17 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

English: United States National Institutes of Health Police at work on the National Institutes of Health main campus in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

IPCC climate change report gets European launch (Photo credit: UNISDR Photo Gallery)

Logo of the Office of Intramural Training & Education, part of the United States National Institutes of Health. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Logo of the United States Office of Dietary Supplements, part of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A photo of a robotic surgery facility taken by Tewari's lab members in Weill Cornell Medical College. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar Weill Cornell in Qatar is part of Cornell University, and the first American medical school ever set up overseas. Established through a partnership between Cornell and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, WCMC-Q shares the triple mission of Weill Cornell Medical College: education, research and patient care. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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NewsWise

• New Study Reveals the Causes of Extinction Fro ...
  A new study, published online today in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, reviewed 136 case studies to determine the underlying causes of why many populations have gone extinct due to changing climate.
• Dr. Andrew I. Schafer Elected to Institute of ...
  Dr. Andrew I. Schafer, chairman of the Department of Medicine and The E. Hugh Luckey Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of t ...
• NDSU Receives Phase III Grant for Biomedical R ...
  Biomedical researchers at North Dakota State University, Fargo, (NDSU) have received a $4.9 million, five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for new strategies for targeting protease (pro' tee aze) in disease (Grant No.: 1P30GM103332-01). The Phase III funding provi ...
• Long-Term Observations in the Tropics Linked t ...
  Reports of declining ice coverage and drowning polar bears in the Arctic illustrate dramatic ecosystem responses to global climate change in Earth's polar regions. But in this first-ever account of a long-term project in the southern Caribbean, a Stony Brook professor and his colleagues report i ...
• Mobile Clinics Train Veterinary Students, Save ...
  In one of many states across the nation facing the monumental difficulty of pet overpopulation, Mississippi's largest university and only veterinary college is helping address the issue and saving lives, one dog and cat at a time.

Natural Health News

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

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaki ...
  by David Zaring by David Zaring [David Zaring is Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School] Pauwelyn, Wessel, and Wouter’s excellent book, which in turn marks the fruition of a project on informal international lawmaking that th ...
• D.C. Circuit: Material Support for Terrorism N ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Apologies for interrupting the book discussion, but I wanted to flag the D.C. Circuit’s blockbuster opinion in Hamdan v. United States, which was issued today.  The D.C. Circuit has reversed the Court of Military Commission Review and held that mat ...
• Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaki ...
  by Joost Pauwelyn by Joost Pauwelyn [Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.] The result of a two-year research project (involving over forty schola ...
• Book Discussion: Informal International Lawmaking
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Over the next three days we are bringing you a discussion of a brand new book, edited by Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Ramses Wessel (University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Jan Wouters (University of Leuv ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
  by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assumed responsibility for last month’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Commentary on this move from PrawfsBlawg can be found here and Foreign Policy analysis, here. The Internati ...

Public News Service

• Film Fights Prison Phone Price-Gouging
  Film Fights Prison Phone Price-Gouging PHOENIX - "Middle of Nowhere," a movie playing in five cities and opening in seven more on Friday, is a fictional drama about prison life, but it has a very real true-life issue behind it. The filmmakers have joined forces with a movement to bring fairness ...
• Advocates Hope Tonight's Debate Keeps Focus on ...
  Advocates Hope Tonight's Debate Keeps Focus on Dueling Medicare Plans PHOENIX - Proposed cuts to Medicare was a major point of contention in the first presidential debate October 3, and could also be a heated issue in tonight's second debate between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt ...
• Aviso a Adultos Mayores: Hoy comienza la afili ...
  Aviso a Adultos Mayores: Hoy comienza la afiliación abierta a Medicare PHOENIX – La inscripción abierta anual a Medicare comienza este lunes, antes que en años previos. La AARP insta a los adultos mayores y a sus familias a que revisen con cuidado sus planes vigentes para as ...
• Senior Alert: Medicare Open Enrollment Starts ...
  Senior Alert: Medicare Open Enrollment Starts Today PHOENIX - Medicare open enrollment starts today, and AARP is urging seniors and their families to carefully review their current plans to make sure they're getting the most out of their coverage. AARP Arizona's communications director, Cynthi ...
• A Generation in Jeopardy? Linking Pesticides a ...
  A Generation in Jeopardy? Linking Pesticides and Childhood Diseases PHOENIX – The prevalence of childhood diseases and disorders is growing, and a new report says that's due in part to the extensive use of pesticides. Dr. David Wallinga with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy s ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

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

Pensieve

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

Green Times

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

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

Politics in the Zeros

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

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook platform industry hires: Nanigans, Ni ...
  If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post. Also, please note that information about most new hires, below, … Continue reading →
• Facebook tests new design for mobile app insta ...
  Facebook appears to be testing a new design for its ad unit that developers use to promote their iOS and Android apps within Facebook’s mobile News Feed, according to a screenshot by ESPN’s SVP of Product Development Ryan Spoon. The latest … Continue reading →
• Last Chance to Register for Social Media Marke ...
  Are you new to social marketing and want to learn how to drive sales and engagement through social media channels? Then join us for our online Social Media Boot Camp, happening October 18-December 13. This 8-week e-seminar consists of keynote … Continue reading →
• Facebook’s head of brand design shares strateg ...
  Facebook Global Head of Brand Design Paul Adams offered marketers at Pivot Conference in New York City recommendations for applying Facebook’s product development principles to their own apps and social campaigns on the platform. These include “Build many lightweight interactions&#82 ...
• TBG Digital loses Facebook PMD badge
  Social media advertising company TBG Digital has been suspended from Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer Program for violations of the rules related to talking about new product tests, CEO Simon Mansell tells us. The London-based company still has access to the … Continue readin ...

Truthout - Tweets

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

ReDress News

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

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #95: The Fight against the Nation ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Carl Mayer Carl Mayer returns to update desperate, disingenuous legal maneuvers from the “Justice” Department. Bottom line: unconstitutional detention rules are back in effect. Mayer and his co-counsel Bruce Afran represent Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsber ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Of Course I Didn’t Watch It! How About You?
  What’s the deal with all the e-mails asking for my thoughts on and analyses of ‘the show’ last night? Seriously!  I thought I was more transparent than that. Of course I didn’t watch it. Well, I don’t own a TV-that’s for one. But that’s beside the point. It’s not that I don’t like shows. But [...]
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- October ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Syria, the Story Thus Far
  “Today, many Americans are asking — indeed I ask myself,” Hillary Clinton said, “how can this happen? How can this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated, and at times, how confounding the w ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Take Action: TPP - NAFTA on Steroids, meeting ...
  The Sierra Club, Environmental Working Group and Trade Justice are holding an educational forum on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive new free trade agreement being negotiated behind closed doors by 600 transnational corporations. The Nation calls it "NAFTA on Steroids."
• Diamond Jamie: Latest News on the JPMorgan Cha ...
  Dimon wasn't acting like somebody who was worried about accounting for his own actions this week. He was too busy traveling to Washington to lecture the government on what it's doing wrong financially. It's not cutting spending quickly enough to please him. Some people still have the silly notio ...
• Perry happens. Again.
  It's a call to "save America" from Barack Obama. Evangelicals are less than enthused by a Republican nominee who's a multimillionaire Mormon from the Cayman Islands, so Perry laid it on thick. He declared that America is in the midst of "spiritual warfare" forced upon purist Christians by Obama' ...
• Arizona Senate Ad Rooted in Bush Era Fight
  Arizona Senate Race: Cong. Jeff Flake gets attention with attack ad based on old, unsupported allegations against Dr. Richard Carmona, decorated Viet-Nam war vet and former Surgeon General.
• Quick Quick, Tell Us What to Think
  The more I hear people discuss the upcoming election, the debates, the issues, etc., the more I wonder how many people still are capable of thinking for themselves . . .

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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• That Binder Full of Women?
  Amazingly, Romney was dissembling about it.
• Vote Romney!
• Just to Be Clear
  When it comes to the auto bailout, as with pretty much everything else, Mittens is dissembling his ass off. Also, I’m happy that Obama didn’t take the extra-drowsy cold medication before this debate. Meanwhile, Romney’s bullying entitled douche is really coming through tonight; ...
• BOLD PREDICTION About Tonight’s More Imp ...
  Greg Luzinski of shortstops Eduardo Nunez will make at least one key error. Admittedly, hard to resist putting that empty .250 against RHP in the lineup. If Girardi wanted to shake things up, why not Slappy at short? I can understand that he wants to get his best defensive outfield out there in ...
• BOLD PREDICTION: Romney victorious!
  The line of the night will be “I know you are but so am I!” But I can’t predict who’ll say it. Ha ha! But we’ll have us no bitter “hoc voluerunt” because they really did want this. Unless Obama took notes during Biden’s epic battle, Romney will win ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• Pittsburgh, USA: Steel Town Turned Green Town
• Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm Will Protect Nant ...
• 2013 Clean Energy Challenge Offers $300,000 Fo ...
• Cadillac ELR Luxury Hybrid GM’s Answer To Tesl ...
• U.S. Navy Investigates Making Jet Fuel From Se ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Romney raises Fast and Furious during debate
  President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney sparred over several legal issues during Tuesday night's debate, including the controversy over the flawed Operation Fast and Furious gun-trafficking sting.
• Brownstein Hyatt launches Atlantic City-area o ...
  Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck has opened an office in the Atlantic City, N.J., area with the addition of three attorneys. Joining the Denver-based law firm as shareholders are Paul O'Gara and Pacifico Agnellini.
• Chief judge of Mass. district court to take se ...
  Chief Judge Mark Wolf of the District of Massachusetts, who's well known for high-impact criminal rulings and initiating a closely watched prosecutorial misconduct case, is taking senior status next January.
• Judge dismisses former Fannie Mae CFO from sec ...
  For the second time in less than a month, a Washington federal judge has dismissed a former top Fannie Mae official from a sprawling securities fraud class action against the mortgage giant and its former officers.
• Court asked to weed out restrictive marijuana ...
  A lawyer trumpeting the apparent medicinal benefits of marijuana is trying to convince a federal appeals court in Washington that the drug agency's classification of marijuana is improper and should be reviewed further.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• US Sends Condolences Over Ex-Cambodian King's ...
  Reports say the former King spent much of the rest of his life in China. He died Monday at age 89 after suffering a heart attack.
• Qods Force Plan for Psychological Torture of L ...
  The mullahs' Qods Force and Intelligence plan for psychological torture of Liberty residents by bringing intelligence agents and loudspeakers
• Hurricane Rafael Sets Sights on Bermuda
  The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center is concerned that since Rafael is a large system that it will come close enough to Bermuda to unleash potentially flooding rain, strong winds and pounding surf Tuesday into Tuesday night.
• Newly Completed Safe Passages Safeguard Both W ...
  WCS Associate Conservation Scientist Jon Beckmann said, 'This truly was a collaborative effort that brought together many groups with many areas of expertise to accomplish a worthy goal that benefits both wildlife and people.
• Animal Rights Group Accuses Swiss Dolphinarium ...
  Dolphinarium-Trial Against Animal Rights Groups From Germany At Swiss Court

environment 360

• Online Atlas Illustrates Critical Areas for Se ...
  A new online atlas provides the first global inventory of ocean sites critical to the world’s seabirds, a free digital resource that its creators hope will help guide protective policies and the creation of conservation areas globally. The site (www.birdlife.org/datazone/marine), which Click ...
• ‘Rogue’ Geoengineering Scheme in Pacific Viola ...
  A project sponsored by a controversial U.S. businessman dumped about 100 tons of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an experiment in geoengineering that environmental groups say violated international agreements, The Guardian has reported. According to the report, satellite images ...
• New Walt Disney Co. Paper Policy Promises Resp ...
  The Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, has announced a dramatic shift in how the company will use and source paper, vowing to minimize the amount of paper it uses overall and eliminate its purchase of irresponsibly harvested timber products. In an announcement, t ...
• Norway Proposes CO2 Tax Hike To Increase Clima ...
  Norway has announced plans to nearly double its carbon tax on the nation’s offshore petroleum sector to create a £1 billion fund to help combat the effects of climate change, including in developing nations. In a draft budget released this week, government officials proposed a climate program th ...
• Group Calls for Swift Growth Of Carbon Capture ...
  An industrial group says that to avoid “dangerous climate change” an additional 55 facilities that capture carbon from power plants and store it underground must be built by 2020. The group, the Global CCS Institute, said that only one new carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) plant was built in the ...

