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Thursday, September 27, 2012

27 September - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Aurora Australis is an icebreaker under the co...Aurora Australis is an icebreaker under the command of the Australian Antarctic Division docked here in Hobart (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mount Hayden & storm - Grand Canyon North RimMount Hayden & storm - Grand Canyon North Rim (Photo credit: Al_HikesAZ)
Morocco and Spain (NASA, International Space S...Morocco and Spain (NASA, International Space Station, 12/31/11) (Photo credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)
Michael Hayden, Air Force general.Michael Hayden, Air Force general. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Winter, the latest Syrian humanitarian challenge
    The days are still warm across the fertile plains of northern Syria around Aleppo, but night brings a chill – an ominous harbinger of winter’s approach and the deepening of the already severe humanitarian crisis gripping a country wracked by civil war. Warm temperatures and plentiful food have c ...
  • Herman: Manufacturing Failed States
    There is a good case to be made that the United States itself is a failed or failing state. It obviously has not been crushed militarily by any foreign power, but its underlying population has been hugely damaged by its own permanent war system. In this case the military elite, with its contrac ...
  • NewYorker: Why Is Romney Such A Loser ?
    It’s a serious question. On the basis of fundamentals, the race should be a squeaker. The Yale economist Ray Fair’s prediction model, which ignores the opinion polls and just looks at economic factors, currently puts Obama’s share of the popular vote at 49.5 per cent, implying that Romney would ...
  • Hayden: Obama's Libya Adventure to Blame for A ...
    Violent protests in Libya that claimed the life of the U.S. ambassador were the result of President Obama’s decision to intervene in the Libyan revolt without a “deep appreciation” for what would follow, former CIA Director Michael Hayden tells Newsmax. Hayden, a former four-star Air Force ge ...
  • Comprehensive survey of Antarctic sea-ice starts
    A TOP international team of polar experts will deploy an array of hi-tech sensors to carry out the most thorough survey ever of Antarctic sea ice thickness. The Australian Antarctic Division's first scientific expedition of the 2012/13 season will use under-ice and airborne vehicles to invest ...

Independent - London

  • Markets steady as focus remains on Spain and G ...
    Financial markets recovered their poise today, though investors remained concerned that Greece and Spain will struggle to implement debt-reduction strategies in the face of popular outrage. Related StoriesSpain to unveil more savage cutsWoman accused of killing five babies in GermanyBritish ant ...
  • German woman suspected of killing her five bab ...
    A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said  today. Related StoriesSpain to unveil more savage cut ...
  • After 25 years of construction a glimpse insid ...
    To some it is the 'Hotel of Doom', to others the 'Phantom Hotel', either way after 25 years under construction the Ryugyong hotel in North Korea still looks far from finished.Related StoriesBattle at sea for the islands that everyone wants£40m for man who woos mogul's lesbian daughterFamily of ...
  • Chinese court upholds fine against dissident A ...
    A Chinese court upheld a £1.5 million tax evasion fine against China's most famous dissident Ai Weiwei today, ending his long legal battle with the authorities but paving the way for him to be jailed if he does not pay. Related StoriesBattle at sea for the islands that everyone wants£40m for ma ...
  • Cult leader Sachiko Eto hanged for six murders ...
    Japan executed two people today, including a 65-year old woman cult leader convicted of six murders that took place during supposed exorcisms. Related StoriesBattle at sea for the islands that everyone wants£40m for man who woos mogul's lesbian daughterFamily of billionaire Red Bull creator pay ...

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.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • 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.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • 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

  • Common Cancer Treatments May Create Dangerous ...
    Radiation therapy and chemotherapy aimed at killing cancer cells may have the undesirable effect of helping to create cancer stem cells, which are thought to be particularly adept at generating new tumors and are especially resistant to treatment, researchers say. The finding might help explain ...
  • China Volcano Shows Signs of Unrest
    A very hazardous volcano at the border of China and North Korea is growing more active, and might erupt in the next few decades, researchers studying the area say. About 1,100 years ago, the Changbaishan volcano in northeastern China erupted, shooting superheated flows of ash and gas up to 30 m ...
  • Fighting global agribusiness though the power ...
    A giant, multinational agribusiness is using its market share and patent system to spread genetically modified crops throughout the world. A movie documenting this problem generated quite a stir. By piecing together facts and presenting it in a powerful, visual way, she can carve out a vision fo ...
  • Cause of brilliant supernova discovered
    Between April 30 and May 1 of the year 1006, the brightest stellar event ever recorded in history occurred: a supernova, or stellar explosion, that was widely observed by various civilizations from different places on Earth. More than a thousand years later a team led by researchers from the Uni ...
  • Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doct ...
    Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain. Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research i ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Jason Kenney,
    Ok, Jason Kenney, game on. Exhibit A: The evolving LGTB emails where the office of the Minister for Citizenship and Immigration is somehow tracking people who identify as LGTB. Exhibit B: Mr. Kenney finds interested in questions of science and philosophy criminality (don't we have a Jus ...
  • Lightning does not glide
      This really should end all 'debate' on the F-35. Via MoS.
  • Jason Kenney, creep
    Via Dawg, I learn the following: An email extolling the Conservative government’s record on gay rights has some recipients wondering how Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney knows their sexual orientation. The email from Kenney’s MP’s office sent Friday trumpets the Co ...
  • Thoughts on thoughts . . .
    THE HUMAN BRAIN is astoundingly complex, according to a report on ScienceDaily, "Human Brains Share a Consistent Genetic Blueprint and Possess Enormous Biochemical Complexity". Indeed, the human mind is astoundingly complex in both construction and operation. Scientists at the Allen In ...
  • Pre-Con...
    ...federists. Suddenly their obsession with the War of 1812 makes a whole lot more sense. This bit is cringing: "As the Prime Minister [David Cameron] said when addressing the Canadian parliament last year: 'We are two nations, but under one Queen and united by one set of values,'" Hague ...

Media Matters for America

  • STUDY: TV News Covered Paul Ryan's Workout 3x ...
    Arctic sea ice is declining much faster than scientists expected, which has important implications for the rate and impacts of climate change. But the major TV news outlets have largely ignored the record sea ice loss this summer, while making ample time to cover Republican vice presidential nom ...
  • Myths And Facts About The Benghazi Attack And ...
    Right-wing media have pushed numerous myths about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and protests in the Middle East, from distorting the Obama administration's response to the attacks to misleading about the nature of security at the Benghazi consulate. Is There Evidence To S ...
  • Despite National Security Concerns, Fox Sugges ...
    Fox News personalities have called for the United States to cut off foreign aid to several countries in the wake of protests and attacks on U.S. consulates abroad. However, top military officials and Republicans say cutting foreign aid is "foolish" and bad for national security.Fox Calls For U.S ...
  • Fox Distorts Obama's Words On Democracy In The ...
    Fox News is claiming that on 60 Minutes President Obama characterized the death of an American ambassador and other violence as "bumps in the road." In fact, when Obama made that statement, he was referring to the fact that he supported the transition of Arab countries from autocratic rule to de ...
  • Fox Distorts 14-Year-Old Video To Accuse Obama ...
    Fox is distorting comments President Obama made in 1998 to claim he has "a manifesto" for engaging in "class warfare." In fact, Obama was simply outlining government's role in creating a society where everyone has a fair chance at success.Fox Claimed Obama Comments In 1998 Are "Absolutely Class ...

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  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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  • 50 Years After 'Silent Spring' We Have Ignored ...
    The following piece appears in the current issue of the Washington Spectator. For more great stories, check out their site. Fifty years ago, a Johns Hopkins–educated zoologist did something that few at the time thought was possible. With the publication of one book, she started a national deba ...
  • Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us ...
    We like to flush our toilets. A lot. Our flush figure for the U.S. is at 5.7 billion gallons a day in our homes alone. It's one of the great examples of American excess -- people across the world don't have enough clean drinking water, and yet we're happy to send it down the drain.Of course, t ...
  • South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citize ...
    South Africa announced the end to its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (known as fracking) on September 7. The African National Congress-led government first declared the moratorium on fracking in April 2011 because of the growing public outcry. This controversial technique for extracting na ...
  • Why Capitalism, Not Population Is Our Greatest ...
    I have long detested the work of Paul and Anne Ehrlich. I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas in Austin when I was first introduced to the Ehrlichs’ infamous book, The Population Bomb, which was first published in 1968 and reprinted countless times before being “updated” and reissu ...
  • The North Dakota Oil Fracking Boom Creates Cla ...
    This story was produced with support from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.NEW TOWN N.D. --When the black gold rush began, no one on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation expected it to take down Main Street.A modest strip of one- and two-story buildings framed by undulating plains, Main ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...
    The House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd legislative session starts in January of 2013.  They examined the federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program ...
  • Unlimited and undisclosed money is pouring int ...
    The controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United – that gave corporations untold influence in our electoral system and said “money” is “speech” – has created an environment in which millions of dollars in corporate cash is drowning out the voices ...
  • Solar for our community, colorado community pr ...
      When you subtract out shady roofs, renters, and other factors, only about 25% of Americans have a place to install solar power. With the high upfront cost of a complete system, the potential solar universe shrinks further. That changes with “community solar.” After a long wait on the stat ...
  • BREAKING – 8 blockaders begin tree-sit in path ...
    Eight Tar Sands blockaders just climbed 80 feet into trees in the path of Keystone XL construction, and pledged not to come down until the pipeline is stopped for good. TransCanada workers are starting to arrive on the scene. The tar sands blockade folks will be tweeting and live blogging as tod ...
  • Tar Sands Blockaders held for two days on Clas ...
    On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 around 8:00AM, three landowner advocates and climate justice organizers locked themselves to a piece of machinery critical for Keystone XL construction in Franklin County, Texas. They did so to defend David Hightower’s. As construction crews arrived at Mr. Highto ...

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Climate

  • Greenpeace Targets Forest Carbon Offsets in Ca ...
    (Mongabay) California's forest conservation-based carbon offsets in its climate change legislation may not lead to net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and could exacerbate social conflict in places like southern Mexico, argues a ...
  • Google to Use Wind Energy for Oklahoma Data Center
    (CNET News) Google is going green at a data center in Oklahoma. The search giant announced that it has signed a deal with the Grand River Dam Authority to transition the energy supply for its Oklahoma data center to wind energy. Accor ...
  • European Solar Capacity Grew in 2011 Despite S ...
    (Yale Environment 360) Installed solar capacity  continued to grow across Europe in 2011  despite a decline in subsidies for green energy continent-wide, according to a new report.     Roughly 18.5 gigawatts of ...
  • Nuclear Capacity Growth Slowing After Fukushima
    (Reuters) The U.N. atomic agency cut its forecast for nuclear energy growth for a second year as the industry continued to feel the effect of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and said most of the expansion would be in Asia. The Interna ...
  • Top Senate Dem Presses Interior to Scrap Arcti ...
    (The Hill) The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat and five colleagues are urging the Obama administration to cancel planned oil-and-gas lease sales off Alaska’s Arctic shores in coming years. The letter from Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin ...

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Duly Noted

  • A Mafia in FATA: Haqqanis and Drones
    A new report about the Haqqani network's business interests raises questions about the anti-drones narrative in Pakistan
  • Are African governments suppressing art?
    The dust is finally settling on the storm that was kicked off in South Africa by a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
  • Greek debt – remember the goats
    Greece's creditors have essentially let it off the hook by overwhelmingly agreeing to take a 74 percent loss. So what better time to remember one of the first times Athens got in trouble with paying its debts.
  • Greeks on the street
    Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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Booman Tribune

  • No One Would Hire Mitt Romney
    If you needed a lawyer and your choices were President Obama or Mitt Romney, who would you choose? They're both smart; they both have Harvard Law degrees. They're both very successful, although not so much as lawyers. Would you choose the guy who won a Nobel Peace Prize without even trying or ...
  • Philly Republicans Wants to Kill Medicare
    You don't wait until you have been in a car accident to purchase car insurance; you don't wait until your house has been flooded to buy flood insurance, and you don't wait until your home is ablaze to buy fire insurance. That is not how insurance works. And it most certainly is not how health ...
  • Arizona Comes Into View
    If you skim down to the bottom of this article, you will find something remarkable and newsworthy. The Obama campaign has an internal poll that shows them leading in Arizona. And they are somewhat perplexed about it because they would obviously like to win the state if it is within reach, but ...
  • They Never Learn
    I think that Paul Waldman is probably right that the conservatives will learn approximately nothing from their drubbing in November. In fact, the logical reset will be to look to Jeb Bush to save the Republicans in 2016, but he will probably do about as well in the primaries as Jon Huntsman did ...
  • Thinking Too Hard
    Do you ever get tired of reading analysts who ignore that the presidential contest is a competition between two human beings and try to predict what will happen by looking at economic data or other historical factors? For me, the only historical factor that matters is how the American people ha ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Amazing Mayan Ruins of El Mirador
    A hidden city and the remnants of a lost civilization – not to mention a wild adventure through the heart of the jungle... The mayan ruins of El Mirador. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Children Who Live in the Garbage Dump of M ...
    The refugee scavengers of the Mae Sot dumpsite in Thailand live in appalling conditions, but they still consider it an improvement on life in their homeland of Burma. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Hospitals Caught In Disaster Zones
    Major disasters pose a serious risk to human life – and medical staff are on the front line when catastrophe strikes. Here are 10 Hospitals Caught In Disaster Zones. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Crumbling Remains of Tuscany's Creepy Aban ...
    An exploration of this creepy abandoned building complex in Tuscany with us as we discover a little about its long history as a mental asylum. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Oldest People in History
    The secrets of their long lives may yet to be be revealed, but these amazing human beings are truly fascinating in themselves: the 10 Oldest People in History. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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  • A time to run around and a time to think
    For better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...
  • Plans for closed door Occupy Homes national me ...
    ///// 1AM August 7th update: http://hongpong.com/archives/2012/08/07/security-culture-danger-closed-o... ///// ///// 1:40PM Sat August 4 update and correction below ///// Many Twin Cities activists working with the Occupy Homes MN group were surprised to hear that a national gathering committe ...

