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Sunday, January 22, 2012

22 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

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Scoop - NZ

  • Megaupload: the real meaning
    The Feds’ takedown of Megaupload shows beyond the shadow of a doubt that SOPA, PIPA or any similar legislation is wholly unnecessary. ... that might be why SOPA’s chief sponsor – who said he’d still push SOPA even after Wednesday’s web blackout – backed down right right after megaupload was ta ...
  • Hedge funds to sue Greece for losses
    Hedge funds have been known to use hardball tactics to make money. Now they have come up with a new one: suing Greece in a human rights court to make good on its bond payments.
  • Portugese Economy in Grecian Spiral
    Portugal's borrowing costs have jumped to record highs and are tracking the moves seen in the culminating phase of Greece's debt crisis, dashing hopes that the country will be able to stave off contagion by embracing drastic austerity.
  • Can Politico Sink Any Lower ?
    .. guess who is paying for Politico? Splashed across pages 24 and 25 is an ad from military contractor Lockheed Martin with a picture of the Armed Aerial Scout Scout 72X helicopter – “carrying a 2,300 pound mission payload .. " .. The back cover is brought to you by none other than .. Goldm ...
  • Whatever Happened to Al Jazeera?
    In recent months, Al Jazeera has begun to change course. It has deviated from its journalistic responsibilities in Libya, and is now completely losing the plot with Syria. The channel is in urgent need to revisit its own code of ethics, and to fulfill its promise of treating its audience “with ...

Independent - London

  • Britons get Nigeria travel warning
    Britons are being urged against travelling to parts of Nigeria after a series of terrorist bomb attacks left scores of people dead. Related Stories'Coordinated' north Nigiera attacks kill 7, say police'Coordinated' north Nigeria attacks kill 7, say policeAt least 120 killed in 'co-ordinated' Ni ...
  • Poll upset as New Gingrich wins South Carolina ...
    Newt Gingrich stormed to a shock victory over Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary today, scrambling the race to choose a Republican challenger to President Barack Obama. Related Stories'Republicans don't fall in love. They fall in line': The battle to face ObamaNine-inch baby survives, gr ...
  • First ever triple-limb transplant in Turkey
    A hospital in southern Turkey yesterday performed the world's first triple-limb transplant, attaching two arms and a leg to a 34-year-old man, an official said. At the same time, a team of doctors at Akdeniz University Hospital, in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, also transplanted the ...
  • 143 dead after bomb attacks in northern Nigeri ...
    At least 143 people have been killed in a single day of co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks in a northern Nigeria in one of the bloodiest days in the country's growing sectarian conflict. Related StoriesInspectors uncover Gaddafi's secret stash of chemical weapons'Coordinated' north Nigiera attack ...
  • Body of murdered hostage begins journey home
    When the body of the last British security guard kidnapped and murdered in Iraq five years ago is returned home this week, it will finally bring to a close one of the UK's worst hostage crises for almost two decades.

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Sha ...
    The acting head of ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has seemingly blown the cover of both DEA and FBI informant operations in order to spare his own neck and to deflect blame away from a badly flawed operation undertaken by his own agency.
  • EU calls emergency meeting as crisis stalks I ...
    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has called an emergency meeting of top officials dealing with the euro zone debt crisis for Monday morning, reflecting concern that the crisis could spread to Italy, the region's third largest economy.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

  • Safety haven
    If Canadian postal workers were to design the perfect winter boot, it would help them avoid slipping on icy walkways, stop them from missing their truck brakes while driving and keep them from getting their crampon spikes stuck in wooden porches.If the hearing impaired were looking for a hearing ...
  • Small tools, big impact
    Cancer, heart disease and stroke are leading causes of death among Canadians. As a medical doctor, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Biophotonics, Victor Yang has a unique perspective on these deadly diseases. Based at ...
  • Innovative, naturally
    For the first time this past winter, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) launched the Emerging Science Journalists Award (ESJA). The award was created to support Canada’s talented young science writers. Below is one of the winning entries by Roslyn Dakin, doctoral candidate in the Departm ...
  • A very gourd idea
    It’s been known for years that plants can take up and store trace amounts of hazardous metals like nickel, arsenic and cadmium from contaminated soil in a process called phytoremediation. Until recently, however, scientists assumed that plants weren’t capable of taking up a class of toxic chemic ...
  • Johne’s happens
    Trudging through a dairy farm to collect manure samples isn’t exactly glamorous work, but the odorous task is starting to have a big impact on the health of dairy cattle in Atlantic Canada — and it will save the dairy industry millions of dollars each year. Technicians at the University of Princ ...

Signs of the times

  • Christians Waking Up? Voluntary 'De-Baptism' R ...
    Sunday evening youth mass in Saint-Germain-des-Pres is overflowing with parishioners. People stand in aisles or sit cross-legged in corners of the cavernous, sixth century Paris church. Father Benoist de Sinety, parish priest at Saint Germain for the past three years, says he has always had the ...
  • Russia: Giant Sinkhole in Dagestan
    Sinkhole near the village of Gurbuki Karabudakhkent in Dagestan. Scientist are trying to find out what caused this giant sinkhole.
  • US, Wisconsin: Accused Abuser Claimed "Ghost" ...
    Cops: Man battered spouse, tried to blame apparition A Wisconsin man charged with domestic abuse told cops that a "ghost" was actually responsible for injuries suffered by his wife, according to police. The bizarre claim by Michael West, 41, did not prevent the Fond du Lac man's arrest for str ...
  • Greece Presses EU to Ease Iran Oil Sanctions
    Greece is pressing its European Union partners to make last-minute concessions over a forthcoming EU embargo on Iranian oil, complicating the bloc's efforts to unveil a sweeping package of sanctions against Tehran on Monday. European diplomats are confident that EU foreign ministers will agree ...
  • Egypt's Islamists Win 75 Percent of Parliament
    Final results on Saturday showed that Islamist parties won nearly three-quarters of the seats in parliament in Egypt's first elections since the ouster of authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, according to election officials and political groups. The Islamist domination of Egypt's parliament h ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Why, how Kandahar?
    CBC's Dispatches hosts an interview with Matthew Willis, who has a chapter on Canada in a new Royal United Services Institute book on the NATO/UK experience in Afghanistan. It's interesting because Willis suggests that Canada lobbied hard to get Kandahar without really knowing what it was getti ...
  • Harper's leading hillbilly
    Andrew Potter pulled no punches on this one. Tony Clement is the dumber than a sack of hammers and has a bag full of the stupidest ideas to hit government since the invention of the failed curved machine gun barrel. In his six years in power, Stephen Harper has successfully positioned the Con ...
  • English hospitality . . .
    AN AMERICAN TOURIST in London decides to skip his tour group and explore the city on his own. He wanders around, seeing the sights, and occasionally stopping at a quaint pub to soak up the local culture, chat with the lads, and have a pint of Guinness. After a while, he finds himself in a very h ...
  • Stevie's Oil Ugliness . . .
    SLATE ASKS: Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? Is our neighbor to the north becoming a jingoistic petro-state? Take, for instance, the country that provides by far the largest share of our petroleum imports. Its regime, in thrall to big oil interests, has grown increasingly bellicose, la ...
  • Harper MP displays ignorance
    Yes, I know. You're shocked. Conservative MP Wladyslaw Lizon has raised a little ridicule by sending a survey out in his ethnically diverse riding asking constituents if they speak “Indian.” The problem, of course, is that there is no such language. In India, there are 29 languages each spoken ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Gets The Message: Calls Obama "The Food St ...
    After Newt Gingrich defended his oft-repeated claim that President Obama is "the best food stamp president in American history," Fox News took up the theme and amplified it. But as numerous experts have pointed out, increased enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is due ma ...
  • Right-Wing Media Freak Out Over Obama Speaking ...
    The right-wing media have used President Obama's speech at Walt Disney World as an opportunity to attack him, despite the fact that previous presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have given speeches at Disney parks while in office.Right-Wing Media Accuse Obama Of "Ruin[ing] Families' Vacations" ...
  • The Right-Wing Media's Flawed Keystone XL Reje ...
    Right-wing media figures are slamming President Obama for the State Department's decision to reject plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline until a full assessment can be made, claiming that he is "killing jobs." But the administration had long warned that it would be unable to complete the leg ...
  • Fox & Friends: Scott Walker's #1 Fan
    After Wisconsin officials reported that opponents of Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) turned in more than 1 million signatures calling for a recall election, Fox & Friends hosted Walker for a softball interview in which the co-hosts reassured him that the recall is "not really about" him and said t ...
  • Arguing In Support Of SOPA, WSJ Ignor ...
    In a January 18 editorial arguing in support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), The Wall Street Journal noted that the White House as well as "Wikipedia and many other websites" are opposed to the legislation. But the Journal ignored that many congressional Republicans and cons ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Social Conservatism May Be Wrong, But It's Not ...
    Two days ago Dissent magazine ran my warning that we critics of the racism in Republican presidential campaigns should beware of compounding that scourge by reinforcing Republicans' social-conservative claim on "whiteness." But that's precisely what's reinforced in a January 15 New York Times, e ...
  • Perry's Greatest Hits! Gone but not Forgotten
  • The Past and Future of the Internet
    in response to the Atrios post here I'm a big admirer of Atrios (Duncan) and hope he doesn't think I'm being picky. But he doesn't have it quite right as to the past; yes as to the future. As to the history, the way it was was this way: The entrenched interests were not interested enough o ...
  • Protesting SOPA
    As the internet's avatar Google uses its huge billboard -- the search screen -- to protest the proposed legislation aimed at enhancing intellectual property rights (or censoring the Net, depending on your point of view), some say this is the first time Netizens have used their prowess to lobby. ...
  • Things Getting Pretty Dicey With Iran
    Depending on how you look at it, tensions with Iran are mounting to: an accidental war, an intentional war, a recession-causing oil price spike, a dizzying sequence of moves / countermoves / signals, an escalating cycle of assassinations, renewed negotiations, or a combination thereof. At any ra ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Senator Watson asks PUC Chair, Donna Nelson, t ...
    As interim legislative hearings and ERCOT workshops grapple with the drought’s anticipated stresses for Texas electric generation and reliability, Sen.Kirk Watson (D-Austin), is calling on the Texas Public Utility Commission to give solar energy a push. “You stated that your highest priori ...
  • Obama’s Rejection of Keystone A Sensible Decision
    In a statement this afternoon, Obama said that he received a recommendation from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier today recommending that the Keystone XL tar sands Presidential permit application be denied. TransCanada’s first tar sands pipeline leaked 12 times in its firs ...
  • Bill would give Oklahomans the right to vote o ...
    As Texas struggles to determine how they will meet their water needs in the face of what could be an extended 5 to 10 year period of drought, Oklahomans are looking to protect their water rights as their neighbors to the south look on lustfully. An Associated Press story says proposed legislatio ...
  • What is Environmental Justice and Why did the ...
    Reprinted with permission from Christopher Searles blog – http://chrissearles.blogspot.com/ In January of 2011 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Civil Rights Affirmative Employment and Diversity at an event honoring Dr. ...
  • DFW Air Quality Standards – EPA Public Comment ...
    The EPA has published a federal register notice to solicit public comments on their ozone designation recommendations to the states.  This comment period closes on January 19th and we have included the notice for information on where and how to submit your comments. Public Citizen and Sierra Clu ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Man has a nail removed from his brain
    A man who was building a shed fired a nail in to his head and didn't even realise it was there. Dante Autullo thought he'd simply cut himself with a n...
  • Was ancient Sumerian beer alcohol free ?
    The beer variant enjoyed by the ancient Sumerians may not have contained any alcohol at all. Details of ancient Mesopotamian brewing practices were re...
  • Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru
    Some of the oldest known popcorn ever found dating back to 6,000 years has been discovered in Peru. It's a food that's generally associated with a mod...
  • 'Extinct' monkey rediscovered in Borneo
    A team of scientists has found the Miller's Grizzled Langur alive and well in the Bornean rainforest. The very rare primate was found in an area in wh...
  • Man claims wife was attacked by ghost
    When questionned by police a man charged with attacking his wife claimed that 'a ghost did it'. Wisconsin resident Michael West was arrested and charg...

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Climate

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

GreenBiz

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Booman Tribune

  • This is Not Excellent News for Romney
    People and pundits on the right tell themselves so many lies that it is often difficult to know if they are deceiving themselves or simply trying to deceive the rest of us. Now, I am willing to concede one thing from Hugh Hewitt's analysis of last night's result. If Mitt Romney is the eventual ...
  • I Got Your Panic, Right Here
    If you are looking for open signs of panic among the Republican Establishment, look no further than Jennifer Rubin, who last night penned an open letter to many of the foremost elected officials in the party begging them to intervene to stop Gingrich. Here's a sample of her plea: ...The vote ...
  • Good News?
    The median income for Americans (i.e., the level at which 50% make less money than those higher up the income scale) is a tad over $26,000. That's about 14 times less than "unemployed" Mitt Romney received for public speaking appearances last year. In other words, it's chicken feed to the One P ...
  • Nocturnal Observations
    In some respects there's nothing too surprising about the results of the Republican caucuses and primaries so far. A religious conservative won in Iowa, a Massachusetts moderate won in New Hampshire, and a Georgian demagogue carried his neighboring state of South Carolina. That's basically wha ...
  • Cop Attacks Black Man w/Dementia
    Officer Middendorf of the Melbourne , FL Police Department decided Albert Flowers, a 66 year old African American Man suffering from dementia deserved to get his ass kicked for -- well, my guess is for being a 66 year old black man who Officer Middendorf could abuse with impunity and not expect ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 11 Hottest Links of the Week
    What does a nuclear detonation look like up close? Just how big are the world's largest ships? Find out this and more in this week's collection of link-y goodness! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the articl ...
  • 11 Coolest Links of the Week
    Urbex from down under kicks off this week's 'coolest' roundup, which also features links to some killer art, educational titbits, and a life-size Stormtrooper cake! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the artic ...
  • The Gruesome Reality of Amputations in the Ame ...
    Images of men who lost their limbs – and almost their lives – during the Civil War, when an staggering 50,000 amputations were performed in less than sanitary conditions. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • How the Mind Controls the Way Your Body Respon ...
    In a recent experiment, allergic reactions were shown to be stronger in body parts which volunteers had "disowned" through an illusion. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Different Faces of Glasgow's Street Art
    Graffiti has many different usages, but is principally used to communicate. A snapshot of street art in Glasgow... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Green Inc. - NYT

  • Interior Candidate Bows Out
    A nominee asks that she be withdrawn from consideration after Republicans object to comments she made about hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal coal mining and weak regulation of air and water quality.
  • Car Batteries Are Not Just For the Car
    Coda Holdings will make minor changes to battery packs for its cars and sell them individually or grouped together. The idea is to sell them to homeowners for use when rooftop solar panels generate more than they use, and to help businesses reduce their peak loads.
  • On Our Radar: Compensation for Yellowstone Spill
    Exxon Mobil will pay the state of Montana $300,000 in cash and spend $1.3 million on environmental projects there.
  • First Round: Entergy 1, Vermont 0
    A federal court ruling suggesting that Vermont overreached in seeking to shut down a nuclear plant allows the plant's owner to avoid having to decide whether to keep the plant running while the legal battle unfolds.
  • Pushing the Green Button for Energy Savings
    Companies show off tools for helping homeowners make use of energy usage data they can download remotely at any time from a utility's Web site.

Dot Earth News

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

Daily Censored

  • PuppetGov video: We are the ones we’ve been wa ...
    video here. The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s We are the ones we’ve been waiting for video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated. Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions. Resources: US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979 ...
  • Just Short of Treason in Georgia and Kansas
    By Michael Collins It’s official. The crazies have arrived for the 2012 presidential race, florid in their deviant and repulsive rhetoric. Andrew B. Adler, editor of The Atlanta Jewish Times, called on Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu to “Order a hit on a president in orde ...
  • PuppetGov powerful video: Why resistance is es ...
    video here. The artistic power of PuppetGov‘s Why resistance is essential video communicates to a different part of us than academic facts, no matter how professionally communicated. Let this art touch, inspire, and move your actions. Resources: US overthrew Iran’s democracy 1953-1979, helped Ir ...
  • Pulitzer Prize-winner’s 96-second NDAA cartoon
    video here. 2010 Pulitzer-winner Mark Fiore‘s 96-second animated cartoon shows the removal of Constitutional Civil Rights. When “rights” are no longer absolute, they are no longer rights. This changes the definition of the US from defending unalienable rights and limited govern ...
  • Universal Public Education Is Dead (Expanded)
    The National Education Association (NEA) received criticism for publishing an Op-Ed with Teach for America (TFA). Ken Bernstein found the piece to be “unbelievable,” while raising the possibility that union members felt betrayed. Anthony Cody first responded with “I just don&#8 ...

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  • News you may have missed #669
    UK admits using fake rock to spy on Russians. New book examines forgotten CIA officer Jim Thompson. Sweden to probe fate of WWII hero Wallenberg.
  • Canada reportedly expels Russian diplomats ove ...
    Canadian government officials have refused to confirm or deny media reports that Ottawa expelled several Russian diplomats recently in connection with an alleged espionage affair.
  • News you may have missed #668
    Ex-CIA chief says war against Iran would be "very bad option". US warns Israel on Iran strike. Iran tightens security for scientists after killing.
  • US admits African war crimes suspect Charles T ...
    Ever since his 2006 arrest for war crimes, Liberia’s former President, Charles Taylor, has consistently claimed that he was an agent of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Now declassified US government documents have officially confirmed that Taylor was indeed an agent of the CIA and ...
  • News you may have missed #667
    Canadian authorities spied on political leader. US intel community says Taliban want Afghanistan back. Canadian naval officer charged with espionage.

War is a Crime.org

  • The Codepink "Pink Panther Ladies Investment C ...
  • Outlawing dissent: Rahm Emanuel's new regime
    By Bernard Harcourt,guardian.co.uk It's almost as if Rahm Emanuel was lifting a page from Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine – as if he was reading her account of Milton Friedman's "Chicago Boys" as a cookbook recipe, rather than as the ominous episode that it was. In record time, Emanuel successfully ...
  • UK Government Suppresses Truth
      UK Government Suppresses Truth   by Stephen Lendman   Press TV broke the news headlining, "Ofcom revokes Press TV's UK license," saying:   read more
  • Handbook on Israeli Apartheid
      Handbook on Israeli Apartheid   by Stephen Lendman   In July 2005, a coalition of 171 Palestinian Civil Society organizations created the global BDS movement - for "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Princ ...
  • How Newt Gingrich Saved the Military Industria ...
    The idea of economic conversion, of retooling and retraining pieces of the military industrial complex to build what other wealthy nations have (infrastructure, energy, education, etc.) converged with the end of the Cold War two decades back.  It was time for a peace dividend as well as a l ...

Grist - News

  • The age-old battle of goats versus tortoises
    by Sarah Laskow. Before reading further in this post, ask yourself a question (and answer honestly): Which do you care about more, guiltless (if hungry) goats or the Galápagos Islands' giant tortoises? If you answered goats, this post will make you sad. Here was the ...
  • Watch an orca chase a shark out of the water
    by Sarah Laskow. Orcas might be charismatic movie stars, but they are also killer whales. A family of beachgoers in New Zealand caught on film an orca fighting with a few sharks. One shark was so eager to get away from the whale that it beached itself in the shallow water. (That's t ...
  • What environmental policy could we expect from ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. Stephen Colbert has officially thrown his hat in the ring for definitely possibly considering a run for president. He's already out-polling Jon Huntsman! So what kind of environmental policy platform could we expect from a President Colbert? Well, for starters, no ...
  • Don’t believe the hype about the ‘ ...
    by Christopher Mims. Some chemists came up with a really clever way to observe the intermediate stage of an atmospheric chemical reaction, and then some PR flack got a hold of it and suddenly science has invented a brand-new molecule that will solve all our climate change woes! As usual, t ...
  • Congressional staffers will stop betting on wi ...
    by Jess Zimmerman. We here at Grist mock a lot of people. But we don't always manage to mock some sense into them. Which is why we're pretty psyched about the response to Sarah Laskow's feature story revealing that congressional staffers were making deadly wildfires into a fun ...

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  • NASA - NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on R ...
    The global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, according to NASA scientists.
  • NASA's Search for Extraterrestrial Genomes --W ...
    Scientists confirmed this week that rocks collected recently in the Moroccan desert came from the Red Planet. A little-known fact is that each year Earth is hit by by half a dozen or so one-pound or larger rocks that were...
  • Fruit Flies Watch the Sky to Stay on Course
    Understanding polarization patterns opens new possibilities in navigation for seafarers, who for millennia have depended on the sun to know their position in the world. Modern technologies have allowed seafarers to navigate based on GPS and satellite signals, however, such techniques are not bul ...
  • How Can We Feed the Planet Without Destroying ...
    During the first morning of the GreenBiz Forums, Jon Foley, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute of the Environment, laid out a business plan for the Earth that aims to feed 9 billion people by 2050 while shrinking agriculture's eco-footprint.
  • A Comet’s Death Caught on Camera (VID)
    Comets dive into the sun frequently, but previous ones had been too small and dim to be seen against the glaring backdrop...

Invisible Opportunity

  • CDC researchers say mothers should stop breast ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Remember when it was considered crazy talk to suggest that mainstream medicine viewed humanity as being born lacking in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, as if these synthetic inputs are necessary miracle nutrients for proper human development? Well ...
  • Why Can’t I get There from Here?
    By Les Visible Greetings Earthlings and visitors from any and all locations wherever that may be. The clock is ticking down and the tension is creeping up, as those committed to injury, make their desperate plans for escape and release; neither of which will attend their foul enterprises. In the ...
  • Newt Gingrich Promises Palin a Presidential Ap ...
    CNN Press Room …I was honored and delighted last night when she said if she were in South Carolina, she’d vote for Newt Gingrich…. …I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president… Clearly Gingrich is sending the message to all ...
  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating pol ...
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    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Cancer drugs, pushed by many drug companies as the only ‘scientific’ method of combating cancer alongside chemotherapy, have been found to actually make cancer worse and kill patients more quickly. The findings come after research was conducted on the cancer drugs ...

