19 October - RSS SnapShot! Pt III

Ottawa Canada July 2010 — Ottawa Tourist Bureau 13 (Photo credit: dugspr — Home for Good)

English: Art Gallery of Ontario sculpture court. Toronto, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Art Gallery of Ontario at dusk. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - JULY 17: A man carries garbage to a dumpster where in a gang infested neighborhood on July 17, 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has the highest per capita murder rate in the world and its capital city, Tegucigalpa, is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and sexual assaults. With an estimated 80% of the cocaine entering the United States now being trans-shipped through Honduras, the violence on the streets is a spillover from the ramped rise in narco-trafficking. The non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders has set up a program in the capital that looks to provide medical and psychological care to the homeless population. Each day a team goes out into the streets to meet with vulnerable groups of homeless to assess their needs. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

English: Source: Joshua Sherurcij (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: A homeless on the corner of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Homeless man sleeping at the bus stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Homeless woman in Toronto. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Homelessness (Photo credit: Todd Huffman)

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - JULY 17: A man sits under a tree in a gang infested neighborhood on July 17, 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has the highest per capita murder rate in the world and its capital city, Tegucigalpa, is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and sexual assaults. With an estimated 80% of the cocaine entering the United States now being trans-shipped through Honduras, the violence on the streets is a spillover from the ramped rise in narco-trafficking. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - JULY 16: A teenager living on the street carries canisters of water to a home he shares on July 16, 2012 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Honduras now has the highest per capita murder rate in the world and its capital city, Tegucigalpa, is plagued by violence, poverty, homelessness and sexual assaults. With an estimated 80% of the cocaine entering the United States now being trans-shipped through Honduras, the violence on the streets is a spillover from the ramped rise in narco-trafficking. The non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders has set up a program in the capital that looks to provide medical and psychological care to the homeless population. Each day a team goes out into the streets to meet with vulnerable groups of homeless to assess their needs. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)

Digital Journal

• Frida and Diego visit the Art Gallery Of Ontario
  Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting is on now at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibit explores the complex relationship between painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, including their politics -personal and social -as well as their passions.
• CRTC rejects BCE $3.4 billion deal to take ov ...
  The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission rejected the Bell $3.4 billion deal to buy Astral Media. The Canadian regulatory commission claims that the deal would give BCE too much market power and threaten competition in the media.
• Toronto's Zanzibari community distraught over ...
  While sectarian turmoil continues to create havoc in many parts of Zanzibar. Zanzibari who live in Toronto are worried for their friend and family’s safety in violent-stricken East African Island.
• Sister Act and La Cage Aux Folles debut in Toronto
  Mirvish Productions is the only theatre company in Toronto that brings big-time Broadway and West End productions to the city.
• Toronto City Councillor Ana Bailao charged wit ...
  In the early morning hours Tuesday Toronto City Councillor Ana Bailao was pulled over by the police for not having on her headlights. By the time it was over Bailao was charged with impaired driving.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Would you give $7 to stop Harper?
  Please help us stop Harper by making your generous gift of a few dollars every month to Ceasefire.ca. Get a free copy of Linda McQuaig’s book, The Trouble with Billionaires. It’s our way to say thank you and to expose the truth.
• UN Played Critical Role in Diffusing Cuban Mis ...
  How UN Secretary-General U Thant helped the world avoid nuclear doomsday.
• An Unbalanced Ratio
  Though China now has an aircraft carrier, it shouldn't be forgotten that the U.S. has many more.
• 50th Anniversary: Who Cares about the Cuban Mi ...
  50th Anniversary: Who Cares about the Cuban Missile Crisis? Check out this video.
• Ottawa event – Prophets of War: Lockheed ...
  The Group of 78, the Rideau Institute and Embassy Magazine Present William Hartung - "Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin, the F-35, and the Global Arms Trade" Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 12:00 noon, Palais Imperial Restaurant, 311- 313 Dalhousie St., Ottawa $30 for luncheon and presentation

Kevin Trudeau Show

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

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

• Study: 2 in 5 U.S. adults use social media for ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com Nearly two out of five US adults use social media to get involved in politics, with the younger crowd and the ideologically committed especially active, a study showed Friday. The Pew Research Center study s ...
• Judge in Manning Case Orders Emails Released; ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comJoe Wolverton, II, J.D. The New American October 19, 2012 Just days after a judge ordered military prosecutors to disclose hundreds of emailsexchanged between Army officials in charge of overseeing the detention of PFC B ...
• Countdown to Armageddon
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article dissidentvoice.orgBy subMedia 1. LMFAO 2. 2012 hottest year ever 3. Romneys and Obamas pipe dreams 4. Keystone Xl Blockade in Texas 5. Benjamin Netanyahus coke problem 6. Nobel War Prize 7. Spanis ...
• Ben Affleck Defends TSA ‘Dick Grabbing’
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comPrison Planet.com October 19, 2012 During a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s Real Time, actor Ben Affleck defended the TSA’s policy of grabbing people’s genitals. Affleck probably isn’t too fusse ...
• Kosovo group claims hack of National Weather S ...
  Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRawStory.com The US National Weather Service computer network was hacked this week, with a group from Kosovo claiming credit and posting sensitive data, security experts said Friday. Data released by the Kosovo Hackers S ...

Dandelion Salad

• Will New York be Just Another Sacrifice Zone s ...
  by Jill Dalton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad recoveringarmybrat October 8, 2012 The woman standing at the podium may seem small and unassuming but don’t be fooled she’s a powerhouse and has a warning to share with the world. Vera Scroggins is a mother, a grandmother, resident of Susquehanna Count ...
• The Nobel Peace Prize for War by Michael Parenti
  by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Michael Parenti Blog www.michaelparenti.org October 18, 2012 Those who own the wealth of nations take care to downplay the immensity of their holdings while emphasizing the supposedly benign features of the socio-economic order over which they p ...
• Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Ho ...
  Dandelion Salad Oct 16, 2012 by NothingIsNew88 While President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney will get the red carpets rolled out for them at Hofstra University Tuesday night, Green Party candidate Jill Stein got a far chillier reception when she and her running mate were arrested n ...
• Genetic Roulette—The Gamble of Our Lives
  Dandelion Salad Oct 8, 2012 by GeneticRoulette Are you and your family on the wrong side of a bet? When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented pr ...
• Barry Commoner, The Greatest Environmentalist ...
  Dandelion Salad By Ralph Nader The Nader Page Oct. 9, 2012 Dr. Barry Commoner, equipped with a Harvard PhD in cellular biology, used his knowledge of biology, ecosystems, nuclear radiation, public communication, networking scientists, political campaigning, and community organizing to become the ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision f ...
  What they're doing on Marsden Farm isn't organic. It's not industrial, either. It's a hybrid of the two, an alternative version of agriculture for the 21st century: Smart, green and powerful. If the approach works at commercial scales, and there's good reason to think it will, it might just be a ...
• How to Watch the Orionid Meteor Shower This We ...
  One of the most spectacular night-sky shows will kick into high gear this weekend when the Orionid meteor shower peaks early in the morning on Oct. 20. It will continue to dazzle until just before dawn on the 21st.
• Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Amazing ...
  These words, which open Shelley’s poem "When the Lamp is Shattered," employ visions of nature to symbolize life in decay and rebirth. It's as if he had somehow foreseen the creation of this new Gemini Legacy image, and penned a caption for it. What Gemini has captured is nothing short of poetry ...
• Drug-Resistant Superbugs Found in Wild Animals
  One of the most notorious and hard-to-treat bacteria in humans has been found in wildlife, according to a new study in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases. The researchers isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in two rabbits and a shorebird. Wild animals may act as an environm ...
• Curiosity Rover Finds More Strange, Bright Obj ...
  NASA’s Curiosity rover took three scoops from a small Martian sand dune and found several bright particles in the soil. Scientists think these are unrelated to the odd bright object that Curiosity saw last week, which turned out to be plastic that fell from the probe, and are probably indigenous ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Chomsky makes first Gaza visit
  Jewish-American scholar and activist Noam Chomsky reportedly called for an end to Israel's siege of Gaza, on his first ever visit to the Hamas-ruled enclave on Thursday. Chomsky, who was in the Gaza... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Jonathan Cook’s new website
  An announcement from frequent IOA contributor, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook: I am excited to announce the launch of my new website – Jonathan Cook: the View from Nazareth – and a related... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
• Noam Sheizaf: Between anger and denial – Israe ...
  A new documentary by frequent IOA contributor Israeli-Canadian journalist Lia Tarachansky aims to decipher some of the anxiety that accompanies the Israeli debate over the events of 1948. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in i ...
• Gaza siege report: 2,279 calories per person – ...
  In September 2007, the [Israeli] cabinet, then headed by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, decided to tighten restrictions on the movement of people and goods to and from the Gaza Strip. The "red lines"... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
• Support Lia Tarachansky’s Seven Deadly Myths – ...
  IOA contributor Lia Tarachansky's film project Seven Deadly Myths is competing for funding as part of the Cuban Hat Pitching Contest. Lia's work figures prominently on the IOA website. A key... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia’s Pantsir-S System Downs Cruise Missile ...
  Two missiles fired from a Pantsir-S short-range air defense system shot down a cruise missile during tests at a practice range in northern Russia on Friday.
• ISAF ‘On Track’ to Hand Afghanistan Control by ...
  NATO and the Afghan government have confirmed that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will transfer full security responsibility to the Afghan military by the end of 2014, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday.
• India Approves $1.5-Bln Russian Missile Buy
  The Indian government approved a $1.5-billion deal to buy 200 air-launched variants of the Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile and 10,000 Russian-made Invar anti-tank missiles.
• Iraq Shows Interest in Czech Guns
  A high-level Iraqi delegation that visited the Czech Republic has shown interest in an assortment of small arms and light weapons, the Ceska zbrojovka arms maker said on Thursday according to the CTK news agency.
• Russian Aerobatics Team Boss Fired
  The commander of Russia’s famed Strizhi (Swifts) aerobatics team, Lt. Col. Valery Morozov, has been fired from the air force for taking bribes, a source at the Kubinka Air Show Center said on Thursday.

NewsWise

• Loyola Receives Medal of Honor for Organ Donat ...
  Loyola University Medical Center has received a Medal of Honor for Organ Donation and Transplantation from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Cancer Epidemiologist John Potter to Receive I ...
  Cancer epidemiologist John Potter, M.D., Ph.D., a senior adviser in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, has been selected to receive a medal of honor from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer for his research contr ...
• Using Human Stool to Treat C-diff is Safe, Eff ...
  A novel therapy that uses donated human stool to treat the deadly and contagious C.diff infection is safe and highly effective, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Researchers found that 43 of 49 patients recovered swiftly after treatment and had no adverse complications from C.diff ...
• Optimal Treatment Duration for MRSA-Related Pn ...
  The national practice guideline for treating MRSA-related pneumonia is seven to 21 days. A Henry Ford Hospital study found that effective treatment can be done in half the time. Researchers found that 40 percent of patients were treated for eight to 13 days on a therapy of the antibiotics van ...
• Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff Sch ...
  Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing accolades.

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

• Kristen Boon Joins Opinio Juris
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen We are happy to announce that this Monday Professor Kristen Boon of Seton Hall Law School will join Opinio Juris as our newest member. Kristen’s articles range across a variety of topics in international law and, in particular, she has become a respected scholar ...
• Weekday News Wrap: Friday, October 19, 2012
  by An Hertogen by An Hertogen Argentina, Australia, Luxembourg, Rwanda and South Korea have been elected for a two year term as UN Security Council members. They will replace Colombia, Germany, India, Portugal and South Africa from 1 January 2013. North Korea has threatened with violence if ac ...
• Progress Reports from the Cyber Norms 2.0 Workshop
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis As Peter’s post yesterday noted, there’s a growing push to fundamentally re-align cyberspace governance via amendments to the ITU Regulations, which are set to be negotiated in December in Dubai.  I’m not sure that the ITU is up to the task. ...
• Book Discussion Informal International Lawmaki ...
  by Jan Wouters and Sanderijn Duquet by Jan Wouters and Sanderijn Duquet [Jan Wouters is Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam EU and Global Governance, and Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for Inte ...
• 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.] Thank you to Professors David Zaring, Tai-Heng Cheng and Chris Brummer ...

