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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

11 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

Real Coastal Warriors
‎"Heads up We need to move on this : Kimberly McCuiston and I Just got back from the Press Conference in Gulf Shores with AL.AG. Luther Strange Senator Jeff Sessions and Congressman Jo Bonner on the Restore Act and the very real possibility that The DOJ and US AG Eric Holder are going to settle the Federal Case with BP and do an end run around the Restore Act , funneling most of the fines and penalties to the NRDA process ; which would indeed be a huge Bonus to BP as they could write that off on their Taxes and have ultimate control of the spending of those NRDA funds.... Where as if they stick to the RESTORE ACT no tax write off and BP loses majority rule on spending the fine monies . I personally asked the panel about the $1 Billion in Early Restoration Monies BP Promised for NRDA and where that money was.. they couldn't answer me directly but Senator Pittman is checking on that for me .. The one person who was able to answer was Orange Beach Mayor Tony Kennon... he gave the exact answer I was looking for BP controls that money and the NRDA process is so convoluted that it could be years before we every see a dime of that Billion for the Early Restoration under NRDA.. We must demand the DOJ not settle with BP if the settlement is going to fly in the face of the Restore Act which our President signed into LAW !! I have plenty of pics and will be uploading them shortly .. Please Join me in spreading the word NO SETTLEMENT WHERE THE RESTORE ACT IS NOT UPHELD !!!"
 
Let's not forget the repeated application of Corexit, which made the oil many times more toxic and added the bonus of making it impossible to contain. Who is going to carry the can for that practice - which had corruption involved from the get-go. It implies restoration - is a pipe dream.
 
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • Pilger: Death of an Australian hero - wrong co ...
    I first met Arthur a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble. He objected to the cruelty and hypocrisy of white society in a country where his people had lived longer than human beings had lived anywhere. In 1969, he and Leila had brought their family to the town of Wee Waa in ou ...
  • A United Front Against Austerity
    No matter whether Obama or Romney wins the coming presidential election, American working people will face a savage assault on their economic rights starting after the vote. The asset stripper Romney and his sidekick Ryan have openly demanded the shredding of the existing social safety net, whil ...
  • Nation: WSJ/Fox don't disclose Romney advisors
    On Tuesday, for example, The Journal published an op-ed by Michael Mukasey making the ludicrous and unsubstantiated assertion that President Obama may release the mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Mukasey was identified as a former US Attorney General and federal judge. ...
  • Rare protests in Saudi Arabia
    Families of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have been doing what was once unthinkable in this kingdom and holding small protests outside prisons and government buildings to demand the release of inmates, some of whom have been held without charges for years. Detentions without trial are a ...
  • Qatar: Rich and Dangerous
    Sixty-five percent of the people in the Middle East are under twenty-nine years of age. It is this desperate angry group that presents a danger that armies cannot stop. The cry for their dignity, “I am a man,” is the sound that sends terror through governments. It is this overwhelming force t ...

Independent - London

  • Russia accuses Turkey of endangering lives by ...
    Moscow accused Ankara of endangering Russian lives today after Turkey forced a Syrian passenger plane to land and seized what it suspected was military equipment being ferried from Russia to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.Related StoriesKidnapping of John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans was a ne ...
  • So bright, so beautiful. Ah, precious! 'Hobbit ...
    Something as shiny, but not quite as precious, as the ring from the film adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series could soon be used to do your weekly shopping – if you live in New Zealand, that is. Newly minted ‘Hobbit’ coins, featuring characters such as Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, ...
  • US Embassy security chief shot dead in Yemen i ...
    A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official who worked for the US Embassy in a drive-by shooting near his home in the capital Sanaa today, officials said. Related StoriesKidnapping of John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans was a new and unexpected hazard for those trying to report the Syr ...
  • Corkscrew castration murder accused 'wore geni ...
    A New York court has heard that a Portuguese model accused of killing a gay fashion journalist bludgeoned his victim to death before cutting off his testicles with a corkscrew and wearing them on his wrist.Related StoriesState Department: Officials turned down security requests in LibyaVice Pre ...
  • The year the grains failed: Why poorer countri ...
    World grain prices have risen so high that families in poorer countries are being forced to schedule "food-free days" each week, according to one of the leading experts on global agriculture.Related StoriesFree us now, Pussy Riot trio tell appeal courtMoscow appeals court frees Pussy Riot membe ...

Rogue Government.com

  • UK Energy bills ‘to double in five years’ as ...
    Energy bills are likely to double within five years as the Government drives a move to green power and building nuclear power stations, it is claimed.
  • Blackwater’s New Director: Bill Clinton’s Law ...
    Blackwater’s rebranding continues at a torrid pace. Danger Room has learned the latest Washington greybeard hired to spruce up the image of the world’s most infamous private security firm is Jack Quinn, a top Washington lobbyist and former White House counsel to President Bill Clinton.
  • Government asks Jewish groups to join in anti ...
    For the first time, the federal government is expanding its community-based anti-terrorism campaign to a religious group — the Jewish community, victims of past attacks in the U.S.
  • Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Ob ...
    More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn. 
  • Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
    Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • The 'public debate' on GM is moot: Even most c ...
    Three quarters of the cotton clothes bought in Britain today are made from a genetically modified crop, according to experts, including items available in major High Street stores. The so-called 'franken frocks' will not harm the health of the person wearing the GM cotton but many feel that the ...
  • Caffeine may block brain inflammation to reduc ...
    Caffeine consumption could help to ease cognitive decline and lower the risks of developing Alzheimer's disease by blocking inflammation in the brain, suggest researchers. Read more here
  • Coffee could aid bowel functions after surgery
    Consumption of coffee could be cheap and safe way to help to speed up and improve the bowel functions of people after surgery, according to new data. Rea more here
  • Food prices expected to rise after UK's second ...
    Poor UK harvest combined with steadily rising world price of grain contribute to upward pressure on prices The second wettest summer on record has blighted UK harvests and will lead to food price rises, farmers and retailers have warned. Wheat yields in England are down by almost 15% on the fi ...
  • Rising food prices 'disaster for public health'
    Economists expect a four per cent rise in the cost of the UK's weekly shop this year, and food prices are already rising more quickly than those in the rest of Europe. According to a survey of its members, the National Farmers' Union has forecast a bleak picture of this year's harvest, and whea ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The Cold War, this is not
    The reporting on the Canada-Russia spy case makes it read more like a Johnny English script than a John le Carré novel. From what we know so far... a very junior RCN intelligence officer rucks up to the Russian Embassy, flashe a badge speaks to a Russian military intelligence representative. ...
  • Julia Gilliard: on misogyny and hypocrisy
    Via Dawg.  May she also address our parliament.
  • The human cost of Stevie . . .
    NO ONE IS ILLEGAL - TORONTO is a site you should visit.  H/T — Scanner
  • The burning madness
    Sixth Estate describes...
  • Down the drain . . .
    BAATHISM HAS BEEN a driving political force in the Middle East for decades, but according to an article on The New Republic, by Paul Berman, "Baathism: An Obituary", it seems that the movement is about to be nailed to its perch, so to speak, with the imminent collapse of its last adherents in Sy ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox News Disappears Mitt Romney's Flip-Flop On ...
    Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer obscured Mitt Romney's stance on abortion by claiming that his October 10 remarks about pursuing a pro-life agenda as president do not contradict his earlier suggestion that he would not enact abortion legislation if elected. In fact, Romney's October 10 ...
  • Fox Seizes On Out-Of-Context Quote To Defend J ...
    Fox News seized on a 2003 quote from former Obama White House adviser Austan Goolsbee to defend former GE CEO Jack Welch's assertion that the Obama administration falsified unemployment data to help President Obama's reelection chances. But in his 2003 op-ed, Goolsbee used the phrase "cooked the ...
  • Fox News Reimagines Amb. Susan Rice's Remarks ...
    Fox News commentators have reimagined U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice's statements about the consulate attack in Benghazi, saying Rice was "so definitive" in Sunday show interviews about what had happened there. In fact, Rice repeatedly made clear during her interviews that definitive conclusions wou ...
  • Fox's McFarland Invents Facts To Accuse Obama ...
    Fox's K.T. McFarland claimed that no additional forces were sent to help Americans at the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, while it was attacked and claimed that this was "probably a political decision." But before McFarland made her claims on Fox, State Department officials had already s ...
  • Fox Goes All In Against Big Bird
    Following the first presidential debate, Fox has enthusiastically echoed Mitt Romney's call to end public funding for Sesame Street and other public broadcasting. Fox's attacks on public broadcasting have focused on criticism of Big Bird.Romney Proposed At First Presidential Debate To End F ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Message to world government: Don't govern the ...
    You could think of the Aspen IDEA report published today as a letter to the head of the International Telecommunications Union, Hamadoun Touré, suggesting that he should reconsider his intent to put the "light touch" of government on the Internet's operations. M. Touré will be running a majo ...
  • Obama and Romney on Foreign Policy - Drawing t ...
    The political battle lines are being drawn for the general election debate over foreign policy and national security, and you can't do much better than my fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Michael Cohen for a guide. One key theme of Michael's latest column for ForeignPolicy.com is what a differen ...
  • Will Yale's Alumni Save Liberal Education?
    Hoping to head off alumni resistance to the brand-new "Yale-National University of Singapore" college that the Yale Corporation has created somewhat stealthily in collaboration with the government of that authoritarian city-state, Association of Yale Alumni chairman Michael Madison has inadvert ...
  • Neocons Celebrate: We Got MJ Rosenberg, We'll ...
    The right-wing "pro-Israel" lobby has taken off its mask. In the wake of my departure from Media Matters, it is in a celebratory mood. In one article and column after another, the Israel-is-always-right types cannot contain their feeling of triumph. There are dozens of these articles. Here i ...
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Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • IDF fires tear gas at olive harvesters in West ...
    It's that time of the year again and the olive trees are ripe and ready for harvest. I found myself last Saturday picking olives alongside Palestinian families and Israeli activists fro ...
  • IDF soldiers Fires Tear Gas at Palestinian Fam ...
    On 6 October 2012 went Ja'asra family, Women, men and children for Olive harvest on their privet own land, Tarqumiya, west to Hebron. After early attempt that week which ended in expelling and tear gas by IDF, their lawyer from RHR legal team contact the civil administration head officer of the ...
  • IDF may reinstitute Arabic translations in Wes ...
    The IDF is willing to resume its one-time habit of translating into Arabic the indictments it submits to military courts in the West Bank, but insists there is no need or duty to transl ...
  • Israel launches airstrike on north Gaza, no in ...
    Israel launched an airstrike overnight Tuesday on the northern Gaza Strip, Ma'an's correspondent said. The strike targeted Beit Lahiya and caused material damage to several homes, with ...
  • Israel takes pride in the ethnic cleansing of ...
    Earlier this year, I spent a day in the heart of the occupied West Bank with Israelis - some of them living in illegal settlements - who have made it their mission to destroy Palestinia ...

Water - AlterNet

  • 2012 Drought: Pick Your Poison
    The drought that has kept much of the nation in its grip this summer brings a host of additional downstream worries for growers already struggling with reduced yields.Cattle are being poisoned by cyanide-laced weeds in Arkansas. Across the Midwest water-soluble fertilizers are concentrating in ...
  • Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
    Beit Ummar used to be known as the fruit basket of Palestine.Nestled in the Hebron Mountains, the old Beit Ummar was covered in olive orchards and trees bearing brightly colored lemons, plums and dates. Lush, leafy vineyards wound their way through the meandering mountain roads, bearing robust ...
  • Disaster in the Making: Grave Warnings Issued ...
     Editor's Note: This is the first in a two-part series, read the second one here on the Tyee.A pipeline materials engineer, who worked for TransCanada Pipeline for five years, says some of the nation's major pipeline companies are breaking the rules on pipeline safety and that National Energy ...
  • Why the New 'Golden Age of Oil' Has Been a Bust
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.Last winter, fossil-fuel enthusiasts began trumpeting the dawn of a new “golden age of oil” that would kick-start the American economy, generate millions of new jobs, and free this ...
  • Oil Companies Bribing Gulf States to Ignore Spill?
    Recently, Gulf area legislators have been pushing to get their states a larger share of government income from offshore drilling. We’re told that they need the extra revenue to improve flood protection. But more is afoot here, and it deserves scrutiny.First, here’s the background, from the Los ...

