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Thomas Paine

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Monday, October 1, 2012

1 October - RSS SnapShot Pt I

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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • UK Report: "Who Gains From Growth ?"
    Living standards for Britain’s low and middle income households will be lower in 2020 than they were a decade earlier even if growth returns. Households in this group are set for income falls of between 3 and 15 percent from 2008 to 2020. Who Gains from Growth? examines the changing structure of ...
  • Video: Wesley Clark on Oil, War, and Activism.
    Clark said that shortly after 9/11, on a visit to the Pentagon, he was told of a memo laying out plans to use the 2001 attacks as a justification to invade seven countries in five years. WhoWhatWhy now has an exclusive conversation with General Clark, filmed this year by our friend Mike Gray. ...
  • New Saudi/Qatar flu viruses Similar to HK CoV/SARS
    The group 2c coronaviruses are distinct for the human SARS CoV, which maps to group 2b. However, coronavirus rapidly evolve via homologous recombination and portions of genes show regions of identity of high homology with coronavirus segments from other species or phylogenetic groups. The r ...
  • “Poverty is returning to Europe”
    The giant consumer goods company Unilever has announced that it has begun employing its “third-world” marketing strategy in Europe. This is eloquent testimony to the growing social inequality now besetting the continent. Jan Zijderveld, head of European operations, stated bluntly that the dec ...
  • Peter Dale Scott: Oil, Hegemony, Afghanistan
    The purpose of this essay is to suggest that the motives for the withholding may have had to do with the much larger neocon objective being imposed on American foreign policy at this same time: the consolidation of U.S. global hegemony by the establishment of U.S. forward-based bases around the ...

Independent - London

  • Former Lebanon hostage John McCarthy slams US ...
    The former hostage John McCarthy has called the violent depiction of captivity in the award-winning drama Homeland “grotesque” and accused the producers of using “titillation” to manipulate viewers.Related StoriesBack with an apology – and Arnie still has half an eye on the White House
  • Anyone but Berlusconi: Italy begs unelected Mo ...
    Two political leaders have joined calls for Italy's unelected technocrat Prime Minister, Mario Monti, to stay on in some form after next spring's general election to prevent speculators dragging the Italian economy – and the euro – back to the edge of the abyss.Related StoriesDelay to trial as ...
  • Delay to trial as Pussy Riot lawyer is sacked
    A court adjourned an appeal hearing for three members of the jailed Pussy Riot punk band yesterday after one of the three sacked her lawyers. Related StoriesAnyone but Berlusconi: Italy begs unelected Monti to staySpirits high at Oktoberfest despite troublesWe've won the election, says Georgia ...
  • Spirits high at Oktoberfest despite troubles
    Record alcohol consumption, mounting violence and high beer prices have failed to mar the annual Munich Oktoberfest, which reached half-time yesterday with its backers claiming that the drinking event was set for its most successful year.Related StoriesAnyone but Berlusconi: Italy begs unelected ...
  • Bahrain court confirms doctors' jail terms
    Bahrain's highest court yesterday confirmed the prison sentences given to nine doctors and nurses for their role in last year's pro-democracy uprising, a decision that could fuel further unrest in the Gulf state.Related StoriesDocumentary claims G4S was warned about killerSyrian rebels' backers ...

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

  • Gene that causes a form of deafness discovered
    Researchers at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have found a new genetic mutation responsible for deafness and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 1. These findings, published in the Sept. 30 advance online edition of the journal Nature ...
  • Exercise improves memory, thinking after strok ...
    Just six months of exercise can improve memory, language, thinking and judgment problems by almost 50 per cent, says a study presented October 1 at the Canadian Stroke Congress. Toronto researchers found that the proportion of stroke patients with at least mild cognitive impairment dropped from ...
  • Serious child abuse injuries creep up, study shows
    A new Yale School of Medicine study shows that cases of serious physical abuse in children, such as head injuries, burns, and fractures, increased slightly by about 5% in the last 12 years. This is in sharp contrast to data from child protective services agencies, which show a 55% decrease in ph ...
  • Poor sleep in adolescents may increase risk of ...
    Adolescents who sleep poorly may be at risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). "We found an association between sleep disturbance and cardiovascular risk in adolescents, as determined by high cholesterol levels, increase ...
  • Kissinger, US intelligence community endorse " ...
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been vilified in the Western media for daring to imagine "a world without Israel." But according to news reports, Henry Kissinger and sixteen American intelligence agencies agree that in the near future, Israel will no longer exist. The New York Post qu ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Future considerations . . .
    KURZWEIL ACCELERATING INTELLIGENCE is a thoughtful site, with a post by Amara D. Angelica, "Welcome to 2035…the Age of Surprise" that is worthy of perusal. Since its creation in 2001, Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence —  explores the forecasts and insights on accelerating change arti ...
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  • Freedom fighters . . .
    MAYBE STUPID INSECTS aren't so stupid. According to George Dvorsky's article in io9, "Enslaved worker ants fight back through acts of sabotage", there are species that have developed effective resistance to slavery.  The ant has been a creature respected by various cultures, and appea ...
  • These guys . . .
    REMEMBER VALERIE PLAME? These guys sure do. The story ain't over, and it's gonna make a hell of a mini-series, working title, Washington Weasels. H/T — Helmut
  • 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 ...

Media Matters for America

  • A History Of Dishonest Fox Charts
    Fox News was forced to address yet another dishonest chart last week, which it aired to paint a misleading picture of President Obama's handling of the economy. Fox has a habit of displaying error-laden and deceptive graphics to reinforce conservative attacks on the Obama administration.Spurious ...
  • Ralph Peters, Fox's "Strategic Analyst" On For ...
    Retired Army officer and novelist Ralph Peters is regularly presented by Fox News as a "strategic analyst" to discuss foreign policy issues, despite his long history of inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and regular smears of President Obama.Peters Has A Long History Of I ...
  • Fox Baselessly Suggests Obama May Be Attemptin ...
    Fox News alleged that the Obama administration may be behind a decrease in absentee ballots requests among service members, and raised questions as to whether the White House was "trying to disenfranchise the military." In fact, the Military Voter Protection Project, Fox's source for this inform ...
  • VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED: Discovery Channel T ...
    On October 10, the Discovery Channel will air a special on gun culture in America starring Washington Times columnist and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent. In doing so, the channel will give mainstream treatment to a divisive right-wing figure who has made c ...
  • One Limbaugh Show, Three Conspiracy Theories A ...
    Rush Limbaugh peddled three conspiracy theories surrounding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi during his radio program, claiming that the Obama administration is "engag[ing] in a cover-up" of the attack, is forbidding the FBI to investigate in Benghazi, and is jailing the maker of an ...

Global Research.ca

  • The Struggle for Western Hegemony in the Musli ...
    For half of the last century, Arab nationalists, socialists, communists and others were locked in a battle with the Muslim Brothers for hegemony in the Arab world.—Tariq Ali [1] The Jihadists who toppled the secular nationalist Gaddafi government—and not without the help of Nato bombers, dubbed ...
  • Libya: How Many Dirty Western Hands?
    Oh what a tangled web they weave When first they practice to invade A sovereign nation and deceive The world about their dark crusade.  (Michael Leunig, Poet, Cartoonist, 1945:)   This weekend a detailed article (i) suggested that a: “French secret serviceman, acting on the express orders o ...
  • Canadian Peace Congress: End the Aggression Ag ...
    The Canadian Peace Congress condemns the ongoing foreign intervention in Syria and the escalating drive to war against Iran, and calls for the immediate withdrawal of all Canadian, NATO and foreign mercenary forces from the region. We further call upon the Conservative government of Stephen Harp ...
  • Netanyahu’s war ultimatum at the UN
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s belligerent and provocative speech last Thursday before the United Nations General Assembly underscored that plans for an unprovoked military attack on Iran are far advanced. Netanyahu set a deadline of four to nine months after the US elections in Nov ...
  • Tens of thousands protest austerity policies i ...
    Tens of thousands of workers, young people, unemployed and retirees took part in demonstrations in major cities of Portugal and Spain Saturday, in a mounting confrontation between the European working class and the savage austerity policies demanded by the bankers, big business and the European ...

