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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

17 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

Mali Lošinj
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WTO Public Forum 2010
WTO Public Forum 2010 (Photo credit: World Trade Organization)
English: The Kate Sharpley Library booth at th...
English: The Kate Sharpley Library booth at the 2011 San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair. Barry Pateman seated at left. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Unionization, Or Why American Carriers Stink
    [NOTE: This post won't win me any points with the Barack Obama / Dean Baker / union apologist crowd, but this blog couldn't care less about parochial US concerns. This is the international political economy zone, buddy.] Everyone knows that American carriers are among the worst in the world, and ...
  • Of Payday Lender Football Sponsorship and Islam
    Shirt sponsors obviously occupy the best camera-estate you can buy on football jerseys. In the past, there have been infamous companies occupying this space alike the late AIG with the world's most famous football club, Manchester United. Unfortunately for the Mancunians, they had to sport the d ...
  • Andy Xie and the End of the WTO's 'Golden Age'
    [Remember the WTO? It's been so long since I have commented on it, so here's something for everyone.] Say what you will about Andy Xie, but he isn't one who refrains from speaking his mind. Remember, he famously left Morgan Stanley in 2006 for suggesting that erstwhile Asian tiger economy Singap ...
  • Get Lost Foreign Students: Today's United Kingdom
    Having been one at various points in life, I generally believe foreign students are harmless. While they are certainly easy targets for xenophobia--recall how the United States tightened student visas in the wake of 9/11 before universities that had become reliant on full-tuition paying foreign ...
  • 'Security', Last Refuge of Yank Trade Scoundrels
    You've got to hand it to the Americans in the having your cake and eating it too department: While asking the rest of the world to economically open up, it has been far more guarded when it comes to accepting FDI from...certain other nations. I of course speak of China. With still-gargantuan tra ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • 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 ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U 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 ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Heartless Hart at it Again
    Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart just cannot stop insulting victims every time he opens his mouth. He wrote another letter this week, in conjunction with his fellow Victorian bishops and leaders of religious orders, which reached its intended audience, the news media, yesterday. He even started o ...
  • True meaning of the word “CATHOLIC”
    C – Callous A – Arrogant T – Totalitarian H – Hierarchy O – Obstinately L – Lying about I – Indecent assaults against C – Children
  • Pope’s butler faces jail, unlike rapists ...
    In yet a further example of pernicious Vatican hypocrisy, the Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, faces trial and very likely jail for the crime of revealing the truth about the corruption and infighting endemic amongst the ‘holy’ men who inhabit the Vatican. It is indeed encouragin ...
  • Vale John Pirona
    John Pirona was farewelled yesterday in a moving, uplifting and beautiful ceremony. A huge number of family, friends, colleagues and well wishers spilled out of the building, filling the surrounds with a sea of people who fervently wished they could somehow undo the events which led to this day. ...
  • Letter to politicians demanding Royal Commissi ...
    In my previous post I called on everyone to write to politicians to demand action to ensure that John Pirona’s tragic death is the last one. I am happy to help make this important job easier. Here’s a draft letter if you don’t have time to write your own. Or use it as a start [...]

WL Central

  • 2012-08-13 WikiLeaks: 'We're ready to rumble'
    After being offline since 3 August, wikileaks.org came back tonight under the protection of CloudFlare. The donations channels are again open. read more
  • 2012-08-12 WLC News Update: Sustained DDoS, Tr ...
    The WikiLeaks Collateral Murder website is now http://collateralmurder.org and is being protected by CloudFlare. The TrapWire surveillance technology revealed in the Global Intelligence Files continues to make headlines. read more
  • 2012-08-11 Brazil Torn in Different Directions
    By Nikolas Kozloff. Due to competing interests, the emerging world power's foreign policy is being pulled between pragmatism and idealism. read more
  • 2012-08-11 WLC News Update: DDoS continues, Tr ...
    WikiLeaks News WikiLeaks and related sites continue battling a massive DDoS attack. WL Central provides the latest information on the attack. The WikiLeaks GI Files have revealed the secret, widespread surveillance system TrapWire. Ben Doernberg offers a thorough explanation of what TrapWire is ...
  • 2012-08-10 WikiLeaks: Paraguay's "Quasi-Coup" ...
    By Nikolas Kozloff. In the wake of Paraguay's suspicious impeachment of President Fernando Lugo, which observers have likened to a kind of "quasi-coup," some may wonder whether underhanded corporate forces may have played a role in the political crisis. Such suspicions were heightened recently w ...

U N News

  • Security Council extends mandate of UN peaceke ...
    The Security Council today extended the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti for another year, and decided to reduce the overall force levels as responsibility for security is gradually handed over to the national police.
  • UN human rights teams head to scene of deadly ...
    United Nations human rights officers have been dispatched to western Guatemala, where clashes between indigenous communities, police and the military have resulted in several deaths and injuries.
  • Thousands of families in Colombia to benefit f ...
    More than 50,000 families in Colombia will benefit from a United Nations-backed rural poverty reduction project which seeks to facilitate access to financing and community services for small-scale producers.
  • Haiti must strengthen rule of law institutions ...
    Haiti must focus on strengthening its rule of law institutions, including its national police and electoral council, to consolidate the gains it has achieved in recent years, the United Nations Security Council heard today as it reviewed developments in the Caribbean country.
  • Legal equality of states' needed at UN, Venezu ...
    In calling for significant reform of the United Nations, Venezuela's representative to the world body, Ambassador Jorge Valero, told the UN General Assembly today that a "re-foundation of the United Nations is necessary" with a new international order based on the "legal equality of states."

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Aurora Batman Shooting – Many Coincidences
    The trailer for Gangster Squad (shown before the movie) shows a theatre full of people being shot by numerous gunmen. This Batman comic "The Dark Knight Returns" depicts a Batman inspired shooting at a movie theatre.
  • CIA Agent Warns: “Never Watch the TV, the Grea ...
    He'll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It's the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised.
  • The Magic Weed
    Hemp growing doesn't need any weed killing, no pesticide. Its raw material grows naturally and it doesn't need chemical intervention.
  • Blood Coltan
    Blood coltan still exists. I'm holding a mobile phone. And I know that the microprocessor it contains uses coltan. And if this coltan has been obtained at the massacre of 10 or 20 villagers through slave labor, the suffering of children forced to work in the mines by the armed militia. This is i ...
  • CAMP FEMA 2: Enemy of the State
    Some state governments passed measures to forcibly quarantine residents, incarcerate those who refuse to be vaccinated, and to forcibly vaccinate your children. Legislation like this passed during the much hyped H1N1 flu outbreak.

Rewilding Institute

  • Progressives to Launch an Environmental Impact ...
    (September 4, 2012)  The DC-based group Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) recently announced a major new project: an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on U.S. immigration policy.  PFIR has also unveiled the website for the new project, and invites public comments on the proper scope ...
  • Prairie Dog Preservation & Black-footed Ferret ...
    Published on Aug 17, 2012 by NewMexicoPBS Why is it important for prairie dogs to be restored to their native habitat? Biologist Dr. Ana Davidson and Petunia (Gunnison’s prairie dog) join us to share insights about the ecology of New Mexico’s grasslands and the importance of reestabl ...
  • Upcoming Public Meetings About the Village at ...
    Please attend these important public meetings about the Village at Wolf Creek access project - The Wolf Creek and Alberta Park – Rio Grande National Forest Land Swap DEIS Comment Period ends September 28th and the Forest Service seems poised to give Leavell-McCombs Joint Venture (LMJV) 204 ...
  • Around the Campfire with Uncle Dave – Natural ...
    Natural History:  the Ground Upon Which Conservation Rests ©2012 Dave Foreman It is a few months later than I would have liked, but the next Rewilding Institute book, Take Back Conservation, is at last with Raven’s Eye Press in Durango.  It will roll off the press in time for Yule gifts (hint, h ...
  • The Politics of Climate Change
    Originally published in CounterPunch – Weekend Edition August 3-5, 2012 The Age of Unsustainable Problems The Politics of Climate Change by Dr. BRIAN MILLER and GEORGE WUERTHNER Politics cloud the issue of climate change.  We have a global economy driven by fossil fuels.  Whoever controls ...

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • What's Going On?... Strange Domes to Line the ...
    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, are “almost impenetra ...
  • Nationwide Gun Ban Coming to America!
    Will they come for our guns like thieves in the night?... Who will try to disarm the American people? U.S. troops? Russian troops? Chinese troops? We won't know... The American people must not allow this to happen or we will become another UN controlled nation of disarmed fools. ~ Video read more
  • There's a Quiet Urgency... There's 'Something' ...
    I attended a gun show yesterday morning, just over a quarter-century after attending my first and only gun show. The first venue was located less than a mile from the current venue. Despite the passage of time, the memories of attending my first event remain surprisingly fresh in my mind. I ...
  • Coming ... The 3 False Flag Attacks
    Due to the complete failure of all our systems of law/justice/intelligence to rout out the conspirators of 9/11 and other previous false flags there’s no doubt we’ll see another. If they can sit in the White House and plan to have americans killing americans to start war we have a BIG proble ...
  • Obama’s 9/11... Benghazi
    Benghazi, Libya, September 11, 2012, 11 years after September 11, 2001, when Al-Qaeda took down the twin towers in New York City drove a plane into the ground in Pennsylvania, and sent one into the Pentagon! Do you remember that? Or have you forgotten already? ~ Leon Puissergur - Related ar ...

Tarpley

Modern Survivalism

  • How Much Water For Freeze-Dried vs. Dehydrated ...
    Freeze-dried foods have 98% of their water removed. This reduces the food’s weight by about 90%. Dehydrated foods have 95% of their water removed for vegetables and 80% for fruits. Freeze dried foods retain their original color, form, size, taste and texture. Dehydrated foods will shrivel ...
  • East Coast Earthquake! Magnitude 4.6
    Felt intensely in New England, a magnitude 4.6 earthquake struck near Hollis, Maine at 7:12 PM local time, October 16, about 85 miles north of Boston. The earthquake rippled out from the epicenter, which was very shallow at 5km (about 3 miles under the earth’s surface), which was a reason ...
  • How To Survive A Stampede
    Mass casualties can result from a human stampede. A peaceful crowd can quickly turn into a senseless panicked heaving mass in which rational behavior by any single individual becomes nearly impossible. What’s worse is that the stampede can be triggered while there is no actual danger. Unde ...
  • How To Escape A Riot
    Given that the news media is reporting on the fact that threats to riot are pouring in (apparently untold thousands on twitter) that ‘people’ will riot if Obama loses the election, here are a few ideas of how to escape a riot, should you get caught up in one. Stay calm and keep your ...
  • Cooper’s Color Code Definition
    Col. Jeff Cooper was a legend in the shooting and self-defense worlds. In addition to being instrumental in refining and popularizing many modern pistol and self-defense techniques, Col. Cooper was an advocate of a prepared armed citizenry. He believed that the most important survival tool was t ...

Fast Company

  • Online Advertising Spend Converging With Print ...
    They've been on the rise for a couple of years now, but projected figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau claim that online ad spend will, by the end of this year, be greater than that of its print counterpart. The report (.pdf file), commissioned by the IAB and carried out by PwC, has o ...
  • Global Smartphone Use Set To Double In Three Years
    There are now over a billion smartphones in use worldwide, according to new data - and that figure is expected to double in just three years. And, given that it's taken 16 years to get to the magic number, citing 1996's Nokia Communicator as the first time a mobile communications device got a th ...
  • Microsoft Reveals Surprisingly Expensive Surfa ...
    As October 26 approaches, more details about the Microsoft Surface are trickling out of Redmond, along with an early review of the firm's long-awaited Windows 8 OS from Walter Mossberg. The latest information concerns the tablet's pricing - and it ain't pretty, especially given that the iPad Min ...
  • Creating A Visual Brand For Every U.S. President
    Frankin Pierce, now’s your time to shine.
  • The iPad Mini Will Be Bad For Your Kids. Discuss
    There's a strong argument to be made, if you follow a certain line of reasoning, that the upcoming iPad mini will be bad for children. Full-size iPads are already freely used in the home by millions of children, we know. And yet since Apple's tablet PC burst onto the scene three years ago there' ...

