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Thomas Paine

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Monday, October 15, 2012

15 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

English: Main street, Wee Waa, NSW, with the I...English: Main street, Wee Waa, NSW, with the Imperial Hotel on the corner (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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The first four verses (ayat) of Al-Alaq, the 9...The first four verses (ayat) of Al-Alaq, the 96th chapter (surah) of the Qur'an. Egyptian Calligraphy of the first lines of Sura al-Alaq. Bahasa Indonesia: Kaligrafi surah al-'Alaq ayat 1 sampai 4 yang berasal dari Mesir. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Prince Turki Al...WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Prince Turki Al Faisal of Saudi Arabia answers questions at the National Press Club November 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. Prince Turki Al Faisal addressed numerous topics including the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, the evolving role and rights of women in Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia's support for Palestinian UN membership and statehood recognition. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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Scoop - NZ

  • A New Middle East Energy War ?
    On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establish a ten-kilometer wide no-man’s land “buffer zone” inside Syria, was in response to the alleged killing by Syr ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Pakistani girl wounded in assassination attemp ...
    The teenage Pakistani girl shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being flown to Britain after doctors decided she would require long-term care to recover from the attack. She is to receive specialist treatment in a NHS hospital.Related StoriesCar bombing kills 17 in nor ...
  • Can the daughter of a dictator come up smellin ...
    The fragrance is called mysterieuse, and combines hints of Moroccan roses with sensual notes of jasmine and ylang-ylang. It does not feature playful allusions to torture or subtle hints of prisoners being boiled alive, but perhaps it should.Related StoriesGreeks baffled by the EU’s peace prizeT ...
  • Youth vote still favours Obama but his 'novelt ...
    Never mind November. For the nearly 30,000 students enrolled at Iowa State University, the chance to choose between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama comes now. Starting today and ending on Friday, they will be encouraged to cast their ballots at early voting stations dotted across the campus.Relate ...
  • Mario Monti: 'I convinced Thatcher that the Ma ...
    For a man who has devoted much of his career working towards a closer Europe, it might come as a surprise to learn that now, as the technocrat prime minister of Italy, Mario Monti, cites of one of the bloc’s fiercest critics as an inspiration.
  • Iran accused of plotting Gulf oil spill to pun ...
    A top-secret Iranian plan to cause a deliberate and massive oil-tanker spill at the entrance to the Persian Gulf has been leaked to Western intelligence agencies.Related StoriesTurkey warns of retaliation if Syria violates borderNetanyahu chooses date of next Israeli general electionIsraeli air ...

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

  • Bitter pills: Parents have their children take ...
    Parents have plenty of rights, but choosing their child's medical treatment doesn't always seem to be one of them - especially when doctors, social workers and the courts take a different view. Mark Whittaker looks into the disturbing issue of forced medicine. The doctor examined the smattering ...
  • Child Abuse Hospitalizations Increased 5% Over ...
    While child protection agencies have found a dramatic drop in physical child abuse cases over the past decade, a new study shows that the number of hospitalizations for serious injuries resulting from abuse has actually increased. Data compiled by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Syste ...
  • Palestinian olive grove attacked for second time
    Dozens of olive trees were set ablaze in a Palestinian village early on Saturday, in an attack that villagers and Palestinian security officials blamed on Jewish settlers. Residents of Qaryut village, 15 kilometres (nine miles) south of the West Bank city of Nablus, said that the fires had been ...
  • Two teens killed in Chicago, 24 others wounded ...
    Two teenagers were killed and 24 others were wounded during a city night filled with gun violence. Police said 15 of 24 shooting victims were gang affiliated. The youngest victim, was 17 years old and died from his wounds after being shot along with a cousin as the two went to meet a girl in t ...
  • Just in time for holiday travel, geologists di ...
    A team of University of Southampton geologists say they have uncovered the "trigger" mechanism that seems to unleash some of Earth's most massive volcano, including the massive volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland in 2010, which left millions of passengers stranded around the world. ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Nasty, and ignored . . .
    HEART OF DARKNESS 2012: Northern Myanmar, aka Burma, where people are being driven from their lands and exterminated, a kind of jungle genocide. And behind it, our inscrutable capitalists, the Chinese. According to the Aljazeera account by Jason Motlagh, "Blood and Gold: Inside Burma's Hidden Wa ...
  • Here we are again
    Here we are again with yet another failing of our stupid bloody simpleton's understanding of justice and the system we built around it. With all the research we have the shows the complex biological and social roots of deviant behaviour, the best we can still do for those who stray is lock them ...
  • Quick thoughts on the US Veep debate
    I caught a bit of Biden vs. Ryan snake oil festival last night. In terms of substance, Biden ran circles around Ryan. However, Ryan pulled a Harper. You know, that calm, very carefully trained and rehearsed daddy-knows-best voice and canned phrases that lulls the crazies into a voting trance and ...
  • 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.

Media Matters for America

  • Right-Wing Media Hails South Carolina Voter ID ...
    A Wall Street Journal editorial asserted the recent federal court decision allowing South Carolina's voter ID law to go into effect in 2013 proved that claims of racial discrimination in voter ID laws are "specious." But the Journal - and other conservativ ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Early Voting
    Right-wing media have attacked early voting, claiming it leads to fraud, pushes uninformed voters to cast ballots too early, and is unconstitutional and untraditional. In fact, early voting increases the integrity of the voting process, and the vast majority of early votes are cast in the final ...
  • Rove Echoes Myth That Obama Doesn't Receive In ...
    Fox News contributor Karl Rove claimed that President Obama skipped intelligence briefings following the September 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, Obama received multiple intelligence briefings after the attack, including on September 12, and the right-wing ...
  • How The Media Used Biden's Smile To Deflect Fr ...
    Media outlets largely focused on criticizing Vice President Joe Biden's demeanor during the October 11 vice presidential debate, ignoring the substantive arguments being addressed in the discussion. Meanwhile, fact-checkers were busy pointing out the inaccuracies in Congressman Paul Ryan's claim ...
  • Fox News Hosts On Biden Debate Performance: Ma ...
    During the vice presidential debate, Fox News hosts Sean Hannity, Eric Bolling, and Greg Gutfeld suggested that Vice President Joe Biden had been drinking or otherwise compared him to a "drunk." Biden reportedly does not drink alcohol, citing a history of alcoholism in his family.Even Though Bid ...

Global Research.ca

  • GMO “Colateral Damage”: Food Soake ...
    While watching Gary Null’s documentary ‘GMOs Ticking Time Bomb’, I was reminded of a run-in that I had with a transnational agribusiness concern in India a couple of years back. It sent a popular Indian newspaper a three page letter complaining about an article that I had written and which had a ...
  • The 2012 US Presidential “Non-election&# ...
    Every four years, the deck chairs of the political Titanic that is the American empire get rearranged in the choreographed spectacle of another presidential “election”. The 2012 charade is particularly disgusting; the lies more blatant and shrill, as the world continues to burn.…
  • Fukushima: Radiation level spiked in Hokkaido, ...
    According to the report of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, radiation level spiked up in Hokkaido, the most northern island in Japan. It started picking up at 15:40 of 10/14/2012 (JST), and still it’s on-going. *       *      * Source   Iori Mochizuki _____ F ...
  • Islandia y el rechazo de la austeridad
    Ante la crisis económica, mientras la Unión Europea ha elegido el camino de la austeridad y ha decidido salvar a los bancos, Islandia, en cambio, ha procedido a la nacionalización de las instituciones financieras y ha rechazado las políticas de restricción presupuestaria.…
  • India: Celebrating “Americanisation&#822 ...
    Earlier this year, there was an article in the New York Times that positively salivated over the ‘Americanisation’ of India. And the author was not referring to Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina or any other country on the American continent when he referred to ‘Americanisation’.…

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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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

  • Daredevil jumps from the edge of space
    Felix Baumgartner broke several world records as he plunged over 128,000ft at speeds of up to 834mph. The 43-year-old had climbed to the edge of space...
  • Woman receives 17-figure phone bill
    A former teaching assistant was shocked to receive a phone bill for 11,721,000,000,000,000 Euros. The unnamed woman who currently lives in France clai...
  • Antarctic sea ice hits record high
    Despite fears over global warming the amount of sea ice at the South Pole is breaking new records. Despite the fact that there is more ice at Antarcti...
  • Owl attacks on the increase
    Within the last month at least four runners have been attacked by hostile owls without provocation. When out on a run the risks of being set upon by a...
  • Dolphins trained for underwater warfare
    The Ukranian navy are arming dolphins with knives and pistols to defend against underwater attackers. The bizarre tactic is part of the country's mari...