Red Ice Creations

• Oldest Fake Toes Made Walking Easier in Egypt
  Researchers have suspected two Egyptian artificial toes are the world’s oldest known prosthetic body parts. A new study suggests that is the case: Volunteers without a big toe showed the prosthetics would have made walking around in ancient Egyptian sandals much easier, suggesting they were not ...
• Army Says ‘Social Network’ Use Is a Sign of Ra ...
  These are some warning signs that that you have turned into a terrorist who will soon kill your co-workers, according to the U.S. military. You’ve recently changed your “choices in entertainment.” You have “peculiar discussions.” You “complain about bias,” you’re “socially withdrawn” and you’re ...
• Nestle Puts GPS Devices Inside Candy Bars To T ...
  RIC Note: What a clever way to appeal to the greed in people so as to make corporate GPS tracking and locating a frivolous, harmless, legal, and acceptable (even profitable) affair. The candy company launched the “We Will Find You” campaign in the United Kingdom where GPS tracking devices were p ...
• Design to ’harpoon’ old satellites, space junk
  UK engineers are developing a system to harpoon rogue or redundant satellites and pull them out of the sky. It is a response to the ever growing problem of orbital junk - old pieces of hardware that continue to circle the Earth and which now pose a collision threat to operational spacecraft. The ...
• The Science of Ghost Hunting: Logical Leaps of ...
  It’s getting to be the busy time of the year, especially for those of us involved in research of the strange and unusual. This probably has less to do with the actual presence of strange specters and hidden creatures coming out of the woodwork to coincide with the Halloween season, but instead t ...

Russia Today

• Ideology trumps reason as Germans pay the pric ...
  Germany is facing rapidly climbing energy costs after turning away from nuclear power following the Fukushima disaster, instead relying increasingly on renewable energy. Meanwhile, its neighbors are building nuclear... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Kosovo unlikely to become a UN member - UNGA p ...
  Vuk Jeremic says his election shows confidence in Serbia's global outlook, 20 years after the country was suspended from the General Assembly. But as for Kosovo, he does not expect it to ever become a UN member, Jeremic... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Anonymous and Wikileaks: Is it really a breakup?
  Whistleblowing website Wikileaks has come under fire from members of hacktivist group Anonymous, who lashed out against a paywall banner on its main page. But since the group is not a single entity and has no leader,... Read Full Article at RT.com
• US speeds up elite force creation in Libya aft ...
  The US is shifting $8 million away from counterterrorism operations in Pakistan and into Libya to speed up the creation of an elite force to fight Islamic extremists. The move comes as rival armed militias are still... Read Full Article at RT.com
• UK blocks 'UFO-hacker' McKinnon extradition to US
  Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that Gary McKinnon, who was accused of hacking into the Pentagon’s computer network, will not be extradited to the US. The move is due to the risk of McKinnon ending his own life. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• For Presidential Debate No 2, your reflection ...
  If Romney’s candidacy serves one purpose, it’s to highlight what fools Americans have become. Without question, Romney shows his supporters to possess a thinking deficit virtually unfathomable. But more dispiriting, Romney’s opponents run from the GOP foil like Team Scooby Doo ...
• Gary McKinnon escapes US torturers, by staying ...
  US efforts to extradite Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange and UK hacker Gary McKinnon, the latter thwarted today by UK courts, point to a puzzling question. Should it matter where accused are charged or tried if the US is looking for justice? The activities of both men are essentially curtailed ...
• NOW: Support the Tar Sands Blockade, includes ...
  BREAKING: Does effective direct action get more exciting than this? You can support the ongoing action: here’s their wish list. At the same time, an excellent inventory of what YOU’LL NEED to scramble a tree-sit if the XL Pipeline is coming your way. To read this list is like being t ...
• Military recruitment techniques
  … ‘Military recruiters with the Arizona Army National Guard engaged in a pattern of systemic misbehavior over the past decade that included instances of sexual abuse, forgery, embezzlement and assaults, including riding in a Humvee and shooting paintball guns at homeless people, acco ...
• Government should regulate business better to ...
  — Right Wingers are always calling for ‘big government’ to get out of the affairs of the business world. See what happens though when government does not regulate and watch business though? UPDATE- US meningitis outbreak rises to 205 cases – CDC ‘The International A ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 9/11 Free Fall-- Dr. Crockett Grabbe, Controll ...
  Apparently, since Grabbe is such an esteemed scientist, some "debunkers" on the JREF Forum have resorted to theorizing brain damage was the reason for his being a controlled demolition advocate. As their usual ally Oystein wrote: Folks, seriously, this "brain damage" argument - it's weak. As ...
• New Video: Century of Manipulation
  New video! Probably my best one yet if you can stand the highly repetitive background music that I stretched out for 18 minutes! I had real trouble finding music I liked for this one. This video covers: The Reichstag fire and Hitler's rise to power Pearl Harbor Hiroshima Operation Northwoods ...
• 3 Recently Released 9/11 Truth Documentaries a ...
  James B. at the Screw Loose Change blog posted the first video here, but chose to outsource the debunking to his commenters. Please do read the comments and watch the video. The first person you will see is Dr. Graeme MacQueen. Click here to see MacQueen's debunking of the debunkers. I don't agr ...
• 9/11 Free Fall-- Debunking Popular Mechanics
  Interview with blog contributor Adam Taylor. He discusses his article "Debunking the REAL 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality." http://911debunkers.blogspot.com/2012/02/debunking-real-911-myths-why-popular.html Originally aired on 9/27/12 and broadcast at: http://nol ...
• The Meaning of 9/11 Truth
  Published on Oct 11, 2012 by corbettreport DOCUMENTATION: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=5623 Corbett Report Podcast Episode #242 We've covered the who/what/where/when/why of 9/11 on this podcast in the past, but in this 9/11 11th anniversary episode of the podcast we ask: what is the mean ...

Fooducate

• Why Just California? Fooducate Provides GMO In ...
• Europe Rejoice? Cereal Manufacturers Pledge to ...
• NYC Sued Over Soft Drink Limits
• Labeling Works! Trans Fat Consumption Down 75% ...
• Book Giveaway: Lonely Planet’s Food Lover’s Gu ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

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

Greg Palast

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle a wooden shoe rack?
  There was a neighbourhood “give and take” event near me at the weekend – people took along their unwanted items and took home anything other people had donated that took their fancy — all for free. It was mostly small things – crockery, household knick-knacks and bo ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old glass blocks/gl ...
  We’ve had an email from Whitney, asking about reuse/recycling ideas for glass blocks (or glass bricks, as they’re also known): We just bought a house and making a lot of renovations. We removed some glass blocks from an old bathroom window and I want to reuse them for something. I lo ...
• How can I “reuse” fresh eggs that ...
  (Hi! Sorry to regular readers for the stupidly long break in posting – I’ve been reading all the comments as usual as they come in, just not posting any new content myself due to a combination of busy-ness, illness and laziness. I’m hoping to get back to regular scheduled blogg ...
• How can I reuse or recycle toilet seats?
  Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...
• How can I reuse or recycle empty bottled gas/p ...
  Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Age of Autism

• Dachel Media Update: 10/16
  Today's headlines: Oct 16, 2012, Yale Daily News: Research links genetics, autism Oct 16, 2012, ABC 30: Fresno St unveils new online autism tool Oct 15, 2012, Bedford Patch: LETTER: October is Vaccine Injury Awareness Month Yale Daily News Yale...
• Best of AofA: Why Conservatives Don't Get Autism
  Managing Editor's Note: Our good friend Ginger Taylor wrote this post at Adventures in Autism.com in November 2010 as a counterpart to Dan's post above. We're running it in response to/anticipation of the Presidential debate. A few days ago, Dan...
• Best of AofA: Why Progressives Don't Get Autism
  Managing Editor's Note: We first ran this post in November of 2010 - it's apropos this week with the debate. By Dan Olmsted The midterm elections have ushered in a period of reflection and reckoning for the nation’s liberal-left movement...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/15
  Today's headline(s) with my commentary. Two recent stories got my attention. First Forbes gave us more reasons not to worry about autism or the toxic pesticides in our food. Oct 15 2012, Forbes: Are Pesticides A Key Driver Of The...
• Enduring Memories: Prof John Walker-Smith reca ...
  Note: Enduring Memories, Prof. Walker-Smith's memoir, is now available in the UK at The Village Bookshop. By John Stone ‘Looking back I am astonished that I was able to study as many as 116 child autopsies during the period 10...

Global BDS Movement

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

Farm Wars

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

Open Your Eyes News

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

L.A. Times - Greenspace

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

water.org

• Talking Water on Wall Street Journal Report
  Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, talks to Oscar winner Matt Damon and Gary White, co-founders of Water.org, about the big bet they’re making to bring clean water to the nearly 1 billion people without it. Watch the interview.
• Short Stories: Haitian Collection
  Mike McCamon, CCO for Water.org, recently visited Haiti and saw something in Port au Prince that underlined why we do the work we do.
• Charlie Rose Discusses the Water Crisis
  Water.org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White joined Charlie Rose for a discussion about the water crisis on September 27th.
• 6 Things You Can Do Now
  When we stare facts in the face - 780 million people lack access to an improved water source - it can be easy to feel overwhelmed. However, everyone has a role to play, here are six things you can do right now to help.
• Water Quality Testing
  A staff member of Hand in Hand, one of Water.org’s WaterCredit partners in India, conducts water quality testing in the village of Enthur, Tamil Nadu using the government testing kit. Each state in India has a specific set of parameters that they test for water quality.

Before It's News

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

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Reinstate Teacher Who Supported Trayvon Martin ...
  arget: Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell Goal: To reinstate Brooke Harris, an eighth grade teacher who was fired after supporting a fundraiser benefitting Trayvon Martins family. The Trayvon Martin case has already caused a storm of controversy, Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World &n ...
• "Ive Been Duped" - Reflections on Israel and P ...
  Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• What people will do for beauty: 8 Grossest Spa ...
  uh..the title says it all :) Submitted by Vicky P. to Offbeat  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Iran Bashing, Terrorism, and Who Chose the Cho ...
  Dedicated to the long-suffering Palestinians and Iranians who have been sidelined by the United Nations in favour of the Nuclear Apartheid State of Zionist Israel in the most blatant exercise in International Double Standards that our world has ever known Submitted by Ken D. to World  |&nb ...
• Study: 400 Afghan women jailed for "moral crimes"
  In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World  |&nb ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

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

News Blaze

• US Sends Condolences Over Ex-Cambodian King's ...
  Reports say the former King spent much of the rest of his life in China. He died Monday at age 89 after suffering a heart attack.
• Qods Force Plan for Psychological Torture of L ...
  The mullahs' Qods Force and Intelligence plan for psychological torture of Liberty residents by bringing intelligence agents and loudspeakers
• Hurricane Rafael Sets Sights on Bermuda
  The AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center is concerned that since Rafael is a large system that it will come close enough to Bermuda to unleash potentially flooding rain, strong winds and pounding surf Tuesday into Tuesday night.
• Newly Completed Safe Passages Safeguard Both W ...
  WCS Associate Conservation Scientist Jon Beckmann said, 'This truly was a collaborative effort that brought together many groups with many areas of expertise to accomplish a worthy goal that benefits both wildlife and people.
• Animal Rights Group Accuses Swiss Dolphinarium ...
  Dolphinarium-Trial Against Animal Rights Groups From Germany At Swiss Court

Worldnews

• 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...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• ASPIRIN ENTERIC SAFETY COATED (Aspirin) Tablet ...
  Updated Date: Oct 16, 2012 EST
• AMITRIPTYLINE HYDROCHLORIDE (Amitriptyline Hyd ...
  Updated Date: Oct 16, 2012 EST
• Clinical prediction rules developed for chorio ...
  A clinical prediction rule composed of clinical birth variables could be used to predict histologic chorioamnionitis and histologic chorioamnionitis with fetal involvement in preterm babies, a study shows.
• Insight: How compounding pharmacies rallied pa ...
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - When U.S. senators met nearly a decade ago to consider the dangers of pharmacies that mix or alter drugs with little federal oversight, health officials briefed them on some alarming findings about the safety and efficacy of drugs made by these "compounding pharmacies." (Sou ...
• Subway/Rail Commuters At Greatest Risk For Ter ...
  Despite homeland security improvements since September 11, 2001, subway and rail commuters face higher risks of falling victim to terrorists and mass violence than frequent flyers or those engaged in virtually any other activity. And while successful criminal and terrorist acts against aviation ...