Public News Service

• Champions of Paid Care Leave: More Baby Talk N ...
  Champions of Paid Care Leave: More Baby Talk Needed in Prez Debates PHOENIX – Abortion, contraception and equal pay for women have come up so far in the debates between President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney. Not yet discussed, however, is why America lags behind many other nations in ...
• ASU Campus Tobacco Ban Part of a National Trend
  ASU Campus Tobacco Ban Part of a National Trend PHOENIX - Arizona State University joins a national trend next month when it announces a total ban of on-campus tobacco use effective next August. The ban is likely to include events at Gammage Auditorium and Sun Devil Stadium. Kathy Staats, a pr ...
• Latino Leaders Celebrate Colorado River Heritage
  Latino Leaders Celebrate Colorado River Heritage PHOENIX, Ariz. - Preserving the Colorado River was the focus of Wednesday's gathering of Southwestern Latino leaders in Yuma. The event was a celebration of Hispanic Heritage month, iconic labor leader Cesar Chavez and the river itself, which is s ...
• Poll: Immigration Top Issue for AZ Latino Voters
  Poll: Immigration Top Issue for AZ Latino Voters PHOENIX - Arizona's registered Latino voters say immigration reform and the DREAM Act are the most important issues that should be addressed by Congress and the president. That's one result from the latest poll by Latino Decisions. In other state ...
• Afghanistan War Turns Eleven: Is It Still Wort ...
  Afghanistan War Turns Eleven: Is It Still Worth the Cost? PHOENIX, Ariz. - As the Afghanistan War's eleventh anniversary approaches, more people in Arizona and around the nation are questioning the cost. According to the latest polls, 60 percent of Americans want to bring the troops home as soon ...

Center for Food Safety

• California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread F ...
  By Michele Simon Each election season, proponents and opponents of the various initiatives on the California ballot hope for the state’s major newspaper endorsements. While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods produced using gen ...
• 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 ...

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

• Fractal Reality
  We inhabit a place in space, time and probability where none of the coordinates that we use to measure them have raced into infinity so far. But instead of a flat, sterile, constant and unchanging space, we live in a complex, dynamic, and unpredictable reality. In short, we inhabit chaos. Just l ...
• 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 ...

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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• Vitamin D author slams misleading sunscreen claims
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• The Vitamin D Briefing
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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

• Salt Lake City Tribune endorses Obama. You rea ...
  This is a bombshell. The newspaper of record in Utah, the Salt Lake City Tribune, has endorsed Obama. They cite the many truly excellent things Romney has done for Utah, including bringing back a wobbly and corrupt Olympics in 2002. But they say Romney is too many things to too many people and t ...
• Nate Silver. Obama’s chances of winning now 70%
  And Obama mostly controls the battleground states 
• For some of us, coffee is not frivolous
• Big money floods in for California propositions
  Proposition 32 funding. Credit: Maplight Voter’s EdgeMaplight Voter’s Edge has a hugely helpful breakdown of the large amounts of money flowing in for California proposition fights. This tsunami of money is not good for democracy. In some cases, billionaires, corporations, and unions ...
• Google Chromebook – New Samsung version – $249
  The new Google Chromebook from Samsung has an 11.6 inch screen, 6.5 hr. battery, and weights 2.5 lbs. It has a crossplatform Remote Desktop app that allows users to run programs on other computers, like on your home or office computer when you are elsewhere. The big difference between Chromebook ...

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

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

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

Focal Point

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

Inside Facebook

• Facebook roundup: Android app update, bullying ...
  Facebook updates Android app – Facebook released an update for its native Android app Thursday, including improvements for photo sharing. Photo tagging is faster and users can now choose an album for their uploads. The app also fixes an upload … Continue reading →
• Bubble Pirates, KartWorld, Baby & Me, Smart De ...
  Bubble Pirates led our list of emerging Facebook applications by monthly active users this week with 248 percent gain. Games dominated the list this week We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the … Continue reading →
• Developers can track Facebook mobile ads ROI w ...
  Apsalar’s advertising performance tracking tool, Campaign Source Insights now allows developers to determine exactly how much value Facebook’s new mobile app install ads are delivering. Apsalar customers using Facebook’s mobile app install ads to promote their apps are now able … Continue ...
• Facebook makes Questions product available onl ...
  Facebook has removed the Questions feature from users’ News Feed publisher, leaving the product only available to groups and pages, TechCrunch confirms. Questions has gone through a number of iterations, never quite catching on as the social network envisioned. It … Continue reading ...
• Facebook careers: communications, research, pl ...
  Facebook added more than two dozen new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the communications team. The company is looking for a manager of technology communications, as well as a technical privacy manager, … Continue reading →

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

• My Brief Interview on RT- For War with Syria: ...
  ‘NATO, Turkey seek pretense for attack on Syria’ Yesterday I was on RT for a brief interview on the recent developments in the long-ago-planned US war on Syria. As I mentioned during the interview, Boiling Frogs Post was one of the first news sites reporting on those long-ago-conceiv ...
• Podcast Show #96: Austerity is the Consensus o ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to define and discuss austerity, what austerity looks like in the US, the fact that austerity is the consensus of both parties, why an anti-austerity movement is essential in the US, and helps us connect what’s happening ...
• Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle Eas ...
  “The battle for the future control of Syria is at the heart of this enormous geopolitical war and tug of war” On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establis ...
• 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 ...
• America’s Moral Degeneracy
  “It is not only foreign political regimes that are corrupted by Washington’s evil, but also Americans themselves” On May 31, 2010, the Israeli right-wing government sent armed military troops to illegally board in international waters Gaza aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla organized by the ...

Afro Spear

• “Imagine If” by Ian Ki’laas ...
  This is so deep I had to share it! Ok, Let’s do a little exercise in contextualizing. Imagine if: There was a caucasian relocation program specifically targetting caucasians to remove them from the areas where Indigenous peoples lived and where they desired to make a profit from the trees, ...
• 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 ...

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

• Beating Up on Russia, Syria and Iran
  Russia is slandered for doing the right thing. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland calls Putin's government "morally bankrupt."
• Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections
  Longtime Israeli collaborators Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad scheduled West Bank municipal elections on October 20, 2012. Democracy isn't on the ballot. Palestinians are skeptical for good reason.
• Israeli Envoy calls "Estelle" a Provocation Wh ...
  Seven parliamentarians from five European countries are on sailing on the sloop "Estelle" to break the Israeli Blockade of Gaza. Among the 20+ passengers are parliamentarians from Greece, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and a retired parliamentarian from Canada. The "Estelle" is expected to reach Gaza by ...
• Which Obama Will We See in the Third Debate?
  Romney is a one-term governor from Massachusetts, who has spent most of his professional career as a business executive. He is a foreign policy neophyte, entirely dependent on largely Republican neoconservative advisers. Romney is woefully unprepared either to debate foreign policy or to lead th ...
• Land of Elites
  The vast majority of Americans face a harsh truth. The wealth of the nation they themselves built has been plundered, their government has turned on them, and their lives are poor, powerless, and without prospects. Any who doubt this need only glance at the numbers. But careful, this glance will ...

Switchboard

• Calling on Fans of Transit: Get in the Game
  Rob Perks, Transportation Advocacy Director, Washington, D.C. As someone who commutes to work on the Metro, I'm a big fan of public transportation. The other day, as I was persusing the sports section of the Washington Post, I came across a great&nb ...
• A year of Frugal Feasts! Healthy, responsibly- ...
  Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York When some friends and I started monthly “Frugal Feasts” last fall, it was admittedly a bit of an experiment. We’re an idealistic, opinionated lot, and we were committed to the idea that being ...
• Could a New Fuel Efficient Ford be in Your Fut ...
  Roland Hwang, Transportation Program Director, San Francisco With the new Ford C-Max hybrid about to hit the market, I thought I'd reprint this column i wrote for Green Car Journal earlier this year. http://www.greencar.com/articles/could-new- ...
• Pursuing nonsprawling city growth with major b ...
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC           For nearly a hundred years, the downtown Sacramento Railyard was a lively, prosperous place.  At its height, the yard is said ...
• Los Verdes are the Greenest: Latinos are the n ...
  Linda Escalante, Southern California Advocacy Coordinator & Latino Outreach Specialist, Santa Monica This year was the year of Cesar Chavez.  Decades ago Senator Robert F. Kennedy called him "one of the heroic figures of our time." &n ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Well, Life’s Been Good To Him So Far
  Shorter Congressman Joe Walsh: “Life begins at conception and ends at birth.” Yep, that Joe Walsh. “Family values” in the Republican sense may have content other than “hating women, gays and lesbians” but it’s not clear what that is.
• David S. Ware, RIP
  The great saxophonist David S. Ware has passed at the age of 62. I knew he had been sick for a long time. He received a kidney transplant 2 years ago, donated by a fan, which goes to show the devotion of the followers of this titanic artist. I had hoped this would mean many [...]
• Some team or the other beat the Yankees
  Having the best pitcher and hitter in baseball might have had something to do with it. In all semi-seriousness, the ARod situation is going to be extremely awkward going forward. Traditionally, a player in this circumstance would insist on a trade and would get one, but unless NY is willing to l ...
• The “Romney is to the Left of Obama&#822 ...
  I present you Dilbert creator Scott Adams endorsing Mitt Romney–because he believes Romney will be less harsh in prosecuting marijuana usage than Obama. This gets at the inanity of the civil libertarian arguments throughout much of this election. It’s not that Obama has been good on ...
• 2CA Strikes Down DOMA
  Yet another conservative Republican judge has found Section 3 of DOMA unconstitutional. To add briefly to what I wrote at the Prospect, the precedent Jacobs’s opinion heavily relies on has a great concurrence by Justice Stevens, in which he points out that the Court’s attempt to carv ...

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

• Meet The Hyper-Connected Phone Booth Of the Future
• GE’s Brillion Home Energy Systems Now Availabl ...
• Chevy App Could Help Volt Owners Visualize Fue ...
• Rimac Shows Off His Old EV Test Mule, Sets Som ...
• A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story Of The CFL ( ...

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Just Breathe
  Research suggests that by the 3L year, 40 percent of law students show signs of depression. Fortunately, educators are responding with programs intended to promote student 'wellness.' In our latest report, we look at the trend and also preview three newly opened law schools, and prominent attorn ...
• Women lag in top law review jobs
  Women remain underrepresented in top law review leadership positions, according to data from New York Law School and Ms. JD, a nonprofit organization that supports the advancement of women in the legal profession.
• THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST
  These 19 firms are at the cutting edge of plaintiffs' work -- and are giving defense players a run for their money.
• Defendants agree to butt out of North Face par ...
  The strange saga of a college student who launched parody brands of an outdoor clothing company appears to have come to a conclusion. The North Face and the makers of "South Butt" and "Butt Face" parody products have filed a joint consent judgment of contempt.
• Big win on dimmer switches lights up Lutron's day
  The future looks bright for Lutron Electronics Co., which won a major victory at the U.S. International Trade Commission in a patent fight over lighting dimmer switches.

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

• Assam's Boat Clinics Make Difference to The Li ...
  After all, travelling in a rocking boat over the temperamental River Brahmaputra and then treading through a dense forest to reach a health facility is not for the faint hearted.
• 'One Billion Rising' Campaign Combats Violence ...
  It is against this background that several organisations came together to launch Nepal's 'One Billion Rising' (OBR) campaign on September 23.
• Female Suicide Terrorist Receives 'Highest Hon ...
  Hanadi Jaradat was working as a lawyer when she carried out a suicide terrorist attack in a restaurant in Haifa in 2003.
• Transgenders Speak Up on Human Rights and Equality
  A. Revathi, a vivacious transsexual woman, whose prose and poetry has been translated into Kannada, English and Hindi, shares, 'I was originally a boy named Doraisamy.
• Hollywood's True Story of David And Goliath
  Christian movie studio owner Shawn A. Sequeira battled the major studios for turf- now, he is doing things his own way- in Kentucky.

environment 360

• Ocean Acidification May Alter Acoustics of Sea ...
  Increased ocean acidification over the next century could alter the acoustic properties of seawater, giving the planet’s oceans the same hi-fi sound they had during the age of the dinosaurs. In an analysis of ocean acidity over 300 million years, U.S. researchers David G. Browning and Peter M. S ...
• Elevated Levels of CO2 May Impair Cognitive Ab ...
  Elevated levels of carbon dioxide in indoor settings can have a detrimental effect on decision-making abilities and work performance, according to a new study. In a series of tests, U.S. researchers exposed 22 healthy adults to different levels of carbon dioxide concentrations (600 parts-per-mil ...
• Chinese Report Acknowledges Nuclear Safety Con ...
  In a new report, the Chinese government has laid out a plan to upgrade the security at its nuclear power reactors over the next decade, suggesting that the country may be ready to resume a planned expansion of Feng Li/Getty Images Inspector at a Zhejiang construction site its nuclear sec ...
• 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 ...
• Increasingly Severe Droughts Could Transform U ...
  Severe drought conditions in the southwestern U.S. in recent years could become normal in the years to come, a shift that could trigger increased tree mortality and ultimately transform the region’s forests, a new study says. In an analysis of tree-ring data from conifer trees dating back to A.D ...