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Toxic Schools Risk Making Kids and Teachers Sick
    As part of his “Toxic America” series, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been investigating schools, and his findings are not good. Research suggests that at least one-third of U.S. schools have mold, dust and other indoor air quality issues that can cause asthma in students and staff. It g ...
  • Made in Forest Hills: Bow Ties Recycled From T ...
    If you’re trying to amp up your wardrobe with a unique flair, we might have just the thing.  Made in Forest Hills, founded by recycling connoisseur Nicholas Ruiz, is a collection of some of the most interesting bow ties we’ve ever seen! This “Bow Tie Collection,” is a series of 11 ti ...
  • Transform a Sheet of Paper Into an Awesome Rob ...
    Always carting around tons of heavy toys for your little ones to play with on long road trips or flights? Created by Takashi Tsunoda, the Japanese toy designer behind PIPEROID paper robots, Monster Cubes, these DIY folding toys provide instant entertainment for kids and are super easy for parent ...
  • Singapore’s Luminous i Light Festival Will Be ...
    Read the rest of Singapore’s Luminous i Light Festival Will Be Lit Up by Shimmering LED Sculptures Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", 1st lighting festival, asia, eco design, energy efficient lighting, festival, green design, green lighting, i L ...
  • 7 Teensy Tiny Tumbleweed Homes for Small-Space ...
    Read the rest of 7 Teensy Tiny Tumbleweed Homes for Small-Space Living Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Anderjack, Beavan, custom designed, Daylighting, eco design, Gifford, green design, Jay Shafer, prefabricated homes, small carbon footprint, Stamper, sustainable desi ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Put Down the Pitchforks on SOPA
    Not enough people have acknowledged that the opposition was arguing two totally different different points - the "you're going about it the wrong way" group and the "we want our illegal movies!" group. In the new world of Internet versus government, the system worked; the people spoke, governmen ...
  • A Gadget Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts
    If you think Amazon's real cost to make that Kindle Fire is $201, then by all means go to China and cobble one together yourself. The components are only part of the cost of any gadget.
  • The New Improved Heckling of Movies
    If you're willing to watch a movie DVD on your computer (instead of your TV), then you can use the new Rifftrax Player app to simultaneously play the DVD and the usually hilarious Rifftrax audio, which is like sitting in an audience of hecklers.
  • Hollywood-Style Tricks on the Cheap
    A $250 kit lets you play around with green screen techniques, setting actors in front of any background of your choosing. It takes the pain out of a process that can be difficult to get right.
  • If Car Companies Were Run Like Tech Companies ...
    What if the car companies were as innovative as the tech industry? That alternative industry may not be as wonderful as you would think.

WIRED Magazine | Science

PakAlert

  • Skyquakes: Warnings From Earth’s Destabilizing ...
    Ominous booms thunder across the sky. These 'skyquakes' are abruptly erupting all over the world. Hundreds of thousands wonder in fear about the bizarre hums, explosive booms, and howling moans. From Russia, to Australia, from Chile to the Eastern Coast of the U.S., the sky is exploding. As the ...
  • Obama’s Secret Letter to Tehran: Is the War ag ...
    In the letter, the White House spelled out the position of the United States, while Iranian officials said it was a sign of things as they really are: the U.S. cannot afford to wage a war against Iran. Within the letter written by President Barak Hussein Obama was a U.S. request for the start ...
  • The Pentagon Admits An Elite US Commando Team ...
    The SEAL Team that stormed Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound last May put special forces commandos on the map. Without SEAL Team 6's exploits that day, there is little doubt reports of a new commando team in the Persian Gulf would have raised an eyebrow.
  • Get A Grip: The Zionist Agenda Is-Real
    Ever see the insane rages against something someone perceives as so-called “anti semitic” on the internet? Man, this self-policing defensive behavior is so juvenile it makes me cringe. The hateful mainstream knee jerk stuff is bad enough, but when are people going to quit being bullied and get i ...
  • The Arrival of Nanotech Medicine and What it M ...
    In yet another example of what was once called a conspiracy theory, but is now accepted as mainstream science, “edible microchips” are being officially rolled out for consumption by the general public.

Andy Worthington

  • Read the Center for Constitutional Rights&#821 ...
    In December, I was privileged to work with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights on three reports about Guantánamo that were published to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison on January 11, 2012, and released at a press conference in Washington D.C. that I reporte ...
  • Video: US Protests on the 10th Anniversary of ...
    In the final article following my 12-day visit to the US to join protestors calling for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of its opening, I’m posting below three videos by filmmaker Ed Haas of the protests in Washington D.C. on the ...
  • Moazzam Begg, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash ...
    On Tuesday January 24, at 7 pm, there will be a special screening of the acclaimed documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington) at the European Parliament in Brussels. The screening will take place in the main European P ...
  • Andy Worthington’s “Close Guantána ...
    Last week, I was in the US for a series of events to mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, which I wrote about here and here. I also made three TV appearances, and undertook seven radio interviews, one of which was covered here. Thr ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington on Guantánamo’s ...
    Last week, while I was in the US on a 12-day tour to call for the closure of Guantánamo on the 10th anniversary of the opening of the prison, I did three TV interviews as part of my busy schedule (which also involved nine speaking events, and seven radio interviews). The first of these was [...]

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • After Conviction, Kreis Quits as Leader of Tin ...
    Long-time racist August B. Kreis III says he’s stepping down as leader of a splinter faction of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nations, just weeks after being convicted of federal fraud-related charges. Kreis, who’s reported to be suffering from diabetes-related health problems, doesn’t give a specific reas ...
  • Just in Time: From Wisconsin, a Tax Preparer f ...
    With W-2s and 1040s in the mail, tax season is getting into full swing. And even white nationalists have to pay their taxes if they’re not living off the grid. But where does a proud Aryan go to find a tax preparer who understands the special needs of white people? They needn’t look any farther ...
  • Georgia Court to Hear Arguments on Obama’s Eli ...
    The birther movement, which has bedeviled President Obama since well before his inauguration with questions about his citizenship, is celebrating something of a watershed moment as it prepares to have a day in court. Earlier this month, Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi in Georgia’s Office of S ...
  • Pam Geller Announces New International Anti-Mu ...
    Anti-Muslim zealot Pam Geller announced this week the formation of a new international organization, Stop the Islamization of Nations (SION), for which she will serve as executive director. This “new global force” will merge the work of the two major anti-Muslim groups in the U.S. and Europe – S ...
  • Anti-Gay Groups Protest SPLC with Claims of Ha ...
    About a dozen African American pastors joined anti-gay extremists today in condemning the Southern Poverty Law Center for using its “hate group” label to describe faith-based organizations that demonize the LGBT community, characterizing it as part of an orchestrated liberal plot. The pastors s ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Study Points Towards a Future of Toilet-to-Tap ...
    A report from the National Research Council said that advancing technologies make it possible to convert sewage wastewater to potable drinking water and that doing so could confront the growing issue of water scarcity.photo: david buedo re ...
  • GOP Still Pushing Tar Sands Pipeline
    Speaking on Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner indicated that he may again try to tie the Keystone XL pipeline project to the payroll tax cut. read more
  • Thousands Protest in Yemen Against Immunity fo ...
    Thousands of Yemenis are protesting in the capital, Sanaa, against immunity from prosecution for outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Agence France-Presse reports: Yemen’s parliament on Saturday adopted a law giving Saleh "complete" immunity from prosecution in return for step ...
  • BP Oil Disaster a Distant Memory for Oil Compa ...
    BP's Deepwater Horizon oil catastrophe in 2010 appears to be a distant memory for oil companies drilling in the Gulf today. The Houston Chronicle reports: read more
  • West Africa Oil Boom Overlooks Tattered Enviro ...
    On November 3, 2011, fishermen working near the Jubilee oil field 60 km. off the coast of Ghana spotted a large oil slick floating towards land. The next day a dark, syrupy ooze arrived onshore, coating beaches of several fishing communities and waterfront hotels in Ghana’s Ahanta West Dis ...

Lifehacker

  • Five Best Online Meeting Services [Hive Five]
    If you work at a company with employees in offices around the globe, or you work in a small company but want to collaborate with a contractor who works from home or vendor across the country, you need a service that will let you connect with ...
  • Use a Parmesan Cheese Lid to Turn a Canning Ja ...
    Household weblog Plath's Adventures shares that the lid from a disposable parmesan cheese container fits a regular (not wide-mouth) canning jar perfectly. More »
  • This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
    Boxer is a Free DOS Game Emulator for your Mac (Mac) Computer games have come a long way since the days of Doom, Zork, Tie Fighter, and Castle Wolfenstein, but many of us who grew up with those games would like to replay them. Boxer is a free app that will let you play any DOS g ...
  • Audiobook Cutter Pares Down Lengthy Audio File ...
    Windows: As a frequent audiobook and podcast listener I find that most of the time long audio files of an hour or more aren't terrible to deal with until you lose your place and try to find it again while driving or running. Usually this means ...
  • Repurpose an Over-the-Door Shoe Holder into a ...
    Over-the-door shoe holders are wonderful for organizing lots of household items in addition to their normal function. We've previously covered how to use them to store pantry items, cable storage, and gadgets. Now, household weblog Whine & Che ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Arsenal v Manchester United | Jacob Steinberg
    • Press refresh or hit the auto-update for the latest • Email jacob.steinberg.casual@guardian.co.uk • Or hit him up on Twitter, if that's your thing • Follow all the day's games here35 min: The signs are increasingly ominous for Arsenal. Evra saunters past a feeble challenge from Song, who is e ...
  • Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno d ...
    Most successful coach in major college football history was sacked for failing to tell police about sex abuse claim against assistantThe former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who was fired in November after 46 years as head coach after a child sex abuse scandal involving an assistant, ha ...
  • Paddy Ashdown takes on coalition over benefits cap
    Former Lib Dem leader says he will vote against government on welfare plans because of effect they would have on childrenLord Ashdown, the influential former Liberal Democrat leader, will vote against the coalition government's plans to impose a cap on the amount of benefits paid to a single hou ...
  • Martin McGuinness prepared to meet Queen in future
    Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland says visit by monarch to Irish Republic last year made impact on himMartin McGuinness, the Sinn Féin deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, has said he is prepared to meet the Queen in the future.In a break with Republican tradition, McGuin ...
  • Nick Clegg defends NHS reforms as MPs criticis ...
    • Health service cannot be frozen in time, says deputy PM • Duncan Smith urges bishops opposing benefit cap to rethinkNick Clegg has defended the coalition government's NHS reforms in England, saying the health service could not be "frozen in time", following a barrage of criticism from a cross- ...

McClatchey

  • Tax breaks lure big-name films to North Carolina
    Thanks to new but controversial tax breaks, 2011 was a marquee year for North Carolina's film industry, which landed big-name projects "Iron Man 3," "Homeland" and "Hunger Games."Click to Continue »
  • Electronic Arts claims First Amendment rights ...
    A leading producer of high-tech and action video and computer games is asking a federal court to rule that it can use images of modern weapons and aircraft, such as…Click to Continue »
  • South Carolina Mormons welcome GOP spotlight o ...
    As in 2008, the S.C. Republican Presidential Primary offers the political spectacle of Mitt Romney's Mormon beliefs running head on into a Bible Belt electorate.Click to Continue »
  • Obama to speak at Bank of America stadium on D ...
    On the final night of this fall's Democratic National Convention, President Barack Obama will deliver his acceptance speech at Bank of America stadium, party sources told the Observer on Monday…Click to Continue »
  • U.S. to announce ban on python imports
    The United States is poised to formally and finally ban that slithering scourge of the Everglades, the Burmese python. U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has championed the ban, is…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Taliban Must Renounce Terrorism to Participate ...
    A top U.S. diplomat visiting Afghanistan says the Taliban must renounce international terrorism and endorse peace initiatives if it wants to participate in negotiations to end the 10-year war.Marc ...
  • Most French Back Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
    Paris Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) A large majority of French people are in favor of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, according to polls published on Sunday by Europe 1 and the France Soire newspaper ...
  • Taliban video shows execution of Pak soldiers
    Taliban militants have released a video showing the execution of 15 Pakistani soldiers whose bodies were found earlier this month after they were kidnapped in northwestern Pakistan. The ...
  • Afghan soldier 'killed French troops over ...
    KABUL (AFP) - An Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops has said he did it because of a recent video showing US Marines urinating on the dead bodies of Taliban insurgents, security sources ...
  • France Sorry for Death of Bulgarian Soldier in ...
    French foreign legionnaire, chief sergeant Svilen Simeonov, a Bulgarian, was among the 4 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan this week. Photo by the Embassy of France to ...

Futurismic

  • Hang All The Critics: Towards Useful Video Gam ...
      The Problem It does not take a genius to realise that the world of video game reviewing is completely and utterly fucked. Their reputations sullied by an endless cavalcade of scandal and stupidity, video game reviewers routinely find themselves in the impossible position of having to bala ...
  • Out of Destruction, Transformation?
    Most of my columns this year have been about change, from climate change to twitter. Well, this is a start-of-the-year post, and it seems appropriate to take on change in a big way as the year changes. We’re in an unstable moment. Climate change is here and it’s affecting us all. The economy is ...
  • Better Writing Through Writing About Writing
    My life is fairly crammed, and writing time is hard to come by. Today I got one of those precious blocks of time in which I could write for several hours almost without interruption, yet as I fired up the computer, I felt not excited about the prospect, but worried and on edge.  I also [...]Foll ...
  • 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 ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Dr. Coleman-Adebayo on C-SPAN this weekend
    You can catch Dr. Coleman-Adebayo's lecture at the Mid-Manhattan Library on C-Span/Book TV starting tomorrow. Called No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph, the lecture draws on her book, NO FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA.  You can read our coverage of he ...
  • California Assemblyman sacrifices his own righ ...
    California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (pictured; D-La Cañada Flintridge) has won committee approval for his bill to give employees in the Legislature the same protections afforded to other state workers when they report waste, fraud and abuse. Assembly Bill 1378 will give legislators ...
  • Honest Appalachia launches whistleblower site
    On-line activists in West Virginia have launched a whistleblower web site called Honest Appalachia.  It provides a means for whistleblowers to upload documents for public disclosure. The project’s lead developer, Garrett Robinson, told WFPL that the objective is to help local journali ...
  • FBI has "blackballed" records, violated FOIA
    Truthout reporter Jason Leopold is reporting today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released five pages of a PowerPoint presentation that describe a previously unknown program of "blackballing" records that would not be disclosed in response to requests under the Freedom ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in tomorrow at 1:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, guest host Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo interviews Glen Ford, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report and host of Black Agenda Radio, about his recent article, “Occupy Wall Stree ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • DH's Love Child's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of T ...
    Wow. What a week. Unless you were living under a rock this week, you probably noticed a rather pervasive theme... At my last count, 46 articles were written this week about SOPA/PIPA including 20 on SOPA protest day. As I look back at the week, I was almost overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of ...
  • Clay Shirky: Why SOPA's Not Going Away
    I'm not big on videos over a minute long, but this one really lays out the war on sharing that underlies bills like SOPA (and its predecessors COICA, ACTA, and the DMCA). Some excerpts: SOPA and PIPA...want to raise the cost of copyright compliance, to the point where people simply get out ...
  • MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians ...
    Reinforcing the fact that Chris Dodd really does not get what's happening, and showing just how disgustingly corrupt the MPAA relationship is with politicians, Chris Dodd went on Fox News to explicitly threaten politicians who accept MPAA campaign donations that they'd better pass Hollywood's fa ...
  • ESA Tucks Its Tail Between Its Legs And Pulls ...
    The SOPA protests certainly seem to be having their desired effect. We have already seen both SOPA and PIPA shelved, while support within the House and Senate is eroding fast. And now that support is eroding outside Congress, as well. The ESA is the first industry trade group to see the writing ...
  • DailyDirt: Cooking Up Some Mystery Meat
    Protein is protein to some folks. But not all protein comes from happy soybeans or chicken eggs. Domesticated animals are pretty tasty sources of meat, but the treatment of farmed vertebrates is distasteful to some people. Here are just a few interesting links on cooking meaty meals. Squirr ...

VacTruth

  • Excuse Me Waiter – There’s a Fly i ...
    We can laugh at the waiter’s reply to our complaint about the fly in our soup: “- Never mind, it won’t eat much!” However it is no joke that vaccines may contain residue from insect cells, yeast, mouse brains, tissue from pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs, calf lymph, hens’ eggs, chick embryos ...
  • Should New “Smart Pill” Be Able To ...
    Shortly there will be a ‘smart pill’ that will be able to transmit information about your body’s insides to a patch on your arm with the information being collected via a Bluetooth connection. Then, here’s another question for the smart pill developers: Can your ‘smart pill’ track vaccines too?
  • Baby Dies After 9 Vaccines in One Day
    Stacy died just one week after her first vaccinations and left her twin sister Lesly behind. Devastated by their loss their parents are convinced that vaccines and hospital failures were the cause of their beautiful daughters death.
  • How Ron Paul Helps You Be a Better Parent
    As the presidential race unfolds, citizens of the United States have been introduced to a handful of individuals who are seeking to be the leader of our nation. Do you know which candidate will help you be a better parent?
  • Healthy 7 Year Old Girl Dies in Mother’s ...
    It has been reported a fit and healthy 7-year-old girl died unexpectedly before Christmas after a flu vaccine. The girl died in her mother’s arms four days after she was given a flu vaccine by her doctor at her annual check up.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loving the sign in that pic (courtesy of Watch DC). We definitely need those in DC. Have you seen the new Axe ad campaign featuring anarchists? Salon wrote about it here. Apparently, customers can go online and influence the story. I think we should hijack it. At least my landlord hasn’t r ...
  • Shoot the Messenger
    Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a post about Ron Paul the other day. He featured a clip of Paul talking about the civil war. In the clip, Tim Russert asks Paul about his statement that “Abe Lincoln should never have gone to war. There were better ways; there were better ways of getting rid of slave ...
  • Please Don’t Come
    I’m hearing various rumors that occupiers are planning to descend on the capital for national actions. I don’t want to belabor the points I made in my previous post about activism in DC, but I just have to plead with you. Please don’t come. For the first time since I have been ...
  • Sex, Age, Consent, and Power
    Just after I turned sixteen, I met this guy who would end up being my boyfriend for about a year. He was twenty-two. He didn’t think I was that young at first. I never lied to him, mind you. He just didn’t ask me the night we met. I regularly passed for older in clubs, buying cigaret ...
  • Doorknob Licking?

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Do drones undermine democracy?
    Peter W Singer writes: In democracies like ours, there have always been deep bonds between the public and its wars. Citizens have historically participated in decisions to take military action, through their elected representatives, helping to ensure broad support for wars and a willingness to s ...
  • A new generation of political Islamists steps ...
    Olivier Roy writes: Everywhere, the Muslim Brotherhood is benefiting from a democratization it did not trigger. There is a political vacuum because the liberal vanguard that initiated the Arab Spring did not try, and did not want, to take power. This was a revolution without revolutionaries. Yet ...
  • Muslim Brotherhood win just short of a majorit ...
    McClatchy reports: Islamists won a combined 70 percent of parliamentary seats in the first election after Egypt’s revolution, according to official results Saturday that cemented the victory of rival religious parties belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood and the more fundamentalist Salafist ...
  • Hamas political chief to step down
    The Guardian reports: Khaled Meshaal, the political head of Hamas, is to step down from his position when elections for the leadership of the Palestinian Islamist organisation take place in the next few months. A statement from Meshaal’s office said the Damascus-based leader would not seek ...
  • The uphill battle against Citizens United
    Steven Rosenfeld writes: The movement to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling and confront the doctrine of corporate personhood stands at a perilous crossroads. Across the country, two distinct strategies are converging on Congress. More than a million people have si ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Unified Theory of Climate: Reply to Comments
    Foreword – I’ve had this document since January 17th, and it has taken some time to get it properly reproduced here in full due to formatting issues. Some equations have to be converted to images, and I have to double … Continue reading →
  • Ap Index, Neutrons and Climate
      Guest post by David Archibald Figure 1: Ap Index 1932 – 2012 The Ap Index is the weakest of the solar activity indicators and has returned below the floor value of solar minima over the last 80 years – … Continue reading →
  • The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate C ...
    By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →
  • Big CME headed toward Earth
    From Spaceweather.com : Active sunspot 1401 erupted yesterday, Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth: Analysts at … Continue ...
  • The Birth of CGR Science
    Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was reading a study published in November 2011 in Science mag, paywalled of course. It’s called “The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems”, by Burrows et al. (abstract here,  hereinafter B2011). … Continue reading ...

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Biosingularity

  • How memory is lost: Loss of memory due to agin ...
      Yale University researchers can’t tell you where you left your car keys — but they can tell you why you can’t find them A new study published July 27 in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and ...
  • Social deficits associated with autism, schizo ...
    Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the b ...
  • Researchers trace early journey of modulating ...
    Key cells in the brain region known as the hippocampus are formed in the base of the brain late in fetal life and undertake a long journey before reaching their final destination in the center of the brain shortly after birth, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. The hi ...
  • A Step Closer to Personalized Medicine: Improv ...
    Recent advances in adult stem cell research could change the way doctors treat a host of debilitating diseases. At NIAID, scientists are exploring novel ways to convert adult tissue into more primitive stem cells and then use these cells to treat chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an inherited ...
  • Massive Project to Study the Link between Gene ...
    {EAV_BLOG_VER:13a6d03f2fd3e77f} Most health insurers are wary of genetics because, in most cases, it’s not yet clear how a particular genetic variation influences an individual’s health, or whether it should affect their care. Now Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest nonprof ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani Leaders to Disc ...
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts in the southern Russian city of Sochi to discuss the Nagorny Karabakh settlement on Monday, the Kremlin reported.
  • Main News of January 22
    A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
  • Putin Wary of Those Who Call Themselves Leader ...
    Russia’s former finance minister Alexei Kudrin, who declared his readiness to mediate in negotiations with the authorities of the opposition, said that Vladimir Putin feel suspicious about those people, who call themselves leaders of protesters.
  • South Sudanese Government Releases Russian Pilot
    The An-32’s crew commander Russia’s Vladimir Popkov, who was arrested in late December in the South Sudan, was released on Sunday evening and arrived in Khartoum, a spokesman of the Russian Embassy in Sudan Yury Vidakas said.
  • Human Rights Watch Criticizes Putin Presidenti ...
    International human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) criticized the election situation in Russia and expressed its concern that the decision of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to run for presidency once again ruins “the prospect of much-needed political reform.”

