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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, December 8, 2011

8 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • EU sanctions on Iran will impact Europe more t ...
    Summary: LONDON: EU sanctions on Iran's oil exports will hurt European refiners which rely on crude from the Islamic republic to help power ailing economies such as Greece, Italy and Spain, according to analysts. source: Economic Timesread more
  • War drums are beating for Iran. But who's play ...
    Summary: Two decades ago I picked up an in-house magazine for the arms industry. Its editorial was headed "Thank God For Saddam". It explained that, since the collapse of communism and end of the cold war, the order books of the arms industry had been empty. But now there was a new enemy, the ...
  • Washington’s Secret Wars in Iran and Syria
    Summary: Bolton and RajavisWhile the media credits “the Israelis” in the assassinations of Iranian scientists, the reality is that no Israeli (or American) intelligence officer could possibly operate effectively inside Iran to carry out a killing. The assassinations, which are acts of war, ha ...
  • War on Iran has already begun. Act before it t ...
    Summary: Escalation of the covert US-Israeli campaign against Tehran risks a global storm. Opposition has to get more serious source: The Guardianread more
  • The Bahrain ‘Spring’: the revolution that wasn ...
    Summary: Bahrain needs to set about the hard work of healing societal cleavages, to build the truly sovereign and democratic country which the majority of its citizens appear so determined to achieve. If their much-touted ‘democracy promotion’ rhetoric is to have any real significance, wester ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Saturn's Rings --A Mirror Version of the Milk ...
    “We have found what we hoped we'd find when we set out on this journey with Cassini nearly 13 years ago: visibility into the mechanisms that have sculpted not only Saturn's rings, but celestial disks of a far grander scale,...
  • Supernova! --30 Per Second in the Observable U ...
    Supernova 1987A, discovered in 1987, is the closest exploding star to Earth to be detected since 1604 and resides in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy adjacent to our own Milky Way Galaxy. In addition to ejecting massive...
  • Image of the Day: Black Hole Devouring a White ...
    "We think these unusual signatures can be explained by a white dwarf that strayed too close to a black hole and was torn apart by the extreme tidal forces." Joel Bregman of the University of Michigan. New results from NASA's...
  • From the 'X Files': Ghostly Bok Globules --Sea ...
    Ghostly NGC 1999, a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion, shows a remarkable jet-black cloud near its center, located just to the right and lower right of the bright star. This dark cloud is an example of a "Bok globule,"...
  • "Are We Entering the Danger Zone?" The Solar S ...
    Is there a genocidal countdown built into the motion of our solar system? Recent work at Cardiff University suggests that our system's orbit through the Milky Way encounters regular speedbumps - and by "speedbumps" we mean "potentially extinction-causing asteroids". Professor...

Natural News

  • Texas agency allows town to run pipeline throu ...
    (NaturalNews) A historic drought that has stricken much of Central Texas over the past several months has caused some rivers and water reservoirs in the Lone Star State to run dangerously low. But one Central Texas town, Groesbeck, located about two hours south of Dallas, looks like it will avoi ...
  • Every single tweet being turned over to U.S. g ...
    (NaturalNews) They say there are billions of them, with more than 50 million added per day. But whatever the actual number, every single tweet ever sent since the beginning of Twitter-time is set to be turned over to Uncle Sam. According to Federal News Radio earlier this week, Twitter has stru ...
  • Fukushima fallout: Japanese company recalls po ...
    (NaturalNews) The disastrous effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe are still emerging nearly a year after the fact, as a popular Japanese baby formula company has now announced a massive recall of baby food tainted with radiation. Meiji Holdings Co., maker of Meiji Step infant pow ...
  • Android smartphone software tracks every user ...
    (NaturalNews) Smartphone devices are convenient, handy tools for staying in touch with friends and family, getting directions on the go, and accessing a variety of helpful user applications from virtually anywhere. But a recent analysis of smartphones loaded with Google's Android software platfo ...
  • Raw Milk Freedom Riders ride again! Join them ...
    (NaturalNews) After successfully rallying hundreds of parents and food freedom advocates for its inaugural raw milk rally at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just a few weeks ago, the Raw Milk Freedom Riders (RMFR) are riding once again! On Decem ...

Threat Level

  • Government Opposes Bradley Manning Defense Wit ...
    The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning's attorney attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private's alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.
  • Army Disciplined 15 People Over Bradley Mannin ...
    The U.S. Army disciplined 15 people over their failure to adequately supervise suspected WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, including at least one who was demoted.
  • Occupy Movement Seeks Refuge in Court as Evict ...
    The Occupy movement’s evictions and conflicts with police go on; Wednesday night, over 100 tents were removed from Occupy SF and 70 arrests made. But the main action right now has moved indoors, specifically to courtrooms, as Occupiers plead free-assembly cases in attempts to legally restrain po ...
  • Hackers Skim Lucky Supermarket Customers’ Cred ...
    Criminals have tampered with the credit and debit card readers at self-checkout lanes in more than 20 supermarkets operated by a California chain, allowing them to steal money from shoppers who used the compromised machines. The chain, Lucky Supermarkets, which is owned by Save Mart, is now insp ...
  • Report: About 60,000 E-Votes Uncounted in NY E ...
    About 60,000 e-votes went uncounted in New York state elections last year due to poor design of optical scan machines, according to a report released Tuesday.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Introducing Newt Gingrich's 2-2-2 Plan
    If nothing else, former House Speaker and new GOP front-runner Newt Gingrich is all about keeping his options open. After all, Newt has gone through three religions and three wives. As it turns out, when it comes to Medicare, Social Security and the tax code, President Gingrich wants Americans ...
  • The Epic Failure of Republican Trickle Down Ec ...
    When President Obama on Tuesday declared that decades of Republican trickle-down economics "never worked," conservatives were predictably apoplectic. But for all of their protests of "class warfare", "socialism" and worse, Obama was being kind to the Republican ideologues. After all, as the hi ...
  • Paul Ryan Wins Politico's Health Care Policyma ...
    He called for rationing Medicare, replacing it with an underfunded voucher system that would dramatically shift costs to elderly Americans. He proposed repealing the Affordable Care Act, slashing Medicaid by $1.4 trillion over the next decade and turning what's left over to the states as block ...
  • Romney Lies About Obama 'Taking over 100 Perce ...
    By almost any measure, the 2006 universal care law Governor Mitt Romney championed in Massachusetts has been a clear success. A bipartisan bill which Ted Kennedy worked closely with Romney to pass, the law has reduced the ranks of the uninsured from 10 percent to a national low of two percent. ...
  • Illegal Immigration Plummets Despite Fiery GOP ...
    The Republican presidential contest is a lot like The Wizard of Oz: no brain, no heart and a whole lot of cowardly lyin'. And perhaps on no issue is the GOP's field's misguided cruelty and duplicity more profound than illegal immigration. After all, while Michele Bachmann wants to deport all 1 ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Bookmarks for 2011-12-08
    Kinfolk"This seems to be a growing trend, video trailers for single issues of magazines…"(tags:magazine video pr ) When banks were frank" I unearthed this rather charming and naive, cheque book size, direct mail piece produced for the Midland Bank in 1975, although its design s ...
  • 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.
  • Regulators Crack Down on Micro-Dairies, But Sm ...
    From Maine to California, regulators are trying to push laws meant for mega-dairies and agribusiness on small farmers, but the farmers have another idea.
  • More Web Tools Poised To Help Voters Find Poll ...
    Some of the states with tough new voter ID laws have a counter trend: better online information to help voters get to polling places.
  • Wanjira Maathai: U.S. Should "Shape Up or Get ...
    Wanjira Maathai is the daughter of the late Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, and the international director for the Green Belt Movement. At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, Wanjira says of the United States: "Shape up or get out ... The U ...

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TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Former Costa Rican President: There Is No Plan ...
      Former Costa Rica President José María Figueres was a speaker at the Thunderbird Global Business Dialogue in November and gave a strong speech on the low carbon economy — clip of that below. And some text, if you prefer text: Figueres noted that we shouldmake a “concerted effo ...
  • Worst Idea Ever?
      Friends, What if someone told you we should abandon all hope for global climate action until 2020? Well, that’s exactly the proposal that the United States is pushing at the UN Climate Talks taking place this week in Durban, South Africa. The 2020 delay might well be the worst idea ...
  • 13 Reasons for You to Take Climate Action
      OK, it’s a little more than 13,.. and this list could go on & on… & on. But I hope the 13 photos below drive home the point. We need climate action. We need it on the individual level, and we need it on the government level. And, in order to get it on [...] Related p ...
  • Green Christmas Card Ideas
    Go green this holiday season by sending e-cards to your loved ones rather than the traditional printed greeting cards. If you have to send actual cards, send ones made from recycled paper and keep the annual newsletter to an email. Related posts:Christmas Tree or No? Plastic or Real? Another ...
  • GOP Holding More Hostages
    Really, it’s completely despicable what the GOP has been doing and continues to do. Luckily, this time around, Obama seems to be standing up to the absurdities. Anyway, here’s more on the latest hostages Republican leaders have taken (or is trying to take). GOP wants to trade YOUR pa ...

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Axis of Logic

  • "By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Veriti ...
    Regardless of the dissembling of corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers' game, in which, psychopathic personalities (not “job creators” but con job perpetrators) thrive. By the exploitation of the many, a ...
  • FINALLY !! - World News
    Death penalty dropped in Mumia Abu-Jamal case Thirty-year fight to execute former Black Panter dropped by prosecutors after US Supreme Court refuses to hear case. US prosecutors have called off a 30-year contentious battle to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former ...
  • Eurozone: France and Germany urge common taxes ...
    The Franco-German alliance is going at full throttle ahead of the summit. The leaders of France and Germany have called jointly for eurozone countries to have common corporation and financial transaction taxes. The tax policy would apply initially to the 17-member eurozone. France has long ...
  • Maybe now the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death w ...
    BEIJING: Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor. During a talk at China's ministry of science & technology on Wednesday, the billionaire said: "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very...
  • A Debate on the Question, Is this the Chinese ...
    A DEBATE between Henry Kissinger, Fareed Zakaria, Niall Ferguson, and Li Daokui: Is This the Chinese Century? A CENTURY FOR SALE, ANY TAKER? The Munk Debate in Toronto has in the past three years become a significant forum for discussing global issues of our age. The most recent one held...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Death of Private Health Insurers Approaches
    By @KYYellowDog We knew tobacco companies had seen the writing on the wall back in the '70s when Reynolds started buying up every non-tobacco company they could find. Guess who's following that script today? From karoli at Crooks and Liars: Aaaaand, the fuse has been lit. Insurers are not happy. ...
  • Obama Exposes GOP Extremism with Appeals to Te ...
    By @TedFrier It is now clear that President Obama's splendid speech this week at the even more splendidly named historic town of Osawatomie, Kansas, had two primary objectives. The first was to articulate a clear and bold vision of a creative and purposeful community that would meet the nation's ...
  • The Real Budget Deal We the People Want and Need
    By @KYYellowDog Congressional repugs are dead-set on breaking the country by refusing any budget deal that actually helps the economy. But that's no reason to give up and pretend that deadly austerity in the form of a gutted social safety net, trillion-dollar giveaways to corporations and yet mo ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By @BGinKC The #KochBrothers are truly evil and misanthropic,and auto da fe in the public square would be too good an exit from this mortal coil for two such vile creatures as they. "In its cover story this week, the National Journal explores a curious phenomenon: while the science supporting cl ...
  • Newt 'n John: when being spectacularly wrong i ...
    By @MBersin With right wingnuts it's considered a feature, not a bug. Newt Gingrich (r): ....If he will accept it I will ask John Bolton to be Secretary of State, [applause] But I will only appoint him if he will agree that his first job is the complete and thorough transformation of the State ...

Care 2

  • The Greatest Hoax in the History of Money: The ...
    It took the journalists at Bloomberg News two years - and presumably lots of legal fees - to pry information out of the Federal Reserve that should have been made public long ago. We now know that the Fed's secret $7.7 trillion lending program---> Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |  & ...
  • Dog Missing For 8 Years to be Reunited With Family
    A dog that has been missing since 2003 from its family in Virginia will be returning home after being found in California. KPRC 's Kellie MacMullan reports. VIDEO Submitted by Lindsey Williams to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Trauma Of Unemployment
    This is an interesting post about a new study tracking the attitudes of people who have lost jobs in the Great Recession. Submitted by Kit B. to Business  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Reid Park Zoo: Do not separate two long-time e ...
    Shaba and Connie have been together for 30 years. They met when Shaba was 2 years old and Connie was 15. Both were originally taken from the the wild. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Save the Florida Panther from Extinction ! PLE ...
    Federal conservation programs have been crucial in preventing the Florida panther from going extinct, but right now these and many other programs that are important to wildlife conservation are at risk of getting cut by Congress. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   No ...

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No Quarter

  • Morning Buzz (& Open Thread)
    I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and have been roaming the Web … here are some of the good, the bad and the ugly stories I’ve run into today. Share your own finds below. * “New Romney Ad Turns Up Heat on Gingrich,” AP/NYT — here, Mitt is attacking some of Gingrich’s mos ...
  • Following The Money, All Washed And Clean
    That money would be Mexican drug cartel money all sparkly clean thanks to – wait for it – the DEA. Yes, the DEA, under Holder, has laundered millions – MILLIONS – of dollars for the Mexican drug cartels. How in the hell is Holder, and every single one of the administrator ...
  • The Messenger Matters (& Open Thread)
    Now that he leads GOP presidential primary polls, Newt Gingrich’s opponents are busily dredging up ethical and personal scandals that occurred when he was Speaker of the House (1995 to 1999) and represented Georgia’s 6th congressional district (1979 to 1999). But Newt has been readyi ...
  • Newt vs Newt
    Count me in the anti-Newt camp. I have not forgotten and I don’t forgive him for squandering the historical achievement of capturing the Congress in 1994 in order to service the needs of his pecker and inflated ego. Newt is a great talker, a dandy debater and an organizational disaster. I ...
  • Is the OWS Movement “Running On Empty?” And Why…
    WaPo’s Dana Milbank asked this question in his latest opinion piece while doing his best to romanticize the movement. Milbank centered his story on folk rocker Jackson Browne’s recent attempts to rally a small group of OWS protesters in Washington, D.C.: He played five political tunes but left o ...

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 ...

Therapy News

  • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
    When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
  • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
    One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
  • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
    Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
  • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
    Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Top GOP policy issues at a glance - Washington ...
    Top GOP policy issues at a glance Washington Post (blog) —Block the Environmental Protection Agency from developing or implementing a “stream buffer zone” rule opposed by mountaintop removal mining interests. —Prohibit the EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and oil re ...
  • Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on camp ...
    Activists arrested at Occupy eviction, on campus Temple News Temple Community Against Mountaintop Removal, a group Murphy has helped lead, held a protest through Main Campus, beginning at noon on Wednesday. Hours after the Occupy arrests, three students–Daniel Teichman, Diane Isser and Ethan Jur ...
  • Rockstar/Activists 2/3 Goat Speak Out Against ...
    Greenpeace USA (blog) Rockstar/Activists 2/3 Goat Speak Out Against Mountaintop Removal Mining Greenpeace USA (blog) Mountaintop Removal coal mining is ravaging the region I call home. Thirty percent of the surface area of my home county has already been leveled by strip mining and mountaintop r ...
  • Book review - Mmegi Online
    Book review Mmegi Online CMT was set up to save the breeding ground of a rare bird, but was really a front for total denuding, or Mountain Top Removal. They are in a state of denial and in love. Oddly, 20-year-old Joey and his father in his mid-40s have both sold their soul to ...
  • Your Vents, Friday, Dec. 2 - Daily Mail - Char ...
    Your Vents, Friday, Dec. 2 Daily Mail - Charleston n If mountaintop removal is such a nice thing for the state of West Virginia, how come we don't see pictures of mountaintop removal sites on our tourist brochures? To all of you Marshall fans calling in the Vent Line and bashing WVU, can you ...

Memeorandum

  • Malawi to review homosexuality law (BBC)
    BBC: Malawi to review homosexuality law  —  Last year, a gay couple were given a 14-year jail term before being pardoned  —  Malawi will review a series of controversial laws, including a ban on homosexual acts, Justice Minister Ephraim Chiume has said.  &md ...
  • Pelosi avoids criticism of Obama, Sebelius on ...
    Sam Baker / The Hill: Pelosi avoids criticism of Obama, Sebelius on morning-after pill  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) avoided criticizing President Obama or Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for the decision to overrule federal regulators a ...
  • Obama's Restrictions on Morning-After Pill Are ...
    Michelle Goldberg / The Daily Beast: Obama's Restrictions on Morning-After Pill Are Politically Driven  —  Already under fire from Catholics, the Obama administration clearly caved to conservative pressure when it overruled an FDA decision to expand the accessibility of a mornin ...
  • Sen. Boxer to climate-change deniers: 'You are ...
    Andrew Restuccia / The Hill: Sen. Boxer to climate-change deniers: ‘You are endangering humankind’  —  Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) blasted skeptics of climate science Wednesday, alleging they are “endangerin ...
  • GOP lawmaker: House leaders 'petty' to block i ...
    Mike Lillis / The Hill: GOP lawmaker: House leaders ‘petty’ to block insider trading bill  —  A Republican lawmaker blasted his party's leaders as “petty” Thursday for blocking a proposal to prevent insider trading by members of Congress.  —&nb ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Rise of the Chinese nimby
    Locals fighting infrastructure projects in their neighbourhoods signal new conflict in China’s urbanisation process, writes Cui Zheng. Could they help push for greater openness? Early this year, Lin Yong and his wife Wei Hua (not their real names) bought a three-bedroom apartment in the L ...
  • Mongolia’s mega-mines
    In the southern Gobi, extraction of coking coal, copper and other resources is likely to transform the economy, nomads’ lives and one of the world’s great wilderness areas. Jonathan Watts reports. After a 16-hour drive under the piercing blue skies of Mongolia’s southern G ...
  • Mongolian herders show the way (1)
    Climate change and overgrazing have had negative impacts on pastoralist communities in central Asia, writes Ronnie Vernooy. But co-management schemes point towards a solution.Mongolia is the country of endless plains and eternal blue skies. Eighty percent of the land area is covered by grassland ...
  • Mongolian herders show the way (2)
    In the second section of a two-part series, Ronnie Vernooy describes how one group of nomads transformed their community. China, he writes, could learn important lessons.With H Ykhanbai’s efforts, co-management of pasture resources was first introduced in Mongolia at the end of the 1990s i ...
  • Beijing’s hazardous blue sky
    In the first analysis of US embassy “Twitter” data on pollution, Steven Q Andrews finds major failures in Chinese air quality assessments. Tighter standards are on their way, but will continue to fudge the health risks.In the last two years, Beijing officials have announced good or e ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Virgin Diaries: TLC’s Latest Cringe-Wort ...
    Written by Martha Kempner for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. TLC’s early forays into reality television included entries like A Baby Story, A Wedding Story, and A Dating Story.  These half-hou ...
  • A “Cure-All” For Rape? Concerned W ...
    Written by Vicki Saporta for RH Reality Check. This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Tell CWA There’s no ‘Cure-all’ for Rape This week, while we were busy trying to get military insurance coverage for raped servicew ...
  • Mayor Rahm: Chicago Can’t Wait to Close ...
    On the heels of a harrowing EPA lead warning and a mounting health care crisis, hundreds of affected Chicago residents unveiled an urgent reminder today to Mayor Rahm Emanuel to commit to a timeline for the retirement of the city’s two notoriously decrepit and toxic Model-T-era coal-fired ...
  • The Camp Pendleton Cross: The Facts vs. What t ...
    A thirteen foot tall cross atop a mountain near Camp Horno on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in California has become the source of much controversy over the past few weeks, sparked by a Los Angeles Times article about a group of Marines erecting the cross on Veterans Day. The cross put up ...
  • Andrew Sullivan and the Bell Curve Follies: &# ...
    Internet celebrities and the pundit classes are tussling with one another about the apparent rediscovery of the (rightfully) much maligned book the Bell Curve, and its broader claims about the relationship between race and I.Q. The story so far: Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Beast offered some ...

