15 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (right) is greeted by former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone before the funeral service for former President Ronald Reagan at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Toronto Skyline (Photo credit: Bobolink)

thwap's schoolyard

• Policies that Benefit the Wealthiest ...
   I remember hearing for over a decade about how Brian Mulroney, then Jean Chretien, the Paul Martin, the Mike Harris, etc., etc., ... all were accused of pushing tax-cuts that benefited the wealthiest and which would deny governments of revenues to help the poor and the middle class. Now, ...
• 1812 & stephen harper
  The cartoon above is dedicated to the principle that the real reason harper is going as far as airing television commercials to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is because it feeds into the militarist culture he's trying to foster in Canada, which itself is really to create the ...
• "Economic Treason"
  Argh! I'd do something, ... but, ... Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten, an expert on such international doings, quickly found out why. After reading the brief document, he declared it a travesty and a formidable assault on Canada's democratic traditions. For starters the deal gives Chines ...
• Whitewash of Friedman and Pinochet
  Make of it what you will ....
• Who is the Left-Wing KKKate MakkkMillan?
  It's been awhile since I bothered to check, but I believe that KKKate MakkkMillan's SDA blog is still a very highly trafficked blog. So, is there a Canadian left-wing equivalent? Is there a left-wing Canadian blogger who either types or has regular commentators who type: That Israel really shou ...

on Government Oversight

• SEC Watchdog Finds Recordkeeping in Disarray
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• Victory for National Security and Intelligence ...
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• The Affordability of Defense Contractor CEOs
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• Video: POGO Pops Up in Y-12 Hearing
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• Pentagon Contractors Defend Their Own Interests
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Digital Journal

• Lady Gaga and Prince may write songs for new ' ...
  The film adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby' now has rumored superstar singer/songwriters attached to the project. Both Lady Gaga and Prince were said to be writing songs for it by a cast member of the Baz Luhrmann film.
• Barack Obama leads Ohio by 5, readies for batt ...
  Whether you consider U.S. President Barack Obama to have lost the first debate - most say yes - the Democratic Party might suggest that you can't keep a good Obama down. Aided by an improving economy, he continues to lead in the important state of Ohio.
• Under 18 tanning bed ban on way in Canadian pr ...
  The Canadian province of Ontario looks as if it will soon ban tanning beds/salons for persons under 18. Such a ban, the province of British Columbia enacted a ban there last March, is before the provincial legislature.
• Walk for Justice in Toronto remembers murdered ...
  On Sunday, the 5th annual “Walk For Justice And Our Murdered Children” took place from 1:00pm until 4:00pm in downtown Toronto. The event is a way for family and friends of murdered children in Toronto to have their voices heard.
• NHL and NHLPA may get back to CBA negotiations ...
  The NHL and the NHLPA they may return to the bargaining table on Tuesday in an effort to find a breakthrough that will launch them toward a new CBA. The league held talks last week on secondary issues but made little progress.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• An Unbalanced Ratio
  Though China now has an aircraft carrier, it shouldn't be forgotten that the U.S. has many more.
• 50th Anniversary: Who Cares about the Cuban Mi ...
  50th Anniversary: Who Cares about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Check out this video.
• Ottawa event – Prophets of War: Lockheed ...
  The Group of 78, the Rideau Institute and Embassy Magazine Present William Hartung - "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin, the F-35, and the Global Arms Trade" Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:00 noon, Palais Imperial Restaurant, 311- 313 Dalhousie St., Ottawa $30 for luncheon and presentation
• Afghan school affected by changes in funding p ...
  CIDA cuts funding for the Afghan-Canadian Community Centre.
• Conservative Party of Canada attacks Steven St ...
  The government lashes out against its critics.

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Time Magazine Reports Skin Cancer Is Up In You ...
  April 2, 2012 KTRadioNetwork.Com By William Kitner (KTRN Exclusive)  Time Magazine recently published an article about the rise of skin cancer in young people supposedly due to their overuse of tanning beds.  The article reports “Mayo Clinic researchers reported skyrocketing rates of skin cancer ...
• Kofi Annan Handpicked By The CIA
  April 2, 2012 Global Research By Thierry Meyssan Although Kofi Annan’s track record at the UN is an indisputable success in terms of management and efficiency, he has been sharply criticized for his political shortcomings. As Secretary General, he aspired to bring the Organization into line with ...
• Pink Slime’ is Now in 70 Percent of The Ground ...
  April 2, 2012 Natural News By Tony Isaacs Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revela ...
• Cannabis Miraculously Saves Lives After Physic ...
  April 2, 2012 Natural News By Raw Michelle At 16, Kristen Peskuski was suffering from joint inflammation and an array of autoimmune conditions which made her organs and other tissues swell, including interstitial cystitis and lupus. She was prescribed over 40 different anti-inflammatory, antibio ...
• Another Cop Flips Out
  April 3, 2012 Activist Post By Madison Ruppert “Here we go again. Another cop goes berserk over two guys filming shopping carts outside of a WalMart. They were doing nothing wrong and the cop almost tazes the men. Talk about a police state.” –KTRN In the United States there is ...

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• How Did the Quebec Student Movement Win?
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy subMedia For over 4 months, students and their allies, took over the streets of Montreal every day, to protest a tuition hike imposed by the liberal party in Quebec. On Septem ...
• Stop Supporting Separatist Groups in Iran
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comStop Supporting Separatist Groups in Iran Antiwar.comMuhammad Sahimi Some of the most important obstacles to the efforts by the War Party in the United States and Israel to gain absolute hegemonic power in the Middle Eas ...
• Internet giants Google, Facebook and Twitter t ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comBy Dark Politricks A story in today's Daily Mail tells how the "big 3" Internet giants, Twitter, Google and Facebook are planning to block a bill being introduced in the UK parliament which requires them to store all ...
• ‘Soft’ drugs should be decriminalized: UK Drug ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com MPs must acknowledge that not all drug use is problematic and should consider decriminalising possession of small amounts of controlled substances, a report by independent experts urged Monday. The six-year ...
• Second City ‘Partisans’ mock Paul Ryan: ‘I’m r ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Second City’s latest parody video –Behind The Scenes At The Paul Ryan Workout Shoot– satirizes the now-infamous Time Magazine photo feature Paul Ryan: All Pumped Up for His Closeup. “ ...

Dandelion Salad

• Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism
  Dandelion Salad Oct 13, 2012 by talkingsticktv Talk by Gar Alperovitz author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy recorded October 3, 2012 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA by Todd Boyle. TalkingStickTV – Gar Alperovitz – America Beyon ...
• Fight Back, Live Better by Alan Maass + Wal-Ma ...
  Dandelion Salad Alan Maass reports on the surge of struggles around the U.S. against Wal-Mart, including the outcome of a strike at the company’s giant distribution center in Illinois. SocialistWorker.org October 10, 2012 IN WAREHOUSES and stores around the country, Wal-Mart workers are pu ...
• Barry Commoner, The Citizen Scientist by Chris ...
  Dandelion Salad by Chris Williams SocialistWorker.org October 9, 2012 IN THE same sad week that saw the deaths of several globally renowned revolutionary voices, another intellectual giant of the left passed away at the age of 95: ecologist, activist and scientist Barry Commoner. A life-long cha ...
• Turkish ‘weapons airliner’ story does not add ...
  by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Ethiopia Crossposted from www.presstv.com Oct. 13, 2012 More than 24 hours after it reached its final destination in Damascus, Turkey has yet to provide substantial justification for why it forced a civilian airliner to dramatically land in An ...
• On Poverty, Sin, Regulation, and Freedom
  Note: The Preface and Chapters One through Twenty can be found here: The 15% Solution. by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on TPJmagazine.us October 14, 2012 This is the thirtieth installment of the serialization of a book entitled ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Russell Tribunal: Israel’s crimes not Possible ...
  After two days of expert testimony by notables such as public intellectual Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, heard before a packed crowd that included actors Harry Belafonte and Wallace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Seven Deadly Myths
  Upcoming documentary profiles Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky's return to the settlement where she grew up, to uncover a buried history and a landscape of denial. The film tells the stories of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• US warns European governments against supporti ...
  Hanan Ashwari: "Typical American behaviour but also overkill. It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way. This is tremendous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for re ...
  In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Akiva Eldar: Israel’s five ‘nos’
  Until now, there were only four: no to withdrawal from the territories that we occupied in 1967; no to dividing Jerusalem; no to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and no to the Arab Peace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russian Navy Tests Modified Anti-Sub Helicopter
  The Russian Navy's Northern Fleet is carrying out flight tests and warfare trials of its modified Kamov Ka-27M anti-submarine helicopter from large destroyers, the fleet's spokesman, Captain Vadim Serga, said on Monday.
• France to Make Surveillance Flights over Russi ...
  French observers will conduct inspection flights over Russia and Belarus under the Open Skies Treaty, while Russian inspectors will do the same over the territory of Norway, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said.
• Three Dead, One Injured in Russian Navy Be-12 ...
  A Russian amphibious antisubmarine warfare aircraft in service with the Black Sea Fleet crashed on Friday in Ukraine killing three and injuring one crewmember, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
• Iraq Agrees to Buy 28 Czech Combat Jets
  Czech plane maker Aero Vodochody will deliver 28 L-159 advanced trainer/light-attack jets to the Iraqi Air Force after a preliminary agreement was reached on Friday, Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra said.
• Russia and India Sign Transport Plane Deal
  India and Russia gave the green light on Friday to a long-delayed joint project to develop a Military Transport Aircraft, Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (OAK) said after the signing ceremony in New Delhi.

NewsWise

• Mount Sinai Researchers Present New Targets fo ...
  Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine are presenting important discoveries on the involvement of the immune system and dopamine cells in the onset of depression at Neuroscience 2012, the Society for Neuroscience's 42nd annual meeting on October 13 -17 in New Orleans, and are available ...
• Solar Wind Particles Likely Source of Water Lo ...
  The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded.
• University of Maryland's Augsburger Receives T ...
  Professor emeritus is internationally recognized for his research and mentoring in pharmaceutics, drug process engineering, and in dietary supplements.
• iPad Helps Duke University Team Keep an Eye on ...
  A team of researchers from Duke University speaking at the ANESTHESIOLOGY(tm) 2012 annual meeting revealed the development of a new 3-D tool that enables trainees in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to have real-time instruction in obtaining and interpreting high-quality images of the hear ...
• Chronic Stress During Pregnancy Prevents Brain ...
  A new study in animals shows that chronic stress during pregnancy prevents brain benefits of motherhood, a finding that researchers suggest could increase understanding of postpartum depression.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Orwellian Quote of the Day
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller From the government brief arguing that the media and witnesses in the 9/11 trial should not be permitted to hear the defendants describe being tortured by the US government: “Each of the accused is in the unique position of having had access to cla ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Monday, October 15, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey A Human Rights Watch report outlines Syria’s recent use of cluster munitions in civilian areas, a potential war crime. Turkey has banned Syrian aircraft from its airspace as a show of its increasingly firm stance against President Al-Assad’s regime. The EU p ...
• Upcoming Events: October 14, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey Upcoming Events On December 7, 2012, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, in cooperation with the International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Platform, will organize a conference entitled Prosecutor, Watchdog, Diplomat, Manager: The Multiple Roles of the Internationa ...
• Weekend Roundup: October 6 -12, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, Eric Posner’s Slate article about the legality of US drone strikes in Pakistan attracted the attention of Julian Ku and Kevin Jon Heller. Julian wondered whether Koh’s “conversion” on the issue will serve as a shi ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 12, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey The European Union has won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for uniting the continent in the face of the ongoing economic crisis. The 10th anniversary of the Bali bombings is being remembered in Bali, Indonesia, and in Australia. The NY Times reports how Indonesia ...

Public News Service

• Aviso a Adultos Mayores: Hoy comienza la afili ...
  Aviso a Adultos Mayores: Hoy comienza la afiliación abierta a Medicare PHOENIX – La inscripción abierta anual a Medicare comienza este lunes, antes que en años previos. La AARP insta a los adultos mayores y a sus familias a que revisen con cuidado sus planes vigentes para as ...
• Senior Alert: Medicare Open Enrollment Starts ...
  Senior Alert: Medicare Open Enrollment Starts Today PHOENIX - Medicare open enrollment starts today, and AARP is urging seniors and their families to carefully review their current plans to make sure they're getting the most out of their coverage. AARP Arizona's communications director, Cynthi ...
• A Generation in Jeopardy? Linking Pesticides a ...
  A Generation in Jeopardy? Linking Pesticides and Childhood Diseases PHOENIX – The prevalence of childhood diseases and disorders is growing, and a new report says that's due in part to the extensive use of pesticides. Dr. David Wallinga with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy s ...
• An Internet, “If You Can Keep It”
  An Internet, “If You Can Keep It” PHOENIX - Founding Father Ben Franklin is said to have answered a question about what kind of government the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had created by saying, "A republic, if you can keep it." Advocates working to keep the Internet free from ...
• "2 Million Dogs" to Combat Canine Cancer
  "2 Million Dogs" to Combat Canine Cancer PHOENIX, Ariz. - Man's best friend could be man's best hope for a cure to cancer. The group 2 Million Dogs is asking Arizonans to "Puppy Up!" in bringing awareness to canine cancer. ...(Read More)

Center for Food Safety

• Center for Food Safety Releases New Geneticall ...
  Latest research shows 61 nations enforce consumer ‘right to know’ laws for GE foods, while U.S. lags behind Center for Food Safety (CFS) has announced the release of its new, interactive Genetically Engineered (GE) Food Labeling Laws map detailing the powerful, growing presence of laws requiring ...
• Why California Needs Prop 37: Center for Food ...
  by Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director Center for Food Safety (CFS) has been fighting for labeling of genetically engineered (GE) foods and the public’s “right to know” since its inception fifteen years ago. Just as the public has the right to know if food is irradiated or contains high fructos ...
• “Pink Slime” Lawsuit May be Frivolous, But Cou ...
  By Michele Simon To no one’s surprise, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) – maker of the ground beef product that took on the moniker of “pink slime” – filed a defamation lawsuit earlier this month against ABC News and several individuals. As I wrote in March at the height of the media uproar and consumer ...
• Center for Food Safety Calls Dow, SOCC Backroo ...
  Today, Center for Food Safety issued a response to a joint statement by The Save Our Crop Coalition (SOCC) and Dow Chemical announcing SOCC has dropped its opposition to 2,4-D resistant “Agent Orange” crops. This backroom agreement was made prior to any approval of 2,4-D resistant crops by the U ...
• Stanford Research on Organics Hits the Stats, ...
  By Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D, Organic Policy Coordinator, Center for Food Safety “Are Organic Foods Safer or Healthier than Conventional Alternatives?” Stanford University researchers attempted to answer this question in their recently released analysis of published literature on the health, nutrition ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

• Environmental News 30/05/2012
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss Spooked rare cockatoos fly away from Taronga Zoo Taronga Zoo is calling on the public to help find three rare red-tailed black cockatoos after they were spooked by four sea eagles during a bird show at 3pm on Monday and flew away, spokesman Mark Willi ...
• Global warming
  This picture is quite unbelievable and unreal, right? You're probably right because basically global warming (climate-change/global-warming.html) makes the ice melt... But anyway you must think about global warming and keep climate change impacts (glossary/categories/climate-change/climate-cha ...
• Arcimboldo's portraits
  Franzconde (http://www.flickr.com/people/79928508@N00/) and Laura Padgett (http://www.flickr.com/people/laurapadgett/) via Flickr Creative Commons
• UN Indigenous Peoples' Forum
  Slow Food President Carlo Petrini spoke at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on May 14 on the right to food and food sovereignty.
• Genetic safety in numbers, platypus study finds
  Platypuses on the Australian mainland and in Tasmania are fighting fit but those on small islands are at high risk of being wiped out from disease, according to a University of Sydney study.