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Pruning Shears

  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Cpl. Joseph D. Logan, 22, of Willis, TX.Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, NJ.Marin ...
  • Partial transcript, Up with Chris Hayes - Sund ...
    I wanted to write about SOPA this week and thought Chris Hayes had a very nice segment on it. Since MSNBC doesn’t provide transcripts of his show I had to provide my own - which crowded out the blogging time. I’ll do a SOPA post next week, referencing this as needed.I did my best t ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Neil I. Turner, 21, of Tacoma, WA.Army Pfc. Michael W. Pyron, 30, of Hopewell, VA.Army Pfc. ...
  • Is Gingrich taking Bain off the table for Romney?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postNewt Gingrich’s recent (and apparently brief) flirtation with attacking Mitt Romney for his time at Bain Capital is already being discussed in traditional election year terms. Some on the right are spinning it as a benefit ...
  • Weekend Wrapup
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postStill quiet on the drone front. Nothing reported in Afghanistan/Pakistan. This reported in Somalia from Press TV, presented with the usual caveat. Allegations of torture at Bagram; Karzai wants control transferred. The Taliban ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Pork Industry, for All the Wrong Reasons, Says ...
    Here's one increasingly hostile campaign that the food industry can totally defuse, and it could start tomorrow, with almost guaranteed success. It's the issue of labeling GMOs, food products made with genetically modified ingredients.Click here to read this article
  • 2012's Civil Liberties Apocalypse Has Already ...
    In case you missed it, President Barack Obama has signed a death knell for the Bill of Rights. It's a hell of a way to begin a year many believe will mark the end of the world.Click here to read this article
  • Climate Code Red: Implications of the Arctic P ...
    Of the many "Elephants in the Room" in the climate change debate, none are larger than the potential release to atmosphere of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane contained in the Arctic permafrost.Click here to read this article
  • Fair Trade USA Changes Label Policy
    OAKLAND, Calif. - Fair Trade USA has revised its multiple ingredients policy after considering feedback from stakeholders. Click here to read this article
  • Organic Group Questions Need to Produce More Food
    The government needs to encourage consumers to reform their diets rather than calling on farmers to produce more food, according to a leading European organic group.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • SPRAWL: A Six-Letter Word with a Four-Letter W ...
    Sprawl can be bad, and it can be necessary, depending on the source and the treatment of the land. As the human population grows, how do we reclaim the word sprawl?
  • Decline in U.S. Meat Consumption: Public Healt ...
    According to USDA estimates, per capita meat consumption in the United States nearly doubled between 1930 and 2007. On average, each American today eats about 200 pounds of meat per year, or almost nine ounces per day—roughly twice the global average. With a few exceptions, intake has been on a ...
  • When Is Enough Enough?
    If one does not have limits—and indeed, all of life is based on limits, whether the free-market economists and politicians want to admit it or not—one can never arrive and find fulfillment.
  • The Cellulose Quandary
    Cellulose-based ethanol may be a bust. Ethanol produced from switchgrass is proving very different. Much will depend on innovations in ethanol production from corn stover and corn cobs.
  • One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: FDA on Cepha ...
    In the span of just two weeks, then, FDA has moved to prevent misuse of one drug while shirking its responsibility for two others.

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Heroes
    Torture, secrecy, genocide, and lies : history in the raw Submitted by John Farnham to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Back to a Non-Resilient Future
    The failure to match growth in our dependence on electric power with appropriate investment in the resilience of the infrastructure is a political one. End of January The Islay Energy Trust will publish outline plans for Community Energy Cooperative Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cul ...
  • Haiti: The republic of NGOs? - we ask where bi ...
    If we take the US contribution alone, about 99 per cent of it goes back to the Pentagon, the State Department, the NGOs and the contractors The growth of the republic of NGOs in Haiti began 40 years ago, before that Haiti could feed and clothe itself. Submitted by Sacha Jones to US Politics &amp ...
  • Doctor Exposes Fluoride as Poison
    It is now known thanks to the meticulous research of Dr. Jennifer Luke from the University of Surrey in England that the pineal gland is the primary target of fluoride accumulation within the body. Also, Fluoride is known to have tremendous effects on Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US Pol ...
  • 28 Signs That US Public Schools Are Rapidly Be ...
    Our children are being trained how to live as subservient slaves in a Big Brother police state. Today, nearly everything that children do in public schools is watched, monitored, recorded and tracked. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |&nbs ...

Angry Indian News

  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Revealed: Survival International alerted Andaman authorities to human safaris two years ago: The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- New ...
    Afghans Condemn US Over Urination Video -- News from Antiwar.com: From Afghan President Hamid Karzai to tribal elders in the far southern Helmand Province, reaction is coming out from the leaked... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Spooks off the hook but torture fight continue ...
    Spooks off the hook but torture fight continues / Britain / Home - Morning Star: Top government figures are still not off the hook for Britain's complicity in torture despite the Crown Prosecution... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Mapuche women assaulted by police, have crimin ...
    Mujeres mapuche agredidas por Carabineros, presentan querella criminal Guillermina Painevilo with his daughter Susana Guzman, accompanied by members of their community, with the sponsorship of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbia ...
    Kosovo Albanian protestors dispersed on Serbian border | Demotix.com: Police cordons blocked the road outside the northern town of Podujevo, some six kilometers (four miles) from the border with... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US to keep 11 aircraft carriers to show sea power
    ShareThisUS to keep 11 aircraft carriers to show sea power 21 Jan 2012 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told sailors aboard the country's oldest aircraft carrier that the U.S. is committed to maintaining a fleet of 11 of the formidable warships despite budget pressures, in part to project sea powe ...
  • Atlanta Jewish Times owner says sorry for Obam ...
    ShareThisAtlanta Jewish Times owner says sorry for Obama 'hit' column --Andrew Adler says he deeply regrets writing a column suggesting Mossad agents should consider 'a hit' on the president if he fails to support Israel 20 Jan 2012 The owner of a Jewish newspaper in Atlanta has said he deeply r ...
  • IED blast kills 4 in south Afghanistan
    ShareThisIED blast kills 4 in south Afghanistan 22 Jan 2012 Four civilians have been killed and two others injured by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Helmand province, which is a hotbed of Taliban militants. Mohammad Ismail Hotak, a senior provincial police official, said the inc ...
  • Gingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending ...
    ShareThisGingrich Wins South Carolina Primary, Upending G.O.P. Race 22 Jan 2012 Surprising his rivals and upending the Republican race for the presidency, Newt Gingrich won the pivotal South Carolina primary Saturday, 10 days after a fourth-place finish in New Hampshire left the impression his c ...
  • Epidemic fears see bird flu doctors halt research
    ShareThisEpidemic fears see bird flu doctors halt research 21 Jan 2012 Influenza experts have agreed to a two-month voluntary ban on research into a highly dangerous strain of bird-flu virus because of fears that it may escape from their laboratories to cause a global human epidemic. In a joint ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Time to Leave Afghanistan
    21 January 2012 This war is going to turn out badly. We are wasting lives and resources while the United States decays and other threats emerge.  We led the horse to water. Importantly, there is no value in pretending that Pakistan is an ally. We should wish the best of luck to the Afghan ...
  • All In: The Education of General David Petraeus
    Dear Friends and Family, After three years of effort, the day has nearly arrived!  My book, "All In:  The Education of General David Petraeus," written with Vernon Loeb, will be released in just one week.  I’ll soon appear on Fox and Friends, CNN,  Jon Stewart's “The Daily S ...
  • CBS Video of MEDEVAC Issue
    20 January 2012 What do you think of Lieutenant General John F. Campbell's remarks in this video? Please click to view.
  • JCS: Curiouser and Curiouser
    19 January 2012 I published a letter that I received from Congressman Todd Akin's office.  Mr. Akin is on the House Armed Services Committee.  According to Mr. Akin's office, HASC received the letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  After I published the letter, I read an email t ...
  • Joint Chiefs of Staff: Bogus Report to Congress
    19 January 2012 The Joint Chiefs of Staff sent a bogus letter on MEDEVAC to the House Armed Services Committee.  The JCS letter is so filled with errors and deceptions that it has taken more than a week for me to respond.  The JCS directly refutes my work on MEDEVAC. Thirteen pilots ...

The Killing Train

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

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN concerned over Cambodia blocking internatio ...
    [JURIST] The UN expressed concern [press release] on Friday over Cambodia's decision to not appoint the reserve judge to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] over "ethical concerns." The UN stated that the ethical concerns were unfou ...
  • Mali becomes first African state to enforce IC ...
    [JURIST] Mali signed an agreement [press release] Friday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] to become the first African country to agree to enforce the ICC's sentences of imprisonment. Article 103 of the Rome Statute [text], which governs the ICC, states that "[a] sen ...
  • Chevron appeals Ecuador court's $18 billion fine
    [JURIST] US oil company Chevron Corp [official website] announced Friday that it has filed an appeal [text, PDF, in Spanish] with the National Court of Justice in Ecuador asking it to reconsider the decision rendered by an Ecuadorian judge [press release] that would require Chevron to pay $18 bi ...
  • Federal appeals court strikes New Mexico sex o ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that a policy in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, that bans registered sex offenders from entering the city's public libraries is unconstitutional. The court reasoned that the policy violate ...
  • UN rights expert calls on new North Korea lead ...
    [JURIST] The UN Special Rapporteur on North Korean Human Rights Marzuki Darusman called [statement; press release] Friday on the new leadership of North Korea (DPRK) [JURIST news archive] to improve human rights concerns in their country. The statement comes as North Korea begins a new era of le ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Obama Got Us Out of Iraq, but Voters Just Don' ...
    Although it was a signature issue for Sen. Obama during his campaign, President Obama won't get much political capital for following through on his promise. The leitmotif of Sen. Barack Obama's early presidential campaign was the inherent wrongness of the war in Iraq and how it represente ...
  • U.S. Drone That Went Down in Iran Was High-Tec ...
    The drone that Iran claims to have shot down was a stealth RQ-170 "Sentinel" The RQ-170 "Sentinel," a stealth unmanned U.S. drone / Wikimedia Commons The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crash ...
  • A Hot Flash in the Cold War With Pakistan
    A NATO attack kills 24 Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan responds by closing U.S. supply routes into Afghanistan. Is the relationship between Washington and Islamabad about to disintegrate? The relationship between Pakistan and the United States is, for both sides, like a raw nerve that keeps g ...
  • Mitt Romney Ramps Up Attacks on Obama
    Judging by his latest barrage of criticism, the former Massachusetts governor is already running against the president -- sort of First there was the television advertisement in New Hampshire, which received widespread condemnation from the media elite for taking President Obama's wor ...
  • Newt's Gift to Obama: A GOP Immigration Rift
    With his "humane" argument, the former House speaker has put the president's chief rival, Mitt Romney, in a difficult spot MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: The Return of Imperial Newt Did Gingrich Walk Into an Immigration Minefield? Presidential Debate Timeline Duri ...

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Tikun Olam

  • Gingrich’s Implicit Anti-Semitism in Primary V ...
    Newt Gingrich’s South Carolina victory speech, and ones he’s been giving for the past 20 years, offered a pointed reference to famed community organizer, Saul Alinsky.  Alinsky, who was Jewish, was the model who inspired the young Barack Obama when he first moved to Chicago and train ...
  • Atlanta Jewish Newspaper Advocates Mossad Assa ...
    Andrew Adler, now that’s a name that should live in Jewish infamy.  He’s the publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times who actually published a column in his paper saying that one of three options Israel should consider on the day the Prime Minister hears that Iran has a nuclear weapon i ...
  • Republican National Committee Endorses Elimina ...
    Not only does Newt Gingrich believe there’s no such thing as a Palestinian people, the Republican National Committee does as well.  That mean that 20 years of bipartisan agreement between political parties and the foreign policy of presidents both Republican and Democratic, has been overtu ...
  • Bruce Riedel: Netanyahu’s Goal is ‘Regime Chan ...
    Earlier this week, Brookings Institution scholar Bruce Riedel spoke (listen to audio here) at an Atlantic Council Iran symposium.  He made some very incisive comments which are worth mentioning.  First, he began his remarks with the colorful phrase which fittingly integrated the world political ...
  • Israeli Attorney General Expects to Indict Lie ...
    Born in Moldova in the former Soviet Union, Mr. Lieberman also commands the loyalty of many of the one million Israelis who immigrated here from the former Soviet Union and tend toward rightist nationalist politics.Mr. Lieberman…is highly pessimistic about democracy’s evolving in the Arab ...

If Americans Knew

  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.

David J. Gregory

  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...
  • Listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast HAAR ...
    This is an (CLICK HERE FOR THE SHOW) encore presentation of a show that aired in 2005. It’s revealing because it discusses the secret facility in Alaska that manipulates the ionosphere with possible devastating results. Listen to scientists working on it then and their reluctance to speak about ...
  • Official 9/11 Fable To Become Part Of School C ...
    Government-supported effort to ‘encourage critical thinking’ actually encourages obedient regurgitation of lies Paul Joseph Watson Rest of Story on Prison Planet.com Tuesday, September 6, 2011 “We don’t need no education….we don’t need no thought control.” In a week where the establishment is de ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • The Unsuitablog Archive
    The Unsuitablog contains a huge range of posts from simple criticism to investigation to downright in-your-face sabotage. It also has heaps of advice on how to recognise and expose greenwash and the entire series of Monthly Undermining Tasks which helped the book Underminers become a reality. To ...
  • The Unsuitablog: Winding Down and Winding Up
    Four years, and it feels like it. It would take a book to tell the story of The Unsuitablog: all the work that has gone into it; the sleepless nights wondering whether a stunt would come off or what the repercussions of an exposure would be; the arm-aching pixel manipulation in creating the hund ...
  • You’re Not Taking “Radical” ...
    On Monday 5th December, 2011, Bill McKibben, author and figurehead-leader of 350.org wrote the following in the Daily Kos: You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in DC in August against the Keystone Pipeline? We’re not radical. Radica ...
  • Strikes vs Royal Weddings
    There is going to be a strike in Britain on Wednesday. The UK Government are condemning it. This is starting to appear all over Facebook: When the government decide we can have a day off for the royal wedding it doesn’t damage the economy, but when the workers decide to strike for a day it ...
  • WWF Denies Palm Oil is the Problem, then Count ...
    It seems there is no depth to which the corporate world’s own favourite NGO, WWF, will not sink. An article in this week’s Guardian was happy to give WWF some free publicity, implying that the group actually give a stuff about the wildlife they were apparently set up to protect (or s ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • How to Create a Minimalist Map Design With Ope ...
    Mapping can be as much about choosing what data not to include as to include, so you can best focus your audience on the story you are telling. Oftentimes with data visualization projects, the story isn't about the streets or businesses or parks, but rather about the data you're trying to layer ...
  • How Public Lab's Thermal Flashlight Could Impr ...
    In December, Public Laboratory members made themselves a "public lavatory." Six members of the online DIY science community gathered in the well-appointed, but small bathroom of staff member Liz Barry with the lights off -- for citizen science. Two staff members (Leif Percifield and Jeff Wa ...
  • Why Unions Should Not Support SOPA
    A version of this post first appeared on the MIT Center for Civic Media blog. I was supposed to speak on a panel about SOPA recently with the Northeast chapters of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It was to serve as an educational discussion ...
  • NextDrop's Dashboards Look Great, But Mobile C ...
    One year ago, when we were just a team of graduate students with a big idea, our teammate Thejo Kote came to Hubli, India and demoed a web-based dashboard to the executive engineer and commissioner here. The dashboard uses Google Maps to show the status of valves and other system components in r ...
  • The Top 10 Data-Mining Links of 2011
    Overview is a project to create an open-source document-mining system for investigative journalists and other curious people. We've written before about the goals of the project, and we're developing some new technology, but mostly we're stealing it from other fields. The following are s ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Edge on Archaeology - Ancient Sumerians were N ...
    Archaeological finds from cuneiform tablets and remnants of different vessels from over 4,000 years ago show that even around the dawn of civilisation, fermented cereal juice was highly enjoyed by Mesopotamia’s inhabitants. However, besides the two basic ingredients, barley and emmer (a species ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Northern Nigeria Faces App ...
    "I am trying to get in contact with Mgr. John Namanza Niyiring, Bishop of Kano but the lines do not work", reported Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama of Jos in central Nigeria. On the evening of January 20, in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, a series of coordinated bomb attacks an ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Jews Are in Palestine a ...
    Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, called Israeli settlements “deliberate vandalism” at a press conference Tuesday, January 10, 2012. Nick Clegg is turning international law on its head and attempting to rewrite history.Great Britain was entrusted in 1922 by the League of Nations with ...
  • Oil Addiction - Labor Union Leaves BlueGreen A ...
    The Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) left the BlueGreen Alliance Friday, citing a disagreement with the group’s members over the Keystone XL pipeline. LIUNA, a vocal Keystone supporter, took aim at other unions for opposing the project. “We’re repulsed by some of our suppos ...
  • Afghanistan on Edge - France Suspends Afghan M ...
    France has suspended its military operations in Afghanistan and may withdraw its force from that country after an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops and wounded several others. The French government has described Friday's attack against the soldiers as an assassination. French officials ...

High Country News

  • Picking ranchers' brains, from Colorado to Mon ...
    Colorado State University professor Maria Fernandez-Gimenez researches traditional ecological knowledge to better understand how ranchers learn and adapt management practices, form their attitudes and opinions on environmental change, and interact with their neighbors and resource scientists.
  • An Obama-Huntsman ticket would get my vote
    It might be a radical pairing, but if Huntsman ran as Obama's vice president, he'd get this writer's vote.
  • How to find a 13,000 year-old mammoth
    After seeing a drawing of a wooly mammoth in a Utah cave, the author ponders on the possibility they existed along with the humans who inhabited the U.S. Southwest years ago.
  • Getting a ski pass the hard way
    The author wins a season pass at Aspen by "boot-packing" a steep ski slope, which helps reduce the risk of avalanche
  • Resolutions for living smarter in 2012
    We could all live healthier, more fulfilling and sustainable lives if we would try to do more with less.

CounterCurrents

  • Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Li ...
    By Cynthia McKinney It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media publications and Libyan sources that our President now has 12,000 U.S. troops stationed in Malta and they are about to make their descent into Libya
  • Will A Pro-Gadhafi Green Revolution Topple The ...
    By Franklin Lamb The signs from Libya are that this country remains volatile and that contrary to NATO claims that it put into place a new democratic Libya that the predictable next chapter is starting to unfold that may bring the end of the NTC before the coming June elections when it is sched ...
  • US Doubles Aircraft Carriers Near The Persian Gulf
    By Peter Symonds The Obama administration has reinforced the threat of American military strikes against Iran by doubling the number of US aircraft carrier groups in the region. The provocative decision heightens the danger of war in the Persian Gulf as the US moves aggressively to impose a de ...
  • And Who, By the Way, Is John C. Stennis?!?
    By Toby ORyan Who, you might ask, is John C. Stennis? What are the boons and benefits for humanity accomplished by this John C. Stennis such that he came to have his name emblazoned on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier?
  • What Does Ken Ford Know? And Who Put Him In Pr ...
    By Cynthia McKinney Ken Ford, Jr. wrote an intelligence report on the Iraq War which contradicted the Administrations reason for going to war against Iraq

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young p ...

Yid With Lid

  • SHAME ON YOU ED KOCH! Shame On You For Flip-F ...
    As Mayor of New York, he was a strong "take no prisoners" leader. As he has aged, Ed Koch has become a foolish political hack. Few remember that in early 2008 he blasted then-Senator Obama's anti-Israel stances. But most remember that without any changes in Obama's positions,  he helped&nbs ...
  • " Arabism Is Dead! Long Live...???"
    By Barry Rubin An editorial in the moderate Lebanese publication, Lebanon Now, reminds us of just how dramatically the Middle East has changed. Many of the arguments and assumptions that governed the Arabic-speaking world for six decades have simply vanished. Others, though, have just been ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama to Register 215,000 Illegal ...
    This election season President Obama plan's to eliminate the middle-man. In an exclusive story from Newsbusted anchor Jodi Miller we learn that the President is delaying the deportation of 215,000 illegal immigrants till 2013. He plans to make sure that they are registered and get to vote (Democ ...
  • Can Real Liberalism and the Democratic Party B ...
    by Barry Rubin “I want the people to know that they still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for them, and that ain’t bad.” – Jack Nicholson as “President Dale” in Mars Attacks. The far left has at least temporarily won the battle of ideas in the United States a ...
  • Asking Some Questions About Democratic Party E ...
    Unless you were stuck in a cave, you probably have already heard about today's big Drudge revelation about Newt Gingrich's second wife giving a supposedly explosive interview to ABC News. Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband's career with a single interview. Earlier this wee ...

