Opit's LinkFest!: 13 May

Mike German, former FBI agent, now National Security Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), speaking at Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle, Washington. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

All Things Considered - NPR

How Teddy Saved Football

The 12 Days Of Disaster That Made Modern Chicago

How TV Brought Gay People Into Our Homes

American Water Intelligence Project

County of Brant O&M

Essal equity sale

Anand, Gujarat

Blog of Rights - ACLU

Respecting Moms on Mother's Day

National Security Letters: A Note On Numbers

This Week in Civil Liberties (5/11/12)

CNET

Yahoo CEO Thompson reportedly set to resign

Apple forced to change name of iPad Wi-Fi + 4G

Audiophiliac readers' favorite headphones, speakers, and receivers

CNN

Why we need a new kind of doctor

In the years before penicillin came into wide use in the 1940s, medicine couldn't do very much for many of the sickest patients. A hospital could...

49 bodies, some mutilated, found in Mexico

A Kansas town tries to keep the train coming through

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Envisioning the Future of Medicare: A Citizens' Conference

Lessons learned from the Climate Justice Project: Seth Klein at INET conference (video)

Study reveals secret Canadian bank bailout

Carbon Farmers of Australia

Carbon Farming Newsletter: April - May 2012

One-Day Workshop: An introduction to Carbon Farming and Trading Potentials

Top 15 Questions about the Carbon Farming Initiative

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Carbon Forum North America 2012

Program Manager, Make an Impact

Putting the "U" in CCUS

Circle of Blue - water news

New Generation Oil and Gas Lease Ensures Water Protection and Big Money

Infographic: 2010, 2011, and 2012 Water Pricing Survey for 30 Major U.S. Cities

The Stream, May 11: Top Scientists Say Water And Energy Are Linked Issue

Commentators

Paul Vallely: Add a few irrelevant facts, stir and let prejudice do the rest

Katy Guest: 'Social jetlag' just confirms it - modern life makes us ill

Matthew Bell: The Emperor's New Clothes (13/05/12)

Common Dreams

Seeking, Amidst the Oh So Low and Base, the Better Angels of our Nature

Contradicting the Jesus

Occupy Irony

Daily Bell

Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont's Small Nation Dream

Treasuries and Derivatives Blow Up? So Where Do You Go ...

S&P's 'Wall of Debt' Warning is Phony as They Come

Daily News - Egypt

Farewell Note from the Shareholders of EMS

Daily News Egypt: Final words

Pan-Muslim body may participate in UN Syria observer mission

Democracy Now!

Stop the Drug War: Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Condemns U.S. Role in Widening Drug Violence

Sexual Violence and Natural Resource Pillaging Top Hardships Facing Alaskan Natives

UN Probe: U.S. Should Return Stolen Sacred Land, Including Mt. Rushmore, to Native Americans

Discovery

GPS Robot Swarm Swims California Rivers

Floating robots equipped with mobile phone equipment will help study river environments.

Parenting Lessons from the Ancient World

Lightning Flashes on Origin of Solar System

EPA Radiation News

Statement on Passing of Peter Lord, Environmental Reporter for Providence Journal

EPA Provides Major Grant to CACWNY

EPA to Help Citizen Scientists Learn More about Air and Water Pollution in the U.S. Virgin Islands

EPA Water Science

Fish Advisories with EPA’s Improved Online Tools

2012 Beach Grants

BEACON 2.0 - Beach Advisory and Closing On-line Notification

Food and Water Watch

Lookout! The New Wall Street Wants to Speculate on our Common Resources

Flowers are Nice, But a Frack–Free Future is Even Better

Las Cruces, New Mexico Receives Citation for Violating the Right to Water

food consumer

The Toxin So Dangerous It's Causing Catastrophic Birth Defects

& Total Video Length: 00:25:07 Visit the Mercola Video Library Story at-a-glance Roundup Ready soy is being cultivated on a...

