4 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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IPS - Inter Press Services

• CLIMATE CHANGE-AFRICA: Marching for 100 Percen ...
  Chanting loudly, thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets to the venue of the 17th United Nations Climate Change Conference to demand that their voices be heard for "immediate and drastic" carbon emission reductions to save the planet.
• AFGHANISTAN: Land Triggers New Conflicts
  A small plot of urban land has pitted Assadullah, 55, against an unwelcome neighbour in a bitter personal property dispute that has stretched on for almost a decade.
• Rejecting Apology, U.S. May Hasten End of Paki ...
  President Barack Obama has sided with U.S. military and Defence Department officials in rejecting a proposal by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan for a U.S. apology for last weekend's attack on two Pakistani border posts, and approving an investigation into the attack that won't be complet ...
• U.S. Inaction on Climate is "Criminal", Activi ...
  The United States' delegation at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCC) in Durban, South Africa has come under heavy fire from civil society leaders and activists around the globe for standing in the way of re ...
• EGYPT: Round One Goes to the Islamists
  Islamists appear poised for a landslide victory in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, putting them on track to secure a majority in the country's first parliament since the fall of president Hosni Mubarak.

My AntiWar

• 12 Protesters Arrested during British Embassy ...
  Summary: Radan announced on Wednesday that police forces have arrested those who entered the embassy. He stressed that a number of those who entered the embassy building had been arrested while necessary measures had been taken to arrest more people involved in the embassy occupation which took ...
• Highest Regard for Pakistan’s Sovereignt ...
• Ijaz Claims Zardari, Haqqani Knew About Abbott ...
• US Vice-President Ticks Off Arabs for Gag on F ...
• Haqqani, Zardari Were Unaware of Abbotabad Op: US

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Iran military downs US spy drone
  Summary: A senior Iranian military official says Iran's Army has shot down a remote-controlled reconnaissance drone operated by the US military in the eastern part of the country. source: PressTVread more
• 12 Protesters Arrested during British Embassy ...
  Summary: Radan announced on Wednesday that police forces have arrested those who entered the embassy. He stressed that a number of those who entered the embassy building had been arrested while necessary measures had been taken to arrest more people involved in the embassy occupation which to ...
• 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Weekend Update: Kepler Space Mission Locates 1 ...
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) using twin telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, surveyed about 300 stars, and focussed on those dubbed “retired” A-type stars that are more than one and a half times more massive...
• TechAlert: Google Opens 1st Android Store
  Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said recently that Apple's biggest advantage over Android tablets was its network of unique retail stores. This week Australia's Google operator Telstra has launched Androidland, the first brick-and-mortar store space in Melbourne on Thursday created in...
• China Announces 'Extraterrestrial Post Office'
  China's national post office is hoping to boost business by allowing customers to send letters postmarked from space. Emails will be sent to a computer aboard Tiangong-1 spacecraft currently orbiting the earth, and rerouted to a special China Space Post...
• "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...

Natural News

• Amazing food fact: The main ingredient in tapi ...
  (NaturalNews) After rice and wheat, the most important human carbohydrate source is not what you might guess. It's not the starchy potato, or any of the major sweetener-producing crops (sugar cane, sugar beet or corn). It's a tropical tuber known by the names cassava, manioc and yucca (in Spanis ...
• FDA: Pet treats imported from China can cause ...
  (NaturalNews) A recent uptick in adverse event reports has prompted the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a fresh warning to pet owners about the potential toxicity of certain pet treats imported from China. MSNBC reports that at least 70 dogs so far this year have been sickened or ...
• Fast food nutrition facts - mystery ingredient ...
  (NaturalNews) Many people think occasional junk food indulgence can be balanced out by skipping meals later in the week or by putting in some extra time on the treadmill. The truth is that the consequences of this type of eating can turn up in unexpected ways, often years later as toxins accumul ...
• Exposed: Food manufacturers, not the FDA, have ...
  (NaturalNews) There are currently more than 10,000 chemical food additives permitted for use in foods today. But at least 3,000 of these have never undergone proper US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety reviews, and have instead essentially been "approved" for use by the chemical companie ...
• Wi-Fi radiation from laptops may cause inferti ...
  (NaturalNews) Laptops with wi-fi technology have given us the capability to connect to the internet almost anywhere, but now researchers say wi-fi radiation may also be giving us more infertility by decreasing sperm motility and damaging DNA in sperm. Is Your Wi-Fi Laptop Hurting Your Sperm? ...

Threat Level

• Carrier IQ Admits Holding ‘Treasure Trove’ of ...
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- An embattled phone-monitoring software maker said Friday that its wares, secretly installed on some 150 million phones, have the capacity to log web usage, and to chronicle where and when and to what numbers calls and text messages were sent and received. The Carrier ...
• Occupy Catch-22: Boston Cops Throw Out the Kit ...
  Yes, it has come to this — cops and Occupy protestors at one of the last major encampments in the United States are fighting over a kitchen sink. Boston police moved in with heavy force on Thursday’s General Assembly meeting in Boston’s Dewey Square to remove a DIY grey-water s ...
• 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• For Romney, Abortion is No Longer Personal
  A devastating new DNC ad this week has once again highlighted Mitt Romney's gymnastic flip-flops on the issue of abortion. Rushing to his defense, conservative Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker claimed his opportunism was instead deeply principled, declaring "Romney's own change of hear ...
• GOP: Cut Payroll Tax by Cutting Federal Payroll
  Last year, Republicans successfully waged a scorched-earth campaign to preserve at all costs the Bush tax cuts for the richest two percent of Americans. Back then, Arizona Senator Jon Kyl defended the Treasury-draining, $70 billion a year windfall for the wealthy by proclaiming, "you should nev ...
• 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 ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Ma Nature, the Happy Toilet – BP on Trial at t ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com For Greenpeace.org Nov. 28, 2011 [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. But this time, I was outdoors, with a patrol ...
• From State Debt to State Money by Rudo de Ruijter
  By Rudo de Ruijter Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Independent researcher www.courtfool.info Netherlands Nov. 28, 2011 Brussels wants the keys to the national treasuries of the 17 Euro-countries. Only this way can they save the Euro, they say. The ESM-treaty has already been signed. If the national ...
• Deranged Senate Votes for Military Detention o ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 2 December 2011 Yesterday the shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the Nat ...
• Not Made in America by Ralph Nader
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 30, 2011 “Here, look at this handsome L.L. Bean catalog and tell me what you want for Christmas,” said a relative over Thanksgiving weekend. I started leafing through the 88 page cornucopia with hundreds of clothing and household pro ...
• Rick Rozoff: Rampant Militarization of the Wor ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 29, 2011 Voice of Russia November 29, 2011 Does the West want to start arms race in Europe? John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list an ...

Consortium News

• Bringing the ‘War on Terror’ Home
• Robin Hood of the Information Age
• Are Americans in Line for Gitmo?
• Prepping Americans for an Iran War
• Three Pillars of a Revived Republic

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

• Cherry-Picked Climate Science Quotes in Context
    via University of East Anglia Professor Phil Jones, and his colleagues, explain the context of some of the phrases cherry-picked from the thousands of emails (1995-2009) posted on the web on November 22, 2011. Because of the volume of messages, this is inevitably a small selection that ha ...
• Obama: 1/2 Good?
    If you look at one or two segments of the Obama administration’s work — clean energy and energy efficiency — he looks like a total green leader. And as someone who covers those sectors for a living over on CleanTechnica, I can say that I am tremendously grateful for the ...
• Banks: Worst of the Worst (20 Worst)
  A number of NGOs have ranked the world’s ‘top’ banks on how dirty they are, based on how much money they give to coal projects. The report released by the NGOs is titled, “Bankrolling Climate Change.” Can you guess the top contributors to climate change? Before we l ...
• Tea Party More & More Fringe on Global Warming
    Truthfully, it feels like fantasy that I’m even writing about how much people from different parties believe in global warming or human-caused global warming. The U.S. is essentially the only country in the world with so much of its population confused about the science of global wa ...
• Thawing Permafrost Could Set World on Runaway ...
  To be honest, this is not a surprise to me — I’ve read many hints of this for years, and most climate science predictions, in general, seem to be too conservative (i.e. end up modeling slower warming than actually occurs). But, this new study has made the rounds on major media sites ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Bangladesh: natural sediment may shield ground ...
  Contamination of deep groundwater with arsenic from shallower sources may not be as serious as feare
• Environment: Pesticide pollution common in Eur ...
  The Elbe River. Ibuprofen and chemicals from personal care products found in surprising concentratio
• Damn the big dams
  Energy is needed Increased power is needed in the rapid developing world we have today. The need for
• Back to School time means back to polluting fo ...
  The first installment in the OELC’s report on the State’s Clean Water Act Violations in Ohio (
• Holistic Health - Living Water Vortex Jug
  The Living Water Vortex Jug restructures water to remove the harmful energies of the pollutants that

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• "To be a voice for Shahidullah" by Kathleen Ki ...
  by Kathleen Kirwin, Esq. Guest Writer Dandelion Salad The Revolutionary Legal Front Oct. 28, 2011 Im
• US Military Confirms Washington’s Secret New W ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia 29 October 2011 East African “Dr
• Trade Theory Financialized by Michael Hudson
  by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com October 26, 2011 Trade a
• Rick Rozoff: NATO Planning First Strike Operat ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism O
• Occupy The World... And The Values Revolution! ...
  By Gary Corseri Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 29 October 2011 Last week, Barbara “wah-wah” Walters

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 ...
• How Newt Destroyed Congress
  By @KYYellowDog I'm with Barney Frank: we have not lived good enough lives to deserve Newt Gingrich as the repug nominee for president. But the scams and the affairs are nothing compared to the havoc he wreaked on the ability of Congress to get anything done. Steve Benen: Over the summer, Davi ...
• Did the "Reagan Revolution" ever make sense?
  By @TedFrier What does it say about the Republican Party that its arguments for extending the Bush tax cuts are utterly irrational, inconsistent and incoherent? That's what Peter Canellos, editorial page editor of the Boston Globe, wants to know. As I have said before, I think what it says is th ...
• Out of Their Own Mouths: Dominionism
  By @KYYellowDog If you've never encountered one of these fanatics in person, it's hard to accept that they are for real. But they are. And they are far more numerous and powerful than you imagine. They rarely reveal themselves like this: Even though Michele Bachmann's viability as a candi ...
• The Breakthrough That Will Free You From Your ...
  By @KYYellowDog This is the holy grail of energy to me.  Batteries with super storage capacity are the one thing needed to make individual power generation off the grid a reality. Right now, no matter how much energy you generate with solar panels, windmills, etc., you can't use it directly ...

Care 2

• Turtles help one another--video
  Because it's Friday & we need something light & encouraging. Cheer for the turtles! Submitted by Chaplain Andrea to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Neglected Birds Pops Out of Box To Meet Rescue ...
  Several years ago I worked as a senior rehabilitator for a wild bird rescue organization. The local humane society didnt have a bird rescue program, so they called us whenever wild birds were turned in by the public. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat  |   Note ...
• Jake The Dog Loves Watching The Movie 'Babe'
  Even dogs can have their favorite movies. Fox and Friends reported on an 11-year-old border collie named Jake who loves -- really, loves -- the movie "Babe." His owner, Anita Foote, of Medina, Ohio, has gone through 10 VCRs and 26 VHS tapes of the movie Submitted by BarbCat Sunshine Lady to Off ...
• Billionaire: Raise My Taxes!
  See 1st comment Submitted by TomCat S. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Cri ...
  "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."-Thomas Jefferson 1812 Submitted by Michael Dewey to World  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

Smirking Chimp

• Dateline: Tahrir Square
• Rejecting Apology, U.S. May Hasten End of Paki ...
• What to Replace the Imprison-Americans Bill With
• I Wanna Be
• Carrier IQ and Orwell’s “Big Brother”

Paul Krugman

• Irving Fisher Rules
  Debt deflation deja vu.
• Explaining Business Investment
  It's low demand.
• Things People Said
  Be veww, vewy afraid.
• Friday Night Music: Civil Wars
  Better than talking economics.
• Meh. And I Say That With Feeling
  Another inadequate jobs report.

No Quarter

• Hot Rock Stars on the Hunt
  Beautiful young women, yes? And they are hot on the campaign trail. Their song? Well, listen for yourselves. These women are, of course, Liddy, Abby and Mary Anne Huntsman (also known as the Jon2012 Girls) singing a parody of Justin Timberlake’s “Sexy Back.” Father and Republican Presidential ca ...
• Obama, “Aloha From Hawaii – The Rest Of You St ...
  Yes, it is that time of year again, when Obama and Family head off to Hawaii for a bit of R&R. Obama’s SEVENTEEN day vacation is set to start on December 17th. His office said he had no public events planned. In other words, this is a total vacation from all of his hard work. [...]
• Newt’s Challenge: Pass the Popcorn!
  Newt Gingrich is so confident he is going to win the Republican nomination that he is inviting his competitors to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate, according to the Washington Post. So, who is accepting Newt’s challenge and who declined? Accepted: Jon Huntsman Declined: Mitt Romney Is Romney afrai ...
• One Frustrated Letter to the President, or many…
  Billionaire and erstwhile Obama supporter, Leon G Cooperman, the child of immigrants who rose from nothing and had a 25-year career at Goldman Sachs before becoming CEO of Omega Advisors just penned an open letter to the President encouraging him in the strongest possible language to dial back t ...
• Delusional America
  Folks, I will start with a crude by vivid example. What would you think of a guy who claimed to have ten inches of a hot love machine dangling between his legs when in fact he barely reached five inches? Well, that’s what America now is. Packing a stubby while claiming to have a monster [...]

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

• Book review - Mmegi Online
  Book review Mmegi Online CMT was set up to save the breeding ground of a rare bird, but was really a front for total denuding, or Mountain Top Removal. They are in a state of denial and in love. Oddly, 20-year-old Joey and his father in his mid-40s have both sold their soul to ...
• 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 ... ...

Memeorandum

• The Profits on the Secret $7.7 Trillion Loans ...
  Cynthia Kouril / Firedoglake: The Profits on the Secret $7.7 Trillion Loans to TBTF Banks  —  Elliot Spitzer has an excellent article up at Slate about the $7.7 trillion secret loans that the Fed made to the nation's biggest banks.  He wants criminal and Congressional inves ...
• Huntsman's Cash-Poor Campaign Gets Help From F ...
  Jim Rutenberg / New York Times: Huntsman's Cash-Poor Campaign Gets Help From Father  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the most frequently shown Republican campaign commercial here so far, a grouchy cast of characters complain that “no one has shown up we can trust as a conse ...
• U.S. Drug Agents Launder Profits of Mexican Ca ...
  Ginger Thompson / New York Times: U.S. Drug Agents Launder Profits of Mexican Cartels  —  WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington's expanding role in Mexico's fight against drug ...
• Sexual Assault Reported At Occupy Hartford Cam ...
  David McKay / Hartford Courant: Sexual Assault Reported At Occupy Hartford Camp  —  Fox CT  —  Police said they had received an anonymous call from South Chapel and Main Street Thursday reporting a sex assault that took place at the Occupy Hartford camp at Broad ...
• Iowa Poll: Gingrich leads GOP pack, then Paul, ...
  Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses: Iowa Poll: Gingrich leads GOP pack, then Paul, Romney  —  With the dizzying fall of Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich has stepped into the breach and now stands alone as the most popular GOP presidential candidate in The Des Moines Register's new Iowa P ...