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  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • William Ostendorff, GOP-Appointed Regulator, U ...
    Source: Huffington Post The inspector general at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has launched an investigation into a GOP political appointee for attempting to thwart an agency probe into safety concerns at a Michigan plant, NRC insiders tell The Huffington Post. In late May, ...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • No One Will Be Charged with a Crime for the MF ...
    Source: The Atlantic Wire Authorities are winding down their criminal investigation of the failed brokarage firm, MF Global, and despite the lack of oversight and the loss of more than $1 billion in customer funds, it now seems unlikely that anyone at the firm will face criminal ch...
  • Climate Change Poses Food Distribution Risks, ...
    * Bridges, roads could be washed away, hitting harvest transport * "High degree of confidence" weather extremes linked to climate change * Enough food, but problem is distribution - professor By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Downpours and heatwaves caused ...

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  • Decision to evacuate eastern Libya divides US ...
    The decision to evacuate CIA personnel from Benghazi, which has essentially ended the CIA's presence in eastern Libya, is dividing members of the US Intelligence Community..
  • News you may have missed #798
    Britain to hold inquest over death of ex-KGB officer. Ex-CIA operative who illegally sold arms to Libya dies. Analysis: Libya an opportunity for CIA if it sticks around.
  • News you may have missed #797
    Egypt names new intelligence chief. Ex-Blackwater firm to teach US spies survival skills. Turkey court convicts 326 of coup plotting.
  • Court papers reveal Australian official’s affa ...
    A statement filed with a federal court in Australia reveals that a Vietnamese intelligence officer, who is accused of having received millions of dollars in bribes to secure an international business contract, had an affair with an Australian government official involved in the deal.
  • News you may have missed #796
    Iranian spy scandal sparks outrage in Turkey. British SIGINT agency 'helps US drone attacks'. Canada's top spy dismisses call for human rights scrutiny.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Sep 28
        Syria rebels say launch decisive battle in Aleppo - Reuters Syrian military's text to rebels: 'Game over' - Times Union Commerce in war torn Aleppo grinds to a halt - CNN.com Blogs UN: Syrian Refugee Exodus to Reach 700,000 - VOA Syrian rebels get new ammunitions in Aleppo,“Everyon ...
  • Building Bridges Instead of Imperial Wars
      John Grant   “Blows that don’t break your back make it stronger.” - Anthony Quinn in Omar Mukhtar, Lion of the Desert     For years, I’ve been working either in the journalism realm or as an antiwar veteran activist expressing the core idea that the United States of America ...
  • The Vandenberg 15 & VFP: Putting Nuclear Weapo ...
  • 'Our (New) Terrorists' the MEK: Have We Seen T ...
    And what kind of mind-boggling corruption -- of the worst kind -- influence peddling by a "foreign power" (as defined by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to include foreign terrorist groups) -- lies hidden behind the curtain? Could some members of the MEK "foreign terrorist organiz ...
  • Assange accuses the US of hypocrisy

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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  • The Namaste Way, Mozart’s Grave and the ...
    By Visible The one thing I find the most remarkable about this endeavor is the remarkable people that come around here. Yet they are also the source of a great deal of consternation, difficulty and disappointment. Someone was coming to visit me from the Netherlands. For some reason, inexplicable ...
  • Russia suspends import and use of American GM ...
    By Sean Poulter Russia has suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. Separately, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has ordered its own review in to the research, which was conducted at a French university. T ...
  • SHOCKER: HOW MANY DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS ARE WRITT ...
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  • An 82-page analysis concludes that Israel is c ...
    Submitted by kcop on Tue, 09/25/2012 – 13:15 It’s a paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, an 82-page analysis that concludes that the American national interest is fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the great ...
  • Sixteen U.S. Intelligence Agencies, the Pentag ...
    Texe Marrs Hell hath no fury like a Zionist Jew scorned. O.K. that’s not quite the way the famous author, William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1697), put it. But it’s still an accurate observation. The arrogant Jews in Israel and America are so used to getting their way that when, finally, they ...

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  • 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

  • Mercedes-Benz Unveils HOT All-Electric SLS AMG ...
    Mercedes-Benz just unveiled its second electric car, the 2014 SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive at the 2012 Paris Motor Show! The 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupe Electric Drive sets a new standard for electric cars with its four electric motors that produce a whopping 740 horsepower, making it the u ...
  • Droog Hotel: Droog’s Plug-N-Play Amsterdam Oas ...
    Read the rest of Droog Hotel: Droog’s Plug-N-Play Amsterdam Oasis Rejuvenates Your Body And Mind Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Amsterdam, Design, destination, green renovation, hotel, Hotel Droog, Kabinet, lodging, Travel, vacation
  • Ecotricity’s Nemesis Supercar Breaks UK Land S ...
    Who said battery-powered cars had to be boring? The “Nemesis”, a modified Lotus Exige, just broke the UK speed record for electric vehicles this morning! Engineered by renewable energy company Ecotricity, the car reached speeds of 151 mph at Elvington airfield in North Yorkshire and ...
  • Team Andalucian’s Patio 2.12 House Places Firs ...
    Read the rest of Team Andalucian’s Patio 2.12 House Places First in Energy Efficiency and Innovation at the Solar Decathlon Europe Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Andalucia, cavity wall cooling, Ceramics, electrical vehicle, madrid, photovoltaics, prefabricated c ...
  • Chandler City Hall: SmithGroupJJR Creates a Su ...
    Read the rest of Chandler City Hall: SmithGroupJJR Creates a Sustainable City Center for an Arizona Town Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "leed", Architecture, Arizona, Chandler, Chandler City Hall, Daylighting, energy efficient, FSC wood, government, LEED gold, Sustainable

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity Rover Steps Right Into Ancient River ...
    NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence that the area in Gale crater it is traveling through once had vigorously flowing water for perhaps thousands or millions of years. Scientists don't know exactly how long ago this river would have flowed but it would likely be billions of years in the past.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: The Cosm ...
    If you're like us, you could look at photos of galaxies, planets, moons and nebulas all day. But you don't have all day, so let Wired Science bring you the most intriguing, beautiful or mysterious view of space we can find. We promise they will be mind-blowing and tempt you to replace your deskt ...
  • Bearing Sons Leaves Male DNA Traces in Mom’s Brain
    Giving a whole new meaning to "pregnancy brain," a new study shows that male DNA—likely left over from pregnancy with a male fetus—can persist in a woman's brain throughout her life. Although the biological impact of this foreign DNA is unclear, the study also found that women with more male DN ...
  • Taxidermists, Artists Bring Aging Museum Anima ...
    The North American mammals at the American Museum of Natural History are coming back to (near) life. Artists, taxidermists, conservators and designers have been working for a year on everything from re-coloring faded bear fur and restoring paintings of the Grand Canyon to dusting leaves and inst ...
  • Amateur Astronomer Maps Jupiter’s Moon Ganymed ...
    Using little more than a backyard telescope and his own expertise, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Kardasis has produced a detailed albedo map of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede.

PakAlert

  • NeoCon At Globalist Think-Tank Says Use False ...
    Patrick Clawson, member of the globalist-controlled think-tank and neo-con influenced Washington Institute for Near East Studies (WINES); recently spoke about the use of false flags as a necessary way for instigating a war with Iran. Clawson remarked that Obama has had a difficult time “getting ...
  • Embassy Attack and Ambassador Stevens Death Li ...
    A new, more detailed video report has been released that breaks down the entire event with all the proof. It is a must see video and goes directly with this article. Startling new developments in the government sponsored false flag that led to the US Ambassadors death and the release of a pro ...
  • Conspiracy Theory No More, Video, Of BBC Annou ...
    These buildings have sprinkler systems. Building 7 never suffered impact, how could it have collapsed from fire or heat damage to the structure? An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of Salomon building (WTC Building 7) over twenty minut ...
  • The top 10 breakfast cereals most likely to co ...
    By now, nearly everyone interested in healthy living is aware of the recent research linking Monsanto's GMO corn to cancer tumors and an increase risk of premature death in both men and women. News of the research is spreading like wildfire across the 'net, and support for Proposition 37 -- whic ...
  • Secret Maps Of The Ancient World: Our Earth Be ...
    Researcher Charlotte Harris Rees discusses Asian maps dating as far back as 4,000 years ago that show the coastlines of the Americas. Picking up on the work of her father who collected these maps, she suggested that the ancient Chinese were seafaring and traveled to America far before Columbus’ ...

Andy Worthington

  • The First Squatter Is Jailed Since Being Homel ...
    This afternoon, on my way back from a disturbing bike ride around Mayfair, where money is almost literally oozing out of every orifice of those who find it easier than ever to enrich themselves at the expense of society as a whole, I arrived back at Charing Cross, to catch the train back to sout ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Discusses the Horrors ...
    On Sunday, in torrential rain, I cut short a dry afternoon in the Catford Bridge Tavern — a formerly notoriously rough pub reborn after its recent takeover by the Antic group, which is spacious, friendly, well-decorated, and which also does excellent food, including Sunday roasts — t ...
  • Photos of Deptford: A Life By The River Thames
    Deptford: A Life By The River Thames, a set on Flickr. In May, when I first conceived of the notion of travelling the whole of London by bike, taking photos to compile a portrait of the city at this troubling time in its history (caught between the Olympics and its role as a harbour for [...]
  • This Week at Guantánamo: More on Adnan Latif, ...
    I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by ...
  • The Old and the New: Photos of a Journey throu ...
    The Old and the New: A Journey through Waterloo, Borough and Bermondsey, a set on Flickr. These photos are the last in a series of photos from Friday August 31, 2012, when, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, I cycled through central London and back to my [...]

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

  • Washington Bomb-Maker Pleads Guilty; Feds Say ...
    A terrorist sympathizer, a college dropout who idolized both American terrorist Timothy McVeigh and Islamic jihadists while learning the hard way how to build bombs, likely faces a lengthy prison sentence after confessing to two terrorism-related crimes. Joseph Jefferey Brice, 22, who nearly die ...
  • Co-Defendant in Alaska Militia Case Gets Five- ...
    As he sits in jail awaiting sentencing in November, Alaska Peacemaker Militia leader Francis Schaeffer Cox may now be a bit more worried about his fate. A co-defendant, Coleman Barney – found by an Alaska federal jury to be the least culpable in a murder-conspiracy plot hatched by Schaeffer a ...
  • Tattooed White Supremacist Arrested in Oregon ...
    A white supremacist with a 10-state criminal record dating back to the 1980s was arrested in Oregon over the weekend and charged with the brutal knife killing of a recently retired man he had apparently never met. It was extensive media coverage and the use of electronic billboards displaying th ...
  • Misogyny on the Web: ‘How to Smack a Bitch’
    There’s war-of-the-sexes satire aplenty on the Internet, and much of it (including some that is very funny) borders on the offensive. The more effective satire is, the more likely it is to make you squirm. But then there’s just plain woman-hating. The website Itsguycode.com was launched in 2008 ...
  • Amish Leader, 15 Others Convicted of Hate Crim ...
    The leader of an Amish splinter sect in Ohio and 15 of his followers were convicted of federal hate crimes today for forcibly shaving the beards and hair of breakaway members of the religious community.

