8 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

• Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms
  Forget charter schools and grade-by-grade testing. It's time to look at the best-performing countries and pragmatically adapt their solutions.
• Afghanistan: Laying the Groundwork for Civil War
  The international forces intend to hand over the security of the Afghan state to the Afghans in two years' time. But the state itself has long been disintegrating from within. "Loyalty," says Thomas Ruttig, the co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, is what is missing at the core. Rutt ...
• Ashura Attacks (1): Playing with Fire
  Attacks have targeted Shi’as in two of Afghanistan’s major cities as they gathered for Ashura, to lament the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and members of his family in Iraq in 680 AD. The attack in Kabul was particularly serious and left dozens dead. Such violence is a new phenomenon, says Kate Clar ...
• Why the New “Emphasis on Asia” in U.S. Policy?
  Japanese geopolitical analysis of Obama's New Asia First Policy.
• Hungarian debt downgraded to junk
  The downgrading of Hungary’s creditworthiness to junk status means the debt crisis has now fully hit eastern Europe. Rating agency Moody’s justified the downgrade last Friday by pointing to Hungary’s strong dependence on foreign creditors, the poor economic outlook and the country’s level of deb ...

  Independent - London

• Exxon's deal with the Kurds inflames Baghdad
  The great Iraqi oil rush has started to exacerbate dangerous communal tensions after a major oil company ignored the wishes of the central government in Baghdad and decided to do business with its main regional rival.
• Major Syrian oil pipeline is blown up
  A major Syrian pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in the restive Homs province was blown up yesterday, as violence from the country's nine-month-old uprising escalated. The blast caused a fire that burned for at least four hours, according to a government official. No casualties were reported a ...
• Oldest dog dies aged 26 in Japan
  The world's oldest dog has died in Japan aged 26 years and eight months. Pusuke, a fluffy tan shiba mix, died after suddenly falling ill and refusing to eat.
• India: Tibetan leader charged
  Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader has been charged with violating foreign exchange rules after $1.35m in cash was found at his monastery in Dharamsala in January.
• Another climate summit, another chance goes up ...
  The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes of thousands of people and many countries w ...

  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, Massachusetts: 80-Year-Old Woman Criminall ...
  A woman known as "the bird lady" is facing criminal charges for feeding the ducks, geese, and pigeons at a local pond. Eighty-year-old Claire Butcher has been feeding the birds for 45 years at Flax, Sluice, and Goldfish Ponds in Lynn. But the controversy really began to simmer back in 2009. ...
• US: NYPD Warns Banks About Letter Bombs After ...
  The device was not detonated and no one was hurt. The NYPD is warning New York banks to concentrate their security efforts on mailrooms after a confirmed letter bomb was sent to the CEO of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, law enforcement officials said. All New York banks are "being advise ...
• Package sent to Deutsche Bank CEO was bomb
  A suspicious envelope sent to Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann - the face of capitalism in Germany - was a functioning letter bomb, investigators said on Thursday. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the package, which was intercepted late on Wednesday. It raised fears th ...
• US: F-22 Production Line Back on Track: Lockheed
  Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor production line is back on track after the U.S. Air Force's fleet-wide grounding of the jet had disrupted deliveries to the service, the company said. "We are delivering jets," said Lockheed spokeswoman Alison Orne. "The last one delivered was 4185. 4195 will be d ...
• Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion
  Meaning in Madness: Milton Greek, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, believes that decoding the messages in delusions can help some people recover. She was gone for good, and no amount of meditation could resolve the grief, even out here in the deep quiet of the woods. Milt Greek pu ...

  The Galloping Beaver

• Homeless veterans
  That's twice now in as many weeks that I've spoken to a recent Canadian veteran or serving member in as many cities and they've mentioned homeless Canadian vets from recent wars. "It's an American problem and we're seeing it here," said one retired and very active senior NCM. Numbers seem to be ...
• Let's slide these beers outta the way ...
  OK, Major. It's just you and me sitting in the mess. No stripes here (which is a good thing for you). You read my last posting. I've read what you have to say. [Maj] Reid, who was also the commander of the Gander-based helicopter squadron until he retired in October, told iPolitics that the f ...
• We've had the Flop
  Now the Turn. Next ... the River. And at the Showdown, MacKay buggers off from the table as fast as his burning knickers will allow. A sudden change of plans that will see Defence Minister Peter MacKay representing Canada at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels this week instead ...
• Except you don't even fire the helmsmen!
  I raised an eyebrow at this quote from the new RCMP commissioner, Bob Paulson: His other immediate priorities are restoring a strong sense of leadership and accountability, including a zero-tolerance policy on what he calls "dark-hearted behaviour" such as harassment. He recalls a conversati ...
• Tipping-point . . .
  — The Arizona — SEVENTY YEARS AGO, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Not a good day for Adm. Kimmel, and a few thousand sailors and soldiers. Then MacArthur drops the ball 12 hours later in the Philippines, to add to the debacle. Then, four days later, on December 11, Hitler declares war on ...

  Media Matters for America

• Fox's Eric Bolling Doesn't Want To Break Up Fa ...
  Claiming he does not "want to break up families," Fox host Eric Bolling again voiced support for mass deportation -- even endorsing the idea of going into public schools to round up undocumented immigrants. In fact, experts warn that deportations result in broken families, often those of Americ ...
• Fox Still Pushing Discredited Keystone XL Pipe ...
  Fox anchor Martha MacCallum is clinging to the discredited claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create at least 20,000 jobs. In fact, even the pipeline owner acknowledges that the total jobs created by the pipeline would be far fewer, and an independent report has found that the project co ...
• Fox Responds To Obama's Speech On Inequality B ...
  Fox responded to President Obama's December 6 speech on inequality in America by once again accusing Obama of engaging in class warfare as well as promoting socialism and -- in the words of Peter Johnson Jr. -- "smooth jazz liberation theology."Fox Responds To Obama's Speech: "Class Warfare" .. ...
  
  

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Scoop - NZ

• Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms
  Forget charter schools and grade-by-grade testing. It's time to look at the best-performing countries and pragmatically adapt their solutions.
• Afghanistan: Laying the Groundwork for Civil War
  The international forces intend to hand over the security of the Afghan state to the Afghans in two years' time. But the state itself has long been disintegrating from within. "Loyalty," says Thomas Ruttig, the co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, is what is missing at the core. Rutt ...
• Ashura Attacks (1): Playing with Fire
  Attacks have targeted Shi’as in two of Afghanistan’s major cities as they gathered for Ashura, to lament the martyrdom of Imam Hussein and members of his family in Iraq in 680 AD. The attack in Kabul was particularly serious and left dozens dead. Such violence is a new phenomenon, says Kate Clar ...
• Why the New “Emphasis on Asia” in U.S. Policy?
  Japanese geopolitical analysis of Obama's New Asia First Policy.
• Hungarian debt downgraded to junk
  The downgrading of Hungary’s creditworthiness to junk status means the debt crisis has now fully hit eastern Europe. Rating agency Moody’s justified the downgrade last Friday by pointing to Hungary’s strong dependence on foreign creditors, the poor economic outlook and the country’s level of deb ...

Independent - London

• Exxon's deal with the Kurds inflames Baghdad
  The great Iraqi oil rush has started to exacerbate dangerous communal tensions after a major oil company ignored the wishes of the central government in Baghdad and decided to do business with its main regional rival.
• Major Syrian oil pipeline is blown up
  A major Syrian pipeline carrying oil to a refinery in the restive Homs province was blown up yesterday, as violence from the country's nine-month-old uprising escalated. The blast caused a fire that burned for at least four hours, according to a government official. No casualties were reported a ...
• Oldest dog dies aged 26 in Japan
  The world's oldest dog has died in Japan aged 26 years and eight months. Pusuke, a fluffy tan shiba mix, died after suddenly falling ill and refusing to eat.
• India: Tibetan leader charged
  Tibetan Buddhism's third most important leader has been charged with violating foreign exchange rules after $1.35m in cash was found at his monastery in Dharamsala in January.
• Another climate summit, another chance goes up ...
  The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes of thousands of people and many countries w ...

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, Massachusetts: 80-Year-Old Woman Criminall ...
  A woman known as "the bird lady" is facing criminal charges for feeding the ducks, geese, and pigeons at a local pond. Eighty-year-old Claire Butcher has been feeding the birds for 45 years at Flax, Sluice, and Goldfish Ponds in Lynn. But the controversy really began to simmer back in 2009. ...
• US: NYPD Warns Banks About Letter Bombs After ...
  The device was not detonated and no one was hurt. The NYPD is warning New York banks to concentrate their security efforts on mailrooms after a confirmed letter bomb was sent to the CEO of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, law enforcement officials said. All New York banks are "being advise ...
• Package sent to Deutsche Bank CEO was bomb
  A suspicious envelope sent to Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann - the face of capitalism in Germany - was a functioning letter bomb, investigators said on Thursday. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the package, which was intercepted late on Wednesday. It raised fears th ...
• US: F-22 Production Line Back on Track: Lockheed
  Lockheed Martin's F-22 Raptor production line is back on track after the U.S. Air Force's fleet-wide grounding of the jet had disrupted deliveries to the service, the company said. "We are delivering jets," said Lockheed spokeswoman Alison Orne. "The last one delivered was 4185. 4195 will be d ...
• Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion
  Meaning in Madness: Milton Greek, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, believes that decoding the messages in delusions can help some people recover. She was gone for good, and no amount of meditation could resolve the grief, even out here in the deep quiet of the woods. Milt Greek pu ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Homeless veterans
  That's twice now in as many weeks that I've spoken to a recent Canadian veteran or serving member in as many cities and they've mentioned homeless Canadian vets from recent wars. "It's an American problem and we're seeing it here," said one retired and very active senior NCM. Numbers seem to be ...
• Let's slide these beers outta the way ...
  OK, Major. It's just you and me sitting in the mess. No stripes here (which is a good thing for you). You read my last posting. I've read what you have to say. [Maj] Reid, who was also the commander of the Gander-based helicopter squadron until he retired in October, told iPolitics that the f ...
• We've had the Flop
  Now the Turn. Next ... the River. And at the Showdown, MacKay buggers off from the table as fast as his burning knickers will allow. A sudden change of plans that will see Defence Minister Peter MacKay representing Canada at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels this week instead ...
• Except you don't even fire the helmsmen!
  I raised an eyebrow at this quote from the new RCMP commissioner, Bob Paulson: His other immediate priorities are restoring a strong sense of leadership and accountability, including a zero-tolerance policy on what he calls "dark-hearted behaviour" such as harassment. He recalls a conversati ...
• Tipping-point . . .
  — The Arizona — SEVENTY YEARS AGO, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Not a good day for Adm. Kimmel, and a few thousand sailors and soldiers. Then MacArthur drops the ball 12 hours later in the Philippines, to add to the debacle. Then, four days later, on December 11, Hitler declares war on ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox's Eric Bolling Doesn't Want To Break Up Fa ...
  Claiming he does not "want to break up families," Fox host Eric Bolling again voiced support for mass deportation -- even endorsing the idea of going into public schools to round up undocumented immigrants. In fact, experts warn that deportations result in broken families, often those of Americ ...
• Fox Still Pushing Discredited Keystone XL Pipe ...
  Fox anchor Martha MacCallum is clinging to the discredited claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create at least 20,000 jobs. In fact, even the pipeline owner acknowledges that the total jobs created by the pipeline would be far fewer, and an independent report has found that the project co ...
• Fox Responds To Obama's Speech On Inequality B ...
  Fox responded to President Obama's December 6 speech on inequality in America by once again accusing Obama of engaging in class warfare as well as promoting socialism and -- in the words of Peter Johnson Jr. -- "smooth jazz liberation theology."Fox Responds To Obama's Speech: "Class Warfare" .. ...
• The Wall Street Journal's Unreliable ...
  A Wall Street Journal editorial argued that the Obama administration should "kill" the proposed EPA rule limiting power plant emissions of mercury and other toxic air pollutants by misrepresenting a reliability analysis and making an apples-to-oranges cost/benefit comparison.WSJ Distorts Reliab ...
  
  
  ...
  On the December 6 edition of Fox News' The Five, in the course of defending their former colleague Newt Gingrich against criticism over his past ethics violation, the co-hosts revived several smears against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), such as the claims that Pelosi falsely accuse ...

  Global Research.ca

• This Holiday Season, Remember: Peace comes thr ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Libya and "The Arab Spring": Neoliberalism, "R ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Pakistan Reviews Ties With U.S. After Deadly N ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Militarization of the American Police, the ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• OWS: Reform or Revolution… and the Lessons fro ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Crony Capitalism in the Air
  After trying to push it through as part of the debt ceiling debacle, then in the super committee, Republicans are now trying to attach spectrum auction provisions to the payroll tax holiday bill. Their bill is about as clear an example of why Congress's approval rating are in the single digits. ...
• Guess Who Obama Was Channeling in Kansas
  You really can't get more egg on your face than Barack Obama's neoliberal Washington apologists have after his big speech in Kansas. That's because a portion of the speech reads as if he were channeling the pundits' nemesis, the political psychologist and consultant Drew Westen. Last August 7 ...
• Obama in Kansas
  I'm ready to wager that when the campaign of 2012 is all over, President Obama's speech yesterday in Osawatomie, Kansas will be seen as the turning point that led to his victory in November 2012. Readers of this blog know that I have long cited Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Movement (outlined in ...
• 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 ...

  Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Photostory: The brighter side of Gaza (Sami K ...
  This summer Palestinian American student Sami Kishawi traveled to the Gaza for the first time since 2004, expecting to see war-torn buildings and a "collective sense of devastation." Bu ...
• Israel finishes barrier construction in Jerusa ...
  Israeli forces will finish this week building a barrier around Shufat refugee camp in north Jerusalem, Israel's Maariv daily reported Wednesday. The 45,000-person camp will become isola ...
• Mayor: Settlers torch West Bank mosque (Ma'an ...
  A mosque was set on fire on Wednesday by settlers in the West Bank village of Bruqin, near Salfit, local officials said. The governor of Salfit Isam Abu Bakr told Ma'an that at 2.00 a.m ...
• Palestinian flag to be raised at UNESCO headqu ...
  United Nations cultural agency UNESCO said Wednesday the Palestinian flag would be raised at its Paris headquarters on December 13 after Palestine won full membership despite Israeli an ...
• Israel continues wave of West Bank housing dem ...
  Israel continues wave of West Bank housing demolitions in East Jerusalem. Following the violent demolitions in Qalqiliya yesterday, and in Beit Hanina and Silwan Sunday, Israel continue ...

Water - AlterNet

• Welcome to Peak Water: Scientists Say Time Is ...
  A Peruvian watershed has likely passed 'peak water,' dropping river flows 30 percent. New lakes are draining the Himalaya, and say good-bye to Rocky Mountains' glaciers.
• 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.

Public Citizen in Texas

• 2011 – A year of billion dollar weather disasters
  As 2011 winds to a close, the Weather Channel reports that it has been a volatile year of weather across the United States and the tally of weather-related disasters exceeding a billion dollars set a record for the most billion-dollar weather disasters in a single year earlier this year and now ...
• Rerouting Keystone XL: From Poisoned Aquifers ...
  This is a guest blog by departing Public Citizen intern Chantelle B. In recent months, Nebraska’s government has taken a strong stand against the Keystone XL Pipeline’s route, which currently passes through the ecologically fragile Sandhills region and North America’s largest aquifer – the ...
• Fishing: A great pasttime, but you may not wan ...
  One of the great things about living in Texas is our winters are mild enough that many outdoor activities are year round activities, including fishing.  BUT . . ., before you eat that fish, be sure to check out the mercury advisories for the state’s waterways on the Texas Department of Hea ...
• 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- ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• SETI to focus on extrasolar planets
  SETI are back thanks to new funding and is turning its attention towards newly discovered alien worlds. The potentially earth-like planet recently dis...
• Unusual markings stump Jerusalem experts
  Three simple 'V' shaped carvings uncovered in the oldest part of the city have puzzled experts. The archaeological dig itself is politically sensitive...
• Ocean's deepest depth re-measured
  The Mariana Trench in the Pacific ocean descends to a staggering depth of almost 11km. The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping used a multibeam echos...
• Gigantic black holes discovered
  Scientists have identified two black holes billions of times more massive than our sun. The black holes are located in the center of distant galaxies,...
• Self-diagnosis by spitting on your iPhone ?
  Two Korean scientists have envisaged a future where your phone can diagnose what illness you have. Hyun Gyu Park and Byoung Yeon Won at the Korean Adv...

  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

• 5 Lessons from AirDye on Building a Strong Gre ...
  Efforts by the firm AirDye to sharply reduce the water used by the textile industry in coloring fabrics offer marketing lessons to any company than wants to build a green brand.  
• 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.

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

• Eric Cantor Crushes Insider Trading Bill
  I can't imagine why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wouldn't want Congress to pass rules that ban congresspeople from trading on insider information. Remember this? Putting his money where his mouth is? Eric Cantor, the Republican Whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 ...
• Where's the Patriotism?
  I don't know whether to be more disturbed that Sasha and Malia's elitist Quaker school served them Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips on Pearl Harbor Day, or that they think it's appropriate to feed Garlic Roasted Edamame to red-blooded Americans. Either way, these Quakers are a menace. People ...
• I Just Threw Up a Little
  There are some things that are so horrible that I can't even contemplate them. What do we do with the fragments of our dead soldiers? Who wants to think about such things? Well, what we used to do is burn them up and throw them in a landfill in Virginia. The Obama administration put a quick ...
• Apples and Oranges
  I occasionally bring up the following facts to remind people that they can't make lazy comparisons between what Franklin Roosevelt accomplished and what President Obama has accomplished. The following numbers are the caucus splits during FDR's first eight years in office. The Democratic caucus ...
• Will Iowa Kill Romney Again?
  Back in late-May, the New York Times reported: [Mitt Romney] has told friends that he felt burned by the process in Iowa four years ago. He invested $10 million and finished second in the caucuses to Mr. Huckabee, who spent a sliver of that amount. Mr. Romney also struggled to connect with r ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 7 Great Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own ...
  Here are seven pioneering inventors whose deaths were a direct result of their own innovations... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• New Suburbanism: Reshaping the Way City Planne ...
  New suburbanism bring a fresh perspective to suburban life. It strives to maintain the benefits of suburbia while connecting suburban residents to nature and each other. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the ...
• The Breathtaking Mountaineering Photography of ...
  Magnificent mountaineering pictures, plus an interview with the man who took them, photographer and climber Alexandre Buisse. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• When Apes Adopt Cats as Cuddly Pets
  Primates, our closest relatives, often exhibit behavior that is similar to human behavior. For example, they are known to keep pets! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Exciting Parks of Mahwah, New Jersey
  Although suburbs cover Bergen County, New Jersey, there is still room for nature. The town of Mahwah is awash with spacious county parks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Coalition Forces Won't Take Training Wheels Of ...
  The administration defense policy shop Center for a New American Security calls for ending counterinsurgency in Afghanistan.
• Fiddling on Climate
  At Durban, international negotiators are fiddling while the world burns.
• New Nuclear Weapons Facility: "Gateway to a Bl ...
  The fight to stop a facility dedicated to nuclear pits -- where the chain reaction occurs -- is finally experiencing some success.
• Australia Remilitarizes
  Australia is rapidly re-posturing in the face of a militarized East Asia.
• Bad Pizza . . . and Even Worse Intelligence
  The capture of CIA sources in Beirut represents a coup for Hezbollah.