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
    We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week.  We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]
  • Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade
    Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
  • Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TX
    Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is known for ...
  • Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...
    The House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd legislative session starts in January of 2013.  They examined the federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program ...
  • Unlimited and undisclosed money is pouring int ...
    The controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United – that gave corporations untold influence in our electoral system and said “money” is “speech” – has created an environment in which millions of dollars in corporate cash is drowning out the voices ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • PETA condemns Pokemon as 'animal abuse'
    The animal rights group is claiming that the Pokemon video games condone animal abuse and cruelty. The Pokemon series of video games has been a firm f...
  • Sarah Brightman to become a space tourist
    Singer Sarah Brightman will be the next tourist to take a trip to the International Space Station. The classical singer will conclude her 2013 tour an...
  • Hobbit coins to become legal tender
    New Zealand are to release a series of 'The Hobbit' coins that will be considered legal tender. To commemorate the upcoming release of Peter Jackson's...
  • Are we the earliest intelligent species ?
    Could humans be one of the earliest or even the first intelligent species to evolve in the universe ? Most people believe that we will eventually find...
  • Did Poles break the Nazi Enigma code?
    Poland are to pass a resolution acknowledging three Poles as the first to break the Engima code. Up until now it had been British code breakers attrib...

Grassroots

  • Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Anna Lekas Miller is an independent journalist and activist. Outside Author:  Anna Lekas Miller Previous Publication In ...
  • Honduran peasant leader's life under threat
    alegria-small_pic.jpg Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of his ...
  • Does the Right to Food Mechanism help nations ...
    right_to_food_-_india-_fian.jpg In the current context in which we see local food economies being encroached by a few corporations, food sovereignty is an ultimate goal for not only farmers, but consumers as well. This battle for the right ...
  • 2012 Right to Food Watch Report
    Subheadline:  Who decides about global food and nutrition?  read more
  • What Farm Bill Inaction Means for Farmers and ...
    no_farmers_no_food.jpg The Farm Bill presented Congress with an opportunity to change some of the fundamental structures of our food system, by creating a farmer-owned reserve and establishing a price floor that reflects farmers’ true cost ...

Climate

  • Minnesota Lawmaker Aims to Roll Back EPA Regio ...
    (Greenwire) Minnesota Republican Rep. Chip Cravaack is pushing for legislation to roll back the EPA’s ability to promulgate federal air visibility guidelines. Cravaack’s H.R. 6507 would compel the agency to approve Minnesota Pollution ...
  • UN Warns of Rising Food Costs After Year's Ext ...
    (The Guardian) The UN has warned of increasing meat and dairy prices in the wake of extreme weather in the United States and across large parts of Europe and other centres of global food production. According to the Food and Agricultu ...
  • Ogoniland Oil Spills: Dutch Case Against Shell ...
    (BBC) Oil giant Shell is due to appear in a Dutch court to face charges of polluting Nigerian villages in the Niger Delta region. The case is being brought by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch branch of campaigners Friends of the Ea ...
  • Industry Touts Expanded Drilling as Way to Cut ...
    (The Hill) A new industry-backed report says expanding fossil fuel production and energy efficiency measures could help close the deficit and foster North American energy "self-sufficiency." The Consumer Energy Alliance, a coalition o ...
  • EPA: Latest Wyoming Water Tests Still Link Pol ...
    (Bloomberg News) The latest test results on water near Pavillion, Wyoming, show pollutants “consistent” with findings used last year to link tainted water there to hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said. T ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Conservatives and Rape
    The interesting thing about this guy's comments about rape is that he doesn't really consider the role of the parents in the whole thing. It's true that if you have a young women, especially a teenager, and she becomes pregnant out-of-wedlock, it can cause some serious problems with her parents ...
  • Sorry, Ann, Your Spouse is a Liar
    Ann Romney is busy… The wannabe First Lady is guest-hosting Good Morning America today, less than 24 hours after penning a piece entitled The Man I Know for BlogHer and taking to Fox News Channel to defend her husband against attacks from the Obama campaign that he repeatedly lied in last wee ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    No one could have predicted that Mitt Romney would get hammered for politicizing the deaths in Benghazi. Idiot. Glen Doherty was one of four Americans killed in the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate. Romney met Doherty at a Christmas party. 7News spoke with Dohertys mother. "I d ...
  • Not a Normal Person
    Why is it that every time Mitt Romney or a member of his family tries to tell a personal anecdote it's always a freaking disaster. The unflappable Mitt knew exactly what to do when the family dog strapped on the roof his car lost his bowels all over the back window. The fun-loving Mitt tripped ...
  • Romney Needs a Groin Shot
    Reading over Mitt Romney's evolution intelligent design on abortion rights, I believe he deserves a stiletto to the groin for disingenuousness, pandering, and lack of principle. Let's start with him telling Mike Huckabee that he would "absolutely" support a constitutional amendment defining life ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Strange Lunar Beauty of the Algerian Sahara
    The Sahara Desert in Algeria is a place of breathtaking beauty, as these stunning photographs show but is a UNESCO site for more reasons than that. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Foraging Chef Introduces Indigenous Swedish Cu ...
    History, land and nature intertwine in a Swedish locavore cookbook, which proves that globalization need not mean the loss of traditional cultures. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Wing Walkers: Death-Defying Aerial Stunts of 1 ...
    The 1920s were a golden age for aviation, with pilots and stuntmen regularly performing death-defying feats of daring which would be illegal in the US today. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Green Fail?
    This interesting infographic sets its sights on green alternatives, highlighting the ways in which they're ailing or even failing. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Incredible Abandoned Train Graveyards
    Once grand vehicles that carried freight and hundreds of people at a time, they now sit rusting in various sites around the world: seven amazing abandoned train yards. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • Nonviolent Protester of Drone Wars Sentenced t ...
    Catholic Worker Brian Terrell of Maloy, Iowa has been sentenced to serves 6 months in a federal prison for his witness against the use of drone warfare. Below is a message from Brian and his statement before the court. Friends, We are just out of court. I have been ordered to surrender to a fed ...
  • Protesting Obama's Wars
    From the speech by Stephanie Tang for the San Francisco rally against the war in Afghanistan: Yesterday I was at a high school with a young army vet on the We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour.  We spoke in 3 classes, telling the students  the truth about America’s wars. These students were b ...
  • Loyalty's for Chumps on The Street: Bankers’ M ...
      One thing you can say about the financial industry. It has no sense of loyalty.   read more
  • Albany County Legislators: Bring the Troops Ho ...
    Solid Majority Of Albany County Legislators Sign Proclamation To Bring the Troops Home From Afghanistan And Use Savings To Invest At Home             On October 9, 2012, the legislature of Albany County, NY approved a proclamation calling on ...
  • War or No War on Iran?
      War or No War on Iran?   by Stephen Lendman   In Shakespearean terms, indeed that's the question. Longstanding regime change plans are known. Means to achieve them have been ongoing for years.    A previous article put it this way:   read more

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

  • To Stop WW III Just Tell The Truth About Epicy ...
    By horse237 We really need to convince everyone in the world that America has been hijacked by absolutely insane men who will drive the whole world right off a cliff into certain destruction in order to stop World War III before it starts. That is easy to do if we tell them about Epicyte and [...]
  • Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic i ...
    This is not from “The Onion.”  By Seth Borenstein While the North Pole has been losing sea ice over the years, the water nearest the South Pole has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record 7.51 million square miles in September. That happened just days after reports of the big ...
  • Depopulation is Real – US Deaths Reach Record High
    By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com October 10, 2012 Depopulation is not merely an urban myth of globalist fantasy, but a true reality. There are various agendas and proposals worldwide that are either implemented or on the table from Henry Kissinger’s National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSS ...
  • The 4 Rules You Should Follow To Avoid Eating ...
    The 4 Rules To Follow 1) Stay away from anything that has soy, because 99.9% of the soy that is produced in this country is genetically modified. 2) If you see an ingredient with anything that says “hydrogenated (fill in the blank)” do not eat this product. The genetic structure has been scienti ...
  • Now we know it: Goldman Sachs rules the World
    Konrad Hausner Translated from German by Michael Colhaze Mankind believes what it wants to believe. Even though the facts give a different picture. TheIntelligence has reported several times about the incredible machinations of the international investment bank Goldman Sachs and its shocking imp ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • The E-Bike Unchained: Compact Folding ‘Footloo ...
    Footloose, a new e-bike designed by Mando, offers a new way to travel light without breaking a sweat. Lighter and cheaper than four-wheeled e-vehicles, electric bikes are a great way to extend your range without a lot of extra time and effort. If power starts to run low while you’re en rou ...
  • Students at Bali’s Green School Build a Beauti ...
    We have fawned over The Green School in Bali many times before, and they have wowed us once again. Overseen by Indonesian firm PT Bamboo Pure, students and visitors constructed a bamboo bridge in only four months! The hand-built Millennium Bridge consists of 192 bamboo poles to symbolize the wor ...
  • LAYWOO-D3 Lets You Print 3D Objects From Recyc ...
    Who says 3D printers are only for tech nerds and engineers? Traditional craftsmen may take want to join the 3D revolution after getting a load of LAYWOO-D3, a 3D printer material that is made from 40% recycled wood held together with polymer binding agents. It can be loaded into printers as a th ...
  • Colossal Tiger Made From Reclaimed Timber Spri ...
    This giant timber tiger leaped into life during the ‘Hello Wood’ art camp in Hungary, which brought 200 young designers and architects together to form projects for eight different Hungarian communities. Best of all, the ferocious feline installation is made entirely from salvaged lumber! Read t ...
  • DRPILLA Completes Beautiful LEED Gold Sag Harb ...
    Dominick R. Pilla Associates (DRPILLA) recently completed the first LEED for Homes Gold certified home in Sag Harbor, NY. DRPILLA combined modern architectural design with environmental building strategies to produce this high-performance 8,000 square foot bay front residence. Special considerat ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Do We Ban App Distractions, Too?
    David Pogue says he'll still ask Siri to "read my messages" while his attention is on the road. Yes, of course, any kind of distraction is worse than none. But hearing one sentence read aloud seems to be the least of our automotive distractions, he says.
  • Tim Cook's Apology Is an Important Step Forward
    Whatever the story, the Apple chief's apology for the condition of the new maps app conveys a note of humility that has been missing so far. Without it, the Apple Maps fiasco felt even worse than it was.
  • What Makes Google's Maps So Good
    Nobody ever raved about Google's mapping app for phones until they saw how hard it was for Apple to come up with a rival. Conversations with executives at Google make clear that the company's maps represent years and years of hand-tuning and manual effort.
  • New iOS 6 Loses Google Maps, but Adds Other Fe ...
    The new Apple iOS 6, available Wednesday, substitutes its own maps for Google Maps, which may dissapoint some people, but David Pogue says the other features make it worth downloading.
  • A Case for Watching Movies on a Phone
    What's wrong with watching a movie on a smartphone? David Pogue defends the practice.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Curiosity Rover Finds Rock Type That’s Never B ...
    After shooting it with lasers and X-rays, NASA's Curiosity rover has determined that a rock nicknamed "Jake Matijevic" is of a variety that no other rover has ever spotted on Mars.
  • The Kraken’s Cousin: Searching for the Mysteri ...
    Like the fabled Kraken, Humboldt squid are enigmatic. No one has seen them mate or lay eggs. No one has watched them develop from egg to adult. No one knows how many exist.
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Planetar ...
    This gallery shows four planetary nebulas from the first systematic survey of such objects in the solar neighborhood made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The planetary nebulas shown here are NGC 6543, also known as the Cat's Eye, NGC 7662, NGC 7009 and NGC 6826. In each case, X-ray emissi ...
  • Stem Cells Show Early Promise for Rare Brain D ...
    Four young boys with a rare, fatal brain condition have made it through a dangerous ordeal. Scientists have safely transplanted human neural stem cells into their brains. Twelve months after the surgeries, the boys have more myelin—a fatty insulating protein that coats nerve fibers and speeds up ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Saturn’s ...
    A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is one of the first clear images ever taken of the north polar region as seen from a unique polar ...

