1 October - RSS SnapShot Pt III

Newshoggers - AfPak

• This Is The War That Never Ends
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• Who could have expected...?
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• Making Afghanistan Safe For China
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• The Costs of War
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• NATO to lose its supply route through Pakistan?
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Water Wars

• Hole in the bucket
  Even if you’re among the lucky few who have water all the time, remember that fresh water is a scarce resource
• Central Asia Really Could Go To War Over Lack ...
  Earlier this week, President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan indicated that efforts by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to build hydroelectric power stations on rivers that flowed into Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan could “spark war.”
• The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Grea ...
  California's Salton Sea, created by accident in the early 1900s, is set to become the latest casualty in the water wars, and is threatening to take the American West down with it.
• Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores
  [IPS]Nairobi -Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalist ...
• Future Water Wars?
  Growing populations, climate change, and diminishing water resources are combining to make water the oil of the 21st century.

WordPress | Economics

• * Dalits see smallest rise in wages
  One day in the distant future, India may turn its back on the Aryan invented caste system of which t
• Are New Jersey ‘outsiders’ more likely to be a ...
  Michael Giberson A few weeks ago I posted “Are ‘outsiders’ more likely to be accused of price
• SOLAR OPPORTUNITY
  U.S demand for solar-panels is expected to double this year. Using light energy from the sun to gene
• Austerity Programs Hit France; Marchers Demand ...
    Following protests in Portugal, Spain, and Greece, a wave of Leftists march in Paris against
• Could roast dinners become a thing of the past ...
    The threat to this national dish was revealed by a YouGov survey as the Government sets to in

Electronic Intifada

• Canadians stand in solidarity with Gaza's besi ...
  Eva Bartlett Gaza City 1 October 2012 Stephen Harper’s complicity in Israel’s crimes is denounced by his compatriots.
• Even Israeli agency warns of wall's damage to ...
  Jillian Kestler-D'Amours Battir 1 October 2012 Historic village of Battir faces damage, an official Israeli body has warned.
• Leila Khaled in lipstick: women-focused art sh ...
  Daryl Meador 28 September 2012 Feminist take on Palestinian history offered by art show touring West Bank universities.
• Israel lobby uses discredited anti-Semitism de ...
  Ben White 28 September 2012 Despite having no official status, the EU’s “working definition” on anti-Semitism is being used by the Israel lobby on both sides of the Atlantic.
• How the BBC denies Israel's occupation
  Amena Saleem Glasgow 28 September 2012 The BBC contorts the truth to make Israel’s occupation invisible in its coverage.

The Wonk Room

• Audience Boos Scott Brown For Naming Scalia As ...
  Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) was booed by the audience at the second Massachusetts Senate Debate on Monday evening, after he named conservative Justice Antonin Scalia as his model Supreme Court justice. After hearing the reaction, he quickly added Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chief ...
• New York Attorney General Sues JP Morgan Chase ...
  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) has filed a civil lawsuit against JP Morgan Chase alleging “widespread fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities,” the Wall Street Journal reports. The suit is the first action brought by the Obama administration’s mortgage ...
• STUDY: Anti-Abortion Legislation May Inspire A ...
  A new study examines the connection between the states with the most restrictive anti-choice laws and the states with the most aggressive levels of harassment against abortion doctors, providers, and clinics. Although the researchers couldn’t point to causation, they did find an associatio ...
• California Governor Signs Bill Allowing Driver ...
  On Sunday, Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) signed a bill into law that will allow young undocumented immigrants to apply for driver’s licenses if they qualify for deferred action under an Obama Administration directive to protect DREAMers. About 400,000 undocumented immigrants are expected to be e ...
• We Are All Vulnerable: Health Care Expert Tell ...
  Underneath the potentially dry data involved with health care reporting are millions of untold human stories — the Americans saved by the social safety net, the Americans left in destitution when the safety net is cut, and the Americans sometimes struggling to receive help from that net ev ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Lines That Can't Be Crossed
  Like a fart in a wind storm, thwap bleats out his opinion into the blog-o-sphere to contribute to the overall political consciousness. Barack Obama is a monster. Barack Obama is a corporate shill. Barack Obama is an enabler of Wall Street corruption. Barack Obama wants to destroy social securit ...
• What the Fuck?
  Except some concepts I'll get to in the unfinished piece here, I don't think Margaret Wente's sufferings are terribly important. It is a fun topic though, so that's why I'll write about this: The incidents of plagiarism uncovered by blogger Carol Wainio on her Media Culpa blog, while certainly ...
• Margaret Wente "Wrote" Three Columns a Week?
   There's a howler! Oh my! Such a workload! Writing 3 rambling and stupid diatribes a week, based on cutting and pasting other people's work and pulling facts out of your ass?  Sounds like BLOGGING motherfuckers!! Except when I write a post as long as one of Wente's columns I feel guilt ...
• Margaret Wente & Elite Immunity From Consequences
   Margaret Wente is a lazy, stupid person. As such, she has a great deal of animosity towards people who aren't lazy and stupid and so she writes column after column of lazy, stupid bullshit, mocking her betters and sucking-up to her enablers. (She is enabled by people for whom a debased pol ...
• Hedges vs. D'Souza ...
   Chris Hedges gets to confront the nauseating Dinesh D'Souza in a surprisingly extended moderated debate. Perhaps D'Souza is so disconnected by reality (and cosseted by wingut welfare) that he's incapable of perceiving when he's being utterly humiliated.

on Government Oversight

• GAO Report Finds Federal Agencies Must Improve ...
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• New DATA Act Would Make Following the Money Easier
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• Deja Vu--Again--for Whistleblowers
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• Déj Vu-Again-for Whistleblowers
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• New Podcast: Just How Secret is the Government?
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Digital Journal

• New York Jets owner prefers Mitt Romney win ov ...
  Tough to know if this is best filed under 'politics' or 'sports' but the way the New York Jets played Sunday wasn't too sporting so 'politics' it is. Here's the jist: Jets owner Woody Johnson said he prefers a Mitt Romney win over a Jets winning season.
• 95 year-old woman bags moose with single shot
  Look out Bullwinkle, 95 year-old Laura Wood has already bagged one moose with a single shot during a hunting trip in Newfoundland and she is busy preparing for her next conquest.
• People's Pea Garden protests at Toronto City Hall
  Today at Toronto's City Hall members from the People's Pea Garden protested about the city destroying a community garden that was planted on May 1 in Queen's Park.
• Giller Prize short list announced in Toronto
  This is the 19th year that the Scotiabank Giller Prize has been part of Canadian fiction culture. The prize is one of the most honoured literary awards in Canada.
• NHL player Krys Barch talks lockout in passion ...
  With drinks in hand and computer at the ready, New Jersey Devils forward Krys Barch made headlines over the weekend with his candid comments about the ongoing NHL lockout.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Another new F35 documentary – watch and ...
  CBC's Fifth Estate profiles the F-35 fiasco.
• Canadian Forces getting “New Generation ...
  What lies in store for the Canadian Forces' latest, not-so-new generation acquisitions?
• Watch CTV’s W5 Documentary on the F-35 Today
  Our campaign to stop Harper's stealth fighter jets is kicking into high gear.
• Rideau Institute Responds to Dubious “Bu ...
  Let’s leave the military-industrial complex to the Americans.
• The Canadian Press and the Stealth Lobbyist
  Canadians are receiving mixed messages from the government on the F-35s and the media's misleading reporting is not helping to clear things up.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• FDA Discounts More Than a Million Signatures O ...
  April 2, 2012 Info Wars By Kurt Nimmo “So apparently more than a million signatures is not enough for the FDA.” –KTRN The FDA is with Monsanto and agribusiness. They don’t want you to know what’s in the food you eat. On Tuesday, the FDA reached a deadline for the “Just Label It ...
• Junk Food, Fast Food Proven to Cause Depression
  April 2, 2012 Natural Society By Mike Barrett “If you already don’t have enough reasons to stop eating garbage, here is another one.” –KTRN According to recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada ...
• U.S. Ambassador: Al Qaeda Could Plan Other 9/1 ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “The US Ambassador is lying.” –KTRN According to Ryan Crocker, the American ambassador to Kabul, if the United States does not continue to occupy Afghanistan, al Qaeda would be able to plan and carry out another September 11, 2001- ...
• Lawyer For Soldier Accused Of Afghan Slaughter ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Should anyone be surprised by this?  What are they trying to hide?” –KTRN John Henry Browne, the attorney for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the man accused of single-handedly massacring 17 Afghan villagers, is now accusing the Unit ...
• Orwellian Free Speech Zones Expand to Mesa, Ar ...
  April 2, 2012 Activist Post By AP “Shouldn’t there be free speech everywhere? Watch the video below. The man interviewing the cop should be given a medal.” –KTRN The “free speech zone,” despite being anathema to the U.S. Constitution, has been used intermitten ...

Armies of Liberation

• High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine rein ...
  High risk US embassy in Yemen gets Marine reinforcements as protests continue by Jane Novak An elite Marine rapid response team arrived in Yemen’s capital to protect the US embassy there which remains vulnerable and in disrepair following a mob attack this week. Protests against a video clip dee ...
• State Department ends Yemen arms embargo
  Without much fanfare or explanation, the US State Department revised its defense export policy on Yemen and will now consider applications for licenses to export lethal defense articles to Yemen. The July 3, 2012 Federal Register notice updates the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (I ...
• Yemen’s Al-Qaeda booby traps southern ci ...
  Several children were among 25 people killed by land mines planted as al Qaeda fled Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) said on Sunday. Reporting to Abyan’s governor, the YEMAC said it had cleared or exploded over 2100 shells and mines since June 13 ...
• Yemen’s al Qaeda threatens to execute 73 hostages
  Al Qaeda in Yemen threatened to execute 73 captured Yemeni soldiers unless the terror group’s imprisoned comrades are released. “Executing prisoners is a serious violation of the laws of war and a war crime,” Human Rights Watch said in a statement today. “It is also a war crime to use detainees ...
• Obama’s strategic blunder in Yemen may shield ...
  A law passed by Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday provides blanket immunity to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and all those who served in his governments over the last 33 years. One unintended consequence may be to also immunize those al Qaeda operatives on the payroll of the Yemeni military and se ...

Dark Politricks

• Ask Alex Jones #9
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrisonplanet.com Aug 11, 2012 Alex answers Planet Infowars members’ questions.Check out all the best #altnews at DarkPolitricks.com
• Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney’s V ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Following information that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) would announce his choice for Vice President outside the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virgina, sources have confirmed that the nominee will be Rep. ...
• American Values
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy William Blum The United States and its comrade-in-arms, Al Qaeda. And other tales of an empire gone mad. Afghanistan in the 1980s and 90s … Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990 ...
• U.S. Army tests football field-sized super spy ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The U.S. Army’s Long-Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) — a high-tech robotic spy blimp — was launched for its 90-minute maiden voyage on Tuesday from a military base in Lakehurst, ...
• Historic Hypocrisy: UN-Backed Rogue States Pla ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Felicity Arbuthnot The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. ” Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark On May 4th, 2012, UN Secretary General ...

Dandelion Salad

• What Is Happening to Muslims Will Happen to th ...
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 1, 2012 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 la ...
• Gulliver’s Travels in Food, Gardening an ...
  by Joseph Natoli Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Sept. 28, 2012 My maternal grandmother grew tomato plants in huge coffee cans on a rooftop veranda in Brooklyn. Before that in a town called Patti (Greek for “on the shore”) on the Bay of Patti in Sicily, she made bread for the burgher cl ...
• Jonathan Trent: Energy From Floating Algae Pods
  Dandelion Salad Sep 28, 2012 by TEDtalksDirector Call it “fuel without fossils”: Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater from cities. Hear his team’s bold vision for Project OMEGA (Offshore Mem ...
• Barack to Mitt: Corporations Run the Economy b ...
  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Sept. 27, 2012 Here is an open letter that Barack Obama should write to Mitt Romney – pronto! Dear Mr. Romney: Not a day goes by without you blaming me for every slumping or stagnant economic indicator. Unemployment, increases in the number of food s ...
• Greg Palast: Voter Suppression, Billionaires a ...
  with Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com September 30, 2012 Sep 29, 2012 by talkingsticktv Talk by investigative journalist Greg Palast author of “Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps” given September 27, 2012 at Town ...

Your New Reality

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  Only A Few Weeks Ago, Rupert Murdoch Was Still King Of The World A glimpse at life before the hacking scandal, from the UK Independent : It was only a few weeks ago that Rupert, his son James, daughter Elisabeth and Rebekah Brooks were the talk of the town; hailed as the king-makers to the pol ...
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  Julian Assange, 2012: They've ranked him amongst war criminals....for exposing war criminals.
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  This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...
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  Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...
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  Hypnotic, grin-making. A house filled with interactive reproductions of classic art, coming soon: Starry Night (interactive animation) from Petros Vrellis on Vimeo.

Wired - 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for re ...
  In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Akiva Eldar: Israel’s five ‘nos’
  Until now, there were only four: no to withdrawal from the territories that we occupied in 1967; no to dividing Jerusalem; no to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and no to the Arab Peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for confere ...
  Israel expressed its strong opposition on Wednesday to an Arab initiative, supported by the Obama administration, to hold a conference that would debate the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Russell Tribunal on Palestine – New York sessi ...
  The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP) will be holding its fourth international session in New York City on Saturday, October 6 and Sunday, October 7. The RToP is an International People’s Tribunal... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
• Wally Shawn: On the necessity of the Russell T ...
  Actor Wally Shawn explains why the Russell Tribunal on Palestine is, at this moment in time, crucial, and why you should join. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Military Rejects Court Ruling on Fligh ...
  The Russian military will appeal a court ruling that deemed combat jet flights over the city of Chelyabinsk illegal, a spokesman for the Central Military District said on Monday.
• White House: Cyberattack Thwarted
  The White House has confirmed an attempted cyberattack on its computer systems, but says no harm was done, according to media reports.
• Prosecutors Want Steeper Fines for Draft Dodgers
  The Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office has proposed raising fines for young men shirking compulsory military service, CMPO department head Alexander Nikitin said on Monday.
• Russian Court Grounds Military Jet Flights Ove ...
  A regional court in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Monday ordered a temporary suspension of flights by Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer strike aircraft from a nearby base, in response to complaints about jet noise when they overfly the city.
• Turkish Inspectors Set for Surveillance Flight ...
  Inspectors from Turkey and Norway will conduct an inspection flight over Russia under the Open Skies Treaty, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

NewsWise

• Anemia Negatively Impacts Heart Surgery Outcomes
  Anemia is now confirmed as a risk factor for illness and even death following cardiac surgery, according to a new study. Although preoperative anemia has been linked to adverse events in other types of surgery, this is the first study to tie preoperative anemia with postoperative complications, ...
• Washington University Experts Available to Tal ...
• MD Anderson Launches Online Healthy Cookbook f ...
  Obesity is a growing concern, not only in healthy children, but among pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
• Researchers Study Clam Shells for Clues to the ...
  Iowa State University's Alan Wanamaker studies the growth increments in clam shells to learn about past ocean conditions. He says a better understanding of the ocean's past can help researchers understand today's climate trends and changes.
• Exempla Lutheran Honored with Humanitarian Awa ...
  Uplift Internationale to recognize Exempla for support on medical mission trips.

Natural Health News

• The Evolution of Bird Flu and the Race to Keep Up
  Bird Flu, or H5N1, doesn't spread easily among humans, but its capability of mutating has scientists worrying whether it could mutate enough to cause a human pandemic. The controversy is especially heated since it was announced that a group of researchers had figured out how to manipulate the vi ...
• 2009 Swine Flu Outbreak Was 15 Times Deadlier: ...
  A new study based on computer statistical models shows that the swine flu of 2009 killed 284,500 people, or 15 times more than health officials originally estimated.
• NY Law Gives Women More Information about Mamm ...
  A New York state law that has yet to be signed by the governor would mandate that women be given information on their breast density.
• Common Diabetes Drugs Associated with Increase ...
  A new analysis introduced to the most recent meeting of the Endocrine Society shows that three widely used drugs for diabetes are associated with an increased risk of death.
• Study Says More Vitamin D = Less Lbs
  If you're a woman over age 65 and you're deficient in vitamin D, research shows that you're probably more likely not only to weigh more, but to gain more weight.

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• RIP, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012)
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am very sad to report that the eminent British historian has passed away at 95.  He lived an amazing life, as recounted in the Guardian‘s lengthy obituary today.  Here is a snippet: If Eric Hobsbawm had died 25 years ago, the obituaries would hav ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 1, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The US Supreme Court begins its new term today and will hear re-argumentation in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. SCOTUS Blog offers insight into what is at stake and for whom in this case. After 10 years’ imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr was repat ...
• Upcoming Events: September 30, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events The Levin Center of Stanford University is hosting the International Public Interest Lawyering Symposium: Advancing Gender Equality through Human Rights, October 11-13, 2012. To register, click here. The American Bar Association (in cooperati ...
• Weekend Roundup: September 22-28, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, one of us was facing a legal challenge of his own. You can read Kevin Jon Heller’s account of Chevron’s subpoena for 9 years of IP-logs for his gmail-account here. Ken Anderson is back to blogging, and discussed the leading i ...
• My Encounter with a Chevron Subpoena — and the ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller Last week, while I was participating in a conference, I received an email from Google with a puzzling subject line: "Subpoena Notice from Google (Internal Ref. No. 257121)."  I opened the email, assuming that it was some kind of sophisticated phishing attempt.  It wasn't.  ...

Public News Service

• Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Ener ...
  Westerners Back Impact Fees for Renewable Energy on Public Lands PHOENIX – In western states, including Arizona, party lines practically disappear in a new poll about balancing renewable energy development with protection for public lands. Nearly three out of four voters in 11 states said ...
• Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Or ...
  Food Fight? Expert Weighs In on Benefits of Organic PHOENIX - Much media attention has been given to the recent release of a Stanford University study that found little evidence of additional health benefits from organic foods. But other experts, including Joe Pedretti, an organic-education spec ...
• The $90,000 Lesson: Protecting Elders from Fin ...
  The $90,000 Lesson: Protecting Elders from Financial Abuse PHOENIX - The son of a woman bilked out of $90,000 has advice for other grown children concerned about their aging parents: Get involved sooner rather than later. At his mother's house in Oregon, John Fread noticed a credit card stateme ...
• Put on the Blue Jeans and Help Fight Breast Cancer
  Put on the Blue Jeans and Help Fight Breast Cancer PHOENIX - Arizonans can get a bit casual at the office next month as part of a national fundraiser for the fight against breast cancer. The effort, Lee National Denim Day, has workers paying $5 or more to be able to wear jeans one day on the job ...
• 50,000 AZ Jobs at Stake as Fiscal Cliff Approaches
  50,000 AZ Jobs at Stake as Fiscal Cliff Approaches PHOENIX - A budget battle is looming in Washington this fall, a fight which could cost Arizona nearly 50,000 jobs because of reduced federal funding. Congress has until the end of the year to come to an agreement on a plan to reduce the federal ...

