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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

6 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

NATO Summit in Riga, November 2006Image by www.guigo.eu via Flickr

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: December 6, 2011
    ==== Creation Of CELAC Marks Trend Toward Multipolar Global Governance Germany: NATO Military Committee Inspects Missile Shield Command Russia To Take Further Actions In Response To U.S. Missiles Bonn: NATO To Pursue Permanent Partnership With Afghanistan NATO Warplanes Kill Eight Afghan Civilia ...
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes: Hymn to Peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Oliver Wendell Holmes Hymn to Peace (1869) [The author was a fervent war supporter four years prior to writing this, but the sentiment expressed in the verses is valid notwithstanding.] Angel of Peace, thou hast wandered too long! Sprea ...
  • Stop NATO news: December 5, 2011
    ==== AFRICOM Complement: Canadian, Other NATO Nation Troops In Sahel, North Africa U.S. Appoints Northern Command For Arctic Role Versus Russia, China NATO Acknowledges “Losing” Drone In Western Afghanistan U.S. Supports Georgia’s NATO Membership Bid Baltic States: NATO Outpost ...
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: Work for Peace
    Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts W.E.B. Du Bois From Work for Peace Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois (1963) ***** “Leading this new colonial imperialism comes my own native land, built by my father’s toil and blood, the United States. The United States is a ...
  • Stop NATO news: December 4, 2011
    ==== Western Hemisphere Unites In Bloc, U.S. And Canada Not Invited Syrian Opposition Pushes No-Fly Zone, Shift To GCC, West NATO Delivers New Threat To Kosovo Serbs $250 A Barrel Oil? West Tightens Screws On Iran Iran Downs American Drone Changing Warfare Forever: U.S. Test Hypersonic Weapon Sy ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Newt Gingrich: Let Mad Scientists Terraform Th ...
    Presidential frontrunner is a geoengineering advocate Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Republican presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich’s embracement of global warming pseudo-science isn’t limited to cringeworthy PSA’s with Nancy Pelosi, not does it stop at his advocacy ...
  • The Bone that Could Change Everything: A Time ...
    By Kevin D. Annett ITCCS.org December 6, 2011 The tiny bone weighs hardly anything, and yet it is the weightiest evidence in Canadian history. The forensic specialists are nearly definite that it’s the upper thigh bone of a small child, maybe four or five years old. This month, their tests ...
  • 9 Examples Of Elderly Americans Being Strip-Se ...
    End of the American Dream Blog December 5, 2011 What in the world has happened to America?  This week two elderly women that are more than 80 years old have come forward with claims that they were strip-searched at JFK Airport in New York.  But sadly, this is nothing new. The truth is that there ...
  • U.S. Government Executes 16 Year Old From Colorado
    What has the United States become? The Intel Hub December 5, 2011 Just two weeks after killing confirmed Pentagon asset and American citizen Anwar Awlaki, the United States government executed Awlaki’s 16 year America son via a drone strike in Yemen. The U.S. government is now targeting an ...
  • ‘Occupy’ Protesters Listed As Domestic Terrorists
    Demonstrators characterized in same context as Al-Qaeda, Colombian FARC Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com Monday, December 5, 2011 Occupy London demonstrators have been listed as domestic terrorists by the City of London Police, who characterized them in the same context as Al-Qaeda, the Colombian ...

FRS

  • Nepal: Leaders of Revolutionary Maoists Baidy ...
    REPUBLICA KATHMANDU, Dec 1: The Mohan Baidya faction of the UCPN (Maoist) on Thursday issued a separate statement condemning the killing of Indian Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao a.k.a. Kishenji by the Indian security forces in the dense forest of Burishol, near West Bengal-Jharkhand borde ...
  • How to Start a Revolution: Or the Delusions of ...
    By As’ad AbuKhalil – Fri, 2011-12-02 – Angry Corner The documentary How to Start a Revolution by Ruaridh Arrow was screened at the Zionist Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, among other places presumably. It comes at a time when Foreign Policy magazine has d ...
  • The Indian State’s Murder of Kishanji&#8 ...
    Kishanji: not just another ‘martyr’ November 28, 2011 by Saroj Giri, Sanhati Kishanji is not just a fighter against oppression, a brave and courageous soul. He presided over something unique in the history of resistance movement in the country – and maybe he was not even so aware of it. Several ...
  • India: Mass Democratic and Revolutionary organ ...
    JOINT PRESS RELEASE –  DELHI / 30.11.2011  We strongly condemn the brutal and cold-blooded murder of Mallojula Koteshwara Rao alias Kishanji by the security forces in the Burisole forest area of West Bengal. Now it is very much clear from various sources that the Maoist leader Kishanji was ...
  • Indian Maoist Party: “Condemn the State ...
      COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (MAOIST) CENTRAL COMMITTEE Press Release: November 25, 2011 Condemn the brutal murder of Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao, the beloved leader of the oppressed masses, the leader of Indian revolution and CPI (Maoist) Politburo member! Observe protest week from November 2 ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • 13 Years After Shepard, are LGBTs Better Off?
    Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten and murdered because he was gay when he was a college student in 1998. How has the world changed since then? Is it a better place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people?Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Oct 12, 2011
  • My Favorite Features of Apple’s iOS 5
    Even with more than 200 new or updated features, it was easy to pick my favorites from iOS 5, because these will make my life more manageable.Contributor: Sophie Walton Published: Oct 12, 2011
  • Donors Feed Occupy Portland
    Though many are going hungry in the city of Portland, protestors at Occupy Portland are getting enough to eat thanks to generous local donors and volunteers sympathetic with the cause.Contributor: Cate Patricolo Published: Oct 11, 2011
  • Chicago Marathon Site of Life, Death
    The Chicago Marathon is always an emotion-filled, dramatic event, but this year there was life and death among the nearly 36,000 stories between.Contributor: Isa-Lee Wolf Published: Oct 10, 2011
  • Raiders Owner Al Davis was Much More Than Football
    Al Davis was, an always will be the face of the Oakland Raiders, but what many people may not know, is that he was a good man, and a good husband.Contributor: K.C. Dermody Published: Oct 09, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Heat Map: Every Auto Accident Resulting in Inj ...
    Every now and then, someone takes a data set and does something absolutely illuminating. Here, the BBC has graphically mapped every road casualty on every road in Great Britain from 1999 to 2010. That’s 2,396,750 crashes, with each individual point of light representing an individual crash resul ...
  • A Dead Sea Microbe's Fluorescent Protein Sheds ...
    A fluorescent protein derived from a Dead Sea microbe could be a novel way to track electrical signals in the brain, researchers say. It’s noninvasive and nontoxic, so it could enable neuron tracking without harming the neurons. Neurons communicate via chemical and electrical signals, and monito ...
  • Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Dis ...
    Good thing they are 330 million light-years away Astronomers have measured the two most enormous supermassive black holes found so far, vast realms of titanic gravity large enough to swallow 10 of our solar systems. The black holes are much bigger than predicted, suggesting extra-large galaxies ...
  • Video: A Yeti Crab That Grows Its Bacterial Me ...
    A species of deep sea crab, named as more things should be after the Himalayan snow monster, grows its own food...on its body. The crab, part farmer and part farm, raises cultures of extremophile bacteria and harvests its meals off of its claws. The yeti crab is named for the bristly, hairy claw ...
  • Video: International Cell Race Clocks Cells Sp ...
    On your mark ... get set ... mitosis! A clump of bone marrow cells are the fastest cells in the world, moving at a glacial pace of 5.2 microns per minute across a petri dish. They beat a line of breast cells by a hair’s breadth — OK, well less than that, because the entire race track was about ...

Veterans Today

  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Dece ...
    The National Cemetery Administration will host a series of commemorative events highlighting the historical heritage of more than half of its’ national cemeteries that were created during the American Civil War.
  • Russia Bashing
    On December 4, parliamentary elections were held to fill 450 State Duma seats, Russia's Federal Assembly lower house.
  • Why the World Hates Zionism—64th Anniversary
    November 29, 1947 was the date the UN passed the Partition Resolution partitioning Palestine, more or less equally, into a Jewish and an Arab state.
  • Gordon Duff and Kevin Barrett on Truth Jihad R ...
    Another amphetimine driven marathon session with VT Senior Editor, Gordon Duff and Truth Jihad Radio host and VT staffer, Kevin Barrett. The combination of politics, hard intelligence, conspiracy theory and, most important of all, "little green men" is sure to delight the casual listener and en ...
  • Brave Men
    By U.S. military standards, they didn’t exactly come from Central Casting.   One, a senior Afghan police officer in a death-gray dress uniform just a tad tight in the midriff; the other, a lean, bearded Afghan National Army general clad in green jungle fatigues of all things.   Between ...

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Second warmest Autumn on record
    Autumn has turned out to be the second warmest on record, beaten only by autumn 2006 on a Met Office dataset that dates back to 1910. November itself was also narrowly pushed into second place, only beaten by November 1994. More impressively, based on the much longer CET dataset, which has run ...
  • A stormy end to November
    The pattern of weather that is now establishing itself, dominated by westerly winds, is common across the UK in winter. Vigorous depressions are likely to develop in the coming days, and the strength of the wind is likely to catch the headlines. This weekend looks particularly stormy, with wi ...
  • End in sight to extraordinary November weather
    It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
  • Is the solar sector facing collapse?
    The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...
  • Satellite global temperatures fall sharply in ...
    The latest global temperature anomaly for October has been released and according to the UAH measure it's fallen sharply to +0.114C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.367C above the 1961-1990 ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Chicago Merc Now Takes RMB for Futures Trading
    The interesting thing about the United States at the current time is that it's the new Italy. Whereas Italy would continually add zeros to the dollar/lira exchange rate to compensate for a lack of competitiveness via depreciation, that route is no longer there since it joined the Eurozone. The U ...
  • Adios Gringos: CELAC, the US-Less Americas PTA
    China may be getting back at the US for aggressively pursuing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in China's backyard and supposedly including Japan in negotiations to broaden the TPP. Since China to an extent perceives TPP as a way for the Yanks to freeze it out in an Asia-Pacific PTA, so in tu ...
  • Don't Count on China Using Reserves for 'Rescue'
    There's more interesting stuff from Bloomberg on current efforts to get China to help bail out all and sundry troubled European economies. Particular insights I want to highlight that I've brought up now and again include: 1. The Communist Party is not monolithic. Alike other political entities ...
  • Should US Borrow More Given Treasury 'Demand'?
    To make a long story short, the answer to the post title is "no" contrary to what some IPE and economist types believe [1, 2]. At worst it is financially ruinous to do so and at best it is a very parochial assertion that there is limitless demand for US Treasuries out there. For, not only are th ...
  • Doomsters' Disagreement: Faber, Rogers on PRC
    When I have some time, I do watch the financial news channels which regularly feature bears to counterbalance the more regular fare of bulls. Over the years, one of the more frequent guests have been Marc Faber of gloom, boom, doom report fame. Another fellow is Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Qua ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Worst In The World – The U.S. Balanc ...
    Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us?  The U.S. balance of trade is not only mind-blowingly bad - it is the worst in the world.  It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will [...]
  • Barack Obama Is Taking A 17 Day Vacation Even ...
    What in the world is Barack Obama thinking?  The United States of America is falling apart all around him, and yet he decides to take a 17 day Hawaiian vacation.  Does he even understand that he is the leader of the free world?  Does he even understand that this country is mired ...
  • Have You Heard About The 16 Trillion Dollar Ba ...
    What you are about to read should absolutely astound you.  During the last financial crisis, the Federal Reserve secretly conducted the biggest bailout in the history of the world, and the Fed fought in court for several years to keep it a secret.  Do you remember the TARP bailou ...
  • What Have The Central Banks Of The World Done Now?
    The central banks of the world are acting as if it is 2008 all over again.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the central bankers are pulling out all the stops.  The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the ...
  • Tens Of Millions Of American Families Are Livi ...
    Have you ever been so poor that you had to live in your car?  Have you ever been so low on funds that the only place you could afford to live was a rat-infested motel?  Have you ever spent a night living in a tent city or sleeping in the streets?  If not, you should [...]

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Pentagon equips police with military weapons
    A rapidly expanding US Pentagon program is equipping police forces, many in small towns, with second-hand battlefield-grade weaponry. The US Department of Defense distributed USD 500 million worth of used military gear to police forces in 2011, through the “1033 program”, The Daily reported. The ...
  • Earth’s sibling located 600 light-years away
    The search for Earth-like planets has finally borne fruit. Or at least that is what NASA claims, raising hopes among inhabitants of an exhausted Earth of a back-up planet for humanity. ­Space and extra-terrestrial life have always been a source of wild flights of imagination and inspiration for ...
  • US confirms downed drone spied on Iran
    US officials have confirmed that the reconnaissance drone which was downed by Iran’s Army in the eastern part of the country was on a CIA recon mission. On Sunday December 4, the Iranian Army’s electronic warfare unit downed a RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft after it crossed into Ir ...
  • World’s costliest car crash reported in Japan
    Altogether 14 cars, among them eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini and two Mercedes Benz, have collided in Japan’s most expensive car crash ever. ­Sports Nippon newspaper estimates the value of the vehicles to be about $4 million. Unfortunately some of the owners will have to part with their prized po ...
  • China reacts to Australian move to sell uraniu ...
    A day after Australia’s ruling Labor reversed its policy of not selling uranium to India, China on Monday gave a guarded response to the move, saying all countries are entitled to peaceful use of nuclear energy. “China always believes countries are entitled to peaceful use of nuclear ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

  • 2011-12-06 #WikiLeaks News: Updates on Julian ...
    Tweet Fast-track extradition in the EU is based on a leap of faith. It is based on an assumption that all European justice systems are of a decent standard. That assumption is a sham. - Dominic Raab This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeak ...
  • 2011-12-04 #WikiLeaks News: Pres. Obama, Sec. ...
    Tweet What we ask for is humble — the right to not be shipped off to foreign lands without formal charges or the presentation of even the most basic evidence. - Julian Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of i ...
  • On January 7, demand Justice
    TweetAs we take December 10 to remember the human rights and freedoms we are entitled to, it is impossible to not feel how far we have fallen from our ideals of 63 years ago. The 11th of January 2012 is the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay black hole, a place that has incar ...
  • 2011-12-03 The CIA and Mossad: a murderous all ...
    TweetLast week's arrests of a dozen alleged CIA agents in Iran threw a spotlight on long-standing, covert U.S.-Israeli actions in the Islamic republic -- including purported involvement by the CIA and Mossad in the recent killings of Iranian nuclear scientists. Though enduring, the collaboration ...
  • 2011-12-03 #WikiLeaks News: Urgent Action for ...
    Tweet [WikiLeaks] has shown a courageous and controversial commitment to the finest traditions of journalism: justice through transparency. - Walkley Foundation This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, tra ...