TPM Cafe

  • 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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Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • Israel releases Hamas lawmakers from jail (Ma ...
    Israel released two Palestinian lawmakers from prison on Saturday, after over 15 months in administrative detention, a prisoners group said. Samir al-Qadi, from Hebron, was arrested on ...
  • Gaza Looks For Work, Not Aid (Eva Bartlett, I ...
    "The overwhelming majority of people we work with tell us, 'We don't want the aid, we want to have an opportunity to work and earn money'. Especially people who had a decent job but los ...
  • 'Israel land grab left Palestinians with no s ...
    Russia Today talks to rebel politician Jeremy Corbyn from Britain's Labour party, about the stalled search for Middle East Peace. Mr Corbyn makes note of many issues, particularly the colonization of Palestinian land since 1948 and the need for the UN to recognize Palestine as a full-member state.
  • Yasser Arafat's exhumation may answer question ...
    Within the guarded walls of the Palestinian presidential compound, known as the Muqata, the body of Yasser Arafat lies inside a gleaming limestone and glass mausoleum. It is here that p ...
  • The specter of a third intifada (Gideon Levy, ...
    Jamal Zubeidi says that in the Jenin refugee camp they no longer think about Mohammed, or even God. So no one here got excited about about the controversial film that provoked the recen ...

Water - AlterNet

  • Is Fracking a Danger to Your Health?
     The ethics of medicine are guided by the Hippocratic Oath which commits medical professionals to the principle of health care based on, Primum non nocere -- First do no harm. Health professionals are speaking out on behalf of the public health of their patients as hydraulic fracturing, otherw ...
  • Wall Street's War Against Your City
    The pace of Wall Street’s war against the 99% is quickening in preparation for the kill. Having demonized public employees for being scheduled to receive pensions on their lifetime employment service, bondholders are insisting on getting the money instead. It is the same austerity philosophy t ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Vatican claims 'Jesus wife' parchment is fake
    The recently revealed papyrus fragment referencing the wife of Jesus is said to be a 'clumsy forgery'. The 4th century parchment has been the topic of...
  • Can you live without texting ?
    In an ever more connected world have mobile phones become more of an obsession than a convenience ? A recent study has revealed the extent of our tend...
  • Could asteroid dust fight climate change ?
    Scientists have come up with a radical new way in which to help reduce the effects of global warming. Few topics have been discussed as much or have g...
  • How do you like to eat your eggs ?
    A new study claims to be able to determine your personality based on the way that you eat your eggs. Based on answers provided by over 1,000 people, s...
  • Police officer investigates the moon
    An in-house police publication recently revealed the case of an investigation of a 'suspicious light'. The humorous incident was detailed in the magaz...

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Climate

  • Scientist Reprimanded for Polar Bear Work
    (AP) An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanise the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents. An Interior Department official said emails released by ...
  • Ethiopia Turns to Wind Power to Boost Energy S ...
    (AlertNet) Ethiopia is venturing into large-scale wind power generation for the first time as it embarks on an ambitious plan to increase its electrical capacity four-fold by 2015 to meet rising domestic demand and gain export revenues ...
  • Australia Joins U.N.-Led Climate Coalition
    (Reuters) Australia on Friday announced it will join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a U.N.-led initiative to cut short-lived climate pollutants such as soot and methane. The initiative, launched in February this year, targets em ...
  • Environmentalists Oppose PG&E Plans for Unders ...
    (Los Angeles Times) Over objections of Central Coast residents and environmental groups, Pacific Gas & Electric plans to map earthquake fault zones near its Diablo Canyon nuclear plant by blasting high-decibel air cannons under the ...
  • Wash. Governor Race: Different Green Energy Id ...
    (AP ) Climate change may have faded as a national issue, but it remains prominent in the Washington governor's race. When it comes to incentives and regulations to help green-­energy producers, the two main candidates for Washington g ...

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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.
  • NFL Superbowl live blog – New England Pa ...
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Booman Tribune

  • Jim Crow Marches North
    It sounds like the judge dealing with the Pennsylvania Jim Crow law is going to do something stupid. Rather than place a broad injunction against enforcement of the law, he's going to basically render it toothless. Under the law, if you cannot produce a valid state-approved photo identificati ...
  • The Truth About the Poll-Skewing Theory
    I hope all of you understand why the Republicans suddenly came up with a pseudoscientific theory that all the public polling firms are skewed toward Obama and that Romney is going to win convincingly. They didn't launch this theory during the summer. They launched it about a week before the fi ...
  • Romney's Poor Options
    The YWCA conducted a nationwide poll in late August and early September in an effort to determine what women want. They discovered that women want a second term for Barack Obama by a 49-31 margin. That number came before Clint Eastwood and Bill Clinton's speeches. It came before Romney's disa ...
  • Wistful Thought
    I'm one of the least materialistic people you will ever meet. Probably dysfunctionally so. I occasionally fantasize about what I would do if I won the lottery, and I admit to the ambition to one day have a place in the northern lake region of Italy. But I mostly wonder how I could use that mo ...
  • Romney Would Have Let Bin-Laden Chill
    Here's a reminder: In April of 2007, Romney said, Its not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person, but quickly changed his mind after bin Laden was killed. Any thinking American would have ordered exactly the same thing, he proclaimed earlie ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Guardians of the Lost Ark
    Ethiopian Orthodox Christians believe that a small church in their country contains a very special relic, the fabled Lost Ark of the Covenant... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Brilliance of Passive Solar Homes
    Passive solar houses sound like a good idea, but how do you go about living in one? In fact, what is it that makes a passive solar home what it is? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Accounting Tricks the 1% Use to Keep the Ta ...
    From tax havens and shell companies to equity swaps and real-estate borrowing, here are 10 Accounting Tricks the 1% Use to Dodge the Taxman. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 13 Creepiest Mummies on Earth
    Be it in horror movies or cartoons, mummies are often portrayed as evil monsters, back from the dead. Here are 13 scary mummies we'd hate to see come to life. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

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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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  • Russian court upholds 15-year prison sentence ...
    Russia’s highest court has upheld a lengthy prison sentence given to a Russian arms control and nuclear weapons expert, who Moscow alleges was a spy for the United States.
  • Irish police uncover Real IRA surveillance ring
    Police in the Republic of Ireland have arrested two men suspected of spying on the operational headquarters of the Garda Siochana (Irish Police) in Dublin.
  • 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.

War is a Crime.org

  • Syria News - Oct 2
        Syria FM calls for a political solution and Syrian-led dialogue with the opposition, SNC says these calls for political dialogue are not genuine - Boston.com Representative of Syria’s UN envoy says opposition divisions an obstacle to resolving conflict - The Washington Post Report: ...
  • The Buzz on Drones
    Civilian Casualties From Drone Attacks in Afghanistan October 1, 2012 Editor Note: Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq and has begun to wind down the Afghan War, the lethal reach of the U.S. military has been extended into other countries through drone aircraft. What is less known ...
  • Veterans For Peace Now in Pakistan Opposing Dr ...
    Seven Members of Veterans For Peace are part of a 40-member delegation organized by Code Pink now in Pakistan through October 10th. VFP members Leah Bolger, Dave Dittemore, Bill Kelly, Jody Mackey, Rob Mulford, and Ann Wright are meeting with drone victims' families, elected officials, tribal el ...
  • An Urgent Call for RTTV to schedule alternativ ...
      By Dave Lindorff There is a simple answer to the refusal of the Two Party-Controlled Presidential Debate Commission's refusal to include third party candidates in its three debates: An alternative televised debate that would include the third party candidates, and that would air right ...
  • Nothing More Evil
    A writer at the Atlantic named Conor Friedersdorf recently noted the level of evil many have been brought to support: "Tell certain liberals and progressives that you can't bring yourself to vote for a candidate who opposes gay rights, or who doesn't believe in Darwinian evolution, and they'll n ...

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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  • Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney ...
    By Matt Taibbi And this is where we get to the hypocrisy at the heart of Mitt Romney. Everyone knows that he is fantastically rich, having scored great success, the legend goes, as a “turnaround specialist,” a shrewd financial operator who revived moribund companies as a high-priced ...
  • The S**t is About to Hit the Fan, Here’s ...
  • Mr. Apocalypse does, Ground and Pound
    By Visible The changing of an age, is such a fundamentally comprehensive thing, going on inside and outside at the same time. It’s hard to get a handle on what’s happening and the sluggish progress, is like a constipated dinosaur, lumbering across the plain, roaring out in discomfort ...
  • The False Flag That Started The Iraq War
    by Alexander Higgins – September 30, 2012 at 2:00 am On the anniversary of the Anthrax attacks used to justify the Iraq war are now known to have been an inside job and the corporate media blackout continues. The Iraq War False Flag: The Anthrax they said came from Iraq’s non-existent WMD ...
  • UN Considering Global Carbon And Agenda 21 Taxes
    by Alexander Higgins The UN is set to hold debates to consider whether several global taxes including a carbon tax and financial transaction tax to fund Agenda 21 initiatives. The United Nations will stay busy even after the annual General Assembly meetings wrap up this week, and on the agenda f ...