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

  • As Sea Levels Rise, Pacific Island Nations Cal ...
    Two small Pacific Island nations called on the United Nations this week to facilitate immediate action and a legally binding agreement to curb global warming, which has caused steadily rising ocean levels, immediately threatening the soon to be submerged states. ...
  • Environmental Groups Sue Canada Over Northern ...
    Canadian environmental groups joined together on Tuesday to sue the Canadian government over what they say is a failure to make good on legal obligations to protect endangered species by pursuing the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project. ...
  • ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking
    Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. Just one look at the cover of the brochure for this year's annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) reveals where some of the corporate bill mill's loyalties lie: with the “natural” gas industry. ...
  • Israel PM Draws Red Line (Literally) on Mythic ...
  • Senators Call for End to Arctic Drilling Push
    Several Democratic senators called on the Interior Department this week to put an end to Arctic drilling plans currently pursued by the Obama administration and big oil companies around the world.Arctic sea-ice (Photo: Jeremy Potter NOAA/OAR/OER) ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Allentown officials: Water, sewer lease could ...
    If the proposed lease of Allentown's water and sewer systems is approved, city officials estimate that a $150 to $200 million upfront payment could be dumped into the city's struggling pensions, drastically lowering annual payments to the funds.
  • Who Will Pay for Wastewater Infrastructure? Pr ...
    FARMINGTON, Conn., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A problem for the water industry is that water is perceived as a right and citizens are less willing to pay for water than they are for electricity. ...
  • Hillary Clinton: Raise Taxes on Rich Everywhere
    Free-market types will urge freer markets, even when these take the form of the kind of corrupt privatization that gave rise to Russia's oligarchs. And the Obama administration, well, it thinks the wealthy ...
  • Christian Groups Welcome Quakers’ Divestment f ...
    BETHLEHEM, September 26, 2012 (WAFA) - Kairos Palestine Welcomed the recent decision of the Quakers Friends Fiduciary Corporation (FFC) to divest from Hewlett Packard and Veolia Environment, said a press release on Wednesday.
  • Supes go ahead on private water
    Author(s):  Chuck Doud In the face of almost 100 percent opposition, the Madera County Board of Supervisors on Monday took a step toward privatization of the county’s 34 special utility districts that provide water service. The 3-2 vote came after a full morning of testimony by members of variou ...

Guardian

  • Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu speaks to UN gen ...
    Follow live updates as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu speak to the UN general assemblyTom McCarthy
  • Afghan schools and clinics built by British mi ...
    UK spent hundreds of millions on health and education centres that Karzai government can't afford to keep openSchools and health centres built by the British in Afghanistan as part of the military's counter-insurgency strategy are being forced to close down because President Karzai's government ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Markets await Spanish budget
    • Spanish budget expected at 2pm • German unemployment figures 8.55am • UK Q2 GDP revision at 9.30am • US Q2 GDP 1.30pm
  • US elections: a battle for America's soul
    As the first presidential debate approaches, Barack Obama must face a hard-pressed and fearful electorate. But the stakes are even higher for Mitt Romney, because – against all expectations – he is falling behind in the raceYou could call it the clash of the titans, though scrap between a commun ...
  • Justin Lee Collins girlfriend says she kept si ...
    Anna Larke, former partner of TV comedian, 'endured abusive relationship because Collins was love of her life' court hearsThe former girlfriend of with the comedian and television presenter Justin Lee Collins told a court she endured an abusive relationship with him because he was the love of he ...

McClatchey

  • California farmers examine climate change issues
    If researcher's predictions hold true, California's San Joaquin Valley's multi-billion dollar agriculture industry will be hit with longer stretches of hot temperatures, fewer colder days and shrinking water supplies.Click to Continue »
  • Plastic rivers flow through Haiti
    Plastic and foam food containers. They're everywhere in this enterprising Caribbean nation, clogging canals, cluttering streets and choking ocean wildlife.Click to Continue »
  • USS Cole suspects at Guantanamo seek 3-month d ...
    Defense lawyers in the USS Cole bombing case are asking a military judge to delay by three months their next Guantánamo hearing, to give torture experts time to examine the…Click to Continue »
  • U.N.’s focus on Middle East eclipses ot ...
    Casual observers of this week?s United Nations General Assembly could be forgiven for thinking that the Middle East was the only region of concern for world leaders.Click to Continue »
  • Clinton ties North African militants to attack ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday tied the attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya to the creation of an al Qaida haven in Mali, adding that Islamist…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Mexico catches alleged drug capo El Taliban
    Mexican officials say they have struck a major blow against a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, arresting one of the country's most-wanted drug traffickers, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, ...
  • Mexico says nabs senior Zetas cartel leader El ...
    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican navy says it captured one of the leaders of the Zetas drug cartel, a notoriously brutal gang reported to be breaking apart due to an internal ...
  • Afghanistan As Nato troops pull out Kabul has ...
    Afghanistan has been the focus of international attention over the last decade, but that is shifting markedly as Kabul tries to make sense of what will be left behind ...
  • Mexican cartel capo El Taliban captured
    The alleged leader of a faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, Ivan Velazquez Caballero, known as "El Taliban," center, is shown during a media presentation at the Mexican Navy's ...
  • Afghan Whigs back in the groove after 11 years
    Updated 53 minutes ago Of the many bizarre pop-music permutations and dubious musical innovations of the '90s, it's a little hard to look back and remember who and what actually ...

Futurismic

  • Hope for a Global Spring?
    Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...
  • The only way to change your past is to steal s ...
    I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...
  • Censorship: I’m guilty as charged
    So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...
  • The Future Always Wins
    Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...
  • New Economies
    Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NWC and No FEAR Coalition Announce Endorsement ...
    Today, the National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announced their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers.  The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the S ...
  • The Undeniable Truth About Corporate Misconduc ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Septe ...
  • "State Out of the Union" performance this Wedn ...
    The Zinn Education Project is sponsoring State Out of the Union, a performance about civil rights, immigration and education, this Wednesday, September 26, 2012, at Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC (at V St.; use U St. Metrorail station). The performance features author Jeff B ...
  • Why Summary Judgment Must be Removed from the WPEA
    TAKE ACTION! The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) may move through Congress in the coming days, or even hours, and contains many important reforms that will help federal employees. However, both the House (H.R. 3289) and Senate (S. 743) versions still have one provision that, if ...
  • NWC joins in amicus to 5th Circuit to preserve ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with 24 other organizations to submit an amicus brief to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The D.R. Horton company has appealed a major decision of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) holding that employees have an inalienable right t ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- 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 additiona ...
  • 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 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • EMI: Legitimately Afraid That Aliens Might Lis ...
    Ah, life imitating art (or art accidentally imitating life). Earlier this year, we had Rob Reid post an excerpt and discuss his new novel, Year Zero, concerning aliens listening to Earth music for free, without a license... and then realizing that they've been infringing our copyrights for year ...
  • Google's Copyright Crackdown Punishes Author F ...
    Over the years, we've pointed out repeatedly a massive Achilles Heel for Google: its often dreadful customer service. Trying to communicate with Google can often be like facing a giant white monolith, rather than any sort of human being. More recently, we've been concerned about Google's willi ...
  • Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should B ...
    One of the reasons why we live in such an innovative society is that we've (for the most part) enabled a permissionless innovation society -- one in which innovators no longer have to go through gatekeepers in order to bring innovation to market. This is a hugely valuable thing, and it's why we ...
  • PC Rental Companies Agree To Not Watch You Hav ...
    People are spying on you. All kinds of people. Law encorcement does it. The NSA does it. Schools are monitoring our children. But I'll tell you who is not spying on you: PC rental companies. Well, at least not anymore. But they were spying on you before federal charges were brought ...
  • Penguin Taking Underperforming Authors To Cour ...
    This looks like it might be a new sign of the disrupted times. With major publishing houses competing with damn near everyone for readers, they can longer be expected to hand out hefty advances, especially in exchange for the literary equivalent of vaporware. Penguin has decided to reclaim ...

VacTruth

  • Dangerous Banned Vaccine Repackaged and Given ...
    Yet again the UK government has allowed a previously banned and dangerous vaccine onto the UK market, by repackaging it and giving it a new name in a bid to deceive parents. The first time the UK government tried this tactic and succeeded was in 1988 when the JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination ...
  • New Mandate for Healthcare Workers — Get ...
    From nurses, lab techs, and students, to clerical, security, and volunteer personnel, you may be given an ultimatum anytime now: get a flu vaccine or lose your job.
  • “We are being forced to take a flu shot ...
    John writes: “We are being forced to take a flu shot or wear a mask October 31st at the hospital I work at. Are there any support groups I can contact. I’m highly against this and I have contacted an attorney who pretty much said I can take it or lose my job. That can’t... [Co ...
  • Do Vaccines Contain Formaldehyde and Mercury?
    This question comes from Tina: “Hi there, a dear friend and client is expecting her baby any day and they are still not decided on vaccinations. She told me that she’s heard not to take notice of people putting you off vaccinations as they do not contain formaldahyde and mercury anym ...
  • “Is there any proof out there that react ...
    This message is from Mandi: “Is there any proof out there that reactions to vaccines can lead to /cause generalized pediatric dystonia in a toddler? I believe in my heart that it has in my daughter,now 20 months old And furthering by belief genetics teams can find no genetic mutation or li ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Miss
    Not much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
  • On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...
    Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...
  • Thoughts on Societal Mental Illness
    Make a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Loved In Defense of Lust. I am sincerely sad that I was unable to attend this American Enterprise Institute event entitled Assange’s asylum in Correa’s Ecuador: Last refuge for scoundrels? Roger Noriega, the man who – among other things – was hired to lobby for the Hondur ...
  • Drug War History – And So It Begins
    While I was pulling up articles for my last post, I re-read the infamous New York Times piece Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace. The article is a very convoluted argument against prohibition. And it is made by trying to scare the crap out of  ignorant people. The docto ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Netanyahu draws a red line — with a marker pen ...
    Benjamin Netanyahu must be a happy man. He’s been yearning to draw a red line and now, in front of an assembly of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, he’s done just that. Here’s Bibi with bomb: And here comes the red marker pen. Voila! A red line has been draw ...
  • New York Times covers Morsi’s U.N. speech but ...
    Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohammed Morsi, gave an historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. The focus of Morsi’s speech was Palestine — yet you wouldn’t know it if you read the New York Times. The preoccupation of its reporter seemed to be t ...
  • Rebecca Solnit: We could be heroes
    Think of them as Rebecca Solnit’s “explaining” trilogy, three incisive and provocative commentaries on how we (mis)understand our mad world.  The first of them, “Men Explain Things to Me,” was actually four years old and already a minor classic when, on August ...
  • Music: Bugge Wesseltoft and Sidsel Endresen — ...
    For more music see individual artists A to L and M to Z, and the complete playlist.
  • Libyan leader contradicts Obama administration ...
    Colum Lynch reports: Libya’s president Mohammed Magarief today contradicted American claims that the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Islamic film, telling NBC’s Anne Curry in an interview broadcast this morning. “It has nothing to do wi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Lewandowsky backs down – removes “ ...
    Jeff Condon writes at the Air Vent: Over the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science … Contin ...
  • A new meaning to “WiFi hotspot” &# ...
    From Tom Nelson: Huffington Post: Carbon dioxide could ruin wifi connections for your kids Climate Change Effects: Things Global Warming Just Might Ruin For Your Kids [Scroll down at the link above: The alleged CO2-induced wifi problem is #26 of … Continue reading →
  • Roger Pielke Sr. enters Twitland
    I figure I’ll help him out by announcing this for him to get him some followers, he has 13 as of this writing. He writes: I have decided to enter the Twitter world. My twitter name is @RogerAPielkeSr. I look … Continue reading →
  • Wildest lightning strike I’ve ever seen
    Why being in a car during a lightning storm is the safest place to be As watcher of weather, both as as a one-time storm chaser as well as a person who gets sent email about weather of all kinds, … Continue reading →
  • Surprise: glaciers in Montana retreated up to ...
    A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds that alpine glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930′s and 1940′s than over the past 40 years. The “Multi-proxy study of sediment cores … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • How That Glass of Red Wine Might Help You Live ...
    Researchers have found new evidence showing that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, may play a role in preventing cell aging. The study in rodents found that when mice had a particular gene — SIRT1 — knocked out, or turned off, resveratrol had no effect on them. But tests of ...
  • Scientists uncover exciting lead into prematur ...
    Scientists have discovered that they can dramatically increase the life span of mice with progeria (premature aging disease) and heart disease (caused by Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy) by reducing levels of a protein called SUN1. This research was done by A*STAR’s Institute of Medical ...
  • ‘Brake gene’ turned off in pancrea ...
    Aggressive pancreatic tumours may be treatable with a new class of drugs, according to Cancer Research UK Less than one in five people with this form of cancer are still alive a year after being diagnosed. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that a gene was being switched off in the ...
  • Eating more berries may reduce cognitive decli ...
    Blueberries and strawberries, which are high in flavonoids, appear to reduce cognitive decline in older adults according to a new study published today in Annals of Neurology, a journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society. The study results suggest that cognitive ...
  • Researchers Discover Particularly Dangerous Sa ...
    UC Santa Barbara researchers have discovered Salmonella bacteria that are up to 100 times more capable of causing disease. Their findings may help prevent food poisoning outbreaks that continue to plague public health and the food industry. These “hypervirulent” bugs can override vac ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Light Festival to Be Held in Moscow
    An international festival entitled “Circle of Light” will be held in Moscow for a second time, organizers told RIA Novosti.
  • Libor Scandal May Be Tricky for U.S. Prosecutors
    It has been called the largest financial scandal in history, a web of alleged white-collar malfeasance spanning several continents while hitting portfolios and pocketbooks from Wall Street to Main Street.
  • Early Voting Heats Up As U.S. Election Draws Near
    With the 2012 U.S. presidential election still 40 days away, voters on Thursday began casting their ballots in Iowa – the first of several so-called battleground states to offer early voting.
  • Militant Killed in Dagestan
    Law enforcement officers have killed a militant who opened fire on them in the south of the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Russian Interior Ministry reported on Friday.
  • Facebook Fights Fake ‘Likes’
    Facebook is giving a big “thumbs down” to fake “Likes,” declaring war on bogus accounts, resulting in some fan Pages losing tens of thousands of Likes in just one day.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russia Needs Leaner Space Industry - Space Age ...
    Russia needs a leaner space industry, and that means significant job cuts, Vladimir Popovkin, head of Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos, said on Thursday.
  • Space Freighter’s Undocking Delayed Again
    The undocking of the European Space Agency’s ATV-3 cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed by at least another day, mission control said on Thursday.
  • ATV-3 Freighter to Help Orbital Station Avoid ...
    NASA and Russian managers of the International Space Station (ISS) have delayed until at least Friday a second attempt to undock the European Space Agency’s ATV-3 cargo spacecraft as they plan to use it to steer the ISS clear of approaching space debris.
  • ‘Zombie Bees’ Take Flight in US: Researchers
    They live fast, die young and appear to harm only themselves. But across the United States, researchers are keeping a close eye on growing numbers of “zombie bees” – infected honey bees distinguished by their erratic, nighttime flights and sudden, mysterious deaths.
  • New Charges for Russian Chemist in Drug Traffi ...
    New criminal charges were brought on Wednesday against a Russian chemist facing up to 20 years behind bars over a report that contradicted the findings of federal drug control experts in a case that has caused uproar among the country’s scientific community.

