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A Thank You & Welcome Home To Our Troops

my kids and I have been seeing a commercial on TV for a new series on TLC called “Surprise Homecoming”.
The show reunites military men and women who have been serving overseas with their families

Nick Turse

I was struck by this amazing video by Rob Whitworth.

Scoop - NZ

• Counterpunch: Debt slavery, Rome .. us.
  Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the multitude into their camp” and usher in democracy, within w ...
• Nicky Hager: internalising a complicated elect ...
  The news declared that the National Party had had a 'historic' election victory on Saturday but, if that was true, National Party people would be looking happier. The reality is much more complicated
• Iran downs a US RQ-170 stealth drone
  Iran's armed forces have shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that violated Iranian airspace along the country's eastern border, the official IRNA news agency reported Sunday. An unidentified military official quoted in the report warned of a strong and crushing response to any violations of ...
• Commentary: Breivik Declared Insane
  This decision has nothing to do with concern over Breivik’s mental state. Rather, it is motivated by the fear in ruling circles that even a limited investigation of the events leading up to July 22, which a trial would undertake, would raise uncomfortable questions for those with connections to ...
• USA: The midnight economy of food
  .. millions of Americans drive into mega supercenters like Wal-Mart only to wait for their monthly allotments of food assistance so they can pay for basic groceries. This trend is so prevalent that certain Wal-Mart centers are fully staffed at midnight since a large part of our society is waiti ...

Independent - London

• Rwanda: How dare you accuse our client of genocide
  A public relations firm whose senior management has close links to the Liberal Democrats said they had created an internet "attack site" for the government of Rwanda over accusations it had been involved in genocide.
• Recognition at last for children who survived ...
  They were among the tens of thousands of Jewish children forced to endure misery, constant fear and starvation in the ghettos of Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Most of their family perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, yet miraculously Otto Herman and Erzsebet Benedek so ...
• Journey into the uncharted voids of the Milky Way
  After a voyage lasting more than 34 years, a spacecraft that has travelled further than any man-made object is on the verge of leaving the Solar System and entering the mysterious region of interstellar space, where nothing terrestrial has gone before.
• Gay, socialist and born in a squatters' camp – ...
  They do things differently in Belgium. The country has finally chosen a prime minister after 535 days of caretaker government, smashing all previous European and world records. Elio Di Rupo, sworn in by King Albert II yesterday, is the first openly gay leader of a European Union country.
• Red and green and watched all over: Fox accuse ...
  It ain't easy being green, but in an America that marches to the beat of shouty rolling-news networks, it's even harder being red. Just ask Kermit the Frog.

Rogue Government.com

• Ben Bernanke Makes Insane Comments On Gold
  Ben Bernanke who today was testifying in front of a Congressional Committee made the assertion that gold is not money during an exchange with Congressman Ron Paul.  He even went as far to say that central banks only hold gold because of tradition
• UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
  Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
• ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
  The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
• China aims high with space program ambitions
  As the U.S. winds down its space shuttle program, and with the International Space Station set to shut down in 2020, eyes are turning to China and its ambitious yet mysterious plans for the final frontier.
• Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
  More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 

Innovation Canada

• Innovative, naturally
  For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
• A very gourd idea
  It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
• Johne’s happens
  Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...
• Gait crasher
  For most people, walking is as natural as breathing. But for those with mobility issues, it can be extremely challenging, even impossible. That’s where University of New Brunswick (UNB) kinesiologist Vicky Chester comes in. Specializing in clinical gait analysis — the study of the mechanics of a ...
• Better wine, one yeast cell at a time
  Hennie J. J. van Vuuren is among the 30 percent of adults around the world who exhibit allergic reactions to young red wines — something that has inspired the University of British Columbia (UBC) wine biotechnologist to create a new yeast strain capable of eliminating the allergens altogether. “ ...

Signs of the times

• US: Strong winds create 'rare' Reverse Sierra ...
  After a chilly start to our day, light winds and clear skies should leave us once again in an "inverted state." High temperatures up at Lake Tahoe probably are going to be as warm, if not warmer, than what we will get here in the valley. On Monday, a strong easterly flow up in the mountains crea ...
• Newfound Comet to Dive Through Sun Next Week
  A newly discovered comet is racing toward a mid-December rendezvous with the sun - a rendezvous that it will likely not survive. The comet is categorized by astronomers as a "sungrazer" and it is destined to do just that; literally graze the surface of the sun (called the photosphere) and pa ...
• Sleeping Late Is A Genetic Trait
  Researchers found that sleeping-in when you don't have to work the next day or not under the influence of sleeping pills is a genetic marker. More than 10,000 people were studied and those with the ABCC9 gene needed around 30 minutes more sleep than those without the gene, reports BBC News. T ...
• US: Scandals Reveal Sex Offender Laws' Limits
  Sex crimes against children have been in the news recently, most prominently accusations against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky and Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine. Claims that the men abused boys for years made the news largely because they are affiliated with ...
• Board Games Originated as Elite Pastime
  Competitive board games -- played on the ground, on the floor, or on boards -- emerged as pastimes for the elite, with the Roman Empire spreading their popularity throughout Europe, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, mentions that board games likely origina ...

The Galloping Beaver

• They who had done no harm ...
• Clearly MacKay doesn't understand SAR ...
  Nor does he understand the definition of "tasking" when it comes to Search and Rescue assets. Defence Minister Peter MacKay says it's not true that a search and rescue helicopter was retasked to pick him up at a fishing resort and drop him off at a Gander, Nfld., airport in 2010.The helicopt ...
• No trucks, no mobility, no army
  In 1982 the first of over 2,700 Bombardier-built Medium Logistics Vehicle Wheeled, (otherwise known as MLVWs), were delivered to the Canadian Army. Replacing the worn out "deuce and a half" fleet of the 1950s, the MLVW fleet was expected to provide 15 years service before being replaced by somet ...
• Danica does it . . .
  BUT SOME IN SAUDI are really getting into Bozo-land as women in Saudi are keeping up the pressure for the simple right to drive a car. Bikya Masr is a multiple award-winning news website with staff based in Egypt and across the globe. According to their site, Bikya refers to the Arabic word for ...
• Have relocated...
  ...from Edmonton to a not-frozen green place by the sea that is thick with friendly bloggers.  Gone Westerer, as they say.

Media Matters for America

• Bolling's Muppet-Bashing Just The Latest Right ...
  Led by Eric Bolling, Fox recently attacked The Muppets as having a liberal agenda to "brainwash" kids against capitalism. Right-wing media have a long history of attacking kids' movies and TV shows, including Sesame Street and SpongeBob SquarePants.Bolling Leads Fox Freakout: "Liberal Hollywood ...
• Right-Wing Media Baselessly Attack Obama For N ...
  The right-wing media have launched another round of attacks on President Obama for supposedly being anti-Israel. However, Obama has regularly supported Israel, and according to a recent poll, the majority of Israeli Jews support him.Right-Wing Media Continue To Claim That Obama Holds Contempt F ...
• The Right-Wing Media's War On Obama's Christmas
  Right-wing media are once again attacking President Obama over his vacations, this time for planning a "staggering" 17-day holiday trip to Hawaii. But vacations of that length are not unprecedented; President Reagan took a 25-day vacation in August 1983, and President George W. Bush took 27 ...
• Fox Denigrates The "ENTIRE Solar Industry"
  A recent Fox Nation post claimed that the "ENTIRE Solar Industry" is on the "Brink of Collapse." But the solar industry is growing faster than any other energy sector, and experts say solar is becoming increasingly cost competitive.Solar Is Growing Rapidly Even Without Climate Legislation Sola ...
• Fox Puts The "Some" In "Some Would Say"
  On Fox & Friends, Gretchen Carlson claimed that "some would say unions have crippled the U.S. economy and led to the United States' debt." Use of the phrase "some would say" -- or similar language -- is a favorite tactic of Fox figures to launch baseless smears and attacks, and the "so ...

Global Research.ca

• Libya and "The Arab Spring": Neoliberalism, "R ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• BOMBSHELL: US Caught Meddling in Russian Elect ...
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• 70 Years Ago, December 1941: Turning Point of ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO To Open Centers In Kuwait, Other Gulf States
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Debt and Democracy: Has the Link been Broken?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Two Political Rumors Worth Following
  Here are two rumors worth noting, one Israeli, one Palestinian, each with potentially big political significance. 1. The first has to to do with Netanyahu's decision to call a snap Likud primary for late January. The superficial explanation is that he wants to take advantage of his current st ...
• The High Price of Nukes
• The Return of 'The Right'
  I surprise nobody by remarking what a difficult time this is for Israelis and Palestinians. In many ways, the sides are closer than ever to sensing what a modus vivendi feels like, as the institutions and economy of a Palestinian state gradually take shape, and the parameters of an initial ...
• Mitt's Mythical Math on Health Care and Defense
  All right -- I wasn't going to blog on the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving until someone tweeted me Igor Volsky's great piece at Think Progress eviscerating Mitt Romney's assertion that he would save money by cancelling the Obama health plan and use it to stave off reductions in the Pent ...
• Sorting the Varieties of Republican Foreign Po ...
  Democracy Arsenal and National Security Network head into tonight's CNN/Heritage/AEI candidate forum with an awesome array of analysis. A long way of saying where you can find great stuff as a viewer's guide for tonight. For my part, I'd only add a particular angle -- my diagnostic manual for th ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Settlers kidnap shepherd near Nablus (Ma'an N ...
  Israeli settlers on Monday kidnapped a 60-year-old shepherd after attacking him in Orif village south of Nablus, officials said. Village council head Fawzi Shehadeh said six residents o ...
• Israel demolishes 2 homes in East Jerusalem ( ...
  Israeli forces demolished two Palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday, locals said. In Beit Hanina, troops bulldozed the temporary residence of a man who took shelter the ...
• Israel to forcibly remove bedouin communities ...
  Around 20 bedouin communities between Jerusalem and Jericho are to be forcibly relocated from the land on which they have lived for 60 years under an Israeli plan to expand a huge Jewis ...
• Tristan Anderson civil suit delayed as new evi ...
  "If he had been a Palestinian, he would have gone to the Ramallah hospital and died," Gabby Silverman said firmly. Silverman was close enough to Tristan Anderson that she didn't even ha ...
• Fatah, Hamas discuss reconciliation in Gaza ( ...
  Hamas and Fatah leaders met in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to discuss the results of last week's summit between party chiefs, officials said. Describing the Gaza meeting of top officials f ...

Water - AlterNet

• New York Should Become the First State to Ban ...
  "We believe that the pillars of the 21st century are clean water and air, alternative energy, and economic justice," Gomer said upon receiving the Advocacy Award from Common Cause.
• The Greatest Water Crisis in the History of Ci ...
  Think of the coming Age of Thirst in the American Southwest and West as a three-act tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions.
• Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable T ...
  We know that big aquaculture operations can be a disaster, but small seaweed and shellfish operations offer a greener and cleaner solution.
• Can Ocean Farms Actually Be More Sustainable T ...
  We know that big aquaculture operations can be a disaster, but small seaweed and shellfish operations offer a greener and cleaner solution.
• Josh Fox: Are We About to Witness the Liquidat ...
  The "Gasland" filmmaker talks about the threats not just from fracking, but from oil, coal and any number of extreme energy extraction methods.

Public Citizen in Texas

• What You Need to Know About the Perils in Gas ...
  According to a story in the New York Times, landowners across the country have signed millions of leases allowing companies to drill for oil and natural gas on their land, but some of these landowners — often in rural areas, and lured by the promise of quick payouts — are finding out too late wh ...
• Texas, Neither the Worst Run State Nor the Bes ...
  For the second year, 24/7 Wall St. has reviewed data on financial, health, standard of living and government services by state to determine how well each state is managed. Based on this data, 24/7 Wall St. ranked the 50 states from the best to worst run. The best-run state is Wyoming. The worst- ...
• Drought and coal-fired power plants don’t mix
  According to the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), at the end of summer 2011, Texas had suffered the driest 10 months since record keeping began in 1895.  Rivers, like the Brazos, actually dried up. And if that wasn’t enough, the dry weather came with brutal heat.  So brutal, that seven cit ...
• Polluters complain to Congress about new EPA r ...
  According to the Associated Press, across the land, large and small polluters have regaled Republican-led congressional committees with dire predictions of plant closings and layoffs if the EPA succeeds with plans to further curb air and water pollution. But their message to financial regulators ...
• Pipelines of Poison Sidestep Stalled State Dep ...
  Foreign Pipeline Owners Find a Way to Get Around Federal Permit Process TransCanada is attempting to outsmart the State Department and bypass federal blocks by using two existing pipelines of poison after the State Department and President Obama delayed approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline permi ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Mammoths could be cloned within five years
  Scientists have indicated that woolly mammoths could walk the Earth again by as early as 2016. The announcement comes after well-preserved bone marrow...
• Kepler finds alien planet in Goldilocks zone
  Kepler-22b is at just the right distance from its star for liquid water to exist on its surface. It is one of the most tantalising and promising plane...
• Who built the world's first structures ?
  It is thought that neanderthals may have been the first to build structures using mammoth bones. At least one mammoth-bone structure built by neandert...
• Ark of the Covenant to be revealed ?
  The legendary biblical artefact may have to be moved from the church in which it is thought to reside. The Ark of the Covenant was brought to the fore...
• Can plasma cure the common cold ?
  Streams of electrically charged gas could be used in the future to cure colds and other illnesses. A stream of what is known as "cold plasma" has been...

Grassroots

• Agribusiness is the problem, says Grassroots I ...
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• Durban is Where You Are: 1000 Durbans for Clim ...
  lvc_durban.jpg Right now, government representatives from around the world are gathered in Durban, South Africa, for the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference – better known as the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17).  Histo ...
• International Day of Solidarity with the Pales ...
  palestine-boy_with_peace_signs.jpg The United Nations declared November 29 to be the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People some 63 years ago.read more
• A Global Alliance Emerges in West Africa
  mali-2011_women.jpg Selingué, Mali—Early morning on day one of the first peasant-organized international conference to stop land grabbing held in Nyéléni, Mali, delegates from more than 30 countries took their seats for the opening ceremony ...
• It takes a village to produce new leaders
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Climate

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

GreenBiz

• Is Water High Enough on the Agenda in Durban?
  With Africa likely to face the first and most severe impacts from climate-related water shortages, it's fitting to raise the issue at COP17. But research shows neither businesses nor governments are taking the crisis seriously enough.
• Avon's CSR Report Gives Its Paper, Water & Ene ...
  The cosmetics giant's third sustainability report shows how it is trying to drive up its energy efficiency, improve resource optimization, and chop down its waste.
• Spending on Building Energy Efficiency to Boom ...
  Pike Research predicts the building energy efficiency market to grow in value to $103.5 billion in 2017.
• Patagonia's Conscientious Response to Black Fr ...
  The outdoor retailer used a full-page ad in the New York Times this last weekend to offer a few wise words about sustainable consumption.
• 3 Obvious Ways Companies Can Flip the Switch a ...
  Cutting energy use across the enterprise can be so simple, and so cost-effective that it's astounding there is still any of this low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. Here are eight case studies showing what's possible.