Common Dreams

• Obama, Romney Square Off in Second Presidentia ...
  Progressives react to Tuesday night's presidential debate on twitter: read more
• BBC Profile: Big Tobacco Lawyers Target Big Food
  More than a dozen lawyers who took on big tobacco in the 1990's have turned their attention to the food industry and the criminal mislabeling of food products. BBC Newsnight spoke with Don Barrett, one of the attorney's who's career capstone was the decade-long battle that forced tob ...
• SCOTUS Upholds Early Voting in Ohio
  Ohio voters will maintain their right to vote early, the US Supreme Court decided Tuesday afternoon. The decision turns down a recent Ohio law that banned the established practice of voting within three days before the election and posed a challenge to voter's rights in the state, critics of ...
• Sanders: Proposed Social Security Cuts 'Morall ...
  US Senator Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that a "draconian" proposal to chain the cost-of-living increase to the Consumer Price Index is "not only morally grotesque, it is extremely bad economics." The Social Security Administration on Tuesday announced a 1.7 percent cost-of-li ...
• Romney/Ryan-Like Medicare Privatization Plan W ...
  Regardless of the political disputes, as the report concludes, if Medicare was privatized there would be "increase costs and financial risks for beneficiaries over time." (Photo: Alliance for Retired Americans)An analysis of a Medicare voucher plan generally based on the approach inclu ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Energy Collective

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

Green House - USA Today

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

Prior Art

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

• EU Wages War on Free Expression
  by Stephen Lendman Free expression in all forms is fundamental. Without it, all other freedoms are at risk. Included are free speech, thought, culture, intellectual inquiry, and press freedom. Denial risks tyranny. Voltaire said, "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to th ...
• Broken Lives and Families in Bil'in
  by Stephen Lendman A documentary called "5 Broken Cameras" depicts daily and nightly Israeli horrors committed against peaceful Bil'in villagers. More below on what most people can't imagine. Palestinian residents throughout the Territories live it daily and can best explain. "Bil'in is ...
• Freedom of speech enters dark age: Gilad Atzmo ...
  Gilad Atzmon presstv.com/ The concept of freedom of speech and tolerance enters a dark age as the Europe Union's executive body orders a ban on several Iranian channels, an author tells Press TV. European satellite provider Eutelsat SA says it has stopped the broadcast of several Iranian satel ...
• The Former Nation of America is Gone. Welcome ...
  By Timothy V. Gatto I feel as if I’m repeating myself over and over for the past 8 years. Each time that I think I’ve written about everything, the government comes out with something else. The Bush regime was a catastrophic horror. He did away with habeas corpus, and that wa ...
• Thoughts at Perhaps the Most Perilous Time in ...
  by Stephen Lendman Daily events should scare everyone. Consider the times. Wars rage without end. More threaten. One conflict follows others. So-called democracies wage them. Popular needs go begging. Conquest, occupation, colonization, and exploitation are prioritized. Ordinary people are on t ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Striking shifts in education and community act ...
  The Fall 2012 issue of Our Schools/Our Selves is about the links between education and activism, but it focuses extensively on issues raised before, during and since the Québec student strike. The strike provides us with a superb case study of how the Charest government labeled student resistanc ...
• The Case for A Living Wage
  In a new CCPA-Ontario report, Jordan Brennan looks at the history of the minimum wage and living wage in Ontario and makes the case for a living wage as an essential tool to help reduce income inequality. The report, Enhancing Democratic Citizenship, Deepening Distributive Justice: The Living Wa ...
• Will BC break its own GHG emissions law?
  In 2007 the BC government legislated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), but just five years later, the province’s 2012 Natural Gas Strategy risks breaking that legislation. Our latest report, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad ...
• More equitable compensation needed for vulnera ...
  In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage—that is, sufficient income to afford the basics of life—because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoe ...
• Analysis of Saskatchewan's Renewal of Labour L ...
  Unions in a Democratic Society: A Response to the Consultation Paper on the Renewal of Labour Legislation in Saskatchewan, a new CCPA report by Christopher Schenk, critically reviews the contemplated changes to labour legislation proposed by the Saskatchewan government in their Consultation Pape ...

World Wide Hippies

• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs
  WWH/CJE – Two of wallstreet’s political toy’s give the show promised. Promoted as the prize fight of their lives, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ducked, weaved, bobbed and exchanged blowes. At times the event looked like an out take from WWF and just as orche ...
• What Happens When “Jane” Comes Mar ...
  By Elayne Clift,opednews.com – It didn’t take long for Jenny McClendon, a sonar operator in the Navy, to experience sexual harassment when she joined the military in 1997. Immediately subjected to verbal attacks by her male counterparts, when she refused sexual advances, she was told ...
• BP owns the Congress, believe it!
  Congress like dogs eating their own vomit – pleads with BP over Gulf oil sheen – Make this go away before the truth gets out. In the mean time we’ll pretend to get tough, OK? See ya at the club this weekend… From fuelfix.com – Lawmakers in Washington are applying mo ...
• Asshole California businessman, Russ George is ...
  Make the asshole clean it up. He has the money. Then throw the planet destroyer in jail! From Democracy Now website – Report: U.S. Businessman Launches Risky Geoengineering Venture in Pacific Ocean The Guardian reports a U.S. businessman has dumped about 100 metric tons of iron sulphate in ...
• Dear citizens of our nation: ‘Anonymous& ...
  WWH/CJE -  Amanda Todd, just 15, committed suicide on October 10. Todd uploaded a video to YouTube that detailed being bullied online, just weeks before her suicide, Until now an unknown man,  asked Todd to flash him on a web camera. She did and he recorded the image of her breasts. The unknown ...

FourWinds10

• What The Frack?
• Too Dirty to Fail
    mericans must once again stand up for their right to clean air and clean water. Since the beginning of this year, Republicans in the House have averaged roughly a vote every day the chamber has been in session to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency and our nation's environme ...
• Millions of tons of Fukushima debris expected ...
  (NaturalNews) The 9.0+ mega earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan back in March caused millions of tons of debris to wash into the Pacific Ocean. And for the first time, some of that debris has been spotted drifting between Russia and Hawaii, where officials expect it to hit Hawaiian shores m ...
• 'STAGE TWO' OF THE BP GULF OF MEXICO ENVIRONME ...
• Fracking May Have Caused 50 Earthquakes in Okl ...

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• The Potential for a Heating Oil Crisis
  The Energy Information Administration (EIA) last week reported on a potential crisis for heating oil customers in the Northeast part of the United States. In This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), the EIA reported: For the week ending October 5, distillate inventories in the U.S. Northeast (PADDs 1A and ...
• Understanding California’s Gasoline Prices
  I am getting numerous questions about the situation with California’s surging gasoline prices. Therefore, I want to take some time to explain what makes California’s gasoline situation unique. The EPA defines gasoline specifications, but many states have more restrictive specificatio ...
• Hofmeister: A Difficult Decade Ahead For Oil P ...
  Consumer Energy Report recently conducted a broad-ranging interview with John Hofmeister, former President of Shell Oil. The topics touched upon included future oil supplies and prices, climate change, U.S. energy policy, and topics familiar to R-Squared Energy readers such at Peak Lite and the ...
• The Potential of Methanol
  Last week I received an email from John Bockris, a retired Distinguished Professor from Texas A&M University. I presume Professor Bockris had come across some of my writings on methanol, as that was the topic of his correspondence. I don’t think Professor Bockris realized that we had m ...
• Ethanol Policy: How to Grow Production Sustain ...
  In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss potential improvements to U.S. ethanol policy. I explain the fundamental principles that guide my thoughts on energy policy, which primarily involve moving toward more sustainable and locally-sourced energy, but understanding the tra ...

Discovery Educator Network

• Screencasting is an efficient and effective to ...
  Comments:Thought provoking post about screencasting.   However, how about using screencasts as method of assessing student learning? - Dean MantzTags: screencasting, GettingSmart, instruction, presentations, tutorialsby: Dean Mantz
• Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted - In ...
  Tags: decades, states, interactive, nytimes, presidentualElection, campaign, electoralcolegeby: Dean Mantz
• Google Cultural Institute
  Tags: google, cultural, institute, photo, resource, researchby: Dennis Grice
• TeachThoughtHow 21st Century Thinking Is Just ...
  Tags: thinking, 21stcentury, 21stcenturylearningby: Dean Mantz
• Green screen storytelling
  Comments:Great resource on working with students in creating their own digital storytelling project using video, green screen, and music. - Dean MantzTags: digitalstorytelling, greenscreen, storytelling, multimedia, technology, educationby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• 5 Ways to Give Yourself a Massage
  Talking, texting, typing, cross-training… Life takes its toll on your body, leading to painful muscles and joints. Just take a look at pain meds: According to an Associated Press investigation, prescription pain medication sales have jumped 90 percent since 1997. That's a lot of pills, especial ...
• 10 Things You Should Have Learned in Home Ec
  Self-sufficiency is making a comeback. All around the country, people are banishing the use of dehydrated potato flakes, prefabricated pancake mixes, fast-food drive-through windows, and trips to the dry cleaner's because they yearn to make things from scratch again, just as our ancestors did. ...
• How Your Jeans Can Save a Small Town
  Sometimes, there's nothing that cures a bad day like a little retail therapy. But what happens when your feel-good shopping trip results in a river, a lake, or an entire town feeling really, really bad? A new report from a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in China is ...
• Why You Shouldn't Buy the iPhone 5
  Not too jazzed about giving Apple Maps a try on the new iPhone 5? There may be another reason to keep your 4S in your pocket: It has lower levels of harmful chemicals, according to a report just released by a Michigan-based environmental health nonprofit called the Ecology Center. Scientists a ...
• Buy Organic, Avoid Birth Defects
  Despite what Stanford University researchers say, going organic is healthier, and here's more evidence why: A new study in the Journal of Pediatrics has revealed evidence that organic food may protect your children from rare birth defects and help you ward off late-life chronic diseases, like o ...

big think

• The Election (and the Debate) Really Could Go ...
  Here are the most sensible thoughts about the election that have come to my attention: 1. Romney has had considerable momentum since the first debate.  It's come to an end, not because of Biden or anything but because there are only so many persuadable voters at this point. 2. Th ...
• What If Dumb Phones (and Chairs) Are the Futur ...
  We almost take it as an article of faith that our mobile devices are getting smarter and smarter, that each new product cycle represents a step forward in the evolution of technology, and that smart phones are the future. This is understandable -- we recently reached a tipping point where more . ...
• Putting His Medical Records Online In Search O ...
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? When Italian engineer and artist Salvatore Iaconesi received a diagnosis of brain cancer, he asked for his medical records, which he then used to create a Web site called Open Source Cure in which he instru ...
• Some Last Minute Debate Advice (Actually, Usef ...
    To: POTUS Re: DEBATE Suggested remarks regarding your performance in the first debate.       Mr. President, Don’t forget that, like any choice people make, elections aren’t really about the facts as much as they are about the feelings. The meters that wi ...
• The Fight For The Right To Track You Online
  Article written by guest writer Kecia Lynn What's the Latest Development? Earlier this month, Microsoft's announcement that its forthcoming Internet Explorer 10 will have "Do Not Track" set to "on" as the default caused the board of the Association of National Advertisers to writ ...