The Real Agenda

  • Ron Paul: “Corporations Run the Media”
    by Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda January 20, 2012 “We are dangerous to the status quo in this country”. That was the opening line with which CNN decided to present presidential candidate Ron Paul last night before the start of the South Carolina debate. The thing is, not even CNN c ...
  • Rick Santorum used his position in Congress to ...
    by Andy Kroll Mother Jones January 20, 2012 Like any good presidential candidate, Rick Santorum heaps praise on America’s soldiers and veterans. He’s pledged to “make veterans a high priority” if elected president, adding, “This is not a Republican issue, this is not a Democratic issue, it is an ...
  • Study links sleep problems to schizophrenia
    by Elizabeth Walling NaturalNews.com January 21, 2012 Getting quality sleep could be a vitally important piece for solving the puzzle of mental health. Previous studies have linked poor sleep to depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety and ADHD. Now for the first time, research also shows a strong ...
  • State of Texas air drops rabies vaccines on 7, ...
    NaturalNews.com January 20, 2012 The weaponization of vaccines just took another leap forward in America with the recent air-dropping of rabies vaccines by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Using a battery of small planes based out of Del Rio, Texas recently dropped 1.8 million edib ...
  • Medicamentos contra o câncer tornam tumores ma ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda 20 de janeiro de 2012 Quando os defensores da medicina natural questionam os tratamentos tradicionais usados ​​para combater o câncer, incluindo quimioterapia e radiação, as preocupações são muitas vezes dirigidas para o fato de que as terapias podem enfraquec ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm will seek permit to legally kill eagles
    A controversial wind farm proposed near Red Wing plans to ask for federal permission to legally kill eagles, making it one of the first in the nation to participate in a new federal strategy aimed at managing the often-lethal conflict between birds and turbine blades. U.S. Fish and Wildlife offi ...
  • Birds at risk from South Florida ‘wind f ...
    Splattered birds make going green a tough sell. The risk of birds flying into fast-spinning blades atop wind-catching turbines the size of the Statue of Liberty threatens to torpedo a proposed “wind farm” that could produce non-polluting energy on the edge of the Everglades. The same ...
  • Farm federation wants block on wind power
    Plans to dot Ontario’s countryside with wind turbines should be shelved, says the province’s largest agricultural organization. The Ontario Federation of Agriculture is calling on the government to properly address a range of concerns, including the health effects of turbines, before ...
  • Wind farm plan canned; Landscape saved, &#8216 ...
    The unique Central Otago landscape was safe from corporate industrialisation after the withdrawal of the $2 billion Project Hayes plan, artist and objector Grahame Sydney said yesterday. Meridian Energy’s 633-megawatt plan was one of the most controversial energy projects in New Zealand and spar ...
  • Duke bails on wind farm plans
    TRAVERSE CITY — Duke Energy Renewables pulled the plug on plans for a wind farm in Benzie and Manistee counties. The company proposed installing wind turbines on about 13,000 acres to generate up to 200 megawatts of output. Duke Energy announced Wednesday it discontinued the project, citing &#82 ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Obama to Revive Budget-Cutting Effort
    “In its budget submission next month, the Obama administration will urge lawmakers to revisit the failed attempt by a congressional supercommittee to cut the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion, the White House says.” (CBS) Cuts from future increases, that is. FEE Timely Classic &#8220 ...
  • Government Issues Guide to Stopping Teacher Ch ...
    “The Obama administration is creating a manual showing how schools can fight teacher-led cheating on standardized tests, asking educators to help stomp out ‘testing irregularities.’” (USA Today) Only in the government’s schools. FEE Timely Classic “The Origins of the Public Sch ...
  • The Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet — fo ...
    Last week the acronyms SOPA and PIPA were unheard of, much less decipherable, by most people.
  • Internet World Sends Message to Washington: Ha ...
    “When the powerful world of old media mobilized to win passage of an online antipiracy bill, it marshaled the reliable giants of K Street — the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association of America and, of course, the motion picture lobby, with its new chairman, ...
  • Fed Urges Support for Housing Market
    “Top Federal Reserve officials are prodding the White House and Congress to take more aggressive action to stop the free-fall in the housing market, warning that the U.S. economy will remain sluggish and vulnerable and will not fully recover until housing returns to better health.” ( ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

Worldpress - Africa

  • Development Challenges for Africa in 2012
    With economic malaise in the West and a growing population of young people at home, Africa faces significant challenges and opportunities in the coming year.
  • The Unsolved Mystery of Agnès Dury
    Four years after a young French aid worker was assassinated in a small Burundian town, family members and coworkers are still pressing for a proper investigation.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • HIV and AIDS: The End of the Beginning
    A large number of HIV infections have been treated or prevented in the last decade, but in some ways the battle against the global epidemic has just begun.
  • Repression of the Press in Cote d'Ivoire
    Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara came into office promising to uphold democracy, but members of the press find themselves under threat.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The NDP Leadership Debate in Toronto
    I came. I saw. I listened. And what I listened to was a lot of what MP Nathan Cullen characterized as “violent agreement”. The packed crowd (people had to be turned away) listened to candidates who agree, violently, on what government should do.  Grow the economy sustainably, help the downtrodde ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...
  • Ron Paul Hysteria
    So, I’m noticing a ton of attacks on Ron Paul from progressives.  The reason is simple enough, Ron Paul is great on some key things the left cares about, and horrible on others.  His last ad in Iowa says he’d ban abortion, for example.  On the other hand, he wants to withdraw all tro ...
  • You don’t get the payroll tax “cut”
    There has been much ballyhoo about how there is a payroll tax cut and that an extra $40 per paycheck (every two week) will make a big difference. Sure, if you get to keep it (via Americablog): Some rates will be significantly higher, such as a 27.4% increase to $17 from $13.34 just to receive [...]
  • You don’t get the payroll tax “cut ...
    There has been much ballyhoo about how there is a payroll tax cut and that an extra $40 per paycheck (every two week) will make a big difference. Sure, if you get to keep it (via Americablog): Some rates will be significantly higher, such as a 27.4% increase to $17 from $13.34 just to receive [...]

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Human variome taking shape with Chinese node
    An ambitious project to log all genetic variations that cause human disease lunged forward this week with the launch of the Chinese “node” of the Human Variome Project (HVP). Scientists and clinicians in China meanwhile are hoping participation will spread genetic counseling and genetic medicine ...
  • US cell-based flu vaccine plant open for business
    Americans may soon be getting flu jabs made with cells and not eggs. The drug company Novartis opened a first-of-its kind facility in the US to produce influenza vaccines using mammalian cells, Novartis and US government officials announced 13 December. The approach is an alternative to conve ...
  • NSF takes broad look at broader impacts
    A National Science Foundation (NSF) task force has finalized its recommendations for tweaking the agency's two merit review criteria, 'intellectual merit' and 'broader impacts'. And central to that effort was a non-prescriptive, big-tent definition of broader impacts, says task force co-chair J ...
  • Land grabbing in Africa continues to harm the poor
    More than 200 million hectares of land in poor nations was sold by governments in land-grabbing deals with industry and investors between 2000 and 2010, a new study reports. This high global demand for land is likely to continue for the long term, concludes the study by the International Land ...
  • Stratolaunch embarks on hybrid rocket-plane system
    Forget Kennedy Space Center. How about launching massive rockets from the underbelly of the largest plane ever built? On Tuesday, Burt Rutan, of aerospace company Scaled Composites, and billionaire Paul Allen, a former Microsoft executive, announced Stratolaunch Systems -- a company that aims to ...

new geography

  • Against Cosmopolitanism
    All science fiction agrees. History is leading to the unification of earth. The united world may be governed by benign world federalism or by a dystopian global tyranny. But the modern literature of prophecy is clear: the age of competing nation-states is coming to an end. There are no visio ...
  • This Is America's Moment, If Washington Doesn' ...
    The vast majority of Americans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, and, according to a 2011 Pew Survey, close to a majority feel that China has already surpassed the U.S. as an economic power. These views echo those of the punditry, right and left, who see the U.S. on the r ...
  • Mistaking an Aberration for the End of Home Ow ...
    It is well known that home ownership has declined in the United States from the peak of the housing bubble. According to Current Population Survey data, the national home ownership rate fell 2.9 percentage points from the peak of the bubble (4th quarter 2004) to the third quarter of 2011. I ...
  • Florida’s Quick Rebound
    Adding nearly 119,000 people in 2011, Florida has capped a decade of steady population increase  to see the state grow 19% since 2000.  Despite 2009, an historic year where more people left than arrived, the overall net growth of Florida has yielded two additional congressional seats, m ...
  • Fresh Winds Blowing on California High Speed Rail
    For California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project, last week brought plenty of  surprises and challenges.  Dominating the headlines were the resignations of several top officials of the High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA). Among them were board chairman Tom Umberg, CEO Roelof van ...

GM Watch

  • Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship + other news
    Here's some of the recent news we've put out via Twitter. More here: https://twitter.com/gmwatch Big controversy over Oxford University Press publishing Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship bit.ly/yfXURx  Monsanto VP stands for AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - boar ...
  • Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship + other news
    Here's some of the recent news we've put out via Twitter. More here: https://twitter.com/gmwatch Big controversy over Oxford University Press publishing Monsanto advisor's pseudo-scholarship bit.ly/yfXURx  Monsanto VP stands for AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science - boar ...
  • GM crops undermining sustainable weed control
    NOTE: The article below by the former EPA biotech specialist Doug Gurian-Sherman discusses an important just-published paper in the journal BioScience:http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.12  The BioScience piece documents not only the current state of glyphosate resistant weeds, but ...
  • GM crops undermining sustainable weed control
    NOTE: The article below by the former EPA biotech specialist Doug Gurian-Sherman discusses an important just-published paper in the journal BioScience:http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/bio.2012.62.1.12  The BioScience piece documents not only the current state of glyphosate resistant weeds, but ...
  • Protests outside Monsanto meeting planned
    Monsanto Attempts to Lockout Socially Responsible Shareholder at Annual Meeting Harrington Investments, January 20 2012 http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/20/4203032/monsanto-attempts-to-lockout-socially.html *Shareholder's Resolution Would Require Chemical Giant to Study Risks of its Genetically En ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • The Neil Keenan / “Dragon Family” ...
    The full text of the lawsuit (Case 1:11-cv-08500-JFK, Filed 11/23/11, downloaded from pacer.gov) has been posted at the Divine Cosmos website: This is a civil claim arising out of the concerted, knowing, malicious scheme and international conspiracy engaged in by the Defendants for the designed ...
  • Blackwater, Xe, ACADEMI
    Via: AFP: The US security firm formerly known as Blackwater, which was barred from Iraq over a deadly 2007 shooting, has renamed itself a second time. USTC Holdings, the investor consortium that acquired ex-Blackwater firm Xe Services in December 2010, announced ACADEMI as the new name and brand ...
  • South Korea: Seoul Skyscraper Resembling Twin ...
    Pic at link. Via: Bloomberg: The design of twin skyscrapers planned for Seoul may be modified in the wake of criticism that a cloud-shaped bridge joining the buildings resembles the explosions that felled the World Trade Center towers. MVRDV, the Dutch architecture firm that drew the plans for t ...
  • MIT Scientists Create Camera That Allows Photo ...
    Via: New York Times / MIT News Office: More than 70 years ago, the M.I.T. electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight as it pierced an apple, the coronet created by the splash of a drop of milk. Now scientists a ...
  • Multimillion Dollar Crowdturfing Industry Grow ...
    Incredibly, laughably, this piece doesn’t mention things like the U.S. Military’s desire to develop persona management software or Team Themis (HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico): After having spent several months studying those emails and otherwise investigating the industry depic ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...

Desertification

  • Mapping : where is water available in dry area ...
    Read at : http://icardablog.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/new-mapping-methods/ New mapping methods Wise rainwater harvesting saves crops from failure Harvest water, not just crops. New mapping methods help planners see where water is available  dry areas. The majority of the world’s farmers live in l ...
  • Holistic Management of Grassland (Google / Wha ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.whatisworking.com/2012/01/saving-us-grasslands-bid-to-turn-back.html Saving US grasslands: a bid to turn back the clock on desertification Posted by Linda H Desertification caused by climate change and human activity now threatens the liv ...
  • NASA Sees Repeating La Niña Hitting Its Peak ( ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120119152001.htm ScienceDaily (Jan. 19, 2012) — La Niña, “the diva of drought,” is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern ...
  • It could take 300 years to recover desert land ...
    Read at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/04/china-desertification China makes gain in battle against desertification but has long fight ahead Expert warns it could take 300 years to recover desert land resulting from over-cultivation and water demands Jonathan Watts in Beijing guardian ...
  • Desertification in China (Treehugger)
    Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/tag/desertification/ http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/chinas-desertification-will-take-three-centuries-to-reverse.html An area of China the size of Rhode Island is being lost to desertification each year, with 38% of all the land on Earth in danger o ...

The Paper Trail

  • Anniversary of 'Citizens United' decision draw ...
    Two years after a controversial Supreme Court ruling lifted many restrictions on political spending, America’s campaign finance laws have officially become a joke.Stephen Colbert, a comedian who says he wants to be the “president of the United States of South Carolina,” has used the "Definitely ...
  • Haley Barbour's money mission
    Last month, about two dozen deep-pocketed Republicans gathered in New York City to hear a money pitch from then Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
  • FACT CHECK: Did Gingrich ‘slash’ federal spending?
    Winning Our Future’s new TV ad falsely claims Newt Gingrich “slashed” spending in his four years as House speaker. Federal spending went up 18 percent from 1995 to 2000, the time frame mentioned in the ad.
  • Presidential super PAC spending hits $30 million
    Mitt Romney continues to enjoy a huge advantage in support from “super PACs” overall, but is running about even with a pro-Newt Gingrich group in South Carolina, records show.
  • FACT CHECK: Final four GOP candidates face off ...
    Facts were sometimes used as blunt instruments as the four remaining GOP presidential candidates hammered away at each other in the last debate before Saturday’s South Carolina primary.Santorum and Romney tangled on the Massachusetts health care law. Santorum wrongly claimed it was a “government ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Tech in ’12: Apple may be in more troubl ...
    by Eric Pettifor First of all, I’m not going to predict the end of the world. I know, 2012 is the year that the Mayan long count calendar ends, on December 21st, to be exact, but somehow I doubt it will be terminal. Really, our best shot at near term extinction comes from science. But [...]
  • Joe Bodolai’s final hit
    A BoB short: A last blog post by Joe Bodolai has gone viral today after the L.A. Police ruled the well-loved comedy writer’s death a suicide. Bodolai, who worked on both “Saturday Night Live” and the “Kids in the Hall” before helping to launch Canada’s Comedy ...
  • War on Christmas? I hadn’t noticed.
    By Montreal Simon Well I have to hand it to the Cons at Sun News, because if it wasn’t for them I’d never know that a brutal War on Christmas was raging. Although so far most of the reports flowing in from the front seem depressingly familiar. Mostly more scary Lezra and the endless ...
  • On Blatchford, Hitchens, and why babies suck
    By Frank Moher One is impressed by just how credulous the reading public — that would be you — can be. You see what I just did there? I just insulted you. Conventional wisdom would suggest that insulting one’s readers is not the best way to start an article. But conventional wi ...
  • Kent Kills Kyoto: Even the Taiwanese animators ...
    By Montreal Simon I could run this old video of Peter Kent introducing a documentary where he calls global warming “the greatest threat to life on the planet” and warns that the devastating effects of climate change “will be seen in our children’s lifetime. Or I could run this picture of him ret ...

libcom

  • Occupy Atlanta: Privilege Politics or Popular ...
    The Occupy Atlanta (OA) movement, like the OWS movement more generally, revealed a national response to the general economic crisis. Many imagine the economic crisis forced up a spontaneous gathering of forces of a new generation. In Atlanta, that new gathering really only lasted for a few days ...
  • Protest at Roche Against Dismissal and Shady P ...
    rochesm.png The ZSP takes the pharmaceutical giant to task for denying workers their basic rights. On January 20, the ZSP organized a protest at the headquarters of Roche Poland ...
  • The Bloody Utopia of JSTREET
    A look at the true nature of the rise of the self proclaimed 'liberal Jewish Lobby' in the U.S.A. or really should we say Zionism-lite. The rallying cry of JSTREET seems to be gathering up an increasing numbers of support ac ...
  • The 'pitchfork movement' shuts down Sicily for ...
    Movimento forconi.jpg Report on the struggle of the 'Pitchfork Movement' in Sicily which has seen a major blockades around the island (including the port of Palermo) for the past four days i ...
  • Man in coma loses benefits as he's classified ...
    atos_dr_nick[1].png The government's decision to crack down on the disabled took a bizarre turn this week after a man in a coma was stripped of his benefits - because he'd not handed his fit ...

Free Range International

  • Back in the USSA
    I’ve been trying to come up with a post for over a month now but don’t have any good pictures because I’m back in America, sans super cool Nikon which got blown up in the Helmand, and without good pictures I don’t seem to be able to write.  That camera cost over a thousand bucks [...]
  • The Gladiators
    Editors Note:  B is taking some time off from destroying Libtards on Thomas Ricks blog to vent on a topic few men will dare touch.  At the Foriegn Policy blog he’s been coming up with stuff like this: Personally, I am glad that while I had to worry about leaders who were more worried about ...
  • War Groupies
    This is the second entry in the new “Paint Baba Tim’s White Fence” program.  The first was from my Dad and this one is from my good friend B.  Regular readers have probably guessed by now that B and I worked together in Afghanistan and know each other well.  As I deal with agen ...
  • THE DIVERSITY PLATOON
    Editors Note:  This post is the first (of what I hope to be many) posts from my father Major General J.D. Lynch Jr. USMC (Ret.) The Current Situation Forty years ago, the American military was held in great contempt by the public it served. The feeling was returned in roughly equal measure. We ...
  • EFP’s
    During our last trip to Zaranj we had one more task to complete before we went home.  The after action report on the ambush of Haji Nematullah, reported they seized three large buckets of Home Made Explosives (HME) and three Explosively Formed Penetrator (EFP) mines.  EFP’s were a big prob ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Michael King (aka Martin Luther King) A RED ED ...
    The “Story Behind the Story” of Martin Luther King is a story of Edomite (Jewish) Hegelian Dialectic in action.  A CLASSIC TEXTBOOK case, actually. It’s the story of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement today.  Edomite agitators funding stooges to “protest” ...
  • Another Christian “Red” (Edomite) ...
    REFLECTING ABSENCE “Reflecting Absence”.  That’s the “official name” given by Israeli citizen and “architect” Michael Arad to the 9-11 memorial in New York.   Is this monument to death harmless and meaningless, or is it a very real and conscious effort b ...
  • WHO IS RICK SANTORUM?
    It’s official – Mormon Mitt Romney and Catholic Rick Santorum accounted for over 50% of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday. How did Santorum surge so quickly and so miraculously?   A clue may be this quote in the “Jewish Daily Forward” : “He takes his religion very seriously,” said ...
  • WHO IS RICK SANTORUM?
    It’s official – Mormon Mitt Romney and Catholic Rick Santorum accounted for over 50% of the Iowa Caucus Tuesday. How did Santorum surge so quickly and so miraculously?   A clue may be this quote in the “Jewish Daily Forward” : “He takes his religion very seriously,” said ...
  • Righteous Blood Part VI – (Attention Chr ...
    PAY ATTENTION ALL CHRISTIANS!!!!!  This is a RED (Edomite) Alert of the highest import!!!  (Does EVERYONE love Raymond?) I submit this is the single most important headline of the last 2000 years!  It doesn’t matter who (or what) is “elected” President.  It doesn’t matter ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Mary Simon, President of ITK (Jan 14, 2012)
    They are the first peoples of Canada’s north: the Inuit. They live in some of the most spectacular parts of this country, but the challenges facing them are daunting. From climate change to resource development, from education to housing. For the past six years the most powerful Inuit leader in ...
  • Ken Dryden, NHL Hall of Famer (Jan 7, 2012)
    Hockey and the hits: it's been a season where a lot has been said about headshots, concussions and suspensions. How much has the game really changed, and what is at stake for its future? One of the games great players of the past, one of its most passionate observers of the present, takes on tho ...
  • Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta (Nov. 19)
    Premier of Alberta, Alison Redford discusses her hopes for the province's future and the challenges she faces in the Keystone pipeline project.
  • Robbie Robertson, Musician and former member o ...
    Rock icon Robbie Robertson talks with Peter about life in the industry, his decision to stop touring 25 years ago and how his Jewish and Aboriginal roots drove his music career.
  • Rt. Hon. John Turner (Former PM and Liberal Le ...
    Canada's 17th Prime Minister and former leader of the Liberal Party joins Peter to talk about his legacy and the challenges facing his party today.

Scotts Contracting

  • Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Needs
    Power Point Presentation of how Incorporating Green Building Practices can Add Curb Appeal and Save on Home Energy Use Both of which will Add Value to your Home in Comfort and Appraisal Value This Green Build Wrap Around Porch was Designed and Built by Scotty, Scotts Contracting View the Power P ...
  • Renewable is DOable!-Guest Post
    Improving Your Sustainable Supply Chain – Life With Plastic, It’s Fantastic! Recycling is not just something that makes consumers feel good about being eco-friendly; it is also something that the earth requires. With limited resources, we must utilize materials to their highest potential. ...
  • Recycling is not just for Cans
    Earlier this year I was asked to replace a leaking roof on a Patio of an Investment Property.  The job consisted of Removing the existing Mound City Clay Roof Tiles from the Porch Roof and replacing with Certain Teed 3 Tab-Shingles (Energy Star Rated). Rather than dispose of the Clay Roof Tiles ...
  • Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety-
    Green Home Renovation Tips for Fire Safety Guest Post by: Ms Sally Davison  When it comes to sustainable home construction and renovation, fire safety should also be a concern. Preventing fires is a green practice in itself, because fires present a serious threat to the environment in terms of e ...
  • CSP-design with Heat Recovery Unit for added E ...
    UPDATE:  Concentrated Solar Power Design with Added Heat Recovery Unit Seeking Assistance to bring this design to market.   Please use Contact Form Below and Scotty, Scotts Contracting will reply to your message ASAP. Updated Concentrated Solar Power Photovoltaic Design with Added Automatic Heat ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Obama vs. Netanyahu vs. Ahmadinejad
    Whether Israel was behind the assassination of the Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran last week or not, much indicates that the Obama administration fears that the intent was to spiral things out of control by goading Iranian retaliation. This might explain the unprecedented step by Secretary o ...
  • French President Warns Attack On Iran Could Un ...
    F French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned that a military strike on Iran would "trigger war and chaos in the Middle East."  His comments come days ahead of a European Union debate on possible oil sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program and with tensions seemingly ...
  • Iranian news network Press TV has its licence ...
    Iranian news network Press TV has had its licence revoked by the media regulator Ofcom and will no longer be allowed to broadcast in the UK. Ofcom said the state broadcaster's English language outlet had breached several broadcasting licence rules over editorial control of the channel. Press ...
  • پروانه کار پرس تی وی در بریتانیا لغو شد
    آفکام، نهاد ناظر بر رسانه‌های بریتانیا، اعلام کرده است که پروانه کار پرس تی وی (تلویزیون انگلیسی زبان دولت ایران) را لغو کرده است. read more
  • Beijing caught in the middle over US sanctions ...
    As the West increases its pressure on Iran, the latest effort being a concerted campaign to impose an oil embargo on Tehran, China finds itself in a tough dilread more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Preparedness: A Good Alternative to Denial
    Community garden in New York City Book Review-Part VI Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Fleeing Vesuvius finishes with an Epilogue (Part 7), in which different authors give practical suggestions about preparing for the eventual collapse of our present ...
  • The Recipe for Change in a Post-Carbon World
    http://transitionculture.org/ Book Review-Part V (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 5 and 6 of Fleeing Vesuvius are entitled “Changing the Way We Live” and “Changing ...
  • Surviving the Collapse – Possible Strat ...
    Biochar pellets Book Review-Part IV (of VI) Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Parts 3 and 4 of Fleeing Vesuvius, “New Ways of Using the Land” and “Dealing with Climate Change,” focus mainly on  local and national strategie ...
  • Money and Energy Scarcity
        Local currency used in Ithaca, NY Book Review-Part III Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) The second part of Fleeing Vesuvius is entitled “Innovation in business, money and finance.” It draws on the main theme of Part ...
  • Peak Oil and the Importance of EROI
    Fleeing Vesuvius, New Zealand Edition (2011, Feasta and Living Economies) Book Review-Part II Obviously getting by without fossil fuels (owing to impending shortages of oil, natural gas and coal) will be an incredibly rude shock for all of us. Our current telecommunication, transportation a ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Democratic National Committee Chairwoman decli ...
    OccupyTheIowaCaucuses.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sunday, January 01, 2012 Contact : Stephen Toothman 515-480-5682 stoothman@yahoo.com Democratic National Committee Chairwoman declines to hear everyday people Occupy the Caucus extended an invitation to Democratic National Committee Chairwoma ...
  • Listen to Michael Moore Read 'Gratitude,' the ...
    Excerpted from
  • Christmas ’43
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore My dad had noticed for some years that I no longer wanted to shoot guns. He had taken note of when we boys in the neighborhood had stopped playing War. I didn’t know much about his time as a Marine in the South Pacif ...
  • Pietà
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore I was lost. I had paused for perhaps too long to inspect the statues in the hallways and the Rotunda, bronzed and marbled renditions of an odd assortment of great and not-so-great Americans: Will Rogers, Daniel Webster, G ...
  • Taxes (and Pepper Spray) Are for the Little Pe ...
    The New York Daily News reported on December 5th, 2011 that Brookfield Properties -- taking its cue from Leona Helmsley -- owes New York City $139,000 in back taxes. Brookfield is the owner of Zuccotti Park, site of the original Occupy Wall Street encampment, and one of the main forces behind it ...