Red Ice Creations

• New Ideas About Aging Are REALLY Old
  Mr. S, a writer in his nineties, was asked to appear in court. His sons believed he was no longer competent to handle his estate. Mr. S spoke in his own defense. He agreed that he might have neglected his work recently because he had been finishing a play. After he read his play to the court, th ...
• Forget Geoengineering: Professor Calls for “Hu ...
  It is nearly impossible to read the headlines these days without asking if the reality we find ourselves living in is the real world or some crazy mad scientist’s fantasy land. From the world’s first genetically modified designer babies, to accusations of genetically enhanced athletes competing ...
• Hegemony and Propaganda: The Importance of Tri ...
  Knowledge in modern societies has expanded to the point whereby specialisms and sub-specialisms are the norm. It is just not possible for one person to have in-depth knowledge of every discipline. We must rely on others to convey such knowledge, usually in relatively simplistic terms. Most of us ...
• True Prosperity: Becoming an employee of the U ...
  True Prosperity: Becoming an employee of the Universe 2012 10 05 I love the word prosperity. Prosperity represents a fulfilling life encompassing not only material wealth but happiness and genuine fulfillment. I think of it as a state where abundance is free to flow uninhibited through all areas ...
• This Land Is Mine
  "The spot where three continents converge is the most-disputed (and some say most valuable) real estate on Earth. Nina Paley is working on a full project (called Seder-Masochism) on the history of the Holy Land (Israel/Canaan/Palestine/the Levant), and this clip is envisioned as the final scene. ...

Russia Today

• Beirut blast: Who serves to gain?
  The deadly blast in Beirut which killed eight and wounded 118 more has risked destabilizing Lebanon while civil war rages in Syria. Middle Eastern analyst Ali Rizk told RT that the one with the most to gain from the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Libyan army begins assault of Bani Walid
  Local media and twitter reports suggest the Libyan army has begun bombarding the former Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid in an attempt to restore order in the town. Read Full Article at RT.com
• Police protection or citizen censorship? Spain ...
  Spain’s government is drafting a law that bans the photographing and filming of members of the police. The Interior Ministry assures they are not cracking down on freedom of expression, but protecting the lives of law... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Opposition arrests in Kuwait: Political stando ...
  Three former opposition Kuwaiti MPs were ordered to be detained for three days on Friday. They were accused of politically undermining the emir by criticizing him publicly at an opposition rally, an illegal act in the... Read Full Article at RT.com
• Car bomb rocks Beirut: At least eight dead, 11 ...
  At least eight are dead and 118 wounded after a car bomb rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, AFP reports. The attack in the majority Christian neighborhood killed a top-ranking security official. Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

• Yet another alleged and absolutely fake &#8216 ...
  ——- Here we go again, with yet another fake ‘terror attack’ planned by our own national political police authorities and our own US politicians who OK this sort of buffoonery. But just who is this confused and baffled looking fall guy for our racist US policing forces to ...
• Haiti Today
  — ‘UN soldiers took over from U.S. Marines after Washington’s coup against the democratically elected president, Jean Bertrand Aristide, in 2004. Since then, Aristide’s party has been effectively banned. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton holds no public office in his own country, bu ...
• There was nothing much on that mail-in ballot ...
  Last night we filled in our mail-in ballots, and there was nothing much there at all. Is this all there is? Yes, in fact it is. Many of the ‘races’ to vote on we just left blank because all the candidates paying there money in to run were only Right Winger parties’ candidates. ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• Action Alert: Contact TV Program Unsealed Cons ...
  After recently catching a few episodes of the new program Unsealed Conspiracy Files, I decided to write them today and passd along information on AE911Truth, peer-reviewed papers supporting controlled demolition, the NORAD stand-down, and 9/11 whistleblowers. Here was their response: Hi John, ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• 5 Myths About Kids and Food
• Weight Loss Through REAL Food
• Why Just California? Fooducate Provides GMO In ...
• Europe Rejoice? Cereal Manufacturers Pledge to ...
• NYC Sued Over Soft Drink Limits

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

• UK snubs tribal rights by refusing to ratify k ...
  The more countries that ratify ILO 169, the more protection it offers for tribal peoples everywhere.© Stephen Corry/SurvivalThe UK has dismayed tribal and indigenous peoples as well as activists around the world by refusing to ratify a key international law, which protects their basic human righ ...
• 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 ...

Greg Palast

• Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
  by Greg Palast for The Nation Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt states like Ohio. There, in September, the Obama campaign launched television ads blasting Romney’s November 2008 New York Times op-ed,“Let Detroit Go Bankrup ...
• 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 ...

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: 10/19
  Two stories typify the media coverage of any medical controversy and the contrast is obvious. Sept 21, 2012 the Los Angeles Times published the piece, Doctors found to lack trust in drug company studies. October 1, 2012 the San Francisco...
• Yes We Ring The Bell. Yes The Door Opens. No Y ...
  By Kim Stagliano Halloween is growing nearer - I can tell because there are more Christmas decorations for sale in the Stop & Shop, a sure sign that Halloween is upon us. As jabberwocky as that sounds - I think...
• Dachel Media Update: 10/18
  WTVY Dothan AL: Take Time to Understand Me: A Mother's Struggles With Autism WTVY video: "’At about twelve months he had his check up, I noticed that after he got his shots he was not talking like most babies,’ says...
• Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IAC ...
  Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Strategic Planning Workshop Please join us for a two-day IACC Strategic Planning Workshop that will take place on Monday, October 29th and Tuesday October 30th , 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET at...
• Science Summary: Maternal Vitamin D Levels and ...
  J Autism Dev Disord. 2012 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print] Maternal Vitamin D Levels and the Autism Phenotype Among Offspring. Whitehouse AJ, Holt BJ, Serralha M, Holt PG, Hart PH, Kusel MM. Source Telethon Institute for Child Health Research,...

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

• GMO Labeling Guys Sponsored by Anti-labeling D ...
  Why is the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT), which puts out the Non-GMO Shopping Guide, sponsored by Silk, which is owned by Dean Foods, which is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting GMO labeling in California? Isn’t this a conflict of interest?
• America and Australia Team up at Fair Dinkum Radio
  [Fair Dinkum] Today at 12 noon Pacific Time, Leon Pittard from Fair Dinkum Radio in Australia and I will be broadcasting on American Freedom Radio and discussing the GMO threat.
• 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.

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

• The Keys to a New Life
  When the Ethiopian village of Enda Silassie worked with Water.org to install a new handpump, they also came together to choose a community water guardian.
• 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.

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
• White House sees more pain for Iran as it clea ...
  Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...
• 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 ...
• Seizure of Springs by Settlers Greatly Limits ...
  Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World  |  &nbs ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Obama administration makes 285,000 acres avail ...
  The Obama administration's new and more refined approach to solar energy development called the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy, establishes 17 “solar energy zones” on federal land that will “serve ...
• Obama administration makes 285,000 acres avail ...
  The Obama administration's new and more refined approach to solar energy development called the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy, establishes 17 “solar energy zones” on federal land that will “serve as pr ...
• 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

News Blaze

• Assam's Boat Clinics Make Difference to The Li ...
  After all, travelling in a rocking boat over the temperamental River Brahmaputra and then treading through a dense forest to reach a health facility is not for the faint hearted.
• 'One Billion Rising' Campaign Combats Violence ...
  It is against this background that several organisations came together to launch Nepal's 'One Billion Rising' (OBR) campaign on September 23.
• Female Suicide Terrorist Receives 'Highest Hon ...
  Hanadi Jaradat was working as a lawyer when she carried out a suicide terrorist attack in a restaurant in Haifa in 2003.
• Transgenders Speak Up on Human Rights and Equality
  A. Revathi, a vivacious transsexual woman, whose prose and poetry has been translated into Kannada, English and Hindi, shares, 'I was originally a boy named Doraisamy.
• Hollywood's True Story of David And Goliath
  Christian movie studio owner Shawn A. Sequeira battled the major studios for turf- now, he is doing things his own way- in Kentucky.

Worldnews

• McDonald's sales growth weakens, shares f ...
  By Lisa Baertlein and Jessica Wohl (Reuters) - McDonald's Corp missed profit expectations for the second quarter in a row as sales at established restaurants grew at their slowest pace in more than nine years because of stepped-up competition and a weak global economy. The world's biggest fa ...
• AMD to cut work force by 15 percent
  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will cut 15 percent of its work force by the end of this year as part of a restructuring. The news came along with the company's quarterly earnings report Thursday afternoon. The Sunnyvale chip maker (NYSE: AMD) has been hit by the slowdown in the PC market as use ...
• Mourinho keeps Paris Saint-Germain door o ...
  The Portuguese manager responds to continuing rumours about his future saying that he may one day manage in the French capital but accuses the media of twisting...
• Study Shows How Prayer, Meditation Affect ...
  How does prayer and meditation affect brain activity? Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual ex ...
• Yahoo South Korea To Close By End Of Next ...
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yahoo Inc. said it will close its South Korean web portal and an Internet advertising business, cutting its losses in a market where it has struggled for over a decade. Yahoo's South Korea unit said Friday its Seoul office with over 200 employees will be shut by the ...

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

• SYNTHROID (Levothyroxine Sodium) Tablet [Dispe ...
  Updated Date: Oct 11, 2012 EST
• ESCITALOPRAMtablet, Film Coated [PD-Rx Pharmac ...
  Updated Date: Oct 11, 2012 EST
• [Report] Lethally Hot Temperatures During the ...
  Global warming in the Early Triassic was so severe that equatorial latitudes were uninhabitable for many plants and animals. Authors: Yadong Sun, Michael M. Joachimski, Paul B. Wignall, Chunbo Yan, Yanlong Chen, Haishui Jiang, Lina Wang, Xulong Lai
• [Report] Real-Time Evolution of New Genes by I ...
  Experimental validation of how new genes with divergent functions can evolve within a few thousand generations is described. Authors: Joakim Näsvall, Lei Sun, John R. Roth, Dan I. Andersson
• New Radiation Treatment Significantly Increase ...
  A novel drug that mimics a naturally occurring molecule found in coffee and blueberries has been developed to treat radiation exposure. Charles R. Yates, Pharm.D., Ph.D., and colleagues Duane Miller, Ph.D., and Waleed Gaber, Ph.D...