Energy & Environment News

• Record Jump in Carbon Emissions in 2010, Study ...
  Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by 5.9 percent, upending the notion that a decline during the recession might persist.
• Green Blog: Carbon Emissions Jumped in 2010, R ...
  Researchers say the high growth rate reflects a bounce-back from a 1.4 percent drop in emissions in 2009, the year the recession had its biggest impact.
• Green Blog: Ruffalo Takes Lead in Anti-Frackin ...
  Next stop on his protest agenda: Dimock, Pa., where the controversial natural gas drilling process known as fracking is already under way.
• Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Fighting Over Gulf ...
  A request by the plaintiffs’ steering committee for a 6 percent share of settlements yet to be paid angers individual lawyers who call it a money grab.
• The Champions: Dan Boren, Oklahoma Lawmaker, S ...
  Representative Dan Boren of Oklahoma is a champion in Washington of an industry that is experiencing a historic boom but also increasing scrutiny.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.4, Papua, Indonesia
  Sunday, December 4, 2011 18:53:03 UTC Monday, December 5, 2011 03:53:03 AM at epicenterDepth: 41.60 km (25.85 mi)
• M 5.2, near the east coast of the Kamchatka Pe ...
  Sunday, December 4, 2011 15:55:28 UTC Monday, December 5, 2011 03:55:28 AM at epicenterDepth: 25.90 km (16.09 mi)
• M 5.2, Baja California Sur, Mexico
  Sunday, December 4, 2011 15:35:37 UTC Sunday, December 4, 2011 08:35:37 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.1, Kermadec Islands region
  Sunday, December 4, 2011 14:45:38 UTC Monday, December 5, 2011 02:45:38 AM at epicenterDepth: 99.20 km (61.64 mi)
• M 5.2, northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  Sunday, December 4, 2011 10:23:54 UTC Sunday, December 4, 2011 07:23:54 AM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

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

• In Historic Move, Iceland Becomes the First We ...
  Cross-posted from Tikkun Daily. by David Harris-Gershon On Tuesday, Iceland became the first Western European nation to pass a parliamentary motion recognizing Palestine as an independent state. The motion – symbolically passed on the United Nation’s annual day of solidarity with the ...
• A Non-Mystery and Obligatory Question: What Ra ...
  High comedy: so Ginger White’s business partner preferred to date black men, but she disliked black women’s hair. Hmmmm…the plot thickens. How twisted indeed is the intimate relationship between blacks and whites, feet intertwined mid-coitus on the cotton bale, but the mystery ...
• National Disgrace Rises in Illinois Corn Count ...
  In a blatant disregard of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act, among other regulatory guidelines, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has quietly entangled itself in an inane and potentially deadly coal slurry scandal. If allowed to continue construction under its viol ...
• The News You Did and Didn’t Hear From Bi ...
  The pharmaceutical industry had two things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. Three new wrongdoing settlements that broke right before the holiday were buried among yam and traffic jam news–and a new sleeping pill that isn’t new at all but just Ambien with a new name became ...
• After the Deficit Committee, A New Propaganda ...
  Since the deficit committee officially failed to produce a plan as of last week, expect the war profiteer spin to hit the fan. Here’s an early warning of what to expect, courtesy of Reuters last week: Failure of a special congressional committee to strike a deficit-reduction deal is expect ...

Threat Level

• Carrier IQ Admits Holding ‘Treasure Trove’ of ...
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, California -- An embattled phone-monitoring software maker said Friday that its wares, secretly installed on some 150 million phones, have the capacity to log web usage, and to chronicle where and when and to what numbers calls and text messages were sent and received. The Carrier ...
• Occupy Catch-22: Boston Cops Throw Out the Kit ...
  Yes, it has come to this — cops and Occupy protestors at one of the last major encampments in the United States are fighting over a kitchen sink. Boston police moved in with heavy force on Thursday’s General Assembly meeting in Boston’s Dewey Square to remove a DIY grey-water s ...
• 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 ...

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PDA AMERICA

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

Marler Blog

• 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

• Breaking: Aptera pulls the plug
  Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Electric Just over a month ago, Aptera was promising rebirth with Aptera 2.0. The promise will not be kept. Today, the company announced it is closing its doors, effective immediately. In an email to supporters, president and CEO Paul Wilbur wrote, "We ...
• Official: GM will loan free cars to Chevy Volt ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric GM may have designed the Chevrolet Volt to cancel out potential "range anxiety," but the company is responding to a new type of worry today: fear that the Volt's battery will catch fire. The problem? A Volt that had been crash tested in May ca ...
• Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: Holiday tech buying update
  We are in the middle of the holiday buying season right now, between the first rush of gift-buying that happened on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and the "Oh, crap, I need to start buying presents!" feeling that happens in about a week. This is the most important month for the consumer tech ...
• Hands-on with Color's live, silent video 'Visits'
  Color for Facebook is an alternative mobile client app for the social network. It focuses on photo and video sharing ...
• Freaky-weird mobile search app, Leap2, actuall ...
  It looks like a slot machine has taken over a search app. But it's worth a shot. ...
• Facebook, Nielsen to devs: Smartphones are you ...
  At the AppNation conference in San Francisco, Facebook and Nielsen execs roll out data to show why developers should ...
• What hump? Personal's private database faces c ...
  A nice product for storing personal data could be undone by two big hurdles it has to overcome. ...

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!

• Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" f ...
  Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "Up with Chris Hayes" on Sat. Dec 3rd, 2011, live from Durban, South Africa, site of the UN’s climate change conference. Watch the full interview here: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/03/9192590-amy-goodman-on-glob ...
• Mohawk Youth Activist Jessica Yee on Why She i ...
  Johannesburg, South Africa — Democracy Now! speaks with Mohawk youth activist Jessica Yee about what brings her to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. In this interview, Yee describes how South Africa based the legal framework for apartheid on U.S. and Canadian ...
• Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 12/ ...
  Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear live from Durban, South Africa on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday, December, 3rd at 7am EST to discuss the UN Climate Change Summit Global Day of Action.
• 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 ...

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

• Quote du Jour
  “He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love will not have anything to give others. He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego ...
• Assange: Using iPhone, Gmail, BlackBerry? You& ...
  By RT News Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks at a press conference at City University London in central London December 1, 2011 (AFP Photo / LEON NEAL) Continue reading the article . . . Solari Report Blog Commentaries WikiLeaks Posts all US Cables Unredacted [...]
• 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 ...

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

• GOP Can't Erase Dems From Political Map
  The GOP has faced unexpected setbacks in the redistricting process.
• Occupy Crackdowns: Naomi Wolf's Response to My ...
  Wolf wants to have a wide-ranging discussion of everything but her many logical leaps and factual errors.
• Naomi Wolf's Response to My Critique Largely E ...
  Wolf wants to have a wide-ranging discussion of everything but her many logical leaps and factual errors.
• 20 Ways the Obama Administration Has Intruded ...
  Is there a fundamental difference between the Bush presidency and the Obama presidency in the area of domestic civil liberties?
• How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our C ...
  Drones play an increasing role in foreign wars, on the border, and in Congress.

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

• Father Vincent Capodanno and the Meaning of “S ...
  Summary:  As we move into what look like some difficult years, we can gain strength from Americans of the past.  They pass on to us their history — and an implicit burden.  To care for our fellow Americans.  And to defend America as they did, from all enemies foreign and domestic.  Today&# ...
• Question time on the FM website – chapter 14
  Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We — and others reading the FM website — will attempt to answer it in the comments.   All answers welcomed! Like Jeopardy, your comments must be in the form of a question! Please use the REPLY button when replying to a previous com ...
• 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 ...

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

• Transitioning Toward Anarchy in Afghanistan
  The second phase of the transition of security responsibility from ISAF/NATO to Afghan Security Forces has begun (the first phase began in July 2011).  This means that roughly 50% of the population will now be under the protection of Afghan troops. Some of the areas being handed o ...
• Australia: Part of the Nonproliferation Soluti ...
  Australia has for many years been a leader in establishing more robust barriers against nuclear proliferation, including its key role in the negotiation of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and negotiation of the 1985 South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty (SPNFZ). Article 4 of the ...
• Where Is the Nuclear Taboo?
  Apparently wide swaths of the US public approve of the use of nuclear weapons in non-retaliatory circumstances. Randomly selected groups of survey respondents were told that the nuclear and conventional attacks would either be equally effective or that the nuclear attack had a greater chance of ...
• Danielle Pletka: Iran Living Peacefully with N ...
  The hawks on the American Enterprise Institute’s foreign policy team are usually quick to hype the threat of a nuclear Iran and warn anyone who will listen that a nuclear armed Iran would spell doomsday for Israel and regional stability in the Middle East. But Danielle Pletka, the vice pre ...
• South Ossetia
  If you're that rare sort of person who doesn't avidly follows political machinations in South Caucasus breakaway republics, then you're missing some surprising developments in South Ossetia. RFE provides some good background: read more

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Congress in Action
  For your weekend viewing pleasure, from official Monkey Cage cartoonist Ted McCagg:
• Cain's Book Tour Comes to an End
  Earlier this week, Herman Cain announced that he was "reassessing" his campaign in light of the allegations he had an extramarital affair and charges of sexual harassment. This afternoon — in an event marked by fanfare and enthusiasm — Cain followed up on that announcement with a decision to su ...
• Schooling Capitalism
  This week both coasts saw student marches on Monday and big city police raids on Tuesday. As the chancellors of the University of California met by teleconference, students through the UC system held demonstrations and teach-ins opposing tuition hikes and police violence. At UC Davis, they call ...
• Game Plan
  With its labor dispute nearly behind it, the NBA is facing another mammoth problem: winning fans back. In a time when the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high and the economy won’t grow, many basketball fans viewed the NBA strike as an ugly and petty fight of rich players against wealthy o ...
• What to Read Before You Unwonk for the Weekend
    Ted Widmer's op-ed on the difficulty of being in the third-year of a presidential administration is beautifully-written, chockfull of wonkalicious presidential history, and very smart. If you're going to read one article before the weekend, make it this one.  If you have time to read only two ...

Buzzflash

• The U.S. Can't Survive With a Stubbornly Low L ...
  Body   One of the most daunting tasks this country faces isn't the deficit or tax policy or how big the government is. Rather it is convincing ourselves and the world that we are a serious people. Nothing about the current political scene suggests that we have begun to mount the ...
• A Santorum-Bachmann Ticket Would Be Like Elect ...
  MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Rev. Cary Gordon of Iowa wants you to know that the evangelical community should get behind two candidates who best represent "faith and family." In case you don't know of Reverend Gordon, he introduces himself in an endorsement video. In an email ...
• Class Warfare in Canada Orchestrated By Right- ...
  Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout In a move that may have been at least partially plucked from the handbook of Republican Party political consultant Frank Luntz, Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks to privatize Canada's social services, exacerbating divisions among Canadians. In 1960, ...
• Looks Like There Will Be a Vote to Recall Wisc ...
  What if Occupy Wall Street is really part of a continuum of progressive mobilization that has been occurring for some time? Take for example the Wisconsin uprising against Gov. Scott Walker that began months ago and drew more than 100,000 people to the small state capital of Madison. For days, ...
• New York Foreclosure Firm That Threw “Homeless ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Considering the hard time these crooks And banks were giving To many honest folks, this is what I call A Happy Thanksgiving. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/homeless_halloween_firm_goes_under.php?ref=skyboxes

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

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

The BiPartisan Report

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

Sciencebase

• 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

• New Joint Federal Guidance Will Lead to Increa ...
  New guidance from the Department of Education and Department of Justice issued today to school districts across the country explains how schools, colleges, and universities can, through voluntary policies, permissibly consider the race of students in carefully constructed plans to promote divers ...
• New Joint Federal Guidance Will Lead to Increa ...
  New guidance from the Department of Education and Department of Justice issued today to school districts across the country explains how schools, colleges, and universities can, through voluntary policies, permissibly consider the race of students in carefully constructed plans to promote divers ...
• Advocates for Safe, Clean, Affordable Water Op ...
  In a move to protect New Jersey consumers from skyrocketing drinking and wastewater bills, Food & Water Watch and thirteen other organizations today urged the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to implement a 60 day public comment period and hold public hearings on a proposed system ...
• Advocates for Safe, Clean, Affordable Water Op ...
  In a move to protect New Jersey consumers from skyrocketing drinking and wastewater bills, Food & Water Watch and thirteen other organizations today urged the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) to implement a 60 day public comment period and hold public hearings on a proposed system ...
• Activists Found Guilty in Drone Trial
  The New York Times is reporting that President Obama will not apologize for the recent drone strike that killed over 20 Pakistani soldiers earlier this week.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Why Occupy Protesters Marched from Wall Street ...
  Elizabeth Flock read more
• Restore Democracy to the People with 28th Amen ...
  John Bonifaz America is at a crossroads. Shall we be governed by people or by corporations? If you thought we had already answered that question more than two centuries ago, you’re right. The framers of our Constitution were clear tha ...
• Obama Could Save the Durban Climate Talks with ...
  Joss Garman The big question in Durban is whether an extraordinarily obstructive Obama administration is days away from killing this long climate process and burying its corpse next to the Doha round of trade talks.read more
• A New York Spider Gave Me an Insight into US P ...
  Laurie Penny It started with a spider. Someone with a taste for narrative justice might call it retribution, but there's really no moral correlation between the wisdom of absconding with a relative stranger after a party and waking up t ...
• Arab Revolutions and the Power of Nonviolent A ...
  Stephen Zunes While sitting in a Cairo café just a couple blocks from Tahrir Square recently, I couldn’t help but notice the television in the corner broadcasting the evening news. Traditionally, TV news in Egypt and other Arab ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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• Ex D.N.I. Blair: The Hippies Were Right (Again)
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• The U.S. Has Created The Next Afghan Civil War
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Water Wars

• EPD director nominee is veteran of water wars
  ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has nominated the executive counsel for his predecessor as the next director of the state Environmental Protection Division... a man who is a veteran of the water wars with Florida and Alabama.
• Climate change: red alert or red herring?
  Climate experts have been drawing a doomsday scenario with threats of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, water wars and other calamities that can be blamed on global warming.
• Water wars
  Weekly Poll Are you willing to give up your right to free plastic bags? Not on your life, hippie. It's a minor inconvenience to help save the environment.
• 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.