U N News

  • Heeding UNICEF's calls, Mexico makes progress ...
    Thousands of children from indigenous communities in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca received birth certificates after sustained calls from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for free birth registration.
  • Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest i ...
    Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which highlights public spending levels as one of the key factors that has allowed the continent to continue to grow despite the global economic crisis.
  • Almost two years after earthquake, Haiti shows ...
    Almost two years after the devastating earthquake that killed over 200,000 people, Haiti is showing remarkable signs of progress, a United Nations official said today, stressing that reconstruction efforts need to be put into context to assess their effectiveness.
  • UN, MTV and award-winning band launch campaign ...
    The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) launched a joint campaign with MTV Latin America, the television network Tr3s and rock band Calle 13 to raise awareness about human trafficking and exploitation of youth in Hispanic communities.
  • UN rights chief hails Brazil's truth commissio ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today hailed the creation of Brazil's truth commission as an important first step towards promoting healing and investigating the violations that took place during the political repression of 1946 to 1988.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • Save the Great Arctic Refuge Wilderness! Aroun ...
    Today, the National Wilderness Preservation System has 757 Wilderness Area units totaling 109,512,959 acres.  Each Wilderness Area has great worth, but some stand out.  Among those, the Wilderness Area that to me is the Flagship of the National Wilderness Preservation System is the Arctic Nation ...
  • The Wolf is Back!
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Shark”
    (NOTE: Slowly, too slowly, as in glacially slowly—wait: glacially doesn’t work for slowly anymore, does it? Not with self-crafted curse of greenhouse gases, it doesn’t. Well, nonetheless, I have been working on a memoir called “Wildeor: My Wild Life” now and then, when I find a littl ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – A Few Th ...
    Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A F ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave Foreman “ ...
    From an earlier “Campfire,” Rewilding the East: Early landscape architect and regional planner Benton MacKaye, who also was a founder of The Wilderness Society in 1935, called for a foot-trail along the highline of the Appalachians in the early 1920s. After reading an article by Aldo ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • 1033 Program... Pentagon Giving Free Military ...
      The police in the United States have been steadily militarized over the past decade to the point of absurdity, as recently exemplified by police rolling out an armored personnel carrier (APC) to the Occupy Tampa protests. ~ Madison Ruppert read more
  • Deception?... Major Organic Seed Company Owned ...
      I recently found out something shocking. This revelation happened as I was meandering through the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) website and ran across the “about” page. It just so happens that Joel Reiten is one of the Board of Directors – “Currently seed product ...
  • Why is a 'Mystery Company' Buying Up U.S. Gun ...
      In recent years, many top-selling brands - including the 195-year-old Remington Arms, as well as Bushmaster Firearms and DPMS, leading makers of military-style semiautomatics - have quietly passed into the hands of a single private company. It is called the Freedom Group - and it is ...
  • Obama's DICTATORSHIP Is Nearly Complete...
      This is a critical step over the ‘stuck on stupid’ line to the traitorous and treasonous line by our Senate this week.  They voted for our Military to detain American citizens as long as they want to, without charges, representation or trial... just because they are suspected of ...
  • Early Planet Earth was Without the Moon
      The period when the Earth was Moonless is probably the most remote recollection of mankind. Democritus and Anaxagoras taught that there was a time when the Earth was without the Moon.(1) read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • A Great Threat To American Civil Liberties
    The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. A new law passed by the Senate (93 – 7) will open the door for trial-free, indefinite detention of anyone, including American citizens, so long as the government calls them terrorists. The law would place domestic terror investigations and inter ...
  • Survival Hygiene
    Guest post: by ‘TripodXL’ Hygiene and survival, are you really serious? Absolutely! Your best line of defense for disease and other simple, but debilitating conditions, is following good hygiene habits and procedures, religiously. If your idea of being a survivor is being a “mountain ...
  • Survival Strategy To Avoid The Roving Mob
    Guest post: by ‘ant ellie H.’ Word will get around that you and your family have provisions and supplies, and those who never prepared anything at all will come to take your provisions from you. It is possible that this mob will outnumber you and be completely devoid of morals, shari ...
  • Be Prepared For Survival… With… Beer?
    Guest post: by ‘buk’ from Maui I stocked up with 40 cases of Tecate beer, 45 cases of Heineken lite beer, 39 cases of Coors lite, and 55 cases of Bud light. Because all bars will be shut down, got to have my beer for survival. Ken adds: When I received Buk’s email, I laughed [...]
  • We Are 5 Minutes From Exponential Armageddon
    We are presently living in the beginning of the last 5 minutes of a 50 minute exponential curve function, a time when change will become alarmingly rapid, a time which will leave many people in shock and fear. We are all ‘wired’ for linear functions – things that happen at a re ...

Fast Company

  • Nissan's Leaf-Charging Wireless Pad Could Sign ...
    Wireless charging is still not common, particularly with the disappearance of the Palm Pre, which was one of the main gadgets to utilize the trick for ultra-convenient connection to a battery-boosting charger. That makes Nissan's moves with its Leaf EV all the more interesting: To charge your 20 ...
  • UPDATE: Netflix-Facebook Bill Passes Congress
    UPDATE:H.R. 2471, the bill that would enable Netflix subscribers to share their viewing habits on Facebook, passed the House in a bipartisan vote. "It was a close vote," says Matt Lira, digital communications director for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Shockingly, more than 116 members of Co ...
  • How The "Internet Of Things" Is Turning Cities ...
    When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that automatically know when it will rain and react accordingly.With a little help from what's called the Internet of Things, engi ...
  • Room77 Helps Travelers Avoid Playing Room Rou ...
    A site started by travel and search industry veterans--including Calvin Yang, who designed Google's image search--gives users a peek at what's inside and outside of a hotel room, before they arrive. Front-desk griping may never be the same.Loved the hotel, hated the room? Room77 can help. Unlike ...
  • United Continental's Jimmy Samartzis Seeks A F ...
    In this extended version of the talk from our latest issue, we speak with Jimmy Samartzis, managing director of environmental affairs and sustainability at United Continental about testing biofuels and partnering with biofuel producers.Photo by Jay B. Sauceda "Fuel is our largest expense. That ...

Jadaliyya

  • Egypt Election Committee: Turnout Was Fifty-Tw ...
    Egypt's election committee on Monday lowered its turnout figure for the first stage of a parliamentary election, blaming a counting mistake that skewed numbers published last week. "The accurate percentage of attendance in the first round was fifty-two percent, ...
  • Supra-Constitutional Principles are Dead, Says ...
    After Muslim Brotherhood's strong showing in first round of Egypt's parliamentary polls, group's secretary-general describes controversial El-Selmi document as 'dead'. Following an Islamist landslide in Egypt’s first post-Mubarak ‎parliamentary polls, a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) offic ...
  • Head of Salafist Al-Nour Party Rules Out Allia ...
    The head of Al-Nour Party says the Salafist group is unlikely to form an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm. The Salafist Al-Nour Party will not accept living in the shadow of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) after both swept the first round of ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood Slams Tycoon-Owned Satellit ...
    Satellite TV channels owned by business magnates are transmitting false election-related news, charges Islamist group. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party ‎‎(FJP) released a statement on Monday slamming satellite ‎television stations “owned by businessmen” for ...
  • We'll Allow a Coptic President When Israel All ...
    Yasser Burhami, an outspoken Salafist leader, denies right of Coptic Christians to hold high political office in Egypt; calls for government to monitor women's attire and force tourists to abide by Islamic law. One of Egypt's most prominent Salafist leaders has said he would only accept ...

mediagazer

  • Has book blogging hit the wall? William Morrow ...
    Carolyn Kellogg / LA Times: Has book blogging hit the wall?  William Morrow's blogger notice  —  Has book blogging hit the wall?  A marketing department email sent to bloggers on Thursday by William Morrow, a division of HarperCollins, indicates some kind of horizon is ...
  • Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web ...
    Reuters: Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service  —  (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc plans to launch a standalone service allowing customers to stream movies and television shows over the Web, in a fresh challenge to Netflix Inc and the traditional cable TV ...
  • The Naked Retweet Dilemma (Caitlin Johnston/Am ...
    Caitlin Johnston / American Journalism Review: The Naked Retweet Dilemma  —  If journalists retweet information and links without providing any lead-in or context, does that suggest that they endorse it?  —  Caitlin Johnston (cljohnst@gmail.com) is a graduate stu ...
  • MediaNews Group's 'Digital-First' Mondays Brin ...
    Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent: MediaNews Group's ‘Digital-First’ Mondays Bring Some Paywalls Down  —  In the hopes of saving money while avoiding consolidation, MediaNews Group is introducing “digital-first Mondays” at six of its California newspapers.& ...
  • Barbara Walters To Interview Syria's Al-Assad ...
    Alex Weprin / TVNewser: Barbara Walters To Interview Syria's Al-Assad  —  In his first TV interview with an American outlet since the uprising began in his country earlier this year, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad will speak to ABC's Barbara Walters.  —  Walter ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Dhoni, Ganguly likely to play football wi ...
    Kolkata: Dec 6, 2011 After the likes of Pele, Maradona and Lionel Messi, thrice world footballer of the year, Ronaldo is set to play in India in an exhibition match in Kolkata on January 15 to collect funds for the victims of Sikkim earthquake. The exhibition match, which is the brainc ...
  • No regrets about my comments on Michael C ...
    Sydney: Dec 6, 2011 Former Test batsman Simon Katich says he has no regrets on his remarks about captain Michael Clarke which led to his being reprimanded by Cricket Australia (CA) following a disciplinary hearing Monday. Katich was charged by CA after he told...
  • Open letter to Virat Kohli on his anger a ...
    Virat Kohli was probably unfortunate to be given lbw by umpire Sudhir Asnani in the third ODI at Ahmedabad. But his reaction to the umpire’s decision was stunning, to put it mildly. A horrified Sidhanta Patnaik writes an open letter to Kohli. Dear Virat, What was that we saw at A ...
  • Lily Allen thanks fans for `touching` mes ...
    Fashion designer Lily Allen has thanked fans for the 'touching' messages she's received following the birth of...
  • Bank Of Canada Rate Decision Brings Curre ...
    Investors came back in a buying mood after the weekend, although domestic equity indexes lost momentum after it was reported that Standard & Poor’s would put all 17 Euro zone member nations under credit review. Nonetheless, optimism continues to build on Wall Street as the...

no frakking consensus

  • Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to be a neutral and impartial body. But its chairman is encouraging business students to be green activists.
  • My Own Josh Cartoon
    The IPCC has, so far, ignored my book. But perhaps I'm having an impact nevertheless.
  • Inside the IPCC: the Climategate E-Mails
    Newly released e-mails shed an unkind light on internal IPCC politics.
  • Pachauri’s Rhetoric vs Reality
    The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has systematically misled us regarding the quality and kind of material his organization consults.
  • Pachauri Interviewed by Pretend Journalist
    The UK's Guardian newspaper has published a fawning article about IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri. But the article is pure propaganda. It was written by the Natural Resources Defense Council - a green lobby group that fancies itself "the Earth's best defense."

Anna's News

  • News of the World staff shocked at closure
    Staff at the News of the World have reacted with shock to news that it will be closed after this Sunday's edition.The paper's political editor, David Wooding, said the closure came as a "bombshell". Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 10 Ridiculous But Compelling Twitter Feuds
    Like all social networking sites, Twitter can be a wonderful outlet to share your feelings and views, but it also leaves plenty of room for offensive comments and bullying. Whether it's the empowerment of being behind a computer or the wide-reaching...... Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Dorset pliosaur: Most fearsome predator unveiled
    A skull belonging to one of the largest "sea monsters" ever unearthed is being unveiled to the public.The beast, which is called a pliosaur, has been described as the most fearsome predator the Earth has seen. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |  &nbs ...
  • Chile Bans Shark Finning: Congress Unanimous
    In a move that has made the country a new leader in shark protection, Chile yesterday banned the practice of shark finning from its national waters. After months of discussions since the bill on the ban was drafted and presented by the conservation group Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Cassini Captures Images and Sounds of Saturn Storm
    Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Medical Marijuana

  • 12/05/11 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Deaths ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Deaths, 1987-2011 - See our chart estimating casualties from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the First Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) through the present day.
  • 12/05/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
    2012election.procon.org - UPDATED: 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with 10 new questions on education, gay marriage, immigration, infidelity, Occupy Wall Street, oil subsidies, ...
  • 12/05/11 - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign
    2012election.procon.org - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign - Cain announced on Dec. 3, 2011 that he was suspending his presidential campaign. Read his full statement, and see his biography and views on 35 issues.
  • 12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Tea Party movement good for America?"
  • 12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
    2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Occupy Wall Street movement good for America?"