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• US, NZ intelligence agencies spied on Megauplo ...
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• Berlusconi’s fingerprints on Kate Middleton’s ...
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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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• New Zealand couple thrown in Bali jail, wife p ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• How NOT to Introduce New Green-Tech: The Cauti ...
  We have just ended four weeks during which Israeli business and politics were almost completely shut down due to a spate of Jewish holidays. There’s a known refrain in Hebrew: “After the Holidays”, meaning “Don’t worry, we’ll get back to you sometime in Octobe ...
• Netanyahu’s UN Speech also had REALLY-NO ...
  …but they were completely upstaged by his Wile E. Coyote climax. These parts are highly worth revisiting. Bibi’s brazen, out-and-out racism and lunatic brand of nationalist-supremacy, were expressed in no uncertain terms upon the United Nations stage. The man’s true colors wer ...
• Bibi’s Wile E. Coyote UN Speech: a Symbo ...
  Beyond everything else, it was a good laugh. Here he is, the Village Idiot that my countrymen and women back home cannot find a way to get rid of, standing on the United Nations podium with the smug self-importance only a Village Idiot can muster, and drawing a red line on Wile E. Coyote’s ...
• Hiroshima Survivors to Visit Israel
  The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project The Hibakusha Peace Boat Project is a unique, civil society initiative that enables Hibakusha (survivors of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) to participate in around-the-world voyages to give personal testimonies about the effects of the atomic bomb ...
• Military and Settler Vandalism Escalates as Co ...
  We continue to follow, report and support the struggle of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank’s southernmost region, to continue living on their ancestral lands which they legally own. One would think that in an enlightened society such a simple request would be guaranteed beyond do ...

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 ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

• Crazy Stuff on Michigan Ballot
  PROPOSAL 12-3 A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO ESTABLISH A STANDARD FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY This proposal would: Require electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, ...
• Tax the 3%
  I am tired of politics but in the recent debate a topic which I have frequently discussed here took center stage. Taxation of private business in America. Recently, I was critiqued by several readers for making the exact same points that were stated by Romney and Obama. Those unknown wealthy peo ...
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• Antarctic Experiences Record High Sea Ice Leve ...
  Just now, from the Earth’s unloved backside, just when you thought the “death spiral” of northern polar sea ice had taken full hold of the public’s mind, the stupid Antarctic hits a new ALL-TIME high sea ice area record. All time being defined as 34 ish years of course.  ...
• Lewandowsky to Remove All Blog Based References
  Over the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection o ...

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook roundup: stock price, lawsuits, third ...
  Facebook stock back below $20 – Facebook shares closed this week at $19.52, down more than 6 percent since Monday. The stock fell below $20 on Wednesday and did not recover. On Tuesday, the company announced it will report Q3 earnings … Continue reading →
• Facebook comments now support chat emoticons
  Some users today are noticing that Facebook comments now display illustrated images when users type emoticon symbols. Emoticons do not work in status updates or other posts, but users and page owners can use them in comments. Depending on a … Continue reading →
• Facebook tests reorganized navigation bar
  Some Facebook users are seeing a new version of the top navigation bar, which moves search closer to the Facebook logo and pushes messages and notifications off to the right. It seems the social network could be looking to emphasize … Continue reading →
• Coffee promotion, Smart Deals, Fanta, ABC.com ...
  A Japanese brand promotion スティックフレンズ診断 led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 540,000 new users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past … Continue reading →
• Putting Into Practice: Facebook Open Graph
  This is a guest post from Jon Eccles, product manager of social integration at Thismoment, an enterprise platform for digital experience marketing. The platform has tools for integrating Open Graph and deploying other campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. Facebook Open … Contin ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this ...
  truthout: RT @tomtomorrow: If you missed this week's toon, read it on @Truthout: http://t.co/7cBG1K7c
• truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the # ...
  truthout: Bush May Have Been Absent From the #RNC, but the #DNC Banished a Past President, Too http://t.co/IcbQDQYK @profwolff #FDR
• truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." R ...
  truthout: "It is impossible to portray war." Read Chris Hedges' talk from Sunday's #antiwar protest in NYC: http://t.co/FGYvrF92 @VFPNational
• truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy F ...
  truthout: How #Netanyahu's "Bomb #Iran" Ploy Failed http://t.co/1j1lR00i #Israel @GarethPorter
• truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tri ...
  truthout: Citizen Diplomacy in #Pakistan's Tribal Areas: "You Are Welcome!" http://t.co/CRjV5MBC @naiman @medeabenjamin #drones #stopdrones

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bunny Wailer- “Boderation” Tonight our Soothing the Beast BFP/Jamiol music pic is all about Reggae. Singer songwriter and percussionist Bunny Wailer was a founding member of the Wailers along with along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. He is the trio’s only surviving member and has become a ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Stop Imperialism Podcast –FSA’s HQ Change, the ...
  In this news analysis and round up Eric Draitser covers FSA’s change of HQ location from Turkey to Syria, the Libyan government’s new order to disband Libya forces, Iran’s latest claim regarding IAEA passing its nuclear secrets to Israel, South Sudan, and more! Eric Draitser is an independent ge ...

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
  A Bob Marley kinda day today! Jah Rastafari!
• Surprising Europe Series
  A fascinating 9 part series on the experiences of African migrants, mostly undocument workers, in various European countries. As an immigrant to Canada myself, I identify with some of these personal experiences. In the late 50′s, early 60′s, my parents travelled to England to study a ...
• A new 3rd party candidate for US presidency!
• Afro-Turks
  Turks with African ancestors want their existence to be felt While preparing a barbecue in the crowded picnic area of İzmir’s Eşrefpaşa district, they sing old Turkish pop songs and eat Turkey’s indispensable picnic food: stuffed grape leaves cooked with olive oil. As in any typical Turkish fami ...
• 500 Years Later
  “500 Years Later” is the title of an independent documentary film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah, written by M. K. Asante, Jr. released in 2005. Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment ...

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Loophole Allows Saudi Arabian Businesses to Sp ...
  Foreign corporations can in fact influence American democracy in pernicious ways. For instance, how can Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich countries keep us dependent on fossil fuels? Well, thanks in part to the Citizens United decision, a new loophole allows foreign corporations to spend unlimited ...
• Richard Milhous Ryan: No Specifics, Just a "Se ...
  But in the end, it was not Biden who made Ryan the Nixon of the night. It was Ryan. On what he says is the most important issue of the campaign, the "fiscal cliff" issue that brought him to national attention and a place on the GOP ticket, Ryan had no details, no specifics, just a "secret plan."
• Panetta, "U.S. Facing Possible Cyber-Pearl Har ...
  Defense Sec'y Panetta warned we're possibly facing a cyber Pearl Harbor from hackers in China, Russia & Iran that could disrupt the nations power grid, transportation & financial networks. What he didn't say was the U.S. initiated cyberwarfare on Iran's nuclear program w/ the Stuxnet worm damagi ...
• Ryan Gets A Shellacking
  Biden On Offense Scolds, Exposes Ryan's "Doctored Facts"
• A Brief History of American Paper Money, with ...
  Government can, does, and has, created money without debt. It does this currently every time it produces physical coins, and has done so since 1792, under the original coinage act. The same option exists for paper money and its electronic equivalent.

Switchboard

• New report details how natural gas extraction ...
  Amy Mall, Senior Policy Analyst, Washington, D.C. A new analysis from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) of two counties in Pennsylvania found that natural gas extraction creates "potentially serious patterns of disturbance on the landscape ...
• Interior Department Rolls Out New Solar Program
  Bobby McEnaney, Land Policy Analyst, DC New Solar Program is Historical by Embracing a Landscape Approach to Energy Development Turtle Mountain Wilderness, which is adjacent to the now eliminated, but proposed Iron Mountain solar energy zone. Tha ...
• TEDx Santa Monica asks "What's your ideal city?"
  Amanda Eaken, Deputy Director, Sustainable Communities, San Francisco This Saturday October 13th, TEDx—an independent affiliate of TED that is dedicated to spreading innovative ideas on a broad range of topics—will host a “City 2.0 ...
• Turning "Big Ag" into "Better Ag"
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York As the stereotype goes, Americans like things BIG. Big cars. Big houses. And big mounds of produce to pick through at the supermarket. But when it comes to where that produce comes from, many American shoppers ...
• The Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm Will Protect ...
  Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York Because of its many environmental benefits, the Cape Wind offshore wind power project in Nantucket Sound has won NRDC’s and many other national, regional and local environmental groups&rsq ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• What Has America’s Most Irritating Pundi ...
  Since she has some unreadable new book to promote, apparently Salon is happy to inform us at the usual interminable length. Kathleen gets many of the most egregious bits, although this being Paglia* pretty much every paragraph is so asinine it could sustain an essay making fun of it. One thing I ...
• Brief, Related Notes On A So-Far Excellent ALCS
  Obviously, it’s excellent that the Tigers were able to take the first two games at beautiful new 1% Assholes Who Leave After the Fifth Inning Stadium.  Since as his press conference the Yankee manager was looking to blame people other than his players, a few points: Obviously, the call on ...
• Bringing Citizens United to Bear on the Workplace
  As reported on Up with Chris this morning, Mike Elk has an important story out on how the Koch Brothers are trying to influence workers in the companies they own to vote for Republicans. Focusing on their Georgia Pacific plywood and paper mills in Oregon, Elk demonstrates the long arm of the Koc ...
• Sunday Morning Roundup
  Stuff that’s been hanging around in the inbox… How economic slowdown in China may affect the PLAN. How China uses seapower. Royal Navy action reports from World War I and before, aggregated in funky graphic form. Luck of the Irish. If the talking point is “disrespectful”, ...
• I Really Didn’t Want to be Right About This
  I can’t believe that John Yoo was never arrested for issuing the memo giving Jose Valverde permission to pitch playoff games against the Yankees. And I assume that Michael Brown was temporarily sitting in as Tigers manager when the decision not to bring in Smyly to face Ibanez* was made. A ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• SoCal Gets Biggest Digester-Gas Powered Fuel C ...
• Hybrid Or Electric? Green Car Idea Proposes A ...
• Apple’s Ultra-Thin Notebooks Pass EPEAT Verifi ...
• How to Make Energy Efficiency Sexy
• Bainbridge Island’s Net Zero Community Homes O ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Bankruptcy debtor can't escape attorney fees f ...
  A bankruptcy filing doesn't wipe out the debtor's obligation to pay attorney fees in a child-custody case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has ruled.
• Wall Street's new cop
  For decades, most companies didn't worry much about the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an obscure regulatory backwater whose lawyers brought a few dozen enforcement actions a year. Now, the mouse is starting to roar.
• THE CONNECTED LAWYER: About LinkedIn endorsements
  What they are, how they work and why you might want to pay attention.
• Opinion: The death of environmental common law?
  The Ninth Circuit in 'Kivalina' affirmed dismissal, issuing a significant environmental law decision, one with the potential to completely remake the way environmental law works.
• OPINION: An unneeded hearsay amendment
  There is no need to expand admissibility of prior consistent statements as substantive evidence.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• New UN Resolution to End Turmoil in Mali
  Today, the United States of America underlined its support on the resolution on Mali adopted by the UN Security Council.
• Shameless Drug Company Still Cashes in on Bone ...
  There's plenty of ka-ching in selling 'strong bones' products for the same reason there was plenty of ka-ching in selling 'hormone replacement' products: one-half the population is female, and no one wants to look old.
• US Supports Democratic Transitions in Maghreb
  US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says supporting democratic transitions is not a matter of idealism.
• Secretary Panetta's Stark Warnings About Cyber ...
  'The top obligation of our federal government is the safety of the American people, and Secretary Panetta clearly expressed the vast and increasing extent of cyber threats to our citizens.
• US and Italy Reaffirm Strong Alliance in 21st ...
  Both countries are working together to strengthen sanctions and the violence inflicted by the Assad regime and encourage a peaceful democratic transition.

environment 360

• Green Crude: The Quest to Unlock Algae’s Ener ...
  Despite questions about the viability and the environmental benefits, a host of companies are pursuing new technologies that they say will soon lead to large-scale commercialization of biofuels made from algae. BY MARC GUNTHER
• Facing Opposition at Home, UK Looks to Build W ...
  Faced with growing opposition to land-based wind turbines in England, UK officials are looking to build hundreds of wind farms in Ireland that would generate electricity exclusively for the UK. Government officials say the £8 billion proposal, which includes the construction of more than 700 tu ...
• Blue and Green Honey Is Linked to an M&M’S Fac ...
  Beekeepers in northeastern France say they have produced batches of unusually colored honey in recent months as a result of bees carrying unknown substances from a nearby plant processing waste from an M&M’S candy factory. Since August, beekeepers in the region of Alsace say they have noticed be ...
• Major Policy Shifts Needed To Maintain Decline ...
  A decline in U.S. carbon emissions in recent years is unlikely to continue over the long term unless there is a significant shift in how the nation produces and uses its energy, according to a new analysis. While several factors have triggered a 9 percent decline in annual carbon emissions in th ...
• NASA Map Illustrates Effects of Summer Drought ...
  A new NASA map shows the major effects of this summer’s record droughts on vegetation across much of the U.S., leaving a swath of parched earth that caused a shortage of food for wild and domesticated animals alike. In the map, which shows the contrast between Click to enlarge NASA Plant h ...

Red Ice Creations

• Army Says ‘Social Network’ Use Is a Sign of Ra ...
  These are some warning signs that that you have turned into a terrorist who will soon kill your co-workers, according to the U.S. military. You’ve recently changed your “choices in entertainment.” You have “peculiar discussions.” You “complain about bias,” you’re “socially withdrawn” and you’re ...
• Nestle Puts GPS Devices Inside Candy Bars To T ...
  RIC Note: What a clever way to appeal to the greed in people so as to make corporate GPS tracking and locating a frivolous, harmless, legal, and acceptable (even profitable) affair. The candy company launched the “We Will Find You” campaign in the United Kingdom where GPS tracking devices were p ...
• Design to ’harpoon’ old satellites, space junk
  UK engineers are developing a system to harpoon rogue or redundant satellites and pull them out of the sky. It is a response to the ever growing problem of orbital junk - old pieces of hardware that continue to circle the Earth and which now pose a collision threat to operational spacecraft. The ...
• The Science of Ghost Hunting: Logical Leaps of ...
  It’s getting to be the busy time of the year, especially for those of us involved in research of the strange and unusual. This probably has less to do with the actual presence of strange specters and hidden creatures coming out of the woodwork to coincide with the Halloween season, but instead t ...
• Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Phys ...
  In his best-selling book "Physics of the Future," American professor Michio Kaku lays out his vision for the world in 2100. Kaku, the son of Japanese immigrants, spoke to SPIEGEL about a future in which toilets will have health monitoring sensors and contact lenses will be connected to the Inter ...

Russia Today

• Turkey intercepts Armenian plane en route to Syria
  Turkish authorities are searching a Syria-bound Armenian plane after forcing it to land in the eastern city of Erzurum, Turkish media report. Read Full Article at RT.com
• UK PM Cameron to sign deal greenlighting Scott ...
  UK Prime Minister David Cameron is set to sign a historic deal with Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond to hold a separation referendum in 2014. The signing followed give-and-take negotiations over the vote on... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Meeting a ‘democratic deficit’: Belgian separa ...
  Separatists in Belgium are looking to gain control of the wealthy port of Antwerp as early results suggest a Flemish nationalist leader is the city's new mayor. It comes amid an intensifying trend of secessionism in... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Hundreds of police storm Brazilian slums (PHOTOS)
  Brazilian troops and police swept through Rio’s most infamous slums in a pre-dawn raid, backed up by helicopters and tanks. The “pacification” mission is intended to bring the crime-ridden favelas to heel before the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• 'Fearless Felix' dives from the stratosphere, ...
  Daredevil Felix Baumgartner has broken the record for highest-ever sky dive, and also became the first man to intentionally break the sound barrier after jumping from a capsule positioned in the stratosphere – nearly 39... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Government should regulate business better to ...
  — Right Wingers are always calling for ‘big government’ to get out of the affairs of the business world. See what happens though when government does not regulate and watch business though? UPDATE- US meningitis outbreak rises to 205 cases – CDC ‘The International A ...
• Restoring honor of USAF General John Lavelle f ...
  Air Force general John Lavelle fell from grace in 1971 after overseeing unauthorized bombing raids over North Vietnam. Now his family has allies trying to rehabilitate Lavelle’s reputation, obfuscating his “rogue” misdeeds. If US air strikes can carpet bomb adversaries and coll ...
• Two presidential seeking clowns vie at China B ...
  The two US corporate parties both together work hard at whipping up White America’s racism, and White racist America loves it. They want to blame a non-White race for the US’s economic problems. The US Black community knows this all too well so you will never hear or see the Black co ...
• The Taliban tries to kill a 14 year girl in Pa ...
  —The fact that the Muslim Right Wing fanatics try to kill young women does not mean that the Pentagon and US government’s hands are in anyway clean in the battle to advance women’s rights in the Muslim World. Far from that, the US has been the main destroyer of Women’s Ri ...
• Debate game playing highlights the shallowness ...
  —When both corporate parties are more about marketing strategy than any real substantive differences, they TOGETHER both are trying to take all of us for a ride… Joe Biden's smiling: Was there a method to his madness?