PakAlert

  • Iraq 2002, Iran 2012: Compare and contrast Net ...
    Ten years before his “red line” speech at the United Nations last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared before the United States Congress and called for bringing down Saddam Hussein before he developed nuclear weapons. “There is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking and is ...
  • Depopulation is Real – US Deaths Reach Record High
    Depopulation is not merely an urban myth of globalist fantasy, but a true reality. There are various agendas and proposals worldwide that are either implemented or on the table from Henry Kissinger’s National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) to Ted Turners admissions on video the globali ...
  • Swiss Study Shows 147 Technocratic “Super Enti ...
    The Swiss Federal Institute (SFI) in Zurich released a study entitled “The Network of Global Corporate Control” that proves a small consortiums of corporations – mainly banks – run the world. A mere 147 corporations which form a “super entity” have control 40% of the world’s wealth; which is the ...
  • Government Sponsored Mind Control In America: ...
    Through the former President, George Bush, and the current President, Barack Obama, the government has unleashed a modern day version of the mind control police in America by attacking the psychological well-being of America’s school children and veterans by forcibly incarcerating veterans who a ...
  • 28 Good Questions That The Mainstream Media Sh ...
    Why is there so little trust in the mainstream media these days? CNN ratings have been hovering close to record lows over the past few months. A recent Gallup survey found that 60 percent of all Americans "have little or no trust" in the mainstream media. That was a record high according to G ...

Andy Worthington

  • Call Time on This Wretched Government and Its ...
    Please, please, please sign and promote the petition, initiated by Pat Onions and other disabled activists, calling for the British government to “stop and review the cuts to benefits and services which are falling disproportionately on disabled people, their carers and families.” Th ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: A Demand for “Freedom and Jus ...
    This article, published simultaneously here and on the “Close Guantánamo” website, contains information from a visit to Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, by Ramzi Kassem, one of his lawyers, and was made available exclusively to Andy Worthington at Shaker’s ...
  • Green London: Photos of Crystal Palace, the Is ...
    Green London: Crystal Palace, the Isle of Dogs, Ladywell and Brockley, a set on Flickr. My 42nd photo set in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by  bike brings together a few disparate elements, photographed in July, and united under the umbrella title of “Green London&#8 ...
  • Photos of Blackheath and Greenwich: Olympic Me ...
    Blackheath and Greenwich: Olympic Memories and Other Journeys, a set on Flickr. In my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began in May, the extent of my cycling, and of my photography, has far exceeded my ability to upload the photos to my Flickr account. I have ov ...
  • Development Frenzy: Photos of the Regent&#8217 ...
    Development Frenzy: The Regent’s Canal from St. Pancras Basin to King’s Cross, a set on Flickr. This set of photos is the 40th in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, which I began in May, and it follows on from three previous sets recording a particular jour ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Neo-Nazi Jailed for Making Threats Released Af ...
    Harold C. “Hal” Turner, the right-wing Internet radio shock jock, racist, Holocaust denier, FBI snitch, lynching advocate and jailbird, is back home in his New Jersey condo after spending nearly three years in an Indiana prison cell for threatening three federal judges on his blog who had upheld ...
  • Minuteman Founder Must Pay Former Close Ally H ...
    Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the border-watching Minuteman Project, has never been shy about expressing his opinions, especially when it comes to his many critics. But now his pugnaciousness has cost him dearly in a long-running feud with a former Minuteman ally. Last month, an Orange County, Ca ...
  • Suspect Charged in Toledo Mosque Arson
    Federal hate crime charges were filed today in Ohio against an Indiana man, Randolph Linn, who is a suspect in last weekend’s arson fire that heavily damaged the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property, and with u ...
  • Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in Canada
    Jean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital size and int ...
  • Muslims ‘Under Attack,’ Says Toled ...
    Muslims and their places of worship “are clearly under attack,” says the president of one of the country’s largest mosques, which was heavily damaged four days ago in an arson fire. “We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, tol ...

change: org.

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

Common Dreams -News

  • Hezbollah: 'It's Our 'Natural Right' to Have D ...
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  • UN Recognizes International Day of the Girl Child
    The first United Nations International Day of the Girl Child was observed Thursday with a worldwide call to end child marriage. The day was designed to recognize the rights of girls around the world and highlight the unique challenges they face. ...
  • Exposed: Cruelty at Burger King Dairy Farm
    An undercover video produced by animals rights group Mercy for Animals exposes brutal animal treatment at a Burger King dairy supplier. read more
  • New Huge Oil Slick Traced to BP Disaster
    An oil slick three miles long and three football fields wide that was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico last month has been traced back to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster of 2010, the Coast Guard said Wednesday night. The reason for the appearance of the new slick, which is currently about ...
  • Citizens United Money Floods Romney Campaign
    Citizens United money -- the campaign contribution money allowed by the Supreme Court decision -- has flooded the Romney campaign since Labor Day, with the Republican contender receiving 70% of outside spending, according to an analysis released Wednesday from the Center for Public Integrity. ...

Lifehacker

  • Buy Your Formal Wear Used Because the Newer St ...
    It's smarter to buy your tuxedoes, hats, cashmere sweaters, and other more formal items used, whenever possible. Not just because used is cheaper than new, but because, as men's clothing blog Put This On explains, used formal wear is often better quality than new. More »
  • Learn How to Quickly Evaluate the Worthiness o ...
    Bananas make you gain weight faster! Mice who were given Advil burn twice as many calories! If you're wondering whether news sites and social media are just messing with you, anyone can head to the scientific paper at the heart of a headline and evaluate them on four criteria. More &# ...
  • Thunderbird's Filelink Sends Attachments Direc ...
    If you're going to email people, you're going to run into attachment size limits. It's a fact. You might not have noticed, but email client Thunderbird makes it nice and easy to convert attachments into Dropbox, Box.net, and other cloud storage links. More »
  • How to Spot Truth in the Sea of Lies, Rumors, ...
    The internet is full of crap. For every piece of reputable information you'll find countless rumors, misinformation, and downright falsehoods. Separating truth from fiction is equal parts a mental battle and diligent research. Here's how to make sure you never get duped. More »
  • The Cooking Methods Cheat Sheet Clears Up All ...
    So you've got yourself a few recipes and you're ready to start cooking for yourself, but you're having trouble with some of the terminology. What's the difference between baking and broiling? Is pan frying the same as sautéing? This cheat sheet will help you out. More »

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Sky's price hike gives customers chance to dit ...
    Sky customers face second price rise in three months but Ofcom says line rental increase frees them to choose another providerSky is to hammer customers with a second price increase in three months, raising the cost of telephone line rental by 18% from £12.25 to £14.50 a month from December. The ...
  • Eurozone crisis live: Spain downgrade ups bail ...
    Ratings agency S&P downgrades the country's credit rating to BBB-minus as IMF head Christine Lagarde calls on governments to co-operate to heal the world economyFiona WalshNick Fletcher
  • Abu Qatada pardon sought from Jordan, tribunal ...
    Act of clemency among attempts to clear way for deportation and would enable re-trial without relying on torture evidenceHome Office ministers tried to persuade the Jordanian government to grant the terrorist suspect Abu Qatada a pardon so that he could be deported from the UK, an immigration tr ...
  • Russia drawn into Turkey-Syria plane row – liv ...
    Follow live updates after Turkey's decision to ground a Syria passenger plane over suspicions about Russian arms prompts a diplomatic spatMatthew WeaverBrian Whitaker
  • Four guilty in gang-rape trial that shocked France
    Ten men acquitted while those convicted get short sentences in trial described by victims' lawyers as 'judicial shipwreck'Ten French men have been acquitted and four have received short sentences over the gang-rape of teenage girls in a trial described by one of the victims' lawyers as a "judici ...

McClatchey

Afghanistan Sun

  • NATO considers Georgia partner in new mission ...
    TBILISI, October 11 (Itar-Tass) - NATO considers Georgia the partner in the Alliance’s new mission in Afghanistan that will start in 2014, Georgian permanent representative to NATO Gega ...
  • Clock Running Out on Afghan Political Solution
    - After more than a decade of international military intervention in Afghanistan, U.S. policymakers have come to accept that a political solution is the way forward in Afghanistan, analysts here are ...
  • Obama names US general in Afghanistan to lead NATO
    Afghan istan, to be the next NATO supreme allied commander. Allen is slated to replace Admiral Jim Stavridis in the spring, and Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the assistant Marine commandant, would take ...
  • Pakistanis Protest in Support of Yousafzai Def ...
    While some Pakistanis protested and military leaders condemned the attack on the teenage activist, many conservative religious figures were conspicuously silent. Judy Woodruff talks to NewsHour ...
  • Marine general nominated for Afghan commander
    A Marine general with extensive combat experience in Iraq who sped up the ranks upon returning to the Pentagon has been nominated by President Obama to lead U.S. and NATO forces in ...

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Supreme Court seeks government's view in Lawson
    This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order inviting the Solicitor General of the United States to file a brief "expressing the views of the United States."  This is a good sign that the Supreme Court is interested in the case, and could accept the case if the Solicitor G ...
  • SEC announces new whistleblower award opportun ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower has today issued seven (7) new Notices of Covered Actions.  Each of these notices is an opportunity for any  whistleblowers to file a claim.  If a whistleblower believes that his or her information contribute ...
  • This Week on Honesty Without Fear
    Tune in today at 5:00pm EDT to Honesty Without Fear on Progressive Radio Network. In the first half hour, Richard Renner interviews Arizona attorney Vikram Badrinath about his recent amicus brief to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Writing on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Associat ...
  • NWC and No FEAR Coalition Announce Endorsement ...
    Today, the National Whistleblowers Center and the No FEAR Coalition announced their support for the immediate passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA) for federal employee whistleblowers.  The decision to support the Senate version (S. 743) of the WPEA came after the S ...
  • The Undeniable Truth About Corporate Misconduc ...
    By Guest Columnist: Donna Boehme Principal at Compliance Strategists LLC and editor of the weekly CS Newsflash (and former chief compliance and ethics officer at two leading multinationals). Follow her on Twitter @DonnaCBoehme. Originally Published in Corporate Counsel (Septe ...

Science Express

  • Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratosph ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additiona ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes s ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20 ...
  • Lizard moms choose the right genes for the rig ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Two Dartmouth biologists have found that brown anole lizards make an interesting choice when deciding which males should father their offspring. The females of this species mate with several males, then produce more sons with sperm from large fathers, and more daughters with spe ...
  • More than One: Long-Reigning Microbe Controlli ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Marine scientists long believed that a microbe called Trichodesmium, a member of a group called the cyanobacteria, reigned over the ocean's nitrogen budget.

TechDirt

  • Megaupload Renews Request For Criminal Charges ...
    When we wrote about the US judge in the Megaupload case siding with the US government in saying that, even without being able to technically serve the company (since it has no presence in the US), the criminal case could continue, we assumed that Megaupload would appeal. But even before appeali ...
  • Bradley Manning's Prosecutor Scolded For Refus ...
    As was noted here back in September, several news organizations have begun a coordinated push to have the Bradley Manning court-martial "opened up" to allow the general public to access motions, briefs and rulings. The military refused (of course), inviting the press to entertain itself with nea ...
  • Court: Book Scanning Is Obviously Fair Use
    Well, well. I had a post all written up that I was going to publish today about how the settling of the Publishers lawsuit against Google over book scanning had one downside -- that we didn't get a full court ruling on the question of whether or not the book scanning project constituted fair us ...
  • UK Continues To Criminalize Bad Taste And Stup ...
    In the wake of the Twitter joke trial fiasco, which saw Paul Chambers dragged through the courts for two years before being acquitted, the UK's Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there should be an "informed debate" about the boundaries of free speech for social media. That really ...
  • Supreme Court Won't Hear Case On Legality Of R ...
    Well, this is unfortunate. Late last year, the 9th Circuit appeals court -- as part of a series of cases concerning warrantless spying on Americans -- decided that the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) passed by Congress in 2008 was not unconstitutional in granting telcos retroactive immunity for carry ...

VacTruth

  • Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...
    Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
  • The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...
    Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
  • Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...
    A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...
  • “I was wondering if you had any informat ...
    CJ asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in ...
  • “My husband and I are missionaries&#8230 ...
    A parent named Tasha is wondering: “My husband and I are missionaries, going to Africa. Because of the higher risks in country, we are required to vaccinate our daughter. Based on information we have found, most illnesses we vaccinate for are curable with access to medication and good heal ...