Threat Level

  • Government Opposes Bradley Manning Defense Wit ...
    The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning's attorney attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private's alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.
  • Army Disciplined 15 People Over Bradley Mannin ...
    The U.S. Army disciplined 15 people over their failure to adequately supervise suspected WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, including at least one who was demoted.
  • Occupy Movement Seeks Refuge in Court as Evict ...
    The Occupy movement’s evictions and conflicts with police go on; Wednesday night, over 100 tents were removed from Occupy SF and 70 arrests made. But the main action right now has moved indoors, specifically to courtrooms, as Occupiers plead free-assembly cases in attempts to legally restrain po ...
  • Hackers Skim Lucky Supermarket Customers’ Cred ...
    Criminals have tampered with the credit and debit card readers at self-checkout lanes in more than 20 supermarkets operated by a California chain, allowing them to steal money from shoppers who used the compromised machines. The chain, Lucky Supermarkets, which is owned by Save Mart, is now insp ...
  • Report: About 60,000 E-Votes Uncounted in NY E ...
    About 60,000 e-votes went uncounted in New York state elections last year due to poor design of optical scan machines, according to a report released Tuesday.

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

Marler Blog

  • Most Deadly Foodborne Illness Outbreaks in Uni ...
    With the CDC coming in with the final numbers for the Cantaloupe Outbreak, I thought it would be a good time to update the list: Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak - September 2011; Vehicle: whole cantaloupe; Number ill: 146; Deaths: 30 (31, counting miscarriages) Jalisco's Listeria Outbr ...
  • Deadly Listeria Cantaloupe Count - 30 Dead, 1 ...
    A total of 146 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes were reported to CDC from 28 states. The number of infected persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), California (4), Colorado (40), Idaho (2), Illinois (4 ...
  • First Romaine Lettuce E. coli Lawsuit to be Filed
    Yesterday I spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the CDC's announcement of the link between Romaine lettuce, 10 states and 60 ill: A Seattle attorney who specializes in food-borne illness cases said he plans to file a lawsuit against Schnucks and other companies in the distribution chain ...
  • Yet Another Romaine Lettuce E. coli Outbreak
    Earlier today the CDC confirmed that 60 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 10 states linked to the consumption of romaine lettuce.  The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), Georgia (1), Ill ...
  • St. Louis Schnucks and Minnesota and Missouri ...
    As of December 4, 2011, 60 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 10 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), Georgia (1), Illinois (9), Indiana (2), Kansas (3), Kentucky (1), Minnesota (3), ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Video: Aptera employees smash vehicles after c ...
    Filed under: Coupe, Etc., Safety, Videos, Specialty, Electric, MISC Four videos have surfaced showing what is understood to be the destructive aftermath following news of Aptera's closure last week. Without knowing for certain what's happening, the videos appear to depict employees (or former ...
  • Report: House to hold investigative hearings o ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Government/Legal, Safety, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Electric Regular readers probably know the story of the Chevrolet Volt NHTSA post-crash fire by heart, but here are the important details as a refresher: The original car that triggered the investigation was crash tested by ...
  • Breaking: Aptera pulls the plug
    Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Electric Just over a month ago, Aptera was promising rebirth with Aptera 2.0. The promise will not be kept. Today, the company announced it is closing its doors, effective immediately. In an email to supporters, president and CEO Paul Wilbur wrote, "We ...
  • Official: GM will loan free cars to Chevy Volt ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric GM may have designed the Chevrolet Volt to cancel out potential "range anxiety," but the company is responding to a new type of worry today: fear that the Volt's battery will catch fire. The problem? A Volt that had been crash tested in May ca ...
  • Official: 2013 Chevy Mailbu Eco will start at ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet Who will want to buy a brand-new, nicely equipped 2013 Chevy Malibu Eco for $25,995? If you peruse General Motors' press release, then you may think it's people who are cross-shopping a Volkswagen Passat TDI or a Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, a Toyota Camry Hybr ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • "Listen to the People, Not the Polluters" By A ...
    High above the pavement, overlooking Durban’s famous South Beach and the pounding surf of the Indian Ocean, and just blocks from the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where up to 20,000 people gathered, seven activists fought against the wind to unfurl a banner that read “Listen to the ...
  • CREDO members -- vote for Democracy Now! today!
    If you’re a CREDO member, you only have four more weeks to vote on how to distribute the 2011 donations funding. This year, Democracy Now! is on the ballot and we need your votes more than ever! Voting is easy! Just click here and select Democracy Now! (You’ll find us li ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes" f ...
    Amy Goodman appeared on MSNBC’s "Up with Chris Hayes" on Sat. Dec 3rd, 2011, live from Durban, South Africa, site of the UN’s climate change conference. Watch the full interview here: http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/03/9192590-amy-goodman-on-glob ...
  • Mohawk Youth Activist Jessica Yee on Why She i ...
    Johannesburg, South Africa — Democracy Now! speaks with Mohawk youth activist Jessica Yee about what brings her to attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. In this interview, Yee describes how South Africa based the legal framework for apartheid on U.S. and Canadian ...
  • Amy Goodman on MSNBC's Up with Chris Hayes 12/ ...
    Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman will appear live from Durban, South Africa on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday, December, 3rd at 7am EST to discuss the UN Climate Change Summit Global Day of Action.

Suzie-Q

  • Grayson on the Fed bailout: “If you&#821 ...
    Bloomberg: Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion By Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz – Nov 27, 2011 4:01 PM PT Bloomberg Markets Magazine Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. ...
  • Close call for NY City as Muslim Sympathasizer ...
    by G: Nov. 21, 2011 Here’s the latest news on terrorism in NY. It’s sharing the headlines with the recent demonstrations in Egypt, where, according to the NY Times   at least 23 people had been killed and more than 1,500 people had been wounded. It concerns a Muslim sympathizer& ...
  • Republican Party Platform in 2012
    Republican Party Platform in 2012: Tax-cuts for the rich Tax hikes for the middle class Deregulate wall street … Unlimited corporate money in elections War with Iran War with Pakistan Trade war with China Stay in Iraq Patriot Act End Social Security End Medicare Increase military spending ...
  • Operation Protect and Shield
  • Alex Jones on Homeland Security infiltrating OWS

Solari

  • MF Global and The Great Wall St Re-hypothecati ...
    By Christopher Elias (UK)  (Business Law Currents) A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money back. Although details of the drama are still unfolding, it appears that MF Global and some of its Wall Street co ...
  • Investement Strategies for Changing Times &#82 ...
    In response to the changing financial environment and the growing need for families to build and preserve their wealth, Catherine Austin Fitts returned to Mill Valley, California on October 27, 2011, to give clear practical advice on how to build and create wealth in a [...]
  • More Than Just Digital Quilting
    Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution By The Economist The scene in the park surrounding New York’s Hall of Science, on a sunny weekend in mid-September, resembles a futuristic craft ...
  • MF Global Woes Ripple Into Heartland
    CEO Jon Corzine, center, at MF Global last year: A Senate panel Thursday grilled regulators about how loopholes let farmers’ commodity trades end up in risky bonds. More than 100 Minnesota farmers are believed to have had assets frozen in the wake of the brokerage house’s huge bankruptcy. ...
  • Black Friday 2011 Set Gun Sales Record
    By Herald Online Thousands of Americans will be finding guns in their Christmas stockings this year, after the biggest one-day buy-up on record. Black Friday set the biggest one-day record of background check requests for hopeful gun buyers, eclipsing the previous record by 32 per cent, accordi ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • The trinity of US tactics – a constant i ...
    Summary:  Awareness of self is as necessary for war as for other aspects of life.  It helps us see what we do, and better understand how others’ see us.  It’s the foundation for a functioning observation-orientation-decision-action (OODA) loop.  Our’s is broken, so we use our g ...
  • COIN, another example of our difficulty learni ...
    Summary:  What is our military strategy in the 21st century?  More foreign counter-insurgencies?  More going abroad in search of monsters to destroy?  Followup to COIN – Now we see that it failed. But that was obvious before we started (when will we learn?). {There is an} arc of instability. &#8 ...
  • COIN – Now we see that it failed. But th ...
    Summary:  Now that the enthusiasm has passed for COIN as the tool by which foreign armies can defeat local insurgencies, we can look back for lessons.  They key insight is not that COIN failed to live up to the claims of its advocates.  It’s that the claims were obviously false when made, ...
  • RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died th ...
    Summary:  The Second Republic (under the Constitution) died this week, as the most important of our core protections were stripped away.  In full daylight. What remains in the Constitution has little value without them. Few people care; no protests were made. The Constitution died from neglect. ...
  • RIP, Constitution. The Second Republic died th ...
    Summary:  The Second Republic (under the Constitution) died this week, as the most important of our core protections were stripped away in full daylight. What remains has little value without them. Few people care; no protests were made. The Constitution died from neglect. We snooze, we lose.  T ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Clinton Stresses Transparency in Address to BW ...
    On Dec. 5, the parties to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) began a review conference in Geneva that is scheduled to end Dec. 22. The BWC members meet every five years to assess the functioning of the treaty, which came into force in 1975 and has 165 parties. Clinton at the BWC review co ...
  • Secretary of State John Bolton?
    So, Newt Gingrich said yesterday that he’d appoint John Bolton as his Secretary of State. David Bosco weighs in with a big, “meh” arguing that Bolton’s tenure as Ambassador to the United Nations wasn’t really that radical. His memoir, Surrender is not an Option, mos ...
  • Air Force Dumped Remains of 274 Troops in Virg ...
    Last month, the Washington Post reported that the United States Air Force, while overseeing the Dover Air Force Base mortuary that receives the bodies of troops killed overseas, had cremated and disposed some remains and sent them to a landfill in King George County, Virginia. At the time, neith ...
  • Top of the Morning: #DurbanFail; Warnings of a ...
    Top stories from the Development and Aid Workers News Service–DAWNS Digest.  Sign up to receive the full digest of global humanitarian news. And now for an Update on the International Climate Talks that Everyone is Ignoring You wouldn’t know it from scanning the front pages of mainstream n ...
  • National Security Brief: December 8, 2011
    – American and foreign officials and U.S. experts said the CIA drone that crashed in Iranian territory was part of a stepped-up covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program. – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while warning of a wider crackdown on protests, said U.S. Secretary of Stat ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • All in the Family: Teens, Sex, & Politics
    Yesterday's Plan B shocker, in which the Obama administration sold out women's health for what appear to be clearly political reasons, has jaws dropping all over the country. James Fallows wrote that now it's the administration's turn to be anti-science by overruling a mass of testimony that al ...
  • Today in Smackdowns
    Mitt Romney, speaking to the editorial board of the Washington Examiner: I am very concerned that this president is putting America on a path toward appeasement internationally and entitlement domestically. That we go from being a merit-opportunity society to an entitlement society. And it’s go ...
  • Legislative Stranglehold
    With only four Democrats voting for the measure, yesterday the House passed H.R. 10, “Rules from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny” (REINS). If it were to become law, this radical piece of legislation would prohibit all federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency, ...
  • In Today's DOMA News...
    You may have noticed that litigating Prop. 8* has become a full employment project for lawyers (Not that there's anything wrong with that ...). They're back at it today: The Ninth Circuit is hearing two appeals from the folks who originally put Prop. 8 on the California popular ballot. Accordin ...
  • Rip It Up and Start Again
    Democrats were fed up at the start of the year. They had held 59 seats in the Senate for most of the previous two years, their largest majority since the 1970s. But that near-supermajority wasn't enough to overcome a Republican fillibuster. A 60-vote hurdle became a common deathtrap for every D ...

Buzzflash

  • GOP Urged To Curb Personal Attacks On President
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Guys, it's just a little late for that --- If you mean it, then why did you take up So much time with Hitler moustaches On Obama along with Joker make-up?   http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/yahoo-exclusive-republicans-disclose-private-call-too-dangerous-1 ...
  • Sen. Bernie Sanders Files ‘Saving American Dem ...
    SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - 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 o ...
  • A ‘Frightened’ Frank Luntz Advises Republican ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Throughout his entire career, which has thus far lasted close to two decades and has included a major contribution to Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America," Frank Luntz has never been a problem solver. He has, however, been a man of words; uniquely ...
  • Invest in Social and Economic Justice, Support ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This holiday season, you again have the opportunity to give the gift of journalism that reflects your values. And you can also receive a progressive gift. For more than 11 years, BuzzFlash has promoted both corporate-free reporting and books, DVDs, an ...
  • Ron Paul is Excluded from Debate Sponsored by ...
    Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout  The Republican Jewish Coalition is hosting a presidential-candidates forum on Wednesday, December 7 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. Guess which candidate isn't being invited to participate.read more

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Attenborough: World is wonderful shock
    A spoken rendition of a classic and poignant song by the wonderful David Attenborough. Right, said Fred, he’s 85, you know? First spotted this on Ed Y’s G+ page. More science news and views:Scientists, normal people? You bet! I'm a Scientist - The Film. Imperial College protein cryst ...
  • Grant a pardon to Alan Turing
    A new petition is now online seeking a pardon from the UK government for mathematician Alan Turing. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man, under an archaic law that no longer exists. He was given so-called “organo-therapy” (chemical castration) a ...
  • Soft soap solution for motorways
    The Steiner problem, or as it is also known colloquially, the motorway problem , is a perennial favourite in mathematics with real-world applications. How do you get from A to Z via any number of intermediate towns and cities covering the least number of total miles? Mathematicians and computer ...
  • Five new drugs changing clinical phase
    The pharmaceutical industry, like many others, faces great challenges in the current economic downturn. In these straitened times, governments, payers, prescribers and patients increasingly want to know the value of new drug products in the real world, and all want to pay for outcomes, not just ...
  • US unemployment falling says tech investor #me ...
    FirstCapital’s John Yeomans (Telecoms industry and now a Cambridge Angel investor) told delegates at the Meerkats and Avatars event this morning that US unemployment is now showing the earliest subtle signs of falling, although the same cannot yet be said for the UK or Europe, mired in eco ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Foods with Color Additives Deceive Consumers, ...
    Tropicana Twister Cherry Berry Blast has no cherry juice. Nor does it have any berry juice. Despite the pictures of cherries and berries on the label, this drink gets much of its dark red color from the controversial dye, Red 40. The Center for Science in the Public Interest says that’s de ...
  • Citizens' Handbook Explains SEC Whistleblower ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (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- ...
  • Proposed Obama Policy on Endangered Species Ac ...
    The Obama administration today released a draft policy interpreting a key phrase in the Endangered Species Act that determines when species qualify for protection. Under the Act, an endangered species is defined as any species “in danger of extinction in all or a significant of portion of ...
  • ACLU, National Lawyers Guild Call for Restrain ...
    In response to Mayor Menino's announcement this morning that Occupy Boston protestors must leave their Dewey Square encampment by midnight tonight or the city will take "further action", the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the National Lawyers Guild-Massachusett ...
  • Public to FCC: We Don't Want More Media Consol ...
    On Thursday, Free Press delivered a petition with more than 30,000 signatures to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski urging him to make the public, jobs, and journalism the top priorities in the agency's imminent review of media ownership rules.read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Verizon CEO's Broadband Bunk
    Tim Karr A letter to the editor of the New York Times from Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg had us scratching our heads at Free Press today. read more
  • Africa Needs Green Energy, Not Grand Inga
    Rudo Sanyanga South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma launched the  COP 17 climate meeting in Durban last week with a speech on the potential for green energy to help build economic growth in South Africa. In a land blessed with huge ...
  • U.S. Obstructionism Is Hurting Climate Talks
    Kumi Naidoo We hope, we wish and we pray that the U.S. team at the UN Climate talks in Durban would set aside its obstructive, destructive behavior. But sadly, listening to U.S. negotiators Pershing and Stern, that is not going to happen. F ...
  • Fighting 1% Wars: Why Our Wars of Choice May P ...
    William Astore America’s wars are remote.  They’re remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you’re serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our m ...
  • Public-Sector Workers Under Attack
    Gerald Friedman From California to Massachusetts, from Texas to Wisconsin, whether by fiat or through bargaining, state governments would balance their budgets by taking a meat ax to public employee wages, benefits, and jobs. Behind the hea ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Study: Water wars likely in Middle East
    LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Using water from the Dead Sea means it's drying up, a resource loss that scientists said could destabilize an already tense Middle East political situation.
  • Cinema now just a product: Shekhar Kapur
    New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur hasn't directed a Hindi film since 'Bandit Queen' in 1994, and he blames the increased focus on marketing cinema as a product for it.
  • EPD director nominee is veteran of water wars
    ATLANTA - Gov. Nathan Deal has nominated the executive counsel for his predecessor as the next director of the state Environmental Protection Division... a man who is a veteran of the water wars with Florida and Alabama.
  • Climate change: red alert or red herring?
    Climate experts have been drawing a doomsday scenario with threats of natural disasters such as droughts, floods, water wars and other calamities that can be blamed on global warming.
  • Water wars
    Weekly Poll Are you willing to give up your right to free plastic bags? Not on your life, hippie. It's a minor inconvenience to help save the environment.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • New Pappe book highlights plight of forgotten ...
    Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada Historian Ilan Pappe addresses the plight of Palestinians who remained in the new State of Israel following the Nakba in The Forgotten Palestinians. The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel Manufacturer: Yale Universit ...
  • Photostory: The brighter side of Gaza
    Sami Kishawi The Electronic Intifada Photographs taken by The Electronic Intifada contributor Sami Kishawi this summer show the color of everyday life in Gaza.
  • Former prisoner, PFLP leader: hunger strike "m ...
    Ben Lorber The Electronic Intifada Hebron Abdel-Alim Da’na, a leader of the PFLP and a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, speaks to Ben Lorber about his experience in Israel’s prisons.
  • Israel can never steal our heritage
    Rana Baker The Electronic Intifada Gaza City We Palestinians have nothing to cherish more than our roots and ancestral identity. And no matter how hard it tries, Israel can never take our heritage away from us.
  • South African activist: "Palestine casts light ...
    Adri Nieuwhof The Electronic Intifada South Africa A South African activist working for the global boycott movement against Israeli apartheid connects the ongoing anti-colonialist struggles from Johannesburg to Palestine.