Center for Food Safety

• Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...
  by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
• “Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
  By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
• Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
  Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
• Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...
  By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...
• Environmental, Public Interest Groups Ready fo ...
  Longstanding violation of Endangered Species Act provisions highlights Sixty-Day Notice filing Today, the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and the Sierra Club, along with affected citizens from around the country, filed a Sixty-Day Notice letter with the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
• House Hopping
  House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
• Buying Property
  Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
• IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
  IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
• Real Estate Investing Myths
  Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Pensieve

• Apple’s Superiors Jumped the Gun?
  Maybe Apple should have waited to announce iOS6 at the same time with the iPhone 5 launch, or announced the iPhone 5 sooner. Opinions about the new iPhone vary from “evolutionary” to “boring”. iOS6 on the other hand, is definitely more atractive. If Apple had chosen to co ...
• O Ridiculous Fortune
  O fortuna! Velut luna, statu variabilis! Semper crecis et decrecis, vita detestabilis! (Carmina Burana) O fortune! Like the moon you are ever-changing: Always increasing and decreasing, making life detestable!(Rough translation) Whenever I’m feeling depressed, laughter is often the way out ...
• Where’s the switch?
  I’ve been somber for two days in a row, which isn’t very common in me anymore. It feels as if someone turned off the light. I suspect that in the chemicals of my brain, this is not too far from the truth. Lately I haven’t had to make an effort to feel well. I could [...] Relate ...
• Older and Wiser
  I had feared my coworkers would forget my birthday this morning, since even one of my closest friends saw me this morning and apparently forgot. But they didn’t! This reminds me of past birthdays in Mexico, and shows me that the people at Kansas City Southern, Mexico are classier than any ...
• Disney-Pixar Pollution
  For a movie titled “Brave” Pixar are behaving like cowards. I knew it the moment Princess Merida rode her horse out of her castle. A character song. A musical cue. Suddenly I wasn’t watching a Pixar movie, I was watching Mulan or Pocahontas. The very thought of another Disney princess is bad eno ...

Green Times

• Kangaroo cull
  Last week, members of animal welfare groups protested against kangaroo cull! ''A recent survey of 600 Canberrans by Territory and Municipal Services found 79 per cent were supportive of kangaroo culling under some circumstances and 70 per cent were supportive of culling for conservation of smal ...
• Environmental News 01/06/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Storms hit ahead of sunny long weekend The last day of autumn may have stolen winter’s thunder with a wet storm hitting the city yesterday afternoon. Dark skies covered the metropolitan area and much of the South West from mid-afternoon, with rain an ...
• Green Capital Australia
  Today is Green Capital Day in Australia. Do you know something about that? Well, Green capital was established in 2002 by The Total Environment Center (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t rct=j q=the%20total%20environment%20center source=web cd=1 ved=0CF4QFjAA url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tec.org.au%2F ei=G ...
• Environmental News 31/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Premier's park hunting backdown the price of power sale National parks in NSW will be opened up to recreational hunters as part of a deal between the Shooters and Fishers Party and the government to ensure passage of its electricity privatisation bill ...
• Giraffe: A delicate animal that requires speci ...
  Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...
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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
  Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...
• A New Bio-Gas System in Palestinian Susya
  in May 2010, the Bio-Gas project was launched to install systems for producing gas from sheep and goat dung for the domestic energy needs of the Palestinian hamlet of Susya (Susiya). This project was the initiative of Yair Teller, together with The Villages Group and Arava Institute. The first s ...
• Susya
  June 22, 2012: Susya I doubt if Palestinian Susya has ever seen so many people. Some 500, maybe more, have arrived from Jerusalem (including a large Palestinian delegation from East Jerusalem), Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva, and various sites in the occupied territories: Beit Umar, Mufagara, and the ...

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; ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

• The Jack Blood Show – August 15 2012
  Chris Maple joins us to discuss his documentary film series “THE GREAT CULLING” www.thegreatculling.org – the first edition is about our poison water (Fluoride)! Facts fly like crazy in this 60 min interview. The same director made “What in the world are the Spraying&#822 ...
• Gunman Opens Fire At Conservative Family Resea ...
  What were we saying about Civil war? Sectarian violence is way up in 2012!     The conservative Family Research Council was the site of a shooting by someone who obviously demonstrates the “radical hatred” of the left. The gunman entered the lobby of the Chinatown headquart ...
• More Federal Agencies Caught Ordering Huge Amo ...
  What does the Social Security Administration National weather service need with this kind of ammo? It appears our calculation a few months back could be right after all. Getting ammo off the market before it is banned or highly restricted  / regulated.  By the time regular folks find out it will ...
• “The Great Culling” Official Water ...
  Chris Maple will be our guest ON “The Jack Blood Show” Wednesday August 15th 2012 (find it in our archives) SHARE THIS!!!!!!! “The Great Culling” Official Water Trailer 2 Donate Today! http://www.thegreatculling.org Hello Everyone - Chris and Paul here, we just wanted to ...
• Gen Wesley Clarke hosts Military meets d list ...
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The Air Vent

• Antarctic Experiences Record High Sea Ice Leve ...
  Just now, from the Earth’s unloved backside, just when you thought the “death spiral” of northern polar sea ice had taken full hold of the public’s mind, the stupid Antarctic hits a new ALL-TIME high sea ice area record. All time being defined as 34 ish years of course.  ...
• Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based References
  Over the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection o ...
• The Healing Blog
  A new election is coming and thankfully nobody is claiming that they will lower the ocean level this time.  My taxes are still insanely high and as a business owner, I’m expecting to be hammered in a very impressive way by the non-paying public for my reprehensible misdeed of trying to mak ...
• The Pragmatic Skeptic
  I read some of this earlier, and hadn’t intended to post on it but now that I’ve read the complete version of the interview, this is very much worth reading.   Anthony Watts gave an interview to PBS whereby he made  a very accurate case for what makes myself and others climate skepti ...
• SKS Behind the Scenes – On Deaf Ears
  The below discussion was passed to me by email. It is apparently from the hacked SKS background discussions. I found it revealing to see the kind of thinking which went on behind the scenes during the release of the corrected Antarctic temperature trends. 2011-02-09 04:45:30 Antarctic Temperatur ...

Focal Point

• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Spencer Soper Wins Sidney Award for Exposing B ...
  Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...
• Bachmann's Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric is Bad Scienc ...
  Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook exploring opportunities to sell premi ...
  Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg told CNBC today that the company is looking at opportunities to sell premium services for businesses. “As we increase our investment in monetization, we’re thinking about premium services for business,” Sandberg said. “We’ve hear ...
• Farmville 2, schoolFeed, 4shared, Wordox and m ...
  Zynga’s FarmVille 2 comes in at the No. 1 spot on our list of top growing Facebook apps by monthly active users this week, adding 15 million new players. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the … Continue reading →
• Facebook says impressions, reach and frequency ...
  Clicks aren’t the right metric for brand advertisers, Facebook Head of Measurement and Insights Brad Smallwood told the audience at the IAB MIXX Conference in New York today. Smallwood shared results from recent campaign studies that indicated impressions, reach and frequency were … ...
• Facebook round-up: carrier billing, Offerpop, ...
  Facebook mobile carrier billing live in select countries – Facebook began accepting mobile payments for its mobile web service via carrier billing in the U.S., UK and Germany this week, according to an announcement from Bango, which is powering the service. Users … Continue reading & ...
• Has Facebook cracked f-commerce?
  “People don’t come to Facebook to shop” is the common belief. A number of companies have given up on f-commerce and thousands more haven’t even tried because of this axiom. So why then is Facebook launching Facebook Gifts, a way … Continue reading →

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: ICYMI: #DarkMoney Poured Into New Me ...
  truthout: ICYMI: #DarkMoney Poured Into New Mexico Senate Contest http://t.co/ZAdqn6if #campaigncash #NM @ProPublica
• truthout: Clean #energy doesn't just have glob ...
  truthout: Clean #energy doesn't just have global benefits, but local ones like clean air: http://t.co/Dob76Fat #climatechange #renewables
• truthout: DREAM Act Could Add $329 Billion to ...
  truthout: DREAM Act Could Add $329 Billion to US #Economy http://t.co/MsKNqdSH #DREAMeconomy #DREAMact #jobs #immigration #undocumented
• truthout: RT @OccupyWallSt: Great reflections ...
  truthout: RT @OccupyWallSt: Great reflections on "electoralism and radicalism" Will Students Vote? Perspectives on Elections from @StudentPower12 ...
• truthout: RT @CTU_Ariel: I stand in solidarity ...
  truthout: RT @CTU_Ariel: I stand in solidarity with striking Walmart workers in Elwood, IL. Their fight is our fight. http://t.co/x1Gr3lyU … via @ ...

ReDress News

• Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
  Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
• IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
  Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
• What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
  Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
• Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
• Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Amazon Rainforest

• Peru police clashes with illegal gold miners: ...
  Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire.  Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...
• Brazil to Dilma: Fulfill campaign promise!
    The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...
• European energy corporation plans to flood Rai ...
  Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...
• Plastic eating Fungi discovered in Amazon Rain ...
  The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...
• Justice for 8year girl burned alive by loggers ...
  Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• The Summer of Muslim Discontent: It’s Not “The ...
  The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and limb. In its place, throughout the Muslim world, a new wave of reactionaries, corrupt and servile politicians have taken the reins of ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Michael Jackson- “Billie Jean” With this week’s Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pick there’s not much to say. Simply, the King of Pop Michael Jackson performing Billie Jean Live at Ullevi, Göteborg, Sweden 1997. Michael owns this one… enjoy…DJPJ This site depends excl ...
• Subverting Sanctions: Iran’s Strategic Economi ...
  The ongoing overt and covert war against Iran, instigated by the United States and Israel primarily, seeks to isolate Iran politically, militarily and, most importantly, economically.  The Western imperialists have as their goal no less than full-scale war with Iran, a key regional power and one ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Stop Imperialism Podcast – The lengthy stay & ...
  In this news analysis and roundup Eric Draitser covers the lengthy stay and additional U.S. forces in Libya, the increased numbers of ‘foreign elements,’ jihadi groups operating in Syria, Iran’s nuclear chief’s harsh criticism of the atomic agency and the United States, US medd ...

Afro Spear

• 500 Years Later
  “500 Years Later” is the title of an independent documentary film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. released in 2005. Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment ...
• The Forgotten Namibian Genocide
  This documentary covers Germany’s use of genocide, concentration camps and ‘extermination’ policies in Africa – decades before World War Two and their use in Europe. A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many ...
• Baldwin’s Nigger (1969)
• The windows into your soul
• “Apartheid never died in South Africa. I ...
  Excellent article by John Pilger The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. In 1894, long b ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• The Grand Default
  A group of two or three are deciding the fate of the nation. Netanyahu and Ehud Barak alone make all the decisions, "keeping their cards close to their chest." Attack Iran or not? Politicians and generals are kept in the dark. Bibi and Ehud know best. No need for any other input.
• "My Vote Doesn't Matter": Helping Students Sur ...
  You've heard it again and again. "My vote doesn't matter," students too often say. Others complain that politicians are "all the same and all corrupt." How do we overcome this cynical resignation and encourage students to register and vote despite their conviction that the game is fundamentally ...
• The Fuzzy Line of Terrorism
  The Obama administration's plan to remove a group of violent Iranian --migr--s from the U.S. terror list suggests a readiness to pursue the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend strategy that put the United States on the side of Osama bin Laden and Islamic extremists in Afghanistan in the 1980s, says e ...
• Mysterious Bayou Sinkhole Continues to Cave In ...
  A new cave-in has been discovered at the mysterious sinkhole at Bayou Corne, near Napoleonville, LA. Volatile Organic Chemicals have been detected and hydrocarbons in the sink hole sludge are dangerously elevated.
• Are these signs of fading American dominance?
  The critically looks at the present political situation of USA and how it's policies in the Muslim World are making it a enemy in the eyes of Muslims all over the world. This article also looks at how the countries like India, Russia, Brazil, China are proving a challenge to the American dominan ...

Switchboard

• Memo to Federal and State Highway Agencies: Ke ...
  Deron Lovaas, Federal Transportation Policy Director, Washington, D.C. Congress included an innovative program in the 1991 Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) that for over 20 years has helped clean up the environment by providi ...
• This Summer Was Horrible for Polar Bears; Will ...
  Zak Smith, Attorney, Marine Mammal Protection Project, Santa Monica   This Summer Was Horrible for Polar Bears; Will They Finally Get Some Good News? It was a bad summer for polar bears; the Arctic sea ice, upon which they depend to survive, ...
• Moving beyond 'food vs. fuel' means making bet ...
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York Food prices are rising, exacerbated this summer by the worst U.S. drought since the 1930’s, which wrought havoc on corn crops across the Midwest. With 40% of U.S. corn production going to corn ethanol, ca ...
• Clutch Time for Polar Bears: Will the United S ...
  Andrew Wetzler, Director, Land & Wildlife Program, Chicago Things are moving fast in the fight to protect polar bears from the international commercial fur trade.  Last Friday, in a major development, the Russian Federation officially confirme ...
• The Perils of Climate Change in Tennessee
  Ben Chou, Water Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. Growing up in the Upstate area of South Carolina, my family and I oftentimes made the short trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, the most visited of all the national parks.  We would play in the co ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Fellowship of the Ring: Conventions of film, c ...
  (One of the visual rhetoric posts born of this course. If it seems a little more basic than the rest of those posts, that’s because it’s the first real day of class and I have to start somewhere.) I have one goal here: to define “high fantasy” as a genre through Fellowshi ...
• The Day the Titans of the Left Died
  Eric Hobsbawm and Barry Commoner, RIP both.
• Voter Fraud, Sincere Edition: Holy Crap, it Exists
  When I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, I argued that voter fraud “simply doesn’t exist”.  Mea maxima culpa.  Unsurprisingly, the right has, yet again, beat the opposition to the punch, and have done so quite cleverly.  They have framed the issue of Voter ID legislation ...
• They Stopped Loving Him Today, WaPo Edition
  Wow, Paul Ryan has even lost the newspaper that inexplicably signs Robert Samuelson’s paychecks.   The declining reputation of the zombie-eyed granny starver is shocking to me; normally, once somebody gets an entirely unearned reputation is a “fiscal hawk” because they want to ...
• The Best Laid Plans…
  So, you’re the New York Jets, self-proclaimed most impressive team in football, despite missing the playoffs. Your defense — good. But your offense features a below-average QB (flashes of promise aside) with a disgracefully fifth-rate supporting cast. The closest thing to an elite sk ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Announces 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist Dr. Nin ...
  DRI will proudly present Dr. Nina Fedoroff, a leading geneticist and molecular biologist who is a pioneering researcher in the field of plant genetics, with the 2013 DRI Nevada Medal during a special event scheduled for early next spring in Reno and Las Vegas.
• Nicholas Beres, Oct. 2012 Featured DRI Graduat ...
  Meet Nicholas Beres, a second year student of the Atmospheric Sciences graduate program, working in the Laboratory for Aerosol Science, Spectroscopy, and Optics (LASSO) at DRI.
• 2012 Tahoe Summit Report
  The Desert Research Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno have worked together for decades to provide comprehensive studies that have led to a better understanding of threats to Lake Tahoe’s air and water quality and the health of the forest.
• DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senato ...
  The 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.
• DRI Works Toward Sustainability with Renewable ...
  Significant progress has been made on two renewable energy projects that is not only cost effective, but ultimately will contribute to the long-term efforts in sustainability by reducing the amount of electricity the Desert Research Institute needs from the utility grid.

Earth Techling

• Smart, Stackable Solar Home Wins Solar Decathl ...
• Everpurse: The Phone-Charging Clutch That Chan ...
• Sticker Shock: Costs To Charge Your Favorite E ...
• Hyundai To Start ‘Limited Mass Production’ Of ...
• New Twist On Tech Incubator Helps Fledgling Co ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• OPINION: Prosecutors for sale
  The district attorneys selling their letterhead to debt-collection agencies have committed a gross abuse of power.
• OPINION: The graying of the penitentiary
  The best way to deal with the problem posed by geriatric inmates is to reduce their numbers dramatically.
• THE PRACTICE: Ensuring jurisdiction over treat ...
  In drafting legislation to implement Hague Convention, State Department weighs excluding forum non conveniens.
• Woman pleads guilty to sending threatening mai ...
  A New York woman has pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court to sending four threatening letters containing an unknown white powder, including to U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.).
• Bank of America settles Merrill Lynch claims f ...
  Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay $2.43 billion to settle alleged federal securities law violations in Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in 2009.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Community Workshop in Tioga County on Environm ...
  The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...
• New State Impact PA App
  Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]
• OilandGasHelp.com
  I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...
• The Passage of House Bill 1950…
  I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...
• Update on PA Roads Effected by Gas Drilling fr ...
  From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

News Blaze

• Defeat of Position Limits Direct Threat to Pre ...
  As Bart Chilton, one of the CFTC commissioners stated in response, 'There's no question that huge individual trader positions have the potential to influence prices in a way that hurts legitimate hedgers and ultimately consumers.'
• An Exclusive Interview with Martial Arts Maste ...
  Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel interviews here legendary mixed martial arts master Al Case.
• Extension of CA Film & Television Tax Credit P ...
  A broad coalition of unions and guilds representing labor and the entertainment industry has joined together to welcome Governor Jerry Brown's signing into law the two-year extension of the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program.
• Iranians Gather In NCR Headquarters After MEK ...
  Seeking a republic built on free elections, separation of church and state, gender equality, abolition of death penalty, pluralism, equal rights
• Why People Fail to Make It in Hollywood
  Producer and talent manager Bruce Edwin gives his article here on How to Succeed from The Hollywood Sentinel.

environment 360

• Organized Crime Groups Drive Increase in Illeg ...
  Illegal logging accounts for 15 to 30 percent of the global logging trade, with an increasing number of illegal operations in the world’s tropical regions being driven by organized crime, a new report says. According to the report, released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and IN ...
• Unusual Series of Quakes Indicate Tectonic Bre ...
  Two massive earthquakes in April in the Indian Ocean and an unusual series of aftershocks may signal the formation of a new tectonic plate boundary within Earth’s surface. Reporting in the journal Nature, French Click to enlarge Keith Koper/University of Utah Fault activity in the Indian O ...
• Interview: Using the Internet to Identify Mill ...
  Each year, about 18,000 new species of plants and animals are discovered and described by science — a number considered woefully inadequate by entomologist and taxonomist Quentin Wheeler. Along with a group of Arizona State University Quentin Wheeler high-profile colleagues, Wheeler, the f ...
• High-Arctic Summers Are Warmer than Any Time i ...
  Summer temperatures on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the High Arctic are now higher than during any time over the last 1,800 years, including a period of higher temperatures in the northern hemisphere known as the Medieval Warm Period, according to a new study. In an analysis of algae ...
• European Solar Capacity Grew in 2011 Despite S ...
  Installed solar capacity continued to grow across Europe in 2011 despite a decline in subsidies for green energy continent-wide, according to a new report. Roughly 18.5 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic energy capacity were installed in the European Union during 2011, about two-thirds of the ...

