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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

17 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt I

The first four verses (ayat) of Al-Alaq, the 9...
The first four verses (ayat) of Al-Alaq, the 96th chapter (surah) of the Qur'an. Egyptian Calligraphy of the first lines of Sura al-Alaq. Bahasa Indonesia: Kaligrafi surah al-'Alaq ayat 1 sampai 4 yang berasal dari Mesir. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Jeddah -Saudi Arabia
Jeddah -Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Abdul Aziz bin Saud first king of Saudi Arabia
Abdul Aziz bin Saud first king of Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Saudi Arabia 2010 estimated populatio...
English: Saudi Arabia 2010 estimated population density. Data source: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Saudi Arabia
English: Saudi Arabia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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English: Michael Mukasey at a Hudson Union Society event in September 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Personal & Noted

Scoop - NZ

  • A New Middle East Energy War ?
    On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establish a ten-kilometer wide no-man’s land “buffer zone” inside Syria, was in response to the alleged killing by Syr ...
  • Pilger: Death of an Australian hero - wrong co ...
    I first met Arthur a generation ago and knew he was the best kind of trouble. He objected to the cruelty and hypocrisy of white society in a country where his people had lived longer than human beings had lived anywhere. In 1969, he and Leila had brought their family to the town of Wee Waa in ou ...
  • A United Front Against Austerity
    No matter whether Obama or Romney wins the coming presidential election, American working people will face a savage assault on their economic rights starting after the vote. The asset stripper Romney and his sidekick Ryan have openly demanded the shredding of the existing social safety net, whil ...
  • Nation: WSJ/Fox don't disclose Romney advisors
    On Tuesday, for example, The Journal published an op-ed by Michael Mukasey making the ludicrous and unsubstantiated assertion that President Obama may release the mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Mukasey was identified as a former US Attorney General and federal judge. ...
  • Rare protests in Saudi Arabia
    Families of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia have been doing what was once unthinkable in this kingdom and holding small protests outside prisons and government buildings to demand the release of inmates, some of whom have been held without charges for years. Detentions without trial are a ...

Independent - London

  • Market pressure eases on Spain amid bailout hopes
    Rising speculation that Spain will soon ask for outside help to keep a lid on its borrowing costs has helped ease the pressure on the country in financial markets. Related StoriesRadovan Karadzic opens defence at war crimes tribunalBriton on trial for girlfriend's death in CreteCrete murder ac ...
  • A narrow victory for Obama over Romney - but t ...
    A fortnight ago, Mitt Romney one the first presidential debate by a much bigger margin than expected. Last night, Barack Obama won the second debate by a much bigger margin than expected. But because that first presidential debate was an outlier, and polls swung so decisively against Obama imme ...
  • Postcard from... Germany
    Anyone who had assumed they would never hear any more from Norway's convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, is in for a surprise. One of his right-wing rants will be uttered on stage by a Turkish-born actress from a political theatre group in the east German city of Weimar this week. Rel ...
  • Winners and losers in the Obama v Romney rematch
    Neither candidate scored the clear victory Tuesday night that Mitt Romney racked up in the first presidential debate 13 days ago. But this is life. And in life, there are winners and losers:Related StoriesRomney was heading for disaster – but now it's the President hanging by a threadRound 2: C ...
  • Winners and losers in the Obama v Romney rematch
    Neither candidate scored the clear victory Tuesday night that Mitt Romney racked up in the first presidential debate 13 days ago. But this is life. And in life, there are winners and losers:Related StoriesBoth Obama and Romney had good moments last night, and they just about cancelled each othe ...

Rogue Government.com

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

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • How to reduce inflammation with food
    Humans should adapt to foods they have consumed for a great part of their time on earth, and these same foods should pose fewer problems than consumption of similar but newer (in an evolutionary sense) foods. A nice paper from the British Journal of Nutrition I've had lying around for a couple o ...
  • Young woman who was arrested for owning 'anarc ...
    Note: Leah Lynn Plante was sentenced to prison yesterday afternoon after refusing to answer questions to a grand jury in Seattle. The following article was posted yesterday before Leah went to court. This witch-hunt style grand jury is unacceptable. Leah and her comrades are tremendously brave ...
  • France: The €11.7 quadrillion phone bill!
    A woman in Pessac, near Bordeaux, was stunned when she opened her telephone bill from Bouygues Telecom - it was for €11,721,000,000,000,000 or €11.7 quadrillion. Solenne San Jose said it nearly gave her a heart attack - and it got no better when she contacted Bouygues Telecom custome ...
  • Ideology Matters, But What Is It?
    Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and "historical tasks" is an actual or potential assassin. Albert Camus We have all been taught the 'so called' difference between the Right and the Left. Refining these distinctions produces even more confusion because th ...
  • Rethinking the breathalyser in France as fines ...
    Drivers have been given an extra four months' grace over the imposition of €11 fines for not carrying breath tests - and the law may even be scrapped. A shortage of tests across the country has prompted the interior ministry to delay the start of the fines until March 1 and Interior Minis ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Nasty, and ignored . . .
    HEART OF DARKNESS 2012: Northern Myanmar, aka Burma, where people are being driven from their lands and exterminated, a kind of jungle genocide. And behind it, our inscrutable capitalists, the Chinese. According to the Aljazeera account by Jason Motlagh, "Blood and Gold: Inside Burma's Hidden Wa ...
  • Here we are again
    Here we are again with yet another failing of our stupid bloody simpleton's understanding of justice and the system we built around it. With all the research we have the shows the complex biological and social roots of deviant behaviour, the best we can still do for those who stray is lock them ...
  • Quick thoughts on the US Veep debate
    I caught a bit of Biden vs. Ryan snake oil festival last night. In terms of substance, Biden ran circles around Ryan. However, Ryan pulled a Harper. You know, that calm, very carefully trained and rehearsed daddy-knows-best voice and canned phrases that lulls the crazies into a voting trance and ...
  • The Cold War, this is not
    The reporting on the Canada-Russia spy case makes it read more like a Johnny English script than a John le Carré novel. From what we know so far... a very junior RCN intelligence officer rucks up to the Russian Embassy, flashe a badge speaks to a Russian military intelligence representative. ...
  • Julia Gilliard: on misogyny and hypocrisy
    Via Dawg.  May she also address our parliament.

Media Matters for America

  • How The Mainstream Media Is Covering Up Mitt R ...
    Major print media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, erased Mitt Romney's discredited lie that his economic agenda will be responsible for 12 million new jobs in 4 years from the debate record. In fact, independent analysts have said that Rom ...
  • Will Media Fact Checkers Rise To The Romney De ...
    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney rehashed at least 11 previously debunked claims during the second presidential debate that ranged from the economy to gun rights. This continued dishonesty, coming on the heels of a campaign official saying they would not be "dict ...
  • The Right-Wing Media's "Real Unemployment Rate ...
    Despite hopeful signs of economic progress, the right-wing media have attempted to downplay positive economic news by using alternative measures to argue that the "real unemployment rate" is much higher than has been reported. In fact, these alternative me ...
  • Right-Wing Media Misrepresent Secretary Clinto ...
    After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she's responsible for State Department personnel, right-wing media quickly claimed that President Obama was dodging responsibility for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But Clinton was actually pointing out that the State Depa ...
  • Contrary To Right-Wing Media Claims, Report Co ...
    Media outlets have continued to suggest that the Obama administration lied when it said that an anti-Islam video served as a catalyst for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, The New York Times reports that the attackers said they were motivated by the video.NY Times: Pe ...

Global Research.ca

  • New York Times: Great Paper. Great Propaganda ...
    On  October 11, 2011, Paul Krugman asserted on his blog that he had the privilege of writing two columns a week for “the world’s greatest newspaper,” the New York Times (NYT). The NYT is surely an outstanding paper, with exceptionally wide scope, many good journalists on board and publishing man ...
  • A Page Has been Turned: Western Retreat from Syria
    On October 8, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CTSO) began maneuvers dubbed “Inviolable Fraternity” (“НЕРУШИМОЕ БРАТСТВО”). The scenario focuses on the deployment of a peace force in an imaginary country where international jihadists and terrorist organization ...
  • Freedom of the Press: the West Suppresses Iran ...
    The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel. On Monday, UK-based Eutelsat  stopped carrying Press TV and some 18 other channels from Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), a move which Gar ...
  • Auf Kriegskurs: Europas Linke wirbt für „human ...
    „Ich glaube an zwei Prinzipien: Nie wieder Krieg und nie wieder Auschwitz.“ (1) Diese Worte wurden auf dem Parteitag der Grünen im Mai 1999 gesprochen, der während des NATO-Bombardements auf Jugoslawien, an dem sich auch Deutschland beteiligte, stattfand. Sie kamen aus dem Mund des Grünen-Politi ...
  • L’arte della guerra. Siria: la Nato mira al ga ...
    La dichiarazione di guerra oggi non si usa più. Per farla bisogna però ancora trovare un casus belli. Come il proiettile di mortaio che, partito dalla Siria, ha provocato 5 vittime in Turchia. Ankara ha risposto a cannonate, mentre il parlamento ha autorizzato il governo Erdogan a effettuare ope ...

TPM Cafe

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

  • Palestinians reject U.S. criticism of U.N. sta ...
    The Palestinians fended off on Tuesday U.S. criticism of their bid for upgraded status at the United Nations, saying the move would improve prospects for a peace accord with Israel, not ...
  • Uprooting of olive trees brings bitter harvest ...
    Palestinians protesting against the uprooting of olive trees by West Bank Jewish settlers yesterday blocked the main 443 motorway to Jerusalem before being dispersed by Israeli border police using stun grenades. "As long as the Palestinians are being assaulted by the settlers, especially during ...
  • Israeli forces arrest Palestinian prisoners' r ...
    At 1:00 a.m. Monday morning, Israeli forces entered 'autonomous' Area A and arrested Ayman Nasser, a researcher at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Two soldiers h ...
  • Segregation in the 'democratic state' of Israe ...
    Jerusalem is a microcosm of what is happening in Area C, the area of the West Bank that is under Israeli civil and military control. There have been innumerable attempts to make life so ...
  • Israeli military arrest human rights researche ...
    Israeli forces arrested a researcher from Addameer human rights organization overnight Sunday, the group said. Ayman Nasser, 42, was arrested at 1 a.m. from his home in the village of S ...

Water - AlterNet

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

Public Citizen in Texas

  • PRICELE$$ – the movie
    From the Fourth of July to the halls of Congress, PRICELE$$ is a filmmaker’s personal journey across America to answer a burning question: why are some of our government’s most basic policies, like food and energy, so out-of-date – and can anything be done about it? Sharing the suspicion o ...
  • Rally for Clean Energy and Good Jobs – Thursda ...
    We are taking our Clean Energy Works for Texas campaign to the doorstep of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) next week.  We hope you will join us for a rally on Thursday, October 18 at 12 p.m. in front of the William B. Travis building at 1701 N. Congress Avenue, Austin, TX 78701 We are [...]
  • Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade
    Actress Daryl Hannah has been arrested along with Winnsboro ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, while staging a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The duo where defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been e ...
  • Bill McKibben speaking in Austin, TX
    Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, and technical adviser to the Texas Drought Project, will appear Thursday, October 4th, at 7 PM at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium (BMC 2.106), at the northeast corner of Dean Keeton and Guadalupe, University of Texas, Austin, TX. McKibben is known for ...
  • Texas House Committee on Environmental Regulat ...
    The House Committee on Environmental Regulation held a public hearing today to take invited testimony on an interim charge before the 83rd legislative session starts in January of 2013.  They examined the federal eight-hour ozone standard under the National Ambient Air Quality Standards program ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Astronomers discover huge diamond planet
    A planet twice the size of the Earth and made up mostly of diamond has been discovered by astronomers. Known as 55 Cancri e, the planet is one of five...
  • US Navy develops C-3PO style robot
    The Star Wars inspired robot has been designed to assist in fighting fires and to throw grenades. Known as ASH ( Autonomous Shipboard Humanoid ), the ...
  • Did prehistoric man feed on pandas ?
    Excavated panda fossils hold clues suggesting that our ancestors may have viewed pandas as a food source. These days pandas are a protected species, w...
  • Daredevil jumps from the edge of space
    Felix Baumgartner broke several world records as he plunged over 128,000ft at speeds of up to 834mph. The 43-year-old had climbed to the edge of space...
  • Woman receives 17-figure phone bill
    A former teaching assistant was shocked to receive a phone bill for 11,721,000,000,000,000 Euros. The unnamed woman who currently lives in France clai...