The Wonk Room

  • Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s Medicaid Cuts Le ...
    Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s “new way” of creating jobs has left something to be desired — namely, jobs. Kasich has killed projects that promised to create jobs in favor of policies that are sure to stunt job creation. Now with a state facing an overall loss of 400,000 jobs an ...
  • Occupying The Arts Shouldn’t Be A One-Ti ...
    I’m sorry I missed Occupy Broadway, which sounds like a joyful, entertaining evening of live street theater. And of course I agree with Benjamin Shepherd, who told Wired that “Social movements are about imaging a more just, democratic, joyous set of social relations and I think that begins ...
  • Poll: Majority Of Montana Voters Support Legal ...
    Sixty-two percent of Montana voters “want same-sex couples to have legal equality, including 84 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of independents, and 39 percent of Republicans,” but 51 percent still oppose marriage equality, a new Public Policy Polling survey finds. Earlier this year ...
  • House Republicans May Mandate Drug Testing As ...
    In an effort to drastically reduce the welfare rolls and make it more difficult for struggling families to receive government benefits, GOP governors and legislators have pushed mandatory drug testing laws. Not only do welfare recipients have to pass drug tests before they can collect benefits, ...
  • Contrary To Republican Rhetoric, Europe Is Not ...
    European leaders are meeting in Brussels this week in yet another attempt to craft a plan that would deal with their ongoing fiscal crisis and preserve the Euro. The International Monetary Fund will likely play a roll in a fiscal rescue plan, with Reuters reporting today that “Euro zone le ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Canada Wheat Board Ruling
    All that I have time for today is to discuss the strange little ruling against the harpercons' bill to abolish the Canada Wheat Board. The ruling says that the Agriculture Minister's introduction of the bill is illegal. This was a little troubling given that "sean in ottawa" on page 8 of this ...
  • The First Nations Unwilling to Tolerate harper ...
    Yesterday I wrote: harper is driving the First Nations peoples into a major confrontation and it would behoove all of us non-scum, non-harpercon Canadians to prepare ourselves to support them. Today, the CBC reported: A regional chief who represents Attawapiskat says that a number of his coun ...
  • thwap's News Round-up
    So, in Afghanistan, were we debased our values as a country (complicity in torture and spitting on democracy to cover it up), sacrificed over one-hundred of our soldiers' lives while wounding, maiming and traumatizing hundreds more, and spent billions of dollars, we have yet another mainstream j ...
  • The NDP Needs to Get SERIOUS About Economics
    You read that title and you expect to see some sort of diatribe about "fiscal responsibility" or "harsh realities" or something right? But when I read headlines like that I generally think that I'm in for a heaping helping of neo-liberal delusions and hypocrisy or some mewling nonsense from a " ...
  • So What's Going to Happen to Peter MacKay?
    So, last post, I was talking about how Tony Clement and his harpercon colleagues were making a mockery out of the "War on Terror" by using funds for border security to spruce up Perry Sound - Muskoka for the G20 conference (with Tony doling out the contracts like the Santa Claus at a company Chr ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • Canada's Got Talent: Toronto Callback Show
    Over the weekend of December 3-5, 2011, the latest upcoming Canadian TV reality talent show, Canada’s Got Talent, came into Toronto to host the callbacks for those Toronto area contestants who auditioned for the show back in September 2011.
  • Will Toronto transit riders accept a 15-cent f ...
    The 2012 City of Toronto capital and operating draft budget includes a proposed 10-cent Toronto Transit Commission fare hike. But some are now proposing adding a nickel to that possible 10 cents. Will Toronto transit riders accept this?
  • Montreal artists dig deep for 'Carry Your Mess ...
    On Dec. 15, Montreal’s newest voice in the arts and advocacy community “Carry Your Message” will be hosting a silent auction from 7:00PM to 11:00PM in downtown Montreal at the famous Burritoville restaurant located at 2055 Rue Bishop.
  • McDonald's global revenue figures beat 5% fore ...
    McDonald's announced this week that global revenue streams rose to 7.4 percent with stores open at least 13 months. This high number was due in part to high demand from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
  • Watkins boys found safe in Poland after 2 1/2 ...
    Two missing children from Toronto, Christopher and Stephen Watkins, have been found safe in Poland. Their mother is not in custody at this time.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Senior DND officials hid costs
    The renovation of the former Nortel campus for the Department of National Defence has become the subject of controversy following the discovery that senior officials hid the price of the project from not only the public, but also the media and parliamentarians (David Pugliese, “Defence off ...
  • Study says military spending not effective for ...
    Dollar-for-dollar, money spent on domestic spending priorities such as healthcare, clean energy, and education creates a greater number of jobs than defence spending, according to a study done by the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute. Researchers Robert Poll ...
  • Pentagon’s F-35 director says production shoul ...
    The U.S. Department of Defense’s top officer on the F-35, Adm. David Zenlet, has recommended that deliveries of the aircraft be delayed because of the discovery of cracks and “hot spots” during fatigue testing and analysis (Gloria Galloway, “Tories face fresh hurdle with ...
  • Aviation Week: Are there alternatives to F-35?
    Further to this post, doubts about the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have now grown to the point where even aviation industry insiders like Aviation Week are asking whether there are alternatives to the troubled aircraft (David A. Fulghum & Bill Sweetman, Are There Alternatives To ...
  • Ceasefire.ca fights back on Sun TV
    I was reminded of my commitment to you, in that controversial fundraising letter, that I would confront Stephen Harper and his pro-war lobbyists “at every turn.” So that’s what I did. I appeared on Sun TV Monday night in a 9-minute defence of myself and our Ceasefire.ca community.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Opportunities in the New Abnormal
    November 15, 2011 24H Gold by Deepcaster How refreshing it is when a Major Government makes, and admits to, Market Intervention, based on Market and Economic Realities, and not on Hope or Delusions, or Misinformation or Disinformation or Manufactured “News”. In one Arena, that of Currency, Major ...
  • Luxury 99 Per Cent Of Americans Can Only Dream ...
    November 15, 2011 The Daily Mail By Lydia Warren “Michael Moore pretends to be an everyday guy, but just look at his home.” –KTRN He is the booming voice of the Occupy protests, encouraging activists to continue their battle against the wealthy one per cent of Americans. But it ...
  • 7 Elephants Now Thrashing Your Living Room
    November 15, 2011 Before It’s News by Zen Gardner “People are too concerned with ‘Dancing with the Stars’ to pay attention to the reality of the situation.  Here is a list of things we should all be concerned about.”  –KTRN According to the mass media fog mach ...
  • Major Wars and Suppression of American Freedom ...
    November 15, 2011 Washington’s Blog Iran War Threats, Militarization of American Police and Spying on Americans All Started BEFORE 9/11 Many things which we’ve been told have only happened recently actually started a long time ago. For example, the mainstream media claims that Iran is clos ...
  • The Militarization of Your Local Police
    November 15, 2011 AllGov By Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky “Sometimes I wonder if cops even care about the people at all. Sitting in your cop car, waiting for speeders, is not being a public servant, it’s being a public nuisance.” –KTRN Local law enforcement agencie ...

Armies of Liberation

  • Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
    The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
  • Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
    In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
  • اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
    My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
  • Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
    After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
  • Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
    Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

  • Romney turns guns on Gingrich to save campaign
    NEW YORK — Mitt Romney turned his guns Thursday on rival Newt Gingrich in a first hint of what analysts see as potential panic in the former Republican frontrunner’s campaign to win his party’s presidential nomination. Until now, Romney has concentrated fire on President Barack Obama ...
  • The Real Reason Why Unemployment Will Remain High
    By Mike StathisThursday, December 8th, 2011 by Mike Stathis It took quite a long time for Washington to finally concede something that was apparent; the nation’s excessively high unemployment rate would remain elevated for several years. But their admission has come with a twist.   In ...
  • New Brace Salvages Limbs, Mobility and Morale
    By Veterans TodayThursday, December 8th, 2011 By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service   SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 8, 2011 – A wounded warrior limped into Ryan Blanck’s office at the Center for the Intrepid here one day with a plea for help. The doctors at Brooke Army Medical Cen ...
  • Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill of ...
    By Sherwood RossThursday, December 8th, 2011 by Sherwood Ross   The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America‘s sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship. W ...
  • Hefty Gingrich debts a decades-long pattern
    Newt Gingrich, who suddenly finds himself near the front of the ever-shifting GOP pack, is also finding that his finances are yet again in the cross-hairs. Multiple outlets are reporting that financial woes within the campaign means they’re skipping contests in key states and foregoing tra ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
    by Ellen Brown Featured Writer Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com Dec. 7, 2011 On November 27, Bloomberg News reported the results of its successful case to force the Fed to reveal the lending details of its 2008-09 bank bailout. In 29,000 pages of documents, the Fed revealed that by March 2009, it h ...
  • Charles Shaw: The History of Police Militariza ...
    Dandelion Salad UnheardVoicesArchive on Nov 30, 2011 On Monday, November 28, 2011, students at UC-Davis occupied Dutton Hall, the University’s financial center, and held an all-day teach-in. Author/Journalist/Filmmaker Charles Shaw was one of the featured speakers. Here is his talk, &#8220 ...
  • The Bible: Why does it endure?
    Dandelion Salad Day of Discovery Take a closer look at the fascinating process of biblical research that helps reveal the foundations and credibility of the timeless wisdom of the Bible. Dr. Daniel Wallace, biblical scholar and researcher, uncovers results that point to the Bible as the inspired ...
  • Richard Wolff: Eurozone Woes Created By Mating ...
    Dandelion Salad democracynow on Dec 2, 2011 DemocracyNow.org – European leaders are preparing to unveil their plans for addressing the sovereign debt crisis that’s threatened to tear apart the Eurozone. Both France and Germany are expected to push for changes to the Eurozone treaty, ...
  • “Rumours of war” By William Bowles
    by William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 4 December 2011 “I had to leave my dog in Iran.” – UK ambassador, BBC News, 2 December 2011 If I remember correctly, my mother told me that it was the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 that prompted he ...

Your New Reality

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    First The Prisons, Then The Street Corners So here we go. A robot prison guard that can detect dangerous behaviour in prisoners, and deal with them. Time Magazine : In prisons of the future, watchtowers and barbed wire may be just a formality. South Korea is debuting robot wardens with the ...
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    Occupy Horror : Police Attack Kids Trying To Rescue Injured Marine Incredible. Those Oakland, California kids were rescuing Scott Olsen, a fallen, brain injured Marine when a cop threw a potentially-deadly flash bomb amongst them. Mind-boggling. Oakland police saw a US Marine standing guard, wo ...
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    I wonder how fewer lights there will be when a fly-over happens in 2015, or 2020?
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    This city is about to blow : A nationwide US general strike may be less than two weeks away. The protests against insane police violence will increase in number and size. The #Occupy Movement grows bigger by the hour. How could it not?
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    US Police Now Using Flash Bombs, Chemical Weapons, 'Rubber' Bullets, Sound Guns On Peaceful #Occupy People The War In The Homeland Has Begun The first #Occupy death at the hands of police will come within days. And then what? That was how the London Riots started. The US is different, of cours ...

Wired - Science

  • 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

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

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • U. of Nebraska Launches Lab to Study Issues Su ...
    Before the first unmanned drone is flown to gather news, questions and concerns arise -- from how to best use them to deliver news and information efficiently to whether certain uses are privacy or safety threats.
  • PSA Testing, Combined With Other Relevant Pati ...
    Prostate cancer screening that combines an adjusted blood test with other factors including the size of the gland, the patient's overall weight and family history, can help up to one-quarter of men avoid biopsies and the risks associated with them, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-led rese ...
  • Alzheimer's and the Downward Spiral: SWHR Hold ...
    Costing $172 billion a year for health care and research funding, Alzheimer's disease (AD) affects one in three families and has a widespread impact on our economy and aging population. Most notably, this disease plagues women twice as much as men. At a congressional briefing held by the Society ...
  • Minimize Your Stress This Holiday Season: Ryer ...
    The holidays are a festive time of year filled with friends and family. But with our focus so much on others, we can forget ourselves and become inexplicably stressed and sad. The key to enjoying the upcoming season is being aware of the things (and people) that affect us.
  • Scientists Capture Single Cancer Molecules at Work
    Researchers have revealed how a molecule called telomerase contributes to the control of the integrity of our genetic code, and when it is involved in the deregulation of the code, its important role in the development of cancer. The University of Montreal scientists involved explain how they we ...

Natural Health News

  • A Mother's Touch May Protect Against Drug Crav ...
    A new study shows that mothers who are attentive and nurturing may be helping their children resist drug use.  A study in rats found that a rat mother's attention in early childhood actually changes the immune response in the brains of her pups.  High-touch mothering increased producti ...
  • Has A New Natural Solution for Inflammatory Bo ...
    A recent study sought to evaluate the effects of krill oil on inflammation.  Rats with and without induced colitis were divided into three groups, one of which was given krill oil. The rats were then examined for weight and disease activity index, colon length, levels of selected cytokines ...
  • New Report Warns of the Sugar in Cereals Marke ...
    A survey conducted by the Environmental Working Group found that many cereals marketed to children actually have more sugar in them than sugary treats.  A one-cup serving of Honey Smacks, for example, contains more sugar than a Hostess Twinkie. Currently, 17% of American children are class ...
  • Night Shift Work May Raise Diabetes Risk
    Women whose jobs require periodic night shift work may be increasing their diabetes risk.  A study found that a woman's risk of developing type 2 diabetes increases steadily with the amount of shift work. Women who worked night shifts on occasion for as little as three years were 20% more ...
  • Drug Industry Officially Named More Criminal t ...
    Over the course of the past two decades, U.S. spending on prescription drugs increased from $40 billion to more than $230 billion.  Illegal drug company activities are one factor contributing to the inflated spending. A recent study looked at trends in federal and state criminal and civil a ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks mor ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Re ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of globa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Lea Brilmayer & Isaias Yemane Te ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Marko Milanovic is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law.] In their timely article Brilmayer and Tesfalidet address an important issue of general international law – whe ...
  • Third State Obligations: An Essential Discussi ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Chiara Giorgetti is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law Center and a member of the International Arbitration Group at the Washington, D.C. office of White & Case.] I am very pleased to jo ...
  • Third State Obligations and the Enforcement of ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics [Lea Brilmayer is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School. Isaias Yemane Tesfalidet (LL.M. '10, J.S.D. Candidate, Yale Law School) is a fellow with the Forum for ...
  • New York University Journal of International L ...
    by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics by NYU Journal of International Law and Politics This is the first partnership between the NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and Opinio Juris. This series of postings will feature reactions from leading scholars to our three forth ...
  • …. Meanwhile, back in the real world
    by Dan Bodansky by Dan Bodansky Durban, South Africa, December 8 – The one silver lining to the slow pace of the climate change negotiations is that it gives one plenty of time to attend “side events” to learn what is going on in the broader world of climate policy.  In the p ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Task Force Gets Final Input on Child-Welfar ...
    AZ Task Force Gets Final Input on Child-Welfare Reform Phoenix, AZ – A state task force holds its third public meeting today (Wednesday) to hear testimony and public comments on how the state’s child-welfare system can be improved. Their recommendations are due by the end of the mont ...
  • Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Su ...
    Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees? You Might Be Surprised at This Answer Phoenix, AZ – Real Christmas trees help the environment, according to conservationists who say they also provide a billion dollar boost to the U.S. economy. Most fake trees come from abroad and carry environmental costs. ...
  • Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine
    Western Public Lands Touted as Economic Engine Phoenix, AZ – More than 100 economists and academics have sent a letter to President Obama expressing their belief that protected public lands in the West are essential to the region’s economic future. They say the lands not only promote ...
  • AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in I ...
    AZ Advocates Encouraged by Apparent Shift in Immigration Debate Phoenix, AZ – Immigrants' rights advocates say they see glimmers of hope in the changing tone of the political debate over immigration, both in Arizona and at the national level. They point to the recent defeat of SB 1070 auth ...
  • The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Rem ...
    The Holiday Shopping Season - Good Time To Remember Financial Basics Phoenix, AZ – A good way to reduce family stress this time of year is to remember good basic spending habits. Advice from from Kelli Hinkle, interim executive director of the Alliance For Sustainable Families.

Center for Food Safety

  • Help CFS Demand Labeling of GMO Food
    Filed under: GE Animals, GE Crops, GE Food, Legal Actions, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • Talking Turkey: Stuffing, Cranberries, Sweet P ...
    Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and Center for Food Safety Petition FDA to Eliminate Toxic Arsenic Residues in Meat Photo by: D Sharon Pruitt Nearly 88 percent of Americans surveyed by the National Turkey Federation eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but most will be blissfully unaware of wh ...
  • California Ballot Initiative Filed to Require ...
    Yesterday, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered (GE) foods sold in California was submitted to the Attorney General’s office. The initiative has the support from a coalition of consumer groups and organic food companies – this coalition is expected to ...
  • Lawsuit Aims To Halt Genetically Engineered Cr ...
    Public Interest Organizations Challenge Blanket Approval of Pesticide-Promoting Crops on 54 Refuges Across 8 States Latest Case In Successful Series A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) c ...
  • Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Mons ...
    With the threat of genetically engineered sweet corn hitting grocery stores next year looming, 264,000 people petition top retailers and food makers In response to Monsanto’s release of the company’s first genetically engineered sweet corn for human consumption, a coalition has collected more th ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Zashnain Zainal - Malaysia: Human Rights-Based ...
    ASIA/MALAYSIA — 12.06.2011 (APNS) — A country flip-flopping from developed and developing status every year. Despite our small population of 28 million with over one (or two) million migrant workers, HIV/AIDS is still heavily grasping at society. The dilemma of managing the pandemic is not focus ...
  • The rise and fall of Herman Cain
    The rise and fall of Herman Cain: The withdrawal of businessman and lobbyist Herman Cain from the Republican presidential contest—only weeks after he had topped the polls nationally and in Iowa, the first contested state—is a stark demonstration of the way in which the American ruling elite make ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Understanding American Racism
    OpEdNews - Article: Understanding American Racism: In recent times the New York Times, the York Daily News and Metro New York all reported on the expose that cops from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had posted a series of racist rants on the social networking website Facebook. The th ...
  • JPMorgan’s Thieving CEO, Jamie Dimon: Stop Bas ...
    JPMorgan’s Thieving CEO, Jamie Dimon: Stop Bashing the Rich � The Activists: JP Morgan’s CEO is at it again, the man is an absolute fool. He’s whining and complaining about the mistreatment of the rich. Funny isn’t it, considering that JP Morgan stole hundreds of billions from taxpayers in 2008 ...
  • NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could ...
    NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote | World news | guardian.co.uk: The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise bl ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

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

Politics in the Zeros

  • 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.

