Summary: In 1980, a group of six gunmen affiliated to an anti-Iranian terrorist group stormed the Iranian embassy building in South Kensington, London, taking 26 people hostage - mostly embassy staff - from 30 April to 5 May. The embassy siege resulted in the death of two of hostages includi ...
  • Target Iran: Washington's Countdown to War
    Summary: We can conclude that Israel, NATO and the United States are doing far more than placing "all options on the table" with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Along with ratcheting-up bellicose rhetoric, moves to collapse the economy, an assassination and sabotage campaign targeti ...
  • The Folly of Sanctions
    Summary: Ron PaulAccording to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) latest report, just out this month, there is no evidence that Iran has diverted enriched uranium from the peaceful and lawful generation of power toward building a nuclear weapon. According to the Nuclear Non-Prolif ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "The Earth Strain" --Have NASA Missions Contam ...
    Should Earth bacteria make it to the surface of Mars' Gale Crater -landing site of the Mars Curiosity rover (above), terrestrial organics could contaminate soil samples, giving experiments false positives of a second genesis on Mars. Even worse, should there...
  • "Organic Zones and Dead Zones" of the Pinwheel ...
    The Pinwheel galaxy, 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, otherwise known as Messier 101, is gilded by bright reddish edges in this new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. M101 is nearly twice the size of...
  • Image of the Day: Abell 39 --The Ghost Nebula ...
    Abell 39, about 7000 light years away, is a ghostly remnant of a Sun-like star and one of the largest existing spheres in the Milky Way. Six light-years across, it was once a sun-like star's outer atmosphere expelled thousands of...
  • From the 'X Files': A Phantom-like Void in Spa ...
    Why the unsettling phantom-like black space in the fabric of the universe? What used to be considered a void in the sky is now known to astronomers as a dark molecular cloud - a high concentration of dust and molecular...
  • Milky Way's Halo Yields Clues to its Evolution
    A team of astronomers succeeded in decoding the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way. The scientists, from the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at Bonn University and the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, found that...

Natural News

  • US Constitution repealed by traitorous Senator ...
    (NaturalNews) The mainstream media doesn't want you to know about this story even though it is arguably the single most important story of the year in terms of impacting your future as a free citizen. Yesterday as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Senate voted to repeal th ...
  • Years of social unrest on the horizon if econo ...
    (NaturalNews) Have you been paying attention to the economic collapse of Europe? How about the rising debt of the United States? If not, you should be, because these events are very likely to have a real effect on your future quality of life and safety. Last week leaders from the world's top 20 ...
  • Veggie burgers often contain hidden MSG
    (NaturalNews) Whether you're a strict vegetarian or simply an omnivore seeking to lower your intake of animal protein, you may find vegetarian convenience foods, such as veggie burgers, a tempting addition to your grocery cart. Beware, however, as many of the most readily available brands of veg ...
  • Federal appeals court reinstates corporate own ...
    (NaturalNews) Reversing a previous decision by a US District Court that declared gene patenting to be invalid, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently ruled in opposition, declaring that certain gene variants are supposedly unnatural and can thus be legally patented by bi ...
  • How to hide preparedness minerals (emergency n ...
    (NaturalNews) It's not often you find an item that's functional as both a household appliance and a source of nutrition. You can't EAT your dishwasher, for example. It's even harder to find such an item that becomes more valuable in an economic collapse scenario when food supply disruptions occu ...

Threat Level

  • Senator Floats Alternative to Internet Blackli ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is doing whatever it takes to defeat Senate and House legislation that expands the governments' ability to shutter and disrupt websites "dedicated" to infringing activities. Wyden, in addition to a promised filibuster, said Thursday he has gathered a few lawmakers from ...
  • Critics Line Up to Bash Maker of Secret Phone- ...
    The backlash against a formerly obscure, California mobile-monitoring software maker grew even larger Thursday, with a Senator asking questions, citizens bombing them with bad online reviews, and former customer Apple swearing it off. Adding possible legal jeopardy to its woes, a former federal ...
  • WikiLeaks Unveils the Selling of Surveillance, ...
    The WikiLeaks submission system may still be incommunicado, but the secret-spilling site woke up on Thursday to release a trove of marketing documents from surveillance companies hawking their wares to governments - though many were previously published by the Wall Street Journal or were already ...
  • Feds’ Anti-Piracy Vid Is Reefer Madness for th ...
    Every time you buy a pirated DVD a gangster shoots his gun -- or something evil like that, according to a new federal government ad campaign against counterfeit and pirated goods.
  • Defying Police Blockade, Boston’s Occupy Build ...
    In Boston's downtown Occupy, police let in the drugs and keep out the supplies. Despite that, the protestors are determined to build a new kind of city.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Washington Worries Israel Won't Notify U.S. of ...
    For weeks, rumors have been swirling that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing his cabinet towards a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. In the U.S., such a move enjoys the backing not only of the usual neoconservative suspects, but virtually all of the Republi ...
  • Gingrich Proposes Flat Tax Windfall for the We ...
    When Newt Gingrich proposed his 15 percent flat-tax scheme in October, the plan like the former House Speaker himself was viewed as an afterthought in the GOP presidential race. But now that Gingrich is the new Republican frontrunner, his tax cut proposal is finally getting the scrutiny it dese ...
  • Meet Mitt Romney's Running Mate, Benjamin Neta ...
    "If I'm president of the United States," Mitt Romney declared during a recent GOP presidential debate, "My first foreign trip will be to Israel to show the world we care about that country and that region." As it turns out, Romney's pledge isn't just his latest transparent ploy to win over Jewi ...
  • Right-Wing Furious Over Obama's 'Godless' Than ...
    Remember when President Bush forgot to thank God in his 2008 Thanksgiving address? Neither do the conservatives now apoplectic that Barack Obama's 2011 remarks contained no reference to the Almighty. Nevertheless, the usual suspects on the right are frothing at the mouth over the perceived sli ...
  • CBO Gives Thanks to the Stimulus
    On this the fourth Thanksgiving since the start of the Bush recession, families across America are still struggling with persistently high unemployment, underwater mortgages and stagnant wages. But as the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reminded us this week, Americans can be than ...

Blackspot News Feed

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  • Democracy Now! Correspondent Anjali Kamat on R ...
    Democracy Now! special correspondent Anjali Kamat has just returned from Cairo after nearly a year reporting on the revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Anjali was on the ground in Cairo covering the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak and the ensuing crackdowns on protesters opposed to military ru ...
  • Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Takes Early Lead in ...
    Early results from Egypt's first post-revolutionary elections indicate the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party will emerge as the biggest winner. We speak with Democracy Now! special correspondent Anjali Kamat, who has just returned to the United States after reporting in Cairo since ...
  • Headlines for December 1, 2011
    Clinton Meets with Military Junta in Burma, Suu Kyi Backs U.S. Engagement with Junta Regime in Burma, 18 Killed in Iraq Violence; Iraq PM Open to U.S. "Trainers", No U.S. Apology for Deadly Pakistan Attack, Britain Cuts Iran Ties; E.U. Mulls New Sanctions, Central Banks Unveil New Lending Rules, ...
  • Bruce Sterling @ Symposium Playful Post Digita ...
    Here’s Chairman Bruce just a few days ago at the STRP Festival, once more describing our immediate situation and near-future in terms we can then build on and discuss with:

Consortium News

TruthOut

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

Planetsave

  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Prominent South African ...
    Another link between South Africa’s wildlife industry and the country’s rhino killing spree was revealed when South African veterinarian Dr. Douw Grobler appeared in the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court last week. Although Grobler was not formally charged with a crime, his app ...
  • Earth’s Atmospheric ‘Heartbeat’ Detected in Sp ...
    Orbiting our planet at altitudes between 250-to-500 miles (400–to-800 km), the C/NOFS satellite* has detected special resonating waves of electromagnetic energy — generated by lightning flashes in the Earth’s atmosphere — for the first time. These waves are known as Schumann re ...
  • Rectifying Africa, Climate Change; Wise Woman ...
    Africa: Wide, Long, Beautiful, and Terrible. Africa owns so many folds of stunning nature, indescribable history, heroic humanity, and, presently, unique fears of climate change that come from assaults on the environment from mining. The stripping of mineral resources and the toxic means to this ...
  • Good News, But Yellowstone Grizzlies Aren’t Ou ...
    Grizzly bears and the many people working to protect them received great news recently: Last week, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave its long-awaited ruling on whether the Yellowstone grizzly bear should lose federal Endangered Species Act protection (ESA). Thankfully, the 9th Circuit r ...
  • Tar Sands Pipeline Oil Leaking into South Plat ...
    Yep, a broken pipeline at a tar sands oil refinery pipeline seems to be leaking crude oil into the South Platte River in Colorado. Clearly, another score for the “we need the tar sands pipeline” crowd (… that is, the oil companies, their bought politicians, and FOX News). Detai ...

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Axis of Logic

  • It takes a German paper to state the obvious a ...
    The Republicans' Farcical Candidates A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look lik ...
  • Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s ...
    On 22 May 2007, the Guardian's front page announced: "Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq." The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed that Iran had secret plans to defeat American troops in Iraq, which included "forging ties with al-Qaida elements". The coming "showd ...
  • Iran delivers major blow to the CIA - Iran/Persia
    Iran's claim last week to have arrested 12 spies working for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is potentially a major blow to American intelligence-gathering efforts in Iran and to American intelligence generally. The arrests come on the heels of the arrest of 30 alleged CIA sp ...
  • Reports from Occupy: 11/30 - World News
    The Occupy movement has spread from a small protest encampment in the financial district of Manhattan to a mass movement across the U.S.--and now the world--with supporters in over 1,000 cities, towns, campuses and more. Here, SocialistWorker.org is publishing reports we receive from act ...
  • What Time magazine thinks delicate Americans c ...
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They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD Seriously, @RuthMarcus? Apparently, she is trying out for curmudgeon-in-residence for 60 Minutes, now that Andy Rooney has retired. She spends somewhere in the neighborhood of 750 words bemoaning the "incivility" of a teenagers 15-word tweet. But maybe she's a bit miffed that Emma and h ...
  • Evil Word Wizard Frank Luntz Strikes Again!
    By @TedFrier Frank Luntz is at it again. According to Salon's Justin Elliott, the Republican pollster and evil word wizard is scared that the Occupy Wall Street is "having an impact on what the American people think of 'capitalism.'" In a meeting of the Republican Governor's Association in Flori ...
  • Re-elected Beshear Still Taking Order from Big ...
    By @KYYellowDog Coming on the heels of the election, this initially seemed to me to be the typical clearing out of professionals to make room for campaign contributors and their idiot nephews. Tom Loftus at the Courier: Without explanation, the Beshear administration on Tuesday fired Carl Campbe ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG&YD Seriously, @NewtGingrich? No one -- and we do mean no-fucking-one -- wants to hear you tell anyone how to handle allegations of adultery, regardless of your unrivaled expertise. "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had some advice for his fellow Republican presidential candidate, embattl ...
  • Only the 99 Percent Create Jobs
    By @KYYellowDog Maine Senator Susan Collins suggests taxing rich people who do not hire, thus setting up a false dichotomy between rich people who are job creators and rich people who are not.   This sounds good and misses the point completely.  Here is an actual billionaire who does h ...

Care 2

  • TAKE ACTION NOW! Save Seals: Keep Oil Out of ...
    Shell will stop at nothing to drill in the Arctic and they are mobilizing right now. Stand up for seals and other Arctic animals by December 6 and put a stop to Shell's plans to drill in the Arctic. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &nbsp ...
  • Suncor says leak from Colorado oil refinery co ...
    Suncor Energy said on Wednesday it has contained a leak of an oily substance near its Commerce City refinery in Colorado Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Tell USDA: No Permit For Pseudo-sanctuary ! PL ...
    Despite pleas from Maine citizens, experts from around the world, and actor Lily Tomlin, a veterinarian is moving forward with his plan to bring a lone elephant named Rosie to live in a backyard sanctuary that is a anything but a refuge Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note- ...
  • Urge Brixmor Properties to End Sale of Sugar G ...
    Complaints continue to pour in from customers of Brixmor Properties malls regarding Pocket Pets, a traveling kiosk that sells tiny, exotic marsupials called sugar gliders. PETA has reached out to executives, but to no avail. We need your help today Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |  ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Demand CCTV in all slaughterhous ...
    On Thursday November 24th, the Victorian authorities closed down an abattoir in Gippsland after Animals Australia provided footage of animal welfare breaches inside the facility. In just 90 minutes enough evidence of cruelty was captured. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   No ...

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No Quarter

  • Amen Adam Carolla
    This is pure X rated brain candy. Adam Carolla lays into the Occupy Wall Street buffoons: He is dead on in going after the hypocrisy of the rich black guys, e.g. Russell Simmons and Kanye West, who are sucking up to these deadbeats. Adam should have included the layabouts at Harvard who, in thei ...
  • This And That *Open Thread*
    So we are back from our excursion to Grand Cayman for some snorkeling, good food, and a look at a possible vacation investment. There is a reason why I am mentioning this. I just have to share what one of the owners of the development said while we were chatting. She said she didn’t know [...]
  • Hitting the Economic Panic Button
    Europe is bleeding to death economically and the average American is oblivious to the crisis. Yesterday, while Europe teetered on the precipice of economic chaos, all of the US cable channels as well as the BBC were riveted on the judge’s ruling in the case of Michael Jackson’s docto ...
  • Obama, The Bystander-In-Chief? *Open Thread*
    Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey has a few telling remarks about the inability of the President and Congress to get things done. I believe that the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement come — their genesis– is from the same feeling, which is an anger that government can’t get th ...
  • Mitt Romney, Petulant or Presidential?
    Enough of whoopin on Herman Cain’s tired ass. What about Romney? He finally sat down tonight with Fox’s Bret Baer and, to be kind, it left much to be desired. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com I should note that Charles Krauthammer thought Mitt did swell. But what do you th ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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

Mountaintop Removal

  • Your Vents, Friday, Dec. 2 - Daily Mail - Char ...
    Your Vents, Friday, Dec. 2 Daily Mail - Charleston n If mountaintop removal is such a nice thing for the state of West Virginia, how come we don't see pictures of mountaintop removal sites on our tourist brochures? To all of you Marshall fans calling in the Vent Line and bashing WVU, can you ...
  • Author of MTR study speaks at perinatal confer ...
    Author of MTR study speaks at perinatal conference Charleston Gazette A co-author of a study that has linked birth defects to mountaintop removal mining was a keynote speaker at the West Virginia Perinatal Summit Thursday afternoon. Dr. Michael Hendryx, the director of research at the Institute ...
  • New music video: A cry from the heart to end m ...
    Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) New music video: A cry from the heart to end mountaintop removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Earlier this year Music Saves Mountains member band 2/3 Goat started their grassroots fundraising campaign to produce a new video for their mountaint ...
  • TU sit-in arrests - Newsworks.org
    TU sit-in arrests Newsworks.org The Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal organized the event. Protesters say the board's Investments Committee denied the group's request to discuss mountain top removal at the meeting and student Melanie Rafoss raised a concern that university ... ...
  • Deal will end Fola Coal water pollution lawsui ...
    Deal will end Fola Coal water pollution lawsuit BusinessWeek Two environmental groups agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit against Fola Coal Co. over runoff from a mountaintop removal mining operation in Clay and Nicholas counties. The Sierra Club and West Virginia Highlands Conservancy sued the ...

Memeorandum

  • Killing the Euro - Can the euro be saved? Not ...
    Paul Krugman / New York Times: Killing the Euro  —  Can the euro be saved?  Not long ago we were told that the worst possible outcome was a Greek default.  Now a much wider disaster seems all too likely.  —  True, market pressure lifted a bit on Wednesd ...
  • Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child ...
    Paul West / Los Angeles Times: Newt Gingrich expands on his support for child labor  —  The Republican presidential front-runner says ‘really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and nobody around them who works’ to earn money — ...
  • You are all wrong, printing money can halt Eur ...
    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Finance: You are all wrong, printing money can halt Europe's crisis  —  This will enrage many readers — especially the “Austrian” internet vigilantes — but I have to say it.  —  A near universal view has emerged t ...
  • Newt Gingrich surge strains his campaign (The ...
    The Politico: Newt Gingrich surge strains his campaign  —  DES MOINES - As Newt Gingrich returns to Iowa this week for the first time as a top-flight presidential contender, his ragtag political operation suddenly faces an urgent challenge: catching up with the candidate.
  • Senate Blocks Tax-Cut Bills (Wall Street Journal)
    Wall Street Journal: Senate Blocks Tax-Cut Bills  —  The Senate late Thursday blocked competing Democratic and Republican proposals for extending the current payroll-tax break, but that could clear the way for the two parties to negotiate a broader deal on that and other crucial ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Struggle over “super” greenhouse gas
    Headlines last month that China was threatening to release large quantities of potent HFCs provoked anger amongst green groups. But is it as straightforward as is sounds? Meng Si reports.Early last month, a news report triggered accusations that China was threatening to release large quantities ...
  • A shadow climate regime (1)
    As UN climate talks continue in South Africa, Robert Engelman presents the case for a new framework to address climate change, without the distinction between “developed” and “developing” nations.Greenhouse warming and the associated acidification of the atmosphere are th ...
  • A shadow climate regime (2)
    In the second section of a two-part essay, Robert Engelman explains his radical proposal to tackle global warming that, he says, the world will one day accept and enforce.Let me sketch out the elements of the proposed human-caused climate-change elimination framework that I believe—and I w ...
  • A climate regime that works for China
    A positive result in Durban demands political leadership, write Thomas Spencer and Emmanuel Guérin. With Europe in crisis and America politically jammed, will Beijing step up?The United Nations talks on climate change resumed in Durban this week. The end of the Kyoto Protocol’s firs ...
  • Old deadlock, new stories
    Pity the climate journalists trudging from one disappointing summit to the next. But there are plenty of scoops out there, writes Lu Zhenhua, you just need to look in the right place.For climate hacks, the annual United Nations-led global warming negotiations have always been a bit of a shindig. ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • The 1 Percent Indifferent to Their Indebtedness
    Most Americans, the 99 percent, feel the pressure of indebtedness. When they owe a friend a buck, their conscience bothers them until they’re square. They pay their bills, working second jobs if necessary. They meet mortgage obligations even when underwater. That’s why there was a deficit Super ...
  • Meet 5 Big Lenders Profiting From the $1 Trill ...
    As the student movement grows and rallies around the country, we look at the lenders raking in cash off the backs of the U.S.'s students.
  • Mystery of the Day: The Washington Post Asks & ...
    Blacks have historically suffered the income inequality and job scarcity that the Wall Street protesters are now railing against. Perhaps black America’s absence is sending a message to the Occupiers: “We told you so! Nothing will change. We’ve been here already. It’s hopeless.” The Scooby Doo m ...
  • Contraception: Expand Access, Not Exemptions
    Written by Jessica Arons for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. This article is cross-posted with permission from ThinkProgress Health. As the Obama Administration debates whether to expand an exe ...
  • Bill Clinton's Unreality: Tinkering With Unpas ...
    Clinton's prescription offers incremental change, at exactly the time so many are realizing that we need need transformational change.