Duly Noted

• Winning the battle, losing the war; the US and ...
  After the NATO airstrikes, the political discourse within Pakistan is narrowing as religious nationalism gains ground
• Capturing the Punjabi imagination: drones and ...
  A short work of fiction about drones may tell us more about the way these are imagined than how they are experienced in Pakistan's tribal areas.
• India-Afghan strategic pact:the beginnings of ...
  A strategic pact between India and Afghanistan has drawn muted response from Pakistan. If anything Islamabad has pressed on with peace moves with India.
• Europe can’t put out the blaze
  As Italy surpasses Greece as the biggest threat to the euro zone, European finance ministers meeting in Brussels struggle to put out the spreading flames.
• Democracy and Chaos are both Greek
  It's not exactly ???? (chaos) out there, but Greek Prime Ministers Papandreou's experiment in ?????????? (democracy) has sent the whole euro zone project into a new, risky phase.

Booman Tribune

• 99% of Us Get Insulted Like This All the Time, ...
  You know what, Leon? I don't care if you're on my side on a few issues -- you're still a miserable whiner: It's Tone, Not Taxes, a Tycoon Tells the President Leon Cooperman, a 68-year-old Wall Street veteran, says he is for higher taxes on the wealthy. He would happily give up his Social ...
• The Gang of 14 is Dead
  Well, I guess the Gang of 14 is dead. Senate Republicans successfully filibustered a nominee to the District of Columbia Circuit who shouldn't have been controversial in the least. Just check out Caitlin Halligan's credentials. Halligan earned an A.B. cum laude in 1988 from Princeton Univ ...
• Ready for Another Shutdown?
  Back in August, the Republicans made a deal on the debt ceiling that set overall spending at $1.043 trillion for the next fiscal year. Speaker Boehner has said that he feels bound by that agreement. I think that's very nice. Imagine, he thinks a person should keep their word. I am almost surp ...
• How's This for Disingenuous?
  If you can't get your Sudafed at the pharmacy, you obviously have no business trying to vote. Also: Supporters of the new laws, including at least one group funded by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, have said the new laws are designed to prevent voter fraud. Hans von Spakovsk ...
• I Think Republicans Think They're Too Big to Fail
  Paul Krugman on the GOP: ... whoever finally gets the Republican nomination will be a deeply flawed candidate. And these flaws won't be an accident, the result of bad luck regarding who chose to make a run this time around; the fact that the party is committed to demonstrably false beliefs m ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 13 Amazing Photos of Freshwater Creatures Invi ...
  Amazing images of microscopic creatures courtesy of Daniel Stoupin's microscope photography... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 13 Coolest Links of the Week
  The curse of the demon core and more! Links don't come much cooler! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Hottest Links of the Week
  Wonderment abounds once more! Fighting the temperature outside, we bring you ten of the hottest links we could find on the web! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Plants Adapt to Different Climates
  Plants must be able to adapt to different climates if they are to survive climate change. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Exploring the Decaying Chambers of Florence's ...
  Visiting an abandoned and decaying slaughterhouse is more than a little eerie, even in the middle of the day – but see for yourself. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Israel May Be as Threatened by a Rational Iran ...
  Israeli war hawks and the Americans who enable them are refining their justification for attacking Iran.
• The Amilcar Notes (Part 1): Zine Ben Ali's Sor ...
  Deposed Tunisian President Zine al Abedine Ben Ali left a legacy of repression, torture, and death.
• Review: The Unraveling
  A new book on Pakistan looks at the thicket of problems in which the United States has become enmeshed.
• Lieberman Wears Down Netanyahu on Anti-NGO Leg ...
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu throws in with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on legislation targeting dissident NGO's.
• Review: Torture and State Violence in the Unit ...
  A new collection of source documents shows that torture is nothing new in American history.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Egypt's military 'to grant PM new powers'
  Prime minister says ruling army to issue decree allowing him "presidential powers" as parliamentary run-off continues.
• 'Scores dead' in Syria after kidnappings
  Activists say at least 79 people killed in sectarian clashes in Homs, as US ambassador prepares to return to Damascus.
• US launches virtual embassy for Iran
  State department says online portal aimed at promoting dialogue with Iranian people in absence of diplomatic ties.
• Hezbollah chief makes rare public appearance
  Hassan Nasrallah attends Beirut rally, telling crowds his group is "increasing in numbers" and vowing support for Syria.
• US admits losing stealth drone held in Iran
  Washington says it fears Tehran may obtain classified information from stealth aircraft that Iran says it shot down.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Gingrich on Climate Change
  There is "evidence on both sides of the climate change argument," the Republican presidential candidate says. In advocating action on climate change in past years, he maintains, he only meant that government should help pay for things like nuclear energy.
• Gifts for Foodies, Cyclists, Geeks and More
  Choosing an authentically green gift may seem daunting. But there is an ever-expanding array of options, from bike lights that don't need batteries to planet-friendly water bottles.
• A Mismatch Between Grid Regulation and Modern ...
  Because no single entity is in charge of representing the broad national interest where the reliable delivery of electricity is concerned, it is hard to tap into renewable energy sources, a study suggests.
• In New Jersey, Loaded for Bear
  To the dismay of environmentalists, thousands apply for permits to join the state's annual black bear hunt.
• Task Force Outlines Gulf Restoration Strategy
  A task force recommends ways of conserving habitat and shoring up communities in the gulf, which has suffered not just from the 2010 oil spill and tropical storms but from human-driven changes in its natural hydrology.

Dot Earth News

• Gingrich on Climate – The 2007 Version
  Newt Gingrich's 2007 "prudence" principle on carbon and climate.
• In Nepal, Farmers Struggle as City Dwellers Fi ...
  A look behind Nepali fears over Monsanto seed.
• More on the 'Sensitive' Climate Question
  Can studies of Earth's cold times help clarify what lies ahead as greenhouse gases build?
• On the Climate High End, Methane Time Bombs an ...
  Prepare for a fresh dose of whiplash with your climate headlines
• Apple, and Planet, Low on Cats
  An exploration of Apple's quandary as it runs short of primal symbols from the Felidae family.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Thank you for supporting Minneapolis productio ...
  It has been a wild month in NYC. Our work in New York City to help bring you live footage from the Occupy movement, as well as help get other occupation livestream teams set up and rolling, would not have been possible but for generous small contributions from some folks that stepped up basicall ...
• Support Global Revolution.tv and the Minneapol ...
  Heyo... so unexpectedly I've dedicated the vast majority of my time in the last 22 days to the Occupy Wall Street phenom and specifically editing the video stream for Global Revolution TV. For about a year until August, I worked at an Internet startup which abruptly laid me off, owing a bunch of ...
• #occupywallstreet makes total lol
  Our comradez in NYC are running live feeds and I am helping coordinate affairs. We are kickin on irc.indymedia.org #occupywallstreet and also you can hit that on http://chat.indymedia.org via webs. Here is the live video embed... you can use the Contact form above if you want to hit me up. It i ...
• 9-11 FBI Foreknowledge Nibbles with Ali Soufan ...
  Ah so it's been a decade eh comrades? The skrewing over of emergency personnel has gone almost unnoticed. FDNY member on 9/11 Truth “I support you guys” | We Are Change -- some new stuff has been trickling out -- pretty solid stuff, at that. The glorious official narrative got its booster shot, ...
• Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
  SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...

Daily Censored

• “Vote none of the above” as an act of civil di ...
  by kabuki7     From Dictatorship to Democracy is the seminal work by Gene Sharp which has been applied all over the world to bring about peaceful democratic change in undemocratic societies. Sharps’ strategies include: decreasing support for undemocratic governments to delegitimize them, a ...
• Bikeswarm: Modern urban guerilla tactic
  I had no idea what the Bikeswarm was until I was suddenly, unexpectedly part of it. After having been rousted from their initial occupation site on Nov. 13, Occupy Portland announced their intention to take over an entirely different park. The location of the planned new encampment was not annou ...
• CALL FOR ACTION: EDUCATORS UNITE!
  Please consider supporting this movement. Link to call and sign up! CALL FOR ACTION: EDUCATORS UNITE! As public educators committed to democratic principles, we are charged to: Advocate for authentic reform initiatives that support public education to ensure PK-12 students develop the critical t ...
• California State University Faculty Challenge ...
  An Open Letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed Regarding the CSU-Israel Study Abroad Program The CSU system has recently taken steps to reinstate the Israel Study Abroad Program. It was suspended in 2002 because of costs and because of the U.S. State Department travel warning on travel to Israel. ...
• Did WaPo Censor Jay Mathews Blog Post Alleging ...
  On Nov 27, 2011 Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews published the blog post “ 5 reasons for-profit colleges will survive”. In the post  Mathews cited statistics from a Kaplan University press release, misleadingly presenting them as fact and without attributing the source. It was appa ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Collins, McCaskill Push Millionaire Surtax Tha ...
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• Occupy Birmingham: Immigrant Rights Are Crucia ...
• Climate-Treaty Talks Target U.S., China Emissions
• Gingrich Still Supports Child Labor as Long as ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Appeasement Complex
  Is detente with Burma just around the corner?
• The Human Face of the Nuclear Arms Race
  The pernicious quest for nuclear arms all in the name of a "greater good" - has tens of thousands of human faces, who paid a bitter price, which we should not forget.
• Durban Diary: Dispatch from Janet
  As UN climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, go into their final week, Janet Redman, co-director of IPS's Sustainable Energy & Economy Network, provides a quick update on the talks.
• Can Danilo Atilano Feed the World?
  Industrial agriculture advocates say organic farming cannot produce enough food for 7 billion people. A group of rice farmers in the Philippines is proving them wrong.
• The Other 99 Percent: How the U.S. Compares
  The other 99 percent fare much worse in the United States than in any other developed country.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #643 (Israel edition)
  Hezbollah uncovers more Israeli spy devices. PLO subpoenas Palestinian who spied for Israel. Analysis: The complex relationship between the Mossad and Israeli media.
• Russian spy agencies accused of hacking electi ...
  Election monitors have accused Russia’s domestic intelligence service of launching a series of coordinated hacking attacks on opposition websites, timed to coincide with last Sunday’s elections.
• News you may have missed #642
  Australia concerned China using civilian satellites to spy. Did Iran capture US stealth drone intact? Canadian Mounties spied on native protest groups.
• Analysis: India’s spies keep tabs on political ...
  She is America’s rising ally in South Asia and is widely regarded as the world’s largest democracy. But India’s political system is highly chaotic and often repressive. This is aptly reflected in the operations of the Intelligence Bureau, India’s foremost domestic intelligence agency. One would ...
• News you may have missed #641 (US edition)
  US Navy memo had warned Roosevelt of 1941 attack. US spy agencies cut their holiday parties. Ex-DNI Blair wants Pentagon in charge of drone strikes.

War is a Crime.org

• Imprisoning of Japanese Americans and the New ...
  I'm editing a book in which one of the contributors writes: In 1971, Congress passed the Anti-Detention Act, 18 U.S.C. § 4001(a), which states that "no person shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress." Fred Koramatsu, who had brought th ...
• 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 been imposed ...
• Russia Bashing
    Russia Bashing - by Stephen Lendman   On December 4, parliamentary elections were held to fill 450 State Duma seats, Russia's Federal Assembly lower house.   With nearly all votes counted, RIA Novosti said Medvedev/Putin's United Russia party won 238 seats, falling slightly ...
• New Report on Israel Restricting Free Expressi ...
    New Report on Israel Restricting Free Expression and Assembly - by Stephen Lendman   The Association for Civil Rights in Israel assesses Israel's human and civil rights record annually. Its newly released 2011 report cites increasing crackdowns on basic freedoms. More on it belo ...
• Los Angeles City Council Poised to Dare to Say ...
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy read more

Grist - News

• Hungary destroys 1,000 acres of Monsanto maize
  by Jess Zimmerman. Genetically modified seeds are banned in Hungary. So when government regulators found that 1,000 acres of maize had been planted with genetically modified seeds, they just plowed the suckers under. You stick it to the Monsanto, Hungary! Leaving aside the fact that t ...
• Bad guys bicker over Gulf oil spill
  by Jess Zimmerman. Apparently today is the day we talk about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? The White House released its year-in-the-making report about what needs to be done for cleanup ("more better things"), and now it looks like BP is still trying to palm off blame. They'r ...
• Prius is the only survivor of $3 million car crash
  by Jess Zimmerman. A car crash in Japan that's being hailed as the most expensive ever, even though it totally wasn't, totaled eight Ferraris, a Lamborghini, and three Mercedes...es. (Ugh, I just looked it up and Mercedes looks like a fifth-declension noun with the nominative pl ...
• White House goals for cleaning the Gulf: Fix stuff
  by Sarah Laskow. After the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, the Obama administration decided to dig deep into the environmental problems that faced the Gulf Coast and, in the way of governments everywhere, set up a task force to study the issues. This week, that task force released its report. ...
• Solar-powered tanning salon. Really.
  by Christopher Mims. This is real. Comedian Kyle Kinane spotted it while driving through the wasteland of unconquerable vacuity known as Southern California. The place is called Sunlounge, and it has a website and a Yelp page full of catty reviews from people who love to tan. Sunloung ...

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• Top 10 Upcoming PC Games 2011 and Release Dates
• Top 7 Webmail Software

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Child Abuse Affects the Brain
  Child abuse creates brain damage resulting in poor decision making, impulse control, cognitive functioning and sense of self.
• Android Market Has 10 Billion Promotion, Top A ...
  The Android Market kicks off the 10 Billion Promo featuring great Top Paid apps for only $0.10.
• Galaxy Nexus Available in Canada December 8th
  Samsung Galaxy Nexus plans arrival into our wanting hands on Thursday December 8th
• Mit Romney Spends $98,000 Hiding Records
  Some actions to hide and destroy records were "unprecedented"
• From Content to Context – City 2.0
  First time in history TEDPrize has given the award to an idea and not a person.