Red Ice Creations

• Was Newton a scientist or a sorcerer?
  Often wrongly portrayed as a cold rationalist, Isaac Newton is one of history’s most compelling figures. It is true that he was capable of the most precise and logical thought it is possible for a human to achieve: his three years of obsessive work that gave birth to the Principia, containing hi ...
• Sugar rush for cows as gummy worms replace cos ...
  Mike Yoder’s herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives -- and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles. "It’s a pretty colorful load," said Yoder, who operates about 450 dai ...
• The Blazing Career and Mysterious Death of “th ...
  Sweden has had her share of memorable monarchs. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it seemed that every other ruler crowned in Stockholm was astonishing in one way or another. Gustav Vasa, Gustavus Adolphus, Queen Christina, Charles XI–between them, to the surprise of generations of students who ha ...
• After Olympic involvement, Muse’s frontman Bel ...
  Muse’s Matt Bellamy has revealed that he no longer thinks the terrorist attacks which were carried out on the World Trade Center on September 11 were an "inside job". Previously, the frontman had claimed that there was "massive evidence" to support theories that US authorities had either allowed ...
• Government allows private security firm to tra ...
  A prominent think-tank has claimed a new satellite system being introduced to track offenders in Scotland should be directly controlled by police and probation officers rather than private security firm G4S. The Future of Corrections report, due to be published by Policy Exchange today, said the ...

Russia Today

• Syria FM: Some UN Council members supporting t ...
  Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem slammed some UN Security Council members during his speech at the General Assembly Monday, accusing them of supporting "terrorism'' in his country. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Russia: ‘Our role in downing Turkish jet in Sy ...
  Moscow has denied claims concerning its “guidance” in downing a Turkish jet in Syria and “eliminating" two pilots after the crash this July. The assertion of Russian involvement was made on an Al Arabiya program based... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Georgian opposition party wins majority of vot ...
  The first exit polls in Georgia's parliamentary election show the country's opposition group, the Georgian Dream coalition, to be winning the popular vote. However, it remains unclear whether the party will win the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Russian court bans 'extremist' video 'Innocenc ...
  A Moscow court has ruled that the controversial 'Innocence of Muslims' film contains extremist material, banning it nationwide. Read Full Article at RT.com
• No girls allowed: Women airbrushed out of IKEA ...
  Previously, the catalogue of the world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA was identical all over the world. There was a noticeable difference in a recent Saudi Arabian version, however, which airbrushed all the women and... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Yet a fourth term of Clintonism? Why US libe ...
  — The Democratic Party has reduced our supposed US corporate financed and run ‘democracy’ down over the last quarter of a century down to whether we are all led by our throats to another 4 years of Country Bush and sons, or 4 more years of Slick Family Clinton, or not? That&#82 ...
• 2,000?
  The media today did their war against Afghanistan and its mistreated people casualty count and came up with the magical number 2,000 (Sorry Afghans, nobody in the US hardly cares about your deaths). We are all supposed to ponder and reflect (according to the Pentagon fed corporate US media) now ...
• El Paso County Clerk Wayne Williams wants vote ...
  COLORADO SPRINGS– A young voter registration activist, by admission soliciting only Mitt Romney supporters, was caught on video saying she worked for the El Paso County Clerk, mistakenly as it turns out. Local Dems have run with the story while Clerk & Recorder Wayne Williams and the ...
• Spanish protesters offer funnier response to p ...
• What’s kosher for the goose should be ha ...
  If Israel can threaten to attack Iran, without drawing the unanimous rebuke of the international community, then it follows Iran cannot be criticized for warning of its imperative to make a preemptive strike. Except that both would be illegal, the United States being the reigning serial aggresso ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• The Good News and the Bad News
  The good news is that physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe’s ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com. The book is 7 chapters long, roughly 113 pages in length, and delivers strong, responsible scientific evidence that the WTC buildings were brought down with expl ...
• National Swindle of the World Trade Center now ...
  Dr. Crockett Grabbe's ebook National Swindle of the World Trade Center is now available on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Purchase the ebook here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0098JOSJS Related info: Dr. Crockett Grabbe-National Swindle on the World Trade Center
• Would 2Pac Have Been a 9/11 Truther?
  On this day in 1996 Tupac Amaru Shakur died from gunshot wounds he suffered 6 days prior. Rolling Stone Magazine named him the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time and I don't think he would have been a 9/11 debunker. RIP. Published on Apr 26, 2012 by Aware Awake Tupac Shakur breaks down the tru ...
• 911 Truth and the Mainstream Media's Failure t ...
  The mainstream media has never been any good at explaining the nature of the War on Terror to the public. Their superficial, 'official talking-point' based stories almost always omit important documented facts that could provide real context to the 'war' and point to evidence showing that 911 wa ...
• RECAP: Fake al-Qaeda> Anwar Al Awlaki PLUS Ada ...
  The following videos are posted in light of recent media reports about the death of the "international terrorist leader" Anwar Al Awlaki in Yemen. Please note that Al Awlaki was also reported dead, killed in 2009 by a US air strike. Dead or alive, names like Al Awlaki, Zarqawi, and others will ...

Fooducate

• Which Simplified Nutrition Label Works Best fo ...
• Why High Fructose Corn Syrup is Still a Darlin ...
• Corn Syrup’s Secret Labeling Trick Explained [ ...
• Corn Syrup’s Secret Labeling Trick Revealed [P ...
• Is Alzheimer’s Disease a “Diabetes of the Brain”?

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Even Karl Rove couldn't purge us from THIS list
  A Special note from Greg Palast I'm happy to be able to announce today that our book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits has made it guerrilla combat style onto the New York Times Best-seller list in its debut week, coming in at number 10. Two weeks ago I wrote and said "This is it..." Well - [...]
• Bad Habits: Nuns Nixed Over No Voter-ID
  With Supreme Court blessings, voter ID laws are taking the nation by storm, or storm troops. For The Progressive An excerpt from Greg Palast's brand new book Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps. Stop me if you heard this one. See, these ten nuns walk into ...
• Tales from the Crypt of Democracy
  Pow! Zap! Full color investigative comics by Ted Rall: Tales from the Crypt of Democracy - Soul Crushing Political Terror. Out Today! This astonishing 48 page graphic exposé is wrapped inside the new eBook edition of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, the hot new book by Greg Palast with Bobby K ...
• The Good, The Bad and the Ballot Bandits - The ...
• Palast in San Fran, Santa Rosa, Portaland, Sea ...
  This weeks Billionaires & Ballot Bandits Tour stops. Bring you copy of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits - or get it there and I'll sign 'em. Please - bring your friends, spread the word and once you've read it - review it on Amazon, B&N and Goodreads. Monday, September 24 BERKELEY KPFA ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
  We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
• How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
  (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
  Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle large (catering siz ...
  Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]

Age of Autism

• CA AB2109 Signed By Brown With New Religious V ...
  California's AB 2109 was signed by Governor Brown yesterday. This bill requires a doctor to counsel individuals wanting a vaccine exemption. The doctor must also sign a form before a philosophical or medical exemption can be implemented. However, Governor Brown...
• PA Families Under Attack By Department of Publ ...
  What is a “Fair Share?!” Pennsylvania Families Impacted by Disabilities Under Attack by the Department of Public Welfare By Catherine Hughes Families in Pennsylvania who have been receiving crucial services for their loved ones through Medical Assistance by means of...
• Up Your Nose!
  By Cathy Jameson (reprinted from 10/11, Cathy has the day off.) Good grief, my kids can lay it on thick. I’ve got doom and gloom peering out from their bloodshot eyeballs. Why you ask? Well, we were recently exposed to...
• City University of New York Offers Unique Prog ...
  Here's some good news in a bad news world. City University of New York (CUNY) has implemented a program to assist students on the autism spectrum. Called "Project Reach," CUNY has identified a burgeoning need to educate and support its...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: LaCrosse Drinks Bri ...
  By Dan Olmsted As an English major, I'm really disappointed to see the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse promoting Brian Deer's talks next week at the University. According to the department's blog, Deer "carried out one of the...

Global BDS Movement

• G4S loses its contract with the European Parli ...
  Campaigners had raised concerns about the role the company plays in equipping Israeli prisons in which Palestinian political prisoners are held in violation of international law
• Palestinian civil society and human rights org ...
  Marking Palestinian Prisoners Day, Palestinian organisations call for action against G4S, supplier to Israeli prisons at which political prisoners are detained
• BDS roundup: Los Angeles activists urge city t ...
  In this week’s BDS roundup from the Electronic Intifada, LA activists, international campaign urges Yves Béhar, university students in Pennsylvania protest, boycott activists, and more
• Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should ...
  The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel's democratic facade
• Scottish govt. helps Israeli company deal with BDS
  Documents obtained by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign show how a subsidiary of an Israeli company operating in Britain turned successfully for help from the Scottish Government

Farm Wars

• GMO Global Alert! Graphic Details of New Indep ...
  French researchers secretly studied, for two years, 200 rats fed with transgenic maize. Tumors, serious disorders and death. A bomb for the GMO industry.
• An Inconvenient Tooth – Fluoride Documentary
  An Inconvenient Tooth is a documentary film about fluoride. It was released September 6th, 2012 at the city hall in Portland, Oregon.
• Label GMOs NOW! H.R. 3553: Genetically Enginee ...
  To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly. This bill is a re- ...
• Experts discuss the findings of the Roundup/GM ...
  New study confirms GMO crops cause tumors.
• GM Contamination Register – Track Worldwide GM ...
  The register can be searched to see where, when and how GMO contamination has taken place.

Open Your Eyes News

• Fresh protests in Japan-China island row
  Aljazeera – Hundreds have gathered in the Japanese capital to protest China’s claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea. According to organisers, over a thousand people attended Saturday’s march in protest against Chinese claims over the disputed islands, called Se ...
• Washington State Makes It Harder to Opt Out of ...
  NY Times – Washington State is home to Bill and Melinda Gates, champions of childhood vaccines across the globe. Its university boasts cutting-edge vaccine research. But when it comes to getting children immunized, until recently, the state was dead last. “You think we’re a cut above the r ...
• Deaths reported in Pakistan drone attack
  Al Jazeera – At least three people have been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s northwestern region along the Afghan border, according to a Pakistani security official. The target of Saturday’s attack was a vehicle in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan, one of seven ...
• Ivory Coast closes Ghana border after deadly a ...
  BBC – Ivory Coast has closed its border with Ghana after several people were killed in an attack on an army checkpoint. Ivorian Defence Minister Paul Koffi Koffi said “armed elements from Ghana” carried out the attack in the border town of Noe. At least five attackers died and ...
• Open Your Eyes News recommends – The Tra ...
  A truly scary 3 part documentary by those radicals at the BBC about the psychology of the modern world. (Each episode is in 6 segments on YouTube.) For over 30 other documentaries that will challenge your views on the world visit our Films & Documentaries archive

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• UCLA's new transparent solar film could be gam ...
  One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCLA announcing they have created a new organic polymer that produces electricity, is nearly transparent and is more durable and malleable than silicon.
• Controversial Caribbean whaling approved with ...
  Representatives of the International Whaling Commission meeting in Panama this week have approved a controversial proposal extending the Aboriginal and Subsistence Whaling quotas for three countries: the United States, Russia and the Caribbean island nation of St. Vincent & the Grenadines.  Th ...
• Keystone XL southern leg permitted as early as ...
  As a deadline rapidly approaches that will automatically permit the construction of the southern leg of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, an increasingly vocal group of landowners, environmentalists and even tea party members are saying that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now ramming ...
• EPA proposes more stringent soot rules
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced proposed new regulations Thursday that would further reduce legal limits for fine particle pollution -- otherwise known as soot -- in the nation’s air. Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, made ...
• Diesel exhaust can cause cancer, World Health ...
  Diesel engines power commerce and transportation around the world, but the exhaust they produce can prove deadly. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that it now classifies diesel exhaust as a cause of cancer. While major advances in technology have helped clean up some dies ...

water.org

• Malliga's Loan at Work
  Malliga draws water from her new water connection just outside of her house. She took out a loan from Water.org’s partner, Hand in Hand, to pay for the construction and extension of the pipe from the municipal water lines, and her personal connection was installed in January 2012. Before having ...
• Charlie Rose to discuss water crisis
  BREAKING: Co-founders Gary White and Matt Damon appear on Charlie Rose with first airing tonight, September 27th. Please check you local PBS listings for time in your area. Check back for link to watch online.
• The Power of a Smile
  Why are these women smiling? You'd be smiling to if you and your family have access to clean drinking water and a toilet in your own home for the very first time.
• Water Changes Lives: VIDEO
  Access to clean water or a safe toilet doesn't just make people healthier, it affords women time to learn a trade, and allows them to spend more time caring for their families. Change ten lives by taking our challenge, and you will be entered to win a trip to visit our work in the field!*
• Change Ten Lives
  It seems like with each passing day, our lives become busier with work, school, raising our families, and a little entertainment thrown in for good measure. As the calendar turns, our good intentions to make a difference can give way to the obligations we’ve made and remain unrealized.

Before It's News

• Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner: American ...
• ‘I’ve been forward to Shen Yun for years!’ Say ...
• Arkansas Storms: Tornadoes Wreak Havoc Across ...
• Eats on Feets
• Introducing "Canadas Alex Jones", Dr. Judy Janzen

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• The $90 Billion Dollar Crowd Funded Energy Acc ...
  A few months back I wrote a post about the $80 billion clean energy access opportunity from capturing remittance flows. read more
• The $90 Billion Dollar Crowd Funded Energy Acc ...
  A few months back I wrote a post about the $80 billion clean energy access opportunity from capturing remittance flows. read more
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know ...
• Bill Gates' Latest Tech Development: Turning C ...
  Part of the Cal Tech team demonstrates how the solar toilet operates. The flush toilet so many of us know so well is in fac ...
• Canadian Solar, Inc. Purchases First American ...
  Canadian Solar, Inc. is at it again.  Just one day after signing a 17-megawatt supply agreement with an independent power producer in Ontario, the company announced it had acquired 122 MW of solar projects in the United States. read more

News Blaze

• Defeat of Position Limits Direct Threat to Pre ...
  As Bart Chilton, one of the CFTC commissioners stated in response, 'There's no question that huge individual trader positions have the potential to influence prices in a way that hurts legitimate hedgers and ultimately consumers.'
• An Exclusive Interview with Martial Arts Maste ...
  Bruce Edwin of The Hollywood Sentinel interviews here legendary mixed martial arts master Al Case.
• Extension of CA Film & Television Tax Credit P ...
  A broad coalition of unions and guilds representing labor and the entertainment industry has joined together to welcome Governor Jerry Brown's signing into law the two-year extension of the California Film & Television Tax Credit Program.
• Iranians Gather In NCR Headquarters After MEK ...
  Seeking a republic built on free elections, separation of church and state, gender equality, abolition of death penalty, pluralism, equal rights
• Why People Fail to Make It in Hollywood
  Producer and talent manager Bruce Edwin gives his article here on How to Succeed from The Hollywood Sentinel.

Worldnews

• Voters Explain Why Romney's Chances Of Wi ...
  Meet the High Priest of Runaway College Inflation (He Regrets Nothing) Why Texas Is America's Export King Here's One Tax Break All Americans Can Support This Number Shows Why The Election Is Far From Over In Ohio Here's The Attack Ad That Is Killing Mitt Romney In Ohio Republicans Overwhelmi ...
• Afghanistan: Bomber kills 14 including 3 ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle packed with explosives rammed his bike into a joint Afghan-American patrol on Monday morning in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least 14 people including three U.S. troops and their translator, officials said. The Taliban claimed re ...
• White House says it thwarted cyberattack
  WASHINGTON - (AP) -- The White House is acknowledging an attempt to infiltrate its computer system but says it thwarted the effort A White House official said the attack targeted an unclassified network. He said the attack was identified and that the system was isolated to prevent spread. He ...
• Greece's 2013 budget forecasts sixth year ...
  Greece will bring forward painful budget cuts to end a decade of primary deficits while grappling with a sixth year of recession, according to a 2013 draft budget. Austerity-weary Greeks have taken to the streets in often violent protests against the waves of salary and pension cuts Photo: R ...
• Aguero accuses English refs of bias
  Malaga on track after uncertain summer Spain 3 hours ago Aguero accuses English refs of bias England 5 hours ago Schiavi villain-turned-hero to bag Boca point South America Today, 03:45 Milan and Chelsea seek Champions League kickstart Champions League Today, 02:59 Benfica's new midfield fac ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Afghan Elections Rigged on Video? (Video)
  Yes, people videotaped it and Al Jazeera broke the story.
• Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
  With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil 'unaccounted for', it's now... still unaccounted for.
• U.S. Troops ‘Killing for Sport’ in Afghanistan ...
  Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

• Synthes Rib Matrix: Surgery that can mend brok ...
  A pioneering technique for repairing broken ribs is dramatically reducing recovery times - so that patients can return to normal life within days. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
• DR ELLIE CANNON: There can be good reasons for ...
  The horrible label ‘bed blockers’ - elderly patients well enough to go home but with nowhere to go - surfaced again last week as the Department of Health said £4 million a week is spent on these individuals. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
• X Factor star Matt Cardle reveals how he beat ...
  At the age of two, Matt was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of kidney cancer. The X Factor star is campaigning to improve awareness of and research into childhood kidney cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
• Fairytale Brownies Voluntarily Recalls Peanut ...
  Out of the utmost care and concern for our customers, Fairytale Brownies has decided to voluntarily recall peanut butter brownies and cookies identified with the lot codes shown below. The products were distributed primarily through our mail-order channe
• New spin on working out
  Indoor cycling isn't just stand and sit. Bring some new moves or weights and see the results roll out before you. The newest craze in indoor cycling ¿ SoulCycle ¿ has become an addiction for many of its followers. It's a full-body fat-burning and strength-training workout that's fu ...