Threat Level

  • Senator Floats Alternative to Internet Blackli ...
    Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is doing whatever it takes to defeat Senate and House legislation that expands the governments' ability to shutter and disrupt websites "dedicated" to infringing activities. Wyden, in addition to a promised filibuster, said Thursday he has gathered a few lawmakers from ...
  • Critics Line Up to Bash Maker of Secret Phone- ...
    The backlash against a formerly obscure, California mobile-monitoring software maker grew even larger Thursday, with a Senator asking questions, citizens bombing them with bad online reviews, and former customer Apple swearing it off. Adding possible legal jeopardy to its woes, a former federal ...
  • WikiLeaks Unveils the Selling of Surveillance, ...
    The WikiLeaks submission system may still be incommunicado, but the secret-spilling site woke up on Thursday to release a trove of marketing documents from surveillance companies hawking their wares to governments - though many were previously published by the Wall Street Journal or were already ...
  • Feds’ Anti-Piracy Vid Is Reefer Madness for th ...
    Every time you buy a pirated DVD a gangster shoots his gun -- or something evil like that, according to a new federal government ad campaign against counterfeit and pirated goods.
  • Defying Police Blockade, Boston’s Occupy Build ...
    In Boston's downtown Occupy, police let in the drugs and keep out the supplies. Despite that, the protestors are determined to build a new kind of city.

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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...
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     Les preuves en Français Preuves à l’appui: une introduction Preuves à l’appui: la santé physique Preuves à l’appui: la santé mentale Preuves à l’appui: la toxicomanie Preuves à l’appui: l’éducation Preuves à l’appui: la population carcérale      

PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

  • Denver Post - Listeria outbreak traced to Colo ...
    Michael Booth and the Denver Post should get the Pulitzer for their extensive coverage of the Colorado homegrown Listeria outbreak that is now the most deadly in U.S. recent history. But, they more deserve our thanks for telling the story of an amazing family – that is too much like yours ...
  • Bruce Clark - an easy call - and I - a long sh ...
    So, we bought this for the back of the upcoming Seattle Magazine: Go to Amazon and buy the book - Poisoned - the story behind the Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak. And, on the news front - it has been a long, long week: The Packer: Even the industry’s most ardent critic, Bill Marler of ...
  • Teaching in Colorado and Two Blog Awards - Ple ...
    I spent the afternoon in Boulder Colorado teaching three torts classes (combined)  Its great to see so many students interested in food and food safety.  All had read the book, Poisoned. I also learned that the results are in, and the LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community announced ...
  • Third-party auditors added to Listeria Cantalo ...
    I am on a plane (delayed flight) finally bound to Chicago via Minneapolis – tell me why I am going to a Food Litigation Conference in Chicago in November?  Last week we filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of a woman who died before her time – from eating Listeria-tainted ca ...
  • Third Turkish Pine Nut Salmonella Lawsuit File ...
    This is the third lawsuit the firms have brought against New Jersey-based Turkish pine nut importer Sunrise Commodities. The complaint (#11CV6581T), filed in New York Federal District Court in Rochester, alleges that on October 18, 2011 Melissa Catalino and her six-year-old daughter consumed pi ...

AutoblogGreen

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

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Exclusive: Cass McCombs Debuts New Song "Bradl ...
    Defense lawyers for the alleged Army whistleblower Bradley Manning are accusing the U.S. government of withholding key evidence that could help Manning’s defense at a pre-trial hearing later this month. Manning’s attorneys say U.S. officials are refusing to hand over internal govern ...
  • Democracy Now! Exclusive: Occupy Protesters Co ...
    On Tuesday night, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was confronted with images of his officers assaulting supporters of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement as he spoke to a class at Columbia University. The commissioner had been invited to speak by former New York City mayor an ...
  • "Cry, the Beloved Climate." By Amy Goodman
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The United Nations’ annual climate summit descended on Durban, South Africa, this week, but not in time to prevent the tragic death of Qodeni Ximba. The 17-year-old was one of 10 people killed in Durban on Sunday, the night before the U.N. conference opened ...
  • Native Americans Mark Day of Mourning on Thank ...
    The United American Indians of New England marked the 42nd National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Mass. on Nov. 24 as others celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday. Democracy Now! was there as Native speakers described the "suppressed" history of the holiday, the massacre of the Wampanoag ...
  • Arab Spring Under the King: Bahraini Activist ...
    Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of today’s release of a report that investigates the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year. The Bahraini monarchy commissioned the supposed independent probe after crushing protests with the help of troops from Saudi Arabia. At lea ...

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • This Month’s Subscriber Input
    Post your comments and questions for the month of December 2011.
  • Fall Forward
    Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Nothing.   Nelson Mandela said, “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you’re capable of living.” Now I am sure… people have told you “make sure you have someth ...
  • Central Banks Cut Cost of Borrowing Dollars to ...
    By Scott Lanman and Jeff Black Six central banks led by the Federal Reserve made it cheaper for banks to borrow dollars in emergencies in a global effort to ease Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis. Stocks rallied, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average up the most since March 2009, commodities su ...
  • American Airlines’ DB Plans Up In Air Af ...
    By Barry B. Burr AMR Corp.’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection leaves the future uncertain for American Airlines’ defined benefit pension plans, which have a combined $8.3 billion in assets. AMR’s Tuesday filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York provides no inform ...
  • Chris Martenson on Exponentially Rising Debt a ...
    By Chris Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Market analyst Chris Martenson made an absolutely brilliant and eloquent presentation to the Spanish Precious Metals Association’s conference in Madrid on November 16, emphasizing the exponential growth of debt in Western economies amid a worse ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • About the mysteries of the 9-11 attack
    Summary:  Much about 9-11 remains unclear, especially since (as usual) the 9-11 commission was botched.  Much relevant material hidden from the Commission (about which they have protested loudly, although we remain deaf).  Many important questions remain unasked.  Key parts of the story probably ...
  • Poetic patriotic propaganda, suitable for humm ...
    Summary:  The 17+ thousand comments on the FM website are a window into the thinking of America.  An astonishingly high fraction reflect the intense indoctrination to which we’ve been subject during the past few decades from both the Left and Right.  Many appear to be credulous consumers o ...
  • Poetic patriotic propaganda, suitable for humm ...
    Summary:  The 17+ thousand comments on the FM website are a window into the thinking of America.  An astonishingly high fraction reflect the intense indoctrination to which we’ve been subject during the past few decades from both the Left and Right.  Many appear to be credulous consumers o ...
  • We can only watch as the nation of Israel slow ...
    Summary:  The driver of much (not all) of Israel’s problems was the decision to gradually annex as much of Palestine as possible after Likud gained power in the 1977 election.  They have thrown away the moral high ground, the decisive advantage in a world in which 4GW has become the domina ...
  • We can only watch as the nation of Israel slow ...
    Summary:  The driver of much (not all) of Israel’s problems was the decision to gradually annex as much of Palestine as possible after Likud gained power in the 1977 election.  They have thrown away the moral high ground, the decisive advantage in a world in which 4GW has become the domina ...

Open Your Eyes News

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

The Progressive Realist

  • You Might Have Missed: Cyber Attacks, Syria an ...
    US President Bush escorts Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld from the Oval Office in Washington on August 11, 2006 (Courtesy Reuters/Kevin Lamarque). - Sari Horwitz, Shyamantha Asokan, and Julie Tate, “Trade in surveillance technology raises worries,” The Washington Post, December 1, 2011. The produ ...
  • Iran's Growing Isolation a Dubious Win for the ...
    Scenes from Tehran Tuesday of bearded Iranian youth swarming over the walls of the British embassy evoked memories of the 1979-81 hostage crisis that created the image of Iran as a pariah state. But the incidents vary in ways that are more worrisome for international peace than the seizure of th ...
  • Congo Election Results: A Tense Wait
    The elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been covered by international media and commentators with an interesting range of urgency, from “Chaos, arson, violence mar Congo election” to “Congo elections mostly peaceful, but fraught with problems.” Indeed, as the latter headline sugge ...
  • Egypt's “New” Cabinet Will Retain Old Faces
    Egypt moved a step closer to forming a new government on December 1, as Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri submitted his cabinet nominations to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Ganzouri is expected to announce the members of his new cabinet on December 3, pending the SCAF’s appro ...
  • Lindsey Graham Compares Threat from Al Qaeda t ...
    Yesterday’s Senate debate over detainee policy offered a venue for hawks like Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to defend a controversial provision in a defense spending bill permitting for the indefinite military detention of terror suspects. Critics of the provisi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • What to Read Before You Unwonk Tonight
    Pundits and journalists have moved from denial about the possibility of Newt Gingrich winning the nomination right to the bargaining stage —it’s still unlikely that Gingrich will win, but, as John Cassidy asserts, “now it’s a real race!” However, Jonathan Chait argues that Mitt Romney should be ...
  • Hardly a Winning Performance
    Of the anti-Romney ads I’ve seen from both Republicans and the Democratic National Committee, this—from Jon Huntsman—might be the most brutal: The striking thing is that this isn’t hard to do at all. If you include 2005, the year he began to prepare for a run in earnest, Mitt Romney has been ...
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
    Ginger White's apparently painful confession of having had a 13-year on-again, off-again affair with Herman Cain seems to have dealt the final blow to his tottering political campaign. I've heard conversations, since, in which political insiders are annoyed about that—believing that adultery sh ...
  • Despite Previous Denials, Romney Is Competing ...
    Any lingering doubts on Romney's new commitment to winning the Iowa caucus can now be laid to rest. He's opened a new campaign headquarters in Des Moines, a campaign spokesperson said his " strategy is to win there," and starting tomorrow Romney will begin airing a new commercial, his first in ...
  • Death, Interrupted
    Governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon put a moratorium on executions in his state last week, and he didn't mince words about why. At a November 22 press conference, he called the death penalty broken, unfair, and a "perversion of justice" and said he will urge legislators to consider reforms during ...

Buzzflash

  • A Very Good Reason to Tax the Very Rich
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A hedge fund manager who makes $5 billion in a year is making enough money to pay the starting salaries of 100,000 firefighters. On a one-year monetary basis, a financial expert is worth 100,000 times more than the man or woman racing to the scene of a ...
  • John Kasich, Sarah Palin, and Herman Cain: Whe ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT "Reading newspapers does not give you an uplifting experience, because it never really makes it clear that you won the Irish Sweepstakes," Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich inscrutably commented at a recent news conference. Given that Kasich was jus ...
  • Will GOP Red Meat Soundbite Guru Hook up With ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Over the years, Luntz, the Republican Party pollster and political strategist has had a longtime relationship with Newt Gingrich. As the campaign unwinds, will Luntz return to the side of the disgraced former Speaker?read more
  • Mayor Bloomberg Has Perfected the Art of a Tin ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT How do you put the First Amendment through a shredder, prevent media coverage and arrest and rough up journalists when you don't want the world to see what you are up to? The answer: become the mayor of New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is not the ...
  • Big Banks Received $13 Billion Income Gift Fro ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent me an email enticing to me to buy Republican swag as a gift for the holidays. Frankly, I thought it was a parody when I looked at the individual items. One of the bumper stickers ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • The cutting edge of chemistry
    The November issue of the Cutting Edge of Chemistry (PDF) newsletter which I produce for ThomsonReuters is now online. In this latest issue: Organic synthesis scheme showcase – The nutlins were first identified by scientists screening a chemical library at Hoffmann-La Roche. In this articl ...
  • Testing times for Scotch whisky
    Is your Scotch strong enough? A new lab-on-chip device has been developed by researchers in Scotland which could be used for quality control and regulatory testing of whisky and other spirits to ensure that you get full, 40%, strength liquor. The same chip can also demonstrate the providence of ...
  • Serially successful doctors fail
    Success-chasing may not only lead doctors to make flawed decisions in diagnosing and treating patients, but it can also distort the thinking of other high-stakes decision makers, such as military and political strategists, stock market investors, and venture capitalists. An fMRI study of physici ...
  • What will Sciencebase do?
    By the end of 2011 Sciencebase will… …have published well over 2000 posts, including some archived items dating back to 1995. …have aggregated 5000 RSS newsfeed subscribers. …have counted approximately 4000 “fans” on Facebook. …have been added to about 5 ...
  • Pills, thrills and polymorphs
    Almost any skilled organic chemist could create novel variations on the solid form, polymorphs, of small molecules currently used as pharmaceuticals. This represents a problem for manufacturers of generic drugs because big pharma attempts to extend the patent lifespan of its well-known products ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • December 6: Occupy Wall Street “Goes Home”
    The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street. On Tuesday, December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn, NY community to liberate a foreclosed home. This action is part of a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy ...
  • December 6: Occupy Wall Street “Goes Home”
    The fight to reclaim democracy from the banks is growing from Wall Street to Main Street. On Tuesday, December 6th Occupy Wall Street will join in solidarity with a Brooklyn, NY community to liberate a foreclosed home. This action is part of a national kick-off for a new frontier for the occupy ...
  • On World AIDS Day, Sanders Demands Affordable ...
    On World Aids Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Congress to pass his legislation to dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs used to treat the disease. read more
  • On World AIDS Day, Sanders Demands Affordable ...
    On World Aids Day, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called on Congress to pass his legislation to dramatically lower the price of prescription drugs used to treat the disease. read more
  • Department of Labor Should Protect Child Farm ...
    The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) should institute protections from extreme heat exposure for child farmworkers under the age of 16, Public Citizen said in comments sent today to the agency’s Wage and Hour Division. The division called for public comment on proposed, wide-ranging changes ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • He was 22...She was 12...: Lessons From the De ...
    Tom Engelhardt He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949.  He died in a hospital in Germany of “wounds received from an explosive device wh ...
  • He was 22...She was 12...: Lessons From the De ...
    Tom Engelhardt He was 22, a corporal in the Marines from Preston, Iowa, a “city” incorporated in 1890 with a present population of 949.  He died in a hospital in Germany of “wounds received from an explosive device wh ...
  • Arundhati Roy: 'The People Who Created the Cri ...
    Arun Gupta   Sitting in a car parked at a gas station on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, my colleague Michelle holds an audio recorder to my cellphone. At the other end of the line is Arundhati Roy, author of the Booker Prize-winning ...
  • Arundhati Roy: 'The People Who Created the Cri ...
    Arun Gupta   Sitting in a car parked at a gas station on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, my colleague Michelle holds an audio recorder to my cellphone. At the other end of the line is Arundhati Roy, author of the Booker Prize-winning ...
  • 7-7-7: Jobless? Face It. Obama's Not That Into You
    Ted Rall Forget Herman Cain's 9-9-9. The battle cry for every American ought to be 7-7-7. 7-7-7: for the $7.7 trillion the Bush and Obama Administrations secretly funneled to the banksters. Remember the $700 billion bailout that prompte ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Climate change: red alert or red herring?
    Climate experts have been drawing a doomsday scenario with threats of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, water wars and other calamities that can be blamed on global warming.
  • Water wars
    Weekly Poll Are you willing to give up your right to free plastic bags? Not on your life, hippie. It's a minor inconvenience to help save the environment.
  • California Water Wars Heading To Court
    SACRAMENTO; Calif. -- A landmark accord that ended decades of acrimony over how Southern California gets its water is in jeopardy.
  • Water wars continue between Alabama and Georgi ...
    A state task force in Georgia wants to build reservoirs and wells to increase Atlanta's water supply. This despite a long running feud over water shared with Alabama and Florida.
  • Water wars
    Weekly Poll Does the SMPD need a citizens' review board? No. The department is doing just fine. No. It'd be too expensive. Yes. The department needs more transparency.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • Book review: Putting occupation's profiteers i ...
    David Cronin The Electronic Intifada Corporate Complicity in Israel’s Occupation is required reading to understand how some enterprises are accomplices to murder. Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation: Evidence from the London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine ...
  • Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, th ...
    Brendan Work The Electronic Intifada West Bank Israeli settlers have put prices on the heads of Palestinians who were freed as part of the recent prisoner swap.
  • Unmasking Gershom Gorenberg, historian and apo ...
    Stephen Maher The Electronic Intifada Zionism seeks to erase and rewrite history in order to avoid accepting its ugly colonial legacy.
  • The ridiculous burdens borne by Gaza medical p ...
    Rami Almeghari The Electronic Intifada Cairo Though The Electronic Intifada correspondent Rami Almeghari’s family has finally accessed medical treatment for his ailing wife, unlike other less lucky families in Gaza, the obstacles they have encountered are absurd.
  • Boycott Israel campaign grows among UK unions, ...
    Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada London So many UK trade unions have now passed motions in support of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that even the often conservative Trades Union Congress has been compelled to change policy.