Grassroots

  • Message from Rafael Alegría, Honduran leader o ...
    On May 1 of this year, my colleague Saulo Araujo (Program Coordinator for Latin America) and I spent the day with Rafael Alegría, a leader of the Vía Campesina based in Honduras.  The video below offers some of his reflections.   Rafael’s message is clear:read more
  • Korean Women Peasant’s Association Awarded the ...
    kwpalogo.jpg Last Wednesday, October 10th, in New York City, I had the privilege of witnessing the US Food Sovereignty Alliance award the fourth annual Food Sovereignty Prize to the Korean Women Peasant’s Association (KWPA).read more
  • Five reasons organic food is good for you and ...
    green_peppers.jpg A recent study by Stanford researchers raised controversy and debate about the comparative health benefits of organic versus conventionally grown food. Bottom line, according to researchers: organically and conventionally ...
  • Palestinians Face Food and Water Crisis in the ...
    Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:  Anna Lekas Miller is an independent journalist and activist. Outside Author:  Anna Lekas Miller Previous Publication In ...
  • Honduran peasant leader's life under threat
    alegria-small_pic.jpg Yesterday, Grassroots International received the alarming news that our partner Rafael Alegria, a leader of La Via Campesina in Honduras, has been moved to a safe house in fear for his life, following the murder of his ...

Climate

  • Electric Car Battery Maker A123 Systems Files ...
    (Reuters) A123 Systems Inc, a lithium-ion battery maker that received a $249 million grant from the U.S. government, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday. The advanced car battery industry has been hurt by overcapacity amid wea ...
  • Putting Some 'Cool' Into Electric Cars
    (Wall Street Journal) Ask anyone about electric cars and chances are you'll hear some reasons not to buy one: a fear of the battery failing; the lack of plug-in charging stations to support it; even the peculiar, egg-shaped design of s ...
  • Poland Sticks to Plan to Build $15.8 Billion N ...
    (Reuters) Poland will pursue its plan to build the country's first nuclear power station, a government member said on Monday, playing down suggestions from commentators that the 50 billion zlotys ($15.8 billion) investment might be scr ...
  • German Green Power Surcharge to Rise 47 Percen ...
    (Reuters) Subsidies levied on German consumers to support renewable power will rise by 47 percent next year, putting pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition to keep energy costs in check ahead of a federal election next ...
  • T. Boone Pickens Sells Off Stake in Wind Farm
    (The Hill) Billionaire oil-and-gas tycoon T. Boone Pickens is abandoning his long-planned wind farm, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Pickens has in recent years changed his eponymous “Pickens Plan” for reducing oil imports ...

GreenBiz

Duly Noted

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

Booman Tribune

  • Better Than 1,000 Words
    Does this asshole look like he won the debate? Well, does he? Discuss
  • Why Obama Won, and What Next
    The proof that the president had a bad first debate came in the immediate deterioration of his lead in the polls. I can't dispute that he did a bad job in the first debate because the evidence in incontrovertible. But understanding what he did wrong is harder to pinpoint. My guess is that it ...
  • Getting the Crazy Out of the Philly Burbs
    Here is why people in Philadelphia's Sixth and Eighth suburban congressional districts need to vote out Jim Gerlach and Mike Fitzpatrick. They have acted in an inexcusable and reckless manner on the country's budget, debt, and credit rating. Let's review. When Bill Clinton left office, th ...
  • Pre-Debate Emotions
    I was happy to see some newly registered teenagers around here express actual excitement and anticipation for tonight's debate. I can't honestly say that I am experiencing the same set of emotions, but it's refreshing to see youthful optimism and political engagement. Personally, I feel like t ...
  • Debate Thread
    Tell me what you think. Discuss

Environmental Graffiti

  • The Spellbinding Tilework Mosaics of Iranian A ...
    With a history dating back to at least 5000 BC, it's not surprising that Iranian architecture contains such a wealth intricate and beautifully designed tile mosaics. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Coolest Links of the Week
    From shocking x-rays and violent courthouse incidents to extreme cases of OCD, here are five fascinating top ten lists from the interwebs. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Green Energy and Politics in 2012
    Wind and solar power are the heavyweights when it comes to energy alternatives, but are they as green as they claim to be? And what are the politics behind this picture? This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 20 Lonely Benches Around the World
    These benches all feature views that will make you long to spend some time on them – especially if you're seeking a bit of solitude. This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Horrible Effects of Dengue Fever
    With symptoms ranging from muscle pain to internal bleeding, this is one illness you definitely don't want to get! This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Anonymous & Wikileaks beefing - it's bigger th ...
    A review of the latest internet dickering, with mostly unrelated useful new programs & ideas at the end... It ain't a 'war' but several prominent representations of the anon flock are speaking out against Wikileaks and it's not just the Javascript paywall (disable JS to get around it). This ...
  • A time to run around and a time to think
    For better or worse (and mostly better) for these six weeks or so I've got to do what the developers call 'refactoring' on a bunch of stuff in my life & won't be able to churn out posts at a good clip until probably early October. For more frequent updates see https://twitter.com/hongpong - ...
  • UPDATE: Govt Sites appear OK right now // Earl ...
    UPDATE: August 12 7AM: via two different DNS services it looks like the sites are looking up correctly now. My net connection's pretty dodgy at the moment but I think they are loading correctly now. It could have been a temporary glitch - strange since other lookups were working correctly on a t ...
  • BREAKING: Feds / IIR.COM apparently SCRUBBING ...
    BREAKING NEWS PEOPLE - apparent #trapwire gov coverup in realtime!! it looks like the government is scrubbing Suspicious Activity Report related GOV sites and dumping their DNS entries. However the boxes are STILL ONLINE, if you use /etc/hosts on osx/unix you can STILL get in and mirror the file ...
  • Security culture danger as closed Occupy Homes ...
    Troublesome assumptions about security culture arrangements for closed Occupy Homes national gathering sessions starting tomorrow at the Neighbors Organizing for Change MN (NOC Office) around noon put participants at risk. I feel everyone involved means well, but a bunch of particularly 'toxic' ...

Daily Censored

AlterNet's Breaking News

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

Institute for Policy Studies

IntelNews

War is a Crime.org

  • EU Wages War on Free Expression
      EU Wages War on Free Expression   by Stephen Lendman   Free expression in all forms is fundamental. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, thought, culture, intellectual inquiry, and press freedom.   Denial risks tyranny. Voltaire said, "I may ...
  • Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in
      Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in   by Stephen Lendman   A documentary called "5 Broken Cameras" depicts daily and nightly Israeli horrors committed against peaceful Bil'in villagers. More below on what most people can't imagine.   read more
  • Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Ir ...
    By Gareth Porter, IPS WASHINGTON, Oct 16 2012 (IPS) - Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear programme have not yet been announced, the manoeuvring by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome has already begun. Iran sought support for a revised propos ...
  • Syria News - Oct 17
        Syria: Assad regime ready to explore four day truce - Telegraph Exiled opposition would welcome any Syria truce, SNC leader says - NOW Lebanon Erdoğan meets Ahmadinejad seeking to bridge widening gap over Syria, moots three-way regional talks between Egypt, Turkey and Iran - c ...
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Graham Nash to pla ...
    What: An intimate acoustic performance by Graham Nash When: Friday, October 26, 2012, 7:30 PM PDT Where: Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill Street, Santa Monica, California 90405 Tickets: http://savebradley.brownpapertickets.com/ On Friday, October 26, the Bradley Manning ...

Grist - News

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

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Invisible Opportunity

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      Fluoride used by Nazis to sterilize inmates and make them docile. Fluoride a key dumbing down ingredient of Prozac.
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  • Research: Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries
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  • Doctors confirm Indian man Lives on Sunlight a ...
    Posted by nesaraaustralia ⋅ October 14, 2012 It has been widely reported that studies have confirmed a 62 year Indian man while being observed in a hospital 24 hours a day for 120 days maintained a normal level of activity by only consuming Water and Gazing at the Sun! Doctors from his native In ...
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Global Insights

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

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

Inhabitat

  • Villa921: Harunatsu Archi’s Storm-proof Tropic ...
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    Read the rest of Amazing Bat Cave Made From 20,000 LEGO Bricks is Lit Up with Energy-Saving LEDs Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, Art, batman, Bruce Wayne, Carlyle Livingston, comic book, energy saving lights, LED, lego, LEGO Bat Cave, Wayne Hussey
  • Now! Le Off Unveils Surprising Eco-Designs at ...
    Read the rest of Now! Le Off Unveils Surprising Eco-Designs at Paris Design Week 2012 Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "energy efficiency", ana lisa alperovich, Beatrix Li-Chin Lus, Botanical, Cité de la Mode, cork, design events, DIY, folded paper, FSC, green lighting, ...
  • Tabitha Bargh’s Striking Textured Lamp Is Made ...
    Exploring Designjunction at the London Festival this year, one of the designs that caught our eye was this beautiful and unusual lamp shades made of corrugated cardboard. Created by British designer Tabitha Bargh, the lamp is constructed using cardboard made from 85% recycled materials. While st ...
  • Re-Nuble Wants to Repurpose Your Organic Waste ...
    Re-Nuble has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance its mission of greening the planet one community at a time. The DC-based company specializes in recycling organic waste to produce green fertilizer for sustainable farming and renewable energy for responsible power consumption. In a w ...

Pogue's Posts

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

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around ...
    Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth orbiting around Alpha Centauri B, the nearest star to our sun.
  • Sensors Embedded in Everyday Life Might Spot D ...
    Diagnosing dementia early is both important and difficult. Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientist Anind Dey thinks he's found a better way. By embedding motion-detecting sensors in domestic objects, such as coffee machines and pill boxes, Dey can make informational representations of people p ...
  • Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As ...
    Health care in the United States certainly needs an overhaul. The question is whether that overhaul will come from artificially intelligent doctors. Such is the promise of Watson, the language-processing, information-hunting AI that debuted in 2011 on the quiz show Jeopardy!, annihilating the be ...
  • Google’s Social Experiment to Help Employees E ...
    Rather than taking yummy calorie-laden choices like cheese and chocolate away -- denying them such choice would be, well, evil -- Google decided to “nudge” workers to make better food choices.
  • Tightly Packed Planets Spotted Around Sun-Like ...
    The Kepler space telescope has spotted the most tightly-packed exoplanet system yet, with five planets orbiting around the star KOI-500 within a fraction of the distance between Mercury and our Sun.

PakAlert

  • New Threats to Riot if Obama Loses Election
    Despite the issue receiving national media attention, Obama supporters continue to threaten to riot if Mitt Romney wins the presidential election, raising the prospect of civil unrest if Obama fails to secure a second term. The new threats continue to dominate Twitter and the vast majority ma ...
  • Administration plays confusing blame game with ...
    A confusing array of contradictions concerning the murders of four Americans, one of which was a U.S. ambassador, was made worse by Vice President Joe Biden's remarks during the debate with Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan Thursday evening. Today the confusion only worsened yet ...
  • Millions to Participate in FEMA Drill Next Week
    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 which participants simultaneously practice the recommended ac ...
  • The REAL Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons A ...
    Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives. But most of the top American military officials at the time said otherwise. The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey group, assigned by Pr ...
  • US Government Preparing for Biological Attack ...
    In 2008, a report from the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism identified a clear and present danger of biological attack in 2013. The Congressional Committee claimed that Middle Eastern nations like Pakistan were the most likely to be the origination of such an at ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Andy Worthington Asks Supporters to Sig ...
    Sign the petition for Shaker Aamer! (UK only — an international petition is here) Last week, I recorded a brief video message of support for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, urging everyone who cares about Shaker’s plight to sign the petition to the British gove ...
  • Kick This Government Out! March for “A F ...
    For everyone sickened and enraged by the lies, distortions, malevolence and idiocy emanating from the Tory-led government, Saturday’s march and rally in central London, “A Future That Works,” is an important opportunity for us to show our anger and our indignation at how our co ...
  • Photos of Limehouse, Shadwell and Wapping: Art ...
    Limehouse, Shadwell and Wapping: Art, History and the Summer Sun, a set on Flickr. This is the 44th set of photos in my ongoing project to photograph the whole of London by bike, and is the second set recording a journey I made, one sunny Sunday in July, with my wife and son from our [...]
  • America’s Extradition Problem
    Not content with having the largest domestic prison population in the world, both in numbers and as a percentage of the total population, the US also imports prisoners from other countries, at vast expense. Last week, five men were extradited to the US from the UK to face charges relating to the ...
  • Sunny Sunday: Photos of the Isle of Dogs and C ...
    Sunny Sunday: The Isle of Dogs and Canary Wharf, a set on Flickr. In my quest to catch up on posting some of the photos that I didn’t manage to post before my family holiday in Italy in August, this set and another to follow record a glorious Sunday in July when, with my family, [...]