Jadaliyya

  • اليهودي الجيد: سياسات الهوية في التراث المؤسسا ...
     من هو اليهودي "الجيد" في التراث الأمريكي المعاصر؟ ما هي العلاقة بين الصهيونية وبين الهوية اليهودية؟ كيف يتعامل اليهود المعادون للصهيونية، أو يقاومون، سوء استخدام إيمانهم في الفكر الصهيوني؟ وهل يمكن للإجابات عن هذه الأسئلة أن تحقق تطوراً في قضية العدالة في إسرائيل وفلسطين؟ يبدو ...
  • La Libye un an après
    Alors que la scène politique libyenne commence difficilement à se stabiliser (élections au Congrès National le 7 juillet, passation des pouvoirs avec le Conseil National de Transition le 9 août, élection du Premier ministre Mustafa Abou Shagour le 12 septembre puis son renvoi par le Congrès ...
  • New Texts Out Now: Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Liby ...
    Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, "Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship, and the Challenge for Democracy." North African Revolutions, special issue of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 3.1 (2012) Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this article? Ali Ahmida (AA): This article was inspir ...
  • Yehouda Shenav's "Beyond the Two-State Solution"
    …the Green Line is a cultural myth, harnessed to advance the economic-political and cultural interests of a broad liberal Jewish stratum of society in Israel.  This is the source of the paradox: The principle obstacle for a shift in the historical language resides with the liberal cl ...
  • Gaza Water Confined and Contaminated
    "Take ANY city in the world and cut it off from its hinterland and then try to organise "automonous" water supply within and for the city! No, city, I repeat, no city in the world would be able to survive."  --C. Messerschmid to Visualizing Palestine    The ...

mediagazer

  • Tuesday Q&A: Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip ...
    Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab: Tuesday Q&A: Globe and Mail Publisher Phillip Crawley on the paper's paywall plans  —  The Globe and Mail often gets called Canada's New York Times, because of the paper's size and reach on the northern side of the 49th parallel.  N ...
  • What news brand has the most pull on Twitter? ...
    Jeff John Roberts / paidContent: What news brand has the most pull on Twitter?  Finally, some answers  —  Who has more clout in spreading the news: the New York Times, the Guardian or Wired?  Such questions have been the stuff of cocktail chatter but now, thanks to the ...
  • St. Louis Non-Profit News Orgs Partner on Beyo ...
    Amanda Hirsch / MediaShift: St. Louis Non-Profit News Orgs Partner on Beyond November and More  —  Correction: The Twitter hashtag for Beyond November is #beyondnov, not #beyondnovember as a previous version of this post stated.  —  In St. Louis, three non-profit ...
  • Washington Post Close To Replacing Marcus Brau ...
    Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Washington Post Close To Replacing Marcus Brauchli As Executive Editor: Sources  —  Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli has been a marked man at least since March, when his boss, publisher Katharine Weymouth, tried and failed to hire someone ...
  • Union: New York Times newsroom managers got ra ...
    Jim Romenesko: Union: New York Times newsroom managers got raises while our wages were frozen  —  “The Mobilization Committee” at the New York Times tells guild members this afternoon that newsroom managers have been nicely rewarded. … Read the memo after the ...

Chemtrail News

  • CHEMTRAIL AND UFO SIGHTING, PORIRUA, NZ ...
    I suspected it of being a Chemtrail and therefore pulled out the video camera to film it. Many planes went by during the shooting, more than any other time I have ... https://chemtrailsnorthnz.wordpress.com/.../chemtrail-and-ufo-...
  • Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-en ...
    Maui residents craft legislation to ban geo-engineering 'chemtrails' www.naturalnews.com/033691_chemtrails_Maui.html
  • 10 mile long chemtrail 1 Video
    probably longer. denver,co 9/23/11 Author: Boondox681 Keywords: denver ten mile long chemtrail Added: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:33:25. vodpod.com/watch/15460352-10-mile-long-chemtrail-1
  • ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic ...
    Headlines ChemTrail Pilot Admits to 'Domestic Terrorism'! ... Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals and Chemical Aerosols on Human Health · Heavy ... www.davidicke.com/.../53899-chemtrail-pilot-admits-to-dome...
  • Chemtrail Rainbow - YouTube
    Chemtrails caused rainbow....no rain. ... I have several (which I think are ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcOyMeW0xpU

World News - Top Stories

  • Player Ratings: Germany 4-4 Sweden
    Goal.com rates the players on show as Joachim Low's side throw away a four-goal lead with a stoppage-time Rasmus Elm strike ensuring the spoils were shared in Berlin By Tom Webber Comments Germany 3.13 0 0...
  • Giroud earns France a late draw in Spain
    AFP - Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud grabbed a last minute header to earn France a 1-1 draw with Spain in Madrid in Tuesday night's Group I World Cup qualifier. Sergio Ramos gave Spain a first half lead that the world and European champions never looked like defending in an uncustomary nervy ...
  • Jelly-like atmospheric particles resist c ...
    Secondary organic materials (SOM) are airborne particles that have begun to react with gases in the atmosphere. In the last 20 years' research and climate modeling, these SOM particles have been assumed to drift as liquids. In a liquid phase, the organic materials would absorb other compound ...
  • Schweinsteiger left stunned after Germany ...
    The midfielder says he cannot comprehend how his side managed to squander a seemingly unassailable lead in Tuesday's Group C clash against Sweden in Berlin...
  • Ramos: Late goal was Spain's fault
    The 26-year-old defender said his side were to blame for failing to see out the game, but refused to blame individual players following the match By Charlie Scott...

no frakking consensus

  • Deja Vu All Over again…1991′s &#82 ...
    Before there was Al Gore, there was George Mitchell. Politicians have been casting themselves as environmental crusaders, saving the planet, for two decades.
  • How Science (Really) Works
    A new report argues that alternative perspectives are vital to the scientific process. Expecting dispassion from individual researchers is probably a lost cause.
  • Another False Alarm – ‘The Dying o ...
    A 17-year-old book about the state of America's forests is similar to current books about climate change. Its analysis and predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong.
  • Your Future, Courtesy of Climate Activists
    The head of research at a prominent UK climate facility believes that those of us who use refrigerators and drive cars will need to be coerced into altering our lifestyles.
  • The Anti-Free-Speech Brigade
    Last week 18,000 people signed a petition demanding that a publicly-funded television station 'never again' report on a particular point-of-view.

Anna's News

  • Now it's 4D film: The high-tech cinemas which ...
    Hollywood is converting blockbuster films into 4-D because cinemagoers are shunning pricey multi-dimensional 3-D versionsBut the experience has left some fans feeling sick, damp and pummeled after watching movies like Kung Fu Panda 2 and the latest ...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Science & ...
  • National Parks at Risk: Photos
    National parks represent our country's last stronghold of wilderness. But the large majority of parks are suffering, too.Ninety-five percent of parks assessed in a recent study have lost key species that once helped define them. Meanwhile, 91 percent .... Submitted by Anna Smith to Animals &nbs ...
  • Suicide rates in Europe 'linked' to financial ...
    The financial crisis "almost certainly" led to an increase in suicides across Europe, health experts say.The analysis by US and UK researchers found a rise in suicides was recorded among working age people from 2007 to 2009 in nine of the 10 nations...... Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Well ...
  • Polar Shifts on Rising Seas
    How high will the oceans rise in response to our warming global climate, and how fast will it happen?Climate scientists have been unable to answer these basic questions with any confidence, mainly because they can't really tell how the ice caps at the.... Submitted by Anna Smith to Environment ...
  • Green energy investment hits record global high
    Global investment in renewable energy sources grew by 32% during 2010 to reach a record level of US$211bn (£132bn), a UN study has reported.The main growth drivers were backing for wind farms in China and rooftop solar panels in Europe, it said. Submitted by Anna Smith to Green Lifestyle &nb ...

Medical Marijuana

  • 10/16/12 - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of ...
    healthcarereform.procon.org - Obamacare: A Nonpartisan Review of What It Is and What It Is Not - Our new 128-page review compiles responses from experts and legislators to 62 frequently asked questions about Obamacare in topics ranging from taxes, insurance premiums, and pre-existing condit ...
  • 10/15/12 - Six States with Pending Legislation ...
    medicalmarijuana.procon.org - Six States with Pending Legislation to Legalize Medical Marijuana - Two states have initiatives on the Nov. 6, 2012 ballot (Arkansas and Massachusetts) while four other states have pending bills in the state legislature (IL, NY, OH, and PA).
  • 10/11/12 - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org
    www.procon.org - - 174 Books Citing ProCon.org - We've added 16 new books to the list of works citing ProCon.org research, including books about the Middle East, bioethics, criminal law, and even the death of Bruce Lee.
  • 10/11/12 - Should the United States intervene ...
    2012election.procon.org - Should the United States intervene militarily in Syria? – Johnson and Stein are Con.  Goode, Obama, and Romney are Not Clearly Pro or Con.
  • 10/11/12 - Should churches (defined as churche ...
    2012election.procon.org - Should churches (defined as churches, temples, mosques, synagogues, etc.) remain tax-exempt? – Johnson is Con.  Stein is Not Clearly Pro or Con.

Truth About Our World

Gyrovague's Raves

  • The Killing of the Liberal Arts
    JOSEPH EPSTEIN In a loose definition, the “liberal arts” denote college study anchored in preponderantly Western literature, philosophy, and history, with science, mathematics, and foreign languages playing a substantial, though less central, role; in more recent times, the social science subjec ...
  • Tyrants and Art
    Culture thrives on conflict and antagonism, not social harmony – a point made rather memorably by a certain Harry Lime, says philosopher John Gray. "In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vin ...
  • Barthes in China
    Adrian Versteegh “It will be necessary to start off with the major fact,” writes Roland Barthes in Travels in China, “the absolute uniformity of clothes.” That this should count as a “major fact”—partway through a journal that opens with a gripe about freshly stained trousers—ought to provide so ...
  • Progress: A Linear Development?
    Rolf-Dieter Heuer With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last gap in the "Standard Model" of physics has been filled. Martin Eiermann talked with the head of the CERN laboraties, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, about the future of physics, the value of diversity, and the difference between knowle ...
  • The intelligent textbook
    Want to know more about your subject? Type in your own question and artificially intelligent software will construct a new page to answer your query Michael Reilly The aim of Inquire is to provide students with the world’s first intelligent textbook, says its creator David Gunning of Seatt ...

In Verbena | Royal Society

  • Looking forward to a Labour science policy
    Ed Miliband certainly stirred his troops in to a frenzy of enthusiasm last Tuesday in Manchester. Labour party conference last week was quite different to my first visit to party conference world last year; the party in opposition seemed to me to be confident and business-like. At many events we ...
  • We need to talk about population
    After working on the Royal Society’s People and the planet report for almost 2 years, and after attending a number of party conferences, it seemed only natural to me that this year we might have an event at the party conferences on the topic of our report. It seemed particularly relevant given t ...
  • Brighton rock and cupcake campaigning
    Strolling along the Brighton seafront in neon FRACK OR NOT? t-shirts, my colleague and I drew the attention of a local member of Frack Off, an organisation campaigning against shale gas extraction in the UK. Our seaside location was on account of the Liberal Democrats’ annual party conference. A ...
  • An ecosystems approach: the holy grail for inn ...
    From Monday 24 September 2012 Yesterday evening I attended the Big Innovation Centre’s Lib Dem Fringe event: It’s innovation stupid: Is the strategy for growth working? This was by far the liveliest event I’ve attended during the Lib Dem conference so far. Although Will Hutton only used the F wo ...
  • Lib Dems pass motion for sensible vs stop-star ...
    From Monday 24 September 2012 I’m new to party conferences, but I felt remarkably at home during Julian Huppert’s policy motion: Developing a future – policies for science and research. The science-savvy Lib Dems, voted unanimously to pass a motion (available here) for a ring-fenced science budg ...

NAU Resistance

  • End of Nations: Canada, the US and the “Securi ...
    Regardless of whether this particular agreement bears fruit for those seeking to bring the two countries into a closer union, or whether it is just another waypoint on the road of a much longer and more detailed process, the very real concerns about the erosion of national sovereignty implicit i ...
  • Goodbye Kyoto, Make Way For The North American ...
    "On Tuesday December 13th the Minister of the Environment Peter Kent announced that Canada is removing itself from the Kyoto Protocol. Kent is pushing for a more unified agreement that would unite all nation's on a global scale."
  • The Pretext For A North American Homeland Secu ...
    "Any deal which gives the Department of Homeland Security more personal information poses a serious risk to privacy rights"
  • Welcome To Fortress North America! NAU-Phase One
    We knew that there was nothing “new” at all to be found in this "new border vision"
  • Paving The Way For A North American Union
    By: Press For Truth (http://www.pressfortruth.ca) Release Date: 11/9/11 The agenda for a North American Union is underway and a new security perimeter deal will blur the lines at the border and further erode the sovereignty of Canadians and Americans. On November 13th Stephen Harper, Barack Ob ...

Gaea Times

  • Now, hairbrush that reads your mind
    WASHINGTON - Who says hairbrush can only be used to comb locks? Scientists have made a hairbrush like device that would be able to monitor mental activity. One of the main techniques for measuring and monitoring mental activity, called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), can often b ...
  • Man U?s bemused Fergie tells shifty Roo to res ...
    LONDON - Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has told key striker Wayne Rooney that he must respect the club and its traditions if he wants to stay on. Commenting on reports that suggest that the star player wants to leave Manchester United for another club - either Manchester City or ...
  • Ava Sambora Walks The Runway
    more images LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- It seems that the celebrity children are making headlines now a days. Just few days back Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s daughter Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” went viral online, its time for Ava Sambora, the 13 year old daugh ...
  • Tylenol Recall Ghost Haunts Johnson & Johnson
    more images FORT WASHINGTON (GaeaTimes.com)- Johnson & Johnson the diversified pharmaceutical and health care company is back in news though for the wrong reasons. Tylenol is a product made by the company that is being recalled now in USA and Puerto Rico. This is not the first time that the ...
  • VHP seers meet in Ayodhya to decide on road ahead
    AYODHYA - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has convened a meeting of leading seers here Wednesday to decide on the road ahead after the verdict on the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The 41-member central committee of seers will assemble at the Karsewak Puram camp. Amongst those participat ...