Time - Top Stories

• Donovan McNabb Calls It Quits: When Leaving Is ...
  Donovan McNabb has been taking heat for leaving the Vikings, but for a true competitor, sometimes quitting is the only option
• Viewpoint: How We Can Teach Kids to Become Goo ...
  Too often our nation's schools build vocabulary but not character. A new movement promises to change that
• Obama Trades a Likely Consumer Bureau Loss for ...
  Obama Trades a Likely Consumer Bureau Loss for a Political Win
• Watch: Inside a Roiling Sudan, TIME Visits Vil ...
  Watch: Inside a Roiling Sudan, TIME Visits Villages Caught in the Cross Fire
• The Siri Scandal That Wasn't: Fooling the Medi ...
  The Siri Scandal That Wasn't: Fooling the Media Now Easier Than Ever

Digg Green

• NASA discovers most 'Earth-like' planet yet (V ...
  NASA scientists have discovered a new planet, Kepler-22b, that they describe as the most Earth-like planet yet found.
• How to Picture the Size of the Universe
  Space, as Douglas Adams once so aptly wrote, is big. To try imagining how big, place a penny down in front of you. If our sun were the size of that penny, the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, would be 350 miles away. Attempting to imagine distances larger than this quickly becomes troublesome.
• How Pot, Cocaine, and Hunger Intersect in the ...
  Researchers are studying the role that the endocannabinoid system plays in cravings, and using their findings to try to control our excesses.
• NASA Common Crew Habitat: Standardized yet eff ...
  The concept. Many of us are intrigued by the expansive scope of spacecrafts and their enterprising journeys across the oblivion of ethereal space and heavenly bodies. But beyond the poetic thought, have you ever imagined about the living conditions of those
• APOD: 2011 December 6 - Jupiter Rotation Movie ...
  A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Invisible Opportunity

• FBI ‘entrapment’ tactics questione ...
  by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Dave Williams might have made some bad choices in his life that ultimately led to some jail time. But his greatest “crime,” seems to have been manufactured by an overzealous federal agency looking to make some sort of “progress” in the war on ...
• Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been lying to you
  by Pointman on November 28, 2011 · 39 Comments 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 ...
• Ted Gunderson: A Man to Remember
  Paul Edwards, J.D. Activist Post This year those seeking freedom, justice, and truth lost an important ally, Ted Gunderson. Gunderson was the former chief of the Los Angeles division of the FBI and brought his impeccable credentials to the truth/freedom movement. After retiring from the FBI, he ...
• The Illuminati Depopulation Agenda
  Dean Henderson December 4, 2011 (Excerpted from Chapter 13: USS Persian Gulf: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…) While the global elite construct underground bunkers, eat organic and hoard seeds in Arctic vaults; the global poor are being slowly starved thanks to high commodity pr ...
• TSA strip-searches 85-year-old woman in wheelc ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) For a federal government that has gone insane with criminality, no act of violating fundamental human rights is too outrageous anymore. In the latest chapter of the U.S. government’s police state humiliation of innocent American women, an 85-y ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
• The Creation
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
• About George Green
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Can Ecstasy Treat Autism?
  Research shows ecstasy increases empathy and enhances communication by producing playfulness, friendliness, and loving feelings.
• Dispatches From Obama's Other Wars â&eur ...
  Going into the electoral season, the immigration and drug policy crises have worsened.
• Why is the DEA Laundering Drug Money for Mexic ...
  The DEA has moved hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug money across boarders, but high-risk anti-trafficking operations may not be as efficient as they aim to be.
• 9 Huge Blows to the Catastrophic War on Drugs ...
  2011 has been a watershed year for the movement working to end our county’s disastrous war on drugs.
• The Great Antidepressant Hypocrisy
  America’s ambivalent relationship with drugs and medication pushes us to ignore critical differences between drugs, while failing to appreciate useful similarities.

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

• Swiss Team Develops Silicon-Free, Low-Energy M ...
  Computing has an enormous impact on the world. While it is behind the mechanization of many global industries, the planet’s millions of computers also use a massive amount of energy. On top of that, they also use numerous precious metals including gold, platinum and silicon. However, a Swi ...
• VIDEO: Inhabitat Interviews Henrik Fisker, Fou ...
  Car designer and entrepreneur Henrik Fisker made his name in the car industry designing the highest of the high-end luxury cars for BMW and Aston Martin. After making waves in the auto industry with vehicles such as the Aston Martin DB9, Aston Martin V8 Vantage and BMW Z8, he decided to break aw ...
• Ice Architecture: 6 Incredible Buildings Made ...
  Read the rest of Ice Architecture: 6 Incredible Buildings Made from Ice and Snow Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: buildings made from ice and snow, china, eco design, el wire, energy efficient lighting, geothermal heat system, green design, green lighting, Harbin, Hotel ...
• Leopoldo City Garden Lets Urban Gardeners Grow ...
  We love seeing cool urban gardening systems that allow space-starved city dwellers to grow their own vegetables, and the Leopoldo City Garden is another great design for green-thumbed readers. The Barcelona-based studio has created a set of practical gardening containers that are perfect for pla ...
• State of California Shows up the Fed’s Emissio ...
  In 2013 California will go where no U.S. state has gone before – it will start a comprehensive emissions limiting program by employing the mandatory use of carbon credits throughout the state for large emitters. AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, was passed by the state legis ...

Pogue's Posts

• Nook's Advertising Is Corrected
  Barnes & Noble has eliminated all references to "HD" video and the new Nook on its Web site. But there's not a shred of doubt: The Nook Tablet's Netflix video looks a lot better than Amazon Fire's.
• Nook's Specs Are Exaggerated, Again
  Barnes & Noble says that the new Nook Color Tablet plays high-definition video. It is stretching the truth.
• Apple's AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use ...
  Somebody at Apple took the challenges of the disabled seriously enough to write a complete, elegant and thoughtful feature that takes down most of the physical barriers to using an app phone.
• Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
  Amazon is giving away books, including New York Times bestsellers, for the Kindle if you're an Amazon Prime member. It is a delightful surprise to people who signed up for Prime.
• An Android App's Answer to Siri
  SpeakToIt for Android phones works as an alternative to Siri. Sort of. She's slow and a little bit mentally challenged. She's less convenient than Siri, less capable, less comprehending, less accurate, less useful, less polished, less classy, less human.

WIRED Magazine | Science

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

PakAlert

• Has The War With Iran Already Begun?
  Two incidents that occurred on Sunday—Iran’s claim of a shoot-down of a U.S. drone, and an explosion outside the British embassy in Bahrain—may have been unrelated. But they appear to add to growing evidence that an escalating covert war by the West is under way against Iran, and that Tehran is ...
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guards prepare for war
  An order from Gen Mohammed Ali Jaafari, the commander of the guards, raised the operational readiness status of the country’s forces, initiating preparations for potential external strikes and covert attacks.
• The Clock Is Ticking: “Shadow War” Heating Up. ...
  Amid conflicting reports that a huge explosion at Iran's uranium conversion facility in Isfahan occurred last week, speculation was rife that Israel and the United States were stepping-up covert attacks against defense and nuclear installations.
• Eurozone growth stagnates as markets slide on ...
  Markets slide after S&P threatens 15 out of 17 eurozone nations with credit rating downgrades, a move which may undermine French and German plans for treaty reform.
• The Worst In The World – The U.S. Balance Of T ...
  Did you know that we buy about a half a trillion dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us? The U.S. balance of trade is not only mind-blowingly bad - it is the worst in the world. It is being projected that the U.S. trade deficit for 2011 will be 558.2 billion dollar ...

Andy Worthington

• The Complete Guantánamo Files: WikiLeaks and t ...
  Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by WikiLeaks in ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser: Please Help Me Raise $25 ...
  Please support my work! It’s three months since I last asked you, my friends, readers and supporters, to help me to continue my research and writing on Guantánamo and other issues by providing me with donations, however large or small. All contributions are welcome, whether it’s $25, $100 ...
• Deranged Senate Votes for Military Detention o ...
  Yesterday the shameful dinosaurs of the Senate — hopelessly out of touch with reality, for the most part, and haunted by specters of their own making — approved, by 93 votes to 7, the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (PDF), which contains a number of astonishingly al ...
• British MPs Write to Congress to Complain Abou ...
  In Truthout today, four British MPs — Jeremy Corbyn, John Leech, Caroline Lucas and Michael Meacher — wrote an open letter to Congress seeking the return to the UK of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison. Mr. Aamer’s story is familiar to those of us who have lo ...
• Misery for Nothing: 2 Million on Strike in the ...
  As two million workers from 29 unions went on strike today, I paid a supportive visit to the Embankment in London, and watched as a huge procession of public sector workers came down Northumberland Avenue from Trafalgar Square and the Strand, having first convened in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Beam It Down: A Drive to Launch Space-Based Solar
  The first demonstration of long-awaited space-based solar power technology could come in the next decade, experts say. Likely early use: Disaster relief energy.
• 2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme We ...
  This year also marked by extremes—including floods, droughts, and the hottest year on record for Texas—a new report says.
• Chilean Wind Farm Faces Turbulence Over Whales
  A wind farm project on the Chilean island of Chiloé raises concerns over risk to the endangered great blue whale.
• Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
  Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
• "Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
  Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

• Hutaree Militia Member is First to Plead in Co ...
  A man whose nickname is “Mouse” is the first member of the Hutaree Militia to strike a plea deal with the Justice Department to avoid the possibility of a lengthy federal prison sentence. Joshua John Clough, 29, of Blissfield Township, Mich., pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Detro ...
• Kentucky Church Reverses Policy, Accepts Inter ...
  A small Kentucky church that just a week earlier banned interracial couples from joining or participating in worship services reversed its policy Sunday in the wake of an avalanche of publicity that spread throughout the U.S. and to locales as far away as Canada, Europe, India and Africa. The or ...
• John Birch Society: ‘Agenda 21’ is Stealth Plo ...
  It isn’t exactly the midnight ride of Paul Revere, but clearly something is up. Since September, the John Birch Society has sponsored or co-sponsored lectures on the dangers of Agenda 21 in Manahawkin, Somers Point, Williamstown, Pompton Plains, and Toms River, N.J.; in Bozeman, Great Falls, Kal ...
• Sheriff Arpaio Gets the Media Attention He Des ...
  Be careful what you wish for. Media-hungry Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who just last week complained about a supposed “black out” on news of his investigation into the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate, is finally getting the media coverage he deserves. In a lengthy and wid ...
• ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Sentenced for ‘Deadly Forc ...
  An antigovernment “sovereign citizen” will spend 40 months in prison for threatening to use “deadly force” to arrest various government officials, including the mayor of Kirkland, Wash. David Russell Myrland, sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, has made his living for the past 20 ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

• 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. ...

Lifehacker

• The Neon Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]
  Reader Robbie Khan created this simple, but unique home screen using just a few widgets and some custom colorization. More »
• Zoom In on One Application's Windows in Missio ...
  Mission Control's window organization makes it a little easier to use than previous versions of Exposé, but seeing individual windows can be hard. Here's a shortcut that can spread an app's windows out so you can focus on one of them. More ...
• Remains of the Day: AT&T Gets the Poorest Rati ...
  AT&T is again awarded the dubious title of the worst in customer satisfaction, Google's Galaxy Nexus phone is expected to launch on Verizon on Friday, but Google Wallet will not be available on the phone at launch. More » ...
• Avoid Running Into People by Keeping Your Eyes ...
  We've all had those moments, when making our way through a large crowd, that you run into someone or end up doing the left-to-right dance to try and get around them. You can easily avoid these awkward collisions by staring at your destination& ...
• WakeSmarter Is an Alarm Clock App That You Con ...
  iOS: WakeSmarter is a pretty great standard alarm clock that takes things a bit further by adding voice control, similar to what you'd find in Apple's Siri. When it wakes you up in the morning, you can ask it for information you want to know ...

Water Privatization

• Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
  The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.
• Ayala Land interested in Mimosa
  CLARK FREEPORT—Property developer Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) has started negotiations for the privatization of the 215-hectare Mimosa Leisure Estate (MLE) operated since 1999 by the state-owned Clark Development Corp. (CDC).
• Audience expresses anger about privatization p ...
  The idea of privatizing Grand Island's wastewater treatment plant to a multinational corporation didn't set well with nearly 50 people attending an informational meeting Wednesday.
• Pittsburgh mayor mulls privatization of PWSA
  Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said Thursday that he and state Rep. Mike Turzai have discussed the possibility of privatizing the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, but the city is not actively looking to dump the embattled agency.
• Italian-Canadians Can Help Stop Water Privatiz ...
  Italian expatriates in Canada and around the world are encouraged to vote in an important referendum to block a water privatization plan in Italy. The multi-question referendum is scheduled for June 12 and 13.

Guardian

• Syrian activists report bodies dumped on the s ...
  Reports of 34 dead, apparently kidnap victims, found after 'one of the deadliest days since the start of the revolution'Syrian opposition activists have reported dozens of bodies dumped on the streets of the central city of Homs in one of the worst single incidents of violence in the nine-month ...
• Motorway attacks: police appeal for witnesses ...
  Heavy objects dropped on to cars from motorway bridge in West Lothian following two similar attacks in EssexPolice have appealed for witnesses after heavy objects were dropped on to cars passing under a bridge on Scotland's busiest motorway. A woman was seriously injured in one of two similar in ...
• Woman filmed allegedly shouting racial abuse o ...
  Woman who has been seen 11 million times on YouTube cries as magistrates watch video of the incident on London tramA woman who was filmed allegedly shouting racial abuse at fellow passengers on a tram in south London will spend Christmas in prison after she was remanded in custody during a court ...
• Obama tells US officials to use overseas aid t ...
  Rick Perry says Obama is waging 'war on traditional American values' after president urges aid agencies to fight discriminationPresident Barack Obama has told US officials to consider how countries treat its gay and lesbian populations when making decisions about allocating foreign aid.In the fi ...
• Russian election: police, troops and youth gro ...
  Pro-Kremlin activists outnumber pro-democracy demonstrators in Moscow after disputed election resultThe Kremlin mobilised thousands of police, interior troops and pro-government youth groups on Tuesday night to crack down on protests against the rule of Vladimir Putin after elections that saw hi ...

McClatchey

• Jobless take their grievances directly to Congress
  WASHINGTON — America's unemployed workers brought their message of frustration and despair directly to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as they filled the congressional offices of dozens of lawmakers and refused to leave until they met with their elected representatives.
• California choir brings holiday jazz to Washington
  WASHINGTON — Naturally, Mikayla Murry got the tingles before a White House performance Tuesday morning.
• Penn State dance charity event goes on amid sc ...
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — In Pennsylvania State University's proud, 156-year history, few days proved darker than Nov. 9, 2011. That's the night the school's mushrooming child sex-abuse scandal finally cost iconic coach Joe Paterno his job, sparking the student body's cringe-ind ...
• Mexico blames gangsters for casino tragedy, bu ...
  MEXICO CITY — Investigators probing a firebombing of a Mexican casino last summer that left 52 people dead said Tuesday that gangsters were the sole cause of the tragedy, clearing safety inspectors and the casino owner of any criminal negligence.
• Western nations now on the sidelines at Sudan ...
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Last week, while African leaders toiled behind closed doors at a luxury hotel to try to prevent renewed war between Sudan and South Sudan, U.S. and other Western diplomats huddled in the lobby waiting for updates.