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
  • Things You Might Miss
    Not much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
  • On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...
    Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...
  • Thoughts on Societal Mental Illness
    Make a claim that one snort of cocaine makes you irredeemably insane and people will line up behind laws that lock cocaine users up for life. But read that 73% of incarcerated women have mental health issues and many of those same people will find it a compelling argument against mass incarcerat ...

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War in Context

  • America’s new modesty in the Mideast
    Rami G Khouri writes: The past month, during which I have had the opportunity to interact with thousands of Americans across the United States, has also been one of the most difficult and volatile in the American-Middle Eastern relationship. This has reflected the lively, occasionally violent, r ...
  • Video: Plane incident marks new low in Syria-T ...
    The Washington Post reports: Russia demanded an explanation from Turkey on Thursday for why it intercepted a Syrian passenger plane flying from Moscow to Damascus, the latest instance of spiraling Syrian-Turkish tensions related to Syria’s bloody civil war. Turkey said it used F-16 fighter jets ...
  • Is the glass half full for Syria’s Assad?
    Tony Karon writes: Winter is coming, and with it the near certainty that the lot of millions of suffering Syrians will get substantially worse. Some 335,000 and counting find themselves in refugee camps in neighboring Turkey and Jordan, the lucky among them in pre-fabricated structures provided ...
  • Video: Who in Pakistan should have protected M ...
  • Reading the MorsiMeter
    Issandr El Amrani writes: On Saturday evening, as President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt addressed a crowd of tens of thousands in a Cairo stadium, I listened to his speech in a taxi, stuck in one of Cairo’s perennial traffic jams. Morsi, who has just passed the 100th day of his presidency, was speaki ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Geoengineering: ‘computer-based virtual ...
    From the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Earth sunblock only needed if planet warms easily Planet’s sensitivity to greenhouse gases will determine how much shading could be needed to slow temperature rise RICHLAND, Wash. – An increasing number of scientists are … Continue read ...
  • Newsbytes – Europe’s Golden Age Of ...
    From Dr. Benny Peiser at The GWPF Coal has been displacing gas generation in Europe since 2009 and the International Energy Agency expects this trend to continue, Ms Anne Sophie Corbeau, senior gas analyst for the International Energy Agency said … Continue reading →
  • ‘Tabloid climatology’ may be the r ...
    As WUWT readers know, a climatologist who bucked the consensus trend had his profile summarily deleted at Wikipedia thanks to the William Connolley effect as outlined in “Death by Stoat“. It appears that Connolley had to justify his own guilty … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week – it’s a travest ...
    Dr. Kevin Trenberth has another travesty on his hands.  UPDATE: Commenter Lee Harvey has the best point I’ve seen so far. The next IPCC report will be “blander”; it’s now “harder to gain a consensus”; Climategate “made an immense difference” &#8230 ...
  • Untested claim: increased CO2 helps glacier ic ...
    From the Institute of Physics , something so overreaching I just can’t believe the Institute of Physics would put out a press release on it.  Where does one start with stuff like this? This is all modeling, they haven’t even … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Aged hematopoietic stem cells rejuvenated to b ...
    Researchers have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells to be functionally younger, offering intriguing clues into how medicine might one day fend off some ailments of old age. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Ulm University Medicine in Germany report ...
  • Collaboration seeks to find new uses for faile ...
    The U.S. government is looking for the next AZT, Viagra and thalidomide — substances that washed out as treatments for one disease but later turned out to work well against a totally different ailment. AZT failed as a cancer drug but became the first antiviral to work against HIV. Viagra didn’t ...
  • Differences in dopamine may determine how hard ...
    Whether someone is a “go-getter” or a “slacker” may depend on individual differences in the brain chemical dopamine, according to new research in the May 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that dopamine affects cost-benefit analyses. The study fo ...
  • Eye implants restore ‘useful sight&#8217 ...
    The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery. Chris James was able to see outlines of objects for the first time in 20 years after surgeons fitted him with the device during an eight-h ...
  • How That Glass of Red Wine Might Help You Live ...
    Researchers have found new evidence showing that resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, may play a role in preventing cell aging. The study in rodents found that when mice had a particular gene — SIRT1 — knocked out, or turned off, resveratrol had no effect on them. But tests of ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • US to Continue Talks with Russia on Nunn-Lugar ...
    The United States is interested in continuing talks with Russia on a US-funded Russian armaments disposal program, known as the Nunn-Lugar program, US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on Thursday.
  • Suspects in US Technology Export Case Remain i ...
    A Russian-American businessman accused of illegally exporting sophisticated microelectronics to the Russian military will remain under arrest and be transferred from Houston to New York, a US federal court in Houston, Texas, ruled Thursday.
  • Porn Industry Gets Behind Obama
    With the US political season close to reaching its November climax, any last-minute endorsements are likely welcomed and publicized by the presidential candidates—except, maybe, this one.
  • US Students Detected Libor-Fixing Years Before ...
    In April 2010, University of Minnesota graduate students Connan Snider and Thomas Youle released a paper suggesting that leading global banks were manipulating the Libor—the world’s most important lending rate—to benefit their own trading positions.
  • US Students Detected Libor-Fixing Years Before ...
    In April 2010, University of Minnesota graduate students Connan Snider and Thomas Youle released a paper suggesting that leading global banks were manipulating the Libor—the world’s most important lending rate—to benefit their own trading positions.

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • New Study: Why Glyphosate Should be Banned
    Executive Summary The use of glyphosate-based herbicides, especially Monsanto's Roundup formulation, has increased dramatically since the introduction of genetically modified (GM) glyphosate-tolerant crops, resulting in the contamination of our food, environment and water supplies. Glyphosate- ...
  • Why California's Prop 37 Should Matter to Anyo ...
    One of the more interesting things we will learn on Nov. 6 is whether or not there is a "food movement" in America worthy of the name - that is, an organized force in our politics capable of demanding change in the food system. Click here to read this article
  • Ten Percent of Children Now Born with Neurolog ...
    Pesticides pervade the environment, from the air we breathe to the food we eat, and they are making children sicker than they were a generation ago, a new report warns.Click here to read this article
  • Interview with Jimbo's Foods on Organics, GMOs ...
    I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jim "Jimbo" Someck, who has been in the natural food industry since 1973.Click here to read this article
  • Majority of 'Gluten-Free' Foods Found to Conta ...
    In the wake of all the recent revelations about the dangers of GMOs, a special warning needs to go out to all those health-conscious consumers buying "gluten-free" foods. As it turns out, most "gluten-free" foods sold in the USA contain genetically modified organisms.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Farm Bill – What Now?
    As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...
  • Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?
    Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.
  • Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...
    The frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
  • New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...
    Not only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing dietary behaviors.
  • What If We’re at Peak Bacon?
    Without bacon, how will we sauté all that chard we get from our CSA shares?

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My Care2 Picks

  • Engineered Viruses Created in Government Labs ...
    Canadian researchers have concluded that H1N1 flu shot is more dangerous than the flu. The studys release coincided with North America and certain parts of Europe preparing to promote massive vaccination efforts. Shot caused more physiological issues Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • Gentleperson's Guide to Forum Spies
    decoding astroturfing & malicious forum & Internet operations, trolls, sockpuppets, crapflooding & disinfo specialists Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The Peculiar Stability of Instability
    We actually deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, and SE Asia as if we were still living in the WW-II era : we deal with the Mideast, Latin America, the Atlantic Region, Eastern Europe, NE Asia, separately Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics &a ...
  • The Rape of Society
    I had just been told that my daughter was raped. I glance toward the door. I feel drunk, as if my legs cant hold my weight. I grasp the window sill and push my forehead against the window. I need air. I gasp, choking on the silent scream that sticks Submitted by joseph m. to Society & Cult ...
  • Intermission (And Why Bill McKibben is an Utte ...
    In a recent interview prominent green activist Bill McKibben declared that fossil fuel barons are taking away the future and must therefore be stopped Those of us who regard affordable energy as a golden ticket out of drudgery marvel Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle  |  &n ...

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • A Hall of Shame for Venezuelan Elections Coverage
    ShareThisA Hall of Shame for Venezuelan Elections Coverage By Keane Bhatt 08 Oct 2012 Hugo Chávez, as a number of us expected, won the Venezuelan presidential election in yet another landslide yesterday: 55.1% to his opponent Henrique Capriles's 44.2%. To understand why Chávez's electoral victor ...
  • Crack found in Pa. nuclear reactor head
    ShareThisCrack found in Pa. nuclear reactor head 10 Oct 2012 (Shippingport, PA) A crack has been discovered in the cap to the reactor in Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station's Unit 2, according to FirstEnergy Corp. officials. Crews found a crack in Unit 2's reactor vessel head during a scheduled ...
  • Ex-CIA man accused of leaks seeks classified d ...
    ShareThisEx-CIA man accused of leaks seeks classified data in his defense, also wants reporters deposed 10 Oct 2012 Lawyers for a former CIA officer accused of leaking the names of covert operatives have told a judge that they will need to expose a wide array of government secrets to provide an ...
  • 'Homeland' star: Obama prefers drones
    ShareThis'Homeland' star: Obama prefers drones 10 Oct 2012 "Homeland" star Damian Lewis says that President Barack Obama isn't exactly 'dovish' compared to his predecessor. Talking to Rolling Stone about Obama — who's a big fan of his show - the British actor remarked, "And by the way, for all t ...
  • Mother of slain Navy SEAL: Romney shouldn't po ...
    ShareThisMother of slain Navy SEAL: Romney shouldn't politicize her son's death 10 Oct 2012 The mother of Glen Doherty, a Navy SEAL who was one of four Americans killed in the Sept. 11 attack in Libya, told a Boston TV station that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney shouldn't politicize her ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Re-emergence of Polio in The Third Wo ...
    ‘Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious disease caused by a virus. It invades the nervous system, and can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours. It can strike at any age, but affects mainly children under three (over 50 percent of all cases). The virus enters the body throug ...
  • VRM: Pandemic Preparedness & The Dark Agenda Ahead
    We are currently entering the next phase in the Globalist plan to erode the bedrock of natural immunity amongst the general population, a race to gain complete control over our inherent right to self-determination of the body. Based on all my research thus [...]
  • VRM: PCV Vaccine Exposed – Breeding Grou ...
    The road-map leading to most neurological & neuro-developmental disorders traces back to the earliest vaccines administered to babies (HEP B, DTaP, PCV, RV, HIB, IPV, MMR). Timing is the key – a premature breach of the delicate, under-developed “electrical grid network” designed to prot ...
  • VRM: The Flu Report
    The Flu Vaccine deception ranks as one of the great cover-ups & swindles of the last century perpetrated against the general population. Not only has the public been systematically lied to by their elected Government for generations (in league with the World Health Organization & a Vacc ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Stunning Letter: Infantry Colonel Communiqué ...
    10 October 2012 This is the most stunning and forceful letter I have read from the Afghanistan war.  It was written in 2010 from Afghanistan by Colonel Harry Tunnell, the Brigade Commander of 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team. After this letter, Colonel Tunnell was investigated and the norm ...
  • Thai Translation of "America's Dumbest War, Ever"
    08 October 2012
  • All The King’s Horses (Some notes from a weeke ...
    08 October 2012 Terrain is the single most important factor in combat. During the early days of the wars, back when everyone seemed to know we had won in Afghanistan, testimonials streamed from the battle zones about how badly the deserts treated our super-gear. Batman could only dream abo ...
  • An Enemy Without Boundaries
    06 October 2012
  • Obama v. Romney: Brutal Combat in Thailand
    04 October 2012 From Chiang Mai In the Leftwing corner, wearing black, weighing very little, hailing from Africa, or Indonesia, or maybe Hawaii, nobody really knows, the undisputed Champion, Beeeetllle Obammmma! In the Rightwing corner, wearing reddish-brown, weighing more that Beetle Obama ...