The Wonk Room

  • Cops Invade Occupy Boston To Seize Its Sink
    This evening, riot police invaded the Occupy Boston encampment to seize the protestors’ kitchen sink. The action, which led to the arrest of three protesters and a police officer accidentally stepping on a college-age female protester, was in evident violation of the restraining order that ...
  • Charges Dropped Against Japanese Honda Employe ...
    Charges have been dropped against Ichiro Yada, the Japanese Honda employee who was arrested in Alabama for being in violation of HB 56, the state’s immigration law. Eric Patterson, mayor of Leeds, Alabama, told the Birmingham News that Yada had been ticketed for driving without a license a ...
  • Luntz Warns GOP on Occupy Wall Street, “ ...
    Frank Luntz, arguably the GOP’s top messaging strategist, said Wednesday: “I’m so scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death. They’re having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.” So just as he did with his infamous 20 ...
  • Longshot GOP Presidential Candidate Gary Johns ...
    Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is the second GOP presidential contender to officially embrace same-sex marriage, making the announcement tonight during a town hall hosted by the pro-gay Republican group GOProud. From his statement: As a believer in individual freedom and keeping governm ...
  • Ohio Gov. John Kasich Is ‘Very Pleased&# ...
    In 2008, the Obama administration fought the tide of Republican disapproval and decided to rescue General Motors and Chrysler. Millions in paid back loans and thousands of additional jobs later, GM and Chrysler are on track to sell 14 million cars, the “fastest pace in more than two years. ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Mass Murder and Morons
    Been reading about modern art lately. The part about Dada, Surrealism, ... and then even some of the post-1945 movements, ... where they're a part of the reactions to the world wars, got me thinking. World War I genuinely traumatized Western Civilization. That all this "progress" and bourgeois ...
  • Bail us out or there'll be trouble!
    How come it works for the banksters? Supposedly if they fail it will be bad for the economy. (In reality, the financial sector has been based on the power of closing one's eyes and thinking happy thoughts for years and years and years. If those big banks failed, all that would be needed would be ...
  • Capitalism's Crisis of Legitimacy
    It's not easy being a devotee of capitalism these days. What with the tendency of capitalist elites to cry for public bail-outs for their self-inflicted wounds while at the same time they continue to fleece the very same individuals whose tax dollars are needed to bail them out. What capitalism ...
  • How do you stop them?
    Break windows and get the cops to attack peaceful protesters in response? Hmm. Interesting idea. I can feel international capitalism buckling under the resulting strain just thinking about it. Get a permit and have a rally and a march attended by hundreds or even thousands? And then go home? I ...
  • Too Much
    I've been meaning to post something along these lines for a while. In his Salon entry entitled "The Fruits of Liberation" Glenn Greenwald writes about the murder of seven Afghans, including six children, by a NATO airstrike in Southern Afghanistan and how he almost didn't mention it because the ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Photo essay: Are beavers recolonising Toronto' ...
    The Lower Don River was once one of the most polluted rivers in North America. The situation is improving, however. A beaver, seemingly happily doing beaver business was discovered in the southern part of the river.
  • Fortune-telling traditions of St. Andrew's Day
    Fortune telling traditions associated with Saint Andrew's Day are still very popular in Eastern Europe. Many Canadians of East European descent brought their celebrations along with them to Canada.
  • Historical parental adbuction case ends after ...
    A father is sighing a breath of relief after his daughter has been found safe and secure after a parental abduction ended in Victoria, B.C. in Canada. Sadly the find comes 18 years after his child, then just 18 months old, was taken by her mother.
  • Meet you at 'centre ice' at the new Loblaws do ...
    The new Loblaws at Maple Leaf Gardens downtown Toronto is a breath of fresh air, for any grocery shopper. The red carpet and the wonderful band playing on the second level is gone, but the shopping will continue as thousands are still shopping.
  • Casey House's 'Voices of Hope' concert for Wor ...
    Thursday was World AIDS Day. In Toronto Casey House hosted Voices of Hope, a concert that called for increasing awareness about the HIV/AIDS crisis around the globe and here in Canada.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Aviation Week: Are there alternatives to F-35?
    Further to this post, doubts about the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have now grown to the point where even aviation industry insiders like Aviation Week are asking whether there are alternatives to the troubled aircraft (David A. Fulghum & Bill Sweetman, Are There Alternatives To ...
  • Ceasefire.ca fights back on Sun TV
    I was reminded of my commitment to you, in that controversial fundraising letter, that I would confront Stephen Harper and his pro-war lobbyists “at every turn.” So that’s what I did. I appeared on Sun TV Monday night in a 9-minute defence of myself and our Ceasefire.ca community.
  • Sun TV attacks Ceasefire.ca!
    Sun TV, also known as "Fox News North," has turned its guns on the peace work of Ceasefire.ca and all of its 20,000 supporters – but especially Ceasefire.ca founder Steven Staples.
  • ICC may examine NATO’s role in Libya
    Ottawa may be celebrating victory in Libya, but NATO and its members could yet face the scrutiny of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their actions during the conflict, the Associated Press reported earlier this month (Slobodan Lekic and Mike Corder, “AP Exclusive: NATO may face ...
  • Inside the pro-war lobby’s secret funding deal ...
    Please make your donation to stop the pro-war lobby from stealing from Canadians, and to make sure public funds are used for human needs and the environment.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Water Fluoridation War. Government Admits Dang ...
    November 9, 2011 Natural Society By Andre Evans “To learn more about the dangers of fluoride, see this web site.”  –KTRN It was only a few years ago that if you labeled fluoride as a dangerous substance, you would be laughed at and scorned. For years, a select minority of indiv ...
  • Tired of Feeling the Burn? Low-Acid Diet May Help
    November 9, 2011 The New York Times By TARA PARKER-POPE “Want to get rid of acid reflux?  Here is an idea: eat healthy.  What a concept.” –KTRN Stomach acid has long been blamed for acid reflux, heartburn and other ills. But now some experts are starting to think that the probl ...
  • Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV
    November 9, 2011 WIRED By Kim Zetter “There is no doubt that GPS technology is amazing.  But when the authorities use these devices to track you anywhere you go without a warrant, you know the police state is real.”  –KTRN As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments ...
  • Prostate Cancer Treatments Spur Cancer To Grow
    November 9, 2011 Natural News By Sherry Baker “The very drugs they use to treat the cancer actually causes it.  How nice.  It’s like Prozac causing depression, yet somehow the drugs are safe and effective.  Yeah, right.” –KTRN When men with advanced prostate cancer are tr ...
  • California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking S ...
    November 11, 2011 Truthour.Org By Robert Scheer There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case. Unlike the California third-striker I once wrote about whom ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Cain: Ending Presidential Campaign Is ‘An Option’
    Lisa Lerer and Julie Hirschfeld Davis Bloomberg December 2, 2011 Herman Cain told a New Hampshire newspaper that ending his Republican presidential campaign is “an option” he is considering, as he continued to face questions about the latest allegation of sexual indiscretion lodged against him. ...
  • SEC: We Can Prosecute Congressmen For Insider ...
    CSpan December 2, 2011 “The director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission makes it clear the commission has authority to prosecute such wrongful conduct declaring, and I quote, ‘Trading by congressional members or their staff is not exempt from the federal securit ...
  • Draconian EPA Regulations To Cause Rolling Bla ...
    Critics attacked by White House for making connection proven accurate Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, December 2, 2011 The cost of complying with draconian new EPA rules on carbon emissions will force coal plants in Texas to close and increase the likelihood of rolling blackouts, as ...
  • Gingrich: Children of poor families are lazy, ...
    former house speaker newt gingrich ♦ ♦   Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), now seemingly the Republican party’s new frontrunner for their presidential nomination, took rhetorical aim on Thursday at an all new threat to America’s economy, one that’s bee ...
  • UK Government Spoiling for a fight with Iran
    By Stuart LittlewoodFriday, December 2nd, 2011 In his speeches Foreign Secretary William Hague is very hot on international responsibilities but does he practise what he preaches?   by Stuart Littlewood   The gung-ho leadership of the British government, fresh from their heroic “ ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Chris Hedges addresses Occupy Harvard: In the ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 29, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges takes questions from the students of Occupy Harvard outside the gated Harvard Yard encampment in Cambridge, MA. 5:15 pm. Monday November 28, 2011. Chris Hedges addresses Occupy Harvard No ...
  • Bahraini Political Activist Condemns U.S.-Back ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Nov 28, 2011 www.democracynow.org – Bahrain has announced a commission to steer reforms after an inquiry found systematic rights abuse during a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests this year, but opposition parties say they will not participate in ...
  • Kucinich Calls for Reparations for Families of ...
    Dandelion Salad by Dennis J. Kucinich Washington D.C. Nov. 28, 2011 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after Pakistani troops were bombed by NATO in the Mohmand district of Pakistan. “Saturday’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike that kille ...
  • Ralph Nader: Giant Corporate Power is the Cent ...
    Dandelion Salad http://a.blip.tv/ Ralph Nader speaks at the Washington D.C. Green Festival on Nov. 22, 2011. Keynote: Ralph Nader at the Washington D.C. Green Festival (2011) see Taming the Giant Corporation Center for Corporate Policy Michael Parenti: Imperialism and the 99% Solution First Step ...
  • Rick Rozoff: NATO’s expanding horizons
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 26, 2011 http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55918 NATO’s expanding horizons November 21st, 2011 Featured Guest: Rick Rozoff CIUT 89.5 FM The Taylor Report November 25, 2011 Program ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Environmental Gap Widens in Phoenix
    It's not only economic inequality that's increased in the city of Phoenix, Arizona. In the last 40 years, environmental inequality has increased, too.
  • Genetically Engineered Neurons Light Up When F ...
    In a scientific first that could help us better understand how signals travel in the brain, a researcher of natural sciences at Harvard has created neurons that light up as they fire.
  • SMARAGD Rocket Tests Data and High Speed Video
    This is the data so far for publication related to the test of the SMARAGD rocket, designed by Peter Madsen. The double test was done Nov 26, 2011. This idea of creating  and launching this rocket, which is a minor Copenhagen Suborbitals rocket compared to size and thrust of earlier engines, is ...
  • How a Collapsing Scientific Hypothesis Ended i ...
    A long chain of events led not only to the collapse of a scientist's hypothesis, but it landed her in jail -- and brought death threats upon some of the researchers who debunked her ideas.
  • New Twist in the Search for Dark Matter
    Sometimes it seems like dark matter is intentionally trying to drive physicists mad. New research using observations from dwarf galaxies has set a lower limit on the mass of dark matter particles. But the results directly contradict findings from several previous experiments, which observed dar ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • AURP Announces 2011 Awards of Excellence in In ...
    University research parks, innovation leaders and companies were recognized for excellence in innovation by the Association of University Research Parks (AURP) at the 2011 International Conference in New Orleans. AURP presented their 2011 Annual Awards of Excellence naming the Research Park at t ...
  • Dr. Bruce A. Beutler, Other American Nobel Pri ...
    UT Southwestern Medical Center geneticist and immunologist Dr. Bruce A. Beutler and other 2011 Nobel Prize winners from the U.S. today met with President Barack Obama at the White House, launching a series of events leading to the prize ceremony in Stockholm later this month.
  • Low-Carbohydrate Diet Good for Overweight Girls?
    A low-carbohydrate diet may help prepubescent girls avoid some risks associated with obesity, such as diabetes and heart disease, according to research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  • Hundreds of Nation's Top Docs Deliver Care at UAB
    The latest edition of the Best Doctors in America recognizes 291 UAB physicians -- voted by their peers as the best.
  • Story Tips from the Department of Energy's Oak ...
    1) Computer hackers could lose a huge advantage. 2) Solar and wind energy could become more viable. 3) Something odd happens when you expose the element gadolinium to a strong magnetic field. 4) Carefully combining materials that shrink when heated with materials that expand creates a material u ...

Natural Health News

  • Simple Exercise Change Found to Radically Incr ...
    A group of rural Mississippi doctors and hospital leaders at a Brookhaven Mississippi hospital have funded research to fight obesity in the fattest state in the nation. And they have seen remarkable success. How successful? If you consider success a 31 percent drop in body fat in eight weeks w ...
  • Why Were these Toxic Metals Found in Fruit Juices?
    An investigation into arsenic and lead levels in apple juice and grape juice has prompted Consumer Reports to call for government standards to limit consumer exposure.  Ten percent of juice samples tested had arsenic levels exceeding the U.S. federal drinking-water standard.  Fully a q ...
  • Why Does the U.S. Media Breed Propaganda Journ ...
    The media in modern America is a cartel system.  It is owned by a handful of giant corporations -- corporations that are in turn saddled with heavy debts. This has encouraged them to cut costs wherever possible, while at the same time producing whatever material they think will sell the mo ...
  • Does the Flu Shot Actually INCREASE Your Risk ...
    New research is showing that flu vaccine may weaken children’s immune systems, and increase their chances of catching other influenza viruses.  Researchers collected blood samples from 27 healthy, unvaccinated children and 14 children who had received an annual flu shot. The children who w ...
  • Can One Bowl of Rice a Day be the Difference B ...
    Paul Jaminet, an astrophysicist from Harvard with a strong interest in health and diet, and Dr. Ron Rosedale have recently been having a lively internet debate.  Jaminet believes that carbohydrates from starches such as potatoes and cooked rice are healthy “safe starches” that if not consum ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Milanovic
    by Kal Raustiala by Kal Raustiala In Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: Law, Principles, Policy, Marko Milanovic has written an illuminating and comprehensive analysis of the increasingly contested question of the geographic scope of human rights treaties. Of course, this i ...
  • Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights T ...
    by Marko Milanovic I am very grateful for the opportunity to discuss my book on EJIL: Talk! and Opinio Juris, as am I grateful to the commentators on both blogs for taking the time to read and discuss it. In this introductory post I’ll try to outline the book’s main arguments and themes and ...
  • Milanovic Book Symposium
    by Kevin Jon Heller and Dapo Akande by Kevin Jon Heller and Dapo Akande Opinio Juris and EJIL: Talk! are happy to announce that over the next few days we will both be hosting a discussion of Marko Milanovic’s recently published book: Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: Law, ...
  • Fatou Bensouda, The Next Prosecutor of the ICC
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller It’s official — or almost is, to be completely accurate.  Mark Kersten first reported the news at Justice in Conflict, and a Reuters story has now confirmed it.  On December 12, Fatou Bensouda will become the next ICC Prosecutor: An informal ...
  • Greg McNeal on Collateral Damage and Targeted ...
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford My colleague Greg McNeal has just posted on SSRN an article on collateral damage and targeted killing. It is getting rave reviews, with Ben Wittes calling it an “extraordinary article” that “should be required reading for anyone participating i ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in I ...
    AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in Immigration Debate Phoenix, AZ – Immigrants' rights advocates say they see glimmers of hope in the changing tone of the political debate over immigration, both in Arizona and at the national level. They point to the recent defeat of SB 1070 auth ...
  • The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Rem ...
    The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Remember Financial Basics Phoenix, AZ – A good way to reduce family stress this time of year is to remember good basic spending habits. Advice from from Kelli Hinkle, interim executive director of the Alliance For Sustainable Families.
  • Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks
    Times Get Tougher for AZ Food Banks Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since the Great Recession began four years ago (December, 2007), donations to Arizona’s food banks have fallen off. Yet the demand for emergency food remains at record levels. Comments from Terry Shannon, president ...
  • Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech
    Great American Smokeout Goes High-Tech Phoenix, AZ – Today (Thursday) is the 36th annual Great American Smokeout, and the American Cancer Society has all sorts of ways to help you kick the habit – including some new features on social media. Comments from Laurie Pagel (PAY-gl), regio ...
  • Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic C ...
    Your Thanksgiving Dinner May Contain a Toxic Chemical Phoenix, AZ - A new report from the Breast Cancer Fund says the toxic chemical bisphenol A (Bis-FEE-null ay) is present in canned foods used to prepare a typical Thanksgiving meal. BPA has been linked in laboratory studies to adverse health e ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Anna Selina Kingi | Plea for change in prison ...
    Anna Selina Kingi | Plea for change in prison processes... | Stuff.co.nz: A woman whose mother died in jail after prison guards ignored her cell alarm has made an emotional plea for the Corrections Department to change its processes so such a tragedy does not happen again. Joanna Te Rure-Kingi ...
  • Opinion: Time to involve women in post-conflic ...
    Opinion: Time to involve women in post-conflict rebuilding | ReliefWeb: By Marianne Mollmann, Senior Policy Advisor at Amnesty International These past few months have seen many advances on women’s participation in post-conflict settings; at least on paper. In September, female world leaders g ...
  • Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, th ...
    Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, threaten them with death :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] In Ahmed Ramadan’s memory, however, this is the first time settlers have put a price — much less one so high — on the head of a ...
  • Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
    Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
  • Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
    Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • Is $6 billion “mother water company” … under w ...
    OC Register runs the numbers on the behemoth Metropolitan Water Company of Southern California and finds those danged unfunded pension liabilities (which do not have to appear on balance sheets now but will soon) may make a big difference in MWC’s supposed financial health.
  • Iowa cellulosic ethanol getting closer to comm ...
    The POET biofuel facility in Emmetsburg, IO received 61,000 “bone-dry tons of corn cobs and high cut material”  to convert into biofuel this harvest season. This is the left-overs from harvesting and processing corn and thus was not grown solely to create biofuel. Farmers now have e ...
  • Who is Ten Bears?
    As Bob has so graciously invited me to post here… Please allow me to introduce myself: Logger, Hippie, Biker. VFW. Fourth Generation Oregon. Single Parent, Proud Grand-Parent, Master of Science, Gnostic. The High Desert is my Home, I’ll never be “Homeless”. What a long, strange trip it’s b ...
  • Making it in the Political Blogosphere. Book R ...
    The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success, by Tanni Haas Tanni Haas interviews twenty top bloggers, and ranks their interviews by readership. HuffPo is first, followed by Political Wire, then FireDogLake. This ranking makes sense, even if I have a slight quibble with it. S ...
  • Fed gave banks billions in secret. Eurozone crisis
    Secret Fed loans gave banks $13 billion undisclosed to Congress The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required emergency loans of a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

  • Viewing the Santa Claus Mentality
    It’s been several weeks since I’ve last posted an opinion article. Please forgive me, but I’ve been very busy lately. I’ve actually found some work that pays me and I’ve been taking care of that rather than writing which hasn’t been paying the rent for me. I d ...
  • Kevin Annett @ Occupy Toronto to expose Canada ...
    Vatican Crimes Exposed Organization was honored to be present at Occupy Toronto to document the special announcement made by Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), where he demonstrated for the first time, children’s bones discovered ...
  • Woman Arrested After Closing Citibank Account ...
    Federal complaint charges NYPD making indiscriminate mass arrests on behalf of Wall Street banks… By Ernest A. Canning on 11/30/2011 Via Brad Blog The City of New York and the NYPD are engaging in a deliberate campaign of “mass arrests, illegally arresting protesters, including bank ...
  • Myanmar: Sham Democracy For The People
      Written by Nile Bowie   Riding on the back of the Obama Administration’s recent foreign policy ‘successes’, such as the extrajudicial execution of Muammar Gadhafi and the announcement of a permanent US military presence in Northern Australia, It appears yet another foreign funded opp ...
  • Hollywood pedophiles run wild, young lives des ...
    Seeing as the topic of pedophilia is firmly focused on College sports right now, we thought this article would help folks to remember that this practice is PERVasive in all aspects of our society.  Also, by posting this we are in no way endorsing general attacks on Scientology and its members&#8 ...