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

  • Anthropogenic Methane Traced Back 2,000 Years
    (Environment News Service) A new study suggests that human have been producing traceable amounts of atmospheric methane earlier than thought. The results will challenge global warming predictions, because what was assumed to be 'natura ...
  • Some Climate Scientists, in a Shift, Link Weat ...
    (Los Angeles Times) The worst drought in half a century has plagued two-thirds of the nation, devastating farms and stoking wildfires that scorched almost 9 million acres this year. Withering heat blanketed the East Coast and Midwest, ...
  • Tea Party Versus Agenda 21: Saving the U.S. or ...
    (Reuters) Tea Party activist Judd Sauladmits that he can sound a little unhinged when he gets talking about an issue close to his heart that most Americans have never heard of. "Agenda 21 is an elusive enemy that floats in and chokes ...
  • Solar Silicon to Bottom as China Halts Factory ...
    (Bloomberg) Polysilicon, the raw material used by the $38 billion a year solar industry, is forecast to bottom near a record low next year after the leading manufacturers in China and South Korea halted factory expansions. The spot pr ...
  • China Carbon Debut Defies Emission Doubters
    (Bloomberg) China's first steps to build what is destined to be the world's second-biggest emissions market are boosting the prospects for fledgling programs from Australia to California. read more

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

  • Capturing the Center
    I'll admit that I don't like the trajectory of the presidential race right now and that it is the opposite of what I wanted and expected and predicted just a few short weeks ago. However, things still look good for an Obama victory and our senate candidates are doing very well. Control of the H ...
  • Black People Like the Democratic Party
    This Associated Press article attempts to tackle a pretty big topic. What is the difference, if there is any difference, between a white person voting for a political candidate because the candidate is white, and a black person voting for a candidate because they are black? Unfortunately, the ...
  • Sad Thought
    We really have very little privacy left in this country. The issue is both big and small. Obviously, it is too easy for the government to get away with snooping on us without getting a warrant. That's the big issue. But people probably care more that both parties are placing cookies on their ...
  • Death of Specter Makes Me Think of JFK
    As a Pennsylvanian, there is a lot I could say, both positive and negative, about Arlen Specter's life and public service. He was a complicated fellow who compiled a very mixed record. I am not surprised to discover that I am saddened by his death, but I have spent many hours of my life feelin ...
  • Be Worried, Work Hard, But Don't Freak Out
    If the latest polls have you biting your fingernails, I have something to cheer you up. The Rocky Mountain Poll has both president and the Democrats' senate candidate up in Arizona. After trailing Mitt Romney by as much as eight points in the days immediately following the Presidential deb ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Bataan Death March in Pictures
    During WWII, the Japanese Army captured around 78,000 Filipino and American POWs and forced them on the horrendous Bataan Death March. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Backdrop to Reality: The Brilliantly Colored G ...
    Discover the fascinating street art of El Salvador; graffiti murals that mirror the apparent contradictions of the country in which they've been painted. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Anonymous & Wikileaks beefing - it's bigger th ...
    A review of the latest internet dickering, with mostly unrelated useful new programs & ideas at the end... It ain't a 'war' but several prominent representations of the anon flock are speaking out against Wikileaks and it's not just the Javascript paywall (disable JS to get around it). This ...
  • 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' ...

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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 ...

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War is a Crime.org

  • Assassination Drones: A First Hand Report
    Local activist and Peace Action Montgomery member Pam Bailey participated in the peace delegation to Pakistan earlier this month, focused on U.S. use of drones.  Join us Mon., Oct. 29, for a special presentation from Pam describing this CodePink-organized trip from Islamabad to Waziristan. ...
  • Intensified Warrantless Spying in America
      Intensified Warrantless Spying in America   by Stephen Lendman   Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald's just published book titled "500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars" provide new information on lawless spying in America. read more
  • Israel Encourages Settler Violence
      Israel Encourages Settler Violence   by Stephen Lendman   Settler violence is terrorism. Even America's State Department says so. Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another.   Israeli setter violence is out-of-control. It's risen sharply in recent years because nothing ...
  • Be in NY to Help Ban Uranium Weapons
    The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) and IKV Pax Christi INVITES YOU TO A REPORT LAUNCH October 18, 2012, 6-9 PM Church Center, New York 777 First Ave. 44 th St. Room 10th Fl Presenting publications: PRECAUTION IN PRACTICE – an analysis of whether a precautionary approach ...
  • Syria News - Oct 15
        FSA chief hits back at Hezbollah, says group involved in Syrian fighting - NOW Lebanon FSA says it killed 60 Hezbollah fighters - Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English) Nasrallah denies reports that Hizbullah commander and fighters were killed while fighting alongside the Syrian r ...

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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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
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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 ...
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  • Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
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  • 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

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  • INTERVIEW: Why John Bartlett Thinks Cruelty-Fr ...
    Fashion designer John Bartlett is best known for his classic American garments, but when he’s not creating impeccable clothes, he’s passionate about spreading awareness about animal welfare. We recently caught up with Bartlett at the Healthy Food in Fashion Gala, and got a chance to ...
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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

  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Carina N ...
    This spectacular panoramic view combines a new image of the field around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 in the Carina Nebula (right) with an earlier picture of the region around the unique star Eta Carinae in the heart of the nebula (left). The picture was created from images taken with the Wide Fiel ...
  • Amazing Aurora: Best Images From NASA’s Suomi ...
    This is one of the most interesting images of Earth from space I've seen in a long time. NASA's Suomi-NPP satellite captured this view earlier this month with the day-night band of one of its instruments. This sensor detects relatively low light signals from things like reflected moonlight, city ...
  • Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Star For ...
    Combined infrared and X-ray image of the region ON 2. This region is a site of active star formation, with new massive stars being born within the glowing clouds of gas and dust, as revealed by the Spitzer infrared telescope (red and green). New observations with the XMM-Newton telescope show th ...
  • Living by Numbers: Wired Health Conference Exp ...
    How do you get 800,000 soldiers into fighting shape? What has the sequencing of the human genome actually achieved? And where the heck is my medical tricorder, anyway? These and other questions will be answered next week at the inaugural WIRED Health Conference – an on-stage embodiment of WIRED’ ...
  • Spider Silk Could Weave Biodegradable Computer ...
    Spiders and insects use silk to build strong webs and spin cocoons but now scientists have figured out how to use the material for something even more amazing: electronic computer chips.

PakAlert

  • NeoCon Lindsey Graham To Introduce Bill to Arm ...
    In November, Senator Lindsey Graham will implore Congress to pledge US troops, defense and unlimited money to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he announce a preemptive strike against Iran. In effect, Lindsey is anticipating that the UN will dissolve the sanctions against Iran and ...
  • Another Obama Executive Order Allows Seizure o ...
    The latest executive order (EO) emanating from the White House October 9 now claims the power to freeze all bank accounts and stop any related financial transactions that a “sanctioned person” may own or try to perform — all in the name of “Iran Sanctions.”
  • The Population Control Agenda Of The Radical H ...
    Billions of dollars is being poured into an effort to reduce population growth all over the world, and most people do not even know that it is happening. These efforts are often promoted under such labels as "family planning", "abortion rights" and "public health programs", but the primary goal ...
  • Addictive and Toxic: Are You Unknowingly Eatin ...
    Eating processed foods is a real doozy. They are not only toxic in nature, but are also so addictive that they cause you to crave more of the very food that’s so bad for you! Remember the public outcry when the news came out that tobacco companies added ingredients that made cigarettes even more ...
  • Global Terrorists or New World Order?
    For all the truth seekers who care about justice, accountability, individual freedom, the Constitution and the American way here is a question. Are we fighting to expose the globalists who have hijacked democracy, freedom and the constitution to impose their will on the masses? Yes we are. Many ...

Andy Worthington

  • Photos of Limehouse, Shadwell and Wapping: Art ...
    Limehouse, Shadwell and Wapping: Art, History and the Summer Sun, a set on Flickr. This is the 44th set of photos in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, and is the second set recording a journey I made, one sunny Sunday in July, with my wife and son from our [...]
  • America’s Extradition Problem
    Not content with having the largest domestic prison population in the world, both in numbers and as a percentage of the total population, the US also imports prisoners from other countries, at vast expense. Last week, five men were extradited to the US from the UK to face charges relating to the ...
  • Sunny Sunday: Photos of the Isle of Dogs and C ...
    Sunny Sunday: The Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. In my quest to catch up on posting some of the photos that I didn’t manage to post before my family holiday in Italy in August, this set and another to follow record a glorious Sunday in July when, with my family, [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • Feds: Teen Militia Leader in Nevada Planned &# ...
    Authorities in Nevada may have just aborted another mass shooting with the arrest of an 18-year-old, self-professed militia leader who authorities say planned to “conduct mass killings” and “bragged about plans to shoot people on the Las Vegas strip.” Steven Matthew Fernandes, who claimed to be ...
  • 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 ...
  • Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in Canada
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  • 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 ...

