6 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

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Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Gemini Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse: December ...
  The lead up to this Saturday's total lunar eclipse is electric. Uranus, the planet of sudden change and freedom (think The Tower tarot card) turns direct about 7 hours before the Gemini full Moon lunar eclipse. These two combined energies will shift something fundamental in us.
• A Hopeless Legion of Loons
  If we have learned but one thing from these fools, it is that they will not compromise, regardless of the destruction they leave in their wake. Therefore, we need to wake up and realize that the November 2012 election is quite likely a matter of life or death.
• #OWS Applauds as Massachussetts Attorney Gener ...
  #OccupyWallStreet has another accomplishment to celebrate this week, the lawsuit leveled at five major mortgage banks in Massachussetts. This is another action taken in leiu of Obama's DOJ or SEC doing it's job of putting Wall Street criminals in jail and yet another action taken on the state le ...
• Hulk Hogan Helps Prove Corruption in Divorce C ...
  In a roundabout way, Hulk Hogan has helped prove that some divorce courts are grotesquely corrupt.
• Newt Gingrich Offers Voters No Viable Solutions
  With Gingrich taking the new top spot for the GOP's seemingly desperate attempt to find anyone that isn't Mitt Romney to run against President Obama, Republican voters will need to take a closer look at what this politician stands for.

Switchboard

• Unanimous Vote Sends Los Angeles on a Path to ...
  Adrian Martinez, Staff Attorney, Environmental Justice, Santa Monica, California The City Council of Los Angeles voted today to give private waste haulers servicing businesses notice that the City wants to get serious about improving its recycling r ...
• NRDC in the News 12/5: Clean-energy job invest ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide In a Wall Street Journal piece about increasing investments in renewable-energy jobs and training, Cai Steger discussed E2's clean energy jobs report and explained how green tech jobs are growin ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Lying by example.
  According to Leon Cooperman, in his widely circulated open letter to Obama, Wall Street complaints about Obama concern not the substance of his response to the financial crisis these complainers created — and from which they continue to profit — but “the divisive, polarizing to ...
• Our Very Serious Media
  Tonight, Politico hands Paul Ryan its award for Health Care Policymaker of the Year. Because inside the Beltway, actually crafting useful policy that helps people is meaningless. No doubt it’s only matter of time before James Inhofe wins Environmental Policymaker of the Year and Michelle B ...
• Droning On…
  Last night I was on Alyona, talking drones and Iran:
• “You Should Have Picked Different Parent ...
  As Linda Greenhouse points out, Florida shouldn’t be forgotten when it comes to cruel anti-immigration crackdowns.
• Whoops!
  Evidently Mexico has its own version of Rick Perry! Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto hit a book fair this weekend in what should have been an easy public relations stop. Too bad he got stumped when somebody asked him to name three books that influenced him. Over several minutes, ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Delorean Electric Car Lightens The Load
  Delorean teams with Epic EV for a body chassis to its all-new electric that the company says will be lighter than the original Delorean by 200 pounds.
• VW Sings LEED Honky Tonk In Tennessee
  The Volkwagon plant in Chattanoga, Tenn., takes LEED Platinum, the first auto manufacturing plant in the world to do so.
• Solar Industry Doom And Gloom? Not Really
  Our first in-house column calls into question the sometimes interesting way in which certain large financial media outlets cover the renewables sector.
• Old Man Winter Can’t Chill These Solar Homes
  A community in Alberta has taken the Globe Energy Award for a seasonal storage system that uses solar thermal energy to provide for 90% of its heating needs.
• If It’s Not A Scottish EV, It’s Crap!
  WWF Scotland gives the aggressively green nation some pointers on meeting its climate emission goals and getting more electric vehicles on the road.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Magistrate judge named dean of Oklahoma City l ...
  Oklahoma City University School of Law has found its next dean on the federal bench. University officials announced on Dec. 4 that U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Couch would assume the law school's top position on July 1.
• ABA seeks better treatment of the disabled by ...
  The ABA's Commission on Disability Rights has asked the council to change the way it handles requests for testing accommodations, to "ensure that the exam reflects what the exam is designed to measure, and not the test taker's disability."
• Pom Wonderful loses jury verdict on trademark ...
  A federal jury on Dec. 6 rejected Pom Wonderful LLC's claims that Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. misled consumers by selling a product that contained trace amounts of pomegranate juice.
• LAW SCHOOLS REVIEW
  Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training. One law school professor has launched a full-scale assault on the legal education system in response to these mounting issues. Are law schools in crisis?
• Write. Share. Get Noticed.
  Social media are a positive filtering mechanism due to the simple fact that good information get shared, junk gets ignored.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• Dominical Surf Camp Has Plenty to Brag About
  Dominical surf camp, Sunset Surf, is riding high on one of the best years to date for the Costa Rica surf camp scene.
• New Foreign Affairs Policy Board To Focus On B ...
  Secretary Clinton selected a distinguished, diverse, and bipartisan membership with a wide range of expertise and background, including past government service, academia, politics, development, and business. Strobe Talbott, President of the Brooking
• Robocop Peter Weller Beams Up for 'Star Trek 2'
  Weller also guest-starred on Star Trek: Enterprise for two episodes in 2005, and has had recurring roles on Dexter.
• Resolution 2023 Condemns Eritrea's Destabilizi ...
  She stressed that the resolution underscores the international community's condemnation of Eritrea's destabilizing behavior in the Horn and its support for terrorism.
• The Office of Medical Services and US Coast Gu ...
  The agreement supports the interagency acquisitions authorized by the Economy Act, offering substantial benefits to both agencies, including economies of scale and the ability to share resources.

environment 360

• ‘Merging Tsunami’ Doubled Destructive Power Al ...
  A detailed analysis of satellite data shows that the devastating tsunami that struck the coast of northeastern Japan last March doubled in intensity because two wave fronts generated by an undersea earthquake merged before making landfall. Researchers Click to enlarge NASAFormation of the ‘doub ...
• Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Dropped to Re ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to a new record low during the year ending in July, according to preliminary government data. About 2,408 square miles (6,238 square kilometers) of rainforest were cleared from August 2010 to July 2011, a 10.9 percent reduction from the previous year ...
• Camera Traps Emerge as Key Tool in Wildlife Re ...
  Scientists and conservationists are increasingly relying on heat- and motion-activated camera traps to study rare or reclusive species in remote habitats. And the striking images they provide are proving to be a boon for raising conservation awareness worldwide. BY JEREMY HANCE
• New Interactive Network Maps Pollution, Noise ...
  The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft this week introduced a network of online sites that map air, water, and noise pollution levels across the continent based on government data and information Click to enlarge Eye on EarthEye on Earth uploaded by users. The Eye on Earth network ...
• Arduous Life of Wolverines Documented in Yello ...
  Yellowstone National Park’s wolverines live a harsh life high in the Rocky Mountains, with females giving birth in snow caves at 9,000 feet, males ranging over territories covering 500 square miles, and the scrappy View gallery Mark Packila/WCSA Yellowstone wolverine animals doing battle with g ...

Red Ice Creations

• US Army tests hypersonic weapon over the Pacific
  The Army on Thursday conducted its first flight test of a new weapon capable of traveling five times the speed of sound. Earlier this year, the Congressional Research Service said in a report the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the military’s program to develop "prompt global strike" weapo ...
• NASA Probe Beams Home Best Moon Map Ever
  NASA launched the LRO in 2009 on a $504 million mission to map the moon in unprecedented detail. The spacecraft has also spotted several historic artifacts of moon exploration, including NASA’s Apollo landers and the boot prints left behind by moon-walking astronauts during the manned lunar land ...
• Australia probes Obama security slip
  Australian officials were working Sunday to trace how a top-secret dossier containing detailed plans for US President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Australia came to be found in a gutter. The 125-page booklet, classified “In Confidence” and containing the phone numbers and contact details of se ...
• "Gaddafi son knows too much, will be silenced" ...
  Libya says Gadhafi son to be tried at home Libya’s new leaders said Sunday they will try Moammar Gadhafi’s son at home and not hand him over to the International Criminal Court where he’s charged with crimes against humanity. The government also announced the capture of the toppled regime’s inte ...
• US banks should ’undermine’ Occupy protestors: ...
  The Occupy Wall Street movement is a big enough problem for U.S. banks that they should pay for opposition research into the political motives of protesters, said a firm that lobbies for the industry. Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford, a Washington-based firm, proposed the idea in a memo to the Am ...

Russia Today

• ‘US pins labels:’ Russia slams Clinton over el ...
  The Russian Foreign Ministry shot back at US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her criticism that Russia’s elections were neither free nor fair. But as the US attempts to take the moral high ground, their political...
• Holy War: Afghan suicide blasts mar religious ...
  Twin suicide bombings killed 59 in in Afghanistan as the specter of sectarian violence now looms over Afghanistan.
• Earth's twin located...Six hundred light-years ...
  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.
• ‘Credit rating should not shape EU’s policy’
  Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency has warned it may cut the European bailout fund's AAA long-term credit rating. With the EU summit looming, the move makes S&P quite a player in the game of European politics, says...
• Global Financial Collapse: What makes it tick?
  The mind becomes confused and dismayed when confronted with chaotic situations it can hardly figure out - situations such as today’s Global Financial Woes. Maybe we’re looking too close-up. Let’s take a step back and...

Not My Tribe

• Death in the Afternoon. On Wall Street. Chargi ...
  Full story at yeslab.org/bull. Music: You Will See by Lole Y Manuel.
• Patrick Henry’s pastor recommended: Give ...
  Some juxtaposition, don’t you think? Patrick Henry’s call to arms mashed with the Serenity Prayer. Give me liberty or give me death versus God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. I ...
• One night in a Catholic-run hospital…
  Funny story? I was bidding goodnight to a friend in the hospital, standing over her bed in my long coat, scarf and black stockinged cap, when two nurses burst into our near-black room to announce the shift-change. At once they leaped into each other’s arms in fright! When we’d all re ...
• Tired of Wall St. Stealing Our Dreams! #Occupy ...
• If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the ...
  This season’s War-On-Christmas email is pushing a holiday ditty whose refrain goes “If you don’t see Merry Christmas in the window, then you don’t go in that store.” Seems like it might be easier to mark those stores with a Star of David on the window, or would that ...

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

• Call Off the War on Obesity
  This is a guest blog post by Andy Bellatti, MS, RD. It originally appeared on his blog Small Bites “The war on obesity” has become a familiar battle cry. It serves as the basis for professional health conferences or an exploitative a “motivational” extreme-weight-loss shows like The Biggest Lose ...
• What’s In Muscle Milk?
  We’ve been asked by Fooducate community members about Muscle Milk, a supplement that is popular with body builders and athletes. Normally we don’t venture into the supplement realm, but recently we’ve been seeing Muscle Milk in supermarkets and in the hands of casual athletes, ...
• McDonald’s is Cheating
  Last year, San Francisco’s board of supervisors passed a law intended to limit toy giveaways in kiddie meals at fast food establishments. Happy Meals, as we all know, are an effective tool to get kids hooked on nutrient void, sodium and fat laden McDonald’s fare, thus turning tots in ...
• Root Vegetables Don’t Get Enough Respect [Recipe]
  This holiday season, we are featuring some healthy, tasty recipes from professional chef Dave Schy. Visit his website New Taste, for step by step pictures for this and other great recipes. Today – Oven Roasted Root Vegetables. Talk about getting a bang for your buck. Root veggies are cheap and f ...
• Apple Juice and Arsenic: It’s the Sugar, Dummy
  In the last few days, we’ve been getting questions from Fooducate community members about arsenic in apple juice. It started when Consumer Reports published its findings on lead and arsenic levels in apple and grape juice.  The not for profit organization has urged the FDA to do something ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• UNESCO calls for ‘urgent safeguarding’ of Amaz ...
  Fish are a crucial part of the Enawene Nawe's diet © Fiona Watson/Survival An Amazonian tribe’s fishing ritual has been recognized by UNESCO as one of humanity’s priceless treasures. The UN body has added the Yãkwa ritual of the Enawene Nawe Indians to its list of ‘intangible cultural ...
• Brazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in w ...
  Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by gunmen. © Survival © Survival Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month. Reportedly employed by powerful landowners in Mato G ...
• Crackdown fears peak in West Papua 50 years af ...
  Pro-independence protesters march in t-shirts bearing the 'Morning Star' flag © West Papua Media/Survival Pro-independence Papuans are planning widespread rallies this Thursday to mark 50 years since they first raised their symbolic ‘Morning Star’ flag. A climate of fear surrounds ...
• The world's original scientists' observations ...
  The Innu of northeast Canada say climate change has affected wildlife © Dominick Tyler/Survival As the UN’s climate change conference begins in Durban, Survival calls for the ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples to be heeded in global decisions concerning climate change. Fro ...
• Filipino tribe protest as billionaire agrees t ...
  Palawan planting upland rice in the Philippines. © Dario Novellino Members of a Filipino tribe are protesting after the country’s second richest businessman agreed to enter a joint mining venture on the island of Palawan. The agreement signed between Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corporation and C ...