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

SPL Center

  • AFA’s Bryan Fischer Takes Knockout Punch on CNN
    Bryan Fischer, the gay-bashing, truth-challenged spokesman for the American Family Association, went one rant too far Tuesday for CNN anchor Carol Costello.
  • Second Suspect Pleads Guilty in FEAR Militia M ...
    FEAR was afraid. Hours after four members of FEAR, an anti-government militia largely made up of active-duty and recently discharged American soldiers, shot to death two teenage sweethearts in the Georgia woods last December, the group gathered around a backyard bonfire, desperately trying to de ...
  • Feds: Teen Militia Leader in Nevada Planned &# ...
    Authorities in Nevada may have just aborted another mass shooting with the arrest of an 18-year-old, self-professed militia leader who authorities say planned to “conduct mass killings” and “bragged about plans to shoot people on the Las Vegas strip.” Steven Matthew Fernandes, who claimed to be ...
  • Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in Canada
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  • Suspect Charged in Toledo Mosque Arson
    Federal hate crime charges were filed today in Ohio against an Indiana man, Randolph Linn, who is a suspect in last weekend’s arson fire that heavily damaged the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property, and with u ...

change: org.

  • If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
    A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
  • Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
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  • Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
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Common Dreams -News

  • Obama, Romney Square Off in Second Presidentia ...
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  • BBC Profile: Big Tobacco Lawyers Target Big Food
    More than a dozen lawyers who took on big tobacco in the 1990's have turned their attention to the food industry and the criminal mislabeling of food products. BBC Newsnight spoke with Don Barrett, one of the attorney's who's career capstone was the decade-long battle that forced tob ...
  • SCOTUS Upholds Early Voting in Ohio
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  • Sanders: Proposed Social Security Cuts 'Morall ...
    US Senator Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that a "draconian" proposal to chain the cost-of-living increase to the Consumer Price Index is "not only morally grotesque, it is extremely bad economics." The Social Security Administration on Tuesday announced a 1.7 percent cost-of-li ...
  • Romney/Ryan-Like Medicare Privatization Plan W ...
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Lifehacker

  • Think Outside the Box to Get Your Resume Notic ...
    If you want to get hired in today's job market, you have to stand out from the crowd. Sean Weinberg of resume analyzing website RezScore offers tips for getting your resume noticed in a sea of competitive job-seekers. More »
  • Readtime Queues Up Stories to Read Based On Ho ...
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  • Start Your Day on a Productive Foot [Productivity]
    Unless you're a morning person—which I'm certainly not—getting your day off on the right foot so you're good and productive can be difficult. Thankfully the folks at 99U have a few solid tips to make it easy to slip right into the groove without too much effort. More &#18 ...
  • The Jelly Bean Desktop [Featured Desktop]
    One of the best things about Android Jelly Bean is how clean the interface is. It's polished, it's pretty, and it looks good on phones and tablets. Flickr user Knight Hawk2 wanted that same experience on his desktop, and now you can have the same look and feel on your desktop too. More&#16 ...

Water Privatization

  • Drinking Water: A History
    James Salzman's new book explores history through the lens of an essential resource
  • Local control of date is key
    The Arrowsmith Watersheds Coalition Society hopes to raise concern about local drinking water sources
  • PUC wouldn't oversee rates in Allentown un ...
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  • THE REAL STUFF: Water privatisation, not ' ...
    The prolonged conflict involving the Selangor state government, the Federal Government and the privatized company, Syabas, over the management and pricing of water resources may give the impression to Malaysians that there is no way in which any privatized concern and commodity can ever work to ...
  • GIBBS Unveils World’s First High-Speed Sports ...
    The world’s first high-speed sports amphibian – the GIBBS Quadski -- will go on sale in the United States next month.

Guardian

  • Syria crisis: ceasefire calls ignored - live u ...
    Follow live updates as Turkey and the Pope back calls for ceasefire in Syria but rebels and the Assad regime show no interest in peaceMatthew WeaverBrian Whitaker
  • David Cameron and Ed Miliband at PMQs: Politic ...
    Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of the day's political developments, including David Cameron and Ed Miliband at PMQsAndrew Sparrow
  • Julia Gillard speech prompts dictionary to cha ...
    Australian prime minister's impassioned attack on opposition leader's views of women provokes debate over word's meaningWhen Australian prime minister Julia Gillard launched a ferocious attack on the leader of the opposition last week for his repeated use of sexist language, she was feted by fem ...
  • Unemployment falls to 15-month low
    Jobless rate down to 7.9% as number of people out of work falls 50,000 to 2.528 million, the ONS saysHopes that Britain's economy is starting to recover from recession were boosted by a surprise fall in unemployment to its lowest rate since June 2011 while the number of people in work hit the hi ...
  • Gatwick airport to push for second runway
    Sussex airport throws its hat into ring as government commission prepares to consider options for increasing capacityGatwick has declared its intent to push for a second runway and is to start drawing up detailed plans for government approval.The airport says the runway is "affordable and practi ...

McClatchey

  • After debate bashing by both Obama and Romney, ...
    In the aftermath of a U.S. presidential debate that included blistering accusations about unfair Chinese economic practices, a commentary carried by China?s state Xinhua newswire on Wednesday warned that targeting…Click to Continue »
  • Obama jumps back into campaign with feisty debate
    President Barack Obama leaped back into the presidential campaign Tuesday, aggressively challenging rival Mitt Romney in a tense debate likely to reset the contest as it heads into the final…Click to Continue »
  • Presidential debate: Shouting over the 'facts'
    President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney traded facts and figures from Medicare to the Middle East on Tuesday night in the second of three presidential debates.Click to Continue »
  • Despite outrage over girl’s shooting, P ...
    The horrific shooting of a teenage girl by the Pakistani Taliban to silence her campaign for schooling for girls has forced a battered Pakistan to consider how it can tackle…Click to Continue »
  • Diplomats see Kurds, not Assad, as likely targ ...
    Turkish tanks are deployed on hilltops overlooking Syria and additional combat aircraft have been moved to bases close to that war-torn country in an escalation that began Oct. 3, when…Click to Continue »

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Squashed By Russia: The Sergei Magnitsky Story
    NWC nabbed an exclusive interview with Jamison Firestone, the law partner and friend of Sergei Magnitsky – a whistleblower whose disturbing story reveals the ruthlessness and corruption of the Russian government. Sergei was tortured and killed after he exposed the looting of Russian taxpay ...
  • Presidential Policy Directive on Whistleblower ...
    A recent White House directive on national security whistleblowers has sparked a major dialog in the whistleblower community. You can read the National Whistleblowers Center's press release on the directive here. Below is a full-text analysis from the Whistleblower Support Fund's Linda Lew ...
  • ARB issues decisions on summary decision, sett ...
    Today, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a summary of the September 2012 decisions of its Administrative Review Board (ARB).  The twelve decisions issued in September cover important procedural issues involving the time limits for filing complaints and petitions for review to the ARB, con ...
  • Stephen Kohn and Richard Angino argue Wiest ca ...
    On October 5, 2012, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals conducted oral arguments in Wiest v. Lynch, a case that tests the scope of protection for whistleblowers under the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attorney Richard Angino argued the case for Jeffrey Wiest.  ...
  • NWC joins in amicus to Federal Circuit on Conyers
    Today the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in an amicus brief filed by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU). The brief urges the Federal Circuit to reverse the holding of its panel decision in Berry v. Conyers.  There, the Co ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Nobel Prize Winning Economist Eric Maskin: In ...
    We've talked in the past about how Nobel Prize winning economist Eric Maskin has done research questioning the value of patents in software and in other industries. So it's not surprising -- though still fantastic -- that he's responded to the recent NY Times piece by Charles Duhigg and Steve L ...
  • Bug In Kobo's Online Store Offers Up Random eB ...
    Canadian ereader manufacturer Kobo hasn't really endeared itself to its customers in recent months. A few months ago, it botched the debut of its Kobo Touch ereader in Japan, falling well short of the promised 30,000 launch titles. In addition, its desktop software tended to turn new ereader ...
  • Can't Win 'Em All: Uber Gives Up Attempt To Do ...
    We've talked about how innovative ride hailing company, Uber, was pushing regulatory boundaries across the country, often showing how restrictive local regulators could be towards innovation. In many cases, Uber has been able to generate enough public support that local taxi and limo regulators ...
  • Could Co-operatives Save Newspapers -- And Inv ...
    A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Rupert Murdoch's paywall at the London Times isn't looking like a huge success. That won't come as a surprise to Techdirt readers, but does raise the question: if newspapers can't use paywalls alongside ads to fund journalists, what can they turn to? Her ...
  • Why The Theory Of 'Tarnishment' Doesn't Make S ...
    We've pointed out many times in the past that trademark law really doesn't belong under the same heading as patents and copyrights, even though they're frequently lumped together as "intellectual property." Patents and copyright are from the same clause in the Constitution and, we're told, are ...

VacTruth

  • Postman Could Soon Deliver Your Nanopatch Vacc ...
    In 2010, UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday reported that a collaborative research study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in Atlanta had detailed a new way to deliver painless effective vaccines. [1]  Reporting on a study published in th ...
  • Secret Papers Reveal Funding Refused to Resear ...
    Secret papers hidden in archives for years clearly show that when medical researchers applied for funding to study the link between vaccinations and the debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
  • The State of Autism—and 15 Questions for the P ...
    Does anyone know what our presidential candidates’ plans are for dealing with the autism epidemic in this country? Does anyone know what their policies are regarding vaccines? Few people can say yes to either of these questions.
  • Are Eye Drops and Vitamin K Shot Mandatory in ...
    A parent who wishes to remain anonymous writes: “Hello, I was wondering if the eye drops and vitamin k shot are mandatory in Michigan? Also, I have read women take nettle leaf a few weeks before giving birth to boost vitamin k levels. Does anyone know what kind of nettle leaf to take becau ...
  • “I was wondering if you had any informat ...
    CJ asks… “I was wondering if you had any information about Synagis. It seems to me that it is a vaccine (given once a month during cold/flu season) that supposedly helps prevent RSV. I believe RSV is just a scary way to describe a common cold. My daughter has a myriad of problems, in ...