WordPress | Economics

• Christmas rates > Last chance
  The Reserve Bank board meets on Tuesday for the final time this year with more and more experts pred
• AAA ratings are a beauty contest - someone has ...
  Duncan worries that the UK might lose its treble AAA sovereign debt rating. I think this is mistaken
• 旧日笔记(3)——《市场的逻辑》笔记
  市场的逻辑——张维迎 利润来自于三方面：不确定性，创新，和品牌效应。 利润是一种责任。企业家拿剩余收入，承担的是剩余责任。雇员拿合同收入，承担的是过失责任。作为老板，只要你没发现别人有错误，除了问题全
• Not a Winning Plan if You’re Interested in Lon ...
  Call me a geek, but I was surfing the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site today. I came across a sel
• 旧日笔记(1)——经济观察报读存
  把一两年前写的东西搬过来贴在一起，方便回顾 经济观察报笔记 2009上半年 多记录些有用的东西，少发些浅薄的牢骚。 0. 这是一个极度宽容、乃至没有原则的社会，儒释道在庙堂的共处，是再普遍不过的现象。

Electronic Intifada

• Netanyahu shattering the myth of Israeli democracy
  Jonathan Cook The Electronic Intifada Nazareth It takes some chutzpah — or, at least, epic self-delusion — for Israel’s prime minister to be lecturing the Arab world on liberalism and democracy at this moment.
• Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evi ...
  Charlotte Silver The Electronic Intifada A civil suit filed by the family of Tristan Anderson, a US activist seriously injured by the Israeli army during a protest, has been delayed due to the revelation of new material evidence.
• 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 Wonk Room

• Rick Perry Fails Govt 101: Claims Executive Or ...
  During Mike Huckabee’s Presidential Forum on Saturday night, Rick Perry repeatedly insisted that the president has the authority to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, despite a recent Government Accountability Office report finding to the contrary. “The executive or ...
• WMO: 2011 Is Warmest La Niña Year on Record an ...
  Global temperatures in 2011 are currently the tenth highest on record and are higher than any previous year with a La Niña event, which has a relative cooling influence. The 13 warmest years have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2011 was the second lowest ...
• China: a ‘legally binding’ emissio ...
  “We do not rule out the possibility of legally binding. It is possible for us, but it depends on the negotiations,” Su Wei, China’s lead negotiator, said – speaking in English – at a media briefing on the sidelines of the two-week talks in South Africa, Reuters repo ...
• Cops Arrest Protesters Then Lock Themselves Ou ...
  Police officers in Springfield, Missouri, arriving to arrest protesters there, ran into a bit of trouble last month when they locked themselves out of their van. “Mic Check! The police seem to have locked themselves out of their van!” said protesters. Watch it:
• In Suspending Campaign, Herman Cain Blames The ...
  Moments ago, Herman Cain — whose campaign has been dogged by allegations of sexual harassment first unearthed and reported by Politico about two months ago — announced that he is suspending his campaign “because of these false and unproved accusations” that have inflicted ...

thwap's schoolyard

• So, What's Going to Happen to Tony Clement?
  "Two-Tier Tony." Because he wants rich people to have their own private health insurance so that they can see doctors in Canada as fast as possible while people with lower incomes either get bankrupted or die. Because he's a "Conservative" (not "conservative"), which is to say, he's an asshole. ...
• Racist Canada
  Racism founded on ignorance. Fuck-heads who always want to blame the First Nations for everything are ignorant about how things get done on First Nations reserves under the Indian Act. Here's an invaluable guide to the reality at Attawapiskat if you haven't already seen it. But I've really go ...
• 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 ...

on Government Oversight

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Digital Journal

• Canada Ethnic Media Chief Blames Manila for Jo ...
  Canada's ethnic media guru was decrying the recent murders in the Philippines but his words seem to have fallen on deaf ears in the rush to have a party.
• Skier dies on Canadian slopes
  A 20-year-old skier Will Schooler lost his life at the weekend after hitting his head in an accident in Canada’s southeastern British Columbia community of Nelson where he was taking a ski resort management course at Selkirk College.
• Philippines Launches Diplomatic Offensive in C ...
  The Philippines' highest diplomatic official in Canada spoke to Toronto-based media practitioners and enlisted their support in a move to improve the image of the Southeast Asian nation.
• Canadians embrace Black Friday, Cyber Monday deals
  Canadian shoppers are readily embracing the shopping traditions of their cross-border counterparts, according to new data released by Canada's leading debit and credit processor.
• Toronto Mayor: 'I'm not talking to the Star un ...
  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, alongside City Manager Joe Pennachetti and Councillors Paul Ainslie and Sarah Doucette, launched the annual Toy Drive at city hall Friday. Ford also talked to reporters about pool shutdowns and the Toronto Star.

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

• Pentagon’s F-35 director says production shoul ...
  The U.S. Department of Defense’s top officer on the F-35, Adm. David Zenlet, has recommended that deliveries of the aircraft be delayed because of the discovery of cracks and “hot spots” during fatigue testing and analysis (Gloria Galloway, “Tories face fresh hurdle with ...
• Aviation Week: Are there alternatives to F-35?
  Further to this post, doubts about the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have now grown to the point where even aviation industry insiders like Aviation Week are asking whether there are alternatives to the troubled aircraft (David A. Fulghum & Bill Sweetman, Are There Alternatives To ...
• 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Hear Real Story of ‘Amityville Horror’ House
  November 9, 2011 FOX PHOENIX By FOX PHOENIX “If the media and Hollywood can spin a tale about a haunted house, just think what else they are misleading you about.” –KTRN A valley man spent decades trying to escape the ghosts of his past. He lived in one of America’s most ...
• Are School Lunches Healthy?
  November 10, 2011 DrAxe.Com By Dr. Josh Axe “It’s almost as if they want the kids to be unhealthy, fat, and sick.  If not, wouldn’t they be serving better meals?” –KTRN Do you eat on the run? Have a drive-thru habit? Grab a daily snack from the vending machine? We’v ...
• Baxter Recalls 300,000 Flu Vaccines For Seriou ...
  November 10, 2011 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “If you take a flu shot, as Kevin would say, you are an ignoramus.” –KTRN Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling roughly 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to what it says is an excessive number ...
• UK Foreign Office: Israel Expected To Attack I ...
  November 10, 2011 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson “If Ron Paul wins, we wont have to worry about getting involved in these wars any longer.  Let them fight it out themselves” –KTRN Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facilities as soon as next month, according to a British Foreig ...
• CNBC Pulls Post-Debate Poll To Prevent Ron Pau ...
  November 10, 2011 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson Rick Perry’s sensational meltdown during last night’s CNBC debate in Michigan could not only serve to doom his entire presidential campaign, it could also help Ron Paul cement his position as a top tier challenger to Herman Cain and Mitt Romney. ...

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

• Arab Spring Moves From Streets To Ballot Box – ...
  By Allen L RolandSaturday, December 3rd, 2011 by Allen L Roland   The Arab spring has become a fall parliamentary election and yet another step toward a true Egyptian Democracy. There are still stumbling blocks ahead but they will most likely be turned into stepping stones by an empowered p ...
• Newt Gingrich ahead in Iowa, Paul second, Romn ...
  Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has surged to the front of the pack in Iowa, while rival Mitt Romney dropped to third place, a month before the state’s key caucuses, a poll showed. Gingrich earned 25 percent support among likely Republican caucus voters polled by the Des Moine ...
• Occupy Empire
  Dissident Voice Article By William Blum When the Vietnam War became history, and the protest signs and the bullhorns were put away, so too was the serious side of most protestors’ alienation and hostility toward the government. They returned, with minimal resistance, to the restless pursui ...
• Clinton speaks with Pakistani PM regarding NAT ...
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Saturday, again offering U.S. condolences over the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in NATO air strikes last week, the State Department said in a statement. The attack sparked ...
• 85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being stri ...
  NICHOLAS HIRSHON New York Daily News December 3, 2011 An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. “I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she said sarcastically. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 ...

Dandelion Salad

• Ma Nature, the Happy Toilet – BP on Tria ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com For Greenpeace.org Nov. 28, 2011 [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. But this time, I was outdoors, with a patrol ...
• From State Debt to State Money by Rudo de Ruijter
  By Rudo de Ruijter Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Independent researcher www.courtfool.info Netherlands Nov. 28, 2011 Brussels wants the keys to the national treasuries of the 17 Euro-countries. Only this way can they save the Euro, they say. The ESM-treaty has already been signed. If the national ...
• Deranged Senate Votes for Military Detention o ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 2 December 2011 Yesterday the shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the Nat ...
• Not Made in America by Ralph Nader
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Nov. 30, 2011 “Here, look at this handsome L.L. Bean catalog and tell me what you want for Christmas,” said a relative over Thanksgiving weekend. I started leafing through the 88 page cornucopia with hundreds of clothing and household pro ...
• Rick Rozoff: Rampant Militarization of the Wor ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism November 29, 2011 Voice of Russia November 29, 2011 Does the West want to start arms race in Europe? John Robles Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list an ...

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

• NIH Accused of Dishonesty Over Chimp Research ...
  After national outcry over its plan to send 209 retired, federally-owned chimpanzees back into traumatic medical research, the National Institutes of Health said it would wait. The chimps' fate would only be decided after independent experts judged whether research was necessary. But animal advo ...
• Could a Higgs Boson Announcement Be Imminent F ...
  Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider could be getting an early Christmas present: the Higgs boson. According to the latest rumors, scientists at the LHC are seeing a signal that could correspond to a Higgs particle with a mass of 125 GeV (a proton is slightly less than 1 GeV).
• Embryonic Turtles Communicate to Coordinate Ha ...
  Murray River turtles communicate with their siblings while they are still in their shells, buried under the soil, in order to coordinate when they hatch.
• 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.

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

• Russian Navy to receive 1st Graney class attac ...
  The delivery of the first Graney class nuclear-powered multipurpose attack submarine to the Russian Navy has been postponed until the end of 2012 due to additional tests of its weapons systems, the Sevmash shipyard said.
• Russia to refit Admiral Nakhimov nuclear cruis ...
  The overhaul of mothballed Admiral Nakhimov nuclear-powered cruiser will start after 2012 with the focus on refitting the ship with advanced weaponry and electronics, the Sevmash shipyard said.
• Russia to start construction of Borey-A class ...
  Russia will start building modernized Borey-A class strategic nuclear-powered submarines in 2012, the Sevmash shipyard said.
• Russia to build hulls for 2 Mistral-class warships
  Russian defense officials previously said Russia would account for 80% of labor inputs in building the third and fourth warships.
• Russian missile cruiser Varyag returns home af ...
  A Russian Pacific Fleet's task force, led by the missile cruiser Varyag, returns to its home base in Vladivostok on Friday, the fleet's spokesman said.

NewsWise

• Global CO2 Emissions and Concentrations Reach ...
  Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have surged to record levels following the 2008-09 global financial crisis, when a stagnant economy resulted in a temporary decline in emissions.
• New ADHD Gene Study Points to Defects in Brain ...
  Pediatric researchers analyzing ADHD have found alterations in specific genes involved in important brain signaling pathways. The study raises the possibility of a new treatment for patients with ADHD having those gene variants.
• Study Reveals How Cells Remove Bits of RNA fro ...
  When RNA component units called ribonucleotides become embedded in genomic DNA, they can cause problems for cells, but not much is known about the fate of these ribonucleotides. A new study identifies two mechanisms cells use to recognize and remove ribonucleotides embedded in genomic DNA.
• 3D-TV and Risk of Seizures in Children
  Certain visual patterns and flashing images can provoke seizures in susceptible individuals, particularly among children and adolescents. Some media reports on the recent introduction of 3D-television sets suggest that this new technology may cause seizures in some viewers. Children who have e ...
• Why Patients Opt For or Against Epilepsy Surge ...
  Epilepsy surgery is safe, effective and often curative in selected candidates. Although candidates for epilepsy surgery in the United States are estimated between 100,000 and 200,000, fewer than 5,000 such surgeries are conducted each year. The cause of this disparity is multi-factorial, inclu ...

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: The Lure of Extraterr ...
  by Austen Parrish Austen Parrish is a Professor of Law and the Vice Dean at Southwestern Law School. I’m grateful to Opinio Juris for inviting me to comment on Marko Milanovic’s book on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties. The book makes a meaningful contribution to an ...
• Milanovic on Extraterritorial Application of H ...
  by Peggy McGuinness Marko Milanovic’s impressive treatment of the rapidly evolving jurisprudence of extraterritoriality of human rights treaties is a must read for anyone teaching or thinking about the international human rights system.  What is most significant for me is Marko’s systematic ...
• 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 ...
• Junior International Law Scholars Association ...
  by Harlan Cohen by Harlan Cohen On February 10, 2012, the University of Georgia is going to have the honor of hosting the Annual Meeting of the Junior International Law Scholars Association (JILSA).  JILSA is a U.S.-based informal support network and community for untenured international law s ...

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

• CHOKING ON APARTHEID � Desertpeace
  CHOKING ON APARTHEID � Desertpeace: Luckily I am far from the only one who boycotts Israel. Last Saturday, November 26, activists in 10 European countries had a day of action under the banner “Take Apartheid off the Menu”. Using flash mobs, demonstrations and lobby actions the human rights campa ...
• Yossi Gurvitz: American Jews shocked as essenc ...
  American Jews shocked as essence of Zionism is exposed [972mag.com] There was nothing particularly new about the ads which so shocked American Jewry. They simply exposed a face of Zionism most American Jews rather not see. In the last few days there has been a hullabaloo about several ads pub ...
• U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effect ...
  U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America - Salem-News.Com: n a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America. This bill, passed late la ...
• Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Of ...
  Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive - Google Groups by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The United States and its allies, principally the French, are positioned to ‘take’ much of the continent with the collaboration of most of its governments.” The United States and it ...
• Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Cri ...
  Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution" | Truthout: The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning. Sitting in a car parked at a gas ...

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

• Immigration scandal sinks David Cunliffe’s lea ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

• We were warned …
  Fifty year old cartoon that tried to warn us…
• Doing well by doing good
  Commercial fishermen in California and the Nature Conservancy are working together on the Central Coast Groundfish Project to help protect declining fish populations and their marine habitat by developing sustainable ways of fishing. Five years ago, the conservancy bought out area fishing boats ...
• Not so smart meters
  The Office of the Public Advocate, a state-authorized advocacy group for utility customers in Maine, reported last week that Central Maine Power customers have contacted the group about interference within their homes from smart meters. The meters run on the same 2.4GHz frequency band as wi-fi ...
• The Southern California water dilemma
  articles.latimes.com So, tell me, does this sound sustainable, or even sensible? Los Angeles purchases hydro power generated from the Hoover Dam, which is nearly 300 miles away in another state, to power giant pumps that hoist water from the Colorado River up 400 feet to Chiriaco Summit near Jos ...
• EU solution to debt crisis will lead to chaos ...
  From Neurope, ‘The European Political Newspaper’, on the proposed solution 1. The EU in general and the Eurozone member states in particular will be conceding their fiscal and borrowing sovereignty to a central authority. This could be achieved either through changes to the European ...