Debunking the Debunkers

• 3 Recently Released 9/11 Truth Documentaries a ...
  James B. at the Screw Loose Change blog posted the first video here, but chose to outsource the debunking to his commenters. Please do read the comments and watch the video. The first person you will see is Dr. Graeme MacQueen. Click here to see MacQueen's debunking of the debunkers. I don't agr ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Debunking Popular Mechanics
  Interview with blog contributor Adam Taylor. He discusses his article "Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality." http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2012/02/debunking-real-911-myths-why-popular.html Originally aired on 9/27/12 and broadcast at: http://nol ...
• The Meaning of 9/11 Truth
  Published on Oct 11, 2012 by corbettreport DOCUMENTATION: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=5623 Corbett Report Podcast Episode #242 We've covered the who/what/where/when/why of 9/11 on this podcast in the past, but in this 9/11 11th anniversary episode of the podcast we ask: what is the mean ...
• Bazant Falsity in JEM
  Commenting on esteemed scientist Dr. Crockett Grabbe's recently published peer-reviewed paper refuting Zdenek Bazant, Oystein at the JREF Forum recently wrote: Turns out, Grabbe replaces Bazant's non-real model with his own unreal take on reality. He has a total crush on squibs and thinks ...
• Permanent Top Post
  In the fight to uncover the truth about 9/11 we must contend with individuals and groups that distort, omit and lie about important details in order to defend the official narrative - the 911 truth Debunkers. The NORAD stand-down and various whistleblowers make a strong case that the attack ...

Fooducate

• Labeling Works! Trans Fat Consumption Down 75% ...
• Book Giveaway: Lonely Planet’s Food Lover’s Gu ...
• Calorie Labeling on Soft Drink Vending Machines
• Childhood Obesity: A Different Take
• Healthcare: The Key is Prevention

Traffikd

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

Survival International

• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• It's Magic!
  by Greg Palast for FireDogLake Here’s an easy way to spoil a vote: digitize it . . . then lose the digits. Prestidigitation is the French-derived term for conjury, legerdemain, sleight-of-hand, presto-change-o hand-jive, disappearing trickery . . . or, in the language of Karl Rove, “Helping Amer ...
• Latinos–too lazy to vote?
  by Greg Palast for Utne Reader It’s lookin’ bad for the old white guys. Eleven million Hispanic citizens remain unregistered, Americans all, and 15 million kids between the ages of 18 and 24 who can’t be pried away from Facebook long enough to register—at least so the tally of vote registries sa ...
• José Crow: Arizona Fights Aliens (aka Democrats)
  An excerpt from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits by Greg Palast for ColdType “There is a massive effort underway to register illegal aliens in this country!” – Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce The Arizona Republican hunt for "aliens" from Uranus to the Rio Grande has led to the removal of o ...
• What the Hell Happened?
  by Greg Palast for The Mudflats.net What the hell happened?  Did Barack have a fight with Michelle?  Was it nicotine withdrawal?  Do really rich guys just scare you, Mr. Obama? Dear Mr. President:  As a journalist I don’t take partisan sides, but I do take America’s side.  And as Commander-in-Ch ...
• 7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits
  by Greg Palast from Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal and Election in 9 Easy Steps Your Ballot Condom for safe Voting Right now, the Koch Gang and the Rove-bots have 9 sick, illegal ways to steal this election:  More than 5.9 million votes are at risk.  It could be yours. Click on ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

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

Age of Autism

• Enduring Memories: Prof John Walker-Smith reca ...
  Note: Enduring Memories, Prof. Walker-Smith's memoir, is now available in the UK at The Village Bookshop. By John Stone ‘Looking back I am astonished that I was able to study as many as 116 child autopsies during the period 10...
• BMJ Case Reports: Premature ovarian failure 16 ...
  BMJ Case Reports 2012; doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-006879 Findings that shed new light on the possible pathogenesis of a disease or an adverse effect Premature ovarian failure 3 years after menarche in a 16-year-old girl following human papillomavirus vaccination Deirdre Therese Little1, Harvey Rodrick ...
• Is Livestock Production Industry Keeping Mercu ...
  By Eric Uram The latest twist in the vaccine issue now comes from efforts to "feed the planet." Not to get too far into the weeds on the connections, but currently, the pressure to maintain the approvals for using thimerosal...
• Every Day - Exactly the Same
  By Cathy Jameson An unlocked office door + unmanned computer + an incredibly-smart-yet-trapped-inside-his-body little boy = an unbelievable tale Ronan likes to use the computer. He’s getting really good at turning it on and keeping it on (instead of turning...
• Age of Autism Weekly Wrap: The 'No-Debate' Debate
  By Dan Olmsted One of the great televised moments in vaccine-autism history (right up there with “the problem is the problem”) occurred on The Today Show a few years back when Matt Lauer said “there is controversy” over a link...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

• The Right to Know About Your Food Would Explod ...
  Celebs get on the Label GMOs bandwagon - Danny DeVito, Bill Maher and more: The Right to Know About Your Food Would Explode Your Puny Little Head
• “Tell Us What You’re Growing” Label GMO Foods ...
  Singin' it! Tell us what you are growing and label GMOs!
• YES on 37 Right to Know! Opposition Resorts to ...
  The No on 37 campaign is blanketing the airwaves with lies and distortions. These ads are designed to confuse voters and steer them away from the irresistible, powerful notion that we have the right to know what’s in our food.
• Dr. Arpad Pusztai – The Gut Attacks GMOs as Fo ...
  “The body will regard any Genetically Modified Food coming into the digestive system as foreign.” Dr. Arpad Pusztai
• GMO Global Alert! Graphic Details of New Indep ...
  French researchers secretly studied, for two years, 200 rats fed with transgenic maize. Tumors, serious disorders and death. A bomb for the GMO industry.

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Short Stories: Haitian Collection
  Mike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.
• Charlie Rose Discusses the Water Crisis
  Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined Charlie Rose for a discussion about the water crisis on September 27th.
• 6 Things You Can Do Now
  When we stare facts in the face - 780 million people lack access to an improved water source - it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. However, everyone has a role to play, here are six things you can do right now to help.
• Water Quality Testing
  A staff member of Hand in Hand, one of Water.org’s WaterCredit partners in India, conducts water quality testing in the village of Enthur, Tamil Nadu using the government testing kit. Each state in India has a specific set of parameters that they test for water quality.
• Malliga's Loan at Work
  Malliga draws water from her new water connection just outside of her house. She took out a loan from Water.org’s partner, Hand in Hand, to pay for the construction and extension of the pipe from the municipal water lines, and her personal connection was installed in January 2012. Before having ...

Before It's News

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

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...
  President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guarantee ...
• US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SUPPORTS NEW SOLAR PAN ...
  President Barack Obama toured the Solyndra plant in 2010. When its new solar panel factory in Portland, Oregon, opened for operation last week, Solopower, based in San Jose, California, qualified for a $197 million government loan guar ...
• SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...
  The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
• SOLAR PROJECT PROCEEDS ON THE CONDITION OF TOR ...
  The California Desert Tortoise Unlike other big solar projects, Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System does not require the bulldozing of land to create an entirely flat surface. read more
• The $90 Billion Dollar Crowd Funded Energy Acc ...
  A few months back I wrote a post about the $80 billion clean energy access opportunity from capturing remittance flows. read more

News Blaze

• New UN Resolution to End Turmoil in Mali
  Today, the United States of America underlined its support on the resolution on Mali adopted by the UN Security Council.
• Shameless Drug Company Still Cashes in on Bone ...
  There's plenty of ka-ching in selling 'strong bones' products for the same reason there was plenty of ka-ching in selling 'hormone replacement' products: one-half the population is female, and no one wants to look old.
• US Supports Democratic Transitions in Maghreb
  US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says supporting democratic transitions is not a matter of idealism.
• Secretary Panetta's Stark Warnings About Cyber ...
  'The top obligation of our federal government is the safety of the American people, and Secretary Panetta clearly expressed the vast and increasing extent of cyber threats to our citizens.
• US and Italy Reaffirm Strong Alliance in 21st ...
  Both countries are working together to strengthen sanctions and the violence inflicted by the Assad regime and encourage a peaceful democratic transition.

Worldnews

• 6 coffee cups a day cuts womb, cancer ris ...
  Women who drink four to six cups of coffee a day are less likely to suffer from womb cancer, while men who drink the same amount are less likely to suffer from prostate cancer, says a study by Harvard University. The researchers studied 117,000 volunteers- 67,000 women and...
• Markets flooded with Navratra and Durga P ...
  KANPUR: Preparations for Navratra are visible on street and roadside markets with just a day to go for the festival. Colourful clothes for the goddess and puja material are being sold. Puja samagri comprising 'jau', pulses, sesame seeds and perfume is available in packets. The latest trend i ...
• Exposure to traffic pollution harms kids' ...
  Tweet Stockholm, Oct 15 (IANS) Children with allergies when exposed to traffic related pollution may be particularly vulnerable to diminished lung function up to eight years of age, says a study. "Earlier studies have shown that children are highly susceptible to the adverse effects of air p ...
• Xavi: Pepe's comments on Iniesta were out ...
  The experienced midfielder feels the Madrid man's remarks were inappropriate, while also stating that Barca play better football than their rivals By Stefan Coerts...
• Lewandowski snubs Manchester United
  The Poland international has affirmed his commitment to the Bundesliga champions and says that he has no plans to leave, before admitting his admiration for the Premier...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Too much of a good thing can be bad for corals
  New study by Univ. of Miami Researchers Ross Cunning and Andrew Bake in Nature Climate Change reveals that having too many algal symbionts makes corals bleach more severely in response to warming.
• 12 ways to cut calories without eating less
  Twelve tips for cutting calories without eating less, from sipping healthful broths to loading up on veggies.
• At CDC, scientists fight fungus blamed for men ...
• Relapse or recovery? Neuroimaging predicts cou ...
  (Indiana University) An Indiana University study has provided preliminary evidence that by measuring brain activity through the use of neuroimaging, researchers can predict who is likely to have an easier time getting off drugs and alcohol, and who will need extra help. "We can also see how brai ...
• Folic acid, vitamins B6 and 12 do not affect c ...
  Combined folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 supplements had no statistically significant effect on the risk of colorectal adenoma among women who were at high risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published Oct. 12 in the Journal of th

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
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• Sarah Polley
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• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly ge ...
  ExamineReligion: Jack Osbourne, Lisa Stelly get married in Hawaii nearly six months after baby http://t.co/DesNpnyn
• ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and ...
  ExamineReligion: Boast of the Lord's Power and Providence http://t.co/TtvRNXJJ
• ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This S ...
  ExamineReligion: Blessing of the Waves. This Sunday. Surf City. http://t.co/ODdsCALR
• ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A ...
  ExamineReligion: Love the One You're with - A Devotion http://t.co/gWOEQB3K
• ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and valu ...
  ExamineReligion: What are the meaning and value of faith? http://t.co/tODkCvsv

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.

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
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• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
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• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
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Peoples Voice

• Washington Plays Hardball with Russia on Syria
  by Stephen Lendman If words could kill, America and Russia might be at war. Hopefully it won't come to that. Given America's rage to fight, even the unthinkable is possible. Russia and China represent Washington's final frontier. Building up around their borders and encircling both count ...
• Infomercials for Despots
  by Stephen Lendman Sanitizing news and suppressing what's most important is bad enough. Imagine compounding it by producing infomercials for despots. CNN stands accused. More on that below. It's well known that Western major media represent wealth and power interests. Fox New is a Republ ...
• Women Demand Civil Rights in Lebanon
  Franklin Lamb Beirut Tehran and Washington are employing competing strategies via their political allies in Lebanon to win 70 seats in next year’s June 2013 parliamentary election, should they actually be held which is looking doubtful to this observer. Their efforts are designed to c ...
• Nobel Hypocrisy Wins Again
  by Stephen Lendman Call it a rite of fall. Nobel hypocrisy shows up annually. It came again this year. The only surprise was which disreputable honoree would win. A surprise of sorts indeed. War criminals often become Peace Prize winners. This year a political/economic union won. Perhaps ...
• London: Parasites’ Paradise (Or the Best ...
  James Petras Introduction Whenever financial swindlers prosper at the expense of investors or a bank jiggers interest rates to bugger their competitors or tax evaders flee fiscal crises or rent gouging petrol monarchies recycle profits or oligarchs pillage economies and drive millions to dri ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• The Case for A Living Wage
  In a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report, Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The Living Wa ...
• Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
  In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad ...
• More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...
  In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...
• Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
  Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...
• Ontario could be hard hit by new trade deal
  A trade deal between Canada and the EU that's being negotiated in Ottawa this week could have devastating effects on Ontario. The CCPA's new report, Straightjacket: CETA’s Constraining Effects on Ontario, details the ways in which the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) could accel ...

World Wide Hippies

• Got Homophobeinski? – Russian activists ...
  By Norman Hermant,abc.net.au – A Russian anti-gay group has asked prosecutors to investigate milk cartons that it claims promote homosexuality to children. The label of the Vesyoly Molochnik milk, owned by multinational dairy company Pepsi Co, is adorned with a jolly milkman and a rainbow ...
• Newest US Political Prisoner: The State is a ‘ ...
  By: Kevin Gosztola,dissenter.firedoglake.com – “My convictions are unwavering and will not be shaken by their harassment. Today is October 10th, 2012 and I am ready to go to prison,” declared Leah Plante, in a statement issued before going to jail. Plante was imprisoned at the SeaTac Feder ...
• WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: Bob don’t give a damn & ...
  TC Boyle: ‘It’s a godless world, without hope’ TC Boyle talks about being a ‘complete control freak’ and why he feels compelled to write Tom Cox,.guardian.co.uk – ‘It’s all over,” says TC Boyle. “This planet is doomed. In a very short t ...
• Baumgartner Jumps from 25 Mile Altitude; Gets ...
  By Rob Kall,opednews.com – I’m watching the safe, successful 25 mile high parachute jump by Felix Baumgartner with enthusiasm and awe. Redbull’s sponsorship looks like it definitely worked. Baumgartner jumped from over 125,000 feet, testing a new high pressure space suit. It wa ...
• WEAR RADIO CHIP OR LEAVE, SCHOOL TELLS STUDENT ...
  by JACK MINOR,Superintendent issues warning: ‘There will be consequences’ for not submitting – Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radi ...

FourWinds10

• Is crude oil still gushing in the Gulf? New te ...
• Researchers discover massive methane 'fountain ...
  Dec. 22, 2011 (NaturalNews) When a Russian team recently stumbled upon a few methane "fountains" releasing large amounts of methane gas from shallow arctic waters directly into the atmosphere, they had no idea that there were hundreds, if not thousands, more. The UK's Daily Mail re ...
• Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to Portect Badl ...
  Feb. 4, 2012 Deadline Monday: Tell the EPA to protect Badlands National Park from coal pollution.   Scenic Badlands National Park in southwest South Dakota is visited by nearly a million people each year,1 but the park's beautiful views are increasingly threatened by air pollution from ...
• Judge Bars 17 Chevron Executives From Leaving ...
• Fracking's Health and Environmental Impacts Gr ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Understanding California’s Gasoline Prices
  I am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive specificatio ...
• Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...
  Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...
• The Potential of Methanol
  Last week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
• Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...
• Gasoline Prices Doubled Under Obama: True or F ...
  The Claim: President Obama Has Doubled Gasoline Prices During the Republican primaries, a number of candidates made a claim that at first glance seems improbable: That under President Obama, gasoline prices have doubled. A current advertising campaign by the American Energy Alliance repeats that ...