The Air Vent

  • I can’t hear you
    This email demonstrates again exactly why hockey stick temperature curves are all crap. Bo Christiansen wrote an email (copy below)  on March 16 2009, stating in no uncertain terms, what I have written here dozens of times.  You can’t regress extremely noisy data on a short series (tempera ...
  • Hide more decline
    The big news today seems to be Steve McIntyre’s recent discovery that the Briffa series in print has been chopped back in a Mann paper even further than advertised to hide “more” decline.  Amazingly, no mention was made of the radical surgery. Steve Writes - Had Mann and his 13 ...
  • Swing and a Miss
    Well the NOAA almost got it right.  Actually, I’m not sure what this is in reference to other than some funding which should have been saved.   date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:05:58 -0400 from: “Michael E. Mann” subject: Re: talk to: Keith Briffa than ...
  • A public note for UEA, RC and other advocacy g ...
    I felt it was important at this stage of Climategate that I give some opinions and express where I’m at personally in this whole mess.  I started blogging on climate with a true interest in the science and numbers.  There is no question that I’ve been critical of the politically left ...
  • UEA – Sleeping with the enemy
    The majority of this post was left on a previous thread by Justthefacts.    Mike Hulme is not above taking exxon money as he shows in the emails further down this post.  He even suggests using the money for funding uncertainty studies etc.rather than their intended science.  I suppose that ESSO ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

  • The Top 25 Facebook Games of December 2011
    Now that the dust has settled after Facebook’s adjustment to its method for counting active users, we take a look at the top 25 Facebook games going into December 2011. Note: Because Facebook now rounds traffic to the thousands, our … Continue reading →
  • The Facebook Marketing Bible December 2011 Edi ...
      Just in time for 2012 campaign planning, the December 2011 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available. The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands … Continue reading →
  • Facebook Marketing Showcase: Cosmetic Brands W ...
      One of Facebook’s largest and most enthusiastic subsets is the 18-35 female demographic, and cosmetic and skincare companies around the world have embraced the marketing and customer-liaison opportunities offered by Facebook Pages. With strong visuals, innovative product showcasing and … ...
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Engineering, Mobile ...
    Facebook is looking to add some mobile, engineering, marketing, communications, sales and other staff, according to new job posts on its Careers Page this week. Then on its LinkedIn feed Facebook posted several engineering jobs, as well as recruiting, user ops and more. Posts … Continue re ...
  • Facebook Now Directing Typeahead Search Traffi ...
    Facebook has updated the functionality of typeahead search to direct users straight to applications instead of navigating users to the app’s About Page. This change makes it easier for existing users to find apps they’ve already installed (and perhaps cannot … Continue reading ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's grand hypocrisy: Netanyahu slams "ant ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that while Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is keen to belittle the emerging democracies in the Arab world, his government is busy drafting laws that will snuff out human rights organizations and emasculate the country's media and Supreme Court - all in an effort to ...
  • UK government spoiling for a fight with Iran
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the hypocrisy of the British government, which is orchestrating an international campaign to isolate Iran for violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and for Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme while simultaneously protecting Israeli war criminal ...
  • Can the Palestine solidarity movement harbour ...
    Laura Stuart condemns the lack of moral courage at the top echelon of the UK's Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), as manifested in the PSC leadership pandering to Zionists by turning on pro-Palestinian activists, and warns the PSC leadership "to firm up because the vultures are already circlin ...
  • Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
  • Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
    Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Speedy Status Report
    For the next two days I will be traveling: in the air and on the road. I’ll be back by Sunday, and we’ll resume our posts. Coming up on Monday: Our new EyeOpener Video Report!
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    9/11 Terrorist Made Millions of Dollars on the Stock Market & Had Inside Info,Afghan Riches Could Spark New “Great Game”, Turkey Investigated over Using Chemical Weapons on PKK, USA is Spending More on Nukes Now Than During Cold War, Pepe Escobar: Do the Bomb Iran Shuffle, Obama ...
  • Podcast Show #66
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Andrew Gavin Marshall This is part I of our interview series on the New World Order. Andrew Gavin Marshall joins us to discuss the central role of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the construction of knowledge and the transformation of America from an ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    Pepe Escobar: A Bad Case of Nuclear Iranophobia, Israel Spinning its Last Spin on Iran, Occupy & Militarization of Policing Protest, Fast & Furious Hearing: Holder Defends Assistant AG Breuer, Zardari Vows Operations Against Haqqanis, Philippines Roils South China Sea, 10 of 12 Supercomm ...
  • House of Mirrors Part I- Mystical Covert Agendas
    America’s New Role as the Dark Force By Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald 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. “‘We’re the dark matter ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • Drone Attacks, The French Revolution & Preside ...
    President Obama's increasing reliance on unmanned warplanes to assassinate his enemies may well cause historians to refer to him as an American Robespierre, a bloodthirty revolutionary with no regard for legal procedures.
  • In the lead: Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers
    Our vote on the 1% has been vigorous since it started last week, with thousands of people rating nominees representing Wall Street, dirty energy, war profiteering, and more. We're going to make videos exposing the ones our audience thinks are doing the most to exploit the 99% -- and so far, the ...
  • Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism's ...
    Having beckoned a criminal assault on Iran, the Guardian opined that this "would of course be madness." Similar arse-covering was deployed when Tony Blair, once a "mystical" hero in polite liberal circles, plotted with George W. Bush and caused a bloodbath in Iraq. With Libya recently dealt with ...
  • New Research: Laptops Harm Fertility
    In the first study of its kind, researchers exposed human sperm to internet-connected laptop by Wi-Fi for 4 hours, resulting in "a significant decrease in progressive sperm motility and an increase in sperm DNA fragmentation."
  • Vucko Needs Justice
    Sometimes it is almost hard to imagine the cruelties we can devise, but sadly history provides a lot of incidences of this - to not only animals but to people as well. This account involves a brutal treatment accorded to a simple, loving German Shepherd dog in Bosnia. The perpetrators of this ...

Switchboard

  • San Francisco Steps Up to Address Air Pollutio ...
    Diane Bailey, Senior Scientist, San Francisco As San Francisco prepares for the America’s Cup 34 yacht races over the next few years, much criticism has been raised over environmental and community impacts of this massive event.  With the ...
  • This Week in Whales: North Atlantic Right Whal ...
    Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica News in the world of whales this week and from last week (or close to it).             The endangered North Atlantic right whal ...
  • Will Southern California's SB 375 Plan Pivot t ...
    Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco Clearly someone’s been paying attention. Southern California’s first Sustainable Communities Strategy under SB 375--officially released today by unanimous Regional Cou ...
  • NRDC in the News 12/1: Oil Sands Report, Ship ...
    NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Susan Casey-Lefkowitz was quoted in a Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch piece about NRDC’s newly released “Pipeline and Tanker Trouble” report, which explains the dangers of using Al ...
  • Selling Electricity & Selling Efficiency: many ...
    Dylan Sullivan, Energy Advocate, Chicago This post is co-authored by Dylan Sullivan and Mathias Bell of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and cross-posted on RMI's "Outlet" blog. The utilities in Ohio will tell you that they're nothing like the energy ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Presidential
    Newt clarifies his comments from last week that poor students should replace janitors in schools. They shouldn’t do all the work. Just jobs like cleaning the bathrooms. And doesn’t this make sense? In the new Gilded Age, the poor need to learn to serve their masters, including cleani ...
  • Voter Suppression
    Republicans aren’t even trying to hide their voter suppression agenda. If it wasn’t evil, I’d say it was refreshing that at least they aren’t lying anymore.
  • The Holiday Spirit
    Scott Walker using prison labor to decorate the Christmas tree (and in this administration, it ain’t no holiday tree like here in Rhode Island) in the Wisconsin state capitol building. The use of prison labor means he didn’t have to use and pay unionized state workers to put up the tree.
  • Can the NCAA Cartel Be Defended?
    Jon Chait argues once again that anyone who sees generating massive amounts of revenue from “student”-athletes while denying them most of the benefits as exploitative must hate college sports.    The bulk of his defense of the NCAA cartel relies on red herrings he’s used before ...
  • We can quit any time we want
    Law schools have become addicted to federal educational loan money. Under current law, schools can charge whatever they want for tuition, and the federal government will loan 100% of that amount, plus 100% of estimated living expenses, to any admitted student who isn’t in default on an edu ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

  • AccuWeather Long-Range Forecast Expects Brutal ...
    AccuWeather reports the AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team still expects a brutal winter for the U.S. with the worst in terms of snow and cold targeting the Midwest and interior Northwest.
  • New UN Satellite Survey Charts Rate of Global ...
    Worldwide, the net loss of forest area between 1990 and 2005 was not as great as previously believed, since gains in forest areas are larger than previously estimated, according to the survey.
  • 'Silk Road' Nations to Diversify Economies For ...
    Mr. Ban noted that the economies of the region have come a long way since the start of the transition process in the early 1990s. However, the global recession of 2008 and 2009 hit them hard - harder than any other region.
  • 'Visible Indications of Economic Recovery' in ...
    They discussed different aspects of the support provided to the Government and the population by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which is headed by the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Staffan de Mistura.
  • Use of Methamphetamines on The Rise in Asia
    Methamphetamine trafficking by African groups has been officially reported by China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Attempts by Iranian groups to establish illicit manufacturing operations for amphetami

environment 360

  • Permafrost Thaw Will Cause Faster Warming than ...
    A survey of 41 international experts on permafrost shows that the amount of greenhouse gases released as frozen soils melt in a warming world will be 1.7 to 5.2 times larger than previous estimates. In the survey, published in the journal Nature, the scientists significantly raised their estimat ...
  • Sweden’s Green Veneer Hides Unsustainable Logg ...
    Sweden has a reputation as being one of the world’s most environmentally progressive nations. But its surprisingly lax forestry laws often leave decisions about logging to the timber companies — and as a result, large swaths of biologically-rich boreal forest are being lost. BY ERIK HOFFNER
  • Carbon Capture Project Is Launched at UK Yorks ...
    A coal-powered plant in West Yorkshire has launched the UK’s largest carbon-capture initiative, a pilot project expected to siphon off about 100 tons of carbon dioxide daily. The equipment, which was added to the 200-megawatt Ferrybridge Power Station, will capture only 2.5 percent of the plant’ ...
  • Second Canadian Pipeline Poses Major Threats, ...
    A new report warns that a proposed $5.3 billion pipeline that would link Canada’s tar sands to the Pacific coast poses potential threats to native communities, wildlife, and the region’s salmon fisheries. Enbridge Inc., whose 730-mile Northern Gateway Pipeline would transport 525,000 barrels of ...
  • Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
    Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Australia probes Obama security slip
    Australian officials were working Sunday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be found in a gutter. The 125-page booklet, classified “In Confidence” and containing the phone numbers and contact details of se ...
  • "Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced" ...
    Libya says Gadhafi son to be tried at home Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s inte ...
  • US banks should ’undermine’ Occupy protestors: ...
    The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry. Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a Washington-based firm, proposed the idea in a memo to the Am ...
  • Alleged Cyber Attack on U.S. Water Plant is Pr ...
    The Washington Post is reporting that recent damage to an Illinois water treatment plant was a cyber attack by foreign hackers, "Foreign hackers caused a pump at an Illinois water plant to fail last week, according to a preliminary state report." Despite the alarmist title of the article, DHS sp ...
  • More than 20 killed in Cairo clashes
    Egypt’s Health Ministry says 20 people have been killed and more than 1,700 wounded in three days of clashes between police and protesters as security forces continue to fight with pro-democracy activists in nationwide demonstrations.Egyptian police and troops had briefly dispersed the activists ...

Russia Today

  • NATO base blast: Up to 70 injured in Afghanistan
    A suicide bomber attack at the NATO coalition base in Afghan Logar province has injured up to 70 people.
  • Libyan in(ter)vention: False facts fatal for G ...
    Sanctions against Syria and looming prospects of an intervention into the country are drawing ever more parallels with the war in Libya. But as it turned out, the “facts” used to wage a “humanitarian war” on Tripoli,...
  • Parental passport: foreign criminals have kids ...
    In the UK, which is often called a haven for foreign criminals, ministers are under growing pressure to take measures to close a loophole in the law that allows to offenders to stay in the country even after committing...
  • Egypt: Between Sharia law and anarchy
    Results of the first stage of Egyptian parliamentary elections are due to be announced on Friday. Exit polls suggest that the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood have attracted some 40 per cent of the votes.
  • Base-less: new Kyrgyz president wants US out
    Newly-elected Kyrgyz President Atambayev says he will shut down the key US military base in the country. Former President Bakiyev wanted to do the same, but changed his mind a year before a major uprising ousted him...

Not My Tribe

  • Tired of Wall St. Stealing Our Dreams! #Occupy ...
  • If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the ...
    This season’s War-On-Christmas email is pushing a holiday ditty whose refrain goes “If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the window, then you don’t go in that store.” Seems like it might be easier to mark those stores with a Star of David on the window, or would that ...
  • Supporting #OccupyDenver: Honking: $50, Illega ...
    OCCUPIED DENVER- Know-nothings are calling them BOBs, but the “Bums On Broadway” occupiers are planning actions with reach well beyond the capitol, mobilizing en mass this Saturday to defend their occupation from a supposed Tea Party assault.
  • Gun Fu vs Kung Fu, Martial Arts v Martial Law
    And why Kung Fu or any other martial art comes out ahead. If you pick any one thing that’s external to you, something that’s not built into your body and mind as your means of self defense, you set up a cycle of dependence. With knives, staves, swords, and such it’s the same st ...
  • KKKansas Guv. BrownbacKKK tries to make exampl ...
    BrownbacKKK DiKKKtatorship actually censures people for tweeting naughty things about His Royal Highness He has PUBLICLY-funded researchers keep track of any internet postings with his name on them, and actually used his powers as governor to DEMAND Emma Sullivan, 18, write a letter of apology, ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Childhood Obesity: Why Focusing on Exercise is ...
    Yesterday in Washington DC, First Lady Michelle Obama gave an inspirational talk to almost 1000 stakeholders in the future of America’s Health. At the first ever meeting of the Partnership for a Healthier America, Obama shared some of her early fears that her initiative to eradicate childh ...
  • Will the Partnership for a Healthier America M ...
    We’re in Washington DC for the inaugural Partnership for a Healthier America Summit (PHA). The Partnership is a shoot-off of the First Lady’s Let’ Move campaign and is attempting to achieve what no other group has done so far – eradicate childhood obesity. From the PHA we ...
  • The Fooducate App, 10 Million Scans Later…
    Today Fooducate is sharing with the public some information about our mobile app (iPhone /Android) usage for the first time. A formal press release can be found here, but the fun part is the infographic we’ve put together below. What we’re most excited about is that Fooducate is actu ...
  • Coming Soon? Fast Food Stamps
    Should Food Stamp recipients be able to use government funds to buy fast food? Yum Brands, the holding company of KFC and Taco Bell thinks YES! If this seems totally preposterous to you, well, it’s because it is. The aid program, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
  • What if There was Black Friday for Fresh Produce?
    Friday’s shopping madness included consumer electronics, household items, clothes, toys and just about anything. Except for food. Well, maybe specialty and gourmet online retailers, but not your regular supermarket fare. What if supermarkets also had black friday sales? More specifically, ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...
  • The world's original scientists' observations ...
    The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife © Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. Fro ...
  • Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
    Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...
  • New uncontacted pictures validate Brazil’s Yan ...
    New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil © Hutukara/Survival Survival has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world. Survival International, ...

Greg Palast

  • Feasting with the 1% —An Evening with Greg Pal ...
    WBAI Presents Feasting with The 1% An evening exposing their recipesand secret ingredients The New York Times Best Selling Author Greg Palast & Special Guests plus the blisteringly funny Lee Camp The New York City launch of Palast's new book VULTURES' PICNIC A hearty m ...
  • Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
    WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...
  • Ma Nature, the Happy ToiletBP on Trial at the ...
    by Greg Palast for Greenpeace.org Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. [Occupy Wall Street Climate Trial, New York. Sunday, Nov 27.] This is not the first courtroom where I've faced off against BP, British Petroleum ...
  • Kick-Ass, Mind-blowing
    "Greg Palast's Vultures’ Picnic is an eye-opening, heart-pumping, mind-blowing experience that should not, MUST not, be missed."  - Nomi Prins, author Other People's Money We are just a few books short of bumping Bill O'Reilly on the New York Times list. Get it now, this weekend. We don ...
  • Goldfinger eats Congo
    Goldfinger eats Congo Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!... "Top funders of the Republican Party have demanded that two African nations pay them over half a billion dollars.... Is one of these vulture’s claims based on a stolen security, criminally transferred to an American financier called 'Goldfi ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle baby cot mattresses?
    We’ve had an email from Maggie: I’m due to have my second baby in January but everyone has screamed at me when I mentioned reusing the cot so I’m going to get a new mattress. What can I do with the old one? I don’t have kids so I’m not exactly knowledge but from wha ...
  • How can I reuse, recycle or pass on old board ...
    We’ve had an email from Harrie: We’ve got lots of board games (Monopoly and such) from when the kids were little but they’re not in good condition so I don’t think charity shops will take them. What else can I do with them? As long as they’ve still got all/enough pi ...
  • How can I reuse coffee that’s sat on the ...
    We’ve had an email from Iris: We make a big jug of filter coffee each morning at the weekend but I regularly have to pour away the last cup or two away because it’s gone bitter. Is there anything I can do to revive it or use it up some other way? Of course, there [...]
  • How can I recycled/pass on an old, working ele ...
    We’ve had an email from Richard: We have 4-year-old electric oven in good working order which we would like to donate to a Charity. Any ideas? We’ll actually in a similar position soon – our (15+ year old) oven works for general cooking but not for the precise/high temperatures ...
  • How can I reuse roller adhesive refill packs ( ...
    We’ve had an email from Carmel: Hello, I’m a paper crafter and was a Stampin Up demonstrator and use the Stampin Up snail adhesives or the tombow roller adhesives. Anyhow, to refill these things you have to buy another plastic mechanism that has the tape already in it. With all the p ...

Age of Autism

  • Forbes Presents the Tip of the Autism Iceberg ...
    By Anne Dachel In case anyone is worried about the future for individuals with autism, don't be. Forbes isn't. Reporter Alice G. Walton just wrote a piece that pretends that autism has remained at a constant rate at the same...
  • Winners Age of Autism Contest
    Our good friends from Lee Silsby Compounding Pharmacy and OurKidsASD have given away two popular and useful products this holiday season. Congrats to Mary H. and Chuck H each of whom will receive a bottle of Enhansa curcumin supplement and...
  • Age of Autism 2012 Sponsorships Available
    If you're an advertiser whose target audience is the autism, healthcare rights community, we invite you to become a sponsor of Age of Autism for 2012. We reach thousands of influential decision makers daily, are indexed on Google News and...
  • An Elaborate Fraud, Part 10: In Which the BMJ ...
    One of the 12 children on a doctor visit not long after the BMJ articles were published in January. By Dan Olmsted The British Medical Journal began its attack on Dr. Andrew Wakefield last January by telling the story of...
  • Special Mall Hours for Families with Autistic ...
    By Kim Stagliano Before you jump down my throat - we have participated in sensory movies and other autism friendly events. I appreciate them. But - at what point will the larger world say, "Hey! How come this ONE population...

Global BDS Movement

  • Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTU ...
    Solidarity from Occupied Palestine with UK public sector strike Occupied Palestine, November 29 – The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS), the largest coalition of the Palestinian trade union movement, stands in solidarity with the millions ...
  • Palestinian trade union movement salutes Natio ...
    The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS) salutes RMT London Transport Regional Council for initiating campaign against Alstom over its involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail
  • Europeans call on supermarkets and governments ...
    • Fruit and vegetable imports from Israel facilitate violations of Palestinian rights and international law, European campaigners say • More than 60 actions take place across 10 countries
  • Rotten fruit delivered to Mehadrin’s London of ...
    A group of Palestinians and campaigners for Palestinian rights delivered rotten fruit and empty water bottles to the UK headquarters of Israeli fruit and vegetable export company Mehadrin in Borehamewood, near London, yesterday in protest at the role the company plays in the colonisation of Pale ...
  • Protest and lobby held at Belgian Ministry of ...
    Ten activists from Belgian group Vredesactie held a visible picket Friday outside the offices of the Ministry of Economy in the Brussels and held a lobby meeting with ministry officials

Farm Wars

  • Passage of S.1867: Our enemy is within
    I have to wonder if at some point if other countries will band together and declare the US a terrorist organization, guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, human rights violations and a threat to world peace.
  • Major Organic Seed Company Owned By Pro-GMO Group!
    One of the largest organic seed producers is owned by a company that supports GMOs. Does anyone see a conflict of interest? Does anyone think there might be a problem?
  • One Straw Revolution in Farming
    Japanese Permaculture Legend: Masanobu Fukuoka shows how to farm naturally, without modern agricultural methods.
  • How Food Affects Genes
    Most relevant to the new findings of Zhang’s team is an experiment in gene therapy using a precursor of miRNA. It turned out to have so many off-target effects that it killed more than 150 of the experimental mice.
  • The Age of Transitions Full Documentary
    This is a must-see video. Newt Gingrich just happens to endorse transhumanism at around the 6 minute mark.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Corruption fanned global political unrest says ...
    BBC – Transparency International said the protests indicated that citizens wanted leaders and institutions to be more transparent and accountable. Read article
  • Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack
    US News – Three days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt was warned in a memo from naval intelligence that Tokyo’s military and spy network was focused on Hawaii, a new and eerie reminder of FDR’s failure to act on a basket load of tips ...
  • Obama, Congress restore horse-slaughter industry
    Washington Times – President Obama last month quietly signed into law a spending bill that restores the American horse-slaughter industry, just a few months after a government investigation said the ban on slaughtering was backfiring. The domestic ban didn’t end horse slaughter but instead ...
  • Daily News Archive In Focus – Pollution ...
    The environment in which we live is far more polluted than ever before and every day the problem worsens. There are nearly 100,000 man-made chemicals today, more pollutants in the air we breathe, in our water supply, even in our food supply. These substances can cause an array of health challeng ...
  • Climate Fact Of The Day – Niño Region Se ...
    When values are Negative: Cooling/La Niña | Positive: Warming/El Niño

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Illinois sequestration project is first in U.S ...
    A demonstration project in Illinois is the first in the U.S. to begin pumping over a million metric tons of man-made liquid CO2 into permanent underground storage. The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium announced this week that its project in Decatur, Illinois had begun injecting carbon ...
  • NPR reports Kyoto Protocol in trouble in Durban
    News coverage of the UN climate talks in Durban has been minimal, at best, and that’s clearly because – just like in Copenhagen last year – there has been almost no mention of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which was put in place to set reduction targets for important greenhouse gases. Without a big j ...
  • Retired federal judge to represent Westlands W ...
    Former U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger has agreed to represent an influential irrigation district that frequented his courtroom.
  • U.N. Durban climate conference wrangles over f ...
    DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — International climate negotiators were at odds Tuesday on how to raise billions of dollars to help poor countries cope with global warming. A major shipping group is willing to help, endorsing a proposal for a carbon tax on vessels carrying the world's trade.
  • Brown cloud might be intensifying storms over ...
    A long-standing brown cloud of pollution over the Indian Ocean is causing tropical cyclones to intensify in that region, according to a new study published this month in the journal Nature and involving researchers from multiple institutions including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis ...