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

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Energy Collective

• Natural Gas – Is It Stunting Innovative Thinking?
  Let’s admit it, infrastructure is a boring word.   There’s nothing sexy about it.  It implies disruptions to our lives as we deal with delays and detours for construction and repair projects.  Yet it is absolutely necessary, and infrastructure is what needs to be upgraded in ...
• Epic ‘Dust Bowl Of 2012′ Expands Again
  The latest weekly Drought Monitor update set another grim record. The brutal U.S. drought expanded to 65.45% of the contiguous U.S. — the highest ever in the Monitor’s 12-year history. The previous record was 64.8% — set just last week.
• Increasingly Extreme Weather Is Costing Us in ...
  A report released this week by two senior members of Congress notes that the unusual number of extreme weather events in 2012 has cost the country billions of dollars and that the unusual frequency of these events is consistent with what scientists have predicted from climate change.The staff re ...
• Managing the Magnitude of the Smart Grid
• Can Patent Registration Rates Predict the Succ ...

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

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Peoples Voice

• Who are the U.S. supporting in Somalia?
  by Philip Greaves Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated Somalia on its transition of government, speaking in Washington-”What has been accomplished has exceeded what many thought was possible. And it’s taken a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice, first and foremo ...
• Lakota Sioux Nation Leaves America
  by Stephen Lendman America betrayed them and all Native Peoples. Throughout US history and earlier, genocide was policy. Historian Ward Churchill explained four centuries of systematic slaughter. It went on from 1492 - 1892. It continues today against Native culture. Churchill estim ...
• Fire Congress, Vote Out Incumbents
  Joel S. Hirschhorn For politicians to do what is right, first citizens must do what is right. Of all the many, many stupid things that most Americans do, nothing is more insane than the ritual every two years of reelecting incumbent members of Congress. Countless opinion polls find that the p ...
• Pressure Builds for Full-Scale War on Syria
  by Stephen Lendman Rhetoric hides intent. Turkey wants safe zones, and perhaps a no-fly zone. Britain and France both said no options are ruled out, including a no-fly zone. Ahead of US November elections, Washington is more low key, but not entirely. Obama stresses he's open to all opti ...
• An Infinite Enemy
  by philbobaggins01 The US air force has released documents under a Freedom of Information Act revealing they investigated one of their own analysts to determine whether she had also released documents to Wikileaks. One might not be surprised by the investigation, or the suspicion, the analyst ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
  Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
• Ontario could be hard hit by new trade deal
  A trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...
• Time for Ontario to go public with child care
  The Ontario government is in a consultation phase over how to modernize the province's child care system. Child care expert Martha Friendly and CCPA Ontario Director Trish Hennessy have co-authored a primer on child care in Ontario, making the case for the government to take leadership and commi ...
• The New Saskatchewan or Oklahoma North?
  Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still recieve the full benefits o ...
• How affordable is a university education in yo ...
  A new report from the CCPA’s Education Project tracks the affordability of university education across Canadian provinces. The study looks at trends in tuition and compulsory fees in Canada since 1990, projects fees for each province for the next four years, and examines the impact on affordabil ...

World Wide Hippies

• In A “Lawless America”; Corrupt Po ...
  Video: Punk, Bully and Thug, Philadelphia Police Officer (Name withheld by his corrupt superiors) Sucker Punches a Girl WWH/CJE – America… Rank has it’s privilege, when Rank ,serves the Privileged. His position and authority, guarantees he will keep his job.  His position and a ...
• Waiting For The Debates
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE - I’ve been checking the days off in my mind. I’m nervous and as twitchy as any political junkie out there. I was supposed to go out on that night but I told everyone that I’m staying in to watch the debate. I got some odd looks and a few head shakes [...]
• Another Way The Police And Private Corporation ...
  By majestic,disinfo.com - On top of already ubiquitous surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology, there’s no refuge for Americans as the location of their cars are also relentlessly tracked, report Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-Devries for the Wall Street Journal: For more tha ...
• The power of peaceful people
  By: Zahrah Nasir,nation.com.pk – Those of us who actively promote the concept of universal peace are viewed as oddballs by the world at large: we are openly scorned, laughed at, labelled crazy hippies or worse, and yet, despite the visible and invisible obstacle course we ‘peace people’ ta ...
• Living Under Drones (Coming to your town soon, ...
  From livingunderdrones.org/- U.S. Drone Strikes Kill, Injure and Traumatize Pakistani Civilians, Report Finds A new report by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU presents first-hand accounts of harm to civilians Stanford, CA & New York, NY — U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan kill and injur ...

FourWinds10

• Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
  Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
• Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...
  Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution.   Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
• Judge Bars 17 Chevron Executives From Leaving ...
• Fracking's Health and Environmental Impacts Gr ...
• FRACKING: Corruption a Part of Pennsylvania's ...
  March 22, 2012 Corruption and politics may be at the root of why Pennsylvania has allowed near-unlimited drilling for natural gas--at the expense of health and environment. (part 3 of 3) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploit ...

Crisis Maven

• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• The End Game or: How the Dupes were Duped or: ...
  The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Neutrinos, Physics, Meteors and the Survival o ...
  As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...
• Archaeology, the Internet and Neutrinos
  Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...
  Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...
• The Potential of Methanol
  Last week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
• Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
• Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
  The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...
• Mitigating the Long Recession; and CNG Vehicle ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer two viewer questions. The first question is whether I believe that nuclear energy or hydraulic fracturing will offset the impacts of my “Long Recession” scenario. The second is about the EPA licensing requirements for comp ...

Discovery Educator Network

• PosterMyWall | Classroom Accounts
  Comments:Free Classroom Account for teachers. - Dennis GriceTags: classroom, accounts, poster, education, project, web2.0, toolsby: Dennis Grice
• Lower-School-Learning - home
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• StrataLogica - The Learning is in the Layers
  Comments:StrataLogica looks very interesting as it is an interactive web based Nystrom product.  But what does it do that the FREE Google Earth does not already do since they say their product is powered by Google Earth? - Dean MantzTags: learning, layers, StrataLogica, Nystrom, maps, GooglEarth ...
• Free Technology for Teachers: The War of 1812 ...
  Tags: war, googlemaps, freetech4teachers, War1812by: Dean Mantz
• Mission: DS106 « Engage Their Minds
  Tags: minds, engagement, engage, studentcenteredby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Who CAN You Trust on Climate Science?
  Massive heat waves, devastating droughts, killer hurricanes—we've seen it all this year. The summer of 2012 was the warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Americans are aware that our weird, hot weather is being caused by climate change. A June ...
• Check Your Cabinets! Peanut Butter Recall Expands
  The peanut butter recall that initially involved Salted Valentia Peanut Butter sold at Trader Joe's about a month ago has expanded to include other nut butters, peanut-containing snacks, and gift baskets. Sunland Inc., the company that manufactures the nut butters suspected of sickening people ...
• The Top 10 Pills That Could Poison Your Pet
  A huge chunk of the calls that pour into the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (ASPCA's) Animal Poison Control Center every year involve pets poisoned by people pills. About 40 percent of the animal poison control calls—25,000 cases—revolve around pets exposed to human ...
• 9 Healthy Herbs for Every Meal
  Snip, Snip! What's the quickest way to load your dinner down with antioxidants? Add oregano. Need more iron? Add lavender. If you’re not utilizing all the fresh herbs overflowing at farmers’ markets right now, you’re missing out nature’s real mirac ...
• Why This Famous Musician Wants You to Eat Organic
  Jack Johnson has the laid-back vibe you'd expect of any folk-rock singer-songwriter who hails from the Aloha State of Hawaii. But when it comes to food, he doesn't mess around. "In Hawaii, 80 to 90 percent of our food is shipped in," he says. "Why are we shipping in so much food when we could b ...

big think

• In Venezuela, High-Tech Voting System Garners ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? This Sunday is Election Day in Venezuela, where eligible citizens will use an electronic voting system that has been ranked among the most sophisticated in the world. "After keying in an identification numb ...
• Flying The Friendly Sub-Saharan African Skies
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Airlines both big and small are adding flights throughout sub-Saharan Africa to take advantage of increased demand in an area of the world that is experiencing significant economic growth. British Airways, ...
• 9 Great Freethinkers and Religious Dissenters ...
  This article was originally published on AlterNet. What kind of world would we have if a majority of the human race was atheist? To hear religious apologists tell it, the triumph of atheism would mean a swift descent into selfishness and chaos. The defenders of the faith argue th ...
• Rationality in Action: Look at a Problem as an ...
  What's the Big Idea? Why are you still working at the job you don't like or staying in a relationship that is going nowhere or sticking with the same business plan that isn't working? Julia Galef describes this as "the commitment effect," which is the condition of sticking with s ...
• A Visit to Allen Tate's Grave; Or, How to Beco ...
  The moon seemed to know we were going to visit a dead poet. High, full, bluish-gray, surrounded by scudding clouds in a bruised patch of sky, all it lacked was an owl silhouetted against it. Under its gaze our procession filed through the cemetery, holding out cellphones as votives and flashligh ...

Information Liberation

• Video of TSA drill at Sky Harbor goes viral
  PHOENIX -An apparent TSA drill scared passengers at Sky Harbor Airport last week. Video of the drill was posted on Youtube and is now making waves. At least one passenger FOX 10 spoke with said people were scared when the drill took place in th...
• Free Obama Phones For Everyone!
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• VIDEO: Cop Punches Wheelchair-Bound 50-Yr-Old ...
  Duluth Police officer Richard Jouppi, 34, was caught on video decking a 50-year-old intoxicated wheelchair-bound man repeatedly in the face. The man who was taken into a detox center was being ordered to take his jacket off, he mouthed off about thr...
• Woman Gets $81 Ticket for Parking Car with Win ...
  NANAIMO - Tara Hill was surprised to hear that a police officer was looking for her and the reason why, she couldn't believe. She was getting a ticket for parking her car and leaving her windows rolled down. "Your motor vehicle is unsecured. I t...
• DHS Boss, In Charge Of Cybersecurity, Doesn't ...
  We've talked in the past about the problematic efforts to push for new cybersecurity regulations, especially when little to nothing has been done to show the actual problem. There has been quite a turf war over who would "own" cybersecurity within t...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
• Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface
  What are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →
• The Rainbow Connection
  Last Thursday, Tasmania’s Lower House of parliament passed a bill which, if ratified by the Upper House next month, will make the Apple Isle the first state of Australia to legalize gay marriage. It’s not going to happen: for one … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part VII – Th ...
  Well, it’s happened at last. The festering stink of corruption within the Australian Workers’ Union in the 1990s is now front-page news on every paper in the country. This is despite the best efforts of Gillard and others to shut … Continue reading →
• One More Five-Ring Circus
  The Games of the XXX Olympiad kick off in a few hours, and I for one won’t be watching. In another age, another millemium, the Modern Olympic Games were conceived by an aristocratic Frenchman, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Scientific research into female orgasm
  This is scientific research, honestly, but should this blog post have an NSFW flag? Well, if your boss doesn’t expect you to be reading about sex while on the job, as it were, then perhaps, yes it should be classed as not safe for work. The scientific conclusions come from an online survey ...
• Intermittent fasting and life
  The BBC showed a Horizon program recently in which it extolled the benefits of the so-called 5:2 diet, the on-off, alternating fasting diet. Apparently, scientists are “uncovering evidence that short periods of fasting, if properly controlled, could achieve a number of health benefits&#822 ...
• The flaming sulfurous monster of the deep
  UPDATE: Nothing new under the sun. Woehler himself described this reaction back in the 19th century. As a pyrotechnic snake firework it is of course banned because it’s highly toxic. An explanation in an old ACS paper for what’s going on thanks to Stuart Cantrill. Ever burned mercury ...
• The flaming sulfurous monster of the deep
  UPDATE: Nothing new under the sun. Woehler himself described this reaction back in the 19th century. As a pyrotechnic snake firework it is of course banned because it’s highly toxic. An explanation in an old ACS paper for what’s going on thanks to Stuart Cantrill. Ever burned mercury ...
• Tracking with a purpose
  The Human Face of Big Data app for iOS and Android will anonymously track your behaviour and help scientists crowdsource a big picture of humanity over the coming days. The free app launches later today and will learn not only about yourself but also how you compare to others. You can compare an ...

RFF Library

• Electric Drive by ’25: How California Can Cata ...
  UCLA School of Law Environmental Law Center | Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment | UC Berkeley School of Law Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) / bv Ethan N. Elkind http://cdn.law.ucla.edu/SiteCollectionDocuments/Environmental%20Law/Electric_Drive_by_2 ...
• Market Development for Green Cars
  OECD /  by Andrea Beltramello http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/market-development-for-green-cars_5k95xtcmxltc-en [Green Car Congress] …The paper, “Market Development for Green Cars”, presents and analyses policies, programs and approaches for the development, market introduction an ...
• Global Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 an ...
  PNAS (Published online before print September 17, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1211658109) / by Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp and Lucy R. Hutyra http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/11/1211658109.full.pdf+html [Abstract] Urban land-cover change threatens biodiversity and affects ecosystem product ...
• Lessons Learned From the 2011 Strategic Petrol ...
  Council on Foreign Relations / by Blake Clayton http://on.cfr.org/Qaj8pv (paper) http://on.cfr.org/RQeWNG (press release) [Houston Chronicle op-ed by the author] …the advisability of an SPR release should be measured by its ability to lessen the economic pain of a significant supply disrup ...
• Plug-In Electric Vehicle Deployment in the Nor ...
  Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) for Georgetown Climate Center and NY State Energy Research and Development Authority / by Charles Zhu and Nick Nigro http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/PEV-NE_0.pdf [Rand]…This review gives a broad overview of PEV deployment, with an eye towards s ...

Scientific American - News

• Can the World Save Lives and Combat Climate Ch ...
  Environmental, humanitarian and economic challenges do not exist in isolation, but that is how the world most often deals with them. To take just one example: one of the key challenges facing cities around the globe in the 21st century is flooding . Flooding is determined by environmental facto ...
• U.S. Grants License for Uranium Laser Enrichment
  From Nature magazine [More]
• Off-Peek: Radio Telescopes Edge In on Plasma J ...
  Black holes, by definition, emit no light. They are unseeable. [More]
• Element 113 at Last?
  By Richard Van Noorden of Nature magazine [More]
• Ocean Acidification Can Mess with a Fish's Mind
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First Truths

• The Anarchist Lineage
   Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...
• "Crisis of the State"
  From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...
• "Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature"
  Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...
• "Integrated Geographies"
  From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...
• Colbert on Atheists
  I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

• More than 200 Rally Against Violence in HRM
  HALIFAX-DARTMOUTH - Heavy rain and wind didn't stop more than 200 residents of HRM from attending a march against violence this afternoon.  The ambitious march route took participants more than five kilometres, from Sull ...
• HRM Libraries: Death by a Thousand Cuts?
  What inadequate budgets mean for Halifax libraries now, and in the future Public libraries in HRM are a lot like public transit: publicly owned, awfully handy, and a lifeline if you're not rich. Unfortunately this is not where the compa ...
• Geoff Meggs Is Running …
  Away from the People Geoff Meggs is running! This piece is not about Meggs seeking a provincial nomination with the NDP in Vancouver-Fairview — all the while clinging to his Vancouver City Council seat. Geoff Meggs is running — ...
• Local activists display banner and plan Sunday ...
  Vancouver, September 28 – Local Vancouver activists displayed a banner Friday, September 28 at 7:30 am, at Dunsmuir and Beatty as cars exited the westbound Georgia Viaduct, drawing attention to the struggles of Palestinian fishers and farmers in Gaza facing attacks by the Israeli military. ...
• Municipal Politics: Where Do Newcomers Fit In?
  Political participation low in immigrant communities   Nic Lin, a recent graduate from Dalhousie University and a resident of Halifax for the last four years, is ineligible to vote in the upcoming municipal elections. But even if he we ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Spain could indicate the direction America is ...
  "The Economy"Suddenly, Spain and Greece are being racked by strikes and huge demonstrations. The public in these countries is, in effect, saying that it has reached its limit: With unemployment at Great Depression levels and with erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage ...
• Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"
  We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...
• 9/11... on the record
  ”fae ghosties & ghoulies & lang-legged beasties & things that go bump in the nicht...guid lord, deliver us” (traditional scottish prayer)David Seaton's News Links Today is the anniversary... a time to remember where you were, and what happened that day.September eleventh, 2001, at 9A ...
• Democrats and the vanishing American middle class
  It seems that the Democrats have had the modicum of mother wit to make the middle class the framework and theme of their 2012 campaign. We know that the Democrats can't really walk the walk, but it is nice to hear somebody at least talk the talk for a change. For the sad truth is that the Am ...
• Clint Eastwood and his contempt for America
  "This is a perfect representation of the campaign: an old white man arguing with an imaginary Barack Obama." @jabouie tweet re Eastwood's speech (ht Doonesbury)Clint Eastwood’s performance was the most decadent, self indulgent thing I have ever seen. Watching him wank for 12 minutes to wild ap ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• It's Zinger Time!
  With the first presidential debate approaching, we're starting to see lots of retrospective pieces about famous debate gaffes of the past. The Wall Street Journal has a greatest hits parade here, and it's fun because it includes video clips of the various moments. Still, don't take it too serio ...
• It's October, So It Must Be Time For a Surprise
  Anton Brand/Shutterstock; Harry E. Walker/MCT/ZUMAAccording to Craig Unger at Salon, a "highly reliable source" tells him that the Romney campaign is "chortling with glee" over an October Surprise they plan to unleash in the coming days. Republican operatives are primed to unleash a new two-pr ...
• Obama Apparently Has Pact With Devil in Swing ...
  The latest results from the Washington Post/ABC News poll are pretty interesting. Not because they tell us anything especially new — Obama is doing well in swing states — but because the magnitude of his lead is so astonishing. I did a bit of quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic an ...
• Mattress Buying Is Very Annoying
  I agree with Rohin Dhar that the mattress industry is rotten. However, not because of this: The top four companies (Sealy, Serta, Simmons, and Tempur-Pedic) make up 59% of the industry revenue. The top fifteen mattress companies make up a whopping 81% of the market. Low levels of competition l ...
• Quote of the Day: Math is Hard
  From Paul Ryan, explaining to Chris Wallace why he refuses to talk about the Romney tax plan in detail: I don’t have the time. It would take me too long to go through all of the math. Well OK then! I guess we should all stop worrying our pretty little heads about this. After all, I'm su ...