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

  • Koch Brothers Rounding Up Employees' Votes
    An investigation out Sunday from Mike Elk at In These Times reveals how brothers David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, the Koch Industries owners, are taking full advantage of the Citizens United ruling in attempting to control their workers’ votes. ...
  • Rights Group Says Syria Using Cluster Bombs
    Rights group Human Rights Watch reports on Sunday that it has evidence the Syrian air force has recently used cluster bombs. The group cites over a dozen videos that were uploaded by Syrian activists who show evidence of the aftermath of cluster bombs being dropped. ...
  • US Bombing of Iraq: The Toxic Legacy Continues
    A new study links the U.S. bombardment of Iraq to a toxic legacy of birth defects in two of the country's heavily hit cities. The study published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology looked at the southern city of Basra and the central city of Fallujah and found a st ...
  • 'Global Noise' Against Austerity Sweeps Cities ...
    "They have the power. We have the stength to take it from them." Protesters in Malaga, southern Spain, October 13, 2012. (photo: Reuters/Jon Nazca) Saying "we will not be silent" against austerity measures, thousands took to the streets across the world to join in a " ...
  • Global Implications of Case Against Shell
    A case in which four Nigerian fish farmers have succeeded in taking the Anglo-Dutch owned oil giant Shell to Court in the Netherlands, marks a historic turning point on whether how oil pollution and oil damage cases are handled. The case has ramifications not just for Shell and other oil compani ...

Lifehacker

  • Extra Fuel Keeps You From Having to Walk Home ...
    Running out of gas is never fun and usually means either calling for roadside assistance or walking to the nearest gas station. Extra Fuel is a convenient way to carry a half gallon of fuel that won't accidentally blow up. More »
  • Place Important Tasks at Eye Level [Mind Hacks]
    Organization weblog Apartment Therapy suggests that tasks that require immediate attention or long-term attention should be placed at eye level to "rise above the mess" of a cluttered workspace. More »
  • "So I've got my paws on 3 Raspberry Pi's. What ...
    So I've got my paws on 3 Raspberry Pi's. What cool stuff can I do with them? What are some OS and other software tweaks that you use to optimize your HTPC experience? What software is best for renaming my music files accurately? What's the smoothest way to use two Mac systems concurrently ...
  • Use an Aluminum Pie Plate as an Emergency Cola ...
    If you somehow have need of a colander but don't have one handy, tutorial video site Howcast shares that you can punch holes in an aluminum pie plate with a nail as an expedient drainer. More »
  • Wool Dryer Balls Save Time and Energy [Laundry]
    We covered how you can speed up laundry drying times by adding tennis balls but you can create the same effect without the loud noises by turning a skein of wool yarn into three felted wool balls. More »

Water Privatization

  • New Albany will end sewer privatization
    NEW ALBANY — Mayor Jeff Gahan confirmed the city will retain operational management of the New Albany sewer system beginning in January. The city’s $1.77 million annual contract with Environmental Management Corp. — whose parent company is American Water Enterprises — will expire Dec. 31.
  • Mayor renews call for water district privatization
    ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog has renewed the call for privatization of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), or will give authority to any water distributor to supply water in the city. Fed up with numerous complaints everyday from city constituents, Mabilog admitted that the MIWD has ...
  • Mayor renews call for water district privatization
    ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog has renewed the call for privatization of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), or will give authority to any water distributor to supply water in the city. Fed up with numerous complaints everyday from city constituents, Mabilog admitted that the MIWD has ...
  • "A Drop of Life" shown in the CUB Th ...
     International filmmaker and eco-activist Shalini Kantayya dropped by the CUB Auditorium Thursday evening to discuss global water shortages with the WSU community.
  • Four vie for three seats on water district board
    Purissima Hills Water District – a county entity that provides water service to most of Los Altos Hills and the...

Guardian

  • Virgin to continue running west coast rail route
    Virgin handed temporary extension of west coast franchise for nine to 13 months as government attempts to resolve rail fiascoVirgin will continue to run the west coast mainline for at least nine months after it was handed a temporary extension to its franchise, as the transport secretary attempt ...
  • Pakistani schoolgirl attacked by Taliban sent ...
    Malala Yousafzai will require prolonged care to fully recover physically and psychologically, says military spokesmanThe Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by Taliban gunmen for pushing for girls to be educated has been sent to the UK for medical treatment, a military spokesman said on Monday. Th ...
  • Norodom Sihanouk, former king of Cambodia, die ...
    Ex-leader reportedly died of natural causes in a Beijing hospital eight years after abdicating due to poor healthNorodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian king who remained an influential figure in his country's politics through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, has died. He was 89.Camb ...
  • Costa Concordia disaster: cruise ship captain ...
    Francesco Schettino will find out if he will stand trial for manslaughter and abandoning shipNine months after it careened into the island of Giglio, the cruise ship Costa Concordia still lies on its side, now streaked with rust and algae, its funnel and children's slide hacked off, its lower wi ...
  • NHS accused of age discrimination over lifesav ...
    • Age 'cut-offs' in cancer, hernia repairs and joint replacements • Decisions should be based on general health, study says Older people are being denied vital surgery for cancer, hernia repairs and joint replacements because the NHS imposes "cutoffs" for treatment based on age discrimination, a ...

McClatchey

  • Obama vs. Romney – everyone’s taxes ...
    Reflecting their political philosophies, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney take sharply divergent paths when it comes to taxing individuals and corporations.Click to Continue »
  • Charles Koch relentless in pursuing his goals
    Charles Koch's wife says there is much endearingly quaint about the man so many now vilify. Yet even Liz Koch's stories about him show a drive and a relentlessness that…Click to Continue »
  • Arlen Specter, Senate maverick, dies at 82
    Arlen Specter, 82, the longest-serving United States senator in Pennsylvania history, a driven, often contentious figure who placed himself at the center of national controversies for a half-century, from the…Click to Continue »
  • Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies
    Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court…Click to Continue »
  • Commentary: Mr. Romney, people die because the ...
    Poor Mitt Romney. In trying to be all things to all people on health care, hes found himself stuck in a time warp.Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan attracts USD460m investments in Ja ...
    (MENAFN) Afghan Minister for Commerce and Industries, Anwar Ul Haq Ahadi, announced that in the January-September period, investments in the country jumped by 20 percent to USD460 million, reported ...
  • Pakistani girl wounded in assassination attemp ...
    The teenage Pakistani girl shot and wounded in an assassination attempt by the Taliban is being flown to Britain after doctors decided she would require long-term care to recover from the attack. She ...
  • Pakistani schoolgirl attacked by Taliban sent ...
    Women supporters of the National Commission of Human Development (NCHD) pray next to pictures of schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday by the Taliban, during a candlelight vigil for ...
  • Pakistani girl shot by Taliban being taken to U.K.
    ISLAMABAD Pakistan sent a 14-year-old activist who was shot and seriously wounded by the Taliban to the United Kingdom for treatment Monday, saying she would require prolonged care to fully recover ...
  • UAE to evacuate Pak girl shot by Taliban for f ...
    The United Arab Emirates is ready to evacuate a Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for further medical treatment, a top official said on Sunday. "There is an Emirati plane ...

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

  • Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week ...
    Taking the top spot in "insightful" comment voting was Bengie, responding to big broadband players in Kansas City demanding a "level playing field" against Google's fiber offering. Bengie points out what a real "level playing field" might look like: AT&T/TW/Comcast/etc have gotten about ...
  • AndrewF's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    Previously, on Techdirt ... The New York Times reveals that Apple's mass patent frenzy began shortly after being sued for patent infringement itself. This confirms my longstanding suspicion that patent plaintiffs are like vampires. Upon being bit by one, there's a good chance you'll tur ...
  • Next Time Someone Suggests Piracy Will Kill Mu ...
    Music predates agriculture. That's something I suppose I always knew, but had never thought about in such clear terms until Bryan Kim illustrated it in a talk at SFMusicTech with a photo of a 35,000-year-old bone flute. This places music before farming and written language on the timeline of hum ...
  • SoundExchange, Once Again, Warns Artists That ...
    You may recall that nearly a decade ago, people began to question why SoundExchange, the RIAA spinoff created to collect satellite and internet broadcasting royalties, was allowed to keep any of the money for artists it couldn't find. That resulted in some controversy, when people realized that ...
  • Just As Key 3D Printing Patents Get Closer To ...
    3D printing is on the verge of really going mainstream, in part because of improvements in the technology, but in large part because the key patents that have limited that advancement are getting close to expiring. Of course, as it takes off, though, expect a ton of people to try to "tax" the s ...