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

• Government Thugs, Terrorists and 93 Treasonous ...
  There is just too much going on to remain still now, isn’t there? Things are getting way too interesting to ignore. I have a little time on the weekends so I thought I’d take the time to write a short commentary on a couple of recent developments. I don’t need to tell you that ...
• Fox News Saturday GOP Presidential Forum Ron P ...
• Ron Paul Not Invited To Republican Jewish Coal ...
    HuffPo The Republican Jewish Coalition declined to invite Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) to its presidential candidates forum next Wednesday in Washington, citing his “misguided and extreme views.” RJC Executive Director Matt Brooks said Paul was not invited because the organization ...
• Do YOU know Newt? (Does Newt know Newt?) &#821 ...
  On the 3rd Party VOW – Meme… THE TRUTH IS: NO RON PAUL SUPPORTER IS VOTING FOR ANY OF THESE NWO FRONT MEN – NOT ONE! So you (the GOP) are not gonna lose any votes in the general election, IE: IF Dr Paul runs 3rd party (and he should if he doesnt “win” the [...]
• “North Americanism” taught to ASU ...
    Diary of a Canadian Nationalist Source I hear Mr. Harper that you seek to destroy our Canadian border, in behalf the Northern Foundation ties described in Trevor Harrison’s Book, Of Passionate Intensity.   According to the movement that you apparently represent, along with form ...

The Air Vent

• Warming Up
  You might think Climategate 2.0 is losing wind due to the light coverage by the media and the “out-of-context” dismissal by Real climate before anyone made any context.  In fact I believe the opposite is happening.  Two new articles are out today and more will be coming as the media ...
• The Gaiamas Spirit
  Trenberth emials a progressives version of the first Noel made up  by a NCAR group incorporating the lead authors of the IPCC AR4.  It seems appropriate for the time of year. #0462 Sung to tune of The first Noel Our First Nobel Our First Nobel, for the IPCC, Goes to Beth, Bette, Bill, Jerry, Kat ...
• Real Science?
  WUWT (a.k.a. the center of the internet) has a post on Trenberth stating that a hurricane disaster non-believer should be fired.   We have to keep the free- thinking scientists in line with the message after all. Here is a section of the post: I responded to his earlier message in a fairly low k ...
• 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 ...

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

• This Week’s Headlines From Across Inside Network
  A roundup of all the news Inside Network brought you between November 28th and December 4th Inside Mobile Apps Tracking the convergence of mobile apps, social platforms and virtual goods.  Monday, November 28th: Free Version of Gamevil’s Cartoon Wars: Gunner … Continue reading →
• Facebook Reportedly Acquires Gowalla, No Confi ...
  Facebook is reportedly acquiring location sharing service Gowalla and bringing “most” of its employees and founder Josh Williams over to Palo Alto headquarters to work on Timeline, according to CNN. We could not get confirmation from Facebook, Gowalla or several investors in … ...
• Facebook Roundup: Privacy, Gambling, Mobile, S ...
  Europe Stifling Facebook’s Targeted Ads – The European Union is set to enact legislation to ban some avenues Facebook uses to create targeted ads, specifically by making Facebook be more transparent about what user data it’s collecting. Spotify Opens Platform … Continue reading →
• Facebook Opening Engineering Office in New Yor ...
  Facebook sent out a press release this morning announcing plans to open an engineering office in New York City during 2012. A 2pm EST video press conference regarding the move features remarks from NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles E. … Continue reading →
• Christmas Apps, Photos, Ustream Live, Horoscop ...
  Christmas applications, Connect integration, horoscopes, Page tabs, and photos made up our list this week. The apps on our list grew from between 110,000 and 260,000 MAU, based on AppData, our data tracking service covering traffic growth for apps on Facebook. … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Occupy CUNY: Education Should Be Ava ...
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ReDress News

• An America that’s never wrong
  Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
• Obama and Israel's security
  Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".
• 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 ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  In Defense of Nullification, Supreme Court to Rule on Corporations’ Liability for Human Rights Violations, CIA Increases the Drone Killings of Pakistanis Who “Might Be Militants”, Pakistan, China Agree to Expand Economic-Defense Cooperation, Rockefeller Center Continues to Supp ...
• What does 9/11 Commission Staffer Doug MacEach ...
  Sorting Through Murky Circumstances, Mystery Opponents & So-Called Supporters By Kevin Fenton  In his recent book The Black Banners, former FBI agent Ali Soufan portrays a key 9/11 Commission staff member, Doug MacEachin, as believing the CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI in ...
• Jamiol Presents
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
  New US War in Africa Moves into the Shadows, Afghan “Reintegration” Scheme a Farce, TARP Banks Got Big Tax Breaks, FBI Calls in the Army to Fix its Counterterrorism Training, UK Army Chief Secretly Visits Tel Aviv, Kyrgyzstan: China Seeks ‘Silk Road’ on Rails, US Veteran ...
• Jamiol Presents

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

• Is There an Occupy 2.0 Post Encampment Evictio ...
  a report on the first major action of Occupy Philly since the encampment was shut down and blockaded. There was a real question of whether people would show up. This gave an answer, bigtime.
• Troy Davis's Sister Succumbs to Cancer
  On December 1, Martina Davis Correia lost her long battle with breast cancer. Correia was the sister of Troy Davis, who was executed by the state of Georgia on September 21 amidst worldwide protest.
• The Jobs Report: Don't Break Out the Champagne
  If Congress refuses to extend the payroll tax cut and/or unemployment benefits by December 30, it will create another drag on the economy. When people ask me what Congress is likely to do I always say the same thing: The odds are in favor of nothing. So while today's jobs report is in the right ...
• Three Pillars of a Revived Republic
  As local governments shut down more Occupy encampments, the movement for the "99 percent" is at a crossroads. Some supporters advocate more civil disobedience; others urge a shift toward media outreach; and still others want a move into politics.
• S 1867: Killing The Bill of Rights and Declari ...
  Once this becomes law, you will be living in a different kind of America, one that no longer guarantees certain inalienable rights. Americans will have no rights whatsoever in America -- no due process, no First Amendment speech rights, no right to remain silent or to be tried by a jury of your ...

Switchboard

• Say No to Polluters' Call to Weaken Mercury an ...
  Frances Beinecke, President of NRDC, New York City The White House is expected to announce the first national standards for mercury, lead, arsenic, and other dangerous emissions from power plants in the next two weeks. Finally making dirty plants cl ...
• India Environmental News Compilation, November ...
  Amrita Batra, Program Assistant, India Initiative and Food and Agriculture, San Francisco Climate Will India miss Jairam Ramesh in Durban “The Durban climate change meet is beginning next week. The perception among negotiators and ...
• Suncor Spill: South Platte River contamination ...
  Anthony Swift, Attorney, International Program, Washington, DC Details continue to emerge regarding the oil spill at Suncor's refinery in Commerce City. Water test results of the Sand Creek and South Platte River have found benzene, a carcinogenic c ...
• All In A Day's Work: What Some in Congress Are ...
  Bob Keefe, Senior press secretary, Washington, DC  It can be hard keeping tabs on what our lawmakers are doing in Congress. Cutbacks in Washington coverage by major news organizations, the celebri-fication of television news and a general disg ...
• Latin America Climate, Energy and Environment ...
  Amanda Maxwell, Latin America Advocate, Washington, DC Chile President Piñera signed an agreement with the state of Massachusetts last week to strength education, energy and biotechnology initiatives.  This alliance is similar to the pa ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Where is the Nuclear Taboo?
  Apparently wide swaths of the US public approve of the use of nuclear weapons in non-retaliatory circumstances. Randomly selected groups of survey respondents were told that the nuclear and conventional attacks would either be equally effective or that the nuclear attack had a greater chance of ...
• BREAKING! ABSOLUTELY MUST CREDIT LGM!
  Herman Cain still not running for president. Some upcoming stops on his book tour will apparently be cancelled. …Jamelle has the slightly longer version.
• Plutocrat Scumbag of the Day
  Jeffrey Loria. And damn right I hold a grudge.
• Book Review: Stanley Riggs, et al, The Battle ...
  In a beautifully produced book from University of North Carolina Press, Stanley Riggs and his associates review what they call “The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast.” By this, they mean the constant struggle to maintain the Outer Banks against threats including climate change, ...
• Why Is Cameron Still In Power?
  DeLong asks something I’ve been wondering about — why doesn’t Clegg just pull the plug on the unpopular government that is completely destroying the British economy by implementing theories that make no sense in theory and have been empirically discredited for decades? Are thos ...

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

• Teens’ Cool EV Project Seeks Sponsor
  Minddrive, a project that allows Kansas City's at-risk youth a chance to build an EV, needs funding for Project Reynard, a cross-country EV trip.
• Turbine Titan GE Gives Offshore A Go
  Land-based wind-turbine giant GE, struggling to rev up its offshore efforts, begins installing a turbine in Gothenburg Harbor.
• Study: U.S. Biofuels Policy A Fail
  Controversial biofuels subsidies are not a cost-effective means of reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, an Oregon State study asserts.
• Seattle Building Efficiency: It’s In The Mail
  The city of Seattle is contacting commercial building owners to get them to employ energy-saving tactics to reduce utility costs and reduce carbon emissions.
• LEED Gold For Santa Clara U. Student Center
  Santa Clara University's activity center takes LEED Gold for green features, including passive solar design and permeable pavers. Plus, it has a disco ball.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• The Minority 40 Under 40
  The lawyers profiled here were all born in the 1970s, a decade when law schools and law firms were just beginning to welcome minorities in significant numbers. The thriving careers of these lawyers — at law firms and in government, academia and public interest — attest to the greater ...
• WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: Taking a stand on taking t ...
  The decision about whether a defendant testifies should be exceptionally nuanced; ramifications are hard to judge.
• ANTITRUST: Filers learn to adapt to changes un ...
  New rules eliminate some forms of information and add others to make what's required more relevant to antitrust review.
• ANTITRUST: Recent cases on antitrust implicati ...
  There appears to be a modest trend favoring immunization of foreign conduct, but courts are still elusive as to providing a clear articulation of the basis for it.
• ANTITRUST: Antitrust standing and the new economy
  Innovation and network effects have the potential to alter the traditional analysis.

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

• Citizens of Lao People's Democratic Republic C ...
  She stressed that both countires continue to strengthen their relationship through the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) and the many issues we are working together on, from reducing the impact of unexploded ordnance, to improving health, to expanding f
• Obama Calls for Action on 'One Campaign's Worl ...
  He said the highlight of the morning was a speech by President Obama where he challenged the US and the rest of the world to make an AIDS free generation a reality.
• EPA Proposes Changes to Clean Air Act Standard ...
  The proposed reconsideration would achieve extensive public health protections through significant reductions in toxic air pollutants, including mercury and soot, while increasing the rule's flexibility and addressing compliance concerns raised by i
• 70th Anniversary Of Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor T ...
  Roosevelt treason provoked Japan into attacking US Pacific fleet. Facts trickled out steadily but slowly - so slowly that in 70 years after the event, public outrage against the deceit and treason of FDR and his advisors never gained momentum
• Geneva Rights Council Reinforces Syrian Govern ...
  The United States worked with over 50 countries on the special session. It was co-sponsored by 29 members of the Human Rights Council - by far the largest number of co-sponsors for any special session since the Council was created.

environment 360

• New Interactive Network Maps Pollution, Noise ...
  The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft this week introduced a network of online sites that map air, water, and noise pollution levels across the continent based on government data and information Click to enlarge Eye on EarthEye on Earth uploaded by users. The Eye on Earth network ...
• Arduous Life of Wolverines Documented in Yello ...
  Yellowstone National Park’s wolverines live a harsh life high in the Rocky Mountains, with females giving birth in snow caves at 9,000 feet, males ranging over territories covering 500 square miles, and the scrappy View gallery Mark Packila/WCSA Yellowstone wolverine animals doing battle with g ...
• Southern U.S. Groundwater Dips To Record Low ...
  A new map released by U.S. scientists illustrates a steep drop in groundwater levels across much of Texas and other southern states following record-breaking drought conditions. Using groundwater calculations based on Click to enlarge NASAGroundwater levels in the U.S., November 2011 satellite o ...
• Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
  With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including View gallery Fathom Information DesignPopulation density detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, created b ...
• Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
  The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...

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

• Smoke grenades and arrests mar Election Day
  Opposition supporters set off several smoke grenades in Moscow downtown to protest the on-going elections to Russian Duma. Police replied with over a hundred of arrests.
• A city divided: Bangladeshi police violently d ...
  Batons and teargas canisters flew through the air as Bangladeshi police violently dispersed a general strike in the capital Dhaka. A local official claimed eight people have been injured in the dawn clashes.
• Iran shoots down US drone – state TV
  Iran's military says it has shot down a US reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran, state TV reports. According to reports, Iranian authorities managed to seize the unmanned aircraft upon being downed, which they...
• Fans riot after Oklahoma State victory: 13 inj ...
  Once Oklahoma State prevailed over its principal rival Oklahoma with a devastating 44–10 scoreline, the fans of the winners burst on to the playing field in thousands, tearing down goalposts and leaving 13 injured, two...
• Occupational hazard: Brutal arrests in Re-Occu ...
  At least one protester has been injured as riot police were clearing an OWS encampment in a downtown Portland park area in Oregon, USA, on Saturday night. The teenager was hit in the face with a police baton. Several...

Not My Tribe

• Patrick Henry’s pastor recommended: Give ...
  Some juxtaposition, don’t you think? Patrick Henry’s call to arms mashed with the Serenity Prayer. Give me liberty or give me death versus God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I ...
• One night in a Catholic-run hospital…
  Funny story? I was bidding goodnight to a friend in the hospital, standing over her bed in my long coat, scarf and black stockinged cap, when two nurses burst into our near-black room to announce the shift-change. At once they leaped into each other’s arms in fright! When we’d all re ...
• Tired of Wall St. Stealing Our Dreams! #Occupy ...
• 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.

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

• McDonald’s is Cheating
  Last year, San Francisco’s board of supervisors passed a law intended to limit toy giveaways in kiddie meals at fast food establishments. Happy Meals, as we all know, are an effective tool to get kids hooked on nutrient void, sodium and fat laden McDonald’s fare, thus turning tots in ...
• Root Vegetables Don’t Get Enough Respect [Recipe]
  This holiday season, we are featuring some healthy, tasty recipes from professional chef Dave Schy. Visit his website New Taste, for step by step pictures for this and other great recipes. Today – Oven Roasted Root Vegetables. Talk about getting a bang for your buck. Root veggies are cheap and f ...
• Apple Juice and Arsenic: It’s the Sugar, Dummy
  In the last few days, we’ve been getting questions from Fooducate community members about arsenic in apple juice. It started when Consumer Reports published its findings on lead and arsenic levels in apple and grape juice.  The not for profit organization has urged the FDA to do something ...
• 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 ...