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan sha ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

  • Japan says some tsunami reconstruction funds g ...
    Tokyo (CNN) — The Japanese government has affirmed that $29 million from its budget for post-earthquake and tsunami reconstruction is going toward extra security measures for the country’s whaling fleet, angering environmental activists like Greenpeace. The whaling industry is &#8220 ...
  • Harry Morgan Dies At 96
  • Riot Wrong: FOX fakes Moscow protest with Athe ...
    News bulletins around the world have been following Russia’s election rallies. But one channel stands out – America’s Fox News has been showing streets ablaze, violent clashes and firebombs thrown at security officers, but with one major problem – the images are not from ...
  • Ron Paul Discusses Being Excluded at Jewish Fo ...
    Jack Hunter sits down with Congressman Paul to discuss why the U.S. government should respect Israel’s sovereignty. BONUS:
  • Coming of Age in a Post-9/11 World
    17-year-old Andrew Barrows eloquently describes his childhood memories of 9/11 and America’s decent into tyranny. Anthony Freda “Theories”   Andrew Barrows Activist Post I take a deep breath before I start to write. The thought of what’s happening in this country mak ...

The Air Vent

  • Droppin’ in
    I do love a good entrance… Yup, like always it is from WUWT, but even when repeated, it is still good to see Climategate 2.0″ on the other side of the blue marble.  Think of the carbon footprint! The emails are far worse than the last time.  Many will see that as some kind of [...]
  • Open Review of the ZOD IPCC Paleoclimate Chapter
    What you all have been waiting for.  The IPCC Paleoclimate Zero Order Draft for on line public review. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IJ40UFBT The excitement never ends. Enjoy. —- The paper slid under the door crack.  How these things happen, I don’t know — but they do.
  • Inside Job
    One thing which is abundantly clear from the emails is the incestuousness of the climate consensus.   Of course they fail to see the problem but that is what happens when you are blinded by the goal.  Below is a particularly honest statement by Hulme on Pachuri’s election to head the IPCC. ...
  • The Center of CG 2.0
    One of the rare privileges of being a ‘technical’ climate blogger is that I am sometimes aware of what is coming. There are some good people on the inside of the IPCC and we should all be thankful for those who put the mess in context. My suggestion is – read this post carefully.
  • Stop Them
    If you can’t stop the science, then you have to look elsewhere. #1680   date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:03:05 -0400 from: “Michael E. Mann” subject: Re: Something not to pass on to: Phil Jones Phil, I wo ...

Focal Point

  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
    Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...
  • Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
    Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the .. ...
  • Confessions of a Pro-Social Psychopath
    Neuroscientist James Fallon is fascinated by the brains of murderers, especially in light of his own family history. His father's side of the family was full of notorious murderers. So, he compared his family's PET scans to those of known psychopathic killers: "And I took a look at ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook’s Subscribe Button for Websites is No ...
    Less than a day after announcing it was introducing a version of its “Subscribe” button for websites, Facebook has taken the new feature live. According to a post on the Facebook developer blog, the new button has the same functionality … Continue reading →
  • Facebook Hires and Departures: Engineering, Co ...
    Facebook hired engineers and Patent Counsel this week, at least it appears so according to posts removed from its Careers Page and listed on the company’s LinkedIn feed. New hires per LinkedIn and Other Sources: Zhongxian Chen, Software Engineer – previously Software Engineer Intern. Sande ...
  • New This Week on the Inside Network Job Board: ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities across social and mobile application platforms. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Acquinity Interactive, BLiNQ Media, JibJab Media Inc., Deep Fried G ...
  • Birthdays, Calendars, Quizzes, Spotify, Micros ...
    Birthday calendars, friend quizzes, greeting cards, Microsoft, Bing, Spotify, Pandora, iPad and photo apps made up our list of applications growing by daily active users this week. The titles below grew from between 210,000 and 3.6 million DAU, based on … Continue reading →
  • Facebook Careers Postings: Engineering, Data C ...
    Facebook seems to be in the market for a lot of engineers this week, posting about a dozen engineering jobs on its Careers Page, in addition to data center, account management, client partner and intern jobs. Then Facebook’s LinkedIn feed showed a few other … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • An idiot's overview of why Western capitalism ...
    Alan Hart argues that neglect of the impoverished 80 per cent of the world's population - potentially a huge market for the West's consumer capitalism - by the richest nations, coupled with the shortsightedness, greed and stupidity of banking chiefs and deregulation of the banks and financial ma ...
  • Crippling Iran: questions for UK Foreign Secre ...
    Stuart Littlewood asks British Foreign Secretary William Hague pertinent questions about his inexplicable hostility to Iran, and argues that if Hague's aim "is to help preserve the balance of power in the Middle East so that a lawless, racist regime - Israel - remains the dominant threatening mi ...
  • The whistleblower as hero
    Lawrence Davidson argues that in the contemporary environment where editors and reporters value the prestige of being associated with important centres of power more than the truth and where media enterprises put profit ahead of factual accuracy, the role of the whistleblower has become essential.
  • An America that’s never wrong
    Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
  • Obama and Israel's security
    Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Meet the Shanghai Cooperation O ...
    The Geopolitical Paradigm of the 21st Century When The Shanghai Five held its first presidential summit in China in 1996, this innocuous group hardly registered as a blip on the geopolitical radar. Within just five years, however, the loose-knit cooperative organization of China, Kazakhstan, Kyr ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” –Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter International Newsworthy Egyptian Cabinet Resigns Death Toll in Egypt Reaches 35 Afghanistan: Karzai Skates on Thin Ice Protest i ...
  • BFP Exclusive: Syria- Secret US-NATO Training ...
    Using al-Assad vs. Assad I have been closely following the situation and events in Syria as they unfold. In doing so I totally bypass what’s being misreported by the US mainstream media-Washington Post, New York Times, and the like. I also pass on anything dished out by the Rockefeller-Soros-Car ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- November ...
    In Defense of Nullification, Supreme Court to Rule on Corporations’ Liability for Human Rights Violations, CIA Increases the Drone Killings of Pakistanis Who “Might Be Militants”, Pakistan, China Agree to Expand Economic-Defense Cooperation, Rockefeller Center Continues to Supp ...
  • What does 9/11 Commission Staffer Doug MacEach ...
    Sorting Through Murky Circumstances, Mystery Opponents & So-Called Supporters By Kevin Fenton  In his recent book The Black Banners, former FBI agent Ali Soufan portrays a key 9/11 Commission staff member, Doug MacEachin, as believing the CIA deliberately withheld information from the FBI in ...

Afro Spear

  • “Why Kenya’s doing Bashir’s ...
    Wrangles evidenced recently between Kenyan Judiciary and the executive over the ruling that Sudanese strong man, Omar Bashir, be apprehended shall he visit Kenya, left many analysts flabbergasted. One judge, Ncholas Ombija, made a historical ruling when ordered the Minister for Internal Security ...
  • The Al Jazeera slavery debate
  • sat’day riddymz
    “Os tambores de Minas, by Milton Nascimento. This song roughly means, the drums of Minas Gerais, Milton Nascimento’s home state, will never be quiet.” Sis Ana. Saludos…
  • Eduardo Galeano Chronicles the History of Huma ...
    “I believe this reading by Eduardo Galeano is very interesting.  Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan intellectual, writer and novelist, describes himself as being obsessed with remembering and committed to humanity and just causes. I agree with him.” Sis. Ana.  Saludos… Click here.
  • sat’day riddymz
    From Sis. Ana Panamanian national, Basilio Fergus went to Spain to study medicine and realized his true calling was composing songs and singing. With his rich angelic voice, he became an international star troughout the Spanish speaking world. Cisne Cuello Negro-Black Necked Swan, a song that ta ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

  • The Stop Online Piracy Act: Class War in Cyber ...
    In reality, the higher costs that the SOPA will impose on consumers both directly, and indirectly by raising costs to intermediaries, are money out of their pockets. The SOPA is big government at its worst: an intrusion into the market to help the 1 percent at the expense of everyone else.
  • JFK Umbrella Man -- More Doubts
    ikely, it was exactly what it appeared to be: a method of signaling shooters, perhaps that JFK had been hit, perhaps that he still seemed to be alive, perhaps to keep shooting. The fact that the New York Times and the establishment in general have never considered the umbrella worthy of real, se ...
  • It's Time for a Wall Street Perp Walk
    The current system of government agencies agreeing to Wall Street settlements without anyone admitting responsibility has to stop. The cover-ups by politicians and the complicit of media have to stop. We have had bailouts. Now, its time for a "jailout!"
  • US Interests Thwart Bonn Conference Aims
    The US seems determined to sabotage the Dec 5 Bonn Conference on the future of Afghanistan. It appears it wants to maintain its military there, to destablize - with the help of India - Pakistan, Iran and China.
  • Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fanta ...
    Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one, often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. And as always, there is a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts ...

Switchboard

  • Climate Disasters Consume Farmers and Their Crops
    Dana Gunders, Project Scientist, Food and Agriculture, San Francisco As NRDC launches a new, web-based extreme-weather mapping tool, I’ve been reflecting on how this year’s abnormal weather patterns have affected farmers and our food sup ...
  • 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 ...
  • Thousands of Record-Breaking Extreme Weather E ...
    Kim Knowlton, Senior Scientist, New York I grew up in a small rural town in upstate New York, east of Binghamton, north of the Catskills. Some of my sweetest summers were spent at my grandfather’s fishing camp outside Cooks Falls. As a kid, I ...
  • 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 ...
  • Trains, Planes and Automobiles: America's Tran ...
    Rob Perks, Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns, Washington, D.C. Some of the nation's leading experts and big thinkers on transportation recently gathered in Washington, D.C. to discuss the crisis presented by our nation's deterio ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • LGM Bowl Mania
    As per request, I have created an ESPN Bowl Mania group for LGM. Note that the group uses the “confidence” system, the misunderstanding of which invariably results in disappointed expectations. Prize for winning, etc.  First game is December 17. Group: Lawyers, Guns and Money Passwor ...
  • Margaret Thatcher: A Pundit’s Fantasy
    I can see why the Times published this Thatcher hagiography–she is a pundit’s wet dream. This version of Thatcher has everything Beltway pundits love–Strong leadership! Doing things! Reinforcing the privileges of the rich! The idealized Thatcher is what pundits would get if the ...
  • You Will Never Retire
    The most depressing local story in my time in Rhode Island is the state government move to slash pension for state workers. A bipartisan effort, led by Governor Lincoln Chaffee but with significant help from the majority of Democrats in the legislature, has decimated pensions. The retired will l ...
  • The future of Albert Pujols
    The Pujols signing is interesting in that it’s taking place in an era in which we have vastly more information about likely long-term player value than we had even a few years ago. There are a couple of complicating factors to analyzing the Angels’ decision. First, it’s unclear ...
  • Black Memory and the Civil War
    If you haven’t read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ piece on why African-Americans avoid centering the Civil War in their history, why the Civil War is so associated with whites in public memory, and how he became fascinated by the conflict, you must do so. It’s outstanding. Coates savages t ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • Government misconduct in FCPA prosecution cite ...
    A federal judge's dismissal of convictions in a high-profile FCPA case due to prosecutorial misconduct has prompted a defense attorney in a related prosecution to challenge the government's case against his client.
  • Indiana dean will balance provost duties with ...
    Lauren Robel is gearing up for a busy 2012. A mere month before the dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law-Bloomington is to assume to the presidency of the Association of American Law Schools, university leaders have tapped her as the interim provost of the entire Bloomington campus.
  • 7th Circuit rules for borrower over BOA in Tru ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit has revived a borrower's case against Bank of America and a title company for giving him one instead of two copies of a notice advising of a three-day right to cancel a refinancing.
  • Magistrate judge named dean of Oklahoma City l ...
    Oklahoma City University School of Law has found its next dean on the federal bench. University officials announced on Dec. 4 that U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Couch would assume the law school's top position on July 1.
  • ABA seeks better treatment of the disabled by ...
    The ABA's Commission on Disability Rights has asked the council to change the way it handles requests for testing accommodations, to "ensure that the exam reflects what the exam is designed to measure, and not the test taker's disability."

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Lower Than U ...
    The cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems is not nearly as expensive as some energy analysts have projected, according to a new study from Queen’s University in Ontario. In fact, Queen’s researcher Joshua Pearce predicts that solar photovoltaic systems are approaching the “tipping point” at ...
  • Rampant Marijuana Cultivation in U.S. National ...
    U.S. officials say widespread marijuana cultivation in national forests has caused “severe” damage to some ecosystems and wildlife in 20 states. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, U.S. Forest Service Director of Law Enforcement David Ferrell said feder ...
  • As Coal Use Declines in U.S., Coal Companies F ...
    With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil ...
  • Project Uses Satellite Data to Better Predict ...
    A new NASA project will use satellite data to better monitor how much water is fed into river systems across the Himalayan region through snow and glacier Click to enlarge NASAGlacial lake in eastern Nepal melt, an initiative that could help provide early warnings on flooding and drought across ...
  • CO2 Emissions in 2010 Show Biggest Increase Ev ...
    Global carbon emissions soared 5.9 percent in 2010, the largest increase ever recorded, according to the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists that tracks carbon emissions. The increase comes after a short-lived decline in emissions in 2008 and 2009 and is a sign th ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Russian scientists to attempt clone of woolly ...
    Scientists from Russia and Japan are undertaking a Jurassic Park-style experiment in an effort to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction. The scientists claim that a thigh bone found in August contains remarkably well-preserved marrow cells, which could form the starting point of the experiment.
  • Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows ...
    A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change - it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is "abnormal", ind ...
  • Antarctic’s hidden world revealed
    Ever wondered what Antarctica would look like without all that ice? Scientists have produced the most detailed map yet of the White Continent’s underbelly - its rock bed. Called simply BEDMAP, this startling view of the landscape beneath the ice incorporates decades of survey data acquired by pl ...
  • Gun company ownership is being centralized by ...
    Cerberus Capital Management could cut off all gun and ammunition sales in the US. Many Americans are totally unaware that Cerberus has for the past decade acquired nearly every gun and ammunition maker in the United States and consolidated them into a holding company called The Freedom Group. Th ...
  • Are Psychopaths "Brain Damaged"?
    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’ve come across recently, however, was in an advance reading co ...

Russia Today

  • EU summit: Scrabbling to extend euro road
    The Merkozy plan is number one on the agenda of the rescue summit in Brussels touted the “last chance” to save the euro. But it could lead to a split of the union, if non-eurozone EU countries refuse to accept the...
  • US secrets in Iran’s hands: Commando raid an o ...
    After the CIA lost control of a surveillance drone over Iran, US officials decided against sending a team to retrieve or destroy its remains. However that was before Tehran announced its military was behind the downing...
  • End of empire plotted in secret forest talks
    Twenty years ago today, the leaders of three Soviet republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus - signed an agreement which consigned the Soviet Union to history and marked the birth of new nations.
  • ‘Bailouts kill those who could save world economy’
    Pumping ever larger sums of cash into the global economy will produce correspondingly smaller results. What’s worse, the move will harm emerging economies which have the best chance of pulling the world out of its...
  • Top US and European colleges mop up India’s un ...
    India is one of the world's few growth countries, with a burgeoning middle class to match. They are keen to get a top-notch education for their children, but with Indian colleges oversubscribed, many are turning to the...

Not My Tribe

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

Debunking the Debunkers

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

Fooducate

  • Reminder: Many Cereals are Sweeter than Dessert
    The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit advocacy group, has published a not-so-surprising study concerning the sugar content of children’s cereal. They reviewed 84 popular brands and checked out their sugar content. The most offensive product, Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, is 56% sug ...
  • Why is There Soy in My Hain Celestial Tea?
    We recently got an email from Amy, a fooducate community member: I drink a lot of tea. Often, the ingredients list says “natural flavors” at the end, then says “Contains: Soy.” I assume it is warning about soy because something in the natural flavors contains this potenti ...
  • Call Off the War on Obesity
    This is a guest blog post by Andy Bellatti, MS, RD. It originally appeared on his blog Small Bites “The war on obesity” has become a familiar battle cry. It serves as the basis for professional health conferences or an exploitative a “motivational” extreme-weight-loss shows like The Biggest Lose ...
  • What’s In Muscle Milk?
    We’ve been asked by Fooducate community members about Muscle Milk, a supplement that is popular with body builders and athletes. Normally we don’t venture into the supplement realm, but recently we’ve been seeing Muscle Milk in supermarkets and in the hands of casual athletes, ...
  • McDonald’s is Cheating
    Last year, San Francisco’s board of supervisors passed a law intended to limit toy giveaways in kiddie meals at fast food establishments. Happy Meals, as we all know, are an effective tool to get kids hooked on nutrient void, sodium and fat laden McDonald’s fare, thus turning tots in ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • 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 ...