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

• Mugabe pushes for early Zimbabwe polls
  President makes case for elections next year to end fragile coalition with former opposition at annual party conference.
• Two shot dead at Virginia Tech University
  Site of 2007 massacre that left 32 people dead is on lockdown after shots fired on campus.
• Photographs from the centre of a tragedy
  For photographer Massoud Hossaini, the personal and professional came to a head while shooting blast at Shia shrine.
• Palestinians killed in Israeli strike
  Two people reportedly killed in Israeli air strike near public garden in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
• Egypt's army asserts constitutional control
  Ruling military council general says new parliament not representative and will not draft new constitution on its own.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Student Confronts U.S. Climate C ...
  The chief envoy responds by somewhat ambiguously endorsing a proposal from the European Union to quickly start negotiating a new international treaty.
• Time for a Vacation? Climate Change and the Hu ...
  A study finds that over the last 30 years, peak attendance at national parks has moved forward by an average of four days -- seemingly in tandem with a rise in park temperatures.
• Catskills Deal for the New York City Watershed
  A $5.6 million sale of a 1,200-acre parcel of pristine forest just east of the Belleayre Ski Center in the Catskills is said to restrict development and storm water runoff into the New York City watershed.
• A Master Plan for N.J.'s Energy Needs
  There are no surprises, but environmentalists and some legislators are still disappointed by the scaling back of renewable energy goals.
• On Our Radar: Weakening Brazil's Forest Protec ...
  A Senate bill would reduce the amount of forest preserves that farmers are required to retain when cutting down trees and pardon some illegal deforestation of the past.

Dot Earth News

• Naomi Klein's Inconvenient Climate Conclusions
  A critic of capitalism argues that climate progress can only come through a global economic reboot.
• 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

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

• Blagojevich gets 14 years, but what about thes ...
  (Washington, DC) Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich just got 14 years in prison. He wheeled and dealed to leverage contributions and other favors based on his position as governor. He was indicted by former Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald (who tanked the Valerie Plame case). Maybe it ...
• When number 2 acts like number 1
  By Saul Landau In late November, NATO (heavily U.S.) forces whacked 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border. As of November 30, Pentagon and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton had not yet accepted blame; but they were “investigating” and “regretting.” However, the next day, Iranian demonstrato ...
• University of Maryland Police will join effort ...
  Solomon Comissiong at a forum with university workers who complain of workplace abuse, harrassment and sexual abuse from management at UMD   I have written extensively about the problems that plague employees at the University of Maryland on several occasions.  The workplace abuse heaped on them ...
• We’re being steamrolled into one-size-fi ...
  NOTE: I am one of six “experts” invited to comment on the Common Core, the only one criticizing the document, at the Learning Matters blog. Of note is the Learning Matters subtitle: Reporting You Can Trust. Well, you decide. You might find it interesting to note that the only changes ...
• Scandal-Plagued Former For-Profit ‘College’ CE ...
  According to an article in the online Campus Progress of December 5th, entitled “Scandal-Plagued Former For-Profit CEO Receiving $5 Million Settlement”, a former CEO of Career Education Corporation (you guessed it another predatory for-profit gangster college) has received a golden handshake.  T ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• WATCH: Protesters Occupy Posh Newt Gingrich Fu ...
• Corzine on MF Global Depositor Funds: â& ...
• Michigan Mauls Public Education
• US stocks drop as Europe readies crisis summit
• Ex-governor Blagojevich to prison in Obama Sen ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Tis the Season to Be Jolly on Wall Street, Still
  Financial industry insiders are grousing about a big downturn in annual bonuses. They should be thanking the rest of us - bombshell new research shows - for their continuing awesome good tidings.
• http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IPS/latest/~3/WjyTFFcO6u4/video_what_happened_to_the_urgency_about_climate_change
  This edition of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change lacks the sense of urgency that was visible on years past. On this interview with the Real News Network, we discuss the repercussions of turning away from the future of our planet.
• 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.

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #645
  Polish authorities arrest retired spy. Are China's hotel rooms bugged? Ex-spy chief says Saudi Arabia may join nuke arms race.
• News you may have missed #644 (Pakistan edition)
  US built its own secret Pakistani spy service. Pakistan 'permanently' shuts down resupply routes to Afghanistan. Analysis: The fiction of Pakistan as a US ally.
• US considered covert mission to recover drone ...
  What a difference two days can make! On Monday we speculated that Iran may have captured intact a United States Air Force RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone. At that time, most American officials questioned or flatly denied Iran’s capture claims. It now appears almost certain that Iran is indeed ...
• 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.

War is a Crime.org

• THE FIRST AMENDMENT PLEDGE OF NON-COOPERATION ...
  We, the undersigned, affirm our support for the constitutional right of the people to freedom of assembly in the public spaces of our nation, whether to protest government policies, to request relief from persecution, or to call attention to injustices. Free assemblies such as the Occupy Wall St ...
• Daily Show on Imprisoning Americans Without Trial
  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
• Military to Gain Power of Indefinite Detention ...
• The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Me ...
  By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement's Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.) Click here to order a copy. In 1971, Lewis Powell, a mild-mannered ...
• AP Exclusive: Inside Romania's secret CIA prison
  By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO | AP   WASHINGTON (AP) — In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the heart of the capital city, is a secret the Romanian government has long tried to protect. For years, the CIA used a government building — code ...

Grist - News

• Polar bears may be driven to cannibalism by cl ...
  by Christopher Mims. If you watch nature shows, you know that male bears see cubs as tasty little McNuggets with fur, so it's not like one bear eating another is a big deal. Except that in the Arctic, polar bears are increasingly deprived of the sea ice they rely on to access seal ...
• Coming soon: Street View-style maps of the cou ...
  by Sarah Laskow. Internet time-wasters, start your engines. A nonprofit called Below the Surface is gearing up to map 27 of the country's most endangered rivers using the same technology that gave the world Google Street View. That means 360-degree shots of beautiful, polluted, shrinki ...
• Critical List: Same old U.S. and China at COP ...
  by Sarah Laskow. At the COP talks, the United States is driving all the other countries crazy. The U.S. response: "What, us?" China's conditions for a climate deal include the demand that it and other growing economies would have to meet different standards than rich cou ...
• Study: The climate is changing faster than spe ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. Whatever the Republican candidates for president may have told you, climate change and evolution are both realities of nature. But it turns out that in a fight-to-the-death throwdown, climate change would win by a mile. A new study published in the journal PLoS One has f ...
• ‘Organic water’ is a thing now
  by Jess Zimmerman. A German brand of bottled water called BioKristall has gotten the official go-ahead to market itself as organic water. That's right, not a single pesticide was used to keep away the insects that feed on water crops, and it didn't need any chemical fertilizer eith ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• King Al An Angel
  Pujols agrees to 10 year contract
• Internet Censorship in India?
  The recent announcement that objectionable content on social media will be screened raises more doubts.
• Shopper Surveillance Using Microsoft XBox Kinect
  3d technology tracks shopper movements in real time.
• Jon Corzine to be Hoisted by his own Sarbanes- ...
  The man who co-authored Sarbanes-Oxley will be brought to Justice by his own hands.
• Samsung Galaxy Nexus Available in Canada Now
  The Samsung Galaxy Nexus has launched in Canada with the U.S. soon to follow.

Time - Top Stories

• Fewer Teenagers Have Driver's Licenses...Becau ...
  Fewer Teenagers Have Driver's Licenses...Because of Gas Prices and the Internet?
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• Why Newt Gingrich Was Right About Putting Kids ...
  It was a classic Gingrich proposal: over-the-top, totally tone-deaf, and way too broad in scope. But it also was not entirely wrong.
• Is This the Last Chance to Save the Euro?
  As Europe's leaders gather for a make-or-break euro summit, can theyfinally take the drastic measures necessary to calm the markets andfix the single currency?

Digg Green

• ? Inside the Strange Science of Cord Blood Banking
  Dozens of private cord blood banks in the U.S. will, for a fee, store stem cell-rich blood taken from a newborn baby's umbilical cord. But while it's safe and legal, many health care professionals say expensive and barely useful.
• Dangling Eyes of Scary Ancient Sea Predator Di ...
  The anomalocaris are a group of giant, marine predators with soft bodies which dominated marine ecosystems more than 500 million years ago. A fresh pair of fossilized eyes indicates they were highly mobile, visual predators. Each eye is composed of around
• NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited b ...
  NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water.
• Why our minds have probably evolved as far as ...
  Humans evolving into hyper-intelligent beings is a powerful idea in science fiction, but that's probably where the idea will have to stay. Our brains have reached an evolutionary "sweet spot", and we can't get much smarter without making major trade-offs. That's the finding of psychologists Thom ...
• Become A Rocketeer: Buy Your Own Working Jetpack
  A Mexican start-up company called Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana is now selling it’s own version of the custom-made rocket belt for $250,000. Or if you don’t trust Mexican aerospace technology, their competitor Jetpack International of Colorado is selling their version of the rocket belt for $ ...

Invisible Opportunity

• FBI’s new definition of rape ensnares TS ...
  By Mike Adams So in October, the FBI’s UCR subcommittee Advisory Policy Board voted to recommend the definition be expanded. The new definition of rape, which looks set to be “officially” adopted by the FBI in 2012, is as follows: “Rape” is: …penetration, no m ...
• You want Jujubees with your Surround Sound 3D?
  By Les Visible My friends, let your hearts be lifted, no matter what else may happen, we will survive; some portion of us will continue and some part of us will even be living and working together. How cool is that? That is plenty cool. If you are anywhere near where we will be in [...]
• DEA launders Mexican drug cartel profits
  By GINGER THOMPSON WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, prima ...
• EDITORIAL: A climate of fraud – Washingt ...
  The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009’s “Climategate” files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. The basic problem with climate research is that it is at best soft science, and this leake ...
• ALL the Vaccines Are Contaminated – Ever ...
  S. Edmonson for Salem-News.com “The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination” – Dr. Robert Bell, once Vice President International Society for Cancer Research at the British Cancer Hospital Vaccines Experts say families need to take ...

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

• Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012
  Supply-driven marketing not only turns the nation into pill-popping hypochondriacs, it distracts from Pharma's drought of real drugs for real medical problems.
• Why Are Cops Losing Their Jobs for Questioning ...
  Police and Border Patrol officers around the country are being punished for criticizing the devastating war on drugs and supporting drug decriminalization.
• 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.

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

• Bulletproof Solar-Powered Jo-Mojo Electric Roa ...
  Estonian auto company Dartz Kombat is known for making the Prombron — basically a bulletproof Hummer on steriods – however they recently announced plans to go ‘green’ by launching a bulletproof all-electric roadster called the Jo-Mojo. Set to debut in Monaco at the Top Ma ...
• City Windmills Enable Clean Energy and Unique ...
  Solar powered advertising boards have provided companies with ways to advertise their products in an environmentally friendly way, and it appears that wind power is following suit. UK-based City Windmills is giving companies the chance to not only generate clean power (and thus cheaper energy bi ...
• Ice Cube Raps About the Eames and Going Green ...
  While rapper Ice Cube is certainly known for his lyrical stylings, what you may not know is that he studied architectural drafting before he got big. He also has a deep appreciation for design – and he shows off his love in a new ad about art in LA for the Pacific Standard Time. Here, [...]
• SFMOMA Funds New Firehouse In Exchange for Cit ...
  The city of San Francisco and the SFMOMA have just struck up a deal that leaves everyone happy. The new SFMOMA expansion, to be designed by Norwegian starchitects Snøhetta, will be built on city land in exchange for a new firehouse. The new firehouse will be funded by SFMOMA, and built to be big ...
• The Cloud: MVRDV’s Luxury Twin Towers Are Join ...
  Read the rest of The Cloud: MVRDV’s Luxury Twin Towers Are Joined by a Funky Pixelated Cluster in Seoul Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", eco design, eco skyscraper, eco tower, green architecture, Green Building, green design, green roof ...

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

• 16,000 Eyes: The Vision of a Cambrian Superpre ...
  A reconstruction of a fossilized, 515-million-year-old sea monster suggests compound eyes evolved long before the typical hard, crunchy exoskeletons of arthropods.
• Inside the Strange Science of Cord Blood Banking
  Dozens of private cord blood banks in the U.S. will, for a fee, store stem cell-rich blood taken from a newborn baby's umbilical cord. But while it's safe and legal, many health care professionals say expensive and barely useful.
• So, You Got a Space Rocket But Nowhere To Laun ...
  If your host country won't allow you to launch a 5-story suborbital rocket, where do you go? Rocket Shop blogger and DIY space architect Kristian von Bengston provides the watery answer.
• NASA Rover Spots Unambiguous Evidence for Wate ...
  NASA's Opportunity rover has seen a mineral on Mars that could only have formed in the presence of liquid water.
• City Lights Seen From Space Reveal How Countri ...
  You tell a lot about a country from its lights. New research suggests that NASA's Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System -- a series of satellites that have been taking pictures of nighttime lights on Earth's surface for nearly 20 years -- can reveal details about c ...

PakAlert

• India And Pakistan Are Going Nuclear Over Prov ...
  India and Pakistan are going nuclear over this magazine cover showing a naked Pakistani star wearing nothing but a provocative political tattoo. Readers across the region dropped their jaws at the sight of actress Veena Malik on the cover of FHM India, flashing a smoldering gaze and the tatto ...
• The entire United States is now a war zone: S. ...
  This is one of the most tragic events I have written about since establishing End the Lie over eight months ago: the horrendous bill that would turn all of America into a battlefield and subject American citizens to indefinite military detention without charge or trial has passed the Senate. ...
• ‘Trials and Tribulations’–After Armageddon
  What trials and tribulations will society face after a collapse of the world as we know it?
• The population of tent cities tripled in The US
  Americans are Eagles led by Vultures. most Americans are just a paycheck or two from the street.This is One tent city out of THOUSANDS all around the nation... Yet there are only thousands because they bulldoze them as fast as they rebuild them. Also they are solving nothing. "Give a man a fish ...
• Detroit to go Broke Within 4 Month
  As Detroit Budget Crisis Deepens, Is State Takeover Nearing? Detroit is deep in trouble ,Now Detroit needs a bailout because unions are destroying the town... it will go bankrupt very soon. The problem is principle. How about a 'bailout' to the taxpayer? How about that money to go something usef ...

Andy Worthington

• London Vigil for Shaker Aamer, the Last Britis ...
  This Saturday, December 10, which is UN Human Rights Day, I’ll be attending a vigil for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, outside Downing Street. The event, arranged by the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign, runs from 12 noon to 3 pm, and at 1 pm speakers — myself inclu ...
• Please Vote for My Guantánamo Article to Win t ...
  Vote for my article here! Last week, my friend Louise Gordon nominated an article of mine, “Mocking the Law, Judges Rule that Evidence Is Not Necessary to Hold Insignificant Guantánamo Prisoners for the Rest of Their Lives,” for the 2011 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Politics and Social Sc ...
• Fundraiser Day Three: Still Seeking $2000 to S ...
  Please support my work! Thanks to the generosity of twelve friends and supporters over the last two days, I have raised nearly $400 of the $2500 that I’m hoping to raise to support my work over the next three months. My thanks to those who have helped out, and, while I understand that many ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Bible Accounts Supported by Dead Sea Disaster ...
  New evidence suggests the salty lake once dried out completely—and might support a range of biblical disaster accounts.
• Mongolia Bids to Keep City Cool With "Ice Shie ...
  Mongolia hopes to beat global warming by boosting river ice to lower temperatures—but some experts are skeptical.
• 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.

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

• An Open Letter From the World Back to David Duke
  Dear David Duke, In light of your recent travel adventures in Europe and your subsequent Open Letter to the World to set the record straight on your “basic principles and beliefs,” we thought it might be an opportune moment to remind you what those principles actually are. In all your efforts to ...
• Officials Search for Body After Shots, Fire at ...
  Authorities are combing the charred ruins of a house in Washougal, Wash., today, looking for the remains of a man who appears to have past ties to illegal firearms, domestic violence and white supremacists. Steven Douglas Stanbary, who once said his hero was white supremacist Randy Weaver of Rub ...
• 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 ...

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

• Occupy Boston Protesters Given Midnight Deadli ...
  Occupy Boston protesters are facing eviction after the city's mayor gave them a deadline of midnight to leave their encampment. Demonstrators have been camped at Dewey Square since late September, but on Wednesday lost a bid to legally remain in the space. Mayor Tom Menino has previously bee ...
• Sanders Files ‘Saving American Democracy Amend ...
  WASHINGTON – Warning that “American democracy in endangered,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today proposed a constitutional amendment to overturn a Supreme Court ruling that allowed unrestricted and secret campaign spending by corporations on U.S. elections. ...
• US College Student Shames US Climate Delegatio ...
  Abigail Borah, a Middlebury College student and climate activist from the United States, was ejected from a plenary session at the COP17 climate summit this morning after interrupting introductory remarks by US chief negotiator, Todd Stern. Her statement, which was met with wide applause from th ...
• Women's Groups Outraged By Ruling On Morning-A ...
  WASHINGTON - National women's groups and pro-choice advocates were aghast yesterday as the Obama administration overturned an FDA opinion allowing better access to family planning contraceptives. NPR reports: read more
• Inside Romania's Secret CIA Prison
  WASHINGTON — In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania's capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect. read more

Lifehacker

• Get More Frequent Flier Miles Without Signing ...
  Getting a bunch of travel rewards credit cards is a surefire way to earn a lot of miles quickly (it's how one reader pulled off a 10-day London vacation for $700), but you don't have to sign up for more plastic to bump up your miles earning. ...
• How to Make a Private Wish List So Your Friend ...
  Wish lists are the obvious way to let people know what you want for the holidays and where to get it, but they come with a few problems. If you share a list via email, gift-givers have to constantly communicate who's getting what to avoid dup ...
• Grab 10 Android Apps for 10 Cents Every Day Th ...
  For the next seven days, you can grab a ton of popular, premium apps from the Android Market for the heavily discounted price of 10 cents. More »
• Growl Fork Is a Free Version of Growl that Wor ...
  OS X Lion: If you're having trouble with the Growl 1.2 on Lion, but don't want to upgrade with the new features, Growl Fork is a free version based on the last open source code. More »
• Snipreel Clips YouTube Videos So You Can Share ...
  If you've ever wanted to share the best parts of a YouTube video and not the whole thing, Snipreel allows you take small snippets of a video and share your own highlight reel. More »

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.
• 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.
• Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle Ea ...
  JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia's strategies for privatization of water and wastewater as well as financial opportunities and challenges facing mega projects took center stage at the National Water Company National Water Company ( NWC NWC ) symposium on Wednesday.
• Saudi- Water privatization strategies in focus
  (MENAFN - Arab News) Saudi Arabia's strategies for privatization of water and wastewater as well as financial opportunities and challenges facing mega projects took center stage at the National ...
• 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.