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to pu ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging C ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-op ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to fo ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • V3Solar’s Spinning Cone-Shaped Solar Cells Gen ...
    If there’s one constant among the vast majority of solar panel designs, it’s flatness; while solar panels can be equipped to tilt to follow the sun’s path through the course of the day, there are still significant efficiency limitations to this basic design. V3Solar’s rat ...
  • Scientists Develop Transparent Soil to Shed Li ...
    The “rhizoshpere” is the world of plant roots – a region of soil located just below the surface of the earth. It sounds like a fantastical realm, full of secrets and mystery – and to botanists and agronomists concerned with the issues of food security and climate change, ...
  • IKEA Announces That it Will Sell Only LED Ligh ...
    IKEA, the massive Swedish furniture retailer that brought scandinavian design to the masses, is now going to bring LED lighting to the world in a big way. The company just announced that it will sell only LED bulbs by the year 2016, and it’s given LED bulbs away to all of its 130,000 emplo ...
  • Elqui Domos Hotel: A Star-Gazer’s Paradise Tuc ...
    Read the rest of Elqui Domos Hotel: A Star-Gazer’s Paradise Tucked Among The Chilean Mountains Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: andes mountains, astronomy, cabins, Chile, Elqui Domo Hotel, geodesic dome, RDM Architecture, retreat, star-gazing
  • Student Invents Doorless Refrigerator That Sav ...
    Ben de la Roche, an industrial design student at Massey University in New Zealand, has designed a doorless refrigeration wall, called Impress, that prevents food waste and saves energy. De la Roche’s design is a finalist in the 2012 Electrolux Design Lab competition. Impress, Electrolux sa ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step Forward
    Whatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
  • What Makes Google's Maps So Good
    Nobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
  • New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Fe ...
    The new Apple iOS 6, available Wednesday, substitutes its own maps for Google Maps, which may dissapoint some people, but David Pogue says the other features make it worth downloading.
  • A Case for Watching Movies on a Phone
    What's wrong with watching a movie on a smartphone? David Pogue defends the practice.
  • The Cost of Adapters Adds Up
    The cost of adapters for iPhone chargers can add up fast.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Camera-Trap Animal Parade From the Indo ...
    Sit back, enlarge this video, and watch a marvelous parade of life pass across your screen. A montage of clips spanning four months of camera trap recordings from the mountainous Leuser rainforest of northern Sumatra, the footage testifies to life's sheer richness in one of the most biodiverse p ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Four Vie ...
    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 ...
  • 50 Years of Incredible Space Images From the E ...
    It’s the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s leading astronomical institutions, the European Southern Observatory. In honor of ESO’s birthday, we are taking a look at some of its most stunning shots of its beautiful telescopes, the night sky, and amazing objects in space.
  • Watch Live: Harvest Moon Meets Up With Uranus ...
    An odd pair of solar system objects will be meeting up in the night sky tonight: the full moon and distant Uranus. You've got two opportunities to watch this sweet celestial action go down during two live Slooh Space Camera shows, the first at 4 p.m. Pacific/7 p.m. Eastern and the second at 7 p. ...
  • New Study Blames Greek Debt Crisis on Market’s ...
    A new analysis of the Greek debt crisis claims to have quantified what many people intuitively believed: That a spike in debt prices in 2011 didn't reflect a rational market appraisal of the country's economy, but a panic that worsened an already dire situation. It's still a preliminary analysis ...

PakAlert

  • Final Conflict 2012? Engineering World War III
    In today’s increasingly interdependent and interactive world, every action has a myriad of causes, meanings, objectives and reactions; many visible, many invisible. Some, openly admitted and declared; others no one would dare confess. When trying to come to grips with the many complex conflic ...
  • Israel and US Use False Flags and Race-Specifi ...
    Zionist-patsy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning the UN General Assembly that the world must stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He has become impatient with President Obama who appears to not want to join in on the Zionist endeavor to destroy the Islamic world. A ...
  • Patrick Clawson Assisting Zio-Communist Takeov ...
    Patrick Clawson, deputy director of research for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) was caught on film last week suggesting that crisis initiation (i.e. false flags) are needed to “get America into war with Iran.” Clawson has very little confidence that Obama “can get us into ...
  • Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman ...
    A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated a violent mob mutilating the captured Libyan dictator last year and shot him in the head. The motive, acc ...
  • CIA-Sponsored Cyber Attacks to Legitimize DHS ...
    The US government-sponsored surveillance system is being built with the assistance of federal agencies, state and local law enforcement, telecommunications technology, websites, search engines, private sector corporations and data collection software. To justify the need for a cybersecurity legi ...

Andy Worthington

  • Finally, Omar Khadr Leaves Guantánamo and Retu ...
    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 ...
  • Video: The Great Extradition Swindle
    Last Monday, the long struggle of five alleged “terror suspects” against their extradition to the US — under the much-criticised US-UK Extradition Treaty of 2003 — was struck an apparently fatal blow when the European Court of Human Rights refused to hear an appeal they h ...
  • The Road North: A Photographic Journey from To ...
    The Road North: Tottenham Court Road to Camden, a set on Flickr. On September 3, 2012, as part of my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, inspired by a journey from Triton Square through Fitzrovia to Oxford Street and Soho Square that I had taken just three days earlier, I ...
  • Obama Releases Names of Cleared Guantánamo Pri ...
    On Friday, as part of a court case, the Justice Department released the names of 55 of the 86 prisoners cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2009 by President Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force, which consisted of officials from key government departments and the intelligence agencies. ...
  • London Skies: Photos of Big Fluffy Clouds
    London Skies: Big Fluffy Clouds , a set on Flickr. “Little fluffy clouds,” famously, was a quote in an interview with the wonderful singer/songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, which was sampled by art pranksters The Orb for their 1990 single of the same name. This is the exchange: Interviewe ...

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

  • Hammerfest Racist Rock Festival Planned for Bo ...
    The annual neo-Nazi skinhead rock concert known as Hammerfest will be held this Saturday in or near Boise, Idaho, where authorities say they are worried about the potential for violence at or after the event. Hammerskin Nation, one of the largest and most-dangerous neo-Nazi skinhead groups in ...
  • Student Group at Towson University to Host Whi ...
    Anyone wondering what the future of organized hate might look like need cast their eyes no further than Matthew Heimbach, the outspoken and energetic former president of Youth for Western Civilization’s (YWC) erstwhile chapter at Towson University in Maryland and the aspiring leader of its newly ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Civil Rights Icon Rejects Anniversary of Unive ...
    As the University of Mississippi celebrates the 50th anniversary of its integration, James Meredith—the man who risked life and limb to be the first African-American to attend the school—refuses to partake in the commemoration. ...
  • Eurozone 'Austerity Measures' Could Lead to 'E ...
    A spokesman for the European Union warned Monday that "austerity measures" by more financially stable countries in the 17-nation Eurozone—measures that include cutting jobs, salaries and pensions— have contributed to record unemployment in the more struggling members, and c ...
  • Tar Sands Company Intensifies Fight Against 'B ...
    Activists with Tar Sands Blockade are continuing their 8th day of direct action in an attempt to stop TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline, and are now watching as the company's clear-cutting machinery threatens their safety. The group of 9 is in a tree platform, 80 feet above ground, to s ...
  • Pussy Riot Legal Battle Continues
    An anticipated court appeal for members of Pussy Riot was delayed Monday after one member announced she had dismissed her attorneys. Attorneys for the band were appealing the two year prison sentence handed down on August 17. Though her two fellow defendants, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aly ...
  • Deprived of Nature, Kids Exposed to 'Shocking' ...
    In addition to the troubling 80 minutes of TV that the average child in the United States watches each and every day, a new study released on Monday found that the amount of "secondhand" exposure to television for young children was "staggering" and should be of additional co ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Federal judge halts Detroit water department s ...
    A judge has ordered an end to a strike by workers at the Detroit regional water department.
  • Detroit water-sewer agency seeks court order e ...
    Detroit officials are heading to court to halt a strike by water and sewer department workers who walked off their jobs with ...
  • Detroit seeks end to water-sewer workers strike
    DETROIT (AP) - Detroit officials are heading to court to halt a strike by water and sewer department workers who walked off their jobs with the system that serves about 4 million people across southeastern Michigan.
  • Detroit water workers strike
    Detroit officials have asked a judge to block a strike by Water and Sewer Department workers who on Sunday walked off their jobs from a system that serves about 4 million people across southeastern Michigan. Employees of Detroit's water and sewer system went on strike Sunday morning to prote ...
  • Detroit Water System Employees Strike
    Detroit officials are asking a judge to order striking water and sewer department workers to end their strike against a system serving about 4 million southeastern Michigan residents.