Pruning Shears

  • Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...
    The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.  This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
  • Partial transcript, trustee meeting
    From here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
  • Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...
    The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...
  • Communities rally against toxic fracking waste
    On Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...
  • ODNR official: we'll let the public know what' ...
    The fracking industry has dramatically increased its activity in Portage county recently. In some cases the activity is unmistakably tangible (more on that next week), but the real action at the moment seems to be preparing the ground for the deluge. The paperwork is coming in fast and furious ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Ready to Take On Monsanto?
    Click here to read this article
  • These Celebs Want GMOs Labeled
    We've mentioned the $25 million-plus that a handful of pesticide and processed food companies have poured in to opposing the GMO labeling bill that will be up for vote in California this November. Click here to read this article
  • Take Action on the Farm Bill!
    Click here to read this article
  • Monsanto Makes Rats Grow Tumors
    In a recent French lab study, rats that were fed genetically modified foods had a tendency to develop tumors and suffer severe organ damage. GMO's have become a hot topic in the United States and in California people are demanding GMO food be labeled in the state. Many consumers feel humans will ...
  • Five Ways Small-Scale Organic Farming Can Save ...
    All around the world, the push to globalize the food supply by consolidating food production into large-scale, corporatized agricultural systems controlled by a select few is causing massive environmental destruction and immense poverty.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...
    Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
  • Oyster Town: 1800 to Now
    Maryland has had a long, rich history of harvesting its Chesapeake Bay oysters.
  • Rally Calls for Farm Bill Now
    Congress’ inability to pass a new five-year farm bill has only compounded the difficulties faced by farmers and ranchers.
  • Swine Flu Update: H3N2v Now Spreading Among Humans
    To reduce the probability of an influenza pandemic, we should reconsider the industrial model by which the majority of food animals in this country are produced.
  • Policy expert Mark Winne has watched food move ...
    Long-time food policy expert Mark Winne has seen this nation’s food movement follow a path that mirrors his own professional journey. More and more advocates are delving into policy to get support for the hands-on projects that were their first forays into food issues. As a result of this shift ...

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Syria And Iran Dominos Lead To World War
    Recomended article about the attention in Syria and Iran, I would like to read your comment here on Care2, let it kick start by saying: War is a problem to everyone but to the exception of minority top wealthy inhabitants of the earth. Submitted by Marco Da Silva to World  |   N ...
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • The Rape of Society
    I had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp, choking on the silent scream that sticks Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery marvel Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |  &n ...

Angry Indian News

  • Excellent Service to Solve Your Fluid Mechanics
    <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Home insurance and the dilemma of replacement ...
    When it’s time to renew your home insurance policy, make the time to go over the details. Understanding the nuances in the fine print can save you money. It is up to you to decide if money today is... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Sushi - Trend and Tradition
    Today sushi is associated with a global trend as well as a Japanese food tradition. Not all countries’ traditional dishes are welcomed that eagerly by the rest of the world, like lutefisk from Norway... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • How Online Learning Has Introduced MBA Courses
    Few decades back we hardly thought of distance learning evolving as a major schooling practice. With the advent of distance education students were surprised at the numerous opportunities they were... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Online High School Programs Help Troubled Students
    As the popularity of online higher education continues to grow, a younger group of students has noticed the convenience of online learning. Online courses are a realistic option for young students... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US keen to station troops in NZ: Panetta
    ShareThisUS keen to station troops in NZ: Panetta 24 Sep 2012 The United States would consider stationing troops on New Zealand soil if our Government asked for them as part of a burgeoning defence relationship, US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta says. Mr Panetta left New Zealand on Saturday a ...
  • Linda McMahon Proposed Social Security 'Sunset ...
    ShareThisLinda McMahon Proposed Social Security 'Sunset' At Tea Party Forum 26 Sep 2012 In little-noticed remarks at a Tea Party town hall meeting earlier this year, Republican Connecticut Senate candidate Linda McMahon proposed introducing a "sunset provision" into the Social Security Act. McMa ...
  • Iraq, U.S. negotiating agreement for units of ...
    ShareThisIraq, U.S. negotiating agreement for units of American soldiers to return to Iraq 24 Sep 2012 Iraq and the United States are negotiating an agreement that could result in the return of small units of American soldiers to Iraq on 'training' missions. At the request of the Iraqi governmen ...
  • US Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again
    ShareThisUS Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again 25 Sep 2012 Despite the official US military withdrawal last December, American special forces "recently" returned to Iraq on a counter-terrorism mission, according to an American general in charge of weapons sales there. The mission was reporte ...
  • Press TV correspondent killed in Syrian capital
    ShareThisPress TV correspondent killed in Syrian capital 26 Sep 2012 [US-backed] Insurgents in the Syrian capital Damascus have attacked Press TV staff, killing the Iranian English-language news network's correspondent Maya Naser, and injuring its Damascus Bureau Chief Hosein Mortada. Naser came ...

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 Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • America’s Dumbest War, Ever
    26 September 2012 Afghan Police in Zhari District, 2011. Yesterday a concerned father forwarded to me a letter from his son in Afghanistan. I confirmed authenticity, and republish with permission: Dad, I am fed up. I cannot believe the lack of attention the recent changes in this war is rece ...
  • ISAF Joint Command morning operational update: ...
    UNCLASSIFIED 2012-09-S-039 For Immediate Release ISAF Joint Command morning operational update KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 26) - Afghan and coalition forces conducted a security operation resulting in the death of Malang, a Taliban leader, in Sayyidabad district, Wardak province, Tuesday. Duri ...
  • Armed Medics in Bloody Combat
    Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan (2011) 25 September 2012 Much controversy continues to swirl around the fact that our “Dustoff” MEDEVAC helicopters fly unarmed into combat.  They wear the Red Crosses, alerting the enemy that they are unarmed.  Note that this Afghan med ...
  • Always remembered, never forgotten: Marines ho ...
    25 September 2012 Marines kneel beside the battlefield cross to pay their final respects to Sgt. Bradley Atwell during a memorial ceremony, Sept. 20. During the ceremony, Marines paid tribute to Atwell, an aircraft electrical, instrument and flight control systems technician with Marine Aviatio ...
  • Stuck in the Mud
    24 September 2012 Chazray Clark was blown up in September 2011. His buddies posted his image on the door, and on the wall of our tent. Nearly everyone in the tent had been wounded at least once. Before Staff Sergeant Matthew Sitton was blown up and killed in Afghanistan, he wrote to U.S. Repre ...

The Killing Train

  • The "Innocence of Muslims" video
    A few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film. read more
  • Two small outrages
    While these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...
  • The International Organization for a Participa ...
    I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. read more

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Petition campaign launched to free imprisoned ...
    A humans right group kicked off a petition campaign calling for the release of activist Aye Myint who is serving a life sentence after being charged with plotting a bomb attack in Rangoon four years ago
  • Burmese citizenship – the Rohingya question
    Following the rioting that erupted in Arakan state this summer, the international community is calling on the Burmese government to legally recognise the Rohingya as sectarian tensions continue to swell within the country
  • Rice association denies role in stockpile scandal
    Mandalay’s Rice Industry Association said that it was not involved in the alleged misappropriation of rice reserves that was reported in The Voice Weekly news journal on 24 September
  • Ruling party to elect new leaders
    Burma's ruling party will elect new leaders next month, its general-secretary said Tuesday, amid pressure to remain relevant as it prepares to take on the huge popularity of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2015 polls
  • Displaced by fighting, villagers take shelter ...
    More villagers fleeing the fighting between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army arrived in western Kachin state, while local relief groups are struggling to continue to provide assistance to the new arrivals

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Second Circuit hears arguments on federal same ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Thursday heard oral arguments [ACLU press release] in a challenge to the provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text; JURIST news archive] that defines marriage as between a man and a woman for federal purpos ...
  • Slovakia police begin investigation of accused ...
    [JURIST] Police in Slovakia announced on Thursday that they have launched an investigation of a 97-year-old Hungarian man suspected of war crimes in connection with the Holocaust. Laszlo Csatary was arrested in Hungary in July on allegations of abusing and helping deport thousands of Jews during ...
  • Actress files federal lawsuit to remove anti-I ...
    [JURIST] An actress who claims she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that sparked protests in the Middle East filed suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Wednesday requesting that the film be removed from YouTube [media website]. ...
  • China court rejects dissident artist's tax eva ...
    [JURIST] Beijing's Second Intermediate People's Court [official website, in Chinese] on Thursday denied an appeal by dissident artist Ai Weiwei [BBC profile] challenging a 15 million yuan (USD $2.4 million) fine for back taxes. The Chinese government levied the fine against Beijing Fake Cultural ...
  • California urged to improve prison isolation ...
    [JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Thursday urged [press release] California authorities to end "shocking conditions" in high-security prison isolation units. In a report [text, PDF] entitled "The Edge of Endurance: Conditions in California's Security Housing Units," AI ex ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Did America's Cyber Attack on Iran Make Us Mor ...
    By invading a foreign nation, the U.S. government may have put our own infrastructure at risk.
  • A Twitter Torrent Against ... Congressional De ...
    Twitter is on fire, and Joe Lieberman merely the kindle. The Netroots left -- a variegated slice of the Democratic base -- is livid about health care reform.  The fire has been slow burning for months, expressing itself in frustration, firstly, with the congressional leadership, and secondl ...
  • 2010: Exploring The Frustration Of Seniors
    Resurgent Republic, the GOP strategy/polling consortium, has been finding, in surveys, a trend among folks over 55 that quite concerns Democrats -- because they're seeing the same thing. Since April, older whites have not only been venting their frustration at Congress, they've been increasingly ...
  • 2010: The Case Against Self-Funding
    Confirming rumors, California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner announced today he's donating $15 million to his own campaign because he wants to "communicate my message of bold 10% tax cuts, a 10% reduction in state spending, creating a $10 billion rainy day fund, and I will cut our welfare ...
  • Why Lieberman Hates The Health Care Bill
    For progressives, with his latest Hamleting on health care reform, Sen. Joe Lieberman has officially transitioned from his status as the Senate's Lucy-Pulling-The-Ball-Away to a guy who, in the words of CAP's Matthew Yglesias, demonstrates "sociopathic indifference to the human cost" of his acti ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israel’s Interior Minister: Happy New Year, Af ...
    Tonight and tomorrow are Yom Kippur, traditionally a fast day in which Jews are immersed in spiritual retrospection about the ways in which we’ve let down our fellow humanity and the ways in which we propose to do better in the coming year.  In that spirit, I’m displaying one of a se ...
  • “Muslim Rage” and the Hypocrisy of the Western ...
    The western liberal élite has a problem with Muslims, in particular with Muslim Rage, as Newsweek’s cover called it.  It reminds me of that priceless, old misogynist quotation from Sigmund Freud: women–what do they want? What do Muslims want, columnists like Roger Cohen, Bill Keller, ...
  • New Comment is Free Post on U.S. Delisting of ...
    The Obama administration leaked to several reporters including Scott Shane of the NYT that it planned to remove the MEK from the Treasury Department’s terrorist list.  Note that it leaked this story on a Friday, which is the day of the week that U.S. presidents always announce embarrassing ...
  • New Rachel Corrie Story Published at Truthout
    I submitted an article about the Israeli court decision against the Corrie family regarding her 2003 death, to Truthout a few weeks ago.  It’s just now been published and I hope you’ll visit and read it.  I dissected the claims of the State against Corrie and used the defense’s ...
  • Netanyahu Shilling for Romney in Florida TV Ad
    Now, I’ve seen everything.  Back in the day, an Israeli prime minister wouldn’t breathe a word about his personal political preferences regarding U.S. presidential races.  Israel’s leaders knew that they’d need to work with whoever became president, and for them discretio ...