Common Dreams

• Guns Sales Soar on NRA's "Obama Conspiracy"
  Gun proponents who argued that Barack Obama would be "the most anti-gun president in American history" succeeded in driving up gun sales and the number of gun dealers by 3,000 during the president's term in office, despite a lack of any new gun control legislation. ...
• Chomsky Tells Israel from Gaza: "End the Blockade"
  In his first visit to Gaza, American linguistic scholar Noam Chomsky on Thursday called on Israel to end a six-year blockade of the occupied territory. Chomsky, 84, is a frequent critic of Israel's treatment of Palestinians and American foreign policy. ...
• 'Privatized Cities' Rejected in Honduras Supre ...
  A plan to build a series of 'model cities' designed to cater to foreign investors through the privatization of development, municipal services and legal systems within autonomous zones
• Investigation: Mexico's War Against Obesity, S ...
  The organization charged with battling the latest "global epidemic," diabetes and heart disease, has been exposed getting funding from the industries at the heart of this plague. Reuter's investigative report on the UN's World Health Organization found that the regional office ...
• Texas Keeps Executions Going in Wake of Drug S ...
  Officials in Texas are keeping executions going in the state in the wake of drug shortages by tweaking lethal injection rules without public input or scrutiny through changes made by one official with no medical training, a report published Thursday shows. Mike Ward reports for the Austin Americ ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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• Sarah Polley
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• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

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

Energy Collective

• The Presidential Debate and Gas Prices
  In the second presidential debate of 2012 an attendee asked President Obama, “Your energy secretary, Steven Chu, has now been on record three times stating ‘It’s not policy of this department to help lower gas prices.’ Do you agree with Secretary Chu, that this is not the job of the Energy Depar ...
• The A123 End Game
  Over the past three years A123 Systems made great progress in developing lithium iron phosphate cells and manufacturing complex battery systems. It is a shame that A123 stockholders will not see the benefit of those efforts. But if the country eventually sees the benefit, because a successor c ...
• The Business of Sustainable Water Management
  U.S.
• Is technology push sufficient as a policy appr ...
  A recent analysis by The Breakthrough Institute argues that the US is shifting rapidly to a lower carbon economy on the back of successful technology push policies, whereas the EU has a failed carbon market which is now even seeing a resurgence in coal use, some of it imported from the USA. This ...
• More to Meters Than Meets the Eye

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

• Beating Up on Russia, Syria and Iran
  by Stephen Lendman Russia is slandered for doing the right thing. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland calls Putin's government "morally bankrupt." Moscow's gone all out to prevent proxy war on Syria exploding into full-scale conflict. Putin/Medvedev know the potentially catastro ...
• Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections
  by Stephen Lendman Longtime Israeli collaborators Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad scheduled West Bank municipal elections on October 20, 2012. Democracy isn't on the ballot. Palestinians are skeptical for good reason. For the first time since January 25, 2006, they'll vote in an election ...
• Lies, damn lies, and hasbara fiction (training ...
  Stuart Littlewood Israel’s propagandists have a training manual that teaches the art of sugar-coating and downright lying so that gullible audiences will easily swallow their poison. Notice how everything Israelis dislikes, and everything that thwarts their lust for domination, is now l ...
• Sham Israeli Elections
  by Stephen Lendman On November 6, America's sham process occurs. On January 22, Israelis face the same . Real choice is excluded from both ballots. Democracy is hypocrisy in both countries. Congress recessed until post-election. Israel's Knesset just adjourned. On October 16, Haaretz headli ...
• All-Time Darwin Award: The Nuclear Industry
  By Rady Ananda Activist Post Gar Smith’s Nuclear Roulette: The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth is a 14-point condemnation of President Eisenhower’s “peaceful atom,” an exposé of official and corporate lies, and a multi-pronged platform of alte ...

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

• National Parks? We don’t need no stinkin ...
• Education Beat: ALEC – Hedging: Educatio ...
  WWH/CJE – John Konopak,PHD (LSU 1989,education) Education editor. presents each week a digest of education articles and cretiques. Hedging: Education’s, and educators’, dirty secret: The majority of the so-called “reform” movement, in schooling, towards more and wei ...
• WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
  Maryland Transit Administration recording conversations on buses IT’S FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY! A little pee pee, a little blood test, a camera here a camera there, a little chip in your arm, a little listening to your cell phone calls, monitoring and collecting information of your online activ ...
• Tajik Torture Claims Put Prisons Under Scrutin ...
  From rferl.org - The head of Tajikistan’s penitentiary system has been forced on the defensive following some incendiary allegations concerning the use of torture in the country’s prisons. Just days after his department had to launch an investigation into the suspicious death of Hamz ...
• “Some Girls Rape so Easy” Check th ...
  Wisconsin Family Action Endorses State Rep. Roger Rivard, who said “Some Girls Rape so Easy” By Michael Allen,opposingviews.com -  Wisconsin State Rep. Roger Rivard, who told theChetek Alert newspaper in December 2011 that “some girls rape so easy,” was recently endorsed by Wisconsin ...

FourWinds10

• Busted! Fracking Chemical Found in Wyoming Wat ...
• TAR SANDS: PROTECTING THE SACRED , Josh Fox's ...
• MONTEZUMA WELL UNDER ATTACK AGAIN! PLEASE SIG ...
• EPA finally acknowledges fracking dangers
  Dec. 14, 2011 (NaturalNews) The Environmental Protection Agency on December 7 released its first report linking fracking to water contamination. The report identified fracking as the source of poisons, including the carcinogen benzene, in the groundwater of a central Wyoming community.   So ...
• The Early Show: Japan tsunami debris hits U.S. ...
  Dec. 16, 2011 It is estimated a debris field the size of Calif. is headed toward the U.S. West Coast.

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

• Using Google Apps On Your iPad - miGoogle
  Tags: google, google appsby: Cheryl Lykowski
• Google Earth Across the Curriculum - Home
  Tags: google, google earthby: Cheryl Lykowski
• Running Records + Google Docs = A Beautiful Th ...
  Tags: reading, writing, livebindersby: Cheryl Lykowski
• Teach for iPad on the iTunes App Store
  Comments:FREE app for lesson plan development and recording.  - Dean MantzTags: teach, ipad, app, screencasting, lessonplanningby: Dean Mantz
• iPad Screencasting Apps | Explain a Website | ...
  Tags: ipad, screencasting, apps, websiteby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• Was Your Sunscreen Protecting You Last Summer?
  Chlorine in swimming pools does more than just turn your hair green. A new study published in the Chemical Engineering Journal has found that it could also make your sunscreen less safe and effective, particularly if it contains nanoparticles of the mineral titanium dioxide. Whether used in sun ...
• The Nickel Pincher: 7 Packaged Foods You Never ...
  If you want to lose weight, one of the best moves you can make is to cut down on packaged foods. Ditto if you want to save money, leave a lighter footprint on the planet, and consume fewer harmful chemicals. The problem is, packaged foods have been so readily available and highly advertised fo ...
• 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 ...

big think

• What We Talk About When We Talk About Evil
  What's the Latest Development? Were those who attacked the US embassy in Libya evil? Is the CIA's efforts to step up drone operations evil? What do we mean when we pose moral questions, distinguishing between good and its opposite? Despite the secular tendency of our age, "the idea that ...
• Big Data: A Smarter, Stronger, Faster You
  What's the Latest Development? From personal health to nation-wide communication networks, big data, or the processing of information to give a clearer picture of the question at hand, has become essential in today's fast-paced business world. "In fact, 74% of the global executives SAS r ...
• How to Make a Meme (Hint: Read Darwin)
  What's the Latest Development? Why certain ideas become popular at a particular time has always been something of a mystery, but interaction designer Mark Bardsley believes we can better understand the rise of a catchphrase by applying some of Darwin's evolutionary ideas: "Marketing outp ...
• Turning Memes into Gold: An Interview with Ben ...
  From Fortune 500 companies to Presidential campaigns, it seems everyone has bought into the power of memes to move a message.  And nobody bought in earlier than Ben Lashes, the world’s premier, and perhaps only, meme agent.  Ben’s work is a perfect embodiment of a trend we’ve been tracking calle ...
• Lessons in Risk Perception from Rising Climate ...
  People who think a risk will actually affect them and their families and communities, as opposed to somebody else, worry about that risk more. People who think a risk is happening now, as opposed to the same risk if it won’t happen until later, worry about that risk more. “Could It Happen to ME ...

Information Liberation

• Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and R ...
  Time's Mark Halperin has made himself useful for once by obtaining, and publishing, a copy of the 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules go...
• RAP NEWS 16: OBAMA v ROMNEY - the Final Presid ...
  Juice Rap News - Episode 16: Electile Dysfunction. It's nearing the end of 2012, and bastion of world democracy (The United States of America) is displaying its free and open process of elections for the world to observe. As is customary every four...
• Canada-EU Trade Agreement Replicates ACTA's No ...
  The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe. It is disguised as CETA, the*Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement. As reported by EDRI, a rather strange and surprising e-mail was sent this summer from the General ...
• Marc Faber: Obama, Romney & the US Fiscal 'Gra ...
  Dr. Marc Faber on Yahoo's Daily Ticker Financial Show. Topics include Europe, Asia and US markets along with US Election 2012. 10/15/2012...
• History Lessons with Tom Woods
  Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange got a chance to finally meet and interview Tom Woods at the 2012 NYC Liberty Fest. To find out more about Tom Woods check out http://www.tomwoods.com/ and follow him on https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods Become a memb...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• The Principles Of Freedom – Some Bedtime ...
  I’m still drowning in work down here, and will be doing so for at least another three weeks. The thread on children looks likely to happen probably around the second week of November. Sorry about the delay, but I know … 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 →
• 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 →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Greatest app on Earth
  Atlas by Collins (launched today) pitches itself as the greatest app on Earth (geddit?). It’s a constantly evolving data visualisation tool for representing worldwide information on a selection of themed globes with over 200,000 places to explore. I took a look and I have to say it is stup ...
• Greatest app on Earth
  Atlas by Collins (launched today) pitches itself as the greatest app on Earth (geddit?). It’s a constantly evolving data visualisation tool for representing worldwide information on a selection of themed globes with over 200,000 places to explore. I took a look and I have to say it is stup ...
• Google Scholar formatted citations
  In case you missed it, Google Scholar now does formatted citations for references. The end of Endnote? Move over Mendeley? Your thoughts? Google Scholar. Google Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogGoogle Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Scie ...
• Google Scholar formatted citations
  In case you missed it, Google Scholar now does formatted citations for references. The end of Endnote? Move over Mendeley? Your thoughts? Google Scholar. Google Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogGoogle Scholar formatted citations is a post from: Sciencebase Scie ...
• Fighting Between the Wars – a song
  Any psychoanalysts in the house care to tell me what I meant when I wrote these lyrics? Between the wars In kinder times, we’re winning, but they left out all the sinning The judges call and we have to tell them no The thieves are running wild. And they’re drinking blessed mild, but ...

RFF Library

• Detailed Maps of Tropical Forest Types are Wit ...
  Forest Ecology and Management (2012) v279 p147–166 / by E.H. Helmer http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/pubs/ja_iitf_2012_helmer001.pdf [From a Climate Wire article by Tiffany Stecker, sub. req'd]  Satellite images taken during certain key periods — like stretches of drought or the flowering ...
• Best Practices for Leading Sustainability Efforts
  IBM Center for the Business of Government http://bit.ly/PSX1DV This report: Examines the sustainability processes of three organizations, two private and one public Identifies three recommendations that demonstrate the critical success factors for meeting sustainability compliance The purpose of ...
• Evaluation of Progress Under the EU National E ...
  European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/evaluation-progress-nec-2012 [From Summary] …The interim environmental objectives set in the NEC Directive for 2010 are broadly met — based upon an assessment performed using the original 2001 scientific knowledge. However, ...
• Business Resilience in an Uncertain, Resource- ...
  Carbon Disclosure Project https://www.cdproject.net/en-US/Pages/global500.aspx [From Press Release] …In a recent survey of the world’s 500 largest companies, 96 percent of the 379 responding said that climate change is dealt with at the senior executive or board level, while 78 percent hav ...
• Biofuels Issues and Trends
  US Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Admin. http://www.eia.gov/biofuels/issuestrends/ Highlights from the report include: Ethanol grew from 8 percent of U.S. gasoline consumption by volume in 2009 to nearly 10 percent in 2011 and in the first eight months of 2012. With almost all gasoline in t ...