Guardian

  • Rowan Williams defends outspoken approach as a ...
    Spiritual head of the Church of England is confident that his successor will be equally combative in public lifeThe archbishop of Canterbury has said that making "risky and anything but infallible judgments" is a key part of the job as spiritual head of the Church of England, and that he doubts ...
  • Girl, five, goes missing in mid-Wales
    Some witnesses say April Jones got into a van while out playing with friends in town of MachynllethA search was started for a missing five-year-old girl who was last seen playing on her bike near her home.April Jones was playing with friends in the mid-Wales town of Machynlleth at about 7.30pm w ...
  • Bank of England reports lending to house buyer ...
    Bank of England denied the slump in mortgage lending undermined the case for the £80bn Funding for Lending scheme The Bank of England leapt to the defence on Monday of its new scheme to encourage housebuying after figures revealed that a recovery in mortgage lending has gone into reverse.Accordi ...
  • Diabetes UK warns of health 'calamity'
    Charity calls for government intervention amid fears another 700,000 Britons will be diagnosed with disease by 2020Another 700,000 Britons will be diagnosed with diabetes by 2020, pushing the total to 4.4 million, without concerted government action to persuade people at risk to radically overha ...
  • Labour conference: Ed Miliband's education vow ...
    Leader will focus on the 'forgotten 50%' when he makes his address to party delegates in ManchesterEd Miliband will put himself on the side of the "forgotten 50%" on Tuesday by drawing on his state school roots and promising to reform an education system that he says fails half of Britain's teen ...

McClatchey

  • American Express, accused of wrongdoing, to re ...
    American Express has agreed to refund $85 million to 250,000 customers after an investigation uncovered numerous violations of consumer protection laws, ranging from illegal late fees to age discrimination against…Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court to decide if town’s destr ...
    Supreme Court justices on Monday jousted and even joked a little as they confronted a Florida floating home dispute that could shape U.S. maritime law.Click to Continue »
  • Supreme Court tiptoes into legality of Califor ...
    The Supreme Court on Monday invited the Obama administration to wade into a potential diplomatic controversy by seeking its views on a controversial California law that helps Armenian victims of…Click to Continue »
  • Despite Hispanic voter clout, campaigns spend ...
    With the negative ads flying in this year?s political campaigns, many voters may be struggling to separate fact from fiction. But some Hispanic Americans would rather hear a few tall…Click to Continue »
  • Ohio’s auto jobs may help Obama keep his
    The road to the White House winds through every corner of Ohio past the coal mines in the south, the insurance companies in the cities and the dairy farms…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

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

  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews Arizona attorney Vikram Badrinath about his recent amicus brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Writing on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Associat ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Why It's Tempting, But Troubling, To Use Copyr ...
    A few people have sent over an interesting lawsuit, filed on behalf of a married NY couple, Brian Edwards and Thomas Privitere, along with photographer Kristina Hill, against a (in my opinion, misnamed) advocacy group called "Public Advocate of the United States," (PAUS) which advocates against ...
  • The Rogue Court That Made Patents So Destructive
    We've written many, many times about the problems created by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, CAFC, who (among other things) is the appeals court that has jurisdiction over all patent appeals. It's a court that has been around for 30 years as of this week, and in the opinion of man ...
  • Crime Inc. Inc., The Business Of Hyping The Pi ...
    Growing up in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s, I have fond memories of watching Bill Kurtis on Channel 2 news. He was sort of a local Walter Cronkite--the personification of the news. At our house, he was on every night. So I felt some nostalgia when I got a call from a staffer on Kurtis' cu ...
  • Why The Six Strikes Plan Doesn't Mesh With US ...
    With various ISPs getting ready to kick off the entertainment industry's "six strikes" plan to send warnings to users if they're accused of infringement, leading up to "mitigation" efforts, in which users can find their accounts downgraded or limited for multiple accusations (not convictions), s ...
  • Can We Kill The Myth That The Constitution Gua ...
    We've seen it all too frequently: copyright and patent system supporters insisting that these forms of government-granted monopoly privileges are guaranteed by the Constitution, due to Article I, Section 8, Clause 8. People like to claim that, for example, the First Amendment can't conflict wit ...

VacTruth

  • Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...
    A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...
  • “I was wondering if you had any informat ...
    CJ asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in ...
  • “My husband and I are missionaries&#8230 ...
    A parent named Tasha is wondering: “My husband and I are missionaries, going to Africa. Because of the higher risks in country, we are required to vaccinate our daughter. Based on information we have found, most illnesses we vaccinate for are curable with access to medication and good heal ...
  • 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.

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

  • After November: 5 Middle East headaches loomin ...
    Tony Karon enumerates the looming issues: 1. Despite Netanyahu’s Retreat, Avoiding War with Iran Will Get Harder For all of his summer saber rattling and efforts to pressure the Obama Administration into stating imminent red lines for war with Iran, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eff ...
  • What is happening to Muslims will happen to th ...
    Chris Hedges writes: The decision by the European Court of Human Rights last week to refuse to block the extradition of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four others to the United States on terrorism charges removes one of the last external checks on our emerging gulag state. Masr ...
  • Golden Dawn’s popularity rising rapidly in Greece
    The New York Times reports: The video, which went viral in Greece last month, shows about 40 burly men, led by Giorgos Germenis, a lawmaker with the right-wing Golden Dawn party, marching through a night market in the town of Rafina demanding that dark-skinned merchants show permits. Some do, an ...
  • Waiting for an Arab Spring of ideas
    Tariq Ramadan writes: a recent visit to the United States, I was asked by intellectuals and journalists: Were we misled, during the Arab awakening, into thinking that Muslims could actually embrace democratic ideals? The short answer is no. Participants in the recent violent demonstrations over ...
  • Spare a thought for Bibi’s medievalists
    Daniel Levy writes: Let’s face it: September 27th, 2012, was not a good day for the Israeli Prime Minister’s office props and graphics department. Bibi is a showman and there is nothing new in him using visual aides, but going from Holocaust documents to cartoon bombs in just 6 months leaves a l ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Tisdale’s September 2012 Sea Surface Tem ...
    PRELIMINARY Guest Post by Bob Tisdale STANDARD OPENING PARAGRAPH The September 2012 Reynolds OI.v2 Sea Surface Temperature (SST) data through the NOAA NOMADS website won’t be official until Monday, September 8th. Refer to the schedule on the NOAA Optimum Interpolation … Continue reading &# ...
  • Dr. Ryan Maue releases new hurricane frequency ...
    Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue has released the latest hurricane frequency data updated through September 2012 showing a continuation of depressed global major hurricane numbers. He announced on Twitter today: Still going down, global major hurricane numbers during last 12-months: 15 … Contin ...
  • Unloading James Hansen’s Climate Dice
    Guest post by Chip Knappenberger, originally on Master Resource “Today’s temperature ‘extremes’ are simply yesterday’s extremes warmed up a bit, partly from the heat-island effect. But they are not new events…. Hansen’s push on weather extremes is another case where the … Continue reading ...
  • September Panics and Smurphy’s Law
    A layman’s view of the strange period of history we are living through Guest post by Caleb Shaw During hot spells in the summer I often find it refreshing to click onto Anthony’s “Sea Ice Page,” and to sit back … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. Richard Feynman. 1966 ################################################### Number of the Wee ...

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Biosingularity

  • Magnetic bacteria may help build future bio-co ...
    Magnet-making bacteria may be building biological computers of the future, researchers have said. A team from the UK’s University of Leeds and Japan’s Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have used microbes that eat iron. As they ingest the iron, the microbes create tiny ma ...
  • Overweight? New research explains how proper s ...
    If you’re counting calories to lose weight, that may be only part of the weight loss equation says a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org). In the report, French scientists show that impairments to a gene known to be responsible for our internal ...
  • Scientists switch off brain cell death in mice
    British researchers writing in the journal Nature said they had found a major pathway leading to brain cell death in mice with prion disease, the mouse equivalent of Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD). They then worked out how to block it, and were able to prevent brain cells from dying, helping the ...
  • Remote-controlled genes trigger insulin production
    Researchers have remotely activated genes inside living animals, a proof of concept that could one day lead to medical procedures in which patients’ genes are triggered on demand. The work, in which a team used radio waves to switch on engineered insulin-producing genes in mice, is published tod ...
  • Robots that reveal the inner workings of brain ...
    Gaining access to the inner workings of a neuron in the living brain offers a wealth of useful information: its patterns of electrical activity, its shape, even a profile of which genes are turned on at a given moment. However, achieving this entry is such a painstaking task that it is considere ...