Greg Palast

• Palast Tonight Live on C-Span BookTV
  Goldfinger the Vulture is going to hate this. Tonight: Greg Palast breaks through America's Electronic Berlin Wall with a LIVE stream on C-SPAN BookTV.org, 7pm Eastern. Palast be bringing the People's Mic directly to the halls of power in Washington DC for one night - telling the sordid sec ...
• Romney's Billionaire ThreatensBBC Investigativ ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. See Palast live on stage in New York, DC and other cities. Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office o ...
• Feasting with the 1% —An Evening with Greg Pal ...
  WBAI Presents Feasting with The 1% An evening exposing their recipesand secret ingredients The New York Times Best Selling Author Greg Palast & Special Guests plus the blisteringly funny Lee Camp The New York City launch of Palast's new book VULTURES' PICNIC A hearty m ...
• Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
  WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...
• Ma Nature, the Happy ToiletBP on Trial at the ...
  by Greg Palast for Greenpeace.org Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. [Occupy Wall Street Climate Trial, New York. Sunday, Nov 27.] This is not the first courtroom where I've faced off against BP, British Petroleum ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Book review: Garden Eco-Chic by Matthew Levesque
  A few weeks ago, I was sent a couple of gardening books by Timber Press to review here and on The Really Good Life. This is the first one – Garden Eco-Chic by Matthew Levesque. The subtitle of this book is “reusing found objects to create decks, paths, containers, lanterns and more&# ...
• How can I reuse or recycle novelty Christmas j ...
  I got this email from Edie a few weeks ago but I thought I’d keep it until people were thinking a little more festive-ly — I hope it’s not too late for Edie now though! I love silly Christmas jumpers but not to wear, god, not to wear! I’m thinking of getting some to make ...
• How can I reuse or recycle baby cot mattresses?
  We’ve had an email from Maggie: I’m due to have my second baby in January but everyone has screamed at me when I mentioned reusing the cot so I’m going to get a new mattress. What can I do with the old one? I don’t have kids so I’m not exactly knowledge but from wha ...
• How can I reuse, recycle or pass on old board ...
  We’ve had an email from Harrie: We’ve got lots of board games (Monopoly and such) from when the kids were little but they’re not in good condition so I don’t think charity shops will take them. What else can I do with them? As long as they’ve still got all/enough pi ...
• How can I reuse coffee that’s sat on the ...
  We’ve had an email from Iris: We make a big jug of filter coffee each morning at the weekend but I regularly have to pour away the last cup or two away because it’s gone bitter. Is there anything I can do to revive it or use it up some other way? Of course, there [...]

Age of Autism

• Seth Mnookin Boots Jake Crosby Out of Public C ...
  By Jake Crosby Seth Mnookin blatantly lied about me again, this time at a public conference run by an organization that is chaired by a Merck vaccines executive. In short, I asked Mnookin a question during the Q/A period; he...
• Chantal Sicile-Kira: French Psychoanalysts Tak ...
  From our friend Chantal Sicile-Kira please comment at Huffington Post. On Dec. 8, a French judge in the Lille Regional Court in France must decide whether or not to ban a documentary by Sophie Robert, "The Wall: Psychoanalysis Put to...
• Age of Autism Contest: Win What About Immuniza ...
  Last Fall we ran a Q&A from Anne Dachel with author Cynthia Cournoyer. We now have a free copy of the book What About Immunizations to give to a reader. Just leave a comment to enter. Visit Ms. Cournoyer's site...
• Predicament of BBC’s Athens Correspondent: Dum ...
  By John Stone AofA readers can sign a petition highlighting the plight of BBC journalist Malcolm Brabant, left dangerously ill since yellow fever vaccination in April. The story, now reported in the mail on Sunday, has been ignored by his...
• No One Knows
  By Cathy Jameson If you read the mainstream news the message is still the same: No One knows why the dramatic rise in autism is happening. They should just ask Anne Dachel or some of my friends. We’d be able...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• Call to Action: Researchers Needed for Non-GMO ...
  Help Farm Wars compile a list of clean seed suppliers with no connections to the likes of Monsanto!
• Passage of S.1867: Our enemy is within
  I have to wonder if at some point if other countries will band together and declare the US a terrorist organization, guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, human rights violations and a threat to world peace.
• Major Organic Seed Company Owned By Pro-GMO Group!
  One of the largest organic seed producers is owned by a company that supports GMOs. Does anyone see a conflict of interest? Does anyone think there might be a problem?
• One Straw Revolution in Farming
  Japanese Permaculture Legend: Masanobu Fukuoka shows how to farm naturally, without modern agricultural methods.
• How Food Affects Genes
  Most relevant to the new findings of Zhang’s team is an experiment in gene therapy using a precursor of miRNA. It turned out to have so many off-target effects that it killed more than 150 of the experimental mice.

Open Your Eyes News

• Majority for Putin’s Party Narrows in Rebuke F ...
  NYTimes – United Russia, the governing party of Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, suffered surprisingly steep losses in parliamentary elections on Sunday and was barely clinging to a 50 percent majority, with 95 percent of the votes counted. Read article
• Blasts across Afghanistan target Shi’ite ...
  Reuters – A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi’ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban. Read Article
• Ireland expected to announce raise in VAT to 23%
  BBC – Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny has made a television address to warn the nation it faces new spending cuts and tax rises, despite its bailout. The Irish government is expected to announce it is putting up VAT to 23%, as part of a new austerity budget. Read Article
• Portugal raids pension funds to meet deficit t ...
  Telegraph – The cabinet agreed to transfer the assets from four of Portugal’s biggest banks to the state balance sheet. The assets will be used to bridge a gap needed to meet the fiscal deficit target of 5.9pc of GDP set by the terms of the country’s €78bn bail-out from around 10pc in 2010 ...
• UK – All hospital patients to be barcode ...
  Telegraph – The barcodes, which will be read by handheld scanners, are to be issued to patients from October neaxt year under the orders of the Information Standards Board (ISB) for Health and Social Care. By next April trusts have must plans on how they will implement the change-over. The ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Occupy Landfills! Trash from Occupy L.A. not r ...
  Remember the 25 tons of material left behind by Occupy L.A. campers after they were evicted from the park in front of City Hall early Wednesday morning? It went to the dump.
• Illinois sequestration project is first in U.S ...
  A demonstration project in Illinois is the first in the U.S. to begin pumping over a million metric tons of man-made liquid CO2 into permanent underground storage. The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium announced this week that its project in Decatur, Illinois had begun injecting carbon ...
• NPR reports Kyoto Protocol in trouble in Durban
  News coverage of the UN climate talks in Durban has been minimal, at best, and that’s clearly because – just like in Copenhagen last year – there has been almost no mention of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which was put in place to set reduction targets for important greenhouse gases. Without a big j ...
• Retired federal judge to represent Westlands W ...
  Former U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger has agreed to represent an influential irrigation district that frequented his courtroom.
• U.N. Durban climate conference wrangles over f ...
  DURBAN, South Africa (AP) — International climate negotiators were at odds Tuesday on how to raise billions of dollars to help poor countries cope with global warming. A major shipping group is willing to help, endorsing a proposal for a carbon tax on vessels carrying the world's trade.

water.org

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

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
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• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Hunger in America, By the Numbers
  Last year, 17.2 million households in the United States were food insecure, the highest level on record, as the Great Recession continued to wreak havoc on families across the country. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Occupy Black Friday: An Antidote to the Guns, ...
  Because of the mind set that 'lost leaders' are one day only bargains - Americans have forgotten common decency. Black Friday has deteriorated from a shopping day to mob rule, by force, for items no one needs. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
• Ungodly Discipline
  Fairhaven Baptists under scrutiny by CNN for child abuse - see video and interviews about using god for excusing beating children. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• OWS and the Power of Creative Protest
  Perhaps the single biggest factor that helped lead to the Occupy movements success in capturing the media and publics attention has been its creativity. Novel protest strategies have served as OWSs foundation since its first days. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't  |&nbsp ...
• White House Urges Egypts Military to Yield Power
  Most importantly, we believe that the full transfer of power to a civilian government must take place in a just and inclusive manner that responds to the legitimate aspirations of the Egyptian people, as soon as possible. Submitted by Kit B. to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• Dominical Surf Camp Has Plenty to Brag About
  Dominical surf camp, Sunset Surf, is riding high on one of the best years to date for the Costa Rica surf camp scene.
• New Foreign Affairs Policy Board To Focus On B ...
  Secretary Clinton selected a distinguished, diverse, and bipartisan membership with a wide range of expertise and background, including past government service, academia, politics, development, and business. Strobe Talbott, President of the Brooking
• Robocop Peter Weller Beams Up for 'Star Trek 2'
  Weller also guest-starred on Star Trek: Enterprise for two episodes in 2005, and has had recurring roles on Dexter.
• Resolution 2023 Condemns Eritrea's Destabilizi ...
  She stressed that the resolution underscores the international community's condemnation of Eritrea's destabilizing behavior in the Horn and its support for terrorism.
• The Office of Medical Services and US Coast Gu ...
  The agreement supports the interagency acquisitions authorized by the Economy Act, offering substantial benefits to both agencies, including economies of scale and the ability to share resources.

Worldnews

• 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...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Diametric Shift In 2 Protein Levels Spurs Alzh ...
  A diametric shift in the levels of two proteins involved in folding, moving and cutting other proteins enables accumulation of the destructive brain plaque found in Alzheimer's disease, researchers report. VPS35 is a protein that folds others into specific positions to unleash their functions...
• Amyloid vs FDG-PET in the differential diagnos ...
  Objective: To compare the diagnostic performance of PET with the amyloid ligand Pittsburgh compound B (PiB-PET) to fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) in discriminating between Alzheimer disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).Methods: Patients meeting clinical criteria for AD (n = ...
• Comparative Effectiveness and Cost-Effectivene ...
• Cost-Effectiveness of Different Screening Stra ...
  Background: The best strategies to screen postmenopausal women for osteoporosis are not clear.Objective: To identify the cost-effectiveness of various screening strategies.Design: Individual-level state-transition cost-effectiveness model.Data Sources: Published literature.Target Population: ...
• Fight Stress With Good Eating
  While enduring stressful situations, many people make bad nutritional decisions. Overeating, not eating, or eating junk foods are common responses to stress. While eating a piece of chocolate ... Read Full Post

Common Dreams

• Radical Eurozone Shakeup Could See Brussels Ge ...
  The European commission could be empowered to impose austerity measures on eurozone countries that are being bailed out, usurping the functions of government in countries such as Greece, Ireland, or Portugal. Bailed-out countries could also be stripped of their voting rights in the European Unio ...
• World 'Heading for 3.5 C Warming': Study
  DURBAN, South Africa — Current pledges for curbing carbon emissions will doom the world to global warming of 3.5 C, massively overshooting the UN target of 2 C, researchers reported at the climate talks here on Tuesday. Output of heat-trapping carbon gases is rising so fast that government ...
• Planet Found Orbiting Habitable Zone of Sun-li ...
  MOFFET FIELD, Calif. - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a key finding in an ongoing quest to learn if life exists beyond Earth, scientists said on Monday. The planet, called Kepler-22b, joins a list of more than 500 planets found to orbit stars ...
• Obama Payroll Tax Cuts Seen Undermining Social ...
  NEW YORK -- Some Democratic lawmakers say that, while President Barack Obama's plan to cut payroll taxes may strengthen the U.S. economy, it may have some unintended fallout: weakening Social Security. The lawmakers and advocacy groups say they are concerned the tax cuts may undermine politi ...
• NAACP Warns Black and Hispanic Americans Could ...
  The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters ahead of next year's presidential election. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: For This Reason, Let Us Kneel ...
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• ExamineReligion: James Madison: Secularist htt ...
  ExamineReligion: James Madison: Secularist http://t.co/er7gqGNL
• ExamineReligion: Does America really need anot ...
  ExamineReligion: Does America really need another Bible translation? http://t.co/BQY4ubHp
• ExamineReligion: AFA's 2011 "Naughty and Nice" ...
  ExamineReligion: AFA's 2011 "Naughty and Nice" retailers list http://t.co/y6KRantU
• ExamineReligion: With An Open Mind group discu ...
  ExamineReligion: With An Open Mind group discusses "Our Broken Government" http://t.co/JnuW4Emr