TruthNews Australia

  • A journey into Truth
    In tonight's show we plunge into the deeply confusing realm of philosophy with the objective of understanding the nature of truth itself. In philosophy this type of investigation is sometimes called Epistemology, or the study of knowledge. During the show we look at 2 major philosophical debat ...
  • Thugs have threatened to shut down TNRA - we m ...
    Some of the fanatical chemtrail believers are posting threats on this website, eg: Hereward as a computer whatever I hope you know about zombie trojans and how to check for them. Buckle up boys the ride is about to get bumpy These threats are of course pathetic and indicative of a major ...
  • Interview with Jan Irvin - Part 1
    Jan Irvin is the author of The Holy Mushroom: Evidence of Mushrooms in Judeo-Christianity, host of the podcast show Gnostic Media, and webmaster of Trivium Education, a website which teaches the ancient arts of Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric. General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, ...
  • Interview with Syrian Girl - Part 1
    My guest in the 2nd hour of today's show is activist and vlogger Mimi Al-Laham, better known as "Syrian Girl" on youtube. Mimi has been posting videos for some time highlighting the deceptions in the mainstream media coverage of the Syrian conflict. Our conversation ranges from questions about ...
  • International news and analysis with George Ge ...
    Today's show covers a variety of both local and international news with our in-studio guest Georgios. Some of the topics covered include developments in the Assange stand-off in London, and a final ruling in the protracted civil lawsuit over the death in Gaza of activist Rachel Corrie. We al ...

Beacon

  • Hottest September Ever Recorded
    ©Wikimedia Commons Well these records seem to be falling by the wayside quickly. Last month we learned that arctic summer sea ice had shrunk to its smallest extent ever. By a lot. Today we learn that this past September tied September of 2005 for the hottest on record. One stat released by N ...
  • Happy World Food Day!
    Fisheries can provide 700 million meals a day ©Oceana If it’s October 16th then it’s World Food Day! At Oceana we recognize the importance of this day, launched in 1979 by the UN to bring light to the issue of world hunger. With the world population careening towards 9 billion by mid-century ...
  • Oceana Launches Lawsuit to Protect Sea Turtles
    Loggerheads need protection ©Wikimedia Commons Oceana, along with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, announced last week that they intend to sue the federal government over its failure to designate critical habitat areas for loggerhead sea turtles i ...
  • Florida Swordfishermen turn to Less Destructiv ...
    It's rare that the issues of longline fishing and bycatch make it to the evening news, but this report from CNN highlights a promising technology called buoy gear fishing that could replace the extremely destructive practice of longline fishing for swordfish. As you might guess, traditional ...
  • Ted Danson: Save the Oceans, Feed the World
    In this new video actor Ted Danson talks about the founding of Oceana a decade ago and its growth in becoming the largest ocean-only conservation group in the world. Now, he says, Oceana's focus is on saving our fisheries. As he notes, a third of fish caught worldwide are discarded, never makin ...

Civilian Military Intelligence Group

  • The Birkenhead Drill: The Origin Of “Wom ...
      The Wreck Of The Birkenhead   On February 26th, 1852 the HMS Birkenhead, a British troop carrier transporting troops for the Navy struck a rock while bringing soldiers to South Africa. The British were locked in a war with the Khosa tribe in what was now termed the Kaffir Wars. Reali ...
  • The Sexual State Of The Union During The Ameri ...
      General “Fighting Joe” Joe Hooker   There was plenty of pornography during the Civil War. As hard as it is to believe that well produced photographs, woodcuts, and daguerreotypes were plentiful during a war that robbed so many of their resources. From time immemorial, peo ...
  • Allotment Annies. Women Who Married Multiple M ...
      We all know that there are those who play by the rules and those who never play by the rules. One has to wonder how many of these people got away with this scam, but it is a doozie. Women who married GIs deployed over seas in World War II got to collect their [...]
  • The Return Of The Airship.
        The old airship hangars in warehouse districts alongside the 405 in Carson are doing something that hasn’t been done in the United States in a long time. They are building zeppelin like-airships-for use in military applications. Today when we have such control of the skies, i ...
  • Fascinating But Horrifying Gun Camera Footage ...

Taylor Marsh

  • Obama and Romney Detest Each Other
    Competing for a shrinking sliver of undecided voters, many of them women, their engagements at times bordered on physical as they circled each other or bounded out of their seats while the other was speaking, at times more intent to argue than to address the questions over jobs, taxes, energy, i ...
  • Blame the Libs
    WHAT ARE they thinking inside the White House bubble? All these days later there is still no transparent and believable response from the Obama administration on the terrorist attack in Benghazi? How can the Obama administration still sound positively incoherent on the attack? Oh, wait, I forgot ...
  • Crowley’s Town Hall and a “Man Up” Question on ...
    [Former Ambassador Richard Williamson, a top foreign policy adviser to the Romney campaign] added that Romney would try “to ask the president to man up, accept his responsibility and explain to the people the failure that resulted in four American deaths.” – Adviser says Romney ...
  • Top Story: The Clinton-Obama Wall: From Bengha ...
    If Obama wins, it may be because the former president saved his presidency—but what exactly do the Clintons get in return? – Bill & Hillary Forever, by John Heilemann THIS IS really quite extraordinary. In modern American history there is no parallel. On the foreign crisis policy of t ...
  • 96 Pro Social Security Groups Demand Hands off ...
    Social Security benefit payments will rise by only 1.7 percent in 2013, down sharply from a 3.6 percent increase in 2012′s cost of living adjustment (COLA). That boost followed two years of no COLA increase. The Social Security Administration said next year’s COLA would raise the ave ...

Hudson New York

  • Jordan: King Abdullah Losing the Support of Tr ...
    Walid Obeidat, Jordan's new ambassador to Israel, a member of one of Jordan's largest and most influential tribes, deserves an award for being one of the most courageous diplomats not only in his country, but in the entire Arab world. His tribe has now
  • Saving Solar Energy From the Government and th ...
    When government steps out of its legitimate role supporting basic scientific research, and attempts to play venture capitalist, the results are usually disastrous. It is clear that, unlike venture capitalists, politicians are not accountable to either
  • New Threats to Free Speech
    The truth regarding that low-budget video, however, is that all the stories in it were taken from the Islamic books on Mohammed's life, "Sirat Rasul Allah" ["The Life of the Messenger of Allah"], the earliest biography of Muhammad, as well as from quotes
  • The Canada Factor: Policies for a Stronger Con ...
    Building U.S.-Canada relations is more urgent than ever, both economically and in foreign affairs. If America intends to keep its advantage as a superpower, it will greatly help to ally with its neighbor, Canada. While Canada has depended upon the U.S.
  • The Alawites and the Future of Syria
    The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form or disintegrates into even smaller ethnic and religious entities. As they will play such an important role, America,

Urban Survival

  • Strong-arm and Hornswoggle Tuesday Plus CPI
    I have to say some mornings of looking over the news there’s little rhyme or reason to it.  But then there are mornings like this one when a general flow or undercurrent to the headlines seems to come into view.  … Continue reading →
  • Coping: The national Stupid Pill
    As a long-time news-chaser, and having watched politics closely for almost 40-years now, I think we’re almost to “turn it off” day…a mythical date, well in advance of the election where people ought to just shut down all inputs and … Continue reading →
  • Nobel Things: Shapley and Roth
    The press release from the Nobel Prize folks this morning for economics is interesting to me, but if you doze off during the details, I can’t say I’d blame you:   “This year’s Prize concerns a central economic problem: how … Continue reading →
  • Coping: Are We Reliving 1997?
    So there I was, coffee in hand wondering “What would be an interesting coping section this morning?  When in comes an email from Stu – a/k/a/ G.A. Stewart and expert on all things Nostradamus.  And a doggone interesting email it … Continue reading →
  • The Markets Were Right
    I told you in yesterday’s report that the reason the markets stopped their decline of recent days was they were channeling the future: a Ryan win in the veep debate last night.  And, indeed, Ryan was formidable, depending on which … Continue reading →

Trends & Forecasts

Radical Chic

  • NIGERIAN PARTIES vs PARTIES IN ENGLAND
    Once you have been to ‘one’ Nigerian party in your life it is safe to say that you will always know the menu. It is an unwritten rule that you can be as exotic as you like, but if your party lacks certain fundamental items, it really isn’t a party. There ‘must’ be J ...
  • AFRICAN ROMANCE: ‘Thorns With Roses&#821 ...
    I once attended a wild party where I had an unusual encounter. It came in the form of a one night stand. I was a twenty-two year old student, sent to the US to get my MBA so I could take over my father’s thriving business someday. My girlfriend whom I’d whimsically thought would become [...]
  • AWKWARD TOPICS: A 12 Year Old Has A Baby, Shou ...
    This topic is for you, yes, you! I want to know your opinion on this matter. What do you think? A 12 year old has a baby, should she be allowed to keep it? On a biological level this is perhaps not a very common scenario, but for some reason, Amy is 12 years old [...]
  • RANDOM RANTS: ‘Infidelity’ – ...
    It’s one of the biggest issues facing sexual relationships today and the demise of most relationships can usually be traced back to it. But what exactly is cheating? The dictionary defines it rather unhelpfully as “marital disloyalty; adultery”. I find this definition almost insulting. Where do ...
  • FLASH FICTION: ‘A Christmas Miracle&#821 ...
    Spending Christmas in hospital was not how Yinka envisioned her holidays. Hospitals were places where she received bad news: “I’m sorry your aunt is dead”; “I’m sorry you can’t concieve children naturally “; and so on. She and her husband, Tunde had worked hard all year, deferring all their annu ...

Boston Blog ( Nature Network)

  • Tattoos, movies, and commies: Sciencey stuff t ...
    Much to do here even as the semester winds down in Boston and Cambridge. On Monday, science writer Carl Zimmer meets Terry Gilliam, so to speak. Zimmer will be the speaker at the Coolidge Corner Theatre's "Science and Screen" airing of Gillam's 12 Monkeys. In a future world devastated by di ...
  • Sat. is last chance to see "Prints and the Pur ...
    Artist Brian Knep has a lab on Longwood Avenue -- not a studio. He's not a scientists; he's the Harvard Medical School artist-in-residence. Knep says he looks to science for "metaphors about life, about change, about healing." So, when he led group through the Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge ...
  • New Kendall Square restaurant set up to host b ...
    When new drug development company H3 decided to throw a party to launch the opening of Kendall Square labs and offices, organizers didn't have to go very far. They took the elevator downstairs. Last week, local researchers, bio boosters and lots of men in dark suits from the Japanese drug comp ...
  • BU's biolab makes it to level-2, still seeking ...
    Massachusetts environmental regulator recognized that there is a big difference between TB and Ebola. So, last week, they granted Boston University permission to begin using their new biolab to work on bio safety level-2 materials. From the Globe: For years, the National Emerging Infectious ...
  • Sunday's Chef Adrià talk at Harvard' sells out
    Most of Harvard's Science and Cooking Lectures are first come, first served, so to speak. But, you needed a ticket for Tuesday's return of superstar Spanish chef and modernist Ferran Adrià of elBulli, who talked about "The New Culinary Think Tank - el bulli 2.0." And they were scooped up a few d ...

NRDC Switchboard

  • USGS releases three new studies relevant to na ...
    Briana Mordick, Oil & Gas Science Fellow, Washington, D.C. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recently released three publications that are relevant to natural gas extraction in the northeastern United States. Each study contributes impo ...
  • India Green News (October 3-9, 2012): Indian s ...
    Grace Gill, Program Assistant, CMI/India/Climate Center, New York India Green News is a selection of weekly news highlights about environmental and energy issues in India. Energy Affordable power for all households in next five years: PM &ld ...
  • Ghost Fleet Cleanup Protects SF Bay from 300 T ...
    Michael Wall, Senior Attorney, San Francisco Last Friday, I joined Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Congressmen George Miller and Mike Thompson, and Maritime Administrator David Matsuda at the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet.  MARAD announced t ...
  • Preparing for a Changing Climate with a Feast ...
    Kelly Henderson, Climate Center Program Assistant, Washington, D.C. How sustainable is your school? Do you find recycling bins in every building? Are there plans to design a greener infrastructure system? Does your dining hall supply local, organic ...
  • Caroline Cannon and the Native Village of Poin ...
    Chuck Clusen, Director, National Parks and Alaska Projects, Washington, DC In September, just days after the lowest ever Arctic sea ice minimum was recorded, Caroline Cannon participated on a panel at Greenpeace’s Polar Emergency event in New ...