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • Francis Galton’s novel about eugenics
    Michael Marshall How do you publish a novel arguing that the unfit, weak or mentally infirm should not be allowed to breed, and only those deemed “high quality” be given the privilege of having children? Well, you don’t. Francis Galton tried to in the first decade of the 20th century, but he die ...
  • Hidden mountains make up Antarctica’s tr ...
    Chelsea White (Image: British Antarctic Survey/BEDMAP consortium) Antarctica is hiding something. It may look like a fairly flat, snow-covered wasteland, but the BEDMAP project has pulled back the ice sheet to reveal the mountainous bed topography of the continent underneath. Only one per cent o ...
  • Great white hunter
    Fifty years on from Ernest Hemingway’s death EL Doctorow We know too much about Ernest Hemingway to think of his work apart from his life. With the success of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), he became a public figure. He worked, usually on a short lead time, from his own experiences: ...
  • Muscle Monarch
    Victorian strongman Eugen Sandow was thought to possess the perfect male body. Like Oscar Wilde, he is essential to understanding modern manhood David Waller On the evening of Tuesday October 29, 1889, at around 10 o’clock, a young man wearing a monocle and evening suit jumped onto the stage of ...
  • Will You Live Forever by Uploading Your Brain ...
    Gary Stix  Neurons of the retina Ray Kurzweil and other so-called transhumanists have promised that in coming decades we will be able to transfer a digital copy of the trillions of connections among nerve cells in our brains into a computer. We would essentially reincarnate ourselves as non ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
  • 7 billion: can we count on it?
    FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
  • Research careers – opening the discussion
    FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...
  • UK – world leader. But can it last?
    FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...
  • Costs and Benefits of Open Data – Professor An ...
    FROM NILS HANWAHR IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE During the latest evidence session for the Science as a Public Enterprise project, we had the opportunity to speak to some leading experts working on open data in the fields of astronomy, meteorology, and e-Research. Dr. Anthony Holloway, Dr. Sarah ...

NAU Resistance

  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
  • U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
    “An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
  • The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
    Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
  • Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
    "While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel
  • THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF SOVEREIGNTY
    "An organism which cannot control its borders -- whether economic or physical -- is not sovereign"

Gaea Times

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

TruthNews Australia

  • Son of Climategate
    After two years, the climategate scandal has erupted once again, with a new tranche of embarrassing emails from the world's top climate researchers now spreading virally across the net. The release of these emails seems timed to overshadow the upcomng Durban conference in the same way the previo ...
  • The “communitarian” world view (fo ...
    On tonight's show we take a look at a recent article by Naomi Klein titled "Capitalism vs. the Climate". In a key passage, Klein states the following: "Those with strong 'egalitarian' and 'communitarian' worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern ...
  • Lizzy Phelan: “The war on Libya is a war ...
    Back in the UK, after several months spent in Libya covering NATO war crimes and uncovering mainstream media lies, freelance journalist Lizzie Phelan continues to fight for truth and justice on behalf of the Libyan people. Her testimony below is a gripping example of her commitment. Lizzie ...
  • Interview with Joanne Nova
    Tonight we welcome Joanne Nova to the show. Joanne is one of Australia's most articulate and outspoken climate sceptics. Her website is an international hub for informed discussion on questions of climate, carbon trading and the economy. Joanne's husband, Dr. David Evans, is a mathematician ...
  • Occupy Australia - has this movement been hija ...
    Tonight I am joined by Craig Stanford to reflect on the occupy Reserve Bank protest which we filmed on 15 October 2011. In our discussion we look at some of the techniques being used to create "group consciousness" at the protests here and overseas, such as hand signs and chanting, and we ask ...

Beacon

  • New Climate Report: Hot, Sour & Breathless
    Matt Huelsenbeck is a marine scientist at Oceana. Oceana has teamed up with several top scientific institutions in creating a report called "Hot, Sour & Breathless – Ocean Under Stress" which has been released this week at the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. ...
  • Marine Monday: Mediterranean Monk Seal
    A Mediterrean monk seal. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] The Mediterranean monk seal, like its cousin the Hawaiian monk seal, is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. Estimates suggest that they number around 400 total, with the largest populations in Greece and Morocco. Mediterran ...
  • Oceana’s Fall Mag: Sea Turtles, Diane Lane and ...
    The latest issue of Oceana magazine is now available, and it’s pretty juicy, we’re not gonna lie. In addition to our latest victories and events, here are some of the highlights: Shrimp’s Dirty Little Secret: Our new report reveals that shrimp nets are illegally killing scores of sea turtle ...
  • Another Gift Idea for the Oceans
    In addition to our adorable ocean animal adoptions, here’s one more gift idea that is sure to please anyone on your list this holiday season. When you purchase the new Come Together Tee from Nautica (Modeled here by Cheyne Oglesby, guest blogger, ocean lover and surfer!), 100% of your purchas ...
  • Thursday Trivia: Sharksucker
    Sharksuckers hitch a ride with a nurse shark. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] Imagine a fish with a suction cup on the top of its head – that’s basically what a sharksucker, or remora, is. This fish isn’t a very strong swimmer, so to get around it hitches a ride with a shark, large fish, whale ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Magnifincent Scale Models And Actual Uniforms ...
    A Collection of 1:48 scale models made in the early 18th century and demonstrating magnificent detailed craftsmanship.
  • Quote Of The Day
      Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And then comes a time when one  must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take ...
  • The Great Nazi Art Heist.
      Adolph Hitler was after all an artist. Now it’s easy to call him a failed artist because of course he could not make it as one in the streets of Vienna before the first world war. He was turned down twice applying for a student position in the Vienna School for fine Arts. That [...]
  • King Tiger Versus Super Pershing.
    Mid March, 1945, the US Army was rapidly pursuing the attenuated and worn down ranks of the Wehrmacht in western Europe. Third Armored Division was firmly entrenched on German territory, with a maintenance support group eagerly awaiting a new tank. By this time we realized that whatever we did i ...
  • The de Havilland DH 108 “Swallow”.
      The de Havilland DH 108 was a British tailless swept wing experimental plane developed during World War II. John Carver Meadows Frost developed this prototype that looked remarkably like the German Me-163 Comet rocket powered interceptor. It had anti spin parachutes in the wings and leadi ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Playing the “yes, but” game with Occupy
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. You’ve had the experience. Two or more people, talking about how to solve some problem, or how to plan something, even as simple as where to eat. And there’s that person who greets every idea with some version of “Yes ...
  • Obama to Channel Occupy Wall Street, Not Teddy ...
    The banner above is from the White House website. I’ve got to ask, where was this political activism this time last year when Republicans were poised to eviscerate the Democratic majority? Because Obama wasn’t on the ballot it was nowhere to be found. So, as much as I applaud the sen ...
  • Republicans in a Panic Over Gingrich Nomination
    “… I am not supporting Newt. I am not going to vote Newt. I will not support him in any way. .. He is not a nice human being. … He de-humanizes anybody who gets in his way. … The Republicans I talk to say he cannot win the nomination at any cost. He will [...]
  • Pelosi’s People Scramble on Gingrich ‘early Ch ...
    “I want to thank Speaker Pelosi for what I regard an early Christmas gift,” Gingrich told reporters. “If she is suggesting that she is going to use material that she developed while she was on the ethics committee, then that is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House and I hope that me ...
  • Thoughts on The Hillary Effect
    Daubry is a college student who writes “Dash of Dan,” seen here on most Saturday mornings. Walking into the polling booth, February 5th was unlike any experience I had ever felt. There was a sense of urgency in the air and excitement. And when Hillary Clinton gave her concession spee ...

Hudson New York

  • Fatah Elections Detached from Reality
    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has just announced that he wants to hold new presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2012. Abbas aides said this week that their Fatah faction has begun preparing for the upcoming elections. They
  • Defense Cuts Will Kill Massive Number of Jobs
    When it comes to jobs in the US aerospace and defense industry, the White House and the Democrats have been responsible for directly killing at least 39.000 jobs between 2008 and 2010. This estimate is based on figures published by the Aerospace
  • Britain: Muslim 'Honor Crimes' Skyrocketing
    More than 2,800 so-called honor attacks -- punishments for bringing shame on the family -- were recorded by British police last year, according to the first-ever national estimate of the problem. The highest number of honor crimes -- which include
  • Muslim Brotherhood Ideology in Egypt
    PMW translation of "Jihad Is the Way" by former leader of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt Central messages: Muslims are "masters of the world" Islamic nation's "rightful position... the teachers of humanity" "There is no other option but Jihad for Allah
  • Muslim Brotherhood: Subverting Free Societies ...
    The online version of the long-running Arabic journal Ruz al-Yusif carries an exclusive interview with Sheikh Osama al-Qusi entitled, "Former Salafi: Salafis Have Distorted Islam." In the interview, Qusi discusses the "true thoughts" of the various

Urban Survival

  • S&P Ratings: The High Cost of Honesty
    Got to admit it, I have a lot of admiration for S&P because they seem to be out front noticing the Emperor (OK, Europe, then, but grant me some poetic license here) has no clothes along with all the members … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With Rebellious Kids and that $16 Trillion
    Got an interesting email from eldest daughter Denise that makes some dandy points – she’s been volunteering with OWS in Seattle a fair bit… Dad, For the two stupid years I spent slaving away in laboratories at the University of … Continue reading →
  • Bot Run Released: The Last March to 12,400?
    Germany was up about one percent, France something more than that (1¼%) while the Unemployed Kingdom was up a bit more than half a percent when I looked, so a fair inference might be that the world hasn’t ended overnight … Continue reading →
  • Coping: With the “Year End Projects&#822 ...
    After getting part way caught up Sunday, after a leisurely 10-hours of work, Elaine and I got to talking about projects around the house we need to get done, and being semi-reclusive, we figure that between now and year-end ought … Continue reading →
  • “Big Events” Watch/Jobs Up–s ...
    (Palestine, TX) We have several candidates for “big events” which, if you’ve been following the www.halfpasthuman.com Shapes of Things to Come reports (new one due out shortly) includes release language December 2-8 plus or minus a couple of days. We … Continue reading &# ...

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
  • Regeneration, ether and deadly nightshade: Bos ...
    Here's what's happening in town his week:
  • World AIDS day in Boston
    The Massachusetts Aids Action Committee has a full listing ot World AIDS Day events. We'll be reporting from this one: AIDS @ 30 International Symposium 9am-3pm Location: Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 To commemorate t ...
  • Is Kendall Square getting too hip? MIT adds t ...
    Yet more new restaurants are likely to draw even more annoying posers with their jaunty scarves and Apple products. But, we still have the Soviet-style Volpe building. The Globe has a story on MIT's plans for Kendall Square, which describe MIT's backyard as "urban desert, with unused spaces and ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • More evidence of weak state regulation of the ...
    Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A recent report from Greenwire points out weak state regulation of the oil and gas industry. In particular, the article looks at regulation in Colorado. According to the article, the Colorado regulat ...
  • First Poll in Lower 48 Shows Strong Majority o ...
    Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica, California For the first time, polling has been done on the Pebble Mine in the lower 48 states – and the news isn’t good for the project. A new poll reveals t ...
  • Land conservation, smart growth and the enviro ...
    Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   Years ago, I was motivated to participate in what became the cause of smart growth, and now for many of us has evolved into the cause of sustainable communities, because of th ...
  • New Senate Bill Will Reduce Homeowners' Energy ...
    Meg Waltner, Energy Efficiency Advocate, Washington, DC Senators Snowe, Bingaman and Feinstein recently introduced the “Cut Energy Bills at Home Act” (S. 1914), a new performance-based tax credit that rewards homeowners for making whole- ...
  • Baby it's cold outside...and the beetles must go!
    Janet Barwick, Research Associate, Montana                       Staring out of my office window through a thick layer of frost, I think about the old Dean Martin holiday classic, & ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, December 5, 2011: 3 San Diego County CA deputies are the subject of a lawsuit by by a 77-year-old juror who was tackled & arrested for shouting when a man took his stuff as he [...]
  • Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 12-03 ...
    Before I start I need to mention that the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Ledger, and the NYT Regional Media Group have collaborated on an excellent 9-part series called “Unfit for Duty” that studies the flaws in Florida state’s police disciplinary system. While it may not seem li ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, December 2, 2011: Los Angeles Co CA deputies investigated for allegedly ignoring medical complaints and complaints about overly-tight cuffs by #OccupyLA protesters after the latest r ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 32 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, the first day of December, 2011: Southwest City MO cop was found guilty of manslaughter for shooting a man in the head from behind following a police chase, he claimed he opened fi ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 21 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, November 30, 2011: New York NY cop found to have acted recklessly in a police commission hearing over the fatal shooting of Sean Bell on his wedding day. Though the police commiss ...