Energy Collective

• Massive Battery System Captures Wind Power
  One of the biggest challenges facing wind energy is intermittency. Wind often blows strongest when power demand is lowest, and weakest when electricity is needed the most. Because today’s power grid needs electricity to be consumed the moment it’s generated, that means wind turbines send energy ...
• Canada Doubles Its Wind Capacity in 2011
  Canada's wind industry has had a record year.  According to the latest data from the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), 1,400 megawatts of wind capacity was installed in 2011, more than doubling 2010's output.
• COP17: Tackling Emissions Surplus & Linkage Ha ...
  A week into the Durban conference, progress on the continued workability of the Kyoto Protocol emissions trading mechanism is slow.
• Can Natural Gas Be a Bridge to the Low-Carbon ...
  Natural gas production is at a crossroads. Abundant, newly accessible reserves make natural gas an affordable, low-carbon alternative to coal. Yet current production practices are under fire for compromising our water, air, and land. Environmental Defense Fund is looking for common-sense solutio ...
• Weathering the Challenges Ahead for Renewable ...
  This post also ran on The Hill's Congress Blog in advance of comments I'll be making at this week's ACORE's National Policy Forum.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Is Iran Preparing to Strike Back
  By Brian M. Downing These attacks are almost certainly directed by Israeli, Saudi, and US intelligence services. They may also be acts of war. "This business will get out of control." – The Hunt for Red October In the last few years diplomatic pressures and economic sanctions have b ...
• America's Illegal Chemical Weapons Stockpile
  by Stephen Lendman On November 28, the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) opened its 16th session in The Hague, Netherlands. Information on it can be found on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) web site. OPCW is mandate ...
• America Lurches Toward Full-Blown Tyranny
  by Stephen Lendman Post-9/11, America's moved steadily toward eroding democracy entirely. Justification given is war on terror hokum. Incrementally, international, constitutional and statute laws have been trashed. Equity, justice and other democratic values long ago were abandoned to a ...
• WW I: A Pointless Tragedy or Super Russian Do ...
  By Katherine Smith, PhD WW I, the war to end all wars, never made any sense. The official story of WW II: a fanatical dictator trying to take over the world with money from George H.W. Bush’s father, at least sounded plausible… until you realize that: Adolph Hitler was, a gay pros ...
• Troy Davis's sister succumbs to cancer
  Mary Shaw On December 1, Martina Davis Correia lost her long battle with breast cancer. Correia was the sister of Troy Davis, who was executed by the state of Georgia on September 21 amidst worldwide protest. Georgia went ahead with the Davis execution despite compelling evidence suggesting th ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
  A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this story , "Two factors explain Canada’s growing gap: a widening disparity in labour earnings between h ...
• Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
  As the City of Toronto considers a budget proposal that would result in drastic public sector job cuts, economist Hugh Mackenzie weighs in with a sobering observation: between October 2010 and October 2011, the entire Toronto Census Metropolitan Area lost 8,500 jobs. Mayor Rob Ford's intent to e ...
• Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
  A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
• Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
  This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...
• Accounting for changes in unionization
  The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has published a short research note offering a comparative analysis of the decline in unionization among OECD countries.  Using Gosta Esping-Andersen's three worlds of welfare capitalism typology, John Schmitt and Alexandra Mitukiewicz find ...

World Wide Hippies

• Tears, Fears and Bullies
  By Diana May-Waldman,WWH- “We stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized they are all inside of us.” – Joe Danger Payne. The following video seems to be going viral. I couldn’t get through it without a lump rising up in my throat and tears falling down my ...
• 80/20 rule hard pill for insurance companies t ...
  By Sandy Auriene Sullivan,WWH – Has it ever crossed your mind why a mandate for everyone to have health insurance would have insurance companies and their lobbyists throwing such a fit? I mean, on the face of it – sounds like they would make a bundle, right? Well, they will still mak ...
• If the Corporate-Political Nexus Cannot Deal w ...
  By Glenn Ashton SACSIS There is deep scepticism as to whether the COP 17 meeting in Durban will achieve much at all. Why is it that such an urgent matter has taken so long to achieve so little at such great cost? Despite constant refrains from the global public, backed by scientific experts, the ...
• Supreme Court to hear case on arrest at Cheney ...
  By David G. Savage,latimes.com - A Colorado man says his 1st Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested in 2006 after criticizing the Iraq policies of then-Vice President Dick Cheney. The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a Secret Service agent can be held liable for arresting a Co ...
• Task Force Releases Final Strategy for Reversi ...
  WWH - USDA $50 million financial assistance for restoration projects announced as Task Force efforts shift from planning to action WASHINGTON – The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today released its final strategy for long term ecosystem restoration for the Gulf Coast, following exte ...

FourWinds10

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

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from OilPrice.com. The subject — China’s foray into hydraulic fracturing — was also the topic of an energy roundtable I participated in this past summer: Roundtable on China’s Energy Future. My view is that ...
• Rank the Top 10 Oil Stories of 2011
  Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 is now open: The top 10 oil stories of 2011: cast your vote now They listed about 40 stories; below are the ones that I voted into the Top 10 from the list they had put together: Keyston ...
• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 3 – Joule Unlimit ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers the following viewer questions: What do you think about the company Joule Unlimited? Who are the best politicians on energy policy? Who are the worst? In this episode I explain the single-most im ...
• Pipelines and Tar Sands: Cure the Disease Not ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Not everyone has the time or inclination to read through a 4,000+ word article, but I felt like the complexity of the issues involved in the controversial Keystone XL pipeline warranted that. In this article I will summarize the key points of the arguments ...
• R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 2 – Environmental ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV considers a couple of questions that I receive from time to time. The questions are as follows: You’ve called yourself an environmentalist in the past; can you expound on that? What causes do you support ...

Discovery Educator Network

• The Collapse of Public Education In America [I ...
  Tags: collapse, public, education, america, infographic, infographics, EDUdemicby: Dean Mantz
• 15 Schools Using Flipped Classrooms Right Now ...
  Tags: flipped, schools, instruction, FlippedClassroomby: Dean Mantz
• Easy Classroom Polling For Teachers and Studen ...
  Comments:Easy-to-use tool that lets teachers share messages, poll questions, etc. via text messaging. - Randy RodgersTags: mobile learning, cell phone, sms, texting, classroom, polling, teachers, studentsby: Randy Rodgers
• 20 Incredible TED Talks You Should Show Your H ...
  Tags: TED, students, videosby: Dean Mantz
• TubeSnack | Flash video player for Web - Embed ...
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Rodale News

• Who Eats the Most Fast Food? Hint: It's Not Wh ...
  Conventional wisdom has long held that income levels and obesity go hand in hand: Those with lower incomes have higher obesity rates, their diets filled with the plethora of cheap foods that are unhealthy and heavily processed, while wealthier people have healthier weights because they can affo ...
• Happy Holidays From Rodale!
  This holiday season, improve your health and happiness with a centuries-old tradition. origami-cranes.jpg http://www.rodale.com/origami-cranes ...
• What the FDA is Ignoring Could Give You Cancer
  Earlier this year, the TV talk-show host Dr. Mehmet Oz commissioned tests on apple juice and found that almost 30 percent contained levels of arsenic—a known carcinogen—that exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's standard for drinking water. The Food and Drug Administration's response? ...
• The Sperm-Killer Sitting On Your Lap
  You might want to love your laptop a little less. A new study published in the journal Fertility & Sterility suggests that wi-fi-enabled laptops could be nuking your swimmers before they ever have a chance to go forth and multiply. Researchers from Argentina collected semen samples from 29 ...
• The Truth About Canned Soup
  Soup is a must-have for chilly winter days and to battle anything that ails you, be it a nasty cold or a case of the winter blues. Plus, now that it comes in cans, cups, and drinkable bottles, it's easy to grab on the go. But what are you getting when you slurp down that tomato soup, beefy stew ...

big think

• Figment.com Becomes a (Non-Traditional) Tradit ...
  Author Blake Nelson’s new book Dream School comes out today from Figment.com, the company’s first book to be printed on physical paper. Figment.com was launched 1 year ago today, Dec. 6, 2010, by co-founders Jacob Lewis and Dana Goodyear. Geared towards teens, but open ...
• The Art of Manliness (or the Latest Self-Help ...
  So I promised I would do a post based on what we can learn about courage from the philosopher of manliness Harvey Mansfield. But it turns out that there's a very sophisticated and entertaining website devoted to manliness as a kind of self-help program.  And who can deny that many of ...
• Swiss Government: File-Sharing No Big Deal
  What's the Latest Development? A new report by the Swiss government says unauthorized file sharing is not a significant issue. It also argues that current Swiss law–which allows for downloading copyrighted content for personal use–is adequate to protect copyright holde ...
• China at the Forefront of Internet and Soon Co ...
  What's the Latest Development? China is already the world’s main maker of computers and consumer electronics goods but it is also now at the forefront of internet technology–leading everyone in deployment of the next generation protocol, IPv6 –and the next ge ...
• Earth, Meet Your Twin: Kepler-22b
  What's the Big Idea? Does Kepler-22b really exist? Is there life on this planet? Could we inhabit it? How would we get there? These are a few of the many questions that arose after NASA announced on Monday that a possible Earth twin had been discovered by the Kepler space mission. The plan ...

Information Liberation

• Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will ...
  One in three people in Switzerland download unauthorized music, movies and games from the Internet and since last year the government has been wondering what to do about it. This week their response was published and it was crystal clear. Not only wi...
• Loving Egypt*s Military Dictatorship
  The disingenuousness of the U.S. government clearly has no bounds. What better example than its recent, somewhat lackadaisical call on the Egyptian military to relinquish power to the civilian sector? After all, guess who*s been propping up and ...
• Armed U.S. police officers will for the first ...
  OTTAWA*Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in Canada along with the RCMP as part of far-reaching changes in Canadian-American border operations to be unveiled next week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Preside...
• A win-win on drugs? Fighting gangs by legalizi ...
  MALMO, Sweden * Copenhagen just got a lot closer to legalizing the sale of pot. If approved by the Danish parliament, next year the city could grant licenses to individual marijuana growers. City-owned shops would then sell their crop to the publi...
• Peter Schiff Talks to the 1 Percent! "We're no ...
  "You Got this Occupy Wall Street crowd that wants to have a communist revolution," says investment guru and outspoken defender of free enterprise Peter Schiff, "but hopefully we can have more of a free-market...second American revolution and unders...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

• Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile t ...
  SAN FRANCISCO - To get a glimpse of the future , look to East Africa today. [More]
• Bio–Jet Fuel Struggles to Balance Profit ...
  DURBAN, South Africa--My share of the carbon dioxide my flight to Johannesburg emitted over 15 hours amounted to 1,391.3 kilograms, according to the helpful information provided by South African Airlines. Add a dollop of 53.8 kilograms of CO2 for the jet jaunt to Durban and you can see that the ...
• Chimps Experience Synesthetic Sense-Intermingl ...
  Chimpanzees meld sounds and colours, associating light objects with high tones and dark objects with deeper tones. [More]
• Egg Timer: Separate Biological Clocks Govern F ...
  As a biological feat, it was the equivalent of an 80-year-old woman giving birth: Because of a mutation, Coleen Murphy's worms were still fertile and laying eggs right up until the end of their lives. The worms' impressive performance adds weight to the evidence that the biological cloc ...
• Was Jane Austen Poisoned by Arsenic? Science M ...
  On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets--valued at less than 800 pounds sterling--to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the bedridden Jane would be near her doctor. On July 18, only a few days after dict ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• RCMP spied on protesting First Nations
  Intelligence unit collaborated with partners in energy and private sector   To download the RCMP slide show presentation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/74793808/Aboriginal-Jig-Ppt To download the 2009 Strategic Intelligence Report: http: ...
• REDD+ alert!
  Some things you should know about REDD+ Audio exerpt from "No REDD+ teach-in" 5 Dec 2011, Durban , South Africa Speaker: Camelia (didn't catch her last name), No REDD+ Brazil Durban 2011
• "Never Trust a COP"
  10,000 march for climate justice in Durban More than 10,000 people answered the call to march through the streets of Durban, South Africa, last Saturday as part of a gobal day of action for climate justice and an end to climate change. The ...
• South African Movements Move (Global Day of Ac ...
  I grabbed some footage of the incredible use of singing and dancing in various South African social movements, from the Global Day of Action on Saturday. Hopefully it can ...
• Journée d'action globale, Durban
    Diviser pour mieux règner Ce thème devenu trop cliché par la voie des figures totalitaires politiques de ce monde n'est point qu'une cicatrice de l'aparthéid sud-africaine, mais bien une conjonction actuelle émine ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Egypt
  David Seaton's News LeaksThe first round of voting in Egypt shows a strong showing for the Islamic parties, both the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extreme Salifist party Al-Nour. At this point the Islamists appear to have taken two thirds of the vote. This first round took place in urban ...
• The magnificent quest for Shinola
  David Seaton's News LinksShinola, take a whiff Watching the antics of Romney, Santorum, Bachman, Paul, Cain and Perry and contemplating the mere possibility that someone who should only be handled with forceps like Newt Gingrich could now lead a party once led by Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eis ...
• The Nicholas Brothers: a slow motion tribute
  David Seaton's News Links The Nicholas Brothers were probably the best dance act of the Golden Age of Hollywood and only Jim Crow could have kept them from being as famous as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I hope you enjoy this slow motion tribute to their art. DS
• Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
  David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...
• Thoughts at Thanksgiving 2011
   David Seaton's News LinksWe've been through this beforeRead carefully the two quotes below as if they were a Zen koan on the order of "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or "does a dog have Buddha nature?", and see if you notice the cognitive dissonance they produce.Consumer spending ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Liberals and Fraud
  The Obama administration has announced plans to crack down on food stamp fraud among both retailers and users. Atrios comments: Cracking down on thieving retailers is of course a good idea, but, really? Going after SNAP beneficiaries who try to convert their meager benefits to an even more ...
• The Mystery of Darrell Issa's Low Profile
  When Darrell Issa took over the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, everyone expected a tsunami of scandal investigations. But it hasn't really happened. Why? Jonathan Bernstein says it might be because Obama just runs a really clean shop, but he doesn't find that convincing. Or ma ...
• Next Year's Big Bout: Real Obama vs. Fantasy Obama
  In the LA Times today, Spike Dolomite Ward lays out Barack Obama's essential political problem for all the world to see. The recession hit her family hard, she lost her health insurance, and then she got cancer: Fortunately for me, I've been saved by the federal government's Pre-existing Co ...
• Mitt Romney Winning the Race for the 1 Percent
  The Washington Post reports today that Barack Obama has received donations from 30 billionaires while Mitt Romney has received donations from 42 billionaires. Ho hum. But there's this fascinating little tidbit halfway through the story: Romney has attracted the support of Redskins owner Dan ...
• Who's Responsible For the Euromess?
  A few days ago Tyler Cowen kicked off a discussion of whether or not Germany (and the core European countries in general) have acted more virtuously than Greece (and the periphery countries in general) during the decade since the euro was introduced. It was unclear how much he was simply prese ...

Insanity Report

• IC 288: The ‘Fuck I’t Gene
  Topics: Getting pulled over by the cops The joys of speed cameras Kwanzaa…the Iotas of the Holidays Easily offended people The Fuck-it Gene The Side Piece contract Herman Cain suspends his campaign Newt Gingrich thinks poor kids don’t work Sandusky gives another bad interview Share w ...
• FacePalm of the Week: Newt Gingrich and Poor Kids
  On the latest edition of “Anybody But Mitt”, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in the GOP Primary.  It’s pretty absurd when you think about it.  I’m no fan of Mitt Romney, but I’ll take Romney everyday over Gingrich.  Remember, Newt Gingri ...
• Conrad Murray Shouldn’t be Going to Jail
  As often happens, I have once again found myself on the opposite side of public opinion on a topic.  I find this happening more often now.  I tried for a bit to be more PC and censuring what I said but I’ll be 30 in a few months and I’m basically on some “fuck it” [...]
• The Side Piece Contract
  Another day, another politician with an alleged affair.  This time it’s everyone’s favorite pizza man, Herman Cain.  Cain can’t catch a break with the ladies it seems.  This time though, its not sexual harassment (or assault if you believe Allred’s client) but a 13 year a ...
• IC 287: Worst.SideChick.EVER
  Topics: Update on the fake Tranny doctor who gave butt injections Dr. Conrad Murray shouldn’t go to jail Black Friday pepperspray New Riddick movie and Men in Black 3 Michael Jai White as Luke Cage? This week’s episode of Law & Order Penn State: Bernie Fine & and his wife H ...

Simple Climate

• Ice age data cools down warming rate
  Measurements from the last ice age suggest we can expect a 2.3°C temperature increase every time atmospheric CO2 concentrations double rather than 3°C – but given how much of the world was covered by ice when temperatures were just 2°C cooler, that's no let-off, says Andreas Schmittner from Oreg ...
• Controls needed to avoid waste in $100B climat ...
  To ensure the money pledged to the Green Climate Fund is used wisely, its spending rules should be regularly reassessed, spending programs should be independently audited, and a scientific approach to spending decisions should be adopted, says geographer Simon Donner, from the University of Brit ...
• Climate benefit from trees depends on location
  21 scientists including Xuhui Lee from Yale University find that while planting trees near the equator both cools local temperatures and absorbs CO2, planting in northern regions could be self-defeating.
• Teeming tropical seas face exodus to cooler water
  Some of the world's most biodiverse environments, in particular equatorial oceans, are will be most threatened by the speed of climate change find Michael Burrows from the Scottish Marine Institute in Oban and 18 other researchers from eight different countries.
• Moscow shows warming driving temperature records
  There is only a one in five chance that last year's heatwave in Russia would have happened without global warming, an analysis of record temperature probabilities by Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows.

e!Science News

• What we want to see on TV: Handsome politicians
  The better the looks of United States Congresspersons, the more television coverage they receive, shows a new study from the University of Haifa recently published in the journal Political Communication. The reason behind this? Television journalists think their viewers prefer to see physically ...
• New horned dinosaur announced nearly 100 years ...
  A new species of horned dinosaur was just announced by an international team of scientists led by Alf Museum staff, 95 years after the initial discovery of the fossil. read more
• Global sea surface temperature data provides n ...
  Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance over the last half million years. read more
• Ancient meat-loving predators survived for 35 ...
  A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled Earth. read more
• Random noise helps make signals clearer
  Scientists have shown the energy conditions, under which a weak signal supplied to a physical system emerges as a stronger signal at the output thanks to the presence of random noise (a process known as stochastic resonance), in a paper that has just been published in the The European Physical J ...

unEarthed

• Which Page of the Times Do You Read?
  Semple informs; Douthat obfuscates Ross Douthat Last Sunday, Dec. 4, the weekly review/opinion section of The New York Times carried a sober and sobering ...
• Birth Defects Linked to Mountaintop Removal
  Study critics refuse to accept obvious connections Aftermath of mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians Climate change skeptics, industries in denial, ...
• Friday Finds: Big Coal’s Big Sugar Daddies
  Newt’s climate flip, turtle bones get brittle, fat rat dilemma The supposedly "green" Bank of America has been lending billions to the coal industry. Photo courtesy of Alex E. Proimos. ...
• Aussie Energy Co. Buys Into U.S. Coal Mines
  Ambre Energy’s move points to a second round in Northwest coal export fight “This is a good company from Australia who is well funded, well banked, and the ...
• Air Watch
  One Man's Quest for Clean Air Tom Frantz grew up in California’s central valley. The once sparse rural area is now the source of food for millions of Americans, and throughout his life Tom has seen the bucolic pastures ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

• 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Yes, Israel is a source of anti-Semitism
  Israel is playing a regular bait and switch: Now it is the State of the Jews, the next moment Jews have nothing to do with it The scandal du jour is the fact that the US ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, told a Jewish conference last week that Islamic anti-Semitism is the result of Israel’s ...
• IDF censors Defence Minister, Chief of Staff&# ...
  Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Staff Benny Gantz shared a joke about female soldiers participating in a military exercise “to sing during break time,” with Barak tipping Gantz about a ministry employee who can “sing without her uniform”. The IDF then tried to bl ...
• How I learned the difference between news and ...
  Encounters with classified military information at the age of 20 left the author with the unshakable understanding that the media has no choice but to report on the banal – because they just don’t have access to the intricacies of what’s really happening. By Idan Gazit In 1968, ...
• A bitter sweet goodbye
  The great American writer Norman Mailer often referred to writing as “the spooky craft.” I am firmly convinced that had Mailer lived to see the blogging age we are currently living in, he would have felt that blogging has replaced traditional writing as the truly spooky craft. For th ...
• France calls jailed Palestinian activist &#821 ...
  In a letter to the French-Palestine Solidarity Association, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé slams Israel for arresting and trying Bassem Tamimi in military court. Mr. Juppé states that “an official demarche has recently been delivered on his behalf to the Israeli authorities by the ch ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

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

abelard - news

• the slow motion implosion of the euro continue ...
  Yes, you had heard about 3% margins on budget overspend before; and the rest of the latest proposals from Merkel, Sarko and Co.
• another piddling fine for bank fraud | economi ...
  Banks make lots of money, big banks make more. The innumerate believe a big number is really big when really it is quite small.
• guests at the euro christmas party | politics ...
  In heaven, the French and English are the life and soul of the party, in hell it's the Germans! (For Germans, this is called a joke.)
• socialism - uk government 'teacher' unions wan ...
  Another compare and contrast: education in socialist Greece and relatively conservative Finland. Next consider the UK.
• boomerang by michael lewis | book and other re ...
  Snapshots of the chaos European Union countries that has helped them into the current Eurozone financial crisis.

The Parallel Parliament

• Beware the Bait-and-Switch
  The Canadian government recently estimated that Canadians are volunteering a lot these days – some $14 billion worth of free …Continue reading »
• Just Out – “The Glen Pearson Burge ...
  Well, I don’t know quite what to say. It’s not often you get a hamburger named after you. When Adam …Continue reading »
• Just Out – “The Glen Pearson Burge ...
  Well, I don’t know quite what to say. It’s not often you get a hamburger named after you. When Adam …Continue reading »
• You Say You Want A Revolution?
  In fairness, those who corrupt language for the sake of an agenda could only get away with it if their …Continue reading »
• You Say You Want A Revolution?
  In fairness, those who corrupt language for the sake of an agenda could only get away with it if their …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

• Obama Tries Not Paying Ransom to the Republicans
  Chait begins: "A payroll tax cut, designed to help support consumer spending during the Great Recession, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President Obama is demanding that Congress remain in session until it has extended the tax cut. Republicans in turn are panicked and divided bet ...
• Don't Drink the Weed Killer
  Laskawy reports: "If you want to understand all that is wrong with our government's environmental safety priorities, you need only look at the sad story of the weed killer atrazine. Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated its dangers, it remains one of the most commonly used her ...
• Don't Drink the Weed Killer
  Laskawy reports: "If you want to understand all that is wrong with our government's environmental safety priorities, you need only look at the sad story of the weed killer atrazine. Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated its dangers, it remains one of the most commonly used her ...
• FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
  Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...
• FOCUS: Why Americans Are Stupid
  Excerpt: "The covers of the US edition of this week's Time Magazine compared to the international editions. We can't make this stuff up. It kind of says it all ..." Time Warner corporate headquarters in New York City. (photo: Chermayeff & Geismar Inc.) {rsnslider}{wrap height="2000 ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

• Climategate 2.0: What’s in the encrypted ...
  Climategate 1 and 2 emails have so far revealed the mediocrity of the climate scientists and the biased reporting of gullible journalists engaged in promoting global warming. But politicians, bureaucrats and carbon traders can be expected to be the subject of the 200,000 emails waiting to be dec ...
• Light blogging for 2 weeks
  I am on an assignment in India and blogging will be light for a couple of weeks. In a rainy and cool Bangalore where I haven’t seen the sun in 4 days — but traffic is horrendous:
• “the objective impartial (ho ho) BBC tha ...
  An email exchange between Alex Kirby of the BBC and Phil Jones of CRU exposes the BBC's blatantly biased reporting.
• Guttenberg buys his way out of prosecution for ...
  Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has paid 20,000 euros to avoid prosecution on charges of plagiarism. With the case dismissed, Guttenberg could stage a political comeback.
• Fox News worse than no news! and viewers of Th ...
  Fox News viewers tend to be less informed about current events than those who don't watch any news at all.