Guardian

• Lockerbie and PC Fletcher inquiries to reopen ...
  Libyan suspect Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, cleared of bombing in 2000, could face fresh trial – but victims' families are scepticalThe new Libyan government has given British police the green light to mount fresh investigations into the Lockerbie bombing and the shooting of PC Yvonne Fletcher, the B ...
• David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy clash as lea ...
  French accused of setting Britain up as 'fall guy' in attempt to ringfence eurozoneDavid Cameron was at the centre of a furious row with Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday after Paris tried to isolate the prime minister at the EU summit by suggesting that Britain is seeking to exempt the City of London ...
• Hurricane-force winds hit Scotland as UK storm ...
  • 'Weather bomb' leads to unprecedented Met Office red warning • Roads, trains, ferries and airports affected across Britain • Schools and public buildings closed down in parts of Scotland and thousands left without powerHurricane-force winds have battered parts of the UK with millions of peopl ...
• UN climate change talks: EU plan raises hopes ...
  Greenhouse gas emissions would be cut from 2020 if China decides to follow EU roadmapAfter a day of unexpected drama at the UN climate change talks, a historic deal on greenhouse gases looked tantalisingly within reach on Thursday night – but with a handful of major economies holding out, the en ...
• Goldman Sachs whistleblower threatened with th ...
  Osita Mba, who disclosed that managers had let off Goldman Sachs with tax penalties, is facing disciplinary proceduresA solicitor at HM Revenue & Customs who turned whistleblower to disclose that senior managers had quietly let off Goldman Sachs from paying millions of pounds in tax penalties is ...

McClatchey

• Senate panel supports $415 million more for La ...
  WASHINGTON — The beloved cobalt-blue beauty of Lake Tahoe, a popular tourist destination on the border between California and Nevada, doesn't come cheaply.
• Romney camp launches attack on surging Gingrich
  DES MOINES, Iowa — With his carefully organized campaign suddenly facing a serious threat from Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney on Thursday launched a strong offensive aimed at toppling the new Iowa front-runner by recalling Gingrich's controversial past.
• Romney camp launches attack on surging Gingrich
  DES MOINES, Iowa — With his carefully organized campaign suddenly facing a serious threat from Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney on Thursday launched a strong offensive aimed at toppling the new Iowa front-runner by recalling Gingrich's controversial past.
• Two debates in the next week may be final fram ...
  DES MOINES, Iowa — With Newt Gingrich virtually wearing a big target on his back, he and his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination square off Saturday night in the first of two debates in Iowa that could prove pivotal to the contest.
• Noriega, 'old and tired,' heads back to Panama ...
  MEXICO CITY — Twenty-two years after American GIs invaded Panama and spirited away dictator Manuel Noriega, the former strongman will return on Sunday to a jail cell in his homeland.

Afghanistan Sun

• US generals balk at Obama’s Afghanistan ...
  In the latest conflict between Obama and his military commanders, the senior US general in Afghanistan is opposing administration plans for troop withdrawals from the US-occupied country. General ...
• Afghan Women Wary Of Taliban Talks
  Afghan women are demanding that their voices be heard in the ongoing international dialogue over Afghanistan's future after 2014, when foreign troops leave and a peace settlement is reached ...
• Afghan team reaches SAFF Cup semis amid tragedy
  Tanier: How can Dallas lose 34-7 to the Eagles and beat the Bills 44-7 in the span of three weeks? To answer those questions, we have to break the Cowboys week-by-week performance into its component ...
• Russia Steps Back From Afghanistan Transit Threat
  threaten to cut off NATO and U.S. military transit to Afghanistan, it was seen as another sign of the recently deteriorating relations between Washington and Moscow, and got a lot of attention. But ...
• Karzai announces second wave of Afghan transition
  The second wave of transition from NATO to local control in Afghanistan will include six provinces, seven cities and dozens of districts, a statement from President Hamid Karzai's office said ...

Futurismic

• A chat with Eric Drexler
  Not over coffee and cakes, sadly, but you take what you can get in this crazy world, AMIRITEZ? So when I got the chance to email Eric Drexler – yup, the nanotech guy – with some follow-up questions responding to his inaugural lecture at Oxford Martin College last month, I jumped in w ...
• Skyrim and the Quest for Meaning
  Lithium I’m old enough to remember when video games were comparatively simple things. For example, I remember the side-scrolling video game adaptation of Robocop (1988). Relatively short, Robocop had you shooting and jumping your way from one side of the world to another. Once you got to the end ...
• 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Whistleblowers Handbook, Second Edition, is re ...
  The NWC is proud to announce the release of the second edition of The Whistleblower’s Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Doing What’s Right and Protecting Yourself. This second edition includes a new 20–page checklist on the procedures for obtaining Dodd-Frank Act rewards from t ...
• 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. ...

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

• Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blo ...
  Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company's printing presses, and told the world that the magazine was a criminal enterprise with a giant banner on their building. Then imagine that it n ...
• MPAA Tries Its Hand At Comedy With A Top 10 Li ...
  The MPAA has been sending around a sort of "top 10 list" to folks in Congress about why they should vote to censor the internet via PROTECT IP (PIPA). It's actually two different top five lists. The first is five reasons to vote for the law. The second is five reasons that "Google" is wrong a ...
• Supreme Court Seems Ok With Patenting Medical ...
  We've covered the Mayo v. Promethus Labs case for a while now. This is the lawsuit over the patentability of medical diagnostic techniques. If that sounds crazy to you, you're not alone. Promethius got a patent on a specific way of testing for a disease, and got into a legal fight with the Ma ...
• Does Ticketmaster Undercount Tickets Sold To U ...
  Over the years, we've noticed some questionable "accounting" practices in various parts of the entertainment industry. There's recording industry accounting, where labels make a ton of money and most musicians end up in debt. There's Hollywood accounting, where some of the most successful movi ...
• Famed Patent Troll Smacked Down Over 'Anonymou ...
  We've written about famed patent troll Erich Spangenberg and the variety of shell companies under his control a few times in the past. He's the guy who a court told to pay $4 million for shuffling patents around among shell companies and suing the same company twice with the same patent, despit ...

VacTruth

• Will Vaccine Teams Come To Your Home And Vacci ...
  Just imagine this: Health officials coming to your house and force-vaccinating your children. This Public Law gives the CDC the authority to do it.
• 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?

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Let me start off with the things that I missed – your comments. Seemed a bit strange that I didn’t get any comments for a month, but I thought maybe I had been gone so long that you forgot about me. But no, it is just that I am technologically incompetent. So I changed my [...]
• 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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• LaRouche’s SDI Resurfaces: As World War Threat ...
  By Benjamin Deniston Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 25, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 46
• A Call to Action Against World War III
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 25, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 46
• The Fall of the British Empire: Obama’s Armage ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 25, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 46
• Lyndon LaRouche: The British Empire’s World Wa ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche, LaRouche PAC Basement Address Confer ...
  EIR News Service press release.

War in Context

• Gingrich and Netanyahu backer, Sheldon Adelson ...
  The Forward reports: In the battle for the Republican pro-Israel vote, Newt Gingrich lacks Mitt Romney’s broad base of prominent Jewish donors. But he has something potentially more powerful: the support of one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most significant American backers, and a relationship with th ...
• Military still stands in the way of democracy ...
  The New York Times reports: Egypt’s military rulers said Wednesday that they would control the process of writing a constitution and maintain authority over the interim government to check the power of Islamists who have taken a commanding lead in parliamentary elections. In an unusual briefing ...
• Inside Romania’s secret CIA prison
  The Associated Press reports: In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania’s capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect. For years, the CIA used a government building — codenamed Bright Light — as a ...
• Satellite images reveal secret Nevada drone site
  Flightglobal reports: A new satellite image of an isolated airstrip in Nevada shows a secret but operational unmanned air vehicle (UAV) test facility. The Yucca Lake airfield, deep inside the heavily restricted Tonopah Test Range, is on land owned by the National Nuclear Security Administration ...
• William Astore: The remoteness of 1% wars
  This year, 155,754 recruits joined the active-duty U.S. military with the Army leading the way to the tune of more than 64,000 soldiers.  Many more Americans, however, went to war.  Virtual war, that is.  On a single day last month, to be exact, 3.3 million citizens responded to t ...

Watts Up With That?

• Windsplode in Scotland – plus some turbi ...
  I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants? From STV Scotland: Mr McMahon, who captured the spectacular fire in photos, added: “I didn’t hear any explosion or anything, but my … Continue reading →
• Birds apparently can’t outfly climate change
  From Duke University , another Durban doozy, yes we’ll have roasted fowl in the trees because they may not be moving fast enough. Climate change driving tropical birds to higher elevations DURHAM, N.C. — Tropical birds are moving to higher … Continue reading →
• UCAR on Blocking Highs, heat waves, and modeli ...
  Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. writes: Candid Admission By UCAR – “Blocking The Way – Predicting The Atmospheric Detours That Lead To Weather Troubles” There was an interesting article in the Fall issue of the UCAR Magazine titled by Bob Henson titled Blocking The … Continue reading →
• In China, there are no hockey sticks
  Reposted from Jo Nova’s site Chinese 2485 year tree ring study shows shows sun or ocean controls climate, temps will cool til 2068 A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan Tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that … Continue reading →
• Climate FAIL from A to Z presented at Durban
  This might be a bit overzealous per Morano’s unique writing style, but compared to some of the stuff we’ve seen from warmists, pretty mild. Lots of useful links and notes – Anthony By Marc Morano  –  Climate Depot Below is the Introduction to … Continue reading →

  treehugger

• Clever 450 Sq. Feet Transformer Apartment Acco ...
  Designer Paulo Alves took down all walls and created multi-function furniture for his small place.
• The iPad-Controlled Biome Terrarium For Green ...
  This is one planter you'd have a hard time killing... unless the battery on your iPad dies.
• 360.org Radiowaves Helps You Get in Tune With ...
  360.org launches a new hub for climate-related music and videos.
• Record-Breaking Snow As Well As Warmth: Weathe ...
  Even as October saw record-breaking snow, several New England states experienced their warmest autumn on record.
• Josh Fox, Director of Gasland, on the Lies of ...
  Josh Fox, the writer and director of Gasland, discusses the ravages of hydrofracking and the fight against it .

Biosingularity

• How DNA is Packaged
  
  
• Obese Monkeys Given Miracle Weight Loss Pill
  Do we finally have a miracle weight loss drug? I mean, for real this time? The data seems to support such a claim, at least for overweight monkeys that simply can’t drop those extra pounds no matter what they try. After receiving the drug for just four weeks, the monkeys lost between 7 and 15 [...]
• Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold
  Simulating How Proteins Self-Assemble, Or Fold – YouTube.
• Gene tweak creates supermouse – and prevents d ...
  Faster, longer, further… fatter? Knocking out a particular gene in muscle lets mice run twice as far as normal. Knocking out the same gene in fat cells allows the animals to put on weight without developing type-2 diabetes.The discoveries could lead to new treatments for diabetes or for invigora ...
• Scientists trains computer to evaluate breast ...
  Since 1928, the way breast cancer characteristics are evaluated and categorized has remained largely unchanged. It is done by hand, under a microscope. Pathologists examine the tumors visually and score them according to a scale first developed eight decades ago. These scores help doctors assess ...

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

• Iran to raise crude output by 45,000 bpd in 2012
  Iran is planning to increase oil production by 45,000 barrels per day next year, Central Oil Fields Company director Mehdi Fakour said.
• Prokhorov sees no alternative to Putin, urges ...
  Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov said in his blog he saw no alternative to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as president but called for an overhaul of the premier’s United Russia party.
• Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev in Czech Republic
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Prague on an official visit where he held talks with his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus and Prime Minister Petr Necas.
• Georgia becomes NATO aspirant state – deputy PM
  Georgia was named a NATO aspirant country for the first time on Thursday, the country’s deputy premier said.
• Russian Poll Protests

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into ...
  Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said on Thursday.
• Large Hadron Collider goes on Christmas break
  European scientists have stopped the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest particle-accelerating machine, for a three-month scheduled break.
• Large Hadron Collider
• Russian woman cosmonaut may journey to space s ...
  A Russian female cosmonaut may fly to the International Space Station in 2013, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) chief Vladimir Popovkin said on Wednesday.
• 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.

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

• Ask Your Representative to Cosponsor the Genet ...
  Click here to read this article
• Sow Seeds, Not Greed: Farmers Gather on Wall S ...
  It's been a long time since farmers congregated in downtown Manhattan -- around 350 years, to be exact. The folks who populate Wall Street and rural America don't cross paths much these days. It's easy to forget that Wall Street used to be rural America; in 1644, the area contained so many cows ...
• New Study Shows That Rice May Be Contaminated ...
  Arsenic is nasty stuff. Concentrated doses of the chemical can be fatal - one reason it's long been a popular poison for assassins and unhappy widows.Click here to read this article
• Sow Seeds, Not Greed: Farmers Gather on Wall S ...
  It's been a long time since farmers congregated in downtown Manhattan -- around 350 years, to be exact. The folks who populate Wall Street and rural America don't cross paths much these days. Click here to read this article
• Anonymous Strikes and 'Ends' Monsanto PR Firm ...
  The Bivings Group used to handle PR for businesses such as the multi-national biotech corporation Monstanto. Now, a group of Anonymous hackers are claiming they hit the PR firm until it shut down operations. Click here to read this article

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
• Propaganda for punishing 'the enemy'
  Collected stories on the history of Iran, relations with the U.S.. nuclear technology, the NPT and how Iran is restrained from abridging it ( while others claim it should,IAEA is defunded and overworked,etc. history of Middle East nonproliferation failure Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics ...
• 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 ...

Angry Indian News

• I CARE - ITALY: BLOOD AND HONOUR FASCISTS FORM ...
  I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe: The news that Blood and Honour have opened their first branch in Italy has come as a surprise, but only because the neo-nazi organisation was... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Japanese leaders pledge to stand up for Tibet ...
  Japanese leaders pledge to stand up for Tibet - www.phayul.com DHARAMSHALA, December 7: Following the recent spate of self-immolations in Tibet, senior Japanese leaders, including two vice ministers... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• North American Indigenous peoples call for str ...
  North American Indigenous peoples call for strong climate action in Copenhagen | rabble.ca: A multi-generational delegation of 21 Indigenous Peoples from North America have arrived in Copenhagen,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Friends of the Earth - Durban and London: The ...
  Friends of the Earth - Durban and London: The 99 per cent demanding climate justice Last Saturday, thousands of ordinary people from social movements around the world descended on Durban, South... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ideeleradio.pe: Arana: If the subsoil is in th ...
  ideeleradio.pe: Former priest found that the retention of more than nine hours a leader in the Dircote Wilfredo Saavedra was arbitrary and irresponsible. Humala should not favor Yanacocha | Home... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Coexistence: This graphic says it all…
  Coexistence between GMO and organic crops - a graphic representation.
• 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and ex ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Tepco may dump decontaminated water from Fukus ...
  ShareThisTepco may dump decontaminated water from Fukushima plant into sea --Fishing groups protest against Tepco [Protest? We need 'protest' -- and a whole lot more.] 08 Dec 2011 The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is considering dumping water it treated for radiation ...
• Mystery Smell Aboard a Plane Makes 5 Flight At ...
  ShareThisBreaking: Mystery Smell Aboard a Plane Makes 5 Flight Attendants Ill: Cops 07 Dec 2011 Five flight attendants on a plane at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport were transported to a hospital to get checked out after complaining of feeling ill from a mystery smell, authoritie ...
• Deutsche Bank Mail Bomb Triggers Alert in N.Y.
  ShareThisDeutsche Bank Mail Bomb Triggers Alert in N.Y. --NYPD advised Shield, a security program for private firms in New York, to be "extra careful" of similar suspicious packages received by mail 07 Dec 2011 New York police increased patrols at Deutsche Bank AG locations in the city and alert ...
• Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann ...
  ShareThisDeutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann alleged target of parcel bomb 07 Dec 2011 A suspected parcel bomb addressed to Deutsche Bank chief executive Josef Ackermann was intercepted at a Deutsche office in Frankfurt on Wednesday, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. The pac ...
• Terror threat from biological weapons growing, ...
  ShareThisHeads up! USociopaths are preparing their next false flag to provide cover for another go-round of bankster bailouts and wars for oil: Terror threat from biological weapons growing, warns Hillary Clinton 07 Dec 2011 The United States called on Wednesday for closer international cooperat ...

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

• The AfterWar
  8 December 2011 4-4 Cav on Mission in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan The Soldiers were on a mission.  One day had become the next and they had moved into an Afghan family compound until the morning.  The moon crept along, shadows tracing arcs, the shine so strong it caused one to won ...
• Slippery Stuff: CASEVAC vs. MEDEVAC
  7 December 2011 If you ask ten service members “What is the difference between CASEVAC and MEDEVAC,” you might get six answers.  Five might answer, “I don’t know.”  The other five will surely give five different answers. I’ve asked dozens and never gotten the same answer twice.  ...
• Soldiers' Angels December Newsletter 2011
  To view the entire newsletter click here.
• 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 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

• Clever 450 Sq. Feet Transformer Apartment Acco ...
  Designer Paulo Alves took down all walls and created multi-function furniture for his small place.
• The iPad-Controlled Biome Terrarium For Green ...
  This is one planter you'd have a hard time killing... unless the battery on your iPad dies.
• 360.org Radiowaves Helps You Get in Tune With ...
  360.org launches a new hub for climate-related music and videos.
• Record-Breaking Snow As Well As Warmth: Weathe ...
  Even as October saw record-breaking snow, several New England states experienced their warmest autumn on record.
• Josh Fox, Director of Gasland, on the Lies of ...
  Josh Fox, the writer and director of Gasland, discusses the ravages of hydrofracking and the fight against it .

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Teenager charged with murder of girl, 12
  Police arrest 17-year-old boy after hospital in Irrawaddy division confirms body of orphaned girl displays signs of rape
• Burma jails Rohingya on immigration charges
  Boatload of 63 refugees destined for Malaysia is brought ashore by Burmese authorities who hand each one and a half year terms
• Business magazines go censor-free
  Economics and crime coverage among additional publications that are no longer required to pass through Burma's censor board
• Thailand to fly in Burmese workers
  Government to bring in 100,000 Burmese labourers needed to fill the void left by the hundreds of thousands who fled flooding
• US envoy to discuss Burma with Chinese
  Derek Mitchell to travel to Beijing to discuss developments in Burma following Secretary Clinton's recent visit to the country

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Chile's Jorge Montt Glacier shrinks half a mil ...
  The Jorge Montt Glacier in Chile is shrinking at a rate of more than half a mile a year, according to researchers.
• Protests during the climate change conference ...
  Protests during the climate change conference in Durban.
• Chris Huhne: tax on shipping to help poor coun ...
  A tax on ocean cargo and cruise ships to help poor countries cope with global warming is one of the most likely outcome of the ongoing climate change talks, Chris Huhne has said.
• IPCC's Dr Rajendra Pachauri: Himalayan glacier ...
  Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the international scientific body on climate change, has said the Himalayan glaciers were "undoubtedly" melting.
• 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.