Total Collapse

  • Army Moves Into Moscow After Protest Rally
    Columns of military trucks carrying fresh troops rolled into Moscow on Tuesday, a day after a record protest rally ended in clashes with police. Several bloggers reported seeing columns of Interior Troops driving into central Moscow via major thoroughfares, including Yaroslavskoye Shosse, Lening ...
  • Clinton: Russia elections neither free nor fair
    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for an investigation into Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia amid reports of widespread vote fraud and election violations, in comments a senior Russian official described as “strange.” Speaking to the foreign ministers of th ...
  • IMAGINE! China Invades America!
    Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of “keeping ...
  • World War III: The Launching of a Preemptive N ...
    The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran has been on the active drawing board of the Pentagon since 2005.   If such a war were to be launched, the entire Middle East Central Asia region would flare up.  Humanity would be precipitated into a World War III Scenario. Wor ...
  • United Russia wins parliamentary elections
    Monday morning, Dec. 5. United Russia, the ruling party, has gained 49.67 percent of votes, Nikolai Konkin, the secretary of the commission said. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation gained 19.13%, Just Russia – 13.18%. The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia – 11.66%. United ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • New Milestone in Renewable Energy Investment - ...
    The journey to a 100 percent renewable energy economy reached a major milestone as investment in renewables has overtaken investment in fossil fuel energy for the first time. A new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance  demonstrates that a massive $187 billion was invested in wind, solar, ...
  • CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
    Matthew Wright, November 24:  The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government ...
  • Trophies and Titles - BZE awarded for climate ...
    The determination and enthusiasm of Beyond Zero Emissions and its members has been acknowledged with two prestigious awards over the last month. The honours build on BZE's momentum leading into 2012 with the anticipated launch of the visionary Zero Carbon Australia plans for the buildings and tr ...
  • WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a false ...
    Media Release 18 Nov 11 WorleyParsons has publicly promulgated a falsehood in relation to BZE. WorleyParsons state in their media release dated 10 November 2011: "Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE) engaged Worley Parsons to prepare a report to analyse the life cycle GHG emissions for Australian gas co ...
  • Serious About Solar
    Sophie McCallum of The Transcontinental reports, November 16: Alinta Energy is seriously exploring the idea of converting its Port Augusta power stations into solar thermal facilities. Solar thermal was first proposed by renewable energy advocates, Beyond Zero Emissions and has already gained ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Picture of the day: Amazonian shaman with hall ...
    The giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) is known for its mind-altering skin secretions. A small handful of tribes deep in the Amazonian rainforest between Peru and Brazil have used this species in hunting rituals.
  • Palm oil, pulp companies commit to zero-tolera ...
    Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan ...
  • On the edge of extinction, giant ibis discover ...
    The world's largest ibis, and one of the world's most endangered birds, has received some good news. A giant ibis (Thaumatibis giganteawas) has been photographed in the Kampong Som Valley in Koh Kong Province in Cambodia, the first record from this province in nearly a hundred years. Adults can ...
  • Seismic trails cut by U.S. oil firm in Belizea ...
    In the Belizean rainforest two rangers look up and down a straight path hacked through the jungle and take GPS coordinates, the escorting soldiers lying back in the heat as the coordinates are delivered. These are noted and the patrol resumes, pausing to photograph protected comfra palms that ha ...
  • Current emission pledges will raise temperatur ...
    New research announced at the 17th UN Climate Summit in Durban, South Africa finds that under current pledges for reducing emissions the global temperature will rise by 3.5 degrees Celsius (6.3 degrees Fahrenheit) from historic levels, reports the AFP. This is nearly double world nations' pledge ...

Sierra Express

  • As Mayor flouts bail condition, ACC says asser ...
    Mayor Herbert George Williams, who faces charges of corruption (25 counts) and whose bail condition was Le 500 million, two sureties and two house books correspondingly, Monday 28th, enjoys bail concession; submitting one house book instead of two. The Anti Corruption commissioner says assertion ...
  • Airtel celebrates World Aids Day
    Mobile giant, Airtel SL Friday 2nd celebrated World Aids Day at its head office at Main Motor Road Wilberforce. Airtel, dissimilar to other mobile companies in Sierra Leone commemorates World Aids Day every year. National Coordinator Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS (BCAASL), Joyce Abu said h ...
  • ABC interacts with Salone prison
    Consequent to President Koroma’s call for change of attitude, senior executives of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat on Friday 2nd made a stopover visit to the Sierra Leone Prison head office in Freetown and interacted with senior and junior Prison Officers. In his statem ...
  • Mr. Idiot: Idiot defends Mayor Herbert
    It was the intention of the Idiot to continue with his narratives on that rotten Sorious/Al-LIE- Jazeera blackmailing video footage, but wants all (Sierra Leoneans) know he has a legal task to perform today.  (Photo: Ibrahim Samura, editor) And before disclosing his new task to the general publi ...
  • A healthy Sierra Leone is a wealthy Sierra Leone
    I was amazed when I read an article in the ‘Awoko’ newspaper dated November 30, 2011, entitled ‘Government to Introduce Health Insurance Policy’.  This was a statement made by the Dr. Kelfala Marah, Chief of Staff (COS) in the Office of the President.  Sierra Leoneans should be pleased that a se ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

  • The public / private divide on raw milk and nu ...
    The latest from David E. Gumpert on his “The Complete Patient” blog: “….So I have tried to answer the question, what’s goin’ on? Here are a few things I see goin’ on: * There’s a huge, and expanding, gulf between … Continue reading →
  • Michael Schmidt in B.C. today on contempt of c ...
    From Michael Schmidt in Vancouver: Today Tuesday Dec. 6th Michael Schmidt is in B.C. for a raw milk contempt hearing in New Westminster regarding the Chilliwack cow share operation, “Our Cows” (formerly Home on the Range). Michael said that Fraser … Continue reading →
  • Raw milk fan from Peace River, Alberta
    Lisa grew up on pasteurized milk until her parents met Sally Fallon when she was in Grade 9. She’s been happily drinking raw milk now for 10 years. That’s her cow Sassy, in the picture. Thanks to Lisa for the … Continue reading →
  • Pam Killeen sets them straight on raw milk and ...
    Health educator Pam Killeen, posted the following news on Facebook: “CFRU (University of Guelph) student reporter, Alicja Grzadkowska, interviews Dr. Douglas Goff and Pam Killeen about the raw milk debate. My part of the interview where I discuss “swill” dairies … Continu ...
  • Justice Peter Tetley’s “Reasons fo ...
    Thanks to Karen Selick for the link to Justice Tetley’s “Reasons for Sentencing” (Nov. 25th) on the Canadian Constitution Foundation website. We’ve also added it to the collection of permanent links on the top right of the home page. Also added … Continue reading &# ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • 12 of 26 Economists in Financial Times Survey ...
    Financial Times Deutschland says the key to whether or not the Eurozone holds together depends on Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann. Will he or won't he go along with ECB president Mario Draghi's hint that the ECB is about to purchase more sovereign debt. Via Google Translate, please ...
  • ECB Ready to Push Boundaries on Interest Rates ...
    Get ready for record low interest rates in Europe as ECB ready to push boundaries of crisis role A Reuters survey of 73 analysts showed a 60-percent chance the ECB will cut rates by 25 basis points to a record low of 1.0 percent -- a floor it previously reached during the financial crisis in 2 ...
  • Eurozone Treaty Changes to be Finalized in Mar ...
    On December 8 Merkel and Sarkozy will have reached a 6-point agreement requiring ratification of a new treaty. However, details will not be finalized until March. At that time, if all goes to plan (and it won't), a vote by all 27 EU nations will take place. If that fails (and hopefully the ...
  • Donald Trump's Self-Serving Circus Sideshow; G ...
    Donald Trump has invited all the Republican presidential candidates to a debate. Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman promptly and properly turned down the offer. In contrast, Newt Gingrich, hoping for a Trump endorsement, made a pilgrimage to Donald. One must understand upfront this is not a gra ...
  • S&P Places 15 Eurozone Countries, Including Ge ...
    In a move sure to antagonize EU officials the S&P put 15 Eurozone countries on "Credit Watch Negative". The ratings agency placed the ratings of 15 euro zone countries, including top-rated nations Germany and France, on credit watch negative -- a move that signals a possible downgrade in n ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Important: Boiling Frogs Post Update
  • Chicago: The City That Works Part II- All Poli ...
    Mainstream Media – Actually On a Case? In the previous article in this series, we provided a brief review of the long train of corruption cases in Chicago and Illinois, and how they provide valuable perspective for some compelling national and international issues.  Earlier this week, we had two ...
  • Police State: Time to Bring Back the Pigeons & ...
    The Only Way to Circumvent NSA, DHS, FBI & the Rest Now it is confirmed and official: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms that it intends to develop guidelines for how officials go about collecting intelligence from the sites. Yes. The Department of Homeland Security is not go ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    New CIA Rendition Flights Data Emerging from Reluctant Finnish Government, Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns as it Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners, Pakistan Holds Exhibit of Drone Attacks, Washington Cuts Off Financial Support to UNESCO in Reprisal for “Democratic” Vote on Pa ...
  • US Supported Honduras’ Ascent in the Cocaine B ...
    The Real Lords of the Trillion-Dollar Narco-Sphere ‘Two’:I am reading the new sensational headlines on Honduras’ now internationally recognized status as the Western Hemisphere’s major Cocaine Hub: Long an impoverished backwater in Central America, Honduras has become a main transit route for So ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • Port Reopens After Damaged Vale Beijing Remove ...
    Brazilian mining giant Vale said Tuesday that the damaged Vale Beijing, the world’s largest iron-ore carrier, has been removed from berth at Pier I at Ponta da Madeira Maritime terminal [...]
  • BP: Halliburton Destroyed Oil-Spill Evidence
    By Tom Fowler and Angel Gonzalez BP PLC is alleging that Halliburton Co. destroyed evidence in the weeks following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010 that demonstrated that the cement [...]
  • Frontline to Split in Restructuring Deal
    John Fredriksen-owned tanker giant, Frontline Ltd., today announced that the company’s restructuring has been approved by the Board of the Company will be put forward to creditors and counterparties for [...]
  • Tanker Companies Team Up in VLCC Pool
    Four VLCC tanker owners announced Tuesday preliminary plans to team up in an effort to cut costs amid slumping tanker rates.  The four partners included in the deal are Phoenix [...]
  • Intermarine CEO Interview Part 2: Project Carg ...
    Part 2 of an exclusive gCaptain interview with Intermarine’s CEO, Andre Grikitis, and CFO, Michael Dumas. By Jack Mylott, Partner, Flagship Management JM: With the growth of the heavy lift and [...]

Blogging Canadians

  • "Officer FARD of LAPD"
    Officer FARD of LAPD,get a life man. Find some bank robbers or do something productive 2 do with your time.I know high school was hard 4 u by Travis Barker As originally posted on: Travis Barker (travisbarker) on Twitter November 27, 2011
  • Thanks To Guys Like Stephen Harper And Brad Wa ...
    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his good friend, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, both adhere to the flawed 'trickle down' economic theory. They firmly believe that if you stoke the rich and corporate sector of the economy, the lower working class rung will benefit. They are wrong. Th ...
  • Ottawa NDP Leadership Debate Thoughts
    The debate was good. Exciting even. After several months of being forced to sate my political appetite on the Republican leadership contest, the NDP leadership debate in Ottawa provided a refreshing Canadian contrast. Overall there was far more homogeneity between positions than there was diff ...
  • GOP Leadership Contest: The Likeability Factor
    Pundits seem to love to profess multitudes of differing explanations for the see-sawing GOP leadership contest that has seen, respectively, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and now Newt Gingrich surge to the front of the pack in challenging Mitt Romney. These alternative expla ...
  • "Law Enforcement Personnel"
    Norfolk Man Who Refused to Stop Videotaping Police at Demonstration Is Not Guilty of Disorderly Conduct ACLU says First Amendment protects right to videotape in public. As originally posted: American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia November 29, 2011 Norfolk, VA – A Norfolk General Distri ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • One Gazan killed in Israeli attack
    One Palestinian has been killed and at least five others injured in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip that utilized Apache helicopters, drone aircraft, and tanks.
  • US sends ambassador back to Syria
    The US State Department says the American ambassador to Syria, who had left the country in late October, will be returning to Damascus.
  • Kuwaiti Emir dissolves parliament
    Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah has issued a decree to dissolve the parliament amid allegations of corruption in the government.
  • Syria prevents terrorist infiltration
    Syria has stopped an operation by armed terrorists attempting to infiltrate the country from neighboring Turkey.
  • US envoy to return to Syria: Report
    The US State Department says the American ambassador to Syria, who had left the country in late October, will be returning to Damascus.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
  • Network Like a Pro
    I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...
  • Satire and Humor?
    With all the mayhem that’s been going on in Washington, D.C. and across the United States, you’d think politicos would use some measure of wisdom.  I’ve been reading articles, watching news reports and tweeting stories, which I feel has some semblance, contrary to all the madne ...

Dissident Voice

  • The Occupocalypse at Occupy Oakland
    We expected a raid that night (Nov. 14), most likely just before dawn. So after concluding our General Assembly of the evening, the Events Committee announced an emergency dance party, calling it “The Occupocalypse.” Loud music boomed out over the Plaza. Dancers moved like shadows in ...
  • All They Are Taught How to Do Is Kill
    The video of UC Davis police officer, Lt. John Pike, blithely spraying tear gas at non-violent students (as if it were not a toxic poison) should come as no surprise to the American people. The obvious truth is that the only way police know how to respond to anti-authoritarian conduct by citizen ...
  • President Obama, We Must Not Allow a Tunnel Gap!
    Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap! – General “Buck” Turgidson1 China is a vast country—‘When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south, there is still light in the north.’ Hence one need not worry about lack of room for maneuver. [...]
  • Inside the Egyptian Revolution
    Dr. Ashraf Ezzat, medical doctor and journalist (Pyramidion) was one of  hundreds of thousands Egyptians occupying Tahrir Square  in late January/early February of 2011.   Ten months later Egyptian people are once again back on the streets despite a deadly crackdown by security forces.  I interv ...
  • Endless Needless Deaths
    Bush started shooting into Pakistan in 2004, and Obama has continued this bloody practice, culminating recently in the massacre of 24 Pakistani soldiers, with 13 more wounded. The attack lasted for hours, yet afterward, the US claimed it was all an accident. Hillary Clinton expressed regrets, Ob ...