Left Foot Forward

• Balls mocks “Panglossian” Osborne over Bulling ...
  Ed Balls took aim at George Osborne during a raucous, six-hour debate on the economy in Parliament yesterday, reports Shamik Das.
• Eurozone crisis: A threat or a promise from th ...
  Ben Fox runs over the latest in the eurozone crisis from Brussels.
• How bankers’ bonuses are contributing to the n ...
  Investors do not trust a banking sector grown drunk on bonuses - one of the reasons why we are facing a new credit crunch, writes Cormac Hollingsworth.
• Ignore the Mail’s distortions, here’s what Gol ...
  The Daily Mail was in full ‘outraged’ mode today over Zac Goldsmith's comments to the Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions yesterday, reports Shamik Das.
• Irish Budget part one unveils “unpalatable dec ...
  Ed Jacobs brings us the latest from Dublin as the Irish government grapples with the eurozone crisis.

Consumerist

• AT&T Once Again Brings Up The Rear In Consumer ...
  For the second year in a row, AT&T's wireless service finds itself at the bottom of the ratings in a customer satisfaction survey done by our cohorts at Consumer Reports. With good scores from customers on texting and data service satisfaction, Verizon Wireless also repeated as the highest-ra ...
• Designated Theater Tweet Seats Allow Audience ...
  Sitting behind a person at the opera who is busily tweeting away during a performance is totally unacceptable, which is why certain theaters are now designating "tweet seats" for those who want to live-tweet a show. Put'em all in one area so they can't bug anyone else, right? USA Today reports ...
• Firefighters Watch Another House Burn To The G ...
  In October 2010, firefighters in South Fulton, TN, were criticized all across the country after they refused to put out a fire because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 "fire subscription fee" to the city. If you thought such public scrutiny might have changed that policy, think again. Yesterday ...
• Drugstore.com Named In Lawsuit Over Knock-Off ...
  Opting not to buy into name brand hype can be cheaper, but in the case of one company that manufactures vibrators, knockoffs might mean a legal battle. A Canadian company claims that Walgreen's online-only entity Drugstore.com is importing knockoff sex toys and selling them in the U.S. Busines ...
• Banana Republic Says The Sale Items I Ordered ...
  Spotting a 40% off sale is a gleeful event -- better than a measly 30% and almost at that sweet half-off price. So when Andrew stumbled upon just such a sale online at Banana Republic's site yesterday, he acted quickly to nab some of his favorite items. Speed didn't matter, in this case. When ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• WikiLeaks Founder Allowed to Continue Extradit ...
  Courtesy of Flickr user New Media DaysAssociated Press: Assange Can Continue Extradition Fight Summary: A British court decided yesterday that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange can continue with his legal battle against extradition to Sweden to face sex crime allegations. Assange’s appeal aga ...
• Medal of Honor Recipient Claims Retaliation by ...
  Wall Street Journal: Decorated Marine Sues Contractor Several months ago, US Marine Dakota Meyer made history, becoming the first living Marine to receive the distinguished Medal of Honor for actions performed in Iraq or Afghanistan. After leaving active duty in early 2010, Meyer eventually w ...
• GAP’s Investigation into World Bank Managing D ...
  في نهاية هذا التقرير تجد ترجمة له باللغة العربية As the Egyptian people continue to protest and demand accountability and democratic rule by the thousands in the wake of the collapse of the corrupt Mubarak regime, we have received increased requests from friends throughout the Middle East to tr ...
• WikiLeaks Release Shows Troubling Rise in Avai ...
  Washington Post: Trade in Surveillance Technology Raises Worries Summary: The sale of surveillance technology with few restrictions is worrying to human rights and privacy activists. WikiLeaks released a number of the surveillance technology industry sales documents to certain media outlets, s ...
• FBI Used Outreach to Spy on Muslim Communities ...
  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained documents using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is using co-called "community outreach" programs to spy and target Muslim Americans. The documents show that: &n ...

UK Progressive

• BREAKING: President Obama’s Speech on Economy ...
  Good afternoon. I want to start by thanking a few of the folks who’ve joined us today. We’ve got the mayor of Osawatomie, Phil Dudley; your superintendent, Gary French; the principal of Osawatomie High, Doug Chisam. And I’ve brought your former governor, who’s now doing an outstanding job as our ...
• Pardon Applicants Benefit From Friends in High ...
  by Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica Second of two parts. Part one here. This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Dale Critz Jr. had millions riding on his bid for a presidential pardon. Scion of a prominent family in Savannah, Ga., Critz was poised to inherit the luxury ...
• Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites
  by Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, a ProPublica examination has found. Blacks have had the poorest chance of receiving the president’s ultimate ac ...
• Dow’s Involvement In London 2012 Has Bhopal Vi ...
  In a recent press release, Andrew N. Liveris, Dow’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer said, “Dow has committed to leverage its science and technology expertise, sustainability focus and global network to support a range of events and activities that promote the role of chemistry in the ...
• The Monday Line: Standing FOR Something
  That little stuff in life? It matters. You have to stand for something in work and life, otherwise you stand for nothing. Every time I’ve fought AGAINST something without offering an alternative, it’s created agitation vs. the desired result. It has always been far more powerful to be FOR someth ...

NewsAlert

• Beck Doesn’t Hold Back in Gingrich Interview: ...
  The Blaze Part 1 Part 2
• Urban Strategy: Out With Families, In With Hip ...
  Chicago Daily Observer
• The "Shale Gale" Goes Global with Discoveries ...
  Carp Diem
• Nancy Pelosi provides Newt Gingrich ethics report
  The San Francisco Chronicle
• Blagojevich judge sides with feds on key sente ...
  The Chicago Sun-Times reports:Nearly three years to the day after his arrest on Dec. 9, 2008 on corruption charges, a subdued former Gov. Rod Blagojevich faced an immediate setback Tuesday at the start of his two-day sentencing hearing, with several key rulings going against him regarding the le ...

JoNova

• Skeptics leap from planes to see if zombie med ...
  What do skeptics have to do to break the spell of government appointed experts? Many journalists are apparently trapped in a fit of ideological blindness — they can’t acknowledge emails leaked from their favourite scientists. What do you do when your religious idol turns out to be a ...
• Australian sea level rises exaggerated by 8 fo ...
  The Daily Telegraph exposed the NSW state government protecting the world from some dangerous scientific analysis of sea-levels. The officials pulled papers and posters within days of when they were due to be released, late in September 2011. Doug Lord examined 120 years of tidal data from Sydn ...
• One lone East Anglia man stands up against poo ...
  The other headline I could have used: Jo Nova and Watts Up graphs used in UEA lectures! It doesn’t get much better than this. Imagine finding out your work helped to support a university course in a place right at the center of the dogma and unscientific reasoning you are working to expose ...
• The Travesty of the Missing Heat — deep ...
  (See the Hammer link below, for more information on this graphic). If there is one topic that trumps all others in climate science, it’s ocean heat. If there is a planetary imbalance in energy, and Earth is acquiring more heat than it’s losing, we ought to be able to find that heat. ...
• Bret Stephens: The Great Global Warming Fizzle ...
  Another sign of the times. Mark this one in your history books for studies on the Rise and Fall of the Great Warming Delusion. Yes, it’s another well written piece on the religious nature of the faith some have in our ability to change the weather. But this time there are sounds of the dea ...

ReNew America

• Gun rights imperiled in Senate nomination vote
  (Americans' Right To Arms) - URGENT: Senate Democrats are poised to put Caitlin Joan Halligan -- the worst Obama judicial nominee since Elena Kagan, and a committed adversary of gun rights, an abject apologist for enemy combatants, and an uber-Leftwing judicial activist -- on the U.S. Court of A ...
• Romney's days are numbered in GOP primary
  (NewsMax) - Five weeks from Tuesday -- January 10, 2012 -- is the New Hampshire Primary. That day -- and night -- will be the end of Mitt Romney's six-year quest to become President of the United States. Here is how things are going to happen, and why: The GOP primary voter hates the GOP Establi ...
• The strange journey from Mitt to Newt
  (Washington Examiner) - It's not hard to understand why so many conservatives spurn Mitt Romney. He's had to slink away from past liberal positions on one major issue after another: health care reform, abortion, gun control and climate change. Many on the right are not reassured. They want a tru ...
• This is how we choose a president?
  (Hugh Hewitt) - Not much in American politics surprises or dismays me. The prospect of a Donald Trump-moderated GOP presidential debate a week before the Iowa caucuses most certainly does. I heard about this proposed circus when I emerged from a screening of "Act of Valor" at the Motion Picture ...
• Obama's class warfare may backfire as big busi ...
  (Gary Bauer) - Barack Obama has spent much of his presidency attacking the rich and berating businesses for not hiring more workers. But many businesses aren't hiring because they see an uncertain future with a President who at best doesn't understand business and at worst is at war with capital ...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders?
  My beloved Mysterious Elders, who I hypothesize were behind the construction of pyramids around the world, and were quite likely a different race or species to ourselves, probably had a base. If these elders survive ...Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
• Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday
  Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco. He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god ...Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
• American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves
  Today’s news is quite disturbing.  The U.S. Senate voted to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial. This is outside of the normal judicial process. In theory ...American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves is a post from: 2012 Blo ...
• A Financial Apocalypse
  My preference is for doom days that an ancient culture could have predicted, no matter how remote the possibility. But I still leave no stone unturned, so let’s look at the global economy, prompted by ...A Financial Apocalypse is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:2012 – Onl ...
• Alien-Human Hybrids Possible?
  I’ve read a lot of books about the Nephilim, ancient astronauts, and the possibility of aliens mating with humans, as described by the Bible. I’ve rejected the alien aspect, because I think the same logic ...Alien-Human Hybrids Possible? is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Alec Baldwin -- Tossed by American Airlines Pl ...
  Filed under: Alec Baldwin The last straw in the *Alec Baldwin*/American Airlines incident came when he 'slammed' the bathroom door so loudly the captain of Flight 4 had to get involved ... according to people on the plane. We're told Baldwin's *tweets about the incident* are on point ...
• Ashton Kutcher Parties With Women in Iowa!
  ASHTON Kutcher won’t have trouble finding himself a new wife. The actor — who’s being divorced by wife Demi Moore — was swarmed by girls when he paid a visit to his hometown of Iowa City, Iowa for the holidays. According to Us Weekly, on Nov. 23, Kutcher, 33, and an entourage visited ...
• Kristin Chenoweth Wants a Husband and Kids!
  KRISTIN Chenoweth wants to start a family — but insists she’s doing fine on her own. The actress, 43, says she’d love to have a child, but is happy raising her Maltese puppy named Maddie. “I’d love to have a husband to have a child with,” Chenoweth tells the January issue ...
• December woes for UP?
  Last year this time, side slipped out of QF contention
• Rahul Gandhi in Lucknow on Dec 7-8

Global Research TV

• Bush & Blair Guilty of War Crimes/Coupable de ...
• The Dangers of Nuclear War and Threats Against ...
• The Fed Grants $7.77 Trillion in Secret Bank Loan
• Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terrorism
• Audit Reveals Trillions in Bank Bailouts by Fe ...

Daily Tech

• 12/06/2011 Daily Hardware Reviews
  DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
• European Commission Targets Apple, Publishers ...
  The European Commission has announced that it is opening a formal antitrust investigation into whether five international e-book publishers have been practicing anti-competitive tactics with the help of Apple
• Olympus' Damning Report Pushes for Legal Actio ...
  One bit of good news from the independent panel's report was that no connection to organized crime was found, after many suspected "yakuza" involvement
• Lack of LTE Could be Deal-Breaker for Windows ...
  Microsoft can't explain away why its communications hardware is deficient
• Verizon Blocks Google Wallet from Galaxy Nexus
  Many suspect that the reason for this is the fact that Verizon has a NFC payment system of its own in the works

Oriental Review

• Cost of Intervention in Syria Rises
  The Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov’s statement today re-affirmed Moscow’s rejection of arms embargo against Syria. It comes on a day EU FMs met in Brussels and tightened the sanctions against that country. But what makes the Syrian situation rather interesting is that Moscow a ...
• Washington’s European Strategy
  The November 28 US-EU summit deserves to be called a milestone in the recent geopolitical history, considering that during the forum the US dictatorial handling of Europe was disguised so thinly for the first time since President Obama moved into the White House. Moreover, the US Administration ...
• European Missile Defense and Risks of New Arms ...
  The collapse of the missile defense talks and President Medvedev’s recent statement in which he warned that Russia would consider serious response measures highlighted the fact that the US and NATO switched the arms race to a new mode rather than quited it following the demise of the Sovie ...
• Four NATO Lies About Syria
  1. According to NATO and its Persian Gulf allies, for eight months mass demonstrations have taken place in Syria to demand more freedom and the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Not true. There have been demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s, in some cities, at the call of Sau ...
• Nangarhar Attack: Pentagon Sabotaging the Whit ...
  Nangarhar is the secured province that is being turned over to Afghan forces, where the border incident has erupted. The attack upon Pakistan was intended as a demonstration for the world to see the dangers of an early Afghan transition and withdrawal. What else could explain this Afghan unit ga ...