Discovery Educator Network

• BadgeStack: A Badge-Empowered Learning System ...
  Comments:"Introducing BadgeStack: a fresh way to connect, engage & reward learners. BadgeStack is an innovative system with a game-like approach that assesses skills, recognizes learner achievement, sparks community, and excites learners of all ages." - Fred DelventhalTags: badges, gamification ...
• Behind the Scenes of Student iPad Podcasting S ...
  Comments:Great example of 4th & 5th grade students conducting daily announcement podcasts. - Dean MantzTags: podcasting, studio, ipad, students, BrianFlickingerby: Dean Mantz
• The 25 Best Pinterest Boards in EdTech - Onlin ...
  Tags: Pinterest, edchat, education, resourcesby: Dean Mantz
• PosterMyWall | The Best online Custom Poster a ...
  Tags: poster, poster_makerby: Carolyn Rains
• What Students Can Actually DO With An iPad
  Tags: ipad, 1:1, project, apps, ideas, technology, edudemicby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• How Your Jeans Can Save a Small Town
  Sometimes, there's nothing that cures a bad day like a little retail therapy. But what happens when your feel-good shopping trip results in a river, a lake, or an entire town feeling really, really bad? A new report from a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in China is ...
• Why You Shouldn't Buy the iPhone 5
  Not too jazzed about giving Apple Maps a try on the new iPhone 5? There may be another reason to keep your 4S in your pocket: It has lower levels of harmful chemicals, according to a report just released by a Michigan-based environmental health nonprofit called the Ecology Center. Scientists a ...
• Buy Organic, Avoid Birth Defects
  Despite what Stanford University researchers say, going organic is healthier, and here's more evidence why: A new study in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed evidence that organic food may protect your children from rare birth defects and help you ward off late-life chronic diseases, like o ...
• The Nickel Pincher: Your Berries-to-Zucchini G ...
  When the bounty of your garden harvest or farmer's market explodes into your kitchen, don't let it go to waste. Freezing it is an easy, easy way to tame piles of everything from tomatoes to peppers to grapes to mushrooms. Certain foods need to be cooked briefly before freezing—not difficult, b ...
• 12 Low-Tech Tools You'll Always Use
  GPS, smartphone, laptop? Sure, they'll help you find your way out of an urban jungle or dig up a recipe for dinner. But they also cost big bucks and are major environmental downers, filled with toxic heavy metals and flame-retardant chemicals that leach into groundwater near landfills and poiso ...

big think

• The Fiery Fountain
  My first book hasn't been out for long, but I'm thinking it's almost time to start writing the next one. I came back from my trip to the U.K. with a head full of ideas, and I want to start getting them down on the page. My next book is going to be a novel, not nonfiction. I may write ano ...
• Chance Favors the Prepared Mind: Howard Dean's ...
  What's the Big Idea? Thanks to the Electoral College, President Obama will have an advantage over Mitt Romney in a close election. The demographics in many of the swing states favor Obama, and if demographic forecasts hold true, the Democratic Party will expand this advantage in the comi ...
• I Am NOT God
  I know it’s an easy mistake, especially given my divinely handsome looks.  But please don’t confuse me with God, and please stop worshiping me.  I am not God. Yes, I do know everything, and, yes, I can predict the future.  But it’s not because I am God, but because I’m an evolutionary .. ...
• 584 - United Swing States of America: Presiden ...
  At the stroke of midnight on November 6th, the 21 registered voters of Dixville Notch, gathering in the wood-panelled Ballot Room of the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel, will have just one minute to cast their vote. Speed is of the essence, if the tiny New Hampshire town is to uphold its reputation ( ...
• Why People Who Feel Guilty Make the Best Mates
  What's the Latest Development? A new psychological study suggests that people who feel guilty for just thinking of behaving badly may make the best kind of partner, friend and employee because they are more likely to consider the consequences of their actions. "Writing in the Current Dir ...

Information Liberation

• Can Government Create Opportunity?
  Last year, the Boston branch of the Federal Reserve put out a working paper which contained detailed data on the declining trend of economic mobility in the United States.* According to the paper, the percentage of Americans who reside in the lowest ...
• Larken Rose Explains The Government Con On Red ...
  Larken Rose is known for debunking the most dangerous superstition, government. He is a Voluntaryist/Anarchist and a tax protester, as well as an author of several books. He has a podcast radio program airing every Sunday called "Outside the Cage."...
• Government Schools: Cultivating Collectivist C ...
  The central purpose of the government school system is socialization * that is, programming students to think of themselves as part of a government-defined collective. This requires suspending critical thinking and suppressing moral objections in the...
• State trooper accused of DUI, hit-and-run and ...
  TACOMA, Wash. -- State patrol troopers got quite a shock Sunday when the reckless driver they were chasing turned out to be one of their own. Trooper David Bertholf had been a top trooper when it came to nabbing drunk drivers, and now he's accus...
• Austrian Influence: China and the WSJ
  More signs that the writings*of Hayek, Mises, and modern Austrian economists*are beginning to have some influence even in places where it might be least expected despite the efforts of Professors *DeLong and Krugman to discredit these ideas. Today...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Clutching At Straws
  I’m swamped with work right now, so the promised thread on children will be some time off yet. Meantime, I thought I’d briefly share my amusement at the recent obsessions of the Australian mainstream media. Nothing much has changed in … Continue reading →
• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
• Getting The Government We Deserve
  I’m so gob-smacked by this that words just about fail me. One of the glaring deficiencies in the Australian adaptation of the Westminster system of government, at both the federal and state levels, has to do with casual vacancies in … Continue reading →
• Violence An Inch Beneath The Surface
  What are we to make of this lot? A comically amateurish anti-Islam propaganda film, made by some bloke in America who claimed to be Jewish and have financial backing from the Jewish business community, but who in fact turned out … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012
  UPDATE: And the Prize goes to… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University School of Medi ...
• Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012
  UPDATE: And the Prize goes to… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University School of Medi ...
• Felix Baumgartner space dive
  UPDATE: Aborted. Disappointed. Frustrated. UPDATE: Seems like he’s got really bad wind and won’t be reaching for the edge of space just yet…they seem to have pulled the live feed from Youtube and from their own website, although countdown shows 43 mins at time of writing… ...
• Felix Baumgartner space dive
  UPDATE: Aborted. Disappointed. Frustrated. UPDATE: Seems like he’s got really bad wind and won’t be reaching for the edge of space just yet…they seem to have pulled the live feed from Youtube and from their own website, although countdown shows 43 mins at time of writing… ...
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
  UPDATE: Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA “for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of ...

RFF Library

• Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2011
  Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters http://cred.be/sites/default/files/2012.07.05.ADSR_2011.pdf [Full Text Reports] In 2011, 332 natural disasters 1 were registered, less than the average annual disaster frequency observed from 2001 to 2010 (384). However, the human and economic ...
• Comment on “Hydrocarbon Emissions Charac ...
  Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (in press) via the Council on Foreign Relations’ Michael Levi blog http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/files/2012/10/JGRCH4.pdf (full-text article — link to summarizing blog post is below) In February 2012, the first and only paper to record actual m ...
• Pricing Carbon in the U.S.: A Model-Based Anal ...
  Brookings Institution / by Warwick J. McKibbin, Adele Morris and Peter J. Wilcoxen http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/10/05-pricing-carbon-morris [From the Executive Summary]  This paper uses an intertemporal computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the world economy called G-Cub ...
• Catalog of Environmental Programs 2012
  US EPA, http://www.epa.gov/oig/catalog/ Search environmental projects by topic or by agency. To browse click here: http://www.epa.gov/oig/catalog/Browse_ALL.html. [From Website] The Catalog is a browsable online database of interagency environmental activities which helps describe the extent to ...
• Sequestration Could Reduce Federal Building In ...
  American Institute of Architects http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/pdf/aiab096226.pdf [From the Report]  The Budget Control Act of 2011 required $1.2 trillion in spending cuts absent an agreement by Congress and the President to reduce the federal deficit by other means. The first ...

Scientific American - News

• State of the Earth: Still Seeking Plan A for S ...
  NEW YORK CITY--The state of the planet is grim, whether that assessment is undertaken from the perspective of economic development, social justice or the global environment. What's known as sustainable development--a bid to capture all three of those efforts in one effort and phrase--has h ...
• Cost of Conserving Global Biodiversity Set at ...
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• Megacities Pose Serious Health Challenges
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• Roots of Post-Trauma Resilience Sought in Gene ...
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• Hormone-Producing Thyroid Grown from Embryonic ...
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First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Who Controls the Past...
  Budget cuts to Parks Canada mean that Atlantic Canadian artifacts may be headed to central location in Ottawa Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – Representatives from labour and the Mi&#3 ...
• Who Controls the Past...
  Budget cuts to Parks Canada mean that Atlantic Canadian artifacts may be headed to central location in Ottawa. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia – Representatives from labour, the Mi' ...
• Open Consultations, Behind Closed Doors
  Premier Brad Wall, northern community residents disagree on transparency of nuclear waste site selection process The Saskatchewan government may have faith in the consultation proces ...
• Extensive Open Consultations, Behind Closed Doors
  Premier Brad Wall, northern community residents disagree on transparency of nuclear waste site selection process The Saskatchewan government may have faith in the consultation proces ...
• Vancouver Island Indigenous Foods Conference 2012
  The 5th Annual Traditional Foods Conference is a space to promote and encourage traditional foods and food practices. The conference has always focused on 4 pillars &ndash ...

David Seaton's News Links

• You say you want a revolution... it's staring ...
  David Seaton's News Links The continued slide in median earning power, rather than public obfuscation or even lack of jobs, is America’s real problem. It is the wood as distinct from the trees. It tends to loom larger when the television is off. Edward Luce - Financial Times What we are witnes ...
• Maybe Obama is actually up to something
  David Seaton's News Links If you study the effect of Obama's stunningly bad debate performance, all the sound and the fury is coming from Obama's supporters. They are electrified, galvanized... to use Samuel L. Jackson catchy phrase they finally seem to have awakened "the f**K up". Take a look a ...
• Debate: Obama could have done worse
  David Seaton's News Links I have always found Obama strangely inarticulate when speaking extemporaneously... always hemming and hawing, er...uh...y'know, er...uh. So I'm surprised he did as well as he did without the teleprompter.Will this change the way people vote? I doubt it... it would if bo ...
• Spain could indicate the direction America is ...
  "The Economy"Suddenly, Spain and Greece are being racked by strikes and huge demonstrations. The public in these countries is, in effect, saying that it has reached its limit: With unemployment at Great Depression levels and with erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage ...
• Mitt Romney or "Class Struggle for Dummies"
  We thought Romney was secretly moderate, but it turns out that he’s secretly cruel, a social Darwinist just like his running mate. Maureen Dowd - New York Times What these comments definitely tell us, though, is what Mitt Romney, master consultant, feels his “clients” in the Republican donor b ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Conservatives Need to Put Up or Shut Up on Syria
  In the Washington Post today, Jackson Diehl writes that President Obama's approach to Syria has been a serial failure. He tried engaging with Bashar al-Assad. That didn't work. When war broke out, he tried brokering a settlement via the United Nations. That didn't work. Then he tried to get Vl ...
• The 2012 Election in Three Sentences
  Ezra Klein sums up the election: Romney can tell you exactly what he wants to do, but barely a word about how he’ll do it. Obama can’t describe what he wants to achieve, but he can tell you everything about how he’ll get it done. It’s a campaign without real policies ...
• Hating on Software Companies
  This is from an LA Times article titled "Top 10 features in Apple iOS 6": By far the coolest new feature in iOS 6 is the ability to set your alarm clock to play any of the songs in your music library. Seriously? That's the best feature in the new operating system? And you still expe ...
• Obama's Problems Didn't Start With the Debate
  What's going on with the polls? I wrote something about this a few days ago, but I think it might have gotten buried, so I want to repeat it. According to both Pollster and Real Clear Politics, Mitt Romney began his big surge well before last week's debate. In the ten days before the debate, P ...
• A Look Behind the Handle: Two Trolls in Real Life
  Are you curious about what makes a troll tick? Not your garden variety rude commenter, mind you, but the real, raging jackasses who explicitly get their jollies by harrassing other people online. What are they really like IRL? Recently we've gotten up-close-and-personal looks at two of these ...

Insanity Report

• IC 354: Don’t Start No Shit, Won’t Be No Shit
  Topics: Making Santa quit smoking Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter in combat sports history Bringing a first date to a fight party That Uppercut What a real debate is Anti-Goon What “if you want to act like a man” means to Kriss Kriss admits to being a coward Movie news Danny D ...
• IC 353: The Rant Show
  Topics: The Rant Show Using your real name on Twitter Not giving a fuck 7th Day Adventist Cheery people suck Jurassic Park 4 Too Fat to kill Share with your friends:
• IC 352: Stanning for Celebrities
  Topics: Groupons for Dates Bet you’re still gonna eat the food Teasing vs Bullying The Debates and Politics are depressing No one cares about PBS Jay-Z and celebrity stans Jay-Z’s ownership == marketing and not much more The Cabin in the Woods commentary David Denby makes some ridicu ...
• IC 351: Store Rapists
  Topics: Shopping with your girl GameStop has store rapists Chick Fil-A has the nicest employees ever Being an informed voter Bagel injections Texting while walking Share with your friends:
• IC 350: Forever
  Topics: Leaked nudes Sending nudes means your pictures are out there forever Trust no one “Faggot” and the dark corners of the Internet Fox’s hires Mark Millar to consult on their Marvel Movies Avengers changed the game WB’s stupid attempt at market research Kriss’ ...

Simple Climate

• Focus on uncertain climate cliff-edge invites ...
  Not knowing what greenhouse gas level climate catastrophe might happen at undermines negotiations using emission limits alone, an experiment by Scott Barrett and Astrid Dannenberg from the Earth Institute at Columbia University suggests
• Warming weakens deep freeze on Arctic islands
  Current Svalbard temperatures are the warmest in 1,800 years say William D’Andrea from Columbia University in New York and his teammates
• New models still give Arctic summer ice 30 years
  September Arctic ice will be ‘nearly gone’ between 2021 and 2043, Muyin Wang from the University of Washington finds, even though only seven of the top climate models simulate the area well.
• Warming cost estimates cheat our children
  Economic analysis of the social cost of carbon that treats future generations as less important is close to insanity, according to economist Laurie Johnson of the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington.
• Could pollution be stopping warming’s impact o ...
  Considering both space and time in climate records shows predictions for how rainfall will change are wrong, say Michael Roderick and his teammates from Australian National University, Canberra, who speculate that atmospheric aerosols are to blame.

e!Science News

• Report -- illegal hunting and trade of wildlif ...
  A new report published today by Panthera confirms that widespread illegal hunting and the bushmeat trade occur more frequently and with greater impact on wildlife populations in the Southern and Eastern savannas of Africa than previously thought, and if unaddressed could potentially cause a 'con ...
• New weapons detail reveals true depth of Cuban ...
  The Cuban Missile Crisis took place 50 years ago this October, when US and Soviet leaders pulled back from the very brink of nuclear war. This was the closest the world has come to nuclear war, but exactly how close has been a matter of some speculation. The conflict, itself, has been analyzed a ...
• Poor parents not encouraging high school compl ...
  Parents from poorer backgrounds are less likely to encourage their kids to finish high school, according to a new analysis from the University of Melbourne. read more
• Solar wind particles likely source of water lo ...
  The most likely source of the water locked inside soils on the moon's surface is the constant stream of charged particles from the sun known as the solar wind, a University of Michigan researcher and his colleagues have concluded. read more
• Study of research manuscript submissions shows ...
  A large-scale survey of the process for submitting research papers to scientific journals has revealed a surprising pattern: manuscripts that were turned down by one journal and published in another received significantly more citations than those that were published by the first journal to rece ...

unEarthed

• Open Season in Wyoming Threatens Wolf Recovery
  State delists endangered gray wolf and the hunt begins Wolves perform a valuable ecological role and stand as a living symbol of wilderness. (NPS) In Wyoming, ...
• Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Conno ...
  Plus: Cleaning up greenwashing, pesticide overdosing, toxic tuna (flickr, tribp) Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s ...
• Washing Away The Myth Of Clean Coal
  Author asks, answers: If coal is so clean, why is it killing us? Dr. Alan Lockwood is Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the State University of New York at Buffalo. ...
• Friday Finds: The Extreme Food Edition
  Plus: Bacon blues, ocean critter jitters, burger smog and cattle candies (flickr, cookbookman17) Climate change may ruin BLTs and loaded baked potatoes You ...
• Major Oil Company Opposes Arctic Drilling
  Drilling poses too many environmental risks, says Total CEO The “Big Oil” companies are breaking ranks. The fourth largest oil company in the world ...