If Americans Knew

  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...
  • International law is clear: Israeli settlement ...
    Eric Rozenman's Dec. 11 Op-Ed article, "Israeli settlements are more than legitimate," is legal nonsense that disregards history. He is correct in his observation that Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine permitted "close settlement by Jews on the land, including state lands and waste lands no ...
  • Noam Chomsky and the pro-Israel lobby: Fourtee ...
    Noam Chomsky has been called the US leading intellectual by pundits and even some sectors of the mass media. He has a large audience throughout the world especially in academic circles, in large part because of his vocal criticism of US foreign policy and many of the injustices resulting from t ...
  • Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
    Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what gets cut.
  • Beware of the BBC
    Stuart Littlewood highlights the BBC's chronic pro-Israel bias, from allowing untruths about Israel's onslaught on Gaza in 2008-09 to go unchallenged, to its failure to provide accurate context about the Israeli township of Sderot, to its routine willingness to give disproportionate airtime to I ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...
    It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
  • MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...
    A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several thousand dol ...
  • The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4
    Version 0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to normal hum ...
  • Love PANDA? Try csvkit to Standardize Your Data
    Now that PANDA has been out in the world for a while, we would like to suggest you also take a look at a "cousin" project of sorts: csvkit. csvkit is a suite of powertools for working with Comma-separated values (CSV) files. It's a command line toolkit, so you will need some minimal technical kn ...
  • Data Journalism Takes Center Stage at OKFestiv ...
    OKFestival, the world's largest open knowledge and data event, will take place September 17-22. We're pleased to announce that streams on three whole days of this year's festival (two festival days and a satellite event) will be dedicated to the topic of data journalism and visualization to enco ...

Cutting Edge News

  • After Fukushima - Japan Plans Restart of Contr ...
    There has been an ongoing debate in Japan on the best way to obtain a safe and affordable energy supply for the island nation.  The nuclear option suffered a setback in March, 2011, when a massive earthquake and devastating tsunami caused a meltdown in reactors at Japan's main Fukushima-1 n ...
  • The Arab Winter in Rage - Twin Explosions Targ ...
    Syrian officials say four security guards died when a pair of explosions hit a military building in central Damascus Wednesday, leaving part of the building in flames.  It was the third time in weeks that military headquarters have come under attack.Plumes of black smoke poured into the sky ...
  • The Obama Edge - Obama in Denial about Islam's ...
    The Obama administration was wrong when first it said that what happened in Cairo and Benghazi was a spontaneous gush of righteous Muslim indignation. After days of insisting that a snippet of YouTube trash was responsible -- not U.S. policy and certainly not the U.S. government -- and that Susa ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Why the Stimulus Failed
    Ask most Americans about the big-spending government policies of the last few years, and they will tell you the programs have failed. In a February 2012 poll from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, 66 percent of Americans said the federal government is having a negative impact on the way thing ...
  • The Race for Bio-Fuel - Oil-Seed Production Ca ...
    Tried-and-true techniques could help optimize oilseed yield for biodiesel production, according to studies conducted by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. For more than 30 years, near infrared (NIR) reflectance spectroscopy has been used as a rapid and nondestructive method for me ...

High Country News

  • Handling griz: How much is enough?
    Increasing numbers of the West’s grizzly bears wear radio collars, and some environmentalists question the necessity of the practice
  • The "truth" about organic food
    Organic food is better for us than food grown on farms using pesticides, hormones or antibiotics. Here's why.
  • Childhood's end
    A writer watches his kids grow up into a world he can never protect them from.
  • Harness the wind, create a job
    The federal government should continue to support wind power with the Production Tax Credit, which provides stability in the industry.
  • Pondering change in the Great Basin
    Paleontology and geology at Summer Lake, an ancient lake bed in Oregon, have shown the Great Basin's history of dramatic change

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

  • Betrayal of Trust! Obama Knew Libya Attack Was ...
    Here's something you wont read about on MSNBC or most of the mainstream media.  Fox News has confirmed with US intelligence sources that the Administration knew within 24 hours that the attack on the the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Libya was a terrorist attack, and al Qaeda was probably behi ...
  • New Hard-Hitting Romney Ad: Bankrupt!
    This morning Romney for President released a new hard-hitting television advertisement titled “Bankrupt," which should be very helpful in coal-mining states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The ad uses an Obama statement from 2008 which previewed his war on coal. The spot is e ...
  • What The Polls Aren't Showing
    In a little more than six weeks Americans will be voting in the only poll that counts. But over the past week or so, many of my conservative friends have been complaining about the presidential polls being biased toward the Democratic Party. What they mean is the polls are weighing their samples ...
  • Hillary Clinton on Libya Attack "It Was al Q ...
    Now Barack Obama may be the only one in his administration who hasn't called the attack of our mission in Libya a terrorist attack. Attending a meeting at the UN today, Secretary of State Clinton attributed the deadly attack on the US Mission in Benghazi, Libya to al Qaeda in North Afric ...
  • DENIAL! Obama Can't Use the "T" Word at the UN
    It's time for Barack Obama to wake up and smell the couscous. The attack on the US consulate in Benghazihad nothing to do with the anti-Muslim movie on You-tube.  The attack was not a the result of a mob action it was planned way in advanced.  So why the heck didn't he say that during ...

The Real Agenda

  • Uruguay gets closer to lifting ban on Abortion
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 Uruguay is now on the verge of decriminalizing abortion after its House of Representatives approved a motion to do just that with a minimum majority of 50 to 49. Although the bill still needs to be ratified in the Senate, it is exp ...
  • United Nations Precipitously Falls into Irrele ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 How do you know when an organization has lived beyond its days? When even its minion members do not attend what is portrayed as the most relevant meeting of the year. The decay of the United Nations is not new. The globalist-founde ...
  • Israeli Lobbyist Suggests using False-flag to ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 Patrick Clawson a Washington lobbyist and director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), said that the west, especially the United States and Israel are “in the game of using covert means against the Irani ...
  • Madrid Delegate Salutes Police Brutality
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 The government of Madrid has put all of its support behind the acts of police brutality that took place Tuesday in the Spanish capital. Voices of congratulation came from various bureaucrats who said the the actions taken by the Na ...
  • The ‘Spanish Autumn’ Begins now
      By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 The ‘Spanish autumn’ is here. The same pictures we saw months ago in Greece and Portugal, are now popping up in Madrid. The Spanish people went out by the thousands on Tuesday to tell their government they are an ...

Wind Watch

  • Amid statewide debate, Newark revises plan to ...
    The town of Newark has amended its town plan to make clear that it does not support industrial wind development. During a special town meeting on Monday, voters approved an advisory resolution 169-to-59. It called for the select board to approve a new plan that identifies specific ridgelines, hi ...
  • Fourmile wind project has its share of blowback
    FINZEL — A majority of the Frostburg Road residents in attendance at the Synergics Wind Energy LLC meeting on Tuesday were opposed to the proposed Fourmile Ridge Wind Energy Project, according to resident Jim McCann. Engineers met with immediate property owners to update them on the status of th ...
  • Troubling study indicates wind turbines may ca ...
    A study published in a German scientific journal this summer indicates that wind turbines in one area may pose a serious risk to populations of bats over the better part of a continent. The study, performed by researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), showed tha ...
  • Town can’t support Green Energy Act
    PETAWAWA  – Council has taken a stand on the province’s Green Energy Act. On the heels of Xeneca’s recent Public Information Centre, Petawawa Council voted unanimously at a recent meeting to no longer support the province’s Green Energy Act 2009. In a move to stand up to the gre ...
  • Concerned Citizens of DeKalb County inform com ...
    DeKalb County commissioners are said to finalize their ordinance on wind energy on Thursday, but the Concerned Citizens of DeKalb County fear that will happen before everyone in the community is informed. When it comes to a 125 proposed wind turbines in DeKalb County, nothing is final. But if it ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • About Us,,,You may want to lisent...interesting!
    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (: Submitted by Evelyn J. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help v ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off whos on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • Signs Point to U.S. Capital Investment Slowdown
    “Demand for capital goods rose in August while failing to make up for declines in the previous two months, signaling slowdowns in business investment and exports threaten to further restrain the U.S. economic recovery. Orders for non-defense capital equipment excluding airplanes rose 1.1 p ...
  • Second-quarter GDP cut to 1.3 percent
    “Economic growth was much weaker than previously estimated in the second quarter as a drought cut into inventories, setting the platform for an even more sluggish performance in the current quarter against the backdrop of slowing factory activity. Gross domestic product expanded at a 1.3 p ...
  • On Competition and Entrepreneurship
    If Austrian economics, and classical liberalism more generally, are to win minds and hearts in the world of ideas, it will be by doing as Israel Kirzner does.
  • Obama Showering Ohio With Attention and Money
    “The president has eaten Cincinnati chili, led the cheers for Ohio State basketball and planted himself in the back yard of a Columbus family to highlight, next to their tomato garden, what his policies did for them. His trips, along with repeated outings by Biden (18 visits) and other Cabinet m ...
  • An Electric Carmaker Struggles as Its Producti ...
    “As Tesla Motors, a maker of electric cars, burns through cash and misses production targets, it is turning to investors and taxpayers for extra financial help. On Tuesday, Tesla announced plans to sell five million shares to raise cash. The federal government agreed earlier to waive some condit ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Plagiarism lessons and examples
    I’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
  • Use Instapaper to capture, read blog posts
    I’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...
  • Using Storify to share links and videos
    In a graduate-level course, like many educators, I require students to make presentations to the class. A while back, I forbade the use of PowerPoint — or any other slides — during the presentation. However, students must find, show and discuss some websites and videos as part of th ...
  • A few thoughts about MOOCs: Massive Open Onlin ...
    Educators are talking about the phenomenon of large-enrollment free online courses offered by very reputable professors and universities. Now the University of Texas “is in negotiations with Coursera and edX, two of the most prominent companies engaged in the mass distribution of course c ...
  • Managing research: Your personal library, online
    As a university professor, I not only teach — I also need to keep up-to-date with the literature in my field. This is so much easier now than it was when I was a graduate student long ago — now I can download PDFs of relevant articles and catalog them in folders on my hard drive, so ...

Facing South

  • Report: Extending insurance coverage could red ...
    Under the Affordable Care Act, racial and ethnic differentials in health insurance coverage are poised to shrink due to the extension of coverage to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families, particularly through the Medicaid expansion. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The reality behind Romney's t ...
    In a speech to wealthy donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans "pay no income tax," are "dependent upon government," and "will vote for the president no matter what." A look at the numbers behind those claims. read more
  • University of Virginia prevails against climat ...
    A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works to discredit climate scientists. The case is now expected to move on to the state Supreme Court. ...
  • Art Pope translates dollars into influence at UNC
    Conservative donor Art Pope has given millions to North Carolina's public universities, often to have his offers rejected over political controversies. Now he has a seat at the table in deciding the UNC system's future. read more
  • Preaching Koch Brothers gospel on public education
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration's school leaders have come perilously close to sounding like one of those Mississippi legislators back in 1985 who dealt with a statewide teachers' strike by giving them a pay raise -- but at the cost of a provision that prevented them from ever ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
    The Obama administration has unveiled a new strategy that intends to shift the focus of its relationship with Africa from aid to sustainable development.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Cheers for Hollande in Africa
    Many Africans were excited to see French President Nicolas Sarkozy voted out of office, hopeful that François Hollande will better represent their interests.
  • Somalia: No Sovereignty without Security
    Until the Somali National Security apparatus is able to stand strong on its own, Somalia will not be able to achieve full sovereignty.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Comments on the cost of Iraq
    Elevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...
  • QE 3
    The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program.  To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2.  It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit.  If you work at the executive le ...
  • QE 3
    The Fed has announced its third quantitative easing program.  To state what should be obvious, the effect on the economy for ordinary people will be minimal, as with QE1 and 2.  It will help banks, financial firms most, other large corporations will also benefit.  If you work at the executive le ...
  • Respect for international law and America
    There’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...
  • Respect for international law and America
    There’s been a great deal of crying about the death of an Ambassador and others in an attack on the US embassy in Libya. Now I’m a strong supporter of the inviolability of embassies but I wonder why other people should be? Embassy inviolability is part of one of the oldest strata of ...