Insanity Report

• IC 351: Store Rapists
  Topics: Shopping with your girl GameStop has store rapists Chick Fil-A has the nicest employees ever Being an informed voter Bagel injections Texting while walking Share with your friends:
• IC 350: Forever
  Topics: Leaked nudes Sending nudes means your pictures are out there forever Trust no one “Faggot” and the dark corners of the Internet Fox’s hires Mark Millar to consult on their Marvel Movies Avengers changed the game WB’s stupid attempt at market research Kriss’ ...
• IC 349: Creep By Association
  Topics: Politics sucks Gun control 2012 has been a great year for movies The Hobbit & Skyfall trailers Patrick Stewart back for X-Men? Porn in a Disney movie Phat asses in the gym Creep by association Worst wait ever Share with your friends:
• IC 348: Random
  Topics: This show is more random than usual. We jump from continuing the Heaven conversation from last show to Comic Books to Monica Lewinsky (And Kev’s ridiculously funny Bill Clinton impersonation) to Rush Limbaugh’s absolutely ridiculous theory on Al Qaeda and President Obama. Sha ...
• IC 347: 21st Century Heaven
  Topics: Redskins back? Baltimore ComicCon and real nerds You gotta workout if you are gonna wear a superhero costume WB/DC and making the Justice League Ex-OJ Simpson Prosecutor can’t let it go A Joe Paterno/Penn State scandal movie? President Obama got jokes Mitt Romney needs to be more B ...

Simple Climate

• New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 years
  September Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.
• Warming cost estimates cheat our children
  Economic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
• Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...
  Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.
• Sun loses grip on Earth’s temperature changes
  Patterns in the heat we feel stopped being caused by the Sun since the 1970s, mathematical tests done by Antonello Pasini from the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research in Rome and his teammates show, with greenhouse gases and other human influences likely to be drowning its influence out.
• More bird flu over the horseshoe crabs’ nests?
  Climate-driven timing changes and human pressures on their favoured horseshoe crab egg food could make ruddy turnstones more of a bird flu carrier than they already are, say Pej Rohani and Vicki Brown at the University of Michigan

e!Science News

• Iowa State researchers study clam shells for c ...
  Two Iowa State University graduate students are just back from the Gulf of Maine with another big catch of clam shells. read more
• Tree rings go with the flow of the Amazon
  University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, that contains the world's largest river system. read more
• Misconduct, not error, accounts for most scien ...
  In sharp contrast to previous studies suggesting that errors account for the majority of retracted scientific papers, a new analysis -- the most comprehensive of its kind -- has found that misconduct is responsible for two-thirds of all retractions. In the paper, misconduct included fraud or sus ...
• Penn researchers connect baboon personalities ...
  Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives. Now, a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has helped show that baboon personality plays a role in these outcomes, and, like peop ...
• US firms bringing work home from overseas
  Increasingly, U.S. firms are moving or considering moving their manufacturing operations back to domestic soil from overseas, finds a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University supply chain expert. read more

unEarthed

• Major Oil Company Opposes Arctic Drilling
  Drilling poses too many environmental risks, says Total CEO The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Puerto Rico Communities Seek Just ...
  Citizens to sue AES corporation for coal ash dumping near homes A child near an AES coal ash fill site in Guayama, Puerto Rico. (Earthjustice attorney Lisa Ev ...
• Citizens Lodge Complaints About Baltimore Harb ...
  Pollution is hurting their businesses and quality of life In June, Earthjustice was dismayed when the Maryland Department of the Environment put out a proposal that failed to adequately reduce pollution from Baltimore Harbor. Tina ...
• VIDEO: Sneak Preview of Matt Damon Fracking Film
  Premieres December 2012 Here’s the trailer for Promised Land, a feature film directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Matt Damon that depicts the effects of t ...
• Critical Mass At 20
  A bike ride that changed how we think about cities and our planet In the USA, transportation is the second largest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution causing cl ...

Brave New Climate

• Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
  The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
• Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
  This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...
• Fit-for-service low-carbon electricity technol ...
  This article (by Barry Brook) was originally published on The Conversation website until the title: “Low-carbon electricity must be fit-for-service (and nuclear power is)“. You can wade through the 224 comments over there (if you dare…) See also the comment here by Keith Orchis ...

Indigenist Opinion

• The Best Sources for Real Estate Listings
  Posting your home into some credible Real Estate Listings are the best way you can do if you want to sell your property right away. It is not expensive either to do real estate listing. Most of home sellers nowadays have got their property listed for a very minimal amount, and most of these sell ...
• House Hopping
  House Hopping Adolescent years are a challenge. For everyone involved. Young individuals searching, yearning for their independence though not yet prepared to manage the cost/benefit scales of life. Crazed parents hurt by their child's sudden rebuttals and scared by both their loss of control ...
• Buying Property
  Buying Property In buying property, you need to know on the things on what you want to do in on your property. It also means that anything you want to wish to have in your property. It can be like a beautiful view in which you can view the sea or the city or an urbanized area. Well, people do ...
• IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing
  IRA Real Estate Investments: Real Estate Investing Aӏmоѕt еνегуtһіng іn tһе world today wіӏӏ nеνег ӏаѕt аnԁ tһаt іѕ а fact. Obviously, tһіngѕ ѕһоυӏԁ change nо matter wһаt еνеn wіtһ tһе assets уоυ аге tгуіng tо invest іn уоυг IRA. If уоυ аге іn tһе field оf investing, уоυ wіӏӏ аn idea tһаt IR ...
• Real Estate Investing Myths
  Real Estate Investing Myths Myth #1 - Real estate investing requires money to invest. Yes, money is required for you to invest in real estate. It just does not have to be your own. Some of the options that are available are co-ownership, financing from moneylenders and the seller financing t ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Wisconsin’s Tommy Thompson Talks About ALEC
  In 2002 Thompson made a speech at an ALEC conference. This is what he said: “Myself, I always loved to go to these meetings because I always found new ideas. And then I’d tame them back to Wisconsin, disguise them a little bit, and declare that they’re mine.” Take note of ...
• What Romney Did To GST Steel And It’s Wo ...
  The real Romney. Destroys the lives of others for a profit. All about making money. To hell with anyone else. To hell with the workers, the pensions of the retirees, and to hell with anything except the Cayman Island tax shelter. Mitt Romney never gave a damn about anyone but himself. Do you thi ...
• Business Opportunity For Romney
  Hey Mitt. I know of a company you can buy. It makes a good profit and the workers are happy and well paid. You can buy the company, load it up with debt, screw the workers out of their pensions, and cut their wages. If they complain you can close the factory and hire a [...]
• Democratic Underground – Fuck You Mitt & ...
  Democratic Underground Post < – Click Here – Do It! Original Democratic Underground Post < – Click Here Too! George Romney: “From your father. Fuck You Mitt. I am in the 47%! I was on welfare, and then I became a CEO and a Governor.” Isn’t it sad. How ...
• Mitt’s New TV Commercial – Barf
  I just watched a genuine Mitt Romney bs television commercial in Seattle. It has a few seemingly non crackpot women that claimed they voted for Clinton, Gore, and even Obama. But now they are going to vote for Romney because of the debt, the deficit, divisiveness, unemployment and other crap. If ...

Appalachia Rising

• Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense!
  Donate to Appalachia Rising Legal Defense On June 5th, 22 Appalachians were arrested in Washington DC, refusing to leave the offices of their Congresspeople until their representatives committed to taking steps toward ending mountaintop removal. You supported these men and … Continue readi ...
• Judge Says Quaker Pro-Mountain Demonstrators & ...
  PHILADELPHIA – Two Quakers, Vint Deming (78) and Gail Newbold (62), were found guilty on Thursday of Defiant Trespass and Conspiracy to Commit Trespass following their arrest and trial for a nonviolent religious witness at PNC Bank’s Center City headquarters … Continue reading →
• Donations Needed for Legal Support of 22 Arrested
  All 22 Mountain Heroes are out of jail as of late night on Wednesday. However, they will all be making a return trip to Washington DC in July for a court hearing. This trip will be expensive, as well as … Continue reading →
• Shaving Their Heads in Mourning and Protest
  On Memorial Day, nearly 20 people shaved their heads in mourning and protest of mountaintop removal. Today, 5 more people joined them. 1. Shaving their heads in an act of mourning and protest of mountaintop removal., 2. Shaving their heads … Continue reading →
• Video from Rep. Griffith (R-VA) Congressional ...
  West Virginian’s singing “Country Roads Take Me Home” as the police escort them out of Rep. Rahall’s office.

Amped Status

• ‘Another World Is Happening’ &#821 ...
  Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, interviews David DeGraw about the birth and evolution of Occupy Wall Street on its one year anniversary: "This is about empowering a new generation to be leaders, to be engaged.... We have millions of people engaged in creating change that were not engaged an ...
• As the 99% Movement Evolves, It’s Time t ...
  By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...
• The Evolution of the Butterfly
  Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...
• After Being Beaten and Arrested Several Times, ...
  This is Daniel Murphy @ Union Square on March 22nd:
• Fault Lines: History of an Occupation

+972

• Abducted from Sudan, tortured in Sinai: Mother ...
  After facing brutal treatment at the hands of Sinai smugglers, an Eritrean mother and her baby daughter – who did not intend to go to Israel – have found themselves victim to Israeli policy, despite not having done a thing to deserve such a fate. By Anat Ben-Dor There are things one ...
• Secular Jerusalem Jews take on growing ultra-O ...
  Secular Israelis in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Kiryat Yovel are fighting the ultra-Orthodox’s growing influence in both the area and the state. The secular say that it’s a struggle for Israel’s identity and that they hope to protect the country’s “pluralism& ...
• Three flags in Madrid: Impressions of a demo
  No sooner than arriving at the grand “storm the Congress” demonstration in Madrid did we begin making comparisons to demos back home. The cause, after all, is similar if not the same, and Israel’s J14 movement took much inspiration from Spain’s M15. These days, anger is r ...
• What Netanyahu got wrong about us ‘medie ...
  The Arabs are backward and Muslims want to destroy the world. And then there was that diagram. Comedian Amer Zahr breaks down Netanyahu’s UN speech. By Amer Zahr This week, Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations. As a Palestinian, I tun ...
• Why I hate those Bibi memes
  They serve as Netanyahu’s echo chamber, they divert attention from the real issues at hand and they disguise political desperation as internet-activism. Memes shouldn’t be more than inside jokes, but nowadays they seem to lead the conversation.  On Thursday night, Ami Kaufman posted ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• World Heritage Committee decision on Great Bar ...
  The World Heritage Committee has accepted a draft decision on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area released by UNESCO in June.
• Water efficiency labelling and standards schem ...
  The national Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme has been strengthened with the passage through Parliament this week of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2012.
• New student resources highlight the importance ...
  Federal Water Minister Tony Burke today launched four new major teaching units to help students across Australia learn about the importance of water.
• Parliament passes National Water Commission Am ...
  The National Water Commission will continue its important role overseeing the Council of Australian Governments national water reform agenda, following Parliament's passage today of the National Water Commission Amendment Bill 2012.
• Recipients of the 2012 Antarctic Medal Announced
  Environment Minister Tony Burke has congratulated the recipients of the 2012 Antarctic Medal which is awarded for outstanding service to the Australian Antarctic program.

Matt Weidner Blog

• The GMAC Bankruptcy and the Quarter Billion Do ...
  WOW! Price Waterhouse Coopers wants to charge a WHOLE WHOPPINGING MASSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY to review the bad book of business that is the GMAC loan portfolio.  So what exactly are a bunch of accountants charging a WHOLE STINKING LOT OF MONEY TO DO? From the Petition: In particular, the six workst ...
• Rightfully, Your Children Will Hate You For Su ...
  From Yves’ Naked Capitalism….a comment: Our children and their children’s children will hate our generation for not taking stronger action against this criminal atrocity. They will piss on our graves for not taking to the streets and fighting harder for the freedoms secured by the bl ...
• The Economic Crisis- New York City Is Doing Ju ...
  For all of you living out there in the sticks, the forgotten lands called Anywhere in The US Except New York City…..you’ll be pleased to know that The Recession is OVER!  In fact, in many ways, The Great Recession never even impacted Good Ole Gotham.  The international center of finance and bank ...
• The GMAC/Residential Capital Bankruptcy… ...
  Manhood A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do [...]
• Thomas Wonders Why The Adults Wont Stand up an ...
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abelard - news

• roosevelt did not 'end the depression' | polit ...
  It is said that figures do not lie - a tableful of them shows reality in the USA of the 1930s.
• 325 *million* hits | fun news at abelard.org
  Korean urban mass dancing, or is it jumping up and down, accompanied by music cliches - a world-wide hit!
• i've only just realised! "it's not your fault" ...
  When care and protection is oppressive to the caree, giving them no freedom to run their own lives, to make their own adult choices.
• brilliant speech to the un by cameron while ob ...
  Probably the greatest prime minister since Winston Churchill sets out the correct attitudes towards Islam and to extremism and rogue leaders. Contrast with appeasing Obama.
• on ed milliband | politics uk news at abelard.org
  His familial background and his prospects as PM.

The Parallel Parliament

• When the Media Can’t Set Us Free
  It popped up on Facebook last week – another troubling testament to our times. “Looking forward to appearing on this …Continue reading »
• When the Truth Can’t Set Us Free
  Yesterday was our press conference for the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive. We had talked about this as a food bank …Continue reading »
• How To Lose One’s Voice
  The following is my recent Huffington Post piece on the loss of Canada’s international voice. The direct link can be …Continue reading »
• Living In A Post-Political World
    We have lived as a species in times of kings and despots and decided we had experienced enough. The majority …Continue reading »
• A Dance For the Generations
  Today’s the big day, as I head in shortly for the six-hour operation to have half of my stomach removed. …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
  Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
• Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
  Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...
• The Vaccine Injured: Where Has Compassion Gone?
  Posted 12/08/2011 By Barbara Loe Fisher During this season of remembrance and thanksgiving, I am grateful for the blessings that I have had in my life, including the hard times, when I learned that faith and hope can overcome fear and doubt. Adversity can make us stronger but it is also an opp ...

2020 Science

• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
• Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
  Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

• The Good of WikiLeaks
  Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)     Reader Supported ...
• Race War in Arizona
  Three Points Arizona Minuteman Pete Petruccione, 88, checks out the range before nightfall with the unit from a $1,800 US Nightvision Starlight, 10/10/06. (photo: Gary Williams/Getty Images)     Reader Supported News Perspective n August 20, 1914, the Los Angeles Times ran an article title ...
• Are We Replaying Iraq ... In Iran?
  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)     Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...
• Rachel Takes Us Back to the Future
  Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC)     Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...
• Corporate Election Machine Fires Up
  Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper)     Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

• Celebrations, Resistance, and Us
  by Matt Meyer This week, a project six years in the making – and which many of us hope will have a significant positive impact on US movements for social change – finally shot off the presses. We Have Not … Continue reading →
• A.J. Muste Peace Mural Dedication
  By Sachio Ko-yin*One Painter. One pacifist folk hero. And location location location.These were among the ingredients of a remarkable gathering on Thursday, August 9, the unveiling and dedication of the A.J. Muste Peace Mural by artist Christopher Cardinale.The subject of the … Continue re ...
• The Québec Strike Continues and Defense Techno ...
  “On the fourth of May 2012, in Victoriaville, Québec during the congress of the corrupted Liberal party of Jean Charest, several dozens of gas bombs were thrown on families, activists, old people, and students that were protesting against high tuition … Continue reading →
• The Unfinished Story of Iraq’s Oil Law: ...
  [Originally published on July 24th, 2012 on Jadaliyya.] by Ali Issa “No Blood For Oil” was a slogan featured on many a sign in demonstrations during the run up to the US-led invasion of Iraq, and throughout the early years … Continue reading →
• Saying No To Tear Gas
  [An excerpt from an article of the same name by Frida Berrigan, originally published on Waging Nonviolence, June 22nd, 2012.] I have an assignment for you. Have you ever been tear gassed? I have not. It does not sound like … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

• What If We’re at Peak Bacon?
  Without bacon, how will we sauté all that chard we get from our CSA shares?
• Reflections from the Heart: Celebrating Two Y ...
  Today marks the official two-year anniversary of the Healthy Monday program launch at the Franciscan Center, an emergency food assistance and outreach agency in Baltimore City.
• Oyster Town: 1800 to Now
  Maryland has had a long, rich history of harvesting its Chesapeake Bay oysters.
• Rally Calls for Farm Bill Now
  Congress’ inability to pass a new five-year farm bill has only compounded the difficulties faced by farmers and ranchers.
• Swine Flu Update: H3N2v Now Spreading Among Humans
  To reduce the probability of an influenza pandemic, we should reconsider the industrial model by which the majority of food animals in this country are produced.

k2p blog

• Russia losing the shale gas wars
  The Russian dominance in the European gas markets is being threatened by shale gas and they are now joining forces with various environmental groups in an unholy alliance to restrain the development of shale gas production in Europe.
• Hard times forces a measure of realism into th ...
  As the financial crisis continues, more countries are finding that the cost of pandering to environmental correctness is unacceptable. Renewable energy is proving to be unsustainable.
• Late surge gives some flooding but overall a & ...
  The official 4-month monsoon season in India ends today. Until September 26th, total rainfall was running about 7% less than the long-term average and within "normal" limits.
• Shenanigans at Cardiff University – &#82 ...
  Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine, Prof. B P Morgan.
• Siemens boycotts Ryanair
  The German industrial group Siemens, with 400,000 employees worldwide, has decided for a global boycott of Ryanair.