Destructionist

  • China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat
    AFP December 6, 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. The navy should “accelerate its transformation and modernisation in a sturdy ...
  • Breaking Now: Iran Reportedly Prepares for Attack
    Intelligence sources are reporting the movement of long-range missile batteries inside Iran, a move seen as preparation for an attack, according to a story carried by the Telegraph on Monday. The British newspaper also reported Iran’s Revolutionary Guard heightened its alert level. Mohamme ...
  • Is Ron Paul Positioned To Become The Republica ...
    Keith Olbermann asks ‘is this Ron Paul’s time?’
  • Is Ron Paul Positioned To Become The Republica ...
    Keith Olbermann asks ‘is this Ron Paul’s time?’
  • Ron Paul: “Make no mistake – this is not ...
    In response to pressure from Wall Street, the White House and central banks in Europe, the Federal Reserve last week drastically cut interest rates for currency swaps to benefit troubled European banks. This will flood world markets with more dollars and will soon mean rising prices for every Am ...

    IPS - Inter Press Services

    • PERU: Protest Against Mine Continues Despite S ...
      Local residents and authorities in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca say they will continue to protest the Conga gold mine, despite the state of emergency declared by President Ollanta Humala.
    • CLIMATE CHANGE: Comprehensive Agreement Beyond ...
      The goal of a comprehensive and binding agreement may be beyond the reach of the 17th United Nations climate change negotiations, says the organisation's secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.
    • Q&A: South-South Cooperation Complements North ...
      South-South cooperation can play a key role in boosting the economies of developing countries, but it is not going to replace North-South cooperation, says Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly.
    • SOUTH AMERICA: To Beijing with Love
      South America has managed to withstand the knock-on effects of recession in the EU and U.S. thanks to the protection offered by the soaring Asian demand for commodities. But many things could change in the medium term.
    • BOOKS-US: Deconstructing Thomas Friedman
      A new book on the influential New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sets out to debunk his hawkish, neoliberal views, accusing him of overt racism, factual errors and skewed judgments on issues ranging from the U.S. invasion of Iraq to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Restore Iranian Embassy to UK
      Summary: The Iranian government did not damage the British Embassy in Tehran. It was Iranian citizens, enraged by decades of repressive sanctions and threats of military strikes by Israel. Theories that Tehran incited the mob are negated by Iran's constant attempts to negotiate, thwarted by u ...
    • Iran no threat to Gulf: UAE VP
      Summary: DUBAI, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- United Arab Emirates' Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum said he did not believe Iran would make a nuclear bomb as it would be of little use, the CNN website reported Tuesday. source: China Viewread more
    • More Sanctions on Iran
      Summary: John Glaser, Assistant Editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the connection between “crippling” new Iran sanctions and the storming of the British embassy in Tehran; comments from Ehud Barak and Meir Dagan that indicate Israel is backing away from war with Iran; the new WikiLeaks spy file ...
    • Stop the War Campaign Against Iran
      Summary: We must act now to stop the buildup of war with Iran and avert a full scale war which would be a catastrophe for the region and the whole world. End the covert war on Iran! End all sanctions on Iran! Restore diplomatic relation with Iran! End the demonization of Iran! source: CAS ...
    • U.S. promotes assassination threats against Ir ...
      Summary: Assassinated Iranian Scientist Dariush Rezaeinejad & DaugtherThis unprecedented violation of international guidelines, and of the IAEA’s own Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement, is the most menacing proof to date that the agency is not even superficially a neutral U.N. body that m ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    • Billions of Rogue Planets Exist in the Dark of ...
      Astronomers discovered a class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone worlds were probably ejected from developing planetary systems. The discovery is based on a...
    • Image of the Day: Vesta --A Planet-like Aster ...
      Vesta appears in a spectacular rainbow-colored palette in new images obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. The colors, assigned by scientists to show different rock or mineral types, reveal Vesta to be a world of many varied, well-separated layers and ingredients....
    • EcoAlert: Japan's 2011 Tsunami --A Rare Mergin ...
      The massive tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki quake centered off northeastern Japan was a long- hypothesized "merging tsunami." The tsunami doubled in intensity over rugged ocean ridges, amplifying its destructive power at landfall," according to a new discovery...
    • The Fastest Spinning Star in the Universe --2 ...
      ESO's Very Large Telescope has picked up the fastest rotating star found so far. This massive bright young star lies in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160 000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers think that it may have...
    • Milky Way May Harbor Diamond "Super Earths" -- ...
      A new study suggests that some stars in the Milky Way could harbor "carbon super-Earths" – giant terrestrial planets that contain up to 50 percent diamond. The research suggests that true terrestrial diamond planets can form in our galaxy. Exactly...

    Natural News

    • New research finds possible reason for obesity ...
      (NaturalNews) If there's one nutrient that has received an amazing amount of attention and research over the past year, it's vitamin D. As NaturalNews has reported extensively, a lack of the vitamin has been linked to everything from dementia and arthritis to heart disease and breast cancer. Wh ...
    • Five things you can do right now to help stop ...
      (NaturalNews) The economic plundering of our world is well under way, with the Goldman Sachs "white shoe boyz" taking over entire national economies as they confiscate the wealth of the working class. They aren't the only evildoers wreaking havoc across the world, of course: A cabal of powerful ...
    • Institute of medicine safety report confirms v ...
      (NaturalNews) For years natural health experts have been battling mainstream medical officials over the existence of vaccine dangers, but a new safety report by the Institute of Medicine settles the argument; they reveal that a relationship exists between vaccine use and adverse health effects. ...
    • Pesticides are one of top three 'worst toxic p ...
      (NaturalNews) The Blacksmith Institute (BI), an international non-profit environmental health organization devoted to solving pollution problems around the world, in conjunction with Green Cross Switzerland (GCS), a group that helps clean up pollution, recently co-released a comprehensive report ...
    • GSK pays US government record $3 billion for i ...
      (NaturalNews) The pharmaceutical industry is notorious for getting away with murder, both figuratively and literally, without so much as a slap on the wrist from the justice system. And a recent settlement involving drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) only further exposes the fact that Big Pharma i ...

    Threat Level

    • Senator Demands Telcos & HTC Come Clean on Car ...
      Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) wants handset manufacturers and mobile carriers to explain what user data is being vacuumed to Carrier IQ, whose software is secretly installed on about 150 million mobile phones in the United States. Franken is demanding that Sprint, HTC and AT&T cough up some ...
    • Exclusive Video: Tension, Dissension and Const ...
      A barn raising in Washington, D.C., ignites a fight with the cops, energizes a staid occupation and exposes friction inside and outside the occupation movement.
    • Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos
      A flaw in Facebook’s image reporting tool allows users to view the private photos of other users, including those of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — like the one at the top of this story. The flaw was found by members of a bodybuilding forum, who discovered that if they reported a ...
    • The UK ‘Riot Commute’: 2.2 Miles, On Average
      Ever since this summer’s riots in England, it’s been clear that a significant portion of the participants traveled significant distances to join in. For example, in my upcoming story for the January issue of Wired, I interview officials in Enfield, a suburb in the north of London, wh ...
    • Groups Petition for Right to Hack the Xbox, Ba ...
      It's that time again when regulators are considering public requests to legalize hacking or so-called jailbreaking techniques that circumvent encryption technologies. This season's big-ticket requests to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act include petitions to legalize technologies enabli ...

    PERRspectives : Blog

    • Paul Ryan Wins Politico's Health Care Policyma ...
      He called for rationing Medicare, replacing it with an underfunded voucher system that would dramatically shift costs to elderly Americans. He proposed repealing the Affordable Care Act, slashing Medicaid by $1.4 trillion over the next decade and turning what's left over to the states as block ...
    • Romney Lies About Obama 'Taking over 100 Perce ...
      By almost any measure, the 2006 universal care law Governor Mitt Romney championed in Massachusetts has been a clear success. A bipartisan bill which Ted Kennedy worked closely with Romney to pass, the law has reduced the ranks of the uninsured from 10 percent to a national low of two percent. ...
    • Illegal Immigration Plummets Despite Fiery GOP ...
      The Republican presidential contest is a lot like The Wizard of Oz: no brain, no heart and a whole lot of cowardly lyin'. And perhaps on no issue is the GOP's field's misguided cruelty and duplicity more profound than illegal immigration. After all, while Michele Bachmann wants to deport all 1 ...
    • 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 ...

    Blackspot News Feed

    • Post-Everything
      A still from "How To / Internet" by Jaakko Pallasvuo, as captured by James Bridle of RIG, who also tells me RIG have a FRSTEE for me. Post-novel, I find myself still mostly in recovery: one of those disturbing “not as young as you used to be” moments.  Compounding this concern was t ...
    • Can Ecstasy Treat Autism?
      Research shows ecstasy increases empathy and enhances communication by producing playfulness, friendliness, and loving feelings.
    • Labor Leaders Call for Review of Decision to H ...
      The International Trade Union Confederation is condemning the decision by the United Nations to hold next year's climate change conference in Qatar, a Gulf nation known for its restrictive labor laws. Migrant workers comprise 87 percent of Qatar’s workforce — none of them are allowed to form or ...
    • U.S. Focus on China, India Emissions Burdens W ...
      We speak with Indian writer and analyst Praful Bidwai, author of the new book, "The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future." While the U.S. has cited China's emissions as an excuse to slow negotiations on reducing greenhouse gas emissions during the COP 17 talks, ...
    • Indigenous Activists from Canada Protest Tar S ...
      This morning in Durban, South Africa, a group of youth and indigenous activists from Canada gave delegates to the U.N. climate talks mock gift bags containing samples of fake tar sands along with tourism brochures for Canada and Canadian flags. Kandi Mossett, one of the activists participating i ...

    Consortium News

    TruthOut

    • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
      The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
    • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
      Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
    • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
      In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
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    Planetsave

    • White Teeth, Green Planet
      by Hannah Daniel When most people think of saving the planet, dental health is often left out of the equation, but taking care of your teeth can actually become a very green endeavor. From your own personal oral hygiene to your dentist’s office, you can ensure your teeth make a good impression. ...
    • 10 Awesome, Independently Run Blogs for Upcycl ...
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    • Take Action: 5 Opportunities
        #1: Ringling Circus Gets Largest Fine of Its Kind for Animal Cruelty — Thank USDA & PETA! From PETA: “Feld Entertainment, the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, must now pay the largest settlement of its kind in U.S. history―$270,000―for alleg ...
    • Japan Was Struck By ‘Double Tsunami’
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    • Frozen Planet Scientists Investigating World’s ...
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    Axis of Logic

    • Israel on the Islamist Surge in Egypt: Told Yo ...
      The stunning showing by Salafist parties in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections surprised Israeli officials as much as the rest of the world. The estimated 40 percent of the vote that went to the Muslim Brotherhood, the party that founded modern political Islam, was about in line ...
    • Apparently somebody missed the memo about Amer ...
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    • Sanctions on Israel Redeem Germany - Palestine
      A German Submarine Defends Palestine On October 31, 2011, Palestine was accepted as full member by UNESCO, which became the first UN agency to recognize it as an independent country. Several other agencies are expected to take a similar decision in following month. The US entered UN Alley, by ...
    • China's climate concession won't move Canada o ...
      China's concession to start cutting its greenhouse gas emissions won't change Canada's decision not to sign on to a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol, Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday. Canadian officials have repeatedly said any new agreement must include all major emitters. Cou ...
    • Chilean prosecutor charges ex-US officer in 19 ...
      A judge in Chile last week issued an indictment against a retired US Navy officer in connection with the arrest, torture and murder of two American journalists, Charles Horman and Frank Terrugi, in the wake of the CIA-backed military coup led by Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet that toppled the gov ...

    They Gave Us a Republic

    • Make or Break for the Middle Class
      By @KYYellowDog For some reason, the video of President Obama's speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, today is not yet available online. But TPM has the transcript. As Josh Marshall says: But if you missed it you should read the transcript. Because it's clear that this is the 'big speech' that will be ...
    • There Used to Be a Word for This Kind of Thing
      By @KYYellowDog It is a testament to the bottomless greed and infinite arrogance of the banksters and other Wall Street criminals that they illegally foreclosed on the homes of active-duty military members. With utter shamelessness they did so during wartime, profiteering by turning military spo ...
    • What Matters to Wingnuts
      By @KYYellowDog It is helpful, when confronting repug viciousness and insanity, to remember that their thought processes do not follow Enlightenment principles. They never follow a chain of evidence through logical analysis and reach a rational conclusion. They choose an outcome and twist the fa ...
    • Of Iran, Israel, covert ops and that pesky dro ...
      By @BGinKC I have no small amount of concern over where things are going with the Islamic Republic if Iran, but that is nothing new. I've had them since early 1978, when the first street demonstrations that would become the revolution that toppled the Shah and installed Islamic rule started to t ...
    • Republican bigots and know-nothings want valid ...
      By @TedFrier The appeal of Fox News is obvious: It gives right wing audiences a place to go to feel good about themselves as provincial bigots who think "book learnin's" a sign of weakness. Indeed, among those who consume right wing media the people who really ought to be ashamed of themselves a ...