Greg Palast

  • Greenpeace poisoned me
    by Kert Davies, Research Director, Greenpeace USA Read the Greenpeace blog and listen to the Greenpeace Radio Podcast with Greg Palast, author of Vultures' Picnic: In pursuit of petroleum pigs, power pirates and high-finance carnivores. Then read this.  It's my soul on a plate.  Then pass it o ...
  • Palast Tonight Live on C-Span BookTV
    Goldfinger the Vulture is going to hate this. Tonight: Greg Palast breaks through America's Electronic Berlin Wall with a LIVE stream on C-SPAN BookTV.org, 7pm Eastern. Palast be bringing the People's Mic directly to the halls of power in Washington DC for one night - telling the sordid sec ...
  • Romney's Billionaire ThreatensBBC Investigativ ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash Palast is the author of Vultures' Picnic: in Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Carnivores. See Palast live on stage in New York, DC and other cities. Last Monday, a call came in to BBC Television Centre, London, from the office o ...
  • Feasting with the 1% —An Evening with Greg Pal ...
    WBAI Presents Feasting with The 1% An evening exposing their recipesand secret ingredients The New York Times Best Selling Author Greg Palast & Special Guests plus the blisteringly funny Lee Camp The New York City launch of Palast's new book VULTURES' PICNIC A hearty m ...
  • Palast in NYC - Monday, December 5
    WBAI Presents the New York City launch ofPalast's brand new book VULTURES' PICNIC Monday, December 5 7pm Community Church of New York 40 E 35th Street - between Park & Madison "If you like thrillers, why read fake stuff when the real stories Palast tells are even more amazing, w ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

  • Dr. Lisa Morris on Interviewing for NBC "Skipp ...
    By Dr. Lisa Morris, DC On the afternoon of Monday, November 28, 2011, I was interviewed for the "Skipping Vaccines" segment for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Kevin, a producer for the show, asked me...
  • Public Invited to Call: Advisory Commission on ...
    ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CHILDHOOD VACCINES (ACCV) Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland Conference Room 10-65 December 08 & 09, 2011 (1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time) (9:00 am – 11:00 am Eastern Daylight Time) Dial: 1-800-369-3104 Passcode:...
  • Age of Autism Science Summary: Do aluminum vac ...
    J Inorg Biochem. 2011 Nov;105(11):1489-99. Epub 2011 Aug 23. Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism? Tomljenovic L, Shaw CA. Source Neural Dynamics Research Group, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 828...
  • The War on Science – The British Medical Journ ...
    By Ed Arranga In January 2011, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a blistering 3-part series (here, here, here) and an editorial (here) accusing Dr. Wakefield of committing fraud in his study of bowel disease. The tone is harsh, the...
  • Seth Mnookin Boots Jake Crosby Out of Public C ...
    By Jake Crosby Seth Mnookin blatantly lied about me again, this time at a public conference run by an organization that is chaired by a Merck vaccines executive. In short, I asked Mnookin a question during the Q/A period; he...

Global BDS Movement

  • Veolia blows it again through normalization sp ...
    Supporting a “Race for Peace” is not the way to support peace in the Middle East. A better way for Veolia would be to end immediately its involvement in all Israeli activities in the occupied West Bank
  • UK student body slams university’s Ahava link
    In the NUS’ National Executive Council meeting, a motion demanding the “immediate end” of KCL’s research project with Ahava was passed with no votes against
  • Rho City Council approves resolution condemnin ...
    The Italian company condemned for involvement in the Israeli high-speed railway that crosses the occupied Palestinian territories
  • Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS (PTU ...
    Solidarity from Occupied Palestine with UK public sector strike Occupied Palestine, November 29 – The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS), the largest coalition of the Palestinian trade union movement, stands in solidarity with the millions ...
  • Palestinian trade union movement salutes Natio ...
    The Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (PTUC-BDS) salutes RMT London Transport Regional Council for initiating campaign against Alstom over its involvement in the Jerusalem Light Rail

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Facial recognition software spots family resem ...
    New Scientist – Facial recognition software that’s as good as people at spotting family resemblances could help to reunite lost family members – or help the likes of Facebook work out which of your friends are blood relatives. We intuitively recognise family resemblance through ...
  • Taxes could fill AIDS funding crunch: U.N.
    Reuters – About 34 million people worldwide are infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, just over two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Incidence rates are falling and access to treatment is expanding. However, a decline in donor contributions has caused ...
  • Radical eurozone shakeup could see Brussels ge ...
    Guardian – The European commission could be empowered to impose austerity measures on eurozone countries that are being bailed out, usurping the functions of government in countries such as Greece, Ireland, or Portugal. Bailed-out countries could also be stripped of their voting rights in ...
  • Hu Jintao tells China navy: Prepare for warfare
    BBC – China’s navy should speed up its development and prepare for warfare, President Hu Jintao has said. He told military personnel they should “make extended preparations for warfare”. China is locked in territorial disputes with several other nations in the South China ...
  • Occupy London in legal challenge to UBS bank o ...
    Guardian – Banking giant UBS was granted an immediate and final possession order for its property in a one-sided hearing that circumvented the basic principles of justice, an appeal court has been told. Lawyers acting for the Occupy movement’s Bank of Ideas squat in the City of Londo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • New Cook Islands Shark Sanctuary proposed
    Activists in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific are proposing a huge new shark sanctuary in the face of fishing pressures and the continued massive drop in shark numbers over the last decade worldwide. The Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative, or PICI, is working with local fisheries autho ...
  • San Diego water deal upheld, Salton Sea fight ...
    A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal overturned a 2010 ruling by a Sacramento Superior Court judge that the deal was improper because the Legislature had essentially signed blank-check to repair damage done to the Salton Sea.
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer seeks climate-change action ...
    Senator Barbara Boxer stepped up today to deliver an appeal for action at the mostly lackluster UN Climate Change Conference, which wraps up this week in Durban, South Africa. Her speech was delivered to an almost-empty Senate TV/Radio gallery, which is indicative of the low priority given ongoi ...
  • Inupiat whaling, drilling at stake in recent A ...
    Independent photojournalists Will Rose and Kajsa Sjölander were on Alaska’s North Slope in November to document traditional whaling by the native Inupiat people, and found themselves at the height of a highly charged mayoral election season, with whaling and a gargantuan new Shell oil drilling p ...
  • Retired federal judge withdraws from Westlands ...
    Retired federal judge Oliver Wanger withdraws from Westlands Water District case.

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industr ...
    The private prison system has rebounded, growing dramatically, and making big bucks with huge help from the Feds, as large numbers of immigrants are incarcerated. Submitted by John Cause to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein ...
    In a Democracy Now! special broadcast, we bring you excerpts from a recent event that examined this question and much more. "Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power," [vedeo] Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |  &nb ...
  • Canadian First Nation Declares State of Emerge ...
    Please share! It's been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community. No aid agencies have stepped forward... Submitted by Kimberley R. to World &nbsp ...
  • Morocco's first Jewish female candidate eyes p ...
    Morocco's first Jewish female candidate eyes parliamentary elections is the only Jew among more than 7,000 candidates, but her campaign symbolizes the diversity of the North African country where Arabs, Amazigh and Jews have lived side by side... Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |&n ...
  • Human Rights Petition: Dept. of State: Call on ...
    The death toll in Egypt to date has reached 35 after three days of violence this past weekend against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square, Cairo, by the current ruling military regime. Protesters as young as 13 years old have been killed by tear gas.... Submitted by Elizabeth S. to World &nbsp ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Worldnews

  • 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: & ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • 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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

Prior Art

Peoples Voice

  • Human Rights Day
    by Stephen Lendman A commonly accepted definition calls human rights basic freedoms "to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law." The UN said "(o)n Human Rights Day 2011, we pay tribute t ...
  • Russia Bashing
    by Stephen Lendman On December 4, parliamentary elections were held to fill 450 State Duma seats, Russia's Federal Assembly lower house. With nearly all votes counted, RIA Novosti said Medvedev/Putin's United Russia party won 238 seats, falling slightly below a majority with 49.67% of the vote ...
  • Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wall Street Mo ...
    Ellen Brown 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 resc ...
  • A Hopeless Legion of Loons
    By Sheila Samples "Oh, big conniver, nothing but a jiver, done got hip to your jive, Slippin' and a slidin', peepin' and a hidin', won't be your fool no more." ~~Little Richard Fear and despair are billowing across the US political landscape, due in no small part to nearly three year ...
  • Is Iran Preparing to Strike Back
    By Brian M. Downing These attacks are almost certainly directed by Israeli, Saudi, and US intelligence services. They may also be acts of war. "This business will get out of control." – The Hunt for Red October In the last few years diplomatic pressures and economic sanctions have b ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Pooled plans won’t solve pension crisis
    A new CCPA report finds that the government's proposed Pooled Registered Pension Plan (PRPP) program will do nothing to solve Canada’s pension crisis. The report, by Monica Towson, concludes that rather than proposing yet another voluntary savings scheme, the government should instead focus on e ...
  • OECD: Canada's income gap is at a record high
    A new OECD report on income inequality among 34 industrialized nations asserts what CCPA research has long revealed: Canada's income gap is at a record high. As the Globe and Mail reports in this story , "Two factors explain Canada’s growing gap: a widening disparity in labour earnings between h ...
  • Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
    As the City of Toronto considers a budget proposal that would result in drastic public sector job cuts, economist Hugh Mackenzie weighs in with a sobering observation: between October 2010 and October 2011, the entire Toronto Census Metropolitan Area lost 8,500 jobs. Mayor Rob Ford's intent to e ...
  • Canadian fossil fuel exports threaten climate
    A new CCPA report finds that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embodied in Canadian exports of fossil fuels in 2009 were 15% greater than the emissions from all fossil fuel combustion within Canada, and almost four times the emissions from extracting and processing fossil fuels in Canada. The study ...
  • Holiday gifts to enlighten, engage, and inspire
    This holiday season, why not give a unique gift? CCPA has gift ideas that will enlighten, engage, and inspire. Celebrate the upcoming holiday season by supporting the CCPA's work. You can do this in several ways: give a gift membership; make a donation; or give a calendar. Visit our holiday gift ...

World Wide Hippies

  • More things I think that I think!
    By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH – (Pittsburgh in the 60s) I’m at a loss for any cohesive article. There isn’t any one thing that I find worthy of a big rant or any one subject that put my mind at ease. So more random stuff from a rambling mind- No offense to friends or family or strangers [...]
  • I started this morning with a letter to Senato ...
    By Kimi Alani – Dear Mr. Levin, I am writing today to express my deep concern on the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act bill that would sincerely compromise my rights and the rights of American citizens by allowing indefinite military detention of American citizens — w ...
  • “By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It”: ...
    By Phil Rockstroh, (Frequent WWH Contributer ) - Regardless of the dissembling of corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers’ game, in which, psychopathic personalities (not “job creators” but con job perpetrat ...
  • M*A*S*H STAR HARRY MORGAN DEAD
    WWH, Wikipedia – Harry Morgan, died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles, his son Charles confirmed. (born Harry Bratsberg. April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor. He was widely known for his roles as Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gla ...
  • John Lennon – (9 October 1940 – 8 Decemb ...
    WWH,Wikipedia – John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in ...

FourWinds10

  • STORMTROOPER: THE MILITARY'S WAR ON THE EARTH
  • The BP spill in the Gulf: One year later
      (NaturalNews.com) - It's been called the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, and rightfully so, if for no other reason than because, one year later, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmare gift that keeps on giving, some experts are saying. The Deepwater ...
  • US space junk falls in South America
  • Chernobyl in the Gulf of Mexico
    BP Spill Released Dangerous Amounts of Radioactive Material Into the Gulf Cross posted here. It’s been more than a year since BP’s runaway Macondo Well began filling the northern waters of the Gulf of Mexico with more than 200 million gallons of sweet crude, fouling shorelines from L ...
  • Revealed: the secret battle for the riches of ...
    Leaked cables show how nations are carving up pristine wilderness By Shaun Walker in Moscow   The melting of the polar ice has been disastrous for wildlife but opens up new opportunities to exploit natural resources .firstcolumn { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; border-bottom: 5px so ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

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

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • The Most Dangerous Thing You Do Every Day
    It's no longer just texting behind the wheel. Fiddling with DVD players and GPS systems, even putting on makeup, while driving have become Standard Operating Procedure for U.S. drivers, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll has found. The online poll surveyed more than 2,800 U.S. adults, all ...
  • Who Eats the Most Fast Food? Hint: It's Not Wh ...
    Conventional wisdom has long held that income levels and obesity go hand in hand: Those with lower incomes have higher obesity rates, their diets filled with the plethora of cheap foods that are unhealthy and heavily processed, while wealthier people have healthier weights because they can affo ...
  • Happy Holidays From Rodale!
    This holiday season, improve your health and happiness with a centuries-old tradition. origami-cranes.jpg http://www.rodale.com/origami-cranes ...
  • What the FDA is Ignoring Could Give You Cancer
    Earlier this year, the TV talk-show host Dr. Mehmet Oz commissioned tests on apple juice and found that almost 30 percent contained levels of arsenic—a known carcinogen—that exceeded the Environmental Protection Agency's standard for drinking water. The Food and Drug Administration's response? ...
  • The Sperm-Killer Sitting On Your Lap
    You might want to love your laptop a little less. A new study published in the journal Fertility & Sterility suggests that wi-fi-enabled laptops could be nuking your swimmers before they ever have a chance to go forth and multiply. Researchers from Argentina collected semen samples from 29 ...

big think

  • IBM's Watson Gets a Day Job
    What's the Latest Development? His Jeopardy! winnings apparently spent, IBM's supercomputer Watson has found a day job at the National Institutes of Health mining medical patents to improve pharmaceutical R&D. Using Watson's computing power, IBM has designed the Strategic IP Insight Pl ...
  • The Baseball Bubble: Is Albert Pujols Worth $2 ...
    Albert Pujols is probably the best hitter in baseball. But is he worth $260 million? With a World Series title under his belt, but also coming off his worst professional season (Pujols failed to hit .300 and drive in 100 runs for the first time in his 11-year career), the soon to be 32-yea ...
  • What Humanity Needs Most: 'The City 2.0'
    What's the Latest Development? For the first time, the 2012 TED prize has been given not to an individual but to an idea: The City 2.0. With half of Earth's population already living in urban centers, and that number expected to grow, fewer issues could be more important in the years ahead ...
  • The Race to Replace Silicon Semiconductors
    What's the Latest Development? Stanford researchers are using nanotechnology to design what might may become the next generation of computer circuits. They are one of several teams looking beyond the silicon semiconductor as it becomes increasingly difficult to increase computer power usin ...
  • Harnessing Sea Power, with Style
    What's the Latest Development? While efforts to harness the sea for electricity generation are still in their infancy, some interesting projects are underway. One device, set to be installed in the world's first commercial wave farm off Portugal, looks like a giant sea snake floating on th ...

Information Liberation

  • NPR's domestic drone commercial
    Excitement over America*s use of drones in multiple Muslim countries is, predictably, causing those weapons to be imported onto U.S. soil. Federal law enforcement agencies and local police forces are buying more and more of them and putting them to i...
  • PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise
    The fact-checking site PolitiFact serves a valuable purpose when it actually performs its stated function: to *help you find the truth in American politics* by *fact-check[**ng] statements* from political and media figures. But it undermines its own ...
  • Lew Rockwell Vs Statist Parasite
    Download MP3 Ron Smith talks to Lew Rockwell until a federal employee intervenes....
  • Peyton Hillis: "I support Ron Paul. He represe ...
    Peyton Hillis of the Cleveland Browns makes it clear who he supports for president in 2012. His teammate Tony Pashos is a big Ron Paul supporter as well....
  • Tampa Police Stakeout Hydroponic Garden Store, ...
    Police in Tampa Bay, Florida spy on a local garden store with cameras, stalk their customers, then use false pretexts to invade their homes without warrants in the hope they'll find drugs. From TampaBay.com: LARGO * Last fall, a white Chevy tru...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Attenborough: World is wonderful shock
    A spoken rendition of a classic and poignant song by the wonderful David Attenborough. Right, said Fred, he’s 85, you know? First spotted this on Ed Y’s G+ page. More science news and views:Scientists, normal people? You bet! I'm a Scientist - The Film. Imperial College protein cryst ...
  • Grant a pardon to Alan Turing
    A new petition is now online seeking a pardon from the UK government for mathematician Alan Turing. In 1952, he was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ with another man, under an archaic law that no longer exists. He was given so-called “organo-therapy” (chemical castration) a ...
  • Soft soap solution for motorways
    The Steiner problem, or as it is also known colloquially, the motorway problem , is a perennial favourite in mathematics with real-world applications. How do you get from A to Z via any number of intermediate towns and cities covering the least number of total miles? Mathematicians and computer ...
  • Five new drugs changing clinical phase
    The pharmaceutical industry, like many others, faces great challenges in the current economic downturn. In these straitened times, governments, payers, prescribers and patients increasingly want to know the value of new drug products in the real world, and all want to pay for outcomes, not just ...
  • US unemployment falling says tech investor #me ...
    FirstCapital’s John Yeomans (Telecoms industry and now a Cambridge Angel investor) told delegates at the Meerkats and Avatars event this morning that US unemployment is now showing the earliest subtle signs of falling, although the same cannot yet be said for the UK or Europe, mired in eco ...