Insulin, coronary angiography can kill diabetes patients

The Limits of Ebay Buyer Protection: Is Ebay buyers' protection real? A Personal Story

Force Change

Raise Awareness about Health Concerns for Lesbian Women

Stop Forced-Evictions in South Africa

Oppose Heavy Handed Restrictions on Free Speech in Uganda

FreakOut Nation

Even Eminem (inadvertently) pawned Mitt Romney for his high school years

Help Liberty Denim: Saving American Jobs in South Carolina

Mitt Romney Knows Bankruptcy and when to Cut and Run – with Profits

Guardian UK

Greek parties in emergency talks with president over new government

Last-ditch discussions hope to produce some form of coalition as country remains leaderless after deadlocked electionsA final push to form a...

Indignado protesters mark anniversary

EU to meet over Tymoshenko jailing

Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon

SteveLendmanBlog: America's Gulf Disaster Revisited

( Flogging BP's actions ignores government secrecy over Corexit 9500 applications and hazard - should not have been done, let alone continued )

Disease-ridden Fish, Eyeless Shrimp, Mutated Sea Life – Welcome ...

The 4th Media » Two Years After the BP Oil Spill: IS THE GULF ...

Hayride

JONAH GOLDBERG VIDEO: Nothing Correlates More With Ignorance And Stupidity More Than Youth, So Why Would You Care How Kids Vote?

The Democrats Like Jindal’s Budget

JERRY BROWN IS AWESOME, AIN’T HE? California Budget Deficit Jumps From $9 Billion To $16 Billion In New Estimate

In-Mind : Psychology for You

The dish on gossip: Its origins, functions, and bad reputation

It’s your choice! – Or is it really?

When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

Inside Facebook

New this week on the Inside Network Job Board: Lowe’s, Fiveonenine, SponsorPay and more

Facebook roundup: Optimal, Instagram, TBG Digital, action spec ads

Inside Facebook’s pre-IPO hype

Lifehacker

Five Best Online Custom Clothing Stores [Hive Five]

Amplify Your Phone's Speakers with a Glass Vase or Pitcher [Macgyver Tips]

This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]

memeorandum

Thune cautions against more bank regulations after JP Morgan losses (Erik Wasson/The Hill)

Sen. Feinstein: Leak in new underwear bomb case must be prosecuted (Erik Wasson/The Hill)

How the 'war on women' quashed feminist stereotypes (Rebecca Traister/Washington Post)

Steve Munro

Service Changes Effective June 18, 2012

TTC Meeting Wrapup: May 1, 2012

Where Should We Put the “Downtown Relief” Line?

NPR - news

Egyptian Candidate's Broad Appeal Has Risks

Military Chaplains Raise Gay Marriage Concerns

The NFL's Defense Against Head Injury Lawsuits

NRC

12-056: NRC Senior Staff Member Honored by Federal Asian Pacific American Council

12-055: NRC Prioritizes Industry Responses to Request for Post-Fukushima Flood Hazard Evaluations

12-054: NRC to Discuss Cumulative Effects of Regulation May 31 in Rockville, Md.

New Scientist

Americans would pay more for green energy

'Solar panel' eye implant promises sight without wires

Touch sensitivity is genetically linked to hearing

News 24

NZ journalist tells of horror Zim jail

A photojournalist from New Zealand who was arrested in Zimbabwe has been released and has spoken of the "hell" of spending 25 days in the country's...

Afghan cops kill two UK soldiers

Seven die in W Cape crash

Obama Conspiracy Theories

Resolving election disputes

Investigating ancestors

Where there’s smoke, there’s birther politicians in North Carolina

Open Channel

Bending to industry lobbying, Obama eases safety rules for some railroads

By msnbc.com The Obama administration announced Thursday that it will roll back safety rules for railroad lines that don't carry passengers or...

Spy who uncovered underwear bomb plot is British national, sources say

US public supports cuts in defense spending, going beyond Obama and GOP

Open Secrets