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 ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Counting drone strike deaths
    The U.S. government should provide an official accounting on who is being killed by drone strikes, said a new report released today by Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Clinic. Counting Drone Strike Deaths is a systematic review of drone strike casualty estimates provided by media and aggregate ...
  • Questions on drones, unanswered still
    The New York Times‘ public editor Margaret Sullivan writes: Understanding American drone strikes is like a deadly version of the old telephone game: I whisper to you and you whisper to someone else, and eventually all meaning is lost. You start with uncertain information from dubious sourc ...
  • Incensed by Malala attack, jirga declares war ...
    The Express Tribune reports: Incensed by the attack on teenage child activist Malal Yousafzai, a local jirga has declared war on Taliban until the elimination of militancy from the picturesque valley. The valley wriggled out of the clutches of Taliban following the 2009 military operation agains ...
  • America: ruled by the rich
    Nicholas Carnes writes: Elections are supposed to give us choices. We can reward incumbents or we can throw the bums out. We can choose Republicans or Democrats. We can choose conservative policies or progressive ones. In most elections, however, we don’t get a say in something important: whethe ...
  • Why the U.S. used nuclear weapons against Japa ...
    Washington’s Blog: Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey gr ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Unknown Skeptic – Journalism, awaiti ...
    Guest post by Maurizio Morabito 1-Introduction What is the topic where a team of experienced journalists can write a report containing great insights and surprisingly clear expositions alongside stunning simplifications, abysmal naïvetés and incredibly one-sided analyses based on a fundamental & ...
  • GHCN’s Dodgy Adjustments In Iceland
    Guest post by Paul Homewood Take a look at the two graphs above. They are both mean temperature plots for Stykkisholmur, a small town in the west of Iceland. Now take another look! The top one is the official Icelandic … Continue reading →
  • Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
    Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week: “I’m going to talk about why the evidence in the record shows that the endangerment finding should be vacated. I want to be … Cont ...
  • Raimund Muscheler says that a steady high leve ...
    Guest post by Alec Rawls Solar warming and ocean equilibrium, part 4 I emailed Dr. Muscheler about the very strange remarks that were attributed to him in the recently released report on last year’s NCAR workshop: The Effects of Solar … Continue reading →
  • Is this what global warming looks like? Over 2 ...
    In the continental USA, there were 137 high temperature type records versus 857 low temperature type records this past week , a 6-1 difference. Last week there were 1154 low temperature type records putting the two week total for October at 2011. There … Continue reading →

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Biosingularity

  • Anxiety increases cancer severity in mice
    Worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, anxiety-prone mice developed more severe cancer then their calm counterparts. The study, to be published online ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT

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Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

  • 7 Nasty and Crazy Effects of Pesticides in Foo ...
    When asked by a skeptical friend why you buy organic, do you find yourself tongue-tied? Was it obesity? Or thyroid problems? Why should you buy organic? There are numerous reasons to skip the mainstream supermarket food and shop at an organic grocer, but just one of those reasons revolves around ...
  • Fighting For Prop 37: The Truth that $36 Milli ...
    The people's movement for our right to know what's in our food has hit a critical fork in the road: the moment when it's time to ask ourselves and each other -- how hard are we willing to fight for our basic right to know what's in the food we're eating and feeding our families?Click here to rea ...
  • Food Scarcity: The Timebomb Setting Nation Aga ...
    As the UN and Oxfam warn of the dangers ahead, expert analyst Lester Brown says time to solve the problem is running out Click here to read this article
  • Meet the Crawfish-Peeling Guestworkers Who Ins ...
    How a few courageous workers in small-town Louisiana sparked nationwide actions demanding better wages and working conditions for those who pick, pack, stock, and sell the mega-retailer's products. Click here to read this article
  • Only Organics Can Feed the Hungry World: Here' ...
    A new approach to agriculture that combines the best in industrial production with organic and sustainable practices is the key to meeting the changing needs of a changing world, where resources are rapidly depleted by a growing population. 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?

Investigate - Breaking News

My Care2 Picks

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

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Five Royal Marines to appear in military court
    ShareThisFive Royal Marines to appear in military court 14 Oct 2012 Five Royal Marines have been charged with murder following an "incident" in Afghanistan, with two further servicemen being arrested. The five men will be officially named over the next few days, when a court date for their trial ...
  • Five Royal Marines charged with murder followi ...
    ShareThisFive Royal Marines charged with murder following video footage discovery 14 Oct 2012 Five Royal Marines have been charged with murder following an "incident" in Afghanistan, with two further servicemen being arrested. A total of nine Royal Marines have now been arrested on suspicion of ...
  • Two Navy Ships Collide During East Coast Exercise
    ShareThisTwo Navy Ships Collide During East Coast Exercise 15 Oct 2012 The Pentagon is investigating a collision over the weekend involving a Navy nuclear submarine and an Aegis cruiser off the East Coast. The United States Fleet Forces Command said in a news release that the submarine Montpelie ...
  • Palestinian olive grove attacked for second time
    ShareThisPalestinian olive grove attacked for second time 13 Oct 2012 Dozens of olive trees were set ablaze in a Palestinian village early on Saturday, in an attack that villagers and Palestinian security officials blamed on Jewish settlers. Residents of Qaryut village, 15 kilometres (nine miles ...
  • Arlen Specter dies; he was Pennsylvania's long ...
    ShareThisArlen Specter dies; he was Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator 14 Oct 2012 Former senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, one of the nation's most durable political figures, who during three decades in the Senate became known for his command of constitutional law, died of cancer Oct. ...

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

  • R.I.P. SGT Donna Johnson
    14 October 2012 Written By: Don Carter Don Carter is a wounded veteran and talented photographer This began last week when my friend Bud Hunter and I were sitting in the office of his tire shop. I heard him start cursing, and asked what was going on. His friend, Donna Johnson of Raeford, N.C., ...
  • 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

The Killing Train

  • Updating my archives - Palestine 2002, Chiapas ...
    I have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long time, so i ...
  • 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 ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

  • Armed group, gov’t to build model village as f ...
    The Shan State Progressive Party is set to partner with the Burmese government to build a model village for displaced families in northern Shan state, despite ongoing clashes
  • Coming back alive
    In Zone C in Mae La camp – one of the poorest sections of the largest refugee camps in Thailand – around 15 men who have been maimed by landmines live at Care Villa. Most of the residents were former soldiers in the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). They are cared for by staff f ...
  • Ruling party aiming to revamp image ahead of e ...
    The Union Solidarity and Development Party will kick off a three-day conference on Sunday to choose a new party chief and attempt to map out a new strategy
  • More demonstrators charged for protesting with ...
    The leaders of a workers’ protest in Rangoon’s Sanchaung township last week have been charged by the police for demonstrating without an official permit
  • 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

Telegraph - Climate Change

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 ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • What Goes Around, Flies Around
    Hezbollah today took credit for the drone which penetrated 35 miles into Israeli airspace last week and came with 18 miles of overflying Israel’s top-secret Dimona nuclear weapons facility before being shot down.  It said the drone had been produced in Iran and launched by Hezbollah from s ...
  • Israeli Political Leadership Uses War as Tool ...
    Smadar Lavie (CV) is Scholar in Residence at UC Berkeley, whose academic field is the study of the role of women, particularly Mizrahi women, in Israeli society.  She’s just published a fascinating essay that examines three seemingly disparate Israeli social phenomena which have a great de ...
  • 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 ...

If Americans Knew

  • Shop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
    Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and accusations against it afterward, but didn't cover the event itself.
  • The Real Story of How Israel Was Created
    To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth is that the UN created Israel, that the world was in favor of this move, and that the US gover ...
  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...

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

  • A LocalWiki for Antarctica
    Many months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki project in Antarctica. In. Antarctica. Antarctica! The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States base on the Antarctic Pen ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Mexico on Edge - Massive Cross-Border Contraba ...
    A great deal of government and media chatter is focused on the U.S.-Mexico trade in drugs, guns and illicit cash. Yet much less attention is paid to the flow of other contraband products, perhaps less sexy to the mass media, but arguably having an equal or greater impact on the economy, environm ...
  • Obama and Israel - Obama is Urged to Cut Ties ...
    The Simon Wiesenthal Center has urged President Barack Obama to issue a public condemnation of the call by the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, Mohammad Badie, for jihad against Israel. The human rights advocacy group also asked Obama to cut off of all contact with the organization until the ...
  • China and America - Number of Chinese Students ...
    The number of students from China studying at universities across the United States has increased dramatically. According to some statistics, the number of undergraduate students from China in the U.S. has doubled in the last two years.  Economists say the trend is due, in large part, to a ...
  • China on Edge - China Central Bank Says Priori ...
    China's central bankers on Sunday allowed some public and direct insight into their thinking. A top official of the People's Bank of China delivered remarks to those who had been attending a joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Tokyo.The deputy governor of the Peopl ...
  • The Edge of Terrorism - Israeli Air Force Stri ...
    The Israeli Air Force struck a Gaza rocket launching crew moments after they launched an attack earlier today. “This afternoon a terrorist squad fired a rocket from the central Gaza Strip at Israel and was targeted, moments following, by IAF aircraft. A hit was confirmed,� said the IDF in a ...