BroadSnark

  • Book Review – The Occupy Handbook
    The Occupy Handbook by Janet Byrne My rating: 1 of 5 stars I hate this book. I really tried to give it a chance. But I knew going in that any book about occupy that was compiled by someone described as “an editor who has worked with Nobel Prize-winning economists, Pulitzer Prize-winning wr ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Follow CD on his quest for medical marijuana. Feminists shrunk Rush Limbaugh’s penis. (Typing “Rush Limbaugh’s penis” just made me retch.) Ladies, if you do exactly the opposite of these tips for single women circa 1938, you too can stay happily unmarried. Are too strong ...
  • Confessions of a Former Liberal: A Response to ...
    By now you have probably read, or at least heard about, Rebecca Solnit’s piece on TomDispatch titled The Rain on Our Parade. Salon republished it as Hey left wing: Quit griping. Solnit is frustrated that us radicals are constant Debbie Downers who do nothing but bitch and moan. We can neve ...
  • Things You Might Miss
    Not much time for news and blogs this week, but there is lots of stuff coming up. If any of you are in the DC area, come by and say hello. Thursday Justice Policy Institute is having a panel discussion about The High Price of Bail at the Busboys and Poets on 5th and K. There [...]
  • On Love, Life, Cocaine, and Impossible Monday ...
    Somehow my last post on mental illness ended up in a Facebook discussion about love. Well, I know how it happened. My friend asked if love was a mental illness and informed me that cocaine and love release the same chemicals in the brain. This is an intense question for a hungover Monday morning ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

War in Context

  • Pakistani Taliban declare war on media
    Sami Yousafzai reports: Malala Yousafzai has taken one more step in her very long and difficult journey. Separated from her family for now, the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl arrived today at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Britain’s primary receiving facility for military casualties re ...
  • Hamas redefines itself after leaving Syria for ...
    Dalia Hatuqa reports: This month, Hamas’s political leader Khaled Meshaal took part in a conference hosted by Turkey’s ruling AKP party. A commentator on Syria’s state-run Al Dunya television channel compared Mr Meshaal to “an orphan” looking for shelter after being ...
  • A field guide to Syria’s jihadi groups
    Aron Lund writes: Eighteen months into the Syrian uprising, the country’s Sunni Arab insurgency is now fighting a largely sectarian war against a regime dominated by religious minorities, most notably the Alawite sect to which the Assad family belongs. While the exiled opposition movement ...
  • Syria and the battle for regional control
    David Hearst writes: Two years on, they are still haggling over the name. An Arab spring? Springs are seasonal, and tumultuous though transitional government is, what they have in Egypt and Tunisia is a long way away from an Arab winter. If the wave of revolt sweeping across the postcolonial bor ...
  • Iraqi Shi’ite militants fight for Syria’s Assad
    Reuters reports: Scores of Iraqi Shi’ite militants are fighting in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops, and pledging loyalty to Iran’s supreme Shi’ite religious leader, according to militia fighters and politicians in Iraq. Iraqi Shi’ite militi ...

Watts Up With That?

  • A simple resolution to the ‘faint young ...
    A faster rotating early-Earth may have compensated for reduced Sun output Guest post submitted by Ian Schumacher The ‘faint young sun’ paradox states that according to star models, billions of years ago the Sun would have only been about 70% … Continue reading →
  • Tisdale video on ‘dirty weather’ p ...
    Part 2 of We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, Climate Disasters Guest post by Bob Tisdale This video is the second in the series of videos titled We Now Control Weather – Extreme Heat Events, Dirty Weather, … Continue reading →
  • Climate negotiations relying on ‘dangero ...
    From the University of Gothenburg , some appearance of sanity. The identified critical threshold for dangerous climate change saying that the increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius seems not to have helped the climate negotiations so … Continue reading →
  • A New Climate Change Policy Attitudes Survey
    UPDATE: – Users have reported (and I’ve now experienced myself but it was not present in the test runs I made) some sort of web posting error at the end of the survey, so I’ve disabled it and notified the … Continue reading →
  • Wyoming experiences that “giant sucking ...
    Did your lights dim yesterday? It might have been Trenberth’s “travesty calculator”. Readers may recall when I covered the announcement of the building of this new supercomputer: NCAR’s dirty little secret Measuring 108,000 square feet in total with 15,000-20,000 square feet &# ...

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Biosingularity

  • Anxiety increases cancer severity in mice
    Worrywarts, fidgety folk and the naturally nervy may have a real cause for concern: accelerated cancer. In a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, anxiety-prone mice developed more severe cancer then their calm counterparts. The study, to be published online ...
  • Aged hematopoietic stem cells rejuvenated to b ...
    Researchers have rejuvenated aged hematopoietic stem cells to be functionally younger, offering intriguing clues into how medicine might one day fend off some ailments of old age. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Ulm University Medicine in Germany report ...
  • Collaboration seeks to find new uses for faile ...
    The U.S. government is looking for the next AZT, Viagra and thalidomide — substances that washed out as treatments for one disease but later turned out to work well against a totally different ailment. AZT failed as a cancer drug but became the first antiviral to work against HIV. Viagra didn’t ...
  • Differences in dopamine may determine how hard ...
    Whether someone is a “go-getter” or a “slacker” may depend on individual differences in the brain chemical dopamine, according to new research in the May 2 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that dopamine affects cost-benefit analyses. The study fo ...
  • Eye implants restore ‘useful sight&#8217 ...
    The first blind patients to be fitted with electronic eye implants in a UK clinical trial have regained “useful vision” only weeks after surgery. Chris James was able to see outlines of objects for the first time in 20 years after surgeons fitted him with the device during an eight-h ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Russia to Boost Defense Spending 59% by 2015
    Russia plans to boost annual defense spending by 59 percent to almost 3 trillion rubles ($97 billion) in 2015, up from $61 billion in 2012, the head of the State Duma’s Defense Committee told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
  • Georgia and Olympics
    Georgia should take part in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, said billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the Georgian Dream coalition that won in the country's October 1 parliamentary elections.
  • Putin Sacks Regional Development Minister
    President Vladimir Putin fired the Regional Development Minister Oleg Govorun on Wednesday and appointed Igor Slyunyaev in his place.
  • Crimea’s Shuldan Cave Monastery
    The Shuldan Cave Monastery, north of Ternovka village near Sevastopol, attracts a wide variety of visitors, from pilgrims and Christian history experts to regular tourists.
  • Rallies in Russia after presidential polls

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Bain Capital, leveraged speculation and cancer
    Maha has occasionally focused on mesothelioma, and yesterday she emailed a link to this from Pulitzer Prize winner Gary Cohn. It is a look at how a Kansas City steel company named GS Industries was bought out by Bain Capital, sucked dry and shut down. The resulting struggle for many former emp ...
  • Consumer Rage: this is your labor movement und ...
    The NFL’s lockout of union referees, which began in June and ended today, is just one of several recent examples that serve to illustrate how little regard Americans give to labor and the treatment of workers.  This phenomenon is found not just among the likes of rightwing union-buste ...
  • Partial transcript, trustee meeting
    From here. Roughly from 2:36-4:50.Q: He didn’t tell you what he thought? There would be any risk associated with it?A: He said it was, trying to think of his exact words, symbolic. A lot of what you’re saying is symbolic, because we still have the Ohio Revised Code we have to follow. ...
  • Trustees reject symbolic statement on fracking ...
    The trustee meeting I attended Tuesday actually began over hundred years ago. In 1910 Ohio voters approved the calling of a constitutional convention, and in 1912 a whole series of amendments were adopted. The Ohio History Central link goes to a short but very good summary, and it’s defi ...
  • Communities rally against toxic fracking waste
    On Wednesday communities held Freedom From Toxic Fracking Waste rallies to raise awareness on one of the largest environmental risks from fracking: dealing with the waste it produces. In the best case scenario the toxic stew - of unknown composition due to the Halliburton Loophole - is removed ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Bill McKibben Nails it on Bill Maher Show - Pl ...
    From my limited experience on television, I've learned what should be obvious: It is extremely difficult to keep your head in a live, improvised setting. Remaining calm and articulate when your adrenaline is flowing - and it is flowing - takes real grace. So the best part about Bill's performanc ...
  • 5 Ways America Is Being Hollowed Out by Unfett ...
    There's no free market -- just businesses doing whatever they please with virtually zero accountability. Click here to read this article
  • Growing Up, Growing Food: A Teenage Farmer to ...
    Think you don't regret all those high school afternoons wasted at the mall or the skate park? Just wait till you meet Sophia Vartanian, a Vancouver, B.C.-based urban farmer. At 16 years old, her resume is already more impressive than some twice her age. Click here to read this article
  • Excess Cancers and Deaths with GM Feed: the St ...
    That cancers are found even with a small number of rats tested is strong evidence that the GM feed and herbicide are carcinogenic -Prof Peter Saunders Click here to read this article
  • Big Tobacco Lawyers Target Food Industry for F ...
    The lawyers who took on the big US tobacco companies, and won, have now set their sights on the food industry. Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, asks one of them why he has chosen this particular fight.Click here to read this article

Center for a Livable Future

  • World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
    October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
  • 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.

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My Care2 Picks

  • Public Schools Use RFID Chips to Track and Pun ...
    In the San Antonio school district, the Student Locator Project (SLP) is being beta-tested at Jay High School and Jones Middle School. The SLP includes the use of radio frequency identification technology (RFID) Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note- ...
  • Why Does The U.S. Government Treat Military Ve ...
    The way that the U.S. government treats military veterans is absolutely disgraceful. Men and women that have given everything for this nation are literally being treated like human garbage by their own government. After watching how vets are treated, it i Submitted by Walter L Bradley Jr to US P ...
  • The $6 QUADRILLION Cost Of The Climate Scam!
    U.N.s absurd climate panel had already at least tripled the true (and harmless) rate of warming to be expected from our adding CO2 to the air.Divided by 10 the true cost of effective action. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add ...
  • Ten-Year-Old Convinces Jamba Juice To Go Styro ...
    Now this truly is a heartwarming story that goes to show how a little effort can go a wrong way. Ten-year-old Mia Hansen, with a little help from her mother, started a Change.org petition to get Jamba Juice, a smoothie franchise, to quit styrofoam. Submitted by Cher C. to Green Lifestyle &nbsp ...
  • Beefing up security on skeptical blogs
    If you ever thought 'debate' occurred on a 'level playing field'....Heads Up ! Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

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

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Obama-Romney debate number two: Another stage- ...
    ShareThisObama-Romney debate number two: Another stage-managed charade 17 Oct 2012 Both candidates ritualistically invoked the American “middle class,” which has largely disappeared, as millions have been thrown into the ranks of a working class whose existence neither candidate acknowledged. ...
  • Obama Says Romney Words Aren't 'True' in Secon ...
    ShareThisObama Says Romney Words Aren't 'True' in Second Debate 17 Oct 2012 President Barack Obama repeatedly challenged the truth of challenger Mitt Romney's statements as the two battled over the auto industry bailout, energy policy and social issues in their second debate. "What Governor Romn ...
  • Revealed: Canberra shared intel on Assange wit ...
    ShareThisRevealed: Canberra shared intel on Assange with Washington 17 Oct 2012 WikiLeaks and Julian Assange have been the subject of intelligence exchanges between Australia and the United States for more than two years, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has revealed. The WikiLeaks pu ...
  • Energized Obama takes aggressive approach in s ...
    ShareThisEnergized Obama takes aggressive approach in second debate 16 Oct 2012 A newly energetic and aggressive President Obama went directly after his Republican challenger from the first moment of their second debate to the last, attacking Mitt Romney’s business record, his positions on issue ...
  • About 106 US tanks delivered to Yemen
    ShareThisAbout 106 US tanks delivered to Yemen 14 Oct 2012 About 106 armored tanks were delivered to Yemen's defense ministry, state sources affirmed, pointing out that about 12 armored vehicles were also brought to Yemen to protect the US Embassy. The sources said the tanks were delivered to Ye ...

Daily Loaf

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

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

The Killing Train

  • Updating my archives - Palestine 2002, Chiapas ...
    I have been updating my Writings Archive (see the tab above) and making sure that all of the links are working, putting copies of the material published elsewhere into this blog so it's all searchable and such. Part of this is re-posting work that hasn't been on the internet in a long time, so i ...
  • The "Innocence of Muslims" video
    A few notes on the video that has sparked ongoing mayhem in West Asia. * The production values are very poor - it seems to me that no film professionals were used in the making of this film. read more
  • Two small outrages
    While these aren't the worst things in the world, a couple of things from the world of information and journalism that were surprising enough to me, even though I think I ought to be pretty hardened to these things by now. (1) Through Wikileaks' twitter feed, I saw this story about one of the fo ...
  • Haiti's New Dictatorship - Book Tour in November
    Hi everyone, In case you didn't notice the new tab above, my first book, Haiti's New Dictatorship, is set to come out at the end of October. I will be doing talks about the book all over Canada and probably in NYC in the US as well. Check the book tab for updates on the book tour. It's in the p ...
  • Paraguay: Weaving Peoples Resistance Against C ...
    Hello friends. We at En Camino put this together and it has gathered signatures since the coup. We are hoping to work together to find ways to support FDD in the coming weeks and months. -Justin ------- The undersigning organizations, collectives and individuals working towards a coordinated ini ...