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Hunger in America, By the Numbers
    Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to wreak havoc on families across the country. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Occupy Black Friday: An Antidote to the Guns, ...
    Because of the mind set that 'lost leaders' are one day only bargains - Americans have forgotten common decency. Black Friday has deteriorated from a shopping day to mob rule, by force, for items no one needs. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ungodly Discipline
    Fairhaven Baptists under scrutiny by CNN for child abuse - see video and interviews about using god for excusing beating children. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • OWS and the Power of Creative Protest
    Perhaps the single biggest factor that helped lead to the Occupy movements success in capturing the media and publics attention has been its creativity. Novel protest strategies have served as OWSs foundation since its first days. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |&nbsp ...
  • Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein ...
    In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power," [vedeo] Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |  &nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • AccuWeather Long-Range Forecast Expects Brutal ...
    AccuWeather reports the AccuWeather.com Long-Range Forecasting Team still expects a brutal winter for the U.S. with the worst in terms of snow and cold targeting the Midwest and interior Northwest.
  • New UN Satellite Survey Charts Rate of Global ...
    Worldwide, the net loss of forest area between 1990 and 2005 was not as great as previously believed, since gains in forest areas are larger than previously estimated, according to the survey.
  • 'Silk Road' Nations to Diversify Economies For ...
    Mr. Ban noted that the economies of the region have come a long way since the start of the transition process in the early 1990s. However, the global recession of 2008 and 2009 hit them hard - harder than any other region.
  • 'Visible Indications of Economic Recovery' in ...
    They discussed different aspects of the support provided to the Government and the population by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which is headed by the Secretary-General's Special Representative, Staffan de Mistura.
  • Use of Methamphetamines on The Rise in Asia
    Methamphetamine trafficking by African groups has been officially reported by China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. Attempts by Iranian groups to establish illicit manufacturing operations for amphetami

Worldnews

  • Blooming in red! Jennifer Garner shows of ...
    She may be pregnant with her third child, but Jennifer Garner's thoughts were today focussed on her first born offspring. The 39-year-old actress picked up a last minute gift for her daughter Violet, who turned six-years-old today. Jennifer strolled through Brentwood Country Mart, Los Angele ...
  • Signs of hope in Myanmar, Suu Kyi tells C ...
    Aung San Suu Kyi voiced guarded hope Friday that democracy will come to Myanmar as the opposition leader warmly welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the home that was her prison for years. In scenes unthinkable before Myanmar's recent reforms, Suu Kyi took Clinton by the arm and es ...
  • AC Milan's Massimiliano Allegri set for c ...
    The Rossoneri coach insists that there have been no hitches in his negotiations with the club over a new deal and that he hopes to remain at the helm for another three years Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Genoa £45.00 Draw £34.00 Milan £18.30 Bet: & ...
  • Newfound 'red galaxies' may be missing li ...
    Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Four red galaxies, uncovered 13 billion light-years away from Earth may be the missing link in the evolution of our galaxy. It took the revealing power of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to discover not one, but four remarkably red galaxies. And while astronomers can ...
  • Samsung Galaxy Y to be unveiled this week
    London, Dec 2 (ANI): Samsung's latest venture, Galaxy Y will be unveiled in the local market this week. The smartphone, which comes at an affordable price, is essentially meant for the young...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Scans May Discern Between Two Types of Dementia
    Alzheimer's and frontotemporal lobar degeneration can can be difficult to tell apart, researchers report Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Diagnostic Imaging
  • Non-Fried Fish Might Help Ward off Alzheimer's
    Older fish eaters have larger brain volume, less risk for the disease, study finds Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Alzheimer's Disease, Nutrition for Seniors
  • This Week in Science
    I Know You | Exploiting X-rays | Diamond Quantum Mechanics | Make Hydrogen | Missing Metals? | Cooperating to Ice Histories | Yeast Model of Alzheimer's Disease | Diffusing Healthy Behavior | Cancer Cell Vulnerability | Parasite Paradise? | Meiosis Matters | More than a Scratch | Not So Massive ...
  • 3-D Printer Makes Bone-Like Material
    It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone. And it came off an inkjet printer. Washington State University researchers have used a 3D printer to create a bone-like material and structure that can be used in orthopedic procedures, dental work, and to deliver medi ...
  • Eating fish once a week may ward off Alzheimer's
    Eating fish may keep the brain healthy and reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a new study says.

Common Dreams

  • Drinking the Radioactive Kool-Aid: Countries S ...
    DURBAN - South Africa, the host of U.N. global climate talks, is faced with a conundrum -- it wants to wean itself off of coal-powered plants seen as primate culprits of greenhouse gas emissions and find a cleaner energy source. read more
  • Drinking the Radioactive Kool-Aid: Countries S ...
    DURBAN - South Africa, the host of U.N. global climate talks, is faced with a conundrum -- it wants to wean itself off of coal-powered plants seen as primate culprits of greenhouse gas emissions and find a cleaner energy source. read more
  • Mass. Sues Banks Over Deceptive Foreclosure Pr ...
    NEW YORK – Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices, such as the "robo-signing" of documents, potentially undermining negotiations over the same issue between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation. ...
  • Mass. Sues Banks Over Deceptive Foreclosure Pr ...
    NEW YORK – Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices, such as the "robo-signing" of documents, potentially undermining negotiations over the same issue between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation. ...
  • Occupy Montreal Protesters Branded by Police
    Some members of the Occupy Montreal movement are considering legal action against the Montreal police after they were branded without their consent. Police expelled the group of protesters from Victoria Square last Friday, as part of the group handcuffed themselves to the outdoor kitchen. " ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: My Presenta ...
    Today I presented "A Tale of Two Cleantech Companies: A case study of what leads to a successful exit or a stunning failure" at the IMPACT 2011 Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic in Philadelphia, PA. I told the stories of Solyndra and CPower and how the failed and succeeded. Here are my sli ...
  • What Could COP 17 in Durban Achieve?
    As delegates start negotiations in Durban, the major issues of the Kyoto Protocol and a “Roadmap to 2020” are dominating the news wires. The big picture story is very important, but in the meantime nations need to use this meeting to make real progress in a number of smaller but important areas.
  • How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
    The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
  • Waste Management Uses Landfill Gas To Collect ...
    Earth’s natural resources grow increasingly more limited every day, but humanity’s consumption guarantees an abundance of one unlikely “resource.” A typical American throws out about four pounds of trash per day, or more than 240 million tons every year. Most of that garbage winds up in landfill ...
  • Reducing Nuclear Operational & Capital Costs B ...
    I received a link from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to a fascinating video about their recent efforts to develop CoSecTM, a new resin technology that is more effective at capturing cobalt-60. Most of the radiation doses that nuclear workers receive come from this single isotope.& ...

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • At Risk Eurozone Sovereign Credit Ratings
    by Stephen Lendman Moody's says Eurozone crisis conditions place all member state credit ratings at risk. It warned 87 European banks to expect downgrades. Moreover, Fitch revised America's debt outlook to negative. Nonetheless, its AAA rating is unchanged. For how long is another issue. At ...
  • Illegitimate Egyptian Elections
    by Stephen Lendman Last February, Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship ended. Another one replaced him. Egypt's military holds absolute power. Authoritarian dominance is unchallenged. Elections are more theater than real. Egypt's multi-round complex process complicates them further. So do logistics ...
  • Morocco gets Muslim Brotherhood PM
    Eric Walberg Morocco, with its 35 million people, where 1 in 3 are unemployed and poverty is widespread, has had multi-party elections since independence in 1956 without anyone taking much notice. Even Western Saharans get a taste of democracy from Rabat, however bitter. The Arab Spring and p ...
  • International Day of Solidarity with the Pales ...
    by FRANKLIN LAMB Embassy of Palestine, Tripoli, Libya Every year on November 29, as part of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Palestinians in Libya as well as approximately a quarter million Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the descendants of more than 129,000 who we ...
  • Palestinian Unity: A Threat, Says Israel
    by Stephen Lendman Palestine is sovereign territory. In 1987, Law Professor Francis Boyle drafted its Declaration of Independence. On November 15, 1988, the Palestine National Council (PNC) adopted it, affirming Palestinian statehood. Nonetheless, Israel's illegal occupation continues. Gaza's ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
    As the City of Toronto considers a budget proposal that would result in drastic public sector job cuts, economist Hugh Mackenzie weighs in with a sobering observation: between October 2010 and October 2011, the entire Toronto Census Metropolitan Area lost 8,500 jobs. Mayor Rob Ford's intent to e ...
  • Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
    A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
  • Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
    This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...
  • Accounting for changes in unionization
    The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has published a short research note offering a comparative analysis of the decline in unionization among OECD countries.  Using Gosta Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism typology, John Schmitt and Alexandra Mitukiewicz find ...
  • Instruments of Social Change
    The recent Occupy movements have sparked a number of fundamental conversations about the world in which we currently live and how it needs to change. But how do we nurture societal change that ensures an inclusive, equitable, fair and sustainable world--one that values experience and personal ci ...

World Wide Hippies

  • How Republicans are being taught to talk about ...
    By Chris Moody | The Ticket – ORLANDO, Fla. — The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Friday
    Violent wind storm leaves path of destruction PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Several overturned semis on a Utah highway. Hundreds of thousands without power in California. A wind gust reaching 123-mph in Colorado. The powerful winds that tore across Western states Thursday created a path destruction th ...
  • 21 festive uses for pepper spray
    By Mark Morford, SF Gate – Citizen! Righteous shopper! Economic doldrums got you down? Black Friday making you want to choke the Walmart heirs with a lawnmower? Cheer up, friend. This is America. Even in our darkest hour, we can find solace, unity, a fresh beacon of hope. Behold, salvation ...
  • Is there an afterlife, after life?
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) – I’ve been wondering about that quite often as of late. There have been more than a fair share of deaths around me and they have started me thinking about it more than usual. I was raised pre-Vatican II catholic but I soon started to quest ...
  • Is Guantanamo forever?
    BY ANDREA PRASOW,salon.com – A decade ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the detention without charge of alleged terrorist suspects. It had been decades since the United States had detained people without charge or trial on national security grounds. The last time w ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 3 – Joule Unlimit ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers the following viewer questions: What do you think about the company Joule Unlimited? Who are the best politicians on energy policy? Who are the worst? In this episode I explain the single-most im ...
  • Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...
  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...
  • How I Would Decide the Keystone XL Pipeline Issue
    The following is a lengthy essay explaining why I would approve the Keystone pipeline despite finding myself on the side of those concerned over the negative environmental impact of tar sands development. I will debunk much of the misinformation going on in the pipeline debate and ultimately lay ...
  • Announcing R-Squared Energy TV
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week on R-Squared, we are starting a feature that readers have asked for on occasion, and one that Consumer Energy Report editor Sam Avro has been asking me to do for a while now. Each week we will be putting up a short video clip in which [...]

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • What the FDA is Ignoring Could Give You Cancer
    Earlier this year, the TV talk-show host Dr. Mehmet Oz commissioned tests on apple juice and found that almost 30 percent contained levels of arsenic—a known carcinogen—that exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's standard for drinking water. The Food and Drug Administration's response? ...
  • The Sperm-Killer Sitting On Your Lap
    You might want to love your laptop a little less. A new study published in the journal Fertility & Sterility suggests that wi-fi-enabled laptops could be nuking your swimmers before they ever have a chance to go forth and multiply. Researchers from Argentina collected semen samples from 29 ...
  • The Truth About Canned Soup
    Soup is a must-have for chilly winter days and to battle anything that ails you, be it a nasty cold or a case of the winter blues. Plus, now that it comes in cans, cups, and drinkable bottles, it's easy to grab on the go. But what are you getting when you slurp down that tomato soup, beefy stew ...
  • Energy Drinks Trigger Spike in ER Visits
    Last week, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released a report finding that emergency room visits associated with the consumption of energy drinks had increased 1,000 percent between 2005 and 2009. The drinks, which sometimes contain more than five times the ...
  • Ho-Ho-No: How the Holidays Put a Woman's Libid ...
    Ladies, does all of the cooking, baking, shopping, entertaining, wrapping, and decorating associated with good holiday cheer leave you too jingle-jangled to be naughty OR nice? The good news: There's probably nothing seriously wrong with you if you prefer catching some shut-eye to knocking boot ...

big think

  • Promoted to the Level of Incompetence
    What's the Big Idea? Each year, the Ig Nobel awards recognize the most improbable achievements in science, medicine, and technology - the surprising findings that make you laugh, then think, according to the award's presenters. Last year, an Italian paper won an award for pointing out ...
  • Damaging Consequences From a Lack of Leadership
    There have been two big stories hugging the headlines in recent weeks – the sad and untimely death of Steve Jobs, Apple’s soulful CEO; and the persistent occupation of Wall Street and other locales by armies of protesters.On the surface, neither story appears to have much in common ...
  • Slow Down, You Think Too Fast.
    What’s the Big Idea?  Wherever there’s uncertainty, magical thinking finds a foothold. People resort to tradition, gut instinct, or the nostrum of the moment to dispel the anxiety of not knowing.  Industries arise to exploit the vacuum, offering concrete answers whe ...
  • Speaking at Syracuse University
    Tonight, I'm happy to announce that I'll be speaking to the Secular Student Alliance at Syracuse University on December 9, one week from tomorrow. The talk will be about ethics and morality: why divine command morality is inferior, what it means to say that morality is objective, and how we can ...
  • Relativism vs. Courage?
    One virtue BIG THINK has not been big on is COURAGE.  That might be a problem.  According Aristotle, courage is not only the first of the virtues, but all the others virtues participate in it.  His opinion is much more reasonable, I think, than those who attempt to root all virtue ...

Information Liberation

  • The Making of a Prison Society
    "That's why you shouldn't bring kids to protests." This taunt, which issued from the sneering lips of an armored riot policeman, struck Don Joughin with the force of a billyclub as he tried to comfort his children * a three-year-old and a newborn ...
  • Gag Order Silences Parents of Boy Charged With ...
    WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, reports that Grant County, Wisconsin, District Attorney Lisa Riniker, who charged a 6-year-old boy with first-degree sexual assault becaused he played doctor with a 5-year-old girl, has obtained a gag order tha...
  • Scott Olsen Interviewed After Release From Hos ...
    Scott Olsen, the Iraq War veteran injured at the Occupy Oakland encampment on Oct. 25th has since been released from the hospital and gave his first interview yesterday (posted this morning Mon. Nov. 28, 2011) on indybay.org by Dave Id. *Note: As S...
  • What's $7.77 Trillion Among Friends
    While Tea Partiers have been venting their spleens about the $700 billion in TARP money that congress threw at the banks in order to keep the modern financial system from collapsing, Bloomberg went to court to obtain documents to shed light on how mu...
  • Schiff: MF Global's Corzine is Obama's Top Eco ...
    On the Monday, November 28 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with investment broker, author and CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., Peter Schiff. Peter will talk about the MF Global swindle and the secret trillion...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • The cutting edge of chemistry
    The November issue of the Cutting Edge of Chemistry (PDF) newsletter which I produce for ThomsonReuters is now online. In this latest issue: Organic synthesis scheme showcase – The nutlins were first identified by scientists screening a chemical library at Hoffmann-La Roche. In this articl ...
  • Testing times for Scotch whisky
    Is your Scotch strong enough? A new lab-on-chip device has been developed by researchers in Scotland which could be used for quality control and regulatory testing of whisky and other spirits to ensure that you get full, 40%, strength liquor. The same chip can also demonstrate the providence of ...
  • Serially successful doctors fail
    Success-chasing may not only lead doctors to make flawed decisions in diagnosing and treating patients, but it can also distort the thinking of other high-stakes decision makers, such as military and political strategists, stock market investors, and venture capitalists. An fMRI study of physici ...
  • What will Sciencebase do?
    By the end of 2011 Sciencebase will… …have published well over 2000 posts, including some archived items dating back to 1995. …have aggregated 5000 RSS newsfeed subscribers. …have counted approximately 4000 “fans” on Facebook. …have been added to about 5 ...
  • Pills, thrills and polymorphs
    Almost any skilled organic chemist could create novel variations on the solid form, polymorphs, of small molecules currently used as pharmaceuticals. This represents a problem for manufacturers of generic drugs because big pharma attempts to extend the patent lifespan of its well-known products ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Whales Win, Walruses Lose in Warmer Arctic
    (Reuters) - The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener "new normal" phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported on Thursday. [More]
  • New Flu Strain Makes Health Experts Nervous
    A new variant of an influenza virus that circulates in pigs has been jumping occasionally into people, providing a surprisingly early opportunity for public health officials to test out some of the lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 pandemic . [More]
  • Quantum Entanglement Links Two Diamonds
    Diamonds have long been available in pairs--say, mounted in a nice set of earrings. But physicists have now taken that pairing to a new level, linking two diamonds on the quantum level. [More]
  • Fukushima Earthquake Moved Seafloor Half a Foo ...
    The March 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake that decimated Japan and its Fukushima nuclear reactors with a monster tsunami altered the seafloor off the country’s eastern coast much more than scientists had thought. Analysis released today in the journal Science indicates the ocean bed moved ...
  • Gumming Up Appetite to Treat Obesity
    Losing weight is not always about anticipating swimsuit season or squeezing into skinny jeans--for the clinically obese , losing weight is about fighting serious illness and reclaiming health. But the primal part of the brain that regulates appetite will not place a moratorium on hunger just ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Quatrième édition de 99%: Le journal d'Occupon ...
    Dans ce numéro: Un occupant parle de l'expulsion d'Occupons Montréal La ligue des droits et libertés dénonce l'expulstion d'Occupons Montréal La prochaine étape... Membres d'Occupons Montréal manifest contre le Plan nord Télécharger le dernier numéro ici. AttachmentSize ...
  • Better Off Without The Gifts
    Halifax, and Occupy NS, Celebrate Indigenous Solidarity Day As Indigenous reserves across the country remain endemically underfunded, and the eye of the media turns fleetingly to the third world conditions in Attawapiskat, about two dozen ...
  • New Housing Coalition Targets Condo Sites
    DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE -  Under the banner Occupy Condos, the DTES Not For Developers Coalition took its battle for social housing to two sites today. Housing advocates rallied outside the Pantages "Sequel 138" block on East Hastings and marched to the nearby "21 Doors" condo ...
  • Tears and Loathing in Durban
    Is a gonzo revival the only rational journalistic response to failed climate talks? When I first stepped through the drab halls of the International Convention Centre, decorated in a business-casual African motif, a misanthropic ether binge ...
  • Protest Opposes World Bank Administration of G ...
    Durban 2011