Scientific American - News

• Fossil Scars Capture Dinosaur Headbutts
  By Matt Kaplan of Nature magazine [More]
• Scientists Read Dreams
  By Mo Costandi of Nature magazine [More]
• The Return of a Great 19th-Century Meteor Shower
  Each year as Earth journeys around the sun, it slams into streams of particles that comets have spewed into space. When these particles, known as meteoroids, smash into the atmosphere, they generate streaks of light called meteors. The most reliable meteor showers--the Perseids in August and the ...
• Deadly Dancing: Could a Nocebo Effect Explain ...
  Editor's note: Chris Berdik's Mind Over Mind examines the myriad effects of expectations--whether the eager eyes of sports fans on a key player, anticipating a sip of expensive wine or the mysterious medical efficacy of a placebo. In this excerpt, Berdik describes a peculiar contagion ...
• Carbon Dating Gets a Reset
  From Nature magazine [More]

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

• A Proposal for a Drop-In Centre, from the Eyes ...
  This is part III of Kendall Worth's series of first-person accounts of social isolation as a person living in poverty, with a disability. Read part I here and part II here.   Up to 70 per cent of social assistance recipients are considered disabled in some way. Being disabled could mean ...
• Interview with Macdonald Stainsby (oilsandstru ...
• Update on Tar Sands and Oil Shale Extraction, ...
  Interview with Macdonald Stainsby, independant journalist and activist, coordinator of oilsandstruth.org
• Anti-Authoritarian Leadership: An Interview wi ...
  Interview with Chris Dixon - collective member, Institute for Anarchist Studies. chrisd@resist.ca - http://www.anarchiststudies.org Anti-Authoritarian Approaches to Taking ...
• Parc Oxygène: la lutte continue
  23 ans plus tard, ce petit îlot vert auto-géré au coeur du centre-ville de Montréal ce trouve toujours menacé par le développement illégal de condos, affectant la qualité de vie de la communauté . Dans une entrevue le 12 octobre der ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Mitt got whupped
  David Seaton's News LinksWhat a poem this man's face is: anger mixed with fear. He almost looks like he is going to burst into tears. I think he knows he is beaten. It might be more appropriate for Romney's autobiography to be titled "Dreams from my Father", than Obama's. DS
• Barack fights back
  David Seaton's News LinksHe was having a ball I had my doubts for a while, but now I think I might have been right to imagine in a previous post that President Obama threw the first debate, that he deliberately underperformed.The question would have to be, why take such a huge, deliberate risk?T ...
• 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 ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Friday Cat Blogging - 19 October 2012
  Around here, we're not selfish about birthdays. I get what's inside the box, Domino gets the box itself. As you can see, everyone is pretty contented with this arrangement. In other news, a new catacomb has been discovered in Rome. By a cat: "Curti and a friend were following the cat at 10pm ...
• Iranian Oil Exports Continue to Plunge
  Stuart Staniford catches us up today on Iranian oil production, which is falling like a rock. During 2009-10, Iran was producing about 3.7 million barrels per day. Today, they're producing about 3.1 million bpd. Almost all of this decline represents a drop in exports, which in turn represents ...
• Quote of the Day: Peter King Thinks Four Minut ...
  Steve Benen directs my attention to Rep. Peter King (R-NY), who has a whole new criticism of President Obama's handling of the Benghazi attacks: As far as it being an act of terror, the president was almost four minutes into his statement on September 12th before he mentioned an act of terr ...
• Sorry, but Mitt Romney's Abortion Absolutism I ...
  In a primary debate earlier this year, Anderson Cooper asked: "If hypothetically Roe versus Wade was overturned, and the Congress passed a federal ban on all abortion, and it came to your desk, would you sign it? Yes or no?" Mitt Romney said he'd be delighted to sign such a bill, and the Obama ...
• Obama Continues to Bounce Back
  Polling guru Nate Silver tweets me a series of early birthday presents: Obama had a strong day of polls in swing states today. He's up a fair bit in our forecast, to 70.4% from 65.7%. Also, the polls with the most recent field dates generally suggest more strength for Obama than those from ...

Insanity Report

• IC 355: Binders Full of Stupid
  Topics: People Asking Stupid Questions The real problem with Tyler Perry Movies The election needs to end Liberals aren’t built for this Its not really funny Movie News Deer Crossings Share with your friends:
• 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:

Simple Climate

• Cause vagueness hinders climate extinction action
  A PhD class from Stony Brook University in New York State has found that difficulties in researching how climate wipes organisms out have left a knowledge gap, and urges scientists to tackle these tough questions.
• 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.

e!Science News

• Astronomers uncover a surprising trend in gala ...
  A comprehensive study of hundreds of galaxies observed by the Keck telescopes in Hawaii and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected pattern of change that extends back 8 billion years, or more than half the age of the universe. read more
• Findings could be used to engineer organs
  Biologists have teamed up with mechanical engineers from the The University of Texas at Dallas to conduct cell research that provides information that may one day be used to engineer organs. read more
• Recession drives down national park visitation ...
  A national recession doesn't just affect Americans' wallets. It also impacts their travel to national parks, a new University of Georgia study has found. read more
• Ancient DNA sheds light on Arctic whale mysteries
  Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, City University of New York, and other organizations have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern populations and archaeological site ...
• Leading bone marrow transplant expert recommen ...
  One of the world's leading bone marrow transplant experts is recommending a significant change to current transplant practice for patients who need marrow or adult stem cells from an unrelated donor to treat hematologic malignancies. Fred Appelbaum, M.D., director of the Clinical Research Divisi ...

unEarthed

• What the Clean Water Act Means To Me
  On the Act's 40th anniversary, how it touches lives across the country Growing up just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, my siblings and cousins and I spent our s ...
• On 40th Anniversary, Clean Water Act Faces Tox ...
  Congress abandons citizen interests for 'pollution prosperity' Forty years ago today, against a backdrop of flaming rivers, dying lakes and sewage-chok ...
• When Polluters Attack The Clean Water Act
  Should we still have waste, raw sewage in our water after 40 years? Clean water is one of Earth’s most precious resources. Life is not possible withou ...
• 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. & ...

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

• Republican Arrested For Throwing Away Voter Re ...
  The Republicans are up to their old tricks. Hiring slimeball companies to sign up voters, and then throwing away the registration forms of Democrats. Make sure everyone involved is prosecuted. Pennsylvania Man Arrested On 12 Felonies
• Tagg Romney Is A Tough Guy Who Wants To Take A ...
  Tagg, I know you are not used to watching your daddy being pushed around by anyone. He has always been the boss, and has always been the bully. In this case he tried to bully someone with more character in his little finger than your whole family has combined. I know it could be a [...]
• All Facts Tax Plan
  A simple plan to fix America’s (and the world’s) revenue / tax problems. Audit all bank accounts worldwide. Calculate taxes on all funds held at 35% of all income over $1,000,000 per year for all individuals and return the money to the countries they stole the money from. Tax all cor ...
• Romey Releases Tax Plan
  Click – HERE – to find out the details on Romney’s Tax Plan!
• Pssst Romney “Acts Of Terror”
  He said it. Idiot.

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

• A dangerous position
  Despite the onslaught of racist legislation and racist declarations by public leaders, empirical data suggests that the government of Israel is closing the gaps between its Jewish and Arab citizens in many fields. The refusal to recognize those changes is dangerous and counter-productive. By Ron ...
• Testimony: One filmmaker’s struggle agai ...
  ‘As soon as I got my passport stamped, the Airport Authority employee demanded I sign a commitment not to enter the occupied Palestinian territories. The document stated that should I breach this ‘order,’ I could be deported and not allowed back into Israel for another 10 years ...
• A week in photos: October 11-17
  Olive harvests in the West Bank, protests against settler violence, refugees from Israel to Germany demonstrate for the their rights, and more: Activestills images tell the stories of the week.                    
• ‘Non-partisan’ campaign urging Ame ...
  Last week, I published an in-depth report in the Daily Beast exposing the pro-Republican partisanship of a non-profit initiative urging American citizens in Israel to vote in the upcoming U.S. elections. The “iVoteIsrael” campaign – which I have been following and reporting on ...
• Eritrean asylum seeker details recent hunger s ...
  Some 500 asylum seekers held in a prison in the desert recently refused food in protest of a new law that enables Israel to keep them in detention indefinitely. By Sharon Livne “Don’t tell anyone my name, I’m afraid of what they’ll do to me here if they know I talked.&#82 ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Parliament passes National Water Commission Am ...
  The National Water Commission will continue its important role overseeing the Council of Australian Governments national water reform agenda, following Parliament's passage today of the National Water Commission Amendment Bill 2012.
• Recipients of the 2012 Antarctic Medal Announced
  Environment Minister Tony Burke has congratulated the recipients of the 2012 Antarctic Medal which is awarded for outstanding service to the Australian Antarctic program.
• Public consultation opens for next phase of Ca ...
  The Gillard Government today invited the community to help shape the next phase of Caring for our Country by participating in a new round of public consultation.
• Australia announces global indigenous network
  Australia has joined with Brazil, Norway and New Zealand to form the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Land and Sea Managers Network.
• Pilbara to boost water savings by billions of ...
  Pilbara communities will save up to 1.15 billion litres of water each year through a $1.5 million expansion of water efficiency projects.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Matt Weidner on Wide Awake News Tonight!!
  Don’t miss Wide Awake News Radio TONIGHT!!   Eric of the ‘Lovely’ Family, Charlie & Matt Weidner 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM  Oct 18, 2012 (Mountain Time) (General) Click here to Listen!!!   Also,  follow us in the Chatrooms: http://www.wideawakenews.com/chat-room.php ...
• How Should The Presidential Candidiates Debate ...
  Scridb filter
• BRIGHT LIGHT! BIG IDEAS! APRIL CHARNEY (THE FO ...
  One of the most coherent statements on the current state of fraudclousre and the on going crisis to come out yet……From April: For those who are eager to fault banks for messing up the mortgage market, it is worth considering that this country lacks sufficient income and creditworthy ...
• 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 ...

abelard - news

• after 50 years, people are now allowed to esca ...
  The socialist legacy of Fidele Castro gradually recedes.
• romney as comedian at al smith dinner - edgy a ...
  Latest Gallup poll and Romney's fund-raiser speech.
• denying agw - a couple of amusing graphs | beh ...
  Just as statistics can be massaged to appear to show whatever is wanted, so can graphs.
• captain scapegoat mangouras and the prestige o ...
  With an enormous trial starting in Northern Spain, abelard.org reviews the ecological catastrophe that prompted the court case.
• 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.

The Parallel Parliament

• The Political Industrial Complex
  There was a strong reaction to my last blog post on the need for good folks to run for politics. …Continue reading »
• 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 »

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

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

Reader Supported News

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

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

• Nutrition Conference or Junk Food Expo? Reflec ...
  Little did I know that those few days I spent in Philadelphia would be some of the most confusing, inspiring, revolting, enlightening, and motivating days of my professional career to date.
• 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.

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

• Evil in the dock: Unrepentant Karadzic calls h ...
  On trial for war crimes in The Hague, Radovan Karazdic denies his crimes and even calls himself a "peacemaker".
• There is an alternative to these brutal cuts & ...
  Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, writes about the need to march for a future that works, and against the Tory cuts.
• Trump, Salmond, Megrahi and the eroding of Sco ...
  Donald Trump's plans to build a golf resort expose the shortfalls of democracy in Scotland.
• Spreading privilege? The only thing Cameron&#8 ...
  Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, explains why she'll be marching tomorrow in defence of education for the many.
• Campbell: 2015 “will be the first genuin ...
  Alastair Campbell last night said he believed the 2015 general election will be the first "genuine social media election", reports Shamik Das.

Consumerist

• Is Microsoft About To Unleash A Kraken Of Suck ...
  Microsoft went years without making too big of a stir with updates to its Windows operating system, but with only days left to the unleashing of Windows 8 upon the world, the early word is that some people will not be please with all the changes. The new look of Windows 8 is supposed to tie it ...
• Sprouts Are Out At Kroger
  If you’re a fan of fresh sprouts and a Kroger shopper, you’ll have to choose between the two after this weekend, when the supermarket chain sells the last of the little green veggies, which are apparently a pain in the butt to keep clean. “After a thorough, science-based review ...
• We Couldn’t Be Happier That Will Ferrell ...
  Because Will Ferrell himself is an inexplicable bundle of comedic joy, we aren’t even going to attempt to understand or explain why he’s taken his Old Milwaukee ad campaign from Davenport, Iowa to Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedes like beer and comedy, right? So why not. But we’re  ...
• Georgia Counties Sue HSBC, Say Bank’s Pr ...
  Three counties in Georgia have filed suit against HSBC, claiming the bank pushed minority borrowers into expensive, subprime mortgages. But these banks aren’t suing on behalf of the wronged borrowers. Instead, they allege that the predatory practices ultimately resulted in lost tax revenue ...
• Don’t Know How To Create A Pat Of Butter ...
  Sure. You could take a stick of butter out of your fridge and cut a small slice off with a knife to butter your food. If you’re cooking and need to measure out a specific portion of butter, you could use a very sharp knife and follow the guide lines on the wrapper. Or you could buy a Butte ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Corporate Whistleblowers Gain New Rights and O ...
  Largely under the public radar, the last decade has seen a legal revolution in the United States in the area of corporate freedom of speech. Although a hodgepodge of 57 laws protecting corporate and government whistleblowers remains, 11 private sector laws passed since the turn of the millenniu ...
• SEC Whistleblower Office Has Received Nearly 3 ...
  Wall Street Journal: SEC Whistleblower Office Gets Nearly 3,000 Tips Summary: The SEC whistleblower program, which opened in August 2011, has already received nearly 3,000 tips. In addition, the SEC Commissioner said this week that there’s been a “noticeable difference” in the quality of infor ...
• Torturers Roam Free While Kiriakou Tried for E ...
  Torturers Roaming Free, John Kiriakou Tried for Espionage Summary: Former CIA officer and GAP client John Kiriakou, who publicly acknowledged that waterboarding constituted torture, suffered a setback recently when a federal judge ruled that the government does not need to prove Kiri ...
• Torturers Roaming Free, John Kiriakou Tried fo ...
  A recent flurry of media coverage (here, here, here, and here) on the Espionage Act case against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) whistleblower John Kiriakou brings new light to case and the impact the Obama administration's unprecedented use of the Espionage Act agains ...
• CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Inches From Ja ...
  Former CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou is inches away from pleading away years of his life to jail while the former chief of the CIA headquarters-based RDI (Rendition, Detention, Interrogation) group is sitting pretty enjoying his retirement in Virginia. As described by Dana Priest, this is how ...