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Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

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

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Iranian Drone Incident Was Unacknowledged IDF ...
    I’ve often noted the parallel between the IDF’s public statements and Kabuki-style Japanese theater.  Everyone wears a costume (or uniform) and mask, everyone plays a role, no one’s actual role or anything they say bears any resemblance to reality.  So the Iranian drone inciden ...
  • UK Former General Greases Skids for $1-Billion ...
    Elbit Systems is one of Israel’s largest defense contractors, something like Lockheed, General Dynamics and Boeing rolled into one.  It has its tentacles in virtually every high-tech weapons system developed by and for the IDF.  Like its American counterparts, it also has an extensive over ...
  • Iranian Drone Downed 10 Miles from Dimona, Lik ...
    Iran’s message to Israel regarding the drone it sent deep into Israeli airspace last week: two can play at this game.  Just as Israel has assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists and sabotaged its nuclear facilities with computer worms and sabotaging electricity lines, Iran can target Israe ...
  • Israel’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers fro ...
    Kaspersky Labs announced today that it had discovered a new cyber-virus it’s calling mini-Flame, used to hack computer systems in the Middle East. The code, a variant of the Flame and Stuxnet computer worms, which have previously been attributed to joint Israeli and U.S. development, penetrated ...
  • Israeli Protest Song Banned from Army Radio
    There was once a time when Israeli songs like A Matter of Habit were routinely written, aired and became hits.  These were songs of political commentary or protest, songs of hope and idealism.  They represented the aspirations of Israel’s secular liberal (generally Ashkenazi) eli ...

If Americans Knew

  • VIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Acti ...
    Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across America? Why don't any claim affiliation to their creator or use descriptive names? Shouldn't the ...
  • Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers ...
    You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially when the top congressional leaders of both parties are leading the trips. You would be wrong.
  • Israeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collater ...
    He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him that morning, making sure he would be warm enough. I wonder if she's the one who took the picture ...
  • American Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Is ...
    Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and a lower unemployment rate than the US."
  • Spinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
    Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian anger over these deaths grew even greater when Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak refused to apol ...

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Super-Fast Autoplay-Enabled Watchup 1.4 Now in ...
    One of our bold beliefs here at Watchup has always been to iterate fast over users' feedback. Watchup is a Stanford startup, incubated at StartX, the Stanford startup accelerator, and as such we always try to apply the design thinking principles to our work. The latest version 1.4 of your ...
  • A LocalWiki for Antarctica
    Many months ago, we were approached about helping start up a LocalWiki project in Antarctica. In. Antarctica. Antarctica! The project, named "Open Antarctica," would aim to initially document a region of roughly 2 miles surrounding the Palmer Station United States base on the Antarctic Pen ...
  • Social Media's Role in the Evolution of Frontl ...
    It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. 'Democratization of Development' In a recent BBC Future article, I wrote about ...
  • MapSurvey: Start a Map-Visualized Survey in 1 ...
    A few months ago, we became the largest crowdsourced journalism project in Latvia to date. We reached 2% of the general population and gathered unique data. However, to generate the data and launch the survey we had to program, design and test the system for weeks and invest several thousand dol ...
  • The State Decoded Debuts Version 0.4
    Version 0.4 of The State Decoded was just tagged on GitHub and bundled up for download, the result of six weeks of work. The State Decoded is a platform that displays state codes, court decisions, and information from legislative tracking services to make it all more understandable to normal hum ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Japan on Edge - American Sailors Stand Accused ...
    The latest alleged crime committed by American servicemen in Japan threatens to ignite escalated protests on the southern island of Okinawa against the U.S. military presence there. There has been an immediate diplomatic outburst following the detention of two U.S. Navy sailors on Okinawa. A Jap ...
  • Drugs Wars - Latin American Nations Consider D ...
    Last March, Central American nations held a drug legalization summit in Antigua, Guatemala. As the host of the summit, Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina suggested that production, consumption, and sales of narcotics should be regulated and legalized. In April, current strategies to fight t ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Arguementative Obama Heats Up ...
    President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney faced off Tuesday in the second of three nationally televised debates. This forum contained far more confrontation than the first, with the candidates occasionally lapsing into arguments.With his poll numbers fading after a l ...
  • Israel and Palestine - Hamas Fires from Gaza a ...
    An anti-aircraft missile was fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza last week at an Israeli aircraft but missed its target, the Hebrew language newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported on October 16.According to the report the missile was smuggled in from Libya. Israeli authorities have worried that the mis ...
  • The Women's Edge - Initiative Empowers Rural Women
    October 15th is International Day of Rural Women. The United Nations says rural women play a critical role in development, food security and eradicating poverty.Four U.N. agencies recently launched a five year initiative to speed economic empowerment and gender equality of rural women. Initially ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • BREAKING: Obama Spokesman-Maybe the Buck DOES ...
    After Hillary Clinton took "full responsibility" for the security of US diplomats, and hours after refusing to respond to follow up questions from reporters, Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki fully reversed the Administration's position. Psaki just told Fox News' Sheppard Smith: SMITH: a ...
  • State Dept. Makes Biden a Liar
    A little more than a week ago Vice President Biden criticized Governor Romney for suggesting that should the generals recommend it based on conditions on the ground he may keep a a presence in Afghanistan past the 2014 date. According to the State Department the SCHMOTUS may not been entirely t ...
  • Live Blogging The Hofstra Debate From The Spin ...
    Folks I am credentialed for tomorrow-night's debate at Hofstra. I hope to provide insights into the two candidates along with a behind-the-scenes look at the goings on in the "spin room." Sometimes the reaction of the spin meisters is more indicative of how a debate is going than polls or pundit ...
  • Obama: The Libya Buck Stops THERE
    Finally someone in the Obama Administration has shown some leadership, unfortunately that person is not the Commander-In-Chief Barack Obama, but the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Remember when Barack Obama was bashing Romney about Bain Capital?  This is what he said: A ...
  • Obama Pollster Mocked GOP For Criticizing Gall ...
    Just released today, the USA Today/Gallup Poll showed GOP candidate Mitt Romney with a 4 point lead over Barack Obama amongst likely voters in the key battleground states and a two point lead in the other 38 states. Even more newsworthy is the fact that amongst female likely vo ...

The Real Agenda

  • Foxconn Hires Minors for its Chinese Factory
    REUTERS | OCTOBER 17, 2012 Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, has acknowledged hiring teenagers as young as 14 in a Chinese factory, in breach of national law, in a case that raises further questions over its student intern program. Labor rights ...
  • Chevron will pay $ 19 billion for Damages in t ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 17, 2012 A judge in Ecuadorian ordered authorities to confiscate assets that belong to American oil giant Chevron as part of a multimillion conviction for having caused environmental damages in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Wilfrido Judge Erazo, a j ...
  • Slavery Incorporated: American Schools are Bre ...
    By JOHN WHITEHEAD | ROTHERFORD INSTITUTE | OCTOBER 16, 2012 “[P]ublic school reform is now justified in the dehumanizing language of national security, which increasingly legitimates the transformation of schools into adjuncts of the surveillance and police state… students are increasi ...
  • Nanopatch Vaccine in the Mail
    “We know that vaccines do not prevent disease, they GIVE the disease. As the vaccine industry becomes the main source of income for Pharma they will create disease they can vaccinate for because that is what makes them money. If you die while they make money then all the better. Did Bayer ...
  • Biofuel Industry Exterminating Guarani Kaiowá ...
    By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | OCTOBER 16, 2012 In how many ways can someone describe murder, corruption, crime, collusion, complicity to commit murder, thuggery, injustice? I struggled greatly to title this article because one or two lines cannot describe the shame I felt — ...

Wind Watch

  • Environmental groups criticize wind energy project
    A proposal to build the country’s largest wind energy project south of Rawlins is drawing heat from environmental groups. The Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance is considering legal action because of its concerns that the Chokecherry Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project would dev ...
  • Proposed wind farm causes controversy among Mo ...
    MONTICELLO, San Juan County — A battle has erupted over a proposal for southeastern Utah’s first wind farm. It’s ironic because city leaders in Monticello aggressively promoted wind industry development. Now, some residents are shocked to find out just how close some of the giant win ...
  • AWA Goodhue wind project put under the microscope
    SAINT PAUL — The development once dubbed “the most troubled” wind project in state history by Minnesota Public Utilities Commission member Betsy Wergin is back under the microscope. PUC staff posted a four-part information request Thursday for the AWA Goodhue wind project permittee, ...
  • Hundreds rally against big wind projects
    Hundreds of protestors demonstrated against wind energy projects Friday, hoping to get the attention of Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration. A passionate crowd from all parts of Vermont descended on the statehouse with a common cause on Friday. “We are a group of Vermonters that have ...
  • State: Reject wind testing in Windham
    WINDHAM — The state Department of Public Service is urging rejection of a proposal to build wind-testing towers here, saying such construction would be “wholly contrary” to the Town of Windham’s regulations. The department’s strongly worded letter does not end the p ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

  • Is Being Less Productive Good for Humanity?
    It is not often that one comes across an article, especially one in arguably the most important newspaper in the country, that is so misguided across the board that one hardly knows where to begin in pointing out its errors. Unfortunately, such an article appears in the May 27 New York Times. Ti ...
  • U.S. to Help Create an Elite Libyan Force to C ...
    “The Obama administration quietly won Congress’s approval last month to shift about $8 million from Pentagon operations and counterterrorism aid budgeted for Pakistan to begin building an elite Libyan force over the next year that could ultimately number about 500 troops. American Special Operat ...
  • True Progressivism
    “In the rich world the cronyism is better-hidden. One reason why Wall Street accounts for a disproportionate share of the wealthy is the implicit subsidy given to too-big-to-fail banks. From doctors to lawyers, many high-paying professions are full of unnecessary restrictive practices. And then ...
  • Stripping off the Gray Flannel Suit
    Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit  is one of those business novels about which everyone has heard—especially since it was referenced on Mad Men—but which almost no one reads any more. This is a shame because the most common descriptions of  it in the press and online are not partic ...
  • Stripping off the Gray Flannel Suit
    Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit  is one of those business novels about which everyone has heard—especially since it was referenced on Mad Men—but which almost no one reads any more. This is a shame because the most common descriptions of  it in the press and online are not partic ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

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

Worldpress - Africa

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Forest for the trees on the job #s
    Jack Welch was wrong that the BLS fixed the job #s.  But so what?  He was right on the key point: there is no way in HELL that the economy produced 873,000 jobs, as per the Household Survey.  Ordinary people know this, and all the pundits who argued about whether the BLS fixed the # [...]
  • Drones are not weapons of the powerful
    If this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap.  They are just big radio controlled planes.  They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.  Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows).  Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
  • Drones are not weapons of the powerful
    If this is true, the drone shot down by Israel was from Hezbollah. Drones are cheap.  They are just big radio controlled planes.  They cost nothing compared to a jet fighter, and the technology is not hard.  Islamic Jihad claims they might have one (who knows).  Hezbollah is sophisticated, they ...
  • Woops
    The post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used  Employment survey #s.  Ouch. I am officially embarrassed.  At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...
  • Woops
    The post on jobs #s has been withdrawn for the moment, since I didn’t notice I was using Current Population Survey #s where I should have used  Employment survey #s.  Ouch. I am officially embarrassed.  At least it was only up for a few minutes, though the internet is forever, as we all kn ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

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

new geography

  • CERF's Economic Policy Plan
    Here at California Lutheran University's Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, we think that each presidential candidate does have an economic plan. But it is a bit difficult to discern the policy under all the campaign noise. Then there is the problem of the truth. When out of office, ...
  • A Planet of People: Angel's Planet of Cities
    Professor Shlomo Angel's new book, Planet of Cities, seems likely to command a place on the authoritative bookshelf of urbanization between Tertius Chandler's Four Thousand Years of Urban Growthand Sir Peter Hall's Cities and Civilization and The Containment of Urban England. Chandler produ ...
  • Thoughts on Chicago’s Tech Scene
    I’ve said before that I don’t think Chicago is well positioned to become some type of dominant tech hub, but should only seek to get its “fair share” of tech. However, as the third largest city in America, Chicago’s fair share on tech is still pretty darn big. If you look at what’s been happenin ...
  • A Geographer Who Navigated the Globe
    Many people ask, “What do geographers do?” I would suggest that Marvin Creamer’s life story is all you need to know about the practical application of geography, even though most of us will never be stuck in a horizonless Indian Ocean on a “sea of glass”, or try to navigate the ferocious Drake ...
  • Florida: When Your Best (Place) Just Ain't Go ...
    Real estate broker Coldwell Banker handles corporate relocations for a large portion of our middle class. It recently released a survey of Suburbanite Best Places to Live. While it's easy to dismiss as a sales tool for their realtors, the survey provides a fascinating glimpse of middle class, s ...