    Care 2

    • Triage for a Dirty Car on a Tight Schedule
      Take a tip from used-car salesmen and give your car "curb appeal" a good overall first impression. When you can't make use of a car wash, even little things can make a world of difference. Submitted by Lee Jarvis to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
    • Payroll Tax Cut Extension: The Next Round
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    • Electronic Cigarettes are Hot…but are they rea ...
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    • What It Takes to Become a Doctor?
      The desire to heal the body is not enough to become a doctor. An aspiring physician must put forth exceptional effort to achieve this lofty goal. In fact, a doctor never stops improving her craft. Think you have what it takes to become a doctor? The follo Submitted by Lucy Bartlett to Health & W ...
    • Help Save Mozambiques Wilderness From Money Hu ...
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    No Quarter

    • Good News! Our Economy Is SO Much Better Now, ...
      Or at least that was the impression this headline from The Hill wanted us to believe, “Signs Of Turning Tide On Economy Lift Democrats, Obama’s Hopes.” Oh, Happy Day! Woohoo! The tide has turned, the economy is recovering, people are going back to work, Obama has parted the wat ...
    • Stumbling Into War with Iran?
      Just when you think we are on the verge of extricating ourselves from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, think again. We are going to war with Iran. The story being put out by the U.S. is complete horseshit: A drone that Iranian officials claimed to have taken down may be an unarmed U.S. reconnais ...
    • Road Keystone 13 CD (& Open Thread)
      Post-apocalyptic videogame style and music, Hollywood quality dystopian frame — “Road” — narrative driven by gloom and ruin, words by Barack Obama, damning punchline, “I don’t think people are better off than they were four years ago.” The reported Obama ...
    • Hi, Jack!
      When I as a kid, back in the 20th century, there was a rash of hijacking incidents, with planes being commandeered between Cuba and the United States.  Some American hijackers wanted to go to Cuba for medical treatment, while Cuban hijackers wanted to go to Florida to see Disneyworld.  This exch ...
    • Obama, A Sorry President, Again
      Well, the Barack Obama apology tour made its stop today in Pakistan. Here is the news courtesy of Al Jazeera: US President Barack Obama has told his Pakistani counterpart that last month’s deadly NATO air strike on Pakistani territory was “not a deliberate attack”, the White Ho ...

    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

    • Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on camp ...
      Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on campus Temple News Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal, a group Murphy has helped lead, held a protest through Main Campus, beginning at noon on Wednesday. Hours after the Occupy arrests, three students–Daniel Teichman, Diane Isser and Ethan Jur ...
    • Rockstar/Activists 2/3 Goat Speak Out Against ...
      Greenpeace USA (blog) Rockstar/Activists 2/3 Goat Speak Out Against Mountaintop Removal Mining Greenpeace USA (blog) Mountaintop Removal coal mining is ravaging the region I call home. Thirty percent of the surface area of my home county has already been leveled by strip mining and mountaintop r ...
    • 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 ...

    Memeorandum

    • ALEC Deems Kids Eating Rat Poison An 'Acceptab ...
      Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress: ALEC Deems Kids Eating Rat Poison An ‘Acceptable Risk’  —  As ThinkProgress has been reporting for some time, the corporate front group American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been colluding with the billionaire Koch brothers t ...
    • Gingrich: Most likely to kiss up to the libera ...
      Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post: Gingrich: Most likely to kiss up to the liberal elite  —  The conservative base is understandably nervous that its nominee, if elected, will sell out.  Like many Supreme Court justices, a presidential nominee, they fret, may become a captiv ...
    • Chris Myers resigns as Medford mayor (Jeremy R ...
      Jeremy Rosen / CourierPostOnline.com: Chris Myers resigns as Medford mayor  —  Move follows alleged sex scandal  —  Christopher Myers resigned Monday as mayor of Medford in a letter to the township manager and clerk, citing work commitments.  / COURIER-POST ...
    • Rare Attacks on Shiites Kill Scores in Afghani ...
      New York Times: Rare Attacks on Shiites Kill Scores in Afghanistan  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 58 people were killed and scores wounded after bombers struck Shiite religious observances on Tuesday in three cities, detonating explosives amid crowds of worshipers in th ...
    • Correction from White House: President didn't ...
      Judy Kurtz / The Hill: Correction from White House: President didn't say he's ‘mad living here’  —  Note to critics of President Obama and any remaining birthers out there: Contrary to what the White House originally claimed, the president didn't actually say he was ...

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    China Dialogue

    • Mongolian herders show the way (1)
      Climate change and overgrazing have had negative impacts on pastoralist communities in central Asia, writes Ronnie Vernooy. But co-management schemes point towards a solution.Mongolia is the country of endless plains and eternal blue skies. Eighty percent of the land area is covered by grassland ...
    • Mongolian herders show the way (2)
      In the second section of a two-part series, Ronnie Vernooy describes how one group of nomads transformed their community. China, he writes, could learn important lessons.With H Ykhanbai’s efforts, co-management of pasture resources was first introduced in Mongolia at the end of the 1990s i ...
    • Beijing’s hazardous blue sky
      In the first analysis of US embassy “Twitter” data on pollution, Steven Q Andrews finds major failures in Chinese air quality assessments. Tighter standards are on their way, but will continue to fudge the health risks.In the last two years, Beijing officials have announced good or e ...
    • 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 ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    • Can Ecstasy Treat Autism?
      Research shows ecstasy increases empathy and enhances communication by producing playfulness, friendliness, and loving feelings.
    • Hey, GOP: Give the 99 Percent Some Lovin’
      MTV needs to stop giving that creepy vampire guy and moony human girl in the “Twilight” series the “best kiss” prize in its annual movie awards because it’s Republicans who truly earned the trophy for the big wet smooches they lay on the 1 percent. Just think of the GOP lovin’ that went into the ...
    • Dispatches From Obama's Other Wars â&eur ...
      Going into the electoral season, the immigration and drug policy crises have worsened.
    • What It's Like to be a Young, Black, and Trans ...
      D.C.’s transgender women of color are carrying the heaviest of loads, but violence and terror and discrimination isn’t the sum total of people’s lives.
    • Who's Winning the War on Abortion, Birth Contr ...
      In the last year, the anti-abortion movement has become more open about its antiwoman, anti-sex goals--and the pro-choice movement has found some unlikely allies.

    Threat Level

    • Senator Demands Telcos & HTC Come Clean on Car ...
      Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) wants handset manufacturers and mobile carriers to explain what user data is being vacuumed to Carrier IQ, whose software is secretly installed on about 150 million mobile phones in the United States. Franken is demanding that Sprint, HTC and AT&T cough up some ...
    • Exclusive Video: Tension, Dissension and Const ...
      A barn raising in Washington, D.C., ignites a fight with the cops, energizes a staid occupation and exposes friction inside and outside the occupation movement.
    • Facebook Flaw Exposes Private Photos
      A flaw in Facebook’s image reporting tool allows users to view the private photos of other users, including those of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg — like the one at the top of this story. The flaw was found by members of a bodybuilding forum, who discovered that if they reported a ...
    • The UK ‘Riot Commute’: 2.2 Miles, On Average
      Ever since this summer’s riots in England, it’s been clear that a significant portion of the participants traveled significant distances to join in. For example, in my upcoming story for the January issue of Wired, I interview officials in Enfield, a suburb in the north of London, wh ...
    • Groups Petition for Right to Hack the Xbox, Ba ...
      It's that time again when regulators are considering public requests to legalize hacking or so-called jailbreaking techniques that circumvent encryption technologies. This season's big-ticket requests to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act include petitions to legalize technologies enabli ...

    Equality Trust

    • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
      Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    • We work in partnership with One Society
      Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    PDA AMERICA

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

    Marler Blog

    • It is time for the American Meat Institute (AM ...
      It is good for AMI members too. Beginning March 5, 2012, after years of discussion, Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) finally intends to do sampling and testing of manufacturing trim and other raw ground beef products, to ensure control of both E. coli O157:H7 and six other serotypess of ...
    • Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak New Numbers Due T ...
      As of November 1, 2011, a total of 139 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 28 states. The number of infected persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), California (2), Colorado ...
    • This Week's Speech - Poisons in our Food Supply
      I get a chance to talk to a group of lawyers this week.  I know, you are jealous.  But, at least it is in Seattle a few blocks from my office. Poisons in the Food Chain by William Marler - 2011 WSAJ Winter Conference View more presentations from Bill Marler.
    • Raw Milk Week - Environmental Tests Results on ...
      November was not a good month for Raw Milk nor at least eight consumers.  Two dairies – one small and one large - that sell commercially at retail were linked to E. coli O157:H7 illnesses.  Here are the details: Cozy Vale Creamery’s raw milk products were recalled because ...
    • 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 ...

    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 ...

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    Camera Obscura

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    • 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!

    • CREDO members -- vote for Democracy Now! today!
      If you’re a CREDO member, you only have four more weeks to vote on how to distribute the 2011 donations funding. This year, Democracy Now! is on the ballot and we need your votes more than ever! Voting is easy! Just click here and select Democracy Now! (You’ll find us li ...
    • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" f ...
      Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "Up with Chris Hayes" on Sat. Dec 3rd, 2011, live from Durban, South Africa, site of the UN’s climate change conference. Watch the full interview here: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/03/9192590-amy-goodman-on-glob ...
    • Mohawk Youth Activist Jessica Yee on Why She i ...
      Johannesburg, South Africa — Democracy Now! speaks with Mohawk youth activist Jessica Yee about what brings her to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. In this interview, Yee describes how South Africa based the legal framework for apartheid on U.S. and Canadian ...
    • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 12/ ...
      Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear live from Durban, South Africa on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday, December, 3rd at 7am EST to discuss the UN Climate Change Summit Global Day of Action.
    • 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 ...

    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 ...
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    Solari

    • Quote du Jour
      “The Lord’s prayer contains 70 words, the Ten Commandments 297, the American Declaration of Independence 1,300 and the Common Market Directive on the export of duck eggs 26,911.” ~ Michael Nield from The Police State Road Map (PDF) (March 2005 Edition)
    • Claim: Clinton Collected $50K Per Month From M ...
      William J. Clinton (left) and Jon S. Corzine By  Neil W. McCabe A former MF Global employee accused former president William J. Clinton of collecting $50,000 per month through his Teneo advisory firm in the months before the brokerage careened towards its Halloween filing for Chapter 11 bankrupt ...
    • Precious Metals Market Report – 12.8.11
      By Catherine Austin Fitts I am looking forward to being back in Tennessee at Franklin Sander’s homestead for this week’s precious metals reports. There is certainly a lot to talk about. I will start with Money & Markets. I have a lot more to tell you about what I learned during ...
    • Precious Metals Market Report – 12.8.11
      By Catherine Austin Fitts I am looking forward to being back in Tennessee at Franklin Sander’s homestead for this week’s precious metals reports. There is certainly a lot to talk about. I will start with Money & Markets. I have a lot more to tell you about what I learned during ...
    • Holiday Greetings from Solari!
      “The Holiday Season is here, and we’re reflecting on our many blessings, including the friendship and support that we’ve enjoyed from you throughout the year.” View the full card …

    Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

    AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

    Sideways News

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

    Fabius Maximus

    • COIN – Now we see that it failed. But th ...
      Summary:  Now that the enthusiasm has passed for COIN as the tool by which foreign armies can defeat local insurgencies, we can look back for lessons.  They key insight is not that COIN failed to live up to the claims of its advocates.  It’s that the claims were obviously false when made, ...
    • RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died th ...
      Summary:  The Second Republic (under the Constitution) died this week, as the most important of our core protections were stripped away.  In full daylight. What remains in the Constitution has little value without them. Few people care; no protests were made. The Constitution died from neglect. ...
    • RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died th ...
      Summary:  The Second Republic (under the Constitution) died this week, as the most important of our core protections were stripped away in full daylight. What remains has little value without them. Few people care; no protests were made. The Constitution died from neglect. We snooze, we lose.  T ...
    • 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&# ...
    • 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&# ...