Information Liberation

• Video: Police Brutalize Defenseless Man at Syn ...
  CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] * On Monday evening, October 8, 2012, police were called about a man who was sleeping in the lounge of the Aliya Institute on East New York Ave. The caller may have mistakenly believed that the homeless man, Ehud H. Halevi, was lo...
• Repost Undercover Cop's Public Facebook Photo, ...
  Police relish posting tax-slaves photographs all over the internet when they're booked over some petty crime, yet when a tax-slave dares repost a public servant's god-creature's publicly shared Facebook photo, the taxfeeders pull some charges out of ...
• Your Turn in the Pokey
  Proponents of liberty argue over what parts of the economy or society government should not touch. Government should get out the education business, stay out of health care, and even leave roads and infrastructure to the private sector. But when i...
• Hobgoblins and Cyberwarfare
  Last June the New York Times ran an article adapted from a book by David E. Sanger which revealed that within the first few months of his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama ordered a ramping up of the federal government's foray into cyberwar...
• Inflation: Washington is Blind to Main Street' ...
  Journalists, politicians and economists all seem to agree that the biggest economic issue currently worrying voters is unemployment. It follows then that most believe that the deciding factor in the presidential race will be the ability of each candi...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...

RFF Library

• Energy-Water Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approa ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://gao.gov/products/GAO-12-880 [PEN-e posting] [w] ater and energy are inextricably linked and mutually dependent, with each affecting the other’s availability. Since 2009, GAO has issued five reports on the interdependencies between energy and water. Thes ...
• Batteries And Energy Storage: Federal Initiati ...
  US Government Accountability Office http://bit.ly/QJuhxh [Green Car Congress]  In a recently published report (GAO-12-842), the US Government Accountability office (GAO) identified 39 battery and energy storage initiatives with a variety of key characteristics that were implemented across six fe ...
• Linking the Emissions Trading Systems in EU an ...
  Swedish Environmental Research Institute | Forum for Reforms, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability / by Lars Zetterberg http://fores.se/assets/780/FORES-California_ETS-web.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Julia Pyper, sub. req'd] …the report finds that political will should be enoug ...
• Energy Independence and Security: A Reality Check
  Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions / by Branko Terzic http://bit.ly/QPAQOC [From Report] The real issue is not independence from all foreign oil, but reducing oil imports from unfriendly nations, diversifying our supply of energy sources and ensuring that no nation can effectively manipulate m ...
• International Index of Energy Security 2012 Ed ...
  U.S. Chamber of Commerce | Institute for 21st Century Energy http://www.energyxxi.org/sites/default/files/InternationalIndex2012.pdf [FuelFix] Mexico and the United Kingdom are international energy security leaders that are better insulated from supply disruptions and less reliant on foreig ...

Scientific American - News

• EPA Fights Back over Mountaintop Mining
  By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine [More]
• Rating the Candidates: How Did SA Grade Romn ...
  Where's the science? Scientific American , in an attempt to compensate for the deficit of important science issues discussed and debated so far in the presidential campaign, today offers its evaluation of Gov. Mitt Romney's and Pres. Barack Obama's answers to the 14 top science que ...
• Badger Battle Erupts in England
  By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine [More]
• Seeking a Chief Exec with the Right Stuff?: Lo ...
  During the candidate debates this month, one of the questions that television viewers will ask themselves is whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the right stuff--Does either man appear "presidential"? The two will communicate their answers, not just by anticipating and parrying the ...
• Critical Carbon Capture Technology Stalled
  In 2015 international oil company Shell will begin to capture more than one million metric tons of the odorless, colorless gas known as carbon dioxide. The CO2 will come from three enormous machines near Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, that produce hydrogen to turn bitumen into salable oil. Once cap ...

First Truths

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

Media Co-Op

• Mexican Asylum-Seekers Take Human Rights Deman ...
  Over 200 refugees, migrant workers, activists, and supporters rallied at Parliament Hill on Oct. 2 to demand regularization for Mexican asylum-seekers ahead of Ottawa's implementation of Bill C-31, “An Act to amend the Immigratio ...
• To the People of the United Church
  A letter from wape'k mikjikj e'pit I am called wape'k mikjikj e'pit - white turtle woman.  I am the daughter of a residential school survivor and know first-ha ...
• Cameco's Northern Heartbeat
  Cameco, AREVA, NWMO, Committee for Future Generations to cross paths on Saskatchewan community tour circuit The forecast for northern Saskatchewan this week is non-stop nuclear issue ...
• Access to Information Shows Town of Windsor Ha ...
  Nova Scotia Environment has known since May, 2011 K'jipuktuk (Halifax) – An email conversation disclosed through an Access to Information request has revealed that an undet ...
• No more police brutality - Activists memoriali ...
    Today as Vancouver marks the 5th anniversary of the RCMPs’ killing of Robert Dziekanski, activists memorialized the tragic date with a banner drop next door to the Vancouver Police Department on Main Street at Hastings.  ...

David Seaton's News Links

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Debate Reax - 16 October 2012
  Here's the exchange of the night, coming right after Romney tried to score a point by claiming that it took Obama two weeks before he referred to the Benghazi attack as an act of terror: ROMNEY: I think it's interesting the president just said something, which — which is that on ...
• Debate Liveblogging - 16 October 2012
  WRAP-UP: Well, that was like night and day, wasn't it? Obama was way crisper than he was two weeks ago, and he adopted Joe Biden's habit of frequently interrupting to accuse Romney of getting his facts wrong. On several occasions, Obama warned viewers that the Romney of the primaries was not t ...
• Obama's Poll Drop: We've Seen This Movie Before
  Andrew Sullivan continues to freak out: Here's a dishhead bleg: when was the last time that a sitting president in a re-election campaign lost six percentage points in the polls in two weeks in October? That's pretty specific, and I suppose the answer is "never." But let's change the que ...
• Supreme Court Approves Early Voting in Ohio
  Earlier this morning Stephanie Mencimer asked, "Could Bush v. Gore Save Obama in Ohio?" You see, Ohio's Republican legislature had ended early voting for everyone except active duty military and the Obama administration had taken them to court, arguing that if soldiers got to vote early, then ...
• Today Produces Yet More "Facts" to "Check" Fro ...
  In today's edition of ridiculous time wasters, we bring you a bout between heavyweight contender Mitt Romney and referee wannabe Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. The question at hand: how should we rate Romney's contention that he has three studies verifying that his five-point economic p ...

Insanity Report

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

Simple Climate

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

e!Science News

• New study aims to predict risk of cancer
  New research at the University of Southampton aims to develop a way of predicting who is more at risk of getting cancer. read more
• Fruit fly's 'sweet tooth' short-lived: U of Br ...
  The humble fruit fly may have something to teach us about forgoing empty calories for more nutritional ones -- especially when we're hungry. read more
• Ice sheet retreat controlled by the landscape
  Ice-sheet retreat can halt temporarily during long phases of climate warming, according to scientists. read more
• Jelly-like atmospheric particles resist chemic ...
  Atmospheric chemists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found that when it comes to secondary organic material in the atmosphere, there are two distinct breeds: liquids and jellies. read more
• New paper reveals fundamental chemistry of pla ...
  Though not often considered beyond the plasma television, small-scale microplasmas have great utility in a wide variety of applications. Recently, new developments have begun to capitalize on how these microplasmas interact with liquids in applications ranging from killing bacteria for sterilizi ...

unEarthed

• Waiting For The Rain
  Nervously enjoying an Indian Summer in Northern California San Francisco's City Hall sporting Giants orange last week. Historically, California goes multiple-year cycles of abundant rain an ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Wash. Post Writes Politics, Coal Ash
  Article features communities living near coal ash ponds Curt and Debbie Haven may have to sell their family home in Chester, W. Va. due to coal ash waste run-off seeping onto their land. & ...
• Restoring The River Of My Childhood
  Clean Water Act revived this polluted river and ones like it across America After growing up in Massachusetts suburbia, I have fond memories of canoeing with my ...
• Open Season in Wyoming Threatens Wolf Recovery
  State delists endangered gray wolf and the hunt begins Wolves perform a valuable ecological role and stand as a living symbol of wilderness. (NPS) In Wyoming, ...
• Friday Finds: Climate Change Leaves Wine Conno ...
  Plus: Cleaning up greenwashing, pesticide overdosing, toxic tuna (flickr, tribp) Climate change leaves CA wine lovers with fewer options California’s ...

Brave New Climate

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

Indigenist Opinion

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

Republicans are a Disease

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

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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

+972

• At the second presidential debate, undecided J ...
  The second presidential debate was held Tuesday night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island. The moderator, CNN’s Candy Crowley, chose questions that were submitted in advance by the rather small audience, all of whom were undecided voters. According to the CNN poll conducted imm ...
• Between anger and denial: Israeli collective m ...
  A new documentary aims to decipher some of the anxiety that accompanies the Israeli debate over the events of 1948. A strange thing regarding the debate on the Nakba: the responses it generates in Israeli society are becoming more and more hostile, while at the same time, the Nakba is mentioned ...
• A song was born: The tale of a controversial tune
  Six or seven years ago, I was sitting in Tel Aviv’s Cafe Ginzburg with a man I admire deeply. Mikhael Manekin was then, along with Yehuda Shaul, one of heads of Breaking the Silence. BTS was still a budding organization at the time, made up entirely of Israeli soldiers who participated in ...
• Israeli forces arrest Palestinian prisoners&#8 ...
  At 1:00 a.m. Monday morning, Israeli forces entered ‘autonomous’ Area A and arrested Ayman Nasser, a researcher at Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. Two soldiers held Nasser’s wife at gunpoint while other soldiers searched the house the couple shares with ...
• One year on: From social protest to civic econ ...
  Last summer’s tent encampments were dismantled, but the spirit of the protest lives on. Citizens are taking matters into their own hands, promoting public interests through growing numbers of cooperatives. By Yifat Solel The summer of 2011 was the summer of social protest in Israel. Tent e ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

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

Matt Weidner Blog

• URGENT ALERT! REPORT MORTGAGE FRAUDCLOSURE TO ...
  I’ve got outrage fatigue and whistleblower fatigue…I’ve wasted years of my life trying to get our government to stand up, do their job and fight for consumers. They will not. Instead, our government serves the banks and institutions that paid them off. Government workers serve ...
• Will You Join Me in Voting For My Opponent Dwi ...
  As most of you know, I campaigned for, and earned the right to appear on this year’s ballot as a candidate for Florida House of Representatives.  I want to thank each and every one of you that sent in petitions that helped me to qualify for this seat.  Several very important personal chang ...
• Fannie Mae Master Custodial Agreement….. ...
  At some point in time this nation is going to wake up and realize that we’ve demonized the wrong party for many, many years. The BIG BAD BANKS are just straw parties, standing up there and taking shots from all of us….they’re easy targets, a distraction from the real fact that ...
• The Mortgage Industrial Complex, Continuing Th ...
  From Michael Olenick: The meaning of the word “chutzpah” varies by context. In criminal court, it might refer to murdering one’s parents then asking for leniency because the perpetrator is an orphan. In family court, it might be invoked when abandoning a child, then pleading the child has been a ...
• Where Will You Be To Celebrate Amerika’s ...
  It of course didn’t matter who won the 2012 Presidential elections….the riots after all were not a function of politics, but of mathematics.  And numbers of course do not have any partisan identity.  And numbers…when left to their own purposes….don’t lie…they just are what they are. And the real ...

abelard - news

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

The Parallel Parliament

• Go For It
  By now we’ve all heard of Malala Yousafzai,  the 14-year old Pakistani education advocate who was attacked on her school …Continue reading »
• Get Some Sleep – We Could Use It
  Most of us remain aware of the advantages of sleep, even as we feel we never get enough of it. …Continue reading »
• A Nobel Gesture
  Fifty-five years ago today – October 12, 1957 – a cable was sent to his residence from Oslo, but ended …Continue reading »
• Hunger and Waste
  The following is my recently published article in the Huffington Post. Across Canada hundreds of food banks sent out special …Continue reading »
• The Networked Ideal
  We have spoken enough in these blog posts about the need to be better connected as communities that maybe we …Continue reading »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

• Basic research and personal responsibility
  Dan Sarewitz has a rather provocative commentary in Nature this morning, where he suggests that proposals to increase basic research may be good politics, but questionable policy. The headline alone is probably enough to get some science-advocates’ blood boiling, whether they go on to read ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...
• Lost in the Maize
  As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Sa ...
• Small gods and the art of technology innovation
  There’s something rather liberating about being asked to give a no-holds talk on your perspective on life, the universe and everything.  So when the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center asked if I would speak as part of their “Where do we go from here?” series, I jumped at it. N ...