Salon

  • How Gingrich’s big night unfolded
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  • How Bradley Manning’s fate will be decided
    This week, Bradley Manning came one step closer to being tried for allegedly leaking a trove of secret American cables to WikiLeaks when a military officer made the formal recommendation that Manning should face a court-martial on 22 criminal charges.One of the counts, aiding the enemy, carries ...
  • The hard truth about Citizens United
    The movement to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling and confront the doctrine of "corporate personhood" stands at a perilous crossroads.Across the country, two distinct strategies are converging on Congress. More than a million people have signed online petitions. S ...
  • Occupy San Francisco gets down to business
    SAN FRANCISCO--Act II of the Occupy Wall Street movement, San Francisco version, kicked off on a rainy, blustery Friday in the heart of the city’s financial district. Targeting specific corporations like Wells Fargo and Bank of America and emphasizing real, tangible issues like home foreclosures ...
  • Reid bows to online protest
    After Wednesday's one-day  blackout of Wikipedia, Craigslist and scores of other sites to protest the House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate companion, Protect IP Act; after Google's collection of a reported 7 million petition signatures; after seven co-sponsors of the S ...

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • PEV-Related Patent Issuances Set Record Levels
    The New York-based IP law firm of Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C tracks cleantech patent filings in the United States and around the world. According to Heslin Rothenberg, annual cleantech patent applications have more than doubled since 2008. In the third quarter of 2011, the numbe ...
  • $1 Billion More Pumping Into U.S. Wind
    Dire predictions abound for U.S. wind power development if a federal production tax credit dies as scheduled at the end of this year, but projects already in the works appear to retain solid investment appeal. Sempra Energy sure seems to think so.
  • Vermont Yankee Lives to Power Another Day
    The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, supplier of 73% of Vermont's emission-free electricity (and approximately one-third of the state's total electricity), won its day in federal court today, thus granting it the right to keep the doors open and the lights on (for the rest of the state).
  • Avoiding a Natural Gas Bridge to Nowhere
    Just as the history of unconventional natural gas production in America was fundamentally shaped by government support
  • EDF’s Utility Proposal Could Scale Up Distribu ...
    The California Public Utility Commission is accepting comments through January 25 and holding workshops February 8-10 on a proposal by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to create the nation’s first statewide on-bill repayment (OBR) program for energy efficiency and solar energy upgrades to be fin ...

EU Times

  • Megaquake Warning Issued For US-Mexican Pacifi ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) in Moscow that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Chiapas region of Mexico yesterday is a ‘potential precursor’ to a ‘megaquake’ of at least 7.5-8.3 expect ...
  • Cleric warns Saudi regime against Brutal Crack ...
    A prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia has warned the kingdom against the brutal crackdown on protesters amid ongoing anti-regime demonstrations in Eastern Province. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who is Friday Prayers leader of Saudi eastern town of Awamiyah, also called on Al Saud regime to stop bloods ...
  • Debate Audience Protests CNN Attempts To Exclu ...
    Crowd boos and jeers, demands Paul be allowed to answer. A remarkable scene unfolded during last night’s CNN hosted South Carolina debate when not once but twice, the audience had to intervene to ensure that Ron Paul be included in questions, as host John King attempted to skip over the Congress ...
  • Iran-based TV channel Press TV Banned in the UK
    Britain has revoked the press license of Iran-based English language broadcaster Press TV, accusing it of violating press regulations. But some say the decision was really motivated by British geopolitical interests. ­The Office of Communications (Ofcom), a government-approved watchdog overseein ...
  • Newt Gingrich Cancels Event Over Low Attendenc ...
    South Carolina Primary News. Ron Paul is currently raising funds for South Carolina, if you wish to help mr. Paul, please visit his website. • Ahead of the South Carolina primary taking place tomorrow (Saturday), four conservative State Senators in South Carolina have come forward to endorse Ron ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Comment on RIP Etta James - January 25, 1938 – ...
    Oi! I’m supposed to do the music bits round here! I sent a few clips of her to my email buddies yesterday, and was very suprised to find some had never heard of her. This one’s pretty cool… two of the all time greats together. Er.. make that three. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iccu3DcvAto She ...
  • Mitt Alas Will Release Tax Returns Jan. 24
    The Cayman Islands, where Mitt's money lives Mitt will release his tax returns on the same day of the State of the Union: "I will release my tax returns for 2010, which is the last returns which were completed, on Tuesday of this week," Romney said on Fox News Sunday. "And I will also release a ...
  • NFL: Championship Weekend
    My predictions over the last several weeks have been simply awful . As a matter fact, if you would’ve just taken my predictions and went to Vegas and simply bet against me, you could have made some serious money. Anyway, in spite of my past failures, here we go again. Aaron Hernandez Baltimore ...
  • HEIDI KLUM And SEAL Not Planning To Divorce&#8 ...
    Supermodel HEIDI KLUM and her husband, singer SEAL are not planning to divorce…yet. Apparently, like all married couples, they’re going through a rough patch, but it’s not like it’s the end of the world. The 38-year-old “Project Runway” judge and her 48-year-old English R&B singer husband w ...
  • Producers Guild Awards and Do They Matter?
    Producer types love it. Last night the Producers Guild of America handed out their awards and their choices made it seem like there’s not much of a race right now. They gave their Best Picture to the darling of all the awards lately (but not the box office), “The Artist.” So how much of an indi ...

Groklaw

  • A Few Notes By A Federal Criminal Practitioner ...
    A few comments from the perspective of someone who used to indict people for the feds for a living, and now defends people indicted by the feds for a living: 1. The notion that the feds scheduled this as a response to the SOPA/PIPA blackout day is highly unlikely. The grand jury returned the in ...
  • Where the funny piracy numbers used to justify ...
    Believe it or not, though, it's actually even worse than that. SOPA, recall, does not actually shut down foreign sites. It only requires (ineffective) blocking of foreign "rogue sites" for U.S. Internet users. It doesn't do anything to prevent users in (say) China from downloading illicit conten ...
  • Megaupload closure hits legitimate users
    The operation to arrest the founder of the online file-sharing service Megaupload and close down the website has left users worldwide in limbo and prompted warnings that consumers should not rely on "cloud" storage for their data.... But apart from storing illegal material, Megaupload was also u ...
  • The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
    At the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) this week, a group of MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that, in a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform. Under some circumstances, the improvement can be ...
  • GM creates digital windows on the world
    "Traditionally, the use of interactive displays in cars has been limited to the driver and front passenger, but we see an opportunity to provide a technology interface designed specifically for rear seat passengers," said Seder. "Advanced windows that are capable of responding to vehicle speed a ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Tucson bans schoolbooks about Mexican-American ...
    … And making Mexican American kids clean up if they speak out against it. In America. Today.
  • Viewing the earth and sky: here are two apps
    These two apps are awesome. There’s Star Walk - 5 Stars Astronomy Guide which costs $2.99 (and worth every penny). Star Walk Star Walk enables you to point your iPhone at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time. Please note, you will need ...
  • Athena vs. the LP
    In which my 13-year-old daughter handles an LP for the very first time in her life. And quite rightfully says, how can it be so big and only hold 10 songs?
  • Hedge fund managers only pay 15% capital gains
    #bbpBox_160767994451083264 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_160767994451083264 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }"Can you believe i get away with only paying 15% . What a scam but we own Congress." There, that's what i hear. Is that a good thing?about 13 hours ago via TweetD ...
  • Missed phone calls control water use on farms
    GiagaOm profiles RealTech in India, which uses deliberately missed phone calls to turn water pumps on and off. What a great, innovative idea. No more walking out to vastly scattered pumps to turn them on and off.

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • The use of web-based disinformation by the 'west'
    Patrick Cockburn has an extremely important piece at the Independent today, in which he takes to task the major organs of the 'western' media-- including, crucially, today's Al-Jazeera-- for the extremely uncritical and often openly inflammatory use they make of unsubstantiated or highly exagger ...
  • 2012: A good year to boycott Sabra (& Shatila) ...
    I've been thinking a lot, recently, about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the September 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut. As some of you may know, my company, Just World Books, will soon be publishing a reissued version of former WaPo journo Jon Randal's classic 1 ...
  • J. Alterman's on America and Egypt
    Jon Alterman has an op-ed in the NYT that has some good sense in it but also some very troubling ideas and policy prescriptions. Alterman is quite right to note that by far the most important thing that's happening in Egypt right now is not the confrontations or lack of them in Cairo's very vis ...
  • Democracy and human rights in Libya??
    I just caught up with this piece by the Guardian's Chris Stephen in Tripoli. (H/T B of MofA.) Tell me again why anyone ever thought that NATO missiles were capable of somehow 'delivering' democracy and a system of respecting basic human rights in Libya? Stephen writes of the country's current ...
  • Mrs. Peled and the Palestinian homes of West J ...
    I am delighted that my company, Just World books, is publishing Miko Peled's intimate and thought-provoking memoir The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. (We're already taking advance orders though the book won't be available before the end of February.) Miko has been giving out ...

frogblog

  • Day 8 — Made it!
    For those of you who have followed my journey, I figured I’d better let you know that I made it safe, sound, and not even too fatigued at the Keep the Coal in the Hole summer festival south of Mataura. A bit anti-climactic, isn’t it? I woke early this morning, and headed for the hill ...
  • Day 7 — Serenity to accept that I cannot ...
    I’ve cycled 120km in one day before. Once, when I was 23. It was exhausting then, though I didn’t have much weight on my bike and hadn’t spent the previous week cycling five to eight hours a day. Oh, and I was probably fitter, too.  Eight years later, I thought if there were en ...
  • Day 6 – just 110km or so to go
    I’m nearly in Southland, having traversed coastal Otago, and headed west into the strong winds this evening. I left beautiful Karitane this morning, after an incredible breakfast that included gluten free pancakes made by my exceedingly generous hosts. The morning was cool and overcast, pe ...
  • General debate, January 20, 2012
  • Day 5 — Serendipity and Community
    You know when things don’t go as planned, and it unexpectedly  works out much better? That was my day today. (Long distance solo bike journeys, in my experience, have this seemingly magical effect… Though I’m sure there’s nothing supernatural about it.) The plan was to cy ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Instruments of Repression
    For a society to be well governed, it's laws must be just and moral. The Ancients knew that "Those who are rightly governed . . . do not fill their porticoes with written statutes but only cherish justice in their souls; for it is not by legislation, but by morals that states are well direct ...
  • The Why of Not Doing the Right Thing: The Amer ...
    The unfairness of American society is being recognized by many. Eighty-nine percent of Americans say they don't trust their government; Congress has a mere 9% approval rating; America's financial institutions are widely considered to be corrupt; the Occupy movement has emerged, some are seek ...
  • The Triumph of Capitalism: Jobless Nations
    The Obama administration is intent on applying supply side principles to get the American economy out of the present recession, but supply side principles are based on the belief that if the government cuts taxes on the wealthy, they will invest their savings in new factories, that newly hired w ...
  • America's Descent to Depravity
    The Protestant ethic once defined the American character. It was held to be responsible for the success of Capitalism in Northern Europe and America by sociologists, but the Protestant ethic and Capitalism are incompatible, and Capitalism ultimately caused the Protestant ethic to be abandoned. A ...
  • The Shamans among us: A World of Perpetual Con ...
    Economic models are mere policy proposals; they are not the consequences of any economic system based on "natural law or even good theory, " they are not scientific; they are merely ad hoc. Furthermore, deleterious consequences often result from these models. Economists also routinely simpli ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Dr. Oz Proves This Fruit Juice Can be Toxic
    By Dr. Mercola Inorganic arsenic, the form most likely to cause cancer, occurs naturally in the earth and is released into ground water that travels through rocks and soil. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) limits the amount of trace arsenic allowable in drinking water to 10 part ...
  • Why is Massive Conflict of Interest Allowed in ...
    By Dr. Mercola When it comes to medicine, mere disclosure of conflict of interest is not nearly enough.  Patients need unbiased advice when it comes to making decisions that can impact their very life, and physicians and scientists with financial ties to the drug industry should not be ...
  • Eating This Can "Tear Holes" in Your Gut
    By Dr. Mercola Leaky gut is a condition that occurs due to the development of gaps between the cells (enterocytes) that make up the membrane lining your intestinal wall. These tiny gaps allow substances such as undigested food, bacteria and metabolic wastes,that should be confined to your d ...
  • The Mistake That Can Cost You Up to 85% MORE f ...
    By Dr. Mercola Diagnostic tests such as X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs can be very expensive if you don't have insurance. In fact, they can be expensive even if you DO have insurance, depending on your policy's deductibles and co-pays. Diagnostic imaging accounts for 57 percent of the co ...
  • No Matter What the FDA Says - Clear This Out o ...
    By Dr. Mercola On December 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quietly posted a notice in the Federal Register that it was effectively reneging on its plan to reduce the use of antibiotics in agricultural animal feed – a plan it has been touting since 1977. Now, with virtually no ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • ‘Evidence of attack’ discovered where Indian c ...
    An Awá man whose uncontacted relatives were victims of an alleged attack by loggers © Survival An investigation into the reported killing of an uncontacted Indian child by loggers, has uncovered disturbing ‘evidence of an attack’ deep in the Amazon forest. The findings suggest loggers were ...
  • Revealed: Survival International alerted Andam ...
    Vehicles queue to enter the Jarawa reserve along the Andaman Trunk Road © G Chamberlain/ Survival The Andaman authorities were alerted to the existence of human safaris two years ago by Survival International – but the problem has continued. On January 11, 2010, Survival wrote to the Lieut ...
  • 'Mainstreaming' the Jarawa would be a disaster ...
    Tourist films Jarawa on the Andaman Trunk Road © Survival Any attempt to ‘mainstream’ the Jarawa by force would be a disaster, said Survival International, in a statement today. ‘By mainstreaming, what the authorities really mean is the assimilation of the Jarawa into nati ...
  • Undercover audio tape proves Andaman ‘human sa ...
    Vehicles queue to enter the Jarawa reserve along the Andaman Trunk Road © G Chamberlain/ Survival A secret recording of a tour operator in the Andaman Islands telling an undercover journalist to provide 10-15,000 rupees (£120-180/ $180-275) to pay off the police proves that the now notoriou ...
  • Loggers invade tribal home of Amazon Indian ch ...
    Awá men travel down a road cut by loggers. © Uirá Garcia Loggers have invaded the Amazon home of uncontacted Awá Indians, one of whom has reportedly been ‘burned alive’. Members of the Guajajara tribe, which also inhabits the area, have said that they came across the burned remains of an A ...

Montreal Gazette

  • If the PQ disappeared, would Quebecers care?
    all appearances, Bernard Drainville was verging on emotional meltdown in a session with Le Devoir's editorial board last week when he delivered the money line that the paper subsequently trumpeted on its front page: "The PQ could disappear!"
  • Let calm reason, not rhetoric, prevail on Gateway
    The proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, intended to funnel heavy oil from northern Alberta through the Rocky Mountains to the British Columbia coast, could turn out to be one of two things.
  • The upbraided captain and the call of duty
    There seems no end recently to opportunities to reflect on why it is always better - personally, nationally and internationally - to behave responsibly.
  • West Island commuters deserve better service
    Clifford Lincoln may have been a little over the top in his characterization of West Island commuter-rail service. "A Third World situation," he called it in a Gazette interview this week.
  • Legal pot: political stunt or idea whose time ...
    Every weekday morning, the members of The Gazette's editorial board meet to discuss issues of the day and in particular what topics to consider for the next day's editorial. On Tuesday, in the wake of the federal Liberal Party voting at its convention in Ottawa on the weekend to call for the leg ...

Food World Order

  • on corbett report radio - jan19
    on thursday nights, media monarchy joins corbett report radio live on republic broadcasting to go over all the latest stories from the world of food, environment and health ... this week we get a gmo gut check with fakes, fads and more... previous: jan12 episode
  • 1/19 binge & purge: fakes, fads & gmo omg!
    Celebrity Chef Paula Deen Hid Diabetes, Pushed Hi-Fats* Video: Deen Has Diabetes* Anthony Bourdain slams 'most dangerous woman to America'* Many Restaurants Fake it as Demand for Organic Food Rises* 'Put An Egg On It': 5 Ways to Embrace the Breakfast-for-Dinner Trend* GMO OMG! ...
  • A Gut Check for Many Ailments
    from wsj: What you think is going on in your head may be caused in part by what's happening in your gut. A growing body of research shows the gut affects bodily functions far beyond digestion. Studies have shown intriguing links from the gut's health to bone formation, learning and memory and ev ...
  • BASF to Stop Selling Genetically Modified Prod ...
    from nytimes.com: BASF, the German chemical group, has abandoned efforts to sell genetically modified products in Europe, including its Amflora potato, because of overwhelming opposition to the technology, the company said Monday. “There is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in ...
  • portland's food creatives expand restricted di ...
    from oregonlive.com: For diners at Northeast Portland's Natural Selection, the seasonal, vegetarian, mostly vegan, often gluten-free restaurant doesn't always go far enough. "I had one person call who couldn't have any sugar of any kind, natural or refined," says chef Aaron Woo. "I said I c ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 22nd January 2012
    If you're one of those who wish that the politicians in Westminster would just pack up and leave us alone, one of the most unthinkable stories imaginable suggests part of that dream could come true. The Mail on Sunday tells how essential repairs to site of the Palace of Westminster are needed ...
  • Croatia gets a taste of EU fascism: Arrests as ...
    Absent from most of our media, it is to RT's reporter Tom Barton that we are hugely grateful for 'tweeting' news of scuffles between anti-EU demonstrators and police in Zagreb today. According to his account, protesters - gathered on the eve of a referendum on Croatian EU accession - chanted ...
  • Nein! o'Clock Gets Filibustered
    Congratulations to the House of Commons - some of them anyway. From us? Why, yes... we know it's rare that we give anyone in that den of traitors and conspirators any praise. Even more rare is that we're praising them for being deliberately obstructive windbags! Yet windbags have saved ...
  • 371,000: The number of "beneficial to the econ ...
    These are hard times for the economy, not just of Britain but for most of Europe and the Western world. So, while you're sat there - unemployed - in a miserable rain soaked Rochdale or Margate, don't you ever say to yourself: "Sod this for a game of soldiers! We're in the EU now! I can sig ...
  • The British TV Enigma of the Inescapable Jacqu ...
    Jacqui Smith - we all remember her. Jackbooted, totalitarian Home Secretary who was hellbent on turning Britain into a concentration camp within a police state while personally committing expenses fraud and getting the British taxpayer to pay for filthy films for her husband to jerk off over. ...

Facing South

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • 4 New Professionally Done Ubuntu Adverts[Official]
    Canonical is slowly stepping up its marketing pitch. When you look back at the history of Ubuntu, you will see that Canonical has invested almost nothing into any sort of serious Ubuntu promotional activities yet. But that is changing. Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin release, which is only ...
  • Temple Run for Android Arriving on Feb 2012
    Temple Run is a hugely popular endless-running game which was released for iPhone and iPad in August 2011. Temple Run has already been downloaded more than 20 million times now and there are about 7 million daily active users. It is now the number one free app for iOS platform. Imangi Studios, ...
  • 3 Nice Blender Made Games for Linux
    Blender is known for its 3D creation capabilities worldwide and is widely used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications and games with cutting edge computer graphics. Quite a number of videos and animated movies have already been created using Blender and we hav ...
  • Android 4.0 ICS Inspired GNOME Shell Theme
    More GNOME Shell themes for ya. Following is one of the most distinctive GNOME Shell theme I have seen so far. This particular GNOME Shell theme, aptly named as Ice Cream Shell, is inspired from the latest version of Android OS called Android 4.0 codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. To put it lightly ...
  • Samsung's Profits Soar Powered by its Arsenal ...
    Asia's largest consumer electronics company, Samsung Electronics, is on a roll. Beating all estimates, Samsung reported a record quarterly profit, primarily on back of surging sales of its Galaxy line of Android smartphones. Smartphone shipments were so massive that it completely masked Sa ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • NOW AVALIABLE: “THE FOURTH EMPIRE&#82 ...
    THANKS  TO  A  FANTASTIC  TRANSLATION JOB  BY  CLAUDIA  CALVO  THE  FOURTH  EMPIRE  THRILLER  IS  NOW  AVAILABLE  IN  SPANISH. CHECK  IT  OUT  AT: http://elcuartoimperio.uni.me READ  THE  SPANISH  VERSION  OF  THE  FINANCIAL  THRILLER  TODAY  BY  CLICKING  ON THIS  LINK. For donations to support ...
  • WHY I PLAN TO SUE THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT AND ...
    *Government paid researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) tried to have me confined in February 2010 without ever having met me *Presisdent of the LBI is Raiffeisen banker Christian Konrad *Former health minister sits on the board of LBI *Vienna state prosecutors involved in efforts to ...
  • SOPA internet black out code for bloggers
    I couldn’t figure out how to set the code, but here it is for anyone who wants to black out their website or blog in the event of another protest against the SOPA and PIPA internet kill switches. See Infowars for updates: http://www.infowars.com/congress-retreats-on-sopa-and-pipa/ Thanks t ...
  • SPRINGER SMEAR MACHINE FAILS TO OUST GERMAN PR ...
    Germany’s main corporate media smear machine, the Springer Verlag, has failed to oust President Christian Wulff from his position. Springer’s news outlets, Bild and Die Welt, launched an unprecedented barrage of attacks against Wulff on December 13th, 2011, blowing a small house credit deal out ...
  • ANTI SEMITISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD IN GERMANY A ...
    *Facebook protests Vienna Professor Franz Hörmann’s links to Anti Semititic movement *Hitler’s Mein Kampf to reappear on German newsstands *German politics professor praises Hitler’s racist trash as proof of “systematic thinker in Die Welt Vienna University Professor Fran ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • CDC researchers say mothers should stop breast ...
    by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) Remember when it was considered crazy talk to suggest that mainstream medicine viewed humanity as being born lacking in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, as if these synthetic inputs are necessary miracle nutrients for proper human development? Well ...
  • Why Can’t I get There from Here?
    By Les Visible Greetings Earthlings and visitors from any and all locations wherever that may be. The clock is ticking down and the tension is creeping up, as those committed to injury, make their desperate plans for escape and release; neither of which will attend their foul enterprises. In the ...
  • Newt Gingrich Promises Palin a Presidential Ap ...
    CNN Press Room …I was honored and delighted last night when she said if she were in South Carolina, she’d vote for Newt Gingrich…. …I would ask her to consider taking a major role in the next administration if I’m president… Clearly Gingrich is sending the message to all ...
  • Polio Vaccines Now The #1 Cause of Polio Paralysis
    Sayer Ji, Contributing Writer Activist Post The Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization, Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up India as a prime example of its success at eradicating pol ...
  • Exposed: Deadly Cancer Drugs Make Cancer Worse ...
    Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post Cancer drugs, pushed by many drug companies as the only ‘scientific’ method of combating cancer alongside chemotherapy, have been found to actually make cancer worse and kill patients more quickly. The findings come after research was conducted on the cancer drugs ...