Afghanistan Sun

• Death toll rises to 55 in bombing at mosque in ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul today, killing at least 55 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day - the first ...
• Blasts across Afghanistan target Shi'ites ...
  KABUL (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 ...
• At least 58 dead and 150 injured in two blasts ...
  KABUL // A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people in an attack on Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul yesterday in the he deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day - the first major ...
• Afghan govt. invites bids for gold/copper deposits
  Afghanistan's government represented by its Mines Ministry issued a tender on Tuesday to explore and develop four mineral deposits potentially containing gold and ...
• Nearly 60 killed in rare attacks on Afghan Shiites
  KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Shiite worshippers at a mosque in Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people in the deadliest of two attacks on a Shiite holy day - the ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• This Week on Honesty Without Fear
  Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Steve Kohn discusses the PFC Bradley Manning case and what rights national security whistleblowers currently have. Jeff Paterson, Project Director for Courage to Resist, shares insight a ...
• Occupy DC Occupies EPA
  Activists from Occupy Washington DC on Freedom Plaza marched to the headquarters of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday. Billed as "Occupy EPA," the event called on the EPA to do its job to protect Americans from toxic pollution. The march had a decidedly pro-whistl ...
• Dr. Coleman-Adebayo Discusses Her New Book on PBS
  NWC's Board of Director member Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo was interviewed by Travis Smiley last night on PBS about her book NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA.   Watch Author Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on PBS. See more from TAVIS SMILEY.
• Washington Times Covers Department of no-Justice
  This week The Washington Times published a lament of Attorney General Eric Holder’s treatment of FBI whistleblowers based on a public complaint from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). The article is aptly titled, “Grassley: Whistleblower Cases Stuck ‘in limbo’ Under Holder. ...
• Grand Jury Report Sheds Light on McQueary's Wh ...
  There has been much debate about whether Coach Mike McQueary is a whistleblower. While the NWC takes no position on the outcome of the investigation, there are two facts that are important to note. First, McQueary’s initial report as a graduate assistant to his supervisor, Joe Paterno, wa ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• DailyDirt: When You Sleep, What Do Your Finger ...
  Everyone sleeps, or at least everyone besides one Vietnamese guy sleeps. Some medications to help people sleep have led to weird sleep-walking behaviors, but there are plenty of other strange things that people do in their sleep. Here are just a few examples. Lee Hadwin is somewhat productiv ...
• Supporters Of SOPA/PIPA Make Arguments That Ma ...
  A few folks pointed out Bruce Iglauer's opinion piece in the Chicago Tribune, urging support for PROTECT IP. It's a little odd, because the piece never mentions SOPA at all, and applauds the "introduction" of PROTECT IP (PIPA), despite that happening many months ago. Either way, while I'm sure ...
• What What (In The Butt) Case Continues: Brownm ...
  Ah, the "What What (In the Butt)" case continues... you may recall that the makers of the bizarrely viral video >What What (In The Butt) sued Viacom and South Park over their parody video. Here's the original, and then the South Park version below. The South Park folks had actually ...
• PayPal Acts As Grinch Over Money Raised For Ch ...
  PayPal is pretty famous for the fact that almost no one likes it. It's why we're finally starting to see some alternatives springing up (or getting ready to spring up). And yet, it still seems to go out of its way to make bad decisions. The latest, via Consumerist, is that it completely shut ...
• As Expected, SOPA Supporters Hate More Reasona ...
  Last week, we wrote about an interesting proposal from a bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives to deal with the supposed problem of "rogue sites" without the censorship and technical problems of SOPA/PIPA, by recognizing that this is an international trade issue. It still allows copy ...

VacTruth

• Vaccines Verse and Worse!
  Wherever there's vaccine propaganda around, the vaccine critics are sure to be found!
• How to Discover Criminal Organizations Selling ...
  Vaccines are known to harm children. Discover for yourself how vaccine manufacturers have been criminally charged. Are we supposed to trust these companies with our children's well-being???
• 8 Stories Indicating U.S. Parents Getting Savv ...
  Parents are seeing the vast amounts of children being injured by vaccines. Below are 8 stories indicating parents are waking up and getting savvy to the damage vaccines are causing to children.             Anti-vaccine movement grows in many states The News Tribune ...
• Love Hormone Injections For Autistics?
  Scientists have stated that when this hormone is injected into adults with autism, it improves their ability to recognize emotion in people's voices. Should we be giving this to our children?
• How Can Vaccines Become Even MORE Unsafe?
  How Can Vaccines Become Even MORE Unsafe? Are you ready for this? China is getting into the vaccine making business. Holy cow!

BroadSnark

• Occupy DC’s Sunday Standoff
  You have surely heard about the standoff yesterday (pics below), but just in case you have been trapped under something heavy or in a 48 hour bong hit haze… Saturday night, DC occupiers built a structure to keep them out of the elements for general assemblies and teach-ins. I can only imag ...
• Occupy DC Targets Wells Fargo and the Prison I ...
  Yesterday, the criminal justice committee of Occupy DC organized on action targeting Wells Fargo’s involvement in private prisons through their investments in the GEO Group. Pics of the march and pre-march are below. I loved this action for a whole lot of reasons: The injustice system is o ...
• Who is Responsible?
  If somebody stabs another person to death, are they responsible? Are they the only ones responsible? What if another person asked them to do it or paid them to do it? Then is the stabber the only one responsible? What if the stabber belonged to a group or community that demonized the victim for ...
• Occupy, Unions, NGOs and the Perils of DC Activism
  I moseyed over to Occupy K Street last night for the general assembly and the action committee meeting. Not much to say about the GA – except maybe to mention that there was a serious shortage of women. Of the two that spoke, one offered to take notes and the other was reporting back from ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I’m going to kick off with the lulzy item. That would be this manboobz post on us women with our slutty clothes. I can’t even hate these people. They are too funny. I thought this post about buy nothing day was really interesting. While I understand the anti-materialist sentiments, t ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Chinese Reaction to Obama: Potential ‘Disaster’
  EIR News Service press release.
• Statement by Lyndon LaRouche: Status of Obama ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Russian Chief of General Staff Makarov Warns R ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• Legal Expert Says Impeach Obama; Warns of War ...
  Interview with Prof. Francis A. Boyle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 45
• Bankers’ Dictatorship Imposed: EU ‘Junta’ Carr ...
  By Claudio Celani Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 18, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 45

War in Context

• Prepare for war: The insane plan to outlaw dip ...
  Dominic Tierney writes: Working its way through the congressional digestive tract like a poison pill is one of the worst ideas in modern legislative history: a bill that would make it illegal to conduct diplomacy with Iran. In an almost unprecedented move, the Iran Threat Reduction Act of 2011 ( ...
• Michael Klare: A new Cold War in Asia?
  Last Friday, the U.S. military formally handed over its largest base in Iraq, the ill-named “Camp Victory,” to the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.  The next morning, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius officially declared counterinsurgency wars in the Middle E ...
• Where were you when they crucified my Lord?
  Chris Hedges gave an abbreviated version of this talk Saturday morning in Liberty Square in New York City as part of an appeal to Trinity Church to turn over to the Occupy Wall Street movement an empty lot, known as Duarte Square, that the church owns at Canal Street and 6th Avenue. Occupy Wall ...
• When police go military
  The New York Times reports: Riot police officers tear-gassing protesters at the Occupy movement in Oakland. The surprising nighttime invasion of Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, carried out with D-Day-like secrecy by officers deploying klieg lights and a military-style sound machine. And campus ...
• A CEO’s moral stand
  D. Michael Lindsay writes: It seems that every week we hear of a C.E.O. who earned millions from a golden parachute after demonstrating poor business judgment or cutting thousands of jobs with no financial downside for executives. These stories feed the fires of the Occupy movement growing all o ...

Watts Up With That?

• WWF and Oxfam pushing for a shipping tax at Du ...
  People send me stuff. This one had an IP address originating in Durban today, but it lists as a proxy server, so the person may/may not be there. From WUWT Tips and Notes: I am writing from the COP17 negotiations … Continue reading →
• RealClimate’s Steig: Pacific SST’s ...
  WUWT readers may recall the Nature cover with this picture of Antarctica at left, followed by the subsequent falsification of the Antarctic warming claims made by Steig et al using the dicey Mannomatic math employed. We owe thanks to O’Donnell … Continue reading →
• Who gets the most access to network data (like ...
  Climategate – whodunnit? Well, according to this story in Help Net Security, the Information Technology people might be good candidates to see what has been going on behind the scenes at UEA’s Climate Research Unit, since it seems that they … Continue reading →
• The Impact of Urbanization on Land Temperature ...
  by Zeke Hausfather , Steven Mosher, Matthew Menne , Claude Williams , and Nick Stokes [Note: this is an AGU poster displayed at the annual meeting, available here as a PDF. I’ve converted it to plain text and images for … Continue reading →
• Common link in extreme weather events found &# ...
  From the University of Wisconsin-Madison  something you’ll never see posted on Climate Progress or mentioned by weepy Bill McKibben because it mellows their harshness. Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes MADISON –Two talks at a scientific conference this week … Continu ...

treehugger

• Cross-Breeding Education, Agriculture, and Ste ...
  Trying to decide whether to help save a university farm that teaches the farmers of tomorrow, and engages in stem-cell research on sheep: what's a TreeHugger to do?
• Autonomous Flying Robotic Bees Build Tower in ...
  The robotic bricklayer takes to the air. Could this be the future of building?
• Proboscis Monkeys Threatened By Ecologically I ...
  Recent study shows that populations are declining 10% annually due to the way in which palm oil plantations are sited.
• Solving Climate Change With Agriculture: Alli ...
  Agro-ecology can provide a solution for global hunger and poverty, climate change, threats to biodiversity, and soil health.
• COP17 UnMerry-Go-Round: US Delays, Canada Obst ...
  The COP17 climate talks in Durban are moving into a closed-door phase of talks, with both some small encouraging but mostly discouraging developments. Let's review.

Biosingularity

• ‘Super’ mouse evolves resistance t ...
  German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years. The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria. The Current Biology report says thi ...
• New Blood Thinner Prevents Strokes in Heart Pa ...
  The newly approved drug Xarelto appears to prevent strokes at least as well as the standard treatment warfarin in people who have a heart condition that puts them at high risk for blood clots, a study shows. Xarelto was approved by the FDA in July to prevent dangerous blood clots in people havin ...
• Red Meat, Processed Meat Linked to Diabetes Risk
  Red meat, particularly processed red meats like bacon, sausage, and hot dogs, may increase a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The more processed or unprocessed red meat a person eats, the greater the risk, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Type 2 ...
• Intestinal protein may have role in ADHD, othe ...
  A biochemical pathway long associated with diarrhea and intestinal function may provide a new therapeutic target for treating ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) other neuropsychiatric disorders, according to a team of scientists from China and the United States reporting Aug. 11 in ...
• Stanford engineers redefine how the brain plan ...
  New measurement technologies and techniques provide researchers more complete look at neurological activity In 1991, Carl Lewis was both the fastest man on earth and a profound long jumper, perhaps the greatest track-and-field star of all time in the prime of his career. On June 14th of that yea ...

CFACT

• Not much pop to corn controversy
• The icky problem of sewage treatment
• CEI's Chris Horner on White House lawsuit
• Eco-Lifestyles becoming a regular part of campus
• Interview: House Resources on Healthy Forests

Ria Novosti Online News

• Main news of December 6
• Moscow sees second night of poll protests
  Moscow witnessed a second evening of protests over alleged electoral fraud by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party on Tuesday.
• Russian election protesters given 15 days behi ...
  Two leaders of Monday’s protests in downtown Moscow against alleged election fraud, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny and opposition activist Ilya Yashin, were given short jail terms on Tuesday for refusing to obey police orders, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported.
• Pro-Kremlin and opposition activists rally in ...
  Some 5,000 activists from pro-Kremlin and opposition youth movements gathered for an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow on Tuesday evening.
• U.S. comments about Russian polls ‘unacceptabl ...
  The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday comments by senior White House officials about Russian parliamentary elections were “unacceptable.”

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Scientists say "diamond planets" in our galaxy ...
  A group of scientists from the Ohio State University said some terrestrial planets in our galaxy could contain up to 50 percent diamond, the Space.com portal reported.
• NASA announces discovery of first earthlike pl ...
  NASA said its Kepler mission has confirmed its discovery of a first earthlike planet in the habitable zone, the area where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.
• New parliament will be ‘lively’ - Medvedev
• ESA halts attempts to contact Russian Mars moo ...
  The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday it had ended attempts to establish contact with Phobos-Grunt, Russia's failed probe to one of Mars' moons.
• Arthur C Clarke predicted Russian win in Moon race
  In a rediscovered 1963 interview, late British science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke predicts that the Soviet Union would win the Moon race by launching a manned mission to the Earth's natural satellite in 1968, The Guardian said.

Pruning Shears

• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.We killed lots of people in Somalia this week:US drone raid kills 9 Somali civiliansUS terror drone kills 18 in SomaliaUS terror drones kil ...
• 2012 will be more about actual problems than p ...
  It’s funny that professional left now describes those who have been too critical of Democrats. To the extent that such a thing - a well funded, fully staffed and perennially active infrastructure presuming to be a liberal standard bearer - exists, it is the province of the think tanks (Ce ...
• Occupy Charlottesville: Background and What's Next
  This is my first post on this site. As background information, I’m finishing up my JD at UVA Law in Charlottesville, and so most of what I can cover from an on the ground angle for the time being is in Cville, or occasionally around VA or the DC area. Charlottesville is a fairly liberal ci ...
• Public Happiness and Occupy Wall Street
  In a recent Rolling Stone article,  “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the OWS Protests,” Matt Taibbi offers a revised estimate of Occupy Wall Street, now in its third month.  He argues that contrary to those on the right and left who want Occupiers to find a message ...
• Weekend Wrapup
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. We killed a couple of Brits too.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Zachary C. Reiff, 22, of Preston, IA.Army Pvt. Jackie L. ...

Organic Consumers.org

• A Maine Farmer Speaks to Wall Street
  Jim Gerritsen lives a far piece from New York City, in a remote part of northern Maine that what was once known as the Potato Empire. But there he was on Sunday - at age 56 making his first trip to the city - to speak at the Farmers March on Wall Street.Click here to read this article
• Maria Rodale: Who Is Your Farmer?
  Knowing your farmer is about understanding his or her practices, motivations, challenges and ideas, but it's also about transparency. Transparency in agriculture means better practices, and better practices results in better food. I truly believe that if all Americans were able to meet their far ...
• Occupy Our Homes: From the Streets to Foreclos ...
  Today, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy movements around the country will "go out of the streets and into the homes" of the 99 percent to draw attention to the economic, social, and racial injustice of the foreclosure crisis.Click here to read this article
• Marching for 100% Change at the Global Climate ...
  Dubbing Saturday the "Global Day of Action", demonstrators from international and national non-governmental groups as well as labor, women, youth, academic, religious and environmental organizations came together to highlight civil society's demands for politicians all over the world to take ser ...
• Regulators, Tea Partiers, and Populists
  Lately there have been a series of very public gaffes by several of the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, exposing alarming deficits in their knowledge of U.S. historical events. And, there has been some confusion about the significance of the 1773 Tea Party. In an effort to ...