Injustice Everywhere

  • The John McKenna Case: Video Captures Baton Bl ...
    From the Washington Post: The encounter between police officers and a University of Maryland student after a basketball game in 2010 lasted only 10 seconds, but how a jury interprets those moments, captured on video, will determine the fate of … Continue reading →The John McKenna Cas ...
  • National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 9 reports of police misconduct tracked for Saturday, October 13 to Monday, October 15, 2012: Update: Salt Lake City, Utah: A supervisor warned that a highway patrolwoman, who is currently under investigation, was frequently arresting people for … Continue reading →Nation ...
  • National Police Misconduct Newsfeed Daily Reca ...
    Here are the 11 reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, October 12, 2012: New York, New York: Two now-former and one retired officers have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a smuggling ring that transported untaxed cigarettes, … Continue reading →National Police Mi ...
  • 12 Year Old Girl Burned By Paramilitary Police ...
    From the Billings Gazzette: A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning. “She has first- and … Continue reading →12 Year Old Girl Burned By Paramilitary Police G ...
  • NJ Police Beat Up Man in Diabetic Shock
    Story here.NJ Police Beat Up Man in Diabetic Shock is a post from PoliceMisconduct.net

Total Collapse

  • Monsanto “War” Kills US Ambassador To Libya
    A stunning Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today is claiming that the 11 September attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed American Ambassador John Christopher Stevens (1960-2012) was an act of terrorism led by an armed force of mercenaries lin ...
  • October surprise: US and Israel prepare to str ...
    The United States and Israel are already involved in discussions over how they could soon conduct a joint surgical strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, a source close to the talks tells Foreign Policy magazine. After months of urging from Israeli authorities for the US to intervene in a rumored ...
  • US sources: US, Israel plan October Surprise. ...
    Four facts deserve attention with regard to a potential attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The first is that the Iranian-Israeli war is already at hand. Iran launched it by sending an unmanned drone into Israeli air space Saturday, Oct. 6, breaking new ground in belligerence with a cyber attac ...
  • Children born to parents who eat GM wheat may ...
    Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a novel variety of genetically-modified (GM) wheat that contains an altered protein and enzyme-suppressing mechanism that some scientists are now saying could cause serious problems for the human ...
  • U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan De ...
    U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said islands at the heart of a dispute between Japan and China fall under an American defense pact with Japan, while urging the sides to resolve the standoff via diplomacy. “We want to focus more on issues associated with the maintenance of peace a ...

Daily Dose

Beyond Zero Emissions

  • Sydney, NSW: Health and Social Harms of Coal M ...
    When: Monday 29 October 2012 Time: 5:30pm-7pm Location: Medical Foundation Auditorium - The University of Sydney, 92-94 Parramatta Road Camperdown NSW 2050 See map below for directions Cost: Free but RSVP is essential to kerry.jenson& ...
  • BZE submission to Sydney Trigeneration plan av ...
    Download full submission here: Trigen_master_plan_BZEsubmission.pdf Download accompanying spreadsheet here: BeyondZeroEmissions_Trigen_master_plan_data.xls (NOTE: Some people have trouble downloading files from our website, with some downloads stopping before completion. If you have this p ...
  • Biogas no saviour for Sydney’s trigen plan
    By Matthew Wright. The City of Sydney plans to build a network of gas burners, each of which would simultaneously provide power, heating and cooling to public and private buildings. The City believes that this approach – known as trigeneration – would reduce the carbon emissions of connecte ...
  • Zero carbon housing arrives in Australia
    By Matthew Wright Designs have been released for the award winning Cape Paterson Ecovillage, Australia's first zero carbon housing development. Thirty-eight of 220 lots are available in the first section of the development. The project takes sustainable house design, sustain ...
  • Gas industry admits: electricity is cheaper!
    Ben Courtice All over Australia, people are looking to ‘natural’ (fossil) gas for a cheap, efficient way to heat homes and hot water, and to cook. In some areas, people even protest their lack of access to reticulated (piped) gas. For example, for 12 years residents of Melbourne’s northern fr ...

Monga Bay ( News )

  • The riot over rhinos: how a luxury and illegal ...
    23,680 = the estimated number of wild rhinoceroses in South Africa. 35,000,000 = the number of American dollars generated by rhino hunting in South Africa. 97% = the percentage increase in illegally-hunted rhinos in 2011 from the national average in 1990. 30,000 = the number of pounds of rhino h ...
  • September tied for world's warmest on record
    September 2012 tied with 2005 for the warmest on record around the globe, according to new data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The average land and ocean temperature was 16.27 degrees Celsius (61.31 degrees Fahrenheit) for this September, 0.67 degrees Cel ...
  • Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry fo ...
    Beginning next year, Norway will nearly double the carbon tax on its domestic oil industry to help set up a $1 billion climate change fund for programs in developing nations among other green projects. The Scandinavian nation is the world's 13 largest oil producer and third biggest oil exporter, ...
  • Chinese forest activist arrested for self-publ ...
    An award-winning forest activist, Liu Futang, is facing trial in China for printing books without the proper licenses, even though he says he gave most of the self-published books away for free. In April, Futang won Best Citizen Journalist in China's Environmental Press Awards for covering defor ...
  • The world's 25 most endangered primates: nearl ...
    A coalition of conservation groups released the biannual Top 25 Primates list today, including nine species not appearing on the 2010 list, at the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Hyderabad, India. Madagascar tops the list as home to the most threatened primates, including six on ...

Sierra Express

  • President Koroma Promotes Peace In Karina
    His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma  told the people of Karina, Biriwa Chiefdom, Bombali District that his visit to the chiefdom was to promote and consolidate peace and tranquility. He noted that farmers must be given space to farm and cattle herders to shepherd their cattle. President Koroma a ...
  • Agricultural Cooperatives – Key to Feeding the ...
    Bread for the Poor-Sierra Leone, a local humanitarian non-governmental organization working to eradicate hunger amongst women and children in Sierra Leone joins the world today in celebrating World Food Day 2012. With a global theme that sits right on top of the world: “Agricultural cooperatives ...
  • 17 November, 2012 is coming: Advice to the youths
    Five weeks from now, Sierra Leoneans will again go to the polls to vote for their parliamentary candidates who will represent them in parliament and also the one who will be their president for the next five years. It goes without saying that some of the former members of parliament (MP) have no ...
  • “Bio isn’t Qualified to Share Political Platfo ...
    Makeni: The Chairman, Leader, and presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress party (APC) for the November 17th elections, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, (in photo)  last Saturday 13th October 2012 declared in Makeni that the flag bearer of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party ...
  • With Peace Campaign…Save Mama Salone Thrills K ...
    Save Mama Salone Foundation, a Non- Governmental Organization in collaboration with UNIPSIL has thrilled residents of Kailahun and Bo respectively in their week long peace sensitization campaign countrywide with the theme, Say No To Violence.  (Photo: Executive Director Dauda Kamara Jnr. sandwic ...

Dairy Industry - NZ Herald

  • Fonterra unveils new share trading board
    Former PriceWaterhouseCoopers chairman John Shewan has been appointed chairman of the establishment board set up for the introduction of the new Fonterra Shareholders' Fund, which is expected to be launched before the year's end.Shewan,...
  • Dairy prices up 1.8pc overnight (+graphic)
    Prices of dairy products rose in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with whole milk powder posting its biggest gain since March last year.The GDT-TWI Price Index rose 1.8 per cent compared to the last sale two weeks...
  • Fran O'Sullivan: Meanwhile, back at the ranch
    Is Fonterra's Sir Henry van der Heyden staying on past his use-by date as the dairy co-operative's chairman to protect chairman-elect John Wilson from a boardroom coup?That question was doing the rounds even before Fonterra confirmed...
  • Oz supermarket giant drops Kiwi cheese
    One of Australia's biggest supermarket chains has dropped New Zealand's Mainland cheese brand much to the chagrin of its loyal customers, but Mainland's owner Fonterra is still smiling after its Aussie-made Bega brand remains...
  • Stand-off over mutant calves not cooling down
    An ongoing battle between farmers and a genetics company over a hairy mutation in calves could have been resolved by now with "a dose of pragmatism", says Federated Farmers. Around 900 farmers in the country have been affected after...

Hit & Run | Reason

  • A.M. Links: Obama's Odds Up After Second Debat ...
    Barack Obama's odds have inched up on online betting sites after last night's debate. The government-run Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas had seven advisors resign last week. They claimed that favoritism and abuse were plaguing the institute.  The Oakland ...
  • Matt Welch on Romney’s Missed Opportunities in ...
    Whereas Mitt Romney in the first presidential square-off was able to benefit from his steadfast, five-year refusal to detail any specifics about which big-ticket federal government programs or departments he would reduce or cut, that tactic backfired during Round 2 last night, writes ...
  • Obama, Romney Debate: Who Speaks for the Major ...
    I watched last night's debate in a college setting, at a joint called Woody's in Ohio State's student union. The good news? The place was packed and though only three of nine TV screens were tuned to C-SPAN, the students not only followed the debate but were well-informed and vocal. ...
  • Jacob Sullum on the Bipartisan Interventionist ...
    Next week Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are scheduled to meet for their third and final presidential debate, this time focusing on foreign policy. Although he will be on the ballot in at least 48 states on November 6, Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's nominee, was n ...
  • Brickbat: Cut
    Jessica Stirewalt says she got a call from her daughter Jesslyn's assistant teacher telling she'd cut the girl's hair because Jesslyn had gotten food in it. The Rowan County, North Carolina, mother wasn't pleased. She was less pleased when Jesslyn, who is 7 and has Down syndrome, got ...

Mercury Rising

  • Anthony Weiner Resigned. Scott DesJarlais Hasn ...
    This Daily Kos diarist sums it up for me: Republican Congressman is a doctor, cheats on his wife multiple times with multiple different women, gets caught, wife gets divorce, during the trial it is revealed he is reckless with handguns, and abusive towards her, knocks up one of his mistresses, w ...
  • Minnesota Council Of Churches: Vote NO On Vote ...
    From a press release issued earlier today: MINNESOTA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES URGES ‘NO’ VOTE ON VOTER RESTRICTION AMENDMENT Voting rights must be protected “for the last, lost and least to vote” St. Paul, MN (October 16, 2012) — Standing in front of Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis th ...
  • The real Women in the Binder story
    Apparently Mitt lied. What a surprise.
  • Your nightly schadenfreude
    Via Atrios, a Salon article from Jillian Rayfield: Dinesh D’Souza is facing some tough questions from his fellow Christians over a night spent in a hotel room with a woman [Denise Odie Joseph II] he introduced as a his fiancée – despite still having a wife. … D’Souza said that “nothing hap ...
  • Hillary Took Responsibility For Benghazi. Cond ...
    TBogg reminds us that neither Condoleeza Rice nor anyone else in the Bush Junta took responsibility for blowing off repeated CIA warnings about Al Qaeda before 9/11. Something to show to the wingnut co-worker who yammers about Benghazi.

Reality Sandwich

  • Surviving The 6th Great Mass Extinction
    The rapid loss of biodiversity on the planet has become so severe that scientists are referring to it as a mass extinction event. If current trends continue, scientists warn that at least HALF of all plant and animal species on Earth will disappear forever within a few decades. read more
  • Learned Psi: Training To Be Psychic
      Is it possible to take normal, healthy, emotionally stable people who do not think they're psychic, and haven't really had any prior experiences to their knowledge, and train them to become functionally reliable psychics? YES and NO. read more
  • Protect Free Speech
    Although we have a constitutionally protected right to free speech, legal trickery can still bypass this ostensibly impenetrable right. With the right lawyer, anyone can slap a bogus lawsuit on you for things you had every right to say publicly.  Matthew Inman, creator of humor website The O ...
  • Descent to the Merkavah
    Brian George, Head with vortices and projecting snake, 2004 1 read more
  • Dreamscape Awakening
    We sleep for one third of our lives, and as such, we should make the most out of the mind's nightly journey into our personal dreamscapes. From the exotically absurd to the mundanely routine, the infinite multitude of experiences we can have while sleeping act as gateways to accessing encod ...

Desertification

  • Funds Crunch Skews Aichi Targets on Biodiversity
    The United Nations 11th Conference of the Parties  to the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (COP 11 CBD), underway in this southern Indian city, is lost on where to garner the billions of dollars needed to implement the ‘Aichi targets,’ due to be met by 2020. “Decisions made here will lay th ...
  • Donors Must Seize 2013 Opportunity in Sahel, U ...
    Reporting that the worst of the food crisis in the Sahel region of Africa appears to have been averted, the United Nations’ top official on the area, David Gressley, warned on Wednesday that the potential passing of the immediate emergency should not divert international attention from what need ...
  • Climate Change Takes a Bite Out of Global Food ...
    Humanity’s ability to feed itself is in serious doubt as climate change takes hold on land in the form of droughts and extreme weather, as well as on the world’s oceans. Less well known to many is the fact that emissions from burning oil, coal and gas are both heating up the oceans a ...
  • Water for Phosphate, Not People
    Gafsa region in the south of Tunisia was once an oasis; today the phosphate industry has plunged it into a water crisis. “This summer for the first time we had water cuts on a daily basis,” says Lakhdar Souid, coordinator of the Blue Plan for a Green Tunisia. “Gafsa (343 km south of capital Tuni ...
  • Laissez-Faire Failing World’s Dwindling ...
    Growing water shortages in many countries are a major threat to global security and development and should be a top priority at the U.N. Security Council, a panel of experts said in a new report. However, that report ignores the biggest threat to water security: neoliberal policies of the free m ...