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

  • Here's Why People Don't Think We're in a Recovery
    The most recent jobs report was again below consensus.  With fewer than 100,000 new jobs, unemployment fell only because people continue to leave the labor force in huge numbers.  People are discouraged, and many don't believe we are in a recovery.  Why would they think that we aren't in a ...
  • The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn: Behind Veneer Of ...
    After a decade of increasingly celebrated gentrification, many believe Brooklyn — the native borough of both my parents — finally has risen from the shadows that were cast when it became part of New York City over a century ago.  Brooklyn has gotten “its groove back” as a &ldqu ...
  • A Look at Commuting Using the Latest Census Data
    Continuing my exploration of the 2011 data from the American Community Survey, I want to look now at some aspects of commuting. Public Transit Public transit commuting remains overwhelmingly dominated by New York City, with a metro commute mode share for transit of 31.1%. There are an estim ...
  • The Road Less Understood
    The Economist confuses ends (objectives) and means in its current number examining the peaking of per capita automobile use in the West in two articles ("The http://www.economist.com/node/21563327" and "Seeing the Back of the Car"). In congratulating metropolitan areas for ...
  • America’s Last Politically Contested Territory ...
    Within the handful of swing states, the presidential election will come down to a handful of swing counties: namely the suburban voters who reside in about the last contested places in American politics. Even in solid-red states, big cities tilt overwhelmingly toward President Obama and t ...

GM Watch

  • Science Media Centre "experts" who attacked Se ...
    1. Expert reaction to GM maize causing tumours in rats: Prof Maurice Moloney 2. GMWatch response to Moloney's comment 3. GMWatch profile of Maurice Moloney NOTE: The UK's Science Media Centre was originally set up in the wake of the Pusztai affair to try to ensure more sympathetic media co ...
  • South Africans call for immediate ban on GM maize
    NOTE: The implications of the recent research findings of severe health damage in rats fed Monsanto's Roundup Ready maize NK603 are particularly disturbing for people in South Africa, where substantial quantities of GM maize are not only being grown but are eaten as a staple. This means that ...
  • Scientific consensus on GM is an illusion
    1.Scientific Consensus on GM is an Illusion 2.Climate denial, science and Genetic Modification 3.Why do key GM advocates deny mainstream scientific opinion on climate change? NOTE: Tom Philpott has just engaged in a debate on Twitter with the science writer Keith Kloor over Kloor's claim t ...
  • Monsanto's attempt to "disappear" tumours is i ...
    Why Monsanto's attempt to "disappear" tumours by using historical control data is invalid An Earth Open Source briefing 26 September 2012 Summary below Download full report with references from:  http://bit.ly/SRJgUs Summary Monsanto has invoked "historical norms" to dismiss statistically sign ...
  • Who's leading the call for transparency over t ...
    Who's leading the call for transparency over the GM feeding trial? An ipetition has been set up on behalf of "the scientific community" demanding that Professor Seralini release all the raw data from his recent GM corn study, with some signatories making comments about Prof. Seralini's study s ...

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Skilled Work, Without the Worker
    Via: New York Times: The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors, which recently began manufacturing the Tesla S, a luxury sedan, in Fremont, Calif., on the edge of Silicon Valley. More than half of the building i ...
  • Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Link ...
    Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, w ...
  • Water Shortages Hit U.S. Power Supply
    Via: New Scientist: As the United States’ extended heat wave and drought threaten to raise global food prices, energy production is also feeling the pressure. Across the nation, power plants are becoming overheated and shutting down or running at lower capacity; drilling operations struggl ...
  • Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ ...
    Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice ...
  • Cows Eating Second Hand Candy During the Drought
    Via: WPRI: Ranchers have struggled with skyrocketing corn prices, because the drought has made feeding their livestock very expensive. But one rancher has turned to a very sweet solution. At Mayfield’s United Livestock Commodities, owner Joseph Watson is tweaking the recipe for success. &# ...

The Economic Collapse

  • 14 Signs That The World Economy Is Getting Weaker
    The United States is not the only one with massive economic problems right now.  The truth is that just about wherever you look around the globe things are getting even worse.  China is experiencing a substantial economic slowdown, and Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in ...
  • Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weima ...
    Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic?  Nope.  And it won't work for us either.  If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it.  The truth is that making everyone ...
  • QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
    QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...
  • Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
    Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time?  Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker.  Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.  In f ...
  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...

Desertification

  • What farmers can do themselves for better land ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
  • Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
  • The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...
    A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
  • A drastic reduction in the flow of rivers that ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96329/MALAWI-Shrinking-lake-threatens-livelihoods MALAWI: Shrinking lake threatens livelihoods MACHINGA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residen ...
  • Revamping simple traditional methods to captur ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96335/BURKINA-FASO-Low-cost-steps-for-long-term-food-security BURKINA FASO: Low-cost steps for long-term food security OUAHIGOUYA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – From rocks hemming in water on farms to large surface reservoirs for irrigation, farmers in ...

The Paper Trail

  • Giving you the truth
    The 2012 presidential contest will be the most expensive - and most secretive - election of the modern era. Thanks to federal court decisions, corporations, billionaires and labor unions can spend as much as they want to fill the airwaves with half-truths and outright propaganda.Sadly, much o ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Koch-backed nonprofit ‘educa ...
    Americans for Prosperity, a conservative nonprofit funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, launched a new issue advocacy campaign criticizing President Barack Obama Monday.The organization reported spending $205,000 on radio ads highlighting what the group calls Obama’s “failing agenda.”The ...
  • East China Sea training merely an 'exercise' s ...
    Japan, Taiwan, and China have been contesting ownership of five deserted islets and three rocks in the East China  Sea since oil reserves were detected nearby more than forty years ago. But new tensions were stoked this month when the Japanese government nationalized the i ...
  • Daily Disclosure: North Dakota's Berg absorbs ...
    Republican Rep. Rick Berg, of North Dakota, once the favorite to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, has found himself in a tight race, and spending by outside groups is flowing.Berg faces former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp, a Democrat.The Republican congressman absorbs a ...
  • IMPACT: Cabinet officials signal crackdown on ...
    Top federal officials are stepping up scrutiny  for doctors and hospitals that may be cheating Medicare by using electronic health records to improperly bill the health plan for more complex and costly services than they deliver.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Wente apologists dig press in deeper
    By David@Sixthestate.net Seriously. This is starting to get absolutely ridiculous. I’m gratified to see the National Post and the Toronto Star jumping on the Margaret Wente plagiarism bandwagon. But there are still people referring to this as though it was an isolated incident, and there are eve ...
  • Oh good, I can wear my Rona Ambrose button again
    By Montreal Simon About five years ago I made this button of Rona Ambrose. So I’m glad to see that my confidence in her was fully justified. From The Globe: “Canada’s minister for the status of women joined nine other Conservative cabinet ministers and dozens of backbenchers in votin ...
  • A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher’s Gui ...
    By Nathaniel Moher All right, with the world literally falling apart in front of my eyes (not your eyes however, as I assume none of you watch the news), I can only come to two conclusions. One: No one has followed through on my last three guides to saving the world, and two: the Mayans [...]
  • TV the way Lucy likes it
    Sit-coms have never exactly flourished on Canadian TV, but the success of YTV’s “Mr. Young” may be about to change that ~~ By Emily Olesen ~~ Sitting in the Mr. Young audience is like watching a live action cartoon. Props from past episodes adorn the walls of the studio, includ ...
  • Warp speed is possible . . . if we don’t ...
    By David@Sixthestate.net You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer. I doubt any of them could tell you what a Higgs boson is, beyond the fact that some ...

libcom

  • The Chicago Teachers Strike and the Privatizat ...
    120917124939-chicago-teachers-strike-02-horizontal-gallery.jpg John Jacobsen reports on developments in the tentative contract between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union in the cont ...
  • A letter from Alexey Sutuga, imprisoned in Moscow
    Hello everyone! Yet another period of our remand imprisonment is approaching its end, but I am certain, that we will be kept locked up a few months more, even without any developments whatsoever in the fabricated criminal case against us. ...
  • Warning strike in the education sector in Slov ...
    rozhovor_skolstvo_front.png On Thursday 13th September 2012, a one day warning strike was organized in the education sector in Slovakia. On Thursday 13th September 2012, a one d ...
  • What the Marikana Massacre Highlights
    Cape Town anarchist Shawn Hattingh on the Marikana Massacre The sight of policemen gunning down striking workers at Marikana was truly galling. Reports too have now emerged that on the day of the shooting some workers may have been ex ...
  • Striking Agreement: How one neighborhood schoo ...
    CTU.jpg A first-hand account from the Chicago Teachers Union strike, from education worker Agnieszka Karoluk. This morning at 7am I went to one of my neighborhood public schools ...

Free Range International

  • The Last Post
    This will be the last post I write for the FRI blog.  If this is the first time you have seen this blog stop reading this right now and go back to October 2011 in the archives section because those are some of the best posts I ever wrote about Afghanistan.  Or go to the [...]
  • How Do You Mend A Broken Heart?
    Our little posse made it out of Afghanistan without any dramas.  My brother Tim left with me because The Bot had made it perfectly clear that his IED hit from the year before had made him completely unstable and a big pain in his ass.  We went to London again and both my brother and [...]
  • Vision Quest
    Editors note: Be sure to start this series from the beginning (Dalton Thomas Comes Home) so it makes sense.  We will try to get more posts up sooner than we have been lately but Dalton is, to be honest, not doing as well as we hoped .  Baba Tim is also banged up again and [...]
  • Band On The Run
    Editors Note:  It is important for first time readers to start this story from the beginning.  This is a (mostly) fictional account by my brother, Dalton Thomas Lynch, who is using the pen as therapy as he adjusts to living a normal life back in the states.   Any donations received by the FRI bl ...
  • Dead Man Walking
    Dalton continues to heal himself using creative writing as his vehicle for change.  Any donations our loyal readers are able to spare for this cracking tale will go directly to Dalton.  For the record, I (Baba T) did not say “Vet or Ventilate” and insist it was “If we can&#8217 ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!
    Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...
  • Update on “Event Contract” Post
    This is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” -  http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
  • Great Expose – MUST READ!
    This is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition: HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group 3 Reasons the US an ...
  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...
  • The REAL Reason the Israe-lies Want to Attack Iran
    The work of Dr. Keshe in “secure” research bases in Iran is causing the Rothschild Cabal sleepless nights. Imagine a world where 1. Energy is FREE 2. Food is readily available 3.  Money is obsolete. This was the situation in Libya, that is, until NATO bombs began falling and the GREE ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • 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 ...
  • Malcolm Gladwell (Dec 31, 2011)
    Renowned author wraps the critical events of 2011.
  • The Mansbridge Conversations 2011
    Highlights of Peter's interviews of the year, including conversations with Jack Layton, Olivia Chow, Nicole Williamson, Malcolm Gladwell and others.
  • NAGUIB SAWIRIS
    Peter sits down with Egyptian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris ahead of the country's first free elections about his hopes for and disappoinment in Egypt's Arab Spring
  • Shawn Atleo - National Chief of the Assembly o ...
    In the wake of the crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, Shawn Atleo discusses the future of Canada's Abroiginal communities.