BlogHer

• Questions to Ask Yourself when Buying Presents ...
  Stop! Put that back on the shelf. Click it out of your Amazon cart. Now, think. Gifts are great, but they soon turn from presents to pasts, so make sure that thing you are buying is going to last (and not drive you insane). These are important questions. Ask them before you make that purch ...
• When Newborn Photography Goes Too Far
  When does newborn photography go too far? With every birth announcement it seems everyone is striving to have the most original, clever and sometimes seemingly dangerous newborn photo. What is wrong with just a plain old picture of mom and baby snuggling? Since when did we start stuffing babies ...
• A Mom's Letter to Santa Claus
  Dear Santa: I write this letter to you using my son's pencil... on the back of this bill statement while I do laundry. I have been a good mother during this past year. I have fed, kept clean, and taken care of my kids accordingly. I have seen my kid's doctor more than I have seen mine. I have ...
• Theaters Embrace Social Media with Tweet Seats
  In the last few years, every movie theater I've been in has made the same announcement about silencing your cell phone. Recently, some have added a reminder to not use the cell phone to access apps such as Twitter or Facebook while watching the movie. In fact, the Regal Cinemas/Sprint courtesy ...
• A Former Amish Woman Speaks
  A former Amish woman who left the Order when she was married and in her 30s has graciously allowed me to interview her about the Amish experience. Once she began questioning the 'faith', her troubles began inside this closed society. All these words belong entirely to 'Deborah' and because of he ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Big Pharma Paying Out Huge Settlements In Mark ...
  The cost of doing business for big pharma is rising – dramatically. And it’s not because of research and development of new blockbusters to cure cancer, alleviate pain or help people get a good night’s ...
• Consumer Reports Study Backs Dr. Oz’s Claim Ab ...
  A few months ago there was a scare that apple juice contained high levels of dangerous arsenic. The FDA said not to worry that people were confusing high levels of organic arsenic with inorganic ...
• 7 Foods You Should Never Eat
  Here is article which shows why a toxicologist won’t eat microwavable popcorn or why a farmer will not eat non organic potatoes or why a fishery expert stays away from farmed salmon. Read on ...
• New Study Shows U.S. Government Fails to Overs ...
  An investigation by ABC news shows that one third of all foster care children are being prescribed mind altering drugs. If that doesn’t shock you how about the fact that they are giving these ...
• Nearly One Third of U.S. Food Supply Depends o ...
  You may have heard or read about a declining honey bee population and thought: Who cares I don’t like bees. The problem is without bees we would all go hungry very fast. ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• What happened at Upper Big Branch?
• Reactions to the UBB deal and MSHA report
  Southern West Virginia U.S. District Attorney R. Booth Goodwin II speaks to reporters Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at the Robert C. Byrd federal courthouse in Charleston, W.Va.  (AP Photo /Brad Davis) The reactions have been coming in all day, but I haven’t had time to post them … here are ...
• Blankenship back in the coal business?
  ABC News has this interesting report tonight: There are new indications that Blankenship may be attempting a return to the industry that helped him build a massive personal fortune, but also tarnished his image as the man at the helm during the deadliest American mining disaster in decades &#823 ...
• UBB settlement: Who will pay for 29 lives?
  It’s raining this morning here in Charleston. The fog was hanging over the Kanawha River on my drive in. Like always, there was a Friend of Coal ad on the local radio station. But over at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse, the lights were already burning. In a few hours, U.S. Att ...
• Alpha to pay $200 million in Upper Big Branch deal
  Various media outlets are posting late-breaking stories about tomorrow’s release of the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration’s report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster. Kris Maher at The Wall Street Journal is reporting that MSHA is expected to levy a record safety fine, an ...

Daniel Miessler

• The Danger of Fantasy: Role-playing vs. Reading
  I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I have a group of friends from junior high that still game (role-playing), and I noticed over the last couple of years that there was something very negative about it. I haven’ ...
• Stereotypes as a Wisdom Metric
  I had a thought this week regarding metrics for gauging overall life wisdom. If you had only one question to ask, what would you ask in order to estimate the overall wisdom of a person? Here’s a possible candidate: What do you think about stereotypes? Are they true, false, or somewhere bet ...
• The Worst Way to Waste Time
  There are many things to regret as one nears death, but I understand people tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did. You may be thinking now of activities, such as jumping out of an airplane, applying to become an astronaut, or moving to Europe to be with a ...
• The Worst Way to Waste Time
  There are many things to regret when one gets ready to die, but I understand people tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did. One tends to imagine things like jumping out of an airplane, applying to become an astronaut, or moving to Europe to be with an earl ...
• Daniel Ellsberg on Secret Information | Mother ...
  “Henry, there’s something I would like to tell you, for what it’s worth, something I wish I had been told years ago. You’ve been a consultant for a long time, and you’ve dealt a great deal with top secret information. But you’re about to receive a whole slew o ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

• Tears, Fears and Bullies
  By Diana May-Waldman,WWH- “We stopped looking for monsters under the bed when we realized they are all inside of us.” – Joe Danger Payne. The following video seems to be going viral. I couldn’t get through it without a lump rising up in my throat and tears falling down my ...
• 80/20 rule hard pill for insurance companies t ...
  By Sandy Auriene Sullivan,WWH – Has it ever crossed your mind why a mandate for everyone to have health insurance would have insurance companies and their lobbyists throwing such a fit? I mean, on the face of it – sounds like they would make a bundle, right? Well, they will still mak ...
• If the Corporate-Political Nexus Cannot Deal w ...
  By Glenn Ashton SACSIS There is deep scepticism as to whether the COP 17 meeting in Durban will achieve much at all. Why is it that such an urgent matter has taken so long to achieve so little at such great cost? Despite constant refrains from the global public, backed by scientific experts, the ...
• Supreme Court to hear case on arrest at Cheney ...
  By David G. Savage,latimes.com - A Colorado man says his 1st Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested in 2006 after criticizing the Iraq policies of then-Vice President Dick Cheney. The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a Secret Service agent can be held liable for arresting a Co ...
• Task Force Releases Final Strategy for Reversi ...
  WWH - USDA $50 million financial assistance for restoration projects announced as Task Force efforts shift from planning to action WASHINGTON – The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force today released its final strategy for long term ecosystem restoration for the Gulf Coast, following exte ...

reference frame

• Poland plans to ban German solar and wind ener ...
  Der Spiegel DE (EN) brings us a story indicating, in the words of Mark Duchamp, that hubris has but one limit: reality. Germany's Reichstag wants the Parliament of the N-th Reich, whatever the value of N is right now, to become the greenest Parliament building in the world. Click ...
• Michael Duff, string critics, and global warming
  Michael Duff has written an essay for Foundations of Physics that identifies some errors in much of the criticisms of string theory by the crackpots: String and M-theory: answering the critics (arXiv)Michael Duff is an important researcher at the Imperial College London who has written pape ...
• RSS AMSU: 2011 second coldest in this century
  The RSS AMSU satellite temperatures have been updated repeatedly. Let me just add the new data and refresh the rankings. The global temperature anomaly in November 2011 was +0.033 °C, so this November was just 0.033 °C warmer than the average November in the last three decades. ...
• M-theory: \(G_2\) holonomy manifolds
  I want to say some things about the group called \(G_2\), manifolds that have a "holonomy" equal to \(G_2\), and M-theory compactifications on these manifolds. Symmetries and groups in mathematics: discrete and continuous ones In mathematics, symmetries are codified by the concept o ...
• Printing TRF
  Some TRF readers incorrectly dislike the gadgets in the sidebar and the colorful non-minimalistic design of this blog. They're wrong but if they reduced their criticism to the printed version of TRF, they might be right. What to do if you want to print a TRF blog entry? I accide ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Tim TJ Wass: 16 FACTS THAT PROVE RON PAUL IS B ...
  Tonight I read an online article about how an Iowa Poll has put Dr. Ron Paul in second for the GOP nomination just behind, the bought and paid for corporate stooge, Newt Gingrich. The comments sections to this article were very much pro Ron Paul because he simply is a man of the people, who [... ...
• I don’t have time for this shit
  I do this blog because I like calling attention to the foibles of us dumb-dumbs so it really pisses me off when I attract the attention of morons who seem to not like my message and engage in illegal and unethical behavior by launching a DOS attack on this site. So to the tards that [...] R ...
• Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
  Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
• I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
  What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...
• Proof that we could be breathing in Hot Partic ...
  Scientist Marco Kaltofen Presents Data Confirming Hot Particles from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. Washington, DC – October 31, 2011 – Today Scientist Marco Kaltofen of Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented his analysis of radioactive isotopic releases from the Fukushima accid ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation

Enviroblog

• Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
  Second of a two-part blog on health concerns tied to natural ingredients. By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
  By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at two common plant-based ingredients - tea tree and lavender oils - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
• Teens Find Out the Real Story Behind Cosmetics
  By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson EWG's 2011 Teen Ambassadors Hey teens! We know you probably wear make-up and use cosmetics everyday, but do you have any idea what's inside these products? Many personal care products may include dangerous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
• Save the Delaware River
  Since George Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776, the river has become an iconic American image. Nearly 16 million people rely on the Delaware river for drinking water, and every year 5.4 million Americans swim, fish, camp, hike and explore... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• What can the 2012 Mets get for $15 million and ...
• The view of Cuomo's tax package depends on whe ...
• It's online! Zombie 'New York Press' looks for ...
• Nadler calls on Holder to investigate the clea ...
• iPhone iStory makes iFront, while the amazing ...

Views & News from Norway

• Defense minister escaped bombing
  New Norwegian Defense Minister Espen Barth Eide was still in Afghanistan on Tuesday when a series of suicide bombers went on the attack, but neither Eide nor other Norwegian soldiers were caught in the explosions. Eide had earlier briefed Norwegian troops on an earlier pullout from Afghanistan t ...
• Another hospital protest in Oslo
  Demonstrators gathered in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo once again this week, to protest the controversial merger of the capital’s largest hospitals. The merger continues to spark complaints from health care personnel and patients alike. It was organized by employee organizatio ...
• Hadeland helpers hailed for their Utøya heroics
  For 22 years, the Hadeland chapter of the humanitarian organization Norsk Folkehjelp (Norwegian People’s Aid) has provided first aid at the Labour Party’s summer camp on the island of Utøya. This year, their presence saved many lives, and that has won them a prestigious national awar ...
• Liquor smugglers nabbed at the border
  It’s that time of year again, when the annual holiday party season boosts demand for wine, liquor and beer. That kept customs inspectors busy at the border crossing at Svinesund over the weekend, where seizures hit a new record. The customs inspectors seized more than 6,000 liters of alcoh ...
• Butter shortage keeps spreading
  State agriculture officials cut more regulatory fees on dairy products this week, in another effort to ease a butter shortage that continues to spread all over the country. Meanwhile, one specialty producer was offering butter at a Christmas market in Oslo on Tuesday, at a price that even shocke ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Inspiring Story Shows Shortcut to End GMOs
  by Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology 11 minutes It took the audience just 11 minutes?11 minutes to give up food brands they had grown up with and to commit to seek healthier non-GMO food. Of course this group had already been against genetically modified organisms as a co ...
• The Little Pig That Built With Straw
  The University of Nottingham, UK, has created this video to showcase one of their new buildings, completed this year. It’s one of the largest strawbale buildings in Europe.
• A Multilayered Anti-Pattern
  by Øyvind Holmstad The problem is that we are adapting to the wrong things — to images, or to short-term greed, or to the clutter of mechanics. These maladaptations are known as “antipatterns” — a term coined not by Alexander, but by software engineers. An antipattern i ...
• The Plow That Broke the Plains
  I love history. As they say, if you don’t learn from it, you’re destined to repeat it. The video below, circa 1937, is a fascinating look at how men forsook the crucial observational stage when making the best laid plans of mice and men and in doing so took an enormous swathe of stab ...
• Farmer Suicides Rising in India as GM Bt Cotto ...
  by Jeffrey M. Smith, Institute for Responsible Technology The record suicide rate among farmers in India continues to rise, with one farmer now committing suicide every 30 minutes. Many media reports blame failed GM Bt cotton crops for the crisis. More than a quarter of a million farmers have ...