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

• UNESCO calls for ‘urgent safeguarding’ of Amaz ...
  Fish are a crucial part of the Enawene Nawe's diet © Fiona Watson/Survival An Amazonian tribe’s fishing ritual has been recognized by UNESCO as one of humanity’s priceless treasures. The UN body has added the Yãkwa ritual of the Enawene Nawe Indians to its list of ‘intangible cultural ...
• Brazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in w ...
  Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by gunmen. © Survival © Survival Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month. Reportedly employed by powerful landowners in Mato G ...
• Crackdown fears peak in West Papua 50 years af ...
  Pro-independence protesters march in t-shirts bearing the 'Morning Star' flag © West Papua Media/Survival Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since they first raised their symbolic ‘Morning Star’ flag. A climate of fear surrounds ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Romney's Billionaire ThreatensBBC Investigativ ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. See Palast live on stage in New York, DC and other cities. Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office o ...
• Feasting with the 1% —An Evening with Greg Pal ...
  WBAI Presents Feasting with The 1% An evening exposing their recipesand secret ingredients The New York Times Best Selling Author Greg Palast & Special Guests plus the blisteringly funny Lee Camp The New York City launch of Palast's new book VULTURES' PICNIC A hearty m ...
• Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
  WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...
• 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 ...

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

• No One Knows
  By Cathy Jameson If you read the mainstream news the message is still the same: No One knows why the dramatic rise in autism is happening. They should just ask Anne Dachel or some of my friends. We’d be able...
• Matthew Sapolin, 1970 - 2011, New York City's ...
  Katie Wright informed me yesterday that the Commissioner of the New York City Office for the Disabled Matthew Sapolin died this week. In 2010, NAA NYC Metro honored me with their Spirit of Hope award and Commissioner Sapolin presented the...
• Age of Autism Contest: Win Apps for Autism by ...
  We have a copy of Apps for Autism published by Future Horizons and written by Lois Brady for a lucky AofA winner! Leave a comment to enter. Good luck!
• 12 Year old Schoolboy with Autism Hangs Self in UK
  Managing Editor's Note: I hate adding posts to the "nightmares" category. Often the post is about wandering safety, perhaps a drowning. This story is particularly grim. A boy in the UK hanged himself following bullying. If you see bullying, for...
• 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...

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

• London Olympics under fire for Dow Chemical ties
  Associated Press – Just a few months ago, Dow Chemical was hailed by the organizers of the London Olympics for saving a visual centerpiece — an artistic wrap around Olympic Stadium. Now, the Olympic sponsor is sparking the kind of controversy that no one wants. Dow’s link to the comp ...
• UK: Animal test firms given your NHS data
  Telegraph – The Prime Minister will use a keynote speech to outline far closer “collaboration” between the health service and life science companies, giving them more freedom to run clinical trials inside hospitals. He will say that the controversial industry has the potential to be a powe ...
• NASA Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollu ...
  NASA – A team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA’s Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the levels of a key air pollutant generated by coal power plants in the eastern United States. The pollutant, sulfur dioxide, contributes to the formati ...
• Egypt Islamists widen poll lead
  BBC – Latest results from the Egyptian elections indicate that Islamist parties are likely to have a strong majority in the new parliament. Read article
• Would YOU like to become part of the Open Your ...
  There are currently six volunteers based worldwide who bring you Open Your Eyes News. As we continue to expand, and in advance of our new website launch, we are seeking one additional member to join our team to become a category editor, taking responsibility for publishing articles in one of our ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Occupy Landfills! Trash from Occupy L.A. not r ...
  Remember the 25 tons of material left behind by Occupy L.A. campers after they were evicted from the park in front of City Hall early Wednesday morning? It went to the dump.
• 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.

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industr ...
  The private prison system has rebounded, growing dramatically, and making big bucks with huge help from the Feds, as large numbers of immigrants are incarcerated. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• 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 ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• FirstEnergy Signs 20-year Agreement To Buy Ene ...
  FirstEnergy Corporation has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy the electricity generated by a solar farm under development in Maryland. read more
• Google Ends Renewable Energy Research Program
  First Heliostats to be installed at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California Online search engine giant Google Inc. recently announced it is ending its ...
• Report Forecasts 130% Growth in Asia-Pacific S ...
  Once an after-thought in solar development, the latest data shows the Asia-Pacific region is becoming the industry's biggest market for photovoltaic solar power. read more
• NRG Energy Bolsters its Presence in Distribute ...
  NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) has acquired distributed solar power developer Solar Power Partners (SPP). read more
• BLM and DOE Add Addendum to Western Solar Fast ...
  Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at one of California's solar energy developments. The U.S. Department of Energy and the Bureau of Land Management have c ...

News Blaze

• Citizens of Lao People's Democratic Republic C ...
  She stressed that both countires continue to strengthen their relationship through the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) and the many issues we are working together on, from reducing the impact of unexploded ordnance, to improving health, to expanding f
• Obama Calls for Action on 'One Campaign's Worl ...
  He said the highlight of the morning was a speech by President Obama where he challenged the US and the rest of the world to make an AIDS free generation a reality.
• EPA Proposes Changes to Clean Air Act Standard ...
  The proposed reconsideration would achieve extensive public health protections through significant reductions in toxic air pollutants, including mercury and soot, while increasing the rule's flexibility and addressing compliance concerns raised by i
• 70th Anniversary Of Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor T ...
  Roosevelt treason provoked Japan into attacking US Pacific fleet. Facts trickled out steadily but slowly - so slowly that in 70 years after the event, public outrage against the deceit and treason of FDR and his advisors never gained momentum
• Geneva Rights Council Reinforces Syrian Govern ...
  The United States worked with over 50 countries on the special session. It was co-sponsored by 29 members of the Human Rights Council - by far the largest number of co-sponsors for any special session since the Council was created.

Worldnews

• UN chief encourages policymakers to do mo ...
  Tehran, Dec 4, IRNA — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message on International Volunteer Day, December 5, 2011, while encouraging policymakers to do even more to support and welcome volunteerism, urged everyone to consider what they can do to join the movement. According to a press r ...
• Gul Panag bunking gym?
  SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetGul Panag New developments suggest that it's not just common people who cheat on their fitness regimes...
• Durban climate talks to heat up in second ...
  New Delhi: As the divide between the rich and poor nations remained wide open during the first week of the climate change negotiations at Durban, all eyes are now on the final leg of the global talks starting Monday which will see heads of state and ministers putting their heads together to ...
• Kate Winslet keeps all the ‘Carnage’ on t ...
  In Roman Polanski’s “Carnage,” opening Dec. 16, Kate Winslet plays Nancy, a high-strung, highly paid working mom. She’s a woman so tightly wound that it almost comes as a relief when, midway through the film, she unloads — disgustingly — all over a tasteful Brooklyn apartment. Winslet is als ...
• Sibal preparing roadmap to improve intern ...
  NEW DELHI: In an effort to streamline international relations, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has asked the departments of Post, IT and Telecom to identify the 15 countries that are most strategically important to the nation with a view to develop a database of actionable areas. Sibal is prepa ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Ouch! An Anti-ObamaCare Conservative Strikes Back
  After sharing my thoughts a few days ago on an article that showcases my thoughts about healthcare reform, the Affordable Care Act, I sent a heads up to one of my About.com colleagues, Brandon De Hoyos, who is writing the US Conservatives blog these days.... Read Full Post
• Genes may make quitting tougher for smokers, s ...
  Despite decades of public health efforts aimed at snuffing out cigarette smoking, 20 percent of Americans still light up but new researchs suggests ...
• Cardiovascular highlights from non-cardiology ...
  ElectrophysiologyRocket AF: rivaroxaban shows efficacy While warfarin has served as the oral anticoagulant of choice for some decades, a variety of new agents that hold several advantages (fewer interactions with other drugs, no need for therapeutic drug monitoring and simpler dosing regimen) a ...
• Dye from lichen may treat Alzheimer's
  BERLIN, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- A red dye from lichens may reduce the abundance of small toxic protein aggregates associated with Alzheimer's disease, researchers in Germany suggest. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
• A natural dye obtained from lichens may combat ...
  A red dye from lichens that has been used for centuries to color fabrics and food and a related substance appear to reduce the abundance of small toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease. Further research with animal models is needed to determine

Common Dreams

• Hundreds Gather for Singapore 'SlutWalk' Protest
  SINGAPORE  — Hundreds of people gathered at a park in Singapore on Sunday to protest sexual violence against women as part of the global "SlutWalk" movement, in a rare public demonstration in the tightly controlled city state. The event featured live music, speeches and a wo ...
• US Inaction on Climate is "Criminal", Activist ...
  WASHINGTON - The United States' delegation at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCC) in Durban, South Africa has come under heavy fire from civil society leaders and activists around the globe for standing in the ...
• WikiLeaks Suspect Wants Barack Obama, Hillary ...
  WASHINGTON -- An Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking a huge trove of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks is demanding that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify as witnesses at a preliminary hearing set to begin next week. ...
• Iran Military Shoots Down US Drone: State TV
  TEHRAN -- Iran's military has shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and has threatened to respond to the violation of Iranian airspace, a military source told state television Sunday. "Iran's military has downed an intruding RQ-170 American drone in eastern ...
• White House Threatens Veto Of Indefinite Deten ...
  WASHINGTON -- Accusing the Senate of "political micromanagement" of national security, the White House Friday stood by its threat to veto a defense bill over controversial military detention provisions. The National Defense Authorization Act passed Thursday by the Senate contains a sec ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

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Energy Collective

• Learn to Love the Gas Tax
  The North Carolina legislature just narrowly derailed a bill that would have prevented any possible increase in the state's gasoline tax. That's a good thing. By that I mean it's good that the state Senate declined to act on the bill after it passed in the House.
• The Volt Fire and Public Acceptance of Electri ...
  As initial safety problems go, these initial problems with electric vehicles have gone as well as anyone could have hoped. No one was killed or injured. No serious property damage has occurred. The right questions are being asked and better post-accident procedures put in place. Most importantly ...
• An Atlantic Wind Project: Big, Bold and Risky
  Building a low-carbon economy requires bold ideas and long-term thinking on a scale that matters. Ideas like The Atlantic Wind Connection.
• Why Does Russia's Gazprom Oppose Shale Gas?
  I see that Russia's national gas company, Gazprom, is warning Europeans about the environmental risks of shale gas development. Aside from the hypocrisy stemming from a Russian legacy of environmental disregard that rivals the worst excesses committed anywhere, along with the likelihood of Gazpr ...
• South Africa’s Solar Power Potential
  As the United Nations climate change conference rages on, quite literally, in Durban South Africa, experts from COP17’s host city point to one alternative energy source that could help it mitigate its emissions: solar power.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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Peoples Voice

• Troy Davis's sister succumbs to cancer
  Mary Shaw On December 1, Martina Davis Correia lost her long battle with breast cancer. Correia was the sister of Troy Davis, who was executed by the state of Georgia on September 21 amidst worldwide protest. Georgia went ahead with the Davis execution despite compelling evidence suggesting th ...
• A Government Out of Control
  By Timothy V. Gatto Lately I've been wondering about good and evil and right and wrong. I guess that I think about these things because of what I see on all in the news reports. The announcers on television don't seem to blink an eye when they talk about the cities that we bomb and the ...
• Flu Shots, Fosamax and Pharmaceutical Fakery: ...
  By Gary G. Kohls, MD Last week there was a media buzz generated by a recent article in The Lancet  (a pro-vaccine, pro-pharmaceutical industry medical journal that is published in Britain) that showed that flu vaccinations are far less effective than had been previously believed. In fact, ...
• International Solidarity Day with Palestine
  by Stephen Lendman Established by the UN in 1977, International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed on or around November 29. The date commemorates November 29, 1947, the date UN Resolution 181 was adopted, despite Palestinian opposition.Read more »Original po ...
• Will Global Financial Demoltion Lead to New Wo ...
  Allen L Roland, Ph.D. The financial elite are laughing for they are well aware of the ongoing planned global financial demolition as well as the rapidly emerging New World order ~ with the Global elite firmly in control. However, there is another choice but it will take the same courage the ...

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

• Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates: The Good, t ...
  US riot police arrest Oregon protesters By presstv.com – US police forces have arrested several Occupy movement protesters in the state of Oregon as part of the intensifying efforts by the American government to harshly crackdown on anti-corporatism demonstrations. US riot police moved int ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
  Germany: 45,000 to evacuate as WWII bomb defused BERLIN (AP) — Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some ...
• The Productivity Tax
  While the top 1% gets by with paying a 15% capital gains tax on its unearned income from stocks, you, the 99% that make up the working class, are paying a tax rate of 65%. That’s right – 65%. Not 15%, not 28%, and not the roughly 35% rate that the Tax Foundation computes as [...]
• Worldwide Hippies Saturday Evening Digest
  A Ripple of Laughter Can Cause A Tidal Wave, So Step Back By Linda Wolf, WWH- I’d worked late. I was tired and stressed. Crabby would have been a nice way to describe my mood. I tapped my foot waiting for the elevator, mentally going over the chores I still had to do that night. [...]
• The Burial Industry Takes A Turn To Eco-Friend ...
  by Laura Moss,MOTHER NATURE NETWORK - Burial and cremation are the most common ways we dispose of the dead, but while these methods are steeped in tradition, they’re far from environmentally friendly. Embalming bodies requires cancer-causing chemicals like formaldehyde, glutaraldehyde and phenol ...

FourWinds10

• Substance in Gulf of Mexico likely sediment, n ...
   A reported "sheen" in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana is likely the result of large amounts of sediment, not spilled oil, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Sunday. The Coast Guard collected and tested samples of a dark substance after receiving varying reports on Saturda ...
• Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)
• Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
  HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Eve ...
• CARS, WHOLE HOUSES AND EVEN SEVERED FEET IN SH ...
• Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
  No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...

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

• Rank the Top 10 Oil Stories of 2011
  Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 is now open: The top 10 oil stories of 2011: cast your vote now They listed about 40 stories; below are the ones that I voted into the Top 10 from the list they had put together: Keyston ...
• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 3 – Joule Unlimit ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers the following viewer questions: What do you think about the company Joule Unlimited? Who are the best politicians on energy policy? Who are the worst? In this episode I explain the single-most im ...
• Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...
• 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 ...

Discovery Educator Network

• 20 Incredible TED Talks You Should Show Your H ...
  Tags: TED, students, videosby: Dean Mantz
• TubeSnack | Flash video player for Web - Embed ...
  Tags: videoby: Heather Sullivan
• SMARTInclusion - IPOD, IPAD Resources
  Tags: ipad, apps, resources, mlearning, ipads, SMARTInclusion, researchby: Dean Mantz
• Ipad: the Basics Resources
  Comments:TheConsultantsE created this Edmodo folder sharing apps by curriculum and project based topics.  Very nice use of symbaloo to share the curriculum area apps. - Dean MantzTags: ipad, apps, resources, mlearning, ipads, Edmodoby: Dean Mantz
• Change the World in 5 Minutes - Everyday at Sc ...
  Comments:Can a bunch of school kids really change the world in five minutes a day? This class of primary school kids demonstrate over the course of a week that it only takes five minutes a day to make a positive impact—from recycling to planting fruit and veg and telling jokes. You can find out ...