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  • New Frontier Media To Be Acquired By LFP Broad ...
    Transaction Represents 79% Premium Based on Closing Stock Price Prior to Unsolicited Offer BOULDER, Colo. and LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2012 (CRWENewswire) -- New Frontier Media, Inc. (Nasdaq:NOOF), a leading provider of transactional television services and distributor of general motion picture ent ...
  • TagLikeMe Corp.'s Planned News Product Introdu ...
    LONDON, Oct. 16, 2012 (CRWENewswire) -- TagLikeMe Corp.'s ("TagLikeMe" or "the Company") (OTCQB:TAGG, Frankfurt M6C1; WKN A1JZ03), plans to introduce a new, socially enabled news product to be integrated with its social search and sharing platform TagLikeMe.com, are revealing what management bel ...

Press TV - Middle East

  • Gaza rocket fired into Israel
    A rocket fired from Gaza Strip has hit the southern part of Israel, defying Tel Aviv's Iron Dome missile defense system.
  • PKK to return Turkey attack on Syria
    The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) voices solidarity with Syrian Kurds, vowing violent reprisal if Turkish military forces target the Kurdish community in the Arab country.
  • Bahraini man killed by poisonous gas
    A Bahraini man has been reportedly killed by poisonous tear gas as Al Khalifa regime continues its harsh crackdown against peaceful demonstrators calling for democratic reforms in the Persian Gulf state.
  • Israelis fear economic collapse: Poll
    A vast majority of Israelis have expressed serious concern about the collapse of their failing economy, a survey shows.
  • Al Saud must end crackdown: Amnesty
    Amnesty International has called on Saudi authorities to stop excessive use of force against anti-regime protesters in the country.

CUNY SPS Community Blog

  • A Walk Down Memory Lane
    In less than 4 weeks, I will be standing in Staten Island waiting for the start of the 2012 ING NYC Marathon with great anticipation. This is what I have been working so hard for over the last 5 months. It started with giving up a pack of Marlboro Lights a day and my commitment [...]
  • Support SPS: Give the Gift of Opportunity
    Dear SPS Community, As we inaugurate the 2012-13 academic year at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS), in addition to celebrating new beginnings, we are also very proud to mark the 10th anniversary of SPS. As a member of the SPS community, you are vital to our growth and success, and I ...
  • The Final Countdown
    Does anyone remember what the feeling is like when you are on your way to school and you realized that you forgot your homework assignment at home? I had that heavy pit in my stomach last night at practice. A fellow American Cancer Society DetermiNator reminded me that we have just 4 weeks left ...
  • Alumna Linda Ames Key Receives Fulbright Speci ...
    The School of Professional Studies is delighted to announce that Linda Ames Key, a graduate of the School’s M.A. in Applied Theatre program, has been named a Fulbright Specialist. In 2011, while completing her M.A. in Applied Theatre degree at SPS, Ms. Key participated in the School’s Project Rw ...
  • Beta Testing “In Your Class”
    SPS is participating in a CUNY pilot program this fall of the Beta version of In Your Class, a unique social networking service developed by CUNY students for CUNY students. The pilot launch date is today, September 20th, 2012. In Your Class connects students with their classmates, professors, a ...

Dissident Voice

  • Veterans For Peace Supports U.N. Committee in ...
    Leah Bolger, President of Veterans For Peace, applauded a United Nations Committee this week for raising concerns about the recruitment of children into the U.S. military, the U.S. killing of children in Afghanistan, the U.S. detention and torture of children labeled “combatants,” an ...
  • The Dawn of Medicare
    A highly risible tactic of the Tea Partyers in the United States has been criticism of president Barack Obama as a “socialist”1 (insulting to Obama but more so to socialists), particularly since he attempted to reform a medical care system in a country where over 50 million were without medical ...
  • Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dea ...
    In 2005, I preached on the ecological crisis in a sermon I titled “Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World.”  Looking back, I realize that I had been far too upbeat and optimistic, probably trying too hard to be liked. Today I want to correct that. Hence, my updated title: “Hope [...]
  • Inflation of the University Degree
    Catch 22s Well it seems now that college graduates are up in arms about the student loan payments that they will have to make after graduation, and while Congress and the President have taken the necessary measures to keep student loan rates from increasing, college graduates still must confront ...
  • After The Fireworks Have Faded
    On July 4, the people of the U.S. marked the passing of another year’s perfunctory Independence Day festivities. The date, also, was occasioned by the formal announcement from physicists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) that, according to the banner headline at CERN&#82 ...

Destructionist

  • Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
    Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
  • Monsanto Launches Damage Control Over GMO/Canc ...
    Biotech giant Monsanto has launched a desperate damage control effort in the aftermath of a French study which found that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically-engineered corn were far more likely to suffer tumors, organ failure and premature death. Aside from the details of the study, a wider q ...
  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Monsanto Apologists Attempt to Spin Shocking G ...
    A shocking new study conducted by French scientists which shows that rats fed on Monsanto’s genetically modified corn suffered cancer and premature death has been met with a furious response from GMO apologists, who are desperately trying to cast doubt on the the study in an effort to discredit ...
  • Obama Appeals Court Ruling That Strikes Down I ...
    On Wednesday, New York federal judge Katherine Forrest issued a ruling which blocked provisions of the NDAA that could have seen American citizens kidnapped and held indefinitely without charge. In “permanently” halting the enforcement of the law, Forrest noted how the plaintiffs presented “evi ...

Wayne Madsen

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Obama Aides Launch Preemptive Attack on New Ir ...
    Summary: Although the place and time of the next round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program have not yet been announced, the maneuvering by Iran and the United States to influence the outcome has already begun. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Tell Me Lies: Europe Silences Iranian TV Channels
    Summary: One Day, The EU Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The Next It Censors Iranian Channels? A Step For Peace wonders News Dissector Danny Schechter? source: OpedNewsread more
  • Poll: 80% of Palestinians, Israelis Say Attack ...
    Summary: Around 80 percent of respondents in a survey of both Israelis and Palestinians say that an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would ignite a major regional war. source: antiwar.comread more
  • Majid Majidi’s Address to Istanbul World Forum
    Summary: The world-famous Iranian film director, who is currently making his new film, Muhammad (PBUH) on the life of Prophet of Islam (PBUH), addressed the Istanbul World Forum on Saturday October 13, asking why Israel can stockpile up to 300 nuclear warheads in its nuclear arsenal without a ...
  • Peace, security and denuclearisation challenge ...
    Summary: We do not need to be in any way a supporter of the Iranian government or uncritical of the domestic politics in Iran to see the glaring travesty of justice and the blatant hypocrisy perpetrated by the West regarding Iran’s nuclear issue. source: CASMIIread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • News Break: Planet with Mass of Earth Orbitin ...
    European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun....
  • New Source of Cosmic Rays Discovered Near Arch ...
    Using the European X-ray astronomy satellite XMM-Newton, researchers from CNRS and CEA have discovered a new source of cosmic rays in the vicinity of the Arches cluster, near the center of the Milky Way. The particles are accelerated in the...
  • Image of the Day: Dark Matter Filaments That C ...
    Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have studied a giant filament of dark matter in 3D for the first time. Extending 60 million light-years from one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, the filament is part of the...
  • "Broca's Brain" --New Findings Announced
    A century and a half ago, French physician Pierre Paul Broca found that patients with damage to part of the brain's frontal lobe were unable to speak more than a few words. Later dubbed Broca's area, this region is believed...
  • Cassini Saturn Mission Poised for New Discoveries
    Since launching on Oct. 15, 1997, the spacecraft has logged more than 3.8 billion miles (6.1 billion kilometers) of exploration - enough to circle Earth more than 152,000 times. After flying by Venus twice, Earth, and then Jupiter on its...

Natural News

  • What Went Wrong? An indictment of the for-prof ...
    What Went Wrong is not a question, it's a statement of fact in the raging war between alternative cancer therapies and allopathic medicine's standard of cancer care with drugs, chemo and surgery. I added the word Again, because these battles have happened countless times...
  • Goodbye Internet freedom: ISPs to start LEGALL ...
    As we have documented well here at Natural News that personal privacy continues to be under assault in America, a country that defined and once enshrined the concept. The most recent assault is coming from the nation's largest telecom companies, who are preparing...
  • Eating tomatoes is shown to slash stroke risk ...
    Stroke continues to rank as the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., permanently disabling and needlessly taking the lives of hundreds of thousands of adults every year. Recent studies have demonstrated that the risk of stroke can be lowered by following simple...
  • Failure of state, federal regulators to blame ...
    State and federal regulators are scrambling to shift blame for the nationwide meningitis outbreak linked to tainted steroid injections, even though it was their own respective failures to act in the public interest that are ultimately responsible for this ongoing tragedy...
  • Pumpkins lower blood glucose levels, shrink en ...
    Pumpkins are a form of Native American squash and are welcome both as a decorative and edible item in autumn season festivities. While most people associate pumpkins with Halloween, fall festivals, and American Thanksgiving desserts, both pumpkins and pumpkin seed oil...

Threat Level

  • Russian Anti-Virus Firm Plans Secure Operating ...
    Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced on Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system for use with critical infrastructure systems, but a security expert says the chance of such a system being adopted is a longshot.
  • Pentagon Hacker McKinnon Wins 10-Year Extradit ...
    Accused British hacker Gary McKinnon has won his ten-year battle to resist extradition to the U.S. on charges that he hacked Pentagon computers in the U.S.
  • As Drone Debate Rages, Police Move on to Milli ...
    Drones? Who needs stinking drones when you have an all-seeing manned plane? That seems to be what Texas and other border states are thinking with multi-million dollar purchases of high-tech spy planes.
  • Who Bought Your Politician? Check With Our Emb ...
    Ask any politician whether campaign contributions influence their decisions, and they'll tell you certainly not. Ask anybody else whose nose isn't growing, and they'll give the opposite answer. With that in mind, we at Wired are introducing a web-based embeddable ...
  • State-Sponsored Malware ‘Flame’ Has Smaller, M ...
    Researchers have uncovered new nation-state espionage malware with ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool" targeting victims in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere.