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 ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• NZ, Australia sleepwalk to climate suicide
  NZ, Australia sleepwalk to climate suicide. NZ, Australia sleepwalk to climate suicide
• Immigration scandal sinks David Cunliffe’s lea ...
  Immigration scandal sinks David Cunliffe’s leadership hopes. Immigration scandal sinks David Cunliffe’s leadership hopes
• Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
  Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader. Phil Goff to resign as Labour leader
• Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
  Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio. The contents of a viral email released this afternoon...Epsom through the eyes of Caravaggio
• Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver ...
  Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes. Phil Goff: taxpayers to “guarantee” Kiwisaver schemes

My Care2 Picks

• The Gulf of Mexico is Dying
  the BP narrative is nothing but a corporate-created illusion because the very future of the Oil & Gas Industry is at stake, as is the future of the US Empire and War-Making Machine : the GoM is filling with oil and gas Submitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!   ...
• America Wins War on Terror
  61 senators passed a version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal year 2012 that allows indefinite military detention on American soil of American citizens suspected of terrorism Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |  ...
• The Electric Car Paradox : Can We Switch to El ...
  The simple answer is no - and the complicated answer is also no. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• SOPA is a threat to American Internet leadersh ...
  The Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) a bill now before the House Judiciary Committee is a threat to Americas ability to lead the Internet, and must be defeated before it has a chance to damage Americas ability to generate jobs and economic growth. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov&#39 ...
• How SOPA would affect you (In depth) | Privacy ...
  Texas Rep Lamar Smith probably never anticipated the fierce world-wide public outrage that SOPA provoked over the last week. Such intense opposition to Internet-related law hasn't been seen since the 2003 battle for copy-protection technology in PCs. Submitted by Dan W. to US Politics & Gov& ...

Angry Indian News

• Lisbon, Portugal - A general strike not like t ...
  angry news from around the world: Lisbon, Portugal - A general strike not like the previous onesfrom Diario de Noticias and other mainstream media «The government tried to undramatize the general... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Family of Sri Lanka's jailed ex-army commander ...
  Family of Sri Lanka's jailed ex-army commander continue to seek international intervention: COLOMBO, Dec. 5 (Xinnhua) -- The family of Sri Lanka's jailed former army commander said Monday that they... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance — RT
  Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance — RT: The father of free software philosophy spoke to RT on evil developers, spying social networks, the almost-legitimacy of Anonymous hacks and the condition... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• RUSSELL TRIBUNAL ON PALESTINE Self-Determinati ...
  RUSSELL TRIBUNAL ON PALESTINE Self-Determination and Occupied Palestine Today :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]December 4, 2011It is an... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• UPDATED: Israeli campaign to attract UK touris ...
  UPDATED: Israeli campaign to attract UK tourists wipes Palestine and Syria off the map | The Electronic IntifadaUpdate: After “hundreds” of complaints, the Guardian has refused to publish subsequent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could ...
  ShareThisNAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote --Civil rights group petitions UN over 'massive voter suppression' after apparent effort to disenfranchise black and Hispanic people 05 Dec 2011 The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the ...
• US Drone on CIA Mission Before Crashing Into I ...
  ShareThisUS Drone on CIA Mission Before Crashing Into Iran: Officials 06 Dec 2011 The American stealth drone that fell into the hands of the Iranian military late last week was on a mission for the CIA when it went down, U.S. officials told ABC News today. The officials said it was unclear what ...
• Israel stole uranium from U.S., report will show
  ShareThisIsrael stole uranium from U.S., report will show 05 Dec 2011 A U.S.-based research institute will soon publish what it says is "indisputable" evidence that Israel stole weapons-grade uranium for its still-undeclared atomic weapons program from a nuclear reprocessing plant in western Pen ...
• BP says Halliburton 'intentionally destroyed e ...
  ShareThisBP says Halliburton 'intentionally destroyed evidence' after Gulf oil spill [Yeah, it's like the serial killer blaming the mass murderer.] 05 Dec 2011 BP is accusing Halliburton of having "intentionally destroyed evidence" related to the explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico ...
• Fed may give loans to IMF to bail out euro zon ...
  ShareThisFed may give loans to IMF to bail out euro zone central banks: paper 04 Dec 2011 The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said. Di ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Dustoff Helicopters: Violating Geneva Conventi ...
  They Watch our Backs 05 December 2011 The US Army is today in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan.  This was first pointed out to me by a very smart, highly experienced senior military person.  Though he has never steered me wrong, this seemed a bit much.&nbsp ...
• Tricky Business: British Forces at War
  04 December 2011 The call sign for British medical evacuation helicopters is “Tricky.”  Tricky is constantly involved with medical evacuations in Afghanistan.   Their methods vary significantly from ours.  For that matter, US Army, Air Force and Marine methods vary dramatica ...
• The Army ain’t Dumb (It’s Crazy)
  03 December 2011 Dr. Einstein said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. From World War II, we’ve heard reports that the enemy shot at Red Crosses emblazoned on medical vehicles, tents, and helmets.  The Japanese were said to specifically tar ...
• Afghanistan & Mexico
  Mission in Afghanistan with 4-4 Cav 02 December 2011 A groundswell continues within the Dustoff community to have Red Crosses removed from MEDEVAC helicopters in Afghanistan.  There is much behind the scenes work on this.  We’ve also set up a private forum to exchange information and ...
• Watching You
  01 December 2011 ComputerWorld recently interviewed me about smartphone security.  My work happens in dangerous places where a working knowledge of phone security is essential. The reality is that if you have a cell phone, many people can track you. Please read: November 30, 2011 - 11 ...

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

• Cross-Breeding Education, Agriculture, and Ste ...
  Trying to decide whether to help save a university farm that teaches the farmers of tomorrow, and engages in stem-cell research on sheep: what's a TreeHugger to do?
• Autonomous Flying Robotic Bees Build Tower in ...
  The robotic bricklayer takes to the air. Could this be the future of building?
• Proboscis Monkeys Threatened By Ecologically I ...
  Recent study shows that populations are declining 10% annually due to the way in which palm oil plantations are sited.
• Solving Climate Change With Agriculture: Alli ...
  Agro-ecology can provide a solution for global hunger and poverty, climate change, threats to biodiversity, and soil health.
• COP17 UnMerry-Go-Round: US Delays, Canada Obst ...
  The COP17 climate talks in Durban are moving into a closed-door phase of talks, with both some small encouraging but mostly discouraging developments. Let's review.

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Prison warning for ‘political’ schooling
  New law allowing private schools to open in Burma contains veiled threat over teaching material deemed subversive by authorities
• Bangladesh PM arrives in Burma
  Sheikh Hasina leads most senior-level Bangladesh delegation to Burma in eight years, and is greeted by foreign minister at the airport
• Ageing Tin Oo bows out of elections
  Veteran opposition politician says he is too old to compete in looming by-elections and will make room for younger generations
• Vatican envoy to meet with Suu Kyi
  Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino to read message from Pope Benedict XVI at ceremony to mark 100 years of Rangoon cathedral
• Key Myawaddy border crossing reopens
  Officials announce end to Burmese blockade of Mae Sot-Myawaddy trading route after 16 months of significant loss in business

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Sir David Attenborough fears his grandchildren ...
  Sir David Attenborough has said his grandchildren may not see polar bears after seeing first hand the impacts of global warming on the North Pole for the final episode of Frozen Planet.
• Sir David Attenborough fears his grandchildren ...
  Sir David Attenborough has said his grandchildren may not see polar bears after seeing first hand the impacts of global warming on the North Pole for the final episode of Frozen Planet.
• Durban climate change summit: global deal will ...
  A deal in Durban could mean jobs in Britain, argues Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth
• Durban climate change talks: developing countr ...
  The 'bizarre' view of developing and developed countries must be modernised, Chris Huhne has suggested, so that emerging economies like China take on more responsibility for climate change.
• Climate change will be good for Britain's grow ...
  Climate change will be good for British farming, according to a new Met Office report, that found most agricultural will become more productive as temperatures rise.

National Geographic | Environment

• Beam It Down: A Drive to Launch Space-Based Solar
  The first demonstration of long-awaited space-based solar power technology could come in the next decade, experts say. Likely early use: Disaster relief energy.
• 2011 Among Hottest Years, Marked by Extreme We ...
  This year also marked by extremes—including floods, droughts, and the hottest year on record for Texas—a new report says.
• Chilean Wind Farm Faces Turbulence Over Whales
  A wind farm project on the Chilean island of Chiloé raises concerns over risk to the endangered great blue whale.
• Sex With Humans Made Neanderthals Extinct?
  Fleeing advancing ice, Neanderthals increasingly encountered modern humans—and may have interbred to the point of extinction, a new study suggests.
• "Great Dying" Lasted 200,000 Years
  Wildfires and disappearing oxygen helped kill off 90 percent of all life on Earth some 252 million years ago—and fast, a new study says.

Jurist - Legal Research

• HRW report: lesbians and transgender men face ...
  [JURIST] Lesbians and transgender men in South Africa face discrimination and fear violence on a daily basis from both private individuals and government officials, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [text, PDF; press release] on Monday. The report argues that the government ha ...
• International election fraud monitor concerned ...
  [JURIST] The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) [official website] issued preliminary findings [text, PDF; press release] on Sunday stating that the Russian election was "characterized by frequent procedural violations and instances of apparent manipulation." The report ...
• EU antitrust commission to investigate Apple e ...
  [JURIST] The European Commission for Competition [official website] announced Tuesday that it will investigate Apple [corporate website] for anti-competitive practices in connection with its dealings with several publishers. The investigation is allowed by Article 11(6) of the Antitrust Regulati ...
• ICC prosecutor: DRC election violence will not ...
  [JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] said Tuesday that he will continue to monitor post-election violence [statement] in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Moreno-Ocampo said that he is in the process of re ...
• Asia-Pacific region executes more people than ...
  [JURIST] A group of 14 Asian countries in the Asia-Pacific region execute more people than the rest of the world combined, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network [advocacy website] said Monday. The report, When Justice Fails: Thousands Executed in Asia After Unfair Trials [text, PDF], argues that t ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] WikiLeaks on Canada in Iraq War - coat
• [COAT] CANSEC Arms Bazaar Protest, June 1, Ott ...
• [COAT] Put a SNAG in CANSEC: Spring Nuremberg ...
• [COAT] WikiWeapons Cda Exposes 18,888 Export C ...
• [COAT] Latest on Cda's Arms Exports & CANSEC r ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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Tikun Olam

• Iran Doomsday Clock: Four Minutes to Midnight
  You remember the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Doomsday Clock which graced its monthly cover in the 1950s?  Periodically, the organization would announce how close we were to Nuclear Midnight depending on how grave relations were between the two major nuclear powers, the Russians and U.S. Simila ...
• MK Danny Danon: Latest in Racist Legislative F ...
  If you want to check on the pulse of Israeli fashion–that is the “fashion” of Israeli racism–you can do no better than study MK Danny Danon’s legislative agenda.  I don’t usually write about individual bills since there are so many far-right imbeciles who must ...
• Links for 2011-12-04 [Digg]
  Campaign of Death Threats, Stalking and Vandalism Against Anti-Occupation Leaders Continues as Israeli Press Faces More Gag Rules | Truthout My latest report in Truthout about the massive assault on Israeli democracy including a campaign of death threats and vandalism against Peace Now activis ...
• U.S. Continues Deadly Game: Drone Beast Busted ...
  The deadly game the U.S. and Israel are playing with Iran continued today with news that a U.S. advanced technology stealth drone had fallen or been downed (depending on who you talk to) inside Iran.  The Iranians claim the vehicle was the U.S.’ most advanced Sentinel stealth drone also kn ...
• New Truthout Story on Assault on Israeli Democ ...
  I’ve just published a new piece in Truthout giving an overview of my latest reporting on the assault on Israeli democracy underway via the Knesset and Prime Minister Netanyahu.  The piece focuses on the death threats and vandalism directed at Peace Now by Dor Oved, who’s being protec ...

If Americans Knew

• Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
  Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
• The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
  To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
• Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
  In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
• Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
  US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
• Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
  Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• How Spending Stories Spots Errors in Public Sp ...
  This article was co-written by Martin Keegan, project lead for Spending Stories. How public funds should be spent is often controversial. Information about how that money has already been spent should not be ambiguous at all. People arguing about the future will care about the present, and if ...
• LocalWiki Launches First Pilot, Announces Majo ...
  Hey friends! We've got two extremely exciting announcements for you. Our first focus community, serving Denton, Texas, has launched. And we're making the first major release of the new LocalWiki software today! The LocalWiki project is an ambitious effort to create community-owned, li ...
• Public Media Should Mind the Developer Gap
  Early on in PRX's history we faced a critical decision. Do we outsource the development and maintenance of our main web application, or take the plunge and bring all coding in-house and become a technology-driven company? We took the plunge, and since then have grown an award-winning tech tea ...
• Can Ushahidi Rely on Crowdsourced Verifications?
  During the aftermath of the Chilean earthquake last year, the Ushahidi-Chile team received two reports -- one through the platform, the other via Twitter -- that indicated an English-speaking foreigner was trapped under a building in Santiago. "Please send help," the report read. "i am burie ...
• Mobile Phones Are Key to a Free Newspaper in M ...
  MobileActive recently posted a call for guest posts on its site. A version of this guest post, which was written by Janet Gunter, originally appeared on MobileActive.org's Mobile Media Toolkit blog. MobileActive chose to highlight this piece because it demonstrates how a free newspaper in Mozamb ...

Cutting Edge News

• Edge on Anti-Semitism - Vandalized Historical ...
  Jewish community leaders and University of Michigan officials at the Ann Arbor-based institution say they're pleased following the successful replacement of a damaged historic marker that commemorates the site of the state's first Jewish cemetery. In the photograph at left, Tilly Shames, associa ...
• The Arab Fall in Egypt - Egypt and the Idealis ...
  The first round of Egyptian parliamentary elections has taken place, and the winners were two Islamist parties. The Islamists themselves are split between more extreme and more moderate factions, but it is clear that the secularists who dominated the demonstrations and who were the focus of the ...
• Mideast on Edge - Fire Spreads Both Ways
  Before the Arab upheavals of 2011, the Middle East was dominated by a cold war, pitting US-aligned regional states against a self-designated “Muqawama (resistance) Axis” of states and movements led by Iran. Both these blocs still exist. Both have been in different ways diminished by the ferment ...
• Oil Addiction - Baker Institute Research Indic ...
  Despite aggressive demand-management policies announced in recent years, China's oil use could easily reach levels comparable to today's U.S. levels by 2040, according to a new energy study by the Baker Institute.The study's authors said this finding has timely significance because China's growi ...
• America on Edge - Older Floridians Have No Bac ...
  Florida is home to one of the highest percentages of residents ages 65 and older in the United States, but very few of them have thought ahead to a time when they will no longer be able to drive a vehicle safely or considered how they will get around without a car, according to a new survey deve ...