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

• Atheism and Unitarian Universalism: An Interlude
  Apropos of my recent posts on whether Unitarian Universalism is welcoming to atheists, I just got the winter 2011 issue of UU World magazine. And guess who wrote the blurb in this book ad I saw on the front page (click the image on the left to enlarge and read the whole thing). It says ... ...
• How Exercise Boosts the Brain
  What's the Latest Development? At least once in your life, you have probably had that familiar feeling of fatigue mixed with alertness after exercising. The fatigue is your tired muscles, the alertness is your brain, somehow awakened by physical activity. A recent study carried out in Irel ...
• Once-Taboo Drugs Being Studied by Doctors
  What's the Latest Development? The first time Janeen Delany tried a hallucinogenic drug was at the age of 59 during a clinical trial to "test whether psilocybin—the active ingredient in 'magic mushrooms'—could help with depression or anxiety following a grim diagnosis." A hos ...
• The Subtle Morality of Infants
  What's the Latest Development? Researchers have shown that infants' moral sense is not only present from the early age of five month but that it develops rapidly. By eight months, infants are able to consider the context in which an action occurs when determining if it is right or wrong. I ...
• Overcoming Compassion Fatigue: Lessons Learned ...
  --Guest post by Kristin Moses, American University graduate student. On July 20, 2011, the UN declared a famine in two regions of southern Somalia due to the worst drought in decades. However, such declarations are not uncommon in the Horn of Africa. A famine was declared in Ethiopia in 20 ...

Information Liberation

• The Government Is Expropriating Private Wealth ...
  About a month ago, I posted in regard to what I called *the euthanasia of the saver.* This comment*had to do with the fact that nominal interest rates in the United States for financial*investments such*as bank*certificates of deposit and bank saving...
• Freedom is Not an Intellectual Pursuit
  Every once in a while, I get tired of arguments around here, trying in some way or other to justify freedom and liberty. One can go overboard with this stuff. After all, does one need a PhD in Philosophy to understand freedom? Of course not. Ever...
• Patrice O'Neal's conspiracy theories
  RIP Patrice O'Neal! I loved this guy so much, he was funnier and funnier every time I would see him, he was on fire during the Charlie Sheen Roast! He really cared about the truth, too, and he wasn't afraid to say it. I'll miss him a lot! - Chri...
• How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word
  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stepped off the elevator into the Third Avenue offices of hedge fund Eton Park Capital Management LP in Manhattan. It was July 21, 2008, and market fears were mounting. Four months earlier, Bear Stearns Cos. had sold ...
• Doug Casey "Bonds are the Biggest Bubble in th ...
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Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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

• Human Genome Untangled in 3-D
  Erez Lieberman Aiden was an undergraduate at Princeton University in 2000 when scientists announced with great fanfare that they had sequenced the first human genome , yielding a trove of information about what happens inside every human cell. But Aiden wondered what it would be like to see ...
• Is Child Sexual Abuse on the Rise?
  With the stream of accusations of child sexual abuse not losing any gusto lately, from the ever-growing charges against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky to allegations of such behaviors by assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, it'd be easy to assume a real upsurge in such ...
• 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]

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

• Blame Canada
  Interview with Friends of the Earth Canada member about her country's role at COP17 Canada continues to face criticism at the COP17. On Friday, it won another Fossil of the Day award for Environment Minister Peter Kent's statement ...
• Rural Women take on COP17
  Hundreds denounce exclusion from talks, false solutions at UN conference In Durban, South Africa, yesterday, hundreds of rural women from across the continent converged at the Speakers Corner outside of the conference centre where COP17, th ...
• Les conservateurs démontrent leur misogynie un ...
  Les conservateurs, qui ont déjà tenté à quelques reprises de se débarrasser du registre des armes d’épaule, font une nouvelle tentative. Sous le présent gouvernement majoritaire conservateur, le projet de loi C-19 a toutes les chances d’être adopté.  Les mêmes politiciens censés ...
• Foodsquat highlights problems in Occupy
  “Grange Park by the kiddie slides at noon,” the text message said. Arriving in drizzling rain for the clandestine meeting, I saw the familiar figure of Antonin Smith. The controversial occupier, formerly of the OccupyTO Food Team, was dressed in a trademark yellow hoodie and carrying ...
• Outside the Gate Please.
  Occupy Nova Scotia on the Outside Looking in at Provincial Legislature Yesterday, on their street march leading from Victoria Park, some members of Occupy Nova Scotia, walking in support of Indigenous Solidarity Day, made a brief stop at th ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The magnificent quest for Shinola
  David Seaton's News LinksShinola, take a whiff Watching the antics of Romney, Santorum, Bachman, Paul, Cain and Perry and contemplating the mere possibility that someone who should only be handled with forceps like Newt Gingrich could now lead a party once led by Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eis ...
• The Nicholas Brothers: a slow motion tribute
  David Seaton's News Links The Nicholas Brothers were probably the best dance act of the Golden Age of Hollywood and only Jim Crow could have kept them from being as famous as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I hope you enjoy this slow motion tribute to their art. DS
• Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
  David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...
• 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Quote of the Day: Why Europe is Still a Mess
  From Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker of Luxembourg, explaining why it's so hard to fix the euromess: We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get reelected once we have done it. That's from Jared Bernstein. More at the link.     
• You Won't Have Herman Cain to Kick Around Anymore
      
• Suspense Over Herman Cain Builds to Fever Pitch!
  According to the Washington Post copy desk, "Republican campaigns pause as Herman Cain announcement looms." Really? The entire clown show is in suspended animation while it waits with bated breath for Herman Cain to tell us if he's planning to pull out of the presidential race? I guess strange ...
• No, Republicans Are Still Not Willing to Raise ...
  For reasons that escape me, the latest craze in conservative pundit circles is to claim that Republicans aren't, in fact, unalterably opposed to tax hikes on the rich. Charles Krauthammer made this case last week, and Reihan Salam has since picked up the ball and taken a run up the gut with it ...
• Friday Cat Blogging - 2 December 2011
  On the left, this is surely what things would have looked like if Inkblot had lived in the Garden of Eden: Innocent, contented, free of all malice, and wanting nothing more than to commune with nature. Unless someone gets in the way of his food bowl. And speaking of things horticultural, Mari ...

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

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

e!Science News

• Why do some people never forget a face?
  "Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it," says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what accounts for the difference? A new study by Liu and colleagues Ruosi Wang, Jingguang Li, Huizhen Fang, and Moqian Tian prov ...
• Simultaneous ice melt in Antarctic and Arctic
  The end of the last ice age and the processes that led to the melting of the northern and southern ice sheets supply basic information on changes in our climate. Although the maximum size of the ice sheet in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age is relatively well known, there is littl ...
• Scalable amounts of liver and pancreas precurs ...
  Scientists in Canada have overcome a key research hurdle to developing regenerative treatments for diabetes and liver disease with a technique to produce medically useful amounts of endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells. The research, published in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, can ...
• A natural dye obtained from lichens may combat ...
  A red dye derived from lichens that has been used for centuries to color fabrics and food appears to reduce the abundance of small toxic protein aggregates in Alzheimer's disease. The dye, a compound called orcein, and a related substance, called O4, bind preferentially to small amyloid aggregat ...
• Like humans, the paper wasp has a special tale ...
  Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and one of her graduate students. read more

unEarthed

• Friday Finds: Big Coal’s Big Sugar Daddies
  Newt’s climate flip, turtle bones get brittle, fat rat dilemma The supposedly "green" Bank of America has been lending billions to the coal industry. Photo courtesy of Alex E. Proimos. ...
• 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. ...

Brave New Climate

• Feeding 10 billion on a hotter planet (Part II)
  Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Part I) —————— Welcome to Part II of my presumptuously ...
• Solar combined with wind power: a way to get r ...
  Guest Post by Jani-Petri Martikainen. Jani-Petri is a theoretical physicist doing fundamental research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. Most of his current research activities are computational and involve bosonic or fermionic atoms in optical lattices. He has a lively interest on enviro ...
• Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
  China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
• CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
  Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...
• 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 ...

Indigenist Opinion

• CHOKING ON APARTHEID � Desertpeace
  CHOKING ON APARTHEID � Desertpeace: Luckily I am far from the only one who boycotts Israel. Last Saturday, November 26, activists in 10 European countries had a day of action under the banner “Take Apartheid off the Menu”. Using flash mobs, demonstrations and lobby actions the human rights campa ...
• Yossi Gurvitz: American Jews shocked as essenc ...
  American Jews shocked as essence of Zionism is exposed [972mag.com] There was nothing particularly new about the ads which so shocked American Jewry. They simply exposed a face of Zionism most American Jews rather not see. In the last few days there has been a hullabaloo about several ads pub ...
• U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effect ...
  U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America - Salem-News.Com: n a stunning move that has civil libertarians stuttering with disbelief, the U.S. Senate has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Bill of Rights in America. This bill, passed late la ...
• Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Of ...
  Africa Lies Naked to Euro-American Military Offensive - Google Groups by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “The United States and its allies, principally the French, are positioned to ‘take’ much of the continent with the collaboration of most of its governments.” The United States and it ...
• Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Cri ...
  Arundhati Roy: "The People Who Created the Crisis Will Not Be the Ones That Come Up With a Solution" | Truthout: The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning. Sitting in a car parked at a gas ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Likud MK acknowledges his role model: “M ...
  Likud MK Ophir Akunis defends his aggressive anti-democratic legislation in Channel 10 interview: “Joe McCarthy was right about everything” It’s amazing how just a few words of criticism from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who voiced fear for Israel’s democracy ...
• Israel waits for no one: A personal response t ...
  While I too was perturbed by the Israeli Ministry of Absorption’s billion-dollar ad campaign that has caused a huge media storm in recent days, I feel the need to write my feelings on a specific response to the campaign in Tablet Magazine written by one of its senior writers, Israeli expat ...
• Bernard Avishai on the “right of return& ...
  Professor and author Bernard Avishai published an article in Harper’s Magazine that sparked a +972 debate on  Zionism. Here, in a post that originally appeared on his blog, he responds to some of the charges against his positions that have since been sounded in the blogosphere. By Bernard ...
• Palestinian protest organizer stands no chance ...
  A near-universal conviction rate, testimonies provided under duress, prolonged detention, the absence of attorneys and tolerance to crimes by IDF soldiers: the trials of Bassem Tamimi and Ashraf Abu Rahmah demonstrate the lengths that military courts will go to in order to keep peaceful Palestin ...
• On small humiliations: Israeli soldier shoves ...
  During a protest in the South Hebron Hills yesterday, Operation Dove reported that a Palestinian child was arrested, allegedly for damaging an armored military truck with a flag. Operation Dove also reported that an elderly woman was shoved by a young Israeli soldier. Here is an illustrative ph ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• socialism - uk government 'teacher' unions wan ...
  Another compare and contrast: education in socialist Greece and relatively conservative Finland. Next consider the UK.
• boomerang by michael lewis | book and other re ...
  Snapshots of the chaos European Union countries that has helped them into the current Eurozone financial crisis.
• usa designed the eussr flag over 200 years ago ...
  So you thought you had seen the EU flag somewhere else?
• updated: comparative road fuel prices in franc ...
  All fuels still cheaper than the UK, but diesel (gazole) prices rising more in France, The euro exchange rate, as well as crude oil prices, are the real factors as French fuel prices continue to go two steps higher and one step lower.
• could the euro chaos bring down the german eco ...
  Being the Eurozone's financial backstop, helping support countries like Greece and Spain, could end up with Germany holding that debt. What then?

The Parallel Parliament

• Just Out – “The Glen Pearson Burge ...
  Well, I don’t know quite what to say. It’s not often you get a hamburger named after you. When Adam …Continue reading »
• You Say You Want A Revolution?
  In fairness, those who corrupt language for the sake of an agenda could only get away with it if their …Continue reading »
• 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 »

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 ...
• 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. ...

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

• Anger with police sparked the riots
  Ben Mitchell writes about how the role of the police in sparking, and then failing to deal with, the England riots is becoming clearer.
• The perversity of Dan Hannan and the “there ar ...
  Daniel Hannan and that 'there are no public sector cuts' brigade are being perverse. By their framing, we could end up much poorer & they could declare victory.
• Look Left – Does Labour need its own Plan B?
  In the wake of the autumn statement, and in the midst of the pensions dispute and eurozone crisis, focus has shifted to Labour’s policies on the economy.
• Parties across the nations split over response ...
  Ed Jacobs runs through Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’s responses to the strikes.
• Government needs to find a way to tackle high- ...
  Johann Lamont writes about the necessity of fighting the legal loan sharks who prey on the vulnerable poor.

Consumerist

• O.B. Tampons Apologizes To Canadian Customers. ...
  As many of you may remember from this time last year, o.b. tampons became one of many Johnson & Johnson products to disappear from store shelves. And for many, many months, store shelves remained o.b.-free, until they gradually began showing up in the spring. Now the tampon makers are saying "w ...
• Banks Pull Credit Card Tricks To Lure Consumer ...
  Now that recession-weary consumers have been shedding debt, banks are doing their best to convince you to get that spending back up. Somewhat tricky moves from various credit card companies could result in a high balance if you're not careful. The L.A. Times' David Lazarus highlights a recent ...
• Man Sues Lender For Revealing To Wife That Ano ...
  A man in Chicago has filed a lawsuit against the company that serviced his car loan for allegedly ruining his marriage by revealing, via a voice mail, that another woman was making loan payments for him. Alleging "sexual-scandal blackmail," the plaintiff says that the lender "became aware of a ...
• 5 Commonly Counterfeited Items To Avoid Buying
  It's one thing to purchase a generic or store-brand product that has the same ingredients or components but at a lower price; and a completely different thing to buy a truly counterfeit product that might save you cash but could end up doing damage to your body. SmartMoney put together a round ...
• In Tight Times, Parents Can Use New Site To Re ...
  As many parents know, plenty of toys is still never enough -- there always seems to be some must-have gadget out there your kids will clamor for. A few readers have called our attention to a new toy-renting website that could help parents with their kids' neophyte tendencies. It's called Toyg ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• GAP’s Investigation into World Bank Managing D ...
  في نهاية هذا التقرير تجد ترجمة له باللغة العربية As the Egyptian people continue to protest and demand accountability and democratic rule by the thousands in the wake of the collapse of the corrupt Mubarak regime, we have received increased requests from friends throughout the Middle East to tr ...
• WikiLeaks Release Shows Troubling Rise in Avai ...
  Washington Post: Trade in Surveillance Technology Raises Worries Summary: The sale of surveillance technology with few restrictions is worrying to human rights and privacy activists. WikiLeaks released a number of the surveillance technology industry sales documents to certain media outlets, s ...
• FBI Used Outreach to Spy on Muslim Communities ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained documents using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using co-called "community outreach" programs to spy and target Muslim Americans. The documents show that: &n ...
• 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 ...