Pointman's

• Helping to catch the climategate whistleblower.
  I got an email from someone this week. I’ll leave out the frothing details, but they were basically accusing me of helping to track down the climategate leaker (FOIA) and telling me to shut up. It’s one of those communications I file under “maniac” and forget because I get a lot of them. Lord, y ...
• Happy birthday Pointman’s.
  It doesn’t seem like it, but it’s been a year since I started this blog. I started it for a number of reasons and with more than a few reservations but with some modest hopes in sight, so now seems to be an appropriate time to think about how it’s doing and the experience of being a & ...
• Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been ...
  You’re appalled, you’re outraged, you’re stunned and you’re angry about the whole climategate emails thing. And now you’re most likely out here in the blogosphere because the mainstream media in the country you live in is either not mentioning them at all or have relegated it to a small-print fo ...
• Some thoughts and some questions about the Cli ...
  Two years ago, I did what can only be described as a highly speculative profile of the climategate leaker. You can find it here. I strongly suggest you read it now or you’ll have some difficulty following the rest of this piece. Reading it again in the light of what more can be deduced abo ...
• Crash Post : Climategate Mk 2.
  A new dump of what looks to be another batch of very candid emails between climate scientists has just been leaked onto the internet. At first glance, they appear to be what was left out of the original “selection of emails” referred to in the original climategate readme file. You ca ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Junebug Productions Premieres Homecoming Proje ...
  From our friends at Junebug Productions: Junebug Presents... HOMECOMING PROJECT 2011! Saturday, December 3rd 12pm - 5pm THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON! Junebug Productions is proud to present the inaugural installment of our new place-based storytelling performance series, HOMECOMING PROJECT, wher ...
• NOPD Officer Barrios Sentenced in Danziger Cov ...
  From a US Department of Justice Press Release: A former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for his role in covering up a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Robert Barr ...
• The Fault Lines of US Policy
  Recently, Louisiana Justice Institute staffer Jordan Flaherty has been working with Al Jazeera English as one of the producers on their flagship documentary program Fault Lines. For several years, Fault Lines has offered in-depth explorations of the issues ignored by much of the media. Below is ...
• The Houma Nation Fight for Recognition, By Ada ...
  The Bridge The Gulf Blog recently posted a powerful report from a citizen of the United Houma Nation, about the tribe’s history and its ongoing struggle to be officially recognized by the US government. Below are excerpts from the posting. I am a citizen of the United Houma Nation (UHN), Lou ...
• Ethics Issues Raised Regarding Chas Roemer and ...
  A recent blog post from the Louisiana Federation of Teachers highlights some of the issues that have recently been raised around candidates for the upcoming Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) election. Below are excerpts from the blog: Two candidates strongly supported by Gov. ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court--Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailywee ... er_isn.php A U.S. District Court judge in Portland has drawn a line in the sand between "journalist" and "blogger." And fo ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  How to Delete Carrier IQ From Your Android Phone or iPhone Carrier IQ has been dominating the headlines ever since 25-year-old security researcher Trevor Eckhart posted a paper online saying Carrier IQ was secretly gathering data about users' cell phone activity on the behalf of cell phone comp ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Carrier IQ Fails the Occupy Wall Street Test Carrier IQ's diagnostic software on phones is freaking people out. It isn't giving carriers much greater powers than they used to have, but it's doing so in a different America. In the age of Occupy Wall Street, fear of the powerful has gone viral, a ...
• Social Engineering • Jewish Control of the Bri ...
  Jewish Control of the British Media The Jewish population in UK is only 0.5% (Source: "A Profile of British Jewry" : Patterns and Trends at the Turn of a Marlena Schmool and Frances, published by BoD in 1998 gives a population of 285,000 which is roughly the 0. ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Good Vid. Thanks CM. That definitely shuts down the "B.S." machine...Statistics: Posted by CrackSmokeRepublican — Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:16 pm

TVNZ

• China arrests 608 people for child trafficking
  Police in China have arrested 608 people suspected of selling children in a crackdown on trafficking.
• Obama's populist speech strikes at Republicans
  Barack Obama turned up the heat on his Republican foes today.
• Death toll rises to 59 in deadly day in Afghan ...
  Suicide attacks in Kabul have marked the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban.
• Death toll rises to 59 in deadly Afghanistan day
  Suicide attacks in Kabul have marked the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban.
• Cesium found in milk powder in Japan
  Radioactive cesium has been found in infant milk powder nine months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

environment 360

• ‘Merging Tsunami’ Doubled Destructive Power Al ...
  A detailed analysis of satellite data shows that the devastating tsunami that struck the coast of northeastern Japan last March doubled in intensity because two wave fronts generated by an undersea earthquake merged before making landfall. Researchers Click to enlarge NASAFormation of the ‘doub ...
• Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon Dropped to Re ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped to a new record low during the year ending in July, according to preliminary government data. About 2,408 square miles (6,238 square kilometers) of rainforest were cleared from August 2010 to July 2011, a 10.9 percent reduction from the previous year ...
• Camera Traps Emerge as Key Tool in Wildlife Re ...
  Scientists and conservationists are increasingly relying on heat- and motion-activated camera traps to study rare or reclusive species in remote habitats. And the striking images they provide are proving to be a boon for raising conservation awareness worldwide. BY JEREMY HANCE
• New Interactive Network Maps Pollution, Noise ...
  The European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft this week introduced a network of online sites that map air, water, and noise pollution levels across the continent based on government data and information Click to enlarge Eye on EarthEye on Earth uploaded by users. The Eye on Earth network ...
• Arduous Life of Wolverines Documented in Yello ...
  Yellowstone National Park’s wolverines live a harsh life high in the Rocky Mountains, with females giving birth in snow caves at 9,000 feet, males ranging over territories covering 500 square miles, and the scrappy View gallery Mark Packila/WCSA Yellowstone wolverine animals doing battle with g ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• #Monetary Sovereignty – Mitchell
  Tags: sovereignty economics
• The Insider | Conspiracy Theory News: New Worl ...
  Tags: nwo news conspiracy freemasonry illuminati
• Sandra Steingraber
  Tags: chemicals pollution environment
• Bikya Masr - Latest News -
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• FreakOutNation
  Tags: progressive blog

backofthebook

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

Daily Beast

• Michele Bachmann Confronted by 8-Year-Old on G ...
  Tells her his mom is gay and “doesn’t need fixing.”
• My Two Moms
  This past week, a video of Wahls sticking up for his two lesbian moms went viral—for the second time. Wahls tells what he’s doing with his newfound fame.
• Trump's Strange New Power
  David A. Graham on The Donald’s strange hold over the GOP field.
• Pearl Harbor Spy's Forgotten Crimes
  Japanese vice consul Tadashi Morimura sent Tokyo the all-clear for the Pearl Harbor attack. By Marc Wortman.
• How Sandusky Played The Times
  The paper gave the ex-Penn State coach free rein to mount a pathetic defense against sexual-abuse charges.

Loonwatch

• NFL Team is on the Verge of Sharia Compliance!
  The owner, Shahid Khan, is going to charge every non-Muslim Jizya. Slowly by slowly all the NFL will be taken over by Muslims. Beware!
• Rep. King’s Fourth Muslim-American Radicalizat ...
  On Wednesday, Peter King will hold his fourth hearing on "Muslim-Americna radicalization."
• The Islamophobia Dodge of the Religious Freedo ...
  Religious Freedom Pledge dodges Islamophobia topic.
• The Greater Islamophobia: Bombing, Invading, a ...
  Jeffrey Goldberg advocates the Supreme Islamophobic Crime as he warmongers against Iran and Pakistan.
• Synagogue Donates to Burned California Mosque
  Oldest synagogue in East Bay reaches out to Stockton mosque.

Energy News

• AFP: Tepco admits highly radioactive strontium ...
• Nuclear Expert: Tepco is admitting they are ve ...
• Japan Newspaper: Fukushima “world’ ...
• Bloomberg on Cesium Found in Baby Food: Made n ...
• Radio: Just a matter of time before molten cor ...

Japan Times

• Putin afflicted by Brezhnev syndrome
  The winner of Sunday's legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion: United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin. Likewise, there is no doubt that Putin himself will win the presidential election due in March 2012. But the public enthusiasm that ratified Putin's rule for a decade has ...
• NHL gives nod to realignment
  NHL officials approved a radical realignment plan Monday that will give the league four conferences instead of six divisions and guarantee home-and-home series among all teams. The Board of Governors authorized commissioner Gary Bettman to implement the proposal pending input with the NHL Play ...
• Chargers rip reeling Jaguars
  No matter how many interceptions he threw, no matter how many turnovers he committed, Philip Rivers refused to play it safe. He knew things would change.
• Welfare recipients reach nearly 2.06 million
  Almost 2.06 million people were living on welfare benefits as of August, marking an all-time high for the second straight month, the welfare ministry said Tuesday in a preliminary report. The precise total, 2,059,871, represented a rise of 9,376 from the previous high marked in July, when the ...
• Ex-IOC chief resigns amid allegations
  After nearly a half century in the Olympic movement, former FIFA President Joao Havelange has left the IOC under a cloud of corruption allegations. The 95-year-old Brazilian's resignation from the IOC was confirmed by the Olympic body and FIFA on Monday, three days before he faced possible sus ...

Alexander Higgins

• It Begins… #OccupyWallStreet Labeled As ...
  Occupy Wall Street protestors are now being listed as a Domestic Terrorist Group being disseminated on a list that includes Al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations
• US Army Preparing To Crush #OccupyWallStreet
  An analyst informs that the US has its army on standby against the Occupy and student movement as the economic situation in America deteriorates day by day.
• BBC: Politicians Exploiting Neuroscience To Ma ...
  A BBC investigative reports top government officials are exploiting the last neuroscience research to manipulate the masses.
• Police State: 75 Years in Prison For Videotapi ...
  You know America has become a Police State when our corrupt government hands out sentences worst than murder for.. Videotaping Police Brutality
• Help Occupy Trenton Survive The Winter #Occupy ...
  Occupy Trenton Needs Donations To Purchase A 5th Wheel Camper To Provide Shelter Through The Winter.

Macleans - Central

• A Bloc stat, by way of a plug
  From my dead tree take on the remaining Bloc Québécois MPs: “n a recent...
• The Commons: A fish story, in verse
  The PM rejects the 'so-called facts' used against his government
• MacKay had places to go
  Defence Minister Peter MacKay has apparently dropped his old story about participating in a...
• Demonstration? What demonstration?
  Long after he’d had his three turns, Bob Rae rose near the end of...
• A variety of carryings-on
  After QP this afternoon, the Speaker ruled on a pair of disturbances in the...

Making It Count - CCPA

• For Some, Arrogance is Bliss
  This fall, Margaret Wente discovered people under 40. Woot! Okay, that’s not entirely fair. Given her years of pontificating on topics like the environment, public schools, and the glass ceiling, it’s inevitable that sooner or later she manages, even accidentally, to quote or refer to someone un ...
• War Radio and the Militarization of Canadian C ...
  “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” I was reminded of this chilling warning from the late British historian E.P. Thompson, while listening to Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio on November 20. Murphy was interviewing Terry Glavin, a B.C. author, about Glavin’s ...
• Facts and Evidence versus Threats and Hyperbol ...
  The recent debate in Nova Scotia surrounding proposed first contract arbitration (FCA) legislation offers revealing truths about the contemporary relationship between labour and capital in Atlantic Canada.  Arguments recently presented by the business community to the Law Amendments Committee ag ...
• Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
  As Canadian governments at all jurisdictional levels engage in what can only be called Disaster Budgeting, it’s time to inject a voice of reason into the debate. The world economy isn’t looking good, and the political penchant in Canada to return to business as usual – dutifully following an ext ...
• The New Politics Initiative: Ten Years After
  Rabble.ca is running a series of reflections on the tenth anniversary of the New Politics Initiative, which sought to create a more democratic politics in Canada ideally as part of a revitalized NDP. The vision statement is here; my piece follows, and there are also contributions from Judy Rebic ...

ReDress

• 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 ...