High Country News

• A ski town contributes mightily to paleontology
  The fossils found near Colorado's Snowmass Village have a lot to teach us: not just about mastodons and mammoths, but also about the climate and ecosystem that existed tens of thousands of years ago.
• A frantic lion meets the border wall
  The U.S.-Mexico border wall does nothing to stop either drugs or illegal immigrants, but it sure can frustrate roaming wildlife, including mountain lions.
• The end is near -- the end of 2011
  People should be less worried about the allegedly dire predictions of the Mayan Calendar, and concentrate on making the next year better, since we’re all on earth for a limited time anyway.
• Hunting deer on a mountain bike
  Two friends go on a fossil-fuel-free deer hunt using mountain bikes.
• Farm incubators help would-be farmers succeed ...
  Viva Farms is a "farm incubator" in Washington's Skagit Valley, helping aspiring cash-poor farmers like Nelida Martinez start and successfully operate their own businesses.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

• NAACP Whines To UN; Stop States From Checking ...
  The concept of one man one vote is essential to the freedoms of the American Republic. Allowing people to vote more than once, or allowing people to vote who by law don't have that right, partially disenfranchises those Americans who are legally voting. The weight of the legal votes is water ...
• Newsbusted Exclusive: Scientists Say Listenin ...
  Brain Freeze, that horrible feeling you get from eating your favorite frozen treat too fast, in an exclusive report from Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller, new research may prove that listening to NPR may also cause that horrible feeling (but without the good taste). Other stories covered in to ...
• Egyptian Election-The Majority Rules That Fre ...
  By Barry Rubin BIALYSTOCK: “Maybe it’s not true!” BLOOM: (mumbling): “No way out. No way out.” BIALYSTOCK: “Why don’t we go over to the theatre and see what’s really happening? After all, we’ve only heard from a small portion of the audience. Let’s hear what the majority th ...
• Holy Cow! I Agree With Ron Paul, Trump-Moderat ...
  Regular readers of this site are about read something you thought you would never find in anything written by me, but I agree with Ron Paul. In fact this time the Texas Congressman the has shown more courage than Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich. You see they all rushed to acc ...
• Obama’s Middle East Policy: A Unified Disaster ...
  by Barry Rubin In the history of physics, the “unified field theory” was an attempt to bring together an understanding of all forms of energy in a single explanation. Albert Einstein tried and failed to discover this. I don’t know much about physics but I know about Middle East policy. ...

The Real Agenda

• Global Bank Run Begins in Greece
  by Ferry Batzoglou Spiegel Online December 6, 2011 Many Greeks are draining their savings accounts because they are out of work, face rising taxes or are afraid the country will be forced to leave the euro zone. By withdrawing money, they are forcing banks to scale back their lending – and ...
• Newt Gingrich Supports Geo-engineering Fringe ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda December 6, 2011 You must have seen it already, but this week’s republican presidential front-runner, Newt Gingrich, is an avid advocate of imposing government policies on the people to help out with the “threat” global warming poses to humani ...
• Preemptive Nuclear War against Iran
  by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research December 6, 2011 The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran has been on the active drawing board of the Pentagon since 2005. If such a war were to be launched, the entire Middle East Central Asia region would flare up.  Humanity wo ...
• Does anyone care what S&P say?
  Note: S&P is a child of the same people who control the banking system. So, should anyone be surprised, scared or in any other way bothered by what this entity says? No. It is part of the scheme called artificial business cycle that the bankers themselves prop up and destroy every so often t ...
• The Evil that is Democratic Thought
  by Sartre Infowars.com December 6, 2011 The mantra that democratic rule exists in the realm of governmental affairs has proven false. The fact that deficit spending is commonplace and acceptable to their populace links the social democracies in a feudal structure that most are unwilling to ackno ...

Wind Watch

• GMP wind: Protesters halt construction, are ar ...
  Police arrested six protesters on the Kingdom Community Wind construction site in Lowell Monday morning after the protesters blockaded the ridgeline road and stopped construction. They also arrested a journalist who said he was at the site to cover the arrests. Among those arrested were: Dr. Ron ...
• Hundreds turn out to protest CAW turbine
  In a second public attempt to have their voices heard, concerned residents of Saugeen Shores and the surrounding area took part in a two hour protest outside of the CAW Family Education Centre Saturday morning. The group rallied together to show its disapproval for the wind turbine currently bei ...
• Murray abandons wind energy siting bill
  Supporters’ hopes for a long-awaited wind energy siting bill dimmed last week when Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, announced she does not support the measure. Murray mentioned the controversial Falmouth turbine and sided with those concerned the siting bill would take away loc ...
• Ontario watchdog warns on green energy costs
  The high cost of Ontario’s green energy plan may drive up electricity bills significantly in the province in the future, the government’s auditor general said in his annual report on Monday. He also said wind and solar projects launched under the province’s green energy plan ha ...
• Area to lose major tax revenue from wind devel ...
  BAD AXE — County officials learned this week that the State Tax Commission lowered the amount of personal property taxes developers pay for wind developments — resulting in the area losing more than a quarter of a million dollars next year. Huron County Board of Commissioners Chairman Ron Wruble ...

Tippers News

• Three men helped starve kids, court tol
  Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
  The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
  DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
  Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
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The Freeman

• California Governor Asks for Tax Increases
  “Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday proposed a ballot initiative that would ask Californians to raise taxes on themselves…. With many states still focused only on cuts, such a bold statement from California could reverberate nationwide – either giving other states cover to try similar measures or ...
• Postal Service Says Prepare for Slower Mail
  “It may still be called ‘first class,’ but under changes proposed Monday the US Postal Service says delivery of stamped mail will become slower.” (Christian Science Monitor) So at least repeal the laws against competition. FEE Timely Classic “First-Class Mail, Third-Class Compe ...
• Destroying Childhood to Save Children
  Laws that mandate the reporting of any suspicious contact with children will result in a dramatic increase in false or malicious accounts that harm innocent people.
• French, German Leaders to Work on Saving Euro
  “German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on her way to Paris on Monday morning to plan a critical week for the future of the euro currency with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Over lunch, the two leaders are expected to hammer out the details of the treaty changes that will push European cou ...
• Teetering Postal Service to Degrade First-Clas ...
  “Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day.” (Washington Times) Close it down already ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• 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 ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Kenya's Incursion in Somalia
  While the exact motives of all the players involved are hard to discern, many people are being endangered as Kenya chases al-Shabaab in Somalia.
• Congo: Holding Its Breath
  Elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are expected to be deeply flawed, and a number of situations could lead to further violence and unrest in the war-torn country.
• Progress in Sierra Leone, but Not for the Youth
  President Koroma has improved electricity supply, healthcare and roads in Sierra Leone, but the country's young people have not received the education or opportunities they need.
• Land Grabs and the World Bank
  Farmers in developing countries are seeing their land taken from them and sold off to investors, and the World Bank is playing a hand in the deals.
• Childbirth in Developing Countries
  Maternal deaths occur at a rate 300 times higher in developing countries than in the developed world. International health initiatives are working to address the problem.

Telegraph UK - oil

• The owl who flew 2,000 miles - but finally arr ...
  Exhausted and a hundred miles from land, a migrating owl made a wise move - he landed on a North Sea gas rig.
• Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollut ...
  Industrial scars: aerial photographs of pollution by J Henry Fair.
• New Zealand: oil leaks and cargo topples off s ...
  Fears stricken cargo ship may break up and cause environmental disaster.
• Oil leak from container ship Rena is New Zeala ...
  Oil leak from container ship is New Zealand's worst maritime disaster.
• Libya: the minister, the Tory donor and a cont ...
  An oil firm whose chief executive has bankrolled the Conservatives won exclusive rights to trade with Libyan rebels during the conflict, following secret talks involving the British Government.

Ian Welsh

• The blindingly obvious about the proposed fisc ...
  What it means is German control over other countries budgets.  What that means is semi-permanent austerity.  What that means is semi-permanent depression. I somehow doubt that this will be accomplished, if it is accomplished, through referenda.  I doubt any major party will stand against it.  So ...
• The blindingly obvious about the proposed fisc ...
  What it means is German control over other countries budgets.  What that means is semi-permanent austerity.  What that means is semi-permanent depression. I somehow doubt that this will be accomplished, if it is accomplished, through referenda.  I doubt any major party will stand against it.  So ...
• Public opinion is irrelevant
  When Occupy started, there were polls that showed the public supported it.  Later, polls showed that support had dropped and a majority no longer supported Occupy.  In the first case progressives were pleased, in the second upset. I didn’t care either time.  Repeat after me: Public opinion ...
• Public opinion is irrelevant
  When Occupy started, there were polls that showed the public supported it.  Later, polls showed that support had dropped and a majority no longer supported Occupy.  In the first case progressives were pleased, in the second upset. I didn’t care either time.  Repeat after me: Public opinion ...
• What’s happening in Europe is what matters: ru ...
  The oligarchs have taken down two governments in the past two weeks – Italy and Greece.  The idea that the Mario Monti, the new PM of Italy, is something wonderful, is deranged.  Note that once again, neither an election nor a referendum was allowed. If you want to save the Euro and some f ...

Media Consortium

• The Media Consortium » The Big Thaw
• Corporations Are Not People -- In These Times
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• Private prison company’s growth went hand-in-h ...
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• Montana AG warns of return to rampant corporat ...
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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Finding Kepler's unwanted Jupiters
  The NASA Kepler mission has found scores of Jupiter-sized candidate planets in other solar systems -- but mostly, they have been so-called hot Jupiters, those that tightly hug their host stars in short period orbits. A true Jupiter analogue, however, one with a period of 12 years, just as in our ...
• How bedbugs came back, with a vengeance
  Bedbugs suck — blood mostly, but they are also a costly problem, says Rajeev Vaidyanathan of SRI International in Menlo Park, California, who led a series of talks on the creepy parasites at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Philadelphia today. New York City has repor ...
• Turkish scientists form breakaway academy
  Posted on behalf of Alison Abbott Following a decree on 27 August that brought the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) under government management (see ‘A very Turkish coup’), nearly half of its 138 members have resigned, protesting the loss of the academy’s independence. On 2 December, 17 ...
• Brazil: Amazon deforestation declines to recor ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell yet again and hit a record low for the third straight year, Brazilian scientists reported Tuesday, providing the world with a pleasant surprise that runs counter to reports of localized spikes in land clearing earlier this year. The estimate for def ...
• The Dead (and departed) Sea
  Sediments pulled up from a drilling project in the Dead Sea suggest that the salty lake completely disappeared about 120,000 years ago, a finding that violates assumptions long held by scientists. The results, reported at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on 5 December ...

new geography

• Illinois: State Of Embarrassment
  Most critics of Barack Obama’s desultory performance the past three years trace it to his supposedly leftist ideology, lack of experience and even his personality quirks. But it would perhaps be more useful to look at the geography — of Chicago and the state of Illinois — that nurtured his ...
• Wall Street Plays Occupy White House
  Wall Street is disdained in the court of public opinion — detested by the tea party on the right and the Occupy movement on the left. The public blames financial plutocrats for America’s economic plight more than either President Barack Obama or former President George W. Bush. Less than ...
• It's Not the 1980s in Britain Anymore
  Britain’s public sector workers came out on a one day strike last week over government plans to raid their pension funds. Government ministers did the rounds of television studios denouncing the strikers as mindless militants. Both sides are echoing the class struggles of the Thatcher-era, b ...
• The Evolving Urban Form: Quanzhou
  Quanzhou? Quanzhou (pronounced "CHWEN-JOE"), despite its urban population that is approaching 5 million this urban area is so unfamiliar to Westerners and the rest of the world as to require an introduction. Quanzhou is a prefecture ("shi") in China's Fujian province. Fuj ...
• Is Suburbia Doomed? Not So Fast.
  This past weekend the New York Times devoted two big op-eds to the decline of the suburb. In one, new urban theorist Chris Leinberger said that Americans were increasingly abandoning “fringe suburbs” for dense, transit-oriented urban areas. In the other, UC Berkeley professor Louise Mozingo ...

GM Watch

• EU chief scientist a GM evangelist
  NOTE: EU President Barroso's new 'independent' chief scientific adviser is a genetic engineer and GMO evangelist, as this 2006 coverage of her role as Scotland's chief scientific adviser makes clear. Happily, her impact on Scotland, which introduced a moratorium on trials and commercial cultivat ...
• Studies on GMO risk assessment
  ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: TWN Biosafety Info Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 12:14 AM Title : Studies on GMO Risk Assessment Date : 06 December 2011 THIRD WORLD NETWORK BIOSAFETY INFORMATION SERVICE Dear Friends and colleagues, RE: Studies on GMO Ris ...
• Biotech firm may release GM mosquitoes in US
  Guinea pigs for mosquitoes? Wenonah Hauter Sun-Sentinel (Florida, USA), December 5 2011 http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2011-12-05/news/fl-mosquito-season-forum-20111205_1_oxitec-mosquito-population-asian-tiger Mosquito season is waning, but a futuristic new swarm could be coming to a canal ne ...
• GM risks loom for wheat industry
  GM risks loom for wheat industry Helen Gibbons The Canberra Times, 6 December 2011 http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/gm-risks-loom-for-wheat-industry/2382465.aspx?storypage=0&mid=547 Australia is heading at breakneck speed towards the commercialisation of geneticall ...
• Former Monsanto lobbyist's dark arts exposed
  1.Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM 2.Monsanto's lobby firm pays key MP NOTE: See also our profile of David Hill http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/David_Hill http://www.lobbywatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=177 --- --- 1.Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how ...

spiked

• Getting the rioters to do their dirty work
  The Guardian’s study of the August riots is pure advocacy research, designed to harness the power of riotous menace to chattering-class causes.
• When it comes to abortion, why wait?
  Women who choose to terminate a pregnancy have a moral obligation to do it as early as possible.
• Time for an injection of common sense
  Groups opposed to modern agriculture are using scare stories to try to have antibiotics banned on farms.
• The IPCC exposed: political to its core
  A new book demolishes the neutral, scientific façade of the UN’s climate change body and reveals its real, debate-ending purpose.
• Football can’t be reduced to number-crun ...
  Moneyball shows how statistics helped to change baseball. But maths won’t deliver football silverware.

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

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

Desertification

• After terrible drought, now Kenya is innundate ...
  Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa-emerges/rains-come-east-africa Rains come to East Africa Tristan McConnell The meteorologists say that East Africa had the worst rainfall in 60 years this year triggering a ca ...
• Desertification in Mongolia (Google / Facebook)
  Seen at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.253640584683799.56975.241485455899312&type=1 Desertification in Mongolia Photo Contest 2011  
• Desertification in Chile (Google / Blue Channel)
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.bluechannel24.com/?p=8234 Experts discuss desertification in Chile to climate change scenarios Worldwide, Chile is one of the countries most affected by the advance of the Desert, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought involvement ...
• From abandoned athletic field into organic sch ...
  Read at : http://www.naturalnews.com/034319_school_food_fresh_produce_garden.html School turns abandoned athletic field into organic garden that grows thousands of pounds of produce to serve in cafeteria Sunday, December 04, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer A Denver, Co., public school has s ...
• Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertifi ...
  Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/essem/Actions/ES1104 ESSEM COST Action ES1104 Arid Lands Restoration and Combat of Desertification: Setting Up a Drylands and Desert Restoration Hub Descriptions are provided by the Actions directly via e-COST. The ...