RFF Library

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

Scientific American - News

  • Genetics Explain How Bedbugs Infest a Building ...
    PHILADELPHIA--When you have bedbugs ( Cimex lectularius ), less interesting is the question of how they got there than the conundrum of how best to get them out. Ridding homes and businesses of these pests has become a multimillion dollar industry in many cities in the U.S. and throughout th ...
  • Climate Negotiations Fail to Keep Pace with Sc ...
    DURBAN, South Africa--By 2020, human activity could produce some 55 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, up from roughly 36 billion metric tons per year currently. All the accumulating gas is enough to raise the global average temperatures by more than 3 degrees Celsius by century ...
  • Childhood Obesity Best Battled in Schools, Res ...
    In the struggle against widespread obesity that begins in early childhood , new research indicates that schools may be the best place to start a solution. [More]
  • Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile t ...
    SAN FRANCISCO - To get a glimpse of the future , look to East Africa today. [More]
  • Bio–Jet Fuel Struggles to Balance Profit ...
    DURBAN, South Africa--My share of the carbon dioxide my flight to Johannesburg emitted over 15 hours amounted to 1,391.3 kilograms, according to the helpful information provided by South African Airlines. Add a dollop of 53.8 kilograms of CO2 for the jet jaunt to Durban and you can see that the ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

  • Pablo Solon's Warning
    Former Bolivian climate change negotiator and climate justice activist on COP17 negotiations With just a day and a half left to COP17, rumours of a side deal to bypass a second phase of the Kyoto Protocol have heated up. Many are warning ...
  • Occupy Nova Scotia Visits Wal-Mart
    Members of Occupy Nova Scotia visited a local Walmart store in Halifax yesterday, unfurled a banner and read a prepared statement on the dangers of mass consumerism. The g ...
  • Canadian Youth Take a Stand in Durban
    Youth delegation interupts Enviro Minister's address, calls for other countries to "turn their backs on Canada" The high-level negotiations phase at the UN's climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, began today. ...
  • Occupy Nova Scotia Visits Walmart
    Members of Occupy Nova Scotia visited a local Walmart store in Halifax yesterday, unfurled a banner and read a prepared statement on the dangers of mass consumerism. The group used the now-famous "people's mic" to draw attention to itself, and left the store chanting "buy loca ...
  • CANADIAN YOUTH EJECTED FROM COP17
    TURN THEIR BACKS ON CANADIAN GOVERNMENT DURING OPENING SPEECH Durban, South Africa – Members of the Canadian Youth Delegation were ejected from COP17 today as Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered his opening address at the Uni ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Occupy Wall Street: Plan - B
    David Seaton's News LinksForeclosure is a national tragedy and a relentless drag on economic growth. Jobs can’t be created until demand increases, and demand won’t increase until consumers get out of debt, and housing is the biggest obstacle. If we had healthy institutions, the White House, both ...
  • Egypt
    David Seaton's News LeaksThe first round of voting in Egypt shows a strong showing for the Islamic parties, both the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extreme Salifist party Al-Nour. At this point the Islamists appear to have taken two thirds of the vote. This first round took place in urban ...
  • The magnificent quest for Shinola
    David Seaton's News LinksShinola, take a whiff Watching the antics of Romney, Santorum, Bachman, Paul, Cain and Perry and contemplating the mere possibility that someone who should only be handled with forceps like Newt Gingrich could now lead a party once led by Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eis ...
  • The Nicholas Brothers: a slow motion tribute
    David Seaton's News Links The Nicholas Brothers were probably the best dance act of the Golden Age of Hollywood and only Jim Crow could have kept them from being as famous as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. I hope you enjoy this slow motion tribute to their art. DS
  • Frank Miller's rant: a wise man gets more use ...
    David Seaton's News Links We are cohabiting with a wounded political-economic system that is pouring legitimacy out of its every vein and with every beat of its heart, spurting incoherency from every artery and its heart is beating very fast as it thrashes around. In this company paranoia is a ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Housekeeping Note
    I'm giving in. I'm pretty badly under the weather today, and right now my computer monitor just looks like a blur — which is about what my brain feels like. So no blogging today. I should be back tomorrow.      
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  • Crocodile Tears From the Credit Card Industry
    The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest middle finger from the credit card industry: Just two months after one of the most controversial parts of the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law was enacted, some merchants and consumers are starting to pay the price. Many business owners who sel ...
  • Chart of the Day: Redistribution Around the World
    Via Reihan Salam, here's an interesting, if limited bit of raw data. For each of the richest countries in the world it shows cash benefits (top white bar) and taxes (bottom dark blue bar) for the bottom 20% of the working-age population. Both are scaled to income. In the United States, for exa ...
  • Morning After Pill Remains a Political Football
    The FDA's scientists have (once again) concluded that Plan B, the "morning after" pill, is safe for unrestricted sale over the counter. Unfortunately, the Obama administration has apparently decided that it would be politically unwise to allow this with an election coming up: “I agree ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 289: Peanuts
    Topics: Kriss buys an iPhone Siri…the side piece in your pocket Corporate Douchebags Political Correctness Gone Wild The problem with Comic Book Movies Law & Order: Penn State update Ginger White is still talking A 200 lbs 8 year old Share with your friends:
  • IC 288: The ‘Fuck I’t Gene
    Topics: Getting pulled over by the cops The joys of speed cameras Kwanzaa…the Iotas of the Holidays Easily offended people The Fuck-it Gene The Side Piece contract Herman Cain suspends his campaign Newt Gingrich thinks poor kids don’t work Sandusky gives another bad interview Share w ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: Newt Gingrich and Poor Kids
    On the latest edition of “Anybody But Mitt”, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in the GOP Primary.  It’s pretty absurd when you think about it.  I’m no fan of Mitt Romney, but I’ll take Romney everyday over Gingrich.  Remember, Newt Gingri ...
  • Conrad Murray Shouldn’t be Going to Jail
    As often happens, I have once again found myself on the opposite side of public opinion on a topic.  I find this happening more often now.  I tried for a bit to be more PC and censuring what I said but I’ll be 30 in a few months and I’m basically on some “fuck it” [...]
  • The Side Piece Contract
    Another day, another politician with an alleged affair.  This time it’s everyone’s favorite pizza man, Herman Cain.  Cain can’t catch a break with the ladies it seems.  This time though, its not sexual harassment (or assault if you believe Allred’s client) but a 13 year a ...

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

  • Women advised to avoid ZEN bust-enhancing supp ...
    Women who use bust-enhancing dietary supplements containing the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEN), a naturally occurring toxin that widely contaminates agricultural products, could be increasing their risk of breast cancer. That is the warning from breast health experts in a paper published online ...
  • How Salmonella forms evil twins to evade the b ...
    An unusual regulatory mechanism that controls the swimmer/non-swimmer option in genetically identical Salmonella also impacts the bacteria's ability to cause infection. read more
  • Evolution reveals missing link between DNA and ...
    Fifty years after the pioneering discovery that a protein's three-dimensional structure is determined solely by the sequence of its amino acids, an international team of researchers has taken a major step toward fulfilling the tantalizing promise: predicting the structure of a protein from its D ...
  • Researchers link patterns seen in spider silk, ...
    Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers at MIT have created a scientifically rigorous analogy that shows the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a melody, proving that the structure of each relates to its function in an equivalent way. ...
  • Researchers discover that changes in bioelectr ...
    For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism. Using genetic manipulation of membrane voltage in Xenopus (frog) embryos, biologists at Tufts ...

unEarthed

  • Lack Of Storage Hurting Energy Revolution
    Much energy generated from sun and wind is being wasted Currently, America's transmission grid—the power lines and electrical equipment that bring us elect ...
  • Video: Coal Export Threatens The Northwest
    Columbia Riverkeeper outlines risks of coal export terminals in the Northwest Coal train spewing black dust from its open boxcars, in a new video from Columbia Riverkeeper. ...
  • Island Nations Plea For Controls On Climate Change
    At U.N. conference, these tiny nations say they are the biggest victims Satellite image of the low-lying island nation of Nauru (Earthjustice attorney Erika ...
  • Tr-Ash Talk: Some Dirty Air With That Murky Wa ...
    States bad on coal ash oversight also have dirty air Coal ash landfill Looks like that murky glass of water shouldn’t be your only concern.  Severa ...
  • Meet The Power Plants
    The nation's worst toxic air polluters need to be better neighbors Hatfield's Ferry coal plant. Photo: Chris Jordan / Earthjustice Imagine you live in a ...

Brave New Climate

  • Open Thread 20
    The previous Open Thread has gone past is running of the recent posts lists and getting tough to find, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up ...
  • Feeding 10 billion on a hotter planet (Part II)
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. His previous article on BNC was: Feeding the billions in 2050′s sauna (Part I) —————— Welcome to Part II of my presumptuously ...
  • Solar combined with wind power: a way to get r ...
    Guest Post by Jani-Petri Martikainen. Jani-Petri is a theoretical physicist doing fundamental research in the field of ultracold quantum gases. Most of his current research activities are computational and involve bosonic or fermionic atoms in optical lattices. He has a lively interest on enviro ...
  • Summary of China’s fast reactor programme
    China is looking seriously at a range of nuclear options. From the commercial side of things, the country is building over 25 light water reactors, including four of the new US-designed AP1000. The Chinese are also pursuing a range of advanced reactor programmes, including gas-cooled pebble-bed ...
  • CO2 is a trace gas, but what does that mean?
    Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and most other long-lived greenhouse gases (i.e., barring short-lived water vapour), are considered ‘trace gases’ because their concentration in the atmosphere is so low. For instance, at a current level of 389 parts per million, CO2 represents ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Zashnain Zainal - Malaysia: Human Rights-Based ...
    ASIA/MALAYSIA — 12.06.2011 (APNS) — A country flip-flopping from developed and developing status every year. Despite our small population of 28 million with over one (or two) million migrant workers, HIV/AIDS is still heavily grasping at society. The dilemma of managing the pandemic is not focus ...
  • The rise and fall of Herman Cain
    The rise and fall of Herman Cain: The withdrawal of businessman and lobbyist Herman Cain from the Republican presidential contest—only weeks after he had topped the polls nationally and in Iowa, the first contested state—is a stark demonstration of the way in which the American ruling elite make ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Understanding American Racism
    OpEdNews - Article: Understanding American Racism: In recent times the New York Times, the York Daily News and Metro New York all reported on the expose that cops from the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had posted a series of racist rants on the social networking website Facebook. The th ...
  • JPMorgan’s Thieving CEO, Jamie Dimon: Stop Bas ...
    JPMorgan’s Thieving CEO, Jamie Dimon: Stop Bashing the Rich � The Activists: JP Morgan’s CEO is at it again, the man is an absolute fool. He’s whining and complaining about the mistreatment of the rich. Funny isn’t it, considering that JP Morgan stole hundreds of billions from taxpayers in 2008 ...
  • NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could ...
    NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote | World news | guardian.co.uk: The largest civil rights group in America, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is petitioning the UN over what it sees as a concerted efforted to disenfranchise bl ...

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

  • Israel’s “war on work infiltrators ...
    “Infiltrators” is the government and media’s name for the African refugees crossing the Egyptian border into Israel. ”Survivors” is more accurate, but no matter; we’re going to war.    “How will the program for the war on work infiltrators be funded?” read the ...
  • Ignorance is funny: “Female” Adam Sandler spra ...
    The status of women in Israel is a hot topic these days, what with our former president Moshe Katsav going to jail yesterday for rape, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz joking about singing girls in the army, women sitting at the back of the bus, and ads in [...]
  • Iran is here
    I’ve heard a few Jewish Israelis say “Iran zeh can” (Iran is here) in the past, particularly those who grew up in Jerusalem. But this is the first time I’ve seen the sentiment expressed in street art. I took this photo today in central Jerusalem. The Islamophobia it refl ...
  • Jewish Student Union in Berkeley boycotts J Street
    The isolation of J Street and other Jewish groups that are critical of Israeli policies is evidence of a growing moral crisis in the American Jewish community A couple of years ago, while spending some time in the States, I was invited to a dinner at a Jewish friend’s home. “Just on ...
  • On democracy: There’s nothing “lef ...
    Any democratic process must start from admitting two unbearable atrocities: firstly, the exclusiveness that Jews have over political power in a shared space, and second, the Judaizing system that uses state resources to maintain a brutal colonizing process. By Muhammed Jabali Asking the Palestin ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

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

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The Parallel Parliament

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Spiders, silk and a transgenic goat – the comp ...
    Last week while at the NISE Net network-wide meeting, I was fortunate enough to see a preview of part of NOVA’s forthcoming series Making Stuff. The series focuses on the wonders of modern materials science. But rather than coming away enthralled by the ingenuity of scientists, I found mys ...
  • Nanotechnology prominent in percieved 21st cen ...
    This image from the first US National Science and Engineering Festival attracted my attention this morning: It’s a wordle constructed from responses to the question “What will be the greatest discoveries and advancements science and engineering will bring us in the 21st century?&#822 ...
  • International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechn ...
    Back in the mists of time, I was approached with a crazy proposition – would I help co-edit a book on nanotechnologies regulation!  In a moment of weakness I said yes, and a little more than two and a half years later, the book is finally about to hit the shelves. I actually think the [... ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    A weekly reflection on life in academia Note to self: Try not to fall asleep before important interviews with smart journalists. It’s been a tough week.  My gift from last week’s meeting in San Francisco was a lovely ripe cold – something of an occupational hazard these days be ...
  • Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
    Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...

Reader Supported News

  • Kids Eating Rat Poison is an "Acceptable ...
    Fischer begins: "An American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) member is defying Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules limiting the sale of rat poisons that pose dangers to children and the ecosystem. ALEC representatives say that kids eating rat poison is an 'acceptable risk' that does ...
  • Obama Tries Not Paying Ransom to the Republicans
    Chait begins: "A payroll tax cut, designed to help support consumer spending during the Great Recession, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President Obama is demanding that Congress remain in session until it has extended the tax cut. Republicans in turn are panicked and divided bet ...
  • Obama Tries Not Paying Ransom to the Republicans
    Chait begins: "A payroll tax cut, designed to help support consumer spending during the Great Recession, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President Obama is demanding that Congress remain in session until it has extended the tax cut. Republicans in turn are panicked and divided bet ...
  • Don't Drink the Weed Killer
    Laskawy reports: "If you want to understand all that is wrong with our government's environmental safety priorities, you need only look at the sad story of the weed killer atrazine. Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated its dangers, it remains one of the most commonly used her ...
  • Don't Drink the Weed Killer
    Laskawy reports: "If you want to understand all that is wrong with our government's environmental safety priorities, you need only look at the sad story of the weed killer atrazine. Despite the fact that study after study has demonstrated its dangers, it remains one of the most commonly used her ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

k2p blog

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

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • New Claims Of Joblessness Dropped To The Lowes ...
    In a number marking a nine-month low, there are less Americans with new claims for state unemployment benefits. People smarter than we are who know about these things think this is a good indication for the job market overall. The Labor Department report released today says a drop of 23,000 ...
  • Android Users Will Also Be Able To Take Faux-V ...
    Good news, Android users who have been just dying to take as many cool, faux-vintage retro-ish pics on your smartphones -- soon Instagram won't just be for iPhones anymore. Developers are working on a version of the photo app for the Android platform. If you've been slobbering over your pals' ...
  • How To Gift-Wrap A Cat
    Giving pets as a gift is rarely a good idea unless it's been cleared with the recipient ahead of time. But that doesn't mean you can't amuse yourself by swaddling your existing pets in wrapping paper and bows. These techniques would also work for awkwardly shaped non-living objects. We suppose ...
  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Proposes ...
    Anyone who hand shreds unwanted credit card solicitations knows how thick those envelopes can be -- with forms full of interest rates, fine print and unnavigable terms. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a new, shorter form yesterday, so that you wouldn't have to wade through pag ...
  • Buying Laptop From Costco Extends Your Warrant ...
    Last year, Tom bought a Sony laptop from Costco. Part of the reason why he chose Costco to purchase a computer was the warehouse club's famed extension of manufacturers' warranties: more warranty protection on a portable computer can't be a bad thing. Except when it is. In Tom's case, having an ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Another Reason Lanney Breuer Should Resign: Th ...
    Senior Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called for the resignation of Justice Department Criminal Division head, Lanney Breuer, after Breuer denied knowing details of the controversial "Fast and Furious" operation. The Washington Post reports: The “Fast and Furious” program ...
  • Senate Hearing on Federal Contractor Whistlebl ...
    On Tuesday, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) chaired a bipartisan hearing of a subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee. The purpose of the hearing, "Whistleblower Protections for Government Contractors" was to build support for the Non-Federal Employee W ...
  • Internet Puppy Supplier Utilizes Puppy Mills?: ...
    Courtesy of Flickr user db Photography | Demi-BrookeHuffington Post: New HSUS Investigation Reveals Deception by Online Puppy Seller Summary: According to a new investigation by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), internet puppy seller Purebred Breeders sells animals from puppy mil ...
  • Bank of America/Countrywide Whistleblower Deta ...
    60 Minutes Features Case of GAP Client Courtesy of wikimedia user Jonathan McIntosh(Washington, DC) – Last Sunday night, the television news-magazine 60 Minutes featured a July 2011 interview of Eileen Foster, a former high-ranking official at Countrywide Financial Corp., the home loans behemot ...
  • Countrywide/Bank of America Whistleblower Deta ...
    60 Minutes: Prosecuting Wall Street Last Sunday night, the television news-magazine 60 Minutes featured a July 2011 interview of Eileen Foster, a former high-ranking official at Countrywide Financial Corp., the home loans behemoth, and then Bank of America (BofA) after its purchase of Country ...

UK Progressive

  • What Ron Paul, Occupy Wall Street, Lech Walesa ...
    We live in an age of global protest, global unrest and global demands for change in a world where the vast majority of men and women believe they are being hurt and cheated by forces of selfishness and greed in politics and finance. In the current campaign Ron Paul is one voice for a certain [.. ...
  • EU ‘Shocked and Awed’ by GOP Primary Reality T ...
    Not since the cowboy ‘W’ Bush and his race to invade Iraq in ’03 has more of my commentary time been spent explaining to news outlets the current state of affairs in the US Republican/Tea Party. While the consensus is FOX is more comedy than serious news, it seems bizarrely suited for this ‘thea ...
  • The GOP Is Occupied with Amending the Constitution
    A perfect summary of the Grand Old Party’s relationship with the U.S. Constitution comes from Texas Governor Rick Perry at Mike Huckabee’s candidate forum on Fox News last Saturday. Governor Perry claimed as president he could overturn a law passed by Congress by executive order (he can’t), and ...
  • Op-Ed: Does US Senate Commit Treason with NDAA ...
    by Jeanine Molloff December 1st, 2011, the US Senate accomplished the unthinkable–with the nearly unanimous passage of the National Defense Authorization Bill of 2012–they committed treason. Written and planned in secret by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the newly minted NDAA contain ...
  • How to Avoid Being a Principled Republican on ...
    Every time I try to make sense of Republican tax doctrine I get lost. For example, rank-and-file House Republicans are willing to increase taxes on the middle class starting in a few weeks in order to avoid a tax increase the very rich. Here are the details: The payroll tax will increase 2 perce ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows ...
    A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change — it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is &#8 ...
  • Influential people are getting the message: Gi ...
    Cover: Australian Resources and Investment Dec 2011 The key messages are not lost on the bright and influential, and even if the mass-media avoid the evidence, the facts are quietly storming their way through the echelons of power. For the future historians, here’s a glimpse of how informa ...
  • Skeptics leap from planes to see if zombie med ...
    What do skeptics have to do to break the spell of government appointed experts? Many journalists are apparently trapped in a fit of ideological blindness — they can’t acknowledge emails leaked from their favourite scientists. What do you do when your religious idol turns out to be a ...
  • Australian sea level rises exaggerated by 8 fo ...
    The Daily Telegraph exposed the NSW state government protecting the world from some dangerous scientific analysis of sea-levels. The officials pulled papers and posters within days of when they were due to be released, late in September 2011. Doug Lord examined 120 years of tidal data from Sydn ...
  • One lone East Anglia man stands up against poo ...
    The other headline I could have used: Jo Nova and Watts Up graphs used in UEA lectures! It doesn’t get much better than this. Imagine finding out your work helped to support a university course in a place right at the center of the dogma and unscientific reasoning you are working to expose ...