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Ria Novosti Online News

  • Georgia Opposition TV Alleges Police Raids On ...
    Georgian opposition media alleged early on Tuesday that police officers had fired rubber bullets as they removed ballot boxes from polling stations after hotly-contested parliamentary polls
  • Georgia Opposition Celebrate Election "Victory"
    Thousands of opposition supporters flooded the center of Georgia's capital of Tbilisi to celebrate as exit polls put their Georgian Dream coalition ahead in Monday's crucial parliamentary elections
  • Viral Photo Helps Aging Dog Recover
    The touching photograph of a man wading in Lake Superior in Wisconsin with his arthritic dog captured millions of hearts and an outpouring of donations after it was posted online last month, allowing the dog’s owner to get veterinarian treatments and start a foundation to help other dogs in need
  • American Funny Man to Host 85th Academy Awards
    And the winner is… Seth MacFarlane. The comedian, writer and director responsible for some of American television’s funniest moments will host the 85th Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, California
  • Obama Evicts Chinese in Wind Farm Dispute
    A storm is brewing over a series of planned wind farms in Oregon after U.S. President Barack Obama banned the project’s Chinese backers from developing the sites near sensitive military facilities, citing risks to national security

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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

  • French Study Finds Tumours in Rats Fed GM Corn
    Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, according to a French study published on Wednesday.Click here to read this article
  • Occupy Monsanto Goes to the Home of Monsanto
    Monday September 17 was the Occupy Monsanto campaign's international day of actions against the corporation. Concerned citizens all over the world were called upon to carry out protest actions at the Monsanto facility nearest to them. Groups as far away as Chile and Argentina picketed Monsanto o ...
  • Gut Bacteria Affects Fat Absorption
    Much new research is now emerging on the importance of bacteria - intestinal bacteria, to be more exact. These are commonly referred to as probiotics, and are the antithesis to antibiotics, both of which I'll discuss below.Click here to read this article
  • Noam Chomsky on How Progressives Should Approa ...
    "I think they should spend five or ten minutes on it -- seeing if there's a point in taking part in the carefully orchestrated electoral extravaganza." Click here to read this article
  • Rules to Curb Use of Paper and Plastic Shoppin ...
    Bill Hoffman, owner of Aptos Jewelers in Aptos, Calif., sells bracelets, rings and pendants for thousands of dollars each. He balks at the notion of charging customers an extra 10 cents for a shopping bag, but Mr. Hoffman has no choice. It is the law. Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

  • Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...
    Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies
    decoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • 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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Army scientists secretly sprayed St Louis with ...
    ShareThisRevealed: Army scientists secretly sprayed St Louis with radioactive particles for YEARS to test chemical warfare technology 29 Sep 2012 The United States Military conducted top secret experiments on the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, for years, exposing them to radioactive compounds, ...
  • U.S. military death toll from war in Afghanist ...
    ShareThisU.S. military death toll from war in Afghanistan reaches 2,000 30 Sep 2012 The U.S. military death toll in Afghanistan reached the grim milestone of 2,000 over the weekend with an attack that killed a soldier and a retired NYPD sergeant. Kevin O'Rourke, a former Emergency Service Unit s ...
  • Rogue Afghan soldier kills US troops, compatriots
    ShareThisRogue Afghan soldier kills US troops, compatriots 30 Sep 2012 An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American troops at a checkpoint in the country's east, killing two Americans and two fellow members of Afghanistan's army in a shooting that marked both the continuance of a disturbing tren ...
  • Vote counting company tied to Romney
    ShareThisVote counting company tied to Romney 27 Sep 2012 Bain Capital alumni, now raising big money as Mitt Romney bundlers are also in the electronic voting machine business. This appears to be a repeat of the infamous former CEO of Diebold, Wally O'Dell, who raised money for Bush while his co ...
  • Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman ...
    ShareThisGaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy, sources claim 30 Sep 2012 A French secret serviceman acting on the express orders of Nicolas Sarkozy is suspected of murdering Colonel Gaddafi, it was sensationally claimed today. He is said to have infiltrated ...

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

  • Military Reporters & Editors Honors 2012 Conte ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Military Reporters & Editors Honors 2012 Contest Winners Washington, DC October 1, 2012 -- The war in Iraq is officially over, but the winners of this year’s Military Reporters & Editors contest didn’t let up in their diligent reporting as the conflict drew to a c ...
  • False Sense of Something: Some observations an ...
    01 October 2012 Camp Bastion Sanger circa 2011. Camp Bastion is a major foothold in Afghanistan. If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow a ...
  • Standing Well Back
    01 October 2012 An excellent and thought provoking website by a British bomb expert.  We treat IEDs as if they are something new.  In fact, they have been in use probably for a thousand years. The latest from Standing Well Back: For more: http://www.standingwellback.com/home/2012 ...
  • Military Sexual Trauma
  • Neil Armstrong Buried at Sea
    28 September 2012 all photos: NASA/Bill Ingalls June Hoffman, sister of the late Neil Armstrong and Armstrong's sons, Eric "Rick" Armstrong, center, and Mark Armstrong look out from the USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) as it departs Mayport, Fla. for the burial at sea service for Armstrong, Friday, ...

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

  • Aung Kyi: ‘There are a lot of difficulties’
    DVB’s Than Win Htut sits down with the newly minted Minister of Information Aung Kyi to discuss how new media laws will potentially affect both the private and public sectors.  We see that the Ministry of Information is carrying out media reforms, what are the most important changes that you are ...
  • UN chief issues warning over situation in Arak ...
    UN leader Ban Ki-moon warned Saturday that Muslim-Buddhist unrest in Burma's Arakan state could hit the country's landmark reforms and spill across borders, a UN spokesman said
  • Three killed following fishery row
    Three people were killed after a violent scuffle erupted following a dispute between a fishery operator and locals in Irrawaddy division’s Kyonpyaw township
  • Kachin groups protest outside UN General Assembly
    Members of the Kachin ethnic group protest outside the UN General Assembly in New York to demand an end to the civil war in Kachin state in Northern Burma
  • Police investigate executions committed by stu ...
    Burma’s police have begun investigating the alleged execution of rebel fighters that occurred at the All-Burmese Students’ Democratic Front’s northern command centre in Kachin state in 1991

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • California governor signs bill allowing some i ...
    [JURIST] California Governor Jerry Brown [official website] on Sunday signed [press release] a bill [AB 2189, PDF] that will allow some illegal immigrants who came to the US as children to obtain state drivers licenses. Specifically, the legislation will amend the state's driver's license regula ...
  • Bahrain court upholds jail sentences for medics
    [JURIST] The Bahrain Court of Cassation on Monday upheld jail sentences [BNA report] issued to nine medics convicted for their involvement in Bahrain's pro-democracy uprising in February and March of 2011, the Bahrain News Agency (BNA) [official website] reported. According to BNA, the medics we ...
  • Maldives ex-president violates travel ban, fai ...
    [JURIST] Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed [JURIST news archive] on Monday violated a court-ordered travel ban when he left the capital city of Male on what was supposed to be the first day of his now-postponed trial for abuse of power. In anticipation of the Monday proceedings the Hulhu ...
  • Russia court delays appeal hearing for feminis ...
    [JURIST] A Moscow court on Monday delayed an appellate hearing for three members of the Russian feminist activist group Pussy Riot [RASPI backgrounder; JURIST news archive] after band member Ekaterina Samutsevich unexpectedly fired her lawyer. The move led prosecutors to accuse the defense [RIA ...
  • California governor signs law banning sexual o ...
    [JURIST] California Governor Jerry Brown [official website] on Saturday signed into law [press release] a bill [SB 1172; Senate backgrounder, PDF] that bans therapy intended to change the sexual orientation of minors. California is the first state to pass a law banning this type of therapy. The ...

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Bibi Buddy Ron Lauder Calls Israeli Attack on ...
    One of Bibi Netanyahu’s erstwhile buddies, U.S. businessman and World Jewish Congress leader Ron Lauder, called a unilateral attack on Iran without U.S. support a “catastrophe” during an interview with Der Spiegel.  Here’s the translation of his comments as offered by Kol ...
  • Bibi Boom-Boom
    This is a cartoon from Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka (no, I didn’t make up his last name!).  It continues the commentary on Bibi’s lame UN magic-marker moment.
  • State Department Officially Removes MEK from T ...
    Hillary Clinton has just completed one of the great shams of her tenure as secretary of state by delisting the MEK as a U.S.-designated terror group.  Here is part of the official statement of infamy: The Secretary’s decision today took into account the MEK’s public renunciation of violence, the ...
  • Miko Peled, IDF General’s Son, in Seattle
    Miko Peled, an Israeli peace activist and son of an IDF general, will be speaking in Seattle on October 1st.  He will be publicizing his new book, The General’s Son. Miko is the brother of Prof. Yoav Peled, a political science professor at Tel Aviv University. When I was doing an MA in Com ...
  • Neyestani on Bibi and Ahmadinejad, Moral Cretins
    After those Middle Eastern political pygmies, Bibi Netanyahu and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, regaled the UN General Assembly with their particular megalomaniacal visions, Iran’s foremost dissident cartoonist, Mana Neyestani drew this masterful portrait of moral cretinism.