The Paper Trail

• Pro-Perry ‘super PAC’ biggest presidential spe ...
  With a $550,692 ad buy, a group that is backing Texas Gov. Rick Perry for the Republican nomination for president has become the top spender among so-called presidential “super PACs” – for now, anyway.“Make Us Great Again, Inc.” has spent more than $1.47 million since its formation on July 28 bu ...
• Obama channels Roosevelt, seeks "fair shot" fo ...
  Seeking to channel the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, President Obama skewered his ideological foes Tuesday for abetting and condoning a new Gilded Age of greed, economic inequality and vanishing opportunity for the working families of America.“This is the defining issue of our time,” Obama told a c ...
• Hotter, drier, meaner: Trends point to a plane ...
  A host of data – from sediment cores to ongoing drought in East Africa to computer models – point to one conclusion: Our increasingly hotter, drier planet is going to be a tough place to farm.
• Center stands firmly behind its award-winning ...
  A story in Politico today raises questions about The Center for Public Integrity’s investigative reporting practices as these relate to our 2010 Looting the Seas project on the massive global black market in blue fin tuna.
• FACT CHECK: Gingrich's evolution on climate change
  Newt Gingrich went too far when he claimed that “I’ve never favored cap-and-trade.”It’s true he’s never favored the approach taken by Democrats, but he said in 2007 that he would “strongly support” cap-and-trade if combined with “a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions”.Furthermor ...

backofthebook.ca

• 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 ...

libcom

• Chinese police arrest strikers
  shanghai.jpg Police in Shanghai have arrested around a dozen workers following ongoing strike action at an electronics factory. The arrests resulted from workers blockading heav ...
• Action against shady temp agency and campaign ...
  zamknacmix[1].jpg Karol M. has been in a coma since November 3. That's when he had an accident at his construction job in Warsaw. To the horror of his family, it turned out that Karol was never g ...
• The Atlanta Solidarity Network Continues Winni ...
  ASOL keeps up it's perfect record with another victory! A few weeks ago, ASOL received a phone call from “N.” - a part-time employee of Key Lime Pie Hair Salon. She expressed, over the voicemail, that she had heard of ASOL from a ...
• N30 strike: live updates
  n30strike[1].jpg Updates and accounts of the massive November 30 strike against cuts, particularly of public sector pensions. Please post your news and accounts of your day below. ...
• Italy: austerity is violence on the bodies of ...
  occupypatriarchycollage.jpg In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call ut initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students, precarious workers and mig ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Life in a carbon neutral world…
  There’s a great Story from the New York Times / International Herald and Tribune about a 28 year old product designer from Luxembourg attempting to live a carbon neutral life in Barcelona, Spain. Her story is at certainly inspiring, although sometimes uncomfortable to read about… who ...
• BPA, Phthalates, Toxic Plastic Bottles, Sippy ...
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• Green Spring Cleaning!
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• Food Miles – how far your food travels & ...
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• Getting real about energy production & reduction
  Here’s a great video from a Cambridge University Physicist David Mackay. He’s discussing practical ways of measuring domestic power consumption, ways of producing energy, and he debate about replacing traditional fossil fuels based methods of producing electricity with more sensible ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
  In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.
• Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
  Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
• Samantha Nutt, doctor and author (Oct 22, 2011)
  Dr. Nutt discusses the challenges of delivering aid effectively.
• Dr. Ann McKee, Neuropathologist, Bedford VA Me ...
  Peter is in the lab with Dr. Ann McKee, one of the key researchers in degenerative brain disease, and finds out what she's learning from the head trauma suffered by fallen former athletes.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (O ...
  Peter sits down with Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney about the growing concern over the financial crisis in Europe and what it could mean for Canada.

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

• Washington Should Follow Laissez-Faire
  If I didn't know better I'd swear Washington is out to destroy Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the ...
  NATO's invasion of Libya was about corporatism, not the safety of the Libyan people.
• Why Was al-Awlaki Denied His Constitutional Ri ...
  Everyone understands that Anwar al-Awlaki was denied his constitutional rights as an American citizen. The question is, why?
• A Return to the Gold Standard is a Must
  The gold standard is not only constitutional, it is necessary to cure what's ailing our economy.
• Revisionism is Alive and Well
  In the final analysis, Ronald Reagan was a big government liberal.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Israel May Be as Threatened by a Rational Iran ...
  Israeli war hawks and the Americans who enable them are refining their justification for attacking Iran.
• Medal of Honor Winner Pays for Balking at Equi ...
  In effect, Medal of Honor Dakota Meyers was blackballed by the defense industry for his ethics.
• Are 24 Pakistani Soldiers Dead Because of the ...
  Was the NATO attack that killed 25 Pakistani soldiers an accident or an attempt to torpedo peace talks?
• Is the Success of Israel's Attack on Osirak a ...
  Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor may have actually accelerated Iraq's nuclear-weapons program.
• Chinese Tunnels: And We're Worried About Iran' ...
  China's nuclear tunnels are exponentially more alarming than Iran's underground uranium enrichment facilities.

Law.com

• Latest Chevron Outtake: 'They're All Corrupt!'
  Donziger muses 'The judicial system is so utterly weak' in Corporate Counsel's latest release of outtakes from the documentary Crude.
• Minus Kagan, Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask' Po ...
  In an order Friday, the Supreme Court denied a motion aimed at allowing a worldwide ban on enforcement of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military to take effect.
• MGA Loses Effort to Stall Trial in Fee Fight W ...
  A Los Angeles judge issued a tentative ruling Friday denying toymaker MGA Entertainment's efforts to stay a lawsuit that was filed by its former lawyers at O'Melveny & Myers.
• Proskauer and English Firm End Their Merger Di ...
  Proskauer Rose and SJ Berwin said Friday they had decided against merging, putting to an end months of speculation about a possible trans-Atlantic tie-up between the two law firms. The firms in a joint statement said "we recognized that the timetable necessary to reach the agreements that would ...
• IRS Throws In Towel on Closely Watched Interna ...

Iranian.com

• Refiners Prepare for Iran Oil Embargo
  LONDON—European refiners are weighing the impact of a possible embargo on Iranian oil, the spokesman for their Brussels-based industry group said Friday, a day after the EU broadened sanctions on Iran but stopped short of an embargo. "We are consulting our members to evaluate" it, a s ...
• Iran says oil would go over $250 if exports ba ...
  TEHRAN — Iran warned the West on Sunday any move to block its oil exports would more than double crude prices with devastating consequences on a fragile global economy. read more
• عکس: احمدی نژاد در جمع عزاداران حسيني
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• China must protect Iran even with WWIII
  A professor from the Chinese National Defense University says if Iran is attacked, China will not hesitate to protect the Islamic Republic even by launching the Third World War. Major General Zhang Zhaozhong said, "China will not hesitate to protect Iran even with a third World War." ...
• بازنده بزرگ انتخابات مجلس خامنه ای و جناح راست ...
  جناح‌های مختلف راست به جان هم افتاده اند چون نتوانسته اند و نمی‌توانند اصلاحات و جنبش سبز را حذف کنند و نه تنها نمی‌توانند حذف کنند بلکه این جنبش به عنصر تعیین کننده انتخابات آینده تبدیل شده است.

Most Revolutionary Act

• The 2011 New Zealand Elections
  Green Party co-leaders Russel Norman and Metiria Turei Owing to a longstanding conviction that true political power rest in corporate boardrooms, prior to coming to New Zealand I viewed electoral politics as a waste of time. For the best part of 30 years, I have devoted my limited leisure time t ...
• Paying the Piper
  (This is the last of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The Solution to the $100 Trillion Global Debt There seems to be broad agreement among both classical corporate economists and latter day non-corporate ones that the $100 trillion global debt is s ...
• The Deadly Sin of Monetization
  President Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 (this is the 3rd of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic system) In New Zealand, the spotlight the Occupy movement has thrown on the global banking system has revived the monetization debate in a way that isn’t happening in ...
• Guess Who’s Printing Money?
  (This is the second of four posts debunking the myths we are told about the global economic crisis.) The government finances its $15 trillion debt by selling US Treasury Bonds. As of November 2011, China is no longer the largest holder of US Treasury Bonds. The US taxpayer (via the Federal Reser ...
• Fairy Tale Economics
      Unpacking the Lies About the Global Economic Crisis The only way I know to make sense of the global economic crisis is to assume, until proven otherwise, that everything Obama, Wall Street and the corporate media tell us is a lie. The economy Obama, US Treasury Secretary Tim G ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

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

Salon

• Why I sought to modify Dodd-Frank
  I know that writers, even good ones, sometimes address questions like, "Why do liberals aid the 1 percent?" to the general blogosphere rather than to the subject about whom they are about to theorize. That way they can imagine the answer that best feeds their postulate. However, as one of the li ...
• The new Cold War
  When it comes to China policy, is the Obama administration leaping from the frying pan directly into the fire? In an attempt to turn the page on two disastrous wars in the Greater Middle East, it may have just launched a new Cold War in Asia -- once again, viewing oil as the key to global suprem ...
• An ambassador smeared
  The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, is facing an intense campaign by hardline pro-Israel voices in the U.S. who want him fired over remarks he made about anti-Semitism late last month.Gutman, an Obama fundraiser turned ambassador, as well as a Jew and child of a Holocaust survivor, wa ...
• Jon Stewart sadly bids farewell to Herman Cain
  When Jon Stewart watched Herman Cain announce on Saturday that he would suspend his campaign, the comedian didn't see what many of the rest of us saw -- a bizarre, overlong, bewildering spectacle, replete with the sort of insane antics and half-baked rhetorical devices (read: a reference to the ...
• What Herman Cain cost Ginger White
  The velocity of political sex scandals these days is such that you can barely register the principals as they parade on and off the television set. It's a weird form of mercy. But even if there's no reason to pretend that Herman Cain matters anymore, it's worth stopping for a moment and ponderin ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Getting it right on green energy
  The Ontario government must do a far better job in ensuring that details of green energy projects live up to its rhetoric.
• A brawler’s world of hurt
  For six seasons Derek Boogaard was one of hockey's most feared enforcers. At 28, he had brain damage, and was addicted to painkillers. One more reason to ban fighting. ...
• Let the light shine in
  Ontario’s health minister must shed light on the complicated corporate structure that allows the province’s air ambulance service to keep executive salaries confidential. ...
• A roundhouse kick to common sense
  Ultimate fighting has good lessons for kids, according to Councillor Doug Ford, including the value of disciple and respect. Pity about the violence.
• Drugs put seniors at risk
  Too many pills and not enough supervision add up to bad medicine for Canada’s seniors.

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.

EU Times

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

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Drone lost in Iran operated by CIA
  Washington Post: The unmanned surveillance plane lost by the United States in Iran was a stealth aircraft being used for secret missions by the CIA, U.S. officials said Monday.  The officials said Iranâs military appears to be in possession of one of the more sensitive surveillance platforms in ...
• Walter’s Isaacson’s Steve Jobs Biography Is Am ...
  Having rocketed to the top of the book charts in October following the death of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s authorized Steve Jobs biography has quickly become Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011. The company predicted the book would become a best-seller back in October, when an Amazon spokeswo ...
• Ryan Gosling Gets Love From Eva Mendes and Eve ...
  Ryan Gosling joined his Gangster Squad costar Josh Brolin on set in LA yesterday afternoon. Even in period costume, Ryan looked hot as he posed, smoked, and swigged from a prop flask. Ryan's back in California working with Josh after a romantic trip to Paris over Thanksgiving with a different c ...
• Rockies Acquire Kevin Slowey From Twins
  According to a report from MLB.com's Thomas Harding , Kevin Slowey is now a member of the Colorado Rockies : The Rockies have agreed to acquire right-handed pitcher Kevin Slowey from the Twins for a player to be named. The deal will be announced officially sometime Tuesday morning. In the past, ...
• âEye-Huntingâ in Cairo: The Militaryâs Assault ...
  Human Rights Watch December 2, 2011 "(Cairo) - Dozens of eye injuries from rubber bullets have marked the crackdown on protesters in Tahrir Square. â Eye-hunters ,â Egyptians are calling the armed police who aim at head-level. Besides the physical damage, thereâs a sinister symbolism about it. ...

Groklaw

• Dont Do It! New Siri Port H1Siri Is Illegal, B ...
  iPhone jailbreakers should probably stay away from the latest Siri port, dubbed H1Siri, which brings Apple's digital assistant to the iPhone 4. The new hack comes from a group of Chinese hackers calling themselves the "CD-Dev Team." According to the team's account on Weibo (a Chinese microbloggi ...
• RIAA and AAP File Amicus Brief in Righthaven A ...
  The Association of American Publishers and the Recording Industry Association of America have decided to cozy up to a copyright troll, filing an amicus brief [PDF] in the Ninth Circuit appeal of Righthaven v. Hoehn. The Hoehn case is one of many decisions where a district court dismissed the ca ...
• Gary McKinnon gets MPs' backing in extradition ...
  In the debate, Raab said: "At root it is about the injustice in dispatching someone with Asperger's syndrome hundreds of miles from home on allegations of computer hacking when he was apparently searching for unidentified flying objects. Gary McKinnon should not be treated like some gangland mob ...
• IDC predicts PC users won't upgrade to Windows ...
  Microsoft's Windows 8 is still a year away, but IDC is already predicting that the new release will be "largely irrelevant" to conventional PC users and that its ability to sell tablets will be "disappointing." While bullish about Microsoft's prospects for selling server editions of the new Win ...
• Dell kills off its last Android tablet in the US
  From here, Dell will move on to making Windows 8 tablets when the operating system launches next year. Speaking at the Dell World 2011 conference, Michael Dell, the company's CEO, said that "the Android market has not developed the expectations [Dell] would have had." [PJ: Say, what? Others are ...

WideShut

• Chris Morris Discusses the New Wolrd Order: 12 ...
  Keelan talks Climate Gate 2.0 emails, and is then joined by Chris Morris author of The Anglo-American Establishment and the Emerging Global Corporate State.
• November 21, 2011, WideShut Webcast
  Keelan discusses the arrest of Gaddafi's son, the Euro Crisis, Global Warming alarmism, Monsanto and more.
• Flu Jab Secrecy: 11/07/2011 WideShut Webcast
  This week: The secrecy surrounding the seasonal flu jab and its contents, and Miliband jumps on Occupy.
• Israel Poised To Strike Iran
  Despite no evidence that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, Israel is poised to launch an attack and the West is ready to go along with it.
• Euro Crisis, China, Occupy: 10/31/2011 WideShu ...
  Keelan discusses the EU crisis, China & the New World Order, the latest from Occupy and more.

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• One dead in truck crash in Hawke's Bay
  One person is dead and another is in a serious condition after a truck accident tonight.
• Power cut to thousands in Christchurch after s ...
  Around 12,000 Christchurch households were plunged into darkness tonight.
• Gun held to employee's head in Wellington arme ...
  Wellington police are hunting two men who robbed an Indian restaurant and held a gun to an employee's head
• Aussies outraged after Kiwi tourist throws bri ...
  A New Zealand tourist almost killed a crocodile after he threw bricks into its enclosure at an Alice Springs reptile centre, the centre's owner says
• Dozens evacuated in Hawke's Bay as wild weathe ...
  Dozens of people have been evacuated as the North Island continues to be battered by strong winds and rain.