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

  • Libya Gives Obama's a Lousy News Sunday
    (There are four videos in this post, if you cannot see them please click here and read the post on my web site).  The Obama Administration's cover up of the details of the Libya was a big topic on today's Sunday News shows and it did not go well for the campaign surrogates. For ex ...
  • Newsbusted: Pennsylvania Dems Holding Voter Re ...
    Watch out Illinois-- Pennsylvania is snipping at your heels. Now that a Judge has struck down the Pennsylvania law designed to ensure that only people eligible to vote fill out ballots, the State Democratic Party is going all-out to make sure their guy get's their 20 electoral college votes. In ...
  • VP Debate: Tickle Me Biden?
    (Note: There are three videos in this post.  If you cannot see them please click here to read them on my site_ I have to be honest, throughout the debate I was screaming at my TV, I thought there too many opportunities where Congressman Ryan could have attacked...and or defended himse ...
  • Joe Biden Has Never Been a Big Friend Of Israel
    Tonight during the VP debate Joe Biden bragged about how close he is to Bibi Netanyahu. In fact at one point viewers may have gotten the feeling that Biden and the Israeli PM were going to go out shopping for drapes. But despite his claims to the contrary Biden has never been a huge friend ...
  • Stephanie Cutter & The NY Times: One Lies And ...
    When I was a kid, if I would "back up" a tall tale told by a friend or sibling my mother, of blessed memory, would always say the same thing. "Sure, one lies and the other swears to it!"  If she was around today she might say that about Obama campaign spokesman, Stephanie Cutter and the off ...

The Real Agenda

  • Roleta Genética: A aposta de Nossas Vidas
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OUTUBRO 11, 2012 Estão você e sua família do lado errado de uma aposta? Essa é uma das questões levantadas pelo novo documentário Roleta Genética: A Aposta de Nossas Vidas. O documentário foi produzido pelo Instituto de Tecnologia Responsável. Os or ...
  • Ruleta Genética: La Apuesta de Nuestras Vidas
    POR LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTUBRE 11, 2012 ¿Están usted y su familia en el lado equivocado de una apuesta? Esa es una de las preguntas formuladas por el nuevo documental Ruleta Genética: La Apuesta de Nuestras Vidas. El documental es una producción del Institute for Responsi ...
  • Psychiatrists Drugging Children for “Social Ju ...
    By JOHN RAPPOPORT | NOMOREFAKENEWS | OCTOBER 12, 2012 It’s the latest thing. Psychiatrists are now giving children in poor neighborhoods Adderall, a dangerous stimulant, by making false diagnoses of ADHD, or no diagnoses at all. Their aim? To “promote social justice,” to improve academ ...
  • Nobel Peace Joke: The Prize goes for the Europ ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 12, 2012 The European Union is the newest recipient of the largely depreciated Nobel Peace Prize Award. Previous winners include current US president Barack Obama, whose extended wars continue to kill thousands of people around the world. The ...
  • Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 11, 2012 Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? That is the questions asked by the new documentary film Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives. The film is a production of the Institute for Responsible Technology. Genetically ...

Wind Watch

  • State: Reject wind testing in Windham
    WINDHAM — The state Department of Public Service is urging rejection of a proposal to build wind-testing towers here, saying such construction would be “wholly contrary” to the Town of Windham’s regulations. The department’s strongly worded letter does not end the p ...
  • Wind turbines take steep toll on birds and bats
    Wind power is key to efforts to produce clean, limitless energy and to slow global warming. It’s one of the world’s fastest-growing energy industries. But there is mounting evidence that expanding “wind farms” are taking a toll on airborne wildlife. Thousands of birds and ...
  • Salmond’s defence of wind turbines reaps ...
    Alex Salmond has defended onshore windfarms, saying they do not spoil the countryside and actually make Scotland more attractive. Campaigners branded the first minister “out of touch” last night – and warned that his stance on the issue would cost him victory in the independence referendum. The ...
  • Lookout Mountain site eyed for possible wind farm
    One of the founders of the Texas-based firm studying the feasibility of a wind farm on Lookout Mountain first cast his eye on the area over a decade ago, a company spokesman said recently. “We first looked at the area in 2002,” Pioneer Green co-founder and vice president David Savage ...
  • 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 ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • JPMorgan Profit up 35% with Mortgage Surge
    “Revenue from mortgage production was $1.8 billion, up 36 percent from a year earlier, excluding losses for buying back bad mortgage loans sold in the past to investors. U.S. banks have been enjoying a surge in demand from homeowners to refinance mortgage loans at lower interest rates.” (Chicago ...
  • Al Gore Has Thrived as Green-Tech Investor
    “The man who was within sight of the presidency 12 years ago has transformed himself, becoming perhaps the world’s most renowned crusader on climate change and a highly successful green-tech investor. Just before leaving public office in 2001, Gore reported assets of less than $2 million; today, ...
  • Torture Cases Rise Sharply in Mexico
    “A leading human rights group contends that the Mexican government under outgoing President Felipe Calderon has ‘effectively turned a blind eye’ to a dramatic increase in reported instances of torture and abuse by police and the military in recent years, as those forces have been pre ...
  • Huawei’s U.S. Competitors Among Those Pushing ...
    “No charges have been formally brought. And any evidence of whether Huawei is a threat to national security has been locked in a classified report that can be viewed only by a select few in government. That has created an ideal environment for U.S. businesses to gain an upper hand. U.S. lawmaker ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Thoughts on Chicago’s Tech Scene
    I’ve said before that I don’t think Chicago is well positioned to become some type of dominant tech hub, but should only seek to get its “fair share” of tech. However, as the third largest city in America, Chicago’s fair share on tech is still pretty darn big. If you look at what’s been happenin ...
  • A Geographer Who Navigated the Globe
    Many people ask, “What do geographers do?” I would suggest that Marvin Creamer’s life story is all you need to know about the practical application of geography, even though most of us will never be stuck in a horizonless Indian Ocean on a “sea of glass”, or try to navigate the ferocious Drake ...
  • Florida: When Your Best (Place) Just Ain't Go ...
    Real estate broker Coldwell Banker handles corporate relocations for a large portion of our middle class. It recently released a survey of Suburbanite Best Places to Live. While it's easy to dismiss as a sales tool for their realtors, the survey provides a fascinating glimpse of middle class, s ...
  • 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 ...

GM Watch

  • Weapons grade junk journalism from the LA Times
    Weapons grade junk journalism from the LA Times The Los Angeles Times has published an article by its business columnist Michael Hiltzik about Seralini's study, calling it "junk science" and "shoddy" and claiming that its use by supporters of Proposition 37, the ballot initiative to require G ...
  • Court of Auditors slams EFSA
    1.EFSA criticised by auditors over conflicts of interest 2.EFSA on health effects of interaction between GMOs and herbicides NOTE: The European Court of Auditors has slammed the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for its inadequate management of conflicts of interest which it says is "not ro ...
  • GM crop debate heats up
    NOTE: Good overview that puts recent events and California's Prop 37 into wider context, as the industry's 'No on 37' multimillion dollar TV advertising campaign kicks in with "10 days of incessant pounding lies." http://lat.ms/W8gUKR --- --- GM crop debate heats up as California labeling vote n ...
  • Did Monsanto write UC Davis prof's op-eds?
    1.Kent Bradford: More than meets the eye 2.Did Monsanto Write This Anti-GMO Labeling Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor? EXTRACT: Shame on the Daily Democrat and The Reporter (Vacaville) for publishing Monsanto's talking points disguised as legitimate opinion from a university professor of pl ...
  • Planetary pirates
    EXTRACT "The companies that say “trust us” are the same ones that created the climate and food crises in the first place." NOTE: Details of the book reviewed: Earth Grab: Geopiracy, the New Biomassters and Capturing Climate Genes is available from Pambazuka Press http://fahamubooks.org/book/?GC ...

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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

  • 21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
    The global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are riding high.  But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding at the pace ...
  • Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
    Will the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in massive riots in our major cities?  Right now, supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes on a victory on November 6th.  The race for the presidency is extremely tight, and o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 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 ...
  • Senate report says national intelligence fusio ...
    An alarming report published by the Department of Homeland Security in March 2010 called attention to the theft of dozens of pounds of dangerous explosives from an airport storage bunker in Washington state.Like many such warnings, it drew on information gathered by one of the department’s “f ...
  • East China Sea training merely an 'exercise' s ...
    Japan, Taiwan, and China have been contesting ownership of five deserted islets and three rocks in the East China  Sea since oil reserves were detected nearby more than forty years ago. But new tensions were stoked this month when the Japanese government nationalized the i ...
  • 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 ...

backofthebook.ca

  • Out of the woods
    By Montreal Simon I went for a walk the other day through the leafy lanes of The Shire, with a friend of mine who has suffered from severe depression from about this time last year. It was such a beautiful fall day. He was so happy, at having made so much progress on the road [...] Tags:  ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • Marikana prequel: NUM and the murders that sta ...
    The coverage of the Marikana massacre seems to start with the mass killings of 16 August. But that’s not where, or how the violence started, and it wasn’t rivalry between unions, either. Rewind a few days and prepare for goosebumps: you’ll find a web of con ...
  • 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 ...