If Americans Knew

  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • US Ambassador: Support for Israel drives all U ...
    While many Americans may believe that US policies are designed to address American needs, America's new Ambassador to Israel explains that this is far from the case.
  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...

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

  • The Iranian Threat - Political and Military Ch ...
    In late September, nearly thirty nations participated in the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX) in the Persian Gulf. Following up on strong U.S. Navy reinforcement efforts in the Gulf, IMCMEX signaled Iran that there is significant multilateral resolve to keep the Strait of Hor ...
  • The Winter of Arab Rage - State and Defense Co ...
    Pentagon and State Department officials are considering using the Marine Corps counterterrorism units currently in Libya to provide security for the FBI team investigating the U.S. Consulate attack there. The notion of the Marines units, which are part of the Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security (FAST) ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Following new Obama Guidance, ...
    Lockheed Martin said Monday it will not issue employee layoff notices this year, ending an election-year showdown with the Obama administration. The company said it based its decision on new guidance issued Friday by the Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon.The guidance said the Pent ...
  • Turkey on Edge - Kurdish Woes Brings Turkey Cl ...
    Ankara is re-embracing its old allies in Washington at the expense of Tehran and Damascus.The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has made a bloody comeback in Turkey. According to a recent report by the International Crisis Group, PKK-related violence has killed some 700 people since the summer o ...
  • Broken Healthcare - Escape Fire: Documentary f ...
    If you want to get a clearer understanding not only of why the U.S. health care system fails so many of us but, more importantly, how we can transform it to make it the best in the world, go to the movies this weekend.Regardless of your political affiliation or your opinion of Obamacare, you wil ...

High Country News

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

  • New Moonbat Claim: Global Warming Causes Shrinkage
    We have a brand new addition to the Official list of crazy things blamed on Global Warming--Shrinkage,  Not the kind George Costanza talked about in the Hampton episode of of Seinfeld, this is fish shrinkage. According to the BBC Researchers modelled the impact of ri ...
  • Must See Video-Absolutely Uncertain: Obama and ...
    This  Video is 18 minutes long and worth every minute... America and Israel: A Strained Relationship Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the international community at the United Nations, following recent speeches by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an ...
  • New Revelations About Obama's Libya Malfeasanc ...
    Today the Washington Post added outlined a new example of Obama administration incompetence leading up to the terrorist attack in Benghazi Libya, as his mouthpieces continue to lie about the attack and cover up. According to the WAPO, there was never enough security in Benghazi and officials ...
  • MSNBC Doctors Romney Tape: CSPAN, NY Times and ...
    Please Note there are three videos in this post. If you are on the email list and cannot see them please click here to view the post on my site On Meet the Press a few Sundays back, Joe Scarborough got all huffy when Bay Buchanan accused him of having an anti-Republican bias. ...
  • Newsbusted: Obama To Begin Diseminating News V ...
    This President does not like holding press conferences, so he has decided to use a creative way of disseminating information to the press.  According to a report by Newsbusted Anchor Jodi Miller, instead of meeting with the people from the "fourth estate," Obame will video tape important ...

The Real Agenda

  • Why is Venezuela selling its Gold reserves?
    Another equally important question to answer is, where is the cash going? By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 1, 2012 After loudly announcing the arrival of its gold reserves from Europe on national media, the Venezuelan government is now selling that same gold and allegedly &# ...
  • Portugal on the verge of a general Strike
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 1, 2012 The people of Portugal and Greece have added their anger to that of the Spanish neighbors, putting more pressure on politicians and bureaucrats who are slowly but surely signing their countries away to the European bankers. The mos re ...
  • Forbidden Education
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 If you often wonder what did the traditional educational system do for you, let me say that you are asking the wrong question.How about asking what did the traditional educational system prevented me from doing? or What did the tra ...
  • Spanish Government makes official the Looting ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | SEPTEMBER 29, 2012 It did not take too long for the Spanish government to dip into the rapidly disappearing pension fund reserves. After presenting its 2013 budget, the Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro announced that the government led by Mariano R ...
  • 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 ...

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

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

The Freeman

  • California Gov. Vetos TRUST
    “California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill late Sunday to make California the “anti-Arizona” on immigration enforcement, after a long fight that took the bill into the national spotlight as a possible rebuke to a program the Obama administration has made key to its effort to re ...
  • Spain to Borrow $267 Billion
    “Spain plans to borrow 207.2 billion euros ($266.5 billion) next year, the Budget Ministry said today, as pressure builds for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to tap the European rescue fund instead of financial markets. Spain’s debt will widen to 90.5 percent of gross domestic product in 2013 ...
  • Ammunition for a Trade War Between U.S. and Mexico
    “The United States Department of Commerce signaled then that it might be willing to end a 16-year-old agreement between the United States and some Mexican growers that has kept the price of Mexican tomatoes relatively low for American consumers. American tomato growers say the price has been so ...
  • Sponging Boomers
    “More worrying is that this generation seems to be able to leverage its size into favourable policy. Governments slashed tax rates in the 1980s to revitalise lagging economies, just as boomers approached their prime earning years. The average federal tax rate for a median American household, inc ...
  • Financial Regulation and the “Money Powe ...
    "Every one of these schemes only opens chances for money-jobbers and financial wreckers."

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Should you major in journalism now?
    Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
  • Blogging basics for journalism students
    Having just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Flocking Elsewhere: The Downtown Growth Story
    The United States Census Bureau has released a report (Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010.) on metropolitan area growth between 2000 and 2010. The Census Bureau's the news release highlighted population growth in downtown areas, which it defines as with ...
  • Baseball Vs Basemall: Goodbye to the Games of ...
    Even if the best-seller Fifty Shades of Grey did draw more fans than the Olympics (both sports involve “play parties” and metallic neckwear), the nominal American summer game is baseball. But that celebration of agrarian mythology and fields of dreams has descended to the level of a cable infom ...
  • Housing: How Capitalism and Planning Can Co-Habit
    Did Britain’s New Labour party conspire against land development? Is it responsible for outdated, “socialist” land planning policies? The British Conservative Party’s favourite think tank, Policy Exchange, would have us think so. Its latest report aims to demonstrate that the British plannin ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • GM cassava study retracted over "missing" data
    EXTRACT: Ortiz, a breeder of several crops including cassava, had been sceptical when SciDev.Net asked him for an independent comment about this study in 2011, saying that the genetic material of wild and native cassava varieties should be further studied for cassava biofortification, instead of ...
  • Dr Spiroux, co-author of the shocking study, r ...
    NOTE: Below is an interview with Dr Spiroux de Vendomois, co-author of the Seralini study on GM maize, for Medscape France. The sheer intelligence of this coverage makes all too clear how dumbed-down science reporting has become in the UK under the influence of the Science Media Centre and Sense ...
  • Comment on Seralini findings and stats by form ...
    NOTE: Below is a comment on Seralini's findings on GM maize NK603 and Roundup by a former research analyst with a major government agency, who wishes to remain anonymous. This person is not involved in GM issues or inherently a defender of Seralini. They are simply an expert who is used to analy ...
  • French agency to review Seralini study
    NOTE: The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES) will report on Seralini's study on GM NK603 maize, which found that the maize, as well as tiny amounts of the Roundup herbicide it is grown with, caused tumours, premature death and organ damage in rats. We h ...
  • Study backlash a barrel of red herrings
    EXTRACT: Dr. Clark also notes in her paper the use of "third party authorities" in response to the new study.  A third party authority is a respected person, such as a leading member of the community, whose views on a controversial subject are accepted simply because of their position. "Most of ...

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

  • The Federal Reserve Sends Thank You Letters To ...
    The Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to systematically destroy our economy.  The U.S. Congress could choose to end this madness at ...
  • Why Does Our Society Look Down On Unemployed M ...
    If you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to look at you differently.  Unfortunately, this is especially true if you are a man.  In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they do".  If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can make social ...
  • 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 ...