Physics Today

• Three-quarters of climate change is manmade
  Nature: At least 74% of the temperature rise over the past 60 years is almost certainly due to human activity, according to a pair of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Reto Knutti and Markus Huber report in Nature Geoscience that greenhouse gases contribute ...
• NASA spacecraft detects most Earth-like planet ...
  Washington Post: The search for Earth-like planets circling other stars is escalating, with NASA’s $600 million Kepler mission having found 2326 candidate planets, of which 207 are similar in size to Earth. Ten of those, which includes the latest find—Kepler-22b—orbit their sta ...
• Astronomers discover two of the most massive b ...
  Nature: Astronomers have discovered the two most massive black holes known in the universe to date, writes Ron Cowen for Nature. Using instruments on the Keck II and Gemini North telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, Chung-Pei Ma (University of California, Berkeley) and colleagues found that a ...
• Voyager probes detect Milky Way glow
  National Geographic: The two Voyager spacecraft, first launched more than 30 years ago, have detected a type of UV radiation coming from the Milky Way that until now was rendered effectively invisible by the Sun's radiation. Known as Lyman-alpha, the radiation arises when hydrogen's lone electro ...
• Dutch company develops bioluminescent light bulb
  Daily Mail: Philips, a Dutch electronics company, is developing a bio-light that provides illumination using the same method as fireflies and glow worms, writes Gareth Finighan for the Daily Mail. The lamp consists of a series of glass chambers that contain bioluminescent bacteria, which glow gr ...

Revolutionary Politics

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

Peakwater

• Newmont Mining Suspends $4.8 Billion Peru Gold ...
  “LIMA, Peru — A $4.8 billion gold and copper mining project, Peru’s biggest such investment, was declared suspended Tuesday after increasingly violent protests by highlands peasants who fear for their water supply. At least 20 people, including eight with gunshot wounds, were i ...
• More Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Plant
  “TOKYO — At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said Sunday. Nearly nine months after Fukushima Daiichi was ravaged by an e ...
• Chronic violators of water testing
  “The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified 23 drinking water systems in Missouri that have chronically failed to complete drinking water testing required by the department to ensure a safe water supply. “The systems listed have at least three major monitoring violat ...
• Africa’s great ‘water grab’
  The banks of the Niger river, in southern Mali, have been flooded by a steady stream of foreigners. Coveted by foreign investors eager to snap up large tracts of fertile farmland, the river basin has been at the centre of a race to get hold of African land at rock-bottom prices. Meanwhile, last ...
• Unusual drought triggers alarm across Balkans
  “The waters of the mighty Danube are so low that dozens of cargo ships are simply stuck, stranded in ghostly fog or wedged into sand banks on what is normally one of eastern Europe’s busiest transport routes.A lack of rain has triggered the worst drought in decades for this time of y ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich: Allow Consumers to Make Informed Choices
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement upon announcing legislation that would require the labeling of all foods that contain or are produced with genetically engineered (GE) material. “Genetic engineers have dramatically altered the food we consume, disrupting e ...
• Kucinich: Postal Service Privatization Plan Wi ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time proponent of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and senior member of the Congressional committee that oversees the agency, today released the following statement after plans were announced to significantly degrade service and drive customers t ...
• Kucinich: FirstEnergy Puts Profits Before Safe ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized FirstEnergy to restart its Davis-Besse nuclear power plant before an investigation into widespread ‘cracking’ could be completed. “On Friday, the Nuclear Regulat ...
• Kucinich: U.S. Provokes Iran, Destabilizes Region
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement in response to news reports that an American drone, based in Afghanistan, has been acquired by Iran. The Iranian government claims the drone was shot down in Iranian airspace, while American military officials in Afghanistan maintai ...
• Kucinich: Revised Unemployment Rate no Cause f ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement after the Department of Labor issued new employment numbers that showed 120,000 jobs were created in the month of November and that the unemployment rate is currently at 8.6%, down from 9%. “One hundred and twenty thousand n ...

Authentically Wired

• … “honest” John know$ who bu ...
  … “honest” John know$ who butter$ hi$ bread … and it ain’t you or me … so it’s off to jail or off with your head … what don’t you get honest Johnny is one of them … the 1% … do you really think he gives a s**t about you or me…      &# ...
• who needs any stinking rules
    … Regulations … who needs any stinking rules governing how America’s FREE ENTERPRISE economic system works … … And besides in case you haven’t looked or thought about it … corporate would have you believe is too damn late for you and me to change the game&#82 ...
• “BIG SIS” AND THE LONE WOLF
    … yea, right … “big Sis” wants you to be afraid … be very afraid … the big bad lone wolf is a TERROR threat to you … … All that is missing is “W” Bush’s raising and lowering of his vaunted terror alert color chart …       Filed unde ...
• CALLING THE 2012 ELECTION
  … Anyone calling the “odds” on the outcome of the 2012 presidential election at this date living in Arizona learned nothing from the recent downfall of the once prevailing wantabe “king” of Arizona … Russell Pearce … … The ramifications of that election are yet to be full ...
• they are going to $crew you again … and ...
    … So unless you look like the 1% … … So unless you look like the 1% … Bush and the Republicans $crewed you once and now with their Tea Party and Democrat affiliate$ they are going to $crew you again … and again and again .. Filed under: Blogroll

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Astronomers discover biggest black holes
  Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a new study published.The two giants are located in the heart of a pair of galaxies several...
• 'Super Earth' exists outside solar system
  In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, Nasa said today that the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.French astronomers earlier this...
• Baby names can have negative impact - study
  Prospective parents, beware - what you name your baby could negatively affect their future."Name your kids what you love, but be aware there are consequences," David Figlio, an economics and education professor at Northwestern University,...
• Surf's up at San Diego State University
  The California city that inspired "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," the 1982 comedy film that did much to propagate the laid-back surfer image, is now home to the world's first Center for Surf Research. And, no, it's not a clever...
• Curiosity takes biologist around world
  As a child, Dr Evelyn Sattlegger loved plants, animals, examining things under the microscope - even studying temperature changes."I always wanted to find out how something works and why it's working that way."That curiosity towards...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

• Give to Reason, Because We're The Only Folks O ...
  Thanks to everyone who contributed to Day One of Reason's Webathon 2011! We're part of the way toward our goal of 500 contributions by next week! We know this isn't the flushest (most flush?) economy, and we're showing our appreciation by offering up all sorts of cool swag depending ...
• There Are Those, and There Are Some, and They ...
  In a column a couple of years ago, I noted that President Obama often resorts to the rhetorical tic/trick "there are those who"—a setup that warns you to be on the lookout for straw men. His speech today in Kansas (noted earlier this evening by Matt Welch and Mike Riggs) fe ...
• Obama Gets His Teddy On
  Newt Gingrich isn't the only political blowhard invoking Teddy Roosevelt these days. Today the Oval Officer in Chief went to Osawatomie, Kansas, site of T.R.'s famous "New Nationalism" speech, to declare this political season the "make or break moment for the middle class." From t ...
• Obama Feels Your Pain; OWS Forecloses on Outer ...
  Obama denounces Obama economy: "This isn't just another political debate," President Obama tells a crowd in Osawatomie (Kansas) High School's gym. "This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get i ...
• Washington Post's Poll on the Politic ...
  Over as The Washington Post blog, the obviously wildly unscientific "idea marketplace" poll asks people to vote on the biggest political scandal of the year. The current options (with opportunity to suggest your own) are an odd mix of the sexy and the very serious. There's plenty ...

Mercury Rising

• If you lying, you wouldn’t need so many ...
  In which Robin Toner inadvertently tells the world why they shouldn’t trust us: QUESTION: Mark, yesterday – MR. TONER: Yeah. QUESTION: — you were asked a question about Mexico and money laundering. MR. TONER: Yes. QUESTION: Your answer was less than satisfactory. But I understa ...
• Dead Officer’s Legacy: Exposing Some Of ...
  Jessica Lussenhop is a very clever person. In the first of a promised series of reports, she discusses “the Suicide Files” — the material entrusted to her by Ramsey County Sheriff’s Deputy Dan Ruettimann, a political foe of former Sheriff Bob Fletcher, before he was found ...
• Gary Webb’s revenge: the truth about US ...
  The revenge of the just is that eventually the truth gets told. Even if the contributions to the process of the heroes of journalism are forgotten, lies never become true, while the truth waits for us to honor it. The big lie is that the US government is waging a war against drugs. The reality [...]
• From Gaza to Tegucigalpa, Tegucigalpa to Oakland
  Bumped up to front page from a comment by Jo6Pac, this fascinating article by Max Blumenthal: In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban Shield 2011, an annual SWAT t ...
• Was there coordination between Homeland Securi ...
  There has been one of these episodic s–t storms in the blogosphere over whether Naomi Wolf’s allegation that the Department of Homeland Security coordinated with local police departments in evicting campers from Occupied sites. Wolf’s original article said, “As the puzzle ...

Reality Sandwich

• Report From OWS: The Global Conversation Begins
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• Alexander Trocchi and Project Sigma
    The following is excerpted from The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International, available from Verso Books. read more
• The Mutation Catalyst
  Slow, gradual changes have been thought of as the standard rule of biological evolution and long term geological processes, but new research conducted at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies revealed a new force behind the evolution of DNA acting as a catalyst for change. read more
• The Magic of Co-Creation in L.A.
  Join Reclaiming LA and Project Butterfly in association with Green Festival, Gather Green, LA Permaculture Guild, Burbank Green Alliance, Evolver LA, read more
• As Above, So Below: The Worldview of Lynn Margulis
    "In the arithmetic of life, One is always Many." read more

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

• December 5 2011: Look Back, Look Forward and L ...
• December 2 2011: The Debt Walkers Strike Back
• November 30 2011: Day X
• November 28 2011: Are we there yet?
• November 25 2011: Deleveraging: There never wa ...

Press TV

• Protesters occupy US Congress offices
  Anti-corporatism protesters have occupied a number of offices of members of the US Congress.
• 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.
• Gloomy outlook for Durban climate talks
  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says that the countries meeting in Durban will probably not be able to reach an agreement on a new global deal on climate change.
• 'US, Israeli covert ops targeting Iran'
  The United States and the Israeli regime have been engaged in a full-fledged undercover war against Iran, political analyst Mark Dankof has told Press TV.
• Israel defeats make Iran war impossible
  Israel's military and intelligence failures during its aggression on Lebanon in 2006 attest to the regime's inability to engage in a military confrontation against a more powerful Iran, a political analyst tells Press TV.

SciDev.net

• Bamboo use 'could help stop Africa's deforesta ...
  China and African countries are collaborating on technology transfer to use bamboo charcoal instead of forest trees for firewood.
• Qatar awards spur growth of 'a culture of science'
  Fifteen scientists and students in science and technology were rewarded with grants at the Qatar Foundation's annual research forum.
• Global portal throws spotlight on open access ...
  UNESCO has launched a website that will collect information on the status of open access to scientific information across the world.
• Rio+20 ‘must support small island developing s ...
  The Caribbean Community called on developed countries to fulfill their commitments toward small island developing states, at Rio+20.
• Super 'floodway' mooted for Thai floods
  Thai researchers have suggested a series of measures, including a huge expressway for water, to prevent future flooding in Bangkok.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

• As someone who has spent time wandering the st ...
  As someone who has spent time wandering the streets, and more importantly crossing them, in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City, I was struck by this amazing video by Rob Whitworth.  He writes, “Everyone who has visited Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam knows part of the magic (love it or hate it) is in the traffi ...
• life:On this day in 1865, the 13th amendment ...
  life: On this day in 1865, the 13th amendment is ratified — this officially ended slavery. The Civil War was a fight about competing freedoms: the freedom to choose one’s own government, the freedom of states to leave a federation, the freedom of people to decide their own laws. But in the ...
• edward-appleby:Padma Pakur, Khulna division, ...
  edward-appleby: Padma Pakur, Khulna division, Bangladesh: Villagers build a new mud embankment by hand, after tropical cyclone Aila destroyed the old flood barriers in May. Rising tides and cyclones are making life increasingly difficult on Bangladesh’s low-lying islands. Aila killed more than 20 ...
• Actually, it’s the ISAF operation in Afghanist ...
  Actually, it’s the ISAF operation in Afghanistan (courtesy of Der Spiegel).
• washingtonpoststyle:The artwork of Occupy.
  Roger Peet Lalo Alcaraz John Emerson Dave Loewenstein washingtonpoststyle: The artwork of Occupy.

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