The Killing Train

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

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Japan calls on int’l creditors to suppor ...
    Japan vowed Thursday to resume loans to a reforming Burma and called on global creditors of the one-time pariah state to chip in more, chiding China for skipping a key lenders' meeting
  • Forced to fight – child soldiers in Burm ...
    Burma recently acknowledged for the first time that there are child soldiers within its military. Despite efforts by the Burmese government to stop recruiting child soldiers, forced conscription of minors in the country's army still continues.
  • Armed Shan group holds talks with government
    Delegations from the Shan State Progressive Party (Shan State Army-North) and the government’s Internal Peace Making Committee have met in northern Shan state’s Lashio for peace talks following several clashes between the groups
  • Thein Sein and the Nobel Peace Prize
    Thein Sein has accomplished much during his short tenure as president, but does he really deserve a Nobel Peace Prize at this stage for his efforts?
  • Renowned Burma observer receives visa after de ...
    Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner, who has been covering Burma for more than two decades, is set to visit Rangoon after being blacklisted by the government since the 1980s

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National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Germany court rules for Motorola in Microsoft ...
    [JURIST] The Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled for Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Google, against Microsoft [corporate websites] on Friday. This was the fourth decision [FOSS Patents report] in a suit between Motorola and Microsoft to be issued this year, all of which were countersuit ...
  • UN: proposed Ukraine gay propaganda ban violat ...
    [JURIST] The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) [official website] on Friday condemned [press release] a draft law [bill 8711 materials, in Ukrainian] that would ban pro-gay "propaganda" in Ukraine. The OHCHR said that the bill would be open to abuse and that it violates ...
  • UK court allows Kenya ex-prisoners to sue for ...
    [JURIST] The Queen's Bench Division [official website] on the High Court of England and Wales ruled Friday that three elderly Kenyans can sue the British government for torture they suffered while in detention under the British Colonial Administration in the 1950s. Judge Richard McCombe ruled th ...
  • UK court approves extradition of terror suspec ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of England and Wales on Friday approved the extradition of five terror suspects to the US. The court's decision comes a week after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] gave its final approval of the extradition, which it had initially approved [JUR ...
  • Australia High Court upholds tobacco plain-pac ...
    [JURIST] The High Court of Australia [official website] on Friday published its reasons [text, PDF] for dismissing a lawsuit brought by several large international tobacco companies challenging the labeling requirements of the Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (TPP Act) [materials]. The court ori ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

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Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Army Radio Presenter: I Hope Next U.S. ...
    Kobi Arieli, a prominent ultra-Orthodox radio presenter for Galey Tzahal (Army Radio) told his co-host that he hoped that the upcoming U.S. presidential election would bring to office a president who “hates Arabs.”  The statement may’ve been intended in that sort of &#8220 ...
  • Bibi Calls New Elections: Meet New Boss, Same ...
    There’s hardly a better, more cynical analysis of political power relationships than the Who lyric, Won’t Get Fooled Again, which closes with the words: “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”  That’s about the size of today’s announcement that Bibi Netanya ...
  • Has Israel Passed Its Sell-By Date?
    No, I didn’t devise that title in case there are any pro-Israel folk out there seeking further proof of my perfidy toward Israel.  It happens to have been written by prominent Israeli satirist, film and TV writer Kobi Niv, in a column in today’s Haaretz. He begins by referring to a t ...
  • Atlantic Council Hosts Presentation on Semnani ...
    If you’re in DC and interested in averting a war with Iran, you must attend the Atlantic Council’s presentation on Friday of Khosrow Semnani’s groundbreaking study.  He’s produced the first scientific projection of the number of casualties from a strike against Iran&#8217 ...
  • David Rothkopf’s Fever Dream of U.S.-Israeli “ ...
    Every so often I single out some particularly outrageous piece of hasbarist nonsense to illustrate the vacuousness and delusional nature of the war camp’s strategic thinking.  Often my favorite targets are people like Eli Lake, Tom Friedman or Yossi Melman.  But tonight, Foreign Policy&#82 ...

If Americans Knew

  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and l ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine provid ...
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again o ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
  • Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
    Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first wee ...
  • Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist . ...
    In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their G ...

David J. Gregory

  • Donation will give you ACCESS TO PRIVATE AREA!
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/06/16/donation-will-give-you-access-to-private-area/ As our private area grows with more and more data, it becomes more and more desirable. A donation will give you access to this area where not only will you ...
  • BIG NEWS Obama Threatens VETO CISPA
    Big news. President Obama is threatening to veto CISPA, the bill that could give the government and big companies limitless powers to spy on us online. The President has folded on a lot of things in the past, but finally, yes finally, there is hope, the tide maybe changing, from the GOP Corporat ...
  • The Eye On Citrus Show
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/the-eye-on-citrus-show/ Our latest radio show is up, talking about the GOP Forum held in Crystal River this past Saturday, Jan 14, 2010. The two non-fiction books relating the dark and illegal deeds of t ...
  • Jesse Ventura, 63 Documents the Government Doe ...
    http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=https://davidjgregory.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/jesse-ventura-63-documents-the-government-does-not-want-you-to-read/ EyeOnCitrus.com is proud to announce that Jesse Ventura, newest book, 63 Documents The Government Doesn’t Want you to read, is availab ...
  • What side are you on?
    As a Thanksgiving deadline nears for action by the powerful congressional committee on deficit reduction, Bernie sounded an alarm over reports that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid may be cut. "The American people have been very clear. They understand how important Social Security, Med ...

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Israel and Palestine - UN Resolution 194 and t ...
    Resolution 194, adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1948, addressed a host of issues, but only one paragraph out of 15 dealt with refugees created by the conflict. Resolution 194 attempted to create the tools required to reach a truce in the region. It established a conciliation c ...
  • Destination Israel - Top 10 Christian Sites at ...
    More than 60 percent of the 3.4 million tourists who visited Israel last year were Christian. And though Jerusalem is a significant stop in tracing the steps of Jesus in the Holy Land, the real must-see is the Sea of Galilee area nearly 100 miles to the north.The Sea of Galilee — really a lake ...
  • The Obama Edge - Chaffetz Accuses State Depart ...
    Rep. Jason Chaffetz caused a stir at Wednesday's hearing on security lapses in Libya when he accused the State Department of publicizing classified information by displaying a satellite photograph of the United States consulate in Benghazi. Chaffetz made the comments at the House oversight panel ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Romney Gains Big in Swing Stat ...
    Mitt Romney gaining in three key swing states one week after his strong debate performance, according to a new poll released late Wednesday. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls show Romney and President Obama in a statistical tie in Virginia and Florida with Obama holding a slig ...
  • Venezuela on Edge - Unrelenting Chávez Deepen ...
    By now, the cheers from victorious celebrations greeting Hugo Chávez to another term as President of Venezuela have abated. Despite the oft-hysterical predictions of some in the mainstream media, the election was not carried out on a wave of violence, but rather seems to have reaffirmed the int ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Even The Labor Dept. Says These Numbers Are Funky
    For a while the liberals were celebrating. Earlier this morning, the Department of Labor reported that initial jobless claims plunged to 339K from 369K a week ago. Economists were expecting this week to be the same as last.  Immediately the tweets mocking Jack Welch were released by ...
  • HUH? Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "Wrong Statem ...
    DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is proving once again that Ron White is correct when he says you can't fix stupid. Just to prove how desperate the Obama campaign is getting, they have called her back from exile to go back on the talk show circuit. Yesterday she appeared on the Piers Morg ...
  • EXPLOSIVE VIDEO: DNC Employees Caught Aiding P ...
    Voting twice is OK if you are voting for Barack Obama.  Project Veratas and Watchdog.org released a video showing a paid staffer the president’s re-election campaign's Houston office helping an undercover journalist register to vote for Barack Obama in Florida despite the person's stated in ...
  • Jack Welch vs Progressive Attacks: Revenge of ...
    When last week's incredible drop in the unemployment rate was released former GE head Jack Welch tweeted: With that tweet, a dispute erupted between Welch and the folks at Time Warner (Fortune, CNN, Money) who went out of their way to dispute Welch's claim but ...
  • BIAS? Obama Attended VP Debate Moderator's Wedding
    The appearance of bias is as bad as actual bias. If you were on trial before a judge and found out that the Judge had attended the wedding of the prosecutor twenty years ago, even if the judge were the fairest and most honest judge in the world you would ask for a different jurist.  Actua ...

The Real Agenda

  • Gobiernos Restringen Exenciones contra Vacunas
    “Contra el cuerpo de un hombre sano, el Parlamento no tiene ningún derecho de acción; ni con el pretexto de la salud pública.” – Profesor FW Newman de Oxford. “La vacunación es una ilusión, su ejecución un crimen penal!” – Profesor Alfred Russel Wallace en &#8 ...
  • Reino Unido reduzirá assistencia social em 10 ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OUTUBRO 9, 2012 O Ministro Britânico da Economia, George Osborne, disse segunda-feira que planeja cortar mais 10 mil milhões de libras em gastos, reduzindo benefícios sociais para 2016-17. Osborne disse que o objetivo é reduzir o déficit. Falando pa ...
  • Austeridad en el Reino Unido cortará 10 billon ...
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTUBRE 9, 2012 El ministro británico de Economía, George Osborne, dijo el lunes que tiene la intención de recortar otros 10.000 millones de libras en el gasto mediante la reducción de las prestaciones sociales para 2016-17. Osborne dijo que el obje ...
  • Mitt Romney will continue Obama’s Plan t ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 10, 2012 The Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency, Mitt Romney said Tuesday  that if he wins the election next November, the United States will continue to arm the opposition in Syria to fight against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Th ...
  • Jose Dirceu Convicted in Mensalão Corruption case
    But the Brazilian Court abstained itself from even hearing evidence that may have incriminated former Brazilian president Luis Inacio da Silva. By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 10, 2012 The Brazilian Supreme Court convicted Jose Dirceu, a minister of former President Lula da ...

Wind Watch

  • Pittsford wants wind moratorium
    PITTSFORD — A third municipal board wants a temporary halt on commercial wind projects in the region until more studies can be completed on the potential impacts of large scale turbines. Town officials in Pittsford recently unanimously signed a resolution requesting the Rutland Regional Planning ...
  • Another ‘no’ to wind turbines
    Northern Bruce Peninsula has joined the list of municipalities that do not support the construction of industrial wind turbines within their boundaries. Northern Bruce Peninsula council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday stating the municipality does not support the construction of wind ene ...
  • Group: Bat care plan is unsound
    OAKLAND — Multiple conservation organizations, including Save Western Maryland, an Oakland-based, grassroots community action group, have filed comments in response to the Criterion Wind project’s Habitat Conservation Plan, which outlines Criterion’s proposed minimization measures to reduce harm ...
  • Turbine safety concerns: Urbana City seeks to ...
    URBANA — Urbana’s city prosecutor said the proposed Buckeye II Wind Project might hurt medical helicopter operations and the municipal airport but said he is skeptical that either the state or the project’s managers are concerned with the city’s interests. Everpower, the company in charge of the ...
  • Wind-farm debate clouds Steens Mtn. anniversary
    This month marks the 12th anniversary of designation of the remote Steens Mountain country of southeast Oregon as a protected area, some of it as federal wilderness. But conservation groups are in court, trying to keep wind turbines and transmission lines off the mountain. Experts on sage grouse ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment  |   Note- ...
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • U.S. Military Is Sent to Jordan to Help With C ...
    “The Obama administration has declined to intervene in the Syrian conflict beyond providing communications equipment and other nonlethal assistance to the rebels opposing the government of President Bashar al-Assad. But the outpost near Amman could play a broader role should American policy chan ...
  • New Style of Health Care Emerges to Fill Hospi ...
    “[T]he demise of St. Vincent’s has also turned Lower Manhattan into a laboratory for health care reform. The new clinics and the maneuvering by large chains are anticipating an expansion of the number of people with insurance and changes in the way that health care is delivered and paid for. And ...
  • Confidence Among Small U.S. Businesses Cooled ...
    “Small-business “owners are in maintenance mode; spending only where necessary and not hiring,” William Dunkelberg, the group’s chief economist, said in a statement. “Owners are unwilling to put their own capital on the line until the future path of the economy and econom ...
  • Greek Protesters Await German Leader on Athens ...
    “Daily speculation in the local media about the outcome of Greek negotiations with the troika, aimed at securing a $40.8 billion dollar loan without which the country faces default in late November, was eclipsed on Tuesday by anticipation of the German leader’s visit.” (NY Times) Loa ...
  • Ending the War on Kidneys
    The war on drugs can be dated to 1914, although the phrase “war on drugs” was coined in 1972 during the presidency of Richard Nixon.  The war on kidneys began in 1984. It’s an oft told tale how drug prohibition has led to the promotion of organized crime, skyrocketing violence here and abroad, a ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • What should be in a “visual journalism” course?
    One meaning of the phrase “visual journalism” is simply photojournalism. There are people who use the two terms interchangeably. I respectfully disagree with that approach — mainly because the word “photojournalism” is perfectly good, and clear. It is a word that ca ...
  • Should you major in journalism now?
    Like any savvy blogger, I look at my blog stats from time to time. The stats tell me a lot of people come to this blog because they are searching for information about how to become a journalist, what to study, and whether it’s smart to be a journalism major. I teach about online journali ...
  • Blogging basics for journalism students
    Having just finished grading some student blog posts, I have a few thoughts: 1. Headline. The headline (or title) of a blog post should accurately represent the content of the blog post. If the blog post is a critique of, say, a news story, don’t write your blog post headline as if your p ...
  • Plagiarism lessons and examples
    I’m catching up on some of the (many) things that have been written about the recent Jonah Lehrer ethics case, and I’d like to highlight this article for its breakdown and descriptions of some serious transgressions: Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com I think one thi ...
  • Use Instapaper to capture, read blog posts
    I’ve been using Instapaper, a free on- and off-line reading tool, for a while, maybe more than a year. Mostly I use it for its most common purpose — to capture very long articles from a Web page and read them later. Often I read them on my Kindle when I’m not connected to wi-fi ...