Desertification

  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    Due to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
  • 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 ...

The Paper Trail

  • Daily Disclosure: Hospital PAC backs GOP House ...
    The political action committee of the American Hospital Association reported spending $968,000 on ads supporting Republican incumbent representatives in Louisiana, Washington, New York and Pennsylvania, all of whom sit on committees that oversee health care issues.The ads support Reps. Charle ...
  • OPINION: Documentary captures what's wrong wit ...
    If you want to get a clearer understanding not only of why the U.S. health care system fails so many of us but, more importantly, how we can transform it to make it the best in the world, go to the movies this weekend.Regardless of your political affiliation or your opinion of Obamacare, you ...
  • Pro-GOP donor one-upped by boss's support of D ...
    Backer of Democrats and hedge fund billionaire James H. Simons jumps to No. 8 on The Center for Public Integrity’s list of top donors to super PACs, surpassing his former protégé, GOP supporter Robert Mercer, who ranks No. 9.Democrats als ...
  • Who has Syria's chemical weapons?
    A major U.S. worry about the tumult in Syria — perhaps the major worry — has been the risk that part of that country's sizable arsenal of nerve agents and other deadly chemical weapons might fall into the wrong hands amid the chaos of a civil war. That's why remarks b ...
  • Donor profile: James H. Simons
    Ranking: 7Total contributions to super PACs: $4 million*$2 million to Priorities USA Action(pro-Obama)$1.5 million to Majority PAC(pro-Democrat, Senate)$500,000 to House Majority PAC(pro-Democrat, House)Notable federal hard money and 527 contributions:$144,000 to the Democratic Congressional ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Happy 40th, Beachcombers
    By Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’ ...
  • Not all bad news in the Wente affair
    By David@Sixthestate.net In recent days I’ve done what I can to show readers how horrendously the national media is coping with the news that one of its own, accomplished Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente, plagiarizes in her columns. It hasn’t been pretty. First, The Globe unsuccessfully t ...
  • Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home
    By Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security priso ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Pavel Syramolatau is free
    We’re glad to announce that after 620 days in prison Pavel Syramolatau was released from prison by president pardon on September 27th. Pavel was arrested on January 17th 2011 due to attack on KGB building in Bobruisk, which was announced as solidarity ac ...
  • Indonesian syndicalists fight for justice at P ...
    wps-stretch.jpg Indonesian anarchosyndicalist comrades of the Workers Power Syndicate and other fellow workers face retribution including sackings for attempting to organise in response to various lab ...
  • Lyon, France: Strike at Domino's Pizza
    Dominos.jpg News of the struggle against Domino's Pizza Friday in the 8th district to protest working conditions and low wages. Here is the translated text from the site, edited for this post. ...
  • 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. ...

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

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

  • Netanyahu Feeling Like Trip To US To Start Wor ...
    NEW YORK—Following his speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Friday that he is “pretty satisfied” with his trip to the U.S. to instigate World War III.read more
  • دلار در ایران به مرز سه هزار تومان رسید
    از تهران گزارش شده که قیمت دلار آمریکا به مرز سه هزار تومان نزدیک شده و قیمت یورو، پول واحد اروپایی به سه هزار و ۹۰۰ تومان و پوند بریتانیا به چهار هزار و ۷۱۰ تومان رسیده است. read more
  • شاعر، واژه 'هیچ' و داستان انسانیت
    یکی از مجسمه های پرویز تناولی، «تبدیل شاعر به هیچ» نام دارد و در مرکز نمایشگاه ویژه هنر معاصر ایرانی در موزه هنری متروپولیتن نیویورک قرار گرفته است. تصویر شاعر، یکی از تم های اصلی در مجسمه های آقای تناولی است؛ همچنین مفهموم «هیچ» یکی از تم های مهم در آثار اوست.read more
  • The Onion spoofs Iran news agency on Obama-Ahm ...
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  • Iran's rial currency dives to historic low
    The Iranian rial slumped on Saturday to a historic low against the U.S. dollar, according to Iranian media and currency tracking websites. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Austerity Cuts: the Best Way to Wreck an Economy
    Spain's anti-austerity protests Great interview from the conservative-leaning Bloomberg TV explaining why austerity measures in Italy, Greece and Spain are worsening the economies of these countries. Mariana Mazzucato, economics professor at the University of Sussex, warns that current a ...
  • 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 ...

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

EU Times

  • US Family Massacred After Begging Russia For Help
    A shocking new Federal Security Service (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today alleges that an entire American family that sought Russian protection from the Obama regime was massacred by US intelligence agents within hours of their planned escape from the United States. According to this ...
  • Convicted TSA Agent: ‘Stealing from bags is ve ...
    It was a scandal that rocked the nation – a New York Transport Security Agency security officer found guilty of stealing close to $1million worth of belongings from passenger luggage. But according to the convicted officer, the problem was even more widespread than ever feared and is still ...
  • Gangs of convicted terrorists recruit prisoner ...
    To reach the heart of HM Prison Belmarsh is a bleak and time-consuming process. It means a thorough search at the gate, the issuing of a special biometric identity card, and a long, repetitive journey through successive electronic gates in the vast, brick-built perimeter and concentric layers of ...
  • World Cup 2018 host cities revealed
    FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared on Russian national television to name the eleven cities where the 2018 World Cup will be played. ­There were 13 venues in the running, which were all visited by the FIFA inspectors during the two years after Russia won the World Cup bid. Russia’s Sport ...
  • US Government Legalize Sterilization for Minor ...
    A new propaganda study promoting the population control agenda of the global Elite says that castration will assist men in living longer. Dr. Cheol-Koo Lee, member of the research group for the study and professor at the Korea University, explains that pre-pubescent castration prevents the biolo ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Jason Aldean Caught Cheating, Issues Public Ap ...
    Jason Aldean is one of Country music’s biggest stars these days, but with fame comes scandal, right? Aldean, who has won us over with his duet with Kelly Clarkson , happens to be married with two children, and was recently caught cheating on his wife with a season eleven American Idol hopeful. ...
  • Drew Barrymore Has a Baby Girl – Olive
    Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman welcomed a baby girl on Wednesday, September 26, 2012. âWe are proud to announce the birth of our daughter, Olive Barrymore Kopelman, born Sept. 26th, healthy, happy and welcomed by the whole family. Thank you for respecting our privacy during this most special ...
  • Cuba Anxiously Eyes Venezuelan Election
    Over the last week, indications have emerged from Venezuela that the fourteen year rule of President Hugo Chavez may be coming to an end this Sunday, when voters will choose between El Comandante and his dynamic opposition rival, Henrique Capriles. There are the polls from local companies like ...
  • Listen: adele’s james bond theme ‘skyfall’ pre ...
    A clip of Adele ‘s James Bond theme Skyfall has surfaced online. The singer confirmed earlier today (October 1) that the song – the soundtrack to the 23rd Bond film of the same name – will premiere in full at 00.07am (UK time) on October 5. The track was written by Adele with producer Paul Epwo ...
  • Fast & Furious: Univision Continuing to Ask th ...
    On the heels of staging a successful presidential forum, Univision, the largest Spanish-language network in the U.S., has uncovered more information on the failed Operation Fast and Furious. Fast and Furious resulted in nearly 2,000 high-powered weapons travelling across the border to be used b ...