Left Foot Forward

• Lab 2012: Time for a fundamental rethinking of ...
  There’s a growing recognition housing is a priority not just to meet a pressing social need, but also as a key element of a growth strategy.
• US election digest: Romney faces debate test, ...
  Larry Smith's latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
• Lab 2012: Wales and Scotland lead the way
  At the Labour Party Conference, it is Scotland and Wales is providing the testing ground for the two debates likely to dominate much of the party conference.
• Shocking economic illiteracy from the Telegraph
    In a grandiose editorial proclaiming Labour “cannot be trusted to rebuild Britain”, the Telegraph this morning showed that it cannot be trusted to tell the truth on the economy. Today’s leader column ranted: The slogan for this week’s Labour conference in Manchester is “ ...
• Lab 2012: Miliband’s marginals challenge ...
  New research from Progress examines the 2015 electoral victory strategies available to Ed Miliband, looking at the voters he needs to win and where.

Consumerist

• Masking Tape, Failing Altimeters & Vanishing E ...
  Maybe we’re piling on poor, beleaguered American Airlines of late, but the carrier sure has been in the news a lot these days, and not for good things. Now a recent opinion piece in the New York Times only bolsters these stories of delayed and/or canceled flights, ticked-off pilots and bat ...
• Everyone Hates Bots: They’re To Blame Fo ...
  How annoying is it when you see that you’ve got a new Twitter follower or a reply (“I bet someone loved that last clever bon mot I sent into the Internetz!”) only to have it turn out to be a bot telling you to click on some link to get new followers? It stinks, and I’m pr ...
• Pork Prices Might Go Up But We Won’t Be ...
  Although a pork industry group based in the UK warned consumers of a looming worldwide shortage,we’ve got plenty of bacon to go around here in the United States. Which is either a cause for celebration for you pork aficionados or will elicit a shrug from those not worshiping at the bacon a ...
• Honda & GM Both Recalling Vehicles As No One W ...
  It’s one of those days where car recalls are abounding and it seems that fuel leaks are to blame in both cases: General Motors has issued a recall of almost 41,000 vehicles from the 2007 to 2009 model years after discovering a possible problem with cars sold in warm weather states. And the ...
• Woman Loses License Because Red-Light Camera C ...
  Municipalities around the country are turning to red-light cameras as a way to bring in traffic violation revenue while freeing up police officers to do other things. Of course, these devices are far from perfect, especially in the dark. But the process of convincing authorities that it couldn&# ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• House Passes WPEA by Unanimous Consent: Daily ...
  Washington Post: House Approves Federal Whistleblower Protections Summary: The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) passed the US House of Representatives Friday by unanimous consent. The Senate is expected to pass the bill as well when members return in November. The WPEA strengthe ...
• House Unanimously Passes Whistleblower Protect ...
  Last week the House of Representatives passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) (S. 743) by unanimous consent. The bill represents a rare bi-partisan effort to strengthen whistleblower protection rights for millions of federal workers that is a decade in the making. ...
• GAP Releases Report on UN Justice System in Pe ...
  Associated Press: Study Finds UN Peacekeeping Misconduct Mostly Unpunished, ‘Bad Apples’ Remain Summary: Today, GAP released a report analyzing the impact of the United Nations internal justice system on accountability practices in the UN peacekeeping missions. The study, Tipping the Scal ...
• Report on UN Whistleblowers and Tribunal Syste ...
  Interviews Reveal Serious Systemic Problems Photo courtesy of Wikimedia CommonsToday, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is releasing a report that analyzes the impact of the United Nations internal justice system on accountability practices in the UN peacekeeping missions. The GAP rep ...
• House Passes Federal Whistleblower Protections ...
  GAP Applauds Passage, Senate Expected to Follow Suit GAP hailed today's passage of S. 743, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), by the House of Representatives by unanimous consent. The legislation would provide millions of federal workers with the rights they need to safely rep ...

UK Progressive

• The Week Ahead: Wednesday’s Presidential Debat ...
  by Robert Reich The biggest election news this week won’t be who wins the presidential debate Wednesday night. It will be how many new jobs were created in September, announced Friday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rarely in the history has the monthly employment carried so much poli ...
• Cardiff Rebranding Plus Vueling
  by BTNews.co.uk Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones has announced that Cardiff Airport will be rebranded citing Liverpool’s John Lennon as an example (see also John O’Groats Airport).  Some suggestions have been made but BTN would like to point out that the departed Beatle was world famous.  Basse ...
• The Monday Line: Is Mitt Losing More Than An E ...
  by Denis G. Campbell Ann Romney has stumbled badly in the unrelenting glare of campaign trail cameras. Unused to having every word and phrase parsed by the media, she has made what in the past would be perfectly natural statements. Recently they have blown up in her face. The latest is cause for ...
• GOP Brand Disaster, Republican Reverse-Rorschach
  by Brent Budowsky Mitt Romney and Republicans are in big trouble because the Republican brand has become disastrously unpopular. Romney is not the cause, he is the symptom. As I wrote recently, “Why Romney is losing,” Republicans have created a reverse-Rorschach syndrome in which large masses of ...
• The Kitchen Debate Revisited
  by Tina Dupuy In the summer of 1959 then Vice President Richard Nixon flew to Moscow to speak at the opening of the American National Exhibition. The exhibit was intended to showcase the advantages of American capitalism to the Soviets. Nixon and Soviet Premier ­Nikita Khrushchev, accompanied by ...

NewsAlert

• California Is Latest Stage for Election Battle ...
  The New York Times reports: The battle to curb labor’s political clout has moved from Wisconsin to California, where wealthy conservatives are championing a ballot measure that would bar unions from donating to candidates. Labor leaders describe it as the starkest threat they have faced in a yea ...
• Steve Huntley: Emperor Obama has no clothes
  Steve Huntley in The Chicago Sun-Times reports on who is doing well under the Obama regime:Yes, the system is rigged under Obama, rigged to favor the growth of the federal government — its bureaucrats and the lobbyists, lawyers and special-interest groups that feed off taxpayers — at the expense ...
• Are We Already in A Recession? New data give s ...
  Time
• Probe slams VA over $6M conference tab includi ...
  Fox News
• (Video) Allen West to NRA group: An armed man ...

JoNova

• Unthreaded
  We moved the site again last night, and the changes propagate throughout the global network some people appear to be losing access temporarily. As it happens my access is faster than ever — so hopefully yours will be too, soon. (Thank Andrew for that). Perhaps clear those caches… (ye ...
• Tyrants always want to silence the critics
  Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. Two hundred and fifty years ago the pamphleteers were the bloggers of the day. The Finkelstein plan in Australia is a modern version of the License of the Press under George III. Another excuse to tell people what they are allowed to read. One John ...
• Bingo! We’re back… :-)
  There are many details to iron out, but thanks to some pesky hacks, I now have a bigger support team, a larger network of shared expertise, a much larger server and eventually, as we work through the site, a more efficient, faster site, that is more resilient, more stable, with a better back up ...
• Sunny days are here… a breakthrough
  It poured today in Perth, but I’m a happy girl. Finally, after days of trying*, we’ve got the data, the images, the drafts, the styles, the plugins, and all 922 posts that generated 120492 comments. We’ve got a new account. … Continue reading →
• I needed a holiday
  It’s not exactly what I had in mind, but right now happens to be a very good time for one. I haven’t had much of a break since November 2009 (See the archives).. Apologies again for the non-standard service, and … Continue reading →

ReNew America

• Obamacare, the Supremes, Dickens, and the bumb ...
  (Wes Vernon, RA analyst) - No less a power than the highest court in the land has stumbled into the ultimate definition of Obamacare, and in the process has finally exposed the decades-long downslide of the political class's standards for honesty. It is up to us to try to reverse that...
• From preserving liberty to destroying it
  (Alan Keyes) - When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its Obamacare decision, many conservatives professed to be shocked, even stunned, to hear that G.W. Bush appointee John Roberts wrote the decision in which he and the Supreme Court's anti-constitutional leftists upheld the individual mandate p ...
• Building the free-market case against big business
  (Timothy P. Carney) - The most dangerous enemies of capitalism today are capitalists. This is becoming clearer every day to people committed to free markets. The conservative and libertarian grassroots came to deeply distrust big business after the Wall Street bailouts and Obama's stimulus and h ...
• New hope for life worldwide
  (Janice Shaw Crouse) - During discouraging times, pro-lifers remind themselves that William Wilberforce worked for two decades before he began to change hearts and minds and end 19th-century slavery in Great Britain. In efforts lasting twice as long, pro-life activists are just now beginning to ...
• Formal complaint seeks disbarment of Eric Hold ...
  (Daily Caller) - Attorney General Eric Holder could lose his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, or face some other penalty from the D.C. Bar, now that he has been found in criminal and civil contempt of Congress...

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Mayaland Resort
  There is a massive industry in central America revolving around the end of the ancient Mayan calendar. I find it bizarre that people are inspired to head there for the “end of the world”. If this was an episode of Twilight Zone, they’d all suffer a fate worthy of their petulanc ...
• Walkie Talkies – Must Have Survival Gear
  There’s only two excuses for not getting a pair of walkie talkies: 1) You plan on surviving solo 2) You can’t afford them Motorola’s new Talkabout MT350 product is priced at $89 (or $99 with longer lasting rechargeable batteries), and it is rugged and has a huge range – 3 ...
• Steal A Bunker
  I’ve advocated this in my book (see SafeSpots.info), but I only highlighted a few choice examples of underground properties that would make great survival bunkers. The best is somewhere nearby, somewhere you can get to. So here’s a web site that lists 700 or so underground structures ...
• C/2012 S1 (ISON) in 2013
  The experts say they need to study newly discovered comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) more, so it might be a while before I found out… but this could be the return of Comet Caesar (astronomers – feel free to tell me if it couldn’t possibly be). If so, I cannot imagine a more beautiful and ...
• Revolution (TV): A Disappointment
  The premise was both interesting and extremely timely: a world without electricity*. The TV series could have gone in any extreme direction, but unfortunately it seems to be going nowhere. The lack of electricity is not meaningful in the slightest. On the positive side: interesting characters ...

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 ...

One News Page

• Partial relief for Samsung as US court lifts b ...
  A US court removed a sales ban against Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Galaxy Tab 10.1 won by Apple Inc in a patent dispute, allowing the South Korean electronics maker to sell the product in the United States. Reported by Firstpost 20 minutes ago
• Will give a public apology if charge against S ...
  Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi last night offered to tender a public apology if his allegation that Rs 1,880 crore was spent from state exchequer for Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s foreign trips is found to be false. Reported by Firstpost 33 minutes ago
• Final guidelines on GAAR will be out by Oct en ...
  The finance ministry will by October end come out with the final guidelines on GAAR based on the recommendations of the prime minister-appointed Parthasarthy Shome committee on the issue. Reported by DNA 37 minutes ago
• CAG isnt a munim, can examine govt policy: SC
  Dr Gupta, who says hes the founder Trustee of Indian Investors Protection Council, said that in the garb of performance audit the CAG, in fact, is conducting a review of policy decision taken by the government. Reported by DNA 43 minutes ago
• Kingfisher declares partial lock-down; blames ...
  Kingfisher Airlines last night declared a partial lock-out with immediate effect and suspended till Thursday flight operations which came to a grinding halt following a strike by a section of its employees. Reported by Firstpost 52 minutes ago

Global Research TV

• US Unleash Hell in Syria, New Violence Levels ...
• Living Under Drones: The Brutal Reality of "Ta ...
• Muslim Rage at US is More than a Decade Old
• Greece to Sell Islands to Pay Euro Debts
• China Anger as Japan Signs US Missile Defence Deal

Daily Tech

• Quick Note: China Targets White House in Cyber ...
  According to the White House, no data was accessed or stolen from classified networks
• Stanford Creates "Bi-Fi" Biological Cellular N ...
  The Bi-Fi network is a new form of cellular communication that could eventually lead to tissue regeneration
• New Bill Allows California College Students to ...
  Thanks to two new bills, there is financial relief at last
• SpaceX Successfully Tests Falcon 9 Rocket Engines
  Dragon's first official cargo delivery to the ISS is set for October 7
• U.S. Court Denies German Court, Google the Rig ...
  Appeals court ruling offers Microsoft a key win in its legal battle against Android

Oriental Review

• Why the American Raj Is Under Siege
  The killing of the US ambassador to Libya and angry demonstrations across the Muslim world over a tacky anti-Islamic hate video have produced the usual flood of wrong-headed commentary from our media and politicians. Across the land comes the familiar cry, “why do they hate us?” That any America ...
• Leaving At All Costs
  With a boom in terrorist activity in the past months, the USA’s withdrawal from Afghanistan begins to resemble a retreat On September 20th, the head of the US Ministry of Defense, Leon Panetta, announced the successful withdrawal of the supplementary military contingent, totaling 33 thousand peo ...
• The Powerplays behind “The Innocence of ...
  Israel’s big ploy moves ahead in the shadow of the demonstrations and reactions to the film “The Innocence of Muslims.” However, the appearance of Hezbollah on the scene has reversed the situation, which could prompt Tel Aviv to call off the operation. The international reactions to ...
• Anti-American Autumn Follows the Arab Spring
  The brutal assassination of the American Ambassador Chris Stevens and three US diplomats in Benghazi, the cradle of anti-Qaddafi uprising in Libya, suggests an extremely improvident foreign policy of the United States in recent years. The commentators and experts are busy seeking a triggering mo ...
• Episode 8. The Great Odd War (I)
  In previous articles we have looked in detail at the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 and the shrewd diplomatic game played by the British government during the hot summer of 1914 designed to draw Germany and Russia into ...

BlogHer

• What Happened to My Style Sense When I Became ...
  [Editor's Note: As a mom, do you ever wonder where your fashion sense went? What on Earth happened? Rita at Fighting Off Frumpy has a few ideas as to why it might have happened -- why you're all of a sudden rocking the frump instead of the style. -Jenna] Whatcha So Frumpy For?: Why are moms fr ...
• Mourning Meal
  Did you notice that little play on words there in the title? That's me, so clever. I'm a very positive, upbeat person. I often take it to the extreme by downplaying practically everything. If I were to suddenly find myself with a limb hanging on by a thread, I'd probably say "Looks like I'll ne ...
• Ikea Erases Women from its Saudi Arabia Catalog
  [How’s this for misogyny? Ikea is having to apologize for deleting women from its Saudi Arabia catalog. Apparently someone thought that the Muslim nation might object to the sight of women in one of the furniture retailer’s perfect kitchens or gleaming bathrooms. So the photos of women that appe ...
• Yes, I Have Kids -- How Could You Tell?!
  [Editor's Note: If someone didn't know you, didn't know you were a mom, would they know immediately upon walking in your house? Beyond the pictures, they would surely know I am with the bookshelf full of kids' books, the pile of board games and the pile of tiny shoes -- all within four steps of ...
• Can the 'Sharing Economy' Go Mainstream?
  Following years of consumerism, technology has offered new interpretations of ownership. Competitive services touting the benefits of “sharing” and “access over ownership” have gained ground as viable alternatives. Consumers have revisited past generations’ routines of sharing, swapping, lending ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Russia Suspends Import and Use of American GM ...
  The European Food Safety Authority orders review in to the research, conducted at a French university Russia’s decision could be followed by other nations Experts at the University of Caen conducted an experiment running for the full ...
• Benefits of Drinking Coffee
  For years, physicians have been warning about the negative health effects of drinking coffee. You may have been told that coffee will raise your blood pressure, lead to heart disease, give you an ulcer or ...
• Can Ginger Beat Out The Multi-Billion Dollar A ...
  Did you know that the multi-billion drug category known as “acid blockers,” despite being used by millions around the world daily, may not work as well as the humble ginger plant in relieving symptoms of ...
• Prescription Painkillers Kill More Americans T ...
  According to a new report from Brandeis University, prescription painkillers — opioid or narcotic pain relievers like Vicodin (hydrocodone), OxyContin (oxycodone), Opana (oxymorphone), and methadone — are now responsible for more fatal overdoses in the U.S. ...
• Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste ...
  This year 2.25 million Americans will get married—and a million will get divorced. Could birth control be to blame for some of these breakups? Recent research suggests that the contraceptive pill—which prevents women from ovulating ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Monday roundup, Oct. 1, 2012
  In this photo taken  Jan. 19, 2012, smoke rises in this time exposure image from the stacks of the La Cygne Generating Station coal-fired power plant in La Cygne, Kan. This year the nation’s weather has been hotter and more extreme than ever, federal records show. Yet there are two people ...
• Friday roundup, Sept. 21, 2012
  A conveyor belt that takes coal from the storage pile at Consumer Energy’s B.C. Cobb Plant in Muskegon on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. Before the coal will be burned it will be ground into a talcum powder consistency.  This increases the surface area and burning speed of the coal. (AP Photo/T ...
• Coal is changing, so when will W.Va. catch up?
  In their announcement earlier this week of a “strategic repositioning plan,” Alpha Natural Resources officials spoke some real truths about what’s happening with the coal industry in general and the Appalachian region’s coalfields in particular. Kevin Crutchfield, Alpha&# ...
• Alpha announces ‘strategic repositioning ...
  Here’s the announcement just out early this morning from Alpha Natural Resources: Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR), a leading U.S.-based coal supplier, today outlined plans to reshape its portfolio of operations to meet the evolving demands of a changing global coal market. By early 201 ...
• Sen. Rockefeller to Patriot Coal CEO: Strippin ...
  In this Wednesday Aug. 3, 2011 file photo, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., gestures during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) Finally, another of our state’s elected officials has stepped forward to exp ...

Daniel Miessler

• HD Moore Scans the Internet
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous It was funny, I walked into the CTF room at DEFCON this year and my phone started blowing up with portscan alerts from my home firewall. I did some quick research and saw it was HD doing the scanning. Related ContentOld Ma ...
• Bookstores Both Invigorate and Depress Me
  Every time I enter a bookstore I get the feeling that I’m wasting my life by not reading more. If I could live as I wanted I would spend my time in bookstores, libraries, universities, and coffee shops. I’d read and write and debate. What would you do? Related ContentExisting Booksto ...
• A Description of Why Google Now is Superior to ...
  Google Now also introduces a new trick. It combines the constant stream of data a smartphone collects on its owner with clues about the person’s life that Google can sift from Web searches and e-mails to guess what he or she would ask it for next. This enables Google Now not only to meet a ...
• First Use of Passbook
  So I got to use Passbook on the iPhone recently for a movie reservation and I really enjoyed it. It was Fandango, and I think I’m going to like this experience. Also, given the security issues with NFC I think it’s going to see more adoption than NFC anyway. I look forward to seeing ...
• AT&T LTE Speeds
  Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related Content4S FlowerStudent FailFlowers and StoneCrescent Tree Shadows from EclipseMe in the Army

Fitwatch

• Extremism cop covered up at Hillsborough
  This man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
• Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
  Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...
• Welcome to the Future, Today.
  For those of us who have watched London 2012 with a keen eye from its inception, we have been alarmed by the extent to which it appeared to be just a 'festival of social control'. Yesterday's heavy-handed policing of the monthly Critical Mass bike ride  was a chilling confirmation of this. Cycli ...