UK Progressive

• How Obama Can Smoke Out Mitt: Call for Breakin ...
  by Robert Reich President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected. It’s good policy, and it would smoke out Mitt Romney as being of, by, and for Wall Street — and not on the side of average Americans. ...
• Latino Activists Join With Marriage Activists
  Will it work? Rev. Irene Monroe The kerfuffle concerning undocumented immigrants and legalizing same-sex marriage are usually competing and unresolved hot-button issues for voters heading toward the ballot box. Immigration advocates and LGBTQ rights groups have long tried to get its constituenci ...
• The Campaign Finance Free-For-All: How We Got ...
  by Justin Elliott ProPublica In a forthcoming law review article, Richard Briffault of Columbia Law School argues that the rise of super PACs and unfettered contributions and spending this election cycle are “effectively ending the post-Watergate era of campaign finance laws.” To help understand ...
• How Financial Aid Letters Often Leave Students ...
  by Marian Wang ProPublica The financial aid award letters that colleges send to prospective students can be confusing: Many mix grants, scholarships and loans all under the heading of “Award,” “Financial Assistance,” or “Offered Financial Aid.” Some schools al ...
• All in God’s Name – For God’s Sake
  by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall I was writing at an outdoor table at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor when a black woman asked if she could sit down. “Yes welcome” was my reply. In a second, another lady, obviously Pakistan, asked if she could join us. A third seat was filled by a w ...

NewsAlert

• FDR's 1932 Pittsburgh Speech: A Masterful Dece ...
  Gary North
• Michigan and Ohio both lost jobs in September
  The Washington Examiner
• The Possibility of a Popular, Electoral Vote S ...
  The National Journal
• HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Average debt u ...
  Instapundit
• Missouri: Romney 54%, Obama 43%
  Rasmussen

JoNova

• Unthreaded Weekend
  For all those thoughts that don’t belong… Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
• Gergis hockey stick withdrawn. This is what 95 ...
  In May it was all over the newspapers, in June it was shown to be badly flawed. By October, it quietly gets withdrawn.  The apology and press release are coming soon…right? Thanks to help from the Australian Research Council it only took 300,000 dollars and three years to produce a paper t ...
• Buy gold while it’s in the ground (Plus David ...
  Next Monday David is speaking at The Gold Symposium in Sydney. (I’ll be in the audience, and at the GoldNerds booth.) Who should go? — only people who don’t want to be poor. Money is grubby thing, but financial independence means freedom. Freedom to spend time writing what a he ...
• 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 ...

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

• Visit Mexico Post-2012
  Mexico is packed full of tourists for the next few months, strange folk drawn to the homeland of an apocalyptic prophecy, at the time the doomsday is meant to occur. If they didn’t believe it was special, they wouldn’t be there… But next year it will be relatively quiet, and vi ...
• 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 ...

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

• Obama to push trade, security agenda in Latin ...
  Washington, Oct 19 (IANS/EFE) President Barack Obama will continue to push for strengthening trade and public security in Latin America if he is re-elected Nov 6, the top US envoy to the region said Thursday. Reported by Firstpost 50 minutes ago
• Indian scientists develop new technique to pro ...
  Kolkata, Oct 19 (IANS) Probing the mysteries of Alzheimer's disease (AD), known as a silent killer, has been made easier by Indian scientists here who have developed a non-biological platform for assessing the efficacy of potential drugs and the way they work. Reported by Firstpost 50 minutes ago
• Romney surges ahead, but race still tied
  Washington, Oct 19 (IANS) The race for the White House is still seen as either a virtual tie or Barack Obama's to lose with national polls ranging from a three point lead for the president to Mitt Romney surging ahead by seven points. Reported by Firstpost 50 minutes ago
• Shillong a favourite tourist spot: Mukul Sangma
  Shillong, Oct 19 (IANS) Meghalaya's capital Shillong, popularly known as the 'Scotland of the East', is one of the top five tourist destinations in India, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said Friday. Reported by Firstpost 50 minutes ago
• Pakistani girl shot by Taliban 'doing well'
  LONDON (Reuters) - A Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen is 'not out of the woods' but is doing well and has been able to stand for the first time, doctors at the British hospital treating her said on Friday. Reported by Firstpost 50 minutes ago

Global Research TV

• The Truth About the Commission on Presidential ...
• The New Corporate State: Exposing UK Police Vi ...
• Remember Us: Gaza Refugees in Jordan
• Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre
• The End of Immigration (Trailer)

Daily Tech

• Super-Hacker Comex Gets the Boot From Apple
  Failure to reply to an email punched veteran iOS hacker's ticket out
• Consumer Electronics Association Backs Ultra H ...
  4K resolution hardware will officially be called ultra HD
• AMD Set to Restructure After Poor Q3 Earnings, ...
  15% of its global workforce will be let go
• EV Industry Faces Hard Times, Slowed Adoption
  Cost, charging infrastructure and battery concerns are all reasons for the slowed adoption
• Study: Electronic Health Records Help Doctors ...
  EHRs helped physicians gather and track patients' medical information more efficiently than paper records

Oriental Review

• Europe’s Peacekeeping Process
  Call the European Union anything you want: an organization, an association, a community, etc. But the EU is a state just like Russia, China or any other. The main difference between the EU and Russia is that the European Union is a confederation, whereas Russia is a federation. Interestingly, a ...
• 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 ...

BlogHer

• Make Perfect Candy Apples At Home
  [Editor's Note: Caramel apples are one thing—they involve a fairly easy melting of caramel and a quick dip—but candy apples are generally considered to be a little trickier. Luckily, these instructions are clear and simple, and should be no trouble to recreate just in time for a happy ...
• Swapping Heads in Photoshop Elements
  You know how when you take several photos of a group of people, the facial expressions are not all perfect in the same photo? Someone looks good in one shot, another person looks fab in a different photo. Here's how to move heads from one photo to another to get a perfect look on every face. Mel ...
• BlogHer Conference Update -- October 19, 2012
  As Lori let you know last week, she's on vacation so it's my job to bring you the weekly Conference update! We had an important announcement this week and I have a bunch of other things to remind you about, so let's jump right in! We put out our Call for Ideas for BlogHer '13 on Wednesday. Throu ...
• Really? Tagg Romney Jokes About Taking a Swing ...
  Just when you thought the presidential election couldn't get any more combative... Tagg Romney, GOP candidate Mitt Romney's 42-year old son tells a radio host that Tuesday's debate made him want to "take a swing" at Obama. During Tuesday’s presidential town hall debate, GOP contender Mitt Romne ...
• Weekend in New York
  Is there anything better than a relaxing weekend spent frolicking around Gotham with friends and family? Alexa's photo essay from her weekend in New York City illustrate a heavenly escape. --Editor:"I had such a fun, exciting weekend, and it was refreshing to switch things up and treat myself to ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• Flu Shot Being Forced on Health Workers
  Why don’t they want it? Because some of them know too much. Here’s the whole tawdry tale. This week we learned that hospital employees throughout Colorado will be fired unless they get a flu shot by the end ...
• Antibiotic Resistance Racing Downriver
  The South Platte River system begins in pristine Rocky Mountain streams and flows east through the Coloradan plateau dotted with cattle ranches, sheep pastures, dairy farms — and human wastewater-treatment plants. In the first quantitative ...
• Monsanto Tries to Criminalize Saving Seeds, Dr ...
  As if its costly genetic tampering with the whole natural world weren’t brazen enough, Monsanto continues to bully and intimidate farmers across the United States, hoping this time to push its agenda through the highest ...
• New Call for Probe of Meningitis-Linked Compan ...
  A leading U.S. lawmaker called on Tuesday for an investigation of whether the company at the center of the deadly meningitis outbreak violated federal laws covering potentially addictive drugs, a day after the health scare ...
• New Report: Americans Eating Their Weight In G ...
  Do you think you eat much genetically engineered food? The creepy truth is, most of us probably wouldn’t know given the lax labeling laws. But Environmental Working Group (EWG) has taken it upon themselves to do a little ...

Live News Wire

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

Coal Tattoo

• Friday roundup, Oct. 19, 2012
  In this March 16, 2011, file photo, exhaust rises from smokestacks in front of piles of coal at NRG Energy’s W.A. Parish Electric Generating Station in Thompsons, Texas. Everyone wants clean air and water. But people also want to drive their cars whenever they wish and light up a room by f ...
• Coal up in August, but long-term decline continues
  The U.S. Energy Information Administration has some new data out today: In August 2012, coal produced 39% of U.S. electricity, up from a low of 32% in April 2012, when the natural gas share of generation equaled that of coal. Increased demand for electric power in the summer months—to run air co ...
• Rahall foe: Blankenship just ‘a retired ...
  The Daily Mail picked up on an interesting development the other day, in a story that notes a recent contribution by former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship to the campaign of Republican Rick Snuffer, who is trying to unseat Southern West Virginia’s longtime Democratic congressman, Rep. N ...
• How coal miners die on the job
  Here’s the latest coal-mining fatality report, just issued by the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration: On Wednesday, April 25, 2012, at approximately 8:50 a.m., Delmer Miller (Victim), a 61-year-old Cutter/Welder contract employee for T&B Recycling & Transport (T&B) was ...
• Coal kills: What is President Obama talking about?
  President Barack Obama speaks during a grassroots event at Cornell College on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012., in Mount Vernon, Iowa. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) We’ve talked several times on this blog (see here, here and here, for example) about the ridiculous TV ads from the Obama administration tha ...

Daniel Miessler

• Progress on Many Fronts
  This week has been somewhat special. I have: Eaten breakfast and lunch at home for four days straight for the first time in…well, forever. I have woken up each day at 7am and done 20 minutes on the treadmill and 10 minutes of weights. Susan used our Stauvay (STAW-vay) for the first time ev ...
• How to Handle Bullying
  Related ContentBike ParkourOn Failure and SuccessDinesh D’Souza Doing a Movie About ObamaMister Rogers Defending His Show on Capitol HillTrue Shelter Disruption: 3-D Printing of Houses
• 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 ...

Fitwatch

• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #4 – Fashion ...
  Whilst what you wear on a demo is on one level (quite rightly) unimportant, it can be used as a great tool to disrupt intelligence gathering activities. When such a large part of political policing rests on the ability to profile, identify, isolate (and subsequently harass) individuals and group ...
• Stay Safe; Stay Anonymous! #3 – Affinity ...
  For the purposes of a mass demonstration, affinity groups – small groups of people who attend the same demonstration together - are a great way to stay safe and anonymous, providing a miniature support network that is both empowering and practical. This is one of the first things you should be c ...
• 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 ...