ReNew America

  • The Romney as viewed by a Massachusetts conser ...
    (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - The mainstream media have pounced on every GOP presidential candidate widely perceived (correctly or not) as credibly equipped to articulate conservative issues in the 2012 election campaign...
  • Obama's Israel problem
    (Washington Times) - The Obama White House claims to have done more for Israel's security than any in history. If that were the case, President Obama would not have to continually defend his shaky record...
  • Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison for corruption
    (Associated Press) - Rod Blagojevich, the ousted Illinois governor whose three-year battle against criminal charges became a national spectacle, was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday, one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics...
  • Arpaio gets death threats over investigation o ...
    (WorldNetDaily) - Maverick Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his "Cold Case Posse" investigating Barack Obama's presidential eligibility will release a preliminary report in February of its findings, which he expects to be "controversial"...
  • Lawmakers blast administration for calling For ...
    (Fox News) - Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

  • In Brief: Sea Levels & Supervolcano: Eruption
    Apocalyptic warnings that islands such as the Maldives will sink beneath the waves are far-fetched, said Nils Axel-Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University. He says that any ...In Brief: Sea Levels & Supervolcano: Eruption is a post f ...
  • Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday
    According to my research, the five days either side of a lunar eclipse are twice as likely to have a major earthquake – the type that cause deaths and appear on the evening news. We ...Earthquake Alert: Lunar Eclipse on Saturday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related posts:Central Lunar ...
  • Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders?
    My beloved Mysterious Elders, who I hypothesize were behind the construction of pyramids around the world, and were quite likely a different race or species to ourselves, probably had a base. If these elders survive ...Switzerland: Secret Base of the Mysterious Elders? is a post from: 2012 Blog ...
  • Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday
    Gronemeyer has been studying the stone tablet found years ago at the archeological site of Tortuguero in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Tabasco. He said the inscription describes the return of mysterious Mayan god ...Sven Gronemeyer: No Doomsday is a post from: 2012 Blog Related po ...
  • American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves
    Today’s news is quite disturbing.  The U.S. Senate voted to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial. This is outside of the normal judicial process. In theory ...American Survivalists – Brace Yourselves is a post from: 2012 Blo ...

Facing South

One News Page

  • Chakkulathukavu Pongala on December 9
  • 'Modern Family's Ed O'Neill up for 'Married... ...
    Ed O'Neill says that he would be interested in a Married... with Children reunion.
  • Correction: Facebook-Privacy QandA story
    NEW YORK (AP) -- In a Nov. 29 QandA accompanying a story on Facebook's privacy settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Facebook will allow independent auditors to review the social network's privacy practices for the next two years. Facebook ...
  • Pygmy Elephant Fatally Gores Borneo Tourist
    An Australian veterinarian with a passion for conservation has been killed by a pygmy elephant while trekking in a remote wildlife park in Borneo. Jenna O'Grady Donley, 25, was fatally gored by the animal as she, a friend, and their guide were trekking near a mud volcano, AP reports. Rangers...
  • Pak national in US pleads guilty to aiding LeT ...
    A young Pakistani national living in a suburb of the US Capital has pleaded guilty to providing material support to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba by making a propaganda video and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Global Research TV

Daily Tech

Oriental Review

  • Egypt After «Revolution of January 25»
    The first round of parliamentary elections in Egypt has been completed. The elections to the Egyptian parliament (the lower house or People’s Assembly and the upper house or the Shura Council – the Senate) are held in three rounds. First round: from November 28 till December 5, second round: fro ...
  • Cost of Intervention in Syria Rises
    The Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov’s statement today re-affirmed Moscow’s rejection of arms embargo against Syria. It comes on a day EU FMs met in Brussels and tightened the sanctions against that country. But what makes the Syrian situation rather interesting is that Moscow a ...
  • Washington’s European Strategy
    The November 28 US-EU summit deserves to be called a milestone in the recent geopolitical history, considering that during the forum the US dictatorial handling of Europe was disguised so thinly for the first time since President Obama moved into the White House. Moreover, the US Administration ...
  • European Missile Defense and Risks of New Arms ...
    The collapse of the missile defense talks and President Medvedev’s recent statement in which he warned that Russia would consider serious response measures highlighted the fact that the US and NATO switched the arms race to a new mode rather than quited it following the demise of the Sovie ...
  • Four NATO Lies About Syria
    1. According to NATO and its Persian Gulf allies, for eight months mass demonstrations have taken place in Syria to demand more freedom and the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. Not true. There have been demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s, in some cities, at the call of Sau ...

BlogHer

  • MLB Imposes Media Dress Code, Restricts Skirt ...
    We've been hearing a lot lately about sports organizations mandating dress codes. Most recently, the Amateur International Boxing Association and Badminton World Federation made news for requiring female athletes to wear skirts during competition.Now league directives are targeting at an entirel ...
  • Plan B: Why I'm Furious at Obama and Kathleen ...
    Not to be over-dramatic, but this morning I’m in a state of shock. No, it’s not the improbable rise of serial cheater and pompous flip-flopper Newt Gingrich to GOP presidential favorite. It’s the decision by Kathleen Sebelius to overrule the FDA on allowing Plan B to be sold over the counter to ...
  • BlogHer '12 - Blog Bling Buttons
    The time has come to decorate your blog with some BlogHer '12 blog bling! We have so many buttons to choose from; the traditional "I'm Going" to "I'm Going to Sparkle" to "I'll Be Guilt Free". These are just a taste. There are so many more. Take your pick.We've made it very easy, simply copy the ...
  • Maybe There Is Hope for Middle School Girls: T ...
    It hasn’t been much of a secret that I am not completely loving this whole middle school thing. Missy lives in constant chaos of late assignments, missing homework, sleep deprivation and tears. I am in a 12-step program for my addiction to the online grading system. We both should have been “tr ...
  • Holiday Cocktails: Gingerbread Floats
    [Editor's Note: Foodette herself gave me a heads up that she was planning to whip up these blogworthy, holiday-friendly cocktails, and I could not wait to read all about them. They feature Root, a modern version of a liquor that started as a 1700s herbal remedy. Anchored by this interesting spir ...

Health Freedom Alliance

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

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

  • Transcript: Labor Department lawyer blocked Mc ...
    Following up on yesterday’s Coal Tattoo post, Why didn’t MSHA prevent the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, we published a story in our print edition this morning with more details about the federal agency’s failure to protect Massey Energy miners from the clear and well-understo ...
  • More criminal charges coming in UBB Disaster?
    Just who else is U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin looking to prosecute in the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster case? It’s entirely possible that many coal industry critics are under-estimating the potential safety benefits of the $200 million settlement that Goodwin worked out with Massey Energy& ...
  • Two more coal miners die on the job
    Bad news just in: The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration website lists two more coal miners who have died on the job in 2011. One of the deaths occurred at Oxford Mining Co LLC – Oxford Mining #3 in Ohio. According to MSHA: Last Saturday afternoon, a bulldozer operator over-travele ...
  • Key MSHA testimony about UBB kept secret
    Over at the State Journal, Taylor Kuykendall has made an interesting point regarding the huge document dump the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration did yesterday when it released its report on the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster: In a release of documents Tuesday, the Mine Safety and Healt ...
  • Why didn’t MSHA prevent the UBB Disaster?
    Amazingly absent from the reactions offered by political leaders to yesterday’s Upper Big Branch settlement and MSHA report was any mention of the failure of government inspectors and other regulators to prevent 29 deaths and the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in a generation. I say amazi ...

Daniel Miessler

  • A List of Starbucks Clover Stores in San Francisco
    San Francisco California & Battery – (Store #10251) 295 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 Laurel Village – 3595 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 Mariposa & Bryant – 2727 Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Potrero Hill – Kansas & 16th Street, 350 Rhode Island, ...
  • Three Proxy Options Every Security Pro Should ...
    Working in the information security field it’s frequently handy to be able to browse the web in different configurations. Sometimes you want to be able to see and interact with our traffic we speak with a server, sometimes you want to hide where we’re coming from on the other end, an ...
  • The Danger of Fantasy: Role-playing vs. Reading
    I’ve been a role-player since junior high school, and I have been a reader of non-fiction long before that. I have a group of friends from junior high that still game (role-playing), and I noticed over the last couple of years that there was something very negative about it. I haven’ ...
  • Stereotypes as a Wisdom Metric
    I had a thought this week regarding metrics for gauging overall life wisdom. If you had only one question to ask, what would you ask in order to estimate the overall wisdom of a person? Here’s a possible candidate: What do you think about stereotypes? Are they true, false, or somewhere bet ...
  • The Worst Way to Waste Time
    There are many things to regret as one nears death, but I understand people tend to regret most the things they didn’t do rather than those they did. You may be thinking now of activities, such as jumping out of an airplane, applying to become an astronaut, or moving to Europe to be with a ...

Fitwatch

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

Worldwide Hippies

  • Michael Moore: The Winter of Our Occupation
    by: Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com - And now it is winter. Wall Street rejoices, hoping that the change of seasons will mean a change in our spirit, our commitment to stop them. They couldn’t be more wrong. Have they not heard of Washington and the troops at Valley Forge? The Great Flint ...
  • Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Thursday
    Sandusky jailed on new child sex abuse charges STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky’s arrest on additional child sex-abuse charges presents him with a new challenge — how to assist his lawyer from behind bars in what was already a complicated case to defend. “You really prefer to ...
  • Where Were You When They Crucified My Movement?
    by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed - Chris Hedges gave an abbreviated version of this talk Saturday morning in Liberty Square in New York City as part of an appeal to Trinity Church to turn over to the Occupy Wall Street movement an empty lot, known as Duarte Square, that the church owns at ...
  • George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace
    By Glenn Greenwald,OpEdNews – The U.S. has long had Iran virtually encircled as a result of the American occupation of Afghanistan on Iran’s Eastern border, its invasion of Iraq on its Western border, its NATO ally Turkey hovering on Iran’s Northwestern border, some degree of m ...
  • Occupy AARP
    By Phil Polizatto ,WWH – Remember the days when no one over 30 could be trusted? Oh, we knew who the exceptions were, but for the most part, we stuck to that adage because we proved to ourselves time and time again, or so we thought, that the old folk just didn’t “get” us. Isn’t [...]

reference frame

  • Learning from theory and data about our string ...
    By Gordon Kane, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, University of Michigan Let me begin by thanking Luboš Motl for the opportunity to explain our string theory prediction for the Higgs boson mass more fully. Our paper arXiv:1112.1059 is, we hope, complete and clear, but it is ...
  • Higgs at 125 GeV and SUSY with heavy scalars
    The world is eagerly expecting whether or not CERN will announce some evidence from the diphoton channel that there is a Higgs boson whose mass is between 124 and 126 GeV. Well, the bump will probably be a bit wider. The image should say 14:00, not 16:00, as the beginning of the CE ...
  • Poland plans to ban German solar and wind ener ...
    Der Spiegel DE (EN) brings us a story indicating, in the words of Mark Duchamp, that hubris has but one limit: reality. Germany's Reichstag wants the Parliament of the N-th Reich, whatever the value of N is right now, to become the greenest Parliament building in the world. Click ...
  • Michael Duff, string critics, and global warming
    Michael Duff has written an essay for Foundations of Physics that identifies some errors in much of the criticisms of string theory by the crackpots: String and M-theory: answering the critics (arXiv)Michael Duff is an important researcher at the Imperial College London who has written pape ...
  • RSS AMSU: 2011 second coldest in this century
    The RSS AMSU satellite temperatures have been updated repeatedly. Let me just add the new data and refresh the rankings. The global temperature anomaly in November 2011 was +0.033 °C, so this November was just 0.033 °C warmer than the average November in the last three decades. ...

Tatumba 2.0

  • Coming to Japan – The Fukushima China Syndrome
    Yet more news out of Japan that the worse is yet to come from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan. TEPCO has quietly let it be known that a ‘China Syndrome’ event is coming to Japan, where the molten fuel rods will come in contact with ground water and then everything will go bo ...
  • Tim TJ Wass: 16 FACTS THAT PROVE RON PAUL IS B ...
    Tonight I read an online article about how an Iowa Poll has put Dr. Ron Paul in second for the GOP nomination just behind, the bought and paid for corporate stooge, Newt Gingrich. The comments sections to this article were very much pro Ron Paul because he simply is a man of the people, who [... ...
  • I don’t have time for this shit
    I do this blog because I like calling attention to the foibles of us dumb-dumbs so it really pisses me off when I attract the attention of morons who seem to not like my message and engage in illegal and unethical behavior by launching a DOS attack on this site. So to the tards that [...] R ...
  • Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it me ...
    Hydrogen buildup at Fukushima? What does it mean & why does it happen? from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo. TEPCO recently discovered hydrogen buildups within the containment buildings in Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3. Could there be another explosion, and if so how? Fairewinds conducts a labor ...
  • I was able to punk Doomtards using YouTube eve ...
    What does this headline conjure up? Type ‘Illuminati’ backwards into a web browser followed by “.com” Over the years I have spent considerable time, effort, and expense trying to educate the fluoridated media zombies to wake up. I have had moderate success and traffic to ...

Truth About Our World

Bloomberg

  • Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
    Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
  • Grading Back-to-School Stocks
    Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
  • Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
    The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
  • At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
    CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
  • Why Qualcomm Has Its Wallet Out
    The Elata and Flarion acquisitions reflect the outfit's need to keep abreast of tech's latest trends. Expect more of the same

Enviroblog

  • Stand Up for REAL Food - Twinkies Aren't Breakfast
    By Lisa Frack, EWG Social Media Manager Of course you don't serve your kids Twinkies or Chips Ahoy! cookies for breakfast. But many of us are serving our kids just as much - or more - sugar every day in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, an ...
  • Great Books Make Great Gifts: What EWG Is Reading
    By Jane Houlihan, EWG V-P for Research If there's one thing we at Environmental Working Group love, it's a good book - especially about the issues we work on. Honestly, there are so many good ones. So when I started... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, othe ...
  • Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
    Second of a two-part blog on health concerns tied to natural ingredients. By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Tea Tree and Lavender Oils: What We (Don't) Know
    By Swati Sharma, MS, EWG Research Assistant "Natural" and homemade cosmetics and cleaning products aren't by definition safer than mainstream products. EWG takes a closer look at two common plant-based ingredients - tea tree and lavender oils - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
  • Tips for Teens: Reevaluate your makeup bag!
    By Adrienne Barlia and Melissa Aronson, EWG 2011 Teen Ambassadors Did you know that your cosmetics could harm your health? Your makeup is probably laden with dangerous chemical ingredients that could potentially cause long-term damage. Are you having... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

Views & News from Norway

  • Oil fund won’t exclude PetroChina
    The Norwegian government is ignoring a recommendation from a state ethics council that it ban investments by Norway’s oil fund in the Chinese oil company PetroChina. Meanwhile, a Chinese shipbuilding company is making inroads on Norway’s west coast. The ethics council, which reviews ...
  • More compensation for victims of violence
    All the political parties in the Norwegian Parliament support the payment of higher compensation for victims of violence, and have approved both raising limits on amounts paid out and more resources for streamlining the process. The parliament’s justice committee expects as many as 4,000 a ...
  • Police may have cracked porno ring
    Children’s advocates were praising police on Friday for launching coordinated raids this week in 14 different police districts in Norway and arresting 20 persons found to be in possession of child pornography. Meanwhile, in another case involving child abuse, state officials were being acc ...
  • Financial woes plague football
    Norwegian football clubs are mired in serious financial trouble that’s forcing major budget cuts, also at several of the country’s top clubs. For them, the decline marks a dive in status and often a painful reality check. Clubs like Vålerenga, Lyn and Stabæk were accustomed to having ...
  • Fredriksen saves shipping empire
    As expected, self-made shipping tycoon John Fredriksen seems to have a plan to save his vast tanker-owning company Frontline and his fellow investors. Shares initially soared on the news, but then settled back again this week. Major Norwegian banks had said from the outset that they had strong f ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

  • Unanimous Decision by L.A. Council Makes the C ...
    Hey, here’s some good news to brighten your day. The Los Angeles Council has made L.A. the first U.S. city to officially vote for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that effectively granted corporate entities the same r ...
  • Argentinian Report Identifies Major Medical Pr ...
    Note: An important report by Argentine physicians has just been published in English. It arose from the 1st National Meeting Of Physicians In The Crop-Sprayed Towns, at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the National University of Cordoba. The report can be downloaded here (PDF). It points once ...
  • Update on the Byron Bay Shire Permaculture Cha ...
    by Phoebe Lines, BOS (Being Of Service) Team for the Permaculture Challenge The Byron Permaculture Challenge gang creates a No-Dig garden for the young people at the Byron Youth House Our apparently disaffected Byron Shire youth, it would seem, are in fact a hotbed of movers and shakers, cha ...
  • Permaculture and Metaphysics
    Photo © Craig Mackintosh I recently had a brief email conversation with someone (a person whose name I shall omit), and I’d like to share it with you to get your thoughts. Perhaps I’m opening a can of worms here, but I can’t help myself. I am opening this potential can of ...
  • ABC Rural Talks to Matt Kilby About Farm Resto ...
    Consultant Matt Kilby stands before one of the swales he has put in at Gippsland farm, Nambrok. Photographer: Kath Sullivan Matt Kilby, the ‘man of a thousand trees‘, shares thoughts with ABC Rural on his work (with Nick Huggins alongside) over the last 18 months at Nambrock, a ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

  • Library of New Orleans Youth Prison to Feature ...
    From our friends at BreakOUT!: BreakOUT! member and formerly-detained youth, B., delivered a box of LGBTQ books to the Youth Study Center, New Orleans’ juvenile detention facility, on Friday. The books, which came through generous donations from community members during a book drive held in Sep ...
  • Sojourner Truth Academy Suspends 20% of its Se ...
    From our friends at Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana: On Friday, November 18th, ten honor-roll seniors at Sojourner Truth Academy were suspended for singing in the school cafeteria during lunchtime. The suspensions occurred without notice or warning, and in violation of the school code ...
  • Occupy NOLA Activists Prevent Sheriff's Sale o ...
    Note: In addition to the successful action described below, Occupy NOLA also won a victory in court today. A judge ruled that the city should not have evicted Occupy Nola, and that protesters have the right to move back into Duncan Plaza. According to a Times Picayune report: Bill Quigley, a la ...
  • Junebug Productions Premieres Homecoming Proje ...
    From our friends at Junebug Productions: Junebug Presents... HOMECOMING PROJECT 2011! Saturday, December 3rd 12pm - 5pm THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON! Junebug Productions is proud to present the inaugural installment of our new place-based storytelling performance series, HOMECOMING PROJECT, wher ...
  • NOPD Officer Barrios Sentenced in Danziger Cov ...
    From a US Department of Justice Press Release: A former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for his role in covering up a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Robert Barr ...

Information Underground

  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    Thats ok, going to modify 100% of the jews within range. ZSStatistics: Posted by Zionist Sniper — Thu Dec 08, 2011 2:28 pm
  • History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
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  • Zionist Personalities We Should Know About • R ...
    Irangate: The Israel Connection excerpted from the book The Iran Contra Connection Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era by Johnathan Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter South End Press, 1987, paper p169 The Israeli Interest in Iran ... Israeli interests in non-Arab ...
  • Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
    More Jew Talmudic Sickness covered with the Sandusky story.... looks like there were more kids involved... GDJs... --------- Former Penn State Coach Sandusky Jailed After More Child Sex-Abuse Charges By Sophia Pearson - Dec 7, 2011 5:19 PM ET Enlarge image Jerry Sandusky Penn State ...