Veterans Today

  • VA Providing Credit Monitoring to Misidentifie ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering free credit monitoring to more than 2,200 Veterans whose personal information, including social security numbers, was posted on Ancestry.com following the mistaken release of data through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
    The US Department Of Veterans Affairs "formally launched its new program designed to train wounded vets to become acquisition professionals with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Jan. 19 at its Frederick, Md., facilities.
  • Obama for President of Israel?
    The Obama Campaign Woos Pro-Israel Voters   by Joshua Blakeney   In a week when a pro-Israel media venue, the Atlanta Jewish Times, contemplated the pros and cons of a Mossad assassination of the U.S. president, Barack Obama, the Obama election campaign has chosen to reiterate the fort ...
  • Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism
    When America wages war or plans it, major media scoundrels cheerlead in lockstep. Incendiary managed news follows. Truth and full disclosure lose out.
  • VT Movie Night – More Jim Dean Vimeo Picks
    Drinking is allowed, encouraged actually, but if you are going eat something make sure it is lap food that does not distract your viewing

electric politics

  • One of Our Other Cold Wars
    As is typical of situations involving post-WWII imperial over-reach, U.S. distress with Iran is largely our own fault. If the CIA had not overthrown Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 — Operation Ajax — and if afterward the U.S. had not incessantly sought to get the Iranians to do what we wa ...
  • Seeking Economic Truth
    John Maynard Keynes understood that economics describes human beings, a fact that modern mainstream economics — the applied theory of "rational expectations" — effectively assumes away. Keynes' biographer, Lord Robert Skidelsky, reminds us that our economic priorities should extend b ...
  • Accelerated Ideas
    When a retired four star Admiral provides support for nuclear arms control and a few other commendable things, the proper interrogatory is "yes." Or "yes, Sir." A gentleman with a friendly disposition and a cautious but lightning fast mind, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) reasonably assesses the ...
  • Codebreaker
    In celebration of Veterans Day, here's a question: What if the U.S. had lost the battle of Midway? Mercifully, we'll never know. But the U.S. victory could not have happened without the codebreaking skill and the unflinching courage — a relentless determination to be heard — of Joe R ...
  • Made in America
    Since elected officials don't seem so interested, around the country local groups are organizing to promote the reindustrialization of America. One of these is SFMade. Robin McRoskey Azevedo is on the board of SFMade and is also President and owner of the McRoskey Mattress Company of San Francis ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • It's Now or Never for the Castle
    Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Take action TODAY to stop logging of Alberta's Castle Special Management Area, and support its permanent protection. The Castle was announced as a protected area in 1998 ...
  • Casino volunteers needed
    Position:  Casino volunteers Organization:  Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Northern Alberta ...
  • Pipe Up About Enbridge's Dirty Pipeline!
    Council of Canadians — Edmonton Chapter 24 Jan 2012 - 08:30 Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton ...
  • Alberta Government kicks public out of protect ...
    Sierra Club Canada 19 Jan 2012 BEAVER MINES: This afternoon, Alberta Government’s Sustainable Resource Development Department (SRD) issued a notice closing part of the popular ...
  • Pembina reacts to Obama administration's denia ...
    Pembina Institute 18 Jan 2012 EDMONTON — Ed Whittingham, executive director at the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Obama administration ...

Stop NATO

  • Stop NATO news: January 21, 2012
    ==== Pentagon Chief: No Post-World War II/Korea/Vietnam/Soviet Collapse-Style Drawdown For “Strongest Military In The World” Top U.S. Navy Commander On “State-On-State Conflict” In South China Sea Dragon In The Room: U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander On South China Sea Pentago ...
  • Romain Rolland: Where to rebuild the world aft ...
    ==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts … Romain Rolland: Above The Battle Romain Rolland: Ara Pacis and Ave, Caesar, Morituri Te Salutant Maxim Gorky on Romain Rolland, war and humanism ==== Romain Rolland From The Death of a World (1933) Translated by Amalia de A ...
  • U.S., NATO Actions Make Russia-China Alliance ...
    Global Times January 20, 2012 US actions make China-Russia alliance appealing ==== The US has somewhat defused two powder kegs in the Middle East: Iraq and Afghanistan. It also helped bring about the fall of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia. Now it is preparing for a potential confrontation wit ...
  • BRICS Back Russia: Hands Off Iran And Syria
    The Hindu January 19, 2012 Keep off Iran and Syria: Russia Vladimir Radyuhin Russia warned the West against military intervention in Iran and Syria and rejected unilateral sanctions against the two nations. Military action against Iran would have “catastrophic consequences,” Russia’s Forei ...
  • Target Iran: Dystopian, Morally Challenged Wor ...
    Russia & India Report January 20, 2012 Target Iran: The morality of killing nuclear scientists Rakesh Krishnan Simha The serial murder of Iranian nuclear scientists is a pointer to the West’s moral compass. It is also a sign of desperation and double standards. “Physics is an unhealthy line ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Chicago City Council Passes Rahm Emanuel’s Ant ...
    Dissenter.FireDogLake.com By Kevin Gosztola January 22, 2012 Two ordinances drawn up for controlling protests and maintaining security in the city of Chicago during upcoming NATO/G8 meetings passed through the Chicago City Council today. The ordinances, which organizers from Occupy Chicago and t ...
  • Wisened in the Upper Amazon – A Vision o ...
    The Intel Hub Richard Sauder January 22, 2012 I have drunk ayahuasca 12 times now, and every time it seends me reeling. Every time it slams me hard, at a physical level, and every time it raises new questions about reality, and our perception and experience of it, expanding my inner horizons. A ...
  • Newt Gingrich: The Establishment Globalist New ...
    Globalist stooge “wins” South Carolina Primary The Intel Hub January 22, 2012 Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Primary, beating out fellow establishment candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum as well as the only real conservative Dr. Ron Paul. Gingrich, despite widespread a ...
  • Flashback: Newt Gingrich – Lockheed Mart ...
    The Intel Hub Dean Henderson January 22, 2012 Note: This article was originally published in early December 2011 but after tonight’s disgusting win for Gingrich it has become even more important. After agonizing months of Republican bread and circus Presidential debates, the Illuminati hav ...
  • GA Judge Orders Obama to Appear at Hearing, Bu ...
    The Intel Hub By Madison Ruppert – Editor of End the Lie January 22, 2012 Today the Associated Press reported that a Georgia judge has ordered the President of the United States, Barack H. Obama, to appear in an Atlanta court for a hearing. The hearing is being held for a complaint filed b ...

FRS

  • India: Maoist statement to world-wide friends ...
    CPI(Maoist) Press Release, January 13, 2012:   Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist) to the friends of Indian revolution and well wishers Comrades and Friends,  On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant ...
  • India: Maoist statement to world-wide friends ...
    CPI(Maoist) Press Release, January 13, 2012:   Revolutionary greetings from CPI (Maoist) to the friends of Indian revolution and well wishers Comrades and Friends,  On 24 November, 2011 the Indian revolution lost its great leader and the oppressed masses of India lost their most reliable servant ...
  • January 24, 2011–DC: Protest the Private ...
    by etucke, Detention Watch Network Please join other DWN members and allies, along with friends from OccupyDC, to protest the private prison corporations who are driving the mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, including nearly 370,000 immigrants every year. The action wil ...
  • January 24, 2011–DC: Protest the Private ...
    by etucke, Detention Watch Network Please join other DWN members and allies, along with friends from OccupyDC, to protest the private prison corporations who are driving the mass incarceration of people of color in the United States, including nearly 370,000 immigrants every year. The action wil ...
  • Greece so poor families are abandoning their c ...
    by David Collins, Daily Mirror,  11/01/2012  Poverty-stricken families in Greece are so hard up some have abandoned their children. Charities in Athens are reporting a big rise in the number of youngsters dumped by parents unable to make ends meet following the Euro crisis. In one case a four-ye ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • PRESS RELEASE: Ofcom Bans Press TV in the UK & ...
    OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement:
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • US CONGRESSIONAL BILL LISTS ME AS HAMAS, AL QA ...
    Ken O'Keefe has been named as having 'known links to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and other terrorist organizations' in US Congressional Bill now being processed through the traitorous US Congress. Here is the applicable paragraph; '(9) In 2010, IHH organized a flotilla that included the ship Mavi Marmara ...
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".
  • Congressional Traitors in the USA – Pass ...
    The traitors in the US Congress along with the Nobel Peace Prize winning President have committed yet another act of treason, passing the National Defence Authorisation Act with provisions that make indefinite detention of US citizens "legal".

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

Popsci - Science

  • The Most Amazing Images of the Week, January 1 ...
    We've got a delightfully plant-and-animal-heavy Images roundup for you this week, like newly rediscovered monkeys, unbelievably beautiful polar invertebrates (above), gorgeous orchids, and more. Of course, there are also some pretty space pics, because we love them, and you love them, and everyo ...
  • Images of the Week, January 16-20
  • Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Peruvian Burial ...
    An offering of children and llamas Last August in Huanchaquito, a town on the arid northern coast of Peru, the winter winds uncovered six human skulls. A villager alerted Yale University archaeologist Oscar Gabriel Prieto Burmester to the find, and soon thereafter Burmester and his team had une ...
  • A Tiny Transistor Hooks Up To Individual Prote ...
    Listening to lysozymes with one of the smallest transistors ever made Wiretapping an enzyme and listening as it unfolds could shed new light on the way proteins work, allowing researchers to monitor structural changes over a longer period of time than was previously possible. To do it, scientis ...
  • Video: How Flies Somersault to Safety Just Bef ...
    Ever wonder why flies always get away when you try to swat them? It turns out they’re extremely acrobatic. Like, Neo-in-the-Matrix acrobatic. And New Scientist has captured one in near bullet-time to prove it. This video is one of the winners in a contest held by the Flight Artists group at the ...

Veterans Today

  • VA Providing Credit Monitoring to Misidentifie ...
    The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering free credit monitoring to more than 2,200 Veterans whose personal information, including social security numbers, was posted on Ancestry.com following the mistaken release of data through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Janu ...
    The US Department Of Veterans Affairs "formally launched its new program designed to train wounded vets to become acquisition professionals with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held Jan. 19 at its Frederick, Md., facilities.
  • Obama for President of Israel?
    The Obama Campaign Woos Pro-Israel Voters   by Joshua Blakeney   In a week when a pro-Israel media venue, the Atlanta Jewish Times, contemplated the pros and cons of a Mossad assassination of the U.S. president, Barack Obama, the Obama election campaign has chosen to reiterate the fort ...
  • Anti-Syrian Pack Journalism
    When America wages war or plans it, major media scoundrels cheerlead in lockstep. Incendiary managed news follows. Truth and full disclosure lose out.
  • VT Movie Night – More Jim Dean Vimeo Picks
    Drinking is allowed, encouraged actually, but if you are going eat something make sure it is lap food that does not distract your viewing

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Will winter pass us by this year?
    As we head into the second half of winter, there's still no real indication of a change in the weather pattern that has so dominated the UK since winter began on 1st December. Despite one or two short lived cold snaps, which brought some snow mainly to the hills of Northern Britain, many parts ...
  • 2011 - 9th warmest globally on satellite record
    The Global temperature in December, according to the UAH satellite measure, showed little change from the previous month with an anomaly of +0.127C above the running 30 year mean, shown on the graph below. Adjusted to the more standard time period, the anomaly is approximately +0.380C abov ...
  • Gales continue to batter Britain
    The Met Office have again warned of severe gales into this evening and overnight across much of Eastern England from the Pennines to the coast, and the Scottish Borders to the Wash. Gusts could reach 70mph in more exposed areas. This comes hot off the heels of yesterday's storm, more powerful ...
  • Weather review of 2011 - a year of extremes
    It has been the most remarkable twelve months since I began forecasting twenty years ago. The brutal weather of last December, which was the coldest since 1890, continued into the New Year, with more widespread disruption due to ice and snow for commuters as people ventured back to work. The ...
  • Fabulous display of Lenticular clouds
    Cloud enthusiasts have been in their element this afternoon by a wonderful display of stationary lens-shaped clouds, called Altocumulus Lenticularis, visible across many parts of Yorkshire. The clouds have formed as stable but moist air has travelled across the Pennines, causing a standing wav ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Axis of Upheaval: Iran-Russia Trade in Own Monies
    Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper. Vladimir Putin: They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. Factually speaking, the ongoing long-term devaluation trend of the dollar is not in dispute. However, America #1 ...
  • Indonesia Got It Right: A Post-Crisis Success ...
    To say that I didn't rate Indonesia's prospects highly after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 would be an understatement. It was going from one transitory leader to another after Suharto's ouster. Its economy contracted hugely. All the while, various secessionist movements were tearing the ...
  • More "Internet Freedom" Hypocrisy c/o the Yanks
    This post will be brief: I have identified the several contradictions of Hillary Clinton's hoary notion of "Internet Freedom" in a previous co-authored essay. Mind you, that bit of writing even preceded the WikiLeaks dustup which permanently consigned that bit of digital exceptionalism to the sc ...
  • Islamization: Libyan Rebels' Price for Qatari ...
    It may have been a self-serving argument, but hardline leaders in the Middle East who successfully beggared the West on the premiss that even more fundamentalist forces would take over in their stead were not really being disingenuous. Witness Egypt. While wet-behind-the-ears white kids with a p ...
  • Apple & Samsung: Who's Got Whom by the Balls?
    [NOTE: For those who don't get the title, play this AC/DC song.] There are two broad debates going on regarding the current dominance of Samsung in the consumer electronics space. First we have the perennial question about the role of industrial policy for its success. Widely lauded for being a ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • The Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollar ...
    In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  But when it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almost ...
  • 17 Facts About The Decline Of The U.S. Auto In ...
    Very few things illustrate how dramatically America has been deindustrialized than the stunning decline of the U.S. auto industry.  Once upon a time, the United States literally taught the rest of the world how to make cars.  We were the ones that invented the assembly line.  We ...
  • Warning Signs That We Should Prepare For The Worst
    The warning signs are all around us.  All we have to do is open up our eyes and look at them.  Almost every single day there are more prominent voices in the financial world telling us that a massive economic crisis is coming and that we need to prepare for the worst.  On Wednesd ...
  • 112 Questions To Ask Yourself In 2012
    The beginning of each year is a great time to evaluate the direction of your life and to ask yourself some very important questions.  Often we get so busy just living life that we lose our perspective.  It is important for each of us to take time once in a while to reassess how o ...
  • Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Def ...
    I wish that I had an "aha moment" to share with you today, but instead all I have is an "ack moment" to share.  As I was analyzing all of the info coming out of Europe in recent days, I came to the following realization: "Ack! They are actually going to let Greece default!"  The ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • Megaquake Warning Issued For US-Mexican Pacifi ...
    A disturbing report prepared by the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IPE) in Moscow that is circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Chiapas region of Mexico yesterday is a ‘potential precursor’ to a ‘megaquake’ of at least 7.5-8.3 expect ...
  • Cleric warns Saudi regime against Brutal Crack ...
    A prominent Shia cleric in Saudi Arabia has warned the kingdom against the brutal crackdown on protesters amid ongoing anti-regime demonstrations in Eastern Province. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who is Friday Prayers leader of Saudi eastern town of Awamiyah, also called on Al Saud regime to stop bloods ...
  • Debate Audience Protests CNN Attempts To Exclu ...
    Crowd boos and jeers, demands Paul be allowed to answer. A remarkable scene unfolded during last night’s CNN hosted South Carolina debate when not once but twice, the audience had to intervene to ensure that Ron Paul be included in questions, as host John King attempted to skip over the Congress ...
  • Iran-based TV channel Press TV Banned in the UK
    Britain has revoked the press license of Iran-based English language broadcaster Press TV, accusing it of violating press regulations. But some say the decision was really motivated by British geopolitical interests. ­The Office of Communications (Ofcom), a government-approved watchdog overseein ...
  • Newt Gingrich Cancels Event Over Low Attendenc ...
    South Carolina Primary News. Ron Paul is currently raising funds for South Carolina, if you wish to help mr. Paul, please visit his website. • Ahead of the South Carolina primary taking place tomorrow (Saturday), four conservative State Senators in South Carolina have come forward to endorse Ron ...

Voiceless Victim

  • You Ensured We Never Had A Chance
    This poem is dedicated to all the apologists, enablers and paedophile protectors of the catholic church. But particularly to the founder of the Passionist family group movement who introduced a monster into family homes. He then let this criminal have even more unsupervised access to his favouri ...
  • More Damning Evidence Vatican Couldn’t G ...
    The Netherlands has recently been added to the growing list of countries or local authorities to have conducted official investigations into the catholic church’s cover up of widespread child rape. Just like those in the US and Ireland, Dutch authorities found the actions, or lack of actio ...
  • Translating Church-speak
    The Catholic Church hierarchy used to be able to manipulate and hoodwink their local populace by speaking, writing, singing, praying and conducting business in Latin. A simple but very effective means to disempower a local populace, especially when coupled with the impossibility of any but the r ...
  • State Gives Church A Beginners Lesson In Morality
    The recent revelations that football coaching staff and their supervisors at Penn State University have been up to the Catholic Church’s old tricks has devastated victims of Catholic Church enabled child rape as much as the community directly affected by the crimes and their repercussions. ...
  • Catholics Sit On Hands While Kids Are Raped Bu ...
    Catholic spokespersons, including the repulsive child rape apologist Bill Donohue, have called Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon obscene for an off the cuff reference to the Paedophile Protector in Chief, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Pope Benedict XVI. She called His Greediness a nazi. Determi ...

WL Central

  • 2012-01-21 #WikiLeaks News: Australia Day Call ...
    Tweet This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of expression. News In a message published today at jaraparilla.blogspot.com (the blog of WikiLeaks support ...
  • 2012-01-20 #WikiLeaks News: Updates on #Mannin ...
    Tweet [The severity of our battles] is a reflection of the quality and importance of our work. - Julian Assange This is a "WikiLeaks News Update", a daily news update of stories relating directly to WikiLeaks and also freedom of information, transparency, cybersecurity, and freedom of ex ...
  • 2012-01-19 Almanza #Manning Pretrial IO FB Fri ...
    Tweet Lt. Col. Paul Almanza, the Investigating Officer at Manning's Article 32 Pretrial Hearing is an "impartial fact finder". Please disregard the rumor that he is a career prosecutor at the Department of Justice (since 2002, the year he received his license); or that the Department of Justice ...
  • Don't Shoot the Messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange ...
    Tweet WikiLeaks, a free press publishing and media organisation, has revealed human rights abuses, war crimes and corruption in governments across the world. Yet the US Administration wants to close WikiLeaks down and prosecute its founder Julian Assange. International financial services organi ...
  • 2011-01-19 US Command 'Clinton, Gates too expe ...
    Tweet Manning's defense lawyer, David Coombs reports that Colonel Carl R. Coffman Jr., the Commander of Joint Base Myer and the Special Court Martial Convening Authority, [*pictured to the left] denied the defense's request to conduct oral depositions of nine essential witnesses including forme ...

U N News

  • El Salvador must address social inequality to ...
    Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called today on El Salvador to address its socio-economic inequalities and advance rule of law reform to ensure its citizens can experience positive and tangible results from the peace process that was initiated 20 years ago at the end of its civil war.
  • Guatemala ratifies UN-backed treaty banning nu ...
    Guatemala has ratified the United Nations-backed international treaty banning nuclear tests, bringing the number of State parties to 156.
  • On anniversary of deadly quake, UN urges conti ...
    As Haiti marks the second anniversary of the massive earthquake that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people and devastated an already poverty-stricken country, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged continued international support for recovery and rebuilding.
  • Violence against women: Prevention, protectio ...
    It is a lesser known reality of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on 12 January 2010 and left more than 200,000 dead. The merciless disintegration of the Haitian State created a situation of utter chaos for the country's most vulnerable.
  • Haiti: UN urges investing in water and sanitat ...
    Dramatic improvements in water and sanitation services are needed to eliminate cholera in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, health experts who took part in a United Nations-organized briefing to outline concrete steps to stem the spread of the disease in the region said today.