Worldwide Hippies

• The power of peaceful people
  By: Zahrah Nasir,nation.com.pk – Those of us who actively promote the concept of universal peace are viewed as oddballs by the world at large: we are openly scorned, laughed at, labelled crazy hippies or worse, and yet, despite the visible and invisible obstacle course we ‘peace people’ ta ...
• Living Under Drones (Coming to your town soon, ...
  From livingunderdrones.org/- U.S. Drone Strikes Kill, Injure and Traumatize Pakistani Civilians, Report Finds A new report by human rights experts at Stanford and NYU presents first-hand accounts of harm to civilians Stanford, CA & New York, NY — U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan kill and injur ...
• WWH/CJE Monday News Briefs
  California becomes first US state to ban Gay teen conversion therapy ‘quackery’ California will become the first US state to ban a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight. Governor Jerry Brown said he had signed a bill into law by Democratic senator ...
• Obama Administration Now Backs Shell in Suprem ...
  by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog- The Obama administration is backing Shell Oil after abruptly changing sides in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that could make it even more difficult for survivors of human rights abuses overseas to sue multinational corporations in federal courts. The case will be ...
• Clash of Civilizations Free Speech vs. “ ...
  From ADBUSTERS -  The explosion of controversy surrounding the “Innocence of Muslims” film and the supposedly “senseless” violence that ensued in Libya and elsewhere after its reception, point to a significant hole in the American worldview. That is, many Americans still cannot comprehend that t ...

reference frame

• Nima Arkani-Hamed attracts India to physics
  Nima Arkani-Hamed, a winner of the inaugural Milner prize who just sent me a kind and interesting e-mail, is visiting India. He gave an interview to the Times of India: Idea of space and time needs to be replaced: Arkani-Hamed In the interview, he talks about the Higgs discover ...
• Gore's investment firm: no green investments
  Al Gore has repeatedly said that he was putting his money where his mouth is. However, it was just revealed that in the real world, Al Gore is stealing the money where almost every green criminal steals them, and he is putting them where almost every rich person or investor puts them. Be sure ...
• Raphael Bousso is right about firewalls
  Five days ago, I reviewed the discussions on black hole firewalls, started by AMPS in July 2012. Joe Polchinski wrote a guest blog for Cosmic Variance yesterday. During the days, I had enough time to sort all these issues and I am confident that Raphael Bousso is right and Polchinski and ...
• President Klaus survives "assassination attempt"
  There's a national holiday in the Czech Republic today. We call it the Day of Czech Statehood. On September 28th, 935 – or perhaps 929 – Good King Wenceslaus (later St Wenceslas, the patron of the Czech nation) whom you know from a Christmas Carol was murdered by his brother Boleslav th ...
• Are black holes surrounded by firewalls?
  Dilaton has noticed a new, extremely provocative concept that was introduced among the quantum gravity researchers two months ago: the firewall. For decades, people teaching general relativity – including your humble correspondent (e.g. here) – have been explaining that nothing spe ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Updated data for comet C/2012 S1 (ISON)
  Our team performed follow-up observations of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) on 2012, Sept. 28.6, remotely through the 2m, f/10 Ritchey-Chretien + CCD of Faulkes Telescope North (Haleakala) under good seeing conditions, and a scale of 0.3″/px. After stacking 13 R-filtered exposures, 120-seconds eac ...
• Russia helps U.S., Syria establish contact, Tu ...
  True or simply a tactic to weaken the FSA in Syria? Im sure the news (true or not) will definitely divide/crack the FSA and relationship between the allies strategically. With a… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Official: Iran sending soldiers to Syria Abov ...
• Body of missing B.C. man Albert Chretien found ...
  The body of Albert Chretien, who disappeared on a road trip to Las Vegas with his wife last spring, has finally been found, CBC News has confirmed. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Human torso found in suitcase pulled from Lake Ontario A suitcase containing a human torso is found in ...
• Will Henry Kissinger Solve Canada’s Judicial – ...
  Harper, Kissinger, a murdered judge, a dead lawyer and Queen Elizabeth  The increasingly frantic ”top secret” hunt by Canadian authorities for the alleged murderer(s) of Federal Court of Appeal Justice, Carolyn Layden Stevenson, and, Department of Justic ...
• This is What A Police State Looks Like!
  www.infowars.com www.planetinfowars.com [support the infowars spread the news] www.infowarsstore.com www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowarsteam.com Video Rating: 4 / 5 David Ickes’ sensational New book is being shipped now Remember Who You Are is destined to transform the way vast numbers of peo ...

Truth About Our World

• Notification
  This blogs entries have been moved to http://worldtruthtoday.wordpress.com/ I will no longer post anything here, although site will remain open for a while. Thanks Grace
• Trudell Documentary
• Occupy Wall Street “Beware The Zeitgeist ...
• The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right
• World War 3 (III,Three): September 11, 2001-20 ...

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• At Motorola, "a Hop in Everybody's Step"
  CEO Ed Zander admits he hasn't checked every box on his to-do list. But he's happy to take credit for kick-starting innovation
• IGN Entertainment: Where the Boys Are
  The Web outfit has drawn a huge, male-dominated following and has an IPO in the works. But will a big Net player come calling?

Enviroblog

• Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...
  By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...
• EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning: How did we do it?
  By Rebecca Sutton, Ph.D., EWG Senior Scientist What's in those bottles on top of my washing machine and under my sink? We've been asked that question thousands of times - especially by fans of EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...
• Sunscreen - Lessons Learned From a Trip to the ...
  By Jason Rano, Director of Government AffairsIt's fair to say that I'm not a beach person.  My hair is pale blonde and my skin is the color of a marshmallow, if it had freckles.  I have nightmarish memories of being... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• 'Get outta here!': What an Arnold Schwarzenegg ...
• Krueger backs a comptroller candidate, Bloombe ...
• At Knicks media day, lots of optimism, and no ...
• Schumer: The Paul Ryan pick will go down as th ...
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Views & News from Norway

• Demonstrators arrested outside Russian Embassy
  Three persons were arrested after a demonstration outside the Russian Embassy in Oslo late Monday afternoon. The demonstration’s organizers hadn’t applied to the local police for permission to hold the event, which protested Russia’s treatment of the political band Pussy Riot. ...
• Fall colors set forests ablaze
  PHOTO FEATURE: There’s a frequent remark making the rounds in Norway these days: “Nå er det høst!” Literally, “It’s autumn now!” You hear it often in connection with folks commenting on noticeably shorter days or stormy weather, but the tone was more positive ...
• New ‘butter crisis’ looms
  Officials at Norwegian dairy cooperative Tine are trying to ward off another looming “butter crisis” like the one that left grocery store shelves bare of butter last winter. They blame the new shortage on Norwegian cattle who aren’t producing enough milk. Tine, which controls 8 ...
• Draft-dodger named top defense adviser
  Labour Party politician Atle Ottesen says he was “young and idealistic” when he refused to perform military duty after being drafted in the late 1990s. He was allowed to perform civilian services instead and now he’s been named a top political adviser to Norwegian Defense Minis ...
• Labour opts for openness after all
  The Labour Party’s new government minister Hadia Tajik gave in to demands from the parliament on Friday and decided that the testimony of government bureaucrats to the July 22 Commission would be made public after all. Tajik’s predecessor, Anniken Huitfeldt, had ruled that the non-el ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• Restoring the Terrestrial Body to Good Health: ...
  by Rhamis Kent I’m a few months overdue in writing this piece, but better later than never. During the August 2011 PDC I taught in Spetses, Greece alongside Nicolas Netien, Maria Baltazzi and Stamatina Palmou, some interesting insights and reflections came to mind. The beauty of Spetses ...
• Growing BIG Vegetables Using Compost Tea
  I’ve personally seen produce growing quite large in far northern latitude places like Alaska and Norway, where the summer sun goes around and around and around, giving plants a gentle but steady application of solar goodness. But, the vegetables in this video go even further…. This ...
• Lettuce Tree – Using Vertical Space for Balcon ...
  I am trying to get the most out of my balcony space. Obviously, the vertical direction is the way to go… by Martin Korndoerfer Inspired by other bloggers, I wanted to try my luck with the much acclaimed lettuce tree. Reported challenges have been to keep the soil in the upper part from d ...
• Intensive 6-Day Permaculture Seminar & Worksho ...
  What: Intensive 6-Day Permaculture Seminar & Workshop When: January 12 – January 14 & January 19 – 21, 2013 Where: Soulflower Farm (El Sobrante, California – SF Bay Area) Who: Rhamis Kent (PRI PDC Teacher) Price: $750 USD ($600 USD if booked before November 20t ...
• Food Forests, Part 5: Water – Friend and Foe
  I always thought that rain was a nurturing and gentle aspect of nature. You know how it is, you get a bit of rain and it helps all of the plants to grow, provides water for us and the animals and generally stops the place from drying out. That was my [...]

Pointman's

• Intentions, profiles and predictability.
  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
• The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
  For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...
• An assessment of current alarmist propaganda.
  It’s been obvious for some time, that the science behind the most alarming claims about the effects of any putative global warming, is not only unsustainable but indefensible. We still of course get the occasional paper, trying to resurrect an old scare, which has already been demolished, ...
• Time to cull the prat nominations.
  I think it’s time to close off the first round of voting, since the viable candidates are by now obvious. People have really stuck to the letter of the law and voted for prats who’ve been very active this year. The front-runner, polling twice as many votes as anyone else, is Peter Gl ...

Journalists' Toolkit

• Good tutorial sites for HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
  There are a zillion sites out there offering free tutorials, but many are pure junk. So here are a few that I recommend, in no particular order: Codecademy: Web Fundamentals Codecademy: HTML Fundamentals HTML5 Please (not actually a tutorial, but very helpful) Nettuts+: The Best Way to Learn Jav ...
• Baby Steps in Data Journalism
  This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...
• The best video export options
  How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...
• Video Resources updated
  The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...
• Flash Journalism updates
  I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...
  From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
• Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...
  Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...
• ‘We All Count’ Campaign To Combat Historic Lev ...
  From a press release from Project South: More than 30 million people will be discouraged or prevented from voting in this election. “This is the highest number since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. We know that many of those people are African-Americans, LGBT people, people displaced b ...
• Aramark Uses Hurricane Isaac to Loot the City ...
  From a press release by SEIU Local 21LA: On August 29, Hurricane Isaac swept through New Orleans and surrounding areas with raging winds and torrential rains causing widespread flooding and epic power outages that lasted in some cases as long as a week. Businesses and schools were closed for up ...
• Lolis Eric Elie And The Connections That Link ...
  This article has been reprinted from Bev Bell at Other Worlds: The Things That Are The Richest Are The Least Valued: New Orleans And Haiti, Post-Catastrophe Lolis Eric Elie, Interviewed by Beverly Bell August 28, 2012 Tomorrow, seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina dodged New Orlean ...

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
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• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
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• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  if he came out on the side of the real underground, he might have more committed help. what did he expect from jew controlled left wingers like galloway et al? i say stop whining.....this fight has been going on for millennia.Statistics: Posted by mgt23 — Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:19 am
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/a ... sts/22135/ Daily Paul – by kcop It’s a paper entitled “Preparing For A Post Israel Middle East”, an 82-page analysis that concludes that the American national interest is fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel. The authors conclude that Is ...

TVNZ

• At least eight dead after Hong Kong ferry sinks
  At least eight people are dead and more than a dozen are missing after a ferry sank near Hong Kong.
• Greek 2013 budget sees 6th year of recession
  Greece will aim for a primary surplus before debt servicing of 1.1% of GDP next year, the first positive balance since 2002.
• Fighting spreads in Syria's biggest city
  "Rebels control more that 90% of the Old City now," says an opposition activist.
• Russian court adjourns Pussy Riot appeal hearing
  A Russian court has adjourned an appeal hearing for three members of the Pussy Riot punk band against their conviction.
• Rushdie out of hiding, facing the changed world
  Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie have taken the place of Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer when it comes to addressing the big issues

environment 360

• Organized Crime Groups Drive Increase in Illeg ...
  Illegal logging accounts for 15 to 30 percent of the global logging trade, with an increasing number of illegal operations in the world’s tropical regions being driven by organized crime, a new report says. According to the report, released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and IN ...
• Unusual Series of Quakes Indicate Tectonic Bre ...
  Two massive earthquakes in April in the Indian Ocean and an unusual series of aftershocks may signal the formation of a new tectonic plate boundary within Earth’s surface. Reporting in the journal Nature, French Click to enlarge Keith Koper/University of Utah Fault activity in the Indian O ...
• Interview: Using the Internet to Identify Mill ...
  Each year, about 18,000 new species of plants and animals are discovered and described by science — a number considered woefully inadequate by entomologist and taxonomist Quentin Wheeler. Along with a group of Arizona State University Quentin Wheeler high-profile colleagues, Wheeler, the f ...
• High-Arctic Summers Are Warmer than Any Time i ...
  Summer temperatures on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the High Arctic are now higher than during any time over the last 1,800 years, including a period of higher temperatures in the northern hemisphere known as the Medieval Warm Period, according to a new study. In an analysis of algae ...
• European Solar Capacity Grew in 2011 Despite S ...
  Installed solar capacity continued to grow across Europe in 2011 despite a decline in subsidies for green energy continent-wide, according to a new report. Roughly 18.5 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic energy capacity were installed in the European Union during 2011, about two-thirds of the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

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backofthebook

• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• A New Saint Laurent
  Designer Hedi Slimane debuts a swaggering collection for the brand formerly known as Yves Saint Laurent. Robin Givhan Reports From Paris.
• J.K. Rowling’s Class War
  Is the Harry Potter goddess losing her halo? Amidst accusations of snobbishness and middle-class animosity, J.K. Rowling finds herself in the midst of a British class war, reports Lucy Scholes.
• Sanctions Crushing Iranian Currency
  These Iran sanctions may be working after all.
• Selective Intelligence at the White House
  Guess who's cherry-picking intelligence now? Eli Lake reports that the Obama White House reached its conclusion that the 9/11 North Africa attacks were "spontaneous" reactions to a YouTube video by accepting the most convenient (and rejecting the inconvenient) parts of one single ...
• What Taxes (If Any) Should Go Up?
  I was going to write up a reaction to Josh Barro's "5 Taxes We Should Raise. Really" post, but Reihan's got it covered. Enjoy.

Loonwatch

• Montana Ice Cream Company Tells Local Muslim C ...
  An ice cream maker out of Livingston, Montana, is facing boycott threats after the company's president responded insensitively to a Muslim customer's Facebook question about the contents of their product.
• Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Linked to Nuc ...
  The FBI partially declassified and released files linking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a nuclear technology smuggling ring that targeted the United States.
• Shocking Revelation: Drone Strikes Make People Mad
  Obama defenders for this continuous killing - it Keeps Us Safe™ by killing The Terrorists™ - is dubious "at best"; indeed, the opposite is more likely true.
• Hate-Speech Hypocrites
  The profound double standards in the application of hate speech laws.
• Not two, but three more “films” coming our way
  Predictably, there are more anti-Muslim hate films in the works.

Energy News

• Officials: Hydrocarbons could have breached bo ...
• Japanese NPO: “We need to start a rotating eva ...
• Watch: Children Play at Nuclear Theme Park in ...
• Officials: Gas pressure is increase in aquifer ...
• Video: Tepco’s Fukushima simulation has “100 p ...

Japan Times

• Work resumes at Oma nuclear plant
  Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) said Monday it has resumed construction of a nuclear plant in Aomori Prefecture, becoming the first utility to do so since the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 complex last year. Speaking in the town of Oma, site of the construction project, J-Power Pres ...
• Softbank to acquire rival carrier eAccess
  Softbank Corp., Japan's third-largest mobile phone company, said it will acquire rival eAccess Ltd. in a stock transaction that values the smaller company's shares at an almost threefold premium. Softbank will pay 16.74 of its shares for each share of eAccess, valuing the Tokyo-based company's ...
• Abuse by Irish priest could be tip of iceberg
  It is over three years since it was revealed that an Irish Catholic priest had abused several children in Japan. His victims here are probably still unaware their tormentor was a serial offender. Father Patrick Maguire worked in Japan between 1961 and 1974, during which time he has admitted to ...
• Europe pulls off improbable comeback to captur ...
  Erasing some of their worst Ryder Cup memories, the Europeans wore the image of Seve Ballesteros on their sleeves and played their hearts out Sunday at Medinah to match the greatest comeback in history and head home with that precious gold trophy. Europe got its payback for Brookline, when the ...
• Noda taking a 'gamble' with Tanaka appointment
  The appointment of popular lawmaker Makiko Tanaka as education minister is a "gamble" for the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, according to political observers. The Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker and daughter of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka could help boost support f ...

Alexander Higgins

• 61 Year Old Man Shot and Killed in Police Raid ...
  Wednesday night an innocent 61 year old man was shot and killed by police during a raid on the wrong house in Tennessee.
• Is The End of Monsanto Near? Prop 37 Succeedin ...
  The campaign to require GMO labeling in the US is close to success as the real dangers surrounding GMOs are being brought to the attention of consumers like never before.
• Cut & Bleeding: Austerity-bitten Europe Rises ...
  The masses across Europe are rising up in fury against massive tax increases and public spending cuts being implemented to pay for bank bailouts.
• Iraq Deja Vu: American Media Drums Up Support ...
  Even After Mea Culpas For Horrible Iraq War Coverage, American Media Does the Same Thing With Iran.
• In America, Journalists Are Considered Terrorists
  While The Government Pretends America Values Freedom of the Press, Journalists Are Treated As Terrorists

Macleans - Central

• Mitchel Raphael on cross-border babymaking and ...
  Brison looking for eggs In May 2011, Scott Brison... announced he wouldn’t be running
• And the Oscar hosting duties go to . . . Seth ...
  The 'Family Guy' creator hopes to put a face to the voice
• ‘There is nothing I wouldn’t do to ...
  Olivia Chow’s statement to reporters, delivered just before Question Period. I appreciate Mr. Anders’...
• Can’t we all just get along?
  Nathan Cullen wrestles with the existential crisis that is the state of members’ statements....
• ‘I apologize’
  A statement from Rob Anders. “My comments in iPolitics with respect to Mr. Mulcair...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Three Cheers for the Fraser Institute!
  At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I’m sure the Kochs are more concerned missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan are derailing their chance to buy the US pre ...
• Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...
  Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
• The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?
  Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...
• There’s Nothing Inevitable About Eduflation
  It might have been my imagination (or perhaps wishful thinking), but in the midst of this year’s back-to-school media coverage, the issue of student debt seemed a little more prominent than usual. At least two surveys identified high levels of debt ($28k on average), and the stress—more than tha ...
• Electoral campaign in Québec: three parties, t ...
  The elections in Québec are finally behind us. We know the results, the suspense is over. The point of this blog post is neither to weigh out its outcome or the degree of satisfaction or despair which its conclusion generates. It was however a very interesting campaign when one stops to think of ...