David Seaton's News Links

  • The Nicholas Brothers: a slow motion tribute
    David Seaton's News Links The Nicholas Brothers were probably the best dance act of the Golden Age of Hollywood and only Jim Crow could have kept them from being as famous as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I hope you enjoy this slow motion tribute to their art. DS
  • Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
    David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...
  • Thoughts at Thanksgiving 2011
     David Seaton's News LinksWe've been through this beforeRead carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending ...
  • Globalization: fun and games
    David Seaton's News LinksOpen "Google Translate" and set the translation to English to Chinese (traditional), then write in the word "jokes", which will produce the Chinese ideogram 笑話, then paste that into Google-Google and it will produce the  following search results (click here). C ...
  • Looking on the bright side of life - Part Two
    David Seaton's News Links"Melancholia" - Lars Von TrierLooking at the political paralysis of the American political system, the wasted lives and treasure in Iraq and Afghanistan, the ceaseless unrest in the Arab world,the increasing possibility of a war with Iran and the sense of imminent finan ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • A Little Straight Talk on National Defense
    The Economist's Roger McShane is unimpressed with all the doom-mongering over proposed cuts to the Pentagon budget: So by how much will the defence budget decline over the next decade? That could be seen as a trick question, because in nominal terms it will grow. Prior to the supercommittee's ...
  • Newt Gingrich Loves Freddie Mac
    Newt Gingrich in November 2011, asked what he told Freddie Mac when he was consulting for them in 2006-07: My advice as a historian, when they walked in and said to me, "We are now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that's what the ...
  • Neville Chamberlain Not a Good Reason to Invad ...
    Max Boot has a piece in the LA Times today arguing that we should take a much tougher stand against Iran than we have so far: In retrospect, weakness in the face of aggression is almost impossible to understand — or forgive. Why did the West do so little while the Nazis gathered stren ...
  • A Fat Cat Explains Basic Economics
    Zillionaire venture capitalist Nick Hanauer says his marginal propensity to consume is lower than mine: Since 1980, the share of the nation’s income for fat cats like me in the top 0.1 percent has increased a shocking 400 percent, while the share for the bottom 50 percent of Americans ...
  • Ask For More!
    E.J. Graff asked all the men to leave the room before she linked to this reddit piece below, but I didn't. It's from an HR person at a tech company explaining why women routinely get lower salary offers than men: The reason they don't keep up, from where I sit, is simple. Often, a woman wil ...

Insanity Report

  • FacePalm of the Week: Newt Gingrich and Poor Kids
    On the latest edition of “Anybody But Mitt”, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in the GOP Primary.  It’s pretty absurd when you think about it.  I’m no fan of Mitt Romney, but I’ll take Romney everyday over Gingrich.  Remember, Newt Gingri ...
  • Conrad Murray Shouldn’t be Going to Jail
    As often happens, I have once again found myself on the opposite side of public opinion on a topic.  I find this happening more often now.  I tried for a bit to be more PC and censuring what I said but I’ll be 30 in a few months and I’m basically on some “fuck it” [...]
  • The Side Piece Contract
    Another day, another politician with an alleged affair.  This time it’s everyone’s favorite pizza man, Herman Cain.  Cain can’t catch a break with the ladies it seems.  This time though, its not sexual harassment (or assault if you believe Allred’s client) but a 13 year a ...
  • IC 287: Worst.SideChick.EVER
    Topics: Update on the fake Tranny doctor who gave butt injections Dr. Conrad Murray shouldn’t go to jail Black Friday pepperspray New Riddick movie and Men in Black 3 Michael Jai White as Luke Cage? This week’s episode of Law & Order Penn State: Bernie Fine & and his wife H ...
  • Chris Christie Talks out of His Ass…Again
    You can see why some in the GOP like Chris Christie.  He’s a great shit talker.  He’s also one of the reason why I can’t stand politics.   First off, the Tea Party and Occupy Movements, much to the chagrin of their supporters have a lot more in common than just people being fru ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Lower antioxidant level might explain higher s ...
    Men are three times more likely than women to develop a common form of skin cancer but medical science doesn't know why. A new study may provide part of the answer. read more
  • Probiotics reduce infections for patients in i ...
    Traumatic brain injury is associated with a profound suppression of the patient's ability to fight infection. At the same time the patient also often suffers hyper-inflammation, due to the brain releasing glucocorticoids in response to the injury. New research published in BioMed Central's open ...
  • Bitter sensitive children eat more vegetables ...
    There's an existential crisis that often happens at dinner tables across the country: why won't kids eat their vegetables? Research has found that one reason could be a sensitivity to bitterness, fairly common among children -- about 70 percent have it. read more
  • Adult stem cells use special pathways to repai ...
    When a muscle is damaged, dormant adult stem cells called satellite cells are signaled to "wake up" and contribute to repairing the muscle. University of Missouri researchers recently found how even distant satellite cells could help with the repair, and are now learning how the stem c ...
  • Rise of atmospheric oxygen more complicated th ...
    The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project. read more

unEarthed

  • Aussie Energy Co. Buys Into U.S. Coal Mines
    Ambre Energy’s move points to a second round in Northwest coal export fight “This is a good company from Australia who is well funded, well banked, and the ...
  • Air Watch
    One Man's Quest for Clean Air Tom Frantz grew up in California’s central valley. The once sparse rural area is now the source of food for millions of Americans, and throughout his life Tom has seen the bucolic pastures ...
  • Survivor: The Sea Turtle Edition
    A loggerhead sea turtle gets a second chance at life Sea turtles like Karsten often mistakenly swallow fishhooks, which can result in entanglement, choking and even death. (Jessica Knoblauc ...
  • Stepping Out of the Shadows
    A strong call for coal plants in Chicago, and everywhere, to clean up Ian Viteri, a community organizer with LVEJO, at the 50 States United for Healthy Air event. ...
  • Survivor: The Sea Turtle Edition
    A loggerhead sea turtle gets a second chance at life Sea turtles like Karsten often mistakenly swallow fishhooks, which can result in entanglement, choking and even death. (Jessica Knoblauc ...

Brave New Climate

  • Solar combined with wind power: a way to get r ...
    Guest Post by Jani-Petri Martikainen. Jani-Petri is a theoretical physicist doing fundamental research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. Most of his current research activities are computational and involve bosonic or fermionic atoms in optical lattices. He has a lively interest on enviro ...
  • Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
    China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
  • CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
    Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
  • Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Pa ...
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: The Swiss army nuclear knife —————— During the past few years, all the world’s major science ...
  • The IFR vs the LFTR: An Exchange of Emails
    With regards to Generation IV nuclear fission technology, most of the attention on BNC has been on the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR), for reasons explained in this post, which I quote: The focus of this series (IFR FaD) is aimed squarely at the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) rather than other Gen IV ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Anna Selina Kingi | Plea for change in prison ...
    Anna Selina Kingi | Plea for change in prison processes... | Stuff.co.nz: A woman whose mother died in jail after prison guards ignored her cell alarm has made an emotional plea for the Corrections Department to change its processes so such a tragedy does not happen again. Joanna Te Rure-Kingi ...
  • Opinion: Time to involve women in post-conflic ...
    Opinion: Time to involve women in post-conflict rebuilding | ReliefWeb: By Marianne Mollmann, Senior Policy Advisor at Amnesty International These past few months have seen many advances on women’s participation in post-conflict settings; at least on paper. In September, female world leaders g ...
  • Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, th ...
    Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, threaten them with death :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] In Ahmed Ramadan’s memory, however, this is the first time settlers have put a price — much less one so high — on the head of a ...
  • Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nati ...
    Searchlight Magazine: What next for white nationalists in the Obama years: Remember the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, when newly emancipated black men were elected to public office across the states of the former Confederacy. As soon as it was possible, Ku Klux Klan nightriders and whi ...
  • Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinct ...
    Zashnain @bedlamfury: Our Goal towards Extinction [Indigenous People] Societies and governments have achieved many wondrous feats, but for all its declared successes for mankind, have we moved a step of two closer to extinction? Have we truly moved away from on hatred and violence or have we mad ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

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  • Human rights march in Tel Aviv to counter anti ...
    The true essence of the foreign funding bill is its subjugation of all Israeli civil society organizations to the government’s whims. On Friday, December 9, 2011, Israeli civil society fights back at the human rights march By Ehud Uziel | Originally published at HaOkets The revised Akunis-K ...
  • Correction: Lynsey Addario was not humiliated ...
    The media rose in uproar after Lynsey Addario was humiliated when crossing the Erez Crossing into Israel. Basically all of the media, +972 included, attributed the beastly behaviour to the IDF. Well, I’ll be the last person to defend The Green Beast, but they’re not behind this particular odious ...
  • Obama reaffirms support to Israel, America&#82 ...
    Obama-the-candidate is back, and so, too, is the Israel lovefest. Speaking to “Jewish donors” in Manhattan on Wednesday amid a house call at the home of Jack Rosen, the president of the American Jewish Congress, President Obama reassured wary Jewish Americans that he’s the bes ...
  • Dancing to rhythm of the absence of peace
    I just put the kids to bed. It was an early night, since they were getting on each other’s nerves. But despite the crankiness, we didn’t give up on the regular evening singing hour. The last few months the girls have enjoyed jumping around to Duck Sauce’s “Barbara Streisand”. But the past few we ...
  • Citizens, Palestinian and Jewish, protest deat ...
    Yesterday, dozens of citizens of Israel, Palestinian and Jewish, staged a mock funeral for the death of Israel’s public housing, in protest of the evictions that threaten to leave both Palestinian and Jewish families homeless The group of Palestinian and Jewish Israeli protesters held th ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

  • True Wealth
    Of all the callousness. Cheque out this video to catch an idea of just how removed some of the wealthy …Continue reading »
  • Words Used To Confound
    The Canadian language is dying. It didn’t get that way because it became too refined or scholastic for the average …Continue reading »
  • The Five-Year Lesson
    Interesting day yesterday. My wife Jane read me a Toronto Star story about two 73 year-old men who got into …Continue reading »
  • Riot Time
    Success for any community often depends on the difference between vocabulary and language. Articulating the current challenges faced by all …Continue reading »
  • Thin Democracy
    Some are surprised to learn that the planet Neptune wasn’t discovered; it was deduced. In 1846 the French astronomer Urbain …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

  • Don't Drink the Weed Killer
    Laskawy reports: "If you want to understand all that is wrong with our government's environmental safety priorities, you need only look at the sad story of the weed killer atrazine. Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated its dangers, it remains one of the most commonly used her ...
  • FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
    Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...
  • FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
    Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...
  • Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
    Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...
  • Egypt Protests: 'Friday of the Last Chance' - ...
    Intro: "Tens of thousands of people return to Tahrir Square...White House calls for civilian rule as soon as possible...Syria faces new Arab League deadline to allow observers...Morocco's first elections under new constitution." In Cairo's Tahrir Square, tension and pressure mounts, 11/24/11. ...

War Resisters League

  • Stop Militarization of Our Communities in the ...
     [The following statement originated from activists in the San Fransisco Bay Area. For further information, contact: bay2egypt@gmail.com ] As 2011 gives way to 2012, people’s movements for justice are met with unprecedented global militarization. From Oakland to Egypt, people are demanding &#823 ...
  • Occupation: Liberation-Building Sustainable Re ...
    by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on November 28th, 2011.] Just as police were attacking Occupy spaces in Oakland, Portland, New York City, and elsewhere, and various mainstream (and even some left-leaning) pundits were … Continue reading →
  • Welcome Home: Building an Inclusive Movement f ...
    [This article was originally published on the Fellowship of Reconciliation Blog on Thursday, November 17, 2011.] By Randall Amster I’m on a number of email lists across the activist spectrum, and have noticed an increasing tendency toward what might be … Continue reading →
  • Message of Solidarity to Occupy Wall Street fr ...
    [This statement was originally published in the e-zine Jadaliyya on November 3rd, 2011, by OWFI President Yanar Mohammed* and WRL national field organizer Ali Issa.]   Dear Occupy Wall Street, The people of the world are watching you, following your … Continue reading →
  • Between Credit, Bullion and Rebellion: Debt by ...
    [The WRL blog is excited to feature a third book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

  • USDA People’s Garden Grant Awarded to Baltimor ...
    The $60,000 award will be divided among existing community organizations within Cherry Hill, who will partner to plant community and school gardens, and deliver education programs that promote gardening and healthy eating.
  • Voicing Concerns Over Antimicrobial Use in Foo ...
    Also contributing to this post is Patrick Baron, CLF Doctoral Fellow and PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences. For the first time in 13 years, the Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance* (ITFAR) heard from the public on antimicrobial resistance. We presented a strong argument ...
  • Canning the Cans in Food Drives
    What concerns me most, as a doctoral student researching environmental contaminants in the food system, is all of the BPA that has leached from those epoxy resin can linings into the food. Is it okay that we are feeding food-insecure people with consumables that we would not put on our own table ...
  • EBT at Farmers’ Markets: A Win for Everyone
    Providing EBT at farmers’ markets may very well be a victory in the making for local and regional farmers, local economies, and SNAP participants alike.
  • Visualizer Shows Farm Bill Spending
    The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has launched the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an innovative web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since the 2008 Farm Bill.

k2p blog

  • Light blogging for 2 weeks
    I am on an assignment in India and blogging will be light for a couple of weeks. In a rainy and cool Bangalore where I haven’t seen the sun in 4 days — but traffic is horrendous:
  • “the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC tha ...
    An email exchange between Alex Kirby of the BBC and Phil Jones of CRU exposes the BBC's blatantly biased reporting.
  • Guttenberg buys his way out of prosecution for ...
    Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has paid 20,000 euros to avoid prosecution on charges of plagiarism. With the case dismissed, Guttenberg could stage a political comeback.
  • Fox News worse than no news! and viewers of Th ...
    Fox News viewers tend to be less informed about current events than those who don't watch any news at all.
  • Facebook and the illusion of communication
    Facebook is just a tool for transmission of information. But it is indiscriminate dissemination of information packages which can only be part of a true communication process. Unfortunately the ease of the use of the tool creates the illusion of communication. I have deactivated my Facebook account.

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Google Reportedly Testing The Waters Of Speedy ...
    Watch out, Amazon, there's a new kid on the retail block and it comes with a familiar name tied to it: Google is said to be discussing a new service with various retailers that would offer web shoppers super speedy delivery. The Wall Street Journal cites people familiar with the situation, who ...
  • Consumer Advocates To Starbucks: Change Your T ...
    Who reads the terms of service on gift cards? Maybe not everyone, but four consumer advocacy groups have your back and are petitioning Starbucks to remove certain provisions in time for the holiday season. Starbucks has been requiring customers to give up their legal rights when they use those ...
  • Best Buy Picks The Perfect Place To Tell Custo ...
    If you're going to pick a location to try to turn people away from a GameStop store, it would be right outside that store's front door. Or maybe the big empty wall directly next to it. Over at Reddit someone posted this photo of a Best Buy banner that uses fonts remarkably similar to the ones ...
  • Patient Sues Dentist Who Threatened Legal Acti ...
    A number of dentists who fear what effect a negative review on a site like Yelp can have on their business have been compelling patients to sign "privacy agreements" that aim to stop annoyed customers from going public with their complaints. But one patient has decided that these agreements go ...
  • House Considering Three Bills That Could Erode ...
    Our ever-vigilant parents at the Consumers Union are taking action against three new bills set to be vote on in the House of Representatives Friday, publishing a letter to show how proposed reforms in the bills would contribute to damaging many consumer protections. In the letter, entitled "Re ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Olympus Whistleblower Resigns; Seeks Reinstate ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user D H WrightBloomberg: Woodford Seeks Shareholder Backing for Control of Olympus Summary: The former Olympus executive-turned-whistleblower has resigned from the board. The camera company fired him as CEO (although he had retained his position on the board) after he spurr ...
  • Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide Wins ...
    The GAP publication The Corporate Whistleblower's Survival Guide: A Handbook for Committing the Truth, released this past April, has been awarded the prestigious getAbstract International Business Book of the Year Award at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. This prize seeks to honor books tha ...
  • Bradley Manning's Lawyer – WikiLeaks Cables Ha ...
    CNN: Lawyer – WikiLeaks Cables Did Little Harm Summary: The lawyer for Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking classified military documents through WikiLeaks, has said in court documents that the leaked information did not do “any real damage to national security.” Manning is set to ...
  • Milk-Hormone Whistleblowers Given Integrity Aw ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user quinn.anyaGo Canada! Integrity Award Given to Milk Hormone (rBGH) Whistleblowers Summary: Three Canadian scientists who were fired after blowing the whistle on a controversial hormone used to boost milk production in dairy cows were honored last week for their truth-tel ...
  • States' False Claims Acts Fought by Industry: ...
    Reuters: Whistleblower-Law Passage Stalls in Some States Summary: More than 20 states have passed laws similar to the federal False Claims Act, which allows for citizens to sue contractors that defraud the government. However, several other states are struggling to pass similar statutes, with ...