Brave New Climate

• Is Japan’s nuclear-free pathway an envir ...
  Below is an essay I co-wrote with one of my current Ph.D. students, Sanghuyn Hong. In it, we take a critical look at the current national energy policy of Japan, and highlight the unfortunate implications of a strategy that preferences fossil fuels over nuclear energy. San, in the first year of ...
• Critique of Lovins book ‘Reinventing Fir ...
  The following is a critique, by Ted Trainer, of the energy chapters in Amory Lovins’ new book, Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era. Ted is seeking feedback, so please head over to the BNC Discussion forum and leave your comments — on his appraisal, or on ...
• 21st century nuclear… for beginners
  SACOME has put published a glossy portfolio edition of the 6-part series (9 pages in total) was done by me and Ben Heard for the SA Mines & Energy Journal – you may find this useful for family and friends! (some of these individual articles were already published on BNC and DecarboniseSA). T ...
• Two books on sustainable nuclear energy
  This is a short post to alert BNC readers to a couple of important things. First, Tom Blees has now generously released the full text of his book “Prescription for the Planet” — it is available for free download here (or click image). So, if you own an iPad or other tablet, or ...
• Talking turkey on nuclear $$ costs
  This the final article in the SA Mines & Energy Journal series on nuclear energy (issue 24, pg 34), about the economic bottom line for nuclear. Ben Heard, my co-author, has also blogged about this on DecarboniseSA. And if you want a second opinion on, read what Columbia University’s Je ...

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

• Joe Biden Is Not The Media
  Since Joe Biden is not a member of the media, I guess he is allowed to do something when someone is lying to him. Like smile, laugh, or just call bull. It was refreshing to watch a Republican being called on his lies in real time. If Biden was a journalist he would have to [...]
• Ryan: Medicare And Social Security Are Going B ...
  Dear Lyin’ Ryan. Not only am I disputing your statement, I am calling you a liar. You, and your right wing traitor friends have been saying Social Security is going bankrupt for years. Why? We all know why. So you can privatize Social Security so your Wall Street buddies can get their hand ...
• Fox News Is Pissed
  All those propaganda artists at Fox are mad at Joe Biden for interrupting Lyin’ Ryan on national TV while he was telling his lies. Republicans are used to spewing their lies and never have anyone push back, or call them on their lies. The people that support and vote for Republicans, and w ...
• Republicans Plan To Sabotage America
  Details of a secret meeting of Republicans on President Obama’s inauguration night have recently emerged. The topic of the meeting was “Sabotage the Obama Administration” and America for that matter in order to return to power. In the meeting at The Caucus Room, an upscale rest ...
• Joe Ask Ryan About The Meeting He Went To On I ...
  While you are at it Joe, lets get what Ryan and his pack of Republican Traitors have been doing for the last 3 1/2 years out in the open. Sabotaging everything your administration was going to try to do to fix Bush’s mess, and put Americans back to work. Ask him Joe. I dare you.

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• Why I Refuse: On God/love, nonviolence and the ...
  ‘The Occupation is anti-God, anti-Love and staggeringly, constantly violent.’ Why I refuse to serve in the IDF. My name is Moriel Zachariah Rothman. I am 23 years old and live in Jerusalem. I lived for most of my life in the United States, but I was born in Jerusalem (and am Jewish) ...
• Where were the Palestinian voices at the Russe ...
  The Russell Tribunal is meant to expose and provide accountability for human rights abuses committed by Israel against Palestinians. But in privileging ‘expert’ voices over those of the victims, does it actually reinforce dominant power structures? By Elisha Baskin The fourth and fin ...
• WATCH: IDF declares Palestinian grazing lands ...
  Last Saturday, a group of Ta’ayush activists traveled to the South Hebron Hills to provide support to Palestinian shepherds seeking to take their livestock out for grazing. Soon after they reached their destination, a group of IDF soldiers arrived to declare the area a closed military zone. Watc ...
• Understanding Israeli election polls, part II
  I would like to address some of the responses to my previous post (“It’s all about the blocs: Understanding Israeli election polls“), since they raise an important issue regarding the difference between an analysis of ideology and political behavior. Several readers challenged ...
• Court prohibits detention of Sudanese refugees ...
  A Jerusalem court issued a temporary injunction on Thursday, prohibiting the detention of Sudanese refugees. The group was slated for arrest and forced transfer to a prison camp in the Negev desert beginning on October 15. The court’s move comes in response to an October 3 petition, filed ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Statement from Tony Burke
  Amendments to the bilateral agreement for environmental assessments between Queensland and the Commonwealth have been agreed to and signed off today.
• Industry assistance to precede marine reserves
  An assistance package in the vicinity of $100 million will begin to flow to the fishing industry before the marine reserves announced today are activated.
• Gillard government creates the world's biggest ...
  Australia's most precious ocean environments will be protected by the world's largest network of marine reserves created by the Gillard Government.
• Minister welcomes UNESCO's Great Barrier Reef ...
  Federal Environment Minister, Tony Burke, has welcomed the release of a joint UNESCO World Heritage Centre and International Union for the Conservation of Nature report on the Great Barrier Reef.
• Queensland environmental regulation
  Response to media statement from Deputy Premier Seeney about the environmental assessment of the Alpha project.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Where Will You Be To Celebrate Amerika’s ...
  It of course didn’t matter who won the 2012 Presidential elections….the riots after all were not a function of politics, but of mathematics.  And numbers of course do not have any partisan identity.  And numbers…when left to their own purposes….don’t lie…they just are what they are. And the real ...
• The GMAC/RESIDENTIAL CAPITAL BANKRUPTCY (Homec ...
  Remember the GMAC Bankruptcy?  Remember the efforts by PriceWaterHouseCoopers to be paid A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS to document all the fraudclosure errors? Remember the WELL PLEADED efforts to have a borrower’s committee so that consumers have some input in this colossal boondoggle th ...
• Who Won The Debate? (There’s Only One In ...
  GOLDMAN SACHS WON THE DEBATE! BAIN CAPITAL WON THE DEBATE! THE FEDERAL RESERVE WON THE DEBATE! DEUTSCHE BANK WON THE DEBATE! JPMORGAN WON THE DEBATE! (silly fools….) Scridb filter
• Biden’s Bellyaching and Ryan’s Obf ...
  If you don’t like the way things are in this country…you have two choices: 1)vote for the guys in office now, or; 2)vote for the guys that promise they’ve got a plan (but who refuse to share the plan) THEY ARE GOING TO CREATE 12 MILLION JOBS! THEY ARE GOING TO SLASH OUR DEBT! T ...
• VOTE ROMNEY/RYAN! VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN!…..
  Everywhere we go, we should all be asking each other and engaging in that tired old delusion of engaging in the political process, pissing off friends and family because we’re voting for the “other” guy. But I refuse to engage in the conversation unless the antagonizing party c ...

abelard - news

• vp debate: watching intrade with fascination d ...
  Left-wing media pundits and Obama may be certain that Obama/Biden is a done deal, but the real world would say otherwise.
• caring for dementia 'patients' - wear red, use ...
  Simple solutions to a problem that leads to bad nutrition in the 'absent-minded'.
• There she blows! striking oil | ecology news / ...
  Descriptions and photos of when drilling for oil goes wrong. Book source reviewed.
• updated book review: the social conquest of th ...
  Useful but tiresome book on genetics and society. At least the writer is a scientst, unlike Richard Dawkins.
• socialism is a religion | behaviour and intell ...
  Nine years later, an American columnist comes to the same conclusion as abelard.

The Parallel Parliament

• Get Some Sleep – We Could Use It
  Most of us remain aware of the advantages of sleep, even as we feel we never get enough of it. …Continue reading »
• A Nobel Gesture
  Fifty-five years ago today – October 12, 1957 – a cable was sent to his residence from Oslo, but ended …Continue reading »
• Hunger and Waste
  The following is my recently published article in the Huffington Post. Across Canada hundreds of food banks sent out special …Continue reading »
• The Networked Ideal
  We have spoken enough in these blog posts about the need to be better connected as communities that maybe we …Continue reading »
• From Truth to Healing
  Tough day yesterday as we learned that I would be required to endure a chemo-like therapy for the next two …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

• Influenza Deaths: The Hype vs. The Evidence
  Posted: 10/3/2012 By Barbara Loe FisherIt's that time of the year again when drug companies, doctors, government officials and media conduct a national advertising campaign to sell flu shots to every American.1, 2, 3 You can't pass by a pharmacy,4enter a supermarket,5  ...
• Turning Vaccine Exemptions Into Class Warfare
  Posted 9/14/2012  by Barbara Loe Fisher   It is getting uglier and uglier out there, as angry, frustrated doctors inside and outside of government work overtime to foster fear and hatred of parents making conscious vaccine choices for their children. The latest political dirty tri ...
• Find A Compassionate Doctor To Help You Preven ...
  August 28, 2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher Ever since the first vaccines – smallpox and rabies vaccines - one of the most serious complications of vaccination has been brain inflammation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Brain inflammation can cause convulsions, also known as seizures.[8] Continuing seizures can ...
• Doctors Slam Parents for Vaccine Choices & FDA ...
  Posted: 6/26/2012 by Barbara Loe Fisher On June 13, 2012, a study conducted by government health employees working at the Oregon Health Authority and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was published in Pediatrics, a medical journal owned by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).[1 ...
• Americans Fight for Vaccine Choices
  Posted: 5/14/2012 Philosophical Exemption To Vaccination Saved in Vermont! by Barbara Loe Fisher “I never thought this would turn into the mess it turned into.” – State Senator Kevin Mullin (R-Rutland), co-sponsor of a failed bill to eliminate philosophical exemption to vaccinat ...

2020 Science

• Tenure track faculty positions in risk science ...
  Just thought I’d circulate this on the 2020 Science network – please feel free to pass on the information to anyone who might be interested. We have finally started the process of looking for two junior faculty to join the Risk Science Center at the University of Michigan School of P ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Next week I am being “installed” here at the University of Michigan.  Not in the sense of installing a carpet – as one friend suggested – but in the sense of being installed as an endowed professor.  The Charles and Rita Gelman Risk Science Professor to be precise. To mar ...
• Nanotechnology, climate and energy: over-heate ...
  Friends of the Earth have just released a new report challenging claims that nanotechnology will lead to greener, more energy-efficient technologies, lower-impact technologies. I’ve only had the chance to skim through the report so far, and so don’t have detailed comments on it.  But ...
• Lost in the Maize
  Here’s something that keeps me awake at night (seriously): why, in this age of super-slick graphics and innovative multimedia resources, is it nearly impossible to give presentation that looks as good as they should? How come I can guarantee that when I give a presentation, the slides will ...
• Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: ...
  Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation bei ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• 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?

k2p blog

• Idle thoughts: On time and change and states o ...
  The riddle of whether change and time are interrelated or independent. And which comes first? Within our cosmos perhaps we have many different states of stasis with paths by which these states can be connected. Our universe could then just be one specific change journey, on one particular path b ...
• 120 years on and Chekhov’s depressive al ...
  By 2140 we will be close to 2.1 children per woman, studying longer (say till 27), working for 45 years (till say 72) and living much longer - say 85 years (on average). Maybe less than 5% of 10 billion people will be living in poverty. Hunger and malnourishment will have almost disappeared. It ...
• 120 years on and Chekhov’s depressive al ...
  By 2140 we will be close to 2.1 children per woman, studying longer (say till 27), working for 45 years (till say 72) and living much longer - say 85 years (on average). Maybe less than 5% of 10 billion people will be living in poverty. Hunger and malnourishment will have almost disappeared. It ...
• Nobel Peace Prize committee has become ridiculous
  The Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has chosen the EU for this year's Peace Prize and only brings the Nobel Prizes into disrepute.
• Nobel Peace Prize committee has become ridiculous
  The Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee has chosen the EU for this year's Peace Prize and only brings the Nobel Prizes into disrepute.

Left Foot Forward

• US Election Digest: Romney slams Biden, campai ...
  Larry Smith's latest round-up of the US Presidential election campaign.
• Afghanistan: International Humanitarian Law, R ...
  Matthew E Carn examines the law as it relates to the case of the seven Royal Marines arrested on suspicion of murder in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
• Balls and Coaker say an economic revival in No ...
  Ed Balls and Vernon Coaker have committed the next Labour Government to putting an economic revival in Northern Ireland at the top of their agenda.
• Despatch from Caracas: Observing the Venezuela ...
  Grahame Morris MP reports from Caracas on the recent Venezuelan elections, won by left wing candidate Hugo Chavez.
• The Health and Social Care Act is hindering th ...
  The Health and Social Care Act is hindering the coalition's laudable aim of engaging patients, writes the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society's Jamie Hewitt.

Consumerist

• Google Won’t Replace Your Broken Nexus 7 ...
  Google does many things very well, like selling ads against your e-mail and designing mobile operating systems. What they’re not all that good at is customer service. Trey was really excited to buy the Nexus 7 tablet direct from Google. Great tablet, great price. The problem was that he wo ...
• 4 Ways You Might Save By Ditching Your Mega Bank
  In the last couple of years, a lot of the talk about leaving one of the huge, mega banks in favor of an independent institution or credit union has dealt with consumers’ anger at these banks for their questionable practices — toxic mortgages, robosigned foreclosures, overpaid execs, ...
• Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Gives Local Manag ...
  You know how your aunt is always posting inspirational stuff on Facebook telling you to dance like no one is watching or whatever? Well you should also do a super awesome job at your place of employment even when you think no one is paying attention. Because they might be and then the CEO of Sta ...
• Trademark Office Doesn’t See Difference ...
  Just about every pizza place, diner, deli and sandwich shop here in Philadelphia will make you a cheesesteak, and while many claim to make the city’s best, only one has actually tried — unsuccessfully thus far — to trademark the phrase “Philadelphia’s Cheesesteak.&# ...
• McDonald’s Ad Guy Explains The McRib&#82 ...
  If Santa Claus came down the chimney every night of the year, would he be super special or would he just be that weird old man trying to get free cookies and milk? Exactly. Which is apparently the thinking behind McDonald’s fleeting McRib season. They’ve got nothing else holiday-ish ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Nat'l Security Whistleblowers/GAP Clients Win ...
  John KiriakouNational Security Whistleblowers Honored with Callaway Award Summary: The 2012 Joe A. Callaway Awards for Civic Courage winners were announced this week, and all three are GAP clients: former CIA agent and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou, and NSA whistleblowers William Binney ...
• Government's Fault That Espionage Act Cases Ri ...
  The latest unsealed court pleadings in the Espionage Act case against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou reveal that Kiriakou's defense team has sought to subpoena journalists. Steven Aftergood of Federation of American Scientists explained the pleadings, and he ...
• National Security Whistleblowers Honored with ...
  GAP Clients Kiriakou (CIA/Torture), Binney & Wiebe (NSA Wrongdoing) to Receive Award Oct. 30 (Washington, DC) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) applauds the recent announcement of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Awards for Civic Courage winners by the Shafeek Nader Trust for the ...
• Presidential Policy Directive Extends Protecti ...
  Washington Post: Obama Issues Whistleblower Directive to Security Agencies Summary: Yesterday, President Obama signed a Presidential Policy Directive that extends certain whistleblower protections to national security and intelligence employees – workers who were not included under the bill cu ...
• GAP Praises President's Action to Protect Nati ...
  Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) praised a Presidential Policy Directive signed by President Obama to create free speech rights for national security whistleblowers. The action largely restores many of the rights and remedies that the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on In ...

UK Progressive

• The Monday Line: Mitt Romney’s Bain Gain China ...
  By Denis G. Campbell Governor Romney campaigning in Ohio attacked President Obama for not going after China’s currency manipulation. He will “fix that on Day 1.” Aside from being cut short by about 19 hours with a noon inauguration and 10 balls, he has a lot to do in the remaining 5 working hour ...
• Paul Ryan Reading Guide: The Best Reporting on ...
  ProPublica Editor’s note: This post was first published Aug. 11, 2012. It was corrected Aug. 12 and updated with new material Aug. 15 and Oct. 11.  We’ve had several days to get to know Rep. Paul Ryan on the campaign trail, which means we’ve also had more time to review Ryan’s voting recor ...
• How January’s Fiscal Cliff Turns Into a Gentle ...
  by Robert Reich These are awkward days for deficit hawks who believe the American economy can get back to health only if the nation gets its fiscal house in order. If they get their wish, the economy goes over a cliff. Regardless of what happens Election Day, at the beginning of next year more t ...
• Big Bird Debate: How Much Does Federal Funding ...
  by Suevon Lee ProPublica Are Big Bird’s 15 minutes up yet? Last week, Mitt Romney pulled public broadcasting into the presidential campaign when he said he would “stop the subsidy” to PBS, despite his love for the furry yellow Muppet. The remark launched endless Internet memes, fueled late night ...
• Why Biden Won
  by Robert Reich I thought Biden won Thursday night’s debate because he came off as genuine, passionate, and brimming with conviction. Ryan, by contrast, seemed like a wooden marionette, a kid out of his depth relative to someone who not only knew the facts but lived them. On taxes, Ryan couldn’t ...