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Mitt Romney is "Sticking It to Seniors"
    During the 2010 campaign, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell falsely charged that with the Affordable Care Act President Obama was "sticking it to seniors." McConnell's GOP was rewarded for that fiction, as a 21 point margin among voters 65 and older propelled the Republicans to an overwhel ...
  • Vanishing ER's Expose Romney's Health Care Farce
    For the second time in three weeks, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney echoed George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Mitch McConnell, Paul Broun and other Republicans pretending that "people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room." But in claiming "We don't h ...
  • 10 Things Paul Ryan Doesn't Want You to Know
    There's a saying that the only second chance you get in life is the chance to make the same mistake twice. As he prepares to debate Joe Biden, Paul Ryan will almost certainly confirm that adage. After all, following his first big moment in the national spotlight, the GOP vice presidential nomi ...
  • Romney Lies About Anti-Abortion Bills He Backs
    Mitt Romney's history on abortion reads like the Kama Sutra: it contains almost every position imaginable. Now, the man GOP strategist and former Romney adviser Michael Murphy in 2005 called "a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly" is at it again. In a meeting with the Des Moines ...
  • Cowardice is a Virtue and the Strategy for Rom ...
    You can't hit what you can't see. That in a nutshell has been Mitt Romney's campaign strategy for months. From his mysterious tax returns and erased Massachusetts records to his shifting immigration stands, AWOL strategy for Afghanistan and so much more, Team Mitt long ago decided that discre ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Ho ...
    Dandelion Salad Oct 16, 2012 by NothingIsNew88 While President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney will get the red carpets rolled out for them at Hofstra University Tuesday night, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got a far chillier reception when she and her running mate were arrested n ...
  • GUEST INFORMANTS: Kim Boekbinder & Jim Batt
    This is Warren.  Allow me to present the video for Kim Boekbinder’s new song, “The Sky Is Calling."  Everything that follows is by Kim, and the video’s director, Jim Batt.   Inspired by NASA, the Universe, and Carl Sagan. Kim Boekbinder: I’m standing on a street corner i ...
  • Court Strikes Down CFTC Regulation to Limit Ex ...
    Michael Greenberger: Legal and lobying assault by finance sector blocks regulation of excessive speculation, will lead to higher prices for food and other commodities
  • Chilean Student Movement Awarded for Organizin ...
    Today we look at the Chilean students' movement, which led last year's massive citizen democracy movement -- the largest protests since the days of opposition marches to General Augusto Pinochet a generation ago. For more than a year, the movement has rallied hundreds of thousands in the streets ...
  • Glenn Greenwald: Presidential Debates Highligh ...
    "The issue is not what separates Romney and Obama, but how much they agree. This hidden consensus has to be exposed," writes Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald about the presidential debates as he criticizes the recent performances of the debate moderators. Greenwald also criticizes the exclusio ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • New England Earthquake, 4.0 Earthquake Hits Maine
    A moderate earthquake measuring a 4.0 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Maine on Tuesday night. On October 16th, about 30 miles from Portland, Maine, the earthquake caused extensive shaking throughout all of New England. The rare earthquake surprised most of the residents, who have rarely if ev ...
  • Pluto Exploration Mission New Horizons May Be ...
    We’re only two and a half years away from seeing what Pluto looks like close up, until now we’ve only had very grainy pictures to give us an idea of what it’s like. The New Horizons spacecraft, created and guided by NASA, is about seven years into its nine and a half year journ ...
  • U.S. Businessman Conducts Massive and Illegal ...
    Geoengineering theories and  experiments have received much attention in recent years, with one recent experiment in “ocean (iron) fertilization” successfully conducted off the coast of Antarctica by a German scientific research team. Past experiments of this kind had mostly failed. ...
  • UCS Climate Scientist Corrects Misleading Scie ...
    Some major news outlets continue to broadcast or publish what can only be called disinformation regarding the current state of climate science research findings. As previously reported here on PS, FOX News has been at the forefront of  inaccurate (doubt-promoting) climate change reporting.The Wa ...
  • Geography Can Temporarily Halt Ice-sheet Retreat
    A new study led by researchers from Durham University in the UK has found that the geometry of channels beneath an ice-sheet play a much stronger role in mitigating retreat than previously understood. The findings are part of a study which simulate ice-sheet retreat and collapse over a ten thous ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Illuminati Planning Another Financial Crash? ...
    "The American people are being disenfranchised, disinherited, and enslaved." The PBS Documentary "The Warning" proves the Illuminati bankers deliberately sabotaged the financial system before 2008. This was not the first time nor will it be the last."Economic c ...
  • CIA directing arms shipments to Syria’s “rebel ...
    22 June 2012 CIA agents have been deployed to Turkey to organize the arming of the so-called rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported Thursday. The report, citing information provided by senior US officials as well a ...
  • UNASUR Foreign Ministers in Paraguay to Discus ...
    Río de Janeiro, June 21 (Prensa Latina) Foreign ministres from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are scheduled to leave today for Paraguay to discuss the situation in that country in the wake of decisión by the Chamber of Deputies to open an impeachment against Pre ...
  • The Right Wing Move to Impeach Paraguay's Pres ...
    Editor's Note: Does this sound familiar to anyone? It was 3 years ago this month that democratically-elected President Zelaya was thrown out of office by a coup in Honduras backed by the US State Department. In January, 2010 we published Mike Whitney's article, In South America, left-wing presid ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks from E ...
    22 June 2012 Australian and US governments “playing word games”  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange spoke out today from the Ecuadorian embassy in London about the escalating assault on his democratic rights and why he had been compelled to seek political asylum in Ecuador. Interviewed b ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Ayn" Can't Decide Whether He's Eddie Munster ...
    It was refreshing to see a Democrat (Joe Biden) acting tough and fiesty at Thursday night's vice presidential debate. But something that's often been lost in the analysis is how many brazen whoppers Paul "Ayn" Ryan told in the 40 minutes that he spoke. Perhaps the most obvious distortion from "A ...
  • Bosses Shakedown Workers for GOP
    By @TedFrier So, this is what plutocracy looks like. No character is more reviled in the conservative movement's rogue's gallery of villainy than the union "boss."  He's the corrupt and corpulent operator who brings healthy companies to grief with his irresponsible demands. He's the ideolog ...
  • Romney/Ryan and that Old Supply-side Black Magic
    By @TedFrier Last Thursday's debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan witnessed something extraordinary: A Republican candidate making his way through a 90-minute debate without once invoking the blessed memory of Ronald Wilson Reagan. The omission was doubly puzzling si ...
  • Laugh and the Whole World Laughs With You
    By @TedFrier For the record: I loved Joe Biden's laugh. Respectful? Why should the Vice President have been respectful listening to a guy like Paul Ryan say he and Mitt Romney are going to cut $5 trillion in taxes weighted toward the rich but not add a single dime to the deficit because they ar ...
  • All Tied: Democrats 1, Republicans 1
    By @TedFrier My Cincinnati Reds made history yesterday when they became the first team in National League history to get swept after taking the first two games in a best-of-five series. When you lose your 19-game winning ace in the very first inning of the very first game there is only so long y ...

Care 2

  • The Planet Earth HD
    Another Short Movie on the Planet Earth. Kinda in Fast Motion. Hope is a new one for some of you and I do hope you enjoy! Kinda hard to find different ones lately! xx Submitted by Mm M. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Right-Wing Christian Group Attacks Program Tha ...
    Mix It Up tries to get kids to spend time with classmates of different backgrounds. American Family Association sees a stealth gay plot. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • Anonomus Reacts to Wolf Butcher
    Anonymous has made a video statement re the "hunter" who used the mewling cry of a wolf pup in distress to lure an adult wolf to kill. Hunters can sink to pretty low depths, this one is one of the lowest. Submitted by Patrick Donovan to Environment  |   Note-it!  |  &n ...
  • Facing the Climate Gap: How Low-Income Communi ...
    Californias communities of color are implementing effective climate change responses that address social equity concerns while also building political momentum that can catalyze broader policy change. Submitted by Kit B. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  • The second presidential debate: Does the town- ...
    The candidates will be expected to show that they can empathize with regular voters. That could be a challenge for Mitt Romney Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • LIVE BLOG – PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE #2
    JOIN US and live-blog tonight’s 2nd debate. I may need a giant Hershey bar to get me through Candy’s questions. P.S. We’re having a few blog issues… something or someone messed up our formatting. And, Murphy’s law kicked in — just as I had it all solved, neith ...
  • Hillary and Rice are Lying
    I know that many conservatives look at my title and say, “Yeah, and the Sun rises in the East.” They believe that name Clinton is a synonym for lying. But I have been a fan of Hillary and thought she was different. She may be smart, but she has no moral center. I was wrong [...]
  • SOB: Save Our Bird!
    URGENT! SAVE OUR BIRD! . . . . . $55,000,000? You’re kidding, right? I solemnly promise to never speak ill Barack Obama Mitt Romney — EVER AGAIN! JOIN THE MILLION-MUPPET MARCH! Only 996,000 SPOTS TO GO! And now, the best summary I could find on the “Big Bird” brouhaha &#8 ...
  • Obama Hides Behind Hillary’s Skirt
    Talk about a spineless wimp. That is Barack Obama when it comes to Libya. Hillary Clinton tonight, while speaking in Peru, takes full responsibility for the failure to have the consulate in Benghazi properly secured and Ambassador Chris Stevens appropriately protected. And she’s right. She ...
  • Finlay & Smart Talk — a new radio show!
    This week, I had the pleasure of launching a new show with writer and host John Smart. We cover the waterfront! Every Tuesday at 7pm Pacific/10pm Easterm time we will dig into pressing social issues, politics and whatever strikes our (or your) fancy. Please write and let us know if you have a pa ...

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 ...

Therapy News

  • Do People Misestimate Their Future Reactions?
    When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...
  • Therapist Self-Disclosure Decreases Stigma of ...
    One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...
  • GoodTherapy.org Weekly Inspirational Thoughts
    November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...
  • Can Negative Attributions Predict Marital Diss ...
    Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...
  • Three Steps for Dealing with Panic Attacks
    Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Growing Wind-Turbine Opposition Creates Hurdle ...
    Growing Wind-Turbine Opposition Creates Hurdles for States Governing (blog) Evoking the civil disobedience long aimed at nuclear reactors, oil and gas extraction and mountaintop removal in coal country, activists have held four protests since November 2011 in an effort to halt construction of tw ...
  • Letters misrepresent facts about Peabody Energ ...
    Letters misrepresent facts about Peabody Energy STLtoday.com Peabody is the world's largest coal company, and one reader accused Peabody of mountaintop removal mining. The truth is Peabody doesn't operate mines that engage in mountaintop removal mining. But Peabody does win plenty of env ...
  • In West Virginia, family and friends honor act ...
    In West Virginia, family and friends honor activist Larry Gibson, pioneer of ... Free Speech Radio News In Charleston, West Virginia, family, friends and fellow activists gathered Sunday to pay tribute to Larry Gibson, who began his campaign against mountaintop removal nearly three decades ago. ...
  • New signs of sanity at EPA - Boulder Weekly
    New signs of sanity at EPA Boulder Weekly Using a brutally destructive mining method called "mountaintop removal," the corporations explode to bits the top third of mountains to get at the coal, then they cavalierly bulldoze the resulting rubble and toxic coal waste down the mountainsi ...
  • Community remembers 'keeper of the mountains' ...
    Community remembers 'keeper of the mountains' Charleston Gazette As people gathered Sunday afternoon to remember mountaintop-removal mining opponent Larry Gibson, there were repeated calls to continue his life's work. "Larry Gibson will live forever in our hearts," former C ...

Memeorandum

  • Afghan Army's Turnover Threatens U.S. Strategy ...
    Rod Nordland / New York Times: Afghan Army's Turnover Threatens U.S. Strategy  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing Col. Akbar Stanikzai does when he interviews recruits for the Afghan National Army is take their cellphones.  —  He checks to see if the r ...
  • Full transcript of the second presidential deb ...
    Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog: Full transcript of the second presidential debate  —  Here is a complete transcript of President Obama and Mitt Romney's remarks at the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York on Oct. 16, 2012.  Remarks from the two candidates we ...
  • Reporters Preparing to Cover Debate By Drinkin ...
    Hunter Walker / Politicker: Reporters Preparing to Cover Debate By Drinking Free Beer  —  A neon sign in the Anheuser-Busch hospitality tent at Hofstra.  —  HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Some of the reporters covering tonight's presidential debate at Hofstra University ...
  • ANN COULTER THINKS FAMILY REJECTION OF LGBT YO ...
    Aaron McQuade / GLAAD: ANN COULTER THINKS FAMILY REJECTION OF LGBT YOUTH IS A JOKE - JOIN #SPIRITDAY TO SPEAK OUT  —  Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter decided last night to make a joke about family rejection of LGBT youth.  —  If you disagree with C ...
  • Repeated confrontations define spirited second ...
    Tom Cohen / CNN: Repeated confrontations define spirited second presidential debate  —  U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney point fingers at each other during the second presidential debate, held in a town hall format, at Hofstra Univers ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 6.0, Celebes Sea
    Wednesday, October 17, 2012 04:42:31 UTC Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:42:31 PM at epicenterDepth: 337.40 km (209.65 mi)
  • M 5.7, North Island of New Zealand
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 23:42:54 UTC Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:42:54 PM at epicenterDepth: 103.90 km (64.56 mi)
  • M 5.3, Kyushu, Japan
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 13:39:25 UTC Tuesday, October 16, 2012 10:39:25 PM at epicenterDepth: 168.30 km (104.58 mi)
  • M 5.6, Kuril Islands
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:41:24 UTC Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:41:24 AM at epicenterDepth: 64.70 km (40.20 mi)
  • M 5.4, Izu Islands, Japan region
    Tuesday, October 16, 2012 02:03:29 UTC Tuesday, October 16, 2012 11:03:29 AM at epicenterDepth: 102.60 km (63.75 mi)

China Dialogue

  • 美国和中国&#2523 ...
    为了使世界摆脱对化石燃料的补贴，石油价格需要稳定。为了实现这一目标，中国和 ...
  • 石油价格为&#2030 ...
    十年来，炒家操纵能源市场，迫使石油价格和补贴金额飙升。化石燃料是地球上获得 ...
  • 中国南航被&#2520 ...
    南方航空公司的运输令一只宠物狗死亡。南航拒绝道歉，只提议按每公斤100元标准进&#348 ...
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    2008年曾首次披露北京空气污染监测问题的在华分析人士认为，仍处在试行阶段的北京&#31 ...
  • 有机认证拯&#2593 ...
    在食品安全问题频发的今天，中国有机认证是否还保持着创立伊始的初衷？它是否能 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Chomsky: Humanity Once Came to the Cliff's Edg ...
    To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.   The world stood still 50 years ago during the last week of October, from the moment when it learned that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba until the cri ...
  • Tom Morello Says Paul Ryan Is a "Jackass"
    Rage Against the Machine may be one of Paul Ryan's favorite bands, but the warm feelings aren't mutual. In august, guitarist Tom Morello wrote in an op-ed that Ryan "is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against." And in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter published Monday, the ...
  • Fast Food Companies Like Subway, McDonald’s an ...
    Fast food companies are not only detrimental to your personal health--they’re also detrimental to the economic health of the U.S. Restaurants like Subway, McDonald’s and Starbucks avoid millions in taxes each year by claiming that their products are intellectual property. As Think Progress’ ...
  • Lakoff: What Obama Needs to Do in Tomorrow's D ...
     As Nate Silver, NY Times polling expert put it, “Instant polls conducted after the debate are suggestive of something between a tie and a modest win for Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.”Biden held his own and maybe a bit more. That was important. But President Obama has to do a lot better t ...
  • Romney Surrogate Says Mitt 'Should Exploit' Li ...
    The father of the slain U.S. ambassador to Libya is speaking up about the political exploitation of his son’s death. The remarks come as criticism of the Republican Party escalates for turning the terrorist attacks in Libya on September 11 into a cudgel directed against Obama. Jan Stevens, th ...