UK Progressive

  • The Rebirth of Social Darwinism
    What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I’ve been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared vision, an ideal picture of America. They say they want a smaller government but that can’t be it. Most seek a larger national d ...
  • The Great Controversy Surrounding Raw Milk
    The controversy over whether people have the right to produce, sell, buy, and consume raw milk products is a huge one these days. Government regulators in Canada and the US insist they are protecting the public against dangerous effects of raw milk, while those who seek raw milk and other raw fo ...
  • Your Local Broadcast News Is Making Us Stupid
    “The media,” as it’s referred to, is not a monolith. We don’t just have one channel, one paper or one site with one nefarious dude pulling levers. “The media” consists of books, newspapers, magazines, television, billboards, radio, blogs, vlogs, ebooks, webcasts, podcasts and movies etc. The med ...
  • The Last Whistleblowers
    Whistleblowing in our federal government may soon be a thing of the past, not because whistleblowers face more vicious retribution than ever before — although that is true; and not because important acts of whistleblowing now result in fewer reforms and less accountability than they used to, whi ...
  • Transport of Nuclear Waste Protested By German ...
    About 20 million consignments of radioactive material, which may be either a single package or a number of packages sent from one location to another at the same time, take place around the world each year. Radioactive material is not unique to the nuclear fuel cycle and only about 5% of the con ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • The Travesty of the Missing Heat — deep ...
    (See the Hammer link below, for more information on this graphic). If there is one topic that trumps all others in climate science, it’s ocean heat. If there is a planetary imbalance in energy, and Earth is acquiring more heat than it’s losing, we ought to be able to find that heat. ...
  • Bret Stephens: The Great Global Warming Fizzle ...
    Another sign of the times. Mark this one in your history books for studies on the Rise and Fall of the Great Warming Delusion. Yes, it’s another well written piece on the religious nature of the faith some have in our ability to change the weather. But this time there are sounds of the dea ...
  • ClimateGate II: Handy Guide to spot whitewash ...
    Sorting real journalists from sock puppets is not too tricky: real investigators tell you what the story is about; PR writers tell you what to think. Do they “discuss” ClimateGate emails … without quoting the emails? Who digs for details, and who hides the evidence? The P ...
  • Did I say the ship was sinking? Canada, Europe ...
    Things are not going too well at Durban, or anywhere in the Land Where People Want to Change the Weather. Richard Black (BBC) admits there’s a “seismic shift” going on. (Could it be a tipping point I say?) “The politics of the UN climate process are undergoing something o ...
  • Pointman — A dead mans hand detonator on ...
    In the high powered risky game of whistleblowing there are ways to make the the leaker a less attractive target. Pointman analyzes the ClimateGate whistleblower’s tactics and explains why he, she or they probably released those other 200,000 emails but kept them hidden behind the 4000-800 ...

ReNew America

  • Lessons of electoral history?
    (Thomas Sowell) - It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days, and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political correctness. E ...
  • Perry says amnesty not solution to illegal imm ...
    (NewsMax) - Texas Gov. Rick Perry says the U.S.-Mexico border must first be secured, and then under no circumstances would he support any type of amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants who now live in the United States. The presidential contender also told Fox News' Greta Van Su ...
  • Romney bombs on 'Special Report'
    (John Hayward) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney did an interview with Brett Baier on the Tuesday edition of Fox News' Special Report. It did not go well. The really rocky patch came when Baier asked about RomneyCare, and Romney erupted in an incredibly uncomfortable burst of laughter, making ...
  • Once you go conservative black, better watch y ...
    (Ann Coulter) - With the mainstream media giddily reporting on an alleged affair involving Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, how long can it be before they break the news that their 2004 vice presidential candidate conceived a "love child" with his mistress, Rielle Hunter?...
  • Occupy L.A.: 30 tons of debris left behind at ...
    (Los Angeles Times) - Sanitation officials said Wednesday that they expect to haul away 30 tons of debris from the Occupy L.A. encampment --- everything from clothing to heaps of garbage to oddball curiosities left behind by the protesters who lived at the City Hall tent city for two months...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday
    Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco. He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god ...Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves
    Today’s news is quite disturbing.  The U.S. Senate voted to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial. This is outside of the normal judicial process. In theory ...American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves is a post from: 2012 Blo ...
  • A Financial Apocalypse
    My preference is for doom days that an ancient culture could have predicted, no matter how remote the possibility. But I still leave no stone unturned, so let’s look at the global economy, prompted by ...A Financial Apocalypse is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 – Onl ...
  • Alien-Human Hybrids Possible?
    I’ve read a lot of books about the Nephilim, ancient astronauts, and the possibility of aliens mating with humans, as described by the Bible. I’ve rejected the alien aspect, because I think the same logic ...Alien-Human Hybrids Possible? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts ...
  • Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved
    Many scientists have been attempting to find an underlying cause for the demise of large mammals at the end of the last Ice Age. And they will still keep trying, because they aren’t thinking outside ...Megafaunal Extinction – Still Unsolved is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...

Facing South

One News Page

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • European Missile Defense and Risks of New Arms ...
    The collapse of the missile defense talks and President Medvedev’s recent statement in which he warned that Russia would consider serious response measures highlighted the fact that the US and NATO switched the arms race to a new mode rather than quited it following the demise of the Sovie ...
  • Four NATO Lies About Syria
    1. According to NATO and its Persian Gulf allies, for eight months mass demonstrations have taken place in Syria to demand more freedom and the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Not true. There have been demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s, in some cities, at the call of Sau ...
  • Nangarhar Attack: Pentagon Sabotaging the Whit ...
    Nangarhar is the secured province that is being turned over to Afghan forces, where the border incident has erupted. The attack upon Pakistan was intended as a demonstration for the world to see the dangers of an early Afghan transition and withdrawal. What else could explain this Afghan unit ga ...
  • The End of Reset
    US Department of State spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced on November 22 that the US stops supplying to Russia the data on conventional arms in Europe. Furthermore, Russian inspectors would not be admitted to US military bases in Europe. What could be the reasoning behind the radical US step ...
  • Marine Le Pen: «We Have Never Been Wrong»
    It is hard to tell which of the two emotions – national pride or indignation over obvious injustice – fuels the revival of the Europeans’ unique national spirit. This year the process which the European political class is desperately trying to impede manifested itself in a pattern-setting ...

BlogHer

  • Pets and People: Shades of Trauma
    As a mother of six - including two (or is it three?) adopted children from Kazakhstan - Anne has written this wonderful post about being sensitive to the hidden pains of an adoptee, whether it be human or animal. In this case, it's the family dog, Sophie, that gets her attention:"When she first ...
  • 2012 Grammy Nominations Announced! Daniel Radc ...
    [Last night the Grammy's rolled out their nominations in Style with The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!  Stupid Celebrities has the full list!  --Morgan]The 2012 Grammy nominees were announced on The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!—Countdown To Music’s Biggest Night telecast in Los A ...
  • Will Women's Professional Soccer Have A Hollyw ...
    (Lauren Barker from All White Kit has her own take on how the whole WPS drama will play out. For those not following the story, the Women's Professional Soccer league is in jeopardy of losing it's sanctioning from the U.S. Soccer federation. They have just days to pull off a miracle. What do you ...
  • Will Women's Professional Soccer Have A Hollyw ...
    (Lauren Barker from All White Kit has her own take on how the whole WPS drama will play out. For those not following the story, the Women's Professional Soccer league is in jeopardy of losing it's sanctioning from the U.S. Soccer federation. They have just days to pull off a miracle. What do you ...
  • What Happened When My Dad Walked Away After th ...
    I've contemplated writing about this for a while. And contemplated the place to post this even more. And I'm not even really sure that BlogHer is the right venue, but I do know that my actual blog is not it (probably because my mom will start asking me about it, and while I have no problem wr ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Nearly One Third of U.S. Food Supply Depends o ...
    You may have heard or read about a declining honey bee population and thought: Who cares I don’t like bees. The problem is without bees we would all go hungry very fast. ...
  • High Chocolate Consumption May Reduce Heart Di ...
    Consuming lots of chocolate appears to reduce the risk of developing heart diseaseby one third, researchers from the University of Cambridge, England reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and the European Society of Cardiology Congress in ...
  • Immunise or lose benefits, parents told
    Parents who do not have their children fully immunised will be stripped of family tax benefits under a scheme announced by the Federal Government. The Government says 11 per cent of five-year-olds are not immunised and ...
  • Could your hair dye kill you?
    In a world where we get bombarded with chemicals everyday it is important to stay vigilant against the dangers they impose. We at Health Freedoms hope you stay alert; We hope you tell ...
  • French annul ruling against planting modified corn
    France’s highest administrative body has annulled rules suspending the planting of genetically modified corn, but two key ministries quickly said the government is still looking for ways to block such crops. The Council of State, acting ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • State to complete UBB report before end of January
    Given the scheduled release next week of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, I wondered what was going on with the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training’s investigation of the April 2010 disaster. I checke ...
  • MSHA issues latest ‘pattern of violation ...
    Here’s today’s announcement from MSHA: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that eight mines around the country have received letters putting them on notice that each has a potential pattern of violations of mandatory health or safety s ...
  • CONSOL agrees to stream cleanup
    There’s an interesting settlement that’s just been filed in U.S. District Court here in Charleston in a case brought by the Sierra Club and other groups against CONSOL Energy’s Fola Coal Co. subsidiary. Environmentalists sued CONSOL back in October 2010, alleging the company wa ...
  • Blankenship resurfaces – with a morality ...
    Without a doubt, one question I get asked more than any other is: “What’s Don Blankenship up to these days?” One thing I know for sure is that Blankenship testified under oath a few months ago that he now lives in Johnson City, Tenn. I haven’t been able to confirm persist ...
  • MSHA to release Upper Big Branch report Dec. 6
    The Labor Department announced earlier today that its Mine Safety and Health Administration would be releasing the report of its investigation into the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster on Dec. 6. MSHA has scheduled a media briefing for 3 p.m. at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy outside ...

Daniel Miessler

  • Daniel Ellsberg on Secret Information | Mother ...
    “Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you’re about to receive a whole slew o ...
  • The Cognitive Benefits Of Chewing Gum | Wired.com
    Gum is an effective booster of mental performance, conferring all sorts of benefits without any side effects. The latest investigation of gum chewing comes from a team of psychologists at St. Lawrence University. The experiment went like this: 159 students were given a battery of demanding cogni ...
  • How Most Real Hacking Happens | Determination ...
    The screen goes black. The characters, despite their obvious talents, have been dwarfed by the formidable force on the other end of the connection. It makes for exciting television, but the truth is even scarier. In the real world, the majority of hackers don’t brilliantly blast through the defe ...
  • Mechanical Turk vs. CAPTCHA: An InfoSec Lesson
    I’ve always hated the “THING is dead. Long live the THING” cliché, but I’m going to use it here for CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA raises the cost of attacking something, which improves its security. It’s that simple. The question is simply how much you raised the cost vs. the de ...
  • In-depth Analysis of Predator vs. Hogwartz | R ...
    Okay, first we have to assume a few stated facts from both franchises, but namely Hogwarts. Technology isn’t supposed to work well (if at all) on the grounds With this limitation there is no drop in, Predator must approach on foot. Wizards are not inherantly stupid, they will notice classm ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • 21 festive uses for pepper spray
    By Mark Morford, SF Gate – Citizen! Righteous shopper! Economic doldrums got you down? Black Friday making you want to choke the Walmart heirs with a lawnmower? Cheer up, friend. This is America. Even in our darkest hour, we can find solace, unity, a fresh beacon of hope. Behold, salvation ...
  • Is there an afterlife, after life?
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH (Pittsburgh in the 60s) – I’ve been wondering about that quite often as of late. There have been more than a fair share of deaths around me and they have started me thinking about it more than usual. I was raised pre-Vatican II catholic but I soon started to quest ...
  • Is Guantanamo forever?
    BY ANDREA PRASOW,salon.com – A decade ago, after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the detention without charge of alleged terrorist suspects. It had been decades since the United States had detained people without charge or trial on national security grounds. The last time w ...
  • Amid The Architecture Of Declining Capitalism: ...
    By Phil Rockstroh - The recent pepper spraying “incident” at the University of California at Davis represents more than an opportunity to create a cleverly photoshopped, viral meme. The act is part and parcel of a larger collective mindset–a proclivity towards authoritarian ove ...
  • Pharmaceutical Industry Payouts Prompt Conflic ...
    By exposingthetruth.infoHow would you feel knowing that the doctor insisting that smoking is completely safe is actually being paid by the tobacco industry? This kind of information would be extremely off-putting to say the least. But unfortunately this conflict of interest is absolutely rampant ...

reference frame

  • Stefan Rahmstorf convicted as a liar
    Major co-perpetrator of RealClimate.ORG and 2 °C limits found guilty Stefan Rahmstorf offers a visual proof that the rising sea level will kill all of us Tobias Sander has pointed out the following interesting story in Spiegel: Scandal surrounds German climate government adv ...
  • ATLAS, CMS bosses will give Higgs talks in 12 days
    On Tuesday, December 13th, 14:00-16:00 Prague Winter Time (8:00-10:00 Boston Winter Time), there will be a public seminar in the main auditorium of CERN. The two 30-minute talks are called Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in ATLAS Update on the Standard Model Higgs searches in ...
  • Nature: newborn Earth's atmosphere close to ours
    As soon as our planet was born together with the Solar System about 4.7 megayears before Jesus Christ ;-), it entered the so-called Hadean eon. About 3.85 billion years ago, Hadean was superseded by Archean. This is a rare photograph because during the Hadean eon, they didn't posse ...
  • U.S.: one month to buy lots of light bulbs
    Papertiger informed me that in one month, a new regulation banning the sale of most of the incandescent light bulbs will start to be enforced. The law says that what's really being banned are "inefficient" light bulbs and because it's written in an as-impenetrable-as-possible way, I can ...
  • Contextuality of our quantum world is a proven ...
    In a recent article reviewing Feynman's Messenger Lecture on quantum mechanics, an anti-quantum zealot reader complained that ordinary hidden-variable theories and Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber "random collapse" theories are an easy target. They're just straw men: what about "contextual hidden-variab ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • I don’t have time for this shit
    I do this blog because I like calling attention to the foibles of us dumb-dumbs so it really pisses me off when I attract the attention of morons who seem to not like my message and engage in illegal and unethical behavior by launching a DOS attack on this site. So to the tards that [...] R ...
  • Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
    Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
  • I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
    What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...
  • Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
    Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...
  • WALL STREET INSIDER: The Obama White House Wan ...
    by Ulsterman on October 17, 2011 with 72 Comments in News  Our latest interview with a longtime Wall Street Insider reveals details of a troubling Obama White House stance against Wall Street executives voicing concern over the now daily violence permeating the Occupy Wall Street movement – and ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

  • Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
    By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at two common plant-based ingredients - tea tree and lavender oils - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
    By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
    By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Save the Delaware River
    Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • Hey Parents: Read This Book, Then Save the Pla ...
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager We parents give a lot of orders. "Put your pajamas away. Clear the table, please. Don't pull the cat's tail!" But in her new book, Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • ‘Breivik can be sent back to prison’
    Norway’s worst mass murderer since World War II may still wind up in a high-security prison, despite being declared insane this week by court-appointed psychiatrists. The fate of Anders Behring Breivik has dominated Norwegian media all week, and now one of his main prosecutors seems to be ...
  • No promises for Merkel
    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was happy to dine with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at an historic castle north of Berlin Wednesday evening, but he didn’t come with any promises on more financial contributions to help solve the euro crisis. Merkel hosted Stoltenberg at Germany’s ...
  • Psychiatric unit has history of escapes
    The special psychiatric hospital where confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik now seems most likely to be confined has a history of escapes that’s making several politicians and police uneasy. Meanwhile, a former doctor at the Dikemark psychiatric hospital says Breivik could even be le ...
  • Police question football officials
    The sports director at the professional Norwegian football (soccer) club Vålerenga described his brief arrest by police on Wednesday as “uncomfortable” but not necessarily surprising. Truls Haakonsen was among officials at Vålerenga and rival club Stabæk who were questioned Tuesday i ...
  • Banks reluctant to cut dividends
    Norway’s central banker and its finance minister have called on the country’s commercial banks to boost their own capital, to better meet financial turmoil. It remains unclear whether the call will be heeded, since the boss of Norway’s biggest bank, DNB, is non-committal about ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Edible Forest Gardens: Dave Jacke Interview wi ...
    Edible Forest Gardens! This powerful concept of perennial polyculture design is finally gaining wide recognition, thanks in part to people like Dave Jacke, author of Edible Forest Gardens, Volumes I & II. Dave Jacke was in Santa Barbara recently for a program sponsored by the SBCC Center for ...
  • Hana Farms: Regenerative MicroEnterprise (and ...
    Hana Farms, 2007 1 roadside stand in a Costco tent (above) Rebekah (Ucellini) Kuby, Permaculture Designer and Community Activist, remembers when this community enterprise began: It was during the recession of 2007-8, which hit Hana town hard. After about the 18th person called me asking if ...
  • Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage – Days 11-13
    Planetary Permaculture Pilgrimage with Rosemary Morrow by Tamara Griffiths, Ali Ma and Delvin Solkinson Day One It was a beautiful spring day in this incredible eco-village when we met with our hero, Rosemary Morrow, the inspiring and resilient godmother of permaculture. Teaching and travelling ...
  • Greening the Desert Video – now also with Fren ...
    Many thanks to Jeremy, Christina, Erik, Lamia and Kristen for all the work that went into creating the French translation subtitle file for both Parts I & II of the Greening the Desert video below. As a result, I’ve been able to upload a version suitable for your French-speaking friend ...
  • Companion Planting Information and Chart
    An updated chart of basic companion plants we’ve grown successfully over the years We recently received an e-mail from a gentleman in China looking for… … what plants you may have in your garden that you can transplant next to your rose or your apple tree to see how they nurtu ...

Pointman's

  • Happy birthday Pointman’s.
    It doesn’t seem like it, but it’s been a year since I started this blog. I started it for a number of reasons and with more than a few reservations but with some modest hopes in sight, so now seems to be an appropriate time to think about how it’s doing and the experience of being a & ...
  • Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been ...
    You’re appalled, you’re outraged, you’re stunned and you’re angry about the whole climategate emails thing. And now you’re most likely out here in the blogosphere because the mainstream media in the country you live in is either not mentioning them at all or have relegated it to a small-print fo ...
  • Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
    Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...
  • Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
    A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...
  • The Durban debacle awaits …
    Here we go again, another climate clambake attracting attendees from all over the world. They’ll be the usual assortment of politicians, government civil servants, Media, NGOs, activists and fruit loops determined to save the earth from global warming. Nothing changes. In terms of the basic poli ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • NOPD Officer Barrios Sentenced in Danziger Cov ...
    From a US Department of Justice Press Release: A former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for his role in covering up a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Robert Barr ...
  • The Fault Lines of US Policy
    Recently, Louisiana Justice Institute staffer Jordan Flaherty has been working with Al Jazeera English as one of the producers on their flagship documentary program Fault Lines. For several years, Fault Lines has offered in-depth explorations of the issues ignored by much of the media. Below is ...
  • The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
    The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
  • Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
    A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...
  • New Orleans Is No Education 'Miracle' By Lind ...
    An article recently posted on the Education Week website offers an important perspective on New Orleans' schools: As a recent graduate of a New Orleans public high school, I find it very troubling that the national conversation about post-Katrina education amounts to little more than talking ...