Scotts Contracting

  • Moving to a New Location
    Scotts Contracting is Moving For the Past week or so I have been moving into a new Work Shop, Office, and Warehouse.  Stay tuned for further Details. Build Green, Scotty
  • Join me to oppose:Res 37 Toxic Air Bill by Sen ...
    I am writing you today in vehement opposition to the toxic air bill offered by Senator James Inhofe, S.J. Res 37. The Online Petition I signed via the Environment Defense Action Fund is listed to follow and emailed to Sen R.Blunt and Sen C.McCaskill. My notes to Dirty Oil Roy Blunt are at the bo ...
  • Little Green Thumb Recycling Adventure
    GRATITUDE OF THANKS TO SOUTHERN METAL PROCESSING. For all my readers who have been reading about my Back-Yard City Garden. I’m sure you have noticed that I’ve had some great help from little green thumbs this year. Little Green Thumbs-Inspecting the Corn Silk on the Sweet Corn Plants ...
  • Heat Deaths in Top U.S. Cities-Re:ClimateChange
    Climate change is literally killing us: In America’s 40 largest cities, it’s estimated that more than 150,000 Americans could die by the end of this century due to the excessive heat caused by climate change. Find out more about killer heat and how many more heat-related deaths clima ...
  • Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energ ...
    The extensive renovation achieved an 80% reduction in energy usage. By Jennifer Goodman Retrofit Turns Energy-Guzzling Home into Energy Producer The new structure sits on the fieldstone and brick foundation of the old one. Designer Andrew Webster speced generous glazing on the south and east sid ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • A 21st-Century Islam
    The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. It cannot place Islam at the center of political life — and in extreme cases political violence — while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule.
  • UN experts' concern for religious minorities i ...
    GENEVA — Two United Nations Special Rapporteurs have expressed their deep concern at the situation of minority religions in Iran. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, has joined with the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Biel ...
  • یک فرمانده سپاه:درگیری با ایران میتواند به جنگ ...
    سرتیپ امیرعلی حاجی‌زاده، فرمانده هوافضای سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی ایران، در مصاحبه شبکه العالم گفته است که در صورت حمله به ایران "هیچ کشور بی‌طرفی در منطقه وجود نخواهد داشت." او هشدار داده که درگیری با ایران می‌تواند "به جنگ جهانی سوم تبدیل شود." read more
  • تجمع دانشجویان مقابل سفارت فرانسه در اعتراض به ...
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  • مهدی هاشمی فرودگاه دوبی را به مقصد تهران ترک‌کرد
    مهدی هاشمی، پسر اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی ساعتی پیش فرودگاه بین المللی دوبی را به مقصد تهران ترک کرد و بر اساس اطلاعات پروازهای ورودی فرودگاه بین المللی امام خمینی تهران، هواپیمای او دقایقی پیش به زمین نشست. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • GM Wheat: the Risk to Unforn Children
    GM wheat has special dangers for unborn kids According to Natural News, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism ...
  • 19%: the True Unemployment Number
    The job line A recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Mortimer Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of US News and World Report, indicates the true US unemployment rate is 19%, when you include the people who have given up and quit looking for work and the involuntary part-timers w ...
  • Assange Seeks Transfer to Stockholm
    Assange at Ecuadorian embassy According to the New Zealand Herald, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino proposed on Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be Ecuador’s embassy in Stockholm. In this scenario, Assange would remain under Ecuadorian protection while und ...
  • Palestine's Arab Spring
    Palestine's Arab Spring A September 15th article (Revolution in the Air at Last) in the highly conservative Economist is predicting possible revolution in Palestine. It’s extremely good news for antiwar activists, economists, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Demp ...
  • CNN and the Bahraini Royal Family - Part II
    (This second post relates to US media censorship of Obama’s hypocritical policy towards Bahrain’s pro-democracy movement.) Amber Lyon For the most part, the US media has been totally silent on the Bahraini pro-democracy movement and Obama’s decision to back the repressive ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • A Holy Thursday
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore “Don’t just stand there, the niggers are comin’!” Walter was twelve, and he was only trying to be helpful. “Whaddaya mean?” I asked while standing in his driveway with my baseball glov ...
  • Audio of 'Boys State'
    Excerpted from Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life by Michael Moore
  • Activists Cheer Court's Ruling Against Indefin ...
    StopNSAA.org New York - Judge Katherine Forrest today ruled that the so-called "indefinite detention" provision of the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act violates the Constitution and issued a permanent injunction against its use. The law would have allowed the military to indefini ...
  • UK Threatens to Violate Ecuadoran Embassy Grou ...
    Reuters, August 15th, 2012: Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday. "Today we've received a threat by the Un ...
  • FLASHBACK: Ann Coulter Says Rage Against the M ...
    New York Times, April 29, 2012: WASHINGTON — Representative Paul D. Ryan strolls the halls of Capitol Hill with the anarchist band Rage Against the Machine pounding through his earbuds. Daily Beast, August 11, 2012: Ryan seems to have a taste for hard-rock bands like Rage Against ...

Salon

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

  • Is Coal Still King?
    India is poised to contend with China as the globe’s top consumer of coal, with 455 power plants preparing to come online, a prominent environmental research group has concluded. The coal plants in India’s pipeline — almost 100 more than China is preparing to build — would deliver 519,396 megawa ...
  • In order to control climate change, do we need ...
    Two recent publications highlight the challenges ahead in the multilateral process that continues to seek an equitable global approach to the issue of growing CO2 emissions. But comparing and contrasting them illustrates the contradictions that exist as negotiators attempt to maintain existing s ...
  • High-Priced Fuel Syndrome
    Governments and economists around the world have not figured out that what the world economy is suffering from, to varying degrees, is “high-priced fuel syndrome“.High-priced fuel syndrome has a number of symptoms:
  • Arctic Sea Ice At Its Lowest Ever
    According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), as of September 16 Arctic sea ice reached its seasonal minimum
  • How Far Has the Renewable Energy Industry Come ...
    The renewable energy industry has experienced numerous changes over the past 15 years. Here's a useful infographic that reflects the growth of the renewable energy industry, its contribution to the U.S. economy, and what the future could hold.

EU Times

  • China launches aircraft carrier amid rising te ...
    China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan in a show of force that could worry its neighbours. China’s Ministry of Defence said the newly named Liaoning aircraft carrier would “raise the overall operational strength of the Chines ...
  • Russia Bans Monsanto Corn Over Cancer Fears
    Russian authorities temporary suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer. ­The Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The ...
  • Lobbyist: Launch Staged Provocation To Start W ...
    A member of the influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank has brazenly suggested that the United States should launch a false flag provocation in order to start a war with Iran. Speaking at a Washington Institute for Near East Policy policy forum luncheo ...
  • Clashes erupt as thousands rally in Athens, fi ...
    A rally in the Greek capital turned violent when protesters in Syntagma Square lobbed Molotov cocktails at police. Thousands gathered in front of parliament for the country’s biggest anti-austerity protest since the new government came to power. Sporadic clashes erupted in different parts of Ath ...
  • Madonna: “We Have a Black Muslim in the White ...
    At a Washington, D.C. concert on Monday night, pop star Madonna praised Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights progress, leading her to demand the audience to support President Barack Obama, whom she sarcastically called the country’s “black Muslim in the White House”. “ ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Netanyahu To Set âClear Red Lineâ For Iran In ...
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try in his speech today at the United Nations to set a clear red line for Iran as the oil-rich nation continues its pursuit of nuclear technology. Reuters points out that Israel and the US are not opposed as it pertains to Iran, with both Netanyahu ...
  • iOS 6 users continue to grapple with Wi-Fi pro ...
    Wi-Fi access is still out of commission for many iOS 6 users. (Credit: Apple) A number of Apple iOS 6 users say they still can't connect to Wi-Fi networks, and the problem isn't just with the iPhone 5. Reports of the glitch have filled up 91 pages on Apple's Discussion Forums since September 19 ...
  • âSons Of Anarchyâ Actor Johnny Lewis Found Dea ...
    Actor Johnny Lewis, who played a supporting role in the first two seasons of the hit FX show Sons of Anarchy , was found dead yesterday at the home of an 81-year-old woman who had also died. TMZ reports that Lewis is also suspected of murdering the 81-year-old woman he was found with. According ...
  • Reese Witherspoon Has Given Birth To A Boy!
    Actress Reese Witherspoon has given birth to a boy.   Reese and her  husband Jim Toth welcomed Tennessee James into the world earlier today (September 27th 2012). This is the third child for Reese who has two children, Ava, 13, and Deacon, eight, from her marriage to Ryan Phillippe and this ...
  • SONS OF ANARCHY Star Johnny Lewis Dead In Appa ...
    Sons Of Anarchy star Johnny Lewis has come to a tragic end in an incident last night which has not only left the star dead but also the eighty one year old woman who was his landlord, with Lewis named a suspect in her death.Authorities believe Lewis was under the influence of drugs when he argu ...

Groklaw

  • File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal i ...
    "From a legal point of view, while taking into account that users are both uploaders and downloaders in these file-sharing networks, we see this conduct as lawful, even when it's considered that the users continue to share once the download is finished." The prosecutor adds that the right t ...
  • 'Innocence of Muslims' Actress Files Bigger La ...
    Garcia refiled her case in federal court Wednesday, asserting even more claims that she did the first time around, her lawyer says. On top of fraud, unfair business practices and libel -- among other causes of action -- she's now asserting copyright claims. In doing so, Garcia aims to make so ...
  • Go Daddy patents announcing a domain name regi ...
    Today the United States Patent and Trademark office granted the domain name registrar a patent for "announcing a domain name registration on a social website". - Domain Name Wire
  • Apple seeks patent for Siri automated assistant
    The company's extensive 51-page application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is entitled "Intelligent Automated Assistant." The patent application continuation, discovered this week by AppleInsider, describes a system that "engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner u ...
  • Apple vs. Samsung - This Time Its Jury Conduct ...
    It seems the jury foreman, Velvin Hogan, holds his own patent and may have shared his knowledge with other jurors. This would have introduced information not presented as part of the trial which would violate jury rules. Apple countered with its own court filing calling Samsung's request "basel ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • California proposes political campaigns disclo ...
    It’s silly season again in California. The California Fair Political Practices Committee wants political campaigns to document and report payments to bloggers and social media users if the person doing it paid by a campaign. This could well include campaign workers tweeting about their can ...
  • Romney campaign sucker punches Vermont media o ...
    Early Tuesday evening, Vermont Public Radio, (VPR) put out a story about the Romney campaign challenging absentee balloting in Vermont, and got it badly wrong. Other news operations repeated the story, getting it just as wrong in the Burlington Free Press, the Barre Times Argus, the BrattleboroR ...
  • Driverless cars and the coming glorious Orwell ...
    Driverless cars are perfect mechanisms for government control. After they become common such vehicles will no doubt be required to report to a central authority where they are going. The cars might even begin to question why someone would want to make a particular journey and then report it to t ...
  • The unfinished story of us
    Francisco Doa has a thoughtful piece at PandoDaily, which generally covers tech and startups in Silicon Valley, on how we as a country need to forget the exceptionalism stuff and get on with building something useful and important instead. This is a really excellent idea and it also sums up the ...
  • NOT SATIRE – Exxon plans oil drilling in USSR ...
    Exxon and USSR oil company Rosnoft plan to drill for oil in a USSR offshore nuclear dump, the Kara Sea, which was used for 25 years as a garbage can for radioactive waste.The two oil companies have avoided calls for the nuclear waste, estimated to consist of over 17,000 barrels of radioactive wa ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...
  • Sarajevo, 1914; Damascus 2012?
    The killing, in Damascus today, of at least three powerful members of the Baathist regime in Syria, will almost certainly plunge that whole country-- and quite likely also much of the rest of the Greater Middle East-- into a maelstrom of inter-group violence far worse than any it has seen until ...