National Geographic | Environment

• Bible Accounts Supported by Dead Sea Disaster ...
  New evidence suggests the salty lake once dried out completely—and might support a range of biblical disaster accounts.
• Mongolia Bids to Keep City Cool With "Ice Shie ...
  Mongolia hopes to beat global warming by boosting river ice to lower temperatures—but some experts are skeptical.
• 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.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN war crimes tribunals report progress to Sec ...
  [JURIST] Top officials of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website; JURIST news archive] told the UN Security Council [official website] Wednesday that ...
• Rights group urges new Yemen government to rai ...
  [JURIST] Human Rights Watch [official website] called Thursday for the government of Yemen [JURIST news archive] to increase the minimum age [press release] for girls to enter into marriage. In a 54-page report [text, PDF] titled "How Come You Allow Little Girls to Get Married?" HRW claims that ...
• US citizen sentenced to prison for insulting T ...
  [JURIST] Thai-born American citizen Joe Gordon (Thai name Lerpong Wichaikhammat) was sentenced Thursday to two-and-a-half years in a Thai prison after pleading guilty to violating Section 112 of the Thai Penal Code [text] by defaming the royal family by translating excerpts of a locally banned b ...
• US to use foreign aid, diplomacy to advance LG ...
  [JURIST] US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [official profile] announced Tuesday that the US will use foreign assistance, international diplomacy and political asylum to promote gay rights [remarks]. The secretary's remarks before the UN Human Rights Council [official website] in Geneva were ...
• Mexico authorities disrupt Gaddafi son attempt ...
  [JURIST] Saadi Gaddafi, son of deceased former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi [BBC obituary; JURIST news archive], was implicated Wednesday in a plot to flee to Mexico by the Secretary of the Interior [official website, in Spanish]. The announcement [press release, in Spanish] described the disru ...

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

• Shin Bet Restricts Gag Orders, Detainee ‘Disap ...
  When I first began writing this blog, a question that always nagged at me was: why?  Why write a blog?  Who does it impact?  What does it change?  Now, these questions don’t bother me as much.  But if I ever needed an answer to them I’d have it now, based on an Israeli security sourc ...
• Im Tirzu Participation in Bank Leumi ‘Non-Poli ...
  Bank Leumi has trumpeted a 2-million shekel charity giveaway (Hebrew) called “2-Million Good Reasons,” which allows their customers to direct gifts to a variety of Israeli NGOs and philanthropic organizations.  They include groups fighting hunger and promoting animal welfare, Ethiopi ...
• East Jerusalem Palestinians Must Vote, If Not ...
  Avi Issacharoff has penned another one of his stenographic reports that could’ve been dictated (and very well might’ve been) by the right wing political or military leadership.  In it, he claims that Hamas and the PA will demand that in the coming Palestinian elections Hamas be allow ...
• New Price Tag Mosque Burning Exposes Identity ...
  Jewish terrorists rolled flaming tires into a West Bank mosque (Hebrew) in an attempt to burn it down.  It was the second such price tag attack on a Palestinian mosque.  They attacked the village of Burkina (or “Brukin”) near Ariel and also scrawled graffiti on its walls mocking the ...
• U.S. Engaged in Covert War Against Iran?
  I’ve been intrigued by the question how involved the U.S. is in the black ops campaign against Iran that is being conducted largely by Israel.  I hadn’t noticed this article published two months ago by AP reporter, Douglas Birch.  In it, he delves into the question and comes up with ...

If Americans Knew

• My "Relationship" With Tom Campbell: A Wrench ...
  The First Intifada was a grassroots uprising against Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Intifada is an Arabic word for "civil uprising" that literally means "shaking off."
• AIPAC: We'll take over Cal's student governmen ...
  "How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We're going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation's capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation's campuses."
• VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
  Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
• Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
  You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
• Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
  He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...

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

• Mapping the Story of Climate Change
  For this week's climate meetings in Durban, the World Bank released a series of maps showing the predicted impact of climate change on the world between now and 2100. The data is dismal. If climate change continues unmitigated as it has for the past century, temperatures around the world wil ...
• PANDA Project Releases Alpha 2 (and Needs Your ...
  Last Friday, we closed out our eighth iteration of PANDA Project development and published our second alpha. We've added a login/registration system, dataset search, complex query support and a variety of other improvements. You can try out the new release now by visiting our test site here. ...
• SocMap.com's Location-Based Data Maps Becoming ...
  SocMap.com is pleased to announce that we've launched the "tweets" and "places" features on our site, and we hope to debut "local initiatives," "local questions," and a city-planning game on February 1st. SocMap, a 2010 Knight News Challenge winner, is building a map-based interface for loca ...
• 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

• China and Taiwan - China Rankles US Over Minor ...
  China has repeatedly and belligerently advertised their “concern” about every plan the US has made to supply Taiwan with defensive weapons.  To imagine Taiwan as the aggressor, as a risk to mainland China, is pure sophistry.  The reverse however is everywhere evident.  Yet General ...
• Poisoned Places - GOP Advances Legislation to ...
  In the latest challenge to regulatory Washington, Republicans are expected today to gain passage in the House of the “Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act.” The legislation, also known as the REINS Act, would allow Congress to block the costliest regulations and add new hurdles ...
• The North Korean Threat - Burgeoning ICBM Nort ...
  North Korea is developing a road-mobile ICBM, expanding the future threat to the United States beyond the Taepo Dong 2 long-range missile that would be launched from fixed sites. U.S. intelligence information disclosed to Congress last month reportedly identified recent North Korean progress on ...
• America on Edge - The Raw Deal for Americans, ...
  Dave Esmay made a good life for his family as a construction superintendent in North Carolina, managing commercial projects worth $15 million to $30 million.Then came the Great Recession. In North Carolina, and many other states, the construction industry collapsed. And Esmay lost his job.His fa ...
• The Defense Edge - Resetting the Missile Balan ...
  Section 1228 of the House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540), sponsored by Representative Mo Brooks (R–AL), would impose an absolute ban on sharing sensitive missile defense technology with Russia, including the technology for performing hit-to-kill intercepts of attac ...

High Country News

• Home on the range
  In one Montana family, it's a father-daughter Thanksgiving tradition to do things like build makeshift ramps to help trapped wild animals escape from stock tanks.
• The Forest Service discriminates against poor kids
  A new Forest Service policy that requires commercial guiding licenses for groups of hikers and campers effectively excludes small nonprofits that bring inner-city kids to the wilderness for a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
• 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.

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

• Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Not Worthy of Bein ...
  Warning: This Post Uses a Few Words of the Mamaloshen (slang for Yiddish, means the mother tongue) So Zei Gezunt (be healthy) and continue reading.                 On Yom Kippur, the rabbi stops in the middle of the ...
• Documents Prove One Goal of Fast And Furious ...
  America finally knows  one reason why those "geniuses" high up in ATF, the DOJ and  probably the White House thought it would be a great idea to sell assault weapons to the violent Mexican drug cartels, or why we let them keep their weapons once they were used in committing ...
• A Response to The Obama Administration's Prete ...
  By Barry Rubin In response to criticisms--presumably including mine--of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's speech on the Middle East, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said: “The speech was very clear, the Secretary said there’s an unshakeable commitment to Israel’s security an ...
• 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 ...

The Real Agenda

• Forced Sterilization: Peru’s Darkest Secret
  An investigation into whether Alberto Fujimori’s government carried out mass forced sterilisations in the 1990s has been reopened. by Simeon Tegel The Independent December 8, 2011 Victoria Vigo shows no flicker of emotion as she recounts how she discovered – by chance – that she had been s ...
• Preparese para un Ataque Biológico
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 08 de diciembre 2011 Una de las cosas buenas de los globalistas que actualmente están en control del planeta, es que nos dejen saber de antemano, inclusive varias veces, cuál es el siguiente paso en su intento de llevar a la población mundial a límites descono ...
• Prepare-se para um Ataque Biológico
  Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 08 de dezembro de 2011 Uma das coisas legais sobre os globalistas que estão atualmente no controle de tudo neste planeta, é que eles nos deixam saber antes do tempo, às vezes em várias ocasiões, qual seu próximo passo será em sua busca para reprimir a populaçã ...
• US Caught Meddling in Russian Elections
  by Tony Cartalucci Global Research December 8, 2011 What would Americans say if they found their polling stations and certain political parties entirely infiltrated by Chinese money, Chinese observers, and Chinese-backed candidates promoting China’s interests in an AMERICAN election? The a ...
• Monsanto’s Bt Corn Rendered Obsolete by ...
  by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda December 8, 2011 Surprise, surprise. The circus that is trying to control nature is getting to end, and it has come sooner rather than later. When talking about controlling seed production, food production and what will produce look like inside and outside, Mon ...

Wind Watch

• Wind turbine bursts into flames as hurricane-f ...
  The turbine in a North Ayrshire wind farm caught fire on Thursday afternoon. Fire engines attended the blaze which died out after a matter of minutes at the wind farm situated above Ardrossan at around 3.40pm. Ardrossan resident Stuart McMahon said the turbine had not been in operation due to th ...
• 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 ...

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
• 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
• About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
  Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
  Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals &nbsp ...
• Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
  A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals  |& ...

The Freeman

• Federal Anti-Texting Law Proposed
  “Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says distracted driving is still underreported, and he is urging Congress to enact a national law against texting while driving.” (USA Today) Whatever happened to federalism? FEE Timely Classic “The Meaning of Federalism” by Clarence B ...
• Another Month of Deficit Spending
  “The federal government ran a $139 billion deficit in November, marking the 38th straight month in the red, according to a preliminary estimate the Congressional Budget Office released Wednesday…. Interest payments on the debt continue to rise at the fastest rate of any category of spendin ...
• The Failure of Market Failure
  Which process has better built-in mechanisms to provide the knowledge and incentives necessary to notice imperfections and improve on them?
• Attempt to Overhaul Farm Policy Fails
  “The secret farm bill lawmakers drafted this fall is now history. Congress will take a second stab at overhauling agricultural policy next year, starting with public hearings in January.” (USA Today) There’s no incentive to upset rent-seeking farmers. FEE Timely Classic “What D ...
• U.S. Intervenes Quietly in Euro Crisis
  “Senior U.S. officials are playing a behind-the-scenes role in efforts to contain the European debt crisis, cajoling the region’s leaders to take more steps to calm markets and trying to mediate among European governments with competing interests.” (Washington Post) This can’t end we ...

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

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Shining a light on Gulf resto ...
  Gulf Coast advocates are pressing for greater fairness and openness in funding restoration efforts following the BP oil disaster.
  Gulf Coast advocates are pressi ...
  
• Occupy Memphis: From lawyers to the homeless, ...
  The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest against economic injustice is alive and well in the South.
  The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest agai ...
  
• Is military spending good for creating jobs?
  With looming budget cuts threatening to dig into the military budget, politicians and pundits are warning of big job losses in defense jobs. But a new study finds that military spending isn&a ...
  
• Pension busting at American Airlines
  The Texas-based carrier is using Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a strategic weapon in a class war against decent wages and benefits for its workers.
  The Texas-based ca ...
  
• Teachers call for holiday boycott of Pope stores
  The North Carolina Association of Educators has called for shoppers to boycott stores owned by Raleigh multimillionaire and conservative operative Art Pope for his "anti-public educa ...
  

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

• Why MF Global Collapsed
  Because the Fed cut them off.  That is all. Yes, they were doing shady things, but no more shady than many other companies that didn’t get cut off.  If you are a financial firm, you need the essentially free money the Fed provides.  With it, you can make money, without it, you can’t. ...
• How to lie with headlines – NY Times edition
  So, I’m browsing the NY Times and a title leaps out at me: Albany Tax Deal to Raise Rate for Highest Earners The URL says Cuomo, governor of New York. Odd, I think.  I wouldn’t expect Cuomo to raise taxes on rich people.  Maybe I’ve misjudged him?  Maybe he isn’t just a u ...
• 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 ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
• 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 )

• 2-degree global warming limit is a 'prescripti ...
  Cross posted from Scientific American's Observations blog on behalf of Mark Fischetti. A mantra that has driven global negotiations on carbon dioxide emissions for years has been that policy-makers must prevent warming of more than two degrees Celsius to prevent apocalyptic climate outcomes. ...
• Keep watching the seas
  Marine reserves can trigger a startling comeback for key species in just a matter of years. Data from New Zealand’s reserves shows that species such as blue cod and rock lobsters get bigger and more abundant in reserves, Jonathan Gardner told a meeting at the Zoological Society of London yest ...
• Gulf of Mexico gets $50 million to improve wat ...
  Posted on behalf of Melissa Gaskill On Monday 5 December, the 350 or so attendees at the State of the Gulf of Mexico Summit in Houston were among the first to hear of a $50 million, three-year commitment from the US Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service for projec ...
• Opportunity rover spots hydrothermal vein
  After a 34-kilometre trek, NASA’s indefatigable rover Opportunity has discovered veins of hydrothermally deposited minerals at the edge of Endeavour crater, where it will over-winter in its eighth year. The bright, stick-like veins, apparently comprised of the mineral gypsum, indicate that ho ...
• US oceans and atmosphere agency releases scien ...
  It has been a long time in the making, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) finally released its scientific integrity policy, which prohibits agency employees from distorting science and protects the rights of NOAA scientists to speak openly about their work and to repo ...

new geography

• Which States Are Growing More Competitive?
  By Hank Robison and Rob Sentz. Illustration by Mark Beauchamp. In many ways, individual U.S. states are like 50 laboratories where differing public policy, industry focus, and economic development strategies are tried and tested. Different approaches yield different results and some state ...
• 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 ...

GM Watch

• Monsanto PR firm Bivings goes belly up
  1.Anonymous Strikes and 'Ends' Monsanto PR Firm Bivings Group 2.Reclaim the Cyber-Commons  3.AMAIZING DISGRACE - MONSANTO UP TO ITS DIRTY OLD TRICKS AGAIN NOTE: Bivings were the Monsanto internet PR firm identified in an investigation by GMWatch founder Jonathan Matthews and the investigative j ...
• Monsanto undermined by damning US report
  1.Monsanto EU GM Maize Plans Undermined by Damning US Report 2.Is This Sustainable Agriculture? Resistance to Engineered Bt Corn on the Rise EXTRACT: "Current practices, including genetic engineering, have been pushing us toward greater simplification of our cropping systems—the opposite of div ...
• 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 ...

spiked

• The latest BS about the Big C
  A new British report claiming that nearly half of cancers are caused by our lifestyles should come with a health warning of its own.
• Tobacco haters, kick your filthy habit
  Boston’s ban on e-cigarettes shows what’s really driving the war on smoking: a weird desire to re-engineer our lifestyles.
• Who’s in the ‘In Crowd’ thes ...
  The late US soul singer Dobie Gray provided the theme tune for uppity working-class kids in 1960s Britain.
• Serious journalists *heart* slebs for censorship
  Why those who normally abhor celebrity culture are cheering the likes of Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan against the celeb-obsessed tabloids.
• The forgotten history of Pearl Harbor
  ESSAY: Japan’s attack on the US 70 years ago was not a surprise, but rather the culmination of imperial rivalry.

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

• What Is The Best Country In The World For Amer ...
  Millions of American citizens have already left the United States in search of a better life.  As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it.  But moving to another country is not something to be done lightly.  ...
• 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
  More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
• 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 ...

Desertification

• Support for UN initiative to combat deforestat ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40650&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= Ban presses for support for UN initiative to combat deforestation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses high-level forum on international forest protection in Durban, South Africa 7 December 2011 – Secr ...
• Italian Enel and WFP: 8 million Euro and ‘gre ...
  Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40654&Cr=wfp&Cr1= UN agency, Italian energy company partner to combat hunger and climate change The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Italian energy company Enel announced today a new partnership to combat hunger and ...
• Greenhouse farming in Kenya (New Agriculturist)
  Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2338 Greenhouse farmers need more advice Increasing numbers of farmers in Kenya are adopting greenhouse farming, but they are doing so without proper advice, risking huge losses says Oliver Ndegwa from Agrotunnel, a company that provides tr ...
• SMOS records the amount of moisture held in th ...
  Read at : http://www.emwis.net/thematicdirs/news/2011/12/smos-maps-europe-s-dry-autumn-soils SMOS maps Europe’s dry autumn soils Dry soil resulting from Europe’s exceptionally warm and dry autumn is being monitored by ESA’s SMOS water mission. The images here show the stark comparison between so ...
• The Rich Get Richer (IPS)
  Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106121 DEVELOPMENT In Crisis, The Rich Get Richer By A.D.McKenzie Mansions on one side of the road, and slums on the other. People queuing for food rations, while others drive by in shiny Land Rovers with tinted … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• Pro-Romney group trashes Gingrich in new ad
  A so-called "super PAC" aligned with Mitt Romney has crafted a devastating new ad taking aim at Newt Gingrich – one which may have been accidentally leaked online.
• iWatch News edition launches in new Google Cur ...
  Starting today, iWatch News readers can get our content on their Android devices, iPads or iPhones through the new Google Currents app.You can read the latest Center investigations in addition to browsing your favorite iWatch section. Click here to subscribe to our edition, once you've downloade ...
• GOP senators' position on Consumer Financial P ...
  Five months after its formation, the new federal agency tasked with safeguarding the financial interests of ordinary people is still without a director, meaning it cannot regulate the kinds of lenders that consumer groups say prey on the poor.
• FACT CHECK: Newt’s erroneous ethics alibi
  Newt Gingrich falsely claimed the House ethics panel that voted to reprimand him in 1997 was “a very partisan political committee.” He was also off base when he said the inquiry was “a Pelosi-driven effort.”
• Corzine gave $5 million to help candidates win ...
  Over the years, Jon Corzine has been a prolific campaign contributor. He gave at least $5.3 million in political donations going back to 1984, according to an analysis by iWatch News of CQMoneyline data.

backofthebook.ca

• So what if RIM failed? Would that be all bad?
  By Mark Evans As an enthusiastic supporter of Canada’s high-tech community, I’m hoping RIM can somehow find a way to revive its flagging fortunes. But the terrible debut of the PlayBook, the modest reception to the BlackBerry 9900, and October’s global network outage has not only put RIM o ...
• 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 ...

libcom

• Solar Powered Cappucino at COP 17 in Durban
  Benjamin Fogel on the COP 17 fiasco in Durban, South Africa. COP 17 drags on. Everybody would rather be somewhere else. When last Saturday’s protest march of around 10,000 people reached Durban’s ICC, the venue of the UN environmental ...
• EDL/Infidels Latest!
  Read All Abaht It! EDL/Infidels Latest! http://malatesta32.wordpress.com/
• Occupy Pisa: take back the neighboroughood!
  pranzo pisa.jpg Last Sunday, December 4, the town of Pisa in Tuscany saw a successful day of struggle and community involvement. More than 100 people responded to the call out by the Occupy Pisa folks ...
• Talking about Working Conditions is not a Crime!
  lottono_0.jpg A unionist from COB-AIT goes on trial for slander after condemning working conditions in his factory and the repression of his activity. A unionist from the COB-AI ...
• Sparks wildcat in the face of pay cuts and leg ...
  sparks.jpg After Balfour Beatty force the cancellation of an official strike ballot, electricians walk out anyway. This morning was supposed to mark the beginning of on official ...

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

• NAGUIB SAWIRIS
  Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
• 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.
• Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
  Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
• Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
  Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.
• Bob McDonald Part 2 (Apr 9, 2011)
  Part two of our annual show where CBC's Science Correspondent answers your questions about the mysteries of the world that have always puzzled you.