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• World Food Day vs Food Day: What’s the Differ ...
  October seems to be the month of food, and not just because of the bountiful harvests currently filling up our farmers’ market stands. For the second year now, two awareness days centered on food system complexities are on the menu this month— World Food Day and Food Day. If you’re confused as t ...
• The Farm Bill – What Now?
  As of midnight, October 1, 2012, the farm bill officially expired. After spending a good portion of the summer learning about and reporting on the farm bill, the notion that a new farm bill might not be in the cards this year is slowly starting to sink in. Congress still has a chance to make [.. ...
• Where Was Agriculture in the Presidential Debate?
  Ignoring agriculture and food policy in presidential debates is nothing new, but the availability of food is essential to life.
• Handle with Care: Food, Climate, and Fragile S ...
  The frightening truth is that climate change and food supply are intimately linked, and as the weather events in this country and around the world become more extreme, so will our struggle to feed ourselves.
• New Survey Shows Meatless Monday Makes Room fo ...
  Not only has awareness of Meatless Monday been steadily increasing since it was founded in 2003, but the campaign is also positively influencing dietary behaviors.

k2p blog

• The Liverpool Care Pathway: Euthanasia? Or is ...
  The LCP leads over 100,000 people to death every year - just in the UK. It smacks of execution of the elderly for convenience.An assisted death for someone who does not wish to die is an execution.
• Snuff case is just the tip of the EU corruptio ...
  The EU is probably the most sophisticated and successful corruptocracy in the world. Politicians and bureaucrats everywhere use the bidding, procurement and regulatory machinery as their opportunity to line their pockets. And the appearance of sand in bureaucratic machinery is a sure sign that a ...
• Blogging will be light and sporadic
  I am on the road on an assignment and shall then be attending a family wedding. Blogging will be light and sporadic for 2 weeks or so.
• Idle thoughts: On time and change and states o ...
  The riddle of whether change and time are interrelated or independent. And which comes first? Within our cosmos perhaps we have many different states of stasis with paths by which these states can be connected. Our universe could then just be one specific change journey, on one particular path b ...
• 120 years on and Chekhov’s depressive al ...
  By 2140 we will be close to 2.1 children per woman, studying longer (say till 27), working for 45 years (till say 72) and living much longer - say 85 years (on average). Maybe less than 5% of 10 billion people will be living in poverty. Hunger and malnourishment will have almost disappeared. It ...

Left Foot Forward

• Jobs stats no cause for celebration – th ...
  Today's labour market stats are no cause for celebration - things could be, and should be, an awful lot better.
• Watch: PMQs: ‘A night in the cell for yo ...
  Ed Miliband went on the attack over 'pleb gate' at the first post-conference season Prime Minister's Questions in Parliament today, reports Shamik Das.
• Watch: Obama gives Romney the rope to hang him ...
  Barack Obama cut Mitt Romney down to size on the issue of the Republican's falsehoods about the administration's response to the Benghazi consulate tragedy.
• Unemployment down 50,000 to 2.53 million; empl ...
  Unemployment is down 50,000 to 2.53 million, with employment up to nearly 30 million, reports Shamik Das.
• The slow road to justice
  This afternoon the Home Affairs Select Committee heard from David Crompton, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police. During his questioning Crompton described how he estimated that there are approximately one hundred current police officers who served on the ground on the day and a further ...

Consumerist

• Why Didn’t Roku Explain That A Warranty ...
  A. got a Roku as a gift, and thought that it would keep working for a while. No… not really. It didn’t work from the start. He called tech support, who authorized an exchange for a working unit. What they failed to do was explain that “exchange” meant that they needed the ...
• Amazon Makes A Push To Get Kindles Into A Very ...
  Let’s see… where is a place with a captive audience that will always involve reading books, paper or otherwise, that will also need to keep updating its tools as the years go by? Oh yes, schools. They’re quite an attractive market for the makers of tablet and e-readers, and now ...
• Whirlpool Welcomes Me To The Era Of Disposable ...
  What’s worse than an appliance breaking down and having to pay for the expensive repair? When it happens and the appliance is only a few weeks out of warranty. That’s what happened to Jonathan. His Whirlpool refrigerator broke down when he had owned it for thirteen months. Yes, a rep ...
• Maxi Pad Company Apologizes For Fooling Man In ...
  We’ve all been led astray by advertising — maybe it was that choppy kitchen tool thingy you saw on an infomercial or a lip gloss that would land you George Clooney for a husband. But for one man, the maker of Bodyform maxi pads did him a great injustice for fooling him into thinking that w ...
• Students & Families Getting Screwed Because Sc ...
  If you went to college, you’re probably familiar with the financial aid letters that detail — in not very much detail — the loans, grants and other assistance the school can offer. These letters vary from school to school, even though the Dept. of Education created a standard f ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Prenatal Mercury Exposure Linked to ADHD – Stu ...
  Prenatal Exposure to Mercury Linked to ADHD: Study Summary: New research shows that children who are exposed to higher levels of mercury in the womb are more likely to exhibit attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. GAP's Food Integrity Campaign draws attention to a concernin ...
• Developers Warned Apple about Bad Quality of M ...
  iPhone 5CNET: Developers – We Warned Apple about iOS Maps Quality Summary: Since unveiling the new iPhone and the new iOS, Apple has been plagued with reports of its ineffective in-house maps app. Now, numerous developers are coming forward, saying they warned Apple about the poor quality of t ...
• Nat'l Security Whistleblowers/GAP Clients Win ...
  John KiriakouNational Security Whistleblowers Honored with Callaway Award Summary: The 2012 Joe A. Callaway Awards for Civic Courage winners were announced this week, and all three are GAP clients: former CIA agent and torture whistleblower John Kiriakou, and NSA whistleblowers William Binney ...
• Government's Fault That Espionage Act Cases Ri ...
  The latest unsealed court pleadings in the Espionage Act case against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou reveal that Kiriakou's defense team has sought to subpoena journalists. Steven Aftergood of Federation of American Scientists explained the pleadings, and he ...
• National Security Whistleblowers Honored with ...
  GAP Clients Kiriakou (CIA/Torture), Binney & Wiebe (NSA Wrongdoing) to Receive Award Oct. 30 (Washington, DC) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) applauds the recent announcement of the 2012 Joe A. Callaway Awards for Civic Courage winners by the Shafeek Nader Trust for the ...

UK Progressive

• Mitt Romney’s China Syndrome: Following Mitt’s ...
  by Denis G. Campbell In the first two articles in this series we looked at Mitt attacking The President for not “cracking down on China’s currency manipulation” but he seems unable to see any hypocrisy in his investing with them for his own benefit. Indeed he will receive a huge payo ...
• - Strong
  Welcome to Hofstra University on Long Island in New York. We’re live-Tweetcasting and blogging this second Presidential debate. I’ve decided to save my blood pressure and will avoid all the networks this time and just watch this debate free from breathless commentators, SPIN rooms an ...
• Big Electric Companies Behind ‘Grassroots’ Ad ...
  by Theodoric Meyer ProPublica Oct. 15: This story has been updated with comments from the Edison Electric Institute. Since August, a dark money group called Defend My Dividend has spent nearly $90,000 running ads on South Florida TV stations warning seniors about a looming increase in the tax ra ...
• Early Voting And Those Increasingly Under-Repr ...
  by Richard Hudson Up through the first presidential debate many states which allow early voting were exercising that option at a greater rate than in 2008. At the present about 1.7 million votes have been cast compared with 1.5 million in 2008. Only about 14 states have no early voting other tha ...
• Mitt Romney’s China Syndrome: Sensata, Jobs an ...
  by Denis G. Campbell Senata is a microcosm of what drives Mitt. He says he wants to help build a “strong middle class” then deflects his lifelong business practices of buying then gutting companies, shipping jobs overseas and blaming it all on President Obama’s failed policies. Sensa ...

NewsAlert

• Reform Pension Systems or Pay the Price, Repor ...
  CNBC
• Assault Weapons Question Came From Registered Dem
  The Washington Free Beacon
• Rockefeller Foundation's War on the Catholic C ...
• Pundits Look at Second Debate
  Instapundit
• Complete Second Presidential Town Hall Debate ...

JoNova

• Lewandowsky — A paper of questionable et ...
  Prof Stephan Lewandowsky had to make an ethics committee application in order to survey anti-skeptics to “find out” whether skeptics are conspiracy mad nutters (as you would). Simon Turnhill launched an FOI to ask for information and has received some  information related to the ethi ...
• Australian sea levels have been falling for 70 ...
  It’s hard to measure sea levels, because land often moves up and down too (which is known as “isostatic“). But Australia is stable tectonically, so the Australian sea-level record is more useful than most. It preserves the holocene era and the rises and falls, and correspond mo ...
• Weekend unthreaded….
  Anything you want to discuss? – Jo Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Biofuels benefit billionaires
  Follow the money. As usual the Green trail ends at a Greenback (so-to-speak). In this case it’s the euro-colored kind. The EU is focusing on “first generation” biofuels — corn, soy, sugar and palm oil — which pushes up prices of food, and cuts down forests.  (In a r ...
• Antarctic concensus “flips”. Warme ...
  In a move of Olympian audacity, Seth Borenstein keeps a straight face and shamelessly shifts to pretending that more Antarctic sea-ice fits their climate change theory. Yet again climate models fail to predict things in advance, they only do the post modern type of prediction — the bury-my ...

ReNew America

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

Truth Offering

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

2012 Blog

• All Roads Lead To Prepping
  I believe in prepping so much that I can’t see any valid argument for not preparing for the worst. I’m not a blinkered, narrow-minded obsessive, but rather a rational bloke who has thought about all the arguments for and against. Consider the evidence: Our grandparents (generally) ...
• Scientist warns of Mount Fuji eruption
  There are two reasons why Mount Fuji in Japan should be feared: 1) Obviously a major eruption in Japan could affect the entire planet economically 2) It used to erupt every 30 years, but has been dormant since 1707 Now Japanese scientist Professor Toshitsugu Fujii has warned that Fuji is due for ...
• Swiss Army Cases for your new iPhone 5
  I’m happy with my 4S, but I’m sure many survivalists out there, while preparing for a world without electronics, have eagerly purchased the new iPhone. In an overview of rugged iPhone 5 cases are these two gems that are in the direction of Swiss Army knife: ReadyCase – comes wi ...
• Purposeful Evolution
  My 2012 studies began with Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods, where he suggested that ancient cataclysms may have destroyed advanced civilizations, and that 2012 could be a prediction for the same again. So while thinking about a global cataclysm 12,000 years ago, I pondered over w ...
• Don’t Be Known As A Constitutionalist
  Not a lot happens in the video below. It’s basically just a SWAT team removing two people from their home, and then the home is searched. The reason for their visit is the reason it is interesting. Rather than just a routine police visit because a neighbor thought there was a domestic disp ...

Facing South

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

One News Page

• Not Tests, only T20 can spread gospel of cricket
  With T20 leagues cropping up all over the world, this club vs country issue is certainly going to rise. But Ayaz Memon is of the view that if cricket is to become a popular sport, then T20 is the right format to do so. Reported by Firstpost 1 hour ago
• What lies ahead for Citi: More cost-cutting, s ...
  In the hours after Tuesday's surprise announcement that Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit was stepping down, speculation was rife, and facts scant, about what lay ahead for the third-largest US bank. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• HP assembly polls: Filing of nominations ends ...
  In Himachal Pradesh, the electioneering has started taking momentum for the election to the 68-member state assembly due to be held on the 4th of next month.Today is the last day for filing nomination papers. Reported by All India Radio 2 hours ago
• IT needs new products to meet $300 bn target: ...
  Infosys Executive Co-Chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan today said IT industry should create new products and revenue streams to achieve the $ 300 billion revenue target by 2020. Reported by Firstpost 2 hours ago
• Arvind Kejriwal's next expose at 5pm today, Ga ...
  Though no name has been given out by him or his associates yet, Arvind Kejriwal's next target is expected to be BJP president Nitin Gadkari. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago

Global Research TV

• The End of Immigration (Trailer)
• Iraqi Birth Defects Surge from US Depleted Ura ...
• REBUKED: 7/7 Conspiracy Road Trip
• Turkey's Interception of Syria-Bound Plane Act ...
• Spain Police Beating Everyone: A Warning To Am ...