Worldwide Hippies

• Occupy LA keeps up protests despite clashes wi ...
  Occupy LA 15098 from joe mcevoy on Vimeo. WWH/CJE RT – Despite a series of police crackdowns in Los Angeles, the Occupy movement stays strong. It’s been more than a year since the Occupy movement came to Los Angeles. The tents which once dominated the landscape of downtown are gone, ...
• National Parks? We don’t need no stinkin ...
• Education Beat: ALEC – Hedging: Educatio ...
  WWH/CJE – John Konopak,Ph; (LSU 1989,Education) Education editor: Each week a digest of education articles and critiques. Hedging: Education’s, and educators’, dirty secret: The majority of the so-called “reform” movement, in schooling, towards more and weightier, h ...
• WWH/CJE Friday News Briefs
  Maryland Transit Administration recording conversations on buses IT’S FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY! A little pee pee, a little blood test, a camera here a camera there, a little chip in your arm, a little listening to your cell phone calls, monitoring and collecting information of your online activ ...
• Tajik Torture Claims Put Prisons Under Scrutin ...
  From rferl.org - The head of Tajikistan’s penitentiary system has been forced on the defensive following some incendiary allegations concerning the use of torture in the country’s prisons. Just days after his department had to launch an investigation into the suspicious death of Hamz ...

reference frame

• How empty is the black hole interior?
  This article is a continuation of the discussion of black hole firewalls. I've exchanged a dozen of e-mails with Joe Polchinski, the most well-known physicist in the original team that proposed the firewalls. We haven't converged and Joe ultimately decided he didn't have time to co ...
• Czech PM ready to veto EU bank supervision
  All the Czech media and some international outlets inform about the decision of Mr Petr Nečas, the Czech prime minister and a trained plasma physicist, to veto the planned European pan-continental bank supervision as it stands. This project is pushed primarily by Monsieur Hollande. ...
• Raphael Bousso converts to the Church of Firewall
  His (and probably AMPS') error boils down to a widespread misinterpretation of "choices" in quantum mechanics Clayton informed me that Raphael Bousso who has written the most meaningful reply to the AMPS black hole firewall paradox has completely reverted his position. I have previo ...
• 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 ...

Tatumba 2.0

• How kids are getting hooked on pills for life
  Young children were once expected to outgrow their issues; now they’re diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems. Where do parents and teachers get the idea there’s something wrong with kids that only an expensive drug can fix? From Big Pharma’s seamless web of ads, subsidiz ...
• Man loses 18 relatives in Syrian strikes yeste ...
  Is military intervention needed in Syria? Citizens are being butchered in huge numbers and the situation seems to be getting worse. The story below is from a man who loves in Syria… AboveTopSecret.com New Topics In World War Three Related posts: Breaking: Turkey strikes Syrian targets Tu ...
• House passes MP pension changes in surprise deal
  Members of Parliament agreed this morning to split off measures to change their pensions from the rest of the budget implementation bill and pass them without debate in the House. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: MP pension reforms and budget bill coming next week The government will ...
• Does the Romney Family Now Own Your E-Vote?
  By Gerry Bello, Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman, Op Ed News: Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that’s partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House? Through a closely held equity fund called ...
• Pakistani girl shot by Taliban able to stand, ...
  Doctors treating 14-year-old Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai say she is able to stand with help and to write, though she still shows signs of infection. CBC | Top Stories News Related posts: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai sent to U.K. The Pakistani schoolgirl who was sho ...

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

• Fracking Leases May Lower Property Values, Def ...
  By Briana Dema, EWG Law Fellow Hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas may enrich drillers - but at a prohibitive cost for some landowners near wells. The New York Times reported last month that uncertainty over whether hydraulic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website fo ...
• 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 ...

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

• How do you fix a Yankee team that led the leag ...
• Proposed: A promenade up an expanded Park Aven ...
• Cuomo goes with the Senate Republican, formally
• 'We're going to fix it': Obama on Benghazi and ...
• The controversial landlord behind a mystery-sh ...

Views & News from Norway

• Ice cream heir launches airline project
  An heir to the Hennig-Olsen ice cream fortune launched plans this week to start up a new airline serving cities around Europe from his hometown of Kristiansand. Espen Hennig-Olsen claims he’ll offer both low fares and food on board from another native of southern Norway, chef Trond Moi. He ...
• Party leader prevails, for now
  Liv Signe Navarsete, leader of the troubled Center Party (Senterpartiet, Sp), seemed to emerge from the fray after a week of harsh criticism over her behaviour, her leadership style and her efforts to fend off challenges to her power. Now her opponents claim they support her after all, and she&# ...
• Tax lists released but harder to access
  State tax authorities released their lists on Friday showing what all residents of Norway declared in terms of income and net worth, plus taxes owed, but made it more difficult this year for members of the public to snoop through them. The lists still revealed who’s considered the country& ...
• EU’s Nobel guest list may be huge
  The president of the European Union wants the leaders of all 27 EU member nations to travel to Oslo to accept their Nobel Peace Prize together in December. That would present a huge security challenge for Norwegian police, and the Nobel Committee’s guest list likely will be curtailed. The ...
• Colombian talks start peacefully
  Historic peace talks between the Colombian government and the guerrilla group FARC finally got officially underway in Norway on Thursday and the tone seemed almost surprisingly good among all parts involved. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide was relieved to describe what he called “mutual ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

• What Will It Take to Heal? Prison Abolition an ...
  by Nicole Vosper, WildHeartPermaculture I write this on the train from seeing a close friend of mine, imprisoned in HMP Holloway. A beautiful lifer who I gardened with for the entire 21 months of my own imprisonment in 2009/10. After 5.5 years into her sentence, she is at her lowest point. She ...
• By the Numbers – Data Highlights from Full Pla ...
  by Earth Policy Institute More than 150 data sets accompany Lester R. Brown’s latest book, Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. These tables and graphs help to explain the precarious situation in which humanity finds itself, as the world leaves an era of food su ...
• Goodbye Columbus
  A.Eisenstaedt, Oklahoma Farmer 1942, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Forest gardening is about as close as any strategy comes to addressing all of the most pressing needs of humans in one great sweep. Climate change, peak oil, poverty, extinction, and civil strife– all are rooted ...
• Genetic Roulette Documentary – Free Viewing Pe ...
  A few days ago I informed that you could watch the Genetic Roulette Documentary for free until October 17. Well, several organisations have kindly sponsored an extension of this free viewing period until the end of October. With Proposition 37 coming up on November 6 in California, there’s ...
• Permaculture at Wadeye – an Aboriginal Communi ...
  Wadeye is the Northern Territory’s largest aboriginal community. Having been here just over a year now I can say I have become quite acquainted with many of the indigenous locals and I will be quite sad when I soon leave. However, to paint a brief picture of reasonable accuracy, the town i ...

Pointman's

• It’s time for a change.
  It’ll soon be time to cast your vote, so you have to look back at what the current politico has done for you over the last four years. I see auto workers in Detroit, who no longer work on the line because that line no longer exists, and now have to swallow the indignity of watching &# ...
• 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 ...

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 ...
  Wall to wall brethren Prince Axel of Denmark – also attended in 1957 and 1966. Ralph Flanders – US senator. Many things could be said about Flanders, but I will simply state that he served as a director of the Federal Reserve from 1941 – 44, and subsequently served a two year term as preside ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  More bullshit from RT Most Swiss guys do their army, except guys in Geneva Army spokesman on last night, exercise involved on 2000 troops Said "would need 10x to 20x more if there was a problem with the €"Statistics: Posted by Ognir — Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:49 am
• History and Philosophy of Zionism/Judaism/&quo ...
  MGT23, you might find the Early Church's debates on Satan enlightening. There was an old heresy floating around that evil and Satan were the opposite of good and God (Yin and Yang Kabbalist theory). The Church emphatically rejected this. Satan, it declared, was not at the same level of divinity ...
• Historical Events • Jews, the United Fruit Com ...
  This is just a little tidbit of history regarding doings in Latin America, specifically Central America, Guatemala, Honduras...Serious students of history probably are aware of the United Fruit Company and it's interconnection with the US Government involving coups, massacres and foreign policy ...
• Current News / News of an Immediate & Urge ...
  http://rt.com/news/switzerland-prepares ... nrest-263/ Switzerland arming in preparation for European meltdown? The Swiss Army is preparing contingency plans for violent unrest across Europe. A nation mostly famous for its banks, watches and chocolate fears it may face a massive influx of Eur ...

TVNZ

• Police arrest Canadian schoolgirls for bullying
  Eight girls have been charged with criminal harassment for bullying at a high school in Ontario.
• Car bomb in Lebanon kills 8, injures 80
  A car bomb in Beirut has killed eight people including a top Lebanese security official.
• Shot Pakistani girl "not out of the woods" but ...
  A Pakistani girl shot in the head by Taliban gunmen has been able to stand for the first time with some help.
• Former US marine sues after peaceful protest
  A man arrested in the US Supreme Court's museum corridor is suing the federal government over the incident.
• Korean rivals exchange threats ahead of planne ...
  North Korea threatened to open fire on South Korea if activists drop anti-North leaflets on its territory.

environment 360

• Ocean Acidification May Alter Acoustics of Sea ...
  Increased ocean acidification over the next century could alter the acoustic properties of seawater, giving the planet’s oceans the same hi-fi sound they had during the age of the dinosaurs. In an analysis of ocean acidity over 300 million years, U.S. researchers David G. Browning and Peter M. S ...
• Elevated Levels of CO2 May Impair Cognitive Ab ...
  Elevated levels of carbon dioxide in indoor settings can have a detrimental effect on decision-making abilities and work performance, according to a new study. In a series of tests, U.S. researchers exposed 22 healthy adults to different levels of carbon dioxide concentrations (600 parts-per-mil ...
• Chinese Report Acknowledges Nuclear Safety Con ...
  In a new report, the Chinese government has laid out a plan to upgrade the security at its nuclear power reactors over the next decade, suggesting that the country may be ready to resume a planned expansion of Feng Li/Getty Images Inspector at a Zhejiang construction site its nuclear sec ...
• 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 ...
• Increasingly Severe Droughts Could Transform U ...
  Severe drought conditions in the southwestern U.S. in recent years could become normal in the years to come, a shift that could trigger increased tree mortality and ultimately transform the region’s forests, a new study says. In an analysis of tree-ring data from conifer trees dating back to A.D ...

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 ...
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• Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
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backofthebook

• Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
  By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of [. ...
• 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 ...

Daily Beast

• Walsh One-Ups ‘Legitimate Rape’
  Allison Yarrow on the remarks from Rep. Joe Walsh that could surpass the Todd Akin firestorm.
• Downton Heir Turns Booker Judge
  ‘Downton Abbey’ star Dan Stevens helped award Hilary Mantel her second Booker Prize on Tuesday. Henry Krempels asks him about his crazy week.
• Britney on Trial: Live Tweets
  Fistfights, meltdowns—and crystal meth. Maria Elena Fernandez live-tweets from the Britney Spears trial.
• Ask the Blogger
  You ask, we answer.
• Crowdsourcing: Ten Worst American Generals
  David Corn's tough-but-fair hit piece on Gen. Tommy Franks links to Tom Ricks' list of the 10 worst generals in US history, on which Franks ranks fourth.

Loonwatch

• Margaret Hassan and Thomas Hassan: Targets of ...
  Is Maggie Hassan going to be the new stealth Mooslim in government? The Islamophobes think so.
• The Growing Christian Movement Pushing Back Ag ...
  The loudest Christians making waves about Islam for much of this year have not been terribly, well, Christian.
• Democrat Politician Takes Stand against Sheeps ...
  Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny is breaking ranks with his Russian-speaking base by tossing his weight behind the controversial Sheepshead Bay mosque.
• Greek Fascists Target Muslims and Other &#8216 ...
  Neo-Nazis in Greece intimidating Muslims through violent attacks.
• Eric Allen Bell: “Zero Tolerance – ...
  Eric Allen Bell advocates expelling Muslims and destroying Islam "by any means necessary."

Energy News

• Signs of disintegration seen in new areas far ...
• Latest flyover footage shows giant Louisiana s ...
• Fukushima fire nearly twice as big as original ...
• Nuclear Engineer: New way to locate Fukushima ...
• Nuclear-funded Obama on Nuclear-sponsored Dail ...

Japan Times

• U.S. forces hit with curfew over rape
  Following the arrests this week of two sailors in the alleged rape of a woman in Okinawa, the U.S. military vowed Friday to impose preventative steps, including a curfew and retraining programs. The measures were announced at a joint news conference held by U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos and Lt. ...
• Blaze in old town along Nakasendo route shows ...
  A recent fire in Magomejuku, an old town in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, that killed a man and burned five buildings has set off warning bells in other tourist spots that also boast traditional townscapes. The many wooden structures in Magomejuku, the 43rd of 69 stations along the ancient Nak ...
• 3/11 survivor liens may be canceled
  Lenders are thinking about canceling liens on residential land to facilitate the relocation of people who lost their homes in the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Under the idea, regional banks and other local financial institutions in afflicted areas will give up their clai ...
• MSDF, Japan Coast Guard to conduct first nucle ...
  The Maritime Self-Defense Force and the Japan Coast Guard on Tuesday will conduct their first joint drill against a terrorist attack targeting a nuclear plant, the MSDF said Friday. The drill to track and monitor suspicious vessels and prevent their approach will be held in Wakasa Bay in the S ...
• China owners' riot repairs on Nissan
  Nissan Motor Co., the biggest Japanese carmaker in China by sales, said Friday it will reimburse owners for damage their vehicles sustained during the recent anti-Japan protests and any further demonstrations, as the carmaker works to lure customers back. The compensation to owners of Nissan a ...