Threat Level

  • Russian Anti-Virus Firm Plans Secure Operating ...
    Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab announced on Tuesday that it plans to develop a secure operating system for use with critical infrastructure systems, but a security expert says the chance of such a system being adopted is a longshot.
  • Pentagon Hacker McKinnon Wins 10-Year Extradit ...
    Accused British hacker Gary McKinnon has won his ten-year battle to resist extradition to the U.S. on charges that he hacked Pentagon computers in the U.S.
  • As Drone Debate Rages, Police Move on to Milli ...
    Drones? Who needs stinking drones when you have an all-seeing manned plane? That seems to be what Texas and other border states are thinking with multi-million dollar purchases of high-tech spy planes.
  • Who Bought Your Politician? Check With Our Emb ...
    Ask any politician whether campaign contributions influence their decisions, and they'll tell you certainly not. Ask anybody else whose nose isn't growing, and they'll give the opposite answer. With that in mind, we at Wired are introducing a web-based embeddable ...
  • State-Sponsored Malware ‘Flame’ Has Smaller, M ...
    Researchers have uncovered new nation-state espionage malware with ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool" targeting victims in Lebanon, Iran and elsewhere.

Equality Trust

  • UK Drug Policy Commission Report published today
    The UK’s approach to drug policy appears simplistic in several ways. Seeing all drug use as invariably problematic can reduce the cost-effectiveness of policy. Equally, drug problems need to be seen and addressed within their wider social and economic context; entrenched drug problems appear to ...
  • The Spirit Level Documentary Film
    We're delighted to introduce The Spirit Level Documentary - a forthcoming film based on the best-selling book, which will show why a more equal society is better for us all. Find out more...    
  • Act Local = Reduce the Gap
    Find out more about our new campaign: Act Local = Reduce the Gap
  • We work in partnership with One Society
    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. Introductions—Dr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer Movement—Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchi ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shah ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • Marler Clark in the News
    After 38 sickened with one dead I asked from E. coli at a petting zoo, the LA Times asked in –  “Ban petting zoos? E. coli outbreak raises questions:” Some... Continue Reading
  • Second Salmonella Virchow Lawsuit to be Filed ...
    Clark County health officials have confirmed 29 cases of Salmonella Virchow linked to the On the Border restaurant and identified another 65 probable cases awaiting lab confirmation. Of the four cases... Continue Reading
  • Cleveland County Fair E. coli Outbreak Now 46
    AP reports that Health officials in North Carolina say the number of E. coli cases linked to the Cleveland County Fair has climbed to 46. The state Department of Health... Continue Reading
  • 88 Salmonella Virchow Illnesses and 1 Lawsuit ...
    As of Monday, health officials have confirmed 28 cases of salmonella linked to the restaurant and identified another 60 probable cases awaiting lab confirmation.  Of the four cases that were... Continue Reading
  • Cleveland County Fair E coli Toll 37 Sick 1 Dead
    North Carolina State health officials are now investigating an outbreak of E. coli infection in 38 people who attended the Cleveland County Fair.  Eight of those have been or are... Continue Reading

AutoblogGreen

  • Official: Lincoln MKZ Hybrid rated at 45 mpg, ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Lincoln Just how important are all the luxury touches of a Lincoln compared to a Ford? They'd better be worth a two-miles-per-gallon penalty, since that's what buyers will be hit with if they choose the MKZ Hybrid over the 47-mpg Fusion Hybrid. Ford announced today that t ...
  • First Drive: 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Honda, First DrivesThe Accord Gets Friendly With A Volt-esque Powertrain After 30 years, Honda is trying to teach the old Accord new tricks, and they're of the plug-in variety. We've been teased by various prototypes at auto shows and in spy shots, but Honda ...
  • Teased: Toyota bugs out, previews Smart INSECT ...
    Filed under: Concept Cars, Technology, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, the Toyota COMS electric vehicle is becoming the Smart INSECT. Unrelated to Daimler's Smart brand, the INSECT (yes, it's an acronym, one that stands for "Information Network Social ...
  • Report: 'King of Lemon Laws' lawyer successful ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Fisker, Electric, Luxury Vince Megna certainly has a way with words. In one five-and-a-half minute video, he calls the Fisker Karma a "modern-day Ford electric Pinto." He also says, "This is a beautiful car. It's just too bad it catches on fire." Would we expect anything ...
  • Report: Toyota kills plans for widespread iQ E ...
    Filed under: Hatchback, Toyota, Electric 2012 was supposed to be the year the all-electric version of the Toyota/Scion iQ made a splash. Instead, it appears that while it remains technically true that the iQ EV will launch this year, it will be a much, much smaller splash than previously anti ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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  • Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

  • Workers Fight for Justice, From Wal-Mart to Ch ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of chronic unemployment for millions. This is happening while corporate coffers are brimming with historically high l ...
  • Expanding the Debate: Upcoming Democracy Now! ...
    In the coming weeks, Democracy Now! will air a number of special programs leading up to the November 6 election. Mark your calendars. All shows will be broadcast by Free Speech TV & Link TV and livestreamed at DemocracyNow.org. Urge your local TV and radio stations to air the broadcasts. ...
  • Expand the Debate: This Is What Democracy Soun ...
    By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan DENVER—A few miles south of the campus arena in the Mile High City where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney met in their first debate, Democracy Now! news hour broke the sound barrier by expanding their gated debate to include two third-party presidential can ...
  • Colorado Springs Independent Profiles Amy Goodman
    During the Election 2012 Silenced Majority 100-city tour, Colorado Springs Independent profiles Amy Goodman in Independent Streak It’s difficult for Amy Goodman to carve out time for an interview. On Monday, Goodman and company pulled into Blacksburg, Va., site of a Democracy No ...
  • Expanding the Debate - Watch Democracy Now's F ...
    As President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney squared off in their first debate, Democracy Now! produced a three-hour special, Expanding the Debate. We aired the Obama/Romney debate and paused after questions to include responses from two presidential contenders who were shut out ...

Suzie-Q

  • Presidential Debate President Obama and Mitt R ...
    PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY PARTICIPATE IN A CANDIDATES DEBATE, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK OCTOBER 16, 2012 SPEAKERS: FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY, R-MASS. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CANDY CROWLEY, MODERATOR CROWLEY: Good evening from Hofstra University in Hempstead, ...
  • Joe Biden/Paul Ryan Vice Presidential Debate ( ...
    Addicting Info October 11, 2012 By Matthew Desmond Here’s the transcript, via the New York Times: MARTHA RADDATZ: Good evening, and welcome to the first and only vice presidential debate of 2012, sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. I’m Martha Raddatz of ABC News, and I am honore ...
  • Mitt Romney Isn’t Telling the Truth &#82 ...
    Published on Oct  5, 2012 by     BarackObamadotcom Mitt Romney didn’t tell the truth about his tax plan, his plan for Americans with pre-existing conditions, his Medicare plan, nor the President’s Medicare plan. Why would Romney not tell the truth about what he’d do as Presiden ...
  • FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT – 10/3 ...
    FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE TONIGHT. You can follow along tonight on these channels: barackobama.com/debate  will be livestreaming debate coverage and host a special message from the Vice President directly after the debates. @TruthTeam2012 will be livetweeting and factchecking the debates as they ...
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Solari

  • From Transformations & Renewals
    By Franklin Sanders: The Moneychanger Y’all, we had one more great time at the Transformations Gathering this weekend. We had folks from so many different backgrounds & standpoints I was afraid there might be cuttings and shootings galore, but every one of them graciously laid all th ...
  • 3rd Quarter Wrap Up – October 18
    By Catherine Austin Fitts This Thursday is our third quarter wrap up. I am going to check in with the major trends (see our annual wrap up in January)  and review how events and markets unfolded during the last three months. I also want to look forward at the “fiscal cliff” and the ...
  • David Rosenberg’ Big Picture
    By Joe Weisenthal and Rob Wile One of the speakers at this week’s Big Picture Conference was David Rosenberg, the famously bearish chief economist of Canadian wealth management firm Gluskin-Sheff. Rosenberg is often labeled a perma-bear, which is something he denied vehemently, but he defi ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Paedophilia is a fundamental ‘cement’ that holds the networks of manipulation together across all political persuasions and allows those in the shadows to blackmail politicians into introducing legislation that advances the agenda of human control. David Icke – oct 14th, 2012 ...
  • Beige Book: Housing Market Turning Around
    [CAF Note: Just goes to show you how the housing market can improve when the Fed writes a $2 trillion forward purchase at 1,000% above market price through 2015!] The U.S. housing market has shown “widespread improvement,” but economic activity has improved only modestly in recent m ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United P ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • What every American must know about the Republ ...
    Summary:  Their racism, a key component of the Republicans coalition from the Southern Strategy begun with Goldwater, is the most obvious evil aspect of the new GOP. It’s a repudiation of the Party’s Grand origin, but only the most obvious of its ugly planks. Here we look at one exam ...
  • The lowdown on OODA
    Fabius mentions our broken OODA loops from time to time. Here’s guide for the perplexed. Don’t feel bad. It took Boyd a while, too. A big part of his problem was that he was using the OODA loop concept to do three things: Control our actions in the midst of whatever we’re doing ...
  • Why does the US government seek a hotter confl ...
    Summary:   The long-simmering trade conflicts with China have taken a turn for the worse. Romney’s foreign policy team contains some extreme hawks eager for some form of war with China.  DoD, desperate for threats to justify its existence, has fired a propaganda barrage at us about the cyb ...
  • Still good news: global temperatures remain st ...
    Summary:  Today we look at good news (rarely seen here), the stabilization of global temperatures. The long rise during the past two centuries, which produced many forecasts of imminent doom, has leveled off since the late 1990s — as shown by all the major temperature datasets.  It’s ...
  • Update to my prediction that Romney will win, ...
    Summary:  In February I predicted the outcome of the election:  President Romney will prove an effective President, reshaping America for his key supporters, 17 April 2012. Here’s an update. The polls show a tight race (see Nate Silver’s blog at the New York Times). With so few undec ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Home Cost of Wars
    The American Society of Civil Engineers issued a cry of alarm five years ago in the form of three separate report cards on the state of the nation's infrastructure in 15 major categories -- from bridges to rail lines, pipelines, dams, waterways, highways and all other publicly regulated faciliti ...
  • The Return of Israeli Moderation?
    Not too long after the Israel-Hezbollah war, George Packer wrote an excellent profile of Israeli author David Grossman for the New Yorker. Grossman is an Israeli author who, along with several of his liberal cohort, has been engaged in a full-front assault on Israel’s hawkish foreign polic ...
  • Pentagon: Now on Sale at the Foreign Policy Au ...
    Ben Freeman is an Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, where he specializes in Department of Defense personnel issues, weapons procurement, and the impact of lobbying by foreign governments on U.S. foreign policy. The ongoing debate about Pentagon spending and sequestration is a ...
  • Top of the Morning: H. Clinton Takes Responsib ...
    Top stories from DAWNS Digest. Hillary Clinton Takes Responsibility for Benghazi Security Lapses The Secretary of State wades into a controversy that is increasingly becoming an election time political football. “‘I take responsibility’” for the protection of U.S. diplomats, Clinton said ...
  • You Might Have Missed: Foreign Relations of th ...
    Highlights from the recently-released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis 1974-1980 Minutes of the Secretary of State’s Staff Meeting, October 22, 1974 Kissinger: Somebody could do a great book on the decline of the west—between our madness and the Eu ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • The Town Hall Debate: A Binder of GIFs
    Why does the Republican always win the coin toss?   Mitt promises a job to a soon-to-be-college-grad.   Mitt says that Obama bankrupted the auto industry.   Obama decides to show up this time.   The candidates both love "clean" coal.   Mitt makes "middle-class tax cuts" sound better than O ...
  • Stop Gun Violence: Get Married
    During tonight's second presidential debate, when asked what he would do to limit the availability of assault rifles and stem gun violence, Mitt Romney said he would “change the culture of violence.” How would he do that, you wonder? We need moms and dads helping raise kids. Wherever possible, ...
  • Game, Set, Obama
    (AP Photo/David Goldman) President Barack Obama laughs as he talks with audience members after the second presidential debate at Hofstra University. President Obama did what he needed to do tonight. He took the debate to Mitt Romney. He was relaxed, even jaunty, as he scored one ...
  • Advantage Mitt?
    Everyone knows that Mitt Romney is stiff and awkward, which is why everyone also knows that he’ll do poorly at tonight’s town hall debate. Of the two candidates, Barack Obama is supposed to be the one who is friendly and personable with ordinary people. Even with his poor performance two weeks ...
  • Bums on the Bus
    Yesterday, the Nuns On the Bus—the summer’s most devout media darlings, who gained notoriety for their two-week, nine-state bus tour to protest Congressman Paul Ryan’s proposed budget plan—got a rude surprise in Marietta, Ohio. In the midst of a five-day bus tour of the state to protest propose ...