Daily Tech

• Official: A123 Systems Files for Bankruptcy
  The EV battery maker is selling all assets to Johnson Controls for $125 million
• Man Faces up to 15 Years in Prison for Faceboo ...
  Speechcrime charges on the rise in the U.S., marine is also involuntarily committed for his protest speech
• Quick Note: NYT Highlights "BlackBerry" Shame
  Meanwhile, RIM is convinced its users are still in love with it
• Patriot Memory Announces Gauntlet 320 Portable ...
  The Gauntlet 320 will be available in the United States in January 2013 for $159 USD
• EU Attacks Google for "Risking" User Privacy W ...
  Regulators demand Google offers an opt-out to its inter-service data-set merger

Oriental Review

• Episode 8. The Great Odd War (IV)
  Part I Part II Part III At the point when the Russian command began to run into difficulties during the German offensive in 1915, they vainly tried to get at least some kind of real help from the Allies. The actions of the Entente countries however, unlike their adversaries, continued to lack co ...
• Nobel Insane Asylum
  A rare and extravagant news has come from the Nobel Committee: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the European Union – an organization comprising 27 European nations that has absolutely nothing to do with international military and political conflicts management according to its charter. ...
• Turks, Cease Fire!
  In the Middle Eastern corrida, the moment of truth is approaching fast. Assad’s Syria is running around the arena like a wounded bull, fraught and worn down by a year of cruel strife. Banderillas of mujaheeds stick out of his broken hide. The public, the Europeans, the Americans, the Gulf rulers ...
• Who Runs the Global Drug Mafia (II)
  Part I As noted in the previous part of the paper, the global drug mafia is a three-level formation. The strategic objectives pursued at the executive Level 3 are: • The whitewashing of the cash flows generated by drug sales; • Revenue investment in various sectors of the economy; • Organization ...
• Afghan Taliban Announces Its Victory over NATO
  The Taliban have won a victory over the foreign forces which have been in Afghanistan since 2001. With this announcement, the Taliban marked the 11th anniversary of the US military invasion. According to local observers, the US was unable to achieve its stated goals during its long years in Afgh ...

BlogHer

• Mitt Is Not Moderate, But He Does Say Things L ...
  I was waiting to see who would show up at tonight’s town hall at Hofstra University. Would it be the suddenly “Moderate Mitt” of the last presidential debate? Or would it be “Extreme Mitt,” the self-described “severely conservative” governor we’d come to know during the endless debates of the p ...
• Romney, Obama Get Scrappy in Debate Over Middl ...
  Former Gov. Mitt Romney needs Ohio and it's 18 precious electoral votes, while President Obama hopes his hefty ad buys blocks his opponent in the Buckeye state where debate watchers took careful notes.But just today, there were whispers in certain circles that Michigan and Pennsylvania might als ...
• Is Malala Safe? An Update on the Young Heroine ...
  I promised I would give you an update on Malala Yousufzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot and nearly killed by the Pakistan Taliban because she dared to defy them and fearlessly advocated for the education of girls. She is moving her hands and legs, but she is still in critical co ...
• Quinoa "Burgers" With Portobello Mushroom "Buns"
  Though this recipe might not yield a veggie "burger" in the traditional sense, it's an interesting way to turn quinoa into a main dish sandwich. Because quinoa is such a healthy grain, as well as a complete protein, this is a power-packed vegetarian entree. Add a salad on the side, and you'll be ...
• My Son's Birth Day Was Not the Best Day of My Life
  [Editor's Note: Birth is not always rainbows and butterflies. Beyond the normal pain of childbirth, some things go wrong -- whether on that day or with the pregnancy in general. The trauma involved can leave some moms with some leftover feelings of resentment, with a feeling of dread on her chil ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Poisonous Cloud Sparks Mass Evacuation After K ...
  Seven hundred firefighters are struggling to extinguish a blaze at a German Kraft Foods factory, hours after a chemical leak triggered a mass evacuation. One thousand eight hundred people were removed from the area. The incident happened in the small ...
• Top 10 Brain Food That Will Boost Your Intelli ...
  The brain is without question the most important, and yet least understood, of all the parts of the body. It controls every major function performed by the body, and its correct functioning is undoubtedly one ...
• Sitting for Protracted Periods Increases Risk ...
  A new study led by the University of Leicester, in association with colleagues at Loughborough University, has discovered that sitting for long periods increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease and death. The study, which combined ...
• Texas Scientists Quit Cancer Program
  At least seven scientists resigned in protest last week from Texas’ embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting program, claiming the agency created with the backing of the governor and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is charting a politically driven path ...
• Antidepressant Use in Pregnancy Linked to Lang ...
  Taking a common class of antidepressants called serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SRIs, during pregnancy alters the developmental time-course of the child’s language processing, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Supreme Court to hear widows’ case again ...
  Larry Messina over at The Associated Press has a quick brief out on the wire this morning, reminding us of the big oral agument at West Virginia’s state Supreme Court over the January 2006 Aracoma Mine fire that claimed the lives of two Massey Energy miners, Don Bragg and Ellery Hatfield: ...
• Obama EPA continues inaction on key rule, desp ...
  Sunday’s Washington Post included the following update from environmental reporter Juliet Eilperin on the important issue of regulating the handling and disposal of toxic coal ash from our nation’s power plants: In Maryland’s Zekiah Swamp, one of the Chesapeake Bay’s most important t ...
• MSHA touts record low mining death rate in 2011
  President Barack Obama makes a statement on mine safety, Thursday, April 15, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, He is joined by, from left,  U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administrator Kevin Stricklin, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and United Mine Workers of America safety d ...
• Missed warnings: Coal’s decline is no su ...
  If you missed it in our Sunday paper, here’s how we started off a story about the many warnings West Virginia political leaders have had that a big decline on coal production was coming: During last week’s gubernatorial debate, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin tried to offer an encouraging asse ...
• Burying the lead: Missing the real coal story
  Thomas Peak, center, and Allen Stapleton, right, join others at the United for Coal demonstration in Wise County, Va. on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, coming straight from work at a local coal mine. “  Groups of coal supporters that lined up sporadically along this Virginia highway were among t ...

Daniel Miessler

• Romney on Women
  Image from themoderatevoice.com Romney showed his beliefs about women in tonight’s debate, and that’s what hurt him. Here’s what I saw: He created the Binders Full of Women meme. Well done. He thought it was cool to give the dames that worked for him time to get home and cook d ...
• Selling Old Phones
  I camped for the iPhone 5, so that’s what I currently have. I’m aiming to get rid of a few of my old devices: Apple iPhone 4S, Black, 64GB, Verizon ($300) Apple iPhone 4S, Black, 64GB, AT&T ($300) Samsung Galaxy S III, AT&T, Blue ($600) They are all in excellent shape. I&#821 ...
• What is the Ideal Home Office Phone Setup in 2013?
  I’m changing my home office phone setup from a cloud-hosted VOIP provider to…well, something else. I was having far too many dropped calls for the $40/month I was paying. Besides, I just felt like it was time to modernize. Here are my requirements: Stable connection during calls (no ...
• 8 Enhancements to Shell and Vim Productivity
  If you enjoy the command line then you don’t need to be sold on efficiency or purity of action. But even those who grok CLI are unaware of a number of ways to be more elegant accomplishing their tasks. Here are a few of my favorites. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Use ctrl-r For History Autocompl ...
• 6 Shell and Vim Efficiencies
  If you enjoy the command line then you don’t need to be sold on efficiency or purity of action. But even those who grok CLI are unaware of a number of ways to be more elegant accomplishing their tasks. Here are a few of my favorites. Remap Your CAPSLOCK Key Use ctrl-r For History Autocompl ...

Fitwatch

• Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous! #2 – Masking Up
  This is possibly the easiest form of FITwatching that can be done. It is 100% legal (although you need to read the Legal Information at the bottom of this post), keeps you off a database and, when done en masse, creates a sea of obscured faces that are much harder to identify. This is something ...
• Stay Safe: Stay Anonymous!
  Our sister organisation, the Network for Police Monitoring, is launching their ‘Don’t End up on a Database’ campaign this month. In response to this, FITwatch will be producing a series of simple, easy-to-understand guides designed to help you defend your anonymity and stay off police databases ...
• Fitwatching at Global Noise
  Improvisation with pots and pans to deal with police surveillance at the Global Noise / OccupyLSX anniversary. Picture courtesy of rikki. His report included the following account: "Followed overtly by a handful of city police, and less obviously by several police vans containing back-up, a grou ...
• Confronting FIT and PLO – Fitwatch works ...
  Direct Action is a powerful tactic against the snooping and prying of Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) and their new sidekicks, Police Liaison Officers (PLOs). A little organised resistance can stop the FIT / PLOs from getting their 'intel' at crucial times. Fitwatch and other associated tactics ...
• Extremism cop covered up at Hillsborough
  This man, Norman Bettison headed up the liaison unit responsible for orchestrating the lies and black propaganda that was the police response to the deaths of 96 people at Hillsborough. Attempting to cover up the police's role in causing the tragedy, the liaison unit perpetuated false stories of ...

Worldwide Hippies

• 10:50 P.M. TUESDAY Post- Debate
  By Sherry Pasquarello,WWH/CJE – Yes, all over. I’m recharging the laptop and my phone. I have 5 pages of notes that I took even as I was on Facebook AND Twitter monitoring how others saw this debate. Things got tense. Republican friends started posting Romney malarkey on my page. I FINALLY ...
• WWH/CJE Wednesday News Briefs
  WWH/CJE – Two of wallstreet’s political toy’s give the show promised. Promoted as the prize fight of their lives, President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney ducked, weaved, bobbed and exchanged blowes. At times the event looked like an out take from WWF and just as orche ...
• What Happens When “Jane” Comes Mar ...
  By Elayne Clift,opednews.com – It didn’t take long for Jenny McClendon, a sonar operator in the Navy, to experience sexual harassment when she joined the military in 1997. Immediately subjected to verbal attacks by her male counterparts, when she refused sexual advances, she was told ...
• BP owns the Congress, believe it!
  Congress like dogs eating their own vomit – pleads with BP over Gulf oil sheen – Make this go away before the truth gets out. In the mean time we’ll pretend to get tough, OK? See ya at the club this weekend… From fuelfix.com – Lawmakers in Washington are applying mo ...
• Asshole California businessman, Russ George is ...
  Make the asshole clean it up. He has the money. Then throw the planet destroyer in jail! From Democracy Now website – Report: U.S. Businessman Launches Risky Geoengineering Venture in Pacific Ocean The Guardian reports a U.S. businessman has dumped about 100 metric tons of iron sulphate in ...

reference frame

• Steven Weinberg will not vote for Obama
  Steven Weinberg is a top theoretical physicist who remains immensely active. Just yesterday, he released a new paper demonstrating that in scale-invariant theories, fields \(\psi_n\) transforming as \((j,0)\) or \((0,j)\) under the Lorentz group – symmetric spintensors with one kind of i ...
• Enthusiasm about the economics Nobel prize: Ro ...
  The Nobel memorial prize for economics went to Lloyd Shapley, a Stanford emeritus professor, a mathematician residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts (I must have met him during a society dinner but I hadn't know him in advance so I probably didn't appreciate it as much as I should have), and a m ...
• Planet with 4 stars found by armchairs astronomers
  As many sources mention, users at the website Planet Hunters.ORG have found a planet 5,000 light years away that orbits four Suns. To celebrate the website, it was called PH1. The observation was made by watching variations in the brightness and it was reported on the arXiv in the ...
• Classification of simple compact Lie groups
  The goal of this text is to concisely explain why the simple compact Lie groups are divided to the groups \[ A_\ell,\, B_\ell,\,C_\ell,\, D_\ell,\, E_{6,7,8},\, F_4, \,G_2. \] The focus will be on the representation of every step, not on the detailed explanation of each step. In oth ...
• HadCRUT4: no warming for 16 years
  The Hadley Centre at the Met Office released a new product replacing HadCRUT3, the temperature record of the Earth. It's called HadCRUT4. Various years are rearranged but look at the chart of the last 16 years, since early 1997, as discussed in the Daily Mail. There has been no tre ...