NewsAlert

• Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands ...
  The Telegraph
• (Video) Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in ...
  Library of Congress
• Food Tent Displaying Obama Signs Erected Outsi ...
  Big Government
• Obama has taxpayers funding graduate programs ...
  WND
• (Video) Harvey Klehr on McCarthy and American ...
  At the 38 minute marker Professor Klehr explains what Senator McCarthy got right. You'll want to watch the whole thing.

JoNova

• Australian sea levels have been falling for 70 ...
  It’s hard to measure sea levels, because land often moves up and down too (which is known as “isostatic“). But Australia is stable tectonically, so the Australian sea-level record is more useful than most. It preserves the holocene era and the rises and falls, and correspond mo ...
• Weekend unthreaded….
  Anything you want to discuss? – Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Biofuels benefit billionaires
  Follow the money. As usual the Green trail ends at a Greenback (so-to-speak). In this case it’s the euro-colored kind. The EU is focusing on “first generation” biofuels — corn, soy, sugar and palm oil — which pushes up prices of food, and cuts down forests.  (In a r ...
• Antarctic concensus “flips”. Warme ...
  In a move of Olympian audacity, Seth Borenstein keeps a straight face and shamelessly shifts to pretending that more Antarctic sea-ice fits their climate change theory. Yet again climate models fail to predict things in advance, they only do the post modern type of prediction — the bury-my ...
• Electric cars are worse for the environment
  When everything else about being Green turns out to be a pox on the environment, it’s no surprise that electric cars are too. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found greenhouse gas emissions [of electric cars] rose dramatically if coal was used to produce the electri ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• Swiss Army Cases for your new iPhone 5
  I’m happy with my 4S, but I’m sure many survivalists out there, while preparing for a world without electronics, have eagerly purchased the new iPhone. In an overview of rugged iPhone 5 cases are these two gems that are in the direction of Swiss Army knife: ReadyCase – comes wi ...
• Purposeful Evolution
  My 2012 studies began with Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods, where he suggested that ancient cataclysms may have destroyed advanced civilizations, and that 2012 could be a prediction for the same again. So while thinking about a global cataclysm 12,000 years ago, I pondered over w ...
• Don’t Be Known As A Constitutionalist
  Not a lot happens in the video below. It’s basically just a SWAT team removing two people from their home, and then the home is searched. The reason for their visit is the reason it is interesting. Rather than just a routine police visit because a neighbor thought there was a domestic disp ...
• Global Depopulation Agenda
  I’m putting on my skeptic hat for this post… I’m primarily responding to a post at Intel Hub that makes little sense - Depopulation is Real – US Deaths Reach Record High. The post immediately quotes a news report that explains clearly why deaths are rising. The annual number of ...
• Money Where Mouth Is
  It has just crossed my mind that the ultimate worth of a 2012 prophet is their preparation efforts. Or where they will be hiding on Dec 21 2o12. I will be at my safe spot, one hour’s drive inland, 550 meters above sea level, food and water in place. It is near Ballarat (Australia). I suspe ...

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

One News Page

• Vettel makes his move in purple patch for Red Bull
  Barring misfortune in this most unpredictable of years, the drivers' championship has now become a straight fight between two rivals vying to become the sport's youngest triple titleholder. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Microsoft launches Xbox music, but can it take ...
  Microsoft Corp on Monday announced that Xbox Music, a digital music service to vie with Apple Inc's iTunes and Amazon.com Inc's Cloud Player, will be available for its Xbox game consoles on Tuesday. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Baumgartner’s record space jump sets Twitter, ...
  Felix Baumgartner's 38.6-kilometre skydive from the stratosphere was a boon for social networks as millions of users shared in the wonder of the moment from their computers, tablets and phones. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• UP Police wing launches probe into Khurshid’s ...
  As Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid rubbished charges of misappropriation of funds by a trust run by him and his wife, the Economic Offences Wing of the Uttar Pradesh Police has launched a probe into the matter. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• Former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk passes away
  Former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk died Monday in Beijing, the government said. He was 89. Reported by IndiaVision 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...
• Western Countries Sabotage Syria Peace Plans
• US Deploying Military Personnel to Syrian-Jord ...
• Make Corporate Media Irrelevant
• Afghanistan: How Long Must This Failed War Go On?

Daily Tech

• General Dynamics Unveils TACLANE Multibook Not ...
  Secure computer aims to keep government secrets secret
• Report: Amazon in Negotiations to Purchase Tex ...
  Amazon could be looking to directly challenge Apple and Samsung
• Microsoft Officially Announces Xbox Music with ...
  Xbox Music to come the more platforms in the coming year
• Quick Note: Verizon Could Sell Lumia 822 for $ ...
  Verizon is slowly but surely acquiring new Windows Phones
• Softbank to Take 70 Percent Stake in Sprint fo ...
  Deal to be officially announced Monday morning

Oriental Review

• Turks, Cease Fire!
  In the Middle Eastern corrida, the moment of truth is approaching fast. Assad’s Syria is running around the arena like a wounded bull, fraught and worn down by a year of cruel strife. Banderillas of mujaheeds stick out of his broken hide. The public, the Europeans, the Americans, the Gulf rulers ...
• Who Runs the Global Drug Mafia (II)
  Part I As noted in the previous part of the paper, the global drug mafia is a three-level formation. The strategic objectives pursued at the executive Level 3 are: • The whitewashing of the cash flows generated by drug sales; • Revenue investment in various sectors of the economy; • Organization ...
• Afghan Taliban Announces Its Victory over NATO
  The Taliban have won a victory over the foreign forces which have been in Afghanistan since 2001. With this announcement, the Taliban marked the 11th anniversary of the US military invasion. According to local observers, the US was unable to achieve its stated goals during its long years in Afgh ...
• Territorial Disputes Spell Trouble for Asia-Pa ...
  The flare ups are not limited by the Middle East region only. The events the world attention was focused on by the end of September made one more hot spot appear on the world map – an escalating dispute over the Senkaku islands claimed by China and Taiwan. The disputed territory is eight u ...
• Episode 8. The Great Odd War (III)
  Part I Part II In every way possible, the allies even avoided coordinating joint actions by all members of the Entente. Towards the end of the first year of the war, the exhausted Germans were no longer able to advance and the Western front had stabilised, having reached neutral Switzerland on t ...

BlogHer

• No Sew Halloween Hand Towels
  [Editor's Note: Spread the Halloween cheer all the way to the bathroom with these adorable and festive hand towels. Witches legs, spiders - whatever tickles your Halloween fancy you can easily applique it onto a towel. The best part about this project is that it is no sew! - Jen]Spooky Halloween ...
• Vietnamese Pickled Carrots and Daikon Radish ( ...
  [Editor's Note: This versatile Vietnamese pickle is great on sandwiches, but would work with almost any meal as a healthy relish item. It's a burst of sweet flavor, with a crispy acid bite that balances it out. This is something worth keeping on hand in the refrigerator for times when you need t ...
• How to Set Safe Search in Bing to Filter out A ...
  [Editor's Note: Jean at Be Web Smart has some news about the new Bing It On comparison, as well as tips for how to use Bing's Safe Search. -Virginia] Do you use Bing? I don’t think Bing has become a verb the same way that Google has.  I’ve never heard anyone say “let me Bing that”.  Mi ...
• A Lap Dance, Customer Service, and Unsolicited ...
  Customer service takes on a whole new conversation when you're a stripper and your client is someone who doesn't want to be there. Here's an insider look at what it's really like to be a stripper, serve the customer, and deal with unwanted, unsolicited advice. “I hate bachelor parties,” th ...
• A Burger Inspired by Eggs Florentine
  [Editor's Note: I love burgers that borrow from the flavors of breakfast—one of my favorite options is to top my burger with cheddar cheese, bacon, and a runny fried egg. But this version, which features a poached egg, wilted spinach, and hollandaise, also strikes me as a worthy addition to ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy Linked to Lang ...
  Taking a common class of antidepressants called serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SRIs, during pregnancy alters the developmental time-course of the child’s language processing, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the ...
• ADHD, Learning Difficulties and the Benefits o ...
  Some incredibly encouraging research coming out of Australia regarding the benefits of DHA for kids with ADHD and other learning difficulties seems to corroborate other study findings that were available last month. Often ADHD exists with ...
• Vitamin Variants Could Combat Cancer as Scient ...
  In a development that may lead to new drugs to treat cancer, scientists at the University of Kent have discovered the process by which a key vitamin (B12) is made in cells. A team at the ...
• Battling Harmful Water Toxins
  The research team, which is led by Dr Tony Byrne and includes Dr Patrick Dunlop and Dr Jeremy Hamilton, is based at NIBEC, Ulster’s Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre at the Jordanstown campus where clean ...
• U.S. Supreme Court to Review Monsanto Seed Patents
  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider an Indiana soybean farmer’s appeal of a decision finding that he infringed Monsanto Company patents over seeds containing the company’s genetically altered Roundup Ready technology. The case ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Oct. 12, 2012
  A Norfolk Southern Railroad train pulls transport cars full of coal through central Illinois Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, near Goodfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman) The politics of coal continued to be a big issue in the media this week, with one of the more interesting pieces being this Washington ...
• Aluminum plants and power lines: Will W.Va. learn?
  Over on his Power Line blog, Bill Howley has written a couple of really interesting pieces this week about the whole controversy here in West Virginia over electricity rates for the Century Aluminum plant up in Ravenswood (see for example here and here). And in a new post, Bill provides some com ...
• Blankenship re-emerges with donation to M.U.
  Nearly two years after he “retired” from Massey Energy, Don Blankenship still fascinates a lot of people. Well, maybe fascinates isn’t the right word. But anyway, people ask me all the time if I know what he’s up to — if he’s really getting back into the coal ...
• The great W.Va. gubernatorial debate: Controll ...
  WVBA Debate moderator Charles Ryan right, with Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and GOP challenger Bill Maloney, Photo by Craig Cunningham, Charleston Daily Mail. If you’re wondering why your local newspaper didn’t have coverage of Tuesday night’s West Virginia gubernatorial debate &#8211 ...
• Mine safety: A close call in Ohio
  The news out of Ohio is good this evening, with word that two miners trapped most of the day in an underground coal mine are safe. Here’s what we have from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration: Two miners became trapped from a roof fall around 9:30 this morning. They were resc ...

Daniel Miessler

• 8 Enhancements to Shell and Vim Productivity
  If you enjoy the command line then you don’t need to be sold on efficiency or purity of action. But even those who grok CLI are unaware of a number of ways to be more elegant accomplishing their tasks. Here are a few of my favorites. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Use ctrl-r For History Autocompl ...
• 6 Shell and Vim Efficiencies
  If you enjoy the command line then you don’t need to be sold on efficiency or purity of action. But even those who grok CLI are unaware of a number of ways to be more elegant accomplishing their tasks. Here are a few of my favorites. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Use ctrl-r For History Autocompl ...
• True Shelter Disruption: 3-D Printing of Houses
  And you thought it was a bad time before to be in construction. Related ContentOn Failure and SuccessBike ParkourDinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About ObamaMister Rogers Defending His Show on Capitol HillCard Case by Square: An Alternative to NFC
• The Story That Could End Romeny’s Bid | The Da ...
  Romney’s Bain Capital did what they do best. They bought out a company called Sensata Tech and are in the process of outsourcing it to China. They even brought in Chinese workers for the current employees to train. Yea, they were forced to train their own replacements. And Bain Capital for ...
• 3 Ways to Use Vim Commands in Other Applications
  I recently converted (from TextMate) to using vim for all of my text editing, and it turns out there are a number of places where knowing your vim strokes can help you. Vimium Vimium is a Chrome extension that allows you to use vim commands to control your browser. It’s stunning how fast b ...

Fitwatch

• Confronting FIT and PLO – Fitwatch works ...
  Direct Action is a powerful tactic against the snooping and prying of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) and their new sidekicks, Police Liaison Officers (PLOs). A little organised resistance can stop the FIT / PLOs from getting their 'intel' at crucial times. Fitwatch and other associated tactics ...
• Extremism cop covered up at Hillsborough
  This man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...
• Police Liaison Officers – the new FIT
  Police Liaison Officers are everywhere these days, constantly hanging around ‘engaging’ with protesters. They are being hailed as a new invention, but the role they carry out is not new at all. It’s just that it used to be done by cops in blue bibs called ‘FIT teams’ Back before FIT got a bad na ...
• Police use anti-terror powers to detain anarch ...
  The following article is reproduced from Statewatch British counter-terrorist police at Heathrow airport last week (13 August) detained two anarchists returning from a conference in Switzerland, asked them a number of "inflammatory, irrelevant and offensive questions," and copied information fro ...
• Spycops practices circumvent the law says Surv ...
  The Surveillance Commissioner has attacked police for circumventing the law on covert surveillance by building personal profiles of targets from ‘open’ internet sources. In a report published last month, the Surveillance Commission said that the increasingly used practice of processing internet ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Got Homophobeinski? – Russian activists ...
  By Norman Hermant,abc.net.au – A Russian anti-gay group has asked prosecutors to investigate milk cartons that it claims promote homosexuality to children. The label of the Vesyoly Molochnik milk, owned by multinational dairy company Pepsi Co, is adorned with a jolly milkman and a rainbow ...
• Newest US Political Prisoner: The State is a ‘ ...
  By: Kevin Gosztola,dissenter.firedoglake.com – “My convictions are unwavering and will not be shaken by their harassment. Today is October 10th, 2012 and I am ready to go to prison,” declared Leah Plante, in a statement issued before going to jail. Plante was imprisoned at the SeaTac Feder ...
• WWH/CJE Hippie Digest: Bob don’t give a damn & ...
  TC Boyle: ‘It’s a godless world, without hope’ TC Boyle talks about being a ‘complete control freak’ and why he feels compelled to write Tom Cox,.guardian.co.uk – ‘It’s all over,” says TC Boyle. “This planet is doomed. In a very short t ...
• Baumgartner Jumps from 25 Mile Altitude; Gets ...
  By Rob Kall,opednews.com – I’m watching the safe, successful 25 mile high parachute jump by Felix Baumgartner with enthusiasm and awe. Redbull’s sponsorship looks like it definitely worked. Baumgartner jumped from over 125,000 feet, testing a new high pressure space suit. It wa ...
• WEAR RADIO CHIP OR LEAVE, SCHOOL TELLS STUDENT ...
  by JACK MINOR,Superintendent issues warning: ‘There will be consequences’ for not submitting – Brushing aside privacy concerns by parents and civil rights activists, a Texas school district has gone live with a controversial program requiring all students to wear a locator radi ...