Conspiracy Reality TV

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

Rewilding Institute

  • She’s Alive . . .
    She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.
  • Man Swarm: the slaughtering of the world’s wil ...
    By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – “Piety, ...
    Perhaps the two topmost organizing dares before the wilderness and wildlife network today are to grow our web of friends among those who are politically middle-of-the-road or even slightly to the right, and among those in small towns and the hinterlands.  Too often we think the only field where ...
  • Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)
    Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!) from Franke James on Vimeo. Is fear of the “Dirty Oil” label behind Canada’s tarring of Artist’s European tour? What lengths will the Canadian Government go to ensure that oil from the Alberta Tar Sands is not labelled “dirty”? Watch this video abo ...
  • Fat Cat Canada’s Giant Litter Box
    Fat Cat Canada’s Giant Litter Box by Franke James Prime Minister Stephen Harper PMO’s Ottawa Office: (+1) (613) 992-4211 Toll-free: 1 (866) 599-4999 Calgary office: (+1) (403) 253-7990 Twitter: @PMharper e-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca fax: 613-941-6900 What Canadians Can Do If you’re a Canadian reading thi ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • Global Elite Are Hiding 18 Trillion Dollars In ...
      In recent days, the fact that Mitt Romney has millions of dollars parked down in the Cayman Islands has made headlines all over the world.  When it comes to offshore banking, what Mitt Romney is doing is small potatoes.  The truth is that the global elite are hiding an almo ...
  • Russians Ready to Live and Work on the Moon
      Russian scientists will settle down on the Moon because a manned station is to be established there soon. To do this, two descent vehicles, Luna-Resurs and Luna-Glob, will be launched there, Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, reported yesterday. Exper ...
  • Watch Press TV News Broadcast from Anywhere in ...
      Press TV viewers in the UK can continue to watch the news channel via the following satellites or by visiting the following websites despite the British Office of Communications (Ofcom) removing the channel from the Sky platform. ~ Video read more
  • Newt Gingrich has a Tax Plan... It Gives Newt ...
      In urging a reluctant Mitt Romney to finally release his tax returns, Newt Gingrich produced his own last night during the debate. His 2010 returns reveal an adjusted gross income of $3.1 million with an effective tax rate of almost 32 percent. That’s more than twice the rate that Rom ...
  • Romney Destroyed Government Records to Keep Po ...
      Last week, a Boston Globe investigation uncovered that former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration destroyed emails, purchased hard drives, and otherwise obliterated all digital records of his time as governor of Massachusetts! (November 21, 2011) - Video read more

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • How To Fix-Troubleshoot Your Pressure Canner P ...
    Guest post: by Christine Coburn There is nothing more frustrating than when you have worked hard to get a batch of food prepared to can and then your canner doesn’t work right or for you to have Old Faithful erupting on your stove instead of staying in Yellowstone… After 30 years of canning I ha ...
  • How To Select Firearms On A Budget
    Guest post: by ‘TripodXL’ The dictionary defines logic as; a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration: the science of the formal principles of reasoning. Basically this means that you use a reasoned basis, i.e. based in supported ...
  • Winter Survival Insulated Outerwear
    Winter survival involves keeping warm! When outdoors, we keep warm by adding a layer of insulation (in our coats and jackets) to trap body heat. Down is nature’s best insulator. Synthetic fibers are engineered to mimic down. Fleece is usually made from synthetic fibers although some wool s ...
  • 22 Government Excuses For Your ID Implant
    Guest post: by ‘Be informed’ Sometime in the NOT too distant future there will be western countries that will begin to require their citizens to have tracking implants put somewhere into their bodies. The leaps and bounds of miniaturized electronic technology is probably almost ready ...
  • List of ‘Collapse’ Medical Supplies
    Ken adds: Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy have a unique website in this survival niche, and I enjoy reading their posts with their combined medical backgrounds. I am happy to post this article and help promote their website.   Guest post: by ‘Nurse Amy’ Here’s my list of Collapse ...

Fast Company

  • Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Pla ...
    In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G., Dotcom embodies the most savage age of online piracy, having made a fortune on the edges of Internet freedom.Dotcom, the megamind behind ...
  • 4 Strategic Requirements For Corporate Tweeting
    Michelle Obama’s first day on Twitter was the tweet heard 'round the world, with more than 60,000 followers signing up to follow her the morning she launched. Initial tweets from @MichelleObama noted that her staff would be doing the heavy lifting initially, but that every tweet from the First L ...
  • This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex ...
    The Dog-Bark Snake BotYou've probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces--perhaps in collapsed buildings--that other machines can't match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them loc ...
  • Cinchifieds' Simple, Grand Plan To Disrupt The ...
    Watch out, Craigslist: Cinchified aims to match buyers and sellers in a ridiculously simple way. Eric Berry is one of the untold thousands of people who’ve tried (and failed) to sell his stuff on Craigslist."Every time tried to make a genuine listing, take photos, and write copy, it was really f ...
  • For Brands, Twitter's Enhanced Profile Pages M ...
    HP, Best Buy and JetBlue reveal how they use Twitter's enhanced profile pages to make every tweet sing.It’s still officially in velvet-rope mode, but Twitter’s enhanced profile pages are heavily in play for those brands among the first to sign up. So how are the early reviews? Dubbed # ...

Jadaliyya

  • Murdoch's Homeland
    Terrorists have backstories, and American politicians play dirty in the “war on terror.” These revelations propel Showtime’s hit series, Homeland, seemingly setting it apart from other pop culture representations of post-9/11 America. “How do you tell a thriller in the post-9/11, post-Ab ...
  • The War on Error
               
  • The Current Media Landscape in Egypt: An Inter ...
    With the first anniversary of the January 25 uprising in Egypt fast approaching, Egypt’s military junta has stepped up its media campaign against democracy activists. Since February 2011, sixteen private channels, many of them owned by bussiness tycoons, have received licences from the s ...
  • مقترحات لتجاوز المعضلة الدستورية
    قرار البرلمان أولًا  ثم الدستور كان قرارًا إشكاليًا. وقد تسبب فى صعوبات سياسية وقانونية كبيرة لا بد للقوى السياسية التكاتف لإيجاد حلول توافقية لها. فالبرلمانات لا تضع الدساتير ولا يمكن أن تضع الدساتير فيما بعد الثورات وفى حالة ولادة نظام سياسى جديد. ففى غالب هذه الأحوال، كما تدلنا ...
  • إطـــلال الـمـشــتـاق عـلـى أطـــلال الـعــــراق
    [كتب هذا النص بعد عودة الكاتب إلى بغداد في صيف ٢٠٠٣ لتصوير فلم وثائقي بعنوان "حول بغداد" About Baghdad. ونشر في ملحق النهار الثقافي. تعيد جدليّة نشره هنا بمناسبة إنسحاب القوات الأمريكيّة الرسمي من العراق] بغداد... كانت الشمس تتثاءب متعبة، كأنها تتردد في مد أشعتها لتوقظ العر ...

mediagazer

  • Keeping Them Honest - AS election season rheto ...
    Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times: Keeping Them Honest  —  AS election season rhetoric heats up, so does the demand for aggressive examination of candidates' claims.  —  This is not new.  The “fact-checking” movement, shorthand for news organiz ...
  • What Happened Last Night - Last night was one ...
    Davis Shaver / Onward State: What Happened Last Night  —  Last night was one of the worst moments of my entire life.  But before I can explain what happened, you need to know a bit about Onward State.  Onward State is a community news site, and that means that most dec ...
  • Newt Gingrich and the press: Secret pals (Ging ...
    Ginger Gibson / The Politico: Newt Gingrich and the press: Secret pals  —  It's a regular feature of the 2012 GOP presidential debates — that moment when Newt Gingrich takes a deep breath, then proceeds to rip the insipid moderator and the conflict-and scandal-mongering pr ...
  • False Paterno death reports highlight journali ...
    Craig Silverman / Poynter: False Paterno death reports highlight journalists' hunger for glory  —  As many people are now aware, on Saturday evening, a student news organization at Penn State reported that former football coach Joe Paterno had died.  The information was pic ...
  • The newsonomics of signature content (Ken Doct ...
    Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab: The newsonomics of signature content  —  What's your signature content?  —  Quick: If somebody buttonholed you in an elevator, a school play, or a bar, and said, “Why should I pay you for that?”  — what d ...

Chemtrail News

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

World News - Top Stories

  • Soon, blood test may identify those likel ...
    Kiwi researchers are on the verge of developing a blood test, which would help in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. According to team leader, Professor Cliff Abrahams, treatments for the disease would perhaps be developed in the near future, but to be useful, they would need to be admi ...
  • Build strong bones
    Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the body. It ensures strength and rigidity of bones. The ends of the long bones are a storehouse of calcium. This reserve can be used during pregnancy, adolescence and lactation when there is an increased need for calcium. When this reserve is not ther ...
  • Holy cow!
    Going organic? Well, the best way to do it might be to go gobar. For the last several months, an intriguing cow-centric farming project — the ‘Bharatiya Vedic Krishi Parampara' (Indian Vedic Agricultural Traditions) — has been unfolding just outside the city, in Kayerampedu ...
  • Tweaking solar cell can double its effici ...
    Washington: Doubling the amount of sunlight that a solar cell converts into electricity may be possible just by tweaking its tiny parts. The technology can boost solar cell efficiency by a maximum of 45 percent, said Vladimir Mitin, professor of electrical...
  • Britney Spears to regain control of her f ...
    London, Jan 22 (ANI): Britney Spears' father is said to be willing to hand the control of her life and finances back to his daughter, when she...

no frakking consensus

Anna's News

  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela - Richest in ...
    For the past one week, the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Kerela has been in the news because of the huge wealth found in its secret crypts.The Padmanabhaswamy Temple is the most famous Lord Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela. It is bel ............ Submitted by Anna Smith to World  |& ...
  • South Sudan becomes an independent nation
    South Sudan has become the world's newest nation, the climax of a process made possible by the 2005 peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war.Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are among international dignitaries Submitted by Anna Smith to World   ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 1/11/12 - 50 Famous Vegetarians
    vegetarian.procon.org – NEW: 50 Famous Vegetarians – Bill Clinton, Carl Lewis, Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Steve Jobs, Natalie Portman, and Prince are just a few of the many celebrities in our authoritative new resource. See all the famous vegetarians on our list and find out ...
  • 1/9/12 - Is one bi-national state an acceptabl ...
    israelipalestinian.procon.org - UPDATED: Is one bi-national state an acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - Read pro and con arguments from former Speaker for the Israeli Knesset Avrum Burg (pro), Palestinian National Authority Foreign Affairs Minister Riyad al-Maliki (con), ...
  • 1/3/12 - Should insider trading by Congress be ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - UPDATED: Should insider trading by Congress be allowed? - Read pro and con arguments from Newsweek Senior Editor Daniel Gross (pro), US Senator (D-NY) Kirsten Gillibrand (con), Cato Institute Director Jim Harper (pro), Hoover Institution Research Fellow Peter Schweize ...
  • 12/30/11 - Medical Marijuana Historical Timeline
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - NEW: Medical Marijuana Historical Timeline - Our timeline traces medical marijuana from its earliest reference in 2900 BC as a popular Chinese medicine to 2011 where it remains legal in 16 states (and DC) and illegal under federal law. Read all 150+ major events in ...
  • 12/29/11 - Should Congress pass the Stop Tradi ...
    insidertrading.procon.org - UPDATED: Should Congress pass the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act? - Read pro and con arguments from US Representative Tim Walz (pro), Columbia University Law Professor John Coffee, Jr. (con), US Senator Scott Brown (pro), Cato Institute Director J ...

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • US Government tries to restrict publication
    of details on avian flu virus that spreads among mammals John Timmer Although avian flu viruses have infected humans in the past (often with lethal effect), so far, these infections have come directly from birds. Over this past summer, however, researchers presented disturbing results at a scien ...
  • A collapsing scientific hypothesis led to a la ...
    John Timmer In 2006, scientists announced a provocative finding: a retrovirus called XMRV, closely related to a known virus from mice, was associated with cases of prostate cancer. But other labs, using different sets of patients, found no evidence of a viral infection. Before the controversy co ...
  • Hackers gave Subway a $30 million lesson in po ...
    Sean Gallagher For thousands of customers of Subway restaurants around the US over the past few years, paying for their $5 footlong sub was a ticket to having their credit card data stolen. In a scheme dating back at least to 2008, a band of Romanian hackers is alleged to have stolen payment car ...
  • Defendant asks US Marshals to drag Righthaven ...
    Timothy B. Lee The copyright trolling firm Righthaven hit a new low on Monday when one of its targets sought to have a US Marshal drag Righthaven officers into court to explain their failure to comply with a previous court order. When we began covering Righthaven last year, the firm seemed like ...
  • Firefox 9 and fancy JavaScript optimizations
    Peter Bright Another six weeks have gone by, and another version of Firefox has been released. Still not officially "live," Firefox 9 improves on Firefox 8 with a JavaScript engine that’s up to 30 percent faster and, well, not a whole lot else. Mac OS X users will have a little mor ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Martin Rees looks back to understand why ‘scie ...
    In what might be described as the science policy Christmas lecture, former Royal Society President Lord Rees offered a tour de force of recurrent issues in science policy. Speaking at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, Rees navigated issues from energy supply to food security, with a n ...
  • Digital tools for the scientific endeavour – o ...
    FROM CLAIRE COPE IN THE SCIENCE POLICY CENTRE Scientists collect data; analyse it; try to make sense of it all; and publish their findings in a scientific journal. Right? Well yes, but it’s not always as simple as that. The way in which science is conducted has changed dramatically over the past ...
  • Transparent Government, not Transparent Citize ...
    The Index on Censorship held a debate asking if transparency is bad for science on Tuesday evening. Two of the Royal Society’s ‘Science as a Public Enterprise’ working group were on the panel: Sir Mark Walport FRS and Baroness Onora O’Neill FRS. Onora mentioned a useful  report by Kieron O’Hara ...
  • Discovery Reinvented? The Promise of European ...
    Next Thursday, the Policy Centre is holding an event in Brussels…   Chaired by Martin Porter, Managing Director, Edelman | The Centre  & Geoffrey Boulton FRS, University of Edinburgh   Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 12.00 to 17.30, followed by a drinks reception The Centre is hosting ...
  • An African science base: what would it take fo ...
    From Richard Kirby, Marine Institute Research Fellow, Marine Institute, University of Plymouth A couple of weeks ago, I chaired an inspirational panel discussion at the Royal Society involving an audience of the leaders of most of the African science academies and a panel comprising 6 early care ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Google Street Viewers spot ?God? floating over ...
    SYDNEY - Google Street View has spotted a god-like figure floating midair above a lake in Quarten, Switzerland. Although the image, discovered by the Gawker blog, is apparently the result of some sort of light distortion or lens flare, blogger Max Read has questioned whether it might have more ...
  • Dogs reduce stress in autistic children: Study
    WASHINGTON - Dogs-apart from being man’s best friend-have a special role to play in the lives of children with special needs. A new study by the Universite de Montreal has suggested that specifically trained service dogs can help reduce the anxiety and enhance the socialization skills of ...
  • Pain of cash payments helps shoppers avoid jun ...
    LONDON - Consumers who make cash payments at shops and supermarts are more likely to avoid junk food than those who use credit or debit cards, a new study says. “Cash payments are psychologically more painful than card payments, and this pain of payment can curb the impulsive responses t ...

TruthNews Australia

  • Interview with 9/11 truth activist Manny Badillo
    Manny Badillo (right) with fellow 9/11 victim family member Bob McIlvane at Ground Zero It's our great pleasure today to have Manny Badillo joining us via skype from New York. Manny is one of the architects of the extremely effective Remember Building 7 campaign and was also instrumental in ...
  • Iraq: The legacy of deception and its costs
    Most Americans are astonished to discover that right up to 9/11, the CIA was developing a "Real Politik" vision of Iraq that recognized the fast approaching collapse of U.N. Sanctions. The CIA was preparing for Peace---with a ruthless determination that the United States would capture the lion's ...
  • I’m gonna stand my ground and I won&#821 ...
    Tonight I am joined by lawyer and human rights advocate Rochelle Macredie. In the show we take a look at some of the major breaking stories in the news and Rochelle gives her analysis of what is required to roll back the march towards war and tyranny which we see unfolding across the world rig ...
  • Obama Signs the NDAA Citizen Arrest Act
    Obama signing the National Defense Appropriations Act Tonight we look at a variety of local and international stories, with a focus on the ominous passing of the National Defense Appropriations Act (NDAA). The Act allows for the military detention of American citizens without due process, abou ...
  • 2012: what’s in store?
    Tonight I am joined by psychologist Karla Cryer as we look forward to the coming "Year of the Dragon" and try to anticipate what is likely to unfold on the world stage. Some topics we address include the  familiar, such as the looming attack on Iran, global financial collapse and the Nann ...

Beacon

  • Another Victory: Protecting Sea Lions in the P ...
    A steller sea lion. © Oceana Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. I’m pleased to report two victories this week for some of the oceans’ most threatened creatures. First, Oceana and its allies won protections for endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles with the establishment of the first ...
  • Victory! Pacific Leatherbacks Gain Protected H ...
    This leatherback will now have a safe haven in the Pacific. [Photo credit: NOAA] As of today, the ocean’s largest sea turtle now has 41,914 square miles of Pacific Ocean it can call its own. Oceana has been working for five years to protect habitat critical to the survival and recovery of th ...
  • Costa Concordia Capsizes near Med's Biggest Ma ...
    A fish documented during Oceana's 2006 Mediteranean expedition. © Oceana/Inaki Relanzon The wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia in Italy is a sobering human tragedy, with at least 11 deaths and more missing. Sadly, it could become an environmental tragedy as well. The Costa Concordia ca ...
  • Massachusetts Tackles Seafood Mislabeling
    Image via Wikimedia Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, the state of Massachusetts became a national leader in the fight against mislabeled seafood with a clear message: with an abundance of local seafood, there is no place for mislabeled seafood in Massachusetts, and more must be done to combat ...
  • Oceana Sues on Behalf of Loggerheads
    A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling. © Oceana/Cory Wilson Fishing gear should be killing fewer sea turtles, not more – and today we filed a complaint with the government saying just that. Oceana’s complaint is in response to the U.S. government’s decision in October 2010 to allow eight East Co ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • Do Countries Even Matter?
      Are Countries Passé?   In 1945 at the end of WWII, there were approximately 71 sovereign nations. Today there are 205 nations.   Recently Scottish news agencies announced a movement afoot that would bring independence to Scotland from its august ties to the United Kingdom’s mona ...
  • Strange Massive Chinese Graphics In The Gobi D ...
      A few years ago, cartographers and readers of Gizmodo searching through Google Earth began noticing large grids of zig sagging lines appear in the Gobi desert. In Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, and north of the Shule River, you can see what look like artwork, or QR codes. The lines are 65 to 9 ...
  • Movie Review: The Battle Of Algiers
      I watched the movie The Battle of Algiers, a 1966 film about the 8 year insurgency by the citizens of Algeria against the French occupational force. It was directed by Gillo Pontecorvino. It is a powerful, moving movie, about two hours and twenty minutes long. The acting is superb. The ca ...
  • The Adze.
        The adze was a weapon developed from a similar looking tool used in battle in the New Kingdom 1550 to 1070 BC. Egyptians made the adze with stone striking blades, flint blades and later with bone, and finally bronze. It was used for digging, and knapping flint, and barrel stave sha ...
  • FP-45 Liberator. We Made 1,000,000 Of These An ...
      Inland Guide Lamp Manufacturing Division of General Motors hired 300 people and in 6 months manufacturer 1,000,000 of these stamped metal single shot .45 cal handguns. Primitive and close range, the FP-45 Liberator were an attempt to create a gun that could be dropped en masse behind enem ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Chris Christie: ‘Gingrich has embarrassed the ...
    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Mitt Romney needed a strong interview with Chris Wallace today and he got one. Romney communicated easily for the first time in a while, seemed relaxed, but also forthcoming on mistakes made, including that letting his tax ...
  • Newt Gingrich Can’t Beat Barack Obama
    NEWT GINGRICH WINS SOUTH CAROLINA Memo to GOP Star Chamber. RE: Not Losing the *(&#! House and Senate GOP Majority w/ Newt Disaster. Time for a Secret Meeting. – Mike Murphy tweet UPDATE (10:00 p.m.): Once again I want to make it very clear, I do not have a candidate in the race in 2012. [...]
  • Sissy Farenthold Speaks Truth to Power on What ...
    Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. “I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.” – Sissy Farenthold This week, as President of Meyerland Area Democrats, I was able to get a p ...
  • Queer Talk: Around the states, queer things ar ...
    Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. We have a good idea what the GOP wannabe’s and what Mr. Obama think about LGBT equality. But there’s a lot going on at the state level, providing some context for what’s happening at the national level. “Vanity” licen ...
  • Dash of Dan: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
      When I was a kid, early in the morning I used to scurry to the kitchen, while everyone was asleep, take a plain slice of Wonderbread, and slather Jif peanut butter on that sucker. Years later, my tastes haven’t quite changed. I’m still just a big kid, who enjoys peanut butter. ...

Hudson New York

  • A Palestinian Hero
    Mahmoud Abu Rahma is perhaps one of the bravest Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Because of his courage, he has been stabbed several times in various parts of his body. This is what happens under Hamas and the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority
  • Government Forces to Make Overhaul in Judiciary
    The government announced a series of planned reforms Wednesday to speed up the justice system under growing pressure over lengthy pre-trial detentions, but the opposition and jurists have cast doubt on whether the package can change things on the ground.
  • Germany's New Islamic Centers
    One of the oldest universities in Germany has opened the country's first taxpayer-funded department of Islamic theology. The Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen was inaugurated on January 16 and is the first of four planned Islamic
  • Islam's OIC: The World's Thought Police
    On December 19, 2011, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the negative stereotyping and stigmatization of people based on their religion, and urged member states to take effective measures towards addressing and combating "such
  • China: Dissident Writer Details Torture by Police
    In a statement today at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Yu Jie, a dissident writer and former vice president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center who left China a week ago, recounts his torture by state security police after he was kidnapped on

Urban Survival

  • Is Solar Putting in a Bottom?
    Every so often we like to get practical and hands-on  with economic notes that make sense even for the non Wall Street investor, since, coming up to whatever it is this spring, now could be a dandy time to be … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Friday at the WuJo and 314
    We are almost swimming in oddities from the land where woo-woo runs smack into science and fights it out in the mental arts dojo we call the WuJo.  In particular we have problems with disappearing things and disappearing time as … Continue reading →
  • The Consumer Price Myth Continued
    With the latest assertion that the Consumer Price Index remained unchanged in December, we wryly note that’s hardly the case if you zoom out to look at something a little broader than one month’s worth of data.  Shall we begin … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Vostok and Mascon
    Although it would be tempting to jump right into the further discussions and disclosures of the upward move in “woo-woo” we have a couple of other items on the agenda which may possibly be of more immediate concern, namely the … Continue reading →
  • Fed in the Box
    The economic boogeyman is in our immediate future, because regardless of what the Fed does at their rate meeting next week, it’s bound to be wrong.  If, as some are hinting, the economy actually is staging a modest recovery and … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • Pipeline Politics Hit Illinois: Leaders' Keyst ...
    Henry Henderson, Director, Midwest Program NRDC, Chicago, Illinois I was surprised to see Illinois GOP Chairman Pat Brady had been scheduled to take part in a big Keystone XL pipeline rally this week in the Quad Cities. Given the decision to deny th ...
  • Listening to General Anderson: Keystone XL tar ...
    Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Director International Program, Washington, D.C. Brigadier General (Retired) Steven Anderson is a crusader against dependence on oil and in our fight against climate change. He has been speaking out against TransCanada’s ...
  • California Cap and Trade Program Expected to B ...
    Kristin Eberhard, Legal Director, Western Energy and Climate Projects, Santa Monica Since the release of Governor Brown’s budget two weeks ago, there have been a lot of questions about how much revenue could be coming from auctioning emission ...
  • From Durban to Rio: Taking action on clean ene ...
    Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC The global warming negotiations in Durban made important progress, but much more work lies ahead to address global warming. Countries have committed to action and are beginning ...
  • Next Week's Vote on California's Clean Car Sta ...
    Simon Mui, Scientist, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, San Francisco At a time when consumers and businesses are being held hostage to oil rising to over $100 a barrel, our oil dependency is once again threatening our economic recovery. It would seem like ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 16 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Friday, January 20, 2012: Seattle WA police seem to have an ace in the hole in their effort to stop the DOJ from forcing them to stop committing civil rights abuses in the form of a [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 25 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Thursday, January 19, 2012: Las Vegas NV police are set to settle suit for $1.7mil to the family of an unarmed man fatally shot during a drug raid that went bad before police even got the [...]
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Wednesday, January 18, 2012: DeKalb Co GA cop went to the wrong address while responding to a domestic disturbance call where he then fatally shot a dog that was chained to a garage… t ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 12 reports of police misconduct tracked in our National Police Misconduct News Feed for this Tuesday, January 17, 2012: Eastchester NY cop was sentenced to 3-9 yrs in prison for fatally shooting his friend in the throat while playing with his laser sighted gun in his car [0] lohud.u ...
  • NOTE: January 16 Outages
    My apologies for the series of outages yesterday, not only on the site, but also on the News Feed as well. The site issues were apparently issues at the hosting server that have been repaired, but those outages, in combination with some ISP issues I had yesterday and an insane amount of work fro ...