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)

• Coalition Forces Won't Take Training Wheels Of ...
  The administration defense policy shop Center for a New American Security calls for ending counterinsurgency in Afghanistan.
• New Nuclear Weapons Facility: "Gateway to a Bl ...
  The fight to stop a facility dedicated to nuclear pits -- where the chain reaction occurs -- is finally experiencing some success.
• Australia Remilitarizes
  Australia is rapidly re-posturing in the face of a militarized East Asia.
• 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.

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

• IRAN AIRS FOOTAGE OF THE CAPTURED DRONE
  Iranian state television broadcast images this morning of what they purport to be a downed U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-iranian-state-tv-releases-images-of-downed-us-drone-2011-12#ixzz1fxllxtHv
• Iran airs footage of downed US drone
  Iran has broadcast video footage of a high-tech US reconnaissance drone which was downed by the Iranian Army in the eastern part of the Islamic Republic earlier this week. read more
• Imprisonments jump worldwide, and Iran is worst
  The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide shot up more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s, an increase driven largely by widespread jailings across the Middle East and North Africa, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found. In its annual census of imprisoned jour ...
• ایران باز هم 'بزرگ‌ترین زندان روزنامه‌نگاران ج ...
  گزارش جدید "کمیته حفاظت از روزنامه‌نگاران" می‌گوید که شمار روزنامه‌نگاران زندانی در جهان در سال ۲۰۱۱ به بالاترین تعداد در ۱۵ سال اخیر رسیده و ایران در این میان بیشترین تعداد زندانی را به خود اختصاص داده است. read more
• Iran refugees fear bloodbath
  As he hosts Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Monday, President Obama will need to hastily tie up Iraq’s loose ends — including Camp Ashraf, a mess that could quickly turn ugly and cloud Obama’s chance to claim “promise fulfilled” on ending the Iraq war. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

• The Wikipedia Revolution – Part I
  By Andrew Lih (Aurun Press Ltd 2009) Book Review (I have divided this review into two parts. Part I describes Open Source innovations that were integral to the creation of the world’s most famous and popular encyclopedia. Part II describes the Wikipedia project itself.) Lih’s Wilki ...
• 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 ...

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

• How Bahrain works Washington
  Ever since last February, when security forces in Bahrain brutally cracked down on demonstrators at the Pearl Monument, human rights groups have documented extensive violence by the government against pro-democracy protesters. In late  November, an independent commission hired by the country’s k ...
• Can Occupy and the Tea Party team up?
  RICHMOND, Va. -- Members of the Occupy Richmond and local Tea Party movements found acres of common ground during an unlikely meeting held Tuesday at a police station-turned-art gallery in the city’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood.But first and foremost, the 12 men and women from seemingly p ...
• Obama says no to Plan B for teens
  Why does Obama want your innocent little girl to have sex without you knowing?The fear of an attack ad along those lines must have motivated the Obama administration's decision today to overrule the Food and Drug Administration's recommendation to allow emergency contraception to be sold on stor ...
• Bank of America spooked by Occupy campaign
  (UPDATED BELOW)Here’s a quick coda to the Occupy Our Homes campaign launch yesterday: One big bank is reportedly paying close attention to the anti-foreclosure effort.The blog Zero Hedge has published a purported internal Bank of America email warning all “field services” operators that the Occu ...
• Rep. Joe Walsh gets occupied
  As I sat there with my laptop in a hallway of the Cannon House Office Building of the U.S. Capitol, I saw the gaping eyes of Rep. Joe Walsh, Republican of Illinois and leader of the Tea Party. "I think that's him," I murmured to Micah Uetricht, a Chicago-based journalist. The congressman stared ...

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

• Harper’s deal to do a deal
  The Canada/U.S. border deal looks less like the bold plan we were led to expect, and more like a cautious series of pilot projects that we’ll be debating for years. ...
• A $2 daily head tax on children
  There’s a shortage of good affordable daycare in Toronto. Mayor Rob Ford’s solution? Charge families $500 more per child and call it progress.
• 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. ...

Energy Collective

• New IEA Report Issues Strategic Recommendation ...
  How can the world finance a massive scale up of clean energy technologies?
• EIA: Energy Efficiency Can Reduce Emissions, t ...
  On November 30, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released an Analysis of Impacts of a Clean Energy Standard. The study was requested by Senator Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
• Measuring the Shale Gas Revolution
  New quantification of the national impact of the shale natural gas revolution going on in the United States, from IHS Global Insight, one of the world's largest economic analysis and forecasting firms:
• NRC's Chairman Gregory Jaczko Presses His Case ...
  In an end of year meeting with reporters the Chairman explains what the agency plans to do next year
• Will UK Will Exceed Its Carbon Reduction Targe ...
  This is the first of two posts about the UK's climate emissions and its plans to reduce them. This first one represents the Government's current view:

EU Times

• Russia gives blankets to Kosovo Serbs instead ...
  Russia provided an original response to the Kosovo Serbs who asked Russia for citizenship in a desperate attempt to find at least some protection from the Albanian militants. Instead of Russian passports or military assistance Russia sent to northern Kosovo blankets and food. On December 7 a con ...
• Occupy DC strikes at heart of lobbyists’ hub
  Up to 70 arrests have been made in Washington DC after the police dispersed a mass demonstration only walking distance away from the White House. “Occupiers” blocked downtown streets to protest against high unemployment and corporate bailouts. ­Hundreds of protesters from Occupy DC and other gro ...
• US Jewish community: The strongest in the world
  The Jewish community in the U.S. is one of the largest in the world with over 5.5 million people. The majority of them are business people and those who have “white collar” jobs, though it was not always the case. There is no wonder that there is a powerful U.S. Jewish lobby that sup ...
• Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman will No ...
  U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday that he will not attend the debate that Donald Trump is moderating. Mr Romney joins fellow candidates Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman in rejecting the invitation to the controversial December 27 debate. Mr Romney told Fox News’ N ...
• China Joins Russia, Orders Military To Prepare ...
  A grim Ministry of Defense bulletin issued to Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev today states that President Hu has “agreed in principal” that the only way to stop the West’s aggression led by the United States is through “direct and immediate military action” and that the Chinese leade ...

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

• European Central Bank Cuts Rates To Match Reco ...
  by Mark Memmott It's a widely expected move, but still noteworthy: "The European Central Bank cut interest rates by a quarter of a point on Thursday to counter the twin threats of recession and deflation in the euro zone, and is expected to unveil fresh measures to help banks hurt by the bloc's ...
• Liveblogging: Fast and Furious Hearing
  Watch it live, here. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before the House Judiciary Committee today about when he first became aware of the tactics used by the ATF’s failed sting operation aimed at gun smugglers. Previously, Holder vowed that the tactics used during operation Fast and Furiou ...
• Matt Lauer v. Ryan Seacrest: Discuss….
  Warwick Saint/FOX Looking toward the end of next year, when Matt Lauer’s contract with “Today” expires, NBC has sent up a trial balloon: it has let it be known far and wide that Ryan Seacrest is under consideration to inherit the chair beside Ann Curry. It’s as if they’re seeking public comment
• Albert Pujols Joins Baseball’s Highest-Paid Af ...
  Image via Wikipedia Albert Pujols has agreed to a 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim worth at least $250 million according to ESPN’s Buster Olney . Pujols spent the first 11 years of his MLB career with the St. Louis Cardinals where he won three MVP awards and two World Ser ...
• GOP Blocks Cordray Nomination to CFPB
  Senate Republicans voted today to block the confirmation of Richard Cordray, President Obama’s pick to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The vote to proceed on the confirmation failed 53-45, short of the 60 votes required to break a filibuster. Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) was the ...

Groklaw

• FCC Chief Warns Against the Perversion of Tech ...
  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski spoke on Monday, Dec. 5, to an audience that had assembled to witness the swearing in of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, of which he is the chairman. In his speech, Genachowski related the horrific struggles of his ance ...
• Mayo v. Prometheus
  The memorable line from the KSR oral arguments was Justice Scalia's criticism of Federal Circuit precedent as "gobbledygook." The Court heard oral arguments today in Mayo v. Prometheus. The best one-liner from oral arguments comes from Justice Breyer. As you might expect, Justice Breyer's sta ...
• More Evidence Found for Quantum Physics in Pho ...
  Confronted with this unexpected coherence, researchers hypothesized a role in enabling ultra-efficient energy transfer. Energy from incoming photons could simultaneously explore every possible chlorophyll route from a protein's surface to the reaction center at its core, then settle on the short ...
• Xbox 360 update: new media features, no right ...
  Sony raised the ire of gamers when it took away the ability to sue the company during a seemingly standard PS3 software update, and some gamers decided to opt out of the deal in order to retain their rights to legal action if wronged by the company. Microsoft is the latest console manufacturer t ...
• Digital Agenda: First meeting of EU Media Futu ...
  European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes has established a group to debate how to improve the policy framework for European media industries, chaired by Christian van Thillo, CEO of De Persgroep. The first of five group debates will take place today focussing on the impacts of the digital ...

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

• What could possibly go wrong? Bristol Bay Pebb ...
  This morning Charles Pierce shared his discovery of the Pebble Mine that London-based Anglo American and Canada-based Northern Dynasty Minerals plan to build to extract copper, gold, molybdenum and other minerals from a site located at the headwaters of the Bristol Bay in Alaska. Sometimes, a s ...
• Federal judge rules bloggers not journalists
  A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalistwhen she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country. Crystal L. Cox, a blogger from Eureka, Mont., was ...
• Continuing turmoil in California Green Party
  Many thanks to my old friend, comrade and compatriot Bob Morris for inviting me to blog here.  Bob was interested in my take on the ongoing turmoil between Mike Feinstein and Nativo Lopez.  I blogged extensively on that subject some time ago, A plague on both your houses.  The information that I ...
• Majority of Californians agree with reasons fo ...
  blog.amnestyusa.org While nearly half of Californians do not personally identify with the Occupy movement, 58% agree with the underlying reasons for the protests, says the highly respected Field Poll in announcing survey results last week. If this were an election, the opposition would be stompe ...
• Crypteks USB drive. Hardware encryption, physi ...
  I am totally geeking out. Not only does this USB drive have clean design and appears to be impregnable, Crypteks is self-financing it through Kickstarter.

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

• General debate, December 9, 2011
• Protecting our rivers
  Protecting our rivers The New Zealand Conservation Authority’s (NZCA’s) call for an inventory of outstanding rivers and secure protection for a representative range of rivers is timely. As Authority notes, “All is not well with New Zealand rivers and there is increasing public concern about thei ...
• Inequality solutions there if we’re willing
  The OECD has confirmed what we already suspected with its ground-breaking report on inequality – Divided We Fall. The gap between rich and poor has grown exponentially since the 1980s in most developed countries – but none more so than in New Zealand.
• Secrecy around animal experiments must stop
  The closing down of Valley Animal Research Centre’s (VARC) experimental beagle operation must be just the beginning of closing down inhumane animal experiments throughout New Zealand. The last available statistics (2010) show that at least 56,208 animals suffered medium to very high impact in Ne ...
• The future will be walkable
  Last week I went to watch my colleague and friend Holly Walker on the Backbenches TV show (14’30”). Being a new MP myself, Damien came up to me in the audience for some freshman hazing. He asked me what I hoped to achieve in the next three years. Quite ambitiously, I launched into a ...

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 Does the U.S. Media Breed Propaganda Journ ...
  The media in modern America is a cartel system.  It is owned by a handful of giant corporations -- corporations that are in turn saddled with heavy debts. This has encouraged them to cut costs wherever possible, while at the same time producing whatever material they think will sell the mo ...
• Doctor Warns: Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years ...
  By Dr. Mercola In the early 1990's, soy and soy products exploded onto the supermarket scene with promises of bountiful health benefits. This "new miracle food," soy, was supposed to lower cholesterol, take the heat out of hot flashes, protect against breast and prostate cancer and offer a ...
• Can Ingesting 'Friendly Bugs' Reduce Your Anxiety?
  By Dr. Mercola Increasingly, scientific evidence shows that nourishing your gut flora with the friendly bacteria known as probiotics is extremely important for proper brain function, and that includes psychological well-being and mood control. It may sound odd that bacteria in your gut could ...
• The Cancer-Causing Mistake 1 in 4 People Over ...
  By Dr. Mercola Statins, drugs that lower your cholesterol levels, are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world. In the US, a staggering one in four over the age of 45 is now taking this unnecessary drug! Statins act by blocking a crucial  enzyme in your liver responsible f ...
• 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 ...

JAMA

• The Comprehensive Treatment of the Aging Spine ...
• Oxford Textbook of Medicine [Book and Media Re ...
• Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics [Book and Media ...
• THE PREVENTION OF INDUSTRIAL DISEASE [JAMA 100 ...
• A 23-Year-Old Woman With a Right Femoral Neck ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• Survival reveals ten hidden abuses against tri ...
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival Survival is releasing ten tribal rights abuses ahead of UN Human Rights Day this Saturday, to expose violations that still pass largely unnoticed. Signed 63 years ago, the Universal Declara ...
• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Talking about climate change
  On Wednesday, readers took part in an online chat with award-winning Gazette investigative reporter William Marsden, author of the just-published book Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change (Knopf Canada). You can read their questions and comments and Marsden's answers:
• What to do about bullying in schools
  "" Given the growing suicide toll from bullying, the time is now to start making changes, not just talking about them. Legislation is wonderful, but what happens to the bullies who are expelled? They go on to torment another school.
• The Conservatives' dirty tricks against Irwin ...
  The Conservative Party of Stephen Harper has much in hand with which to legitimately commend itself to the Canadian public.
• The need to get smarter on border security
  The new Canada-U.S. border agreement to be formally unveiled Wednesday will include, among other measures, enhanced tracking procedures for persons entering or leaving the country by air, land or sea.
• The need to get smarter on border security
  It is bound to be denounced in some quarters here - and already has been as reports of the negotiations emerged - as a sellout of Canadian sovereignty and an un-Canadian infringement on privacy rights for the sake of easing access to U.S. markets, even though in that respect it offers some comme ...

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

• What Is The Best Country In The World For Amer ...
  Millions of American citizens have already left the United States in search of a better life.  As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it.  But moving to another country is not something to be done lightly.  ...
• 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
  More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
• 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 ...

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

• Farce, as unelected nobody from anti-democrati ...
  Any budding playwrights amongst you really ought to be chronicling the current events in the EU through comedic blank verse - there's enough material in the utter ludicrousness of the whole shebang that, anyone documenting it thus will surely someday be seen as the early twenty-first century's S ...
• 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 ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: Shining a light on Gulf resto ...
  Gulf Coast advocates are pressing for greater fairness and openness in funding restoration efforts following the BP oil disaster.
  Gulf Coast advocates are pressi ...
  
• Occupy Memphis: From lawyers to the homeless, ...
  The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest against economic injustice is alive and well in the South.
  The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest agai ...
  
• Is military spending good for creating jobs?
  With looming budget cuts threatening to dig into the military budget, politicians and pundits are warning of big job losses in defense jobs. But a new study finds that military spending isn&a ...
  
• Pension busting at American Airlines
  The Texas-based carrier is using Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a strategic weapon in a class war against decent wages and benefits for its workers.
  The Texas-based ca ...
  
• Teachers call for holiday boycott of Pope stores
  The North Carolina Association of Educators has called for shoppers to boycott stores owned by Raleigh multimillionaire and conservative operative Art Pope for his "anti-public educa ...
  

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

• Biggest telescope starts observations
  A Russian space telescope launched in July has linked up with radio dishes on the ground to observe a distant galaxy – the system acts like one huge antenna
• Neutrino misbehaviour suggested 50 years ago
  In 1962, Cambridge physicist Jayant Narlikar wrote a paper about time-travelling neutrinos, which are consistent with neutrinos that move faster than light
• Today on New Scientist: 8 December 2011
  All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: megaquake warning, the language of thought, latest from Durban, eco-F1 and a splitting rainbow
• Rare twin rainbows simulated in 3D
  Not just any old double rainbow, but a splitting rainbow produced by light travelling through large raindrops known as "burgeroids"... oh wow... oh wow
• Durban meeting hears short-term plan to cool p ...
  The fear at Durban is that the climate negotiations will fail to prevent warming beyond two degrees – but there is a way to buy us time

Tech Drive In

• Android Market Celebrates 10 Billion App Downl ...
  "One billion is a pretty big number by any measurement. However, when it’s describing the speed at which something is growing, it’s simply amazing," wrote Eric Chu, director of Android Developer Ecosystem, in a recent blog post. According to official Google statistics, 1 billion apps are being ...
• 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 ...

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’s new definition of rape ensnares TS ...
  By Mike Adams So in October, the FBI’s UCR subcommittee Advisory Policy Board voted to recommend the definition be expanded. The new definition of rape, which looks set to be “officially” adopted by the FBI in 2012, is as follows: “Rape” is: …penetration, no m ...
• You want Jujubees with your Surround Sound 3D?
  By Les Visible My friends, let your hearts be lifted, no matter what else may happen, we will survive; some portion of us will continue and some part of us will even be living and working together. How cool is that? That is plenty cool. If you are anywhere near where we will be in [...]
• DEA launders Mexican drug cartel profits
  By GINGER THOMPSON WASHINGTON — Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, prima ...
• EDITORIAL: A climate of fraud – Washingt ...
  The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009’s “Climategate” files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. The basic problem with climate research is that it is at best soft science, and this leake ...
• ALL the Vaccines Are Contaminated – Ever ...
  S. Edmonson for Salem-News.com “The chief, if not the sole, cause of the monstrous increase in cancer has been vaccination” – Dr. Robert Bell, once Vice President International Society for Cancer Research at the British Cancer Hospital Vaccines Experts say families need to take ...

Veterans Today

• ISAF Aggression Against Pakistan
  The militants gave the SOS to ISAF and NATO and American aircraft and gunships rushed to rescue the trapped militants.
• American Veterans, Consigned to the Garbage Heap
  Disposal, the Living and the Dead, Veterans, America’s “Unwanted Millions”   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Scandal’s are a dime a dozen nowadays, each getting its 15 minutes of notoriety and soon to be forgotten.  When these scandals involve the abuse of veterans, th ...
• From Occupation to “Occupy”: The Israelificati ...
  The Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed
• Shut Up and Teach! The Perversion of Free Spee ...
  The neocons who planned 9/11 and the ensuing regime of "fascism lite" (see Luttwak's Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook) foresaw opposition from several quarters.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  The Boeing Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded a $141,318,475 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the services in support of 30 Apache AH-64D attack helicopters for Taiwan.

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

• Republica appoints Dussan VP, media services
  MIAMI: Republica has named Enrique Dussan VP of media services, a new position at the multicultural-focused firm.
• University of Texas rolls out strategic comms ...
  AUSTIN, TX: The University of Texas at Austin will launch a strategic communications certificate program for working professionals next year.
• DKC selected by JCPenney to boost fashion brands
  PLANO, TX: JCPenney has chosen DKC as an agency partner to support its fashion brands following an RFP process. The retailer also hired PMK-BNC earlier this month.
• Saab NA explains reorganization
  DETROIT: Saab Cars North America has rolled out specific communications for its dealer, supplier, and customer bases following the decision by an administrator this week to end the voluntary reorganization of parent company Saab Automobile.
• Heart Institute goes mobile for 2012 Fashion Week
  WASHINGTON: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will integrate mobile marketing into the 10th anniversary edition of "The Heart Truth" campaign.