frogblog

  • Message to media – jump or be pushed?
    Last weekend, on The Nation, Justice Minister Judith Collins gave the media a pretty big clue that she thinks there is a problem with the way we are seeing crime and justice processes reported.  The Minister likened the TV coverage of the Ewen Macdonald murder trial to reality television.  I tak ...
  • Justice for victims of sexual abuse – DENIED
    Back in April I posted a plea from Auckland HELP  for people to put in submissions on the Law Commission’s review of pre-trial and trial processes. The review was seen by many of us as a once in a life time opportunity to actually provide justice for victims of sexual abuse. I know 541 peo ...
  • NZ Superfund divests from Freeport McMoran mine
    Yesterday the New Zealand Superfund decided to stop investing in several companies for ethical reasons. One of those companies is the mining giant Freeport McMoran who owns the huge and damaging gold and copper mines in West Papua highlands near Timika. The human rights issues associated with Fr ...
  • “Work hard, be nice” – Two d ...
    This week I met the two American visitors who represent both sides of the Charter Schools debate. Mike Feinberg is here advocating for the KIPP model of Charter Schools and Karran Harper Royal is a New Orleans parent activist who tells the story of the impact of Charter Schools on state educatio ...
  • Govt praises Ombudsman, Ombudsman cries out fo ...
    Today Parliament marked the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman. Ours was the first in an English-speaking country and was used as a model for the spread of the office throughout the world, which is a pretty cool thing. On the same day that we celebrated their wo ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Short, Miserable Life of American Prosperity
    History is not always progressive; there have been many instances of extensive regression. Immoral institutions can more easily become worse than better. When the Capitalists have accumulated all the wealth there is and have the means to take away any that is subsequently created, what will ...
  • SCOTUS and the Rule of Flaw
    The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution that has failed in every possible way. It is notorious for having issued iniquitous opinions; it has not only failed to resolve but has exacerbated conflicts; and it has consistently negated the ideals the founding fathers wrote into t ...
  • How the Economy Works: The Necessity of Crime
    The economy is merely a sum of money, not practices that sustain the oikos, and the money that makes up the sum is equally valued whether it results from virtuous or vicious, good or bad, constructive or destructive, humane or inhumane, legal or illegal, beneficent or malevolent practices. A ...
  • Governments Exist to Further the Interests of ...
    Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.
  • The History of Knowledge: Darkness in the Acadamy
    Knowledge does not always prevail or even endure. When the Roman Empire fell, the Justinian Code was replaced by Canon Law. The augustness of knowledge was transformed into heresy and mankind's curiosity was virtually extinguished. The age became dark. In the 11th century, people began to st ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • 50 Countries Label Genetically Engineered Food ...
    By Dr. Mercola The greatest opportunity to give people the right to know if their food is genetically engineered will occur with the California ballot initiative – officially known as Proposition 37 – which is coming up for vote on November 6. Proposition 37 will require labeling of genetical ...
  • Newer Drugs for Rheumatoid Arthritis All Have ...
    By Dr. Mercola Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease afflicting an estimated 1.5 million Americans,1 the majority of which are women. RA affects just over 53 women per 100,000, compared to nearly 28 men per 100,000. Unlike osteoarthritis, which is a degenerat ...
  • Floors that Can Make You and Your Children Sick
    By Dr. Mercola You’ve probably given careful consideration to the food your children consume on a daily basis. But what about the other environmental influences they’re exposed to on a near 24/7 basis, such as the materials in their living space and, more specifically, your flooring? It is l ...
  • Aspartame: Safety Approved in 90 Nations, but ...
    By Dr. Mercola More than 90 countries have given the artificial sweetener aspartame the green light to be used in thousands of food and beverage products.1 Two hundred times sweeter than sugar, aspartame allows food manufacturers to produce sweet foods they can market as “low calorie,” “die ...
  • Do Tanning Beds Really Cause Melanoma?
    By Dr. Mercola If you believe all the negative hype on tanning beds that's going around lately, you'll run the other way instead of enjoying this easy and pleasurable way to get some vitamin D. But Dr. William Grant of the Vitamin D Council has taken a closer look at the claims that sunbeds c ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Amazon Indians in legal victory
    The Nanti are one of many isolated groups whose lands are targeted by oil companies.© SurvivalA small community of Indians from the Peruvian Amazon has won a court case with potentially far-reaching implications for indigenous land rights in the country. The Shipibo and Ese-eja Indians of Tres ...
  • Earth’s most threatened tribe demands help ‘ur ...
    The Awá tribe is one of the world’s few hunter-gatherer peoples. Their survival is now at risk.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalThe Awá of Brazil, known as Earth’s most threatened tribe, have written to the country’s Justice Minister telling him to ‘evict invaders urgently’, as news emerges that their hun ...
  • Guilty: Australia’s Channel 7 censured over ‘r ...
    Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 network has been found guilty by the press regulator of serious violations of the bro ...
  • European poll shows overwhelming support for J ...
    Voters in the Italian poll overwhelmingly supported a buffer zone to ‘safeguard’ the Jarawa’s future.© SurvivalAn opinion poll in a leading European newspaper has shown overwhelming support for a buffer zone, to protect India’s Jarawa tribe from ‘human safaris’. Published in Italy’s most ...
  • Victory: Vedanta to close Orissa refinery
    The Dongria Kondh have fought a David and Goliath battle against Vedanta© Lewis Davids/SurvivalSupporters of India’s Dongria Kondh tribe are celebrating after controversial British mining company Vedanta Resources declared it will close its bauxite refinery in the state of Orissa, this December. ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Letter of the Day: You want change? Start with ...
    You've got a problem with the world today? Don't scream, protest or demonstrate about it; do something to change your own ways first.
  • Conrad Black: the man who took on a bad law, a ...
    Conrad Black left a U.S. federal prison Friday. For a moment, set aside whatever opinion you might have about Lord Black's business practices. There's no doubt about one point: businesspeople in the United States owe a very large debt of thanks to Black for his almost improbable challenge of the ...

Food World Order

  • #Video: 'Genetic Roulette' and Genetically Mod ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: The food industry doesn't just engage in fraud. It engages in murder too. How the food industry seeks to turn you into an involuntary lab rat - regardless of the cost to your health. Here's a film that fights back.
  • #Video: Food Fraud, Fake Foods and Phony Blueb ...
    from therealfoodchannel.com: Blueberries look wholesome and delicious on those packages of muffin mix and cereal, but how many blueberries are your really getting? For many of these products: none. The big name brands give us beautiful, deceptive packaging. And it's completely legal as long as t ...
  • #Video: The Brighter Side of Farming - Poet/Fa ...
    from realecontv.com: There's an old saying that: "A fool knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." Here's a man from the other side, farmer-poet Wendell Berry. Sadly, there's no room on the talking heads mass media for this kind of intelligence. But you can find it here.
  • Farmers To Begin 'Mass Slaughter' Of Animals D ...
    from grist.org: The mass slaughter of millions of farm animals across the world is expected to push food prices to their highest ever levels. Farmers across the world have begun a mass slaughter of their pig and cattle herds because they cannot afford the cost of feed, which has soared following ...
  • #Video: The Truth About The Health Care Crisis
    from realecontv.com: You can watch TV news all day and read every newspaper and you'll never get the real reason behind the US health care crisis. First the standard view and then the reality behind the curtain... Quality goes down, prices go up. What's going on? You can watch the news for month ...

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

  • 14 Signs That The World Economy Is Getting Weaker
    The United States is not the only one with massive economic problems right now.  The truth is that just about wherever you look around the globe things are getting even worse.  China is experiencing a substantial economic slowdown, and Japan has resorted to yet another round of money printing in ...
  • Quantitative Easing Did Not Work For The Weima ...
    Did printing vast quantities of money work for the Weimar Republic?  Nope.  And it won't work for us either.  If printing money was the secret to economic success, we could just print up a trillion dollars for every American and be done with it.  The truth is that making everyone ...
  • QE4? The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Com ...
    QE3 has barely even started and some folks on Wall Street are already clamoring for QE4.  In fact, as you will read below, one equity strategist at Morgan Stanley says that he would not be "surprised" if the Federal Reserve announced another new round of money printing by the end ...
  • Americans Are Literally Being Worked To Death
    Are you constantly tired and do you feel incredibly stressed almost all the time?  Well, that means that there is a really good chance that you are a typical American worker.  Even though our incomes are going down, Americans are spending more time at work than ever before.  In f ...
  • 21 Facts About America’s Decaying Infras ...
    You can tell a lot about a nation by the condition of the infrastructure.  So what does our infrastructure say about us?  It says that we are in a very advanced state of decay.  At this point, much of America is being held together with spit, duct tape and prayers.  Our roads are ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Every end is a new beginning...
    Just remember that death is not the end... So, whilst The Talking Clock is - for now at least - mothballed, the many friends and regular readers who are "awake" might want to join me in my little sidestep venture: http://conspiracywatch.blogspot.co.uk/ Blogrolls need to be added and the ...
  • Okay Captain Ranty... this blogger resigns fro ...
    On the day that the BEST blogger in the blogosphere - Captain Ranty - has posted to announce 'end of transmission' (though not for the first time)... ...having mulled over what Captain Ranty has to say, rather than replying to the above linked blogpost in comments or via 140 characters on Twi ...
  • European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment D ...
    Here are the highlights of the European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill, Second Reading debate which took place in the House of Commons yesterday. Bill Cash MP Plainly, the implosion in Europe does affect us, and this failed attempt to put a sticking plaster on an increasi ...
  • Nothing Tutu Hide, Nothing Tutu Fear, Mr. Bliar
    Archbishop Desmond Tutu is all over the world's media for boldly coming out in public with a call for George W. Bush and Tony Blair to stand trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague for war crimes over the invasion of Iraq and overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Part of Tutu's thinking ...
  • The People's Memorial: 15th Anniversary Tribut ...
    As is now a yearly thing for this blog, a few images of the tributes left at Kensington Palace for the fifteenth anniversary of Diana's death. Those of our readers who come here as fellow Diana admirers are more than welcome to save the images - links back greatly appreciated. Click on the th ...

Facing South

  • Report: Extending insurance coverage could red ...
    Under the Affordable Care Act, racial and ethnic differentials in health insurance coverage are poised to shrink due to the extension of coverage to hundreds of thousands of individuals and families, particularly through the Medicaid expansion. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The reality behind Romney's t ...
    In a speech to wealthy donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said 47 percent of Americans "pay no income tax," are "dependent upon government," and "will vote for the president no matter what." A look at the numbers behind those claims. read more
  • University of Virginia prevails against climat ...
    A Virginia circuit court judge rules that the school does not have to turn over former professor Michael Mann's e-mails to the American Tradition Institute, a fossil-fuel-funded think tank that works to discredit climate scientists. The case is now expected to move on to the state Supreme Court. ...
  • Art Pope translates dollars into influence at UNC
    Conservative donor Art Pope has given millions to North Carolina's public universities, often to have his offers rejected over political controversies. Now he has a seat at the table in deciding the UNC system's future. read more
  • Preaching Koch Brothers gospel on public education
    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his administration's school leaders have come perilously close to sounding like one of those Mississippi legislators back in 1985 who dealt with a statewide teachers' strike by giving them a pay raise -- but at the cost of a provision that prevented them from ever ...

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

  • Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
    Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
  • Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...
    Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...
  • Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!
    All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...
  • ZTE's Firefox OS Plans Confirmed, ZTE Will Lau ...
    Based out of China, ZTE Corp is world's fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer and fifth-largest telecoms equipment maker (based on 2011 statistics). And when such a big player decides to go ahead with something entirely new and unknown, things can get interesting. For starters, Firefox ...
  • Humble Indie Bundle 6 Introduces Linux to 6 Br ...
    As always, the brand new edition of Humble Indie Bundle is packed with surprises. The latest Humble Bundle marks the introduction of 6 brand new games which didn't had a Linux version prior to this. We had introduced you to some of the hottest Linux games for 2012 recently, but the latest Humb ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • The Death of a Father: an old photo brings bac ...
    Sipping some wine to mourn – or perhaps to celebrate? – my leaving Austria, one of my elderly neighbours  mentioned the resignation speech of Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schusschnig in 1938, which ended with the words “May God protect Austria.” Every Austrian knows what happened after the Annexatio ...
  • Stronach’s new “false flag” ...
    You read about it on this blog first: Globalist and Magna chief Frank Stronach has been trying to recruit people for a new „false flag“ opposition party as the euro crisis escalates. Stronach even rang the solictor handling the sale of my flat in Vienna and offered him a job as Justice Minister. ...
  • Stauffenberg in the Wolf’s Lair: Read th ...
    At a time of  crisis, terror and tyranny, Claus von Stauffenberg seized the initiative and tried to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime in a coup in July, 1944. As such, he is an example to us all today. The mass impoverishment of people by the fractional reserve banking scam ...
  • FRANK STRONACH: WHY DID THE MAGNA CHIEF RING T ...
    *Frank Stronach, CEO of Magna, rings solicitor handling the proceeds of the sale of my flat and offers him job as justice minister and chauffeur-driven car *Phone call happens almost immediately after I sign the contract *Bizarre call comes to light after I return to sign a second document: Schw ...
  • Letter confirming my complaint against Baxter ...
    Here it is again: a pdf copy of a letter from the Austrian Health Ministry dated May 2009 confirming that I had made a complaint against Baxter and Avir and that state prosecutors had started an investigation into the incident involving the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu vaccine with ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Namaste Way, Mozart’s Grave and the ...
    By Visible The one thing I find the most remarkable about this endeavor is the remarkable people that come around here. Yet they are also the source of a great deal of consternation, difficulty and disappointment. Someone was coming to visit me from the Netherlands. For some reason, inexplicable ...
  • Russia suspends import and use of American GM ...
    By Sean Poulter Russia has suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. Separately, the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA), has ordered its own review in to the research, which was conducted at a French university. T ...
  • SHOCKER: HOW MANY DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS ARE WRITT ...
    by Jon Rappoport Medical News Today reports that, in 2011, there was a modest uptick in the number of prescriptions written in the US. The increase brought the total to: 4.02 billion. Yes, in 2011, doctors wrote 4.02 billion prescriptions for drugs in America. That’s an average of roughly 13 pre ...
  • An 82-page analysis concludes that Israel is c ...
    Submitted by kcop on Tue, 09/25/2012 – 13:15 It’s a paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, an 82-page analysis that concludes that the American national interest is fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Israel is currently the great ...
  • Sixteen U.S. Intelligence Agencies, the Pentag ...
    Texe Marrs Hell hath no fury like a Zionist Jew scorned. O.K. that’s not quite the way the famous author, William Congreve (The Mourning Bride, 1697), put it. But it’s still an accurate observation. The arrogant Jews in Israel and America are so used to getting their way that when, finally, they ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...
  • American Divisions
    Bill Schneider says that the U.S. is more politically divided today than it has been at any time since the Civil War. I think he's right. Which is not to say that compromise is the ticket. Instead, I'd like to see some brains reclaimed by reason from among those who want His Almightiness to run ...
  • Billionaires vs. Science
    Sociopath billionaires. They cause a ton of trouble across the board but the very worst thing they do is to deny global warming. They should, in my view, be thrown in jail for subverting science. Because, however, we don't have laws yet against scientific malpractice the next best thing, the onl ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
    A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
  • 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?

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