Total Collapse

  • US deploys 12,000 troops in Libya
    The United States has sent some 12,000 soldiers to Libya, in the first phase of deployments to the oil-rich North African nation. According to Asharq Alawsat, the troops landed in the eastern oil port city of Brega. Although the deployment is said to be aimed at generating stability and security ...
  • Israeli Military Prepares for Massive Gaza Inv ...
    The Jerusalem Post reports today that Israel’s military has ordered its Southern Command to prepare for a “large scale” invasion of the Gaza Strip, likely to begin within the next few months. The revelation is hardly a surprise, as Israeli Military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz has repeate ...
  • Iranian Al Qods cells for Saudi Arabia, Turkey ...
    In the past 48 hours, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Turkey have alerted Washington to intelligence reports of Iranian Al Qods Brigades operatives heading their way for attacks on oil installations and American targets. The alert was accompanied by a query about how the US intended to respond to the a ...
  • U.S., Allies Discussing Military Option in Syr ...
    Russia dismissed denials by NATO and three alliance members about plans for military intervention in Syria, saying it has information that a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors are under discussion. “Our partners in the West are in fact discussing a no-fly zone,” Foreign Minister Sergei Lavro ...
  • Details of Obama’s letter to Iran released
    A number of Iranian officials have released the details of the letter that U.S. President Barack Obama recently sent to Tehran. The New York Times, citing U.S. government officials, wrote on January 12 that the Obama administration had sent a message to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution A ...

Daily Dose

  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Megaupload is down and the Department of Justice is behind the act. So Anonymous decided that the DOJ’s site should go down too. Turnabout, eh? Google+ tops 90 million active...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Facebook announces its Open Graph partners, numbering 60 so far. An Iranian-born Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in Iran for code that he wrote, which was use in...
  • TNW’s Daily Dose – 24 hours of tec ...
    Sites across the Web black out to protest against SOPA and PIPA, Samsung says it’s not looking to buy RIM, and Grooveshark pulls out of Germany. It’s all in today’s...
  • GroupMe is built right into the new Winter X G ...
    ESPN has just released its X Games app for iOS and Android (link available soon), which among other features, includes integration with GroupMe, the easiest way to create an instant SMS style chatroom across...
  • Not sure what SOPA is? ExplainSOPA puts you in ...
    With news about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hitting mainstream publications and broadcasts, more Americans are becoming interested in what it’s all about. Reading proposed bills isn’t the easiest...

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Piers Akerman's call for apartheid era coal to ...
    Piers Akerman (Daily Telegraph Jan 20,2012) is calling for Coal-to-Liquids to be deployed in Australia. Coal to liquids is the technology choice of desperate regimes including the Nazis in Germany during WWII and the apartheid regime in South Africa. It is highly polluting and has only ever be ...
  • Solar programs pay for themselves and reduce t ...
    This is an updated version of what was published in the Sydney Morning Herald today. Solar energy benefits the state by providing electricity at much cheaper rates than those of traditional sources, writes Matthew Wright. It may appear counter-intuitive, but getting millions of solar panels ont ...
  • Renewable Energy Lifeline for Australian Manuf ...
    By Matthew Wright Coal’s days are numbered. The transition to renewable energy is now well underway. It will put an end to the adverse health impacts coal mining and combustion now has on the health of Australian families such as those in the Hunter Valley. The increased rates of asthma, respir ...
  • Renewable Energy Milestone - Renewable Investm ...
    The journey to a 100 percent renewable energy economy reached a major milestone as investment in renewables has overtaken investment in fossil fuel energy for the first time. A new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance  demonstrates that a massive $187 billion was invested in wind, solar, ...
  • CSG Needs a Long, Hard Look
    Matthew Wright, November 24: The contentious issue of coal seam gas has become a federal government concern in the dying days of the 2011 parliamentary sitting year. To gain the backing of independents Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor for the minerals resource rent tax, the Labor government has a ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • Biofuel breakthrough: kelp could power cars
    Scientists have devised a new way to produce ethanol directly from seaweed, offering the potential to generate biofuels that don't compete with terrestrial food production and won't suck up scarce freshwater, reports a study published today in Science.
  • Recognizing value of nature could boost income ...
    The rural poor would substantially boost their income if the ecological services of the ecosystems they steward were valued and compensated by the rest of the world, claims a new study published in the journal Bioscience.
  • Feared extinct, obscure monkey rediscovered in ...
    A significant population of the rarely seen, little-known Miller's grizzled langurs (Presbytis hosei canicrus) has been discovered in Indonesian Borneo according to a new paper published in the American Journal of Primatology. Feared extinct by some and dubbed one of the world's 25 most threaten ...
  • National Association of Music Merchants does ' ...
    The National Association of Music Merchants is doing a 'disservice' to its members by misrepresenting the provisions and spirit of the Lacey Act, a law that aims to curb illegal logging abroad, states a letter published by a coalition of environmental groups. The letter, issued Thursday, urges t ...
  • Brazil begins preliminary damming of Xingu Riv ...
    Damming of the Xingu River has begun in Brazil to make way for the eventual construction of the hugely controversial, Belo Monte dam. The Norte Energia (NESA) consortium has begun building coffer dams across the Xingu, which will dry out parts of the river before permanent damming, reports the N ...

Sierra Express

  • Government owes Musa Tarawally millions
    Following reports that the Minister of Internal Affairs, Musa Tarawally (in photo), was awarded a contract totaling Le1,000,000,000 for the rehabilitation of Lungi Police Barracks, but misappropriated same, the police media director Assistant Superintendent Ibrahim Samura, has presented evidence ...
  • Mohamed Bangura will come good says Neil Lennon
    Neil Lennon has backed Mohamed Bangura to recover from a difficult start to life at Celtic. The Sierra Leone striker is yet to score for the club in eleven appearances and hasn’t been involved in first-team action over the past few weeks. The Celtic boss remains convinced the Sierra Leone strike ...
  • President Koroma attends President Jammeh’s in ...
    President Ernest Bai Koroma has returned home with his 10 man delegation including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Joseph B Dauda after attending the 4th inauguration ceremony of President elect of The Republic of The Gambia, Sheik Alhaji Yayah A J J Jammeh at the I ...
  • Why President Koroma continues to enjoy local ...
    The determination of President Koroma’s administration to turn things around through his ‘Agenda for Change’ seems to have attracted many donors and international financial institutions that have expressed sincere willingness to work with the government because of its strong fiscal policies.  (P ...
  • An urgent call for action on National Electora ...
    Sierra Leone barely has 11 months to the polls unveiling 17th November 2012 as national elections day.  Dearth with, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) chaired by Dr Christiana Thorpe has proposed many changes from voter’s registration through to voting exercise. Changes believed to be high ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Crafar farm bid decision close
    The Overseas Investment Office now says it will make a decision whether or not to approve Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms before the January 31 deadline for the deal set by receiver Michael Stiassny.Should...
  • Fay ready to fight China farm deal
    Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin's bid to buy the Crafar dairy farms will face a high-powered legal challenge from a rival group of buyers led by businessman Sir Michael Fay if it gains Overseas Investment Office approval.However,...
  • Crafar fraud case - third person charged
    Hong Kong authorities have charged a third person alleged to be an accomplice to fraud involving the spurned Natural Dairy NZ bid for the Crafar family's dairy farms. Singaporean national and New Zealand resident Yee Wenjye, also...
  • Legal challenge looms if Chinese win Crafar farms
    The Overseas Investment Office faces an unprecedented public examination of its process for approving sales of New Zealand farmland to foreign investors if it approves the bid by China's Shanghai Pengxin Corporation for the 16 farms...
  • Fonterra breaks export record
    Fonterra says it has broken its own record for the highest export month, helping to boost New Zealand's economy by $1.3 billion last month.The dairy giant said it loaded 246,000 tonnes of dairy products onto ships during December,...

The Bovine

  • From beekeepers in France to the sweet corn at ...
    There have been lots of good stories relating to GMO foods crossing the Bovine newsdesk in recent days, so we decided to compile a bunch of the more interesting ones in one post for your enjoyment. Here they are: From … Continue reading →
  • “Myths versus Realities of Raw Milk&#822 ...
    From Scott Morgan, on Central Jersey.com “It was 2006, and for the second time, Michael Schmidt was confronted by armed policemen on his farm. They came — 25 of them — in camouflage fatigues and hazmat suits to shut down … Continue reading →
  • Cowshares now legal in B.C.?
    This just in from Gordon Watson in B.C.: Someone just brought to our attention that the regulation which categorically outlawed packaging and distribution of raw milk for human consumption, in British Columbia,  was repealed last year If what appears on the … Continue reading →
  • More e.coli controversy around Organic Pasture ...
    From David E. Gumpert, on the Complete Patient blog: “Controversy seems to be lurking in the supposed manner in which two of the children became ill from E.coli O157:H7 in OPDC milk. In a comment following my previous post, McAfee … Continue reading →
  • Article about Michael Schmidt from Biodynamics ...
    Editor’s note [part of the original Biodynamics article] : How many full time farmers do you know that put on a Bach festival between milkings? One dedicated farmer in Ontario, Michael Schmidt, is doing just that and a lot more … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

  • Australia Roundup: Oceanfront Homes for 65% Of ...
    Reader "Brisbane Bear" from down under sent potpourri of links on the dwindling prospects for the Australian economy. Oceanfront Homes for 65% Off In apples, rot starts at the periphery and spreads to the core. In real estate, rot starts in condos and vacation homes, then slowly encom ...
  • Irish Journalist Hounds ECB Official Regarding ...
    The video below is from a European Central Bank press-conference in Ireland. Journalist Vincent Browne demands that the ECB representative explain why the ECB required the Irish people to bail out a bank's uninsured creditors. The bureaucrat mouths bland reassurances, then asserts (despite all a ...
  • Gingrich Blows Away Romney 40% to 28%; Victory ...
    In spite of a carefully timed announcement by Newt Gingrich's ex-wife Marianne on an "Open Marriage, Mistress Proposal", Gingrich rallied from a 16 point deficit on January 3 to a stunning 12 percentage point slaughter of Mitt Romney less than three weeks later. South Carolina Primary Resul ...
  • Sarkozy Dumps Financial Transaction Tax After ...
    French President Nicolas Sarkozy is once again setting himself up to look like a fool, this time over his pledge to implement a tax on all financial transactions, popularly referred to as the "Tobin Tax". Just days after pledging to proceed with a tax on all financial transaction tax in Fra ...
  • Greek Debt Talks Stall, More Negotiations "By ...
    For weeks we have been hearing "agreement soon" on Greek bond haircuts. The theme for the day today as it was yesterday and as it was a week ago is "tomorrow". One problem with all of these "deal is close" announcements is none of the have included agreement from those who stand to benefit ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • The EyeOpener- Police State International: The ...
    Consolidation & Leveraging of Power in the Hands of a Select Few With the National Defense Authorization Act, the Enemy Expatriation Act, and other startling measures by the US government to crack down on their own population making headlines around the world at the moment, the idea of an A ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.&#82 ...
  • The Fastest Growing Bank in the West
    Defending our Future in the Financial System Investors and regulators are frequently cautioned that rapid growth in banking can be a sign of trouble.  With most of their incoming cash protected by public guarantees like deposit insurance, banks can grow by taking on more risk without as much sen ...
  • BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- January ...
    BFP Nightly Quote “COWARDICE, n. A charge often leveled by all-American types against those who stand up for their beliefs by refusing to fight in wars they find unconscionable, and who willingly go to prison or into exile in order to avoid violating their own consciences. These ‘cow ...
  • Systemic Indoctrination & the Culture of Outso ...
    Sibel Edmonds on Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock This morning I was interviewed by Ernest Hancock. There are a few things I like about Ernest’s show: long enough to really cover the subjects, daring and bold, flexible enough to get into unexpected topics spontaneously, and its abil ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

  • In Defense of Captain Schettino & The Lives He ...
    The only fact that is certain in the Costa Concordia disaster is the universal truth of all maritime disasters… human mistakes were made by multiple individuals. As discussed in the [...]
  • Carnival To Conduct Safety Audit – gCaptain Ed ...
    The following editorial was written by a source trusted by the editors of gCaptain.com who wishes to remain anonymous due to his close relationship with Carnival. Carnival Corporation today announced [...]
  • Costa Concordia – The 3 Most Fatal Mistakes
    What Really Killed Costa Concordia’s Passengers? Captain Schettino has received a lot of criticism in the mainstream press and, possibly, even more from industry insiders including gCaptain for abandoning ship [...]
  • Shell Wins $970M Offshore Nova Scotia Ultra-De ...
    Royal Dutch Shell has won a $970 million bid (NS 11-1) for exploration rights offshore Nova Scota, says the Canada – Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB). This 9-year license covers [...]
  • Somali Pirates Release 15 Indian Hostages Endi ...
    A rather dramatic scene unfolded over the past three days in the Indian Ocean involving a EUNAVFOR warship, a group of pirates, 15 hostages, and an attack on a Dutch-registered [...]

Blogging Canadians

Press TV - Middle East

  • Yemenis protest Saleh immunity law
    Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Yemen to reiterate their calls for the trial of outgoing dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides, Press TV reports.
  • Second Palestinian MP arrested
    Israeli forces have arrested MP Khaled Tafesh Dweib, a Palestine legislative council member from Hamas, after raiding his house in Bethlehem.
  • Bahraini dies in regime toxic gas attack
    A 25-year-old Bahraini man has died due to inhalation of toxic gas during an attack by Saudi-backed regime forces, Press TV reports.
  • Bones found in mass grave in SE Turkey
    Three sets of human remains were excavated by Turkish authorities in southeastern Turkey on Thursday as part of their investigation into alleged killings by the Gendarmerie Intelligence Anti-Terrorism Unit (JITEM) in the 1990s.
  • Bahraini killed in regime toxic gas attack
    A 25-year-old Bahraini man has died due to inhalation of toxic gas during an attack by regime forces, Press TV reports.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • What Do Economics, Marketing and Glee Have In ...
    One of the liveliest Discussion Boards this semester in my ECO course was “What about all my stuff?” It concerned supply and demand, why we buy goods and services, the satisfaction derived from those goods and services and whether the owner of the greatest amount of stuff is the winner. Is happi ...
  • To Boldly Go Where No Human Has Gone Before
    Back in the 60′s, the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions were exciting and we all watched Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley report all the details from launch to splash down. Beginning with Alan Shepard’s 15 minute sub-orbital flight in 1961 and culminating with the Apollo 11 ...
  • What Is So Scary About Occupy Wall Street?
    “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” So states ...
  • Enough With the Sleazy Reality Shows!
    I just don’t understand the fascination with Teen Moms, Hoarders, the Housewives, Jersey Shore and the myriad other sleazy reality shows on TV. The supreme franchise, however, has got to be those Kardashians. Are you kidding me? Don’t get me wrong. I enjoy reality shows where people ...
  • What’s Your Story?
    I ran onto the bus just as the driver was about to shut the doors. I reached into my jacket pocket and pull out my Metro Card, only to find out there was not enough money on it to pay my fare.  Sigh. I looked at the driver, and gave him the please don’t embarrass [...]

Dissident Voice

  • The PM doth protest too much, methinks
    Canada’s prime minister Stephen Harper recently professed some biased opinions, opinions that may well be argued to be dangerous, in an interview with the CBC.1 Harper spoke of overwhelming evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. No evidence was provided. That Iran says its nucle ...
  • The Nine Thousand Names of Freedom
    Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" is ranked as a TopTen S.F. story. In a time of eroding civil liberties and constrained freedom of thought, it is an allegory mirrored in this short story that also examines the ongoing threats to access to the Web.
  • Lucid Derangement
    One would think that if condemned to lose sanity it would be preferable not to be aware of what was happening. On the contrary, as in lucid dreaming, there is something empowering and even comforting in lucid derangement, particularly national as opposed to personal derangement. We may be in the ...
  • Outsourcing America’s Health Care
    “Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags, we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. “Yeah, I could use a decent vacation,” I replied, figuring he’d pay for both of us since he had just set the world record for the most nose jobs in a 24-hour period. “ ...
  • Conflict and El Clásico in the Little Town of ...
    Overlooked by a military watchtower, in a region known most for conflict and a town known more for Christmas, a few hundred Barcelona and Real Madrid fans are packed into a make shift outside viewing arena. This is El Clásico in Bethlehem, a city where you either support Barca or Real; to suppor ...

Destructionist

  • Ron Paul in South Carolina: “Beginning of a Lo ...
    “The message of liberty is being received by more people every single day.”
  • Wayseer Manifesto – “V” Edition
    Tagged: occupy wall street protests, revolution is NOW, the destructionist, Wayseer Manifesto V Edition, We are change, we are the 99%, we the people
  • Why Resistance Is Essential
    Tagged: #_Destructionist, american patriots, bailouts for the wealthy, revolution is coming, revolution is NOW, the constitution, the destructionist, the top 1%, the wealth gap, washington's blog, we are the 99%, we the people, Why Resistance Is Essential, You Have The Right To Remain Silent But ...
  • Bill Maher “Applauds” Ron Paul, Calls Paul Det ...
    When Bill Maher, hardly a conservative, says that he applauds Ron Paul on his positions, and calls those Paul detractors in his audience “brainwashed liberals” it is safe to say we have seen it all. And so, once again, Ron Paul is officially cool.
  • Vote On PIPA Internet Censorship Bill Postpone ...
    Following the announcement by the Department of Justice that it had shuttered file sharing website Megaupload last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today declared that the Senate vote on the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), scheduled for Tuesday, has now been postponed indefinitely. “In light o ...

To Do

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Mena switching to renewable energy projects, says E&Y
Times of Oman
The indices provide scores in 40 countries for national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures and their suitability for individual technologies. The balance of power is clearly shifting, with the Mena region, Eastern Europe, ...
Some idle solar energy projects may soon connect to grid
Los Angeles Times
Two federal agencies and Southern California Edison say they're close to ending a long impasse that has made renewable energy projects sit unused. Negotiations with a third agency are tougher. The parties reached a preliminary agreement one week after ...
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Iran: The Renewable Energy Carrot .vs. The Stick of War
OilPrice.com
An alternative option is to pursue rapprochement with Iran by offering to assist it in meeting its energy needs through renewable projects in exchange for key security concessions. Detractors will claim that this would constitute appeasement of a ...
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Renewable Energy Rises in Public Debut After Pricing Below Range
Bloomberg
Renewable Energy Group Inc. (REGI), the biggest US biodiesel maker, was little changed in its trading debut after raising $72 million in an initial public offering, less than first proposed. The shares rose 1 percent to $10.10 at 4 pm New York time. ...
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Human Habitat

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Country Ecology: Snowy owl
Conway Daily Sun
Another aspect of the snowy owl's ecology is that its eyes are used to 24 hours of daylight during the short Arctic summer, when the midnight sun is a fact. When I flew helicopters up there in 1969, I became aware of the snowy owls' diurnal presence as ...
Ecology And The Pathology Of Capitalism
CounterCurrents.org
There is growing conflict between capitalism and the planet's ecology, its essential life support systems. A fierce struggle between capital and democracy is in progress. The booted foot of capitalism is pressing upon the throat of democracy. ...
Ecology Week in Review | 21-Jan-2012
Ecology Global Network
Penny Stallings wrote of plans to monitor ground-level radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant by attaching radiation counters to a thousand wild monkeys, and in Ecology Kids, Jane Engelsiepen reminded us that squirrels deserve a little love, ...
Ecology Coatings Enters into a License Agreement with BASF Coatings GmbH
MarketWatch (press release)
18, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ecology Coatings, Inc. (otcqb:ECOC), a leader in the discovery and development of nanotechnology-enabled, ultraviolet-curable advanced coatings, announced it has entered into a license agreement with German-based ...
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Water Power

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Documentary examines how toxic water at the nation's largest Marine base ...
Washington Post
A documentary film crew that followed him for a story about water contamination at Camp Lejeune heard his whimpers through a microphone clipped to his clothes. The crew dashed from another part of the graveyard and found him asking, “Why them and not ...
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High water, strong winds at Willamette Falls in Oregon
Northwest Cable News
The heavy rains had eased in the Willamette Valley Saturday, but water was still raging down the Willamette River. It's a sight we usually only get to experience once in a decade. Seeing the falls at flood stage is a remarkable display of Mother Nature ...
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County Seeks Meeting With Robbins on 'Tweaked' Water Proposal
Southern Pines Pilot
By Florence Gilkeson Of seven potential water sources, Moore County will focus attention first on a resource at home — the town of Robbins. The Moore County Board of Commissioners reached a consensus Thursday to concentrate on a partnership with ...
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Rain Causes Water to be Released from Willamette Valley Reservoirs
KEZI TV
By Lauren Mickler COTTAGE GROVE, Ore -- As reservoirs fill up with rain, some of that water needs to be let out, putting even more pressure of nearby rivers. The US Army Corps of Engineers says they need to release some water out of Willamette Valley ...
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