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

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Romney's Policy on Syria
    Very humorous video by Paul Joseph Watson analyzing Romney’s position on Syria in the recent presidential debates. Watson provides all-important context missing in the mainstream media.   If video doesn’t play go to Does America Share It’s Values with Terrorists?
  • The Myth of Growing Ourselves out of Debt
    Charles Eisenstein Someone recently sent me a thoughtful opinion piece by Charles Eisenstein (author of Sacred Economics – which I reviewed back in May) from the UK Guardian This is the first commentary I have seen in the mainstream questioning the myth that economic growth is going t ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global ...
    By virtue of their success in promoting doubt and inaction, the climate science deniers and disinformers have, tragically and ironically, turned the worst-case scenario into business as usual.
  • 2015 Nissan Leaf Aims to Be More Self Aware
    Japan’s largest showcase of electronics and information technology, CEATEC, turned out to be a bit of a razzle dazzle for electric car technology this year.
  • Getting to Solar Energy Sustainability
    The search for market equilibrium is an elusive quest in the solar energy industry.  But the addiction to subsidies, carve-outs and other political favors has done little to improve the success potential for solar.  Quite the reverse, by creating the conditions that made possible and i ...
  • US 'Solar Zones' in Place, Ready for Big Projects
    The Department of the Interior said that if fully built out, solar projects in the zones could produce some 23,700 megawatts of electricity, enough to power around 7 million American homes.
  • Natural Gas Extraction Is Destroying Forests i ...
    Wellpads, roads, pipelines and waste pits are clearcuts in forests. Cumulatively they are very destructive to the natural ecosystem.

EU Times

  • UK and Japanese scientists receive Nobel Medic ...
    John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan have won the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for their research on stem cell. Both scientists were awarded for their groundbreaking discovery of changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the ...
  • Greeks angered by Christ blasphemous theatre play
    Tensions have risen in the Greek capital city of Athens over a blasphemous American play which portrays Jesus Christ as homosexual. Late on Friday, police briefly arrested more than 30 people outside an Athens theatre, where the play Corpus Christi was staged, who were calling on authorities to ...
  • Cosmetics industry: Pioneering work can replac ...
    A team of researchers at the Centre for Neuroscience (CNC) and the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (UC), Portugal, has developed a groundbreaking test for the detection of cutaneous chemical allergen (skin sensitization assessment), which will significantly reduce the testing animals ...
  • Times So Tough Some Families Schedule “No Food ...
    What would it be like to schedule a ‘no food’ day for your family, because food prices are too high? As men play with God-like powers such as weather modification, parts of the world suffer from drought and famine. Coincidence or Not? In some parts of the US and the world crop yields are at [...]
  • Many UFO researchers die under mysterious circ ...
    Many UFO researchers working on their research in the 1970s and 1980s died under mysterious circumstances, and may have been killed. This is the conclusion reached by an amateur astronomer, a former U.S. government adviser Timothy Hood. He made this statement at an international conference in Am ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • President Obama Leads In Early Voting [Poll]
    President Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are incredibly close in opinion polls, but a recent poll by Reuters/Ipsos shows that the incumbent candidate appears to have a big advantage among early voters. The new poll shows that Obama leads Romney by 59 percent to 31 percent among ...
  • Turkey Bans Syrian Passenger Planes From Airspace
      Turkey announced that all Syrian aircraft is banned from its airspace, showing an increasingly firm stance against Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Turkey’s latest announcement comes just days after the country forced down a Syrian passenger plane, which it asserted contained military arms ...
  • Derek Jeter fractures ankle, out for playoffs
    In the 12th inning of the first game of the American League Championship Series, the Yankees' captain and shortstop suffered a fractured ankle and won't play again this year. Derek Jeter is out for the rest of the postseason after fracturing his ankle during Game 1 of the American League Champi ...
  • Xbox Music strikes a chord tomorrow alongside ...
    Xbox Music releases tomorrow alongside a dashboard update, Microsoft has announced. The cloud powered music service launches tomorrow on Xbox 360 as part of a rolling update to Xbox Live. It goes live for Windows 8 when the operating system launches later this month on 26th October, and on iOS ...
  • Beltran Comes Up Clutch
    Carlos Beltran talks about the importance of taking Game 1 on the road against the Giants, and coming through with another big home run. Similar Posts: Shute Shield Preview of Round 15 Eastwood v Sydney University DawgNation: Players ready for Gamecocks Lincecum Doing Whatever He Can To Help Gi ...

Groklaw

  • India Patent Authority Has Big Pharma Worried
    When India's government revoked U.S. drug maker Pfizer's local patent for its cancer drug Sutent, it marked yet another loss for Big Pharma in an escalating patent war between multinational pharmaceutical companies and the governments of developing nations. The decision by India's patent authori ...
  • CyanogenMod is getting its own OTA update manager
    According to a Google+ post by CyanogenMod developer Ricardo Cerqueira, the latest development versions of CyanogenMod 10 now include their own update manager. This is a significant change for the alternative open source ROM for Android devices. CyanogenMod had bundled the third-party ROM Manage ...
  • Indie film legend accuses Apple, Google of Web ...
    Harvey Weinstein, the tough-talking indie-film producer, has strongly condemned the pirating of movies and TV shows via the Internet and has accused Apple and Google of being part of the problem.... "I think we are being done a massive disservice by these companies," Weinstein told the crowd. " ...
  • Re: Drafting Antitrust Case, F.T.C. Raises Pr ...
    But, unlike the Microsoft case where consumers were harmed by higher prices for PCs and software, I know of no harm to consumers as a result of Google's dominance. Their services are free to consumers and competing services are easy to find and access. It seems that the FTC and Google's competit ...
  • FTC Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz
    In the private sector, Leibowitz served most recently as Vice President for Congressional Affairs for the Motion Picture Association of America ... [PJ: Might that explain his apparent dislike of Google?] - FTC

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Hydroelectric power is biggest source of renew ...
    Grand Coulee DamRenewable energy is still a small part of total power generated in the US. Solar is less than 1 percent. Wind is almost 4 percent. Hydroelectric power is the biggest, at 8 percent. Big hydroelectric dams are controversial because of the immense environmental damage they do. Many ...
  • Feds rouse self from snooze, targets Mara Salv ...
    The United States Treasury has awoken from a mighty slumber and has decided that Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13, is indeed a transnational criminal organization – an observation that many others have assumed for years.It gives one furiously to think why it took the federal government so long to d ...
  • UK tidal and wave power potential estimated at ...
    Huge amounts of tidal and wave power energy is just waiting to be harnessed off the coast of Britain, says a new report from their government.
  • Floating wind turbines
    These floating wind turbines are loosely tethered to the ocean floor and are omni-directional. The blades pivot to face the incoming wind. As the video shows, they are assembled on land in trenches that are flooded. The turbines are then towed fully assembled sometimes several miles offshore whe ...
  • Bassnectar & DC Breaks – Breathless feat. Mimi ...

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

  • Modernisation of adoption law
    “Kevin Hague launches gay adoption bill”. Sigh. I’m gay, but that doesn’t make my bill a gay adoption bill. It’s true that in 2009 I did have a Bill in the ballot to extend the categories of people who could adopt to include same-sex and de facto opposite-sex couple ...
  • Potentially many deaths by a thousand cuts
    One of my first media releases as an MP, in December last year, was in defence of the Auckland Sexual Abuse 24 hour phone line. Since then, I have asked questions of the Government in response to the loss of funding to Wellington Rape Crisis; the lack of systems to enable women, on the DPB, [...]
  • General debate, October 13, 2012
  • 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 ...