GM Watch

  • EU Commissioner brought down by anti-fraud inv ...
    Commissioner John Dalli today announced his resignation as a member of the European Commission, with immediate effect because of the results of an anti-fraud investigation. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-788_en.htm Dalli was responsible for health and consumer affairs, including ...
  • Time to scrap biofuels, not push GMOs
    EXTRACT: "The sustainable intensification approach is a wolf in sheep's clothing. On the surface, it favours ecological science and farmer-led solutions to the food crisis, the preferred method of several UN backed studies. Dig a little deeper and it seems to be a disguise for some Governments a ...
  • Americans eat their weight in GM food
    Americans Eat Their Weight in Genetically Engineered Food Renee Sharp Environmental Working Group, October 15 2012 http://www.ewg.org/agmag/2012/10/americans-eat-their-weight-in-genetically-engineered-food/ Americans are eating their weight and more in genetically engineered food every year, a ...
  • Seralini's stats stand up - Prof. Peter Saunders
    NOTE: Over and over again the claim has been made that Seralini's recently published study, which found high levels of tumours in rats given GM feed and tiny amounts of Roundup, can be safely ignored because he didn't use sufficient numbers of experimental animals. But in the following article P ...
  • In India GM crops come at a high price
    NOTE: Recently India's Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture issued a damning report on GM crops, which was all the more powerful for being signed unanimously by all of its 31 members, who represented India's entire political spectrum. One of the most impressive aspects of the report ...

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Cryptogon

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
    Are we on the verge of societal collapse?  Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces.  Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.  There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is goi ...
  • Greece Is Not Poor – It Actually Has Mas ...
    It turns out that the poster child for the European debt crisis is not actually poor at all.  In fact, the truth is that the nation of Greece is sitting on absolutely massive untapped reserves of gold, oil and natural gas.  If the Greeks were to fully exploit the natural resources that are liter ...
  • 21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
    The global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are riding high.  But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding at the pace ...
  • Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
    Will the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in massive riots in our major cities?  Right now, supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes on a victory on November 6th.  The race for the presidency is extremely tight, and o ...
  • UNSUSTAINABLE
    When it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable.  As a nation we consume far more than we produce, we spend far more than we brin ...

Desertification

  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    FOR YOUR INFO Dear Readers, I underwent surgery on October 16th. Everything went well. My doctor advised me to take some weeks of complete rest. Therefore, I will resume this blog as soon as I feel fully fit again. Thank … Continue reading →
  • UPDATING OF THIS BLOG
    Due to an urgent surgical intervention, the updating of this blog will be temporarily interrupted until complete recovery. Thanks for your understanding.
  • What farmers can do themselves for better land ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/829/agriculture/promoting-farmer-innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation Promoting Farmer Innovation tells a fascinating story of what farmers can do themselves. Farmer innovators are a surprisingly creative source of ideas. T ...
  • Local solutions to combat desertification (The ...
    SEEN AT : http://www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/videos/categories/viewvideo/1524/integrated-water-resource-management/combating-desertification-local-solutions-to-a-global-problem Combating Desertification: Local Solutions to a Global Problem This film highlights the global problem of desertification ...
  • The bottle tower method highly appreciated (Ll ...
    A message from Lloyd Liebenberg Hi Willem, I saw your posts about bottle towers and got so excited about the simplicity and elegance of the idea. I have begun a small project with my sons and we are still in … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • Transparency in Texas: Dallas suburbs lead in ...
    Among the state’s biggest cities, several sprawling Dallas-area suburbs tallied the highest rate of requests to Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott last year to keep government information secret, according to a recent examination by the Center for Public Integrity.The probe examined the numbe ...
  • Christian college asks for refund of donation ...
    A nonprofit college says it has asked for a refund of a $5,000 donation to a conservative super PAC after an inquiry by the Center for Public Integrity.Colorado Christian University gave the money last month to “Jan PAC,” the super PAC of Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, according t ...
  • Lobbyists rake in $14 million for Romney
    As Republican Mitt Romney works to unify the party faithful behind him, the number of lobbyists raising money to help him secure the White House has soared.More than five-dozen lobbyist-bundlers have raised at least $14 million for Romney’s election efforts, according to reports submitted Mon ...
  • IMPACT: Administration official asks for Medic ...
    The nation’s top health information technology official has launched an internal review to determine if electronic health records are prompting some doctors and hospitals to overbill Medicare.Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the Obama administration’s National Coordinator for Health Information Technol ...
  • Daily Disclosure: Smaller super PACs target do ...
    A new batch of super PAC donor information arrived at the Federal Election Commission Monday, and among the top contributors was the nonprofit Americans for Limited Government, profiled by the Daily Disclosure Monday.The organization, which released a Web video implying that Vice President Jo ...

backofthebook.ca

  • The Globe: War is Peace
    By David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of a head-sc ...
  • 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 ...

libcom

  • More leaks expose depth of attack on civil ser ...
    jobcenter 2.jpg On September 28, the Cabinet Office wrote to all HR directors across the Civil Service, instructing them to review terms and conditions with a clear view to rolling them back. The lett ...
  • Far right washouts!
    Crivvens! Jings! And Help Ma Boab! The various far right grupuscules were all a wee bit busy this weekend. It’s a pity they all can’t agree with each other cos if they all joined together there would be almost 350 of them and they could take over! ...
  • Marikana prequel: NUM and the murders that sta ...
    The coverage of the Marikana massacre seems to start with the mass killings of 16 August. But that’s not where, or how the violence started, and it wasn’t rivalry between unions, either. Rewind a few days and prepare for goosebumps: you’ll find a web of con ...
  • Call for Anarchist Solidarity in Response to D ...
    derek_williams[1].jpg Yet another young black person has been murdered by the police. [from @news:http://www.anarchistnews.org/content/call-anarchist-solidarity-response-derek-w ...
  • Issues that Obama and Romney avoid
    Romney.jpg As the US election approaches, Noam Chomsky examines how similar the two candidates are on the biggest issues, and points out that only mass action, not voting, can change things. ...

Free Range International

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

The Story Behind the Story

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

du la bab - Now is the Time

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

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

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Portland Activist Imprisoned for Political Beliefs
        Statement From A Resister – Leah-Lynn Plante from Because We Must on Vimeo. Last week Plante was imprisoned for 18 months for refusing to snitch on fellow activists. She hasn’t committed or been charged with any crime. Go to Green is the New Red for what you can ...
  • Romney's Policy on Syria
    Very humorous video by Paul Joseph Watson analyzing Romney’s position on Syria in the recent presidential debates. Watson provides all-important context missing in the mainstream media.   If video doesn’t play go to Does America Share It’s Values with Terrorists?
  • The Myth of Growing Ourselves out of Debt
    Charles Eisenstein Someone recently sent me a thoughtful opinion piece by Charles Eisenstein (author of Sacred Economics – which I reviewed back in May) from the UK Guardian This is the first commentary I have seen in the mainstream questioning the myth that economic growth is going t ...
  • GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
    2011, Directed and produced by Dave Gardner http://www.growthbusters.org/   Film Review Growthbusters is the inspiring story of Dave Gardner’s efforts to challenge conservative Colorado Springs’ failed growth promotion policies. The film mainly focuses on the insanity ...
  • Consumers Too Dumb to Know the Difference
    GMO Ticking Time Bomb is a fantastic fifteen minute video which helps explain why California polls show overwhelming support for Prop 37 on the November ballot. If passed by voters, the citizens initiative would require mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods. The film starts by b ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • GEORGE AND MITT: Like Father, Like Son? Not quite
    By Walt De Vries From 1961 through 1967, Walt De Vries served George Romney as a campaign strategist during Romney's terms as Michigan governor; heading campaign research and strategy for three campaigns and as executive assistant in the office of the governor. He is co-author, with Lance Tarra ...
  • OCTOBER 9, 2002, TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: U.S. Gov ...
    From Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn: In Rome on the afternoon of October 7…Elisabetta Burba, an investigative reporter for Panorama, a Milan-based newsmagazine owned by conservative Italian Prime Minister Sil ...
  • TEN YEARS AGO TODAY: Ari Fleischer Claims Oil ...
    Original ... Q And I have a question -- how much does oil have to do with the assessment of the threat from Saddam Hussein? President Bush didn't mention it. MR. FLEISCHER: I'm not sure I follow your question. Q Well, you keep talking about blackmail. You're talking about blackmail ...
  • Bob Woodward on First 2012 Presidential Debate ...
    On Kilmeade and Friends, October 4, 2012 WOODWARD: Now I've not done any reporting on this, but I'm going to give you my honest view – something happened, maybe in foreign affairs, they got some intelligence report or something, you know, who knows the things that can happen in a presiden ...
  • Romney: Jack Welch – Who Believes in Strange N ...
    From 'Transaction Man: Mormonism, private equity, and the making of a candidate' in the New Yorker, October 1, 2012: "The private sector is less forgiving," [Romney] said. "If you make serious mistakes in the private sector, you'll lose your job, or, if you're in a position of responsibilit ...

Salon

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

Energy Collective

  • Smart Cities and the Smart Grid
    There are natural parallels between the Smart Grid and smart cities in terms of concepts and deployments.  Both rely on ICT technologies and M2M (machine to machine) communications applications to enable devices and systems to be remotely monitored and controlled.  Both are infrastruct ...
  • California and the U.S. Military: A Powerful P ...
    Recently, California took a bold step into the future when Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Energy Security Coordination Act. This aligns California with the Department of Defense, which is one of world’s largest consumers of energy. With fuel-intensive deployments across the globe, and enormous ener ...
  • Energy Pay Growth and the Regulatory Policies ...
    A report by CNNMoney.com notes data showing that pay increases in the oil and natural gas industry have played a large part in the largest jump in U.S. wages in five years:
  • Extreme Weather: A Mixed Bag For Dead Zones
  • Fracking's Dark Side Gets Darker: The Problem ...
    Fracking for oil in North Dakota is so lucrative that when natural gas bubbles up alongside the oil, most oil companies simply view it as waste. It's cheaper, in the short term, to burn the gas than it is to build the infrastructure to pipe and sell it--so they burn it. Across the North Dakota p ...

EU Times

  • France prepares for military intervention in Mali
    French Defense Minister says an African intervention in its former colony Mali is a matter of weeks, not months following Paris’ persistent lobbying for the initiative. “It’s a matter of weeks, not months, weeks,” Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a televised interview on Tuesday. Le ...
  • Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill S ...
    Police arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of tonight’s presidential debate at the Hofstra University. “Jill Stein, Cheri Honkala arrested, call tonight’s debate a “mockumentary”,” said a ...
  • Scottish referendum countdown begins with Came ...
    Details of Scotland’s ‘most important political decision in 300 years’ to be confirmed in Edinburgh. Scots will on Monday be given 100 weeks to make the “most important political decision in 300 years” of Scottish history when David Cameron and Alex Salmond sign a d ...
  • Turkey closes airspace to Syrian civilian flig ...
    Ankara has placed a ban on Syrian Airlines flying into Turkish airspace, after a diplomatic row that began when Turkey seized cargo from a Syrian civilian plane it forced to land in Ankara. Earlier, Damascus closed its airspace to Turkish airlines. ­Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said ...
  • Strange Domes to Line the Texas Coast in Prepa ...
    Disaster-proof domes that can sustain winds in excess of 250 mph will cost taxpayers more than $50 a foot. FEMA has now offered to pick up the tab of at least $50 million dollars, to install disaster shelters in and around Houston that, according to the manufacturer, (ABC Domes based out of Seal ...