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

• Earth Day Canada Hometown Heroes Award Program
  Deadline:  30 Mar 2012 (All day) Organization:  Earth Day Canada   Do you know of any craf ...
• 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 ...
• Job Opportunity: Executive Director, Sierra Cl ...
  Position:  Executive Director Organization:  Sierra Club Prairie ...
• Call for Proposals: Under Western Skies Enviro ...
  Organization:  Mount Royal University Initiative:  Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in Nort ...

Stop NATO

• Interview: Clinton Lectures Russia On Election ...
  Voice of Russia December 8, 2011 U.S not in a position to criticize Russian elections – expert John Robles Audio interview Interview with Rick Rozoff, the manager of the Stop NATO website and mailing list and a contributing writer to Global Research.ca Rozoff worked against the Chicago pol ...
• Stop NATO news: December 8, 2011
  ==== Russia To Counter Western Missile Deployments Near Border: Military Chief Russian Envoy Slams NATO Over Middle East, Interceptor Missiles French Foreign Minister: NATO-Russia Missiles Talks “Near Deadlock” West’s Most-Cherished Desire: Disintegration Of Russian Federation ...
• W.H. Auden: A land laid waste, its towns in te ...
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts W.H. Auden Embassy  As evening fell the day’s oppression lifted:  Far peaks came into focus; it had rained:  Across wide lawns and cultured flowers drifted  The conversation of the highly trained.  Two gar ...
• Stop NATO news: December 7, 2011
  ==== NATO To Open Centers In Kuwait, Other Gulf States Israel Brandishes Drones Amid Reports Of Impending Attack On Iran Hereditary Regimes: Jordan, Morocco In Line For GCC Membership Tricontinental “Pan-Arab Pipeline” To Proceed Despite Syria Crisis U.S. Should Apologize To Pakistan ...
• Rousseau: The State of War
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Jean-Jacques Rousseau From The State of War Translated by Charles Edwyn Vaughan ***** I hear a hideous noise. What a tumult and what cries! I draw near; before me lies a scene of murder, ten thousand slaughtered, the dead piled in heaps ...

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Intel Hub

• 10 Ways the War on Drugs is a Wild Success
  Activist Post Eric Blair For all the evidence of how the War on Drugs has failed society, there’s equally as much evidence of how it is a great success to those who continue to support it.  The drug war has many advantages if you wish to control society and expand your empire.  It also enr ...
• The Enlightened Ones: The Illuminati and the N ...
  New Dawn Magazine By Michael Howard December 7, 2011 The world is governed by far different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes. – Benjamin Disraeli, nineteenth century British prime minister, in a speech to Parliament On 1 May 1776, the year of the beginning ...
• The International: Oil, Drugs, Guns & Kissinge ...
  The Intel Hub Dean Henderson December 8, 2011 (Part one of a two-part series excerpted from Chapter 18 of my book Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…) At the nadir of Four Horsemen/Gulf Cooperation Council/CIA petrodollar drugs for guns recycling scheme quietly sit the international ...
• The Federal Reserve Cartel: Part I: The Eight ...
  The Intel Hub Dean Henderson December 8, 2011 (Part one of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf…) The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil ( ...
• Ohio Nuclear Plant Cracking – NRC Approv ...
  The Intel Hub Shepard Ambellas December 7, 2011 TOLEDO — At full production the damaged Davis-Besse FirstEnergy plant produces power to 750,000 people in the Ohio area. It has been openly admitted that there have been cracks found in the casing of the plant over two months ago, however the NRC s ...

FRS

• Occupy Wall Street Spreads to 1500 cities arou ...
  Occupy Wall Street Spreads gto 1500 cities arou…, posted with vodpod
• India: Fact Finding Report on the killing of ...
  Statement on the killing of CPI(Maoist) Politbureau member Kishenji Twenty two member team of four constituents of Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation namely Association for Protection of Democratic Rights, Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee, Bandi Mukti Committee and Peoples Un ...
• Kishenji Fought for a Better World
  Indian ‘Republic Killing Its Own Children’ - Kishenji Fought for a Better World by Bernard D’Mello  India’s Union Home Minister P Chidambaram, West Bengal Chief Minister (also in charge of the province’s home affairs) Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Secretary R K Singh, and the top bosses of the sec ...
• ‘Occupy’ protesters reclaiming foreclosed home ...
  By David Edwards, rawstory.com, December 6, 2011 The 99 percent movement, which has been evicted from many of their encampments across the country, is finding common cause with thousands of homeowners who are also being evicted from their homes. Even though the movement has often been criticized ...
• Amnesty Int’l: Call for African Arrest o ...
  African leaders ignore Amnesty’s call to arrest Bush Radio Netherlands Worldwide, December 6, 2011 ADDIS ABABA, Dec 6 – RNW correspondents in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia went in search of supporters and detractors of Amnesty International’s call to arrest former US president, George W. Bush, d ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

• PETA sues SeaWorld on Behalf of Orcas
  In what may be the first lawsuit of its kind, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), along with five marine mammal experts, are filing a suit in federal court against SeaWorld for violating the Thirteenth Amendment rights of orca whales.Contributor: Cherri Megasko Published: Oct 26, ...
• 10 Steps to Effective Protesting
  With so many novices hitting the protesting pavement these days, a crash course in effective demonstrating seems to be in order. Here are 10 tips to maximize the efficiency of your protesting efforts.Contributor: Cherri Megasko Published: Oct 26, 2011
• TV OK for Babies, but Don't Forget to Talk, Too
  Since the American Academy of Pediatrics advocated a ban on television-watching for children under the age of 2, some parents have expressed strong disdain. But what does the research have to say about it?Contributor: Ruqaiyya Noor Published: Oct 24, 2011
• Harley-Davidson Issues Recall Due to Potential ...
  A recall affecting about 308,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycles has been issued to fix an issue with the rear brake light and brake.Contributor: Tammy Lee Morris Published: Oct 24, 2011
• Rescues Continue as Death Toll in Turkey Earth ...
  The number of injured and dead in eastern Turkey continues to rise as rescue workers continue to search for survivors.Contributor: Tammy Lee Morris Published: Oct 24, 2011

Popsci - Science

• Biologists Sequence Genome of Controversial Ar ...
  One of the most controversial science stories in recent memory, the saga of arsenic-loving microbes, resurfaced again this week, a year after the initial claims created a media firestorm. Now scientists at the University of Illinois-Chicago have sequenced the genome of the disputed bug, a step t ...
• Rumor Mill: LHC Researchers Expect First Glimp ...
  At a meeting on Tuesday, the ATLAS and CMS experiments are expected to show their first data that offers a peek at the God Particle There’s no official announcement yet--that comes next week--but word on the street and around the cafeteria at CERN says that scientists may announce that they’ve ...
• Scientists to World: We're Going to Finally Cl ...
  It’s long been something of a holy grail for those bent on the idea of recreating species lost to the Earth through extinction, and now the Russians and Japanese are actually planning to do it--we’re going to clone a woolly mammoth, you guys. That’s right. Using intact bone marrow recovered from ...
• Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It ...
  Real-time immune attack could pinpoint new interventions, thanks to a new procedure A new real-time view of immune cells attacking the pancreas sheds light on how type 1 diabetes unfolds, as white blood cells seek out and destroy insulin-producing beta cells. Researchers believe it could help p ...
• Materials Tortured in Space
  An ongoing experiment tests the mettle of glass and other materials High-energy radiation and atomic oxygen wreak havoc on satellite parts. To evaluate the durability of materials being developed for future satellites, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is running samples through a space-based ...

Veterans Today

• ISAF Aggression Against Pakistan
  The militants gave the SOS to ISAF and NATO and American aircraft and gunships rushed to rescue the trapped militants.
• American Veterans, Consigned to the Garbage Heap
  Disposal, the Living and the Dead, Veterans, America’s “Unwanted Millions”   By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Scandal’s are a dime a dozen nowadays, each getting its 15 minutes of notoriety and soon to be forgotten.  When these scandals involve the abuse of veterans, th ...
• From Occupation to “Occupy”: The Israelificati ...
  The Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed
• Shut Up and Teach! The Perversion of Free Spee ...
  The neocons who planned 9/11 and the ensuing regime of "fascism lite" (see Luttwak's Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook) foresaw opposition from several quarters.
• U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
  The Boeing Co., Mesa, Ariz., was awarded a $141,318,475 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the services in support of 30 Apache AH-64D attack helicopters for Taiwan.

War is Business

• Federal Prosecutors Bust Defense Official For ...
  New details in a corruption case involving a former civilian official at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command now sitting in federal prison.
• A Reminder That The Post-9/11 Decade Wasn&#821 ...
  Since 9/11, FLIR Systems' revenues have increased sixfold, to $1.4 billion last year. And consider FLIR’s profitability: from a $29 million loss in 2000 to a $56 million profit last year.
• Inside Look At Yet Another Religious Group Wit ...
  If the state of Oregon believes the board of Akal Security is led by untrustworthy people, then why do the departments of Defense and Homeland Security continue to award contracts to the company?
• China-Pakistan Port Deal Another Sign Of Wanin ...
  Buy Baluchistan Buy Baluchistan • Read more at WSJ.com: World News
• Temptations Of The Flesh: GOP Freshmen Can&#82 ...
  Sell promises Sell promises • Read more at National Security on iWatch News

Hudson's Weather & Climate

• Winter storm set to batter Britain
  Much of the UK looks set to be battered by severe gales through tomorrow, as an area of low pressure in the Atlantic undergoes explosive development in the next 24 hours. At 6am this morning, the central pressure of the area of low pressure heading our way was 1006mb; by tomorrow afternoon it' ...
• Second warmest Autumn on record
  Autumn has turned out to be the second warmest on record, beaten only by autumn 2006 on a Met Office dataset that dates back to 1910. November itself was also narrowly pushed into second place, only beaten by November 1994. More impressively, based on the much longer CET dataset, which has run ...
• A stormy end to November
  The pattern of weather that is now establishing itself, dominated by westerly winds, is common across the UK in winter. Vigorous depressions are likely to develop in the coming days, and the strength of the wind is likely to catch the headlines. This weekend looks particularly stormy, with wi ...
• End in sight to extraordinary November weather
  It is turning out to be a remarkable November, with mean temperatures way above what would normally be expected at this time of the year. If temperatures were to remain at these elevated levels then it would become the mildest November ever recorded on the Central England Temperature (CET) mea ...
• Is the solar sector facing collapse?
  The recent proposal by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to halve the Feed in Tariff (FIT) available for solar installations registered after the middle of next month has sent shock waves through the industry. Already two energy giants, British Gas and EON, have stopped new ap ...

Internat'l Political Economy

• Obama, Bushite Climate Obstructionist or Hero?
  It's Christmastime, there's no need to be afraid...or is there? One thing for sure is that there will be no snow in Africa this Christmas. Or maybe even a partial deal on combating global warming, for that matter. For the third year running, the end-of-year multilateral agenda is dominated by cl ...
• Yes, the Main Beneficiary of the Euro Was...the UK
  Probably one of the major irritants in always tense "UK in the EU" relations is the former's ability to corner a lot of the market in trading the currency as well as other euro-denominated instruments. Both are quite interdependent; I would say that London is Europe's financial casino. One obser ...
• 'China's Reserves Have Fallen 3 Months In a Row'
  Well here's a very positive development from my point of view and perhaps nearly everyone else's. China having an unfathomably huge $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves may prove to be the apotheosis of a supremely wasteful activity. It is, to me, the largest financial folly in world histo ...
• Chicago Merc Now Takes RMB for Futures Trading
  The interesting thing about the United States at the current time is that it's the new Italy. Whereas Italy would continually add zeros to the dollar/lira exchange rate to compensate for a lack of competitiveness via depreciation, that route is no longer there since it joined the Eurozone. The U ...
• Adios Gringos: CELAC, the US-Less Americas PTA
  China may be getting back at the US for aggressively pursuing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in China's backyard and supposedly including Japan in negotiations to broaden the TPP. Since China to an extent perceives TPP as a way for the Yanks to freeze it out in an Asia-Pacific PTA, so in tu ...

Economic Collapse Blog

• What Is The Best Country In The World For Amer ...
  Millions of American citizens have already left the United States in search of a better life.  As the economy continues to crumble and as our society slowly falls apart, millions of others are thinking about it.  But moving to another country is not something to be done lightly.  ...
• 20 Signs That The Culture Of Government Depend ...
  More Americans are financially dependent on the government than ever before.  For a variety of reasons, there are now tens of millions of Americans that would not be able to survive without government assistance.  As I wrote about the other day, the insane economic policies of ou ...
• 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

• Radical Online Magazine Launched: The Precarious
  When we set out to launch the online magazine The Precarious, we saw so many of us ...
• October 2011 Kate Sharpley Library bulletin online
  KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 68, October 2011 has just been posted on the site. You can get to the contents or read the full p...
• New Issue of Ireland's anarchist paper Workers ...
  June last saw another massive Pride in Dublin with approximately 25,000 people taking part. While Pride has very much become more of a social an...
• November issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper out
  Freedom newspaper, the only regular anarchist newspaper published in the UK, has recently changed to a monthly publication, giving us the opport...
• Want to get your zine, pamphlet, or poster out ...
  Welcome to Olympia SDS, we've been throwing down since 2006, played a pivotal role in Port Militarization Resistance, and occupied the offices o...

E U Times

• Russia gives blankets to Kosovo Serbs instead ...
  Russia provided an original response to the Kosovo Serbs who asked Russia for citizenship in a desperate attempt to find at least some protection from the Albanian militants. Instead of Russian passports or military assistance Russia sent to northern Kosovo blankets and food. On December 7 a con ...
• Occupy DC strikes at heart of lobbyists’ hub
  Up to 70 arrests have been made in Washington DC after the police dispersed a mass demonstration only walking distance away from the White House. “Occupiers” blocked downtown streets to protest against high unemployment and corporate bailouts. ­Hundreds of protesters from Occupy DC and other gro ...
• US Jewish community: The strongest in the world
  The Jewish community in the U.S. is one of the largest in the world with over 5.5 million people. The majority of them are business people and those who have “white collar” jobs, though it was not always the case. There is no wonder that there is a powerful U.S. Jewish lobby that sup ...
• Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman will No ...
  U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Tuesday that he will not attend the debate that Donald Trump is moderating. Mr Romney joins fellow candidates Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman in rejecting the invitation to the controversial December 27 debate. Mr Romney told Fox News’ N ...
• China Joins Russia, Orders Military To Prepare ...
  A grim Ministry of Defense bulletin issued to Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev today states that President Hu has “agreed in principal” that the only way to stop the West’s aggression led by the United States is through “direct and immediate military action” and that the Chinese leade ...

Voiceless Victim

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

WL Central

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

U N News

• Argentina must improve living conditions for i ...
  A United Nations expert urged Argentina to strengthen its measures to protect the human rights of indigenous groups as well as their rights to land ownership and education, adding that a mechanism to establish dialogue between them and the Government is urgently needed.
• UN agencies condemn violence against Mexican p ...
  Two United Nations agencies have strongly condemned the recent murder of a Mexican peace activist and the attempted killing of the chief of a women's rights organization in the same country and called on the Government to investigate and prosecute those responsible.
• Heeding UNICEF's calls, Mexico makes progress ...
  Thousands of children from indigenous communities in the southern Mexican states of Chiapas and Oaxaca received birth certificates after sustained calls from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for free birth registration.
• Latin American poverty levels fall to lowest i ...
  Poverty rates in Latin America have dropped to their lowest levels in 20 years, according to a new United Nations report which highlights public spending levels as one of the key factors that has allowed the continent to continue to grow despite the global economic crisis.
• Almost two years after earthquake, Haiti shows ...
  Almost two years after the devastating earthquake that killed over 200,000 people, Haiti is showing remarkable signs of progress, a United Nations official said today, stressing that reconstruction efforts need to be put into context to assess their effectiveness.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

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

Asia Sentinel

• Burma's Long War With its Ethnic Minorities
  • (http://twitter.com/share) A US demand that the country make peace is easier said than fulfilled
• Nazaruddin's Jakarta Court Bombshells
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Former treasurer’s testimony leaves Yudhoyono’s party in tatters
• Fear of a Return of the Taliban
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Changing Afghan Women's Lives
• Urgent Pakistani-US Reset Needed
  • (http://twitter.com/share) Border shooting tragedy
• Living the Lie in Canada
  • (http://twitter.com/share) The South China Sea demonstrates that which we refuse to admit: we are living in a bubble.

We Know the Lies

• Government is Activating FEMA Camps Across U.S.
    Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. ~ Kurt Nimmo - Alex Jones Exclusive ~ Videos - Document read more
• Obama Gets a Little Help From His 'Friends' at ...
    Just what the U.S. needs... More Obama law and order! read more
• Bill C-19... Canada's Long-Gun Registry Laws E ...
    The contentious long-gun registry is on the cusp of being abolished, meaning rifles and shotguns like those sold at Stephen Milton's King City, Ont., shop will disappear from government records. read more
• New Canada-U.S. Border Crossing Rules
    Canada and the U.S. are expected to announce a new agreement Wednesday to ease border congestion and better co-ordinate security between the two countries. ~ Video read more
• Ohio... Toledo Nuclear Plant Cracking – NRC Ap ...
    At full production the damaged Davis-Besse FirstEnergy plant produces power to 750,000 people in the Ohio area. It has been openly admitted that there have been cracks found in the casing of the plant over two months ago, however the NRC still approved the plant to reopen on informa ...

Tarpley

• Psychotic US-UK Ruling Elites Push Russia, Chi ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars December 7, 2011 [download audio]
• Seventy Years Ago Tonight: The Stimson-Marshal ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on INN World Report Radio I.N.N. World Report December 6, 2011 [download audio]
• Tarpley on Pravda: U.S. Journalist denounces s ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. Pravda December 4, 2011 Posted on Pravda.ru December 1, 2011 From Damascus, U.S. journalist denounces the CIA, Mossad and M16 operating together in Syria Western countries are doing everything possible to disrupt civil peace in Syria, denounced the writer and American j ...
• To Defend British Pensions, Impose a 1% City o ...
  Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. PressTV November 30, 2011 [download video] [download audio]
• US-UK Financier Elite in Finance Collapse, War ...
  Webster G. Tarpley on the Alex Jones Show Infowars November 29, 2011 [download audio]

Modern Survivalism

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

Fast Company

• How Your Dog Can Teach You To Speak To Your Au ...
  For 10 months, my dog Layla and I had some serious communication issues. I'd say "stay," and she'd trot toward me for a treat. I'd say "jump," and she'd hit the floor, legs splayed. If I wanted her to nibble playfully at my hand, you can bet she'd decide to walk next to my knee in a dignified ma ...
• Plunging Cleavage Made As Literal As Possible ...
  From the Is This Really Necessary Files: An ad launch for Ultimate Plunge Wonderbra sees women actually plunging down a giant projected neckline right into... well, you know where.It takes courage to go out in public wearing a deeply plunging gown. It also takes a lot of guts to jump off the sid ...
• Richard Branson: Screw Business As Usual, And ...
  "There's certainly not an incapability between doing well and doing good," eccentric billionaire Sir Richard Branson tells Fast Company. Branson's new book, Screw Business As Usual (which goes on sale today), asks that as long as entrepreneurs can make extraordinary sums of cash w ...
• General Mills Wants Your Ideas For Its Next Ce ...
  General Mills is moving its open innovation efforts to the digital world. With G-WIN Digital, the food company is looking for your gaming and mobile ideas.Debating whether it’s best to be first to market is an age-old pastime among business leaders. The time it takes to ponder the question, howe ...
• Plum District's New Tech Tools Turn Stay-At-Ho ...
  The "Groupon for Moms" just scooped up $20 million in funding. It's not your father’s deal company. Instead, this startup is figuring out how to use technology to drive business for local merchants. You would be forgiven for thinking that cost-saving Plum District was just another deals company. ...