Tatumba 2.0

• Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Christmas
  Chances are that you’ve heard of the alleged war on Christmas, which some believe is an effort to distance the celebration from its origins. But what are those origins, exactly — and where do modern Christmas traditions come from? Tune in to learn more. howstuffworks.com http twitter ...
• Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know – Christmas
  Chances are that you’ve heard of the alleged war on Christmas, which some believe is an effort to distance the celebration from its origins. But what are those origins, exactly — and where do modern Christmas traditions come from? Tune in to learn more. howstuffworks.com http twitter ...
• European Union clamps down on freedom of speec ...
  Did you know that the European Union just awarded itself the Nobel Peace prize? Surprised? Youre not the only one: The central banksters and the debt based monetary system… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: The Nobel WTF Prize from Azizonomics: So the Europe ...
• Canadian border guard shot near Vancouver
  A Canadian border services officer has been shot and wounded at the Peace Arch crossing south of Vancouver. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Border agents asked about hookers, drugs, alcohol use The Canada Border Services Agency wants to know about marital... Former Vancouver Olympi ...
• American War Machine with Peter Dale Scott 1/2
  Alex interviews former diplomat and professor Peter Dale Scott about the CIA and its efforts to withhold crucial information on the September 11 attacks. Scott will also review the tenth anniversary of the attacks in New York and Washington, DC Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and En ...

Truth About Our World

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

Bloomberg

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

Enviroblog

• Type 3 Diabetes?
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• Why Some "Green" Cleaners Get Poor Grades
  A number of cleaning product manufacturers are expressing surprise at their products' scores on Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaning. Frankly, we're surprised they're surprised. The fact is, the industry has gotten complacent about its... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Keratin is still "Flat-Out Risky"
  By Erika Duthely, Stabile Law Fellow, EWG The popular online discount deal promoter Groupon has been offering great prices on keratin hair-straightening treatments at a Washington, D.C. salon in the upscale Georgetown neighborhood, but this is one deal... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Getting Arsenic out of Your (and Your Kids') Diet
  By Sonya Lunder, EWG Senior Research Analyst and Dawn Undurraga, EWG Nutritionist Although scientists and government regulators have long known about the ever-present threat of arsenic in our diet and water, it was unsettling when two major reports... [[ This is a content summary only. Visi ...
• FDA Warns Leading Cosmetics Maker on Anti-Agin ...
  By Erika Duthely, EWG Stabile Law Fellow The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently (Sept. 7) warned Lancôme to stop making grand claims for several of its anti-aging products -- claims that would require the agency to approve them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...

Quick Hits

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

Capital - NYC

• At Hofstra, Obama puts a crucial question to rest
• The mischievous surrogacy of Rangel and Grimm
• For David Wright, the market will bear a lot m ...
• Bill Clinton headlines a Rochester rally for S ...
• Mutants of rap: DMC, Jean Grae and others on t ...

Views & News from Norway

• King reigned in a fight to win
  Norway’s national football team (landslaget) put in a far from vintage performance but picked up three crucial points for their World Cup 2014 qualifying campaign in a somewhat flattering 3-1 away win against Cyprus on Tuesday. Buoyed by a superb performance in their 1-1 draw at group favo ...
• Law protecting elected officials from being fi ...
  A Norwegian law that prevents elected officials from being fired during their terms of office should be changed, according to some professors, Members of Parliament and other top politicians. Their calls come after a mayor in the mountain community of Vågå was charged with sexual assault, and af ...
• US admits to radiation incident
  The Norwegian military reported on Tuesday that the US Navy had now confirmed that one of its vessels emitted radiation that injured crew members on board a Norwegian vessel while both were taking part in exercises in the Arctic last summer. “The American authorities have confirmed to us t ...
• Kidnapping, murder case highlights domestic vi ...
  A police investigation into the apparent abduction of a woman and her infant son in Telemark on Sunday ended Monday with the arrest of a man in Sweden and the discovery of the woman’s body in a forest outside Notodden. The man has admitted killing her, while the infant was physically unhar ...
• Colombian peace talks delayed again
  UPDATED: Delegations from both the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC postponed their departure for Oslo early this week, reportedly because of bad weather that disrupted airline traffic in Central- and South America. It was initially unclear when the delegations would arrive in O ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• The Fight Against Canola Invasion of the Willa ...
  Have you heard about the problems with growing canola in seed-production regions? Did you know canola can harm the farmers that grow your food crops, as well as your own ability to garden and save seed? Have you given your testimony yet? Right now, Western Oregon, U.S.A., is faced with a seri ...
• Rusinga Island, Kenya, PDC With Lesley Byrne ( ...
  What: Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course with Lesley Byrne Where: Rusinga Island, Kenya When: December 4 — 17, 2012 Rusinga Island is one of the bigger islands in the Kenyan side of Lake Victoria. It’s the home of ancient fossils from before Homo Erectus and was once a ...
• VEG Design Solutions, Part Three: How to Drain ...
  by Dan Palmer, Very Edible Gardens The Site-Specific Design Problem The problem was how do you drain a duck pond in a way that directs the overflow to the same exit pipe as when you drain it totally doesn’t involve reaching your hand to the bottom of a pond full of duck poo lets you easi ...
• Excess Cancers and Deaths with GM Feed: the St ...
  That cancers are found even with a small number of rats tested is strong evidence that the GM feed and herbicide are carcinogenic. by Prof. Peter Saunders In September 2012, the research team led by Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen published the findings of their feeding tr ...
• Rocket Oven! A Permanent Wall Mounted Kitchen Oven
  We’re using this awesome rocket stove powered wall oven for all the catering here at Koanga — it gets daily use and we’re loving it! The amount of wood required is minimal, a tiny fraction of what a regular wood fired stove would use. by Emma Cowan During our last workshop at ...

Pointman's

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

Journalists' Toolkit

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

Justice Roars - Louisiana

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

Information Underground

• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  Thanks Tim... So I recently asked David Livingstone if he could somehow explain Kabbalah. I asked if Kabbalah was some type of ancient psychology or science of the "self". This is what he had to say... When I read the books of the Kabbalah, it's a whole lot of confusion, or should I ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  iframe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omzCIdDwm5g ........this guy worries me. Regarding the original church fathers church debate on this. The christian angle goes against traditional gaelic/antediluvean nationalism. In other words im more sympathetic to a knowledgeable caveman view of Chri ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Without going into details that are elaborated elsewhere, that disturbance and rearrangement of planets means that Saturn is the way it is not because of how it was conventionally formed, but because it is closer to being a star than it is to being a planet. Indeed, as our ancestors tell us, it ...
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  Oct 11, 2012 Both Saturn’s body and its rings are so electrically active that they shine in X-ray light. “Saturn is more like the Sun than the Earth.” — Wal Thornhill Almost everyone knows that one should not look directly into the flame of an arc welder, since the plasma at the tip is so ho ...
• Crimes of Israel, IDF, Zionists, Mossad or &qu ...
  Went for the 50yr option. Seems most likely. If ever.Statistics: Posted by Jack Napier — Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:23 pm

TVNZ

• Armstrong steps down from charity; Nike drops ...
  Lance Armstrong has stepped down as chairman of the cancer charity he founded, after  a scathing report detailing his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
• Kiwi artist faces criticism in Australia
  One of New Zealand's most successful contemporary artists is facing criticism.
• US servicemen arrested in Japan for alleged rape
  Two US servicemen have been arrested in Japan on suspicion of raping a Japanese woman.
• Canadian border officer shot at state crossing
  A gunman in a van has shot and critically wounded a Canadian border officer.
• Tropical Storm Paul weakens near Mexico
  Tropical Storm Paul has weakened rapidly as it skirted a sparsely populated area of Mexico's Baja Peninsula.

environment 360

• Online Atlas Illustrates Critical Areas for Se ...
  A new online atlas provides the first global inventory of ocean sites critical to the world’s seabirds, a free digital resource that its creators hope will help guide protective policies and the creation of conservation areas globally. The site (www.birdlife.org/datazone/marine), which Click ...
• ‘Rogue’ Geoengineering Scheme in Pacific Viola ...
  A project sponsored by a controversial U.S. businessman dumped about 100 tons of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean this summer, an experiment in geoengineering that environmental groups say violated international agreements, The Guardian has reported. According to the report, satellite images ...
• New Walt Disney Co. Paper Policy Promises Resp ...
  The Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, has announced a dramatic shift in how the company will use and source paper, vowing to minimize the amount of paper it uses overall and eliminate its purchase of irresponsibly harvested timber products. In an announcement, t ...
• Norway Proposes CO2 Tax Hike To Increase Clima ...
  Norway has announced plans to nearly double its carbon tax on the nation’s offshore petroleum sector to create a £1 billion fund to help combat the effects of climate change, including in developing nations. In a draft budget released this week, government officials proposed a climate program th ...
• Group Calls for Swift Growth Of Carbon Capture ...
  An industrial group says that to avoid “dangerous climate change” an additional 55 facilities that capture carbon from power plants and store it underground must be built by 2020. The group, the Global CCS Institute, said that only one new carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) plant was built in the ...

oldephartte/Diigo

• Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Anal ...
• The Devil's Excrement
  Tags: Venezuela blog tech science politics oil
• The Watchers - Watching the world evolve and t ...
  Tags: watchers world daily news
• Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
  Tags: News collaboration Science technology innovation
• Occupy Corporatism | The Truth Behind the News
  Tags: News Corporatism global_affairs

backofthebook

• The Globe: War is Peace
  By David@Sixthestate.net Even by the steadily declining standards of The Globe and Mail, Canada’s “paper of record” hit an unusual low in its angry and Orwellian response to the announcement that the European Union was being given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. It’s definitely a bit of a head-sc ...
• Out of the woods
  By Montreal Simon I went for a walk the other day through the leafy lanes of The Shire, with a friend of mine who has suffered from severe depression from about this time last year. It was such a beautiful fall day. He was so happy, at having made so much progress on the road [...] Tags:  ...
• A Modest Opinion – Like Father, Like Sons
  By Nathaniel Moher Quick, who is the greatest Prime Minister of Canada?! If you voted for Kim Clark, you’re obviously  . . . Kim Clark. The answer, of course, is His Royal Robotness, the great Mr. Harps (if only because, if he wasn’t the greatest Prime Minister ever, why would we re-elect him af ...
• Not so risky business
  By Mark Evans Canadian venture capitalists have a problem: they’re cautious, conservative and have a low tolerance to risk. It’s an easy thesis to accept because, in part, it’s true. It explains why The Globe & Mail published an extensive feature on the challenges facing Canada’s venture cap ...
• Next victim of XL Foods: The Conservatives
  By Montreal Simon Four years ago, during a Listeriosis epidemic that killed 22 Canadians, somebody created a video game called the Cold Cuts Cannon. Where you could fire cold cuts at little Gerry Ritz heads floating gently over Parliament Hill. Pop his balloon so to speak, for having had the cra ...

Daily Beast

• Introducing #vetchat
  A new weekly Twitter chat from the Hero Project, happening every Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST, dedicated to military and veterans' issues.
• The Right’s Misguided Crowley Fury
  CNN correspondent Candy Crowley was right on the narrow question of whether Obama called the Benghazi attack an act of terror, but conservative bloggers have rushed to condemned her as biased. By Jesse Singal.
• Obama Vs. Romney 2: Who Lied?
  The Daily Beast turns to the Internet’s reliable fact-checkers to reveal the truth—or falsity—of the debaters’ claims. By Caitlin Dickson.
• Anxious Moments for Obama Faithful
  In Park Slope, Brooklyn, Democrats in this bluest of states rooted for Obama, showed wary respect for Romney—and worried about fickle independents. David Freedlander reports.
• Anxious Moments for Obama Faithful
  In Park Slope, Brooklyn, Democrats in this bluest of states rooted for Obama, showed wary respect for Romney—and worried about fickle independents. David Freedlander reports.