reference frame

• Classification of simple compact Lie groups
  The goal of this text is to concisely explain why the simple compact Lie groups are divided to the groups \[ A_\ell,\, B_\ell,\,C_\ell,\, D_\ell,\, E_{6,7,8},\, F_4, \,G_2. \] The focus will be on the representation of every step, not on the detailed explanation of each step. In oth ...
• HadCRUT4: no warming for 16 years
  The Hadley Centre at the Met Office released a new product replacing HadCRUT3, the temperature record of the Earth. It's called HadCRUT4. Various years are rearranged but look at the chart of the last 16 years, since early 1997, as discussed in the Daily Mail. There has been no tre ...
• Chemists' name for honesty: testosterone
  The steroid hormone seems to reduce men's lying Have you ever wondered whether there is a simple explanation why maths and exact sciences are mostly boys' game, why physics is a macho subject of a sort, why Feynman and Einstein slept with many women while Schrödinger lived both with his ...
• Czech regional elections: Pilsen defends some ...
  Political colors in regional politics are fortunately not as important as they are in the national and international politics. In the regions, the governors are ultimately doing almost the same things and they have to succeed with predetermined resources, and so on. Personal preferences ...
• Classical physics is sometimes more indetermin ...
  Norton's dome is a non-problem in quantum physics A user at the Physics Stack Exchange asked a question about a fun system in classical physics: Norton's dome and its equation The question was why it was apparently possible for the acceleration of a marble to exceed any bound, includ ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Icon David Icke on Alex Jones Tv 1/10:Dark For ...
  Alex welcomes back to the show former professional football player, reporter, television sports presenter, author, popular lecturer and New World Order researcher David Icke. www.davidicke.com prisonplanet.tv Video Rating: 4 / 5 This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Related posts: Icon Dav ...
• American WARZONE: Two teens killed, 24 others ...
  by Adam Sege, Carlos Sadovi and Peter Nickeas, Chicago Tribune: 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 bein ...
• Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai sent to U.K.
  The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by Taliban gunmen for pushing for girls to be educated has been sent to the United Kingdom for medical treatment, a military spokesman said on Monday. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Canada boycotts Iran leader’s UN speech Canadian diploma ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Lost Civil ...
  Was there a real Atlantis? For centuries rumors of Atlantis have inspired explorers around the globe. But was Atlantis real? Listen in to learn more about this fabled civilization — and whether new research exposes any grain of truth within the legends. Home: howstuffworks.com Facebook fac ...
• Millions to participate in FEMA drill next week
  Release Number: R3-12-16 Philadelphia,Pennsylvania – On October 18, 2012 at 10:18 a.m. EDT, more than one million people across five states and the District of Columbia are scheduled to take part in the first ever Great SouthEast ShakeOut. The ShakeOut is a regional earthquake drill in whi ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

• Can't Stop the Big Mo
  Healthy spending and productivity add up to some good stock buys, says S&P's Kenneth Shea. Plus: His formula for a diversified portfolio
• Higher Gas Tax? Smart Move
  Raising it to 50 cents or $1 per gallon would push conservation and send a signal to America's enemies. It's the surest way to cut oil dependence
• Grading Back-to-School Stocks
  Some outfits that gain from families' spending may make dicey buys. But equity pros reveal those investments with strong potential
• No Lull in the Airlines' Headwinds
  The industry isn't doing as badly as it was, but that's not saying much, according to S&P's Philip Baggaley
• Merck: More Agony from Its Painkiller
  The costly Vioxx verdict makes its plan to take on each claim individually more difficult. But a big settlement is no easy cure, either

Enviroblog

• Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
  A number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"
  By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
• Cleaning Industry: Simple Steps to Improve You ...
  By Ken Cook President, The Environmental Working Group Since we released the new online EWG's Guide to Healthy Cleaning, with ratings of more than 2,000 different products, many consumers and several companies have asked us why some products get... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit m ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• A new Carroll Gardens homeless shelter built o ...
• Polls: After a centrist debate performance, Re ...
• Does Christine Quinn want Albany to bring it on?
• Bloomberg recovers guns, fights a soda lawsuit
• Gillibrand touts 9/11 health care bill in late ...

Views & News from Norway

• Jobless rate still high for immigrants
  Norway’s strong oil-fueled economy has kept the country’s unemployment rate low for years, but it’s still high for immigrants, especially those from Africa, South America and parts of Asia. The opposition Conservative Party thinks employment rules should be eased to allow for m ...
• Jens also dumps embattled mayor
  UPDATED: Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has personally joined the rising calls for a Labour Party mayor who’s battling sexual assault charges to step down. Stoltenberg’s appeal on Monday morning came after Vågå Mayor Rune Øygard himself made it clear he wasn’t giving up his ma ...
• Party boss sorry for losing temper
  UPDATED: Liv Signe Navarsete has had trouble controlling her temper before and now it’s plunged her back into the headlines. Navarsete, head of the small but powerful Center Party, finally apologized for yelling at the head of the party’s youth group in public, after the group claime ...
• Center Party boss in trouble again
  Liv Signe Navarsete has had trouble controlling her temper before and now it’s plunged her back into the headlines. Navarsete, head of the small but powerful Center Party, is being ordered to apologize for yelling at the head of the party’s youth group in public, and for a leadership ...
• Labour dumps embattled mayor
  Norway’s Labour Party is turning its back on a man who was among its most trusted politicians, Vågå Mayor Rune Øygard. The party claims Øygard cannot continue as a Labour Party mayor, even if he’s acquitted of sexual assault charges filed against him. After Øygard’s latest roun ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Heart of the Matter (a Nuclear Debate)
  Editor’s Note: I’m sure a few of you will be tempted, at first glance, to pounce on me due to this piece — since it has the name ‘George Monbiot’ and the word ‘nuclear’ in the same post. But, I would ask you to read it through first…. I put this up ...
• Arctic Sea Ice in Free Fall
  by Emily E. Adams and Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute The North Pole is losing its ice cap. Comparing recent melt seasons with historical records spanning more than 1,400 years shows summer Arctic sea ice in free fall. Many scientists believe that the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the s ...
• Floodplains: the Biggest Slow-Release Water So ...
  Article and diagrams copyright © Cam Wilson At the top end of the Marshalls’ property on the Southern Tablelands, NSW, Australia, the creek is bone dry. This spot, fed by 1250 Ha of native forest, has been that way for 10 weeks now. Meanwhile, 1.2 km downstream at the base of their p ...
• Incredible Edible Todmorden (video)
  If you want a little inspiration today, the following video about the excellent work going on in Todmorden, UK, should do the trick. It’s clear that once you gain a little local critical mass in understanding and action, there’s little that can’t be done. We need strong ...
• Tell US Congress: It’s Time To Label GMOs
  We’re fast approaching a tipping point on the labeling of genetically engineered foods. With California’s proposition 37 coming before voters November 6, and with 91% of the American public supporting the right to know, we’ve decided that now is a perfect time to launch a natio ...

Pointman's

• Green Myths : We must conserve everything.
  There’s this unquestioned idea, that’s been firmly planted into the public mind. That idea is that nothing should ever be allowed to go extinct and therefore conservation of anything is automatically a good thing. It’s nearly universally accepted and yet it’s totally unna ...
• I’m looking for a snitch, who wants to get rich.
  Blogging is one of those impossible to make a profit from activities you have to fit into all the necessities of life, such as looking after your family, making a living, paying your bills, hacking back that out of control Amazonian jungle you call a garden, repairing a leaky roof at some consid ...
• Intentions, profiles and predictability.
  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life working out other people’s real intentions, and what they would do and how they would attempt to do it, because of those intentions. Getting one jump ahead of complex, imaginative and sometimes troubled minds, is a tough business, but that’s what made i ...
• The creeping betrayal of democracy in Australia.
  For various reasons, I’ve travelled a lot and had the opportunity to meet and get to know, people from many different countries and cultures. It’s one of the pleasures of life and if you’re a gregarious person, which I am, you find out about each other. Like you and I, they all ...
• The decline of the environmental lobby’s ...
  Political influence is obvious, when you see it being exercised. It’s normally exerted by politicians, who’ve been elected by the people, and are simply changing policy in line with the promises they’ve made to their electorate. Depending on their political persuasion, and your ...

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

• Students at Walter L. Cohen High School Walk O ...
  From a press release from students and their allies at Walter L. Cohen High School: See below for the students' demands. Students at Walter L. Cohen in New Orleans began a walk out/protest on October 4th, 2012 when their teachers and administrators were dismissed and the announcement was mad ...
• Obama, Romney, and Race(less De)Baiting
, By R ...
  Reprinted from the Bridge The Gulf blog: While Romney and Obama dance around race, the Gulf Coast continues to suffer devastating racial disparities, worsened by the government's inaction New Orleans finally came up this week in the presidential contest – in a soundbite about race and the g ...
• Jasmine Groves Invites Community to Memorial F ...
  This letter from Jasime Groves comes via the New Orleans Independent Police Monitor: From Tragedy to Triumph: Advocating for your family and community after a Police Shooting Kim Marie Groves Homecoming Memorial Greetings! You are cordially invited to the 18th Annual Memorial for Kim Marie ...
• Local Artists Truth Universal and Mos Def Amon ...
  From a press release from Malcolm X Grassroots Movement: In 2012 the police kill a Black man, woman, or child every 36 hours! In July, the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM) and the Malcolm X Solidarity Committee (MXSC), issued “Every 36 Hours: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Bl ...
• Neither Candidate: Fifteen Issues this Electio ...
  Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes. Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads. Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison. Neither candidate has called for arrest ...

Information Underground

• Self-Appointed "Masters" • The Jew & ...
  I copied this article thought about it alot... Today, acting as a hostile elite, American Jewry’s political agenda is to bring about a “New American Order” by overthrowing the White Christian power bloc and replacing it with multi-culturalism wherein Jewry gains the upper hand through rivalries ...
• Historical Events • Re: My own surrender to th ...
  DACHAU KZ: SUFFERING AND DEATH DACHAU KZ: SUFFERING AND DEATH Prologue: Dachau was the only early concentration camp, which lasted until the liberation in 1945 from its inception in 1933. This so-called main camp (Stammlager) with a number of satellite camps (Aussenlager) was controlled from M ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  New Senate Push to Pledge Unconditional Support for Israeli Preventive War on Iran Posted: 10/11/2012 6:49 pm by Jamal Abdi, Policy Director, National Iranian American Council http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-abd ... 59607.html Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is planning to press the Senate n ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Statistics: Posted by rmstock — Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:45 pm
• Historical Events • Re: My own surrender to th ...
  Saturday, March 26, 2011 A new and different start I had acquired another job in Allach in a Supply Depot after WOJG Milton F.Plier had fired some else and hired me. What he saw in me I don't know I can only guess, "a lonely boy who needed parental help".I was 18 years old and in ma ...

TVNZ

• Skydiver Baumgartner breaks world records - sp ...
  An Austrian daredevil has broken up to three world records including the highest skydive ever, project sponsors say.  
• Lithuanians ditch government in verdict on aus ...
  Lithuanian public reject austerity-minded government in elections.
• Pakistani schoolgirl sent to UK for treatment
  Pakistani teeanger shot by the Taliban is being flown to the UK for medical treatment.
• Scotland set to move closer to independence
  Scotland is poised to take a big step on its path towards an independence referendum.
• Skydiver 'breaks sound barrier'
  Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner believed to have broken sound barrier in jump to Earth.

environment 360

• Green Crude: The Quest to Unlock Algae’s Ener ...
  Despite questions about the viability and the environmental benefits, a host of companies are pursuing new technologies that they say will soon lead to large-scale commercialization of biofuels made from algae. BY MARC GUNTHER
• Facing Opposition at Home, UK Looks to Build W ...
  Faced with growing opposition to land-based wind turbines in England, UK officials are looking to build hundreds of wind farms in Ireland that would generate electricity exclusively for the UK. Government officials say the £8 billion proposal, which includes the construction of more than 700 tu ...
• Blue and Green Honey Is Linked to an M&M’S Fac ...
  Beekeepers in northeastern France say they have produced batches of unusually colored honey in recent months as a result of bees carrying unknown substances from a nearby plant processing waste from an M&M’S candy factory. Since August, beekeepers in the region of Alsace say they have noticed be ...
• Major Policy Shifts Needed To Maintain Decline ...
  A decline in U.S. carbon emissions in recent years is unlikely to continue over the long term unless there is a significant shift in how the nation produces and uses its energy, according to a new analysis. While several factors have triggered a 9 percent decline in annual carbon emissions in th ...
• NASA Map Illustrates Effects of Summer Drought ...
  A new NASA map shows the major effects of this summer’s record droughts on vegetation across much of the U.S., leaving a swath of parched earth that caused a shortage of food for wild and domesticated animals alike. In the map, which shows the contrast between Click to enlarge NASA Plant h ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• The Devil's Excrement
  Tags: Venezuela blog tech science politics oil
• The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and t ...
  Tags: watchers world daily news
• Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
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• Occupy Corporatism | The Truth Behind the News
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backofthebook

• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• More Evidence Against the Romney Tax Plan
  Romney's six "studies" demolished. The numbers don't come close to adding up.
• The Best Ad Obama Could Run
  A clip from an FDR 1936 speech would make a great campaign ad.
• Bang Goes Cheryl Cole's Knighthood
  William is bound to be deeply irritated after a British pop star repeated details of a private conversation with Kate
• ‘Argo’ Blurs the Truth
  Ben Affleck’s new movie runs the risk of leaving viewers with an incomplete and at times inaccurate impression, says Sarah Shourd, the American hiker who was held hostage in Iran for 410 days.
• Black: Justice Denied for DeLay
  The odds against an indicted person in America? 99.5-to-one. Conrad Black on the prosecutocracy’s reign of terror.

Loonwatch

• WND Still Promoting Debunked “Obama Wears Musl ...
  Claim endorsed by William Murray, Mark Gabriel, and Pamela Geller
• [Open Thread Sunday] Benjamin Edetanlen Senten ...
  Man sentenced to 18 years for murdering his 5-month-old son.
• Homeland is brilliant drama. But does it prese ...
  The slick drama, now into its second series, draws praise from critics and viewers, but its view of Arabs and Islam is a distortion of Middle Eastern realities.
• CandyCab Savage: Mansoor Khalid Spreads Candy ...
  Taxi driver Mansoor Khalid is on a one-man mission to cheer up New Yorkers with a daily dose of candy.
• U.S.: Pushback Against Growing Islamophobia
  Faced with a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and a well-funded campaign to promote Islamophobia, a coalition of faith and religious freedom groups will circulate a new pamphlet on frequently asked questions about Islam and U.S. Muslims to elected officials.

Energy News

• Below Sinkhole: 500 billion cubic feet of gas, ...
• Officials admit crude oil and methane are comi ...
• Video: Japanese receiving biased information — ...
• Company now taking weekend off at giant sinkho ...
• State Expert: Over 50,000 gallons of crude oil ...

Japan Times

• Softbank to pay $20 billion for 70% stake ...
  Softbank Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. have reached a deal under which Japan's third-largest mobile phone carrier will pay $20 billion to acquire a 70 percent stake in the third-largest U.S. cellular phone company, U.S. media reported Sunday. The deal would give rise to one of the leading ...
• Lions rout Hawks to even series
  A number of Seibu Lions fans spent their time outside Seibu Dome looking into a television camera and imploring their team to get a win. The Lions' players weren't quite ready for the season to end yet either. In the end, everybody got what they wanted. Well, maybe not the Fukuoka Softbank Ha ...
• Gentildonna wins by a nose to complete fillies ...
  Top pick Gentildonna beat Verxina by a nose to complete the fillies' Triple Crown on Sunday with victory at the Shuka-sho. Gentildonna, with Yasunari Iwata aboard, became only the fourth filly to achieve the feat and first since Apapane in 2010. It was Iwata's third Shuka-sho win.
• Tateyama, Balentien help Swallows tie CL Clima ...
  Right-hander Shohei Tateyama worked six innings on Sunday, and Central League home run champ Wladimir Balentien drove in the game's only run as the Yakult Swallows evened the first stage of the CL Climax Series with a 1-0 defeat of the Chunichi Dragons. The Dragons, who finished second in the ...
• Kuboya takes Japan Open after Pagunsan stumble ...
  Kenichi Kuboya was the benefactor of a stunning late meltdown by Juvic Pagunsan of the Philippines on Sunday, posting a one-stroke victory to capture the Japan Open for his first win of the season. With Pagunsan still out on the course, Kuboya was preparing to go home after he wrapped up the t ...

Alexander Higgins

• Americans March Against Drones With Families O ...
  Western activists and march with thousands of Pakistanis to stop US drone strikes after meeting the families of victims Obama claims don't exist.
• The Great Scam: America’s Richest Politi ...
  Massive profiteering from the Great 2008 Financial Crash revealed by a Washington Post Study into how politicians benefit from the laws they write.
• Will Iran Be Blamed? Israel Shoots Down Drone ...
  Israel has just shot down an unidentified drone over its airspace and speculation is Iran will be identified as the owner and the flight labeled a provocation.
• Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...
  This is a much watch video showing clip after clip of an out of control police state running through the streets beating both men and woman old and young.
• US Ambassador Admits Pakistan Drone Strikes Ar ...
  The US ambassador to Pakistan was forced to admit the use of drone strikes as reported in numerous media reports are war crimes in violation of international law.