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

  • Confirmed Again: Statin Drugs Accelerate Cardi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Statins are the world's most-prescribed class of medications. A staggering one in four Americans over the age of 45 now take cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, and others. A majority of them are taking these drugs for primary prevent ...
  • Cherries May Help Reduce Risk of Gout Attacks
    By Dr. Mercola Painful, stiff and inflamed joints are a few of the characteristic symptoms of gout, which is a type of arthritis that is typically, but not always, located on your great toe. When an attack occurs, the pain can be debilitating, with sufferers often describing it as being burn ...
  • The Surprising Health Benefits of Oxidative Me ...
    By Dr. Mercola Dr. Robert Rowen was board-certified and recertified by the American Boards of Family Practice and Emergency Medicine; he's currently also certified by the American Board of Clinical Medical Toxicology. He's also a leader in medical freedom, primarily with his pioneering work ...
  • Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease
    By Dr. Mercola Unrelenting pain. Headaches, muscle aches, swollen joints, rashes. Loss of coordination and muscle spasms. Intermittent paralysis. Cycles of disabling symptoms that persist for years, causing ceaseless suffering and frustration for patients and their families. This is the pic ...
  • Dr. Mercola Talks with Dr. Becker about the Pe ...
    By Dr. Mercola I recently interviewed Dr. Karen Becker, who has been in charge of our Healthy Pets site for the past four years. If you have a dog, cat, or some other type of furry or feathered companion, and you haven't yet visited Dr. Becker's site, be sure to sign up for the Healthy Pets ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
    A boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
  • Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
    The Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.© SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced, as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading to the controversial Murum dam. Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • #VIDEO: Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Ly ...
    from mercola.com: Unrelenting pain. Headaches, muscle aches, swollen joints, rashes. Loss of coordination and muscle spasms. Intermittent paralysis. Cycles of disabling symptoms that persist for years, causing ceaseless suffering and frustration for patients and their families. This is the pi ...
  • Oakland Sues U.S. to Prevent Closing of Mariju ...
    from nytimes.com: The City of Oakland has filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent the Department of Justice from seizing property leased to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the country. “This lawsuit is about protecting the rights of legitimate medical patients,” City Attorney ...
  • Child Suspended from School for Kombucha in Lu ...
    from thehealthyhomeeconomist.com: The trouble apparently started because the kombucha drink was packed in a glass bottle which is the appropriate container for this healthy, vitamin and probiotic filled beverage. The mother even took care to safely place the glass bottle in a ...
  • UPDATE: OCT 11–Water Advocates To Put City Co ...
    from cleanwaterportland.org: The effort to overturn the Portland City Council’s rushed decision to add fluoridation chemicals to Portland’s drinking water won a major victory on Thursday by submitting more than twice the number of signatures required to stop the fluoridation law from taking ef ...
  • Is the CDC’s Mandated Vaccine Schedule a Heal ...
    from foodfreedomgroup.com: terilization programs are government policies which attempt to force people to undergo surgical sterilization. But surgery is not necessary to sterilize. During WWII, the Nazis experimented on people at Auschwitz to develop vaccines that sterilize at routine doctor ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • 21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
    The global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are riding high.  But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding at the pace ...
  • Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
    Will the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in massive riots in our major cities?  Right now, supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes on a victory on November 6th.  The race for the presidency is extremely tight, and o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Eaten by Ouroboros and Buggered by Cthulhu, in ...
    By Visible The most difficult act for me, or any objective-thinking abled person, is working up enough honest emotion, to care one wit what happens to any of these people. It’s a straining condition, attended by cosmic ennui and weltschmerz. One wants to just go far, far away, ♫I’m t ...
  • The Earth and our realtionship and vibrations ...
    By Sherrie Questioning All If big business actually did what was right for the people and the Earth, we would have zero point energy, instead of toxic Earth killing energy of nuclear and oil. Those two industries kill the Earth more than anything else. The facts are we don’t need nuclear e ...
  • Forced Flu Shots Gaining Momentum Across the C ...
    Kimberly Paxton www.TheDailySheeple.com Despite mounting evidence that the flu vaccine is completely ineffective at preventing illness, employers across America are threatening employees with termination if they refuse to get the injection. One such employer is Faith Regional Health Services in ...
  • Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals M ...
    By David Rose The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperature ...
  • Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

Veterans Today

electric politics

  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
  • 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 ...

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

Stop NATO

  • Horrors of War: U.S., UK Munitions Cause Birth ...
    RT October 14, 2012 Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq’ US and UK weapons ammunition were linked to heart defects, brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs, according to a recent study. The report revealed a shocking rise in birth defects in Iraqi children conceived afte ...
  • Benghazi Attack On Largest CIA Regional Operat ...
    Voice of Russia October 14, 2012   Benghazi attack on largest CIA regional operation, Steven’s death collateral John Robles   While the US continues to debate and determine whom to blame and what “failures” led to the attack on the US Embassy compound and CIA safe house in Benghazi, no ...
  • U.S. Military Buildup on Syria’s Southern Border
    Global Research October 14, 2012 US Military Buildup on Syria’s Southern Border By Prof Michel Chossudovsky We are at a very dangerous crossroads. US and British troops are now stationed in Jordan on Syria’s southern border.  Meanwhile, Turkish troops are being deployed on Syria’s Northern borde ...
  • Georgia Remains NATO’s Main Outpost In T ...
    Civil Georgia October 12, 2012 NATO Secretary General Speaks on Phone with Saakashvili, Ivanishvili Saakashvili and Rasmussen in Brussels in April Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called President Saakashvili and Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili on October 12 and ...
  • Georgia Remains NATO’s Main Outpost In T ...
    Civil Georgia October 12, 2012 NATO Secretary General Speaks on Phone with Saakashvili, Ivanishvili Saakashvili and Rasmussen in Brussels in April Tbilisi: NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, called President Saakashvili and Georgian Dream leader Bidzina Ivanishvili on October 12 and ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Fusion Centers: Invading Your Privacy at Your ...
    By Gregory Patlin Activist Post October 15, 2012 The U.S. government has spent up to $1.4 billion of taxpayer money since 2003 to create “threat fusion centers” under the guise of fighting terrorism. Yet a two-year bipartisan report recently released by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on ...
  • Kid Suspended, Interrogated by Cop For Healthy ...
    Ignorance, terror, and fear abound in the Public Fool System… By Heather Callaghan Activist Post October 15, 2012 Having worked in a school system, there is an inordinate pressure to see terrorism and drugs behind every tray and box, at least in some districts, and a civic duty to act like ...
  • Intensified Warrantless Spying in America
    By Stephen Lendman theintelhub.com October 15, 2012 Newly released ACLU Justice Department documents and Kurt Eichenwald’s just published book titled “500 Days: Secrets and Lies in the Terror Wars” provide new information on lawless spying in America. Eichenwald described &#822 ...
  • Conservative Radio Host: TSA Groped My Vagina
    “I am subjected to this almost every time I fly” Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com October 15, 2012 Conservative radio host and Breitbart Editor Dana Loesch had her vagina groped during an advanced screening by the TSA at Phoenix Airport, with Loesch complaining that she is targeted for such treat ...
  • Threats To Riot If Obama Loses Flood Internet!
    theintelhub.com October 15, 2012 From Infowars Nightly News: In the above video we explore a string of press reports covering threats to riot if Obama loses flooding twitter and Facebook. We also breakdown the fact that this will be used to take all Americans’ freedoms and is a threat to our rep ...

FRS

  • Palestinian Parkour: In a Land of Walls and Ba ...
    Free Running Gaza A Film by George Azar and Mariam Shahin Maysara Films, for AlJazeeraEnglish on Jul 3, 2011 Two young Palestinians embrace an art form and athletic discipline that offers an escape from life under occupation. Length: 25mins  |  Year of production: 1999 Free Running Gaza dep ...
  • Underhanded Methods Used in Suppressing Women& ...
    [This article, from The Economist magazine in the UK,  describes a ruthless, state by state restriction of access to abortion services in the US, including onerous regulations that close abortion clinics completely. Though the article refers to some courts that have struck down some of the most ...
  • ‘India is ripe for revolution’
    B.S.RAGHAVAN, The Hindu Business Line, October 14, 2012: The TV news channel, Headlines Today, in association with Bloomberg TV, holds an hour-long discussion every Saturday on burning issues, moderated by the iconic Tim Sebastian of BBC’s HardTalk fame, in the series titled The Outsider. It tak ...
  • Obama’s Destructive Foreign Policy and B ...
    Black Agenda Report, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 “It is painfully distressing to witness members of my community so willfully complicit with lethal war policies simply because they are coming from a brown skinned man,” writes the author. “African-Americans’ honorable legacy of opposing Euro-A ...
  • Obama’s Destructive Foreign Policy and B ...
    Black Agenda Report, Tuesday, October 9, 2012 “It is painfully distressing to witness members of my community so willfully complicit with lethal war policies simply because they are coming from a brown skinned man,” writes the author. “African-Americans’ honorable legacy of opposing Euro-A ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • Transcript & Video – Update from Ken O&# ...
    Catherine Myles, I have found the funds for you to come to Gaza. We will pay for you to go to Gaza. I will pay for your tickets from the UK to Cairo and then your taxi fare to Gaza and your accommodation in Gaza and your return taxi fare back Cairo, back to the UK. You have a paid, PAID trip to ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe in Gaza – F ...
    I think this is going to be one of people's favorite videos as it is genuinely funny and yet very serious. Max Igan and myself get into this one by showing a sycophantic Patrick Clawson of the Washington Institute for Near East spouting some truly incredible historical narrative. This useful idi ...
  • Max Igan & Ken O’Keefe Freestyle on Gaza ...
    Max Igan & Ken O'Keefe Freestyle on Gaza Rooftop
  • Back in Gaza with Max Igan & the Samouni Family
    It is ironic how unplanned events often impact your life far more than those that are planned. Before you know it you are taken down a path of which the universe, God, some unknowable force is clearly in charge, we become but a passenger. Meeting the Samouni family has been like that, it has c ...
  • Hunger Strike in Solidarity with Palestinians
    Today is day 1 of my 30-day hunger strike in solidarity with the Palestinian hunger strikers who will, within days if not hours from now, die for refusing to accept the unacceptable if we do not unite in their defense. - Ken O'Keefe