Just World News

• Further thoughts on Syria, Turkey, and democracy
  This Monday, Nov. 28, I'll be speaking at a 2pm symposium in Washington DC on the topic "The Future of Syria: Political Turmoil and Prospects of Democracy". It is organized by SETA-DC, the Washington DC branch of the Ankara-based SETA (Foundation for Economic, Political and Social Research.) Als ...
• Palestine 1948 at the University of Virginia
  On Saturday, I was delighted to attend the first two sessions of a half-day conference held at the University of Virginia on the topic '1948 in Palestine.' The main speakers at those sessions were Susan Akram of Boston University Law School and Rochelle Davis of Georgetown University. Both tho ...
• Making sense of Syria
  I have so many questions swirling around my head about what's been happening in Syria. One is why the AK government in Turkey didn't take my great advice and play a leadership role in trying to broker a serious, negotiated transition to democracy in Syria, but instead has been giving ever strong ...
• World history at warp speed
  So the Arab world is not the only place where history has been speeding up a lot in recent months and years... (Whatever happened to Mr. Frank 'End of History' Fukuyama? We don't hear a lot from him these days, do we?) This week, the Mediterranean Basin has seen three very significant gathering ...
• The Arab Spring at Nine Months
  What a whirlwind nine months it's been for the Arab world. As I wrote at a much earlier point in this phenomenon called the 'Arab Spring', it is as if some tremor in the long-frozen tectonic plates of the region's political geography had suddenly burst through all those plates, freeing up waves ...

frogblog

• Corporate welfare at its worst
  It seems that National is using the confidence and supply agreement with its former MP John Banks acting as an ACT Party MP to push through some silly ideologically driven policies and hope that the terminal ACT rather than National cops the blame for them when the wheels fall off. Among those p ...
• Swiss copyright report on time
  The Swiss Government has just completed a new copyright report where the overall conclusion is that the current copyright law, under which downloading copyrighted material for personal use is permitted, doesn’t have to change. As Cory Doctorow points out “It’s a rare victory for evidence-b ...
• General debate, December 6, 2011
• Judicially Empowering the Africans: The New IC ...
  Luis Moreno Ocampo, the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) had arguably the toughest single job in the world. Mrs Fatou Bensouda, Ocampo’s Deputy since 2004, has just won the right to succeed her boss. Bensouda, a former attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwan ...
• Fonterra’s fencing rule a step in the ri ...
  I want to congratulate Fonterra for announcing that all waterways on Fonterra farms must be fenced within 18 months as condition of supply. This is a positive step in addressing our declining water quality. Previously Fonterra farmers were encouraged to fence off their waterways as part of the v ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• Why is This Soda's Evil Twin?
  By Dr. Mercola Half of the U.S. population over the age of 2 now consumes sugary drinks on a daily basis -- and this figure does not even include 100% fruit juices, flavored milk or sweetened teas, all of which are sugary too, which means the figure is actually even higher. Many people mista ...
• If You Go to Church, Heed This Warning
  By Dr. Mercola Recently the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, held an invitation-only call. The call was co-sponsored by the U.S. Health and Human Services, the Office of Minority Health, and CDC. Conspicuously, the end of the invitation read: “This call ...
• If You're Tired or Constipated, This "Unusual ...
  By Dr. Mercola Research indicates that supplementing with probiotics (good bacteria) is probably more important than taking a multivitamin, and this is due to the profound role gut bacteria play in your health. Many are not aware that the microbes in your gut influence far more than your dig ...
• Global Diabetes Epidemic Rages On
  By Dr. Mercola Worldwide, more than 346 million people have diabetes, and deaths from this disease are expected to double by 2030, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). With type 2 diabetes now so incredibly common, some may regard a diagnosis as "no big deal" … but this disease ...
• You'll Ignore Conventional Health Advice - Onc ...
  According to Abramoff, in order to have even a remote chance of ending this kind of corruption, we must first prohibit all members of Congress and their staff from ever becoming a lobbyist after their service on the Hill is over… The good news is that increasing numbers of people are now wakin ...

JAMA

• Should Patients Get Direct Access to Their Lab ...
• Current Comment [JAMA 100 Years Ago]
• MEDICINE AND SOCIOLOGY [JAMA 100 Years Ago]
• QuickStats: Term Infant Mortality Rates, by Ra ...
• Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks-- ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Intervention is needed to stop bullies
  Lady Gaga has set up a foundation. The CNN's Anderson Cooper did special programming. Suddenly we are swamped by stories about bullying.
• Keep religious symbols out of civic displays
  Some bad vibes have been going around during what is supposed to be the season of joy, not the silly season.
• Intervention is needed to stop bullies
  is a broadcaster and columnist, as well as director of the Tolerance Foundation, a group that works in schools to counter discrimination and bullying.
• Keep religious symbols out of civic displays
  Controversy over yuletide decorations in public spaces has become recurrent in recent years as Canada's population has grown more ethnically diverse and fewer of us have cultural roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
• Sheldon Alberts: Cain Train stops, but GOP cam ...
  The great W Republican pretender is gone, back to the cable news chatterbox, back to conservative talk radio, back to whatever limited audience of true believers still remains for his '9-9-9,' Cain Train nonsense.

Food World Order

• chick-fil-a files trademark lawsuit against 'e ...
  trademark flap more complex than simple slogan* from youtube: Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin and Eat More Kale creator Bo Muller-Moore discuss the trademark lawsuit between the small Montpelier-based business and Chick-fil-A, a fast-food chain restaurant with locations around the country.
• hershey's, kraft top research & development ch ...
  from warc: Hershey's, Kraft and the Kellogg Company are the firms seen as having the best innovation programmes by US consumers, a study has revealed. The Temkin Group, the consultancy, surveyed 5,000 people, asking panellists how likely they would be to try new goods and services rolled out by ...
• 'stuff a bus' campaign helps out edmonton food ...
  from inews880: The Edmonton Food Bank still has a long way to go in its goal of raising 225,000 kilograms of food for the Christmas and Festive Campaign, but the ETS Stuff a Bus campaign has sure helped out. Food Bank Executive Director Marjorie Bencz says they spent several hours unloading over ...
• oregon food stamps used for starbucks frappuccinos
  flashback: oregon tops nation in food stamp use* from foxnews: Oregon Trail Cards -- which are part of the state's food stamp program -- can be used to purchase luxury coffee concoctions at Starbucks counters inside grocery stores, investigators from Fox 12 in Oregon have discovered. With th ...
• 12/1 binge & purge: probe, trap, addict
  nestle 'sure' child labour occurs in supply chain, allows probe* major organic seed company owned by pro-gmo group* food production must cut fossil-fuel dependence, fao says* 'energy smart' agriculture needed to escape fossil fuel trap* family says in-flight meal killed flier* con ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

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

CASSE

• Storage Nation
  Is there a more surreal industry than self storage when viewed from the steady-state perspective?
• A Mindful Path to a Steady State Economy
  Rick Heller explains how to substitute mindfulness for greed in the transition to a new economy.
• Ten Turkeys for Thanksgiving
  Brent Blackwelder urges you to carve up a Golden Fleece Turkey or two.
• Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare
  Good and bads, wealth and illth -- economic growth produces them all. But how big are the bads and how damaging is the illth?
• Presenting the Economic Policy of the Occupy M ...
  Occupiers need to unite around a macroeconomic goal -- and the right goal is a steady state economy.

The Talking Clock

• Achtung, EuroCrash! We're all "conspiracy theo ...
  Once upon a time, there was a sinister hidden government. It did not start out as a government but rather, it started out as a dark group of people with sinister concealed objectives. A group of careful liars and confidence tricksters, they started wrapping octopus like tentacles around natio ...
• The unlawful killing of Princess Diana: Did 'H ...
  As the better read amongst you know, an inquest jury - on hearing months of evidence into the circumstances surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales - ruled that our Princess was the victim of 'unlawful killing'. While those unidentified culprits in and on 'pursuing vehicles' still e ...
• The Luhnatics are running the village
  Within forty-eight hours of learning that Chris Huhne and his part-time pals of the socialist Conservative Party are giving away £1billion of our money to "help Africa fight climate change" (rebranded from 'man made global warming' after a lack of warming and some sexed up science dossiers)... ...
• When MSM hit-pieces backfire: Hundreds descend ...
  Oh dear. The Daily Mail really has become the Daily Fail. While we quite often like reading some of their articles, when they get things wrong and misjudge their audience... it's shit and fan time. And so it was that, on the day the Daily Mail took it's cue from The Sun and attempted to ge ...
• Thatcher and the sick minds of 'the left'
  In a curious twist of fate today, the Daily Mail reveals that there are plans for a state funeral honour for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - news that comes on the same day as plainly wrong rumours of her passing have circulated. The rumours, which achieved some traction on some soc ...

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 ...

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

• Today on New Scientist: 6 December 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: science leads the fight for free speech and the latest from the UN climate talks in Durban
• Long-lost bumblebee is back
  A bumblebee not seen since 1956 has been rediscovered after being spotted on a roadside in New Mexico
• Durban climate deal is limping, but not dead yet
  As ministers arrive in Durban for the final days of talks, a successor to the Kyoto protocol could still be agreed – but what will it look like?
• Durban 2011: Urgent warning on tropical defore ...
  Tropical deforestation contributes roughly twice as much to global warming as recent estimates suggest, but talks to halt it have stalled
• No, global warming hasn't stopped
  Like a game of scientific whack-a-mole, some nonsensical statements just keep bouncing back - like the claim that "global warming stopped in 1998"

Tech Drive In

• Creative Ubuntu Unity TV Mockups You Must See
  Among other big ticket announcements during recently concluded Ubuntu Developer Summit(UDS) was the news of Ubuntu Unity's foray into Mobile and TV space. This was an exciting development to everyone in the community and user-contributed design mockups have been pouring in ever since. We had f ...
• World of Goo for Android Phones, Tablets Released!
  We had informed you about the imminent arrival of award winning World of Goo puzzle game for Android based smartphones and tablets few weeks back. Now it's here and it is already getting some rave reviews from users and reviewers alike. World of Goo for Android is Here! ...
• Linux Mint 12 Lisa Review: Magnificent is the ...
  Linux Mint, the venerable Ubuntu based Linux distro, is in the news again. Linux Mint 12 codenamed "Lisa" is finally released. It based on GNOME 3.0 and runs GNOME Shell with some ingenious tweaks of its own. Detailed review of Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" OS. Read on. Linux Mint 12 Rev ...
• SwipePad: A Must Have App for Every Android Device
  SwipePad is a simple application that lets you launch any app with a single swipe action from within any other app. Upon being recommended by a friend of mine, SwipePad was one of those applications I installed immediately after receiving my first Android phone. Since then, SwipePad has become ...
• "Android Started Before iPhone": How True is That?
  How much Apple's founder Steve Jobs hated Android is evident from his last conversations with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs claimed that Android was a rip-off of Apple's iOS and that he will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, to destroy And ...

Case About Bird Flu

• CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANCY RULES IS NEEDED TO PREVE ...
  *SIMPLE CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANCY RULES CAN DEFUSE EURO DEBT BOMB *UNICREDIT BANK ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSE *AUSTRIAN BANKS HAVE BALANCE SHEETS FOUR TIMES LARGER THAN THE TOTRAL ECONOMIC OUTPUT As the euro currency union teeters on the brink of financial meltdown, it is worth considering a simple cha ...
• “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” : ORDER YOUR C ...
  It’s ready!   The political thriller “The Fourth Empire” explains the secrets of how our financial system really works, and it is ready for you to order today.  The book strips back the veil to show you how finance is being used by a global elite to drive the people of Europe, the USA and [...]
• “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” : ORDER YOUR C ...
  It’s ready!   The political thriller “The Fourth Empire” explains the secrets of how our financial system really works, and it is ready for you to order today.  The book strips back the veil to show you how finance is being used by a global elite to drive the people of Europe, the USA and [...]
• “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” – DOWNLO ...
  “Europe is at economic war, and Germany is winning,” Anatole Kaletsky wrote in The Times last week. When most people think of war, they think of soldiers, weapons and equipment.  But finance is also a method of conquering nations. Ordinary people in the USA, UK andEurope are now being impoverish ...
• “THE FOURTH EMPIRE” – DOWNLO ...
  “Europe is at economic war, and Germany is winning,” Anatole Kaletsky wrote in The Times last week. When most people think of war, they think of soldiers, weapons and equipment.  But finance is also a method of conquering nations. Ordinary people in the USA, UK andEurope are now being impoverish ...

Invisible Opportunity

• FBI ‘entrapment’ tactics questione ...
  by: J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Dave Williams might have made some bad choices in his life that ultimately led to some jail time. But his greatest “crime,” seems to have been manufactured by an overzealous federal agency looking to make some sort of “progress” in the war on ...
• Climategate 2 – yes, they’ve been lying to you
  by Pointman on November 28, 2011 · 39 Comments 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 ...
• Ted Gunderson: A Man to Remember
  Paul Edwards, J.D. Activist Post This year those seeking freedom, justice, and truth lost an important ally, Ted Gunderson. Gunderson was the former chief of the Los Angeles division of the FBI and brought his impeccable credentials to the truth/freedom movement. After retiring from the FBI, he ...
• The Illuminati Depopulation Agenda
  Dean Henderson December 4, 2011 (Excerpted from Chapter 13: USS Persian Gulf: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…) While the global elite construct underground bunkers, eat organic and hoard seeds in Arctic vaults; the global poor are being slowly starved thanks to high commodity pr ...
• TSA strip-searches 85-year-old woman in wheelc ...
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) For a federal government that has gone insane with criminality, no act of violating fundamental human rights is too outrageous anymore. In the latest chapter of the U.S. government’s police state humiliation of innocent American women, an 85-y ...

Veterans Today

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

electric politics

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

PR News

• Tumblr hires McLaughlin
  NEW YORK: Andrew McLaughlin has joined Tumblr as EVP. He previously worked as the White House's deputy chief technology officer from 2009 to 2010 and Google's global policy head from 2004 to 2009.
• Kia adds Hope to PR team
  IRVINE, CA: Kia Motors America has hired James Hope as national manager of product PR.
• Ketchum appoints Fitzgerald EVP, China
  NEW YORK: Ketchum has named Sean Fitzgerald EVP for China and director of the firm's Shanghai office.
• Cohn & Wolfe appoints Fleming NY healthcare EVP
  NEW YORK: Cohn & Wolfe has named Olga Fleming EVP and managing director of its New York healthcare practice.
• Dittoe named AOR for Atlas Van Lines
  INDIANAPOLIS: Atlas Van Lines, a North American moving company, has selected Dittoe Public Relations as its AOR following a competitive review.

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Walmart – Evergreen Green Grants
  Deadline:  31 Jan 2012 (All day) Organization:  Evergreeen Walmart Canada and Evergreen have comb ...
• Earth Day Scholarship Program
  Deadline:  31 Jan 2012 (All day) Organization:  Earth Day Canada Scholarship invests in future en ...
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• Call for Proposals: Under Western Skies Enviro ...
  Organization:  Mount Royal University Initiative:  Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in Nort ...
• Occupy the Climate: Global Day for Climate Action
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