Macleans - Central

• Five stories we’re watching
  The Ottawa bureau on EI, the PBO, the LPC, Nexen and the IMF
• On the life and times of James Coyne and the r ...
  Too often we fall short in protecting key players in our democracy
• This is the week that was
  Aaron Wherry sums up seven days on the Hill
• David Suzuki versus the economists
  Stephen Gordon on the puzzling smear campaign by the Most Trusted Canadian
• Canada’s unwanted
  The number of deportations is on the rise

Making It Count - CCPA

• Is BC breaking its GHG law by pursuing natural ...
  Today we released a new report by yours truly, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was just five years ago that BC brought in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a signal that BC was serious about climate action. The Act cal ...
• Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issues
  Most Canadians have already heard about the extremely concerning meat contamination at Alberta’s XL Foods. Some have already gotten sick and today the list of beef products being recalled has grown again. The circumstances of how the meat plant closure occurred are also concerning. It appears th ...
• Three Cheers for the Fraser Institute!
  At times, the Fraser Institute produces such helpful material. I hope they make their well-heeled funders, such as the multi billionaire Koch brothers, proud. However, I’m sure the Kochs are more concerned missteps by their progeny Mitt and Ryan are derailing their chance to buy the US pre ...
• Happy Crashiversary! Are you better off now t ...
  Four years after Lehman Brothers collapsed, it’s time to take stock of things by asking a stock political question: Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Where you stand on the answer depends on where you sit. Many people, businesses and communities are still struggling to regain ...
• The “New” Saskatchewan: Oklahoma North?
  Of the litany of proposed changes contained in the Saskatchewan government’s Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, the most pernicious is the suggestion that employees be allowed to opt out of paying union dues, yet still receive the full benefits of unio ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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• New debt ceiling deal
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Peakwater

• Citizens Reach Landmark Settlement in Major Wa ...
  “In October 2010, the coalition—Appalachian Voices, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Kentucky Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance, and several individual citizens—filed notices of their intent to sue ICG and Frasure Creek. The coalition is represented by Mary Cromer of the Appalachian Citiz ...
• Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
  “Israel now controls 85 percent of the water resources in the West Bank . Though Palestinians could theoretically drill more wells, they are forbidden from doing so without a permit from the Israel Military. These permits are notoriously difficult, if not impossible to obtain. Palestinians ...
• Egypt Is Prepared To Bomb All Ethiopia’s ...
  “In 2010 Egypt discussed taking military action in cooperation with Sudan against Ethiopia to protect their stake in Nile River, according to internal emails from the U.S. private-security firm Stratfor. “Egypt and Sudan get 90 percent of the river’s water under colonial-era accords ...
• Deconstructing Desal in Santa Cruz
  “Part 1: The basics of the desal debate Desal: Do we need it? Drought, growth, overdrafted groundwater define need for plant: One of the biggest questions when evaluating whether the city of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District should build a $123 million desalination plant is whethe ...
• In rural Haiti, looking for a way to make clea ...
  “Marc Antoine Castel spends five hours a day, and often weekends and holidays, at the office of the town water system, which he runs. He does it for love, although he hopes one day to do it for money, too. “If someone is a professional water operator with no other activities, he will be br ...

D. Kucinich

• Al Qaeda “Presence [in Libya] Grows Every Day… ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today elicited testimony in a Congressional hearing that Al Qaeda is stronger subsequent to the U.S. intervention in Libya. Responding to questions from Kucinich, Lt. Col. Andrew Wood testified that Al Qaeda’s “presence grows every day” and that “they are certa ...
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
  See video of this statement here. Ten years ago, on October 10, 2002, the United States House of Representatives made one of the most calamitous mistakes of a generation. Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that di ...
• No Expiration Date for the Compassion of the A ...
  Washington D.C. (October 4, 2012) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today led 12 Members of Congress in asking President Obama to extend a temporary waiver from sanctions against Iran to ensure that  humanitarian assistance can continue to reach the Iranian people. After a devastating e ...
• “Imagine: America Trillions Richer, Our Sons a ...
  The official anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War falls on the day the first bombs dropped: March 20, 2003. But for those of us who served in the United States Congress who cast a vote to decide life or death for millions of people, the tenth anniversary begins today. Ten years ago toda ...
• Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions ...
  Ten years ago today the debate over the Iraq War came to Congress in the form of a resolution promoted by the Bush Administration. The war in Iraq will cost the United States as much as $5 trillion. It played a role in spurring the global financial crisis. Four thousand, four hundred, eighty eig ...

Authentically Wired

• you can’t just give it away … get real
  … What the hell are you thinking of … corporate make$ profit … you can’t just give it away … get real … Abe Gonzalez creates free font for dyslexic readers; gets copyright cease-and-desist threat 10-04-2012  •  Center For Stateless Society …Read Full Story After creating a free open so ...
• Does COWARD also apply to the drones utilized ...
  … Does COWARD also apply to the drones utilized by the USA to KILL civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan …   Cowardly Terrorists Murder Syrian Civilians by Stephen Lendman Aleppo murders are the latest example. Western-recruited death squads ruthlessly target civilians. They’re armed and ...
• Requires water purveyors and their experts to ...
  … Requires water purveyors and their experts to unmask and provide full disclosure and transparency … think water purveyors will allow that …? Only a Revolution in Our Thinking Can Save Us From a Water Crisis   READ COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE … September 26, 2012   …Only a Revolu ...
• Behind the scene these environmental groups ar ...
  … Behind the scene these environmental groups are fighting SUEZ today one of the largest for-profit-water-purveyors on planet Earth … the scale is unfairly tipped … Environmental groups’ letters unlikely to change water pipeline plans BY HENRY BREAN…LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL…Posted: Oct. 3, ...
• THE TRUTH EMERGED QUICKER
  … Wasn’t that the final conclusion in the Pat Tillman killing … after all the lying and hyperbole on the part of our military and government …   Slain Border Agent Gunned Down by One of His Own 10-05-2012  •  AP Ivie’s death marked the first fatal shooting of an agent since ...

Popular Technology

• 2016: Obama's America
  2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in ...
• The Truth About "Jon Stewart"
  "Jon Stewart" who was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, wants people to believe he is some kind of political "moderate" when in reality he has admitted to Fox News executive Roger Ailes in private and on CNN's Larry King Live that he is an outright socialist. His political bias to the Democratic ...
• Skeptical Science: "Drown Them Out"
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science members are organizing themselves into eco-strike squads to "drown out" those who do not accept their alarmist positions, " ...
• Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical Science was found to be even too inaccurate for fellow alarmist Joe Romm of Climate Progress, "Just got this email from Joe Romm: Y ...
• Skeptical Science: The Partnership with Al Gore
  In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums "hacked" and the contents posted online. In a forum thread titled, "Got a call from Al Gore's people today" John Cook proudly posted, "This morning, had a long skype call with a guy working with Al Gore's Climate ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

• In eco-pact, will controversial paper giant AP ...
  Over the past decade-and-a-half there has arguably been no paper supplier as controversial as Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), an umbrella brand for several Indonesian forestry companies. The paper giant has been dogged by allegations that is destroying key wildlife habitat, driving substantial greenhou ...
• Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD t ...
  A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation's diverse and large indigenous groups. Represented by the National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP), indigenous ...
• Belo Monte mega-dam halted again by high Brazi ...
  A high federal court in Brazil has ruled that work on the Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon be immediately suspended. Finding that the government failed to properly consult indigenous people on the dam, the ruling is the latest in innumerable twists and turns regarding the massive dam, whic ...
• Chart: Forest loss in Latin America
  Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest — an area larger than the state of Oregon — between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The ...
• Key mammals dying off in rainforest fragments
  When the Portuguese first arrived on the shores of what is now Brazil, a massive forest waited for them. Not the Amazon, but the Atlantic Forest, stretching for over 1.2 million kilometers. Here jaguars, the continent's apex predator, stalked peccaries, while tapirs waded in rivers and giant ant ...

Science - NZ Herald

• Endeavour finally reaches museum home
  It took much longer than expected, but the Space shuttle Endeavour has finally reached its permanent resting place at a Los Angeles museum.After a 19-kilometre journey through city streets that included thousands of adoring onlookers,...
• Final trip turns becomes all night Endeavour
  In thousands of Earth orbits, the space shuttle Endeavour traveled 197 million kilometres. But the last few miles of its final journey are proving hard to get through.Endeavour's 19-kilometre crawl across Los Angeles to the California...
• Space shuttle Endeavour takes a road trip
  It's a surreal sight Los Angeles residents won't soon forget: A hulking space shuttle strutting down city streets, pausing every so often to get its bearings as it creeps toward retirement.The Endeavour's land journey continued...
• NZ innovation aims to harness watts in the wind
  A Kiwi family hopes soon to be putting the wind up traditional power generators.The Emsheys, 21-year-old Lori-Lee and her parents Linda and Garry, have featured in US Forbes magazine for their plans for a new wind-turbine prototype...
• Russia to send opera star into space
  Sarah Brightman's voice, beloved by audiences and renowned for its three-octave range, rocketed to fame more than two decades ago as the heroine of The Phantom of the Opera . Now the world's biggest-selling soprano is heading to...

The Bovine

• If we really care about food safety we may hav ...
  From David Fisman and Sarah Elton, Postmedia news: “Canadians, this week, are a little nervous around beef. For good reason. “Verotoxigenic” E. coli (VTEC), which are often a strain known as E. coli O157: H7, are yet again causing an … Continue reading →
• Campaign to label GMOs in Ontario
• Chinese fish farmers feed pig manure
  From Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen and William Bi at Bloomberg.com “At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China’s Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous … Continue reading →
• GMOs as the Thalidomide of our time?
  For those too young to have heard about it, Thalidomide was a drug prescribed to pregnant mothers in the late 50s and early 60s which resulted in the birth of horribly deformed babies. From The Intel Hub.com The recent and long-term … Continue reading →
• “Rick’s Rant” on the XL Food ...
  In the tradition of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, it’s comics who are allowed to speak the truth. From Rick Mercer, CBC on-air commentator and all-purpose funny man: 

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Charting Errors in BLS Participation Rate Proj ...
  The following graph plots labor force participation rates by BLS economist Mitra Toossi in November 2006 with new projections for the participation rate as of January 2012: click on chart for sharper image Chart Data Mitra Toossi in November 2006: A new look at long-term l ...
• Secessionist Wave Sweeps Belgium Ending 90 Yea ...
  In a vote on Sunday that is likely to have serious repercussion down the road for the eurozone, a Secessionist wave sweeps Belgium Flemish nationalists made sweeping gains across northern Belgium in local elections on Sunday, a success that will bolster separatists’ hopes for a break-up of ...
• Currency Wars: Bernanke Defends Fed Policy, Ca ...
  Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is at odds with Brazil, China, and even the IMF over his policies. Please consider the BBC report Bernanke defends Federal Reserve stimulus measures Brazil has said US monetary easing to keep interest rates low and weaken the dollar has hurt emerging economies. ...
• US Runs 4th Straight $1 Trillion-Plus Budget G ...
  If stimulus worked, then why isn't it? The US has $1 trillion deficits for four years in a row. If that's not stimulus, what is? Since it isn't working, the next question is how are we going to pay for it? While pondering those questions, please note US runs a 4th straight $1 trillion-plus ...
• IMF Admits It Prescribed Wrong Medicine; Is IM ...
  Courtesy of Steen Jokobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank in Denmark, here is an interesting article via email. Steen writes ... Is IMF short for I must fail? Fiscal Multipliers are wrong, IMF admits - the biggest macro story this year The big story this week is the International Mo ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Empire, Power, and People with Andrew Gavin Ma ...
  Psychociety Taking a look at the use of psychiatry and psychology in social control and social engineering. From the days of ‘mad doctors’ to modern day pharmacological approaches to the mind, the concept of a ‘cure’ is associated with brain damage, while the definition o ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
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• The EyeOpener- Iran is Already Under Attack
  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines at the UN General Assembly last week for his theatrics in attempting to demonstrate the imminent danger of the alleged Iranian nuclear weapons program by drawing a literal “red line” on a childish depiction of a bomb more fitting for a Wile E. Coyote ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
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bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• Nuclear Submarine Rammed By Navy Cruiser
  A U.S. Navy submarine and an Aegis cruiser collided off the coast of the Eastern United States today. The collision between USS Montpelier (SSN 765) and USS San Jacinto (CG [...]
• IMO Hopes To Regulate Commercial Fishing Vessels
  An International Maritime Organization conference in Cape Town this week has adopted a new agreement on fishing vessel safety to be known as the “Cape Town Agreement.” The conference, attended [...]
• How To Navigate Environmental Policy In 2013
  by EIRIK NYHUS, ABB In 2013, ships will continue to operate in turbulent waters churned by complex regulations born of historic events. Well known examples include the Titanic, which led [...]
• Call It Senkakudiaoyu? China & Japan Agree To ...
  China and Japan sat down for talks and agreed to jointly develop a natural gas field under the East China Sea, defusing a dispute between Asia’s biggest economies over who owns the reserves. That [...]
• Dutch Dikes To Get $65 Million Upgrade
  Amsterdam - The Dutch Rijnland District Water Control Board, responsible for flood defenses in an area surrounding Amsterdam, tendered a contract today to reinforce 100 kilometers (62 miles) of aging dikes [...]

Press TV

• 10k Muslims protest US-film in London
  Thousands of Muslims have held a demonstration outside Google headquarters in London to protest YouTube’s refusal to remove a “hateful and offensive" US film against Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
• Bahrain urged to release rights activist
  Human rights groups have called on the Manama regime to nullify the “politically motivated” conviction of prominent jailed rights activist Nabeel Rajab.
• Haitians demand president resignation
  Several hundred people have taken to the streets in the Haitian capital to protest against the high cost of living and call for the resignation of President Martin Martelly.
• Pentagon looking into naval collision
  The US Defense Department has launched an investigation into a recent collision off East Coast between a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine and a Navy warship.
• Aussie PM in Kabul over insider attacks
  Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has flown to Afghanistan due to an increase in this year's death toll from the so-called insider attacks by Afghans on US-led forces in the country.

SciDev.net

• Chilean educational website wins international ...
  An online platform to make admission tests freely available to Chilean universities has received the WISE Award for its innovation in education.
• Pakistan boosts drive against measles
  Pakistan is taking drastic steps to check a rash of measles cases in its areas bordering Afghanistan.
• Islam Analysis: Technology's missing link
  Muslim countries must alter their stance on the social sciences if they are to use technology to its full potential, says Athar Osama.
• State-of-physics report to strengthen African ...
  A proposed biennial report will identify key challenges, and pave the way for solutions, to improve physics for development in Africa.
• Is the world ready for scientific diplomacy?
  Progressive scientific diplomacy focused on building research capacity is in everybody's political interests, but significant challenges remain.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

• Knocking epilepsy on the head, electrically
  Electrical brain stimulation triggered by the impending onset of a seizure could be used to prevent epileptic attacks, scientists have shown. Epileptic seizures are caused by intermitten bursts of a...
• Artifical protein scaffold props up heart repair
  Using short, self-assembling bio-degradable protein nanofibres impregnated with a blood-vessel growth factor, scientists have been able to prevent some of the negative changes that occur in the heart ...
• The violent histories of hot Jupiters
  A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are likely to have had violent pasts. The evidence stems from a difference in the way th...
• Black holes, as revealed by X-rays
  This week, the journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and Rob Fender of the University of Southampton reviewed what we know about the X-ray emi...
• Do elephants purr?
  The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by scientists in Austria. Humans and other mammals use sound extensively; whales and elep...

Nick Turse

• ‘El’ station, Sixth and Ninth Avenue Lines: do ...
  ‘El’ station, Sixth and Ninth Avenue Lines: downtown side, 72nd Street and Columbus Avenue, Manhattan. (February 06, 1936)
• Manhattan Skyline: I. South Street and Jones L ...
  Manhattan Skyline: I. South Street and Jones Lane, Manhattan. (March 26, 1936)
• SUBWAY CAR: 08/1973 (NARA)
  SUBWAY CAR: 08/1973 (NARA)
• "It was my first time in a conflict situation, ...
  “It was my first time in a conflict situation, and I was quite unprepared. I was on my own...
• Trucks, West and Desbrosses Sts., Manhattan. ( ...
  Trucks, West and Desbrosses Sts., Manhattan. (June 18, 1936)