ReDress

• Has Israel groveller David Miliband changed hi ...
  Stuart Littlewood is surprised at the invitation by a pro-Palestinian medical charity to former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband - a proven groveller to Israel - to speak at its annual fundraising gala.
• IMPORTANT: OUR WEBSITE IS CHANGING
  Redress Information & Analysis is moving to www.redressonline.com. From now on we will publish new articles on www.redressonline.com only and, in the meantime, we will transfer important long-shef-life articles from our old website to the new one.
• What might Netanyahu do if Romney's defeat bec ...
  Alan Hart examines whether Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is mad enough to order an attack on Iran in what remains of Obama’s first term without the president’s blessing and American participation.
• Israel's Salafi foot soldiers in the wake of a ...
  Nureddin Sabir argues that Israel must bear responsibility for creating the climate that gave rise to the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims". But it is Israel's Salafi and Wahhabi foot soldiers behind the violent protests across the Arab and Muslim worlds who may eventually bring Arabs and M ...
• Anti-Islam film: free speech or inciting to riot?
  Lawrence Davidson argues that outage against the anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" "has exposed the deep vein of anger against the United States that runs through the Muslim world", but doubts that American leaders would have the courage and foresight to re-examine the policies and behav ...

Physics Today

• Graphene offers clear window on liquids
  BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...
• Rival teams shared in Nobel celebration
  Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...
• No title
  Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).
• Wind energy growth tops renewable energy sector
  Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...
• Smaller accelerators continue the search for d ...
  Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

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Peakwater

• Karnataka urges prime minister to stay Cauvery ...
  “A day after the Supreme Court rapped Karnataka for not releasing Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu, the state government Saturday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s immediate intervention to settle the issue. “The state government faxed a request to the prime minister to s ...
• EU falls short on Africa water projects
  “More than half of the European Union’s projects to provide safe drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa failed to deliver, the EU’s audit watchdog said in a report on Friday. “The report by the European Court of Auditors examined 23 projects co-funded by the EU in six Afric ...
• CA Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water
  “The basic human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water became part of state policy today when Governor Brown signed AB 685. “A.B. 685 directs relevant state agencies to advance the implementation of this policy when those agencies make administrative decisions pertine ...
• Deal reached for huge desalination plant in Calif.
  “The San Diego County Water Authority announced a tentative agreement Thursday to buy the entire output of what will be the Western hemisphere’s largest seawater desalination plant, clearing a major hurdle for construction to begin. “The plant in Carlsbad will produce 50 millio ...
• South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citize ...
  “The decision to end the moratorium in South Africa, which may have the fifth largest supply of natural gas in the world, has ignited another phase of opposition to fracking, as citizens demand more research and public education. The Karoo, an arid farming region in the Eastern Cape of the ...

D. Kucinich

• Drop the “Bomb Park”
  A bipartisan coalition in Congress, at my urging, recently defeated legislation that would authorize up to $21,000,000 of taxpayer’s money to build a series of parks in honor of the Manhattan Project, the project that resulted in the development of the atomic bomb. Supporters of the “Bomb Park” ...
• Kucinich Statement to FirstEnergy and NRC at T ...
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today held a hearing in Painesville, Ohio to examine the performance of FirstEnergy’s nuclear operations. Top NRC officials heard from representatives of FirstEnergy’s three nuclear power plants. Congressman Kucinich submitted a statement for the record at ...
• Kucinich Asks SEC to Probe Peabody Deal
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to fully “investigate any and all agreements” related to the Peabody State Energy Campus (PSEC) in southern Illinois. See the full letter here. Peabody Energy Corporation persuaded nine regional power ...
• Kucinich Marks 31st International Day of Peace
  Washington D.C. (September 21, 2012) – On the 31st anniversary of the International Day of Peace, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for reflection and a shared commitment to peace. ...
• The “Surge” is Over. The War is Not
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement following the announcement that the “surge” in Afghanistan has ended. In 2009, 33,000 additional troops were deployed to Afghanistan. Today, troop deployment levels have returned to the pre-“surge” levels. Sixty-eight thou ...

Authentically Wired

• KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
  … So you really believe that corporate and those delivering its message want you to know … "Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace," Rod Serling once declared. And it’s true today in the fight against all the poisons being pushed as "scientific" — GMO, fluoride, vacc ...
• we will KILL you … welcome to freedom of ...
  … Don’t you even dare think you can publish and provide full disclosure and transparency … if you dare … we will KILL you … welcome to freedom of speech in America … Declassified Documents Reveal US Military Designated Assange ‘Enemy of State’ 09-28-2012  •  http://news.antiwar.com, by ...
• and how much has Karl Rove and his confederate ...
  … and how much has Karl Rove and his confederate$ like the Koch Bro$ given to their candidates …… what’s the point ………. Billionaire Soros gives $1M to pro-Obama super PAC 09-28-2012  •  JACK GILLUM Associated Press Liberal billionaire George Soros is giving $1 million to a ...
• her rabid tribe that people of “color&#8 ...
  … For Arizona political leaders like Gov Jan Brewer this is all wrong as she avows along with her rabid tribe that people of “color” take our jobs and contribute nothing … but … viewing these teens and their discoveries reveal the racist undertones of her leadership and those of her minion ...
• given the opportunity BP wouldn’t pass t ...
  … given the opportunity BP wouldn’t pass the buck … would they…?   BP Wants To Blame Workers For Deepwater Horizon Spill, Says U.S.   BP, the British oil company, is attempting to blame "blue collar workers" for the Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010, alleges the U.S. government. ...

Popular Technology

• Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
• Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
• Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...
• Skeptical Science: From Al Gore to Al Jazeera
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "From Al Gore to Al Jazeera" John Cook proudly posted, "Al Jazeera want to feature SkS as the Site of the Week... Am sending them some info and pics ...
• Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of lef ...
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums hacked and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Political Compass" frequent Skeptical Science commentators and moderators took a political quiz revealing (much to their surprise) they all share t ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• Private reserve safeguards newly discovered fr ...
  Although it covers only 430 hectares (1,063 acres) of the little-known Chocó forest in Ecuador, the private reserve las Gralarias in Ecuador is home to an incredible explosion of life. Long known as a birder's paradise, the Reserva las Gralarias is now making a name for itself as a hotspot ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• Industrial logging leaves a poor legacy in Bor ...
  For most people "Borneo" conjures up an image of a wild and distant land of rainforests, exotic beasts, and nomadic tribes. But that place increasingly exists only in one's imagination, for the forests of world's third largest island have been rapidly and relentlessly logged, burned, and bulldoz ...
• Building indigenous resilience in the face of ...
  In the 1980s images of loincloth-clad tribesmen blockading blocking logging roads in Malaysian Borneo shocked the world. But while their protests captured the spotlight momentarily, Borneo's forests continued to be destroyed at rapid rates, undermining traditional communities that are dependent ...
• In pictures: Rainforests to palm oil
  In late May I had the opportunity to fly from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo to Imbak Canyon and back. These are some of my photos. Historically Borneo was covered by a range of habitats, including dense tropical rainforests, swampy peatlands, and natural grasslands. But its lowland forests h ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Hypo-allergenic milk from GE cow in sight
  New Zealand scientists have genetically engineered a cow that may be the first in the world to produce hypo-allergenic high-protein milk.The breakthrough - hailed as internationally "seminal" - had been kept under wraps by AgResearch...
• Dismissed gay rights teacher considers legal a ...
  A Northland science teacher who was dismissed after he supported a gay rights protest at the Catholic school is considering legal action.Nigel Studdart was dismissed from Pompallier Catholic College in Whangarei last month after...
• Clive Evans and David Ainley: Preserving 'The ...
  The Ross Sea is one of the last healthy ecosystems of its kind left on earth. Recently the New Zealand Government rejected a proposal from the United States for a marine reserve in the Ross Sea that might have offered greater protection...
• Ship continues Sir Peter Blake's ocean work
  The ship on which Sir Peter Blake was killed has been used to map up to one million new species of microscopic sea life, promising new revelations about the marine ecosystem that could revolutionise our understanding of climate change's...
• Nazis' stolen statue's cosmic link
  A thousand-year-old Buddhist statue taken from Tibet in 1938 by an SS team seeking the roots of Hitler's Aryan doctrine was carved from a meteorite, scientists have reported.In a paper published in an academic journal, German and...

The Bovine

• Genetically modified cow to give milk which do ...
  From Ian Sample, in The Guardian: “A genetically modified cow whose milk lacks a substance that causes allergic reactions in people has been created by scientists in New Zealand. In their first year of life, two or three in every hundred … Continue reading →
• Raw milk and our children’s future
  It is widely known that diet is a major contributor to the children’s health crisis. This conference will explore an important traditional food that is missing from our children’s diet and currently banned in Canada. – Kimberly Hartke, Publicist  4th … Continue reading →
• Global warming = food shortages?
  We all know global warming is not caused by humans, but that’s not to say the U.S. drought and resultant food shortages won’t be causing disruptions and upheavals and potentially social unrest: from Kai Nagata’s “Deep Rogue Ram”.
• LifeStock event at Montana Jones’ farm
  The threat of rain didn’t deter some 200 people from making the trek out to Montana Jones’ farm near Hastings (north of Cobourg) for a day of music and a rally of support for Montana Jones in her ongoing battle … Continue reading →
• Comment on the Montana Jones case
  From Zeb Landon: The disease that CFIA suspects Montana Jones’ sheep of carrying poses no threat to humans. Agriculture Canada is merely anxious to protect Canada’s export market for sheep, we are led to suppose. And the CFIA presumes the … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Bernanke Says Don't Worry, "It's Only Temporary"
  Earlier today, in Bernanke Begs Congress to Address "Fiscal Cliff", Pledges to Hold Interest Rates Near Zero Through Mid-2015 Even If Economy Picks Up I commented on the Bernanke's self-serving responses to his own questions. In this post I want to focus on another disingenuous part of his ...
• Bernanke Begs Congress to Address "Fiscal Clif ...
  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was yapping about jobs today in his speech Five Questions about the Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy in Indianapolis. Bernanke asked five questions of himself and gave five self-serving responses, all absolving the Fed of its role in the global financial crisis. ...
• Manufacturing ISM Rebounds Slightly
  Following three months of contraction, the September 2012 Manufacturing ISM PMI is back in the green at 51.5%. Index SepAugPercentage Point ChangeDirectionRate of ChangeTrend in Months PMI™51.549.61.9GrowingFrom Contracting1 New Orders52.347.15.2GrowingFrom Contracting1 Production49.54 ...
• What If I Am Wrong About Europe?
  I have long stated the eurozone will breakup. Historically speaking, no currency union has ever survived in the absence of a political union. Moreover, in It's Just Impossible I noted The Bundesbank said there should be no banking union until there is a fiscal union. Angela Merkel ...
• At Some Point the Hat Runs out of Rabbits; Fir ...
  Calls for the splintering of Spain have picked up steam. Euskal Herria Bildu (EHB, a left-wing, Basque nationalist party) has called for "A Great National Act" in Favor of Independence according to El Pais. EH Bildu has called "a great national political act" in favor of the independence of ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  The Haunted Windchimes- ‘A Ballad of Human Progress” This week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast music pick is actually a request from listener Brian W. He heard this song for the first time over last weekend and thought this might be a group and song that Soothing the Beast listeners might ...
• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  The Institutions of Imperial Domination In understanding empire, we must understand the institutions which direct and implement the process of imperialism. Starting with the central institution of imperialism – the State – we find its history as emerging in response to economic inequ ...
• The EyeOpener- Drones Over Asia: 21st Century ...
  Over the past decade, the peoples of Pakistan and Yemen have become all too familiar with the horrors of the Pentagon’s latest toy: the unmanned aerial vehicle. Capable of raining death from above while its operator sits in air-conditioned comfort in an air force base thousands of miles aw ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Etta James- “I Sing The Blues” This week’s BFP/Jamiol Soothing the Beast music pick is a song from the phenomenal late Etta James. There’s not much I can say about Ms James that hasn’t already been said so tonight her music will say it all. I hope you enjoy this performance of ...
• The Polish Bin-Laden Revelation: Uninformed, N ...
  Yesterday, after I finished reading McClatchy’s ‘juicy story’ based on some Ex-Polish spy’s recent ‘revelations,’ I kept going back and forth between several theories to explain the ‘real factors and purposes’ behind this entire nonsense. Of course, in coming up with my possible ‘possibilities’ ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• COSTA CONCORDIA – Update
  I covered the sinking of the COSTA CONCORDIA back in January and posted some of my initial comments in ‘COSTA CONCORDIA – Fred Fry’s Comments and Questions‘. One of my [...]
• Settlement Reached Over MV Rena Grounding
  The New Zealand government and Daina Shipping Co, owner of the stricken MV Rena, have reached a settlement over the Oct. 5, 2011 grounding of the container ship on Astrolabe Reef, Maritime [...]
• 25 Killed in Ferry Collision Near Hong Kong – ...
  The number of fatalities has risen to 25, approximately 100 injured – Update below Original: At least 8 people have been killed after a ferry collided with another vessel in [...]
• Sevan Marine’s “Voyageur Spirit” FPSO Departs ...
  Following shipyard upgrades to the Sevan Marine FPSO “Voyageur Spirit” at the Nymo upgrade yard at Eydehavn, Norway, the vessel  has since departed under tow to the Huntington Field in [...]
• I’m On A Boat… Or Am I? Age-Old Debate Goes Be ...
  By Brent Kendall Maritime law is as old as the republic, yet we continue to argue about what counts as a boat. The Supreme Court was home to that debate [...]

Press TV

• Egyptian doctors go on protest strike
  Doctors working in public hospitals across Egypt have gone on a partial strike, refusing to provide non-emergency services to patients to protest against poor health services and insufficient salaries.
• 'Trust hurt btwn Afghan, US-led forces'
  NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the so-called green-on-blue attacks in Afghanistan have "undermined trust and confidence” between Afghan forces and US-led coalition troops.
• 36 killed in Hong Kong boat accident
  Thirty-six people have died after a passenger ferry carrying more than 120 people collided with a pleasure boat off Hong Kong's Lamma Island, officials say.
• Sept. was Iraq's bloodiest mon. in 2 yrs.
  Three hundred and sixty-five people were killed in Iraq in September, making it the country’s deadliest month in over two years.
• ‘Iran is the anchor of the Middle East’
  Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran is a source of stability in the region and plays an important role in resolving regional conflicts.

SciDev.net

• Dislike of multidisciplinary work 'limits deve ...
  Scientists' dislike of multi-stakeholder projects is limiting the impact of agricultural development, an expert has warned.
• Ivorian researchers and government unite to fo ...
  Côte d'Ivoire has published a policy document for scientific research that outlines plans for invigorating national research for development.
• Let's add climate knowledge to agroforestry plans
  We need to know more about how smallholder agroforestry can help farmers adapt to climate change, write James Roshetko and Rodel Lasco.
• Argentina to fund new programme on R&D and inn ...
  Argentina will implement a programme to boost technological innovation and capacity building through a US$200 million loan from the IADB.
• Jatropha can revive degraded land, says study
  Jatropha plantations may not be the magic source of biodiesel, but can help recover degraded lands, says a new study.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

• The United States is Experiencing the Longest ...
  The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...
• Models Used by the Military Services to Develo ...
  The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...
• Treatment of PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury b ...
  More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...
• Presentation to the National Economists Club
  Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...
• Federal Budget Deficit Totaled $349 Billion fo ...
  The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

Naked Scientists - News

• Robotic router
  Have you have ever spent ages carefully sawing out a complex shape in a piece of wood only to find it was slightly too big, or worse slightly too small? This happened to Alec Rivers an electronics Ph...
• Flexible batteries
  One of the big reasons that mobile phones and other personal gadgetry are still simple cuboids, and not more interesting shapes, is that they need a lot of energy storage, and batteries are simple cub...
• Resistance is fertile: soil bacteria to blame
  Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat, researchers have shown this week. Writing in Science, Washington University St...
• Gait expectations: genetic basis of horse dres ...
  A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic horses with weird walking patterns. Although all horses can walk, trot and gallo...
• Nanoparticles poison soil
  Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned. In a paper published this week in PNAS, UC Santa Barbara soil microbiologist Patricia ...

Nick Turse

• nickturse:Like a million other people, the S ...
  nickturse: Like a million other people, the Strand is one of my favorite bookstores in the whole wide world.  The sole survivor of close to 50 book shops on what used to be known as Manhattan’s “Book Row,” it’s one of NYC’s true gems.  If you’re in town, you simply must go.  While the 18 miles ...
• shortformblog:Want the keys to the city of N ...
  shortformblog: Want the keys to the city of New York? Some dude is selling them on eBay, according to the New York Post. In fact, an undercover Post reporter paid $149.95 for this set, buying them from a retired locksmith with an eBay profile.
• wnyc:30 Issues in 30 Days looks at foreclosu ...
  wnyc: 30 Issues in 30 Days looks at foreclosure in America. Check out the map of foreclosures by county, over the last five years. Here. -Jody, BL Show-
• A demonstrator throws a liquid to riot police ...
  A demonstrator throws a liquid to riot police officers near Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike in Athens September 26, 2012. Greek police fired teargas at hooded youths hurling petrol bombs and stones as tens of thousands took to the streets in Greece’s biggest anti-austerity demons ...
• "Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t unde ...
  ““Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”” - Edward R....