Facing South

  • Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts ...
    Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap. read more
  • NC judge takes public campaign funding, also g ...
    Conservative N.C. Supreme Court justice Paul Newby has taken $240,100 in public campaign funding to help run his re-election campaign. He's also getting support from a right-wing political group that calls public funding "immoral" and "welfare for politicians." read more
  • Study: 1 in 3 Asian-American voters is undecided
    Asian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Pressure grows to open presid ...
    A grassroots effort to open up the presidential debates to third-party candidates has succeeded in getting three of the 10 corporate sponsors of the debates that begin tonight to withdraw their support. read more
  • Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in Texas
    Protesters are sitting in trees in northeastern Texas in an effort to halt construction of a controversial pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. read more

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Drones are not weapons of the powerful
    If this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap.  They are just big radio controlled planes.  They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.  Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows).  Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
  • Drones are not weapons of the powerful
    If this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap.  They are just big radio controlled planes.  They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.  Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows).  Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
  • Woops
    The post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used  Employment survey #s.  Ouch. I am officially embarrassed.  At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...
  • Woops
    The post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used  Employment survey #s.  Ouch. I am officially embarrassed.  At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...
  • Comments on the cost of Iraq
    Elevated from the comments, MarkFromIreland: Greetings Ian, Do you remember Mohammed Ibn Laith? Gorilla’s Guides » 2007 » February » 15: I am a Muslim I am Iraki maybe you believe that God told you that must turn aside when you have been struck.That is not what God tells me. What God tells me is ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • Even After the Housing Bust, Americans Still L ...
    For decades, Americans have chosen to live in suburbs rather than in cities. Suburban growth has outpaced urban growth, and many big cities have even lost population. But in recent years, some experts have said it’s time for cities to make a comeback. Why? Urban crime rates have fa ...
  • The Rise of Post-Familialism: Humanity's Future?
    This piece is the introduction to a new report on post-familialism from Civil Service College in Singapore, Chapman University, and Fieldstead and Company and authored by Joel Kotkin. For most of human history, the family — defined by parents, children and extended kin — has stood as the ce ...
  • How California Lost its Mojo
    The preferred story for California's economy runs like this: In the beginning there was prosperity.  It started with gold.  Then, agriculture thrived in California's climate.  Movies and entertainment came along in the early 20th Century.  In the 1930s there was migration from the Dust Bo ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Barcelona
    Among those for whom Paris is not their favorite European city, Barcelona often fills the void. Barcelona is the capital of Spain's Catalonia region. Catalonia has been in the news in recent weeks because of the rising a settlement for independence from Spain, or at a minimum, considerably e ...
  • The Braking Of The BRICs
    For over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China (and, in some cases, with the addition of an ‘S’ for South Africa). A concept coined by Goldman Sachs economist J ...

GM Watch

  • African scientist discusses GM maize study
    1.Genetically-modified organisms in news again 2.Sprague Dawley rats frequently used in long-term toxicity/carcinogenicity studies NOTE: Item 2 shows that the Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat used by Seralini far from being the "wrong rat", as Seralini's critics endlessly repeat, is actually the standar ...
  • Canada's flaxseed industry still badly hurt by ...
    NOTE: Canadian flax was shut out of its largest market in 2010 after traces of Triffid — a GM flax that had been ordered to be destroyed 10 years earlier — started showing up in shipments. Although Canadian flax is being exported to Europe again, contamination problems continue to dog the indust ...
  • Illegal gene flow from GM grass
    1.Escape and hybridization of a genetically modified invasive plant 2.Illegal gene flow from transgenic creeping bentgrass: the saga continues NOTE: Scotts, the US lawn and garden care company, teamed up with Monsanto to develop Roundup Ready bentgrass seed with a view to selling it to the lucr ...
  • Scientist fired after GM plant mishap
    EXTRACT: "Dr Kardailsky further advised that he considered that there were issues of systemic non-compliance in the way the Grasslands facility was managed," an Employment Relations Authority judgment says. --- --- Scientist fired after GE plant mishap Jimmy Ellingham Manawatu Standard, 10 Octob ...
  • Most cotton we wear is GM today
    NOTE: Check out the new campaign http://www.cottonedon.org/ 1.Give control to farmers, not GM companies 2.Eliminate hazardous synthetic pesticides 3.Help farmers feed their families 4.Save precious water 5.Combat climate change --- --- Most cotton we wear is GM today Louise Gray, Environment Cor ...

spiked

Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • UNSUSTAINABLE
    When it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable.  As a nation we consume far more than we produce, we spend far more than we brin ...
  • 28 Good Questions That The Mainstream Media Sh ...
    Why is there so little trust in the mainstream media these days?  CNN ratings have been hovering close to record lows over the past few months.  A recent Gallup survey found that 60 percent of all Americans "have little or no trust" in the mainstream media.  That was a record high according to G ...
  • Police: “Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk& ...
    If you plan on visiting Detroit any time soon, the police have a message for you: "Enter Detroit at your own risk".  That ominous message was actually emblazoned across the top of a flyer that the Detroit Police Officer Association was passing out prior to a rally on Saturday.  The flyer pointed ...
  • The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding ...
    A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world.  Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month.  So who am I talking abou ...
  • A Jobs Report Conspiracy?
    Well, isn't that convenient?  The Obama campaign desperately needed the last employment report to be released before the election to show that the unemployment rate had fallen below 8 percent, and somehow it magically happened.  Even though non-farm payroll employment only increased by 114,000 l ...

Desertification

  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    Due to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
  • What farmers can do themselves for better land ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
  • Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
  • The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...
    A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →
  • A drastic reduction in the flow of rivers that ...
    Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96329/MALAWI-Shrinking-lake-threatens-livelihoods MALAWI: Shrinking lake threatens livelihoods MACHINGA, 18 September 2012 (IRIN) – Mposa Village, in south-eastern Malawi’s Machinga District, used to sit on the shores of Lake Chilwa. Now its residen ...

The Paper Trail

  • Pro-environment group gave grant to conservati ...
    “Environmentalists punish companies without protecting people” is the headline of a column that appeared on the website of the American Action Forum a year ago.The group has called for increased domestic production of oil, coal and natural gas. Officials there have criticized President Barack ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Union-funded ads slam Allen ...
    Three labor unions have teamed up to try to thwart the election prospects of former Sen. George Allen, the Republican running for U.S. Senate in Virginia.The political action committees of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Service Employees International Un ...
  • Romney benefits from post-Citizens United spending
    Since Labor Day, the once-unofficial start of the election season, 70 percent of outside spending on the presidential race made possible by the Citizens United  Supreme Court decision has benefited Mitt Romney, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis.More than $106 million of ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Dems looking to pick up Chic ...
    Redistricting in the Chicago metro area has endangered Republicans that hold House seats in the already Democrat-dominated region and attracted some major spending by a labor union and a liberal super PAC.Republican Reps. Joe Walsh, Bob Dold and Judy Biggert are targeted in a new ad from Hous ...
  • IMPACT: Cabinet officials signal crackdown on ...
    Top federal officials are stepping up scrutiny  for doctors and hospitals that may be cheating Medicare by using electronic health records to improperly bill the health plan for more complex and costly services than they deliver.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...

backofthebook.ca

  • A Modest Opinion – Like Father, Like Sons
    By Nathaniel Moher Quick, who is the greatest Prime Minister of Canada?! If you voted for Kim Clark, you’re obviously  . . . Kim Clark. The answer, of course, is His Royal Robotness, the great Mr. Harps (if only because, if he wasn’t the greatest Prime Minister ever, why would we re-elect him af ...
  • Not so risky business
    By Mark Evans Canadian venture capitalists have a problem: they’re cautious, conservative and have a low tolerance to risk. It’s an easy thesis to accept because, in part, it’s true. It explains why The Globe & Mail published an extensive feature on the challenges facing Canada’s venture cap ...
  • Next victim of XL Foods: The Conservatives
    By Montreal Simon Four years ago, during a Listeriosis epidemic that killed 22 Canadians, somebody created a video game called the Cold Cuts Cannon. Where you could fire cold cuts at little Gerry Ritz heads floating gently over Parliament Hill. Pop his balloon so to speak, for having had the cra ...
  • Justin Trudeau further lowers expectations
    By Frank Moher Justin Trudeau is such an easy target, so easy to reflexively dismiss, that the wait-and-see attitude taken by much of the media towards his candidacy for the Liberal leadership is only prudent. However, we have now seen him, on the night when he had his best shot at presenting an ...
  • 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’ ...

libcom

  • Call for Anarchist Solidarity in Response to D ...
    derek_williams[1].jpg Yet another young black person has been murdered by the police. [from @news:http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/call-anarchist-solidarity-response-derek-w ...
  • Issues that Obama and Romney avoid
    Romney.jpg As the US election approaches, Noam Chomsky examines how similar the two candidates are on the biggest issues, and points out that only mass action, not voting, can change things. ...
  • Housing is a Human Right: Massive March About ...
    601799_470646732950362_519521206_n.jpg Here is a look at the large Housing is a Human Right march that is coming to Rochester, NY, and is look to fight to protect people being unjustly forced out of t ...
  • War between Syria and Turkey?
    A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small turkish village in Urfa near the Syrian border killing 5 people including at least two children and their mother. A few hours ago, a bomb has stroke a house in a small Turkish vill ...
  • Video report from Spain: Madrid on the brink, ...
    A report from the Occupy Congress protests in Madrid. read more