Groklaw

  • Jurors broomstick experiment sinks conviction
    After the verdict, the court said, one of the jurors, a college professor, told Vigil's lawyer it would have been tough to lift the rifle from the passenger seat, roll the window down and take aim without catching the driver's attention. The juror said he'd tried it in his own car at home, using ...
  • Download 'pirates' face jail under new Japanes ...
    The Japanese music industry is hoping to replicate the success of South Korea, which has seen its global market ranking jump to 11th in the world from 23rd after the country cracked down on download piracy beginning in 2007, according the IFIP's 2012 "Digital Music Report." South Korean laws re ...
  • HP releases Open webOS 1.0
    HP may have ceased production on webOS smartphones and tablets - for now, at least - but the company hasn't stopped working on the operating system that powered devices like the Palm Pre and HP Touchpad. After several months of development and multiple stages of testing, HP has released the firs ...
  • HP's ElitePad 900 wants to bring Windows 8 to ...
    The HP ElitePad 900 is a 10" Windows 8 tablet running Intel's Clover Trail-based Atom processors, and features business-class security features along with a sturdy aluminum frame reminiscent of the company's business-class EliteBook laptops. - Andrew Cunningham, ars technica
  • Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal ...
    Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700; £15,900) after a change to the law. Such activity has been illegal since 2010, but until now had not invoked the penalties. It follows a lobbying ca ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • 2012 California Ballot Propositions – A Brief ...
    This is the first in my series of articles for IVN on the 2012 California ballot propositions. Some propositions are arcane and complicated. Some will, if passed, bring huge changes to California. Sometimes these are the same propositions.The article is a quick explanation of the propositions. T ...
  • Pat Caddell: Media is now “enemy of the Americ ...
    Pat Caddell speaks about on our self-censoring press and how it is a willing captive of corporate and political interests. With few exceptions our mainstream media simply parrots whatever the official line of the day is, sometimes just re-writing press releases. Campaign coverage is primarily ab ...
  • California city of Atwater bankruptcy imminent
    The primarily agricultural city of Atwater in California’s Central Valley will almost certainly be the fourth California city to file for bankruptcy this year. The process leading to an Atwater bankruptcy filing begins on Oct. 3, when the city council will vote on whether or not to O.K. a fiscal ...
  • TransCanada pipeline faces off against angry T ...
    TransCanada had a good September in East Texas, relentlessly clear-cutting its way through piney woods and oak groves to make way for the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring hot, pressurized, toxic tar sands oil to the Gulf Coast on its way to market in China. Despite Tar Sands Blockade establi ...
  • Playing with RebelMouse
    RebelMouse is a bloggy kind of aggregator for social media. It’s still in beta, is fun to use, and easy to set up. Pandodaily has more on RebelMouseCheck out my RebelMouse pageHere’s my two-column embedded widget. .rebelmouse-embed { overflow-y:hidden;-ms-overflow-y:hidden;padding:0; ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
  • 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 ...

frogblog

  • How Finland escaped GERM (Global Education Ref ...
    As New Zealand starts experiencing a wave of educational reforms,  real debate about what actually works for schools  is crucial. On Thursday morning I am hosting an education forum at Parliament with special guest Pasi Sahlberg from Finland and Associate Professor Graeme Aitken of Auckland Univ ...
  • Is local government fiscally responsible?
    As part of the Local Government and Environment select committee I have been listening to people and organisations from all around New Zealand who strongly oppose the changes to local government that National is forcing through. The Government’s claiming its main rationale for making these chang ...
  • Escapist You Tube Moment after Q and A on Educ ...
    I needed some light relief after watching the Education Minister, Hekia Parata, smirking her way through an interview on Q+A this weekend about “ropey” National Standards and Christchurch school closures. Thanks to Caitlin Moran on You Tube there were some laughs available. Caitlin h ...
  • Dillution is not the solution to pollution
    I was in Napier earlier last week trying to discourage the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) from proceeding with its mega dam, mega risky, $233 million Ruataniwha irrigation and hydro scheme. The scheme involves an 83 metre high concrete and rock dam and a 5 km long reservoir flooding the upp ...
  • General debate, September 30, 2012

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

  • Psychotropic Drug Use Associated with Increase ...
    By Dr. Mercola Psychotropic medications often used to treat anxiety, depression and insomnia are mind-altering drugs. That is, they impact your brain function and your psychomotor abilities – like your ability to drive a car. You wouldn't drive after consuming other mind-altering substance ...
  • Gut Bacteria Can Affect Fat Absorption, and Ac ...
    By Dr. Mercola Much new research is now emerging on the importance of bacteria – intestinal bacteria, to be more exact. These are commonly referred to as probiotics, and are the antithesis to antibiotics, both of which I'll discuss below. These microscopic critters are also known as your mi ...
  • Acupuncture Confirmed Helpful for Chronic Pain
      By Dr. Mercola Chronic pain is an exceedingly common condition impacting an estimated 76.5 million Americans, one-third of whom describe their pain as severe and "disabling." When it comes to treating ailments such as chronic pain, I definitely prefer non-toxic options to modern medic ...
  • Are You Making These Sunshine Mistakes?
    By Dr. Mercola While discussions about the health benefits from sun exposure typically center around vitamin D, which your skin produces in response to UVB rays, UVB exposure actually has a number of other health effects unrelated to vitamin D production – whether it's from the sun or a safe ...
  • 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 ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indonesia denies it has any indigenous peoples
    In West Papua, the killings, torture and rape of tribal peoples are commonplace.© Survival InternationalThe government of Indonesia has responded to UN recommendations to recognize the rights of its indigenous peoples by claiming that none live in Indonesia. In fact, Indonesia is home to an esti ...
  • Venezuela’s Yanomami Indians urge action to ta ...
    The Yanomami say their lives and lands are being 'destroyed and contaminated' by illegal goldmining.© Fiona Watson/SurvivalYanomami Indians have appealed to Venezuela’s government to tackle the ‘presence and impacts’ of illegal goldmining, rather than deny the problem exists. In a sta ...
  • 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 ...

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: Spraying #AgentOrange on America
    from brasschecktv.com: Dow Chemical wants to spray a whole lot of one of the ingredients of Agent Orange on American crops. The US news media thinks it's a great idea. Watch them spin... the best reporting money can buy. Related Video: The History Of Agent Orange*
  • Retired Generals Say Junk Food An Issue Of Nat ...
    from blog.al.com: What do french fries and cokes, candy bars and the school cafeteria have to do with national security? According to a group of 300 retired admirals and generals called Mission: Readiness, three-quarters of Americans aged 17 through 24 are not capable of serving in the military, ...
  • #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.

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
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  • Lawfull Rebellion - Roger Hayes challenges Liv ...
    “Wirral Council is taking Roger Hayes to Birkenhead county court for non-payment of council tax. Mr Hayes, chairman of The British Constitution Group, claims the council tax is illegal and imposed without his consent. His stand has won support from all over the country, and demonstrators t ...
  • Truthjuice Gathering 2011
                                                         SPEAKERS CONFIRMED CHARLIE VEITCH - THE END OF FEAR MARK FOSTER - EMPOWERMENT FOR THE PEOPLE PHIL MEDLEY - STARGATES: A PERSONAL JOURNEY MICHAEL HALLAM - BURSTING THE ECONOMIC BUBBLE AND PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY BUILDING IAN MOORE ( ...
  • COTO Report This Ain’t Oz an Interview w ...
    COTO Report and Megan Kargher are pleased to bring you a special two day interview with Freeman of freemantv, the freeman perspective and the free zone http://www.youtube.com/user/Freemantv… http://thefreemanperspective.blogspot… http://freemantv.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Federal Reserve Sends Thank You Letters To ...
    The Federal Reserve continues to pump up this "bubble economy" by recklessly printing money and by setting interest rates artificially low, and the U.S. Congress continues to stand aside and allow them to systematically destroy our economy.  The U.S. Congress could choose to end this madness at ...
  • Why Does Our Society Look Down On Unemployed M ...
    If you are unemployed for an extended period of time, people are going to look at you differently.  Unfortunately, this is especially true if you are a man.  In our society, men are primarily defined by "what they do".  If you have been unemployed for a long period of time, that can make social ...
  • 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 ...

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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 →

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    SustainableBusiness.com
    Thailand's target is to get 20% of its electricity from renewables by 2022. This project should reduce the need for 40,000 tons of coal imports a year. China: China is moving forward on its commitment to have 21 GW of solar installed by 2015, by ...
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    Christian Science Monitor
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    Scientist, Candidate and Planet Earth's Lifeguard
    New York Times
    By DANIEL LEWIS. Published: October 1, 2012. Barry Commoner, a founder of modern ecology and one of its most provocative thinkers and mobilizers in making environmentalism a people's political cause, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 95 and lived ...
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    Gulf Times
    QU department of biological and environmental sciences assistant professor Dr Nobuyuki Yamaguchi said the exhibition will help students learn about wildlife behaviour, ecology, and biodiversity conservation. The exhibition is open to the public from ...
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    Patch.com
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    Detroit Water Department Strike: Workers Walk Out Over Proposed Job Cuts
    Huffington Post
    UPDATE: 3:35 p.m.-- The United for Equality & Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund released a press release Monday afternoon that says Detroit Water and Sewerage workers will fight this morning's injunction against their day-old strike issued by Judge ...
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    Water softener salt fundraisers under fire
    KARE
    "It hurts our business," says Michelle LeGault, manager of Peterson Salt and Water Treatment Company in Hopkins, which sells and home delivers water softener salt. LeGault says the growing popularity of water softener salt fundraisers is pinching the ...
    Union Water Secretary to meet Tamil Nadu, Karnataka officials
    The Hindu
    Even as the State received the lowest quantum of Cauvery flows during the southwest monsoon (June-September) in the last two decades, Union Water Resources Secretary Dhruv Vijai Singh is to visit Chennai and Bangalore on Thursday (October 4) to meet ...
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