UK Progressive

• Wife of Bishop Eddie Long Does Not File for Di ...
  Bishop Eddie Long — described as “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement” — has gone through a year of scandal, starting with allegations of sexual relations with several members of his ministry for teen boys. (Specifically, it was alleged ...
• The Jobs Report: Don’t Break Out the Champagne
  In brief: The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey shows unemployment at 8.6 percent, and the payroll survey shows 120,000 new jobs in November (140,000 from the private sector, and a loss of 20,000 in the public sector). BLS also revised upward its job numbers for September and October. ...
• US Expanding Drone Bases To Assassinate “Suspects”
  Forecasting a future of robotic warfare in which perverted science is put at the service of its Empire, the U.S. has built 60 bases around the world for its unmanned, remotely controlled killer drone warplanes. And more bases are under construction. “Run by the military, the Central Intelligence ...
• Busy Week at UK Progressive Magazine
  Lots of work on the backend of the website to make it more flexible and social. More coming soon but if you have not visited in awhile, please pop on over to UK Progressive and see our new look. We’re very fortunate and grateful to have two teams of experts to keep us going. Chris Jones at ...
• Obama’s Hillary VP Card
  President Obama has the extraordinary option of rekindling the historic spirit of his presidency and riding the sweeping tides of history for the advancement of women by naming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate in 2012. Most likely, the final results of the ...

NewsAlert

• Mystery company buying up U.S. gun manufacturers
  The San Francisco Chronicle
• D.E.A. Launders Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels
  The New York Times reports:Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily ...
• Unemployed and liberal groups to hold protests ...
  McClatchy reports:Roughly 3,000 unemployed workers from around the country are expected in the nation's capitol next week for four days of protests with labor, religious and social justice groups that say Congress cares more about America's wealthiest 1 percent than it does the masses of struggl ...
• College Application Strategy for Some Asians — ...
  The AP reports discrimination against Asians in college admissions. We strongly encourage a RICO case for those thinking of suing.
• Millennial entrepreneurs bypass the unemployme ...
  USA Today reports on job creators.

JoNova

• One lone East Anglia man stands up against poo ...
  The other headline I could have used: Jo Nova and Watts Up graphs used in UEA lectures! It doesn’t get much better than this. Imagine finding out your work helped to support a university course in a place right at the center of the dogma and unscientific reasoning you are working to expose ...
• 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 ...

ReNew America

• Conservatism as the creed of working America
  (Patrick Garry, RA analyst) - Despite the abysmal record of President Obama and the struggling economy, polls show that middle and working-class Americans still view the Democratic Party more favorably than they do the Republican Party...
• Obama's job-killing global-warming agenda cont ...
  (Sen. James Inhofe) - With little attention and fanfare, the United Nations kicked off its latest global-warming conference -- this time in Durban, South Africa. Their mission: to extend the Kyoto Protocol...
• Obama gets double mileage out of shifting goal ...
  (David Limbaugh) - Instead of trying to govern, a matter about which I suppose we should be grateful, President Obama is once again galloping from fundraiser to fundraiser, straining to make the implausible case that the country needs his second term...
• Miley Cyrus, Occupier poster girl
  (Michelle Malkin) - She's perfect. Miley Cyrus, Hollywood's perpetually half-dressed wild child with an insatiable appetite for attention, jumped in front of the Occupy Wall Street bandwagon this week. The young Disney mogul unveiled a YouTube anthem hailing the aimless, anti-capitalist proteste ...
• Limbaugh: New unemployment number is corrupt
  (NewsMax) - On his Friday afternoon radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that the new 8.6 percent unemployment figure released today is "corrupt," and that the number was massaged in order to help the Obama administration in the upcoming 2012 presidential election...

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

• The crisis of crisis pregnancy centers
  Unregulated organizations posing as comprehensive healthcare providers called "crisis pregnancy centers" are slated to begin receiving state funds in North Carolina from the ...
  
• Cain revamps 9-9-9 tax plan, but it still hurt ...
  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income A ...
  
• U.S. oil companies, security contractors look ...
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
  American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya. read more
  
• Alabama workers meet harsh immigration law wit ...
  As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
  As all-out attack cont ...
  
• 3 reasons why Art Pope deserves all the media ...
  North Carolina powerbroker Art Pope doesn't like the media attention he's received since a New Yorker profile pushed him and his political empire into the national spotlight t ...
  

One News Page

• Soccer Legend Socrates Dies
  Brazilian soccer star Socrates has died at the age of 57 The former Brazil World Cup captain passed away at the Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital in Sao Paulo on Sunday 04Dec11 three days after he was admitted to the medical facility suffering from food...
• End of era as Bollywood's 'evergreen' Dev Anan ...
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - Movie actor and director Dev Anand, known for his joie de vivre as Bollywood's 'evergreen hero', has died aged 88, an aide said, bringing the end to an era of Indian cinema.
• Parkash Singh Badal opposes FDI
  Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal said SAD will unanimously oppose FDI in retail sector to safeguard the interests of common man.
• A Guide of Dev Anand's family
  Mumbai, Dec 4: The evergreen romantic superstar of Bollywood, Devanand who passed away in London after he suffered a cardiac arrest on Saturday night in London shocked the entire film fraternity and his fans, who are still not able to digest
• Dev Anand's demise an irreparable loss: Jayala ...
  Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today condoled the death of legendary Bollywood actor Dev Anand, saying 'India has lost a great actor, an illustrious son, and a true patriot'.

Global Research TV

• Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism
• Audit Reveals Trillions in Bank Bailouts by Fe ...
• 9/11 and the Global Community
• Military Spending: Is Congress About to Put Yo ...
• More Violence in Kosovo: NATO Tells Troops to ...

Daily Tech

• Apple's Legal Crusade Against Android Dealt Bl ...
  Judge calls out Apple on its ubiquitous design claims
• Verizon Makes $3.6B Deal for Wireless Spectrum ...
  Deal will require FCC approval
• FDA Releases New Guidelines to Speed Up Artifi ...
  Artificial pancreas devices are not a cure, but combine a glucometer and insulin pump to make the lives of type 1 diabetics easier
• 12/02/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
• GM Will Buy Volts Back From Any Owner That Asks
  GM is going to great lengths to make Volt owners happy

Oriental Review

• Cost of Intervention in Syria Rises
  The Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov’s statement today re-affirmed Moscow’s rejection of arms embargo against Syria. It comes on a day EU FMs met in Brussels and tightened the sanctions against that country. But what makes the Syrian situation rather interesting is that Moscow a ...
• Washington’s European Strategy
  The November 28 US-EU summit deserves to be called a milestone in the recent geopolitical history, considering that during the forum the US dictatorial handling of Europe was disguised so thinly for the first time since President Obama moved into the White House. Moreover, the US Administration ...
• 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 ...

BlogHer

• Nie Asks: What Are Your Kids Giving for the Ho ...
  What are your children giving to each other for the holidays? I taught Jane how to knit. She is making all sorts of goodies for Christmas this year. Your turn: Tell me! What are your children, or you, giving for the holidays this year? Are you making or buying or both?
• Oat Bran-Applesauce Muffins
  [Editor's Note: It's Sunday morning, and that means time for a special breakfast. This muffin recipe is not only fruity and delicious, but filling and nutritious as well. They're perfect for a lazy Sunday morning meal, served with a side of Greek yogurt and honey, or some diced winter fruit. --G ...
• Duke & Stanford Set For Sunday’s NCAA Women's ...
   After pounding  ACC tournament champion Florida State 3-0 on Friday night in the first semifinal of the College Cup, Stanford has a chance to play once again for the national title. The Cardinal advanced to soccer’s version of the Final Four by completing its third straight unbea ...
• Festive Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip
  [Editor's Note: This fun dip features plenty of cranberries, with some cilantro and jalapeño for some extra kick. It's bright and festive, and something a little different to serve at a holiday gathering. In fact, I've already added all the ingredients to my grocery list—it's the perfe ...
• Inspire Your Budding Archaeologist
  Here's another interesting game for the budding scientists in your family just in time for holiday giving. Lori Cunningham from The Well Connected Mom reviews Roman Town. She writes, Roman town simulates a real archaeology dig in which your child is the archaeologist managing workers (diggers) ...

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

• Alpha hit with another ‘imminent danger& ...
  Here’s the latest from an Alpha Natural Resources SEC filing: On November 28, 2011, White Buck Coal Company (“White Buck”), a subsidiary of Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (“Alpha”), received an imminent danger order under section 107(a) of the Mine Act alleging that a miner was observed at ...
• MSHA to expand pilot project for appeals
  Here’s the latest from The Associated Press, based on yesterday’s U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration press release: The head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said Thursday he’s adopting a new conferencing system that was piloted with mine operators e ...
• 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 ...

Daniel Miessler

• Stereotypes as a Wisdom Metric
  I had a thought this week regarding metrics for gauging overall life wisdom. If you had only one question to ask, what would you ask in order to estimate the overall wisdom of a person? Here’s a possible candidate: What do you think about stereotypes? Are they true, false, or somewhere bet ...
• The Worst Way to Waste Time
  There are many things to regret as one nears death, but I understand people tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did. You may be thinking now of activities, such as jumping out of an airplane, applying to become an astronaut, or moving to Europe to be with a ...
• The Worst Way to Waste Time
  There are many things to regret when one gets ready to die, but I understand people tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did. One tends to imagine things like jumping out of an airplane, applying to become an astronaut, or moving to Europe to be with an earl ...
• 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 ...

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

• A long, strange history of Bush tax cuts
  By Peter S. Canellos,bostonglobe.com – DURING THE 2000 presidential race, the question of what to do with the large government surplus was a major issue. Al Gore, anticipating the strains on Social Security and Medicare from the looming Baby Boomer retirement, advised putting the surplus i ...
• Worldwide Hippies Occupy Updates: The Good, t ...
  US riot police arrest Oregon protesters By presstv.com – US police forces have arrested several Occupy movement protesters in the state of Oregon as part of the intensifying efforts by the American government to harshly crackdown on anti-corporatism demonstrations. US riot police moved int ...
• Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
  Germany: 45,000 to evacuate as WWII bomb defused BERLIN (AP) — Officials in the western German city of Koblenz say tens of thousands of residents have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive World War II-era bomb discovered in the Rhine river. City officials said Sunday that some ...
• The Productivity Tax
  While the top 1% gets by with paying a 15% capital gains tax on its unearned income from stocks, you, the 99% that make up the working class, are paying a tax rate of 65%. That’s right – 65%. Not 15%, not 28%, and not the roughly 35% rate that the Tax Foundation computes as [...]
• Worldwide Hippies Saturday Evening Digest
  A Ripple of Laughter Can Cause A Tidal Wave, So Step Back By Linda Wolf, WWH- I’d worked late. I was tired and stressed. Crabby would have been a nice way to describe my mood. I tapped my foot waiting for the elevator, mentally going over the chores I still had to do that night. [...]

reference frame

• Printing TRF
  Some TRF readers incorrectly dislike the gadgets in the sidebar and the colorful non-minimalistic design of this blog. They're wrong but if they reduced their criticism to the printed version of TRF, they might be right. What to do if you want to print a TRF blog entry? I accide ...
• 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 ...

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

• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...
• Max Keiser: Time to Get The Hell Out of the US

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
  Second of a two-part blog on health concerns tied to natural ingredients. By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
  By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at two common plant-based ingredients - tea tree and lavender oils - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• 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 ...

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

• Shen Wei complicates personal space at the Par ...
• After ceding the spotlight to the actual Repub ...
• Schneiderman, Jeffries cheer dismissal of pris ...
• Bloomberg says he'd spend more for better teac ...
• At an announcement about Facebook and a hoped- ...

Views & News from Norway

• Another government quarrel erupts
  Members of Norway’s left-center government coalition are quarreling again, with cabinet minister Kristin Halvorsen now complaining about her government colleague, Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe, on Facebook. Differences over environmental policies are at the root of the conflict, ...
• PST boss hangs on to her job
  Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway’s police intelligence unit PST, faced her critics on Friday and claimed she had no intention of resigning. She apologized, though, for her lack of clarity in various comments made after last summer’s terrorist attacks. Kristiansen’s boss, new J ...
• ‘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 ...

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

• Junebug Productions Premieres Homecoming Proje ...
  From our friends at Junebug Productions: Junebug Presents... HOMECOMING PROJECT 2011! Saturday, December 3rd 12pm - 5pm THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON! Junebug Productions is proud to present the inaugural installment of our new place-based storytelling performance series, HOMECOMING PROJECT, wher ...
• 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. ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  As you read the Green Book, this song should be playing in the background at high volume: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMK74QQp ... re=relatedStatistics: Posted by Tomas O'Crohan — Sun Dec 04, 2011 9:06 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Is it the Green Book you're looking for? If so, here it is: http://therevolutionscript.blogspot.com ... f-ira.html I don't think that the assertion about "countless" being in "total denial" is accurate. I would say that most people here know exactly what needs to be done. T ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Instead of the reactors staying dry, as contemplated under the power company's worst-case scenario, the plant was overrun by a torrent of water much higher and stronger than the utility argued could occur, according to an AP analysis of records, documents and statements from researchers, the uti ...
• Social Engineering • Re: And they called him ( ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VPI4wD63BcStatistics: Posted by Christopher Marlowe — Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:20 am
• Self-Appointed "Masters" • Re: Edwar ...
  Global Security Newswire, dated December 6, 2001. Edward Jay Epstein, "FBI Overlooks Foreign Sources of Anthrax," Wall Street Journal, 75. Edward Jay Epstein gives an eye-opening account of exactly how this 'insider's fund' worked. “New York State investigators may yet unravel one ...

TVNZ

• At least 23 dead in intensifying Syria violence
  The death toll in Syria pushes close to 4600 says an activist group.
• Australia clears uranium sales to India
  Australia's ruling Labor Party has endorsed plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a bilateral nuclear agreement and resolving an issue that has caused diplomatic tensions between the two nations
• UK soldier stabbed Afghan boy after drinking s ...
  A British soldier has been dismissed from the army after stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy with a bayonet, the Guardian newspaper reported
• Expelled Iranian diplomats return to heroes' w ...
  Iranian diplomats expelled from Britain after radical youths stormed the British embassy in Tehran have arrived home to supporters bearing flowers and chanting "Death to England"
• Sex scandal-plagued Republican Herman Cain sus ...
  US presidential candidate Herman Cain has effectively ended his 2012 White House race.

environment 360

• New Interactive Network Maps Pollution, Noise ...
  The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft this week introduced a network of online sites that map air, water, and noise pollution levels across the continent based on government data and information Click to enlarge Eye on EarthEye on Earth uploaded by users. The Eye on Earth network ...
• Arduous Life of Wolverines Documented in Yello ...
  Yellowstone National Park’s wolverines live a harsh life high in the Rocky Mountains, with females giving birth in snow caves at 9,000 feet, males ranging over territories covering 500 square miles, and the scrappy View gallery Mark Packila/WCSA Yellowstone wolverine animals doing battle with g ...
• Southern U.S. Groundwater Dips To Record Low ...
  A new map released by U.S. scientists illustrates a steep drop in groundwater levels across much of Texas and other southern states following record-breaking drought conditions. Using groundwater calculations based on Click to enlarge NASAGroundwater levels in the U.S., November 2011 satellite o ...
• Map Shows Population Density As Planet Reaches ...
  With the world’s population now surpassing 7 billion, a Boston-based design firm has published a map illustrating the planet’s population density, including View gallery Fathom Information DesignPopulation density detailed visualizations of the most densely populated cities. Dencity, created b ...
• Carbon Sinks in Estuaries Have Been Degraded b ...
  The ability of the world’s estuaries, salt marshes, and mangrove swamps to sequester carbon has been seriously degraded by industrial activity, according to a study by Australian researchers. Scientists at the University of Technology, Sydney, examined layers of estuary sediment in Sydney’s Bota ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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• Researching Criminal zionism
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• Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
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backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Georgian Opposition Says the Country's Democra ...
  An opposition figure suggests that security forces may have murdered a defense official. By Eli Lake.
• Huckabee Grills the GOP
  The 2008 contender moderated a debate where candidates actually got a chance to speak at length. Lloyd Grove reports.
• The Internet’s Abortion Problem
  Apple’s virtual assistant was accused of being pro-life, but Google and other search engines can be similarly deceiving.
• My Art Shopping Spree
  Blake Gopnik hits Art Basel, where art is a commodity—with Monopoly money in hand.
• The Demise of the MackDaddy
  Herman Cain couldn't even keep his affair secret. By Mansfield Frazier

Loonwatch

• ACT! For America Member: “Muslims Are Li ...
  The process of dehumanization, not new to ACT! for America.
• Muslim Woman Spat On, Hijab Pulled Off by Gang
  How much you want to bet they were inspired by the EDL or are EDL?
• Prof. Risa A. Brooks’ Study Reveals the ...
  Muslim Homegrown Terrorism not a serious threat, will anyone listen?
• San Jose Man Punched, Called ‘Terrorist& ...
  "I believe they hit me with the tequila bottle," he said. "Then they spit on me and called me a terrorist."
• FBI Illegally Using Community Outreach to Gath ...
  The FBI is using its extensive community outreach to Muslims and other groups to secretly gather intelligence in violation of federal law, the ACLU alleged Thursday.