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

  • Way to Go Veterans!!!
    This has to be filed in the “What Were They Thinking?”  waste bin. The American Flag is a symbol that means a great deal to American vets – men who bled and comrades who died to raise the emblem on the mountain top at Iwo Jima. Unfortunately, to many others The Flag has sadly b ...
  • World War III – The Protocol of the &#82 ...
    This pretty much says it all. “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter, who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.” (Eugene Debs, 1855-1926, speech Canton, Ohio, 16th June 1918.)   The Life of an A ...
  • The Future of Medicine is Here NOW!
    Part of the “programming” of the masses is brainwashing them that only those “MD’S” (i.e. Medical Deities) in white coats are qualified to dispense health information. The Truth is that most “MD’s” are themselves programmed from day one in “M ...
  • Update on “Event Contract” Post
    This is an update to my February 2011 post on “Event Contracts” -  http://wp.me/pUCM2-4P Just to refresh your memory – the term “Event Contract” is big EDOMITE money strategically invested to reap a huge profit following a devastating event that is in reality CAUSED ...
  • Great Expose – MUST READ!
    This is an absolutely correct assessment. Remember the following definition: HEGEMONY 1: preponderant influence or authority over others : domination 2: the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group 3 Reasons the US an ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • NIAC Applauds Extension of Earthquake Sanction ...
    Last week, Iranian Americans from across the country visited Capitol Hill as part of NIAC’s annual leadership conference to encourage their Representatives to send a Congressional letter urging the White House to extend the earthquake relief waiver and to take further action to enable food and m ...
  • Maersk Line shipping company ceases Iran opera ...
    Maersk Line, the world's biggest shipping company, has stopped calling at Iranian ports as a result of sanctions against the country. read more
  • US report: Israel-US discussing joint Iran attack
    Israel and the US are considering a joint surgical strike targeting Iranian uranium enrichment facilities, according to a report in Foreign Policy that appeared Monday soon after Republican candidate Mitt Romney slammed US President Barack Obama's Iran policy. "Iran today has never been c ...
  • Abteen Bagheri film director
    http://www.ukmva.com/content/nominations/individua...   Nominated for best budget urban video for his video for ASAP Rocky "Peso" nominated for best urban video @ UK-MVA music award. Also nominated for best new director.  http://vimeo.com/27652499 director link: http://a ...
  • Iran’s secret service launches website in bid ...
    Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has launched a website for the first time in a move widely interpreted as an attempt to soften its image and coax Iranians into helping provide the country’s spies with information. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
    2011, Directed and produced by Dave Gardner http://www.growthbusters.org/   Film Review Growthbusters is the inspiring story of Dave Gardner’s efforts to challenge conservative Colorado Springs’ failed growth promotion policies. The film mainly focuses on the insanity ...
  • Consumers Too Dumb to Know the Difference
    GMO Ticking Time Bomb is a fantastic fifteen minute video which helps explain why California polls show overwhelming support for Prop 37 on the November ballot. If passed by voters, the citizens initiative would require mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods. The film starts by b ...
  • All Guantanamo Detainees Forcibly Drugged with ...
    Australian ex-Guantanamo detainee David Hicks According to the Sydney Morning Herald, new evidence has emerged that all Guantanamo Bay detainees, including David Hicks, an Australian citizen held for years at Guantanamo without charged, were involuntarily drugged with scopolamine, a substa ...
  • The US Military Returns to Iraq
    From the New York Times – go to paragraph 15 on page 2: Despite the highly publicized withdrawal of US troops last December, recently a unit of Special Operations soldiers was quietly deployed to Iraq to “advise on counter terrorism and help with intelligence.” Meanwhile I ...
  • On Fukushima Beach - Explosive New Documentary
    Red Button Studios September 23, 2012 Free download at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseiCqEx9BQ Film Review On Fukushima Beach is an hour long brilliantly constructed documentary that uses a montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima disaster. In addition to pro ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
  • TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Ari Fleischer Claims Oil ...
    Original ... Q And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it. MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question. Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about blackmail ...
  • Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...
    On Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012 WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the things that can happen in a presiden ...
  • Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...
    From 'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012: "The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if you're in a position of responsibilit ...
  • George H.W. Bush Press Secretary in 1984: Lyin ...
    ... "You can say anything you want during a debate and 80 million people hear it,'' observed Peter Teeley, press secretary to Vice President Bush. If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully, ''so what?'' ''Maybe 200 people read it or 2,000 or 20,000,'' he said. ... Ne ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • The latest science from Europe on fracking
    There are a few new reports from Europe on fracking that provide a lot of valuable information:
  • Water in a Climate Change World
    In the 2008 book, Dry Spring – the Coming Water Crisis of North America, Chris Wood
  • Why You Don’t Want an Electric Car…Yet
    By ITIF Research Analyst Clifton Yin and ITIF Senior Analyst Matthew Stepp
  • Final Word On China Solar Duties Due (Sort Of)
    The U.S. Commerce Department will announce a final decision today on duties in the China solar trade dispute that has split the U.S. industry and raised fears of a global trade war. Of course, for several months the government has already been collecting duties on certain Chinese solar imports. ...
  • Is Europe on target for energy efficiency?
    The EU’s Energy Efficiency Directive was adopted by the European Council last week, but will Member States rise to the challenge? It is hoped the directive, approved by all Council members except Finland, Spain and Portugal, will help the EU hit its 2020 20% energy efficiency target and save €50 ...

EU Times

  • We have just launched our new Forum!
    We have just launched our new forum! We hope you’ll like it. Click here to Join Now, be among the first members to join our forum and help make it big. http://forum.eutimes.net/
  • Aussie super-scope begins ET hunt
    The initial stage of unprecedented radio telescope has been officially opened in Australia. The project will explore the universe in search of new galaxies, black holes, planets and even intelligent extraterrestrial life – if there is any. In the heart of red desert where man-made radio signals ...
  • Police, pensioners clash over austerity measur ...
    Greek police in the capital city of Athens have clashed with pensioners protesting against the government’s new round of austerity measures. On Monday, hundreds of Greek pensioners staged a rally outside the office of the European Union (EU) in Athens where police officers used batons to dispers ...
  • Monsanto “War” Kills US Ambassador To Libya
    A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is claiming that the 11 September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed American Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (1960-2012) was an act of terrorism led by an armed force of mercenaries lin ...
  • Tens of thousands protest in Saudi Arabia’s Qa ...
    Tens of thousands of Saudi protesters have held a massive anti-regime rally in the Qatif region of Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province, Press TV reports. Chanting slogans against the Saudi authorities, the demonstrators turned out in Qatif late on Sunday to condemn the regime’s suppression ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Listen: Rolling Stones Release New Single âDoo ...
    The Rolling Stones are back. The classic rock band released a new single today, Doom And Gloom,  as part of the band’s 50th anniversary celebration. The new song debuted on BBC Radio 2 this morning. It was recorded in Paris and will be released on the band’s latest hits collection  GRRR!.  A ...
  • Softbank Finds Last Entry Point Into U.S. Tele ...
    Japan’s Softbank is making a move for Sprint, WSJ is reporting, and may be scooping up the last available foothold to gain entry into the U.S. mobile phone industry. Wells Fargo analyst Jennifer Fritzche writes Sprint as a standalone “represents the only way for a potential new entrant to get a ...
  • Bill Clinton mocks Mitt Romney for being too & ...
    Bill Clinton, arguably the most popular pol in America today, was stumping with Obama on the campaign trail this week. From the  LA Times: “Nearly a week after President Obama stopped his campaign’s momentum with a lackluster debate performance, former President Clinton sought Tuesday to help h ...
  • John Updike on Mo Yan
    When a non-Anglophone writer wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, as Mo Yan, the Chinese novelist, did this morning, it’s natural to seek out points of comparison closer to home: Mo has been compared to Kafka, for example, and the Nobel Committee has cited the way his “hallucinatory realism merg ...
  • American League Division Series Game 3: Oriole ...
    Miguel Gonzalez and Hiroki Kuroda are the starting pitchers as the Orioles take on the Yankees in a decisive Game 3 of the best-of-five ALDS. First things first: anyone who brings up you-know-who tonight - because apparently every media outlet felt it necessary to get his opinion of this series ...

Groklaw

  • ReDigi, Capitol Clash In Court About 'Used' T ...
    ReDigi, a start-up that offers people a way to sell "used" iTunes tracks, asked a federal judge in New York to throw out a copyright lawsuit brought against it by Capitol Records. ReDigi lawyer Gary Adelman told U.S. District Court Judge Richard Sullivan at a Friday morning hearing that the comp ...
  • Wandering in the Wilderness (comic)
    ALEX: OK, this isn't right. MONK: Are you even following the map? ALEX: Of course I'm following the map! Look. It says we had to turn right at the weird... escher-looking road that sort of... melts over itself, like a Moebius strip gone horribly wrong. MONK: No. That is clearly a picture of a ...
  • Alice and the Abstract Idea
    Back in New Zealand we await the next chapter of our own fairy tale. Parliament resumes its Sitting Programme next week after a two week recess. The Patents Bill has passed its Second Reading on 12 September amidst much parliamentary debate. I cover the Second Reading in an earlier post, "Patent ...
  • Video explains the world's most important 6-se ...
    This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- ...
  • Supreme Court to Rule on Patents for Self-Repl ...
    The case addresses the question of how far down the stream of commerce - in this instance the farming cycle - can a company control its patents, especially for products like soybeans that easily self-replicate. A lower court, an appeals court and even the Obama administration maintain the stream ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Jobless claims drop due to one state not reporting
    Just to be super, super clear: it *does* appear that one state did not process & report its typical seasonal workload. (see a/b/c tweet)— Kelly Evans (@Kelly_Evans) October 11, 2012Still think DC isn’t making sh*t up when it comes to economic reports? How can the Department of La ...
  • Drones, perhaps futile and criminal, still not ...
    When it comes to pilotless drones armed with air-to-ground missiles, the United States acknowledges that its counterterrorism strategy includes using terrorist techniques as part of the “war” on terror. Some of these attacks on civilians are widely understood to be war crimes, but the Obama admi ...
  • Tariffs on Chinese solar panels will hurt US s ...
    The wind energy industry is on the verge of collapse in the US due to expiration of tax credits. Now the Obama Administration is getting into a pointless trade war, imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese solar panels of up to 36%.The tariffs can be avoided by Chinese manufacturers assembling the p ...
  • Syria invasion coming? NATO and US moving forc ...
    Credit: state.govTurkey has an army three times larger than Syria and the biggest air force in NATO. So why does Turkey need NATO help defending itself against Syria, which is preoccupied and weakened by its ongoing civil war? Ditto for the US sending troops to Jordan. Is a Syria invasion coming ...
  • Steve Wynn: The Fed is doing is what Madoff we ...
    Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn says the Fed is running a Ponzi scheme just like Bernie Madoff did. The Fed is quietly and steadily causing inflation and that hurts everyone and is also bailing out the already wealthy at the expense of the rest of us.“The demand for American bonds wasn&# ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Yes, I was right on Syria. (And what now?)
    I realize it is unseemly, in the world of international-affairs analysis, for someone to say quite bluntly "I told you so". I realize, far more importantly, that the situation in which Syria's 25 million (or so) people find themselves is one of deep and very hard-to-escape crisis-- one that, whe ...
  • News from the negotiated transition in Burma/M ...
    I've recently been devouring Evan Osnos's brilliant piece of reporting in The New Yorker, on the exciting, now-underway, negotiated transition to much greater democracy in Myanmar/Burma. Huge kudos to Osnos for doing this great research and reporting, and to The New Yorker for, presumably, fund ...
  • Two observations on the tragedy in Syria
    1. War always inflicts grave rights abuses on residents of the war zone. Additionally, its fog allows-- and its passions encourage-- the commission of a large variety of atrocities such as are very rarely committed in times of peace. Hence, actions tending toward the exacerbation of tensions can ...
  • 'New' Egypt and the Camp David accords
    Despite many setbacks and roadblocks along the way in Egypt, the political situation there is still one of the most hopeful-- and certainly, the most momentous-- phenomena in the region. Egypt, remember, really does carry the strategic ballast of the whole Arab world. How things turn out there i ...
  • July 2006, lest we forget
    In these days six years ago, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and his team were battering much of Lebanon to smithereens in the "Dahiyeh War"-- designed, as we remember, to break Hizbullah once and for all, primarily by battering Lebanese civilians and their infrastructure so harshly that they would turn ...