Jadaliyya

• روايات الغضب والثورة
  منذ أن أجبر المصريون دكتاتورهم على الرحيل، تحوّل تمجيد "شباب الفايس بوك" إلى أحد أركان خطاب سائد جديد تبنّاه سياسيون وقيادات إعلامية كانوا في زمن ليس بالبعيد يهلّلون للحزب الوطني، في محاولة بائسة منهم لاستيعاب الموجة الثورية المستمرة.  وإذا كان هذا الخطاب يهدف إلى تحديد ف ...
• رزان مرت من هنا
   معطف الممانعة الاحمر  ‎له أناقته الخاصة، فهو يحمي من التغيير ويدفئ القلوب الخائفة والمرعوبة من إسرائيل، فتسكّنها وتهدئ من روعها. معطف الممانعة يعطيك قوى خاصة، فتستطيع التنظير على الثورة السورية لأيام متواصلة، حتى ولم تكن سوريّاً، ولم تعش هناك ولم تُذل هناك، ولم تقهر هن ...
• Freedom and Justice Party: No Talks with US Re ...
  The Muslim Brotherhood's political party wing denies talks have been held with the US administration on the 1979 peace treaty with Israel. The Freedom and Justice Party has denied claims published in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth that the Muslim Brotherhood held tal ...
• Liberals and Democrats Revel in Salafist Elect ...
  Egyptian liberals breathed a sigh of relief upon the ouster of Salafist figures in the runoffs in the first round of parliamentary elections. After lamenting an emphatic Islamist victory in Egypt's parliamentary elections’ first round, as well as the paltry shares of candidates rep ...
• Meet the New Egyptian Cabinet
  A brief list and description of the newly-appointed members of the Kamal El-Ganzouri Cabinet. Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim: Minister of Interior 64-year-old Alexandria-born Mohamed Youssef Ibrahim graduated from the police academy in 1968, where he began his career in general security and c ...

mediagazer

• News orgs take to social media to find Va. Tec ...
  Adam Hochberg / Poynter: News orgs take to social media to find Va. Tech witnesses, photos  —  News organizations from around the country are using social media to locate witnesses and obtain interviews and photos of today's campus shooting at Virginia Tech.  “Call ou ...
• Collegiate Times shifts publishing to Twitter, ...
  Steve Myers / Poynter: Collegiate Times shifts publishing to Twitter, Facebook for shooting coverage  —  The website of Virginia Tech's independent student newspaper, The Collegiate Times, is struggling with traffic as people seek information on a campus shooting Thursday.  ...
• Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict In ...
  Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post: Rupert Murdoch Lobbies Congress To Restrict Internet … WASHINGTON — News Corp. honcho Rupert Murdoch threw his weight behind Congress' attempt to restrict the Internet, personally lobbying leaders on Capitol Hill Wednesday for two measures th ...
• Hulu's new Face Match: Hey, that's, um, what's ...
  Don Reisinger / CNET News: Hulu's new Face Match: Hey, that's, um, what's-his-name  —  Hulu's Face Match feature works with Dwight Schrute too.  —  Ever see an actor on a show and have trouble remembering what that person's name is?  If so, Hulu has a featur ...
• Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blo ...
  Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details...  Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the company's prin ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

• Israeli strike kills 2 suspected militant ...
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip ' Two suspected militants were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their vehicle near a crowded public park in Gaza City on Thursday, a Palestinian health official...
• Sen. Murray wants Sebelius to explain mor ...
  WASHINGTON - It's the morning after and the controversy over how to sell emergency contraception still looms. The Obama administration's top health official stopped plans Wednesday to let the Plan B morning-after pill move onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms. Overruling scientists at ...
• Kenny Dalglish: Luis Suarez will have ful ...
  Reds boss hails the Uruguayan, who also faces a racism investigation, as a "fantastic footballer" and says opponents try to get into his head in order to throw him off of his game Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Liverpool £13.30 Draw £47.50 QPR £100. ...
• Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho to choose bet ...
  The 48-year-old will resist the temptation to play two up top at the Santiago Bernabeu, meaning one of his in-form forwards will be left disappointed Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: Real Madrid £24.00 Draw £35.00 Barcelona £30.00 Bet: £5 £1 ...
• Schalke want Lukas Podolski to replace Ra ...
  The Gelsenkirchen outfit are said to be considering a move for the Germany international, who has admitted that he is becoming increasingly frustrated at current club Koln Bet: £5 £10 £20 £50 £100 Returns: FC Koln £25.00 Draw £37.50 Mainz £27.50 Bet: & ...

no frakking consensus

• When Your Paycheque Depends on a Climate Crisis
  There is now a small army of experts, activists, and bureaucrats whose economic lives depend on there being a climate crisis. Without such a crisis their jobs, their travel to exotic places, and their moments in the media spotlight would all disappear.
• Pachauri’s Green Torch Bearers
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is supposed to be a neutral and impartial body. But its chairman is encouraging business students to be green activists.
• My Own Josh Cartoon
  The IPCC has, so far, ignored my book. But perhaps I'm having an impact nevertheless.
• Inside the IPCC: the Climategate E-Mails
  Newly released e-mails shed an unkind light on internal IPCC politics.
• Pachauri’s Rhetoric vs Reality
  The chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has systematically misled us regarding the quality and kind of material his organization consults.

Anna's News

• Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
  Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
• 10 Best British Open Performances
  Rory McIlroy's Tiger-esque performance at Congressional has many golf fans wondering what the 22-year-old has in store for Royal St. George's, one of the most difficult courses in the Open Championship rotation. Past winners Walter Hagen, Sandy Lyle and.. Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
• Tiny snails survive digestion by birds
  Snails are able to survive intact after being eaten by birds, according to scientists.Japanese white-eyes on the island of Hahajima, Japan feast on tiny land snails. Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• National Parks at Risk: Photos
  National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
• Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
  The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...

Medical Marijuana

• 12/05/11 - Did You Know?
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Did You Know? - The Old City of Jerusalem contains three of the holiest site for Christians (Church of the Holy Sepulchre), Jews (Temple Mount), and Muslims (Al-Aqsa Mosque). The Old Testament mentions Jerusalem over 650 times. The Israeli-Palestinian co ...
• 12/05/11 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Deaths ...
  israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Deaths, 1987-2011 - See our chart estimating casualties from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the First Intifada (Dec. 9, 1987) through the present day.
• 12/05/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz
  2012election.procon.org - UPDATED: 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz - Take our compatibility quiz to find out which candidate is the best match for you. We've updated the questionnaire with 10 new questions on education, gay marriage, immigration, infidelity, Occupy Wall Street, oil subsidies, ...
• 12/05/11 - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign
  2012election.procon.org - Herman Cain Suspends Campaign - Cain announced on Dec. 3, 2011 that he was suspending his presidential campaign. Read his full statement, and see his biography and views on 35 issues.
• 12/01/11 - 2012 Presidential Candidates' Views ...
  2012election.procon.org - NEW: Read 10 Republican candidates' and Barack Obama's responses to the question - "Is the Tea Party movement good for America?"

Truth About Our World

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

Gyrovague's Raves

• The domino effect
  Abkhazia wants independence. Could an ancient game help? Oliver Bullough Every one of the 277 players who visited Abkhazia for the three-day domino world championships in October was a criminal. By crossing the border from Russia, they were immediately liable to at least two years in a Georgian ...
• What Pinterest?
  Farhad Manjoo Pinterest feels like the least cynical place on the Web At Slate’s annual retreat last summer, Holly Allen, one of the magazine’s Web designers, buttonholed me and exclaimed, “Have you heard of Pinterest? You’ve got to write about it!” I hadn’t heard about it, and rather than expla ...
• Are Psychopaths “Brain Damaged”?
  Gary Stix Pathway from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala We all have a ghoulish fascination with the Hannibal Lecters of this world. That’s because many of the most-publicized stories about psychopaths can be quickly banged into a Hollywood script. One of the most absorbing accounts that I’v ...
• For “Super Agers,” Bodies Age as B ...
  Sandra Upson Early research on the sharpest octogenarians reveals unusually youthful brain regions A nasty affliction sets into humans as they advance in years. The hair either disappears or thins into a fuzzy halo, the skin sags and bunches, while inside the brain, changes set in that slow our ...
• Paella Party
  Stop wasting your time with risotto. Sara Dickerman Maybe it’s time you stopped stirring. For a couple of decades now, risotto has been the go-to sophisticated rice dish for homes and restaurants alike, and cooks have stood by the stove with a spoon in one hand and a ladle in the other, tending ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

• Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
  Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...
• An African science base: what would it take fo ...
  From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...
• 7 billion: can we count on it?
  FROM ROBERT STIFF IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On 31st October 2011 the world population is projected to reach a landmark 7 billion people, according to UN estimates. A great deal of debate has surrounded the importance of this figure and what it means for the planet and its many inhabitants. Th ...
• Research careers – opening the discussion
  FROM LAURA DAWSON IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE On Wednesday 26 October, the Royal Society’s President, Paul Nurse, and the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, hosted a roundtable discussion on research careers. The aim of the meeting was to start a discussion on the issues tha ...
• UK – world leader. But can it last?
  FROM LAURA DAWSON, SENIOR POLICY ADVISER Hot on the heels of last week’s 2011 National SET statistics (our friends at the Campaign for Science and Engineering and RCUK have already offered their highlights), today sees the launch of the BIS commissioned report, ‘International Comparative Perform ...

NAU Resistance

• Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
  We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
• Paving The Way For A North American Union
  By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...
• U.S. Halts Inspection Of Buses And Trains Ente ...
  “An organism which cannot control its borders — whether economic or physical – is not sovereign“ By: NAURESISTANCE A recent CTV News/The Associated Press article dated 28th October 2011, reports on a radical policy shift being implemented along the Canada-U.S. border. This announce ...
• The Sovereignty Strategy To Regain Control Of ...
  Essentially, we must engage in a strategy which will move our political process from a "Representative" to a Popular Democracy - a sovereignty strategy which will move power from the parties and the vested interests, to the people.
• Canada Pursues U.S.-Style Security and Foreign ...
  "While in the past Canada has exercised a more independent foreign policy, in many ways, it has now succumbed to the imperialistic aspirations of the U.S. and NATO"- Dana Gabriel

Gaea Times

• Karnataka crisis: High Court to decide rebel M ...
  BANGALORE - The Karnataka High Court will hear the petition of eleven BJP rebel MLAs after a division bench gave a split verdict on it on October 18. The rebel MLAs were disqualified by Speaker KG Bopaiah a under the provision of the anti-defection law on October 10. The two-judges bench on ...
• Fans garner signatures in support of Kings XI ...
  CHANDIGARH - Dejected over the ouster of Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) from the Indian Premier League (IPL), fans of the team here have started a signature campaign to garner public support against the decision. They have constituted a group called Fans of Kings XI Punjab, consisting of students and ...
• Even turtles and wasps need a little play time
  WASHINGTON - Watching kids and dogs play is not an alien sight. However, what about a turtle or even a wasp? Well, it seems they play, too. Gordon Burghardt, a psychology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has discovered that many animals-not just dogs, cats, and monkeys-need ...
• Oz PM Gillard says trade union official?s 9/11 ...
  CANBERRA - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as “stupid and wrong” a senior union official’s belief that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy, but refused to discipline him. Kevin Bracken, the president of the Victorian Trades Hall and secretary of the Mari ...
• Turmeric boosts effect of chemo drug in head a ...
  WASHINGTON - Researchers with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center have found that curcumin, the major component in the spice turmeric, when combined with the drug Cisplatin enhances the chemotherapy’s suppression of head and neck cancer cell growth. In India, women for years have been usi ...

TruthNews Australia

• Interview: Craig Isherwood of the CEC
  Tonight we welcome to the show Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Citizens Electoral Council. Craig describes the CEC as a "philosophical" political party with similarities to "old Labor" in the spirit of Curtin and Chifley. During our discussion, we examine some of the main concerns o ...
• Highlights from Skid Row Radio with Hereward, ...
  Today we bring you highlights from the Workers Radio breakfast show on Radio Skid Row 2RSR 88.9 FM Sydney, from 1 December 2011. You can tune in to the show every morning from 6-9 AM, and if you're outside Sydney you can listen via the web stream here. I am joined on air by the show host Jack ...
• Kim Bax gets a Supreme Court injunction
  Kim Bax, webmaster of Women for Schapelle, reported  that she had received a Supreme Court injunction (post since removed), which threatens her with severe consequences if she mentions certain "serious allegations" about the Seven Network. These allegations are connected to the disclosures ...
• Son of Climategate
  After two years, the climategate scandal has erupted once again, with a new tranche of embarrassing emails from the world's top climate researchers now spreading virally across the net. The release of these emails seems timed to overshadow the upcomng Durban conference in the same way the previo ...
• The “communitarian” world view (fo ...
  On tonight's show we take a look at a recent article by Naomi Klein titled "Capitalism vs. the Climate". In a key passage, Klein states the following: "Those with strong 'egalitarian' and 'communitarian' worldviews (marked by an inclination toward collective action and social justice, concern ...

  Beacon

• Thursday Trivia: Puffins
  An Atlantic puffin. © Oceana/Concha Martinez Puffins are curious and charismatic birds that live in the North Atlantic ocean, where their orange beaks and feet make for a colorful sight. Atlantic puffins can swim as well as fly. Like a plane taxiing for take-off, a puffin runs along the ...
• New Climate Report: Hot, Sour & Breathless
  Matt Huelsenbeck is a marine scientist at Oceana. Oceana has teamed up with several top scientific institutions in creating a report called "Hot, Sour & Breathless – Ocean Under Stress" which has been released this week at the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. ...
• Marine Monday: Mediterranean Monk Seal
  A Mediterrean monk seal. [Image via Wikimedia Commons.] The Mediterranean monk seal, like its cousin the Hawaiian monk seal, is one of the most endangered mammals in the world. Estimates suggest that they number around 400 total, with the largest populations in Greece and Morocco. Mediterran ...
• Oceana’s Fall Mag: Sea Turtles, Diane Lane and ...
  The latest issue of Oceana magazine is now available, and it’s pretty juicy, we’re not gonna lie. In addition to our latest victories and events, here are some of the highlights: Shrimp’s Dirty Little Secret: Our new report reveals that shrimp nets are illegally killing scores of sea turtle ...
• Another Gift Idea for the Oceans
  In addition to our adorable ocean animal adoptions, here’s one more gift idea that is sure to please anyone on your list this holiday season. When you purchase the new Come Together Tee from Nautica (Modeled here by Cheyne Oglesby, guest blogger, ocean lover and surfer!), 100% of your purchas ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

• Boneyard Russian Subs
    When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the Soviet Union collapsed. And with the government that disappeared went the budgets to maintain the vast and rather modern nuclear attack submarines. So these submarines were sent to dry dock to basically rot. One might think that this does not me ...
• The Pearl Harbor Diary Of George McCartney Hunter.
    December 7, 1941     Sunday   Awoke this morning at 0730. Moe, Heavy, York, and myself had a golf match scheduled and planned to leave the ship at 0930. I lay sleepy-eyed in my bunk for some time.   At 07:45 the General Alarm sounded followed by “Away Fire and Rescue Party ...
• Magnifincent Scale Models And Actual Uniforms ...
  A Collection of 1:48 scale models made in the early 18th century and demonstrating magnificent detailed craftsmanship.
• Quote Of The Day
    Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the question: Is it right? And then comes a time when one  must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take ...
• The Great Nazi Art Heist.
    Adolph Hitler was after all an artist. Now it’s easy to call him a failed artist because of course he could not make it as one in the streets of Vienna before the first world war. He was turned down twice applying for a student position in the Vienna School for fine Arts. That [...]

Taylor Marsh

• An Occupied thought: “The People Who Created t ...
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Looking at the history of activism, this is what we should expect will continue happening related to the Occupy movement: break-away groups, offshoots, and yes, co-opting, or simply using the momentum and attention ga ...
• Obama’s Fight for Cordray Missing for Elizabet ...
  “But the bottom line is that we are going to stay here as long as it takes to make sure that the American people’s taxes do not go up on January 1st.” – Pres. Obama The quote above is a brilliant political tactic and rhetorical broadside from Pres. Obama. It comes on a da ...
• Pres. Obama’s War on Women’s Reproductive Free ...
  In a statement, FDA Administrator Margaret A. Hamburg said she had decided the medication could be used safely by girls and women of all ages. But she added that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had rejected the move. – Washington Post First it was Bart Stupak. Then ca ...
• Pearl Harbor and the Memo Detailing the ‘Japan ...
  This film, narrated by Tom Brokaw for National Geographic, was produced in 2001. You’ll have to get through about a minute of advertising, but it’s worth it, especially for those of you who don’t know the history and the legacy. Today, it’s the 70 year commemoration of th ...
• Occupy, “after the encampments”
  Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. UPDATE Today Occupy DC followed through with the plans I mentioned yesterday: this morning’s march to an “undisclosed” lobbying firm reportedly found the doors locked – how symbolic is that – but showing up still made ...