StillSmallVoice

  • Life is change and change is life
    And here is proof: The Courant's parent company, Tribune, is backing away from maintaining this particular blog format -- Movable Type -- in favor of another blog platform, one that is unworkable here. Namely, the new format allows blog comments to go online unapproved, and -- I say th ...
  • Maybe CEO salaries need a Buffett rule
    "Peer benchmarking" helps move compensation for CEOs ever higher. Perhaps one of the high-dollar bosses should take a page from Warren Buffett, who in August suggested in a New York Times essay that the rich don't carry their weight in taxes. Meanwhile, Buffett, himself, has refined his earlier ...
  • De-pinkifying breast cancer
    There's a growing movement that seeks to turn the pink ribbon upside down. You can read more here. Flickr photo
  • Why the occupation?
    You can see more Mother Jones charts here. You can read about Hartford's budding Occupation here, with a planning meeting set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bushnell Park, and again at 5 p.m.
  • Cleansing after Yom Kippur
    Yom Kippur starts at sundown on Friday and here's one man's take on it. Flickr photo

Associated Content

  • Obama Supporters Criticize President for Weak ...
    The dimensions of the thumping President Barack Obama received at the hands of Mitt Romney at the Denver debate can be measured by the fury with which his supporters have reacted. It is not happiness and joy with the president’s friends.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 04, 2012
  • Tax Math Too Time-Consuming? Paul Ryan Insults ...
    Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan insults voters' intelligence by insisting that the math from his tax proposals is too complex to explain. He's hoping that voters will cast their ballots for him and Mitt Romney sight unseen.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Oct 01, 2012
  • No Foreign Aid to Egypt Until its Government B ...
    The Obama administration’s approach to foreign policy gets more surreal as the Middle East gets more chaotic. The New York Times reports that the White House would like to give the Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt $450 million.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 01, 2012
  • UC Davis Errs in Paying Pepper-Sprayed Student ...
    The students were warned beforehand that they would be pepper-sprayed during the November 2011 protests if they did not leave the area. Authorities should not have to pay for enforcing the laws.Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Sep 27, 2012
  • Obesity is so Awful, It’s Undermining Our Nati ...
    Will our country one day be in the position to where it can’t defend itself because there aren’t enough fit people to fight? That is how bad the obesity crisis is.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Sep 26, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From? And Ho ...
    Out of the wild In June 2008, a Dutch woman named Astrid Joosten left the Netherlands with her husband for an adventure vacation in Uganda. It wasn’t their first trip to Africa, but it would be more consequential than the others. At home in Noord-Brabant, Joosten, 41, worked as a business anal ...
  • FYI: Why Does Cheese Taste Better When It's Me ...
    It’s largely about how it feels in the mouth. Once a piece of cheddar has been heated to around 150°F, the matrix of milk proteins that provide its structure begins to break down, and the cheese takes on a creamy texture that many people find appealing. What defines creaminess, and why do peopl ...
  • A Giant Mysterious Eyeball And More Amazing Pi ...
    This week's Image of the Week roundup also includes gorgeous nebulae, a baby walrus, an aborted 23-mile-high skydive, and more incredible science imagery for you to gawk at. Click here to see the gallery.
  • Images of the Week, October 8-12, 2012
  • BeerSci: A Mild Beer For Surviving A Marathon, ...
    Our trusty BeerScientist introduces a recipe for the Mild Marathon ale, using some of the year's most plentiful hops. A "mild" is a type of ale first produced in the 1700s in England. The term "mild" originated to mean a young beer (meant to be drunk fresh), as opposed to a beer that you could ...

Veterans Today

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • A step forward in forecasting cold winters?
    Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
  • Regional and global climate update
    Provisional Met Office statistics show that September across the UK was wetter than normal with 112mm, or 117% of the long term average. It was also cooler but sunnier than normal. Regionally, the North of England was much wetter than the rest of the country, with 133mm of rain, which is 165% ...
  • All eyes on York after worst September storm s ...
    The deepest area of low pressure in September since 1981 has caused many of Yorkshire's rivers to burst their banks - although the rain was not quite intense enough to cause serious flooding of property like in the autumn of 2000. Cumulatively since the rain started falling on Sunday even ...
  • Yorkshire at risk from renewed flooding
    Heavy rainfall in the next 30 hours could lead to yet more flooding across parts of Yorkshire. Current indications suggest some Pennine catchments of North & West Yorkshire could be most at risk. The very active weather system which I wrote about here on Friday and is currently affecting much o ...
  • Autumn blast on its way
    A deep area of low pressure looks set to dominate our weather late in the weekend and into next week as the official start of autumn (which is the 22nd September this year, defined as the day the sun crosses the equator into the southern hemisphere) coincides nicely with the first meteorological ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Andy Xie and the End of the WTO's 'Golden Age'
    [Remember the WTO? It's been so long since I have commented on it, so here's something for everyone.] Say what you will about Andy Xie, but he isn't one who refrains from speaking his mind. Remember, he famously left Morgan Stanley in 2006 for suggesting that erstwhile Asian tiger economy Singap ...
  • Get Lost Foreign Students: Today's United Kingdom
    Having been one at various points in life, I generally believe foreign students are harmless. While they are certainly easy targets for xenophobia--recall how the United States tightened student visas in the wake of 9/11 before universities that had become reliant on full-tuition paying foreign ...
  • 'Security', Last Refuge of Yank Trade Scoundrels
    You've got to hand it to the Americans in the having your cake and eating it too department: While asking the rest of the world to economically open up, it has been far more guarded when it comes to accepting FDI from...certain other nations. I of course speak of China. With still-gargantuan tra ...
  • FILTH No More: Expats 'Endangered' in Asia
    "Bye-bye, laowai!" (foreign devil) I kept hearing last year while playing the ultra-violent video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution which partly occurs in the fictional Chinese megacity of Hengsha. Set in the not-so-distant future where China has overtaken the United States as the world's dominant ...
  • PRC Inc. Boycotts World Bank-IMF Meet in Tokyo
    In case you missed it, there's been very interesting news these past few days over the mass boycott of Chinese banks, presenters and other participants who were originally scheduled to be at the upcoming World Bank-IMF meetings to be held in Tokyo starting this coming Tuesday. Those expressing u ...

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    Renewable energy: US takes new tack with 'solar energy zones'
    Christian Science Monitor
    That way, instead of approving such large renewable energy projects on a case-by-case basis where developers want to build them, the energy zones will guide development to areas that are high in solar energy, close to transmission lines, and have, in ...
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    Renewable energy not getting enough attention in election
    The Coloradoan
    Our current non-renewable energy resources are going to end. Period. Maybe not in our lifetime, but they will end. The longer it takes us to move off them, the harder it will be to adjust as they become more scarce. A true leader would see what is ...
    Churches Send Jolt of Energy to Mich. Renewables Plan
    Climate Central
    The Renewable Energy Amendment would mandate that Michigan get 25 percent of its electricity from renewable resources by 2025. The proposal was filed by Michigan Energy, Michigan Jobs, a coalition of state businesses, labor organizations and health ...
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    Rutgers researchers develop chemistry needed to store renewable energy
    The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
    Rutgers chemists are hard at work trying to solve one of the most basic challenges of our modern world: how to store power so it can be used later. Their goal is to create a new, cheap material to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen using the least ...
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    Yellowstone Wolves Face Their Own Natural Enemies
    Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
    By the 1940s, wildlife conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold first suggested that wolves played a role in the ecology and should be reintroduced, said Daniel Stahler, a biologist with the Yellowstone Wolf Project and the Yellowstone Center for Resources.
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    Coastal ecology forum at Flinders
    Fraser Coast Chronicle
    FOUR of Australia's most respected global environmental experts will attend a conference on the Coast later this month to discuss current eco topics affecting the region. The Where the Cities Greet the Sea coastal ecology forum will be held at Matthew ...
    The ecological price of 'progress'
    Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper
    “In dewater stage, when the river undergoes a complete change, resulting in loss of aquatic ecology, the white-bellied heron will no longer be able to feed in its original place,” Sangay Dorji said. Dark grey with a white throat and underparts, the ...
    This Week's Blogs: Dog Found in Patchogue, Local Photo Studio Nominated ...
    Patch.com
    Have trouble keeping up with all of the Local Voices blogs that local residents post on Patch? Here is a collection of several of them: Ben Vitale wrote Save Our Holtsville Ecology Center. Joseph wrote Do you suffer from headaches?. Edward Smith wrote ...
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    Water, Water, Not Everywhere
    Wall Street Journal
    How do the farmers make do with so little water? They use technology and the state's topography to stretch existing supplies as far as they can. "If you have limited water supplies, you have to be as careful and efficient as you can with it," says ...
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    Facts about the amphibious Quadski
    Boston.com
    Gibbs Sports Amphibians says its new Quadski, which can drive on land as well as in the water, will go on sale before the end of this year. — WHAT IT IS: The Quadksi is a one-person all-terrain vehicle with four wheels that can retract into the ...
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    Water restrictions to be wound-back
    Brisbane Times
    Minister for Energy and Water Supply Mark McArdle said he was ''seriously considering'' writing to the Queensland Water Commission in the next week requesting it review restrictions, before all its functions and services are taken up by the Department ...
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    Moon water could have solar source: study
    Space Daily
    Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. Samples returned to Earth by the Apollo missions carry molecules of water and a precursor of water ...
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