Buzzflash

  • Five Adjectives That Scream "Don't Vote Republ ...
    PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT There are more than five, of course, and voting Democrat may not be much of an improvement, but attaching these adjectives to the comically contemptible GOP seems more than appropriate. Obstructionist In 2010 Mitch McConnell said: "The single most importa ...
  • Mitt Romney's Most Unexcellent Adventure
    WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Mitt Romney has to be more relieved than an Iowa corn farmer in the middle of a thunderstorm to be back on home soil. Arms wide. Head back. Wet face. Smile. Podium steps. National Anthem. The American electorate may harbor an ambivalent attitude towards the ...
  • BuzzFlash Commentary Will Soon Be Posted on Tr ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT In a day or two, BuzzFlash Commentary (formerly known as the BuzzFlash blog) will move to the actual Truthout site. It is an exciting step in the continued integration of BuzzFlash into Truthout. Not only will there be the physical move of the site ( ...
  • We Wrecked Iraq, We Pulled Out, We Redeployed ...
    ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT We wrecked Iraq, we pulled out, we redeployed in Anaheim. This ain't working, guys- I mean, firing rubber bullets into anguished crowds, siccing attack dogs on moms and children. I mean, inventing enemies, going to war, unleashing state-of-the-art fire ...
  • The Massive Voter Fraud of the GOP
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Isn't it voter fraud to deny US citizens the right to vote? That is what the Republican Party is engaged in its campaign to place onerous requirements on the poor, infirm and destitute seniors, the homeless, students and others to vote. Politico recen ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Like Scrabble for chemists
    Elemensus is a new board game with a geeky twist. It’s an elemental update to Scrabble one might say and you can play it periodically…chemist and non-chemist alike. Don’t like that “NeBULaS” though…plural is NeBULaE but there is no E element… Nevertheles ...
  • Why we blush
    You just experienced the most excruciatingly embarrassing moment, and to top it all off, your face just turned bright red! What exactly is the function of blushing, other than to bring your embarrassment to a new level? What is the evolutionary reason behind this apparently uniquely human phenom ...
  • The Alchemist’s chemical round-up
    Good-old-fashioned organic chemistry with a modern twist comes in for Alchemical inspection this week as does an aqueous old favorite as it freezes. Likewise, an organic twist on 19th Century technology could bring fuel cells powering into the 21st while new clues about aerosol degradation might ...
  • Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2012
    UPDATE: And the Prize goes to… The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2012 to Robert J. Lefkowitz Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA and Brian K. Kobilka Stanford University School of Medi ...
  • Felix Baumgartner space dive
    UPDATE: Aborted. Disappointed. Frustrated. UPDATE: Seems like he’s got really bad wind and won’t be reaching for the edge of space just yet…they seem to have pulled the live feed from Youtube and from their own website, although countdown shows 43 mins at time of writing… ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Green Party Presidential Ticket Arrested Tryi ...
    Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, the Green presidential and vice-presidential nominees, were just now forcibly prevented from entering the grounds of tonight's presidential debate organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). read more
  • Empowering Voter Choice: * Killing the Congres ...
    ROB RICHIE Richie is executive director of FairVote, which has just released a pair of reports on “the roots of lack of competition in congressional races and a roadmap for reform.”read more
  • Celebrities, Business Leaders and Non-profits ...
    A rapidly growing list of business and environmental leaders, non-profits and entertainers are joining forces to fight against hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” in Colorado. On October 23, at Civic Park on Capitol Hill in Denver, a coalition called “Frack Free Colorado” ...
  • No Reason for Congress Not to Act to Prevent G ...
    At a luncheon hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (ret.) reaffirmed to area lawyers that recent Second Amendment cases, D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, are not a barrier to Congress passing stronger gun laws that would ...
  • Unregulated Fracking in California Faces Court ...
    As hundreds of California oil and gas wells undergo dangerous hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, without government oversight, environmental advocates went to court today to force the agency responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry to abide by the state’s foremost law that prote ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Lame Rules for Presidential Debates: A Per ...
    Glenn Greenwald The way the two major parties control the presidential debates is a perfect microcosm of how political debates are restricted in general. Though typically shrouded in secrecy, several facts about this process have recently c ...
  • EU Support for Israeli Crimes Makes It Unworth ...
    Omar Barghouti The European Union is not “merely hypocritical” in its relationship with Israel, it is “complicit in crimes against the Palestinian people.” This is one of the main conclusions of David Cronin’s ...
  • Is It All About Hormones?
    David Morris Everywhere I turn, the story line seems to pivot on hormones.Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 17, 2008 when the Dow plummeted 450 points. (Photo by The Tax Haven under a Creative Commons license ...
  • Koch Social Media Policy May Be Unlawful
    Brendan Fischer The billionaire Koch brothers have become the poster children for corporate influence on politics in the post-Citizens United era. (Image: In These Times)The Koch Industries policy limiting employee speech on social media ma ...
  • US Joins Israel in Blockading Education to Stu ...
    Ann Wright As another international activist ship is on the high seas to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, the United States government has joined with Israel to blockade higher education opportunities for students in Gaza and the W ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

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Electronic Intifada

The Wonk Room

  • The Sound Of Climate Silence: Romney And Obama ...
    “The door is closing. I am very worried – if we don’t change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for climate safety]. The door will be closed forever.” No, that was not President Barack Obama or his Republican Challenger Mitt Romney s ...
  • Watch Romney Get Fact Checked On Libya On Live TV
    During tonight’s presidential debate, moderater Candy Crowley corrected Mitt Romney’s suggestion that President Obama did not refer to the attacks in Benghazi “an act of terror” the day after the assault occurred: ROMNEY: I think it’s interesting that the president ...
  • 32 Seconds After The Debate Ended, Fox Started ...
    Exactly 32 seconds after the debate ended, Fox anchor Megyn Kelly began spinning the debate as biased as a consequence of the questions asked by the undecided voters in the audience. Here’s what she said: KELLY: And the questions! 11 questions asked in all, and some of which will certainly ...
  • ThinkProgress Liveblogs The Second Presidentia ...
    Welcome to ThinkProgress’ live coverage of the second presidential debate, hosted by Hofstra University, in Hempstead, New York. We’ll fact-check both candidates’ claims in real time and offer a wide range of multimedia content. Tonight’s debate is moderated by Candy Crowley, CNN’s Chief P ...
  • ThinkProgress Will Liveblog The Second Preside ...
    ThinkProgress will live blog tonight’s second presidential debate, starting at 8:45 PM. Stay tuned for our reporting and real-time fact checking. But as we wait for President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney to take the stage, here are 5 facts you should commit to memory and 8 important e ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • McGuinty's Crimes, Not the "Robamney" Scam
    I have almost zero interest in the sham debate between the two representatives of the oligarchs. What we should be talking about is condemning anyone who praises Dalton McGuinty's era of corruption and contempt. OUR own democratic process, which is teetering at the edge of the abyss is what shou ...
  • McGuinty's Resignation
    Assuming that Dalton McGuinty doesn't have a secret, life-threatening illness, I'm going to assume that Dalton McGuinty's surprise, sudden resignation as the leader of the Ontario Liberals is rooted in frustration and petulance. McGuinty discovered that incompetent, scandal-plagued government is ...
  • Policies that Benefit the Wealthiest ...
     I remember hearing for over a decade about how Brian Mulroney, then Jean Chretien, the Paul Martin, the Mike Harris, etc., etc., ... all were accused of pushing tax-cuts that benefited the wealthiest and which would deny governments of revenues to help the poor and the middle class. Now, ...
  • 1812 & stephen harper
    The cartoon above is dedicated to the principle that the real reason harper is going as far as airing television commercials to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 is because it feeds into the militarist culture he's trying to foster in Canada, which itself is really to create the ...
  • "Economic Treason"
    Argh! I'd do something, ... but, ... Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten, an expert on such international doings, quickly found out why. After reading the brief document, he declared it a travesty and a formidable assault on Canada's democratic traditions. For starters the deal gives Chines ...

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Digital Journal

  • Canadian border guard shot at British Columbia ...
    A female border guard was shot in the neck at a border crossing located south of Vancouver. Immediately after the shot was fired, the alleged shooter died of self inflicted gunshot wounds.
  • Canada-China corporate rights pact needs debat ...
    The NEXEN takeover by China National Offshore Oil Corp has been given a 30 day extension and may be extended again as opposition continues to grow from all factions with the exception of investors and the energy sector.
  • Is crowdsourcing the future of health care?
    In 2006 journalist Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsoucing in an article for Wired magazine. Crowdsourcing systems are used to accomplish a variety of tasks. It is now a standard model in business but could it become the way of healthcare?
  • Hacker group Anonymous names alleged Amanda To ...
    The hacker group known as Anonymous has named a person who allegedly drove 15-year-old Amanda Todd to commit suicide on Oct. 10.
  • Safety at school needs to start on the street
    Walking to school and listening to crossing guards is a rite of childhood but just how safe is it? In a recent survey in Ontario over 75 percent of parents said that they saw traffic violations in their local school zones.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

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Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

  • Threats to Assassinate Romney Explode After Debate
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comObama supporters voice desire to kill Romney over fears food stamps will be taken away Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com October 17, 2012 Despite numerous media outlets attempting to downplay the issue, Twitter explod ...
  • Hours Ahead Of The Presidential Debate, Total ...
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comZero Hedge Oct 17, 2012 While the perfectly coincidental (or maybe not) surge in the stock market on two subsequently thoroughly denied rumors (which did not prevent the’S&P to mysteriously close at the day&#82 ...
  • Toward Barbarism: US Imperialism Unleashed
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy Ben Schreiner The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. – Rosa Luxemburg, The Junius Pamphlet With signs of a global economic downturn mounti ...
  • Jon Stewart rips apart Ryan over failed photo-op
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The Daily Show host Jon Stewart blasted vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan on his show Tuesday night, expressing astonishment that someone could make volunteering at a soup kitchen look bad. The GOP runni ...
  • Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor
    Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPanetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor Antiwar.comRichard Silverstein Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made his first major speech about U.S. cyber-war policy to a business roundtable group this week. He invoked 9/11 and Pear ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives
    Dandelion Salad Oct 8, 2012 by GeneticRoulette Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented pr ...
  • Barry Commoner, The Greatest Environmentalist ...
    Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader The Nader Page Oct. 9, 2012 Dr. Barry Commoner, equipped with a Harvard PhD in cellular biology, used his knowledge of biology, ecosystems, nuclear radiation, public communication, networking scientists, political campaigning, and community organizing to become the ...
  • The Gitmos: Why Vote? + Rap News 16: Obama v R ...
    Dandelion Salad Oct 15, 2012 by CornFlu Video by Marshall J. Baumgartner and Scott Hughes. The Gitmos Great Seal artwork by Todd N. Kennedy Tell us why or why not you plan to vote! Why vote? When there’s no one worth voting for Why vote? Every politician is a whore Why vote? The problems n ...
  • Appealing To The Corporate State Is Futile by ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 15, 2012 The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up urban encampments. Instead it could arise in the na ...
  • Gar Alperovitz: America Beyond Capitalism
    Dandelion Salad Oct 13, 2012 by talkingsticktv Talk by Gar Alperovitz author of America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy recorded October 3, 2012 at Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, WA by Todd Boyle. TalkingStickTV – Gar Alperovitz – America Beyon ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • 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.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Support Lia Tarachansky’s Seven Deadly Myths – ...
    IOA contributor Lia Tarachansky's film project Seven Deadly Myths is competing for funding as part of the Cuban Hat Pitching Contest. Lia's work figures prominently on the IOA website. A key... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Russell Tribunal: Israel’s crimes not Possible ...
    After two days of expert testimony by notables such as public intellectual Noam Chomsky and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, heard before a packed crowd that included actors Harry Belafonte and Wallace... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Seven Deadly Myths
    Upcoming documentary profiles Israeli journalist Lia Tarachansky's return to the settlement where she grew up, to uncover a buried history and a landscape of denial. The film tells the stories of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • US warns European governments against supporti ...
    Hanan Ashwari: "Typical American behaviour but also overkill. It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way. This is tremendous... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s impossible plan for re ...
    In the shadow of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s theatrics at the United Nations last week, armed with his cartoon Iranian bomb, Israeli officials launched a quieter, but equally combative,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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