frogblog

  • The fight to save Gissy rail
    Getting accurate information and good decisions on transport at the moment is a bit like pulling teeth. It’s painful, frustrating and can be very pricey. This is why it was such good news to hear Gisborne City Councillor Manu Caddie telling Morning Report this week that nearly $14,000 has been r ...
  • The elephant in the room is domestic violence
    Today the Government released their long awaited white paper on vulnerable children. This is the paper that is going to radically reduce child abuse in this country. The paper talks tough but in fact it misses the point entirely.   Over the last several years there has been an increasing awarene ...
  • The US experience of QE
    The United States began their programme of quantitative easing (QE) late in 2008 as a response to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Since that time, the US Federal Reserve has purchased $1.9 trillion of assets, keeping their financial markets afloat and lowering the US exchange rate. A lower ex ...
  • Crown Minerals Policy – Who calls the shots?
    The news that mining industry spin is being uncritically adopted by officials advising the Minister of Energy and Mining is no surprise. A read of the Crown Minerals Bill shows that the Government is enthusiastically promoting and facilitating a range of minerals, oil, and gas exploration. On th ...
  • Nat MP nails problem with youth rates
    (note: the above headline is not a typo) The statement below could very well be the basis for a future speech by an MP opposed to National’s legislation that will result in many young New Zealanders getting a pay cut. The fundamental proposition this bill puts up is that we need to pay people le ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Suicide Overtakes Car Accidents as Leading Cau ...
    By Dr. Mercola A recent report on causes of death shows that suicide has now overtaken traffic accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the US. One reason for that is because car accident occurrences are down. But even so, the rate of suicide rose by an unhealthy 15 percent b ...
  • The Modern Food System and the Roots of Obesity
    By Dr. Mercola If you've ever felt that you're overweight, it's your own fault because you are not smart enough to eat the right foods and you're too lazy to exercise... that's exactly what the government and food industry would like you to believe. But in reality, government and industry sh ...
  • Shocking Dangers of Plavix Revealed in 2nd Com ...
    By Dr. Mercola Americans are a pill-popping population, taking an average of 13 different prescription drugs per capita as of last year's statistics.1 Children in the US are the most medicated in the world, averaging out at four prescriptions per child. Among seniors, drug use is beyond epide ...
  • Interview with Jim “Jimbo” Someck
    By Dr. Mercola I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jim "Jimbo" Someck, who has been in the natural food industry since 1973. He opened the first "Jimbo's" store in 1984 and established a stringent non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) policy for all new products sold in his store ...
  • Why Do Supporters of Genetically Engineered Fo ...
    By Dr. Mercola Over the past few years, an interesting pattern has emerged, where political supporters of genetically engineered (GE) foods are feasting on organics, while promoting unlabeled GE foods for everyone else. Most recently, Mother Jones1 discussed how Presidential hopeful Mitt Rom ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
    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 goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a devastating ruling a ...
  • Company boss named in forgery probe linked to ...
    Paraguay's Ayoreo were the victims of a forgery scandal earlier this year.© SurvivalThe boss of a company controlled by one of Spain’s biggest corporations has been linked to a scandal involving forged signatures in Paraguay. Diego Eduardo León is the vice-President and acting Chairman of ...
  • Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...
    Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...
  • Penan tribe blockade Murum dam site
    Hundreds of Penan blockade the road leading to Murum Dam. © SCANE/SurvivalA blockade by hundreds of Sarawak’s Penan tribe on the road leading to the controversial Murum Dam is about to enter its second week. Holding placards saying, ‘We Want Justice’, ‘We Demand our Rights’ and ‘Stop Murum Dam’ ...
  • 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Jean-François Lisée: My language plan - shoe s ...
    Jean-François Lisée is the Parti Québécois cabinet minister responsible for liaison with the anglophone community. Also minister for the Montreal region and for international relations, he is writing in response to an open letter to him published on Saturday's Opinion page by ...
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.
  • Plateau letter draws reaction pro and con
    The July 23 Letter of the Day ("An administration that's sucking the life out of the Plateau," July 23) from Plateau Mont Royal resident Marion Bialek, and a response from Projet Montréal vouncillor Alex Norris drew lots of comment from readers at montrealgazette.com/opinion.
  • Letter of the Day: Some MDs need those 24-hour ...
    The elimination of 24-hour shifts for surgical residents in all specialties is producing unintended consequences, retired surgeon Michael A. Stanger writes.

Food World Order

  • National Depression Screening Day
    from theatlantic.com: Get evaluated tomorrow (October 11). It's free, anonymous, and takes less than ten minutes. Over 1,000 sites nationwide will offer free mental health evaluations to the public tomorrow for National Depression Screening Day. This may be an obvious point, but I'll make it ...
  • Political and corporate elite shun GM food on ...
    from naturalnews.com: With a sad twist of irony, corporate and government elite dine on safe, organic food while the masses, those very people who are supposedly represented and protected by their governments, are poisoned by hidden genetically modified organisms, pesticides and dangerous cont ...
  • Magnets kill cancer cells in lab
    from belfasttelegraph.co.uk: A magnetic method of killing cancer cells has been developed by scientists in South Korea. The technique uses a magnetic field to flip a "self-destruct" switch in tumours. Researchers have demonstrated that the process works in bowel cancer cells and living ...
  • 13,000 People Exposed to #BigPharma Shots Cont ...
    from naturalsociety.com: As of Monday, contaminated steroids have sickened 105 people with a noncontagious but deadly form of fungal meningitis, while 13,000 people may have been exposed to the contamination. Eight have died. Health officials attribute the outbreak to spinal steroid injectio ...
  • Fast food children ‘develop lower IQs’
    from dailymail.co.uk: Children given more fast food meals will grow up to have a lower IQ than those who regularly eat freshly-cooked meals, according to a study. Childhood nutrition has long lasting effects on IQ, even after previous intelligence and wealth and social status ar ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • UNSUSTAINABLE
    When it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable.  As a nation we consume far more than we produce, we spend far more than we brin ...
  • 28 Good Questions That The Mainstream Media Sh ...
    Why is there so little trust in the mainstream media these days?  CNN ratings have been hovering close to record lows over the past few months.  A recent Gallup survey found that 60 percent of all Americans "have little or no trust" in the mainstream media.  That was a record high according to G ...
  • Police: “Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk& ...
    If you plan on visiting Detroit any time soon, the police have a message for you: "Enter Detroit at your own risk".  That ominous message was actually emblazoned across the top of a flyer that the Detroit Police Officer Association was passing out prior to a rally on Saturday.  The flyer pointed ...
  • The Largest Economy In The World Is Imploding ...
    A devastating economic depression is rapidly spreading across the largest economy in the world.  Unemployment is skyrocketing, money is being pulled out of the banks at an astounding rate, bad debts are everywhere and economic activity is slowing down month after month.  So who am I talking abou ...
  • A Jobs Report Conspiracy?
    Well, isn't that convenient?  The Obama campaign desperately needed the last employment report to be released before the election to show that the unemployment rate had fallen below 8 percent, and somehow it magically happened.  Even though non-farm payroll employment only increased by 114,000 l ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

  • Southern lawmakers earn low grades for efforts ...
    Though the South is the U.S. region with the greatest concentration of income inequality, its representatives in Washington are doing a poor job of bridging the gap. read more
  • NC judge takes public campaign funding, also g ...
    Conservative N.C. Supreme Court justice Paul Newby has taken $240,100 in public campaign funding to help run his re-election campaign. He's also getting support from a right-wing political group that calls public funding "immoral" and "welfare for politicians." read more
  • Study: 1 in 3 Asian-American voters is undecided
    Asian Americans have been trending Democratic but remain highly independent, and their numbers are growing in the key Southern swing states of North Carolina and Virginia. read more
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Pressure grows to open presid ...
    A grassroots effort to open up the presidential debates to third-party candidates has succeeded in getting three of the 10 corporate sponsors of the debates that begin tonight to withdraw their support. read more
  • Keystone XL pipeline blockade continues in Texas
    Protesters are sitting in trees in northeastern Texas in an effort to halt construction of a controversial pipeline designed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. read more

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...
    On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
  • 23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...
    The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...
  • Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
    Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
  • Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...
    Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...
  • Steam for Linux is Coming Next Month!!
    All you Linux aficionados can breath a sigh of relief. Steam is coming to Linux and no, you don't have to wait till 2013 since Steam for Linux is coming next month! Steam for Linux Coming Next Month In a recent blogpost, where the launch of Steam workshop for L4D2 game wa ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • To Stop WW III Just Tell The Truth About Epicy ...
    By horse237 We really need to convince everyone in the world that America has been hijacked by absolutely insane men who will drive the whole world right off a cliff into certain destruction in order to stop World War III before it starts. That is easy to do if we tell them about Epicyte and [...]
  • Experts: Global warming means more Antarctic i ...
    This is not from “The Onion.”  By Seth Borenstein While the North Pole has been losing sea ice over the years, the water nearest the South Pole has been gaining it. Antarctic sea ice hit a record 7.51 million square miles in September. That happened just days after reports of the big ...
  • Depopulation is Real – US Deaths Reach Record High
    By Shepard Ambellas theintelhub.com October 10, 2012 Depopulation is not merely an urban myth of globalist fantasy, but a true reality. There are various agendas and proposals worldwide that are either implemented or on the table from Henry Kissinger’s National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSS ...
  • The 4 Rules You Should Follow To Avoid Eating ...
    The 4 Rules To Follow 1) Stay away from anything that has soy, because 99.9% of the soy that is produced in this country is genetically modified. 2) If you see an ingredient with anything that says “hydrogenated (fill in the blank)” do not eat this product. The genetic structure has been scienti ...
  • Now we know it: Goldman Sachs rules the World
    Konrad Hausner Translated from German by Michael Colhaze Mankind believes what it wants to believe. Even though the facts give a different picture. TheIntelligence has reported several times about the incredible machinations of the international investment bank Goldman Sachs and its shocking imp ...

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • The End of the Age of Oil
    Coal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
  • Assessing Bradley Manning
    According to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...
  • Another Take on American Divisions
    Stipulating hypothetically that religion is the big dividing line in American life (per last week's show), it seems not unreasonable to make a case that religious divisions manifest mainly through sectional politics. Taking it a step further one might well wonder about sectional differences gene ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Pakistan's Bid for Tolerance
    A tour of 35 towns throughout the country in an investigation of civil society's capacity to counter Talibanization.
  • Leaving Afghanistan
    Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
  • Raging at Rawalpindi
    American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

 

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Germany Plans Cap for Renewable Energy Subsidies
Businessweek
The proposals mark the most sweeping changes to Germany's support mechanisms for renewables since the country adopted feed-in tariffs in 2004. The guarantees of above-market prices for clean energy in Germany have helped make the country the ...
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California's renewable-energy plans may hinge on presidential race
Los Angeles Times
For Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, such aid represents government run amok, allowing bureaucrats to pick winners and losers in renewable energy rather than letting the free market sort them out. Romney has not offered many specifics about ...
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Louisiana's renewable energy program starts to pick up steam, two years after ...
NOLA.com
When Louisiana regulators launched a pilot program to encourage the development of renewable power sources, Greg Nolan Jr. saw an opening for his Thibodaux sugar mill. Nolan's mill, Lafourche Sugar, had long desired to create its own power by using a ...
Renewable Energy Power Agreement Reached by Rayonier and Florida Public ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Adam Putnam, Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, tours the new turbine and generator at Rayonier's Fernandina Mill during the event to commemorate the renewable power purchase agreement between Rayonier ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Science students at Thousand Oaks help create outdoor classroom to study ...
Ventura County Star
Science students at Thousand Oaks help create outdoor classroom to study ecology. By Rachel McGrath; Ventura County Star; Posted October 11, 2012 at 11:03 a.m., updated October 11, 2012 at 5:44 p.m.. Print; A; A; A. Share this on Facebook · Tweet this ...
Ecology updating state's 'clean cars' regulation, seeks comments
Access Washington
Ecology updating state's 'clean cars' regulation, seeks comments. OLYMPIA – The public is invited to review and comment on proposed routine updates to Washington's rule for low emission vehicle (“clean car”) standards. A public hearing is scheduled for ...
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Butterfly haven will meld education, ecology
Wilmette Life
His comments illustrate the confederation of ecology and education (and sustainable agriculture) that library officials hope the garden will represent to patrons and passers by. “I wanted the project to enable the library to contribute to the ...
Talk Back: Going to Town Hall For Holtsville Ecology Center?
Patch.com
Earlier this week the Brookhaven Wildlife Center, and independent organization that runs the ecology site, stated that although acting-Supervisor Kathy Walsh introduced a new budget that would keep the site open, because other inclusions and a tax ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Wyoming Water Tests in Line With EPA Finding on Fracking
Businessweek
The EPA yesterday issued its follow-up analyses of two test wells it drilled and of five residents' water wells. The agency agreed to conduct further tests after Encana Corp. (ECA), the company that leases the natural-gas field there, and Wyoming state ...
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Water park proposed at historic NY amusement park
New York Daily News
RYE, N.Y. — A beloved but money-losing county-owned amusement park on prime shoreline outside New York City would be refreshed with a small water park, a fieldhouse, ballfields and a "Great Lawn" under a letter of intent signed Thursday. The plan is ...
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Boil water notice in effect for several neighborhoods
New Bern Sun Journal
At 10:30 a.m. workers were upgrading water lines from 2-inch to 6-inch pipes when an older pipe broke, causing water pressure to fall in a neighborhood that included Midyette Avenue, Powell Street, Pinecrest Avenue, Richard Court, Christian Court ...
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Fired Birmingham Water Works employees file federal lawsuit seeking return to ...
al.com (blog)
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Nine fired Birmingham Water Works employees have filed a federal lawsuit against the department and its managers, claiming they were victims of an organized extortion scheme orchestrated by their supervisor. The lawsuit details ...
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