Energy News

• Report: Shocking amount of strontium-89 detect ...
• Dozens of radioactive tires from Japan confisc ...
• Japan Times: Expert claims Fukushima boss not ...
• Fukushima worker recalls eerie, deep popping n ...
• Fukushima worker: Eerie, deep popping noise fr ...

Japan Times

• New Komeito exec urges Ichikawa to quit
  An New Komeito executive urged Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa on Sunday to resign before the opposition party and its bigger ally, the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, submit a censure motion against him in the Upper House on Friday. Ichikawa and his top official in Okinawa are under fi ...
• Drawing the blues away
  In the last few decades, clinical depression in Japan has emerged from its longstanding obscurity shrouded in shame and guilt to becoming far more openly recognized as a national disease. A 2010 report by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry put the number of patients seeking professional ca ...
• Drawing the blues away
  << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 He said he had been interested in me all along, finding me amusing. He said he felt he found it easy to poke fun at me.
• Waxing woody as winter nears
  This will be my 32nd winter in Kurohime, way up in the hills of northern Nagano Prefecture. Yesterday I was stacking firewood for the Afan Woodland Trust Centre, which has a fine, baronial-style stone-and-brick fireplace. There really is nothing like a room heated with firewood, and sitting by a ...
• Ferrari, Red Bull pull out of FOTA
  Ferrari and Red Bull are pulling out of the Formula One Teams Association, saying the body is no longer effective in dealing with key issues such as reducing costs in the sport. Ferrari said on its website Friday that it informed FOTA president Martin Whitmarsh about its decision, which it sai ...

Alexander Higgins

• Big Brother, Come Clean: The FBI is Misusing & ...
  The FBI is secretly and deliberately collecting information about innocent Americans and illegally recording speech, beliefs, and First Amendment-protected activities.
• Occupy Montreal: Police “Brand” Pr ...
  Occupy Montreal Protestors consider legal action against police for civil rights violations after police branded them with invisible UV ink to track them
• #NOV17 – #OccupyWallStreet To Shutdown W ...
  Occupy Wall Street calls for shutdown of Wall Street and NYC subways on the Nov 17th international day of mass non-violent action with over 400 events scheduled nationwide.
• #OccupyWallStreet – This Is What Revolut ...
  Chris Hedges lays out the progression of Occupy Wall Street and makes clear that we are now entering into the final phase of the start of a revolution against the elite.
• Largest Anti-Fracking Rally EVER! To Be Held I ...
  Occupy Trenton Will Join Occupy DRBC on November 21st in Trenton as 1000s expected to join the largest anti-fracking rally EVER!!!

Macleans - Central

• Security and torture
  The Montreal Gazette obtains a CSIS memo that raises more questions about CSIS and...
• Dispelling fears of foreign telecom ownership ...
  Time for Cabinet to lift restrictions and welcome the barbarians at the gate
• A hundred communities like this?
  Peter Mansbridge talks to Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo about Attawapiskat.
• ‘Surviving Progress’—the eco essay ...
  A seductive Canadian doc plays like the brainy love child of 'An Inconvenient Truth' and 'Inside Job'
• What does ministerial accountability mean?
  NDP MP Ryan Cleary thinks Peter MacKay should resign. “The email trail that has...

Making It Count - CCPA

• War Radio and the Militarization of Canadian C ...
  “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” I was reminded of this chilling warning from the late British historian E.P. Thompson, while listening to Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio on November 20. Murphy was interviewing Terry Glavin, a B.C. author, about Glavin’s ...
• Facts and Evidence versus Threats and Hyperbol ...
  The recent debate in Nova Scotia surrounding proposed first contract arbitration (FCA) legislation offers revealing truths about the contemporary relationship between labour and capital in Atlantic Canada.  Arguments recently presented by the business community to the Law Amendments Committee ag ...
• 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 ...

ReDress

• An America that’s never wrong
  Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
• Obama and Israel's security
  Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".
• 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 ...

Physics Today

• Names proposed for two new chemical elements
  BBC: Names have been submitted for two chemical elements that were recently added to the periodic table. Both elements are the product of collaborative work between scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. ...
• Ancient, gold-rich stars may contain clues to ...
  Space.com: Scientists have been puzzled by the discovery of a number of ancient stars that contain unusually high levels of heavy elements such as gold, platinum, and uranium, because the heaviest elements are usually found at those levels only in much later generations of stars. Helium, hydroge ...
• 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 ...

Revolutionary Politics

• FF News: President Abdulla on Gardens...
  by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:49 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla speaks about GARDENS... 1 Month ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there is a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding gardening. Should you plant your vegetables depending on the phases ...
• FF NewS: President Abdulla 'tees off...'
  by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:15 GMT) FF News: President Abdulla 'tee's off...' 1 Month, 1 Week ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla finally worked his way into the upper reaches of the Footprintsfilmworks.com Open leaderboard in Saturday's third round, though h ...
• FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack ...
  by footprints222 (Posted Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:36:19 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack Obama 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there will be road closures and traffic restrictions over the next two days during United States president Barack Ob ...
• FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies...
  by footprints888 (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:16:53 GMT) Merge Page: 1 TOPIC: FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... Forum Tools Post New Topic Pdf Mark this forum read Show latest posts #62328 FF News: President Abdulla on Butterflies... 2 Weeks, 2 Days ago Karma: 0 Pre ...
• basket tnVendredi, Nike va lancer dix par la coutu
  by requintn (Posted Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:23:19 GMT) Annuelles d'hiver de NIKE semble avoir produit plus sincère, nike shox ce qui force les deux dernières années SPECIAL BOOT Hybird SNEAKERS dans un sens raisonnable. Suite à la version antérieure Fujiwara HIROSHI après le lancement de l'TIER ZERO ...

Peakwater

• Chronic violators of water testing
  “The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified 23 drinking water systems in Missouri that have chronically failed to complete drinking water testing required by the department to ensure a safe water supply. “The systems listed have at least three major monitoring violat ...
• Africa’s great ‘water grab’
  The banks of the Niger river, in southern Mali, have been flooded by a steady stream of foreigners. Coveted by foreign investors eager to snap up large tracts of fertile farmland, the river basin has been at the centre of a race to get hold of African land at rock-bottom prices. Meanwhile, last ...
• Unusual drought triggers alarm across Balkans
  “The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships are simply stuck, stranded in ghostly fog or wedged into sand banks on what is normally one of eastern Europe’s busiest transport routes.A lack of rain has triggered the worst drought in decades for this time of y ...
• 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 ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich: Revised Unemployment Rate no Cause f ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Department of Labor issued new employment numbers that showed 120,000 jobs were created in the month of November and that the unemployment rate is currently at 8.6%, down from 9%. “One hundred and twenty thousand n ...
• 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 ...

Authentically Wired

• GOTCHA … !
  So, there’s a rootkit hidden in millions of cellphones   12-01-2011  •  www.zdnet.com/  The rootkit belongs to a company called Carrier IQ and it seems that it has low-level access to the system that allows it to spy on pretty much everything that you do with your hands ...
• So who has your back …?
    … Corporation$ & U.S. Congre$$ joined at the hip … Ma$ter and $lave … So who has your back …? News Link  •  Police State ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill Set For Final Vote Thursday 11-30-2011  •  www.prisonplanet.com  The Senate has cleared ...
• … This is Freedom of the Press in the Ne ...
  … This is Freedom of the Press in the New World Order …   Check Out The Moment This LA Police Officer Leveled His Weapon At A Reporter This Morning   11-30-2011  •  www.businessinsider.com … http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-the-moment-this-la-police- ...
• … Still think that John McCain is HONEST ...
  … Still think that John McCain is HONEST … ?     …"COME AND TAKE IT!" … TREASON is how to describe John McCain’s S. 1867 up for a vote now. It will eliminate any pretense of federal respect for any of our God-given rights, any semblance of justice ...
• … United States crosses it heart that we ...
  … United States crosses it heart that we don’t have any  … yea right … Illegal chemical weapons   Stephen Lendman  …Date: December 2, 2011 … Subject: WAR: About that War  …America’s Illegal Chemical Weapons Stockpile – by Stephe ...

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

• Surf's up at San Diego State University
  The California city that inspired "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the 1982 comedy film that did much to propagate the laid-back surfer image, is now home to the world's first Center for Surf Research. And, no, it's not a clever...
• Curiosity takes biologist around world
  As a child, Dr Evelyn Sattlegger loved plants, animals, examining things under the microscope - even studying temperature changes."I always wanted to find out how something works and why it's working that way."That curiosity towards...
• 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...

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• AARON MCCOLLUM’S FINAL MESSAGE
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• DISARMAMENT OF THE ELITE
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Hit & Run | Reason

• Herman Cain: "I am suspending my campaign."
  Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has suspended his campaign in the wake of charges of past sexual harassment and extramarital affairs - and increasing questions about his basic knowlege of U.S. politics and world affairs. The Wash Post on his announcement. For the ...
• Remy's "Light Bulb Song"; Nick Gillespie Talki ...
  Remy mourns the impending loss of his beloved incandescent light bulbs with a song set to familiar music. Written and performed by Remy and produced by Meredith Bragg. About 2.30 minutes. Go to Reason.tv for downloadable versions. Subscribe to Reason's YouTube chann ...
• New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Fertili ...
  A May Pew study found that 72 percent of Americans support a path to citizenship (not just legality) for illegal immigrants who have jobs, pass a background check, and are willing to pay fines—which is a better deal than either party’s politicians are willing to offer at this point. M ...
• Veronique de Rugy: One Good Reason to Extend t ...
  Congress is now struggling with the expiration of the payroll tax cut of the past year or so. This policy shaved about 2 percentage points off the employee's FICA taxes, allowing typical households to pocket about $1,000 more a year. At year's end, though, if nothing is done, we'll al ...
• The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy (Against ...
  Occasional Reason contributor and great American localist patriot Bill Kauffman finds decent respect for the principles of the American Constitution in a I-missed-it-too 2010 Robert Redford-directed movie, The Conspirator, about Mary Surratt, railroaded in the investigation of the L ...

Mercury Rising

• From Gaza to Tegucigalpa, Tegucigalpa to Oakland
  Bumped up to front page from a comment by Jo6Pac, this fascinating article by Max Blumenthal: In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT t ...
• Was there coordination between Homeland Securi ...
  There has been one of these episodic s–t storms in the blogosphere over whether Naomi Wolf’s allegation that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated with local police departments in evicting campers from Occupied sites. Wolf’s original article said, “As the puzzle ...
• Minnesota GOP Finally Dumps Walking Scandal Ma ...
  In what may be the ultimate Friday News Dump for the North Star State, it was announced late this afternoon that Tony Sutton is no longer the chair of the Republican Party of Minnesota: Amid mounting evidence of party disarray and financial difficulties, Republican State Party Chairman Tony Sutt ...
• Everything you need to know about weapon syste ...
  …begins here. Where’s a junkyard dog when you need one?
• 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.

Reality Sandwich

• Music Against Homophobia
  In response to Russia's anti-LGBT legislation, the net label Black Circle Records has released a free 29-track album 'Russia's Full of Queers', a compilation album comparable only to a late-night WFMU playlist.  Elizabeth Veldon of Dangerous Minds wrote: "This album is a ...
• Theoretical Justice
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• The First Extraterrestrial City on Earth
  The following excerpt from The Electric Jesus: The Healing Journey of a Contemporary Gnostic takes place during the annual Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. The book is now available from EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books. read more
• Sacred Economics: Chapter 19, Nonaccumulation ...
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• A Sorcerer's Corner: Carlos Castaneda's Doomed ...
  I: The Pen is Mightier (A Sorcerer-Academic in Exile) read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

• December 2 2011: The Debt Walkers Strike Back
• November 30 2011: Day X
• November 28 2011: Are we there yet?
• November 25 2011: Deleveraging: There never wa ...
• November 22 2011: Europe Tumbles, America Pays ...

Press TV

• Blast near UK embassy in Bahrain
  Bahrain's interior ministry says a bomb explosion has occurred near the British diplomatic compound in the country's capital Manama.
• India's Bhopal protest turns violent
  Thousands of survivors of the world's worst industrial accident have blocked trains and clashed with police in India's central Madhya Pradesh state to demand more compensation.
• Israeli drones killed 825 in Gaza
  The Palestinian Center for Human Rights says more than 800 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have killed in Israeli drone strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past five years.
• World War ll bomb horrifies Germans
  About 45,000 people have been evacuated from the city of Koblenz in western Germany after a huge World War II-era bomb is discovered in the city.
• Violence kills 25 across Somalia
  At least 25 people have been killed and scores others wounded in a new wave of violence that rocked different parts of war-torn Somalia, Press TV reports.

SciDev.net

• Super 'floodway' mooted for Thai floods
  Thai researchers have suggested a series of measures, including a huge expressway for water, to prevent future flooding in Bangkok.
• African e-health 'moving in wrong direction'
  High-tech healthcare from rich countries is distracting Africa from more powerful uses of e-health, a conference in Kenya has heard.
• Fungi join the DNA barcode club as the techniq ...
  Scientists at the International Barcode of Life conference have added fungi to a rapidly growing list of applications for DNA barcoding.
• Science: a force for the common good
  Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan discusses how global cooperation on science can benefit a knowledge-hungry world.
• Cuts threaten the rollout of promising HIV tre ...
  A big cut in donor commitments to the global health fund has forced the agency to cancel new programmes.

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

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

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