Stonecipher News

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Yankees turn big double play to escape 6th inn ...
    Okay, maybe it's just time to realize that yes, while nobody's perfect or unbeatable and the New York Yankees still have a great deal of talent in that lineup, no: the Yankees are not going to beat Justin Verlander in this game. After a 1-2-3 fifth inning and a 1-2-3 sixth, Verlander has a) all ...
  • Appleâs got something little to show you, iPad ...
    Apple have sent out invites to journalists for October 23rd. The invite has the tag line âWeâve got a little more to show you.â The focus is clearly on the little, alluding to the much rumoured and leaked smaller version of the iPad known as the iPad Mini. While I still donât see the need for a ...
  • Yankees bench both Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swi ...
    The Yankees are getting desperate. Joe Girardi has benched both Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher for tonight's critical Game 3 of the ALCS against the Tigers and ace Justin Verlander. Brett Garnder, who has only one official at-bat during this series and only three since April, leads off ...
  • Samsung Galaxy S3 lasts slightly longer in ble ...
    The fine folks at BlendTec have continued their fine heritage of appliance-based science by seeing whether or not the Samsung Galaxy S3 or the iPhone 5 are able to survive industrial-strength spinning blades. The short answer is no, neither of them can withstand BlendTec's whirling wrath, but a ...
  • Commissioner Gary Bettman Press Conference Tra ...
    Commissioner Bettman Media Availability Transcript Toronto, October 16, 2012 Good afternoon, everyone. Bill Daly and I just spent the last hour with Don and Steve Fehr, and I would like to briefly report to you on what was discussed. As I think all of you know we have been extremely disappointe ...

Groklaw

  • Android malware, FUD, and the FBI
    In any case, both programs aren't classic computer viruses. They require users to go above and beyond the call of stupidity to catch them. With both, you typically need to open a suspicious looking email, then follow a link, and then agree, in Android's case, to download the unknown Android app ...
  • Judge threatens to 'strangle' attorney in 'rid ...
    But leading national experts on legal ethics said McDonald's comments about the case, in which Barron is seeking a new trial for death row inmate Roger Dale Epperson, indicate that the judge had improperly prejudged the case. "The judge's conduct in general is highly injudicious," said Hofstra ...
  • Samsung S5 550 Chromebook: All in after a week
    The recent purchase of a Chromebook surprised me by proving how well it works for me. After a week of using the Chromebook, that surprise has morphed into total satisfaction. - James Kendrick, ZDNet
  • Back In Court (comic)
    STEVE (BINKY): Your Honor, there is no reason to force Apple to produce the same level of email during discovery that Samsung is. Samsung is the company that is under the most scrutiny in this case. SAMSUNG LAWYER: What? - Help Desk, Eviscerati
  • EU Privacy Watchdogs Blast Google's Data Prote ...
    The European watchdogs said it remains unclear to users how their data are being used and recommended that Google implement layers of privacy notices that include "interactive presentations" that avoid long legal disclosures and "allow users to navigate easily through the content of the [privacy ...

WideShut

Politics in the Zeros

  • Binders full of women
    “…and they brought us whole binders full of women!” -Mitt Romney (Oct 16th, 2012)From bindersfullofwomen.tumblr.com
  • EV battery maker A123 files bankruptcy
    Electric vehicle battery maker A123 received almost $250 million in funding from the government in 2009. This morning, the company announced it would not be able to meet loan payments and is now in bankruptcy. The stock cratered from an already abysmal 24 cents a share to 6 cents.Johnson Control ...
  • Biofuel from pine bark beetle trees
    Pine bark beetle devastation (fs.usda)The pine bark beetle has devastated areas in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West, killing Lodgepole and Ponderosa pines over millions of acres. The dead trees are a serious fire hazard. Researchers may have at least a partial solution – mobile ...
  • Ecosystem stressors in the Sacramento Delta
    Aquatic ecosystem stressors in the delta slideshow from Chris AustinThe Sacramento Delta provides huge amounts of crucial water to Central valley agriculture and the ever-thirsty Southland but at the expense of Delta fisheries. Maven, who publishes indispensable California water blog Aquafornia ...
  • Raspberry Pi. 512 MB RAM. Runs Linux. $35
    Raspberry Pi

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

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

frogblog

  • First day of lobbying submissions
    Submissions started today on the Lobbying Disclosure Bill, and the biggest news was Labour's decision to withdraw the proposed exemption for unions and NGOs.
  • What’s an ‘ethical’ banana?
    Yesterday was International World Food Day. The theme for this year is Agricultural cooperatives. The cooperative model brings people together to achieve common needs and aspirations in a democratic way. It’s a fundamental part of the fair trade movement and choosing fair trade products is a goo ...
  • Paula Bennett’s words on privacy woefull ...
    In Parliament today, Paula Bennett further showed her woeful inconsistency when it comes to New Zealander’s right to have their private information remain private. In response to my question in Parliament to her, Bennett stated that she was “very concerned about people’s person ...
  • Why we need lobbying transparency
    Public hearings on my Lobbying Disclosure Bill will start tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to hearing directly from stakeholders and the public, and to working through the details of the bill with the committee. No doubt the public hearings will also reignite debate about whether lobbying tr ...
  • Modernisation of adoption law
    “Kevin Hague launches gay adoption bill”. Sigh. I’m gay, but that doesn’t make my bill a gay adoption bill. It’s true that in 2009 I did have a Bill in the ballot to extend the categories of people who could adopt to include same-sex and de facto opposite-sex couple ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Misdeeds, Not Mistakes, Behind Most Scientific ...
    By Dr. Mercola The medical and health fields are absolutely riddled with dogmatic beliefs that defy both commonsense and scientific truth. And yet they prevail because they are supposedly backed by "science." But what if that science was not actually trustworthy, but rather a carefully orche ...
  • Will Boosting Your Vitamin D Levels Help Preve ...
    By Dr. Mercola For the last ten years, I've regularly reported on the benefits of vitamin D, especially for combating colds and flu. But according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), vitamin D supplements appear to be useless for reducing the number or se ...
  • New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and E ...
    By Dr. Mercola There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as heavily as they are. The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a ...
  • BPA Damages Chromosomes, Disrupts Egg Development
    By Dr. Mercola When a woman experiences a miscarriage or has a baby born with a birth defect like Down Syndrome, the cause is usually a mystery. Modern medicine simply does not have an explanation in most cases, although there are some clues coming in. Environmental Chemicals Like BPA ...
  • Confirmed Again: Statin Drugs Accelerate Cardi ...
    By Dr. Mercola Statins are the world's most-prescribed class of medications. A staggering one in four Americans over the age of 45 now take cholesterol-lowering drugs such as Pravachol, Mevacor, Lipitor, Zocor, Crestor, and others. A majority of them are taking these drugs for primary prevent ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Land grabs in Ethiopia leave tribes hungry on ...
    A boy from the Lower Omo stands on the riverbank.© SurvivalViolent land grabs in Ethiopia’s Lower Omo Valley are displacing tribes and preventing them from cultivating their land, leaving thousands of people hungry and ‘waiting to die’. As the world prepares to raise awareness of the issues beh ...
  • Leaked plans to resettle Penan surface as bloc ...
    The Penan's blockade of the Murum dam road began on 26th September.© SCANE/SurvivalLeaked plans to resettle Malaysia’s Penan have surfaced, as the tribe continues to hold a two-week blockade on the road leading to the controversial Murum dam. Anger is growing within the tribe, which says i ...
  • Australia’s Channel 7 seeks judicial review of ...
    Paul Raffaele said a Suruwaha girl refused to shake his hand because she wanted to kill him. In fact, he was wearing so much sun cream the Suruwaha thought he had a skin disease.© Channel 7Australia’s Channel 7 goes to court tomorrow (11 October) seeking judicial review of a devastating ruling a ...
  • Company boss named in forgery probe linked to ...
    Paraguay's Ayoreo were the victims of a forgery scandal earlier this year.© SurvivalThe boss of a company controlled by one of Spain’s biggest corporations has been linked to a scandal involving forged signatures in Paraguay. Diego Eduardo León is the vice-President and acting Chairman of ...
  • Blockade by Earth’s most threatened tribe para ...
    Indians blockade key railway to demand their land rights are respected.© CIMI/SurvivalA protest involving Earth’s most threatened tribe, the Awá, has forced the world’s largest iron ore mine to suspend operations along its main railway line. On Tuesday, hundreds of Indians including the Awá, to ...

Montreal Gazette

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

Food World Order

  • New Evidence Demolishes Claims of Safety and E ...
    from mercola.com: There are currently two HPV vaccines on the market, but if there was any regard for sound scientific evidence, neither would be promoted as heavily as they are. The first, Gardasil, was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2006. It is now recommended as a ...
  • Australian Govt Wants to Outlaw Inexpensive Al ...
    from cryptogon.com: Via: The Australian: CHEAP wine will be banned under a federal health agency’s plan to make drinkers pay at least $8-$10 for a bottle of booze. The Federal Government’s Australian National Preventative Health Agency will advise this week that a “floor price” and new taxes be ...
  • #VIDEO: Under Our Skin: The Untold Story of Ly ...
    from mercola.com: Unrelenting pain. Headaches, muscle aches, swollen joints, rashes. Loss of coordination and muscle spasms. Intermittent paralysis. Cycles of disabling symptoms that persist for years, causing ceaseless suffering and frustration for patients and their families. This is the pi ...
  • Oakland Sues U.S. to Prevent Closing of Mariju ...
    from nytimes.com: The City of Oakland has filed a lawsuit in federal court to prevent the Department of Justice from seizing property leased to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the country. “This lawsuit is about protecting the rights of legitimate medical patients,” City Attorney ...
  • Child Suspended from School for Kombucha in Lu ...
    from thehealthyhomeeconomist.com: The trouble apparently started because the kombucha drink was packed in a glass bottle which is the appropriate container for this healthy, vitamin and probiotic filled beverage. The mother even took care to safely place the glass bottle in a ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • The Last Days Of America? 25 Signs Of Extreme ...
    Are we on the verge of societal collapse?  Many of the greatest empires throughout world history were not conquered by outside forces.  Rather, they crumbled inwardly as extreme social decay set in.  There have been many that have compared the last days of the Roman Empire to what America is goi ...
  • Greece Is Not Poor – It Actually Has Mas ...
    It turns out that the poster child for the European debt crisis is not actually poor at all.  In fact, the truth is that the nation of Greece is sitting on absolutely massive untapped reserves of gold, oil and natural gas.  If the Greeks were to fully exploit the natural resources that are liter ...
  • 21 Signs That The Global Economic Crisis Is Ab ...
    The global debt crisis has reached a dangerous new phase.  Unfortunately, most Americans are not taking notice of it yet because most of the action is taking place overseas, and because U.S. financial markets are riding high.  But just because the global economic crisis is unfolding at the pace ...
  • Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots ...
    Will the most divisive campaign in modern American history culminate in massive riots in our major cities?  Right now, supporters of Barack Obama and supporters of Mitt Romney are both pinning all of their hopes on a victory on November 6th.  The race for the presidency is extremely tight, and o ...
  • UNSUSTAINABLE
    When it comes to explaining the problems with our economy, one of the hardest things to do is to get people to understand that we are living in an economic fantasy world that is completely and totally unsustainable.  As a nation we consume far more than we produce, we spend far more than we brin ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

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

Facing South

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

CenterLine

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

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Ubuntu Needs a "Project Butter" like Android
    I'm a fairly satisfied Ubuntu 12.04 LTS user and I'm quite optimistic about the forthcoming changes to Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. But that doesn't mean they both are somehow "perfect" or something. Unity, which was a huge departure from the traditional GNOME 2.0 desktop, has been around&nbs ...
  • Additional Drivers Application Moved to Softwa ...
    On the WiFi front, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" was a big disappointment for me. Nothing seemed to work until I started using an alternative network manager called Wicd. Things are slowly starting to get better with each new update in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, but not there yet. So ...
  • 23 Brand New Features in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal ...
    The Ubuntu juggernaut is moving ahead and huge improvements and brand new features keeps pouring in. Every new Ubuntu release cycle gives you the impression that, things have really been improved and enough features have been added, until you start seeing the changes being done in the next rel ...
  • Tears of Steel: Fourth Official Blender Movie ...
    Blender movies have always amazed us all with its interesting little stories and sophisticated visual graphics. While Elephants Dream was of sci-fi kind with mind-bending ideas and graphics, Bug Buck Bunny was a light-hearted comedy. The third one, Sintel, also had splendid graphics to bac ...
  • Google Play Store Celebrates 25 Billion Downlo ...
    Google is on a roll. Few weeks ago, Chrome had already surpassed IE to become world's most popular web browser and now this. According to official Android blog, Google Play Store has just hit the magic 25 billion downloads mark and to celebrate the occasion, Google is now offering a ...