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

• The Liberal prorogation dance
  Liberal MP Mauril Belanger is the only federal Liberal willing to openly criticize Dalton...
• The young Alberta is not so young
  The debate over population aging is *not* an East vs. West thing
• A ruling on Etobicoke Centre is at hand
  A note from the Supreme Court advises that a ruling in the case of ...
• This week has four sketches
  Monday. Not enough time to explain, so don’t bother trying Tuesday. Stephen Harper is...
• Navigating the budget’s waters
  During QP this morning, NDP House leader Nathan Cullen declared that changes to the...

Making It Count - CCPA

• Taxing the rich in Québec: major myth debunking
  Québec has been immersed in the last weeks in much drama following a proposal to further tax the wealthiest. When the brand new Marois government took office (Parti québécois, PQ), it announced it would introduce new tax brackets for the wealthiest. A first bracket would have been added for inco ...
• 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 ...

ReDress

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

Physics Today

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

Revolutionary Politics

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• The Charts That Show Why the U.S. Is ‘Screwed’
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• FF News: President Abdulla VS Shar Rukh
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• New debt ceiling deal
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Peakwater

• Manila Water Acquires Suez’s 51% Stake in PAM ...
  “Manila Water Co. (MWC) agreed to acquireSuez Environnement Co. (SEV)’s 51 percent stake in PT PAM Lyonnaise Jaya, which holds the concession contract for western Jakarta. “No terms were given by the utility, which supplies water to half of the Philippine capital. Closing of the deal ...
• 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 ...

D. Kucinich

• Kucinich Senior Staffer Marty Gelfand to Recei ...
  Marty Gelfand, Senior Counsel for Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), will be presented an award for “his tireless efforts to promote Fair Lending and Housing Justice in Ohio through the dedicated work of Congressman Kucinich’s Office” at the 22nd Annual Fair Lending Conference on October 26, 20 ...
• Kucinich Calls for Transparency and Accountabi ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who led Congressional opposition to Free Trade Agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama this year, today released the following statement calling upon the U.S. Trade Representative to be more open with Congress and the American people. See the video here. T ...
• Stimulus Package Used to Saddle Local Ratepaye ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Department of Treasury to examine whether the use of Build America Bonds to help finance a coal plant in southern Illinois was a lawful use of the economic stimulus funds authorized by Congress in 2009. Congressman Kucinich has been investigati ...
• Kucinich to Celebrate Observance of Pulaski Da ...
  Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will present to the Polonia Foundation of Ohio and the Ohio Division of the Polish American Congress original copies of legislation granting General Pulaski honorary posthumous citizenship signed by President Barack Obama and leaders of the House and Senate thi ...
• 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 ...

Authentically Wired

• I don’t know about you but I hear bullsh ...
  … And what we are asked to believe the increased gas prices are due solely to failures and problems in ONE California oil refinery … I don’t know about you but I hear bullshit … Gas prices have skyrocketed in California, and it’s all due to an electrical failure at a single oil refinery. J ...
• And lady justice cries
    … And lady justice cries … Third anarchist jailed for refusing to testify before secret grand jury   Read complete article here …http://rt.com/usa/news/refusing-grand-jury-plante-196/ A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for ...
• OMG … STOP THE PRESS
  OMG … STOP THE PRESS … Arizona largest corporate owned newspaper finds this recreation “brutish” … but silent on America’s use of drones to KILL innocent women and children in predominately Muslin sovereign Middle East nations … WOW … Horrors of war: US, UK munitions ‘cause birth defects in Iraq ...
• learned to falsify from one of Utah’s finest
  … Don’t blame the Utah trooper he learned to falsify from one of Utah’s finest … Memo suggests Utah trooper Steed was falsifying arrest reports 10-15-2012  •  Salt Lake Tribune "This is something that needs to be addressed before defense attorneys catch on and her credibility along ...
• Governor who dwells in the shadows
  … Arizona has a Governor who dwells in the shadows and what we expect she really wants to shed and provide full disclosure on her Arizona National Guard’s “dirty” laundry…? Filed under: Blogroll

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

• Stunning meteor showers light up sky
  Streaking fireballs lighting up California skies and stunning stargazers are part of a major meteor shower, and the show is just getting started, professional observers said.The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were...
• Something odd and bright in martian dirt
  Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has dug up a mini-mystery for scientists: an odd white fleck that sticks out like a beacon in the reddish soil.It looks out of place, but scientists said Thursday that it's probably just a different hued...
• 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,...

The Bovine

• Raw milk farmer Michael Hartmann does plea bar ...
  From David E. Gumpert on The Complete Patient blog: “In the end, Michael Hartmann made the best deal he could–if he was going to save his family–when he pleaded guilty Monday to two misdemeanors in connection with sales of raw … Continue reading →
• NY Times admits Stanford organic study was fla ...
  From Lisa Garber at Natural Society.com: “We broke the story of Stanford’s ridiculous organic food study the very night of its publication. Now, a month later, the media is catching on to the study’s flaws; New York Times Opinion columnist Mark Bittman apologized for hoping—in vain—that &# ...
• Kimberly Hartke talks about raw milk tomorrow ...
• Lifestock speakers spell it out for us
  From the speeches at Montana Jones’ Lifestock. Thanks to Andrew Kohl:
• Kimberly Hartke speaking in Vancouver at 8 pm ...

Mish's Global Economic Trends

• Spanish Military Association Wants "Declaratio ...
  The AME, a Spanish military organization says in an interview on Dutch TV "in the event of tampering or separatism" the military should act. Via Google Translate, please consider military association calls for declaring a "state of war" against Catalunya. Barcelona (Editorial). - The As ...
• Problem is Demand: First IBM, then Intel, now ...
  Three technology bellwethers missed income or revenue expectations in the past few days. Let's take a quick look at IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), and Google (GOOG). IBM TechCrunch reports IBM Q3 Earnings Mostly In Line With Expectations IBM just released its Q3 2012 financials. Big Bl ...
• Graphical Look at Trends in Weekly Unemploymen ...
  As expected, weekly unemployment claims bounced sharply higher this week, up a whopping 46,000 from last week's revised figure of 342,000. Last week, recall that the Labor Department reported a four-year low of 339,000 first-time claims. It was not a real number. As I noted a week ago ...
• Philly Fed Rises But Details Very Weak; Future ...
  Inquiring minds digging into the latest Philly Fed Manufacturing Report will quickly discover the rise from last month is really a mirage. click on chart for sharper image Index and Details The previous overall diffusion index rose from -1.9 to +5.7. However ... ...
• Brookings Institute On Looming Fiscal Cliff: L ...
  Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Ron Haskins discusses the Looming Fiscal Cliff in the following video. About 30 seconds in, Haskins' stated "the fiscal cliff is kind of the opposite of Keynesian economics". I was thinking here we go again, another person thinks we cannot do anything ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Marinetti’s and Kramer’s Puppets: Romney, Obam ...
  “The denial of history in favor of an unmoored existence” By John Stanton “Marinetti [and Benito Mussolini] understood the masses as material to be formed by men of action. A bond was established between futurists and fascists…” US Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s speech at the Vi ...
• Oregon-Beyond Portland
  Classified Woman on Lew Rockwell Show-Transcript I’ve been meaning to write a long post to update you on my major life-change; however, I’ve been racing against time; nonstop-since July. Here is a brief update instead of waiting for a needed break to write a comprehensive update: First, I want t ...
• Soothing the Beast: Saturday Night BFP-Jamiol ...
  Bluetech- “667” When Sibel asked me to do Soothing the Beast, I thought it might be fun to and by week 40, I’ve come to the conclusion that it is and I’m glad she asked me. I really enjoy doing it. I’ve tried to mix it up the best I can and this week is [...]
• My Brief Interview on RT- For War with Syria: ...
  ‘NATO, Turkey seek pretense for attack on Syria’ Yesterday I was on RT for a brief interview on the recent developments in the long-ago-planned US war on Syria. As I mentioned during the interview, Boiling Frogs Post was one of the first news sites reporting on those long-ago-conceiv ...
• Podcast Show #96: Austerity is the Consensus o ...
  The Boiling Frogs Show Presents Eric Draitser Eric Draitser joins us to define and discuss austerity, what austerity looks like in the US, the fact that austerity is the consensus of both parties, why an anti-austerity movement is essential in the US, and helps us connect what’s happening ...

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

• Austal Lays Keel of 6th US Navy Littoral Comba ...
  Austal held a keel-laying ceremony today for the third Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) – Jackson (LCS 6), one of five Austal-designed 127-meter US Navy Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships under [...]
• Saipem Awarded $1.1 Billion in Offshore E&C Co ...
  MILAN - Saipem announced today they have been awarded new offshore engineering and construction contracts worth $1.1 billion in Brazil, Angola and the Caspian Sea. In Brazil, Saipem has signed an [...]
• Vale’s Latest Super Ore Carrier Makes Debut at ...
  The Valemax iron ore carrier Vale Minas Gerais docked at the port of Villanueva in the Philippines on Wednesday marking the first time a Valemax ore carrier had called on [...]
• Iranian Tankers are Flying Tanzania-Zanzibar F ...
  (Bloomberg) — Iranian oil tankers are mistakenly signaling their flag state as Tanzania-Zanzibar and no such registration took place, according to a government official from the east African nation. The [...]
• Coast Guard: Abandoned Containment Dome ID’d A ...
  A thin slick of oil in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be coming from a containment dome that was abandoned on the sea floor during efforts to stop the [...]

Press TV

• Iran condemns Beirut bomb blast
  Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has offered his condolences over the bomb attack in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, which killed at least eight people and injured scores of others.
• Spain's Valencia lays off 3,000 workers
  Spain's eastern Valencia region has announced that it will implement plans to lay off 3,000 public workers, amid growing concerns in the country about persistently high jobless figures.
• Hezbollah condemns Beirut bomb attack
  Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has condemned the deadly car bomb attack in the capital, which killed at least eight people and injured scores of others.
• Glasgow airport passengers evacuated
  Passengers on a jet2 plane evacuated the plane as smoke was detected in the cabin shortly before take-off at Glasgow airport.
• Hariri blames Syria for Beirut explosion
  Former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad al-Hariri has accused the Syrian government of being behind the deadly car bomb attack in Beirut.

SciDev.net

• Mali's locust mitigation capacity undermined b ...
  Northern Mali's ability to respond to expected locust outbreaks has been weakened by war, jeopardising food security and education.
• 'REDD+ actions can have varying impacts'
  Depending on local conditions REDD+ actions can have widely varying impacts on carbon and biodiversity, says a new assessment.
• Biomed Analysis: The social side of vaccine ef ...
  Social attitudes towards vaccines are hard to cram into a mathematical model, but scientists need to take them into account, says Priya Shetty.
• R&D funding needed to sustain the decline of T ...
  The global mortality and incidence rates of tuberculosis are dropping, but slow response to drug resistance and funding gaps threaten progress.
• African farmers could soon grow virus-resistan ...
  The transfer of a new virus-resistant cassava strain from Swiss to African labs could transform agriculture in cassava-dependent regions.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

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

Naked Scientists - News

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

Nick Turse

• WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and ...
  WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath from Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “On Veterans Day 2012, the MFAH debuts an unprecedented exhibition exploring the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath g ...
• Arizona National Guard recruiter accused of le ...
  A five-month investigation of National Guard conduct and culture by The Arizona Republic...
• fotojournalismus:An Indian vendor carries fl ...
  fotojournalismus: An Indian vendor carries flower garlands over his shoulder as he walks down a wholesale flower market in Kolkata on October 18, 2012. Demand for flowers are high for the forthcoming Hindu festival Durga Puja. [Credit : Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images]
• Theoline, Pier 11 or 12, East River, Manhattan ...
  Theoline, Pier 11 or 12, East River, Manhattan. (April 09, 1936)
• Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Ma ...
  Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking.]: 08/28/1963 (NARA)

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