TVNZ

environment 360

  • Cost of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Lower Than U ...
    The cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems is not nearly as expensive as some energy analysts have projected, according to a new study from Queen’s University in Ontario. In fact, Queen’s researcher Joshua Pearce predicts that solar photovoltaic systems are approaching the “tipping point” at ...
  • Rampant Marijuana Cultivation in U.S. National ...
    U.S. officials say widespread marijuana cultivation in national forests has caused “severe” damage to some ecosystems and wildlife in 20 states. In testimony before the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, U.S. Forest Service Director of Law Enforcement David Ferrell said feder ...
  • As Coal Use Declines in U.S., Coal Companies F ...
    With aging coal-fired U.S. power plants shutting down, major American coal companies are exporting ever-larger amounts of coal to China. Now, plans to build two new coal-shipping terminals on the West Coast have set up a battle with environmentalists who want to steer the world away from fossil ...
  • Project Uses Satellite Data to Better Predict ...
    A new NASA project will use satellite data to better monitor how much water is fed into river systems across the Himalayan region through snow and glacier Click to enlarge NASAGlacial lake in eastern Nepal melt, an initiative that could help provide early warnings on flooding and drought across ...
  • CO2 Emissions in 2010 Show Biggest Increase Ev ...
    Global carbon emissions soared 5.9 percent in 2010, the largest increase ever recorded, according to the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists that tracks carbon emissions. The increase comes after a short-lived decline in emissions in 2008 and 2009 and is a sign th ...

oldephartte/Diigo

backofthebook

  • 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 ...

Daily Beast

Loonwatch

Energy News

Japan Times

  • Disasters an opportunity for casino advocates
    The March 11 disasters may achieve what Las Vegas magnate Sheldon Adelson has been trying to do for years: persuade the government to allow casinos. Adelson, chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp., has for at least half a decade sought to reverse a ban on gambling in Japan, only to b ...
  • Kansai braces for power shortages after Kepco ...
    Kansai Electric Power Co. said Thursday it has shut down the No. 2 reactor at its nuclear power plant in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, due to technical trouble. The shutdown is expected to further restrict Kansai Electric's power supply and make winter electricity shortages more likely in the Kans ...
  • NBA players OK drug testing plan
    NBA players have agreed to additional drug testing, adding offseason screening for performance-enhancing drugs only. Union executive director Billy Hunter sent a memo Wednesday to players detailing these and other changes of a new labor deal and recommended they ratify the agreement.
  • Darvish plans move to MLB
    Yu Darvish ended months of speculation Thursday by saying he intends to make a move to Major League Baseball. The 25-year-old right-hander, considered the best pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball, wrote on his blog that he had decided to use the posting system, which allows MLB teams to bi ...
  • "The World of ISHIKO Junzo : From Art via Mang ...
    Fuchu Art Museum is taking the unusual stance of focusing on an art critic rather than on artists for its latest exhibition, which presents aspects of Japanese culture of the 1960s and '70s — a time of rapid economic growth and dramatic societal change. Junzo Ishiko (1928-77) was particu ...

Alexander Higgins

Macleans - Central

Making It Count - CCPA

  • War on Workers continues in Nova Scotia
    The holy commotion orchestrated by Nova Scotia employers over Bill 102 on First Collective Agreement Arbitration is not really about this very modest piece of legislation. At best, it will affect few employers. As the premier has said, most Canadian provinces have such legislation and it is seld ...
  • For Some, Arrogance is Bliss
    This fall, Margaret Wente discovered people under 40. Woot! Okay, that’s not entirely fair. Given her years of pontificating on topics like the environment, public schools, and the glass ceiling, it’s inevitable that sooner or later she manages, even accidentally, to quote or refer to someone un ...
  • War Radio and the Militarization of Canadian C ...
    “The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.” I was reminded of this chilling warning from the late British historian E.P. Thompson, while listening to Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkup on CBC Radio on November 20. Murphy was interviewing Terry Glavin, a B.C. author, about Glavin’s ...
  • Facts and Evidence versus Threats and Hyperbol ...
    The recent debate in Nova Scotia surrounding proposed first contract arbitration (FCA) legislation offers revealing truths about the contemporary relationship between labour and capital in Atlantic Canada.  Arguments recently presented by the business community to the Law Amendments Committee ag ...
  • Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Le ...
    As Canadian governments at all jurisdictional levels engage in what can only be called Disaster Budgeting, it’s time to inject a voice of reason into the debate. The world economy isn’t looking good, and the political penchant in Canada to return to business as usual – dutifully following an ext ...

ReDress

  • An idiot's overview of why Western capitalism ...
    Alan Hart argues that neglect of the impoverished 80 per cent of the world's population - potentially a huge market for the West's consumer capitalism - by the richest nations, coupled with the shortsightedness, greed and stupidity of banking chiefs and deregulation of the banks and financial ma ...
  • Crippling Iran: questions for UK Foreign Secre ...
    Stuart Littlewood asks British Foreign Secretary William Hague pertinent questions about his inexplicable hostility to Iran, and argues that if Hague's aim "is to help preserve the balance of power in the Middle East so that a lawless, racist regime - Israel - remains the dominant threatening mi ...
  • The whistleblower as hero
    Lawrence Davidson argues that in the contemporary environment where editors and reporters value the prestige of being associated with important centres of power more than the truth and where media enterprises put profit ahead of factual accuracy, the role of the whistleblower has become essential.
  • An America that’s never wrong
    Paul J. Balles argues that "not only do Americans display a belief in their superiority over other countries, but their leaders' actions reveal an arrogant pre-eminence over the masses of the American public".
  • Obama and Israel's security
    Alan Hart wonders whether President Barack Obama "is aware that Israel's existence has never been in danger and chooses to ignore the truth of history for self-serving political reasons, or whether he is ignorant".

Physics Today

  • CERN to announce tentative Higgs detection
    BBC: Next Tuesday, representatives of the two principal detectors at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, ATLAS and CMS, will announce the results so far of their search for the Higgs boson. Rumors are flying ahead of the announcement. According to the BBC's Susan Watts, who interviewed CERN theorist J ...
  • Federal agency in Pacific Northwest ordered to ...
    New York Times: Created by Congress in 1937, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) operates all the federally owned hydroelectric plants in the Pacific Northwest. During strong storms earlier this year, the BPA faced a glut of power from its plants and from wind turbines that are connected t ...
  • Familiar contention at international climate talks
    Bloomberg Businessweek: Delegates at the United Nations climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, have expressed frustration with what has become a hallmark of the annual negotiations: the continued standoff between the US and China. The US position is that no new global climate deal is ...
  • Shark-sized Cambrian predator had compound eyes
    Nature: Anomalocaris was a shark-sized, soft-bodied predator that inhabited the oceans in the Cambrian period. Possessing two front claw-like limbs, it looked like a shrimp, but with fins instead of legs. New fossil evidence has revealed another resemblance to shrimps and other arthropods: Anoma ...
  • US and South Korea renew talks on nuclear energy
    New York Times: In a 1974 treaty with the US, South Korea agreed not to enrich uranium or reprocess spent nuclear fuel. Those technologies can be used to make nuclear weapons, but they can also be used to create fuel for nuclear power plants. South Korea is asking that that agreement be revised, ...

Revolutionary Politics

  • FF News: President Abdulla on Gardens...
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:49 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla speaks about GARDENS... 1 Month ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there is a lot of mystery and mythology surrounding gardening. Should you plant your vegetables depending on the phases ...
  • FF NewS: President Abdulla 'tees off...'
    by footprints888 (Posted Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:56:15 GMT) FF News: President Abdulla 'tee's off...' 1 Month, 1 Week ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla finally worked his way into the upper reaches of the Footprintsfilmworks.com Open leaderboard in Saturday's third round, though h ...
  • FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack ...
    by footprints222 (Posted Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:36:19 GMT) Re:FF News: President Abdulla 'addresses,' Barack Obama 0 Minutes ago Karma: 0 President of South Africa Omar Abdulla says there will be road closures and traffic restrictions over the next two days during United States president Barack Ob ...
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Peakwater

  • Coming Soon to the Southwest: The Age of Thirst
    “Consider it a taste of the future: The fire, smoke, drought, dust, and heat that have made life unpleasant, if not dangerous, from Louisiana to Los Angeles. New records tell the tale: biggest wildfire ever recorded in Arizona (538,049 acres); biggest fire ever in New Mexico (156,600 acres ...
  • At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger
    “Industrialised agricultural practices currently produce 13.5 percent of all green house gas emissions, mostly methane and nitrous oxide. The latter is emitted in huge doses through the spraying of fertiliser, which is used 800 times more frequently today than it was 100 years ago. The pro ...
  • Newmont Mining Suspends $4.8 Billion Peru Gold ...
    “LIMA, Peru — A $4.8 billion gold and copper mining project, Peru’s biggest such investment, was declared suspended Tuesday after increasingly violent protests by highlands peasants who fear for their water supply. At least 20 people, including eight with gunshot wounds, were i ...
  • More Radioactive Water Leaks at Japanese Plant
    “TOKYO — At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator said Sunday. Nearly nine months after Fukushima Daiichi was ravaged by an e ...
  • Chronic violators of water testing
    “The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has identified 23 drinking water systems in Missouri that have chronically failed to complete drinking water testing required by the department to ensure a safe water supply. “The systems listed have at least three major monitoring violat ...

D. Kucinich

  • FirstEnergy Tells Public One Thing, NRC Anothe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today questioned whether FirstEnergy has been entirely upfront with the people of Ohio over the extent of the damage to the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant. Kucinich requested full public disclosure of all relevant photographs, test results, analyses and report ...
  • Kucinich: Allow Consumers to Make Informed Choices
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today issued the following statement upon announcing legislation that would require the labeling of all foods that contain or are produced with genetically engineered (GE) material. “Genetic engineers have dramatically altered the food we consume, disrupting e ...
  • Kucinich: Postal Service Privatization Plan Wi ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a long-time proponent of the United States Postal Service (USPS) and senior member of the Congressional committee that oversees the agency, today released the following statement after plans were announced to significantly degrade service and drive customers t ...
  • Kucinich: FirstEnergy Puts Profits Before Safe ...
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized FirstEnergy to restart its Davis-Besse nuclear power plant before an investigation into widespread ‘cracking’ could be completed. “On Friday, the Nuclear Regulat ...
  • Kucinich: U.S. Provokes Iran, Destabilizes Region
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made the following statement in response to news reports that an American drone, based in Afghanistan, has been acquired by Iran. The Iranian government claims the drone was shot down in Iranian airspace, while American military officials in Afghanistan maintai ...

Authentically Wired

  • … Now …AMA … CDC … FDA ...
    … Now …AMA … CDC … FDA … want you to believe that GOD sanctions their deception … OK … what’s next … If You Go to Church, Heed This Warning       Posted By Dr. Mercola | December 06 … http://articles.mercola ...
  • Thank you it’s working just fine
    … Thank you it’s working just fine … Jan Brewer’$ big money $upporter$ like Jerry Colangelo and Don Cardon and A$$ociate$ are doing very well as they feed at the Arizona taxpayer provided hog-trough … A preview of coming attractions under Jan Brewer’s political ‘spo ...
  • … Hey the dude is owned by 1% …
    … Hey the dude is owned by 1% …   Senator Obstruction, Jon Kyl, takes America hostage (again) for tax cuts for the rich   And he was chairman of the do nothing defunct “super-committee”   Filed under: Blogroll
  • they wouldn’t lie to us … would th ...
    … Come on now … no mainstream corporate owned media (Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN. CNBC) are reporting this … so how can it be true … they wouldn’t lie to us … would they … you really think NOT … FOOL The new cyber-industrial complex spying on us: WikiLeaks&# ...
  • … Do you really require more explanation ...
    … Do you really require more explanation that this…? The Military Occupation of America By The Bankster-Owned Traitors 12-03-2011  •  www.prisonplanet.com … http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-military-occupation-of-america-by-the-bankster-owned-traitors.html “If Tyranny ...

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

  • War of words between Greenpeace, Asia Pulp & P ...
    Greenpeace and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), a giant global paper supplier, are locked in a heated battle over the activist group's allegations that APP products contain fiber sourced from the destruction of forests in Indonesia. At stake is APP's access to some of the world's most lucrative markets. ...
  • Interview with conservation legend, Richard Leakey
    Following in his family's footsteps, Dr. Richard Leakey, is considered the heir to the scientific legacy of his parents, Louis and Mary Leakey, icons in the field of paleoanthropology. Dr Richard Leakey has been credited with some of the field's most successful paleoanthropologic finds, includi ...
  • Report questions legitimacy of Asia Pulp & Pap ...
    A new report by an Indonesian environmental group casts doubt on Asia Pulp & Paper's commitment to sustainability. In its corporate social responsibility reports and advertisements, Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of Indonesia's largest pulp and paper suppliers, has touted several forest reserves a ...
  • Covert Creatures: The Clandestine Lives of Sea ...
    Seahorses are strange looking creatures, with a horse's head on top of a kangaroo’s pouched belly, bulging, swiveling chameleon eyes, a prehensile monkey tail, color-changing armor and a royal crown, all shrunk down to the size of a chess piece. To marine biologist Helen Scales, these elus ...
  • Seahorses under stress
    With about 25 million seahorses sold each year, global consumption of seahorses is massive. They’re used in traditional Asian medicine and also sold as curios and aquarium pets. Over the last decade, overexploitation and habitat degradation have prompted declines of between 15 to 70 percen ...

Science - NZ Herald

  • Business Leader of the Year Finalist: Jennifer ...
    Jennifer Holmgren may have only become LanzaTech's chief executive in June last year, but since then the pioneering clean-energy developer has gone from strength to strength.The company - which has its scientific base in Parnell...
  • Are we alone in the universe?
    A third of New Zealanders believe aliens have visited Earth and a majority think psychic powers exist, a study has found.One thousand respondents were asked by UMR Research if they believed "that Earth has been visited by UFOs from...
  • Astronomers discover biggest black holes
    Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a new study published.The two giants are located in the heart of a pair of galaxies several...
  • 'Super Earth' exists outside solar system
    In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, Nasa said today that the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.French astronomers earlier this...
  • Baby names can have negative impact - study
    Prospective parents, beware - what you name your baby could negatively affect their future."Name your kids what you love, but be aware there are consequences," David Figlio, an economics and education professor at Northwestern University,...

Truth Survival + RSS

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

Hit & Run | Reason

Mercury Rising

  • Occupy Movement,
    This makes me happy: Two school buses pulled up in front of the Occupy Albany encampment on Tuesday and disgorged a group of students eager to dispense worldly wisdom to the huddled masses. The students were in ninth grade at Tech Valley High School and came to conduct a “teach-in.&#8 ...
  • “George W. Obama” a term of praise ...
    Ouch. That’s got to leave a mark. Democracy Now: Democracy Now! caught up to Marc Morano, publisher of the Climate Depot, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. “They [the Obama administration] have kept the exact same principles and negotiating stance as Pres ...
  • Murdoch phone hacking developments
    Dan Sabbagh and Lisa O’Carroll: James Murdoch has written to MPs claiming that Rebekah Brooks reached a settlement with Max Clifford in 2010 over his phone hacking-claims against the News of the World without seeking authorisation with him or discussing its terms. … Further detail is ...
  • Your sanity break
    Krugman, Reinhart, and Nocera
  • Suicide Files: Fletcher Allies Who Weren&#8217 ...
    Anyone who thought that the Suicide Files were played out has now been shown to be sadly mistaken. The drip, drip, drip continues as City Pages’ Jessica Lussenhop releases Dan Ruettimann’s last bequest to the City of Saint Paul in short, powerful doses. Here’s some of a dose fr ...

Reality Sandwich

Desertification

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

Automatic Earth

Press TV

  • Australia 'won't sell uranium to Pakistan
    Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith has stated that his country will not sell uranium to India's neighbor and arch-rival Pakistan.
  • Britain totally bans protest camps
    British lawmakers are considering a law to enforce a total ban on peace and protest camps in and around the Parliament Square in London.
  • 'Police conduct sparked UK unrests'
    A new study has revealed that the British public's discontent with police and their conduct such as the humiliating 'stop and search' tactic sparked this summer's unrests.
  • Public disorder to haunt UK for years
    Britain should be bracing herself for years of civil disobedience and public disorder amid the deteriorating economic crisis, a former Scotland Yard chief has warned.
  • London Olympics cost to exceed £9.3bn
    A new survey has warned the UK government that the real costs of holding London 2012 Olympic Games may well overshoot the £9.3billion allocated budget.

SciDev.net

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

  • Federal Budget Deficit Close to $240 Billion f ...
    The federal budget deficit was close to $240 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2012, more than $50 billion below the deficit recorded through November of last year, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review. Much of that difference occurred because roughly $30 billion in pa ...
  • Spending Patterns for Prescription Drugs Under ...
    The centerpiece of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (Medicare Modernization Act) was the creation of Medicare Part D, a subsidized pharmaceutical benefit that went into effect in 2006. That additional coverage constituted the most substantial expansion o ...
  • Estimates of ARRA’s Impact in the Third Quarte ...
    As required by law, CBO prepares regular reports on its estimate of the number of jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was enacted in response to significant weakness in the economy at that time. In its latest report, issued this afternoon, CBO provide ...
  • An Analysis of the Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Ships
    The U.S. Navy’s fleet numbers 284 ships, including 29 amphibious warfare ships that are designed primarily to carry marines and their equipment into combat but also to perform peacetime missions. Today CBO released a report—requested in the report of the Senate Armed Services Committ ...
  • CBO Testified on Policies to Promote Economic ...
    This morning I testified before the Senate Budget Committee on policies to promote economic growth and employment in 2012 and 2013. During the past two years, CBO has produced several publications focused on options that are available to lawmakers for spurring the economy through changes in taxa ...

Naked Scientists - News

  • Voyager Casts off the Hydrogen-Tinted Spectacles
    This week a team of researchers in France, Russia and the USA have reported that Voyager Spacecrafts 1 2 - launched 34 years ago - have made it far enough out of the solar system to detect Lyman...
  • Spooky Diamonds a Step Towards Quantum Computing
    This week, researchers from the UK, Canada and Singapore have accomplished quantum entanglement on the macro scale, entangling two millimeter-sizeddiamonds. Typically we think of objects movin...
  • Gauging photo fakery
    A technique to quantify the perceptual impact of photo-manipulation on fashion shots has been developed by US scientists. On a daily basis, billboards, magazines and websites dish up a deluge of wri...
  • Antibody-based vaccine for HIV
    A modified virus encoding an anti-AIDS antibody can protect animals from HIV infection. An estimated 7000 new cases of HIV occur each day, the majority of them in developing countries where access t...
  • Key to the Blood Brain Barrier
    A signal that controls the integrity of the blood brain barrier -the system that protects and chemically cocoons the brain from the rest of the body - has been discovered. Early during embryon...

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