Information Underground

  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    Whaler wrote: This thread got me in trouble... ?!?!?! You OK Whaler?Statistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:27 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    CrackSmokeRepublican wrote: After watching the news, I've come to the conclusion that Bernanke actually relishes the Jewish Talmudic Idea of being the "Jew Jesus" for the Euro. The self-appointed "savior". In the bankrupt Jewish world view, "the Bernank" is inten ...
  • False Flag Terrorism, Black Ops & Pseudo G ...
    This thread got me in trouble...Statistics: Posted by Whaler — Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:31 am
  • Economics, Money/Banking, Investments, Profite ...
    After watching the news, I've come to the conclusion that Bernanke actually relishes the Jewish Talmudic Idea of being the "Jew Jesus" for the Euro. The self-appointed "savior". In the bankrupt Jewish world view, "the Bernank" is intended to replace "Jesus&q ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Interesting points made on this thread. Thanks fellas. Well...I am really talking about the conspiracy community. My target has always been the "patriot" and conspiracy community in my activism. Don't try to tell me that things are basically the same in regard to the overall fe ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Permafrost Thaw Will Cause Faster Warming than ...
    A survey of 41 international experts on permafrost shows that the amount of greenhouse gases released as frozen soils melt in a warming world will be 1.7 to 5.2 times larger than previous estimates. In the survey, published in the journal Nature, the scientists significantly raised their estimat ...
  • Sweden’s Green Veneer Hides Unsustainable Logg ...
    Sweden has a reputation as being one of the world’s most environmentally progressive nations. But its surprisingly lax forestry laws often leave decisions about logging to the timber companies — and as a result, large swaths of biologically-rich boreal forest are being lost. BY ERIK HOFFNER
  • Carbon Capture Project Is Launched at UK Yorks ...
    A coal-powered plant in West Yorkshire has launched the UK’s largest carbon-capture initiative, a pilot project expected to siphon off about 100 tons of carbon dioxide daily. The equipment, which was added to the 200-megawatt Ferrybridge Power Station, will capture only 2.5 percent of the plant’ ...
  • Second Canadian Pipeline Poses Major Threats, ...
    A new report warns that a proposed $5.3 billion pipeline that would link Canada’s tar sands to the Pacific coast poses potential threats to native communities, wildlife, and the region’s salmon fisheries. Enbridge Inc., whose 730-mile Northern Gateway Pipeline would transport 525,000 barrels of ...
  • Durban Climate Talks Begin As Hopes for a Glob ...
    Climate talks began in Durban, South Africa on Monday amid downplayed expectations for any meaningful agreements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions or progress on finding a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. With the Kyoto Protocol’s mandatory carbon targets now covering less than a third of the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • G20: The morons who came in from the cold
    By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up.  An RCMP "joint intelligence group" --  comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police -- infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call "one of the largest domestic intelligence o ...
  • Death in Vancouver, bluster on Twitter
    By Frank Moher A young woman died of a drug overdose in Vancouver yesterday. Her name was Ashley. She became one of the approximately 120 people who will die of drug overdoses in Vancouver this year. She happened to be at the Occupy Vancouver encampment when she died. Or perhaps it wasn ...
  • Three simple words that can save a life
    By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body ...
  • Minister Oliver goes oil drumming
    By Alison@Creekside While in Washington oildrumming up K-XL support with US senators on tuesday, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver plumped for the Keystone XL pipeline in his keynote address to the 4th Annual United States Energy Association (USEA) Energy Supply Forum. Here is the qu ...
  • Letter to Steve Jobs
    by Eric Pettifor Dear Mr. Jobs: I write to you on the occasion of your death to congratulate you on making a difference. As more of a technology visionary and businessman than a true geek (that was your erstwhile partner Steve Wozniak, or "Woz"), you may not recall that this was ...

Daily Beast

  • The Kinkiest Actor in Hollywood?
    Ramin Setoodeh and Peter Travers on what to watch and skip at the movies. This week, sex vs. more sex.
  • Insider-Trading Momentum
    After reports of insider trading in Congress, lawmakers discuss ways to make it illegal. By Daniel Stone
  • Cains' Shaky Marriage Shaken Anew
    Charges of infidelity stalled Herman Cain’s presidential hopes, and reopened old wounds in his marriage, friends say.
  • Jodie Foster's Daddy Drama
    The actress’s father is accused of bilking low-income people in a housing scam. Christine Pelisek reports.
  • Newt the Chameleon
    Gingrich is savaging Democrats now, but he once worked with the party’s biggest names. By Patricia Murphy.

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Tintin gets a little closer to Japan in 3-D movie
    "Everyone knows Tintin!" says a street hawker in the film "The Adventures of Tintin" — but 30 years ago director Steven Spielberg had no idea who or what he was. The first installment of Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" franchise, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," opened in Europe in 1981 to rave re ...
  • No easy 'cure' for gender disorder
    Ayumu Mogi felt uneasy about being female even before elementary school. "My younger brother could stand up and pee but why can't I?" was a common perception for the child growing up near Tokyo.
  • Interim coach to guide England at Six Nations
    England will defend the Six Nations title with a temporary coach while its officials embark on a global search for Martin Johnson's successor in an overhaul of English rugby after the dismal World Cup campaign. The new head coach will be appointed in time for England's tour of South Africa in ...
  • Source: Valentine, BoSox reach deal
    A person familiar with the negotiations says the Boston Red Sox have agreed to terms with Bobby Valentine on a contract that will make him the team's new manager. Valentine returned from a trip to Japan on Wednesday and was expected to be introduced at Fenway Park on Thursday, said the person, ...
  • '50/50' / '30 Minutes or Less'
    Hey, did you hear the one about my metastatic tumor? Comedy and cancer may mix about as well as champagne and toilet cleaner, but along comes the film "50/50" to attempt just that. This may sound like some "South Park"-esque experiment in poor taste and offensiveness, but "50/50" betrays enti ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • Facts and Evidence versus Threats and Hyperbol ...
    The recent debate in Nova Scotia surrounding proposed first contract arbitration (FCA) legislation offers revealing truths about the contemporary relationship between labour and capital in Atlantic Canada.  Arguments recently presented by the business community to the Law Amendments Committee ag ...
  • Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
    As Canadian governments at all jurisdictional levels engage in what can only be called Disaster Budgeting, it’s time to inject a voice of reason into the debate. The world economy isn’t looking good, and the political penchant in Canada to return to business as usual – dutifully following an ext ...
  • The New Politics Initiative: Ten Years After
    Rabble.ca is running a series of reflections on the tenth anniversary of the New Politics Initiative, which sought to create a more democratic politics in Canada ideally as part of a revitalized NDP. The vision statement is here; my piece follows, and there are also contributions from Judy Rebic ...
  • On climate, Canada is a rogue state
    On Sunday, CTV leaked Canada’s intentions to pull out of the Kyoto treaty process on climate change. What is significant about Kyoto is that it is a legally binding international treaty, and one that puts the onus of emission reductions on the countries that have done the most to cause the ...
  • Children and Families Living in Poverty in Nov ...
    Today, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia releases its 2011 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia written by CCPA-NS Research Associate, Lesley Frank.  It evaluates Nova Scotia’s progress toward Canada’s 1989 goal of eradicating child poverty by 2000.  Accor ...

ReDress

  • Israel's grand hypocrisy: Netanyahu slams "ant ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that while Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is keen to belittle the emerging democracies in the Arab world, his government is busy drafting laws that will snuff out human rights organizations and emasculate the country's media and Supreme Court - all in an effort to ...
  • UK government spoiling for a fight with Iran
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the hypocrisy of the British government, which is orchestrating an international campaign to isolate Iran for violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and for Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme while simultaneously protecting Israeli war criminal ...
  • Can the Palestine solidarity movement harbour ...
    Laura Stuart condemns the lack of moral courage at the top echelon of the UK's Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), as manifested in the PSC leadership pandering to Zionists by turning on pro-Palestinian activists, and warns the PSC leadership "to firm up because the vultures are already circlin ...
  • Something's rotten in the heart of Western gov ...
    Stuart Littlewood considers the extent to which the US and UK political systems have been infiltrated by Israeli stooges and highlights the harmful effects of this Zionist deep penetration on the British and American national interests.
  • Palestine Solidarity Campaign in unholy allian ...
    Lauren Booth looks at how the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in particular its national director Sarah Colborne, appear to have put appeasement of some of the UK's vilest Zionist bodies, such as the Jewish Chronicle weekly and the website Harry's Place, ahead of genuine opposition to Israeli rac ...

Physics Today

  • US solar project launches without government help
    NPR: SolarCity has begun a major project to install solar electricity systems on the roofs of houses on US military bases. Unlike Solyndra, which declared bankruptcy in August after having received $528 million in federal loan guarantees, the company is doing it without government help. The tota ...
  • Outcry over EU science budget plan
    Nature: The European Commission has proposed that funding for ITER, the international effort to build a fusion test reactor, and for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Earth-observation project be separated from the next general budget for 2014–20. The two projects w ...
  • Effectiveness of UK's neutron source jeopardiz ...
    Guardian: Hundreds of scientific experiments are being dropped by British universities because of budget shortfalls at ISIS, one of the UK's major research facilities, writes Ian Sample for the Guardian. Built in the early 1980s at a cost of some $625 million, ISIS is a pulsed neutron and muon s ...
  • Physicist uses laser to generate random numbers
    National Post: Random number sequences are usually generated by computational algorithms, which only give the appearance of randomness, but a new technique uses a laser light pulse to create truly random numbers. Ben Sussman of Canada’s National Research Council and coworkers have found th ...
  • Worms in space
    BBC: A colony of Caenorhabditis elegans survived for six months aboard the International Space Station, produced 12 generations of offspring, and have now returned to Earth. The millimeter-long worms were the subjects of a study, by Nathaniel Szewczyk of the University of Nottingham and colleag ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

  • Australia’s Breadbasket Faces Water Squeeze
    “CANBERRA—A plan to reduce water use in Australia’s key food-producing region is pitting farmers against environmentalists and throwing the long-term future of the country’s breadbasket into question. The release of a draft plan to cut the supply of irrigation water in the Murr ...
  • Scientists Propose Thinning Sierra Forests to ...
    “Runoff from the Sierra Nevada, a critical source of California’s water supply, could be enhanced by thinning forests to historical conditions, according to a report from a team of scientists with the University of California, Merced, UC Berkeley and the Environmental Defense Fund. The tea ...
  • Israel threatens to cut water and power to Gaza
    “Israel has warned it might cut all support to the Gaza Strip, including vital water and power supplies, if the Palestinian Authority pursues its path towards reunification with militant group Hamas. “The threats were issued by Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, on ...
  • Water pollution traced to La Brea Tar Pits
    By Jason Song and Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times November 29, 2011 ****************** “For years, residents living near Ballona Creek and environmentalists have complained of mysterious sheens of oil and grease in the western Los Angeles County waterway, often blaming industrial dumping, ...
  • Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidat ...
    “This is a conversation about community and sharing the voices from the gaslands of America. This is the story of Josh Fox, his movieGasland and about his current, Save the Delaware campaign. “Is this the liquidation sale of New York and our drinking water?” asks Josh Fox. This ...

D. Kucinich

  • Kucinich Asks Members of Congress to Carefully ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), in a letter to Members of Congress,  urged fellow Members to carefully consider the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s attack on our ally Pakistan which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and what it means for the stability of Afghanistan. Kucinich recommend ...
  • Kucinich: “We Need to Restore Democracy; Priva ...
    Washington D.C. (December 1, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for a return to government of the people, by the people and for the people by eliminating private contributions to federal elections.  Kucinich was speaking in opposition to H.R. 3463, which would dismantle ...
  • Kucinich Congratulates Boeing Workers
    Washington D.C. (December 1, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) a tireless advocate for workers’ rights, today issued the following statement in response to reports that Machinists Union members will vote next week on a four-year contract extension that includes a commitment by the Boein ...
  • Kucinich: “Workers’ Rights are Human Rights”
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) a tireless advocate for workers’ rights, today took to the House floor once again to continue his unstinting defense of the workers’ right to organize. Kucinich has consistently spoken out strongly against efforts to demonize workers and undermine the work of t ...
  • Kucinich Brings Slattery Family’s Tragedy from ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today highlighted the tragedy the Slattery family experienced on their way to a family reunion in Rocky River, Ohio during a hearing of the Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform examining rules regarding the amount ...

Authentically Wired

  • A Conversation with Water . . . at the beginni ...
      A Conversation with Water . . . at the beginning for there is no end   Pondering where to begin Water gently says at the beginning my friend Where else does one start My story begins long ago With what you called the “big bang” and all that.   A notion giving life to [...]
  • Enter a post title… Oh … Gee &#823 ...
    … Oh … Gee … Surprise … Surprise … Surprise … anyone truly surprised please put on a dunce cap …   Declassified Memo Hinted of 1941 Hawaii Attack 11-30-2011  •  US News and World Report 3 days before the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pea ...
  • Under cover of darkness
    … Under cover of darkness … do not let the public see what the corporate police is doing … and this is called freedom …   Police in LA, Philly raid Occupy camps 11-30-2011  •  news.yahoo.com Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street ...
  • … Sorry Dennis, but the privately owned ...
    … Sorry Dennis, but the privately owned Federal Reserve System has HAD control of our government for years …  This is nothing new … what might be new to some folks is they being made aware of the smoke and mirrors and fraud being perpetrated on them by their elected leader ...
  • Atrazine
      … Atrazine … yeah, USDA … FDA … AMA … “big pharma” ble$$ed and $anctioned …   For further information: http://news.illinois.edu/news/11/1128atrazine_ValBeasley.html Photo: http://www.nmenv.state.nm.us/dwb/contaminants/SOCs.htm   Atrazine ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • Interview with conservation legend, Richard Leakey
    Following in his family's footsteps, Dr. Richard Leakey, is considered the heir to the scientific legacy of his parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, icons in the field of paleoanthropology. Dr Richard Leakey has been credited with some of the field's most successful paleoanthropologic finds, includi ...
  • Report questions legitimacy of Asia Pulp & Pap ...
    A new report by an Indonesian environmental group casts doubt on Asia Pulp & Paper's commitment to sustainability. In its corporate social responsibility reports and advertisements, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of Indonesia's largest pulp and paper suppliers, has touted several forest reserves a ...
  • Seahorses under stress
    With about 25 million seahorses sold each year, global consumption of seahorses is massive. They’re used in traditional Asian medicine and also sold as curios and aquarium pets. Over the last decade, overexploitation and habitat degradation have prompted declines of between 15 to 70 percen ...
  • Cultural erosion among indigenous groups in Ve ...
    One of the planet's most beautiful landscapes is in danger. Deep in southern Venezuela, among ancient forested tabletop mountains known as tepuis, crystalline rivers, and breathtaking waterfalls, outside influences — malaria, the high price of gold, commercial hunting, and cultural erosion ...
  • Illuminating Africa's most obscure cat
    Africa is known as the continent of big cats: cheetahs, leopards, and of course, the king of them all, lions. Even servals and caracals are relatively well-known by the public. Still, few people realize that Africa is home to a number of smaller wild cat species, such as the black-footed cat and ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Lanzatech secures US govt contract
    Kiwi-based biofuel entrepreneur Lanzatech has sneared another round of US government funding as it assesses production opportunities offshore.Lanzatech's technology converts polluting industrial gases into high-value chemicals...
  • NZ food some of the world's safest
    New Zealand has one of the safest food supplies in the world, according to a comprehensive study of the chemicals, nutrients and contaminants in common foods.The five-yearly total diet study, released today involved hundreds of...
  • Hospital marks milestone with book of rare images
    Staggering new images have been released that show conjoined twins being separated by surgeons at Waikato Hospital.Sarah and Abbey Hose were separated during the historic operation in 2004, but pictures of the surgery have never...
  • What NZ women want: the biggest and strongest
    It's a few thousand years since most of our ancestors hunted wild animals, but a study suggests New Zealand women still look for mates who are physically big and strong.The study, based on birth records for the five years to the...
  • Big changes needed to feed the world: UN
    The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet's land resources, finding in a report that a quarter of all farmland is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed if the world's...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

  • Remy "Light Bulb Song" Debut, Nick Gillespie t ...
    On Thursday, December 1, 2011, Fox Business' Stossel debuted the new video "Missing You: The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban" by internet sensation Remy. Reason's Nick Gillespie discussed the federal ban on conventional light bulbs, which starts in 2012. About 5 minutes. ...
  • New at Reason: A Christmas Letter From the Obamas
    "Dear Friends and Family," begins a holiday letter from First Lady Michelle Obama (AKA A. Barton Hinkle). "As I sit down to write this I am amazed that so much time has flown by already! Where does it all go? Of course you may be wondering the same thing and asking yourselves why a ...
  • The New Jon Huntsman Ad By His Daughters Remin ...
    Failing (flailing?) Republican presidential candidate Gov. Jon Huntsman (R-Utah) is not only saddled with a general lack of charisma and interesting policies but with his daughters. Much to the apparent dismay of staffers on the former governor's of-interest-only-to-Bel ...
  • Boston Bans E-Cigarettes in Workplaces, Just B ...
    Yesterday the Boston Public Health Commission voted to ban the use of electronic cigarettes in workplaces, including outdoor areas such as restaurant patios. It says it is simply "clos[ing] a loophole" by "treat[ing] e-cigarettes like tobacco products." But since e-cigarettes do no ...
  • Higher Ed & Jobs: Former Reasoner Virginia ...
      Former Reason Editor Virginia Postrel talks with Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds on PJTV's Instavision. Topics include the higher education bubble, why people are opting for college rather than high-demand fields such as machining, and more. Well worth watching. Read P ...

Mercury Rising

  • Friday Cat Blogging
    I met this fine gentleman at a farm in Michigan. When he’s not busy keeping rodents out of the animal feed, he snoopervises the farm workers and deigns to accept compliments from visitors.
  • The slave mentality of Congress, unconstitutio ...
    Democrats who do not believe that the Constitution exists: Casey Conrad Hagan Inouye Kohl Landrieu Levin Lieberman (Lieberman doesn’t believe in the Constitution either, but not a Dem) Manchin McCaskill Menendez Ben Nelson Pryor Reed Shaheen Stabenow Whitehouse Republicans who believe that ...
  • Run! Hide! An analysis of the Egyptian elections
    The right wing is doubtless cowering under their desks at the news that the first round of the Egyptians may have brought an outright majority to Islamists (The Muslim Brotherhood 40% and the Salafis 25%). I don’t see the actual percentages reported in the New York Times (they finally appe ...
  • Murdoch Government Hacking Scandal: The Guardi ...
    Following up on Charles’ post, here is what you currently get when you type the words “murdoch government computer hack” into Google: There should be two (2) things that strike the reader: 1) Holy crap. Rupert Murdoch’s people felt they were such studs that they could hac ...
  • A bunch of communists
    (Via Barry Ritholtz) Really, having about 1000 people control corporations with trillions of dollars of revenue, and thereby control the political system more closely resembles the Soviet Politburo than it does a democracy.

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • 'Robin Hood' protesters arrested in NYC
    Ten Occupy Wall Street protesters, dressed as English folk hero “Robin Hood,” have been arrested in New York City during a demonstration linking AIDS activism with their movement.
  • Pakistanis slam NATO cross-border raid
    Thousands of people in Pakistan have held rallies to protest against a recent NATO cross-border airstrike in the country's northwest that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers, Press TV reports.
  • 'Britain unable to undermine Iran'
    Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have imposed new sanctions against some Iranian individuals and companies after failing to impose an embargo on the country's oil sector.
  • 'Azerbaijan eyes further Iran ties'
    A senior Azeri military official has expressed Azerbaijan's enthusiasm to develop ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran in different spheres of collaboration.
  • Blast hits NATO base in E Afghanistan
    A powerful bomb has exploded near the entrance to a NATO military base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar, reportedly wounding five people.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Spending Patterns for Prescription Drugs Under ...
    The centerpiece of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act) was the creation of Medicare Part D, a subsidized pharmaceutical benefit that went into effect in 2006. That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion o ...
  • Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
    As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
  • An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
    The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...
  • Federal Budget Deficit for Fiscal Year 2011: $ ...
    Last month, the Treasury Department reported that the federal government incurred a budget deficit of $1.3 trillion for fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the deficit declined slightly—from 9 ...

Naked Scientists - News

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