Loonwatch

• “Prophet” Kamal Saleem: “Wak ...
  Fake ex-terrorist claims prophecy, warns USA that "God isn't happy."
• EDL turn their poison on 14 year old anti Tali ...
  Reaching new lows in their foulness, English Defence League members have turned on 14 year old anti Taliban blogger, Malala Yousafzai, describing her as 'a piece of shit' an 'it' and 'free loading trash'.
• A Delicate Blasphemy Case in Greece
  Don't you know, it's only news when Muslims do it.
• This is What You Can Expect From a Mitt Romney ...
  It's going to be Islamophobia on crack if Romney wins the presidency.
• US Muslims Launch Counter Hate Campaign
  A US Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group has announced its plans to erect its own advertisements in Metro stations to combat anti-Muslim hateful ads that equate Muslims with “savages.”

Energy News

• Sinkhole: Napoleonville Salt Dome survey was o ...
• Japan Reporter at Fukushima Plant: Reactor bui ...
• Watch: Empty spaces seen in Fukushima Unit 3 s ...
• Report: Explosion may have occurred inside ves ...
• Up to one million sieverts per hour outside Fu ...

Japan Times

• China spurs Asia defense spending
  Asia's top powers have doubled defense spending in the past decade, spurred by the explosion in military expenditures of China, new research shows. While troop numbers have remained constant, overall annual spending has grown to $224 billion in 2011, according to a report released Monday b ...
• Shut up and play nice: How the West is curtail ...
  Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come n ...
• Supreme Court upholds bribery conviction for f ...
  The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court's ruling finding former Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato, 73, guilty of taking bribes over a dam construction project, it was learned Tuesday. The top court rejected appeals from both the defense and the prosecution against the October 2009 ruling by the To ...
• Tokyo-area new condo supply falls
  The number of new condominiums put on sale in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures in September fell 9.3 percent from a year earlier to 3,366 units, a research agency said Tuesday. The average unit price dropped 3.4 percent from the year before to ¥41.20 million in the metropolitan are ...
• Pena carries Hawks into next round
  As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his team's runs in the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' 3-2 win over the Seibu Lions in the d ...

Alexander Higgins

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

Macleans - Central

• More questions for Peter Penashue
  The CBC raises more questions about Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Peter Penashue’s election campaign. Mr....
• A progress report from the PBO
  The office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer has produced a chart to explain which...
• About that prorogation
  Speaking to reporters after QP yesterday, Bob Rae identifies what he is not. Reporter:...
• Son of Omnibus
  Atop the notice paper this morning, under “introduction of government bills,” is the following....
• The best of ‘binders of women’
  Twitter replies to Romney reply feature Big Bird, Texts from Hillary and McKayla Maroney

Making It Count - CCPA

• Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
  There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money and fewer sick days or pee breaks) seems to be the flavour du jour amongst…ahem…politicians of a certain age. (By which I mean the Age of Dic ...
• Household debt going from bad to worse
  Statistics Canada today revised the national accounts and found Canadians are now more indebted than either the Americans or the Brits were at the peak of their housing bubble.  Instead of Canadian households having a debt to disposable income ratio of 154, as was previously estimated, it has no ...
• Charitable Organizations: A Pillar of Democracy
  A variation of this blog post was published in the weekend Huffington Post as part of PEN Canada’s blog series examining freedom of expression for Non-Speak Week. While you’re reading this, about two million employees are busy trying to make our world a little bit better through their work ...
• Is BC breaking its GHG law by pursuing natural ...
  Today we released a new report by yours truly, BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. It was just five years ago that BC brought in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a signal that BC was serious about climate action. The Act cal ...
• Budget cuts will exacerbate food safety issues
  Most Canadians have already heard about the extremely concerning meat contamination at Alberta’s XL Foods. Some have already gotten sick and today the list of beef products being recalled has grown again. The circumstances of how the meat plant closure occurred are also concerning. It appears th ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

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Peakwater

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

D. Kucinich

• A Message for Malala
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement in response to the tragic shooting of Pakistani student, Malala Yousafzai. See video here. “High illiteracy rates and low access to educational opportunities plague children and women in Pakistan.  According to the Uni ...
• Stop Sending Weapons to Jihadists
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement regarding U.S. involvement in Syria. See video here. “International relations can be complicated. It requires an understanding of history, personal relations, economics and regional tensions. It also requires common sense. ...
• Kucinich Brings Community Together to Plan the ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) met with local, county, regional, state, and federal government and railroad officials to review the status of train agreements and set a future course regarding the relationship between train communities and the railroads. In particular, communities want to cr ...
• Al Qaeda “Presence [in Libya] Grows Every Day… ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today elicited testimony in a Congressional hearing that Al Qaeda is stronger subsequent to the U.S. intervention in Libya. Responding to questions from Kucinich, Lt. Col. Andrew Wood testified that Al Qaeda’s “presence grows every day” and that “they are certa ...
• Weapons of Mass Distraction
  See video of this statement here. Ten years ago, on October 10, 2002, the United States House of Representatives made one of the most calamitous mistakes of a generation. Congress, with willful blindness, voted to attack, invade and occupy a sovereign, oil-rich nation in the Middle East that di ...

Authentically Wired

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

Popular Technology

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

Monga Bay ( Articles )

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

Science - NZ Herald

• Earth-type planet found around closest stellar ...
  Astronomers have found a planet that's the closest you can get to Earth in location and size, right next door to our solar system.Scientists have been searching across the Milky Way galaxy for a planet with a mass similar to Earth...
• Bill aims to plug pollution loophole
  A new bill aims to tighten controls on sustained pollution of waterways by closing a legal loophole.Green MP Catherine Delahunty said her member's bill, which has passed its first reading, sought to close a loophole in the Resource...
• Endeavour finally reaches museum home
  It took much longer than expected, but the Space shuttle Endeavour has finally reached its permanent resting place at a Los Angeles museum.After a 19-kilometre journey through city streets that included thousands of adoring onlookers,...
• Final trip turns becomes all night Endeavour
  In thousands of Earth orbits, the space shuttle Endeavour traveled 197 million kilometres. But the last few miles of its final journey are proving hard to get through.Endeavour's 19-kilometre crawl across Los Angeles to the California...
• Space shuttle Endeavour takes a road trip
  It's a surreal sight Los Angeles residents won't soon forget: A hulking space shuttle strutting down city streets, pausing every so often to get its bearings as it creeps toward retirement.The Endeavour's land journey continued...

The Bovine

• Practical Farmers of Ontario seeking an increa ...
  From a PFO news release, Sept. 2012: The Practical Farmers of Ontario, has sent the Chicken Farmers of Ontario marketing board, a written request to increase the minimum number of meat chickens one farmer can raise annually in Ontario without quota. With … Continue reading →
• Talkin’ GMO collateral damage control
  With Colin Todhunter, of Global Research.ca “While watching Gary Null’s documentary ‘GMOs Ticking Time Bomb’, I was reminded of a run-in that I had with a transnational agribusiness concern in India a couple of years back. It sent a popular Indian newspaper … Continue reading →
• Lunchbox police strike again as child suspende ...
  From the Healthy Home Economist: “First, there was the story of a preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School in North Carolina who was given a highly processed, cafeteria lunch containing pink slime chicken nuggets on January 30, 2012 because the school decided … Continue reading →
• If we really care about food safety we may hav ...
  From David Fisman and Sarah Elton, Postmedia news: “Canadians, this week, are a little nervous around beef. For good reason. “Verotoxigenic” E. coli (VTEC), which are often a strain known as E. coli O157: H7, are yet again causing an … Continue reading →
• Campaign to label GMOs in Ontario

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Fact Check: Debate Filled With Half-Truths, Di ...
  If you did not particularly care for what the President and Mitt Romney had to say in the debate, perhaps it's because the entire debate was filled with half-truths, distortions, and outright lies. Then again, perhaps you liked what your candidate had to say for the precise reason that it w ...
• Debate II: Did Obama Right a Sinking Ship? Cal ...
  I watched the debate once again and I thought it was a very spirited tie although an instant poll had Obama winning. The debate was certainly unlike any we have seen before, with heated discussion and interruptions from both candidates who freely wandered around on the stage, often moving c ...
• Canada Household Debt Approaches US Bubble Lev ...
  Shortly after the peak in the US housing bubble, Americans’ household debt-to-income ratio reached 170 per cent. For comparison purposes, Canadian household debt-to-income is now at 163 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. Canadians’ debt-to-income ratio has soared to 163 per cen ...
• Greece Troika Talks Abruptly End Over Civil Se ...
  According to the Greek website Kathimerini, Troika talks break down. A second meeting between troika officials in Athens and Greece's Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis broke down on Tuesday, after the two sides hit a deadlock for the second time in the same day. Skai reported that the tw ...
• Does Mitt Romney Know What It Takes To Create ...
  I have been (and continue to be) critical of both president Obama and Mitt Romney. As stated multiple times previously, I will not vote for either of them. Obamacare will be a disaster for jobs as noted in Prepping for Obamacare, Olive Garden and Red Lobster Cut Workers' Hours; Are Other Co ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• America R.I.P.
  “A country so poorly led can do nothing but decline.” During the second half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society. The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people were able to achieve old-age security. In ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
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• The EyeOpener- Land of the Setting Sun? Japan ...
  Oh what a difference three decades make. Back in the 1980s, as Japanese companies began buying up prime real estate in the US, and the supremacy of Japanese cars and electronics made it seem like the country’s economic ascendancy was assured, sci-fi visions of the future imagined a United ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials- Septembe ...
  Please help us continue this work. We do not have foundation bosses or fund-ers. We do not serve the corporate fund-ers by being their advertisement platform-stage. We solely depend on you and your direct support. Please support this home of the irate minority, and thank you for all you do: Supp ...
• Iran’s Strategic Diplomatic Victory over the W ...
  Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even the United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon, notorious mouthpiece of Washingto ...

bloody crossroads

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

gCaptain

• American Mariners Train In Counter-Piracy Tactics
  by Will Watson The scourge of piracy has affected the maritime industry in many ways and one significant change; Piracy now plays a much larger role in security officer training [...]
• Coming To The Small Screen: USCG Miami
  In November 2011, The Weather Channel unveiled the television series “Coast Guard Alaska.” Viewers were given an insider’s perspective on the lives of Coast Guard men and women in our nation’s Last [...]
• Happy Birthday VTS – USCG’s Eye-In-The-Sky Cel ...
  by LT Stephanie Young, USCG A dense fog bank formed several hundred yards west of the Golden Gate Bridge. The tanker Arizona Standard was inbound en route to nearby Richmond [...]
• Chinese Fisherman Stabbed To Death by Coast Guard
  A Chinese fisherman died from injuries sustained in a South Korean coast guard raid after his vessel entered South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea, the Korea Coast Guard said in [...]
• This Just In: October Offshore Market Update F ...
  Volatility in crude oil prices in recent months has made an impact on the offshore development. To learn about the causes of this market volatility, as well as the outlook [...]

Press TV

• Ways to Watch PressTV
  After the Europeans satellite provider Eutelsat SA yanked Press TV off the air in a flagrant violation of freedom of speech, Iran’s English-language broadcaster has offered its viewers alterative means of watching its programs. As a result, Press TV will be still accessible in Europe through the ...
• 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.

SciDev.net

• FAO to partner CBD on biodiversity
  The Convention on Biological Diversity will partner the Food and Agricultural Organisation to complement activities.
• South Asia nips on agricultural research funding
  South Asian countries are falling short of their own agriculture research and development funding targets, says a new report.
• Scientific research bodies 'failing to engage ...
  Most scientific research bodies in developing nations are more focused on educating the public than engaging with them, a study says.
• Combining cassava species could lead to better ...
  Researchers have devised a non-GM method for hybridising wild and cultivated cassava species, to create improved varieties.
• New 'outdoor' mosquito could hamper malaria co ...
  A new species of mosquito with different feeding habits has been found in Kenya and could complicate the fight against malaria.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

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