    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

    • AEI War Hawks Warn that Iran Poses "Existentia ...
      The American Enterprise Institute has a new report [PDF] outlining the challenges of containing and deterring a nuclear Iran. But while the report claims to be looking down the road to the imminent scenario of a nuclear weapons-possessing Iran, the neoconservative authors push an agenda of incre ...
    • No Russian Revolution, But Seeds of Opposition ...
      The Russian parliamentary elections may not be the start of another Russian Revolution, but they do prove that something is rotten in the state of Russia, and the Russian people know it. What is to be done? Yesterday's parliamentary elections returned Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the ...
    • Six Thoughts on Today’s Ashura Attack in Afgha ...
      An attack on a public gathering in Kabul attended by thousands of mourners commemorating the Shiite occasion of Ashura has left more than 50 dead. A bomb in Mazar-i-Sharif has killed several, while another attack in Kandahar seems to have missed the Ashura mourners but still caused casualties. T ...
    • Fred Kagan Still Doesn’t Understand Chain-Of-C ...
      At a time of continuing economic crisis in the U.S. and around the world, President Obama’s administration has amassed a record of successes in national security. Irrespective of controversies over some of the policies, Obama has pursued perceived threats in a broadened, borderless drone w ...
    • National Security Brief: December 6, 2011
      – Election monitors from Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said yesterday that they had observed, according to the New York Times, “blatant fraud, including the brazen stuffing of ballot boxes” in the country’s recently parliamentary elections that saw ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Romney Wasn't Happy 'Just Earning Money' at Bain
      Mitt Romney, the living symbol of the 1% percent, hasn't always viewed his stint in the private sector as the epitome of his experience. On the campaign trail Romney loves to rail against "career politicians" and tout his credentials as a businessman who can bring an economic acumen he believes ...
    • Quayleman for Romney
      Disney Former Vice President Dan Quayle declared his support for Mitt Romney today. Quayle dinged President Obama and explained his endorsement in an op-ed published in the Arizona Republic newspaper earlier today: There are four criteria I use in determining who I will support f ...
    • Will Latinos Help Re-Elect Obama?
      (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) President Barack Obama greets the crowd after speaking about immigration reform at Chamizal National Memorial Park in El Paso, Texas, Tuesday, May 10, 2011, during his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats have long been able to play good co ...
    • Holy Crap, Newt Gingrich Might Actually Be the ...
      When an election is some time away, pollsters typically ask people, "If the election were held today, who would you vote for?" It often seems like a silly question, because of course the election isn't today. But eventually, today comes. We imagine that up until the election, people's beliefs a ...
    • Department of Overreaction: Fa-la-la-la-la-la- ...
      Longtime gay community reporter Rex Wockner passes along this story of a Wisconsin teacher who has taken the "gay" out of Deck the Halls. You can't really blame her, what with "gay" being a common grade school slur, and all: The music teacher at Cherry Knoll removed the word "gay" from the song ...

    Buzzflash

    • Invest in Social and Economic Justice, Support ...
      MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This holiday season, you again have the opportunity to give the gift of journalism that reflects your values. And you can also receive a progressive gift. For more than 11 years, BuzzFlash has promoted both corporate-free reporting and books, DVDs, an ...
    • Ron Paul is Excluded from Debate Sponsored by ...
      Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout  The Republican Jewish Coalition is hosting a presidential-candidates forum on Wednesday, December 7 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Guess which candidate isn't being invited to participate.read more
    • At the Iowa Caucuses on January 3, the Republi ...
      Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash on Truthout  In less than a month, the Iowa caucuses will take place on January 3, 2012. After the joy of the holiday season, the celebration of a new year, one thing will be certain. On that day, the GOP faithful in Iowa will eat a big bowl of stupid. As Pau ...
    • Democrats Are Thrilled At The Thought Of Extr ...
        TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Newt running atop the GOP ticket Is nothing short of a dream Like Bill Clinton back in the day Running after a Krispy Kreme.  read more
    • Where's the Outrage? US Military Can Now Arres ...
      JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Where is the outrage over the radical provision in the Levin-McCain National Defense Act? Tuesday, November 29th 2011, the Senate voted on a bill that allows the US military to imprison civilians with no formal charges and hold them indefinitely with n ...

    Glenn Greenwald - Salon

    The BiPartisan Report

    Sciencebase

    • Five new drugs changing clinical phase
      The pharmaceutical industry, like many others, faces great challenges in the current economic downturn. In these straitened times, governments, payers, prescribers and patients increasingly want to know the value of new drug products in the real world, and all want to pay for outcomes, not just ...
    • US unemployment falling says tech investor #me ...
      FirstCapital’s John Yeomans (Telecoms industry and now a Cambridge Angel investor) told delegates at the Meerkats and Avatars event this morning that US unemployment is now showing the earliest subtle signs of falling, although the same cannot yet be said for the UK or Europe, mired in eco ...
    • Fire safety for kids at Meerkats11
      Life Light Rescue could save your child’s life in a fire, that’s the pitch from inventor Derek Wilson. He came up with the idea of a flashing strobe light triggered by the incessant beeping of a smoke alarm while at a party with lots of dry ice and pyrotechnics. “A friend was a ...
    • 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 ...

    Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

    • New Deforestation Data From Brazil Shows Conti ...
      Today the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), the Brazilian space agency, released the annual estimate of Amazon deforestation from August 2010 through July 2011. The estimates show that the area of deforestation has dropped from 7,000 km2 in 2009-2010 to 6,238 km2 in 2010-2011. Th ...
    • Free Press: Verizon Wireless App Blocking Hurt ...
      According to reports, Verizon Wireless is restricting consumers’ ability to download and use Google Wallet. New mobile payment systems such as Google’s offer consumers opportunities for flexible, fast and convenient transactions using their mobile devices. Verizon Wireless is reporte ...
    • Analyst Blasts U.S. Negotiator at Climate Talk ...
      MICHAEL DORSEY, michael.dorsey at dartmouth.edu, “The arrival of lead U.S. negotiator for the United States, Todd Stern, in Durban South Africa spells doom for Africa and the planet,” said Dartmouth College Professor Michael Dorsey, after leaving a closed briefing with U.S. Special ...
    • PFAW Praises Ellison Amendment to Reverse Citi ...
      Representative Keith Ellison (MN-5) introduced the “Get Corporate Money Out of Politics Amendment” today, a constitutional amendment that would empower Congress to regulate corporate influence in elections. The amendment would reverse the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens Un ...
    • Campaign for America’s Future Urges Senators t ...
      This week, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Charging that the bankers' lobby prevented Elizabeth Warren, who envisioned ...

    Common Dreams-Views

    • The Human Face of the Nuclear Arms Race
      Robert Alvarez The legacy of human suffering from amassing nuclear arsenals remains ignored in the current debate over eliminating these horrific weapons of mass destruction.read more
    • The Future of the Occupy Movement
      Jules Lobel The Occupy Movement, which has already been hugely successful in thrusting issues of inequality and corporate power into the public discourse, faces a critical juncture. As many of the larger encampments in New York, Oakland, Ph ...
    • Playing With Fire: Obama’s Risky Oil Threat to ...
      Michael T. Klare When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan directly into the fire?  In an attempt to turn the page on two disastrous wars in the Greater Middle East, it may have just launche ...
    • Localization v. Globalization: A False Dichotomy
      Zoe Weil The economic localization movement is growing. Locavores have become widespread, with the “100 mile diet” representing the new eco-conscious food trend.read more
    • The Harper Government and Republican Economics
      Duncan Cameron The Harper Conservatives model their economic policies on beliefs held dear by American Republicans: just lower taxes, and reduce government, and business will create the wealth.  With this approach, not only is income b ...

    Newshoggers - AfPak

    Water Wars

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

    WordPress | Economics

    Electronic Intifada

    • Israel can never steal our heritage
      Rana Baker The Electronic Intifada Gaza City We Palestinians have nothing to cherish more than our roots and ancestral identity. And no matter how hard it tries, Israel can never take our heritage away from us.
    • South African activist: "Palestine casts light ...
      Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada South Africa A South African activist working for the global boycott movement against Israeli apartheid connects the ongoing anti-colonialist struggles from Johannesburg to Palestine.
    • Israel jails asylum seekers, labels them "infi ...
      Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Tel Aviv An amendment to Israel’s “Prevention of Infiltration” law will mean prison time for asylum seekers and their children — as well as for those who offer them humanitarian aid.
    • 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.

    The Wonk Room

    • Trickle Down Economics ‘Doesn’t Wo ...
      In 1910, former President Theodore Roosevelt gave his rousing “New Nationalism” speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, where he called for new approaches to dealing with the problems the nation faced. President Obama visited Osawatomie today, and in his own speech — his first major econ ...
    • Congressman Jerry Nadler Calls For An Investig ...
      Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder “calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations of police misconduct in connection with the treatment of Occupy Wall Street protesters and journalists covering the demonstrations in New York Ci ...
    • Alabama Agriculture Department Advances Plan T ...
      ThinkProgress has been reporting on the catastrophic economic consequences of Alabama’s harshest-in-the-nation immigration law. Undocumented workers are the backbone of Alabama’s agriculture industry, and their exodus has already created a labor shortage in the state. Farmers say crops are ...
    • At Romney ‘Grassroots’ Event: Vale ...
      As GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney tries to shed his image of being “Mr. 1 percent,” this likely won’t help. At a campaign stop at a luxury hotel in Arizona today billed as an “event with grassroots supporters,” there is “only” valet parking, acco ...
    • Media Inaccurately Presents Huntsman’s R ...
      GOP candidate Jon Huntsman discarded his earlier defense of climate science today, a move described by political media as a “tweak,” “softening” into “squishy” “skepticism”: Carrie Dann, NBC News: “Huntsman tweaks climate change tone, says sc ...

    thwap's schoolyard

    • thwap's News Round-up
      So, in Afghanistan, were we debased our values as a country (complicity in torture and spitting on democracy to cover it up), sacrificed over one-hundred of our soldiers' lives while wounding, maiming and traumatizing hundreds more, and spent billions of dollars, we have yet another mainstream j ...
    • The NDP Needs to Get SERIOUS About Economics
      You read that title and you expect to see some sort of diatribe about "fiscal responsibility" or "harsh realities" or something right? But when I read headlines like that I generally think that I'm in for a heaping helping of neo-liberal delusions and hypocrisy or some mewling nonsense from a " ...
    • So What's Going to Happen to Peter MacKay?
      So, last post, I was talking about how Tony Clement and his harpercon colleagues were making a mockery out of the "War on Terror" by using funds for border security to spruce up Perry Sound - Muskoka for the G20 conference (with Tony doling out the contracts like the Santa Claus at a company Chr ...
    • 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 ...

    on Government Oversight

    Digital Journal

    • Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's website prompts a vote
      At first it appears Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s personal website that he used during his election campaign has been hacked, but he refutes that allegation. Regardless, the site now allows visitors another chance to vote.
    • 22 years ago blood flowed at Canada's École Po ...
      Inside Room 303 at École Polytechnique sat 58 students shortly after 5:00 p.m. Ten of the students were women. Not one of the women would leave that classroom untouched on December 6, 1989. Canada's bloodiest evening was about to take place.
    • The problem with Manila sex-vid star playing c ...
      A Filipino caregiver who died in Toronto in 2009 is being portrayed in a television drama for her advocacies, which was fine, except that a Manila sexpot has been chosen to play the role.
    • Bank of Canada holds key rate at 1% due to dee ...
      The Ottawa-based Bank of Canada announced Tuesday that it is holding the overnight rate at one percent. The central bank explained that it is responding accordingly to the deepening euro sovereign debt crisis.
    • Drug can cause sleepwalking tendencies
      The company that markets the sleep-aid medication Sublinox is advising patients prone to sleepworking to avoiding taking the drug because of its capability to cause abnormal and dangerous sleep behaviors.

    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

    • Study says military spending not effective for ...
      Dollar-for-dollar, money spent on domestic spending priorities such as healthcare, clean energy, and education creates a greater number of jobs than defence spending, according to a study done by the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute. Researchers Robert Poll ...
    • Pentagon’s F-35 director says production shoul ...
      The U.S. Department of Defense’s top officer on the F-35, Adm. David Zenlet, has recommended that deliveries of the aircraft be delayed because of the discovery of cracks and “hot spots” during fatigue testing and analysis (Gloria Galloway, “Tories face fresh hurdle with ...
    • Aviation Week: Are there alternatives to F-35?
      Further to this post, doubts about the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have now grown to the point where even aviation industry insiders like Aviation Week are asking whether there are alternatives to the troubled aircraft (David A. Fulghum & Bill Sweetman, Are There Alternatives To ...
    • 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.

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • Six Amazing Facts You Need To Know About Sweet ...
      November 14, 2011 Natural News By: Tara Green One of the most nutritious foods on the traditional Thanksgiving menu is the sweet potato. These orange-skinned root vegetables offer a host of health benefits (especially when cooked without the unnecessary sugar and marshmallows). If you want to ra ...
    • Amesbury, Mass., Residents Vote To Stop Water ...
      November 14, 2011 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “The entire country should be taking the same steps as Amesbury, MA to get rid of water fluoridation.” –KTRN Residents of the Massachusetts coastal city of Amesbury have successfully defeated a measure that would have restored a ...
    • Synthetic ‘Alpha Tocopherol’ Vitamin E Supplem ...
      November 14, 2011 Natural News By Jonathan Benson “Vitamin E is amazing – but not the synthetic version. Remember, whole food based raw supplements are the way to go. Don’t let the media turn this story into ‘vitamin E is bad for you.’ It’s not – but you ...
    • Egypt Closes Great Pyramid to Prevent 11/11/11 ...
      November 14, 2011 Disinformation.Org By BEN HUBBARD “If they’re worried about 11/11/11, I wonder what they’re going to do on 12/21/12.  Perhaps they closed the pyramid because they were holding their own secret ceremony.  The authority’s head Mustafa Amin said planned cer ...
    • Raw Foods Fight Pain
      November 14, 2011 Natural News By Michelle Bosmier “Instead of reaching for ibuprofen for your pain, try some raw food. What have you got to lose? Is your headache really that bad to begin with?” –KTRN Sometimes you’ve exercised too much and your muscles hurt. Sometimes, ...

    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

    • EU To Seize Control Over National Economies Wi ...
      Fascism uber alles for Goldman Sachs technocrats Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Forget the millions of Europeans affected, the EU won’t even bother to put its attempt to seize control over member state economies to a vote amongst its own parliamentary cronie ...
    • Cuomo caves to protesters, will hike taxes on ...
      After facing repeated protests over his resistance to raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo relented on Tuesday, striking a deal with legislators that will boost state revenues by $1.9 billion while simultaneously dropping the middle class tax rate to the lowest it has been ...
    • Occupy Movement … Stronger than Ever?
      Occupy Movement … Stronger than Ever? By WashingtonsBlogwashingtonsblog.com OWS: Down, But Not Out … While some might assume that the Occupy movement is dead – given that scenes of large protests have been absent from the news recently – but the truth is quite different. ...
    • Anxious Greeks Emptying Their Bank Accounts
      Ferry Batzoglou in Athens Spiegel Online December 6, 2011 Many Greeks are draining their savings accounts because they are out of work, face rising taxes or are afraid the country will be forced to leave the euro zone. By withdrawing money, they are forcing banks to scale back their lending &#82 ...
    • China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat
      AFP December 6, 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. The navy should “accelerate its transformation and modernisation in a sturdy w ...