Hudson New York

• Is New Moroccan Government Inciting Muslims in ...
  Some 3,000 Muslim immigrants took to the streets in near Barcelona to protest recent cuts in social welfare benefits. The protest, which took place on December 5 in the industrial city of Terrassa, about 30 kilometers from Barcelona, was organized and
• Collective Punishment Under Islam
  During a recent altercation in Egypt, a Christian inadvertently killed a Muslim. This incident, according to an AINA report, "turned into collective punishment of all Copts in the majority Christian village." Two Christians "not party to the altercation"
• Syria Reports Gunbattle on Turkish Border
  Syrian border guards blocked an infiltration attempt from Turkey by about 35 "armed terrorists," the official Syrian news agency SANA said on Tuesday, as Syrian forces battle a growing threat from army defectors and rebel fighters. SANA said some of
• Tunisia's Religious Police
  A"committee for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice" has been launched in Tunisia. It is not an official committee, but it is supported by Salafist groups there. Political parties are remaining astonishingly idle, totally incompetent to
• Injustice in the Name of the Hajj
  The Hajj each year brings untold suffering for the poor Muslim families in the poor Muslim states. My country, Bangladesh, home to 170 million, was once known internationally as the poorest country in the world. It is still a poor country. In recent

Urban Survival

• The ONLY Thing that Matters
  Really, all the Geithner and Euro dudes & dudettes meeting means nothing, not really, in the big Economic Stew Pot.  All that matters is that the money keeps circulating – and the more that circulates, the more we “recover” – … Continue reading →
• Coping: Is “Cheating” now Fair?
  In Wednesday’s Peoplenomics, we got into a rather delicate – and more ot less purely hypothetical discussion of some ways people can “game” the harshest effects of the Second Depression including bankruptcy. But this triggered a discussion of whether it’s … Co ...
• S&P Ratings: The High Cost of Honesty
  Got to admit it, I have a lot of admiration for S&P because they seem to be out front noticing the Emperor (OK, Europe, then, but grant me some poetic license here) has no clothes along with all the members … Continue reading →
• Coping: With Rebellious Kids and that $16 Trillion
  Got an interesting email from eldest daughter Denise that makes some dandy points – she’s been volunteering with OWS in Seattle a fair bit… Dad, For the two stupid years I spent slaving away in laboratories at the University of … Continue reading →
• Bot Run Released: The Last March to 12,400?
  Germany was up about one percent, France something more than that (1¼%) while the Unemployed Kingdom was up a bit more than half a percent when I looked, so a fair inference might be that the world hasn’t ended overnight … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

• Stop Complying with the System Free yourself
  David Icke : It is not the case of waiting for... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Webster Tarpley : US is now run by 5 People th ...
  Webster Tarpley : joint action of the 6 central... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Links for 2011-12-07 [del.icio.us]
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• Detroit to go Broke Within 4 Month
  As Detroit Budget Crisis Deepens, Is State... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]
• Anonymous on The National Defense Authorizatio ...
  Anonymous on The National Defense Authorization... [[ Please visit http://geraldcelentechannel.blogspot.com for the full story ]]

Radical Chic

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

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

• New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
  When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
• BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
  Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
• Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
  Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...
• Regeneration, ether and deadly nightshade: Bos ...
  Here's what's happening in town his week:
• World AIDS day in Boston
  The Massachusetts Aids Action Committee has a full listing ot World AIDS Day events. We'll be reporting from this one: AIDS @ 30 International Symposium 9am-3pm Location: Harvard Medical School, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115 To commemorate t ...

NRDC Switchboard

• The Endangered Species Act and Whale Tales
  Kate Poole, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Certain misguided members of Congress continued their baseless assault on America's bedrock environmental laws this week.  Representative Doc Hastings, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee ...
• New EPA report ties hydraulic fracturing to gr ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. EPA today released a draft report with the agency's latest findings on its investigation into drinking water contamination in Pavillion, Wyoming. Back in 2009, EPA stated that it had d ...
• Billions of Dollars in Damages from Extreme We ...
  Peter Lehner, Executive Director, New York City While candidates on the GOP campaign trail continue to pretend climate change doesn’t exist, communities across the nation are already being pummeled by a hallmark of climate change: extreme weat ...
• The Health Toll of Climate Change in 2005 and 2011
  Gina Solomon, Senior Scientist, San Francisco As a health professional, I knew that disasters could have devastating impacts on the physical health and psychological well-being of the people who lived through them. But it was only when I went to New ...
• Mass Stranding in the Med: Numbers Up
  Michael Jasny, Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver, B.C., and Santa Monica Yesterday, biologists investigating the recent mass stranding of beaked whales in the Ionian Sea reported a rise in the body count.  At least 7, and possibly 8, whales are ...

Injustice Everywhere

• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 15 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, December 7, 2011: 2 RCMP officers in Manitoba have been sentenced for assaulting a 19-year-old. The first received a 4-month jail sentence and the other got a 4 month conditional ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 28 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, December 6, 2011: 6 North Chicago IL cops suspended during probe, accused of pattern of abuse by family of man who died after allegedly beaten and tasered. [3] bit.ly/sAoRY0 Santa A ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 14 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Monday, December 5, 2011: 3 San Diego County CA deputies are the subject of a lawsuit by by a 77-year-old juror who was tackled & arrested for shouting when a man took his stuff as he [...]
• Police Misconduct NewsFeed Weekend Recap 12-03 ...
  Before I start I need to mention that the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Ledger, and the NYT Regional Media Group have collaborated on an excellent 9-part series called “Unfit for Duty” that studies the flaws in Florida state’s police disciplinary system. While it may not seem li ...
• National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
  Here are the 20 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, December 2, 2011: Los Angeles Co CA deputies investigated for allegedly ignoring medical complaints and complaints about overly-tight cuffs by #OccupyLA protesters after the latest r ...

Total Collapse

• Unemployed? Probably Your Own Fault!
  More than a quarter of small businesses struggle to find ‘suitably skilled’ staff despite rising unemployment, a survey revealed yesterday. The report by the Federation of Small Businesses said many of its members were desperate to hire workers but could not find them. It warned many ...
• China Joins Russia, Orders Military To Prepare ...
  A grim Ministry of Defense bulletin issued to Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev today states that President Hu has “agreed in principal” that the only way to stop the West’s aggression led by the United States is through “direct and immediate military action” and that the Chinese leade ...
• China’s Hu urges Navy to Prepare for War
  Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. The navy should “accelerate its transformation and modernisation in a sturdy way, and make extended ...
• Army Moves Into Moscow After Protest Rally
  Columns of military trucks carrying fresh troops rolled into Moscow on Tuesday, a day after a record protest rally ended in clashes with police. Several bloggers reported seeing columns of Interior Troops driving into central Moscow via major thoroughfares, including Yaroslavskoye Shosse, Lening ...
• Clinton: Russia elections neither free nor fair
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for an investigation into Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia amid reports of widespread vote fraud and election violations, in comments a senior Russian official described as “strange.” Speaking to the foreign ministers of th ...

Daily Dose

• 800 million users isn’t cool. Know what ...
  Twitter showed us its plans to become the social network for global communication. The company has decided to focus on scaling back its look and feature set, and wants to...
• Google Currents might be Onswipe’s nightmare
  Google is launching a new mobile app called Google Currents, the company just announced on its Mobile blog. Available in the US on iPhones, iPads and Android devices, the app...
• TweetDeck is now (almost) a native app for Win ...
  My day has just been made. The team from TweetDeck has joined in with the Twitter announcements to present not only a new web-based version of the pro-level Twitter app,...
• A walkthrough of the new Twitter 4.0 app for i ...
  Twitter has released a drastically redesigned version of its service for the web, mobile devices and iPhone users. The new interface is designed around four categories, Home, Connect, Discover and...
• Tweetdeck for the web now available for everyone
  Up until today, Tweetdeck only had a web version available for users that chose Chrome as their browser of choice. Now a part of Twitter, Tweetdeck has something that nicely...

Beyond Zero Emissions

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

Monga Bay ( News )

• Agriculture group to spend 10 years on forest ...
  Recognizing the global importance of the world's vanishing forests, a 10-year-long research program will focus on the interconnection between agriculture and forests. Conducted by CGIAR, a global agriculture group concerned with sustainability, the research program will look at ways to decrease ...
• Photos: two new paper clip-sized frogs discove ...
  Researchers have discovered two new frog species living in the montane tropical forests of Vietnam. Known as moss frogs, these small amphibians employ camouflage as one way to keep predators at bay, in some cases resembling the moss that gives them their name.
• Discovery Channel backtracks, promises to air ...
  Discovery Channel has announced that it will, in fact, air the last episode of the new series Frozen Planet, which focuses solely on the impact of climate change at the world's poles. By the creators of universally-acclaimed Planet Earth, the full series explores the wildlife and environs of the ...
• Palm oil, pulp companies commit to zero-tolera ...
  Two Indonesian plantation companies have signed an agreement to train workers not to kill or injure orangutans and other protected species. The agreement was brokered by the Indonesian government between Orangutan Foundation International (OFI), a non-profit with operations in Central Kalimantan ...
• Amazon rainforest loss in Brazil drops to lowe ...
  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest level on record between August 2010 and July 2011 according to preliminary data from Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE).

Sierra Express

• 7th Dec 2011 COP 17 Update: Climate Change Ada ...
  DURBAN — As United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday admitted that securing a binding climate deal would be “challenging”, there are calls for greater inputs by business and civil society. Last year’s UN climate change talks pledged $100bn although the sources have ...
• A tree never hits an automobile except in self ...
  The last time I checked, the national police force of the Republic of Sierra Leone was charged with the responsibility for law enforcement and crime investigation. Since its establishment by the British Colony back in 1894,and as one of the oldest police forces in West Africa, the job descriptio ...
• Standard & Poor’s upgrades Standard Chartered ...
  Standard Chartered Bank only major international bank to have been upgraded by all three rating agencies since the financial crisis   The strength of Standard Chartered’s balance sheet, risk management approach and market position across the growing economies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East ...
• IMC Press Release
  The attention of the Independent Media Commission (IMC) has been drawn to a syndicated article that appeared in a number of newspaper in Wednesday 7th November, 2011 under the heading ‘Puppeteer’s string’.  With no further intention to entertain a dialogue after this reaction, the Commission bel ...
• Survival reveals ten hidden abuses against tri ...
  Survival is releasing ten tribal rights abuses ahead of UN Human Rights Day this Saturday, to expose violations that still pass largely unnoticed.  Photo: Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled.  © Survival Signed 63 years ago, the Universal D ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

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

The Bovine

• More tooth decay among the children of vegetar ...
  From Pam Killeen: Andy Oudman (1290 AM CJBK, London ON) and Pam Killeen interview Bob Clinton, DDS and Ramiel Nagel, author of “Cure Tooth Decay,” about the real causes behind tooth decay. Hint: Tooth decay is not caused by a … Continue reading →
• “Fraser Health wins round one in raw mil ...
  From Robert Freeman, in the Chilliwack Progress: “The Fraser Health Authority won the first round in its case against distribution of raw milk by a Chilliwack cowshare group in BC Supreme Court on Tuesday. But Gordon Watson, cowshare spokesman, vowed … Continue reading →
• Farmageddon screening for Congress
  From Kimberly Hartke: December 6, 2011–Washington, D.C.– Independent filmmaker Kristin Canty announces today that her film is being screened next week for members of Congress, and the shocking new food documentary was invited back for an encore run at Chicago’s … Continue ...
• Denmark introduces the world’s first &#8 ...
  Lots of us know that fats are not all bad. In fact the right kind of fats are absolutely essential for health. Thus this Danish idea of taxing fat as if it was all bad for you is clearly wrongheaded … Continue reading →
• Raw Milk Freedom Rider Liz Reitzig on plans to ...
  Many thanks to activist mom Liz Reitzig for taking time on the eve of her departure for Chicago to answer questions from The Bovine. How would you describe your role in the Raw Milk Freedom Riders? My role in the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Draghi Reiterates "Treaty Prohibits "Monetary ...
  The main news in today's European roundup is the reiteration by ECB president Mario Draghi EU Treaty Prohibits "Monetary Financing" At a news conference in Frankfurt, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Thursday that the European Union treaty prohibits "monetary financing." He ...
• Separating Fact From Fiction on the Fed's Loan ...
  The Fed and the Wall Street Journal have both taken issue with Bloomberg's article Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion Undisclosed to Congress In response to the above article, the Fed went on a publicity campaign, lashing back at Bloomberg and others (but did not mention anyone by expl ...
• Temporary and Contract Employment in Contracti ...
  The Wall Street Journal reports Demand for Temp Help Cools Demand for temporary help is cooling. An index of temporary and contract employment, based on a survey of staffing firms, was 1.1% below its year-earlier level for the week ended Nov. 27. Temporary employment often is viewe ...
• Demand for Dollars from Fed's Discount Window ...
  On November 30, Central Banks Cut Rates on Dollar Swap Lines which made borrowing at the Fed's discount window cheaper for foreign banks than US banks. As a result, Dollar-Loan Demand Swells In Europe and Japan The European Central Bank said demand for three-month dollar loans surged aft ...
• Europe's Ass Backwards Plan to Stimulate Lending
  Please consider the ass backwards Measures to Stimulate Bank Lending in the EMU. The European Central Bank may announce a range of measures tomorrow to stimulate bank lending, said three euro-area officials with knowledge of policy makers’ deliberations. Options on the table include loose ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #69
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Elizabeth Gould & Paul Fitzgerald This is Part IV of our interview series on the New World Order. You can listen to the previous interviews in this series here: Part I, Part II, and Part III Authors and investigative journalists Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald ...
• House of Mirrors Part III- Making the Irration ...
  The Neoconized Just War Doctrine By Paul Fitzgerald & Elizabeth Gould More than one policy pundit has scratched their head at the strange, increasingly irrational nature of what guides American and European foreign policy. In November of 2010, commentator William Pfaff resorted to the term “ ...
• Why Moscow Doesn’t Believe Washington on Missi ...
  Marching Ineluctably Towards an Pre-emptive Nuclear War? By William Engdahl Most in the civilized world are blissfully unaware that we are marching ineluctably towards an increasingly likely pre-emptive nuclear war. No, it’s not at all about Iran and Israel. It’s about the decision o ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- December ...
  BFP Nightly Quote “All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.” – John Quincy Adams  International Newsworthy Britain to Announce New Iran Sanctions Irania ...
• The Rockefeller World, Council on Foreign Rela ...
  ‘The Ultimate Networking & Socializing institution among the American elite’ By Andrew Gavin Marshall The following is a sneak peak from a chapter in Andrew Gavin Marshall’s upcoming book funded through The People’s Book Project. It is quite apparent in the history of America from the late 1 ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Brazil’s Growing Pains: Can Local Shipbuilders ...
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–Brazil is hinging its economic future on crude oil, betting that huge fields discovered in recent years will create the basis for an industrial boom that [...]
• Volvo Ocean Race Reveals Anti-Piracy Plans
  The Volvo Ocean Race has revealed its anti-piracy plan, which will see the fleet transported by armed heavy lift ship from an undisclosed Safe Haven Port in the Indian Ocean [...]
• Volvo Ocean Race Heads into Indian Ocean, Pira ...
  This Saturday, the Volvo Ocean Race will depart Cape Town and venture into the Indian Ocean toward an undisclosed “safe haven”.  As you’ll see from the bottom image however, their [...]
• Chevron To Spend Record $32.7 Bln On Capital P ...
  HOUSTON (Dow Jones)–Chevron Corp. (CVX) said Wednesday it expects to spend a record $32.7 billion on capital projects in 2012 as it continues to invest in massive oil and gas [...]
• Pirates Outmatched by Royal Navy Miniguns, Sni ...
  SOMALI basin (COMBINED MARITIME FORCES) – The Royal Navy has struck at the heart of Somali piracy operating in the Somali basin.  RFA Fort Victoria was patrolling in an area [...]

Blogging Canadians

• A note on Mitt Romney's Mormonism
  GOP front runner Mitt Romney In the GOP presidential nomination contest, the long standing front-runner, Mitt Romney, has never managed to really break out of the low to mid twenties in national polls, and now faces considerable competition for the nomination from a surging Newt Gingrich ...
• Newspaper doesn’t include Liberal MP in list o ...
  Love for the Edmonton Journal “staff” writer to explain how he/she missed Liberal MP Pablo Rodriguez (see here). See earlier post on Rodriquez lying to the police and the media looking the other way when he was charged here
• The nuttiness of the…
  … new IKEA… Just saw this Tweet: RT @OTWNews: High traffic volumes expected for IKEA opening http://bit.ly/vueh9N #Ottawa #Ottcity PEOPLE! Are you off your rockers?? It’s just a freaking STORE fer crissakes! Grow up! The bloody thing will still be there next week! Sigh. I just ...
• Zero sum
  CBC's story on the double role that the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region's head of surgery Mark Ogrady was set to play with a private surgical clinic whose very existence depends on siphoning patients away from the public system is well worth a look. But let's note another important side to the ...
• Go Saint Nick!

Press TV - Middle East

• Syria beefs up troops on Turkey border
  Syria has dispatched tanks its border with Turkey following a confrontation with terrorist elements attempting to cross into the Syrian territory via Turkey.
• Israeli airstrike kills two in Gaza
  Two people have been killed and at least four others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources say.
• Armed gangs blow up Syrian oil pipeline
  Unknown armed groups have blown up a pipeline carrying oil from eastern Syria to a refinery in the western city of Homs, Press TV reports.
• US demands Lebanon's anti-Syria move
  A senior US official has called on the Lebanese government to act “within Arab and international consensus” regarding the situation in Syria, Press TV reports.
• Yemeni regime continues Taizz shelling
  Yemeni forces loyal to the US-backed dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh have once again attacked residential areas of the southern city of Taizz, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

• To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
  Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
• What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
• Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
  I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
• What’s Your Story?
  I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]
• Network Like a Pro
  I recently attended an SPS Career Services workshop and networking seminar lead by career expert Arlene Newman. Newman is the President of Career Bound Success and has an extensive background in Human Resources across multiple industries. Newman emphasized the importance of networking in career ...

Dissident Voice

• The West Aims to Turn the Entire Global South ...
  The economic collapse that began in 2008, that was duly declared unpredictable and thoroughly unforeseen across the entire Western media, was, in fact, anything but. Indeed, the capitalist cycle of expansion and collapse has repeated itself so often, over hundreds of years, that its existence is ...
• Us and Them: Arresting Democracy
  I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven There’ll be no policeman there — Hobo’s Lullaby by Goebel Reeves On September 17, 2011, a group of protesters gathered at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan under the banner:  Occupy Wall Street.  W ...
• Russia United — for the Time Being
  With a 60 per cent turnout, United Russia’s solid 49.5 per cent plurality in the 4 December Duma elections, giving it 238 of the 450 seats, is the envy of any Western political party. But it is nonetheless a disappointment after its 2007 sweep, where it gained over two-thirds of the seats. Very, ...
• Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
  On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Federal Reserve to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout.  Bloomberg reported that by March 2009, the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion in below-market loans and guarantees to rescuing the fin ...
• Towards a True Paradigm Shift in Palestine
  The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in Palestinian history. The First Intifada, as it is commonly known, had, once and for all, placed the Palestinian people as a collective on the political map of a region that previou ...

Destructionist

• The Militarization of American Police – and Sh ...
  Journalists from across the spectrum have documented the militarization of police forces in the United States, including, CNN, Huffington Post, the Cato Institute, Forbes, the New York Times, Daily Kos, Esquire, The Atlantic, Salon and many others. Many police departments laugh at and harass ...
• Exclusive: Government Activating FEMA Camps Ac ...
  Infowars.com has received a document originating from Halliburton subsidiary KBR that provides details on a push to outfit FEMA and U.S. Army camps around the United States. Entitled “Project Overview and Anticipated Project Requirements,” the document describes services KBR is looking to farm o ...
• UBS On Euro Break Up: Buy Gold, Tinned Goods a ...
  As EU technocrats attempt to seize total control over national economies by exploiting the eurozone debt crisis to empower and enrich their own corrupt institutions, top banks like UBS are on hand to supply a helpful deluge of doomsday rhetoric in order to grease the skids for the takeover. W ...
• EU To Seize Control Over National Economies Wi ...
  Forget the millions of Europeans affected, the EU won’t even bother to put its attempt to seize control over member state economies to a vote amongst its own parliamentary cronies, preferring instead to change the Lisbon Treaty under powers Eurocrats granted themselves...
• China’s Hu urges navy to prepare for combat
  AFP December 6, 2011 Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday urged the navy to prepare for military combat amid growing regional tensions over maritime disputes and a US campaign to assert itself as a Pacific power. The navy should “accelerate its transformation and modernisation in a sturdy ...

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