Case About Bird Flu

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

Invisible Opportunity

  • Fluoride used by Nazis to sterilize inmates an ...
      Fluoride used by Nazis to sterilize inmates and make them docile. Fluoride a key dumbing down ingredient of Prozac.
  • Citigroup CEO Walks Off With $260 Million Afte ...
    By Pat Garofalo on Oct 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit abruptly resigned today, leaving the helm of the bank that he guided through the financial crisis of 2008. For his five years of leading Citi, Pandit will receive compensation in the neighborhood of $260 million: If no altera ...
  • Research: Pomegranate May Reverse Blocked Arteries
    Sayer Ji, Contributor Activist Post While technically a berry, pomegranate “fruit” may be nature’s answer to turning the tide against the #1 cause of death in the industrialized world: heart disease. Let’s start with what it tells us simply through experiencing it… ...
  • Doctors confirm Indian man Lives on Sunlight a ...
    Posted by nesaraaustralia ⋅ October 14, 2012 It has been widely reported that studies have confirmed a 62 year Indian man while being observed in a hospital 24 hours a day for 120 days maintained a normal level of activity by only consuming Water and Gazing at the Sun! Doctors from his native In ...
  • romney exposed

Veterans Today

  • Infomercials for Despots
    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.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $22,055,922 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-07-D-0004) to exercise an option for special progressive aircraft rework of two fiscal 2013 VH-60N aircraft.
  • Press TV Ban Tantamount to Human Rights Violation
    The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel.
  • Taliban Attack on Malala Proves “Belief ...
    The cowardly and brutal attack last week on the 14-year-old girl Malala Yousafzai by the Islamic terrorist group the Taliban shows the truth to this statement by the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...
    Veterans treatment courts have popped up across the country to help troubled Vets integrate with VA care to get the help they need. The courts were featured on a recent edition of 60 Minutes.

electric politics

  • For the Love of Music
    In our day and age great wealth ruins most of what it touches. Culture — even highbrow culture — being no exception. Why, I specifically want to know, do performances of classical music no longer move me the way they used to do? Hoping for some answers I turned to Blair Tindall, auth ...
  • The End of the Age of Oil
    Coal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible. Oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we're running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr. Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy, bring ...
  • Assessing Bradley Manning
    According to Chase Madar, "Bradley Manning deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom." Many venerable anti-war activists agree. Yet, to be fair, we should ask ourselves whether there could be a meaningful distinction between being a whistleblower and being an anonymous leaker. Whether, indeed, ...
  • Inner Worlds
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote prolifically about his inner life. His wild visions influenced, among many others, William Blake, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, and W.B. Yeats. Yet Swedenborg remains difficult to access directly, difficult to assess objectively. Paradoxically, what was cry ...
  • Mormon Madness
    It's not enough that we have sham Christian Evangelicals trying to run things. Now a Mormon wants — or seems to want — the presidency. But do you know what Mormons believe? I thought not. And yet, ironically, it will probably be thanks to Evangelical mouth breathers that we won't be ...

PR News

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Russia: Threat of R ...
    Hurriyet Daily News October 17, 2012 Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq and Russia ==== By providing financial assistance and arms [the] Sunni coalition and its Western supporters converted the Syrian uprising into a civil war. The danger is that this sectarian coalition might backfire at the end of the ...
  • Iran: Democracy Won’t Come Out Of NATO G ...
    Fars News Agency October 16, 2012 Ahmadinejad: Democracy Not Possible through NATO’s Guns TEHRAN: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at the West for pursuing a militaristic approach under the guise of expansion of democracy. “Democracy cannot be established through NATO ...
  • Germany: U.S. Leads NATO Exercises For Post-Af ...
    United States European CommandOctober 16, 2012   Saber Junction tests U.S., partners’ interoperabilityDenver Beaulieu-Hains, JMTC Public Affairs ==== U.S. Army Europe’s Joint Multinational Training Command facilitates this realistic training environment…enacting the larger maneuver space t ...
  • Turkish War Moves Strengthen Russia-Syria-Iran ...
    Russia & India Report October 15, 2012 Russia-Turkey ties slip downhill to the lowest level with over grounding of Syrian plane Dadan Upadhyay ==== Corroborating Syria’s view and denying Erdogan’s allegation, Lavrov told media persons in Moscow that Russian cargo seized from the Syrian aircr ...
  • NATO Readies 25,000-Troop Global Strike Force ...
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization Allied Rapid Reaction Corps October 12, 2012 NATO gives HQ ARRC green light for NRF role in 2013 ==== An NRF is a coherent, high-readiness, joint, multinational force package of up to 25,000 troops that is technologically advanced, flexible, deployable, interop ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein ...
    By Alex Thomas theintelhub.com October 16, 2012 In what can only be described as an absolute smack in the face of this once free country, Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein and her running mate have been arrested while attempting to gain access to tonight’s debate. Stein was att ...
  • Government Spending: $27 Million for Moroccan ...
    By Alec Scheer theintelhub.com October 16, 2012 Contributed by WeAre1776.org Tom Coburn, a medical doctor and a member of Congress has published “Waste Book 2012,” which outlines some of the wildest government expenditures. He reveals that $19 billion is spent on outlandish projects and programs ...
  • Obama or Romney: War and Economic Collapse Reg ...
    By Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com October 16, 2012 CNN is making a big deal out of Romney’s “right leaning” supporters. The corporate media branch of the Pentagon’s psyops program thinks there’s a good chance these “severely conservative” voters may push Romney over the top and get him installed in the ...
  • Don’t Celebrate Yet, But a Grassroots Victory ...
    By Mike Adams Natural News Oct 16, 2012 The battle against genetically modified organisms being secretly engineered into our foods now has only one possible outcome:  Victory for the People… and defeat of the corporate quack scientists and the outrageously dishonest and sinister biotech industry ...
  • Election Day Chaos? Obama Supporters Claim The ...
    Alex Thomas | Supporters of President Obama have apparently taken to Twitter to threaten Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with assassination if he happens to win the election.

FRS

  • IMF’s “generosity” imprisons ...
    IMF gold windfall helps poor countries now but won’t break cycle of debt By subsidising cheaper loans to low-income countries, the IMF will keep them trapped by debt repayments for years [A demonstration against the IMF and austerity policy in Lisbon. Are IMF loans maintaining a debt crisi ...
  • US military’s Asia-Pacific strategic foc ...
    US troops held over Okinawa alleged rape [Photo: There have been many protests over the US military footprint, like this one over the Osprey deployment] BBC, October 16, 2012–Two US troops have been arrested over the alleged rape of a Japanese woman on the island of Okinawa. The two men, i ...
  • The South Is Risen: Old Jim Crow Thrives Insid ...
    September 15, 2012 By Kevin Rashid Johnson, Oregon prisoner In her book, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander did a masterful job of exposing the U.S. criminal (in)justice system for what it is: namely, an updated, more sophisticated, continuation of repression and containment, and ...
  • The South Is Risen: Old Jim Crow Thrives Insid ...
    September 15, 2012 By Kevin Rashid Johnson, Oregon prisoner In her book, The New Jim Crow, legal scholar Michelle Alexander did a masterful job of exposing the U.S. criminal (in)justice system for what it is: namely, an updated, more sophisticated, continuation of repression and containment, and ...
  • Mexico: 176 arrested as student teachers prote ...
    Student protest in Mexico turns violent, 176 arrested By Agence France-Presse, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 MORELIA, Mexico — Mexican students protesting a new curriculum threw homemade explosives, fired rockets and hurled stones at police in a melee that left 176 arrested and 10 police officers in ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

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

Associated Content

  • Debate Follow-Up Questions Create Risk of Poli ...
    After the first presidential debate I opined that debate moderators needed to be younger and more forceful. Now a new debate is thrust upon us regarding the role of debate moderator: Should the moderator be allowed follow-up questions?Contributor: Calvin Wolf Published: Oct 15, 2012
  • Biden’s Engagement Trumped His Rudeness During ...
    Biden came to this debate well-prepared, and while he may have laughed at and interrupted Paul Ryan too much, his substance made up for his style.Contributor: Roy A. Barnes Published: Oct 12, 2012
  • Mitt Romney Urges Peace Through Strength in Fo ...
    Mitt Romney ventured to the Virginia Military Institute and delivered a wide ranging foreign policy address that was made all the more important and relevant by two recent developments.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Oct 09, 2012
  • Anti-Science Congressman Should Resign from Sc ...
    A recent video of Rep. Paul Broun saying science is "lies from the pit of hell" is grossly unfit to serve on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and should resign.Contributor: Micah Taylor Published: Oct 08, 2012
  • Romney vs. Big Bird: Statement Brings Out Hypo ...
    Ever since Mitt Romney made his statement about cutting the federal funding of PBS, hypocrites have taken to social media to blast the candidate for threatening the system they do not donate to or even watch.Contributor: L. Vincent Poupard Published: Oct 04, 2012

Popsci - Science

  • New Discovery: An Earth-Scale Planet Orbits Al ...
    Meet our closest neighbor. The planet closely orbits Alpha Centauri B, which is a little bit smaller than the sun. The Alpha Centauri system, our closest interstellar neighbor and long the stuff of science fiction lore, harbors a planet about the size of the Earth. It whips around its star, Alp ...
  • Infographic: How Close Did Felix Baumgartner G ...
    Did he get close to orbiting satellites? Could he have been struck by a flaming meteor? PopSci investigates! Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner set a new world record Sunday when he leapt from a capsule suspended 128,100 feet--about 24 miles--above Earth's surface. Watching the livefeed as h ...
  • The Economics of Genomics: [Sponsored Post]
    Genetic science is already shaping everything from medicine to agriculture. And the latest advances suggest this may only be the tip of the iceberg. Taymour Tamaddon - Taymour Tamaddon is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is a research analyst in the U.S. Equity Division, fo ...
  • New Version of Classic Marshmallow Experiment ...
    Whether to eat a treat now or save it for later depends on a child's worldview--which can be manipulated. For four decades, a classic psychological experiment on kids has tested the strength of their wills: Will a toddler eat a marshmallow right now, or hold out for two? It’s been used to measu ...
  • PopSci Q&A: How Much Do Presidential Debates M ...
    And what do voters really care about? The authors of "Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work At All Works So Well" weigh in. With one presidential debate down and the second gearing up for tonight, we've been wondering: Do debates actually matter in an election, and if so, w ...

Veterans Today

  • Infomercials for Despots
    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.
  • U.S. Department of Defense Contract Awards for ...
    Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $22,055,922 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00019-07-D-0004) to exercise an option for special progressive aircraft rework of two fiscal 2013 VH-60N aircraft.
  • Press TV Ban Tantamount to Human Rights Violation
    The recent EU move to take Press TV off the air is to be seen as part of a continued process of media violation against this alternative channel.
  • Taliban Attack on Malala Proves “Belief ...
    The cowardly and brutal attack last week on the 14-year-old girl Malala Yousafzai by the Islamic terrorist group the Taliban shows the truth to this statement by the American founder and Deist Thomas Paine, "Belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
  • Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News – Octo ...
    Veterans treatment courts have popped up across the country to help troubled Vets integrate with VA care to get the help they need. The courts were featured on a recent edition of 60 Minutes.

War is Business

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • A step forward in forecasting cold winters?
    Sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) has been the 'in' topic in meteorological circles in the last couple of years, ever since the severe winter of 2009/2010 in which December was the coldest since the late 19th century. SSW is linked to sudden large increases in temperature over a few days in t ...
  • Regional and global climate update
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