    Dandelion Salad

    • Charles Shaw: The History of Police Militariza ...
      Dandelion Salad UnheardVoicesArchive on Nov 30, 2011 On Monday, November 28, 2011, students at UC-Davis occupied Dutton Hall, the University’s financial center, and held an all-day teach-in. Author/Journalist/Filmmaker Charles Shaw was one of the featured speakers. Here is his talk, &#8220 ...
    • The Bible: Why does it endure?
      Dandelion Salad Day of Discovery Take a closer look at the fascinating process of biblical research that helps reveal the foundations and credibility of the timeless wisdom of the Bible. Dr. Daniel Wallace, biblical scholar and researcher, uncovers results that point to the Bible as the inspired ...
    • Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Created By Mating ...
      Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 2, 2011 DemocracyNow.org – European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sovereign debt crisis that’s threatened to tear apart the Eurozone. Both France and Germany are expected to push for changes to the Eurozone treaty, ...
    • “Rumours of war” By William Bowles
      by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 4 December 2011 “I had to leave my dog in Iran.” – UK ambassador, BBC News, 2 December 2011 If I remember correctly, my mother told me that it was the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 that prompted he ...
    • Democracy and Debt: Has the Link been Broken? ...
      by Michael Hudson Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://michael-hudson.com Dec. 2, 2011 *This article appeared in the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung on December 5, 2011. Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies ...

    Your New Reality

    • No title
      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

    • How to Picture the Size of the Universe
      Space, as Douglas Adams once so aptly wrote, is big. To try imagining how big, place a penny down in front of you. If our sun were the size of that penny, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would be 350 miles away. Depending on where you live, that’s very likely in the next state (or possibly cou ...
    • How Abuse Changes a Child’s Brain
      The brains of children raised in violent families resemble the brains of soldiers exposed to combat, say psychologists. They're primed to perceive threat and anticipate pain, adaptations that may be helpful in abusive environments but produce long-term problems with stress and anxiety.
    • Japanese People Less Likely to Evacuate During ...
      Disasters are supposed to teach people valuable lessons. But new research shows that following Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011, Japanese residents have become less likely to evacuate during a dangerous event.
    • Potentially Earth-Like Planet Has Right Temper ...
      For the first time, astronomers have found a planet smack in the middle of the habitable zone of its sunlike star, where temperatures are good for life.
    • Tycho Deep Space Update Dec 5, 2011
      Dear reader. This is an image based update showing the work done since Friday on the DIY space capsule Tycho Deep Space. For more in-depth info about the puzzle for this capsule please read thus previous blog post: tycho-deep-space-puzzle-begins This work done by Claus Nørregaard and myself is a ...

    Israeli Occupation Archive

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

    Ria Novosti - Military

    NewsWise

    Natural Health News

    • WiFi in Schools is Safe. True or False?
      Is it safe to have WiFi in schools? Dr. Magda Havas explains how studies have documented the adverse effects of WiFi radiation on your blood cells and your heart.  Research also shows that it raises your risk of cancer.  There are alternatives to wireless routers that are cost effectiv ...
    • How Do Grains Affect Your Leaky Gut?
      Loren Cordain is a professor at Colorado State University and an expert on paleolithic lifestyles.  In a recent interview linked below, he revealed the evolutionary reasons why grains can be irritating to your gut. Cereal grains evolved toxic compounds to prevent their seeds from being ea ...
    • TV Show Host Double Mastectomy Shocker Should ...
      E! News host Giuliana Rancic has announced that, after undergoing a double lumpectomy in October that failed to eliminate her breast cancer, she plans to move forward with a double mastectomy. According to The Stir: “Dealing with the situation in such a public fashion makes her a role model fo ...
    • Simple Trick that May Override the Health Dama ...
      Men who are a few pounds overweight may be able to avoid the consequent health damages -- if they are able to get in shape and stay there, even without lowering their weight. A study looked at more than 14,000 men who over the course of well over a decade.  The men were up to 39% less like ...
    • How Could the U.S. Government Be So Wrong Abou ...
      In their “New In Health” newsletter, the National Institutes of Health got one thing right -- they note that you need a certain amount of fat in your diet to stay healthy. They acknowledge that fats help your body absorb important vitamins, including vitamins A, D and E, and that fats are especi ...

    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

    • When It Rains, It Pours (on Greece)
      by Julian Ku by Julian Ku These are not the best of days for Greece, and even relatively small matters, like their ongoing dispute with Macedonia over the name “Macedonia” is going against them. Greece was wrong to block Macedonia’s bid to join Nato in 2008 because of a row o ...
    • China’s Meaningless Commitment to &#8220 ...
      by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Following up on Dan Bodansky’s excellent post, and our interesting discussion here on MEAs, I wanted to point readers to this useful report from Durban by Reason’s science correspondent Ronald Bailey.  Bailey has a very useful breakdown on why China’ ...
    • Durban or Bust
      by Dan Bodansky by Dan Bodansky Another year, another climate COP.  This year’s conference of the parties (COP)  is in Durban, South Africa.  The South Africans have provided a wonderful venue and the meeting has proceeded thus far with few of the histrionics of Copenhagen and Cancun.  B ...
    • A Response to Anastasia Telesetsky by Karen Scott
      by Melbourne Journal of International Law by Melbourne Journal of International Law Professor Telesetsky, in her generous comments on my article in volume 12(1) of the Melbourne Journal of International Law, raises two pertinent questions.  First, why has there been a profusion of cooperative ...
    • A Response to Karen Scott by Anastasia Telesetsky
      by Melbourne Journal of International Law by Melbourne Journal of International Law [Anastasia Telesetsky is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Idaho] Professor Karen Scott’s recent publication on international environmental governance in the Melbourne Journal of International ...

    Public News Service

    • Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Su ...
      Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Surprised at This Answer Phoenix, AZ – Real Christmas trees help the environment, according to conservationists who say they also provide a billion dollar boost to the U.S. economy. Most fake trees come from abroad and carry environmental costs. ...
    • Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine
      Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine Phoenix, AZ – More than 100 economists and academics have sent a letter to President Obama expressing their belief that protected public lands in the West are essential to the region’s economic future. They say the lands not only promote ...
    • AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in I ...
      AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in Immigration Debate Phoenix, AZ – Immigrants' rights advocates say they see glimmers of hope in the changing tone of the political debate over immigration, both in Arizona and at the national level. They point to the recent defeat of SB 1070 auth ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • No Right Turn: One of these things is not like ...
      No Right Turn: One of these things is not like the others: FARC Al-Qaeda Occupy London That's from a list of terrorist threats to the City of London business community, issued by the City of London Police this week (photo here). I know UK police forces have a long and dirty history of equat ...
    • Proof the US has Entered the Fascist Stage...
      The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US | War Is A Crime .org: By Robert Johnson, Business Insider The US military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so ...
    • eBook : Heidegger's Children: The Strange Rebi ...
      [This free eBook (PDF) is available from Aboriginal Press Books]This is not a book about Martin Heidegger, (1889-1976) nor is it a study of his written philosophy. This is instead a collection of previously published APNS editorials examining how otherwise intelligent people and entire educa ...
    • Naomi Klein and First Nations leaders unite at ...
      Naomi Klein and First Nations leaders unite at anti-pipeline forum | The Vancouver Observer: Acclaimed activist and author Naomi Klein joined several other speakers and concerned Vancouver citizens at the Rio Theatre last night, for a passionate discussion about the threat oil pipelines and supe ...
    • The Whistle Blower As Hero
      The Whistle Blower As Hero :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: Julian Assange, who might be the man most hated by the U.S. government, was given Australia’s Walkley Foundation Award for outstanding journalism last week. He accepted it ...

    Pensieve

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

    Green Times

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

    The Briefing Room | Investigate

    Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

    Politics in the Zeros

    • Keep the dead flag of Socialism flying
      The European Socialists were meeting over the weekend in Brussels. They should be full of fire, with half a billion people facing brutal austerity and a lack of leadership in the EU. But no. I walked past one room where a group of serious people were seriously discussing the serious topic of &#8 ...
    • Europe: rebel against the banks or accept debt ...
      It’s your choice, Europe; choose wisely. If you want a model for sanity and growth, look to Iceland. They renounced their unpayable debts and debt-serfdom, and let the market reprice their currency, debt and risk. The nightmare is past for them; they chose wisely. Now it’s your turn ...
    • Hoover Dam. Lake Mead. Big hydropower
      Standing on Hoover Dam The turbines at Hoover Dam have a nameplate capacity of 2.08 GW, making it one of the largest hydro plants in the country and equal to nuclear and big coal plants. The Dam certainly is immense, 650 feet long and 229 feet tall. Lake Mead stretches for 110 miles behind [...]
    • Blues legend Hubert Sumlin passes
      Eric Clapton/ Robert Cray/ Hubert Sumlin/ Jimmie Vaughan – Killing Floor Clifford Antone gave Hubert Sumlin a Blues Legend introduction mentioning his years with Howling Wolf [for 26 years], playing with Stevie Ray Vaughan, going to England giving Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones guit ...
    • Gas up the old Ford, get out the road map…
      Kepler 22b. NASA Today NASA’s Kepler Mission confirmed the discovery of the first planet outside our solar system that might be able to support life as we know it. Dubbed Kepler 22b, it orbits around a star very like our Sun and within the “habitable zone” where water could be ...

    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

    • Insider: $56 Billion Later, Airport Security I ...
        Wired The Department of Homeland Security has spent billions since 9/11 trying to keep dangerous people and dangerous explosives off airplanes, and treating us all air travelers like potential terrorists in the process. But according to a former security adviser to a leading airline, the ...
    • US Attempts to Overthrow Russian Government!
      John McCain tries to make good on longstanding threat to Putin. by Tony Cartalucci December 6, 2011 – As chairman of the International Republican Institute, an organization dedicated to fomenting extraterritorial sedition and revolution throughout the world, US Senator John McCain has beco ...
    • Adolf Hitler and the Central Banks
      Eustace Mullins, Global Sciences Congress, Denver 2000.
    • “Anti-Gay” Congressman Busted At H ...
      With a name like Hinkle should we be surprised? State rep. Phillip Hinkle (R-IN) was busted looking for gay sex with a young man at a hotel. Shockingly Hinkle was openly anti-gay and opposed to gay marriage. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
    • Kucinich: Is Obama stumbling into war with Iran?
        Raw Story Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Monday questioned whether the Obama administration was trying to provoke Iran into an armed conflict. The Iranian government claimed on Sunday that it had shot down a RQ-170 Sentinel — a U.S. high-altitude reconnaissance drone — that had flown into ...

    The Air Vent

    • Stop Them
      If you can’t stop the science, then you have to look elsewhere. #1680   date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:03:05 -0400 from: “Michael E. Mann” subject: Re: Something not to pass on to: Phil Jones Phil, I wo ...
    • My Opinion
      It isn’t often that I have cause to agree with Nick lately but he has put a comment in another thread which I would like to copy here in the middle of climategate just to give some perspective on why I don’t fall in line with the IPCC. Nick Stokes said December 6, 2011 at [...]
    • Consensus Media
      I hope people realize that we have 5 times the emails of Climategate 1.0.  The reading required is extraordinary and the story is far from done.  I’ve got enough material for dozens of posts now and am working very hard to condense them into meaningful statements.  In the meantime, things ...
    • Their Words
      They call us skeptics, deniers, fossil fuel funded, contrarians, anti-science, all because we criticize the IPCC, the hockey stick plots, temperature record quality, biased peer review, and the general politicizing that climate science has undergone. Don’t take it from me though, Climatega ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • Barilliance eCommerce Brings Behavioral Target ...
      Barilliance is trying to bring together standard web-tracking technology with Facebook Pages to better target the right products to users. The software places a cookie in user browsers, then tracks consumer behavior on a commerce website, then translates that behavior to … Continue reading ...
    • “Twilight,” “Harry Potter,” Stephen King, Adel ...
      Page consolidations led to many movie Pages making our list of the fastest growing Facebook Pages by Likes this week. Of course there were other Pages, too. Adele, Texas Hold’em Poker, Angry Birds, Orkut and more made the list. Pages … Continue reading →
    • Inside Virtual Goods: Tracking the US Virtual ...
      With an up-to-$2 billion IPO that Zynga may file in the coming weeks to fund its continued global expansion, Facebook’s migration to Credits, Google’s launch of Google+, and the continued rapid growth of in-app purchase-based businesses on the iOS and … Continue reading →
    • New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Vitrue, ...
      Vitrue hired a new Chief Revenue Officer this week, while many other companies hired sales and account staff. Then Kontagent hired a head of DeveOps. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us … Continue reading →
    • Facebook Fans Dropping Herman Cain After Elect ...
      After a long stretch at the top of the new fans per day rankings on our our Inside Facebook 2012 Election Tracker, Herman Cain’s fan count is heading in the opposite direction after the announcement that he’s officially “suspending” his … Continue reading →

    Truthout - Tweets

    ReDress News

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

    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 ...

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